-Olsten Omsted and two of his children were killed by lightning, near Lanesboro, Minnesota, at 2 o'clock on the morning of the Oth. A storm in Central Missouri on the morning of the Gth greatly damaged the crops and en- tailed heavy losses on town property, In Glasgow and vicinity it is estimated that crops are damaged 00 per cent., while the losses on dwellings and busi- ness houses will exceed $50,000, The Catholic Church at New Hamburg was wrecked, and one side of the railroad depot at Coney was blown out. At Marshall the storm was accompanied by hail, and the damage was severe. At Slater the Baptist Church and two business houses were demolished, In Saline county the damage will reach $300,000, There was general wreckage at Staaberry. In l’ettis county corns fields suffer most, the growing grain being laid flat. The loss at Norhone and vicinity reaches $100,000. In Shel- by county crops were badly damaged. ~John W, Thomas, a carpenter at No. 1 shaft of the Susquehanna Coal Company, at Nanticoke, was at work in the mine on the 4th, but was not geen to leave the works in the evening. On the 6th his body was found at the bottom eof the shaft, 900 feet below, horribly crushed. —The President on that Major General Schofield, com- manding the Division of the Atlantic, with headquarters at New York, be ordered to Washington, to assume command of the army, as General Sher- idan’s successor. — According to a despatch from Yankron, Dakota, a severe storm of wind, rain and bail passed down the Missouri River Valley, east from Charles, Mix county, and across several other counties, on the evening of the 5th, doing extensive damage to corn and small grain standing in the fields. Small buildings were demolished and large ones unroofed. The wind was a straight gale, and blew at the rate of about forty miles per hour. The dam- age to corn will be light, but small grain in many localities will be a total loss. A rain storm, accompanied by a high wind and lightning, visited Du- quion, Ill.,, on the Tth. The Catholic church was unroofed, trees were dam- aged and one building was struck by lightning. Some stock is reported killed, The crops, especially corn, suf- fered. —Troops sent out by Governor Martin, of Kansas, to restore crder in Stevens county, reached Hugoten on the evening of the 5th. The soldiers were ordered to disarm the inhabitants, but were not very successful, as few arms could be found, The same measures were taken by the troops on the 6th, at Woodsdale, with about the same results, On the evening of the Sth, a United States marshal arrested Sam Robinson, City Marshal of Hugo- ton; J. B. Chamberlain, Chairman of the Stevens County Commissioners, and six others, It is expected that the prisoners will be taken to Topeka for trial. The warrant charges them with conspiring on Kansas soil to take the lives and property of other citizens, The Court has no jurisdiction over the territory of ,**No Man’s Land,” hence the murderers cannot be tried for murder, but it is thought the fact of conspiracy can be established against them under the United States Jaw, the penalty for which is imprisonment in the penitentiazy for a term not exceed- ing 10 years, —James O'Neil, an employe of the Hoboken Electric Light Company, was preparing a lamp in the City Hall, New York, on the evening of the 7th, when the current was turned on, and he was instantly killed. There was a long red markon his right side, and the flesh was broken at the waist, ~-An east-bound passenger train on the Sante Fe Road left the track near Lawrence, Kansas, on the afternoon of the Oth, while running 40 miles an hour, Several cars were demolished, Enguweer Martin Meyers was killed, and John Harff, the fireman, was badly scalded. A broken rail caused the accident, Two coal trains collided on the Hocking Valley Railroad, at Millville, Ohio, on the morning of the 7th. Both engines were damaged, ten cars were deralled, and William Fran- cis and John Brady, train men, were severely injured, -A number of freight cars were being shifted at the Vandervender bridge, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Mapleton, on the Tth, when a misplaced switch caused several of the cars to leave the track and fall over an embankment. Over fifty carpenters and masons were at work on the new bridge structure, and six of them were injured the falling cars, two of them ly. The names of the latter are Edward Connors and A, Mullen. The injured men were taken wo the Al- toona Hospital. John Costello, aged 290 years, of Philadelphia, had his left arm