THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
The Progrr.a #r the Week on It—Hitler:
of Hie Msoiuikjiil.
Discussing about the Washingtof
monument, a correspondent at tin
national capital says: The monu
ment has now reached a height n
300 feet, and it is expected that about
forty feet more will be added befor<
the season ends. The height of tin
structure has been about doubled sinct
the work was resumed, a couple ol
years ago, after so long a delay, and if
now a little over one-half what U if
to be when completed, the highest
structure in the world. Its height,
when completed, is to be 550 feet. The
monument board, after the work was
resumed, two years ago, determined tc
make it tho highest structure in tin
world. They studied up on monu
ments, churches, towers and articles of
this sort, and found it to be perfectly
safe and they will push it up to 550
feet in height. It is hoped that the
work may be completed within two,
or, at furthest, three years after the
present season ends.
Few people are aware that the site
of this monument is one proposed by
Washington himself for a shaft of this
nature, yet such is said to be the
fact. It is said that General Wash
ington suggested to Major L'Entant.
the originator of the plans for
the city of Washington, that at
the point now occupied by tlie mon
ument there might with propriety be
erected a monument in honor of the
war of tho Revolution. This was
never done, but when the site for
Washington's monument was sought
this was hit upon as most suitable, and
thus the wisdom of tho father of the
country again honored.
The date of completion of the monu
ment is of course a matter of uncer
tainty as yet, but it is probable that
nearly a hundred years will have
elapsed between the date of the lirst
agitation of the subject and the com
pletion of the monument. In 1733
the Congress of the United States
ordered a bronze statue of Washing
ton to be erected where the residence
of Congress should be permanently
fixed, and directed the minister at
the French court to employ an artist
to perform this work, but by some
means it never was done. A few years
after the project took different shape,
and in 1799 resolutions for the erection
of a marble monument to Washington
were passed bv Congress, and the
family requested to permit his remains
to Is; buried under it. The permission
was granted, but tho work was never
begun. A number of other attempts
were made in the same line, but with
out success, and finally in 1333 a few
men, disgusted with the slowness of
Congress, undertook the task them
selves, and atter obtaining almut SIOO,-
(M 0 in $1 subscriptions, began the
work in 1848, the corner-stone l*>ing
Laid July 4of that year. In the next
six years 156 feet were laid and then
the funds gave out. In 1554. during
the Know-Nothing excitement, a band
of masked men visited the monument
gaggisl the watchman and taking the
slab of African marble sent by th
Roman government, broke it in pieces
and threw in the I'otomac. In 1855 a
number of members of the "Ameri
can I'arty " forcibly took possession of
the monument, ousting the old board.
In '59, however, the old board again
took charge, by the direction of Con
gress, anil as a first act re
moved several courses of stone laid
by others when they were in con
trol. It was not until 187*'
that Congress persuaded itself to as
sume the work, and then it was found
necessary to strengthen the founda
tion, so that work was not begun until
1880, since which time it has been
pushed until the present summer,
when, owing to the slowness of thr
contractors in furnishing the stone,
work was suspended. It will now be
pushed forward again until cold
yreather stops its further progress.
The monument is llfty-flve feet squart
at the base, and when completed will
be 550 feet, and it Is said the highest
structure in the world. It is ol
white marble, each course of marble
being two feet in thickness. Its toy
is to tie reached ly stairway and ele
vator. On the interior face, observ
able from the stairway, are stones fur
nished by the United States, some of
them liearing Inscriptions. Michigan
sends a block of copper ore, Nevada
one of silver, with the words " All foi
our country."
Dr. John ttae does not hold the com
mon opinion that the Esquimaux are
a diminutive race. He is Inclined tc
think that they are fully as tall as the
pverage native of London, and much
heavier. The women, when young, hi
says, are very pleasant-looking, almost
pretty, extremely solid and compact
with small feet and hands, and well
formed limbs. As to strength, hi
found that the Esquimaux could lift
400 to 500 pounds withease.
