NEWS OF T4i E WEEK —Henry W. Suze, the founder of the Bage Female College, in Cornell Uni- gersity, has given $50,000 to endow a professorship of ethics and moral phils osophy in that University, in memory of his late wife. - The President on the 21st appoint ed Richard PP. Hammond, Jr., to be Survevor General ot California, in place of William H. Brown, who has resigned to retire on January 1st, Mr. Ham- wond is a civil enginueer and only 25 years of age, «The Governor of New York on the 21st inted George lH. Sterling, of Brook to be Port Warden, in place HH. Lave aft, whose May 25th next. it General Shendan neral Baird will n a few days, by du tent, tO Inqu 8 es in Arizon Ary of Si mi the 21 preparatory anos uvires, hie Slraits of in certain other waters of and that vdden from Commi entranee to such itive orl 13 HEL pi raisins ang oilve . : y dorsed the Mexican lecig ommittee in Galves- 5 ised] On to the sum about Plainfield, New Jersey, lumber and six barns 1 y WSS © iestroyed the wk & Co. Silmnale ; : at EE ab Supreme Court of . JO8e1 shal for Western Missour Jaxter, U. 8, Atto i iH) nd Be ates, >t d Mrs, » White SL ss808 N, Grant, Jr. House on th TOONS, said he would + ment on the Hi the next move « whout ondemna met ot, 1 ew X ork, Lo d¢ sation of 1 fnment, citizens the Nat gra’ A on the 23d Vhere were about 600 delegates ail from the ring States and Territories, D LSE OC ion met St Tr ”y oo. LOU present, cattle.z ‘ Lolone «1 the convention de an address, to hie Supreme Court of the United i & case from California, on tl Zod rendered a decision in effect n in his capacity as such citizen, can lawfully warrant or order of » deserter from the Army. «="THe Congressional Comm Ordnance arrived in Pittsburg « he 25d, amd, escorted by a committee of the Chamber of Commerce, visited the principal manufacturing establishments there. The facilities possessed by the firms for the manufacture of steel for gun® and armor plating were set forth at the different establishinents, special stress being laid upon the superior qua~ ity of the products, owing to the use of natural gas as tuel, ~The total value of our exports of merchandise during the twelve months which ended October 31st, 1885, was $717,170 452, and during the preceeding twelve months $734,.827,793. The val- we of our imports of merchandise for phe twelve months which ended Octo- Per Slst, 1885, was $572.417.022, and during the preceeding twelve months $062,001 ,413, ~All the Californ'a reembers of Con- have started for Washington, ex- gopt Senator Miller, who is too unwell to travel. welt i8 understood in Oltawa that Sanford Fleming, George Stephen and D. A. Smith will be knaghted “for ser. vices in connection with the construc. son" of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, Small houses in a square Cypress, Daubigny la " olicer or mil United od in the United States last month was 25,918, against 32,007 dare —It is said at the Navy Department Atlanta will be ready to receive their officers and crews about the first of be ready for sea service before the end | —Jolin Barclay and William Parsons Huntington, Penna., on the 21st, through careless handling the FOr Was lad and the ball entered Barkley’s abdomen, a wound ! of which ng he died on the 251. maki of two days the coasts of York, In the state heavy snow fell, ng the Lehigh atlroads, in the being two feet, ell at Westminster, } nches of snow Maryland. 24th appoint- Survey The Presidenton the take To 3 Richard D. | I Lastoms at ster Der Lot ary of ANC 14 St 1 McCormack Seer tions made, were ani . +3 44531 ¥¥s Liat 5 > 3% — Vice Preside: $ t Hes ne 1a is unwell for G0 years of age, President's deat! Win city, in tion and elsewhers f 8011 his Ww £4: § net i the hould attend ident has raer annound , esident, and direct: » half-masted on all ings of the United States ive Dpartme Ue Gay Of the public and th Wash thie i ral bait funerai. ord got the 25th, a fire occurred in Metropolitan Hotel In St. Louis, A woman jumped from a third-story window and died in a few minutes, ly suffocated and seriously burned, —A dispatch from Montreal there is to be another large mass meets ing at St. Jerome to discuss the Riel question. Several prominent politicians from Montreal will make addresses, Le Trappeur Snowshoe Club has passed resolutions condemumng the action of | the Government, 1), 1. Murphy, of Pennsylvania, has been appointed Chief Clerk of the Pen sion Bureau, He is promoted from Chief of the Board of Baview, Hon, Edward Blake, leader of the Canadian opposition, is expected to re- turn to Canada next month, his health being greatly improved, save sb AMAIA IRSA «In the United States tin has been found in eight States, but in slight pay- ing quantities, except in the Virginia mines. «From 1384 to 1831 edicts as to dress were issued at Berlin, They forbade women without rank to wear milk dresses, Entire families are flesing from Sait Lake City, being driven out by A Path Leads all the Way, I