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NORTH WESTERN ITKMs.
wisoossts
Portage. NVis., is exc.ted over the
elopement of the daughter of the sher
itT of Columbia county with a prisoner
from the county jail," on the night .4
May 2ad. The curious part of the
atUtr is the fact that the prisoner was
under a six months sentence for resist
ing arrest by the sheritl.
The Viroqua railway will be com
pleted July 4.
The diphtheria has been making ter
rible ravages in Gilmanton, Butl'alo,
county.
liieo.N and Markesau are elated over
the prospect of having a narrow gauge
railway connection. The estimated cost
of grading the same is $40,000.
The Winchester A Partridge manu
facturing company of Whitewater, are
negotiating for the transfer of their
works to Milwaukee. They will occupy
the old North Milwaukee shops of the
at. Paul railway company, and are rais
ing the capital stock from $250,000 to
$500,01X1, and giving employment to
four hundred men.
A child ot Frans Holainger, a Clinton
street, Milwaukee, saloon-keeper, fell
into a tub of boiling water to-night and
was fatally scalded.
MINNESOTA.
Dakota has just paid Minnesota
$4,505 for the maintenance of tier in
sane patients at the Minnesota state
asylum.
An Oswego N. V., man is talking
about establishing a starch factory in
Minneapolis.
The people of Mower county will
vote, May 13th,on a proposition to issue
bonds for anew court-house.
The stale treasurer hasjust purchased
$13,000 worth of Missouri bonds for tin
school fund, mid $5,000 worth of United
States government bonds for the inter
national improvement fund.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paid
will hereafter run nint'trains a day be
tween St. Paul and Minneapolis, the in
creasing travel rendering additional
trips necessary.
The Lake City Sentinel says that 0.
Gibbs, Jr., has eight acres of strawberry
plants now hi bearing condition, mm is
planting an additional live acres this
season, which will take about CO,OOO
plants. Ho is one of the most success
ful fruit culturists in the northwest.
Austin IhgUter : A shaft is being
sunk on Dive Picket's farm, near
Otranto. They have a three-feel and
one-half vein to work on. Pretty good
for the commencement. We feel con
fident that in Hie near future we will ht
able to supply the geat demand for coal
in this section of country.
IOWA.
Cohn-Planting is in progress in some
parts of the state.
Dave Holland, a farmer living near
Do Sota, was driving a cow out of his
barn tlio other day', when the animal
turned and ran against him, one of In r
horns entering his cheek, coining out
under the eve, and inflicting a serious
wound.
The oldest man in eastern lowa died
at Center Point on the -2nd hist. His
name was Milner, and he was born in
177'J, and lacked just a few months to
complete his 100th year.
A man has been arrested at Cedar
Mines, charged with the murder of
Frank Allen, who was found dead on
the railroad track near Tyrone.
Justice Hhfnnan, of Sioux City, says
he w ill not jail any more tramps. He
expresses the opinion that the mere
facts of a man being out of work and
destitute of money do not constitute “a
crime” for which, under the conslitu
'ion of lowa and the United States, a
man can lie subjected to “involuntary
servitude.' 1
An Ottumwa man named Fergusen
was sentenced to twenty days in jail
last week for brutality to his horses
A day or two ago he undertook to haul
a load of straw, and one of the horses
got down ami could not or would not
get up. The man took some straw oil'
the wagon and built a fire between the
horse’s hind legs, and it is said that
from the knee to the hip on one leg
great pieces of skin were burned off,
leaving the half roasted flesh bare.
The other day an engineer on a freight
train running between Wiuterset and
Des Moines was horrified at a crossing
about a mile and a half this side ol
Wiuterset to see a little child on the
track as he rounded a curve, running
with a full head of steam on. He
could not stop his train, and as it dash
ed upon the little thing lie hid his face.
The whole train passed over the child
before it could he stopped, hut curiously
enough th ■ little one was found to be
unhurt.
Hie Presidential Candidates.
