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GRIM WOOD’S NOTE BOOK. •Orim Jokes in 3fid-Air Rescued from the Grave The inquest was held Tuesday after* noon, near Montague, Mich., on the body of N. S. Grimwood, the reporter of the Chicago Journal, who ascended in a balloon with Donaldson, and a ver dict of accidental drowning rendered. The identification of the body was per fect. In Grim wood’s note book was found written the following, evidently the introduction to his aocount of the ascension broken off at the moment the two occupants oi the baiioon were over- taken by the calamity which precipi tated them into the lake. The account is headed “ Up in a Balloon,” and con tinues : . “From the earliest dawn of child hood I have always had a presentiment that at some time, sooner or later, I was destined to rise. There are some people who make sport of presenti ments, but, after all, presentiments are a handy thing to have around. Where would I be to-day if I had not had a presentiment? I have risen, as it were to a point of order. Like a great many politicians, I arose by means of gas. I regret the faot that there are only two of us, Fref. Donaldson and myself, as I would like to belong TO THE UPPER TEN. “ Prof. Donaldson seems to be a very pleasant gentleman, although a philos opher and an aeronaut. Although it is soarcely an hour since I struggled into eminence, the restraint of my position is already beginning to be irksome to me and wear upon my spirits. I cannot help reflecting that if we fall we FALL LIKE LUCIFER out of the heavens, and that upon our arrival upon earth, or rather upon water—as we are now over the middle of Lake Michigan—we would be liter ally dead,” Chinamen in California. The Chinamen in California number 20,000, of whom three-fourths are adults. They are not only a power, but a great and important power. They fill nearly all the departments of trade, from the highest to the lowest. They have introduced American manufactures into China, and brought baok in other things oheaper goods than can be made at home. They regulate the labor market in California. They know Con- fucions by heart, and are omtent with the maxims of that ancient sage rather than the teachings of the modem mis sionary. Every month about 2,500 Mongolians are added to the Pacific coast labor and in household >. They monopolize wash ing and.peddling; control rigar-mahing, boots and shoes, underwear, etc..; are tinsmiths, watchmakers, carf enters, broommakers, fishermen and gardeners, and experts in woolen fabrics ; they are excellent cooks and chamber servants, and expert money counters in banks; in faot they are industrious, expert at bargains,' and economical. As house servants they are cleanly, but strike for higher wages and quit without notice. Dishonesty is frequent, but the notions of European domestics are exorbitant, and housekeeping would be impractica ble without Chinamen, for Chinawomen never hire out. Their numbers are small, few marry, and the most are pub lic. Nine-tenths of the Chinamen are single and show no disposition to settle nor to regard politics. They gradually adopt eur clothing, except the Christian coat and stockings. Men, women and children wear pig-tails reaching to the heels, and this orna ment is worshiped. They 6tick to the wide-sleeved blouse,mostly blue muslin. Opium is their favorite smoke^ and rice their chief diet, combined with pork. Fish and Vegetables are largely con sumed and eggs are largely imported from China coated with mud, and dried clams and oysters are also imported. No one ever saw a chinaman tipsy, but they gamble uni vet sally. They live in crowded dens and with no comfort. A shilling goes further than a dollar with Americans ; quick to strike for wages, they work for whatever offers rather than be idle. Every man can read and write. They have several temples for worship, and within images are rudely bedizened, tapers ever burning, incense, gongs, etc., but no seats. Gilded texts from their scriptures appear on the walls. There are no books, no pulpit, no preaching, no praying, nor is there a day set for worship. . Every day Chinamen pass in front of the images, hats on, make a low obeisance, and pass out; time, five minutes. Americana can sea .at a glaneetbe importance in many senses, of a popu lation like this. Though in the country, hey are not of it, for all of them mean to return home some day or other.— AT.,, Y. Express. \ Mules and Horses. Whatever may be said of the hone as an agricultural laborer above the mule at the north, certain it is that the posi tion of the Arkansas correspondent of the Amerloan Farm Journal, favoring the mule in Southern agriculture; is well taken i Mules on an average are more valua ble than horses, are not so subject to disease, and are not likely to run away in wagoning and plowing, are longer lived, will do more work, and require less feed and attention; they are stronger, will draw heavier loads, and stand a great deal more hardship, and are in every way preferable to the horse for general farm use. Mules come in earner, being ready for light work when three years old. They will then do enough work on the farm to pay for their feed, and after having attained the age of four years, they are ready for any kind of service. But the horse (colt) must be kept until he is four years old before he is worked at all, and when he is four he must be a first-rate colt to bring as much as the mule will at two years old. But assume the animals are both required for farm work, see what a difference there is in favor of the mule. The