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ia \ t*-"" M VK *£•$„> *& I'm corn fjlatadcaln |. VAN SLYKC. £«»•» «* P«t>li*hT CHENRY, ILLINOIS. •£IIIT IEVS • IHB KAIT. UTEAII TSewburg, N. T., ft train on the (Uhlgh and Hudson railroad was wrecked, ••fhe engineer and fireman were scalded to «eath under the debris.... .The body cf Dt orenzo Ehrhart, of Allegheny City, Pa., Jras cremated at Washington, Pa., fhe process of incineration occupyinp two - Pours. •The doctor was an earnest advo­ cate of cremation as a means of disposing1 «f the dead, and made arrangements in his . -/frill" accordingly* THURLOW WEED left a will bequeath- ! thfr his property, estimated at 91,009,000, in #qual shares to three chi ldren and six grand­ children, after giving Mies Harriet A. Weed (he Twelfth street residence and library.... ' ft Porter Lee, Iftte President of the Fiiet Na­ tional Bank of Buffalo, was convicteJ of em- ; |>ez7Jement and tentenoed to ten years in the penitentiary. FI' LOTTA CRABTREE, the actress, has " *- Vob her suit tor ®4 >,000 againfft Benjamin ^ V. Randall, of Fait River, Jiass., with whom ? i(he ensared in the cotton commission busi- ,\ *#«•«- eight years ago... .The Lackawanna Iron :• Slid Steei Company have closed their works Scran ton for an indefinite period, throw- Vi , fng 1,0oo men • -ut of employment. SAMUEL REMINGTON, President of the .famous rifle eoatpaay, died of pneumonia in «' ' v J«ew York. TBKWEit Two Sots of Mrs. Nash, of St. LOTUS, vv*' ^frhom oomplexions are decidedly dark, were p - -Recently sent home from a public school as fbeing of the negro race. The mother, a fedv movin? in good rociety, has previously ' * 'froven ihat she "is a Caucasian, but adml.sa Jitt e Indinn blood flows in her veina Boms . hfi chi dr n are blondea She is deter- JSnined <> contest t he casein the courts.... iewbaner A Sons, o Milwaukee, one of the ' leading clothing firms of tluit city, made an t 1 s |»signment for the benefit of creditors. De- t!reciatlOl in stock, indorsing for friends nd the alleged peculations of a trusted em-lioye are as-i$!ne as reasons for the failure, hat it is feared will be followed by others.... Yank James was taken fi om the jail at Ia-lependence to Kansas City, and arraign id r, |n the Criminal i ourt, wuere he pleaded not . jfu Ity to the robbery of the Independence ' Tinnk and the murder of Detective Wit -her. •. ; - pis triai was seo for Jan. 22, and he was taken back to Independence by the evening train. Mns. HELEN M. GOUOAB, a worker in ' f ilhe cause of prohibition and woman suf- frage, has sued Harrv Mandier, Chief of Po­ lice of Laf avitte, IiuL. for 910,000 damages for slandering her character. A TRAGEDY not on the bills occurred At the Coliseum Theater, Cincinnati Frank f * 'JVayne and company were presenting the rr ' j»lav of "Si Slocum," in the fourth act of ;- nehich Frayne sh ots an apple from the head of Lucy siocum, who on this occas on was ' ' "fx^rsonated by Miss Annie Von Behren. A i ,t. >coinm >n rifle of small caliber and in bad or- > cer was used for the purpose, and the tfullet struci the poor girl in the •,f|i»ad, causing her death with n fifteen " - minute,s. Frayne was arrested and the audi- '" i: enee di missed Hon. J. T. Updegraff, Who was recently re-elected to' Congress |rom the Seventeenth district of Ohio, died •uss^ygkMt. Pleasant, Ohio, of stone in the blad- ^ i Wer. after having been treated bv the doc- ~ Tfcrs for Bright "s disease of the kidneys _ • THE Grand Jury in the First Utah district, having failed to find any indict- , Stents against Mormons under the Edmunds . * < few, have been discharged, "N • THE North Side rolling-mills in Chi- >«-»Mngo, employing over 1,8X1 men, have shut jnwn for the for want of work. Three departments of the steel-mill at Jkdiet have m-pended operations for De- •' ̂^ember, throwing about l.lM aoiMk of imployment ; ' TBI SOUTH. • -vis • 1 GEN. A. S. HERRON, member of Con- ; i ?-||ares8-elect for the Sixth district of Louisi­ ana, died of heart disease at Baton Rouga - , THE mercantile firm of McClellan & Colthorp, i f MiHiken's Bend, La, has failed > for $140,000 A license to marry a lady of *»>: -49 has been procured by C pt AUen May, of , r, & flaidin county, Ky., who is lol years of'a^e. > J. O. PORTER, Treasurer of Newton ^Bounty, M as , was waylaid by five masked men and robbed of $1, <00 in coun y funds. Mose Lockhart was hangei at Edgefi Id, 8. C., for the murder of Moae B alock last ApiiL WASHDTGTOir. COLGATE HOTT, of New York,has been appoint ed by President Arthur Government Director of the Union Pacific Rai road, vioe - ^ .•Sp-ncer, removed Aven Pearson, of Chi- cag , w;>Bjippr>inted Superintendent of the . . VottffrettiontU Record, to succeed Helm, re- mo'ved. , GEN. HENRY L. HAZEN, Chief of the Signal Service, predicts that the coming win er will be a mild one. His prediction is based upon a tho-ou-jh examination of all ; indications in possession of the signxl oftice. Mr. Haz jn, in raak ng th s prediction, disre­ gards tne as ertion or meteoro:ogists that a cool summ r is invariably followed by a cold . and stormy winter. / THE House Committee on Appropria­ tions has practically disposed of the Indian bill, and will recommend appropriations amounting to $1,425,"J55, which in $1,2!