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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
"luM HALK,! E ‘ l,,orS and Proprietor*.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.
The Grant locomotive works of Pat
erson, N. J.. are understood to be in some
trouble. Tbe contract for fifty locomotives
for the Russian government had conditions
attached to the time of delivery, which the
Grant company found it impossible to comply
with, and work thereon has, in the meantime,
suspended. The company show a large sur
plus over liabilities, but in a very unavailable
shape, and the future of its affairs is depen
dent altogether upon the disposition of the
Russian government to be lenient as to the in
terpretation of the contract. The creditors of
the company wilt, prcbably, be at ’ ed in the
meantime for an extension of timo, until com
mnnication can be had with the Russian gov
ernment. It is said the company discharged
a large number of men. and will accordingly
close their shops altogether for the present.
WEST.
The Utah News computes the num
ber of polygamists in the territory at 1,000
men, 3,000 women and 9,000 children, and the
cost and loss by the punishment of all at $2,000,-
000, and that the courts would have around
them 3,000 crying women and 9,000 crying
children.
The Northern transportation com
pany’s steamer Brooklyn, bound for Ogdens
burg to Chicago, exploded her boiler last week
a few miles below Detroit. The effects were
fearful, instantly sinking the boat and killing
a large number of persons. The steamer Cuba
was a short distance ahead of the Brooklyn,
and picked up most of the survivors.
J. W. Haley, cattleYtrader of Texas,
is represented to have recently obtained ten
thousand dollars from Rogers, Powers & Cos.,
a stock firm of Kansas City, on pretense that
he ownod a large drove of cattle. He also
obtained five thousand from Banse & Snyder,
and various sums from other firms, after
which he sold his cattle for forty thousand
dollars and absconded, and has not since been
heard of.
The following are the officially an
nounced entries in the great $25,000 running
race, to be given at San Francisco, November
14, under the auspices of the Pacific jockey
club: Thad Stevens, Joe Daniels, Katie Pearce,
Hubbard Haney, Alpha, Hocking, and Hard
wood. Other parties east and in Oregon send
entries and money by mail and express. The
names of the horses are not known. Exten
sive betting has already commenced. Cluff
has offered three thousand dollars for the right
to sell pools.
Lieu 1 .-Gen. SheridaD, who is now in
the Indian territory, telegraphs Adjutant-Gen.
Drum of his staff, from Fort Sill, October 19,
as follows: Lieut.-Col. Buell struck a small
camp of hostile Indians on the head-waters of
the salt fork of the Red river, near the Salted
plains on the 9th of October, destroying it and
killing one Indian, and then continued the
pursuit of the Indians up the river, destroying
a camp of fifteen lodges and seventeen lodges,
and finally a camp of 400 lodges, driving the
Indians still further west into the edge of the
Salted plains, when they turned north to the
head-waters of McCellan’s creek and North
Fork. Lieut. Buell is still in pursuit. A large
amount of Indian property was destroyed and
a large number of ponies abandoned by tbe
Indians. A small party came in here last night
to ask for terms for seven of the Comanche
chiefs and their people. No terms will be
given, except a surrender of arms, persons and
property. Lieut. Col. Davidson moves out
again with his column on tho morning of the
30th, in a course due west, with forty days’
rations for men and animals for Col. Buell.
SOUTH.
The Seashore Saminary, at Hands
boro, Miss., was burned last week.
The navy department reports three
new ca'-es of yellow fever at the Pensacola
navy-yard. ;
At Vicksburg, last week, John Coni on
was stabbed three times and instantly killed,
by a negro roustabout.
The steamboat Esperanza was burned
last week at Profit’s island, on the Mississippi.
The cargo is a total loss. The chambermaid
of the boat lost her life. No other lives lost.
The Richmond correspondent of tbe
Petersburg News reports that Mrs. Gen. Brad
ley T. Johnson is seriously, if not dangerously,
ill from excitement, resulting from the late
hostile movements of her husband and Gen.
Mahone.
The latest advices from the cane
growiug regions show an uncommonly large
yield per acre, and containing a greater pro
portion of sacharine matter than usual. The
prospects are now good for the production of
the largest crops of sugar that have been made
in Louisiana since 1861.
The Blue Ridge railroad, including
thirty-thueo miles of finished road in running
order, in South Carolina, and all the property
and fraucliiea of the company, in South Caro
lina, Georgia, and North Carolina, was sold
last week in bankrnptcv, and bought by ex-
G jv. Scott for $55,000, in tho intorcst of the
first mortgage bondholders.
At Memphis on the morning of tbe
20th inst. a fire broke ont in a saloon on Water
street, in the Elliott Block, destroying the en
tire block. The principal sufferers were, Matt
Monahan, boat stores, and Elliott & Miller,
steamboat, agents and commission merchants.
Several saloons and boat stores were also de
stroyed. The principal losses are as follows:
Building owned by Shelby county, valued at
$60,000, insured in the North British $5,000,
and in the Firemen's Fund, of San Francisco,
$2,500. Mrs. McKinley, furniture, loss $1,500
—fully insured in tho Planters’, of Memphis.
A. Boggiana, saloon, $3,000 in the Clay, of
Covington, Ky., and SI,BOO in tho Queens, of
London. Matt Monahan and Elliott & Mil
ler’s loss will probably reach $3,000. The to
tal loss is about $75,000.
A distressing accident occurred in
Panola county, Mississippi, last week. A
party of four young men were hunting deer
in Tallahatchie bottom and became separated.
One of them, Ben Mitchell, while pursuing a
path through a canebrake observed a cane
shaking ahead of him, and thinking it a deer
fired the contents of a double-barreled shot
gun loaded with bnck-shot, and hearing the
screams rushed to the spot and founl Thomas
L. Mosely, one of his companions, lying dead,
shot through the head, David White, another,
shot through the head and mortally wounded,
and the third one, S. W. Johnson, severely
wounded. All the parties were respectably
connected, and the deplorable accident has
brought mourning and sorrow to many houses.
foreign.
The German government disclaims
any intention of occupying the Navigator is
lands.
Ex-President Thiers has written a let
ter indignant!? denying that he ever represen
ted that the French government was actuated
by sentiments hostile to Italy.
Spanish republicans have completed
the work of fortifying the lioe of the F.bro,
and an active movement against Carlists is
expected to begin immediately.
It is asserted that the government of
France has confidentially informed Russia of
its readiness, upon certain conditions, to sup
port Russia on eastern questions.
Garibaldi has accepted a nomination
as candidate for parliament from Rome, stipu
lating that he is to attend tho chamber only
when he thinks his presence necessary.
Monseigneur Montuer, formerly pri
vate chaplain to Napoleon 111., is dead. He
has bequeathed 150,000 franca to the prince
imperial, and the same amount to the pope.
A correspondent at Bombay, tele
graphs that it is estimated that two thousand
persons were killed in the town and district of
JlidbaFtf® during the recent cyclone.
It is reported from Spain on an
authority which is believed to be reliable, that
the Madrid government has sent five million
dollars for distribution among the Carlist
chiefs for the purpose of terminating the war.
Advices from Berlin represent, increas
ing public sympathy for Count Yon Arnim, on
account of the harshness with which he is
treated, and the rigor of the domicilory
searches.
The formation of a corps of Irish vol
unteers is being agitated, and extensive de
monstrations made in its favor in Ireland.
There is a strong effort to gain the consent of
the government to the plan.
