Poetry
BIRTH OF THE FLOWERS.
BY G. M. P.
'fTb following! Jirro3j on llrjacfa
Death o( the Bowers we cup iruiu uie a. j . tve
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Tbe jcon dyi at lengtk have oosF.tbe gladdest
of the ytT.'-T-, - - . ,
X geutle wind and leafjy wood, green me4d And
In sheltered hoUow of tbagrow the floweret lifu
itMhead.
It tremble to the eddying breeze and to the rab
bit a tread. .
The robin and tbe wren have come, and in the
ahrobg iheJy.
Building his IK tie wicker-nest, is busy through the
flay.
Hot are the ower,-Ui fair young Bowers, that
- - lively sank and fell ' t. -
To winter's ahxie and winter's blast that BWt
thiYitiph varx dell.
Bnrrah I they all are in their bloom, this gentle
- raceef tfonrefsr'
Are brishtening np their lowly beds and trailing
. o er eur - .
Therain is falling where they blooey .but this gen
tie April rain
Oalli ont from every fragrant cell the perfume they
contain. . t
The wind flower and the violet "they came some
weeks ago, . . -r
And the briar rose and orchis feel the coming sum
mer'sglow;
Yet on the hill the golden rod and Me aster in the
srooW ; ( ;
And the yellow sunflower by the brook remain sa
last they stood, ji
-When fell the frost from the clear cold leaven as
falls the plague en men ;
And tbe briehtnees oftheir smile was g ne from
. upland glade and glen.
- -.- - V -. -- - xv.r r- -
And now when comes the. calm, mild day, as now
snch days do come.
To call the squirrel and the bee from out their win
ter home;.
When the sound of burs'ing bnd is heard, and the
woods are very still, .
And twinkle in he santif Esht lao Waters of the
riHr - " ; t t - .
The Bonfh Wind searches for the flowers, whose
breath he loves to bear:
And laughs to fijd them in the wood, and kisses
each one there.
T.
Andiheal look at cm Wlioss Says, in youthful
beauty glide. ' - - "
The fair meek flower Bow growing up, and bud
ding by my side.
In the Minny woods we lead her, when nature all
looks gay,
And we smile that one so lovely should so much
resemble May.
Tet not unmeet it is that one, like this little one of
ours.
So gentle and so beautiful, should be classed with
early flowers. j
BY G. M. P. Selected Miscellany.
MAN IN THE IRON MASK.
That Saint-Mars, on being transferred in
1698 lrom Exiles to the governorship of t Lie
' Bastille, brought with him to that lortresR
a prisoner whose face was hidden beneath
a black velvet masks, and that on the 29th
of November, 1703, the body of this pris-
oner was cairied to the church of St Paul,
the name inscribed on the register of bur
lals being Marchially or Marchioly, are
facts which no one has disputed. On these
facts, as all know, has been raised a huge
monntaiu of romance and fiction, come in
sisting that the man in the iron mask (the
iron being confined, it would 6eem, to the
springs which fastened it on the head) was
a brother of Louis XIV. ; others maintain
ed not less stoutlv that he was the Count
of Yermandois, or the Dute of Beaufort, or
even the ill-starred James Duke of Mon
mouth, who died by the warrant of his
uncle. James 1L - By others, again, he is
identified with Fouquet, also a prisoner of
Saint Mars at Pignerol, or with the Arme
nian patriarch. Avedickl Mr Topin be
lieves that he has not only set aside con
clusively every one of these suppositions,
but that he has proved beyond all doubt the
identity of the masked prisoner with one 01
the many persons with whom conjecture
and argument have been busy.
' By the treaty of Cherasco in 1631, Riche
lieu, while surrendering Piedmont and Sa
voy, contented himself with retaining pos
session of Pignerol as a gate of Italy; but
though the ambition of the reach kings
had thus apparently received a check, not
very many years had passed before the suc
cessor of Louis XIH, found much to en
courage him in the state of things in Italy.
The death of Charles Emmanuel had lett a
child as the Doke of Savoy, under the
guardianship of a mother who was neither
keen-sighted nor judicious. Mantua was
in worse plight. Its Duke, Chailes IV,
had wasted his substance and his health in
, riotous living, and found himself in the
hands of the Jews, to whom he had pledged
his revenue for many years to come. One
mode alone remained of getting the money
which he must have to prolong . his plea
sures, and this mode involved bo greater
sacrifice than the surrender of one of his
fortresses to the keeping of the King of
France. For the privilege of sending some
troops to Casal, the capital of the Marquis
ate of Monferrat, Louis was willing to pay
a high prioe, and the Abbe d'Estrades, his
ambassador at Venice, threw him self heart
ily into his master's plans. - With Casal
- and Pignerol the French King would com
mand the roads into Northern and South
ern Italy alike; and it remained only to
bargain, if the means for making it could
be found. The ambassador came to the
conclusion that the scheme could not, be
' better carried out than by the aid of Ercole
Matthioly, the minister highest in the con
fidence of the wretched Mantua Duke. By
means of a man named Giuliani D'Estrades
discovered the dislike which. : Matthioly
felt for the Spaniards, and urged on him
the advantages which would spring from
the alliance and protection of the French
King. Matthioly, far from showing any
reluctance to the plan, arranged an inter
view between the French ambassador and
the Duke of Mantua at Venice, and on the
8th of December, 167S, a treaty was sign
ed, by which the latter bound himself to
admit a French garrison into Casal, while
Louis was pledged to name the Duke General-in-chief
is
is
fn
on
to
to-day
the
to
in
of the French army, it one
should be sent into Italy, and to pay in two
instalments the sum of a hundred thou
sand Clowns.
Thus far everything had gone smoothly.
Matthioly had received from Louis XIV. a
letter full of thanks and good wishes, dated
March 13, 1678, and alter the signing of
the treaty he had been personally welcomed
with flattering distinction by the Grand
Monarch, who gave him a costly diamond,
and held out the prospect of far more splen
did rewards as soon as the treaty should be
ratified. Two months later the terms of
' the engagement were known to the Vene
tian Republic, and the courts of Turin,
Vienna, and Madrid; ; and Louis learnt, as
much perhaps to his vexation as to his dis
may, that the man who had done more than
any other to further his designs was the
man who had betrayed them. What the
motives of Matthioly may have been we
' cannot tell; and M. Topin rightly insists
that with these motives we ivallyare not
concerned. It is unlikely that he was the
mere little minded cheat and knave which
Louis and his ministers would represent
him to be; it is at least not improbable that
second thoughts may have led him to see
the dangers of French occupation in a light
in which he had not viewed them before,
and that under these feelings he may have
felt it his duty to do what he could to
counteract the effects of his own work. He
did not choose to counteract them openly;
French spies, as M. Topiu suggests, may
have rendered it almost impossible for him
to do so. But he assuredly made a false
step when he entrusted to the princess who
acted as Regent of Savoy the secret of all
that had passed between himself, the Dake
of Mantua, and the French King. The
Duchess lost little time in sending the news
to Louis; but Matthioly remained ignorant
of this fact, and went on without rrisgiving
in his double game. Lonis also thought
that the Italian could still be made to fulfil
the obligations which h-had taken upon
himself; but the irarcn of Asft-ld, who was
gent to receive the ratifications, was arrest-
ed at the instance of Matthioly, who failed
also to keep the appointment which he had
made for the same purpose with Catinat
Here, then, were important papers bearing
the signature of the French King and re-
. vealing his deigns nu Italy, iu the hands
ol an Italian state.- man who was likely to
use them as either his patriotism or his
greed might lead him. Under these cir
cumstances D'Estrades was not the man
to pause long in uncertainty. Knowing
the disposition of the Regent of Savoy, and
the necessities or perhaps even the secret
wights of the Mantua Duke, he thought he
saw his way clearly -for removing this ob
stacle at once and for ever from his mas
ter's path. This design he broached first
in a letter of April 8. 1679, to M. d Pom
ponne, who in reply wys that, whatever
may be done with : Matthioly,.it is of the
first consequence that the documents relat
ing to the cession of Casal should be re
covered. These documents it was sup
posed that Matthioly bore about his own
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VATIV
1870.
