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prioe <4 MBtt- Midi, 4® tte due uv 'ol they wunift- «wj UWBc SaO while. A JamC^T to for TrootnimQiimmlmm* ostitis" II# JfiKi , f%PY> ^SW5..«10?j? 4JL_ . . *K... while all uv em iMUli tiM profettik ia aoopferin affiS&T IWT gtwpfolt. last nite. biA pari- HM teUb im ||lf «r* •Jw-i5 •ahrt^<^riWttW<IA, ill: he BUM* have paid the money before he laflW iioe of the fraud. to .W3 i!- -*. A cunious tost of the relative nln« ^bset tud t^dter as b©4er*gee is about be made In England. Fanner iotas fiaa Jbe$ $250 that he can do more and better work in the harvest field, supported by his favorite: ale, than can his neighbor Biohards, whose drink is o*fc*6& a*4f>#slter. The ̂ con­ test is excifccg. orach . interest in En­ gland, many Londoners are tobe pres­ ent, and the Temperance Alliance has engaged an dttt ti picture the ac<ine. Oy ,-4d* Florence, nn^^fkliJtlhfcride. liKrfii" lh(iB hf* befn thoroughly jned l>y the stths of 85 sumrners, wad his head is bending low by! the those XMMk Yet |e feels the want of a oongenial spirit to con­ tinue oh "in the maorehtk time, and has married Aunt Mary Qainn.of Boches- "tor, who has lived ktttg cmobghto oount -off 70 years on the calendar of time. They mania# «* - SJ... Mary's Chttrch, in Ploreinde, % the pastor, i • KIBK&AXD FITOH, who broke the bank at Warren, Ohio, has, made the state­ ment that he felt' there waq a sure tortuae in Government bonds. 'He •shared this wfc* helfefwfth Vanderbilt, Rothschild, and other investors, iNot havii^their capitalg&owever, he took $00,000 i of his oftfptavefK' money and bought the edge, <|r fniargin.of $5Q0,0Q0 in bonds. An un&nppy fluctuation of :the market trimmed this margin neatly off in one day, and left him well along in the career of a defaulter,'which he then pursued until the bank went Mr.̂ Fitch jfj np^r in^jail. p; Total .SSl.SOO.OOO 470,60$ iJS^s'&Uen to & lof of the holders -at stodra, whoa* mafket vafaewas $961,000,000 rfear ago. . / . A coaRKSPoHDKlrr of the Plymouth {England) Morning News, tele­ graphing from Madeira, report* a lamentable occurrence on the Maygtah* river, not far from Ponta Negro, by. which two officers of her Majesty's gunboat Stork and * civilian lost their lives. The Stork, whiclys commanded by Lieutenant and f^jnamander Arthur Blennerhasset, And which arrived oh the west coast of Africa a ievwiths since, had been ordered out to 81. Paul 4» Luanda, and on her way thither she called in at the place mentioned. The offioers met tHth a cordial reception from Mr. Prenslau, factory agent, nnder whose auspices a sporting trip in the Mayum- ha seems to have been arranged. It appears that Mr. Prenslau, Lieut. Blennerhasset, Lieut. Henry Leeke and Mr. Bobert Anderson, surgeon of the Stork, were together in a boat when fhey were attacked by a hippopatamus. The animal, probably wounded, and thus inforiated, made a ferocious and determined onslaught on the boat, and iff the efforts of tile dbcupants to beat it off were unavailing. The struggle was a fierce one, and the end the boat was swamped and capsized, and all the occupants were thrown struggling into the water. With great difficulty Lieut. Blennerhasset was saved, but Lieut. Leekf, Dr. Anderson,, and Mr. Pjreu- til&u Were all three drowned. livA lv Alabama convicts are employed in the coal-mine ,̂ and the report of the State He*l& Officer allows that during six months the death-rate among them lias, in one of the mines, reached 87 per 1,000, all negroes, and in another 150 per 1,000 for five months, which is equivalent to 360 per 1,000 per annum. "That is to say,"- the officer remarks, uif the same death-rate was kept up they would all die in less than three yean." The quarters are imperfectly ventilated and muQh over-crowdpd, the •olothing and bedding are extremely filthy, the means for ablution are in? adequate, and the cooking arranjger ments deficient. THE value of property destroyed by ftreinthe United States and Canadas every year is nearly equal to the aftm paid every year for foreign sugar. ;In 1882the destruction by fire was $90,110„- 96i,.,ftfid .the waoiintpaid b^the people of thte United ranfee ohlf tor foreign sugar was, $94,523,797.29. In 1881 the destruction by fire .in the United States and Canadas was |89j§18,800, and the Mncmnt paid1>y the United States only for. foreign sugar was $89,811,785.25. In eight years we have burned up $672,- 266,999 worth of property in the United, States and Canadas, and have spnt out ol the country a rather larger amount in purchase of sugar. te -• Ttoi semiannual st»t04beti# o ̂the savings banks of the State of New York l**If jwiiheen made public. The