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They have anovel mode of discovering a criminal in Japan: The magistrates 40f the village of Awa, being unable to discover the author of a. series of mys- terious crimes, opened a poll, inviting every citizen to name on his ballot the person whom he thou ht guilty. One notorious ne’er-do-wel was elected as the culprit b a great majority, and hav- ing cont his crime was promptly executed. mom It in the newepa em." “My dear air,” an! the general in his most tragic tones I carried your hill through both houses {11 m5 pmket. At the next session, «it, when there will be lee: excitement, I shall have it passed. Good-by; I will see you again, sir, in December." I! u “HUI IIIâ€"‘â€" “0h 1" exclaimed the general. “Yes, I remember. You. Why, I carried that bill through both houses without any trouble.” “You did! I did not see anything obout it _in thonqwapoperg.” “Well, gen on did not get my bill through. '9'“, y "Your bill, sir ?" asked the general. “Yes, my bill for granting pensions to the heirs of those who were called out WQ‘PQE‘I-fiy , of Milan, 3 structure of wood with every spire, cnpola and minaret covered first with blue then with the difi‘erent “ points " selected. The stonework is close crochet, which imitates carving, the iret work is Irish, the rugged parts are grained tape lace, and one is remind- ed of Napoleon's curious remark: “Those towers," he said, “ are as delicate as Flemish point, and to this day look asif taken out of a box." That the electricity of the atmos here is as necessary to vegetation as sun ight, air, and water has been established by experiments made by M. Grandeau, Pro- fessor of the French Ecole Forestiere. In April, 1877, he took two tobacco giants, each weighing 3} grammes and ving tour leaves. They were both planted in boxes containing mould of identical quality, and placed side by side in a position favorable to their growth. But one of them had placed over it a cage, consisting of four rods one metre tycentimetres high, join- ed at the top and covered with wire gauze, which permitted the free circula- tion of air, light, and water, but com- pletely protected the plant from the ac- tion of atmospheric electricity. They were left uninterfered with until the middle of August, yhen the results ob- A Washington correspondent eaye that as one representative was leaving the United States capital after the close of the recent session, a pension agent who hula from his district came up to him and said: ' Much litigation is likely to grow out the mill explosion in Minneapolis. The insurance companies refuse to pay the whole damage, on the ground that they are liable only for the actual loss by fire; but the mill owners hold that fire caused the explosion, and that, thereâ€" $13.: the entire loss was in'conaequence e. tained were as follows: The plant in the open air had attained a height of three feet five inches, while the other was 01:13 two feet four inches; the former weigh 278 grammes and the latter 140 grammes; when dried their respective weights were thirty grammes and fifteen and a half grammes. Similar experi- ments made with maize and wheat gave analogous results. It' I! noted by a New Jersey nursery dealer, as afeather in the crest of the s arrow, that whereas formerly he em- p oyed two boys all summer long in ing four acres of rose-bushes oglear of e destructive slug, this season has been wholly unnecessary since the advent of the sparrow. At the Paris Ex sition there is a curiosity, made of the different kinds of lace that could be used for the pur- pose, is a reproduction of the Cathedral In England and Wales there are 68,538 persons of unsound mind, an increase of 1.902 over last year. The ratio to population is 27.x] to 10,000. Edison, the inventer, proposes to proa- epeot in California for ore bodies by means of electricity. and thinks he can determine by the resistance to the cur- rent the extent of any ore body, and also determine its relation. The lady conductor of a well-known English magazine recently cut out a leaf from an entire edition of the period- ical because a novel running through its pages contained a reference of a libel- ous nature. The Prince of Wales in going next year to Australia, China and Japan, and Gen. Grant, at the same time, will visit India, China and Japan, returning to to United States by way of California. Statistics show that the actual con- sumption of eggs in the United States is about 10,600, 000 barrels. The poultry marketed or consumed in 1877 is esti- mated at 680, 000, 000 pounds of the value of 868, 000. 