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•m hf JRtgjcnrg flamdcata J. VAN SLYKJL 1-DBLXSHE*. ffcHEKRY, ILLINOIS. *HE «*IRL WHO WEST TO HEATER. Jbe Deicrfltet the Bone Beyond the Onn niw! fio«s Into Bh«piodlfi Over the New Jerusalem. Nellie Blackbird, the 13-year-old girl off Green county, Wis., who, as she claims, went to heaven during a trance, lias fully recovered her former health. Her strange experiences or impressions ifce thus related: She was subject to flpine disease and epileptic fits. In the 'last attack of the latter the frail form oould scarcely be held by strong persons. Three days after the first convulsions, both upper and lower extremities were paralyzed. The least exertion, even the taking of a spoonful of water, would cause her to «ink away tiU the pulsation of the heart could not be noticed, nor oould any pulse be discovered in the ITrist They turned her gently on the *heet, and that would muse the sinking (Spells. About 2 o'clock in the afternoon «he sank away, growing weaker and Weaker until about 3. Her extremities became very cold, and they thought her gently and happily passing over the tiver. " All at once a change passed over her features, a sweet smile illuminating her countenance, and the most intense delight seemed portrayed and lingered on her face till it fairly shone. All at once, to the astonishment of all, she raised her little hands in the attitude of listening intently, changing her position continually, and seeming to listen with all the power of her being. She con­ tinued in this state for nearly three hours, seeming perfectly unconscious of all surrounding objects and sounds. And now comes the strange and mi- Jbculous story of the girl: " It seemed is though I was walking through a pleasant country till I came to a place that surely was heaven. There were streets all paved with gold, and such beautiful fountains, as clear as crystal, that seemed to rise up and then fall in bright sparkling drops. I laid down on a soft grassy bank to rest near a fountain, when my grandpa that has been dead six •ears came to me and said I should go back and take care of my little sister till •he was large enough to take of herself. My little brother who I had never seen came to me and told me he was my brother, and he played such sweet music for me on a golden harp. A crown of gold encircled his head. He was all aressed in gleaming white, and so was grandpa. Aud he did not look so old as when here, and his eyes were perfect, not blind of the one he used to be. His •voice sounded so familiar. " Then, O ! I can hardly tell, I saw Jiesus all robed in white, a dazzling crown on his head. He sat on such a beautiful high seat that was on a raised platform. All seemed of gold, and there were beautiful trees, flowers, streams and fountains of clear water around the vthrone and everywhere. Angels were flying around, bright crowns upon their heads, and golden harps in their hands, and they played the sweetest music that I ever heard. I felt so sorry at first when grandpa told me I should go back, lind take the place of my dear mother, and she should come. When I first aeemed to get to this beautiful place the sweet word welcome! welcome! echoed nil around. I saw so many things that words fail to tell them now. The angels said they would cure me, that I should take no medicine, and I know I shall get well" The Asiatic Seat of War. The province of Armenia, in which the Russian Army of the Caucasus is now op­ erating, between Kara and Erzerouin, is comparatively an unknown land. Off the general routes of travel, but little information has been furnished concern­ ing it. The ancient Armenia is now di­ vided between the Russians, Persians and Turks, the larger part being con­ tained in the Turkish province of Erze- roum. It is wild and mountainous in Character, and has no connection with the sea; and, although not of any special commercial importance, has al­ ways been an object of contention be­ tween Turkey and Persia, as the high jg>ad between these empires passes through it. The population is some­ what over 1,000,000, Erzeroum, the capital, has 30,000 ; Kars, about 20,000; Tan, 20,000, and Moosh and Beyboort 8,000 each. The greater half of the population are Mohammedan Turks, the Christians comprising a small number of Greeks, Nestorians and Roman Catho­ lics--the greater part of these being de­ scended from the ancient possessors of ' the soil, and professing the Christianity «f the Armenian Church. In manners and customs the Armenians resemble the Turks. The women live in a harem, separate from the men, and