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T. A. HAyRON Publisher. • CURRENT TOPICS. Thu crop prospects in India are im proving. The Susquehanna has not been so low for many years as it is now. A farmer in Mississippi has a field of 160 acres devoted to the raising of peppermint. A New Jersey mustang bit his owner’s wrist so badiy that it had to be amputated. The Prince of Wales is reported to have said, “Were I not to be King I would be an editor.” Forty years ago there was not a tele graph office in existence. To-day the nuni ls 51.840. A New Jersey cashier has committed suicide. It is supposed that he hated the Canadians. e While the Czar of Russia stays in Po land he will have Ins food brought from St. Petersburg. At Lynn Park, Pa., a baby left alone was terribly mutilated by rats. It barely escaped death. A Glencove (1,. I.) man is the owner of a rooster which catches mice as well as any cat in the place. Domestic cotton rags have advanced one half cent, per pound since the stoppage of the importation of rags. • 4V estern railroad managers are anxious to kiss a fid make up. They have grown weary of the war on rates. The Evening Bulletin, the oldest after noon paper in Philadelphia, has reduced its price from three to two cents. C. S. Voorhees, a son of Senator Voor hees, has been nominated in Washington Territory as a Delegate to Congress. The world’s best bicycle mile record was broken at Hartford, the othfer day, by O. Sellers, of England, whp made a mile in 2:39. The total number of hogs slaughtered an nually in the United States is estimated at 30,000,000 the average dressed weight being 175 pounds each. Empress Eugenie’s long black cloak and black cane, on which she leans constantly, attract the deepest sympathy of the gay world at Carlsbad. A Brooklyn woman forgot her baby and left it ill a street-car. By running half a block and yelling, she succeeded in stopping the car and recovering her heir. British scientists exploring in the Rocky Mountains have obtained data‘by which they expect to be able to definitely estab lish the exact age of the mountains. Best comb honey is selling in California for nine to eleven cents per pound, and ex tracted, put up in bright new cans, brings only i'i cents, and dull of sale at that. C. R. Berry, of Galconda, 'lll., has sent to Mr. Cleveland a hickory cane, on the head of which is carved the New York State arms and a picture of the National Capital. Maud, S. was sold for enough money to buy over three miles of barreled flour, laid end to end, or enough to fill a space seven hundred feet square and ten feet high with loaves of bread. * Richard Grant White says the lettei “r” is disappearing from the American tongue. This is truly alarming. We shall presently have no month in which oysters may be safely eaten. A new line of steamers is to be estab lished to run from German ports to New York, for the accommodation of the in creased number of German emigrants now flocking to this country. The South Carolina bank that gave a depositor, inadvertently, a bag with SI,OOO in gold instead of a bag with SSO in silver, appears to be one of the few banks that are ready to correct mistakes. In the national treasury there is nearly $110,000,000 in government securities which are uncalled for.” Some of them have been due fifty years. Why the owners do not call for them is wholly unknown. Canadian authorities are taking steps to try and have the schedule of extraditable offenses enlarged so as to include defalcation and embezzlement. This will be unwelcome news to a certain class of bank officials. Some idea of the capacity of California as si honey-producing State cart be found from the fact that in a peak in San Bernardino, Cal., a mass of honey estimated to contain at least 500 barrels, has lately been discov ered. Last year the value of fish caught in Scottish waters was about $16,000,00p, while a few short of 50,000 men and boys were employed in the 15,000 boats engaged in the fishery. A million and a half barrels of herring were taken. The Archiv fur Stmographie points out that the forty-four short-hand writers of the French Senate and Chamber of Deputies follow- thirteen different systems of writ ing. Phonography is one of the arts that needs further boiling down. In a’ Chinese newspaper the columns be gin at the bottom instead of at the top. It is pleasant to notice the bland smile of a Celestial publisher when he signs a con* tract to put a patent medicine advertise ment at the top of the column. Notwithstanding he has been so hard up of late, that extraordinary potentate, the King of' Bavaria, has lately bought Falkenstein’s Castle,-a ruin on a high bluff near to the Tyrolees frontier. Hundreds of men are at work making a fine road to