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AN KNGMSH SENSATION. 27tc Very Hard Case of Thomas Moran. [Boston Herald.] It i3 not often that a pauper-oonvict has the honor ot drawing the notice of the British house ot commons all to himself, and on two occasions. Yet assuredly the case of Thomas Moran merited the excep tional attention which it received. Wedo not remember to have come upon a more cruel and pitiable instance of the oppres sion of poverty by the law. On the 23d ult. Thomas Moran, a laborer, with a luna tic wife and six young children, was sum moned before the magistrates of the police court in Chester, the county town of Ches hire, and the center of English squirachv. The prosecuting officer of the Chester union charged this hapless workman with having willfully neglected to contribute toward the support of four of his ohildren, who were living in the workhouse at the expense of the ratepayers. All six of the ohildren were taken into the institution on Sept. 11. Two came out after a short stay, and since then have been maintained in whole or in part, by the father. Theothers remained at the poor-house, and Moran engaged to pay the authorities $2.50 per week toward their sustenance. But up to the date of the sum mons, though often asked and always prom ising, he had only handed in $3.50 all told. The prosecutor haled him before the magis trates for punishment under the provisions of the vagrancy act. The official story ran straight enough, as beseemed a page from the short and simple annals of the poor house. The defendant's plea, however, put a very different face upon the delinquency. Moran proved his inability to pay by the records of the court that was trying him. He showed that on Sept. 18, juBt one week after the ad mission of his children to the Union, the po lice found him lying in the market square of Chester bleeding from a ruptured blood ves sel, and carried him to the hospital on a Btretoher. After his discharge from the in firmary he ws for some time ao weak that he could not obtain employment. Then a hard frost set in, and threw him out of all chance of work for three months. Thus,of the eight months since September, he had pass ed nearly six in compulsory idleness. Na turally he had fallen in debt for his own sub? sistence and the partial suDport of the two children who were living with him. He owed $2@ for food and clothing. He could earn no more than $5 per week, even when employed every day, and, on the average, his earnings did not exceed $4 or $4.50 per week. The police describe him as a steady man, always ready to turn his hand to any work that presented itself. Moran closed his pathetic defense by an impressive de claration: "I asked the guardians for a tew weeks, that I might get a cottage and a few sti "ks together and take my children home. But they said I must come into the workhouse myself. As the time was just eoming on when I could get work, I did not want to do that. I'll pay regularly in the future any sum which the magistrates think I can afford." The reader will probable conclude that the worthy magistrates wiped their eyes and drew out their portemonnaies. Well, not exactly. They put their heads together, and, after that momentary formation of a pavement, the Mayor of Chester announced their decision and sentenced Thomas Moron to imprisonment for one month, with hard labor. The wretched laborer burst into tears, and cried out: "For God's sake gentlemen, give me a chance. I was never in prison in my life. If you send me there, I shall lose my work. Give me time, and I'll pay it all!"' The second appeal, like the first, fell upon deat ears, and he was removed below, still pleading for mercy. But the reporters of the press were neither deaf nor unmoved. The Chester Chronicle published a full account of the trial. The correspondents of the London journals in formed the metropolitan press of the disgra ceful decision of the Cheshire magistrates. Pubhc opinion took fire at a flash. In Chester a subscription list was opened un der the auspices of the reverend precenter of the cathedral, and a considerable sum was pledged for the relief of the imprisoned man. In London the magisterial outrage was brought up in parliament by Dr. Eenealy, on the 25th ult., the member for Stoke, and Col. Beresford, the member for Southwark and on the 28th ult. Mr. Cross, the secretary of state for the home department, although he refused to admit that the decision of the police court was indefensible, stated that he 'had thought it right that the man should not undergo the full sentence of inpnson ment passed upon him.