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SUMMER DROUGHT.
Wlii'ii winter eume the taint was lean anil h ti
There loll no snow, and oft from wild am
field
In him sti f’lmenesti eanio the drooping deer.
And 1 eke I the waste hImhiI the troughs con*
qvaied.
J %d though lit spring we plowed iind proffered
sod,
*„* lav ungeiTiiol. a pillage for the birds;
A uni » on • low darn, in urgent need,
V/e dally drove the suppliant lowing herda
JBi t now the fields to barr waste* h tve run.
Yhe d un a pool of ooifng greenery I .os, ,
Where knotaof gnats hang riHdtug in fhesuo
T/il t arly dusk, when tilt th • dragon-Hies.
JU! night the craw-fish deeper digs h r w Its,
As kIi »wk the day that ireBhl/ eurlM them
round;
Av f many a random unheaved tunnel tells
NViiere ran tne m »lc acr.ms the fallow-
1 on ml.
Hut li, the flton -dumb dullnoia of the dawn.
"‘bon f ’eu the eooks too hat.ess are t » crow,
.An lies the w rid as from all life w thdruwn,
i on o I.ng and outworn and swooning iowt
Ybi •is no dew on any greenness shed.
'J fie b ud-biked earth is split along the
Th<* w Iks,
\ cry bin’s in stuCited clumps are dead.
An* not leu I hvos drop wf bored from the
isilcs.
\• t "ii* ih<‘ 11 k n, hh lh" heaven tnma,
Th <Tnfl 11,1 sitill(•» win, niierriuif » in
The-1 lit ><i l tmeli o< all tilings blln.la and
i.uriia,
And li r X lint liilla .rain shimmering inlc
Maine!
On <d:h' r side (lie shiasdeep dnsicd lane
Tho uiQMircr ivia|>a of lennel senreh tq wire.
Plow Jn>!H tlie lemi dial drains an empty wain.
An 1, ore kins dry, a wheel t una nlr i!» tlrj
Kn Meek ii|mn the naked pasture f eed.,
ei II he-oin '• “ Hole While" wlilatlei \ l'rnm
l lie 1 once;
Ji tfiMi rum iraokMntf thnnepi the lirlttie
we 'ds,
And Me il anil alienee seem the more in'enwf
On < ii sprcad wind’s a hawk, far ii.daed on
(Jni' iitfh,
k swnnjiiii r aoreams, and Iben is hear I
no m we;
The sirtdenl shr.lllinrof a looiiat n'lf’i
tin "‘Its lortb. anil (litsi in alienee as hef.irt.
K.i liinH'ent cloud o'erakima wilh flakes of
shade
The I nnlseape lia jeil in dizzy ff'eann of
li. at;
A d v 'a wlinr irlftieca like a ptrried b ado,
An 1 wealern walla the beam* in toir wita
l> ail.
6 <> bm III Ilk, lew and .ower atill the son.
In fierce while fervor, alivli 1 anon from
HiU tit,
And so tho dread, d'spairltne day 1* ..on x
And dumbly hr.axisauiln tlie haifaar I niiflil!
— J. I’, heir, in cm urn Mifjiizme.
First Snow in Melbourne, Aimlrall.i.
On Wednesday, July 26. a spectacle
of a decide lly novel and, as far its is
Ollleia.ly observed lumwii, vmpieecdeutetl citizens clntrae- of Mel¬
fcer was by the
bourne and suburbs vix: a genuine
fluow-lall. It is true that, a number of
colonists aver that snow fell on more
than one occasion in Melbourne during
tlie 1 rsl decade of Victorian history, but
our meteorological records are silent on
tin- point; and Mr. Ellery, the Govern¬
ment Astronomer, whose recollection
extends hack to 1HJ1, declares that tho
*iinw-fnll was the firs! 111 his Victorian
experience. Altogether, Wednesday, exceptional
July 26, 1882, was a most
dav ill several respects. Its average
temperature was the lowest on record,
the thermometer never having risen
above foriy degrees, while for the
greater pari o the day it was as low as
ture thirty Ilian 11 tie tho degree latter . ha A been lower registered tempera¬
.
at th" Ob orvalory. but only for :• very
brief The period. oeiiliarily about the day
) con¬
sisted in tlie ailed uniformly Australia. low temperature It had been
that pre in
raining sightly cdiiesday during morning the previou; opened
Bight, and V.
■With e\ idem signs of a continuance of
similar wen! her. But few in Melbourne
were prepared for what took place
shortly alter eight o’clock, when min¬
gled snow and rain commenced to de¬
scend. ret i\ ing old-world memories, and
Occasioning general /.iHtraltnii.''the expressOns of sur¬ (
prise. To ji.ting spec¬
tacle of falling snow-flakes tilling the
air iva-i in.lee I a new experience, and
the\ wort 1 enabled to compare the ac¬
tual reality ivi h the loueept-on formed
S.'. bv reading the description - the of -sinii ar
nes on the other sale of <* nntor.
