NEWS OF THE WEEK
~Early on the morning of the 2d
fire broke out in the toy warehouse ol
E. A. Prior & Co,,on South Sharp
street, Baltimore. An explosion of
fireworks soon afterwards wrecked the
building and spread the fire to the
drug house of J, H. Winkelman &
Co. and the hat house of M, 5S. Levy
& Co. Scarcely bad the firemen en-
tered the drug house when another
terrific explosion caused that building
to collapse and spread the flames
throughout the entire block running
from Lombard to Pratt street. Eight
men are known to have been buried in
the ruins of the drug store and of
those only one escaped alive. The
total lcss is estimated at $1,000,000; it
'is nearly or quite covered by Insur-
ance.
— William A. Stewart, L. H. John-
ston and Elijah Beckler, respectively
President, teller and solicitor of the
saving bank at Rosalind, Illinois, are
missing, together with all the funds of
the bank, amounting to about $30,000.
The village 18 a suburb of Chicago and
has a population of 2000, nearly all
Hollanders, Swart was one of the
ssyoung Napoleons of finance,’ a street
car line projector, ete, , and offered high
interest for the use of his neighbor's
money. David Niblack and seven
others, one of them a woman, were ar-
rested In Pittsburg on the morning of
the 1st for robbing wholesale grocery
stores. The robberies had been carried
on for nearly a year, and 1t is estimated
that nearly $10,000 worth of goods were
stolen. The plan was for one of the
thieves to secure employment as a
would be carried off
and sold to their customers,
James HH. Miller, a brewer,
Rawlin, North Carolina, was robbed of
& wallet containing $7000 in the Cole-
man House, in New York, on the 3lst
ult. He caused the arrest of Patrick
Reilly, a night porter, and Mary York,
a chambermaid. Arthur White, aged
19 years, who recently absconded from
Denver, Colorado, with $10,000 belong-
ing to the banking house of Kittredge
the goods
toria, British Columbia, and $3500 of
the money recovered,
—Thomas Churm, a colored burglar,
was shot dead by a policeman named
Oidbam, while trying to escape arrest,
in Birmingham, Alabama, on the
morning of the 2d. William Sehrader,
58 years of age, attempted suicide by
swallowing carbolic acid and cutting
the arteries of his wrist, in New York,
on the 2d. He is not expected
Cover.
A heavy storm visited Hot Springs,
Arkansas, on the evemng of the Juth
uit. deveral buildings were swept
away, and Mrs, Mattie Fletcher and
woman named Harrison was killed by
the collapse of a building. Several
others, whose names were not learned,
were lost, The victims were poor
the line of the Cincinnati and South-
Flemingsburg aad Hillsboro, washing
out trestling and bridges and causing
the discontinuance of trains,
fered great loss,
tank in Cygnet, Ohio, exploded on the
rections, Bert Weincke,who was hold-
ing a lantern when the tank burst, was
burned to death.
~Heavy rains throughout Mexico
have greatly damaged the crops. Wash-
road interfere with the regular running
of trains,
—An explosion of gas in Packer Col-
liery, No. 3, near Shenandoah, Penna,
on the 3d, badly burned Anthony Shaw
John and Martin Burns, Joseph Dosen-
nis and George Schlack, Thomas Moe-
Kenney was dangerously injured on
the 34 by falling out of a third-story
window of the Iotel Windsor In
Youngstown, Ohlo, while intoxicated.
Henry Tanner, John Tanner and
Alonzo Smith, all colored, were taken
from the jail in Oxford, North: Carolina,
on the 24, by a mob of masked men
and banged. The Taoners were
charged with marder and Smith with
burglary and arson, a capital crime in
North Carolina. Charles Rise shot
and mortally wounded Mrs, Elizabeth
Funk at Midaletown, Ohio, on the
reputation, Richard Gordon was shot
and fatally wounded in John Lovell's
saloon in Chattanooga on the morning
of the 34, Those who saw the shool-
ing refused to say whodid t. Mrs
Maggie Collins was shot and killed by
some upknown person at her home,
near Circleville, Ohio, on the evening
of the 24, The woman was eating her
supper, and the shot was fired through
an open window, General Lopez Men-
dosa was on the 3d, shot by a young
lawyer on a train at Vera Cruz,
Mexico. Capt. J. 8. lewis and IL.
