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. >beeured phy«- cian told hiifr there wa& nothing *he Tn»t*er 'with' hlsa, 'Sfhleh made ths &mm*> ***** vma* « the physician. Ax ITOB^II'II industries b to be IwldatBristol, England, early ne*t yoar, *0 which the United States are invited to contribute. Ita promot- maitMiMitlwt ita principal fea­ ture aUjlMRbe specimens of such work* •a illustrate the progress made by wo- men in industries demanding apecial technical and srtistic training. A THE 9«yjm|f»mHy has been well repreefatodin%h*49*sia*eof the United Steles. The grandfather, father, and mnole of the present Senator creditably served their respective terms, and the present Senator Bayard and his father ten members of the Senate at the seme time. This is the only instance en record -where the father and son represented the same State at the same time in the Senate. . DESCRIBING opening scenes In the House s correspondent writes that "in one ease s job was put up on a certain defeated and isritable member. Sev­ eral persons were persuaded to go and inquire what his majority was. To Sach one he gave s placid answer, ex­ plaining the causes of his defeat. He soon began to be annoyed and tho sixth man was very much astonished to be told, indignantly: 'By--, I was de­ tested, air, and I'm glad ol it"* '1 - ; 1- ; *- ? AYTER John Spence, of Westchester, Pennsylvania, died, two wives appeared sod put in a claim for the estate. "Wiien wile No. Sk became oonvinced that she was not a lawful widow she de­ cided to sne for wages as a nurse and hotUKlkeeper on the ground that hor services were procured on a false pre­ tense, and the prospect is that she will Secure a larger slice of the property thsn the legitimate relect Not a day passes but that the proof grows strong­ er that lovely woman is able to Jake care of herself in an emergency. ACCORDING to the London Vanity Fair, "a remarkable sight is to be seen it Monymusk, the residence of Sir Francis Grant, in Aberdeenshire. In a large duck pond adjoining the atable square, hundreds of wild dueks disport themselves ia perfect security. They are not tame wild ducks, but bona fide wild ducks--wild wherever they go, yet tame the moment they settle in the pond. They swim up to bs fed within ft few feet of ally one, evincing no fear. Outside the precincts of their pond IMES| as this wildest wild fluPrliitT jinetfMj Is* • JGTOVERXOK OucKi «f Kaunas, who ia sift txtensive oattle breeder, pro- niarjjifpi the i»l|iHi--yllle trail .from RfedfTfrfrer to tfteirOrifccTfl boundary of the epufitry, M marked ont at the recetftC&ttle Men's Convention at St Louis, as tmpraotioible. Such a trail, he holds; would* have to be one hundred Instead of six miles wide, to be of value to parties concerned. He main­ tains also that tho cattle men have no right to a trail through Kansas or any other State. The existing trail through the western patt of the State is. to be abolished, this winter, by the repeal of the law establishing it ^ "WHEJ^ governor Wise, of Virginia, was our Minister to Brazil he was brought home, in 1847, by Commodore Percival, in the Constitution, who pre­ sented fcftnvrith a silver-mounted cup made from the timbers of the old frig­ ate. ̂1.B02 Gpvernor Wise fled from his a*pupivn*H- Norfolk, and it was occupiodllyFederal troops. The fam­ ily effefctswerepseked over to Fortress Monroe. Last winter the cup was found in General Butler's attic at Lowell, though how it came among his effects tho General has no knowledge. A few months ago he sent it to Henry S. Wise, the Gorerattr'a son, by Sena­ tor Mahone. * • A STREET preacher in New York says his mission is to preach the gospel of bread, and boasts that he has already distributed to the promiscuous crowds on the streets of a large city fifty-nine barrels of flour, 650 pounds of coffee, 960 loaves of bread, 12 chests of tea, 9,900 pounds of meal, 5,000 pounds of , hominy, 425 pounds of potatoes, 30,000 pounds of beans, and 25,000 pounds of fresh fish. An esteemed contemporary thinks this ia Ma very useful and practi- ' cal sort of Christianity." If the preaoher were to make sure that the |>eqplft he feeds have net the means of buying food, the plan would be more satisfactory; but to advertise before hand that anybody eoming to him will be provided at a certain hour with food and drpk, -4n mom apt to attract "beata,*buminorB, "free lunch fiends," "and those perfectly able to provide for themselves then those . In real J want This sort of indiscriminate though good-natured Christianity is neither "useful" "practical.,' ; ?* THRKS hunters had a very lively experience ^Hth a bear recently, near Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. The bear was brought to bay in 5 large thicket with the aid of ounds, and one of the party volun- - teered to creep in and drive brain ont The volunteer had gone but a short distance when he wus suddenly at­ tacked by the enraged bear, wh6 jplanted his feet on the hunter ̂ breast and terribly lacerated him. The cries of the unlucky hunter soon brought the others to his assistance, but the bear left him only to charge on his rescuers, 'one of whoa bruin grabbed around the iraist and with % powerful hug broke - *'\h *• ^ & *, a. V i **£ . <- Of 4 hisiipit|&t this »m mtmm Aim. pi*M balls in the bear's heart, killing it Nlislsifly.