—The second of the trial yacht races
took place on the 22d and was won by
the Priscilla. The yacht Gracie beat
the Bedouin.
~The Cunard steamer Etruria, which
arrived in New York on the 22d, made
the fastest western trip on record. her
time of passage from Fastnet Light to
Fire Island being six days and two
hours,
~State Treasurer Maxwell, of New
York, has decided not to appoint a suc-
cessor to the late Deputy Treasurer,
Edward K. Apgar.
—A violent storm passed over Cin
cinnati on the 22d. The rain fell in
sheets, flooded basements in all parts of
the city and temporarily suspended
street traffic.
On the 24th, Counsel for Carter
Harrison submitted an answer to the
bill filed by citizens about two months
ago, disputing Mr, Harrison’s title to
the Mayoralty of Chicago, by reason of
numerous miscounts stated to have
been made in the vote, and innumera-
ble frauds alleged to have been commit-
ted at the polls in the interest of Har-
rison. The answer is in the nature of
a demurrer, generally denying the alle-
gations of the bill and giving fifteen
reasons why, in the opinion of the de-
fendant, the case is not entitled to a
regular trial in Court.
—The publicity given to the fact that
the United States Treasurer had re-
sumed the transfer of gold coins from
San Francisco to New York by regis
tered mail has again caused a suspen-
sion of that mode by transportation,
It is not expected that any more gold
will be sent through the mails for some
time,
~The Signal Service at Chicago re-
ports that heavy rains have fallen in
Northern Illinois, Iowa and Indiana,
and eastward through the lower lake
region. The fall at Chicago from
seven o'clock on the 23d to three
o'clock in the afternoon, on the 24th,
was 3.80 inches. During the storms
on August 2 last, there was a fall of
6.33 inches, so that thus far during the
present month theré have been over
ten inches of rain fall, the greatest
amount yet recorded in one month in
Chicago.
—Mr. Longworthy, Deputy Comp-
troller of the Currency, who has been
acting as Comptroller in the absence of
Mr. Cannon, was taken sick on the 24th
and it is thought will not be able to at-
tend to his official duties for several
weeks. Mr. Cannon was notified and
is expected to return to Washington at
once.
~—In the third and last trial race
between the yachts Puritan and Pris.
cilla, to see which shall defend the
American cup against the English cut-
ter Genesta, the Puritan won by twenty
seconds,
—In the United States Circuit Court
in San Francisco on the 24th, Judge
Sayer rendered an opinion in the Chi
nese habeas corpus cases of Sun Hunz
and Si Yee, allowing them to take an
appeal from the United States District
Court to the Supreme Court of the
United States. The effect of Judge
Sayers’ decision, it is said, will be to
give every Chinaman who wants to get
into this country the right to appeal to
the Supreme Court of the United States,
— Adjutant General Drum on the
24th received a dispateh from the officer
commanding in New Mexico saying
that the Southern Utes in that Terri-
tory were starving; that they had no
supplies and were unable to procure
any, and that unless food was 1mmedi-
ately secured for them they would go
the war path. These are the same
Indians that, a few weeks since, were
reported to be without food and in a
starving condition. Temporary relief
was afforded them by drawing on the
military stores.
-The State Prohibition Convention
was held in Harrisburg on the 25th,
There were 330 delegates present. A
A. Stevens was chosen permanent chair-
man. Barr Spangler, of Manetta, was
nominated for State Treasurer.
—The New York Republican State
Committee met in Saratoga on the 25th,
and selected Saratoga as the place for
holding the next State Convention,
September 22d was decided upon as the
~The Signal Service officers at St,
Paul, Minnesota, said on the 25th that
the frost line on Monday night extended
as far south as Morhead, where the
mercury fell to 32 degrees, the killing
frost point. There 18 no further fear of
frost in that section for the present, as
the cold wave is broken.