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person: at least D'Estrads knew that Mat
thioly had obtained for them the Duks's
signature, and that he knew where they
wera . On the 28Ui of April a despatch was
forwarded lolmn from fans, in wnicn
Louis tells him that, as he believes himself
able to make away with Matthioly without
ci eating any stir, the lung desires mm to
carry ont his plan and convey the prisoner
to PigueroL taking care that no one knows
who he is.
Before this despatch was received Mat-
thiolv was alre&dv a prisoner. With con
summate subtlety D'Estrades had brought
the Italian within his toils, and by holding
out to him the replenishment of his etupty
purse entrapped him to an interview vritn
Catinat, who had been designated to com
mand the earrison to be placed in poRses
sion of Casal. But the documents thus
eagerly sought for were not found on the
person ol tne prisoner. Atauuiujy jju
placed them in the keeping of his father;
lint the threats ol torture or aeatn, h ue
pendsted in withholding them, extorted
from him a letter, in which he begged his
father to forward to him all the papers by
the hand of the bearer, the very Giuliani
who had first opened negotiations between
D'Estrades and his future victim. One act
of the drama was thus played out. Louis,
in pere nptory terms demanded at Madrid
the release of the Baron of Asfuld. The
Court of Savoy was in complicity with him,
and he took care that no tididmgs from
Matthioly should ever reach Venice. The
report was spread that he had died acci
dentally on his way to Pignerol, where he
still lived under the rigid guardianship of
Saint Mars. The Duke of Mantua shewed
no sorrow at beinc rid of his old adviser
seemingly preferred French protection to
Italian freedom. The father of the stales
man thus torn from the world lingered
through the miserable remnant of his life
at Podua. His wife, believing herself a
widow, took the veil in a convent at Bolo
gna, and in the genealogical tree of the
family that place which should have re
ceived the date of Ercole Matthioly's death
remained a blank.
Of the prisoners thus brought to exiles
tinder a Btronc escort, and with circum
stances of peculiar precaution, M. Topin
holds that Matthioly was undoubtedly one.
Ho is eiDresslv called the old prisoner of
g
Riint-Mars.
Curtainlv it is not eapy to resist the con
clusion that this prisour must have been
Matthiolv. If it be admitted, the mystery
at an end. In March.' 1098. Barbezienx
expresses to Saint-Mars the pleasure which
his acceptance of the Governorship ol the
Bastille has eiven to the king. That tho
prisoner so brought to the Bastile was the
the prisoner who died five years later, and
whose name was entered on tneregisiersoi
the church of St Paul's as Marchialy, has
never been railed into question. The name
itself, it can scarcely be denied, is that of
the unfortunate statesman of Mantua. It
often found under the form Marthioly
the despatches of Louvois; it is also
written Matioli, Matheoli, Malhiali, and in
other ways.- In short, httlo weight in the
way of argument can oe attached to tne
mode of writing names, it may almost be
said, in aov historical age. Nor can more
stress, M. Topin urges, be laid on the al
iened imprudence of thus placing nis name
a public register almost at the very mo
ment when Matthioly's old master, the
Dnke of Mantua, entered Paris, to be bril
liantly entertained at the Luxembourg.
The feelings of Duke Charles had been ex
pressed with sufficient clearness, and it is
more than likely that Louis may have given
him. not without a certain sausiacuon, me
tidings that there was no longer need even
guard the man who had once made him self
troublesome to them.
The Decline in Rents.
The decline in rente in New York and
Brooklyn is certainly remarkable. There
appears to be a glut of both dwelling hous
es and stores in the market People leav
ing for Europe find difficulty in renting
their houses at almost any price. I heard
of a residence in Thirtieth street
which rented during the war for $5,000
annually, and which is now offered at $1,-
800 and no takers. . The proprietor is going
abroad for a year, and it looks as if he
would be compelled to hire some one to
take charge of the premises, owing to his
failure to secure a tenant A residence in
Lexington avenue rented last year for $450
month, furnished. The highest oner
proprietor can obtain this year is $225.
Landlords have had their harvest, and ten
ants are promised the privilege of obtain
ing homes again at something like reason
able rates. Many dealers in real estate
have been heavy losers by the fall in the
price of property. Since the close of the
war up till this year there has been a great
demand for real estate. Everybody who
could bought under the expectation that
values would materially advance; that with
Etrong influx and increase of popula
tion the price of real estate must continue
go up. They overlooked the fact that
there were thousands of Southerners in the
metroDolis who would return to Dixie as
soon as affairs became substantially settled
that quarter. '
A Silver Mountain—Is it a Fact or a
Fancy?
A San Francisco correspondent of the
Pittsburgh Chronicle 6ays:
A silver mountain is ud to exist in
New Mexico, fifteen miles from the Arizona
boundary line, A mysterious expedition
left the city two months ago for that re
gion, and the Bank of California was ru
mored to be the projector of it Its mem
bers were supplied with arms, money and
comforts, that no private enterprise could
afford, and it is an ascertained fact
that the corporation named previously
desjatched a force to that neighborhood,
to lay claim to something or omer, oi wnicn
ordinary mortals know not In connection
with this matter, lata Arizona papers men
tion the existence of a mass of silver rock
in that Territory. comprising 400,000 square
vards (they give details), which assays
from $200 to $2,350 per ton. It is certain
that froui time to time this story ofa silver
mountain is rejjeated by travelers lrom
that Indiau-hauuted f-ection, but until the
Apaches are exterminated, prospectors
would require a small army to protect vneui,
and then sttud a fir chance ol losing their
scalps.
More than was Bargained For.
Parisian journals relate that after every
court, hall at the Tauenes, tne magnm
eentiy uniformed Ont Gardes, upon divest
ing themselves of their high-heeled boots.
always hud a htUn-dovx in them, ine
Independence, Beige relates the following
anecdote iu regard to this:
One ot the invited guests had caught his
wife in the act of delivering a tender epistle
to one of the gala soldiers. The husband
wished to revenge himself on her, and
did so in a highly ingenions manner.
On the day after the court ball he was
seated, with Lis wife at tho table, when
suddenly the door bell rung very
violently. A servant entered the room and
suid: 'There is nt' the door a soldier who
desires ta see Madame. The lady turned
very pale, but the husband seemed not to
pay the slightest attention to it Next day
the same scene took place at the dinner
table, and the servant appeared again, say
ing, ' There is at t!ie dior a soldier asking
for Madame "Is it the same who
was there yesterday?"' "No." "I am
not at home." On the following days the
same scene was re-enacted.