total nnmber df oped accmmts in the State is 1,119,512, of which New York city fprpjbhes 593,170, or » little inore than one-half. The total amount due to de­ positors in the whole State is reported at $420,831,007, of which the New York banks report $231,625,352. This would make an average amount of $376 to «adt account in the State, and a some­ what larger one, $390, to each account in %3»e ci^r. There is also reported a "snrpfaw ̂of $62,114,693 in the State, and $86,310,142 ̂in the c^ty. The ,sur* f4as in <^e State ino# ttnounts to $57 on etch aocount, and id tSie city ifi^ior from 15 to 16 per cent. * ' i: f As upright Tndi--linn, on returning home from a visit to the home of his fkt&ers and mothers in Kentucky, says he saw 117 smdc^s about the size of • lead pencil playing OIT a smooth bit of sand bar at the mouth of a run that empties into BrownelTs creek "«»• his form. They were gamboling on the «*nd after the fashion of lapbK or klb- te>i8. Sometimes they would wrap themselves into a baH as large as his two fists go, rolling around until it would tumble into the water, then the little wigglers would unwrap themselves and scamper out onto the land again. Three of them were kfljed by being squedteed to death in the balls, ahd fiiiilly they got to fighting, where* upon their mother, who was lying on a CURIOUS AND SCREMMSR THE forest lands of the United States amonut to less than ̂ one-fourth of the entire adrea. c . ̂ 'A MINNEAPOLIS man has inVented a way to oompress wheat bran into solid bars like sticks of wood, and it is thought that in this form it may be lugely exportqfL The. stick can: be impaled for use either9 by imtting up or soaking in water. frW* lately rmA in aocoia>t, by a nat­ uralist in Brasu, of an expedition he made to one of the islands of the Ama zon to shoot spo<m-bills--birds vhidi were most abundant there. His de­ sign was completely baffled, however, by a wretched little sandpiper that pre­ ceded him, continually tittering his tell-tale cry, which at once aroused all the birds within hearing. All day this individual bird continued his self im­ posed duty of sentinel to others, effect- <Utlh preventing the approach of the fowler to the game, yet managing to keep» out of range of his gnn.--£ar- chunge. THE power of pidgin g of actual dan­ ger anp the frjjb and easy ; baldness Artiichfesttlls-frMn it, are by no means uncommon. Many birds seem to h^ave a very correct notion of a gun's rwi and, while scrupulously careful to keep b«y<md it, their care to this Caution; the most obvious resource would be to iiy right away out of sight and hearing, which they do not choose to do. Ana they sometimes appear to make even an ostentatious use of their power, fairly putting their wit and cleverness in antagonism to that of man, for the-benefit of their follows. THE use of chemicals A* an antidote to fire is urged more strongly and seems to meet with more favor every day. The latest application of the principle comes in the form of a recommendation by a Mr. Schlumberger, that a bottle of ammonia be placed in every barrel of petroleum. On ignition, from any cause, the bottle would break and the annmoniacal vapors would at once ex­ tinguish the fire. An Italian savant, M. Pietro Santo, proposes to apply the same method to collieries liable to fire­ damp. Tanks filled with ammonia, and set in convenient places, would, it is claimed, stop the combustion, which could not subsist in an ammoniaeal at­ mosphere. TFLE Manchester (N. H.) Mirror says: "Pyrethrum is well spoken of as an in­ sect powder. " It is cheap, said to be poisonous only to insects, aad very effectual. At the experiment sfetfon at Amherst they mix a table-spoonful of the insect powder in a pailful of equal parts of water and buttermilk, and sprinkle it on currants, potatoes or other plants infested with bugs or worms. The buttermilk makes the powder stick to the plant, and in about half an hour the insects get a good mouthful of it, curl, drop to the ground and die. Should it prove effectual against the rose-bug on grapevines, Syrethrum will certainly be a Messing. he plant is easily grown in gardens." Da. AMAT declares that sea4M$h£ng has proved of great benefit in many cases of disease of the eye. The im­ provement in question appears to be Sue to two-causes, namely: First, the influence which such a course has upon the general health, by cubing answnia as well as elevating the tone ofthe sys­ tem, since sea-bathing is in the highest degree restorative; and second, sea water--and occasionally, also, the at­ mosphere of the sea--has a local irri­ tant action which should be watched, aince it is most serviceable when