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flaindtaltr, -i-X J., VAN 8LYKE, PmsutsHKB. JfoHENBY, ILLINOIS. THE UTISISR CASE, The Renewed 8ea»!»--Hones ot Hfa Rertnrstioa. TM» 'Philadelphia Time* says that a lettfer was f&Cently sent to Gov. Hart- rranft, of Pennsylvania, inquiring if any .guarantee of immunity from punishment •could be given by him if Charley Boss were returned, in reply his Secretary "wrote : " Section 9 of article 4 of 'the •constitution of 1874 provides "that 'no pardon shall be granted nor sentence •commuted except upon the recommenda­ tion in writing of the Lieutenant Gover­ nor, Secretary of the Commonwealth, .Attorney General, and Secretary of In­ ternal Affairs, or any three of them, after full hearing upon due public notice and in open session.* You will therefore see that, however the Governor may desire to assist in the restoration of the boy to his parents, he has no authority to guarantee » pardon or immunity to his abductors or the persons who now hold him in custody. Such a guarantee can, be ob­ tained, if it can be obtained at all, through the Board of Pardons, whose recommendations the Governor but rare­ ly disregards." The Times adds : " On Wednesday morning a gentleman who. since the ab­ duction of Charley Boss, nas interested ; himself in his recovery, and who is one of the three or four persons acquainted the in« and outs of the latest clew, left this city for the locality near which the boy is supposed to be in hiding, and einoe that time nothing has been neard of his whereabouts." The Yark (Penn.) Dispatch also has *omething tc say on the subject. It says that James Logan, a private detective, arrived in that borougn on Wednesday Right, and is busily engaged in working tip the case, and that he makes the fol­ lowing statement: " I have followed up this case for nearly three years, and have knowledge concerning it which no othecman.possesses. I have confound­ ed all the other detectives, with their clew#, and, now that Mr. Boss has given •tip this one, I take it up. I will not giv# the Information whieh I hold at this time--it would defeat my ends. I have documents in my possession which, if true* as I fully believe them to be, puts the Boss mystery in an entirely new shape, and one which will startle the publio as it has never before been startled. All my investigations are made tp add to the stores of my informa- tiorvacd not alone to find the boy, but also to* gdtvft the mystery surrounding his disappearance and whereabouts. 'The boy is still alive, and I do not be­ lieve he wab ever stolen for ransom--the plot is deeper still. The cause of his abductii6n, or rather the taking away of Oharles B. Boss, is the end and aim of my investigation. I wrote to Mr. Boss tinder the date of March 27, 1875, stat­ ing that I never would give up my in­ vestigation until I found the person who Was the primary cause of the abduction. I am xufPfiBtonally alluded to in the pa­ pers, inlireetly, as a monomaniac on die subject of the Boss case. I can only an- ftwttrtliie-wHh success in my undertak­ ing. The future will justify my work, and there is method in my madness. The detectives of New York and Phila­ delphia are as smart and intelligent as any in the world, and had there not been Judas in the camp they would have, had the boy long ago. I am a pri­ vate detective." The Dispatch in this connection re­ marks; "Our . interview with Mr. -James Logan is full of startling interest, and he confided to us many things which it is not proper here to mention, but in a lew weeks they may be spoken openly, And in the meantime the public may rest assured that the end is at hand, and the denotement will be 4 surprise and a 4 sei»«Stitos to all." , | •] .Monster tfuns. The large Bodman gun whieh was re­ cently cast in Boston is, with two excep­ tions, the largest piece of ordnance ever "toade in the united biuies. Mneiy tons metal were melted in the throe fur­ naces in which the monster was cast . The tube which is to be placed within the bore is about 232 inches long and 12 inches in diameter. It will be received from England at an early day. The di­ ameter at the widest part will be 55 inches, and the casing will be 20 inches for a depth of 232 inches ; at the muzzle the external diameter will be 29 inches; the length of the gun will be 263 inches, or about 22 feet; it will carry a 700- pound conical ball; the ordinary charge of powder will be 100 pounds, and the weight of the ordnance will be about 45 tons. The special feature of this gun is a