Live-like the rose, 80 bud, se blooms In growing beauty live; 80 sweeten lite with the perfume That gentle actions give. Die like the rose, that when thou'rt gene Sweet happy thoughts of thee, Like rose-leaves, may be treasured wp To embalm thy memory. Poems of the Week, SUNDAY, Lie still and rest, in that serene repose That on this holy morning comes w those Who have been buried with the oares that maka The sad heart weary and the tired heart ache, Lie sill and rest God's day of all is best, MONDAY, Awnke' arise! Cast off thy drowsy dreams! Red in the east, behold the morning gleams. “« As Monday goes, 80 goes the week,” dames * Refreshed, relieved, use well the initial day; And see! thy neighbor Already seeks his labor. TUBSDAY, Another morning's banners are uafuried- Another day looks smiling on the world; It behaolds new laurels for thy soul to win; Mar not its grace by slothiulness or sin, Nor sad, away Send it to vestenduy WEDNESDAY Hall. way unto the end-—the week's high noon, The morning hours do speed away »0 soon And when the ncon is resched, bright, Instinotively we look toward the night The glaw is lost Once the meridian orost however THURSDAY, So well the week bas sped, bast thou a friend Go spend an hour in converse, It will lend New beauty tot! y bors and thy lie Te pause a little sometimes in the strife. Toil soon seems rade That bas vo interlode. FRIDAY and pray; Frown feasts sbstain; be temperate Fast if thou wilt; and yet, throughout the day. Neglect no labor and no duty shir \ x3 Not many hours nie leit thee {or thy work— And it were meet h be complete foul Foat alls id SATURDAY Now with the simost finished task wake haste; So near the night, thou hast no time tO waste. Post up accounts, and let thy soul's eyes look For flaws and errors io life's ledger-book. When labors cease, How sweet the sense of peace’ — Ella BH segier, 1a Chicego T A NIGHT IN AN AVALANCHE. | i RO C—O AAAS RS J / VOLUME XIII A. * FEBRUARY * 26, 1880, NUMBER 8. Americans. Strange discoveries fol lowed-they always do. father had been a volunteer eaptain in our army, and I myself had been within a rifle-shot of him when he fell at Vicks. burg. Her mother, a native of Bleiberg, took this only daughter and returned to her old home, stopping at the solicitations of friends, first for months, and now it had been years, Inamoment I recalled what had been pusaling me for an hour. I had seen the name Shelton before somewhere, Who was pensioner 1004 but Kisie Sheiton--why had I not thought of that M~wife of Captein Shelton, killed at Vicksburg in June, 18683. How ex tremely singular! we both exclaimed. Mrs. Elsie Shelton, 1 was soon informed, was not remarried, The object of my journey was acoom- plished. 1 might return home at once, i ¢id not, however. Besides, Miss Shel- ton insisted that I should go on and visit pretty Bleiberg, her mother and herself. 1 was easily persuaded. Why had the consul’s letters not been answered? 1 asked, as we made a turn in the road. “Oh,” said Miss Shelton, “mother and I were both coming next week to Z——, to visit a relative there, and so she proposed answering in per- son. Besides she is not so poor that she cares dre adfully whether Uncle Sam stops the ten dollars or so a month or not." By noon the church steeple of burg was in Signe ana nan driver blew a shrill note or so on his horn, the villagers hastened to the win. Rlei. our { ponies passed on a gallop, and the little old postmaster lifted his blue cap, and gave us a salute all round. Mrs. Shei- ton was living with a friend, then ab sent, in a substantial two-story stone from the post " said Miss Shelton, laughing, as she presented me to her mother, ‘a real American; and, just think, he has come to ask, mamma, il vou are married.” The good-looking, embarrassed little wid “Tris is Mr.—, idow soon raveled the nonsense with which Miss Margot was seeking to everwhelm us, icksburg When the dinner was over I strolled The view down the valley we had just ascended was en- Behind the pretty town, and edged by a green meadow sloping up- ward, was a forest of tall dark firs, and of a steep mountain, known to sll tour. ists as the Rigi of the Kernthal. It was only the 25th ot February, but Contrary to all arrangements and ex- pectations of the dear old uncle whe bad reared me, I had not got furtie along in life than to a third-class clerk. ship in the Stste department at Wash- ington, and this only because [ could write a fine hand, and make fancy capi tals, said my disappointed uncle. believe ot was thoroughly ashamed of my getting into the depart ment #2 all. e would a hundred tine: over have preferred that | had beens farmer. But when the hard times came, and wien the hard times got harder, and the old farm, going under a mort gage, was only rescued by my savings as a third-class clerk, uncle sank his shams in his gratitude, and my fancy writing wv ridiculed no longer Still, it was weary work, reading ana copying endless dispatches of the chiel <lerk to our consuls in Europe, and al that without any apparent hope of ever becoming chief clerk myself. One day I was copying adispatch of the secretar: to the consul at Z—. It was to the effect that from that day on he would, in accordance with his request, be al. jawed 8L000 a vear for clerk hire. “He will want a clerk, then, of vourse,” I said te myself, “ and if I could secure the situation, I might be happy still.” Ididn't want promotion so much: xs | wapted a change. That evening the dispatch of the department, copied in my best hand, left for Europe, accom- panied by a private note of my owr to the consul. As a specimen of my writ- | ing. I referred to the inclosed dispatch and informed the learned consul that] could speak the German language, hav- ing learned it evenings during my stay in Washington. Perhaps the last re- mark, and not my fine writing, settled the ~usiness, Clerks who can speak | foreign languages are in demand with our | consuls, { In six weeks from that day I had ped into the great cities of London, aris and Brussels, and was now stand- ing at the clerk’s desk of the American consulate at Z——, The business was not burdensome. With the office open but five hours s day, we were happy. I had beautiful | times—so did the consul. Among the Washington letters last winter was one from our worthy com- | missioner of pensions, asking the consu) to investigate and furnish evidence that | certain widows and minor daughters of! United States pensioners living in his | district had not married, and thus for- | feited their claim to further aid from the government. i All the certificates, except 1,004, were | indorsed, and ready to be returned. | “This pensioner,” said the consul to his chief clerk one morning, ** is proba- bly either dead or married, and 1 am determined to find out which. It is not so wonderfully far from here to the vil lage of Bleiberg, and if you have an in- | clination you may take the next train and go there. Come back by Saturday, | and, of course, make the expenses as trifling as you can.” { had long wished for a stroll