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NEWS OF THE WEEK,
EAST.
A billiard match for 82,000 and the
championship of the United States will be
played in New York the last week of Decem
ber.
The reign of lawlessness in' the coal
regions of Pennsylvania appears to be con
tinually growing worse, caused perhaps by
the fact that most of the perpetrators of the
assaults and murders escape capture and pnn
i shment.
The creditors of Neil McCallum,
leather merchant, of New York, who failed
for 8280,000, have accepted thirty cents on the
dollar. McCullum’s books show losses of over
one hundred thousand dollars the past year,
owing to the failure of shoe dealers in various
parts of the country.
The number of deaths in New York
city from diptheria and membraneous croup
during the last six weeks aggregates 333, of
which 67 occurred within the week closing
November 7, 54 of these being from diptheria
and 13 from the kindred malady—croup. In
its nature the disease is clearly epidemic, and
large proportion of the cases, if not the ma
jority, are due to unfavorable sanitary con
ations.
About one thousand families of the
Mennonite sect are arriving, this fall, in Kan
sas, where 150,(XX) acres of land have been
taken up and paid for in cash for the site of
the colony. They are all farmers who have
yet made their appearance, although under
the law of the sect every man is also master
of a trade. They carry on most of their man
ufactures and probably will not add much to
the custom of the local trade.
WEST.
Gleason k Fell, dry goods merchants
of San Francisco, have failed for $200,000.
The strike by the coal miners of St,
Clair county, Illinois, has terminated in their
defeat.
An auction sale of the Lick property,
at San Francisco, donatod to pnblie uses, took
placejreceutly, and aggregated nearly $2,000,-
000.
The United States’ detectives have
discovered—as they always do, too late—that
the western states have been flooded with
Bkillful counterfeits of national bank notes.
The Illinois state Christian association
is in session at Chicago. One of the main
objects sought by this association is the over
throw of secret societies, and a number of
prominent opponents of Freo Masonry, and
other secret organizations, are in attendance.
A communication having been re
ceived from the Cheyenne agency, in Dakota,
to the effect that about sixty white men, min
ers, are working in the Sioux reservation in
the Black hills, Secretary Delano requests the
war department to remove all such persons
who may be found trespassing, that trouble
with the Indiaus’mav be avoided.
The census of the Indians belonging
to the Red Cloud agency shows 9,3300ga11a11a
Sioux and 3,000 Arapahoes and Cheyennes,
besides some 900 Ogallallas, who are hunting
on the Republican livtgr, and about 1,000 Meu
necorjar and other northern Sioux, who ran
away from the agency rather than be counted.
All these Indians submitted to the census be
ing taken only under the influence of hung* r
aid bayonets. tßed’Cloud’s efforts to secure
the census have had the effect of reducing
the number of his personal adherents, from
m iny thousands to barely 500.
A dispatch from McClellan creek
states the 200 Cheyennes, who recently en
gaged Captain ,Farnsworth’s command of 25
men and were defeated, recently encountered
93 men of the United States cavalry and in
fantry, in command of Lieut Frank D. Bald
win, chief of scouts. After a fight, lasting
some hours, they were driven from the field.
The Indians lost their entire outfit and left be
hind them two little white girls named Ger
man, whose parents, brothor and older sister
were massacred in Kansas, while the family
were moving to Colorado. Two other sisters,
aged thirteen and fifteen, aro still in the hands
of the Indians. Fresh and picked troops have
gone in pursuit of the retreating Indians,
who are moving for the staked plains.
SOUTH.
Small-pox is epidemic at Brownsville,
Texas.
The yellow fever has disappeared ]
from Pensacola.
John Morrissey is going to establish
a high-toned gambling hell at Jacksonville,
Florida.
A generat reduction of wages has
taken place on the Bt. Louis and Southeastern
railroad.
Hon. A. H. Stephens is said to be in
better health than for ten years, and weighs
eighty pounds.
Thos. Wagoner was shot and mortally
wounded by another farmer named Cables, at
Ilearfield point, Arkansas, last Saturday, dur
ing a quarrel about some steel traps.
A young lady by name of Bowling was
killed by lightning at her residence in Greene
county, Tenn., on Tuesday of last week. Other
persons who were standing near her were not
injured.
The jury in the case of T. T. Brooks,
president of the Merchants’ national bank of
Petersburg, Va., rendered a verdict of guilty
of embezzlement and false ontries. Sentence
was reserved.
Two droves of cattle, stolen by Mex
ican thieves, were recently recaptured near
Matamoras. The Mexican soldiers stationed
along the Rio Grande say they have no or
ders to interfere with cattle thieves.
The Louisiana jockey club have ten
dered the grand commandsi v of Louisiana a
magnificent testimonial, to be awarded to the
commandery showing the beat drill and dis
play, at the coming conclave of the grand
encampment of Knights Templar.
Last year the Baitimare and Ohio
railroad earned $14,047,090, its expenses be
ing $9,416,650, leaving a clear profit of $5,
670,626. It has accumulate! a surplus fund of
$32,144,160, being an excess over its entire
mortgage indebtedness of $3,082,595.
A proposition to fund the entire debt
of the southern states has been made by a
London syndicate, or company, known as the
American bond funding and banking associa
tion. Mr. J. J. Maokinnon, the representative
of the association, is now traveling throngli
the south, and lias opened negotiations with
the governors of several states. The matter
will be brought before the legisla! ures of these
states at the sessions to be held this winter.
In reference to the debt of Virginia, which
amounts to about thirty million dollars, exclu
sive of past-due and unpaid interost. and the
one third alloted to \W Virginia as her fair
share of the ante-beUlm indebtedness. Mr.
Mackinnon has offered to fund in bonds' run
ning ten years, and bearing four per cent, in
terest in gold, or in bonds running twenty
years, bearing five per cent interest in gold,
the principal and interest to be paid only in
London. The association prescribes, as one
of the conditions of the contract it proposes
to make with the state, that the money to pay
the principal and interest of the new funded
debt shall be derived from a fixed portion of
the revenue, to be inviolably set apart for that
purpose. Southern state bonds are said to be
rising on account of this scheme of funding.
A terrible storm occurred at Tuscum
bia, Ala., on the night of the 23d, destroying
one-third of the residences. Twelve persons
were killed and many others injured. Mrs.
William Winston, mother of the late ex-Gov.
Winston, the wife and two children of Hon. J.
B. Moore, senator from this district, and F.
D. Hodgkins, Esq. editor of the Chronicle,
with his wife and four children, were killed.
The Catholic church, Deehler’s female insti
tute, recently finished, many of the finest
res idences.both of the flouring mills, and the
THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
most substantial brick dwellings in town were
destroyed. Many poor families are without
homes. A bridge on the Memphis and Charles
ton railroad was destroyed, and the eastward
bound train was precipitated into Spring creek.
Fortunately, no one was killed. The engineer
was badly burned. It will be several days be
fore trains will ran through. The mayor
appeals to Huntsville, Louisville, Nashville,
Memphis, and adjoining towns in the follow
ing terms: Nearly half our town is in ruins.
Twelve persons have been killed and many
wounded. A large number of families are
entirely destitute. The tornado came from
the southwest, passing northwest. Unless
immediate aid can be extended to ns, much
suffering will be the result. We appeal to the
charity of a Christian public in behalf of the
unfortunate.
