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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 ♦