*' Thus, through the agony of the press, Thomas Moran, ere this, has received both release and relief. As for the magistrates, we are glad to say that at the last advices they were feeling very un comfortable over the expressions of indig nation which poured in upon them from all quarters. THE REFUNDING CERTIFICATES. A Children are Crying for Them, and the Printing Presses Can't Move Fast Enough to Supply tlie Demand. [Washington Special.] Hardly five minutes during business hours pass that the treasurer does not receive a telegram from some depository asking for a further shipment of 4 per cent, certificates. There are now between five hundred and six hundred designated depositories. This list is being added to at the rate of twenty-five or thirty a day. It isimpossible to keep them all supplied. The deliveries of certificates to the treasurer from the bureau of engrav ing and printing to-day were $1,040,000, the largest yet. This would have done very well ten days ago, when there were not so many depositories, but it will go round in very small quantities. It might be said that the country, especially the banks are crying for certificates. The total amount that will be sold is $40,000,000. Al ready $14,000,000 have been taken. If the bu reau of engraving and printing delivers $40,- 000,000 by the 1st of June, as it expects to, the associated banks, who are to have all left after the 17th of June, will not get a dol lar's worth. No plan can be pursued by which the bankers, brokers and speculators can be kept at a distance. They continue to buy the certificates in large quantities wher ever they are sold. They keep up their plan of hiring men to buy for them. There are three known instances where the operatives have come to grief. One is in Baltimore, and two in this city. In Baltimore, yester day, a broker who had hired a colored man to buycertificates for him saw his employe get the $100 and vanish. Yesterday, at the treasury, a speculator had four men at work. They went the rounds two or three times. Then two or three decamped with $100 each. The speculator was watching the two others who did not decamp. At the poatoffice, yesterday, a colored man left sud denly with $100 belonging to a Colorado broker who has entered into the business of buying certificates here. The allotment for sale at the treasury was $50,000. It was all disposed of before 12 o'clock. There was a perfect jam and crush during the three hours that the sale was progressing, the line of buyers extending half way out to the ave nue. It is suspected that some of the banks are going farther than merely hiring men to buy for them. A number of cross-road postmasters have bonded for large amounts of certificates. They are in all looalities where they would not be likely to sell $1,000 of them in six months. It is thought banks or other speculators have induced them to become depositories for the purpose of buy ing them out as fast as they can receive shipments. GOING TO GIVE THE WEST A SHOW Dick Thompson About to Send a If aval Vessel to Cruise Along the Mississippi. [Washington Speoial to St. Louis Republican. This afternoon your correspondent had a conversation with the seoretary of the navy to the following effect: Correspondent"Is it true that you are to send a naval ship to St. Louis?" "Seoretary"Yes, but I was trying to keep the fact a secret. I wanted to run a vessel up the Mississippi river before any one knew what was the matter, just to aston ish the natives." Here the secretary enjoyed one of his hearty laughs. "Yes," he continued, "about the first of next week the Waohusett will leave the Charlestown, Mass., navy-yard. I have been thinking for some time of a way to give our Western boys a chance to get in the navy. They axe too poor to come East, and I am going to send a ship after them. The Wachusett is of that size and make of ves sels that axe called third class. She is about 190 feet long, with a displacement of 1,650 feet, and has a tonnage of 695. She is an old vessel rebuilt, and this will be her first cruise since rebuilding. She is a screw propeller, three-masted, square-rigged ship, and is the same one with which Collins cut out the Florida during the wax. She was designed for six guns, bat her broad sides will be taken off to give her room but she will carry two eleven-pound guns, which I think will be sufficient for all war purposes on this trip." Here the secretary again recurred to the novelty of the expedition. He said that he could not well get a man- of-war around to his home at Terre Haute, so he was going to do the next best thing, and send one to St. Louis. "Those Democrats out there in Missouri," he continued, "will swear I am using the navy for election purposes. We will have them fire a gun or two to let