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I®? Ps&rf̂ er •?!##" J, TA5 SLYXIL tuBusapau ^IcHEKRY, ILLINOIS. " ' U»HTMIN«. net IvelCflects of ThatitMlSformit w'a,^l!iie'r]l6ile | [From Spang's Treatise on Lightning Protection.] The amount of destruction of life and j property by lightning, or rather electri- * cal discharges, has been very great ,f throughout the world. v It is estimated that at least 45 persons are killed annually by lightning in this country. The average number of deaths •* t by lightning has been 22 in England, 9 ^ in Switzerland, 3 in Belgium, and 75 in France. In France alone, during a period of 30 years, over 10,000 persons IS were smitten, of which 2,252 were in­ stantly killed. Eighty were wounded and 9 killed during one thunderstorm at Chateauneuf les Montiers in 1861, and within one week, when the air was high­ ly charged with electricity, 33 fearful r flashes of lightning were observed, each bringing death to some victims. During the sixteen years between 1799 and 1816, 156 vessels of the British navy were struck by lightning; 73 men were killed and 138 injured, ana the loss of materials amounted to over a million dollars; but since the system of metal­ lic conductors, adapted for vessels, de­ vised by Sir W. Snow Harris, has been applied to the vessels in that navy, the ^losses and damages by lightning have * almost entirely ceased, although the number of vessels has been greatly in- creased. In "Fuller's Church History" it is stated that " scarcely a great abbey in England exists which once, at least, was not burned down by lightning from heaven." On one night of April, 1718, twenty- four steeples were struck along the coast of Brittany ; and on the 11th of January, 1815, twelve steeples suffered a similar fate in the Rhenish provinces. * On the 27th of July, 1759, lightning burnt all the wood-work of the great cathedral at Strasbourg; and on the 14th of August, 1133, it was struck three times within,a quarter of an hour, and so much damaged that the repairs cost about $6,000,000. In 1835 lightning conductors were placed upon the build­ ing and steeple, and since then it has not been damaged whatever by lightning, although discharges have on several oc­ casions occurred in line with the top of the steeple, which is 437 feet above the ground. On the 18th of August, 1769, the Tower of St. Nazaire, at Brescia, was struck, and the subterranean powder magazine, containing 2,076,000 lbs. of " powder, belonging to the republic of Venice, was exploded. One-sixth of the whole tow u was laid in ruins and the rest very muc i injured, and about 3,000 per­ sons killed. On the 26th of June, 1807, the powder : magazine of Luxembourg, containing 28,000 pounds, was struck, aud, besides about 30 persons killed and 200 injured, the town was ruined. Explosions and large fires, involving a great loss, have become rather frequent in this country, owing to the iron tanks nsed for the storage of petroleum being struck by lightning. From March to August, in 1876, over 10,000,000 gallons, and on April 19, 1877, over 2,000,000 gallons of oil and the village of Trout- man, were destroyed in the oil regions of Pennsylvania. In the States of Illinois and Iowa, and the prairie country west of the Mississip­ pi river, thunder-storms are generally more terrific, and more lives have been lost there from the effects of lightning than in any other section of this coun­ try. Owing to the said country being level and devoid of trees, the equilibrium between the electricity of the atmos- Jjhere and that of the earth is principal-y restored by disruptive discharges. Sudden Death of Three Horse-Thieves. A letter from Rapids City, Dak. Ter., to the Omaha Republican says: When we came: to this town everything seemed quiet and peaceful, but upon the ridge, a mile west of town, near a large pine tree, were the bodies of three young men with ghastly, blackened fa^es turned up­ ward toward the clear blue sky, the ropes dangling from the limbs of the pine tree, and the deep cuts in their necks showing but too plainly how they died. During the day two or three men went out northwest from town to get some logs, and were surprised, when about four miles out, oy people whom they supposed to be Indians, judging by the way they rode their horses. Being with an ox team the men left it and ran for the woods, and by taking a circuitous • route came into Rapids nearly scared to death. A party of fifteen well-armed men immediately started out, and found, seven or eight miles out, three white men asleep, with four horses picketed near them. They surrounded them, cov­ ered them with their rifles, and awoke them. They were taken to town, and when examined confessed that the horses were stolen at Crook. Tliey were placed in a log cabin for the night, but about 3 o'clock in the morning a band of twenty vigilantes took them out, and when the Eeople of the town arose there they were