>9.775 . ' 1«MS than the estimates an I 557,201 leu than the appropriation for the current year. OKfnSRAIa. THE aggregate clearings reported by twenty-five clearing-houses for the week '•> ending Nov. 28 reached the stupendous sum of $1,55',75)9,(1518. Th s was an increase of more than $1100,000,000 over th? previous week, ;.nd has rarely, if ever, been equaled in the history of the American flnarMHai world. ( THE steai'iiship Ceiar Grove, from London to Halifax and 8t John, N. B., struck i on a ledge off Capo Canso, during a gale, and sank an hour later in ten fathoms of water. ' lluve beats were iaunc ed. but only two of them, cont imng thirteen people, reached the shore safely. The Captain, the chief ottt- tier and a lady passensrer are among the misBing The confectionery establishment ^ ot Ho sack & Wood, the asbestos factory, and a bio k o wooden buildings in Quebec were burned, causing a loss of 9150,000. THE business failures for the week endinDec. 2 numbered 14&. The Western ^ s States h d 4;, the Southern 39, (he Middle 22 and Canada 14. Many failures werfe caused by Bpecula ion .nd the unsettled * * •1 con dtion of n iron trade. STEPHEN. W. DORSET, in a lengthy card to tbe pub'ic, recites that President • Oar fie id ordered Postmast or General James to s lect a commission to < xamine in o the , stur-i oute chai ges, and that lull information was'Umished bv Dor-ey. which was f or- 1 i ward g. ven to detectives to secure testimony • for the trial m court. A'ter indulging in considerable abuse, Dorsey offers to pay r< r ev:-ry dollar it can be shown he took from the treasury. POUnCAL Ex-ATTORNEY GENKRAL McVinAOHhas ; made public a letter addressed by him to President Arthur just before his retirement from the cabinet In this letter Mr Mac- Veagh insists upon the acceptance of his resignation, and gives his reasons for declin- hig to reconsider it He states that President Garfield became satisfied early in his admin­ istration of the eno.-mityof "the star-route iniquities and was earnest in season and out et «eason to get to the bottom of the cases a*i& secure the punishment of the guilty. Th«4ay befoie President G.irfield was shot he diluted .Mr. MacVe itrh to offer Mr. Uid- dle th* |>istrict Attorn ys »ip, but this ar- raogemsM was prevented by the assassin's THE Govern or of Louisiana has re­ fused a certificate to William Pitt Ke logg, ou the ground of non-re idonoe in the States ....United States S*nator Morgan w.w re­ elected his own succes-or by the Alabama Legislature A Washington telegram says that Senator I-ogan took Public Printer Bounds to the White House and made him •Olid w th the President, The onlv oharge against Rounds was his h irboriug Helm. rOKEION. FOTTRTEICN lives were lost by the •inking of the French steamer Cambronne, in the Enirlish Channel... .Fourteen persons were killed and many wounded bv the fall of a tram through a bridge at Fjrvie, Scot­ land DENNIS FIELD, one of the jurymen who found a verdict of guilty against Hynes tor murder, was passing along one of the main thoroughfares of Dublin at noon. A car containing two men drove rapidly up, and one of the men jumped off and ftahbed Field several times with a sword, ntiicting injuries which are expected to result fatal- lv. It is believed that the murderers of Cox. the detective, were lying in wa<t for a party of Judges WHO had been dining to­ gether in Moimtfov: Square. Several arrests have been made in connection with the af­ fair. A mob attacked the JervN Street Hos­ pital, where Dolan, the murderer of Cox, was being treated. The crowd was dispersed bv the police and the hospiial guarded.... Ctainbetta accidenta.ly shot himself in the hand at Paris Baron Manteu - fel, the Prussian statesman, died at the age or 77. The Russ an police have arrested 180 student*" for revolutionary demonstra­ tions. Troops fired into a gathering at Kazan University, and killed three. AT a meeting of the Irish Privy Coun­ cil 't wss resolved to proclaim the city of Dublin under the curfew provisions of the Repression act, which authorizes the police to arrest without warrant all suspicious per­ sons found on the street between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise.... Gladstone stated in Parliament that the to--* tal cost of the war in E_ ypt was £3,5 0,000.' Since Oct 1 the expenses have been d 'frayed wholly or in part by the Egyptian Govern­ ment FORTY-SIX students of the University of St Petersburg have been expelled for par­ ticipating n the recent disturbances. ONE of the most astounding failures that has ever occurred in Europe is an­ nounced at Skopin. province of Riazan,Russia, the municipal bank collapsing, wi'h li bili- ties of over l ', » •, (<0 ruble . The whole town, as well as hundre Js of families else­ where, have been ruined. THE MAjTOM BEST. Statement ol Its Condi li »n at the Bcfflnaliift ml Dteembei. Following is the November statement of the public debt: 1 n: ore« t - lienrl ne debt- Throe and one-half per cents......134,31",TO Four and one-Ualf per cents.. 25«v»»'.<w Four i<er cents 7HS/M0 7 0 Three rer cents 280,-IF'4,750 Refuiidir.tr certiticates............... . 4l.6>- Navy jiension fund.. 14,'»*».IHI0 Principal 1,418, 66*10 Interest 10,6iJ,$U# Matured debt-- Principal 9,51.1.0 5 Interest 441,409 Debt bearine no interest-- Old demand and leaal-tender notes. 846,740,346 Certificates of deposit 9.845, 00 Gold and stiver certificates.. IOS.MM.VO • Fractional currency ; 16,39^,S48 Less amount e-timated lost or de- stroved 7,025,fil4 Principal 4W,Hv,160 Unclaimed Pacific railway Interest.. 6,£itf $1,809.72 15 11,100,05H Total debt- Principal...., Interest.......... Total... $1,91 ,*2 ,W3 Cash in treasnry.. a»7,867,i73 Debt, less cash in treasury-- Dec. 1, 188-i 1,622,966,899 Nov. 1, 1882.' 1,628,491>42 Decrease of debt dnrine month...... 6,6: 4,142 Decrease of debt since June 90,18U.. tt,96<,661 Current liabilities-- Interest due and unpaid l,6t4,0T2 Debt on -w-liich interest has ceased... 