them kribw we mean business. No, but in dead earnest now, our Western boys ought to have a show and I think this is the best thing I have done since I have been in the cabinet. I wrote to John Simpson, of the Vandalia road, asking him to get for me some facts as to the navi gation from some boatmen. The Wachusett draws sixteen feet. A gentleman who was twenty-five, years on the river says I can get the ship up to St. Louis at this time of the year very easily., She will go there and when the river lowers she will be taken down to Cairo, where she can run all the year round. This vessel is not adapted for a regular training ship. She will serve as a recruiting ship, and when we get her full of boys she will run down the river and unload on to a regular training ship. The officers are now being selected for her." The secretary believes in making the navy popular in the West, whence it gets nearly half its officers, a fact not generally known. It is net unlikely some of these Western of ficers will be placed in command of the Wa chusett. It takes about 110 men to man her, but on this trip she will hardly have over 90 men, besides the servants, so as to make more room for the boys to be picked up along the river. Under the law, boys must be between the ages of 16 and 18 to enter the navy. They are put through a regular course of training calculated to adapt them for not only the ordinary duty of a sailor, butthe higher duties of seamanship. The Plymouth, a larger vessel, a year ago made the trip to Vicksburg and Natchez. This is the furthest up the river that a three masted ship has ever been able to go. A CALL ON TALMAGE. Ptobability that He Wtll Join the Congre gational Church. A correspondent called upon the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage in his home at No. 1 South Oxford street, Brooklyn, to inquire relative to bis alleged determination to leave the Presbyterian denomination on account of the pursuit of him by some of the leading ministers of the Brooklyn Presbytery. Talmage came in roaring with laughter. He had received from all hands the expres sion that his speech just before he broke loose from the Presbytery after his acquital was one of the best things he had delivered, although it had made his antagonistic brethren almost wilt with rage. "The Lord's field is big enough for us all to work in without striking hoe-handles," he said, "and if I am cultivating my field and tending to it in my own way, I don't see why anybody should leave the work in his field and come over to interfere with me just because I don't work as he does. Three or four ships might as well quarrel at sea because there is not water enough. The church only touches the rim of the great mass of people who need help." "Have you concluded to leave the Presby terian denomination?" asked the corres pondent. "There has been nothing settled about that yet. My ties to that denomination were never very strong, and they are weaker now than ever before, but it seems to me that the one-man power which has so long controlled the Brooklyn Presbytery has been broken. I had to meet a solid body against me when I went to that ecclesiastical court. The Lord has led me through. I was raised up so that I am not much of a sec tarian. I can't tell what church I will choose. The largest part of my congrega tion are of New England rearing, and are inclined to the Congregational form of gov ernment. When the smoke of the conflict clears away we will talk the matter over. Of oourse, it will not bepleasant for us to re main in the Brooklyn presbytery." The venerable Dr. Spear, who was Tal mage's counsel in the trial, and is one of the editors of the Independent, has fallen quite in love with Talmage, although when he did not know him so well he confesses that he called him a buffoon, and spoke strongly against him. Dr. Spear went to hear him preach on Sunday, and said that if it was necessary to testify his respect and admiration for Dr. Talmage any farther, he would change his church relations and be come a member of the Tabernacle. Wot in. the Bible. I Detroit Free Press. A resident on Brush street who had a horse to sell was directed to a citizen of Ninth ave nue who wanted to buy, and after a little talk the two made a trade. The Ninth ave nue man gave an old horse and $28 in cash for the other, and everything seemed per fectly satisfactory. In a day or two, how ever, the Brush street man returned and said: "Ton and I made a trade the other day?" "Yea, replied the other. "You are a member of the church, I un derstand?" "I am." "Well, that horse you traded with me has a spavin, and you never said a word about it. What Bort of trickery is this for a