CLIPPINGS FOR TIIK CCIUOUS. Tho rose gardens of Adrianoplo cover 11,000 acres. An Alabama whirlwind whisked up a cow and carried her '230 yards. Xenoplion thawed his frozen soldiers by flagellation. The Chinese monarchy has existed with few changes for 4,000 years. Tho Chinese tallow-treo produces a substance which rnswers tho samo pur pose as our tallow. The inventor of the submarino telo „ scope, a woman, hns received 910,000 for her invention. Galen said that all animals born when the moon is at lialf qnarter are feeble, weak and short-lived. In Denmark a diet of bread and water for a month was formerly considered equivalent to a punishment of death. The Laplanders are subjoct to blind ness, brought on by the dazzling snow without and the smoke inside their huts. All people of fashion in China cause their coffins to be prepared and their tombs to be built during their life time. Among the Assyrians and Babylonixns clay was used as a writing material. o\er 2,000 clay books of the Assyrians have been discovered. A German professor of tho seven teenth century boasted that ho hud a crytograph incapable of being deci phered. No one succeeded until a French refugee did so after eight years' ell'ort. Silhouettes may be traced to tho eighteenth century, whon i-.tienne Sil houette was minister of France. He advocated economy so strongly that anything simple, like these profile por traits, was satirically called by his name. A boy at llaregnat, X. J., eighteen years of age, can talk, but no person ex cepting his two sisters has ever hoard him speak. He will not converse with them in the presence of others, and even his father has never heard him utter a word. War's Horrors. 1 he Herald, a newspaper published in Chili, contains the following descrip tion of one of tho mast terrible scones witnessed daring the war with the Pe ruvians: The Peruvians fired from tho private houses at Miraflore with the object of driving them out. Tho Chilians applied tho torch. When the progress of the flames made it impossible for those I within to remain, the Peruvians began their exodus. When they were out they had to meet the enemy's soldiers, who were watching for them in order to shoot them down. The corpses of the Peruvians were laid in piles before the doors anil walls of the burning houses, and actually added fuel to the conflag ration in progress. If any one of the besieged was happy enough to escape from tho place of the struggle, he was soou hunted for and killed like a rat, and sometimes several prisoners were kept alive by tho inter vention of tho officers and commanders, and were put nnder the charge of a certain number of officers, more to be protected than with an object of Wing escorted. But as soon as any Chilian soldiers were slain or wounded by those who continned the struggle, the priso ners wero formed in line and shot with out mercy by those who were escorting them. At other times, Wfore setting ( fire to the house, they tried to blow up a part of it with torpedoes, in order to reach the immured Peruvians, and to kill every one who eonld be found, with out listening to their piteous appeals for mercy. While the commanding officer, Dnvifi was exhorting several Peruvians who wero sheltered in a building to sur render themselves, he was slightly wounded. It is impossible to givo an idea of the fury with which the Chilians wero seized when they saw the way in which the enemy answered their propo sitions of a surrender in order to save their lives. The building was immedi ately set on fire, the soldiers carrying everything they could lay their hands on to assist the flames. In a short time the Imilding was snrronndeil, anil thero was no escape left for those who wero inside. The smoke commenced to suf focate the prisoners before the fire had begun to do its work. In that situation the Peruvians tried to find away lo free themselves from such horrid death, bnt every door, every window, and every part of the building which eonld have afforded any chance of escape was barricaded with the corpses of those who hail tieen butchered. Many of these unfortunate Peruvians became crazy, and many tried tofroo themselves from such a death by crossing tho fire t which surrounded tho bnilding, bnt in vain. Onbers jumped from tho top of the burning bnildings into the streets to A meet death at the hands of the Chilians, who threw those who wero alive into tho Are. Gaffoone, the aromatic principle of cotree, is so strong that an almost im ponderable quantity is sufficient to arorii.it j/ of wat'T s< n:\riKir SCRAPS. Heat ansl pressure applied to light colored horn render it transparent. Tlio mnscular flesh of animals of tho higher orders is moistened with an acid liquid. Many kinds of glass whon heated bocome crystalline and more or loss opaqne. Caoutchouc is the product of trees, and is a milky .sup which exudes from the trunk. Wood charcoal and other forms of carbon have the property of absorbing large quantities of gases. Wood has been preserved three thou sand years in Egyptian tombs where it has been exposed only to dry air. Nut-galls are excrescences on De leaves and stalks of tho oak, made by tho gall