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Tffti mfcin building of the Collier wfafte lead worm, in Bt Louis, waa bnroed, Wieloefl being $100,000, romed by insnranoe. Two men were killed, one by fright and the other bv beinR rnn over by engines John Crrweoai began a forty-fire days' fast at Chicago on the 28th of Hay. THE Illinois Legislature adjourned May 30, after a session of Ave months that coat "the State a quarter of a million of dollars.... Iii removing two bodies from contipuoM craves in the cemetery at Idayille, Ind., it was found that nothing waa left of one but bonee, while the other hod turned to flint and weighed 300 pounds. A SPRINGFIELD (111.) dispatoh of the 1st irl,f aaya: " All hopes for the recovery of Mm Lincoln, widow of Abraham Lincoln, are Abandoned. 8he daily grows weaker, and her attending physicians say that *h« cannot sur­ vive manv day* longer." The Chicago, Pe- Vin and Southwestern road waa sold r.t anction for $750,000, nnder the second mortgage, at the Chicago Custom Honse A German Uni- verntv is proposed, to be established in Mil­ waukee, Wi*., to co«t $2,000,000. LIQUOR-DEALERS in Nebraska entirely ignore the new Liqnor law providing for li­ cense fees of from $560 to $1,000. An associa­ tion of 800 men baa been organized to oonteat the statute, and the beet of legal talent en­ gaged. THE SOUTH. IK Woodruff county, Art, a little boy Mined Bennie Johnson, 7 years old, was sent by his parents on an errand to a neighbor's honse, two miles distant. When half-way to his intended destination, and while crossing a lonely unfrequented atrip of country, the little fellow was attacked ana killed and partially devoured by a couple of vicious dog a. AT Bridgeport, Ala., a tramp named Mehan, while bathing with some young men, fbec&me angered because they spattered him with mud. He rushed for his knife and cnt William Copeland in the neck, causing instant death. The tramp was seized and bound. "While in prison, 8am Iteeae, oonsin of Copeland. slipped r.p and shot Slehau dead. John P. Nunley, of Charleston, W* Ya., became aggrieved at something said by hid nephew George, a youth of 19. The uncle challenged the nephew. Pistol* were the -weapon 3, and the nephew was shot through | 4he month. REPORTS from Garter oounty, Ky., mention the killing of two women and a man aamed McKinaey by the regulators. Other crimes are reported, and almost a reign of ter­ ror in some parts the county. AT Gainesville. Tex., John Thompson abot and killed Deputy Sheriffs Charles and Sam Meredith and L. Erilht, who attempted his arrest upon a warrant for carrying con- eealed weapons. Thompson escaped. A MONUMENT of the finest Carrara •aarble, surmounted by a status of a Confeder­ ate infantry soldier, was nnveil«d in the ceme­ tery at Frederi-k, Md., in presence of several thousand persons. It will mark the graves of Southern soldier* who fell at Antietam and Veaocaqr. POLITICAL. A WASHINGTON dispatch pays that a conference between leading Republicans, Ma- bone and members of the administration has been held in that city with reference to the forthcoming Beadjuster Convention in Rich­ mond. The plans are not as yet fully formed, but them i« reason to believe that the Mahone platform will be prepared in that city, and that it will be aooepiahle to the Republicans. SPEAKER GEOEGE H. SHABPB and three other members of the Republican Caucus Committee sent to eaoh Republican member of the New York Legislature a call for a caucus on the evening of May 30. Only thirty-one re­ sponded to the call. The friends of the ad- muiMr&tioii gathered to the number of fifty- seven and held a eotiferenoe. The Democratic members mot in caucus and resolved to sup­ port Francis Kerium aud John C. Jacobs for the Senatorial seats. Jane 1, $18,71*936; • mount on deposit for this purpose. $15,334,659; total amount of national-bank notes outstanding June 1,18$1, is $853,052,493, the largest amount ever issued; otrooitboa of national gold banks, not included in the above, $10,299,8* The Govt of Claims has decided adversely totbedaba of the Union Paciflc hailroad against the Government for $1,000,000 for carrying the United States B)»ik The Union Psoitis wanted to charge the Government at the same rate which it charges for expires matter, hot the court decided against this view, and held that there was nothing in the charter of the oompanv whioh would warrant such * charge The Poat- oAoe Departsoent entimate* that the som of $1,350,000 will be saved in the next four years by the new oentract for postal card*. THB President appointed the follow­ ing : For Collectors of Customs, "William Gov- ernemr Hmris, of New Jersey, for the Distrust of Alaska; Henry A. Kennedy, of Maine, at Waldaboro, Me.; Tboma* E Broadwaters, Vioksburg, Miss.; Edward J. PasteUo, Natches, Miss.; George K. Foote, Postma«ter at Jackson, Tenu.; Angnstus Brmlns, of Pennsvlvania, Agent for the Indians »C the Great Nebama Agency, Nebraska... .The coinage executed at the United States mint* during May aggregated 4,341,640 pieces, valued at $7,668,566. Of the asmnnt there were 2.230 double esgles, , 334,500 eagles, 769,920 half-eagles and 5"0.000 silver dollara. ...McGrew, Sixth Auditor of the Treasury, and his deputy, Lilley, have, by invitation of Secretary Windom, tendered their iWHignations. All on acoouut of the star-route frands Postmaster General James wanes a statement showing a reduction in the star and steamboat mail-route service for tho last throe months as follows: March, $215,490 ; April, $84,531; May, $45.517-total, $744,568..... President Garfield hcrtily indorses the At­ lanta, (Ga.). exposition in November, and has promised to attend, public duties permitting. CoL William A. Cook, a well-known crim­ inal lawyer of Washington, has been desig­ nated by the Department of Justice to prose­ cute the star-route cases. Commissioner Ramn estimates receipts from internal revenue for the fiscal year will be abont $135,600,000. , The follow ng is the public-debt state­ ment for May : 6K per cent bonds 9 1#6,17P,#0# Five iter cents 48t,84t,3M Four and one-half par cents 2>0,000,000 Four tier cents 158,042,750 Refunding oortifloats* <>94,860 Navy pension fond 14,000,000 --:--;-- l<nta,l interest-bearing debt $1,639LM7,TM Mit«TT<l deb* % 10,000,039 Lepaltonders 346,741,A44 Gertifiep.tes of deposit... 