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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS. W.'a. "Ik“*HALK,} Edltor * *“ d Proprietor.. NEWS OF THE WEEK EAST. Gov. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, lias issued warrants for the execution of Wm. E. Udderzook, Harrell O’Mara and Patrick Irwin, on November 12. SOUTH. The yellow fever is about over with at Pensacola. There arq now in Louisiana twenty eight companies of regular troops. Within the last few weeks over sixty mules have been stolen from plantations be tween Austin and Hernando, Mississippi. The resignation of Richard W. Bus teed, United States judge of Alabama, has been received and accepted by the president. His successor has not been named. A freight train on the Memphis rail road fell through a trestle near Blackfish Bayou, Saturday night, fatally injuring the engineer and one or two other persons. At Newcastle, Henry county, Ken tucky, Saturday evening last, a difiiculty was sprung between Mr. Thomas Buford, brother of Gen. Buford, and Mr. Polk, sheriff of the county, which erded by the former receiving two shots from a pistol in the hands of the latter. The lirst shot took effect in the left breast and ranged to the right shoulder blade, and the second took effect in the left hand. The wounds were not of a dangerous char acter. A train loaded with five companies of the 13th infantry, on their way from the west ern department to New Orleaus, ran ofT the track between Trenton and Dyer, on the Mo bile A Ohio ra lroa-1. The accident was caused by the breaking of a flange on one of the en gine wheels. The fireman, John Jordan, was nstantly killed, and the engineer was badly bruised. Two of the soldiers, Wm. McLingsey and T. Far man, were killed, and four wounded, two it is supposed fatally. Heavy frosts fell on the 13th, through out Kentucky and northern Tennessee, over the great tobacco region. Well informed men from the country say great damage has been done tho growii g crop, estimating that from one-half to three-quarters of the entire crop has been killed. Specials to the Courier-Jour nal corroborate accounts of great damago all along the Nashville road. The market has been excited in consequence, the advance prices ranging from to lc per pound. The condition of the cotton crop is ndicated by the following state of averages deduced from the October returns of the de partment of agriculture. The crop of Vir ginia is too small to influence perceptibly in the general result. North Carolina 85, a de cline of two per cent, during September. South Carolina 82, a decline of four per cent. Georgia 80, an improvement of three per cent Florida 81, an improvement of four per cent. Alabama 75, a decline of six per cent. Missis sippi 74, no change. Louisiana 62, no change. Texas 70, an increase of five per cent. Ar kansas 55, an increase of eight per cent. Tennesseo 56, an increaso of four per ceut. The above averages refer to only the condition of the crops on the Ist of October, including its state of development, vitality and health fnlness. This is but one element in the cal culation of the yield in quantify, which has not yet been completed. foreign. The duchess of Edinburg has been delivered of a son. Important dispatches have been re- j ceived from Madrid in relation to negotiations for the surrender of Don Carlos’ army. Dispatches have been received from Para reporting a conflict between the Por tuguese and the Brazilians. Several were killed and ten wounded. Don Carlos has returned to Tolosa. Boporte continue to be received of the defeat of the Carlists and of the arrival of insur gents in the government camps. Von Arnim’s son has written a letter denying that his father has any hand in the ! publication of the ultramontane pamphlet enti:led "Revolution from Above,” in which j the foreign office feard the missing documents ] would be published. A London dispatch says the compen sation paid England by the Madrid government amounts to $75,000, $40,000 of which is paid on account of the Virgiuius butchery, and the remainder covers outstanding claims. Eng land would not recognize the present govern ment until all the claims were admitted. The members of the Austrian Polar expedition declare that explorations in the direction of the north pole are hopeless of a satisfactory result, and that the reports of the existence of an open Polar sea are untrue. xV similar opinion has also been arrived at by nearly all the leading geographies and scien tific bodies. MISCELLANEOUS. Ex-Senator Cattell, who has been ap pointed a special treasury agent to negotiate the new loan, willbe assigned to duty in Lon don. The October returns of the depart ment of agaiculture indicate the average con dition of the cotton crop as 86 per cent, against 83 per cent, in September. It is ascertained on inquiry of the United States arbitrator, of the commission for the adjudication of claims of American citizens for damages resulting from the pres ent rebellion in Cuba, that at least twelve cases, with proofs, have been presented, and the commission only awaits the preparation of briefs before formally considering them. The notice heretofore given by Secre tary Bristow, that it was his inteniion to re move one of any two of a family in the employ of the treasury, was in a partial measure put into execution to-dav by notifications sent to twenty-five clerks that their services would be no longer required after the Ist proximo. The blow feU particularly heavy in Treasurer Spin ner's bureau. The police of Washington have ar rested a gang of book thieves that have been making extensive depredations on the com mittee rooms of the capitol. One thousand three hundred and fifty pounds of documents have been recovered. Most of them are val uable volumes and cannot be replaced. Thieves systematically entered the rooms and carried away their plunder. No official information has been re ceived by our government or by the represent atives of foreign governments at Washington, confirmatory of the newspaper accounts that Spain has paid indemnity to Great Britain in satisfaction of damages in tho Virginius case. The correspondence between the United States and Spain continues, but with no prospect of *!ement by this means. Therefore, it is i&ble that our claims for indemnity will become a subject of arbitratiou according to the terms of the Fish-Pole protocol. Sohe curious statistics respecting the duration of patents have been recently published in England. It is found that above 79 per cent, of the patents are allowed to elapse at the end of the third year, and 90 per cent, at the end of the seventh. There are, therefore, only 10 per cent, which, in the opinion of the inventors, are worth £IOO at the end of seven years’ trial. If these figures all .rd anything like a fair indication of tho ieal use of patents either to inven tors or the public, then the record is a melancholy one, and is marked by long lines of failure and disappointment, only relieved at wide intervals by occa sional doubtfal successes. After a Kansas City man has sat by his chamber window and fiddled “ Old Dog Tray ” eighty or ninety times pa tience ceases to Vie a virtue and bricks begin to lodge in his hair, tackixg ship. The weather leech of the topsail ehiverr.. The bowlines strain and the lee shrouds slacken. The braces are taut, the lithe boom quivers, And the wave3 with the coming squall-cloud blacken.; Open one point on the weather bow, Is the light-house tall on Fire Island head ; There’s a shade of doubt on the captain’s brow, And the pilot watches the heaving lead. The ship bends lower before the breeze, And as her broadside fair to the blast she lays ;| And swifter springs on the rising seas, As the pilot calls, “ Stand by for stays! ” Then “ silence all! ”as each in his place. With the gathered coil in his hardened hands By tack and bowline, by sheet and brace. Waiting the watchword, impatient stands. And the light on Fire Island head draws near, As trumpet-winged, the pilot’s shout, From bis post on the bowsprit heel, I hear. With the welcome call of, “ Beady about! ” No time to spare—it is touch and go, And the captain growls, “ Down helm! Hard down!” As my weight on the whirling spokes I throw, While the heavens grow black with the storm cloud’s frown. High o’er the knight-heads dies the spray, As she meets the shock of the plunging sea; And my shoulder stiff to tho wheel I lay, As I answer, “ Aye, aye sir! Hard a lee ! ” With the swerving leap of a startled steed, The ship flies fast in the eye of the wind ; The dangerous shoals on the lee recede, And the headlands white we leave behind. The topsails flutter, the jibs collapse, And belly and tug at the groaning cleats; The spanker slats, and the mainsail flaps. And thunders the order, “ Tacks and sheets ! ” ’Mid the rattle of blocks and the tramp of the crew’ Hisses the rain of the rushing squall; The sails are aback from clew to clew. And now is the moment for “ Mainsail haul! ” And the heavy yards, like a baby’s toy, By fifty strong arms arc- swiftly swung; She holds her way, and I look with joy, For the first white spray o’er the bulwarks flung. “ Let go and haul ’lis the last command, And the head-sails fill to the blast once more; Astern and to leeward lies the land, With its breakers white on the shingly shore. What matters the reef, or the rain, or the squall, I steady the helm for the open sea— The hrst mate clamors, “ Belay there all! ” And the’eaptain’s breath once more comes free. And so off shore let the good ship fly— Little care I how the gust may blow, In my forecastle bunk in a jacket dry— Eight bells have struck and my watch is below. PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE. “ I cannot wait any longer. I must have my money, and if yon cannot pay it I must foreclose the mortgage and sell the place,” said Mr. Merton. “ In that case,” said Mr. Bishop, “it will of course be told at a great sacri fice, and, after all the struggles I have made, my family will again be home less. It is very hard. I only wish yon had to earn your money as I do mine ; yon might then know something of th hard life of a poor man. If yon could only in imagination put yourself in my place, I think you would have a little mercy on me.” “It is useless talking; I extended this one year, and I can do so no long er,” replied Mr. Merton, as he turned to his desk and continued writing. The poor man rose from his seat and walked sadly out of Mr. Merton’s office; his last hope was gone. He had just recovered from a long fit of illness, which had swallowed up the means with which he had intended to make the last payment on biß house. True, that gen tleman had waited one year, when he had failed to meet the demand, owing to illness in his family, and he had felt very much obliged to him for doing so. This year ho bad been laid up for several months, during which he could earn nothing, and all his savings were then needed for the support of himself and family. Again he had failed, and now he would again be homeless, and have to begin the world anew. Had heaven forsaken him an * given him over to the tender mercies of the wicked ? After he had left the office, Mr. Mer ton could not drive away from his thoughts that remark to which the poor man in his grief had given utterance, “I wish you had to earn your money as I do mine.” In the midst of a row of figures, “ Put yourself in my place” intruded. Once after it had crossed his mind, he laid down his pen, saying, “ Well, I think I should find it rather hard. I have a mind to drop in there this after noon, and see how it fares with his family; that man has roused my curi osity.” About five o’clock he put on a gray wig and some old, cast-off clothes, walked to the residence of Mr. Bishop, and knocked at the door. Mrs. Bbliop, a pale, weary looking woman, opened it; the poor old man requested permission to enter and rest awhile, saying he was very tired with his long journey, for he had walked many miles that day. Mrs. Bishop cordially invited him in, and gave him the best seat tho room af forded. She then began to make prep arations for tea. The old gentleman watched her attentively. He saw there was no elasticity iu her step, no hope in her movements; and pity for her began to steal into his heart. When her hus band entered, her features relaxed into a smile, and she forced a cheerfulness into her manner. The traveler noted it all; and he felt himself forced to ad mire this woman who could assume a cheerfulness she did not feel for her husband’s sake. After the table was prepared, there was nothing upon it but bread, butter and tea. They invited the stranger to eat with them, saying, “We have not much to offer you, but a cup of tea will refresh you after your long journey.” He accepted their hospitality, and as they discussed the frugal meal, he led them, without seeming to do so, to talk of their affairs. “I bought this piece of land,” said Mr. Bishop, “at a very low price, aud instead of waiting, as I ought to have done, nntil I had saved the money to build, I thought I would borrow two hundred dollars. The interest on the money would not be nearly as much as the rent I was paying, and I would be saving something by doing it. I did not think there wouid be any difficult in paying back the borrowed money. But the first year my wife and ene of my children were ill, and the expenses left me without the means to pay the debt. Mr. Merton agreed to wait an other year, if I would pay the interest. I did that. This year I was for seven months unable to work at my trade and earn anything ; and of course when pay day comes around, and this is very soon, I shall again be unable to meet the de mand.” “ But,” said the stranger, “ will not Mr. Merton wait another year, if you make all the circumstances known to him ?” “No, sir,” replied Mr. Bishop, “I saw him this morning, and he said he must have the money, and should be obliged to foreclose.” “ He must be very hard hearted,” re plied the traveler. “ Not necessarily so,” said Mr. Bish op. “ The fact is, these rich men know nothing of the struggles of the poor. They are men just like the rest of man kind, and I am sure if they but had the faintest idea of what the poor have to pass through, their hearts and their purses would open. Yon know it has passed into a proverb, * When a poor man needs assistance, he should apply to the poor.’ The reason is obvious. The poor only know the ourse of pover ty. They know how heavily it falls, crushing the spirit out of a man; and, to nse my favorite expression, they can at once put themselves in the unfortu nate one’s place and appreciate his diffi culties, and are therefore always ready to render assistance as far as they are able; and if Mr. Merton had the least idea of what I aDd my family had to pass through, I think he would be will ing to wait several years for his money, rathe* than distress ns. ” With what emotion the stranger lis- I tened may be imagined. Anew world was being opened to him. He was pass ing through an experience that had never been his before. Shortly after the conclusion of tho meal, he rose to take his leave, thanking Mr. and Mrs. Bishop for their kind hospitality. They invited him to stay all night, telling him he was welcome to what they had. He thanked them and said, “ I will trespass on your kindness no longer. I think I can reach the next village be fore dark, and be so much fnrthor on my journey.” Mr. Mer ton did not sleep much that night. B'e lay awake thinking. He had received anew revelation. The poor had always been associated in his mind with stupidity and ignorance, and the first poor family he had visited he had found far in advance, in intelligent sympathy and real politeness, of tho ex quisites and fashionable butterflies of the day. The next day a boy called at the cot tage, and left a package in a large blue envelope, addressed to Mr. Bishop. Mrs. Bishop was very much alarmed when she took it; for large blue envel opes were associated in her mind with law and lawyers, and thought that it boded no good. She put it away until her husband came home from his work, when she handed it to him. He opened it in silence, read its con tents, and said frequently, “ Thank heaven!” “ What is it, John ?” inquired his anx ious wife. “ Good news,” replied John ; “ such news that I had