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T. A. HA J RON, Publisher. CURRENT TOPICS, Hannibal Hamlin, at eighty, has never worn flannels. Electricity is now employed to tame wild animals. Nebraska's wheat, crop averages a yield of seventeen bushels per acre. Wf»*\ has become of Weather Prophet Wiggins? Is he under the weather? Female telegraph operators in Germany receive $240 a year, with no vacation. I. pwa HD of 12,000 men and boys are en gaged ati the year round in the North Sea fisheries. The inmates of the Norristown, Pennsyl vania, Insane Asylum have organized a brass band. During the drouth water sold at fifty cents a barrel in the mining districts of Pennsylvania. Gov brnor John P. St. John has issued his letter accepting the Prohibition noraina* tion to the Presidency. You may wash, you may boil sauerkraut as you will, the smell of old cabbage will hang around still. In Virginia a captive wild cat has whip ped tea champion bull-dogs and is waiting for the eleventh. ' Advices from Paris state that thousands of workmen are out of employment, and great suffering is feared. A gentleman from Wisconsin has lately bought a stock farm in Lexington, Mass, Has the tide of emigration turned? Exquisitely shaded autumn leaves and flowers in velvet or chenille trim the latest bonnets and hats from Paris designs. A young lad of about sixteen summers married a girl recently in Lumkin, Ga., and applied for a divorce in less than thirty days. A man in San Francisco is being sued for three separate arid distinct breaches of promise. He finds a pair and a half of breaches a misfit. Near every fashionable girls’ school in Philadelphia there is a candy and taffy store usually kept by a little old woman with a big bank account. The operatives in the cotton mills in Massachusetts are paid thirty-eight per cent, more on an average than those work ing in English cotton mills. The new comet is not to be an attraction; it is already hurrying away from the earth —discouraged, perhaps, on learning that this vs a Presidential year. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is in a flourishing condition. There are now 3,411 Bands of Mercy, with upwards of 234,000 members. It is astonishing how long it takes the bakers to find out that the price of wheat kiiMmt ikiwn. Tireir loaves of bretfd do not increase in size accordingly. The youngest immigrant that evei crossed the ocean alone arrived on a Ger man steamer at Castle Garden, the othei day, and was only two years old. How a homely girl may suddenly become beautiful: Run away with a coachman or become a great burglar. Newspaper re porters will do the rest of the painting. A fall in ostrich eggs is reported from Anaheim, Cal. Formerly they were worth $1,200 a dozen. Now they are only worth SI,OOO. Grocery men do not keep them. In England a man charged with stealing mushrooms has been acquitted on the ground that they do not come within the catalogue of cultivated roots, which aloiu are protected by law. England braces up her system with ovei eighteen million bottles of patent medicines yearly, and maintains her fighting dispo sition with enormous and rapidly increas ing quantities of gin and beer. Cabbages, onions, tomatoes, squash and other vegetables are si lling at extremely low prices. Farmers complain that it scarcely pays the expense of loading up and time consumed in going to market. Of the late John W. Garrett the Balti more Sun says: “It there was one trail above all others that marked the charactet of the late John \Y*. Garrett, it was his passion for earnest, thorough, exhaustive work.” Turkish armorers no longer make a se cret of their manufacture of fradulent an tiques. Visitors to Constantinople can see the ancient weapons of the Turks, Persians and Mongols in course of fresh construc tion. A new device for evading the Maine liquor law is to open the eyeholes of young cocqanuts, scald out the interior and refill with whisky. The meat of the nut is said to be pleasantly flavored and improves the new contents. The quality of Western mercy is not strained. A justice in an lowa town let off a man charged with bigamy on the ground that be was a twin, and might have been mistaken for the other fellow by the women who married him. It came out in a Tennessee lawsuit the other day that the ardent letters sent by a girl to her lover had been composed for an other fellow, but that, on transferring her affections suddenly', she had erased the original name and inserted a new one. An unusually large quantity of hemlock bark has been pealed in Tioga County', Pa., owing to the forest fires of last spring, and as a c onsequence many million feet of hem lock timber are forced upon the market, which is already glutted. Sitting Bull lost his pocket-book con taining S3O in a New York