dress like the Turkish women. The country peo­ ple live in peculiar underground houses, and are an agricultural peasantry, hardy and active, and accustomed to exercise and endurance. The whole country is characterized by ignorance and superstition. Its popula­ tion has rapidly decreased. It produces nothing itself, and commercially is only of importance as being the highway be­ tween Europe and Asia that must be traversed by the richly-laden caravans on their way eastward and westward. From a nation of warriors that for 2,000 years fought Saracens, Turks, Templars, Per­ sians, Romans and Greeks, it has dwin­ dled down to a comparative handful of herdsmen and peasants, whose territory is now overrun with two armies, neither of which it can help or oppose. American Arms for the Belligerents. According to current reports among manufacturers of arms and ammunition, says a New York paper, the foreign belligerents are active hereabout. The Russians have loaded three barks with the usual assortment of deadly weapons and explosives. It is hinted that one vessel went out the same time with the Russian squadron, and was under con­ voy. The cargoes of these several crafts are similar, comprising about 200 tons of brass metal, 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 car­ tridges, and 5,000 barrels of gunpowder. The value of each lot is supposed to be $350,000. The vessels cleared for the Baltic, It is understood this Turkish Sowder contract was stipulated for the elivcry of 25,000 barrels. The Russians are increasing orders for pistols. Up to the present time the total shipments aggregate 200,000. Manufacturers on Turkish account are doing their usual amount of work, but no vessel will be dispatched until July 1. • The Meaning of a « Holy » War. Referring to the report telegraphed by mble that tho Saltan of Turkey was about to unfurl the standard of the Prophet and wage a religions w ngninst Russia, the Chicago Tribune says: "The unfurling of this standard, the ' Sanyak-Sherif,' will present a new phase of the conflict. The standard is as old as Mohammedanism itself. It was part of the flowing curtains that adorned the room of Mohammed's favorite wife, and has always been carefully guarded from profane eyes in the Seraglio, Tt matters little how old it is, or what it is, however, to Mohammedans. It is to them the symbol of their faith, the standard of the Prophet, the badge of Islam. When thai standard is unfurled, it summons every Mohammedan to the rescue of Islam. It calls upon 3,500,000 Mohammedans in European Turkey, over 40,000,000 in India, 3,500,000 in Persia, and over 100,000,000, more scattered through various parts of Asia and Afri­ ca, to rally to the defense of Islam against the "infidels." It is of course impossible that Turkey oould ever or­ ganize these immense hordes into regu­ lar armies, regularly drilled and disci­ plined, to encounter the troops of Rus­ sia. It is not the purpose of Turkey to do it. The unfurling of this standard is an invitation to massacre and plunder all who do not believe in Mohammedan­ ism. It is a declaration that every Mo­ hammedan who kills nine infidels, men, women, or children, it matters not which, will receive a passport to para­ dise. If this news be true, then indeed is Turkey rushing upon her doom, and taking the first step to array the whole Christian world against her. When the standard of the Prophet is unfurled, Russia will not be alone in this war. The advocates of the Christian religion and of Christian civilization, the whole world over, will rise and declare that Turkish rule shall forever end in Europe, and that the Turkish tyrants shall be sent over the Bosphorus to their old Asiatic possessions." Land Monopoly in California. The men who negotiated the treaty un­ der which California passed under the American flag permitted about all the naturally good land in the State to re­ main in the hands of parties who had procured grants of immense tracts from the Mexican and Spanish Governments. The consequence is that California is al­ most as completely monopolized by a few rich proprietors as England. The evil consequences of this blunder have become apparent within the past few in years, the paralysis of all ordinary in­ dustry and the cessation of middle-class immigration. In fact, the poorest of the Southern States offer better inducements to settlers of the agricultural class than are to be found on the Pacific slope, with all its marvelous fertility. A recent act of Congress, ostensibly designed to facilitate the reclamation of large sec­ tions of apparently barren land, is