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Newspaper Page TextBDWAKD TOUJTG ft OO , J Hiitrt mmd rrtfriHnrt. CttAWFOBDYILI.K - -G^llGTA. SEWS GLEANINGS. The debt of Charleston, S. C., ia $4, SG4,050. Seven employes of the Atlanta, Ga., post-office arc negroes. Pensacola, Fla., is building an opera house at a cost of $50,000. A chair factory at Marietta, (.a,, has sold 108,000 chairs in the past year. An immense number of manufactories are being built in Birmingham, Ala. One tannery at Rika, Mis?., turns out $100,000 worth of leather each year. The census taken in Cnattanoogfl, May 1882, gives her 17,054 population. Atlanta, Oa., has eighty-seven licensed saloons that take in over $1,000,000 a year. An •ii —.in Lp established at Sumter, N, C. It will ho the'flrst tu the South. Tho bronze statue for the Confeder¬ ate monument has been delivered at Oh ailes ton. Thirty bushels to the acre is a corn mon yield of wheat in East Tennessee this season. Alabama will have 2,330,000 acres in cotton this season. A decrease from last year of 10,3 per cent. Key We*’, Fla., is troubled with an epidemic of “dengue” fever. Five hun¬ dred ca rs are reported. More reapers have been sold in Geor¬ gia this year than the entire cotton belt possessed one year ago. 3 lie cotton crop of this year, so it is estimated from present appearances, will he about 5,000,000 bales. The largest orchard in North Carolina ■ owned by R. P. t’addison, at Moults liy’s Point. It contains over 8,000trees. Fortress Monroe is the largest single fortification in the world. It lias al¬ ready cost over $3,000,000 of money. Sixteen thousand men arc now em¬ ployed in railroad construction in Flor¬ ida. Eighty thousand people have set¬ tled hi the State in the past ten years. Tho last aporopriationof $125,000 for constructing jetties at tho mouth of the St. John’s river, bjla,, is nearly exhaust¬ ed, aVid it is probable tho work will cease about the 4th of July. The Charleston, (KC.) News and Cou¬ rier, ns a proof of the growth of home industries, mention# the building of a inai'liinerfln steanisr and the construction of all !§’ a tlv'* ,r t ‘ '-«■—■rt»e*)Seveml ffovrrnors Alabama lias elected, four were natives of the State. Gov. Patton was born in Lau¬ derdale, Gov. Winston in Madison, Gov. Watts in Butler, and Gov. Cobb in St. Clair Presley Nelms is the oldest citizen of Monroe county, Ga., being 104 years of age. He yet chops with an ax, uses the hoe, and can get about with surprising activity. He has a living sou over aev enty-five years old. In the seven States of Georgia, Ala bania, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and the two Carolinaa there has i>een an increase of 361,000 in the number of cot¬ ton spindles during the year, represent¬ ing an addition to the manufacturing industries of nearly A man at Magnolia, Ark., has some¬ thing now in the potato line, In liis garden about thirty potato bushes are growing, and tlie potatoes grow up among the limbs, like apples, and none are attached to the roots. The Pulaski (Tenn.) Citizen tells of similar vines in that vicinity. Geo. I. Sency said : “If any one asks you why 1 gave so much money to the Wesleyan Female College, of Georgia, t 11 them it was to honor my mother, to rlioin, under God, 1 owe more than too all the world beside. I admire the Southern women. There are possibili ties in tlie Southern women not equaled anywhere'elre on earth.” A novel but profitable industry in the mountains of North Carolina and East •Tennessee i* teat of collecting roots (mostly laurel). The roots are shipped to Philadelphia and Boston and used for the manufacture c ,f .] M . r i., / lnK ' , '' a 1 , I'D' . bowls. Tlie roots fre.j iu m. y weigh from 75 to 150 pounds. There is a constant demand, and the prices are paid for ' them by the ton. Tho will of Gen. George" Wash in- on, on file iu tlie clerk's office at Fai rta\, Fairfax county, Va., has re , much wear and tear fi n» strangers wl 7" desired to examine it. that the clerk found it nere-arv to Jr inc! t -c it in a ’ ^ case in order to i r v Tt -v is written on heavy unruled paj er, about note size, and 1 *' n, ... >•’ >e> v ered. T. ere are twenty-seven all of which