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NEWS OP THE WEEK. EAST. During the first seven months of the present year 78,853 immigrants were entered at New York, a falling oft of 105,559 compared with the corresponding period of 1873. The chief of police of Philadelphia has issued a proclamation stating that the police forego any claim to the whole or part of the twenty thousand dollars reward, offered by the Mayor for information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of the abductors of Charley Ross. The chief invites communications, otherwise from per sons who may have the needed information. A Washington dispatch gives as the reason why the secretary of the treasury lim ited the call for five-twenty bonds to twenty five millions, that not only the call of the first inst., but subsequent calls are likely to bring in well executed counterfeit 5-20 bonds known tohave been extensively sold in Europe, and it is proposed to subject 'all received to the closest scrutiny. WEST. Omaha roports 72 cars of Japan tea enroute east. St. Louis wants another big bridge down at Carondelet. Michael Reese, of San Francisco, sues the California Pacific road for seventeen million dollars. Gen. Howard has left Washington for Oregon to take command of the depart ment recently under Oen. Davis. The auditor of Illinois pronounces the Atlantic and Pacific insurance company bankrupt. Assets $200,000, liabilities $447,999. Ohio convicts must resume the zebra stripes discarded a few years ago. It was found difficult to capture those who escaped in plain clothes. The executive committee of the state grange has issued an address to the grangers of Wisconsin. It warns them that an attempt will be made in the next legislature to secure the repeal of the railroad law, and urges them to resist the effort. Adjutant-General Baker, of lowa, writes to commissioner Burdett of the general land office, representing there is great suffer ing among homestead settlers in the north western counties of the state, owing to the visitation of grasshoppers. The grasshoppers have literally de voured everything in northern and south western Kansas and Nebraska. The damage inflicted on vegetation is far greater than in 1869. Tne com crop through all this region is totally destroyed. A special from Seneca, Kansas says : During a heavy thunder storm fifteen miles west of this city, two men named John O. Huddleson and Edward Roscoe were killed by lightning. Mrs. Huddleson was severely burned. Five others in the wagon escaped unhurt. They had abandoned their homes on account of the grasshoppers. Informrtion from Fort Laromier says the Sioux Indians report that the Arapahoes and Cheyennes are getting ready for war. Many Sioux will go with them, should this be true. The military are very active, but the movements are as quiet as possible that the Indians may not be informed thereof through renegade whites and half-breeds. Reports from various portions of Minnesota, represent the wheat harvest nearly completed. The wheat lias been saved in good condition, and although the yield is not quite equal to that of last year, it is bet ter than expected. The quality is generally No. 1, in many portions of the grasshopper districts the yield of wheat is fair. Oats and barley are good. Com and potatoes promise excellently. Col. Stanton, just arrived at Laromie from the' agencies, reports that numbers of Indians are coming from the north, who say that Stabber, a prominent Indian in the dis turbances of last spring at the agencies, and several others, are killed by Custar’a men who are returning. There seems to be much feel ing in consequence among the Indians comiug in, and at the agencies. The Indians report the death of twenty-one Indians, wounded in the late fight. SOUTH. Atlanta ladies propose to organize a female industrial school. Elbert county, Ga., has produced about 35,000 bushels of wheat this year. The village of Montgomery, Ky., was almost entirely destroyed by fire last week. Loss, $27,000 ; very little insurance. A diamond rattlesnake was killed near Pilatka, Fla., recently. It was ten feet long and had eighteen rattles. The caterpillar has made its appear ance in several cotton fields Jof Levy and Alachua counties, Fla. Rust hasaleoappeared, and the prospects are not so good as they were two weeks ago. A fight occurred at a small village in dark county, Ky., on election day, in which two white man were killed and two negroes mortally wounded, and fifteen negroes were more or less severely wounded. Mob of whites and negroes hung a negro named Munro Divers at Warrenb irg, Mo., last week, charged with ravishing a white child six years old, belonging to a re spectable citizen of Warren burg. J. Newton Temple, United Stales dis trict attorney for the western district of Ar kansas, and John A. Minnie, attorney for the northern district of Alabama, have tendered their resignat ons, which have been accepted. The public library of Kentucky has j net purchased for $25,000 the splendid col lection of minerals and fossils of the late Prof. Troost, of Tennessee, probably the most extensive and valuable of the kind in t re country. The caterpillar is reported to have ap j eared in Barbour and Henry counties, Ala bama. and it is thought they will destroy the cotton by the 30th of August. There are simi lar reports from Dale county. The transfer and sale of the east Tsn nessee iron and coal company to A. L. Max well, John J. McKennon, Ed. M. Grant, and Messrs. Duncan, Sherman, & Cos., of New York city, for $480,000, was perfected a few days since. This transfer covers all the cap ital stock of the company, and also their min eral lands, etc. The superintendent of the New Or leans mint is making arrangements to recom mence operations, but owing to the smallness of the congressional appropriation they will for the present be confined to assaving only. No business has been performed at that mint since June 26, 1861, when the confederates took the property. Near Carlisle, Nicholas county, Ky., last week, one Hamilton, while attending the Methodist church, being offended at some king said, stood up on a bench, and flour shed a pistol. Thomas Shaw, one of the rustees succeeded in pacifying him, and coax ng him out of doors. When outside Shaw old him the penalty of the law for his offense, thereupon Hamilton shot Shaw through the leart The congregation came out, seized the nurderer and sent him to Carlisle, whence, rom fear of lynching, he was sent to Lex- Dgton. Madame Fortinmyre, a midwife, re ading at No. 1,817 Morgan street, St. Louis, ?as arrested last week. If, is stated she has radioed abortien several years ; that a num ier of infants have been cremated by her; nd that several highly respectable persons re involved in the matter. Mme. Fortin leyer made confession to the general effect iiat. she had been in the business two years, nd has produced several hundred abortions, nd implicates quite a number of highly re pectable people of the city. It bad been er custom to burn all pi emature births on THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS. he ground, as she expressed it, that ashes tell no tales. Col. Richard Ten Broeck, the well known horse owner, was shot at Gillman’s station, Ky., last week by Gen. Walter Whit taker, a lawyer. Whitakert had already killed two men and is regarded as a desperate char acter. It will be remembered that Ten Broeck took a number of American horses to Eng land some years since and matched them against English runners. Ten Broeck is not dangerously wounded. Whittaker fired four shots, the last shot hitting him in the center of the forehead, and forlunately glancing up wards, cutting through the skin and hair, but not fracturing the skull. Ten Broeck's es cape is regarded as very extraordinary. Whit taker had an examining trial, and was admit ted to $2,500 bail. His attack seems to have been unprovoked. FOREIGN. The order for the Biitish Mediterra ean squadron to proceed to the coast of Spain has been countermanded. The investigation into the assassina tion of Marshal Prim of Spain implicates fifty persons. The Pacific mail steamer, Gautemala, recently