ThankftglTlng. Many of our readers—and they need not he very old—can recollect when Thanksgiving dny was nn exclusively New England holiday, and in which the others of the older States did not par ticipate. As New Englanders migrated westward, and helped to found new States, they carried with them their usage of annually observing a day of thanksgiving, it is thus that the custom lias spread to other States, until now, having been confirmed by the action of recent presidents, Thanksgiving lias be come no longer a part ial, hut a national holiday. It is well that this, originally a farmer's holiday, has a general otiserv anee. It is most fitting that the farmers of this broad land should, on one day in the year, gather in their scattered child ren, and in one of the holiest of temples —home—give thanks for that upon which the prosperity of the nation rests —the abundant harvest. It is pleasant to think upon Thanksgiving day in its higher aspects, hut not the less so in its associations and its minor influences. Being emphatically a home holiday, it more 11ian all others affects the homes ol the hind, not less the homes in towns and cities than homes upon farms, and long before the day is at hand the thought that" Thanksgiving is coming" controls the movements in households every where. The home that is not upon the farm is none the less to observe the day; it, too, is to have its " feast of fat things," and the city housekeeper looks to her sister in the eountrv for a fatted turkey " wherewith to make merry.". A large share ot the demand for the tur key. the bird that has become so isen tiai to the thanksgiving feast, is sup plied by those farmers whose floclcs number hundreds; but aside from these, the turkey plays an important part on many small farms, and the bird, besides "furnishing forth" the material for many a home feast, is in itself a cause for grateful thanks. Many a mother, to help the family purse; many adauehter, in pride nt being indeisuident of her father's hard earnings, to meet her per- ' sonal wants, looks to her flock of tur keys; and ns Thanksgiving draws nigii, she counts and feeds her flock with pleasant anticipation of the day in which the hopes of many days will he eonsum- j mated. Blessed be the observance which touches so nearly so many human hearts. Blessed he the day which brings joy to - so many homes—which, to the wanderer, wherever lie may he, turns his thoughts towards home. And when has the ! American farmer had greater occasion on Thanksgiving day than now to sav • "Oh! give thanks unto the I->rd, for lie is good and his mercy endureth for ever.—Amtrioan AgrictUttirid. Where Corn is King. Corn is king in Kansas, so far as space is concerned. They plant it by square miles, one might fairly infer, the fields are so incredibly far-reaching; and if it did not grow very much of its : own accord it could not grow at all. as the sheer abundance of it forbids any thing like thorough cultivation. They aim to plow it twice, though sometimes ' once lias to suffice, and where it lias been sod planted it is left untouched till i it ripens; and yet it thrives in n way, that makes folly of ail rule and precedent, ; the stalks attain a size and height which give them a resemblance to young for-; ests of hickory, and the men with plows \ look lost among them ; and as f<ir the j ultimate yield in ears and bushels, is it not proclaimed everywhere in those ! graphic and seductive land advertise mcnts which tell how Kansas was ten years ago the t wenty-fourtli State in the 1 production of corn, and is now sur- I passed bv only three of all the thirty- | eight? The small cost and labor of till-j ing is doubtless the chief inciting ca v | of tli*s extensive recourse to a crop, i which, however bounteous it may be. offers but slender profit unless fed to i livestock: hut I suspect that it is a | crop that also has special favor witli the frontier people—perhaps without their exactly realizing the preference— because of the resolute, imperious, army- j with-hanners method it lias of possessing and holding the country. For corn is by nature aggressive and detivniined. The smaller grains feel their way tim idly in a primitive soil, and the alsirigi naf verdure disputes every Inch of pro gress with them. But where this auto crat of the cereals tak< root it scorns rivalry, and its sway is complete and en during. And so these leagues upon leagues of Kansas corn, seen in the sum mer and in their glory of si Iked and tas seled and sunlit strength, convey a sig nally striking impression. They do not merely cling to ho earth, but they seize it and make it their own; you know that those dense and advancing ranks can never be stayed, never turned hacg ; and somehow the vast expanse of un oonquered prairie yet spread out before them and all about them—ten acres to each one acre of tlieirs—seems overawed I and contraetd by their masterful in fluence. It is Birnam wood come to Punsinnne.