lave Gen. Washing:, name attached except the twent which ended with t,e word- ..... C ity of 1 Washington,” and it IS supposed that in looking over it the General mi^tiSok the words for his signiture, and therefore ten in 1709—the year he died. Adulterated Tobacco. A pamphlet has been thousand* published, of show- tons j ing that to Germany transformed into to- j of beet leaves ore and bacoo. In some places chiccory , cabbage leaves make the fragraut v/eeu,- sold An English chemist found a stuff for tobacco was the leaves of a diaphor¬ etic plant. It has been impossible to sell the plant a* a drug, and it lias been turned into tobacco to save loss. Another writer informs everyboby, have or wants to, that chemists an im¬ portant place in tobacco factories. Fif¬ teen factories in New York employ chem Juts to “flavor” cigars. They can not do much with the wrapper, but, they can “ heighten and develop, ” the fillings. It is a relief to know on the authority of the writer quoted thatopium is not used, although it used to be formerly, to Eng¬ land, but stringent laws broke the prac¬ tice. The substances used to flavor to¬ bacco are numerous. formula. Every Vanilla manu¬ facturer has his own is the most common. This is employed in tho form of an alcoholic tincture to flavor fillings. It is said that effects few cigars are are free free from from vanilla. va It® are not not harmful harmful if if not not used in excess. The tonka bean and balsam fir are used in the same way and for the same purpose. Cedar oil is also introduced. Tho best imitator of the tabaoco flavor is valerian. Valerian and vanilla are the most valu¬ able chemicals now in use by tobaccou- , ists. By their use the poorest stems may be converted into fair tobacco. Into cigarettes enter not only valerian and vanilla, but cascarilla bark. To make cigars burn, ammonia is used, and they are soaked in saltpetre. The latter is injurious and makes young men old with dispatch. The object of its use is to cause noticed the cigar by to burn smokers freely. that It has been somo an intoxicating effect has been produced by some cigars. This is produced sulpli by dip¬ uric ping the fillings in a solution of ether and bromide of potassium. When it is known that New England rum is us. d wjtli vanilla and valerian, it is nothing to wonder at that tha cigars so treated produce intoxication. Wo do not name the brand teat ia treated with New England mm. If we did, the make de¬ mand would excel tho supply. To such tobacco, or aid in its adulteration, • other things ns potato leaves, sugar, and potash, tamarinds, aniseed, gum various oils not heretofore mentioned are used to a greater or lesser extent. In New York alone, 820,666,500 cigars an made annually, twenty-five besides, 229,800,000 thousand cigarettes, and pe rsons i /e cm] Joyed .—Providence Jour-, nal. Kuftm Hatch lu the Indian Territory, Unf.w Kufua Tteteh Hatch, th„ tno noted noted Wall V ad street Btrce , hffiL, ‘ i '!■'v TWritorvtolwikafter some rail v and . « i ewlv es ablhlie 1 th 1 to m bSn W^d 1 dSiX ] monstrouslygrandand.beautfful. land, oro n, thon more i, I Hk by, sky, v pramo, giasa, creeks, sky, shrub, Wind. grass, smah •ami, ”^V muro’ wn prai'rio, ol.c Sort ™’ a IrS, .kv .Avvet pinirio, cam,.; ; y buffalo skeleton, sky, prairie, dust, prairie sky, dog, coyote, sky, grass, clouds, more antelope, prairie, sun, dust, Ik* lit, sky, snake, prairie, prairie, prairie, clouds three or four trees, sun buffidoi horns, sun, heat, trend, dried moresky grass, prairie, sky, more clouds, dust, more snakes, prairie, cowboys sky, hear ens, on leave of absence, wolves sky, prairie, grass, sand, dust, snn, heat, prairie, only more so when wo came in full view of more prnrne all the time, and sky and clonds, kept keeping over us, and more snakes, buffalo carcasses, and horns, with con tinuous prairies and more beautiful scenery, until after iioarly one hundred miles of delicious driving, in a first olo>-s open buggy, under a broiling sun, with more sky, clouds, pr.