broken, face cut and was other- wise injured, — Adam Whitoskey was killed on the 7th in the West End Coal Company's mine, at Moconagua, by a mass of rocks and coal falling on him, ~ Rev. J. W. Hanford, Indian teacher and missionary at St, Stephen's Mis- sion, Dakota, who married Chaska and Miss Fellows, was thrown from a mow. ing machine on the 6th and bled to death before assistance could be pro- cured, William Brown, aged 23 years who was unable to swim, was drowned on the 6th while bathing, near Quin- ton, New Jersey. ~Thomas Lilly, a hostler employed n Singley Bros., confectioners, of fimington, Delaware, died on ‘he morning of $he 6th from poisoning, attributed to dried beef, of which he and three others of the Siugley house- hold partook on the evening of the Oth, The others were made very sick, but are expected to recover. The beef was of Western curing and wrapped. -At the Rookwood Pottery, in Cin. can tan, Sart yton, K bad acting strangely and 8 supposed to be of unsound without any appar- ent motive shot tendent Joseph the Oth directed Dalley, Sr., Engineer Albert Freyer, and then himself, Auckland, 1t is thought, will die, -5, M, Rackett, a wealthy Cumber- land county farmer, lost $2000 at the “three card monte game’ which he plaved with confidence men who pre- tended they wanted to buy his farm, —An inquest at Wilmington, Del, in the case of Thomas Tdlly, who, it was thought, was poisoned by eating dried beef, shows that death was caused by arsenical pelsoning, the arsenie pre- sumably getting futo the meat after it left the grocery store. George Sheldon, one of the beef eaters, has been taken alarmingly ill, but the other two, Mrs, Hannah W, Singley and J. Markley Singley, seem to be recovering. ~The big lumber raft arrived in good condition on the morning of the 8th, at Vineyard Haven, Massachu- setts, after a seven days’ passage from Joggins, and later in the day resumed its voyage. Constructor Robinson, who accompanies it, reports an ordinarily good passage, It has been detained by a thick fog on the Nantucket Schoals and stopped at Vineyard Haven for coal and water for the tug. Mr, Rob- inson is confident that had the other raft taken the inside route through Vineyard Sound, it would have reached New York safely. —The heaviest wind and rzin storm of the season at Washington passed over that city on the afternoon of the Sth. Limbs were broken from trees, slgns blown down, and a number of small buildings were unroofed. The day had been the warmest of the sea- son, the temperature reaching 93 in the shade, and five cases of sunstroke, one fatal, were reported. A terrific wind and hail storm visited Springfield, Oho, early on the evening of the 7th, Trees were uprooted, and a large number of buildings were unroofed, The high chimney of the Arcade bullding was blown down, bricks going through the entire building to the floor, Ope brick crushed through the roof of a cigar store filled with people. A scramble was made for the door, in front of which broken glass two inches high was piled, In the rush people fell pell mell on their hands, cutting them badly, A boy named Drumm was struck by glass and stunned by lightning in the Arcade building, but is not thought to be fa- tally hurt, A sharp flash of lightning, followed Ly a terrific peal of thunder, startied the crowd the Cincinnati Exposition building on the evening of the 7th, Instantly all the arc lights in the buildings went out, and the Gov ernment exhibit and :oacninery were left in total darkness. The incande- scent lights were not affected, It seems that the electric current struck the dynamos and ext nguished the lights, The lightning pre ced a counteracting current and stop;+ 1 the machinery in- stantly, When tu rrent had passed the dynamos wert srted up all right, and where there war darkness again was light, The rainfall following the thunder and lightning was so heavy that the noise produced drowned rumbling of the machinery Power Hall, ~ A mixed train on Indianapolis, St. Leuls and Chicago Railroad was thrown from the track near Morgantowa, Indiana, on the morn. ing of the 8th, by a broken rail. The baggage car and single passenger coach rolled down a forty-fool embankment, Eighteen persons were severely and two, Jacob Eckert and Charles Eckert, of Indianapolis, perhaps fatally injured, Three cars on a north-beund Harlem freight train jumped the track at One- hundred-and-sixty-second street and Fourth avenue, New York, on the 8th, wrecking the train and delaying other trains two and one-half hours, ~ Mrs, Haynes and her