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CITY OF MEXICO. A Glance at the Capital of Our Sister Republic. Quaint Houses, Rich Churches and a Human Medley. Take a stand with mo on the spire of tho great Cathedral which faces the plaza in the centre of the City of Mex¬ ico, writes Frank G. Carpenter in tlm New York World. We are 200 feet above the ground and more than 7500 feet above the sea. Take a look at the city below. It is as big as St. Louis. Its form is that of ono of the great cities of Europe, and like the cities of Spain, its streets cross ono another at right angles, and tho centre of the network of squares si the plaza filled with green trees which lies at our feet. The roofs of all the houses are flat. There is not a chimney in tho whole city, and you could number the fur¬ naces and the cooking and heating stoves on the fingers of one hand. The Mexican capital does all of its heating by charcoal, and a base-burner would be as much of a wonder here as a five-legged calf. If you will take your glass you will note that each field is made up of houses and that each of the houses has a great well or hole in its centre. These are the patios or courts around which every Mexican house is built, and which in many cases constitutes the only garden of the family. Where there are horses this is sometimes used for the storing of the carriages, and you note that all the houses stand close up to the street, and that most of them are of less than three stories_ On the tops of many of them you see white and gay colored patches floating to and fro in the breeze. These are family washings, which are usually dried on the roofs, and those great spires and domes which spring up on every side of you are the buildings of the church, which are fewer flow than ever before, and which a few years ago were tho richest and most impor¬ tant buildings of the city. The gov¬ ernment now owns these aud not the priests. They are allowed to use them only on sufferance, and when they were confiscated it is said they were worth millions, and that the govern¬ ment then took from the church prop¬ erty to the amount of $300,000,000. This building upon winch we are standing cost $2,000,000 to build, and its roofs are shingled with enough brick to pave a town of 10,000 people. Bricks are the shingles of Mexico. They are fastened down in mortar, and there is as much masonry on the top of every one of these churches and houses as there is in its sides. Take a look at this cathedral as you stand here above it. It covers acres and you wander for hours in going from one place to another within it. It has been a gold mine in its costly decorations, and its choir lias a balus¬ trade of a mixture of silver, copper and gold, which weighs 50,000 pounds, aud which is worth more than this weight in solid silver. The walls of the church alone cost $2,000,000, and the treasures of the interior have made rich some of the families of the Mexico of today. It had a single statue of gold set with diamonds, which was worth $1,000,000, and one of the great lamps which lighted it in the past cost $70,000, and its work¬ manship was so intricate that it cost $1000 to clean it. The altars were once set with precious stones. Come down from the Cathedral and take a walk along the streets. The crowd which moves with and by you is as cosmopolitan as that of any Eu ropean capital. You are in the Calie de San Francisco, where the foreign shops are located and near the princi¬ pal hotels. Here are Frenchmen, Eng- glislunen, Germans, Spaniards and Americans, and mixed with them are the diverse elements of the great Mexican people. A swell carriage with great coach horses dashes by you, its silver-mounted harness glistening in the sunlight and its coachman wearing a gorgeous sombrero and his pants lined with silver. It contains the wife and daughter of a rich ha- cenaiido, who are going to take then- afternoon ride on the Paseo. Behind them rides a rich Spaniard iu Mexican costume, with saddle, hat and har¬ ness as gorgeous in their gold and sil- ver as money can buy, and at tho side of the street runs a half dozen little burros, with great bales of hay, al¬ most hiding their little bodies from view, while in the rear is a poor In¬ dian driving them, with a like bundle of hay fastened to his back and held there by a strap that comes over tho front of his forehead. Here is a brigand-like peon from the country in a blanket as red as the opal which shines out of its diamond set¬ ting on tho necktie of tho American dude at his side, and you note that his feet are dirty with