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9 Dr. Elliott (Jones, the ornithologists lifts up his voice in The American Na, luralist against the sparrows. He speak- oi them as a nuisance, as “ pestilent {amine-breeders,” and as “ the wretched interlopers which We have so thought- lessly mtxoiuced and layed with, and O tddled, like a parse of hysterical, slate-pencil-eating school girls." The doctor asserts that the sparrows in the country alreadi number “ countless millions," and e anticipates the terri- ble havoc they will commit in the grain fields, orchards and kitchen gardens a: few years hence, when they will have in-,‘ creased to “millions of millions." He‘ brings a Iormidable list of charges against the interlopers, and declares AW . memes measures ”guild be ken as a 'm'attor‘bf‘ national economy to check their increase.” Dr. Cones would not wage against the spar- rows a war of extermination, but oflers these suggestions for keeping down their numbers: “ I. Let the birds shift for themselves; turn them loose and put them on the same looting as other birds. That_ is, take down _the bo_xes and KI all the special oontrivanoes for shel- tering and petting the birds; stop feeding them; stop supplying them with building materials; et them take care of themselves. II. Abolish the legal penalties for killing them. The birds are now under the arm of the law, which protects them from most of the natural vicissitudes of bird-life. Let \ the boys kill them if they wish; or let} them befitrapped and used as pigeons or glass balls are now used, in shooting matches among sportsmen.- Vast num- bers of pigeons are destroyed in this way; there are even ‘ sparrow-clubs ’ in various cities, which make a business of Fracticing on various of our small birds, or which the European sparrows would be an admirable substitute, answering all the conditions these marksmen could desire. In this way the birds might even be made a source of some little revenue, instead of a burden and a pest; they are to be had in racticall unlimited num- bers, and con d be so (1 by the cit to such persons as might desire to use t em for sporting purposes." A horrible tragedy, by which six per- sons lost their lives and suffered the most excruciating torture, recently oo~ curred at Beharbeoh, near Brussels. It a that soon alter midnight the in- ha itauts at the top of Jose hat street were awakened by a tremen ons noise like the firing of cannon. Immediately flames were seen issuing from a house inhabited by a druggist and his wile named Melts-Denis. While the police and the excited p0 nlace were endeavor~ ing to put out the ames and to remove the inflammable materials, another re- port, louder than the first, was heard, and six persons who lived in the interior of the house rushed into the street utter- ;ng tearful cries. They were envelo ed in flames, and resemb ed living tore es more than human being, . They were immediately attended to y those on the spot, who rolled' them insblankets and managed at lest to put out the tire. _One man, named Moreen, of herculean ; strength, who like the rest rushed out, of the house one mess of fire, suddenly seized hold of his left hand, which was eaushig him intense agony, and pulled it right of. This man was a stone- ontter, and previous to losing his hand he had thrown himself against the front of the house with such violence that he was thrown backward and his head al- most smashed. The wife of Molke was being assisted out of the window when she lost her presence of mind, and fell to the ground, breaking her leg in the fall. That catastrophe was made still more serious 1) the efiorts o! a party of reliel, who rus ed into the house at the risk of their own lives to save an old women who was uttering the most franc tic cries. They unluckily happened to upset on enormous jar of petroleum, and were instantly enveloped m flames. The names of those who succumbed are Emil Mollie, seventy-five years of age, drug- aged thirty-five years, father of four children; Moreen, forty, father of two children; Auguste Verhoeven, seventeen years old, druggist's apprentiee. Two others were fatally burned. All snfl'er- ed the most excruciating tortures, as when the flames were put out they were only one living sore. Molke, seventy-five ears of age, drug- gill:z my! {major of t e hpqge; vaagts, !he Monkey Temple of Benares. A traveler in India describes a uni ue institution in Benetes. as follows: he Monte Temple is interesting enough to m t a visit. It is built of brown stone; edouble row of pillars support the roof of a gallery running round the ehrine of the