Johnson became involved in a quarrel
in Woodville, Mississippi, .on the 3d,
which resulted in the fatal shooting of
Johnson,
~John Schaffer, President of the
Jewett County National Bank at
Agenda, Kansas, has disappeared, and
been closed by the
quantity of f paper. Receiving
‘feller Audy, of the Bank Nationale,
uebec, has been missing since the
—Tha accident on the Missouri
cific Railway near Booneville, Mis
souri, was not so bad as first reported,
Three, instead of six persons were
killed. They were Charies Hall, Frank
McKinney and Frank McGonagle.
Two men were severely injured,
— Twenty-four new cases of yellow
fever and two deaths were reported in
Jacksonville on the 21, Total cases to
ie
date, 258; deaths, 34.
—JIt 18 reported that on the evening
of the 1st frost was disasterous to the
wheat crop at various points in the
Red River valley, Minnesota. A de-
spateh from Whitehall, Michigan, says
a severe frost has badly injured the
corn and ertirely ruined the buck-
wheat. A telegram from Montgom-
ery, Alabama, says rains during the
past week have done much damage to
open cotton. Some corn is also ruined.
1t 1s still threatening rain. Heavy
rains have caused serious damage to
the crops in the Chattahoochie valley,
Georgia. The Chattahoochle river Is
now 17 feet above low water matk, and
many large plantations are inundated.
The Eagle and Phoenix mills in Co-
lumbus have been compelled to shut
down.
— Labor Day was generally observed
on the 3d, in New York City, DBrook-
lyn, Buffalo, Albany, Boston, Chicago,
Baltimore, Detroit, Peoria, and other
places. In each place there was a pro-
cession, followed by a plenic, speeches
and games, In Chicago the United
Order of Bricklayers and Stone Masons
laid the corner-stone of their new hall,
The paraders in Cleveland, Ohio, ad
journed to a garden in the evening,
when a few Anarchists appeared and
displayed a red flag. They were al-
tacked Ly a number of workingmen,
and roughly handled and the red flag
was trampled under foot. Five of the
Anarchists were arrested on the charge
{ of riot. The others escaped.
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—There were indications at Havana
on the 3d, of the approach of a cyclone,
moving across the island In the direc.
| tion of Florida, The edge of the
| storm reached Key West on the 4th,
| with frequent rain squalls and a north
wind, having a velocity of 55 miles an
i hour,
~The east-bound Chicago and
| Atlantic fast freight train struck and
| killed three laborers, near State Line,
{ Illinols, on the evening of the 3d,
{ John Mikus was one, but the other tw
A freightipain on
Alton
two unknown men,
Illivola, on the
i
| the Chicago and
over and killed
i near Jacksonville,
morning of the 4th,
| a gang of men were at work on a new
Willlam McKay
| Several others were
—Willlam Mili
{of Allegheny Cils,
and killed by John ei tney, 8 Negro,
early on the mornnc of the 4th,
Demmey was on his way home from a
ball
him with a blackjack and that he shot
| him in self-defense,
! lor, aged 27, shot and fatally wounded
his step-father, Eli Dickinson,
38 years, in Wilmington, Delaware, on
| the 4th. Tayler charged that Dickin-
son was criminally intimate with his
step-daughter, Florence Taylor, and
| this cased the shooting. John Willis,
Samuel Hare and three others
engaged in a fght near
mouth of Worthington creek,
njured,
‘vnina., was shot
West
and Hare and Willis were killed. The
were on their way home from church,
bottom of it.
then shot himself, in Louisville,
thought both will die.
on an almost continuous spree since his
brother was killed in St. Paul, a month
ago.
the 4th. The lynchers are unknown.
-—B. Frank Baker, aged 19 years
was killed in Norristown, Penna, on
the morning of the 4th, while sleep-
walking. He climbed ont of a window
to a fonrthestory roof and walked
along the gutter, a distance of 60 feet,
when he fell to an awning below, a dis-
tance of 25 feet.