— Srrihm. r. (• rowth of the States. Some new and important figures, pre- j senting the comparative growth of the great geological divisions of the i United States, are given in an article by Robert P. Porter, of Chicago, in the Princeton Review. The writer shows that the growth in population of the Western States in nineteen years (since I"60) lias been 7.903,633: that of the Southern States 4.686.984: that of the Eastern States, 3,80H,706; tlie increase in the Western Stab* being nearly H 000.000, or equal to the aggregate increase of the Eastern and Southern States in the same period. According to Mr. Porter's fig ures, the number of persons employed in manufacturing in the Eastern Slates in l"50 was 696.661 ; in 1860, 000.107; in !H70,1,873,H0H ; at the present time, 1,734.• *63. In the Western States, 5H,017 in 1H50; 113.045 in I860; 300,631 in l"7o, and W0t, 513 at the present time. In the Southern States. 109.866 in L"50; 131.1179 in I"60; 1 "6.470 in IH7O, and 35H.3H9 at the present time. The local debts ol these States in 1870 were: Eastern States #278,535,"96; West ern States. #04,337,648: Southern States, #03,730,130. The local debts at the pres rut time, according to Mr. Porter's es timate,nre : Eastern 5tate5.#540.155,048; Western Stall's, #146.033,037; Southern Stab's, #:83.3W3 183. If the State debts are added the three sections owe as fol lows: Eastern States,population 14,300,. 000. total debt, #038,233,316; Western States,population,#l4,6oo,ooo,total debt, 9173.835.V10; Southern States.population 14,395,000, total debt, #365,987,964. The article carefully discusses the relative progress of each section of the country, and points out in an entertaining man ner the strength and weakness of each geological division of the United States; declaring that only by such a view of our wants can we gain common sense, com mon aims, and a deeper faith In the fu ture of the republic. rnbnl and Its People. The diversified crowds ol people that surge through the streets ef Cahul agree in n way. At night, when the narrow bazaars are aglow witli the reflected light of oil in little metal wick-lamps, ignited cotton floating in earthenware saucers, or the wood-fires of the cooks, the Fcrghnnce tins no objection to sit side l>y side witli the Bokiinriun on the low, open veranda of tlie cook's short; anil on the same platform, witli the seething flesh-pot in the center, contain ing little lumps of meat skewered upon a stick, representatives of twenty differ ent Mohammedan nationalities are con tent to sit toget her upon terms of equality, and afterward to exchange the hookah and tlie national love-song, ami the romance of chivalry and theft. I.ike other (Oriental towns, Cahul is filthy. Sanitation is not even a dream witli the inhabitants. There are four principal roads, which arc from thirty to forty feet broad, and these are con sidered the handsomest streets. One is the (Jreat Bazaar, or Charcutta, com posed of one-story mud houses, which nave verandas, slightly elevated above open gutters, opening full upon tin itreels. These verandas become shops in the daytime and arestorcd witli speci mensof all the furs, silks, and wool and hair cloths that Central Asia produces. In the evening three or four cronies sit on a mat in almost every shop, set a lamp in their midst, fold their feet, put on their skull-caps, and smoke and tell stories till midnight. Another grcst bazaar, leading from tlie Western (late to the Bala Itissar is monopolized by cooks and butchers. Heads and car eases are suspended there in plenty, hut no trace of the unclean animal, the pig, is discernible. It is in this bazaar, by oil-light, that some of the most picturesque - looking ruffians in the world may be seen. Observe this one. A man over six feet high; his head conical-shaped ; the jet black hair close cut, almost to tlie bone; his face long, sallow, anil fringed witli grizzly black whiskers, which meet Ih'- neatli in one long matted beard; the eye small, black and keen; the nose arched and thin; tlie mouth cruel and com pressed ; tlie chest and arms to tlie elbows bare; tlie body enveloped in a tattered blue shirt reaching beneath the knees; hare, scarred legs; the leet tread ing on grass sandals, which are held on by the toes. That is u Cahul beggar, and a most arrant villain he is, for, beneath his rags, he conceals a knife, like the rest of his amiable countrymen, nnd will use it with tlie rage of a wolf if he is tempted. The cooks are glad enough to toss a kabob or two to gentlemen of this class. The other two roads have no particu lar characteristics. except that they ar a great deal broader than bv far thee larger portion of Cabul. Off these four principal roads numerous dark and filthy lanm, twisting for a quarter of a ! mile at a time, and not more than three 1 feet broad, shoot at frequent intervals, j The flat-roofed houses in them are made ' of mud, thickly mixed with straw, and I tlie apartments are dark square holes, ! much worse than tlie much-decried