Chris tian man to engage in?" The other entered the house without ft word, but after a minute reappeared with the family bible, and said: "Mr. Blank, here is my guide and conso lation. I have read this book through and through, and if you will take it and find where a Christian man is required to point out spavins a horse trade, I'll buy you a better horse than you ever owned." The Brush street man went home with new thoughts in his head, and he has said no more about the exchange. A Neir "Excelsior." I was about half-past 7 o'olock in the evening wh en a youth created something of a sensation by passing through an Alpine -village, in a driving snow-storm, carrying a banner, upon which was in scribed the strange device, "Excelsior." His brow was sad, but his eye (according to all accounts he had but one eye) flashed like a falchion from its sheath, while he pushed on, looking neither to the right north left, but not forgetting to call loudly," Excelsior I" A first the villagers thought he had been drinking, and a policeman was started on bi track but,finding there was nothing disorderly in the boy's conduct, he was Eappy ermitted to go his way unmolested. I homes the young fellow saw the light of household fires gleam warm and cheery, although coal was away up out of all reason, as it always is in cold weather above, the spectral' glaciers shone, and from his lips escaped a sigh that was heard all over town, to this effect, "Excelsior!" Tr not the pass," the old man said "I've lived here for ninety years I'm the oldest inhabitant, an' I never saw the signs more favorable for a big storm. Besides, the roarin' torrent is wide and deep, an' if you get across you can't get back for a week, unless you go around by Babbit-hash an' cross on the bridge. Take my advice, young feller, an' stop over night you'll find the Washington right over the way, the cheapest house in town. Shall I take your baggage? The boy turned up another street, indi cating that he intended to climb the hill on the west side of the town. "Oh, Jstay," the maiden said, "an rest your weary head upon this breast." And right here the conduct of the young man became inexplicable. did not aucept the maiden's invitation, although she was comely, about 16 years f age, and evidently belonged to the best so ciety. simply said that he was in a hurry, and would probably stop the next time he was in town. The maiden passed into the house, slammed the door, and remarked to her mother that if she ever offered to assist a man in distress again she hoped she might be blessed. The young "lady was quite indignant, indeed. "Beware the pine-tree's withered branch! beware the Oh, give us a rest!" screamed the boy, who was getting out of patience, and the well-meaning peasant retired without completing the warning, which was no doubt something about "the awful avalanche." At break of day, as heavenward the pious monks of St. Bernard uttered the oft-repeated prayer, they were startled, nay, shocked, to hear a young man shouting Excelsior," and cursing the country black and blue for being the roughest, coldest and most-forbidding of any he had seen since he left New Jersey. How far is it to the next vil lage? he asked for I have something here that will knock the socks off of anything in this country." With that he passed on, still grasping in his hand of ice that banner with the strange de vice, while in the other he carried a little tin box labeled Excelsior Corn and Buni on Eradicator." Oil City Derrick. How Eluded the Highwaymen. At a small Edinburgh theater where the tastes of the patrons were kept gratified by the production of speci mens of the rip-roaring, blood-and thunder drama, a play was one night brought out with some considerable scenic effect. A certain scene repre sented the flight of a nobleman from a band of robbers. According to the story, his Lordship concealed himself in a hollow log. A the appointed time the nobleman rushed from the wings into the forest and crawled into the log The stage was very small, and the fugi tive very tall. could not accommo date his proportions to the log, and the result was his feet protruded nearly to the footlights. Amid a great deal of banging and shouting the highwaymen came running on, the leader stumbling oyer the exposed feet and falling to the ground. Rising instantly, not at all disconcerted, and duly oblivious as to the actual cause of his fall, at which the audience was in a roar, he exclaimed, in his most tragic style, with his eyes roll ing and pistol in air: 'evings, 'e as heluded hus!" A storm of applause greeted the hue.Louisville Courier' Journal. Curious Things. A pair of ladies' shoes that aren't "a mile too big." A