I.AIIEH DEPARTMENT. A Vrtnnl Utrl'a Uomann-. When tho French sought to establish a monarchy in Mexico a Mazatlan yonth raised a regiment of boys and waged against snch of tho invaders as appeared at Sinaloa a warfare that told. Tho yonng man's father was of Oastilian blood and his mother was a Mexican. His name, Corona, soon became famous, and at the age of twenty-five he was regarded as the Mosby of Mexico. At tho end of the war ho was a major-general, tho hero of the soldiers and tho idol of ! Mazatlan society. He was six feet tall, broad-shouldered, handsome and dar- j ing. While attending a ball at the j American hotel in Mazatlan, he stum- | bled over a domestic, knocking a tray j from her hand. Htooping to pick np the crockery, General Corona noticed that the girl was very pretty and very saucy. She told him that her name was Betty Bowman, that her mother was a San Francisco washerwoman, and that ho ought to know better than to rush so headlong down a dark stairway. Corona made love to the American miss, and t>efore leaving for the capital ho had learned of her. irreproachable though very humble life. Once away, Betty's face and pert ways haunted him so mncii that he wrote to her, arranging for marriage by proxy. He remained at Mazatlan; the bride went to a con vent school. They were a thousand miles apart and wrote to each other daily, the husband constantly instruct ing the wife in polite ways. President Juarez, fearing that Corona's popularity would lead the people to give their vote to the young soldier at an election thon approaching, concluded to send him as minister to Madri 1, the most en viable diplomatic position in the eyes of all Mexicans. General Corona took the washerwoman's daughter to his palace in Madrid, and she now is re. garded as the most brilliant and accom pliahed lady at the court of Spain. Nrwamid Notre for The United States patent office last year graute.l seventy patents to women. The government of Liberia has given 100 acres of land for the foundation of a seminary for the education of young girls. Harony, the New York photographer, pays Patti 81,000 for the exclusive right of photographing her while she is in America. It is said that there are eleven nuns in tho Dieu convent, Quebec, who have each completed over fifty yearn in the sisterhood. Miss Anna Grant, of Boone connty, Missouri, informs the Columbia Herald that she has woven 30,088 yards a# car pet daring 1881. Mrs. Miller, of Edisco, Fla., becom ing involved in a difficulty with her husband, seized an ax and attempted to kill him. Failing in this, she retired to another room, saturated her cloth ing with kerosene and set Am to her dress. .She was burned to death. Ame&a, the daughter of the chief of the Algerian revolt, is the great beauty* of tho Arab tribes, and ia as accom plished at she ia lovely. She takea her courser and ridee aa fast and an far an her father, with a courage that in not exoelled by any of the bold ridera of the tribes. Mart Anderson, the actress, while in Washington contributed liberally to the fair of St. Matthew's chnrch, nnd in return was ontertained by Mrs. Gen eral Sherman, and presented by her with a valuable antique oandlestiok to carry in the steop walking scene of Lady Macbeth. When Mr. Bnohanan wan United States minister at the oonrt of St. James, an English lady, who was the wife of a foreign ambassador, attempted to take precedence of Miss Harriet Lane (Buchanan's niece) at a qneen's drawing room. Misa Lane at onoe stopped the whole business of the hoar, soot for the lord chamberlain, and set tled her right to lead. Fash lew Nats*. Ribbed plash is mach worn. Hide draperies are much worn. Moire remains the favorite trimming silk. Black is the first choice for street snits. Sage green is revived for s spring oolor. There is s revival of black laoe at the moment. The tonrnnre grows more sad more bouffant. Handsome black silk gnipure lace is again in vogue. Virgin gold is a pole shade that ia to replaoe old gold. The taste for embroidery as a dress decoration increases. Drab snd viole are combinations of oolor for spring wear. Diamonds are act in a row around the finger in guard rings. Very short skirts ore relegated to the an of only very young lodise. Sunflowers and lilies, peacock feath ers and popples are in demand. Polonaises of black moire silk will be worn over white satin and black velvet striped goods tor underskirts. Chenille fringes of pale colors to match evening fabrics form beautiful trimmings for evening dresses. Uas terre (escape the ground) skirts are more in fashion than very short ones except