never hoped for, or even dreamed of.” “ What is it—what is it? Tell me quick—l want to hear if it is anything good.” “ Mr. Merton has canceled the mort gage, release I me from debt, both the interest and principal, and says any time I need any further assistance, if I will let him know I shall have it,” “ I am so glad, it puts new life into me,” said the now happy wife. “ But what can have come over Mr. Merton ?” “I do not know. It seems strange after the way he talked to me yesterday morning. I will go right over to his office and tell him how happy he has made us.” He found Mr. Merton in, and expres sed his’gratitude in glowiDg terms. “ What could have induced you,” he asked, “ to show us so much kindness ?” “I followed your suggestions,” re plied Mr. Merton, ‘ ‘ and put myself in your place. I expect that it would sur prise you very much to learn that the strange traveler to whom you showed so much kindness yesterday was myself.” “Indeed!” exclaimed Mr. Bishop, “can that be true ? How did you dis guise yourself so well ?” “I was not so much disguised after all, but you could not very readily asso ciate Mr. Merton, the lawyer, with a poor wayfaring man—ha ! ha ! ha !” laughed Mr, Merton. ’ “ Well, it is a good joke,” said Mr. Bishop; “ good in more senses than one. It has terminated very pleasantly for me.” “I was surprised,” said Mr. Merton, “ at the broad and liberal views you ex pressed of men and their actions gener ally. I supposed I had greatly the ad vantage over you in means, education and culture ; yet how cramped and nar row-minded have been my views beside yours! That wife of yours is an esti mable woman, and that boy of yours will be an honor to any man. I tell you, Bishop,” said the lawyer, becom ing animated, “ you are rich—rich be yond what money can make you. You have treasures that gold will not buy. I tell you, you owe me no thanks. Somehow, I seem to have lived years since yesterday morning. I have got into anew world. What I learned at your house is worth more than you owe me, and I am. your debtor yet. Here after, I shall take as my motto, ‘Put yourself in his place,’ and try to regu late my actions by it.” Wild Geese in the West. Much cunning is exhibited by these birds in localities where they are fre quently disturbed. We have often seen them in the great swamps of the Bureau Valley along the Illinois come in about dark, when it was just too late to draw a sight, noiselessly stealing along, so as to evade the random shot of the hunter returning to camp after a long day’s work. So attached are they to their old grounds, and liable to be pursued at night by reckless adventur ers, that after a few warnings they baffle ilie most intelligent. Should their line of entry be discovered to-night as they come across the marsh from the south, to morrow night, if you watch, you may hear the vibration of their wings as they pass over the timber to the north, in their appioach to the old rice pond, or open water of the big slough. Upon all other occasions, and al o when dis turbed, they exhibit their usual pro pensity to indulge in gabble and goose talk. The most prominent among the varie ties iu the west is the Canada goose. The next, and existing in great num bers, is the white-fronted or laughing goose, called by many “brant.” Of the regular brent-goose we have but few. We killed one out of a flock in the Illinois river, in 1860, on a sand bar, and believe it is the only flock we ever saw in that valley. The brent goose is about half the size of the Can ada variety, and is about two-thirds as large as the white-fronted, mottled, or laughing-goose. But in the absence of the regular brent-goose, the mottled bird known as the laughing-goose car ries the name of brant. And brant it is, so far as the average shooter is in formed ; for few of them have ever seen a brent-goose—and this is the only bird which, to their knowledge, ever bore the name. These same fellows call a partridge a pheasant, and an English snipe a woodcock. It is amusing to watch a flock of laughing geese as they approach a fa vorite feeding ground or a resting place. They come first in the regular acute aDgle line of flight. Suddenly they break ranks, and with one accord the whole flock begins a series of evolu tions. tumbling and turning high in air, and then descending in a most comical and irregular manner, to the amuse ment of the observer, all the while in dulging in jabber more resembling the merry laughing of a bevy of school girls than any thing else, from which peculiarity they receive their name. As a table bird it is highly esteemed, and is generally preferred to the Canada goose. In point of numbers it exceeds the latter in this locality, while in other parts the ratio is reversed. They visit the west in March and April, on their regular migrations to the lakes and bays of northern Minne sota, the British possessions, aud Labra dor, remaining with us sometimes as late as May in small detachments. Many are killed before they reach their northern breeding grounds. After rais ing the usual brood, and replenishing their thinne ' ranks, they gather for the autumnal return flight, and in October we see them wending their way to their old and favorite haunts, until the cold weather drives them southward to tho great marshes of Arkansas and the lower Mississippi. As they pass north in March, generally before a southerly gale, which carries them along with lit tle apparent effort, their coming is wel comed as a harbinger of returning spring. They come, too, in large num bers, accompanied by all the usual va rieties of water-fowl in even greater profusion.— Harper's Magazine. In Paris they call gray haira a “lit tle dust from the road of life,” CARTERS VILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1874. THE SAVAGES. Statistics of Hostile and Friendly In* dians-Official Figures. Correspondence of New York Herald. Little is known by the general public of the amount of our Indian population. I send you reliable data upon the sub ject, gathered from official sources. Of course no Indian census can be perfectly reliable. The strength of tribes is generally computed by the number of their lodges or wigwams, and six souls are allowed to every lodge. The num ber of warriors, or fighting men, to a tribe is usually counted at one to every lodge, though in some bands the pro portion is greater, rising, in exceptional instances, to an average of two and a half warriors to a lodge. The general rule is to count one warrior for every six Indians—men, women and children. Where the census is taken at some agencies, by families or individuals, the number present is counted, and the ab sentees are accounted for by the head of each family bringing to the agent a bundle of twigs, each twig representing an absentee. Where annuities in money or presents are given it is the interest of the head of each family to make it large to increase his proportion of re ceipts, and thus the census by twigs is uot a reliable one. East of the Rocky mountains there is an Indiau population of 188,415. Of these 17,937 are in Nebraska and Dakota territory, as fol lows : Winnefcagoes, 1,512 ; Omahas, 1,002 ; O toes and Missonrias, 417; Pawm es, 2,831; Santee Sioux, 1,394; Sacs and Foxes of Missouri. 