wasp to deposit her eggs. A manufacturer of chemical instru ments in Paris has made ivory flexible for probes and tubes by steeping it in oil. The petals of flowers still inclosed in the bud are mostly green, and only ac quire tbeir distinctive color by contact with tho light. Yeast loses much of its fermenting power by pressure or being washed with water. It becomes inactive when heated, either alone or with water. Tin- loss of weight in nn egg during incubation is found to be the same in a given time as that of an egg if left to itself, so that it would seem to result from simple drying. The ancients manufactured cloth from the asbestos io wrap about the bodies of the dead on the pvre. In modern tiim s one use of it is for gloves with which to hold r- d hot crucibles. The asln s of feathers of birds that live on grain contain much sili- a. The feathers of old birds contain mor-- than thoseof tho young, and tin-wing fathers more than those of the tail and breast. Large quantities of electricity are developed by the friction of water in minute globules against solids. If one hand Is- held in a stream of x*apor from a boiler and the other brought n- ar the metal a spark may be obtained. Henry Claj's Courtesy. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Cummer* ml writes as follows: I think I never saw n more perfect gentleman j than Henry Clay. He was always con- j side-rate of the feelings of his brother i man, and even when sorely tried never j said or did anything which could jKwai bly offend the lowliest of them. I re- ; call an instance of this. There lived lu re in former years a man named Oar bard, who, though a rough fellow, was an ardent ndmirer of Mr. C'lav and a personal acquaintance. During one of Mr. t'lay's visits Gar bard came up to the Springs, arriving at night in a sad state of intoxication. He wanted to be shown where Mr. Clay was, and insisted upon seeing him. With some difficulty wo persuaded hira that he must wait until morning, and he finally said: "Well, jnst let me SIT his foot tracks; that w ill do me to-night." The next morning 1 started with n friend to Mr. (.'lav's house and found him surrounded with distinguished gen tlemen, both of this country and abroad. Thero wero senators and jndgos anil foreign ambassadors present, all en gaged in discussing, I lieliove, some in tricate question of foreign policy. Tlie gentlemen present would throw out some problem or other, like a tub to a whale, for Mr. Ciaj to play with, as it were. Mr. Clay was seated at the end of the room furthest from the door, when who should come marching into tho room hnt Mr. Garbard. He had with him, too, an Italian dwarf in fan tastic dress, with hells on his hat, who was a ventriloquist and a mountebank generally. Of course the appearance of such a couple in such an assemblage created no little commotion. Garbard pulled his hat off, and marching tip to the roan of Ashland, said: " Oood-morning, Mr. Clay." "Good-morning, Mr. Garbard," said Mr. Clay. "Well, Mr. Clay," continued the other, " I know yon are a good judge of men and fond of music, so I brought this man up to amuse yon. He can imi tate any man or animal in the world, and I'll have him go throngh his pro gramme for you." l-.veryltody else in the room was altashed at the man's forward manner, but Mr. < lay arose and stepped forward as though he was interested in the ex treme. Then the follow l*egan his imitations. I could not stand it and wont ont of the room, as did many others. Finally Mr. Clay went up to the fellow, and, taking a fft bill from his pocket, said: "I appreciate your efforts, but I know yon must be extremely fatigued from your oxercises, and trust you will not attempt anything further," and the man went off. The discussion was never resumed, and the party sdl came down on to the grounds after that, but it was the finest exemplification of " a step from the snb lime to the ridiculous" that I ever wit nessed. -t c ♦,. . I TOPICS OF THE BAY. While tbo tot6l property valuation of tlio United Htatcs in below that of France or Great Britain, tlio annual ac cumulation of wealth in thin country is greater than that of any other modern nation. In Germany it is 8200,000,000, in Great Britain it is 9325,000,000, in Franco it iH 6375,(MM),0(10, in the United States it is 9825,000,000. In other words, this country is growing rich at the rate of 92,300,000 a day. Tlio East Indian l'rince of Gondal is about to marry—possibly ero this has married, for tlio precise date of this event is not named in the report -•even maiden daughters of men who are high in favor at his court. Beven days will be consumed in the several ceremonies, and each bride of the preceding day will be present at the wedding festival of her rival. Each brido receives the same presents in jewelry and dresses, and has her apartments arranged like those of her companions. None of the seven has yet completed her fifteenth year. Miss Robinson, the English philan thropist is trying to establish "Army Coffee Taverns," pi of recreation and refreshment for holdie , where no malt or alcoholic liquors w.ll be sold. In a book on coffee taverns by Hopple Hall, it is stated that the fir,* coffee house in London WHS opened in 1652, at Ht. Michael's Alley, Cornhill. In 1715 there Were about 2,000 registered coffee houses and shops in the British metropolis. They were op.