NEWSO¥ 'HE WEEK accounts, United States Minister to Austria, but will do so. pointment in the diplomatic service. guested the Secretary of the Treasury the United States to be thoroughly ru- ducing small-pox into this through that channel. country ordered the State pumber of cattle fromTexas fever. pensions this month, It is therefore debt for August will not be as large as usual, road Easton, 27th, Matin was killed, Maryland, on by the storm at Charleston, South Car- thousand dollars, including vale property. van’s Island $100,000 cotton $85,000, and city property. churches, business now offering is fully accommo- dated, and in ten days the facilities wil be as good as ever.”’ —At Annapolis, Maryland, on the 29th, Jadge Jones turned over the An- napolis and Elk Ridge Rallroad to the trustees appointed on the part of the bondholders. The order also prohibits any mnterference on the part of President and Directors of the company with the trustees. The matter been in the Courts for several years, Lise has acting Secretary of the Treasury for re- inbursement of moneys expended taking the semi-decennial census that Territory for the year 1885. is the first application of the kind re- ceived at the Treasury Department The claim has been referred for exauni pation and report, & Oi —eneral other officers sounrn Pacific Manager Talmadge and of the Wabash and Mis- Hatlroad left New Y« on the 28th for the Southwest. their intention to tour spection over Jay Gould’s South we system. Meanwhile, the Knights Labor have been asked to wait Mr. Talmadge can wor to St. Louis. INAKEe a K 8 Way around —A largely attended and en stic meeting of the French Canad tousia- ans of 80th in behalf of Riel. dressed to Secretary Bay: the interposition of Government, was unanimously adopted. The petition, which is signed by French states “ti a United that his trial was not a fair one, ~The Naval Construct completed the inventory of tl prnment cruisers Boston LO at Boach’s ship yard atl Chester, Pa., and will go to New York at an early date to take an account of work on the Atlanta. Another Board will this one to give values, Lhe HI8G TE8IGENSS, citizen the Of +e we Grov- and Chicag ture factory in Portland, Oregon, wa burned. Loss, $32.000. The Oregg- pian Railroad Company's wharf also catight fre and two thirds of it was destroyed. Loss, $10,000, The chair of Gardner, Holmes & C i East Sixty first street, Ne burned on the JuUth, £100,000, ~~Heavy rains at Carolina, on J4he damage in houses which roofed by the recent of repaired, — Rear Admiral Francis A, Hoe, now on duty as Governor of the Naval Asv jum at Phi‘adelphia, will be rétired on October 4th next. The retirement w cause the following promotions: Com. modore 5. B., Luce to be Rear Admiral, Captain D. B. Harmony to be Commo- dore, Commander A. T, Mahan to be Captain, Lieutenant Commander F. W. Dickens to be Commander, and lieutenant W. T. Bidwill to be Lieu. tenant Commander, According to a telegram from Pos- ton the aggregate exchanges of 27 lead- ing Clearing Houses ending 20th uit, were $044 518,084, against $640,867,001 the preceding week, Chicago gained 174 per cent, Indianapolis 164, Detroit 10, Boston 9, St. Louis 3, Kansas City 18, Memphis 834 and Philadelphia 1. Rew York decreased 24, San Francisco 8, Baltimore 19, Cincinnati 9} and Pittsburg 20 per cent, ~The annual meeting of the Domin- fon Rifle Aassociation opened in Otta- wa, Ontario, on the 3lst ult, There were 420 competitors, and the aggre. gate number of individual prizes is 827, aclory 0. in York, was © W Loss ai) LH had been clone and ii : ~The census of Dakota shows that the population of the entire Territory is t 416,000. The population of that part of the Territory south of the 406th parallel is 203,465. ~The White House was reopened to the public on the 31st uit, The build. bag been cleaned and renovated during the President s absence, and is pow in condition for his return. —1t ig said the cattle men incline to the belief that tbe Excutive orders of “August 14th for the removal of all fences from the public lands will not be enforced. It is said at the Interior De- Jartment, however, that the order will 6 carrid out to the letter, and with the full force of the military if neces. Bary. «The Governor of Alabmma on the Bist ult. reappointed E, C, Bellz to be of the state