82; lowns, 246; Brule and Ogallala Sioux, 7,885 ; Chey ennes, 1,800; Arapahoes, 750. Of these the Brule and Ogallala Sioux, and the Cheyennes and Arapahoes are hostile. Tney inhabit the country north of Ne braska, and from the Missouri river on the east to the Powder river on the west. In addition to these there are in Da kota 28,034, as follows; Lower Brule Sioux, 1,600 : Lower Yanktonnais Sioux, 2,250 ; Two Kettle Sioux, 750; Black feet Sioux, 1,200; Minneconjoux Sioux, 3,060; Sans Arc Sioux, 720; Upper Yanktonnais Sioux, 2,400 ; Ponca Sioux, 977; Oncpapa Sioux, 3,000; Ogallala Sioux, 3,000; Yankton Sioux, 2,500; Wappeton and Sisseton Sioux, 1,637 ; Arickarees, 1,500; Gros Ventres, 400; Mandans, 400; Assinnaboines, 2,640. Of these the Brules, Blackfeet, Sans Arc, Oucpapas, Arickarees, Gros Ven tres, Maudans and Assinnaboines are hostile. In Kansas, eastern Colorado and western Indian territory are the Pofcto watomies, Sacs and Foxes of Missouri, Shawnees, Delawares, Seuecas,. Kinsas or Kaws, Kickapoos, Ottawas, Kiowas and Comanches, Chippewas and Man sees, and Quapawa, making a total of 17,412. Of these the Kiowas and Co manches, Arapahoes and Apaches are hostile. In the Indian territory are the Creeks, Cherokees. Choctaws, Chickasaws, Sem inoles, Wichitas, Delawares and a few other tribes, all friendly, amounting to 47,804. - In New Mexico are the Navajoes, some small bands of Utes, Apaches, and Apaches and Miembres, and tho Pneblas, amounting to 20,059. In Colorado there are 5,000 Utes. In Montana there are the Flatheads, Pend d’Oreilles and Kootenays, Black feet, Piegans, Blood, Gros Ventres and Crows, amounting to 19,360. Of these the Crows are friendly. In Utah and Wyoming are the Sho shones or Snakes, the Utahs, a few Utes and mixed Shoshones and Bannocks, in all 25,250. These Indians are generally friendly. In audition to these there are in Min nesota the Chippewap, in detached bands, numbering 5,879; in lowa a wandering baud of Sacs -nd Foxes, numbering 264 ; in Wisconsin wander ing bands of Winnebagoes, 700, and the Pottowatomies. numbering 650. The Pawnees, Utes, Shoshones or Snakes, Arickarees and Crows are the euemies of the Sioux. The Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes are the allies of the Sioux, by association and inter marriage with them. Four or five years ago apparent differences arose between the Sioux and the Cheyennes and Ara pahoee, and the latter made overtures to the Shoshones to join them against the Sioux. Washakie, the chief of the Shoshones, placing no reliance in the good faith of the Cheyennes and Ara pahoes, declined to entertain the propo sition made by them, and the alliance was not. effected. In 1832 a severe battle took place on the Chug river, a few miles south of the present site of Fort Laramie, between the Sioux and Cheyennes and Arapa hoes, for possession of the territory. A treaty of peace was then made, when it was agreed that the territory north of the Platte river should belong to the Sioux, and that south of it to the Chey ennes and Arapahoes. In 1811 a feud arose iu the Sioux camp, and a consid erable number of the tribe left, went south and ranged with the Cheyennes in the Republican river country. The seceders were given the name of the “ Cut-off bands,” and now number for ty lodges. In 1844 a social feud arose in the camp of the Cheyennes and Ara pahoes and 140 lodges of the Cheyennes and sixty lodges of Arapahoes went north and joined the Sioux. They con stitute what is now known as the North ern Cheyennes and Arapahoes. The chief man among the Sioux is Red Cloud. He is not a hereditary chief, but a successful soldier, who, followed at first by a few adventurous spirits, has now, by success at arms, a retinue of 100 lodges of Ogallalas and 130 of Brules. Spotted Tail is a Brule, with a following of 200 lodges. Iron Shell and Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses are minor chiefs, respectively of the Brules and Ogallalas. The principal chief of the Arapahoes and Cheyennes is Medicine Man. The Sioux, Arapahoes and Cheypnues hunt in the Powder river country, and winter in the Black hills; a portion of the Brules and Cut Off bands hunt on the Republican river. The Republican valley will, however, soon cease to be a hunting-ground. It is already occupied by great numbers of white men, who make a business of killing the buffalo, not for robes, but for the leather to be obtained from tanning the hides. The buffalo leather is superior to the leather made from the hides of domestic cattle for all belting for machinery. West of the Rocky mountains there is an Indian population of 143,705. Of these there are in Oregon, cut up into small bands, 7,040, all friendly. In Idaho there are 6,044, ill friendlv. Of these the largest tribe is the Nez Perces, numbering 3,200 souls. In Washington territory there are 15,494 Indians, most ly in small bands, peaceable or well disposed. In Nevada there are numer ous small tribes, numbering in all 12,- 720, and all friendly and peaceable, ex cept the Goshrites, indefinite bands to the number of 800 Indians, reported wild and treacherous. In California there are 23.807 Indians of various bands, all friendly except the Piutcs, who number 4,000, and the Ser ranos, a small tribe of 115, both of which are hostile. In Arizona are the Yumas, Cheme huevis. New River Indians, Cocopas, Pah-Utes, Mnjaves, Hualopais, Pimas, Maricopas, Papagoes, Mogins, Casinos, Tonto Apaches, Pinals, and Coyoteros and Sierra Bianoos. The strength of some of these is unknown. As far as ascertained they number 16,200 persons. The Hualapais, Yarapals, Tonto Apach es, Pinals, and Coyoteros and Sierra Bianoos are hostile—the rest are friend ly or peaceable. In Alaska there are 62,400 Indians, of whom 20,000 are Esquimaux. The Hy- das, Kakes and Awks are the hostile tribes in this territory, and number in all 2,600. To recapitulate, there are : East cf the Rocky mountains 188.415 West of the Rocky mountains 143,705 Grand total 332,120 Herding on the Plains. A correspondent of the Chicago Trib une, writing from Wyoming, describes the system of cattle-herding there, and the habits of the animals : A herd of cattle, left to itself, forms a sort of or ganization, and is governed by set rules. In approaching the herd, first we see a few stragglers on the hills, that look like Indians, and which are the sentinels for the great body quietly feeding under their protection. If these warders or sentinels are alarmed, tho whole herd rushes together and prepares for flight or battle. The hulls command, and the dams and calves render them a cheerful obedience. The cattle graze in families of two, four and six head; then groups of a dozen ; and lastly we come upon the great body of bulls, steers, oxen and cows mixed promiscu ously together. I visited a herd on the Laramie plains and observed them close ly. I saw their warders, or sentinels, their families, and next the mass of the her,!. We drove for miles and miles— young bulls bellowing around us, heif ers kicking up their heels and scamper ing away, and old dams hastening to their young, as if fearful we came to rob them of their pretty calves. It was a grand sight, this herd of fifty bulls and three thousand cows, with their eighteen hundred calves. It seemed a mountain of beef and a large fortune for one man to possess ; yet I was told the gentleman who owned this herd had three others larger still. If pasturing on high ground, about the middle of the day, the cattle leave the hills and go to the bottoms for water. About four o’clook they go back to graze in the high grounds, on the rich gramma and bunch grasses. Here they remain until nightfall, when they lie down on the warm, sandy soil, and sleep until morning. The little family herds of four, six, eight and ten, stick close together, and seem to have interests in common, de fending each other, and exhibiting con siderable signs of ooneern and affection if one of their number gets lost or falls into trouble. In traveling back and forth to water they march in single file, and follow the same path, like the buf falo, wearing deep ruts into the earth. The oattle frequently go four or five miles to water, and, having slaked their thirst, nearly always return to the place from which they started out. Not more than two-thirds of the men who try stock-raising on the plains suc ceed. With one it is bad luck; another’s stock is stolen ; another is lazy ; another drinks ; and a fifth gambles off not only tho profits, but sometimes the whole herd. A man, to raise stock, must be not only sober, but industrious; and, when the storms come, he must be brave, and keep his cattle together, and feed them, even at the risk of his life. In time of peril or danger, the herder must never let go his grip ; if he does, the herd is ruined, and the labor of years lost. Enropean Capitalists to Pay Sonthern State Debts* N. O. Special to Louisville Courier-Jourual. In July last there arrived in this country tho duly commissioned repre sentative of European capitalists hold ing upwards of $200,000,000 of bonds of the southern