anging dead, in plain sight of town. They were buried last evening. The following is to be their epitaph: A. J. Allen. Louis Curry. Jan. Hall. Age 35 years. Age 29 years. Age 19 yean. HOR8E-THIKVE8 BEWABK. Here lies the body of Curry, Allen and Hall; Like other thieves, they had their rise, decline «««» fall; -On yon tree they hung till dead, And here they found a lonely bed. Then be a little cautious how you gobble horses up, For every horse you pick up here adds sorrow to your cup; We're bound to stop this business, or hang you to a man. For we've hemp and hands enough in town to swing the whole damn clan. ' Remembered Kindness. In one of the hotly-contested fights in Virginia, during the war, a Federal of­ ficer fell wounded in front of the Con­ federate breastworks. While lying there wounded and crying piteously for water, a Confederate soldier (James Moore, of Burke County, N« C.) de­ clared his intention of supplying him with drink. The bullets were flying thick from both sides, and Moore's friends endeavored to dissuade him from such a hazardous enterprise. Despite remonstrance and danger, however, Moore leaped the breastwork, canteen in hand, reached his wounded enemy, and gave him drink. T&e Federal, un­ der a sense of gratitude for the timely service, took out his gold watch and of­ fered it to his benefactor, but it was re­ fused. The officer then asked the name of the man who had braved such danger to succor him ; the name was given, and Moore returned unhurt to his position behind the embankment. They saw nothing more of each other. Moore was subsequently wounded and lost a limb in one of the engagements in Virginia, and returned to his home in Burke county. A few days ago he received a communication from the Federal soldier to whom he had given the " cup of eold water" on the occasion alluded to, an­ nouncing that he had settled on him the sum of $10,000, to be paid in four equal annual installments of $2,500 each. In­ vestigation has established the fact that there is no mistake or deception in the matter.--Raleigh (N. C.) News. The Cry " Dead-Heads." In a long article on " Journalism and Reporters," the New York Evening Mail says : " It is the people and not the journalists who are ' dead-heads.' In case anything happens to a person, he hastens to the nearest newspaper and de­ mands that the editor shall wield his pen and shed ink in his vindication or de­ fense. And if the jaded editor does not with alacrity espouse the cause of his ' patron1 he will make an enemy for life. 'Members of the press' are literally hunted down by all sorts of people who have axes to grind. The managers of a public meeting who do not find the re­ porters at the table suffer stings of dis­ appointment ; the Judge, who sonorously blows his nose before reading his opinion, looks anxiously for the stenographers ; the preacher, who descants upon some special subject, loses spirit if the repre­ sentatives of the press are not there; even the burglar on the way to State prison covets a talk with the ' newspaper man.' Yet the outside barbarian thinks all newspaper men are dead-heads, and envies them fine times they have in the way of free tickets to all manner of shows. There never was a greater mistake. People do not seem to realize that, on the part of the journalist, it is merely a mat­ ter of business that the reporter goes to these places, so attractive to outsiders, much as the horse goes to the plow--be­ cause he must do so. We venture to say that four-fifths of these entertainments are to journalists intolerable bores. The press is the victim of the public's rapa­ cious and unceasing demand without pay. ^Let us have the boot on the right leg. Poor Shells. A good story of Prince Paskievitch, fathier of the Princess Volkousky, and grandfather of the charming Princess Kourakine : During the siege of War­ saw he had ordered a certain Polish bat­ tery to be silenced by his own artillery, and became perfectly wild with rage on observing that the artillery lire produced no appreciable effect. Galloping to the battery he asked : " What idiot is in charge here?" "I, sir," answered an officer. "Then down you go to the ranks this very day," said Paskievitch; "you don't begin to know your trade ; your shells do not explode. "I know they don't," answered the Captain; "for the best of all reasons, that they can't explode." "That's a lie," said the Prince. "Is it? See for yourself, then," replied the officer, coolly picking up a shell from the pile and lighting the fuse, and holding it up between himself and the Marshal. The Marshal tranquilly crossed his arms and watched till the fuse sputtered and went out. " There, sir," said the artilleryman, triumphant­ ly, as he threw the shell on the ground. " You were right, after all," growled the Marshal, and rode away to another point of the line, but at night the Cap­ tain received at his tent the Cross of St. Vladimir for bravery in