-uno, wind, dust and gross, we landed at this Eldo rndo —known on the map as “ Spencer & Drew’s Cattle llanche," and amid of rifles and Colt’s revolvers, the singing of birds, the delicious and tlie thousand heads of horned cattle gently grazing ou rich meadow huids as lar na the eye can reach, the hum of in sects, and tec gentlo titilnfiou of the unobtrusive mosquito, I bid you all good-by, the with the gentle remark that if Indians-should overtake and kill mo, I never will forgive myself for coming here aVcie lark Commercial Adccr- ! There i, strong reason to believe that the first discovery of c xil on tins con!: nent was made ui Illinois, l>y the early French explorers, some time between iti.d and lboO. .lames Mcl arlane, author of the “Coal Regions of Amur ica," bbxb : “ It is remarkable that the first discovery of coal in America, of which there is any account in a printed V»ok, was maue so far in the inturior na Illinois, by Father Hennepin, more than two hundred years ago.” Hennepin's map, accompanying the edition of his - j. urmd published in 1698. located a coal mlue ‘be bluffs | I Ottawa, where near nn Inferior quality i of bituminous d>al comes to tho surface, I Raring to Taylor, this record another left high by Hemic- author j . 1 ity in ecmomic geology, sa.vs : “This 18 t,u> canh! 't notice on record of the Retire <f coal in Am 0 rica.-C7A,V, V o - A Hoosten voith named v U Goslimr v * saw saw _ . i two hours, S g..... vll.toMc, ier 1 .-•• A man wte d.^nn IT, nil u ? nrt to * ■s'f t,v , }..v-r- . 1.1 '‘“J™ • 1 1 ’' 11 ** fnn ''. ,,.7, nimself mt.i 111 ' 1 meu r^hes havlB *ml K cream dyspepsia m five the minutes rest of ' ae Jear ' TOPICS OP T IAY. , . President Arthur hs fiedded to sum¬ mer at Long Branch, f The French Senateiias rejected the American pork bill. j And - it "''■5%r fat Billy Patter now appears Roa waa struck by ligli^ng. U* A pint of whisky a day is Sitting j Bull’s government retie. i . i The crops in the arthwest promise . to be better than ever -J rVfore efore. ! ___ - r j The Kentucky wheiorop is supposed , rEa ch near 13,000,Of —J bushels. ; - , ^ . _ — Euthsrfobd B. Ha4s is reported as , hoeing c om and •« enjoy* . i ; . himself. • W ... ™ one week z7z~ 000 Jews T , have ; ■ left Lemberg, Austria^ Amer ica. An unusual amount ^counterfeit coin and currency is afloat. Look out for it. From Hayti comes ^contribution of $225 for the Garfield Lraorial r Hospital. --------- ■ afc.t ; Thb habit of . going p «, __ Europe costs . America not, less tha^$125, 1 >00,000 a year. If Congress adjou ^ Tuie mid die of July the coffiiu d bo fortu nate. --- - The The vouna voting peoolo people f a loncord keep nee the grave of Emei^n c r d with fresh flowers. ~ __ A colony of 200 fail of nc ^ roes is about to leave Misshtt to settle in Mexico. _ Sewing thread is r»/^ from pine tim ^ mand for export. e - Four hundred and f> •one pounds of tea lias been raised o' me acre of ground to Georgia. i - The losses caused by-fie late cyclone in Iowa are variously estimated from $2,570,000 to $3,000,000 i> amount ------—____________ r— England . VT , u—„„ hangs murders every time .. when she eatcheo im ; but they don’t seem to catch then 'ery fast over there. ** —--- * ♦ » - V---— The British police hsye at times ar »sted as the real J)ubl% assassins six teen different men, none-of whom were within‘>09 miles of rtio < lty u,.,t that dn ^ „ - - A con ° EET at l ,ub!ic Jt* ls F ivetl on B in t. ° ston , Comnloa There eTOr wJ - v ff>d*y option afternoon by summer. orthodox at fi. i, * it V.ai died ou* __—^ - *.& .rr , - them various 8 1 ’ohtical infin, i a politician t o ,'**«• br.ug up * ) -I [ — The onlv ’ ’ U l0rn wav W to to conn p muting . for him | fffo tliat a farm is no v ake the trip, ^ . Kansas, to let Iijil s la n gets through In two or three days ao asking which road it if. >n - Everybodt on the “ e conti C ° ntl T ha8 recentl ^ y now that Don Oanwron taping tooth been suffering from a jai far as even to ache—the matter p® goto-so-jnm. liti& „ j nn •' . 