10,860,000 Fractional correal cy 1,100,103 Gold and silver certlA- catcs M,«8C^B0 Conk ling, 34; Jacobs. 50; Wheeb r, 19; Rogers, 11; Cornell- 21 : scattering, 14. frcond ballot: OonUinf, S3 ; Wheeler. 17 ; Jacobs. 52; Bradley, 1; Hsgera. 15; Cori;ell, 21; Fentou, 3. For too Piatt vaeanov the firxt ballot resulted : Piatt, 33; Kertmn. 53 ; I>epew, 28 ; Cornell, 11; soat- tsrnig, 3(5. Second ballot: Piatt, 38; Depew, 30; Keman, 52 ; Coriiell, 13, Others scattering.... Ike Iowa Greonbackeiv, m oonvcutlon atKar- sbail:own, nominated ITos. D. M. Clark, of Wsyne county, for Governor; Hon. Jsmcs M. Holland, of Heniy county, for Lieutenant Governor ; A. D. Dabney, of Madison county, for Supreme Judge; and Mrs. Mary E. Naste, of Den Moines, for Superintendent of Public Instruction. AM affray, arising from an eviction, ooonrred aft Bodyke, County Clare, Ireland. The polios were Mred on and returned the fire. A farmer was killed by a blow from the bntt end of a musket and several persons were wounded, both of the polioe and people. GLADSTOIOI announced to the House of Commcns, last week, that vigorous meas­ ures had been adopted by the Irish executive for dealing with resistance to law The ten­ ants at New Pallas, Countv limerick, Ireland, were evicted by tho Sheriff, o**i«ted by polioe with ftxod bvronets and d«'ti chments of the Coldstream Guards and Scots' Greys. The people made throstening demonstrations, bat were restrained by the entrentiesof two priests. Total without lntersot. 431,396,SOT Total debt 564,354 Total interest I7,f«8,7*>5 Cash In tressurr 336,4%,iiHH .$1,86*2,921,971 11,150,72! 69,260,$23 Debt less cash In Decresse during May.. Decrease since Inns 30, 188U. Current liabilities-- Interest due and unpaid. „.$ 2,451,043 Debt on whicbi interest has oesssd 10,ti00,s05 Interest thereon.. 7117,292 Gold and silver eertJ ficates 6C,685,850 United States notes held for redemption of certifleaten of deposit. 10,R65,000 Oath balance available June 1,1881.... 155,161,896 Total... $ MS,496,088 Available issets Cash in trsasmy .$ 390,496,086 Bonds issned to Pacific railway ooenpan- les, interest payable In lawful money, principal outstanding. $ Interest seemed and not yet paid...... Interest paid by United States. interest repaid by companies-- Interest repud »y trajMportstton sf. 64,023,512 1,615,587 99,628^M>6 14,250,338 •55sl98 By cash payments of 6 per cent of net earnings. .... Balance of interest paid by tbs United Statss... 34,017,028 THS Postoffice Department pronounces onmailable samples of floor or other powdered substances, unless m transparent bags and tightly sealed. CEKEHRAL. THX officers of tlie National Board of Health and of the Marine Hospital Service have been examining reports received by them from all points where yellow fever is likely to originate or oaenr. The reports all inspire the board with confidence that there will not be any yellow fevor in the United Htates this year. ... .There :s a great want of unanimity among the religious journals of the country respect­ ing the Revised New Testament. Few of tliecu are willing to criticise the work as, vet Bishop Himpson has gone to England, where he will preach the opening sermon in the great Pan-Methodist Council. BECOBATION day was appropriately commemorated throughout the United States. In Chicago the graves of those who fell in bine and gray were alike ornamented with flowers and evergreens, and the city militia niarcbed through the principal streets. At the Gettys­ burg National Cemetery the assemblage num­ bered 15,000. There was an imposing military display at Washington, and the President at­ tended decoration oe emonics at tbs Soldiers' Homo. THE arrivals of immigrants at Castle Garden, New York, for May were 76,812, ex­ ceeding anything ever known. The arrivals each month since the 1st of January ere as follows: Januarv, 8,082; February, 9,758; March, 27,708; 'April, f9,748; May, 76,812, Total for Ave month', lf*2,lo8. For the cor­ responding period of last year tho figures were: January, 5.677; February, 7.904: March, 21,- 094 ; April, 46, 78: May, 55,083. Total for five months, 135,336. FOREICSN. THE situation in Ireland, says a Lon­ don dispatch, begins to excite most serious ap­ prehensions among all classes in England. From one end of the country to the other the law has no abiding place. Every form of legal . ,, . m process or legal execution is openly resisted gan m the hew York Legislature on Tues- deliberately defied. In whole districts the J*- °1"' -,t T- °--*- "---- operation of the law of tho land is suspended. and tho law of the Land League enforced in- THB balloting for United States Sen­ ators to succeed Messrs. Conkling and Piatt be- day, the 31st ult. In the Senate Conkling received nine votes, against six for John C. Jacobs, six for W. A. Wheeler, five for 8. 