shanties of the (lalway peasants. Men. women and children sleep together, and ' never change their garments till these 1 dropoff. Frequently cattle and fowl are to he found crowded into these apartments, together with tlie human l inmate*. Such places arc dangerous to ' nil strangers. Not even an unusual parish dog could stray into'one of them, for lie would lie worried by a hundred i jealous, big-honed, hungry i-urs. In the j inst British attack on Cahul. Afghans who preferred "dying like poisoned rats j in a hole,"jTtrontd to their tortuous street* and .ani*. and many a good life was lost in hunting them out. ton- I tlon Slun<lard. An Arizona Pirtnre. An Arizona correspondent gives this ; vivid pen picture of a brilliant si-ene ' witnessed in that Territory—an almost j cloudless thunder-storm: Well, here we are, in tlie midst of almost n cloud less thunder-storm. One who has never 1 been in the mountain vallcvs in tlie 1 heated season can hardly realize how it ; can lighten, thunder and rain suddenly ! with little or no preparation; yet a little ! ugly cloud comes from somewhere 1 almost in a minute, and it is big with tempest. I do think this country is | capable of more lightning and thunder to tlie minute than any other place in j which I have ever been. That little j cloud has spread out to bou at j tlie size of two big carpets, but it i is a full-grown thunder-storm. It is about 3 p. m., thermometer 105, with the sun shining brightly: hut, in about ten yards further, it will sink behind that ' point of tlie mountain. What a magnifi cent hath thi* is! These drops are not j falling so thickly as I have seen them, i hut they will average just about as large where they touch you as your thumb nail. What a picture, if this trembling ' beauty, in the little space intervening, j and the side of that mountain, drifting ! off into that ravinp up toward the sun. j could he carried to the canvas I Is it i possible that there are nothing hut drops of water fulling through a trem bling sheen of golden light? A shower of diamonds ould not glisten more. Angels could not toss brighter jewels from their eahinits. I i know that those are only stinted, murky green shrulis clinging to that desolate hillside; hut they are tlie tinted back ground of a picture no artist-hand dare f.rofanc. How it trembles, while name ess hues are drifting, changing ere you have had time to think how beautiful. And this mm pan ion picture, brimful of wordless beauty. Why is the human easel so tame? That is tlie same old mountain which I descended not thirty minutes since—an old. rusty, rocky dome hut that shadow of Nepiune was not UIPTP then, with that girdle of rainbow about his loins. If raindrops are brighter, here rninhows are more r< al 'solid beauties. It cannot he a shadow only. R.-e! it ieans up against that old giant, cactus, and its disntnl ribs glow with shadings I dare not try to name. Now it trembles on tlie prickly branch nl that juniper till ail its berries are changing crystals. That bolt of electric fire which just spent its furv on that old crag, and sent those bit# of stone down the hilt, bss started an owl from his hole in the rocks, and Ids somber wings are less profane wliils bathed in hues like those. Even his dismal " twoo-hoo". is modified as it comes to tis through such a sheen. That frightened deer fiaa Just sprung Into place where all this rafntow hangs upon his horns. Never was a dear little deer wrapped in such a garb before. But let me shut my eyes before this picture fades, and thank the Maker for this little patch of storm. As too long ret rement weakens the mind, so too much company dissipates It A Stilt Rare. I remember particularly a certain stilt race, one of the oddest races that I ever Hiiw. Six men and four women were " entered," as the horsey men would say. At Areachon the women share the exercises of the men. There were then on tliebeach of Evrac ten tcbnnkas. In the patois of tlie Landes, which one might be tempted to confound with the Japanese or < hinese idioms, a tehankas | is a person tmfUiited on stilts, and so I tchanker means to mount upon stilts. These ten tehankas had all the same traditional costume, without distinction of sex; that is to say. a beret on the head, a mantle of wool over the shoul ders, a buttoned doublet, bare feet, and the log* enveloped in a eamano or fleece, lixed by red garters. Their stilts raised them five or six feet from the ground. A pole served them as a third point of support. Seen from a distance, they looked like gigantic grasshoppers. The tchanka, however, is seen to perfection on the bare land, motionless and fixed like a solitary triangle of sunse!, or else wlien lie leans against a pine tree, silently kuitting stockings and guarding a black and lean flock. Stem and mute in the midst of a crowd, w'jlcli was examining them with curiosity, their thoughts were concentrated solely on the gain that they were about todisputc. The prize was not much. The victor