bjass ring which, when the piece is discharged, expands against the bore of the gun and prevents any injury from the p*i§sage of gas. This gun, big as it is, is a toy in comparison with the wrought-iron and cast-steel ordnance •which has recently been manufactured abroad. The 81-ton Fraser gun, with which the British engineers have been experimenting at Slioeburyness, takes a charge of 370 pounds* of powder and a projectile of 1,700 pounds. The cast- eteel breech-loader which Herr Krupp is now making will weigh 80 tons; the weight of the projectile will be 1,650 pounds, and the Armstrong gun manu­ factured for the Italian navy weighs 100 tons. The big Krupp gun which was eliown. at Philadelphia a year ago, and which his sjecently been purchased by the Russian Government, weighs 56 tons. -- -New York Tribune Hydrophobia. The average annual mortality from hydrophobia in England is one to-about 600,000 inhabitant®, or nearly the same us in New York city; in France and Germany it is somewhat higher; for the United States generally there are no satisfactory statistics, but the fatality is probably not greater than in New York. The disease is peculiarly one of the tem­ perate zone, and is very rare in Turkey, Syria, and Egypt, although it is said to occur in China and India. The potency of the contagion varies in different epi­ demics, in different dogs, and at different times in the same dog. It is estimated that from one-third to one-seventh of the clogs bitten by rabid animals contract the diseasei wheat no treatment is adopted; while a susceptibility in man is even less, tod the ours can always beexpected when the wound is well cauterized early. Hydrophobia oocurs oftanSst among the ,hign]y-domeeticated and is thought by many of the first authorities to affect both sexes about equally, al­ though the statistics of Franoe ahow that it occurs (absolutely, not per 1,000) from rr." t.~ t'Tno" »« n f f j x n In Tryolo on *-Ioto on<] tte ev••«!?;*• o , - o even in the early stages, by those familiar with animals. To most observant persons some departure tram a healthy condition would be notice J. Probably only a very small proportion of " mad dogs" killed ever had hydrophobia or any other dan­ gerous disease.--Boston Journal. CRAPON* BARK. Crossing the Danube. Napoleon's passage of the river Dan­ ube in the face of the Austrians before the battle of Wagram is thus described by a military writer in the London Tel­ egraph: " He had prepared on the isl­ and of Lobau a number of flat-bottomed craft and the materials for floating bridges, in canals which he had cut into the main stream, keeping the boats con­ cealed by trees and brushwood from the enemy's view. Making a feint at anoth­ er point, he sent, at 9 o'clock in the evening, two battalions of infantry across, who at once became engaged with the Austrian outposts, but held their ground till the floating bridges were constructed over the river, there 150 yards wide, when a whole corps passed over and seized the near­ est village. By 11 o'clock several bridges were constructed, another corps was al­ ready crossing, and before daylight 70,- 000 men had effected their passage. The night was very dark, and there were tor- rents of rain. The passage of the Danube in 1828 was a bold and brilliant undertaking. The Turks had divined the Russian in­ tentions from the preparations being made, and had intrenched themselves op­ posite to Satunovo, the selected point of crossing. To reach the river bank here the Bussians had to make a causeway no less than 7,000 paces in length, 3,000 of which had to be carried on wooden bridges, and the troops were under fire from the Turks while at work. The Bus­ sians had a flotilla on the Danube, and when the causeway was complete a de­ tachment of light infantry and Cossacks were sent across the river in boats and landed below the Turkish intrenchments, concealed by a wood. The Turks did not discover their presence, and the Bus­ sians rushed upon the rear of the nearest intrenchment, taking it by storm. Then the Turks, more than 10,000 strong, were seized with panic and fled, and the position was abandoned. Turnips Declared a Sure Care for Hog- Cholera. Maj. John Millon, a well-known citi­ zen of Laplata, Macon county, has great faith in turnips as a sure cure for the disease known as liog-cliolera. So great is his faith that he has filed a claim with the State Government for the $10,000 re­ ward offered by the Legislature for a remedy for that disease. Maj. Millon says experiments made by mm have