miles of travel as they show out through his leather sandals. There are two ladies in black on their way to the Cathedral to mass, and the younger ono casts a sly but modest look at you out of her shawl as they pass. On the other side of tho street there is an Indian girl whose wealth of black hair streams in a frowsy way down her shoulders, and whose plump form is bent almost double under the great load of red jars she is carrying, and now through them all comes a squad of soldiers, dark-faced aud sullen, under the com¬ mand of an officer, who looks down as proud as Lucifer out of his saddle. Here are water carriers and ped¬ dlers, millionaires and paupers, the rich and the poor, the great and the small all mixed up together in one of the most picturesque and tho most de¬ lightful conglomerations you will find anywhere in the world. Every way your eye turns it meets a new sight and everything is strange. You glance about you in bewilderment and wonder where you are. Y'ou put your hand to your head and almost ask when the curtain will fall and hide the great show from view. As you go on you are accosted by peddlers and good-natured highwaymen in big iiats and red blankets, who offer to sell you opals and queerly carved canes, and little Indians in ragged clothes thrust boxes of matches into your face and beg you to buy. The newsboy is here in all his glory, aud a dark-faced old man looks out of the stray gray locks which fringe his wrinkled face under his broad- brimmed hat and asks alms. You give him a copper and he hobbles off happy and makes you feel like a benevolent prince. And so you go on along the street of the silversmiths, by jewelry stores, whose gold, diamonds and rubies flash their multitudinous rays back at the setting sun, by dry goods windows, whose stocks of Paris made goods are as gay as those on Fifth avenue, and on down to the great doors, which, with their portals of carved stone, admit you to the big palace of the Emperor Iturbide, which like all things imperial in this country of Mexico, has fallen from its high estate and is now turned into an im¬ mense hotel. The Orange Industry In Paraguay. The orange-tree is generally under¬ stood to have been introduced into Paraguay by tho Jesuits, and the seeds distributed by the birds. However this may be, the orange has spread all over the country,from the river-banks to the tops of the hills, and from the cottages even to the deepest solitudes of the virgin forest. Paraguay is the land of orange-trees more truly than the country of Mignon.... And what oranges! Juicy, perfumed, and of a delicacy that Spain and Italy have never attained. The chief industry consists in the exportation of the fruit. The great orange season is from May to August, when the ports of the Paraguay River from Humaita to Asuncion despatch enormous quanti¬ ties by steamers and schooners. Vil- leta, San Lorenzo and San Antonio are the principal ports, and there best may be seen the picturesque processions of laughing and screaming girls and women, who carry basket after basket of fruit on their heads from the shore to the ship, like a swarm of busy ants. Up to the present no indus¬ trial use has been made of the orange. Some sixty millions are exported annually, the same quautily is con¬ sumed by the natives, and perhaps treble that quantity is devoured by monkeys and birds, or left to rot on the ground.—[Harper’s Magazine. “These monkeys,” said Chappie, in the park, “remind me of my boyhood days.” “There’s a faint resemblance yet,” said Maude, gazing first at Chappie and then at the monkey. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Sulphate or chloride of zinc dis¬ solved in water is a good disinfectant. An Albany, N. Y., boy sustained and survived an electric shock of 2500 volts. A Steubenville, Ohio, inventor lias perfected a now process for making iteel pipes directly from bar iron. The brightest star in the firmauent ivas called tho dog star by the Egyp- iiaus, because it watches the rising of the Nile and gives notice by its ap¬ pearance of that important event. Both for scientific and industrial purposes a standard of color has long been desired, and in order to attempt a solution of the question tho Society of Arts is investigating the subject through a committee. Bicycle riders are watching with in¬ terest the attempts to manufacture wheels out of aluminum. A steel rac¬ ing wheel now weighs twenty-four pounds. If aluminum proves practi¬ cable a racing wheel can be made that will will weigh only about eight or nine pounds. A great increase in eye disease in Brussels lias been traced to a visit of an Asiatic quack, who lias treated many eyes with a weak boracic acid solution applied with the same brush to all. Virus of serious disease has been conveyed by the brush to the eyes which before had only unimportant inflammation. The method of purifying water in¬ vented by Mr.