DISTANCES AT THE FAIR. IMMENSE SPACE COVERED BY THE EXPOSITION. A Visitor Mutt Wnlk Ormt Marly MIIm to See All the Wonder of the , White City - Route of the Average Right-Seer Some Ki fclblta of Foreign Conn tried. The World'! Fair ta not only wonderlul exposition ot the globe' Industrial, mwhn leal end art let le progress, but it ta a "city ot magnlflnen distance." Speaking of the 1 crimen He naos eorered by the Fair, the Chl eago Record my Rome poor week woman who eonld not travel four blook downtown without board Ing a horsecar will walk five mllne at Jnek eon Park. Hhe doe not realise it nt the time. All the time something ! hnppenlng to engage the mind. Th long Jnnnt In tnken In homeopnthlo dove, 100 ynrda nt a time. It hen often been remarked, end there ta no harm in repenting h now, thnt the general bltrnea of thing around the Exposition Rive delusive Idea of dlstnmt. The visitor has en experience like thnt of e "tenderfoot" In the Rookie who eonclttde to walk over to oertntn peak before breakfast, and after traversing e few mile ta told thnt he will he there before night If he keep moving. The eienrelonlnt nt the Fair often forme e hasty conclusion thnt he enn nee nearly everything In e day. Afterward he I ready to admit that be conldn't cover the ground In a week on a bleyole. Take the Plalaanoe, for Instance. From the Cottage Orove avenue gate to the en trance from the main grounds is exactly one mile. The man or the woman, however, who Wanders out to the limits of the Plaisanoe end then back again dona not travel In e straight linn. He or she make diagonal cuts across the roadway from one noisy show to the other, stray off Into pocket and probably tramp a quarter of a mile In Java or old Vienna, forgetting thnt each of these show Is a little city of Itnelf. In fact, a journey Into the rinlsance and back will mean not far from three mile of walking If the sight-seer is nt all Industrious. Once world's rite diploma round on the Ferris wheel is nearly one sixth of a mile.. Here are some distances which the habitual visitor will appreciate. From the entrance to Midway it is 4800 feet to the Administra tion Building. This is considerably more than three-quarters of e mile, a good walk, even in the country. Yet people who cover the dlstanoe every day look over at the dome end say ''There's no need of taking a train s It's only a step." Up at the narrowed north end of the grounds, It Is 2000 feet from the Fifty-seventh street gate over to the lake, yet this preliminary stroll ta unnoticed by those who pass the Stale Buildings and then turn southward for the main part of the show. In keeping track of distances . Is always well so remember that once around the Manufac tures Building lacks about 200 feet of being a Bile. Suppose you land from a boat at the Casino pier, walk over to the peristyle, turn north end pass through Manufactures Building, straight through the Government Building end then proceed by the shortest cut to the art palaoe. How far do you suppoee you have traveled? A mile? More than that 6800 feet, If you kept as near a bee line as possible. But If you selected some of the winding paths and reoonnoiterd In side aisle through the two buildings, you walked one and one-half miles. Follow the average sight-seer through a day's walking. Plok out a route whioh Is common. He alights from a train at the ter minal station and goes to the Administration Building, whence he drops south to the Ma chinery and Agriculture Buildings, merely passing through them to reach the peristyle, along the length of whioh he passe to the Manufacture Building. By the time he reaches it he has covered, at the lowest, 4500 feet. Through Manufactures Building once, then through the Government and Fisheries Buildings and over to the art palaoe easily makes 6000 more. If he follow the much traveled route from the Art Building down past the southerly State Buildings to the Plaisanoe entranoo it Is Just about 2500 feet to be added. Then the Plaisanoe. Perhaps he will not walk to the extreme west end, but he will go three-fourths of a mile nnd return, making an actual ohalk-llue dtatanoe of one and oue ' half miles with another mile to be added be cause of the alg-sag course, making it 18,000 feet on an easy compromise. Leaving the Plaisanoe, suppose that he paseea through the Horticulture and Transportation Build ings to the court of honor and the grand