WPltß.OFTtjrc-I7JUf.T-~~ little Denmark, which has a popula tion of about 1.800,000 and a national debt of 628,000,000, is going to spend 618,600,000 a good deal more than her yearly income—in forta and now ships of war. , The latest investigation informs ns that the United States contains 11,33.') blind men and 8,977 blind women—in all 20,310 —a population which is greut ar than that of most of onr in laud towns. Of these unfortunates 2,218 wore fonnd in New York State. Reports from diflorent sections of the United States indicate that more agri cnltnral implements will bo sold this year than in any other in its history. "Die great influx of emigrants has as sisted to snbdue and put nndor culti vation a large extent of now farming loads. With fair crops tho products of the mil this year will be immense. Omeral Robert O. Schenck, ex-minis ter to England, has, he ays, been en tirely cured of what appeared to bo a html attack of Bright's disease by ning skimmed milk as his only diet. Un skimmed milk and buttermilk Lave also keen successfully employed in typhoid and other fevers. French and Russian mad real scientists have, after trial, in iuaad their use in all suoh cases. Then has been so much water in Manitoba that the people there don't know what to do with it. There is more •4 the thin fluid than the Manitobianß know how to satisfactorily use, opposed astbey are to it as a beverage. A gen- Uesaan writes from there that ho sailed •war a $25,000 farm in a large steam boat a short time ago. The same farm psodnced forty bushels of wheat to the acre last year. There is, perhaps, no better way of getting a correct idea of the vastness of the city of London than from the police seeorda, which show that 173,000 per aons are every year brought before the atj courts. This is at the rate of near ly 650 per day, exclusive of Sundays, or arrest for every three minutes, day and rtight the yoar round. To provide lor such a vast business there aro estab lished thirteen separate police courts in various parts of the city, before each of which there are brought an average of lesty two prisoners daily. The colony of thrifty Bwiss, recently established near Mount Airy, Ga., is as prosperous and happy as there was every reason to suppose it would be. It now comprises twenty-four families, and several more are expected soon. Each family brought from $2,000 to 85,000, and now owns a farm which, iu com par iaon with the scanty measures of Bwitz ariand, seems like a kingdom. The average size of tho farms is 160 acres, raid they already show the intelligence and boms', industry of their owners. The colonists csll their settlement, apsa wnich they hsve expended about $60,000, New Switzerland. Iriehinii< continue® to givo a surpris ing amount o( trouble in Germany, In spectors have boon appointed in every stringent rules are in force for the microscopic examination of pork, mid negligence or evasion of the lav ia wruuiy punished. Nevertheless the ■ale of infected meat, often with fatal iwnlta, is a thing of frequent occur "ore in all parts of the country. If Amerkwn pork wore half as liable to be snlasted with trie hint- as that raised in Granny, it would not be admitted into a single European port. By com parison the American meat, free as it is Ira government inspection, is singu pure. Statistics of population compared with representatives in legislative bod ies of the lnadies countries of the world, Aow that the United States, with the tssgeat population, has the smallest imuL i* of legislators. For her nearly ft'ty millions of people she has 309 Hen sfws and members of Congress, while aha Igiuea for the European nations an thaw: Germany, 43,003.003, and W delegates; England, 84,000,000, and <6O members of parliament; France, 86600,000, and 960 representatives and nsmtnn; Bpaio, 17,000,000, and 387 As|intMW in the oortes; and Austria- Huagary, 35,000,000, and 1,000 mem hats in the two houses. ft Via reported recently that an el dbriy impoetor, who bad lived on the atari ty of benevolent persona in Phi la bad died, leaving a large mm VI money to ber daughter, who vaa ■pun ling it in a prodigal way. The lighter vm thereupon exceedingly tadigiaat. Tbe matter baa been tbor eogbly investigated, and tbe frandnient ehanater of both women baa been amply proved. By playing that tbey ■are 14 a aiok and lamiabing family' tbey raerived a regular pension from •am el tbe churches. From a charita Ma maiden lady they received at vari mm banc aams amounting to 11,500. IMa victim l>vea io Brooklyn, auu like eobdvy others responded to pitoum gppanla vbiob were aent by mail. Ely the ott repeated death and bnrial of an imaginary man, who sometime wu served np an a husband, ami sometime* an conning, thcne females raked in u good deal of fnueral money. Tko c:nc is a remarkable instance of what ingen ious impostors ran do in deceiving persons who are both charitable and unwary. Tbo following table shown how rap idly the oxtravaganco of tbo country has advanced with its prosperity. The list of imported luxuries is ns follows: j I*7B. 1880. | l*n. books TTT.! 41,704,914 *2,17:1,171 $2,660,588 Carriage*..! 