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J. TAN SfctKK, fitter * NUN*** IfiHENRY. : : : IkfclHOIS EPITOME OF THE WEEK. Condensed Telegraphio Kewt. A B--Lin fltopatch df the 14th »y» - Prince ChartM of Reunumla b*d notified the ' . jjj Bmperon Of Germany and Austria of his in- " ten tion to abdicate if Kuuta be permitted to Vtorp Hie Ge*emHiemt of Roumania. *- i A CONSTANTINOPLE telegram of the ' "m '1 ltth say* the Russians had invited all the town# of Bulgaria to send delegates to Philippopolis , to participate in the election of a Prince. ACCORDING to a Belgrade special <1* , "1' the 14th, Prince Milan had decided to proclaim j£/ the independence of Servia, and would refuse to paj further tribute to Turkey. ' A SENSATIONAL correspondent at Vi- , enna telegraphed, on the 15th, that an under- ' standing between Austria and Russia had • ; been established, the latter having consented _ ton limit the occupation of Bulgaria to one A year, modify the western boundary of Bul­ garia, curtail the extension of Servia and "Montenegro, and permit the establishment of °an Austrian protectorate over Western Tur­ key. THS trial of Suleiman Pasha, for grave military offenses, has been commenced at Constantinople. • A BELGRADE special of the 15th says that !n Servia an anti-Kussian feeling was de­ veloping, both in the Cabinet and among the people. % THE insurrection in Thessaly is said : to be almost entirely stamped out, and in Epirus and Crete the insurgents and their "Greek sympathizers are reported to bedis- "Cooraged. A VOLO dispatch of arecentdate says the Turks had massacred between 800 and 900 persons of all ages and both sexes, at Palatini RA VIENNA telegram of the 16th says the Grand Duke Nicholas, in command of the j .Russian forces in Turkey, had been relieved by Gen. Todleben. THE British House of Commons ad­ journed on the 16th until the 6th of May, and the House of Lords until the 13th, A. BUCHAREST dispatch of the 16th says the ill-feeling between Russia and Rou­ mania continued. The entire military force of the latter had been called out. The Rus­ sians had stationed vessels laden with stones ready to again dose the Sulina mouth of the Danube, if necesearv. A SPECIAL from Widdin, of the 16th, says an Imperial ukase had been issued direct­ ing the speedy establishment of the new con­ dition of things in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Assembly had been called to meet on the 15th Of Jure. PRINCE MILAN of Servia has ap­ proved the sentence of death recently passed fepon M. Thumitch, ex-Minister, and thirty- -five others, for complicity in the late military conspiracy. Fifty others hart been condemned to penal servitude. A CONSTANTINOPLE dispatch of the 17th says the Sultan had given orders to hie forces on the Bosphorus to fight If an attempt be made by either Russian or English troops to occupy Constantinople. THE Roumanians, alarmed concern­ ing the occupation of their territory and tht possibility of a Russian attempt to disarm fhem, have withdrawn their army into Little Wallachia, where, they say, they will make •nother Plevna if the Russians attack them. A VOLO special of the 17th says thai amnesty had been proclai tned forall insurgent* who would lay down their arms. The offei liad been disregarded, the insurgents consider­ ing it a mere sop to European opinion. A LoNDON'dispatch of the 18th saye 4hat invitations had at last been issued for the faceting of the European Coagresa, * A CRISIS has occurred in the Turkish Cabinet, Venik Effendi, President of the ministerial Council, being dismissed and Sadyk Yaeha being appointed his successor. The overthrow of Venik Effendi is claimed to be a Russian triumph, but a dispatch from Con­ stantinople of the evening of the 18th says it had no political significance whatever. EXTENSIVE Nihilist riots hare lately occurred at Moscow and other ritje# in Jtwsia. The full details have not been al­ lowed to transpire. THE operatives in the cotton TOIHS at Longridge, Eng., to the number of SO,000 have struck because of a reduction of 10 per cent in wages. > INTELLIGENCE WAS received at Vien­ na, on the 18th, that the Turks and Montene­ grins had come in collision near Podgeroitca. The Turks violated the line of demarcation, and the Montenegrins attacked some Turkish Tillages. A PERA dispatch of the 19th says the Porte was preparing a circular to the Powers, asking to be relieved from foreign occupa­ tion, the war being over. THE Queen has issued her proclama­ tion prohibiting the exportation of torpedoes or torpedo material from Great Britain. A VIENNA special of the 19th says all convalescents in Russia had been ordered to Join their regiments, in Turkey, as speedily as possible. AN Athens dispatch of the 19th says a truce had been arranged with the Thessalian insurgents, through the efforts of Great Brit- ain. AN English Surgeon, just returned from Erzeroum, states that 13,0J(J Turkish sol­ diers have died since the evacuation of that TCity, and that the Russians have lost 21,000 «nen from sickness since they entered the plain of Erzeroum. IQ^ BlACKBURN (En£-) dispatch of the 22 S\"10,003 operative* were on a strike at uMmw to reaffirm, aa m yoatoseecurs Mr. Beecher a copy of the foregoing and re­ ceived from him the following fepl^: { -v.