monkey-god, and swarm- ing inside and out with hundreds of monkeys. On the trees, in the ‘oourts, in the street. everywhere, are monkeys. Purchasing e supp] of grain, you en- ter and begin eontte 3 it about. Soon the monkeys collect about us, _end chat- ter, and scream and fight in a most ldiotlcslly human manner. Some bolder than the rest will take it from the hand; others look wildly on but keep at a dig- nlfled distance. A goat and a dog enter to dispute the food with the sacred ani- mals, and a general squabble ensues. The grain being exhausted, we go. The fact that the monkey is a sacred animal, and that he abounds in Benares, aflords the means of inflictin very seri- ous lnj u-y when ’one nei h )r has a grudge agalnst another. quantity of grain scattered on the roof of a man's house, in his garden, on the door-step, in the house, and about it in the streets, attracts a swarm of monkeys; the gar- den is uprooted, the Argo is torn to iecee. the victim and his family are by the posts; and woe betido him should he injure one of those noted but‘nweloome visitors. The Sparrow in America. A Horrible T133309!” Sprinting the Streets. Hr. Trevel en, who livee on Court street, hash trouble alreed with his garden hose. Since the intr' notion of the Holly water system it has been the delight of Mr. Trevolyan to turn htmselt into epipemen at sunset, and with his garden-hose sprinkle the thirsty street with the clear, cool waters of the mighty Mississip i. Mien Norah Donovan, a young! 1 whole connected with the culinary department 0! Mr. Trevelyan’s house, and is also superintendent of aormitorles end general overseer of ear» pets, had often watched, as her duties would it, this process of cooling down e streets at _e_ventide,_and she down the streets at evenuae, and she had been heard to wish that this duty might be intrnsted'toher. She finally framed her wish m a' direc‘ petition, and laat evening she entered upon the active dugigs ogher new pmpe. When Miss Donovan took the nozzle from the hands_ of her mantel-{1% __waa pointed almost directlfi at the middle of the street. and Miss pnovan conscien- tiouel retained it in this position, while her w ole frame was eonvnleed with de- light. Presently there came dashing down the street. in alight, 0%?) phaton, two happy young people. vein the !_nale young person shoutet‘i. _ ‘ ‘ Hi,‘ thege, I 33'; turn her off!" and in vein the lounge young person shrieked and ee- eayed to hide behind a perusal no larger thana weter lily. Miss Donovan on! stared at them and wondered if prezldy- venture they might be are”, and when they passed through the torrent the came out on the other side very e , gory ailggt and__very (temp, not tonsey ilm'p. Then the gentleman who lives next door came out and called to her as he approached, intendin to instruct her how to shut OR the de uging stream or turn it aside when any one ap- proached. But Miss Donovan, hearing him calling her name, said "Sort 9” and turned about and faced him with the nozzle doing its level best, wide open and , fire pressure on. He turned 1 with the first shot and fled for his own ; door, the cooling stream following him ‘ every inch of the way, like an angel of mercy in disguise. But by the time he reached his own door, he was so thor- oughly drenched that his suspenders mildewed. Then a North Hill street- car came rattling down, an open, sum. mer car, just crowded with people com. ing in from a picnic at Sunnyside and when they heard the driver shout, and then dodge, and then swear, the saw their fate and Miss Donovan, an just howled and wailed and screamed, and tried to get behind each other, and crept under the seats, and some of them even jumped oi! the car, and all of them, by their frantic gestures, wild shrieks, and singular behavior, impressed Miss Donovan with the idea that they were dreadfully drunk. The street-car asses on, and when it was beyond the ins of Mr. Trevelyan's garden stream, the dry- ‘ est man in that car could have put out a conflagration by simply leaning back ' against the house that was homing, and 1 before the car reached the next corner there were four well-defined suits for ' damages fired upegainet Mr. Trevelyan. By this time Miss Donovan was prétty thoroughly oonvinoed that the manip~ ulation of a garden-hose required that judgment and liberal education and shrewd insight into men and motives that belong only to the aristocratic classes, and she determined to resign her osition forthwith. She went into the gall, carrying t‘ '_e _nozzle yith her, and spreading desolation and dismay. wherever she went. “ Whist 1” she shouted, as the torrents drenched the hat-rack. “ Murtherl" she howled, when it knocked the globe oi! the hall- lamp. “Misther Trevelgan 1” she shrieked."