50,62t 88,395, 138,740 Gold A all. watches., 815.779 1,388,fl 1,917,873 Diamonds.) 8,875,804 6,705,692 8,830,071 Feathers... 973,358 1,356,028 1,839,258 Fancy arti clos 3,108,000 3,858 733 5,215,01:1 Furs 2.77:1.291 3,82:1,909 4,270,101 Jet 171,361 1,352,553 223,210 Musical in strument. 590,231 892,178 1,335,892 Paintings.. 1,050,092 1,959,902 2 210,914 HUks 23,680.411 81,460,917 32,377,220 Spirits slid wince. 0.050,707 7,578,281 8,702,762 Tobacco...' 5,076,11)7 6,179,238 6,174,9:18 Carpets w-; Ten whole 1121,803 118 001 371,681 Brussels.,. 100,678 102,337 213,721 Velvet car pets 11,621 81,510 71,074 Ho sie r y over 80 c. l>r pound 322,760 468,111 827,508 T0ta1.... 150,530,695 169,538,727 177,212,368 Daring the lout thirty yearn the United Btatea government baa given away to railroad corporation* not leu than 101,(153,401 acres, 21,551,201 acres more than comprises the groat Bute of Texas, an area equal to eight times the area of Indiana, or seven times the area of Kentucky. The great Bute of Illinois covers an area of 30,250,000, and Ohio 26,27*,400. Their areas are, however, as a small corner lot com pared to somo of tho territory given away. To one railroad, the Atlantic and PaciQc, was given, between I*6o and 1871, 42,000,000 acres, the Northern Pacific, 47,000,000 acres, lint it is now protty evident that no more land will be given to railroads, and it is not impossible that large slioes may be taken away from railroads which have not fulfilled tLe conditions of their respective grant*. Hundreds of thou sands of American citizens, and almost as many emigrants, aro now want ing land for homes, but the government lands of good quality are getting scarce. They havo all been absorbed by rail road corporations and are hold at spec ulative prices. An English hydraulic engineer pro posos to make use of tho vast energy that is to be found iu the tides. The idea of utilizing the rise and fall of the ocean is by no means now, and tho various plans which have been tried have proved quite ineilioient. It is now proposed to put in practices means which will likely provo a measurable success where the difference between high and low water is considerable. The method is as follows: A w<>ir or dam is built across the mouth of au inlet of the sea. The risingtideis kept out of the in closnr" until near about high tide is then let in, and while it ing in the water t.s mxdo to turn Vr-j wheels, which may lie mails toivJjP iynamo-clectric machines that will "store up' electricity for light and power. When tho inclosuro is full the gates are shut and tho water retained until about low tide, whon it is liber ated and made to give useful results the samo as before. The wonderful progress made within the last few mouths in socondary batteries raises the hope that many other sourcos of motive power now neglected will be mado capable of adding to the material progress of this wonderful mechanical ago. _______ The /oilinc. Very few people know tho significa tion of the various aigna peculiar to tho title page of the almanac, and some of them are not exactly clear to us. In the first instance, the man who stands in the center with his vest un buttoned in such a manner as tooxposo his alimentary canal, baa only been a mystery to us. Why in every almanao for the past oentury this man, with all his works exposed to the eold night air, in a literary work like the almanao, should bo given the most prominent place, we are unable to clearly understand. He certainly can claim no great degree of consideration for this act. It doee not entitlo him to any amount of prominence, for the public do not thirst for a man who has made an autopcy of himself and is ap parently proud of it. What the planets have to do with the oardiao orifice we do not at this moment know positively, or why astronomy and the gaatrio juices