- p----wyaag._N.*-u*ii»,W re the court, in wxitiaa. and ooallv. y-:L- . WORK.HU extensive fire occurred at Clarks- wt 011 the alKbt of the 13th. growing toeZn tr^TJFlftW« buildings in acres were burned ^ t°,Wn' fifteen CSOQOO In*?' nK the loss of about •WW.UW. Insurance estimated at $150,000. J*1*"*. Un- T^odore Tilton called upon Mr. Ira B. Wheeler, a New York lawyer, and requested him to fumUhthc ne^^pers with the, followinK M nSbUo, be mSSehJ®oontoadtetwn*lof b«? «nifo~nn..Oem great tranagrmmion, #5toKaraat ON the 16th, S80 patents and trade­ marks were issued from the United States Patent Office. This number has not been equaled for years, and is regarded In Washing- Ion as an indication that business iTjmnghoot the country is reviving. A TERRIFIC tornado strode the Town of Cottonwood, Kan,, on the afternoon of the 18th, destroying a large amount of prop­ erty, killing several persons and seriously in­ juring many others. In Emporia, the Normal School building was unroofed and great dam­ age done to other buildings in the town. THE United States Senate, in Execu­ tive session on the 16th, confirmed several nominations made by the President, and re­ jected that of J. E. Colburn, of the New York Times, to be Consul-General to Mexico. RIGHT REV. SAMUEL A. MCCOSKRY, who recently* resigned the Episcopal Bishopric of Michigan, under the plea of age and increas­ ing infirmities, has been shown to have re­ signed under compulsion and to have left the country to avoid meeting those of his co-re­ ligionists whom he had disgraced. The state­ ment was made, on the 17th, that he had been charged with maintaining improper relations with a Detroit woman, and that when he was confronted with the charge and shown the letters he had written to the woman in ques­ tion, he acknowledged his guilt and at once departed for Europe. THE funeral of the late Wm. M. Tweed occurred la New York City, on the 17th. It was a quiet affair. AT Toledo, Ohio, on the morning of the 18th, Henry Rudolph, ten years old, siiot and killed Freddy Benning, also ten years old. They had had a schoolboy quarrel the day before, and on the morning in question Rudolph procured a revolver and shot Ben­ ning as he entered the school grounds. The youthful assassin was arrested. Two YOUNG ladies, named Effie Da- Costraand Hattie Green, of Philadelphia, were burned to death a few days ago, the clothes of the former being set on fire by a match which she stepped upon and ignited, and the latter lost her life while attempting to save her friend. Their ages were respect­ ively twenty-one and twenty-six years. MANY of the National Banks in Chi­ cago, Cincinnati and other portions of the West are redeeming their bills In specie. THE Oregon Republican State Con­ vention met at 8alem, on the 17th, and adopted a platform declaring for sound money and for the maintenance of public faith; supporting the National Administra­ tion and demanding a reform in State affairs. H. K. Hints was nominated for Congress and C. C. Beckman for Governor. THE Ohio State Republican Conven­ tion will meet in Cincinnati on the 12th of June. SAM STEENBURGH, a colored man, forty-five years of age, was recently hanged at Fonda, N. Y., for the murder, last November, of Jaco|) S. Parker. A few days before the execution 8teenburgh confessed to having killed eleven persons, the first murder b*iug committed when he was fourteen years of age. JOSEPH HAKTMANN died the other day, at his home, in New York City, of tri­ chinosis. It seems that his wife, on last Christmas, cooked a piece of shoulder, of which Hartmann ate. On the 5th of January he was taken Ul, and so remained until the 15th of April, when he died. Piece3 cut from the body of the deceased showed undoubted evidence of trichina spiralis. His wife, who partook slightly of the food. Was ill at last ac­ counts. AT Aiken, 8. C., a few days ago, Robert McEvoy was executed for the murder, in April, 1876, of Capt. J. J. Gregg. Before his death he confessed to the commission of several crimes. a «endTwhom I K* brought myself and the be- r SSVATK.