1 ™ 7.. _ Louisiana -;-whether consideniiji it is ■stop tho lot w-ould not be good policy te Louisiana tery business in that State states in the and Kentucky are the only a, * within their tneii TTnln., Um0n 4 in.f “** toI f rate * i lottcn< .. ■ * ’• corporate limits. | —“ -------- lnto a boat ^"° rp Michigan men got .ear climbed iu»d pursued a bear. The 1| • limbed out. t hear story at the family hea>-- ' -- —— - It n the opinion K of a 1 fon't know „ p, 4 ,, tbat . a ... ''' ho . ,-the enou gk . S° to church clail at 1 g of a bell, hour, without hearing the note! i unless the wouldn’t meet a bank in front of cashier came and blew a hornf J at V- cowbo I., and - TS fined welv a If they t for <mu* a volley at- tee comet ave been had killed a man it would killing all rio-ht 7 * The line is is drawn drawn gt < 1 ^ ou , ‘‘° r0, ; _l t loath and 1 : Thp m-rovr 7 trid.h ' ” *1 . 8 . - s j , r ' tr,:< . ‘ i ' , h m lowa a few day jig a gi- , ^esern , at times revelabi: j vu jis beayens ; gantie arm teaching from the serpent, 1 and then it took the form of a vast and an | again resembled a funne, vherever hour-fflaas It is notahln teitr tw F f timber the storm-cloud struck a i' nrrm ;t ^arrested ^ ami took , , f a «mg The Detroit l>*reMT Free Free Press p>M4, uail sp A » cts £*£££!£*£ 8S UV ;01,S : t ^ .7;,., V, r Sn J* t foa Uns 1 ^ | should be thought a sisn of hsnaev in i 0 b in.T” ;,,Mi ’ a?- ^ J i to , , rimt up an Ohio wgm on that be >u warking for an offish In it | ‘ ail t; they t “io men still have onfe s. , a mb in- ( can’t be insulted br any i 1 ne ndoes. 4- S tune , . j --------- a A remarkable case of m -« Oto to the local eoIu^X-i t cinnati Commercial of June 22, as fol ^specimen hermaphrodite—a of that peculiar human freak being of of nature both a Central Station last gexes wan taken to the night by Officers Gould and Altevers. The SSSStSsTSiSsa George street be cook at a boarding-howe on > KSiSStABWS the ki station says he has B*en same person woman’s olothes. He was locked up on a gen eral charge. The army worm seems ubiquitous * . >*ew T England, * We hear of his ravages in New York and Maryland, as well as in > the West. The only successful way that 1 devised their march ig * inches ,, ha * , Growing deep, . , and • continuously a J™ 0 ''* „ sa dragging f S6 T ea | four or five feet m length, back ^ a and forth from daylight till dark every ; dav until the worms have disappeared. | By this process the ground in the fur row becomes thorouglily pulverized and th@ . worm8 can not possibly cross it be fere the return of the log passing to and J° ^ As a rule the wonns travel eastward^--- Daphne McGuire. “ There is no more pie.” said Daphne “God help.us, then,” mother with McGuire, looking up to her a weary, wistful, why doesn’t-somebody buy . m e. a -seal-skin-sacque expression on ber r,yr,l face. Mrs McGuire did not reply. Leaning her bangless head on a thin, white hand —the hand that Vivian JTBourke had called " a dimpled troefsure that one might risk his soul to win,” that night, so many years ago, that she hnd rejected his J* proffered love and caused him to away / in wild despair and marry ^ ^ Qui k _ and thought of how, had she plighted her troth to him, life would now have been a garden in which instead pretty llowers waved their bright faces, «f: a^vnnd-sv their forthe first few years after marriage, every thing went well with homefu il one evening and told licr in proud tones teat ho had reached the Bummit of his ambition,- and was a p 0 li eem an. All these memories of the past—the bitter and the sweet—came i surging through her mind as she looked ) out through her tears and saw the Blue ! Island avenue ears going by like ghosts i in the twilight. mamma? said “Why do you weep, i Daphne, ^ placing her soft Vvest Side about the neck of the mother she loved so dearly—the only mother she had. “I fear me, Bridget,” said Mrs. McGuire, using the pet name by which Daphne was known at home, “ that our 1 future must indeed be a cheerless one; tho comi »S ( ? a YS Z m hol ‘ l for 118 - sorrow and “Do not be disheartened, mamma,” replied the girl, kicking tho dog off the front steps and kissing her mother with a warm , lingering, I-have-come-to-stay all-wintcr-and-part-of-the-spring kiss, “Things may not bo so bad as they seem. We haya still one hope, fails.” you know, one resource incase all else W'VX ’’ -it hope m iIo.iisiv~=^iok» umes. “wlmt w this Houglinuts, you speak of?” replied Daphne, speak “w“ “J ? hi.