won twenty francs (four dollars). Rut twenty francs in tlie eyes of the tchanka represents a fortune. Soon, at a signal given by the president of the fete, they all ten spread over the beach, iiowiing and yelling. If it had not been for their immense strides, which pass imagina tion, you might have thought you were present at an Arabian fantasia. Their evolutions were the same, accomplished with the same rapidity, in conditions which touched upon tlie impossible, and on ground where the stilt sunk in a foot at each step. Their mantle* streaming in the wind, like those of Arabian cava liers, they ran and pivoted round as deftly as if they had been on foot. The women were by no means inferior to the men; one of them, in fact, eainc in **■<- ond, and they were only to he distin guished by their more piercing cries. This race was followed by some private exercises performed by tlie tehankas, in order to provoke the generosity of tlie spectators. They jumped, they sat down and rose: up again, ami they picked up as they ran pieces of money that were thrown to tliein. This spectacle was not tlie least extraordinary. Rouncing forward at full speed, tlie man was sud denly seen to stop, thestilts bent, fell as it were to pieces, then something was seen moving between three pieces of wood, like the body of a spider on its long letpi. The whole performance was done with lightning rapidity, the stilts rose again and the man appeared on top of them and resumed his course, —from the French of Charles Monte let. Fires In Constantinople, The season of fires has begun, writes a Constantinople correspondent of the Philadelphia Itlrgraph. As soon a eolii weather sets in, and, notwithstond iniy the blazing afternoons, sunset brings chilly breezes to us, then inevita bly, in one quarter or another, a confla gration is sure to break out every night. Kit her earlessness or faulty construction of grates ana lighting apparatus is the cause. The first warning we have is from tlie " or night watch man. Making his round, lie instantiy pounds on the pavement witli a heavy iron shod staff, its ringing noise being easily heard two or three block*. The word is passe*' from tlie watch towers to tlie fiekiljees of the locality of a lire, a certain nunilx-rnf guns Iwing fired also for each quarter, viz.. seen when the binze is in Stnmboul. four for f'ern, etc. The wntchman in a full, loud voire calls out the name of the ouartcr where the fire is raging, and. if in his quarter, thumps violently on tlie doors of tlie adjoining houses, and with good reason, for before people in the vicinity arc fully aanke the flames are on them. Tlie rapidity with which too or 500 dwellings are swept away cannot be conceived by any one who lias not ac tually seen what rickety, sun-dried wooden houses they are. A Hungarian gentleman. Count Szeehery, of much ex p*rionce, has organized a lire brigade, which does wonders, when one consid ers that their only way to fight the flames is with little hand pumps. The streets are too narrow and winding to permit steam pumps to circulate. There are also the famous " toolunibadjein," or volunteer firemen, whose main object seems to. he fun and plunder. Their reputation is such that of them and tlie fire the latter is tlie least dreaded of the two. Tlie Szeehery brigade is confined, unfortunately, to a few quarters. Sev eral of the embassies have a private force of their own. Infallible (.'are for Rnsincs* Interrup tion*. A merchant doing business near tlie foot ol Jefferson avenue mod to spend about half his time in explaining to callers why he could not sign petitions, lend small sums, buy hooks or 'nvoat in moonshine enterprises, but that time has passel, and it now takes him only two minuU-s to get rid of tlie most per sistent ease. Tlie other day a man called to sell him a map of Michigan. He hail scarcely made known his errand when the merchant put on his hat and said; "Come, and I'll see about It." He led tlie way to a boiler shop two blocks distant, wherein a hundred ham mers were pounding at Iron, and walk ing to tlie centre of tlie stiop and into the midst of the deafening racket he turned to the agent and kindly shouted: " Now. then. If you know of any special reason why I should purchase a map ol Michigan please state them at length." The man with the maps went right out without attempting to stAte "reason the one " and the merchant tranquilly returned to his desk to await the next. —Detroit Free IYCM. Tlie expression is often heard, by people who understand very little about it. that "we all eat too much." This is very rarely the ease. It should ml her be expressed, "we <at too much of one thing, or of the same kind of fo<xl, be cause cooks and housewives are so very ignorant." It Is perfectly impossible for a human being to exert hit best fac ulties If under frl. 