Finally, the tormented wife could stand
it no longer, and so she said to her hus
band, "I am the victim of a poor joke.
Show the man the door." "Madame re
plied the husband, "I sent these persons
myself. You wished for a lde-a4ele with
soldiers; I fulfill your wish, and procure
you such a one every day. We have eight
hundred thousind men underarms; so you
may have visits from soldiers lor two hun
dred and twenty-two years." The lady
went to a convent
i
Private medical aid.
advertisement
Bead Dr. Whittier
THE ASSASSINS PUNISHMENT.
" The following thrilling story is from the
pages rof a book on Egypt just published
lrom the pen of Edwin DeLeon, for nine
years American consul general to Egypt
Daoud paused not longer to survey' the
victim of his treachery than to pluck his
dagger from the wound. Then raining the
body with difficulty in his arms, he dra
ged it to the river's bank and hurled it into
the turbid waters racing with a hoarse
murmur down toward the sea; for the cur
rent sea in near the bank on which he
stood.
Then, by a .sudden impulse, throwing
himself wildly on his knees, with the tears
streaming from hs eyes, the unhappy man
burst into an incoherent rhapsody of re
morse, prayer and supplication. to the lr-
gin Mary, that she might cleanse and pur
ify his soul from this, as from previous sins
vowing that he would devote the rest of Us
life to her service to workstif kindness
and charity; beseeching her not so much
for h'n own 6infol sake, as for that of her
vestal virgin, El Warda, whom ne would
henceforth make the guide and guardian
of his life; pleading for pardon on Xhe bank
of that lone river, with all the fervor and
earnestness of a criminal to an earthly
indce, sitting m judgment on him.
W hen he had finished his prayer heard
perhaps, at that higher bar, but to which
no answer was vouchsafed by sign or por
tent to his excited senses the Syrian rose,
wiped carefully all signs of blood from his
dagger, which he again stuck into his sash.
and descending the bank, again peered anx
iously into the rushes for the bark which
was to bear him across to Bhoda Island to
see the Prince Nezle Khanum.
At length he found it: a small boat like
a caique; very Iran and6iignt,- with two
slender oars. The river was at low water,
yet the current was very strong still, and
dangerous to be upset in, from the under
tow which was apt to drewn any one who
sunk in its tide, however good a swimmer.
The Syrian, however, was intent on other
things and eager to finish the interview
with the princess on which so much de
pended. He took but little heed of the
skiff, bnt launched it into the stream, seized
the oars and pulled rapidly away from
shore. Scarcely had he reached the strong
current, however, when he was surprised
to find the water rising round his ankles
in the bottom of the boat, which had been
dry when ne got into it - His subtle mind
immediately suspected treachery; and a
minute's investigation showed the trap set
for him by the princess, whose cunning
had devised the means of removing the
sole surviving witness of the tragedy plan
ned by her, although she took no part in it
With that conviction rose in the Syrian's
mind all the hatred and all the courage of
which his late thoughts had robbed him.
He would baffle this wicked woman yet;
save himself and secure from El Warda
herself without the intervention of an
otherthe performance of Ler promise!
He turned the rapidly-sinking boat back
toward the shore he had lelt; allowing it
to float downward with the current and
inclining it gradually toward the bank
that he might swim ashore at a point lower
down than he had launched it, and escape
the possible watch of the people of the
princess.
When at last the boat settled down, the
Syrian plunging into the stream and keep
ing his head well above it, struck out for
the shore at a point where be saw it shelv
ing down to the water's edge, fringed with
long rushes. Strong as the current was he
breasted it successfully and was reaching
shoal water with a heart full of good re
solves and thankfulness for his preserva
tion and rebounding from his late despair
when suddenly he saw to his surprise a
dark object resembling an old log floating
from the muddy bank toward him.
As there was no current from the shore,
this struck him as strange; but his sur
prise was changed into horror when the
object approached nearer, disclosing to his
gaze, under the bright moonlight, the scaly
back and unshapely bulk of the crocodile!
most dreaded of all the tenants of that
slimy flood, though but rarely seen so low
down the river.
As the monster moved through the wa
ter, with a movement indicating the vast
propulsive power in its short forearms and
muscular tail lashing the river into foam
as it forged onward Daoud could disting
uish its sharp snout elevated above the
flood, and the small, glittering, serpent
like eyes it fixed on its destined prey.
Each second brought the monster nearer;
while- the huge jaws would occasionally
open displaying the sharp double row of
glistening teeth which armed them then
close again with a snap like the music of
castanets, resounding through the stillness.
Imminent and deadly was the pent, as
Daoud well knew; but he lost not heart
nor hope. His nerves, steeled to danger
in its most fearful shape during bis recent
trials, did not fall him now. But he felt
a deadly sickness of heart, for an instant
at the new and hideous form of peril, thus
suddenly confronting him at the very mo
ment of his fancied escape trom all his dan
ger; just when he was making his good re
solves for a tranquil future.
Never before had he encountered this
dread monster; but he knew its nature and
its habits well; for he had often heard the
Arabs of the Upper Nile tell of their en
counters with, and victories over it; and he
therefore understood which way the path
of safely lay.
He allowed the greedy monster to ap
proach within two lengths of him simply
floating himself on the surface of the wa
ter, with a wary eye fixed on every move
ment of his adversary. Flight he knew
would be speedy and certain death. He
waited till he could see the very twinkle of
its hungry eye then dived down into the
flood, his dagger bare in his right hand!
The moment after the huge bulk ot the
crocodile seemed convulsed with a sudden
pans as it abruptly twisted itself round.
lashing the water into foam with its terrible
tail, and snapping its jaws fiercely togeth
er, while its snasy eye emitted spars a oi
fire!
Then it sullenly sunk under the water
too, and the calm moonlight shone on tne
rippling river, showing no form of man
nor reptile on its agitated surface. But
the water where the crocodile bad sunk was
discolored with a dark red stain, which
showed the Syrian's dagger had found a
vulnerable spot
He had dived beneath the scaly armor
which protected it from above, and struck
an upward blow.
Next moment the man rose again to the
surface, twenty yards further downstream,
and struck out vigorously for the shore, but
the current seized and tore him down stream
further. And on it floated in pursuit his
wounded, but not disabled enemy fiercer
and more savage from its injury, and dis
playing now those vast energies hidden
under its cumbrous and mau-cuiu crcw.
Thrice when on the very eve of being
seized and crushed between those mighty
jaws which vainly napped together like
the huge portcullis of some feudal castie
did the Syrian narrowly escape destruc
tion by suddenly diving down! And thrice
did he stab with his keen poinard into the
unprotected flesh ol his foe, under its fore
arm; whi.e deeper grew the tinge of the
waters, as the red stream guohed out
through tho great vital energies of the
amphibinm still sustained it under the
deep wounds of its desperate antagonist
whose human intelligence, crait and cour
age waged war against its superior strength.