A correspondent asks the Inter-Ocean
for a list of presidental candidates from
1824 and receives through that paper
the following reply:
Washington was re-elected hy nearly
a unanimous vole. During his admin
istration the federal and republican
parties sprang into existance. On
Washington’s retirement John Adams,
of Massachusetts, became hy common
consent the candidate of the federal
party for president, and Thomas Jef
ferson of the republican party. Adams
was chosen president and Jefferson
vice-president, having the next highest
number of votes. In the year 1800 a
caucus of members of congress was
held in Philadelphia, which nominated
Thomas Jefferson for president and
Aaron 13nrr for vice president. They
were elected over John Adams ami
Charles G. Pinckney. Mr. Jeff.-rson
was renominated and re-elected in 18' 4,
with George Clinton, of New York, as
vice president, over Charles C. Pinck
ney and Knfua King.
Janies Madison was nominated by a
congressional caucus January, 1808. and
elected president by a large majority.
He was renominated in the same man
ner in 1812. In September of the
’•wne year a convention, representing ;
eleven states, was held in New York,
which nominated DeWitt Clinton.
■ antes Madison was re-elected.
In 1816 James Monroe was nominate and ,
by a congressional caucus, he receiving |
('5 votes, and W. H, Crawford 54. Mr.
Monroe was elected, and in 1820 he
was re-elected without opposition.
In 1524 the congressional caucus sys
tem was opposed by a lame portion of
the r< publican party. Hut sixty-six
members responded to tie call,‘and
these nominated NV. H. Crawford for
the presidency. Jackson, Olay, and
Adams were also nominated by various
statis, and there was no choice by the
people. The house of representatives
elected John Quincy Adams. Imme
diately after this election Andrew Jack
s ni was nominated by the legislature of
Tennessee. That action was indorsed
by the democratic party of the country,
and he wars elected in 1828 uvgr Mr.
Adams.
fhe tirst political national et m ention
ever held in this country, took place in
Philadelphia in 1830. it was called the
Tinted States Anli-Masouie convention.
Francis Granger, of New York, presid
ed. No business of importance was
transacted, but the same convention
mot in Baltimore in 1832, and nomi
nated William Wirt, of Maryland, for
president. In May, 1832, a democratic
national convention was held in Balti
more to name a candidate for the vice
presidency. Martin Nan Huron, of
New York, was selected, and the ticket,
w ith Jackson as president, elected. The
national republican convention assem
bled in Baltimore, Dec. 12, 1831, and
nominated Henry Clay, of Kentucky,
for president.
hi May, 1835, a democratic national
, convention was held in Baltimore.
Twenty-one stales were represented
at this convention, the two-third rule
was adopted, and Marlin Van Buren
was unanimously nominated. General
William H. Harrison, of Ohio, was the
opposing candidate to the democracy
in ISoti. He was nominated by a state
convention in I’ennsylvania and several
other bodies.
lit ISe'Ja whig national convention
was held in Harrisburg, I’a. W. 11
Harrison was again nominated, lit
December, IN?‘J, a convention of
abolitionists was held at Warsaw. New
York. James G. Birney, of New York,
was nominated for president. May S,
18-10, a democratic national convention
assembled in Baltimore, ami Martin
Van Buren was unanimously renomi
nated. Harrison was elected.
A whig national convention met at
Baltimore May 1, 1844. and Henry
Clay was nominated. The democrats
nominated Tolk and he was elected.
Tlie national convention of the liberty
party met in August, 1844, at Buffalo,
New York, and nominated Birney for
president.
The whigs, iu ISIS, nominated Zach
ary Taylor at Philadelphia. The demo*
(Tats nominated Lewis Cass. Tito free
[democratic convention was held at
Utica, New Yoik, and placed tit nomi
nation Martin Van Buren. A similar
convention was held on thethh of June,
same year, and Van Buren again
nominati and. Taylor was elected.
In 1852 the whigs nominated Scott
■ and the democrats Franklin Fierce.
John F. Hale was nominated at Pitts
burg by the freo-soil democrats.
The first republican national conven
tion was held Julie 17, ISoti, in the city
of Philadelphia, and Colonel John C.
Fremont was nominated. The Ameri
can national council met in Pliiludelniu
February 185t>, and nominated Milan!
Fillmore. Cincinnati was the meeting
place of the democratic convention,
and Buchanan was nominated on the
seventeenth ballot.
