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Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXIV.
MIFFLINTOWX, JUXIATA COUNTY. TEXXA., WEDNESDAY. JULY 14, 1SS0.
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TEE EE ASCIIS.
They pay th life i barn a. dear and ool4
Ever tLe iamt cad song waa ana of old,
er the same long weary tale is told.
And to eur lp held the rap of strife,
And yet a little lore can awteien hfe.
The? aay onr hands may grasp but Joy cV
strnteJ.
louta baa but dreama, sad age au aching
voio.
fVhoae Dead-Sta fruit, long, long ajo baa
cloyej.
Whose n.bt with wild t?mpestuoua atoruia is
rife
And jet a little hope can brighten hfe.
Tiioy ear we fllnjt oursi lve in wild depair
Aui:d the broken treasure scattered there.
Where all ij wricked, where all once promised
fair ;
AnJ stab ourselves with sonow's two-edged
ktife
And yet little I alienee strengthens life.
Is it then true, tliis tale of bitter grief.
Of mortal acguu-h finding no relief ?
Lo ! uiilct the winter shines the Unrtl's leaf ;
Three angel sliare the lot of human strife,
TLree angel glorify the path of life.
Love, Hope aai Patience cbei r cs on our way.
Love. Hope and Patience form our apirit'a
fctiy.
Lore. Hope and I'a'ienoe watch es day by day.
And b.d the desert bloom wi:h bcaaty vernal,
lutil the earthly fadts in the eternal.
Miss Mildred's Warning.
There, giiis !"
Eifrida Mj ire hclil aloft btfore us a
lin-atilul lliai'e. "A borne-made ghost,"
ahe calied it, laughing at the terrific result
i her haif hour of sedulous occupation.
It tin horrible !
We La1 lei-a reading, that afternoon,
about the Princess Amelia, the ill-fated
it-r of Fredirck, King of Prussia.
One thing br.tigl.t up another. AnJ
w L,-u an u! i uxl a w as made to the " Woman
with w Broom," who Has fetid to have
haunted the l'ruiiu minx, ax that time,
E'irid kxrht a carpet brush with a lone
handle, in the cm si the bead of the
stairs, and, Itanding to the outer tluunUr
eiooe, Uyan to lire it artistically in a
Kiieet, by way of showing u her own idea
of the I'haiit in that trailiied the rtt I
Pruie's kii.fc-.
V e girls were alone in ihe mg chamber,
whi li had in allotted for our cupaixy
by M." Mildred Fay, the owner of the
lovely farm, add the comfortable, old foli
inied farmhouse, to Wraiern Pennsylvania,
while, with Mir jareiits, and ilir Iri w!,
we wi.Te jk n.lin? tU- taily va a.'i o t.vmtlil
of the ojM-niiij; u:iUM-r.
ttiui at irl. Ufrida's firnt tutmio,
Kr.ly n Moure, abared the wing; cliauilxjr
with UK
! Lad now none V the riliae, two
Kiii'-s :i'ant, for the eTcninij mail.
And L frnU, who was otiiewhat etiTioiis
of Lr'.ju nivt scholarship, aocial
yin nd looks, ileciared that she
w(.l.J Icuve lu r "woman with the brfuwa"
tfi near the (Iikit of our cban.U-r, and in
w-ii a Hition, tliat it Would inevitably
fail u'ju.'t Kveiyo, as o as she entered
to bring our letters.
."ji.' mnya that slie is afnt)d of Dfrfbin
that A:; (Iik-s Rot If li' i f. in rh"t and
aptaritwn," she said In us. "Now let's
try Ix-r joiinur-. We will hide in the un
liiiiHln d r ImihIkt, ouiSKie, wln re we can
and l.car all that pas- between her
and tjiy .liaiitom.'1
While we were Av'ms !be im.-ure from a
r'H-ftfiil distance, and f.fli half afrcJd
of the Inilei.iM and Ibe tlaniin eyes,
which Llfri'Ja had drawn with a- few
touched of her crayon a:d a little ph'
iiiorii on lln; while surface of the sheet, a
rustiin found and nioven.ent in the cuter
chaiiilwr nia-le us all budb'e twt lier. aud
strain (ur ejtf fearfully toward its dusky
il ranee,
e all felt relieved, 1 think (I own that
I did, for one), when our hostess, Miss
Mi!dr;d, emerged from tbc plooin, and en
tered our room without pausing to koock.
Elfnda tried to thru4 the horne-uiade
Rh. t into a corner, quite out of sight. Hut
it was useless to try to conceal from Mii
Mildred's searcuu k ly-coinprehenai re glance
the hapless apparition.
W hich of you pirU made this ? Why
did ycu make it ?" she axked, holding it
out at arm's length.
ifrida toid her.
"And please, Miss Mildred, don't tell
Evelyn," the said, coaxing?. "We only
wish to find out whether she 5s nnUy
bmver about such things than we are. She
says she is; and she declared the other
evening that the real woman with the
broon,' would not have frightened lur in
the least if she had seen ard heard her
sweeping. I mean, in the passages of the
royal palace." m
"Aud did you believe her ?" asked Miss
Mildred, bending her keen, gray eyes on
Elfrida's eager face,
""o; I did ot," confessed Eifrida.
"Did you t"
Miss Mildred addressed us.
I owned that I bad my doubts.
Marion Hurst, with a half-averted, timid
look at the dreadful object, that was still
held by our hostess, declared that she had
no doubt whatever.
"'o one could help feeling terrified at
Rich a sight coming suddenly upon them,'
hp averred.
"You are none of you without yoiir fair
share of common sense ' sanl J118S aniureu-
"And yet you can deliberately plan and aid
and abet a deed line this :
Hie tossed the image out into th dark,
tnrn chsmlier
With an angry exclamation, Eifrida was
snrinirinir after it : but she found herself
Iwlit hafk .v n nrron? hand.
"No, girls! that same thing has been
in tiil rr house once before. ait
till I tell yon what came of it before you
try agin to carry it out, .
At ii.o thnnrrltt of lieariuir a story, Elfnua
forgot her momentary anger, and crowded
in beside us, near Uie cnair m.
where -Miss MUdred had now seated her-
wlf.
hiha T.,l-i.A verv fifldlv.
lin-lit rtmv tlAVP deceived me. but 1 Wiougnt
then, and I still think, that her keen gray
eves were full of tear, as she began to
8Pldid not alway live here by nm.U,
girls, in the old bomestcaa, sue
(irniv TPsrS aiTO. my
mother and father were hera; and ! had a
darling brother, one year oiaer man
iiiV-, n.ui a sister, youngel
was called Isadore,
aftei the heroine of a story that mj mother
Had read, and liked very much, just before
her birth. ... A
"X was always tall, and uun, and g.
1 took after my
as you see me now, gins.