At length it seemed unman intellect,
when backed by courage, was destined to
conquer brute force even in a conflict so
apparently unequal as this, for, after the
third plunge, tbe huge scaly bulk seemed
to float almost hopelessly upon the water;
the river ran red with the life-tide ebbing
from its ghastly wounds, and the dim eye
shone no more with hungry hate, but had
an almost human expression of agony and
despair lurking in its filmy and glazing
orbs.
The crooocide was evidently well-nigh
struggling in its death-throes, and the
mighty frame seemed contracted and con
vulsed with the near approach of the final
spasm.
. The man was nowhere to be seen.
Jttst then, panting, worn, exhausted, but
still unwounded, Daoud, the dagger in his
right hand, rose again to the surface, but
unhappily within a yard of the driftin
body of the almost vanquished monster.
The scaly thing saw him! and with
mighty effort of expiring energy, struck
out wildly with his strong tail. It fell, like
a flail, on the head of the Syrian, stretch
ing him senseless and powerless beside his
enemyl The next moment the dying cro
codile twisted his body round, opened hia
mighty jaws with a final and convulsive
effort and when they closed again, within
them was the writhing body ol the bynan
caught as in some huge trap, which ctush
ed bone, muscle, sinew, and flesh into one
undistincmishable mass!
And locked tight in. the ttasth-fpaSfii
those jaws never nnclosed again!
Bat the scaly bulk of the crocodile, bear
ing in its dead jaws the corpse of its des
trover, floated down the current of tho Nile,
under the still moonlight to the open sea
which was to retain the relics of both, un
til the hour shall come when that sea shall
give up its dead.
Rabbits Killed Him.
A certain Mr. John Hewitt a farmer at
Lea. in England, committed suicide a few
days back by taking poison. It was not
for love, for fear of disgrace, or for money
reasons in a direct way; it was all thron
rabbits. It appeared that of late he had
been frequently seen to look out of his
window, and had been heard to say, '
have sown my corn, but they'll eat it again
"Ihey were the rabbits. After he had
taken the poison, and just before he died
the poor fellow said, "1 cannot bear it any
longer; tbe rabbits have killed me.
Last year Mr. Hewitt towed some of his
fields twice over, and yet one field of six
teen acres only yielded him six quarters.
The conevs may be a "feeble folk," yet they
are formidable enough when acting in large
bodies, which seems to be their way down
in the midland counties. The story is in
deed sad. The poor man saw ruin staring
him in the face, and he had not fortitude
to stand up against it What a horrible
idea is that of a wretched man driven half
crazy by despair, and seeing rabbits around
him in his last moments, as a worn-out
drunkard sees 6nakes !
One of the host remarkable canards of
the age is the one that originally professed
to have come over the cable, setting forth
that German capitalists had been officially
warned against investing in Americas rail
road bonds. Fabrications of this kind, set
afloat to influence the market values of
stocks and bonds, are, unfortunately, not
rare things. But the desperate efforts made
to ke p the present one alive by shifting the
authority for its pseudo promulgation has
rendered it exceptional, i irst it was sa
died on the Prussian Government; next on
the seniors of the Berlin Stock Exchange;
lastly, on the North German Consul-Gen
eral at New York. The latter gentleman
denies, in the most indignant and positive
terms, ever having written a syllable on the
subject It will now be in order to ascribe
this most unauthorized of all unauthorized
reports to the memory of Munchausen.
A Nasbow Escape from the Coils of a
Black Snake. Yesterday a party were
rambling in the woods near the town of
Newfane, when one of the youngest, a lad
about twelve years old, named "'Cob"
Waif h, stepped accidentally upon the tail
of a black snake. Like lightning the ser
pent raised its length one of six feet and
three inches into view, and wound it
around the boy's leg, at the same time ad
vancing its head in the snake-like, threat
ening manner. It is needless to say that
the boy was scared, and there is no guess
ing at tho result ot the fierce attack had
not the spunk of a dog accompanying
them been roused to the pitch of taking
hold of the serpent, at which tie black
coils were loosened, and his serpentine
majesty dropped to the ground; after
which he was summarily dispatched by a
well-directed shot from a gun in the hands
of a young man accompanying the party.
Lockport Journal.
Respecting emigration to this country
the English correspondent of tbe Boston
Commonwealth writes under date of April
2G: "Never before has there been such a
tide of emigration setting towards America
from Liverpool as now. Yesterday 2.300
persons embarked, the very best class of
farm and mechanical laborers. They are
generally married, with families. The Ger
man and continental element was strongly
represented amongst the vast congregation,
nearly one-half of the number of emi
grants being foreigners of some kind, the
remainder consisting of English, Irish and
Scotch. To-day it is expected that 1,500 or
,GO0 will leave. Many of the far-western
states and territories have agents here and
on the continent looking up willing emi
grants. The Northern Pacific Railroad
Company are organizing a vast schefue for
securing builders of their road this sum
mer.
Goon Friday Paris consumed 280 pounds
of salmon, 110,000 pounds of salt codfishes.
1,000 head of water fowl (nuiigre), 5,000
pounds of beans, 40,000 pounds salt her
rings, 3,000 pounds fresh shad, 1,500.000
pounds eggs, 6,738 pounds of bntter. Dar
ing Lent 70,000,000 red eggs are sold. They
are colored in an immense vat which con
tains 14,000 eggs. The vat is filled with
water saturated with alum, and which con
tains a great many chips of Campeachy
wood. The latter dyes them. About 200
eggs are broken in every 14.000; the broken
eggs are sold to calfichel makers this is a
sort of bread or cake given to cage oiraa.
The largest boiler of red ggs clears his
$4,000 gold daring Lient these eggs are
hawked about town on barrows.
A cobbesponpent of the New York Even
ing Post tells a very pretty story of a visit
ot Clara Louisa Kellogg to the Utica Luna
tic Asylum a few days since. She went in
to the cells assigned to the worst patients,
and there warbled some, of her choicest
notes for the delectation of the mad peo
ple. They crowded about with the mcst
intense curiosity, closely examining ber
lothing aad ornaments, and even mani
fested considerable interest in her "pretty
little boots." Miss Kellogg did not seem
to dislike these little familiarities. Several
in the exuberance of their delight wanted
to kiss the sweet singer, a privilege she
permitted, and with genuine emotion the
received the greeting and returned it in
kind. This little incident beautifully illus
trates the character of the talented prima
dona, and shows the power of music and
kindness over the distracted mind.
Smells a Mick. The Crown Princess of
Prussia went the other day to the store of a
crown jeweller in Berlin in order to pur
chase a diamond necklace. She selected a
very beautiful one, when, to her surprise,
she noticed that the jeweller, who waited
on her himself, told her that she need not
buy it The significant smile with which
the dealer in gold and diamond accompa
nied these words, led her to believe that
her husband, the Crown Prince, had pur
chased the necklace for her as a birthday
present that happy day coming off in the
course of a week or two. So she went
home, but on her birthday, she received
from her husband not the necklace, but
only a pair of fine ear-rings. Then she
suspected something wrong, and at the
next coart-ball she examined with the ut
most attention, the necklaces which the
various noble ladies wore. Finally a very
beautiful yonng Countess entered the hall,
and on her neck the Crown-Princess dis
covered the necklace. She stepped quickly
up to the Countess and asked her in an
imperious tone who had given her the
necklace. The young Countess, greatly
frightened, faltered out that she had re
ceived it from His Royal Highness, the
Crown-Prince. The consequence was that
the Couutess was notified that her presence
at Court was no more desirable.