A party of Montenegrins were recent
ly attacked by the Turks in the province of
Albania, and seventeen were killed. The affair
created great excitement, and a joint com
mission of the two countries is appointed to
investigate it.
It is stated that the Emperor William
granted an audience to Count Arnim Bortzin
burg. This signifies that a crisis has arrived
in the Yon Arnim affair, and it remains to be
seen whether Prince Bismarck or the powerful
Arnim family will prove tho victors.
Late reports from China state that
affairs between Japan and China remain pre
cisely as they were. The highest patriotic
spirit is exhibited throughout the country.
The nobles have offered a large portion of
their revenues to the government, and tho
populace of every province are formed into
volunteer regiments.
The Emperor William has written a
reply to the Pope's last letter, protesting
against the persecution of the German
bishops. The emperor says Germany has
done all in her power to live at peace with the
Church of Roms, but that he is bound to pro
tect the state against the violent attacks and
conspiracies of the clergy.
The Pall Mall Gazette has a dispatch
from St. Petersburg, announcing that affairs
are oritical in Turkestan and Khiva, The Tur
komans are growing bolder in their attacks
and depredations upon the tribes friendly to
Russia. The government of the czar has or
dered the khan of Khiva to repress all dis
orders, and the khan has replied that he will
carry ont the instructions of the emperor.
Advices from Buenos Ayres state that
in an engagement between the troops and tbe
insurgents, the latter were defeated, and their
commander, Placa, taken prisoner. Large re
wards are offered for the capture of the rebel
steamers. One has left Montevideo, towing a
vessel laden with arms and ammunition. Tbe
Uraguayan government intends issuing $4,-
000,000 of paper money. The bank of Entre
Rios has suspended.
A gale ou the coast of the north of
England, last week, caused serious loss of life
and property. All rivers in north of England
and Scotland were much swollen, the railroad
and telegraph lines interrupted, trees uprooted
in all directions, and chimneys and walls pros
trated. Many persons were injured in Edin
burg by flying debris. At Ayer, Scotland,
twenty vessels broke adrift in the harbor,
which is shallow and exposed, all of which
were more or less damaged, and one totally
wrecked. Three persons were drowned at Deal
and two at Sunderland.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Steerage rates to Europe have been
increased to S2O.
The coast wrecking company’s steamer,
A. Winan, is reported lost, with all on board,
fifteen persons.
George Reynolds, of Salt Lake, has
been indicted for polygamv under the con
gressional act of 1862. This will probably
bring that enactment before the United States
Supreme Court.
A large number of German bondhold
ers of tho California Pacific railroad company
have petitioned that the company be thrown
into bankruptcy, and ak the United States
district court to issue an injunction restrain
ing it from mortgaging or encumbering its
property.
A private meeting of the Western
Division of tee Brothernood of Locomotive
Engineers, representing all railroads west of
the Ohio river, was held at St. Lou ; s last
week and protested against the proposed re
duction of wages by various roads, as unjust
and uncalled for, and declaring it will not be
submitted to.
The president has appointed Thos. H.
Seaulan postmaster at Houston, Toxas, vice
J. E. Whittleby, suspended under the tenure
of office act, and T. B. Sabin, postmaster at
Galveston, vice A. B. Hall, suspended. Post
master General Jewell says these two sus
pended postmasters are the only officers in
Texas under his department against whom
public opinion seems to revolt, and that no
other changes are contemplated by him in that
state.
S. S. Foster, United States consul at
Apia, in the Navigator group of islands, says
he was at the port about the last of May, when
the German sloop-of-war Auccna came there.
Her commander levied $20,000 upon the native
chiefs, but through the intervention ef Ameri
can missionaries reduced tho claim to
Five thousand dollars of this amount was paid,
and bonds taken for the remainder, payable in
two vears at one per cent, per month interest.
The sloop sailed to another port, seized lands
in dispute between Germans and natives,
burned their houses and sailed away. Day
says ho is an eye witness to these transactions.
The Shooting of Nevada “ Teams.”
Recently, at a fialoon on the Divide,
some men were discussing the shooting
affray which occurred during the morn
ing between two brothers-in-law, Full
man and Ward. It was agreed on all
hands that it was shocking bad shooting
—a discredit to Washoe. At leas
Fioche man bantered the Comstock man,
whom he knew to be a good shot with a
pistol, to go out in the back yard with
him and do some shooting, just to show
the “boys” how it should be done. Id
the ssloou was a box of eggs, and what
the Piocher proposed was that each
shoot two eggs off the bare head of the
other at the distance of ten paces, the
one missing to treat the crowd. The
Comstocker was bound not to be bluffed
by a man from the other end of the
state, so to the back yard all hands ad
journed. Each man used his own six
shooter. The Comstocker first “ bus
ted” his egg on the top of Piocher’s
head, which exploit was loudly applau
ded by all present. It was then the
Piocher’s turn to shoot, and an egg was
produced to be placed on the head of
the Comstocker, but when he removed
his hat there was a great laugh, for the
top of his was head as smooth as a bil
liard ball. For full ten minutes all hands
tried in vain to make an egg stand or
his head. It couldn’t be done. The
Piocher then taunted the Comstocker
with having gone into the arrangement
knowing that he was safe. The latter
told him to set up his egg and he was
all right—he was there. The Piocher
went into the saloon, and a moment af
ter came out with a small handful of
flour, which he dabbed upon the bald
head of the Comstocker and then tri
umphantly planted in it his egg, fell
back ten steps, and then knocked it off
The Comstocker then told him to put
up his second egg and shoot at it, as he
didn’t want te* have his head chalked
twice during tho game. This was done,
and the wreck of a second egg streamed
over the Comstocker’s pate. The Pio
cher now stood out with his last egg on
his head. The Comstocker raised his
pistol and fired. The Piocher bonn ’ed
a yard into the air and the egg bounced
wh le from his head. “I’ve lost!”said
the Comstocker. “I>t all come up and
drink. By a slip I’ve put half the
width of my bullet through the top of
his left ear 1” and so it proved upon
measurement. — Vuyinia City Enter
prise.
Mas Austin, of Alexandria, Ya., has
lived in one neighborhood thirty-eight
years end never borrowed her neigh
bor’s flat-irons or a cup of sugar.
IN THE FALL..
O, autumn, with thy dying smell;
So faint, so sad. and yet so sweet
Amid the strewings at my feet.
By pattering nut and broken shell,
I feel the secret of tby spell.
The dying year it. full retreat—
Forever.
Rebnrnished by the last week’s rains,
The fields recall the green of spriu
The hills describe a sharper ring;
The dews in diamonds drench the panes ;
The leaves grow thinner in the lanes ;
The threads upon the hedgerows cling—
In silver.
Pale, like the fading forest hair,
The slanting sunbeams struggle through;
The skv is of a tearful blue;
A pensive essence fills the air;
And, with pathetic sweetness fair.
The wan world seems to wave adieu—
Forever.
The cattle browse along tbe lea;
The piping robin haunts the lanes.
The yellow-turning woodland “ wanes
The apple tnmbles from the tree :
And autumn ranging through, links me
To nature.
O pensive and poetic year,
What is the secret of thy power ?
Whereby my poesy would flower
Between a radiance and a tear!
And yet I find no radiance here
To paint what trembles to the hour—
Within me!
O Eden-world of hill and green,
And distant gleams of slumbering blue!