department — President Cleveland and Dr. Ward were at Lake Placid, in the Adiron- dacks, on the 1st ~An election on the local question in McLennan county, Texas, of 1500 for the P’rohibitionists. The Prombition Convention of Ulster coun- ty, New York, met on the 1st in Kings- ton, listened to an Dow, and nominated ticket. —In Hill county, Texas, on the 31st a fall county -The eorner-stone of a statue Erie fame, was laid on the 1st, at Newport Rhode Island, with Masonie ceremonies, The Governor of Rhode Island and the Mayor and City Coun- ellmen of Newport were present. The statue was placed in position on the 2d, odd pe : height of stall and statue will be 25 feet, — Inspector Armstrong, just returne to El Paso, Texas, {from an of the Indi cles in J ports that wave no further fear of Indian ¢ The Apaches at San ( AT i inspect ic rizona, 3 tory | prad pracdaiions. ariel and — Wil n M. Given, ex-U. S. Sena- tor from California, is dangerously ill in New York, leis Theodore 1), Jewey, lector of Customs of Charleston, Soutl Carolina, on the 1st took charge of Cust House in that city. Deputy Ostendorff resigned, and Walker his WW years of age. ie new Col- 3 the om Collector Captain Legare J. place, ~-No crop report for August will be issued by the secretary of the Board of Agriculture of Kausas, correspondents having reported no material changes, took of the Court of Alabama Claims, 13 Iowa. Until he ar- ton confer witl the Court no stale- be made in answer action of the First Comptroller in re- fusing requisition for the current ex. penses of the Court, Harlan, of —Judge Commissioner & 4 vO in Washing 10 ~The corner-stone of the new State tol at Georgia, in Atlanta, was laud the 2d with Masomic ceremonies, Governor McDaniel to the Lee presented the struc. ure, and General red House, fireworks Lake were More 100.000 head of caltie from the Cl ith the Presi (UU Temnain Srvyols WAS Ii waler navigation he 1st. Owing Ow and the threatened ( : rOVErn- ® $id hish reservoir 1 five feet in the and persons attended cat Williams’ Grove, The lady drowned with John H. Morgan by the upsetting of a cance In the Potomac river, at Washington, or t! Emma Della Seta, She was a widow, fice, and was Mrs, ut 40 years. 94 € &3 i resided with her sister, ———— Beet Sugar. ——— Lhe process of manufacturing sngsr {7 by a an chemist, It was not practically Napoleon, having laid an embargo on ordered the chemists of France to devote their especial attention making of sugar from beets, e pressure of necessity il was ¥ th article, and beet-sugar making profitable industry, More half of the sugar now used in 12 made from beets in her own tons, and ginm, and other continental coun- trices, The kind of beet preferred for thus nse is the white Silesian, of which there are several varieties, all of large size, and yielding a julce very rich in saccharine quality, The yield per acre of this beet in Kurope is from fifteen to twenty tous; it requires a light dry sml and a dry atmosphere. Five tons of into the refined product, the rest used for molasses, When their leaves begin to die the beets are dug, the heads cut off, and the roots are thrown together and covered to protect them not be left in the heap any great length of time, as the fresher the root the more readily does its sugar crystalize in manufacture, In the factory the beets are first washed clean in a [cage revolving in water, then grated to a pulp by powerful rotating machinery, hydraulic pressure. Another method is to cut by machinery the root into small squares and extract its saccharine element by infusion in hot water, When the juice is obtained, by either method, lime water is added to it, and it is then boiled, To remove any excess of lime the liquor is then filtered through an. imal charcoal, or a current of carbonic acid is through it, &¢ chemical combination pitating carbonate of lime. The liquor is then filtered ready for the refining process, which is essen: tially the seme as that used for cane sugar, that is, repeated filtration and concentration by evaporation nutil the granulating point is resched, — AP ——————- ~The first Sagoleon slept in hollands for sheets, the Bourbons in cambrio, acd Napoleon 111 in ordinary linen, reed whistling match, in which the er held out for two and a balf hours was held recently in Pittsburg. 