The Goat-Herd Who flecame a Great
Sculptor.
Tho story of the early life of Law
son, the eminent sculptor, is full of in
! terest to working men and their fam
ilies. Ills father was a miner, as were
most of the inhabitants of the lieauti
! ful valley among tlie mountains In
I which he spent his childhood. Hud
| denly one morning in June an alarm
j bell intimated to the village that an
J accident had occurred in tho mine.
Immediately the road was tilled with
crowds of people, and among them
was a boy of between twelve and :
fourteen, who was ashy pale, his legs ,
trembling so that he could scarcely
I move, but who nevertheless strained
I even nerve to reach the mouth of the
| pit. The waters bad got into the mine, j
I and it was feared that all who w ere in j
it were in danger of being drowned.
Frank Luwson's mother had died four
1 years before, and from that time his 1
father and he had been everything to 1
each other. His father was in the
flooded pit and he thought: " What
j w ill become of ine if I ln.se hiin too!"
All hands were instantly set to work
to open a fresh passage in the mine, so !
as to rescue the unfortunate men a*
soon as possible, but this could not be
accomplished in less than twenty-four
I hours. Frank worked among the
' hardest. His arm at last ceased, par
alyzed by exertion, and be soon fell '
down senseless. A poor man who
knew him, lifted him carefully and
carried him to his cottage, and when
lie awoke it was to timl that his father
was dead. He obtained a situ
ation as a shepherd Imv with
1 *
a gentleman of large property in
the district Ik which the village st.**l.
Having at once en tens 1 on his duties,
lie sis in liecaine a great favorite with
hi- master, who found that although he '
was so young lie was thoroughly to be
t rusteil. (ne day, as he was sitting on
a bank, feeling more than usually weary
and depressed, he chanced to put bis |
i hand into bis waistcoat pocket, and i
there tie found his old knife, which had
formerly given liirn so many hours of
enjoyment. He instantly set to work
and carved out the figures of the two
dogs in the wn l. He was himself
pleased with the likenesses, and having
finished them brought them home with
him and laid them quietly on the table
in the house of the shepherd whom In
had Ixs-n employed to assist. " What!"
exclaimed the man ; " why that is •llru
no,' and this is ■ Snap;' do you mean t • |
say that yon have made them?" "Yes,"
said the young artist, " I have indeed
carved them )*jth myself, and I did it
on purpose for you. as I thought you
would Ikj pleasi-l to have a Likeness of
your two favorites. His master, the
squire, had a number of tine horses,and
the youth very much wished to make
a likeness of one of these—a heauti
fill Arab—but be found it difficult to
obtain the requisite opportunities of
observing the animal. He most fre
quently saw it merely as it quieklv :
passed him with its owner on its bark.
Hut he perseveres! and succeeded. When
he hail accomplished his purpose he w as
one day standing at the gat of the
; park, comparing his work with the
original; and, looking with satisfaction
lon his production, lie exclaimed: "It
is really like." " Like w bat ?" asked a
voice just behind him. It was his
master's. This was the turning point
in the youth's history. This gentleman
had business connection with Liver
pool as well as a large -state in Wales,
and he waaso much pleased with Law
son's skill, and the promise which it
showed, that he soon after arranged
that he should remove to that town
and pursue his studies under the di
rection of a sculptor there. In Liver
piol he experienced many difficulties
and not a few real hardships, but lie
persevered ami in the end was re
warded.
Hash.
A reporter of a New York paper re
cently made an extensive tour through
the hotels and restaurants (both high
toned and low-down) of New York, in
quest of information as to the jMipu
larity of hash among the different
classes of the community, and his re
search disclosed that the mmpasition
of the article was not, as many sup
pose, a "mystery," but that it was
made of "corned beef and |H>tatnes
chopped up together line, well cooked
and well seasoned," and that it was
among the oftenest called for ilMhes in
the Windsor, the Brunswick, the Fifth
Avenue and Delnmnico's, as well as in
the cheapest restaurants. He found
one place where a ton of hash was
made, sold and eaten each week, and
an Italian restaurant on i'eorl street
where the pflco-iist is as follows:
Cmt.\ Onts.