“'I'j'u ™ ’ o“SS “Then ,oa let us tackle them at once,” said the grief-stricken parent-, starting for the pantry at a 2:20 clip .—Chicaoo tribune, i m Tllcr ® 18 a 8toi , 7 told of t a lady and , gen .. together English on an raill ' oa<i - They'vere strangers to each otb f Y v Q Sudu ® n1 -!: tbe em'Hcman said: ^ , 1 J trouble you to look ’ out f of tv the window - foi a few minutes I , toSpS’’ " smug apiiaiU. ° laDSeS “ “ y “Certemly, sir,” she replied with her great politeness, rising and sbort turning be bae k ul ’ on 1x1 a tlme . pletS lntfvou Madam ma^resnmcToii mv ehanrre is sia™” com pieted, When ana vou may turned resume she your beheld seat. her the lady male companion tiansformed into a dash lug ledy with a heavy veil over her face. lNow,„6n, or madam, whichever Ia< -1,„ 4 ? !^ t . f |n ( “P 111 la dys attire immediately com P sir «< Now J you may y resume ‘ tout s , T<» p .. his great , surprise,,onresuminghi* . ... seat, Hie gentleman m female a.„ire “TtSarsuXteirotottmxions eJS reXtotX WhitCw to wrists with a pmr of handciiils, “ I am “ <?kcen Mfil^" app^el.have ^ shadowed * * rovolver you ’ > 1 ‘ Battng Paint of Mummies. A gentleman, passing through Long Acre, peered into a little shop and started suddenly at the sight of severed dead bodies. Thcv had teen dead fcr oyer 2,000 years—they were mummies, Where did they come from? From ;! ; Thebes. Are more coming? te Yes plenty. There appears to a regular business going on in mummies between I Tliebes and Long Acre. Tlie mummies are broucht over enveloped in their rich : bituminous covering, and-horresco ref- ! erena—ground bitumen up, bones, aiL eases, What for eov- ? | i crings, paint. and There be Whv for seems to no - burnt siema like ground mummy. The arttets are willingto pay high prices for ! this munimv liined paint. Our Academy of wails the niay be with the dust Ptni vpnVc ...... T^wriryi Truth ‘ ’ I The Paris authorities are intent just . no w on measures to prevent deleterious articles American finding hauls a wrapped sale, and to have yellow seized j a cloth rendered impermeable by ciu’om- i ateofkad, j Dow to Seiect a Cow. paper before a convention of dtorymen m Ontario, from 'wfeach we extract : Again, one breed of cows will do well OI1 gome land, where some other breed that particular cow or breed Dest stilted , dairy farming in whicii he ns engaged. Jf for instance, your pasture lands are rough, or on steep side hills, select a small, active cow, and if butter-making is your business the Jersejr or Devon and gj. a j e ^ f rom our native cows will prove satisfactory. jBut if cheese making is your business, or the pro duction 0 f mi lk for market, the Ayr shire is the oow. Awhile her milk is well adapted for cheese cr for market, it is than the average cow’s for butter. Again, if your pasture lands are pro ductive and moderately level, vrith but ter-making your business, select the Holdemcss or tne irincess i<imily oi gfiort-horns, or their grades from our native cows. But if cheese or milk only be your object, the Ho:steins will prove satisfactory. individual ^d ou/several cows 8m to farms and adapted to oul . wioua wants, would be too much of an undertaking, and require so much time and care, it can be done best by selections from our herds of native cows, and the use on these of a thorough-bred bull of that breed desired. In this way, if the selections be carefully made, a herd c?.n be built up in a little while founded on our native stock and at small expense, far exceeding in value any of our ordinary nerds. It has been a matter of surprise to me tnat our niteJli gent and progressive dairymen cm not more generally several adapt by their cows to their wants oreo mg a sufficient number each year to make good the annual loss from old age acci dant and disease Acow realred on the farm where she is to icrnain is m.vays more valuable to her owner -than - 8 S/X ig with acclimated;. the.herd second, with which she h acquainted associate; third, she fa she must -s with greater ease than a strange cow. ---------- ------------- Oat of His Tear. While talking with James Milton Sherrod, the other day, the letter-carrier pulled out of his pocket a very hand some agate, rounded and worn smooth by constant use as an ear ornament. It