basin, around which he walk alowly during she illumination and band concerts, finally directing hie way to the terminal station ana train for home. Any tape-line measure ment following his step would show that another VS00 feet had been placed to his credit. He had not eroeeed the wooded Island, had not looked Into the Mlnneor Eleo trioity Buildings and had uot gone farther north than the art palaoe nor further south than the Agrioulture Building. Add up the figures and It will be found that he walked U,&00 feet, ore trifle leas than seven tulles, with hardly any allowanee for incidental foraging to the right or left As a matter of fact any one following that route would walk tea miles. Many persons have covered the ground In tUcaied. Perhaps you have, yet you couldn't understand why yon were so tired out at eight and went to sleep on the way home, your head renting on the shoulder of a per fect stranger. Any man whostarted at Madi son street and walked to Jackson Tark would think he was performing a feat of endurance. He nornet to Jackson Park and covers the name distance without knowing It. Why t ttV Those who have studied the strange ways ot hn-nanity nay it la because he I buoyed np and exhilarated by ovnl lght and kept on the prnnee by ronalng muslo. Hi mind ta no busy that he forgets about his leg. How far mnst a man walk to see all the Fair? Tht Is a hard onastlonto answer, but here are some fnlrty accurate figure on the larger building. If yon wish totravenethe main aisle in the Mnnnfnctnrca liulldtng, Just to get a good general Impression but without edging around thousands of show ease, you will find nine mnln aisle ennt ami west, eaoh 780 fe.-t long, a total length of 6750 feet. The north and south aisles, eleven In number, are each I7S0 feet long, making a total length of feet. This mnke 2A.O00 feet, a trifle lossthnn live mile. The minimum estlmnte for the gallery on the same nasi i l'i.ftflO teet, Thl does not allow for pasting through the narrow aisle of open exhibits. It refers only to what might iiroiieriyb called the street an I nva- 1 hue. Furthermore, It doe not allow for rtouhllng up on encn thorouglirare. The visitor must s-e both side at the same time. Machinery Hall hna five east and west alstm, nao'h 1100 feet long. To paw through these require HMO feet of travel. There are eight main aisles north and south, each A00 feet long, making 4000 additional teet or 10.. 800 In all. To "do" the building thoroughly these tmnsverse olslen should be covered. On thl basis the necesnnry traveling dlstnn-e I called 10,500 feet. The same mle Is fol lowed in the case of each builillng. Manufacture, main floor 36.000 Manufactures, gallery l'J.SOO Agriculture, main floor 9. (UK) Agriculture, gallery 4.500 Agriculture, annex 4,400 Forestry S.W0 Rhoeand leather 9.600 Krupp gun and convent 1,000 Administration 400 Kleetrlcity, main floor 5.2ft) Kleetrlcity, gallery a.HOO min-e, .main ntor n.ino Mine, gallery. . . . a.ooo 5.440 4,000 TrnnHortntlon, main floor. Transportation, gallery.... awamdko by thx ioooih. Transportation, annex 7.000 Horticulture, main floor 8.000 Horticulture, gallery 1,000 Government 9,000 Woman's including gallory 4.000 Fisheries 1,500 Art Palace, main section 8,500 Art Palnoe, two wings 2,000 The grand total 1s something in excess of 118,000 feet or nearly twenty-three miles. At the same time the estimate doe not include State, Government or private buildings i the Plaleance Is ignored and no account is taken of the long Jumps from one building to an other. Let the reader figure for himself whether by walking forty mile he could see every cook and corner of the Exposition from the washy head of the pier to the west ward end of Midway Plaisanoe. The moral of this ta i "Don't try to see everything In one day." TBI gXHIBIT or IT4I.T. Italy has reason to fsel proud ot the uu equaled exhibit she has made In the various departments ot the World's Fair. No other oountry of equal siae and commercial Im portance ha done so muoh to make the f reot Columbian Exposition a success. In he Manufactures Building, west side, sec tion A, Italy's mala exhibit la to be found. The liDeral art suction contains 18,000 square feet, and Is looated on the Interior floor in the north-west gallery, Thl space Is de voted to the exhibit of books, photographs, musical Instruments and other article that mny be included In the oategory of liberal