8. Roger*, three for Oov. Cornell, aud five scattering. Piatt received eight votes in the Senate, against seven for Kernau, six for Wheeler and ten scattering. In the House, twenty-six votes were cast for Conkling, forty- seven for Jacobs (Democratic nominee), fifteen for Wheeler, six for Cornell, eight for Bogers aud twenty-four scattering. Piatt received twonty-oae votes in the House. Kern&B (Demo­ cratic nominee) forty-t-even, Depew fourteen, Cornell twelve, while thirty-three votes were divided between a dozen other persons. THB first vote for United States Senator*, in Joint convention of the New York Legislature, taken on the 1st inst, resulted in a manner materially different from what the preliminary vete of the preceding day indicated. Conkling and Piatt received the same number of votes in the aggregate that they then had, and they came from the same persons. Cornell's vote was tho same, and Depew forged ahead a little. The few minor obanges were of no significance. AM interview is published in a Cleve­ land paper with ex-President Hayes, in which he says: " Mr. Conkling is a monomaniac on the subject of his own importance. He is so impressed with his own greatness that it has become more than an eccentricity--it is a mo- • iiomania. This is quite a common phase of in­ sanity, and the malady often takes that form. Patients often imagine they are some distin­ guished character or superior being. There are over fifty Presidents in insane asvluniH, Some think themselves Napoleon, a King, a Czar, and some even Christ or ths Almignty Himself. Conkling is drifting that way." THB New York Legislature took one ballot for Senator on the 3d iust. Conkling received thirty-four votes for the short term and Cornell nineteen. For the lose term Piatt and Depew had thirty votes each. Henry Ward Beech®- waa honored with one vote. Tho Dem- ocsatic vote was cast for Kernan and Jacobs CoL William E. C&meron was nominated for Governor of Virginia by tho iteadj listers' Con­ vention at Richmond. John T. Lewie, ex- Uuited States Senator, was selected for Lieu­ tenant Governor, and Oapt. Frank 8. Blair for Attorney General. Cameron is Mavor of Peters­ burg. and was Adjutant General of Ms- bone s brigade in the Confederate army. WASHINGTON, ' • ADDITIONAL national-bank circulation lamed during May, $3,342,070; amount surren­ dered and destroyed, $1,745,919, showing an in­ crease of circulattonduring the month of f l,551t- 1*1; net increase of national-bank notes for tho year ending June 1,1881, $9,216,250 ; decrease of legal-tender notes on deposit during May for the purpose of retiring national-bank circula- ion, $720,417 ; increase during the year ending stead. Whenever individuals more courageous than the multitude attempt the service of a writ of summons for rent, it can only be effected by a species of guerrilla warfare. A BAILIFF went to serve writs on the property of Mr. Hutchins, near Mallow, County Cork, Ireland. Some women gathered around and seized him, destroying the writs, and then stripped him naked and threw him into the river. They caught him as he came out and thrashed him with furze. The unfortunate man, more dead than nlive, was then tarred and feathered and nunted through the country. The head of the dragoon's horse which was killed in the fight at Mitchellfctown was cut off and fixed on the top of a jx>lc. Tho pol-j was decorated with green paper and crape. Stream­ ers were appended io the head, and in tho mouth wm placed a pieoe of paper bearing the following words : "Here's your rent " Ket­ tle, of the Land League Executive Committee, was arrested at Dublin. He is charged with inciting pe«ple to combiue for the purpose of refusing to pay lawful debts. IN the belief that the Land League may bring on a conflict between the crown and the masses of the Lisb people, the Irish exec­ utive strongly urges the suppression of the organization ..A riot occurred at Clonmel, .Ireland, during a sale of tenant*' interest in property, in which the hussars charged oil the people with the flats of their sabers, and the people re­ sponded with stones. Several persons were injured A COiiu^pOUiicuv Of ft p&jTiiu&fi Journal wai murderod by Arabs at Bijso (Tunis'). His murderers were arrested, court- martialed and shot. LoRiiiLARi/s Iroquois, an American horse,',won the English Detby, bringing nearly $2,000,000 to the pockets of his owner. Archer, the jockey, states that he could easily have won by three lengths. The crowd was immense, among the spectators betug the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Princess Louise, the Duke and Duchess of Conuaught, and tho Duke of Cambridge. Iroquois was bred by A. Welch, of Chestnut llill. Pa....The British Government is said to be deter- miued to crush intimidation in Ireland. The riot at Clonmel, County Tipperary, was a seri- oiis affair, from wliicb t«ever..l deaths will, it is expected, result. At Woodford, County Gal- way. an agent was abot for rcfu»iug to accent payment of rent on the basis of Griffith's valu­ ation Field Marshal Tegcthoff, of Austria, who has long snfftred from an incurable mal­ ady. ended bis tortures by suicide The Anchor Line steamer Macedonia, wrecked on the coast of Scotland, has been abandoned. She will prove a total loss. THB New York Legislature balloted twice for Senators on the 2d inst. For the Conkling vacancy the firtt ballot resulted: Death frt^i $ Bosh Fire. tb one of Cooper's " Leather-Stocking Tales " tliefo is a graphic description of a prairie fire. Hie novelist also de­ scribes how an Indian chief, caught within its fiery embrace, saved his ufe by hiding himself within the carcass of a buffalo, which he had killed and dis­ emboweled. Ln Australia a similar con­ flagration is known as a "bush fire." The tragic story of one, which occurred in South Australia, is relieved by no such thrilling incident as Cooper's- In­ dian's escape : Martin McCarthy, with four of his sons, left their thatched homestead in the Hundred of Hunker to reap the wheat which stood ripe for the sickle at a distance of about a mile. They noticed a bush fire about a dozen miles off, but, as the wind was in the opposite direction, they thought nothing ef it, and went on reaping till dinner­ time. Immediately after that meal, which they took in the field, the wind veered round, and, rising to a hurricane, swept the fire down upon their farm. Des­ perately plunging through the blinding smoke, they barely succeeded in gain­ ing a clearing 100 yards distant before huge tongues of tire fifty feet high rushed past them, roaring and hissing