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Hartznann has filed, at New York, t Mintion of his intention to American citizen. A FRIGHTFUL explosion, resulting in ttie Heath of five persons, occurred in St. Claii «oa>tr, Til. Laborers on the farm of Henry Yours prepared to return to work after break­ fast, and were approaching the steam thresh­ ing machine, when the boiler burst, scat- taring destruction in every direction. Five men were killed outright, and five others were so seriously injured that their lives are de­ spaired oi The machine was shattered in a thousand pieces, aad the wkeat took fire, which spread to all the surrounding property. The stock-yawl and all its content# were consumed in tfce'flsmea. WATIAM CAMPBELL has Berved nearly five years in the Wisconsin penitentiary for the assassination of Dan O'Mara at Chippewa Falls. C. W. Cha«e, a life prisoner in that institution, now confesses that he perpetrated the crime far vrhich Campbell was incarcerated.... Dispatches from New Mexico state that the situation is more serious than ever before as regards outbreaks of the Mescalero Apaches. Indians in small bands are raiding the country, and it is utterly impossible for troop?, to come up with them. Reports of murders and depre­ dations committed by them upon isolated com­ munities come in every day, and there is no telling the damage done' or the number of lives lost srnoe they hare been in the field. A DUEL has taken place in Indian Twntory between T. O. Carpenter* a Choctaw chief, and Col. Amos Price, a prominent Creek. The latter was killed, and the former fatally injured It is reported in St. Louis that the two chief barge lines on the Lower Mississippi have been consolidated, with a capital of $3,- 000,000. The amalgamation will give a fleet of twenty-three tugs and 149 barges, having a capacity of 8.000,000 bushels.... The jailer at Kansas City made she discovery that Bill Bvan. the Giendale train-robber, had a bnnch of burglar's saws in his ceil, and had eat three sides of a large square in the iron door. .... A prominent physician of Cincinnati reports twenty well-defined cases of typhoid fever among the 400 ttngliPh colonists at Rugby, Turn. A corps of physicians and nurses has been dispatched to tho afflicted settlement Bad drinking-water WM the chief cause of the epidemic. PBOF. SNOW, of the Kansas Universi­ ty, and his party, who were encamped in the Mountains near Socorro, New Mexioo, and were believed to have been butchered by Apaches, have turned up all right.... Indian-Agent Hunt announces the discovery of rich and extensive silver-fields ia Indian Terri­ tory, near Fort Bill, and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs asks for troops to keep out the intruders,... .Hartmann, the Russian Nihilist, is now in Chicago. He has kept very quiet, evidently desiring to preserve a strict incognito for the present, and disclaims that his presence in that city has any connection with Nihilistic schemes. A PARTY of Americana encamped in Gttad&loupe canon, 100 mile* from Tombstone, the Sad»on% hfe? region, up toward the North pole, state that the avenge Mgiditjr la that re­ gion from Jan. 1 to March I was 48 degrees be­ low aero. Hie lowest point reached during the winter was 75 degrees below ssro. The winter was the coldest known since 1890. The whal­ ing season was a failure. A CONTRACTOR on the Panama cana states that 200 men are at work on the excava­ tion, but the engineers have not established the line across the Isthmus. Lumber is being •hipped from San Francisco to build the sta­ tions In a three-mile rowing race at Hali­ fax, N. EL, for $500, McKay beat Flalsted by two lengths. vimnveTOR. CHOP reports received bj the Depart­ ment of Agriculture give the condition of spring wheat at 81, against 88 last year and 81 in 1879 at the same time. Compared with the crop last year, there is reported a heavy de­ crease in the States of Iowa and Illinois ; a slight decrease in Minnesota, Nebraska and California; while in Wisconsin and all the New England States there is an increase. 'Reports from Dakota indicate a fair crop, with a large increase in acreage. The condition of tobacco is somewhat lower thao at this time last year. The general condi­ tion of corn is 77--a very considerable decline since last month, when it stood at 90. In Augu-t, 1880, the oendition was 98, which, however, waa exceptionally high. The Mian- tic coast States make a showing somewhat better than the general average, except in South Carolina, where the excessiT© drought has cut down the figures to 41. Louisiana and Texas are tlie next lowest of the coast States, from the same cause, reporting 67 and 46 re­ spectively, Tennessee is the lowest , of the in­ ferior States, its average falling to 63. In the great corn-growing region tha highest reports are 95 in Wisconsin and 92 in Nebraska, and the lowest 74, in Kansas. A WASHINGTON dispatch aajB that a council with a delegation of Dakota Indians took place at the Interior Department. The object of the consultation was te secure for the Poncas under Standing Bear permanent homes in Dakota on their old reservation or as near it as possible. The Omahas declined to sell any more land, and said they would rather sell to white settlers than Indians. The Winne- bagoes gave a like answer, but White Thunder, speaking on behalf of all the Sionx tribes, Maid the land the Poncas wanted was only a small corner of their reservation, and they would give it to the Poncas and welcome them as a part of their nation, having all the rights and privileges of the Sioux people. Secretary Kirk- wood asked how much the Sioux wanted as sompensation. This seems to be the. final con­ clusion of the kmg-drawn-out Ponca contro­ versy. THB total Talne of the exports from this country for the seven months ending July 51, 1881, was #82,708,977, against *82,286.046 wortli exported during the corresponding period • of 1880. The total value of the provisions and tallow exported during the nine months ending July 31, 1881, was $88,321,037, against f !