oper­ ating to aggravate the existing evil of land monopoly. The districts in question could only be rendered fertile by heavier expenditures than single small farmers could afford; but, instead of framing laws to facilitate the co-operation of per­ sons holding farms of moderate area, the persons who got up the Desert Land act seem to have offered particular encour­ agement for the extension of the monop­ oly system, and the remaining public lands in the State are passing rapidly in­ to the hands of capitalists, who secure title at little more than the oost of im­ provements necessary for irrigation. The people of the State are a good deal exer­ cised about this new calamity--for the exclusion of an independent class of small farmers is nothing less than a ca­ lamity; but it will probably be found impracticable to arrest it in time to leave any portion of the lands free from the grasp of the monopolists. Didn't Stand the Test. A young man read in a paper a few days ago mat if you wanted to find out if the woman you had selected for your future spouse had a good temper you Oilgiiu JO «n££ GCCnSlCii «G Step Oli llCi drebo, or snap the sticks of her fan, or in some way annoy or discompose her. " If," said the great authority who pre­ sides over the column of advice, "she betrays no sign of ill-temper, she will prove a model wife." Accordingly, the young man seized an opportunity when his sweetheart was rigged in her most killing array to step on her train and pull out about three yards of gathers with a rip like a peal of thunder, exposing afccut bree-quarters of the frame-work that makes her dress stick out behind. But, instead of meeting the accident with perfect equanimity, she turned around and jabbed her parasol in his eye, called him a long-haired leper, and asked him why he didn't wear his feet sideways. He expressed himself thankful that he didn't marry the girl before finding out what sort of a temper she had ; but the doctor doesn't think his eye will grow out again. Homestead Laws in Brief. Under the United States Homestead law, any person 21 years of age and over, male or female, native or foreign born-- married women excepted--may obtain 160 acres of Government land on payment of $14 fees, and after a residence of five years on the land they can have a clear deed of it from the Government. After six months' residence, if it be preferred, they may get a deed on the payment of $200, and no further residence will be re­ quired. Soldiers may deduct time spent in the se. vice of the Union, not to exceed three years, fiom the five years. By the pre-emption act any person over 21 years of age--except a married woman--may take 160 acres of Government land, on payment of $2 fees, and after residing on it six months, or for any time not ex­ ceeding three years and a half, may get a deed on payment of $200, and giving evidence of settlement and improvement. The Timber law gives 160 acres to any one planting one-fourth of it in trees and cultivating it for eight years; 40 to 80 acres may be taken on like conditions. The fees ate the same as for homestead- ing. MANY of the sand iwl«MRLA in the Platte river, in Nebraska are literally covered with wild geese. JOURNALISM 1QJT1SI. TIM Delights oridltl^k Paper ta MM*. Bippi. [From the New York Tribune.] A gentleman, a native of Mississippi^ recently died near Houston, Tex., ana one of the most remarkable circumstances in his life, aocording to a local journal, was that he had been editorially con­ nected with the Vicksburg Sentinel for nearly a year without lighting a duel or Hi airy eiiwimtcr. Tu sons who are acquainted with the bellig­ erent record of the editor of the Sentinel the circumstance will seem almost in­ credible, since it used to be said in Vicksburg that no man oould stay on the paper a month without shooting or being shot at, and in three months he was al­ most certain to kill or be killed. The Scriiiiiel no longsi ezists, during its continuance of five-and-thirty years there was more warfare among the members of its staff than there has been among the members of any other staff since the foundation of the republic. Dr. James Hagan was the first editor, to attract at­ tention, and consequently to provoke hostilities. He was a native, of the North, small, quiet-mannered, very po­ lite and amiable in ordinary social inter­ course, but one of the fiercest of fire- eaters. In 1838 and 1839 he had several desperate street fights and two duels, one with the editor of the rival sheet, the Whig, in which he killed two men and was himself three times wounded. Be­ tween that time and 