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DAILY NEWS st NDAY - ----- APRIL 27. liC9 UIMEVA JOKUAX, moPKIETOEw jolfX B.lll'SsET. KAir Thk bmoui Peabody-Marttnl rirte U a hammerlefw on, a indeed are all th UumI patent. The laleat. and aaid to t the uijt superior weapon known. b. the -:per' rule or, gtm.i rViWWWrer nuMWpSiSttrUiO lunp-lu her hAnd. The . I ...... ... f-r-.l iUrklltM.4 buk lie kJlOWM lT1 of lUriVtTekly'that'GurKO Wil liam Cdrii rT wot A& faror of giving Uea. Grant a third presidential term, although, ha pouJra him .an hoiiet and patriotic man, who cannot be u p.vtel of atiy dUudnorable design. Mr. turt'n believes that a situation which, aciut the conservative tradition of two term only, compel the ele-lion of A soldier aa chief magi-irate to save the government, insidiously tend t vus(oru the publn uent presddeney. muni 1 to periua- Tut awrage rate debt will be only ujon the funded 4.4 on the 1st of August, after the completion of the re funding proceaa, against the averago rate of d.4 in iSiii. The improvement in the rate ha been - per cent., am! the decrease of the fuuded debt al-out threo hundred id ity million dollar. lora in the annual interest charge of the debt, uH.WV,u O. Meanwhile the oouutry haa vastly increased in real wealth, and our boiuU, hi h were largely held in Europe, hae bveu brought borne and axe uearly all b Id by our own citixeu. of Tut J esriel ordered to no detained by the Hnglih Board o Tradw, uudtrr the merchant shipping cl of i;Ctf, oo account of alleged defect in hull equipments, or machinery, only five were found safe, aud ouly two are txmaidered to have U."vu unproerly detained. Thirty-seveu of the f .n" were reported by the crew, and of iheae thirty-live were found uns-u'c. neventy-cighl vemcls were detained for overloading of improper loading. Ttil resolutions pasl at the meeting held at Cooper Institute, New York, Wednesday evening, fur the purpose ol extending aid lu the colored wiuigranU from the South, w ere eeliugiy in tetuerate ami Illogical, a wa also the letter read from William Lloyd Garri--n, whi h, iu iolenc of alme, Kftmled any of hi ebullitions during pro-lavrry time. The very small collection taken up, only SA iuui.at ed that the thoughtful gentlemen who attended tire rusting, doubt lee for a good purpose, did not raro lo'inuiit their c-untributiona to u-h ioleut aui indiscreet tvtrrrelrv ra-e Epifw opal Chun'h ou il roadway. N'-w York, w hi-h ww lor many years lookevl ajHjii as the fashionable rhurch par e-xeeilcuce, rwo jut leeu tfiu.uu i pated from a Ui.iUiidetH w Inch haaliecn hanging orer it iuce 1H, as likewise from floating obligations amounting to 7,wX, incurred ty the ere-tiou of iraX' ripttoua from the coug regal ion, dur tug lha box two Sundava. tlie ainoiinttt ranging from fV to ?1,. Hon. t'lrtrk un N. Porter, a brother of the rec tor. gave to, w bile eeral other wtlihy UMmters gave The Ni lusd Census of lUlliiiiore give sd,iu t-hildren and youth of the school aire Lei ween 5 and 1 vears. Ilv the U-tl United Slalea census, in a popula tion of a,iVs 1, there were li,7oMoU ehlldren of the school aire, equal to one in each 2.77 of the total population. On this baa ;s the school census n takes the total population of the city to be 2to.l which I much lower than the musx careful Independent estimates give it a, or, indeed, than of the oilicial cetisuh of 170, which made the population of the city act.00i, to say nothing of the local rviaus stiu: ukt-u, wlmh in creased it to over Jou.ouu. !o it i cle.u that ail the children have uot eoine to ' the surfaeci Many tf them; it is pre sumed, were in Ueir little tied. THt IIDtBbHOnDTIXEURA Plf. Ctermany baslen Irving tho experi ment of underground leleraplw, aud onus uut a grwU SUcctswi. It was in 1S75 that it was first proposed to con noex tae chief cvutrea of commerce and the fortrtswesby underground cables, the tlrst wlro was sunk between Ikr lin and Halle. It ha worketl perfe tly ever since, and mean while simibu linm have beii laid connecting the Ital with I-'ipsie, Frankfort. trloirTe and many other proiuineut pla.-cs AWut tour millnn and a half dol lars have thus far been icnt, and the Keichatag haa reveully voUsl an- otner nail million, w Inch w ill tx usd In connecting tho towns awl hnrls.rs along uie lialtic. W hen tho whole i earned out Germany w ill lecrow ed liy two jrroat m.dn ewbiei, tdretch- mg iroin rvonigsoerg n the - o rtli u btraaburg In the South and from 11am- iurg in uic u'irinwtsi U) ltlirHtn hi the southeast, lnteretinj; at Iterliu with a numbar of branch lines- nil e.'frctuatly rut oH from dauuure by thunderstorms and well protrs-i! from Interference by either wanton mischief- makers or rowing enemies. i iik attention oi tneciuniry, wcary a it is of the usele congressional d haieon tho army tall, has been arrested by the forcible p,ecb of Senator Ia it. With one exception, all of the New l ork jou rival make it a text for favor- u or unnvoranie eonunent. the TimeKtrue to it organic mission. And In It nothing to applaud. It fails to perceive that it differs from that of any vier I'v-iir- -Tl. n ueilOUIirM II US being neither Independent nor impar tial. The Herald points to it a shovr- lng the superiority of reasoning to rant, and of moderation to the oratorical swing of eicird partisan. The World considers thai the Senator's "Judicial entenoee" show what the contest really means, and the Sun deuns that he make plain the abserdlty of UarUeid shrieks of revolution. Tbe Tribune, which alone la silent, probably reserv ed itself for cjiaxacierlstlc, u not a greet, effort SffJ. . K An Evening- IdjL At Uiis season of the year every wo man is seized with an unnatural ambi tiou to have the stove