000. By rolling it in s blanket soaked in hot mustard an apparently lifeless child was resuscitabed at Wetheretleld, Oouu., recently. A Louisville young woman advertised in the papers for an escort to a concert and forty young men replied. Flies (Happened from the din- lou moo wi‘h yellow lover. Carrying the Bill Through. THEIR TOPICS. Mr. L.-â€"So long as the district attor- ney allows mbling to be carried on in the cit wi out restraint of or punish- ment y law, I consider it perfectly roper to describe a professional gam- Bler as a law-abiding citizen. When the laugh had subsided the dis- trict attorney blushed “loudly” and said to the witness “That is all.”â€" Ohtcago Tribune. Mr. Lawrenceâ€"I have, and I do so consider him. D. A.â€"You know that he has been a gambler? Mr. L.â€"-I know he has. D. A.â€"Do you consider it exactly roper to call a proleseional gambler a agzabiding citizen ? Among the English nobility who have been invested with the order are Earls Granville and Shaftesbury, the Dukes of Wellington, Devonshire, Somerset, Sutherland and Westminster, and Vis- count Stratiord de Redolifl‘e. The late Earl Russell was of the number, as was also the late exâ€" King George of Hanover. Few members of the British House of Commons have received the honor. Palmerston was the last. Walpole re- ceived it while 1n the House, as did Lora North fifty yyears laterâ€"Lord North be. ing desi ated in debate as “ the noble lord wit the blue ribbon.” It was offered the young ger Pitt, who declined it for himself, but asked that it might be given to his wayward elder brother, second and last Earl of Ohatham. The i1":aflilztzestwasg,mnted but the king wished tinctly understood that the bestowal was in consideration of services ren- dered to the crown by all the members of the family. A writer in Belgram'a relates that when it was offered to the late Lord Fitzwilliam, he asked how much it would cost. “About a thous- sand pounds, ” some one replied, where- upon the noble lord uietl remarked that he thought be con d e a better A lawyer sometimes picks up a witness that he is quite willing to drop as soon as possible, as witness the following: A Mr. Lawrence was on the stand in Mil- waukee during the trial of Russell Wheeler for murder and said that he knew the prisoner well and knew him to be a peaceable, law - abiding citizen. when cross-examined by the district attorney, the following colloquy took place:â€" ,, 7 ' District Attorneyâ€"Yon have testified, Mr. Lawrence, that you consider the defendgnt a law-abjdying citizen. 01‘ the royal family, beside the Queen and Prince of Wales, who belong to the order, there are the Dukes of Edinburgh, Connaught and Cambridge, and Prince Leopold ; of foreign sovereigns, the kings of Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Bel- gium and the Hellenes, and emperors of Germany, Austria. Russia and Brazil, beside the Shah of Persia ; of titled persons from abroad, the dukes of Saxe Meiningen, Brunswick and Ssxe Ooburg Gotha, the grand dukes of Mecklenbur - Strelitz and Hesse Darmstadt, (Louis IV.,) the crown prince of Germany, and the princes Christian of Holstein and William of Prussia. use of his maney. him, but O'harles for the last time. As now used, it consists of a dark blue velvet garter, edged with gold, and bearing the motto in letters of gold, and worn below the knee on the left leg;a mantle of blue velvet, lmed with white taffeta; a hood of crimson velvet; a sur- coat also of crimson velvet, and lined with white tafl'eta; a hat of black velvet, lined with tafleta, and bearing a plume of ostrich and heron feathers, fastened by a band of diamonds. The collar is of gold, being composed of twenty-six pieces, each m the form of a garter, and has appended to it a figure of St. George on horseback. A lesser St. George is enamelled on gold and set with dia- monds, being suspended over the left shoulder by a dark blue ribbon. The star has eight points, and isof silver, having the cross of St. George in the centre and being embroidered on the left breast. The original dress of knights was a blue mantel tunic and ca uchin, em- broidered with garters of go (I and blue silk, the Ingest of which was worn on the left_shoul§er of the mantle. __B.enry _V_III. 9113ng jt, a_s dig opuleg II. attér