NEWSOF THE WEEK. —Mrs, Sarah Hicks, a schoo! teacher n Brooklyn, committed suicide on the th, —Ewell Lauter was fatally shot while resisting arrest, by a deputy marshal named Cunningham, In Wil Hamstown, Kentucky, on the afternoon of the 12th, Edward Hoag, of Denver, Colorado, went to Owensburg, Ken- tucky. two months ago to maary Miss Ella Brown. Two days before the ceremony Hoag disappeared myste- riously. On the 15th his remains were found four miles from the town. He had over $300 in his possession when last seen, and it 1s thought he was murdered for his money, In a saloon in Walince, Kansas, on the evening of the 12th, an itinerant sewing machine mender attempted to make **Tom?" Dunn, a local *‘tough,’ dance. Dunn refused to dance, when the sewing machine man commenced firing his re- volver, Dunn then shot him dead, Dunn was arrested, but allowed the liberty of streets pending the Coroner's inquest. Herman Hochkoch was maur- dered at the Yenk Hotel in Milwau- kee, Wisconsin, early on the morning of the 13th, He was a rallway laborer and arrived there on the 12th, having about $100, Robbery is supposed to have been the motive of the crime. A despatch from Corona, Colorado, says Vorce, the desperado, was not wounded, and after killing Hollingsworth mounted his horse and escaped. --The municipal election in Boston was held on the 13th and brought out 51,487 votes, the largest number in any local election since 1853. O’Brien, Democrat, was re-elected Mayor, he receiving 206,621 votes to 24.866 for Hart, Republican and Independent. **The I.abor vote failed to material- ize.” The Republicans gained two Aldermen, the Board standing eight Republicans to four Democrats. Com- mon Couneil stands 43 Democrats to 29 Republicans, the same as last year. License was carried by a majority of 8483. Local elections were 2iso beld in Lowell, Salem, Lynn, Worcester and Waterbury. All were carrled by the Republicans, and all voted for li- cense. The local election in Charles- ton, South Carolina, on the 13th, re. sulted in the success of the Demo cratic ticket. The official returns of the vote of Dakota on division show that in North Dakota the majority against division is exactly ten theous- and; in South Dakota the majority for division is 13.038, —A despatch from Brooklyn says that as an engine and siz dirt cars were crossing the trestlework over Gowanus Bay, and Thirty-sixth streets, on the morn- way, and the cars, upon which were a number of workmen, were thrown into the water, Four of the men were badly Lruised, but all escaped alive. ~A [re occurred in the new rour- story flat house at Sth avenue and 128th street, New York, on the afters noon of the 12th, and practically ruined the building and the funiture of the eleven families occupying it. The loss to the tenants is placed at about §35,- 000, There were many DAITOW C3Capes from suffocation, bapking irm of H. 8, Ives & Co., was arresied in New York, on the 18th, oa a4 warrant, which was jssped on a charge of grand larceny made by Julius Dexter, President of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad. He tion. Ives sald he was not guilty. ~Henry Fawcett and his wife, liv- ing near Point Pleasant, West Vir- ginia, went to church om the 11th, leaving their three children, the eldest being but five years old, locked up at home.” When the parents returned they found the bouse in ashes and the chil- dren burned to death, ~—While haudling & supposed un- loaded gun, on the 12th, William Young, of Matinicus Island, Maine, shot and fatally wounded his brother in<iaw, George G. Huat. Samuel Shoe maker was crushed to death by a fall of earth at the East Harrisburg Brick Works, in *larrisburg, Pa. on the 13th, The canning and packing mills of the Lefiin Powder Works a few miles from Wilkesbarre, were biown up on the af- ternoon of the 13th. Louis Learch, an old employee, was fatally injured. About & ton of pewder was blown up. The mud drum of the battery of boilers in Bwift’s Iron and Steel Works in Newport, Kentucky, exploded early on the morning of the 13th, wrecking the bmilding, John Smith, the only em- ploye present, had a leg broken. The works will close for repairs, throwing 300 men out of employment, ~The Senate Finace Committee on the 13th, held its first meeting and ordered a favorable report on the Mor rill bill to refund to the States, the di- rect taxes impesed by the act of 1861. The ate ja aboet $15,000,000, It is the bill passed by the Senate last scasion, ~-By a collision between two ecar- riages in Wichita, Kansas, on