the field. Shakspcare's Acting. There is a tradition that Shakspeare played the part of a King with a peculiar grace and majesty. In confirmation of this a pretty story is told. It is said that one day when the Queen was in the the­ ater, Shakspeare mimicked royalty so well that Elizabeth, who was always ready to have a little fun with a clever man, even though ho *vas a poor player, whispered to her ladies that she would try if she could not make this pretended monarch turn into ar awkward fellow enough at a moment's notice. Accord­ ingly, at a critical point in the scene, the Queen,, who was sitting just over the stage, which was then held to be the place of honor, let her handkerchief fall at the feet of Shakspeare, who was just then standing close belo;v her. Her mis­ chievous Majesty expected to see the actor start and redden and lose his cue. Instead of that he finished his speech with his usual power, and, without seem­ ing to notice the handkerchief. Then stooping and picking it up, he gave it back to the Queen with a bow, in which there was an indescribable mixture of dignity and homage, saying, as he did BO, these words to his train of stage courtiers: But ere we get to horse and ride away Let us pick up our sister's handkerchief. ^r.zyrs " A Splendid Mausoleum. The late Duke of Brunswick, who died a few years ago at Paris, was possessed of very considerable wealth in diamonds and other precious stones. These, along with other property of immense value, he bequeathed to the city of Geneva, and the municipality have resolved to erec a mausoleum to the memory of their benefactor which shall be without a parallel in Europe. The monument is to be placed in tne Jardin des Alpes, and it is to cost $280,000. The design includes a series of six statues, repre­ senting the ancestors of the deceased Duke. The first is to be Duke Henry "the Lion," and the last that of Duke Frederick William, who fell at the battle of Quatre Bras, which immediately pre­ ceded the defeat of the French at Water­ loo. _ On a colossal pedestal of polished granite, sixty feet in height, will rest the sarcophagus, on which will be a recum­ bent figure of the Prince, and over this will be a canopy, to be surmounted by an equestrian statue of the latcwDuke in modern civil costume. OF the many amusing blunders of printers and proof-readers, one of the most striking occurs in a volume of laws of Vermont for 1876. Act No. 25 amends section 78-- instead of 28, which was probably intended--so that hereafter no person is to be allowed to ran a locomo­ tive through a saw-mill. VITAL FORCE, 8oM t th« IfoedleM Warn in Whfeh It to Wasted. X.. [From Chambers' Journal ] _ Let us consider a few of the many ways in which we waste the stuff that life is made of. It has been well said that " the habit of looking on the bright side of thingp is worth far more than a thousand pounds a yearand certainly it is a habit that must add many years to the lives of those who acquire it. Real­ ly every fit of despondency and every rage take so much out of us that anyone who indulges in either without a great struggle to prevent himself doing so should be characterized as little less than--to use an American expression-- "a fearful fool." How silly it seems even to ourselves, after cooling, to have become generally done up, stamping round the room, and showing other signs of foolish anger, because the din­ ner was five minutes late, or because someone's respect for us did not quite rise to the high standard measured by our egotism ! As if it were not far more important that we should save our vital energy, and not get into a rage, than that the dinner should be served exactly to the^moment. One day a friend of Lord Ipp&ierston asked him when he considered a man to be in the prime of life: his immediate reply was: " Seventy-nine. But," he added, with a playful smile, "as I have just entered my 80th year, perhaps I am myself a little past it!" How is it that such men work on vigorously to the end? Be­ cause they treasure their ever-diminish­ ing vital force. They studiedly refrain from making a pull on the constitution. Reaching the borders of 70 years of age, they as good as say to themselves: " We must now take care of what we are about." Of course, they make sacri­ fices, avoid a number of treacherous gayeties, and living simply; they per­ haps give some cause of offense, for the world does not approve of singularity. But let those laugh who win. They hold the censorious observations of critics in derision, and maintain the even tenor of their way. In other words, they conserve their vital force, and try to keep above ground as long as possi­ ble. Blustering natures, forgetful of the great truth that "power itself hath not one-half the might of gentleness," miss the ends for which they strive just because the force that is in them is not properly economized. Then as regards temper, any man who allows that to master