newspaper communication that was not "struck off in a hurry." A clown's joke less than forty years old. A country residence for sale that isn't "within five minutes' walk of the rail road station''." A newspaper that isn't "the best advertising medium in the county." A impartial base-ball umpire. A infant that isn't "just the sweet est baby in the world." Anything advertised three weeks be fore Christmas that isn't "suitable for holiday presents." A paragraphist that never made a pun on Turkey, in connection with Thanksgiving day. A didn't-know-it-was-loaded gun that never killed anybody. Apolitical stump-speaker who never abused the opposition candidates. A young lady who can pass a plate glass window on the Sabbath without turning her head. Norristown Herald. 1i _, THE surgeon-in-chief sent for one of his junior assistants, who, hastening to his superior's assistance, found him jUst sitting down to a superb roast fowl and a delicious pate. "Ah, Smith," ones the chief, "have you breakfasted yet?" No, doctor," replies the assistant, radi antly. Then go and get your break fast, and come back you will have lots of time." *t tw,#?*w fW*t*Hss*Riiis8^^ ^tptamamwttfnttiift* -'^*^ii(Siiw*')**#s*i iwse4tt'i' (*ai4 ijwaasn ^:iai!*^^w'*te Mmt POPULAR SCIENCE. A BUAXX quantity of salicylic acid is found to stop germination altogether. Phenio aoid only suspends it. DR. HAXLEY says that the total evap oration caused by the rays of the sun on the surface of the Mediterranean sea amountB to 58,800,000,000 tons of water in one summer day. PROM the debris of the coal mines France makes annually 700,000 tons of excellent fuel, and Belgi um 500,000 tons. I England, where there is not so much waste in coal mining, and where coal is muoh cheaper, the manufacture of artificial fuel is only about 200,000 tons a year. Germany makes fuel, for the most part, from peat and similar earths. PORK differs from beef and mutton, not in flavor only, but in the larger pro portion of fat to lean flesh. This is due both to the nature of the animal, in its tendency to store up fat, and to the habit of so feeding and treating it that this tendency may be fully developed. The pig stores up in its body three times more of its food than the ox, and by so much is it more cheaply and quickly grown and fattened. M. GOPPE RT says that no matter how carefully writing has be en obliterated, enough traces of the iron oxide of the ink will remain to appear in a photo graph of the paper written upon. The light reflected from virgin paper acts differently on photographic materials from that reflected from parts which have formerly been covered with ink, even though the eye may not be abje to detect any difference. M. Goppert thinks that the genuineness of a document may always be tested by photography. VEGETAB LE physiologists used to think that leaves absorbed dew and rain until a Frenchman named Duchartre,in 1857, reversed this view, and his opinion was adopted by botanists. Practical garden ers, however, have never been convert ed, and they freely syringe their plants under certain conditions. And now the Rev. Mr. Denslow, in England, has, after many experiments, concluded that dew is not absorbed at night, but that ab sorption takes place at sunrise, when transpiration is begun, and the water on the leaves is sucked in. I N his "True La of Population," Doubleday points out that "Populations are universally found thin in pastoral countries where the food is chiefly ani mal denser where it is mixed still denser where vegetable but plenteous densest of all where it is vegetable and scarce." The natural inference is that in the plethoric state productiveness is arrested, while in the deplethoric it is reinvigorated. I the poorest times Irish families subsisting on potatoes and meal averaged seven, against five in En gland and three in France. I rice eating countries the population is dense. A PARIS physician has discovered a soporific which he declares to be innoc uous, and which has the virtue of being limitable in the duration of its effects at one's pleasure. The time during which a, given dose will operate can be calculated to within ten minutes of the actual figure. Thus, a traveler with two hours and a half's journey before him might feel perfectly safe in taking a two hours' dose, or even a two hours and twenty minutes', though the last might be a little dangerous. The in ventor, who, throughout his experi ments, had railway traveling in his mind, arranges the doses in miles," or rather kilometres. Of course, its com position is a secret. I has already been tried by a number of the physi cian's patients, who allowed themselves to be experimented on. They pro nounce it