'I here never was a strong man with a strong brain who oould keep up the physical and mental drain without an ample supply o| food. When people, th*n, do not teed well, there is something wrong with their beads or their stomachs The Forger and the Lawyer. "One of the most expert forgers that ever appeared in this country," said a well-known detective to a New York reporter, " was caught in Massachusetts lately, convicted, and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. He had not been in prison more than three months,when, to tlie astonishment of tlie jailer, a par don came for him, in due form, all signed by the governor, and properly countersigned. There was nothing to he done but liberate the prisoner, and he walked out. Rut he had not been gone long before the jailer discovered that the prisoner had managed, through his friends to get a blank pardon from the governor's office, and had filled it out himself, and cleverly forged the sig natures, and hod then passed it out to his friends again, to be mailed to the jailer in proper shape. The clever forger had not got far enough away to escape, and he was arrested and sent hark to prison. He employed a young New York lawyer, whose name is fa miliar through the fame of his father, and told him the story. 'They have no right to lock you up again,'said the lawyer, 'having once liberated you, without legally proving that the pardon is a forgery. 1 can get you oui, hut it will cost you ♦1,500. '(Jo ahead,'said the forger. The lawyer went ahead, gained his case, and lilx-ratcd tlie prisoner. 'I am going out West imme diately,' said the forger, is soon as he was free. 'My father, who is a wealthy man, owns a thousand-dollar farm in Kansas, and he has just sent me this letter, tagging me to come home and lead an honest life, and telling me o, draw on liim for $2,000t0 nay my bills. lam his only son. and I have almost broken his heart; hut this life is coming to an end; I shall settle down on my father's farm and lie an honest man,' and he showed the letter, a pathetic produc tion from an afflicted parent. ' I shall need $ 1,000 of the money to pay some little bills,' continued the forger, 'and here is a draft I have made on my father for the $2,000. If y,u will give men check for SI,OOO, I will give you the draft, and will send you the other SSOO as soon I get home.' "The lawyer rend the lettercarefnlly, drew a cheek for $ 1.1 00 and handed it to his client, and received the draft for $2,000. Als>ut ten days after the droit was depositee] in a bonk for collection, it came back with the message that Re man on whom it was drawn had been dead for eigi t years, and wasn't worth a tent when he tva; alive." The Conductor and the Dog. A few weeks ago Mr. William R. Palmer, treasurer of the Union Square th'-ater company, was presented by one of his many friends with a small full blooded Knglisli hull-dog with a pug nose ami short tail. It was one of tie lx-*t natun-d dog* in the world, but his aristrocratie pug nose and protruding teeth were against him. <)n- day last week Mr. Palmer, in company with a friend and the dog. Uxtk the train at •Jersey City for Philadelphia. The two gentlemen occupied one seat, while the bull-pup appropriated tliopposite one, the bark of which had been revetued. The gentlemanly conductor nun* to this seat in turn, and asked, casually: "Whose dog is that?" Mr. Palmer looked up with the same gentlemanly indifference anil said. "He ta-long* to me," " Well," said the conductor, "he will have to he taken into the baggage ear." "All right," replied Mr. Palmer, nnd tlie conductor passed on. An hour later he came round a rain and seeing the dog still occupying the same seat, with the same ugly composure, and tlie two gentlemen busiiy engaged in con versation, tlie condtietor said somewhat testily, " I told you that that dog would have to be taken into tlie baggage ear." Mr. Palmer looked up with some sur prise and said, "Very well, take him there." Tlie conductor advanced and so did the dog toward Tlie end of the seat. The pug opened wider a nat urally ingenuous i-ountenance and the conductor reiterated to Mr. Palmer, re spectfully this time, "It isrcaily against tlie ru.es of the company, sir. and the dog must he taken out of this ear." The heated discussion fietween the two gen tlemen was again interrupted, and Mr. Palmer turned toward tlie conductor: "Why. haven't you taken him away yet?" Ttien the conductor pna*-d quickly down tlie aisle, and meeting the brake man at the door, nonchalantly jerked ids thumb over his shoulder and said : "Tom, iust take the dog up there into the baggage ear. will you?' The door slammed, the gentlemanly conductor passed on through the train, and tlie tirnkeman advanced toward the dog. Rut the Knglish pug rocked his head on one side, opened his mouth and looked cross-eyed nt the advancing official in suefi away that lie never paused, hut walked straight on through tlie ear. Mr. Palmer's pug occupied the seat all tlie way to Philadelphia. Philadelphia Home Things That are Hard to Find. A man who will refrain from calling his friend's speech a " happy effort." A