I find no lyric language true
To paint the shadowed and the seen ;
O infinitely touching view,
In vain thy sp rit peeps between!
The sublimities that lie in you
Evade me.
ALL AN ACCIDENT.
It was at the opera. An opera-glass
had fallen from one of the upper boxes
on the head of a gentleman sitting in
the stalls.
Now I had seen the glass fall; had
seen a round, white, braceleted arm and
a gloved hand stretched out to arrest,
as it seemed to me, its descent. It was
all done in a moment.
The gentlemen upon whose head the
glass had descended had been carried
into the lobby. An ugly wound had
been inflicted.
He was not killed, but gradually re
vived, and turned his head toward me.
I knew him—it was Stericker.
Then ho moved a tremulous hand in
my direction. He knew me, it seemed.
He tried to speak ; but it was some
time before he could utter any intelli
gent sound. At last we discovered his
meaning. He had lost something which
he desired us, meaning myself and by
standers, to search for.
Search was instituted accordingly.
After awhile, very near to the stall he
had occupied, there was picked up—a
glass eye !
He was gratified at the recovery of
his glass eye, but something else was
missing and that was soon found—a
curious-looking stud; it was not pearl
exactly. It was of an oblong shape,
milky white, and semi-transparent, in
a handsome setting of brilliants.
Stericker expressed great satisfaction,
in a rather incoherent way, that the
stud had been found. He clearly prized
it highly.
“It *vas a nasty shock to a fellow,”
said Stericker, not long after this, as we
talked the matter over.
I quite agreed that it must have been
a very nasty shock—a most unfortunate
accident. At this he laughed rather
wildly.
“ Whatever you call it, don’t call it
that.” he said.
“ You mean that it was not an acci
dent? ”
It appears that he did mean that.
“ But I saw the glass fall,” I said.
“ Yon mean that you saw her throw it
down ! ”
“Saw? Who?” I demanded, uncon
sciously adopting the interrogatives of
Hamlet.
“ Arabella! ”
I thought him wandering in his mind.
I knew nothing of Arabella. I could
not remember that I had ever encount
ered, out of works of fiction, any woman
of that name. And thence I came to
ask myself what, alter all, did I really
know of Stericker himself? In truth,
it was very little.
“ It was Arabella’s doing, of course,”
he continued. “ I know that very well.
I know the opera-glasp, for the matter
of that. I ought to. I gave it to her.”
Where I had first met Stericker I am
by no means clear. lam almost cer
tain that I was never formally intro
duced to him. But I had seen him at
various places upon numberless occa
sions, until I seemed to have acquired
quite a habit of seeing him. So at last
—the thing was becoming quiteabsurd—
there was no help for it but to recognize
him as an acquaintance, at any rate.
Finding each other so frequently face to
face in the same place, beneath tho same
roof, and even at the same table, what
could we do, eventually, but laugh and
nod. and say, “What! you here?”
And then we shook hands.
Still I protest that I knew little ol
him beyond what he told me.
And now had occnrred this accident at
the opera-house, confirming as it were
my acquaintance with Stericker, and
coverting it almost into a friendship.
He expressed great gratitude for the
assistance I had rendered him, although,
in truth, it had been little enough. But
again and again Le thanked me, and
presently, his wounded head having
been skillfully dealt with and relieved
by the application of strips of plaster,
1 found myself at his lodgings in Half
moon street, sitting in an easy chair,
smoking a cigar and dfinking a temper
ance mixture of brandy and water.
Until then I had never really known
where Stericker lived.
“And you saw her throw down the
opera-glass ?” he said, returning to the
subject of tho accident. I corrected
him. I had seen no such thing. But
he did not pay much attention to what
I said.
“And how did she look? Hand
some, of course. She was always that;
though she certainly is not now nearly
so young as when I first met her—and
loved her. For what could I do then
but love her?
“ There can be no mistake about an
attack of love any more than about a fit
of the gout. I have suffered from both
afflictions. In my time I have loved a
good deal, and I have, in retnrn, been
loved very much indeed. I say it with
out vanity.
“I have loved and been loved,” he
repeated, “and, I don’t mind owning,
I have in my time jilted and been
jilted.” He said this with a morbid
Don Giovanni air, that I thought par
ticularly objectionable. “Arabella jilted
me,” he resumed, “ and has never for
given herself for it, nor me either.
How fair she was in those days ! She’s
fair still, for that matter, though she
uses more pearl powder now than she
did. Fair, but false. Women are often
that, you know. Shall I say always ?”
I deprecated such an assertion. Ac
cording to my experience it was far too
sweeping. He conceded that I was
right, possibly. Yet it seemed to me
that he despised me for my moderation.
“ You remarked this stud ?” He pro
duced the stud we had searched for at
his request, and found in the lobby of
the opera-house. “It would have
pained me very much if I had lost it.
I regard it as a precious relic. It be
long®! to Arabella, once. In fact—
why should I disguise the truth from
you—that stud is formed out of one of
Arabella’s front teeth!”
His smile as he said this was not
pleasant to contemplate. His confes
sion had certainly startled me. There
was something dreadful about it, and
he had the air of an Indian brave ex
hibiting a scalp. He gloried in the
possession of Arabella’s front tooth!
How had he obtained it ? I ventured
to demand. Was it a pledge of affec
tion? Could they possibly have ex
changed teeth as ordinary lovers ex
change locks of hair? I hardly knew
what I was saying, or of what- I was
thinking.
CARTERS VILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAA r , NOVEMBER 4, 1574.
“ I was a dentist in those days,” he
said. What he had been before that,
and since; what profession he followed
at the moment of his addressing me, I
really had no idea. “And Arabella was
one of my patients. But she was no or
dinary patient. She was something
more, much more than that. She was
for a while my affianced bride. I loved
her, and she ljved me—at least we
thought that we loved each other.”
“ And you didn’t ?” ,
“ Well, we didn’t, as it happened,
love each other quite so much as we
thought we did. In fact, both were dis
appointed, and perhaps a trifle deceived.
Site thought I had money : I hadn’t. I
had been told that she was an heiress.
Well, she was nothing of the kind. Still,
I am a man of integrity, though you
may not think it. I had promised mar
riage ; I fully purposed to be as good
as my word. The idea of terminating
our engagement did not come from me.
But Arabella’s temper was imperfect;
she was far from patient; she was am
bitious, and, I must add, avaricious and
deceitful. She trifled with me. She
still held me enchained, but she encour
aged the addresses of another and a
wealthier suitor. She designed to em
ploy me merely as a means of irritating
his jealousy, and of stimulating him to
declare himself. TheD I was to be flung
aside as something worthless, because I
bad served her purpose and was done
with. In good time I discovered her
treachery. I had intercepted her let
ters—no matter how and I knew all.
But of that she entertained no sort of
suspicion. She had always fond smiles
for me, and false words and artificial
caresses. It. was maddening. Well, she
was, as I have said, my patient; and
she suffeied much from toothache. She
came to me in order that I might extract
a tooth that pained her. It was ar
ranged that the operation should be
performed under the influence of chlo
roform.”
He paused.
“ But surely you didn’t—”
“Hear me out,” lie said, and he
smiled, I thought, horribly. “It was
accident, of course, pure accident, I
was dreadfully nervous. Was that sur
prising? I loved her, and she was
amazingly beautiful. It was accident,
as I have said, or call it, if you will, an
error of judgment, bnt nothing worse
than that, as you value my friendship,”
(Asa matter of fact I did not value his
friendship in the slightest degree, but
I did not say so.) “My conduct, Ido
assure you, was strictly professional. I
did not even kiss her ; but I extracted
the wrong tooth.”