as they licked up every vestige of veg­ etation in their course. When tho flames had subsided, Mc­ Carthy, followed by his boys, hastened with terrible' forebodings across the plain, to see if any of his family had been spared. As he ran toward the chimney, which alone remained to mark the site of his dwelling, he stumbled over the charred corpse of his wife. A little further on was the body of his 7-year-old boy, and round the chimney lay the remains of his live daughters. The eldest, a girl of 19, clasped in her arms the youngest, a baby of 2 years old. Accustomed AS the colonists are to bush fires, this unusual holocaust cast a gloom over the neighborhood. Ancient Pompeii. A correspondent of Hand and Heart, an English periodical, writes : "An in­ teresting feature of the inner life of an­ cient Pooipeii, as now revealed to view, is the appearance ot the frequent ' feigns' over the shops, every trade and busi­ ness having its own particular sign or trade-miirk ovtr the outer doorway. Thus the frequent wine-shops are indi­ cated. One of these was exceedingly honest in its sign--aBacclianulian reve), showing a drunken man in t]ie fore­ ground ! Wine jars were here in abund­ ance, some of them very large. One that I measured required my handker­ chief seven and a quarter times round to indicate its girth. A surgeon's house was identified by the surgical instru­ ments' it contained. A baker's shop was found with as jgany as eighty-one loaves in the oven--all over-Tialea, JQU way be sure, by centuries! These loaves are now dispersed throughout the principal museums of the world. A public school was indicated by its own amusing sign­ board; a iough picture represents one on "another's back, and the master with the birch-rod, as my guide said in broken English, ' give him a licking !' And over one of the houses I saw this motto in­ scribed : ' Otiosis locus hie non est. Diacede, rnorator to which I give the following translation: " No place for idlers here to stay; Louiigar, aria* and go thy way." Taking Care sf Caesar. " Late one evening Col. Don Morri­ son, of St. Louis, and a party of boon companions were returning home from down-town, where thej haa been enjoy­ ing whist and wine. Pausing in front of his elegant r sidenoe, Col. Don insisted upon the party's coming in and taking a parting glass. ' No, no, Don; we'll go home. It's very late, and we won't keep you up.' These and similcfr expostula­ tions were made, but Col. Don kept on insisting. At last one of the gentlemen suggested that mebbe Mrs. Morrison might object. The Colonel seemed deeply offended at this. He drew him­ self up proudly and said, scornfully: ' Now you shall come in, for I intend to show you that I am Caesar in this house !' Scarcely had he uttered this proud declaration than a second-story window raised, and a feminine voice, cold and cutting, rang out on the pale air : ' You are right, gontlemen; go home to youi wives. I'll take care of Cesar !' Of WAIfBERIHQ NEEDLES. Very Rciuarkabl); CI The London Lancet observes that the vagaries of needles which have been in- trodooed in the body, and have escaped immediate removal, have in all ages at­ tracted the attention ot collectors of the marvelous in medicine. . Hiklanus re­ lated an mstance of a woman who swal­ lowed several pins and passed them six years afterward; but a wore remarkable instance of prolonged detention was re­ corded by Stephenson, ot Detroit-- that of a lady, aged 75, whe passed by tbe urethra, after some months' symptoms of vesical irritation, a pin whioh she had swaUowed while picking her teeth with it in the year 1835--forty- two years previously. Occasional pain in tin; throat was the immediate symp­ tom, but in 1845 she was seized with severe gastric pain, which passed away, and she had no symptoms Until hema­ turia m 1£76. This curious tolerance of such foreign bodies exhibited by the tissues is often observed in lunatio asy­ lums. M.J3ilvy recorded some years ago the case of a woman who had a penchant for puis and needles so strong that she made them, in effect, part of her daily diet, and after her death 1,400 or 1,500 were removed from various parts of the body. Another case almost as striking has been recorded by Gillette--that of a girl in whom, from time to time, needles were found beneath the skin, which they perforated, and were removed by the lingers or forceps. Concerning the way m which they had got into her system no information could be extracted from her. She was carefully watched, and in the oourse of eighteen months no less than 320 needles were extracted, all being of the same size. Most were black and oxidized, but some had retained their polish. The majority were un­ broken. They passed out of various parts of the body above the diaphragm at regular intervals, but in a sort of series and always in the same direction, The largest number whioh escaped in a single day wai sixty-one. • A curious phenomenon preceded the escape of each needle. For some hours the pain was severe, and there was considerable fever. She then felt a sharp pain, like lightning in the tissues, and on looking at the place at which this pain had been felt the head of the needle was gener­ ally found projecting. The needles in­ variably came out head foremost. No bleeding was occasioned, and not the least trace of inflammation followed. The doctor in attendance extracted 318. They were sometimes held firmly, and seemed to be contained in a sort of indu­ rated canal. It was conjectured that they had been swallowed with suicidal intentions; but, on the other hand, the way in which the needles escaped in series, and their direction with the head outward, suggested that they had been introduced through the skin. That little weight is to be attached to the pace at which the needles escape, as proof of 4heir mode of introduction, is evident from a case recorded by Viliars of a girl who swallowed a