abandoned off the Bahamas, proves a total loss. Value of steamer $80,000; value of cargo unknown. There has been a terrible gale off the coast of Aberdeen, Scotland. Hundreds of fishing boats are over due, and it is feared many of them are lost. There is a rumor afloat that Germany is negotiating with Spain for the cession of the town of Santana, in the province Santan der, proposing to make it a second Gibraltar The trial of ten young men and women for issuing and circulating revolution ary proclamations, is proceeding before a spe cial session of the Russian s^iate. Bayonne advices state that the carlists have captured 6,000 breach-loading rifles, which were landed on the coast. It is also said that 5,000 other rifles, destined for the carlists, have fallen into the hands of the French police on the frontier. A London letter says there are ugly rumors buzzing about the military service clubs, to the effect that official news from Gold Coast is of such a character, that another expedition to Ashantee is more than probable. Prince Bismarck recently fought a duel with pistols at Dusseldorf, with M. Leark awau, an officer of the infantry. The encoun ter took place at 6 in the morning, ten paces separating the conbatants. Three shots were to have been fired by each, but the first shot of the German took effect in his adversary’s abdomen and soon afterwards proved fatal. During the discussion of the public worship regulation bill in the house of com mons, Disraeli referring to the strife between church and state on the continent expressed the conviction that however tranquil might be the general state of Europe, there were agen cies at work preparing a period of great dis turbance. A letter from Ireland says John Mitchell had a brilliant reception in the city of Cork. The whole town was aflame with ex citement. He was waited on by crowds of his old associates of 1818 and young disciples of his. At night the streets were alive with bands of music and bondfires, and there was a torchlight procession to his residence in which 5,000 people took part. A letter from Havana says that last week the town of Libonica, a village in Guay mora and another small place, with nearly 45,000 rations, were burned by the Spaniards, doubtless for.want of transportation and for fear of their falling into the hands of the Cubans. The villages of Caldran and Unas have been captured by the Cubans, and the plantation of Dannas, near Santa Clara, was sacked by them. The latest mail advices from Europe, in regard to the crop prospects there, are not so good as the last preceding report. Though the French wheat crop is a good average one, still the hopes that it might be classed among the rich crops will not be realized. Rye and barley will yield a good quality, hut rather lim ited quantity. Complaints about oats have in consequence of the heat became more intense from certain parts. From Vienna the official bulletins say the continued July heat has done harm only in a comparatively small part of the empire, but was pretty damaging to barley, oats, and feed. Rye and wheat looks well. Com also looks well. Tke excursionists accompanying Mr. C. W. Field to Icelaud, who go out to attend the millennial celebration, report the progress of the journey in the following words under date of July 26. We arrived at Thorsham. Faroe islands, yesterday afternoon, all in good health and spirits. The king of Denmark reached Tuorsham a few days before, and will sail for Iceland to-morrow afternoon. We shall leave to-morrow morning, as all wish to be in Iceland when the king airives. We are all delighted with what we have seen. This morning the church at Thorsham was full of people anxious to hear the sermon, and per haps to see the king of Denmark. Thorsham presents a gay and beautiful sight, every ves sel in the harbor and every house flying a Danish flag. Our steamers havo the American flag at the fore, Danish at the mizzen and English at the stem. MISCELLANEOUS. The redemption division of the treas ury department has now seventy clerks em ployed in the business of counting and assort ing the notes sent by the banks for redemp tion. In a few days, banks will regularly re ceive returns from their remittances to the treasury for redemption. Capt. Beall, just from Fort Worth, brings information that the Indians have cap tured two mail stages, one going and one coming between Fort Hill and Wichita. There were only three passengers, all of whim with the drivers, were killed and scalped. The secretary of the treasnry, the postmaster-general and the secretary of the interior have approved of the plans for the new postoffice and custom-house at Cincinnati, and have directed supervising architect Mul let to proceed with the work. The cost of the building is limited to $3,500,000. Capt. Jas. B. Eads, chief engineer of the Illinois and St. Louis bridge, has gone to Europe to thoroughly examine the jetties at the mouth of the Danube, Rhine aud other rivers having deltas ; also the different cana's on the continent, so that he may have addi tional and accurate information respecting their practical workings, to lay before congress next winter in favor of his plan for jetting the mouth of the Mississippi. The secretary of the treasury is pre paring a formal demand on the several Pacific railroads embraced in the act of last June, requiring the payment of five per cent, of the net earnings of the companies to the govern ment, imposed by act of July Ist, 1862. If the demand is not complied with within sixty days, the secretary will notify the attorney general, who will institute legal proceed ings against the roads for the delinquent taxes. The secretary of the treasury has no tified Inspector-General Smith, of the bureau of steamboat inspection service, that his res ignation would be accepted. The cause of this step was on account of expenditures for experiments of boilers, etc., at Sandy Hook, N. Y., and Pittsburg, Pa., the secretary hold ing that no good has been accomplished by such experiments, and besides, four other members of the board to examine into the causes of boiler explosions disagreed with Gen. Smith as to the manner of making these experiments. The appropriation for experi ments was over one hundred thousand dol lars, of which sixty thousand have been ex pended. It is observed that at the fashionable sea side resorts no ladies under one hundred and forty pounds avoirdupois are In bathing this season. AUGUST LILIKi. B olding a Illy in his hand For Death’s annunciation,” What time the white day lilies lift their faces Serenely splendid to the August sun, And crimson-streaked petunias overrun With lavish color all the garden-spaces ; When purpling grapes upon the trellis cluster, And bloomy plums drop ripely from their hold, And peaches t urn to globes of honeyed gold. And pears grow sleek with mellow gloss aud luster; When a translucent haze the sunshinefollows And veils the fervent sky in dreamy light, Involves in mist the luminous mountain-height, And fills with violet shade the mountain hollowB; When the still nights their dewy sweets surrender, When stars regede, and on her throne serene The full moon Bits a solitary queen, And floods the land and sea with silver splendor— Then comes again, in shadowy completeness, A face that faded once when lilies came ;j A face the whitest lilies could not shame For lack of any lovely grace or sweetness. Nine years ago, in silent desolation, I watched the fading of that perfect face Until I knew His presence in the place— The awful Angel of Annunciation. The August sun had set in all its glory, And when the pomp of clouds had trailed away, And gold and flames had melted into gray, I read the ending of love’s sweetest story The balmy night came dewy-soft and stilly, With light w nds trembling over beds of bloom ; Above the silence and the scented gloom I felt the waving of the mystic lily. And oh ! I saw, as one sees in a vision, Where, spell-bound, one may neither cry nor stir ; Its dreary shadow stealing over her, And darkening lips and eyes with slow precision. Nine years ago. But still the memory thrills me; And the wild Borrow and ths