“ That was your vengeance,” I inter
jected.
“ No. She said so; but it wasn’t
true. I extracted, as I believed, the
tooth she had pointed out, desiring me
to extract it. Was it my fault, that it
was a perfectly sound tooth, and a front
one, too ? She said it was ; but women,
you know, are not reasonable in such
cases. I was a dentist then, with a rep
utation to lose; I was a lover then,
though a deceived one. However, there
was no pacifying Arabella. She was
persuaded that I had done it on pur
pose. She was most violent. She had
predetermined on a quarrel with me,
although she had not perhaps fixed up
on the precise period for its occurrence.
Well, she brought in on then. It was
an awful scene. How she abused me !
What language she permitted herself!
How she screamed ! What hysterics
she went into ! However, the tooth was
out, there was no mistake about that.”
Here he smiled again, most malevo
lently, as it seemed to me.
“Her treachery toward me was pun
ished, although, as I have stated, by
pure accident or error of judg
ment, which you please. But
Arabella vowed vengeance against me.
In that respect I am bound to say she
had been as good as her word. It’s no
thanks to her that I am living to speak
of these things to-night.”
“Then you really believe that she
let fall the opera-glass on purpose ?”
“I am quite satisfied of it. She
meant my death. She knew I was there.
I had noticed her before leaning out of
her box, and taking note of my position.
I was just thinking of changing it, sus
pecting what might happen, when I
was struck down. Arabella is a woman
who knows what she is about. She was
rlways that kind of a woman. I know
her. I’ve good reason to. And it’s not
the first time she’s planned to punish
me as savagely as she could. You did
not know until to-night perhaps that one
of my eyes was artificial ? No ! natur
ally you didn’t. Well, that was her
doing.”
“ What ? The artificial'eye ?”
“Don’t'be so stupid,” he said, rude
ly. No doubt I had been rather ob
tuse ; but I had heard of ladies paint
ing on glass and doing potiohomanle
and other strange things in the way of
fancy work, and for the moment, alto
gether, my mind was in rather a con
fused state.
“No,” Stericker continued, “but I
owe to her the necessity for wearing an
artificial eye. It happened at the flower
show in the Botanical Gardens. There
was a dense crowd. It was in the tent
where the pelargoniums are exhibited.
Not that I care about such things, but
it so happened. A lady advanoed with
her parasol held in front ot her. Sud
denly she seemed to thrust it at me, as
a laDcer might his lance. Her aim was
wonderfully true. The sight of my left
eye was gone forever. It was quite a
mercy that the spike of her parasol did
not penetrate to my brain. That was
Arabella’s doing, of course. Part of
her revenge.”
“ And she said nothing ?”
“ She said calmly, ‘ I beg your par
don. It was an accident,’ and passed
on. She looked very handsome. She
was superbly dressed. However, that
she always is. Her husband is old, but
amazingly rich. He labors to gratify
her slightest whim—so I’m told. But
her only desire—the sole passion of her
life—is to wreak her vengeance upon
me. I feel that she cannot forget,
much less forgive, the loss of her front
tooth. You see, she’s reminded of that
happy business every time she looks in
the glass, which she does frequently,
of course. She was always vain. And
she means, sooner or later, to bo the
death of me, that’s quite clear. She’s
made two very good attempts ; at the
Botanical Gardens, and to-night at tt e
opera. The third time perhaps she’ll
succeed."
“But doesn’t tho thought horrify
you ?”
“ I accept my destiny,” Stericker
said, smiling, and with rather an affect
ed air. “It would be something to fall
by the hand of such a woman as that;
that would be my consolation ; really a
fine creature you know, although no
longer in the bloom of youth ; indeed,
removed some distance now from the
bloom of youth, but still grand and
beautiful, and so resolute ! If she had
loved me as she hates me !”
“ You love her still, then ?”
“ Well; not precisely. But I admire
her, just as I admire the Bengal tigress
in the Zoo. If possible, I should like
Arabella to be caged like the tigress ;
but as that can’t be —well, I wear this
stud as a memento of her, and for the
rest I take my chance. Now, what will
you take? Another cigar ? No? Some
more brandy and water ?”
No. I would take nothing more. I
had, in point of fact, already taken
more than was absolutely necessary for
me. I left Stericker. I was much im
pressed by my experiences of that
night, by what had happened at the
opera, and his extraordinary narrative
touching the vengeance of Arabella.
Was it true ? I was really not in a state
of mind to determine. Even now I
have a difficulty at arriving at any dis-
tinct conclusion on the subject. But I
know that Stericker’s face wore, to my
thinking, a very remarkable expression
as I quitted him. His smile was simply
awful. And strange to say—at least, I
think so, though it may not strike
others in that light—l never saw Ster
icker again. He died shortly after
wads, as I read in tho newspapers, the
rictim of a street accident. He was
knocked down and run over in Hyde
Park, by a pony phaeton, driven by a
lady. There was, of course, an inquest
upon his remains, the jury deciding,
however, that he met his death “ by
misadventure.” Some attempt (had
been made to hold the lady responsible,
and to charge her with furious driving.
But nothing of the kind was sustained
before the coroner. Various witnesses
gave evidence, acquitting her of all
blame in the matter. Her conduct in
court was said to be most becoming.
And it was reported that, attired in
very deep mourning, she had followed
Siericker’s body to its last resting place
in Brompton cemetery. Now, was this
lady the Arabella of Stericker’s story?
She may have beeD. But I have no cer
tain evidence of the fact. Nor, indeed,
have I anything further to communi
cate touching the iife and death of my
acquaintance Stericker.
Ministerial Salaries.
The New York correspondence of the
Troy Times, apropos of the Episcopal
convention in that city, presents an in
teresting army of figures, showing the
contrast between the salaries enjoyed by
the clergy of the metropolis and the
divines now assembled there from rural
parishes. It is a rare thing for a ooun
try pastor to receive more than SI,OOO a
year, though in large inland towns the
rates may be increased to $2,000 and
even $3,000; but only thriving cities
can give what really is a handsome sup
port. Commencing with this Episco
pal body, its best paid clergy are Potter,
of Grace Church, and Morgan Dix,
each of which receives $12,000 a year.
In addition to this both have elegant
rectories and thus live rent free. Grace
Church, over which Potter presides, is
very rich. The individuals who form
the congregation are a solid and opulent
class, and when the house is full it con
taines $20,000,000. William Morgan,
the rector of St. Thomas, has a salary
of SIO,OOO, and Montgomery, of the
Church of the Incarnation, Haight, of
St.. Paul’s, and Swope, of Trinity
Chapel, are each paid SIO,OOO. The
senior Tyng, rector of St. George’s, is
paid $5,000, with a comfortable rectory
adjacent to his church. The junior
Tyng, rector of the Holy Trinity, re
ceives the same salary. Eector Cok,
of So. Bartholomew’s, receives SB,OOO,
while John Cotton Smith is paid only
$5,000. The best paid and hardest
worked minister in the Presbyterian
Church is John Hall, whose salary is
SIO,OOO, payable in gold. He is a pro
digious worker, and, even in a profes
sional view, earns his salary five
over. The opulent Collegiate Dutch
Church pays its pastors SB,OOO a year,
with a retiring pension of $5,000. These
fortunate divines are Chambers, Ver
mile, Ludlow and Ormiston. In the
Universalist Church, Chapin leads with
$5,000 a year, but he is able to make as
much more by lecturing. Bollows re
ceives SB,OOO, but is otherwise inde
pendent. Deems is paid $5,000, which
may be increased by some presents from
Mrs. Vanderbilt, who is one of his
patrons.