arts, but nothing, however, of an educational nature, except, of course, what Is contained In the books. Italy la Jealous of her book making art, and many fine specimens of book making and printing make this part of the exhibition one of the most interest ing. The main section on the floor proper of the Manufactures Building Is, perhaps, one of the beet arranged and most unique dis plays of a country s handicraft and lugenulty to be found in the whole building. There are specimens of hand-carved woodwork so delicate and wonderful as to command the highest praise for the artist's skill, but not this alone ; so perfect and so exquisite is It as to make one question whether Its superior has ever been seen. The largest bas relief ever carved from wood is amongthe articles. It Ik twenty feet long and three . feet wide, and ta made from a single blo-ik of wood. What ta morn, It was made expressly for tho Columbian Exposition. There are specimens of Italy's beautiful chiseled marbles, Florentine mosaics, so lit- fierior to anything In this line shown as to eave them without a competitor In this branch of industry. An enameled silver coffee set for twelve persons acquire Its great value from a very complete history ot the world engraved on the platter and cup. All the details ot the principal events ot the world from the days of creation to the present are worked out In the lust lino. Lace, said to be worth 1000 per yard, with brocades and tapestry of untold value and exquisite deslgu, forma an attractive ' feature and calls forth many complimentary expressions from lady visitors. The two majolloa paintings In front of the fiavillon are much admired, and r valued a the appraisement at 10,000. The pottery and glassware, the figure in gilt, the stat uary and earving In wood, the beautiful eollen'ton and display In marble and bronre, make the Italian exhibit not only one of the most valuable, but among the most Interest ing. At.oanu's lIRiniT. Algeria Is a French colony, hut If has been, given a distant plane and large apace In the Agricultural Building. The most prominent object in the exhibit I what I called the Moorish room, which I a r-prn Ittctlon of an apartment In the palace of the Governor nt Algiers. Inclosed by Moorish arches. In Imitation of marble, Is a central court. The nITice of Mr. Montnlls, the commissioner from the colony, In situated nt one of the corner, the rest of the space being devoted to a display of the products an 1 art works of the country. Picture by native artist han-J on the walls, showing the tour seasons in Algeria, a street scene in Algiers and other siihjet. A fine enblnet in native woo ls la shown. tohneo, manuovtured and nnurai, and specimens ol the ramlee a variety of reel from which line fibrous material I ma.te. Wood of the country nre exhibited In the form oft hln sections hound in volirnn, resembling book. There Is a fine Arabian mirror, the frame of which was carvel with a knife by a nitlve artist, nnl other speci mens of wood carving. In the main department of the exhibit, a greet display of eork Is made. The trunk of a tree ta shown, the rough bnrk in hall's, nnd mnnufnctnred eorks. Sheet cork for hnt lin ing Is shown, and thicker leave for insole for shoes. There nre 1 ,200.000 acree In Al geria cover-d with cork tree, which will be In full production In five or nix years, w ten the crop will be enormous. Algerlnn cork la equal to thnt of Spain, it Is asserted. Growth of the tree Is limited to lands In the Mediter ranean basin. There are ISO.OOO Kreneh people In Algeria, the same number of per sons of other Nations, and 8,500.000 native. A curious product ol the country is alfn, a fibrous grass from which rope nre made. It pulps rendlly, and fine paper Is made, much of which ta exported to Kngtand. As evi dencing the Importance of Algeria's com merce, goat skin to the value of 100,000 were exported to the United Htnte In lH'J'J. I hi industry I of recent growth, as, four years ago, none were exported. Wool t another Important product, while the grain of the colony not superior quality. ai'Aig at thx rin. Among the foreign countries contributing to beauty anil elegance in design of exhibit nnd display Hpain In prominent. The Hpan ish section In thn Mnnunviiire Building covers nn area of about 23,000 squnre feet and it has lieen economically and Judiciously used. The pavilion erected 1 an exact re production of