should hsve anything In common. Again we mnst come out and oonfees our ignoranoe as to the bearing that the ram or ihs tarantula, or the twins, or the erab, or other astronomioal delirium tremens may liare upon the weather. Of oonrae it is stnpidlty and ws oujht to bo ashamed of it, but wo are in that Ax and we cannot help it. When our son gets old enongh to look into these things we will sen thst he isn't left to grope along through life and make 'a moral show of himscdf as his father hat. Uoomerapg, LAlirfis' lIEfMRTMEJif. The* Trnrirr I'MMIOU. It seems that in England aud America the tender passion is mnch the same. A recent marriago at Hyde Park, I'a., completes a romance of absorbing inter est. The young couple aro both chil dren of farmers in England, he of poor, she of wealthy parents. Tho farms adjoin. They became infatuated with each other, and u courtship began. Tho parents of the yonng bride wcro bitterly opposed to the match, and did every thing to break it np. Love for parents, however, could not repress the flame that glowed for her lover. Tho tie grow stronger and stronger. Even threats of disinheriting her availed nothing. As a last resort sbo was sent to Scotland. I for lover was almost broken-hearlod. Blio was closely watched lest she might writo to him. Not a word camo to con sole him, and, despairing of overseeing his love again, ho sailed for America. This was ten months ago. After his departure the girl was brought to her homo in England. The hope she had fostered of meeting her lover was usurped by bitter grief and disappoint ment. Borne time after the arrival of the young man in this country ho wrote to a former governess of the young lady regarding her. Through the governess she learned whero her lover was. With out preparation, and with the bare means of defraying the trip, abo set sail and arrivod in New York almost penni less, and without a friend in the great city. Bho was soon found by the yonng man, and the conple were married by a Hyde Park minister. Slf| •( llllubird I.lfe. The Cleveland Leader tells the story of a blighted life. After the late A. T. Stewart had received a start in this country ho returned to Ireland to settle the estate of an uncle who had died and left him quite an inheritance. While there he renewed his acquain tance with a family named Morrow, and spent the greater part of one winter at their house. One of the mem'oert of the family was Miss Abby, a fresh faced, bright-eyed Irish lass of some eighteen years. ♦brown constantly in her society, Stewart fell a victim to tho yonng lady's manifold charms, and was soon an accepted suitor. In tho spring the yonng man, having sold out his in terest in the elder Stewart's projnsrty, began preparing for his return to Amer ica, and suggested that the family of his betrothed accompany him. After due solicitation on his (art and with great reluctance on theirs they finally consented to emigrate, and coming to this country settled in what was then a small village bnt is now tho city of Cleveland. Stewart and Miss Abby corresponded for a year or more, and Stewart visited her at her distant homo. Upon his returning to New York bis letters grew infrequent and ultimately ceased. Shortly after, Miss Morrow received tidings of Stewart's , The news prostrated her and after her recovery from tho illness which ensued sbo was en tirely changed. Before that time she had been light-hearted and chcerfnl. Afterward sho was never known to speak above an ordinary tone, and smiled only on ram oocasion*. The roses ] permanently left her cheek i and sho became prematurely aged. Her mother died the year following Abby's sickness, and for thirty years she kept honso for hor two brothers. In the early years she did not lack for anitors, for attractive girls were even ewer in proportion in those days than now. None of them succeeded in awaking any responsive emotion in her breast, and in 1856 she died, and, with her griefs and blighted affections, was laid away in a grave dag by her broth ers in front of their cottage door. Two years after bis marriage A. T. Btewart ■cat to his former affianced a silk dreas pattern, with the attendant trimmings. Each following year till the time of his death Miss Morrow received a similar offering from her faithless and possibly remorsefnl lover. AU the presents she reoeived without remark, and all were carefully laid away and Dover worn. Alter his marriage Miss Morrow was never known to refer to Stewart in any manner, and after her death her broth ers rarely spoke of the man who broke their sister's heart. Faahlsa Kaarlaa. Hew black lace veila have border*. Old fashioned bine ia coming in again. 