of some sort into the magnificent valleys of the Carinthian Alps, and here seemed my | opportunity. : was twenty-five miles still from Bleiberg when I transferred my hand vajise and myself from a second-class railway car into a first-class mountain diligence. It was a wonaerfully beautiful valley 1 was to ascend to Bleiberg. There are | no finer mountain prospects anywhere. It seems to me sometimes that all the | ornamental work ot the creation has been expended on Switzerland and the Tyrol. | Usually, when in the mountains, I | ride outside with the driver, or up in | the imperial, perched like a leather bon. | . net on the top of the vehicle. I deter- | mined fully to do so at this time. { How capricious is the mind of man, I | reflected, on entering the little station, | and seeing a young lady in a velvet | jacket and gray kids buy inside coupe | No. 1 for Bleiberg. In a minute and a | half I had changed my mind, and was | the owner of coupe ticket No. 2. i 5 1 heiped my traveling companion te er seat, fixed my own precious ge | into the box behind, and Ee pagrus ceeded; naturally enough, to occupy in- | side seat No. 2. There was but one | passenger besides myself. In twenty | minutes the two occupants ot that | mountain diligence were tolerably ac- | quainted. : We spoke, of course, in German. | What struck us both as very singular, | however, was the great similarity of | our German pronunciation. Mise Shel- | ton—Miss Margot Shelton, to be more explicit—for I had seen her name on the | ticket as I passed it to the conductor— | was perfectly certain I was not aSwiss, much Jess an Austrian, and 1 was | equally confident my fair companion | was not a native to the Alps. Her Ger- | man bore too strong an accent for that. | I afterward learned she had thought my own a little curious. Once, just for the | spert of the thing. I shouted something tv the driver in Envlish. i i was high erough for pasture, and violets and d.ises peeped out every- where. It was ‘dangerously warm, in fact,” muttered the little postmaster in the blue cap, a8 I handed him a letter to post to the consul at , saying every- thing was well, but I couldn't possibly back on Saturday—'' dangerously warm, because there had not been so much snow on the mountains in fifty vears as now, and already people began to hear of avalanches falling out of season.” Bleiberz, however, is safe enough, 1 t to myself, as I glanced up the sides of the old peak where, sure enough, there were oceans of snow and ice glis tening in the sunshine. But it was a mile away, and between pretty Bleiberd and it swept, like a dark veil, the forest } though » it—it's too warm—and there's no telling.” continued my would- be pessimist of a postmaster. * I haven't lived in those regions well nigh to fifty years for nothing. Snowing all winter, and | sun and daisies in February, aren't natural. It means avalanches to somehody somewhere,” “1 dd n't 101 candle, In a few mements we Hight light to die by. Hours went by. 1 don't know whether we were sleeping or freezing, when I { at hearing a voloe ery, “A light! a light!” I sprang to my feet, and again the voice eried, “A light! In ten min- utes three half-frozen, halfiinsane human beings were lifted from the grave into the gray light of the morning. A hundred noble souls had labored the long night through, seeking the buried. Every man and woman, from every start to the scene, and was straining every netve to rescue those to whom life might still be elinging We were rocks, which had lain upon us thirty feet in depth. Did those brave rescuers wonder that we knelt to them and kissed the hems of their ragged gar- ments? Beautiful Bleiberg is ne more. Half of those whom we saw dancing along in the procession of the carmival, in. the on the hill-side. tain, and the dark firtrees, still lie, in vallev. We all left as soon as we could travel. I went home to Z—. My chief has resigned, ana [ am now acting consul in his place. Should the Senate confirm all the new appoint- and when Americans wander to Z- they will find the latch string of our home at the consulate on the outside of the door. : One word and I am done. Mrs, Shel ton has lost a partof her pension—so much of it as was allowed for a minor daughter. 1 have so reported it to the commissioner at Washinzston. — Harper's Monthly. A ———————— Sg — What Paper Has Helped to Make. The development of the products of printing press, the founding of schools and colleges, and the attention of every kind given te the promotion of education and enlightenment in this country, have been on a scale commen- surate with the opening up of our mag- nificent nataral resources, and the rapid increase of our population, due to un- lented emigration. In 1776 the population of this bss tie civilized the thirteen original States; now, after an interval of scarcely more than one 43,000.00 individuals scattered over 3,000,000 square miles of this continent, or throughout thirty-seven States and Our broal domain, navigable rivers in with mighty fertile prairies, has become by far the and the value of our agricultural pro- ductions has now reached the enormous Our is estimated to contain more than 200. D or* con] area of all the rest of the world.” Within twenty years California and neighboring Territories have yielded to American enterprise not less one thousand millions of dollars in gold, and yet at t tirge America was dis- covered, Europe contained only sixty millions of this precious metal Vast beds of other minerals, especially iron, abound. In the development of manu- factories of all kinds, giant forward strides have also been made, Of cotton factories alone there are over 1,000 in the country. Now turn and lock at our remarkable literary advancement within the same iod, At the breaking out of the revolution the colonists possessed but them Yale and now there are about 300 simi he Period t ard ak Harv informed that it was carnival-day in must be on hand to see the procession systems, from scanty beginnings, with numerous fine school-houses, and the furnishing of all that can render educa trousers snd masks, and the men with music and flags. It was a novel sight, were waiting. The contrast of the bright colors of the costumes and flags grass at the road-sides; the comparative ilence, disturbed only by the echoing ness to the thing. There were possibly a hundred per- villagers looking om. zing in the air; a cry of * Avalanelie!” * Avalanche!” and an and cracking, as of falling forests. ten short seconds an awful flood snow, mangled trees, ice and of stones mighty sen. Everything shook. The procession disappeared as if engulfed by an earthquake. Houses, right and left, tumbled over, and were buried in one moment, and again bot, was rent with the screams of the mangled. An awful catastrophe had befallen us; the wrath For a moment we stood paralyzed— speechless, the multitude, has been a much greater But these educational results have been to a great extent made only possi- hle by the wonderful achievements of improvements in our facilites for manufscturing