THE MOOLID OF THE PROPHET.
A* Kußtrrn OrfiiieMv, Parlßl wfcloli a
ll*rw and Klairr Paaa Ow Ike IImIIn
•I Pnairmr I>rrvlhr.
Oar tent was close at ham!; wo sought
it *tli tlio nonehaleno# of travelers who
rather enjoy breaking the tables of the
law. We were glad of the escape and of
the occasion of it; likewise grateful for
the slight shelter our tent afforded, for
by this time El Erdekoeyeh was shroud
ed in a fine, sifting rain that sparkled in
the snnshine as the golden light shot
I h rough it. Mnaie (plenty of it) grow
aft louder and more loud, and the roar
M' 10,000 voice*, swept down upon us,
ami then the rush of heralds crying,
Atake way. make way!" and the der
vishes thus" ancouueed advanced to offer
np their bodies to the l)oseh. They
hastened up the avenue in groups; each
group was clustered about a staff deoor
at<\! with holy rugs and saints' relics.
All faces were turned toward the relics—
the haggard faces of the dervishes, who
hung together with arms entwined, c m
pact as swarming bees; sacred banner*
fluttered down the whole length of s
Srodtesiou made up of these grouped
ervishea. Not one of the victims
seemed in his right miud; the majority
of them were idiotic. Their swollen
tongues lolled from their mouths; their
heads wagged wearily ou their shoulders;
and their eyes were either closed, or
fixed and staring. Many of them were
naked to the waist, ttulnuilesa, bare
footed, and barelegged to the knee, lu
fact, they wore of the lowest orders of
the East, impoverish ad, fanatical, for
lorn. They hastened to the top of the
aventtc, a part of those in each group
running backward. When they had
assembled to the unruber of 400, the
friends who accompanied them separated
each cluster of dervishes, and began
paving the way with their bodies. They
lay face down in the dust, the arms
crossed uuder the tarahMd; they were
ranged shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip,
though the heads were not always turned
in the same direction, but were occasion
ally reversed. Friends gathered at the
head of each of the dervishes, snd
with the Tolominons breadths of their
garments fanned the prostrate forma
rapidly and incessantly. In truth the der
vishes seemed faintiug with hanger and
fatigue, and, as the crowd pressed close
upon til em, ther would doubtless have
become mseuaibie in a short time bat for
the fitful breath afforded by tires* flap
ping sails. 1 observed that the major,ty
of the dervishes lay as still as death;
bnt there were those who raised their
heads and looked wildly about nntil
their friends had quieted them, or, as in
siime oases, had forced them to lie still,
while the confusion increased, ami, the
intense excitement at the lower end of
the avenue announced the approach of
the sheik. A few footmen then ran
rapidly over the prostrate bodies, beat -
mg email copper drums of a hemispher
ical form, aud crying in a lend voice.
" Allah !" The attendants, as they saw
the sheik's great turban nodding aboTe
the crowd, grew nervous, and some of
them lost all self control; one man
standing dose beside me went stark
mail, and three muscular fellows had
some difficulty in dragging him away
from the spot. He came, the sheik of
the saadeeyeh, swathed in purple and
fine linen, "and mounted upon a gray
steed. The bridle was in the hands of
two attendants; two others leaned npon
the hind quarters of the animal to sup
port his unsteady steps. The horse was
shod with large, flat shoes, like plates of
steel, that flashed in the sunshine; he
stepped cautiously and with some hesit
ation upon the bodies, usually placing
Lis foot upon the hips or thighs of the
dervishes; sometimes the steel-shod hoof
slipped down the ribs of a man, or sank
in between the thighs, for in no case
could it touch the earth, so closely were
the bodies ranged, side by side. If any
shriek of agonv escaped from the lips of
the dervishes f heard it not, for the air
was continually rent with the cry of
"Allah-la-la-la-lah," the rippling prayer,
a breath long, continually reiterated.
The-sheik was stupefied with opium, for
he performs this act, much against his
will. in deference to the demands of the
people - he rocked in his saddle until he
had passed the whole length of that
avenue paved with hnman flesh, and
then withdrew into a tent prepared for
his reception, where he received the
devoted homage of snch as were able to
force their way into his presence.—
Charts Warren Stoddard, in Atlantic
Monthly,
The Story of a Fountain.
Among the fountains of Brussels there
is none that commands snch attention of
the stranger as a diminutive figure
(called "Le Mannequin"), and there is
none that is held in such reverence by
the people of Brussels. It is a droll
curiosity, while at the same time it is a
true picture of innocence and nature. It
is the figure of a hearty and robust little
boy, about six years of age, standing on
a pedestal over a half-circle basin, and
as he has been frequently stolen or de
faced, an ornamental iron railing in
closes both the basin and the statue.
Bnt Le Mannequin is an historical char
acter, and he has stood for four hundred
years in his present position. The first
statue was in stone; but two hundred
and sixty years ago it was replaced by
the present bronze figure by Dnques-"
noy. There are various legends in con- i
nection with it, the best accepted of
which is that the son of a distinguished
man had been lost for seme time,having
strayed away. This part of Brussels
was then a thicket, and it was on the
spot on which the fountain was subse
quently erected by his father that he
was found, after diligent search. In
gratitude for hi* recovery the fountain
was erected, and has stood during all
the vicissitudes of war and changes of
government It has been from time
immemorial an object of popular affec
tion. On grand holidays it has al ways
been the custom of Le Mannequin to
wear a costume, and an officer is regu
larly appointed and paid by the City of
Brussels, whose duty it is to dress him
on these occasions, and to keep him in
repair an.J in running order. When
Louis XV. captured Brussels in 1747,
he wore a large white oockade on his
hat. In 1789, he was dressed ont in
colors of the Brabaneon revolutionists,
and the empire girded him with tbe
French tricolor under Napoleon. The |
Dutch government imposed the orange
colors upon him. The days of Septem- *
ber beheld him dressed in a blouse, aud
under the present reign, on grand occa
sions, he proudly wears the tunic of the
civic gnard.
■ This little inanimate figure has been •
the object of several bequests, from
which some idea of tbe sentiment of the
people of Brussels in relation to him
may be judged. The object of these
bequests was to furnish a fund, not only
to furnish him with dresses lor /etc,
bat also to keep the fountain in good
order, and repair and renew it when
necessary. This is the fund which the
city administers, and which pays for his
chamberlain.
Lost in the Desert.
Says the Winnemnoea (Nev.) Sentinel:
A man J?y the name of Rossiter, who is
engaged in the wood business near
Moore's Btalion. on tbe railroad, was
visited by his wife and child, who re
side at Humboldt Wells. While at the
wood camp the child, a boy four and a
half years of age, wandered off, aud was
not missed by his parents for probably
twenty ininntes after be left the camp.
That day search was made tor the little
fellow without finding him, and the next
day a large party set out on his trail,
which was followed with great difficulty.
We are informed by Conductor Hopkins
that on tbe third day fifteen men left
Humboldt Wells on horseback to hnnt
for the .little wanderer, among them the
railr id agent, Mr. Watson. He had 1
found Iboy's track, but as he had
take J of>' his boots it was very difficult
to trace iL Mr. Watson tied the horse's
iiglter to One of his own legs and followed
the track ou his hands and knees for
several miles, and at last found the child
on the summit of a lone mound near the
Independence Mountains, twenty-five
miles froifi where he started. The child
traveled Tour days during the intensely
hot weather of last week, without food <
or water, and was crazy when found i
by Mr. Watson. He recovered rapidly,
however, and when Conductor Hopkins ,
left tho Wells was apparently none the
worse for his adventure. , i
Earls Worth Knowing.
As flies nre said to eat the animalcules
1 in impure air, thus removing tho seeds
of disease, leanness iu s fly is nrima
I facie evidence of pure air iu a house,
• while corpulency indicates foul waU
• paper and bad ventilation. Talking of
fa foul aud freeh atmosphere, there has
r lately been adopted in India a novel
r method of giving change of air to peo
ple who cannot afford to leave home.
i Patient* go tip in a balloou, which as*
t eends to a certain height, and is there
- made captive. It seems that a few days
r passed m this atmosphere, which is
, quite different from that on the plains
, beneath, temporarily braces up the most
• languid of invalids. The importance to
r health of free perspiration no less than
' of fresh air, and what dangers arise
from perspiration being suddenly
• elwvked, lias been proved by the fact
that a person covered completely with a
compound, impervious to moisture, will
not live over six hours. On the ooea
■ aiou of some papal ceremonies a poor
i child was once gilded all over with var
i niali and gold-leaf to represent the
I Golden Age. No wonder that it died iu
i a few hours, when we consider that the
■ amount of liquid matter which passes
through the pores of the skiu iu twenty
• four hour* in an adult person of sound
; health, is sLuit sixteen fluid ounces, or
• one pint. Besides this, a large amount
> of carbonic acid— a gaseous body—pass
es through the tube#; so we cannot
fail to see the importance of keeping
' thetn iu perfect Working ordt r by fre
quent ablutions or other means.