.t- i n enough ior a man,
father.
mind you. But his features anu "6"-
inina you. cut u. -r- "
cot suit a girL and I was alway cau
homely' from a chi ia
.... ' so: .. . t..ntnm. like 1
tt i i iii na i vps. and curi-
mother, ne ua S'"" . , . .- ' w MH
ing brown hair, and the brightest lor.?
!,5 . . .mii. And Isadore wa like
him, only far more beautiful Toa haw
'"What t that 1ot!v th. . iu.imi.
rriwt VI r i v . Sci;ciuiur
cned Eifrida. woterinjrly. "I thaHit
that waa aa artiar'a irli -
- uiviun.
PlCtUTB."1
"It was the imajre of our Iiador .
years of age," replied Mia M;ih.i
tA cover tlM. w TJ . o
ouuunI nreu ana tremble in
her voice by a loud "Hera !
-"iieen ane was far beyond that
P&illtin fur Lm j ;.. ....
ured. Mranirers used to t.m ;n .u.
,, juuuuea jaiss jau-
- - .K ui uk aireei
at her and to !nnm
it.. , our was.
But she appeared to know nothing, and to
care nothing, about her wonderful .rood
. .Wa e00d an,, Seml nJ !
ways amiable, without the least apparent
sign of vanity. fjM.ui
"Ripe for heaven." our good old minu
ter used to say. I wish she might have
gone there .'" gaij Miss MUdred with
a stilled groan.
"She did not die. then!" exclaimed H-
, I. . . Waf 80 tnid cr going to
tell us of her death 1"
xr "S,e-.d,'d f01 die- 0011 heIP h!" "Plied
Miss Mildred, with a sigh so deep and sad
tout it was almost a groan. "Uere,in this
very wmg chamler, my brother Oliver
thought of it," she said, after a lo. g pau.
Here he called me to help him decide
how to carry out the plan. You see, girls,
Isadore was like your friend Evelvn she
postsed great courage. She Seemed to
Jiave no fear of anything on earth. Oliver
knew this ; so d:d L And neither ot us
expected anything more than a heary
laugh at her exjnse, cr at our own, when
the evening frolic ended.
It was Hallow Eve. Isadore ami her
l.nt fr-,.., i x- "
7??Z. ., l"""? (ho Uved
.h,i 7 r: 7T naa:o... PutUofTs next enterprise wa the
agreed to try tueir fate, with sue la.' ow i,.. ,n. .:n. i,.. i .....
taat evening. They 'dared' each other to
ooe thing and another, and finally lsadore
pledged herself to go into the looclv old
north rooms, with a candle, at nine o 'clock
that evening, and eat an armle l-for-
1 ill'V MuMur Ihlnk . 1 1 . -
Grandiuamiua l lna-net great mirror, that
had U-en t.ired away tlure for safe-keeping
for Cfty years or more.
"You see. girls, the idea was thxt hir
future husband's face was to appear to her,
looking over her sli'Milders, in that mirror,
aa sue aiooi ueiore it eating her apple.
' Well, Oii ver overheard the eirls r!an-
uu:: tliis tiiat aftern,n. and he told me.
Ami. as I said before, I helped him. heie
n this very r-joru. that evening, while he
fijsuweo niiiLv ii in a long white dress, and
painted his fat all over a deathly white,
ith heavv, frowning black evelirows that
iitn.u-ti . lAutit ..ri'h m.m t.; r.-.i..i
M "'I. imti.
"It changed liirn terribly, and he bsied
so like a Corpse in that shrraid-like dresa
that I was lutlfstved myself at him. Kut
niotucrof u thought of tHuJorc'4 Uinz
ingmcntu
"And to ei:le iuto the north room.
and cor.trivetl to get the mirror out of its i
frame. Oliver put tin face into the vacant :
I... -raperw it, aod
cnar-iu n;m 10 Keep penectiy rtilL anl
then stole away, to watch for Isadore in i
tlie ba!L
"in a few minute she came down the
stair with her candle and apple in her
hands. She was smiling roguishly to her
self as she opened the door of Uie north
. ... -
tn.l m hat l..nm.lt ..1rul l'l.l..
rmarii n.l wi.nt in
. hi. " '. ""I r ii' -. .miu mil uiti,
vr : ... uiMuii
1 ' J . J 1 . .riliui pB JTJ. i
" here was vour mother Uow could
she let Issdire go into that dreadful room t" I " 10 irm': nautical : ) alxiut eight or half
breathed Marion Hunt. P5 eight, and by nine or ten he is In bis
"Father and mother were both staving j "rtk- Tae rrt of the day he is
with a sick neighbor as watchers thai
n.ght,"aid Miss Mihlred ; "and 1 watched
and waited, in the ouler halL till Nancy 1
Bruce rruie crying, down stairs, to tell
tome one what they had planned to do, be
cause she thought something awful ha. I
happened to keep Isadore so long in the
north room
" hen Nancy saw me she caught hold
of me ami dragged me with her to the door
of the north mom. We went in. The
candle was burning on the table. The ap
ple had failen to the floor, ll-side it my
brother Oliver was lying senseless, in a fit.
Mis lace looked like white fire, in the half
darkn as. The poor foolish boy bad
rublied phosphorus all over it, af.er I left
him to make it look still more gnastiy and
ghost-like."
And Isadora where was leauore.'
cried Marion Huist, beginning to shiver
with nervous dread.
'We found her huddled down in a heap
in a distant corner, w nn ner iace to tue
walL Hie knew no one. Oliver told u.
ImuS afterward, that she stood gazine at
him in silence so long that he advauced his
face toward her, through the mirror, mean
ing in play to offer her a kiss.
"The liglit, the life, the intelligence, all
went out of her own face at that momcn,
he said. "Sue fled and crouched down in
the corner f and he, believing then that he
had latally injured her, fell fainting to the
floor."
"Poor fellow !" siehed Elfnda. " here
is he now. Miss Mildred ?"
'In heaven, I hope : He was one of our
first volunteers from this town, and one of
the first officers who was killed in the last
war. They told me that he exposed his
life in leading his men into action. I did
not mourn for him girls ; 1 knew howilad
he was to go. Our parents die heart
broken, one year from that fatal Hal
lowe'en." -
"But Isadore, where is she? asRed f.l-
frida, half fearfully.
"At the Stale Lunatic Asylum. At nrsi,
she seemed only idiotic, and" 1 kepi her at
home, devoting my life to ner, as some
small return for the wrong that I had
helned to work. But she is now a raging.
raving.dangerous maniac 1 Ob,girls; there
is nothing left now of the beautiful child,
or of the lovely eirl ! It was all our fault!"
said poor Miss Mildred, bursting into tears
and hurrying out of the room.
