NEWS OF ‘1H WEEK. --Lotton worms have appeared in five counties in the southern part of Arkansas, and it 1s feared that they will ruin the crops as they did in 1867, Grasshoppers have appeared by the million in the vicinity of St. Paul, Minnesota, Several contrivances for catching and destroying them are being used, and it has been decided to pay $1.00 a bushel for them. —In Jackson county, Kentucky, a few days ago, two little sons of John Wilson, aged respectively 4 and 8 years, were sent on an errand to a neighbor's house. Finding nobody at home, they played about the place, and the elder boy, finding a gun, discharged the con- tents into his little brother’s body. The wounded boy dled while his brother was trying to carry him home, —The debt statement issued on the 24, shows that the reduction of the public debt during the month of June amounted to $14,429,502. The cash in the Treasury amounts to $0620 854,089. ~A party of drunkem roughs on the 1st visiled the farm of Wilson Sehenk, near Reading, Pa, and com- menced destroying lis property. He fired into the crowd and dangerously wounded Wallace Matthias, Schenck was arrested. Edward Cousins, living in Lockland, Ohio, cut his own throat and that of his two-year-old child on the 1st, causing fatal wounds. He made an unsuccessful attempt to Kill his wife, He was paralyzed and was infuriated because his wife was com- pelled to send him to an infirmary. Troited States Marshals Phillips and MeGloughlin were killed at Eufala, Indian Territory, on the evening of the 30th uit., while trying to arrest *Wesley and Wattie Barnett, two out. laws. The latter was killed by the officers, but the former escaped unhurt. In Tangipaboa Parish, Louis. jana, on the evening of the 30th ult. Major Ricks shot and killed his cousin, John Ricks, and fatally wounded an- other cousin, Hood Ricks, In a fight growing out of an alleged insult offered to their sister by the Major. Golden Robinson, colored, who killed his wife after attempting a felonious assault on his sister-in-law, gashing her throat with a razor, was on the 2d, In New York, sentenced to imprisonment for life. He was convicted recently for murder in the second degree, —A telegram from Scranton, Pa. says an extensive cave-in occurred a the Bellevue slope, on the morning of the 3d, forcing the miners to fy for their Hives, So far as known one man and a number of mules were crushed in the fall, while seven mine laborers are miss- ing. Rescuing gangs were organized. The engine boiler In the Stale Republ- can job office in Harrisonburg, Vir- gia, exploded on the evening of the 8d, partially wrecking the building and shghtly mmjoring J. A. Almond, an employe. On the evening of the 1st. while boating on Lake Calumet, two shells collided, and the bow of one struck Paulson in the back, just be- neath the shoulder blade, penetrating his body and inflicting a wound which caused his death. Henry A, Caul- field one of the earliest and most proms ment pioneers of California, was struck and killed by a train In Sacremento on the 24, A Northern Pacific passenger train jumped the track near Helena, Montana oa Lhe evening of the lst, and three cars rolled into a diteh, Miss Neilson, of the Riley & Wood Theatri- cal Company, and Mr. Ulin were fatally injured. Many others were hurt bul not dangerously. ~Mr. and Mrs. G. KH, Stokes were struck and killed by a train while cross. ing the Western New York and Penn- sylvania Raiiroad, near Carrollton, New York, on the morning of the 3d. Mrs. Eliza Stokes, aged 88 years, of Madison, Georgia, who has been wvisit- ing friends in New York, was on the 34, killed by falling down the stone staircase at the Eden Musee. Andrew J. Taylor, a young married man living in New York, was loading a cannon on the evening of the 3d, when his oung brother iit a fire cracker at the p. Sparks flew on the powder at thea vent hole of the cannon and it was discharged. The cannon recoiled with terrible force. Taylor's intestines were torn open. He died at midnight. William Taylor and a brother-in-law, Eugene Kerrigan, were severely burned by the powder. - Robert W. Flack, a boat builder, of Syracuse, formerly of England, un- dertook to navigate the rapids at Ni- agara Falls, on the afternoon of the 4th, In an open boat made especially for the purpose. He was killed by the waves or was drowned. The boat was capsized 1a the rapids and quickly hurled into the whirlpool. The body of Flack being strapped to the seat prevented the boat trom nghling. The son and daugnter of General B, F. Walker, Secretary of the National Democratic Commitias, were drowned at Seabright, New Jersey, on the 4th. They were aged respectively 17 and 15 years. «A bulletin issued on the morning of the 4th, at 9 o'clock, signed by Drs. Pepper, O'Reilly and Yarrow, gave a very favorable report of General Sheri. dan’s condition, The symptoms of pulm sided of the voyage. At 8 o'clock the same evening another