* Tha injured mep wore at once oared for, but soiqe days will elapse before tEey will care for a sim­ ilar experience. IT looks aa if phonetie spelling were to have a fair trial at last under the most favorable rfrmmstatjees. Bishop William Taylor, who ia to go ia Afriea to engage in missionary work, has de­ termined to teach the natives Engltth by the phonetic system of Mr. Elias Longley, of Cincinnati, one of the old­ est md best known phonqgraptters and spelMbg-reformers of the United States: He quaintly says: "If tanght to read the old orthorgraphy, as soon ss they are enabled to understand tho holy scriptures, the devil would thrust un­ der their eyes all manner of infidel and corrupt reading matter; but the purity of the phonetic alphabet has not yet been defiled in that way." FRED ABCHKB, the famous English jockey, says a New York paper, was in Delmonico's oafe a night or two ago^ and gave a very interesting aooount of the way he keeps himself down to 118 pounds, his 28 years and comparatively large frame notwithstanding. As Boon ss the racing season begins hie attend­ ant calls upen him every day at S o'clock in the morning, and gives him a dose of purgative and a dose of mas­ sage. He is then left to slumber for another hour, and takes after that a cup of strong tea, without milk or sugar. His breakfast consists of what he calls "the breast bone of a chicken with the breast oil'," and a gla.<s of champagne. He uses neither bread nor toast, and avers that the above constitutes all the daily nourishment he takes during the racing season. He has a Russian bath arrangement in his house and uses it every day, but after he has been in the steam for five minutes all perspiration ceases, and he comes out absolutely dry, and with his flesh as firm as a rock. BUSINESS men are not supposed to laugh at any order, however extrava­ gant, that may be sent them, but if one of Lynn's big shoe dealers didn't in­ dulge in a real ghaitly smile when he received one order this fall it was be­ cause he had not sufficient strength loft J. M. Fardum is a colored preacher in Charlotte, North Carolina, and his fighting weight when skirmish­ ing with the legion of Satan is 410 pounds. He stands six feet ten inches high without his boots, and, taken col­ lectively, would be a dangerous man to fall under at a skating-rink. Some time ago a southern gentleman met Farnum in the, south and the latter ordered a pair of shoes made for him at the north, for which this gentleman took the measure. The order was giv­ en to Lynn's leading shoo manufactur­ er, but it was too much for him, and a pair of shoes was made from a special last in Boston and sent the reverend gentleman. The shoes were thirty* fives. The length from heel to toe is just twenty inches, and the width of the ball, including a protuberance that may be a corn or may be natural, is a trifle over seven and one-half inch­ es. . Some idea of the "tout-ensemble" may be gained from the fact that a pastboard copy of the sole of one of, the shoes which a reporter car­ ried in his overcoat pocket, extended from the lowest depths of the pocket to the arm-pits. This copy was taken from a msasurercent of the bootless foot of the clergyman, and thoso who know pronounce it correct From the forward end of the sole a piece the size of a desert-plate could be easily cut The heel, if of the proper material would make a decidedly generous flap­ jack, and the whole thing, in the shape and size, gives one the irresistable im­ pression of a tennis racket, or an elon­ gated shirt-front, withovt its symmetry. Ia Book* aa* f viAi'i. r ft* M»t Always to illustrate? Do ill th In. Lincoln and Chevalier Wjkol. Among other adventurers who fig­ ured at Washington early in 1862 was the Chevalier Wykoff, who was really collecting news for The New York Herald, but who professed to be the first gentleman of the land, and issued his edicts on all matters concerning society. At last he was summoned be­ fore a committee of the Houso of Rep­ resentatives, and asked from whom he had obtained in advance a portion of the President's Message, which he had telegraphed to his employers. Noto­ riety with him was fame, and he mys­ teriously refused to state from whom he had received the document, saying that it came to him under an obligation of strict secrecy which he felt himself bound to respect It was rumored and generally believed that Wykoff obtained a sight at the message from Mrs Lin­ coln, who used to take him to ride in her carriage, and listen attentively to his accounts of European courts. The President was much annoyed by this scandal, and visited the committee con­ fidentially, while Gen. Sickles was ac­ tive in arranging the affair. Wykofl; finally told the committee that the in­ formation was furnished to him by a man named Watt, a garderner at the* White House, whose wife was Mrs. Lincoln's /raiting maid, and his expla­ nation was acoepted. Congress did nothing with Watt, who was nominated as a second lieutenant in the army. -- Ben: Perley Poore, in the Boston Budget ' Jeany Lint's Level} Face. Jenny Lind, in her prime, was what could be called beautiful; but crowds loved to look upon her face; and when she came upon the stage and stood waiting silently until the storm of applause that always greeted her appearance subsided, she was in the habit of turning first to the left and then to the right, simply to allow every one to have the pleasure of a good stare. They had paid their money al­ most as much for that as for the songs, and she was resolved that none should be defrauded, so far as she was con­ cerned. No one thought the gracious and unaffected act anything but one more artless manifestation of a simple and beautiful character. -- London Truth. THI more abl«ta man is, if he makes ill use of his abilities, the more dsnger- ous will he be to the commonwealth.