him wastes as much energy as would enable him to remove the cause of anger or overcome an opponent. The little boy of 8 years old, who in the country is often Been driving a team of four immense dray-horses, is one of the innumerable instances of the power of reason over mere brute force, which should induce violent tempers to become calm from policy, if from no higher motive. The Fire Brigade of Constantinople. C. W. Stoddard writes the San Fran­ cisco Chronicle from Constantinople: " The fire brigade of this inflammable city is better than nothing, for it shows a willingness on the part of the authori­ ties to afford the populace a cheap and perfectly harmless amusement. Con­ stantinople is always in flames. It has several times attracted the attention and the sympathy of the world in consequence of the extent of its suffering. I have wondered what means are taken to ar­ rest the progress of so dangerous an element in a community that is perfectly at the mercy of it. Lounging on the bridge one day listening to the delight­ ful chant of a pair of sherbet-sellers who went off every two minutes like a mu­ sical clock, looking at the spectacular populace crowding to and fro, I heard an unusual commotion, and saw that a charge of half-naked infantry was cutting an avenue through the dense crowd. Then came five-and-twenty lusty fellows who bore above their heads in triumph a small box--its size might have been two by four and a couple of feet deep--with a garden hose pump attached. If it were the Ark of the Covenant being hurried Kway to the mountains it could hardly have created more sensation in the bosom of the Constantinopolitan. The ten tribes leaped for joy; all the nations sang together. I joined the chorus, for it was impossible not to be infected by such universal enthusiasm. On came another and another and yet another car­ avan, bearing its trophy aloft and shout­ ing the battle-cry of something which I was unable to interpret. It seemed to me that hundreds of these machines were hurried over the bridge. Some of them were returning at a moderate pace long before the procession was over. The companies saluted one another in great glee, and the enthusiasm of the how- was in no wise abated. I asked what was the meaning of this extraordinary dem­ onstration. It might have been a race of the youths of Turkey, or happy souls bearing tribute to the happy Sultan of the unhappy empire--but it was not. It was only the fire department of Constan­ tinople on active duty, and the wonder is that there is a sole Burvivor capable of telling the tale, or a solitary stone left standing upon the hills of the Bospho- rus. 092,093. The valuation of real has increased $2,776,918, and there has been a decrease in personal property of 812,598,019, leaving a net decrease of iiU^lOl.--Nciv York Herald, An Interesting Discovery. A discovery of much literary interest has been made in a region that would have seemed unlikely enough to yield such a treasure. The long-lost " Poetry for Children," Charles and Mary Lamb, published in two tiny volumes at God­ win's J uvenile Library in 1809, has at last been found in South Australia, in the possession of the Hon. Mr. Sando- yer, of Adelaide, and though his court­ esy has been transmitted to England. The total disappearance for so many years of a book of which a whole edition was rapidly sold off at the time is a striking testimony to the power of des- i action possessed by children. In the forthcoming number of the Gentleman's Magazine a paper will appear contain­ ing an account and description of the volumes, with extracts from them. The poems are eighty-four in number, and of these only twenty-nine were hitherto known. • --• 4 Assessed Valuation of New York. The valuation of real and personal property in the several wards of the city has been received from the Tax Commis­ sioners by the Supervisors. The valu­ ation of real estate this year is $895,063,- 933, and of personal property $206,028,- 160, making a total together of $1,101,- It is with reason that the Turkish offi­ cers are often reproached with not being at the head of their ranks, etc., for one often meets officers who cam neither read nor write. This would be a very serious inconvenience in any other army: in Turkey these defects are less thought of, for a very wide latitude is allowed a soldier who fights, and here the warrior imitates the hunting uog. This initiative is specially remarkable in the outpost service, where there are only wmall squads. Thus I saw at Rakovitza a post of some ninety men commanded by two sergeants who absolutely did nothing; each went his own way, taking advice of none save the sun, which told them the time of day. That which strikes the stranger most is the absence of respect which soldiers show and the cool and pleasant manner in which they salute their superiors. The soldier borrows his tobacco from the officer, and the officer •will take from the soldier without the slightest scruple. If by chance a soldier meets a drunken officer in the street, which sometimes happens, he leads him to his quarters, managing the matter so adroitly that noone knows anything about it. When campaigning, officers and men live the same life. At Rako­ vitza the military Governor lives side by side with his orderlies, smokes the same tobacco, dines from the same cuisine-- with this difference, however, that the officer eats with a fork, while the men dip their fingers into every dish. If by chance the morsel of mutton he brings up is not sufficiently appetizing he guts it back again into the dish.