The Order of the Garter, with which Earl Beaconsileld and Lord Salisbury have been invested by the Queen of Great Britain. is one of the oldest and most famous of the orders oi knighthood that remain in Europe. The exact date of its foundation is not known. One authority ascribes it to 1192, when in a battle mth the Saracens on St. George's Day, Richard Occur de Lion command- ed twenty-six of his knights to wear around their legs thongs 0 blue leather. But most writers agree that it dates from Edward 111., though the precise date is in dispute, Froissart giving 1844, and Stow 1350. General tournaments in that time were held at Windsor. At one of them, says the familiar story, the Countess of Salisbury let fall her garter when dancing with the king, and the king picking it up, tied it round his leg. There were smiles from the company and jealous glances from the queen, noticing which Edward restored the garter to the countess, saying “Hon! sod gui mat 3/ pence,” (Evil to him who evil thinks) and added that those who smiled would shortly see the garter ad- vanced to such honor and renown as to account themselves happy to wear it. There have been writers to ridicule this story, but none to suggest a more prob- able theory. The order was founded in honor of the Hol Trinity, the Virgin Mary, St. Edwar the Oonfessor, and St. George, the latter of whom had then become the guardian saint of England, and was considered the special patron of the order. It has always borne the title of “The Order of St. George” as well as of “The Garter.” An Inconvenient Witness. The Order of the Gator. A Nevada news up or tells how a Pinto squaw shoots: ‘he will throw herself on her back, clap both feet to the bow, draw the arrow with both hands and, let- tin drive, send it clean through the y o! the deer.” hear him call, but he felt'that the active brains of his friends would seek him out, and that sooner or later he would be liberated. ' He was found sitting composed in the tomb, and by no means so much agi- tated as was any one of those who were looking for him. He explained the ac- cident, his shrieks for assistance and then his relapse into a calm and philo- sophical consideration of the circum- stances He knew that no one could The tomb has an ornamental door let into the solid rock surroundings. It is massive, thick, uninvitingâ€"and seems just the aperture for s perpetual home for the dead. Beyond it is an airy apartment, in which the sunlight filters. When Mr. William Niblo entered his favorite resting-place that summer after- noon so long ago, he sat in his accustom- ed seat, 0 ened his book and fell to reading. e wind rose, the vault was filled with air until 31 nropulsivejorce was generated, and then, suddenly, there came a short, sharp click. with semi-darkness after it. Mr. Niblo was shut in. The vault door had sprung That night Mr. Niblo did not return to his home in this city. Nothing was thought of it as he had such a number of friends whom he might visit and re- main until late, but when the morning showed the room unoccupied and she bed undisturbed, then alarm seized the household. Search was made ; the clubs, the places of public resort, the theatersâ€"all were visited. He had not been there the night revious. Then one remembered the visits to the Green- wood tomb. When those who were aearehin for William Niblo reached the gate 0 the cemetery they were met by the man in charge. He remembered that Mr. Niblo had been there so many days be- fore that it had become a custom. What was the matter? Mr. Niblo lost? “Come to think of it, I didn’t see him go out of here when I looked np_._ He mnat be in the tomb.” Deserted by all his relatives, Johnny felt lonesome, and when the ship which took them away returned, he went to the captain and told him he was going to America also. The captain advised him 0 stay in County Gavan, but his reso- lution was taken, and he came to New York. His small stature was a sore trial to him at first. He was sensitive on the subject, and when he ventured into the streets a large crowd would follow him, and their curiosity so annoyed him that in sheer desperation he at last made his way tohisfnend the captain and told him he wanted to go back to Ireland. The captain soothed his wounded feelings and told him that when once he became known persons would' stop annoying him. So he went back and stolidly took no notice of the attention he attracted. He has lived in New York