~—Dr. D. H. Gregg, a wealthy citi-
zen of King William county, Virgula,
was found in bed at the St. Charles
Hotel in Richmond on the 25th. He
was 84 years old and died of apoplexy,
According to the terms of his will the
residue of his estate, amounting to
over $100,000, will go to the St. Joseph's
Female Orphan Catholic Institution of
Richmond, the interest to be devoted
to the education of female children of
the Caucasian race, without regard to
religion or nationality,
~The remains of ex-Minister Phelps
arrived in Washington on the 25th and
were conveyed to Oak Hill Cemetery
deposited in a vault. The bod
will not be finally interred until Oectlo-
ber, when, it 1s understood, funeral
ceremonies will take place,
instructed the agent for
Utes In Colorado to se-
for the Indians. The
on the 25th,
the Southern
—The Democratic State Convention
of Pennsylvania was held in Harris-
burg on the 26th, Over four hundred
delegates were present. R. P. Allen,
of Lycoming county, was elected tem-
porary chairman, and Jacob C. Turney,
of Westmoreland county, permanent
chairman, The platform adopted de-
clares for an earnest and efficient civil
tariff, and a thorough reform of the
methods of administration which ob-
tained under Republican rule; approves
the administration of President Cleve-
land and his cabinet, and of Governor
Pattison and his official advisers; de-
clares that the importation under con-
tract of foreign pauper labor is an
evil which shoula be remedied by judi-
cious legislation; demands the regula.
tion by law of the carrying corpora-
tions of the State, and the equalization
of the tax laws; denounces the attempt
to consolidate the South Pennsylvania
and Beach Creek Railroads with the
Pennsylvania Railroad; opposes sump-
tuary legislation and unequal taxation
in any form, and favors the regulation
of the liquor traffic, and providing
against the evils arising therefrom by a
judicious and properly graded license
system. In the last plank an appropri-
ate allusion was made to the death of
General Grant, Conrad B. Day was
nominated for State Treasurer by ac-
clamation.
—The Republican State Convention
of Towa met in Des Moines on the 26th.
After perfecting a temporary organi-
zation the convention adjourned.
—Governor Hoadly, of Ohio, ar-
rived in Baltimore on the 24th, and
said on the 25th in an interview
that he was hopeful for Democratic suc-
cess in the fall election in Ohio.
— Attorney General Garland left
Washington on the 27th for a short
visit to his home 1n Arkansas,
— Alderman Donovan, Chairman of
the Committee recently appointed by
the Board of Aldermen o
City Council and the public of an eulo-
gy on the life and services of General
Grant, announces that Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher has accepted the invita-
tion of the committee to deliver the
eulogy.
~The Grant Memonal Fund in New
York now amounts to $64,500.
Governor Pierce, of Dakota, 18 on
sus recently taken of the Territory.
The population in round numbers is
415,000, of which South Dakota claims
203,000. The total number of farms
in the Territory is 80,000, varying in
area from 6000 acres down.
—The Georgia} Legislature on the 26th
formally received the records of the
Board of Trustees of the Georgia Col-
ony, which were presented to the State
by John 5. Morgan, of London,
~—A train load of twenty cars, with
ment ever made from the coast. The
trip will be made in seven arms one-half
days. ¢
msn A GP ——
Venus and Jupiter,
Venus has again returned to
evening
sparkling in the early twilight. She is
a week ago, but will turn back and
meet her again early in August
naked eye there is not much difference
to be perceived between Jupiter and
Venus. But in a good teleséope the
difference is very great, and the astro-
nomer knows that it would take 1,400
globes like Venus to equal the bulk of
Jupiter, Yet Venus is only a trifle
smaller than the earth, These two
worlds now shining almost side by side
in the sky are still more different in
their condition. They represent two
opposite points in a planetery history,
Jupiter, notwithstanding its enormous
size, Is, speaking in a geological sense,
a mere baby beside Venus or the
Earth, The telescope shows that its
huge globe is still in the throes of that
age of fire and vapor which precedes
the formation of a planetary crust, and
when the observer understands the
magnitude of the forces at work there
is hardly any phenomenon in the
heavens so awe inspiring as a telescopic
view of the drifting, tossing and whirl-
ing surface of Jupiter, Venus, on the
other hand, appears to be in very much
the same condition as the earth, pos-
sessing a cool and rigid surface,
wrinkled and diversified with moun
tains and plains, and enveloped by an
atmosphere in which float clouds like
those that refresh the earth. The study
of the planets has never been pursued
with so much industry and success as
at present, Astronomers are just be-
ginning fully to understand that it is
possible for them to learn much’ about
the past and future of the Earth by
studying the present condition of its
ter and Venus in the western skies
sees two worlds, one having all the
phases of the Earth’s history since it
was “without form and void,” still be-
fore it, and the other as old in a planet-
ary sense as the globe we tread, and
perhaps possessing as wonderful a his
tory since life appeared upon its sur-
face.