Eifrida s eyes were wet, iilte ours, as sne
brought back and silently demolished the
fearful "woman with the broom." Ana
fvclrn Moore, returning an hour later with
the letters, never knew why we girl greeted
her so kindly and lovingly, upon mat oue
particular night
Hrlw! TWnnncr
A romantic vounit man asked hi sweet
heart to take a" walk with him by moonlight
.. i.i..jr IT... TtiiKiinit ji Insft.
on tne river uiuu iu t -
She w ent gladly. W hen nail way up me
extension they halted to admire the pros
pect, tiuddenly a stone slipped underneath
the young man's feet, and he went down
like a curtain sue,
some vines which clung to the rocks and
hung on for dear life, expecting to fall a
hundred feet and be dashed in pieces on
.1.- Uo i.inw The voune woman could
Ot pull him up. 0 She ieil on ner aucc.
-" . - , ,, L - I
and prayed ior nun. r
nnited with her alter mis lasmon . jac.p
Murder! Ob, Lord! I know I'll be all
Kwd.,n' Now I lay me! Confound it, I
forgot Oh, Jerusalem ! I've got to let go
nrety quick! Give us some daily bread!
Ob, that ain't right ! Oh, Lord ! Send some
body to help me out of this scrape ! Help!
Thunder!" At this point he could boid
wmr. but went down. But not
a hundred feet. Only a few feet, for he
landed on a ledge which neither he nor she
had aeen ln their excitement. A small
fragment ofeuticle rubbed rff hlskne wa
bla aote Injury.
A RsuMMa Contractor.
The millionaire Xicoli fvanovitch Puti.
loff, who died a few d&v ajo at "tit. Peters-
ourg, was in many respects, an excellent
representative of a class of men indigenous
to Russia. L'p to the outbreak of the
(TlmMtl War K W cininlv T
- r ,J .
uevoteu to nis protession, but, at the same
time, on the t jtiook for anv short cut that
might lead to fortune. The arrival of the
allied fleet in the Baltic afforded him the
chance he had long been waiting for. He
obtained the contract for the construction
of the gunboats that subsequently tried the
temper of England so sorely, and witbin a
couple of years had turned out at Cronstadt
by means of an elaborate system of piece
work, eighty-one guuboata aud corvettes,
provided with an aggregate of ten thousand
horse power and armed with 2'.'7 guns of
tho largest caliber. It is almost unneces
sary to say that Putiloff made a fortune
out of the contract, for the epoch of the
Crimean war was remarkable, even in the
anuals of liussia, for the enormity of olB
cial corruption. After the war was over
he went north and buiit three iron rolling
mills, worked by water power, obtaining
from the Finmsa government a mining
monopoly over an area inclosing 2 So lakes
and 4iU"0 square miles. Transferring
these to a company, be started with Obou
chofl, the huge H loouchofT steel worka"al
St. Petersburg, and, after receiving a large
sum of money in the shape of subsidies, he
sold the cuncem to the war department in
1S73, by whose exertions half a dozn biir
guns nave oeen turnea out, at a co-it esii-
! mated bv the Novosti recentlv at L50o..
.. . . . .
I moutn oi ilie -era, where u,uoo men are
employed and Si",)i0 worth of iron and
steel rails turned out every year, besides a
thousand railroad wagons. This little
business was converted into a joint stock
concern four or five yes- ago. when Puti-I'-fT
secur-d Uie contract for constructing
I the great sea canal from Croota.lt to fv.
Petcrtburfr. Of the T.iOJioii roiiliha
I voted for the project, a "afire proportion is
' said to have already pass-d' into the pock-
I ets of I'uuiofI ai.d the government orfi-
i1""4 without either hanng done anythim
j to flt"w ,ur iL Tuc Finuish rolling mills
, -? collapsed, the Olxxichoff 'eel
i 'orkj a by word for a gieautic govern-
r'"f '" uuu vi tue t uuiou woras
; a d-ily txpecte.!, and it is believed that
,,ie cj!o1 fortune of Putiloff himself,
. ravaged bv extrav'ance will he found to
i . '
06 " 'ea c'"dilion as the great sea
I """" " Dl- 1 urg.
;
: The Dally Life of admiral Portrr.
. . . , r, . , ...
... " . .i ' .c i '
habits. He never goes to the .Navy De- i
c M.7u .
7. "
u... t :
r.rr.Krr.T.i'. '.
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" "" " "' ,
me orders conslilue the larzer share of his
ii ...."JZT..
n iiv hob m kxicioj j iiuu a fuiu
cer, who come every day to bis office, and
tlieir duties, no doubt, are quite onerous.
i i ue auuiinu is not one ot your eariy risers.
II. I. I,t. .H l,i. .!. .U
Ti .. . i
j He is much like all other good people who
j live lone, excTt in tue matter of early ns-
, ing. He generally urns out (how easy it
"u ,e ' c,?-'ar "
tnead in b.s free and eay oftce with en-
"rc. e it n to u uouse,
and is rarely seen in the streets. He owns I
grxid horses, but w hen he is out he is as likely
to be in his daaghtcr's pony phaeton as in
the digniiied family carriage. He enter
tains handsomely, but mostly at dinners.
He goes out only enough to keep him in
the circle of society, ln appearance Ad
miral Porter has not a military air, and he
looks no more iike an old rait than any
business man. He is about five feet nine
inches higli, with a figure well knit and
straight and just stout enough. He weighs
about ISO pounds. His full trained whis
kers are turning gray slowly ; his hair is
full and black, with a few hairs (too many)
turning gray here and there, lie is not a
particularly striking man, but if you talk
with him you will find that he reads aud
thinks, and that his ideas are nearly as right
as tbey can lie. He is now sixty-five years
old, but be looks fifteen years younger.
He has been engaged foreeveral years in
writing a history of the navy during the
war.
A Tlinllin;
; Koiuaace.
It was the wild miduiirhw The tame
midnight was off watch and had gnc to
bed three hours before. A storm brooded
over the eastern heavens. Hop brewe.1,
for it was coming from the yeast. Hawk
Eve creek was rollinL' tuimiltuously iu iis
sand) bed. Bugs, probably, or it might
have been nervousness. A litt.e form
cowered at the garden gate. Many a
manly form has been cowered at just such
gates, ever since summer nights and gnats
rind beauty, and love and June bugs were
invented.
"He does mt .come," she murmured
softly, as she peeped into the darkness. "I
cannot see bim, 1 will call him."
She was wrong. If she couldn't see
him, she certainly couldn't call him with
the same hand. A manly siep scraping
down the sidewalk. It was Desmond.
, She threw open tlie gate, aud the next
instant be clasped in his great strong arms.
twenty-seven yards of fonrlard, three yards
of niching, seven dozen Breton buttons
and a Pompadour panier as big as a dog
house. It was all his own.
"All is lost," he exclaimed: Constance
de Belvidere, the Russians have crossed
the Balkans. "We must fly."
He wanted to fly to some lone desert
isle, but she submitted an amendment pro
viding that they should fly to the ice-cream
saloon.
They flew.
To the crowded saloon, where the soft
light fell upon fair women and brave men,
and the insects of a summer night fell in
the ice-cream freezer. They spoke no
word.
When two sentimental human beings are
engulfing spoonfuls of corn starch and eggs
and skuu-niilk, language is a mockery.