--Not in session ott Iho 13th. HOUSE.--A bill passed appro­ priating 15,000for the erection of a monument over the grave of Thomas Jefferson... .The Postoffice Appropriation bill ($83,190,373-- •967,770 less than la*t year) was considered in Committee of tneKWhole. SENATE.--Bills/were passed, ontfie 15th--authorizing the issue of passports free to colored citizen? going to Brazil; authorizing the construction of a narrow-gauge railroad from Bismarck to the Black Hills; repealing the Bankrupt law--3f to 6... .Bills were intro­ duced--to repeal that part of the Specie-Re- sumption act which authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to dispose of United States bonds and redeem and caneel currency; to re­ peal the several actions of the Revised Statutes relating to the tenure of civil offiuirs. HOUSE.--Bills were introduced in the House--directing the President to make pub­ lic proclamation that it is the firm determina­ tion of Congress to enact no farther law* af­ fecting the currency or fiuance ftutil spode payments shall have been actually resumed, and authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare 4-perncut. bonds of the dei'ouiina- Uons of twenty, fifty and *100, payable iu forty years, to be cv/hantrcable, at 110 le*,* than their face value, for legil-temler to provide a mode for trvinir and determining, by the Supreme Court of the United fyi.t.-*, «lls- puted Presidential elections... .The resolution of the Maryland Legislature reopeui m the Presidential question was presented, and Mr. Garfield objected to its reception at this time, when a lengthy debate ensue 1, the question not behiir fully determined before the close of the morning hour. SENATE.--On the 16th, Mr; Howe called up a resolution introduced by him, a few weeks before, calling upon the President 'or certain information in regard to Ju.lge Whitaker, of Louisiana, aud made t>oiue re­ marks ujxm his former speech, after which the resolution was adopted, as was also a reso­ lution caliin;; ujxm the Secretary of the Treas- iry for intorniatiori relative to the balances due from the Collectors of Internal Revenue not now in office, as to what amount had been settled by compromise, etc.. ..Bills were passed --regulating the appointment of cadet mid­ shipmen and engineers to the Naval Academy at Annapolis; for the relief of certain settlers on public lauds; to incoroorate the N.uioiial racitie Railroad and Telecraph Company. .. A bill was introduced to authorize the States of Ohio, Indiana aud Illinois to bring and prosecute »uit,s atrainst the United States to recover lU'jiu-y liiiu on nf »!•/> Of n|^g " * " • : . . tJ??' Edlson the Magician. YESTERDAY I went out to Menlo Park, New Jersey, and spent the after­ noon in the work-shop of Thomas A. Edison, the magician, who is making machines that talk. His laboratory is as interesting as Monte CristoTs cave, and his achievements make the tales of Arabian sorcery seem credible. I saw the talking-machine, talked to it, and it talked back. You have heard about it, of course, but the story cannot be an old one for years to come,/ and al­ though the phonograph is as simple as a jack-knife, it excites the awe of the beholder as a telegraph wire stirs up an Indian's superstition. Edison is a tremendous worker. Work is a dissipation with him--his only habit. For the last tefi years he has averaged eighteen hours a day at the desk. His house is within fifteen rods, hut when he is in the crisis of an inven­ tion he does not go home for days, either to eat or sleep. He never went to school but a month in his life, but h.i3 taken out 157 inventions find filed seventy-seven caveats, and is now only thirty-one. Twenty-five men are em-, ployed in his laboratory merely to ma­ terialize his ideas. He is worth $150,- 000, and now has an Income of nearly that every year. He dresses plainly, hates sham, doesn't like to have & fuss made over him, and doesn't believe in guess-work about anything. He is rather above the medium height; un­ shaven and unshorn, slightly shabby, with a pair of bright, aggressive gray eyes, illuminating an otherwise unin­ teresting face. He is an Ohio man, you know, and is only thirty-one, having been born in Milan, Erie County, in February, 1847. His conversation has a strong Ohio flavor. Indeed, in some respects, he is provincial, for, if puz­ zled about a thing, he resolutely ex­ claims, " I'll gitit yit!"