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A THRILLING SCENE.
Two Men on the Cross of the Cathedral
at Cincinnati.
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
Spanish brothers, Rodriqnez by
name, went to Father Edward Purcell and
asked leave to put in order the lightning
rod that runs up the tall spire of the cathe
dral at the corner of Plum and Eighth
streets. The father told them the insula
tors on the rod were broken, and other re
pairs to it, no one could tell how much
were needed, but he besought them to put
up scaffolding in order to get at the rod
which was to be repaired. . Having been
commissioned to do tho work they pro
coeded to the execution of it without
delay. Coming out of the 6pire at
one of the Lonvre windows, ' just
above the dial-faces of the tower, the
meu . ETOig a ladder parti by a rope
dropjit d down fjrom - a -U i$f-aperture
just It low the base of the spire and partly
by its own hooks caught upon the stone
molding around the next story above of the
tower. Up this pendulous ladder one of the
men clambered, hanging to the rungs like
a parrot to its perch. On the ledge of the
molding the hooks of the ladder hung to
was a good base of operations. A half
dozen ladders were provided. Une was
drawn up and planted on the new base and
la.died in place both at the top and the bot
tom. .The top touched the last ledge of
molding in the ascent the base out of
which the tower arose. On the streets for
squares distant along Plum in both direo
tions and aloug Eighth easlwardly wit
nesses watched the ascent, while near
the scene the pavements were lined with
spectators. The two brothers were on the
scene by this time, and the ascent up the
soire proper had been commenced. The
first ladder of this final series rested on the
base of the spire, and was lashed to it both
at the top and the bottom by ropes pass-
ng around tbe spire, the two men carried
second ladder up this ono, lashing the
bottom of the former to the top of the lat
ter. The next thing was to secure this last
addition of climbing apparatus. One of
the brothers climbed it while the other
held its base. Up in that dizzy height
rope was . thrown around the spire,
and the top of t e last ladder secur
by it until five or six ladders
were strung in the series, the topmost reach
ing within two or three feet of the base of
the cross, which terminates the spire at a
height of ZTZ feet above the bnse of the ca
thedral. When the line of spliced ladders
had crept up the eastern face of the spire to
this position, a ladder with hooks at the top
was carried up and hooked upon the crosa
one of the brothers ascended this, took a
position first upon an arm of the cross and
then stepped up and stood erect upon the
very top of the upright portion of the stone
cross. Standing there he unscrewed the
top of the lightning rod and tossed it ta the
ground. Several variations of the perform
ance took place about this time. Once both
brothers were on the opposite arms of the
cross. The standing upon the top of the
cross and the climbing about its arm con
tinued for some time, when tho mnn de
scended, leaving their ladders for a con
tinuation of the performance. The crowd
cheered when the top of the cross was
reached that is the boys in the crowd
cheered. The men were sober observers.
One strong fellow turned from the sight
with the remark that it was too much for
nerves. Others shuddered audibl v and
wished aloud for the men to come down.
still continued to look. Men who had
passed at 4 o'clcck, when the work began,
returned and saw it completed at sundown.
Everybody expresswd relief when the men
came down, and many gave vent to regrets
that the perilous work would be continued.
Didn't Catch the Train.
The mo6t difficult thing (says a cynical
batch. ) in the world for a woman to do
to get ready to go anywhere. And there
nothing a woman will resent quicker or
more fiercely than an intimation that she
may possibly miss the train. Our friend,
Brayfogle, gives ns an instance of this.
Braytogle was supposed to take the ten
clock train on the Bee Lane, to visit some
relatives in an interior town. Having suf
fered on previous occasions for injudicious
suggestions. Bray thought for once he would
things take their own course. So he
sipped his coffee and ate his eggs on toast
while madauie curled and powdered and
danced attendance on the lookiug-glass
tied hair on tho back of her bead.
Then Bray sat by the stove an hour
reading the morning paper, while the mad
am e still continued to get ready. At last
as he had reached the final paragraph,
inadaruo tied her bonnet strings under her
took one long, lingering, loving look
the image re Hoc lea in tbe glass, and an
nounced: "Well, my dear, I'm ready."
Heady lor what?" asked Bray, in well
affected astonishment
To go to tho depot, to be sure." said
Mrs. Brayfogle, tartly.
Oh I said Bray, "I d forgotten. Well,
madame," continued he, looking at his
watch, "that train has been gone thirteen
minutes. Just keep on your things, and
you'll be ready for the train to-morrow
morning."
We draw a veil over what followed. Y e
assured, however, that the next morn
Mrs. B. was ready an hour ahead of
time.
A New Yobk correspondent writes:
While passing down Broadway a few days
my attention was attracted by several
puotocrapbio views of great size hanging
front of the railroad ticket office at the
corner of Spring street, and which I at
once discovered were correct representa
tions of some of the many localities of
wonderful beauty and interest to be seen
every one who travels over the Pennsyl
vania Central lUilroad. Although the
grandest scenery this country affords is
thus correctly portrayed by the artist noth
ing in language or art can describe the
thrill of delight one experiences in ascend
ing to the highest peak of the Alleghanies
moving amidst clouds and a delightful
atmosphere, and at the same time enjoying
perfect luxury afforded by palace cars.
When we consider that this is one of the
constructed and managed roads in the
country, aud, with its connections, is the
shortest route to all points East, its great
popularity with the public is readily ac
counted for."
Suppression op Letters and Papees.
Roman correspondent of the Times says:
Every day I have testimony to the fact of
espionage and restraint exercised with
more rigor than ever by the Roman police.
printed word is allowed to como into or
out of Rome if it is not of a tone set by
key of the Inquisition. Look sharply
it if you wish to make sure of your let
ters, either received or sent The keeper
one of the principal reading rooms for
foreigners tells me that there has been no
profit but rather a loss, in maintaining the
establishment the past reason. Subscribers
enough he would have, but his newspapers
suppressed at the po-doffice if a word
found in them criticising anything which
done here. Sometimes not more than
number of the Loudon Times is deliv
ered to him in a week, while the petty in
justice is added of making him pay the
postage on the numbers destroyed. If
there is a word of expostulation the reply
"Keep your month shut or yon will have
your shop sb. it also." The authority does
relax any of its old despotic brutality,
seems to exult in giving new proofs ot
how bad a government of priests can be.
A family in Newport, L. L, turned up
their noses very perceptibly at their tea
cake, the other night There was nothing
matter with it only it was flavored
with spirits of camphor instead of essence
lemon.
The London Standard, in an editorial
article, admits the Sappho's victory, and
hopes it will be the last heard of "interna
tional matches," which do nothing but fos
tec mischievous jealousy.
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FAST TYPE-SETTING.
A Word Apprentices—The to
A Word Apprentices—The Key to Fast Type-Setting.
From the Printers, Circular of May.