‘where in the wide world is the sthopper? And then she bent over the irrepressible 'nozzle and essayed to stop it with her finger. The bowl of disma that followed this attempt broug t the startled family up into the hall. and in less than three minutes every seat in the house was taken, standing-room all gone, and the play de- clared a success.â€"Bur€ington Hawk- eye. The territorial changes effected by the treat of Berlin, are of a moat oompre~ henexve nature. By the treaty of San Stefano Turkey was called upon to nur- render_7§,550 equar_e_ miles,_wit}_) 4_,53_9_,- 000 Viabafiitants'. The treaty of Berlin deals with 83,800 square miles and 4,882,000 inhabitants, as follows: Oodod toRoumanil...... Oododw 80mm..." Oododm Montenegro... . 00de m Mon‘onono... . 1 M9 Coded w Anlms. 16 Coded to Grow“ ”a ”61!» To boooo 00:30:! and ad minute AMI 38,15 Formed into o_-_Pflncl ‘ . The island fortress of Ada Kaleb, re- cently occupiod by Austria, is not re- ferred to in the treat. at all, and will probably_ _r9mnin in t e” halide of the l7 _______ power which now holds it. Roumania, in exohsng o for the territory ceded, is called upon to surrender 8270 s miles, With 140, 000 inhabitants, to‘1 sin. The political divisions of the Bal- kan peninsula will henceforth be as fol- lows: Changes Made by the Berlin Treaty. Londbn Athenamm. .18.“ 746.000 Sign". M ilel. lnhnblunto. m 1,061,000 Moham- 513.000 681.600 ’ , Chancellorfiaven who was a‘ passen- ger on the steamer dity. of Chester. from New York, and was not. sea-sick, has written a paper on’ the subject of sea- aieknoss ~ for the 'Syracuse Norther“ Christian Advances, in which he says: ‘ “ My theory 01 seaysickuoes requires} first that you should know the cause. Now, the cause is that you are sub'eeted on shipbOard to a chronic success on o! earthquake. Whatever will neutralize earthquakes will cure it. You look at the side of your room; it is going down, down. down. Then it creeks and turns about and out up, up, up. Then it wri glee. ow one corner tips in one ang e, and now another corner ti s in another angle. You start to. pic up your hat and run against your room- mate, or plunge against the wall; your head begins to swim, and you begin either to shrink into helplessness or to resist land to try straighten things out. You an , ‘ This shall not be,’ or you oower own like a wretch. New {or the cure. Just let -it rock. Remember earthquakes now are according to the order of naturel Put your mind into ‘a condition expressed in some such lwords as these: ‘Book away! This is lgrandl This is pushing ahead nobly lover the waves! Why shouldn’t you rock ? You are strong as the wisdom of men can make you. Turn entirely over if you want_tc: go‘ebergs could not crush you. And if the should, what then? We might as we die at sea as on land, and it would be a noble death.’ By that time your threatened sickness will begin to disa pear, and you will feel like running, t ough if you attempt it you may find yourself engaged in a dance. In other words, you must con- sent to let the ship toss about without any muscular or mental uneasiness, and than all tendency to sickness will slowly disappear. Some seem to do this un- consciously; others will not do it until they are driven to it by an exhaustion that makes them incapable of noticing anything. Then, giving up, their sick- ness disappears. If you cannot do this â€"-why, just succumb to it. No medicine can cure you.” ' ~ Selecting Their Husbands. A Turkish slave ship was on tured the other day by an English vesse , and the slaves it contained, consisting of seven women and ten men, were libera . The men volunteered into the Egyptian army, but it was more difilcult to dispose of the women. Under the treaty con- cluded between the British government. and the Khedivethe importation and ex- portation of slaves are forbidden; but the detention and sale of slaves in the country are permitted for about six years 1 longer in Egypt, and eleven years in the Soudan. Several officers according- ly came to the Pasha of the district with alien to buy some of the female slaves, but the Pasha declared he would not part with them unless they got married. He then announced that any soldier or civilian wishing to marry one of the slaves would have to pay six thalers for her dowry, but that the women would be allowed to choose their husbands from among those who should present themselves for the purpose. A great number of men, chiefly soldiers, assem- ‘ bled on the day