working life of a mule can be safely estimated at thirty years, and that of a horse at ten years. So while a mule is working its life out, three horses are required to do equal service. But these are not the only items. The saving of feed is at least one fourth, or not less than 647 bushels of corn and 427 tons of hay. These amounts, added to the original saving in purchase of animals, show an advantage in favor of the use of the mule over the horse of over $1,000 during the ordinary life of the animal. The mule is less dainty about food, unground grain and dry feed being just the thing for him. There are still other advantages in favor of the mule too numerous to mention. The Family of Donaldson the Aero naut. The children of Donaldson, the aero naut, are said to be in very destitute circumstances in Bochester, New York. A proposition for a collection for their benefit has not met with success, and they are being supported by a few be nevolent and charitably inclined indi viduals of that city. Donaldson was a widower, and engaged to be married at au early date to Miss Taylor, an eques trian of Barnum’s Hippodrome, who won professional renown in “the ladies’ flat race,” the “Congress of Nations” in the “ Saltan’s Harem," and the “ hurdle races.” Miss Taylor stated to a reporter of the St. Louis press that before his last ascension, Mr. Donald son was unusually depressed in spirits, and gave into her charge all his porta ble effects, without telling her what disposition to make of them in case he was lost. She was undecided what to do with them, but, as his ohildrdh are a charge upon benevolent people of Rochester, her duty is certainly plain enough, since they should be appropri ated for their use. Miss Taylor was injured by a fall from a horse in St. Louis, and when able to travel she went to Peoria, Illi nois, where she is at present, the guest of a sister. When interviewed a few davs since, she stated to a reporter that she bad not yet given up all hope of Donaldson’s safety, although it was daily growing more faint. Should he return, she said, their marriage will speedily take place.—Toledo Blade. Specimen French Convicts. A shipload ol convicts of the worst class leaves France Jhis week for New Cileuuiiia, Mors than a year ago the terrible institution of the galleys at Toulon was abolished, and transporta tion substituted as a punishment in stead. More humane Certainly, and possibly more efficacious, as it gives the criminal a chance for reformation, and of thriving by honest industry. Among the gang of murders and forgers who are to be sent off in a day or two, there is one who confidently expeots to become the tenor singer of the theatre of Neumeo, while another congratulates himself by being a baker by trade, and therefore likely to get on well in bis new sphere. The crimes of which these wtetches have been guilty are mainly of the most atrocious enaraoter, nearly all of them being murderers, One of them, a respeotable-looking man named Brest, was found guilty of having put his own little daughter to death by holding her down on a red-hot stove until she was literally roasted. There seema^to be law when the miserable Communists were put to death by hundreds, while the life of such an atrocious fiend as that oould be judiciously spared. A shipload of women, selected from the diucraut reformatory institutions of the government, is shortly to be sent out to New Caledonia also. This will be thq second lot that lias been sent there, the first having done very well, all those who composed it haring either been married soon after their arrival, or else well-established as household servants. —Paris Letter, Why Language Should he Studied. The study of philology, or of language by itself, is undoubtedly of great value; bnt it is rather a study for the spec ialist than for the average student. It is, certainly, a true science; only, lack ing precision in its methods, and be ing deficient in praotical applicability to the general affairs of life, it must be left ont of aoconnt for the present. In a general course of study a language should be taught because of its value m opening up other departments of knowl edge. It should reveal to us the thoughts of other peoples, and enable ns to avail ourselves of their experience. For most men these purposes are best fulfilled by a study of the modern tongues. Latin and Greek are avail able no donbt, only they are less indis pensable than French and German. These newer languages are not only of praotical value, being spoken or written by millions of our fellow-beings to-day, but they have also many direct bear ings upon all modern life. The sciences can not be well studied without them; they open up the widest fields of recent thought; they bring ns into closer har mony with the spirit of our own times. We can get along better without a knowledge of antiquity than without a knowledge of the days in which we live. The history of the siege of Troy has less interest for ns than the history of the great sooial and eoonomio prob lems whioh are being worked ont in suoh deadly earnest in onr own coun try and in Europe to-day. The ancient languages have their uses, unquestion ably ; so also have the Russian and the Chinese; bnt are those uses of sufficient importance to warrant universal study ? Remembering the aims of education, we must also remember that every stu dent has but a limited number of years to spend at oollege. In those few years he mnst require that learning whioh will best fit him to go forth and grapple with aotive duties. If he has both the taste and