five-year-old son, of Oswego, New York, arrived at a hotel In Lewiston, Maine, on the evening of the Tth., Before going to bed she blew out the gas, and both she and the child were four.d on the morn- ing of the 8th, In such a condition that their recovery was doubtful ~Mrs, Mary A. Scott, widow of the Confederate General, Thomas A. Scott, committed suicide by taking chloroform, in Memphis, on the morn- ing of the Sth. It is supposed that poverty was the cause, Henry Turner, a tailor, of Boston, has disappeared, after disposing of a large quantity of goods obtained from dry goods firms, He also leaves be- tween 20 and 30 girls, whom he em- ployed, unpaid, ~A Dold mail robbery was commit- ted on the Missourt Pacific Railroad, between Jefferson City andySt., Louis, on the 3d, in which over $17,000 was stolen, of which $5000 was from the State Treasury. The discovery of the crime was accidental, Two farmers near Washington, Missourl, were ap- proaching a suspicions looking man on the highway when he became fright. ened, and, in attempting to flee, dropped a large package. The farmers secured It and at once discovered that it was plunder from a mail robbery, They turned it over to the postmaster, who notified the postal authorities, and n Secret Service agent is now en- deavoring to trace the robbers, «Train wreckers rastened pieces of timbers to the track of the Texas Cen- tral Railroad, six miles from Waco, on the morning of the 8th, and the night expressed was derailed, the locomotive demolished, and several cars badly damaged, Engineer J. BR. Norris was killed, his fireman badly scalded, and half a dozen passengers were injured. A sheriff's posse is searching for the criminals, and the railroad company offers $1000 reward each for their cap- ture. ~-Wihile Frederick Schulte and Michael Baumer were fixing the cor. nico of a six-story tenement in New York on the Oth, the cornice gave way and both men fell to the street. Schult yu ed aud Baugiet dan. rously injured, ose chards, i years old, was driving a mule in the Murray shaft at Wilkesbarre, on the Oth, » tram of five loaded cars ran away and went down the plane, The curs struck the bog with such force to drive his head ifuto the mule’s sb domen. The united strength of two wus necessary to extricate the boy's fey iii the Cincinnati, head. Young Richards was taken home as dead, but revived somewhat, Hs skull 1s fractured and ne will probably dle. The mule was killed by the col- lision. Mrs. Hannah Spellisey, of Bal- timore, who gave birth to twins on the bth, was so frightened by thunder and lightning on the evening of the Bth, that she died on the 0th, Cressie Coombs, seven years old, of Evansville, Ohio, took a revolver from his father’s desk, while alone in the house on the 8th, and accidentally shot himself in the abdomen. On his mother’s return the boy admitted that he discharged the revolver, sald noth- ing about his wound, and was chas- tised. The boy changed his clothing, part of which was covered with clotted blood, and his mother, discovering the staln, surmised the truth, which her son admitted. This was three hours alter the accident, At last accounts the boy was sinking. ~A Columbus and Eastern passen- ger train ran into the rear end of a Cincinpati and Muskingum Valley freight. at Darlington, Ohio, on the 9th, The Columbus and Eastern lo- comotive was badly damaged and sev- eral cars of the freight train were broken. Nobody was hurt. ~John and Thomas Watkins, brothers, aged respectively 8 and 10 years, were drowned while bathing in the river at Wilkesbarre on the after- noon of the Oth, —During a wind storm on the even- ing of the Sth, the sloop Flora B., of Pennsville, New Jersey, was capsized in the Delaware River, above New Castle, and five persons were drowned, The names of the drowned are: Anna, wife of Captain Wheaton, aged about 50 years; Sadie Wheaton, wife of the capiain’s son, aged 30; Dora, daughter of Mra. Sadie Wheaton, aged 8; Mrs, Thomas Finnegan, aged 20, and Mrs, Mary Turner, aged 42, The three men on board—Captain Elljah Wheaton, Jonathan J. Turner and Clayton Bat- ton—were saved, Officer F. J. Polemore was shot and fatally wounded at Springfield, Missouri, by a negro named Bearder, whom he was attempting to arrest, Bearder was also shot, but escaped. Pursuit is being made, Shelby F, Parker shot and killed Dr. H. H. Pey- ton at Perrysville, Indiana, on the 8th, Jealousy was the cause, ~~ A Wilkesbarre despatch saysit has lately become known to the police that a regularly organized band of dynami- ters exists in that