large' number of pins and needles, and, two years after­ ward, during a period of nine months, 200 passed out of the hand, arm, axilla, side of thorax, abdomen and thigh, all on the left side. The pins, curiously, escaped more readily and with less pain than the needles. Many years ago a case was recorded by Dr. Otto, of Co­ penhagen, in which 493 needles passed through the skin of a hysterical girl, who had probably swallowed them dur­ ing a hysterical, paroxysm; but these all emerged in the regions below the level of the diaphragm, and were col­ lected in groups, which gave rise to in­ flammatory swellings of some size. One of these contained 100 needles. Quite recently Dr. Bigger desdribed boiore the Society of Surgery of Dublin a case in which more than 300 needles were re­ moved from the body of a woman who died in consequence of their presence. It is very remarkable in how few cases the needles were the cause of <leath, and how slight an interference with function their presence and movement cause. course, the party went home, and Col. Don pensively retired.** Yitality of Wild Turkeys. It lias frequently happened within my knowledge that turkeys shot through the body with several buckshot or a rifle bullet, if not afterward by the merest good fortune fouud and secured by au- other shot, escaped to die or recover from their wounds. For example, I will mention two or three of the many in­ stances to which I might refer. A flock of about 100 wild turkeys was scattered one evening at roosting time, and party of four of us went to the place next morning before daybreak with the inten­ tion of culling. One of the Beven tur­ keys killed ou this occasion was to all appearances active and sound as any of its companions; but picking revealed that a rifle bullet had entered about an inch to the left of the tail and passed out of the breast within an inch or two of the neck, thus traversing nearly the full length of the body. Yet this wound was almost healedLetter to Forest an. Stream. Wanted to Find Oat. A burly ruffian, who has already served five or six sentences, is brought before the police. Just as they are about to begin the examination, "A*r. President," says ho, "my lawyer is indisposed. I oall for a delay of one week." " But you have been caught in open misdemeanor, your hand in the pocket of the plaintiff. What coald your lawyer say for you?" "Precisely, Mr. President; I'm quite cuiious to know."--Pari* paper. • • 7 never recovered from the eflects of the poison. The fondness of this terrible reptile for oool and shady places is a se­ rious drawback on tho pleasure of ram bling through the oharming groves of Martinique. A rest on the grass under the shadow of some spreading tree is al­ ways haunted by the dread of unseen dangers, aud one cannot even cross a tteki^tliout exercising extreme caution. Freaks of the Telegraph. Names are always a great stumbling block to tho clerks, and addresses are composed of names. Most of us have tricks of writing names in any but a distinct fashion; and although the Post- office persistently remiuds us, on the forms given to us to write our telegrams on, that the writing should be plain, this advice, like most other advice, is but too often neglected. Henoe, many, telegrams get altogether astray, some­ times to the not slight discomfiture of those into whose hands they fall, and who, unwitting that any error has been made, forthwith act upon them. It is related that a woman residing in some small street in Manchester once received what appeared to be a summons from her husband to come np to him iu Lon­ don. Very much alarmed, she at once started. On her way slie got into con­ versation with another woman who was in the same carriage, and who she found was also going up to see her husband, who was in London ill. This woman had been expecting to receive a .telegram from her husband, and, not hearing, had grown anxious and had finally set off without the telegram. Further par­ ley revealed tho fact that their names were the same; that their husbands' names were the same; that they both lived in the Bame quarter in Manchester; and it finally transpired that the tele­ gram which had been delivered to the first woman was the very one whioh the second had been waiting forT--the error in delivery having been caused by some such mistake ns "Hamilton street" for "Henrietta street" -- a mistake very likely attributable to waat of distinct­ ness in the writing. Another ourious case of coincidence of which we have heard was that of a telegram addressed, "John Stillingwise, Brookdean, nr. Kirkby Lonsdale," from Robert Stilling­ wise, his brother, begging him to come at once to him at a hotel, which he tndJP cated, in Leeds. The address "Brook- dean" was in some way altered, and the telegram was delivered to another John Stillingwise, living somewhere in the neighborhood of Kirkby Lonsdale. This unfortunate man, who had not l^eard anything of his brother Robert for some twenty years, at once started off in stormy, wintry weather, reached Leeds in the evening, and was told by the landlord that he could not see his brother that night, as he was very far from well, and had gone to bed. The next morning, he was ushered into Rob­ ert Stillingwise's room, expecting to see his long-lost brother, when, to his ex­ treme astonishment and disgust, he found himself confronted by an utter stranger!