HOW CROCODILES ARK CAUUHT. Tall VhMH at Walaara < -alKara at a UrtkM Maa.Kalar. An Englishman in India write*: The annual Btilan Pnasa, or Ramadan, waa being observed, wbeu our Malaya feet by day, gorge thtmeclvi* at night, and suffer all the horror* erf dysj opaia until feeding time oome* again. When the run sets a gnn ia tired from the piofcvee qne little fort gnaitling the Klang river and the British residency. The tint meal is over, and again at the approaoh of midnight the faithful wore making ready for another attack on the good things provided: when, preparatory to the repeat, one Hadjie Mahomet Yakirn, a stalwart Menangkabow man, proceeds to a large log of timber at the landing place, at the end of Gelan Malaon—the Malay street—to perform his ablutions and add to the long list of prayers ho haa so conscientiously recited during the past day. A scream of terror is heard from the landing place, and the Hadjie'a friends rush out of their house, alarmed at what they hear. A search ia made, but the poor Hadjie has disappeared, leaving his turban and marks of struggling in the mud to show what fate had been his. A few inquiries soon indicate that one of the numerous crocodiles in the river had taken the unhappy Hadjie, and the usual standing reward of forty cents a foot was offered for the capture of the brute. Three days elapsed when a Pandi-Pahang man offers to the super intendent of police to " tankup itn boy a " (catch that crocodile), if the resident will increase the reward to a dollar a foot This was readily agreed to, and within twenty-four hours the Hadjio eating crocodile was booked literally. A large iron hook waa baited with a larg. fowl, a very long rattan, some ninety feet in length, being fastened to the (look. The bight of the rattan is thrown over the overhanging branch of a tree, and the bait is suspended on tbe surface of water. The following morning the spot is visited, and the rattan haa disappear ed. A canoe with one erooodile-catcher and two others search the river, and at Last the floating rattan is disoovord. A pull at it soon indioetes what sort of fish has been hooked, and our boatmen play the crocodile with a long scope un til he is qniet enough to get ashore; then they manage to secure him literally hand and foot, the jaws lashed together, the tail, however, being left free. The brnte measured thirteen feet in length, and how the three plucky fellows man aged to fasten him, and anbseqnently roll him off the bank into the small dng oot canoe, is beyond my comprehen sion. Of course, when tired ont, the croco dile was pretty qniet, and they conld easily have speared him; but they ab solutely brought him to the boom, or public landing place, nnhnrt. Here a public reception was aooorded to the man-eater, and all the boys in the town fairly towed him ap tbe hill to tbe fort gates. The superintendent received him and took him inside his small gar den—an attention he acknowledge by sweeping half the flower pots with one sweep of his tail, and sending an nnhap- F retriever flying across the compound. was sway when the crocodile was brought in, bnt I arrive*] at night to witness a scene worth sketching. There the fastened brnte, with heaving flank, and DOW and then a sweep of the tail that indicated with what force it son Id be used. One of the officer* stepped forward and gave the beast a kick in the side, which be resented with a stroke of his tail that would have certainly pnt a stop to my friend's kicking for some time to oomc, had it taken effect The fort garden waa crowded with men, and the glue of torches, gleaming of weap ons and angry glance* from the poor Hadjie's friends at tbe victim before them, formed a scene not easily forgot ten. Speculation waa rife as to whether the right crocodile had been canght, bnt all agree he looked fat enongh to con tain a Hadjie daring Balan Phase. This was soon set at rest, and I had the satis faction of potting three rifle ballets in the neck of the brnte, which settled him. On opening him, snre enongh there was the poor Hadjie'a head, almost cloven in three parts, and other remains —evidences of a taste for goat*, fowls and other stich odds and ends. Ksssith's Presence of Hind. Writing in Soribner ot the olergy, and especially of the eloquence of the sailor-preach) r Father Taylor, Edward Egglestpn tells the following anecdote of Kossuth ; Mr. Emerson c >mpares Tay lor with Kossuth in this gift of natural and unchecked oratory. I remember an ineidenttbat happened during the grest Hungarian's progress through this coon try. In Madison, Ind., ha spoke in the church of which my stop-father was the paator. After his addreta in English the Americans were all turned oat to make room for the Germans, but I climbed, boy-like, from the parsonage yard through the chnreh window and as place on the stefM of the high, old lioned