city. They hold reg- ular meetings, and are possessed of contiderable strength, and a genuine sensation was caused on the Oth, when it was noised abroad that a bomb had been found under Williams Brothers' wholesale grocery house, I! was seen by a number of citizens at police head- quarters, and resembles a small tin can with screw top and soldered bottom. The nding of the bomb is more signi: ficant, since Mr, Williams, under whose it was concealed, is a member of ity Council and Chalrman of the 'o lice Committee, Detectives are at work and hope to unearth the mystery, though as yet there is no clue, A small dynamite cartridge was found on the Oth secreted In a Wagner sleeping car the Michigan Central Raliroad at Chicago. It was about the size of an idge, and & common parior match in the centre of it ap. peared to have been placed there for the purpose of exploding it. store on — Amos Miller, colored charged with having assaulted a white woman, was taken from the courtroom at Franklin, Tennessee, on the 10th, by fifty armed men, and Iynched, Rear don, a colored man, who shot and fa- tally wounded Policeman Palmer, at Springfield, Missourl, on the 9th, was captured on the 10th after having been wounded by his captors, it is thought, fatally, At last accounts the jail was surrounded by a mob of several hun. dred men, who threatened to lynch Reardon. Maggie Jones, colored, 18 years old, who lived alone 1n the upper story of a house at Rocky Hill, near Creedmoor, Long Island, was found murdered in her room on the morning of tke 10th, A blood-stained axe was discovered near the body. The crime is supposed to have been committed by Emma J. Fletcher, white, aged 50 years, who had applied for lodging on the evening of the 9th. The murdered girl offered the woman her own bed, which was accepted. The Fletcher woman was arrested on the 10th, and ber clothing was found to be covered with blood. Lewis Phinney and William San- ford, while track-laying on the Fitch- burg Railroad, at Concord, Massachu- setts, on the 10th, were struck and killed by an express tram. Joseph Goulet and John Spearing, lumber- men, were drowned by the breaking up of a raft of logs at Skowheaan, Maine, on the morning of the 10th. Charles Carroll, of Baltimore, aged 23 years, a descendant of the signer of the Decla- ration of Independence whose neme he bore, was drowned while bathing on the 10th at New London, Connecti. cut, James Fulton Siade, assistant man- ager of the Tiffany Glass Company and proprietor of a Jewelry store in New York, was found dead in bed on the morning of thk 10th, with his throat cut, It is supposed he committed suicide in a Ot of depression. His wife sd i were at Hampshire, Long slan ~Mr. James G, Blaine landed In New Yorkon the 10th, He was trans. ferred from the steamship City of New York to a steamer and enthusiastically greeted by his friends. In response to an address of welcome he made a speech touching on the political issues of the day. In the evening Mr, Blaine spoke nt greater len before a t and enthusiastic audience In 1800 Square Garden, «In Wilkesbarre, on the 10th, the police made an examination of the bomb tound under Williams & Brothers’ building on the 9th, The bomb was taken Into an open Deld and it ex- ploded with terrific force. It was ul e h to blow up ks of buildings. the bomb was placed under the build. ing by an enemy of the Willams rs felonously -Burglars entered the residence of F. LL. Smith, at Willoughby, near Cen- treville, Maryland, on the evening of the 9th, chloroformed Nir, and Mys, Smith, and secured $100 in money, $1000 worth of negotiable paper and a valuable watch. ~-A terrific wind and hail storm swept across Madison county, Indiana, on the evening of the Oth. A strip of land a mile wide was laid in waste, Trees were snapped off, fences levelled and the corn crop was ruined, Many pigs, calves and sheep were killed, Near Gillman a double log house, be. longing to Mrs. Jane Hupp, wasdemol- ished. Mrs, Hupp and ber son were rescued with dificulty, The son was fatally injured, A stroke of lightning during the storm killed seven valuable horses belonging to John Shoemaker, 50th OONGRESB.