>5, - 399,277 exported during the nine corresponding months of the previous year. rOBGICR. THESE has been another dynamite scare in Liverpool. Five rifles were placed among some bales of cotton on the Nelson dock at that city. Tne man who placed them there escaped after a struggle with the watchman An old building, four stones high, situated in the most frequented part of Vienna, fell sud­ denly. The greater part of the house was occupied by offices and fashionable stores. Twenty persons were kilied and thirty persons were seriously injured All the news from Tunis shows that the insurrection among the native tribes is spreading with alarming ra­ pidity, and that a holy war is immntine. SIGHOB MKBLNETTI, a distinguished member of the Italian Alpine Club, was killed by an avalanche on Mount Rosa. ANTI-JEWISH disturbances occurred AT Stettin. Seven hundred men paraded the nnusNT GARFIELD. VmneTOH, Aug. 18. Arfeona, near the Mexican line, were attacked . Greets denouncing the children of Israel, by Mexicans and five of the number killed-- Widens Lafig, Dick Gray, Jim Craue, Charles Snow and Thomas Clinton. Two others were wounded. The trouble arose from a cattle raid across the Mexican line some months ago, and a counter raid by Mexicans recently The Mexican raiders were overtaken and the cattle recaptured. The Mexicans who killed Lang and Oray's party are supposed to be some of the defeated raiders. A party of 200 Arizonians has organized to aveDge the recent murders, and great fears are entertained for the Ameri- oane living on the Mexican side, as a war of re­ taliation is sure to follow. THE SOUTH. Ai.1. prominent places in New Orleans were adorned, a few nights ago, with placards, signed by the Committee of Safety, which de- Ihera was a slight improvement in the Presi­ dent's condition yesterday. He slept well last night, the pulse has «hown a steady diminution, and there has been no recurrence of the vom­ iting. The fears of blood-poisoning have baen dismissed. A teaspoonful of beef juice and a few drops of rauriatk; acid were given twice in the afternoon, and a spice blis­ ter ̂ put on the stomach. The pa­ tient's weight has lessened seventy pounds since the assassination, and his face is represented as haggard and blanched. The physicians have decided not to administer food in the natural way for some time to come. Twenty ounces of nutritive substances are daily injected into the President's system.- It appears clear to the medical attendants of the President that his critical condition was caused simply by a form of dyspepsia. While the effort was being made to increase the vital­ ity of the body and fortify it for the exhaustion attending the suffering and constant discharge from the wound, the diet was too rapidly in­ creased and produced the relapse. The dis­ covery of this fact will be productive of beneficial results in the immediate future. More patience will be exercised, and the build­ ing np of the system will be Blower and surer. Dr. Bliss believes that by the time the Presi­ dent recovers from tlie gastric attack the wound will be healed. It is already far ad­ vanced in the healing stage, and the resump­ tion of the functions of the stomach will be the only thing needed to bring the patient to the long-looked-for convalescence. Mrs. Garfield bears ep bravely, and her confidence in her husband's recovery remains unshaken. A citi­ zen of Sew York, describing himself as in ro­ bust health, has offered his blood to save the Progident by transfusion. Dr. Baxter, who taae been the President's physician for ten years orevions to the shoot­ ing, says that, although of stalwart physique, Gen. Garfield suffered much during the time he attended him from chronic dyspepsia and a delicate stomach, brought about by his seden­ tary habits and mental strain. He said that the President was in the habit of eating" too rapidly, without proper mastication, and also mad© ft practice of sitting up late at night over his books or in considering public busi­ ness. Those habits had the effect of increas­ ing his dyspeptic condition. Dr. Baxter thinks that the" attending surgeons have not given these facte as much attention as the drenm- stances called for. Among the vast number of dispatches re­ ceived at the WfaiwJ House was one of a per­ sonal character from Queen Victoria, which was answered by Mrs. Garfield. 0 Secretary Blaine, who was in Augusta wb«s he first heard the news of the last unfavorable change in the President's condition, returned to Washington yesterday. Yesterday afternoon, while McGill, employed as a guard in the jail, was passing Guiteau's cell he noticed the occupant employed apparently in paring his nails. McGill approached the cell ana asked Guiteau what ne was doing. Gniteau said he was doing nothing, and on McGill asking what he was doing with the knife the scoundrel made oath that he had none. The guard called on him to drop it, whereupon the murderous ruffian jumped up and attempt­ ed to stab him. McGill pulled his revolver, Gui­ teau grappled him, and in the struggle the re­ volver went off. This brought other guard*, and Guiteau was secured. The knife, which he •wore ho bad not, was found under his foot It is made of steel, is five or six inches in length and rather sharp. Guiteau, after being disarmed, raved and affected insanity. How he came in possession of the knife has not been ascertained. WAHHIWOTON, Aug. 19. A stronger poise, a better feeling of the skin, retention of nourishment derived from ene- mata, and the excellent tone of the President'* mind, are .mentioned as unmistakable indica­ tions that the crisis is past and the road to re­ covery again regained. The fact that the President is able to procure refreshing slee|:. without the use of anodynes is pointed to as one of the most favorable features of his case. The irritation of the stomach hat- entirely ceased, and it is thought the patient'* thirst will be entirely satisfied by supping him with fluids in the ordinary way and by enema­ te. The wound is considered in a very healthy condition. Some alarm was created yesterday among the unmedical by the appearance of a swelling of the parotid gland near the rifht angle of the jaw. This, however, occasions no I uneasiness among the professional meu, I