it, Everybody who knows how the sudden cessation of a thundering band of music causes remarks to be shouted out in a tone like a locomotive whistle. The other night at a hop, at West Point, the band crushed out a few final bars and suddenly stopped, when the voice of a lovely little thing in pink was heard screaming at the top of her lungs: “Don’t my bustle hang like a daisy?” The girl Sarah Coyle, who aided her mi tress to elope, has eloped herself with th coachman of a neighbor of Mr. Morosini. If the prevailing dude expects anythiug like oermanent success as a masher, he will study the and style of tue average coachman. TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1884. GORDON’S VICTORY. Two Severe Battles Fought with the Rebels. Tile Sietre «if H linrloi, in Itntaeil and the Itebrln Helical to the Interior. Cairo, September 20.—A messenger from Gordon has arrived at Dongola with infor mation tnat Gordon has had two severe battles with the rebels, in both of which the rebels sustained disastrous defeat. In the last battle, when it 4 became apparent tne rebels were giving way, Gordon sailed out so vigorously that the enemy were com pelled to raise the seige of Khartoum aud retreat to the interior. The messenger savs the rebels lost heavily. Gordon’s loss was very small. The Mudir of Dongola telegraphs the au thorities here that messengers from General Gordon brought eighteen dispatches. Two of them were for the Sheik of the Kabba bish tribe, which were delivered. Two other dispatches were directed t.o the son in-law- of the Sheik, who, however, bad been previously publicly executed by order of the Mahdi’s Ameer in order to overawe the people and compel them to join the Mahdi. The Ameer, with many chiefs, was afterward killed in battle. The messenger who brought the dis patches reports that oil the 24th of July General Gordon’s troops slaughtered the rebel army which had been sent against him from Kordofan. Another brittle was fought on tlie 30th of August, which resulted in General Gordon forcing the rebels to raise the siege of Khartoum, and during which Sheik Sidi, bis son and their follow ers were killed. The above reports are con firmed by Khatem Elmoos Bey, who is holding Hal fly eh with Egyptian soldiers. The Shaggieh and other tribes have come in and tendered their submission. Sennaar is now in perfect se curity. The population of Berber lias re covered from its fright over the anticipated descent of General Gordon. The whole Shaggieh country is now tranquil. The Chiefs are imploring for mercy, and have made a contract upon the Koran to aban don the Mahdi. The compact has thus far been observed. CIRCUS MEN Kill a Hanna* fiiiaeii mill Iforlall; Wound a Ila.ior, Atchison, Kan., September 20.—A seri ous row occurred between the citizens of Burr Oak, Jewell County, Kan., and showmen belonging to Miles Orton’s Circus, Friday night, in which one man was killed outrigut and several more men were wounded. A disturbance was raised by a drunken citizen named Elli ott, and a general fight occurred, Elliott was arrested and the circus men took their effe ts to the train. The crowd fol lowed them, and just as Mayor Marr had restored order a man named Evans ap peared at the depot with a double-barreled shot-gun, and fired into the train. At this moment the train pulled out and the circus men fired a volley at the crowd, killing J. Longnecker, mortally wounding Mayor Marr and slightly wounding a boy. Longnecker was not taking part in the row. He leaves a wife and six children. A special from Washington says sixteen circus men were arrested there this morning by the Sheriff of Jewell County. This afternoon ’ they were taken to Green leaf by the Sheriff of Washington County. At seven o’clock this evening a hundred men arrived there from Burr Oak, and at lust accounts five hundred men were at the depot awaiting developments, while the circus was performing uptown. The Burr Oak people demanded the arrest of Orton and his son. The crowd was orderly. The New Party’s Platform. Boston, September 20. —The following is the platform adopted by the American Political Alliance, which has nominated Captain W. T. Ellsworth, of Pennsylvania, and Charles H. Waterman, of New York, President and Vice President of the United States: “We demand the repeal of all present naturalization laws, and the passage of an act by the Congress of the United States making a residence of twenty one years necessary to enable foreigners "to vote, or hold official positions in this coun try, except when such foreign horn citizens have served in the army or the navy of the United States; the passage of an act by Congress prohibiting the formation of po litical organizations composed of foreigners exclnsively; the rights of