for very young ladies. Bkirts with trimmings formed of sections of different materials are very fashionable, but thoy are not pretty. Machine laco is used so much in the making of muslin evening dresses that the manufacturers can scarcely meet the demand. Long tight cuffs of plush, moire or velvet are seen on cloth and camel's hair dresses, tho Hleevo above the cuff being rather full. The now prints, as well as all tho new goods of the coming season, come in separated pieces for skirts and over dresses, showing that composite oos tumes will be as fashionable as ever. The now dress linens for spring wear j come in delicate tones of color, figured in tho weaving in geometric and polka dot designs for overdresses, and in ■ plain stuffs to match for skirts. Just now it is fashionable to wear the hair quite low in the neck, in coils or plaits, while the brow is covered with wavos or rings. Brushing it straight 1 back from the forehead, is becoming to : but few—if any—faces. Here are the fashionable colors in | spring goods; Gray-bluo or greyhound, garnet shades, .mustard shades, pearl and dark gray, olives, browns and bronzes, shrimp and shell pinks, sap phire shades, green and dark blue. The new American prints for spring wear show such marked improvement in the finish of the materials, as well as in the designs, that the manufacturers says that before many seasons the for eign prints will be driven from our market. I'KARLM OF THOUUIIT. " A <'bc'rfnl apirit grla on puck ; A grumbler in Ibo mud will (tick." That which wo know ia little; that of which wo aro ignorant in immense.— Laplac. Who h* no tnwanl )*ulifnl. -/i. IT. Ihtna. Trust him little who praises all ; him less who curses all; and him least who is indifferent to all. Wherever • noble deed i done. There are the aoula of our heroca stirred, Whererer a field for truth is won. There are oar heroes' voices heard. Kftn.i /lean Proctor. The true grandeur of hamanitj is in moral elevation, sustained, enlight ened and decorated by the intellect of man. C. Sumner. Toil, I repeat—toil either of the brain, or of the heart, or of the hand, is the only true manhood, the only true nobility.— Orriltr Dewy. How much more we might mako of our family life, of our friendships!, if every secret thought of love blossomed into s deed. Mr*. B(c*cc. Wo are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; Alt our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen. —C. P. Crane*. Never fear to bring the' snblimeet motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest tronble. Philip* Hrookt. And tinman eyes each other meet, With meanings sealed forever And loving lips each other greet. Their tale revealed. Ah! never. Klitahcth O. Smith. Ha l or sinful is the life of that man who finds not the heavens bluer or the wave# more muaical'in maturity than in childhood.- -T. W. Higgin*on. Htnileon, doubt on, ajr lifn in m.l. Tho world in lilir mil cold, I'll keep my heart glad, trne arvl warm, I newer will grow old I Qract Ct re?,, teoorf. A fua.t'H country is pot a certain area of land, of mountains, river* and wooda, bnt it ia a principle; and patri otism is loyalty to that principle. —O. W. (\cri\A. Look not mournfully into the past, it oomes not back again; wisely im prove the present, it is thine; go forth to meet the shady future without fear and with a manly heart LomgftUam. Into what boundless life does educa tion admit os? Every troth gained through it expands in a moment of time nto an illimitable being—positively en larges oor existence, and endows ns with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy. Ckapin. Without earnestness no man is ever great or does really great things. Me may be the cleverest of men; he msy be brilliant, entertaining, popular; bnt ba will want weight. No cool-moving pic tore wee ever painted that bad not in it depth of shadow. —/' sow lln***. Experiment# are in progr-we in Rug land for totting the adaptability of that eoantry for the growth of American vari t ei of applet. TOPICS OF THE DA V. A merchant in Mansfield, Ohio, lias failed through a novel cause. Two of his clerks were taken with smallpox, the people wero afraid to ]>atronizo him and he could not meet his payments. Consequently the creditors seized the establishment and closed up its affairs. The total amount of bituminous coal rained in the United States in 1880 was 42,420,580 tons, of which '29,842,240 were rained in tho Appalachian Held. The anthracite prod net was 28,046,995 tons, nearly all furnished by tho Htate of Pennsylvania, making tho total coal product of tho country for tho census