--Blackwood'* Magazine." The Migration of Birds. Familiar as the migration of birds is to us, there is p-.rhaps no question in zoology more obscure. The long flights they take, and the unerring certainty with whioh they wing their way between the most distant places, arriving and departing at the same period year after year, are points in the history of birds of passage as mysterious as they are interesting. We know that most mi­ grants fly after sundown, though many of them f oleet a moonlight night to cross the Mediterranean. But that their meteorological instinot.is not unerring is proved by the fact that thousands are every year drowned in the* flight over the Atlantic and other oceans. Northern Africa and Western Asia are selected as winter quarters by most of them, and they may be often notioed on their way thith­ er to hang over towns at night, puzzled, in spite of their experience, by the shift- iQg light of the Btreets and houseB. The swallow or the nightingale may sometimes be delayed by unexpected circumstances. Yet it is rarely that they arrive or depart many d»js sooner or later one year with another. Prof. Newton considered that were sea-fowl satellites, revolviug round the earth, their arrival could hardly be more surely cal­ culated by an. astronomer. Foul weather or fair, heat or oold, the puffins repair to some of their stations punctually On a given day, as if their movements were regulated by clockwork. The swiftness of flight which characterizes most birds enables them to cover a vast space in a brief time. The common black swift can fly 276 miles an hour--a speed which, if it could be maintained for less than half a day, would carry the bird from its winter to its summer quarters. The large purple swift of America is capa­ ble of even greater speed on the wing. The chimney-swallow is slower, ninety miles per hour being the limit of its power; but the passenger pigeon of the United States can accomplish a journey of 1,000 miles between sunrise and sunset.--Zon- don Standard. A Fearftil Visitor. The bane of the beautiful island of Martinique is a serpent called the "iron lance." This reptile, with venomous taste, chooses the coolest and most de­ lightful places in the garden for his re­ treat, and it is literally at the risk of one's life to lie down on the gross, or even to take a rest in an arbor. The wounds inflicted by these serpents are very apt to be fatal unless immediately cared for. The whole island is infested with this dangerous reptile, and it is said that on an average nearly 800 per­ sons are bitten every year, of which number from sixty to seventy cases prove fatal, while many others result in nervous diseases which are almost as bod as death. A few years ago, when Prince Arthur of England visited this island, a grand fete was given in his honor in the Jardin des Plantes. In the evening the grounds were brilliantly illuminated, and thousands of people sauntered through its cool and shady avenues. A large number were bitten by the " iron lance," and many of them, enu. Immigrants. It has been estimated that the average sum possessed by each immigrant when he lands on our shores is somewhere al out 860. The latest SUM of money ase brought, over i»y men over 50 years old, and represent the saving of a lifetime, carried hero for investment. The people who can best be relied upon to reduce the general average of capital introduced by immigrants are the Slavon­ ians and Poianders. A great many of them have to be helped with small sums to get them away to places in the West where they wish to settle. The Holland­ ers, on the other hand, frugal, industri­ ous and clean, coma pretty well provid­ ed with money, as a rule, and are, apart from considerations of personal beauty, among the pleivfauteqt to look at. One of the most Curious distinctive peculiari­ ties of the costume of their women is a strange sort of helmet, made of brass, silver or gold, according to the wealth of the wearer, filagree work or exquisitely eliased--a thin sheet of metal, closely fitting the head, and worn under a snowy linen cap. Oil each side the thing eomes down on the temples in a sort of metallic curl. They all wear wooden shoes, and it is really amusing to see the children, even little toddies just beginning to walk, clattering about, easily ond securely, in the clumsy sabots. Of all immigrants the Germans ur<* least demonstrative in meeting their friends. Hearty hand shakings, sometimes a solemnly administered kiss on the cheek, aud an explosive " So!" or a formal " Wie gaetes?" are about all they generally indulge m. But that their hearts are as warm and their affection as deeply stirred as any other person's may oasily be read in their tear-moistened eyes and the happy ernilts that light up their counten­ ances. The Hussions are great kissers. The Italians gre^t with noisy laughter, kisses, and irrepressible chatter. But of all the wild welcomings, those of the Irish are the most vigorous. Shouts, embraces, ejaculations of "Glory be to God!" "The saints be with us," "Alannah," and the like, make the raf­ ters ring. In eases where children liv­ ing and prospering have sent for parents to join them, the greetings are even more wildly enthusiastic.--New York Herald. Anecdote of La Fontaine. One of the most ludicrous instances of absence of mind that I ever heard comes to us in connection with the name of the eminent French fabulist, La Fontaine. He was the man who, in a ftrown study, rang at his own door, and, of his own wife, who hod seen him coming, and answered the summons, asked if she could tell him where Jean de la Fontaine lived! But the following is the most comical of all : Once upon a time, while engaged upon his Fables, he lost, by death, one ot his nearest and dearest friends ; and he not only attended the fuueral, but acted as pall-bearer. After he had, given tho last of the copy of his com pilation to the printer, and had time on hands for recreation, he thought he would call upon a few of his cherished friends ; and the first to receive his at­ tention was the man whose fuueral he had attended a Ipw weeks previously. He rang at the door, and of the porter who answered the summons he asked to see his master. The mau looked at him in surprise. 