suffrage to American-born females, the sameas males; opposition to the importation and attempted colonization of foreigners and paupers from foreign countries, and absolute suppression of Chinese emigration; opportunity to vote direct for President and Vice-President of the United States through and by an amend ment to the Constitution of the United States; the native born citizens, white and colored, to rule and make the laws of this country; no appropriation of public funds for sectarian purposes; the rights of all American citizens, as provided by the Constitution, to be maintained and pro tected; a free ballot and free count. A Child Entombed Alive. Hinton, W. Va., September 10. —There is considerable excitement here over the burial of a live babe near Leesville, just across the river. Jos. Lynn, while clearing briers from a field, heard a feeble cry near by, and upon investigation of a pile of rocks he found a white babe two months old. It had been regularly entombed among the rocks and its sepulcher covered with a large fist rock. The little creature was fearfully emaciated, and had been without food for some days. The footprints of a man and woman were discovered around the living grave, and are believed to be those of its unnatural parents. Miraculous Escape from Death. Indianapolis, Ind., September 20. Silas Hail, aged sixty-seven years, was buried alive while cleaning a well to-day, which fell in upon him at the bottom. He was covered by six feet of earth and brick, but in some miraculous manner managed to breathe for five hours, when he was res cued. Aside from a few bruises he was uninjured. The well was twenty-two feet deep and was dry, as the result of the i drought. DISASTROUS COLLAPSE. A Boiler Kxploden With Fearful Kneel- The F.UKlneer Hilled. Vincennes, Ind., September 20. —An ex plosion occurred here this afternoon whicl nearly demolished the flouring-mill of Emi son & Callender, and fatally injured the engineer, Thomas Childress. The unsafe condition of tho boiler was the cause. Chil dress was standing close to the boilei drawing a bucket of water, and had just been talking to John P. Callen der when the boiler let go. Every vestige of the engine-room, except a few splinters and broken bricks, was swept away. A part of the boiler scraped up the end of the mill, breaking in the siding from the first floor to the comb at th« fourtli-storv roof, after which it. went clear over the building and fell in the street » square away. The main portion of thi boiler went through a warehouse packed with flvetiersof floor, scattering it in every direction. head and another portion flew in an opposite direction, one heavy piece going over ami falling close to a little dwelling, the other going through a stable belonging to the milling firm, setting it on fire and burning it down. Smith Manning, an employe, jumped out of the third-story window to the roof of a shed, and escaped with silght injury. John Callen der, who was near the engine-room door, was knocked down by debris and blown across the room anil considerably bruised. Childress, the engineer, was literally cooked. His eyes were blown out, both legs broken, and when bis clothes were taken off skin and pieces of flesh came with them. He was conscious a long time, and told the doctors that he was carrying eighty pounds of steam, that aflnount being required to run the mill. He died to night. STEAMERS BURNER. Till* llntrrnnirnl V,mrl Lip Totally IlMlroji-d at Cincinnati—l.onm. 8 <-'>.<>oo. Cincinnati, September 20.—At 2:30 this morning the steamers Bonanza and Morn ing Mail and the Government light-house vessel Lily, were burned. They were lying along the river front near Crane’s mill, Fulton. The fire was discovered by officer McDaniels on the Bonanza,that lay between the other two. He cut loose the Vint Shinkle and the Janies W. Gaff (Memphis packets), and they drifted away and were saved. No damage to other property. Tiie Morning Mail and Bonanza are the property of the Cincinnati and Big Sandy Packet Company. The former is a daily packet to Maysville and the latter to Huntington. The Lily is a Government light-house steamer, in command of Captain Geo. YV. Vandergrift. who, with his crew, were on the boat. The Bonanza is an old boat, and was probably worth $25,000. The Morning Mail was worth about $30,000. Tne Lily was a small vessel, and was probably w<n-th .