tilled with coal just belore retiring lor me nigau Hits uui.f course, inin-um i viuri tv. and tie lord ol thenianp isfcoui- nuiii.led loGbsvenu wme iu,ir oji- m r-L f . At . - .. kll tude of bVceUr to fdl iJ?le kndwa, il u utV' to irgu bvwf the uaatier and iiQuN her to laievevthe fir will atav in until uiormuK, leaue he has irml that beiore : - he reluctantly pick up the scuttle and starts tor the -ellar with a shudder. His wife lights inin down, and then, f.r noiu0 uiiKiiuwn reason, start up V - - - t - ioi wliAre me coai w locausj, su ne inaJie no luaa, uui utuvu io i n " Ashecaii. Wucu he arrives where he thinks Lite cwl ouiit lobe, he bugius to levf for it with nis feet. He hually Unds it, and Uieu he puts down l lie scuuie and searches lor the .hoel. He soon nwv'i it, and scoops up a lot oi coal, only to asceruiu Uiai me w - Hereabouts ol mc iouitie is a mys terv. IHiwu g-e tno sitovel wuu a "gosh, blame it,' and search Tor thei scuttle is started. He kicks all arouna,' und feeis hi-s way back along the wall. After a diligent search of nw minutes, Ue n u Is ttn scutlie, ami kcejw Ins foot against H, so tnat it can t fcd up anaj wmk away. Tuen be is uuaule to nnd. the shoveu After he gets both be begin to shovel in as last k he can, but about three qnancrs or every auovelful' is spilled over the side ol tue scuttle aud on tho tloor. lu vain he look fbr a match through all hi pockets. It is runny that" a maicu can never found at sUcii a. Utne. thinks of screcs ning tor assiUance, buu hix wile is way up-slairs, and won t hear him. He works away, and, by scoopiug the -oal up with nis tiugeis, h- sii gels enough to keep the hre kfoiug till morning. Then he starts lor uie steps, bat he bus got o turned arouud mat, instead or reaching them, he arrives at the meter. This eanses him to yelp out some thing aud start back ; when half-way avrosM he smashes his nose against a KMiii, and sovs more stars than the l-v-rsnim has eer seen. He gets so mad Hi.. :iMer he has solaced his none with hi iiaiiu. he rushes trauticully forwant and lalls on a Utrrel whieii is lying down, if the word be s"rmissible. ana rolls over it, the evw upsetting ami rolling down his shirt front aint in his x . i if tlien rushes arounl and yells lire. It ih usrk he cun t find uie steps. Hi wife doesn't hear him; but after sururieut time has olajoel, she giH-s, down with a light. Arriving at the top ol tho stairs ii shmus: -Why iton't you hurry up : what's the mailer Willi you, nuyhow, yu iil slow -pok.e t ' dum you woman, you - - " lKn't you uilk U uie that way, you houriios old grow ler, w Ueu 1 lae my lite out for ou. Just onug thai coil up here liveiy, or I'll locsv you down . ncrc ail mghu " And thn he vets mal that he ac tually lauglis and gels )nsKl-iiatnrisl, liils i he h-uule h.xcs the lire, and retire-, lor th mgbt. Dixie's LauU. I'lm oricin of "Drxie.H IjuuI" is thus iven: hen slavery existod in New 1 rk, one "1'ixy." ow neii a large tract of land on Manhattan Island and a lar?e nuuitter ul Haves. The incrase of tue bo i H ion seutijuont, causel an emignt tioji of the slavoo to more thorough anil s.smi ri: sht e sts'tions; and the ue i:roes wuo wore thus uent otl many iH-iiig brn there naturally lookini U. k to lueir old homos, w here they had livel in clover, with letlimcs of re gret, as they could not imatfiiie any place like Pixy's. Hence it he-aino synonom us with an idwil loaliiy, couihiiiiu ease, eorntort and material happiness of every deH4-ription. In tlio-c ilsys negro singing and minstrel sv were in their infancy, and any sul """" - Miriit into a ballad . a. . . '. . . 1 I... it .11. iiwil I case wuu "iixie. It was hrst set to music and iiitrtxluced as a soiiif bv iau Liiuiieu, a clever ana i-oi uiai ne gro comtuedian, author of seeral pieasiug nero mchsiies. n was sung m.ew iork, and assumed the pnpir Uons or a song there. Its origin ha. Imsii deseritoi us Southern, but su h is not the case. Purtng any time w ithin the last eightv vears tue term "Pixie i-in l lias leeu in use w ith rk b)ys w hile engaged in the the game of .U4.' A roe tie Itllk. He walked up to the bar and called for a cigar. The man in attendance laid out a oox, from winch ho selected one, put it into his mouth, ami hud down nve cen is. ue was about to light it when tho bar-lender leaned over and said : "Five cent, please." "1 just gave you rive cents.". 1 know you did, went on the otl her. "but that is a ten-center." Ihe young man lelt through his clothes, but he coirtdn t liud anv more- money. I I !. L I I 1 - . .. on u njiTe u put that on Uie atate. "e keep none, tr, resiioivded the bar-tender, it- ! . "wii, now, you cam uet i m square, and as I haven t monev enough to istv ...ii fo . ... . J oo in mil, i it jumi cut cu cigar in halves. ue took out a kmie and cut 1... :.. : i ii. - me nai in me imuuie, ai the same time ottering one to the man behind the oar. "There" vonr other five -ents "That ain't business; I want inoi.ev. ou uo waui iiionev 7 uiu-ricd tlie other with einph:isis. 'es, I do." I v.. . . . H ... ... - li'u nitui monev more itian auv thing else in tin- world " I tio; it's U I w ork for." "Would you be willing u work verv hard ? " ver- " Vt, sir." "Well, 1 know where thev want i.v 1,,1 ... .l I - ikmii nifY w in ici ve a com iulssiuu of jer cent. ' Ihe lar-teuder luui. bv this time, for gotten all alMHit the Ulllisid .r ci-rar ii you think you could get me a chains T no said. "IH I think so? Of course I do ! I know iL yiv Uncle is the oronrw.lr..- ' Have another cigar." 