Coffee. jar cop 1 Cor'd beef and esbb 4
Tea, per cop 1 lleef stesr 4
Hoop, per trawl. 1 Mutton broth 4
Pie, tier eat 2 <'hicken etew A
Beefoteek 4 Hash. ,
Koaet meets 4 Hem iu d egg* H <
He also found that there Is not a
first-class eating-saloon in New York
kept try a colored man, though they
have numerous small cook-shops. In
conclusion he says :
"There is hut one high-priced res
taurant In the city where hash is
totally ignored. Mr. Van Tone is
proprietor of the same, and 18 Mott
street is the locality. It is said
that In San Francisco there Is a
Chinese dinlng-saloon which oc.
cuples the whole of a llve-storv build
ing. The upper story Is reserved
for the nobility—those who will pay
extreme fancy prices for their food.
The fourth story is set aside for Chi
namen who are in the ring, and have
the handling of other people's money.
On tho third floor Chinese merchants
congregate, and so on down to the
basement, where the common herd ex
ercise their choj®-stlcks. It is also said
that the tea and other articles of food,
which are started in prime condition
on the top floor, are handled over and
over ngain, until they reach the base
ment, where they are sold finally for
the s mid lest possible prices. How
ever this may ho in San Fran
cisco, Mr. Yun Tone conducts
his saloon differently. At is Mott
street cverylmdy is on a dead level, and
if you pay the money you can have
your choice of anything in the hotel.
To the question if he made hash, 1 un
Tone answered no; that his people, as
: rale, preferred their native dishes,al
though roast chicken, roast duck, heart,
coffee and American fish were con*
sumcd iti large quantities. The prices
charged in this Chinese sal>n are
similar to flic rates in a liftecn-cent
American saloon, with this difference:
that imjMirted Chinese food is much
higher. Reaching info an immense
jar, Yun Tone pulled out what
seemed to be a section of *
dried shark and a piece of old parch
ment. He then went on to tell how
rare and delicious those things were,
;ind how, if you wanted a meal of
them, the order would have t .begiven
a day in advance. The price w.n
a bowl, but there would !>• enough lor
three Chinese stomachs in one bowl.
This dish is rarely ordered. Only when
a Chinaman is on an extra j.unburc<
disw he go on one meal, To the
suggestion that he might hk- hash if
he tried it. Yun Tone answered that
he thought not. Hash might d> for
Americans, but Chinamen would have
to be excused."
Shot llo Men in Use Minute*.
It does not seem to t> generally
known that Italia* studenmeyer. t'ni
tel States marshal, who was recently
killed at El Paso, is the same man who
a hieved such notoriety some months
ago by killing five men in as many min
utes. The circumstances as then re
lated are alH.nt as follows; Stnden
no v. r had been elected marshal of El
I'aso. ami the day after the result was
declared the ex-marshal and four of his
friends came suddenly upon him while
lie was sitting In front of the
F.l Paso hotel, and opened fire
with shotguns and six-shooters.
Mudcnmeyer jumped up. and draw
ing his pistols shot every one of
them squarely through the heart, kill
ing the w hole five instantly, except the
ex-marshal, who lived alejut an hour.
Things were made so uncomfortah'j
warm for him that he hail to leave El
I'aso. The Mail gets these farts from
an eye-witness. Mudcnmeyer wan
dered around the country, visiting
Galveston. IJrenham. F<rt Worth. La
redo and other points, and finally went
lock to his death. He was described
as a medium-si/ed man. yery quiet and
not easily aroused, but he was invari
ably on hand when wanted. He was
held in dread by the desperadoes and
his loss i* universally regretted by hi*
fellow officers.— %t-n (7Va>/#)
Mail.