6,545,055 liivcivSi tucTCuu Gold and silver certificates United States notes held for redemo- tion of certificates of deposit.... Cash balance available Dec. l, 1682.. 108, 04,200, 9,84ft,WO 107,887,476 Total.... f 287,867,179 i Available assets-- Cash in treasury 287,857,17» Bonds issued to Pacific Hallways-- Principal outstanding. 64.683,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid... 1,615.587 Interest paid by United States ; 86,344,682 Interest repaid by companies-- By transportation service 16,409,850 By cash payments, & per eent. net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 39,350,682 The Later Geography. Q.--Where are the poles located? A.--At the school-house, town hall oi some empty store. r Q.--What is a circle? A.--A gathering where the gossips sew for the heathen and tell all they know. -Q.--What places have noon at the same time ? A.--Factories and boarding houses. Q.--Where do we find the hottest part of the earth ? A.--In the same house with our mother-in-law. Q.--When are nights the longest? A.--When you cannot sleep. Q.--Is there a plain in your neigh­ borhood V . A.--We should think not by the way ours is borrowed. Q.--What disadvantage in having a bar at the entrance of a harbor? A.--It would take away trade from the saloons in port. Q.--What is a strait ? A.--Five cards following in order of denomination. (Hoyle.) Q. -Where do we find the largest and fiercest animals? - A.--At the menagerie. Q.--Where do we find the greatest number of insects? A.--Out of town on a hot night. Q.--Into what races are we divided? A.--The horse race, the boat race and the human race. Q.--How are the inhabitants of a civ­ ilized country generally employed?- A.--Tho men in working and ' the .women in shopping. Q.--What is mining? A.--Finding out how much you have been cheated. Q.--Name some substances, now man­ ufactured for food? % A.--Oleomargarine and Boarding- house hash. Q.--What is commerce? A.--Selling your neighbor goods at three times their value. Q.--What do merchants do with pro­ ducts of the surrounding country ? A.--father them together and form a "corner" in the market. Q.--How are the oommercial towns connected with the towns of - tito.in­ terior ? V - A.--By "drummers." Q--Wliat is fishing ? A.--Sitting in a boat all day for nothing, and having to lie all the even* ing about what you caught, and what got away.--Detroit Free Prextt. ' \) r "IT beats all,** says Fogg, "hew much Parson Jones knows. He says that the liquor sold in the village is vile stuff, and that secret gambling clubs are crowded nightly, and that the votaries of vice are every night to be met in their favorite haunts. I'd givo some* thing to know how the parson found it all out." THE total number of porcelain and pottery factories in Japjra is 322, and they give employment to 3,004 persons, of whom 330 are women. Awed. Several years ago, Miss Bird, the English lady whose journeyings by sea and land have made her name a house­ hold word, was traveling in Colorado, and stopped at the cabin of "Mountain Jim," a notorious desperado. She saw a broad, thick-set man, about the middle height, with an old cap on his heiul and wearing a grey hunting- suit, much the worse for use. His manner was that of a gentleman, and he spoke with a refined accent and in elegant language. "You are not an American," he said, as she rode away. "I know from your voice that you are a country-woman of mine. I hope you will allow me the pleasure of calling on you." A few days later, he called to guide Miss Bird up Long's Peak, the Ameri­ can Matterhorn. The ride was a series of glorious surprises, not the least of which were the culture and the love of nature shown by Mountain Jim. "Treat Jim as a gentleman and youH find him one," she had been told on setting out, and his manner verified the words. ' That night, as they were in camp, sitting about a huge log fire, the man's kindness came out. "Ring," he said to his dog, as if he was speaking to a man, "go to that lady and don't leave her again to-night." But Miss Bird also saw that his vani­ ty stimulated him to act and speak so as to sustain his reputation as a desper­ ado. The Colorado newspapers kept "Mountain Jim" always before the pub­ lic, and he enjoyed reading the para­ graphs. One night, as the presence of wild animals made it impossible to sleep, he ttold her stories of his early youth and of the great sorrow that led him to be­ gin a lawless life. His voice trembled and tears rolled down his cheeks. His dark soul seemed stirred to remorse by the light of other days. It was a painful spectacle to, the En­ glish lady. His magnificent head showed the better possibilities which might have been realized. His oliivalrous manner to women indicated the natural gentleman. Yet there he sat by the camp-fire among the Sierras, a ruffian, whose life had been ruined and wasted. "What good," she thought, "can the future have in store for this desperado who so long has said to evil, 'be thou my good!'" ^The next morning day dawned long before the sun rose. The English wo­ man sat looking at the pure lemon-col­ ored atmosphere, "Ring" by her side, when one of the party called to her to come farther down the slope: "Jim says he has never seen such a sunrise." She went. Looking up to Long's Peak, it seemed cold and gray. The everlasting snows, the silvered pines, the Plains also, appeared chilling in the blue-grav light. A dazzling streak shone in the east, and suddenly the sun rose alxjve the gTav horizon, as full of light and glory as when first created. The gray changed to purple. The sky blushed in one