1 he elgax w as irtmntl lighted, after which the bar-tender went on : "What aro you going to drink ? "tix- me a leer." He sw allow ed the beer nrettv oui. kl v After he laid the kUimiIu W II hit rM Til m r L . ei mat ne reu rather eh 1 1 lei 1 ; tht th. issr was rather cooler than he at lirst anticivttct it wonld le. VI . I "u" on uuio nometning to warm you up7 ow, how would a hot wins kv rot " rlrst rate; let'e have one." He swallow sl it. W ined his month ami went on : .sow snout this business. I )wliov they ruarautee von somethtnir lik i-rr . , ami yeti nave to put in no capi tal exee your time and brain. It s 7 I a ' . " uie, easy worlC: all you have to do is to waiK into a OSrlor a.L- i.. .i... . noii-w, miii in ner vou would like her to l.uv from vou a His 1 m.. I t -v f I. n I. . . 1 . tory oi i-atagtmia, in seven volume - fiv rr oiuine. ineu vou trot nm. quarter 17..i. Isn't that go.! tutv for ten minute talkinr?" The tsT-tender didn't renlv iTIt in I ii a bH lino for the man who' had duped him. The Utter dodged the well-meant airK rn nn purnner. which almost t.olc me k non oil the door. Rue Lnmardof. A well-known anecdote of La mart in win serve to show how street some time get their name in Paris. About ine uiciiemi street In Pari ra ihui which since lHt lias horn the nsm oi vam ffrei. writer, llefore tf. Hnurn. fall . . l . .... w V. wm UK.fuan'flV- III JIIIV It Mr .. iu iwquwuara. aud amomr it i. -. mm uuiuwuiwu a clever vou n rutin tr "uiimu, wno oauKl with: a deadly hatred Its decidedly vulgar name, but liked his studio too well to move. When the revolution of Febru aryt'jarine, mrreau sat up all night pai thing stmst signs of the official sort, andTat erlyfdawii he was QUt witb a Iladdertiirtliig thorn up at tlto.'corriers. Thddsrellera who naa gone m uea. oh the lttie Coquenard wakenod-tcr find Jtheiiaelves living on the Kue LAiUfr- tineL' but there was no protest, "3aini Alphonse de Parny" being the most popular of the chicls of tho new repub lic, and from that day to this the street has kept its name. - As-Laiirvrtine used to sav, 44 My najhe HHJ replaced M. Ou quenard s on a street sign; that is all that came of the revolution of Februa ry." ' Intmersfoii of 4lored Baf lta. From the St. Ixuls Times-Journal. An episode -of the to' lioonville was .he immersion of the colored Jlap tlM. It was on Sunday afternoon.'and an aw ful dav. Tlie wind ble Wand boat collars were" turned up and gloves w ere in order. Ne rly l.OMh people stoxl uion tho river's bank to w itness tho eerenionv. The atidience did not have long to wait, for a procession was seen approaching, "not with banner aud drum," but two by two, headed , by a Call, weird man in priestly garb, and all with solemn countenances and singing only a negroes can sing plaintive ami minor: "Come on, my partners in distress. My comrades through the wilderness." The singing cexsed as the prooessipn approached the water's edge. A colored brother otfered a fervent prayer with clasped hands. Now pardon but its effect was somewhat marred, for upon the ringers of the clasped haids were two enormous brass rings. Aj; hearty amen followed, and the priestly-garbed mm advanced into the water, cane iu hand, and the singing again commen ced, this time loud and clear: Koll, Jordan, roll, lis water mighty cold. It purify de soul Roll, Jordan, roll. Your correspondent buttoned up his coat closely around his nock, puXletl his hat rirml- over his eyes, walked slowly to tho water's edge and silently gazed. Iu exactly fifteen minutes by the watch, the " tall, weird man" had buried forty con verts, both men and women, be neath the icy waters of the Missouri " ianges." A Pre-lIltorle Rare. Many curious discoveries have Iv-hii made in the belt that stretches from the racific to the Great American insert, but w hat follows apiieaxa to be new in the anthropology of the country: A rwsideut of Richmond, (iranl county, New Mexico, roce-nv had' occasion to dig a collar. Just below the surlace he came upon tho ruins of an'adolie struc ture, and six feet further down unearth ed two skeletons, olio that of a child and the other that of a full grown per son. The remarkable thing about the adult skeleton was a protuberance lar ger than a hen's egg, and more oblong in shape, which was fastened like a horn to the back part of the skull. On the child's skull was a similar, but smaller grow th. Both skeletons were taken from niches in a stone wall. Tho i ; rant county Herald is inclined to think that the w hole pre-historiu race to which the specimens belong had tho protulaT ance, n sort of rear nose done up in bone. A M. r.tnM Observatory. Speaking of the proposed observatory to be erected at the foot of the cone of Mount Etna, at a height of 1,)0 feet. Prof. Iangley states the advantages this elevated 'site will afford in solar physics research. He expressed the earnest hope that something similar to the Ktnean station, though even less elalorate in its equipment, may be soon established in this country, which has sits fully equal to that selected by Italv for every astronomical purjoae. If 'we wait, ""he says, " for such a dis- 'ii.mteysh ratnuletion of the Lick gathered by European observers beforo we are on the held. Patti's Girlish Tastes. Whon Adelina Patti was a very little girl sho was extremely fond of niusic and act ing, and would, at night, after being put to bed, pet up and secretly enact, for her own pleasure, the scenes which sue naa witnessed at the theater. "A red -lined cloak of inv father's, and an old hat of mv mother's." she savs. served me as costume. and thus I acted. danced and chirped barefooted, but with romantic drapery all through tho operas. Applause and wreaths were not lacking either, for I oersouated mv au diences, applauded, and threw bouquets at myself bouquets made of old news papers." An Enolisu Notion ok American Happiness. The London Truth, of the Id of April, says: Mr. Sothorn, after a successful engagement here, returns to America in a iortnight. lie will have as a traveling companion the Duke of ueniuort, who contemplates visiting the States." What iov amomr New iorncrs wnenareai pukh appears on the scene ! Juil Before Dhwu. Fmui the San Kraiu-lsco Post. "Al! Heaven docs indeed the wind to the shorn lamb." natheti. cally ssid old Mrs. Dlifendorfer the oth er evening at u tea fight, afler nutting away her twenty-eighth cup of Young Hyson. "Why, what do vou mean?" " on know that voting "widow. Mrs inneu. wno live across the sfrpot fram T Well, she has nothing but sorrow. trouble and distress for the past live years, hirst, her father was killed bv a burglar; then her mother married nigger-minstrel; after that she had the yenow lever and small-pox together: and next her husband fmilod aiwl vho nao 10 uiKe m wasiiimr. It was nrfW.f lv- d read ful. The poor woman nearly went crazy. She was iust beirinnim t r.. up a nine again, when her brother was . " . - " " sem u to uie penitentiary for lifo Ur.H iiuaiiv, last moniii ner husband died in .:...!. i . ., . . - . vy a ni, ana the very next dav her Imbv choked to death ou a gum-drop.' "Gra cious! the iioor thing! wasn t it just terrible? Every laxly believed isiio'd commit suicide thou; and she would have done so, too, but last week some lmdy providentially coaxed her to go to a church-raflle ami what do von vnn- jwtse happened ? " "What, for lleaven's ake, what? "vhv. she won a nil skin s-u que! " l ou don't mean it ' ne aid, though iierfectlv snlendid : came wiiuin an inch of the timr Tho uarKest hour is just before daw n after . uv an. .nw, lsn l it 7 An Interesting Remln!eenee. A -ew ork lawyer thus toll hnu- i resiueni fierce made an enemv r.f James (tordon Bennett, the founder of the New l OLk Herald: 1 was in Plerce'M room when Bennett got his conire. He had been to Knmnn and tried to get-in to society there, and was fioen me coin snouider. lie mftde up his mind that he would control the united htaten irovernment and mmnoi England to receive him. He came to asiuiititon soon after Pierce's eler Hon. hen the campaign began he fa- orei ooii, but turned around fbr i ierve an soon s he saw how things vi ere drifting. After Pierce wan in augurate! Bennett came to Washing ton and sent his money lavishly, and made a claim for the 1-! The Southern element declined to Imvo anything todo with him. One inont- inx.when I was sitting with Mr. Piereo Bennett came iu and laid. "Mr. ivmi. dent, I insist on having an answer to my ietition." Pierce, replied: "Mr. Bennett, I will be unable to annoint you to auy office whatever." Prom that time forward ihelleruiri editorials beaded !Poor Pierce." Most of thiB-,orth western tt&toa on now product five female lawvvrs to thri LA CREME 1EA CIIROSflQIXES. What the Alleged Wits of Paris Find te say n their Newspapers. Thiarherel3'textnal nd showsrell ne proaijfie4 tjf tie coniii,?re moojen A miiiuter buys aprdperty verysotm siflerabo; where thare s the trees' and tno ai) I in h uiiauiiiv. ,ll uu i i When the contract is signed, the seoer41hfnni?f him says of a tone good-fellow, in light Mxl-fellow. in light- ing- cigar: " I suppose Jhat ypu luve some bir,4s in tho Wopdand tsinne lishes in tbe river'., f will giVeyou the "i.ddrdss where 6ne procui es himself that. It is some place in the Faubourg Saint lartin." Beautiful sentimental lyric, which really will bear thinking oyer : Speak kindly to my lather Perhaps he may be yours I It was asked why X, a notorious ma terialist, never gotdrunk. "Because," replied a friend, "he knows that there is a God for drnnken men to take care of them." X. is the most furious of advocates of equality The othe r. -day his valet -brought him sit virtg x 4 A gentleman left a letter, a this mil sai.l to cive it to my master, 'Your 'masfer,' -yx)d blasted aristo crat," yelled X., with a frightful whack on the uose, " can I juever knock it into your head that all rnm, are born free and eiiual ? "Vbat uid I hire you for if you're going to talk, about ' masters ' ? " Frederick William IV. of Prusski once upon a time, stepped at a little railroad tjtatiou where a deputation headed by the, Mayor of the adjacent village awaited hiui"tv ith an address. Just as the Mayor braced himself up to deliver hi oration, "a neighboring asa did sing both loud and clear." A frightful silence ensued, but the King did not long delay in breaking it with Uie paternal and graceful remark : ' Que at a time, gentlemen ; one at a time," Your conduct, sir, has been despi cably inhuman. When you heard that X., "vour most formidable competitor for the appointment, had died suddenly, leaving a wife and nineteen small chil dren, you seemed to say, ' So much the better!" ' "I never said anything of Ihe sort." " Perhaps you never said it, but you thought it all" the same." ' I thought it? " ' Oh, yes, you thought it. I would have thought it had I been in your filace, and 1 tind your conduct despica ly inhuman yes. sir. despicably in human." Man who is endeavoring to strike the other man for SlO bill Saturday at 1 o'clock " Now, old fel", lei's have the X. You know what tho Bible says ' Help one another.' " His friend, with a sad, sweet smile Oh, yes, I know ; but, 1 say, you know, you're always the 'another,' you are." A Radical presenis himself to have registered the birth, of his son. The ;lerk notes the names, Ac, and hands tho proud father the book and pen, say ing, " sign your name here." " I don't write." " Then make your mark put a cross here." ' sJoiT, my political convictions pre clude me from making any such con cession to a dishonoring- superstition." It was in the golden prime of Nestor Roqueplan's administration