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. ?Tfy.., - wat-tiimx xfyvs items. / " ? . T I m A camphor tree is flourishing in Taiuf pa. Flu. w Norfolk is to have a steamship line to * LiverjKtol. - Grass is growing in the street- and alleys f Memphis Charleston is to have a velocipede ouraamcut. The cotton mills in the South are run night ami il:ty. Hon. S. .MeLin, ex-Secretary of State of Florida, i< dead. Nashville has sent one hundred barrels of flour to Memphis. The bell-punch law is shutting up many saloons in Dallas. Game was never so plentiful as now in Mississippi river counties. Edison's agent is hunting for mineral platinum in North Carolina. - . i ... i i |, There is $4,5UU,UUU in casn ami mums in the Suite treasury of Texas. Montgomery, Ala., has over one hundred new buildings going up. The Indians of Western Texas use cof ton-wood leaf tea for snake bites. Quite a number of Texas farmers have put in their second crop of corn. The Norfolk peanut dealers have agreed to sell peanuts hereafter by the pound. " Nashville thinks she is the best situated city in the South for iron manufacturing. There are seven hundred and thirty uiilcs of railroad under Construction in Texas. In Tttskegee, Ala. there is a negro boy as black as the ace of spades who lias blue eyes. A son of Gen. Bee. of Texas, has received the appointment to a West Point eadct?hip. Corpus Christi, Texas, shipped this i - ason 2,547,482 pounds of wool ot the spring j enp. The only woolen mill in Texas is at Now Rruunfels. Last venr the profits were >81,000 In Mobile pickpockets are so numerous tliat it is becoming dangerous for ladies to walk the streets. Jefferson parish, La., does a large milk business, selling 100,000 gallons, worth >400,000 a year. Students who take the benefit of the Texas State normal school arc required to teach five years. Baton Rouge has appointed a committee t? raise >00 for the repairing of the old State-house. The cotton factors at New Orleans believe there will he 250,000 more hales received there this season than last. A party of ninety emigrants from England and Scotland, bound for interior Texas, has just landed at Galveston. There is a bill before the Georgia Leg. islature to divide the State funds and estao ' 1 5" ?'<?? *? !ni.iiwI r>itii>s 112)21 ih'JUnnwi iv.^ lit viiv j'nuv.p,. v The planters of Point Coupe, La., are discussing whether or not they should bring abor from lleorgia to improve their lands. The exodus fever has died a natural death in East Feliciana Parish, La., and everybody, black and white, is picking cotton." The New Orleans Board of Health pro poses that hereafter no man'shall stable a cow within twenty feet of the lot of an adja^eut neighbor, * In order to rob the residehce of^Ir. Theo. Soniat, in Jefferson parish, La., the burglars chloroformed the entire family, consisting of eight persons. Among the colored refugees in Kansas is an entire Baptist church ot three hundred and nine persons from Delta, Louisiana, led by their pastor and deacons. A negro at Murfreesboro, Tenn., aged one hundred and three, has just married his seventh wife, who is thirty-two. The old man has twenty-seven children. The widow of Alexander Campbell, the founder of the Cainpbellite or Christian church, is living with her son-in-law, Col. Barely, near Hillsboro, in Alabama. In the Hustings Court, Richmond, the other day, a prisoner was both prosecuted and defended by negro attorneys. This is probably the first case of the sort on record. A negro woman in the employ of Dr. Riggs, ot Callerene, Ala., poisoned the whole family by mixing morphine with the coffee. None" have died, but several are seriously 111 danger. Natchez, Miss., has built a cotton fac.......... ,l,.ll.... ft,.. Ctnnl. to owned by her own citizens, and which is yielding the very handsome return of nearly twenty per cent, on the investment. A witness in a case before Judge Quarles, of Nashville, declared that he did not believe in God, heaven or hell, whereupon the Judge ruled his testimonv out of court. For months this year there has not beeu a drop of water iu the Rio Grande for a distance of about five hundred miles. There, is great suffering of the people of that distriet in eonsequeuce. A member of a leading cigar firm in Jacksonville savs that it is susceptible of proof that Middle Florida eau raise as good tobacco for cigars as Cuba, butthut the farmers do not understand curing it. Memphis Appeal: We are getting to he u yelfowrcyeu race of people in Memphis. It is the fever poison that has been absorbed into the system during the epidemic that produces yeilow eyes; at least so say