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GROUPS. A GRAPHIC SKETCH. 6ERXAHT, ITALf, AMERICA. The memories of our Hammer sojourn iD Swi.zf rland comprise a varied succession of c 1 ardcteiistics aud personalities. Representa tives ot n any nations were there, offering ns in their diBtinctior.8 of manners and traits not a little matter for reflection. There was a family of Germans, father and mother, with a tribe oi of young folk about them ranging from a baby yet in arms, to a handsome youth whose own wedding day is not far off. These are eminent ly an open air, muscular, bretzy, healthy set ot people; people who do not mind a shower ot rain or a fall of snow, and do not disdain stout boots that make slender feet look larger than they are, and shapeless water-proofs that con ceal all the graceful lines of the figure as effect ually as they shield the wearers from the rain. The boys and girls are a merry set of creatures, and the presence of the father and mother does not take from their enjoyment. They sing and play, and row on the lake, and take long moun tain walks and are always bright and beaming and laughing and good-humored. Education goes on hand in hand with this healthy open-air life; and the little ones have their lessons, the elder their studies, just the same as if they were in the oity which is their natural habitat. Bui it makes all the difle ence whether these lessons are given, and those studies are carried on, in rooms where the windows are shut close because of the noise of the streets, or in rooms where they are all wide open, with no more rural dis traction than that wbioh comes from the song of birds, the hum of the insects, the tinkling of the mountain rills, and the plash of the wave lets running from shore to snore of the clear blue lake. We claim them as of ‘our table,’ though they live out of the house, away there over at the other side of the lake in one of those rough Tyrolese chalets where you get walls and floors and ceilings, beds and chairs and tables, and nothing else. They have no means of cook ing in their place; no servants to cook if they had; and no power of getting food if they had both the means and the hands. Hence they come over to us to dine and sup; and part of the day’s occupation, for all of us in the house prop er is to watch their boat now sailing with afar wind and under a clear sky, its human freight clearly vibible aud pleasantly audible—now heavily plowing its way over the tossed and roughened water, when, instead of the bright faces and pretty costumes which make part of the pageant on the fair days, we see only a col- lec ii n of mushroom-like umbrellas, beneath which, still laughing and ever merry, the fam ily sits huddled like so many penned-up sheep. There is an Ita'ian family of the same kind in point ot numbers and pleasantness, and yet how dftVrent! Soft and graceful, taking all that comes, if not with the robust and vigorous counter-energy of our Teutonic friends, yet in their own smiling easy way they are just as prac tically philosophical and just as personally pleasant. They slide under their difficulties, they do not oppose them; and they make their ideal of life p.ace rather than work. The moth er and her dangbteis are by no means remark able for the depth or extent of their education, but they are all passionate for music, and a few are as devoted to painting. They take no long mountain excursions, but content themselves with lazily fl aling about the lake when the weather is secure and the water like glass; or they sit in the garden, where the little children play about their feet, and where the father sketches, the mother embroiders, and daughters, perhaps, embroider, too, perhaps read, perhaps paint, and whe<e the-boys suddenly break into si a’.ches of song that wake the echoes of the old pine woods and float dreamily down the lake. They are all beamiful as so many young gods and goddesses, tall, well formed, well developed —but not energttic; nor are the women free. Unlike the German frauletn, our sweet Italian ii corinas m ver leave their mother’s side, and never stretch