yearning pain Come back to wring my quickened soul again, And the same sense of desolation fills me, Whenever, through the summer darkness sighing, Some wandering wind has brought me suddenly The scent of lilies, as it came to mo That night in August when my love lay dying. Scribner's. JUST WHAT SHE DESERVED. BY EFSA MANSFIELD. “Do yon intend, Alice, to take that sachel and lunch-basket and 1 ird-cage and plant and water-proof cloak —Bo many things—along with you into your car seat ?” “ Yes, sir, I must.” “ Why must you, Alice ? It is not cold to-day, and there is no danger of its raining. You will not need your cloak, and you probably will not unstrap it. Can't yon put it into your trunk, or manage somehow to take fewer bundles into your seat with you ?” “No, Uncle John, I cannot. My trunk is crammed so full now that I fear the lock will burst.” “ Well, Alice, if yon must take so many packages with you, I waut to sug gest to you to be careful how you dis pose of them. Don’t attempt to occupy two seats when you have paid for only one, if someone else wants the other.” “ That will depend greatly, Uncle John, upon who it is that wants a scat with me,” replied Miss Alice, with a haughty toss of her head. “ I certainly shall not put my things under my feet nor' load my lap uncomfortably to accom modate some ordinary looking man or fussy old woman. One-half of the men nowadays would just as lief oblige a young lady to do it as not. They are not gallant at all; they ought to be ashamed of themselves. I have heard woman—good women they were, too— say that the seat beside them was en gaged, when they had got their things placed and didn’t wish to remove them, or because they didn’t like the looks of the person who wanted the seat, when I knew that they had no friend that was coming iu to take the place. I didn’t blame them at all, Uncle John. I shouldn’t hesitate to say the same my self under the same circumstances. It wouldn’t be telling an untruth. If all of these packages were on it, it would be taken, wouldn’t it ?” “ Pshaw ! pshaw ! Alice. Is that you advocating such stuff as that ?” exclaim ed her uncle, in surprise and indigna tion. “I, too, have seen women and girls, and occasionally a man, who acted upon that principle; bui. I had serious doubts of their goodness. I never dreamed before, Alice, that you were so selfish and unprincipled as to think of doing such a thing. If a man ought to feel ashamed to take a seat for which he has honestly paid, how ought a young lady to feel who would not scruple to practice gross deception for the sake of retaining, for her own convenience, a seat to which she has no claim what ever? If I were willing to do such a thing, my respect for myself would be about as little as it would be if I wished to steal from a passenger as much money as he had paid for his car-fare. It will be fully half au hour, Alice, before Mike gets here with the carriage. While we are waiting, I will tell you a little inci dent that transpired in the car when your Aunt Ruth and I went to Rich mond last fall. We had a seat at the rear end of the car. The first seat in front of us was occupied by a young lady—j ust about your age, Alice, j udg ing from her looks. She was richly dressed aud I think would be called a handsome girl; but there was some thing both in her look and manner that was not pleasing to me, even before I had heard her speak, or hardly seen her move. If any one had asked me what I disliked in her, it would have been difficult for me to tell; yet there was an intangible something about her which gave me the impression that she had no idea that the golden rule— * Whatsoever ye would that others should do to you do you even so to them’ —was intended for such as she. She probably thought, Alice, that that divine injunction wa3 given for common people— ‘ ordinary looking men and fussy old vomen.’ “ Your Aunt Ruth said that she be lieved that about all Summerville were going somewhere that morning, the cars were so rapidly filled. It is always amusing to me to observe the difference in the dispositions and manners of the people who are seated while others are passing through looking for unoccupied seats. I know of no better place in which to study human nature than in the cars. I think that I have seen more curious phases of it while ridin in them than I ever sav in any other place. I observed the young lady in front of me that morning with more in terest than I did any other perscD, be cause I wanted to ascertain whether I was correct tr not in the opinion which I had so hastily formed of her. “One of the last passengers who came in was a white-haired, tottering old man. He looked to the right and left of him for a vacant seat, as Le passed down the aisle, leaning on his staff. I glanced ahead ; but I could see no place where he could get a seat except with the young lady of whom I have been telling you. I hoped that some young man would give up his seat to the poor old gentleman and find one for hi a. sell in another car; for I was sure the young lady would not make room for him, if she could avoid it. She had about as many packages as you intend to take with you, Alice, and she had arranged them all along on the seat beside her with such nicety that it gave them a peculiarly touch-me-not appearance. I thought of asking her if she had noticed that decrepit old man Who was looking for a seat, thinking she might possibly remove her packages if I should. But I had the curiosity to see what she would do of her own accord, so I refrained from speakiDg, and in tend el to give him my place if he did not secure oue before he came to me. No doubt some of tlhe people whom he passed would have given him theirs if they had not observed that there was a vacant seat beside the young lady. As the old gentleman drew nearer to us she turned her head an and looked out of the window, I must confess, Alice, that I was rather glad, on the whole, that no one had moved for him. I wanted to see how far she would let her selfish ness carry her. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19. 1874. “Two men—one middle-aged, the other younger—sat in the seat directly opposite the young lady. From a few words that I caught of their conversa tion I learned that the younger man was a capenter, and I thought it quite probable that they both were. The middle aged man sat next the aisle, and I noticed that he was observing the young lady quite as closely as I was. His face was not a very demonstrative one ; but once or twice I detected an amused twinkle in his eyes and a slight curl on his lips when he glaneed at her. When the old man came opposite the young lady he stopped and looked first at her bundles and then at her. But she didn’t see him. Oh! no. She was looking out of the window and humming a tune. He didn’t speak, but he drew a long breath that was half a sigh, and he looked dejected and weary, and was about to pass along when the middle age man opposite arose and said re spectfully : • Take my seat, sir.’ And he kindly helped him into it, at the same time glancing at the young lady and saying : ‘ I can find another for myself, or I can stand.’ She did not turn her heard nor show any signs ot hearing him. So he walk ed the whole length of the car, looking for a vacant seat; but, of course, with no success, and it is not at all prob able that he expected to find one when he started. As he came back toward us the twinkle in his eyes and the curl on his lips were a little more marked than they were before, but there was less amusement in the expression and more indignation. Probably none of the pas sengers except those who had observed him watching the young lady noticed it. I was satisfied, however, from his looks, that he intended to give that selfish, disobliging yoimg lady a lesson, and I soon found that I was not mistaken. He came directly to her, and, gently touch ing her shoulder (she was still looking out of the window), he said : “ Shall I place some of these bundles up in the rack for you, yontig lady ? I can fiud no other seat in this car that is not occupied by some person.’ “ ‘You will please to leave my things where they are,’ she snappishly replied. ‘I presume that there are plenty of va cant seats in the rear car. A gentleman would go and look for one, and not dis turb a lady in this way.’ “ By this time all the passengers near were looking on and listening intently to see what would come next. At her crusty reply he put on an exceedingly abashed look and stammered : “ Oh ! I beg vour pardon, young lady. I had no idea that; I was about to en croach upon your rights. I did not sup pose that you had paid for both of these seats. But you have, of course ; for nothing can be clearer than that a lady would never speak to a man as you spoke to me if she were not entitled to both. If you ill please show me your tickets for the two or will give me your word that you have paid for them both I will go anywhere—will stand crowded into any corner—sooner than disturb yon again.” “She neither showed tickets nor deigned to reply. So he carefully re moved her things and took the seat, telling her that whenever she or the conductor informed him that he had not the same right to it that she had to the one which she was occupying he would vacate it the next instant. All of the passengers who had observed what was going on f miled approvingly, and one or two laughed aloud; and the old man nodded his head emphatically and whis pered to the young carpenter; ‘ That was just what she deserved .’ “The young lady tucked back her dress disdainfully and looked scornfully at the man beside her, and I thought that she was about to say something very vindictive ; but, if she was, she was prevented by a gentleman’s rushing up to the window where she sat and ex claiming : “ ‘I came near not getting back to say ‘ good-bye,’ Clara. Here are the books that you wanted. The bookstore was closed and I had to wait nearly ten minutes before it opened. I’m sorry it has so happened that I cannot accom pany yon. I hope that you will havo a pleasant ride and get to the seminary without any trouble.’ “ * A pleasant ride /’ she repeated, sarcastically; then putting her head partly out of the window she whispeied, sufficiently loud for those in the adjoin ing seats to hesr her, and no doubt with the special intent of humiliating the man who had had the audacity to re move her things and take a seat beside her: ‘I shall have a lovely time; you may be sure of that, father. An inso lent old carpenter has crowded himself into the seat with me, and —’ “She was cut short in her remarks by the moving off of the train. Soon after the cars started the ‘ insolent old carpenter’ turned toward her and said, as complacently as he would have done if he had not heard her epithets : “ ‘ Your father’s voice sounded famil iar to me, young lady, and I was about to rise and see if I knew him when the cars moved out of the depot. Will you please give me his name ?’ “ ‘No, sir, I will not,’ she haughtily replied. ‘I am not in the habit of hold ing conversation with strangers.’ “ ‘Ob, ah! please excuse me,’ he said, unable to repress a smile. Perhaps we shall make each other’s acquaintance sometime. Then we will converse.’ “ He did not speak to her again until we reached Richland. When the con ductor called out the name of the sta tion she hastily arose, and, gathering up her packages, which were rather more than she could conveniently manage, said, imperatively: • “ ‘Let me pass out.’ “ ‘Certainly, young lady,’ he pleas antly replied. ‘I stop here myself. You seem to be burdened with packages. Allow me to take some of them out of the car for you.’ “She did not reply in wo:ds ; but she threw back her head and locked intense ly disgusted that he should offer to touch her things. He evidently tried to suppress a smile as he turned around and crossed over to the young carpen ter. On account of your Aunt Ruth’s lameness we sat quietly in our seats, waiting for the other passengers to go out, before I helped her out. So I had nothing to do but observe what was go ing on around me. The young lady’s packages troubled her, and she was ob liged to pause a moment to rearrange them. Before she passed out of her seat a young lady about her own age rushed in to meet her. After the accus tomed salutations between young ladies, the newcomer dropped down upon the seat and exclaimed : “‘Oh! Clara! my breath is nearly gone. I did not get your letter until fifteen minutes ago, and I hurried every step of the way here, for fear that I should be too late to meet you. lam delighted that you decided to enter the seminary here. Where in the world did you fall in with our Principal, and where is he now ? Has he gone to get a carriage for yon ?’ ‘“I am sure I don’t know what you mean, Grace,’ she replied. ‘ I haven’t seen the Principal.’ “ * Haven’t seen him !’ said Miss Grace, with an amazed look. ‘ Of course yon have seen him. When I first caught a glimpse ot you from the door you and he were standing together in this seat and he was speaking to you. ’ “*'Oh ! no, Grace. Your eyes could not have Served you right,’ said the selfish young lady who had carried her self so disagreeably and haughtily, with a good deal of agitation and a very red face. ‘lt cannot be possible that the man whom yon saw talking to me was Mr. Gaylord. You surely must be try ing to play a joke on me. I beg of you to tell me that it was not he,’ *“I cannot, my dear; for it certainly was he,’ replied Miss Graee. Why, what is the matter, Clara ? Didn’t yon like him ? If you did not, I am sure you will when you become acquainted with him. He is one of the most refined and agreeable men in the world, and his wife is just as agreeable as he is. I thought that you were one of the most fortunate of girls when your father told me that they had consented to take you to board. I wish that I were in your place.’ “ ‘ You’d wish you were anywhere but in my place if you knew what—’ “Miss Grace interrupted her in her sentence by exclaiming : “ ‘ Why, here is Mr. Gaylord now.’ “ ‘Mr. Gaylord,” she said as he was passing, without looking toward them, ‘this young lady, whom you were speakiDg to a few minutes ago, is my friend, Miss Clara Evans, whom we were expeeting to-day.’ .“He turned, and, stepping into the seat in front of them, gave bis hand to the young lady with whom he had rode thirty miles that morning, and smilingly said : “ * How do you do, Miss Evans ? It gives me pleasure to make your ac quaintance. When I first saw you, with your books and packages, I felt pretty sure that you were the young lady whom we expected down at Summerville this morning, and as soon as I heard your father’s voice I was confirmed in my opinion. Now that yon know me, Miss Evans, and know that I am not a car penter, you will permit me to take yonr things for you and see you into a carri age, will you not ? ’ “As he stooped and took her pack ages from her, he asked in a low tone : “‘Have you ever thought, Miss Evans, that it would be well for the revisers of the New Testament to omit to state that Christ was a carpenter ? You know some people might feel so much greater reverence for him if they did not know that humiliating fact.’ “ She stood like one transfixed and neither answered his questions nor ob jected to his taking all of her bundles. Then she fheekly followed him out of the cars. Her face was so crimson and she looked so utterly crestfallen that your tender-hearted aunt said that she could not help pitying her, richly as she merited the lesson. But I could not pity her, Alice, she had shown snch a thoroughly selfish and disagreeable spirit. And I wished that the white headed old man had remained in the car long enough to witness her discom fiture. I think that he would have said again : ‘ That is just what she deserved.’ And I told your aunt so, and she said that she hoped that the poor girl would so profit by that day’s experience that she would never deserve to be so hu miliated again.” “ And I hope, Uncle John,” said Alice in a softened aud subdued tone as Mike came np to the door with the carriage “ that 1 never again shall merit the rebuke conveyed in your story.”