--Giurgevo Cor. Arcw York Herald. The Heliotype Process, One of the most important discoveries of modern times is a method of pro­ ducing fac-similes of choice engravings, paintings, drawings, etc.; called the " heliotype process." The discovery or invention of the process may be said to have been made in 1855, though it is only very recently that it has been brought to its present high degree of perfection. Briefly stated, the process is as follows: Gelatine, mixed with bichromate of po'ash, has the property of being so acted upon by light that its pores become entirely, partially or not a,t all closed, according to the amount of light By mixing alum with this bi- chromated gelatine, and drying it on plates in the dark by artificial heat, a parchment-like sheet is produced hard enough to print from; and by exposing this sheet to light through a photo­ graphic negative, its surface becomes so varied as exactly to reproduce the marks of the engraver aAd etcher. After the plate has been prepared, it is printed from in an ordinary press, copies being thus produced very rapidly, and, of Course, cheaply. So perfectly is the original reproduced, that only an ex­ perienced eye will readily detect the difference. Copies of fine steel engrav­ ings, and other high-priced pictures are tli us brought within reach of people of limited means ; and the method by which the picture is produced, being purely mechanical, insures a much more per­ fect copy than any lithographic process can produce. The tfreek Berolution. The revolutionary feeling in Greece since the Russians crossed the Danube has grown so intense that the Sultan, on Monday. ast, called an Extraordinary Council!; o consider measures necessary to meet possible hostilities, and, as the result of the Council, Mehemet Ali Pasha was appointed to the command of the army on the Thessalian frontier. The rising of the Greeks does not grow out of any sympathy for the Sclaves, but from a disposition to profit by the mis­ fortunes that have overtaken Turkey. The Greek Revolutionary Committee, who incited this uprising, was founded at Athens in 1867 for the purpose of aiding the Cretan insurgents. After the suppression of that rebellion, a society was established for the purpose of eman­ cipating all the Greeks under Turkish rule from the Adriatic to Armenia. When the rebellion in Hezegovina broke out, the Committee promised Servia that as soon as she gained a victory over the Turks there should be a general Greek uprising all over the empire, but the victory never came. Servia was de­ feated, and the Greeks remained quiet until Russia was in the field, and, now that she is over the Danube, there is every prospect the signal will be given for a Greek uprising in.Epirus, Tliessaly, Southern Macedonia, and the islands in the Archipelago.--Chicago Tribune. Russian Strategy-Past and Ptfgent. The jjosrian operations on the Danube are being conducted in accordance with the traditional policy of the Russian a4«x>mmanderR, The experience of a cent­ ury and a half has taught the Russians that they must make themselves masters of the Dobradscha before they attack the lines of the Bulgarian quadrilateral, or attempt to scale the Balkans. In 1711 the Turks defeated Peter the Great by crossing the Danube near its mouth, advancing along the Pruth and cutting the Russian line of communication. In the campaigns of 1770 and 1806-12 the Turks fared well so long as they remained in the Dobrudscha, but were defeated when they were enticed into Walkchia. In the brilliant campaign of 1828-9 the Russians occupied the Dobrudscha before operating against the fortresses and cross­ ing the mountains. Tne engagements at Turua, Giurgevo, EaJafat, Oltenitza and Kalarasch, in the campaign of 1853-4 were forced by the advance of the Turks. When the Russians assumed the offensive, they crossed the Danube at Brtvila, Galatz and Tultseha and overran the Dobrudscha before concentrating in front of Silistria. In crossing the Danube, at Sistova, the Russians chose the southernmost point, and the most direct road to the Balkans. Owing to the northern sweep of the Dan­ ube, the Turks, so long as they occupied the Dobrudscha, outflanked the Russian center and endangered its base of sup­ plies and communications. The Russian left wing is driving them oat of this vantage-ground. Gen. Diebisacli's maneuvers in 1828 have always been regarded in Russian military circles as masterly. After occu­ pying the Dobrudscha and leaving before Shumla and other fortresses a sufficient forcc to mask them, he pressed on over the Balkan with a force so small as not to be incumbered with supplies. It was a hazardous movement, but his audacity triumphed. The Russians crossed the mountains at that time by one of the two roads leading from the village of Pra- vadi between Shumla and the Black sea. The road from Sistova, where the Rus­ sians now are, strikes the Balkan at Gab- rova.