out into independent action. They do not handle the oars, nor start off into rough mountain walks ‘up to the snow,‘like the baroness and her sister. Those dark, close-shut mountain valleys would terrify them were they to find themselvi s there alone; and if they heard the shrill cries which Sunnd from peak to peak, as the cattle-tedders call to each other across the ravines, they would instantly be assured of bri gands, and believe their lives not worth an hour’s purchase. Wherefore they keep close at hom6, and only venture out of sight and hear ing of the community when the day is like one of their own sweet sunny days of Italy, and they are as little afraid of storms as—they need to be of brigands. Contrast with this peaceful, indolent, home- staying family, that brisk, bright, reckless Am erican triad—those three quite young, good- looking, ‘unprotected females,’ who have come over the seas to ‘do Europe’ in less time than we slower and older creatures take to ‘do’ one State or even one historical city. They are like nothing so much as three several flashes of lightning, not so much for the quickness of their movements as for the rapidity of their minds and the swiftness of thtir conclusions. They understand you with half a word; and before you have spoken the other half have taken the argument out of your mouth—have turned it and you inside cut—and have left you without an inch of ground that you can call your own, or a metaphorical leg to stand on. They dazzle you by their brightness, and bewilder you by the swiftness and suddenness and completeness of their attacks. You feel as if the three were mul tiplied into thirty, and that you are assailed at all points at once. But they are withal the sweettst-tempered and most amusing compan ions that you can find in a long summer’s day, and they carry tbeir flag with so much amiabil ity, as well as honesty, that you can do nothing more than rub yonr eyes good-humoredly when they have flapped it rather hard across the lids. While they stayed with us they made the intel lectual life of the| English-speaking part of the community, and the wonder of those of the Lat in, if the envj of those of the Teutonic people who were associated with us. These three young women, rich, pretty, attractive, 'doing Europe' with never a man nor a maid to help ike-m, and es free from fear as if they w»rs walking down Br< adway at noonday !—it was a practical lesson that tank deep in the minds of all who conned and did not understand it; just as the freedom from prejudice, the intellectual courage and brtadth and brightness of their minds, was a lesson to those who spoke their language but did not live in their world, and who had never dared to divest their own thoughts of leading strings, red tape and iron boots. Peace be to them, and good luck go with them ! They flashed through our quiet sky like brilliant birds of rare plumage, and when they went they left a blank which not even tbe next corners filled up Among tlie Gleaners. Barns and the Dogs. ‘The Two Dogs’ of Burns is a genial exposi tion of the poor man’s philosophy. The dog ot wealth laying aside his master’s pride in his master's absence, meets the peasant dog with kindly courtesy, and both tranquilly on their haunches, with nose to nose and most sagacious phizzet, discuss the comparative merits of riches and poverty, pity the follies of their two legged fellow-creatures, congratulate each other od their canine superiority, and bless their stars for being dogs instead of men. Ctesar, the do, of high life, with an air of peculiar respectabil ity and most complaoeni compasrsion, wonders Low poor folks can live at all. Lnath, his hum ble friend, endeavors to prove to his compan ion that poor folks not only live, but live with many pleasures to which the rich are generally strangers. This Loath wts a dog of sympathy. He shared tbe cottage sorrow, he shared also the cottage jog; he rattled away among the dancers, wagged his tail in the highest glee of his honest heart and added his ohorus to the merry sound. When adversity was on the hearth bis face grew long; when better times returned, it was broad again. ‘My heart hae been so pain to see them, That I for joy hae barkit wi’ them.’ Burns was onoe discussing with a friend the fidelity of the dog and took up the subject with all the ardor and kindly feeling with which his conversation was so remarkably characterized. •Man,’ he said, ‘is the God of the dog. He knows no other, he can understand no other, and see how he worships him ! With what rev erence he crouches at his feet, with what love he fawrs upon him, with what dependence he looks np to him, and with what alacrity he obeys him. His whole soul is wrapped up in his God, and the powers and faculties of his nature are devoted to his service, aDd these powers and fac ulties are exalted by the intercom ss. It ought to be just so with the Christian, but the dogs put the Christians to shame.’ CHARACTEHISTICS OP HUMEB. This faculty is not the slight matter that many seem to think it. Hnmor in its highest form* is the quality, not only of a libera], but of a cul tivated spirit. It requires that the mental pow- eis be vigorous as well as genial. It requires imagination and intellect as well as a heart in the right place and the juices of the body in a right condition. Humor as well as pathos is the result of sympathy—of sympathy that em braces man in the most brotherly cordiality— weep with those who weep and rejoic<s with those who do rejoice. This is the humor of Shakespeare; it is the humor ot Hagartb; it is the humor of Burns. And many a noble use has this honest faculty. Often it is more effective than sermons to make life lambent, to clear the sky that was becoming too heavy around us, to vivify social communion, to dispel evil passion, and by its pleasant mockeries to shame us out of shams and nonsensical miseries. DEAN SWIFT’s MtJM PARTY. I lately read of a man in New York State and recently deceased, who spoke only twice in fifty years. Dean Swift also during his life, had a mum party all by himself, but it embraced a period of but little more than a year. In that length of time, the not-immaccnlate dean was wholly silent, with but three recorded excep- tiot s. On one occasion, a careless servant girl blew out a candle in his chamber and the smell offended him. He told her she was ‘a nasty slut.’ At another time, a servant man was try- inn to break a large and stubborn lump ot coal, when the dean exclaimed, ‘That’s a stone, you blackguard.’ At the other time, not finding words to express something he wished in writ ing, he exhibited much uneasiness, and said, ‘I am a fool.’ He here concluded not to personate the charseter any longer and that broke up his mum party of one. M. Louise Cbossley. with gilt buttons, and embroidered in gold and silver. Mr. McGlosky, who escorted the prin- oess, was himself prince of the sleepirg beau ty, makiDg a fine pair of lively sleepers. He wore lavender satin and velvet costume, em broidered in gold, adorned with gilt fringe and white satin tights. Sonnambula wt s perionified by Miss Louise Oelinger, who wandered around with a vacant stare, in robes of white embroidered satin, and lace garniture. A Mobile Laay. How She Captured a Thief. SOCIETY NEWS. Fashions, Amusements aud Gossip. Lace gloves with fingers as well as with long wrists will be worn in the spring, as well as lace mitts and half-fingered lace gloves. The new kid gloves are welted at the top with three welts, half an inch apart, to this a lace frill at the top is frequently added. Mummy-cloth is so named from its crape like texture resembling the cotton-clothes in which ancient Egyptian mummies are found. A young woman from the United States.ap peared the olher day at Nice in a dress trimmed with fringe of pink radish on artichoke leaves. A stylish couple out West had so many friends that they could not make their wedding cake go round so they had it photographed and sent pictures to all their friends; which was consid ered anything but tasty. A Tennessee widow gave a fellow a suit of clothes on condition that he would marry her, and the ungrateful dog went off and married another girl. The widow sued and got the