demonstrated the fact that turnips are not only a cure, but a preventive of cholera. He has imparted the secret to many farmers in this State, all of whom found the remedy sure. One wealthy farmer in Howard county, Maj. Millon says, had thirty-eight hogs afflicted with cholera. He was advised of the turnip cure, but placed no faith in it. How­ ever, he concluded to give it a trial, and, selecting one of the hogs worst afflicted, he put it in a pen alone and fed it tur­ nips. The result was, that hog recovered and all the rest died. Maj. Millon states that unless a hog is too far gone to eat, the turnips will cure him. The remedy is a cheap one and easily procured, and it can certainly do no harm for farmers to give it a trial.--Hannibal (Mo.) Clip­ per. Wires of the Russian Officers. The girl the Russian officer leaves be­ hind him when he goes to the war is his wife. Early marriages are very common in Bussia, and a very large proportion of the officers of the army--even those of the lowest grade--are married. In the German. French and British armies, an officer is not permitted to many until he attains a certain rank or satisfies the military authorities that either he or his bride can afford to undertake the re­ sponsibilities of domesfe life. In Bus­ sia, as the Pall Mall Gazette explains, there is no regulation of this kind; and, as the pay of the Russian officer is noto­ riously meager, it follows that most of those who are married are in a state of extreme poverty, and can with difficulty provide their families with even the nec­ essaries of life. Moreover, very many of the subaltern officers of the Russian army are quartered for long periods with small detachments in out-of-the-way and miserable villages, where they must per­ force live without any society whatsoever, save that of peasants ana their own soldiers. Coinage at New Orleans Advised. An interesting report in favor of re­ suming the operations of coinage at the New Orleans mint has been made to the Treasury Department by James Boss Snowden, of Philadelphia, who was sent down last April as a special agent to ex­ amine the building and machinery, and to look into the probabilities of bullion supplies from Mexico. The mint was closed from 1861 .until October, 1876, when it was reopened as an assay office. The building and machinery are still in good condition. Mr. Snowden favors the resumption of coinage operations, and thinks that the working of the mint will attract large quantities of silver bullion from Mexico, and of old Mexican dollars for recoinage. Most of the silver pro­ duct that leaves that country now goes to England. Before the mint was closed much of it came to New Orleans, Severe on the Band. An application of the Peterboro band to be .allowed to play in thte park hag been rejected,"the reason given for the refusal being that the newly-planted trees would suffer from*the carelessness of persons congregated. The end of the Warden's answer to the request is severe­ ly ironical. It reads thus: "I beg to suggest that the old butying-ground would be a suitable place for your per­ formances, and the county has no ob­ jection to your using it"--Toronto Globe. PMeilfUua «f the Smallest Craft Kver Started on the Transatlantic Trip. [Wew Bedford (MIM.) Cor. New York Herald.} Capt. Thomas Crapo, of New Bed­ ford, is now on his way to Europe, he having sailed in the smallest boat which ever attempted to cross the Atlantic on such a foolhardy expedition. Mrs, Crapo. I hi® plucky wife, accompanied hin> A large crowd were at the wharf to see the pair start on their long and perilous jour­ ney, and the air was rent with cheers as the tiny craft glided out of the harbor. It was a sight seldom seen in this section of the country, and old tars looked on with amazement at the determination of Capt. Crapo to attempt such a hazardous undertaking. The previous day religions services were held near the boat, attended by a large number of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Crapo. Fervent prayers were offered that He who holds the winds in the hollow of His hands would so guide the boat that Cftpt. Crapo and his wife would be permitted to return to their family in safety. The dimensions of the boat as fur­ nished by the Custom House is as follows : Length on deck, 19.55 feet; over all. 20 feet; breadth, 6.4; breadth over ribbons, 6.4 feet; greatest depth, 8.16 feet; average depth within the length of the keel, 2,6 feet; greatest inside breadth, 6 feet; tonnage admeas­ urement, 1.62, but the old Government