1842 he had seven more encounters, killed two more men, and received five or six pistol balls in different parts of his body. In the spring of that year he abandoned the habit of carrying weapons, and the following June was shot dead by Daniel W. Adams (an utter stranger to him), who killed him, he said, on account of an article re­ flecting on his father. Judge George Adams. James F. Fall, another editor of the gunpowder journal, fought sev­ eral duels, and was twice severely wounded. James M. Downs, another editor, was badly hurt in a "chivalrous" meeting with T. E. Bobbins, a banker, who considered himself aggrieved. Wal­ ter Hickey, another Sentinel man, had a street fight, mortally wounded Dr. Downs, formerly on the paper, and was afterwards killed in an encounter in Texas, James Ryan, still another editor of the Sentinel, was killed by R. E. Hammet, of the Whig. George Jenkins, his successor, was also killed in front of the office by H. A. Crab be, whom he had assailed. Many other fights and wounds were made, given and received by the Sentinel men. Who can read this gory account of that warlike sheet without longing for the return of the good old days of journalism in the South when every editor was a walking arsenal and forced as a business measure to keep his private graveyard ? Didn't find Richmond. A dozen or more idlers around the Central Market were yesterday taking a deep interest in a war-map published in a New York daily paper, when Brother Gardner, the old colored man, pushed his way into the throng and closely studied the map for a minute or two. " Wliar 'bouts on dis map is ole "Vir- ginnv ?" he suddenly called out. " It isn't on there at ajl," answered one of the crowd. " Whar' bouts on dis map is Rich­ mond ?" continued Gardner, running his finger over the paper in a wild way. " How do you expect to find Rich­ mond on this map of Europe ?" asked a bystander. " How do I 'spect? Why, Bah, what lias de map of Europe to do without Richmond ? Wasn't thar more fightin' aroun' Richmond den you could scare up in all Europe in ten years ? Have dey gone an' ignored dat fact? Have dey got out a map an' left dat town out in de cold ? Somebody find de town for me, an' I'll show you de exact spot where I was hit in de chin by a cannon boll, an' wounded all to pieces." " Go away--this is a war-map Turkey and Russia." " Widout any Richmond on it ?" "No, sir--Richmond isn't here.*' " Den I'm gwine right away--gwine to git right out'n dis crowd in a hurry! After all us folks fought, an' bled, an' died down dar, an" left our bones to bleach in de sun, it's a perfect insult, Bail, to come aroini" heah wid a new war- viap showin' de Black sea as big as a meetinghouse, an' leavin' Richmond clar off de fair-grounds entirely 1 Come away from dat fraud, you cull'd folks 1"--De­ troit Free Press. of A Story of Berkshire True Lam A correspondent sends us this: Away back half a century ago there lived in Lanesboro a rich old farmer. Then as now rich old farmers were the possessors of daughters and sons. And tne daugh­ ters somehow would have beaux. In the same town lived an industrious black­ smith, who sought the hand of the only daughter of the rich old farmer--who, by the way, held higher hopes and as­ pirations for her, and plainly told the young man that he " did not think an anvil and a piano would sound well to­ gether." The blacksmith swallowed the rebuff, and, forestalling Horace Greeley's advice by several years, " went West." Meanwhile the daughter had an unob­ jectionable suitor whom she was allowed to marry. Ten years or more she lived happily, when her husband died. Then came years of widowhood and all the sor­ rows and trials the word implies. A consoling and consolable widower, how­ ever, happening along, she was again married. Another decade of happy wedded life, and she was again left a widow. It was then she returned to the paternal roof; and, after a few years, her father followed the two husbands. Now was the first lover's opportunity. Within the present year the young blacksmith, having nearly reached the age of three­ score and ten, while on a visit to Eastern friends, learned the situation, renewed his suit and was accepted. And now there is only perfect harmony in the "An. vil Chorus " in which they both join.