The regular lower coast packet Em
pire, Capt. Jungfrau, sunk to her texaa about
4 o’clock on the morning of the 17th, at her
landing at the foot of Conte street, Now Or
leans. Capt. Jungfrau states the Empire had
only a fair cargo; was not overloaded, and
that the guards were well abovo the water.
At the time of her sinking he was awakened
by a great noise, and in the confusion caught
one of his children and swam with it to the
shore. He saw his wife standing on the deck
with the babe in her arms. As the boat went
down she clung to the wheelhouse of the
Bradley Johnson, which stood alongside, but
the violent shock wrenched from her grasp
her child, who fell in the water and was
drowned. Capt. Jungfrau cannot tell how
many passengers are lost, as the books are in
the safe in the clerk's room. He thinks there
were about thirty-fivo lost, among them four
of his children. The following are the names,
as far as known, of the missing and those be
lieved to bo lost by the Empire disaster:
Henry Jackson, Robert Carpenter, William
Green, engineer, Mr. Maddox, all from Belair
plantation; Mr. and Mrs. Kemper and two
children, Mrs. Joseph, Point Louisiana ;
Mr. Mazelle, Union plantation; Rose St. John,
stewardess; Charles Ward and John Williams,
cook boys.
FOREIGN.
Toe Chinese government lias ordered
a large quantity of breech-loading rifles.
An Arabic paper says : A force of
Egyptians has captured Darfour, Africa, and
killed the sultan.
The polar exploring expedition, to be
fitted out by the British government, will con
sist of two steamers. Capt. Markham, of the
royal navy, will command one. The expedi
tion starts next May.
In view of the arctic expedition, to be
fitted out by the British government, Lady
Franklin renews the offer of a reward of £lO,-
000 for the Recovery of the official records of
Sir John Franklin’s expedition.
Disraeli baa written a letter to Henry
Rawlinson, announcing that the government,
inconsequence of the representation fo the
Royal Geographical Bociety and other learned
bodies, has determined to organize a poplar
exploring expedition,
The Italian parliament was opened
by Victor Emanuel in person. His speech re
lited mainly to the reorganization of the fi
nancial system of (he country and measures
for the public safety. The king was warmly
cheered.
The Russian government has is ued
another circular note to the European powers
requesting to be informed of the points of the
protocol signed at the Brussel’s conference,
which they desire to be revised, amended or
omitted. It is also suggested that another
international conference be held next year.
The object of the recent journey of
the English bishops to Rome is to obtain
permission to pursue an independent course,
if the British government should seek to re
strict the liberty of action of the Catholic
clergy. They will represent to the pope that
they wish to respect the laws of England, and
cannot blindly accept such regulations as are
imposed on continental bishops.
Advices from Spain state that Ser
rano will go north next month and expedite
operations against the Carlists. The govern
ment has exiled two generals and several
civilians, partizans of Prince Alphonzo, son of
ex-Queen Isabella. All congratulatory tele
grams sent to Isabella on the occasion of tbe
anniversary of her birthday, wherein* she was
styled “ your majesty,” were stopped. A strict
censorship over all dispatehes is still main
tained.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The general missionary commitee of
the Methodist Episcopal church appropriated
$303,853 for foreign missions, at their meet
ing in New York last week.
Admiral Almy reports that the United
States' steamer Saranac remains at Lapaz,
Mexico, to protect American citizens and in
terests. Many robberies and murders are be
ing committed and the authorities are taking
steps to arrest the culprits.
The commissioner of agricnltnro says
the demand for semi-tropical fruits for ex
periments in the southern states is very great.
The Chinese tea plant is especially in de
mand, and many thousand young plants have
been distributed the paet year.
The president has directed a telegram
to the governor of Texas, requesting him to
delay the execution of the death sentence to
Satanta until it can be satisfactorily ascer
tained whether or not he has violated his pa
role, the president believing the weight of
evidence thus far in Sat&nU’a favor.
The Poitsvillj Workingman, ■which is
the official organ of the mining unions in
Pennsylvania, says it is not true that faction
squabbles between Irish and Welsh miners are
frequent in the anthracite coal fields of Penn
sylvania, nor that the Welshmen are non
union workers. It affirms, on the contrary,
that wherever there are unions tho Welsh and
the Irish miners are equally strong union men.
The second national bank of Law
rence, Kansas, having failed to meet the calls
of the redemption agency of the treasury
department to reimburse the treasury for its
notes redeemed, and its deposit of 5 per cent,
being exhausted, Treasurer Spinner gives
notice that on and after this date notes of
that bank will be rejected when presented for
redemption at the national bank redemption
agency.
Commissioner Douglass, of the internal
revenue, reports the receipts of the last fiscal
year at $102,614,747, or $2,644,747 in excess of
his estimates. The estimate of the current
fiscal year is $107,000,000. The receipts from
distilled spirits for the fiscal year of 1874 were
$49,444,090, a net decrease of $2,665,281. The
production of spirits during the year was 69,-
572.062 taxable gallons. The seizures amoun
ted in value to $476,362. The production of
tobacco the last fiscal year was 118,548,619
pounds, an increase over the preceding year of
2.107,684 pounds. The number of cigars and
cheroots on which taxes were collected was
1,886,697,408, or 79.662,852 in excess of the
previous year.
Under a congressional joint resolution
of 1869, five citizens were appninted to ex
amine into the condition of the Union and
Central Pacific railways, who reported that
about two million dollars would be necessary
to supply the’ deficiencies of both roads
Secretary Cox at that time directed the com
missioners of the general land office to with
hold from them one-half of the land grant as
security for the supply of the deficiencies of
the road. The reports of the commissioners,
who recently examined the roads, say the
Union Pacino has since that period expended
$2,215,000, and the Central Pacific expended
$5,500,000, in excess of the sum first named.
The deficiencies haviug been supplied and the
roads considered as complete, reports were
submitted by the secretary of the interior to
the president, who, on the recommendation
of the secretary, has directed a revocation of
the order of Secretary Cox, withholding pat
ents for half of the lands, which will there
fore be released to those companies.
A VAGRANT.
EY JOSEPHIKE POLLARD.
I caBDOt chsek ray thought theso days,
When tnceLße lingers in the air,
Bnt with unwearied wing it s rays,
I know nol how or where
I know Dot where ih© blossoms hide 1
That thro*' ih*ir lores across its flight;
How stars can fling their gates to wide.
To give mj thought delight.
There is no door close barred and sealed
Where cowers suffering or sin,
But will to touch or whisper yield,
And let this vagrant in.
It bears no passport, no parole,
But free, aid carries -as the Sir,
My thought despises al! control,
And wanders everywhere.
Its warrant from the throne of thrones;
Its duty to the king of kings ;
Through heights, and depths, and circling
zones,
y soars on seraph wings. 1
What canst thou bring from yon fair height,
What bring me from the deepening sea 7
What gather for thy own delight
That is not wealth to me ?
PER LINA’S LAST CHANCE.
“This,” said Mrs. Oeffarlv, “this is
the last time, Perlina Milkin. the very
last iime. I’ve spent enough upon you
since your ma died, and I took charge
of you, to marry six girls who had their
senses about them. I’ve dressed you
like a Christmas doll, and I’ve sent yon
to the most fashionable places to board
in summer, and here yon are, feur-and
twenty, and not so much as engaged.