measurement would make her tonnage nearly three tons. Capt. Crapo has pro­ vided himself with extra sails to be used in case of emergency, and he has also a square sail and staysail which he proposes to bring into use when the wind is light. He also carries charts, compass and a quadrant, and h© will keep his longitude by dead reckoning, verifying it by speak­ ing any vessels he meets. Capt. Crapo proposes to take the route used by ocean steamers, taking a direct course from Chatham light until clear of Newfoundland and then hauling north­ erly for latitude 45 deg., and longitude 30 deg., from which point he will make a course as direct as wind and weather will permit for the chops of the English chan­ nel, and expects to be reported at Fal­ mouth in about forty days. Ihence he proposes to proceed to London, and be-r fore the end of the season to Havre. Mariners generally give the opinion that the boat is an able one and will in all probability make the voyage in safety, but they state that her owner must show good seamanship and be ever on the alert for the numerous changes of wind and weather which he will encounter. One of the drawbacks, which is a serious one, is that there is no means of lighting the cabin from without except through the hatchways, and consequently there are no means of ventilation save by the hatches, there being no windows. The intrepid Captain is of the opinion that in very rough weather the after part of the fore hatch can be raised a little while the boat is laid to, with her head kept to the wind by a drag, and that he can sit in the hatchway aft and steer his craft. The boat draws thirteen inches of water, and should the sea break over her, there being no bulwarks to retain it, it will run off as quickly as it came. Capt. Crapo will have a canvas boot to fasten around his body when necessary. After taking leave of the numerous crafts which accompanied the boat out of the harbor, Mrs. Crapo, who is the mate and crew as well, donned a masculine suit in pl&oe <jf the usual female attire, the former being better adapted to her work. No little apprehension is felt for the safety of the boat, notwithstanding the confidence expressed in her Captain, and her arrival in Europe will be awaited with almost painful interest, not only by his numerous friends in this oity, but by many who have heard of his rashness in other parts of the country. The Delights of Base-9*lL o > The only son of a widowed mother m the vicinity of Douglas park is member of an amateur base-ball club. On Satur­ day he had his hair out and oiled, and accoutred himself for the fray, and his fond mother tied one of her best lace- trimmed handkerchiefs around his throat, and put a clean handkerchief, with some cologne on it, in his belt, and kissed him, and he went. About a quarter past 7 he returned--that is. the most of him--and the following conversation ensued : " My son, whore is tho laco chief you had round your neck ?" • " Here, ma, tied round ihi« finger. I picked up a daisy cutter. I think the finger is only out of joint, not broken." " My son, why do you not speak plainer. Surely, surely you have not been drinking ?" " No, ma, but in the latter half of the seventh inning our catcher's hands gave out, and I went behind, and I stopped a foul tip with my teeth, that is all." " My son, your nice new uniform is all blooded in front. What ever can you have been doing ?" " Nothing, ma, only I was trying to scoop in a high one at third, and the sun got in my eyes, and I muffed it, and the ball came OH my nose, but I put it over to first and got Mm out." " My son, your white flannel pants are all green behind." That, ma, was in the third inning when I tried to steal to second, and had to throw myself down and slide in. I got the base anyhow, and came in on a two- baser to left field." " Alas, my son, I fear that you have had an unpleasant̂ day. Let me send for a surgeon and a dentist, and get some arnica, ice watti, lint, raw beefsteak, splints, sticking-plaster, vinegar sma brown paper, Badway'e Beady Belief, Perry Davis's Pain Killer, compresses, slings, leeches, clean clothes, opodeldoc, horse liniment, and in a few days yon will ndt know yourself." " Oh, ma, it was the bulliest game I ever was in--ten innings, and the score 7 to-6. If I die I give my bat to Billy Humphreys, and my spiked shoes to Charley Gross." (Exit,* led out by his ma. Curtain falls.)--Chicago Times. The SUver question. 