- William Anderson, and now employed at Antwerp with suc¬ cess, consists in passing the water through a slowly revolving cylinder containing metallic iron in the form of scraps or tilings. Tho estimated cost of purifying a million gallons in this way is about $1.50. Dr. Giraud’s recent experiments in France in the transformation of the thermic energy of combustion into electrical energy and the consequent generation of heat have lesulted in the construction of a stove which may possibly, when modified and perfected, come to revolutionize our present modes of heating dwelling houses. At a recent meeting of the Brussels Academy, in a papeif “On a Curious Peculiarity of Currents of Water, and on One of the Causes of Sudden Floods,” M. G. van del* Mensbrugghe noted the fact that in a river the maxi¬ mum velocity of tho current does not occur at the surface, but about three- tenths of the depth below the surface. A great deal of remarkable data, which are of immense value in the preparation of weather forecasts, have lately been compiled from an investi¬ gation of cloud photographs, The range of observations extended from clouds floating less than one and a half miles high in ah* moving at seven miles an hour, to nine miles above the ground in gales blowing sixty-five miles an hour, while the surface wind was only a gentle breeze of five miles an hour. How They Drive in London. England is the only place 1 know of where they drive to the left. Eng¬ lish drivers say that by sitting on tho right and driving to the left thoy can better watch the hubs of approaching vehicles, and thus prevent collisions. I don’t exactly understand this, but it is the explanation they give for driv¬ ing to the left. Quick-going vehicles will turn a corner sharply, but the driver raises his whip to notify the vehicle in his immediate rear that he is about to turn. “Cabbies” are more consider¬ ate concerning fellow drivers than they are thoughtful about the lives and limbs of pedestrians. All their attention is given to the roadway: pedestrians must look out for them¬ selves or be run over. That is why so many of the London police are en¬ gaged solely in attending to street traffic. Yet with all their vigilance more accidents occur ill London, pro¬ portionately, than elsewhere. Lon¬ don drivers are polite and very civil lo each other. If an obstruction ap¬ pears in front of a horse, or if for any reason he is obliged suddenly to slow up, the driver will immediately notify the driver in the rear by hold¬ ing out horizontally his left arm; and this sign is passed down from one driver to another until the very end of the line of blocked vehicles is reached.—[New York Home Journal. Some Late Legal Decisions. Statute of Fraud*—A receiver’s verbal promise to pay a creditor who releases a sells iimupon property of which the firm the is receiver void. for the benefit Partnership Debt—Levy.—Partners be¬ ing severally and jointly levied liable, the satisfy prop¬ erty of either may be on to a partnership debt, and the liability may bo enforced against the property of each. Legal Holidays.—After July 1, 1891, the legal holidays in Illinois are Septem¬ ber 1, February 12, January 1, February 22, May 20, July 4, December 25 and Thanksgiving day. All notes, bills, drafts, checks, etc., maturing on above days are considered as maturing on the day previous. Interest Law in Missouri Changed.—A change was made by the last legislature in the law of Missouri as to rate of inter¬ est, which will soon go into effect. Six per cent is still the legal rate when no rate is agreed upon by the parties, but this new law provides that not more than 8 per cent can be contracted for and col¬ lected by law. Lca e.—The fact that a lease has al¬ ways been in the possession of the lessor is not conclusive evideuce that there has been no delivery, since the lessor has .s much interest in it as the lessee, and a? much occasion for its possession, and the fact that the tenant has entered under it is it sufficient to sustain delivered. a presumption that has been duly Public Improvements—Damage. When private property is demanded by the loca¬ tion and construction of a public improve¬ ment near it, and the property is not es¬ pecially benefited by the improvement, dam¬ the measure of the property owner’s age is the difference between the value of the property immediately before the loca¬ tion and construction of the improvement, and its value immediately afterward,-.