rose-red flush. The cold peaks glistened like rubies. The Plains appeared, in their limitless ex- panse, as if the Creator's hand had justr rolled them out. Mountain Jim reverently uncovering his head, exclaimed in a low. tender voice,-- "I believe there is a God!" -- Al«u» for Mountain .Tim! AVC. pm when inspired by the Creator's works, is not the repentance which begets a new life. "If you want to know," he said one day to Miss Bird, when she tried to lead him to a better life, "how nearly a man can become a devil, I'll tell you.M Then he told her the story of the runaway boy, living the reckless life of a drunken ruffian. She urged him as the first step to amendment to give up whisky. "I cannot," he said sadly. "It binds ^ne hand and foot. I cannot give" up the only pleasure I have." She plead with him, but he exclaimed in tones of despair,-- "Too late! Too late! It might have been once, but now it is too late for me to change!" One day, Beveral months later, the desperado was fonnd with a bullet in his brain. A man of violence he had perished by violence. The lady's ap­ peal to his conscience was doubtless the last he ever received. He had the ele­ ments of good in him, but lie learned evil in youth, and "was holden by .the cords of his own sins."--Youth's. Com- paniorn. The Summer Blackbirds. -- There used to be a marsh a mile from" Circleville on theJ^waks of the Scioto river. A mill-race ̂ riwi through it, and in the wet, rich soil a wild, rank growth of reeds, flags and fox-tails grew up each summer. At night, as the sun ap­ proached the horizon and shone with the fierce, red splendor of the summer solstice, and the trees cfist long shad­ ows over the level fields and placid streams, I have heard the stillness of the evening air broken by the whirr of oountless wings and sharp, shrill notes of flying birds. Suddenly the sky seemed black, and from every point of the compass the blackbirds came in hurrying squads and companies, fresh from the dav's depredation in the corn­ fields for miles and miles around. Tired and weary with long flight on full craws, as the shadows deepened and darkened they dropped with sudden­ ness to their perches, and within half an hour every flag, every reed that could hold a bird, or two or three, was swinging under the load of feathery robbers, who had taken lodging for the night. The marsh, covering acres, was one dense mass of black and chattering birds, busy singing good night, or tell­ ing of their thieving exploits of the day. There were blackbirds with glossy coa s like velvet. Then came blackbirds with dusty brown feathers, like the well- worn coat of a poorly-paid minister. Then there were military blackbirds, with a carriage as proud and garments as gorgeous as the drum major of a cross roads' band. These were the lwisses. They were accorded the places of honor and command, and they sat above the rest and gave orders from the tallest reeds. As the shadows thickened and the last red remnants of day faded from the sky, the musical mutterings from thousands of throats were hushed, aiul the black vagabonds sank to rest to the songs of the cricket and katydid, and the chorus of sweet choristers, mourn­ ing the death of day, was enriched by the coarse croak of the frogs in the flags.--Cincinnati Gazette. Affectation of Speech In New York. The letter r is called the liettah ah This used to be considered an aflVc- in this part of the country. Bos­ ton jieople were ridiculed for speaking of culcliah; but that word is now pro­ nounced in that way by at least as many New Yorkers as Bostonians. It is not noticeable ami here; liut the young men under 15 yeari New York, N< to oorresprnd, school in the to tell you «whi of the United spoud unani: ton." Ask of that offi! name is Aht tho older generation g ladies, some of the arh all the children age, l ow pronounce £rk, and other words Go into any public and ask the children las the first President tes, and they wi 1 re­ ly, "Jawge Washing- ut the present incumbent an I they will say his ---New lork MaiL " Elevators. Steam hoisMfcf one kind or another for the lifting jl| freight have been in use for about jjatentury. In America the first man ̂ ^manufacture platform freight elevauHTsecms to ha.ve been Henry Watemjp, of New York city. As early as lflBfene of his machines was in use frflHecker, of New York. The Tatliamsun them in 1853, and at about the sauuEKne either Waterman's macliines or soK very like them were in use in the publishment of Harper and Brothers. |Khe elevator was oper­ ated by mean^|ra[ a lever within the car (or rather within the frame-wOrk of i first cloned car was ;ii< Tufts, of Boston), le place of the modern r shipper-rope), and the driving machinery ar. Waterman's shop street, near Center, jf time he was making York, George H. Fox were also building them to various parts The worm gear was r firm* in 1850 ; wire ropes in 1852, jts well as the rack on the guide beams. " In 1857 the- firm of William Adams & Co., Boston^put sixteen freight elo- the platform; t designed by 0 The lever took J hand rope f (i served to throw into or out of jit was in D About the s elevators in & Co., of B them and sen of the country) used by this lfcti yators into warehouse Block. Thi worked by shafting that tended con' ~ stores ol' the |») n just built granite the State Street vators were at first ropes, and the veyed the power ex- usly through all the ik. Other early inven­ tors and patentees of portions of eleva­ tor machinery were E. G. Otis, of Yon- kers, New York, and Mr. Cyrus W. Baldwin, of Brooklyn, New York. The experiments and inventions of the latter gentleman