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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Vrmonal and Ulerary.
George Eliot is better. She is
spending the winter in London.
Harvard University has in its libra
ry a set of Goethe's works which he
himself presented.
Prof. F. Blassof Kiel has discovered
on a sheet of Egyptian parchmenl a
fragment of one of the plays of Eurip
ides. Mr. Blackhas written a novel dealing
with the secret political associations of
the day, called " Sunrise; a story of the
Times."
Ole Hull now resides at Cambridge,
Mass. He is a'near ncigbbor of Long
fellow, anil has dedicated a composition
for the violin to the poet. .
Mark Twain tells a new joke about
Artcmus Ward never before in prinYT
Ward said to Twain one day, "I have
done too much fooling, too much tri
lling; I am going to write something
thit will live." Clemens asked him'
what it would be, and Artemus an
swered promptly, "A lie."
Henry W. Longfellow's seventy
third birth-day is to be celebrated in
Cincinnati on the 27th of February
proximo by 15,000 pnpils of the public
schools. The great poet expresses his
regrets that he can not'prepare a special
poem for the occasion, but he gives the
children some excellent advice in prose.
Formerly women never were in
vited to any notable banquet or break
fast. At the authors' breakfast, given
to Oliver Wendell Holmes on his seven
tieth birthday, woman in literature was
recognized for the first time on such a
grand occasion. Some twenty lady con
tributors to the Atlantic Monthly were
present among the great Yankee litera
ry lights.
Comparatively, books in the Nine
teenth Century are cheap. In A. D.
600, the King of Nortumberland gave
800 acres of land for a history of the
world; and a Countess of Anjou once
gave 200 sheep and a large parcel of
furs for a volume of homilies, and 120
crowns for a singlo book of Livy ! In
1720 a Latin Bible was valued at $150;
and this was a time when two arches of
London Bridge were built for less than
150. A lalnirer's wages in the Eight
eenth Century were so small that the
earnings of 15 years had been necessary
to buy the Bible; and, the Bible being
in Latin, he could not have read it after
all.
Science nml Indiutry.
Cattle hoofs at the present time are
worth $50 per ton. These hoofs are
now made into horn buttons.
The works for the railway across
the Isthmus of Tehuantcpec have been
commenced. The line will be 150 miles
ling.
Ax extensive cotton factory is about
to be organised at Charlotte, N. C, the
city authorities having promised the
company exemption from local taxation
for 10 years.
The potato crop of the country is
estimated at 181.nG9.000 bushels. Com
pared with 1878 there was an increase
of three per cent, in acreage, and the
yield is estimated by the Department of
Agriculture at 98 bushels per acre,
against 09 bushels last year und 94 in
1874.
The University of Gottingcn has
become the possessor of a magnificent
herbarium, containing over 40,000
specimens of plants from all parts of the
world. There is no doubt that it is by
far the largest collection of plants ever
brought together by any single individ
ual. The number of packages of toma
toes put up in the United States last
year reached the total of 19,968,000,
Maryland leading off with 6,840,000;
New Jersey, 5,592,000; Delaware, 1,
884,000; New York, 1,680,000; Massa
chusetts, 960,000; Pennsylvania,182,000;
Pacific coast, 1,200,000; Western and
other States, 1,320,000.
The total product of oats for the
country the past season is estimated by
the Department of Agriculture at 364,
250,000 bushels, against 413,578,600 last
year. The price, as returned on the 1st
of December, averaged 33.2 cents per
bushel, against 24.6 cents last year at
the same time, making a total valuation
this year of 8120,855,000, against $101,
945,000 in 1878.