— N. Y. Independent. A RIVER HORROR. Alt Olilo Mail-Boat Burned to tlie Water’* Edge—Over Twenty Live* Lost. / The operator at Aurora, Ind., reports that the steamer Pat Rogers burned on the sth inst., one mile below Aurora. About twenty lives were lost. Several bales c f cotton which formed a part of the cargo, caught fire, it is supposed from sparks from the chimneys, and the boat burned to the water’s edge, boat and cargo, the latter consisting of cattle, sheep and hogs, a total loss. The pas senger register and all books were lost. The boat was valued at $60,000, and insured in Cincinnati, for $32,000 and Louisville for $5,000. The value of the cargo is not ascertained. THE ENGINEER'S STORY. Mr. Holmes, the engineer gives the following aocount of the burning : “It was just about 6 o’clock when just op posite Loughery Creek, that flows iuto the Ohio river, two miles below Aurora, that I noticed a bright light in some bales of cotton in the after part of the boat. I hastened to the spot and found the cotton burning rapidly and beyond any possibility of immediately extin guishing it. I hastened to the hurri cane deck and gave the alarm to the pilot that the boat was burning and told him to run ashore. The pilot at once turned the boat’s head to the shore and immediately she became unmanageable. The pilot states that he could turn the wheel but the steamer would not an swer to her helm. He thinks THE TILLER ROPE HAD BEEN CUT. From this fact it is thought the fire was the work of an incendiary. Anoth er theory is, that one of the deck pas sengers, while smoking, dropped sparks from his pipe into cotton. When the boat became unmanageable she drifted on to a sand bar, and there grounded. The flames, instead of spreading along the lower deck at once, shot up to the cabin and pilot house, an then swept across the hurricane deck. The pas sengers were all aroused and the boats lowered, and many were carried to the shore, but others, in their fright, jump ed into the water, and those who were not drowned reached a safe landing puce after drifting a loDg time with the cur rent. There were nearly a hundred people on board, but what proportion of this number were actually lost is not known, as many reported missing have been seen by some on the shore after the disaster. The latest intelligence says the per sons perished are near thirty in number. The Relations Between France ami tlie Carlists. A letter from Madrid, published in the Journal des Debate, contains some passages of strong interest at the pres ent moment. Speaking of the proba bly early resumption of hostilities in northern Spain, the writer says: The struggle will be severe, for if the liberal army is receiving re-enforce ments, the carlists, thanks to the assist ance they openly draw from the south ern provinces of France, become daily more formidable. It is wearisome to return incessantly to the same topic, but it is our duty to affirm the fact that the French government, in spite of its probable good intentions, neither prevents nor restricts the succors sup plied to the carlists on our frontier, and to which we have so often called atten tion. A carlist newspaper published at Bayonne in both Spanish and French not only propagates the most untrust worthy news so long as it is favorable information on all that concerns the in surrectional movement —the guns that are expected, the ammunition which has successfully passed the frontier, the horses and mules procured or ex pected —everything, in short, that befics its profession of Carlist Momteur. At Bayonne, also, there are public ware houses containing clo lies and stores of all kinds for the carlists. In the south, Lizairaga and a formidable staff which escorted him, with a great quantity of baggage, were able to promenade as easily in our towns and on our high roads as if they had been the offensive cavalcade of an Olympic circus. With respect to Dorregary’s last proclama tion, the general must feel it necessary to exuse his cruelty, for he had a good number of soldiers and officers shot ; among others two German officers. This last rigorous act is by some con sidered an act of gratitude to France for all the sacrifices she has imposed on herself in favor of the carlist insurrec tion. A Western paper introduces sergeant i Bates as “the flag-toting fiend.” Hallucination of a Maryland Woman. The latest instance of superstition comes from Centerville, Maryland, where Miss Fannie Lairimere claims to have seen the Celestial City. Among her many wonderful prophesies she stated that her last “ visit to the heav enly world would occur June 10, and that she would remain in a trance until 10 a. m. on the 20th. A reporter vis ited her home on the day named, and found the young lady on a bed in a parlor in a rigid condition, with Lead slightly thrown back, and eyes closed, but breathing quite naturally. Be tween 10 and 11 o’clock she indicated by a motion of her finger that she wished to write, when a pencil was placed between her fingers, and paper against the pencil, when she commenced writing. She wrote but a few words, and even these no one, it seemed, could read. After waiting for several min utes tlie young lady spoke as follows : “ Let all leave her presence for ten min utes.’' Of course, the command was immediately obeyed, and slie was left alone; but at the end of ten minutes the crowd again filled the room. She remained in this condition until about 2 30, when she again spoke, say ing, “ Take her body and place it erec- in the dining-room until 1 o’clock.” This order was immediately obeyed,* and she remained standing until" tlie time name 1; those around her in the meantime engaged in singing and prayer. When 1 o’clock arrived all was quiet. In a few minutes she spoke about as follows : “I am now in Para dise, and it has bien revealed t 6 me that this is the last time that I shall go into a trance, as you call it. There are many here who do not believe that this is the work of God in me, but if they will remain until 8 o’clock to-morrow morning they will all be convinced. I will now answer any question that may be asked me.” Here she ceased, and after a few moments' silence different parties commenced questioning her, but she failed to give a direct answer to any, though, in fact, she answered all. After numerous questions had been asked her, none of which were import ant, she requested that “her body be taken and laid upon the bed and left alone for twenty minutes.” This was done, and after the expiration of twenty minutes she was again surrounded anil plied with questions with about the same suocess as at first. Last winter the belief sprang up among some of her visitors that her flesh would not burn while she was in her rigid condition, and in order to dis prove this a gentleman placed a live ooal of fire in her hand, which burned her severely. In one of her trances, however, she assured them that on the next day she would pass into a spasm, and that her h?ind would be suddenly healed, aud stated further that she was to have only twenty-seven pains arising from it. As each pain struck her she would name a certain chapter in the Bible, and if any of those chapters are read in her hearing she will pass offinto a deep sleep before two lines have been read, and remain so until the book is laid aside, when she suddenly awakes. In the evening at exactly the hour she named, she was taken with a spasm, which remained upon her for exactly five minutes, and upon her recovery she asked to have the bandage removed from her hand, and when it was done her hand was found to be entirely healed, and anew skin formed over the wounded place, and she has not felt a single pain in that hand since. On the Ist of June, while in a trance, she informed her friends that on the 18th of that month she would have a hard contest with the devil, and pre dicted the exact hour. Promptly at that hour on the day named she passed into an unconscious state, and in a min ute or two was in a terrible rage, appar ently crazy, and attempted to commit suicide. She was seized, however, and tied into a chair, the work requiring the strength of four men. After a while she informed those near her that she had triumphed over the devil, and had conquered him, and in a minute or two returned to consciousness. In five