the dis * ciptes of (lalen. Tiie last Alabama Legislature appropriated $10,000 for the benefit of the maimed Confederate soldiers in the State, Three hundred and thirty-two applications were made, and the pro rata share of each one was fixed at $30 12. Memphis Avalanche: A sluggish filthy stream is Wolf river. In tact, if is nothing more than an extremely dirty bayou full of * vegetable poisons. Yet we are not only compelled to drink A\'?!f river water, hut when there is high water in the Missisaipp river, our drink is diluted with the wash from one thousand five hundred privy vaults. Houston Telegram : Two more gentlemen?innocent, of course?are to stretch hemp in Northern Texa??the Brown brothers, at Denton. This is one of the results of the health, anti-criminal views of the class of immigration from the old States now drifting into the northwestern counties, and who doii t rulisli the assassination business. Harrison (Va.) Valley: A man niuned Win. Dean, living on top'of tiio Blue Ridge, above Roadside, is the father of twenty-one children, all of one mother. His mountain home overlooks the beautiful valley at his feet, and he and his family rejoice in good health. His fields can be readily discerned in the valley for miles away. The Mexican citizens of San Antonio celebrated the anniversary of Mexican independence on the loth instant. They had a brass band and a procession to S in* Pedro, springs, where an oration was delivered, L ^w^Mexieo uttered, songs suns, niezeal L farank ahdhreaser enthusiasm indulged in vail libitum. L Corinth (ZVfis<.) Record: Jack Hnrrell,in digging a well on his place in Prentiss county, exhumed the skeleton of a man at the depth of forty-three feet below the surface of tlie earth." He also obtained several gold e* ::i^ of the Fifteenth century, bearing the siip.o - -notion and coat of amis of Ferdinand ami IsnV-Uu. Tuni-ai-.iifiifo t Fin J Pun and Press iliv v_ asks; ' Will some medical man explain why or how it is that the negro is never known to sneeze? Ask any old planter, who owned scores of servants, and he will tell you he never heard one of his servants sneeze. It may appear a very singular fact, but it is none the less true fund we allude to it just to show how unobservant most neople are." Prof. Bibikov, of Columbia, S. C., went over to Georgia, and at a place about sixteen miles from Augusta, on the Georgia railroad, j he came to a wall of lignite in the side of a bill, about twelve feet thick, which proved to be a first-class brown coal. He estimates that the quantity of this deposit is so large that if it were on the market at this time its value would not be less than two millions of dollars. Wilmington (X. C.) Star: James B. Young, Postmaster, and W. J. Young, Dcpu tv Postmaster, at Cameron, Moore countywere arrested at that place, by Special Agent George B. Chnmbcrlin, for robbing or rifling and detaining registered mail. The accused parties were taken before a magistrate on the same day and bound over for their appearance at the next term of the United States Court at Italeigh. Houston Telegram: It is a curious fact that a city of 25,000 inhabitants, with a taxable assessment of ?">,.'51.'?,000 atone per cent., amounting to $53,130, can not collect sufficient money to cover expenses and prevent the wholesale issuance of taxpayiug scrip, which is now offering at any price that can I"1 ^KtoJno/l fr?r if hv *!??? <??!!nlnVPS tllft city, anil which can not be sold in Houston to-day for over thirtv cents 011 the dollar. Memphis Avalanche: As an incident of the present epidemic, showing the almost complete depopulation of the city, the Jewish Xew Year, which was ushered in last night and celebrated by divine worship at the temple, corner of Main and Exchange streets, special permission for which was granted by lion. John Johnson, the congregation numbered only twenty-six. Under ordinary circumstances the building would have been crowded to excess. Charlotte (X. C.) Observer: A curi- { ositv is presented by a citizen of Davidson] College. He sends a box of grapes, which are similiar in appearance and taste to the ordinary winter grapes that grow abundantly in the woods, throughout this section of North Carolina, but they ditier very widely from them in that they are entirely without seed. A grape without seed is surely a novelty in these parts. They are growing on the plantation of Capt. A. J. Gray, near Mooresville, and the vine has been known for eight years, and never has there been found a seed in any of the fruit produced thereon. Savannah (Ga.) News: The rice planters felt considerably relieved 011 Wednesday when