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Waiting. The golden feet ol the sunbeams, Are loiteriDg at the door; The woodbine's restless shadow Is dancing on the foor. The long, long day is waning? The hour is almost throe? Oh, lagging moments, haateu, That brings my love to mo! That clock upon the mantel? A pretty French conceit; A winged sylph, with arms up wreathed, And airy tripping leet? The clock, with silvery tick-tack, tells The momenta ceaselessly; mu, oa, now nigs 1110 nmgit; huuc That brings my love to me! The sunshine's golden lootprints Across the threshold fall; The woedbine's restless shadow Has flitted to the wall. Oh, dear! An age behind the sun That tiresome clock must be! Still ninety seconds to the hour That brings my love to me. I count the tinkling lootballs Of the moments gliding by; At last?at last a tender flush 01 pink is in the sky ! The sunset's rosy glamor fl^bds The air, the earth, the sea; i And, hark! the clock chimes out the hour j That brings my love to me! _ - - - ?" i A HORRIBLE CEREMONY. * 1 The Mnrtyrdom of Huueln," u Cele- 1 brated In Constantinople. ' The Persian population of Constantinople annually have a religious ceiebra- ! lion called the Shute Moharrum or J % Martyrdom of Hussein. Describing the last one which took place in the Turkish ' capital a correspondent of the New 1 York Sim says: 1 The function was to take place at sunset, and the afternoon was cold, dark, and drizzliug, when I sat off from Pera ' for the Persian Khan. After a long 1 drive through narrow, muddy, crowded { streets, we reached a mob which com- 1 pletely blocked a lane ankle deep in the blackest mire. Through this we forced j1 our way on foot, and through the ex- j1 ertions ofsundry Persian officials wno ~ here took charge of us, passed through the massive, ponderous doors of the khan up a short, steep, covered passage, and then out upon the great courtyard. This was an area about a hundred and fifty yards square, inclosed by the massive and picturesque line of buildings which, in ordinary times, forms the Persian warehouses, bazaar, and lodgings of the merchants who come to Constantinople with the manufactures and productions of their goods are usually displayed for sale, was now devoted to the use of spectators. Each compartment was well carpeted, rows of chairs were placed on the raised dias in each, and all the chandeliers and candlesticks in Stam* boul seemed to have been pressed into the service of illumination, thousands o wax candles in gorgeous candelabrums j imparting a sort of fairy enchantment to the scene, which quite dazzled us as we emerged upon it from the dark pas- J sage- Most of these alcoves were filled J with Persian spectators, striking, * solemn looking figures, with their black e conical caps and flowing robes. At the head of the square was the 1 place reserved lor the Persian ambassar * dor and his friends, where there was a 1 perfect forest of wax candles flaring in ( rows of glass candelabrums, and a ( small group of curious foreigners be- * fhpm amon? whom were some " ladies, the first, I believe, who ever ' witnessed the ceremony. About five 1 yards from the spectators was a line of ' young trees all round the square, between which paper lanterns were hung, 1 and in the center of the square was a ! small kiosk, used in ordinary times as a place of refreshment, but now crowded ' with spectators. It was also hung 1 with lanterns, while at intervals large J iron cradles on poles filled with blazing rosinous wood shed the lurid glare of ! so many separate little bonfires over the 1 scene. It was evident that we should ! have all the light that was necessary, in spite of the darkness of the night. It was some time after sunset before 1 the sound of distant chanting'warned us that the function was beginning, ana then entered by the passage through which we had passed?first the head dervish of theShiahs; then some venerable Mallahs and Holy Men; then a girl ten or twelve years old on horseback, who represented Zainad, the daughter ot Hussein; then some men bearing banners by his side; then a group of about a hundred Persians. The dervish was a slight but good-looking man of about fifty years of age, with remarkable grace and dignity of bearing, lie recited the martydom in a deeptoned chant, in very short sentences, at termination of each of which he gave a curious little nod, and passed his left hand over his mouth. Then the old men behind him led the chorus, " Hussein na Hussein," and the crowd behind took it up with a loud, plaintive :i K?.,f tVioir hvpnsts in time W i&ll, iliiu irvav ?uv?