the leisure, then he can learn the dead languages after graduation. It iB nothing to urge that Latin and Greek facilitate the acquisition of French and German, since the latter can be studied directly as the former; Few people can afford the time to study four languages in order to use but two. —Popular Science Monthly. Why Cattle Require Salt. We know why the animal craves salt, and why it ultimately falls into disease, if salt is for a time withheld. Upwards of half the saline matter of the blood, (57 per cent.), consists of ’common salt; and as this is partly discharged every day through the skin and kidneys, the necessity of oontinned supplies of it to the body beoomes sufficiently obvious. The bile also contains soda as a speoial and indispensable constituent, and so do all the cartilages of the body. Therefore, if the supply of salt be stinted, neither will the bile be able properly to assist the digestion, nor the cartilages be built up again as they And when ws consider it to be a fact, that without salt man would miserably perish; as among horrible punishments entailing certain death, that of feeding oulprits on saltless food is said to have prevailed in barbarous times, we may become partially convinced at least, of the necessity of feeding salt to our stock—that it is one of the necessaries as well as one of the luxuries of life for man and beast; and it should be pro fusely provided at short intervals, in proper places, if it cannot be kept by them oontinually, so that each and evexy animal may satisfy the demands of his nature. Then it shall not be said of us, that while our padding is well Masoned and salted, our stock are allowed to suffer for want of (he same whioh is as truly dooms ary fc as for oxun.—ProJ. Johnson. An Affecting Case. ■hows nothing stranger than instant!^ neoas blindness or deafness, or their immediate eure. Bnt oases of the kind are well authenticated. The following is told in a Nashville paper: We re cently heard a remarkable and touching story of a little boy, the son of a gentle man in an adjoining county. His age is twelve or thirteen. He is an inter esting and promising lad. One day during the past winter he failed to rise in the morning as early as usual. At length his father went into the room where he lay, and asked him why he did not get up. He said it seemed dark yet, and he was waiting for day light His father retired, bnt the boy not making his appearanoe for some time, he returned, and said a seoond time— “ My son, why don’t you get up f” “ Father, is it daylight ?’°he asked. “ Yes, long ago. V Then, fattier,” the little fellow said, “I am blind.” And so it was. His sight was gone. In a short time his fattier took him to Nashville, to get the benefit of the med ical profession there, but none of the physicians oould do anything for him, and happily made no experiment on his eyes. Some ladies in a family of his father’s acquaintance sought to oheer him in his amiotion, and one night pro posed to take him to (he opera, that he might hear the music and singing. He went and was delightad. In the course of the performance, all at once he leaped np, threw his arms aronnd his father’s neck, and screamed with eostaoys “ O father I I cm see I ” His sight had instantly returned. And since then he has retained it in full vigor, except that under exoitement there iB sometimes a dimness of vision. The case is one of a remarkable and singular character. Yellow Jack at Pensacola. The fever this season has displayed all the qualitie iof a good general maneuvering before an enemy. It first appeared at quarantine immediately in front of the city, bnt finding it impossi ble to make an attack across (he water (being able to fight only at short range) it made a determined flank movement, effected a lodgment at Barrancas, tod succeeded in demolishing nearly one- half the force stationed there. Thence it made another flank movement, fell upon and drove in onr pioket-line, and at last entered the mty triumphant, despite almost superhuman efforts to prevent it. All that humanity oould do was done to keep Pensacola free from the fever. The first ease developed itself this morning upon a Mr. Fields, who had knowingly and willfully en tered the oity, being fully aware that he really bad the fever (at least it is so said.) As soon as the case was reported, Col. J. P. Jones, our mayor, sent two physioius to examine and report. As soon os their mission was heard of orowds began to oolleot on the street oorners, anxiously awaiting their re turn. The various orowds began to concentrate at one point as soon as the medical men were seen returning. Their report was laoonio, bnt to the point. It was “yellow fever, sir.” In less than half an hour, many were making preparations to leave. Unless the lever is checked at once, the injury to commerce will be almost incalcu lable. The business men of the city are disheartened, and say it seems like straggling against fate to attempt to build up a business here.—Letter to Atlanta Herald. Flizb.—I hate a fli, A fit has got no maunora* Ho ain’t no gentleman* 5c is an irttmoder: don't seuu in u<> k»i4, nor ax an introduokshnn, nor don’t knock at the front door, and never thinx of taking off his hat. Fast you kno he is in bed with yon tod up your nose—tho wat they want there is a mis- try; and he invites hisself to breakfast and sits down in your butter thout brushing his pants, i hate a fli. Damn fli.—Josh Billings. —Tennessee has given her ooantry three presidents—Jaekaon, Polk ana Johnson—and it is anasMr still that they were all born in Carolina.