the time for the usual gale had passed bv. The water threatened to be very high, .. .1 1 _i a -r ?AnH as it was uie mgnesi spring uuc ui uic ?cui, and the moon was in perigee, something not often occurring in this season, hence there was a general anxietv felt as to the result. With a blow from the northeast, the water would have swept over the banks of the rice fields and occasioned great damage. Instead, however, of the dreaded wind, there were only pleasant breezes from the south and southeast, and the danger greatly diminished, hence the satisfaction of the rice planters. Col. Brewer, Auditor of Alabama, said in a recent declaration, in alluding to the result of a general negro exodus: "White labor would uo longer come in competition with the black labor; there would be no vast hordes of unskilled laborers to butcher the lands and wreck the homestead, there would be no squalor, and but little idleness; fewer crimos and more intelligence. White cottages < would begin to fleck the landscape as the torrent of immigration came pouring in; tillage would be more thorough and its implements more perfect: schools and churches would be sustained as the population thick ened, and our children educated at home as the standard of education was advanced, and the marshes were drained. New Orleans Democrat: M. DeLesseps, the celebrated French engineer, has by letter informed the Chamber of Commerce of this eitv that during his visit to this country, which fie intends making in a short time, he intends to take in New Orleans, and he expresses a desire to addressthe chamber while in this city 011 the subject of the isthmus canal. The date of his arrival in New Orleans is not fixed by him, and as the Chamber of Commerce has 110 knowledge of his programme, they can not name the probable time, However, when he does come there can be no doubt but that he will meet with a reception befitting his reputation and his standing among the great engineers of the world. The Ways of Trade. When young Hyson, who is a commission merchant and an importer, came nome to dinner one evening last week, lie found Mrs. Hyson just parting with a caller and describing some "lovely" Chinese lanterns she had bought at Veneer's, on Washington street. Hyson's face grew dark as the narrative proceeded, and when the door closed upon the visitor he turned to Mrs. H. with lowering brow and asked, " What have you been fooling money away on at Veneer's? " " Don't be such a bear, Harry," 6aid Mrs. H., " I only bought a dozen of these lovely lanterns, nice for ornaments and pretty to use in the country next summer, and they were only $1 each; did you ever see anything like them before?" " See 'em!" groaned Hyson; " they sent me 4,000 of 'em in the Mandarin, and I have only sold one lot, and that was 100 to Veneer for $15." Tears and tableau.?Boston Commercial Bulle tin. Chinese Schools. The remarkable example of the eccentricity of the Chinese turn of mind is noticeable in their schools, where, instead of silence being inculcated, as might naturally be considered so essential, every child is expected to bawl out the lesson that he is committing to memory at the top of his voice; and the babel which is the result may be more easily imagined than described. When a Chinese boy goes up to repeat his lesson, he does not stand facing his tutor, but turns his back upon him, and hence repeating a lesson goes by the familiar name of "backing" it. This method of recitation has an excellent effect in keeping the boy on the qui vive to avoid mistakes, for no sooner does he commit one than he is called to recollection by a smart tap on the closei ly-shavcn pate, from the metal of a long tobacco-pipe which every pedagogue carries about liim. Charles Wing, a Chinese cigarmaker and member of the Episcopalian Church, was naturalized in New York city. His witness was Wong Zee, who has already be ?n naturalized. THE CEDAR TREE. Quoth the cedar to the reeds and rushes: " Water-p-ass, you know not what I do; Know not of juy stonus, nor of my hushes, And?I know not you." Qnoth reeds anil rushes: "Wind! Oh. waken I Breathe, Oh wind, and set our answer tree; For we have no voice, of you forsaken, For the cedar tree." Qn?th the earth at midnight So the ocean: " Wilderness of water, lost to view, Naught you are to me but sounds of notion; I am naught to you." Quoth the ocean: "DawnI Oh fairest, clearest, Touch me witli thy golden dngers bland; For I have no smile till thou ippearest For the lovel., land." Quoth the hero dying, whelmed in glory; " Many blame me, few have understood; Ah! my folk 1 to you I leave a storyMake its meaning