* v..w? with resounding blows. This proe es sion passed round the sauare three times. m-?nv of th? Persians appealing deeply moved,and all their countenances wearing an aspect *of mourning and grief. No sooner was the third round completed than a loud clashing and noise of many voices issued from the entry passage, and a great commotion ensued among the spectators gathered with a swaying t'o and fro, as though the great event was at hand. Aud uuw appeared iliemost ghastly and ppalline; sight which it has ever beeifmy fortune to witness. I saw suddenb the waving and brandishing ot at least a hundred bloody swords in the air, and I heard the wild and frantic shouts of the hundred men who wielded them, and above ail the loud, deeptoneB of the dervish, as he placed himseli at their head, this time followed by men who clashed cymbals, and a woman and a child representing Hussein's wife and baby, carried aloft in a covered sort ol cradle, and a magnificent gray horse, gorgeously caparisoned, and bearing nothing but the two swords and shield of Hussein, followed by anotherprancing animal carrying his turban. But I had scarcely time to observe these things, for the roar and rag of the human beings behind were overpowering in their fascination. They came sweeping and surging along in two lines, face to face, every man clasping his neighbor's girdle with his left band, while his right was free to wield his sword, one row with thtir backs to me, and one with their faces to me, and all slashing away at their own heads with their swords without stint. In many instances their features were undistinguishable from the mass of blood which poured over Ihem. Their heads were shaved, their KaHIoq vaKo^ f/\ fVin nonlr in tuhifo wnw UV/U1VO 1V/UVU bU VUV UWA AU IIUIVV) UV ?? ^ dyed red with the streams and spurts which deluged them. In the center between the two rows were official wildly rushing to and fro to restrap those whose fanaticism had reached too high a pitch, while behind each row were men, relations, I understood, .ol the devotees, who kept on thrusting short sticks like rulers between the 3words and the heads of the victims, so is to mitigate the force of the blow. Anxious, in spite of the horror of the spectacle, to investigate it psychologically, I left my chair among the spectators and went down to the edge of the procession, so as to be able to judge how. much was real and how much was assumed trenzy. I judged that about three-fourths did not like it, knew perfectly well what they were about, and lid not cut themselves more than was ibsolutely necessary to keep up appearinces, though it was essential that every nan should be bleeding profusely from ;he head, and that one-fourth were eally carried away by the excitement, ind required watching and restraint; ind I observed that both the officials vithin and the relations without the ine devoted themselves to these men, ind seemed really afraid lest they should to themselves some mortal iiijury. In ?ersia I understand deaths are not at ill uncommon during the celebration. )ne man in particular had already reluced his [scalp tp the condition of mince neat; his face was almost hidden beleath a clotted mask; his voice was iroken and husky; lie reeled to and fro, vidently with no clear consciousness eft. lie was drunk with blood. The .oa&3.-thrnpr>fc this horrible rows to perform it forsome sperm eason, or the sons ot men wno nave nade vows to perform it if God gives hem a son. The vow is entailed upon he son, who has to do it every year, and t then becomes hereditary.- As a rule, he fanatics are those who have taken he vow themselves, and not those who lave had it entailed upon them. These horrible slashing creatures >assed round the square three times, ["he last time the excitement had atained its culmination, and blood seemed sverywhere. All around were Persians veeping bitterly. There was no doubt ibout the genuineness of their tears. The tympathy of weeping had communicated tself, and what between the solemn ;hanting, and the clash of cymbals and >f swards, and the flow of blood and of ;ears,*nd the wild shouts of frenzy, the sights and the sounds were calculated toleave their mark on the imagination for many a day. After this was over there svas a lull of half an hour; then the derrish came in again at the head of the same small procession which we had seen at first, and went around three :imes, and then we heard that another jrowd of self-slashers were approachin g md thej came pouring in, more numer3us and more frantic than the last, rhey were preceded not by cymbals but hv most mournful flutes and pipos, and behind the music came about i uozen men stripped naked to the waist. Each had a heavy bundle (ffshert chains, which he swung first over his right shoulder and