At length Desmond broke tho tender
silence. He said:
"More, dearest?"
She smiled and bowed her lovely head,
but did not speak. She was too full for
utterance.
' Desmond gloomily ordered more. And
more when that was gone. And a supple
ment to that And .an addendiun to that
And an exhibit to that'
Gloom sat enthroned upon his brow. Con
stance saw it. She said:
"What is it, dearest ?"
He spoke not, but sighed.
A dreadful suspicion stabbed her heart
like a knife.
"Desmond," she said, "you are not
tired of me, darling ?"
He denied it bitterly, and bade her re
main where she was whila he settled with
the man.
She, guided by th nnerrinj Instinct of
her aex peeped through th curtains of to
saloon. She saw her Desmond holding
earnest discussion with the man. he saw
the man shake his head resolutely in an
swer to Desmond's pleading looks and ap
pealing gestures. Mie saw him lock the
door; take out the k-y, pat it in his pocket
- i
Sue saw
and lean up aminst the atoor.
her oki Lk-smoad draw from his own
pockets and pile up on the counter a pearl
handle pocket knife, six nickles, four
green postage stamps, a key, two lead
(teccila, a memoradum book, a theater
ticket (of the variety denomination,) a
pocket comb, an ivory toothpick, a shirt
stud, one sleeve button, a photograph of
herself, a package of trix, two stieet car
checks, a card with a f tinny (wicked) story
on it, a silk handkerchief and a pair of
gloves. And then she knew that Desmond
was a bankrupt, and when the man swept
the assets of the coucern into the drawer
and opened the door, she sobbed convul
sively. "And it was my extravagance
which hath done this thing.
They did nut talk much on their way
home. Once she asked him if he was
rich, and he ouly said:
"Enormously."
Such is life. !
A Monkey In Court.
On the arraignment of the prisoners in
the Tomb Police Court, New York, a
monkey approached the bar with the rest.
He wore a tcarlet coat and a velvet cap
trimmed w ith gilt lace. He pulled hard
at a string by which an Italian held him.
acd, being led in front of the bench,
climbed nimbly to the railing that separates
pnsoners trom Uie preaiOing magistrate.
Readying himself ou that perch by en-
circling the iron with his tail, he turned StXl"r was ahTt to when he offi The ri.ling hall is a" large bam
bis wry face toward Justice Flmnuiitf J ffiV
chattered volubly, pulled of! his cap, and
bowed witn profountl gravitv. The gray
hair btistievt thick on the top of his head.
and his fce was wrinkled, so that he look
ed astonishingly like a very small and very
old man.
"What U this?'' Justice Flammer
asked.
"A prisoner,'' replied officer Hatton.
"His name is Jimmy Dilleo. I arrested I
i ; ... r. . .1.: i if t
Amonkev tirll for assault!" the
! instice txelaiuied.
Jimmy blinked his eyta. showed his
letih an.l bowed a gool rnaur times, as
, ihounhthe proceeduii as he" viewed it.
i was very lunoy indeed.
j Where is tite complainant f the Justice
'asked.
i cl. t i. . . u
i jiaii tuca dwtip iAnnu. fue tooa. un
j right forefinger out of a han.lkerchief and
showed that it wa lacerated. She said
she was a neiahhor of Jimmy in liottle
aliey, that notorious adjunct '
, street; mat sue wnuiy onerea mm a siick
caaly, tht he crabbedit greedi y ana
I J"nm sat on tie railing with his head
i - - - de.aUaUy uking o5his
; -uu puumj; u on igiuii, uku site-1
r-wii v4; v l tfrtH r intr unit rvmf!iHi.'nn.' tiiiti
il t justice.
' J o r o
bat do you think ought to be done
-.i t 1, t t-i
.
C" '
the owncr for a -
Aml here ju ,
r
Your remedy is to bring a civil
ud !
OQiMit waa iuijii uuit Lf tai .
a.f I . I I . 1 1
i uou i auow ny law mat raaaes a
moukey crimiiallyhable for biting "
-Mrs. Miea was exceedingly mdignant. !
!nd as she WTapped her hurt finger in her
. hdte,,; ,,e exclaimed: "This is a
ni u ia!iuce. i vgseo Dilleo.
the ow ner of Jimmy, Said that I he monkey
was wildly fond of candy, and in his fran
tic delight had unintentionally bitten Mrs.
Shea.
"He is discharged," said the justice.
Jimmy gleefully tried to climb up the
gas fixtures on the justice's desk, and lo sit
on the glass gloU. Then he reached to
shake hands wit i his Houor, but, being
repulsed, be screamed loud and long bke a ;
hurrah, took oil his cap seve
u several tunes in a ,
second, and bowed so low that
slipped from the railing and he
his feet
i
bis tail.
His owner carried him out of the
room.
Iat alhlnOwD Pruresslen.
An English paper tells a pieasaut anec
dote of 1'aitridge, Uie celebrated almanac
maker, about one hu.ulred years since. In
traveling ou hotseback into the country,
he stopped for his dinner at an inn, and
afterwards called for his horse that he
uiiirht reach the next town, where he in-
' tended to sleep.
! "If you will take my advice, sir," said
tue hostler, as he was about to mount his
j " dl stay where you are for the
niSht. a9 J v'l "ure'y he overtaken by a
P1''1'11" rain."
"Nonsense, nonsense," exclaimed the
almanac maker; "there is a sixpence for
you, my honest fellow, and good afternoon'
to you."
He proceeded ou his journey, and sure
cn'iugh was well drenched in a heavy
shower. Partridge wa3 struck by the man's
prediction, and being always intent on the
interests of his almanac, he rode back on
the instant, and was reeeivedtiy the hostler
with a broad grin.
'Well, sir, you see I was right, after
all."
"Yes, my lad. vou have been so, and
here is a crown for you; but I give it to
yu on condition that you tell me how you
knew of this rain.
"To be sm, sir," replied the man;
"why, the truth is, we have an almanac at our
house called PartriiUre's Almanac,' and the
fellow is such a notorious liar, that when
ever he promises us a fine day we always
kuow that it will be the direct contrary.
Now, your honor, this day, the 21st of
J'tue, is put down in our almanac in doors
as 'settled fine weather; no rain.' Hooked
at that lief ore I brought your honor's horse
out, and so was enabled to put you on your
guard."
The KxtilblUoa at Rio.
Preparations for the permanent American
exhibition at itio de Janeiro, South Ameri
ca, have fully commenced. The whole en
terprise, it will be remembered, is under
'he euspices of the Philanthropic and Mu
tual Protective Society of Kio de Janeiro.