good." Quoth the folk; " Sing, poet! teach us, provo on Surely we shall iearn the meaning then; Wound us with a pain divine; Oh. move us For this man of men." ?Jean Ingeloto. A FRENCH CHARLEY ROSS CASE, How the Paris Police Solved It. On the Boulevard Malesherbes a young couple somewhat new to Paris had just token the place of concierge and butler respectively. One afternoon as their little boy of 4 was playing in the passage on a level with the street, by which all houses here are entered, a coupe stopped in front of the house and a well-dressed lady descended. The infant was attracted by the noise and ran out. The woman stooped and fondled it and carried it to the carriage and drove off. The mother, in the narrow ground-floor allotted to the concierge, saw nothing of this. A neighbor's servant had seen it, but supposed it was all right. Had this happened in America it would have been x Charley Boss affair. "They manage these things better in France," as Lawrence Sterne was fond of saying. The mother nursed her infant in due time. She went up and down the street in no great uneasiness, but, finding no sign, she grew alarmed. Her alarm became terror as the lights of the wide street becran to bum in the early winter evening. By chance the servant who had seen the cab was encountered. She told the story. The police were called in, and assured the terrified mother that she should soon have her infant, One day passed, and no infant; two days, then two'weeks, and the mother was summoned to the station of the distiict. She was shown iD to a private room, and there was her small boy in the arms of a strange lady. The mother made for the lad, tat the lady pushed her away. "What," said the dismayed mother, "am I not to have xiy child?" The policeman spoke up: "Madame la Comptesse claims the child as her own." "It is false," said the mother; "it is my own. Come to me, Paul." The child made an effort, but was restrained, and burst into sobs. The po liceman interfered. He saw a much more practical way of deciding the maternity than Solomon in all his wisdom. He commanded the childto be left free to choose. The little boy ran with a gurgle of delight to ita^nother. "Madame la Comptes8e:wili>4?nsJte||y^'self under arrest (en surveillance) until further orders, and will hot attempt to lea 7e the country." How had the infant been found? First every hack in the district was ex-j amined as to its work on that particular afternoon, and in time this reduced the problem to which of a dozen or more ladies hod driven with children thc.t day. Then the problem came do'vn to a lady living in a modest quarter of the city who had returned home with an infant and had immediately left the plaoe, mid had not been seen since. Then the history of this personage was looked up. She was the Countess Lomenin, an English woman, who had separated from her husband. Then the departures rrom rans unru truceu, ?m* bo surely that within three days the train she had. taken was known; in another the point she had gotten off?Calaif and crossed to Dover; then in England the work was slow and promised to be hopeless, when lo! the bird realighted in the same bush, though not in the same cage. She had returned to Paris and taken quarters elsewhere. She was visited by tlio police and vowed that the child was her own and vows still that it is, and the ease'is to be tried in the courts. Th e developments meanwhile about the Countess illustrate not ao*aJ/-vtio rrc\ f\4 "f Vi n Uill.y I/IIU ]JUi ICUtU'lJ V4 WX*W? police on every man, woman and child in the capital, but reveal some extraordinary phases of Paris life. The woman, it seems, has. a mania for seizing children and putting them in asylums for infants, to be reared to certain creeds. ?Paris letter to Chicago Times. 0 ??- ??? / Lincoln, day ana Greyer. "Whom do you regard as the greatest men of your time?" "Well, that would be difficult to tell. All ?uek things are comparati ve. I could name a great many men who have served their country and their time with eruiuent ability. But a man's public usefulness depends largely on circuin?L TIT"? T inofortna lio/1 tSUilllCL'S* iur, JUliiUUlU) lUi iutjiuuv/Uj uuu a, great opportunity, and lie was equal to it. If circumstances had not found him; if he had not been the right man, at die right time, in the right place, he would have remained in obscurity all his life. I regard Henry Clay as foremost among the men laboring all their lives to elevate themselves, and who labored always for the object by promoting the welfare of the country, and the interests of the people. Horace Greeley labored witMfcequally pure motives, as I think, ^ to the point where he allowed liis amMoa to rule him. I knew him intimately for years. A truer, more useful arid more devoted practical philosopher I never knew. He labored with a single eye and a single heart and both hands for the public good, till he thoiight he (ould be still more useful in office. He was a frank, honest man, with nothing tricky about him. The very moment hfr found his aspirations in conflict with Mr. Seward, he wrote that well-known letter dissolving the political partnership which had existed between us."