the famous Cathedra! Cordova, except, of course, in size. The structure oc cupies space under the Inner gallery in the southwest corner of the building nnd in the renr of the Italian ami Swiss sections. In this section there are 850 exhibitor from Spain, mostly showing products of cloth nud Ince. In the working of the finest lace texture, In design and delicate execution, the Spanish may have equals, but they cep tnlnly have no uHrlors. In embroidered designs, silk workings and gauzy woven fabric an exceedingly ingenious and Inter esting display 1 made. As usual the most expensive exhibit Alls the least space. Because of its novelty ami its representation of something new in the working of precious met-ils, the greater In terest, perhne, attache to it. Fellpa Ouls asola, a lady of Madrid, some year ago con ceived thn Idea of ornamenting steel with gold, by first sketching design on steel nnd then hammering gold Into the grooves, leav ing a greater or lee projection of the precious metal on the suruu-e, according to the slxe and character of the figure desired to be pro duced. The gold was then shnped by ham mering or was cut on the surface to represent face, figure, flower or whatever design fancy or the love of art diotnted. The finest work of this kind in thn exhibit, worth ovel 100,000, is two flue vases, one of the Pom peilan design and the other Kennlsaanaa They are about four feet high, and the steel body ta richly ornamented with gold of ali colors. MAKMOTBS AWARDS. Fifty Judge in the Manufacture and Ma chinery Departments started to work for th first time a few days since. They found some of the exhibitor uot prepared, and In such case the exhibits were passed for tht present t but all the exhibitors who wen ready expressed their acquiescence In tht system of awards. The foreign and domestic Judges in the Department of Agriculture met In the Assembly Hall of that building for or ganization. They elected as President Will iam K. Williams, delegate from Kussla and professor In the Academy of Moscow. Count Addleman was chosen First Vice-President. Meetings of Judge of awards In the De partments of Mining, Electrlolty and Fins Arts have also been held to perfect the or ganlzation preparatory to getting to work on the exhibit. The line arts Judge will fol low thn European Jury plan, which they think alone practicable and satisfactory to the exhibitors In such a department. The Committee on Awards is discouraged over the refusal of nearly all the agricultural implement exhibitors to participate in tht Held teet outside the city. Only two harvestel machine exhibitors entered for the examina tion, and the feeling among the bulk ot tht implement exhibitors, s.1 expressed In ths recent protest sent to Chairman Thanher, il not favorable to success In that branch ol the exhibits at least. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. Nxw Yoax cheese manufacturers have se cured three first prise. FoosTxas separate and distinct oongresaes were In session at the Art Institute tbeothet day. The most largely attended was that ol the college fraternities. AcotjsTos H in. n wat, of Canton, Mass., has Invited all the sihooma'am In town to go to the World's Fair at hit expense. There are twenty-six of them. Tax Department of Awards ta now tht busiest branch in the great Exposition, and Mr. Tbachsr, Its chief, has increased bit eleriool force from Ave to 100. A bio map showing the educational pecu liarities of the Pennsylvania public schools, college and academics, ha boon shipped to the Fair. It ta fourteen by eight feet in sits and contain 112 square feet of canvas. Ths Masonlo apron worn by Washington in the lodge room as well at the vnluabll and interesting lodge emblems of General Lafayette form a feature of the exhibit In the Government Building, beneath the great dome. In the dome of the Horticultural Building there Is a perfect facsimile of thV Capitol at Washington, done In immortelles. Tht grounds surrounding the Capitol are also shown, and it forms a unique and interesting exhibit Ths World's Youth Congress, a gathering made up of ths brightest young people be tween the age of twjlva and twenty-one, and representing sjnsol, aoaie?nie and colleges throughout the oountry and Vitrioui institutions of learning In England anion the Gontineut, has been In session in th Hull ot Washington. It ta generally conoededthat for the limited amount of