paper, that alone have rendered the latter article sufficiently } i of the press, and that alone enable us to buy cheap school-books, as well as Our great progress in journalism is were in the United States less than forty newspipers and veriodicals whose ag. year comprised 1.200.000 copies: now the united press | i i i i { more than 4000 weeklies, and ahout 600 monthly publications; of the dailies that existed in 1870, about 8,000,000 copies were struck off that year; of the weeklits, about 600,000,000: and of other 100,000 000, United States publishes more news- papers, with greater combined cirenla- The history of the postal department of thegovernment presents an interest. ing feature of our national growth. estimated that there were about fifty There Even the garden had disappeared in a foam of We thought of the back “The forest!” we all shouted It was gone, all gone, as of other snow seemed ready to slide ment ia the city of Washington, a small book ¢ontaining about fifty sheets of department were kept. In 1789, when the corfederacy was supplanted by the I Iaugh at the desolation. Another whiz- wc sav the side of the mountain start. Instantly and together we sprang down the steps into the lower room. buried alive beneath an avalanche. able to reeall. only answer the silence of the grave. been buried beneath the snow and ice of the mountain. It was only after we had exhausted ourselves with vain cries for help that we meditated on helping ourselves. We had not heen injured. We remembered that wé® were in the little sitting-room down stairs, the win- dows only of which seemed broken in, and filled with snow, ice and stones. The stairway was also filled with snow and the debris of crushed walls. Above us all was desolation. The furniture in the room seemed all in its proper place. We could move about, but it was becoming terribly cold, and we felt the sleepy chill, that dreadful precursor of death by treezing, overcoming us. Once we were certain we heard voices above us, and again we shouted to try to tell them we were still alive. We listened; the voices were gone—we were abandoned to our fate. For hours we had alternately shouted It must have been midnight seventy-five; the annual income from them shout $28,000; annual ex ength At th 000 postoffices, with an aggre. gate Ekngth of postroutes of 256,008 to $29000,000.— Paper World, S553 v Miocking Cruelty to Children. Christian Schaeffer has been sent to jail in Philadelphia for almost starving his two children. The story came out tian, aged fourteen, to end her life by jumping into the Delaware river. She was riscued by a passing boat, Schaeffer is a miserly. repulsive man of thirty- five. He has lived for several yess with his two daughters in a dilapidated little shanty in Salmon street, not far from the Brideburg arsenal. Dirt, inches thick, carpeied the floor. The only ventilation was from a door and a window, three of whose panes were stuffed with old rags. They had no visitors or friends, for the father allowed no intercourse whataver with the neighbors. They never went to school or to church. The man’t only means of livelihood was catching stray dogs, which he would kill snd boil and render the fat. He compelled his children to live on the meat of the dogs he caught. From their infancy he had taught them to use the fat for butter, and they do not know the taste >f real butter. fle made censider- able money from selling the dogs’ bones and kins, but never spent a cent ex- cept for rags to cover his children’s backi or to protect them from the cold wher all three lay down at night in the one niserable bed. made of rough boards. At meal time their dog meat was poked out of an old iron boiler and they sat on boxes to eat it, The girls often contem- plate} suicide. They were put in the ands of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. TIMELY TOYICS. ss — establishment in France. In one vast sub. cellar are deposited 1,000,000 bottles of the raw whine, and in another part of The wine is treated most delicately, and thousands of men, women and children, the process, to complete which requires three years are not capable of firing a gun, eleven { only sixty-nine capable of doing naval duty. The navy is also’ short in guns, ! having only 250 pieces in the whole navy, of which less than forty are rifles, all the others being smooth bores, ! which are out of all comparison with the modern gun for effective service. It is somewnatr para { free reading-room in New York. The number of articles stolen from the Cooper Union is giving the managers a | great deal of trouble. Not only are the | ordinary books stolen, but it is found | next to impossible to keep up the sup- | ply of Bibles on the desks, as they are stolen as fast as distributed, rods that keep the papers in place are constantly stolen for the metal, and even to maintain a the door are stolen instead of given up as the person passes out, years ago there were 2,000 checks, now i persons enter the free reading-room dai'y. Heizafter persons desiring to use [ths immense reading-room will be i sion to the librarian, The London Buslding News says that i marble has raised a | long the quarries are likely to hold out { According to a report of the French | geologieal commission there yet remains | n considerable surface and depth of the true Pentelican marble untouched, but At Carrara a dreadful waste of material goes on. A { heap are needlessly thrown away threugh workmen. Much of this exquisite ma- terial is removed in tices ing alive to this, been worked almost without intermis- sion since the days of the Roman em. i pErors, tors is established around the quarries, {and the artist's chisel is plied almost i side by side with the marble mason's | saw. The marble goes everywhere. It is the habit in Scotland as in {railroad tickets when the traveler de- sires thems, The cost of these insur- tickets, i for { Ance RoOQ i within certain jury the twenty-four hours, or a sum weekly in of in t is rather remarkable that there i should not be a single insured person on that fated Dundee train, but so the in- surance companies assert. up a suggestion of improvement in the method of giving tickets for this pur a There should be some method by which the friends of the deceased could find out whether or not he had | been insured, train that went into the Tay might have been insured, vet there is no way of find- ing it out. Many of the bodies have been swept out to sen and if they are Onse i i surance ticket on their persons would be | decipherable, beards in the House of Commons as in any assembly in the world, twenty-five | years ago there was but ome, It be longed to Mr. vice by persuading the government to manufacture of postage stamps, Muntz shaved until he was forty, when his brother returned from Germany with a fine beard, which the M. P. de. { termined to emulate, *“H. B.)" the | famous carieaturist, was soon at “the [a8 “a Brummagen M. PP." trait he carries a stout stick, which has ; Spatind prominence, the reason being that an irrepressible practical