<tlsonO„ Laving beun nuß’ly orefDfiUlcd and 111 thorough repair. Resolutions of Miners’ Convention. Pittsburg, Pa., September 20. —At the Miners’ Convention resolutions were adopted sympathizing with the striking miners along the Monongahela River, des nouncing the conspiracy laws of Pennsyl vania, and requesting their repeal; urging mine inspectors to make more careful ex amination of mines, as complaints are made that the mines are in bad condition, and urging that a check weigbinan he placed at each tipple. The convention then adjourned. Under the Lash. Wilmington, Del., September 20. —Seven convicts were whipped at Newcastle this morning in the pre-ence of four hundred people. Among them were Edwin Reddin, wiiite, who was pilloried for an hour in addition to his twenty lashes; Isaac Ander son, a negro boy, who swore lustily while being whipped; and a colored thief named “Sugar Awful,” who took twenty heavy lashes without a murmur. Isaac Jacobson Executed. Chicago, September T9.—lsaac Jacobson was banged in the county jail here to day at three minutes after the noon hour. The prisoner passed a quiet night, retiring at one o’clock, and sleeping until five, when he arose and ate a light breakfast. He walked composedly to the scaffold. No hitch occurred in any of the Sheriff’s arrangements. The condemned man’s neck was broken in the fall. Imperial Amenities. Berlin, September 20.—Emperor Wil liam has issued an order that a Uhlan regi ment shall hear the name of Alexander 111, of Russia, and that the title shall be en* graved on the epaulettes of soldiers of that regiment. Baron Deßourcel has hud repeated conferences with Prince Bismarck since the recent meeting of tlie three Emperors at Skierniwice. The Emperors will issue a Communique to the Powers affirming the pucific caaructer of tne late meeting. A Child Burned to Death. Toledo, 0., September 20. —The little four-year-old-dangliter of Joseph Bylow, was burned to death to-day. Mrs. Bylow and a younger child escaped. Their dwell ing caught fire, and the mother, in saving the baby and herself, had forgotten the lit tle girl, who was asleep. The house was destroyed. A Dreadfui"Accident. Youngstown, 0., September 20. —Henry Martin, aged fifteen, son of John Martin, while running with an open knife in his band to-night, stumbled and fell, the blade penetrating his heart, causing instant death. Surgeons were called, and upon ex amination it was found the heart was nearly cut in two. A Base-bill Pitcher’s Fate. Boston, Mass., September 20.—Frank A. Leonard, whose case puzzled the surgeons, died vesterday. He was a base-ball pitcher, and his right arm became useless. The shoulder blade and a portion of the collar bone were removed, and the young man lingered in great agony for months before his death. Colonel Oudley Resigns Washington, D. C., September 20. Colonel Dudley, Commissioner of Patents, nas resigned, and will enter the banking firm oi Bateman & Co., of this city. A NEW GUN. Keely, of Motor Notoriety, Scores a Success at Last, Mol In Perpetual Holton, bnt In Firing n Cannon Hull Willi Considerable Velocity and Force. Washington, September 21.—Inventor Keely came from Philadelphia by art early morning train, bringing with him the ex perimental piece of ordnance and two iron cylinders, resembling, in outward appear ance, those used for storing carbonic acid gas. The whol# of his apparatus could have beep packed ill a good-sized “dry goods” box. In eompany with Colonel Hamilton, of the Fifth New York Artillery, and William Boechel, the inventor had come down to the ordnancej station on board the tugboat America. Everything was arranged for the trial. Upon a board platform, raised above the sand, a few inches, the experimental machinery had been arranged. Four feet of copper tnhing, about the diameter of an electric light wire, connected the generator with the gun, entering at the vent. The antique bit of ordnance selected by the inventor to demonstrate the adaptability of the myste rious power which he has brought to light, looked like an ordinary yacht cannon, mounted upon a wheeled carriage. In the two-inch bore was inserted a brass tube that projected ten inches beyond the mouth. The gun-barrel is of steel. The large generator to which was attached the cop per wire tubing was of chilled iron, with a holding capacity of five gallons. Two feet beyond the generator lay a small heavy iron cylinder, resembling in size and ap pearance a baker’s rolling-pin. This the inventor styled the intensifier. It was of chilled iron, with a capacity of half a gal lon. The bore of the copper tube connect ing the generator with the intensifier was of one-sixtietli of an inch in diameter, in appearance the -ante as that connecting the large cylinder with the gun. To load the gun the inventor unscrewed the barrel and placed against the orifice in the chamber three washers, one of rubber and two of smooth gutta percha. This was to prevent, as he ex plained, any leakage of the “etheric vapor,” with which the gun was about to be charged. Screwing the muzzle back in place, he rammed home against the washers a leaden ball