year 71,067,576 tons. England pro duced 140,818,122 tons in the same year. Eight years ago there was only 8120 ,- (XX) invested in stoamers on tho Ht. Johns, Florida. Now there fcro twenty eight stoamers plying on that river, one pf which cost 8240,(KM), and to this fleet constant additions are making. The Indian river and Bouth Florida lakes and inlets are now dotted with sailboats, carrying freight to and fro. In a very short timo these will be sup plemented by steamers, and then a new region will be opened of surpassing | fertility and beauty. The Lu 1 low street jail of New York had an average of twenty-five men im , prisoned for debt daring last year, and this when the imprisonment is only in cases of fraud, as in other places, and I when the persons were generally kept only a few days each. By giving bonds i these persons can get "the liberty of the jail," which means freedom within the city, and there are men who have I las n nnder duress in this way foryears, and yet going about their business as if ! there were no jail in the world. The new census is bringing out many curious facts. In the whole country there is an excess of nearly a million males, yet in almost ull the cities this proportion is reversed. There are forty-five cities of more than 40,000 inhabitants, and in all hut nine the females outnumber the msles. The chief csnscs of the discrepancy are to l>e sought in the larger employment of females than males in household ser vice, and in the -continually increasing engagement of females in manufactur ing pursuits. Minnie Madden and Grace Orary, II linois girls of eighteen and nineteen, ar<-making a tout Af the West on hi cycles. They started early in the fall, and when cold weather set in at the North they had reached Texas. They sre not doing it for show purposes, but for health and diversion. A man ser vant attends them, and they carry a smalt quantity of baggag.-, their trunks being sent ahead by express. They in tend to cross the country to Florida by spring, and th< n move up aloug the coast. According to the secretary of the Manufacturing Chemists' association of the United States the capital invested in the chemical industry is $>15,000,000; the annual production is worth 8118,- 000,000; the number of manufacturing establishments is 1.340, using 000,000 tons of coal and employing 30,000 working people, whose wages amount to $12,000,000 a year. The industry is not only great in itself, but it affords a side light of the magnitude of other manufactures which require chemicals for their production. John Gyumber, who achieved great ness abont a year ago by means of his extraordinary capacity for sleeping, and thereby beesme snoh a natural curiosity that it was a moment of regret to all axoept himself and his attendants when he finally woke after a nap of seventeen weeks, is now earning an honest living as a wide-awake employe in the Allen t iwn rolling mill. He hsa regained bis health, is as straight and strong as a telegraph pole, earns good wsges, and is cordially liked by his fellows. His memory is still somewhat defootive, but is gradually improving. Another effort to intimidate an editor ban proven a melancholy faiinre. Mr. Ward, who oondoete a paper in Middle town, Ohio, annonnood that a certain performing tronpe wee a "enido" affair. The ladies of the tronpe, not pleased with this notion, bought a conple of cowhides. Two of the women pro ceeded to the editor's sanctum with a gentleman gnard, and told Mr. Ward that they had come to eowliide him, and the man stated that he came to pro* teot the women. Ward pioked up a otnb and drew his revolver, when all the parties lied for the street and hnstled off pell osell for ths hotel. Tliat night the tronpe eonld not pay hall rent, and the proprietor of the hall tnroed off the gas. By this time the manager had flod with all the receipts, leaving the balance of the tronpe help less financially. There's a divinity that protects truth telling editors. The reeeut death, nesr Malvern Hill, ▼a., of Nathan Enronglty is likely to reviTo the question, often discussed, bnt never satisfactorily answered, why the narno of a numerous family should have boon, for at leant a century, tini veraally spelled Enmughty and univer sally pronounced Darby. The mem hern of the family themselves follow this strange perversion, always writing the name one way and pronouncing it the other, but can give no explanation of its origin. Nathan Enroughly, who has just died at a great age—from nine ty to u hundred years- was a soldier in the war of 1812 and a pensioner of the government. He was