suit of clothes back, however. Some very elegant costumes were worn by the bells of Gotham at a recent lancy hall. Among them was one, uniquely personating Danae, and scattering a golden shower, in tiny particles over the dance floor. Her drets was pearl satin, embossed with gold, and fringe to match. Mrs S. Millins took tbe humble po sition of French nu se, and Miss E, Millins acted as housekeep- pr in f+rppfl with nrhifo anrnn otiA Viioh- Mrs. Isadore Middleton, a very beautiful woman, and one of the acknowledged leaders ot fashion in Mobile, can certainly boast of the possession of as much nerve an true moral courage as are often vouchsafed to any of her sex. One evening recently, she was in her bon doir putting away some articles ot jewelry, when she noticed that the peculiar position ot a libra ry lamp that was burning upon a chair in the back part of the room threw upon the floor, al most directly at her feet, the shadow of a man who was crouching under a Oroad-topped orna mental table in the centre of the roefm. Sue also remarked that the open hand of tbe shadow nad but two fingers, and remembered that several desperate burglaries had been committed in the neighborhood, snppositionsly by a negro d>s- perado, who was notorious as having lest two fingers of his right hand. Mr. Middleton was absent from the oity, and besides herself, there was but a single maid ser vant in the house. Instead of fainting with fear or shrieking for help, the brave lady seated herself at the very table underneath wbioh the misoreant was concealed, and rang for a servant Hand me writing materia’s, Bridget,’ she said, with perfect calmness; *1 want you to take a note this instant to Mr. Forfair, he jeweler 4 and have him send yon back with my diamond neoklaoe aud ear-drops wbioh I left there lor re pairs several days ago. Bring them with you, do matter if fully repaired or not. They are by twenty fold the most valuable articles ot j welry that 1 possess, and I do not wish to pass anoth er night without having them in my hurean drawer.’ The note was at once written and dispatched; but, instead of being in the tenor that she Lad signified (on purpose for the conoealed robber I to overhear, for she had no jewelry under re pair), it was a hasty note to the jt.Wc.ler, an inti mate friend, in wbioh she sucoinctly stated her terrible position, and urged him to hasten to her relief wi;h the reqi.idte police assistance immediately on receipt or the missive The agonies which that refined and delicate woman UDdeiwent when left alone in the house, with thS consciousness of that dtsperate robber, perhaps assassin as well, crouched under the very table upon which she leaned, and perhaps touched by her dress, can only be lett to the reader’s imagination; but her iron nerve sus tained her through the ordeal. She yawned, hummed an operalio air, turned over the leaves of a novel, and in other ways luiitd the lurker into a sense of perfect security and expectancy, end waited—waited with a wiidly beating heart, and her eyes fastened witn a greedy, feverisn grze, upon the bands of her Iittie ormnln clock. At last, however, came the prayed-tor relief. There was a ring at the door bell, and she stroll ed carelessly into the hall and down stairs to open it. The ruse had been a success. She not only admitted Bridget, but also Mr. Forfair and three stalwart pelicemen. The latter stealthily passed up stairs and into the boudoir, where they pounced upon the concealed burglar so un expectedly as to secure him with scarcely a struggle. The prisoner proved to be a negro criminal named C apman, but generally known as ‘Twt- fingered Jeff,’ who, about that time, was wanted by the police to answer for several robberies committed in the neighborhood a short time be fore and he is now serving a twenty years' sen tence in the A'abama State prison. Happenings Here and There, Accidents; Crimes and Oddities. Maggie Maeuns a deaf girl, was run overby the oars on the railroad near New Albany Ky. and instantly ki^ed. A curve hid her from th6 engineer until too late. Harvey Chester, of Washington, Ky.. recently