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Labor Agitation.
Closing of the Extensive Harmony Mills at
Cohoes, N. Y.
Cohoes, N. Y.— The Harmony
Mills are closed. A platoon of police
is on duty in the vicinity. The streets
ere free from operatives, and there is
excitement. The Committee of
Thirteen, which became famous in the
■trike two years ago, has been revivevl,
and soliciting committees were organ-
zed. Public opinion is strongly with
the working class in Its resistance of
the 10‘per cent, reduction. The Har
mony Mills comprise a group of six
factories, occupying 200 acres of
grqpnd. Three storehouses have a
capacity for 40,000 bales of cotton.
Their tenements number 900, and the
number of operatives is 350 girls, and
the mills contain 7000 looms and run
826,000 spindles. The motive power is
epuivalent to 3700-horse power, and is
derived from the Mohawk River. The
consumption of cotton is 400,000
pounds per week. A protracted strug
gle is looked for.
New York.—About five hundred
plumbers, the employes of about thirty
shops, went ou strike for an increase
of 50 cents per day in their wages.
At the present time their daily wages
is $3 50. Of the seventy-five shops in
the city twenty-one have given in to
the demand. In six shops it was re
ported that the men had remained at
work at the old rate. It is said that the
master plumbers individually are wil
ling to give in, but are not allowed to
do so by their organization.
The one hundred machinists em
ployed in the carpet factory of E. S.
Higgins & Co., who petitioned the
firm for an increase for ten per cent,
in their wages, were refused the in
crease, and returned to work at the
old rates, $2.45 per day.
The pressmen employed by John
Scott, of Spruce street, were granted
an increase of wages of fifty cents a
night. They had been receiving $1.75
to $2.50 for thirteen hours work.
Baltimore.—The hands in four
brickyards in the northeastern section
of the city jyent on a strike to-day for
an advance in wages, the moulders,
who now receive $2 per day, demand
ing $3. Several hundred men are in
the strike.
Toronto, Ont.—Five Church of
England clergymen addressed a meet
ing of the carpenters on strike, offering
their services as mediators. They
afterward called upon the Mayor,
requesting him to call a meeting of the
Master Carpenters’ Association, so that
the clergymen might address them.
The Mayor has accordingly written to
the President of the association ask-
mg for a meeting
Team-Owners Strike at Chci&go for $5
Per Day.
Chicago.— An extensive strike was
inaugurated under the auspices of the
Team Owners’ Mutual Benefit Associa
tion of Chicago, whieh has a member
ship of 3000 men and controls between
1100 and 1200 teams. The team-owners
have expressed the determination not
to go to work until they get $5 per day.
New York.—It was reported at the
headquarters of the striking plumbers
that four more employers had agreed to
pay the $4 per day wages. It is said
that nearly all the employing plumb
ers would do so but for the Master
Plumbers’ Association.
Hoboken, N. J.—About seventy-
five men employed as coal trimmers
by Contractor James Rcarty struck
for an advance from 25 to 30 cents per
ton. The contractor promptly ac-
eeded to their demand and requested
the men to resume work at once. They
had returned to work but a short time
when they struck again for 85 cents
per ton. Mr. Roarty indignantly re
fused to pay the additional 5 cents,
whereupon the men quit work.
speech of welcome. The door was
flung open, and the famous Diva, worn
and feeble, and resting upon the arm
.t Signor Giacosa, entered the ball
room. She replied with a graceful
bow to the eager and reverential salu-
tions of the company. She held a
huge bouquet In one hand, and in the
other a lace pocket-handkerchief, be
hind which she coughed slightly
while Count Ferrarls was greeting her
with an adulatory speech. The
Duchess of Genoa graciously told her
bow delighted she was to make the
acquaintance of so wonderful personal
an artiste.
After perambulating the room for
some time, chatting with one and an
other, the tragedienne requested a cav
alier to lead her to the robing-room.