there • a chronio, torpid and indolent in­ flammation, while it is exceedingly dan- gerooa whein the inflammation is of the aouie kind. These iactB are of Rpecial note in the case of balbers having mush eye ailments^--Jjbv. Jfbofc's • S«§Uh sold a pule ' Iralw1 under *11 nite,Baaoom bar eo tliAt ef I I coodea*t do any damage takui drinks and forg«ttin to BMVk-ein down. Foolish man! Ea thof^#odiifeB't" nuark 'em down! Ex I never eBR»pect |o pay anyhow, why mark 'exn t iowiir Uept aid I dreemed.1 I jfaeemed£ta|t ^e %ed looked ov^r the that byJce«rfnl tire ooodeleeii' in 1884. - Scan# uv the entire drifted into my i* the forces ishett of every- itlfllie campane. , to '««*» Wf# H n pi^ioodiaagin the Old-style Dimocr.sv. A reoord sich &we hev is a mity bad thing for a rtf# wfoliig^tt*to fifo a battle on the ishoO uv Befoiin, and with the one single war-cry, 'The rascals must bo!' In auoh a fite them wich hex bin objeckshunable to the people at large must keep in the background till after (the fite is won. Ez the ishoos is to be n^w, we want the corpses to remain berried |U)til ^st after , the battle, mother, When they may resurect and come in for the spoils ez fast ez they • Only -they must lay the ides uv Novem- for-thar atayiu \im: 'iploh coamo ̂ MMhaial %y wvag^ntor^oin thecw^es pulHn AestiwU ont uv, m flee for otlser ase«{ And fhey ^1™ ̂ old material, uv w&hin than uv swimmin the rap- iAi at Niagara. Jtsfttia^l l «aNpM. The aim wbs AhSnfo ttra the ii^rs -uv Basoom's, and tiw'titiad gal sweepin the i|ore theAay*s i ̂ a moment and tl^wt Ded men have W li '̂ Loilg after they are ' un- aint ground, they .reioh and "reach, with a mon wicked gr^p than they hed in lif ̂ YellandiAamdedyet speaketh, and Boae Tweed's memory is yet potent fop •«& t$ IKk So kmg ea we hev to bear hai aftbstaaea. We oan't get rid hev mind fO. low till after ber, 1884." That wwapprend tow beln mity good senae, fnd ^Jpelsedfld to arraage the line trr blfttle. I shoved the Old Dimocrisy into the background, all them with butternut clothin, and put in the front the noo recroots wich we hed won from the Bepublican party, and sich cleen shirted Democrats ea hed come up sence the War, and wich hedn't es v .̂egtire\y nra^owted in our skool; aAd a vely handA»he llb« I made uv it. Tb» next ̂ uestioa wuz. Who shood we hev'fur standardbarer? I was castin about, look in fur some Go* liath uv Qath without a daniagin record, and one with wind and limb enuff fur our purpose--some v Jung man-ftoqgrvung to he* buvol|noxious doori ̂the late oDploaslntnis, and who hed bji dnt nv the kent^r ever aence. I coodent find exactly the man, hut finally decided on hevin Hancock' to the front, notwithstandin his dafeet four years ago, Abloo uaiforihiakes wpU at North, and the South* jedgin |he man by his company, have no objcckabnu to it. Tliey are shoor of a man which trains with u% no nut­ ter Wat color the yooniform he wears. And I grouped about h)m Ben Butler, who actilly did hang a man wunst, and Hoadly, uv Ohio, and a hundred or more vary new Dimocrrats, ez many more Republikins which hed gone off with Greeley and stayed, and others wich, becomin disgusted with the cor- rupshuns of Grant, who wooden't give em places, hed sought the cqmpanion- ship of Tweed and, Tildfen. It #oa a very pretty "show Ijmade with em, and our front looked as innocent and gile- less as noo milk. 1 But misforchoon alius Jollows Dim- ®i4^*d emj all^vanged ole Mutay TIWM cunw %wlit ana ^aggerin to the > front with hia war ^eoOfdt his Twe#5| bij^i^Md K#4)for- ary buro, and' aWrthe1«** tt4 tt faMfftn to him--so loadid down, in fact, that he coodent waddle, mdch less run; and he snatched the banner out uv my hand and* with a smile that wuz sweet- nis itself, remarkt: "Uv course I must kerry this!" "The blazes you will!" sed L " Tout" "Certinly--I must be vindicated. Ef we don't vindicate MK, wat is the yoose uva Dime*kratic/*ictory ? Ef Dime- krats wich hev borne the heat and bur­ den uv the day ain't put to the front, why Dimocrisy ?" Me passed down the line till he stag­ gered to the center and bumped up rHancock, wich stoo l on a slippery e (all in our ranks stand on slip­ pery places), wich knocked Hancock orf his pins' and he went on with his orashun: "A Dimek ratio victry without me to the fore wooden't be a Dimekratic vic­ try at all. It is doo me. I wuz de­ frauded out uv the Presidency. J bought the Presidency, shd pade for it a good mttytth uv dougdPs uv hard cash. But I didn t git it. It is my turn now. I must be vindicated." "Avantr i shreeked. "We ain't in the vindicatin hiznis. We don't want vindicaahens--we wai^t. poetoffises. Wat do we keer for vin$o$s)ien« ?. Git out." : . Bait itwm^dv rio availf Wit^i strength for wich I'didnt give him credit, ne clutched the banner and held it, loaded ez he wuz. » ~ "T/T And hnmejitly ther*wua5;a movement from behind that wuz amply appalin. John Kelly, wich I hed hid in tne rear rank, plunged to the front; all the old Copper beds and Secesh uv the old times cum rushin up in plane site--all remarkin that, ef they wuzn't to be vin­ dicated, why A fite at aiVf^nd all uv #m claunhi tluAtoe cheef jfefid qv the Dliho- caw wnx tl> vindicate ̂ tl#a. This one grabbed a pqstoffis» frich.