appointed for the selec- i tien. The women were so shy that they " huddled together like a flock of sheep, ’ and could not be induced to move. At last one of them, taking courage, ad- vanced slowly to an Egyptian sergeant, who was anything but young or hand- some, and put her hand on his shoulder as a sign that he was the man she wished to mam. Her example was instantly followed b the other women, who rush- ed forwar to choose their husbands as if they feared to be too late. It was now the men’s turn to say whether they ac- cepted the selection. All were satisfied but five, and even the five women who were consequently obliged to choose again were ultimately provided with husbands. Chancellor Haven on} Sea-stone“. Henry R. Funk of Allentown, has for. some time been the victim of a disease which he behaved to be consumption. He wasted away under his besetting malady until there was hardly anything left on his bodily frame save the skin, and he had about made up his mind that it would be best for 'him to prepare for the inevitable. He had for a considera- ble time experienced at intervals queer sensations in his windpipe, as if there was some creeping thing in it, and fre- quently remarked these experiences to his family, but was as often talked out of it asbeing the natural results of his sickness or mere imagination. On a re- cent day,while seated in a rocker the sen- sation again presented itself. It felt exactly, he says, as if some reptile was endeavoring to crawl up and out of his , trachea, and being about the same‘time ‘taken with a severe con hing fit he, to his great surprise, as we las to the utter astonishment of. his family, expelled a curious worm abouttwo inches in length , and thick in its middle as a straw stem. It was of a whitish color, and so trans-‘ parent that the blood in its vitals, and which it had absorbed from its victim, could be clearly discerned. The werm’s head was sharp as a needle and its hind- er part flat and stumpy. It was re- markably active and worked its head with great energy. How it came to the man or in what manner it originated is a thing altogether inexplicable,his doctor, to whom t e worm was given, and who has it preserved in alcohol, never having heard of a like case before. The man has since experienced a change for the better, and ieels so much improved that he is inspired with confidence that he will seen again be a well mamâ€"Read- mg Eagle. Palm leaves, Mr J yucca fflbran, whalebone shavings, and feathers, am used in making mm flowers. Queer Place for a Worm. Egypt has a large place in the beantle lul gardens of the Trocadero. I think her exhibit hers is much superior to that whioh she had at Philadelphia. This is not remark able, inasmuch as both France and England are greatly interest- ed to have Egypt take high rank, com- meroiall and otherwise, as they propose to seize er at no distant day, perhaps. French interests in Egypt have led to French collections 0! curiosities and al- most prioeless articles from the strange land of the Pheraoha,and any one who is at all fleased with Egyptian art may here feast he vision upon it. In the» long semi-circular galleries in the ’l‘rooadero Palaee a va_st space iaglven to the ethno- {raphy of Egybt, and'to pictures illus- rative o; the life of its varied andfingq- lar eoples; and not tar from the Seine's ban is a palace, built in the st le with which every one has become so amiliar, either from having seen it on the stage, in imitation, or on the Nile in reality. Within this palace are numerous cham- bers, where very ractical sub'ects are treated, such as 6 growth an culture of Egyptian cotton; the construction and management of the Suez canal; the improvements made under the rule of the present khedive, who, although a ther- ough rascal in finance, is a benefactor to 1 his own land; and a room s ecially adapted to the uses of the " nterna- tional African Exploration Society.” This section has almost a pathetic inter- est. Here the whole grand storv is told; here hang the maps and charts which represent the labors of successive explorers in the beginning of the cen- tury to the present; the portraits of Cameron, Livingstone and Stanley hang side by side here, and beneath them are the maps which tell the story of the great work which Stanley finished forfLiving- stone and for the world. Nearly op- posite these new universall famous faces hang two well execut pictures representing the horrors of the slave trade. The exhibition of Egyptian antiquities and of the works executed in that coun- try, which the imperial government gathered on the OampydeMars in 1867, was