Hereshetlirew oflfhermagnificent ball
dress, and reappeared in the ball-room
clothed in a masculine black dress-
< cat and trousers. While the company
al large were whispering its astonish
ment at the eccentric bizarrerie of the
actress, one of the guests looked the
supposititious Sarah closely in the
face, and suddenly exclaimed, “Why,
it is Signor Calandra!’' It appears
that a young sculptor named Calandra,
with the assistance of a few fellow-
conspirators, had resovled to play a
trick upon the gushing admirers of
the sensational Frenchwoman, and
had succeeded only too well. The de
luded victims are not likely to sit to
Signor Calandra for their busts ; but
he ha3 been applauded for his highly
practical criticism of a rival artist—
Sarah Bernhardt being a sculptress as
well as actress—by hi3 companions of
the chisel.
Gems in Prose and Poetry.
He who refuses justice to the de
fenceless, makes every concession to
che powerful.
Love.
Love that asketh love again
Finds the barter naught but pain ;
Love that giveth to full store
Aye receives as much and more;
Love, exacting nothing back,
Never knoweth any lack ;
Love, compelling love to pay,
Sees him bankrupt every day.
Mabel.
Dainty maiden, dark, yet lair
Gay Queen Mab, with regal air,
11, perchance, I’ve been too free,
Sending my devoir to thee,
Let my passion be my plea.
May I say, yet not he bold,
I prefer black hair to gold,
I piefer black eyes to blue.
Why ? Forsooth I thought you knew
Both of these belong to you.
The best society and conversation is
chat in which the heart has a greater
share that the head.
Bath.
Light of my life, thou charming Israelite;
Thou art my Ruth, and I a sheath ol corn •
Chine eyes the soythe ’neath which I help
less fell
One fair autumual morn.
■ loveliest gleaner in the teaming field !
Ah 1 smiling victress, pity, pity me!
Bind me with all thy arts, with all thy
charms,
Bind me—to thee, to thee I
And when eaoh to the other’s bound for
ever—
Listen, sweet Ruth, my words are fraught
with meaning—
fou’ll not be angry should I ask you to—
Well—stop your gleaning ?
It is with happiness as with watches;
the less complicated the less easily
deranged.
Providence has hidden a charm in
difficult undertakings which is appre
ciated only by those who dare grapple
with them.
Dead.
Thick In the path the leaves He dead;
The days of laughter are gone from me;
The blossom has dropped and the nmmer
fled;
Swallows are all flown over the sea.
Guessed we never the end—not we!
Ofthe songs we sung and t4e words we said—
Thick in the path the leaves lie dead.
The days of laughter are gone fro|p me.
A Personator Personated.
The Fanfulla relates with glee an
anecdote of the late Carnival in Turin.
The Artists’ Club gave n masquerade
ball, to which a npmber of eminent
residents had .been invited, including
among others the Duchess of Genoa
and Count Ferraris. The latter is one
of those many dilettanti who in both
halves of the globe have gone mad
over the genius and the charms of tlie
sensationalist Sarah Bernhardt. The
committee informed the Count that
they had succeeded in persuading the
“great' actress^’ fn spite of her slight
illness, to appear at the ball. The ex
citement was intense.' \Vhen a mem
ber of the committee rushed into the
and announced that thesensa-
irah had just arrived everybody
ahoht the doors. The Duch-
held her lojjg^tte to her
|pared a
Photographing Flight.
Mr. Muybridge, of San Francisco,
having shown photographers how to
take pictures of a horse at full gallop,
M. Marey, a French savant, has ex
tended the process to the flight of
birds. He has succeeded in analyzing
the flight of a bird by the method em
ployed l»y M. Janssen iu observing the
relative movement of two stars,that is,
by a photographic revolver. This was
in the form of a iowliug-pieee aimed
at the bird, and twelve psetures were
taken successively in 1-700 of a second
each. The plates were gelatino bro
mide of silver, which could, if need,
take an impression in 1-1500 of a seo
ond. By placing the set of pictures iu
aphenakistiscope of Plateau,the flying
of the bird was easily reproduced.
Patterns in pansy are wrought in
laoe.