joker, the | Marquis of Waterford, was supposed to have laid a wager that he onl shavt Muntz; hence the cudgel to defendhim- self from disbarbament. Mr. Muntsz died, very wealthy, in 1857, The autopsy of the remains of the woman who starved herself to death in ! Cincinnati did pot reveal any materially | diseased condition of the stomach. The | fact that she lived for thirty days with- ut using any nourishment whatever would justify the conclusien that per. | sons possessed of strong will power, and { having the hallucination or delusion i that they are suffering with some or- | live until the body is entirely consumed. tof wi | her mind that she would not take food | or drink, and continued in this condi- { tion until there was a general exhaus- | tion of the nerve-centers and mental | faculties, when she went quietly into a The pathelogical condition of the pas- sages leading to the stomach all being f | organs in a healthy state ready to per- | form their various offices, would war- | rant the conclusion that this lady would | have lived a great many years if she couid have been Induced to partake of | sufficient nourishment to sustain lite. { An account of a case of clear grit, | physical endurance and suffering frem | pain, which stands without a paraie, comes from Ontonagon county, Mich. The story runs that a woodman named | James Irwin left Rockland for his forest home at Lac Vieux Desert,on snow shoes ever an untraveled road through the woods, which was covered with two or three feet of snow. A short distance out he stopped te build a fire, aud while engaged in chopping some fuel he cut | one of his feet. Failing to appreciate at the time the extent of his injury, he continued on his way, and when out about twenty-five miles from Rockland he discovered that his wound was a serious one and required the offices of a surgeon, and as there was no physician at Luc Vieux Desert, he re- traced his steps toward Rockland where he could get one. His foot rapidly got worse, 80 that he could not bear his weight on it. Alone, on an unbroken trail or road, hours with snow, with a crippled and painful foot, his horrible position can be imagined. It was a ease of life or death with Irwin, so falling on his knees he commenced crawling on ‘“ all fours ** and atter thirty-six days he was found within three miles of Rock- land, having crawled twenty-two miles in a most deplorable condition, and barely life enough left to stir. The wounded foot had to be cut off, and it was thought he would lose the other one, which was frozen. For sev- eral days he had dothing to eat. A man who would undertake to accomplish what Irwin did was not turned out of a common mould. : An agent of the Mormon Church has been down in Mexico looking for a good location in which to make a Mormon settlement. It isto be hoped that be will find one. 3 RBLIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES. There are about seventy missionary Cleties, | There are nearly 2,250,000 Baptists in | the United States, | The Free Will Baptists will be 100 | years old during 1880, There are about 1,650,000 converts to Christianity. | The Methodists have 3,437,100 church | members in the United States. The Protestant Episcopal Church has 320,000 members in the United Suates, Rishop Simpson laid the corner stone of Clork University, at Atlanta, Febru. i ary 10, | BO heathen sittings in London, a gain of 83,000 in fifteen years. Seamen have deposited in all $1,500, 000 for safe keeping at the Sailors’ Home, New York. Canon Farrar recently preached a ser- mon in Westminister Abbey on the 814th anniversary of its founding. Cardinal Manning's Total Abstinence League has a among English Roman Catholics, The Methodists of Baltimore are rais- ing money for the establishment in that city of a centenary biblical institute for | the education of colored people. The The Rev. C. P. Miller, one of the old est Lutheran ministerium of Pennsyl. vania, died recently at Nockasmixon, Penn. all parts of 1881. It is thought that 20. Methodists would be repre- world in OO 00 sented, Pope Leo has ordered a commission to catalogue the Vatican library, in order that it may be of greater use to its contents, from #100 to $400 each in aid of thirty The Congregationalists have in Lon. don 246 churches, seventy of which re. port 16,206 worshipers. In Engiund stations, and 2.718 ministers, At the Beneficent church, Providence, R 1., a Chinese Sabbath school has been started with twenty scholars. They meet at the same hour as the rest of the 82 V8 The American board has expended BRAINS FURNISHED CHEAP, tn New York Makes a Living. f | | Mow One Man { In Bleecker [street, in the third-story | back room of what was once an aristo- { eratic private dwelling house, the publie {in need of brains can find the same at reasonable rates. A reporter who re- | cently climbed the creaking stairs snd knocked at the door of this back room was invited to enter by a deep-toned, | pleasant volee, Stepping across the | threshold, the visitor found himself in | the abode of Brains. The room was { bare and cheerless, containing only a bed, a washstand, three or tour wooden | chairs, a stove, and a large pine table, which was littered with manuseripts, | newspapers, pens, ink bottles, and a | well-thumbed dictionary, The owner | of the deep-toned voice was seated in { one of the chairs, with his feet resting {on the ton of the table, and a newspa. { per in his hand. “Mr. Brains, I believe, | porter, | ** At your service, sir,” | The reporter drew from his note-book { a slip cut from the advertising columns " said the re: It was as follows : “ Dramas, sketohes, songs, burlesques, lees tures, spascheos, poems, elo. ole., wrillen to { order on the shortest notice. Terms low. | Apply to Brains, No. — Bleecker street.” i ! i read it sloud. i i : i | cupant of the room. ** Is there anything I ean do for you?" | “Ishould like to get a little senti. | ment in the poetical line, to write ina | young lady's autograph album,” re i sponded the reporter, with some natural difMidence, “Ah, yes, 1 see, You can furnish the autograph yourself, but you would rathier I would do the sentiment. F actiy like it? I can make it an acrostic, if you prefer. Acrostios come a little gher, but they are just the thing, you know, for albums.” The reporter decided on an acrostie, owner, “How much will it be? Well, I'll turn you off a four liner, while you wait for filly cents.” self to work on the acrostic “Shall 1 make it tender? he asked, acrostic. Then he threw down his pen The virtues of the supposititions Mary were thus embalmed : TO MARY, May all thy days as spotless be the Indians, and gathered fifty churches | i | | i 1 The bishops of the Methodist Episco. age. Bishop Scott is 78; Bishop Peck, 60; Bishop Simpson, 69; Bishop Bowman. 