At about lull -past c gh! a hoav.e
fall of snow was observe I, the l akes
!><• -,g h eker. and ... -o - e | levs ten.-
2 jioranli while., ng a pre!tv huge area.
1 ": 11111 l! V U '; 1 ;,I "U i,al1 al l, .° ,ir
during wh eh t me :.rg<‘ mm.t.eis of f
pe .pie m al, arso. the e.ty and sub
V wat died the unusual s gl.t will.
keen and evident .nter.-t lheiaH was
b > rr- "' V rv
of the \ icto .an t aj.dal. a , tout . I extended j
p\e- tic i:t, the and who nls-> e Southern embraced port tho ;on elexat ot Alts- d |
where |
d snow” siriets of Ill iepoite.1 s colony, Mount “heavy Vie
was from
ti> ia, Cnreoar, Wahdia, Bendameer,
Orange, h nn dale and Kiandra. A, the
last-mentioned township, which is situ
ated near the head waters of the Snowy
liter, the gtonml was eovereil with
tw city iiadu-sof -now.
iu Vieto; a the snow-fall at Mount
Id section was eon! nuous, and Mount
. Buninvong capped with three feet this el- of
Bln>.v. the root-of the houses in
ex ated liKinliti he ng likewise covered.
lee three in lies thick was also reported
from Mount IStminvong. 'l’he fall at
l.nneefield lasted for two hours, and at
Beaufort the ground was covered to a
de, th of more than two inches. The
mountain* surrounding mantle, Ararat ami were
v n]> 1 iul in a lvtv\ at
guiMhcsilale snow balling was the pop
lar minis, ment during the Mount greater C ole por
ion of the day. On two
fee of snow was lying, and the saw
mills were compelled to suspend work
iu onseqnenee. The ranges m tho
neighborli-oil of Talbot ami Stawell were
likexv se snow clad during a part of tlie
<fav. —J/r.T " ■-.< -I
—Tbe provisions oi the Indian penal
code in regard to the right of private
defense art» particularly sensible. Under
tion of one’s own or another’s body and
of one's owu or anotln r's property. Tt
does not exist, however. " eti there is
time to have recourse to the f >r teetiou
of public authorities. More harm mud
not be caused in its exercise than is neo
essary for the purposes of defense. It
commences ami eu- s with the apprehen
eion <>t danger. Death maj also be
caused iu exercise of the right of robbery, private
defense of property iu ease ,.f
Ijous hr, building,''etc. aking bv night, mischief bv
lire m a then aud of theft and
house trespass, fear of death is in
▼olve-l. .Y. }‘. Gi-aphic.
_ \ man and wife in St.
■craadchildren.
A First Earthquake Experience.
“ Ms xico, July 19.—This has been a
day to be remembered. This morning
we .nvited the Q--’s to come up to tea
to n ; ghf. After school we sallied forth
to buy clnms for a clam-chowder, cake,
and various things. We were walking
le iskly along Stri Francisco street in the
it whirling—cound 01 sun, when I felt myself suddenly
not see. I called out
frightened, ‘Why, Miss L-. I'm
dizzy!' ‘So am I!’ she responded, and
then [think for a moment I lost my
serrees, for I had a wild idea that I must
got «. mowhere under shelter. As I -aw
oeop.e all aiound dropping on theii
knees, [ did not want to be the one con
spioi.ous personage on the street who
would not kneel to the archbishop or the
holy sacrament. V\ hatever I thpught,
I staggered into a shoe store, and just as
I got inside it struck me that an earth
quake was in session. Tbev were re
pairing something vaguely or other in the
store, and I felt through my
dr/zme s that I must get out from under
the sea folding, and l somehow found
myieif in the street, standing building. on the
corner and clinging to a
‘‘By that time I had recovered iny
senses, and could philosophize on the
subject. It was very interesting to watch
the people. They poured out of the
stores into the streets, and very generally
knelt. I took in the height of the build
ings around, and concluded th it should
they fall into the narrow streets one
might as well be in one spot shade. as in It an
other, so stared in the was
very quiet—not a word spoken any
where. I don't suppose it lasted three
minute*, but At was the queerest sensa
tion imaginable. For the moment that
I did not know wlmt it was [ was dread
curred fully frightened, hut the moment, only earth- it oe
to me that it was an
quake, I was as composed as if I had
taken earthquakes for a daily exercise
all my life. 1 was quite seasick seasick fora
little while, and never was at
sea. I am actually so hardly dizzy now, write. at 10
o’clock, that 1 can ceased As
soon as the undulating I set dis- out
to find Miss L-, who had totally
appeared. I looked into all the stores
in the immediate vicinity, and as she
did not appear 1 concluded she must
have gone to the common fort, two
blocks so I started after her,
smiling broadly all At the the
all been so strange. next corner
1 came upon Mr. II——. I asked him
if he had seen Miss L. ‘No.’ So he
turned with me, and together been we
smirched for her. Mr. H- has
lierc three or four years, but this was
his first experience of a serious earth
quake. It was really an unusually heavy
shock. Wo went back to my corner
and turned down the found Profesa; only a
few steps down and we Miss L-—
leaning against a window. She had
seen me plunge wildly into the shoe
store, and thinking that we had walked
into some poisonous gas, turned and fled,
She staggered along a little distance un
til she reached a drug-store, went in and
sank into a chair, all the time thinking
it was poisonous gas that had affected
her. Some and told gentleman her what brought her the
water, was
trouble, but she had never Heard tho
word in Spanish and did not eornpre
hen, ; never knew it was an earthquake
till she saw us, and we asked her how
r.................«“)•'! ing coach, as Miss L - said she ;>p-; could
not walk, and started badly for the frightened bakery,
but the horse was so
we dismissed the carriage and quietly
wended our way home Of course our
girls had a tale. I hey hadl been tern
bly fi iglifeiied, and, aithough Mexicans,
none of them had ever been through an
earthquake, and we were told, most
dnunatically, how the clianxs slut aiouiitt
and the walls pranced, ftlis. (>. sa\ s
the beams cracked quite loudly, and the
ron railing 111 the corridor shook.