favorable bulletin was The Swatara, with General on board, sailed from the Breakwyter on the evening of the 4th for Nonguitt, TEE = storm, were injured, two of them James Barry and Hugh Garrigan— severely. A Utmrmn on the farm of George Fluml: ear Middlebush, was also blown dowu, killing Plumly and three horses, The dwelling and other buildings on the farm were wrecked, Great damage is reported everywhere around New Drunswick from wind, hail and Hghtning. The new Catholic church at Asbury Park, New Jersey, was blown down, It was just ready for plastering. Loss, 2000, There was a “cloud burst” at Princeton, Scott county, Illinois, on the 4th, Bridges ware washed away and roads flooded in some places to a depth of 10 feet, Similar storms are reported in Jones, Linn, Clinton and Jackson counties. The Chicago, Miwaukee and St. Paul depot and water tank at Emmetsburg were levelled to the ground. At Dal- mond a'store and a number of dwellings were shattered, Near Uttumwa the burst came so suddenly upon the crowd of people celebrating in a grove that thousands were drenched before reach- ing shelter, Great damages was done by violent thunder storms at Mason City, Iowa, and Galena, Illinois on the 3d. Trees and swall bulldings were demolished, dwellings unroofed, and cattle standing near wire fences killed. A furious storm raged on the 5th in the Lackawanna Valley, Pennsylvania, The streets of Scranton were flooded by the rain and much damage was done to property, William Arm- strong, a brakeman, was killed by lightning while standing on a carn A storm visited Youngstown, Olio, on the evening of the 4th, and washed out culverts and damaged streets, The tracks of the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio and the Ashta- bula and Pittsburg Roads were washed out in many places, and trains badly delayed. Jame Davey and family were overtaken by the storm a few miles from Youngstown and he attemp- ted to ford a stream with a 4.year old son in bis arms, The current was too strong, however, and the child was swept away and drowned. A vio jept wind and rain storm visited tue vicinity of Bloomington, Illinois, on the evening of the 4th, and beat dowr the elds of ripe wheat and oats, which were almost ready for the reaper. A very heavy storm swept over the northern part of Cerro Gordo county, Iowa, on the 4th, Corn Oeids were levelled, a number of houses un- roofed and small grain badly damaged, A number of horses and cattle were killed by lightning. A storm in Al- gona, Iowa, on the afternoon of the 4th, did considerable damage. The Congregational church spire was struck by lightning and a small circus wrecked. No loss of iife is reported. samuel! Formley and wile were killed by lightning while hosing in a field near Rome, Georgia, on the evening of the 5th, They had been six mouths married, He was 10 years of age, his wife 16, ~The balloon wiich ascended from Boston on the eveniuy of the 4th des. cended in the harbor if Point Shirley The occupants were submerged and dragged through the water at a rapid pace by the balloon, which was im- pelled by a strong gale. The party was rescued by the steam yacht Huse GG, ~In Chicago, on the 56th, Mrs, Mary Flanagan and Mrs, Thomas Walsh were thrown from a carriage and fatally injured by a runaway, caused by a mischievous boy exploding a fire. cracker under their horses’ feet. They were driving at the time to the county hospital to visit a relative who was shot while celebrating the Fourth, Lightning struck the farmhouse of Ole Olestead, near Hunter, Dakota, on the evening of the 20th ult, killing Ole stead and his wife, An S-monthsold baby was uninjured. The bailding had caught fire from the lightning, but a heavy rain prevailing extinguishea it. Olestead had sent for his father and mother only a few weeks previous, and they arrived from Norway on the 4th In time to participate in the fan- eral, John Johnson, a farmer, living near Hamlin, New York, accidentatly killed his son, aged 21 years, who had come home for a visit on the 4th, THe then, in anguish, killed bimself, Dur- ing some sports in Water Valley, Mis- sissippi, on the 4th, a grand stand containing 400 people collapsed. About 70 persons were injured, three it is thought fatally. ~Christlan Anderson, of Wood- bridge, and E. B. Anderson, of New York, were struck and killed by a train while driving across the rallroad track at Woodbridge, New Jersey, on the evening of the 6th, At Kilbourn, Wisconsin, on the 4th, J, W. Carpen- ter was killed, and C, H. Foot dan- gerously wouuded, by the premature discharge of a cannon while fiting a salute, While Mrs, Wm. Ewell was taking home her son James, who had been drinking, in East Liverpool, Ohio, on the evening of the Oth, they were struck by a train and both killed, -~A boat containing Harry C, Tucker, his father and sister, Mrs, Delsinger, was capsized in Lake Johanna, near St. Paul, Minnesota on the 5th, and all three were