Statistics gathered for the forthcom
ing annual report of the New Jersey La
bor Bureau include reports from 67 silk
mills, mostly in Patcrson- The Paterson
$14,000,000.
how cold it was. Ben Bacon said a cold ' Ouray, the Vie Cklr f.
annn Mimn itfinfr urlipn Til lirpfl tL (ZrMn i
10iaiCIPWUOl-' vu.t. wn ...... ...-.. ...--. .
mills alone employ 10,000 hands, be- Bay and froze tne waves standing ngnt thirteen years ago i mauetne ap
sides from ",000 to 3,000 employed in up on end and the air full of, spray: and quaintanceof Oaray, when ho wasen
.i -- it ..... ,S .., .!.,.. I irinW Cctnk said it was so cold the i camned with a thousand wild Indians
tion of theso mills' reaches the total of ' winter he lived in Minnesota that when belongjng to his tribe, about five mil
ait om rxvi I he threw a basin of water out of the J from Fort Garland, Colorado. He was
door it turned into little balls of ice be-' then one of the hnest-lookmjj Indians I
fore it struck the ground. hail ever seen, and was withal, as I was
Edward Everett Hale wrote a New , assured by Gen. Kit Canon my guide
Year's article on how to read books, (to the encampment of 'th-s-Uteshonest
Ho has been investigating libraries and . and reliable. He had Tilited Washing
he finds that the first volume of a se- ton and New York, and had brought
ries on history or science U generally I back with him many enlightened ideas,
prcttywellworn, the second less so, the I "jingo" hu return, " there are too
h:i nuim,iMi .lommrcl a tlio ..-. I manv white people for the Indians.
ond. the fourth in better preservation i We might kill all hero, and then they
School and Churchv
According to the latest school cen
sus of St. Louis that citv contained on
April 1st last 101,825 'children of the
scholastic age from 6 to 21 years, of
whom 4,100 wero colored.
It is stated tha no less than 2,534
preachers in the Methodist Episcopal
Church are pursuing the regular courses
nf AinfnmnfA etltillT" TIlA mimtwM '(if
preachers in classes for admission on
trial to uonlerence is oto.
The woman students in residence at
the University of Cambridge make a
good showing of force this term, they
numberiug 160 or 17,0. More than fifty
an; registered it.Glrton College, afcdsix,
of them are students of the first year
who purpose s"luuying""naTin al "seiencer
still, and the last volume !renerallv as would send a great swarm (from tlia
rood as new. Mr. Hale detects in this States and would wipe us out.-
state of things a scries of good resolu
tions broken. Many attempt the course
of 'Study, few are faithlul to tne end.
The suggestion given in. this article is
for a club of say three to take up, for
instance, one ol juacaniays tssays.
The fino-lonkiiur chief was verv hand
somely dressed in buckskin, richly and
tastefully ornamented with beads; his
hands and feet were very small and well
shaped, and his moccasins were a per
fect fit. He was then in receipt of $80
Each is to read the essay and jot down per month from the Got crnment, as in-
on a slip of paper any thing that is not
unuersioou, ami irnsw juuiujjs uuu w
AtndcAWcnJpdlORoJate COnned over and discussed at a weekly
Leonard Case'&f tJlbvelariW.Oi, conveyed , meet;nw of tne three.
WJ 111S UllAJIUUJ, W1.WJIVU " tftitt,
property-estimate to be worth $1,250,
000, thelneoini frOnlwlicll'Utolje ap
plied to the establtshm'e'mV 6f 'a1 school,
to be
plied
o be calledthe " Case School of Ap-
lUed'sctaS'if'j inrr
The Ifeirenfs of the1 University of
California have taken a stand against
all secret societies, and will require stu-
Everv town has its mean man, and
ours was no exception to the rule. Enus
Sniuggs, our not door neighbor, was
remarkable for his closeness and invent
ive genius. The other day ho wanted
to purchase a ton of egg coal, and, bor
rowing the morning paper from us, ho
read.it till he found out where it could !
i.- i I. .t.i . . r. 1
dents, on entering the institution, . to - that troMet him was how to get
tney remain un-1 h inj0 hl, back j without any labor
keen'ont of them while
dcr college rule, x ne uecree uas wcia
sioned considerable feeling, and will
bear hard on one of the Greek letter so
cieties, which has a considerable prop
erty. Foreign Sfbte.,
The Czar has three American de
tectives at his Capital.