Cor. Rochester De mocrat.
Cash After .uurriage,
Ope frequent cause of trouble in mar
ri e«l file is a want of openness ,n fins,
ll0 ss matters A hnsnand marr.es a
|(lv Uy. thoughtless g.rl, woo has been
, I1W ) taking no more thought as to
l |u " ^he should be clot lied than the hi
ios in ,he- held. He begins by not hk
ing to refuse any of her roques s Ho I
w j|l „o: hint, so long a- he can help it. j
m trilling expenses he ,loes :
" ot 1 1° “sxociafe Imu-elt n l er
m ind with disappomments ami sel do
„j a j s And she, who wo aid have been
.
willing enough, in tho sweet eagerness
to please of her girlish love, to give wliat- up
, v „y whims or fancies of her own
evt-r. falls into habits <> careless ex
travagaucc and feels herself injured
hm., much a t last, wiser a remonstrance d have been comes, ] j
How won “Wo per
toet optmne-s in the t.eg lining! spend
hate .ust so much money to this
summer. Now. shad tve arrange mat
ter-thus or thus " was the Question 1
heard avert" young husband as his
still \mincer bride not long ago, and
a |l the womanhood in her answ ered to
(bis denial.d upon il, and her help at
|.|annine and counsel ng though proved hitherto not. a
Innwto be despised, the and lain
she had “fed upon roses, f
among the lilies o life. am speak
ing not of marriages that are no mar
liases where \ onus his we.de 1
mu because \ uleau prospered at Ins
forge but man ages where two true
hearts have set out together, for love s
sake, to learn the lessons ofliie. and to
Uve together tdl death shall part them,
And one of the first lessons for them to
learn is to tru-t each other entirely,
Pbe nn st frivolous grirl of all “Jherose
bud garden of girls, if she tndy
acquires something u’load\ o wo a a ■
*r*>m her love, anu o p » » i
help ami make her snui
p»a. r., her. ami
" 11 ----——
Keeping Still in Church.
lad visiting at- Liver _ Pat . k , w
A - nmv
the mother ot seven small children, all
of whom are exceptionally old bright. showed One
of these, a four year boy,
great reluctance to attend church ama
was constantly in disgrace when there.
llis mother tried even means to n<luee
him to sit still in vain, until at las; tne
! lift e fellow said:
“Mamnm. there s just one way you
( keep stiHm church?
can me
■ What is thaU" asKed h;s mamma.
eagerly. . >
What Ur. Siemens Expects from the
Gas Engine.
In his recent inaugural address as
President of the British Association, Dr.
c. VV. Siemens suggested when that the time
‘ might not be far distant the gas
, engine would displace on board our
ships “the somewhat complicated and
dangerous steam boiler” engine now in use. the
The advent of such an and of
iiynamo-machine.hedeclared, must mark
a new era of material progress at, least
equal to that produced by the introduc
tion of steam nower in the early part of
‘ ‘
] ie century.
The "reat advantage of the cas engine ”\c
j_ s believed to be its savin<r "be of fuel
cordin(r ' to Dr. Siemens, best steam
ine vet constructed does not yield in
mechanical effect more than one-sevent h
t o( tho heal eiHJrjty aiding in the
f|iel oonsume d, whereas the factor of
efficiency of the <ras engine i< one
(|Uart er. If, therefore, it shall be adapt
,. (| U) ve „ e !s, the gas engine, being of
tiic wei( , ht c f ,he present steam
ei( ;,, e and boilers and working with
„„i v ;ll) out half the present expenditure
of flje | wi || a ,| mit of an addition of
thirl ptJ| . cen , t) „. cargo of “an
.v»la.ntic calied propeller vessel—no longer to
be a steamer ” That improve
ment accomplished, the balance of ad
vailtfl siilfie „ e ., in favor of such Vessels wou’d
be sailing eof, ashusiys to restric* the
„ se of craft chiefly to the regattas ”
0 f sportsmen.