(nriou* Investigations.
M. Mentegazza, an Italian physiolo
gist of note, has studied with great
care all the contractions which suffer
ing produce* in the human face, and
endeavored to arrive at an exact di*
tinction of the phenomena of real front
those of simulated sorrow. In regard
to feigned grief, he says that the ex
pression is nearly always exaggerated
relatively to the canst" of the grief: the
visage Is ntd pale ami the muscular
disturbance is intermittent; the skin
has its normal heat: there is not har
mony in the mimicry of grief and ont
sees certain contractions, certain re.
luxations, which are wholly wanting
in real grief; the pulse is frequent, in
consequence of the muscular move
ment; a surprise, or any object which
vividly attracts suffices
to make the tragitnhiask immediately
fall off; sometimes one succeeds in dls*
covering among the tears, the sobs &nr,
the most heartrending lamentations
the presence of a chuckle, which ex
presses, perhaps! the malignant pleas
ure of practicing a deception; and
lastly, the expression is very eccentric
or is wholly wanting in concentric
forma.
THK .1011 >' IIROWN HAIR.
s*fl® 1I Sow f.lilne XV Ho I'nrilrlpn
led In Thiit Krrtn Uriel Nkeichr* f
the I'itrlielpsnle Therein.
Mr. Richard J. II In ton, editor of tho
Washington ftnluUty gives a
chapter of the Jul" Ilrown raid, In
view of tiio recent discovery of the re
mains of Watson Drown at Murtins
vli-e, I nil. Mr. llinton relates what
became of tho others who were with
John Drown at. Harper's Ferry:
Th- unknown members of the Har
per's Ferry party were the following
persons:
John Brown, of Kansas, and North
Elba, of New York; John Henri Kagi.
of Virginia and Kansas; Aaron I>. st®-
vttns (known in Kansas as "Colonel
Whipple"), of Conms'tieat; Owen,
Watson and Oliver lirown, brothers
ami sons of Captain Ilrown; John E.
Cook, of New York and Kansas;
Charles I*. Tldd, of New York and
Kansas; William Lehman, of Kansas
and Maine; William and Adolphus
Thompson, of New York (North
Elba). The former had been in Kan
sas, and they were brothers of Henry
Thompson, who was tlis- husband of
Ruth, Captain lirown's eldest daugh
ter; Albert Ha/lett, of Pennsylvania
and Kansas; Edwin and liarelay Coje
pie, brothers, of Springdale, Cedar
county, Iowa; Stewart Taylor, of Can
ada, ami Francis Jneks<ri ari"i M< r
riitin, son of the abolitionist, Francis
Jackson.
Thc. e were the white men actually
presi nt and participating. The color*l
members of the party were Jereinlnn
Anderson, from Canada, suppo-<-d t >
be a quadroon and t>e|onging to some
of the fugitive slave colonies iti the
neighliorhoodof < hathamj 'ana*laW -t;
Osborne IVter Ambrson, a bright
mulatto, from Canada, a Virginian ;
Dangcrtleld Newby, from Missouri, one
of lirown's rescued slaves of l-'-'*,
quite dark ; Sliicbls Greene, a dark
man from Rochester, New York, fa
miliarly known as "Etn|®eror" and m
troducisl to the party l>v Frederick
I tonkins ; John Copeland. of Oberlin,
Ohio, a light colored man. and Lexvi*
Sln rrard Leary, a light mulatto from
North Carolina. This makes tw.-nty
txx-1 persons In all. of whom i aptain
Ilrown was chief.
Of the party of raiders John Rr an
was woumb-d, capturisl and hung at
Charleston, Virginia, It(omlr J.
llrt the fight. John lb nn Kagi,
th® most brilliant iotellts t of the party,
ntel s-conl in command. w-,is slain at
Hall's rifle storks or rather at a rock in
Shenandoah river. With him fell
John Copeland. Lewis Mu-rrard Leary.