It Las often been stated that oenlar
weakness and diseases in various forma
appear to have beeu rapidly in
creasing in recent times. l>r. lrering,
in discussing before the New York
County M<>hcal Soe cty the serious
queatiou, "Is the huu. ni eve gradually
changing its form tuidt the influence
of modern civilisation ?" confirms the
opinion, so far at least as ahort-sightcd
ues-.s is concerned. Constant study, now
incidental to the lives of so many, has,
he says, a tendency to engender this
derangement of the eye, aud it is often
transmitted to descendants. Iu his
1J( opinion, nearsightedness is a disease of
childhood, and rarely develops itself
after the fifteenth or eighteenth year.
On examining the eye# of over two
thousand scholars in the New York pub
lie schools, l>r. Loring found that the
proportion of those in a healthy condi
tion were eighty-seven |>er rent, among
i children under aeveu years, while be
tween that age and twenty-one the pro
portion of normal eyes was but atxtv
one; which shows, bethinks, that near
sightedness increases directly with the
' age to which schooling is extended. Iu
Kouigsbcrg, Germany, be found con
siderably more than half the population
were short-sighted; and iu America it is
more commonly met with among the
older Eastern cities than the uew ones
,of tbe West. Among the most prom
inent cause* of the disease are, in his
i opinion, a sedentary life, poor food, bad
ventilation, and general disregard of
hygienic requirements—all conducing
|to a laxity of tisane, of which near
sightedness is an indication.
An unexpected friend to man has been
discovered in a kind of animalcule en
gendered by sewage, winch prevents
the decomposing matter from becoming
a dangerous nuisance. Mr. Angel!, the
public analyst for Hampshire, naving
examined the sewage-polluted fluid iu
i Southampton Water, has discovered that
where the suspended matters are thick
> est there is going oo a silent destruc
tion of the foul matters, through the
agency of millions of the minute erea
>' turea,*by acme held to be of animal, bnt
' bv Mr. Angell believed to be of vegeta
ble origin. On examining the muddy
> fluid through a microscope, it was found
to contain myriads of little brown or
ganisms, surrounded with a gelatinous
1 substance. Each specimen was found
to be active in its movements and of
peculiar shape, being furnished with a
belt of cilia round the centre of the
body, and with a long transparent and
very flexible tail. After death, these
tiny atoms give off an odor similar to
' | that of sea-weed and change to a green
color. During life they evolve bubbles
of oxygen gas, which servo to purify the
water from the effects of the decompos
ing matter ou which tliey themselves
feed. It is a pity, however, that man,
i by polluting rivers with sewage, should
stand so much in need of these neces
sary scavengers.
The World'* Railway*.
A French writer has been carefully
collecting the railway statistics of all
nations. At the close of 1876 the total
railway mileage in the world was 183,982
miles, apportioned as follows:
Miitf ill.".
Earofs 89.49 C Africa 1.519
America 83.421
Asia 7,6T0tal .1*3,932
Australia 1,923',
At this time the United States had ,
but 74.095 miles of railway. But at the
close of 1877 the mileage was 79.514,
and must now be about 82,000. Other
nations are credited as follows:
Mii't. Miles.
Great Britain ...16 794 India 6.527
Frante 13,492 Canada 4,200
Germany 17.191 Pern 970
Hmxia ... 11,555 Argentineßepob. 990
Austria 10,852 Egypt 975
Italy. 4,815 Brazil 836
Turkey 900
Europe has a capital of $20,500,-
000,000 invested in railways, against
$6,000,000,000 for America and all the
rest of the world. The railways of Eu
rope, in 1876. earned 1,140,000,000
passengers and 5.400,000,000 tons of
freight, or about 470 passengers to every
10) tons of freight. It is estimated that
4,000.000 tons of rails are required
every year to renew the worn-out stock
on the mads already in operation, be
sides what is needed to lay down new
roads. The average wear of a rail is
ten years. The rolling mil's of the
United States have a capacity of nearly
2,000,000 tons, though our consumption
of rails, iucluding imports, is not half
that number. Mr. Bodie, an Italian
compiler of general railway statistics,
asserts that everywhere railways nnder
State management are more oostiy than
those nnder private management. The
difference is in favor of the latter nearly
twelve per cent, in gross receipts in
Belgiam, nine per cent, in Prussia, and
eight per cent, in all the rest of Ger- i
,many. The oowt of the construction of
railways, owing to the advances in the
wages of labor and the depreciation in
tbe purchasing power of money, rose
from $25,090 to $65,000 between 1850
and 1873 in Germany, and in a corres
ponding ratio in most other European
countries. In France in 1855 it cost an
average of $80,003 per mile, and in 1875
$92,000 per mile.—.Van Francisco
Chronicle.
Fees of Pari* Restaurant Waiters.
A Paris correspondent writes: It is
an established rule in the cafes and
restaurants of Paris that the waiters not
only receive no salary, but pay a daily
stipend to the proprietors for the privi
lege of waiting npon customers. It is
customary in Paris and all over En rope
for the customer to give two or three
sons to the waiter, which, in the course
of a dav, amounts to quite a handsome
sum. In aome of the restaurants an nm
is kept on the desk of the cashier and
eqeh of the waiters as he receives this
gift money is required te drop it into
the urn. At the close of the day it is
taken ont and divided among till the
waiters, tbe proprietor receiving one
fonrth of the amount. Iti other estab
lishments each waiter keeps the money
he receives, bnt pays the proprietor
from two to ten francs, according to the
run of custom. A curious incident of
the absurdity of this custom occurred a.
the Paris Exposition the other day.
The proprietors of the Duval resiaurant,
oonoeiving that their waiters were mak
ing too much money, raised the tax on
waiter from one to two francs per
day. A general strike was the result,
but the waiters finally yielded. In
Vienna, where the restaurants are larger
and more extensively patronized, the
waiters collect no money, bnt they huve j
regularly appointed collectors," each
having a dozen or more tables. These
collectors pay heavily for their positions, '
sufficient to pay the salaries of all the I
waitera in the establishment It is the
general impression that hotel porters,
who prey upon the guests, also pay the
proprietors for their positions.
TIIE FnH.lt' LANDS.
Tltr Various si OIislnla I slleS
Nlair. llsvcrsmesi I.aa3.
Referring to the deoiaiou of Secretary
Schurz directing thai all Die latnla do
nated by the Government to the Pacific
railroad companies should hereafter be
opcti to pre-emption and private entry
at the rate of $1.25 per acre, the Chica
go Trihtiftr save: Thia will oiwu to
private purchase slauit 28,000,000 aorea
of lam! at $1.85 per acre. We give as a
matter of information an alietract of the
Laud law* a* they now stand. To un
deratand thia the better, it should be
Htuted that in all the granta of lamia to
radrnadatha Government retained each
alternate taction of laml, which eectious
are now ami have always been open ti
purchaae and pre-emption at $2.50 per
acre. There are several modes if ob
taining Government laml* (1) My pur
chase, bv "private entrv" or loeatiou;
pj) location l>v laud scrip; (8) bv pre
emptions; ly entry nnder the Home
stead law; (5> by entry under the HjKxual
homestead provisions in the case of
soldiers of the late sr. The proceed
ings in these eases are is follows:
1. Any person having select.vl the
land he desires makes written applies
tion therefor, describing it. IX tlu*
land be of the character open to private
eutrv, his application is recorded and he
pavs the purchase money, 1.25 per acre,
and receive* a patent therefor. I'mler
this form ihe quantity is not limited,
ami there are no restrictions a to occu
pation or cultivation.
•J. Congress has granted, at various
time*, land f# States for colleges and
other institutions, and scrip has been
issued therefor, which mar be located
on any land subject to private entrv.
The warrant or scrip is accepted in
place of the cash at the rate of $1.25 per
acre.
3. The pre-emption privilege i* re
stricted to the head* of families, widow*
or single men over twenty-one vears of
age, citiseua of the United Ktetcs, or
who have taken steps to te naturalized.