being merely regarded1 f.s an indication of a fle- ; bilitated system, the result of a low tone of the I blood, and not figuring in the case one way or another. Apnew informed Mm Garfield that Foity of the processionists were arrested. At Schievelbein, Pemerania, Jewish property fU injured 150,000 marks' worth, and the munici­ pality will have to pay the damage. THE Association for the Codification of the Laws of Nations convened in session at j needed for the rapid recovery of the President was the improvement of the ! Cologne, Germany, under the Presidency of Lord O'Hagnn, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Representatives from the United States, France, England, China, Japan, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Norway and Sweden were present Among the American lawven at the conference digestive power of the stomach. Warden Crocker, of the Washington jail, yesterday banded Guiteau a pontal-card from his sister, Mrs. F. M. Seoville, of Chicago, a Kit­ ing about Lin health. The assassin rtquestod that the be informed that he was praying daily were David Dudley Field, F. A. P.Barnard, | for the recovery of the President, and regretted John Jav and Clinton B. Fisk. his deed. JAMES CAIHI>, an eminent British agri­ cultural authority, thinks two-thirds of the wheat land of England will yield an average WASHING-TOW, Aug. 20. Tho President continues to improve slowly, and is much better this morning than at any below. Barley is the best crop of the year, but oats are extremely deficient Live stock in Great Britain during the past two years has been diminished by more than 12 per cent-- there being a decline of 2,000,000 shfiep and jjUWMMM} iambs since 1879. I ADDITIONAL NEWS. CAPT. H. W. HOWOATE was brought before the United States Commissioner at ! recovering night was of a refreshing character. Yester­ day he i artook of twenty-two ounces of liquid food through the mouth, and there were no symptoms of gastric disturbance or nausea. The inflammation of the parotid gland has subsided, and the fear of suppuration therefrom has disappeared. The wound continues to secrete healthy pus, though in daily diminishing quantities. The temperature and nulae are in a much better condition. The physicians believe that the patient is gradually his powers of digestion, when dare that the laws must be enforced, corrup- i crop, while the other third will fall 10 per cent ! time since the recent relapse. • His sleep last don in office stopped, ana hoodramistn put down. IN tlie darkness tlie engineer of a freight train on the Memphis and Charleston railroad mistook for sheep three negroes who had laid down on the track to sleep, and two cS them were killed and third badlv wounded. CHARLES STEWABT, a negro, killed his wife with a hatchet at Bay St Loui«, Miss., and was taken from jail and lynched. His father- in-law prayed for him, and then helped to hang Ub. DUVILLB, (me of the most important centers for leaf tobacco in Virginia, reports the acftainty of a short crop thereabouts. What there is will be of poor quality. POLmcsL. THE BF publican State Central Com- > arifttee of California recommend Marcos D. Bo- xaek for Secretary of the United States Senate. THE Republican State Central Com- t of Minnesota has issued a call for tha Convention to meet at St Paul on tha i of September. his general improvement will be more marked. Thus, with the close of the seventh week, there is a brighter prospect for the sick man. Tho physicians have given hopeful assurances to the Cabinet Ministers that unless other serious complications should arise tiie President will continue to improve. Col. Waring, a sanitary expert, is giving hi.****.to He ltel.il necessary to retain better relations with the | received yesterday was one from the Ituxsiun Mi rny, because he is aware that the Ni- i Patriarch of Armenians in Turkey, hilists ara making many converts among sol- I ^ handsome young woman giving her name as Washington to answer to the charge made by Gen. Hazen of embezzling $50,000 from the Government. Bail was fixed at $40,000.--Later investigations into Capt Howgate'h accounts make tne sum total of hia alleged defecation so far about $70,000. S THE Czar a reported to be devoting AH accident, caused by a passenger fcain runni ng over a cow, on the Grand Trunk aallway, near Prescott, Canada, resulted in the instant death of the engineer, the serious •winding of the fireman, baggage-master, two «qpress messengers, and various injnriaa to a ••mber of passengers. i A coiiiiisioH of freight ens near Wooster, Ohio, caused the death of a farB&eman named John Whitaker, and the destruction of two engines and fourteen loaded care....The whaler Abbott Lawrence, which was tewed into at. Johns in s disabled condition, reports *i"t "faring January and February the mercury tanged between 18 and 75 degrees below zero at Marble island. The whaling season was a failure, because the ice-packs prevented the ^tillers fmm r»<win«> • .hin ̂ diers and officers Mr. Forster stated in the British House of Commons that the total re­ ceipts of the Irish Laud League since the 1st of January amounted to §53,535 (£10,707), of which 946,615 (£9,343) were sent front America, while Ireland contributed only $810 (£162).... By a treaty just conaloded between China and Russia, the former agrees to pay the latter 9,000,WW roubles (about $6,759,<W0), to retain, also, a part of Kuldja. China has control of the lit and Zelongra rivers and the old Cashgar frontier Of five persons arrstitod at Genoa for participating in the meeting for the abolition of Papal guarantees, only two were sentenced, | and to very light terms of imprisonment.... j The disaster attending the bull-fight at Mar- ; seilles resulted in the death of twenty-seven | persons and the wounding of 306 Bismarck, after a flying visit to his estate at Bchon- haosen, has gone to Vanin to remain until January. Two companies of the Sixth infantry from moving i ship's length. J. Howgate, dibui ~ signal servioe, was arrested Henry W, Howgate, disbursing officer of the ted at Mount Clemens, 16ch., charged with obtaining #40.000 of Gov- ernment funds by means of fraudulent