'The minority report of the Silver Commission appointed at the late session of Congress has just been published. The report strongly condemns the use of silver as the principal medium of ex­ change, denouncing the so-called double standard as an illusion and impossibility. The recommendations of the minority include the making of silver dollers a legal tender for any sum not exceeding $20, and to any amount in the payment of dfces to the Government except duties on imports, the coins to be issued only in exchange for one and two dollar notes, wiiialt are then to be destroyed; the coin­ ing half eagles almost exactly the equivalent of tie pound sterling, and canbittliiaoi) of $3 000,000 of paper money eafelt month. These are the principal features of thin plan. a Sfts Sn a Saggy# JXU. visiters and his wue were return­ ing to the city in a two-horse buggy from a trip into the country. About seven miles from town, on the Mansfield road, they passed a snake that was lying by the side of the road, the great size of which attracted their attention. After passing the reptile, Mr. Walter conclud­ ed that he would turn back and kill it. He turned the team around, drove back to a point opposite the snake, drew his pistol and fired at it, but without effect. The horses, not being used to the report of firearms, became restless and hard to control, which caused the attention of Mr. Walters to be diverted from the snake, which ran rapidly to the buggy, up the wheels, and on to the dashboard before the occupants were aware of it The snake, when it was within a foot of the ooofupants of the carriage, coiled the lower part of its body, threw its neck into a graceful curve, drew back its head, and was just in the act of launch­ ing its deadly fangs into Mr. Walters, when he fired a second shot. This, though missing, had the effect of causing the snake to lower itself on to the tongue of the carriage. Mr. Walters then, fired two more shots, one of which took effect, and dosed the reptile to fall from the carriage to the ground, and Walters dis­ patched it with a large stone. The rep­ tile was measured and found to be over six feet long, and was thicker than a man's wrist--Dallas (Texas) Commer­ cial, The ffoes of War Correspondents. _ Both Bussia and Turkey put difficul­ ties in the way of correspondents joining the armies. In cases where they have granted permission, they subject to cen­ sorship all the reports about to be for­ warded, and make it a oondition that the correspondents shall not go to the ad­ vanced lines, but remain at the head­ quarters under the control of a special officer. Their passes consist of their own photograph portraits, with a stamp and permit on the back, and of a bras- Bart with the word "correspondent" on it Another difficulty is of a linguistic na­ ture. There are both in Beumania and Turkey but few telegraph offices from which a message worded • in English can be sent A London Telegraph corre­ spondent writes from Bustclmk that the apparatus at the telegraph office of that fortress is arranged for the transmission of Turkish hieroglyphics only. And so it is all through these countries, with the exception of cities like Constantinople, Bucharest, and a few commercial ports. In this way the enterprising English or American reporter, who, for the sake of being promoted to the dignity of a " spe­ cial correspondent," undertakes to face all the discomforts and risks of following a semi-barbarian army, has to learn the languages of the Turlcs, the Wallachians, and the Bussians before he can expect to be able to understand what is going on, or to transmit anything by telegraph, • „, vf* '̂ Rebellious Leg. A heavily-bearded, shock-headed man with a wooden leg stumped noisily up to the prisoners' bar in the Jefferson Market Polioe Court yesterday. When he got to the bar he folded his arms u|>on it, stood at ease on his sound leg and thrust his wooden one through the bars of the railing. "James Flynn," said Judge Wandell, "I hope you are comfortable." " That I am, yer Honor." " You were arrested last night in a state of intoxication. What have you to say?" "It was on aooount ave the day, yer Honor. Yisterdav, sor, was Mimorial day, an* havin' been a soldier meself, sor, I naturally took a drop " " Yes, down a cellar-way, where the officer found you with your wooden leg sticking straight up in the air, and when he put you in a cart to take you to the station-house you thrust your leg through ilis °Dokcs of tlic iiB.il stopped the procession." It may be thrue, sor, but it worthe ault av the leg, sor " Well, I'll fine the leg $10. hold you until the law is Satisfied. The leg walked sadly off with James to prison.