th evens ing of the 12th, a man named Johnson was killed and three women were dan gerously if not fatally injured. ~A freight train on tho Mine Hill branch of Philadelphia and Head. ing Railroad broke loose at Thomas. ton, Peuna., on. the 13th, owing to the failure of the brakes and dashod down the steep At Minersville it eol- lided with a coal train, Erginee. Major in jonmping was huiled down an embankment aud badly injured, Au- gust Christ, a telegraph rator, who Was on the on a brid Lindsay, at Moun’ Sterling, Kentucky, nl on the a of the 15th, Sie ouing Boma Loy mn A 9 13-year-old son of the propeietor, ~Frank Laybourne, a left Springlleld, Ohio, on the SOD. aces despatch says it has since been learned that he forged 5 number of notes upon which he secured money. The amount known reaches about $1200. 1t is thought Lie Las forged notes of farmers to a considerabie extent, A despatch from Toronto, Canada, says the post-office in the village was robbed, early on the morning of the 10th, of $11,C00 in cash, $500 in stamps and over $10,000 in notes and securi- ties. The registered letters were also taken. Six hundred dollars’ worth of Botetourt county bonds were stolen from the safe of the County Treasurer, in Fincastle, Virginia, on the evening of the 12th. —Mr, Crain, of Texas, Intends to introduce a bill in the House to make the term of Congress begin on the 1st of January and terminate on the 81st of December two years afterward, and to have Congress meet two months after the election of Representatives, instead of waiting thirteen months, as at present, —On the evening of the 14th three boys jumped on a cable car in Cincin- nati to steal a ride, The conductor chased them off, but one in getiting off fell under the wheels and was killed, —Sands W, Hopkins, 28 years old, died on the morning of the 14th in Kansas City, Missourl, from the effects of laudanum swallowed the night be- fore, He inherited a large fortune some years ago, but spent it riotously. In 1882, while handling a shotgun, it went off accidentally, killing his wife, This increased his tendency to dissipa- tion. He had been dnnking heavily for several days before be committed suicide. A stranger who registered in Raffer’s Hotel, at Loulsville, on the Sth, as **T. A. Burchaum, St. Louls,*’ committed suicide on the evening of the 13th, While at the hotel he received two letters from B8t. Louis, one of them reading: **Theo. Burchman: Come at once. Ma Is sick, Settled at M. W. Do ail I can for you, Emile.” hver P, Cardwell, a deserter from the U. 8. Army, fell desd In one of the streets of Indianapolis, on the 18th, from the effects of a dose of strychnine taken with suleldal intent. Pe be- lieved oflicers were iu pursuit, --The boller of a sawmill owned and operated by Harlow Brothers, near Sey- mour., Indiana, exploded on the 13th, Killing William and Henry Harlow. The boiler was worn out. The boller in the sawmill of Joseph Lindsay, in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, exploded on the 14th, killing W. 1. Stevenson and severely injuring Benjamin Lind- say. The boiler, weighing about 8000 pounds, was thrown a distance of 125 yards, The cause of the explosion was low water in the boiler, —T. R. Renfroe shot and killed S. | W. Begley, in Pineville, Kentucky, on the 13th. Renfroe’s son had snapped a toy pistol in Begley’s face, and b, Lim pushed off the sidewalk, The bo: then struck Begley with a rock, and was pushed or slapped again. ‘be boy tien told his father, The latter hunted up Begley and a quarrel resulted, A prize fight was to have taken place In the saloon of Peter Reich, in Hessville, In- diana, on the evening of the 13th, but when everything was in readiness Claude Kimball, a cowboy just from the West, with a revolver in each hand, ran amuck through the crowd. Belch was mortally woundod, Kimball fled to the wouds., Ho had bees drunk and cbstreperous easly in the evening and was put nut of the saloon, Thomas Powell keeps a general store {n the vi j lage of Eustern Kentucky Junction, | pear Kilgore, Kentucky. On the even- ing of the 13th, robbers entered his | place, strangled his sister to death, bound and gagged tho brother gud went off with several hundred dollars in money and a guantity of goods, The reapaing of Charles Fry were found banging from a tree at Natrona, Penna, on the morning of the 14th Foul play fs suspected and the Coroner is mak:og un investigation. * — While crossing the Mmssouri river twenty miles below Dismarcik, Dakotas, on the avéning of the 13th, Charles Whalen