-n to all classes, A penny was laid down at the bar on entering, and the price of a dish of tea or coffee seems to have been two pence. It is reported that in one square mile in London, where the poorest people congregate, .*2,00 ',' MM) a year i* spent in drink. At the closing meeting of the na tional conference of charities held re cently in Boston the report of the com mittee on iralieeility and idiocy was presented by its chairman, Dr. H. B. Wilbur, of New York. He traced the promoting causes of idiocy, and showed that it is the immediate result of de fects of the brain or nervous system. The number of idiots and imbecile per sotis in thi* conntry was estimated at abont one in every 1,00) of the general ]>opnlation. There are about 2,500 pupils at present in the schools for idiot and feeble-minded children. Ho set forth the advantage of physical educa tion and the development of the control of the nerves and muscular action. Close training, he aHort<*l, i* found more effective than mere individual training. The next annual session of the conference will 1M- hel 1 in Madison. Wis., the latter port of July, 16*2. National and race prejudice is curi ously illn*tr,tod by the recent move ment of a representative of the Celes tial empire to break np the Chinese educational mission at Hartford, Con necticut. While the hoodlums of Sin Francisco woi stoning inoffensive Mongolians in the streets, while the Kearneys were Asserting with rhetorical vehemence and virulence that "the Chinese must go," and were urging the adoption of means, by law and beyond the law, to that end, comparatively lit tle was heard in the way of imperial remonstrance. At all events no order came from home to the Chinamen en the Pacific coast to empty their wash tulis, quit their qnarler* and return to their native land. Perhaps a reason for this apparent indifference may be found in the fact that the |erseention of the Mongoliana did not make them any less Mongolian. On the contrary, it separated them from the rest of the population and confirmed them in the habits of a peculiar |>eople. Whatever this explanation may lie worth it is cer tain that the ill treatment of the Chinese in Han F'rancisco caused no such ex citement at home as has their good treatment at Hartford. The breaking np of the educational mission is as cribed to thointed out that while "all other matters appropriated by animals as food exist for themselves or for the use of the vegetable or animal of which they form u constituent part, milk is designed and prepared by nature ex pressly as food, and is the only mate rial throughout the range of organiza tion that is so prejwrod." Pure milk in sufficient quantity is as necessary for the body as pure air, but, as Dr. Duck worth shows, its use among those who can afford to buy it has so decreased even in the rural districts of Great Britain its to amount almost toa milk starvation. The minimum quantity re quired for the preservation of health, he calculates, is five quarts per diem to a family of t<-n, and not less than a quart daily to each child. "If this, or anything approaching this, were the rule instead of the exception," he is confident that the disease of "rickets, " in its manifold phases, would be com pletely banidied from this country, and a much higher standard of health and robustness would unquestionably pre vail. If this conclusion holds at all true for Groat Britain it will hold much more so for the I nited States. The humidity of the British isles insures a compara tively equable climate, which makes few heavy drains on the human system, while in America, especially in the West and Northw- st, the ooaseh *s and extreme alterations of temperature and the aridity of the atmosphere, which in duces a great waste of tie- body by evaporation, makes heavy demands upon its store of energy. That stor- can only kept up by good nutrition which milk, combining a< it does tie four great staminal principles of human aliment, is so admirably fitted to sap ply. The prejn lice which som- enter tain against it, or the fancy that it dis agrees with them, may bo removed in many cases by adding to the milk a little carlsinat- of soda or <>f line water, which will enhance its digestibility, and when drunk for health purpose in large quantities it i- r - • tifi 1 by adding a little pepsin. There can lie no question that a large unmbcr of men and women, inclined to strumous an l scrofulous habit, an c-uiia. catarrh and consumption would IK- *V. 1 from pr- matur- decrepitude or wa ting diseas,. by r< sorting to a generous milk diet. The incr- asing amount of food adulteration, through the multiplication of glncose and oleomargarine factories, ought to have the < fleet of p ipularizing a dietetic article which nature ha* pro vid'd anl which cannot be taru]>cr< 1 with without • xposing tie- frau 1 to caiy d-teetion. Bone and sinew will not make a nation, but the grave nutritional loss growing out of the disuse of this el- UP ntarv article of food will ulti mately make a hardy rac- a nation of dwarfs, and it is well known that the hardiest race on the glolwx, the Kirghiz, of Central Asia, under the most terrible climatic extremes, have little elso to live on but the milk of their herds. AV e York H'rulil. Two Brave Women and a Hear. Mrs. G, W. Marshall a" Miss I,u Taylor, of Firo Hole Ba *. -ur prised one aft'-moon by a a . .