nearly twenty- flve years, and for eight years has been employed on the street-cleaning force at full ay. “1 can swee two piles to any of 0 others’ one," e said sturdily, straightening his little shoulders. Gen- tlemen sometimes offer him money, but he refuses all alms. P. T. Barnum once ofl'ered him a large sum to exhibit him, but the proposal was refused. â€" New York Tribune. - Imprisoned in His Own Tomb. About fifteen years ago (says a New York paper) the late William Niblo, of Niblo’s Garden, built a handsome tomb in Greenwood Cemetery. He expend- ed a great deal of money upon it, and it naturally became one of the attractions of that pensive resort. Among the oc- centricitiea of the veteran manager was that of visiting this tomb on sultry Sunday afternoons, and sitting there, novel in hand, until the shadowing of the grand path before the door showed him that evening was near. One day Mr. Niblo passed through the lodge- gate as usual, saluted the attendant in his customary courtly style, and wander- edyayo. -. Persons passing through Broadway late at mg t may have often seen a diminutive figure, with a broom a yard taller than himself, engaged with the night gang in cleaning the street. The little sweeper's name is John Boilan, and he lives at number 588 East Elev- enth street. Next to “Tom Thumb" or Commodore Nutt, “Little Johnny,” as he is called, is perhaps the smallest man in this country. He lives in a small, dark, rear room of a big tene- ment house. An old woman who occu~ ies an adjoining room was asked it she new him. "Know Johnny!" was the reply; “ bless me! I have known Johnny for thirty year. Why, Johnny is next to Tom Tum; you've heard tell of Tom Tum?” The old woman went on to re- late numerous anecdotes about the small- est man in New York, when he appeared in rson. He came up the steps and w ked briskly into the room. He is not more than three feet tall, but ve broad for his size. His head and use are out of proportion to the rest of his body, being as large as those of a full grown man. He was reticent at first, but gradually became more communi- cative. He said he was forty-six years old, and was born at Ballyhochie. County Gavan, Ireland. There he lived until he was twenty-one years old. In the old country Johnny had a small hoe and a spade made for him, and content- edly raised potatoes until his parents died and-hisbrothers and sisters came to America. pm. John Bollsn. Ibo Brotdwny snou- Sweeper. A Nevpda newpggper {A3119 how a Pink SIALLBSQ IAN IN NEW YORK. Many ornaments aroused for the hair, writes a correspondent. Silver fllagree combs are very fashionable, as are pins of red or pale yellow gold. The shell comb is seen in a variety of shapes. Dyed hair has had its day. Somany {frame are suffering from the effects of e various dyes that ph icians are rc- hibiting the use of the ifi'erent kin sof coloring matter. The French govern- ment makes a study of the preservation of life. When dyed hair became the fashion the government ordered a board of scientific men to anal ze blondiue and other kinds of dye. e result was a report that the use of these dyes im- paired the eyesight and the complexion, and a rseverance in the use produced ill ~hea th and shortened life. The French government then prohibited, by a legis- lative act, the use of hair dyes. The American women are the most profitable customers which the French chemists have. A weak-minded young lad for a series of years changed her a k air to blonds. She was forced to d' ontinue its use, and now ap ears withrdead gray hair and blue gogg es. She has utterly ruined her eyes, complexion, hair and health. Her handsome ounflsband carries around a wreck_ o the nty he married six years ago. The property is valued at the enor- mous sum of 837,500,000, not including interest on some items now held in trust by the Bank of England. The property consists of real and personal estate, mostly in London, the most valuable being 1.009 houses in the British metrop- olis. Both the New York lawyer, who is looking after the legal interests of the heirs, and the i_lrm of English solicitors, unite in pronouncing the claim of the American claimants as indisputable. sixty-seven years old, and had been in business as a miller, but had retired on account of his age and feeble health. Proceedings were taken to recover his share in the state, and a New York lawyer was sent over in the interest of Mr. Chadwick, Samuel Booth, of