-- Springfield (Mass.) Republican. A Change. They were out walking, enjoying the cool and refreshing air. The bright moon cast its rays over the lady, giving her an almost angelic appearance, and imparted to her flowing curls a still more golden hue. One of her soft white hands rested in his, and ever and anon she met his ardent gaze with one of pure love. Suddenly a change came over her feat­ ures; her full, red lips trembled as if with suppressed sighs; the muscles of her faultiesB mouth became oonvulsed; she gasped for breath, and, snatching her hand from the soft pressure of his, die turned away, buried her face in brichandkerchief, and--sneezed! * / AH Heiress. An illiterate peasant girl, servant in a prominent family of South Maitland, -•-"StrS'li:!, has lately uiliwiW a minion and a half of francs, or $300, (MX). The golden shower has descended on the heiress from the will of a distant relative, of whose existence she was ignorant, but who had made a large fortune in Ameri- ca,and left it to this girl and her broth­ er in equal proportions. The brother is a stable boy in a wealthv family near *• UOui wit; ui/terry wxtuuut euuett- tion, not even knowing how to read. The lady, with whom the heiress contin­ ues to live while the affairs of the de­ funct. relative are being settled, is vainlv trying to give the girl some clear notion of the importance of the fortune she has fallen into, but it seems impossible to make her see either the responsibilities it will entail, or the necessity of turning it to useful account. Her solo idea in connection with her improved fortune is to have " a little house in the country, and a good lot of fowls." She stubborn­ ly refuses to learn to read or write, de­ claring that she can look after " the lit­ tle house and the fowls " without either. " But how will you manage your serv­ ants?" urged the mistress, Vif you do not take the trouble to improve yourself and acquire a better idea of tilings?" "Servants!" answered the girl, with French gestures of amazement and dis­ gust. "Do you think I would have servants? Why, what should /do if I had servants to do my work! No, no; no servants for me. I want no one to meddle with my little house and my fowls. I shall take care of them my­ self." All Advertiser. Spicer TO wading wearily through a pile of work which hail accumulated dur­ ing a brief absence in New York, when a stranger banged the inner office door, placed his lighted cigar conveniently on the corner of the desk, and, spitting gracefully in tne waste-basket, said: " Mr. Spicer, I presume ?'* The paragrapher suppressed a smile at a joke he was reading in the New York Commercial Advertiser, inhaled about 3 cents' worth of his gueSt'B 5-cent cigar, and replied, " Yes-sir," in one time and three motions. "The fame of your journal has reached us in New York State," continued the visitor. "Another feller that wants a notioe," thought the writer. " I wish to talk to you about advertis­ ing,5' said the caller. The newspaper man brightened, and rather wished he had a fresh cigar to offer the visitor. "I am introducing in New England the celebrated Prolifick Pinkhampton Pumpkin, and I am authorized to offer the seeds to you at $50 a quart, half cash and half advertising in the Com­ mercial " The exact manner of the Western seeds­ man's death will probably never be known, but his friends will be pleased to know that his remains have been care­ fully plantadMNt Forest Hill, where the Prolific Pttmpkin vine can twine a gar­ land to his memory over his early grave. --Boston Commercial Bulletin. Silver in Illinois. The Illinois Legislature has passed a bill making the silver coin of the United States a legal tender to any amount in the payment of debts in the State of Illinois. The bill takes effect on the 1st of July neat. The effect of the passage of this, act remains to be seen. The silver coinage of the United States is a dime, quarter, half-dollar, and trade dollar. The trade dollar is not a legal tender, under exist­ ing laws, for any amount, while the other coins are legal tenders in sums of $5. This law will give the whole silver coin­ age of the United States a market in Illi­ nois which it has not in any other State. Under the ordinary rules of trade, silver, having a greater money value in that State than elsewhere, ought to flow there. Tr> rio j{fArnjo silver is so sbiiiiiifint t-Vsjifc silver coin is sold at a discount, and Illi­ nois now opens a new. market for that surplus silver, making it a legal tender equal to greenbacks and to gold. The Californians are troubled with a plethora of money. The banking capital of San Francisco is three times as great as that of Chicago, and yet its business transac­ tions, as shown by the Clearing-House reports, do not equal one-half of those of Chicago. The fact is that the capital there, being in metal, far exceeds the de­ mand, though all kinds of property are inflated. The action of the Illinois Leg­ islature therefore opens to this super­ abundant store of metal, especially of silver, an opportunity such as is offered nowhere else.