Religious Intellgience.
General and Personal.
The required sum of $5,000 for an
American memorial window iu West
minster Abbey to Dean Stanley has
been raised.
The American Baptist Missionary
Union have declined the offer of Rob
ert Arthington of $35,000 tor establish
ing a mission in Soudan because of the
conditions attached.
In thirty-five years (he number of
ministers in the Christian connection
has increased from 926 to 1,264; of
churches from 875 to 1,124; of mem
bership from 28,892 to 76,000.
The Kansas Methodist Conference
reports 17,522 members—a gain of 396—
and 3,469 probationers—an increase of
634 It has 211 local preachers, 169
churches, and 319 Sunday-schools.
The British and Foreign Bible Soci
ety has printed a Basuto Bible at a
cost of $20,000. This is the ninth com
plete Bible in the native tongues of
Africa. The translation is the wsrk
of a French Missionary, M. Mabille.
There are but nine theological stu
dents in the old Catholic College at
Berne, and for their benefit five profes
sors are maintained. One of these
students, who is shortly to become an
Old Catholic cure, has just fought a
duel with a fellow-student.
Father Curci, erewhile out of har
mony with the Vactican, prophesies
the return of the priests of the Roman
Catholic Church to the study of the
Scriptures; and, to assist them, he is
engaged with Prof. Soapatini, of the
Propaganda, in translating the Bible
from the Hebrew into Italian.
A Correspondent of Notes and Que
ries says that Easter this year occurred
on the anniversary of the day on
which the resurrection took place.
Will the correspondent please state the
year in which it did occur ? Scientists
and theologians differ to the extent of
five years as to the exact time of the
birth of Christ.
An invitation signed by 300 persons,
including the Earl of Shaftshury, the
Earl of Aberdeen, Samuel Morley,
member of Parliamant; Canons Farrar
and Fleming, the Rev. Charles Spur
geon, and 273 other clergymen, has
been forwarded to Messrs. Moody and
Sankey, who are still laboring at Glas
gow, asking them to spend a year in
London in evangelical work.
The General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church in the United States
of America will meet on Thursday,
May 18th, 1882, at 11 o’clock a. m., in
the First Presbyterian Church of
Springfield, 111., wilh a sermon,and be
opened by the Rev. Henry Darling,
D. D.,LL. D.,the Moderator of the
last Assembly. The Committee on
Commissions will meet the same day,
at 9 o’clock a. m., in the lecture room
ot the First Church.
Mr. Baring-Giuld represents the
religious condition of Germany as not
very encouraging. He says that of the
150.000 inhabitants of Hamburg only
3.000 attend worship, and there are
only five parish churches. In Berlin
there are 600,000 Protestants, but oiAy
11,900 attend church ou Sundays. The
church attendance in Darmstadt is
only 3 per cent. Throughout Germany
only fourteen out of 100 persons attend
any kind of religious service.
A careful examination of the
changes made in revising the New
Testament shows that there are 18,358
words changed by the substituted ren
dering of the received text; 4,854 words
added in translation of the received
text; 550 words in translation of addi
tions in the Greek text; 1,604 words
which translate an altered Greek text,
and 222 words taken from the margin
into the text; in all, 25,888 words
changed out of 179,914, or 17 per cent.
The canonization of the Princess
Maria Christiana , of Savoy, first wife
of King Ferdinand II. of the Sicilies,
is at present undergoing discussion by
the Congregation of Rites whidh met
on April 1st The virtues and authen
ticity of the wonders ascribed to her
are to be duly considered and weighed.
The co'-1 of the process—for even can
onization is expensive—are to he borne
by tire Empress Maria Anna, the
widow of the Emperor Ferdinand of
Austria, and sister of the dead Prin
cess.
Dr. John Muir, the Sanskrit soholar
and a disciple in Scotland of Kuenen’s
Holland School of Biblical Criticism,
is dead. H i was the founder ff the
lectures ou the “Science of Religion”
iu Edinburg University.
On a recent visit to Jerusalem Mr.