On May 1(1, IStiO, the republican na
tional convention was held in Chicago,
and Abraham Lincon was nominated
on the third ballot. A convention of
the constitutional union party conven
ed in Baltimore on the bib of May and j
nominated John Bell, of Tennessee.
The democrats met at Charleston and
nominated Douglas. The delegates
who withdrew from this convention as
sembled afterward at Baltimore and
nominated Breckinridge.
In ISill a convention under the name
ot the “ Radical Republicans,” met at
Cleveland, Ohio, and nominated John
C. Fremont for president; the Republi
cans renominated Abraham Lincoln,
and the national democratic conven
tion convened at Chicago and nomina
ted McClellan.
In 18(18General Grant was nominated
by the republicans and Horatio Sey
mour by tile democrats. In 1872 Gen
< rid Grant was renominated by the re
publicans at Philadelphia and Horace
Greeley by the opposition. In 187<)
Hayes was nominated hy the republi
cans, Tilden by the democrats and
Cooper by the greenbackers. Wo hone
otir correspondent and those interested
will cut this answer out and preserve it.
as the facts are valuable and take a
long time to collate.
Fans.
Foreign Letter.
Marie Stuart's fun, one that she
brought from France with her, and kept
through all the unhappy years that fol
lowed, was formed of seven ostrich-lips
arranged about a jeweled button, with
a slim carved handle. Marie Antin
ette's ivory fan is said by Balzac to la
the handsomest of the historical fans.
It was presented by the city of Dieppe
to the Queen, "it the birth • ( her son,
the Dauphin. The subject is mi episode
in the life of Alexander the Great,
whi n Porus, defeated and a prisoner,
refuses to submit, and demands to be
treated as a brave soldier and a King.
The great Macedonian, charmed with
toe daring of his prisoner, gave him
back his conquered slates. This inter
view is presented in a wonderful man
ner, the design hy Vein, the cat ring by
\a- Flamand, whose work has never
been excelled. La Pompadour’s lace
fan, with its medallion js mails, is an
other of tne priceless historic fans. It
is of the finest Venetian lace, so line
anil elaborate that it look nine years to
finish it, and the cost was $30,000, It is
divided into five sections, each nriched
by an exquisite miniature painting.
Why do <*h weigh more in propor
tion t itan other things of equal size and
Because when they are
weighed the weight of the scales always
uas to be counted in.
News from Samoa reports that a
treaty between that government and i
Germany has been concluded, which j
gives Germany a Labor on the island. |
AFRICA.
Its Cenuuereial Development.
Hwstou Jiuirnsl.
I hie of the most signiti.ant signs of a
promise of future developments in il
lation to the great continent of Africa,
is that France as well as England is now
more than ever turning its attention to
ward developing its commerce for its
own bent tit. Important commissions
in France are seriously considering
how thev may secure for tin ir country
the Somlan with its SO.tXH'.tHK) inhab
itants as a special market for their
manufactures. One project contem
plates a railroad from Algiers to Tim
buotoo. Another, at the head of which
is M. Lesi ons, of Suez l’anal fame, pro
poses to turn the desert of Sahara into
an African Mediterranean. Turning to
England we tindjihai, btsides the pres
ent excitement connected with the
Cane district, the result of which can
not fail to bring the southern portions
ot Africa into a confederated colonv of
the Hi itish Empire that will otter a bet
ter field than ever before for the sur
plus population of the mother-country,
considerable attention is being given to
the matter ot increasing her commerce
with other portions of the continent,
both upon the east and west coasts.
I pon the east coast, it has been shown
by recent developments that it is possi
ble, with the exception of seventy
miles parallel with the Murchison Cat
aracts, to sail from the 1. mdon docks
to the north end of laiko Myass, pass
ing through the X unbest and Shire
Rivers.