states, armed with the power to effect with such states a settlement of their indebtedness, ac cording to the terms to be hereinafter set forth. This gentleman is now here, and as a partial result of his mission he has effected settlements with the follow ing states in the sums given : Virginia $34,000,000 South Carolina 10,000,000 North Carolina 20,000 000 Alabama 8,000,000 Arkansas (extra debt) 3,500,000 Total $75,500,000 The eight million fraudulent debt of South Carolina has not been settled, but negotiations looking to an adjustment are in progress. The terms of settle ment in all the states are in the main similar. The general features of the agreement are simply that in the con sideration of these states entering into a contraot and ratifying it by state leg islation, the foreign bondholders agree to fund the debt, principal and interest, and extend the time of payment of the principal for thirty years at four to five per cent, interest, as may be agreed. His visit to this city is for the purpose of eff?cting the same arrangements as to our state debt, and he has been in conference with Gov. McEnery and other gentlemen; but, owing to the un settled condition of our affairs, he has not yet attempted to give the matter, in this state, official shape. The draft of a bill, to be submitted to the state legislatures in ratification of the con tract, has been approved by the execu tives of the states that have already agreed to a settlement, and its passage will be urged by the respective govern ments. This gentleman states that he has authority to settle with Louisiana for her entire debt, foreign and domes tic, principal and interest, and to extend the debt thirty years, and will accept new funded bonds at four per cent., but is only deterred for the reasons al ready alluded to. The act whose rati fication by the states effecting the set tlement is indicated, provides a sinking fund for the positive redemption of the principal, and vests in the holders and owners of suoh new bonds absolute power and authority to enforce the levy and collection of taxes as authorized by the act to pay the interest and to pfo vide the sinking fund to pay the prin cipal. _____ Level of the Great Salt Lake. Silliman’s Journal for September gives, on the authority of the Utah Mining Journal, some very remarkable statements in regard to the level of the Great Salt Lake. The valley was set tled in 1847. The level of the lake is now twelve or fourteen feet higher than it was then. From 1847 to 1852 there was no noticeable change. From 1852 to 1856 there was a rise to the extent of abont six feet above the lowest level of the first-mentioned year. From 1856 to 1861 a gradual subsidence took place, until, in the fall of 1861, the level was two feet below the lowest mark of 1852, and the lak9 was contracted to about three-fourths of its area in that year. But from the spring of 1861 there went on a s'eady rise, the lake extended to once and a half its area in 1861, and its surface stood twelve feet above the ear lier level. Since that time the rise and fall have been about equal, the tenden cy being on the whole to gain, the fluc tuations not exceeding two feet. As to the prospects for the futur-, it is stated that the humidity of the atmosphfre annually increases as the area of culti vation becomes greater, and, as a conse quence, the evaporation becomes less. On the other hand, the mountain streams are steadily enlarging. Thousands of acres of farming, meadow and pasture lands have been submerged along tho eastern and northern shores of the lake, and many square miles of valuable lands still occupi and by the farmers will be completely inundated should the waters rise but a few inches above the level of the past five years, unless pro tected by levees. A monument has bqen recently placed near the shore of the lake to indicate the fluctuations of its level. This will be watched with great | interest for the next few years. ARCTIC DISCOVERY. A Claim that Americans Have Found Land Higher than tlie Austrians. Dr. Hayes, in a letter to the New York Tribune respecting the Arctic dis covery, says : The route to the pole by way of Smith’s sound wa3 first tried by Dr. Kane and its practicability was first demonstrated bv myself. Crossing Smith’s sound with dog-sledges over the ice from Dr, Kane’s winter-quarters, I discovered and reached Grinnell Land, finding everything near it a smooth belt of ice of the last winter’s freezing, proving that while the center and east ern sides of the sound were choked with heavy and almost impassable hum mocks, the west coast was entirely free when the previous winter had set in. This fact I reported to Dr. Kane, and upon my return to tho United States from that expedition, I published the opinion that by hugging the west oo&st a free passage ;could be had through the sounds. Upon thestrength of this argument my expedition of 1860 was organized ; but not having (by rea son of lack of means) the steam power which I desired, I was unable to reach the west coast in the teeth of heavy gales and drifting ice-fields, and was forced into winter quarters, with my little schooner badly crippled, on the east side, in latitude 78 deg. 17 min. In this respect my fortune was exactly that of Dr. Kane, neither of us having steam power. From winter quarters I traveled north with dog sledges over the ice nearly three hundred miles, measured as the erow flies, until I was arrested by open water a little below latitude 82 deg., my highest determined position by solar latitude beii g 81 deg. 37 min., on Grinnell Land. Beyond this I made a good pull northward, but having no solar altitude I could not fix my position beyond 81 deg. 37 min. with accuracy. Capt. Hall traversed Smith sound in the steamer Polaris without difficulty, as I bad long before predicted oould bo done, and passing over the route which I had passed over with dog-sledges, he reached the open water which I sighted. His highest latitude was 82 degrees 16 minutes— some twenty-five or thirty miles nearer tho pole than mine. But he was there iu August, a most open month, while I was there in May, before thawing had fairly set in. He was in a ship, and I in a dog-sledge ; but the open 6ea was to both our eyes the same, and, as I be lieve, in both cases illimitable, except as here and there obstructed by loose, drifting fields of ice. The highway to the pole was, I believe, open to Captain Hall, and, had he lived, I believe he would have reach ed it. I believe the. same thing could have been done by my old com mander, Dr. Kane, in August, 1853, aud by myself in had either of us been blessed with steam; and I believe, ns I have repeatedly assertod publicly, that the sound can be navigated with steam power any year, and in proof of this we may cite the fact that Capt, Hall experienced no difficulty whatever* in the Polaris, which, as if it were but a pleasure voyage, steamed in six days from Upernavik to the highest point ever leached by any vessel; and even the land he sighted beyond must, I think, have been something further north than latitude 83 degrees which seems to have been the northernmost point—Cape Vienna-seen by the gal lant officers of the Tegetthoff. For in 1861 I traced the outline of the land, which I named Cape Union, on the vest side (imperfectly traced, it is true, owing to the great difficulties of the situation), to latitude 82 degrees 45 minutes, and Capt. Hall must have seen land beyond this. So I must think the American Grin nell Land must have been sighted a little further north than the Francis Joseph* Land of Messrs. Payer & Weyprecht. I take some pride in thinking this, as it is not only an American discovery, but my own, and has been traversed by no other white man, except my one compan ion in 1854, and my three companions in 1861. I think I may still, therefore, claim the discovery of the most north ern known body of land on the globe, for on the Greenland side Capt. Hall did not extend the surveys of Dr. Kane (which terminated about latitude eighty degrees fifty so far north as he sighted beyond my own surveys on the opposite side. I have said this much in order that I might show