~Firat Session SEENATE, In the U. 8, denate on the 6th, Mr. Edmunds offered appropriate resolu- tions in reference to the death of Gen- eral Sheridan, which were adopted, Subsequently a bill was introduced by Mr. Farwell and referred granting a pension of $5000 a year to Mrs, Sheri- dan. Mr, Blair offered a resolution, which was referred, requesting the President to open negotiations with the British Government and the Do- minion of Canada with a view to the settlement of all differences between Great Britain and the United States, and for the arrangement of terms for a political union between the United States and Canada, or any of the Ca- nadian provinces, The Fisheries treaty was considered in open session, and Mr. Vance, of North Carolina, spoke In favor of its ratification. A message was received from the Presi- dent announcing the death of General Sheridan, Inthe U.S, Senate on the 7th, the following bills were passed: Senate Joint resolution granting permission to officers and enlisted men of the army, who are members of the Society of Cincinnatus, the Aztec Soclety, the national association of veterans of the American war, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and the Grand Army of the Republie, to wear the badges of those orders on all occasions of cere- mony; House bill to place William F. (Baldy) ¢Smith on the retired list as colonel of the Army, with an amend- ment changing the grade of colonel! to that of major of engineers, the rank which he held when he left the army. A message was recelved from the President vetoinga bill to grant 635 acres of a military reservation to the city of Tacoma, Washington Terri tory, for a park, was read and re- ferred to the Commitlee Public Lands, The grounds of the Presi- dent's disapproval are that the Army engineers report against the grant be. cause the land may be needed for mili. tary purposes, The Senate then re- sumed the consideration of the all reported from the Committee on For- eign Relations to prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States. Pending debate the Senate adjourned, In the United States Senate on the Sth, on motion of Mr, Stewart, the Chinese Prohibition bill was taken up by a vote of 40 to 3, and then passed without a division, The Fisheries Treaty was taken up and Mr. Evarts spoke In opposition to its ratification, After a short executive session the Senate adjourned, In the U. Senate on the Oth, Mr. Mitchell offered a resolution, which was agreed to, calling on the Secretary of the Intertor for information con. cerning his recent decision in the Guil- ford Miller Land case, affecting a title to the Northern Pacific lands. The Fisheries Treaty was taken up, and Mr. Evarts continued his speeeh, and after some remarks by Messrs, Mor- gan, Hale and Blair, the Senate ad- journed, In the United States Senate on the 10th, it was agreed that the time for closing the morning business should be in two hours after the time of meet- ing, The Fisheries Treaty came up in open session, but Mr, Call, who was to speak, not being present to do so, the treaty went over. The bill to regu- late commerce carried on by telegraph, being the bill introduced by Mr. Spooner on the 26th of January, 1888, and reported back from the Committee on Inter-State Commerce (with amend- ments) on the 18th of July, was taken from the calendar and A con- ference report on the bill to ald State soldiers’ homes was to. Senate bill appropriating £25000 to Improve and encourage the manufacture ot flax and hemp, under direction of the Com. missioner of Agriculture, was passed, After an executive session the Senate adjourned. In the House on the 10th, the con- ference report on the bill to md State homes for disabled volunteers was agreed to. Private bills were consid- ered, and an evening session was held for the consideration of pension bills, The House then adjourned, HOUSE. In the House, on the 6th, several bills and resolutions were introduced under the call of States, among them one by Mr. White, of Indiana, “to fix an inter-State minimum rate of wages.” A message Was received from the Pres. ident announcing General Sheridan's death. Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, offered resolutions of respect for the memory of the deceased, and sympathy for his widow, and for the ap- polntment of a committee of seven to attend the funeral After tributes to the worth of the dead sol- dier by several members the resolu. tions were adopted and the House ad- journed, In the House on the 7th the Senate bill to enable the executive depart pos do iat X| an umbu n tember and October os consid a Several amendments were adopted, but BO duotum voted on the third reading of bill and the House adjourned. In the House on the 8th, a resolution ng $5000 for the of investigation by the a a on S Manufactures gave rise to a discussion the sublect of trusts. and Mr. - | Springer asked for the immediate con- sideration of his bill on