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TIMELY TOPICS.
Oraus Field grants the modest sum
of ten million dollars from the British
government for his Paeiflo cable, and
the probabilities are that he Trill get it
sooner or later.
Tan United States has now become
the greatest silver producing country in
the world, taking precedence of even
Mexico, which has heretofore, been sup-
ucscd is. furnish two-third? of the tots
supply.
A WHITES
in DiacEWood’e
conclusively calculates that if the pub-
lio debt of the civilized world goes on
increasing at its present rate, in a quar
ter of a century the entire evenues of
all the nations will be insufficient to
pay the interest thereon.
Fob some reason, best known to them
selves, the English riflemen will not let
the American team oompete for the
Eloho shield at Wimbledon. The dis
patch says they are willing to have a
special match, to be shot between the
Americans and eight selected from the
three English teams.
It is feared that the new direct
oable is a failure. Though some time
has elapsed sinoe its completion was
announced, it oannot be learned that
any signals have been transmitted.
This would prove a great misfortune, as
the other can hardly do more than half
the business offered.
The government of the little kingdom
of Greece, being without money, has
hit upon an excellent means of defray
ing the expenses of its foreign diplo
matic servioe. It has Bent a letter to
each of its legations abroad, informing
the heads of those legations that they
are at liberty to oontinue to manage
affairs as heretofore, provided they do
it at their own expense!
French journalists maintain that
England must raise a bigger army if
she wants to exert any influence in
European affairs. A hundred thousand
regular troops are a mere bagatelle
compared with the immense armies of
the present day. England is too near
the oontinent, they think, to be indif
ferent to complications in European
polities.
arrival Iff New York of a large number j
of priests and nuns, who propose to
settle in Illinois, where Bismarck and
Dr. Falck can not curtail their ecclesi
astical freedom. The Prussian ecclesi
astical bills, in effect, banish every
Roman Catholic from Germany.
The ravages of the small-pox are in-1
creasing in New York, and it is also re
ported that there is greater danger than
usual this summer of a visitation of I
yellow fever. This disease is said to be
raging with great virulenoe throughout
the West Indies, and many cases have
Igen taken to Key West, Fla. The I
season has been peculiarly adapted to
the spread of yellow fever in Cuba, as
there have been none of the usual cold,
heavy gales called 44 Northers," whieh
have acted as a check to the spread of I
the disease. Vessels are now dne at
TWO PICTURES.
An old f&nn-houM, with meadows wide,
And sweet with clover on etch side;
A bright-eyed boy, who looks from ont *
The door with woodbine wrest bed about,
And wishes his one thought oil day:
“ Oh I If I could but fly sway
From this dull spot the world to see,
How happy, bsppy, happy, .
Bow happy I should bet”
Amid the city’s constant din 1
A man who round the world has been.
Who, ’mid the tumult and the throng,
The old, green meadow could I see,
owhappy.br—*
How happy 1
How happy, hapgftha^pjr.^
A GREAT PROJECT.
Another American shootist is loose
in England. We refer to Bogardns, of
Illinois, the ohampion pigeon slayer.
He yesterday beat an unhappy English
man matched to shoot with him, and
now, of oourse, he challenges all Eng
land, twirling his double-barreled shot
gun in the face and rubbing it nnder
the nose, as it were, of John Boll. We
Fish Bogardns would come home. He
is rather rubbing it in.—Cincinnati
Commercial.
| (The Guelphs and Ghibbelines of the
Cherokee nation have succeeded in get
ting up twenty-seven murder oases,
whioh were recently tried before the
United States district court at Fort
Smith, Ark. As a result of the trial,
seven of the semi-civilized will be
hanged in a batch on the third day of
September. This will be the largest
wholesale hanging sinoe the execution
of the thirty-three Sionx Indians at
Mankato, Minn., in 1862.
Reclaiming the Greatest of Sandy Deaerta
-Wonders oi the Sahara-The Medi
terranean fob: Turned Inin the Desert.
A railway between Algeria and Sene
gal, via Timbuetoo, appears a startling
project, yet suoi was the scheme sug
gested on Thursday night in a lecture
at the Salle des Conferences by M.
Paul Soleillet, who maintained that val-
New York from ports where yellow fever I ?. ab ^® merchandise from America, des-
is known to be raging. tmed for southern and eastern Europe,
° K would adopt that route, and thus restore
The San Francisco Chronicle predicts P° * be Mediterranean the importance
a Tfoii.n necessary to the mfluenoe of the Latin
a heavy Italian immigration into the g^met atarted on m expe .