The subject of fast type-eettiug is at pres
ent meeting wun considerable attention at
the hands of printers, and we frequently
receive communications asking our advice
as to the best and surest method of besom-
ing an expert. An answer nere to tbe fol
lowing will probably save us from writing
numerous others; and as the suggestions
are given rather as aids to the desired end
than infallible rules, they may possibly
prove acceptible to others than beginners:
arw xOBK, April 14, 1870.
To the Elilor of the PrirUer' Circular:
Sia:-Tho fact of certain compositors being
Bine 10 bet type uiucu more rapniiy loan otn
era, naa orten led mo to query in my own
mind the cause of it. After having s'.udied
thu queatiou cloudy, both exDerimuiitallv
and theoretically, I have concluded that there
can be but two causes: be who is a "alow
compositor (and they are by no mean scarce )
has either not had a thorough apprenticeship,
or eino mere is -a incK in toe tradtt" which
the great majority of compositors have failed
to recognize, uccunvme the DOt-ition von
do, and being conversant w th all topics aud
publications connected with typography. I
deem you more competent to give enlight
enment on mis suDiect tnan anv one 1 know
of. What I want to know is simply this: Do
you Detieve in systematic (with reiercnce to
speed, of conre'e,) type setting? or. iu other
wordd, in there a practical ken to fast tvne-
setting t . w. q. u.
We do believe in systematic tvpe-
smmg, and systematic type-Uiwrumting
aiso, as the latter, by giving tbe comuosi
tor confidence in his case, will be found to
materially accelerate his speed. The action
of a man working out of a dirty case is not
unlike tbe walk of a blind man hesitalinc.
halting, and groping he knows not where,
or upon wnat; wane tne action or one
working at a clean case is like the firm
tread, and confident, forward step of the
man blessed with sight. Of course, we
have seen "butchers and "space-benders
who could rattle up their fifteen or eighteen
hundred ems an honr out of a rs that
would disgust an ordinary compositor; but
a sight of their proofs was always sulfioient
to stifle anv feelin ers of envy which might
have arisen upon witnessing their speed.
A clean case, therefore, we consider one of
the first elements of fast tvDe-settinc. en.
abling one to compose without stopping to
sort out the case, or losing time afterwards
in "cobbling" on what should have been
nearly perfect
A determination not to make auy false
motions, however fruitless it may at first
appear, will in a day or week visibly in
crease the number of ems Bit: that is, by
sighting the nick before tbe hand goes out
to pick up the type, so that when it is tak
en by tbe thumb and forefinger, there need
be no necessity for turning it around to
see where the nick is, the arm meanwhile
making a false or lost motion that would
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have sufficed to bring another type into the
stick. These false motions not only con
same time, but become chronic and increase
in number and intensity, so that we fre
quently see men fairly shaking themselves
to pieces, and only setting, probably, five
or six hundred ems an hcur. We have
known men who had acquired this nervous,
jerky style in setting type, and making two
or three motions for every typo secured,
almost entirely rid themselves of the super
fluous "shakes by adopting a slow and
measured style, apparently unremanera
tive at first, but which gradually quickened
into systematic speed. We therefore con
sider an avoidance of false motions essen
tial to fast type setting.
Onr observations lead us to the conclu
sion that the use of a "guido," in newspa
per or ordinary book work, is a drawback
rather than an aid to the compositor. A
peculiarity of most fast printers is their
quickness of sight, enabling them to see
from the "corner of their eyes," as well as
directly in front of them. This readiness
of sight is diminished rather than culti
vated by keeping the eye straining continu
ally on a point directly in front; and the
time supposed to be gained in always hav
ing the place, is more than lost by the time
spent in tampering with the guide. Be
sides, the effort to remember the place
where he leit oft, compels a man to carry in
his head the sense of what he is setting,
resulting in well punctuated, intelligent
work. We cannot at present, recall a fast
printer addicted to tbe use of a guide,
while the very slow ones invariably use
them.
We will be pleased to receive and will
gladly publish any suggestions in aid of
fast type-setting, either as the experience of
those who have gained distinction as "rat
tlers,' or as the observations of those who
have in silent awe watched their move
mentstypographical Boswells to dicta
torial Johnsons.
The Delights of the Prize Ring.
A correspondent gives the following
items of the late Mace-Allen fight:
The fight was remarkable in the general
good feeling . that prevailed, even to the
fighters. In the long sparring of the first
wound Mace remarked, "It's like two
brothers fighting;" and Allen answered,
"That's so, Jim." When Mace struck
Allen the first blow in the stomach, he
asked, "How do you like the 'darby,'
Tom?" And when Allen drove Mace's
breath oat of him, and made him gasp,
Mace remarked, when he recovered and
came up again, "It yon do that again,
Tom, I'll have to hit yon on
tbe nose," and Allen laughed. When
Allen cut through Mace's shoe, into his left
foot with his spikes, he said, "I beg your
pardon; I didn't mean to," and Mace smil
d as he responded, "All right Tom." By
the way, in one of the falls Mace spiked
Allen in the right thigh. Before they put
their hands hp Mace took a roll of money
Land offered to make a side bet with Allen.
Instead of doing this publicly, as is the
custom with most fighters (Allen excepted)
he walked up quietly to Allen's corner and
made the ofler,which was not accepted.
It was in the second round that the most
terrible blow of the battle was struck, when
Mace put his left bang against Allen's right
eye. The blow must have been square on
the eye, for it made Allen wild. In the
rush that he made for Mace then he missed
him by two feet whirled around, threw
his right hand up to the eye, thonght the'
eye was "gone" forever, uttered an
"Oh!" and dropped. In the filth
round Mace got Allen's head under
his right arm and punched him five
times in the face before Allen could squirm
down and catch him for a throw; and then,
when Mace fell, he still held Allen's head
and neck, and as Allen's body and legs went
into the air, the top of his head struck the
ground with Mace's arm still around it, and
shudder went through a thousand men
with the idea that Allen's neck was broken.
And it was remarkable, indeed, that he
escaped.
Bran fob Hoos. In answer to your re
quest lor "careful experiments" in bran
feeding, (p. 216) I submit the following:
Aboat August 20th, 1&CJ, I had a sow that
from suckling six pigs had become very
thin estimated weight 100 pounds, or per
haps a little less. She was kept iu a small
pen with a plank floor fed exclusively
with coarse rye brin, slightly moistened
with cold water. Killed Dec 1st; dressed
weight 29G pounds. The sow was small,
and of the kind that I know as "grass
breed." The pork is equal in every respect
"best cern-fed." Country Gentleman.
In speaking of Mr. Jones, the missing
Superintendent of the New Hampshire Re
form School, the Concord Patriot relates
that his elder brother, when quite a young
man, asked his father one day lor money.
Tbe father replied, "Yon ought to earn it
Yon have never paid for the salt yon have
eaten." That day the yonng man disap
peared. He returned after some weeks'
absenae and offered his father several dol
lars, saying, "This will pay the salt bilL"
Subsequently, taking offense at something
done in the family, he again left without
notice, and has never been heard of since.
THE ASTOR ESTATE.
The Method in Which a Millionaire.
Conducts His Business.