famous, beyond middle life, for his strength, activity and endurance, and it is said no pru dent man ever ventured to try conclu sions with him when nature's weapons were the only ones to be omployed. For elevi-n years, however, blindness kept him in hateful inactivity. An interesting calculation of the gold and silver production for 1881 has been made by Mr. Valentine, a statistician connocted with Wells, Fargo A Co. Ho puts the figures at 178,500,000, or 88,- 000,000 more than for the previous year, the gain being in silver. Cali fornia produced 819,(XX),000 of gold, or 52 per cent., a gain in Ave years of 15 per cent. Dakota produced $4,500,000, Colorado, Montana and Nevada being the other principal sonrces. Alaska is credited with $7,000 in gold. In silver Colorado stands at the bead, with a production of 818,180,000, against 914,- 960,000 the previous year. Novada'pro dnoed $7,790,000, against 89,598,000, bnt those losses are morn than made tip by Arizona, which advanced from 91,- 760,000 to $0,800,000, and Utah, which increased from $4,172,000 to $5,020,000. | The total production of tho world is reckoned at aliout $107,000,000 in gold and $*8,000,000 in silver. According ■ to this estimate the United Btates pro daces about 88.5 per cent, of the world's gold and silver. The Sew York drnpluc thinks that the increase in cases of heart disease is caused by the life of hurry and excito ment which men lead in cities. It says: "If shocks and starts are liable to bring at>out sudden deaths in affections of the heart, is there not a great deal in our modern life which tend to this result 7 Is not our daily life in the city, especially that portion of it passed out of doors, largely mad" np of starts, alarms, petty fears and anxieties and frshtic hurryings ? Men step from their door* in the morning and hurry to jump on the nearest passing car; they run up the fifty steps of the "L" road station to eatcb an incoming train as though pursued by s fiend, and gen erally wait for the next one; they jump from ferryl>oat to dock or from dock to ferryboat as though oseap ng from armed foes; they hurry and bustle and run from car line to car line and from ferry to railway station, fall of breath less anxiety to catch the irain; they rcampcr across H road way in terror of passing vehicles. These and more are daily events in the lives of tens of thousands. Every frantic spasm of haste draws heavily on our strength. Every such spasm diminishes our supply of nerve force and decreases mental power. A hurried man oaaomtß is in no fit con dition for bnsin***. The grnpt distances at which no many live from their places of business make the loes of train or boat a serious inconvenience- And whether it does or not there is the same hurry or anxiety. The question in view of all this is: Have not these condi tions attendant on the daily life of so many people something to do with the development jof ' heart disease,' which seems of increasing and alarming fre quency 7* Wouldn't it be letter, if pos sible, to take things easier, or wait until the hnrry is over, to cultivate more disposition to leisure 7 Or is this possible where the demands weigh so heavily on thousands—where strong or weak, sick or well, the post of lebor must be filled with machine-like regu larity r Raited With Meslc. A writer in Nat** and Qmane* says The boatmen of the Dsnnbe arch across and keep tense upon strong stretchers bung with grelota (little balls or jingles), a floating net, and so ring in s great number of fish by the tink ling of these belle. Rondolet, the famous naturalist, gives e romantic in stance of the fondness of music of fishes. \theu staying et Vichy he took e alk with aome friends in quest of alosa, along the banks of the Allier, with violin in hand, ready for a seren ade. Tea air was still, the moon and stars ahining brilliantly. When the party hail coma to a favor able spot for the operation a net was carefully drawn across the stream, while the violinist, putting the instru ment to his ehin, struok up e lively welts. A wonderful effect ensned. Scarcely had he drawn his bow when the sleeping surface of the waters began to mo*e, alosa backs appeared rippling the silvery expanse, aud after a few strokes e party of fish might be seen riling and leaping in Un water. HCIKWTIFIC WRAPS. The pressnre of wind seldom ex eeoda thirty pounds to the square foot, except in the case of whirlwinds. A lacquered Japanese fan, constructed on tho principle of tho andiphone, has been recommended as an aid to hear- i ing. Methyl | ab-ohol or wood uaptha, is an alcohol obtained as one of the