of the Op era when a danscuse who was not qual ified to cast a slii'dow was introduced to him. "Well, what do vou "think of her. eh?" said a friend, when the artiste had depart'!. " What do I think of her ? I tell Vou if I saw her and six others like her in a dream, and I was the Government, I'd whoop all the spare corn in the country up into the elevators and granaries p. d. o... that's all." i i nejury nnngs in a verdict ofgumy. wim exieuuaiing circumstances," a- gainst a mail who has cut his twin sis terinto little bits, and the judge prompt ly senus nun up ior uie. "Ah, my poor sister," says the pris oner, wiping away a tear, " I had not hoped to be able to mourn thy loss so long." Once upon a time Lamartine happen ed to call upon the painter, Couture, who has jusr died. As he was leaving the room Couture. asked him for an au tograph. " ith pleasure," replied the poet, and taking his album quickly, he wrote: " Received from Thomas Couture, one smrill picture Alphonse de Lamar tine." Within the mouth the artist paid his debt, according to tho author of the story, which has been told in Various forms Of every 'great man since the earlv halT'of the sixteenth centu'rv. Mine. X's husband has made his' for tune in the iewelry business, and the other day when sho. commits a slip of the tongue she' says blandly : " Excuse me, that was a lapsus lazuli." A medicine whoadores to take aK hand was feeling the other day the pulse of one of his sicks. "Ace, deuce, tray, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Jack, Queen, King," he c6unts tranquilly. The sick regards him verv astonished. " Do not make attention, 1 have but littlo the time of playing, and that makes me illusion. A lawyer charged with the defense of a rnfftan of unprepossessing appearance depicts his client as the image and em- Douiment oi an the peaceful virtues, when, lo! the prisoner, seated iust be side him, begins to stretch himself un easily and gives signs of impatience. - l es, gentlemen ot the jury, as gen tie as a lamb, and as incapable of in spiring terror as hi, there, policeman hold him tight ! " Ihe young 1-erdinand, whose chain hers arc furnished in the costliest man ner and the best of taste, goes to one of his trietxis and says in a tragic manner: ' It's all over. Sh has refused me. I cannot bear to live and know she is another s. Look under the head in ir uiciucs in me papers some ot these days. I shall leave you all mv thinsrs to remember ine bv. Thinkinir ubon ner u rives meioaeain. A couple of weeks later his friend (who has had the papers sent up to him in bed every morning) meet him smo- Kinjr a coirtrtUrplatlve cigar. Uh, i say, says the prospective le gatee, timidly; "non t vou ever think or her. vou know ? " A handsome younjr woman steps ont i oi a coach and savs to the drivers What do I owe you?" rtr i a . . nireo iranes. vour lacivsnip. savs the coachman. " Keep the change." savs his fare. nanning him a nve-iranc piece. "Bully for vou. old gal!" savs the jarvev, relapsing into naturalness. -XiKlfer" In (!. From an Enrlihu-c.mnn'8 Letter. A few dav ago one of my sister's Kaffir men was very impudent. He was outs , u" doing something, and when my sister told him to come in he would not. but stood staring at her. She called him three or four times, but he would not come, so she told him she would get a whip at him, whn all of a sudden ne ooueu, ana my pisier ana myself I ran auer him to eaten mm. j. caught uim ry me shirt, ana just as we were going 'round the cow-shed (more was a very high rose hedge at the back) he pulled from me and was over it like a shot. Thin m v sister ' told him ho I would send a uoliceman after him o I which hei was rather frightened and soud I?'!1'? anbthr. ..,ow, you hear your came back, but would not come in th i I old grandlkmer duote ShakaanarA t" caught him by his jwool, dragged him up the steps into the kitchen and whip ped him. He snatched the whip from her and tried toH&realptt. There hap so Mary took it undTjave him two pened to be a TOllinzpin close at hand, thte i knocks oxer the head. Ever sine that' he has worked wonderfully well. Xou.y?ould have roared with laughter had yqu seen All, especially seeing uW down.xhe garden after as ever we could, and the way-Mary dragged him into the house by his wool. We were all alone at the time, as papa and my brothers were out. The Eng-Hsb in Afg-hsntstan. The English clo-not appear to be far ing at all well in Afghanistan. The ne gotiations withTakoob Khan are hang ing fire. Snow storms are interfering with the communication ,jvith India, and the border tribes are on unfriendly and hostile terms with the English, and prepared to rise at any moment. The general sentiment in England appears to be in fayor of compromising with Yakoob Khan. Compulsory Education. The Illinois Legislature has adopted -a very sensible compulsory education bill. , It compels ail children to attend school at least twelve weeks during the' year. Children so attending are given a certificate. No child without this cer tificate can be employed at any work or in any business. It is thought that a provision like this will persuade pa rents and guardians to see that their! children and wards attend school, since they can then put them to work and pocket their pay. Fever and Famine. . The United States consul at Taugiers gives the latest information of the terri ble famine, combined with cholera and typhus fever, now raging in Morocco. The daily deaths i from typhus in the city of Moroe-eo range from 200 to 250. So great was the starvation and suffer ing, when the consul wrote, that parents ate their children, j In other places the dead were devoured by the living. Bod ies were half buried or