As it is now, 'ocean, steam U rapidly driving
sa j| s f rom the just as iron and
st(>e | , jro 8U p e rseiline- -7i wood for ship
construction Om the, 780 vessels
building "Kingdom or preparing to tie built, in the
United on the 30th of June
ij.oo’were | as t, only 130 were s tiling craft, while
steam 'hips; and of this whole
Iium ber only 19 sailing vessels and six
stoam vessels were of wood, while steel
or homoo-eneous iron, which is destined
to become the great material for ship
building was used for 89 steam and 11
sa j|jn<r vessels.
The "re it advances hitnerto made in
st/0alu vessels have been in the direction
Q f S avin»" fuel, in lighter machinery, in
the substitution oAbe screw for side
wheels, »ad* and in the use of iron and steel
i ns t ( of wood for the construction. A
wooden snip could not be built to per
form like the Alaska or the Arizona,
Whereas in the days of the old Collins
fine the steam pressure* was expanded onlv only twice,
a nd the carried was 18
[welve pounds the expansion now is ten or
times, and the pressure is 90 to
jqq 1 pounda The old Cnnarder.s, the
Asi Afr i C a, and Canada, carried a
pressure 1 of ten pounds merely.
The consequence ha been the enor
mou9 increase in the size of the ocean
8tea ifters and the great advance in their
<£ d i n April, 1838, the Sirius first
08sed the Atlantic in seventeen days
fr()m Liverpoo i an d fifteen days from
Queenstown. She was of 700 tons and
320 horse power. The Servia, built in
1881 has extreme length of 530 feet,
ftnd a disp | acemenl o{ 13 ,000 tons. The
city / of Rome ’ built in the same year is
G )1 feot lon „ an <i has a displacement of
1:;600 tons The Alaska, which is 500
f(! et long, 7’ an.l of 12,000 tons displace
mpnt ,;J„ donp .list inop between
Q ,/ U(!( wn and New York in 7 days, 4
ou and y, mimi tes, and the return
,, ...ra -19 15 £ST» tmnrs n SST. mem
0 r more than double that of the first
stea m vessel which crossed the Atlantic,
Undoubtedly if the gas engine shall
b(J able t0 do what 1)r> siemens antici
Uother t it wU1 „ ive ocean navigation
and a strong compared impulse. with Its the far
greater engine lightness and as boilers, and its lesser
.steam
consumption of coal to produce the same
e ff ec t, will admit of a much larger ear
g (>t an d greater speed may be obtained
without too much sacrifice of the cargo
cap leity of tho vessel.—-V. Y. Sun.
^ Rcivpor'i llomance.
, , - eeln( , t( , rv liea nol f ar f rom
. ...... . in till ; sweep made by
, s;lv ^t where it J joins Tonro. In
- i ., ewis h familios
t lwe V( .
lIul as w „ st o„d beneath the
sprea.l l.ong.ellow’s protecting arms written <>\ er
,v raV es. poem,
aIll ,p a Vl s.t to th s eerueterv, “ came most
.. . ; 0ne vor e os p,. oia U Vt
as Wl ,' ll)()kt . ( , at . , he neatly kept lloweV
fui ., , ( , soft and w ,,|i for.
, t , t hlo „ mt , d ahoV( . 1h( , t |ead,
, p>.
came _ 00 m
Gone a e lh • living, but th ilonfl remain
An I nut neglected, !nr « hand unseen,
So 'tiering it, bounty like summer rain,
Soil ke >i’s their graves and memory
MX'‘ n•"
In the ine.outre are two grates so
near each other that you stand In one
\ our shadow- fall.; upon the other; with
in them sleep two lovers, separated death. dur
ing file, but united long since by
Judah louroand and 1 aiiierine the Jews Hays it were is
cousin-, among a
crime for those so near o k 11 to niarry.
'J rue to the religion and trad tions of
the r race, they separated lived never be old to meet
again, although of the\ married, to content peo
pile Neither them
with the memory of their love and tlie
hearing [a,?
mmunlti tnds. i ht \ both died 11 Jan
‘ ^ :
y-ars o, agt and ( - f i w "*' ® nt t >
smen ut ere<. lll : m '" m ;U . h ,, ; 1 >' itl,r »^ ‘m^Vdea'h ' ’.
etdl, d h mi he ta k d i. ra y .)
beaut 1 1 ul g. .len w Jh Ca l ermi 1 ajM,
ns nr-t ami on ovt. ' ,1 j 11 ' ‘ '
ltd let d sapponitnient .
however, not ern
^nrovlded jutter'htsride ^.tor fund ieft thl by
•'' to keen
J, \ * > . j. ^ to [ d ,>f him
/ j V* ..hurches in New Orleans
‘ axis
* 1 , - en eontributinsr tow
-• On his monument the following inme!
w ' ids are rail- “The last of his
, ; ‘ n _ n bcd it in the book of philan
« J . , remem bered forever.”—
- </ _—1-1--— , . , ProvilenceJournal,
When I look at the moon ln the
f^, „ gajd p er f ume< j Adolphus to a
j a er > s dau-rhter, and was about to
ddat ^ U i»vn tlTat luminary which is the
, sP>c ^ j n trade of all lovers the world
i X-,,- she nuieilv ‘ LJ asked: “Well, sir, did
“snot to ^ at it when it
W ^ n ®^ in n the 'and skv?” lie turned away
h h she went into the kiteh
en and vTas soon elbow deep in dough.