pulpit, where, banging over the balostera, I saw, rather than under stood, the wonderful oratory of Koaauth. The Germans were wronght Into a frenzy of excitement, but jnst as the meeker, depleting the ootaing liberty of Oermauy, had reached the summit of his tramemlona declamation, and while the throng of Germane crowding every inoh of floor and galleries was swayed to and fro in excitement aa by a wind, a child held in the arms of a woman in the very middle of the church, took fright at the applause and began to scream so frantically as to render any further ■peaking impossible, It took some minutes to get the mother and child out Of the jam ; the break was depressing, end I felt very sure the speech was spoiled. Aa the child's voice at length went out in the open air, the disappoint ed and now depressed audience turned to the orator, who swept bis hand through the ai sad said vehemently is Oerman: "He may cry now for Germany, bnt when be ia old be will langb I " The lost grouod was reoovered by thia single dash, and the audieooe at white beat again. Whet is the difference between a blind man and a sailor in prison ? One can't see to go, and the other can't go to sea. DESPERATE INDIANS. OtMla •> Tktlr OalkrMk U r*rt MIUM. Nefe>—Uew Thar r*iati the MlUn. A correspondent at Fort Robinson famishes details of the reoent outbreak of imprisoned Cheyenne*, as follows: The original programme of these sav aes seeniH now to have been carefully prepared by them with an intelligence and Hpirit which would have been he roic in the higheat degree if employed in a better cause. Daring a visit to this band of reckless wretches, made by jour correspondent during the past three weeks, it became evident that tbe younp backs were strung up to the high est pitch of revolve ana were plotting some desperate undertaking. They freely gave out that they were ready to die before consenting to be transferred south, nd said they would bntcber one nnotber with their own knives. When the decisive moment arrived for their desperate attempt, tbe first inci dent which took place WUH the delioer ate shooting by a back of Private Rich ard Smith. Company A, Third Cavalry, through the window sash, in front of which the latter was walking as sentry; after which the Indian sprang through the window and seised the gun of tho wounded soldier, as quickly springing back to his cover. Then simultaneous ly two bneks ran ont of the door at tho west end of the barracks and fired upon the two sentinels there, wounding one, Private I'eter Halse, Company A, and as precipitately rushed back. The guard room close by was filled with tbe guard, and Corporal Pulver opened tho door quickly to see what was the matter. Turning the oorner where the firing occurred, he too was shot by an Indian, whereupon the remaining members of tbe gnard jumped through the windows, as did tho Indiana, pell mell. and the firing became rapid and almost in discriminate. Here Private Daniel Tornmeny, of Company E, on guanl, waa shot down. At the lower northeasterly end of the barracks a sqnad of Indian bocks, fonr or five in nnmber, huddled and fired rapidly on tho soldiers to protect the flight of their band. The bucks dashed forward, with chil dren under their arms, while the sqnaws followed close upon their heels, carrying saddles, bridles and provender for their perilous march. Captain Wcssells had Company C ont qnickly from their quarters, which run in an obliqne direction to the prison honse of tbe Cheyeunos, and volley after volley wa* poured into the fleeing desperadoes and a* earnestly returned by the Indi ans, who sped toward the saw mill, which 1 lea south, and their bleeding bodies, mangled and torn, bucks, sqnaws and papoose* all together, literally strewed the road they had se lected for their mnch-hoped deliverance. This lasted for miles ont into tbe dark nesn nntil the neighboring hills, rising liko giant icebergs, were reached ; and many a one stumbled and fell dead jnst as the mountain fastnesses were roach - ed, where pursuit would tie impractica ble and safety gained. Tbe soldiers, who all along, from offi cers down to the private*, had treated them wiih the greatest kindness, were now aronsed to tho highest pitch of eiaaperation, ami, where the first shot did not dispose of tbe victim, s rovp yrarr was readily given by final pistol charge. Almost every one is shot through the head, and the attitudes of the dead are of almost every variety. Home throwing their hands in the sir wildly; some clutching at their knivoa with a last effort, and others holding their firearm* in a frozen, helpless clutch. One of the Indians fought so tenaciously at cloee quarters that bis garment* were set on tire by the pistol which killed him. Twentr-two braves, eight squaws and two children were thns killed, although one of the latter is believed to have frozen