The iron, which will largely enter into the
construction of the buildings will be or
dered by the society, through the resident
agent in New York. The machinery hall,
which will consist of three buildings, will
be in the suburbs, on ground given by the
Government Samples of everything
adapted to the country are soliciteJ, as well
appear from an address to the Government
of the United States, signed by the leading
citizens of the country, endorsed by Uie
Emperor and his parliament now in course
of preparation. Branches of the main ex
hibition are being inaugurated in the differ
ent provinces, with the view of utilizing
every product or invention from the United
States as widely as possible. The import
ing houses and commission firm are said
to be greatly alarmed, but the Empe
ror and directors of the Society are de
termined that the trade of the country ahall
no longer be controlled by a few local mer
chants who are hostile to any change which
promises lower price and reduced profits,
regardless of th welfare of the consumer.
" hy,s:r " Mrs. Shea unswered, "I j of irtht was pitchea hd. .n.usement. After the saJdle had been
think he ought o be locked up." . over.ueeU to , tch of fa A, ,,e j laki n off the horses the second part of the
"Hut we can't imprison a monkey, you . X.n t;n-t -;. i... ,' pni.Taiume was begun. At first one-half
RldirrV Draw.
A week previous to the battle of Fair
Oaks a -New York vol ameer who passed
the sight in a tent of a member of the third '
Mii'hiiTn infuntrv vnt tin in tli I ...
. j k "i's ,
tookiwir erv glum and downhearted, and .
when rallied a'ioat his fancied LorueHickness
l 1. .. . 1 . 1 . . ,. t T l 1
iu.c unij m mvch. to uiti inau a
dream last night which has settled the busi-
ness for me and lots of others. A week
irout toHiaj a Datrie wui oe iongut and
thousands will be slain. My regiment will
.c anunurea men, ana i snau r
killed while charging across a field.
ure" Muircu k wa ujooiijr suit, out
ue turneu npon mem ana sua :
i jut regiment wui also he in the nght,
auu uen me roii is caiieu aiuT tne oattie I for his box was nearly filled with a writh
you will have nothing to be merry over. , ing mass of large fat angle-worms tit to de
The two sergeants who were in here last lU-ut the heart of the most epicurean eel.
night will be killed among the trees. I j The policeman did not order the boy awav,
saw them lytiig dead as plainly aa I now for, as he afterward said, "it was good for
see you. One will be shot in the breast, the grass to have a lot of them pesky worms
and the other in the groin, and dead men ( rooted out.
will be thick around them." !
The battle took place just a week after. :
The dremer was killed in full sight of every I
unut in ine .mi ueiore me ngui was an nour , . .
old, and witbin twenty minutes after the j fJ? i -I, 'S"XX the
two sergeants and six of their comrades "mb,t101? dn!Is "re naturnT fM
were dead in the wools, hit exactly where i",1,8? ,,ie ,Vu'nua?tloa f e "poor
the dreamer said they would be. More I f j0.. wuoare hemg dragged one by oue
than fifty men will bear witness to the truth ! bef.ore ,b? P"" nd the Board of Ex
of this statement i ram,;r8 ln order that a test may be made
Just before the battle of Cedar Creek a!.f r ttiocubo-s .: the last year's in-
JT"""-".
I . . i " , ' . ,, .;.Tr.
h . . .
i"lf'fe.V..V Tl ft?"..??0!-1?
I " , " .'.X
veeigation he ascertained that three confed-
i -ot. k.l t .i- . n;. ... ,
the night in the place, and he theref ; f?n'.',"'? uaUer he command of
moved awav. The sentinel awoke withapU wf . 'Wert circus."
sra h a vivid'remetrbrance of details that he i , r muut.,nR t"-, horses the cadets
asked peraiissi-o logo over and confer i roJe,'mund file and practiced a
with one of the scouts. When the log baru ' pT'.at TafKly ?f saL"tL '"f19 nd strokes
! was descried to this man he located ir at
once, having passed it a dozen times. The
" r rbu., .uj
V exsctl v as
I it was, giving every hill and turn, and the
scout put such faith hi the remainder of the
; dream that he took four soldiers, oue of
J whom was the dreamer, and set out for the
I place. Three confederate scouts were
j ,, , I' IT Th t
taken with-
dream and its
results were known to hundreds of fcheri-
i i , - i i . , , , ,
'
... ... . f . ,rv fi
Bran)1v i()n , , f ' Ms ,
, b()rse ioc-tj alon' in colunin dreaiued that
, - . in h- n, ,,,,,
,...i :' .u, ,Tl iZ7,". ;
I.. - . ....
! Hin fnr. h. fM ..M K V...i..i : ;
the left knee. Everything was so clear to i
the dreamer that he took oDrstunitv to
fi-, ,h, Mnt inH . ,n
i .... . . . .
t "1 Wa in iTsa vifii r.vir fri.timf via i
... .tlkTn; . t I.",
i ,," rJ "i," Z padtletl hurdles had len pU up. iSouie of
revenge, ln the very nrst charge, next 1 v" ... , 1 ; . , . T
dr. ilcn!,iwM;i,ih.tLh.lr.!h Imkj hors.. raused wnsiderable
Strug
' two men, and one of the
flying pieces of :
ft leg toa bloodv I
I in in m.nhMl tliA r.nlmn'L luft
.., t, i now . mn.l.rt ,5 oi.;,. '.
ihis wooden leg is indisputable evidence ;
aiti.Mt iU,,..!... i.. i
..,. ,1nttma ,r.,;, ,
While McCleilan was besieging Yorktown
,i, ,. , ..1 .
federates had plenty of shot and shell, and
they sent them out with intent to kilL
One niomiug a Michigan man who was in
the trenches walked back to a spot ou
which three ofticers were eating breakfast
and warned them that they were in great
peril. On the night previous he had dreamed
that he had looked at his watch and marked
that it was a quarter to seven, when a shell I
hit the cround U-hind him and tore ur. the !
earth in a terrihie wv It wss now I wentv i
nunutes of .. and he be ou rht the offl J
, Itt.T. the ono eanlt
I manner induced them to comply, and they
,.. fl,m ,.. .,i
had ouy 11 ver when a confederate !
aI,e11 ruc11 ll,e "arth where they had been
grouped and made an excavation into
which a horse could have iieen rolled with
room to spare.
Three days before the affair at Kelly's
Ford a (x-rporal in the tith Michigan caval
ary dreamed that a brother of his, who was
a sergeant in another compauy, would have
his horse killed in action, and would almost
immediately mount a dark bay horse w ith
a white nose. Within five nunutes both
horse and rider would be killed by a shell.
This dream was related to more than a
score ot comrade fully two davs before the
fight Early in the action the sergeant's j
horse Wits struck square iu the forehead by
a bullet, and dropied dead iu his tracks.
It was scarcely three nunutes before a
white borse, curving a blood-stained sad
dle, galloped up to the sergeant and halted.
He remembered the dream, and refused to
mount the animal, and soon after picked
up a black horse. The white-nosed animal
was mounted by a second copor.il in an
other regiment, and horse and rider were
torn to fragments by a shell in full sight of
four companies of the tiih. These things
mav seem very foolish now, but there was
a time when a soldier's dream saved Gen.