1 Tlie Sultan’s Title.
| The idea of a united Islam under the
; rule of a single Caliph being a funda
! mental conception of the Mussulman
i reli<rion, is as old as that religion itself,
! an <fwas, during more than a century,
I practically realized. Under the early
Caliphs Islam was not merely an ab¬
gtract religious system but community, a highly Gr¬
: canized social and political of government
: with a monarchical form unlim
' which rapidly developed into world an
i ited despotism. The known was
j divided and into the Daru two T parts, Harb—the the Daru land T Is- of
j lam infidel—
. the faithful and the land of the
and throughout the whole extent of the
former the Caliph exercised uncontrolled
temporal and spiritual authority. Such
was the caliphate of the Ommayades, the
with Damacus as its capital. \V ith
fall of that dynasty, about 120 years after
the death of the prophet, the end. political When
unity of Islam came to an
the Abbassides seized the supreme pow
er and removed the seat of govem
ment to Bagdad, the Moors of Spain,
refusing to recognize the usurpation,
elected a Caliph of their own from
among the survivors of the dethroned
dynasty, and at a later period a third
independent caliphate was formed in
Egypt by the so-called Fatimite dynasty, split
Thus the Mussulman world was
into three parts, and since that moment
it has never been politically reunited,
The Western and Egyptian and caliphates finally
passed through many crises
perished, but the Eastern Caliphs could
not profit by the weakness and disasters
of their rivals. They were in fact no
longer Caliphs in the old sense of the
term. Ambitious insubordinate provincial Tartar govern- chief
ments and
tains had created for themselves and
their descendants semi-independent central
sovereignties, and the little
authority that remained was wield
ed ' of Praetorians,
bv a band or
by a Vizier resembling the Mayor of the
palace in the Frankish monarchy. Caliphs As
successors of the prophet, the veneration,
continued to enjoy popular
and their names were regularly recited
every Friday in the mosques; but they
had lost all real power, and their chief
successful political functions usurpation consisted by performing in legalizing the
ceremony of investiture for those who
had made themselves practically inde
pendent rulers. The caliphate had be
come, in fact, a loose confederation of
practically independent States under
the nominal sovereignty of a spiritual
head, and might be compared in some
respects to mediajval Christendom un
der the spiritual sovereignty of the
Pope. In this ethercalized form it has I
continued to survive to the present
day. Extinguished in Bagdad by the j
great Tartar invasion of the thirteenth I
century it was revived immediately
afterward in Egypt, A mysterious in
dividual, professing to be an Abbasside ,
who had escaped the massacre of his j
fa, » nd \ nl declared 7 , in Bagdad, himself appeared to be the in legiti- Cairo ;
representative of the venerated ,
dynasty. I he Mameluke the advantages Sultan of of hav- the 1 |
time - perceiving Caliph of his caused the
mg a own j
stranger thus to be recognized by the Ulema,
and began W a new series ot puppet
P, h «- cal themselves Abbassides,
which lasted for more than two cento- ,
ries and a halt (12o0-lol7). When
1;>17, the . ultan . dun m.i e the puppet
tim f th ® 0tt ® m an Sul ,V ln! ever ' -KvSfn who have no
, .
t S £1w Ph '“
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_
. ” .. p„„]t .,11 Ocean ‘ Cable *
— _
The work of locating a break or flaw
in the cable—a process tlie seemingly improved so ab
stni.-e -is with present
inst. umen's, comparatively technicalities, quick and
sy. Discarding whole electric we may
say briefly that the when fully -charged po
tency of tlie cable
is known, and the same can be quickly
ascertained of the two parts created by
a break. A fractions delicate machine discloses adjusted elec
to the nicest the
trie units or “ohms” in each part, and
as the number of ohms to the mile is
known, tlie miles and fractions of miles
in both parts can be found out at each
end of tli ■ cable. In the ease of a clean
break the locating of it takes about fifteen
ni nnies. But a very angular break, or
a flaw, makc-i perturbations of the
measurement which it now and then
takes si me hours to rectify. The usual
cause of breaks or flaws is attrition on
rocks or -and; and sometimes a break
in very deep eonside water 'ab’e ind cates that prevail sea
currents of torce
there, contrary to the generally ac
eepted theory that Most deep-sea waters are
always \ lacid. of the fractures,
however, take place iu shallows, and
many of them are due 10 the dragging
anchors of the fisher eraft. in two or
three instances the cables have evident¬
ly been snapped by Eccnini/ enraged Post. or hungry
fish. — ’ or. A.