the subject of trusts, bul the regular order was de- manded by Mr. Long, of Massachu- setts, The Deficiency bill was con- #idered in Committees of the Whole, Pending debate the commitiee rose and the House adjourned, Inthe House on the 9th, Mr. Mor- row, of California, asked unanimous consent for the consideration of the Chinese Prohibition bill passed by the Benate. Mr. Springer objected, and the bill was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, with leave to re- port back at any time, The Deficiency bill was considered. Pending debate the House adjourned. a ———————— BY fHEIR CLOTHES An Experienced Tallor Tells How One Class of Men is Known From Another. KNOWN A tall, well dressed gent'eman went into an uptown talloring establishment the other day, and after a few words with the proprietor passed out. ‘*What church is he the pastor of?” inquired an Inquisitive reporter, who bad been discussing the new styles in spring wear with the tailor. “He 1s not a clergyman.” “No? Lawyer, then?” “Wrong again. You ought to know without asking.” “How sor" *‘By his clothes. You did have some idea, but you didn’t observe him closely enough. He 1s a physician. If he had been a clergyman he would not have been so precise in hisdress, and if he had been a lawyer he would have been more careless still, A careful observer # foolman is known by his livery. As a rule, physicians carry themselves with marked dignity, fine diagonals, with rich, black Kersey top coal in winter. wear a fancy cashmere vest, In Their linen able and extravagant, neck scarfs are the richest and : thing black, and usually choose first goods that come to hand. seldom order a new suit until one grows shabby. Sowe of the worst tiles are seen on the heads of our most eminent lawyers, You can hardly get them to come and try on a suit, al once, whether it fits or don't care how it looks if easily, 3 nos. it goes | i i i i | § { i erally carefully dressed, The true man of fashion is no dude. He is never pronounced, One can al- ways recognize the sporting man, The racing man dresses differently from the yachting man, The dog fancier does not resemble the horseman, and the gambler has a style of his own. They differ in little things—trinkets, linen, ele, and unique patterns. Their abundant FARM NOTES, VILO AT BUENA VISTA. A Bmall Place in Size, History. but Great in Buena Vista is a small place, scarce. ly larger than a good sized hacienda, but it has proved a fruitful source of conversation between the little woman and myself, 1 want to take horses for the remainder of our trip until we reach raliroads again, where this one has to leave off, but she feels sure that we would be waylaid by Indians, scalped, tortured and massacred, and she is in favor of the diligenca, and I always get a headache when riding in one. How it willend 1 don’t know yet, but she usually has her way, We may possi- bly get a private conveyance, with driver, outriders and all, for they do that sort of thing here very much, It Is customary, too, and I find she is be. ginning to realize that you must follow the law here, We made an excursion out to the battle ground that made this sleepy little spot celebrated, and found noth- ing that could recall the bloody scenes which must have passed The whole face of nature is as placid aud sooth as if cannon balls had not plows ed up the soil. The town (what there is of it is laid out with low adobe huts, almost all of them present. ing a perfectly solid wall to the street, many of them having no opening what. ever except doors to the ro which open off the little place we are Frenchmai thar here regular]; 18 porches, The now Bi i renci ashi ant change, Here we made ¢ of the maguey as the Ar al’s « 1 Qing, nee beads or racing insignia, capes remind you of the head and neck of a stork, with the long bill on top. about dress they are innocent as babies, “Closely allied to sporting men actors, from a talor's point But there is really a wide between them, The sporting wants to dazzle you and the actor to overpower you. The sporting man will distribute his magnificence all over his person, while the actor relies on some certain peculiarity, such as a sealskin coat or a low cut shirt collar and a wide brimmed hat, to produce his el- fect. He wants his clothes cut, not to fit him, but to drape him, Actors are liberal customers when they have the money. They are the fellows for new clothes. They want everything slick and shiny, spick and span and brand new. They're the best tailors’ blocks, too, and afford more pleasure to a true