years time she is to take the pulpit. There are quite a number who believe it is the Spirit of God w. rking through her. In personal appearance she does not appear diseased. She is a brunette, neither haudsome nor homely, and would weigh between 130 and 140 pounds, and ap peared quite robust and strong. Wliat an Italian Brigand’s Head is Worth. Iu the northern provinces and in Sici ly brigandage is as flourishing as in the olden times ; the police are either partisans of malefactorrs or are impo tent against their organized forces, and the poor find it their interest to protect the brigands who never molest them and frighten away the proprietors and farmers from inspecting too closely their crops and stables. Rarely is a murderer or brigand captured. Forty five escaped from Casenga last month, and the ringleaders are still at large. Botta, the chief of police at Parma f Fiana, mayor of Orviete ; the inspector of the macinato in Sardinia, have been assassinated, and th.e assassins are un discovered. The government sends the military, who find themselves isolated in the midst of a hostile or timid popu lation without aid or information from the civil functionaries. A large reward has just been offered for the most noted Sicilian brigands by the new Prefect of Palermo—Jos Yicenzo Capraro, Pin cenzo Roeca, Angelo Rinaldi, Gloachi no di Pasquale, Antonio Leone, $5,000 per head for Antonio Lombardi, $2,000 for Lorenzo Lampiasi, surnamed the King; for Salvatore Vellorina and Guiseppe Lomonte, S4OO per head. But such measures are useless. No one dares to betray the law-defying chief tains, still less to venture into their domains, well knowing that a spy’s life would not be worth an hour’s purchase. The Pintos. The Territorial Enterprise thus de scribes the Piutes of Nevada : “ What ever may be the case with other tribes, the Piute has no notion of passing away. They are a remarkably healthy people. They are seldom sick,"and there appears to be about 100 births, to one death. Hardly a squaw that is over sixteen and and under sixty years of age can be seen who has not a pappoose slung on her back. What shall be done with these people ? will one of these days be a question that must be answered in some way,as ther • seems to be no like lihood of their dying off. Among the Piutes to work is considered no dis grace, and their biggest brave is not ashamed to be seen handling an axe or saw. The women are quite industrious and the men are always ready to work when coin is shown them. Their great est vice and their ruling passion is gambling. They play among them selves, and when they have money cards are never out of their hands.” Indian Tree-climbing. In South America even the weakest may be, not uncommonly, seen pluck ing" the fruit at the tree tops. If the bark is so smooth and slippery that they cannot go climbing, they use other means. They make a hoop of wild vines, and patting their feet inside they use it as a support in climbing. The negro of the west coast of Africa makes a larger hoop round the trees, and gets inside of it and jerks it up the trunk Vith his hands, a little at a time, drawing his legs up after it. The Tahi tian boys tie their feet together, four or five inches apart, with a piece of palm I bark, and with the aid of this fetter go np the cocoa palm to gather nuts. The native women in Australia climb the gum trees after opossums. Where the bark is rough they chop holes with a hatchet; then one throws about the tree a rope twisted as long as will go around it,* puts her hatchet on her cropped head, and placing her feet against the tree and grasping the rope with her hands, she hitches it up by jerks, and pulls herself up the enor mous trunk almost as fast as a man will climb a ladder. The Career of a Notable Swindler. The death by his own hand of Lord Gordon-Gordon ends not unfitly the career of one of the most remarkable scoundrels of the age. What name and station were truly his there is now no chance of discovering. He appeared first in New York, not quite three years ago, under the title ef Lord George Gordon, and lived at the Metropolitan hotel in a sumptuous style in accord with his rank: attended by valet and private secretary, and served with meals in his room on plate adorned with armo rial bearings. It was at the time when general interest was felt in the romantic lifg and fate of the lost earl of Aber deen, whose family name he bore, and the story was circulated that the earl had notjbeen drowned, but had appear ed in the person of Lord Gordon. This idle tale, however, is one that he was not responsible for. He appeared as the representative of English and continen- "shareholders in the Erie railway, an 4 laid his plans for no petty con quests. • He invited Horace Greeley and Col. Tfiomas A. Scott to meet each other at dinner* with him, his private secretary representing to each that Lord Gordon was the particular friend of the other. After dinner, over the wine, he broached a daring scheme of railway enterprise which almost captured the faith and assent of his guests. Col. Scott, however, took the matter home to think of. With the shrewd Jay Gould he was immediately successful, and he gained also the con'idence of other leading capitalists, including the late Horace F. Clark, from whom he obtained large advances on the pretext of desiriugtlie settle his Scotch tenantry on lands in Minnessota ; Gould, also, was induced to put into his hands stocks and money amounting to half a million of dollars. He was arrested as a swindler, before getting off with his booty, slipped his bail and went to Manitoba. The attempt of two detec tives from St. Paul to kidnap him there, aud their consequent imprisonment by the Manitoban authorities, gave rise to a long diplomatic coi responderce be tween the governments of the Domin ion and the United States, and a recent sequel in the villainous attack on the Manitoban district attorney in St. Paul. Since his arrival in Manitoba, Lord Gordon’s schemes of colonization have been the wonder of the inhabitants. Lately he had instructed a firm of Win nipeg lawyers to sue those Minneso tans who shared in his illegal arrest, which was, of course, a mere black mailing dodge, Gordon had an aristo cratic bearing, and affected familiarity with the British nobility ; he possessed an intelligence, vigor and ingenuity that would have given him success in an honorable life. Senator Jones Points A Moral. Bonn Piatt has been interviewing Senator Jones leisurely as they “ ex pressed ” from New York to Washing ton, and writes in the Washington Capi tal as follows : . “ I cannot understand Morten,” said the Senator; “.lie is unquestionably an able man, yet he floundered in that quagmire of finance like a cart-horse with his eyes blinded by the very mud he flung up.” “ I think,” I said, “ Morton struck on that word ‘ doctrinaire it had snch a dreadful sound to h m.” “He remind ed me,” responded the senator, “of a queer character we once had in Nevada by the name of Pokebury. He was law yer of some promise, but came to noth ing through drink. Losing all his clients he went to mining, and joined a rough miner by the name of Spokes. At the end of a week Pokebury appear ed in town with a black eye, a swollen nose, and lacerated garments. Of course we were anxious to know all about it. ‘ Well you see,” said lie, ‘ Billy and I were partners, and I like Billy, for he’s a well-meaning man for an uneducated cuss. But Billy and I dissolved part nership, we settled and struck—least wise we struck each other and Billy settled. Our first little difference was of an astronomical character. We di vided the day different. Billy divided on six a. m. and I divided on ten a. m., and Billy, instead of allowing for astro nomical difference, said I was a lazy dog. But I didn’t mind that, for Billy was my partner, yon see, and had a right to hfs views. Then we differed on abla tion. Billy abluted before breakfast, and said I was a dirty dog, for you see I always ablute after breakfast. But I didn’t mind that, for people will differ, and so long as the difference don’t affect business what’s the odds? But the third difference was just a little too much for me. We were sitting down to beans and slap-jacks, and Billy blowing about my being a greedy dog, when suddenly the fellow said to mb, “I’d thank you for those molasses.’" This was too much—no man can say “ those molasses,” to me and live —and I just took him in the countenance with a right-hander that settled him and his damned insulting bad grammar togeth er. That’s the way we dissolved. I’m in town, and I guess Bill will be here in a ccmple of weeks.’ ‘s“And so,” continued tlie senator, “Morton struck on doctrinaire." Breeding Camels in Nevada. On a ranch on the Carson river, eight miles below the mouth of Six-mile can on, is to be seen a herd of twenty-six camels, all but two of which was born and raised in Nevada. But two of the old herd of nine or ten brought here some years ago are now living. It would seem that the original lot fell in to the hands of Mexicans, who treated them very badly, overloading and abus ing them. The men who now have them ate Frenchmen, who had formerly some experience with camels in Enrope. They find no difficulty in rearing them, and can now show twenty-five fine healthy animals, all of Washoe growth. The camel may now be said to be thor oughly aoclimated in the state. The owners of the herd find it no more dif ficult to breed and rear them than would be experienced with the same number of goats or donkeys. The ranch upon which they are kept is sandy and sterile in the extreme; yet the animals feast and grow fat on such prickly shrubs and bitter weeds as no other animal would touch. When left to themselves their great delight, after filling themselves with the coarse herbage of the desert, is to lie and roll in the hot sand. They ire used in packing salt to the mills on .he river, from the marshes lying in the desert some sixty miles to the eastward, they have animals that easily pack seven hundred pounds. Caft. Caulfield, who kills tigerd for the Madras government, extrocte I from two living cobras eight grains of their poison, which he placed on a beef bait, which was eaten by a tiger; but the tiger did not suffer from the meat Capt. Caulfield knows now what he might have known before, that some poisons which are deadly if injected in to a wound becomes harmless in the stomach, where they are apparently de composed and digested. The Prince of Wales In Debt Over $3,000,000— Bankrnptcj on $700,000 a fear. A London letter says a repoit has suddenly gained currency that the long expected crisis had occurred in the financial affairs of the Prince of Wales, and that the ministry have made-np their minds to propose to the house of commons next session to pay his debts. The sum named is 640,000 poundf ster ling, tour times the sum voted in 1787 to appease creditors of that pattern of royalty who afterwards became G>*>rge the Fourth. About paying the bills there are certain to be two powerful and contradictory sentiments, one that the honor of the nation is concerned in pro viding for the debts of its future k ng; the other that these debts are of a char acter which ought to be paid out of the accumulated fortune of the Quoen. The latter view rests on the well kn own fact that the Queen has been receiving ever since the death of Prince A1 jert the whole of her income calculated at her accession to support the expenses of court in the nsnal degree of splendor; that her majesty has, however, lived daring this period for the most pari in retirement, and that the cost of diaw ing-room levees and other royal pa geantries have in fact fallen upon the Prince and Princess of Wales, whose income has been unequal to such a bur den. The existing debts, or a eonsiier able part of them, have, according to this theory, been incurred in the dis charge of these dnties. Hence it is urged that the Queen, who has had md kept the money given her by the state for such purposes, ought to pay the m. The Prince of Wales has £40,000 a y ?ar plus the revenue of the Duchy of Cos m wall, which now amount to over £IOO,- 000 per annum. Patrons of Husbandry. We give below the number of subor dinate granges in the different states of the union on the Ist of June, as shown by the official records of the national grange : Alabama 604 New Jersey 78 Arkansas 421 New York 1:16 California 200 North Carolina.. 199 Connecticut 3 Ohio !<47 Delaware 10 Oregon 164 Florida.. 54 Pennsylvania 184 Georgia 640 South Carolina. . 193 Illinois 1,481 Tennessee !33 Indiana 1,998 Texas 400 lowa 1,994 Vermont 120 Kansas 1,333 vVest Virginia 55 Kentucky 1,101 Virginia 260 Louisiana 127 Ontario 15 Maine 24 Wisconsin 437 Maryland 101 Colorado SI Massachusetts... 58 Dakota 55 Michigan 400 Dist. of C ilnmbia. 1 Minnesota 532 Idaho 7 Mississippi 292 Montana 19 Missouri 1,929 Washington 18 Nebraska 587 Canada 9 New Hampshire.. 311 Making in the aggregate 19,492 sub ordinate granges on the first day of June. Granges are being organized at the average rate of twenty-five per day, which, up to the present, would swell the number to 20,000. These grange i, on an average, number fifty voters, atd it requires no figuring to show that to day there are in the United States 1,000,000 voters who are patrons of hni bandry. _ A New Guinea Bird. There is a bird in New Guinea called the Megapodius, which, in the size of its eggs and its manner of hatching them, most be considered extraordi nary. It is not larger than one of onr ordinary fowls, but its eggs are three inches long by two and a hall in diam eter, It does not attempt to sit on them. A colony of birds lay their egg3 together in a large mound in the hottest part of the year, from September to March, and leave them to be hatched by the sun. The mound is Imade of sand, loose earth, and sticks an*l leaves, which latter by their decay increase the heat. The mounds are wonderfully large, being ten feet high and about sixty feet in circumference at Jihe base. The young birds come out at a hole in the top. The mother birds wait on the trees around till their chicks are hatched, and then each leads off hei own brood. How each knows its own is a mystery, The eggs are much rel ished by the natives, but not at all by Europeans. A native of Cape York ven tured one day into a nest for eggs, and while he was exploring the hidden riches of the large monnd the upper part fell in and he was smothered. Turkish Beds. A correspondent, writing of a Turk ish harem, says : “ Each lady had three rooms to herself, and the furnishing of them was generally left to her taste or caprice. They were arranged very well, and the furniture was very handsome, but curious in form. A regular Turk ish bed is something quite different from ours. There is no bedstead or mattress, but about thirty very thickly padded quilts, covered with silk or sat in, laid one on top of the other on the floor, until they are about two feet deep. The sheets are invariably of silk, embroidered, and the coverlid is a mar vel of gold and silver embroidery on satin or velvet. The pillows are of pink, blue or yellow satin, covered with beau tiful lace. From the ceiling hangs a large jeweled and gilded hoop, and from this rich lace curtains, which en circle the bed. To hold their robes they | have innumerable brass-nailed camphor wood trunks, and as one of these alter another was turned out for me to see the contents, I began almost to lose my ] head in the confusion of colors ana beauty of materials.” Caution to Ladles Going Abroad. A recent decision maJe by the French court, the Tribunel de la Seine, holds that marriages solemnized at the resi dence of a foreign minister, resident in France, are not marriages at all. By a fiction of international law, the resi dence of an ambassador or minister is considered for oertaiu purposes part of the territory of the country he repre sents, but this applit s only to diplomatic acts. It does not extend to civil acts affecting the citizens of the country to whom the ambassador is accredited. A marriage contract at a minister’s resi dence between a French subject and a foreigner has no existence, on account of the iaoompetency of the foreign offi cial who solemnized it. This deoision will naturally cause some uneasiness to our American