“ Everybody’s .Aunt.’’
Benjamin F. Taylor, who lately drop
ped in upon a camp meeting, writes a
letter to one of the religions papers, in
which he draws this capital portrait of
“ everybody’s aunt
And there is a mother in Israel, cush
ioned as to her chin, and a face as pleas
ant and hospitable as an open fire on
Thanksgiving day. At SIOO a pound—
and nothing conld be cheaper—she
would be worth $20,000, for she weighs
two hundred. Her hat is a “bonnet.”
It scoops out in front, like a young
scoop shovel. It curls up a little be
hind, like a young wren. She wears
about as many hoops as a stone jar.
But she indulges in a petticoat or two,
“ gathered,” as she will tell you, at the
top, and puokered with the pull of a
string, as they used to wind a clock.
A cape without fringe or ornament has
fallen upon her like the mantle of a
prophet, and enveloped her shoulders
and her arms even to her elbows. If
it were a little peaked and scolloped,
it would be a Vandyke ; but it is as un
mistakablv a cape as the Cape of Good
Hope. Her hands were in mitts, a
flumsy suggestion of gloves without any
fingers. She never dyed her hair. She
would about as soon shoot herself.
That lace of hers beams with good
ness and good will. You want her to
be your aunt, as she cannot be your
mother. You would be glad to sit by
her kitchen fire and hear her talk, and
she would be precisely as glad to have
you. Her easy, cushiony way of walk
ing suggests a gentle old chaise with
the top up. She is enjoying every min
ute of the time. She is a Methodist
of the old school, and she needs no as
surance from you that she will go to
heaven. She has it from better au
thority.
Gossip About Celebrated Artists.
Carl*tta Grisi was noted for a highly
poetical habit, which revealed her sen
sitive nature. When behind the scenes,
she used to have a nosegay of fragrant
flowers, roses being her especial favor
ites. She would eagerly inhale their
perfume up to the last moment, and
then hurriedly throw them to her maid
when she had to appear on the stage.
While dressing, Fanny Ellsler was sub
ject to the deepest melancholy, which
disappeared, as though by magio, at
the sound of the music. When dancing,
she was, as it were, electrified by fever
ish delight, which sometimes became
actually convulsive. Maria Malibran
used to draw for half an hour in her
dressing-room previous to going before
the public. Dressed as Desdemona or
Arsace she ate mutton-cutlets, sent in
from the neighboring Cafe Anglais, and
invariably washed them down with half
a bottle of rare Sauteme. She would
then light a cigarette, which she did
not throw away till she was called.
Rosini Stolz, who “created” the part of
the heroinejat the grand opera in “La
Farorita,” was fond of chatting behind
the scenes with those around her. She
was one of the most fearless artists that
ever lived. Stage-fright was something
actually unknown to her, and she would
break off her conversation to advance
with the utmost self-possession toward
the float.
Tough Goose.
A good many stories of stammerers
are told, but none better than the fol
lowing of Platt Evans, of Cincinnati: It
was one of his pleasures to teach his
friends how to purchase tender geese,
though he could not always get them
in the market. One momiDg he saw a
lot, and inquired of the farmer how
many there were. “About a dozen,”
wa3 the reply. “W-w-well,” said he,
“ I k k-keep b-boarding-house, and my
b-b-boarders are the biggest e-eaters
you ever s-s-saw. P p-pick out n-n-nine
of the t-t-toughest you’ve g g-got. ” The
farmer complied, and laid aside the
other three tender ones. Platt picked
them up carefully, and putting them in
the basket, said, “I b-b-beliova I’ll
t-trtake these three.”
It is getting tho business down pret
ty fine when a New York locomotive
cuts a man into forty-five pieces and
turns his boots wrong side out.
JACOBINA, THE PROPHETESS.
The Tragic Kitciminat icn of thr Mucker
Sect ot Fanatics in Brazil.
For some years back a small portion
of the vast flood of emigration from
northern German v has been directed to
Brazil, and in the province of Porto
Alegre white settlements of the race
have been founded, which, until recent
events disturbed them, were flourishing
enough. They had advanced so far as
to have their owu local newspaper in
that resonant language which, according
to Arndt, makes any land where it is
spoken part of Germany ; and the par
ticulars now before ns are transmitted
direct from the Deutsche Zeitung of
Porto Alegre, the paper in question.
The settlers were almost universally of
the Prussian state or Evangelical
church, and were rent by no political
or religious dissension. They were dis
tinguished by their attachment to the
old Fatherland they had left; and the
subscriptions sent frem the colony for
the benefit of tbe sick and wounded in
the war of 1870-71 astonished those who
knew how young and struggling a com
munity it was collected from. All went
well with them, in fact, until this' sum
mer, when their domestic peace was sud
denly disturbed by the pretensions of a
certain Jacobina Maurer to divine inspi
ration, and her claims to be worshiped
by all mankind. Those pretensions
would not have mattered of themselves,
but Jacobina was one of a large family
in the village of Ferrabraz, and her re
lations first, then her neighbors, suc
cessively adopted her views, and de
clared themselves true believers, with
an ease which history tells ns was not
displayed in the instance of Mohammed.
On what proofs the claims of this Ger
man edition of Joanna Southoote were
founded does not appear. But it is
certain that followers gave her the title
of “Ohristussin,” or “the female Christ;”
that a regular worship was established
for her ; and that her first convert or
confederate—it is hard to say which—
Hans George Maurer, was in due
form appointed her high priest. This
person appears to have been a man of
some intellect, and remarkable ambi
tion ; for he not only brought over his
neighbors to the new faith, but oon
oeived the idea of imposing it on the
whole settlement first, and then on the
world at large, by force of arms. Un
der his guidance, the Maurerites, or
Mucker, as they were nicknamed by
their opponents, carefully armed them
selves and stored up abundance of am
munition. It was not until these pre
liminaries were thoroughly complete
that they declared in the course of last
June their solemn purpose, and sum
moned the nearest of the settlers to join
the new church forthwith. Attempts at
enforced conversion of course produced
violent opposition, and this was lepaid
by the Maurerites with open plunder
and ill-usage as well as by threats of
deatb. As they numbered, including
the women who bore arms, a determined
band of over fifty adults, there was no
hope in the individual resistance of
scattered settlers; and in a few days the
unconverted inhabitants of the district
were all seeking shelter in Porto Alegre,
while their homesteads were stripped
and laid waste by the orders of the
prophetess. Volunteers were now en
rolled to the number of one or two com
panies, but it was thought better to wait
for the arrival of the government troops
who were asked for, than to attempt an
advance into the bush unaided ; for the
fanatics were familiar with tbe ground,
and were known to be better armed
than their adversaries, and prepared for
a desperate defense.