mouey expended on its buildings and display of articles made, the State ot Arkansas lead all the rest. The mineral and wood exhibits In the State Building are especially Interesting, both from their num ber and oompletenwu, a well at from the unique manner In which thoy are arranged. Casuixal Gibboss has accepted the invi tation of the Committee of the Marylan t State Commission to make the prayer an! benedlotlon on the occasion of Maryland Day at the World's Fair, September 11. That Is also the date fixed for the meeting In Chi cago of the Archbishops of the Catholie Church. Cardinal Gibbons, ths primate of th United States, will oraaida. KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGSl A PItUNKEX RACE RIOT, aunt Ann rot.tt turn, at rnicxsrao. tiikri fATAU.t AMI MANY OTHKHS .nl.T tftJtJIlID, SnuAJtTOft Rsttinlay was pay day at lha mines at I'rlceburg, prosperous borough of thl county, and tht several hundred Hunt and Polish employs began to drtnk hravily. At night a Htm tnda Pol. engag ed In a right in Bryan Fallon's saloon and their countrymen took tides with tbem, free fight resulting. Tli borough police arretted fonr Hun garian and lodgsd them In JalL At!) o' clock the Hungarians held an Indignation meeting, and then proceeded in body to the jnil, where they ovrrpowered th keeper and liberated Mi prisoner. Th't caused th largest riot that hat occurred In this region Id 16 years. Th Pole took excep tion and a race wtr oommsnced, tailing three hour, during which there wat reign of terror, all the saloont In the town being taken possession of and th officer driven off. Over 30 men wer Injured.three fatally and on Pole bad his cart cut off. Many windowt wer broktn In with itonet and club. Shortly before midnight Depnty 8herlfl Craig arrested several of tho rioter and re stored etce. Many arrests will follow. THE (.'HOP BULLETIN. airoRT lnnirATK that kaih it Mtxnro BAPt.Y II SOMR r-ARTt OF TUX STATU. In the weekly report of the Stale Weather Service. It II tald that rain it badly needed for crop In th Southern section. Tobacco, potatoet and pattnres are (ufTerlng. Th corn crop look well. Wheat and hsy are about homed and nsts are being harvested. Fruit prospect art not improving, llaln it needed hsdly in Southwestern section and corn and potatoet will b short unless it come toon. The frail crop will be light. In the Northwest crop do not appear to need rain. In the Northeatt drought con tinues. In dry lections the hay crop It laid to be from one-half to two-thirds of a crop. Corn, potatoes and tobacco are In period when moisture Is nio-it needed. In many place the rainfall hat been barely ulHcient lo prevent dirntter. TWO I.ITTI.R BKOTIIKItt DltOWKin. Almntowh. Wlill three brothers, George Willi and Lewis Poohrsy, agnd 1.1, 11 and d years respectively. son of George h. rlocb rsy, weresittlngon the bsnkt ol the Lehigh rivsr in this city. Willi toppled into the stream. The other brother in trying to rescue him fell Into the river. Assistance came and Willie wat rescued. Hit two brother wsr drowned. TO CATCH M a ns. Among the laws passed by the recent leg. Islstitre Is one for th protection of news pipers against practical Jokers and eipt dally against maliciously Inclined people who bar In th past been Ire to get any kind of malicious report they could Into th papert lo servt their own purpose, and then let the newspaper bear lb brunt of it Following It th act: "Any peron who wilfully states, delivers or transmits by any means whatever loth editor, publisher, i.r reporter of any news paper, nisgaxitte, publicslion, periodical or article for publication therein, -nny libelous statement concerning any person or corpor ation and thereby secures the actual publi cation of the tame, is hereby declared guilty I a misdemeanor and upon onvictioii hill be sentenced to pay a line not exceed ing five hundred dollars and undergo im prisonment for a period not exceeding two yean or either or both at the discretion of the Court." At Beaver Kails, the other eve Ing Mrs. Jan Smith was lifting on her front porch in her barn feet. A pet chicken saw one of Mr. Smith' bar leet and gave it a Here peck. The -hkken's bill penetrated an artery aud Mrs. Smith almost bled to death before the flow of b.ood wai ttaunched. Ms. Pom.t Ring, of Rutler county, who died last Saturday after celebrating her hundredth auniversarr, came of a long lived family. Her fa iier