— Mutual Benefit Insurance—Where the by-laws of a mutual benefit association provide that its members shall bo subject to but oue as- ssessment for each death loss, and one assessment is made from which only part of the amount due on a certificate is piid, mandamus will not lie to compel the levy of another assessment in order to pay the balance, and it is immaterial whether the first assessment was sufficient to have paid the claim in fuller not, Fraudulent Representations.—Where a merchant represents himself as solvent, though he knows that he is representations insolvent, and on the strength of such obtains goods, which he subsequently pays for, and several months after buys more goods from the same person, but makes no further representations, and transfers the last goods bought to other creditors to secure precedent debts, the seller cannot recover them from the transferee, on the ground that the sale was induced by fraudulent and false rep¬ resentations by the purchaser as to his credit; for although the purchaser knew that he was insolvent, and had in fact given unrecorded bills of sale and chattel mortgages on nearly all of his property, the yet if, trom all the circumstances of purchaser, hoped it appears himself that- the purchaser his to extricate from em¬ barrassments and that he intended to pay for the goods, the sale was valid not¬ withstanding the facts of his known in¬ solvency, his suppression of that fact from the seller and his immediate trans¬ fer of the goods to secure other creditors. New Paper for Eank Notes- The secretary of the treasury has issued the following notice in regard to the dis¬ tinctive paper for obligations and other securities of the United States: “Notice is hereby given that the secretary of the treasury, by authority of law, has adopt¬ ed a new distinctive paper which will be used until otherwise ordered, for all new designs of United States notes, certifi¬ cates, national bank notes and securities other than checks and drafts. The sill: threaded paper, adopted in 1885. will be used for existing designs of said notes, certificates and securities until the supply shall have been exhausted, after which the new paper hereby adopted will be used for all obligations of the United States, except checks and drafts.” The paper for United States notes, national bank notes and certificates, is cream white bank note paper. Its dis¬ tinctive features consist of localized red and blue silk fiber incorporated in the body of the paper while in process of manufacture, so placed either as to form side a per¬ the pendicular stripe on of center portraits or vignette of each note and other obligations. The distinctive paper oi similar quality, with each therein water mark, U. S. T. D., so placed that it tnay show upon each separate check or draft adopted in 1885 for United States checks and drafts, will be contin¬ ued in use for that purpose. It Quivered. Visitor—“The wind seems to shake that scarecrow over there a little. I’ve noticed it quiver two or three times.” Mr. Suburb—“That isn’t a scarecrow. That’s the hired man working for fony dollars a month and board .”—Street & Smith's Good News. I Lost My confidence, was all run down and unable to work—in an extreme condition of general debility, when 1 was told that Hood’s Sarsaparilla -waft iuftt what I needed. As a drowning man graaps at a straw I decided to try this medicine, and to my great surprise, from the first day I began to improve. By the time I had finished my second bottle I bad regained my health and strength, and from that ♦ay I oan say I have been perfectly well. I have recommended Hood’s Sarsaparilla to my friends, whom I know have been benefited by it. It to in¬ deed peculiar to Itself, In that Hood’s Sarsaparilla not only helps, but It cures. H. 0. Pincocx, 49 Dele- van Street, Lambert rill#, N. J. Child run Bnjoy Tlio pleasant flavor, gentle action and sot th¬ ing effectsof Syrup of Figs, when in need a laxative and if the father or mother be cos¬ tive or bilious the most gratifying results follow its use, so that it is the best family remedy known and every family should have a bottle. The trouble is that so few men are as good as they think their neighbors should be. Malaria cured and eradicated from the system by Brown’s Iron Bitters, which en¬ riches the blood, tones t he nerves, aids diges¬ tion. Acts like a charm on persons in