On thewtst coast attention has for
some time hern given to developing
steam navigation upon the N cor mid
other rivers. Hut me ehief interest tit
litis direction at present centers upon
l!tc northwest eoitsl at Tape .luhv, a
point some-UK) miles south of the Mo
rocco coast, only I,ol*o miles front En
gland, and SOll miles from Timluicloo
anil tint Upper Miner. As described hy
Mackenzie, a recent traveler in this part
of Africa, this post is admirably situat
ed for trade with the Soudan and the
inteiior of Africa. Its climate is claim
ed to he equal to that of Madeira and
the Canary Islands. Spring water, sand
and limestone for building purposes,
are found upon the spot. The inhabi
tants are intelligent and fond of trade
and agriculture. and Mr. Mackenzie
confidently believes that they would
keep faithfully any engagement into
which they might enter. The present
trade of the Soudan with Europe, it is
estimated, amounts to upwards of
000.000 per year, notwithstanding the
dillicultica connected with its transpor
tation across the dessert, ovi r the Atlas
Mountains and across the dominions of
the Emperor of Morocco, who levies a
duty of nine guns out of every ten, and
in like proportion upon other goods
passing through his territory. It is
thought that, if a route via Cape .hlhy
can he opened, a market of great ex
tent can he secured, which will alxtorh
large quantities of English manufac
tttn s.
Oil this portion of the northwest
coast of Africa there is, says the same
writer, an important fishery, extruding
fora thousand miles from Cape Hianeo
on the south to Miroeco upon the north,
which at present ts worked cnlv hy fish
ermen from the Canary Islands, though
there appears to he room here for the
fishermen of the world. Mackenzie
says that the waters of this portion of
:ho ocean swarms with fishes familiar
to our own fishermen, as well as with
many new and valuable varieties.
A lie\tdl in Iniliit.
New V-rk llcnilil.
A small disturbance of a very disa
greeable nature, about which a witisper
basso far been suffered to Income
known, has most inopporlnnalely
broken out in the Madras presidency,
British India. The following is an ex
tract (rom a private letter, written hy
an officer of the U ival Artillery attach
ed to the Ordinance Department at
Madras, dated March 15
“We had jn*l dispatched
Iwe regiments to Hnrmah yesterday
when a telegram was received announc
ing that there was a row at Ilampore,
somewhere near It ijahmuiidr} a mili
tary station in the northern portion of
the Madras Presidency and had to
send off another regiment immediately.
As an evidence ol the urgency of the
case, I may state that the men received
their orders at 2 in the afternoon, and
embarked before 0. This was pretty
sharp work 1 think you will admit. 'Die
gist of the Rijahmundry business seems
to he that one of the Madras civilians
lias been taxing cocoa ail I trees belong
ing to some bill tribe. The owners re
fused to pay and kicked out the* police.
Then the official shut himself op. The
natives surrounded him and his atten
dant;- and enl them off from supplies
of food and water. 1 believe the whole
tribe is np and means mischief, Inn
they are only armed wi'h bows and ar
rows. The telegram says; “The sub
collector should have returned to-day
to Jummahundy (circuit of inspection
and assessment) but is detained indefi
iiitely ?’ If be i-< dead, or even cut off
Irom food and water, it is probable that
the regiment will not be able to gel In
him fnr (our or live days. These civil
ians, nr rather their Tahdldars, in
whose hands they are, grind down tho-e
wretched eyots to the last extremity.
Of course this gives us constant work
preparing troops on a war footing at a
couple of hour's notice.”
New Stories About Lincoln.
Sjiriiiiifield i sum.,i Kepnlillcao
The recent reference to Abraham Lin
coin, suggested by the anniversary of
bis death, calls to mind two character
istic anecdotes of the homely hero,
which have probably never yet found
their way into print. An active aboli
tionist find been appointed by Mr. Lin- j
coin secretary of one of the t* rritonea,
upon recommendation of Mr. Humoer,
who seldom entertained doubt of the
honesty of any anti-slavery man. Hut
tliin appointee turned out to be umeli-:
able in money matters, and the fact j
was reported to Mr. Humner, who in- j
credulous, went to see the IVeeiiJent.
Mr. Lincoln was in possession ofevi- j
Hence* of the man's dishonesty, and i
laid them before Mr. Sumner. ar*t*mg:
him that the man was undoubtedly a
bad egg. Mr. Stimnei was obliged to
admit the loroe of the evidence, but he
did not appreciate the Presidents
Homely characterisation. "Why,"said
he, “ 1 can’t tell his frieuds that ho is‘a
bad egg. O yes, - ' said Mr. Lincoln.