Kilpatrick's life; when a dream chaugrd
Custer's plai.s for three days ; when a dream
prevented Gen. Tolbert s camp from a sur
prise and capture; and when a dream gave
Gen. Sheridan more accurate knowledge of
Early's forces than ait the scouts.
Jarklns; fr Angle-Worms.
As a reporter ws hurrying acrors the
Battery, at New York, his attention was
attracted to two lights that at some distance
from hiui, moved slowly, with the irregu
larity of a will-o'-the-wisp, close to the
ground, over one of the crass-plots.
"W hat are those f " he asked of a passing
policeman, pointing to the lights.
"Worm-hunters," answered the guardian
of the peace, passing on without deigning
further information.
' Worm-hunters," said the reporter to
himself, as he walked toward the dancing
lights, bis mind reverting to the hours oi
hard digging that In his boyhood he had
found necessary before worms for fishing
could he be beguiled from their deep-hidden
haunts. "Worm hunters! I thought
sparrows were the only worm-hunters in
New York!"
As he drew near to the mysterious lights
he saw that they were primitive dark lan
terns, made of cigar boxes, minus covers,
held perpendicularly, and each with a
lighted candle inside made fast to the bot
tom by four shingle-nails. Behind each of
these lanterns was a small boy holdiue it
in his left hand, so that the light was thrown
on the ground directly in front of him.
With his right hand each made frequent
and vigorous clutches at the wet grass, and
with nearly every clutch drew out a long
shining object that he deposited in another
cigar box at his side. They work their
war across the grass plot on their knees.
and were so Intent upon their pursuit as
not to notice the presence of a spectator.
"Woat ar you catching I" asked the re
porter.
"Worms," laconically answered the
smaller of th bey without looking up.
"What for I" asked the reporter.
''Fishing.' answered the bov.
"What for?"
"Eels."
Where "
"In the dock."
"Why doat you catch them in the day
, time 7
"Cause thev only cotiica out in the uiabi
. . '
i aner a there! now you Scared him
Can't yer look ou:
"After a what?''
; "After a rain. An' they are mighty
j scary, an' if you don't catch 'em first nab
( they re gine Uke a streak into their holes."
j '-t an you get as many as you want here
i m me flattery ?
"Course vou can. cobs of 'em.' And it
looked as if he could find 44gobs of -eia,"
Ki'linc at WM rotut.
One of the most excitina- of the, HrilU
.",tot.k place recentlv at te ridinir acaae-
; my, and was watched with g-eat interest by
the tawrd of visitors. vun.r laliea and
which the ri.Umt can be seen. Toeirround
; ground
I is covered with sawdust.
a-vl the scene as
thirtyHie of
the first
class men went
1 l iniaginary tots, toe noing was g.d.
' "u" w "wwi anu saiiitut.
1 ' uwu un 11 iron ruigs
nnirs
were suspended were piacetl on opposite
side of the hail, and near the corners,
Ujn some racks of a suitable height, were
place some leather heads which the rider
hacked most viciously as they went gallop.
; " e a cojpie
ukjtc wtiis. i nen me ca lets went uasmnf
T""1 b-r "ros m.1 ,hri"e in. ?Ite
uiiecuons, trying 10 pierce tne lings With
their sabers, then to draw tlieir pistols and !
blow oil the iiaoffending wooden man's
hea-l, and tmally to give the poor ball on
BnvjaJ .6,lulu thrust. The sport
'vas aiost exciting, and as the heavy horse
pistols were rliv,l off in ra;id successi.
t ill- lWritlll-lHI l.th. IMlliM. .l.Ani
the 'Mearcreatcrcs in the galleries stopped
nP lh f. "d trembled in affright,
Nm.e. of Anders were very quick, and
w.R.ld succeed in going through ad the
maneuvers in rapid succession. The same
"erct were then reped after two well
"f mcn waIk':U b' ,u 1
,uo, fre n'"u"'d.
side if the other
uddculr the
nur: l,rok !?all"P. aud the ordtT to
T1 -V5 lw"v'y eacn n.se
had two nder. This practice of lespine
on and off a Itareback horse was continued
for some time, to the delight of Uie audi
ence. Then the hurdles were brought iu
agaiu. ami the exciteuieut increased. Each
cadet had his horse, and as he came to the
bun He world leap off, jump the hurdle,
clinging all the time to the horse's mane,
and 'hen leap on his back again. Many
of the cadets diil this very lacetully, anil
boweU f81 ' "d Pl-k in clinging to
!hllr riUht,r , Wlhl chargers. KHiietimes the
horse dd refuse to jump, and great con-
tus"m w,,uld 'W'OW. 1 lie 'Ting masters.
Mhcy were fattioiisly called, st.ssl with
whips iu ham
1, so as to remind the balky
horse of th
the danger of stopping. The
'f'8 .,h;0 wicd the "V juniping
off their horses while at full siieed. and
then leaping ciear over their liacks. and
then on to their backs again. The exercise
was, of course, very violent, aud the young
ladies bi stowed many expressions of sympa
thy on the "HKr boys." There were some
narrow escapes from accidents and many
scenes. As a rule however, the ridiiiz was
excellent, and showed that the cadets were
thirous:h masters of horscuiauship. Many
expressions of admiration were heard, aud
there was conside rable applause ai the ex
ceptionally daring feats.
A llusaiaii Robbery.
The robbery at the Imcrial Bank at
Kherson in Kussia, in June last, was oue
of the most audacious things in the records
of crime. Later developments in the case,
as given in the foreign mails, show that
the sum stolen amounted to nearly $1,
HOO.ooo, and that the robU-ry was coui-
uutted under the direction of an engineer
named Saschka, son of a General in the
Uussian annv, who had hired a house op
posite the bank and driven a tunnel under
neath the street into the cellars of the bank.
The entrance was effected on a Sunday,
when the liank was closed, so that the rob
bery was not discovered until the next day.
It was at once taken for granted that the
Nilulmts were concerned in the roblicry.
as the money taken all belong to the State,
whiie several large deposits belonging to
private persons were left untouched. The
researches of the police in the villages
around Kherson resulted in the discovery
of the greater part of the money, which
was concealed in a cottagis, and in the ar
rest of some fifteen persons suspected of
complicity in the robbery, though Saschka
hjmself, who is believe! to have bad a
hnud in the recent attempt to blow up the
Czar's train near Moscow, has not since
been heard of. These persons, who were
recently brouirht betore the court -marti'U
sitting at Odessa, comprised the Baroness
Vitteu and three young ladies of good fam
ily, who were described as the instruments
of Saschka, several other women, and about
twelve tradesmen and peasants. The ac
cused, who made no attempt to deny the
charge, Indignantly repudiated having been
actuated by mercenary motives, declaring
that they were engaged ir. political
work. The Baroness Yitten was sentenced
to penal servitude for life, and ten of the
others to the same punishment for terms
ranging from four to fifteen years.
The Kangaroo.