woman who rememl>em last Sun day's text, but is unable to speak under standingly of tlie trimmings on the bonnet of tlie lady in tlie pew next in front. An editor who never feels p'eascd to nave his good tilings credited, or mail when they are stolen. A pencil tiiat is always in the first pocket you put your hand into. A man who lias been a foof some time during his life and knows enough to keep tin- knowledge of it to himself. A married man whodoes not think all the girls envy his wife the prize she has •aptured. A married woman who never said. " No wonder the girls don't get married nowadays; they are altogether different from what they were when I was a girl." An unmarried woman who never had an offer A man who never intimated that tlie economies oftlic universe were subject to his movements hy saying. " I knew if I took an umbrella It wouldn't rain," or some similar assinlne remark. A pocket-knife that is never In " them other pants. A mother who never said she " would rather do it myself' wnen she should have taught lu-r child to do that thing. A child who would not rather eat between meals than at meals . A person (age or sex immaterial) who docs not experience a flush of pride upon heing thought what he Is not and may never hope to He. A singer who never complains of a cold when asked to sing. A woman who, when caught in her second best dress, will make no apology for Iter dreadful appearance .—Cotton II raid. The Abase or Chloral. The persons who become habitunted to chloral hydrate are of two or three classes, as a rule. Some have originally taken the narcotic to relieve pain, using it in the earliest application of it for a true medical and legitimate object, prob ably under medical direction. Finding that it gave relief and repose, they have continued the use of it. and at last have got so abnormally under its influence that they cannot get to sleep if they fail to resort to it. A second class of per sons who take to chloral are alcoholic inebriates who have arrived at that state ofalcolism when sleep is always dis turbed, and often nearly imoossible. These persons at first wake many times in the night witli coldness of the lower limbs, cold sweatings, stortings and restless dreaming*. In a little time they become nervous about submitting themselves to sleep, and before long habituate themselves to watchfulness and restlessness, until a confirmed in somnia is the result. Worn out with sleeplessness, and failing to find any re lief that |i* satisfactory or safe in their falsef,riend alcohol, they turn tocbloral, anc'.jf n it find for u season the oblivion wlifch, they desire, and which they call rest. It is a kind ol rest, and is, no doubt better than no rest at all; hut it leads to the unhealthy states that we are now conversant with, and it rather promotes than destroys the craving for alcohol. In short, the man who takes to chloral after alcohol enlists two cravings for a single craving, and is double-shotted in the worst sense. A third class of men who become habit uated to the use of chloral arc men of extremely nervous nnd excitable tem perment, who by nature, and often by the labors in which they are occupied, become bad sleepers. A little thing in the course of their daily routine op presses them. What to other men is pnssing annoyance, thrown off with the next step, is to these men a worry and anxiety of hours. They are over-sus ceptible of what is said of them and o their work, however good the work may Ix-. They are too elated when praised, and to depressed when not praised, or dispraised. They fail to play character parts on the stage of this world, and as they lie down to rest they take all their car*-* and anxieties into bed witli them, in tlie liveliest state of perturbation. Unable in this condition to sleep, and not knowing a more natural remi-dy, they resort to the use of such an instru ment as chloral hydrate. They begin with a moderate dose; increase the dose: as occasion sec-ins to demand, and at last, in what they consider a safe and moderate system of employing it. they depend on the narcotic for their falsified repose.— I'r. Richardson in Contempo rary Review. A Ragpicker Princess, Th ft most curious "city" of Paris is on the Avenue de la Kcvolte, at tic upper end <J the passage Xriboulet. The passage ends in vacant lots, where: in summer our carjxt* are whipped. The right side belong* to a woman named kouc-ault, who built and manag*-* the "city;" it is a long alievway, ta>r dered with a sort of sheds. Each lodg ing on tlie ground floor, or first story, to which access is had hy an outside'gal iery, is a species of little ceil, roon- or less broken down and dirty. The only furniture is a mattress thrown on the floor or a toppling iron taxlxlcad. A square window, eighteen inches across, lights these places. Ixi Ftmtns Calotte is tlie title by which the proprietress is known. She reigns supreme over a wretched js*ople-- rngpick'-ra. workmen without work, declatus of every