“that expresses it exactly. You tell
them that I say their man is a bad
t gg.'' Ami the classical senator depart
ed with this intelligent message, which
he no doubt altered into more polished
phrase before imparting it.
The other anecdote illustrate* Mr.
Lincoln’s fondness tor a practical joke,
how ever simple. One morning he step
ped out into the porch of the White
Mouse in his dressing gown, and shout
ed to the Irish gardener who was si
work on the grounds. Failing to at
tract his attention, and seeing a young
man passing in trout of the porch, Mr.
Lincoln hailed him and asked him if I
he could throw a stone. The young
man thought he could. “ Well," said
i lie, “ throw one at my gardener, there:
I can't make hint hear," The young
man, obedient, picked up a stone and
let tlv. hitting the Irishman fairly in
the back; whereupon the latter started
i up, and. turning around indignant,
wanted to know of the young man what
he meant by hitting him. and began to
approach him hastily in a threatening
manner, muttering and scolding as he i
came. Meanwhile the voting man mo
tioned with his hand toward the porch,
meaning to have the gardener under
stand that the President wanted him.
: and that the stone had been throw n at
his instance. Hut the hate Irishman
paid no attention to his gestures, seem
mg indisposed to understand their sig- |
nitiennee or to he mollified. Surprised
iat the man’s threatening manner, and
| wondering why the President did not |
; speak in his behalf, the thrower of the
stone turned to look for the President, '
knit he was not to be seen. In a mo- \
mem bis tall form aiose from behind
the balustrade, where he had coneeah and
himself, when the stone was thrown, to
I see the fun. loving the gardener his i
0 rders, with a twinkle in his eyes he |
1 glanced at the young man, who walked
away, realizing that he had been made j
the victim of a practical joke.
.loth Old rimes in I’dinluirg,
llitr|mm h Mart ino tor Apnl
Life in Edinburg during the last two
centuries appears to have been *• most
uncommonly jolly," as a humorist of
tlu> time expresst s it. Dissipation, even
among the highest class, prevailed loan
inereditable extent. Chambers ’elated
that nothing was more common in the
morning than to meet men of high
rank and ollicial dignity reeling home
after a night spent in drinking. A cer
tain famous lawyer named May never
considered himself tilled for business
until he had stowed away at least six
bottles of claret. There are many
laughable anecdotes told of tins pro
pensity for midnight it voting. It is
saiil that a party ol eminent lawyers
once met together to pass aSaUnday
night with wma anti cards. The hours
came anti went, ami no account was
taken by the jolly comrades of passing
time. The next forenoon the gout I peo
ple of Edinburg, passing the house on
their way to church, were astonished
by si t ing the door open anil three
well-known gentlemen issue forth, their
hair disheveled ami (heir cost nine in
general disorder, while a loitrlh, with a
lighted candle in lus ban . was endeav
oring to show them the way down the
stalls. Even the lathes of that time are
saitl not to have been entirely tree from
(he prevailingsiii, and the custom which
existed among them ol resorting to so
called oyster-cellars gives a curious idea
ol society during the last century. Haw
oysters and pnrtei were the chief te
freshmenls to he enjoyed in these cel
lars, anil sometimes a little rum nimeh.
Lathes ami gentlemen indulged without
rest mint in the merriest conversation,
and the evening was generally eonclinled
with darn ing. Il issaid that a parly ol
lathes returning front one of these revels,
being slightly confused in their minds,
Were unable to de'ermme where they
were. The night was bright moonlight,
so they continued walking until they
came to the sqiure by the Trun
church. Here (hey eiuionntered a dif
ficulty. The broad shadow of a church
steeple fell across their path. After
pondering they came to the conclusion
Unit it niiisl he a broad stream which il
would he necessary to cross before they
could reach home. They accordingly
took .11" their shoes and stockings,
lucked tip their petticoats, and proceed
ed to wade across. When they reached
the clear moonlight, in their eyes the
lunik of the stream, they pul on their
shoes anti proceeded. That these par
lies were attended hy the best classes is
shown hy a story told hy Chambers,
lie says, writing in 1K1M: “It is not
more than thirty years since the late
Lord Melville, the Duchess of Cordon,
and some other persons of distinction,
who happened to meet in town after
many years of absence, nude up an
oyster-cellar party hy way of a frolic,
and devoted tine winter evening to the
revival ol this almost forgotten enter
tainment of their youth," Whist was
also a great passion among the Edin
burg gentry, and many curious stories
arc told in regard to it. The sister of
Smollet is said to have spent every mo
ment of her leisure lime at this game.