?Int&view with Thurlow Weed. ' 1 Flowers and Plants. Violets are plentiful and do not coa> much. Double variegated nzulias are moat ui demand. The Scotch heather has appeared in the windows of florists' shops. Hardy Daphne, a charming pink, out-of-door blossom, is now in bloom. Oxalis, with its clover-like leaf, and Bower tiiat closes m tee anernoon, is an extremely pretty plant for in-door cultivation. Round and symmetrical azalia trees cost more than the unshapely ones, though the latter may be larger and more vigorous. .. ? Azalias or acacias will lasS in blossom for a month in a moderately cool room, ; and are, therefore, very desirable for parlor ornamentation. The "George Bauyard" is a gorgeous j new coleus. The "Cornelia Cook" ranks among the "tea," roses. The new va:: egatedivy senecio macia < glosus is exquisite for hanging-baskets. 1 Florists set the lilies and roses out ] on the sidewalk durinc a recent warm i rain. i The pruning knife has been fleshing < in the sun all around the city for a week 1 past. ( Hanging-baskets of solid begonia e (rubra) in blossom are very rich and < ornamental. 1 Polypodium (subaoca lartum) is one 1 of the finest ferns for planting in bas- t kets, as it trails out frondes six feet i long. "i The "American banner rose," the 1 marvelous noveltv of the season, should i now be sought by those who grow rare i plants. t Liverwort, a dog-tooth violet, and * the anemone as well, will soon be ont on t the north banks- of the streams and in sunny hollows. . t "Encaustic tile bc*esw?window plant t holders of rare beamy, ave bound to be t popular. These> are painted 'n choice t effects and should ornament the window <j of every elegant drawing-room. c Arbutus will be coming along in a few i days, if the sun doesn't take a notion to c slide back. The little pink can be found e under dead leaves, and even by the side ] of used-up ?now-patchei> along the t Brandywine, Chester creea, Wissa- 1 hickon and the SchuylkilL?PMladeJ- 1 phia paper. j c flow Sugar Barrels Are Hade. a An intervieweir hailing from the Jer- \ eyCity Journal, of inquiring mind, c paid a flying visit to the top floor of 1 Weil ODonnell's cooperage, and was ^ shown some of the mysteries connected J with the manufacture of sugar barrels. J In the first stage, the< Irishman's recipe * for makincr a cannon -will do for a sncur c barrel, slightly altered: First, make a ? hole and put your staves around) it. The * operative does this by holding a stout wooden hoop in one hand, and placing I the staves in position with the other? " very quickly, too, as the work is done * by the piece. The embryo barrel is ? next caught in the bight of aetout rope, I made fast on one end to a chat, and the r other running over an iron- pulley and t attached to a treadle. By pressing the t . treadle with the weight of' the opera- i' five, the line is ^rawn taut, aad the ? strong purchase thus effected compresses i 'the staves to the requisite degree of t tightness. The barrel is now placed in t ;a huge fire-place which resembles a a [ blast furnace, and is baked' for a few i | minutes, when it is removed, the tops z i and bottoms are tdaned. the iBside a | edges beveled for the, "heads," which c | are quickly "put on," a few finishing i touches given to Ihe hoops and the bar- a rel is made. A good workman can 1 make forty barrels a day, and in brisk 1 seasons about 6,000 receptacles for that f ssocharine substance composed of bone- t dust, sand and sugar are turned out. c The staves are shipped to the cooper- 1 age from Michigan, whose they are fl made into the required shape from elm ' logs by a machine.?Jersey City Journal 1 : ( Petroleum as Fuel Growing In Favor. 