cab, also a knife which Paul Boynton, the swimmer, gave him. The cab driver at first denied having seen anything of it, but subsequently bis -conscience forced him to return it. The International Baby Show, shortly to be held in the beautiful City Pavilion in the Champs Elysees, Paris, has already upon its books more than eight hundred infants of ali nationalities, and the outpouring of ladies to see this collection is likely to be enormous. It is remarked that the comm it tee which has charge of tipis exhibition is recruiting its Jury «ntire/y froip dootops and pa Inter* TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1884. THE WAR RESUMED. Courbet Fires on the Chinese From the Heights, the Latter Miring. Two Engagement* in Tonqnlx, in ffhleh the French Arc Victorious. London, October 4. Advises from Bathi to-day state that the gunboats Monstjd -ton, Mnssue and Haehe, While Cruising in ad vance of a party Which was reconnoitering in the Valley of Lechndit, Wr-bc Stacked by irtcse i egulars; tine French cffi *er wns killed and thirty m»n w mn led. Reinforce ment have already arrived at the scene of *^R_r n< ' ou,1 f ei^ ’) and oih-rs under command of General Negrier, have left H.uisi. Hong Kong, October 4.—A serious riot among coolies occurred here vesterduv. home boatmen refused to convey tiie cargo to French ships, and u general strike fol lowed, resulting in disorder. The populace maltreated the police, who endep vored to preserve order. The military fin illy quiet ed the disturbance. Several natives were killed and a number wounded. The excit ment has now subsided. Parts, October 4.— The Iclr/mphr states that it lias received informal ion that the Government intends shortly to rec-aii Ad miral Couri>et from China, and ha* there* fore instructed him to destroy the Chinese fleet, in the event of the capture of Keliing failing to cense China to submit to the French demands. General Delisle sends ft dispatch stating that hearing that Chinese troops, between Ibicle and Lftrtgsfm Were moving forward lie took the measures necessary to drive them back to their gunboats. A brilliant engage ment ensued, tour thousand Chinese troops being pitted against him. Commanded Charlie, of the Massue, was kilted in the fight. When the dispatch was sent the Chinese weVe being steadily driven back,- and had lost heavily. Admiral Courbet telegraphed from Kelting, under date of yesterday, as follows: “I commenced operations against Kelung Wednesday by occupying the height of St. Clement. Ihe Chinese forces, after a fa.rly warm engagement, Wednesday night evac uated two of their works west of the height, which we afterward occupied. I am now fortifying ihem, and shall operate on Saturday against their works eastward of the height. Our loss was four killed, one missing and thirteen wounded. The Chinese loss is estimated at from eighty to one hundred killed and from two hundred to three hundred wounded. Admiral Lespes commenced an attack on Taiusui on Thursday, and will occupy that port if possible.” The Wealthiest Unmarried Lady. WASHINGTON, October 4.—lf any of the estimates, even the lowest, placed upon the value of the estate of the late John W- Garrett, the great railroad President, prove to be correct, his only daughter. Miss Mary Elizabeth Garrett, will be the richest un married lady in this country. The esti mates run all the way from $15,000,000 to $50,000,000, and the latter is quite as likely to be correct as the former. With the Gar rett’s n doli n’ always means at least one hundred cents. Mjss Wolff, of New York, has until now been considered the wealthi est unmarried lady'in America, but Miss Garreti’sfortune will be even greater than her’s. Miss Wolff is a maiden over fifty 3'ears of age, who has devoted her years to deeds of charity. Miss Garrett is only twenty-eight, but has had more experience than pobably any lady of her years in the country. As her father’s confidential secretary, she had ample opportunity to study his affairs, and during the latter (lavs of his life she transacted much of bis business. It is re lated of her ttiat on several occasions she noted the expressions made by' great rail road magnates while conversing with her father, and afterward committed them to paper for future reference. Miss Garrett is an expert stenographer, and her knowl edge of this art has proven very useful to both her father and herself. Explosion in a Paper-Cap Factory. Cincinnati, October 4.