--> Demos theneM. 'or to iiMlsill ajil llis Italt tajtwelaarly, or form a more oerroet idea of the mat­ ter treated of? These, question wens diaeawd lnrtee art section of tho Brit- oent uMeting. The subject is also con­ sidered in oad of our popular isaga- ziscs. Tho oottelttsiOti is iitaw most of our reoent publications are, to draw it mihH|y, «verillttsta*ted. It ia also very generally admitted even by artists that pictures ordinarily serve to draw the attention of the reader from V*e psmted matter and to oause him to pursue it very hastily. Many have olMerved that the litesary merit of numerous publications begin to de- oline aa soon as an attempt waa made to illustrate them. In some cases it has been noticed that the character of their readers changed. The reading diss rive waytothepio- ture-loving class. When this was the case more prominence was given to il­ lustrations, and at length the reading matter appeared to be introduced ohiefly for the purpose of aupplement- ing^ the so-called illustrations. Most persons have noticed that publications ^signed especially for children are profusely illustrated. Those intended for the comparatively ignorant also con­ tain many illustrations. Books, maga­ zines, and newspapers intended for the highly educated and throughtfnl, on the other hand, contain few or no pic­ tures! The authors of the greatest lit­ erary productions have ordinarily de- cl.ned to havo them illustrated. They have believed that pictnres would only serve to detract from their real merits. Many think that illustrations are highly beneficial to children, and ac­ cordingly place a large number of them in the publications designed for children's use. A singular commenta­ ry on this doctrine is furnished by a gentleman who examined many of the younger children in the Boston school iu order to ascertain their ideas on cer­ tain subjects. He found that the most of them thought that a cow was about three inches long. They had arrived at this conclusion by seeing the pioture of a cow and one of a gimlet in the Erimer they wero using at school. They ad seen gimlets at home and in Bhop windows, and were therefore acquaint­ ed with their true length. Some of them had seen cows but they did not recognise them as such, as their size was out of proportion with that of a gimlet Children who bave studied illus­ trated geographies in school ordinarily think that the people in many countries in the world have nothing to do except engage in some sort of sport or quietly enjoy life. It is easy to see why they have this singular idea Their geogra­ phies contain illustrations of thehabits, customs, and appearance of the people in all the principal countries. In France they are represented as danc­ ing; in Spain, attending a bull-fight; in Italy, visiting picture galleries; in Turkey, smo iing pipes with exceeding­ ly long atoms; in Germany, drinking wine, and in Russia, ridinjr in sleighs. The idea is conveyed, as well as it can be by the use of pictures, that this is the only country in the world in which people are obliged to work for a living. In other countries it is not neoesssry to labor in order to eat All one's time may be spent in sport or idleness. Adults obtain aa may erroneous idead from what pass for illustrations as children do. It is the general opin ion that the patriot army that fought at Bunker Hill was chiefly composed of old men. In point of fact it waa chiefly mady up of boys. Trumbull's painting of the battle, however, represents most of the patriot soldiers as venerable men. Those who have seen the origi­ nal painting or copies and prints of the same are likely to think all their lives that most of our soldiers at Bunker Hill were past middle life. One of our national bank notes shows that Colum­ bus and his men landed in full dress on the island they discovered. A foreigner who should visit an exhi­ bition of paintings by our nativo artists would probably come to the conclusion that bees in this country are kept in straw hives, that our immense grain crop is harvested with a sickle, that the land is plowed by oxen, and the houses lighted with candle1. Every winter we have in this city several courses of illus­ trated lectures on foreign countries. Many people attend them for the pur­ pose of obtaining reliable information respectiug regions they wish to learn about, but cannot visit. They see some magnified views of a palace in England, au opera house in France, and a castle in Spain, and conclude that they have about, as good an idea of three foreign conntries as they could obtain by spending a year abroad. The truth is "ttie impressions are as far from the real facts of the case as those of children are who learn about the manners and cus­ toms of different people by looking at pictures of them.