1 Petroleum fuel is beginning to be c used in California quite extensively. ( The manufacturers of Los Angeles ' unite in declaring it to be fully as cheap as wood and .coal in its first cost, with c. the following important ad^ autages: 3t OUVCO CApCUOU UA XAriUlUAJUg, ACCUlXJ^, LIUX ing. slagging, aud ashing, and, by not having to open the fire-doors, admitting cold air to the boilers, steam is economized. Thus, in effect, it is far cheaper than other fuel. The mode of firing is thus: Into the tank containing crude oil as it comes from the well a jet of steam is sent, which carries with it a charge of oil, which, through a pipe, is distributed iu lino spray ovei the firechamber. The heat is intense, and there is no refuse. One man at the stop-cock is the sole attendant. What is wanted to make this fuel a priceless boon to that coast is a process by which iron and other metallic ores can bo smelted. Tiiey abound throughout with lime for fluxing and firestone for hearths.?New Yoi k lhilletm. Dangeroas Houasg. Houses that have been empty may become fever-breeders when they come to be reoccupied. jLn English sanitary officer alleges that he has observed typhoid, diphtheria, or their' zymotic affectioop to arise under these circumstanres. The cause is supposed to be 3 in the disuse of cisterns, pipes, and j Umlmo (-Via nr/woao/iii nf rm+rofnp+inn crn- ' UAftiUOj UUU ^/AVVvwwvw w* ing on in the impure air in them, the 1 unobstructed access of this air to the ' house, while-the closure of windows and 1 doors effectually shuts out fresh air. Persons moving from the city to their country homes for the' summer should 1 see that the drains and pipes are in perfect order, that the cellar and closets are 1 cleared of rubbish, and the whole house * thoroughly aired before occupying. Carbolic acid used freely in the cellar is a good and cheap disinfectant.?Scientific American. Yeen>*a has more fine coflee houses than any other city in Europe; the latest statistics put. the total number at i 400. It was the first city in Christendom I that started the institution; the coffee I was captured in bags fmm the Turks in ? their second siege of fne city, in 1683, ] and in that year the tfirst cafe was ] started. , ? : if """ Taking Cold.?Upon this snbject /i high authority says: "When a person begins to shiver, the blood is receding from the surface; congestion, to a greater or less extent, has taken place, and; fcvla mfl'nni una aa. / ' m*w |yuiuwuff ano oucauj luucu uuivij uv/ be followed by fever, inflammation of the lungs, neuralgia, rheumatism, eta All these evils can be avoided and the cold expelled by walking, or in some exercise that will produce a prompt and decided reaction in the system. The exercise should be suflicient to produce perspiration. If you are so situated that you can get a glass of hot water to drink, it will materially aid the perspiration, and in every way assist nature in her efforts to remove the cold. This , course followed, your cold is at an end, and whatever disease i?t would ultimate in is avoided; your sufferings are prevented, and' your doctor's bills saved." Sick-Room Roles.?From an ex- > change we clip a few ""hints" to those i visiting the sick: Enter and leave the < room quietly. Carry a cheerful face, j md speak cheerful wordi. If the sickness is serious, do not faff into gay and careless talk in the attempt to l>e cheer- i :nl. Don't ask questions, and thus )blige the invalid to talk. Talk about lometking outside, and not about the i lisease of the patient Tell the news, cut not the list of the sick and dvinar. [f possible, cany something to please i ihe eye and relieve the monotony of the tick-room?a flower, or even a picture ] vhich you can loan for a few days. Sighly perfumed flowers, however, * ihonld never be carried into- the sick- i -oom. Some little delicacy to tempt j he appetite may be well bestowed, j Jtay only a few minutes at the longest, < mless you can be of some help. Guabd the Childben.?Little chil- i Iren must be carefully guarded- during 1 his season, if parents expect to keep 5 hem from sickness. We do not mean hat they should be confined withinloors, even in cold weather. On the tontrary, they are much more likely to . ceep well if they are exercising in the 1 >pen air during the middle portion of r ivery day not absolutely inclement. 