Thia right extends to 160 acres at $1.25
per acre ou general public lauds, or at
$2 50 per acre on the alternate secti >us
of land along the railroad routes. The
person must go upon and occupy the
land, and within three mouths file a de
claration of hi* purposes to purchase
that quarter section, and within thirty
months, or two years aud six months,
thereafter, must die proof of his occu
pancy and settlement, and pay tho priee
thereof iu cash. Iu case the settler diea
before maturing his claim, all Ins rights
succeed to his wulow or heirs. Actual
settlement is the essential feature of thia
privilege, there being a credit of thirty
three months for the purchase money.
4. Tbe Homestead law givea the right
to enter, free of charge, on any laud
open to purchase, 160 aorea; he or she
may be tweuty-one years of age; the
head of a family, a citizen or intending
tr become one; he must declare that the
entry is for his or her exclusive benefit,
and for actual settlement aud cultiva
tion. An the end of five years' settle
ment and cultivation upon proof then of,
and payment of the office fees, the per
son ia entitled to a patent therefor. The
applicant for a homestead can select 160
acres of any laud the cash price of which
is $1.25 per acre; or he may take eighty
acres of any of the reserved land, the
cash priee of which is $2.50 per acre.
5. All the provisions of the Home
stead law are extended to every soldier
and officer of the army who
served not less than uiuoty days during
the late war and who wa--> honorably
discharged; the dieffrence Wing that
be may select 160 acres of any laud, in
cluding the reserved lauds, the cash
price of which i* $2.50 |x r acre, and the
time of the service iu the army shall bo
deducted from the period of five years,
require.! in ail other ea*e of homestead,
for settlement aud cultivation. The
benefit of this law ia extended to the
widow of a soldier, if unmarried, or in
case of her death or marriage the minor
children may enter the homestead. If
the soldier died during the term of his
enlistment, then tbe widow cr children
shall be entitled to the Wneflt of the
full term of tho enlistment. The total
fees aud commissions te bo paid in case
o( a homestead ia eighteen dollars, of
which four dollars are paid whoa the
final certificate ia issued.
From these particulars it will be seen
that any ad nit person may pre-empt any
portion of the public laml to the extent
of 160 acres of laud held at $1.25 an acre,
or eighty-three acres held at $2.50 per
acre, and pay for the same, without in
terest, at the end of thirty-three mouths
after taking possession.
Or, under the Homestead law, every
adult may enter 160 acre* of $1.25 laml,
or eighty acres of $2.50 land, without
cost, on condition of cultivating aud
occupy lug the same five Tears.
Or a soldier, or the wi.fow of a soldier,
or the minor children of a soldier, can
enter 160 acres of either descript on of
land, and have the term of service in the
army deducted from the five years'set
tlement or cultivation. Land may be
entered for homesteads by a duly ap
pointed agent. Lauds acquired under
the Homestead law are not liable for
debts contracted previously.
The Influence of Newspaper*.
A school teacher, who had been a
long time engaged in hm profession,aud
witnessed the influence of a newspaper
upon the minds of a family of children,
writes as follows:"i
I huve found it to be a universal fact,
without exception, that those scholars
of both sexes; aud of all agea, who have
access to newspapers at home, when
Compared with those'who have not, are:
1. Better readers, excellent in pro
nunciation, aud consequently read more
and understandinglv.
2. They are betterjspellera, and define
words with ease aud accuracy.
3. They obtain practical knowledge
of geography in nlmo at half tbe time it
requires of others, as the newspapers
hav ma le them acquainted with the
location of the important places, of na
tion*. their government and doings on
the globe.
4. They arc iletter grammarians for
having become so familiar with every
variety of style iu the newspapers, from
the common-place adverti a-ment to the
finished and classical oration of the
statesmen, they more readily compre
hend the meaning of the text aud con
stantly analyze its constriction with
accuracy.
5. They write better composition,
using better language, containing more
thoughts, more clearly aud correctly
expressed.
6. Those young men who have for
years been readers of newspapers are
always taking the lead in debating so
cieties, exhibiting a more extensive
knowledge npo® a greater variety of
subjects, and expressing their views
with greater fluency, clearness and cor
rectness.
Sagaeity of Ant.*.
Professor Leidy, in a recent article,
states that, in order to itscertain whether
a house he hal just entered was (as he
suspected) seriously infested with rod
ants, lie placed a piece of sweet cake in"
every room. At noon every piece was
found covered with ants. A cup of tur- [
pontine oil beiug provided, each piece j
was picked tip with forceps and the ants
tapped into the oil. The cake was re
placed, and in the evening was again
fonnd covered with ants. The same I
process was gone through the following
two days, moruing, noon, and night. !
The third day the number of ants had
greatly diminished, and on the fonrtli j
there was none. Fie at tlrst supposed
the ants had all been destroyed, bnt in ;
the attic he observed a few feasting on
some dead hoiiße flies, which led him to
suspect that the remaining ants had bo
come suspicious of the sweet cake. He
accordingly distributed through the
house pieces of baoon, which were after
wards swarming with ants. This was
repeated with the same result for sever
al days, when, in like manner with the
cake, the ants ceased to visit, the bacon.
Pieces of cheese were next tried with the
Hnme rrsnlt, but with an nndonbted '
thinning in the number of ants. When
the cheese proved no longer attractive,
dead grasshoppers were supplied from
the garden. These again proved too ::
mrrtdi for the ant*, bnt after a few days''
trial neither grasshopjiers nor anything ]
else attracted them ; nor has tbo house
been infested with them since. I
What lie Was After.
A strong, healthy-looking young man
entered tho County Clerk's office ami
gnaed respectfully around. llariy
Thompson, the Chief Deputy, stspped
up Mill blandly im|idred Of the stranger
if he wished any business transacted.
The voting man, when spoken to,
started back oa though dreading mi as
sault, but he soon recovered himself,
ami said in a wliiaiier:
"Yea, sir I called to sew—l wsnteil
to have n little talk how much is it,
anyhow?"
He Held a soft cloth lint in lus hand,
ami kept turning ami twisting it nhout
a# lie spoke; his lace had grown tcrrd ly
ml, and big dnqva of |ierspiiatiou were
standing on his brow.
"What ia it you want?" aaked the
clerk.
The man looked nt him pleadingly,
tint struggled in vain for utterance.
Ilia eye# bulged out, his face grew red
dcr, mid the veins in his neck aud on Ins
forehead swelled till they looked like
great knotted cords, lie twisted the hat
convulsively and then straightened it
out ogahi, and theu he pulhsl the ucw
lining out of it aud dropid it on the
Door. Then he picked it up all dusty
fn >iu the floor ami wiped his steaming
face, leaving a dirty streak after caeii
a ipe. Finally it seamed as though the
poor voung man had quite recovered
himself, for he looked ehcarfully amuud
tiie room, and theu turning to Mr.
Thompson, remarked in a pleasant ami
confidential toue:
" Well, it is real warm for this sec
tion. isn't it?"
" Very warm, indeed," replied Mr. T.
" It is a good deal hotter than we have
it down in tho valley, and somehow I've
always had just the other uotiou about
it—that tho higher up you got, the
cooler— "
"Yes," said Mr. Thornjwon; "bat
about that business of yours."
Another firry blush that h>okrd aa if
it wotlld scorch the collar off his ucck,
followed tins remark, but the stranger
held up bravely. He leaned on the desk
in an easy, careless sort of way, ami
began to toy witb a mucilage brush.
" The fact of the matter is, that 1
wanted to "
Here he paused again, and medita
tively jammed the tuucilage-brush into
the ink stand.
" What the deuce are you doing witb
that brush?" asked the clerk, somewhat
impatiently.
" Oh, by George—excuse me," stam
mered the man, as bo ha>ti!v withdrew
the brush, spattering the ink ail over
the clerk's shirt bosom, and a* if it had
been molasses dripping from his linger#,
thrust the brush tulo his mouth, daub
ing himself with luk and mucilage, and
then bolted from the office.
"That's about the worst case I have
ever seen," remarked Mr. Th>m|>son, as
he wiped a big ink spot from the star
board side of his Roman nose.
" Gray as a loon," said Alderman
OrudortT, who had been au interested
s;Mvtator of the whole scene. " You
ought to send a policeman after tnat
man."
" Xo; he's not exactly crazy," replied
Thompson. " I knew from the start
that he wanted a marring" !icuse, and 1
thought 1 d have a little quiet fun; but
he's broke the line now and gone off
with the hook."— l iryinid < Vty (.Wr.)
Chronicle.
FdUun and the Fit seeu Initer-e.