Stewart Taylor, Jerry Anderson and
William 11. Lehman.
At the engine house, besides John
Brown, there were Watson and oh\< r
Br->wn, Stewart Taylor and Adolphu*
Thompson. Aaron I'. Stevens, shields
Green and Edwin Coppie. tif these
Oliver Brown was shot in the groin on
the night of the 17th. and db-d in great
agony. What Iteeame of his Ik sly no
iMxly knows. tVatson Brown was shot
on the 17th. ami ®ii-®l aft-T tlie Fnited
States marines, under Hoia-rt E. L-e.
capttinsl the engine-house. Edwin
Coppie and Shields Green were rap
tured. triol and hung at Charlestown.
Virginia John Copeland was rap
ture®! at the rifle works, and, after a
trial, was hung with Green. Aaron 1.
Stevens was shot several times and
taken with a flag of truce. With
Allf-rt Hazlett. raptured for William
Harrison, whf> is still alive, Stevens
was executed. Hazlett was captured
at Chnmbersburg ami delivered to
Virginia. William Thompson was
shot on the 17th at the railroad bridge,
and taken into Fouik's hotel. While
in the parlor, wounded and a prisoner,
armsl men came in, took him out®
shot and threw him over the bridge,
shooting him a® he fell. Stewart Tay
lor was killed on the 18th by th®>
I'nited States marines. Dangerfieid
New by was shot at the arsenal gate.
Now. as to the lailance of the party
left to guard the farm and the sehool
house with the arms. Owen Brown,
the elder son of Captain Brown,
escaped through Pennsylvania to
Ohio, where, <>n the western reserve,
he was guarded and protected. He is
a ntan of fifty-four years of age. and
lives in the Jay Cook house (as a
caretaker) at Gibraltar, Sandusky
Bay, Lake Eritt, O. John E. Cook was
sent, into the neighliorhood of the
ferry to make arrests, and escaped
into Pennylvania on the 17th, with
Owen Brown, Barclay Coppie, Albert
Hazlett and Francis J. Merriam. They
were afterward joined by Osborne 11.
Anderson and Charles Pluir.nter
Tldd. Cook was captured, taken to
Virginia, and afterward hung.
Barclay Coppie got away and re
turned to lowa When the war began
he joined the Third regiment, Kansas
volunteers, and was commissioned
second lieutenant. He went to lowa,
recruited some men, and was en route
with them to the regiment when
killed in August, 1861, by the fall of a
train through the Platte river bridge,
seven miles east of St Joseph, Mo.
Charles P. Tldd went to Oldo and
Canada, thence to New York. When
tho war begun lie entered the volun
teers, and died on a gunboat, of fever,
at Roanoke Island, N. C. Francis J.
Merriam succeeded in reaching Canada,
and afterward went to Ilaytl the
second time. I taring tin- war be was
in the field the most of the time in
Virginia and South Carolina In the
latter State he was engaged in raising
colored troops. His death is Involved
in some doubt, but he went to Mexico
to enter the Republican army, and, so
far its known to the writer, died there.
< )-born<- P. Anderson escaped to
Canada, and eame back after the war
begun. Il- served as a recruiting
agent, arel wits a non-commissioned
| officer. He died In Washington in
1871, and in Lnri-t iiere.
The only survivor of the Harper's
Ferry party, actually j r> -u rit and in
the lighting, is Ow en lirown.
Substances Fsed a Money at Different
Times.
The following table will be found
exceedingly interesting. It shows Un
remarkable variety of substances used
as money at various time* indifferent
countries. The year, c ity or country
and material employed it* money are
given its accurately it- possible in each
case:
rKitloe „ , ®( **-.' r® i -id At
j hI .) -SUV.
evt •. ;■! n<J ®.Jtc/, try
M> Iftl".