to death. The men, although frenzied at thia sudden but Indian-like ingratitude for their kindness, were as tender in caring for the squaws as if they had done no harm. Captain Wea sels himself carried a child Ims than two years old for a hundred yard* to a place of safety. Lieutenant Mini peon brought a wagon and team to pick up the women and children, and Captain Weesels says that while it is to be re gretted that any woman or child was killed, it oould not be helped, as they were huddled together so no distinction oould he made between male and female. Home very ludicrous as well as tragic scenes occurred in the bright moon light. Captain Weasels, with siz men, was following moccasin tracks, and, dis mounting. he, with the siz men, crawled upon the pigh ridge, when hediaoovered n Kiocbsa squaw whom he knew, with a bock beside tier. He oalled to her to snrrender, when the buck charged the party like an infnnated demon, dtacharg ing his revolver at oloss quarters, and actnally drove the captain's party nntil they oould reload, which done, Private George Lsvalle killed him. Sergeant Casey, of the group, says it was the most astonishing esse of resolution he ever saw. An Appalling Record. In this happy land, my* the Cincinnati Commercial, 1,182 people were killed by their fellow-men in 1878. We briefly summarise the killings u follow*: Peraona poinoned 26 Persona killed by thieve* 67 Killed in political quarrel* 14 Father* kill none 18 Inaane murderer* 18 Mother* kill their children 87 Men killed in common quarrels .. 268 Bar-room and drunken quarrels . . 74 Wives killed 68 Child mnnler* 9 Accidental killings 69 Justifiable 28 Killings on account of dogs 4 Killings on account of wives 64 Card and gambling quarrels 16 Fend* 66 Parricides. 8 Fatal quarrel* about property 66 Mobs kill 77Z 29 Wives kill husband*. 11 Officers kill persons 68 Officer* killed 86 Fraternal fatal quarre15............ 14 Thieves shot 27 Colored people killed 112 Colored people kill 172 Persons killed on account of laniusge or opprobrious epithet* need..... 18 Miscellaneous killings 67 1,000 FKET DOW R WARD. Tfc* TsrrlM* Pall mt a Sail***!* la aa Ar kaaaa* Taw*. A Joneaboro (Ark.) paper gives the details of a balloon aaceoaion in that plaoe, and the aeronaut's terrible fall, as follows : Although the weather wa* very oold and anow on the ground, the people from tbe country began to come in early, on horseback, on foot and in wagons, aud by noon perhaps the largest crowd ever assembled in Jonea boro was found hovering around the fires in the public houses, and standing about on the snow in the public square and around the spot where the men were preparing the balloon. The prepara tions neemad to progress slowly, and tbe crowd, oold, hungry and impatient, clamored and waited until nearly live o'clock, when all was announced ready, and tlie balloon, swaying and tugging at tlie lope*, seemed like some huge monster struggling to be free, and the word* " let hor go I" were pronounced, and *he shot upward with a fearfnl surge, with Mr. Dirk clinging by his hand* to the trapeze, bnt aome twenty feet lielow the balloon. Hweeping slightly north and west, the huge mon ster sped rapidly upward through the chill air until it attained a height of perhaps twelve hundred feet, and seem ed almost to mingle with tbe mnrky cloud* that hnng low and heavy aroanu it. When some one hundred feet np, the man made an effort to monnt the bar, bnt failed;and when abont three hundred feet np, again essayed to place himself on the trapese and again failed, and aa the balloon climbed higher and higher he wa* still hanging by his hand* to the bar. To those who took time to think, bin nituation now seemed perilous, aa it was evident he wa* for some reanou nnable to get upon the bar, and it wa* exceedingly doubtful if be oould bold by his hand* to the oold iron at sncb an altitude in *uch an air, and many an anxious eye looked longingly for the balloon to oommence its (leaeent; bnt it still clung with fiend ish tenacity to it* giddy height. The suspense now became intolerable, hut it wa* brief. Tbe doomed man, realising his peril, now made a laat frantic effort to gain a hold upon tbe rope above. It wa* in vain. Hi* fate wa* Healed. This wa* known to those who looked upon the distant, diminished form, banging by so frail a hold between heaven and earth. He knew and felt it; and who can realize the horror of that moment. A thousand eye* were looking longingly, a thonnand hi art* were praying silently; but n million arm* oould not rescue him. He had passed the reach of hnman aid and the limit of hnman endurance. What scene* of his past life thronged through hia brain. What thought* of home cr mother, we will never know. The laat hopeless cry of despair wa* not heard; the last startled look of the eye gazing into eternity wa* not seen. Alone and