then over his left, allowing Ihem to come with horrible force upon his back. Some of their backs were raw before they had made their three rounds, and we heard that they took longer to recover from the pffects of this self-inflicted punishment than the men who cut themselves. There were, more over, in this procession five or six more horses than in the other, and more flags and banners; men, too, were beating their chests mor wildly and cutting themselves more fiercely, and the excitement generally was more intense. I saw one man so frantic that he had to be disarmed and forcibly removed from the ^ne, and as he was being carried away between two men, he'kept on striking his head with an imaginary sword and shouting, evidently in a complete state of unconscious exaltation. The proceedings wound up with and episode which for a moment created <iuite a panic. On their last round the bloody line stepped in front of the Persian ambassador's division, in which were also seated his friends and the diplomatic corps. Then they began to shout and sway to and fro and cut themselves, anil refused to move on, shouting out especially something in Persian which we could none of us understand. Suddenly they surged in toward the point at which t he ambassador's secretary was sitting, together with the French ambassador and several ladies. To see a row of blood-stained, hacked up fanatics, each with a sharp sword two feet and a half long, bearing down upon vou is not a reassuring sight, es peciaily when your nerves have been a good deal tried already, so the few spectators who were standing on the edge of the procession backed precipitately, but an extra surge of the bloody line forced them or to the row of chandeliers which all went over with a crash on to the French ambassador's toes, who in his turn toppled backward, chair and all, on which one lady tainted and the others screamed and took to flight. There was a passage leading into a back room, in which they took refuge. Meanwhile the Persian secretary made a communication in a loud tone, and the whole mob fell back, and went slashing and yelling out of the yard, to the great relief cf everybody. It seemed they had demanded the release of all the Persians in prison in Stamboul, which the ambassador promised that he would apply for to the Turkish government. It was now nearly eight o'clock at night, and we were thankful that we could make our escape; but our troubles were wot yet over. Wb got blocked in the crowd in the entry passage, and, to mTT hArrnr T frtnn/1 mttoq!f i'nmmA/1 V?o *-*-? J "VHWi, JL AV/UUU iUJO^li JftUiUiCU uctween three or four of these bleeding creatures, who were tying towels round their heads, and looking wildly and uncomfortably about. JTliey were scattered thick all througn the crowd. In the last batch there were about two hundred, and it seemed as it one was going to be haunted by them forever. As I drove home I registered a solemn resolution that nothing should ever induce me again to go and see the celebration of the Martyrdom of Hussein. An Electrical Stove. An electrical stove has astonished the natives of Valley View station in the Far West. The proprietor recently undertook to put some wood in the cooking range, and received such a severe electric shot that he dropped the lifter and staggered back with an exclamai.! _ r - TT _ 1.1 _ l lion 01 surprise. nis wue men aitempted to take a stew pan from the fire, and fell to the floor. About this time the hired hands came in to get dinner, but it was found impossible to get anything off the stove. Charley Palmer, the stage driver, attempted to to manipulate a coffee pot from the stove and sprang two feet in the air with a yell of pain. Con Dense thought it would be the easiest thing in the world to move the pot of cabbage,, wheh he was landed in the corner of the room and made no further attempts. The stew pans were finally removed from the stove by Mr. Curtis, whp encased ' his hands in sheepskin gloves. Many theories were advanced to account for the presence of so much electricity. Mr. Curtis finally observed that tb? current 1 jwas strongest during the prevalence of high winds, and this led him to infer j f liof fKn oloofrinifv nroc frnm wuciu uuy vivvviiwiij u uu j wa-i oboi ?ftCfebg| stove pipe Dytlie'tiiCaBs nffrv is fastened to the windmill. .-When Jp j windmill stops there is no electricity^? the stove, but after it makes a dozen revolutions it is not safe to handle utensils on the range. The Healthiest City in the United States. In the annual tables of vital statistics, la.