drowned, A small sail boat capsized on the 4th, near Fletcher's Island, Lake Massa besic, New Hampshire, Annie Glackin, aged 20, and Mary E, Walsh, aged 16, were drowned. A sall boat, containing Henry Hanting, & boy named Farnbam and a young man named Hurd, capsized on Crystal Lake, Massachusetts. on the 4b. Hunting and the boy were drowned. ~Two passenger trains on the Penn- sylvania Raliroad collided at Nanticoke iit gs John Wood were injured. “Dandy,” a trick horse, was killad, A stallion, formerly owned by Robert Stickney, the bareback rider, and a racing mare, were 80 badly injured that they were shot. ~At Hardinsburg, Kentucky, on the morning of the 6th, Judge ‘A. M. Pulliam shot and killed James Miller, a well-to-do farmer, The cause for the shooting 1s a mystery. ‘Two men were killed and four severely injured by an explosion at Zinger’s tannery. near Pittsburg, on the afternoon of the 6th. Three boys, named Deanmer, Sessman and Kelley, on an excursion from St. Lows, were drowned while bathing at Harrison’s Landing, Ilii- nois, on the morning of the 5th, Bolo- mon Nelson and E. ©, Heberg, bridge repairers, were drowned on the 0th, near Common Falls, Minnesota. He- berg fell into the water, and the other was drowned in trying to save him. —A riot occurred on the morning of the 6th between Poles and Hungarians at Jessup, Lackawana county, Penna. It grew out of some trouble at the mines where they were employed. An- drew Kakowski, the leader of the Pol- ish faction, was attacked by the Hun- garians at his bome and fied from the back door to the saloon of Michael Pano, where the doors were at once barricaded to prevent the attacking party getting in. The latter, forcing down the doors, dragged Kakowsk: out in the roadway, beating him with stones and clubs and defying those who came to nis help. They soon pounded him to The Hungarians then began celebrating thelr crime by a drunken carousal, The ringleaders, Michael O. Lannick, Lannick, Andrew Ounisky and J. Harway, were secured by the Sheriff’s deputies at noon, and taken to the Scranton jail, Jacob Brehm, who fatally stabbed Robert Paisley, at Hazleton, Pennsylvania, in April last, and escaped at the time, was on the 6th, recognized among prisoners sent to the county jail, In Wilkesbarre, for drunkenness, He will bs tried for murder. In Washington, on the Oth, Joseph M, Chase was convicted of manslaughter, in having caused the death of Professor E. A. Paul, on March S1st last, by recklessly driving into him and his bicycle. A new trial will be moved, A fow days since Dr, John Cur tis, of Bolton, Kansas, sent §1000 by Walls, Fargo & Co's express to his brother at Little Hocking, Otlo. When the packagearrived it was found that the end had been cut off and the money extracted and the envelope filled with pieces of paper about the size of the bills, A few days ago a gang of robbers raided the village of Star Prairie, 15 miles from Hudson, Wisconsin, and rifled all the sales In the place. They then stole a horse and carriaze and escaped, seater mime 60th CONGr ~~ —+'irst Cession SENATE, In the United States Senate on the 24, there were eight Senators In thelr seats when the session was opened at 11 A. M. A conference report on the Legislative Appropriation ull was pre- sented and agreed to. The River and Harbor bill was congidered, and the demand for a separate vole on the Hennepin Canal amendment was with. drawn by Mr, Vest, Sabsequentiy Mr. Sherman made a motion to reconsider. The amendment abolishing the "Mis souri River Commission was disagreed to. An amendment was adopted appro- priating $350,000 for the purchase of the Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Canals, At this po'nt Mr, Sher- man said he would not insist upon his motion to reconsider the vole agreeing to the Heunepin Canal section. Some other amendments of 8 minor charac. death, passed. Mr. Turple spoke upon the President's Message and in favor of tariff reduction. Afler an executive session the Senate adjourned. Inthe 1, 8, House of Hepresenta- tives on the 3d, Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, occupted the chair. The Post-cliiice Appropriation bill was reported, with the Senate amendments, and a confer ence was ordered. The consideration of the Tariff bill was then resumed in Committee of the Whole, On motion of Mr, MeMillin, of Tennesseo, the clause imposing a duly of §l11 per ton on slabs and billets of steel was stricken out, and tho present rate of 45 per cent. ad valorem restored, On motion of Mr. Breckinridge, of Ar- kansas, a duty of fonr-tenths of a cent per pound was imposed on iron or steel, flat, with longitudinal ribs, for the manufacture of fencing After getting through tour pages of the bill the committee rose, A conference commitiee was ordered on the River and Harbor bill, and the House ad- journed. In the United States Senate on the 5th, messages were received from the I'resident vetoing