1 Linings to trains have assumed great importance. Among noveltiea bronghtont in Lon don are parasols of straw. New mown hay and putty are the latest shades talked about. Stookinga of new grade are worn with black oostume*. New York women of fashion display little or no jewelry on the street French oostume* grow more bouffant and en it he tie dresses become more and more clinging. I Licsd boots are again rivivod, both in stont material for long tramp* in tho country and in fine kid for tho atreot. It ia considered i>ad form to wear the hustle closo np to the waist—tho cor rect thing being to fasten it some inches bolow the waist lino. Hhonldcrcapen in virions stylos, made of tho dress material, aro to bo very fashionable as a part of walking suits a little later in the season. A great many wrappers made from fancy blankets aro being prepared for use at tho seaside, lted, blue and gray blankets are alike used for these, and tho border forms the trimming. Kibbon neckties are in vogue. Those arc from an inch and a half to three inches wide, and ]>*ns round the neck outside the collar and inside tho dress, tying in front with long loops and ends. Htylish gold braid bonnets have an Alsace pnfT of dark maroon velvet. A cluster of ostrich tips, an aigrette of murabont, or a hunch of carranta trims the left aido, and there are two pairs of narrow satin strings, one of which is of gold color. Among novelties in lingerie are Elizabethan and Marie Htuart ruffs, made, some of lace and others of ex quisitely embroidered India muslin. They are kept upright by means of a very One wire covered with gatizo and rnn along the edge. It ia a great art to do up an umbrella properly, an art in which few persons aro proficient. First sec that every fold ia straight and then roll from the top down keeping the hand over it and fasten with the strap, which should be tight, before releasing yonr hold. Tailor made costumos of black diag onal cloth or serge without luster, and also of flannel, are worn by ladies in the morning. Braiding in parallel rows is the trimming, or else the braid appears merely st the edges of the baaqne r id overaklrt, and there are rows of stitching above it. Little princease or be!>e bonnets made entirely of flowers aro again in fashion. Among the prettiest are those made of white lilacs mingled with pale pink hedge roses, or those of white wood violets with trailing arbutus blossoms intermingled. These dainty little capotes are particularly appro priate at weddings, either for the bride maid or lady guest. ijnite inexpensive but very charming little drosaes can l>e made for little girls by purchasing American surah, which can lie had m all the -delicate shades of baby blue, rose pink, cherry, or fawn color, and making perfectly plain princcsso slips of this fabric, over which can bo worn different dresses of dotted Swiss, mnl, organdie or batiste, trimmed with dainty ruffles of some fancy lace and little bows of ribbon matching the shade of the slip. The American snrmhs aro of good width and are now reduced to about half their former price. The Klr>t Advertisement. Jt might bo supposed that these an nouncement* of births, mirriage* and (loath*, so interesting and valuable as wo havo found thorn to !>, would earlj hare found a place in onr newspaper*. Such, however, Ar*s not the caae until they had reached a pretty mature age, although the earlier representative of onr newspaper*. The Acta D.nrna of the 1 tomans contained auctj lint a. The first paper in Britain published at stal ed interval* for the dinaenrnation of In telligence was the Weekly .Wrj, the first number of which was pnbliihed in Ixtndon on the 231 of May, 1622. It was deatitnte of advertiaemenU and in deed contained very little news. The first advertisement appeared on the 'id of April, 1647, in number thirteen of a weekly paper oalled "Perfect Occurrences of Every l>aie Journal in Parliament and other Mod crate Intelligence " —a name that would make onr newsloys frantio—and relates to " A Book applauded by the Clergy of England, called The Dine Bight of Chnrch Government." For several years bookseller* were the only adver tisers, but aa the newspapers began 11 circulate more among the less educated classes, other kind of advertisements appeared, and the columns gradually assumed a business like aspect. The Vt rcuriui Political of September 30, 1658, contained th first trade adver tisement, which relates the charms of tho new " drink called by the Cbineana Tcha, by other nations tey alias tee."