-^ly published by the health department of New York city, among the exhibits is the comparative d eath rate various cities, American and foreign. The exhibit gives the population and - f 1.1 I a eat a rat 01 over mreu uuuuicu ?uu fifty cities in different parts of the world, of which sixty are American and the remainder foreign. It appears from these t ables that the city of Burlington, Iowa, with a population in 1875 of about 20,000, enjoys the pre-eminence for health, |its annual death rate being only 4.84 deaths per 1,000 souls. Stockton, Cal., stands next, 7.47; but this is ninety-two per cent, more unhealthy than Burlington. There arc probably a few, but only a few, more favored places than the latter in all the world. The death rate for New Ycrkcityis 23.93 per 1,000; New Orleans, 50.71; London, 23.40; Paris, 24.71. ?Scientific American. ' Not a Panorama. An old man with a satchel and cane yesterday stood in front of the Detroi opera house for a long half-hour, surveying the building with curious eye, and he finally bntered, walked up to thebox-office and asked; " What's the regular price to go in?" 4 Well, about six shillings," answered Clm nr KJIH 4 I'll give you ten cents!1' The treasurer hesitated for a while, but finally took the money and told him to go up. The old man went up stairs to find everything dark and deserted. He took a seat, lixsd his gaze on the drcp-curtain and didn't get tired out for about half an hour. Then he walked down stairs with slow and dignified step, put his head into the box-cftice and said: 44 If you call that a panorama then you don't know what a panorama is, and ! if folks come along and pay six shillings to see it, there's a heap of fools in this country! Good dayV?Detroit Free Press. . J, In 1747 a German chemist named Margraf discovered that there was crystalizahle saccharine matter in beets. And he demonstrated that the extraction of sugar therefrom would be made profitable. And yet with repeated experiments, through various vicissitudes, no beet sugar factory w:is established until 1790, and then in Silesia. This establishment succeeded in obtaining six per cen-;. of sugar and three per cent, of molasses. This they thought was a success. i J Snake Charming. Snake Harry, as he is called, was interviewed bv a reporter the other day, and the following peculiar facts wer( gleaned: II XT ~ 11 _ ' J TT II 1 iuu aaa lub, aaiu nairy, wnere I mostly gather in the snakes. Well, I've made raids out in nearly all directions from 'Frisco, and I find that I car take more between here and Martinez than any place. There is a greater variety of natural scenery between here and Martinez nor bstween here and anj other place no further away, and according to the variety of the natural scenery ia the number of kinds of snakes a fellow can rake in. Plowed fields is natural scenery. There's lofs oi them between here and Martinez. The field mouse goes into the plowed field for nothin' in particular that I know of. The ground snake goes into the field for the mouse,and I goes into the field for the ground snake, and so far as I know, we are all on us successful except, perhaps, the mouse. This is a fact fur I've caugnt tne snake ottenjustas ttie snake caught the mouse. But the purtiest way of all to take the ground snake is just as it's oharmiuglts prey." Rep.?And the rattlesnake P Harry?Ah! that's the boss! Up among the broken rocks on the long crags is where Mr. Rattlesnake lives. I can tell you, young man, there's a good many fellers can kill a rattlesnake, but it takes an artist to take him alive. If k green hand tries that, the chances are even up the rattlesnake '11 take him alive and leave him croakin'. Kep.?And how do you take them? Harry?Well, it is easy enough after you know how, if you keep cool and have nerve. All you want, young man, is a two-pronged iron fork, set in a light ash or hickory handle about four feet long. By practicing a fellow can pih do wn the most -dangerous snake, that, while it will not be injured, it ca neither strike nor get away. nep.?now ao you get mm to marKetr Harry?Put him in a box eighteen inches long, twelve wide and six deep? them's the dimensions exact?a door one end to let the snake into the bos, and wire netting at the other end to let the air into the snake. Rep?How do you get the snake from under the fork into the box ? Hairy?You take the snake by the thumb and" the finger just back of the jaws, pressing the thumb-nail into the back-bone?that 'ere paralyzes j^py snake, and leaves him as limp as a wet fish-line?and then you take away the fork and duck the snake into the box. I can do rattlers that way, too; but for fear ,of accidents, when I'm purty far away from a big supply of whisky, I take a pair of tongs, something like sugar tongs, along lor rattlers. JNow, 11 I was you, and was going