̂ he,̂ wufc necessary to his vindicashen, attothef a caatom-house, another a nominashen to the Governorship uv his State; and so on all around. It wuz ez perfeck a panderooii(um ez ever I see. And, to make thie matter wuz, the rush wuzn't confined to the livin. The ghosts uv ded Dimikrats hovered over 'em, smil­ ing, saying that, while they cooden't vote or be voted for, ther memories must be vindicated, and without sieh viudicabhen ther wuz no yoose for a Dimocrisy at all. The gast uv Boss Tweed sailed in; and that uv Jesse D. fBrite uv Injeany, wich ought to liev bin forgotten 15 yoers ago, wuz very prom­ inent; and in breef, ef ther wuz a man livin espeshly obnoxious to the peopel, or the gost" uv » m*u wh the eootvo hev showed that we hev abandoned the ideeeuvBose Tweed and Yallandigham. lie hev inherited reoord wich we hadn't purged ouiyelves uv, faeooz, no matter e> to our aaaii, the motives and methods are precisely the same. Yoo peiut over the if>ot8 uv a lepard e«Et off the tale «v % fox--but the <MW will chaw up antelopes, and the other steel chickens. Dimocrisy is DiasocHef, no matter how it is disgiaBd. Wux 1MB dream profetic ? I think so. X ath abire and aid. Ifwatldreem oonrtiatopees and |t locks as that it wood, Uu ̂ Nigger Lubbock--on whbee hed cusaos--will hold my postoffis fou; veers longer, and l9 that time I she] be wher poetoffises gre not, and wher it makea no difference to me who ia Praaident. Well, be it so. I am faatened onto Bascom and the Deekm for the praaent, end that is good enufl for one wheee whe ̂ life hex bin a atruggle for a very little bread and a great deal uv likker. PKTNOLKNJ* Y. NABBV (Despondent) . PeUUral Notes. Tn Democnts who are continuallv shouting "turn the rascals out" should pause long enough tp remember that rascals usually ton themselves out, and that the majority of tftem have been out for a couple of decades. P. H. WINSTON, heretofore one of the leaders of the Democracy <5f North Caroling bas formally Announced his conversion to Bepublican dootrims. Whan he delivered the valediotory at the University of North Carolina, in the presence of WiDiam H. Seward, the latter took off hia watch and pre­ sented it to the young orator. NEVER was there a party more at a loss to know what to do than the Dem­ ocratic party is at present. They are in favor of nee trade, and they want a tariff "for revenue only." They want civil-service reform, and they doat want it. They wittt the saloons touted, and they want free whisky. In short, they are like a swarin of bees flying around hunting a plaoe to settle. Keep the rascals out.--Bedford (But.,) Jour­ nal. * ,k:W: THE country is not going to believe that the Democratic party has ceased to desire a partisan civil service, or a debaunched currency, or fraudulent elections, merely because of professions and promises, or the nomination of a well-meaning candidate, so long as its change of purpose is not shown by a complete revolution in the Congression­ al action of the party. If we are to be­ lieve that the leopard has changed his spots, there must be some proof that he no longer eats people when he has a chance.--New York Tribune. Ir there are any reasons for turning Republicans out, except to Iet Demo- «rata iu, we would thank some of the able advocates to mention them. Would' they do as well as they did when they had the power before?, Would even that be encounyjng? The nation has made greater advance in' Mai prosperity under t^e twenty three years of rule of the Republican party,1 notwithstanding the enormous burdens from the War of the Rebellion, th*n iij •did under a whole half century )3revj ious. Financially, commercially, so4 cially, and in all that enters into thej make-up of national prosperity, th<| United States to-day is an object for the whole world to admire.