served In the rev olutionary war and lived to be (HI yean old, while her mother wat a few u.ontbi over 100 when she died. Whilx Mr. W. H. Brick, of Buffalo, Somerset county, wni lilting in front of her bouse hoi ling her bahy an eagle swooped down as if to carry off or attack the child. The mother screamed and ran into th bouse and th eagle dew away. It hat been leeu before. Last year the Raney farm, near Mahon ngtown, Lawrence county, wat stocked with imported bug-snapping loids. It was feared the cold weather had killed them. but last week tliev came to the surface in great number, and "are now playing bob with the bug. LAsrSslurdny night a valuable horse be longing to J. W . Gonaware, a Greensburg men hint, got twisted np in the halter in soms way and hanged itself, being louud dead in the morning. A rrw days ago a conductor lifted a ticket from McVeytown to I.ewistown that whs sold Augnst 19. 1467. The interest on in face vslui amounted to exactly its origlnul cost. A Frkiout areck at Blxlsr, on the Penn sylvania railroad, caused by the breaking of an axle killed 11 horses, injured others and delayed traffic Hve hours. Jans W. Vanatta, for extorting money from an old soldier was sentenced by Jutlk'e Jltihingtoii at Kre to D-V) tint slid serve three months at hard labor, K. J. Uayxor, railroad contractor. I'oiti ville. tin assigned. Judgments amounting to nearly "Ki.ooo have thus far been filed; as sets uominal. At work in on of th quarries at M h)ti ingtown is a mule that is known to be ill years old and bidi fair to livi insuy more years. At Harrisburg, John W. Boyer, who did not bsar the gong, was killed by a street cir while gathering wood in th suburbs of the city. Mayor Til broox, of McKresport, bas Issued an order that street fakirs will be prohibited from doing business. Ar.rRFD Tiylor has sue I Mercer county for a.000 for ulleged injuries rtceived while trowing a cou:ity bridge. Tut! Fay'lte county mutual Insurance company, of I'liiontown. winch suspended in IM'U, has been reorganized. C'ii iilm Amirkws, brskenisn on the Pittsburg at Western at New Castle, fed Viwteu cars a il was killed. Thr big Mexican nioutimrnt at Hniris bunt, in Cupliol I'urk, u toppling unu will be removed soon. DirimiKMl i In a malignant and fulal form Is spideiuis at West New ton, Tii R Mercer county wheat crop Is tb largest for luauy yeura. SOLDIERS' COLUMN TUB PLOT rHUSTBATED. Interesting Bit ot History From ft. J ferson Beoords. JOHV J. O'DON nell, who wat ra cently ordered to Ft , Smith, Ark., to Ink rherge nt tnr weather sta tion in that city gave to a reports' before lie lef copies ot torn Interesting tele grams which ht tayt are nnwrlt ten history. Be fore coming t 1'lttsburg, Mr. O'Donnell wa In th Signal Service at Kej West, Fla., and was also stationed for t llius at Ft JtfTerson, on the Dry Tortugas, which Is the most lolnted fortlllction In tin Unlled-Ststet, and which wis used after th wsr at place of confinement for Btati prisoners. Among those tept there wert O'Laughlln, Mttdd. Spangler and Arnold, who were found guilty by a military com mission of complicity In lha assassination of President Lincoln. The telegrams which Mr. O'Donnell copied from th records of th fort relet to a plot to rescue these pris oners which wit formed in Nw Orleans In Augtiat, 1803. The lint telegram It at follow; loiiviLt . Ky., Ang. 17, IWS. Hon. T. T. Krkr.rt, Acting Autstttnt H-ct-forty of War: I have Important paper. I think th commanding olllcer at I he Dry Tortugat should b put on III guard against an at tempt to rescue the State prisoner In hi charge. A company is organizing in New Orleans for thnt ptsipos. i have the facts from available source. L. C, Parir, Brig. Gen. Wasiiiroto!. August 17, 1R65. Col. C. TT.HamHtnn, lour. If. Y. Vol., Com manding Offirrr, hry V'orfujos, Fla. I Inclose herewith ropy o a telegram from Rrig. Gen. L. '. linker. The Secretary of War direct that besides taking effectual measures against any attempt to rescua prisoners, you will plnro the four Htat prisoners, Arnold, Mudd. Spangler and O -Liuglilin, under such restraint nnd within such limits Inside of Kl. Jelterton at shall make abortive any attempt at escape or ret Oue. You will lettirn be Lieut. Cirpenler.lbe bearer of tbii, a full report of the measure you take under these instruction. E. I), 'i'owssino. Asst. Adj. Gen, Kdwln M. Stanton, the Bccrs-arr of War, sent this telegram