artist’s eye than the merely elegant fel. low who distracts attention from his clothes to himself,” as difference A Pinner on Mott Street. A dinner with Mo Kee, a leading importer and banker, or with Fuong Hong Long, both of New York, is an event which will bear comparison with a banquet at Delmonico’s or the Hofl. man House, The wife will take a dozen of eggs, pierce them at either end, blow out the contents, refill them with wari colored and varl-flavored custards and jellies, seal the apertures, and then when cooked paint the shells until they are a nightmare of dragons, flying grif- fins and impossible trees that look hike men, and men that look like trees. She will open and steam a fish until the skin can be removed without losing a scale and the bones without breaking the fish, Its staffed with an aroma- tic and pungent mass of meats and spices, en the skin is put back and the eyes and head touched up so as to be half natural and grotesque, Most of her culinary genius Is ex. pended on stews and made dishes, Here she uses every article known to the Parisian chef and President Blackford, of the Ichtheophagous Club, and a host of food subsiances, spices, and condi- ments for which there are no names in any of the European languages. Her skill in weaving and embroidering silk i3 equally great, With a needle no finer than that which her occidental sister uses she will construct a dragon an inch long and and a balf inch high, of which not only the teeth, eyes and claws are perfect, but even the pupil, ins and cornea and the difference be- tween the incisors and canines are clearly and naturally defined. An altar cloth of dragons in the joss house on Chatham Square, and a moving screen of peacocks at Mo Kee's, on Mott Stank, are good illustrations of this workmanship and probably could not be duplicated anywhere In Christendom. pies ot, sisctzicity ws jive bY th in the year 1047. layers | tom. Thus root is gathered and u like ordinary soap, making a fine lather and washing clothes beautifully white, The Mexican women sit flat on the ground beside their tubs to wash their linen, and use only col water, never boiling it. The little woman is quite adrift about this, for her eyes prove that these woruen wash their clothes as white as the texture can be made, and vet she always was brought up to be. lieve that to make them white required the regulation *‘soaking, two warm sudses, a boiling and then another sud. sing rinsing and blueing.”” And these women have no washboards, either, doing all their washing between the hands, The little woman asked me to insert here that the Mexican women are the most industrious people she ever saw, for they were always working at their interminable needle work, their wash. ing or ironing or rsaking tortillas. It is only because they sit down to their work that makes them appear idle, and she wants to add that she thinks them very gentle and considerate and hospi table to strangers. While in this place I met a gentle man who showed me some native coffe, which was grown just over on the other side of the mountains, in a tract of land well watered and among groves of ban. anas. The berries were of several sizes and appearance, which, he said, were all off one tree, or bush, the small round ones from the lips of the branches and the larger, coarser ones from hear- est the main body of the tree, He had specimens in all stages of ripeness and preparation for the market, and assert- ed, doubtless with truth, that Mexico could supply this whole country with excellent coffee if there was any spirit of enterprise among the people. They grow cotton also, though the [bre is not so delicate and long as our own, and sugar cane i# one of the natural pro- ducts of the country, though it is cheap. er to buy fmported sugar than to make their own, which they have not yet learned how to refine, At this juncture the little woman came flying in, looking wonderfull tty in ber excitement, which tact Pe will excuse my weakness of will, 10 BAY oon “Oh, Edward, do come out and hold this beautiful little burro until 1 sketoh him, I have him tied to a post, but every time 1 go near he puts his ears back and stands on his front feet and kicks the others so fast that I am afraid of them. I can’t get within six yarcs of him, and he looks so mischievous, The owner is fast asleep, so I couldnt #0 and wake him, and you know that artists all hike these pretty little create ures, and besides, he looks like n cun- ning litte mouse; and, oh, come Aud I go,
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