agreeable to the taste, having something of the flavor of chartreuse. The Gallant Militia. The Militia Convention has com pleted its work at New York, and voted to hold the next meeting at St. Louis, Sept. 30. I adopted a resolution that the militia should be divided into two classes, the active to constitute a na tional or State guard and the inactive an enrolled reserve that every able bodied male citizen in the various States between 18 and 45, except as ex empted by law, should compose such militia that the first class should be first called out when necessary, but that the second class should not go into service except during war, riot or insurrection that each State should be entitled to receive aid for 700 uniformed commissioned officers and men for each Congressional representative. This draft of a law was also adopted: That the President of the United States shall appoint a board of 7 officers2 of the United States army and 5 from the active militia of the Eastern, Middle, Southern and Pacific Statesfor the purpose of selecting a suitable pattern of campaign dress and equipment for the active militia. The Chairman of the delegates reported the number of uniformed troops in the respective States, as follows: New York, 19,300 Pennsylvania, 10,000 Ohio, 8,600 Iowa, 5,500 Massachusetts, 4,400 South Car olina, 4,00,0 New Jersey, 3,300 North Carolina, 2,750 Connecticut, 2,500: Missouri, 2,300 Louisiana, 2,400 Mich igan, 2,000 Rho de Island, 2,000 Cali fornia, 2,000 Virginia, 1,200 Vermont, 750. Murdered in 1878 The Cincinnati Commercial thus summarizes the murders and homicides in the United States in 1878: Persons poisoned 36 Women killed by abortion 19 Persons killed by thieves 57 Killed In political quarrels... 13 Fathers kill sons 18 Insane murderers 13 Prostitutes killed IT Mothers kill their children 3? Bagnio fatal quarrels 10 Men killed in common quarrels 25S Bar-room and drunken quarrels 74 Wives killed 68 Child murders 9 Accidental killing b9 Justifiable SS Killings on account of dogs 4 Killings on account of wives 64 Card and gambling quarrels 15 Feuds Bfi Parricides 8, Fatal quarrels about property & Mobs Sill 29 Wives kill husbands ,11 Officers kill persons eft Officers killed 3l prostitutes kEl men. 2 Fraternal fatal quarrels 11 Seduced women kill seducers 6 Thieves shot 27 Negroes killed 112 Negroes kill 108 Baped and killed 10 Persons killed on account of language or oppro brious epithets used THE HOME DOCTOB. FOB i. BOILS.The skin of a boiled egg is the most efficacious remedy that can be applied to a boil. Peel it care fully, wet and apply it to the part af fected. I will draw off the matter and relieve the soreness in a few hours. Simple but efficacious. ONIONS.An exchange says it is not generally known that raw onions sliced and set about in saucers or plates absorb contagion in the air, and to eat plenti fully of them before breathing infected air is a safeguard against it. They are powerful but harmless in their antiseptic properties. S simple a remedy being within everybody's reach, it would be well if it could become generally known. COVERING FOB THE SICK.The Housekeepef8 Companion advises never to use anything but light blank ets as bed-covering for the sick. The heavy-cotton impervious counterpane is bad, for the very reason that it keeps in the emanations from the sick person, while the blanket allows them to pass through. Weak patients are invariably distressed by a great weight of bed clothes, which often prevents their get ting any sound sleep whatever. A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago Journal says the following cure for a felon has be en tested by wide experi ence among his friends, and is worthy of circulation: Boast or bake thor oughly a large onion mix the soft in ner pulp with two heaping table-spoon fuls of table salt, and apply the mixture to the affected part as a poultice, keep ing the parts well covered. Make fresh applications at least twice a day, morn ing and evening, and a cure will follow in at least a week. SULPHUR FOR DIPHTHERIA.Mr. John S. Wiles, a surgeon of Thorncombe, Dorset, writes to the London Times that, after two cases of malignant diph theria out of some nine or ten he had been called to attend had proved fatal, the mother of a sick child showed him an extract from an American paper con cerning a practitioner who used sulphur to cure the disease. Accordingly he us ed milk of sulphur for infants and flowers of sulphur for older children and adults, brought to a creamy consistence with glycerine dose, a teaspoonful or more, according to age, three or four times a day, swallowed slowly, and ap plication of the same to the nostrils with a