ran eff with and married his half aunt. Som time ago his brother married his step-grand- mot he* • Young Sargent, who married Miss Willough by of Kansas City Missouri a month ago, has been proved to have a wife in Miohigan and been sentenced to five years in the penetenti- ary. Patrick Curran, supposed to be deranged, who wandered from his house at Princess Fur- naoe Ohio, three weeks ago, was fonDd 1 deed with hanger and exposure and half devoured by dogs. The ‘elegraph reports the accidental killing of three young men at different points in Ohio oo the 8 it, insf. In each case, the victim was out hunting, and recieved his death from a gun in the hands of one ot the party. John Sharpies, ex policeman in New Orleans, ir suited a lady in the streets on tb-: 8;b, inst end was shot dead by her escort. On the same day, John Clay broker in New Orleans com mitted suicide because of financial embarrass ments. Chicago, Feb. 28,—Charles W. Angell, de faulting secretary of tbe Pullman Pulaoe Car Company, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary, the full extent of the law. THE CHURCH. Beings and sayings in the Re ligions World. AuDt Phillis, an old negro woman living near Yanceyviile, North Carolina, has just given birth to twins. She is sixty years of age. There is an excellent mineral spring where she lives, and the old woman insists that the result came from drinking mineral water. The United Stales Senate of 1861 and the Senate of 1879.—The senate of the United Mates, for 1he forty-sixth congress, which convenes in Washington on the eighteenth instant, will be Democratic by a majority of eight, thirty-eight states being represented. The Republicans will be a minority in that body for the first time in eigh teen years. The last Democrats senate, in which only thirty-three Stales were represented, ad journed sine die on the fourth of March, 1861. As a matter of curiosity we reproduce the roll of each body—that of 1861 and that of 1879. 11 is worthy of note, as a coincidence, that the 1’emocraticmajority in 1861 was precisely what it is to-day—eight: 1861. Pope Leo XU1. has awarded a medal with his blessing to tl e Catholic Indians ot Maine, who, on his access.o" to the Papa) throne sent him an offering of beautifully emhroidtred mocca sins. It is said that Dean Stanley has been tffered by the Queen the Bee of Duiham, vacated by the resignation of Dr. Barirg. This position brir gs the incumbent $40 000 a year. Even the devil has one good quality; that if wertsist him he will flt-e from ns; and we are always offered the aid of divine strength, that ' may be able to do it. er in chin‘z drees with white apron and high cut slippers. Another one of the daughters of the daughters of Folly was visible in the person of Miss Alice Scheffer, who impersonated that popular character in a shoit dress of blue and gold satin, garnished with kce and spangled with silver tinsel. Tinsel gauze masque veil, and sash thrown ever the shoulder to match. M iss Hannah Loszynsky made a very savage looking vivandierein a party ot French zouaves. Miss Lotta Roe' thal, of Newark, personated a Polish princess in a short costume of red and black satiD, with rainbow fringe. Her friend and companion for the evening represented Aurora Borealis in a brilliant costume of blue silk, shot with pr ows of gold and fl me odor like the Northern lights. Miss Rilla Dcifz was a saucy and bewitching Lapland princess with snow flakes clinging to her dark-fur-trimmed ccstume; a silver gauze scarf was edged with icicle tringe and an aigrette of ice snrmounted her jam ty sealskin cap. Miss Josie Behr made a very beautiful flower queen in a dress of radiant whiteness, garnished to all intents and purposes with natural roses, carnations, violets ana smilox vines. She clasped a fragrant bouquet in her delicately-gloved hand. Miss Sophie tiehr avowed preference for gold mines by adorning herself as the princess of one, for tbe evening at least. Her robr s were of b’aok velvet, embroidered in gold, and sprinkled wHb the precious dust. Ditto her raven hair and gleaming white slippers of satin. Mrs. Julie Levy represented a virgin princess in pure white s.ina and lace embroidered with white crystals; jewelry, pebbles of the Rhine, flower garniture, and white ivory fan with satin cover. Miss Delia Madden was Princess of the ‘Sleep ing Beauty.’ She seemed very wide awake for one bearing such a title, however, and more forcibly sngge«>ei a w.tking beauty, if glanc’S of admiration ar any indication. Her robes were of blue satin and black velvet, adorned ABOUT^VOMEN. Fashions, Styles aud Gossip. Fringes are deep this season. Little mantles are to be worn. Black silks are cheap this year. Philadelphia has a cooking school. Amber jewelry is fashionable again. Gilt edged note paper is fashionable. walking dresses are shorter than ever. The “Empire” bonnet is really coming. The bonnet cannot be too large nowadays. Grenadines are unusually pretty this year. Black velvet is more popular than last year. Silk hairpins in bright colors are imported Half Siting jackets will be worn this Summer. The waistcoat is the important part of a dress. Head dresses of Roman pearls are fashionable. Fancy humming birds cost 820 apiece in New York. Spotted veils are no longer worn by fashionable women. Tall si’k hats are carried to the altar by fashiona ble bridegrooms. Dinner tables decorated in two colors only are thought very tasteful. Pink and blue garnet and cream are much used in the new ribbons. White undressed kid gloves and a black gown are the Lenten uniform. Double half handkerchiefs of China crape are worn for bonnets in Paris. A French fan painter recently painted a dress for a lady at an expense of 81200. White holly furniture carved in patterns of the time of James II. is fashionable. Black silk bonnets embroidered with jet will be worn for mourning this Summer. I he finest rose-colored diamond in the world is in the’possession of a Baltimore lady. OraDges and radishes have both been used as dec orations for French ball dresses this Winter. Conch shell earrings are now made in the shape of shells, with a little water nymph lj ing in them. Silverdisks enamelled with the willow pattern seen on china plates are shown for earrings and brooches. Mrs. Senator Jones still has some very large dia monds left, it her husband did sell her necklace, as was reported. Colored velvet stands for dishes are used when it is thought best to make the dinner table look un usually fine- ‘All men forsook me,’ is Paul's cwn account of himself, ‘But the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me. ‘ Here is a golden hint lor the young who are put to their mettle in refus ing a sinful fashion, or in bearing a jibe at their conscientious scruples. Tbo young man who can be laugher 1 into a glass of vine or a game of cards, or a ballroom, may S6t himself down as a pitiable coward who can be pushed hack with a straw. If he is more afiaid of a ccmp; d- ion‘3 sneer than of God's fiown, he is doomed., ALABAMA. Benj. Fitzpatick, D. ■ lementClay, Jr., D. ARKANSAS Robt W. Johnson, D. Wm. R. Sebasti -n. D. California. Wm. M. Gwin, D. Milton s. Latham. D. CONNECTICUT. L. S. Foster, P. James ifixon, R. DELAWARE. James A. Bayard, D. Wm. Salshurv, D. FLORIDA. David L. Yulee, D. Stephen R Mallory, D. f’¥nD/u a 1879. GEORGIA. Alfred Iverson, D. Robt. Toombs, D. ILLINOIS. Lyman Trumbull, R. Stephen A. Douglas, D. INDIANA. Graham N. Fitch, D. Jesse D, Bright D. IOWA. James Harlan, R. James W. Grimes, R. KENTUCKY. .1. J. Crittenden, Amer. Lazarus W. Powell, D, LOUISIANA. John Slidell, 1). Judah P. Benjamin. D. MAINE, Hannibal Hamlin, R. Wm. Pitt Fessenden, R. M ASSACHU.SETTS. Charles Sumner, R. Henry Wilson, R. MARYLAND. James a. Pearce,D, A. Kennedy, Amer. MICHIGAN. Zach. Chandler, R. K. S. Bii gham, R. MINNESOTA. Henry M. Rice, D. M. S. WilRinson. R, MISSISSIPPI. Jefferson Davis, D. Albert G Brown. D. MISSOURI. James S. Green, D. Trusten Polk, D. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Daniel Clark, R. John P. Hale. R. NEW YORK. Wm. H. Seward, R, Preston K i n er, R, NEW JERSEY. J. R. Thompson. D. John O. Ten Evek, R. NORTH CAROLINA. T. L. Clingman, D, Thomas Bragg, D. OHIO. George E. Pugh, D. Ben. F. Wade, R. OREGON. Joseph Lane, D. Edward D. Baker, R. PENNSYLVANIA. Wm. Bigler, D. Simon Cameron, R. RHODE ISLAND. Jas. E Simmons, D. Henry B. Anthony, R. SOUTH CAROLINA. (Seceded.) TENNESSEE, Andrew Johnson, D. A. O. P. Nicholson, D. TEXAS. Louis T. Wigfall, D. John Hemphill, D. VERMONT. Jacob Collamer, R. Solomon Foot, R. VIRGINIA. James M. Mason, D, Robt. M. T. Hunter’ D. WISCONSIN. Charles Durkee R. James R Doolittle. R. RECAPITULATION. Republican 26 Democrats 32 Americans 6 ALABAMA. John T. Morgan, D. Geo. S. Houston, D. ARKANSAS. Aug. H. Garland, D. J. D. Walker, D, CALIFORNIA. Newton Booth. R. James T. Farley. D. COLORADO. Henry M. Teller, R. N. B. Hill, R. CONNECTICUT. W. W- Eaton, D. O. H. Platt, R DELAWARE. Thos. F. Baya- d, D. Eli Saulsbury. D. FLORIDA. Charles W. Jones, D. Wilkinson Call, D. GEORGIA. Benjamin H. Hill, D. John B. Gordon, D. ILLINOIS. David Davis, Ind. John A. Logan, K. INDIANA. Jos. E, M’Donald, D. Dan’i W. Voorhees, D. IO Wa. Samuel J. Kirkwood, R. William B. Allison, R. KANSAS. Preston B. Plumb, R. J. J. Ingalls R. KENTUCKY. James B. Beck, D. John S. Williams, D. LOUISIANA. Wm. Pitt Kellogg, R. B. F. Jonas, D. MAINE. Hannibal Hamlin, R. James G. Blaine, R. MARYLAND. Wm. Pinkney White, D. James B. Gryome, D. MASSACHUSETTS. Henry L. Dawes, R. George F Hoar, R. MICHIGAN. Zach. Chandler, K. Thomas W. Ferrv, B. MINNESOTA. Sam. J. R. McMillan, R. William " indom, R. MISSISSIPPI. Blanche K. Biuce, R. L. Q. C- Lamar, D. MISSOURI. Frances M. Cockrell, D. George G. Vest. D. NEBRASKA. Algenon S. Paddock, R, Alvin Saunders, R. NEVADA William Sharon, R. John P. Jones R. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Edward H. R„])ins, R, To elect—a Republican. NEW JERSEY. Theo. F Randolph, D. John R. M’Pherson. D. NEW YORK. Francis Kernan, D. Roscoe Conkling. R. nor 1 h Carolina. Matt. W. Ransom, u. Z. B. Vance, D, OHIO. Allan G Thurman, D, Geo H. Pendleton, d. OREGON. LaFayette Grover, D. James H. Slater, D. PENNSYLVANIA; Wm. A Wallace, D. J. D. Cameron, R. RHODE ISLAND. I A. E. Burnside. R. iHenry B. Anthony, R. SOU IH CAROLINA, Manning u. Butler, D. Wade Hampton, D. TENNESSEE. James E. Bailey, D. Isham G. Harris, D. TEXAS, Samuel B. Maxey, D. Richard Coke, D. VERMONT. George F. Edmunds, R Justin S. Morrill, R. VIRGINIA. Robert E. Withers, D. John W. Johnston, I). WEST VIRGINIA. Frank Hereford, D. Henry G. Davis, D. WISCONSIN. Angus Cameron, R. Matt. H. Carpenter, R. RECAPITULATION Democrats 42 Republicans 33 Independent 1 ‘I had a conundrum to ask you,* said she to him as they sat on the sociable together without much space between them, ‘but I have forgot ten it.* ’You are conundrum enough forme, 4 was bis reply, ‘and one which I shall never give up.‘ Yum, yum. It’s funny ! but a 6cff-palmed woman can pass a hot pie-plate to her neighbor at the table, with a smile as sweet as distilled honey, while a man, with a band as horny as a crocodile's back, will drop it to the floor and howl aronnd like a Sioux Indian at a scalp dance. To speak trnth, and to do good, is to re semble, in some sort, the Deity we worship. It was noted that on a recent Sunday eight pulpits in New York were occupied by women. Dr. DrVotie has distributed over 4000 Bible 8 and Testemen’s in Georgia, within a few months. Ought we pot to live in such a way. that in all our intercourse with others, they should see that we are under tbe influence of God’s Spirit? that we may let our light so shine, that others may see onr good works, and be constrained to glorify onr heavenly Father ? Rev. Dr. Briggs, missionary of the Presbyte rian Board, has completed the translation of the Bible into the language of the Dakota Indiaas, after forty yetrs’ labor. A good deal of the tronhle of God’s people arises from mistake 8Dd misapprehension of God. They judge of God by their sense, and not by his promise; by their own frame, and not by his constant nature. The Rev. Dr. Wi'sjn, of the English Mission ary Conference, says that only one of every three persons on earth has ever heird the name of Jesus. The Rev. Wm. Taylor, the evangelist, is labor ing with