9 ! BREAKING STUBBLE, | Xsaw the plow go up the hill The rolling uplands plowing: The harrow followed it to till The ground for early sowing, O! upland wide, that erst was brown, And plowing leaves more homely; The summer brings your verdant crown, With herbage covered comely. And then the yellow harvest comes Fit for the time of reaping, The cheerful time of ‘harvest home,” With thankful hearts in keeping. Ah! in our lives wo sometimes feel The lines of plow and harrow; In smoothest places, oft, the steel Leaves trenches broad and narrow, Lord of the Harvest! ‘twas Thy hand The plower’s hand that guided; “Twas hard to break the stubble land, Thy will, not ours, decide 1 O! Master, let the harvest be Worth thine angels reaping; Our ripened sheaves we bring And leave them in Thy keeplr RO A ERIC WAS SHE FRIVOLOUS » Rev, Mr. Shaw contrasted greats with his surroundings-—his cloth fitting so well his figure, his clear cut, Grecian features, strong, manly and dark wavy hair, thrown back witl careless grace from his smooth brow, He was visiting one of th ed tenement used poor, and before him was group, A widew who had just buried her husband ; she had five helpless children —the eldest $i ue ii wrelc houses by the very a forlorn six, the youngest a nurs. ling baby, and a pair of twins among them, The rags, and, the dirt of poverty apparent, An expression of almost sublime pity than all, where worse Was every i as if I am doing something “Do 1? Well, I shall give youa gold- ! long while that you were entirely beyond my control. “Nevertheless, 1 have vbeying your instructions. only been Don’t you ister, The woman, with the apron r over her head, rocked herself toand and wailed forth her troubles, « “1 don’t know what I'm a-goin® do for myself Though my old man drink, he di enough to keep body and but pow 1 know but starve and d “Have you Shaw in thrown fro, 15841 Pos 4 We ILL ins. would have his 3 and tl wit hunt v1 a iil sir t dn't beat us, and brought 4 soul together $hin? we can't do not! try je | no friends?” asked a low voice, “Same. but as bad or us, Yes,’ she said looki grateful, one-—Ir lot for sent med old suthis and ATE ( woman takin' « leaves ii and Job To ‘em to her wh state.’ After | and that he would do what he could for her, the minister wended bh As he thought of th might appeal, a vision of a bright face haunted him, but while he lingered over the thought most tenderly, there was a shadow on his brow as if there was | some slight jar that marred the harmony of his thoughts, Mr. Shaw was the rector of one of the wealthy churches of the city, and Ma- belle Lea was bone of the parishioners, Her face was Madonna-like in It curves and beauty, the large blue eyes with just a tinge of sadness, ti { curve of the red lips, a fauitiess com- : plexion and blonde hair that was like a halo of light round the graceful | But ah, when she talked it was like a damper, a mist on a beaut] | marring the tints that otherwise would have been perfect. yf ‘vm. ttla cards ie or y fn we assuring ber of his sympath 3 Way home, to Oe he % : whoo a § PF |ienaeyr 0 perfect | such a devotee to solely that one long- ed for the expression of a single serious thought that could | thing like common sense this per- sonification of frivolity. With it all, however, she was lovely and lovable to every one, and Mr. Shaw had long leaven into somes | the indulgence of which he felt would be tatal to his future happiness and usefulness, Absorbed in these thoughts he found himself in front of Mr, Lee's house, | and obeying an impulse he turned into | the gate and was admitted. As Miss Tee entered the parlor he | vision, and was vexed to feel his heart | throb more quickly, and thrill with a | pleasure that be felt must be controlled. | She greeted him with that easy grace | which was one of her principal charms, “Ah, Mr. Shaw | I am so glad to sec {you, 1 had areal spell of ennui this | morning. This last novel 1s wretched, as both hero and heroine die in the most provoking way, and because of some overstrained idea of duty, and I was just wishing that some one would gome in and I could have a eheerful Jittle chat to dispel the gloomy impres. gion.” “Then I'm afraid,” smilingly, “you will not like your present visitor, I have not come in a very cheerful hu. mor; and, besides, I wish to ask you a favor.” A favor! That is too lovely. Cone sider it granted, even to the half of my kingdom. I am truly glad that you wish to ask a favor of me, because | did not think your opinion of me was sufficiently good for such a thing, Do sudden droop of wretchedly poor families in——street, | A look of consternation overspread her pretty face as he exclaimed: **Oh, indeed, you don’t mean for me How could I ever stand Ask me | The dreadful | odor! Ugh» | “Ask me almost any- | 1 men and women?