unaided he met his doom. One arm drops, nevertheless, from it* grasp an instant, the other loosena its hold, and he falls down, down. Borne gaze at the fearfnl night with tlie help lee* fascination of horror; strong men, who have braved death on tbe battle field, turned away with bl nched face* and sickened heart*. A wail of woe goes up from fainting women; all else ia still. For more than half tbe distance ho dcaoended in an erect position, feet dowm, and then he awnng over and dropped rapidly, head foremost, toward the earth, hi* hand stretched instinct ively forward, and then with a heavy thnu he struck the frozen ground, and the aickeuing scene was over. Tbe crowd then rushed to the apot where he had fallen, jnst outside the yard of the west side of the fence at the residence of Mr. O.W. Cnberhouse, about 200 yards northwest of the point he rose from. In falling, be passed through the branch** of a small hickory tree, and the limb* seemed as if hewn off with an sxe; and where he struck tbe hard, frozen earth, his body made a cavity aome inches deep and two feet long, though he rebounded, and lay stretched upon his breast. He had evidently bern turned by strik ing tb* tree, and fell npon bis back and right side, aa tbe aknll wa* crushed at the back of hia head. Hia neck, back, both legs and right arm were terribly broken np, while his left arm and face seemed uninjured, and, when prepared for the grave, bis countenance wore s remarkably calm, natural, life-like ex pression, as if sleeping, with no appear ance of agony or discoloration. Hi* body was taken in charge by Cor oner Wren, who snperintendedhi* burial, and be was conveyed gently to bis grave, attended by a few humane and sympa thizing citizens. < ashing and ( boats. Tbe late Caleb Cashing and Cboate, at a trial where they represented differ ent aides, were both anxious for an ad journment As this waa an unusual thing for either, after the adjournment, Mr. (iernah, a friend, asked Cboate the reason. This is hia account Baid I, " How ia it that you were ready for a continuance to-day f It ia a little odd of you." Choate replied, " Ob, lam a little proceed with business, and oan afford to let this cam stand over." Baid I, " Cboate, tbis ia sheer nonsense. I'll tell you what the matter is. Ton are afraid of Cnshing." "8o I am," was the reply, "and I am not ashamed to own it either." " Well, well," said I: "this ia pretty good. Tbe idea of Rufus Cboate being frighten* 11 What on earth do you fear in Cashing F' " Mr. Gerriah, I will tell you. I am afraid of hia overwhelming knowledge of the law." In the afternoon Cashing oame into the oflloe. I went for him at onoe. " Caleb, what waa the matter to day f Why didn't you insist on trying tbst nasef' "Ob/' he replied; "the weetber is warm, and we have mnoh to attend to, end 1 didn't oare to hurry matters." " Now, Cnshing, be honest; were you not a little afraid of Choate F" • Well, Gerriah, to be candid about it, f was. Are you satisfied now F* I then inquired what he feared Choate for. "Do you think," geld I, " that he knows any more law than yon doF' " No, sir, I don't," waa the answer; " but I'm afraid of tbe man's influence with a Jury, right or wrong."—Albany Law Journal. Diphtheria has for two years raged fa some district* of Hungary. In one town 2.186 persons oat of 20,000 have lately hern attacked, ami 037 have died. The malady alao prevails in Vienna. COLD WATER. •' l *mm— Wkltk PraSaaa Ttiiw Bmalai Mar* frtaMiu The climate of the United Btales, ud Meilljr the eastern portion of it, in mbjeot to grnt and rapid change*. Theito are canned, in many instanoes, by the large extent of land aorfaoe over which it* territoryextenda and thediffcr ence in the amount of nolar heat received in different part*. When large bodiea of anow have been deposited in the north the wind sweeping over them ia deprived of ita heat, and a lower tem perature ia the rcan It When winda from more southerly latitndea ooonr, the reverse takee plane. Tlie vicinity of the large ooeana which margin the continent of North America on the went and east alao tend to produce a change water parting with it* heat leaa readily than the land. In addition to theac the cur rent of warm water thrown along the ea*t coast of the United Btate* by the gulf Ktream, and in the Pacific by the sea of Japan, alao exert a powerful in fluence on the climate of the United Btate". Tliat wave* of heat and oold travel in oertain direction!, and often with increaaing rapidity, ia generally canned by the course of chains of moun tain* and the vioinity of ooeana and lakes. In the Htaten east of the Alio ghanie* cloud* loaded with rain or *now generally ooroe from the cast or north, while in the great valley of the Missi*- sippi the oold wave usually ha* it* origin in the ice and enow covered conn trie* directly north, and period* of dronth