gre.t success in Canada. He has two more workers under appointment for South America in April. At the debt-raising services at the ‘Old Foundry’ Methodist Episcopal Cbnroh, Wash ington, D. C., President Hayes subscribed $500 at the $15,000 secured. The Edinburgh Presbytery of the United Presbyterian Cuurch of Scotland has passed a r solution recommending the Synod to declare that marriage with a deceased wife's sister shall no longer be a bar to membership in the Chnroh. The Methodist Church is getting a vigorous hold on tbe population of Texas. In eleven years the Northern Branch in that state has obtained a membeiship of 14 202, besides 2 467 probationers. Tnere are 175 churohes. The receip s in the d-ffarent departments of the grest Catholic Cathedral Fair, in New York, are reported to have been $172 625 58 of which amount $26318.06 was taken at the door. What is the use of hiding the laot that there is more sleeping done in the churches than in any other kind of buildings ? Many of onr churches are great Sunday dormitories. Men who are troubled it home with insomnia and cannot sleep on the pillow at night, fiud in ohurches sometimes the needed anodyne. What morphine, chloral and pillow of hops cannot do, sometimes the seimon and the long prater accomplish. F J There is an ignorance of the meaning of terms employed by the church world, that is almost beyond belief, and this is universal; and there is actually a large, very large proportion of the unsaved masses to—day, that liuve no idea that the Cuurch means anything to them. They tbiuk its Sabbath hell culls the good iolks to gether—the clean, wtildreFselt , people; and they would be surprised it they were told it really means them instead: - Personals, What People are Doing and Saying all over the World. Tiiden is sixty- ix years old. Jenny Lind is now in London. Saxe, tlie humorist, is seriously ill. Lueret a Molt is •’ailed u “bon Mott.” Prince Albert is in his thirty-eighth year. Mr.Brete Harte is wel. leceived socially in London and at the clubs. The body of i he late Bayard Taylor is on its way J this couutry by steamer. An English sculptor Is engaged in making a half- length statue of John B. Gough. The Prince of Wales has a weakness for whist and his wife is fond of bawling ’ Mrs, President Hayes firmly and respectfully en forces her temperance principles. Gambetta, the political leader of France, likeMac- Mahon, has Irish blood in his veins. Common report says that Mr. Beecher, is engaged upon his autobiography. It will sell! Franklin Simmons, now at Rome, has produced a very fine bronze figure of Washington at Valley Forge, GeD. Grant and party were last heard from in Hindustan. The viceroy of India has invited the ex-President to visit him. William Waterhorn, living near Grand Rapids. Michigan, is an active farmar at.the somewhat ad vanced age of 102 years. Beecher says: “There was not one of thepatri- archs who did not live such a life as in these days would put him in the penitentiary.” Mr. Spurgeon, the London pre cher, is getting wel, in the south of France, in spite of the habits which Neal Dow attributed to him. Gladstone-s friends are going to build a hospital to his memory that will cost 8110,000. There’s some sense in this sort of memorial. An English journal speaks of Lindley Murray as being an Englishman. This eminent grammarian ' was born in Pennsylvania, in 1826. Brignoli makes a very large sum as a singer, but is said to spend it all. He's getting advanced in years, and ought to lay up a penny now. Senator Blaine in his Chinese speech said: “The Senate must choose whether it would insist upon the civilization ofChristor the civilization of Confu cius.” Mr. Henry Bergh, jr, will receive general sympa thy by .reason of the painful woi nd he has received at the heels of an inconsiderately irritated horse. The accident, however, suggests that the clientso* Mr. Bergh, Bufibn to he contrary notwithstanding are as unappreciative and ungrateful as il they hacf only two legs and could reason. Dr. I. I. Hayes and Mr. Henry M. 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