sponge. Result, he did not lose a case there or elsewhere, and he succeeded in saving life when the affection had al most blocked the throat. BULLETS MEETING EV MID-AIR. The Story of a targe Bullet and a Small One, as Told by an Old Soldier. [From an English paper.] It appears, however, from Forest and Stream, that the New York shot manu facturers, Messrs. Tatham Bros., occa sionally found bullets wedded together in the scrap-lead brought from the bat tle fields of the American civil war, and Lieut. Col. John A. McLaughlin recent ly forwarded two bullets to the Scien tific American so impacted in each other, which were also picked up on the same fields. says that at the time of the retreat of the Federal Gen N Banks, after his defeat in attempting to capture Shreveport, La., in the summer of 1864, he (Lieut. Col. McLaughlin) was in command of one of the retreat ing regiments. A portion of his regi ment was thrown forward on the flank of the main body, in skirmishing order. The se two bullets, he says, were impacted in the air between his skirmishers and the skir mishers of the enemy and fell like a spent ball near the head of the column of the main body. A Drum Major, see ing the missile fall near him picked it up, thinking it to be a spent bullet, but found the two bullets welded together. afterward presented it to Lieut. Col. McLaughlin. One of the bullets belonged to a larger-bore rifle than the other, and the larger one' is stated to have belonged to the Confederates, as it was of a caliber then known to be much used by them, and somewhat larger in bore than the rifles used by the North erners. I is supposed that the larger bullet had traveled a shorter distance than the smaller at the instant of im pact, and possibly had be en propelled by a superior quality or quantity of powder. This, together with its weight, is thought to have had the effect of driving the smaller bullet back beyond the line from which it was fired. What Costs to Die. When a corpse becomes a corpse, the first thing to do is to notify the under taker. comes at once, and takes complete control of the whole matter, and does not surrender his full charge until he receipts the bill. Of course, he furnishes everything, and the bill of an undertaker for a first-class funeral will read about as follows: Carriages (30) $100 Grave 80 Incidentals 10 Coffin S300 Shroud 40 Crape 6 Gloves 9 Flowers 60 Total #537 Hearse 10 A cheaper funeral than this, of course, is procurable, and the majority of fu nerals are cheaper than this. A very respectable pageant may be gotten up for from $50 to $75, and a poor man can have the satisfaction, on that amount of outlay, to go to his grave followed by three or four carriages, in addition to those of his friends which may be in attendance. The se are only medi um funerals, and if we should put the figures at the high notch it would not be less than $1,000 more, or about $1,500 to die stylishly, and about $600 to fade away in an ordi narily respectable, quiet manner. This is in painful contrast with the burial of the friendless poor, who have a grave in Potter's fielda plain wood box and a horse and wagon to convey them to the shore of the dark river.Cincin nati Times. 1- 1 One Advantage. There is one good thing about this electric light. When a man's collar button gets away from him and starts off, on an exploring expedition across the room, he can look under the bureau for it. without resorting to the danger ous and unsatisfactory expedient of lay ing a glass kerosene lamp down on its side on the floor. That is, if the im pression we have received is correct, that the electric light makes all light and no shadow.Exchange. How to Act In Case of Fire. First, do not be alarmed on account of smoke. Frequently there is a great deal of smoke before the fire has made much progress. Remember that one can pass through smoke by keeping his head near the floor, or by enveloping it in a wel woolen cloth. O entering a room to fight down a fire single-handed, keep the door closed behind if possible. A pail of water and a tin dipper, in the hands of a resolute person, can be made to work a miracle at the beginning. If the fire has progressed too fax to admit of this course, and it is necessary to depend on outside help, then see to it that every door and window is closed. so doing where there is a fire-engine in the neigh borhood, it will often be possible to confine the fire^ to one room. Every person who stops at a hotel should take special pains before retiring to note the location of the stairways, so that in case of an alarm he can find his way out, even though the halls are filled with smoke. Never leave a room where there is an alarm of fire