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COIIJt
|l'h -in Iclsa
r.onjr in
Sj.* n . "-nn® 11 < ItMA
I iiirg . < "in- I.j i/ucen of ilis
-I flntf . Itf®"
m.. A? if - o i tid i!w* eotn* by
I'lndot .
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• - ilo.! • C p|*r ' ■■■' *.
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m-i •y. rt •• j*;**
l!ll known.
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•I. . PlUl.tJ.
4-" l'<rs .<• .1' r . tiy I>ft* o (two
®- , . !*n; .
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. iui)t .
4 t A then*. !*•'. 1 .id rotn*, n>r
rltfti.
4"' .. If ii. oArrt*tix*L
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or,. ■ tij Hat p.
VJ> It l 'mi*. I :r,t • ,or co,*.® cw'ined
T, II t:
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jt : 1 n ®nd t<rM coins.
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tli® ft,
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; ft < - -. Cftjpr t- • isir*i tmdPT.
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itTft H'-..>nd I'ftHsbond t- .. r
• ft!' '
t'nfpflft.' I-. r1 . . litl'd flfth.
rmvrtftln Nof *andi*d " dr.ed.
t'cprtftin S'.'wr
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p r n of
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t'Drcrtftln Urtrtlil fftft
tor: trils-® 'ti;p. ET*.n, rte.
T rrfttftir, A> I. ft S* t.
t ncrruin thin* ft s d
tndlft. . R!-*.
t t---rlftln tndift t'ftprr bill®
! -•■*• -I n* . IS-oi-ft of • k ctofh.
I norrtftin \frir* strip* of rnllon -lolK
Nol - tfttr WcK-dni U.iioa or <t-<kft
/Vrti / i) IJu thur-rrry ,j ;Xr Anervnn
Mfnftft.
MftMftcboft'tt* <"om tender !m*r
krl pri".
lf.k-. MftfturhaftXt* Mnftkst hftllft
;w vtt® l-ftf-t t -, r ..in'ftl r.oww.
tf.y* Kr .• nd. lin* n..ls
in*. -. (!<r... * oi-prr ftnd Iron ooira
:: -i - < trollnft. < ";"Ti'l n<M®.
;7',S s ftrolUift Ink nolo®
;t;r. f'rnc. ... Intrrrrasi-rUN# pp>
In;i® * t< ndrr.
IVnnfjlrftnlA l % i®-r " r®, ocdoidfti note*.
Xftr-Iftrtd ln'!i®ti con. ®lwftl tender,
t:®d. per Nobel.
1T82.... MftryUnd Tnt-noc oft > C ft! tender St
Id. per t-onii-L
;t: Sr -ilftud.. Tmpenny nftus for rniftli
cklftl*.
;T5J...... F r in k tin.
8 t • t e of
(now psrt
of X. Csro
i Smftl Unen *t . Sd. i-er ysrd,
hiky t *e. d. per
Sllon. nd peltry u l-
Ks) ter ter.
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.. At'. Com mere 1
conntiirw... Ore*! er of bsnk psper
hUlft.
ISM Rosea. Iriftilnom colne (dlsoon-
I tinned in ISU).
:S" Mexico, pftrt®
* ' or oft bein®. nd St CftftUn
I'eotft, ftoftfi.
/Vrid folU>ving (A® "pem'nye / California and
A notraiia.
is** Cftltforni*.... tlold dast by wri fi M, ®lo
mioate (old roln for
•mail (-hinge, coined la
mintt, * •
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ism; Commoßtst;
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CLIPPINGS FOB TIIE CrRIOCS,
A mountain sheep weighing two
hundred pounds was recently killed in
Arizona.
Ibaetta Day. aged 110 years, and a
native of Virginia, Is an inmate of the
Washington almshouse.
A strange aud curious animal was
recently killed by a hunter in the State
of Morelos, Mexico. It was about the
size of an ordinary donkey, of a grayish
color, had very thick hair, and its up
per lip was some four inches longer
than the lower one*.