--Inter Ocean. ONE of the best characterizations oi the Democratic party that has yet been made is the following from the Bostoq Herald: "There are almost as many grades and styles of Democracy aq there are States in the Union. Therq is the limp and nerveless, the artful- dodging, the wide-straddling and th ̂ bold-front Democracy. The latter type ̂ we are soriy to say, is the Aost un-. common." The accuracy of this char-< acterization no one will deny/ becaus^i the Boston Herald is a Democratic newspaper. But to which class does it belong? THE St. Louis Globe-Democrat, looking the country over, observes that the Democracy has what it aptly calls ~ Donnybrook" on its hands, and diagnoses the situation aa follows: "A birds eye view of the whole Demo­ cratic field supplies the following revelations: Irreconcilable rows in in New York and Ohio, the New York 8un and what it represents saying that it is madness to agitate tne tariff question, and the Courier-Journal crowd crying that it is madness to leave it atone, a similar antagonism--though less talked about--on the eurrencv, an advocacy of temperance laws in Missouri and opposition to them in Ohio, and the only bond of union any­ where to be observed a desire to gam possession of the offices. Is it ait jail sfliaage that an agitation of these dis­ cordant elements produces especially when individual selfishness is the inspiration ? Is It possible that a® organization of this nature can wir in a general political contest." M. DUMAS, who has been studying ! the subject, advocates the pas&ftgd of a law in France providing that every unmarried man who is proved to "be the father of an abandoned child shall sup­ port it and give it his name. / Is Western North OaroKaa there jure t9 peaks above 6,000 feet, 93 between ,000 and 6^0Q0, and 143 between ,̂000 ha* under fceti.It%aa the ;dream*f]|£llfe jo aUtiiae tMe di^lineew Be had Mod- >r&m to ezperfJMmt with . . . . . om mrn&t&lWA dt^te a HonUi mmtm' mg&fa ̂ia^TwlM hai' nam limited lilw adNarm atah^k hhn. Like the iiirihlfiuftfcaah df <^l,„he rusM& td ydjed "Etj- wflfe loomed up, and he recov- He swore nothmg Wjaathe mati and thai ̂ t tpgMl oe againat a. lone, ^aaan ldc*hArself. Foe the ficat time myeais he kinaiyi har a regular Judaa Isoariot Mas»rwhieh waeao nnucpeotcia Ae AraJVtf tha Kavy is- sehaaTa i!%>a»». 5;p.i§i his wr<mge and hia etddneea. This was the aohame he intended to try. Aa hmgaa ha had boon married hu wife had never gone in bathing at the beech, although he h«d importuned her a hun­ dred times to go with him. He soon discovered the reason. She hated to appear in a bathing^mit that would dis­ play her thin form, for in public she did not appear thin. He had an india-rubber bathing suit made that could be inflated, and de- posited it at the store where his wife traded. He gave the Bead clerk a ^pointer, and promised him to treat to champafipe if ha succeeded. : Hia wife went to price goods aa usual when the suave-mannered clerk told her *hat a man ia New York had patented a bathing suit of india-rubber for ladies lhat was thin, but, said he, "Mrs. jSfamggins is not on the thin list, and ril not ahow it." But she desired to iseeit, if not too much trouble. After a thorough examination, she told bitn her nieee was coming shortly to see her, and she would buy it for her. What was the Colonel's surprise to hear her say next day if some husbands were like Other husbands thev would take their wives bathing, ife asked her to go that evening, and deckled inwardly with diabolical glee. At the bath-house she took a long time to dress in her rt>Om, but he wait­ ed for her with patienoe, confident of suooeas. When she emerged < from tbe room sh ̂had the "patent* on wider the other suit. She looked as round aad plump aa nsaal and walked calmly past ad- miriug groups. .His triumph was near.- In the foam­ ing waves tney went. It was new to her. She enjoyed it. So did he. Her friends were there, all surprised to see her ont. The sport became general now. The Colonel swam around his wife, and did something with a small penknife which he immediately dropped In the water. In a few minutes his wife called him to her, pale and trembling with fright. "Hubby," she said, ooaxingly, "my bathing-auit is torn, and I don't want to go out before the crowd.* ,, ̂ "Let me see," he said. < "Oh, no; oan't you believe me?" He told her ooldly no, and, further­ more, she had to walk out before the crow4 or not go out with Mm at all. Things looked dreadful for her now, and aheoalled him pet namea, just like die did before they were married, be­ fore she prqmiaed to obey, love and cherish, and ril those things. She told him she had imposed upon his good nature, that he was an angel, and that from that moment her life wduld change, and her diminished figure trembled like an aspen leaf, while one little hand clutched the rope,, and the other was held out to him in mute despair. Col. Smuggins was not stone, so her child-like form was gathered in his arms and she was taken out unobserved and taken home. She is now tliie sweetest and most tractable wife op, the island, and Col. Smuggins is a happy man again. But she never drqfuna of the put-up trick, and the Colon?!, is contented to pay the annuity .to the clerk in the way of treats to keep it * secret from her.