--Chicago Times. The Ancient Viking Ship Tombs. The practice among the Northmen, during the latter period of Paganism, was to bury their great warriors with one of their war-ships. Excavations of grave-mounds has brought to light ships from eight to nine hundred years old. They buried them thus: The res­ t-el wa? hauled ashore and "laid on the even keel;" the body was placed in it, with such things as the dead would need in the other world; then a mound of earth or stones was thrown over the whole. Generally the ships rotted, but in Sontheasten Norway, in two cases, blue clay was used for the mound. By far the more wonderful was found in 1880, at Sandefiord, exca­ vated by the president of the Nor­ wegian Archaeological Society. The ship is now in the Univeraity of Chris- tiania. There I eaw it, and regard it as one of the most impressive relics of the past times. It is of oak, clinker-built, iron-nailed, caulked with cow's hair oakum spun into cords of three strands. Ties are made of roots. The planks are one inch thick. The keel was sixty feet long, and the whole length, from end of bow to end of stern, seventy feet It was fifteen feet wide amidships, and four feet deep. It had both oars and canvass, and one mast with machinery for lowering it when going against a head wind or into battle. She carried thirty-two oars, each eighteen feet long. In and it were found fragments of three oak boats the largest twenty-one feet and the smallest twenty feet long: the stock of the anchor, fragments of four sleeping berths, parts of a finely carved wooden chair, many cooking utensils, a massive copper kettle, tubs, buckets, wooden plates, carved drinking cups, and many other things. The body had been placed in a large grave-chamber of wood in the middle of the ship. This ship-tomb had been visited by grave- robbers in the pagan era, and they, onukteents 'Mi bents of wear­ ing apparel of goldliiodade. Manyan- ioMls; worn. it this burisl; Of > pea-fowl, w«ra fc«Mi in the mound. Theee demonstrate that she belongs to tho period in>ii»ftls> teom 80ft to 1060 after Christ, Thaae were the vassols that often crowe# the North Sea in the fleets of the ssa-kihg* to revnge the British Islands and the adjacent coasts of France. It iris In inch as these that the Norwegians discovered Ioeland, Greenland, and America, hundreds of years before Columbus was born. There is, however, reason to believe that many of the Viking war shipe were mnch larger than thi*. The measure­ ments and relics are visible to all; the more recondite information 1 have con­ densed from the authorised account of the ship and its discovery sent, with a model, to the International Ship-Model Exhibition in London, 1882.--Chris­ tian Advocate. Mysteries of the Tower. The London Standard, in desftrtttfrtg the progress of the work of "restora­ tion" at the tower of London, has Che following about the historic church of St. Peters ad Vinculo which is situ­ ated within its bounds; In the eye of the Englishman this shabby little church is one of tbe sacred places of England. Within it lie the remains of some of the most illustrious, many of the best, and, take them all in all, a few of the worst of those whose names are most prominent in our chronicles. Opposite the door is the spot where private executions for state offenses formerly took plaoe, and on this blood­ stained bit of ground, now marked by a large oval of dark flints, perished, among others, Anne Bolevn, Lady Jane Gray, and the Earl of Essex. In the floor of the church, and in tho crypt, are the bone* Of scores of unfor­ tunates, many of them nameless, hur­ riedly slain, often without trial, and huddled here without any record of their offense «. r their fate, with the knowledge that dead men and dead wo­ men toll no tales. The entire soil of the tower is, in truth, one vast graveyard. The workmen are constantly turning up bones, to whioh tho records of the place afford no clew, and a few years ago, when making some repairs in the floor, they came on numerous skeletons, as though people had been pitched into a pit without any regular sepulture. Large quantities of charred bones-- most probably those of persons burned for heresy--were found clo»e to the church of St Peter, and between it and the crypt. During this disarrangement of the dust of ages, the remains of Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Dudley, Lady Jane Gray, Somerset, Monmouth, and the countess of Salisbury--or at least skeletons which, from their posi­ tions in the chapel, were believed to be theirs--with many other historical per sonages, were lighted upon, and decent­ ly recoffined and reintorred, the unde termined romaina being buried in the crypt The original interments seemed to have been hasty--as, indeed, we might expect from the well-know fact that Anne Boleyn's body was tossed into an old arrow cheat, which chest, with some arrow head* hard by, was found holding the remains of "a deli­ cately formed woman" when the grave was broken open. So, too, much quick­ lime was found in the graves mentioned. A tioon Word for tbe Turk. This brings me now to a subject on whioh I must appeal to the public sense of justice r nd fair play. I must protest against the indiscriminate em' ployment of the word "Turk" whenever there is an occasion to mention any case cf mis>government, oppression, or cruelty in Egypt. It will probably surprise the rend r very mucit to hear that, speaking generally, there are few if any 'lurks m that country. If pro­ per inquiries were made about these so- btyled 'lurkish mudirs and Turkish soldiers, who are, so often referred to in terms of indignation and opprobrium it would be found that they are