One evening a city magistrate, who was
also a tallow-chandler called upon her.
“Coino awa’, bailie,” said she, "and
take a trick at the carles.” "Troth,
ma’am,” saitl he, " 1 hue naa a baw
bee in rny pouch.” “ Tut, man, ne’er
mint) that,” she replied, ” let’s e’en
play for a pund o’ candles."
TTik little town of Hudson, Ohio, in
the county of Hiimrait, twelve miles
north of Akron is the center of the
largest maple sugar district of the state,
ami is considered ine head-center for
’he manufacture of maple sugar and
syrup. The slate of Ohio ranks as the
lit rd state in the Union in the tnanu
fac tire of this article, and the present
year will show for that state the larges!
yield of maple sugar known in years.
The Parisians are paying great at
tention to horse flesh, and have just
had a very fine “hippie exposition,’’ as
they call it, at the palace of the Champ*
K yssees. The ml in her of horses to
Era "e is estimated at 3,00(1 (Mf.
THK KLKPTKU LIGHT.
t Brilliant Scone Under Pumas.
Tlie electric light at the circus has
proved a wonderful thing. On Satur
day night, when the people entered the
first menagerie lent, it was as light as
j mid day and a man's shadow reflected
on the ground, was as clear and clean
rut as if it were done in silhouette.
Holding up the hands, pantomime fash
ion, every curve and motion of the fin
gins could be seen with the distinctness
amt clearness ol an illuminated picture.
Above the bead burned what seemed In
-be two small balls ot (ire, without any
dame or smoke, and of such dazzling
brilliancy that the naked eye could
irnoly stand the glare for an instant. A
million little needles of variegated light
seemed t > be nerpedually shooting out
Irom the body of the lire, giving each
tne appearance of a small chestnut burr.
Looking at the light through smoked
glass they took on an entirely dtfieient
appearance. Tim little needles were
not there, end the eyes saw simply a
round ball of while fire, about the size
"! a small marble, seeming, m its
whiteness and the intensity ot its
beat, like a drop of molten met
Hi. Iwo of these small lights burned
there, rigged on poles, alnnit thirty
feel apart, in the large menagerie lent,
lighting up the place in such a way
that colors in doth could be distin
guished as completely as by the light
ol day. Passing into the next non
tigerie tent, the same sight was present
ed. Hero two electric lights produced
the same el fee I as in a first tent. The
brightness was wonderful. No moon
light ever sent out a tenth part ol
such brilliancy. So completely were
the tents illuminated that from the
outside could be plainly mcu on tin*
while canvass the shadow of tlm ani
mals and wagons, and even of the men
walking about inside.
But tlu> great scene was in the circus
lent. It was large enough lo contain
both the menageiie tents. Here were
six electin' lights, ’There were also
some gas lights. The gas must have
been there lor the sake ot (he contrast.
The dillereuce was remarkable. 'The
electric lights were of the purest and
sottcsl while; tlm gas lights, though
horning at a full head, seemed faded
and yellow. Although the electric
lights in this tent had globes on, as tlm
naked glare of them all must have
almost blinded the audience, every
nook and corner of the immense tent
was as blight as day. An idea of the
power of a single light of this kind
which ts said lobe the largist electric
light nude may be gained when it ts
known that vllowed to burn with
out a globe it will make a shadow out
of •( gas light.
There was great curiosity and no lit
tle anxiety among the circus people
and clcclri.t light men lo see the thing
work. 'The intention was to have it, it
possible, m operation on Ibu opening
night, Monday last, but when the time
ca tm it was found it could not be
done. Three or four experienced men
were sent on by the Telegraph Supply
company, of Cleveland, the mannluc
tnrers of the machine,lo gel it m order.