vouch- s*s, and taken to Washington. Two Americans were asaaaainated Altams, Mexico, recently. Two persona wore Wrested on suspicion of being their murderers, Hit were shot dead while attempting to escape. . .Indian Agent Tiffany, at the San Carlos Agency, Arizona, apprehends trouble with the White Mountain Indians, the Santos, and San CarloB Indians, who are Mrs. Mary L. Iteminger,of Brooklyn, appeared at the \Vliite House yesterday, and demanded an oppertunity to cure the President, for which pin-pose she had come from Pans. She was sent to the insane asylum, where it was fouiid that she wore the costume of a balletrdancei under her dress. Art in Folding Linen. The women of the ancient town of An­ ion have acquired a world-wide celebrity for their art in folding linen for all pur­ poses. Their huge linen presses show some chef d'ecuvres in the way of folded table-linen that may be called marvel­ ous. In a vast table-cloth folded into a trough, twenty-four sheep formed of Medina napkins are drinking, watched by a large napkin in the shape of a shepherd, and half a dozen doylies, have reached Rawlins from the White River fringed, taking the form of dogs. Oth the grow- lag restive and quarrelsome under the influence of the " medicine men." •ana and his band of Indian fiends &A said to tee nearly 150 miles south of the Atlantic and Pacific railroad in New Mexico. Sixty volun- aBers from Socorro are engaged in guarding •lines. Thirteen men were killed by Aoaches it Alamosa in one day.. „ .State militia, to the •umber of 10.000 have already given notice of pronto participate in the Yorktown ,.j A liispoBT upon the salt manufacture :#f United States, prepared by W. L. Row- Ute Agency. They report the Indians generally ready for transfer to the new reservation in Utah, but state that Colorow and a few lodges are defiant in their opposition.... .The Chicago, | Milwaukee and St Paul road has secured an- | other tract of forty acres in Mtnneapolis, »ni< I will erect repair and construction shops for all | its lines west of the Mississippi. j AT Galveston, Tex., a new comet has j been discovered in the constellation Ursa Ma- ] JorC'the dipper"), from 9 to 10 p. m., by Mr j A. M. Hinston. It is plainly visible through the telescope... .A low between the whites and | blacks of Morrilton, Ark., lias led to several | battles and a threat to burn the town. I CHARLES STOCKLY was hanged at Bata- j via, N. If., for the murder of John Welker, a I farmer, residing near that place, April 27 of this year. Stockly sought Welkei's 16-year-old daughter in marriage. Both Welker and the daughter rejected btockly's projtosal, and the crime was committed in revenge. BED CLOUD, after offering jg give each Ponca family a square mile of land, asked the Secretary of the Interior to assign the surren era are folded in cautles, towers, wind­ mills, pitchers and miters of the larger size, which should be about twenty- eight inches broad and thirty inches long for dinner. The miter shape has already found its way to the American table. The bread is placed in the cen­ ter, between the two highest points. New ISnftLand farm. On a certain occa­ sion t*o Wi«,toade a bet th at there were and man i|3Iwenty-five Smithain Hay- market Theater, London, one night when Gorrick fras playing there and the house waa crowded. They went to the theater, and one of tliem jumping ujxm a seat hurriedly inquired if Mr. Smith was present. Kfty-one gentlemen arose. "The Mr. Smith I wish to see is bald- headed," shouted the joker. Twenty- seven human billiard balls remained standing, each trying to pull the islands of hair growing to the starboard^ of his temple to the highest point of his cran- nium. The bet was won. f t ' • < Stnbhorn Integrity* ' iff"'-j A dispute from a singular cause took place at the office of a banker in the Chaussee d'Antin. Mr. Benjamin --, the cashier, who has tilled that office for the last twenty-five years, was at his post, when a collecting clerk named Pierre Doulley presented himself with draft for 10,000 francs, drawn by a Lon­ don banker. The notes were counted out and the man left the place. In a few hours after Doulley returned, and, addressing himself to the cashier, said: " There ia a little mistake between us; there is a difference of 10,000 franca in our account." "I never make mistakes," replied the oaahier. indignantly; " for twenty-five years my balance has always been cor root to a sou." "But the error," said Doulley, "is against yourself, as you given me 1,000 francs too much; I am as honest a man as you are--I have been employed as collecting clerk for thirty-five years in the same house. There is your notet I will not take it." *' Insolent fellow!" cried the cashier; "do you dare to insult me? I will not take your note. I regard any man as an enemy who wishes to prove to my employer that I am capable of making a mistake. Take the note, or I will turn you out of the place." Pierre Doulley was not to be thus re­ pelled, and from words the parties came to blows; but the clerks of the house hastened to separate them. The cash­ ier not wishing to avow an error, which he would have regarded as a stain on his long-established reputation for cor­ rectness, was fain to put up with the loss of the note; and Pierre Doulley carried the 1,000 franc note to the Mayor of his arondissement, to be distributed anions the poor. Stubborn Integrity. A dispute from a singular cause took place at the office of a banker in the Chanssee d'Antin, Paris. Mr. Benjamin F , the cashier, who has filled that >fflce for the last twenty-five years, was it hia post, when a collecting clerk, lamed Pierre Doulley, presented him- *elf with a draft for 10,000 francs, drawn by a London banker. The notes were counted out, and the man left the place, [n a few hours after Doulley returned, uid, addressing himself to the cashier, said: " There is a little mistake between us; there is a difference of 1,000 francs in our account." " I never make mistakes," replied the cashier, indignantly; "for twenty-five years my balance has always been cor­ rect to a sou." " But the error," said Doulley, " ia igainst yourself, as you have given