to start in on the^n^k^ay^nstea^oMhetoPg^j^ yo^^isnake^J^tabo^ttwo ^^es back of the head will touch the ^nt spot as near as may be. This will allow a good deal of room for harmless exercise with the tail, while the head can contemplate things in general without being disturbed by the body.?San Francisco Letter. A Story of Borrowers. mt 1! J wiMtt JLIiere nveu IlCUl my latuci a iauuJ in a quiet little village in Ohio, two families who were chronic borrowers, and the pests of the neighborhood. One borrowed by day, the other by night. The former would take anything, trom a pinch of soda to a bedquilt, but made a specialty of flour. The other family made no requests, but wood, coal, joints of stove-pipe, and garden implements followed in rapid succession. The day borrower became a steady drain on the flour barrel. My mother, being of a ympathetic nature, could not refuse, and would doubtless yet have been supplying the same family with flour if she had not had one bad girl among her family of children, who was alone at home one day when the lad who always came for the flour entered, and in his old words said: " Mam wanted couple spooniuls of flour to make batch bread." This same bad girl measured exactly two spoonfuls of flour into his immense wooden bowl. The fl0jr looked right lonely, but it didn't feel as lonely as that bad girl did when the mother of the lad came in and threatened "to skin her." She changed her flour market, but the otal depravity of that girl was clearly established. During one night two peach trees were entirely stripped of beautiful ripe fruit. Early next morning our night borrower called. My mother told of our loss, and, of course, had not the faintest suspicion as to who had taken them, and her neighbor expressed sympathy and disgust that anybody would do so, when this same bad girl had to have her say, and remarked that it flian c mauer muuii, jus ujusiui the peaches were plugged, and that whoever swallowed them wouldn't get a chance to digest them, I or they were full of cpicac?all of which was strictly false, and that bad girl's mother waf horrified at such a falsehood. Twc hours later, as some one was passine through the alley in the rear of the borrower's house, he discovered about r bushel of cooked peaches. It was after J 1 fKftf fKo fomilv annnf rnATIT Wil.ru ir;ujicu liia.u uiiv iuluxj u?j hours in the night peeling and canninf peaches, and as many hours nearly get ting them out of the cans. So, owing to that bac, girl, peaches, sugar and laboi were an entire loss, but we were evei after rid of our night as well as day bor ro^er. So much for having a bad gir in the famiiy. Trains arc again gradually assuming the peacock shape, round and spx*eading instead of an interminably long am I narrow breadth trailing after the wearei ! and seeming as if it might be the re.su \ of an accident. L A Mammoth Restaurant. Of all the cheap down-town restaurants of New York the most extensive . and at the same time most peculiar is ?h Washington street, opposite the marTrflf T f wra j ' ? ? ~J I XXV/Ua JLX TTftO WUiUiCUUCU I Li i% lHUUCSL way twenty-seven years ago the . premises at that time not being large t enough to accommodate "fifty persons. - Little by little, however, the place be. came celebrated for the extraordinary [ cheapness of the viands served there, r and the popularity of its proprietors increased rapidly, until to-day theij; [ restaurants run from Washington to t Greenwich street and half way along , Fulton. In them more than 300 people can be seated and served with meals at [ one time. During the twenty-four . hours an average of 8,000 persons are fed. It requires but little calculation to show that they provide for the material ! wants of nearly 3,000,000 people a year. The establishment is open day and night for the accommodation of the i market men, produce dealers and others, which are its principal customers, and a small army of 150 waiters is required to attend to their wants. These waiters are divided into 44 watches," as are also the cooks and other attendants, and at all hours of the day and night those on duty are kept busy attending to cus- , tAmoro Tttta rrlvla nun of oil fimno nm_ birxuyao* x ITU gnx*? aix birnco cmployed making coffee; relays of bakers making from 500 to 800 loaves of bread, and often as nmiy as 1,600 pies and tarts a day, are ccmtinually employed. In connection with tbe restaurant is a ; hotel capable of accommodating 300 persons. It is continually crowded?in the summer by fruit sellers and fruit buyers, in the fall by the potato men from the northern counties, and at other times by people who are in different capacities connected with the market. The prices