had a hole drilled through the top, and by a deer’s sinew this trinket had for merly J been suspended from tlie ear of j aome Sioux brave. The work on (lie stone showed the crude and patient efforts of the untutored red man. On being asked how he secured the agate, Mr. Sherrod, whittling off some black tobacco with a butcher knife, rubbed it £ll the palm of liis hand a while, and then, after putting it in his pipe and trying ineffectually for a long tune to light it, said: Hills “I got it up in the Black in 7G. A lot of Sioux Indians ambuscaded mo OBO evening in the form of a horse-shoe and I had to cut my way through. I kilted several of thorn and the rest lit out. When I come to assess the dead, I found a big fellow wearing this here with a deer’s sinner, and I iust ranked it out of his 5 rear There was another one in his other year that I got, but I lost it. It was the exact 01 ,h ‘‘ "•» -*■=___ Hr. n Johnson TniniKnn’a s Partiality for Ten Tea. In his review of Hanway’s “Tea and its Pernicious Consequences, ’ Dr. Joliu son proclaims himself as “a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for many years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this facinating plant, whose kettle has scarcely time to cool, who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight and with tea welcomes the morning.” Boswell says th a * he supposes no one ever enjoyed with . more relish the fragrant leaf than j ohngon . The quantities he drank of it at all hours were so great that his nerves must have been uncommonly strong not ^en extremely relaxed by such ? m e “ perat ,° n8e oi % “ 18 re ‘ at f d of him, • but not by Boswell, that, wlnle on his Scotch tour, the Dowager Lady Mac Leod, having repeatedly helped him un til she Lad po nre d out sixteen cups, then asked him if a small basin would ? ot bo mo1 ^ agreeable and save him no t me.” On another occasion he said : “ W hat a delightfu 1 beverage must that bo that pleases all palates at a time when they can take nothing else at breakfast!” Croker mentions that the doctor’s teapot b eld two qnarts. >ob, ° ! ' a,nre * Tber ? «*? Persons sufficiently enlarged ’ 8maller souls regnlta from biaia e; but the 8fima reader their pessessor more quiek to the apprehension of a kind word, more grateful for a loving eiation. expression, Why more shoniil appreciative it thought of appre be an evidence of greatness to receive both praise and blame with equal stolidity? Must our emotional natures die in the process of our upward growth? Will they not rather become quickened to keener enjoyment continually? So would our susceptibility of pain 'become correspondingly expanding quiekened, nullifies but thsit our reason its effect.— Helen Williams. ^Oinso z Temtory r has I " , . chief a pcpmafion °f ht,S14 mid u* cities are Cney ?“*• 3 , 4 ?®i Laramie 2 4 653 ; Bawirns, 1.491. and Evanston, l,_w. hi 18.. the «««essm«* robs m aao return of 90.005 cattle anj sheep TiieAffi Hie former, and v._ - A cat, carelessly shut up in a room In Rouseville, N. Y., while the family were away for the summer holiday, In the was agonies found alive after thirty days. of starvation it had team down tho cur tains and mutilated the wall as high as it could reach. ITEMS OF lA'TEIcEST. The said to be foaa4 m cun swaiiows nesia. The number of different uses for tJb.6 bamboo is estimated at 500. aSsSs&s?ff£ , £**“ American beer for Germany is an MnWi times more than two work together, *> ^ 1784 ™ Mesmer of magnetized , flve ,, „ , 8,000 *"”? \Z per- 1^ Sicily the total quantity of sulphur annually melted is estimated at 390,009 tons. The Australian exchange names with Europeans, as a proof of brotherly af fection. Since JSG5 the ratio of suicides has been greater in the kingdom of Saxony than any other part of Europe. A large whale committed suicide by hanffin 3 0 " liimpplf «£oss the' with flip tdepTanliic laid Persian Gulf. A , f jT F ^ liS te fbat if the X 0 Pressor hffiowthe of mouth, lts will be hanged. A swaem of locusts observed near Boulder City, Colorado, traveled sixty six miles to eastern Kansas and Mis¬ souri. j Falcons are the swiftest of birds, One sent from the Canaries to Spain re¬ turned in six hours, the distance Ixteff 780 miles. * 1 . The following sentence of only if sir ty four letters contains all the letters in th# alphabet: “John quickly extemporized fi ve tow bags. ” a gentleman, having suffered a se rere blow on the head, found on recovery that he had lost his knowledge of Greek, l)ut ] iad not su ff ore d any other loss of memory . ^^^ beplentifnl tl through , rough . giber i a where they / remain °, ^ are said to be l arg than the Himalayan specimens, and to | ^ve hair five inches in length. At the present time letter m Spain should the be correct from •) • place of dating a arewusi.