Boston (’tilture.
The vapidity with which a crowd can
be gathered on a public thoroughfare
Wit s demonstrated on Tuesday afternoon,
A couple of voung women timementiou- were passing
t b e Revere House at the
ed, both dressed in the height of fash¬
km. one of them being arrayed in a
terra-cotta suit, which set off her well
devtl d form to best advantage,
Upon arriving at tbe mnin entrance to
h ouso they espied a boot
black with the implements of his call
™g, whereupon the young female m
terra-cotta habiliment* stopped, drew up
her skirts partially, and placed a very
shape!v foot on the “shiner s ’ box The
I -V. * <W ».«t -M.' —
proceeded at once to black up mid ikmisU
1 the No. 3 pedal extremity, but * r >;e
j had finished one boot a crowd -f full.'
900 persons, principally the males, operation was with cqu
vened and wutehmg
tmist iuteuse interest. Tne first boot
( finished, the other was subjected which to the tlie
same pr.Kiess, at the close of
| young and, with woman her handed companion, the quietly boy a dime,
pro
. ceeded on her way.— Eo*tor Star.
-Uream —---: fntte.-s. tt have
enough you com
^areh podding still to cut m
©lures, dip them m cracker dust and
’ al " ! tr> ’hem. raxing them on
Nativities of the Population of the
United States in 1S80.
The following statement shows the
■in ruber of persons residing in the United
sta,'es in 1880 who were born in the sev¬
eral States and Territories included
therein, classified as white and colored:
White. Colored.
Tin? t'nired S ate».43,475.S40 36,843,291 6,632,549
States— 1,319,185 70S ,904 in 0.2HS
Alabarn .......... 520,710 SSi.lSl 137.1 IS
A ’. kail ............ 335.157 334,391 20.76*:
California....... 31,827 31,115 712
i olovado........ 538,832 529,899 8,033
U nmeeticut..... 155,517 125,072 30,443
I) ‘la ware........ 194,548 98,853 *>,8651
r.oridu.......... 1,719,0.18 9:33,081 7.30,007
tie ilinmis.......... >rgia......... 2,263.40 I 2,241,321 22,088
f 1.798,490 1,778,316 20,174
Encli ana......... 9.4,605 950,296 4,39S
Iowa............. 27a,.151 267,016 12.135
Kansas.......... 1.856.310 1,527,305 329,005
Kentucky....... 817,492 399,988 417.501
Kouisiana....... 745,272 743,027 2.245
Maine........... 958.141 714,610 243,531
Maryland....... 12556,295 1,344,310 11 ,ass
U Hssaetui.se rts .. 15,-233
Michigan........ ■920,664 905,428 3.011
Minnesota...... 341.75# 338,7X1
Mississippi..... 1,056,99.3 473,253 583,710
Missouri......... 1,567,281 1,429,576 137,70: ’<3*2
Nebraska....... 113.478 112,8:36 3,©IS
Nevada...... 18,256 15,208 670
New II impahire 371,262 370,592
New Jersey..... 906 005 873,801 32,204
New Vork....... 4,753,547 4,Till,016 52,531
North Carolina. 1,6:38,058 1.028,756 609,302
Ohio............. 3,302,656 32251,137 51,21!)
Oregon.... 81,603 79,520 2,088
Pennsylvania... 4,184,130 4,118,927 64,253
IIbode Island... 201,722 197,830 3.892
South Carolina. 1.183.311 M0,9t4 682,317
Tennessee...... 1,787,501 1,367,758 419,751
Texas............ 915,020 623.787 291,333
Vei mont......... 430,041 428,688 1,353
V rgiira......... . 2,118,460 1,273,856 844,604
a>st Virginia... . 440,213 421,361 18,852
Wisconsin.. . 893,94,5 886,306 7,639
Territories — 51 50 1
Alaska........... 5,428 3,661
xn/.ona......... 9,089 19,251 1,389
Dakota.......... 20,640
District of Colum¬ 29,778
bia................ 102,424 72,650
Idaho............. 7,753 7..544 30! I
Indian Territory.. 4,410 3,035 1,375
Montana........... 8,6.37 7,263 1,424
New Mexico........ 113,788 104,131 9,657
Utah............... 92,130 91,181 949
Washington....... 22,425 18,14.3 4,2-82
Wyoming..... 4,091 3,819 272
At sea under Unit¬
ed States flag.... 291 224 67
The following statement shows the
number of persons residing in the United
States in 1880 who were born in foreign
countries:
Born in— I (Great Born in— Britain
All foreign .6.679,9481 (notsp'cifi'cl) 1,484
countries ... Greece.......... 776
~—
\f r ica.......... 2,204 Greenland....... 129
\sia............ j ,*>4 'Hoi land. .. .58,090
•vtlaatieIsl’nds 7,512 Hungary....... 11,526
Australia....... 4,906 India........... 1,707
Austria......... 38,663 Italy............ 41,230
Belgium........ 15,535 Japan.......... 401
Bohemia....... 85,361 1 Luxemburg.... 12,836
British Ameri- 717,08i(Mexico......... (Malta; ......... 6S,399
ea..... ...... (.Norway........ 181,729
Central Ameri¬
ca............ 707 Pacific Islands. 806
China......... 184,541 Poland......... 48,557
i hiba........... 6,917 Portugal....... 35,722 8,1:38
Denmarlv...... 64,196 Russia..........