--New York World. Jealousy and Suicide. A Bohemian tailor living in Baltimore married a widow who had many attrac­ tions, and several children, and one ir­ regularity--she honored the memory of her first husband, and occasionally visited the cemetery to scatter flowers over his grave. The other morning she asked the tailor to go to the cemetery with her. but lie appeared to be annoyed by her, attentions to his predecessor and flatly refused. She went alone and placed a handful of flowers on the grave. When (die returned to her home she found the door of her husband's room locked and bolted. The bolts were forced and the tailor was found hanging to the ward­ robe, forlorn and dead. The poor devil was jealous of the gentleman in the coffin. A Tin-Clad Catfish. A boy while fishing in Lake Butts des Morte the other day felt a nibble, and, drawing his hook toward the shore, ob­ served a half-gallon fruit can trailing on the bottom. Having secured the vessel, he was greatly surprised to find that a luge catfish had taken up its abode therein and remained until Ids increased dimensions did not admit of egress. He had evidently flopped around in his tin parlor until a hole was made in the rust- eaten bottom through which his tail pro­ truded. In this condition the catfish had power to navigate from one place to an­ other, and must have been regarded by his aquarian neighbors as a kind of iron­ clad monitor--Menasha (Wis.) Press. A Quorum. The rivalry between Chicago and St Louis crops out in various ways. The Chicago Tribune, for instance, says that the other day a St Louis man heard some surprising intelligence, and ex­ claimed, in his astonishment, " Can I credit my ears?" "I think you ought to," observed the man of Chicago, " be­ cause they form a quorum of you." A BtJssmr colossus. the Qr«at~Th» UnuMtarer of «*• Imperial t«Mlu Xavy-A Ins Citadel. (From fee Wew Toil: HeraULl The most formidable vessel in the im­ perial Busman navy is the Peter the Great, a colossal ironclad, designed af­ ter the Devastation type( but since mod- iKure oiosej ̂ wimble the • IUOIC- JL'IA6 IFT?£6R the Great, like the circular ironclads which bear his name, was built after the designs of Vice Admiral Popoff, and was finished in 1875. Her sides, breastwork walls and turrets are very heavily ar­ mored, and she carries 412-inch 41-ton breechloading steel rifled Oboukhoff guns. She is calculated to steam at the rate of 14 knots per hour, and her trial trips in the Gulf of Finland have in gen­ eral been successful, though on her first trip several defects were found, which have since been remedied. Her total length over the armored deck is 330 feet, and between perpendiculars 321 feet 10 inches. Her extreme breadth is 63 feet 3 inches, and without armor and armor backing, 59 feet She draws 22 feet 9 inches of water forward and 24 feet 9 inches aft, and W the immense total displacement of 9,665 tons. With the exception of the stem and stem posts, whicu are of gun metal, the entire hull is of iron. The ship has a double bottom, the space between the skins being divided into water-tight cells, so that an injury to any part by means of a torpedo or otherwise would restdt in the filling of one, or possibly two or more of their and therefore al­ low of a complete localization of the in­ jury. Above the second skin the hull is further divided for the same purpose into compartments by 9 water-tight bulk­ heads running transversely across the ship. In addition to these there are two bulkheads which traverse the hull lon­ gitudinally, being situated symmetrical­ ly, one on each side of the keel. These inclose the amidships space, in which are situated the coal bunkers, having a fuel capacity of from 12 to 15 days. The outside skin is worked in two thicknesses of 1 inch each. The ship's bottom is sheathed with wood and copper. The armor belting, which is carried entirely around the ship, extends, ex­ cept where it rises to form the breast­ work, 3 feet above and 5 feet below the load water-line. It is bolted on in two belts formed of solid plates, the up­ per belt being 14 inches in thickness amidships and tapering off at the ends to 3 inches, and the lower one 12 inches in thickness amidships, running down to 8 inches at stem and stern. This ar­ mor is only intended to protect the vital part of the hull. Hollow girders form the armor backing, the spaces in and be­ tween being as usual filled with teak. These girders it is claimed are capable of