me 1,000 francs too much; I am as honest a man as yon are--I have been employed as collecting-clerk for thirty-five years in thqf ame huoae. - Thesis .your .note. T will not take it." " Insolent fool !" cried the cashier; I regard any man as an enemy who wishes to prove to my employer that [ ara capable of making a mistake. Take the note or I will turn you out of the place." Pierre Doulley was not to be thus re­ pelled, and from words the parties came to' blows; but the clerks of the house hastened to separate them. Tlie cashier, not wishing to avow an error, which he would have regarded as a stain on his long-established reputation for correct­ ness, was fain to put up with the loss of the note ; and Pierre Doulley carried the 1,000 franc note to the Mayor of the arondissement, to be distributed among the poor. t Helling Wives. A correspondent, writing from Lon­ don, says : " Time will probably be found for one question which an Irish member of the House desires to put on asocial subject which'some people will be surprised to see raised at all. The Government will be aske'u whether it can take any steps to make the fact known that the sale of wives is illegal in Eng­ land. It Appears that two days ago a workman at Sheffield sold his wife to an­ other man for a quart of beer, and it is stated the practice is by no means un­ common in England, though it may be Eiresumed that a wife of average good ooks and morals would bring more than a quart of beer. Frenchmen, as we all know, believe that Englishmen sell their wives at Smithfield with a halter around* their necks, the halter being thrown in as a sort of make-weight to the bargain. The custom is not 'so general as our French fi lends imagine, but there can be very little doubt that in some parts of the country a few laborers and working- men remain, who fancy that they have a clear right to sell their wives, if they could find a customer for them. Tlie de­ lusion is. of course, confined to the most ignorant portion of the population, and the Government can do nothing to de­ stroy it. When the new generation, which has been brought up under the influence of School Boards, has married and settled down, wives will cease to be sold, or if sold at all, it will be for a more substantial consideration than a quart of beer. The workingmen will perhaps take a hint from the world of fashion, where wives, in commercial lan­ guage, sometimes 'change h^nds,' but always by private contract." The Swine Pest. It has long been known in England, Germany and Franoe, but under differ­ ent names. Such as anthrax and sty fever. But the rose smells as sweet by any other name, and the history of swine husbandry shows that the pest is alike deadly in the new or old world. That it spreads readily from one herd to another is well known. That one sick pig wan­ dering about may innooulate hundreds of others is a fact proven by sad experi­ ence. There are men living in this civilized country that are so aestitue of intelli­ gence, or regard for rights of others, or who are so ignorant of the nature of this terrible disease that they will allow their swine to run at large when they are known to have the <&olera in the wont form. This class of men feed their hogs on the road just enough to make them come home to the call and allow them to ram­ ble in the neighboring woods, or to for­ age in their neighbor's fields. Swine that is accustomed to hunt for their own living can scale a atone wall, climb a nine rail. fence, or undermine a five board fence, or invade premises sur­ rounded by an osage hedge. Such brutes are owned by a class of men meaner than the animals, which follow only the demands of nature. They must hunt or die, and the depraved owner starves the poor brutes to make them more vigilant in hunting a living on the neighbor's premises. Swine of this ftlass of men and hogs infest every township in the State, and make a universal swine plague possible. We know of a neighborhood of careful breeders of thoroughbred swine. Their farms are well fenced acid well cultivated, and they never allow a pig or a calf on the highway. They feed liberally every animal they possess, believing that the generous care of stock is the road to success. They love their fine stock and take a pride in il They livp in dread, however, of neighbors, who care not for the wants of their stock near the rights of their fellow-man. We know of many cases where the plague has appeared in lands after some sick pig from the road has invaded the premises of a most careful man. Theee men, who have with great care and at great outlay collected a fine herd of recorded swine, must lose by such inva­ sions not only valuable animals, but the accumulated excellence of a herd which can not be replaced by money. With the death of model thoroughbred ani­ mals sink one's means of enjoying the benefits of his reputation as a careful breeder. He can not longer supply his old customers, and he can not buy such animals as to fill the place of those lost. The careful breeding of a lifetime may be swept away in a fortnight by the wan­ dering into his premises of one of these miserable pests. Here we have a community of careful, intelligent farmers, who are doing a grand work for the improvement of the stock of the Nation, exposed to the ravages of a pestilence, simply because of a reck­ less, careless farmer who lives near them. Pasteur, of France, has shown that animals dying of anthrax and buried may be the means of conveying the dis­ ease to herds grazing over the graves years after. He cites abundant proof. His views are corroborated by Professor Law, of Cornell It is generally accepted as true that a pen, or lot, or field in which cholera hogs have been is infected, and herds put into that pen, lot or field will take the disease. , To this we may add' that after a place has once Uecome infected and herds die there, each successive outbreak of the disease takes a most virulent form. In view of fiuch dangers as not only the annual loss of millions of dolldrs, but also of the permanent poisoning of the premises, does not the case become alarming and call for an intelligent and combined effort of every farmer in the the land to prevent further spread of the swine plague ? The atteution of legislators should be given to • this question. How to check and stamp out hog cholera. Public health and property are closely associated with the prosperity of the pro­ ducers of our meat supply. If the herds of cattle and swine are to be left longer unprotected against the ravages of pleuro-pneumonia aud cholera it is im­ possible to estimate the present and fu­ ture loss. Those who have given these diseases the most study are confident that they cau be held in check and fi­ nally stamped out, but it must be done by the aid of wise legislation of the State and General" Government.