--Galveston New*. amd S,( of 295 abov ̂ Jumping Into Water Eighty Feet Defew. Thomaa Riley has dived from an elevation of fifty feet, but never went above that, and he feels that eighty feet is high enough for any jump. •"That distance," says he, "can be made with safety by a man who understands how to control and propel himself through the air, but a jump from any higher point is full of danger. For an immense purse or wager a man may take the risk, but it is a risk. I don't care about doing it. Some time ago I was approached with on offer of $500 by a Boston man, who has had charge of a certain great swimmer, to jump 'from the Brooklyn bridge. I thought of doing it then, but I would not now. I should rather dive from it than jump. If I dove, I would hold weights in my haijda and put on a headgear weight to keep my head down, and then drop the weights after reaching the water. You aak ajxrat the senaation? Well, it is a very peculiar one, I can assure you. I can't help breathing, for the wind ' nishea up dne's nostrils and your breath­ ing com£s in short gaapa. After inch­ ing my destination. I fetal the 'foter boiling around, me, and# sometimes, when I don't strikto just right, the water feela quite hard. 1 have heard of soft water and hard water; I know what hard water is."--Boston Herald. Vie True Twt iff a deed Watcfr. In order to find out what a wat?h ia doing, it should be closely compared every day with a standard chronometer, and its rate of variation noted. The 'fineat watch is not neoeesarily the one which shows the smallest variation from standard time at the end of some lengthy period, such as a month, or three months, or six months; it is rather the timekeeper which shows a slow, but regular, variation. Begular- ity is the test, and very few watches will stand it, when ' rigidly applied from day to day. It is possible, you '.see, therefore, for a man's watch, s^t exactly right on Jan. 1, to be only thirty seconds out of the way on July 1, and yet it has been alternately forty- five seconds fast and the same amount slow two Or three times in the interval. Such a watch, of course, is not to be "sneezed at," but its running eannot be called "fine," hence it is irregular. The most valuable watch is one which regu­ larly gains or loses ju$t so many, sec­ onds per day--let us say, for example, fite or six seconds per week, ntmnilT and surely.--Herald, ~ anneal siiili tesot tlMi dfaaatar to the the (••one of her canr kjr the Xaafeto: v. , ̂ftanMl. ,yim. t , - -MactaaCwa. P»k.wd the «aw Offtke andS»«ky&ywla< oa Jaiy ia. daMMtttaa artrawtiM dbt boaS»' to taifet- .. (bond &rooeed- aart and dmrn to SaauMK> 1 tn ated w» ooua aat *at , «d «n»oh)t«i< t»«Maat jt itttUngMaliyM. On Is Afled with tespaokad eloM, ao that w» eoald wlthta twsatar miles of land. Oa tbe Mth,havto« kvtBiiTlMmnlwtMMKMrt. mpM ŝd to Ujpperaavlk. aatl iima^ay ̂ wtfass to lumwiaaack, and a whaleboat to Capa HhaWtioa. OittiBdsdU tor a coal atfae, theamtaOod H*vm. tetbt Stat Ueet,(M- wdl antvad u a lattMhJtavtac bean thirty-nine dayatuanoMnboat. Ha had anaaM from «S aadet orders at Cape York. Galled the sam* dayfar(Jppereavlk,aBdfo«adth« nUef party bad anivea there. OB Sept. a proceeded home­ ward, and had a ron*h pasaave. FBAMXWILDBB. CoaiBMadar. Tha Proteas was a steam saUei, well •daplsd for Arctic work. She took Cut fltiw ami hia {.arty to Lady ftanlMn war oT«r. |wp yeaia ago- The bipely expedi­ tion wis to be conducted on • plan con- ctf veil by Oapl Howgata. A depot waaea- taMlidieant lady Fraaklln bay, aad the party were to move northward, estabUahing amaMay draota for (arvkw on the tetorn trip. . In tbla way it waa thought maay of thedatafrara and hardships of Arctic enlo- ratton would la avoided The party nad supplies to last about two yearn, by which time it wa* expected Capt Ureely and bia men wonld have returnta to the ŝ artin? point to await a vessel to bring them home. Nothing hat been heard of Oreely s party dnoe the Proteus left them. An eilort was made to reach them last season by a veasei sent ont under the direction oi thai War De­ partment, but it was onsocoessful The vassal eoald not set thiwy ̂the toe, aad back without aooomnl&hlnff anything. A.t the last session of Oonareas an upiopti- atton ot t .O,OCO was made to send out a eearch party tor Greely. It took