—While a freight train was crossing
a bridge at Halifax, on the 4th, a
brakeman named Cummings accident
ally ran against another named Chris-
tie, and both fell into the trestle work
and were killed.
James Shaw, 73 years of age, a
well-known citizen of Paterson, New
Jersey, committed suicide on the even-
mg of the 3d by taking landanum. J,
C. Payne, of Covington, New York,
committed suicide on the 3d by shoots
ing himself in the bead. He was a
member of the Assembly from Wyom-
ing county several years ago, He bad
suffered from mental troubles for three
years past. The Lody of Maggie Rice,
aged 25 years, was found in the river
near Harrisburg, Peana,, on the 4th.
It is supposed she committed suicide,
~—Jt has been discovered that Jules
List, Secretary of the Duckworth
Building Alsociation in Cincinnati, has
stolen $20,000 of the money of mem-
bers, List used the money in fast liv-
ing, and is now in hiding,
—1% has been learned that 8. O, Du-
pree, Cashier of the Lyons Bask, In
Lyons, Kansas, who is missing, and
whose accounts are $10,000 short,
stopped at a hotel in Montreal, Quebec,
recently, and then went West, [is
brother, who believes he Is insane, has
gone In pursuit,
«There has been another mail rob-
bery between New York and Ohi
cago. On the 81st uit. Blake Bros
Co., of New York, mailed to
agents in Chicago, three
each. The letters did
their destination. A rail
clerk is reported as saying that a
uable mail pouch was
the line between Albany and
In Chicago on the
Sth Loujs Larsen crawled
a short time the cylinder was filled with
and the man was enveloped iu flames,
which filled the entire cylinder. His
fellow -workmen were unable to get at
him to help lum, and enough water
could not be secured to quench the
flames, so ‘his companions could only
stand helplessly by and listen to his
ories until they were stilled in death.
~The expected cycione Blruck the
tsland of Cuba, near Sagua, and reached
Havana about midnight on the 4th,
Several vessels foundered off the coast
sno swere injured, Walls, trees, fences and
street lamps were blown down and
much damage was done to the wharves
at Havana. A telegram from. Key
West, Florida, says a hurricane passed
to the westward of that place on the
evening of the 4th,
—Forty-three cases of yellow fever
were reported in Jacksonville on the
4th, Fifty new cases were reported on
the 5th, with five deaths.
— A premature explosion occurred in
Collins Brothers’ stone quarry, in Bel-
lefonte, Penna., on the bth, Patrick
Dillon was struck in the face by a
stone, and it is feared that his sight
has been destroyed, Another man was
injured, though not severely.
—In Clinton, Iowa, on the afternoon
of the 5th, while James M. Ordway, an
inoffensive old man, was standing In
one of the principal streets, four toughs
came along, and one of them, without
provocation, struck the old man a blow
under the chin, which caused instant
death. The murderer, who has disap-
appeared, is supposed to be a youth
ramed Golden,
— Anthony Maher, a carventer, in
Newport, Rhode Island, shot himself
and his wife in a fit of jealousy on the
morning of the 6th, At last accounts
they were still alive, but in a critical
condition. They have four children.
A despatch from Forest City, Ar-
kansas, says that at Millbrook, on elec-
tion day, the negroes attempted to
steal the ballot-box, but finding the
whites on guard, fired a volley and fled.
John MeMath was fatally and six
others severely wounded. Joseph
Walker, colored, of Marietta, Penna,
died on the evening of the 5th from
the effects of a blow on the head in-
flicted by his brother Wallace, James
Dear
was killed by a negro named
on the Oth, Coleman then
induced Mr. Grant's housekeeper, Mrs,
He
~Fire in Baker City, Oregon, on
v
Ne
Loss $260,000, partially
Almost the entire business
section of Jennings, Lousiana,
A great mine fire
18 raging in the Latimer colliery, op-
erated by Pardee Brothers, five miles
north of Hazleton, Penna. [Dart of Whe
became
ignited on the As it was impos
n
Bth.