and bis wife and daughter were drowned. They lost the road and the team passed so near a large air hole that the ice broke and the animai and people ware lost, While Victor Simis, aged 16 years, was cartying a keg of powder from an excavation in Cincinnati, where work- men nad just fOnished preparing a blast, fo a shed near by, an explosion occurred. The boy was terribly burned. He can give no reason for the explosion, and declares that he was not smoking at the time, — Luella North 4 years old, war burned to death in Cincinnati, on the 14th. Her clothes caught fire from a stove, ~—A traln of empty cosl cars were wrecked near Ashley, Pennu., on the 14th. Jobn Morrisey, brakeman, was fatally injured. An express train on the New Jersey Central Railroad jumped the track near White Haven, Peuna.. on the 14th. The passengers were badly shaken up, but none of them were Injured, ~The steamer Atias, at New York, on ihe 15th from the West Indies, brings newe of a terrible hurricane which swept over Savaullla during the first three days of November, de- stroying a great amount of property. ~Five children named Newell, whose aves ranged from 5 to 12 years, died of diphtheria within five days at the home of their parents in Rockland Conaty, New York. The funerals were held on fiye consecutive days. ~=Aunie Burke, 22 years old, daugh- ter of William Burke, a gardener, in Toronto, has confessed to poisoning r, who died on the 13th, She George Brown, a bartender, drew a revolver. After exchanging seveial shots with Dinnie, Brown was fatally wounded, Dionie escaped injury and disappeared. The remains of George Dougherty, a farmer, were found in the woods near Ogden’s Landing, Kon- tucky, on the 15th. He had been at work on a rallroad, and, after being paid off and selling a wagon and team, bad §500 in his possession. In Macon, Georgia, on the 156th, Woolfolk was found guilty of murder by a jury, He was sentenced to be hanged on Febru- ary 10th, In his statement before sentence he aseerted his innocence and said the witnesses had sworn falsely, ~A heavy wind prevailed at Cre scent, a new town ten miles north of Los Angeles, California, on the 14th, and a hotel, in which were sixteen in- mates, was blown down, Mrs, Clem- entina Arnold and her ten-year-old daughter were killed. Ali the others were badiy hurt. ~James Rankin, a young farmer, living near Broken Bow, Nebraska, started out for a bunt on December 10th, in 8 sleigh. When Le reached the woods his double-barrelled shot gun shpped off the seat, and in als tempting to draw it towards bim the hammer caught and both loads were discharged into his heart. The re- mains were discovered on the 14th. **His right hand still held the reins firmly, and the horses were standing at the edgeof a Ceep ravine, They had been without food since the accident occurred, and had gnawed the sleigh- tongue nearly through.” ~ Advices just received from Jame anive, in the southern part of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, state that there was a riot during the elections on the 11th. One of the parties opened the polls, when the other began the dght. At each of the polis there was a pitched battle, and the ballot boxes were destroyed, Eight men were killed and over forty wounded. The result 1s that the old Mayor will hold over for another term, - An old unsatisfied mortgage, dated 1840, has been found, which, it is sta ted, effects the title to about one-sixth of the real estate in Shamokin, Penna. The amount of the mortgage was orig. finally $12 000, The Sheriff has of- Beally notified the landholders that he will sell the property December 30, -The stage running between Little Rock and Carralton, Arkansas, was robbed on its outward trip. near the half way station, on the 14th, by three men, who appeared suddenly from a thick wood, Six hundred dollars and two gold watches were taken from the four occupants, ~A despatch from EL Dorado, Kan- sas, says that *‘from cgriain gentlemen who are well posted,’ 1t is learned that there 18 being secretly organized a scheme 0 make a raid on Oklahoma In the early spring. The movement extends over two or thres States, They say that 100,000 men will go into the territory at a given date, and that the Government has not enough troops to keep them out. - Frank Johnezon, colored, was placed in jail In New Castle, Delaware, on the 16th, on the charge of causing the death of George Williams, also colored, The met: bad a fight, and it is said Johnson hit Williams with a club, The body of fieorge Green was found