--Chicago Tribune. A Horrible Story. A Russian peasant was traveling in a sleigh along the banks of the Pruth, not long ago, and his wife and four children were with him. Suddenly they were pur­ sued by a pack of wolves. The peasant whipped his horses, but soon perceived that the wolves were gaining upon him. When the hungry beasts were on each side of the sleigh the worthy peasant seized his youngest child and threw it in the midst of his pursuers, and while they were struggling over their prey he lashed his horses and gained ground. Four times the wolves came up with the fugi­ tives, and each time a child was thrown to them. At last the peasant and his wife arrived at the nearest village, leaving be­ hind them the bones of their four chil­ dren. The mother went before a Judge and made a complaint against her hus­ band for abandoning his children to the wolves, but the peasant was acquitted on the ground that he was striving to save his wife's life. The old lady may have had misgivings that if the village had been a mile further on he would have pitched her into the snow after the children in order to protect himself, and hence her gratitude was lukewarm. THE Puget Sound Express says: "In the inside of a great lump of coal, token out of the Seattle mine a few days ago, was an oyster of whole and perfect shape. It was nearly three inches long, hinged, tilled and fully shelled. It had been turned to coal." TRANSVAAL. lb* little Republic that Great AkMrbed. Thisyonngrepnl liein South Africa, of which England has recently taken poses- sion, and annexed to the British em­ pire, is described as follows by a corre­ spondent at Natal: "Sonth Africawaa first settled by the Dutch 'Boers' at Cape Town and ±*ort Bsiat4 but as theP xungilisls izauerB nocxeu ui, »nd ureat Britain took possession of the country, they emigrated further north, first cross­ ing the Orange river and making a treaty with the ^affirs and Zulus for that sec­ tion of land now known as the Orange Tree States. Still, as it were, being dogged by the British, who have ever crowded upon this enterprising race of people, a great many of them emigrated still further across the Yaal river, and, forming a treaty with Leconnoni, a great Kaffir chief, they formed a republic, call­ ing it the Transvaal republic. The name was afterward changed to the South African republic. It is generally desig­ nated by tne former name, however, and so put down on all oar maps of that country. "In May of last year Prince Lecon­ noni (the old chief died several years ago), armed and incited by the British traders, declared war against the Boern under a false plea that they held posses­ sion of certain lands not ceded them in the treaty with his father in 1840. For a time it looked as if the Kaffirs would succeed; however, the Boers rallied around their standard and drove Leoon- noni and his entire force back to his kralls (villages) in the low ooimtry, since which time he has sued for peace, and the war has ceased. The war caused a general stampede from the gold fields, and for a time they were deserted. " There is no better country on the globe than the ' Transvaal' and Orange Tree States. The climate is similar to California; water is excellent, but rather hard; it is a good farming country. Two crops a year can be raised, and good soil for almost everything but wheat Corn predominates, and, in respect to its growth, Illinois is left entirely in the shade. It is a great country. All of our vegetables grow freely, and two crops a year, besides tropical fruits of all kinds at Natal and Cape Town. The Trans­ vaal and Orange countries are always healthy, but fevers predominate further south during summer months (December to May). Minerals of all descriptions are found more extensively in Trans­ vaal, of which gold, oopper, silver, iron, lead, salt and coal are in the lead. Living is about as cheap as in America. Manufactured goods, as faming and mining tools, wagons, furniture and everyth ing made of wood and metals are very high." A Plwky Ten-Year-Old. There is a little 10-year-old now in the City prison, who hails from Chicago. His name is Charley Levine, and all alone, friendless and moneyless, he has traveled to this city overland. As he sat on the bench near the wall this after­ noon, his clothing in tatters, his feet in­ cased in consumptive shoes and no stock­ ings and his head surmounted by a tre­ mendous hat, it was easy