8 ?rom 10 in the morning: to 8 in the af- ? ernoon is the best time for young cliilLren to be ont-doors at this season. c Coward night the air becomes too chilly. c Jut they should always be warmly 1 lothed, the feet being well protected, ? ?nd the soft under-flannels never omited. Half of the illnesses of little ohil- 8 Lren, and much of thair fretfuhiess, ? night be prevented by keeping them mm, not only out of doors, but in the c louse. This should not be done by J laving hot rooms, but by putting on * hem light, warm, woolen.garments. If hildren have cold feet or cold arms, of ^ ourse they feel cross, and they don't mow what is the matter with them. Cube bob Diphtheria.?A Dublin i >aper gives this remedy for diphtheria: 'Put a teaspoonful of sulphur into a ? tine-glass of water, and stir it with the f Lnger instead of a spoon, as the sul- j >hur does not readily amalgamate with j. rater. When the sulphur is well mixed c hen it is to be given to the patient , o gargle, and, after gorghng, to swallow ? t, and the patient will be out of dan- ^ ;er in ten minutes. When the fungus* ^ s too nearly closing to allow gargling, v he sulphur in that case should be blown t hrough a quill into the throat, and, * ,fter the fungus has shrunk to allow of ? t, then the gargling. If a patient can- r tot gargle, take a five coal, put it on a v hovel, and sprinkle a spoonful of flour 8 >f brimstone upon it; let the sufferer ^ nhale it by holding the head over it, md the fungus will die. Brimstone ills every species of fungus in man, >east, and plant in a few minutes. A ew days ago, at Princess Mary's Cot- f age Homes, London, an outbreak of j Bphtheria attacked fifty of the inaates, but one of the nurses cured them II by causing the patients to gargle t rith sulphur and swallow the gargle." A Hojeexy Cube *or Dyspepsia.? Sere is rather a carious remedy, says ] 7as8el'8 Family Magazine, but in ^ nany cases a very certain one, for the ( nf lnrliofKrHrin. It in fiirrmlv the sultivation of a habit of chewing, while ( >ut of doors, different kinds of green eaves, and swallowing the juice. One ^ mn always cull a leaf from a hedge or rash as one passes. Almost all are , food that are not nauseous, such as the vy, or poisonous, as the laural leaf. Dne of the latter, however, is- a capital liing where tlatere is slight irritation of ihe stomach. The chewing of leaves :ures dyspepsia, principally, I believe, ay increasing the flow of the salivary juice, and partly by the tonic or stimuating action of the leaf chewed. The leaves that occur to me at present as most likely to be beneficial are those of ;he pine trees, spruce or Scotch fir, jlackthorn, currant and rose bushes, mint, the petals of many flowers, the stalks of mountain daisies, the white portions of rushes, the bark of many roung trees, and the tender parts of the stalks of green wheat, oats, or almost any of the larger grasses; but your own taste must m a great measure guide you, if you elect to take trial of my remedy. I should say, however, that the chewing is better to take place before or between meals than immediately after. ______________ Roman Catholic Figures. "Sadler's Catholic Directory" re ports for the United States, 1 Cardinal, 11 Archbishops, 52 Bishops, 5,750 priests, 3,589 churches, 78 colleges, 577 academies, nearly 2.000 parochial schools, 345 jharitable institutions, and a Catholic * n or?- nnn t? icno population OI O.OID.UUU. J-U iouo mcio were only 80 churches; in 1830 there (vere 230; in 1810, 451; in 1830,1.073; in 1860, 2,385; in 1S70, 3,905. The Tablet says more churches were admitted in 1878 than there were in the whole country in 1815, when there were 675. That paper also remarks of the statistics that they " are not always as clear ' is might be desired. In some dioceses i chapels are counted with churches; in : others with stations, which seems a iess ' wnT in Rnwift eases where a theological seminary and college are i combined, as at EmfTtsbrirg, the insti- 1 tution will be returned as a college, and aot as a seminary also; in some returns < ?holasticates Mad houses of study of re- i Sgous orders ?ffl included under semi- < SStles, while others do not reckon them i !er this head." * % ife&ji fMPbit or the Zoln War. "'The moat extraordinary incident connected with the massacre was the narrow escape of Commandant Lonsdale, wlio notified Lord Chelmsford. Commandant" Lonsdale was quietly returning to camp?he had been ill?was tired, and was slowly jogging along with the sort of lazy perseverance characteristic of a tired traveler. He had crossed the small waterwash to the south of the camp, when his attention was attracted by a bullet passing rather near to hiln, * and on^lookixig up he saw a black man. R who haicl'iayidently jnst fired. The real m truth was, of course, far from his mind, J and he merely thought it was one of 4R..H his otu contingent carelessly firing ^9 off hio rifle, and pursued his way. To | some extent the incident seems fortu- V 1 nately to hare woke him up, and, al- ^ though he saw what seemed to be our 9 redcoats sitting in groups in and around 9| the tents, he kept his eyes open, and, 9 when absolutely within ten yards of 9 the tents, he saw a great black Zola 9 come out of one with a bloody assegai 9 ixv his- hand. This made him look about 9 him more