On Friday night every thing "as in
readiness, and the machine was put in
to operation. This is the first time the
eleetiie light has been used under
canvas, and its success has been a great
card to the inannfaeUirers as well as to
the circus managers. Tim latter have
bought tight to use it
under canvass Die cost of the ma
chine alone waa $15,000, It is the
largest machine of tlm kind made. It
is known us the Brush dynamo-electric
light, Charles Bush being the inventor.
Any one who understands anything
about telegraphy will be able In form
an idea of the way in which the ma
chine is run, There is a reguliu bat
tery, worked by a thirty horse-power
engine with a forty-horse power boiler.
This engine has been built expressly lor
Ibis electric, light ly the Fileliburu En
gine company, ol Fitchburg, Mass
achusetts, and is constructed on a
wagon, occupying one end while the
buttery occupies another. The battery
seems simple in its construction but ail
powerful in its eifects.
“Have any of yon gentlemen watches
in your pocket?” asked one of the elec
tric light men on Halnrday night as a
party gathered around the wagon,where
the engine was pulling away, lo exam
ine the battery.
Guo voice answered in the iilHrina
live.
“Miami buck, then,” said the electric
light man; “don't come within two feel
ol this buttery if you don't want your
watch spoiled.”
“What?”
“Jt will magnetize all the steel in your
watch, draw the springs toward any
steel screw it may have. It’s the at
traction of the magnetism. I've had
two watches spoiled in that way,”
All this lime a revolving shaft be
tween four Mocks of steel was whirling
with lightning rapidity. The four
blocks of steel and lh revolving shaft
were the all-powerful elements in pro
ducing tin ehctric light. These live
simple things, w ith one or two other
simple things in the way of copper
plate and wire, were, producing such a
tremendous current of electricity that,
in the words of one of the electric light
men, “if you were to stand ten miles
off anil touch that revolving shaft—or
commutator —with a piece of electric
wire, the wire would burn up like a
Hash.”
“Touch that copper-plate," said the
electric man, pointing lo a harmless
piece of copper on the edge of the
wagon near lire whirling shaft. One of
tlie patty did so, and jumped hack,
jerking his ami away us though he hud
been shot.
The four blocks of steel are the mag
nets. They are oval in shape and cov
ered with copper wire, coiled tightly
around them. The commutator re
volving between them is what generates
the electricity. It is run by a bell con
necting its one end with the Is-lt-wfteel
of the engine, it makes 750 revolu
tion* a minute, and with every revolu
tion the current of electricity travel*
once around the circuit, or in other
wools, around the wire which connects
the electric lights in (he different tents
with each other, and finally comes hack
lo the battery. The principle is the
same a* that of telegraphy. Twenty-
eight hundred foot of insulated cable
wire does the work. This is sufficient
to conduct the electric fluid through the
three Urge tents and half a dozen
smaller ones and hack again to the bat
tery. At intervals on this circuit are
the electric lights.
I'he Late Madame Boiiaparlp.
Among the many hundred editorials
elicited by the death of Madame Patter
son-Bonaparte in Baltimore, me follow
-1 inc from the Springfield, (Mass,,) LV
! pnWtoiu, is far from being the least in
teresting:
I here are other lives yet remaining
linked by one lie and another with the
first Napoleon, but none more t matk
■vli'e titan that of Maname Patterson-
Bonaparte, which closed at Baltimore
recently. It ts the province of some in
bistort to distinguish events hy their
contact with them, and the privilege of
others to be distinguished by their con-
I tael' with events; lint it was the peculiar
. distinction ol Madame Patterson to be
long to the last cla<s, and in spite of all
untoward circumstances to display the
qualities which hy common consent as
i signed bet to the first order among the
women whom the accident of marriage
and the mockery of birth united to the
fortunes et the Imperial family of
France. She joined tnosii fortunes 100
early and claimed Iter share in them too
late; both the uncle and the nephew
put aside her claims to a valid marriage
with Jerome Bonaparte, hut the long
stretch and perspective of her life en
abled her to take an equal, though dis
tant, interest in Gen. Bonaparte's cam
paign against England in Northern Af
rica, and the military excursion of his
grand nephew, the present Prince lm
vciial, to Znlnlaml in Southern Africa,
to witness another demonstration of
English power events a eeuturv apart.