three private pension bills and they were meferred. A cone ference report on the Agricultural Ap- propriation hill was concurred io, a further conference being asked on an amendment, on which the committee could not agree, inserted by the Sen- ate, appropriating $100,000 for con. tinuing experiments in the manufac ture of sugar from sorghum. A conference was ordered on the Post- Office Appropriation bill. The Senate then took a recess until 2.50 to give Sie for the enrolling of gertain pills requiring ures of presid- fut fees of both Houses, Senate adjourned. Inthe U, 8. House of Representa- ves, on the Oth, a message was re- a clause imposing a duty of 36 per cent, ad valorum on penknives and razors was struck out, restoring the present rate, A clause was iuserted fixing the rate on new type for printing at 15 per cent, ad valorem. The sugar and molasses and confectionery clauses were reached, and, by agreement, were considered together, After an under- standing had been reached that a vole should uot be taken this day, Mr. Can- non, of Illinois, offered substitutes for the sugar and molasses paragraph, ad- mitting free all sugars not above No. 16 Duteh standard and molasses test. ing not above 56 degrees, Pending discussion the committee rose. An evening session was held for the con- sideration of pension bills, HOUSE, in the House on the 2d, several bills and resolutions were Introduced under the call of btates. A conference re- port on the Legislative Appropriation bill was adopted, Mr. Clark, of Wisconsin, proposed that unanimous cousent be given for the present con- sideration of the Nicaraguan Canal bill, the situation otherwise to remain unchanged, : Mr, Hayden, of Mas sachusetts, objected, and the regular order being demanded, the clerk finished the reading of the Anderson bill, Mr, Anderson at once introduced another bil—a volume of 321 pages to establish a municipal code for the District of Columbia, and called for its reading, By this time 218 members responded to thelr names, and Mr, Mills moved to adjourned. Tost yeas, 87; nays, 104, He then demanded the regular order, and the clerk pro- ceeded to read the Municipal Code bill, This was foo much, and, at 3.20, a motion to adjourn made by Mr, Hatch, of Missouri, was agreed to In the House on the 5th, the bill for the payment of Florida's Indian claims was considered and went over. The Senate Land Grant Forfeiture bill was considered, and a substitute offered by the House Commitiee on Public Lands was adopted, (The Sen- ante bill forfeits 5,027,430 acres, the House substitute 054,323,006 acres, subject to bona fide sales to selilers,) The vole on the passage of the bill as amended resulted, yeas 141, pays 12, No quorum voting, the House ad- journed, ps A ASS NAMING THE BABY. The Scientific and Literary Principles Iavolyed Elacidated. Writers spenc much time and thought in selecting a name for a play or novel, for they know thal success is largely dependent on it, Parents, how- ever, are strangely careless and unscien- tifie In giving names to children. In the Harvard and Yale catalogues of goo! combinations, Usually, when a new comer arrives, some old family name 13 taken; or, If the parents ex- ercise an original choice, they are (oo much excited to be guided by any sound euphonié principles. They for- get that not only from the social point of view it is very advantageous to have one's name remembered, but that from the business point of view nolggiely is capital, and must be oblained by per sistent and ingenious advertising. Nor is the saving of time and money on the part of the knocker al the gale of notoriety the only thing to be con- sidered, for, frony the altruistic point of view, the lessening of the effort of recollection on the part of the world is far more important. The economy of the public stock of energy wasted in innumerable unconscious efforts to re- member a name withoul any corners for the memory to grasp, bul persist. ently thrust before it. would result in an increase of available mental force applicable to settling the question of future probation, or tw raising the ethical standard, or to reforming the tariff, or to dispnsing of the surplus, The importance of the subject leads me to suggest one or two of the chief fundamental principles of the science of naming children. The system is sim- ple, and any provident pareni can eas- ily master and apply it, (1.) Avoid odd, or eccentric, or poe- tic combinations, and be guided by eaphonic quality only. Itis true that an odd name may be remembered, but the association with it will pot be pleasing. The idea of oddity or affec- tion may attach to the shadowy per- sonally buflt up io the mind of the pub. lie. Under this rule hyphenated names, especially hyphenated Christian names, like Floyd-Jones Robinson, are to be avoided. Writing the first given name with an initial and the second in full is also evidently opposed to correct scientifie