It’s perfectly disgusting, Perlina; and
what I have to say is, if yon don’t set
tle your affairs this summer, I’ll give
you no more chances. I expect to die
in the poor-house as it is. Why, I was
married at seventeen, and your ma at
eighteen, and your Aunt Delight, about
the plainest little critter I ever saw,
wasn’t but just sixteen. What’s the
use of advantages—and vou have looks,
Perliaa—if you don’t make use of ’em?”
“ I’m sure I don’t knew what you
expect me to do. I can’t very well
propose to any one,” said Perlina, ready
to cry. “I do everything I can, and
they make love to me, I’m sure, and
they say all sorts of things. If they
don’t pop the question, how can I make
them; there, now; I suppose you
waited until Uncle Gafferlv asked yon
to have him before you said you would.”
“Your Uncle Gafferly would have
committed suicide if I had refused
him,” said Aunt Gafferly,
“ You may not believe it now, but I
was a beauty in my youtb. As for what
you can do, you ought to know; but
what I say is this : come home engaged,
or I’ll stop all this useless extrava
gance. I’ve crammed your trunk to the
tune of five hundred dollars, and yon
are going to Saratoga with the Kero
sene New body’s; and if yon can’t do it
now, I’ll give it up for a bad job.”
With which speech she inflicted on
her niece’s cheek that matter of course
peck which female friends chose to call
a kiss, and bade her good-bye. And
despite her new warbrobe, her big Sara
toga trunk, the prospective summer
gavety, and the ohaperonage of Mrs.
Kerosene Newbcdy, poor Perlina cried
a good deal in the hired carriage which
conveyed her to the boat. “ What was
she to do ?” To marry might have been
easy, but to marry money—and that
was what she was expected to do—was a
harder task.
Aunt Gafferly was a good business
woman, and would not be likely to
•spend any more money upon an unsale
able article ; and Perlina shivered at
the prospect before her. if this Bum.
mer's campaign should prove a failure.
On the whole she looked so ill when
she arrived at Saratoga, that her mirror
told her that her best plan would be to
retire early, and to take as much beauty
sleep as possible, in view of any eligible
gentleman that might put in an appear
ance next day.
Fresh as a rose, and dressed in her
becoming morning dress, Perlina took
her seat at the breakfast table next
morning, and nestled close to Mrs.
Kerosene Newbody in the most bewitch
ing manner.
The lady, an ample matron, with a
loud voice greeted her affectionately,
and at once introduced her to two gen
tlemen who were her neighbors.
“Mr. Kolt, Miss Milkin, Miss Milkin,
Mr. Downhill. A.ll old friends of mine.
Charmed to make you know each other,”
and then devoted herself to breakfast,
and left those who preferred it to wa te
time on conversation. And so Miss
Milkin, having the field to herself, made
eves at both hernew acquaintances, and
elirewedly noted amidst her infantile
gigglings and dimplings that both were
smitten. They were of the age for ar
rows. Edmond Kolt was a youth of
nineteen, and Hiram Downhill was at
least sixty-five. Asa general thing men
from twenty-five to thirty ditto absorb
tbe attention of the ladies, and youths
and old gentlemen are in the minority.
Never before had Mr. Kolt had Bach
bewitching attention offered him. And
a9 for old Downhill, his memory brought
back some* dove-like glances such as
those Miss Milkin showered upon him,
from the long-vanished years of his
youth, but not many.
To cut a loDg story short. Miss Milkin
having discovered that Mr. Kolt was
very rich and an orphan, and that Mr.
Downhill was a very wealthy bachelor,
at once set her cap for both gentlemen,
resolving to accept the one who pro
posed first. She loved neither. A girl
with her views, who had made a rush
into the matrimonial market with but one
stipulation—that the man she married
should have money—was scarcely likely
to have a heart. A husband meant to
her easy circumstances, freedom from
her Aunt Gafferly’s incessant “nag
ging,” liberty to flirt as much as she
chose with ineligibles, who were often
very interesting, and freedom from the
dread of being an old maid.
Mrs. Newbody, who was, on the
whole, a good-natured woman, willing
to see her friends well settled, furthered
the . affair to the best of her ability.
There were walks, rides, drives, chat
ting in cosy corners, and at last a pro
posal. It came from Mr. Kolt. Youth
is hasty, age Blow. Mr. Downhill was
jnst making up hifi mind to do it, when
Mr. Kolt did it. And Miss Milkin said
“ yes,” and would have fallen into his
arms but that they were in full sight of
an old lady who had j ast leveled her
opera glass full at them from a window.
“Yes.” Perlina had answered, and
young Kolt had blushed rosy-red, and
“hissoul,” like that of Gloroina, in
the Wild Irish Girl, presumably went
‘ on a gig to heaven,” for the band was
playing delightful dances for their edi
fication ; and afterward, when they had
had supper, Berlins locked herself into
her room and wrote to her AuntGafierly.
Her letter ended thus :
So you see I’m engaged, and you can’t twit
me any longer. I don’t suppose poor Kolt
will ever set the river on fire, but he’s a good
natured fellow, and I can just twist him
about my finger. And remember you are
bound to give me a handsome wedding-dress,
and have always promised me poor ma’s pearls
the day I married.
Your affectionate niece, PERLINA.
Mrs. Gafferly signified her approval
by return of pest, and Perlina’s mind
was at rest. It did not trouble her
much that in less than a week a tele
gram summoned him to the city. She
could use the fast-fading days of free
dom better than with an engaged lover
at her side, and she certainly made 1 the
most of them. She plunged into flirta
tion in a way that f rigthened even Mrs.
Kerosene Newbody, and was happier
than she ever had been since her search
for a husband commenced. As for
poor Mr. Downhill, she quite snubbed
him, now that she had no views con
cerning him. Meanwhile the absent
Kolt wrote love-letters, and she an
swered them.
“Never shall I forget my feelings
when yon went out to ride with old
CARTERS VTLLF-. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1874.
Downhill,” he said, in one of these.
“I really thought for awhile that you
liked him.”
And to this she replied : “ How
could you fancy that I should like a
superannuated old; creature like that.
I only took a little notice of him out of
pity.”
Poor Perlina ! Life is certainly very
much check* red. One morning Mrs.
Newbody opened a New York paper,
and having glaDced down the column of
marriages and deaths, gave a faint
shriek, and looked at Perlina in a terri
fied way. Perlina snatched the paper
and saw this record; “Suddenly, on
the —th, Edmund Kolt.”
Eamond Kolt—there was no doubt of
it. Mrs. Newbody looked at Perlina,
expecting to see her faint. To her sur
prise, the young iady, though very se
rious, was quite calm.
“ Poor fellow,” she said, “I’m very
sorry. Do be quiet, dear Mrs. New
body ! Don’t let’s have a soene. No
one knows wo were engaged, and yon
needn’t tell ’em. I don’t want my sea
son spoiled.”
Then she arose and went to her room,
cried a little, bathed her face, used
some pearl-powder on her nose, and
went down stairs to charm Mr. Down
hill by beaming upon him and asking
him how he could be so dreadful and
neglect her so.
In a word, now that the old love was
gone, she “ took on with the new,” and
in a week Mr. Downhill had proposed,
and was accepted. And the astonished
Mrs. Gafferly received an account of
the situation, which greatly surprised
her.
Old Mr. Downhill was rather more
obstinate than even Mr. Kolt had been.
He asserted his rights, and insisted
upon the open wearing of the engage
ment ring.