t
Black creek into the
The water
cided to tdrn
mine and drown it oul.
half a mile inside the slope Is at the
Should the fie get be-
will spread to adjoining
workings which boneycomb the enllre
district. The colliery employed 350
A despatch from Elmira, New
York, says there was a heavy {cost
throughout that section on the night
Tte tobacco crop is about
in and the remainder
was somewhat injured, s8 alo the
buckwheat. There was severe frosts
in the northern and eastern parts of
Rensselaer county, New York, on the
night of the bth, Farmers report
—1n the town of Bayard, Florida, a
small settlement near St. Augustine,
the bodies of a woman and her five
children have been found. They had
evidently been dead several days. The
house in which they were found was
supposed to be vacant, It is thought
the unfortunates were refugees from
Jacksonville.
—Near Madison, Indiana, on the 6th,
a vicious horse bit off the top of the
head of a three-year-old son of Albert
Bant, causing instant death. By a gas
explosion in the Reading Coal Com-
pany's Monitor colliery, at Mount
Carmel, on the 6th, a boy named Dyran
was fatally injured, and Superinten-
dent Charles Brecker and a miner
pamed O'Neil suffered dangerous in-
juries. Much damage was done to the
colllery, James Ford, a farmer, living
near Columbus, Indiana, while suffer.
ing from delirium, caused by fever on
the evening of the Oth, killed his ten-
year-old son and baby and fatally in-
jured his wife,
—THog cholera 1s reported by a United
Press despatch to be alarmingly preval-
ent in Cumberland county Penna It
is said that about 2000 hogs have al-
ready died. ’
A telegram from Havana says the
cyclone of the 4th was terribly destrocts
ive to life and property in Cuba, The
gunboat Leaitad foundered at Bota.
bano, and her captain and nine of her
crew were drowned, At Sagua 50 per-
sons lost their lives, and the neighbor.
ing village of Pueblo was “literally
wiped oul.” The telegraph wires beir
broken, no news from other parts 2
the island has been received,
~The danger of further floods at
Leon and Villa Lerdo, Mexico, is over,
the waters having begun to subside.
Two freight trains collided near
issouri,
injured. Five other employes wers in-
jured, but not severly. The boller was
old and worn out. The boiler of
Goulette & Letson’s threshing outfit at
Ellendale, Dakota, exploded on the
afternoon of the 5th. An old man
named McLean was killed and several
others were injured, four fatally,
~ Seventy-seven new cases of yellow
fever and eight deaths were reported
on the Tth in Jacksonville,
—Igaae Wooley, ome of the proprie-
tors of the Curryville Coal Company,
at Shelburne, Indiana, died suddenly
on the 6th, A few hours afterward
his wife suddenly expired, although
she had been apparently well. One of
the children is now at death’s door
from the same mysterious disease.
The wile of Rev. ¥. W. Anderson, of
Uhriesville, Ohio, was struck and
killed by a train at Bloomfield on the
evening of the Oth, as she attempled to
sross the track, Nellle Donovan, 22
years old, died in New York on the 7th,
from the effects of carbolic acid, which
her friends say she swallowed in mis-
take for cholers mixture, John Bath,
plumber, was caught in the elevator in
the Park Avenue Hotel in New York,
on the 7th, and crushed to death, Ie
was 24 years old, Frederick Taylor, a
miner, was killed on the Tth, by a fall
of coal In Hillman Veln Colliery,
Wilkesbarre, Penna.