principles, (2. The best form of name is a daetyl and a spondee, like *“Jeremy Taylor.” Every one has heard of the *‘“Shakes- pears of divines.”” and has a dim idea of an agreeable personality attached to the name, Had his name been Charles Taylor it is far within bounds to say that his reputation would be about one- third of what ii is now, 3.) J she surname is not one that can treated according to the above rule, it should be fitted with a given name, such as to bring the combina- tion as nearly as possible to the above length and cadence, as Sidney Dobell, Ellery Vane, Henry Ward Beecher Dante Rossetti, Theodore Watts and the like; or, otherw to two long syl- Jables, like Mark Twain or Bret Harte, The sub-divisions of this branch of the subject are too numerous to be given, but all rest on principle No.2. The phonic value of the surname is, under our custom, the controlling element in practically applying the science of names, The yalue of names beginning with or U is evident. because they so readily combine with the WESTERN AUSTRALIA. The Natives Very Low in The Scale of Barbarisin, ' them build the huis and carry firewood and do all the work there iz to do, and | spearing them through the leg or cruel- {ly beating them on the very slightest i provocation, | f(zir]l bables they often kill, On the eastern coast of AwStralinare cannibals, tralian blacks, They are a civilization as it is possible to go. To gee a native girl digging in the ground for dalgeits and for two Kinds of small burrowing mar- supials, the flesh of which they esteem long stick in one hand, while with the nails and fingers of the other Land she throws it behind her, for all the world like a dog burrowing after a rat, is as disgusting a sight as it is possible for a man and brother to behold, unless it be to see her lord and master lying asleep and, if he had the opportunity of get- ting grog, drunk in the hut close by, with perhaps two or three old hags, a couple of half starved kangaroo hounds and a mass of skins, opposum remains and filth, which makes one turn away with loathing from the scene, The huts which they build for them- selves are the most temporary and roughest kind of constructions, A few large branches leaning together in the shape of a round hut, covered some- times with strips of bark off the ‘paper bark,” a tree that affords a tough and fibrous covering, and only large enough for three or four pretty close together, too, their idea of “ho Med The utmost limit of their clothing in the bush band of hair which heads to keep then of thelr eyes. In north and where white men are scarce they go en- tirely naked, and appear the sense of shame, Every the right t hree or I they generall ous ages, tenn has others, to lie such is they Ue around thelr own out the nan nas a wife of 8 It is, of course, rather a stretch have Kind of marriage ceremony and are as often secured by abduction as by purcl This way winning a wife is naturally conducive to constant fighting, which forms a large part of the interest of their lives, the more 50 as owing to low value set women's lives, that sex (which ally impossible in this connection speak of as the {alr sex) is scarce, They eat any kind of food they can lay their hands upon, meat of any kind, of course, and no matter how stale, the fat and entrails quite uncooked and the remainder scarcely more prepared, Spakes, lizards, fr white ants, grubs of almost any kind and the bodies of some kind of moths they esteem highly. The women, who always have Ww do anything in the way of carrying that has to be done, carry their babies (pick- backs in a an bas not eines even Ho ’ of the to yl nr over their If a won , Or som anes; sang Kangaroo skin, got a Lat if she hs th ait iY LO Carry AR, sane the coutents of which constitute their only food against future want, Itis awful thing to see the contents of this bag. The writer has seen two wi , Who had come up to an Austral food, given the 5 maleriai, AU nen an station remains of a rice pud- ding in a pudding dish, The one who carried the bag took it down off her shoulders and gravely began to unload it—on top, perhaps, two or three crusts of bread, green with mold, then a piece of raw meat half putrefied; an old to- bacco pipe; an opossum’s skin; some red clay, a little greasy: black hair; and at last a very dirty piece of an old flannel shirt was reached, This, which was about a fool square, was spread carefully on the ground, The contents of the pudding dish were scooped into it with a most filthy hand, It was neatly and gravely folded up and put back in the bottom of the bag, and then the other valuables were replaced on top of it. And yet, though so degraded, they are far from useless, these creatures They make tolerably good shepherds, can be taught to use their bands skill fully in any way that is desired, and the good ones among them may be trusted to do things that many a white man would not do well and