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DEAD FLOWERS.
We ask, and are answered not,
And so we say God has forgot,
Or else there is no God.
The years
I see a ohild turn from her play
And seek with eager feet the way
That led her to her father’s knee.
“If God is good and kind,’’ said she,
“Why did he let my roses die?"
A moment's pause, a smile, a sigh,
And then, *'I do not know, my dear;
Bome questions are not answered here.”
“But is it wrong to ask?" “Not so,
My child, That we should seek to know
Proves right to know, beyond a doubt;
And so some day we shall find out
Why roses die.”
And then I walt,
Bure of my answer soon or late;
Becure that love doth bold for me
The key to life's great mystery;
And, oh! so glad to leave it there!
Though my dead roses were so fair,
a ———————————————————————
HE WAS AN ARTIST.
He bad a studio on Cnestnut street
~before hig arrival it was known as an
attic. It had that trade mark peculiar
to an artist's den, namely dust and dis-
order. But this morning there was a
suspicion of neatneess in the arrange-
ment of many unfinished canvyasses;
some of the dust and dirt had been re- |
moved, though a few spider webs
However, tak-
ing all into consideration, it was not so
So thought its sole lord and master, |
by name David Marvin, as he sat be- |
fore his easel, putting in a little darker |
background to the lovely face he was |
painting. Perhaps you might not call |
it lovely, but I assure you that the ar- |
auburn hair, and the firm red
something extraordinary.
“80 you think a broom and waler |
has somewhat improved the appearance |
of my room, Miss Lothorp,” he was |
saying to the onginal of the portrait.
“I do, indeed; I believe if I hadn’t |
reminded you in time, you would been |
entirely lost in the lacework those little |
creatures were spinning about you," |
she replied, laughing, and flashing a |
glance of those liquid orbes at Mar- |
lips,
vin,
“I wish she wouldn't do that,” be |
thought bending his flaxen head to |
avoid any more flashes, tet us suppose, |
** By the way, you wished to see those |
new watercolor sketches of mine,
didn’t you?”
“Yes, I should like very much to see |
them, Mr. Marvin.” i
There was no mistake this time; the
eyes had a curious gleam that caused |
the painter to dive into a corner in an |
agony of search for the sketches,
But what was this? Bump, bump,
with flaming red roses and blue rib |
bons, a purple gown, green flannel bag |
of dimensions unknown, and a white |
cotton umbrella, made the towd ensem-
ble. i
“Laws a mercy, Davy! But them
be the awfulest stairs I ever seen. Here |
am I, a blowing like an old whale, and
never a breath of air in this stujo of |
yours; it oughter been called stewpan, |
it's my opinion, Hel he IV
Miss Lothorp had withdrawn into a |
corner by the window at the panting |
dame’s unceremonious arrival, and was
now eyeing ber gaudy attire with bad.
ly concealed merriment on her face,
“And never a cheer nuther., Bless
my soul, Davy. yer getting airy in yer |
sky parlor; but you bain’t larning no |
sense, that’s one thing, a tumblin® out |
yer cheers for this rubbish,” she |
continued, with a majestic wave of
her hand to the works of art lying
around.
“Well, upon my word, Aunt Eliza,
you've taken me by storm. I did not
look for you on such a het day as this,”
“Oh, no! I was sartin sure of that,
I knew I wasn’t wanted, that's just
why I came, Dave Martin!" snapped
Aunt Eliza, looking vindietively at Miss
Lothorp. **Who's that?” she asked in
a stage wlusper.,
I beg your pardon, Aunt Eliza"
said David, recovering his lost energy,
and pulling himself up with a jerk,
“Miss Lothorp allow me to introduce
my aunt, Miss Hawkins.”