—This morning at the paper-cap factory of Ehler JJohnson & Bass, on Mt. Adams, James Goodwin was engaged in' mixing powder and other in gredients used in the manufacture of paper caps for toy pistols, when suddenly the stuff exploded, while he was pounding it with a small iron tool. The shed in which Goodwin was working was blown almost to atoms, while the unfortunate man lay buried in the debris. As quickly as possi ble lie was extricated, and it was found that his bodv was fearfully mangled, his eyes being burned out, the toes of his feet torn off, and the flesh hanging in threads from other parts of his body. Goodwin died in great agony' a few hours later. The compound which exploded is a very' dangerous one, and the men working in it have to use extraordinary care while handling it. Before pounding the stuff it is necessary to moisten it, as in a dry state it will easily explode. Goodwin failed to follow the instructions for using the com pound. and the result was an accident which caused bis death. The Burned Palace. Copenhagen, October 4. —Fire to-day de stroyed the celebrated Christiansborger Royal Palace in this city, which contained the great national gallery of over one thousand paintings, many of them by the first masters, and the museum of val uable Northern antiquities. Most of these were saved. The Houses of Parliament connected with the Palace were also de stroyed. London, October 4. —A dispatch from Copenhagen states that ten soldiers were burned to death while attempting to save some effects in the Royal Palace at Chris tianborg, which was destroyed by fire last night. At the time the dispatch was sent it was feared that Thorwaldsen’s museum would also be consumed. The Library' archieves were saved through tne exertions of the salvage corns, who were personally incited to heroic efforts to save property bv the King, who remained on the ground un til the fire was extinguished. Another Elopement. Trot. N. Y., October 4.—John Vallen euve, son of the Mayor of St. Baptiste. Canada, desiring to marry and settle down, divided the funds in bis father’s safe with the old gentleman, and started for the United States with a handsome young girl. Miss Emma Lemaire. of Quebec, without unnecessary tu--. Detectives made a call an the voupg married couple in tins city, and they were compelled to give up what tqo«ey remained. BAD COTTON WEATHER. Prcmatnrf Ripening and Whorl I-'User •►•■ought Ha* l.nrgel.r Cot Off the To| Crap, New York, October 3. —The September cotton report to “Bradstreets,” summarized below, la based on 1,225 replies from corre spondents in 60!) out of the 050 counties growing over 500 bales of cotton each, and reflects the condition of the crop on Septem ber 22 in 08 per centiof the whole cotton area of the United States. At the date of the Au gust report, just ofle month previous, the condition and prospects of the crop were not above fair, and the timely advent di ii»tter weather was needed to improve ot even maintain that status. The reports show that instead of favoring weather a drought of much severity developed and has ex tended over every section of the cotton belt an 1 wrought a considerable deterioration in the crop. The middle crop is reported much decreased, and the top crop largely and in many places entirely cut. off by the prolonged dry and and hot weather. There has been considerable failing of the s plant and heavy shedding bolls. Tne steady heat h«s forced the bolls open quicklv, and the premature ripening makes the fiber shorter. While the weather for the period under review has been bad for “growing” cotton, it has been most favorable for harvesting, aud, except in a few districts where the heat was too intense for active work, the crop is being speedily gathered and sent to the gins, Clean and white and' in UntisUally good condition. , Labor is abundant, and itt the absence of political excitement is working well. In some parts of the South the staple is mov ing to market slowly because for the time the planters are Utilizing the favorable weather for picking by giving entire atten tion to saving the crop. In other localities the slow marketing is attributed to holding back for better prices and to the difficulty of traders to get the money needed tO the crop. These instances ate few, however, and corre spondents generally assert that the sudden opening of the fruit and fine picking season are attributed to a more liberal delivery than the smallness of the crop would indi cate. The effects of the drought in shorten ing the yield have been important in the Atlantic States, and become more emphatic as the South-west, is reached, Texas gener ally sending estimates-of serious damage. Florida alone sends a reasonably favorable report, and Tennessee notes occasional good fields. The Plague. Rome, October 4. —Many complaints o£ distress have been received from Spezia be cause of the cholera cordon, which has caused the town to fill with paupers. The town will require relief from the Nation al Government. Forty-seven fresh cases of cholera were reported during the past twenty-four hours in the city of Naples, and twenty-eight deaths. In Genoa there were twenty-two fresh cases and twenty-eight deaths. Marseilles, October 4.