--Cm- einnati (Jomm rcial. nations. Of the six ideas which are illustrated in the varioda oomponent parts, France has contributed two, En­ gland two, Germany one had America one. The American contribution or suggestion--that of the rubber tire--is generally regarded as practically the most valuable of all. Thia rubber tire enables the bicyclist to accomplish the other wise-impossible feat of running up hill. The rubber tire has also been ap­ plied with success to the wheels of dog­ carts and other vehicltia.--PUtsjiwgh Commercial. -;M , » S X LAVW W WOOIGU NUO DIUIOU- j^ana, special agent for the chemical industry dered Ogai&llas and Brules to his reservation. •IP* Bureau, gives some highly inter- "i" u "u .•sUng staUsticB m relation to this indispem®. bto article. It shows a very large increase of XIOTOB of salt in the past twenty years. entire product m 1880 k 12,717.198 bushels • 1870, 17,606.105; and in 1880, 29,800 294 i. -In 1860 the State of New York fur- 7,621,385 bushels, or 59 per oent. of the His request will be granted when provisions and supplies can be sent to the agency. LIEUT. BAY, in command of the Point Barrow Arctic Expedition, has reported to Gen. Hazen that the expedition had reached latitude 46 deg. 19 min. 89 sec., longitude 4, -- •««> , 136 deg. 44 min. 45 sec., on the 28th ult, all in Si' , Michigan furnished excellent health and condition. The expedi- rv eLty ylarH »ter Michigan ; tion encountered li*ht bifflin* itnr! SEYM'S, ^ , *«n the 21sfc to bushels, an amount almost equal to the jroduction of all the States in 1860, and 4\M »er cent, of the (supply of 1880, New York coi£ Zibnting not quite 30 per cent of the aggre- tate production. The average depth of the Michigan wells is 881 feet, while those of New fork are but 424 feet. The strength of the light baffling wind* the 28th of July.... Ex-Minister Noyes, who has arrived from France, says there is but little talk about the De Lesseps canal scheme, and that the stock wau not placed among the large bankers Tbree-fourths of the town of Yale, in British Columbia.; has been burned. Loss estimated at •400,000. Faper. It is estimated that nearly2,000,000,000 pounds of paper is produced annually, one-half of which is used for printing, a sixth for writing, and the remainder is coarse paper for packing and other pur­ poses. The United States alone pro­ duces yearly 200,000 tons of paper, averaging seventeen pounds per head for its population. The Englishman comes next, with about twelve pounds per head; the educated German takes eight; the Frenchman seven pounds; while the Italian, Spaniard and liussiau take respectively tliree pounds, one and one-half pounds, and one pound an­ nually. The consumption of paper being roughly in proportion to the education and intellectual and political activity of the people. The ISmitli Family. oinee John Smith left old En­ gland and went to roaming about Vir­ ginia with an Indian tied on one arm, as a shield to catch the arrows fired at him by Pow-hat-on and a lot of red scalla- wags without a hat on, the Smiths have been a wandering race. They have been prolific a* well as nomadic, and big and little Smith* are scattered up nnd down this vale of tears as thick as bowlders on a A Productive Battle Ground. Hundreds and thousands of old sol­ diers, both Confederate and Federal, will remember Missionory Ridge, near Chat­ tanooga. It is the site of one of the most decisive battles of the war--ragged, rocky, steep, poor in soil as any part of the table land* and was uutil recently regarded as worthless. For what pur­ pose men held it was not known by themselves or anybody else. Three or four years ago its lands would not bring over $2 to $4 ap. acre. Now the ridge is covered with orchards, and the profits are such that no land can be bought for less than $40 or $50 an acre. It is thus old ideas give way before new conditions and new infusions of brains and energy. --Savannah News Lemon Melons. Mr. Joe Beasley, an experimental gardener near Columbus, Ga., has suc­ ceeded in raising some melons with a delicious lemon flavor. He make an in­ cision in the vine a short distance from the root, to which he attaches a lemon, and, by means of absorption, the juice is taken into the melons. IwmioBUb custom is transcendent law. Serviceable Teeth. The barbaroussa, a species of wild hog, has its upper canine teeth modified in a most singular way to serve as a pro­ tection to the eyes, as the animal forces its way through the dense undergrowth of the tropical forests; they rise almost vertically through the upper lip, and frequently curve backward so much as to pierce the skull. The beaver with his sharp, chisel-faced front teeth, will cut down and carry off trees as big as a man's thigh, gnawing the wood all round, but cutting it higher on one side, so as to determine the direction of the fall. In one place on the banks of the Missouri, the timber was completely penetrated for a distance of three acres, and in great part removed, although the trees were very .numerous and of consid­ erable size. So hard is the enamel of the beaver's tooth that when fixed in a wooden handle it makes a very respecta­ ble chisel, and, according to Sir John Richardson, it is used by the Northern Indians to cut bone, and to shape their horn-tipped spears, etc. The incisor teeth of the agouti, another of the ro­ dents, are used in the same way by the Brazilian Indians to fashion the blow tubes with which they bring down small birds and monkeys. What