83; Bishop Harris, 63; Bishop Foster, 80; Bishop Wiley, 55; Bishop Merrill, 55, and Bishop Andrews, 55, The American missionaries in Persia heartily endorse an urgent appeal made by native Christinns to friends in this country for help for the starving, for whom neither the government nor In the British army there are 100,000 men who declare themselves to be mem. bers of some religious denomination Of these 62 880 are returned as belonging tothe Church of England, 7.185 are Roman Catholics, There are in Rhode Island 311 church edifices, of which 62 are Baptist, 27 - Baptist, 5 Adventist, 45 Episcopal, 3 50 Catholic, 25 Congregn- ed 7 Universalist, 5 Unitarian, 18 gian and 2 Jewish. About one-fifteenth of the Catholic population of the United States is taught in Catho'ic schools, or upward of 405. 000, Of this number of scholars 33.485 and 23.085 in 153 schools in Newark. Bishop Fraser. of Manchester, re- To-morrow, all should like to mark the day by some lit- the comfort of others in the midst of whom I live.” Sadlier’s “Catholic Directory" for the United States, shortly to be published, 2 archbishops, 55 bishops, 5,980 priests, 1,136 students in theologieal seminaries, 6,407 churches, 2,246 parochial schools, with 40523 scholars, and a Catholic population of 6,143,292. Last year the population was reported to be 6,375,630, the churches numbered 5.580, and the priests, 5,750. There Las been a gain of one archbishop and three bishops. At the recent anniversary of the women's union mission for Chinese tion, arithmetic and geograpny. The mission wns organized in 1870, and at first encountered much indifference and some opposition. Now, however, the parents willingly send their children, and about six months ago the Chinese merchants contributed $800 to the so- ciety. e————————— A Ring That Was Not Returned. A very singular case of thieving in high circles has been under investiga tion by the police for a week. The story has been whispered about in fashionable circles, but the social position of the persons concerned has prevented pub- licity, while it has also compelled the police to work with extreme caution, and has hampered them in their efforts, A dinner pmity was given recently at the house of a family well-known in the wealthiest and most fashionable circles and occupying a handsome mansion in one of the up-town side streets near Fifth avenue Eighteen or twenty ladies and gentlemen were at the table. The conversation turned on diamonds and precious stones, and the hostess, taking from her finger a beautiful emerald set in a cluster of diamonds, handed it to her neighbor calling his attention to its lus- ter. The ring passed from hand to hand around the table, admired by all, and gradually, the conversation turning on other topics, wus lost sight of. The owner never saw it again. It did not complete the circuit of the table, and in wh se hands it had last been could not be determined. A number of servants were in the room and near the the table, but no reason for suspecting them could he found. Nothing was left, however, but the conclusion that either one of them or one of the guests had taken the ring. It had heen bought a short time before for $8,000. When the guests were separating one of the gentlem:n found the ring, minus the gems, in his overcoat pocket, He rushed at once into the drawing room again, exhibited the ring, told how he a8 found it, and de- manded that who ever had put it there should now produce the jewels that had been forced out of the setting. Every- body seemed amazed, but no one helped the poor gentleman, whose embarrassing situation may be imagined. He is of an old family, and bears an honored historic name, e was #0 much affected by the occurrence as to be quite ill the next day. “Neither he nor any one else is yet known to have found any clue to the As wan this page, ere marred by me; Rose tinted may thy futare gleam, Yet rosier still the present seem, “Do you find work enough in this porter, when he had expressed his sat- isfaction with the stanza, and paid the half dollar therefor “Well, yes,” was the cheerful re. sponse, “1 manage to live after a fashion. The worst thing about it is that my income is extremely uncertain. Sometimes 1 don't get five dollars’ worth of orders in a month, And then, again, I have turned out twenty doliars’ worth of work in a day. Averaging it the year round, I suppose I earn eighteen or twenty dollars a week. That, how- ever, includes an oceasional Jucky sale to the magazines and story papers. In order work-—that is, Jobs which are done under contract—1 make my rates, ¢i X for pieces sold for publication. I ean afford to do this, because, you know, the chances of having an article rejected chances of having it accepted, Job work, on the contrary, is sure to pay, aithough small.” “But, where do these orders come from» “ Oh, from all sorts of people. Ikeep a standing advertisement like the one you cut out, in three or four of the dramatic and Sunday papers, These bring me a considerable number of orders from variety performers for new songs and sketehios, Occasionally, tco, some variety actor, who is ambitious to be- come a star, ealls on me to write him a lay adapted to his special line. My Pi comes when | strike a bobbin." * What is a bobbin?" “Well, it is a name of my own which I have give to a certain class of ous- tomers. 1 call them bobbins because that it will keep unwinding indefinitely. spectable old gentleman to deliver at a society dinner next week. He is one of the very best bobbins I ever found. now, on and off, five years. He is rich, hias retired from business, and has de- veloped a great taste for after-dinner oratory. don’t believe he could speak a domen words himself without committing some ridiculous biunder, But I have floated him along, until now he really enjoys the reputation of being always prepared with a neat speech. I charge him a good round wice, but he pays it cheerfully. Then i have another bobbin in the person of a young man, who lives in Fifth avenue, and who drives down here frequently in his own coupe. considered a poet. within the past two years Le has read, at various up town gstherings, not less than half a dozen occasional poems. Of course they are supposed to be orig: inal, and I can assure you that some of them are extremely original 1 char him anywhere from five to fifteen dol- lars, according to lengthy"—New York Sun. : Thirty-Four Years in Jail. An official record, recently published, of the leading incidents in tne nefarious career of one Mr. Anthony Matek, an Austrian thief of considerable renown in the Cisleithan provinces of the Dual Realm, is not uninstructive. This per- severing but unfortunate pilferer has just attained the ripe age of sixty-eight, thirty-four years and eight months of his existence having been spent in one or another imperial jail, while the monotony of his solitary confinement has been relieved at different times by his receiving 16,600 stripes with rods and 370 blows with sticks. These latter castigations were imparted to him dur- ing his term of army service. Militar regulations opposed themselves, it seems, in a violent and arbitrary manner to his confirmed habit of seeking uncon- sidered (rifles in his comrades’ pockets; and vengeful martinets, deaf to his plea that *‘congenial eccentricity covers a multitude ot sins,” decreed no fewer than six several times that he should “run the gauntlet.” The fact that he has survived those terrible ordeals bears convincing testimony to the vigor of his constitution. The value of the articles stolen by him is appraised in the official register of his adventures and mishaps as not amounting in all to 300 florins, or less than $150. His last sentence but one--eight years’ imprisonment with hard labor, which he had worked out only a few weeks ago—was incurred for the annexation of the Austrian equiva- lent to eighty cents. No sooner was he free than he publicly relieved a lady of her purse, containing sixty cents, For this imprudent feat he has just been condemned to another six years of penal servitude, making vp a total ta e of torty years and eight months’ laborious seciu- sion for the acquisition of an amount representifig an in ome for that period of about $3.75 per nunum! The strictest honesty could hardly have paid hi mystery.