Hitherto man's kuuwltslge of tlie ex
tent of the universe has been bounded
bv the until* of vision. During the day,
when the range of sight is narrowed by the
sun's excessive brightness, we see but s
minute fraction of the little world we in
habit. At night a wider reach of vision
is possible, and some thousands of stel
lar and planetary bodies are added to
the domain of jKw-itive knowledge, thus
enlarging enormously man's idea of the
magnitude of 'he universe. But the in
crease of knowledge which darkness re
veals is almost infinitesimal compared
with the wider view of the universe
opened up by the telescope; and every
addition to the telescope's penetrative
power bring* a larger and larger universe
within our ken.
That the most powerful of telescopes
enables us to reach the limit of the uni
verse no one imagines. See a* much a*
we may, more—perhaps infinitely more
—lies bevond. So, at least, ail experi-
I ence lends us to infer; but our positive
knowledge ends with the limit of VI.MOC.
Must this always lie so? Hitherto
science has given no hint of the possi
bility of exploring the vast and uivsteri
ous beyond, from which no visible ray of
light has ever been detected, or is ever
1 likely to lie detected, by the most far
reaching and sensitive of optic aids.
But now there cornea a promise of nu
i extension of positive knowle lge to fields
, of space so remote that light is tired out
uud hist before it can traverse the inter
vening distance. A new agent or organ
of scientific sense for space exploration
has been given to the world in the taai
rnoter, by which it is possible not only
to measure the heat of the remotest of
visible stare, but, Mr. Edison believes,
to detect by their invisible radiations
stars that are unseen and unseeable!
Mr. Edison's plan is to adjust the t.isi
raeter to its ntm >st degree of sensitive
ness, then to attach it to a large tele
scope, and so explore those parts of the
heaven*, which appear blank when ex
amined by telescopes of the highest
penetrative power. If at any point in
such blank space the toaimcter indicates
an accession of temperature, uud does
this invariable, the legitimate inference
will be that the instrument is in range
with a stellar body. Cither non-luminous
or so distant as to be beyond the reach
of vision assisted by the telescope; and
the position of such body can be fixed
and mapped the same HB if it were visi
ble. Seeing that the taaimeter is affected
by a wider rnngo of ethcrie undulations
than the eye can take cognizance of, and
is withal far more acutely sensitive, the
probabilitities are that it will open up
liitherto inaccessible regions of space,
and possibly extend the range of our
real knowledge a* far beyond the limit
attained by the teleeoope a* that is 1h
yond the narrow reach of unaided vision.
Possibly, too, it may bring within human
ken a vast multitude of nearer bodies—
burnt-out sunr or feebly-reflecting plan
ets—now unknown because not luiuin
oua.—Scientific American.
Peat Men and Women In Shetland.
The lives of these people are simple
and uneventful enough. The chain is a
very short one and the links are not
mattered. They go forth to their daily
work and return to their daily refit, and
have no thought or ambition beyond.
Their aspect. I have said, is picturesque.
They are of all ages, some young, others
bending under the weight of years.
There they go, one after another, with
their baskets, or kishes, as they ar:* call
ed. fastened upon the back by means of
a strap over each shoulder, rising abovo
their bends, nnd piled up with squares
of black peat. This naturally gives
them all a stooping position, snggestive
of hard work and feminine weakness,
that quickly appeals to the sympathies.
Many of tiiem wear'ahoes made of cow
hide, strong and choup, perhaps, but
without form, and with small preten
sions to neatness and cleanliness. And
these they often "save" by carry tug
them in their hands. Many, too, are
without stockings, and they trnilge
along bare-footed and bare-legged, aud
only look in consequence the more pov
erty-stricken. Their petticoats are short,
and generally of some dark, coarse ma
terial, with the color of which tlie peat
getting sufficiently harmonises. Upon
their heads they wenr the inevitable ker
chief of thick Shetland wool, generally
gray, but sometimes rod. Their fares
are sunburned and weather-beaten.
Those of the old women are often
strangely and wonderfully wrinkled,
which, with their bent attitude, gives
them a look of extreme age, and almost
decrepitude. The younger women are
many of them handsome; I saw a few
really beautiful faces. As they goalong
the road nearly all Hro knitting stockings
or some other article of wear. They
appear to knit by instinct—an hereditary
gilt. Their heavy loads and somewhat
difficult progress in no way seem to in
terfere with the flying needles. These
never arrest their motion as their owners
for a moment raise their heads as you
pass and wish you good day; or, it may
be, turn round to look after the stranger
to the gun—no doubt the gun.— Argosy. ,
A UOIJF MI>K IN NEW YORK CITY.
\\ itnl i* n California tflnnr* PMRII IN Ik*
Kiilna of m llMinrd Jrwrlry Htorn.
The Appleton building m Itoud street,
then rilled with jeweler'# wares, wan
burned on March fl, 1H77. Nearly all of '
the immense property in gold and ailyer
ware and jewelry waa n total loan, the
precioua metal* having been melted in
tiie tluiuea and Moaltered aliout unioiig
the debris, The entiinated loan in tile
deatruoUon >f gold aud ailver ware,
watches, uild jewelry alotie wan estimated
ai more than $1,000,000. The p|erty \
and merohandine being heavily insured,
the loan fell heuvieat pmtiahly ujuiii the I
insurance eontpamea. These, therefore,
had the privilege of remunerating them-
Hclve# by gleaning from the debris the
precious metal# that had tweti melteil.
The ilrat gleumuga were an easy mat
ter, and great nugget# of melteil gold ,
aud ailver were extracted, and a large
attm waa realised, lint when the nug
get# were all extracted the insurance
companies retire<|, and then the owner#
of the building, Meiutrn ltoliertn A Apple
ton, overturned all this muss, aud sub
jecting it to what they deemed a thorough
washing, obtained many tbouaaud dol
lars' worth more.
The tnuoh-waahed debris waa then
allowed to rent tindi studied until about
three months ago, when it waa deter
mined by other |ieraotia to give it another
ami more thorough washing than it had
aver undergone before. These person#
were the miners. Peer & Roberta.
Ptfr began life early a# a miner,
i |teuf twenty-seven years in the buai
| neaa in the Pacific alope, and ba#
' reduced mining to such a alienee
that he believe# he can extract every
' particle of the predion# metals from the
moat refractory ore# aud tailings. One
-lay ROIKTU told bia partner. Peer, who
had just returned from California, about
' tbe g >id mine in Iloud street, and the
j utauy waahtug* it had undergone. The
; next day Peer wn# scraping about and
overturning the remains of Jhe worked
out iiond street gold mine. The oonae
qnanee waa a bargain with the owners of
tiie ruins, in which they agreed to pay
them ten |-<-r cent, of their net glean-
I mg.
A gold washer, concentrators, flume
r flies, and s small engine were quickly
put up, anil the miners set to work with
* much energy as if they had mad'- a
rich "find" in the gold regions of the
West. None hut a-cluan observer would
imagine that the half doaeu quiet work
' uien and noiseless little engine in the
excavation IHJIOW were the operators and
, machinery of a gold mine in full blast.
The habit of secrecy i so gieat with the
1 old miner that but a few people in the
city are aware of what a rich "find" the
: Bond street uiiue is.
The la>>t cradleftil of the debris wis
I rocking in the washer, and therefore the
miners had no objection to telling how
much money they hail made and the
procena of mining. In the first place,
the debris is submitted to a thorough
washing in flumes. These are long
laxes, twelve inches deep, fourteen
wide, and any length that may be de
sinil. There are one hundred feet of
flume used 111 the Bond street mine.
The water used is pumped in by the
engine and then elev.-.ted to the washer,
after which the same water is again eon
ducted to the flumes, thus economizing
it and catching the smallest }atttole of
the precious ineUiL
Fortv tons }-r day of the debris were
WSSIKHI in the flume#, turning out one
ton of concentrations. This in turn was
submitted to the gold washer, and re
duced to lutae metal, turning out three
hundred to five hut: in 1 pounds Ui the
ton. The base metal r then taken to
the refinery and reduced to flue bars,
900 tine. From the refinery the bars
go b> the mint, ami are there turned into
bright gold piece*.
"How much Jiave you made in your
two mouths of city mining ?" was asked.
"We hare got about IBO.UOO," Mr.
Robert* said. "Here arc SIBO in bright
twenty-dollar gold pieces tlist 1 have
just drawn, being Uie proceeds of £34
Cuds of the base metal. We have on
.1 forty or fifty aaeks of the Idee
metal to go to the refinery. Each siu-k
weighs one hundrel pound*. Breide#
there are eight or ten tone of tailings,
old bita of rusted iron with particles of
precious metal sticking to them. Theae
are to undergo a process of pickling,
and the precious metals separated from
the base. We expect to realize a con
siderable amount from these."