charged in the establishment are pared down to the lowest possible figure. A plate of meat, bread and potatoes can be had for ten or fifteen cents, and a bed for fifty cents. The average amount spent fcy each customer in the restaurant is twenty-five cents. It is estimated by a well-known caterer that in it and the. other restaurants, large and small, below Grand street, at least 150,000 business men, clerks and boys daily take a lunch of some sort. ? . Women Jii the Washington Lobby. < A Washington correspondent -writes ( as follows: In recent years, particu- 1 larly during the period just after the 1 war and up to three or lour years ago, < the lobby performed a most important I part in Washington. Its manner of { proceedure, however, is greatly misun- t ders' ood by most people, and thoroughly i comprehended by but very few. For t instance, there is a general impression t in all parts of the country that women, j beautiful, accomplished, and trained for_ j I ^^^ervice, havoP'^ ?mrtiTp nnnllatiop. nodtr^,.,n?.|c^.^ J ou^cribbiersm?ve turned a som(?wTTaF ] doubtful penny' by writing for cheap ( periodicals flowery and high-sounding j descriptions of what they are pleased to ( call the " Queens 9f the Lobby." The fact is that in these latter days women , have absolutely no general influence in ] the direction indicated. To be sure ] there are isolated instances of women ] who have used their influence upon ] some member of Congress or officer of < either house to secure the passage of ] some insignificant measure in which , they might be interested, out there is j absolutely no regularly-organized female , lobby in Washington, and for years , past it has not been customary to em- 1 ploy women to advocate or resist im- ] portant legislation. The latest notable instance of such employment was in the case of Dr. Morton, who claimed to have discovered the anaesthetic properties of ether, and for that discovery asked I. tn ttiup him a reward of 9150. V/UXigl VUO W T V W t00. To aid him in pressing this de- 1 mand, the doctor was ably seconded by his wife, a very beatitiful woman, and by a number of charming ladies, who were not at all chary in paying marked i attention and bestowing many soft caresses upon Hie*aged gent lemen who held prominent positions in either house. Despite all their blandishments, however, the doctor nevtr secured the ' money for which he asked. The "State of Levis." Lewis county is knownithroughout Kentucky as the M State of Lewis." This cognomen originated with John D. Edwards, a wandering school teacher and dissipated stumper, well known to the older citizens. The phrase was then made a fixed fact by Hon. John D. Taylor in his canvass for the Senate, in which he touched the vanity of old j Lewis by describing her forty miles of j 1 river front and twenty-four miles in width?twice the size of old Mascn?and t abounding in variety of soil, pure waters and inexhaustible wealth of timber, , populated with a people whose hearts I are as big as her mountains, and the ' women as pure as the limpid streams i that flow from the rock-sided hills, t Thomas B. Stevenson was another who ; elevated our vanity by persuading the mountaineers they lived in a territory i larger than the State of Rhode Island and we were entitled to State rights and r4 sovereignty. So there arc persons that r write, speak and caption letters and con tracts with the State of Lewis for the > county of Lewis. School teachers and ?* 1 tn-n m,1 ]fir>luinc? wllifill r SVUUUl liUUDCH iUV r will remedy the erro", out i' ./ill take time and generations to erase the name. 1 Maysville (Ay.) Republican. A little girl of six or eight years, ' dressed nicely, with curling hair and ' " l i *t, o nrofiv ii nnpfir , Qngiit Kyto, ? K.v?vj ..r, 1 :tnce, but she never seems quite happy, r in spite of tine clothes, unless she can 1 manage to step into every mud-puddle she comes to. -Rome Sentinel. % Improvement in the Breeding of Horses From the earliest times to the present day it has been a great misfortune and loss to mankind that so little attention has been paid to the breeding and rear ing of a more perfect and powerful race of horses for heavy farm and road work, and the use of the city dray and large express and truck wagon. Poets, from the sublime Job down to the highspirited Byron, have been profuse in their descriptions and praises of the horse for war, the chase and the course; while historians, travelers and sportsmen, have been ever eloquent over them in volumes of prose. Strange that the most generally useful of all the different breeds of horses shoflld, with few exceptions, be ignored and passed by in silence, and so much be written and spoken