—Three deaths from cholera were reported to-day- in the Eastern Pyrenees, and one in Toulon. Two deaths from cholera occurred here to day. Diamond Smuggler Detected. New York, October 4. Among the pas sengers of the steamship America yester day- were Mr. James Graves and wife. Mr. Graves is a member of the firm of Fox Brothers, jewelers, 12 Maiden lane. He made declaration of only a few dutiable articles of small value, and was about to leave, when the Cusrom-bouse In spector insisted upon making a more thorough search of his baggage. He indig nantly- protested that he had no other duti able articles, and when the Inspector still persisted, fell to the floor in a faint. Graves and wife were carefully searched, and $20,003 worth of unset diamonds dis covered. Both were held for exaininatior Duty on Certain Steel R°moved. Ottawa. October 4. —An order in Coun cil has been passed allowing steel for shovels and spades, of not less than eleven nor more than eighteen wire gauge, and costing not less than $75 per ton of 2.240 pounds, to he imported free of duty by manufacturers of shovels and spades for the purposes of manufacture, until the next session of Parliament. Hendricks in Another Collision. Wheeling, W. Va., October 4.—A spec ial train on the Pan-Handle Road carrying Hendricks collided with a li«nd-car this morning at daylight, killing John Foutz, a boy of twelve years, and Thomas Waldron, a brakeman. The Plumed Knights, of this city, were also on the train, but none were injured. The collision was caused by a heavy tog prevailing at the time. An Accident at a Fair. Almonte, Ontario, October 3.—The bal cony of the North Lanark Agricultural Society ’s building fell to-day-, owing to the large crowds standing on it. In the stam pede following many persons were badly crushed. Among those injured are Miss Elm-h-y', ribs broken; Mis- Robertson, leg broken; Miss Barr and Mr. Robinson, badly crushed. Chicago Fire Marshal Fatally Injured. Chicago, October 3. —Captain Dave Ken* yon, acting Fire Marshal of this city, was fatally injured by being thrown out of his buggy while on his way to a fire. An en gine and the Marshal’s buggy ran into each other, and Kenyon was thrown over the dash-board and run over by the heavy engine. Failures of the Week, New York, October 3 —The failures of the last seven days as reported to R.G.Dun & Co., for the United States, were 194; for Canada. 23; total, 217, as against 213 last week. Failures were more numerous than usual in the Southern States, and lighter in New York City. Buried in Grain. Buffalo, N. Y., October 4.—By the giv* ing away of a temporary bulkhead at the Niagara Elevator this morning Thomas Daly was buried in the grain, which also suffocated Wm. Ryan. John Ward and Michael Ryan were cut, bruised and inter nally injured, Accidentally Shot. Newport, Ky., October 4 Officer James Edgar, in resisting the assault of a number of ruffians at the Fourth Ward polls in this city, accidentally shot and seriously wounded Mr, Christ.' Weber, a by-stagder, THE WAR IN EGYPT. Perplexity Over the Egyptian State of Affairs. nnrdnn ||«a« .tlfdulii fctri»«*l* Oil* to fimi nifmorntf (lie Aiiejre of KliHitouni. London, October s.—Affairs in Egypt seem td i>e getting more hopelessly mixed everyday. The reports about Gordon*re so perpl -xing and his movements so con trary to all reasonable anticipations that nobody knows what can be done or what is going to hanpen. It was due to the general disorgar.ig lUcgj that the Times was taken in by the esmard that Lord Wolselev was about to be withdrawn, and made itself su premely ridiculous by solemn commenta ries on the supnosed change of policy.J Cairo. October s.— Major Kitcnner re p >rts Colonel .Stewart with troops from Khartoum s’l-anded on the rocks in the cataract at Wady Garua, and asks that the Mudir of Dongola’s troops be sent to his assistance. Wady Halfa, October 5. —A remount of camels and horses is being formed here. Sir Charles Wilson has started for Dangelo by camel. A messenger reports Gordon returned to Khartoum. Wolselev, Is at Wady Haifa, and expectsto remain for some time. London, October 5. —German and Aus trian newspapers speak with enthusiasm of Gordon's recapture of Berber. The Vienna Tayblatt says: The story of the defenso of Khartoum will live in history. It proves tnat British energy and genius are not dead. Cairo, October s.—Gordon has had med als struck off co commemorate the seige of Khartoum. They have been bestowed upon the troops and also upon the women and children who shared in the hardships of the sieve, upon the latter because they merited it by their sufferings. Northbr-j *k will visit Assouan for the purpose of in specting the towns and provinces along the river Nile. London, October s.