A curious story is told about the naming
of this animal. When Captain Cook dis
covered Australia, he saw some of the na
tives on the shore with a dead animal of
some sort in their possession, and sent
sailors in a little boat to buy it of them.
ben it came aboard, he saw that it was
something quite new, so he sent the sailors
back to inquire its name. The sailors asked,
but not being able to make the native un
derstand, received the answer, I don't
know," or ln the Australian language.
"Kan-ga-reo." The sailor supposed this
was the name of th animal, and so report
ed it . Thus the name of that carious am
mal is literally I don't know.
Tk MvfeUity ( taw Aaiaata.
There art artisan families iu India aud,
we are told, in Damascus w ho hare worked
at the same work day by day for 1.000
years ; pleasant faiwilits who have wot only
tilled the same fields, but have gone into
them and left them at the same hour, accord-
mg to the season, from a period before the
birth of Christ. They have uo wish for
change, no ambition to do better, no inch
nation to roam, no sense of failure, because
they are as their forefathers were, and as
their sons will be. such content, content
which is consistent with permanent melan
choly, and even in occaioual instances with
deep and persistent sadness, scms incompre
hensible to the Englishman, who never wit
nesee it unless he has already uprooted
himself from his own home, and he very
readily exaggerate its limits. The Asiatic
adhere to his home only when, as the re
sult of this adherence, certain conditions
are sure to be fulfilled. He requires a mo
tive or movement other than that hope of
enjoyment In change, or that dtaire of bet
tering himself, w hich is th impulse of the
western man, but once d'sturbed, once
presented with a motive for fuing which is
sufficient to his own mind, uo man moves
so easily. In lipiia, in Persia, in Arabia,
in Turkey, pilgrimage is a habit such a it
never has been in anv European land. The
most customary aa-eident a death in the
house, a sickness, a loss of iihikv. an ac
ces of spiritual ivstlevjuess isntotive suf
Orient, aud in a few davs or hours the indi
vidual or the fauniy is in motion toward
some amine or some sacred spot hundreds
it may oe uiousawis, oi uuiesawav. on a
Journey which niay take months or years,
and through lands as unknow n to the pil
irrims a Egypt Is to the S;itrlk lalxxvr or
Thiliet to an Esuimaux. The celebrated
pilgrimage to Mecca is but oue ainotu the
hundred ot such pilgriiuac's undertaken
every day by thousaids of Asiatics as readdy
and as cheerfully aa aa Etvli-di migration
is undertaken to the next viihure. Through
out the Asiatic w.wld there are spots tow aril
which, through all ages and from all
countries, a ceaseless stream ot hu.iwnity U
always slowly Uowing. filled up ly cmwits
whce ohjecu and impulses are ahmiet as
obscure as Uieir means of suli-teuce or
their chtjoces of return. Keligious anxiety
has destroyed content, and (he Asiatic
moves as readily aa the Yankee Mmuu
rian. tor is religion Uie ouly motive. The
Asiatic moves instantly if anything hateful
aud not visibly of t.ixl, like a M-kkI or an
earthquake, comes screws bim, moves out !
fbf f )lM wmv 'I . rt uruir ,u ,.f ... .u.uki;... i
Govern, , of an eoidemi.- i.t of f-n.i.- I
or ot taxation pressing uuliearalily, as
he tuiuks, his lamL. AH men who have set
themselves to organise proviucva fiTied with
Asiatics know that thtre is a turn of the ri-!
nam ial screw which will, even in Egypt,
empty provinces, entile people taKing
tti'ht te ue more favored land. Au Eng
b'xhuian, not a century agn, emptied Bun
dclcund in that way, and tin: province has
never recovered ; a stern Persian tax gath
erer el ten depopulates a district, and an op
pressive Governi in Turkey s.ineiiiii'. iu
fiicts in one year a blow troui which his
Pasha! ic does not rc-over lor a century.
The people do not perish tliry go away.
The attraction to the soil once euiU.it, the
Asiatic moves even more easily than the
I European. He has uo feeling aliout his
"country, in the r-nglisu sense ; ludeed,
in many languages he cannot ex pi ess the
idea. He is not afraid to go far, if he has
not to cros the sea, f. uprooteti,
distance makes little difference to In in. He
has no furniture to cam-, for except a care
pet and a few bras au h nees none. II
has no tiouble about meals, f. -r he is con
tent with Parched grain, which bis wife
can cook anywhere, and dried dates, or
dried flesh, or anything oMainaMc which
will keep. He is, on a march, tarclcxi
where he sleeps, provided his family are
around him iu a Mnble, ninl r a porch,
in the open air he never changes his
clot his at night, anj he is rofoiindiy iu
differeul to everything that the Western
man understands by "comfort." If he has
time, he takes his tattle with him, if not.
he abnndous them or sclisthem tor any sum
procurable, turns everything p-ille into
money, aud with all his pscsmiiis on his
back or in a cart, marches on, perfectly se
cure of the favor of God, to the destination
which, sometime from a tradition as old as
his own family, he has fixed in his own
mind, with a certain stoicism, anil even
nobility of resignation which it is impow-i-ble
not to admire.
! auto.
A few yea's ago, adult two miles east of
Tallahassee, Florad-i, was found a ponder
ous spur of unique and curious workman
ship, Uie like ot which has uot Ken seen in
modern times. The burr was one and a
half inches iu diameter and the bar protair
tionately heavy. On either side of the
rowell dangled small pendant hells that
gave forth a tinkling sound in response to
each step of the wearer doubt lent some
steel-clad and bonneted warrior of the long
ago. Not many days since, while iHtrtics
were ploughing near the iileuiieal spot a
solid and shapeless mass was turned up,
which upon closer examination proved to
be an iron stirrup of ancient pattern, as
heavy and as massive in proportion as the
spur spoken ot first, and firmly imbedded
in a thick coating ol clay and rust When
this was removed the stirrup was found to
be in a remarkably good state of preserva
tion. The sides represent two Ethiopian
figures standing upon the footrcsl, leaning
f of ward faciuz each otner, while theysup
port with outstretched arms what forms
the top of the stirrup, or that part which is
connected with the leather. Si unlike are
both these relics to anything known to the
generations of this day and near the same
place, it is not unreasonable to ascribe them
to the same era and individual. Nor is the
supposition at all improbable that one of
the knightly follower) of De Soto, lured on
throun lius then unknown region and
wilderness, like that daunt less son of Spain,
oy a thirst for tlie yellow heaps of gleam
ing gold Uiat loomed up ahead of them in
vain visions and heated fancies, here fell
a victim to the tomahawk and scalping
knife of the wronged and revengeful red
man ; and. no doubt, some one of the
'Tallahassee Tribe," of which "Tiger Tail"'
claimed to be a descendant, boasted, as he
displayed at bis belt a yet bloody scalp,
that he had "killed a pale face."
lrad In Aerate Water.