United States, and a consequent aooes- dition from A Igiers in Deoember, 1872,
sion to the number of organ-grinders his intention being to reach St. Lonis,
and plaster-cast venders. Hitherto the Senegal, via Timbuetoo, but owing to
F33ft
and the Argentine Republic, the Italian ctalah (about 1,000 kilometres from
population there now nomberinga half Algiers). The latter portion of the
million souls, and constituting the chief route had never before been trod by
business element. The unsettled state ?“K>peans. He declares it a mistake to
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has led the emigrants to turn their at- part of the way a fertile soil, produe
tention to, the United States. And the ing both an African and a European
Ohroniole cites the fact that an Italian flora, including cereals, whieh are grown
agent has recently been baying large j? Bardens, but have to oontend with a
7° ., . , ~ ... . j , ? 6 dry climate. At one point, however, he
traots of land in California for his oonn- an a Mb four companions had to dis-
trymen to settle upon daring this year, mount to make a traak for their a tu
rn . _—T—— . . . I mals, and at another the plain was eov-
Thb postoffice department is much I ered b y 8 to ne a of different colors, one
pleased with the system of demanding I tint succeeding another,
the prepayment of newspaper postage, He believes the dunes are not formed
and will, at the beginning of the next the actI ® n , of th ® bnfc “» **ks
^,■*,7 «*-» » taeuwtsssss
the repeal of the law in relation to and form, and by the nndonbted dura-
postage on transient matter in the bility for at least several oentnries of at
mails. The law regulating the pay- j taast one of these dunes. He was
ment of postage, will, however, be re- traversing the sandy regions
tained. It has bee£ found that, al- of distant objects,
though the rate has been reduoed, the i, ad the same tints to the naked
department now receives as much as it eye as they present through a telescope,
did when it had a higher rate, bat ool- He speaks sanguinely of the intelli-
looted the postage at the office of de-1 B? D ? 9 9* the Berbere and their capability
livery, whioh leads to the melanoholy
conclusion that some of the postonas-1 power. They are the' sole, judges of
of being civilized. The Mussulman
olergy he describes as possessing great
| power. They are the sole* judges of
tors are not as pare and honest in the questions of morality, and exoommuni
discharge of their duty as they should £ ation “ 3I th ® severest punishment
he known, while the most heinous offence
is marriage with foreign women, a prej-
The death of General F. P. Blair, ndice he attributes to a Jewish tribe
whioh ocourred last week, was not un- converted to Mohammedanism, whioh
expected. He had been in ill health be thinka probably settled there before
for two years, and was recently sup- jj e found no dangerous animal in the
posed to have received some benefit Sahara, the ostrich and the gazelle be-
from transfusion of blood, bnt his ing the largest of the fauna. His ex
friends had little hope of his ultimate Potion was ill-timed on account of an
recover. As . tidier he rn.de con- BSSfWEtjS? o^bS? fJ
reputation daring the war, | proposes to make a second attempt to
reaoh Senegal, and he suggests that
siderable
and was the demooratio candidate for
... " b '-o=t’.cn of three j bullet t.hm« s h the bull's sys
» .y-iisiiiuticR or the Ger
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man empire which brings the Roman
Catholio church in Germany in com
plete subjection to the government, and
the severity of the Falck laws passed
is 1678 are showing results in the flight
of German eodeeiastics to the United
States. The telegraph announces the
the Vice-Presidenoy in 1868 on the
ticket with Horatio Beymoor. He fig
ured little in polities afterward, though
he appeared in the Oinoinnati conven
tion of 1872 to nominate Horace
Greeley. At the time of his death, he
was state insurance commissioner of
Missouri.
""The American rifle team will prob
ably shoot at Wimbledon range, near
London, before their return. If they
succeed there as at Dollymount, there
will be a growl from John Bull, for he
hates to be beaten. Wimbledon was
established abont fifteen years ago*
and at the grand opening Queen Yic- isthmus twentv-one kilometre? broad,
toria fired the first shot, and put. her The explorer? will take the levels of
4nn ! these lakes and ascertain whether
French consuls or residents should be
stationed along the route ns foci of
commerce and civilization, for the in
habitants are sedentary and have
adopted division of labor, and though
slavery exists, this must be regarded as
an initial step in advancement.