shape in the disastrous putting forth or the Proeaaa The news of tbe loss of the vassal aat- nrally created considerable comment In the Nary and War Department* Lieut Das- dare, of the Signal Corps, immediately upon reofelpt of the information had an interview with Obmmodore Englt?h, aetl*ff Searetacy of the Navy, and vomaisiote Walker, chief of tbe Bureau of Navigation. The matter was thoroughly discussed The feasibility of ordering tbe Yaatto to go to the relief of the Greely was talked over. Tarloiui expedients to relieve the People at Lady JTsnaUn bay wears mentfoneA An earn sat desire to do eraaetUag was ex- pieasecL One oonolutfon, aad thst of a dis- neartening character, was reached that it waa too late hi the aeasonto send any Ves­ sel Into the Arctic, aa It would be impoaaible for her to get anywhere near Greely'a party on account of the ice. Commodore Walker says: "No vessel In t£e navy, no vecsel in the world could reach Greely before next summer. He and his party are in a bad fir. The reanlt ot this raSef expedition most throw n dtmtwt on Aictio exploration. No one knows whether Gireely and his man are alive or dead. .Their supplies must be exhausted by this time." Prompt aettoa is necessary in the oanae of humanity, but old naval officers shake Ash heads ominously whan the Matter la dtaouaeed. Said eneedtaeT: "Tbla, In ray opinion, will settle the whale ouaatton of Arctic expedition* . The lpaiof tha I«a- nette and the burning of ̂ the Bogns, that waa aent to find her, and theloii of the Pioteua pttea it up too^h, even 1* the fate ot psavkma axpeaittonawas not treiA in the mind ot the nuUia Ot ooarsa, aa e<fort will be maae to reHeve Greely ead hi* party, but that will be tbe IastAvotio ex- pe«tlffl a for many years for which money will come from the tressurvof the United States* The Yaataks aooompaaied the Proteus as convoy, hot waa not to go faxther nerth than Littleton's islsnd, whan the latter waa to puah her way through tne tea. When the Navy Department ordered the Yantto to that duty there wasaa outcry in certain quar­ ters about the reoklessaeas of sending a re­ lief warty, and then giving the vessel carry­ ing that party a convoy. It has, however, turned ont a fortunate precaution. If tile Yantto had not been near the Proteus when she was crushed la the Ice there certainly would have been fome lose of- life. Indeed, it la extremely donbtful whether any of the relief party, wonld have escaped. 1 vi't •" ' • • 1 184-ftl. J tMi WHIRLING IN THE AIR, Aa Areoaant's Thrffling Adventure aad , Wonderful Escape from -At- Kc - (P i t t sburgh Telearaaa . j ] ^ " Prof. H. Warner, the aeronaut, who t» under engagement to give balloon aacen- sions at the Exposition grounds, had a thrilling experience to-day, part of which was witnessed by at least 10,000 persona The Exposition was attended by an unusual crowd to-day, and the big grand stand wss black with spectators when the hour for the ascension arrived. Some diffi­ culty was experienced In getting the gas-bag inflated It waa the professors intention to take a paseenger with him on hia trip, but it became apparent that only one coald go up, and in a few minutes the professor gave the word, and dangling from the trapese-bar, suspended below the basket attsched to the netting, he swung o* into spaoe. The crowd oheerefl. and the band played while the athlete went through a series of evolutions on the trapsae bar ae he Hosted higher aad higher into the air. • Boon a heavy gray cloud s amended over the city hid him from view as the air ship entered it and disappeared. The crowd filed off the grounds, but were soon reea'led by the orles of *He's coating downl JLeok! Look!" Up in apace, almost over the heads of the horrtted apeotatora, the htfloon waa aeea careeatag from aide to aide, swaying: aad apparently turning over and over. The trapeze bar waa empty aad tbe aeronaut coala no) beaoen The gas-bag looked like an umbrella ̂covered with net­ ting. It fell with terrible lapldity uhtO,' when, within a few hundred feet of the earth, Its descant became leaa rapid It landed on a frame dwelling-house op Bobin- son street, aad tumbled Into the back yard. Prot Waraer dropped out of the folds of the balloon, saa, striking against a fence, was stuaaed for a moment, hut apringinr to his feet, he called to a man, Mo hastened to his assistance, to hit him on the baefc. He did so, snd thus the aeronaut stumbled into the house and tall down. Medical sid wss summoned and an fwalu'Wf made. Nothing but • few bruiseawece found, but he hsd inhsted so ranch gas that he waa insensible for soaae Hi-- The affair oauaed the greatest excitement in the two cities. Notwuhetandiug bis ter­ rible experience Prot Warner will make another ascension in a few days if he is abio >• • GENERAL NOTE&. THOKEAU, says a writer in the T»d-pen(hi»t% a oontempt for the religions; and he thought tbe D. D.'s of, small importance be- aldethe chickadeedeea IT IS rumored that Char'as Beadet, the famous f!