There was no more flirtation for Miss
Milkin, and every one knew what had
occurred. She wore a diamond ring of
great value on her finger, and was
guarded by her old bean from morning
until night. He even wrote her several
notes in the intervals, between their
parting at midnight and meeting at
nine in the morning, and in one of them
he referred to her flirtation with yonng
Kolt.
Miss Milkin was one of those unlucky
victims to love of letter-writing, who
can never resist putting things down in
black and white. She wrote this sen
tence in her reply: “You naughty,
naughty goose. How could I care for
a stripling like that! Poor fellow !he
was very nice; but only a boy, you
know. ” And when she had written that,
she thought how much more managea
ble the “ boy” was, and how much jol
lier it was to run about with him than
to sit in a corner with old Mr. Downhill,
who was always afraid of catching cold,
and who would not let her dance because
he could not. Still he was rich and she
was engaged at last, after all.
One evening she walked the piazza
with her betrothed, leaning on his arm
in the most confiding manner. The
evening train was in, and people were
waiting for the stages to bring the new
people up to the door. Someone was
seen waving a white handkerchief—a
young man with very red cheeks—and
then someone called out, “Why, it’s
Kolt, alive and well.” For there had
been much lamentation over the poor
fellow. And as he sprung out of the
crowded vehicle, they rushed toward
him to shake hands, and tell him that
lo V>©en dcao.
“Death in the papaw, you know, ol
feliab,” said one exquisite. “ Weally
vewv cuyons how death could be in
the papaw when you wasn’t dead, you
know.”
“It was poor grandfather. I was
named after him, you know. I never
thought what people would think. I—”
Then he turned pale, and hurried into
the house, fearing that the awful news
bad killed his poor Perlina.
Miss Milkin was in the parlor. She
had fled on his approach, and was really
quite faint, and Mr. Downhill had gone
for a glass 'of water. Every one else
was out of doors, and the young fellow
rushed toward her.
“My dearest love !” he whispered,
“ my darling ! you did not think I was
dead ?”
“Yes I did !” gasped Perlina.
He bent over her and caught her
bauds, and pressed them to his lips.
“ Oh, I couldn’t die and leave you !”
he said. “I—”
But here a hand came down upon his
shoulder, and a thin voice breathed in
his er :
“Young man. I’m very glad to see
you restored as it were from the grave,
but I can’t allow such liberties with the
ladv who is going to marry me.”
Mr. Downhill had returned with the
glass of water.
Perlina, not knowing what to do, had
refuge in tears and silence. The gen
tlemen grew furious, and finally walked
away with each other, with “pistols for
two and coffee for four” in their faces.
But this is eighteen hundred and seven
ty-four, and much is thought of docu
mentary evidence. Iu a retired spot
where they could not be overheard, tbe
hapless Perlina’s letters were produced.
Poor little Kolt read with the bitter
agony of youth the woman’s denial of
her love for, and engagement to him,
written a week after his supposed death,
and old Downhill gave a groan over an
other bnried hope as he read the lines
on which he was set down as a super
annuated creature only taken notice of
ont of pity.
After this the two gentlemen shook
hands. They had no quarrels with
each other now. Neither of them want
ed to marry Perlina Milkin. She re
ceived two little notes that evening tell
ing her so.
That was last summer. This year
Perlina did not go to Saratoga at all,
and Mrs. Gafferly having dismissed her
chambermaid, it is a matter of wonder
to the neighbors who the person with a
green barege veil on her head who rubs
the windows can be. It is barely possi
ble that this is Perlina. Mrs. Gafferly
is a woman of her word, and she con
siders her niece’s chance of matrimony
quite over.
The Growth of Commerce.
According to a statistical authority,
the eleven leading commercial nations
of the globe —namely, Great Britain,
the United States. France, Germany,
Belgium, Austria, Russia, Italy, Spain,
the Netherlands and Sweden—have
nearly doubled their commerce in less
than two decades. The total foreign
commerce of these eleven countries, in
1855, was $4,241,700,000; in 1865 the
total foreign oommeree of these coun
tries was $9,276,000,000. This shows
an increase of 118.5 per cent. The pop
ulation in the same countries in 1855
was 271,443,000; in 1872 it was 311,620,-
000. Increase in seventeen years, 14.8
per cent. Foreign commerce per capita
of population, 1855, $15.62; in 1874,
$29.76. Increase per capita in seven
teen years, $14.14, or 90 per cent. The
same authority observes that, while
these representative nations have been
increasing in population faster than the
average of the world, the growth of ac
cumulation has exceeded it, but attrib
utes this growth mainly to the applica
tion of steam to machinery in various
forms, and facilitated the division of
labor, and in numerous other ways has
made each laborer stand for a greatly
enhanced amount of production.
The truth of Gen. Sherman’s com
plaint that the American soldier is over
worked, is touchingly confirmed by a
recent picture of the o’erlabored victim
marching against the Indians, with one
hand grasping his trusty rifle and the
other -holding on to his unreliable
scalp.
A CAREER OF CRIME.
The Perpetrator o* Fourteen Murders
Killed by a Spanish Gambler.
New York World’s Mazatlsn (Mexico) letter.
An Englishman named Tom Adams,
who for the past eight or ten years has
owned a low tavern and dance house in
this place, and gained general notoriety
as a desperate character, died on the
15th instant from the effects of a pistol
shot received in a fight several months
ago. Just before his death, when as
sured that his doom was inevitable, he
sent for Capt. Yerplank, the American
commercial agent at this port, and inti
mated that he had some important dis
closures to make, which ho desired
should be given publicity in the east
ern states. Capt. Yerplank; having con
sented to comply with his wishes aaid
take down whatever statements he had
to make in writing, the dying man un
burdened his conscience by confessing
himself guilty of fourteen murders, all
but one of which had been committed
in the United States and Canada.
Adams commenced his narrative by stat
ing that his proper nafbe was George
Worley, and that he was a native of
Manchester, England. He commenced
his career of crime by murdering the
second mate of the American ship Cul
tivator, in the Liverpool docks, about
the year 1854. After this deed he went
to and ro*ed about through
those provinces for two years in pursuit
of robbery. In the year 1855, at which
time he was known by the name of Or
ton, he was engaged as a sailor on the
lakes. While lying in the American
port of Oswego ho murdered a man,
whom ho understood to be a painter,
by throwing him over a bridge. He
met his victim in a drinking saloon,
where he went to collect a bill of the
proprietor, and followed him until the
opportunity was favorable, when he
struck-him down with a slung shot, and
disposed of the body in the way men
tioned.
After this Adams returned to Canada,
and assumed the name of Townsend.
With two accomplices he commenced a
campaign of robbery, and perpetrated
four murders in the country west of
Toronto, ending with the killing of a
sheriff a few milea west of Niagara
river. That country then became too
warm for him, in consequence of the
offerings of large rewards for his arrest,
and he escaped on board a schooner
passing through the Canadian canal to
the American port of Toledo. From this
port he went to Chicago, and committed
three murders in that place during the
same summer. One of his victims was
a captain of a vessel, whom he followed
from the St. Charles saloon ; another
was a German saloon-keeper, whom he
killed in his bed at night, in his place of
business, which was situated near a
railroad depot, and the third was some
man unknown to him, whom he mur
dered after leaving a brothel. After
theso crimes he was arrested in Chicago,
tried and convicted of a burglary, and
served a term of three years in the Illi
nois state prison. On obtaining his re
lease Adams went to New York, where
he remained about one year, during
which time he committed two murders,
both of his victims in that city being
men unknown to him. One was a coun
tryman whom he enticed to the out
skirts of the city and obtained about
two thousand dollars on his body. After
leaving New York he was engaged in a
series of robberies through the southern
states. He returned to Baltimore and
murdered a prostitute in that city. Sub
sequently he committed a murder in
Louisville and one in Memphis, but of
the names of his victims he had no
knowledge.