Provi- dence, B. I., and the two sons of Samuel Chadwick, Thomas Chadwick's brother. These were the only heirs, and all were living in this country. As mentioned show, Thomas Chadwick died suddenly of heart disease, and his two sons, Cornelius and Ferdinand, now succeed to his interest in the English estate. The heir to an estate of $37,500,000 died in Philadelphia on areoent Sunday. In the year 1768 Sir Andrew Ohadwio , an English baronet, died in London, leaving a very rich estate curtailed upon his son. After this son died, the prop- erty fell into the hands of the heirs-at- law, who enjoyed it until it finally beâ€" came a subject of litigation, and was thrown into the chanoery courts, where possession was contested for many ears. The true heirs became scatter and lost, and in 1874 the English courts advertised for Thomas Chadwick, the direct descendant of Sir Thomas Chad- wick, the seventh generation. removed. I'II‘L- _h-_. I“ The 'man in notation was living in a suburb of Ph' adelphia. He was then 'Another most elaborate device for abstracting articles from the shop couu. ter has just been divulged in the police court. and deserves to be ranked among the brightest inventions of the Ex osi~ tion era. The actress in the per mm- anceâ€"for this time it was not a “ knight,” but a “ lady " of industryâ€" made use of a small child as a sort of stalking horse to cover her maneu. vres, and by this means contrived to carry ofi‘ a considerable booty before she was detected. On coming into a shop, the child was set down upon the counter, in a sitting posture, close to some pieces of lace or other coveted articles, while the supposed mother asked to be shown something else. Very soon afterwards she managed to administer to the illfated infant a severe pinch, which naturally caused it to howl aloud, and upon this the lady would hurriedly snatch up her pretended oil‘- spring, and with many apologies for its misbehavior, carry it ofl', together with the object which it was desired to appro- pri_ate. This trick, simple as it was, seems to have had a great success, owing no doubt to that feeling of s mpathy with maternal love with whic the French nation is so amply gifted. As long as the objects stolen were only of moderate dimensions, everything went well. The afl'ecticnatc mother was easily able to hurry away into a cab before the search after her began. But from one species of theft she unluckily proceeded to an- other, aud at length conceived the mis- taken idea of carrying ofl' a huge piece of pork. The usual proceeding had been adopted and safely carried out up to the time of exit into the street. But the booty had hardly been taken out of the shop when some voracious dog wan- dering in that vicinity was lucky enough to catch scent of it, and made an attack upon the party, in which several other curs soon joined. The astonishment of the bystanders was followed by in- quiries, explanations, and at last the appearance on the scene of the pork butcher, who succeeded this time in re- covering his property, and bringing the too audacious thief to justice. The judges who pxesido at the Courts of {lorrectwnsl Police, in Psris, would be almost justified in chiming on in- atease oi psy this year, so large are the additions made to their duties b the influx 0! visitors, fsshionnble sn un- faehioneble, and by the consequent in- crease of petty oil'ences. Pocket pick- ing and all sorts of stealing sud cheating have become unusually prevalent within the past few months, and the ingenuity 'of the knights of industry has developed itself to an extent which could hardly have been expected by the bittereet cynic. , Entitled to Thirty-seven Million Dollars. Detected by a Dog. Fashionable Hair. The women of Cyprus, like all t! Greek women, chew great quantitieu mastic, imported by the island to Sci: and deem it graoelnl to agree:- elm; biting this gum and it w soon be 1 order for a later hymn to remark: “MS of Cyprus now we've come. Leave. ol leave 03 owing gum." The farmers of the 1:3ublic will con trol its destiny. Agri ture, commerc and manufactures are the three pursuit that enrich a nationâ€"but the greatest 0 these is agriculture, for without its prc ducts the spindle cannot turn and! ship will not sail. Agriculture furn' the conservative element in society, . in the end is the guiding, restraini controlling force in governmen Against storms of popular fury; aim frenzied madness that seeks ool isio with established order; against theorir of administration that have drenche other lands in blood; against the spir of anarchy that would sweep awa th landmarks and safeguards of Oh stia society and republican government, th farmers of the United States will stan as the shield and the bulwarkâ€"then selves the willing subjects of law, an therefore its safest and strongest admii istrators.