kind— to the number of too. This woman, who is very rich, and goes about in her phaeton drawn by a pn-tty pony, is dis guised as a man; she may Iw fifty; her gray hair is cut short, like that of nun; she is clad in pantaloons—hence the name—a vest, blue blouse and laced gaiter*. This costume she ha* worn for the last twenty years, assuming, as well, the hearing and energetic gestures of tlie stronger sex. !a Fttnnu Calotte is by no means dull; in her springtime she must have with intelli gent men. She declare* she knew Hums* the elder well. She chats very agreeably and skims literature with a light touch. Tlie day I had the honor to visit her she had two friends at break-. fast As I entered they had just taken coffee, and these ladies were smoking cigar*ties, pouring out from time to time a swallow ol cognac. Jj\ Fein trie Calotte leaned hack' in her chair, her tag* crowed, and puffed the *tn*>ke from her cigarette in dainty ring*. At the moment tlie three companion* were en gaged in a dispute. Kmile Zola was tlie sulyeet. la Femme Calotie was of tlie opinion Uiat " L'Asaommoir," which claimed to he the romance id the people, was a picture of hut one phase of I'arisinn wretchedness, and if Zola had applied to her lie could have learned much more as to popular depravity. This conversation was interrupted frotn time to time by tlie entry of some poor fellow who presented himself at the cash-window to pay an installment of his rent—five cents or ten cents—all of which la Fmtmt '"WoUc buried in her breeches pocket. Conducted hy this lady in person whom her tenant* salute as a sovereign, we make the round of the "city." K. very where the same spectacle of heart rending povery; entire families in dwellings where a single person could hardly find room. In one of these holes a woman with a new born child lay on a straw pallet, while the oldest girl of twelve was cooking on a little furnace, and the odor of the charcoal tilingnd with the pestilential emanations from the rubbish which the husband had brought In and wa* raking over. Young hoys, who Lad been hunting rag*, ured out, were sleeping at the foot of the bed, by the side of the mot Iter and ha he. Poverty descends In these families with the calling. Some here are ltoneat fathers, who for twenty year* have lived in the " city," worked like dog* paid their rent regularly, and have never Ix-en able to lay up a sou for the morrow. Oilier* are worthless scamps, spend each day's wages at the ruin simp and live on a morsel of bread so long as they get as much brandy as possible. Children horn in these "cities" are raised in the midst ol the most degrading sights Modesty is an unheard word; sliaine an unknown feeling. Old men pass hy with hacks bowed, whose life has been passed in this filth, buried under their load of refuse, covered with vermin. Ilj-re are born little hafngs who will die without having caught a glimpse, even for an instant, of tlie joys of life.—Airis Figaro Women owe a groat deal to tlie press We mean now, more particularly, the pinting press. If It was not for it where in creation would they get their hustle* and circulars. I whri •Statesman. Curlon* KrefU of Altitude la Lmd* Till*. A letter from I>e&J ville, Col., the great mining town, says: I mw but very few cases of intoxication in the streets, though the tiiroe hundred saloons in the cit/held out their best inducements. I was surprised at thin, as one of the not*- ' ble effects of the great altitude of the place (10,300 feet above the level of ths (tea) U that all fermented liquors intoxi cate more quickly than a lower elevation. I'he boiling point, owing to the decrease of atmospheric pressure is much lower than at Chicago, and the alcohol is sooner vaporised and taken into the circulation, producing intoxication quicker. 4 The boiling point of water here in about 1!H) d<-grces, instead of 212 de grees, the effect of which in boiling J beans, eggs, potatoes, etc., is that it re quires a long while to cook then in an open vessel, and it is necessary to keep the vessel well covered, or the water will vaporize and escape before being raised to the requisite degree for cook ing. At this elevation much air is re quired to fill and satisfy ike lungs, and breathing must lie quicker in order to properly oxygenize the blood. It is said, too, that after one has been here some time, the coloring matter of tbo blood Is*-omen darker. lieing changed from the peroxide to the sesquioxide of iron. With a person suffering under any difficulty or disease of the heart, lit* effect of any long continued exertion in to cause a dangerous degree of palpita tion, and even with persona entirely * well, the pulse runs extremely high. There arc other and notable facts con cerned with this altitude. There are few birds seen here—perhaps for the reason that flying is difficult in the light < air. The common house-fly, the sum mer pest of our eastern housekeepers, is unknown here. There are some of tlt* out-door blue-bottle