weighing nearly five ounces, and of one and one-sixteenth inch diam eter. He was assisted by Colonel Hamilton and Superintendent Sinclair, of the U. S. Experimental Station, and the army officers, of whom there were many, made preparation to obtain the velocity of the projectile by means of electric wire net tings, through which the ball would pass in its flight. The gun was carefully aimed at the five-hundred-vard target and fired with success, the ball flattening against the iron plating of the disc. Before turning ....n iimiom mas a*.. ... cif tapped both the cylindrical holder and the cannon with a wooden mallet. This, he ex plained, was for the purpose of producing the necessary vibration between the holder and the rcceiver.Colonel Hamilton’s assistants, who attended to the recording of the initial velocity of the projectile, announced, afrer several shots had been fired, that a flight of 482 feet per second had b-en attained, and at the eleventh shot there was a gain in velocity of ten feet, and at the twelfth, a further increase of thirty-one feet, or an initial velocity ol 523 feet per second. The firing was con tinued for the purpose, as Colonel Hamil ton said, of testing tue velocity of the pro jectile’s flight. The success of the inven tion, as applied to ordnapee, in the opinion of the army officers, was ti^nounced. Grandson of Henry Clay Shot? Louisville, September 21.—Harry Clay, a well known lawyer and politician, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded this this morning by Andy Wepler, Councilman from the Eleventh Ward. Clay was drink ing and wanted to borrow money from his friend Wepler, who wouldn’t let him have _as much «s he wanted. Clay thetm begun abusing liim, and we*t out to get a pistol to shoot him. On returning the two, each armed with a pis tol,laid they were ready to fight it out. Thel took stands and Wepler fired, the ball striP.ng Clay in the groin, ranging down ward in the thigh. Clay is a grandson of the great Henry Clay. He made a voyage to the Arctic regions in the ill-fated Pro teus. He has been prominently mentioned for Congress from this District. Clay’s wound is very dangerous, though he may recover. Wepler gaye himself up. Another Comet. Boston, September 21.—The discovery of » new comet hv Dr. Wolf, of Zurich, was cabled to the Harvard College Observatory. Observation at Harvard Observatory tos night shows that the comet discovered by Dr. Wolf is circular, two minutes in dia meter, aud well defined, with a nucleus of the ninth magnitude. Its position is as follows: September 21, 14 h. 36 min. 30 sec., Greenwich time; l ight ascension, 21 h. 15 min. 53.11 sec.; declination, 21 deg. 52 min. 41.7 sec. • Yacht Party Wrecked. New Bedford, Mass., September 21. — The yacht Estelle, in a squall .Saturday evening, went ashore on Black Rock, seven miles from here. The occupants of the yacht were Elisha 11. Fisher, jr., and wife, S. Clifford Hathaway and Mert Hath away, sons of Savory C. Hathaway. They sat on the rock all night. The sea ran high, and it was very cold. All suffered intenselr, being wet through. They were taken off this morning and brought to this city. Tiie yacht is a total wreck. Cattle Scourge. Lexington, Ky., September 21. —Pleuro- pneumonia js advancing fast in the herd of Frisbie & Lake, Cynthiana; two animals have died, six are sick and others looking badlv. Dr. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industries, is here, and he and W, W. Estill, President of the Kentucky Shorthorn Breeders’ Association, will go with the committee to consult with ©over* nor Knott to-morrow. The Cholera. Naples, September 21.—There were 287 new cases of cholera in Naples up to noon to-day. This indicates a decrease in the violence of the epidemic. A slight in crease is noticed in the suburbs. Paris, September 21.—Five deaths from cholera occurred to-day at Marseilles, three at Touiou, four at Abeam and five at Tar ragona. SOUTHERN NEWS GLEAMNtJS. Selma has between seventy and eighty artesian wells. The minstrels are popular with the Au gusta girls. An aged veteran of the Mexican war is a beggar in Charleston. Modest Rome claims only six of the sweetest girls in Georgia. Seven negro policemen in Vicksburg nave been forced by public indignation over their arrogance and want of discre tion to resign their posts. Henry Cato will be executed October 31 for the murder of Jack Dukes, in Decatur, Ga. Robert Bell, aged sixty, was found suspended by the neck from a mantel-piece at his home in Baltimore, a few days ago. Being a cripple, and goaded by poverty, is supposed to have been the cause of the sui cide. Savannah has an inventor who thinks he has solved the problem of aerial naviga tion. An Atlanta widow married in June, separated