It was a biilliant but doubtin'! match
she made in ISi>;s (who has not heard
the story) with (’apt, Jerome Bona
parte. He was tne youngest brother of
, the first eonsnl, in six months to be the
, first Emperor of France, but France in
i twelve years before had had one-lhinl
the constitutions which in the last
ninety years have sent a great country
rocking from license to despotism. There
was nothing there to make certain the
future ot the Bonaparles, and Miss Pat
terson belonged to that assured Ameri
can stock which had furnished the
financial management of our revolt!*
lion, and has continued to our own day
to direct the trade and banking of a
great sen port. The time came when
she was to be alone among the Bona
parles in the possession of assured
means, and she Inis never ceased to
rest h loud hope of her grandson’s sue
cesses to his uncle’s throne, which re
mained the last darling dream of her
old ngt, upon a fortune she had herself
amassed. It. hml been her fate never
lo do more than dream of an imperial
connection. Upon her marriage, the
young girl of seventeen found herself
excluded hy a policy which swayed the
court, and the military power
of France. Under the code Na
poleon, then a year old, ami In whose
highest tribunal site appealed, and ap
pealed in vain within our own lime to
establish the legitimacy of her offspring,
the record of her marriage was lormal
ly excluded from the reourdsnf France,
and the ntlleial journals of (he new em
pire announced that she might sot foot
w ithin its holders only a* the mistress
of lit r husband. Her youth passed,
while the cliques and cabals of Ht.
('loud, bv which the crowns of Anster
lilz, of Wagrani and of Jena were des
irihuled among the Bonaparles, pivot
ed around her reception. A French
licet watched her, ministers corres
ponded about her, her own family
dared entrust to cipher only the record
of her movements.
She had started to return to France
with her husband a year after her mar
riage. He was weak, cowardly and in
decisive They were separated. Kite
made the mistake of her life and look
refuge in England. Her son .was born
there. His hither been me king of
Westphalia. He olVered his repudiated
wile residence anil patrimony within
Ins dominions. Broad us they were she
retorted Unit they were not wide enough
for two queens. The answer won her a
pension, recognition and a place in the
family winch then ruled Europe, from
its chief, Napoleon I. She hml the pen
sion will) his full, she regained it when
a Bonaparte returned to reign in France.
Her recognized place in the imperial
family she never lost. She formed a
part of (hat shadowy circle of discrowned
kings ami soiled princesses who metal
Rome around the one member of their
family whose place in the church saved
him the fall of the rest, Gardinal Kesch
It came to pass that this American
woman, now middle-aged, was recog
nized as easily first of this discredited
throng, in grace, in charm and in en
dowment. Gorlschakotr, then distin
guished in a service lo which he has
since given fifty successful years, saw
in her abilities which might have de
layi and Hie fall of the great emperor and
the names of those who, like Inin, coun
seled the rulers of Europe. During the
long eelifise of tlie Napoleon family she
returned to Ballitnoie. poor, embittered
and disappointed. Hho had lost tlie
love of her father, and she had gained
nothing hut the empty praise of use
less abilities in her European career.
The rising splendor of the second em
pire she shared, hot site was denied
farther part in the honors of the impe
rial family, when hergraodsons attack
ed her husband's will, and her marriage
was brought to the rude test of a court
whose decree was again swayed by dy
nastic influence. lint she lived (0 see
Medan ns she had seen Waterloo; a;'d
tier two grandsons retain tlie name and
association with an imperial house
which it was her life-long struggle to
establish,
-• • •-
Insanity In Kiisslh.
According to statistics recently col
lected hy the government of Mt. Peters
burg there are in Russia about 100,000
insane persons. The Russian papers
have been complaining of the had con
dition ami management of the insane
asylums, which in most cases are of the
nature of barracks rattier than hospitals.
The Russian medical organs, have also
(liken the ground that insanity should
lie legally recognized as sufficient cause
for divorce, since it is a transmiasiole
disease;