~Miss Ada Flynn was murdered on
the 6th, at the home of her grand-
father, Alexander Traxell, near Glas-
gow, Penna,, by robbers, The murder
was committed in daylight, during the
absence of the family. Deputy Sheriff
Reilly, of New York, who allowed a
prisoner named King, charged
forgery, to escape from Lis custody on
the 5th, was arrested on the 7th, on a
charge of malfeasance in office, and
was placed under ball for trial. Henry
Adams has been remanded for trial in
New York on the charge of stealing
diamonds from jewelry stores in John
street and Malden Lane, It is sald
that he has served a term in prison in
Philadelphia for theft, A telegram
| from Corydon, Indiana, says the county
Commissioners have made an investi-
| Jolin C, Graves, and report that he is
a defaulter to the amount of 814,000,
| ago, and made a full seltiement will
i his successor,
—During the last two n unpre
cedented frosts have prevailed in New
{ Hampshire and Maine, doing great
| damage to vegetation, particularly
| corn and potatoes, In Sullivan county,
i &
ighis
early frost
if covered with snow. The cranberry
crop at Sharon, Massachiussils,
been injured by frost, excepti in
meadows protected by water. The
frost on the evening of the 6h will
have a serious effect on the canning
eetablishments in the vicinity of Med.
way, Massachus:its,
show bard frosts on the evening of the
6th, and a large loss to corn and to-
| bacco, The thermometer marked 24
| degrees in varios places. lee formed
| the thickness of window glass,
was a killing frost In
tselaer and Washington counties,
Ice formed, and great damage was done
ons, The frost was especially disast-
| ous near Saratoga.
| Middlesex, Norfolk and Worcester, in
| the night of the 6tb, and farmers lost
| such crops a8 CuCUMUErs,
squash and corn.
grape crop is injured.
Ice has formed In many places, A
heavy frost on the night of the 5th
| damaged potatoes, corn and tomatoes
in tbe vicinity of East Tawas, Michi-
A cold wave passed over New
Brunswick on the night of the Oih,
doing much damage to the crops, par-
ticularly buckwheat,
«The City of Mexico was visited on
the evening of the 6th at 8.44 o'clock,
by a slight earthquake, The oscilla
tions were from northeast Lo
southwest and lasted 24 seconds
At Orizaba the oscillation lasted 9 sec.
onds. No damage was done in either
place, Shocks lasting 15 seconds, with
oscillations from west to east, are re
ported In the State of Gunero.
«Reports from west of Aberdeen,
Dakota, state that prairie Ores are
doing great damage in Edmunds and
McPherson counties, A large number
of farmers have lost their crops and
buildings
~The post-office at Newton, New
Jersey, was robbed on the evening of
the 6th of $1200 in postage stamps and
money. The post-office at Cutler, In-
diana, was blown up with dynamite on
the evening of the 6th. This is the
fourth occurrence of this kind in that
town. On the morning of the Oth a
quantity of dynamite was found under
the hotel, with matches half burned,
«A despatch from Charleston, West
Virginia, says that a floed in New
river on the 6th carried awhy the big
fron bridge of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Raliroad at Grand View, involv
ing a loss of $56.000, A great deal of
damage in other quarters was also re-
ported. Additional particulars of the
eyclone in Cuba on 4th, show that
were killed at Matanzas,
Much damage was done in Cardenas
.
~A boiler in Adam Keyser's brick
yard neat Dodgeville, in Herkimer
county, New York, blew up on the
afternoon of the Tih, killing Keyser’s
ee vy. larch bad
eyser was y ured,
Keyser himself had both legs broken.
Two horses were killed. The explesion
wis caused thoughtiessly
outa CONGRESS, ~r'irar session
BENATE,
Inthe U. 8B. Benate on the Sd, Mr,
Vest offered a resolution instructing
the Committee on Civil Bervice Ileformd
to inquire whether an employe of the
Senate has been preparing campaign
partisan literature, “with his official
character printed thereon,” and what
legislation is necessary to prevent and
punish such conduct. After a discus-
sion, in which the subject of political
assessments and contributions was ven-
tilated, the resolution went over. The
bill for the admission of the State of
Washington was considered. A mes
sage was received from the House with
the Scott bill for the absolute exclusion
of Chinese immigration. The latter
was immediately taken up and Mr,
George moved ils reference to the
Committees on Foreign Relations. Mr,
Sherman stated the course of the Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations in regard
to the Chinese Treaty, and advocated
the passage of the bill on the ground
that apy nation had the right to pro-
vide for Its own preservation, even in
contravention of existing treaties
An Interesting and Instructive Article
About this Wonderful Bird,
“Curkoo! Cuckoo! Oh, welcome, welcome
noted
Fields, woods and waves rejoice
In that recovered
As on the wind ite fluty music floats.”