general ill health, giving new energy and strength. A man’s idea of being good to a woman is to give her opportunities to be good to him, F. J. CHENEY & CO„ Toledo, O., Proprs. of Hall’s Catarrh Cure, offer $100 reward for any case of catarrh, that cannot be cured by taking Hall’s Catarrh by Cure. Send for testi¬ monials, free. Sold Druggists, 75c, Van Winkle e Gin and Machinery Co., Atlan¬ Condensers, ta, Ga., manufacture Cotton-Seed Cotton Gins, Oil Feeders, Ice iVachinery, Presses, Pulleys, Tanks, Mills, Shafting, Pumps, Wind-Mills, Etc. Write for prices and disc’ts. F1TS stopped free by Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa* If Yon Have a Daughter to Educate Write to Otis Malvin Sutton, Pres. Mary Sharp College, Winchester, “the Woman’s Tenn. University Mention of the South,” this paper. a German Syrup” For Coughs & Colds. John F. Jones, Edom,Tex.,writes* I have used German Syrup for the past six years, for Sore Throat, Cough, Colds, Pains in the Chest and Lungs, and let me say to any¬ one wanting such a medicine— German Syrup is the best. B.W. Baldwin, Carnesville.Tenn., writes: I have used your German! Syrup in my family, and find it the best medicine I ever tried for coughs and colds. I recommend it to every¬ one for these troubles. R. Schmalhausen, Druggist, of Charleston, Ill.,writes: After trying scores of prescriptions and prepara¬ tions I had on my files and shelves, without relief for a very severe cold, which had settled on my lungs, I tried your German Syrup. It gave me immediate relief and a perma¬ nent cure. D G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer, Woodbury, New Jersey, U. S. A. All ABOUT CLIMATE East Tennessee’s Resources FINE * and Great m KNOXVILLE SENTINEL; daily 1 mo., 5 50c.; weekly 2 year, $1; samples 5<j. Arininy agent, for W. h. Donttlni^Stsoe^ ^ eecurtJth« denier to rend for cat.loKue. agency, and get them for you. 17*TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. iM r> TOR ni agas fo r! QeH. R5k.’£ WHY IS THE W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE CENtfgflEN THE BEST SHOE W THE WORLD FOR THE MONEY{ It Is a seamless shoe, with no tacks or wax thread to hurt the feet; made of the best fine calf, stylish of and easy, and beccwwe vet makt more thott tki» grade sawed than shoes any costing other from manufacturer, $4.00 $5.00. It equals band* to & ££ OO shoe Genuine offered Hand-Hewed, for $5.00; equals the finest French calf ever imported shoes which cost from $ 8.00 to $12.00. J DO stylish, Hand-Sewed comfortable YVelt au.d durable. Shoe, fine The calf, besi■ shoe ever offered ut this price ; same grade as cus¬ tom-made shoes costing from $8.00 to $9.00. (CO 50 and Police Letter Carriers Shoe; Farmers. all them; Railroad flnecalf, Men wear Beamless, edge. smooth Inside, heavy three soles, exten¬ sion One pair will wear a year. DO this fine price; cnlfj no better trial will shoe convince ever offered those at one WhOAV ant a shoe for comfort and service. Amu 25 and $‘.2,00 strong Workingman’s durable. Those shoe# who are very and have given them a trial will wear no other make. 33 $2.00 by and the $1,75 everywhere; school shoes they sell ara their worn the increasing boys sales show, on Off merits, $3-*00 as Hand-sewed shoe, best fi niae Dongola, verv stylish; equals French Imported Ladies’ shoes costing from $4.00 to 01.75 $6.00. for *2,50, best 82.00 and Stylish and shoe durable. Misses are the flue Dongola. Caution.—See that W. L. Douglas’ name and price are stamped on the DOUGLAS. bottom of each shoe. Mass. W. L. Brockton. Tull’s Piss The dyspeptic, the debilitated, whether from excess of work of mind or body, drink or exposure in MALARIAL REGIONS, will find Tutt’s Pills the most genial *e- ttorative ever offered the suffering invalid* “DON'T” buy a ten-cent cigar when you can get a« good a on# for FIVE cents. DON’T cigars are made of Havana cuttin gs irom 10 -cent cigars, and are the best nickel cigars In the world. If your dealer does not k cep them, send ue 6 cents in stamps and we will mail you five samples FEbt to try. W, B. ELLIS A CO., N. t „ C. W inston, SMITH’S WORM OIL Is Undoubtedly the Best, Quickest^ aud Moat Reliable Worm Medicine Sold. Athens, Ga., Dec. 8, 1877. A few nights since igave my son one dose of Oil, and the the next time day he passed 16 large At same I gave one dose to little girl, four years old, and she passed from 4 to 15 inches long. • W. F. Phillips. Everywhere. 2S Conte. HOME 1A Thoroughly Tauoht by M AI L, Circulars frea. Bryant’s College, 457 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y.