The exjiense has not been much as
anticipated, and the net proceeds are
handsome,—„Vrir York Sun. *
1 weather.
leather has a long history. If it ia a
too exclusive motto that " there is
nothing like leather," few manufactured
things are older. It was probably the
very first bit of mnuufacturo—rude, yet
suites! to its purpose, the una of bark
for hardening and preserving skins
having, no doubt, i >eeu practiced in
pro-historic tinns, Even our prugeuitor
—the ancient Briton—used a strong
hide thong to throw his stones with, and
was scantily clad in leather—antici
pating the odd daaira of George Fox,
the founder of (Quakerism. Within the
period'of autheutui history, leather has
iieeu legislated for and protected, and
ban ofteu been included in sumptuary
regulations. It is very odd to reail that
in England in the aixteenth century
oouiplamts were made that skins were
tanned in three weeks, (thus uncon
scionably shortening the period of use
ami wont, which had been about one
year,) and that in consequence an act
was paaaod in IMB prohibiting tanners
from selling hides that were not attested
to have been nine months in the tan-pit.
And the jealousy of rival guilds, which
did something in old days to secure the
division of lalior, if nothing more, is
also seeu ill the history of leather. In
1439 tanners were prohibited from 1M ug
shoe-makers; while in 1562 butchers
were precluded from beooming tanner#
under a penalty. Home of the restrict
ions which snrrounded the leather manu
facture Bctnally remained until 1890,
when they were completely removed by
on act of George IV. Free trade in
tanning, then introduced, gave an im
mense impetus to the application find
extension of the chemical discoveries
which had been made by Heguin in
1795, and bv Sir Humphry Davy in
1803.— Hood Words.
The poison so freely used by the Ital
ians in the seventeenth ceutury was
railed "aqua tofnna," from the name of
the old woman Tofania, who made and
mold it in small flat rials which she
called maimn of St. Nicholaa, on one
aide of which was an image of the faint.
She carried on this traffic for half a cou
taiy and eluded the police, but on being
detected confeasel that she had been a
party in poiaouitig 600 people. Numerous
persons were implicated by her of all
rnuks, and many of thm were publicly
executed. All Italy was thrown into a
ferment, and ninny fled, while persons
of distinction, on conviction, wore
strangled in prison. ft appeared to
have been used mainly by married wo
men who were tired of their husbands.
Four or six drops were a fatal dose, lint
the effoet was not sudden and therefore
not suspected. It was as clear as water,
but the chemists have not agreed about
its ;T al composition. A proclamation of
the Pope deaerilied it as aquafortis dis
tilled into arsenic, and others considered
it as a solution of crystallized arsenic.
The secret of its preparation waa con
veyed to Paris, where tho Marchioness
de Rrinvalirrs poisoned her father and
two brothers, and she,with niaiiy others,
were executed, and the preparers of it
were buried at tho stake.
I'eets ahtl Taverns.
It is a enrions fact that BO many dwell
ings, onoe the homes of poets, should
have been public lionses at one time or
another. Rums' native cottage was a
house of this description ; the house in
which Moore waa born was a whisky
shop ; and Shelley's house at Great Mar
low, a beer shop. Even Coleridge's
residence at Nether Sftiwey, the very
house in which tho pot eomf>sed his
sweet " Ode to the Nightingale," be
came an ordinary beer house. A house
m which James Montgomery lived for
40 years, at Sheffield, was a beer shop,
and the birthplace of Kirke White is
now a house tor retailing intoxicating
beverages.— Chambers' Journal.
Form* of Address.
Herl>ert Hpeneer, in hi® trMktiM of
tha •' Erolntion of Ceremonial Govern
ment," give# some interesting illutr
tions of formii <>f address and modes
practised I>v various people aud nation#
of Uio earth. These he uanuiuea to be
mainly Uio expression of the relation of
(lie ounquered toward tho conqueror.
Tim* when the Turkish nourtier ad
dronaea the Hultaii oa " Center of the
UDIHIW, your slave's head ia at your
feet," or tlhe Huuueae who saya to hia
superior " lord ftenefaetor, at vhow
feet 1 ain to a I'riuoe, "I, tho aolra of
your foot' 1 ; to a King "I, a dust-grain
at your sacred feet." In ltuaaia, even
tu these days, petitions twgin with " Ho
and ao strikes hia forehead ("on the
ground") and petitioner# are called
•'forehead strikers." In France, aa late
a 1R77, it waa the onatom to aay " I ka
your grace'e handa," "I kiaa your lord
ahip'a feet." Even to-day in Hpain
wliere orientaliaiua atili obtain it ia the
euatom on taking leave of a lady, to aav
" My lady, 1 place uiyaelf at your feet.'
Her reply ia, "I kiaa vour baud, air."
Among the eaunlbal l'upia a wairior
ahouta to hia enemy, " May every mi
fertuue eome upon thee, my meat."
The captive on approachmg, exclaim#,
" I, your food, have come."
lu other plain-a ouly a verbal aurren
der of life take# place where the subject
profehaiw to live only by pcrmiaaion of
the superior. Thi# ia aptly expreaaed
in the old Kuaaiau aou :
My KIUI ia God'*,
My land t wine,
Mr bead the ('ear'*.
My back l* Ihluc."
Wlieu a at ranger eutera the houae of
a Karcelot (inland native) he goea out
and aaye, " White man, my houae, my
wife,my children belong to tbee," which,
it may lie presumed might lie aa em bar
running to au explorer aa the Hpiuiisb
customs waa to A. Ward esq. A sand
wich lnhunh r asked aa to the owuerahip
of a canoe replica " It'a mine and
youra," and in Hpain where politeness
requires that everyUiing admired by a
at ranger aliould be offered him the cor
rect way of lieginuiug a letter to a friend
ia " From Uiia, your houae."
Biblical narrative# are filled with the
word "Servant " a* applied by a subject
t<> a superior and in th<>e time* the ser
vant* wore the captive# or prisoners
uauallj taken in war. Thia not only
eipreeatxl the relation of jtemoua but
also ouwwuniiie* and subject*, tribe# aa
where David addreaaing Haul describes
huufw-lf and hn father an Hanl'a servant*.
Three expressions of aalf-aliaaement
originally made to a Hnpreme ruler
came to be applied to thuee of subordin
ate authontr, a# when Joseph'* bretheru
were brought before bun in fear spoke
of themselves and of their father as his
sen ants or slaves. This forui of addreaa
also i xtetaded to equals where favor aas
sought t* witness, Judge# XIX 19,
when the Levtte, addressing the Ben*
janiite, soliciting a night's lodging, re
irt U> linnself and hut wife aa "thy
servants."
lu Hebrew history men are described
as servants of God just us they are
described as servauts of the Ktug, and
the parallel between the visible and in
visible Ruler, in such expressions as,
"'Hie King hath fulfilled the request of
bis servant." " The Lord bath redeem
ed his servant Jacob," has a history
parallel to all other elements of religious
oereuionvaL
To the victorious Ramose* 11, his de
feated foes prefaced their prayers for
nti-rcv by the laudatory words : "Prince
guarding thy arrcv, valiant with the
■word, bulwark of lii* troop* in day of
battle, King wigbty in strength, great
Sovran, Son powerful in truth, ap
proved of Ra, mighty in inctunes,
Ilameses Miatnou."
The King of Siara is addressed by the
plorvfyinp works: "Mighty and August
Lord," " Divine Merry," " The Master
of Life," " Sovereign of the Earth,' etc.;
and the Sultan as "The Shadow of
Chid," "tiloryof the Universe," etc.;
the Emjieror of China, "Sou of Heaven,"
"The Lord of Ten Thousand Yeara, "and
but few years since the Czar of Russia
by Bulgarians as "O blesses! Czar,"
"Blissful Czar," "Orthodox powerful
Czar."
The Freneh courtiers of tlie 16th cen
tury used to say, "1 am your servant
and the perpetual servant of your
house." .And among ourselves in the
pas! were used such indirect expressions
of servitude as "Yours to command,"
" Ever at your worship's disposing,"
" in all serviceable humbleness," while
u our day, made orallv only in irony,
we still adhere in writing to "Your
olxslieut servant," " Yonr humble ser
vant," etc., and these generally made
nse of where distance is to be maintained
between the jiartios, and therefore like
too many of onr other formalities have
an inverted meaning.
Bonders of the Atmosphere.