*r-£or. Cincin­ nati Commercial, , --The Quitman (Ga.) JFree Press says: " A farmer living in the Morven District undertook, a few evenings ago, to cure his hogs of vermin by rubbing them with coal oil. He provided him­ self with a fat lightwood torch, and just as he had gotten them well greased a spark fell on the back of one, and in an instant he was in a light blaze. The flames communicated to the others, and in a few moments the drove were running wild, fleeing with lightning speed, and appearing in the darkness like fire-fiends. The next day the farmer found his bacon not only cured, but 'done brown.' " --Col. Deeter H. Follett, of Boston, not knowing that his revolver was loaded, gave it to his little eight year old boy to play with and the little fellow playfully shot his father behind the ear with it. It didn't kill the Colonel. But that is not surprising. We wouldn't suppose you could kill a man who would give a child a pistol to play with, by shooting him in the head Kuril**. ton Bawk Eyc. * :; HOUSE.--The Senate bitt. MtinarMng tiMjpra of passports free U feW Brazil was p«M&, tn CMMfe of wnl wmh PMMtton the votane of' notes....The postoffloe * WM considered and sme; Whole.. . . An evening session was held", at which about fiftv Pension bills were passed. SENATE.--Vice-President Wheeler being absent, Mr. Ferry was chosen President pro tern., on the 17th....A substitute for the House bill t» repeal the Specle-Kesumption act was favorably reported from the Finance Committee, providing that on and after the PMM« of the substitute United States notes wJ^eiva^le ,n payment for Govern­ ment bonds, and on and after Oct. 1 for duties on imports, and that auch notes shall not be destroyed but shall be reissued as often as re- I ceived by the Government A concurrent resolution unanimously wiovid- lug for tfc© adjournment of Congress on the 10th of June The ' bill to remove all existing restrictions in iegwxl to the enlistment or colored citizens in the United States Army was Indefinitely poat- S>aed 38 to 17... .A resolution submitted by f. Voorhees December last, declaring it of tne highest Importance that the financial credit of the Government be maintained, and to that end that the Government should, in all its dc^ partments, keep its contracts and obligations entered Into with its own w«c unsni- tncusly agreed to.... A bill was passed extend­ ing the act of July 2,1863, donating public la®ds to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanical aria, to the State of Colorado. HOUSE.--A bill was passed repealing the act authorizing the coinage of twenty cent silver pieces....Several bills were im­ ported from committees, among which we re the following; Providing that any per:o:i niav deposit money, ip any sum not less t'"*-' swenty-five cents. In any postal money-order office, and when such deposits shall reach ten dollars, the Postmaster shall issue to the de­ positor a postal order on the United States Treasurer for 8.85 bonds, which shall be ex­ empt from taxation; authorizing the deposit of silver bullion and the issue of certificates therefor.... A motion to refer the concurrent resolution for final adjournment on the 10th of June to the Committee on Ways and Means was defeated--yeas, 107; nays, 139. Pending further discussion of the resolution, the House adjourned. SENATE.--Bills were passed, on the 18th--in relation to the Hot Springs Reserva­ tion in Arkansas; authorizing the citizens of Colorado, Nevada and the Territories to fell and remove timber on the public domain for mining and domestic purposes; House bill to prevent the introduction of contagious or in­ fectious disease into the United ' States.... Adjourned to the 22d. HOUSE.--The report V>f the Confer­ ence Committee on the bill making an appro­ priation for the employment of temporary clerks in the Treasury Department, and for other purposes, was considered, the commit­ tee being unable to agree, and a new confer­ ence with the Senate was asked for....The motion to lay on the table the motion to re­ consider the vote refusing to refer the concur­ rent adjournment resolution to the Committee on Ways and Means was defeated--lltt to 126. .... .Eulogies were delivered on the late Repre­ sentative Leonard, of Louisiana. SENATE.--Not in session on the 19th. HOUSE.--Bills were passed--for the frea entry, of articles imported for- exhibition by societies established for the encouragement of art and science; Senate bill increasing the pension of Gen. James Shields, with an amend­ ment making the amount $100 instead of fifty dollars per month The motion to reconsider the vote refusing to refer the concurrent ad­ journment resolution to the Ways and Means Committee was agreed to-^105 to 94--when the motion to refer was withdrawn, and a mo­ tion was adopted--129 to 113--postponing further consideration of the matter until Mav 1ft. J ILLINOIS STATE NEWS. WHIMI attempting to carrrksr cbOd across fcoih fell into the streak Before the dtfld ooold be rescued it wasfirownifc > : oar the 16th, at CNdî , ss'lBtehsl !