from her husband in August and sned for divorce in September. At Savannah a skeleton has been un earthed twenty-five feet below the sur face, with a ball and chain and lock near by. G. 4V. Cromer, of Georgia, planted this year a-n acre and a half in sorghum. On this he made 150 gallons of fine syrup, which Ht fifty cents per gallon would make |75. Milt G. Barlow, the delineator of the Southern negro, is a Virginian, and served ■reditably throughout the war in the Con*, federate army. The Hon. E. J. Gay, nominated for Con gress by the Democrats of the Third Con gressional District of Louisiana, is one of the leading, if not the leadingsugar planter in Louisiana, and places his faith in the Chicago platform. Great excitement exists in Amherst County, Va., over the unprovoked murder of Samuel Mitchell, sixteen years old. The boy, in company with two others, were in search of cows, when they arrived at a hunter’s camp in the woods occupied by three men. George Fdrtune, one of the men, ordered Mitchell to carry a beer keg for him. The boy refused, and Fortune shot him dead in his tracks. J. W. Henderson, colored, has been ap pointed by R. K. Bruce as special Commis sioner from Chattanooga of the colored men’s exhibit at the New Orleans Exposi tion. A colored girl named May Shanklin was almost fatally scalded at Huntsville, Ala., l.ue uoici iii.ii, ... .• i,. J —known person. She was sleeping nean » one reached through and poured a kettle of boiling water mixed with red pepper all over her head and body. The girl was soon to be married and it is thought that the deed was committed by a jealous rival, who had previously threatened her. JonN Heed, of Vineyard City, Jack County, Tex., shot the top ol Bud Binkley’s head off with a double-barreled shotgun, be cause Binkley wrote a letter to a young, lady derogatory to Reed. Reed was ar resjpd. Atlanta is said to be the poorest lighted city in the Union. But the electric light is under discussion. Ike Fain, for the murder of his employer, Tom Curran, the verdict in whose case was affirmed by the Supreme Court, has made n written confession and announces his readi ness to suffer the death penalty. The mur der was committed near Emery Gap, Tenn.i aiid the prisoner is sentenced to be executed at Kingston October 31. Tin has been discovered in Mason and Cabell Counties, West Virginia. A train on the Alabama Central divi sion of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Geor gia railroad was wrecked the other night near York Station, Tenn. It was going at a rapid rate when it struck a cow. The en gine 'was thrown over a steep embankment and almost totally ruined. The engineer- Tom Griffin, was shockingly scalded and died; his fireman is also dangerously hurt. Some restrictions around the pardon pre rogative of the-Governor is asked in Geor gia. A bear was killed in Spartanburg County, S. C., recently that weighed 425 pounds. The rice birds are inflicting considerable injury upon the crop in Georgetown County, S. C. At Shieldstown, Tenn., JMaegie Day, a beautiful girl of fifteen, while in a desponding mood took a large dose of laudanum and died in a short time. Cause, not known. Four negroes were arrested at Macon, Ga., suspected of wrecking the train b°ar ing to suppress the threateno riot at Dawson. AT©Yneeling, W. Va., the vote on the or dinance authorizing the city to issue $200,- 000 in bonds at four and a half per cent., it resulted in the rejection of th 6 ordinance by 608 majority. A light vote was cast. At a conference of the Prohibition party of Maryland, it was decided to nominate a full State ticket and also candidates for Congress in each district. The cotton drays going through the Char leston streets make one think of winter. Mississippi spends nearly twice as much for education as her neighbor, Alabama. Mr. E. L. Hatchel, aged seventeen, and Miss M. L. Bridges, aged fifteen, were married in Fayetteville, Tenn., a few days ago. A wild man was captured in the Chatta hoochee swamp in Florida and carried to the Tallahassee asvlum recently. He had been swimming Ochese Lake from island to island, and when taken was entirely desti tute of clothing, emaciated and covered with a phenomenal growth of hair. He gave no account of himself, and the theory is that be escaped from the asy .ura of some other State and spent his time in the woods, living on berries. VOL. I. NO. 30. IYJH AND POINT, —A contemporary says that forty years ago butter was -made from cream; hagar from cane: cigars of tobacco: shoes from leather; but times have changed. —The young woman who bites her finger nails and kisses her pug dog on the nose, would fall in a stony lit at seeing her father nip a piece off the but ter lump with his own kni e — Detroit Post. A seventeen-year-old boy was re cently sent to the Penitentiary or a year in New York for stealing’ four re ceiving blanks of a telegraph company of the value of one cent. The majesty of the law is vindicated at last.