wholly unbaried, and the atmosphere was poisoned by the horrible efliuvla arising from them. Nearly half of the European residents had succumbed. The Moslems would buy the garments of the dead, and, put ting them on, would themselves soon fall victims to the pestilence. Tennessee's Bonds. The New York holders of Tennessee bonds have reconsidered their former refusal of the compromise offered by the Legislature of Tennessee of new bonds at fifty cents on the dollar for the old ones. The original act passed by the Tennessee Legislature funded these bonds at 40 per cent, while the bond holders claimed 60 per cent. This act was reconsidered by the Legislature and 50 per cent, allowed. The bond holders, however, remained obstinate and refused to surrender. An explana tion of the resources of Tennessee, just made before them by a delegation from that State, seems to have changed their views, and they now agree to the pro posed terms. The matter has to "be submitted to the popular vote for in dorsement, and it is by no means sure that the people will agree to even those terms ottered by the Legislature. i Iron Railway Cars. The hard times (jf the last few years have taught the ' railroad companies some wholesome lessons of economy, but they still have imucll to learn. The economy of laying; down steel rails in stead of iron "especially such iron rails as have been made: of late years is now very generally recognized by railroad managers, and on most roads having any considerable traffic steel has been, or is rapidly being, substituted for iron. Iron and steel are also destined to enter largely into other usas than road beds. It has been demonstrated that an iron freight car, made of tubular iron, while weighing much less, will carry a heavi er load than wooden cars of the same size, and so far as they have been tried, wear much longer. The cost 'Is,' of course, somewhat greater than that of wooden cars, but there is a great saving of dead weight to be hauled, a saving in the number of cars required to do the same volume of business, a saving in the wear of engines and rails, a sure saving in repairs and a probable saving1 in renewals of cars. Advice to Leg islntures. Charlotto Democrat. It would have been better if the Leg islature had adjourned at the expiration oftW days.(the constitutional limita tion,) for nearly; all the Acts that are considered imprudent and complained of most, were passed the week that some of the legislators worked without pay. During that week bills were rush ed through that could not have passed the previous week when there was a full representation in both Houses. Here after let Legislatures adjourn at the ex piration of the fixed term. The Foolish Charlotte Democrat. Xeirro. It is proposed in Mississippi and Ixju isiana that as fast as the negroes leave those regions to I fill their places with Chinese laborers.! Once introduce Chi nese, Irish and other white laborers into the South, and then the foolish ne gro will stand a poor chance. He had better stay with and stand by his white friends while he has an opportunity to uoso. Jine miserable slandereres of the Ssoutn at the North, and fanatics e-tPm- erally, after fooling several thousand negroes to move from comfortable homes to Kansas, and who are now s arving to deaths propose that Congress s mil feed and clothe them. Not a diiY.o should be voted for such a revengeful, poi (Jill uatli Shipping- Sinrrfon From Xorth Caro lina. "Wilmington Review. There are but few of this community who are aware of the extent of th tn;. geon fisheries near this city and to what extent shipments are made to Northern markets. A day or two ago Mr. John Carroll shipped one hundred and twenty- nine sturgeons whose atreVeito weight, minus heads, backbones and tails, was fourteen thousand pounds. He also makes shipments oftrt-anin' and on the same dav sent off three hm', I dred and sixty of the hOrhey-babks. U rand father Lleknhing-Ie's View of It. Grandfather Lickshinsrle throw flrk.-,- the paper yesterday in disirunt. nd claimed: It makes me sick, by grarious; it makes me sick I" hat makes vou sick, crarwifaf h' asked James. Why, here' 8 another coachman away with his employer's daughter." a V ; """v 13 oo uaa, said James. And they tret married thp minnio they are out of sight of her father's house." "The poor, silly thing." "Well, I should sav 'the thing !' I should also say the sap-head. the shallow pate, the crazy, crack brained imbecile," continued grand father, in a towering rage. "The poor creatures aro int fVr.r boarding school." said Jamea k their heada full of romantic " "W ho's just from board i Tier rhrwil ?' yelled grandfather. "Ihe poor, silly girls are." "Wfuys talkln' about cirls?" vollorl the old manra littlemore savagely than Deiore. "it's the coachman I'm jihit tin' at. If I had a son. an' he wan a good coachtnan. an' he would disgrace himself by runnih' away . wii h his em ployer's giddy laughter,. I'd spend my petf8i6n money in riotous iivin'. an'T Wouldn't leave him nn rod ant in mi. SUNDAY SENTIMESTT. When the flowers are full of Heaven descended dews, thTlways1iatig their heads; but men hold tnairs tnefnigner the ,-more of Jthr f1?rld 3fYu getting prouder as, they get full. p-In'the depth f the sea1 the water is 'still j the heaviest grief Isl borne in si lence ; the deepest loYe fldwa through the eye and touch ; the purest joy is un speakable ; the most impressive preach er at the funeral is the silent one whose lips are cold. He who climbs above the cares of the -world and turns hts"ftree to his God," ha has found the sunny side of life. The world's side of the hill is chill and free zing to a spiritual mind, but the Lord's presence gives a warmth of joy which turns winter into summer Notning is more certain than that hu man conduct produces its effect upon human character, and determines its future weal or woe. Virtue and up rightness give the pure heart and clear conscience, whose working is an ample reward for effort and sacrifice. Vice and wrong inevitably leave their marks upon the soul. and tend to misery. A little girl was asked : " What is the sacrament of marriage ? " The poor child, who had learned her lessons by rote, got a little mixed, and 1 gave the answer to another question, sis follows: " It is a state of torment intd Which souls enter to prepare "for another and better world." The priest, who had observed but not experienced, simply replied with a sigh : "For aught I know, you may be perfectly right," and Went on with the examination. i v .We picture death as .