--From breech. at Mum apolia. right to stand as one of the marvels thus age of wondrous discoveries. â€"L¢ rcnce, Ham, American. wire, and we seeno reason why may not be added with the same resul Conversation in the room where the ’ end of the wire. This is the inatru which in Halifax, England, was attach to the pulpit ofoa chapel, the oonneotin wires being carried to a house the tance of a mile, every word of the men being transmitted with distinotn and even enabling the listener at close to hear the janitor as he walked the aisle, closed the Bible, and re ing closed and locked the door. As the uses to which it may be put, there scarcely any limit to the imagination already in surgery it has been practical]: applied, as a detector of bullets am other foreign bodies, and it is though likely to prove invaluable in a diagnosi of lung, heart and other diseases, Ou brief examination convinced us of it Senator Blaine on Famen’ Influenl rts, one and resting u n the ' wrapped to the board;pt)he wire}: which the sound is to be conveyed attached to either corner of the and connected by other wires with carbon vibrator and the battery; carbon, highly charged as it is mercury, possesses the power not 0 of conductivity, and of reprcdu sound, but of vastly increasing its er. As the microscope reveals to the of man the most insignificant of net works, so does the micro hone discl to our hearing even inaudible sound. Mr. Fallon has connected with microphonesome six hundred feet wire, and in the room at the other During the experiments which we m with the assistance of Mr. hideout, watch was placed upon the instrumel and through the nearly one-eighth 01 mile of wire came to the ear not only 11 separate ticking, resounding like t heavy beating of a marine or tow clock, but we could clearly detect 1: whirr of the minute wheels, the bu and friction of the delicate machinery the watch. Then the watch was remove and the gentlest sweep of the down of feather, brushed as h htly as possih across the board, reac ed the ear ma nified to sound like the coarse grating a file or the scraping of a heavy brus Then a small wirefpage, containing h common house flies, was laced on t] instrument, and to the istening as six hundred feet away, distinctly car! the soft and irregular patter of the til feet as the flies walked over the boss and as the flew from one side of the cage to e other, the sound as thc struck against the fine wire was heel with a sharp metallic ring, altogetlm like that of the hammer of a boil: welder as he rivets the bolts in the ifl cylinder. We were somewhat sceptic in relation to this last expe ' out, seemed so much beyond credence, the wires were detached, the annun tor fastened to the instrument with afew feet of wire, and we sat down‘. front of the little wonder and with eyes made certain that there was possibility of deceit as to the source the marvellous sounds to which' listened; but there was no difiem the footfalls o! the fly came with seeming greater distinctnoss than I]: transmitted through six hundred feet a wire, in a wonderful manner. microphone of Mr. Fallon, impo from England, is a simple little a a thin piece of deal, perhaps five in b three, insulated by means of four 0 rubber, one at each corner, on wh it rests; to this is attached a smj ordinary battery; a small piece of p carbon is fastened with a bit of wire the board, and another piece of earl like an mob and a hall pipestem pivoted near the center. from little s1 A til-pie Lillie luau-cu which R! Hen-d lee. flannel-u Eltonâ€"flu If" Welt. By the courtesy of Agent Fell Pacific Mills. who is quite an out set in scientific matters, we spent lightful hour a few days since in ex ments with that latest marvel of dil ery, the microphone. a little instrlu which becomes to the ear whet microscope is to the eye. This discovery of Professor Hughes 0! C Britain, who, while experimenting the telephone, found; a new elem through which he has succeeded in footing an instrument by which soul msgnifleg or increaseg {ind conveyet Till MBVELLOUB IICBOPH