— New York Tribune. im worse, A Postage Stamp Mystery, Within half a dozen years a business in connection with postage stamps has sggravated amount of worriment and labor. Some one informs a child or a benevolent adult that the sum of one hundred dollars will be given for one million stamps that have been already used on letters. The use to which the Sometimes it is sald they are for the manufacture of papier-mache, other times it ie solemnly stated that they can be sold to persons wliose lives are devoted to the endowment of hos- pital-beds at one hundred apiece. Again it is said there is an ex. stamps in & part of China where they are used Lo paper walls ol houses, the style effect in averting calamity, and especial. ly in saving the lives of little children wlio would be devoured by toeir hungry parents or friends but for the saving ‘charm of the old stamps on the walls. There is probably scarcely one ol our | renders who has not assisted in the gol- | lection of old stamps to make wp the million that some friend has undertaken heard of Lins been able to ascertain that benevolent ubjeet, mails uncanceled or with the canceling | be removed. Probably at lcast ten per | cent. of the whole number used could | be made serviceable a second time, | 1,000,000 old three-cent stamps, costing | $100, 100,000 could be used over again, | and these would be worth $3,000 to the parties buying | $100, Qrosit from the business is | thus seen 10 be enormous. | The British postoffice d | for some years found that ceeds the amount issued to the pubic, ! old stamps from which the cancellation | hae been oblitersted. A new penn stamp has been devised, printed with inks that are intended to set at defiance the various devices by which an old stamp is made to look as AS new, f hether the plan will succeed is un- | known. But are issued by the department shows shat | Jeads to the inference that s consider- | endow hospital-beds and save ( Linese | children from cannibalism. — Philadel: Some Interesting Figures, In an interview at Chicago | tician, who ling been appointed by Census | Superintendent Walker to have charge {the debt, wealth, and taxation of the | United States, Mr. Potter said: The | facts which I have collected give a sort i of comparative view of the growth of | bear especially on the economic changes | that have taken place in the past decade {in the East, West and South. In 1860 | the population of the nine Eastern fsvivania) was 10584300: the nine | Western States (exeloding Ohio), 6,752.- { 368; and the thirteen Southern States, | 10,258 0186. of the Eastern States had reached 14,- | 303.000; that of the Southern States, 14 .- | 295.000, and that of the Western States, 14.655 000, | 984, and that of the Eastern States 3,508, . {crease of the Eastern and Southern i States in the same period. The increase | of population on the shores of the great | Inkes withiy the past quarter century is | made a series of investigations of the manufacturing populations of the West. | ern States (Ohio omitted), of the thir- | tren Southern States, and of the six New | England States, including New York, | Pennsylvania and New Jersey. | asoertained by the census figures of | 1850, 1860 and 1870 the actual growth of ( the manufacturing population of each | State, the percentage of growth for each | decnde was easily found out; then by { taking the average decennial growth | between 1850 and 1870 for the increase between 1870 and 1880, I have arrived Eastern Western Southern i Siales. Slates. Slates. { Number engaged in manufacture ing im 1860,.... Number engaged in manuisotar ing in 186 Number engaged in manuisotur- ing in 187. ... Probable numeri: oal inorease for decade ending 1880 Probable number engaged in man u facturing 1,734 863 904,612 258,389 From this exhibit I find that the manufacturing population of the nine Western States increased from 58.947 in 1850 to 094,512 in 1880; in the Eastern States from 696,661 in 1850 to 1.734 863 in 1880, and in the Southern States from 100,886 to 258 380, er ert —— A California Gold Story. The most singular manner of being struck with a fortune in prospecting that we ever heard of occurred above Spring Gulch on Sunday last. Mr. Snow, late of San Francisco, now pros- pecting in this vicinity for other parties, was out on a quartz hunt with Dr, Drake, of San Francisco. They were returning home, it being stormy, when Snow (who was riding a horse belong- ing to John Neale, of the Spring Guich mine, along the trail) was suddenly missed by his companion. Snow's horse had slipped off the bluff, and down he went at an angle of forty-five degrees, horse, rider and rifle (which he gripped firmly in his hand), rolling over and over in the snow, until he brought up against a mass of stone standing up out of the snow, its top covered with moss He was not hurt, as the cold, soft cushion had saved his bones from the hard ground beneath. Scrambling up against the rock he noticed that it was a quartz lode, and that where the horse had accidentally kicked off the moss something glittered. His eyes “bugged” out, but he did not stop to brush them off, his hands were too busy clawing off the moss. Darkness coming on he had only time to break off a few specimens, which are filled with pure ore. One small piece exhibited in town was esti- m: ted to be three-quarters gold. Tons of it are apparently still awaiting iis owner. Snow says the vein is about thirty feet thick, and in his impulsive generosity he gave away several shares of his vein soon after. He told us that he would not look at $25,000 for his i:- terest. It is without doubt the richest mass of quartz ever discovered in this county, except the Divoll bonanza re- cently opened here in Senora. Of course he told us to keep it out of the paper; but that caution we find to be getting monotonous. Mr, Snow is very well known in San Francisco as an ac- tor of merit, and a gentleman well de- serving the good fortune he has “tum: bled to.” Some men are born rich, others have riches thrust upon them, but Mr. Snow has