Adams left New Orleans about the
time of the war and went to Vera Cruz.
From thence ho went to the city of
Mexioo, and came to Mazatlan about
ten years ago. Since his sojourn here
he was widely known and generally
feared, his place being one of the most
notorious rendezvous of desperate char
acters on the coast. He finally met his
fate at the hands of a Spanish gambler,
named Gonzales, in a drunken quarrel
over a throw of dice. He leaves between
fifteen and eighteen thousand dollars, in
cash or its equivalent, as the result of
his career of atrocious crime, which he
has willed to a sister, supposed to be
his ouly living relative, who resides at
Sheffield, England. The legatee needs
to be devoid of any superstitious scru
ples to receive and enjoy such a blood
clotted legacy.
The Care of Babies.
A baby is a very tender thing, people
say ; but most of them are very far
from knowing how tender. Imagine
how nervous you are in certain states—
when recovering from illness, say, when
the fall of a book or the slam of a door
makes you quiver and feel faint, as if
someone gave you a blow. That is the
way a young baby feels at its best. A
puff of wind will set it gasping, its
little breath blown quite away. A noise
makes it shiver, a change of summer
air makes it turn death cold. A baby
is the most nervous of beings, and the
tortures it suffers in going to sleep and
being wakened by careless founds when
jnst “droppingoff” are only compar
able to the same experience of an older
person during an acute nervous head
ache. Young babies ought to pass the
first months of their lives in the coun
try, for its stillness no less than its
fresh air. Bnt where silence is not to
be commanded, baby may be socthed
by folding a soft napkin, wet in warmish
water, lightly over the top of its head,
its eyes and ears. It is the best way to
put nervous babies to sleep. I have
tried it hundreds of times for a child so
irritable that paregoric and soothing
syrup only made it wider awake. A
fine towel would be wet and laid over
its head, the ends twisted a little till it
made a sort of skull-cap, and though
baby sometimes fought against being
blindfolded in this way, five minutes
usually sent him off into deep and bliss
ful slumber. The compress cooled the
little feverish brain, deadened sound in
his ears, and shut out everything that
took his attention, so that sleep took
him unaware. Teething babies find
this very comforting ; for their heads
are always hot, and there is fevered
beating in the arteries each side.
Secretary Stanton’s Death.
What Jerry Blaok has darkly hinted
is now boldly stated in some of the
papers, that Secretary Stanton hastened
his death, during the last days of his
desponding illness, by a partially suc
cessful attempt to cut his own throat.
It was one of his customs, runs the now
extraordinary revelation, to be shaved
at home, an 1 the duty was performed
by a oolored barber who came regularly
for the purpose. In Mr. Stanton’s pri
vate apartment stood an improvised
shaving chair, and to this the trusty
valet would go at the appointed time to
perform his duty. Mr. Stanton had
been apparently failing in health for a
week, and had become so despondent as
to almost excite fears of an aberration
of the mind. On the evening of the
23d of December the colored valet
called to shave Stanton. They were
left alone in the private apartment, and
Stanton took his seat in the chair. The
barber had partially finished his task,
and, laying the razor on a little table
beside Stanton, stepped across the room
for some water. A movement startled
him. and he turned just in time to see
the glistening steel flash by the bared
throat, leaving a streak in its wake.
Rushing to the side of Stanton, the
barber caught the razor before another
stroke could 1 e made. He called for
help, and in a few moments there were
at the bedside the surgeon-general, a
few trusty attaches of the government,
and one or two members of the family.
The work had been done, however, and
the life current reached. At three
o’clock, next morning, Stanton was
dead. How well f ’ue secret of his dea h
Las been kepi, those who read this may
know. —Springfield Jiepttblican.
THE GERMAN PREMIER.
Some CurLu* Stories Aliolit Bismarck's
Mode of Lite, Habits, etc.
Loudon Cor. New York Graphic.
From almost every quarter I hear the
most extraordinary stories about affairs
in Germany. Borne of these stories have
for their theme the madness of Prince
Bismarck, and they represent him as be
ing very mad indeed. If half of these
stories aro half true, (he great chancel
lor should be locked up in au insane
asylum. The three people in all Ger
many who are not afraid of this mad
man are the empress, the crowu prince
and his wife—they detest him ; all the
rest of Germany is shaking in its shoes
at the thought of what he may do next.
The old nobility, the middle-clause,
the shop keepers, the artists and the?
literary people all feel that their lib
erty and freedom are dependent on the
whims of this terrible madman. His
own employes tremble when they hear
his voice; they never get a kiud word
from him, and be is fond of cutting
down the it salary or even stopping it
altogether. The newspaper editors all
live in mortal dread of him. The gen
eral opinion in Berlin is that Bismarck’s
head has been turned. Borne of (hem
say that he is drunk with power: others
that he keeps himself drunk with cham
pagne and beer. Ho is subject to extra
ordinary bursts of fury; when these
are upon him he respects neither age,
nor sex, nor station. He was always
violent or given to violence ; but when
he gets into a rage now—and this hap
pens several times a day—his anger
waxes to frenzy. Even the female mem
bers of his family shrink from him
when he is in these moods, and tremble
when they hear his voice, as the wretch
ed wife of a drunken Lancashire oollier
trembles when she hears him coming
home. For very deoency’s sake I re
frain from repeating some of the stories
which I have heard about Prince Bis
marck within the last few days. But I
may quote what was said of him by a
well-known writer in ©no of the most
respectable of English journals a day or
two ago i
“They say at Berlin that the man's
head has beoome affected by unbridled
authority, and that he bursts out in
sulphurous storms of fury of late for
no intelligible cause. He was always
a violent man, bnt now he rages like a
lunatic bull in a china shop, bellowing
till the whole world resounds about
nothing. There used to bo an under
current of humor in his fierce jokes ;
now he has grown morose, and broods
on schemes of vengeance. He wants
to have another war in France, and has
been trying for the last two years to find
a pretext for sending fire and sword
again upon a light-hearted and loveable
people. He wants to destroy the inde
pendence of Denmark, but is here met
by a mild no; wants also to 1 ake further
possession of Bavaria, but finds the
musical monarch resolved to keep out
of a soi ape. Austria is so submissive
t*, and Russia so sure of him, that he
can manage no serious dispute with
either of them, nnd is obliged to stand
howling quite motionless, even when
checkmated bv those powers. England,
also, is very discreet, and no materials
for a riot can be found anywhere but in
Spain and Japan, where he oan only
strike blows in the air, having no tangi
ble enemies. This is probably why he
has turned his attention to Count Arnim.
He must have somebody to fight aDd
worry. Count Arnim could be seized
by the throat as well as another count,
and he was seized. * * * It is a
fury which respects neither the honor
of gentlemen nor the happiness of
ladies and ohildren. The very bed
rooms of Countess Armin and her moth
er have been searched within the last
few days by polioemeu, and her hus
band is put in solitary confinement
without a trial. There must be a speedy
end to this kind of thing, and, let us
trust, also, an end to Prince Bismarck,
with whom there must inevitably also
be an end of that mysterious Russian
agent and prompter concealed under the
name of Herr Bucher.”