mostly Egyptian natives, and, although some few may have a dash of Turkish blood from a former generation as part of their inheritance, they have nothing in common with the Turk, as he is under­ stood in England, except their Moham­ medan faith. Very different are the.se men to those who serve the Sultan in the European or Asiatic provinces, and it is unjust to both that they should be indiscriminately confounded in name. Turks there were in Egypt in the time of Meliemet All. Their presence and service were the essence of his strength; and it was with their assistance that he built up his power and was able to bequeath a principality to his decend- ants. It was the policy, however, of his successors to get rid of this Turkish element or reduce it to a minimum in the government of the province, seeing in it one of the strongest ties by which Egypt was bound to Turkey, and con­ sequently a great obstacle to the achievement of that independence which the heart of Said, as well as that of Ismail, so strongly longed for. It was a mistaken policy. The Turk,with his well-known fidelity and courage, was set aside, and the Fellah, With his subtlety, unscrupulousness, and cow­ ardice, came in, leading to the advance of Arabi Pasha, the bombardment of Alexandria, the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, and all the other evils with which the liand of the Pharaohs is now again af­ flicted, and for which England will in history be made to bear the onus and the disgrace, unless by following the spirit of tbe national proclivities and tastes she stops in time and retrieves her fa r name by generously admitting the remedy which will bear out her professions of friendly intentions while cosiatently acting with due regard to her acknowledged just interoaita.--- BtacktcoodCg Magcutine. SERGEANT BBAINEBO, of the Greely party, said that Ellison never com­ plained, and whenever any complaint was made by others his simple re­ mark was: "Boys, I don't see what you have to complain of; I don't com­ plain," That remark was always suffi­ cient to stop the grumbling. Corporal Ellison never knew that he had lost both feet. A month after both feet were gone some one aaked him how he felt. He answered that he was feeling all right, but the bottom of his right foot itched. It was feared that if in­ formed of the loss of his feet the shock would have killed him. Every time the stumps of his legs were dressed a screen was so placed that he could not see their condition. H. A SAN FBANCISCO girl's olaim to dis­ tinction rests upon the fact that at a church fair, she stood on her head in the guise of a Gypsy boy acrobat She had a tent to herself, and eaoh specta­ tor of the feat was obliged to pay a dollar. -•Si.1 W. / • V v X , YAS8AS did ss dr m TKAPRAI Mbh. for «was-never reported to or custom b ot tha objection that a Story of * : "But no man kno cher unto this ish story of the so it is of aman of should haTefuller Pittelmgh Chiron "Where wthe gi a question often salted ^ted in antiquarian ' bat no one one knows whef* Iks thto man who commanded tb at Pittsburgh, and with: a men went into the w.ldernges feated tho finest army En""* sent against the French in 1 The boldest operations against their ancient foe, TffigfU.fr were planned by this and his picture shows hiui .toiisve been a man with a strikingly l$igbt, hand­ some, and commanding face. Daniel Hyacinth Mary Leonard de Beaujeu waadeecended from a fstqily of Danphiny, whioh !?aa anckHafand illus­ trious. Daniel was bora at Montreal in l?il, his father being an pffioer in the Canadian army and mayor>of Que­ bec. In 1748 Daniel became a oaptain, and afterward was commandant at De­ troit He had great experience with the Indians, and received the cross of St Louis for his services, file came to Fort Duquesne in 1755, being m{$de commandant of that post, succeeding M. de ContreeoBur. A formidable army under Gen. Braddock, composed of vet­ eran English troops and Virginia colo­ nial companies, were on their way to Fort Duquesne when Beaujeu took command. The fort was not strong enough to stand a siege, and the French force was too weak to defend it. There was a motley collection of Indians at the fort, and, though Beaujeu did not think they could be relied upon, he determined to teat them. He hastily ar­ ranged the details of ambuscade by the banks of the MonongaheLs, hear where the second great steel-workaof the world is now located. The Chevalier de la Perade made a reoonnoissance on July 6, and fell back to report the pcesenoe of the enemy. When Beatjjfu visited the Indian camp and told uis project the natives were loath to aid Iran, and said they had no hope of defeating the English. On the 9th 6f July, in thai little Chapel of Assumption of tho Blessed Virgin at the Beautiful River --which is presented now by Fr. Lamb- in g'a Church on Third avenue-r-the French troops listened to mass, and Beaujeu received the communion, at he said he did not expect to return They marched forth then to battle, 12 regular soldiers and 146 Csinadiatta. The Indians at first refused to go, bttt the Hudson Chief A than use of Lorotte and Pontiac persuaded the 600 Ipdjan? of a dozen different tribes to follow them. The ambuscade was made at the first crossing. At the third volley Beaujeu fell, pierced through the fore head by a ball. Capt. Dumas succeed­ ed to the command. Then came Brad- dock's defeat, of which Washington