have brought hydraulic ele­ vators to a state of great perfection. Accidents were continually happen­ ing to the early elevators, owing to the breaking of ropes. It was an accident to an elevator 6f his own make that led Mr. Albert Betteley (of the firm of William Adams & Co., Boston) to the invention of the air-cushion safety-de­ vice, considered by many lis the best of such devices. The accident alluded to happened |at the store of Emmons, Danforth and Shudder, in the State Street block. "The elevator platform, loaded with seven boxes of sugar, had fallen from a great height into the cel­ lar beneath the hoistway, and the pul­ leys and gearing at the top had been flung elear over on to the neighboring stores. Mr. Betteley was summoned to the scene. He, of course, expected to see a complete wreck in the cellar; but what was his surprise to find the boxes of sugar scarcely injured! He set his wits to work, and soon reached the conclusion that, as the cellar was nearly air-tight, the rapidity of the de­ scent of the platform had compressed the air so as form an air-cushion, which had brcAfen the violence of the fall Aft-®!" etnBi'imnnLting with * model, aqgd s^|$fjfing himself of the truth of his surmise, Mr. Betteley took out a patent for an air-cushion. Otis Tufts used to jocularly call this "pat­ enting a hole in the ground," in allus- sion to the air reservoir formed beneath the elevator. The object of the inven­ tion was to gradually check the mo­ mentum of a falling car by making the hoistway nearly air-tight, excavating an air reservoir at the bottom, and, if de­ sired, building the bottom of the car in a parachute form. This air-cushion de­ vice is now universally usfed in connec­ tion with dumbwaiters, and also some­ what extensively in connection with passenger elevators.-- W.S.Kennedy, iri Harper's Magatine. How to Moke a Frog Croak. Perched on a comfortable log of wood is a frog, surveying nature with a placid stare of contentment which, as a rule, amphibians preserve under the most trying circumstances of life. I know that Mr. Rana Temporaria (as ho is des­ ignated by scientific circles) possesses a voice, but that he elects to let himself lje heard, as a rule, only when it suits himself. You may get round your frog, however, by an ingenious physiological trick, much resembling an unluiown benefactor who knows you are bound to laugh when he tickles you under the arms. Did you ever hear of Goltz's ex­ periment of the "Quak-versuchV" No; then suppose that "Mr. R. Temi»oraria Clammvskin, as he sits be|oj-e you, could be deprived of the front lobes of his brain. The mechanism of the ex­ periment is simple in the extreme. Draw your finger gently down the mid­ dle of his back, and when you touch a given part of Clammyskin's surface, the frog, minus the front lobes, will croak. He will not croak unless you stroke his back; but regularly, as if you touched the "croaking-spot" win the amphibian organ, he will emit his single note whenever your finger arrives at the stated spot. There is much that is ob­ scure here, but the rationale of the in­ scrutable croak is at least clear. It is produced by an order of the part of the brain which governs tho vocal organs of Clammyskin, and which part is stim­ ulated unerringly and unvaryingly by the outward stimilus supplied by the soucli of the finger. But when possess­ ing his front loi>es, the frog may still be made to croak by application of gentle stimulus to his back, whilo naturally the male frogs are given to croalc inces­ santly at. the time of ecrg-deposit^on. The male voice asserts itself in a very marked manner over that of the female frogs, and in the scientific version of A frog he would a-wooing KO, the croaks count for much, both as a sign of attractiveness in the wooer and of his progress in his suit. When we fiave attained to such heights in the scicnco of mind as may entitle the scientist of the future to write the "Comparative Psychology of the Frog's Wooing," and of the Clammyskin tribe in general, the language of the croak may prove to be more diverse and eloquent than we may suppose to be possible. There can be no doubt, even in tho present state of our knowledge, of the overwhelmingly powerful nature of the oratory preva­ lent in our ponds and ditches in the months of early spring.--lielgravia. "WHAT did you think of my train of though^?" asked a lecturer of a sup­ posed friend. "I thought it lacked only one thing," replied the supposed friend, "Ah!" respoeded the delighted leo- turer, "what was that?" "A sleeping car," was the answer. Peepleln Constantinople. The lower orders proper live very muoh like their brethern in Christian countries. Both men and women work. The wife helps her lord and master in the daily toil, washes, cleans, and keeps the house in order; she has neither time nor opportunity for frivolous amusements, consequently she Is more respected both by husband and children, and knows not the heart sickness and weariness of the harem. But even ijhere women do not eat with the men, land never stir outside their domicile Snivelled. There is no middle class among the Turks. There arc the rich (or easy) and the poor. These two orders are constantly changing places. The rich man of to-day may be the poor one of to-morrow. You will know him by his shabby, greasy coat and un- brushed shoes. He will make no effort to keep up appearance. You may see him buy some simple fare and eat it in the street on his way to business or homo. He has lost his place. He is poor. He is neglected. Meeting him thus you might suppose liim a shoe- mender, or a low-class coffee house