Business Still Improving.
The present condition of business in
New York city and through the whole
country is decidedly better than it has
been for some months past. There can
be no question that a decided improve
ment has been established within the
last few weeks, both in confidence and
in the volume of transactions. This is
demonstrated by the general activity
in the various forwarding and trans
j ortation routes. The near approach
of the close of navigation is hurrying
merchants from the interior to com
plete their winter purchases. And on
this point it is satisfactory to know
that the accounts aro favorable. Orders
cautiously given in the early part of the
season have been generally doubled,
and in numerous cases triplicated. And
it speaks well for the condition of aflairs
in the interior that remittances at this
time of the year were never so satisfac
tory. In spite of all drawbacks it is
not improbable that the average of tran
sactions for the current half year may
finally compare favorably with corres
ponding periods in former years.
The accounts from the west and south
oontinue to be enoouraging. A vast
amount of money is being distributed
for the movement of the hog crop,
which causes a healthy advance in bank
rates in Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville
and other oities. This money finds its
way into the farmers’ hands, and thence,
as a matter of course, to the country
stores, until it finally returns to the
great financial centres. Nearly all the
western and southern papers speak of in
creased business activity and the pros
pects of a good winter trade. The lum
ber interests seem to be more particu
larly depressed.
From the New England manufactur
ing districts the acoounts are hopeful.
The short time movement in the cotton
trade still continues, but it will leave
the business in a better position than
before, and more free from embarrass
ments of every kind.
Taken as a whole, then, business is
better and manifests better signs of still
further improvement all over the coun
try. Of course, due allowance is to be
made for the season. It will soon be
annual “settling up” time, and firms
will begin to prepare for this in various
wavs, which will render money more
difficult to obtain, but without directly
affecting general business. — United
States Economist.
Our hard times have reached China.
In that country the demand for silk
worm eggs is so much smaller than usual
that there is great distress through
out the country. So, if one’s resources
are shortened on this side of the world,
his numerous daughters buy fewer silks,
and the manufacturer makes fewer calls
for his raw material, and so it goes
from point to point, and the last ripple
of onr panic is felt, perhaps, in the
middle of the Chinese empire.
The Jews excluded bachelors from as
semblies of the people, the Spartans
from the theatres, the Romans from the
witness stand, the early Christians from
public functions, and the ancient Ger
mans and Swiss from the privilege of
disposing by will of all their property,
which reverted to the state. Served
them right.
FACTS ABOUT nAY FEYER.
Nature cf the Ofscate -Ih Causes and
Cure.
Dr. Beard read a paper last week be
fore the American Public Health associ
ation on the subject of hay fever. The
following is an interesting synopsis of
information obtained by addressing
competent persons in all sections of the
country i
Hay fever is a complex and not a sim
pie disease, as has been generally sup
posed. Tbe first element of the disease
is a nervo-billious temperament, or, at
least, a temperament, in which the ner
vons element predominates. Hay fever
patients are the class of patients sub
ject to other nervous diseases. The
1 second factor in this disease is heat fol
lowing cold. The heat of hot climates
does not seem to afifc as a oause, but the
heat of temperate climates following
the cold weather. The disease is found
only in that belt Where there are ex
tremes of temperature. Third—Vari
ous exciting causes, twenty or more in
number, such as perfume of flowers,
dust, in door and out door, fresh hay,
old bay. bright sunlight, gaslight, close
confined air, smoke, cinders, hulling of
corn, Roman wormwood, sneeze weed,
over exertion, etc. In order to get up
a case of hay fever, two bf these three
factors, certainly the first tvo are nec
essary. The exciting causes are named
under the third head, and have been re
garded as the disease, hence the name
hay fever, peach cold, rose cold, etc.
One might as well call a sick headache
a sausage headache, because it may be
at times caused by eating sausages.
The majority of the patients afflicted
with hay fever who are reported to me
are of American birth. Dr. Jacobi, of
New York, whose experience and prac
tice among the better class of Germans
are v i y large, says that he has never
known a case of hay fever among Ger
mans in this Country. I suspect that
among the foreign population not born
in thi, country hay fever is compara
tively rare; just as among the same
classes nervous diseases of all kinds are
comparatively rare. After a pereon has
once been attacked he seems to be for
all his life liable to be again attacked.
Now and then a person may go over a
year without the disease, out this is
rare. Sometimes the disease increases
in severity with years, and sometimes
diminishes. A majority of my patients
have tried the local application of the
solution of quinine, as recommended by
Helmholtz, and they report that it does
little or no good.
Among the regions which hay fever
patients visit with benefit, I may men
tion the White Mountains and the ocean
everywhere, at least in cold climes ; for
those who take sea voyages almost never
suffer while at sea, but may be attacked
as soon as they land. A trip to Europe,
the Adirondack region, and the island
of Mackinaw is very highly recom
mended by Borne. Dr. Dennison, of
Denver, Col., sends me a pamphlet
which reports that some cases of hay
fever have been cured by a residence in
that locality, Like other nervous dis
eases, it is powerfnlly under the influ
ence of the mind. The striking perio
dicity of the disease, coming on as it
doesj in a certain case, at precisely the
same day or honr, is probably the result
in part of expectation of the patient
that, it will come then.
The plan of treatment that I would
suggest for hay fever, is as follows :
First, to prevent the disease. As early
as March or April the patient should
begin to take a coiuse of nerve tonic
treatment. I would recommend it to be
arsenic, phosphorus in its various forms,
ood liver oil, iodoform and electricity,
especially the methods cf general gal
vanization and general faridization.
When the disease appears the great de
pendence must be on local treatment,
combined with general tonic treatment.
My friend, Dr. W. F. Hutchison, of
Providence, had a case this year which
he broke up by central galvanization.
I relieved decidedly one case and some
what relieved another by local galvani
zation externally. Tbe remedies should
be used thoroughly. The great trouble
with thoie who galvanize themselves is
that they do not completely and thor
oughly bring the remedies to act upon
all the sinuous and tortuous liniDg
membrane of the nasal passages.
Parental Interference.
We all know how it fared with the
bean that, after being planted, was dng
up every morning to see if it had begun
to grow, and which, after having made
a brave struggle for life and got its
head above ground, was declared out of
order, and ruthlessly pulled up and
turned upside down. Much of our in
terference with children is no less im
pertinent, and in its results no less mis
chievous. Nature abhors meddling ;to
reverent co-operation she yields her
happiest results; bnt she will nol be
diverted from her purpose by your
homilies, nor submit her plans for your
revision. Handmaiden of the great
architect, she never loses sight of the
original intention. If you thwart her,
it is at yom peril, and she leaves on
your hands the work yon have spoiled.
The child in his normal condition is an
embodied interrogation. He cannot
wait Jor the eyes alone to report the
objects about him ; every fiuger-tip is
pressed into the service and made to
convey tidiDgs to the eager intelligence.
The little creature is overwhelmed with
impressions, stunned by the music of
the spheres, blinded by excess of light.
His g -eatest need iB a wise and tender
interpreter; someone to walk beside
him and explain the significance of
what he sees and hears, to distinguish
between the important and the unim
portant, the high and the low, the near
and the far. Do we realize what we are
doing when we sit stolid and dumb un
der a child’s questions, allowing the
keen intelligence to be blunted against
our indifference, the glowing enthusi
asm to be damped by our apathy, the
buoyant hope crippled by onr unbelief?