suspended from the limb of a tree several miles from Flemington, Dakota, on the 13th, “Green was & notorious cattle thief for years, but by bis keenness had escaped the weéahes of the law. Every one knew he wae guilty, but could not eon- viet him legally.” He was in custody at the time, but was captured by un- known men and lynched, At Canton, Obio, on the morning of the i6in, Charles Thomas stabbed to death his nizce, Miss Briggs, and seversly cut his sister-in-law, Mis, Briggs. The affair grew oul of a family quarrel. —Thurston ice was banged at Bak. ersfield, California, on the 16th, for the murder of Jobn Smith, in 1883, Ches- er Bellows was hanged at Charlies City, lowa, on the 16th. He declared fils 1miscence on the scaffold, ~Mrs. Marie Kather was burned to death in Topeka, Kansas, on the even ing of the 13th. while attempting to refill 2n ofl lamp, ~-1t 18 stated that there bas been an engageinenl baiween the Mexican troops, under General Soleros, and sev- eral of Bernal’s band of outlaws, in which 8 number were wounded on both rides, and one of the band was mass prisoner. The prisoner refusel t< tell the hiding place of Bernal, and was tied to a tree and hot. A young Mexican woman, who had been carried off by Bernal after sacking the town of Otaer, was rescued, A telegram from Nogales, Arizopa, says it has been learned that a scouting party sent to Cienja in search of the Bernal bandits, found three men, surposed to belong to that Land, near Chacala, and shot them. -The electric light stalion at West Chester, Chester County, Penna, was demolished on the afternoon of the 16th by the explosion of a boiier. Five persons were killed, among them T, Walter. Embree, superintendent of the works, and a girl who was struck by a fiyiug plank while passing by, D. O. Taylor, Court Clerk, who was seen in the burlding shortly before the explosion, is missing, Five men were injured, two, nawed William Allison and Edward Schofield, perhaps fatally, The eause of the explosion is unknown, The loss ou property is estimated at $25,000. ~A collision occurred on the evening of the 16th between the Old Dominion steamship Breakwater and the Erle Railway ferry boat Pavonia, on the Hudson River, st New York, The ferry bos! was badly damaged, Frank Moriarty, ex-Assemblyman David Henry and Rishan Coughlin, passen- ~Two freight trains collided near y BENATE, In the U. 8. Seuna‘s on the 12th the | stand:og and select committees were | constitused, No fewer than 694 bills! and resolutions wers introducs!, the | largest number ever offered in one day in that body. Among them were bills by Mr. Edmunds for the e:ablishment of a postu] telegraph, by Mr. Cimeron, to subsidize ourgmerchant mariae; by Mr, Dolph to provide for ses cossy de- fences; by Mr, Beck, to issue coin cer- tificates 1n lieu of legal tander and na- tional bank notes of smal! dsaomina. tions; by My, Aldnich, to apply the Treasury surplus to the purchase of United States bonds, or payment of interest on the pudlic debt; Mr. Far- well to perpetuate the national bank- ing system; by Messrs, Mitchell and Merrill, to reguiate emigration, and by Mr. Manderson, granting a pension to évery incapacitated soldier and sailor and to dependent relatives of d7censed soldiers and sailors, Aflwer an exec- utive session the Senate adjourned. In the U, b. Senate, on the 13th, bills wers introduced by Mr, Ingalls, oremo ve Lhe lumitation in the pay- ment of arrears of pensions; by Mr. Cullom, to amend the Inter-State Com- merce Act, establish a postal tei | egraph, and extend the pension laws | to steamboat men and others acting under U B, officers: by Mr. Frye, *to promote the political progress and com- mercial prosperity of the American na- tion;”’ by Mr. Reagan, to allow the purchase and registry of foreign built | ghips by American citizens, Mr, Saw- i yer moved to reconsider the adoption | on Monday of a resolution creating a | special Committe on Postal Telegraphy, | He desired to have the subject left Lo | the Post-office Committes, which had | reported bills in the Forty-eighth and | Forty-ninth Congresses. The motion | was laid over fur the present. Mr. | Platt offered a resclution, which was | referred, providing that hereafter the | Senate shall consider and act upon | treaties and Executive nominstions in | ops session, unless otherwise ordered, | { for fortifications and othersea coast de- | fences, $126,000,000 to be available as recom- ~§21.500.000 for the first two years | and $9,000,000 for each of the eleven | years thereafter until the