It may be added that an Italian ex
pedition, got np by private individuals,
has arrived at Tunis for the purpose of
ascertaining the feasibility of tarning
the waters of the Mediterranean into
the Tunisian Sahara, a project advocated
by M. de Lesseps before the French
academy of soienoes last autumn. The
question at issue is whether the lake or
sohouts were connected in classical
times by a canal with the Gulf of Gabes,
from whioh they are now separated by an
yards. But then any woman could
have done the same thing, as the queen
sat cosily in a luxurious arm chair, and
pulled a silver cord whioh pulled a
rifle trigger, sixty yards off, the rifle
itself having been sighted for her and
fixed immovably in a vise for this
especial occasion.
canal is practicable. It would be a
great advantage to Algeria by opening
np the province of Constantine to trade.
The Bey of Tnnnis has shown great
courtesy to the explorers, and placed an
escort at their service. It may be re
membered that an expedition assisted
by the French government is abont to
cross Africa obliquely from Congo to
Nubia.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
The Carrier Dove.—
Myblrd let loose in far-off ekies,
When haat’ning fondly home,
Ne’er stoops to earth her whig, nor fliea
Where idle warblers roam. ..
* Bat high she shoots through air and light,
Above all low delay.
Where nothing earthly bounds her night,
Nor shadow dims her way. i
So grant me, (Jod, from every care
And stain of passion free,
Aloft through virtue’s purer air,
To hold my course to thee!
No sm to cloud, no lure to stay
My soul as homo ebe springs ;—
Thy sunshine on her joyful way,
Thy freedom on her wkigs.
—At Middletown, Del., an immense
peach refrigerator is to be built, capable
of holding 200,000 basket? of fruit,
whioh the'projector guarantees to keep
by a peculiar freezing process for six
months.
—The first female lawyer admitted to
the bar of Ohio has proved a dismal
legal failure. The baby is doing well
however, and if the clients can wait,
their cases may possibly come around
all right.
—After all the street-car conductors
who have committed suicide because
their honesty was doubted, the New
York companies now find that they have
saved over a million dollars by the use
of the bell-pnnoh.
—The Niagara haokman has once more
come to the surface. He drove a i
couple to a clergyman’s house, officiate
as “best man” for the bridegroom,
drove the pair back to their hotel, and
then called upon the clergyman to di
vide the fee with him.
Memcan Flag.—
Time Fleedom* topside g'eat big hill
Splead out him pidgin-lag on wing,
Him lip-bang-slam blue night-dless spile,
And hull clowd tip-top fleeceman bling.
On Hano, Clalk stleet.
♦Fleedom alia sam hiu-la Chinee; alia same,
make what pleaseo.
—The present rage in Paris for floral
decorations aB a part of female embel
lishment is such, that to look at some of
the ladies as they move along, one would
imagine that they had poked their head
and waist through a bed of garden flow
ers, and were bearing off ‘he spoils over
half their persons.
If My Love.— -
If my love smile:
So twinkle stare, through nights by moons
made gold;
So landscapes beam ’neath summer suns un
rolled.
If my love laugh:
So play in song glad waves along white sands ;
So harps of leaves laugh ’neath iEolian hands
If my love speak : 1
So ring the merry voicos of the woods,
That cheer alike sunshine and solitudes.
If my love blush:
So morning flushes up the dimpled skies;
So eve's carnation with the twilight dies.
If my love weep:
So fall the crystal tears of night in dew.
Skies weep that earth may bloom more fai
and new.
If my love love:
So bliss leaps gladly from blest heart to heart;
Nor life nor death shall find our souls apart.
—At the Central market yesterday a
long-haired man mounted a box and
commenced : “ My friends, who bath
redness of eyes ? The drunkard. Who
hath woe ? The drunkard. The Lord
sent us pure cold water. There’s noth
ing like w .” At that moment a boy
who was throwing water from the gar
den-hose used around there accidently
turned the stream against the stranger’s
back, and he jumped down and said it
was a case of assault, and ran after a
warrant. He said that no human being
could throw cold water over him with
out being moide to suffer for it.—Detroit
Iree Press.
—“ Is this the post-office ?” inquired
a stranger the other day as he approach
ed the stamp clerk’s window. 44 It is,”
was the reply. “ And yon have stamps
here ?” “ Yes, sir.” “ Will you be so
kind as to please sell me one?” “I
will” “I’m very soiry to have to
bother you,” continued the stranger
while the clerk was tearing off the
stamp, “ but I want to send a letter out,
and I nope you’ll excuse me.” “ That’s
al! right,” replied the clerk, “res, I
believe it is all right,” said the stranger.
“ I’m a thousand times obliged for your
courtesy, and now I want to beg one
more favor. Oan I mail this letter
here?” “Why of course. ” “Oan I?
Here, give me your hand, young man 1
I’ve lived around and about for over
forty years, and I’ve seen hard times.
I ain’t used to this sort o’ kindness, it
goes right to my heart \"—Free Press, .
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