— All the Year Pound. A sad story of cannibalism oomes from Great Britain. A Fijian teacher's wife and two children set ont for the house of a friend, about three miles distant from their reaidenoe, and the natives killed and roasted the children preparatory to eating them .at one of their "feasts." Tha woman escaped into the bnsh, and was fonml, after roaming about for eighteen days, a liv ing skelston. An Indiana farmer believes that a famine is now at hand, and for several years has refused to sell any of his largo wheat orope. The grain fills nearly all the buildings on the farm, inelnding the resldenoe, and much of it has spoiled. NOItAf. AMI ItELIGIOI'M. Ii tin. "Forward, march I" That ia the order of tho day; and tho dream of the night ia "Go on 1" Paul's desire of tho church was that it go forward, and tho work of the church is to go on. The Master's command is, "Why stand ye here all tho day idle? Go on 1" If yo be at work, do yo well. Until your work is done, go on 1 If yo bo indifferent and idle, raiso yourselves—make a start, and go on! If you aro traveling a hard road, and find it up-hill busings, brace yourself and go on I Aro you woary wit a tho march ? Add another weary. Go on ! Aro you hungry ? Lot hunger bo in creased ; tiguten your bucklo and go on ! Are yon half clad and shivering with the cold ? Btep the quicker. Go on! Don't you know what to do? Then do this, and keep doing it; go ou ! Have you got discouraged? Don't stop to be discouraged. Go on ! Yon may bo lame and halt; never mind it. The best treatment is to go on 1 You may be weak and fainting; strength will l>e gained if yon go onl Temptation will assail, and the devil sornetimos prevail, but go onl Has somebody made a false report? You have DO time to pick it np. Go on! You will meet with naught but the Master has met; face all things. Go onl Nobody may thank you for your pains. Tho pay is st the end. Go on! —Anvil. It el Igl OB • \ewa itnd >'#(*• The net increase of members in the M-tliodist church Houth, for tho past year, amounted to 13,000. Seven Congregational churches in Northwestern Pennsylvania arc vacant, only as impplied by the general mis sionary. The Unitarians of Gnat Britain hare just held a national conference in Liv erpool, which ia spoken of as "a grand success." The Kav. Joseph Cook will go from Ceylon to Hong Kong, Japan and Australia, and to Ban Francisco about October 1. The Protestant Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts reports 1,114 persons confirmed the past year. The number of clergy in the diocase is 102. A Congregational association has re ceived into membership two Baptist ministers with the understanding that they retain their "Baptist principles." Tho United Presbyterian church has decided, by a vote of 010 to GO6, to repeal the law forbidding the use of musical instruments in their chnrches. It is reported on good authority that sixteen ont of twenty prominent infidel lnctnrers in England daring the past twenty years htTo embraced Christi anity. The Southern Method ist general conference resolved to establish an ed ucational fnnd for the benefit of the Colored Methodist Episcopal chnrcb, which it organized some years ago. The new French version of the Bible, by Professor Segocd, has attained great success, and a copy of the New Testa ment at throe halfpence has l**ra pub lished of which 100,000 were sold of the first edition. Of the second 50,000 copies were sold in three weeks. The Rev. G. Lewis, LL D., a Baptist minister of Kentucky, died suddenly a short time ago, of heart disease. On the table cf his stndy was fonnd a sermon on First Corinthians, xv. 26: "The laet enemy that shall be destroyed is death"—which he Lad prepared to preach the morning he died. Fifteen Million Dollar* an Acre. A New York correspondent states that " in the more ommon streets of New York land is worth from f250,000 to 150,000 per acre. In the bast part of Broadway ita value is increased to $2,000,000 per acre ; but in the vicinity of Wall street ita value is immensely increased because this locality ia the money heart of America. The land on which the Dresel building stands coat ita present owners at the rata of $14,000,- 000 per acre. It oooupias the oorner of Wall and Broad streets, which