some grounds for asserting my belief with you that Smith’s sound is “ the most, or only, available route to the pole.” Ladies and Vinegar. Taken in moderation there is no doubt that vinegar is beneficial, but in excess it impairs the digestive organs. Experiments on artificial digestion show that if the quantity of acid be dimin ished, digestion is retarded; if incieased beyond a certain point, digestion is ar rested. There is reason, therefore, in the vulgar notion—unhappily too often relied on—that vinegar helps to keep down any alarming adiposity, and that ladies who dread the disappearance of their graceful outlines in curves of plumpness expanding into “fat” may arrest so dreadful a result by liberal potations of vinegar, but they can only so arrest it at the far more dreadful ex pense of their health. The amount of acid which will keep them thi will de stroy their digestive powers. Portal gives a case which should be a warning: “ A few years ago a young lady in easy circustances enjoyed good health ; she was very plump, had a good appetite and a complexion blooming with roses and lilies. She began to look upon her plumpness with suspicion, for her mother wa3 very fat, and she was afraid of becoming like her. Accordingly she consulted a woman who advised he to drink a glass of vinegar daily. The young lady followed the advice, and her plumpness diminished. She was de lighted with the success of the experi ment, and continued it for more than a month. She began to have a cough; but it was dly at its commencement, and was considered as a slight celd which would go off. Meantime, from dry it became moist, a slow fever came on, and a difficulty of breathing; her body became lean and wasted away, night-sweats, swelling of the feet and of the legs succeeded, and a diarrhea terminated her life.” Therefore, young ladies, be boldly fat ! Never pine for graceful slimness and romamic pallor ; but if nature means you to be ruddy and rotund, accept it with a laughing grace, which will captivate more hearts than all the paleness ol a circulating library. The Taste of Blood. That strange and almost brutal sen timent which delights, for instance, in watching an actor feign death by poi son with horrible contort ons, reached its extremity in England the other even ing. At the Theater Royal, Cambridge, the stage was ■ ccupied by a raving sort of tragedy, in which a murderer is brought to justice. The actor tak ing this character refused to do more in the death scene than appear on the scaf fold, and make his last confession un der the dangling rope. There the cur tain dropped, but the peculiar British audience would not be satisfied, It roared, it hissed, it deolined to leave the theater, and the manager solemnly came out and apolog zed Tor being una ble to gratify his patrons by actually hanging the actor unless with his own consent, wbich ho was hardly likely to give. “Bring him out with the rope round his neck,” shouted these pleasant people, and their demand not being granted they growlinglyjand reluctantly left the house. A curious story is this for the student of ethics. We doubt if the theater-goers in a Nevada mining town would ever attain equal sublimity of brutality.— New York Tribune. Naming the Baby. A paying hoax was played a few days since, says a Clarksville coirespondent of the Louisville Courier-Jour cal, upon the family relatives of one of our young married men who had the good fortune (or bad fortune, whichever way the reader construes it) of having an addi tion to his family in the shape of a boy weighing nine pounds avoirdupois. A friend of the parents directed a postal card to each one of the uncles and aunts of the little chap, bearing upon the back there few lines : “ G has anew baby at liis lieuse named after you.” In a few days letters of congratula tion began to pour in. A gentleman from our city, one of the uncles, sent by express a beautiful silver enp, ac companied by these words : “ I thank you for an honor that my finances will not permit mo to accept very often from my numerous relatives;” another, writ ing from Paducah, feels “ highly grat ified that you should name your boy after me, and if it bears in reality my name, and is not named just forty-five years after me, you can draw upon me for his first boots and I will honor his draft.” He “smells a mice.” An aunt to the infant, writing from Hop kinsville, Ky., says : “Yon know not how gratified I am that you have named your little girl after me. lam not well now, but as soon as I am able to ven ture out upon the streets I shall ac knowledge the honor in a more becom ing manner.” An uncle at Erin, Tenn., writes : “Kiss the baby for me. I do not know how to thank you. As soon as I can find time to dig several pounds of ginseng I will send my little namesake a present.” And thus they continued to come from all sections, as the family is quite numerous. The baby is yet unnamed, and if it receives the name of each one who has sent a present there is a slim show for its future existence. Chinese Typography. Printing a book in China is done as follows : Two pages are written by one trained to the business, on a sheet of thin paper, divided into columns by black lines, and in the space between the two pages are written the title of the work and the number of the chap ter and page ; when the sheet has been printed it is folded down through this space, so as to bring the title, etc., partly en each page. The sheet, when ready for printing, is pasted face down ward on a smooth block of wood, made usually from tho pear or plnm tree. As soon as it is dry the paper is rubbed off with great care, leaving behind an inverted impression of the cbarac ers. Another workman now cuts away the blank space, by means of a sharp graver, and the block, with the characters in high relief, passes to the printer, who performs his work by hand. The two points that he has to be most careful about are, to ink the characters equally with his brush and to avoid tearing the paper when taking the impression. From a good wooden block some fifteen thousand copies may be printed, and when the characters have been shar pened up a little it is possible to obtain eight or ten thousand more impressions. Remarkable Well. Some well borers near Odell, Illinois, are profane enough to report that they have tapped hell, and are getting the full benefit of tho leak. Gas was discov ered forty feet below the surface, and at eighty feet a veiu of water was struck which spouted two hundred feet in the air, carrying up gravel as big as hens’ eggs, and sending everybody fly ing hundreds of feet away. This per formance continued until the sand and gravel were six inches deep within a radius of one hundred feet of the hole. When the jet of water ceased, the aper ture was found rrnch widened, with quicksand at the bottom, and a stream of gas had taken the place of water. A match was applied to it, and flames leaped into the air, producing a sound like thunder. The workmen think they have struck the gate of the evil doom, or brought foith a youug volcano, they don’t know which. The gas they are getting now causes a blue color in the vegetation for miles around, and the people are flocking from all quarters to see the strange phenomenon. Ancieut Weapons. An exhibition of ancient and modern weapons has been opened at Birming ham. They date from the fourteenth century. Among them is a breech load ing air-gun, made by Nook, an English man, somewhere about 1360, which has seven barrels, all of which explode with one blow of the hammer. There is also a beautiful breech-loader, bearing the name of Aquafresca Borgia, 1694. There are many exquisite breech-load ing pistols of ancient dates, with in genious mechanism, and the first at tempt at the revolving principle, in the sbajie of a double barreled gun, the barrels turning on a pivot. Many of the guns have reservoirs in the stock for ammunition. One curiosity is a single barreled gun to hold two charges. One charge was rammed home and several wads inserted,’after which the second charge was placed in the barrel. The top charge was exploded by a hammer about a third of the wav up the barrel, and a hammer