>$$», a teamster, was taralh# his wagon oil the street-car track, the wheels of the vehicle slid along the rail and jumped off so suddenly that DMon was thrown off. striking Itfcf gtaaod with such violence as to break his neck. OH the 16th, the assignee of the estate «| JadobVunn sold $52,000'worth of real estate belonging to the bankrupt. The prspwlji was in Springfield. CASPAR L. Gom>SCHMII»T, a, night-watch­ man at Milan, hung himself a few mornings ago. The suicide was evidently premeditated, bat no cause is given for the deed. He Was thirty-nine years old. E. B. ATKINSON'S residence, at Moline, was entered by burglars a few mornings ago, and robbed of $400 worth of jewelry, money and clothing. A PRommOT churchman of the Springfield Diocese recently received the following letter from Bishop McLaren: DIOCBSE OF liJJNOis. CHICAGO. April 1ft. DEAR BROTHER : Dr. Seymonr had letters writ­ ten, sealed and stamped on the 5th of April, ao- nepting flpringfielri., and nnU;ni? Bishop Lay to preach the sermon and me to be one of his pre­ senters. He (Seymour; writes thiiH: "When I was delayed in putting the matter in the mail, Mid a document came to me signed by Biahop Potter, Bishop D iane and almost all the Stand- ins Committee of the Seminary, nrging me to re­ main where 1 am, 1 had no time to linger; my answer mast be given; and s* I yielded my own preference for what those who wero over me in the Lord thought beat for tlie whole Church. My heart's desire was to go. I longed tospei d and be spent in the glorious mission-field ot the West. Sat God has better things in store for you and sringfield than yon would have had in me.1' 1 am very sorry. • W- E. MCLAREN. JOHN MCCAKTT, son of a prominent farmer, residing in Lawrence County, near Vlncennes, Ind., recently committed suicide by jumping into a well. He was partially demented from, the effects of medicine he had been taking. A TWO-STORY brick house belonging to. Judge D. W. Brown, of Anna, was bnrnea, a (ew mornings ago. The loss was about $S,900. It was the work of an incendiary. AT Winchester, several evenings ago* Miss Mary B. Coultas, a beautiful young lady, six­ teen years old, while out walking with WUlr lam Dill, her lover, drew from her pocket a package which she said contained powdered sugar, swallowed the contents, and,* after handing Mr. Dill a note inclosed iti an en­ velope, which she desired hitn to read after he returned to his room, they walked leisurely to the place of residence of the girl's mother, where the coUple parted for the night. On entering her mother's rooms the young lady was seized with vomiting and cramping, and lingered in great agony until she died at sev­ en o'clock the following morning. A Coro­ ner's inquest was held, and during the inves­ tigation a post mortem examination disclosed that she had died from a dose of arsenic, which was found in a crystallized form in the stomach. The note the lady handed her lover during their walk the evening previous to her death, disclosed that she had long premedi­ tated self-dcstruction on account of her trou­ bles, especially over the objections her moth­ er and relatives had made to her keeping company with Mr. Dill. It also breathed the most tender affection for Mr. Dill, and could only have been inspired by a true woman's love, whose devotion would sacrifice life rath­ er than have anything come between her and the man she loved. THB 8tate Board of Public Charities met In Springfield, on the 17th. The Secretary re­ ported the total cost of all the State charitable institutions from Jan 1, 1878, to March 81, 1878, as $153,959.37, distributed as follows: Northern Insane Hospital. .....* 28,141 78 Central Insane Hospital... Southern Insane Hospital,... . Deaf and Dumb T7.TTT... 1 Blind Feeble-Mindcd Children Soldiers' Orphans' Home....:.;.....' Eye and Ear Infirmary............ State Reform Sehool. 32,910 18 22,112 07 21,287 01 7.807 48 15,590 80 11,204 26 5 279 31 10,686 61 Total .