-comiag to de-i stroy; let us rather picture Christ as' coming to save, We think of death as! ending; let us rather think of life as beginning, and that more abundantly. We think of losing; let us think of gaining. We think of parting ; let us! think of meeting. We thihk'of going' away ; let us thinfc of arriving. And as thevoice of Death whispers, -"Yon must go from earth," let us hear the voice of Christ saying: "You are but corning to me I " Norman McLeOd. It is said of the late Asa Otis, of New London Conn., who lelt nearly $1, 000, 000 to the cause of foreign missions, that probably no man in the United States spent less for personal adornment than he. He was never shabby or untidy in appearance, but he clung with a love surpassing that of a woman to a linen suit of scant measure in the summer time, and a suit of pre-historie pattern clothed him in the winter season. He kept no horses, and did his marketing himself, carrying home his purchases in a large willow basket. Ml'XDAY ROUTS. A movement is on foot in Kentucky for the erection of a Protestant Episco pal Cathedral. A Rome dispatch says the difficulties preventing an understanding with Ger many are probably ended. Several re formers who separated from the Church because of the proclamation of infalli bility, have secretly submitted to the Pope. A great international Catholic bank has been established, with its head quarters in London. There is already a temporary branch in Pans. It was "al ways a favorite idea with Cardinal Pecci, and now that he has become Leo XIII, he has carried it out. For some time past there has been a very bitter feeling between the Protes tant and Catholic clergymen of St. Louis, arising from the opposition of the latter to a marriage license bill which the protestant ministers are at tempting to have passed in th Missouri Legislature. The Protestant missions of all denom inations in Italy employ 205 ministers and teachers, and report 6,340 commu nicants. There are 3,280 children in the "TAL"1" or,w wq- in .th day acuuuis. mese uguresare exclusively uie seventeen parisues in the Walden- sian v alleys. a ue iuuiuwusi iavors the one-year term, auunouu - extending the -time, " by abolishing triennialism, aud let the pastoral term he one year; and let no one be sent back for anv suhsonnent year unless, in the godly judgment of. mo piesiumg xiisnop, ne is the fittest available man. One clergyman in Lebanon, Pa., com plains that thrice within two years he has received, in lieu of a wedding fee, a scrap of paper rolled up as though it might contain untold sums of green backs, but really as worthless as, most prooaoiy, me grooms who gave them win prove wj oe. "It is a standing rule of our church,' said one clergyman to another, "for the' sexton to wake up any man that he may see asleep." "I think," returned the oiner, that it would be much bettec for the sexton, when a man o-rtou trJ sleep under your . preaching, to wakef you up:, . . A New London Catholic priest has announced mat oereatter the names! and ollences of all Romn Catholics wno nave to appear before the Police court of that city will be made known pu Diiciy in church. The Congregation- aiist says, we are not sure but that some such form of church discipline would be useful at times among Pro testants. Forty-one members of the House be long to no church," 1 are Presbvte- Ml .... r. 1 d It . V '""'"t o' re nrisiians, , are Baptists. -k cc vrtiiiuijcrs, o vniversansts, A are 4uaiters ; 1 is a Ireethinker, 1 an Epis- copalian, 1 an Israelite, 1 Optimist, 1 i unai wu, i independent. I Contrresru- nouaiisu oniy o oi toe ;sio itepresen tativas are foreign born. The new social, scientific and reliir- iou summer resort ot the Northwest. jiiuiitiioiiKa iaite farK, lies nifteen mues southwest from Minneapolis, be tween the arms of an inland lake cov ering fb.OUO acres, and navie-ahle fnr small steamers. The Camp-Meeting nBuuu uas pioitea its zz.) acres of rolling timber land, and is erecting uuiiuiuus auu omer lmnroveinanu at a cosioiw,uw. ine Association is un denominational. Claims to be tree from any speculation, putting all profits into pant improvements. L.' A i a topsy-turvy room; wife siamiiug inumpnantin the midst of uiowrecic nourishing a broom; hus band peeping from under the bed. Wife "VVill you come out now? Husband '-Be jabers no! I'll show ye2 I am master of the house. ' Rural New Yorker. Two NerniotiH. BY ACSTIN DOBSOK. Between the rail of woven brass That hides the Strangers' Pew " I hear the gray-haired vicar pass ' From Section One to Two. And somewhere on my left I see Whene'er I chance to look A soft-eyed girl, St. Cecily, Who notes them in a book. ' ' Ah, worthy goodman sound divine ' tthall I your wrath incur, If I admit these thoughts of mine Will sometimes stray to her! I know your theme, and I revere ; I hear your precepts tried ; Must5 1 confess I alsu hear A sermon at my side ! Or now explain this need I feel , This Impulse prompting me Within my secret self to kneel ! To Faith and Purity." 