1 " Has Monsieur forgotten ?" " Eh I Is not this the place ?" "It is the plaoe; but do you forget that M. le Prefet is dead ?" "Why--" cried La Fontaine, elevat­ ing his eyebrows in simple, childlike as­ tonishment. "Bless me! so he is--I attended hia funeral, didn't I ? What a mistake I you need not call him 1 Good- day I" ' THE investigations, which were under­ taken by a commission of the French academy, in relation to the filling of the Tunisian and Algerian part of the Sahara, have been finished. The conclusions favorable to tlie project aud would lead to tlie establishment of an interior sea, 248| miles long about 990 miles in ciroumferenaa. Tin p«ree» water runs froaa the hard­ est rock. « LIFE is but aigha, and when they cease tis over. THE ornaments of a home are the friends who frequent it PKUDERV is often the mantle chosen to conceal triumphant vice. WKITK it on your heart that every day is the btst day in the year. HB WHO can plant courage in a human soul is the best physician. No ASHES are lighter than ineenae, and tew tilings burn out sooner. SOLITUUK In sometimes b«H»t society, Aud skoti retirement urgts sweet return. ---Mitttm. THEBB are as many wretched rich men, in proportion, as there are wretched poor men. . To FOLLOW fboIUh precedents, and wiak Witii bocti eyta l* nwior (ban te tUlnk. --Omrptr. THB most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting tlie pleasure of others. t FANCY is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always ex­ cursive; imagination, notBeldom, is se­ date. TRTTB glory strikes root and even ex­ tends itself; but false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting. POLITICAL hatred -is like a pair of spectacles. One sees everybody, every opinion or every sentiment only through one's own glasses. NOT all that herald* rake from coffin'd O'ejr, Nor florid (tioae, nor honied lit* or rliytue, ' Can bin ion evil deeds, or coneecnite » crime. --Byrn. LET US learn that everything in nature, even motes and feathers, go by law, and not by luck, and what we sow we are invariahly sure to reap. GOOD natrp-e is of daily use; but cour­ age is at best but a kind of holiday virtue, to be seldom exercised and never but in cases of necessity. WHOEVER is an imitator by nature, choice or necessity, lias nothing stable; the flexibility which affords this aptitude is inconsistent with strength. LIFE may be given in many wmya, And loyalty to truth be willed As bravely in the closet u In tbe field, 8o generous is fate. --LotBttL To DISCOVER a truth and to separate it from a falsehood is surely an occupation worthy of the best intellect, and not at all unworthy of the best heart. I FEEL that I am growing old, for want of somebody to tell me that I am looking as young as ever. Charming falsehood ! There is a vast deal of vital dir in loving words. NHITHER worth nor wisdom oome without an effort; and patience, and piety, and salutary knowledge, spring up and ripen from Hnder the harrow of affliction. WE RISK by things that nre 'neath oar feet; By whxt w« have mustered of good and pain; by tiie pride de|>o«ed aud the iw-ion Rtain, And tbe vanquished ills that we hourly meet. --HollnH, MERIT has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest as­ cent. There is usually Bome baseness before there is any elevation. PROFANITT never did any man the least good. No man is richer, happier or wiser, for it. It recommends no one to society; it is disgusting to refined people and abominable to the good. THE worst ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it; but we find it in . the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed. As water containing stony particles incrnsts with them the ferns and mosses it drops on, so the human breast hardens under ingratitude, iu proportion to its openness and softness, and its aptitude to receive impressions. How to Dress the Children. The capacity of our ancestors to ac­ commodate themselves to ©very climate depended not only on their physiological faculty of adaptation, but also on their skill in protecting themselves by artifi­ cial means from the inclemency of the higher latitudes. Houses and clothes are a blessing if they answer this pur­ pose by a close imitation of nature's own plan in sheltering her children from at­ mospheric vicissitudes, but in degree as they deviate from that plan their hygi­ enic disadvantages balance, or even out­ weigh, the gain in other respects. A swallow's nest protects her brood from cold and rain without debarring them from the fresh air ; a human domicile, too, should combine comfort with the advantage of perfect ventilation, and our clothes, like tbe fur of a squirrel or tho feather-mantle of a hawk, should keep us warm and dry without interfering with the cutaneous excretions and the free movement of our limbs. Measured by these standards, the win­ ter dress of an American sohoolboy is nearly the best, the summer dress of the average American, Frencli, and German nursling about the worst that could be devised. At an age when the rapid de­ velopment of the whole organism re­ quires the utmost freedom of movement, our children aie kept in the fetters of garments that check the activity of the body in every way; swaddling-clothes, undershirts, overshirts, neck-wrappers, trailing go^rns, garnitures, flounces and shawls reduce the helpless liomunculus to a bundle of dry goods, unable to move or turn, incapable of relieving or inti­ mating its, uneasiness in any way save by the use of its squealing apparatus, and consequently squealing violently from morning till night. . Outdoors, in the baby --carriage, " cold draughts" have to be guarded against, and a load of extra wrappers completely counteract the benefit of the fresh air ; faint with nausea and suffocating heat, the little dummy lies motionless on its baok, re­ splendent in its white surplice, a fit candidate for the honors of a life whose every movement of a natural impulse will bo suppressed as a revival of bar­ barism, and an insurrection against the statutes of an orthodox community. Hence, in a great degree, the dispropor­ tionate mortality in all northern coun­ tries of Christendom among infants under 2 years. In Spanish America, where infantile diseases are as rare as in Hindoos tan, babies of all classes and sizes toddle about naked, nearly the year round; and the Indians of the Tamaulipas, between Tampico and Mat- amoras, raise an astonishing number of brown bantlings who are never troubled with clothes tul they are big enough to carry garden-stuff to the city, where the police enforces the apron regulation.