at the breech then dis charges the second. Use of Thermometers. The differences in the ordinary mete orological observations are not so much owing to the thermometer, as a general thing, as to the want of a proper care in observation. To ascertain the true temperature of the atmosphere the in strument should never be huDg against the walls of a building, as the heat ab sorbed and radiated will cause a change of several degrees, depending on the nature of the material of the walls, and the sides exposed to sun or wind, as al so the radiation from the internal heat of the building. The best place is un der the shade of an open cover or tree, away from any buildings, suspended a few feet above the ground. The fact that the air may be at rest or in motion, will not affect the temperature. To as certain the heat of the direct rays of the sun, the instrument should be cov ered with a coat of lamp-black and ex posed to the direct rays of the sun in a sheltered plaoe. Don’t Scold. For the sake of your children, don’t do it. It is a great misforlune to have children reared in the presence and un der the influence of a sceld. The effect of the everlasting complaining and fault-finding of such persons is to make the young who hear it unamiable, mali cious, callous-hearted, and they often learn to take pleasure in doing the very things for which they receive such tongue-lashings. As they are always getting the blame of wrong-doing, whether they deserve it or not, they think they might as well do wrong as right. They lose all ambition to strive for the favorable opinion of the fault finder, sinoe they see they always strive in vain. Thus a scold is cot only a nuisance, but a destroyer of the morals of children. If these unloved, dreaded people could only see themselves as others see them tney would flee to the mountains in very shame, JOVIALTY. The Jolly Fellow a Snbject fir PHy Rather than Envy. Despite a general opinion to the con trary, the most miserable and misery creating of men*upon earth is the jovial man. We remember him at school ; his expressive arch lips, his handsome ever changing face, his bright swift eye al ways seeking for the applause they were so sure to win. A merry dog, a sad dog from his mother's knee, he led us upon all those jolly truant rambles which afterward oost so dear ; Le pro duced and fostered that oontenpt for earnest plodding industry which has oost too many of us dearer still. Cold fidelity and patience and ambition melted like snow under the hot sun beams of his genial raillery. The yonth was as the boy. His glorious, lealth brimming presence, the readme ss and versatility of his talents, made him the pride and envy of his fellows in the col lege or in the office, and the petted darl ing of all girls fortunate enough to know him. Conquering and to conquer, like anew Apollo, he lashed forward his horees of the sun; so generous, so open-hearted, there was no one but wished him God-speed, no one but gave him the hearty cheer he looked b ick for over the dust of his whirling whee s. Too many leaped up beside him to en. oy his triumph and be in with him at ti e goal —and his goal is generally the goal of Phaeton. For it is about now that the first crash must come, not always, not even often, an immediately fatal one— sometimes, thank God, it is even his nltimate worldly salvation, and, with a right eye plucked out, or a right arm cut off, he enters heaven. But this is a thing so sadly rare as to b* not worth talking of; the fatal gift of pleasing and dazzling easily can not be parted with, and its possessor haring lost the respect of his fellows, picks himself up from the dust, and begins his race again. Woe now for all that are connected with the dazzling fellow by ties of blood or marriage; seven woes for her whose bond is the latter ! He, he loves her well —he hates none but him he can not make laugh ; he loves her with a big hearted love, as he all the world • he only loves her a little less than he loves his ease, and the laughter and ap plau eof his admirers. And who does not still admire—ay, love him—beauti ful and kind and radiant as he is ? Who does not help again and again and again to drag him out of the sloughs into which his fascinating carelessness of all earthly things and duties beguiies him ? Gods ! what a hard and bitter world it is, that this bright creature, who is a joy to us all, should also become slowly a nuisance and a thing that we can not away with, aud to himself and those nearest to him a shame and a cause of reproach. For the end approi.ches slowly and surely, and the earnest piti less laws of the universe grind into his soul. The laugh becomes more and more infrequent: lines of care, care- that will not be mocked away, begin tc mar that genial face. The indecision about the mouth gives place to a fixed weari ness and even bitterness. Harlequin becomes Pantaloon. His occupation’s gone. He begins to be pitied; and then —then, the sooner he shuffles of! the stage, the better, God help him ! for himself and the world.— Overland Monthly. The Footprints of Time. Wrinkles are the first tell-tales of a lost youth, and the wrinkles make their way in a very stealthy manner. At first there comes the faint marking of one little line about the corner of the eye, and one at each side of the mouth. As suredly it is the sign of approaching age, we say complacently, looking at ourselves in the glass, conscious of our attractions in the perfection of ‘heir maturity. That little line, indicative of the furrowed future, is no more age than the one scarlet leaf of the n aple in the midst of the green wood is au tumn. It is the shadow of the herald, if you will; but it is not the real tiling. And so on with all the rest. But it is not so with our friends. The gap made between the past and present by years of absence is abrupt, unexpected. You left a blooming, sleek-haired, slim waisted girl; you find a faded, hollow eyed, gray-headed woman, the mother of children, afflicted with bad hjalth and tired of her life. Or you encoun ter a stout and florid matron whose bulk is a burden to herself and a mat ter not for admiration to her friends ; whose early shyness has worn off and given place to a free-and-easy good nature that may be genial but is vul gar ; whose girlish sentimentality has gone with her blushes, and who now openly proclaims her devotion to cham pagne and lobster salad as among the few things in life worth taking trouble for, and talks of the pleasures oi the palate as superior to every other enjoy ment. To be sure, paring away iu your mind’s eye those superfluous laye *s of flesh, you can make out the nose of the past, and the lips have the same c urve as hers had in the days when you w ould have giveD a month’s salary for a ass ; the eyes are the same color, but what bus become of their sparkle ? YSTiere is that roguish twinkle that made your heart leap when it flashed npon yon, giving point to a girlish sauciness that was so innocent and she thought was so naughty? Where is that dtwy, downcast look that was so con scious whee there was nothing to blush for ? Is it that ugly leer which tells of less tenderness of senti ment than you would like to see eve n in a man ? You must accept this as the “ survival; ”it is all you will have of the sweetness, the bashfnlness that once seemed to you the most exquisite grace on earth. “Johnson’s Jump.” The Loudon correspondent of the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser writes : “ ‘Johnson’s jump 1’ Do you know wLy these two words always call np a smile this side of the herring-pond ? 