-—the vith a shudder, thin ” A look of keen disappointment drift. | or ' 8 BING, She suddenly brightened and § said, 1] do intend to do someth Tf av £ 1 I have refused s 1 bb ‘that 1 n LY a German, attend given. ico Ball to be Iresses are for the pu good,’ 26 L383 “Awd what § pois ANG WIAL GIO8s HAL th x hid Haw, v ¥i 3 $ . : gsked Mr, S N Mhle ther Gullit Bor infiection to his vOi( 3 ' ob 3:1a ywwelieal blue vpget 11180 CIreLoie cally, ‘sleeveless collar, It will shirred and very bouffant draperies. will be beautiful, and Lo very nice “*Yes.' he said ing rated with irony but don’t 3 y add a few more yards of illu. some warm bodies for y fires, and a few yards he | usefulness; you thi ught 810 fla to make i we who have nd ribbon to decorate { ittie freezing i It would little really give me a “I could never consent to such a cruel * he sald, with an unpleas- I owe such a a8 gr as that, la. you an apolo disagreeable nerves yout were Good mon UnAWAre Hing idly behing al received { 1s i ¥ jell a8 11 | shock as ing for Misa then received | veral postal cards, wad + ind at tha art 1A if he was aslo ished at the juesiion, nore 80 at Lb effect which ineed on he was still 1 @ his discovered presence her, Her face and neck, rested gogen her g Curis mson, her ¢ ¥ 4 $n fr sist eX Pression ni { Ng little 1 Act sty steps he soon overtook ber. a few He lost in a bewildering surpise, BS ing upon a he was the last would have r Way, and J ked beside assed ner his sur- sudden to A his heart tiou. “Tell me, Miss Mabelle, he sad, | caused suffoca- bright beat suspicion almost to letters?’ “1 really can’t understand, Mr, Shaw, what right you have to ask such agques- tion. In all things spiritual 1 acknowl- edge vour right, but in this instance you forget yourself." “Tell me,” he with eager, regardless haste, are you Miss Sanks?”’ A sudden burst of tears was her only answer, as she hastily pulled | down ler veil and walked silently be- | side him, A calm of perfect joy descended upon | him as he realized the truth, He walk- | ed by her side until he reached her home, and then, without invitation, entered 1t with her, As they reached the parlor she tossed aside her hat and stood before him more like a discovered culprit than the little saint she had proved to be. There was a defiant sparkle in her eyo as she turned her flushed face to him, He took both of her hands in his, “30, Mabelle, Mabelle,’’ he mur mured, tenderly, “your heart is as beautiful as your face, though you have vailed your goodness under an exterior of frivolity, This is not the general rule of humanity.” : “But Mr, Shaw, ifit isa fault, it lies Baa, ‘Let not hand I thought there was a world of truth and force in it, and [bave only A now, Mr, Shaw,” she said, with a de- him, ‘if you are ¢ with my hands I will not tromble to hold them any longer, “No,” 10 against ostentatious charity? y nd miure giance al 101 he sald. gravely; return them. Mabelle! quickly =a tenderly, me the privilege of owning them alway 1 ¥ wish belle!’’ nd Ge n't you, daring’ She caught them quickly I AWAY. laugh; HAVE s your grace : in all good thing in all g viings, Pa ’ 7 v1 des ¢ you OF Mi i BANK S~O1 » é i 3 Ps i of the land, 1 Fiery with 4 LEA Wiki © hand $ he laid ber atiks—one for and him, t least had been cast i returned « Narcotios, Tat Talking the vad of poisons, tics 18 not confined to civilized peo- use of nar ¥ of narcotics thy hat they have several be- sides the coca, the principal substitute, for it being the thornapple. Of this the pre. hrows the drinker fruit is employed, and from it is pared a drink which t int p in which character was formerly y a4 deep siee visions of ost remarkable The in be Peruvian priests are apple in playing “4 upposed th é . tul-a ais Vat rrvemail $14 BLAS {Lal his food a of the thornappie. day's duration riunate whole {follows . robbed when the 3 laf