-rsss requires lum place it at the disposi- ] .1 to h ' Jli ot lus correspondent In New Ycbk and Chicago, telegraph and , | wires are being put under ground, j | it is possible underground that the time method is cominggjl of telefl when the graphing will be in vogue all over thA country, as it is in Germany. an®. j j Ostrich the farming, most is, important next to wool industr® j diamou ds, It notsucces j o£ Southern Africa. was p d untiI the egg3 were hatched by patent incubator, the parent bird niA performing ment. her duty well in confin^J, It is suggested that tee derivatico. ■ London is from the Celtic Luan, tl moon, and a dun, a city on a hill. T(u it was “ the city of tha moon” is all tl more probable from tho tradition thj the site of St. Paul’s was formerly th of a temple of Diana. The greatest flood ever known on tl Mississippi swept was the levees, that of overflowed 18 ft, whic^^ tlflE away araK entire country, filled up the swamps remained at high-water mark for month®# ^It was due to the nflsciSnti" no ctTfjiflrr tion of the levees. Napoleon’s First Abdication. Vnan, in lh„bitep.rl of the beginning of 1814, was in a very un-T settled condition. Napoleon had carried y 1 on brilliant but weakening campaigns 1 and even the dazzling glory of the great I commander’s exploits in the face of all Europe could not dispel the shadows f which had begun to gather about him at ^ 1 the capital and throughout France. Nor! W as the prospect beyond the realm any V p more encouraging. of Sweden, and Bernadotte, Crown j r i uce late companion p of the Emperor, was coming down from jf m the north with 100,000 men; and Murat, ft Kim? of Naules Nauoleon’s own secret brother- # fo-law had entered forthe into a treaty t with Austria Tlie exnukion of ha I French in Italy gloom around Na- r polcon needed in deepened, until the allies sue l| :4 reaching the exterior defenses W of Paris and ill the canital which to“3l for othl? so manv years dictated law 14 capitals Vas entered^Paris obliged to amfd^ capitulate Se and I tee allies mations of the people, Tho Senate turned their back on Napoleon and de- R | own generals insisted that °he ought to iff I abdicate, and he signed the surrender of 9 ; lfi 8 power. He was allowed the sever eigntv enue’of of tee Isle of francs’ Elba with a reve- ■ i Ten 6,000 000 fgl 200 000). I ■ months later he was invited to re turn to Fr “ce by a conspiracy of old A '1 i Republicans joined by Bonapartists. He f escaped from Elba February 20, 1915, EnropTwas ? of plaved ont mul the sec- 1| ! ond and last abdication was signed. * j ■ Fcr four Brother’s Sake.” A good story is told by tee Providence Journal oi a gentleman’s mistake while on the way to tee inauguration at Wash-* I ingtou, 1'ork and in Philadelphia March, 1881. Between New il j he took a seat beside a portly gentleman, and conver- . si J nation began. il Politics were mentioned, and tee Rhode and Islander thought said last he fall was a Bepubii- it would |1 can, that 11 be v eil for tlie country to have a change, but that he had a ‘brother who was a Democrat. a - Soon the train, stopped at a station, , and the Rhode Islander stepped to tee I alter platform little and met an remarked: acquahuance, who, 1 a space, “Gen. Hancock is on this train, . and, as I am acquainted with him, perhaps jon woald like w. mtroducticm. Of course he would; so they eate're<i i the car, and approached the portlyga* tieman just left; the Rhode Islander waa introduced to the General. With I twinkle of the eve, Gen, Hancock said • will ----- shake ‘ ‘ ‘ I hands with you for your brother’s sake,”