—The expenses of the expelitfon to relieve Gordonfare increasing, The Postmaster General at Cairo notified the Government that he will require £150,- 000 weekly to meet the demands. Terrible Work of Train Wrecker?. Topeka, Kan., Octobers.—As the pas senger train which left Kansas City at 10 p. m. Saturday night, on the Sante Fe Rail road, reached a point one mile east of Em poria Junction, the engine struck an ob strnction in the shape of a cross-tie, which had been placed on the track. It pushed it lengthwise between the guard rail and the outside rail on a bridge crossing a small stream and passed on safely, but a freight train following was thrown from the track, wrecking the engine and nine cars. The firema-j, named Scott, was crushed and killed L.rler the engine and the engineei slightly wounded. It is supposed the cross tie was put on the track for the purpose of wrecking the passenger train. The Atchi son, Topeka and Santo Fe road will to morrow offer a reward of SI,OOO for the ap prehension and conviction of the guilty parties. The Governor will also be asked to-offer a reward of SSOO in addition. Mob at a Paris Race-Course. Paris, October s.—At Longchamps races to-day n mob, dissatisfied with the riding of an English jockey named Sharpe,pullet) him off the horse and brutally kicked and beat him. The horse was also injured by blows from sticks, stones and umbrellas. Sharpe was carried into the house in a critical condition. A violent riot followed, the mob breaking into th»in < closure. The soldiers on duty were compel led to guard the place from the infuriated crowd, one of whom was seized by three jockeys, and only escaped lynching by the intervention of the police. The jockey-* had already stripped the fellow’s clothes off, and were about to hang him. The weighing-room was beseiged by the rioters for half an hour. Another English jockey was maltreated. . tSmill Pox in lliinoios- Nashvim.k, 111. October 5. —The dreaded small-poxmas invaded this County, there being two cases at Darwin, ten miles south. All sorts of rumors are rife concerning the prevalence of the disease, lout two cases is the i xent in the Countv. The plagur vis ited family are properly- quarantined, ami great exertions are made to prevent the spread of the disease. I' was introduced there front Prairieton, Ind., by- a young girl, who had returned home from nursing her brother, wuo died there with the dis ease. Iron Trade Improving. St. Louis, O -tobet 5.—A dispatch front Chattanooga, Tenn., says the iron interest is reviving in the South. The Woodstock (Ala.) Iron Company have just closed a contract for thirteen thousand tons of eai wheel iron at twenty dollars and flftv cents per ton. This is the largest single order placed in the South since the depies sion began. Reports from other furnaces indicate increased inquiry- for iron. No Honor for Howgate. Washington. October 3.—General Hazen has ordered all the names bestowed by the Arctic explorers of the Greely party upon places discovered by them in honor of Cap* tain Howgate to he erased from the charts, on account of the embezzlements since dis covered against that officer of the Signal Corps. Scarcity of Water. Petersburg, Va., October s.—The clos ing of all cotton factories in this city and vicinity, in consequence of scarcity of water, throws out of employment over seven hundred men, wom-n and children, nearly all of whom are actually suffering for want of the necessities of life. Schooner Sunk. Wiarton, Ont.. October 5. The Schooner Arabia, from Chicago for Mid land, with twenty thousand bushels of corn, sank at the entrance of Georgians Bay this morning during a heavy gale. The crew were all nicked up from a small boat and brought here. Arrested for Emb nOm nt. Ban Fp. ax Cisco, Octobers —D. M. Burns, Secretary of State during Pei Kins’ a.imin* isti etion, was arrested this evening charged wire embezzling State funds. SOUTHERN NEWS ULE.UNNttS, South Carolina tea, cqred in a fruit evaporator, has been pronounced by ex perts to be equal to imported teas. An evening daily is to be started in Knoxville »oon. t The telegraph company is building a handsome structure in Chattanooge,. Large lumber shipments are being made from Chattanooga to Eastern poinrs. W riters of fiction are increasing in the South. The Southern cotton millers can no agree upon a union of action. A. C. Luokie and W.J. Melton are ernct ing a steam mill and giu, near Pine Apple, Ala. Grant Bros & Dunn have about, com pleted their cotton eomp-esg at Columbu- S. C. The cost, was $40,000. The Hawkinsville, Ga., Cotton Comoros will soon be finished, the machinery now being put in position. James Coleman, of Carrolton, Ga., will immediately build a large flour [mill and barrel factory at Villa