§158,959 37 The average cost per capita of all the in­ mates for the quarter was $S0.77, or 56>£ cents each per day. The total living expense.shows a decrease of $17,769.03 below the like ex­ penses of the last quarter of 1S77, while the average number of inmates was 2,640, against 2,471 for the last quarter of 1877, and 2,079 for the corresponding quarter of 1877. Each of the State institutions is ready to liquidate all outstanding Indebtedness on demand. The surplus cash over and above all liability at the endoftbe quarter was $79,999.18. The sur­ plus on Jan. 1 was $74,607.16, an increase of $5,508.18 during the quarter. The. following figures show the average number pf inmates ill each institution during the quar^r^ Northern Insane Hospital....J489 Central Insane Hospital.589 Southern Insane Hospital.........,.;....,... 879 Deaf and > • 417 Blind. lift feeble Minded ......v.1;..1! 18# Soldiers' Orphans', Home j..«.308 Eye and l-*r Infirmary................. 87 State Reform School... .'.J.* *•*. A>Ji i-it'l 178 TOTAL THB Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield met In that city, a few days since. No action was taken regarding Dr. Seymour, except to name the '28th inet. as the time and Springfield as Ihe place for the meeting of the Convention to nominate a Bishop. The Bishop of Illinois was requested, meanwhile, to provide Episcopal visitation for parishes desiring it, and to appoint Dr. Xjastar, of Jacksonville, to preach the sermon at the Convention. IK a row at the African Methodist Church in Jacksonville, the other Sabbath evening, Tobias Hannas shot Clarence Hubbard dead, and mortally wounded William Baker. All the participants were colored. TUB State Board of Public Charities have de­ cided to systematically visit the State iustitu tions under their charge by dividing the Stat into districts and assigning one to each mem­ ber-of the Board. It was also decided tore quire the institutions visited to submit esU mates of the appropriation necessary to be made by the next General Assembly. Judge Robinson is to represent the Board at the Cin­ cinnati Public Charities' Meeting on May 21. W. T. ARTBRBIWX, of Charleston, has sued Dr. O. C. Miles, ofRthe same place, to recover $2,030 for the death of bis son. It will be re­ membered that Dr. Miles' son Willie, on last New Tear's Day, playfully pointed a revolver at Alfred Artcrburn, and accidentally shot and killed hlrn. The boys were warm friends. An Extraordinary Accident. ONE of the. most singular accidents which it haa fallen to our lot to record occurred yesterday afternoon to Mrs. George Sweeley, who resides at the cor­ ner of Perry street and Central ave­ nue. Mrs. S., it apoears, went out to her hen-house to collect eggs, and in order to reach one nest on a sort of a loft was obliged to use a step-ladder. She mounted the ladder, which was set against the side of the house, and while in the act of reaching oat slipped and fell. As she slipped she endeavored to catch hold of a beam just above the lad- clean der. but her hand slipped off that, and har haavy. plain gold w«f " thetfi^iMoTiie •a a pn>J«*tng naU. wfcttla wetflM wai finger, and the n flesh of the finger w: the bone by the first joint, when that stripped flesh, was cut off as __ _ though amputated by a surgebn, and sle fnll to the ground. Strange to say, not a drop ot Mood flowed from the severed member. Mrs. Sweeley has­ tened into the house in a fainting eon- dH^H? and W. H. M«TW|nfWd If, H. Starkweather being sent lor; ttmpu- tated what was left of the finger close to the hand. The ring was subsequent­ ly found still hanging on the nail, with the severed finger beneath it.--Albanv (N. r.) Journal ' 1^% The Sm*H Arte ^ Hardly anything is too small to spoil the comfort of life, if it be mis­ placed. A speck in the eye, a kernel of wheat in the boot, a pin-point touching the skin, a band too tight or a needed strap gone, and good-by comfort! Considering how much depends on our daily food, it is surprising how lit* tie is thought of the conditions under which it is taken, in many families. Some people think a good deal more of what, is on the table than what is said or done around it; and some few, per­ haps, reverse the order--an operation that may do very well for special occa­ sions* when what is said is something extraordinary; but one that we shall beg to be excused from " as a regular diet," even if the gods came to dine, until we are able to dispense with all that is implied in a good appetite! The cookery is too big a topic to touch in this connection; though what with cookery schools, a better knowl­ edge among the people, and higher standards made familiar by oups best hotels and dining places, the art has greatly advanced m this country within the present generation. Good bread, a property broiled steak, and a roast done to a turn, no longer excite the special wonder that once they did. By- and-by perhaps it will not be unusual to find a good