whole | amount was expended, “This was the | only course by which a speedy con- | struction of saa coast fortifications | could be secured on any general and i sultalide plan.” On his motion the bill | was reterred to the Committe on Coast | Line Defences, and the Senate ad. | journed, In the U, 8, Renate, on the 14th, } Mr. Hoar presented the unanimous | report of the Commities on Privi- | leges and Elections in the West Vir- | ginia case, declaring Charles J. Faulk | ner duly elected and entitled to the | seal. The report was agreed to, and | Mr. Faulkner sworn in, Mr, George | introduced a Lill to protect innocent | purchasers of patented articles, and Mr. Platt moved its reference to the Commitiee on Patents, not the Judi ciary Commitiee, as proposed by its author. Mr. Platt’s motion was agreed | to—40 to 25. The bili to regulate im- | migration introduced by Mr. Morrill, was taken up, and thal gentleman spoke in auvocacy of the measure. It | was then referred to the Commitiee on | Foreign Reiations, After an execu | tive session the Senale adjourned, i Ia the United States Senate on the 15th Mr. Dolph, from the Commerce | Committes, reported a bill to amend the act of 1880 in regard to the Imwe- | diats transportation of duiiable geods, | Bilis were introduced br Mr, Call to! prohibit United States Courts from | authorizing tue borrowing of money by receivers of railroad and other corporations lLeyond the amwoant of toeir pet annual incoms; also, to pro- hibit the appointment of such re- ceivers without endencs of the finan. cial condition of the company. Mr, Stewart spoke mn advocacy of his hill to provide for the irsue of coin certifi- cates for circulation as raoney. When he Lad finished the bill wes referred | to the Commitlee on Finance, After an executive session the Senate ad- journed, In the U. 8. House of Representa- tives on the 19th » concurrent resolu- tion was adopted proviiing for & hol. day recess from December 22 to Jan- uary 4th. Mr. Townshend, of lilinois, offered a resolution providing that Monday next shall be devoted to the introduction and reference of bills and resolutions. After debate it was laid over, at Mr. Randall's suggestion, until Monday, when, he understood, the Committee on Rules would be an- nounced. A resolution was adopted expressing the vegret of the House at the death of Representsative-elect Roiw ertson, of Louisiana,, The House then adjourned. HOURE, In the House on the 12th, Mr. Springer presented the petition of Owen GG. Chase, who vialms to be elected Délegate from the ‘Territory of Clmarron,” commonly known as the “Pablic Land Strip.*’ and also as “No Man's Land.” Mr. Springer also of- fered a resolution referring the peti- tion to the Committee on elections when appointed. and meantime giving Mr. Chase the privilege of the floor. The petition. and resolution were lzid on the table. The Speaker vacated the chair and requested the House to ap- polos the Comuuttee on Elections. Ad- journed. In the House, on the 13th, Speaker Carlisle called Mr, Mills, of Texas, to the chat. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, then offered a resolution, which was unanimously adopted, declari the Committee on Elections constituted as | follows: Messrs, tell the Weather, On a dark, stormy day the ery of the sea-gull as it flies about over the angry waves enhances the grandeur aud wild- ro% of the scene. Few can mistake the movements of the bold, daring bird; and considering its knowing and clever nature, it is a matter of surprise that the word *‘gull”’ should have been eme ployed so long to express stupidity, The sea-gull has from time linmortal been regarded as furnishing an indica- tion of tis weather, and un old plece of weather lore informs us that rain and high winds fromthe south-south west follow the appearances of sea-gulls, Ir Scotland there 12 a popular notion that the appearance of this bird “in the fields means a scutheast storm; when it is over they go back to the beach,” And, according to a well-known Scotch rhyme : eon gull, seagull, zit on fhe sand, : It's never good weather when you're on the land. For many miles, writes Mr. Wood, this bird will *‘foliow boats so closely that the very sparkle of its eyes is plain. ly visible as it twists its wide-looking head from side to side while watching the vovagers, On many of our coasis my the cormorant, us Llack-feathered bird with green eyes, As far back as the this bird was looked upon as a weather prophet : be seen When crying cormorants forsake the sea, ¥ to the ocast wend