-ire cinnamon l>oar on the roof of '., i root house, endeavoring to make it* way to the succulent viands contain*', therein. Tbey tried to scare him away by throw ing such missiles at him as were in reach, but bmin didn't scare worth a cent, and continued to tear off the roof of the house as though they were not in the vicinity. Fearing they would be left foodies* and famine *tri< ken, they decided upon trying other mean*, and getting a (Sharp's ritle which hnng in the honse, they overcame their feminine aversion to such weapons, loaded up the gun, and getting to the corner of the house took good aim and fired, with such effect that the bear came tumbling off the roof and made a bee line for hi*.tormentors, who, wo man like, dropped the gun and ran into the house a* fast as they could go and securely barred the door. Unable to get at them, the l>car struck for the timber, and the ladies, seeing him go ing off, went out, picked up the gun, reloaded it, and followed him. They had not proceeded far in the timber when they heard the bear groaning heavily, a* if mnch hurt, and cautiously seeking their opportunity, they rested the gun across a log and again let drive at it, thin time with such good aim as to shoot it through the heart, killing it almost instantly, and, lent it might come to life ngain, they gave it another abot for luck, then left it The skin now hangs in the hotel as a trophy of the pluck and marksmanship of these national park Nimrods. The licar, whan d rested, weighed about 400 | pounds— Button ltmmi. PFtftLH OF THOUGHT. A zealous man always finds wore than he looks for. How good services; sweet remem brances will grow from them. One-half of the world must sweat and groan, that the oth'-r half may dream. Good homes are like good 'apple trees—they propagate after their kind. Preserve the privacy of your house, marriage state, heart, from relatives and all the world. Gratitude is the throwing out of our hearts in the light, of another's kind ness. Work to-day, for you know not how mnoh you may be hindered to-morrow. If every year we rooted out one vice we should soon become perfect men. Never associate with bad company. Have good company or none. „ Ho who resp' cts himself will respect others. The evils of the world will continue until philosophers become kings, or kings become philosophers. Kindness is stowed away in the beurt, like rose leaves in a drawer, to sseeten every object around. Ileal friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless ingrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merits. No man is born wise; but wisdom an l virtn< r< jnire a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master. .Strong minds, like hardy evergreens, are most verdant in winter; when feeble ones, like tender summer plants, are leafless. Tin- modern majesty consist* in work. What a man can do is his greatest orna ment, and he always consults his dig nity bv doing it. There are truths which some men despise because they hive not ex* amin.-d, and which they will not -x --amine IK cause they despise. Native Bern and Foreigner*. Some persons may be surprised to b-arn that the proportion of foreign born to the native population is not greater in this conntry—it is C,C77,3G0 to t 1,475,506; l,nt. of course, the de scendants of the foreign-born rate a* among the natives. The iargest num ber of foreign, 1,211,4 18, is, of course, in thi* State; Pennsylvania stand* next, with 5*7,533; Illinois third, witli 5*3, • ■51)2; Massachusetts fourth, with 443,- hio and Michi gan, with 1da,417, '2,74 ! and 3*6,346 respectively. California has 292,660 foreign and 572,0f>'. native. In the Northeast various manufacture l - and coal and iron mining have drawn emigra tion. mainly Irish. German and French Canadian, with some Welch; in the Northwest agriculture ha* been the at traction, and it has been mainly felt by the Germans and Scandinavians; in the extreme West and the Ter ritories, mining has lo<-n the great raox ir.g force. Nevada has the largest number of foreign to 100,000 native, 70, Old; then Arizona, 05,613; then Da kota, 62,112; then California and Min nesota, 51,167 and 52.172. A group of eight States and five Territories, headed by Wisconsin, with 44,546, and ended by Colorado, with 25,0*6, have twenty five to fifty per cent, of foreign to na tive. A group of ten, headed by New Jersey, with 24,356, and ended by the District of Columbia, with 10,062, have foreign equal to ten to twenty-five per cent, of native. Nine States and one Territory have two to ten per cent., and eight have lesa than two per cent. In I*7o Arizona and Idaho had 150,922 and 110,63-6 of foreign to 100,000 native; these were the only sections where the native population was