Have you heard the cuckoo!’
How often have we asked this ques-
tion in spring! We can hardly believe
that dull, dark, dreary winter bas real-
ly gone until we are assured of it by the
familiar notes of the *‘plain-song cuck-
op gray,” as Shakespeare calls him,
His song is certainly monotonous, very
like the echo of something else, In
some districts the country people be-
lieve that it is a voice from ihe spiril-
land, and emigrants tell us that there
are few sounds they miss so much,
Like other birds, it is the male cuc-
koo that is the songster, When he
first makes his appearance Lis note is
full and clear; but as June progresses
his voice begins to crack, becoming
worse in July, and dwindling down to
a hoarse croak in August, by which
time he thinks it expedient to carry his
“onck-cuck-cuck!’? to other regions,
Most of you are doubtless acquainted
voles,
After further debate the Senate, with-
out acting on the bill, adjourned,
4th, Mr. Cullom
which was referred, declar'ng trusts
unlawful and providing for their sup-
| pression, The House nll to prohibit
Chinese immigration was taken up,
and Mr, Teller spoke 1n support of the
bill, When
went over without action.
In the United States Senate on the
Sth, Mr, Sherman offered 8 resolution,
which was adopted,
| the recent treaty with China aad the
| amendments adopted by the Senate
peror. A conference report was pre-
sented on the Army Appropriation bill,
showing a concurrence in all
fortifications. The report was agreed
| The Chandler resolotion in reference
| with the old rhyme:
“In April the cuckoo st
In May he sings both ni
In June he altereth his tune
i in July be prepare 3
{ Come August, go he must
| According to some accoutits the cuc-
koo sets off on his journey southward
| earlier than this, foi Lancashire
folk say:
“he first cock «
$
& 10
f hay
Frights the cuckoo awa)
| And the Bretous give as a reason, thal
i when the cuckoo first ¢; y Brittany
{ he built a nest, like birds, and
was mightily proud of it, too; but a
wagon of bay bLappened Pass over
| him while he was hopping about ihe
| field, so that he was badly crushed. A
burnt child dreads the fire, and for a
similar reason hence-
| forth endure the sights
The Swiss have
the cuckoo can it
{ eaten a bird's egg; 1 bas
which killed itself by
i swallow ¢
10
10 CUCKOO Cal
3
on that
| the subject. At the
marks, the consideration of the Chi-
nese Restriction bill was resumed,
| After some discussion,
| taken, and stood: yeas, 32; nays, 0. As
&£% 110:
§ SLAF
him,
iad
What
I A ‘ 3
GOW as si
probability of getting one within
leaving the Lill undisposed of,
cussed and
37 to 0, but no quorum voted.
agreed, by unanunous consent, that the
vole should be taken to-day, and the
| Senate then adjourned.
man and Hoar refrained from voling
because they thought the Senate, be-
fore acting on the bill, should ascertain
really existed.”
in the U. 8, Sepate on the Tih,
Chinese Exclusion bli] was again taken
up. A message was received from the
President enclosing a
the American Minister at [DPegin,
{ dated the 6ih, saying: “Treaty post
poned for further deliberation.”
Gorman moved to refer the Chinese
Committee oa Foreign relations,
vote resulted, yeas 17, nays 19-—no
quorum. A call of the Senate showed
48 Senators present, a quorum being
30,
| motion to recommit stood yeas 19, nays
{ 20, so the motion was Jost. The bill
was then passed-—yeas, nays, 3.
After several roll calls, there being no
quorum, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE,
In the House on the 3d Mr. Seott of
7.
Ey
duce for present consideration a bill for
| the absolute exclusion of Chinese immi-
{ gration. There was no objection, and
| passed without a division. The rules
were suspended and the Senate bill rel-
ative to the detail of army and navy
officers to educational lostitutions was
ous members, to procure suspension of
the rules in order to call up a free col-
ton bagging bill, to have a day appoint-
ed for the consideration of the Okiaba-
ma bill, and to secure some labor legis
Jation, but they failed for want of a
quorum, and the House adjourned.