prod- | nets of tbo destructive distillation of wood. On tho last two days of July, 1880, tho rainfall over an area of 2,500 miles iu tho central part of England was three inches. A single inch in such an area amounts to 100,000,000,000 gal lons. After experimenting for a quarter of a century on tho variation of plants, j IJr. H. Hoffman inclines to the opinion that variation takes place in definite di rections, aud that its 'cause is in a pre ' pondorating degree internal. If gravitation wero to cease, and steel | wires were used to hold the earth in i her orbit, each wire being as large as tho heaviest telegraph wire, it would require nine to each square inch of the earth's surface, and the whole sunward hemisphere of our globe would have to b covered as thickly as blades of grass upon a lawn. ; Mr. J. EL Pillabury, of Hpringfleld, Mam., bos the following letter in the I So'nc*: A friend of mine who in a re liable observer relates an incident which forcibly illustrates the power of parental affection to overcome fear. 1 The gentleman found a nest of jonng mice and removed them to the ground \ near by. The mother mouse made her appearance and carried away one of her young, and while she was gone the gen- I tleman took the remaining mice in his I hand. When the mouse again appeared | and could not find her young she seemed to hesitate a moment and then ran up the gentleman's clothes, took one of the young and carried it away. This wa repeated until all the young were removed to a place of safety. Inherited Perils, Foremost among the perils of life, in all iti s'sges, but especially in its early stages, are the inherited. We may safely ssv that no one is born free from taint of disease, and we msy almost mj with equal certainty that there is no definable disease that does not admit of being called hereditary, nnlews it be accidentally produced, To what is known as specific disease, the disease of diseases , to struma, or scrofula, and its ally, if not the same, tubercular affections ; to cancer, to rheumatism and gout, and to alcoholic degeneration, the grand perils of life are mainly due. These are the bases of so many disease* which bear different names; these so modify diseases which msy in themselves le distinct, that if they were remove 1 the dangers would bo reduced to a min. imnm. These diseased conditions do not, however, exhaust the list of fstal common lnheritsnees. On many oera* sions for several years past I have ob served and maintained the observation, that some diseases, as communicable, infections or contagious, are also classi fied under this head. I am satisfied that qninsy, diphtheria, rcarlet fev<-r, and even what is called brain fever, typhoid, are often of hereditary char acter. I have known a family in which four members have suffered from diph theria, a parent having had the same affection, and probably a grandparent. I have known a family in which five members have, at various periods. suf fered from typhoid, a parent and a grandparent having been subject to the same disease. I have known a family in which quinsy has beon the marked family characteristics for four genera tions. These persons have been the sufferers from the diseases named with out any obvious contraction of the dia eases, and without having any com panions in their sufferings. They were in fact predisposed to produce the poisons of the disease in their own bodies, as tko oobra is to produce the poisonons secretion which in its esse is a part of the natural organization Vr. Richnrd*m, in Framr* Mag ism- . | A Philanthropic Indian Princess. Her Highness Kadaia Begum, an In dian princess of abnormally oharitablc disposition, lately died et Bhopel so deeply regretted thet all the shops in the city were cloeed end no business wss transected for three deys. Many hundreds of persons were the recipients of monthly stipends from this kind woman, who did not confine her benefit# to human beings only. She took the greetest pleasure in feeding the spar rowa which roosted eboot her palace, end the cats end stray dogs also oame in for a share of attention, the latter being fed regularly at the oook-houae. A short time ego e number of swallows, finding that the doorway of bar bath af forded a g d place for the construc tion of their nests, speedily utilised the place for that purpose, and the princess, observing this, left off using the bath so aa not to disturb ths little crea tures. TIIE FA JULY DOCTOR. T" A Fr.t/)*.