Tlie use of siphons for lemonade has
been condemned by Borne, on the ground of
the action which free tartaric acid has upon
lead, and the rapidity with which waters
containing any free acid become charged
with lead in siphons. According to inves
tigations, 0,0173 grain of lead per gallon is
not an unusual anicune for average cistern
water. It is found, however, that after
such water has been aerated and put into a
siphon, Uie amount of lead dissolved in it
begins to rise in a rapid manner. 1 bus in
potash water drawn from a siphon,
0.408 grain of lead per gallon were found
to bo present, being nearly 3.5 times the
quantity found In th same wtter before it
entered th siphon. Pure aerated water,
again, drawn similarly from a siphon, gave
0.0810 gnuns of lead per gallon.
BRIEFS.
Eujjl.uid has nearly W.lWivpsie,
ami tuo; of theiuciti'i real or n:?.
A crystal palace of the uicst com.
preheasive character it' u. arise oa tho
ruins ot the Cloud.
The birthplace, at Woodstock, Yt
of Hi rain Power. Uie sculptor, is to be
marked bv a moiiuiu-ut.
An English firm sold $000 fire
proof safes iu Turk"V betore it was as
certained that the tilling w ts only saw
dust. Xovia Scotia shipped but ol.t4l
tons of coal to the I uite l bt.ites last
year, the smallest qiautity for some
time.
Fannie Blue, a Mack woman from
Virginia, died Iu New Orleans the
other day at the alleged age of
years.
Abell, of the Baltimore Sum. has an
annual income of il-'O.lA-o. He recent-
centiy paid 4 jo.ouo lor a country resi
dence. Georire Francis Train's villa a:
Newport, il. I. has beu let to Mr.
Kemsen of Paris tor .5,00C for three
months.
During 1S7'J the American L'ible
Society d!biired f iu the home
field and $'U,t0:i abroad, a total of
VWs.lsti.
It is said thai about twelve hun
dred of the coiorexl men w iio emigrated
mini Alabama to Nor'.hern Suites have
returned.
The Lords of the Treasury have re
fused to lend the municipality of Dub
'111 more uionev. It alreadv owes over
SO,(KH),0JO.
Coutributious amounting to a little
more Uau JJO.ooO have been distrib
uted among the sufferers by the recent
fire iu H.iil. Canada.
Chancellor (no BUoo; Haven is
Mid to have a hied f lOJ.oou to the eu
dowmiut fund of Syracuse Universi;v
by his personal eft'.r;s.
1'tic.t, Y, was ten mouths sub
scribing 4X0 to rliiijh a church build
ing, aud ouly tour davs riilug $ itUMO
to establish a lie brewer.
The Earl of Ashburaharu. now in
his thirty-uiuih year, is eugtj;ed to
marry a young U ly whoe uaiue lias
uot yet been puhiicly aunouueed.
Rome sticks to Us project of a
world's fair tor 1S."-iJ. An English
company has oil'ered lor twelve millions
of dollars to guarantee Its success.
Mrs. Daggett of Grceiihu.-h.' Mich..
is 70 years old ; yet, r.itiier lhau let her
blind husband go to the pjoruoiise, she
olK'I'Pd six acre of tituner tor ..;.
Iu IS77 two-th:i! of tl e persons
who fell sick in tne Kitssian Empire
went iuto the hospital lor treatment,
and only one-third remained at home.
The first steamer was ecn on the
Thames lu H15; tlie first team voyage
to India was accouipli-hed m IsJi; the
flrt Engli-li railway was opened In the
same year.
The question is to bo settled iu
court at Eufield, Conn., whether a
lather can legally burden a b-.viuest to
his daughter with the condition that
she shall uever marry.
The secon-l competition for the
great statue of the French republic
that is t'sbo ereotisl by the Municipal
louimel of Paris has" resulted ln the
moiiel of M. Morice beiu chosen.
Kt-twcen 173 and 179 Lord Fal
mouth's turf winnings were $UI,l'j;.
lie never betted, yet he has retired
Irom. the turf. ios.il!v thiukiiiir that
siicIiikhI fortuiu couid not lat longer.
Secretary Evaris ami K.imsey have
accepted invitations to bo present at
the celebration of the two hundred and
.it tu-tli anniversary of the settlement
ol Boston on tho I7ili ol next M-pteui-her.
" Longfellow's P-almot Life" was
written on a summer's uioruiug in IsW.
"The Wrick of the Hesperus" was
written at midnight in 1S1!. A vio
lent storm bad occurred the night be
lore. Mr. Gladstone entered Parliament
at 2't, a year alter leaving the uni
versity. Two years later Sir Hubert
Peel made biiu a lord of the Treasury,
and within a year I'ucier Secretary of
siate ior the Coloules.
It is proposed by Mr. Kuskin's
friends to raise a subscription lor a
magnilleeut statue ot that author to be
placed In the School of Drawing at
Oxford the school w hicli owes lu ex
istence to his generosity.
The Car is the only crowned w id-
owcr and Victoria the only crowned
widow among the r.uroi-au poten
tates. Alfonso ami Cbrisiineof Spain
are the youngest wedded couple; Wil
liam and Augusta ol tiermany the eld
est.
Komi? spends two hundred thou
sand dollars on its public schools, of
which ten years ago it had none at all.
the Komaiis now evinee great alacrity
in attending the schools, and the iatter
are eutirely inadequate to the demaud
of til population.
The report of the English Board of
l'rade on the subject of marine disas
ters shows that, in spite of the improve
ments, that have been made in na7al
architecture, the ratio tf loss is by no
means reduced, but, if anything, is
somewhat on the invrea-e.
Mrs. Eleanor Williams, a colored
we man of Syracuse, New York, is one
huudred and two years old. She was
born lu Maryland. Her hair is white
as snow, she fell about a year ago.
and has been crippled since, but other.
wise she Is as well as ever
F. II. Hart, who has won the
championship among pedestrians lu
America, is anxious to meet Charles
Kowell agaiu in a six-day rac, and has
ac.-or.lingly challenged the English
champion to a race lor $.";:oOa side, the
contest to take place in New York,
Boston or Chicago within three months
alter signing articles.
One of the richest and most famous
monasteries in Italy is that ot Monte
Casino on the line of railway between
Kouie and Naples; It was rounded in
529, and has continuously existed ever
since. Its library Is wonderfully rich
in written and printed documents, aud
the rents of the domain are adequate to
maintain the institution.
More than 100 years ago Harrison
Gray Otis, of Boston, owned large
tracts of land In Maine, and three
towns were named alter him. respec
tively, Harrison, Gray and Otlsdeld.
The citizens of Otisfield intend to hold
a reunion next August, to which are to
be invited all persons who have gone
forth from the town and their descend
ants. The great map of th" moon, com
pleted by Dr. Julias Schmidt, of Ath
ens, after 12 years of labor, shows
32,$o8 craters and ring-like formations
on the lunar surface, and 31$ rills and
clefts. Dr. Schmidt estimates that the
number would be increased to 300,000
craters ln a complete chart, showing
the moon as seen with a magnifying
power of 90,
seen her portrait, oowu