1 SUNDAY SANDWICHES. The lady who weirs the costliest stockings crosses the street most. God bless the girls. Whose golden curls Are not what they do seem ; But at the end of day On the bureau lay, While their owners sweetly dream. This IS The time of the year when one half of the world borrows a spade from the other. -, i atriKQLAeU-for.y.o.uxj:ea, Strike for the eheap gas of your sires, Strike for.the gis-trondoiic liars, And meter by moonlight? Atene. It sis when the robin i get into it sweetest interlude that the small bov is most tempted to throw a stone at it. 'Tis now. a idainty little bat Sits on the1maideij,'s1,cran.uni; 'Tis flaked with gay wood violets, ' A nd-pieces' tyf geranium, ' v,1 And other things too numeroun' to mention. The pedestrian who walks 500 tnlleg in ix dayB, never travels taster than a boy does when he is , diapatched to the cellar for -a scuttle of coal while a circut pageant is 'passing the house.' Now, while the festive robiu, . Above the garden chants, Matilda puts new buttons Upon the white duck "pants" Owned by her brother. One of the "gentle sex" edits the Mer iden Ke-corder. and she finds' i neces sary to's'a'v ; ''We have ih-Sfe-ted for quite a period that we wouldn't be failed "Sis'," so please put a stop to It." Now doth the golderf butterfly Over tho rural gutter fly, . Where the small boy qapt ires Win Under his cap and plus' him on a 'cotk. To religion I'm no foe,' My faith it is undiminished, I wish you, sir, to know To religion 'I'm, no foe. Next Sunday to church Til1 go That is, if my dress is finished. To religion I'm nofo, My faith is undiminished. A Belmont county, mantlwhose wife' first name is Anna, haa brought her $Z worth of stockings in the past year, aud now he calls her Hoseanna. Thd butterflies now gayly light Upon the flower red or w'hite, Our winter garments hang on peg s The Shanghai's site is ou her eggs; The paint is on the door and knobs, And Sambo, in the moonlight bobs For eels.. This is the time when tho ice-crenui peddler and the tadpole begin to show signs of activity. Sl'XDAY SALAD. Apring Love and its Consequence. Contributed to Columbus O.) Iwnioornt.; "Prettiest, Wittiest, Among all the girts ; The sweetest, The neatest, More precious than pcarN." " Industrious, Not blustrous, But modest and kind ; She's spareful, She's careful, And all right in mind." " She faints not, She paints not, Like some foolish girls ; She, pouts not. She spouts not, Because her hair etu is." "Not childish, Not wildish. Not running here, there: Not frettish, Coquettish, f-ike aoiiio young girl are." " Not wealthy, But healthy, And alarmingly smart ; A dandy With candy, Cannot win her heart." In bred honesty ought to be found among bakers, but it is not. A baritone voice is a base insinuation. New Orleans Picayune. This drawback on tobacco must refer to pipe smoking. Boston Trans. While a man . has been sitting per fectly still, we have seen his sidewalk. Boston Trans. SohaYewe; and his footstep at the same time. Now Haen Register. An exchange tells this: "The Au thors' Publishing Company sent to oim of its authors, a Tady novice, the unal galley proof. She"tfas niurh pleased, but ventured to suggest that the book might be on better paper and the pagH not quite s0 long." .Monsieur V. cdmes to police had- q"parters in alarm His danghter has been missinjar some days and he wants search made for her. "What's description?" ask an officer. "Tall, blonde; three or four vears younger than she looks !" Talmage says that every man should strive to leave tracks behind him in this world. Commodore Vanderhilt left hundreds of miles of tracks behind him, to say nothing of cars and looouio motives; - - ' . "Come gentle, spring." said thdPoHt, and she came gentle: 'oh. ves. awful gentle; thundering gentle; so to speak, she came as gentle as a. bridle mIc with a unison bur under Jts crupper Oh, yes, she "come gcntlei". If he comes just as gentle for one or two seasons more," there ori'f bonouKt of this country left to rahie a half rn of dog fennel in. Ha wkey e. ' The other day. B., invited X.. a reck1 less Bohemian, to take dinner with bitn. A few days after the mutual meal, when B. was sitting down tohiM iruiral repast X. walked in, sat rtow h at tho table nnd said to the cook: "Bridget another plate please!" And then turning to B.: "The other day vou invited me : to day it's me that's invited1 me. Turn and turn about ; see ? " Oecnlation. Yule Record. Pretty Jennie came to me, Earnest, seeking information ; " Cousin, darling, will you show What is meant by osculation?" What could mortal man as I Do in such a situation ? Father, mother,no one nigh. Liberal views, a great temptation ! Jennie is my cousin, too; oo, to please my young relation - Ah I you horrid thing ; there, now ! I referred to ooculation." Having repeatedly fallen a victim to pickpocKetx, a frequei.t traveller in the omnibus determines to go fishing for them, and placing in his pK-ket-book nothing but a piere of pi er inscribed: "'Jhata where you loole-d yourself!' he goes forth on a mi ch-frequented line. Afer a twenty-minutes' ride, dis gusted sif ho absence of any Sjxui, h leaves tho vehicle and njechanically opening nis ocket-book sees a wrap o'' blue pajiej- in it. His note was on white paper ! (Ch r I. Opening the ote , he . (tads " Same to you! Babie-. ;ue iOO hijhly pi Uexi io til it them to aujtt'ea- with Colic Flatu- leh e. etc.. when Dr. Bull's iiabv Syrup will at onoe relieve Uie m. Priced i uvuMr. my sisier rau uu uiui an i v". ct.
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