— N. Y. Graphic. —After building philosophical and moral ‘’ensiles in ine air,” one becomes impatient of coming down to the level of the work-a-day world, and setting to work to patch up the little brick and frame houses in which the world actu ally lives.— Chicago Tri unc. —When Mrs. Homespun read in the paper that Slappandash had “ ailed for $2J0,000” she said he was a lucky fel low. She thought—the innocent crea ture—that he got that mu h money for ailing? What ridiculous ideas the women do have about business!— Bo - ton Post. —A St. Louis man twenty-five years old is the victim of queer mania He firmly believes that he is seventy years old. There are some equally queer cases in Philadelphia, the victims being women who are seventy years old, yet (irmly believe they are twenty-five Philadelphia Call. --“Let’s play we was married,” said little Annie to little Dick, “and you put your arms around me and kiss me and tell me you love me. Won’t that bo nice?” “Yes, but don’t let’s be mar ried. You be a nurse and I’ll be some other little girl’s husband. That’s the way papa does. ” — N. Y. Tribune. —A writer avers that a woman's hand is the personification of gentleness and soothing tenderness. 'I bis state ment will scarcely bear a close scrutiny. It is not difficult for any o us to recall our boyhood days when at times we thought woman’s hand as vindictive and enterprising as a pile driver.—De troit Free Pre s. —“Ain’t you almost boiled?” in quired a kid of a gentleman calling on her father aud mother. “No, little one, I can’t say that 1 am. On the contrary, I feel quite comfortable.” “That’s funny. I should think you would be.” “A liy so, Daisy?” “Oh,, because I heard mamma say your wife Lwnt , ttAIJ in lint wraf-iw* *]L.hLa.. ----- Merchant Iravtyer. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. —A harp made entirely of wood has been invented by two Frenchmen, stionw stri| s of American fir being used for strings. The tone is said to be of remarkable purity. —ln Northern Dakota, lately, a trac tion engine drew eight plows, turning a sod four inches thick as evenly and well as could be done by horse power, and at a rate of over twenty-live acres a day. —A Connecticut inventor has per fected a machine for making barrels out of paper or straw pulp, which will turn out six hundred Hour barrels a day at a cost of twenty-three cents a pie e. They now cost fifty-five cents. Hartford lost. —A shoemaker in Utica, N. Y., has spent several years making a puppet show of about two hundred figures working at dill’etent trades. The whole are in two boxes, each six feet square, and it takes a steam engine to run them. t tica Herald. Captain Renard, of France, the in ventor of an allegi d navigable balloon, claims that the problem of aerial navi gation is completely solved, and that it is now only a question of time and money. He says that a balloon p >-tul system is as easy as a railroad system. —From a careful study of a series of des : gns of the p anet Venus, executed at Crignan during the present year, M. P. Camay nfers that a perfectly circu lar protuberance in the southern hem isphere, presumably a volcano, has an elevation of probably not less than sev enty miles. He argues in a paper re id before ihe Academy of Sciences, Pans, that this enormous height is in no way incompatible with the volcanic nature of the planet. —An analysis of the fragments of a meteorite reported to have fallen in February. 188tt, at Veramin, in the dis trict of /erind, sixty miles west of Teher n, Persia, has just been submit ted by Pr. Tholozan to M. l'aubree. It reveals the presence of bronzite, peshamite, peridote, nickel and grauu lated iron, thus showing the same con stitution as that of the remarkable me teorites of Legrono (1842), Estnerville (1879), Hainholtz (1856) and Newton County, Ark. (I 860). —The Troy ( N. Y. ) Telegram describes a new car combining drawing-room and sleeping-ear features. For day use it ap pears like the ordinary drawing-ro im ear. “By a simnle device,” sa\s the writer, “the cha rs are made to fold at joints, the seats sink to the fioor, the mirrored panels swing open, reaching within a foot of the car cen ter, and, presto, the drawing-room is divided into ten sections, each a lord ing a bed-room in which there are two beds, a mirror, wardrobe hooks, and other conveniences so iuu li ap preciated hv travelers. The founda tions of the beds are of spring steel, the mattresses are elastic, aud there is nothing Ike the damped quarters which one would declare was unavo.d --j abie