In the House on the 4th, the confer-
ence report on the Army Appropria-
tion bili was submitted, and a new
conference was orderaed on the disa-
greeing amendments. The Retaliation
bill was discussed by Messrs. Belmont,
McCreary, Hitt and Chipman. Ad-
journed.
In the House on the 5th, conference
was ordered on the Fortification bill
Mr. Stahlinecker, of New York, made
a personal explanalion in conpection
with the proposed investigation of the
new library building business, Ie de-
pounced the charges against him as
false in every particular. Mr. Oates
of Alabama, Introduced a concurrent
resolution for the final adjournment of
Congress on the 20th Inst. It was re-
ferred to the Ways and Means commit.
tee, A bill was reported and referred
to the Committee of the Whole, ap
pro ng $200,000 to suppress infec-
tion in the inter-State commerce of the
United States, A Will was passed for
the exchange of worn or mutilated
subsidiary coin, at coinage value, for
new and unworn cols. The considera
tion of the Retaliation bill was re-
sumed. After speeches by Messrs,
Phelps, Belmont, Seott and others,
pending action the House adjourned.
In the House on the 6th the bill to
increase the efficiency of the Medical
Division of te Pension Bureau and the
Poataltation bill were discussed, Mr,
Scott, of Pennsylvania, concludes his
; in support of the latter bili. At
conclusion of Mr, Scott's remarks
The only i
| the female cuckoo does
Perhaps she is too much
| wondering where she
for, you know, a cuckoo mother nb
| dreams of building a house an
up her children respective
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Nor is this by any
of the story.
No sooner is the young iwekoo out of
the shell than he sets to work to jerk
| and toss out of the nest any little birds
| or eggs that ma) to be there,
{ In a very short space of time the in-
| terloper is completely. “king of the
castle.” and as his appetite is insatiable,
his listle foster-mother has enough to
| do to keep him supplied with food.
| The Germans have a proverb, “an
grateful as a cuckoo;” and, gladly as
| we welcome the herald of spring, we
ican not help feeling that there are
| points in his character the reverse of
commendable, :
The country folks in Sussex say that
all the cuckoos are taken care of by an
| old woman, who, when the winler is
| over, fills her apron with them. If she
is mn good temper she lets a large num-
ber of thers loose on the 14th of April;
| but if she happens to be cross only two
| or three are allowed to fly away,
So if you do not hear the brown
bird’s cry as soon as you expected you
will know that something must have
occurred io ruffle the feelings of the old
dame in Sussex!
The French say that the cuckoo is
such a vain bird that he will never re-
peat any thing but his own name; and
the German children have a piece of
poetry which relates how a cuckoo
stopped a starling who bad just come
from town, and asked her what people
thought of the nightingale.
“The whole town is loud
praises,” said the starling.
“And what about the lark?"
“Half the city is talking of her.”
*“And the blackbird?"
“A few people say they admire bin.”
“Well, what do they say about me?”
*‘Nothing at all.”
“Oh, then,” said the cuckoo, “1
must praise myself. Cuckoo!”
Another reason for the bird's mono.
tonous cry is given by Bev. Charles
Swainson, whe tells us the old Bobe-
mian Jegend: “In early times the cue-
koo had a crown, but the hoopoe has de-
prived her of it. It happened in this
wise: When the birds were about to
celebrate a wedding, the hoopoe—Dbei
selected to give nway the bride,
therefore anxious to add to the dignity
' its appearance-—asked the cuckoo to
lend him his crown, The latter kindly
consented, but when the hoopoo dis
covered how well it suited him, he kept
it and never returned it to its ownerl
“And ever since the cuckoo lins been
calling ‘Kluku! Kluku!' (i, & ‘You
knave! you knavel}; while the hoopos
SSW: Jadu! Jdut* (L & I'm com
ingl 1'm coming!).”
A MONETROUS NOTION, =Browt-—I1s
in her
heavens, old
what put monstrous notion
is (puff) cigar you've just given