Iv.irop - (not Sandwich Is
specified).... 3,314 lands......... 1,117
France ....... . 103,97l[8outli (Spain........... America 4,566
German Em¬ 5,121
pire. ... ,1,996,742 Sweden........ 194,337
Gibraltar 167 Sivitzerland. 88,621
En-rland. . 662,676 Turkey......... Indies.... 1,205
Iivl ind . .1,854,571 West 9,484
Scotland. . 170,136 Ar sea under
Wales.... 83,302 foreign flags. 4,003
RECAPITULATION.
.Native white... ,36,847,291
Native colored .. 6,632,549
nntive ......43,475.84(1
foreign....... ...... 0,679,94.3
Aggregate population...... .....50,135,783
Spelling “Reform.”
£ 1 fP® f ; *
an ua(re a beaut If ul
a Sell"iTo™
a . )parent jy awkward assemblages of
now silent consonants, in many of our
phonetically J. useless double letters, we
e( . 0 ,, ni/e the delicate liostf thre ads bv which
we can trace of words back to
their origin; our spelling is. in itself, a
practical and living treati-e on etymolo
g.V- To know the meaning of a word
thoroughly, one must know its deriva
tion, its past history. Now, which is
the better—a spelling which blockhead, can easily
be mastered by the veriest
or one which epitomizes, as it were, the
whole meaning of a word, its tongues? history,
its su tie affinities with parent
Onr spelling is difficult, you say; well,
what of that 3 Most good words things they are.
We no longer The pronounce shame as ns!
are spelled’ real more and grievous to
Here lies tho most
fault in our language. We spell right
enough for the most part, but we pro
nounee badly. The English-speaking bedevil
race has done its utmost to its
.own language by slip-shod ourspoken habits of
pronunciation. But, because
tongue has unworthily drifted away
fr un its honorable beginning, shall our
written language follow it, cut loose
from its fellowship with the and other modern groat
languages of antiquity the last
times, and so throw away trace
of its paternity? The man who first
stopped pronouncing the gh in daughter,
and began to sound the same couple of
consonants in laughter as if they were a
single did a most slovenly, lazy and
• utterly contemptible incomprehensible, thing, tlie
; It is wholly to
present writer, at least, how people can
point with admiration at such infantile
barbarisms as the Italian flosofia, fan
tasma, and the like. Such and spelling is
spelling for ignoramuses baby-talk. commer¬
cial travelers: it is written
So far from phonetic spelling is of down- this
sort being a “reform,” it a
sliding into the vulgarest and cheapest
mediocrity. A true “reform” would
be to reinstate wherever a worthily and etymological carelessness
spelling obliterated time the
lias it. To leave mean¬
ingless subtle and return to the expres¬
sive subtile: to put two ni’s into amount ,
so that its derivation trom ad and mons
shall stare readers in the face; to put
two f s into litera'nrc. as the French do.
so that one may be absolutely sure that
the word does ,wt come irom the past
participle of linere, to besmear. It may
j be said that siieh etymological spelling
1 \ s 0 f advantage only to cultivated neo
p e. who •• live Lta,, •e.Uireek." «
th- phase goes. Admitted! B.ut, in
Heaven s name, who are to govern
language—the educated or the vulgar?
Is a-pel ing which speaks volumes to
, the lv educate the i man. which is surpassing- assoeia
rich in most pregnant
ions, to be ousted by a system which
tells him nothing whatever, and the
only advantage of which isthat foreign
ers and stupid bumpkins can learn it in
one year instead of six? Is the moun
tain to go ” to Mohammed, or Mohammed
to cora to ?he moun tai n ?-fio.8te»
| Tra ^.. riui .
, hundred make
—A men aa encamp-
1 ’ ment and one woman makes a home.—
From the HUtdu.
HOME AND FARM.
—Stove 3 may be rabbing kept looking them .nicely thor¬
for some time by morning,
oughly with newspaper every
—Over 9,000 new farms were started
on Government lands in Minnesota and
Dakota during the year ended June 30,
1882 .—Chicago Journal.
—If you wish to clean your spice-mill,
you will find that by grinding this a handful
of raw rice through it can be ac¬
complished. coffee The will particles not adhere of spice to and it
pepper or
after this rice is ground through it.— N.
r. Post.