drifted, through air and snow, right slap up against a pile of richness that would make old Roths- ! childs’ keen eyes turn green with envy. —Sonora (C.l.) Independent, * 606,661 58.847 100,566 008,107 118,845 131,079 1,273,808 360,621 186,470 461,065 633,802 71.919 | FOR THE FAIR SEX. | Manner of Making Mourning Dresses, The simplest designs used in making | colored dresses are repeated in t | worn as mourning. The coat jue, the round overskirt very simply draped | and the short round skirt, is the mode for most costumes, For the deepest | mourning a broad habit of erape is | used jor trimming the basque and both skirts, dispensing with all flcunce-like plaitings on the lower skirt. The cus- | tom of covering the entire basque with crape, also all that part of the lower skirt visible below the overdress, is | contined wo widows, and is not even for them so generally adopts d as it formerly was. ‘There is a tendeyey to lighten the unwholesome heavy mourning tire | intely worn in the somber English siyies, ye 10 retain its simplicity and nun- like plainness; thus the neck of the dress isa worn very high alout the throat, the sleeves are tight and with- { out cuffs, the shoulder semis are short, the bust is not draped, and the beauty | of the corsage depends upon its fine fit, | Crape, however, is worn but a few months, and lustreless silks are chosen | for dress from the first period of mourn. ing. While paniers, sashes, fussy drap- ery, flounces and open throats are, of course, gvoided, yet a dinner dress of mourning silk and orape is fashioned | very much as a colored dress of silk and brocade would be. Thus the short basque and the front bread ih are covered | with English erape, and the flowing | train is of the rich silk, with perhs | some panel revers of erage down the | rides, and a knife-plriting of the same | on the edge. Very rich and appropriate | suits fr the street are made of Henrietta cioth or of imperial sevee after the | models in use for cloth costumes this | winter; the basque is coat-shape and double-breasted, with a deep collar, cuffs and square pockets of crape. The | skirt hes a full straight back breadth | without drapery, and is widely bordered with & band of bias crape, while in front is a deep round apron, much wrinkled, | and falling quite low, yet disappearing 5 Just One Little Song, Love. Come, sing that song | loved, love, When all life seemed one song; For I am stricken now, love, My strong wrm is not strong. Then sing the song I loved, love, You know that one sweet song. Aye, sing that one sweet song, Jove; Love, just that ons sweet song. For lite is none too long, love Oh, love is none too long. Then just one little song, love: Love, just one little song. 1 know you love the woflll, love; Nor would | deem you wrong. But, when sbove my grave, love, _ Next year the Kass ZrOws Strong, Then sing that song 1 loved, love; Love, just ons little song. No tears or sable garh, love; No sighs to break your song. Bat when they bid you sing, love, And thrill the joyous throng, ‘Then sing the song 1 loved, love; Love, just one little song. = Joaquin Aliller, in the Parisian. a——— . P—————— ITENS OF INTEREST, Over 1,000 cheese factories are operated in New York State. Ti:e Boston Post considers a judge's position a trying one. Arizona contains 73,000 000 acres of » land, 5.000,000 of which sre surveyed. The people of Germany smoke 85.000, 000 pouncs of twbacco in thuir pipes every year. A man in Tusealooss my 2s. 8‘ twenly-seven Oranges one hefore breakfast Ee Dat Ligh. that grow up &eigar, ae ions fait, biave beea a in Arizona Territory. A California paper says that it is now considered a wel point that the roduction of raisins fo that State will ® made profitanie. Turkey's territorial loss is estimated a German BIhuthy aa 8 terri us Inrge ss Prussia proper, of 11,000,000 : The telephone has frightened a Cali- fornia Indian into restoring several stolen horses. It may yet set up for a great moral reformer. Englisn authorities state that, out of every five loaves of hread eaten in Eng- land in 1860, three must come from the United States and Russia. A French chemist asserts that if tes intely be- fore hot water is poured upon it, its ex- hilArating qualities will be doubled. A ker at Indianapolis has ae mies 28} genius in get- ting into a scrape. He hiss invented machinery which will scrape 7,000 hogs in the side seams where the full straight back begins. The wrap with such a | suit is a Jong coat-shaped of the material of the lined. perliaps with fur, or else with | wadded silk or flannel. There are also | i garment made | ress, warmiy | | with mourning dresses, and many of | those have sa deep collar and wide cuffs of biack fur. A border of fur is not liked for mourning cloaks, as wsed in | | that way the fur is only a showy trim. | | ming, and not for cemfort, and detracts | from the severe:y simple look given by | | the deep collar and cuffs. Sealskin | cloaks are now worn in the eat | mourning, and furriers select those of | | the darkest hue for this purpose. The | iarge circulars of cashmere cloth with | fur lining are worn as carriage wraps | by ladies in mourning.— Harper's Basar. News and Notes for Women. Mrs. Grant says that the prettiest girl | seen in all her travels was at o, | Nev., raliroad station. Allegra Eggleston, a young Brooklyn | | artist takes a portrait by only looking at the subject for a few minutes, and | | then draws a picture that every one re- | | cognizes, | Manchester. England, has a society of women painters, to which the other | sex is not admitted, not even at the yearly exhibition. | Miis M. E. Gage, daughter of the poetess, has es'ablished a Indies’ ex- change for mining stocks in New York. A geperous fowh Indy, Mrs. Cordelia Miiler, hiss given $30 000 to the Garret Biblical justitute, af Evanston, Iii. Madame de Witt Las just completed | i her history of France, which is the | sequel to ber father’s (M. Guizot) his- | tory. ! The widow of G. P. James. the nov- elist, is living at Eau Clare, Wis. Sha, is now eighty years old, and is well | cared for by her sons. | A London correspondent writes that | | American nationality is soocepted in | { England as a presumption in lavor of | i & lady singer's success. : There are nine ladies on the London | school board. : Princess Alexandria, wife of the! Prince of Wales, is somewhat deaf, and | has ordered an American audiphone. | Lady Burdett-Coutts lately gave al | tea party to over two hundred London | eabmen and their wives as a means to | induce the cabmen to treat their horses | with kindness. The lady principal of a Michigan | school has resigned ber position to com- | mence the stndy of medicine. i Thed merican Sunday school, ot New | York, has been presented with $100,000 | by Mrs. J. C. Green, of that ciy, the in- terest cnly to be available. is is to be devoted to * the development of Sun- dav-school literature of a high merit.” | Mrs. Gladstone and Lady Roseberry | attended all the Gladstone meetings | at Edinburg, and sat in front of the platform listening