thelr way When watchful watery stand And strety herons leave thelr The gave wet weather may be expected. proverbial voracity of this bird rise to a man of large appetite being likened to it, a sense in which Shakes- peare uses the wordy as “Love's Labor Lost” (i. 1). Cormorant ing time,” Formerly the cormorant was much emploved in this country for catching fish, a practice «ll kept up in Chiva, James I., it may be remem- bered, made ng with cormorants ¢ fashionable amusement, Then the common tern, or sea swallow, with its rapid, darting flight, It was sop. i fishermen to be welcome harbinger of good It ANG DOLCE US apbedtasnce was similarly . . y the sages of the Norse ae sn f Vigan LLCS in 1¢ posed by our wie CK, he auk *‘a bird Penna { never wander 1 i observed by seamen beyond soundings, appearance they dire being assured that mote,” But fore: t that warned it speaks of io A L their measures, d is not very re- among the birds 9 Oi Lhe sallor the n their being seen thousand untired probably originated | land, apparently and seldom resting or eating. Fishermen in the English channel east wind is caused by the flight of these "Thus Buckland, in his “Curios ities of Natural History,” tells us how an old fisherinan one day said to him: I think no good of them. There's al a they come, 1 beard em once one dark night last win- They came o'er our beads all of 2 ‘ewe, ewe,’ and the men in the boat wished to go back, It came on to rain and blow and was an awful night, and sure enough, morning a boat was upset and seven poor fellows drowned, 1 knew what mg-billed curlews, but I never like to bear them.” says that a sea-bird called the lavy was thought to tndicate ithe weather by its mictions, and was consequently careful- ly watched by Hebrides Islunders, A bird which has from time immem- orial been regarded by the seafaring community with superstitious rever- ence and fondness is the albatross, It is remarkabie for the extent of its migra- tions, and indeed, writes Mr, Jones in hia “Ciedulities Past and Present.” “It may also be said to pass, from pole to pois, aad is seen at a greater distance from: land than any other bird.” Hence, it has generally been regarded as a favorable omen, and Coleridge, in his “Ancient Mariner,” thus aliudes to it: At length did cross and aibatross, Through the fog it came, As if it had been a Christian soul, We hadled it in God's name. And a good south wind sprung up behing The albatross did follow, Few sailors, therefore, will allow an albatross to be killed for fear of ill-luck, Again, the Osprey, which frequents in such numbers the North American shores, is always hailed by the fisher- men with delight, as being the harbin- ger of success, Wilson, the great Amer- ican ornithologist, refers to this bird in his well-knoren “*Fisherisan’s Hymn ; The osprey sls apove the ground, The geese are gone, the gulls are flying The herring shoals swarm thick around, The nets are lnwnched, the boats are plying | Yo, yo, my hearts | Let's sock the deep, Raise high the song, and cheerily wish her, £111 me the bending net we sweep, God bless the fish-bawk and the fisher! It was also popularly nicknamed the sea-eagle, and, In addition to having a destructive power of devouring fish, was supposed formerly to have a fasci- nating influence, both of which quali- ties are probably referred to by Shakes. are in “Coriclanus,”” “I think he'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature,” Among other birds associated with the sea may be mentioned the Kingfisher, it having Leen a popular belief that dur- ing the days thid bird was engaged in hatching her eggs the sea remained so calm that the sailor might venture upon it without running the risk of storm or tempest, Hence this period was known as the “halcyon days,’ a belie” to which Dryden thus refers Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be As baleyons brooding on a winter's sen. Curious to say, swallows, which are unlucky at sea. Mr. in his i § mind when he represented Scarus as saying, in “Antony and Cleopatra : Fwailows have built In Cleopatra's sails their vests: the Bare Fay they kon pot-they cannot toli grimly, And dare not speak thelr knowledge Similarly, the raven is digliked by sailors, as is also the crow, and wany stories are related of their omin character. Occasionally they are pro- pitiated, and in China, when crows perch on the mast, crumbs ef bread are thrown to them in order to secure favorable winds, Buch are some of the birds associated with the sea: from most of which omens for