Tlie atmosphere rises above us with
its cathedral dome arching towards
heaven, of whieh it is the most perfect
svuonym and symbol. So massive is it
tlint when it tiegins to stir it tosass
alvout the great ships like playthings,
sn I sweeps cities and forest like snow
flakes to destruction before it. And yet
it is so mobile that we have lived fori
years in it before we can tie persuaded
that it exists at all, and the great bulk
of mankiud never realize the truth that
thev are lathed in an ocean of air.
Its weight is so enormous that iron
shivers before it like glass, yet a soap
ball sails through it with impunity, and
the tiniest insect waves it aside with its
wing*. It ministers lavishly to onr
senses. We touch it not yet it touches
tt*. Ita warm south wind brings tack
color to the pale lace of the invalid ; its
cail west wind* refresh the fevered
brow and make the blood mantle to our
cheek*; even its north blasts braces
into new vigor the hardened children of
our rugged climate.
The eye is indebted to it for all the
magnificence of sunrise, the brightness
ol mid-day, tlie eluisteni'd radienoe of
the morning, and the clooda that cradle
u< ar the setting sun. But for it tlie
rainlaiw would want its "triumphant
arch," and tfce winds wonld not send the
fleecy messengers on errands around
the heavens ; the cold ether wonld not
shod auow foatber* on the earth, nor
wonld drops of rain gather on the
flowers. The kindly dew would never
fall, nor hail, storm, nor fog diversify
the face of the sky. Our naked globe
would tarn its tanned and unshadowed
fotehead to the sun, and one dreary,
monotonous blaze of light and beat daz-
zle and burn np all things.
Were there no atmosphere, the eve
ning ann wonld in a moment set, and
withont warning—plunge the earth into
darkness. But the air keeps in her
hand a shwif of bis rays, and let* them
slip slowly through her fingers, BO that
the shadows of evening is gathered l>y
degrees, ami the flowers have time to
bow their heads, and reeli creature in
spnrei to find a place of rest and to nestle
to repose. In the morning the garish
son would at one bonnd buret from the
bosom -if the night and blaze above tlie
horizon; but tlie air watches for his
coming, and stnds first but one little
rny to aunotinoe his approach, aud then
another, and tlieu a handful, and so
gpntly draws aside the enrtain of night
and slowly lets the light fall o the face
of the sleeping earth, till her eyeiida
open, and like man, ahe goea forth again
to labor till availing.
A Hlrl who Could Throw Stones.
A Nova.la man write* to the Virginia
City Territorial Enterprise, as fbllows ;
"The writer once knew a family in
which there were *ix bonncing girls
withont a break. Being very poor, tbe
father hail taken the eldest to assist him
in out ol door work. To this ahe seem
ed to take naturally, and eventually be
came an adept in mowing, reaping, tree
felling, and eveu snow-shoeing— ne of
the most difficult of things to acquire
command rf. Although fully equal to
the boys of her age in doing the above
work, there WHS only one thing in whieh
she showed a decided superiority, and
that was in stone-throwing. The pre
cision nnd velocity with which ahe
could hurl one of those missiles was to
me, who was a year or two her junior,
a source of never-ending wonder and
admiration. As a proof of her skill,
she brought home three partridges,
(ruffled grouse,) killed in one day with
stones."
NEWS SUMMARY.
East win and Mldrtla Statwa
Anot tier wlavatwd railroad - ths Nw York
Klnvatnd Railroad, running along Uia Ka.t
•id* of ths city- -ha* hern ujwuod to travel ia
New York.
Thr Jnnr lookhig Into ths mnrder of Pollow
man Hnitth. of Jrr.nr <Mtv. N. J., brought In S
verdict aocualng Mrs Hmith of lbs crime, as
■tatsd by some unknown aeootuplice.
Cousiitsraljls eiolbmetif was caused at
ItnsdrlUs. Mass , by the mysterious slckussa of
erveral of ths ojwrativsa in a curled hair fao
-1 tore, two year* ago, when throw paroona ars
said to havs died from a jalnful dtwaao,
thought to he Mood poisoning. from the hair
•if diM-awd animal*. prmoipally Hilwrian horas*.
many of which disd from a ptenhar malady. A
few day* ago anotlier o|israU*e died, and ons
' other dangerously sick , both evidently case* of
ths disease of two years ago.
The annual meeting of the National Agrtrul
ioral mugrasa opened at New Haven, OMUL,
delegates from all I tart, of Uie oonntry being
l-resent They were welcomed by Prof. W. H.
tirrwef. of Yale College, and R. C. Yancey, of
(ieorgia, remoulded, preeldens P. T. Jatnos,
of Atlanta, delivered an address on the value
of K-ieuhfir education to the farmer* and
several other |pors of Interest to agricul
turalist* were read.
The t'onnectlout prohibitionists, in ouavwn
lion at Mav brook, nominated a Uoket headed by
Je-re U. HaidwUi fur governor.
At au auction sale of to.(KM ton* of coal ia
New York a slight advance In prices over thnee
of s month previous was obtained.
AI-out sixty paper makers from all parts of
the t'nlou met In M.r.toga, N 1., In response
to a sail for a convention to take action looking
to relief from lower prloe. and over production.
There are SAO null* in the t'nited Mtate*. and
It Is a-M-t led thai SUU would he eufilctMil to
•apply the demand
The New Jersey Oreenhack party convened
at El aaheth. Member, of the Mtote commit
tee were elected and a platform adopted
ilemandmg thai the greenback dollar he made
a full legal louder fur all debts . that all bonds
be immediately paid strictly lu aocurdanae with
the original contract and the issuance of
further Loud* be prohibited , that the resunip
< tion act aud national banking act be repmlsd -,
that taxation of pro|rty he tqnal, Chinewe
i labor be i-rohfbtled as well a* competing prison
, labor, that eight hoars constitute a Isgai day's
work, etc.
A fire in the oil-cloth manufactory of ths
Peter*' Manufacturing Company at East New
ark, N. ¥.. deetroysd jTojwrty valued at H50,-
000, on which the iusurancs is 95M,0(10.
Wo#tern and Southern StatM.
Kerre'arv Hhermsn made s speech t Toledo.
Ohio, on the financial questions of the day.
Judge John A. Ingalla, author of the Booth
Carolina urdlnanoe of •eeoMlon, died in Balti
more, the other day, aged ttxlj -five yeara.
At Lower Boulder Valley Mountain, Mon
tana, a man named Jsokrou shot and killed hie
wife, from whom he had bran separated for
•unit time, after which he blew hi* own brains
out.
There ware forty-five petitions in bankruptcy
filed in the Chicago district daring two days
recently.
Portions of lowa and Dakota have been
visited by a hurricane which prostrated many
buildings, kiHtd a number of horses and did
other wtrfr damage to property. During the
storm immense heilstuLee fell, some of them
nearly five Inetxe in rliramfrrenee. Sear
Heinberk. lowa, one man eras lulled by a fall
ing barn and another by lightning.
The Conservatives of the third Virgin'a oon
greesiooal district have u< mi listed General
Joseph E Jonnston for Congress.
I Two coaches of an excursion train J imped the
track near Lock wood, Mich., and roiled down
in embankment. Thirty persons were injured,
several seriously and three fatally.
At Livingston, a small town in Winona
county, Mion., the hotter employed to run
a thrashing machine upon the farm of Mrs.
Knit, exploded with fearful effect August
.•v-hnelhng. a neighboring farmer, Michael
Seiner*. George lAtwrence, Charles Schneider,
i a laborer and stranger in the neighborhood,
and a boy named Otto Fritz were instantly
killed, being crushed by fragments of the
butler or of the wrecked thrasher, or scalded
to death by >ben and hut water. A man
named Winder line was morthliy hurt. The
cause of the disaster was, dearly, ignorance or
negligence on the part of the engineer. Work
had been stopped to change the sieves of the
•r pars tor, and the engineer neglected to ebut
the dampers and open the vaires. The fire
hurtled fiercely in the furnace, and the unused
steam ran up quickly, causing an explosion of
tremendous farce. The holler was lorn to
niece* and the fragment# burled among the
laborers with the fatal effect above deoenbod.
The thrasher was thrown W0 feet by the force
of the eaoai-ing steam.
The Kansas Itepublicana, in convention at
Topeka, put a State ticket in the field and
adopted a platform favoring greenbacks in
place of national bank notes, end declaring
that all the obligation# of the government
should be honestly discharged.
Mary Dean, a poor widow living near Hills
barn. Mo . murdered her two small children by
cutting their throat*. When arrested she said
that she was too poor to give them food; that
she murdered the baby first, and then wheu she
undertook to put the utile five rear old boy on
the bed to ktllhtu. be clung to ber and begged
ptlootuly for his life, saying, "Oh, mamma,
don't kill me, don't kill meßhe heeded not
the appeal, but threw him on tha bed. and
after cutting his throat, struck hun on the side
of the heed with a piece of iron to complete
her work.