“I'm from Redington, Pa.; ye've
heerd of Reddingtoh, Miss?’ inquired
the old lady, with some pride. “It's a
real smart town. Davy was brung
up there,” she went on, seating her.
self,
“Indeed!” Miss Lothrop murmured,
endeavoring to appear interested,
while Mr. Marvin inwardly cursed his
fate.
“I hope this feller hasn't been telling
ye yarns about his an--an, oh, what.
ever you call ‘em; they say all in Phila-
deiphy do, you know. Why, do you
know, | "member Davy when he were a
little chap in petticoats, fetching water
from the well, and mindin’ the
earryin® them pig-a-back. Ye needn't
blush, Davy; it's gospel truth, I won.
der what yer mother would say If she
seen yo now, dabblin’ in those nasty
paints? Like as not she’s washing
your father's clothes; his father's a
Into, Miss Lothorp. Why, yer surely
a
Peri
¥
engagement that I cannot slight. Good-
bye.”
“1 am sorry, Miss Lothorp,” sald
David, in a husky voice, surprise and
indignation making his naturally stu-
pid tongue dumb, ‘**Good morping.
Oh, aunt, what have you done?’ he
exclaimed, as he closed the door after
the young lady. “1 can hardly eay I
thank you for airing those spicy anec-
dotes of my juvensle days he contin-
ued, bitterly, as he busied himself be-
fore his easel, **What will she think?"
was the next thought. ‘‘And she'll
never come back,” he uniuckily mut-
tered aloud. Alas poor Dave!
“You blamed fool, Dave Marvin!”
exclaimed A«nt Eliza, grasping the
ferule of her umbrella, ‘‘¥You blamed
fool”!
“Aunt.”
= ‘Y’are. I s’pose ye'll be bringing that
proud hussy home ter Redington when
ye get her. He, he! When you dol
But never fear, Dave, no one that’s in-
sulted me —-o"?
“Once for all aunt-
One-half an hour afterward Aunt
Eliza came out into the broad daylight,
moppiog her moist brows, and frown-
t
gazing down stupidly on the crowded
street,
“Blamed fool!" she muttered, as she
stature, who was vainly endeavoring to
piss her,
Another morning two weeks later,
David was at his easel, working on the
deep brown eyes, with the
fringed lashes. Was t—no—but
was the original again sitting before
him.
“Yes,
it
I really thought that you
You were
saying, the hot blood mounting to his
brow.
“‘ Why what made you think that?
I was very much amused by the old
gleam in her eyes that the poor fellow
dreaded so much.
palette were thrown down. ‘‘Miss
Lothorp I"
“Mr, Marvin I"
He stopped and looked doubtingly
around him,
*“ Miss
Lothorp, don’t
sisters —the way she said?”
the long lashes, and a taint, shell-like
** You will not say that you have an
had the upper hand, and consequently
feeling brave,
“Oh, will you not believe me? It
Why should I
make an excuse when I like’
A full stop.
What ? Whom ?V
Ill-mannered young man !
“What were you going to may,
question. “‘Something about yourself,
you'll remember.”
“It was—not until you finish your
"
“ Mr Marvin, yourself or nothing.
“ Myself! Do you mean it, Mabel?
Queen Mab!”
That incorrigible young man was on
of Miss Lothorp. Her dark head was
bent over im, the bonnie brown eyes
that Dawid both loved and feared were
looking down in his blue orbs with un-
utterable tenderness, What more was
needed?
“Darling your turn now,” he whis-
“You liked—whom ?"
“110, David! 1 intended to tell
you--not now, but somewhere off in
the vague ages—that I liked to listen
to the lady’s chat about’
A pause.
“Me! O darling of darlings I”
The postures were something artis.
tic, since their attitudes were struck
quite innocently, somewhat after that
painting of Remeo and Juliet in Friar
Lawrence's cell. The friar alone was
needed.