of others wh^h, although requisite for special purposes, and worthy of high admiration, have contributed less to the benefit of humanity. But fortunately a great change in this respect has taken place in the past few years in Europe as well as in America. A numerous society, composed of noblemen, the landed gentry, and farmers of Scotland, has recently been iormea ior ine purpose 01 improving rue breed of their larger sort of horses. This society takes the name of Clydesdale, and that distinguished nobleman. Earl Dunmore, has' been devoting a considerable part of his time during the past two years to editing a stud book of their horses, classed also as Clydesdale. The first volume of this has already been published, and the matter for the second is collecting. England is now zealously following the laudable example set her by Scotland for what has long been known as the Shire and othe^ of her best large breeds of horses. The Prince of Whales, Earl Ellesmere and other noblemen are giving no little attention to the getting out of their stud book, and the whole landed interest of the United Kingdom is fast waking up to the importance, of improvement of this most useful of all their breeds of aorses. Within the past three years 200 to 1,000 guineas ($1,000 to $?,000) has been ;he common price in Great Britain for select heavy horses for breeding purjoses, and even 1,500 guineas ($7,500) j as been refused for a few of the very jhoicest, while fifty to eighty guineas '$250 to $400) is the ordinary price of ;hose for farm and dray work alone, [n France, Belgium, Holland, and a few districts of Northern Germany, prices lave also advanced considerably, and greater attention is given than formerly o the improvement of their horses,allof vhich shows the rapidly increased inere# in the subject abroad. Nor has his matter been neglected in America, j jarticularly in the past four years.during ghirh lnr/Tp numbers of powerful heavy [|n 3i:[ jeen more generally preierret^^^^^^M Canada, while the Percheron and Nor- '* nan have taken precedence in our own 1 country. , p 1.1 For the Percheron ami Norman in -~T^ America a stud book was published in !' 1877, by Mr. J. H. Sanders, of Chicago, ; Illinois. A revised edition followed the lext year, of 212 large-octavo pages, ? aandsomely got up, with numerous fine / engravings. The object of this, stud book is to preserve an accurate record |? if the males and females imported from France and their full-bred descendants, 30 that the public may not be imposed - rjS upon hereafter by unprincipled dealers ' palming off their inferior grades for full- J breds.? A. B. Allenin Harper's Maga- A zine. J The Emperor of San Francisco. 4J Emperor Norton the First is dead. He reigned in San Francisco, and firmly believed in his self-imposed title. His ^ ?' ~ -.1-3 r'olJfnmionQ who suojecis wcic uiu vnuivtuuuw, humored his whim by paying the royal assessments lie levied. He was naturally a handsome man, but he made himself grostesque by his dress. A plume always waved from his hat, and he wore a light blue uniform, sometimes with a sword. When the public mind became excited over any subject he would set all right by issuing a proclamation, signed "Norton I." When this was done the political or financial trouble was settled in his mind. He showed his subtle knowledge of statecraft by avoiding the Chinese question, about which he thought a great deal could be said on both sides. He had his own opinion of Denis Kearney, and kept it to himself. Caterers did not profit by his custom. His appetite was hearty, and his inclination to pay was small. His por* 1 4-1*/% rtolloriha nf trait lias long uuug m wj? gnUv... the city, side by side witli those of Kalakaua, Dom Pedro and other monarch?, and his death brought it#to the front in many windows. San Francisco is left without a butt for general ridicule. * Origin of Often-Used PhrasesEven some of the " slang" phrases of the day have a legitimate origin. " Putting your foot in it," is certainly not a very elegant mode of expression, but according to the *4 Asiatic Researches," it is quite a fine point of law; when the title to land is disputed in Hindostan, two holes aie dug in the ground and used to encase a limb of each lawyer (?), and the one who tired first lost, his client's case. Fancy, if you can, some ' 44 l;/?f ihn ltiw " of our iamous nuiura u> pleading in such a manner! It is generally the "client who "puts his foot in it." When things are in disorder they are often said to be turned topsy-turvy; this expression is derived from the way in which turf used for fuel is placed to dry, the turf being t.urncd downward; and the expression then means top-sldo turfway.