the little beaver does for building materials, the Sigantic megatherium appears to have one for food. This huge extinct sloth seems to have had for its pleasing task to uproot and tear down large forest trees for the purpose of feeding on the branches. The common snail sets forth to ravage our gardens equipped with one hundred and fifty rows of stout serrated teeth. The whole palate contains about twenty- j one thousand teeth, while a full-grown j slug has over twenty-six thousand of ' these Bilibious spikes. The wrelk has a ribbon-like tongue, contained in a pro­ boscis, with which it bores holes in the shells of the molluses which form its food. The tongue has strong, saw-like teeth on the edges, with rows of finer ones between. In some molluses the tongue resembles a tesselated pavement, with a tootli in the centre of each loz­ enge-shaped compartment -- All The Year Round. Bicycles. The best English bicycle costs $140 to •160, while American makes, equally as good, will not cost more than $110 or $115. Tlie cheapest bicycles for boys cost $12 to $15. There are 331 different styles of bicycles, so experts say, now actively in use. The bicycle of 1881 is the com­ bined product of the ideas of four great Hlght ffork and Tidag Honrs. There is no disease so insidious nor when fully developed RO difficult to cure, as that species of nervous degeneration or exhaustion produced by night work or long hours. It is easy to understand how suoh a state of prostration may be induced. The brain and the nervous system have been very aptly compared to a galvanic battery in constant use to provide a supply of electric fluid tat consumption within a given time. "As long," says a recent writer, "as supply and demand are evenly balanced, the functions which owe their regular and correc% working to the fluid are carried on with precision ; but when, ty fitful and excessive demands carried far be­ yond the means of supply, the balance is not only lost, but the machine itself is overstrained and injured--disorder at first and disease afterward are the re­ sults. This illustrates pretty clearly the condition of a well-balanced brain and nervous system, supplying without an effort all the nervous fovce required in the operations of the mind and body BO long as its works are in proportion to its powers, but if embarrassed by excessive demands feebly and fitfully endeavoring to carry cn these mental and physicu operations over which it formerly pre­ sided without an effort." The symptoms of nervous prostration are exceedingly painful; we can afford to pity even the man of pleasure, who has by his own foolish conduct induced them, but much more so the brain-worker, who has been burning the midnight oil in the honest endeavor to support himself, and prob­ ably a wife and family, with respecta­ bility in life. He has made a mistake for which we can readily forgive him. In the pleasurable excitement of honest toil he has forgotten that the supply of work cannot be regulated by the de­ mand or need for it, but by the power to produce it. He has been living on his capital as well as the interest there­ of, and when he finds he has no longer the strength to work as he used to do, and starvation itself probably staring him in the face if he cease to toil, why the very thought of coming collapse tends only to hasten the catastrophe, and reason itself may totter and fall be­ fore the continued mental strain. Probably the first sign of failing ner­ vous energy is given by some of the large organs of the body; it may be functional derangement of the heart, with fluttering or palpitation, or inter­ mittent pulse and shortness of breath in ascending stairs or walking quickly. The stomach may give timely warning, and a distaste of food or loss of appe­ tite, with acidity, flatulence and irregu­ larity of the bowels, may point to loss of vitality from waste unrepaired. Or brain symptoms may point out to the patient that things are going wrong. He may not find himself able to work with his usual life and activity ; he may have fits of drowsiness or transient at­ tacks of giddiness or pain or heaviness or loss.of sleep itself. This latter would be a very serious symptom indeed, for in sleep not only are the muscular and nervous tissues restored and strength­ ened, but there is for tl^ time being a cessation of waste itselfl|_ and, if sleep be essential to the oi man, it is much more so mental faculties have been over­ tasked. Long hours and night work lead to loss of sleep, and loss of sleep may lead to insanity and death. Loes of memory, whether transient or gener­ al, is a sure sign that the brain has lost its power of healthy action, and needs rest and nutrition to restore it. Irrita bility of temper and fits of melancholy both point in the same direction, to an exhausted nervous system. Now I may safely say that there are very many thousands of brain workers in these isl­ ands who are suffering, sadly and it may be silently suffering, from the effects of excessive toil and over mental strain. To warn such that they are positively shortening their lives, and that they can not have even the faintest hope of reach­ ing anything like an old age,- is only to perform part of my duty as medical ad­ viser. I should try to point out some remedy for the evil. To bid them cease to work would, in a great many cases, be equivalent to telling them tc cease to live. They must work or they cannot eat. Well, but there is one thing that all can do: they can review, rempd- el and regulate their mode and system of living .