Having eyes we see not, having ears we
hear not, and standing before the great
wonder-book of God’s universe, we
watch the turning of its leaves with
scarcely an emotion. Verily, we need
to be taught of the child. What cue
is, determines his possessions, and
whether the child shall be beggar or
prinoe depends upon the training of
his faculties and the education that he
receives. —Celia Burleigh.
Wind and W ind Instruments.
The force requisite to drive the music
out of the various wind instruments in
most frequent use has lately been scien
tifically gauged, and the result can not
bnt seriously diminish the sympathy
with which unenlightened audiences
have heretofore entertained for the
full-cheeked performers upon tho trum
pet, the bombardon, the bassoon, and
the rest. The enphoninm and the bom
bardon are the easiest of all to sound
upon low notes, and the clarinet is the
hardest, next to it being the trumpet
and the bassoon; bnt the hardest to
sound on the high notes is the eupho
nium, then comes the bombardon, cor
net, trumpet, horn, bassoon, oboe, and
last of all the clarinet, which is not
half so hard to sound a high Dote as a
low one with. .None of them requires
as much effort as a sneeze or cough, and
the theory of lung injury from this sort
of work is a mistake. As for the sweet,
or the terrible sounds, “ a breath can
make them as a breath has made,” and
the man on the stage who empties his
lungs into the trumpet, and occasionally
pauses to empty the trumpet, too, is
not having as hard a time after all as
the one in the audience who puts his
energies into a sneeze, nor does that one
begin to rival tho naan who wants to
sneeze, bnt doesn’t dare. He is the
true subject for pity. Science can cot
measure the silent efforts that he pnts
forth.
Intellectual Cincinnati.
Doun Piatt gives the following Dotes
on Cincinnati in a letter to the Wash
ington Capital : “ Cincinnati enjoys
probably the most refined, cultivated
society known to the country. We
should write unknown, for it ia so ex
clusive that it almost disappears from
popular knowledge. The stranger vis
iting here would never suspect that
under the heavy oloud of coal-smoke
and soot, hid in mansions where the
darkened fronts resemble coal-mines,
there exists a culture that is as rare ;ts
it is priceless. To the favored guest
who is permitted to pass the exclusive
front door there appears a dazzling ar
ray of luxury and art in the finish aid
furnish of these elegant abodes. We
say luxury and art, when indeed the
words are synonyms. The finish at and
furniture are artistic, for while the
rarest paintings grace the walls, and in
every nook, recess, and corner appear
statues and statuettes, there is not a
chair, sofa, or table that has not in it
self expressive and artistic significance.
The conversation turns generally on art,
soienoe, and literature. When a Cin
cinnati belle indulges in such worldly
frivolity as dancing, she may be said to
move through the graceful mazes with
bookcases under her arms, for she car
ries in her bosom and pockets learned
works in Greek and Latin, and during
the pauses necessary to that pleasing
exercise she takes out a volume and
reads. Strange to say, the fathers of
these families, with half a dozen ex
ceptions, are all tradespeople. Cin
cinnati pays more of the internal rev
enue than all of New England, save
Massachusetts. The citizens were am
azed to learn this fact. Their studies
had not yet reached so late a period,
being for the last twenty years in tho
dark ages. This revenue is derived
from whisky, ale, and tobacco. Cin
cinnati is the cradle of art. Mullett,
the famous architect, and William Pow
ell, the great historical house painter,
although both natives of Great Britain,
were rocked in this cradle. Probably
they were rocked too much. Excessive
rocking a Idles th© brain. Native ar
tists are spoiled through too muoh pat
ronage. Orders are given in great,
abundance and th© paintings paid for
in advance. This absurd practice ruins
the artist. He waxes fat and kicks in
stead of painting. Cincinnati has a
fountain and a Haller. The fonntair
is a present from Mr. Probasco—Haller
is a gift from Divine Providence. The
fountain plays dirty water over certain
groups of German citizens done it
bronze. Haller*sells blacking and dis
oourseth philosophically. The foun
tain has an esplanade, consumptive
trees, is surrounded by retail shops,
and the air is redolent of decayed fish,
old olothes, and coal-dust. Citizens sit
about the esplanade and read "Cincin
nati, past and present.” The intellectnal
atmosphere of Cincinnati is so refined
that one breathes with difficulty. We
leave to-morrow.”
Life Without Sentiment.
There was no sentiment whatever
about Mark Kaller of Augusta county,
Ya. There was no sentiment in his
courtship, none in his marriage and
none iu his married life. He lived
without it. He had some property
and a house and he wanted a house
keeper. He paid an agent §25 to get
him a wife. He married her without
a word of love-making, and put her in
his house, and went on with his life.
The couple were entirely ooDgenial and
exceedingly harmonious in one respect
—both loved whisky and they drank a
great deal of it. They never quarrel
ed over the bottle, and life flowed
smoothly on. They drank as much as
they oould and got drunk together,
and went to sleep when they were
sleepy, and it was nobody’s business.
They got old together in Old Virginia.
od6 day they had some distance to
walk on a public highway. Old Mark
tramped ahead with his cane and the
old woman trudged along behind smok
ing her pipe. There was a good long
distance between them as the woman
was fat and wheezy, and waddled with
difficulty. By some means her cloth
ing caught on fire, and she was burned
to death there in the public road. Two
gentlemen came along on horseback,
and saw the roasted woman. They es
pied a man, just disappearing in the
distance. One of them rode ahead
and, overtaking the old man, informed
him of the occurrence. Mark expressed
neither sentiment nor emotion, but
with a grunt turned around and re
traced his Bteps. There lay his wife,
so charred and disfigured as scarcely
to be recognized. Mark hobbled np to
the body, and giving it a punch yith
his stick, said: “Humph, I told her
she’d better leave her pipe at home.
Now, what’ll I do for a housekeeper?”
This was the only thing like a senti
ment he ever uttered in his life. Old
Mark Kaller is dead now, bnt his type
still lives in a good many men who
hobble through life without the color
of sentiment.
The Boston Kindergarten.
Froebel, the founder of the kinder
garten system of educating the young,
maintained that doing should precede
thinking, and in carrying out his scheme
he found a sure way to attract and re
tain the child’s attention by associating
all instruction with the use of the bands.
Several attempts have been made to
transplant the system to the United
States, but, with the exceptions in New
York, Boston and St. Louis, it has not
flourished. The Boston school is under
the charge of Miss Lucy H. Symonds.
The ages of the pnpilß range from three
to seven years.
One sees the eyes busy in carrying to
the mind clear image of natural sur
roundings ; the fingers acquiring skill
in expressing by material forms the con
ception thus wrought in the mind; and
the dawning of inventive powers. The
children find in the different occupa
tions and plays scoj>e for expressing
every thought and wish of their hearts.
The chief occupations are weaving strips
of paper in and out in tasteful patterns;
sewing upon cards with colored woods
(the children chose their own colors,
under the guidance oi the teacher, who
seeks always to cultivate good taste);
building with cubes or oblongs; mak
ing pictures with planes, and laying
fancied outlines with little sticks ; and,
approaching nearer to the abstract,
drawing upon slates ; making furniture
and other symmetrical figures with
sticks and peas; molding figures in clay.