to believe from his resolute tone that he had done what was said. " How long were yon in coining, Char­ ley ?" said the reporter. " Seventeen days. Got here last Sat­ urday night 'n come up here. I'm going to stay here a couple o' days. I like it. I used to live with my aunt in Chicago. My mother is out here at a place called Belmont, two stations down, I believe, She came out here a year ago. I've got a sister, too, at Council Bluffs, across the river from Omaha." " How did you get here without any money ?" "Oh, I jest jumped on the cars 'n stuck. They put me off at Omaha'n North Platte, but I jumped on again. They couldn't keep me off. What did I eat ? Oh, the emigrants gave me all I wanted. They gave me this hat. I only had five cents when I started, and I spent that for dinner. I didn't like Chicago 'n I didn't like my aunt, 'n I wanted to see my mother; that's why I cane." .--r " When an yon going to see your mother?" "Oh, In a couple o5'days. I've got a good bed 'n plenty to eat, 'n I think I'll stay here 'u git rested. Funny, ain'i it ? I came in here jest to see what it was, 'n they wouldn't let me go out, but I don't care. I'll go down on the train to Bel­ mont. It's only two stations, and '11 only take two trains at most. What's them fellers, Chinamen ?" Nodding acquiescence, the reporter left him, and wondered what the future of the plucky little youngster would be when, so weak, small and young, he had already traveled thousands of miles un­ aided in search of his mother.--San Francisco Post. How Two Hides of the Mississippi Differ. The difference in climatic advantage between the east and west banks of the Mississippi in Louisiana is noticed in the New Orleans papers. The river aver­ ages but about 1,000 yards in width, yet the opposite banks are as differently marked as if the interval were 1,000 miles. Frosts seldom travel across the river. While one side may be enjoying rain, the other may be parched with drought. The difference m vegetation is chiefly noticeable in the sugar culture, the plantations on the west bank of the river having great advantages over those on the east bank, and these advantages are described as annually increasing. The last sugar crop on the west side yielded 56,350 hogsheads, while that on the east side yielded but 34,091 hogs­ heads. These advantages are causing the sugar culture to be encouraged on the west side, where the yield per acre is greater; while the unfavorable com­ petition causes the culture to diminish on the east side.--Philadelphia Ledger. Presence of Mind. A young lady in St. Petersburg showed considerable presence of mind in an ad­ venture with a robber, early this spring. The driver of the sledge, hired by her at nightfall to drive her home, drove over the ice of the river Neva. When they had reached an air-hole about the mid­ dle of the stream, he demanded of her a costly fur cloak she wore, threatening in default of her compliance to throw her headlong under the ice. Help was out of the question; no one was near; she and the robber were alone on the broad stream. Suddenly deciding on course, she threw the cloak on a* some yards distant, and, while the: ber hastened to grasp it, seized the: and escaped to the nearest police i The alarm was given, and in a shorts time the robber with the cloak ^pas » brought in a captive. i A L L S O R T S . i - ' M • * 7 , i W'w?*! coffee like the £etf! '*111 it is ground. • »tf THE Masons of Belfast, Me., have sftl£>':* scribed $25,000 for a new temple. THE Cuban insurgents have btmieir* t over a million dollars' worth of sugar and sugnr plantations this spring. ® RCTIIAND, Vt., is a quiet town. | other day a heedless stronger crxsd " ® rah" in the street, and straightway ther#*t i was an alarm of fire sounded. • t?*|§ THERE are 3,500 street lamps in Islington ton, England, and, on an average, thsifu r • < 4 are 1,000 squares of glass broken in theM _ - is lamps every week by street boys. • j A REMARK ABLE phenomenon is report- * - ed from Naples, Italy, It is that foft. \e t three whole days in one week there wof " - n* births out erf a population of 500,000fe* - SOUlS. -<0i. " A NEW YORK butcher bought his catti# • * f on thirty days, sent them to Englaadk i^ sold them, and the cable told himwat ha, had cleared $16,000 before the thirty days had expired. ^ A GEORGIA negro stole $8,000in Unite! • States bonds to get something hand- T" some to paper the lid of his chest. Hi*1* tastes were too expensive to allow of his running at large. A SEAt ring belonging to Lieut _ W. Reilly, of the Seventh Cavalry, kill' in the Custer massacre, has been reco ered from one of the Cheyennes at thai * Spotted Tail Agency. tr?!