said: "We have been beaten, shame fully beaten, by a handful of men.1 When the French returned to the field of battle, after the pursuit of glish was over, the body ofneaujeu was carried back to Fort Duquesne with those of Lieut. de Coeqiaeviue and E n s i c n d e l a P e r a d e ; V I M . o f Beaujeu remained exposed $n vtete un­ til tbe 12tli of July, whsnit was brtried in the cemetery of the f&rtt Friar Baron says Beadl^nVbodj was "interred on the 12th c& .thei sail month in the cemetery lort Du- quesne, under tbe title of tho» Assump­ tion of the Blessed Virgin tatAhe Beau­ tiful River, and this with the ordinary ceremonies by us." All trace of the cemetery has passed away. In making excavations for Breen & Edwards' plowworks on Water street, at the corner of Penn, some bodies and military accoutrements were dug up, and it is thought that this was about the location of the cemetery, but there is no means of ascertaining. Beaujeu lies in a namesless grave, and France, under Napoleon 111., refused to raise a monument to him. His descendants still live in Toure in Francag and the descendants of his brothel1' reside in' Canada. Freaks of tirest leu* In Moore's "Life of Lord: Byron* there is a curious instance ot the eoftfh- tricity in diet which now and then took the place of other vagariee with that remarkable genius. When' d*n'ng with Samuel Rogers, Moore writea: "Neither meat lish, nor wine wOUld Lord Byrou touch, and of biscuits and soda water, which he asked for, there had been unluckily, no provision. He profe.-sed, however, to be equally well pleased with potatoes Mad vinegar; and of these meager materials con­ trived to make rather a hearty meal." On another occasion, when Moor* aat opposite the poet at dinner, engaged, as he himself confesses, "rather earn­ estly over a beefsteak," Byron, after watching him for gome minutes, said, in a tone of grave inquiry: "Moore, don't you lind eating beefsteak makes you ferocious?" The secret of Lord By­ ron's occasional absteminousness in diet is to be found in that morbid dread of corpulence which he is known to have possessed; yet had he been veraed in the rules whioh Mr. Banting subse­ quently laid down and successfully practiced for persons in like condition lie would have shunned potatoes, even with the concomitant of vinegar, like tbe plague. The fact is that any Article of food of a starchy or saccharine na­ ture tends to produce fat, while such things as toast, lean meat, fruit, and green vegetables are all inimical to the laying of superfluous flesh. The pota­ to is a distinctly fattening kind of food, while meat is more especially "flash- forming." It would be impossible to support life on neither kind of bodily sustenance exclusively, and Utere are few people who would nUompt tho Spartan aimplicity of a diet consisting wholly of'"magnum bonums" or "cham­ pions." Lord Byron's liking for pota­ toes and vinegar, however, recalls tho affection of Curius, tbe ancient Roynan general, for a dinner of tornips rowted in the ashes of his own fire, and served up on a wooden platter. Great men have often been peculiar in their dilftetic fancies. Pythagoras, for exauplflk notj only abstained from the flesh of ^ani­ mals as food, but considered even a dish of beans too stimulating for his philosophical acolytes. If the potato' had been known in Greece in his day the problem of affording at once a wholesome, nourishing, and not too" exciting or too expensive form of nutri­ ment would have been far fea&fer'of solution.--London Times. California .tiold Not one of all the thous8#d«^of "irien who hurried into the "Caittps^f Forty- nine" ever paused to considerfopirthese camps would look if d&&rl$d. nor imagined themselves old and lonely pioneers sitting over the a'»he^ of de- tag, and vigorous of»» ^Saloons and Every itaft pjsnt lly able to*ntoteet> Usnd waa earrttofyki * dblfsf the camp, gathered as of one " under no'liw but that of tfeeir oWh making, were men from the nofth,;SAuth, east, and wast, and from nititf&llTOty country ui Europe, Asia, o» if»orth America. They miaedt traded, gambled, bought, discussed caon>«u£Cnirs; they paid fifty cents a drink for tKetr whiaky, and $50 a barrel for their flour, and $30 apiece, at tixnee, lor butcher- kfjhrei with which to pick ont the gold froin the rock crevices. They talked aa one who knew them well has writ; ten, "a language of half English and half Mexican," . and he might have added wholly tfctetr o<#ft. EvttT Bret Harte has failed to tfrproduoe it; the dialect of hia miners losna too toe to* wards tbe Missourian., ThNO lawlesa, brave pioneers, risked their lives for each other, made and lost fbrtnneis; went on lonely prsepeet tours, died lonely deaths or perished by viOlOKOO, soma, wiser or more fortunate than theee, became farmers when the mining era closed, sowed wheat fields, planted fruitful oroharda. Unterlelnlng a Londoaer. "Did you ever hear of the joke some New Yorkers played on a famous fish dealer of London a while ago? Well, let me tell you about it "This man, of course, waa familiar with oysters, but had never a*en say of our champions ;eo some of the friends to whom he brought letters determined to show him what oould be done in America in the way of oysters and clams. I believe there were about twenty at the dinner, and after soups the door wa# thrown open with a bang and with much confusion two waitera appeared bearing an