But lo and behold! Who made an
appearance at this moment but that
venerable gentleman, in the feminine
garb of—Aunt Eliza!
“David Marvin! Ye blamed,
Sakes alive! I'm sure I beg your par-
don, Miss Lothorp., Iv
“Aunt Eliza allow me to introduce
my little wife to be,” David said rising
from his cramped position,
“My soul! Ye don't say so! Would
you marry an artist, Miss Lothorpr”
“ Yes indeed any amount of them,”
she answered, with a fond glance at
David.
“One at a time, darling, I think
would be the best,” he suggosted
“Take me first, for a trial.”
Older than Uxford,
A Mobammedan university 900 years
older than Oxford is still flourishing at
Cairo as in the days of Arabian con-
quests. It contains but one room, the
by 400 columns. :
No man is wise at all times,
id
Courtesics and Discourtesios.
There are many courtesies which a
gentleman should render to a lady, the
absence of which is at once felt, and
causes people mvoluntarily to remark
inwardly to themselves, if not aloud te
their friends. *““That man has not good
manuers,” 1 passed that judgment
the other evening when I was sitting
with a friend by her fireside, A
gentleman was ushered 1 who was
well known to my friend, but a com-
parative stranger to me, He shook
hands with her first, which was, of
course, the right thing to do, and then,
while speaking to her he shook hands
with me, The breaker of this law of
courtesy was a young professional man,
well endowed with this world’s goods,
I should not record this little rudeness
if it was only of rare occurrence, but I
often notice people guilty of this dis
courtesy—namely, that of shaking
hands with cne person while they are
speaking to another persom. If you
wish to say more than *“*How do you
do?” to your hostess, or to any one
else whom you greet at first, it is less
discourteous to continues your conver-
sation with her for a few minutes be-
fore taking notice of any one near her,
than it 18 to stretch out your hand
{ and shake that of her neighbor while
| your face is turned away and your lips
| are addressing another person.
The discourteous young man to
{whom 1 have alluded gave me another
i reason for my verdict, and as in this
| res; also he is by no means the only
| offen;ler in general society, I shall men-
fon the little rudeness. There are
threo, if not more, separate sylliables
| and sounds which some people utter or
{ make when they have not heard what
| has been said to them, or when they
| wish to express assent, These are
| What? Eh? Uhl and a guttural
| sound of the letter m, which eannot be
{expressed in writing. **I beg your
| pardon,” or “What did you say?” are
sentences which should certainly be
sald when a repetition is asked for;
and ““Yes" should not be replaced by a
{ grunt when an assent 1s given.
There are numerous little acts
which a wan of courtesy will perform,
While he is calling at a house, he will
rise and open the door for any lady
who leaves the room. even if she is an
entire stranger to him; in his own
werd
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FOOD FOR THOUGH]
Bite with the sword of truth.
To thecounsellors of peace i8 joy.
Charity is the bond of perfectness,
A whisper sepnrateth chief friends.
Deeds are fruits; words but leaves,
Calamity is man’s true touch-stone,
Modesty has more charins than beau-
ty.
Neatnesg and order are commenda-
ble
Every une must bear his own bur-
den.
We sow many seeds to get afew flow
ers,
Men tire themselves in pursuit
rest,
Mental gifts often hide bodily
fects,
! Envy shoots at others and wounds
iiself.
Ill examples are like contagious dis-
eases,
The sleep of the laboring man is
sweet,
Bpare moments are the gold dust of
time,
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to
virtue,
Beck not for praise, but ueck to de-
serve it,
A clear brain isgood, but a right aim
is better,
Our night dreams partake of our day
thoughts,
He who sows brambles must not go
barefoot,
Whosoever
himself.
Pride that
contempt,
Jealousy is a secret avowal of our
feriority.
Every season of life haa its appropri»
ate duties,
Egotism: and self-assertion
amiable traits,
Nothing is more attractive than m
est simplicity.
Youth looks at the possible; age
the probable,
Charms strike the sight, but
wins the soul.