— A* soon as it makes its appearance apply a poultice of equal parts of saltpeter and brim atone, mixed with sufficient lard to make a paste, and renew an soon aa it gets dry. A few application* will effect a cure. A Ibi< PBA'TTICK. —The common prao ticeof having night light* in the bed room* of children of well-to do parents i* deprecated by Dr. Itobert H. Bake well. He say* it ha* a rno*t injuriou* effect upon the nerrou* system of young children "In*tcad of the per fect rest the optic nerve* ought to have, and which natnre provide* for by the darkness of the night, these nerve* are perpetually stimulated, and. of course, the brain and the rest of the ncrvou* system suffer. Children thu* brought up are excessively timid for year* after on going into the dark." I< E KOB TKKTUIKO ONRNNBEX.— The pain of teething may be almost done uway and the health of the child bene fited by giving it fine splinter* of ice, picked off with a pin, to melt in its mouth. The fragment is so small that it is but a drop of warm wab r before it can I>e sallowed, and the child has all the coolness for its feverish gums without the slightest injury. The avid ity with which the little things taste ! the cooling morsel ; the instant quiet which succeeds hours of fretfulneas, and the sl<-ep which follow* the relief, are the l>e*t witnesses to the magic rem ] edy. Ice may be fed to a three-months' i child in this way, each splinter being no longer than a common pin, for five i or ten minutes, the result being that it bar swallowed in that time a teaspoon ful of warm water, which, ao far from being a harm, is good for it, and the ! process may be repealed hourly as often as the fretting fits from teething begin. \ti Orange Wrapping In Florida. Last eight our party of tourista went to an "orange wrapping." A Urge warehouse belonging to the Wilkinson j place was lighted up with candles i placed along the walla, and all the "help" of the ncigblmrhood wan gath ered. In one corner of the room there were huge boxes filled with oranges. They were rigged with handles at each end, and it took two men to bring one of | them in. On the opposite side of the room were long tables, behind which Nat the "wrappers." The fruit was supplied to them by boya, who | carried it in bread treys, putting a tray io every tbres men. Before each man was a package of tiaane paper. By a dexterous an orange was i enveloped in a leaf of paper by one movement As the fruit was wrapped it was dropped into another tray, which was carried to the "packers," who stood before a pile of empty crates. Each orange was placed in the crate sepa ! ratcly, being packed in close rowa. A crate holds from 120 to 140 oranges, i and sella here for about fl The oranges are not bronght direct from the grove to the packing-bouse, but rest a day or two in the drying-house. Th< re they are spread over lattice ! shelves, where they go through a ' "sweating" process before they are ready for shipment. The scene in the wrapping- house was a pretty one. The golden fruit, piled in j neb profusion, the men and boys laugh ing as they handled it so rapidly, the orderly crates with their tempting eon tents, s heap of pine-apples in an odd corner, filling the room with their ex. qnisitc flavor, huge bunches of bananas with just a fleck of yellow bere and , there amid the green, dean-looking lemons almost as large as the oranges heaped off to themselves, great citrons j with their royal gold color, gronps of lxatmcn and bnnteta with their swarthy faces and picturesque attire lending a hand wherever it was needed, a negro with a banjo strumming rude tones to which the crowd gave casual accom paniment, the ladies watching curiously and sampling an orange now and then --these were some of the elements that made np the scene—the whole being enlivened with the haste and bustle of getting ready against the next day's boat and having tbe fruit ready to g ont with the ship.—Florid* letter. How Our Man Prospered. Says the Pilot Point (Tex*) PoM: J. P. ltogers, a farmer tiring near this city, engaged four jean ago for a period of ail week* in the novel pa mi it of banting oposeam and other amall rer minta, then plentifal in thia vicinitr. This pnranit waa engaged in both aa a moaan re of aport and profit, and, not withstanding he van ooetinnallj laughed at by bia frienda, he boldly declared his intention to auk* lh% pun tarda of that aii weeka' opoaantn bant net hitn •1.000 in leas than ten year*. Nov for the result. The meat and pelta of that bant wore eold and tgnwnrfcd (ML Thia amount wa. twlee calves, which at the end of two year* weta aold and the amount invested in 100 which now, at the and of fonr years from the first investment, are held at #4O eaoh. making a net valne of H,ooa