Rica, Ga. Cows are not permitted to run at large in Montgomery, and a pound has beei established. The fiscal year in Alarnma has closco with $140,000 in tiie Treasury to begin the new year with, and $103,000 interest falling due in January. Near Jacksonville, Ala., is an inexhaus tible bed of fine white flint gravel, which cements itself when exposed to the atmos phere, and which makes n nery firm and durable pavement. The Georgia rice crop will not be appre ciably greater or less than last, year. The statement that there is more money invested in fire-arms in Alabama, than in hogs sheep und farm implements, i> being indignantly denied in reliable quar ters. Joab Mauldin, Pickens, S. C., has just put up a sorghum mill. James B. Hall, Rome, Ga., has estab lished a furniture factory. Joseph P. Rawlky, Mt. Airy, N. C.,will build a large tobacco factory. Five new tobacco factories are being built at present in Reidsville, N. C. Vincent & Son, Palatka, Fla., have nearly- completed their snsh, door and blinc factory. The Southern Machine Co., Tenn., are erecting a foundry and machine shops. The survey for the extension of the East Alabama Railroad, from Gadsden to Gun tersville, will commence soon. It is said that sufficient money has alreadv been raised to carry- out the work. The Macon (Ga.) Trlrffroph, noting the fact that forty packages of cigarettes can ho bought in Mexico for one dollar, advise* the dudes to immigrate, and thinks that a land in which cigarettes are cheap and senoritas easily mashed ought to create a perfect hegira. The Mobile Jlfiijiatei’ says the prohibition laws continue to act finely up in the rivet counties for Mobile, and the shipment ol jugs of whisky from that city into those counties is quite lively at present. A freight train ran over and killed a two-year-old child of Mrs. Birthlow the other morning, at Fairmount, W. Vu. The little one was playing on the railroad track near its home, and was not seen by the engineer in time to stop the train. At Terra Alta, W. Va.,a photographic artist named B. S. Sayre, recently located there, was struck by a locomotive and se riously injured. He had crossed the rail road for a bucket of water, and on his re turn stood on the track watching a passing freight, when the fast express came along unnoticed and struck him, breaking his leg and bruising an arm and shoulder. The unusually large shipment of 40C tons of pig iron is mentioned at Chattanooga Via Savannah. There is much complaint at Tullahome that cows are maimed wantonly when invading premises defective in fencing. Vinnie Ream has joined her husband, Lieut. Hoxie, at Montgomery. Isaac Johnson, who murdered Belle Booker in April last, was convicted at Canton, Miss., and has been sentenced to lie banged November 10,1884. The owners of New Orleans boats recent ly requested the pilots to work this season on a reduced scale of wages, and the othei day the association met to discuss the mat ter. Twenty-eight New Orleans pilots were present, and the sentim-nt was un animously against any reduction, the speakers pointing out the fact that nearly all of them had been idle for live months owing to the boats being laid up. McMinn County, Tex., has a colored Deputy Sheriff. The Superior Court of Newton County Ga., has sentei#-ed Bud Ferry, a sixteen year-old colored boy to be hanged on November Hor Rape. Nancy Morris, also colored, who poisoned her husband wbh ‘Rough on Rats,” has been sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Isaac Stafford, a negro boy, lias been before the Mayor of Savannah for throwing rocks in the street. He was given the al ternative of $5 fine, ten day-s in tiie jail, or twenty lashes. The last was accepted and the thrashing administered in the rear of the barracks. Alfred Billi.ygslea, an old colored bar ber in Montgomery, Ala., has b»en shaving for thirty-five years in the same shop under rhe Exchange Hotel. He has shaved some if the most famous men in the South He aad William L. Yancey and Henry W. Hil lard among his patrons, and the appear ince and demeanor of the two rival states-- men impressed him very powerfully. BU ingslea shaved nearly all the members of the Confederate Congress in IS6I. Jeff Davis, Alec Stephens, Ben Hill, Leroy Pope, Walker and Wigfall all went to his shop. Next to the Walnut Street Theater, of Philadelphia, the Savannah, Ga., Theater It the oldest in the ooqntry, VOlr. I.- SO. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. —A machine fur shocking grain has i'cen patented. Professor A. 11. Sayre has de ciphered an As yrian tablet which gives an account o a transit of Venus l,fi(Jo years 11. C. —According to the latest results of tiie finest iustrumen al tests, as to the propagation of electricity, an electric signal travels at the me of I ,U K) miles per second. < hic i o Herat I. —A single shoe manufactory in Massachusetts turns out by patent ma chinery in twelve months as many pairs of bools amt shoes as 0 0 shoemakers in Paris made by hand ; in the same period of time. (Great are the uses ot machinery. —Boston Bo /. —'The Medical T rues, referring to the 5,0 hi incandescent lamps in use a tiie English hygienic e bio tion, says that they are tiie domestic light of the future, adding that the well-founded objection formerly raised by oculists that the light was a series of Hashes is not now true e cept in theory. —Bricks made of cork now consti tute one qf the new German industries. The usualVize is ten by four and thiee fo rtlis and two and a half inches. They are prepa ed from small corks, refuse and cement, and have not only been used for certain building[ imposes on account o' their lightness and iso lating properties, but are also em ployed as a eoVcring for boilers in pre ventin; tiie radiation of heat. —Boiled gold is made by casting no ingot of brass, and wh !e this is st 11 hot pouring upon it a thin layer of gold alloy. The ingot when cold is forced between steel rollers until a long thin ribbon is produced, of which the proportion of gold and brass is the same as of the ingot. The percentage of gold is reduced as low a- two and three per cent. This rolle l gold is used in making cheap bracelets and watch chains, and costs but little more than brass. It wears from one to ten years. —A curious experiment has lately been made at Ac jui, Italy, by the pro prie or of oine balhs there. This gen tleman lias at his d sposal an inex haustible supply of hot water from a natural spring, tiie temperature being Uii degrees i ahrenheit. The surplus not re ,uired for the baths has Icon di~ verte l so as to flow through pipes to a garden on the outs irts of the town. He r e the warm liquid flows beneath a number of toreing frames containing melons, tomatoes, asparagus and other garden produce. The result is that a supply of these deli a ties is ready foi market at a very early period of the year, when, therefore, tjiey fetch high prices. PITH AND POINT. —A Minnesota drugg'st advertises that the way a porous plaster acts is to rota'n the back lirmly in place while he pain crawls out between the holes. Few doctors take the troubXi to explain jo minutely how their prescriptions operate. “If I were in California,” said a young fop, in company the other even ine, ‘1 would waylay some miner with a bajr of gold, knock out his brains, gather up the gold and run.” “Ilhink you would do better to gather up his brains,” quietly resj otnied a young lady.— EjcUuh e. “Your fare, young lady,” said th stag ■ driver, as a pretty miss steppe* from his vehicle, and was about trip ping away. “ h, thank you ” re sponded the absent-minded little beauty “I think your moustache be comes yon real well, too.” Bite got her ride free. — B- rlint/ on / r e /’/vs . “You were loaded,” said -Justice Duffy, of New York, to Charles and Phi lip Gunn as they were led to the bar by 1 olieeman t unis, whohadfohml them drunk. “Were ever you ] ointed ir my direction before!*” “No, sir.” the Gunns responded in chorus. “Both b rre's discharged,’ >a'd the Court.— N. 1". lime*. . He had been at Coney Island all daj 7 and w-.-.a -tru rgling to get his I oots oft' “1 never (hie) <ro down to the Island,” he said to his wife, “a id look (hicj over the broad expanse of sea. ’thouf bein' ihie, tided with wonder.” “rilled with what 3 ’she asked. “Bon der.” “ B onder ” That’s a brand of whisky 1 never heard of.— N. Y. limes. —A youth of Hibernian extraction in chopping wood with a ha ehet, the oth er dav, was so unfortunate as to grae (he thumb of his le t hand with which he was steadying the piece of kindling he was splitting Ruefully gazing at tue in lire 1 member, he remarked: “Becorr i. it was a 200 l thing I did not have’ hold of the handle with both hand , or I'd have cut it o l', sure.”— E cho, qe. “ l imes have changed,” said Old Hvson, mournfully, “limes have changed.” “And a< to wherefore ” asked his son. “In orme times,” said the old one, “man ;t ■ the cream • And now.” “They cremate the man.” There was an awful pause. Young Hvson walked out of the counting room on his tip to s. aud told one of his salesman he was afraid the old man was break.ng up last, bob Bur dette. “Say, at, ’ said a gentleman to his hired' man, who had many domestic quarrels. -Wiih whom would you sooner light, the Euglish or your wife l.iddy?” • eh. bed ad," was the reply, ••whin the 1 ng ish declare war, a mon fo ndsit out in advance, an’ he git- a chance ter run. but whin biddy de clares w :r a divll a bit do 1 found it out until I have recovered. 1> ver under stand ” i'he gentleman compr h*ode 1 the pe uliar position of his douin»tic.—- The Bcissnrs.