--Cosset's Magazine. PACTS TOR THE CURIOUS. THB weight of *n averag» male adult ia 140 pounds. * TUB average man measuns about ftvfe feet three and one-half inches. THB human skeleton consists of: than 200 distinct bones. THB carcharodon (shark), "the few. father of the man-eater of to-day, was from 100 to 150 feet in length. A good- sized home and cart could have beefi driven into its mouth. s® THB female spider spins the webs; thft male is a wanderer. In nine cases out of ten the female eats her husband up. Eleven skeletons have been found in one madame's " back yard." EVBBY adult man has 1,400 square feel of lungs; or, rather, the mucous mem­ brane lining the air-cells of his lungs, if spread upon a smooth, plane surface* would cover an extent of 1,400 aquag* feet. ROMAH gladiators reoeived sotiietimeB as much as $3,000 per yew by the sale of the mixture of oil and sweat, called strigamenta, which was scraped from their bodies after their contests. This mixture was made into pills, which were sold as a tonic for endowing strength and prolonging life, THBHJSTOOIIES could «aH by theft names the 20,000 citizens of Athenit Cyrus is reported to have known the name of every soldier in his army. Hor- tensius (after Cicero, tlie greatest orator of Rome) , a f te r s i t t ing a whole day a t» public sale, correctly enunciated from memory all the things sold, their prices and the names of their purchasers. THERE was once a curious saying in England, "When once hempe is spun, England is done," which became a prophecy fulfilled when James L as- cended the throne by the death of those sovereigns whose initials spelled the f*> tal word, Henry, Edward, Mary, Philip (Mary's Spanish husband), Elizabeth. "England was done," then, since James of Scotland was King. WRITERS on natural history describe a hideous reptile known as the fishing frog, which angles for its game as ex­ pertly and with as great success as the most adioit fly-fisher. He is a clumsy, .awkward swimmer, but nature has com­ pensated him for his unwieldiness by furnishing him with an equivalent for a rod and line, with bait always ready for use. Two elongated tentacles spring from his nose, which taper away like actual fishing rods. To the end of them is attached by a slender filament, which serves the purpose of a line, a bait in the form of a shiny bit of membrane. Tlie hooks are set in the mouth of the fisher­ man down below, and in order to induce the fish to venture within reach of them the angler stirs up the mud at the bot­ tom with his fins and tail. This attracts the fish, and conceals him from their observation. He then plies his rod ; the glittering bait glows in the water like a living insect. The dazed fish are taken in great numbers, perfectly circumvent-* ed by the trick of the crafty angler. A Stranger's Mistake. A Western merchant, who wanted to do some sight seeing and buy his fall stock at the same time, entered a dry- goods jobbing-house on Broadway, and accosted the first person he met with: " Are you the proprietor here ?" " Not exactly the proprietor," was the reply; "at present 1 am acting as ship­ ping clerk, but I am cutting my cards for a partnership next year by organiz­ ing noon prayer-meetings in the base­ ment." The stranger passes on to a very im­ portant personage with a diamond pin, and asked : " Are you the head of the house V "Well, no ; I can't say I am at pres­ ent, but I've hopes of a partnership in January. I'm only one of the travelers just now, but 1 am laying for a $2,000 pew in an up-town church, and that will mean a quarter interest here in less than six months." The next man had his feet up, his hat back, and a 20-cent cigar in his mouth, and he looked so solid that the stranger said: "You must run tbis establishment ?" "Me? Weil, I may run it very soon. At present I am the bookkeeper, but I am expecting to go into a church choir with the old man's darling, and beoome an equal partner here." The strauger was deteflnined not to makeanotherjmistake. He walked around until he found a man with his coat off and busy with a case of goods, and he said to him: " The porters are kept pretty busy in here, I see?" " Yes," was the brief reply. "But I suppose you are planning to invest in a gospel hymn-book and sing the old man out of an eighth interest, aren't you . . "Well, no, not exactly, "was the quiet reply; "I'm the old man himself. And all the stranger said, after a long minute spent in looking the merchant over, was : • " Well, durn my buttons 1 Snoklng. "Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to tho lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof near­ est resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." So said King James in his " Counterblasts or Misocapnus." It must be remem­ bered, however, that "King James did not smoke, while the genteel poet Cowper, an equal authority and fond of his pipe, declares that tobacco *'does thought more quicken and refine than all the breath of all the nine." irdinarv healthy I ^ happens that the' lively Gaul, as BO to him whose I represented by a small body of anti- been over-! tobacconists, has lately set up a society entitled " The Association Against the Abuse of Tobacco," and by dint of much persuasion has extracted from the French Academy a report, from which. we learn that dyspepsia, irregular circu­ lation of the blood, palpitation, pains in the back and the chest, dizziness loss of memory, feebleness of sight and general stupidity result from smoking. Against this sweeping dictum we must, however, quote the statement of Dr. Richardson, of hygienic fame, to the effect that tobacco as compared with alcohol is innocuous, that it does less harm than opium, and is not worse than tea. According to our French friends of the newly-formed .society, idiocy and death lurk in the bowl of the tobacco pipe, and this they aver, notwithstand­ ing Lord Lylton declared that this in­ sidious weed ripens the brain and opens the heart and makes a man think like a sage and act like a Samaritan. One side or tlie other may be, it does not follow that either must be, right. Meanwhile modern votaries of what Charles Lamb calls the " plant divine of rarest virtue" are at liberty to consider the entire question as to the use and abuse of tobacco, aided by the pleasant perfume of the much-maligned nicotian oomfart­ er.--London Telegraph. THE MABKETS. YOUNO lady to hex uncle: " O, Uncle, what a shocking thing 1 A young lady was made crazy by a sudden Kiss!' Old uncle--"What did the fool go crazy for?" "Why, for more, I suppose." HIV YOBK. --v.:::.uns f FLOW*-- Superfine .....!. i,W 9 WHXAT--NO. 2 Spring 1 28 « Mo. 3 Bed IS* @ COBN--Ungradad .... <§ QAM--Mixed Western 43 ® POBK--Mess... 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