cloeely, aud he saw that black A man and black men only were the wearers of red coats. The truth flashed upon him; he could read the scowl of ASA hatred upon every face, but his self-pos- Hn session does not seem to have failed ^9^ him, lor, quietly turning his pony round, he galloped off before the enemy were H aware of his intention. A hundred and H fifty shots are said to have been fired at 9 him as he did so, but by the mercy of Hj Providence he escaped, and was thus A enabled to warn the General and so JE save his Me and the lives of those with aim. Undoubtedly had not such warning been given, Lord Chelmsford, accompanied by his staff and the troops with him, would have walked without ' suspicion into the skillful trap thus Laid, and in such circumstances few would have escaped. c Women In Cyprns. At 9 or 10 the girls are lovely, havng eyes like antelopes, and softly ounded cheeks, lrntiug at Hebe bymd-by; But in after years, when comeliness is needed most, much of this >eauty fades. Fine eyes remain; but ( contour, color, bloom, expression, all tepart. The Moslem females seem to mderstand their fate. If their sisters ! >f the Orthodox rite were knowing, hey too would glide about the courts ( ;nd market places veiled. A Christian ' poman bares her neck and face; a Kosem woman shows- no more than a pair tf sparkling eyes. No man looks twice ,t the retreating; figure of a Greek, hough she is habited in pink and am>er. Every one turns and gazes at the ( gliding mystery of'a girl in white whose ace is shrouded from his view. Jersey Mosquitoes. < "Was ye iver in Jersey in the sum aer sason?" saia an Ansnman 10 a m riend. " 'Pon me soul, I was onct, an' fl thought I wud be davoured. It was a 1 lot night, an' I raised m? winder to 1 atch a whiff of braze, an', instead, I . J ras attacked by a million of murderin' jd livils wid prongs in 'em. It lere an' a kick there an' a scratcl^BflBH^^B rhere. When oomplately rid 'em, I giv' up me body forT^Hf he cannibals, wbin, bed luck to thy* he murderin'imps commenced sinfel. n me ear, ' We won't go home txT nornin'.' An' well they kept th^ rord, bad lnck to thim I' hez I to el', as I carried me skeleton out touse in the marnin'." VwHe Chinese Doctrine. Moy Jin Kee, a Chinaman, adchessed i Methodist Sunday-school meeting in 3arlem, N. Y., the other Sunday. Vmong his remarks was a comparison flp )i the religion oi his nation and that of RQ he children before him. "We worship," >aid he, "one Great Spirit and many V Tosses; you a Great Spirit and His Son. R But the Americans could learn some- |l ;hing of my people. Confucius 6aid hat drink v.-^s worse than a rattlesnake ?rattlesnakes don't abuse their own ;hild:en. The Chinese think drinking eery bad; but they do something very bad, too?they smoke opium. But the man who smokes opium doesn't abuse his children?he only hurts himself " Lincoln's Heal Life. Capt. Mark Mason, editor of the Cleveland Leader, says that CoL John Hay has finished the first volume of the life of Abraham Lincoln, from the only original correspondence and executors' papers, and is advancing with the second volume. Col. Hay wrote the whole of - the text. Mr. Nicolay prepared the whole matter for Hay to etudy progressively. Nicolay's work was one of the mrvot wjnmrlfflhlp nieces of literarv sift ing and codifying ever known. He used, the envelope system, and into ^ each envelope, as the unit of an index, V placed all the clippings and memoranda. | applying to that head. The united en- ] velopes would fill several wagons,? " Gath" in New York Graphic. ??_ i Btrrruu j. % John 0. (ySullivan, a member of the jJ Common Conncil of Harrison, N. J. M has just been convicted, in the Hudson County Court of general sessions of jH barratry. His was the first indictment ever found in New Jersey for that J offense, and he is the third person convicted of it in the United States. The crime is defined to be "the stirring up, moving, promoting, exciting, or procoring suits and proceedings at law ?r the Vjfl spreading of false and malicious rumors vexatiously, and to the disturbance of the public peace and quiet." A DLscoxery oi Importance. Dr. Waclismuth, of Berlin, seems to have made a discovery of the utmost m I ,/ fiia <vrriArimAnta do not ' mislead. He lias found that the addi- ] tion of one part of reetified oil of fcurpentine to five of chloroform, in ministration of thatWmsthetic, apJJRBHfi to exert a stimulating or life-gbri feet on the lungs, and protect* organs from passing into the state which seems to be producedflRR^H chloroform narcosis, and thus the ger of accidents from its use believes, be entirely avoided.V jm I