good or evil have been derived, Beliefs of this kind re- mind us of similar ones credited by Greek mariners more than two thou- sand years ago, for Aristophanes left on 1ecord how- JUN As From birds in saflin men instroctions tae, Now lie in port, now sald and profit mak -_ Thebes at Sunrise, One of the incidents of the tonr i8 a visit to Thebes at sunrise, The vocal Memnon will not be heard unless a small Arab is Wddden, in advance, in a break in the back of the Colossus, and instructed to pound with a bit of The- ban debris upon 8 sonorous stone ine corporeted between the glant shoul ders, But assuredly a sunrise visit to Thebes is well worth an effort, It is four miles from the Fille to the Ras seum. The ride Is acroes ths piain, through dew-covered fields to tix colossi, and then a turn is made north- ward, The sounds of the morning startle one as though never heard be- fore. Something seems to be impend- Ing. How black and chill the eole ook. Everything, evening thedonkey- boy, is now quiet. The HRamesseurn is reached, and you stand ir the great hall of columuns, frightened at their stalely vs fe Ti oe “aE The temples are almost as dark as night, and you shrink from the thought of climbing alone up one the great diner of “ai say nothing of going down to the “*boly of where the king was accus tomed to consult the in closest secrecy. No light enters except from the broken roof and the loopholes in the walls, Suddenly a ray pierces the gloom. The glant columas in unison cast their long shadows toward the necropolis, upon one ano her asd upon the neighboring walls. New ihe morn- ing light pervades the place, and the stolid profiles of the Osiride columns, stationed there as if to guard to fallen monolith, are lighted witli: a rosy fire which aceentuates the pldeid expression of their faces—each one “a likeness’ of King Rameses II, the great “Pharaol of the bible,”’ The sun grows stronger and the coloring is gone. Bul the con- trasts of light and shade continne as they have done for the long ages past, and will for ages to come, holies,» deities A Loyal A? AS Woman's Tact A well-known poet of Spain, servedly famous for his work, was at the same tie a man of most advanced radical opinions, and waged such bit- ter and open war against the regency that he at last arrested, tried a exiled. He was but scantily endowed with thas world’s go and the and children he lett behiod soon fell inte absolute pover'y. The poet petit- tioned Queen Christina for papdon in their behalf, and was at once permitted by her to return to Spain and to hl family. He obtained an audience and went in person to tender his thanks to the sovereign and offer the expression of his gratitude and homage, He was graciously treated, less as ths enemy that was than the future friend. Buddenly the queen said: “You are not rich, senor; literary men of merit seldom are, and yon have a large fan- ily, have you not¥” **I have six children, your majesty.”* “Six,’” continued the queen; ‘tien there are three for you and three for me,” From that day the poet's threes daugh- ters were cared for and educated at the queen’s expense, who oensiders them as ber special and personal charge. A IAP in A Shrewd Advertiser, 3 was rd Wa na wife Ta Wis A, “My stars!” exclaimed a man, shoy- ing some one who stood near him, *‘you have trod on my corn.” The fellow spatched out a box of ointment, and replied: *‘I can relieve you, sir, in 4 few minutes, ®nly ten cents. Endorsed by the medical frater- nity everywhere, There i= no use in suffefirg. Oue box? Thank you,’ he added, as he put the money in lis pocket, “It was an accident you fourd him,” some one remarked to the salve dealer. “Oh, no, it wasn’t. If yon ask a man if he’s got corns be don’t want fo talk to you, but when you find out (hat he’s got "em the chances of selling him medicine are good. 1 advise my medi cite by going into crowds and sigiy feeling for corns, Yonder stands a fut fellow. When the crowd gits thickes I'll go over and tap his hoof. Oh, ves, it may be painful, but, my dear sir, the business of this country must be case ried on, regardless of sentiment,’ Twelve or fifteen persons were by eating cake at 4 party mn iss Wilson’s residence, In Wajnes. burg, Penua., on the evening of the 16th, "All were made very mick, and some are still in a eritical condition. The symptoms indicated arseniocal poisoning. There is a gulch near Virginia City, Nev., whose waters cover all polished iron steel with a coating of pure metallic
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