keeper; yet he has only just missed being a pasha, and a few months more will probably reinstate him in. the posi­ tion he has lost. The men and women of the country are naturally all on a par. There is no genius, no talent, no eminence of virtue among them (or if there be, it is banished as soon as it dares lift its head). One man is as good as another. A fair address, a smattering of French, and "good luck," are all that are wanted to make a no­ body a first minister ; but the same for­ tune grown fickle may hurl him from his post, and he sinks lower than what we understand by the "poorest gentle­ men." One fact baffles European wouid-be reformers. We are always meeting with surprises. There is noth­ ing solid anywhere. There is no pub­ lic spirit, no landed interest, no trade interest, no personal authority--noth­ ing to grapple with. Everything slips through your fingers. The laws exist but are not enforced. It is nobody's business to enforce them; property is yours to-day, mine to-morrow, and a week hence it may be Mahmoud's, or Safnet's, or Ahmed's. The one thing permanent among us is the watchful jealousy of the various nationalities. It is the different Consuls that keep order here, not the Turks; and, were it not for this protection, Europeans could not live in Turkey. The Turks are in­ different tradesmen. Nearly all the shops in Galata, and the whole of those in Pera, are kept by Europeans. The Greeks are the chief traders, though a smart business is done by the Levan­ tines. The most fashionable shops are French, but there are a few first-rate English and American ones. A large class of Turks hawk their wares in the street. They are for the most part fine, stalwiirt, civil-spoken men. They shoulder enormous baskets, containing cheeses, creams, fruits, vegetables, and many other comestibles, and furnish more than half the alimentation of the city. The habits of these men are very simple; they live chiefly upon bread and fruit; but they also know the secret of the pot an feu, and often I have seen a knot of them, after their day's work, grouped under a shed or on a green spot of earth, mixing the "sav­ ory mess"--you will perhaps be shrooked to hear the pot contains vegetables (of onions a large share) stewed in oil! A "onvewli&t- strong tasted mutton called, Karamani is the favorite food of the Turkish upper classes. Paliff is also an evorv-day dish, wherein Europeans also delight. The chief fault of Turk­ ish cooking is the enormous quantity of grease and fat consumed, and the excessive sweetness of many of the dishes. Animal Psychology. It has been objected to those who speak of the "emotions" of an ant or a bee, for example, that we are not justi­ fied in applying terms deirived from hu­ man psychology to animals BO remote in structere from the human typo. Dr. Romanes replies to this objection by showing that the ground of all infer­ ences as to the mental processes of ani­ mals is an argument from the analogy of their actions with our own. "Now, it is of course perfectly true that the less tho resemblance the less is the val- uo of any analogy built upon the resem­ blance, and, therefore, that the inference of an aunt or a l>ee feeling sympathy or, rage is uot so valid as the similar infer­ ence in the case of a dog or ar monkev. Still it is an inference, and, so far as it goes, a valid One--l>eing, in fact, the only inference available. That is to say, if we observe an ant or a bee apparent­ ly exhibiting sympathy or rage, we must either conclude that some psycho­ logical state resembling that of sympa­ thy or rage is present, or else refuse to think about the subject at all; from the observal facts there is no other infer­ ence open." Assuming that we are justified in con­ cluding that the mental processes are similar when there are similar external appearances, we stillneed a criterion of metal, as distingui hed from reflex, ac­ tion ; for we- find, both in men and ani­ mals, examples of actions that are "mind-like and yet not truly mental." "Objectively considered, the only dis­ tinction between adaptive movements due to reflex-action and adaptive move­ ments due to mental perception consists in the former depending on inherited moclianism within the nervous system being so constructed as to effect partic­ ularly adaptive movements in res]K)nse to particular stimulations,while the lat-% ter are independent of any such inheri­ ted adjustment of special mechanism to the exigencies of special circumstances." The criterion proposed is, therefore: "Does the organism learn to make new adjustments, or to modify old ones, in accordance with the results of its own individual experience?" If it does we have the evidence that the limit of non- mental action has been passed; that is, we are able to fix, by means of this cri­ terion, "the upper limit of non-metital action." After distinguishing reflex from mental action, it remains to dis­ tinguish "instinct" from "reason." Dr. Romanes proposes to define instinct as "reflex action into which there is im­ ported the element of consciousness," and "reason or intelligence" as "the fao- ulty which is concerned in the inten­ tional adaptation of means to ends."