-- Popular Science Monthly fur Jane* Shade Trees Along the Highways. It may not be in our day, but the time is coming when many of our public highways in this State will be lined with shade trees. We can hardly imagine how a small amount of money could be expended which would add so much to the appearance of the country, and af­ ford such a luxury to those who are called to travel, as the setting out of trees on each side of the roads, making a protection from the rays of the hot sun in summer and relief from the oliilly winds of winter. Shade trees add not only, beauty to the country, but they also add greatly to tho value of the land which borders on the public highway. Every farm would Le worth much more with them. _ Individual effort would soon accomplish this desirable object. Organization of tree clubs in every town would also be an excellent plan, because then the trees could be set out in a sys­ tematical manner. No one who has oc­ casion to pass over a road on a hot sum- mer day, lined with shade trees, but what feels grateful to those whose fore­ thought has added not only so much to his comfort but to that of his hors«s ulso^ --Minneapolis Tribune. { £ ~ ^ A Forglring HatUVb | Among Montgomery's most violent critical assailants was B, H. Home. After twenty-eight years' estrangement,, I had reconciled Wordsworth and Leigh- Hunt, so I resolved to try a similar ex- , periment on Home and Montgomery. 1 therefore, without acquainting either with my design, asked them both to dine with me. Upon, my arrival at mv house with Montgomery, on the evening in 1 question, I was privately informed by my servants that Home was in the libra­ ry. Taking Montgomery into the room I introduced them to each other under the assumed names of Smith and Jones. Excusing myself on a plea of dressing lor dinner, I left them alore. As neither ' had seen the other before, they were puzzled ; they sat for a few seconds gaz­ ing at each other in a state of pleasant bewilderment At last Mr. Home broke the spell of silence by saying ; "Sir, as I am not Mr. Smith, perhaps you ore not Mr. Jones. My name is Richard Henry Home." To which tho other replied: " *n^ I am the Rev. Robert Montgomery."' And extending his hand he added: "I am very glad to meet you, my dear Mr. Home." ' " The devil yon are I" exclaimed Mr. Home, grasping the proffered hand. When I returned, in a few minutes, they were laughing and chatting as though, they had been friends their whole life. They were mutually pleased with each, other, and maintained a pleasant social intercourse from that time. Republican Simplicity. . i One fact strikes the thoughtful reader < of Revolutionary times,|that, while there i was among our forefathers a love of lib­ erty deep enough to induce them to nao- riiice life for it, we in this day under­ stand practical democracy better than, they. If President Garfield, or the mem-" bers of his Cabinet, were to show one- tenth part of the assumption of superi­ ority then made by the ruling class, the whole nation would be outraged. The dress and manners of the repub­ lican court were simple, but it was a court. The people, used to look up to royalty, transferred much of the same homage to the President and "Lady Washington;" they followed his carriage in crowds, as the English do that of the Queen to-day, and stood uncovered and reverent as he stepped out, stately in velvet and lace, cocked hat and dress sword. Theoretically, they were all freemen on a level; practically, there yawned a wide gulf between the ruling class and the tradesman and .aborer. Mrs. Washington, finding a grease' spot on the drawing-room paper, angrily accuses pretty Nelly Custis with having " had a call from one of those dirty com­ moners." Chief Justice McKean, in hia robes of office, swoops down into a rag­ ing mob, and cows them by the sheer terrqfc of his presence. Negroes, laborers, trad^pien and ra}J* en have learned to staaa comfortably on, a level since those early days, and wear; their robes of equality easily.--Youth'* Companion. Kissing. A lady of experience gives advice on< kissing to a younger lady friend, as. follows: ' 'Be frugal in your bestowals of such favors. In the first place I w-ould. cut off all uncles, cousins, and brothers- in-law; let them kiss their own wives; and daughters; and I would not kiss the, minister, or the doctor, or the lawyer who gets you a divorce." Yousee this la­ dy under stands her business, and does not leave out the editor; he of all others nieds these oscillatory attentions to "lighten -up the gloom;" she's a jolly, sensible woman, with a heart in the right place. 1 THE obscure poison which produces- hydrophobia has been known to lie la­ tent in the human syste m for years be­ fore developing its fatal results. M. Pasteur declares the supposition to be- well supported that the virus does de­ velop in certain organs, and.not, as in other similar maladies, in the blood; and. that when--after a period variable ac­ cording to circumstances--the organized ., poison passes into the blood, severe symptoms come on rapidly, aud the vic­ tim soon dies. An explanation substan­ tially the same as this had long been. advanced as a mere theory, but now M. Pasteur advances it as an ascertained^ physiological fact. THE MARKETS. .11 NEW YORK. BF.KVT-* HOOM. CoTto* Fi.#rn Sup^rflna. WHEAT--Ho. 1 Spring. 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