The rago for meduevalism in Lon
don is greater than ever. The- craziest
of the mediaeval is to write "ye" for
"the."
There are few more beautiful seats
in England thanaStudJey Koyal, the
residence of the Marquis of Ripon,who,
when Lord De Grey, resided for so long
a time at Washington 'as head of the
Alabama Commission. At the outskirts
of its magnificent park on one side lie
the ruins of Fountain Abbey, that al
most unique specimen of a Cistercian
foundation which transports one into
the full middle ages; on the other side
is the town, astir with the life of the
nineteenth centurv, lying peacefully un
der the shadow of St. Wilfrid's Church.
J The house, of the style that Thackeray
delighted in, takes us bacK to ue days
of Sir Robert Walpolc, of Pope, Addi
son, Swift, and Arbuthnot.
The statement sometimes made that
the German nobility disdain all trades
but the military one, and think com
merce beneath them, is hardly borne
out by facts. The ron, equivalent to
the French de as a sign of gentle birth,
is frequently found figuring on the sign
boards of grocers' and apothecaries'
shops; and few German trade diction
aries are to be found in which the aris-
tocratic prefix does not occur. A few
days ago there appeared In the Neuer
j (en Nachrichten of Munich an advertise
j ment in which an undoubted noble, the
i Count von Hirschbcrg, announces that
n . j .-. jv., ..-. r j
iards and more for pew rent,
and that you won't have any but "hon
est" headaches; if you have determined
to cultivate a taste for good reading and
elevated conversation, and a hatred for
shady stories and pcep-o'-day parties
you can do it in the simplest and easiest
way in the world. There is nothing
complicated or intricate or difficult
about it. To paraphrase Horace Gree
ley, the way to do it is to do it. Don't
" swear off,"" my son. That won't help
you a bit, and you will want to break
your oath every time you think of it
and all the time you don't think of it.
Don't rush out with public and private
and social confessions. Don't pride
yourself on your reformation because
the world is so full of better men that
he has onened a marriage office, and you don't count .or a cipneronmengm.
s I.:. L:i .: :- 1.1-j . ' hand ol the decimal. But lust simmv
, iruni uigu V-uuu.uo. unau.cu iu . T -, . -
Ulr) HUJK &WI an w ww uwuwai
terpreter, and his income was apparent
in his dress, and that of his squaw, a
handsome-looking woman who accom
panied him astride of a fine horse. Ouray
and his party escorted me out to their
camp. As I galloped on, a backward
glance at my grotesque followers sug
gested the thought what a sensation our
party would make in Central Park!
With Gen. Carson, I took tho lead, and
we were followed by several old
huntets dressed in buckskin shirts
and leggins, fringed and embroidered.
Then came tho Indians, whooping to
their ponies as thev rode along. They
were dressed in buckskin, bright blank
ets, beads and feathers, their bows and
arrows slung on their backs, in cases
and quivers of deer or horse-skin atid
their long rifles in front of them. The
Utes wero encamped on a large plain.
Their wigwams wero not of skins like
the Prairie Indians', but were made of
drilling, stretched over lodge-poles,
looking like the Sibley tents (which were
designed from an Indian wigwam). In
front of the warriors' tents were stuck
up their spears, ornamented with eagles
feathers, and with their painted shields
of buffalo hide and head ornaments of
feathers hanging from them. I went to
Ouray's wigwam and he politely asked
me in. On declining to dismount, his
sauaw brought me a cup of water. A
My son, if you have fallen into the j crowd of Indians gathered around with
custom of the land this January, and I a fixed and steady gaze at what, I fear,
"sawed off" on all your bad habits; if I they considered the intruders in their
you have "dropped on" all manner of camp,
fermented or distilled conviviality; ifl Many of them had red blankets, which
you have made up your mind mat you j they wore in tne -Mexican lasnion, niu
will De a good Doy mis year, ami pay ing ail oui ineir eyes
-. . ..
or expense, lhere was a large alley
way between our houses which led to
Euus's yard, and when the coal ar
rived lie opened the door, and walking
up a few feet he drove an old broom
stick into the ground and put a large
bottle on the top. He was waiting in
the yard with a shovel in his hand when
inree sinati Doys cameaiongamiupeaeu
fire on the bottle with the pieces of
coal. In half an hour the sidewalk was
cleared and the coal safely stowed away
in the shed, and then old Enus, grinning
from earto ear, sold the bottle to a junk
man. Danbury News.