Muller, the Bristol evangelist,address
ed two companies of lepers.
Bishop Simpson announces that Dr-
Scott (itewavt in his will left $200,000
for the establishment of a Methodist
hospital in Philadelphia, and author
ized the Philadelphia Conference to
appoint a Board of Trustees for the
hospital.
The Rev. Wm. Mackenzie, of tl^
Scottish Free Church, is dead at the
age of 78. He was a preacher of ability,
and published several volumes on
prophecy. He died on his way to Scot
land from Queensland, and was buried
in the Red Sea.
The Metropolitan of Canada, Bishop
Medlay, has called a special session of
the Provincial Synod to meet in Mon
treal April 27th to elect a Bishop for
the Missionary Diocese of Algoma,
vacant by the death of the Rt.-Rev.
Dr. Fauquier.
Of the twelve Bishops of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, Bishop Harris
is in South America with a sprained
ankle, Bishops Bowman and Peck are
ill, Bishop Merrill is half an invalid,
and Bishop Scott is entirely superan
nuated. The other seven Bhhops
have, therefore, much extra work to
perform.
The Rev. Vaughan Smith, who for
many years has served the M. E.
Church within the bounds of the Wil
mington Conference, and whose record
has been an honorable one, has
practically retired from the effective
ranks of the ministry. The lecent
session of his conference appointed
him to a church which, for reasons to
him entirely valid,he refused to accept.
He was then changed to a church in
Wilmington, but finding in this soci
ety some opposition to him, he refused
to go there. He is now without work,
and has even offered to surrender his
parchments.
Choice Cullings.
Courtesy is a powerful aid to him
who receives. Treat even a base man
with respect and he will make at least
one desperate effort to be respectable.
A Strange Singer.
Joy’s the shyest, bird
Mortal ever heard;
Listen wrapt and silent when he singe I
Do not seek to see,
Lest the vison be
But a flutter of departing wings.
Straight down out of heaven
Drops the fiery leaven,
Beating, binning, rising In his breast;
Never, never long,
Canst thou bear the song,
All too high lor labor or for rest.
Hope can Bit and sing
With a folded wing,
Long contented In a narrow eage ;
Patience on the nest,
Hour by hour will rest,
Brooding tender things In hermitage.
Singers true and sweet,
Mockers blight and fleet,
Close about the door they flit and call;
One that will not stay
Draws thy h^art away.
Listen 1 listen 1 It is more than all.
The Difference.
Only a lew more notes,
Only a finer tone;
And lo! the world bows down
Before the slnger’B throne.
Only the same old thought*
Clothed with a sweeter sound;
And lo I a poet’s brow
With laurel leaves is orowne
Only a finer ear,
Only a swifter skill;
And lo ! the artist plays
On human hearts at will.
Only a tint or line,
Only a subtler grace;
And lo I the world goes mad
Over a woman’s Dace.
Yet though so slight the oause
F’or which men call us great,
This shade the more or less
May fix an earthly late.
For few may wield the power
Whose spoils uplift or thrill;
The barrier fixed, yet fine,
We may not pass .. t will,
Longfellow.
Poet wh ose sunny span of fruitful years
Outstretches earth ; whose voice within our
„ ears
Grows silent, shall W6 mourn for thee? Our
sigh _
Is April’s breath, our grief Is Apr^k tears,
If this be dying, fair It Is to die;
Even as a garment weariness lays by
Thou layest down life to pass, an Time l^Lli
passed,
Fron, wintry rigors to a springtime sky.
Are thore tears left to give thee at the laat,
Poet of spirits crushed and hearts downcast,
Loved of worn womeu, who, when work Is
done,
Weeikp’er thy page In twilights fading fust?
tiefllr
O tender-toned and tender-hearjfld one,
Wo give tuee to the season oewKuu I
Lay thy white head within Wie arms of
Spring— 1
Thy song had all her shower undnioeenn.