friends that have married French wives or husbands at onr minis ter’s residence in Paris, and who wish for many reasons to have the oontract legal in both countries. Hydrophobia. “John Paul,” who has had diversi fied experiences with dogs, writes from his home to the Tribune. He mentions that he was once bitten on the ear by a canine, since which time he appears to have suffered much, not from the bite, but from Mrs. Paul. He says, “She begged that I would send for the doctor at once, and have my ear cut off, de claring that if I did not she should not have a moment’s peace. Arbitrarily, Eerhaps brutally, I declined to gratify er. * In consequence I have not yet had the bliss of knowing what it is to bound gayly through life with a leather ear. It may be that the experience is still destined to be mine, however, for sinoo this mad dog excitement reached its present height Mrs. Paul frequently asks me if I feel no symptoms. I can not scratch the back of my head without her placing a bucket of water before me to see if I show any signs of “ boil inf." VOL. 15--NO. 34. smses asd noises. “It costa lees to take a weekly pa per,” argues the Cape Abu Advertiser, “than a diligent hen* can earn in a year, at the market price of eggs.” Bald mountain has got through shak ing, and singularly enough the new converts around there have commenced playing cards and setting up again. It may be the right of an American citizen to ride around in a wagon and howl like a wild beast, but quiet people wish that elections were further apart. A Massachusetts man has been in a successful business forty nine years, and never advertised. The business consisted chiefly in lying about his neighbors. With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much. Bat what in these dull, imaginative days are the terrors of conscience to the disease of the liver ?— Carlyle. A young lady asked a clerk in the Wisconsin News company’s store if he had “Festus.” “No,” replied the clerk, “but I’m afraid a boil is com ing on the back of my neck.” Chubch services in Green Bay only last three-quarters of an hour, but if a Sunday dog-fight don’t continue at least an hour and a-half everybody feels dis appointed. A young woman at Trenton, who was sleeping with her feet hanging out of the chamber window, was struck by lightning and almost tom to pieces. The other Trenton women have taken their feet in. The Grand Rapids (Mich) Post thinks that to deny women the elective fran chise because they can not bear arms would not be one whit more unreason able than to deny men the ballot be cause they can not bear children. A Michigan girl was killed by light ning while picking feathers for her nuptial pillow. This seems to be a fair warning to those young ladies who are too proud to sleep on com husks. Deaths take place, the world over, at the rate of one every two seconds. There is a sense of profound relief in the thought that every time a man goes out of the world, a baby and a half are coming into it. “ Boy,” said a traveler to a disobedi ent youth whom he encountered, “do veu hear your father speaking to you ?" *‘Oh, y-a-a-s,” replied the youth, “ but I don’t mind what he pays. Mother don’t, neither; and twixt she and I we’ve about got the dog so he don’t.” Oh, the skeeter, the beautiful skee ter, filling the air with melodious me tre. Under our hat, and tickling our nose, taking a bite through a hole in our clothes; in through the window, opening the door, filling our chamber and singing the sweeter, ever is found the untiring muskeeter. Moke than fifty women applied for admission at the Agassiz School at Pen ikese. Only seven women offered them selves this year for examination at Har vard. Apparently there is a difference between studying at a scientific school open to men and women and passing an “ examination for women” under the auspices of a celebrated university. But the former seems most popular. ®Do you chew gum ? The prices of three piece* at one cent a piece, am ounts to $1 56 a year, or in sixty-seven years to 8104 52. That sum will pur chase a complete set of Appleton’s Cy clopedia, a mi.rriago license, a black bombazine dress for your aunt, a Ger man silver coffin-plate, and a cheroot! Cut this out, young man, and paste it on the back of jour girl’s photograph. An English writer in a recent article gives a cooling description of Iceland. After stating that there are no trees, no vegetables to speak of, no town except the capital, no inns, no hens, no pigs, no roads, no shops, no manufactures, no army, no navy, no criminals, only one policeman, and two lawyers, he in quires of himself, “ What, then, is there?” and himself replies, “Snow mountains, glaciers, hot springs, earth quakes, volcai oes, mfrthera lights, cav erns, morasses, and, above all, deserts. ” This is hard on Iceland. Eugene Lawrence writes in Harper's Weekly: “The war party in Franoe em ploys in private language that seems the extravagance of bombast. Newspa pers may be cautiously silent, and min isters yielding and submissive, but the politicians of the cafes and the clubs nave no hesitation in confessing the future policy of aggression. Franoe, they assert, is gathering an army that nothing in Europe can resist. All its youth and manhood are to be converted into soldiers. In some unguarded mo ment they will strike Germany. The war will be one of unsparing severity, and if they fail, Paris will be razed to the ground and the name of France be blotted out from among nations.” As though it hadn’t enough on its hands already, the German government has undertaken to regulate dueling in the army. Boards of honor are to be formed, and without the sanction of such a board and the presenoe of its president no duel is hereafter to be fought. Officers complying with these conditions are to be exempt from crim inal prosecution for casualties occurring on the field of honor, except in peculiar ly flagrant cases of unprovoked insult. The old emperor is quoted in the Lon don Times as saying: “ I will no more tolerate in the army an officer who wan tonly attacks the honor of a comrade than an officer who does not know how to guard his own honor. ” Someone has said that a man who can play a good game of chess has all the mental requisites neoessary for a great general. A professor of the manly art of fencing and boxing says the man who can spar well has attained the highest point of physical development. In this exercise every nerve and muscle is brought into simultaneous action at he command of the brain. Dancing and fencing are graceful ; sparring is more graceful than either, because it demands both bo iy and mind, More over no man can spar well unless he has ;iis temper in perfect control. A com mon objection is made to sparring on the ground that it makes men pugna cious, more ready to seek than to evade n quarrel, in order that they may dis play their superiority. On the contra ly, it is almost invariably found that the consciousness of power makes man more forbearing to an opponent, calmer in disposition, with a larger mixture of that perfect self-possession, which is ♦ne of the best tests of true manhood. The New York assay office furnishes t ome very interesting statistics. Thirty million dollars gold (bullion) were op t rated upon in the last eighteen months snd 87,600,000 silver. The shipments cf silver from New York to Philadel phia amount to several tons a month. 1 iftst year there passed through the liboratory forty tons of geld, worth about $500,000 each. Most silver Carries gold, and the presenoe of gold is especially notioed in the tiie silver ores of Utah and Nevada. The assay office does not receive crude ores of any kind, only bullion, which s gnifies either coin or bars. Many of tie jewelers send samples of their goods to the assay office in order to test their value. A few days ago a magnifi o ;nt golden ohalioe from a Mexican oon vmt was thrown into the crncible, and a l old family plate frequently meets the same fa*e. Daring the last twenty V Bars gold bars to the amount of over $119,000,000 and silver bars to the anount of $15,000,000 were manufac tured in the New York aesav office,— \y. Y. Herald..