to Maj Oen.K K.H t'stiby, at N'sw Orleans, ns toon as Ueu.Uaktr't tele gram wat received: "This department It Informed that an op eration it on fool In New Orleans to go to Ih Torttigit nud by surprise or stratagem) leise that place and release the prisoners there. Immediately on receiving this tele grsm send a speclsl messenger to notify tb commander at Key West and Tortugat to take strict insnturri to guard ag -Inst any stratagem or surprise and ircurt th safety of their commands. You will also use every effort to defeat tne part ie engaged in thl conspiracy and defeat it object. You will alio please notify tht Division Commauder and rtqtiett his co-operation. Gen. P. H. Hheridon wss in command of th Department of the Gulf in IWi, snd ha sent a messenger to rt. Jefferson with the secretary's telegram and ordered the com manding officer to report to liim at once the strength of the carriion. ( apt. W, 11. Prentice, of the One Hundred and Sixty first New York Volunteers, who was com manding the post on August 24, sent a re port lo lien. Sheridan telling hltn the small ness of ths garrison and urging him to liurrv forward 10 companies of ths On Hundred nnd Sixty-first under l.leut. Col. William B. Klnsey, which wero at Apala rhicola awaiting transportation, t 'apt. Prentice also reported to Adjt. General Towns! d that none of the prisoner were allowed outside of the fort alter unset;lhut the entire fort wai petrolled every night, in addition to th rrgtiiir sentinels snd that an efllcient force wai kept in readiness at all times to msn four of the 10 Inch guns A general order was issued regulating th approach of vessels, and a detail was in rssdiness to board tham to examine them be for s they landed. A system of signal! wat arranged between the boarding party and the guard. Everything wat kept in readiness for any sudden sttack. The total strength of the garrison was 377, and of tnese no men coiuu oe turnea out on a moment's alarm. Th exncted attack wa not mid, be cause th conspirator! learned that their Plot was known, and an attempt to rescue the prisoners would be foollisrdly. How ever, it wa never entirely abandoned, for three years later there appeared at Fl. Jef fsnon on Maloney, a lawyer.whoannouno d that be was there lo see tb men In con finement who hid becom known as tb "Mississippi prisoners," preparatory te bringing an action to test the legality of thslr imprisonment. lie asked soms special privileges from CspL . Bainbridge, Fifth United States Artillery, then com manding th post, and this is the order tb captain Tasued: "Mr. Maloney will not communicate with the prisoners at thl p-et except in accordance with existing rule." Thli order was lisued because another plot wa inspected. Shortly after this President Johnston pardoned Spangler, Arnold and Mudd. 0 Laughlin had died before llii. Ft. Jefferson il an interesting place out side of it historical associations It it built on a coral island, Garden Key, one of tbe largest of the Dry Tortuga. The reef of which It it a part it 400 mil long and vnr dangerou for nsvigatnrs. It is called "Dry" on account ot the pecnliur formation of tb bsscb and harbor, which dots not permit a vessel to get cloee to il. The reef is precipi tous. In a ship's length 2a fsthomi of wa ter and less than 2 f uthomi can be found. Tbe fortification was provided for by the twenty-ninth Congress, which appropriated 2,010.000 for it. Two-thirds of the men cm- gloved in building it were slaves owns d by . R, Mnllory. afterward Confedtrat Secre tary of War. After the attack on Ft. Sump ler. tbe first guns, two 40-pound Columbia, were mounted and they are still on their csrriages, though now they are useless. Tbe fort in desimi is an irregular hexa gon surrounded by moat 80 feet wide con taining eight teet of water. The wall is 40 feet high and th fort can aocotnmodaieSOO msn. it I fast going into ruin and only few men ar kept there under charge of an ordinance sergeant. There it a marine hos pital station thr and a light house. JVfe fratro Timtt, lvayea tor ma enncuaate. Tho eccentric Father Taylor, the allora' pastor of ltoston, wat a strong purtlsan of Governor Urlgcjg, Un on occasion, Just previous to the latter'! election, no wus making- the usua'. decoroi'i prayer, ask Inn tho Lord U give the people for Governor "a man who will rule Id the fear of God," etc, when he eudcleuly broke off; "Pshaw, Lordl What's