Trots Washington.
A scbooner captain who recent]* arrived in
Wssliington from Pan, Brest], report* that
the workmen smployed on the railroad in that
rvuntrv, man* of whom went there from the
I'mlad Stale*, are in a terrible condition for
want of food and medical attention. Nearly
oil the 500 men who left Uu# country to work
on the road are sick and disabled.
Kearney, the California labor agitator, has
hod au iu'ervtew with the Prr-idant at the
Wbita Houoe.
Hie revet!D receipts at late are baan de
rreasuqi. being much amaller li.au they were
during the same period last year. *
Foreign News.
The Itnttah cooaul at Adnanople reports that
the Imlgariaiui continue to plunder and out
rage the Muwuloiau*. The Greek archUaljop
ha# eomnmcated to the conenl details of the
firmwl humble atrocities
Severe shook* of earthquake have been felt
in different pert# of Germany.
It ia announced In an Important article in
the Loudon Tiinrt, which baa twwn sent by
irleg'sph to th# Toronto L'loV. 'hat Bacretary
Evarti ha# proposed to a dispatch, which be
wnt at the inelance of Congress, complaining
of the injustice of the Halifax sward, that
Canada shall farm s custom* onion with th#
United Bute*. He deuree that abe ahali
adopt the American tariff.
Martial law baa bran declared In Kuseia tem
porarily. cm account of the increase of crime#
*g*m*t the State.
The international monetary conference in
Tans adjourned without any definite action
having been taken
T*e Vellww fever Mrawrne.
Up to the twenty-fifth the total number of
yellow fever can-* in New Orleans waa over
2.000 and the deaths o|. In Mem phi# there
were 100 new caee# and fifteen death*. The
•conrge continued to sfirnad in the Miwumippi
Valley. The following dlkpatch from Jackson,
Mi**., will serve to show the re-gn of terror
inspired by the dread dt#ca*e : " Not a case of
yellow fever ha# yet *|q-eared in Jacfcaon. and
our authorities arr working with the cuergy of
despair to keep out the grim deatroyer. All
wagon* and railroad# are watched day and
uight, and the town'i* patrolled by oilmen*,
both black and white, who have constituted
them#clvee detective#. All stranger* who are
unable to give a good account of thrmaelve#
• are marched to the city limit# and warned not
to return. The fire bell# are rung at 10 o'clock
al night, and all perron# found In the street#
after that hour are arrested. A maa# meeting
ha* I-ran held which pledged to tlie mayor the
morel and physical *np|-ort of the citizen* to
carry out all measure# which he may inaugu
rate! The Vickaburs and Meridian railroad
discontinued #ervicr by train* to-day."
A duq-atch from Grenada, Ml##-, on the
same dav waa to tlie following effect ; -'The
appeal# fur nurse# U>dy. which could not be
answered, were heart rending Whole families
are down, and without a soul to aid Ihetn. Tba
fifty bravo nurse# on dutir have more than an
average of two patient# apiece; yet thev do
not flag in their dntv. Abundant supplies
of provision# from neighlsiring town# oomc in
daily, and fnnd# are m-w being received rapid
ly. ' Good nurse# are the great need."
A Washington dispatch give# the following
summary of Surgeon-Geueral Wood worth'#
* uitary report for the week ending on tha
tweuty-fourth:
New Orleau#— During the w ek ended Friday
noou there were 771 caws- of yeiiow fever and
395 death#, making in all l,6<:t caeee and 554
deaths.
Viokabnrg -At least 400 case* of yellow fever
from date of comuii-uccmrnt Augustl '2, to
Friday evening, and sixtv-niuo deaths. Dr.
Uootli, in charge of tbe Marine Hospital ser
vice at Vicksburg. telegraphs : " I am sick ;
impossible to procure accurate data."
Memphis - One hundred and forty-fonr case#
of yellow fever and fifty-three death- curing
six day# t</Friday evening.
Canton, Mia. —F.ightien case# of yellow
fever and forty-eight death* from August 1 to
Friday evening.
Port Gibson, Mi##.—One linndred and eight
een case# of yellow fever and nine deaths
from August 3 to Friday morning.
Morgan City, La. Ono case of veUow fever
August 11 ; a patient from New Oriean*.
Ocean Springs, Mi*#.—Three oases of yellow
fever aud one diath; all imported.
St. Louis-Four refugee#' died of yellow
fever at Bt. Lonia during the past week.
Louisville— Four cases of VeUow fever; the
steamer* John Porter. Punflower. Belle and
Golden Crown, on the 17th and 18th Inst
Grenada—Bo many of tbe remaining popu
lation stricken with the fevor that definite in
formation of tlie number of ease* and deaths
could not be obtained.
Bejx'rts from other places indicate good
Tho postmaster at Grenada. Mi*#., wrote to
Washington: " Ton can never realise the
situation here. Nobedy comes here. The
world has refuted shelter to our nnfortanste
refugee#. Business houses, banks #Dd schools
all closed. No sign of badness exoept among
nurses, dootors and undertakers Oar white
pnpulaUoo I* generely l.fiOO to 1,400, K now
number* not mar* than #OO, and thMW ere the
■lok nurse* and doctor* " Ha aald that bta
*uiiitant waa daad. but that ba waa wtUtag to
•Ut there and perform every duty that the
de|rtmonl required. Re wee Instructed to
run hi* offlne *o a* be*t to meet the conven
ience of the remaining Inhabitant*, and beyond
tbt* not to attempt any dialrlbotton of bta mail,
but )net to make It up and throw It on the
train* aa they pa**, lea ring the work of dia
trtbutton to ba perform** by tb# railway poaUl
otarluL
A Maopiiia dUpateb of tba twenlr-awraoth
•ay* tba favar on that day waa the war* tboa
far, tiia death* aggregating thirty-two and
number of new case* ninety-ail. Out of a
populaUon of over 40,000 only about 6,000 re
mained in the place, the re*t having tied The
following telegram waa fotwarded to President
ltaye* by Lha mayor and other official* t "In
behalf of the yellow fever stricken Honth, we
re*|>ectfully requeat you to nxarriee your dla
cretlonary powrc* In the appointment of a
■tneial nomuuaaton of the ableat übytoetaua and
rbemiata In tha oonntry, for the parpoea of
•dent ideally Investing the oaueaa, nature and
treatment and future praventtoo of the fearful
epidemic now raging. Ootigtwaa will ondciuUt
adly mate a suitable appropriation to reward
the oomjniesluo for earvtoaa eo valuable to the
country." Another Memphis diapatab aay*'
"It la eetlwalnd that nearly 600 poraooa are
down with tha fever. Bitty additional nttraea
have hewn telegraphed fur' te coma from fle
vmnnah and Char Moo, and a number bare
arrived from Mobile. Poverty and dtitraai
prevail to an alarming extent, and many beva
been aiek for aereral day* without being able
to aeenre the attendance of a phyaictan. nearly
ail the lueal pbyaMana pea* tit* nights beyond
theiffiy huuuaud eume in only during tha day.
Haver. 1 bav ahaentnd themselves, and do not
eometn at all."
At VicksOurg. Rise., advice* on the twwnty
m-vet.U, aay the fever there wan spreading with
fearful rapiditv. The fotkiwlng dupatdh waa
received bv Hunarvuing Hurgaoo-Oenaral Wood
wurtb, at Waahtogton, from 0. £. bent, deputy
collector of cu*toma et Vickabarg: " Twenty
three death* yaatswdey, via hundred race*
undrr Unattnent, aud the plague spreading
with fearful rapidity. (Irtnt suffering and
desUrmion among the poorer einaee* tie# tha
I*uited but* authortUea. and urge the Impera
tive tI mi dtp for Government aid. JleUuus
required tmuird.ately. Weather unfavorable."
Anntlier diapeteh frum W. O. I'aitao grand
commander of Knight* Templar, rnya* " Dimmer
and deetitutloo walk hand in hand In ttb et;.
Eight hundred ceeea are under traatmant. Tba
weather la very unfavurabl* We need every
thing. Trains and steamboat* alt stopped "
In New Orleans tha yellow fever report on
tb - twenty seventh abovrwd on* hundred and
utnety-ftmr caeca and forty-nine deaths. Soma
bop* waa aroused by (be anamaafui traataaant
of a patient in the last throaa of death by a
new Method- Tha swmedi euUalateJ in sprink
ling tit* dying man with ice water fur two
hours, when the fever disappeared and tba
patient fell into a gentle sleep.