varietv here, but they seem languid and tired. It is said also that cats cannot live here. This is probably owing to their delicate organ ization lieing unable to resist the rigor of the night air. So the " voice* of tba night" are not heard in this locality, and the bootjacks are reserved for their natural uses. Another result of the lightness of the air is that, having so little density, it is easy heated by artificial means" Our nights arc universally co^d—so cold that it is uncomfortable to sit without afire: but a few pine chips or small sticks will warm an apartment very quickly. At the same time the sun's rays do not seem to have the heating power that they do in the lower elevation. This seems to oonfinn the theory that there is no sub stantial caloric in the rays of the sun, but beat is tbe result of chemical action, generated by the direct rays with ths clement of the atmosphere—the direct ness of the rav and the density of the atmosphere. While standing high upon these mountains, even at a distance from any snowdrifts and wheretheairis still, the summer sun has ordy sufficient power to make the air refreshing and pleasant, whi'c you on the plains arc sweltering under a torrid heat. In the shade of a rock or two it is alwavs cool enough. The effect of the altitude is the same as that experienced by halloniet*. who in ascending from tii surface of the earth, even on the hottest days, soon find it necessary to don tlieir overcoats and warmest clothing. In the night here a good supply of blanket* is always neces sary, and nearly every morning heavy frost* are found, and sometimes thick scales of ice are formed. The crest* of some of the mountains and many of ths deep ravines upon their sides are still full of mass's of snow so con pact that one can walk over tbem without sink ing. A day or two ago. In visiting a mine close to the summit of Mount Hross, I was compelled to cross s field of snow, hanging over the edge, which must have been a mile in length and probably in places twenty feet in depth. Kidnapers in !*few York. The prompt arrest and punishment of the woman Lizzie Newman, while en gaged in abducting the little daughter of Mrs. Cavanagb. revives public interest in the erime of kidnaping children, which it was hoped was effectually sup pressed by the action of humane socie ties in conjunction with the officers of the law. In n great city like New York few persons are a ware to what an extent the helpless, the unfortunate and the un sophisticated of both sexes, annually fail victims to the wlies of hearties* and designing women and men. Sympathy flows out most nsturally toward ths children. Nearly five years ago a num ber of philanthropic gentlemen in this city organized the Society of Prevention of t'ruelty to Children, and a review of the work of the society since it* forma tion will disclose most interesting details In this connection. In the course ola siagls year there are ordinarily over 2.000 caw-a of lost children reported to the police. Most of those are recovered and returned to their parent* with hut little de lay, but in numerous esses the little ones sre lost absolutely, and their fath er* and mothers mourn them as dead. In point of fact they are not dead, how ever, but (ail victims to tbe charity of the public, or worse still become the slaves of inhuman taskmastsrs The number of rases in vestlg .ted by the so - clety since it* organization is 4.058. and may be classified aa follows. cases of gross ill-treatment arising from the drunkenness or depravity o? par- • enta; secondly, where children of ten der years are compelled to appear in theatrical and gymnastic performances: thirdly, oases where children are sold into slavery for the purnaae of begging for the benefit of their owners; ana lastly cases where the children of weal! y parents are kidnaped for ths {turpi • eof extorting money aa the pos ition of tbe ir rctur n. The first clans is by fa the most numerous, mod scarcely a day passes that such eases are not hrough up for the adjudication of Uie courts; Uie recitals of cruelty and nryp lect arc so constantly repeated that they appear to be regarded as a matter o course and attract hut little attention. Of the last clans of cases the most no- 4 torioiu that has occurred in this ooun- ' try is the celebrated case of Charley lions, of Philadelphia, the detail* ol which are familiar to most readers.— Nam Fork f*nr. I love to hcai Ml lU...tiling of ths steam power press better than the rattle and roar of artillery. It is silently attacking and vanquishing the Mala koffsof vice and Kedans of evil: and its parallels and approaches cannot be resist ed. I like the click of typo in the com posing stick better than tk* olick of the musket in the hands of the soldier. It bears a leaden messenger of deadlier power, of suhlimer hirer, and of a surer aim. which will hit its murk, though it is distant n thousand year*.— Aw. I>r. CAagta
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