remarkable, but in no respect as fine as this one. Here we have a house contemporary with Abraham's grand~ father, if we may take the commission- er‘s word for it, and Mariette-Be , poet, philosopher, Parisian viveur an a kind of Lade also, has assembled the re- sults of his researches for many .ears around the ruins of old Egypt. ari- ette-Bey has divided his portion of the exhibition into three parts, illustrative of the Egypt of the Pharaohs; the Egypt of the Oaliphs and modern Egyptâ€"the country such as the dynasty of Mehemet Ali has left it. For Pharaoh's Egypt you must look in the galleries of the retrospective arts. I have not yet been ‘ able to take a single note here, as the ‘ guardians object. They fanc every one who has a note book an pencil some agent of a prying publisher who wishesto make copies of the priceless antiquities, and they motion to him to “ move on." , oately out ivory work. i l l The most remarkable series of works I presented to the public by Mariette-Bey are tables representing the civilization of Egypt forty centuries before the Christian era. Everything is hereâ€"- navigation, construction of ships, agri- culture, workers in ivory and marble, hunters, fishermen, and toilers at pyra- mids and temples of those times. In the gallery of retrospective arts the walls are, for long distances, covered with these curious tables, which hold popular attention much more readily than do the beautiful majolicas of Italy or the tapestries of Spain. At intervals are placed the sombre Egyptian deities, with hands crossed upon their knees and their eyes looking straight on into the centuries through which the seem to last, as if they real] were on owed with immortal life. Ara art is here repreg sented in a very large degree b richly? illuminated manuscripts, won erfully ornamented lamps (or mos'gues and deli- he Egyptian government does not seem to have made a school exhibit in Paris this year, at least I have thus far been unable to find it. The French journals are filled with complaints against the Eng- lish just now, because the latter have seated themseltea at the very door of Egypt and are now only waiting a good occasion to enter. Everything indicates that the movement for seizure may come much sooner than has been generally ex- pected. The Egyptians seem to care at little who is master, so long as they are not disturbed more than usual.â€" Edward King’s Paris Letter. A Mule’s Perlormanee. At one of the theaters in n town of Nevada, the play of the “ Forty Thieves" was lately presented. but in rather a meager manner, as may be inferred from the lack of abundant scenery and prop- erties in the far West. When Ali Babe had seen the thieves enter and quit the cave, he ‘went‘tp _th_e wings end brought in a mule, which, havin taken grave ofienee at something, awa ted his op - tnnity for revenge. No sooner h Ali come out of the cave with his bags of wealth,gand attempted to at them on the back of the beaet than 0 be an his art of the performance. He let y with is heels; kicked the shavings (the sup. ed riches) out of the bags; kicked own the cavern; kicked down a whole forest; kicked down the wings; kicked the end of the base Viol, leaning against the stage, to pieces ; smashed the foot- lighta; and finally doubled up All Ry planting both feet in the pit of hfa stomach. The mule fairly cleared the stage and set. the audienceinto I great roar, the miners laying wagers that he could outrkick any mule in the State. The quadrupod continued kicking as if he were hung on a givet, until_ 9 rope gau‘figtgfiéfi' {13min}! rhil’n and he win dragged off by the united strength 0! the oompsnv. The Honda! want to give the mufe a be noflt. Egypt at the Paris Exposition, new a lad)? WI. Lash Treated. ’ A correspondent of t describes very intellig a case in surgery, as to k‘ [h ’ let 0! August, 1877. , and daughter of the propm . Alpaca Mill at Jamestown, 0:. county 'N. Y. ', while passing a mm d revolving shalt connected .‘ the mil , was caught by her long ban, and instantly her entire scallp was torn from her headâ€"a0 comple y was aha seal ed that the back of her ears were part y laid bare, as was also the back of her neck below the hair. and on one side the skin was torn oi! nearly to the eyelid. Dr. George W. Whitney. of Jamestown, the 'tamilyph sicinn, wan instantly called. He found is patient a had object, lying in an unconscious state. The writer is responsible for the asser- tion that he believes the doctor at first was undecided what to do, but to do something, he inquired for the seal . An employee had unwound it from o shaft, and finding it torn to @9009, had woxbmts 6r Mummy} nun-1v, an“ thrown it u] thrown it. u n a wood pile. The doctor sheared the hair, and deflbotltel’ with kooedlp and ithyead sqwod_ the pieces together. and men rephood the scalp in its original position. I . 