In July the expected forces came
provided with field-guns and rockets,
and a general advance was made, but
apparently with extreme caution. By
the 18th, however, the fanatics were
driven in on a position they had care
fully intrenched round a large house, of
which they had formed a keep, Th 9
light guns, as well as the rockets, en
tirely failed to dislodge them, and it
was only after a very prolonged skirm
ishing that the works were carried with
a rush. The defenders then fell back
on their keep, and when this was fired,
escaped from it, with some loss, into the
bush behind, in which they had secretly
prepared another strong position. For
the time it was not thought well to fol
low them to their new fastness. In re
connoiteiing it on the 21st and 26th
there were two more severe skirmishes;
and, though in each of these Maurer’s
followers had the advantage, the Ger
man volunteers being on one occasion
abandoned by the troops who should
have supported them, the number of
the sect had now been gradually worn
down by repeated casualties. One pris
oner was taken who revealed the fact
that fewer than twenty of the desperate
band were left. On the 2d of August
their last stronghold was surrounded,
and carried by overwhelming numbers,
though with considerable loss to the as
sailants. The demand made previously
that the Maurerites should lay down
their arms was sternly rejected, and
they died fighting to the very last, the
prophetess herself being actually bay
oneted through the body of one of her
devoted followers, who was striving to
screen her, while she encouraged the
rest not toyield. Only Hans George
Maurer and one other of the band,
Jacob Fuchs, were missing, who are
supposed to have deserted their com
panions before or during the assault.
It adds an additional touch of horror to
this catastrophe to know that the young
children they had had with them are
not accounted for, and to hear that it
was reported that they were all slain
not many days before by Jacobiua’s
command, a story which is supported
by the fact that the body of one has
been discovered with its throat cut close
to the miserable hut which was the
prophetess’ last shelter. Trie havoc
caused by the extinct sect during its
short sway over the outlying settle
ments is so serious that it is stated that
it will take years to restore the colony
to the prosperity it was enjoying before
this extraordinary outburst of fanati
cism brought misery on its members. —
London News.
Cheap Traveling.
A remarkable instance of the extent
to which competition may be carried is
found in the wonderfully reduced rates
of translantic passage at the present
time. A steerage passage to Europe
may now be obtained as low as $lO,
while the average prices are from sls to
sl2. During the past summer, many
Irish and English emigrants have gone
back to their native land to visit friends
and relatives, and they are now begin
ning to return—7oo having arrived at
Castle Garden one Cay last month.
The cheapness of the fare renders the
European trip really little more than a
pleasure excursion. Notwithstanding
the lowness of the prioe, too, and that
the pussenger is provided for twelve or
fourteen days with food and drink, yet
the fare is, upon the whole, good, plen
tiful and wholesome. The food consists
of boiled beef and pork, salt fish, hot
bread, crackers, rice and barley soup,
potatoes, hard ship’s biscuit, porridge,
molasses and a poor grade of coffee.
The passengers have to provide their
own plates and table cutlery. They
also provide their own beds and blan
kets. A “kit” consists of a set of tin
dishes, and a straw bed can be bought
of venders on the wharves for from
$2.50 to $3. These, especially the beds,
are usually thrown away at the end of
the voyage. Dining tables are provided
in the steerage, but most immigrants
prefer to have the food brought to their
berths by the ship’s steward, as they
usually have pickles, and other relishes
of their own, to add to their meals.
Water has to be obtained on deck, and
is generally much less plentiful than
food. There is generally a number of
musical instruments, and many musi
cians. On the voyage they amuse them
selves with music, songs and dancing.
Every day those who are able to do so
are required to go on deck and get
the fresh air. Considerable difficulty is
often experienced in stormy weather in
carrying this regulation into effect.
Those who are not accustomed to the
sea are usually very sea-sick and can
not be persuaded to leave their berths.
Their tickets are not taken up until
they have been two or three days at
sea. Now that this era of cheap fares
to Europe lif s been inaugurated in one
portion of the ship, it is ' morally cer
tain that, sooner or later, it must come
in the other. To be sure, it does not
cost so much to carry steerage as it
does to carry cabin passengers; bat,
with continually increasing competition,
it is very certain that reduction must
come in the higher class of fares, and
the profits of the steamship oompanies
be greatly cut down. The man who
twenty years ago would have spoken of
going to Europe for ten dollars would
hve been hooted at. That has come to
pass, and it cannot be long, with the
fierce rivalry now waging, that even
greater wonders may be looked for.—
New York Express.
The Art of Conversation.
“To excel in conversation,” says a
sensible writer, “ one must not be striv
ing to say good things ; to say one good
thing one must say many bad and more
indifferent ones.” It is mnch to be re
gretted, since conversation is the charm
of society, that thera are so few good
talkers in the world, when there are so
many orators. Most men oan harangue,
every little village can boast of a score
of fourth of July orators, each of whom,
with the field to himself, can hold forth
by the hour together, sensible and elo
quently, at least acceptably ; while the
same men in the drawing-room would
be completely silent, or monopolize the
floor in delivering a dissertation.
The art of keeping up the interest of
social discussions by short, brilliant
sallies, lively repartees, apt illustrations
and graceful allusions is exceedingly
rare ; it is attained only by loDg prac
tice. The southern nations of Europe,
particularly the French, are adepts in
eminently social art; but they are trained
to it from early infancy. The moment
a French boy can speak his expressions
of language are carefully watched and
corrected. He is made to select judi
ciously between nearly synonymous epi
thets ; and as he grows up this habit
becomes a second nature to him, beget
ting confidence, fluency and elegance
of speech. Nor does the Frenchman,
the Italian, the Spaniard or the Greek,
speak with his lips alone ; bis eyes, his
limbs, his features, are all animation,
and the “action—action, action” de
manded by the master of oratory as its
Alpha and Omega, is readily and con
stantly employed.
It might be thought that the fluency
of the languages of southern Europe
alone accounted for this facility, had
there not been brilliant examples of
conversational excellence in England,
in spite of the acknowledged harshness
of the Saxon tongue. Sheridan owed
much of the renowned —much personal
fascination to his brilliant conversation.
But with him it was not carried to the
extent of a second nature ; he suffered
under the difficulty expressed at the
commencement of this article. He was
constantly laboring to excel. His rep
utation as a wit compelled him to make
these efforts ; and he thus prepared his
brilliant sayings beforehand, and until
an opportunity occurred to introduce,
or rather to “work them in,” he sat si
lent and anxious.
It is related of Sheridan that an ac
quaintance of his, knowing his habit,
pilfered one of his “conversation cards,”
on which the heads of his anecdotes aDd
witicisms were written down previous to
being delivered at a brilliant party.
Having mastered this programme the
malicious wag went to the party a little
before Sheridan, and related all his
good things, so that when the wit him
self arrived he was mortified and as
tounded at the coldness and indifference
with which all his sallies were received,
and at being told that all his bran new
stories were affairs of at least an hour
old ! Theodore Hook was far happier
than Sheridan in society; a running fire
of puns, witicisn and humor sustained
the spirit of his talk and rendered him
irresistable. But he possessed the rare
gift of improvisation.
“The soul of conversation,” says
Hazlitt, “is sympathy.” Authors should
converse chiefly with authors, and their
talk should be chiefly of books. No
man can get above his pursuit in life ;
it is getting above himself, which is im
possible. In general it shines only by
reflection. You must take your cue
from your company—must rise as they
rise, and sink as they fall. Yon must
see that your good things, knowing al
lusions, are not flung away like the
pearls in the adage.
