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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, VOL. 15--NO: 45. 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.