tho ue ot boxing- the compass llko that? t,'l us Governor Brlggul" PEARLM UK l'HOUUJ A fine instrument A jmlRe' tongna. He tbnt wotilil ! mrmtcr of Ills own must nut 1m Immiil for another. A fivhln govirnniiiit proiluces mors fnctiotm than nil iitreHdvi olio, TIih health of commit n It v in an nltntmt mifnilllin index (lf )U morula. Vhnt wo hojin ever to ilo with vnae we m tint flrnt learn to tlo with ililigi-tice. If a liook lift romti from the heirt it will contrive to reach tho heart of otherH. My wnya art na hrontl an the King's high rouil ntiil my turiitiH lio in ah liikHtniiil. Hefttt tlioti a mnn Hint fa linnty in hln wonl? Tin-re is more hiie of a foot tli nn of him. Menn spirit iitnler ilitmppniutinent, like mnnll heer in a tlnuitlnr storm, al ways turn Hour. Loving kin do enn in greater than lawn; ntnl Hie charities of life are (renter tlinn nil ceremonies. Women nou through anil through t-neh other; nnl often we moat admire her whom they moNt acorn. He only in Wppy na well as great who need neither to( olx-y nor cotn mitnd in order to do Home-thing. Rielien nre for Hpeiidlli, mid npeitd ing for honor nud good m-tiotia ; there fore, extraordinary expeiine mtiat be limited hy the worth of tho ocranion. Ho whh n tuilor hold nnd luul, Ah t'veryliody nnyn, Ami ul 1 tilings lie con' 1 mend except! His own most evil wnyn. "In your wife a good manager?" asked ono married mnn of another. "I giu-MH hIio in," watt tho reply, "Hho knows how to mtiniige meut nlleveittH." ConntoHH (to new viilt-t) Johiiu, I olmerved yenterduy, to my inteiine hor ror thnt you elf tin my IniNlinnil'N clothes mil your own w ith the name hrmib. I tniiNt utrietly prohibit any such famil inritiea in the future. first Sicam War Ship, It in getiprnlly known that tho'flnit ntenm-driven vphhcI to croaa the Atlan tic wat Imilt in Canada. Tbe infnr. luation i not no general, however, that thin name rrnft wan HiiliHcipiently con verted into a rruiwr, ami wan tbe flrnt stemiiHhip t-UKuged in actual war. Tho fuets in tbe man are quoted by the Toronto Xews from "Johnnon's Alphabet of First Things in Canada." Tho ahip wan the Hoynl William. Hhe wan built at the Cove, Quebec, in the winter of lH:in-3 J , ami during tbe nea non of 18:12-38 plied between Qnnbco and Halifax. In tbe latter nea Hon Hhe wn sent to London, ami wan there cbarterod by the Portu guese government to tninnirt troops intended for tho Into Dom Podro to Brazil. Ileturuing to London, she was sold to the Hpaninh government, by the lutter couverted into a cruiser, and employed against Don Carlos in the civil war of 1830, thus being the first steamer to ilro a hontile shot. There is still another ourious fact that may have been overlooked that troops withdrawn from Canada, npon the clone of tbe American wsr of 1812-13, for the purpose of joining tbe army intended to crush Napoleon after bin return from Elba, wero trans ported down tbe Ht. Lawrence by a Canadian steamer. This was probably tho first ocroeion on which a sWm vessel was used for purposes of mil itary transport. Canada, therefore, not only furnished the world with the first steam vessel, but she almost cer tainly provided tho first steam troop ship as well. Curious EfT'cts of Colors. Cattls are excited by red heennsa that color is tbe complementary one to green, and a, tbe eyes of cattlo are uearly all duy long fixed upon the green of the herbage on which they feed, ar ticles of a red color necessarily impress their vision with greatly increased in tensity, with tho result of causing them to be greutly excited. Colors not only influeucu cattle, but human beings also On this point some curious experi ments were reported from Ituly as to tbe effect of colors on the nerves of the sick and iusune. In the hospital for insane at Alessandria, spcciul rooms tru nrruuged with red or blue glass in the windows, aud also . red or blue paint on the walls. A violent patituit is brought suddenly into a blue room and left to tbe effects of thnt color on his nerves. One niuuiuo was cured in an hour ; another wss at pence in his mind after puMaitig a day iu a room all violet. The red room is used i-jt tbe commonest form of dementia (nicltn choliu), usually accompauietl by i re fusal to take food. .After three hours iu the red room a patient afflicted 14 this way legau to 1 cheerful and, aak lo; food. Chicstfo Herald'
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