on tn urn lured, j These figures represent proportions merely, as the entire population was only 9,65* in Arizona and 14,099 in Ida ho 4,274 of the last named being Chinese.] This has changed since, Arizona having now abont two-thirds as many foreign as native, and Idaho having lesa than half as many. There i now no State or Territory where the native-born population does not largely ontnnmler the foreign; in the United States the number per 100,000 of native is bnt 15,.35!) against 16,675 in 1870. In thirty-five States and Territories nat nral increase—of course, of foreign as well as of native l>orn—has gained upon the native. Of these twelve Dakota stands first, then Oregon, Colorado, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Michigan. Maine, Massachusetts, Florida, Arkansas and Washington. Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Utah, where the proporticn of settled emigrants was largest in 1870, show the largest rate of decline in this respect now. The factories of New F'.ngland, the wheat fields of Dakota and Oregon and the mines in Colorado and New Mexico account for the relative increase of emigrants in those section*.— York Tim** The man who can exquisitely cut hi* pieoe of pie with a fork is not deserving of ail the praise at tha dinner-table. He who mn most quickly shove his plate over the gnwee spot that appears on the tablecloth when he spills that gravy, is eotitl-d to wear laurels. To-Day, Ikm't HI ni'- of to morrow! I f W# look ll|*n th, f,U(t, How much (list wo hare l rt to do Wo cannot do at l*tI To-dav! It la the only lima Tor all on tliia frail earth; It taken an a' Ul f,, ri „ , jj f <5 A moment give* it birth. Don't b II tie of to morrow ' tii\i m ■ tie man who'll nav, Whene'er a food d'Xtd'n to In done, In t'll do tin di-ed 11 .Jay; We may all cotnman i the |rc*ent, If we a' t and nen r wait, itut r< [xiitanno in the phantom ')f the pant lliat coae n t>*> late-. I*l M.liVI I'Utllili A I'll s. The combing man —A ltrber. "Sleeping out load" in the latent child definition of snoring. " Thia i a lit time and place," an the marl dog Ha id when he saw the rivi r. If the tide wave* are breakers, it its no wonder the loose waves smash things. Why in a turnpike gate like a dead •log's tail? because it stops a waggin*. All the policemen in New Orleans quote Shakespeare. He is the mayor of j *ho city. A great many men are like a rocking horse. They an always on the go, but never go ahead. The jteople on the stage lore to be tailed artists. Why shouldn't they - Don't they paint ? "Organ-grinders are allowed in tin streets of Chicago between the hours of '.I A. M. and ; r. M only. A man who demands more than twelve hours of , such music ought to get employment in | a boiler shop. A Detroit doctor says people with light eyes and hair are those who have wart*. Now if *om< savant will tell us what color of eyes and hair denotes snoring, many unhappy marriages will lie prevented. Women often speak disparagingly of men's judgement. Hut the feminine mind, when the supreme moment of ' decision arrives, always leans upon a man, if there is a man within bailing or | clutching distance. Mrs. Myra Clark Games sayg she tri morning in began charging the garret ; lo ready i to give him a piece of hers!" responded the lady. A correspondent should always make it a point to add to a newspaper com munication, "If too long, please cut down to unit yourself." This reassures the editor and suggests away out of a possible difficulty which might never have occurred to him.— Rochester Ihrno era/. It t a youth of molest purse Kant soft unto a manl: " Which would yon rather tackle next, Ice i ream or lemonade f" Arrow the maiden's rout cheek Fast tin* a winning smile : " I'll order some of both," she said. Heaven help the young man's " pile," "Ah, my love, what a love of a lovely new costume yon have on T' '• Do yon think so, loveyf* "Yea, my love, and I'm real glad " "Are you really? Yon are so kind!" "Yes, (barest, I was beginning to feel sorry for yon, after you'd worn that old black ailk three roars and turned it twice." TTTR MATKHSAI wow. <* Fond friend* tried vainly to eliesr her. To atop up the tears that fast fell; And she clasped her daughter still nearer. And in a pony uttered fare* oil 1 The groom with hia bride has departed, # To Journey far oft in strange lands, And the mother eric* out broken-hearted " Well! I'm glad that girt'* off of my lundO A Jajianese newspaper, the AVoAi Nichi Skim/mm, gives an account of the embarrassments of journalism in Japan. On the 'J6th of April last Mr. Baiooji, ea-editor of the 7'oyn Jiy Shtmhtim, was summoned to the procurator's office in theTokio Bailtanaho, and "Mr. Mat susawa, of the editorial staff of the same journal, was atraigned there in handcuffs and tied up with a rope round his loins." The report adds: " It is very sad to aee journalists thus treated who have worked for the benefit of their country." Mr. Malmixawa'a sole offense is said to be that of publish ing a statement that the mikado had instructed the minister of the imperial department of the household to order Mr. Satonji to resign the editorship of hia journal.