by winds from the aonth. In Rnropean oonntriea the cnltivmtion of the soil and the removal of timber have produced important climatic changes, and tlie same ha* been notieed in the United Btate*. Our winter*, probably, have not *o much severe weather a* occurred in the early settle ment of the oontincnt, bnt it taken place more nnddeuly and to a greater extent. Thi* ia easily aooonnted for, a* the land, when denuded of timber, preaent* Icm obstruction to the advance of *torm*, and alao afford* a greater diversity of expoMnrc in ita surface to the ray* of the nun and become* more readily and differently heated. An i* well known, wind in nothing more than air rnahing in to rentore the equilibrium which ha* been disturbed by expansion canned by heat, and when the air thna moving ia loadfx] with snow or other vapor, una, when meeting with air of a different tem perature, condensation take* place and rain or anow ia deposited. The influence of these sudden change* v that the human band may be placed uninjured in lead boiling at white beat, being protected from any barm by tbe moisture of the skin. Should tbe lead be at a perceptibly lower temperature, the affect need not be described. FOR TBI FAIR HEX. News as* Nmm fmr Wnn. Four Hindoo women have been grad uated lately from the Madras medical oollege. Oueen Victoria and tbe princess of Wales wear their hair parted plainly over the forehead. Red is so popular that the Paris fashion writers feel compelled to My that it is worn with frenzy. In aoecnlance with a custom of the country, Uie king of Rnrmah has lately married hi* own half sister. English ladies still wear an ornament al smelling-bottle banging from their girdles or bells, with a few charms at tached. Twenty-five native atndenta in Cal cutta have pledged themselves not to mairy until they have reached tbe age of twenty-one. The Ladies' Work society of London has received a prize for the embroidery that it displayed at Paris. The Prin cess Lonise is president of this organi sation. " I am almost seventy-one," said Mrs. Myra Clark (Jainesto a Washington cor respondent, the other day, " and I ex- Fect to live till I am ahnndred and fifty, come of a long-lived raoe. One of my annta lived to i hundred and fifteen/' Boeing the correspondent scrutinizing her hair, "It uuft dyed," she said " and it is very abundant, falling below my waist." At tbe Brazilian minister's re.-ption in Washington the wife or the French minister wore a dreaa which a writer of the Star of that city describes aa fol lows : "No toilet worn in Washington in many years surpassed that of tbe A UK-ricaa wife of M. Outray, tbe French minister, who wa* preaent with her husliand. It was a superb robe of gar net velvet, a court train showing a creamy brocade petticoat, and a waist with s Marie Btnart collar embroidered in pearls. A diamond necklace and earrings were worn, and stars of the same jewels and ruhie* in her hair;point lace filled in tbe neck and finished the sleeves." V■**!•■ Smm. Coiffure* arc as varied aa ever. Cameos* are fashionable again. Btreet dresses for walking are all made short. Bangle rings are among late jewelry novelties. Pi ethers ai j again worn in the hair in the evening. Olluloid coral i* always fashionable for young girls. (fold bead or gold ball necklaces have not gone ont of fashion. Both real and imitation jewelry is mncb worn at the moment. The newest fsns are made of fine wire, delicately painted by band. Bqnare jabots of plaited muslin aud lace are the most fashionable. Boft black velvet cajsi are much worn ont -of-doors by English women. Panier* are beooming matters of coarse on fall dress Paiia toilets. Scarfs of India mnalin trimmed with Breton lace are worn instead of fur. Panier* of watered silk or brocade are used on plain silk and satin Unlet*. Overdresses of satin are worn with nnderdrtwse* of plush, and rice tvrta, Dolman riaite* fit closely to the figure, and for the most part have elbow sleeve*. Btreet wrsj* are either long aaoquea, heavy nlsters, or fur lined circulars and dolman visits*. Masculine looking, rough gray mixed ulsters are worn, with rongb gray mixed felt hut* to match. A light ro*e pink ia the choice*! color for ladies' glove* at tbis writing. Pure white kida, of course, are indispensable on wedding occasions. A laiaami llaairr**. Mis* Bnsie Jones, daughter of Captain Jonc*, a pioneer settler of tbe oounty, last week noticed that tbe dog* had " treed "tome animal near the honse. armed beraelf with a gun and proceeded to investigate tbe matter. No sooner had she approached the tree than a gigantic catamount sprang to the groundL The dogs followed in cloae pursuit over tangled weeds and through the dense willows and foreeta of the Tnolnmne for near a mile, when the ani mal again took to a tree for protection. The brave girl trudged on alone, with her gun on h