enormus plate upoii whicH were a docen oysters on the half shell. Eaoh one was over thirteen inches in length, being tho famous Long Fox oysters from Old Point Comfort One would have served a man for thlree meals. The dish was finally placed in front of the astonished fish-monger, who anxiously inquired if it waa the,custom for one man to eat BO mnch and so many. He was answered that it was, and was gravely informed that they would give him an appetite for the clams, with which the waiters were now struggling. They Were the cele­ brated Groducks that have been quite lately "discovered on the northwest coaat. and you c*n imagine the efFect when I tell you that each one Was over a foot long, eight inches wide, and some were ten, and .all weighed from six to eight ponnds. A dozen of these steamed were placed before him by the two men. " 'Ye don't expect mo to eat all this, do ye?' he shouted. " 'Eat it?' retorted the Chairman, 'why, bless your soul, that's what we take to give us an appetite for the dev­ iled clant' ai|d at that moment three waiters came in bearing the shell ol tho great elam known as tha -Fridaena, an East Indian olam. The one valve thtft the men brought in weighed 250 pounds and was filled with lobster- salad. This was lifted upon the teble that creaked and groaned again. This finished the Englishman. He pushed back his chuir, and 4pbody knows what he was going to do or say, when all hands burst out into a roar of laughter, and being a jolly fellow he saw the joke and joined the others in laughing over it,"--Philadelphia Times. (general Butler and the Silver Spoons. The following is General Butler's account of the origin of the spoon story: In July, 186^, he ordered all property in New Orleans belonging to persons in the Confederate service to be declared confiscated to the United States Government Among fho prop­ erty seized under this order was the handsome mansion of General Twiggs, of the Confederate army, who had been in. command at New Orleans, but had withdrawn to Georgia on hearing of the,approach ol the United States forces. To this mansion General But­ ler transfered his headquarters from the St Charles Hotel. Soon after his occupation here one of the family ser­ vants came to him carrying a load of silver salvers, spoons, forks, etc., and saying that his "old massa" had iheant to hide them from the Yankees, but that he (the negro) had "marked whar de silber was buried, au' hyar it all is, snre 'nuff." General Butler used this plate while he occupied the house, and when he retired he turned every fork, spoon, etc., over to the quartermaster's department He asserts that he has vouchers to show that all these were passed over to the Government, and when they subsequently disappeared he says that he has no means of knowing. Two handsome swords belonging to General Twiggs, one of which had been voted to him by Congress in recognition of his valuable services in the Mexican war, and the other was the weapon which 'ht used in the Confederate army, were sent by Butler to the Gov­ ernment at Washington, with, the sug­ gestion that one of them be donated to Annapolis Academy and the other to West Point "as exemplarsof what base uses may be made of honorable weap­ ons." His advice was not taken. The swords were locked up in one of the Treasury vaults for safe-keeping, and one of the duplicate hoys given to the General, A daughter of General Twiggs went to Washington several years ago to obtain these swords, and we think that they were restored to her. On making, an application to General Butler first,$e disclaimed all all personal right tathe property* fad referred her to the Government-r-Jnler Ocean. . '-'VsM"" • 'J . . •.. ,VV..: A .feast* Widow.. • - Groom--Well, pet ** there anything yofc want to^day? Bride--Yes, dear;;! wish vou'wouty stop at the seed ftor* g*t some grass SeecU . Groom--Certainly, love; but what do yon want of it? We bave no lawn. * Bride--I am going out tb the nemo tery to-morrow. Groom--But what for? Bride--I promised my first husband that I would see that his grave was kept green, and I had almost forgotten it--Exchange. ALMOST everybody in China smokes or eats opium, and physlcally, mental­ ly, and financially it is the degradation of the Chinese. 'st. msmsm* *V' . " 'MM is posted on tho tlwrotiK*, ^ nesce. more unlovely? on what- looks - hke ani out of 596 graduates of % pttMg«? only 188 have married" tbafc lUmax of thair oaMar. in the csoes of SOOM, only a ymmm'iwm-f has elapsed; bat mostofthepgradnatsAji old maidaof thedeepsetdya. Whitings thematasr? It cannot be that are so unattractive as. to hsto klti offers. Every GSl has 'Ksr Jack-- sometimes a whole platoon of this* and every girl ean fit married tf lte will. Does intellectual trawfaut girls fastidious ?