No station
with sanctity,
Proud hearts and lofty mountains are
always barren, .
We owe a large part of our happiness
to our mistakes,
An ill-natured old man or
a pitiable object,
A serville imitation of
mark of fashion.
Whoever has learned
learned to be silent.
of
(Joa
elevates himself isolates
dines on vanity supe on
if
are un-
wie
al
wert
in life is incompatible
woman is
fashion is a
wo
iove, has
house he will not only open the door of
the room, but accompany the lady to
i no servant at band to do so, for a de-
parting guest, whether lady or gentle-
| man, should not be left find thelr
| way alone. Neither should they be al-
lowed to find their way
When you act as a host, and your
to
ing room, do not you, my dear fir, fol-
neglectful men, who walk in and
:
| room.
Amongst other small courtesies a
{gentleman will rise from his chair,
| however luxuriously comfortable, and
| offer assistance, if need be, to a lady if
| she goes to put coals on the fire, or if
1
| When he escorts her into a room, he
i
| escorts her to a table, he will wait to
{arrange for ber comfort, hold the
§
| chair,
own seat.
will see that she is provided with all
she is likely to want. The lady ought
not to be obliged to ask for salt, for
water, for another cup ot tea, or, in
fact, for anything that is on the table.
A Five Invention,
Mr. Haden, of Virginia, has lately
invented one of the most ingenious and
valuable devices we have ever seen.
Being a poor man and unable to employ
a hand as striker, he cast about how
he might do by machinery what bere-
tofore could be done only by the hand of
main. The result of of his cogitations
is a piece of very simple machinery by
which the striking hammer is easily
and effoetively worked by his foot,
while he has both hands free to hold
his iron and use the small hammer, To
a listener the blows come as naturally
and as rapidly as If there were two
men handling the hammers in the old.
fashioned way, but there is a difference.
The machine by an easy motioa of the
foot on the treadle strikes a harder
blow than any man can strike, and can
be mada, at will, to strike as light a
blow as may be needed. But the use
of this simple and cheap device in the
black-smith’s shop is not half. It can
| Boasting renders one ridicalo
| the eves of others,
Watch for favorable
{i do not let them slip.
i Even a fool when
i peace Is counted wise,
{ Wolves may lose thei
never lose their nature,
| We should do good to an enemy and
{ make him ¢ friend.
| The Lord often crosses our paths for
i the benefit of our souls.
| The hog never looks up to him that
| turows down the acorns,
[he love of country, and the
race, are noble qualities,
They are never alone that a:
panied by noble thoughts,
He who can plant courage i
soul is the best physician.
He that waits for dead men’s shoes,
may go a long time barefoot.
The teacher may impart instruction,
in
opporiunities;
his
he holdeth
teeth, but
love
ACCOM.
i a human
Manners, with learning and
| character, make a gentleman.
Sooner or later a man’s thoughts will
come into fruitage in deeds.
1t iseasier to suppress the first desire
than to satisfy all that follow it.
He who thinks his place below him
will certainly be below his place,
If the Lord lead youn ina rough way
{ it is to keep you humble before him.
To write of heroic sacrifices, and to
make them, are two different things.
A man’s true wealth is the good he
does in the world to his fellow men.
Whatever you are undertaking to do
cannot be done in your own strength.
It is really of little consequence who
we are--it matters more what we are,
It is more honorable to acknowledge
our faults than to boast of our merits,
Sorrows humanize our race, Tears
are the showers that fertilize the world,
To live according to one’s means is
honorable; not to do so is dishonorable,
Old age has but little to ask of the
world; it estimates life at its true value,
Nothing can constitute good breeding
that has not good nature for its founda-
tion.
A judicious reticence is hard to
learn, but is one of the great lessons of
life.
Keep thyself simple good, pure, kind
and affectionate, Make thyself all sum.
plicity.
Before you set about asking God's
blessing, make sure that you have
earned it.
The beam of the benevolent eye giv.
eth value to the bounty which the hand
A beautiful woman with the qualities
of a noble man is the most perfect thing
in nature.
jest often gives birth to
another; the child is seldom worth
the
we
good