«igHi»ti novelist, is engaged lu writ­ ing a series of lives of the patriarchs of acrlptuie. Mas. CODSTAMCA Famaaaa WOOLSOK'S fia- tion is so greatly liked ia Englaad that a great future is there pref^Maiad tor har. Loao Boaua Gowaain hia hook say a that Disraeli had aa impasaive face, and Bo den Noel aa$u that It was like a maak. Tax Bev. M. Newman Hall stlQ hopeato viatfc the United Statea Tah PtHoe Of Wales is a^d to owe w • - I. by i ber ed<<9pftniK of tba ftna t<M U ~m ".CgaaauDi i the atateSaajettaA I stookahdotiiari c.ttteni Mb.«. Qpst, under a gt of babyreeentr wbdietiiajr grief-strioitea stick ia tHi to the ide whole isfsgthed head, e , ghaa tha h^ta 'alb» «0 even to work. H M COUOSAK, wh» a»tocried Kim •sndfrse®, at JaokacMtla, and her to Chloagix M lillMiWrtil ' with §900 of herawaa#te||d her baggaga The tail* " parents .tast Sunday,. * THS City Council erf an ordinance oompellliig and o.her persons itned ' of the sauniclpal £aw% pay such tine *, to work a% a rate of 50 cents per (̂ y unti liquidated. •1. . •: -.3 ' Tmt postal-noto is irtlU ar~ Chicago Postoffice olecks, snd of trouble Is BbnesfcHiad ^a But very" few "-mir " that ofllce,aa«l daMKdllltil preaeated joaiijiifc'nl antir>in6*liiiy he sent back tot4h0PMiteefclnaa tMna^wiiBa. It la proaoancad aa a glial n»|mawi| wtl the Superintendent of tiba partment doea not think it with age. Allow n ̂tba ̂the maatora wib ioeii lecoiia form of iaaaaaee, it ioa«u«aft a0 in making It out aa tor mattera not whethar-tha;̂ dapantnaW ,at Washington recalls th«Fn «* k«ava tl|MI ia circulation, the postal-note ip Chioisg ̂ ia practically dead. Jamxs Gaixaqhss's salom . house, a two-story truney la discovered a^aae at 'aa'av^y morning. Thaflamea the roof and eoom 'tm w The inmstes were asleep "mat rowly escaped hMHrihgto iliaiMf Ciare and Boas, who fire was discovered,. haeifcady«a and a^umed ^hoep on the first aiaifi ipjpjp|- in-law aad Ida were Jhacaii ameke aail-tMî tbetwavepMieamea. the department attlv««; . . . waa tn:«aadinam'tohHHfft flfmeait WMK dtooveai* a daughter ot.<h» highaa ing. Oeutenuit.Puie] partoMmt, mout-tid ' thvtmfidiAidunnjlii ̂floor. HeftMUd^htf unooaaeloaa trim limp and apparently Bfsiasa, The brave aot whkh aaiMdtbe life was reuadly applauded The was damsel to the extent of lî o, contents 1100 more. NOAH BUWOB, a harness dem'tf of Mt Carroll, and one ot tha-anppeesd sottd men of the towa, #£o,ooa amount of |10.C<Xi Hf uel ̂ eirt-. a weal̂ fi mihS£n»t«> of thatcî .l tlms snd heavfestldsawt*{ notes have been lieved that vmV-more Blough is about >5 yc been in bturinap. for twelve ̂ a branch store ajt Moraeville, j 'sixteen ml'es north of Q apparently piospe&lg. AH hebnlltalarge MdltWte at a oost of He'heio'ai! reputation tor hcwestyaaMl one ol the principal ptMara of ttfcawOihinn Baptist Church of t̂ s plau%{|)|4f4i|||r drank liquor or to the young as a'( of his rascality fell like h i the community. before the, forgery was' leaves a wife end several oMldten i aged father and mother .̂ tSk whaWtilin, nearly detracted ̂ |h yffffilpdtilwiian,' JAMX3 JOHNSQN, ̂ pl)Ii |̂U||T ̂ Park, Cook 1 upon Whenaja^ted araaifaad )ttBaB|»he drew bis revolver and kUled a|e4Bî |er named Martin K«dlan Axx day long r< huiig about the street, Chioaga teuttoa was 'a oonthwally walhteg up afl̂ tti ataUa iad downa«ain Amaaatthakepteaanft of each time the engaged in this str^e u|iderte)$P mm William Kit Jg, an emp.'0|aet J. P. A Ca, cigar mannfaijl̂ Tni» III til > number. Kitxig had saaii with another eap^wtnivhe up the stairs 300 tlmsa iaeiaa OMim Mldf There were fortynfiva saa îaNldMia^aista '̂ ,; .- and they ware dpsty. and the steep aad narrow. Kltd f̂jigy Hk "" '" "!!f5 inOaniwiy.at the bri- * aad Maimed that ead fltimb two flights or *atolhi carrying about tatty'- Tkis aasertioa lad to wager. At axaetly 7.-« akilaell ed. Hetravefod ak»n»at amg|y 12:30, when he stepped,vfag " Dude 115 trips. Be wi ate a hearty meaL He after eating, bat wai annoyance by C. E H< the building, wh<» tiled ft and endeavored to sto ̂tNl. Sr. Scharley came to thoippa ̂ and assume ,1 all n aponaWMtr. Spa* went to work with a wltt feai and win tbe waatedu]gadtn,̂ ad hjr "S o hundred doUatSwere akahe<t te»C hete b^ f̂aiK>a^#,-en aidfrahly struggled iv^vaji on, o'oodthehi>daside ghd: ished hiafak with neî fWf . spare ll« wins hia hek _ #w ;U)Ume» • • si's