Lawless Texan Ruffians,
For some time past the vicinity of
Kearney Junction, Neb., 200 miles west
of Omaha, has been infested with a
lawless set of Texan herders, wha have
made periodical drunken raids into
town, firing revolvers, yelling, and de
fying the officials to arrest them. On
Thursday afternoon five of them made
another drunken raid into town. The
sheriff summoned a posse to arrest
them. The ruffians resisted by firing
at their pursuers. The citizens re
turned the fire, fatally wounding one
named Peeler, and wounding another
slightly. The latter with the three
others escaped. Peeler will die. Sat
urday afternoon the citizens were again
surprised by a repetition of Thursday’s
disgraceful affair. Three Texan herd
ers came riding into town, firing pistols,
cursing and racing their horses through
the streets, threatening the lives of the
citizens. The latter immediately armed
themselves and assembled to drive the
deeper idoes out of town. A sharp fight
ensued, in which one of the herders
oalled “ Texas {Spencer,” was unhorsed,
being mortally wounded. Another had
an e&v shot off. All but Spencer es
caped. None of the citizens were hurt.
They have organized to rid the country
of this dangerous class, who come with
draves of cattle from Texas, and have
long been a terror to peaceable citizens
in and near Kearney.
Rachel’s Avarice.
Mile. Rachel, the late great French
tragic actress, who, nineteen years ago,
visited this country on an artistio tour,
had a well-deserved reputation for
shocking avarice; in fact, she would
have cut a cent into four pieces. As she
was at supper one night, in a reunion of
artists and authors at Alexandre Dumas’
father’s (whose prodigalities and superb
disdain for money afforded a striking
oontrast with the celebrated Jewess’
oovetousnass i, the company indulged in
playing cards, and Rachel, taking out
of her pocketbook some money for the
game, let a silver piece of 50 centimes
(10 cents) fall on the floor. Much
troubled by the incident, she immedi
ately called for Dumas’ servant to bring
a candle and fetch the important trifle.
“ Let me do it,” maliciously exclaimed
Dumas, sending back his servant “I’ll
find it for yon, my love.” And, taking
out of bis pocket a bank note of 100
francs (S2O), he lighted it at the luster,
picked up under the table the half
franc niece, and most graciously ten
dered it to Rachel, who carefully put it
in her portmonnaie as Bhe would have
done with a relic coming from he? an
cestor Moses;
ECLIPSES.
What Pro*. Simou .ttwcoinb Ivnow*
About Them.
I have said that the sun pursues a
oertain definite path among the stars,
about half a degree wide, which you
oould see if he left any trace ; so/ also,
if you could mark the position of the
moon to-night among the stars, and
mark its position at every hour during
her whole course, you would find that
she has alse pursued a defi lite path
among the stars, bnt yon would not find
this path to be the same as the sun’s
path. If it were the same, we should
have an eclipse of the sun every time
the moon crossed the sun, and an
eclipse of the moon every time that the
moon passed on the other side of the
earth from the sun. Bnt the two paths
are inclined to each other about five de
grees. They cross each other at a point
which, in the month of October, 1874,
is very near the sun. The moon’s path
is south of the sun’s in nearly all that
part of the heavens which we can see
in the evenings of that month ; bnt it
approaches the sun’s path and crosses
it near the eastern horizon, and in most
of the invisible half of the sphere, or
that part below the horizon, the moon’s
path is farther north. All this will be
clear on examining the star maps,
where the dotted line shows the path of
the moon during 1874, crossing the
sun’s path in the constellations Aries
and Libra.
These two opposite points in which
the moon’s path crosses the path of the
sun are called the nodes. It is very
clear that unless the sun is near one of
the moon’s nodes, when the moon her
self passes by, the moon will pass above
or below the sun, according as her path
is above or below that of the sun at this
point, and consequently there will be no
eclipse. But if the sun happens to be
near the node, then the moon will
necessarily pass over his face and
eclipse seme portion of him. Now, as
I have just explained, there are two op
posite nodes ; the one set a few hours
ago, and the other has just risen. Since
the sun makes the whole circuit of the
heavens in the course of a year, he
crosses the moon’s nodes twice in that
time. In 1874 he crosses one node in
May, and will cross the other node in
November; consequently it is only
about these two times that any eclipse
can take place during this year.
If the moon always followed the same
path in the heavens, we could i.ever
have any eclipses but at those two sea
sons. But if we watch the motions of
the moon for several years in succes
sion, we shall find that her path is con
tinually changing. present time
she passes seven degrees north of
Aldebaran; a month hence she will
seem to pass the star at almost exactly
the same distance ; but if you continue
your observations for four oi five
months, you will find that she passes it
perceptibly further north, and in three
years you will find that she crosses it
at the distance of about ten degrees.
After that she would begin to cross
farther south, passing near Aldfbarau
at every revolntion for eight year 3, un
til in 1885 and 1886 she will pass right
over it. 1 f the moon’s path were painted
on the heavens, you would see that
every time the moon came round lo the
same point in her path, which takes
place about every twenty-seven days,
she would cross the sun’s path about
three of her own diameters sooner than
the month before. In tbe course of a
year, therefore, she will have crossed
about thirty-six diameters sooner, or
farther to the west. In the oourso of
twenty years you will find that th s mo
tion has been kept until she crosses at
the same point she does now, and thus
the nodes have made a complete circuit
of the heavens. The seasons of eclipses
vary, therefore, in the same manner.
This year they are in May and October;
in five years from now they will occur
months earlier, and we shall have
them in February and August five
years more, and they will be in October
and May; five years more, in August
and February; five years more, and
they will correspond once more to what
they are now. — Harper's Magazine.
Female Taste.
A cultivated taste marks a woman of
elegance and refinement as decidedly as
knowledge of classical literature does a
gentleman; and there is nothing in
which female vulgarity is more clearly
shown than in want of taste. This is
an axiom that we think will not admit
of dispute; but it is a question how far
taste is aatural, and how far it may be
acquired. A delicate taste must, to a
certain extent, depend upon the organi
zation of the individual; and it it im
possible for any rules to be laid down
which will impart taste to persons en
tirely devoid of it. But this is very
seldom the case with women, as it is
one of the few points in which women
naturally excel men. Men may be, and
probably are, superior to women in all
that requires profound thought and
general knowledge ; bnt in the arrange
ment of a house, and the introduction
of ornamental furniture and articb s of
bijouterie, there can be no doubt of the
innate superiority of women. E' r ery
one must nave remarked the difference
in the famishing of a bachelor’s" house
and one where a lady presides; the
thousand little elegancies of the latter,
though nothing in themselves, adding,
like cyphers, prodigiously to the value
of the solid articles they are appended
to.
Women’s Fall Hats.
Every year we are prone to declare the
new hats more unbecoming and ungainly
than ever before. But, hitherto, we
have misused our mother-tongue.
Though we know it not, superlative,
ere this, have been wretchedly out of
place. Privately, lam inclined to think
that some of the masculine hat-house,
having had large stocks of felts left
over for a season or two past, must
have disposed of them cheaply to milli
ners, who agreed to bring them cut as
something novel for women. Certain it
is, that no shadow of difference can be
detected between a majority of the new
femine head-coverings and the soft sum
mer felts worn by men. They are iden
tical t ven to the narrow repped ribbon
binding, and the band around the crown.
There are, of course, variations of the
high-crowned mannish style ; bnt that
prevails, and may well be considered
the style of the season. Indeed, cer
tain economical persons are trimmiig
and freshening their husband’s lest
summer hats, thereby rendering them
selves modish and thriftful at the sane
time. The brims of the hats are un
wired, and, therefore, offer an irresisti
ble opportunity for jaunt, and pokes,
and dents, which is eagerly embraced
by the trimmers. — Cor. Chioago Trib.