589W 9° hi9. that. pm“!!! 119.00. (E think of nothing else to do. He had very little faith that any real good could be accomplished, but her appearance would be improved for an event In the near future. After four days, little be- ing done but to make the unconscious woman as comfortable as poeeiblehwith the fact that the doctor did very ttle, as was very natural. the anxious family enggeetedaoonneilof physicians. fill ht engpuration had commenced gander} e soél'p, and as the onl possible thing which could be doneyto change Dr. Whitney’s modus operandi, the majority of the council decided that the scalp must be removed. Unwian to mono the reeponsibility of overrulmg the do- oision of the council, yet contrary to his getter judggnept, _he {ethoved _the 50919. Upo nto of the head the scalp all lull, adhear_ and some _hea_lthy grannla were observed. In about eleven dsys a thick scalp came off the skull on top of the head, and in a short time Mn. Hays became conscious and begun to re- alize her ooudition.. She is shout 85 years of age, of medium size, and bed previously enjoyed good health. It now occurred to Dr. Whitney that he could supply a substitute for the lost soul by engrafting. Two or three 111 ion! students, and then others, young men and oung women, volunteered to lend smal pieces of skin from their erms, and these were successfully lsced upon difiercnt parts of her h When I visited the lady professionally with Dr. W,..nhnnt thirtv-flvn him of skin of W.--ebout thirty-five pieces of skin of the size of a silver five cent piece were firmly growin upon her head. She was s sorry-looking sightâ€"her heed being in color and a peerenee like e piece of fresh beef. e poor women, hsd any amount 0! fortitude and coma“ She asked Dr. W. if he would sd se , her to take e ride of a mile or two. H / replied that he should not take the res . sponsibility just then. She asked him \i what he would do about it if he were in her position. He replied thet if he felt like taking a ride in an easy carriage {or a couple of miles, he should do so. The result was that in a day or two Mrs. Hays commenced ' early morning rides, without any h results. The last I heard from her, a few weeks since, she had had 1,880 pieces engrdted upon her head, and she was doing well. It is not often that we know. or re- member, if we do know, the origin of games withflwhich wefare mos: {aimiliabri eir signi oance is uent y not altered circumstances my want of in- formation on our Bart. It is notgsner- ally known that t e Hudson was called North River in contradiction to the South River, as the Delaware was formerly styled. Massachusetts Was so ‘dubbed because in the aboriginal tongue it meant “ about the great hills,” 4. 0., the Blue Hills. Boston, named after the English city, was originally St. Bardolph's Town, of which Boston is an abbreviated cor- ruption. Alban was so christened in honor of the D e of York and Albany, (afterward James II.) at the time it came into possession of the English, (1664). Catskill is Dutch for panther or lynx, which once infested those mountains. Cattaraugus was so designs by the Indians because they had, for e mysm ‘ terious reason, associated it with unpleas- 3 ant odors. It means ill-smelling shore. , This is not quite so bad as Chicago, an ‘ Indian word, signifying a loumart. which, 1 judging from t e complaints in Chicago ‘ papers of the city’s peculiar fragrance, ‘ ould seem to have been properly named. Chemung means big here, rent a iossil tusk found in the river. Crown Point is said to ha a bean ”consensus? ‘ scalpingp «were sent mossy the 4 ' French and Indians. MWwfld- cat, andwas borne by a‘ use tribeol savages exterminated by , .. A uois. Man attan is eminently fl island. Mohawk was'a New England tribes to t s from their habit of eating live toad. Niagara means neck of water; Oneida, people of the beacon stone; Onondaga, place of the hills; Serum: place of the miraculous waters in a :00 villa c on a mountainâ€"the chief seat 0 the gnondagas; Schenectady river v ley beyond the pine trees; eoa classic, as many have supposed corrupt Indian ronunoiat on Dutch word cinna ar~vermilli . ‘ seyisacorrn tion of Cross -. Latin name 0 the largest oi t ., islands. Passaio signifies . km pelagos. the sea Atlas. Metropolis, its import beingii on the ‘ '; Ontario, . ' l Orlgln of Some Hamlin Emu, smiling .nbor I00~ Iowa mill» Dun‘