--finical, perhaper--•.; difficult to please, unwiQing to/ ̂ - the honest hands aad sineere Tfr . youths less brilliantly veMMit It should not have this tandoapy; for- I' in most of the happiest marxiaM mth* J land the bride his nearly au *f • "tte 5' • • ;' * •-vs education. As our industrial aftd'foeiatv ̂ i- machinery is at present managM. tfcfi, V girls have a better chanee than thnVora-w ' ' to study; the wives thsn tha hsdhwifc?' So, notwithstanding tha fact that DM ' «U * most profound scholars of our tiaass • ,aid­ ers chisfly men who have had a long \ and severe professional troiniag, a ma-:tM jority of the educated people of tho country are women. Thousands of titan who make the best ofhusbands--notonlv kind, amiable, and tender, but shrewd, intelligent,And thoughtful--know noth» ing of any language but their own, and never in theirlivee used "were" to in­ terpret the subjnnotiva mood. Armiee of girls have made a mistake in thia matter, unwisely rejeoting a suitor who spelled "aaparata" with three ees, who said.. It is me," bat who might ̂ yet be tender hearted, ssgacions and, 1 ̂ even mentally profound man, worthy oC all acceptation. In fact, we are by no means certain that eduoated and profoseionel man|: ' make the best husbanda. They less Hkfelyto keep regular houra, more likely to "talk shop/* and to ei lish the everlasting shape in th# home than are merehantile : man, brokers, or bankers* or railroad man-p agers. Thsy are more likely to ha ab­ stracted even whan their hands am not% occupied.' Girls should remember that man genius or of overshadowing liter ary <\ isl talent have seldom made suooessful '< huAbands. They almost always ladc .̂ domesticity and love ideaa better than V'\ their wivee. Look at Shakespeare, wfior > 4 lived at the theater and at the dutv ' 4 and when he died gave his wife merely ' J his "second-best bedstead" Think Milton, who was one of tho moot doaai-s neering and uncomfortable of hnabaî la, ... <v that ever tormented a gantta woman.--- • ,-niVi Think of Byron, and Dickens, and Bul~ ;; 4 wer, whose marriages were each a hid- * eons mockery. Think of Greeley end Raymond, not to mention other mon quite as famous, who are still livings > * who have had little or no home lifik \ n>, * •>. ! Don't hesitate to marry, girls, merely ̂ because the gentlemen who pny auit to" you do not pronounoe aa yon havo hsW. -" f ;• taught to do, or do not aiwaya observe yi-'j the inflexible rules of English gram- « "* mar. t An unblemished character is important than a knowledge of attd good nature more daab |̂lf̂ «mp;,*> correct .spelling. Better is a a!WifflK:0 ' , ," i"" ing tongue where love is thin flvo lnp* eign languages and a heart with a 9*ajh mortgage on it held by another girl* . Perhaps the sweet graduatee of Vasrr- sar have been libeled, and the figures we have quoted are incorreet; bat, Ofan.'V" then, this little sermon can do nOv harm.--Frank Leslie's Weekly. 'ti 4? * P tes&Tv ' ; . :ti • more <* "• *" ' 9 , Lighting by Electricity. It is not at all improbable that long, before Franklin drew electricity froiB|i the clouds with the aid of his kite •nC string, more than one devotee of scî oa speculated upon the possibility of izing lightning as a substitute for thsl̂ light of the sun. Viewed in iti natarit * state *s it flashes from the heavens <'><•? , the darkest night, with suffioent bril liancy to illuminate a large area with, , > t almost mid-day light, it is assy to hat- \ lieve that the ancients, if they aver im*" 1 agined such a thing as the posaibOiiy ̂ ' of making captive such a foreo wm ?- dated how lightning flashea' conld employed to take the place of . thsan , * * lamps, rather than how they could bn. * ' 's gathered and transformed into a motive !v power, or a means of conveying intelli- *3' i-f. gence long distancea with almoat tho rftpidity of thought Still, electricity! , '?* ' had been a valued servant to mankind ̂ J'"5. more than half a century before ita firsf- attribute--that of light--was enslaved.* ' " ' ? . Now, electricity, under certain eondi-̂ |S ̂ | tious, is a cheaper light than gas, and: ̂ every year it is made cheaper and eas^l' ti i e r o f m a n a g e m e n t t h r o u g h t h e c o n s t a n t , ^ improvement in the methods whereby t . J it is generated and applied. Thereara , now in use probably half a dozen differ- ' , - 7; ent dynamo machines for the produc- tion of a current sufficiently strong to^-' be utilized for illuminating pnrpoesa." In the patent oflice at Washington at;. the present moment are modela of im- "v provments in the various machines use which will render them more dnra-p1 ̂ ble and diminish the amount of power required to produce a given eandie* ' > v power. On the authority of oompetent . -"rti, % judges, the day ia not far distant whan;., „ A every dwelling and store and laotoryf •, . of medium-sized towns will bo fur- "1 nished with electric light at a coat not" J " j- exceeding the price of gas. * ,' A Humorist's Fsta. Close by, in the Church of St part of which waa built by away bade yonder in the sixth The tombstones and crosses an very old and curious. In one placa ̂ cAoee by the main path. I saw seven rasty iron.erosaes as tall as mysalt Th** naed to etand in line, but tha wind Mil; played them rudely and long ajnea tumbled them ont of plum. These crosses mark the grsves of the wivaa of a man who murdered them, one after t the other, by tickling their foot Ha was a much funnier man than Bret Harte, and 1 am glad to be aide to add that Nemesis overtook him in tho pet* Kbn of his eighth wifet She had odd mi, ; moreover she accidently discov­ ered his "little game," and fbtttvll denc îneed him to the vigilanee e«n- mittee. People in thoaa days Were punished accordinsr to kwal MXangO' ^4 'X' ments. This particular Salsbnsg WHS taken into a room up in the HoheO- Salzburg, where, by medkante, hi' was raised to the ceiling and then nt" $ lowed to fall, with weighte of pounds attachod to hia anklsa. doinp through a trap doer on i Salzburg Letter* in Stm Chrenickk •• ^ •; V;; . . ' .