may be considered the most ralnable oor ner on this continent—and yet when I was a Broad street olerk in 1840 this very place was occupied by a hat atom. The corresponding veins of property in this neighborhood has been illustrated by the recent sale of the oorner of Broad street and Ex change place, whiob waa at the rate of $15,500,000 par acre. Hence the Drexel lot was none too dear. In fact, thaaa das sling figures era justified by the immensity of the transactions which oocnr bare daily. Almost all the rail roads on tba continent (except New England) are managed within 300 feet of this spot, and tba general pressure of onr immense financial system given it a valne wbioh a few years ago aoald 1 not have bean dreamed of." CLII'PISUH FOB THK CURIOUS. Tho hide* of all the cats in America wonld be worth $10,000,000 to oom meroe. Chapman say* that tho Bushmen of Honth Africa thought that hi* big wagon wan tho mother of his small one. Tho fleet and Hpirited bornea of Hun gary are bred on wide plain*, where they Hcarnper at liberty until they are broken. A planter of South Carolina !nui over 1,000 tea plant*. Some of them are six feet high and over ten feet in circum- , ference. Parian marble was obtained from Mount Marpesia, on the inland of Paros, and was sometimes called Marposian marble. The consumption of rails, for re newals alone, amounts to half a million of tons annually in the United States railroads. i The mountains round Great Salt I.ake bear evidences of the existence ai some 1 early period of a much larger lake In the same locality. Bains of houses, fortifications and , dishes made by a prehistoric people j Lave been found in Southwestern Colo rado and Southeastern Utah. In 1768 General Gage wrote home : "It is of no use to argue in this coun try, where every man studies law.'' Ho favored the enforcement of obedience at the point of the sword. The earliest evidence of glassmaking in England seems to be in 1417, when John Prudde engaged to execute the windows of a chapel at Warwick, and to use " no glasse of England." Deprivations of the Eucharist was the penalty for a multitude of offenses among the early Christians. The lowest penalty was for a few weeks. The peni tent spent most of tho period in relig ious exercises, and when he was read mitted to communion he appeared before the congregation clad in sack cloth, and confessed his sin aloud. When the government of Spain, en deavoring to place that country on a more respectable footing than it had j held for some centuries, attempted a general reform in the eighteenth cen tury, the ail of foreigners was called | in. Military schools were intrusted to [ an Irishman, a French officer was placed at the hl shut ofj his wind till he wants to go, and then let him go. 4. The brains of a horse seem to enterain but one idea at a time; therefore, continued whipping only confirms his stubborn resolve. If you can by any mean* give him a new sub ject to think of yon will generally have no trouble in starting him. 5. A aim pie remely is to take a eonple of turns of stout twine around hia foreleg, just below the knee, tight enough for the horse to feel, and tie in a bow knot. After the first check he will go dancing off, and after going a short distance you can get ont and remove the airing to prevent injnry to the tendon in yonr further progress. 6. Take the tail of the hone between the hind legs, and tie it by a cord to the eaddle girth. 7. Tie a string aronnd the horse'e ear, close to his head. Dreama. Dreams may ba more capable of con trol than ia generally anppoaed. It la known that brain action oansea a riee of cranial temperature, and reciprocally M. Del anna j that an inoreaae of heat in the bead atimnlatea the action of the brain. Dreama are generally illogical and abanrd, bnt by covering hie forehead with a layer of wadding M. Delannay geta nana, intelligent dreama. He haa alao experimented on modaa of lying in bed which favor the flow of the blood to certain parta, in* creaaing the activity of thoae portiona of the brain. He haa obaamd that dreama while lying on the back an aen •orial, variegated, iuxnriona; thoaa experienced when on the right aide an mobUa, exaggerated and abanrd, and refer to old matter*; while thoee which ooonr when on the left aide an maeon ahle and intelligent, and pertain to recent mat ten—ia which dreama one often epeaks. It ia claimed that thoae observation eooflrm the aooepted ideaa of the fonetiona of the different parta of the brain.