sit before my door at eve, And looking westward slyly say, Should I these garden precincts leave And cross the meadows sweet with dew, And climb the hills so deeply blue, And follow still the setting day -— Bil] other gardens 1 should find, And other meadows dewy sweet, And still the snmmer roads would wind, And still the patient earth would lead Herselt unto my patient leet. The rivers hide ‘neath many a bridge, The better pleased they greet the day; There's guidance o'er the roughest ridge; Ave, though ‘tis thousand miles Or more To where she sits within the door, There is a path leads all the way. (1 Betwixt Thou seem st to less In dusk and sti Thy futile hinting yet i I'hiere ts a path that leads the wayl blessed land of the dear earth, wile we stray, great | my lest is ; : still, though n thy pess Lor is 4 BWeet; And at its end she sits the With eves With lip While tl pay Riri ugg SIN I BEFORE THE DUEL. In societ; nsed to speak of him “that bhandsom Signolles,” His utron J os as title was Vis¢ IRON, Orphan and master of a large | natural grace, reserve Drave the me It was BWOrds al “When 1 BAY, “1 choose of husbands, after the am at Lorton ue oe vic Will glaring s other reg g 4 at once! The v Claimed: MOC ‘“Take care, sir; you may compel me to violate politeness The stranger uttered only one word one filthy word, that resounded from end of the cale, and made one in the house start as if they had been set In motion by a spring, All who had ther taroed looked round: all the rest raised their heads; three waiters simultaneously whirl npon their heels hike so many tops; one every backs te and twisted themselves completel abont, as if they wore two puppets pulled by one string, There was a great silence, sudden sound clacked to the air, The viscount had slapped his adversary’s face, Everybody jumped up to inter fere, Cards were exchanged, After the viscount returned home that night he began to walk up and down his room with great, quick strides, He exoited to think about auything., One solitary idea kept hov- ering in his mind—a doel—although Then a any special emotion, He had done just He would be spoken of, wonid be approved, wonid be congratalated, He repeated aloud, speaking as men “What a brute that man isl” Then he sat down and began to think. onds in the morning, oslebrated and most dignified men of the Marquis de Ia Tonr Noire and Ool, newspapers. fe suddenly discovered that he was thirsty, aud be drank three again, Ho felt fall of energy. anything and everything, and by insist. ing upon rigorous and dangerous condi. tions —hy demanding a serious, very serious, terrible duel, his would be probably seared and make fogies, Po wok up the man's oard which he had drawn out of his as he en. tered, and had flung on the table; and he read it over and over again, as he had already read it in the cafe; with a glance~-and as he had read it in the carringe by every passing gaslight, “Gronars Lamm, 51 Rae Moncey.” Nothing more, He examined the letters of this name, of vague significance, George Lamil? Who was the fellow? What did he do? What did he stare at the woman in that | way for? Wasn't it disgusting to think | that a stranger, a man nobody knew life in that way, just by taking a notion {to fix his eyes insolenily | woman's face, And the | peated again aloud: “What a brute that man isl” { less, thinking, keeping his eyes still | fixed the ecard. A rage | within him against that bit of paper {a fury of hate mingled with a strange i sense of uneasipess, It | mess, all this affair! He seized an open penknife lying beside him, and jabbed it into the milidle of the printed name, as if he were stabbing someb he would have to swords or pistols—{for himself ba With swords be but by choosing able 4 i rithdrawing the chailer | seldom that a duel with ow i Pris upon Was a stupid Bhould he the party in- would run less BO he choose | considered tO sulted, t i TieK ; hie migh i Pad 10 rds is fatal, generally pre- ibatant irom fencing at nH recipr o Loe bisde oan {1 PIBlOIs trys] f PiRAARET When in the hie he We fy WO oor ul at « him like a ifter to-morrow, at this very 1A 1 shall be dead! began to thump again, Ow i person here i if Ss What! bere 1 i felt that 1 four hours I will be dead, with eyes gold, inanimate, gone from the world of the living.” He turned to look at the bed; and he distinetiy saw himself lying there under the very same covers he had just lett, His face bad face; his bands had “The day after to-morr shall, perhaps, be dead. 3’ Bore. myself; belore glans wi int bed he hollowness of a dead | the limpuness of Then he became afraid of his bed; nd, in order to escape it, he went into | his smokingroom., He took a cigar | nd began to | walk up and dowa apmin. He felt cold, he started to ring the bell in order to | awaken his valet-de-chamber; but rtop- raised to grasp the bell-word, “That man would afrasd.” And he did not ring. fire himsell, seo that 1 am | He made ths His hands shook a little, touched anything. His mind wandered, brusque, palatal; a sort of drunkenness lowing liquor, And over and over again he kept “What shall [ do? Whats going to beconio of ma?’ His whole body shuddered with spas. modie quiverings; he rose, and going to the window, drew aside the curtains, The dawn was breaking--a summer dawn, ‘I'he rosy sky made rosy the city, the roofs aud the walle, A great glow of softs light enveloped the awak- ening oity, like the oaress of the smn. rise; and with its coming there passed into the viscount's heart a of hope, morty, quick, bratail What & fool was to have thus allowed himself to be worried by fear beiore anything at all had even been decided-—before his sec- would have to fight at all, He made his toilet, dressed and walked out with a firm step. Ar he went along, he kept repeating to himself; “I must be energetio, very ensrgetie, I must prove that 1 am not a bit afraid,” His witnesses, the marquis and the colonel, put themselves at his disposal; | and after a hearty shske-hands, they began to disenss the condifions, The colonel asked: “Do you insist upon a serious duel?” The viscount! replied: * Vary serious,” The "wy ~ marquis asked: m wish pistols?” "0 18, “Well, we leave you free to regulate the rest.” | TT Jerky VOI06: 9h ! U'wenty visconnt articulated, to fire at the wo stead of ox PRCOS to fire on the rise, i Balls to be other be I fhe tiniant exchanged until « " serious y wonnded, oionel exclaimed very o© two men § he found himsel! felt as if he were a i858 servant had #. he sat down at his ta letters, Alter having head of a blank sheet of not words “This $ testament.” he is my Inst rose to his aundden atart and walked incapable of putting two ideas together, f making soy resciution, or about anything whatsoever. 80, he was going to fight! wo getting out of it the matter with him? He wished to fight; he had the firma intention of he had resolved upon it; and wvertheloss he clearly felt, mn spite of his utmost determination, in spite of the utmost tension of his will, that he desding There was now] What Was enable him to go as far as the He tried to picture his own attitude From time to time his teeth ohattered He wanted to up Chateauvillard’s Then he naked himself: my adversary frequent the Is he kuown? Is read, and took Code du Doel, “Poon He remembered Baron book on the expert pistol shots, and he went through it from one end to the other. Goorges Lomil's nume was not mentions in it, was not a good sho, he would never have ben so prompt! to accept a duel under such fatal oonditions, with so dangerous a weapon, pad before a little round table on which lay one of Gostinne Ronette's well. know pistol cases. He took ont one of the pistols, placed himself in the posi. tion of a man about to fire, and raised his arm, Bat be trembled from head quisurad aud, poi Then he said to himself: it is simply impossible, 1 shall never be ble jo tas I am now.” barrel, into of laughter at the clubs, of the eon. tempt that women can show, of alln. he would receive from cowards, Btill he stared at the weapon, and, tiny red flame. The piso! had re- forgetiulness, And the discovery filled him with a confused snd inexplicable 10¥ If he eonld pot maintain before the other man, the cool and dignified de- portment which beliooves him, then he would be ruined forever, He would be stained, branded with the stamp of infamy, driven out of soci ty! Aud that ne would not hig enoug De felt certain I since AVE BiLO8 { never for, sud- } as wide as he s of the pistol calm, fearless attitude able to hb : he knew it; of it, Yel was brave he wanted to fight! But completed Ye ue the halfshape : itself in his mind deuly opening oould, he thru ’ in, back nroat, the tri to his very eer, bh the and pulled startled ran ia, he Vaio report of Lis A gush of master Iyi bis back, dead, spattered over the whi ie, and formed Lmmediately uuderneal > W veRlameni. Mi On he vived faster and “i Up door f desired offi 1a iD vind viosely money it . he axked Was written 16 same til had read wh margin of the ord y, I have not,” I cannot make 1t read it for me?” Ire young postmaster send you 83 a id a dos (iancing at the bashial girl he smd: “Now 1 have paid you money and I suppose you wal kisses,” Yeu," she said, “if he has sent me "” ashe % id » Ka road as follows: “i si Kissos,” i 3 the the ¢ it the It is hardly necessary to say that the at that, and maiden, for she went out of the office before. After she arrived home she remarked “Eh, mother, but this postoffioe system of ou at thing. every year, new feature ad fed seems to Jimmy sent me a dozen, It me iweniy. a —————— = Sad-Meoed Humorists, A glance at Bil Arp’s melancholy The Artemus Ward always seemed to be on the verge this way nearly every winter, is the looking tourist ever seeu 10 this section, has just seated himself on a tack, Petroleum V. Nashy looks figh mad sll the time, Mark Twain wears ine a bad boy who has been
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