conscienti- ously, Settlers will send their horses long distances in charge of a *‘blacke fellow,” and sheep, too, are often in- trusted to them to drive to out-lying stations or down into the town to mar- ket, Even those of them who have been brought most near to a state of civiliza- tion require every now and then a month in a savage state in the bush, and after working, perhaps about the stable yard, in clothes, and appearing quite domesticated for months together, they will suadenly informa ther em- ployer, “Me walkaway morning,” which Is equivalent to saying that they require a holiday, And next morning they may be seen alrly clad in a single kangaroo skin, their black hair all stained red and clotted with a horrible mixture of red clay and grease called wyilgie,”” and carrying a small shield, a couple of spears aud as many boomer- angs {or Xeileys as they call them), set- ting out for a month in the woods with three or four more of their tribe. When natives are out in the bush it number of tribes, If a native of one | tion (sheep and cattle ranches are called | “stations” in Australia), he was shown {a little black pickaniny, only a week old, 28 a curiosity. and a most strange looking inhuman little animal it was, Hl he following morning of the | gins, who came up to the house each morning to beg for tea, announced quite | calmy that Monkey (the baby’s father) | was going to kill pickaniny. The own- er of the station, who was a justice of the peace, sent a solemn message to Monkey to the effect that if he killed that baby “whitefellow governor kill him.” The next thing heard was that “Monkey and his gins walk away,” and it appeared that up to the time of their departure, at any rate, the tiny mortal was still living, Bone New Aneccdotes Of Gen. Grant, When Gen, Grant was about to retire from the command of the army, said Capt. John 8, Loud in conversation a few days ago, he made a Tarewell tour among the posts and outlay itary stations of the west, 1 was assistant the district ime, and it was myself that he Gen, Hatch and nt made a flying {rig Trinidad. r the road wh off the ice cooler. Then Mra { Nervous i Lhe i { { . ‘ Keep calm, J i in his usual « no danger as { the track.” “It’s all very well U« sald Mrs. Grant, Smoke as commitiee-1 on the route, “Anything at would inquire, “Yes, general, there’ ing to see you." Then he would look grave for a mo ment before asking: Sf nr 1A x TE { ould YOR al a crowd ed # run $ 4.04 4 3 TRE VO BUOY ii ere.” Where Porter Cooper Made His Money. There is an unpretentious four-story brick building in Burling-slip, bearing a sign which reads: *‘Glue, Iron and Wire. The *“‘Gipe’ looms up by itself, the “Iron and Wire’ occupying a lower line. At the right of the main door of the structure is an oblong cylindrical tin sign bearing the words: “Peter Cooper's Glue Factory. Glue Gelatine and Neat's Foot Oil.” These words are scattered judiciously down | the sign, and “‘Peler Cooper's Glue Factory” is prominent in the silent an- nouncement, A sign between the second and third stories presents “Ie { ined lsinglass.’’ Over the main door { are the words “Cooper & Hewitt” in { plain unassuming biack. This is the i spot where Peter Cooper conducted the | business which made his fortune and | where his son and son-in-law have con- tinued operations at the old stand. Inside the house remains just as it was in Peter Cooper's day, save where the carts and wagons were backed in for loading and unloading, has been “evened up’ with the floor and wag- ons and carts are thus exciuded. The stairs leading to the offices on the second floor are the simplest kind of old-fashioned affairs which one will see in country mills, with no back be tween consecutive steps. An old-style wooden hand-rail is there 10 meet the grasp. Upstairs are rooms partitioned off in the crude old-style, with white- wash, apparently. for the only coat to cover the partitions. The desks, rail ings and all the “fixings,” bear the date of Peter Cooper's time, even the windows being composed of panes of glass of ye ancient proportions, It Is clear from all the surroundings that the memory of Peter Cooper is revered on this spot. Paris Dolls, | The making of dolls is one of the principal Industries of Paris, the mas- terpiece of the trade being a marvel ous [creature comnsisting entirely of pa per, with a porcelain head. This be- longs to quite a new mace of dolls, which has driven the old ones out of the Parisian market, In making them, a fine paper pulp is used, and the doll is moulded, bit by bit. One workman does nothing but shape the arms, another bas charge of the feet, and so on with the entire body. Elastic bands are inserted in the arms and legs, to hold them together, and the jomnts are made to work so perfectly that a limb will re. man in any position in which it is placed, n head is more difleult E §REE i i 58 5 4
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