Is It or Isn’t It?
Now is the time when the roman" ic
maiden fathers the falling leaves and
begins to exclaim: “Lo! this is tie
Indian summerand when the exrct
youDg lady promptly replies: “No; it
comes later, I’m sure.” “I think yon
are mistaken,” says Miss Rom ant c.
“No, indeed I’m not,” says Miss Exact.
“I know you are,” says Miss Romant c.
“ Nothing of the sort,” says Miss Exact.
“Then I suppose you mean to say I
fib?” says Miss Romantic. “If the cip
fits you, wear it,” Bays Miss Exa*4
“ Insulting wretch,” says Miss Roman
tic. “ Spiteful hussy,” says Miss Exact
And seasons may come and season.) may go,
But women wag on forever.
Thk Princess of Wales is said to lie
the hardest working woman in Eng
land, but somehow or other the Dnchess
of Edinburgh got several days’ start if
her in the matter of anew fall bonnt t,
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SITtSGS ASD DOISBS.
Boston has lost more than seventeen
millions of dollars in six years, from
the evasion of taxes by dishonest prop
erty-holders.
If anything will impress the hnraan
mind with awe, it is the expression of a
man’s face who has just been aroused
from snoring in church.
There will be some young widows in
Utah before Christmas, if the astrol
oger who predicts Brigham’s death on
the 7th of December is not also a false
prophet.
Rev. J. R. Standard, of Indiana,
sued a newspaper for libel and dropped
dead within a week after commencing
the suit These fellows will learn a
few things'.by and by.
The son of an editor in Pennsylvania
has been recently convicted of arson,
being prompted to commit the crime by
a desire to make interesting local news
for. his father’s paper.
London gossips are dealing in a lively
way with the fact that Disraeli lately
had lilies and foget-me-nots in his but
tonhole. They say that marriage .is
the least possible consequence.
Western papers are combining to
discourage the offering of prizes at fairs
for the best women equestrians, as they
say the exercise is too trying and kills
most of the women engaging in it.
The Paris Figaro says that 45,000
greenfinches are blinded every year, in
France, to make them sing, and that
this cruelty is practiced generally by
the little boys, at the primary schools.
“ Where did you learn wisdom ?” in
quired Diogenes of a man esteemed
wise. “ From the blind,” was the re
ply, “who always try their path with
a stick before they venture to tread on
it” . *
If you want to realize the heiguts to
which feminine eloquence can mount,
go home and find your wife in company
with a table covered with jars of canned
fruit, and ask her why she has her hand
wrapped in a cloth.
Imagine the wrath of the young woman
who rises from her seat in the car to
give it to an old lady when she turns
around and fseea that the young man
opposite is looking out of the window,
instead of gazing at her approvingly.
Pere Hvacinthe seems to agree with
Mr. Disraeli as to the coming of a great
war. In a speech he delivered at
Geneva lately he said he “saw in the
horizon war raising its hideous head—
international war, civil war, religious
war.”
The Nashville reporters are aston
ished over a spare young man down
there who takes nine cups of coffee and
a great quantity of sandwiches at a sin
gle meal. The possibility of a tape
worm does not appear to have suggested
itself.
The attempt to export young Ameri
can shad to Germany for stocking the
rivers has proved a failuie. Although
abundantly supplied with fresh Croton
water, all of the hundred thousand fish
died of starvation before the end of the
journey.
None but those who keep up appear
ances against heavy odds can under
stand what servitude pretence imposes
upon the sensitive soul. The sting of
confessed poverty is not nearly so burn
ing as is the reality of being poor while
seeming to be rich.
Intemperance is largely on the in
crease in Glasgow, Scotland, and the
authorities are very much troubled
about it. Saturday night thousands of
factory hands —men and women—be
come outrageously drunk, and remain
in that condition over Sunday.
Directory Man— “ How many reg
ular and steadv boarders are there in
this house?” Landlady—“ Well, there’s
fifteen o’ them in all, sir; but some
stays out more nights than I like, and
only four is what you can call regular
and steady, owing to sickness.”
Brick vaults and safes are now manu
factured so that any attempt to reach
their interior breaks sundry bottles
filled with sulphuric acid inte powdered
carbonate of lime. This produces in
stantaneously carbonic gas enough to
suffocate a regiment of burglars.
Sib Isaac Newton, a little before he
died, said: “I don’t know what I may
seem to the world, but, as to myself, I
seem to have been only like a boy play
ing on the seashore, and diverting my
self in now and then finding a smoother
or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst
the great ocean of truth lay all undis
covered before me.”
VniGABiTY means the exhibition of
those peculiarities of speech and man
ner which offend refinement. It makes
a naked display of coarse and unedu
cated human impulse. It mostly lies in
the absence of consideration for the
filings of others, in narrow-minded
self-assertion, and in a selfish want of
control over anti-social propensities.
Thebe are many evils that lark
around the heart, and many temptations
prompting us to respond to their calling,
but none more readily 00-works with all
evil than profanity, and is ever ready to
lay waste a moral and upright mind,
with its deadly sting and poisonous ar
row. Profanity, we can truthfully say,
is the anchor of many evils arising from
an un governed disposition.
Efforts to reach the gypsies with re
ligious teaching, says the Christian
Union, have never met with mncli suc
cess—probably have not been prosecu
ted in the hope of success. There are
about seven hundred thousand of them
in Europe and eighteen thousand in.
England. Their religion seems to ex
tend no further than a belief in their
annihilation at death. Converts, how
ever, are made here and there.
Widow Jones’ husband died far awav
from home, and it took so long to reach
her that the relict had quite recovered
from her grief, and was giving a large
lunch party, when the body finally ar
rived. A wagon drove up to the door,
and a large box was handed out. Curi
osity ran high among the ladies at the
window, and with one accord they ex
claimed, “Why, Mrs. Jones, what can
that be?” Up* went Mrs. Jones’ eye
glasses, and after a glance she coolly
said, “Well, it must be old Jones oome
home. ’Charley, run down and open
the door for your father.”
There is a good deal of wisdom to be
found in the by-ways. A recent Eng
lish book mentions some lines, known
as the “Seven Conditions,” which ap
pear beneath a series of old designs to
be found in almost every house on both
banks of the Rhine. The first is the
emperor, who says : “ I levy tribute.”
Next comes the nobleman, who says :
“I take tithes.” The Jew (mediaeval
type of the trader) says: “I live on
my profits.” The soldier says: “I
pay for nothing.” The beggar says:
“ I have nothing. ” The peasant says:
“ Qod help me, for these six other men
have all to be supported by me.”
Capital punishment has been totally
abolished in Switzerland. The new
penal code of that republic may be
briefly summarized : Homicide, com
mitted voluntarily, is to be qualified as
murder, and punished with from ten to
twenty years of solitary confinement.
Premeditated murder (“with malice
prepense”) is to be classed as assassina
tion, punishable with solitary confine
ment for life. Murder by poisoning,
also with the Bame punishment, whether
death is occasioned at once or by a slow
poison. If death does not result from
the administration of poison, the pun
ishment is to be from ten to twenty
years’ solitary confinement. For infan
ticide, the punishment is solitary con
finement for not less than three cor
more than five years.