-- Nature. iiually in Engl nd, and he regrets the waste of so much rice and wheat, whicji mielit be better u ed to feed the ht*rv- 8wan'» Skin and English Complexions. An Engl;sh statistician 8 ys thut no j less than 7.100 swans' s'<ins are an­ nually imported into 1 jondon alone for the exclusive manufi ture of "purtV." useil for the ptir|tose of laving powder on the face. Every swan's skin makes about sixty puff-, which would make an annual consumption of 4^0,000 putfii. Is, then, <he n;ttur;il nf tile English "kin a myth? The same En­ glish statistician says thai to .sof rice and wheat powder are eon-mined an- House-Hunting. He started out to hunt a house. House-hunting is a very exciting and entertaining pursuit, and he felt that he was going to have a day of pleasant exhiliration. He was not "disappointed. He. told his wife, before he set out. that he was going to take his time and get the nicest little shack in the town for his money. You wouldn't fcatcli him with any fresh bait. He was going to nibble all over the whole blamed citv and all round the doggond suburbs be­ fore he bit on; he was bound to see every ramshackle Blied and brick-stack there was for rent inside the corpora­ tion, and then he could take his pick, yo-.i know, intelligently. He lit a cigar and sauntered forth. He had gone a block and a half when he met his old chum Solsberry. "Hello!" says Sol, "you look as if you were going somewherje." "Yes, house-hunting, Sol. I am go­ ing to walk round a little and look at a few houses, till I get one to suit. "Why, I have nothing to do (Sols- berry always had a rush of that busi­ ness), and I'll go with you. But let's take a drink before we start." They went in, and Solsberry treated; remarking to the bar-keeper that they were going to hunt a house and he might brace'em up pretty stiff. It was warm, and the drink began to take hold immediately. They repeated, on house-hunter's treat, tfhen Solsberry suggested that it was too early to find anybody to show them the houses, and that they could play is game of billiards before business-hours. So they ad­ journed to the billiard rooln, threw their coats, and went at it. They took two or three punches apiece at the balls, and then took a punch from the bar. Two or three more punches, and then a punch. Repeat. It was the usual old game of billiards. House-hunter calls the bar-keeper and inquires if he has seen any houses go by that looked as if they were con­ venient inside and could be had at fair rent. "I want about Beven rooms, two stories, and an attic. Bar-keeper, cast your eye out iff the window now and then, and if you see a hpuse going along the street that yotf think would suit, stop it and call me out. Send in the drinks." The bar-keeper kept, a careful watch- out for houses as they came past along tho street, and the two friends hunted for them in various parts of the billiard- room and occasionally in the back y rd, the whole day througx. Especially in the back yard did they hunt very dilligently. But no house that was at all suitable could be found anywhere about the saloon. Bar-keeper saw one or two of the various buildings gping along the street that he thought might answer, but he couldn't stop 'em long enough to eall house-hunter out to in­ quire. So they kept the hunt up till toward, midnight; and then they re­ turned to their original enterprise of the morning, and took the streets in pursuit of a house. They went search­ ing for the house where the house- hunter had left his wife that morning. They couldn't find it anywhere; but they found another liouso pretty easily, and they found out in the morning that it was the station-house. When house- hunter's wife saw by the morning papers what house he had picked out, she went and paid the rent, pranced him home by the ear, put him to bed, and went out on the hunt of a house herself.--Cin. Sat. Night. Sea*SlckneM« Hon. George A. Steam, of Chicopee, who, with his neighbor, Emerson Gay- lord, made a trip to Europe, writes to the Springfield Republican an account of their voyage. He thus tells of their experience: Any person who has ever been sea­ sick will agree with me that its horrors are unutterable. No one under its in­ fluence believes that it is only sea-sick­ ness. He is sure that some other ma­ lignant and mortal malady has seized him. He is positive he will die. He talks solemnly and seriously about his certain death, desires to be takeu home and buried where his friends can visit his grave and composes as best he can bis affairs above. As we sailed out of the harbor of New York everybody was jolly, ladies waved their handkerchiefs, men cheered and all laughed and talked with great glee. Soon one after another turned white and green and blue, and dropped away from sight. Some did not reappear during the voyage, others came up to times, wan and sad and mournful. On the morning of the second day I sat on the upper deck--my nearest companion' a bucket--strapping my knife on my boot, internally resolving to give the fellow who wrote "A life on the ocean wave" the benefit of its keenness, when I saw G. coming up the companion way, a codfish tail, which ho was chewing vigorously, sticking out of his mouth (codfish having lieen recommended as a sovereign remedy for sea-sickness ahiong others) and his countenance resembling a pan of skimmed milk, through .which lightning had played. I knew by my feelings that I could "raise him out" op looks--had no heart to smile. He sat down near me, and about this dialogue occurred : S.--"How are you, ugh! hoo, oo!" G.--"Beautiful, ugh! oo! give us a chance at that, ugh! oo! oo!" S.--"Big thing?" , G.--"Immense! ugh! oo, oh. Israel!" S.--"Happy, are you? „ugli! oo, oo, Holy Moses!" G.--"Never so happy in my life! ngh, oo!" S.--"Glad you came?" G.--"Wouldn't have missed it--ugh --for a gold mine--ugh, oo--my heart bleeds--ugh,oo--for the poor fellows at home--ugh, oo, oo. Great Crnsar! How is your wife ?" S.--"She is some sick--ugh--can't conquer it like mo--ugh, oo, oo. Oh, Christmas and the calves! How is yours?" G.