soup, or vegetables that haven't been spoiled in cooking! But consider the meal cooked : how shall it be best enjoyedP By having it daintily and tastefully arranged and served, in the first place. We alwayi mark the good housewife up a notch or two in our esteem if we see that, how­ ever competent help she may have, she always slips out to give the "last touches " to the table before the fam­ ily or the guests sit down. Some do it fji* the guests but not for the family, but that is an error. The ar­ tistic arrangement of the table furni­ ture; the skill that avoids crowding dishes together, or leaving spaces too bare; the forethought that looks out for flowers for the dinner table, though the center table go bare; the quick eye which sees that everything is in its place--these supplement the fare won­ derfully. Promptness in each member of the familv is another essential It demoral­ izes the group to have stragglers drop­ ping in all the way through the meal, and gives a restaurant air--a sugges­ tion of mere "feeding"--to the family meal, which it should never have. We would make an exception in favor of breakfast. Nothing is more absurd and unwholesome than our American iron-clad habit of hazing everybody out of bed whether they are ready to awa&en or not, and sitting them down to a laboring man's breakfast two or three hours before they want anything. The necessities of business or of school re­ quire punctuality in a majority of cases; and then it is the chiefest virtue. Tardy and irregular meals for those who want them on time, have done their full share toward retaining in the world so large a store of "original sin." It takes a triple-plated saint--especially if he be of the male persuasion!--to stand the test of waiting for dinner about five days out of seven. But When there is no necessity in the case, the constitu­ tion, temperament and tastes of the dif­ ferent members of the household should be well considered in the management of breakfasts.- A little more formality in serving the family meals wouldnH harm some households. There is no need of sav­ ing all the "company mariners" fob company; if you do, the children, at least, will probably be found wanting when the occasion comes. We rather enjoyed hearing, recently, of the punc­ tiliousness as to dress and deportment with which certain college chums are wont to grace their dinners together once a week. Full-dress suits, a care­ fully-spread board, silent and attentive waiters, courtesies toward each other such as the most polite society demands; the aesthetics of dining are thus kept up in an isolated life that leaves so many young fellows mannerless. Many preachments have been direct­ ed to teaching the necessity of cheer­ fulness and contentment at meals. It cannot be too often enforced. The wis­ dom, on purely physical grounds, of a a tranquil mind at meal times, is as old as Bacon, in our language, and as ancient as the patriarchs in practice. The time given to the table ought to be doubled in many families, and the cheerfulness, good nature and domes­ tic conversation increased in a like ratio. " While we live,*lefc us live"-- in the little matters as well as the g r e a t e r o n e s , R u l e . --"A Kiss in the Dark" was played recently by amateurs in Monnt Sterling, Ky., up to the point where the young man kisses the pretty girl., Then it was turned into a tragedy. Tne girl's real lover, jealous of her stage lover, and thinking that the kissing was too much relished, shot the offender on the spot. The wound was trifling, but it brought the performance to a close. ;--A tramp entered Musooda, Wis., requested the Marshal to arrest him, take him to the calaboose and give him something to eat, or he would steal. The Marshal told him to steal, then; whereupon the tramp went to a store where a rack stood at a front door, loaded with dry goods, and made off with the rack, goods and all, and got away without being arrested. --Hatters of interest--Coupons. Additional Partiealarft of the ill RECEMS of Jan tremity of China food Tientsin Had _ work of relieving ing as the lands he the e* atpalt ant at and in themaiMb to the- the distress aeeor<tf furnished enabled them to do so and out of their owpk means had contributed 628 taels ($872| to aid. Other foreigners in tha Le*£i tion made up $1,215 'Shot** prfrt of which h as frgferr mm IU Btuuiil Uf HWMWP tributed by the,Re^; .Messrs. Jew MBoeiatM missloi«BH(M^lfv?Wg Jri yw Provincial capital. The first writes as follows: ILB6LMTQ4HN^MFT>^MR HNRO K FAIL* MOTE legible thin it WM iffftidia «3f* year. People sell their lands, pull' down their houses to get