* THE silk industry in Franoe is suffer -• . ing badlv, and 50,000 persons connected therewith are calling upon the French, Government for relief. Two-thirds oC the mills of Lyons are idle. V THE constitutional amendment in Ne#. ' Jersey depriving State legislators at' their per diem and giving tnfem $5001» session, long or short, hastened the ad­ journment this year a month earlier thflfi> usuaL IK spite of all the agitation in Gall* , fornia, the last steamer brought ovfr nearly 1,000 Mongols. The entire ship­ load had to be quarantined on account | of an outbreak of small-pox during « passage. A PENNSYLVANIA woman, who went to ; Kansas a few years ago. writes back that • she has done as well as could be expect­ ed under the oircumetanoes. She has had three husbands, two pair of twM and the ague. * ACCORDING to the researches of an ent* v v inent German naturalist, our earth his f at one time or other been inhabited by , M 155,000 kinds of animals, of which 20,000 are now extinct, while the other 136,000 are still with us. -•*** A CURIOUS rule prevails in Germany?*' that if a person is injured on a railroad and subsequently dies from the injuries reoeived, the occurrence is not deemed m. - railway accident unless death oooajD)} . within twenty-four hours. THE most married woman of the day , lives at Holyoke, Mass. Of seven whom she has successively given htr hand, four sleep in the churdh-yard, ton* ? survive divorce suits, and the seventb-~. • well, he's officiating as husband present time. MAGYAR is the 8,400 Hungarian schools, German ill 2,184, Roumanian in 2,130, Slavack ttt 2,057, Russian in 620, Servian in 35$- Croatian in 71. In 2,332 schools iar> i struction is given in two languages, ia.« 632 m three languages. . ;t vl JAMES PERRY is in a Raleigh prison fof ; stabbing. Miss Mann, who lived across , the street, flirted with him through the bars of his cell window. They beeaiQO engaged, and their wedding was held M jail, where the happy couple are nafar'* spending their honeymoon. EXTRACT from a letter from Atchisoi| Kan.: "The ground is tremendously dry here; the big rain of last week did not reach the ground ; the grasshoppers stood on their hind lees and drank the , water as fast as it fell I So I am UjL*'" formed, but this may not be true." THE estate ia England to wMdls mn §SE: Lawrence-Townley heirs are laying clato*% • V:T is said to be worth $500,000,000. The * "true neir" is Mr. William T. Law- r rence, of Toronto. His case has bean [ Erenounced good by eminent chancery , t kwyers on both sides of the water. ^ ( THE Graphic offers $500toward a fni^ v of $100,000 to make Wm. M. Evarts in-t. dependent of professional drudgery whi& Secretary of State. It urges that hi ' cannot support his station on the sakugr ^ he reoeives, and, to live, must act a* lawyer as well as play the Secretary. , THE London Spectator says that it < curious that in the blue-glass theory the ingenuity of the inventors shoidd have hit on the exact contrary of the truth. It claims that experiments in the Royal < Gardens at Kew demonstrate that the blue rays in sunlight actually have ^ . retarding influence on plant growth. THE first regular telephonic line has been put in operation between the pla^e ' of business of C. Williams, Jr., Boston, Mass., and his residence in SomerviUe^ a distance of about three miles. Mr, Williams states that it works well, and that " conversation can be carried on by it nearly as well as if those oonverai]|| were in the same room." language taught in. fin*** BIRDS killed on the Iowa prairieflL - packed closely with paper in barrels, ana without any freezing or other artificial process of preservation, now go regtt- larly to Leadenhall, and are sold and eaten in the dining rooms of London , and the West side by side with the moofe ;h; more expensive partridges and fow. ra4l which are reared in England. t WIUDIE'S QUESTION. , Willie sat and watched his grandpa When he came to visit him, With hie spectacle* a-glistcn ** O'er the eyes with age grown dfcgfc " ' '»«- Anil the oliilci-eyee filled with *oa4m, > ̂ ' Anil a tteoM of envy rose, . ..... , Wbeu ho tools, them off to wipe thejfc .<J# *1 ..IS- And replace them on his nose. . ' When his gr&ndpa'e visit ended, '* f " Willie wught for MOM *4*106, 'FFCIWLFEL#!!"- "PFEFW said he, " can I ever ~ * Do like KnuidpH with my eytm ? ?> Out I string 'em juut like fr*n«tp«" • ~ . . « On » wire--and when I ooogte, * Juat like grandpa did. Tou teMkbagkit *% Oan I take niy two eye« off f --Ret* B. Rexfori Mi