Mr. Astor's land office is in Prince street,
near Bread way, New York, about a quarter
of a mile lrom his residence As he don't
advertise one might pass the little brick
office without noticing the six by ten sign
"Entrance next door" without realizing
that the spot wherein he stood was the cen
ter of a kingdom. "Next door" is a nLdn
brick building, being the first fire proof
aepository oi deeds aud other valuable pa
pers. Here three or four clerks are busily
euipioyea. ana a small omce is nccnniAH
by the real estate king. The plan of let
ting houses which prevails here is this:
The buildings aro registered in a book, and
are carefully described, so that at a glance
one can see the size of the lot and that of
the house and all its improvements, to this
is attached the rent and length of lease.
rhis book is diligently studied. esneoialU
about the first of February, which is the
time for making new leases. When the
rent is determined for the coming year, it
is a settled thing, and no one need to try
to beat down.
It was a fortunate thing for the Astor
estate that it was . located on the west, in
stead oi tne east side of the citv, since the
one has improved three times as fast na th
viucr. Auia incessant improvement re
quires a frequent increase in the magic fig
ures in :he rent tolL For instance, the
nil. rri.:. - .
eight stores in the basement of the Asto
House, when first opened, were dear at
$1,500 apiece; but then came the gradual
-BucKinsr em up. uutil they now brincr
5o,uuu. air. Astor fixes a rata wWh i
Knows be can get and then, makes no ab
atement If yon inquire at his officn fnr
me rent of any of his buildings. th clerk
wi:l refer to the book and at once give von
a conclusive answer. The next auesti jn is
mo amount oi renairs to Which it mav h
entitled, which is generally a very fruitful
source of disputes between landlord and
tenant, air. Astor confides thin tn a man
wco has been many years in hi
service.
Vreeland by name and carpenter by trade,
Ij"- Vreeland is Astor's house inspector,
and his report is final. If von can ner-
8iade him that any specific repairs are ne-
cesary, your point is won, if not, you need
K no farther. Mr. Vreeland has a fnr
01 workmen, who are thus kept busy. Mr,
Aor has one advantage over other land
lords, lie pays no msnrance. He is his
own underwriter, and saves all the profit
of that expensive business. Were he to
patronize insurance companies, and ap
praising his houses at $5,000 apiece, he
would have to pay $25,000 annually for
premiums, where his actual fire risk will
not average one-third of that amount In
deed, he has been very fortunate in this
point aud I doubt if his loss by fire durin
the last twenty
years will equal $5,000 a
year.
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Adventures of Two English Gentlemen
in Rich Female Detection
and Arrest.
From the Pall Mall Gazette, April 29.
At Bow street a great crowd assembled
this morning to hear the evidence against
two gentlemen ho had been detected by
mo pouco in irequenung tbe strand Tbea
ire uressea as women. Their names were
truest Boulton. aged 22. of 43 Shirland
road. Paddington, gentleman, and Freder
ick William Park, aged 23, of 13 Barton
street, Berkley Square, law student Hugh
Alexander Muudell, aged 23, of 153 Buck
ingham Palace road, gentleman. . was
charged with having been found ia com
pany with the prisoners, but he told the
Hilice and assured the magistrate that he
believed they were women. He had met
them on the previous evening, aud had
agreed to accompany them to the theatre.
The evidenco of the police went to show
that the prisoners were dressed in a fash
ionable manner as women in fact they ap
peared to-day in court attired as they were
at tbe theatre last night
Boulton was dressed in a fashionable
crimson Bilk, trimmed with white lace. He
wore a flaxen wig with plaited chignon.
His arms and neck were bare. He had
bracelets, and a white lace shawl around his
shoulders. Park wore a green satin dress
with pannier, flaxen wig curled, white kid
gloves, bracelets, and black lace shawl over
his shoulders.
On their rooms being searched, quanti
ties of women's clothing and jewelry were
found, as well as a number of chignons.
There were also photographs of the pris
oners dressed as women in various styles.
On being cross-examined, the officers si ated
that they did not see the prisoners commit
any act ot impropriety; they were, how
ever, bowing to gentlemen in the ttiUis.
They had been seen about the theatre for a
fortnight but it was not supposed that they
were rreu.
Mr. Flowers said tho completeness of the
disguise only made the offense the greater.
He should have taken them for women
himself. The defense was that the dis
guiss was assumed "for a lark." Mr. Flow
ers refused to believe this, ne thonght it
qnito possible that Mnndell might have
been deceived, and would therefore allow
him to go on entering into recognizances
in 100. The others would be remanded
without baiL.
Wanted Wives. There is a loud call for
women in Washington Territory. A thou
sand virtuous girls, writes one wno lives
there, are wanted. In the county where
the correspondent resides there are 400
men and only 23 adult white women. Tlie
region is fertile, and farmers rau-n 50
bushels of wheat to the acre. Yet w hat
is all this worth? For, says the corre
spondent, the farmer "enters his dark
house at night, has to light hi-t own fir9
and cook his own supper, without a soul
to talk to or to cheer and euconrae him.
He lives miles from his nearest neighbor.
This continues day after day and week af
ter week. On Sunday he tanst wash and
mend his own clothes. This is what all
have to go through who settle on a piece
of land unless they are married. Man
can't stand it." In some cases Indian wo
men are taken for wives, so great is the
demand. - Here is an opening for thousands
of uu protected Eastern girls who can hard
ly b.i;-;nrt themselves and wboie hopes of
ronrriac are worth little or nothing. The
East it overstocked with girls. In the
great West there is a shocking scarcity of
them. These are, or ought to be, valuable
facts to enterprising girls everywhere.
A Ghostly Sight. At miduight, in a
street in Omaha, a black horse, carrying a
ghostly figure clad in white, with long hair
streaming in the win 1, recently appeared.
The few pedestrians in the streets fled at
the nar approach of the apptrition, save
one, who at length mustered nrage, and,
siezing the bridle of the coal-U.ick steed,
enforced a halt Then spoke th "sheeted
dead," awakened by the stoppage, aud ex
plained. She was a somnambulist, residing
near the corner of Eighteenth and Webster
Sw.. and having escaed from the precau
tions which usually interfered with her
sleep-walking tendencies, had actually sad
dled, bridled, and mounted her father's
horse. Having explained, she f". :tund
from her interlocutor, not exactly putting
spurs to her horse, since that w.w, nnder
the circntustances, imprncticitble. By tbe
tima it is supposed she hud ret n rued to her
father's mansion, the other peJestriaus
again mane their appearance on the street,
armed with stick, stones and brickbats,
with a view of attacking the ghost The
explanation repeated by their braver com
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pThe crops in Indiana are decidedly
romising. The Chicago Tribune says
that it is pleased to state that the most
cheering accounts of growing crops, both
of grain and fruit, come in. A careful re
view of the state papers shows that more
than an average breadth of wheat has been
sown this season, and that thus far the
prospects are most excellent for a heavy
yield. In large and small fruits, despite
the fear of the late frosts, there seems to
be no possibility of failure.
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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Facts and Figures.
Now that the great trial la all over, Mr.
Mac'arland wants one simple act f justice
done him,' and that is that people will spell
his name, not "McF but Mac, with a
small f,r thus "Macfariaad," . .
' Th Greek "brigands very kindly took
their captives up to the village church tt
attend service about half an hour before
miMKHwreiug mem. iw snort or expense
was spared to make things pleasant for the
victims.