—Save labor by sowing than more grass
seed. Have more grass can be
eaten in summer, so that there will be
plenty in fall, winter, and spring. Have
grass at all times when there is no snow
to cover it. The cheapest beef and but¬
ter are made from feed gathered by the
cattle themselves. Scaroe corn has
taught many the value of grass for sum¬
mering hogs this season .—James Wilson.
—Professor Cook suggests as a prac¬
tical remedy for the grape-vine become hopper, dor¬
that, so soon as these pests
mant in winter the leaves under the
vines be raked up and burned. This is
best done on a cold day and before the
vines are laid down for the winter. The
theory is that the hoppers under can not the fal¬ re¬
sist dampness and collect
len leaves for protection .—Detroit Post.
—Cold Pie for Picnic: Boil a chicken
or rabbit and cut the flesh as thin as
possible. Then boil two ounces of mac¬
aroni, the same quantity of Parmesan
cheese, grated, a little finely-chopped
parsley, half a pint of cream, some pep¬
per and salt. Line a basin with a good
paste sprinkled with vermicelli, bake an
hour, and serve with or without a brown
sauce. Cold poultry or game may be
used instead of something purposely
cooked .—Boston Transcript.
—A foreign paper claims that a full
feed of hay concentrated to horses, food, following is the
feeding ful, of that it crowds waste¬ the
for the reason
first out of the stomach before proper
digestion has been accomplished. And
so, in order to secure best and results, hay
should be fed at first the concen¬
trated food afterward, which leaves it to
become fully digested, with no danger of the
of being crowded away or out
performance of its desired purpose.
—Canary seed is scarce—the last supply fif¬
in the United States will barely
teen months, and no more can be gath¬
ered for a year. Abroad, too, the sup¬
ply is scanty. England is shipping
canary Newcastle—and seed to Spain—sending Spain and Southern coals to
France are calling upon Smyrna and the
Levant. Switzerland, too, is short, and
Italy has no surplus. The owners of
canary birds should therefore be eco¬
nomical in feeding their pets .—Chtcagc
Times.
—A pretty and cheap work-basket
mav be made of a heavy pasteboard
box. Sew some stout cloth around it to
keep it firm and in place, then cover it
with any material that you have, silk,
velvet, or worsted goods, or better and
more serviceable, dark-eolored drilling.
This cover may be shirred, plaited be or of
pat on straight. The lining may
any bright color that will harmonize
with the outside. For a handle use a
piece of pasteboard one inch wide, sup¬
ported by an old hoop; cover this with
the material used for the outside and
sew it to each side of the box. Pockets
should be put in each end, and a little
box for buttons made stationary is very
convenient. There should also be a loo 5
for scissors, and a pin-cushion an
needle-book.— SI. Louis Globe.
An Infernal Machine.
A rather sad affair took place on oiib
of our streets her the other day. A bundles young
lady with arms full of
emerged from a dry-goods store, when
one of them fell on the sidewalk with¬
out her noticing it. Just behind her
was a young man, and a Belfast young
man who if not stepped polite is not anything,
and he quickly forward to pick
it up. Now a bundle done up in a piece
of paper with a dry goods advertise¬
ment on it is apparently and as there harmless it lay as
a mother’s spanking, as
guileless as an angleworm on a sidewalk
after a rain. Just as he stooped to pick
it u]i there was a rustling of of the the paper, ends,
the and twist began another to instant come out bright red
in a
thing, a sort of a cross between a
balloon and a devil-fish, flew !nto the
air before his eyes, and a mim er ten,
thirty-six-inch, double-jointed, eiVitic,
steel-bowed, bustle-attachment, dollar
and-a-balf, red-healed hoop-skirt.
waltzed around andgvra ed walk and opened flat
and shut up and fell on the as
and thin as a restaurant pie: and the
young man straightened himself up and
looked as if he wished the tail of
comet No. 2 would sweep him from
this fair land: and the young lady caine
back with a face that resembled a sun¬
set on a fifty-cent ehromo: and she
picked up the wire contrivance, and
then she went toward the east and lie
went toward the west, and the sun
ducked t head behind cloud hide
his a to
a smile, and three or four looked on,
laid down and laughed and doubled
themselves tip in a manner that would
have made a mess of green apples Journal. hang
their heads 5n shame. —Belfast
An Affecting Incident.
In the hand of Madame Aubert,
when her body was taken out from the
recent railroad wreck in the tunnel near
New York, was a note which she was
writing at the- time of the accident, as
follows:
“ My Dear Sister: received Many thanks n'ght. for
your kind letter last
Mother seems very much weakened,
but -lie is a little bit better this morn¬
ing. When we will get to the city—I
do not know, nor wliat is the matter.
Every few minutes we start, then back,
then we start again. It is all the more
annoying that 1 have lots of things to
attend to to-day. as we move in next
Saturday, 30th instant. If I possibly
can I will inn over to see yon to-day,
if not. on Monday We have come to
a dead stop again about One Hundredth
street. Hop uq to rea h New York to¬
day. all” with love to all my family, to
—
After writing the word “all” Miss
Aubert was killed.—-Y. Y. Tribune.