producing an additional resistance equal to that of 2 inches of solid iron. For the upper belt the armor backing is 10 inches in thickness, and behind the lower it is 12 inches thick. Unlike the Dreadnaught, this vessel has no ramming spur. The armored belt for a length of 160 feet amidships rises to a height of 10 feet 3 inches above the load water-line, forming the sides of the breastwork which incloses the gun turrets. The end walls of this breastwork are semicircular in form, and have the same armor plat­ ing as the side walls, but worked on in two thicknesses, in order to more thor­ oughly protect the turret bases and ma- chinery. The armor covering of the deck of the ship outside of the breast­ work and that over the breastwork is formed of double steel plates 1| and {-inches in thickness. Inside of the citadel, at each end, are Elaced the revolving gun turrets, the eight of the battery being 13 feet above the load line. The turrets are protected by armer plating having the same thick­ ness and backing as that of the breast­ work walls outside. Their outside diam­ eter is 32 feet 6 inohes, and they, as be­ fore stated, each inolose 2 12-incli 41-ton guns. The turret ports being very small the gun cartridges are arranged so as to allow of the heavy guns being raised and lowered within the limits of 18 inches into three different positions with re­ spect to their carriages. This is effected by hydraulic power--two force pumps being used, a steam and a hand one. I'lia ship's eaeiiips arc of 1.400 nom­ inal horse power, working up to 10,000 indicutcd, satd give rise to 2 large inde­ pendent loose-bladed screws. These arc each 18 feet 6 inches in diameter and have pitches varying from 19 to 24 feet There are on hoard 2 steam windlasses and 2 sterm crab winches. There are 9 special steam pumps, with a total capacity of 6,269 gallons per min­ ute. In audition to these tliereare 8 steam pumps attached to the main engines, which have a total capacity per minute of 11,924 gallons, and 8 small hand pumps, having a total capacity of 438 gallons per minute. This gives as the total quantity of water which can be pumped out of the main pipe per min­ ute the immense volume of 18,631 gal­ lons. Flitting Shadows. ̂ While half-a-dozen persons were roll­ ing along in a Michigan avenue oar, yes­ terday, a man leaned across the aisle and said to another: "Excuse me, but didn't a big bug crawl down behind your collar ?" " Ooh! Ouch !" exclaimed the other, as he leaped up and hauled off his ooat He.looked the garment all over, but there was no bug to be seen. " Perhaps it crawled down under your vest/' suggested the man. Off came the vest, and it was closely inspected without making any discover­ ies. The attentive stranger then made the victim turn around two or three times, to see if the bug wasn't hidden under the suspenders, and, when a thor­ ough search had been made, the stranger sat down and said : " It was probably a shadow flitting across your eollar, but I felt sure it was a bug. You can put on your ooat and vest again." The more the victim thought about it the madder he got, but before he put on his coat the other man had left the car and did down Twelfth street as if he had grease on his heelk---Detroit ^ Hard Times in California. * Emigrants are constantly arriving from the parched lower countieB seeking labor --some on horseback, but the majority on foot, carrying their blankets. As a consequence, wages are very low, and situations scarce. One case lately eame -- a man, his (Km, and a six-mule under our observation of grown 4 were working in Green valley, county, and altogether only earned $1 per day. Many are glad to get situ*- k tions to work for their board.--Ifamm (Cat.) Register. 9 .* SORIBb ifeiTtTr; r ^muuArrtiiig via, sJiftfriaAAi. SB, high circles. NEW YORK has female tramps who ~ smoke and chew. Smp-iiOADs of Chinese laborers age *• expected in London. g A sAiiOON-KEKFKB at Msxion has ban convicted of "selling beer to miooaL" and fined $100. ̂ EACH granite window-cap of the St J Louis Postofflce weighs four *"««, aal S is worth $1,700. I| A FEMALE Justice of the Peace in I Wyoming recently fined her hnsbatoi ̂ heavily for flirting. cats." Wk THE money loss to Savannah, Ga., by last year's yellow-fever visitation is eata* muted at $7,000,000. THE 30,000 acres of rich public 1<"vh in Aroostook county, Me., are being fjaafc taken up by emigrants. CINCINNATI, in prdbortion to W pop­ ulation, has fewer lawyers than «y other city in the Union. ALEXANDER Conner, of