3 lost likely some good-natured friend of J. B. Johns n has already made American readers familiar with the most noted performance of the English chami ion swimmer, who was walking over lon do' Bridge some two years ago (the day before a swimming race for the championship of England, for which he had entered;, when he suddenly saw a man fall overboard from a steamtoat just passing down the river. He boldly plunged into the Thames from the bridge, swam to the man struggling in the water, rescued him, and the Daily Telegraph sang his praises in one of its most flowery leaders, lauding ‘Johnson’s jump ’to the skies. J. B. Johnson von the swim for the championship of Eng land with great ease the next day, and becan-e the theme of no end of heroic writing till it came out that the fall in to the river and the rescue were pre arranged affairs, when the bubble burst, and ‘Johnson’s jump’ became a sh-ck joke. It is this plucky joker who has been amusing the holiday-makers at Long Branch by his wondrous com mand over the water, and who beat Trau'.z the other day in a swim for Ihe championship of the states.” An undergraduate at Cambridge, who found among the questions on his exam ination paper this : “Why will no. a pin stand on its point ?” elaborately ex plained the point thus : “1. A pin will not stand on its head ; much less is it possible that it should stand on its point. 2. A point, according to Euclid, is that which has no parts and no mag nitude, and therefore a pin cannot stand on its point, 3. It will, if yon fit ok it in.” VOL. 15--NO. 44. SAYINGS AND DOINGS. An eastern paper thinks women ought to be hotel clerks. Probably because they part their hair in the middle. Italy’s finances are in such a shape that she can’t get out of debt for 200 years, even with good management. There is a steam cremating estab lishment in Virginia City. They put up the ashes in yeast boxes, to aid the resurrection. Railroad employee in Nevada, from the conductor to the fireman, carry fire arms, for the purpose of putting gam blers and other thieves off the trains. The James Lick monument in honor of Francis S. Key, author of the Star Spangled Banner, will cost 8150,000. It will be of bronze, and located in one of San Francisco’s parks. The grape crop of California was never in a more promising condition, both as regards quantity and quality, than at present, the vintage being placed at 10,000,000 gallons, against a yield of 4,000,000 gallons in 1873 and i '2,500,000 in 1872. Staunton, Ya., has a man who eats glass, not only without injury, but to ! the apparent benefit of his digestion. He expresses a preference for wat< h crystals, as they are more easily chewed, but will eat window-glass or even thick tumblers on a small wager. There is no accounting for tastes. Several years ago a hopeful young minister left the shores for the Canni bal islands as a missionary. On arriv ing at the end of his journey the na tives weighed him and cut a sliver off his leg as a sample. He came home by the next boat, and is now the traveling agent of a circus. The experiment of lighting railway cars with gas has been brought to a more successful solution in Prussia than even in this more rapidly progressive country. On one of the railways the experiment has been so successful that there is little doubt of the ultimate ex clusion of all kinds of oil lamps on the railways of Germany. A Word for the Mother. — Send the children to bed with a kiss and a smile; Sweet childhood will tarry at beat bnt a while And soon they trill pass from the portals of home, The wilderness ways of their life-work to roam. Yes, tuck them in bed with a gentle “ good night!” The mantle of shadows is veiling the light; And maybe—God knows—on this sweet little face, May fall deeper shadows in life’s weary race. Yes, say it: “ God bless my dear children. I pray!” It may be the last you will say it for aye! The night may be long ere you see them again! And motherless children may call you in vain; Drop sweet benediction on each little head, And fold them in prayer as thev nestle in bed; A guard of bright angels around them invite. The spirit may slip from the mooring to-night. At the National Science Congress in Breslau on September 22, a trial was made of Dr. Reclain’s apparatus for the cremation of the human body. The re sult was that half an hour after the corpse was placed in the furnace the soft parts of the body were thoroughly consumed, and in one hour the bones were reduced to a fine white ash. A correspondent describes anew kind of table decoration that he wit nessed in the honse of a Russian lady in London. The table was entirely cov ered with moss, and the only evidence of a white tablecloth was seen in that portion which hangs at the sides of the table. Flowers were profusely intro duced, and the effect, of course, was unique. Let not sleep fall npon yon eyes till yon have thrice reviewed the transac tions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude ? What have I beeu doing ? What have I left undone which I ought to have done? Be in thus from the first act, and pro ceed ; and, in conclusion, at the ill which you have done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good. Home is not a name, nor a form, nor a rontine. It is a spirit, a presence, a principle. Material and method will not, and cannot make it. It must get its light and sweetness from those who inhabit it, from flowers and sunshine, from the sympathetic natures which, in their exercise of sympathy, can lay aside the tyranny of the broom, and the awful duty of endless serubbiag. In a great city like London there are always houses which, from some acci dental cause, pass away from any re sponsible ownership. Sometimes they are occup : ed by tenants who, in the first instance, pay no rents, and then gradu ally assnme the rights of landlords. It is said there is a company in London organized solely to make a profit by taking possession of such property and either holding it or finding owners. In view of the fact that Watt’s hymns have been translated into the Choctaw language, and have b come favorites of the braves, an admirer of the noble red men says it is very affecting to think of a noble red man sitting upon a fenoe and singing, “How doth the little busy bee,” while he watches his wife carrying home a couple of bushels of potatoes upon each shoulder, and wondering if he couldn’t swap that squaw for a jug of robust rum. The late Hon. Sam. Galloway, of Co lumbus, Ohio, was a remarkably home ly man. On one occasion, while dining with a personal and political friend in Chilliooth®, the six or seven year old daughter of his host, who had been in tently studying Galloway's face, said, load enough to be beard by *ll at the table : “ Ma, didn’t that man’s mamma love children mighty well ?” “ Why so, my dear?” asked her mother. “Oh, just ’cause she raised him !” Mbs. Thompson, of Mohawk, New York, loves chivalrous men. She want ed one for a son-in-law. She bad some doubts about the young man who was engaged to her daughter, so she dressed in men’s clothes and picked a quarrel with him. The prospective son-in-law took ofl his coat, jammed the old lady’s hat down over her eyes, tore her collar off, broke her nose, and was about to make carpet-rags of her pantaloons, when he discovered that he was fighting a woman. Mrs. Thompson thinks he will do. Recently two elderly Scotch maiden ladies of a believing, faithful, and rather superstitious turn, being from the Hee lands, were startled out of their senses owing to a revelation made to them by an old gentleman traveling in the same carriage, as to the history of an air cushion wkich he carried on his lap with the utmost anxiety lest any one should touch it. “That air cushion,” he said to his fellow-passengers, in a voiee husky with emotion, “contains the last bre th of my dead wife. She expired in a fit immediately after blow ing it out. I beg, ladies, that you will not meddle with it." We thought that everything it was possible to Bay about “ hash” had been said, but here is another contribution : A certain hostess, whose table is noted for its uniformity of dishes, has a brisk daughter who electrifies her ma’s board ers with the following parody sung to an accompaniment on anew fifty-dollar piano : “ While beefsteak and venison costs lots of cash, be it ever so grisly, there’s nothing like hash ; the set apings and leavings ol no use elsewhere, when mixed altogether make excellent fare. Hash, hash, good meat hash ! Be it ever so grisly, there’s nothing like hash! A stranger from home, hotels dazzle in vain ; O, give me cheap eating house food that’s more plain ; the waiter who gayly re-echoes my oall for a nice plate 'of hash or a single fishball. Hash* 1 hash,” etc.