Nay, let no' us such sorrowful tribute bring,
Now that thy lark-1 Ike soul hath, taken wing;
A grateful memory fills and more endears
The silence when a bird has ceased to sin g.
“What is that man yelling at?” in
quired Tommy of hj^^oungeri
brotherjA^t tt
The Cave Men,
According to Professsor Boyd Daw
kins, the numerous discoveries made
in France, Belgium and Switzerland
have enabled scientists to form a
tolerably definite idea as to the cave
man’s habits and mode of life. He
dwelt tor the most pari, in caves, and
he accumulated enormous masses of
refuse, hones of the animals on whioh
he lived. In these refuse heaps were
numerous implements of stone, bone
and antler, spear heads, arrow-heads,
ecrapers, elaborately cut harpoon
heads, elaborate needles of bone and
antler, and along with these occurred
curious carvings representing the sur
roundings of the cave man, and for
the most part reproducing the forms
of the animals on which he lived.
From the numerous implements for
scraping skins, it might be inferred
that the cave man dressed in skins,
sewn together Dy needles. They also
wore gloves, as was known from the
representations of gloves, with two,
three or tour fingers, and running
almost up to the elbows, like the
twenty-six button gloves of the pre
sent time. Perforated stones and
shells and the teeth of bears, lions
and wolves were used as necklaces
and amulets. They adorned them
selves with red raddle, which might
be looked upon as the lineal ancestor
of rouge.
In their hunting they used spears
and arrows. On one hit of antler
found in France they saw the hunter
carefully creeping up to the gigantic
ox—the great urus; in others they!
saw figures of bisons, reindeer, horses!
and ibexes; and in others the great
woolly mammoth was represented
faithfully that were it not tor the d
covery of the creature in the fro
morasses of Siberia it would be sa 1
that the drawing was quite wrong.
On other slabs of st >n© might be see; -
the birds and fishes on which the ea
men liyed. All those outlines ha
been made with a splinter of flint, and 1
were engraved in a great many cases
upon the hones and teeth of th
mals which were represented^
cave men also were sculptors, ancf tlTe
handles of some of their daggers made
of reindeer antler or ivory represented
the form sometimes of a knefeling
reindeer and at other times of ele
phants. . . . The cave men were
hunters pure and simple, without
knowledge of the metals, without
domestic animals, and were even ig
norant of the potter’s art. Nor had
they left behind them any evidence
that they were in the habit of burying
their dead.
Could the cave men be identified
with any living race? The answer
was to be found in their habits, im
plements and art. On the shores of
the great Arctic Sea, on both sides of
Behring’s Straits, and along the noat,
of the American Continent
Greenland, lived the Esquimau
people cut off from all
whose origin was a puzzle t
nologist. Those peon^^tf^ ex
the same habil^j^BHRPRung re
theij>iag^^Wswere exactly o
same kind, and their art was iden!
with that of the cave man in Eu
They lived also to a large extent
the same animals, and they were ca:
less as to what happened to their deaj
From all those lines of argument
might he inferred that the Esquimi
was in all probability the Mving repi,
senative of the cave man, just as tf
musk sheep now living in Esquimai
land w% undoubtedly the representa-^
tive of the musk sheep then living in
France.
Glazed Photographs.
The beautiful gloss on photographs
called enamelling is produced, says
The Scientific Amerioan, as follows :
After the prints have been toned,
washed and trimmed in the usual
way they are immersed in a warr
filtered aqueous solution of gelatin
about the consistence of collodion,
which is afterward addeda sms
quantity of sugar candy, ^^en tl
paper has become well impregnated
with the liquid the pieces are removed
nd placed, smooth face downward,
a plate of glass previously coated
witl^^our per normal collodion?
ami l^fcdrtod. ^^Mucing the pri
care
out all af
of stout
larger thall
the hack of each"pl
tect the pictures iu the
spontaneously leaving tl
drying. The plates are all^TTW to
main over night in a dry local'll
when the portraits may be separAf
from the glass by making an inch
of the film all around the paper.
»» # <s> —
Archbishop Tait is in the^
;ance recuperating his
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