It is said that Brigham Youtg has an
eye turned toward Mexico, if there is sea
attempt mado to compel him and his saints
to abandan polygamy, and that Jaurez is
willing to receive him and his wives with
open arms.
Thje fashionable shoe for ladies is made
seven inches high, with an inch and a half
heel, a Spanish instep, arched sole, a mov
able heel of gilt or silver, with an India
rubber tip to deaden the sound, and thev
cost from $8 to $20 a pair. . ,
It is declared that th 9 case of the English
criminal sentenced to be hanged, and who
could not be executed owing to a malfor
mation of the neck, has done more to for
ward the cause of abolition of capital pun
ishment in Britain than the efforts of the
philanthropists for a hundred years.
At Belvidebb-on-Thames, England'
there is an asylum for old sailors. Not
long since an election took place, there be-,
ing twelve times as many candidates as
vacancies. Wm. Moses Blanc hard was one
of the candidates elected to a vacancy, and
Walter Ryan to an out door pension. The
announcement of there facts to them oeca-
sioned their deaths by excess of joy.
A hotel bell boy in Detroit proves to be
girL She has worked on a canal as
driver, on a steamer as cook, and in a chair
factory, without her sex being discovered. .
She wears her hair "shingled, " can smoke,
sometimes drinks, and says that when she
gets very mad she ran swear too. She is a
remarkable specimen of the wild girl of
the West -
A banteb's "imp" in Detroit, sandy
haired and speckled-faced, working for $5
per week, astonished his employers and
the compositors in the office by getting
married the other day. Their jibes, how
ever, were cut short when they learned
that he had married an heiress, and that
his wife could buy halt a dozen establish
ments like that in which her liege lord
was serving an apprenticeship.
Flik has a $35,000 turnout for Long
Branch this season. It is a pretty good
sort of a wagon which he will ride in, and
six horses will drag it The first or wheel
span, will be composed of "nigh" black
horse, and a white "off" horse; the middle
span will be a nigh white and black off, and
vice versa for the leaders, and with these he
will run his checkered career "on the beach.
Long Branch."
A tbavzleb, who demanded his trunk at
Baltimore depot before all others and was
to'd by the lrisn baggage-master that he
must have patience and wait his turn.
turned upon the bassr ace-master with.
"You're an impudent doe." To which he
the trunks rejoined: "An' faith, ye are a
monkey, and it's a great pity that when we
two were made bastes, ye wasn't made an
iiiphant, so that ye could have for blasted
trunk under yer nose all the time."
A Dim. was fought the other day at Mav-
ence between two military officers, Captain
Bibra and Lieutenant Rocqoes. in which
latter was killed. At a review Lieuten
ant Rocques saluted his superior officer,
who "cut him by net returning it, and
when questioned afterward about the mat-'
gave a rude answer. So the Lieuten
challenged him and was killed, because
man would'nt return his bow.
Not a Compunction. I did shoots barcr-
I have good reason to believe he was a
whito man; possibly a light-colored negro.
believe a man was seen lying dead in the
bushes. He was hurried out of sight by
some confederate, early in the morning. I
believe he belonged to a gang which that '
shot was the means of hurrying out of
town; I know not; but I know I have no
compunction for his death.
The Bbjtish MusEinc. The British Mu
seum has cost the Government nearly
$20,000,000, and it now costs $60,000 a
to maintain it, or more than a dollar
every person that visits it Bat the
Ntrth Kensington Museum, which costs
Li visited by three times a many peo
ple. The difference is in the management
rather than in the attractiveness of the col
lections.
The Gbeat Pio-Pen Cash. The "Hook-
pig-pen case" ought to rank with the
Pickwick trial. Years ago, a pig-pen stood
the road in Hooksett, New Hampshire,
inmates whereof innocently frightened '
horse or a passer-by, causing injorje
the rider. The "injuree" straightway
the town as the injurer, and won the
but a higher court has now absolved
town from all responsibility.
A Boston man proposed to visit New
York recently, via the Hartford & Erie R.
As he was a little early for the train, he
bought a newspaper, and after looking at
stock sales, picked up his valise and
started up the street "I thought you were
going to New York by this router' said a
friand. "WelL'so I was, but I'll be hanged
I'll go over a road when a share of its
stock is worth less than a single fare."
A San Fbancisco school teacher received
following: "I hope as to my John,
will flog him just as offin as yon kin.
Heas a bad boy is John. Altho I've bin
habit of teachin him myself, it seems to
he never will lam anithing his spellin
ottragously defishent Wallop him well.
and yon 11 receive my thanks, r. P.
What accounts for John being sich a schol-
is that be is my sun by my wife a mat
husband.'
The family of one of the victims of the
ilisaster in Richmond, living in Sydney.
are very poor, ancLnot knowing where
apply for aid to defray the expenses ol
funeral, they were fain to bnry him in
garden by candle light There, gather
ed around the open grave dec by their
hands, the little group of sorrowful
friends committed the corpse with tear
sobs to its last resting place.
A lost cbtld at Bedford, Pa., one day
week exeited the entire town. All the
citizens turned out to hunt, and the next
one of them found the child sitting by
trunK oi a uvuen tree about one mile
where the parents live, calling for its
mother. He accordingly picked it up and
carried it home. The child appears
be none the worse off for this bit of ro
mance, notwithstanding the whoepincr
cough at the time, and was exposed to very
inclement weather.
Two drovers went to sleep in a caboose
at Fort Wayne, last Saturday night.
hanging up on a pin a carpet-sack contain
$5,000. Some fellow who saw it, reach
in and got the carpet-sack, but afterward
went in through a trap door to get another
lie was siezed by a bull-dog, which
stepped up behind him. One of the drovers
waking np saw the situation of affairs, drew
big knife and threatened to cut the thief's
off if he did not tell where the other
was. He told, of course, that it was
outside, and despite his pleadings the "
lelt in custody of the dog until it was
secured. He was then released, minus
about a quart of blood.
Somebody, recently asked a Bristol, Conn.,
gentleman how many clocks were made
yearly in that place. "Let me see; well
said the gentleman, slowly. "Oh,
me a rough estimate," said the in
quirer; "is it twelve, fifteen twenty
thousand?" -"Oh, fiddle-sticks ! replied
gentleman. "I was trying to get
withm a hundred thousand. We make
three minute in this town, and over in
Vaterbnry there is one establishment that
makes cue a minute." Three a minute,
hours a day, three hundred and ten
working days 558,000 clocks a year in
Bristol alone.
Pbince Anatole Demidoff, who died in
Paris recently, was a Russian nobleman ot
immense wealth, a literatenr of no mean
ability, and a generous patron of art In
youth he was a hard student and wrota
several works of merit In 1841 he msrw
the celebrated Princess Mathilda, a
daughter of Jerome Bonaparte, but thy
separated alter lapse of five years. Oi e
of the Prince's will sufficiently attest! .
amiable benevolence. Daring his visit
Gibraltar, in 1347, to the American man
Princeton, in firing a salute in hU
honor, one of the seameo, Thomas Dennis,
both arms. Upon hearing this th j.
Prince took steps to settle an annuity ot
francs upon Dennis.
Showers have recently occurred in
many parts of the North westand th crops
reported in fine condition.