attentively to every i word and occasionally nodding assent, 3 : § | establishment. Her marri had been for some days a subject of pieasapt con- gratulation by her employers and tellow employees. One day one of the pre prietors, who always wears a tick” apron in the factory, said to her, Som, {if Jou will wear this apron on your wedding-dress when you are mar. ried Iwill make you a present ‘of $50." “ Yes;" addeg the foreman, “and I'l give you $1" The girl accepted the challenge, wore the apron, and pocketed her $60. Gambetta says that * if girls are not educated up to the level of the republi- can ideal the republic will fall down to their notion of what it ought to be.” I'hiat the best advisors he ever had, not alone as to the conduct of his private life, but in polities, wer: good women, whose minds were emsacipated from sacerdotal tyranny, and it was of vital importance to the commonwealth that the fullest justice should be done to the giriheod o ce. Sudden Deaths,—Apoplexy. In apoplexy a blood vessel of the brain gives way. and the blood accum- uiates near its base, and pressing on the cranial nerves, on which the action of the vital organs depends, cuts off the flow of nervous foree to the latter. A slighter effusion may cause only paraiysise from which the patient may recover, the wound healing, and the blood being gradually taken up and carried off by the ahsorbents, Sometimes the serous portion of the! blood escapes through the pores of the vessels sufficiently to occasion a similar result. Free-livers ave especially liable to apoplexy. They keep the vessels too full and the current too strong. More blood always goes to the brain than else- where; its ves els are particularly weak, and as age approaches they grow brittle through a tendency to hecome more or less ossified. Besides, the vessels of the brain are subjected te a special strain in consequence of the contraction of its vessels during sleep and the sudden in- rush ef blood on waking. There is no doubt that some persons inherit & tendency to apoplexy, though it is quite likely that they have also in- herited a tendency to luxurious living. Let them ahjure their habit in this re- spect, and probably the sudden stroke which prostrated a father in death may never overtake them. The use 8 wine or spirit with one's dinres Thertuts the Sendgney jo un apoplectic attack, as it greatly quickens the action of the heart; augments the power with which that central forcing- pump throws the blood into the engorged a day. in irgs, which the amount ex any year since 1871, A few years when an unprece- cold Sant left a litte skim of pools in Jerusalem, the Arabs i miracle by which to glass is in excess pew bui water Henry Neison, of New Orleans, i» ninety-cight—""too old to be fooled with.” le says. Bat some hoys amused themselves by tormenting him, until he shot off the arm of one of them. On a recent vo from Hong Kong 0 Bo Bran ise TE eapiani of the ship ad one son WwW overboard and rowned and another born to him. so 8 Jandel with as many as he started wi The Smithsonian institute bas sent a commission to the Pacific coast to make a complete collection of all the fish "% . The Suez canal receipts are frem ater falling off. About three-quarters greater n a Mrs. Blessersole thinks § it is well enough to give a fire if “nind words can never die.” How bitterly does a man realize that terrible truth when he sees all the kindest words hie ever saw in his life glaring at him from his published letters in a breach of promise suit.— €. A curious v was recently Leld at John T. Kinga, Peoria, Til. a none of the guests were under seventy years of age. Twenty-three sat at the festive board talking over o'd times, whose ages ranged from seventy to ninety. There arc about 64.000 Mennonites in America. They have 500 meeting houses. They abstain from taking the oath, do not inflict punis do not accept public office, and never go to nw They ave pearly all farmers. The Tea insists that the Petershovrgsiia Viedomosti gopuiat edtimu wr the jopuis predicts. will in two years be in to 100,000,000, It has been proposed by English - neers to connect Europe with lish mgt ng a tunnel beneath the Straits of Gibraltar, between Tarifa and Centa. The length of the prejected tunnel would be about nine mi and would have to be driven at a depth of at least fot. M. Say, the Frenchman of leisure who, on pleasure bent, started around the world in a private t recently, but was driven into the Chesapeake by a storm, concluded that his yacht is too smail for the undertaking, and so ordered a $200,000 ship from a Balu- more firm. According to the developments of a lawsuit in Buffalo, the business of manu- facturing glucose is a very profitable one. It is alieged that the shares of the Buffalo sugar company, the original value « which was $100 each, are now worth $20.000 each. and it is said the concern makes from $30,000 to £40,000 per week. A widower of Alabama has in his on the phot of five young ladies. As soon as-he receives two more, one for each day in the week, he will shuffle them, draw one, and the lady drawn will at once receive an offer of marriage. Te which, if she has any sense, she will mptiy reply: “No Cards." Philadelphia ia Bulletin. Aaron Barves. of Independence, lows, was advised to go to the poorbouse, as he was old, infirm and destitute; but he said, “I'd die first.” snd hobhbixi away from the village store toward his lonely shanty. He was not seen after that for a week, and was then found dead from hunger and cold, by a messenger who brought the news that his claim for £1,600 pension money had been allowed. EDITORIAL VISITANTS. i When the long-haired, luny poet isn’t pres- ent, When the wildeeyed office-seeker isn’t there, There places then are filled by flends less t . » Oh, never can we flud a vacant chair, When the scandalized maiden and her father Are not present lor to shoot yon ii they can, There are other men and women, thes, Ww bother- An editor is not a happy man. — Cincinnati Enquirer The sultan Las ten servants whose special duty is to unfold the carpets for him when he is going to pray, ten to take care of his pipes and cigarettes, two to dress his royal hair and twenty to attend to his most noble ciean shirts. There are a muititude of other attend- ants about the palace; indeed, it is stated that 800 families and about 4,000 persons live at his Majesty's expense. He is an extravagant housek ; the annual expenditures of the a re mentioned as nearly $14,000,000. There was lately born in Kokomo. Ind., a child with a face that resembled aceoa’s. It had four feet, resembling claws, on which were sharp nails. It had a well defined tail four inclies long. Tt had no eyes, and its arms and limbs looked like the limbs of the ani- mal it so strikingly resembled. Its body or trunk alene m of human nature. The father of this remarkable production was a coor hunter and had for many vears used a toothpick mnde cerebral arteries.— Youth's Companion. from his favorite animal.
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