The kindergarten system teaches
children to use the tips of their fingers
instead of the whole hand.
Visitor (after having asked all the
other oonvicts regarding misdeeds and
punishment inflicted)—Well, Collins,
what are you in for ? Collins—Becanse
I can’t get out. V, —I mean of what
were you convicted ? C. —Frying ice.
V.—Don’t the warden never take your
irons off? C.—No; he’s afraid I’ll
take cold if he does. V.—How long
were you sentenced for? C.—Ninety
nine days only. V.—(Sympathetically)
—Ah ! ninety-nine diys ! Why, your
sentence will soon expire, and yon’ll
be free again, won’t yon? C.—Well,
not so very soon either. V.--Why,
how’s that ? Ninety days isn’t long (
C.—(slightly closing left optic)—Well,
yon see, boss—they’re all Christinas
days!
VOL. 15-NO. 49.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
Sppoier has been treasurer fourteen
years.
Pebu has more dogs than any other
country of its size. Hence the Penman
bark.
The Detroit Free Press has just dis
covered that a bald-headed man never
raises his hat to a lady.
Yon Abntm has no traditional ground
for loving the Napoleon family. Five
of his father’s eleven brothers fell at
Waterloo.
Whejt we see a young man that
spends all he earns we are inclines to.
suspect that he does not always earn
all he spends.
Every German steamer arriving in
New Yoik brings not less than a thou
sand canary-birds, but our mocking
birds are not Jealous.
Bomb of the students at eastern col
leges can board themselves for thirty
five cents per week, but they don’t fee
like tearing around much.
The annual product of American
watches, notwithstanding the dull
timep, exceeds 200,000, and the capital
invested reaches $5,000,000.
Colorado started oollege a few
weeks ago, and up to date its inmates
consist of one woman, tTiree Indians,
a buffalo calf and a professor of botany.
Decwnihg a Kisa—
Said the master to Mary, sweet-lipped las=.
As shs stood in her place at the head of her
“Yon can. my dear, decline ‘a kiss’no doubt t
“ I can," she replied, with a blush and a pout.
And a glance to the master’s heart deeply
there shot,
“ But, sir, if you please, I would much rattier
not.”
Tee highest prize in a Chinese lottery
is twenty-nine cents, and the man who
draws it has his name in the papers
and is looked upon as a heap of R fel
low.
Mme. Pozzom, the new prima donna
in Paris, is said to have “the divinest
arms and shoulders.” Added to which
there is a sort of “vocal peaches-and
cream” quality about her singing.
Dio Lewis has been heard from again.
He says that codfish gravy is the best
food for despondent persons, as it im
parts cheerfulness. Pass the codfish
gravy.
When a Peoria youth goes to spark a
girl he finds the old lady in one corner
of the room, the old man in another,
and a dog under the melodeon, and he
is required to speak up like an orat' r.
Rev. Mb. Osbobne of speak
ing at a recent meeting of the National
Holiness association, urged the people
t© seek salvation “ from tobacco, from
croquet, and from Freemasonry.”
The Paris Journal says that ex-Queen
Isabella, of Spain, is about to sell her
diamonds, • stimated at s value of
twelve millions of francs. They will
be disposed of by auction in London.
Some old letters have been discovered
which go to show that William Penn
used to sell whisky to the Indians and
rob them while they were drunk. From
what we have seen of Mr. Penn we
can’t believe it.
Chance.
He comes not! Yea, he someth! Wherefore
wait
At casemate or at door hie 6tep to greet.
Thou tbiuk’st perchance to catch him at the
gate
And etay the passing of his rapid feet.
Yet are thou sure the chambers are all meet,
In order set to serve his royal state ?
The banquet laid, the crown above the seat,
Fresh rushes strewn, and all thinge adequate.'
He comes not ? Yea, be cometh—needetb not
Thy watching and thy waiting. He seeks
’ thee,
As surely as the mountain stream the sea.
He cometh—nor hath e’er one life forgot.
But when he neareth, saying: “ Here am I! ’
Shall he find all things fit, or pass thee by ?
Dyikq the other day, a Georgia man
took hie wife’s hand and said : “ Susan,
you’ve been a good wife ! We’ve lived
together thirty-two years, and I never
found a button eff my shirt! I’ll speak
a good word for you as soon as I git
thar!”
UoASTPun Texas sheet: “We know
some men who can take their pint a
day, and some who take their quart,
but to find a man whose standard is as
high as a gallon is rare. Sherman has
a man who boasts of chambering that
quantity.”
The changes in styles for gentlemen’s
clothing are eas ly noted, viz.: Coats are
much longer ; pantaloons are larger and
straight, without “ spring ” at the foot;
vests are invariably of the material of
the coat; black and very dark gray
English goods are used.
Moutke is reported as having said
that “the introduction of breech-load
ers has demoralized all the armies in
Europe except the German and Eng
lish.” His view of the case'seems to
have relation to the fact that the rapid
consnmption of ammunition booh leaves
the cartridge-boxes empty, and the
troops of the two nations mentioned are
the only ones that can be kept quiet
under the circumstances.
The papers" get a good deal of adver
tising by keeping this item before their
readers: “A family in Florida lost
their little boy, and advertised for him.
That very af fcprnoon an alligator crawled
ap out of the swamp and died on
she front door-step. In his stomach
vas found a handful of red hair, some
bone buttons, a pair of boot heels, a
glass alley, a pair of check pants, and a
oaper collar. The advertisement did
it.”
Faces which are lacking in harmony
will generally be found to fail in due
proportion because the month and ohin
fail to support the upper part of the
face. Good foreheads) and eyes are
more common among Americans than
good mouths and chins, though the
i ashion of wearing the beard obscures
t his in men. The upper face -the head,
brow, and eyes—shows the intelligence
snd nature of a man ; the lowest part
of the mouth and chin gives the meas
ure of his strength, his practical or ac
t aired ability and temper.
The Russian correspondent of the
London Echo gives some information as
to the tea fair at Nijni Novgorod, re
marking that more than 60,000 chests of
fne tea have arrived there this season
from China, and have fetched their
owners from five to ten roubles profit
per chest. On common teas, however,
t aere has been a loss. The Russian tea
merchants go to Nijni only to buy su
perior sorts of tea, as it appears they
get the infeiior sorts straight from Lon
don via St. Petersburg and the Baltic
ports.
Thebe was at one time in the city of
liondon a library society which met
p eriodically to read selections of prose
or poetry, each member being com
pelled, under the penalty of a fine,
ti discover and amend the errors of
tie reader who preceded him. On a
certain occasion one of the verses of
tie “Maid of Athens” had been ren
dered si well that, when it came to the
r ext member’s turn to read, he, per
plexed and desperate, exclaimed, “It
appears to me, gentlemen, that the last
r ?ader pronounced the word ‘ die* as if
tie ‘ i ’ was not dotted.”
Pbof, Lyman, of .Yale oollege, thinks
t lat there is no deception in the opera
t ons of Brown, the mind-reader, bnt
gives no satisfactory explanation of the
phenomena. He simply calls them a
sirt of mental telegraphy, and says
t lat a man physically strong and having
tie power of mental concentration is
tle best; sort of person to operate with.
I gown has performed some of his feats
v hile oonnected with another man
merely by a copper wire, and with a
good degree of success, though- the re-,
salts were not so striking as when there
v as direct contact of flesh with flesh,