a little for* their timber,^ beU ^ wjves daughters; eat roots, carrion, clay an$ refuse, to prolong their fives. And'ff this was not enough to njpyg one's pity, the sight of men, women ahd life, tie children, lying helpless on the roadt', side, or if dead, torn by dogs and ' magpies, ought to do so. Even oas«fe* are - currently reported and b©UevedL» where the Children are being bo ikid ancfc eaten. The cold has been imtisuMy vere, and no coal can be purchased blr3* these families. The people, one might * say, are dying like flies. They hav&f only yellow earth mixed with leaves Of" various kinds of. trees left with which to prolong their lives for a few, day%. The wild fruits are collected before-1 they are ripe, and the stalks of th#; sorghum are all that are left them?" even water has failed in places, making* it necessary for the sufferers to seek iP at a distance of half a day's journeyT The future is appalling, for in man* \ places the want of rain will prevci)] the ground from producing, and the<» people have consumed very milch df*4 the grain for seed before sowing time. I have been out in the country for %| week to visit th ? suffering villages ' this vicinity. In one village one-half? were reported dead or sold, and al­ though, this was not fitrictlv coYreot, 1/ know of one family in. which only twp^ remained out of sixteen. Smaller faro- ~ ilies had disappeared. In some case#, the dead could not be buried, through^, the weakness of the living. 1 flividea ' some of my money to help in burying them. No grain has been sown i^r many places, and therefore, there willf^ I fear, be six months or more before & ' crop can be looked for. Grain-is al­ ready four times the rfsuai rates, anf i the exchange of silver for copper easa r is less than usual. I : A Dangerous Jofce* 1/ CLARENCE NEWCOMB, eon of ex£., United States Marshal Newcomb, un­ derwent an experience a few days ago which he will not soon forget. Th| i sportive humor of a friend led to thft*r perpetration of a joke which came near having a serious and fatal termination*, Mr. Newcomb, had stepped into the - vault attached to the office of LonergaJ^! & Thiel, of the Detective Agency* where he is interested. The vault is used for the storing away of valuable books, papers, etc. A gentleman wli<^* was in the office at the time closed th*^' door upon Newcomb by way of a prac ­ tical joke. In the meantime the prat* tical joker went out exulting in the * funny plight in which his victim must find himself when he discovered tha|< he could not get .out. Mr. Newcomb" could not hear any sounds from the out-'* side, and wondered what had become of his friend. He tried to cry out, bu|f knew that his voice, even if raised t<f * its highest pitch, could not penetrat&f through the thick walls that surrounded^ him. The reverberations of his voice iif" the narrow tomb were almost deafening. He pounded against the wal?s, bruising'V his hand in an attempt that he knev^' must be ineffectual to attract atteni^i tion. He thought he could hear hit- blood as it wfljS p^a»ed , ppt» ^ his heart aim tdtwree# %nt,4%iil his veins. The action of liis luqgs hacL become suddenly and strangely &udible( | Respiration was becoming difficult*** The murmur gradually increased to loud buzz, buzz, and then he realm that this must be caused by rush of - blood to the head, the offbefc of l^is tinucd confinement. The busaing pitr* creased to a roaring thunder. He fel#» himself stagger, and then lost eon4" sciousness. At this moment Mr. Thiel* > came in hurriedly, having been in££ formed of the situation, ana unlocked;* the safe. Mr. Newcomb had fainted, but was restored fcy the free .use of water mixed with some stimulants. St* Jd>uig Evemnq " ' •" » •>' i/j *£ft ishsnld that aiMin the direct cause of over 600 deaths dur­ ing the last winter. The obvious moral is--always slide up hill.-- Worcestcf Press. •... • i- ^ ... gy • ;; t mWTOBK. . !i> fir't April 19, 1§&. UWBIOOE-Ogu..;-;^^ HoST.....;...* 8.75 FLOUR--Good to Choice 6-25 ^ WHEAT--No. 2 Chicago • l^JKj OOBN-W<iMi OAT&--Western 14u»d.....?••• RYB-Wertem PORK--Me« fiARD--Steam CHEESE vw/r w^D™"-"25swr HEEVEg-Extm Gboic®-".. Good. Medium live--Good toOhoMM.. 1 -Common to Ciioioa... Fancy Creamery.... Good to Choice....., EGGS-~*«sh FLOOR--Choice Winter... Choice to Fine SpiiaK. Patent QBAIN--Wheat, No. 2 Hpriq^.. Corn, No. 2.... la • Oats, No. St..... Rye, No. 2 Barley, No. 3.. FORK--Mew-- „ BALTIMORE. CATXLS--Bpit; I'.# SHEEP--Good 4.00 „ EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--Beet i Hoas-ioK."™::'::":;:::: SS! *1 . PhUftdelphi&iu. 3. 0 47* 1 6.00 f%20 tr< HL.. tm-