--"Don't know. Can't catch breath --ugh--long enough to inquire--ugh," (Exeunt omnes.) In utter wretchedness I went down to my little stateroom, snatched up a pencil and for the first time in my life attempted poetry as the only alterna­ tive to suicide. The Naturalist Accounts fcrtt A Rhode Island naturalist, who had kept a log of wood in tbe water a long time for the purpose of gathering, a colony of barnacles, was surprised to find, on taking it out, that it was whol­ ly lree from these marine parasites. "How do you account for it?" asked a friend. . And the naturalist answered thought­ fully : "They may have mistaken the log for a Connecticut book agent."-- lirookhjn Eagle. ' PITH ASP POINT. THE first case of black AAAL»--Haniili A MovF.MENTjon foot--trimming cornapp WHAT'S the extreme penalty for biga*>: any ? Two mothers-in-law. j jj COSTUMES are to be less clinging thit season, but prices will stick. THE creme de la creme of society sours on many aspiring people. IS CHILDREN are like boils. Everybody- knows how to take care of those thai- belong to other people. WHY is a railroad so patriotic? Giv®> it up ? Because it is bound to its coun* try with the strongest ties. HERBERT SPENCER says the American , people do not grumble enough. But» then he has not met the American peo­ ple at breakfast time. A SINGLE drop of blood will furnish the mosquito food for a week, and yefc people who drink heartily themselves.. begrudge the poor mosquito that single drop, CON. by a wandering Briton: What is the difference between the City" Farthers and the front benches at & burlesque show ? One is the Board of Halderman, the other is a horde of balder men. PEASANT--"I wish to get a divorce j my wife drinks too much." Priest--r ' "How can you say such a thing, yotf; who are drunk every day?" "That'#?, just the reason. Some one in the fam­ ily has got to be sober." FIRST masher: "Well did you make the acquaintance of that stranger girl r you were raving over?" Second ditto fc " "Yes, followed her home." First M.: "Howdid she strike you?" She didn't at all; she got her big brother to do it.* A PENNSYLVANIA inventor has evolved a new rat-trap, in one end of which is a mirror. This may do for the female rats, but when a male rat notices that when tbe bait looks double he will, think he has had enough and go home. A DAKOTA letter says pumpkins could be raised here, but the vines grow so fast that they wear the pumpkins out dragging them around over the prairie. Farmers in the spring plant a beet seed close to their house, and in the fall pull up the beet and brick up the hole for a cistern. A PEASANT comes to a broker to ex­ change a hundred-mark note for silver. The broker gives him a hundred-mark roll, which the peasant opens to see if it is all right. <sHe counts up to seven­ ty-one and then puts it all in his pocket. "It was all right so far, so I suppose the rest is right, too." A CHINAMAN thus describes his ex­ penses at draw poker-: "I dlaw thlee cardee, get flo acee, bet flfVe dolla, no­ body clom in. Next timee I dlaw two cardee, get flo kin gee, bet ten dolla, no­ body clom in. Next timee I dlaw one * cardee, get flo flushee, bet fifteen dolla, everybody clom in, Chinaman busted."' A LECTURER who struck a town in Illinois with "4 Lecture to Men Only" is in a way to make his fortune. He had an audience" of about fifty men, and those fifty men have since received so much attention from women anxious to find out what was said that if the- lecturer visits that place again every man in town will go to hear nim. AT a wedding not long since, among the presents displayed was a $1,000 bank-note from the father of the bride. 1 1U- 4.U Mm U1U* 3-HCi »3t6 w uuuiug n'a _ gentleman folded up < the note and put it back into his vest-pocket. The con­ duct of that doting father reminds one very much of the promises of reform made by candidates previous to the election, as contrasted with tlifeir per­ formances when the election is over.-- Texas Siftings. "DID you ever catch a crab?" she said, as she rowed gently down the river. "Never, he replied, as he put on an extra spurt. The oar forgot to touch the water, and the young man's hoad struck the bottom of the boat, while his legs waved wildly in the air. Re­ covering his equilibrium, he managed to gasp: "But I caught one that time." "I see," murmered the maiden, "but it everlastingly got away with .you."--- Commercial Advertiser. "WHAT is your business?" inquired a city clergyman of a country youth with Shorn he was playing an innocent game euchre. "Oh, I'm one of nature's humorists," replied the verdant lad. "I fail to catch, on," said the dominie, unconsciously dropping into slang; "what are you giving me?" "Just what I said, boss,"responded the boy. "Well, what do you mean by nature's hu­ morist?" "Why I tickle the ground with a hoe," explained the young granger, "and the earth smiles with plenty." "The parson passed and the youth made it snades. NOTHING annoys tho keeper of a rail­ road restaurant more than to have one customer ask • in a rather loud tone of another: "Have you ever tried plating wqy-jftUips with this kind of sandwiches ? THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. Rncvm.. 1 4.oo„^ #99 6.V0 di #.70 .10V4# .WVC 8.35 <® 3.85 1 <H if? 1. 8 i os & i io .83 .85 .43 <$ .44 18.75 flifl.00 l\MB -ilM s.no <?« 1.60 HW (<« 4 <K> 4.40 <_<* 4 9-» 4. 0 <3 « 4» •«S <F* .'.'VJ .<>4 fit .89 (t« .Oil .e ft (4 .M (4 .'•« .80 .'1 .86 .'17 .17 ,m »« IT #1 Ut17 IW .10*14 10 M 36 .CO .36 ..14 . 3 Hoo* COTTON FT.OUR--Snnerflno WHEAT--No. l White. 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