without first securing a wet towel, or, if possible, a wet sponge or piece of woollen cloth, through which to breathe. I escape by the stairs is cut off, seek an outside window and stay there till help comes. Ambidextrous. There is something more significant than most persons think in the "left" hand. W give all our nice work to one hand, and thus train it to strength, celerity and skill, and leave the other to feebleness and awkwardness. Indeed, children are generally trained to one handedness almost from infancy. I both hands were trained alike, they would be alike. Even the toes can be trained to the dexterity of the fingers. I musical education both hands are equally trained forth keys of the piano and organ. Now in many employments muoh would be gained by being able to use either hand with equal facility, and often both at the same time. Brown Sequard, one of the most eminent of modern writers on physiology, urges that children be educated on both sides of the body equally and Agassiz ad vised his pupils to train both sides alike, notwithstanding they had been brought up to the special use of one side. Most adults would find it difficult to change the old habit, but with the young it would only be a matter of care and attention for a comparatively short time. Russia as an Oil-Producing Country. Russia promises to become a formid able rival to the United States in the European oil market. Oil wells near the Caspian sea are reported to equal in their yield the greatest wells in Pennsyl vania. I the oil-producing region in Russia, a large numbei of wells have been sunk, and a great many more are under wap. Reports from there say that there is as much excitement over the discoveries as existed in Pennsylvania when the ml fever was at its height. The wells are drilled and pumped in the most primitive manner, and a large amount of oil is wasted through the want of proper means of saving it. A present the only way of getting the oil to market is by way of the Volga and the Russian canals to St. Petersburg. If a railroad should be constructed from the Caspian to the Black sea, a distance of 400 miles, Russia, it is thought, could supply the European market at such rates as to drive out the American trade.San Francisco Commercial. The Max Hof Hengland. I 1840 an English gentleman visited this country and brought back an American ax and helve, which, from the peculiar curve of the handle and shape of the head, proved infinitely su periorthe expert, Mr. Gladstone, gave similar testimony not long agoto any thing of English manufacture. Hi son still has the ax, which is serviceable, though, of course, the handle has been renewed several times, always on the model of the old one. When it was first used, carpenters and woodmen came from a distance of ten miles to in spect it, and many times the owner was offered ten times its price for itin deed, one enthusiast tried to steal it. Nevertheless, so tenacious is habit, to this day that venerable ax is the only one of its kind in the neighborhood. TELL US not in mournful number that this life is but a dream, when as girl that weighs 100 gets outside a quart of creamand then wants more. Elmira Gazette. Life is real, life is earnest, and the girls know what they need, but on cream they are the durnd estset to show their grit and greed. N encore. New York News. Let us then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate but never let us go a wooing girls that want a second plate. How's that?Newsboy. Lives of such girls all remind us, as we float adown the stream, that the boys who come behind us will have to pay for lots of cream. N-e-x-t.Yonkers Gazette. not like dumb driven cattle, be a hero in the strife never with her mother bat tle save the ice-cream for your wife. Proceed I BATTLBFOM where the mercury in dicated the polar temperature of 6 0 deg. below zero, is the capital of the British northwest territory, and is lo cated not far from the confluence of the north and south branches of the Sas katchewan river. Many immigrants have been settling in the region around Battleford who may possibly be some what discouraged by the arctic weather, sopsmstmuu aa\aa efl *suioo noq SuupiuB Mqu3[ o? paraoea Vnj, e|ji siq uj uBaxoja ?aui JOABU ss ^ssisuihud AaKOK-aavH TYPHO ID fever is very prevalent among swine in England, and the mal ady has just been declared by an order in council to be a disease within the meaning of the Contagious Diseases act. I is commonly known among' farmers as the soldiers' disease, or the red dis- I N Siberia you can buy beef for 2 cents a pound, a gocse for 12 cents, a chicken for 4 cents, a horse for $5, and 861 Dounds of corn for 6 cents. ~ati 1 Ifc I* ^^2^^