Fern, VI, aged 82, has just read the Hoty Script- nres from Genesis to Bevelations for UHB 80th time. SEALS have appeared on the N«w- fotndland coast tnis year. One ateacaer recently carried away a cargo of valued at $129,000. r ̂ JEFF. DAVIS is now residing at Bean- f voir, on the Gulf coast of Miwrimn ̂ between Mobile and New Orleans, <3 preparing his memoirs. ̂! THE British Government has deter­ mined to make great changes in the rolling-stock of Indian railways, so aa to adapt it to military purposes. WEM., boys,' here's for perdition I** said Alonzo Leister, and he coolly lay down on a bar-room floor in Yolo, No*., and shot himself through the head. mx OMAHA will have to build a dyke to prevent the Missouri from making S short cut across a point of land whieh > would leave the city out in the cold. SWEET and fragrant are the amenities I of Chicago journalism. The Times da- & scribes Mr. Joseph Medill, of the Trib-* £ une, as " one of the most canting of J Pecksniffs and dirtiest of moral p ONE of the New York obituary writers says that the Harper periodicals bring in an annual profit of $500,000, while the whole manufacturing husineaa amounts to $5,000,000 yearly, one-ihizd of which is profit Six tons of homeopathic pills are laid to the account of a single pharmacy in Geneva, N. Y., last year. And yet that is called infinitesimal medicine; 12,- 000 pounds of pellets, and an indefinite number of establishments to be heaid from! THE highest point yet attained by railroad nas just been reached on summit of Laveta pass, in the Bangle de Christo mountains, by the South­ western Extension of the Denver sod Bio Grande railway. The altitude the summit is 9,340 feet STATISTICS taken in France show that the mortality of infants nursed by their own mothers never exceeds 10 per cent., seldom, indeed, rising above 5 per cent; that of infants suckled by other wet nurses averages about20percent; whife in "hand-fed" children the death-rate ranges from 50 to 60 per dent THE Bev. Bobert Collyer was invited by the President of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union to address the annual public meeting of that associa­ tion. This is the answer Mr. Collyer sent: "Dear Baldwin: "Yes. YM, Yes. Yes Yes. Yes. Yes--yes--yea --yes--yes.--yes. Bobert Collyer." THE centennial anniversary of the es­ tablishment of the State Government at New York will be celebrated with all doe "pomp and circumstance" at Bondout ̂ in that State, mx the SOfcli of July next. The President and his Cabinet, the vtee President and the Ju^Ucea of the Su­ preme Court are to br invited to attend the celebration. THE Transvaal (South African) repaid lie, recently "annexed'* t6 the British empire, contains 114,000 square mile ̂ just double the area of England and Wales. The white population, chiefly Boers, is believed to be about 30,000, the blacks, 250,000. It is a rich but un­ developed country. The republio was almost bankrupt WHEN Gen. Grant, just before aaflfag for Europe, went to order his new uni­ form in Philadelphia, his tailor invited him to step on the scales and be weighed. "Oh," pleasantly replied the ex-Preal- dent, "I know my weight exactly. Itia 185 pounds. That is what I keep myself at" Andj sure enough, the beam turned at just that figure. BOME can boast, at the present one of the finest tenors ever known, to the person of a Franciscan monk, Fattier Giovanni. Impresani have repeatedly besought Mm to leave the cloister for the stage, but he turns a deaf ear. When he sang at the Easter fetes the churches were cnunmed to suffocation. Ha is a robust man of 35 jears. IK Guatemala, bouth America, the de­ struction of the forests in the neighbor­ hood of cities is being attended with dis­ astrous effects The harvests are less in quantity and less to be relied upon, new forms of sickness have sprung up, and the weather is more capricious. The want' of wood for fuel and other purposes ia already most seriously felt The Thunderer's PredieOan* So far as can be judged, the fortune of war will be adverse to the Tuiksi The operations may not have the sa­ pidity of recent wars, but the Turks ace overmatched, ant! must succumb in the end. This catastrophe Europe will ao* oept No nation will go to war again to support that which cannot be supported. No real statesman will cling to the dead element in a system instead of looking for its living forces. We know that we must seek for that which is to rephwpi the parting power. To this end we K not too soon direct our attention.-^; London Times. m M | ; W:'