Adilee to a Young 3fan.
with yourself, and then you will be hon
est with the world. And when you get
to be honest with yourself, my son, yon
will be surprised to find what a good
fellow you are. You will like yourself.
You will want to shake hands with your
self and pat yourself on the back, and
call yourself" "old boy" and be on
famUiar, friendly, "Tom and BUI"
terms with yourself. But so long as you
are not fair and candid and honest Sun.
with yourself, so long as you make a
promise on the first of January, and
break it on the second, you will hate
I rode around
the camp and passed one wigwam where
somebody was sick, ami wnere iney were
making medicine. The tent was filled
with Indians, principally sqnaws and
Eapooses. They sat around in a circle
umming a low chant, and knocking on
some metal. Kit Carson was received
by all these savages with a wonderful
amount of cordiality. Their stolid faces
brightened with smiles, and they held
out their hands with their saloation,
" Como le va," or the Indian "How!"
A life of 40 years in this wild country
had brought him into intimate acquaint
ance with the Indian tribes. He shook
hands with a sqnaw who seemed very
much pleased with the attention, and I
afterward learned that when he went on
his last campaign against the Navajoes,
with his Mexican regiment, he was ac
companied by 50 Ute Indians, and this
old squaw went with them all the way.
Kot many years since, on a represen
tation made to the American Bible So
ciety of the fine qualities of thi3 distin
guished chief, a very handsome Bible
was prepared for him and conveyed to
him from the society by the hand of his
old friend Gen. Kit Carson. The pre
sentation was one of the last acts of the
veteran pathfinder in his final journey
to the land of the setting sun. X 1 -
. offer those who may favor him with
their custom an unusually rich choice of
advantageous matches.
Odd and End.
Missing men Bad marksmen.
Prof. Proctor is 43 years old.
An active tool never grows rusty.
An old march The march of time.
When a man falls down his temper
generally gets up before he does.
A young man, while attempting to
fix a " misplaced switch " on a young
ladv's head in a ball-room, stepped on
her dress and " wrecked the train." I vourself. vou will be ashamed of vour-
She told him to conductor to a seat and ' self, you will seek any society to avoid
be more car-ful in future. Wheelina the rebuke of vour own presence. So,
Ltader. bo good to yourself, my boy. Be honest . ,, nf th : B-a i four
The most eminent liars of Keno col- with yourself, and if you made any , gnceta Icin" to spread between the
lectcd a few days ago and tho result is promises on the first of January, stick iaTcrslwh;tes of three eg"s, half the
as below: Beck" said he had seen it so , to them if you have to go out of society ju, 0f the orange, one cupral sugar,
cold in Ohio that it froze babies in the i and live in a cave. Keep them, if you '
break a trace a hundred times a day.
Be honest with vourself. and by the mid-1 At the dinner given to Prof. .Nora-
die of June yon and your conscience enksjold at Nagasaki, peecn5 were
Oranoe Cake. Two cupfuls white
sugar, two cupfuls flour, one-half cupful
water, two teaspoonfuls baking-powder
pinch of salt,five eggs all the yelks, and
whites of two one orange, grated rind
cradle. Tom Hymers said he had seen
it in Thomas's Canyon freeze the mer
cury, and said you could not go within
six feet of a spirit thermometer without
running it up five or six degrees with
the heat of the body, so he couldn't tell
will be so satisfied with each other, that
you will want to run yourself for Presi
dent. Burlington Hawl&jt.
made in English, French, German,
Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Russian, Jap
anese and Chinese.