i 5 uni man to die without fur wer, as the ther concern on in Siberia a common fan. t ) ; used as an Case Irunkard will tolerate. brings individual Tan toad stool yyy # natural : aa of t1 inn + Gigsposilions OL ae oa re markable degree, the talkative man be. ing unable to keep still, por iu ting. varisty and so wide of nar hat it would seem as if they were intended for some . the tendency thus far, it must be admitted, has been to thelr an render them of any benefit as a medicine. relsome man to refrain from fOgh the geographic distribution ies in one form or another, | good nse, though to sim A Avtesicn Wells in the Sahara, A correspondent of Ausland makes a communication regarding the present fition of the mn It such wells have been in operation there from a very remote period, and in the Algering eon artesian wells Sa- hara is well known thal ad with considerable success by the French, Between Biskra and Tugzzurt 334 old wells yielded In 1878 64,000 $y fre Aik 3 ¥rench ones 113,000 litres, The ginber of palms had increased from 850 000 to 517.000, that of other fruit trees from 40,000 to 90,000, the popula tion 6.672 to 12,827. In December, 1881, the yield of water from the wells had risen to 200,000 litres per minute, Put this success is confined to a nar row zone which water ean be reached within a depth of 100 metres, and éven here the borings that have been made since 1881 indicate a diminution in the yield of water, making it appear as if the limit of production of the under. ground reservoirs had almost beer reached. Many of the French borings, to are getting stopped up by sands, and are of too small ealibgr to be cleaned out and restored like the wider Arabic ones, It is believed that it will be ab entirely at your door,” Have L anything 0 about thesia: wider bo FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Prefer truth before of an opinion, Gratitude preserves o procures new, the maintaining d friendship and The man who knows All OWing oan. Have begins not the cloak to ran. HSehiool houses are Lhe of fortification The failure tunity of anoth Men mas # of one man 1s person } ho are over-anxi Base nat pen to thos There are more pitied tl 0 ares néver mis tis dry be stoned by ons The defects « | the face, grow A man must { work in order Thirst teaches : it drunkenness beior He who envies ut i his vi : ib e, and my Punctual 1, and its influe i One, {i He who bulide a | man’s advice, house, {4g iy A $3. 52 i Siu i wud wr Wi oy # raie « Immode | existence more § shortens remedies pro any and sulx at is permanent, 18 not tx wied ou the road, but al the end higher excellence t sity, be it in manners, dress, lit re or art, tho bears much rill, after ¢ y SOLS Whell Celg- f morals could discover pering themselves $o8 sand oavt ie i aye perie WON. | Grant graciously what you cannot | refuse safely, and conclliate those you cannot conquer, A kettledrum is so called because it very little to eal, Cheerfulness heaven under thrives. The will should always be Kept up to what the understanding shows as ne- cessary to be done. Japanese soldiers carry {ana weapons are probably only use Bottest of the fight. liches often take wings, and the feathers of those wings are to be seen on women's bonnets, 1t is better to do the most triding thing in the world than t i if an hour of a trifling thing, The truly great man underiakes a thing because it Is great; the fosl, be- cause he thinks it is easy. The excuse of a milkman: “Can't help it {tf the milk’ thin: cows are wadin’ about in the water.” Theres no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise: no one is Wiser than be who suspects he is 5 fool. | Men are often more guilty of reach. ry from weakness of ctaracier than from any settled design to betray, The Boston girls don’t say, “Ob, get out!” when they are provoked. They request you to Make your exii!™ If the ages of human beiugs were to be reckoned only by hours and days well spent, most of us would be in our infancy. It is wonderful ~wonderful and de- lightful, to think how long a good man’s benfiecence may be potent, even after his death, Nothing starties a man more than unexpectedly a dog's oold nose, unless 1t is ly meeting a man with a bill. without We would the nob i8 everything bg : |_Onous Those in the
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