At Grenada, Mi**„ the aiuiahon of affaire
on the twi-ul v-aeveuth was somewhat better
thai, t heretofore, a number of peraona who
bad boon prostrated having rwaovered; end aa
tbey were tha first who had not succumbed to
the dread disease, it waa thought that a change
far the natter waa coming. Phvasaun* aud
nurae* from other etUea continued to arriv*,
and all were working hard to check the tern
bit pUfiMi
A dispatch from Canton, Miaa.. aay* "baud
u* two nurse* Immediately; fever increasing."
The New Orleans IWi'i oorrvapoodgM at
Canton. Mies., ander dale of lbs 47th. my*
"1 arrived bare Sunday Last. iYetty tough
Uiom Not a single buatneaa hones open ei
cwpt two drug stores Ones a pupuiattooof
l.iW, but now unll seventy five white* ara to
be found here. Mayor and faaaily ate*, and
board of aldermen find Court bouse locked
up, and officer* gone to -one safe place. Noth
ing but hearer* and coffins to be seas on the
street*. Home Uurtv-five or forty eiaas of
yellow fever her*. Many colored people have
died within the peat few dava. Tba few
whites now hers era scared, because not a
stogie case of yellow fewer has been doctored
successfully. No parson attacked baa recov
ered."
A dispatch from Port Gtbaon, Miss.. to the
Hairud AwMUtua, of New Orleans an:
"Fever vcrr feiaL and no abatement. Two
hundred and thirty ram and thirty five deaths
U> date. lea is vialsd acira than anything
else. Norm doing well. Our vipomas are
tUO tar day. Sew York, Hi. Loot*. Jaoksoa
and Columbus are aiding. Hat one or two ooo
vaiesomt persons ao far."
A Bt. Ixkuk dispatch of the twenty-eighth
aaya: "Hi. Louis is swarming with refugees
from the fever infected districts of the Houtb.
and every Southern train that arntrea brtop
fresh addition a So fear* are fall thai the
scourge will lake bold tore. St. Lows waleomaa
ail who coma. Amour the arrival# to day from
New Or loan* was w. H. Kslla, a prominent
and intelligent eitiaan of that city. In an
: Litem w Uiu aflarnoon ha staled that when
ha left New Orleans the streets were almost
deserted. People confined themselves to thair
honses, seldom leaving them except whan
absolutely necessary. Whole families wen
swept down by the voeuiga. Maid be t The
worst ravages of the fever are confined to those
purtiona of the city where the lower classsi
live. The higher clmni have not suffered ao
tunch. The coty undoubtedly brought the
i fever upon herself through not taking MAdnt
sanitary precautions. The impression preva
lent a)-.ronUy'ail over the North, and evvti in
Nve Orleans, that tha disease did not originate
In that city, is erroneous It is commonly sun
posed that the germ of the fever eae brought
to the city by a ship from Havana." TTben the
scourge began in Nee Orleans, the loenr por
tions of the city were reeiung with filth.
In Memphis the plague was still on th
increase, and it was feared the horrors of
starvation would be added to the terrors of the
situation. The physicians and nurses were
overwurfced and all were fleeing from (be city
who could get away. Forty thousand rations
were sent by the Secretary of War to Vteke
borgh, and relief (boat ah parte of tha oouatry
came pcunng into the afflicted cities.
New Orleans dispatches of the twenty-ninth
I say . " The board uf health iliawal the
progress of the epidemic, and the mdmbers
were n atumous in the belief that it eae utter
ly beyond human control, and would hare to
run its course. Unless some great and rare
meteorological change takes place, the proba
bility is strong that the city will be swept
throng beat. Many of the beat phnuetans in
Ibe city are now refusing to visit new cases,
having their powers already taxed to the ut
most- This situation of affairs Is far from
hopeful. The number of nee oases of yel
low fever reported to dsy is 140; death*.l9.
In Memphis a frightful condition of affairs
existed The following dispatch tells tha
melancholy story " The scourge is increasing
in virulence every moment. To-dsy the
deaths numbered seventy-two; nee pass's, 140.
There it hardly a bones in tne etty not entirely
vacant which does not contain one or mora
persons down with the iltsaaaa. or lying dead,
awaiting banal. The increase of the malady
among the colored population to-day is fright
ful. while it does not seem to relinauish its
bold upon the white people. Every hour in
the day new victims are reported, and physi
cians go from house to boose on the run.
The county Jail, which in 1873 was in the
heart of the infected district, yet was frea
from the fever, now coutains seven races
The prisoners numbering 1 early 100, are now
Iwtng r- moved to the Forrest Prison Farm, on
l'rtidt nt * Island, where hey will be kept
iu dr a strong guard The atmosphere is
thiei with the pestilential poison, and aa the
number of victims increases there is a corre
sponding increase in the alarm among the well
ones who have thus far escaped, and large
numbers are moving into the country, some
preferring even to take np their abode tn
fraigh' ars on tha lines of the railways, rather
tba.i risk their lives here. There are plenty of
thieves at work. Not a dav or night passes
fiat number* of burglaries do not occur."
From other points the >< ports on the teenty
nioih showed a continual increase in the
num tier of victims to the plagae and a spread
of the disease. At Canton. Mil#., the fever was
incrvasing and four doctor* were down with it,
one baring died. In th* vicinity of Grenada,
Miss., it was also spreading. At Vick-burg,
Miss., then wore one hundred nee cases of
fever and twenty deaths. Meauehtie contribu
tions for the sick were being taken np all over
the e wintry, and even lu Liverpool a meeting
to devise means of aid for the sufferer* was
held. In New York citr boxes were placed in
many of Ui-i hotels ant restaurs Is. ao that
the charitably-.nclln d of limited means might
contribute small sums, and thus swell the
beavisr eoattibutiona of merchants and basi
licas men. .
A Tried llMMlf l#p KlltolMrM.
Those who setter from disorder or inaction
of UM lircr eill never get the upper hand of
the unrnty org an so long a* the; use ouch
irrational remedies aa blue pill, calomel and
podophyllum. But from the triad and popular
medicine. Hosteller's Stomach Bitten, they
mar expect relief rdh a certainty of obtaining
it The influence of the bitter* iipuu the great
biliary gland la direct, powerful and speedily
felt. The relief afforded ia not spasmodic, but
eomplote and permanent. The aallowoeea of
the akin, furred appearance of the tongue,
indigestion, eneUwnes*. headache, uauaea,
paina through the right aide and shoulder, to
fact erery acoompauime.it of the obatinate
complaint are entirely and promptly removed
by a conrae of thia meatimable medicine, in
behalf of whioh teatimony ia ooostantly ema
nating from erery quarter and from all daaaee
of eociety.
To develop healthy and harmonioua action
among the organ* of secretion. digestion, and
evacuation, take Dr. Mott a Vegetable Liver
Pills, which healthfully stimulate the liver,
give tone and regularity to the liTer, counter
act a tendency to cotitiveneas and purify the
blood. Their cathartic action i unaccompanied
by griping and ia never violent and abrupt but
always gradual and natural. These pills are of
the greatest aeaiatance in overcoming scrofu
lous tumors and eruptive maladies. All
Druggists sell It.
To Housekeepers.
The attentico of heads of families ia respect
fully invited to the superior quality, in every
respect, of Dooley'* Yeast Powder. It is en
tirely free from adulteration of any kind, and
every package contain* absolute full weight.
Consumers should bear in mind the fact that
a strictly pure, full weight baking powder, al
though it costs a little more than the adulter
ated, cheap, light weight or bulk powders, is
by far the cheapest, both in purse and health.
Amy Anthonv, wife of Mark Anthony, resid
ing at No. 6 Locust Street, - Pall Kiver, Mass.,
was afflkhsd with a severe Felon on her finger
and was ludueed to try- Grace's Salve. Almost
instantly she experieoc -d relief from the pain
which had been almost unendurable. Every
other remedy proved unavailing.
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New York, ltoatoo. and Obiaago.
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HOOTHTNG HYBCP baa bean oaad for ablldyun
with never failing suncuaa. It uiuPatoa acidity
:of the etomaeh rwbevae wind ootid, ragatakaa
the bowels, curat draawtory and toanhmu,
whether arising from latohtng or other auuaau.
4n old aod wau-trted remedy 86 ata. u bottle.
A gentleman ta~a ntoghborioff towu wbo bud
suffered two year* with chronic dharfccea and
we* so reduced that be could not wtok. ww
curod and ruttored to sound baultb bt J ibu
eon * Anodyoa Liniment. Tbt* Liniment w
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The blighting effect* of Impure bbmd are aadf
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