The honor of ki--ing the toe of the
sultan of Turkey is reserved for the
vizier, ministers and certain privileged
pashas. This homage is performed
with the utmost solemnity, and is
marked by every sign of respect worthy
of so important an occasion.
The oldest deed in America is in
posse-sion of Major I.'-land, of Xewr
ork. It is dated 1510, eighteen yean
after the discovery liy ( dumbus, and
conveys Fisher's Island, in Long
Island ■* fund, from certain Indian
* hici's, tn John Call't. whose signature
it l are.
The early Crock- and J' -rsians used
marine signals, making them not by
flags but by the p mition of their sails
and by holding shields in various posi
tions. A code of flag signals was
made in 1420 by a Venetian captain,
tuid the first English signal was intro
duced iiv Jame- IL, Duke of York.
In the fifteenth and sixteenth cen
turies the counts of Kacrfcnhurg kept
iii their castle a hcaker holding two
quarts, and challenged guests to drain
it at a draught; hut since 1 .Vol very
few have is-en able to perform the
feat, and since Prussia became a king
dom it has not 1-een performed at .ill.
OsvUdua Norhingerus, who was
farm ins for liis minute contrivances, is
said to have made I.DJO dishes of
turned ivory, all perfect and complete
In every part, yet so small, thin and
slender that all of them were included
in a cup turned out of a peppercorn
of the common size. They were almost
invisible to the eve.
W here do the red and speckled ears
of corn come from w hen white core
alone i< planted, asks an exchange.
Why don't we ever find an ear with
an iid niimUr of rows? You can
find a four-leaf clover, but never the
'■ld row on an car of corn. They
always have fourteen, sixteen, twenty
or some other even numlxr.. What
objections has nature to odd numliers?
Some months ago a curious freak of
nature occurred on the farm of Roiiert
Jackson, aliout six miles west of Mid
dleville, Harry county, Mich. In a
corner of one of his fields, where there
had never t>eeo any apjK-arance of
water and where the land wa high
and dry, a stream of water altout tlx
size of H man's IKKJV suddenly burst
forth. A large oak tree wliieh stood
in dose proximity was prostrated.
The water is highly charged with
sulphur.
James Beatty, of Huntingt'in.
Long Island, lias a well on his
premise* that appears to lie lioth
a curiosity and n puzzle. The
well is twenty-three feet deep, and it is
said that it is dry every year from
January 1 to the first week in March
as regular as the days of the year. It
will lie as full the day l*efore it dries
up as at any time during the year, and
on the follow ing morning not a drop
is to IK* seen where a depth of three or
four f*et existed lief ore. About the
first week in March the well fills again
in a few moments, ami continues so for
the remainder of the year.
ktnr lbike IX.
West African pajiers publish ac
counts of the coronation of Duke
Ephrim J. Orok, king of Duke Town,
at Old Calabar, by Mr. Edward Hyde
Hewitt, her majesty's consul on the
West Africa coast- The ceremony
took place at the mission house, and
was attended by the traders, merchants,
chiefs and natives of the district.
A throne was erected in the church
at the left side tf the communion rail.
After retiring to the vestry the king
emerged rolled in a huge coat of a semi
state and semi-mail description. The
coat was of native manufacture and
was tied round the middle by a fancy
cord. The Bev. Messrs. Anderson and
Edgerley officiated. The crown and
scepter tyere placed before Consul
Hewitt on a table. The throne itself
had l>een sent out from England and
liore the English royal coat of arms,
lieing upholstered in crimson brocaded
satin. The existing treaties with the
English government were read over
to the king-elect, who took the usual
oath binding himself to uphold them.
He further promised to govern his
people to the host of his ability, and to
encourage and develop the trade of
the place. Consul Hewitt then placed
the crown on Droit's head, invested
him with the symbols of authority,
and proclaimed him as King Duke IX.