--New York Tribune. his pocket and a newspaper. the piper when the train cat and signaled by waving it. The CAgp neersawthe light, and stepped thetata, Soffits was taken on boM&aod to Troy. He sever lost and, when a doctor was pronounced another amputation severed leg neoeosary, Bomti rotated 4o take any anaasthetio, and ooolly subjected himself to that operation aad to the Mt» ting of the bones in his broken leg- Hja. was removed to the County House, and it is thought he will recover. : _ " • ' "t ALL SOBTS. % "?i •v« Charley Boss Three Tears Missing. Three years ago on the 1st of July Charley Ross was beguiled from his home by Mosher and Douglas. Three days after the new spapers recorded the then known incidents of the abduction of the boy--a story that has grown in interest with each succeeding month, during which the search for the lost boy has been continued. The story of the half-crazed father traveling hundreds of miles with a fortune in hie pocket to pay for the return of his boy, the tale of retri­ bution that fell so strangely upon the boy's abductors, the record of the trial of a man, nearly, if not altogether guilt­ less, who was sent to prison to satisfy public clamor, and the reports of the discovery of hundreds of boys claimed to be the lost one, have excited the interest of all the Western world. There has been talk of certain unraveling of the mystery at the end of three years, and now public attention is excited some­ what by reports of new developments that may lead to the boy's return. That he may be returned is the wish, if it cannot be called the hope, of milliors. Prayer for Rain. The colored people held a meeting a few days ago in Caldwell county to prBjr for rain. One brother was called on, who prayed after this manner: " O Lord God ! us poor niggers is perishing dis year, an' ef you don't gib us rain we will perish next year, too. So, good Lord, gib us rain. Don't gib us one ob dese little slippy-slappies, but do, good Lord, gib us one ob dem gulley-washers trash-movers."--Lenoir {N. C.) Topic. Cariosities of Dreams. All article in the Galaxy on dreams, by Mr. Lewis, presents some novel the­ ories. The results of a great number of experiments are held to sustain the fol­ lowing facts: Speaking in a low, mo­ notonous tone close to theearsofasleeper will almost invariably cause him to dream of horrible adventures on water, such as shipwreck and drowning. Singing or playing on musical instruments induces dreams of dead friends, funerals, and the like. Worrisome dreams are often caused by sleeping with the arms over the head. Mr. Lewis does not believe that somnambulism is caused by weight of trouble on the mind, and he combats the idea that any great proportion of dreams are the result of making trouble. He thus describes experiments showing that they are but flashes across the brain: " While one watched a sleeper and an­ other the clock, a third loudly slammed the blind of a window about ten feet away. The effect was almost instanta­ neous. The man sprung up at the sound, looked around m alarm, and then exclaimed: 'Thank God that it was only a dream.' He had dreamed of be­ ing on a crowded street in front of a building which the crowd deolared un­ safe, but still lingered near it. The dreamer tried to elbow his way along, but the people jeered and laughed at him and lield him there. He begged and entreated, coaxed and threatened, but they held him there, and the build­ ing toppled over on him, the shock breaking his dream. It seemed certain to us that he had dreamed the entire dream in a second, while the time seemed a long half hour to him; but to place the question beyond dispute we in­ dulged in seven or eight different experi­ ments. Sometimes we let a weight fall to the floor, or struck a chair with a stick, and again we slammed the blind. In every instance the sleeper dreamed of some startling adventure, and awoke with a start; and no dream lasted over a min­ ute.5' _ _ - The Grasshopper Prospect. lb their report on the grasshoppers in Nebraska, to the Governor of the State, Profs. Thomas and Aughey say V "We consider the danger from the young which have hatched out this sea­ son in Nebraska over; and that this part of the problem is solved. We also be­ lieve that the long series of visitations have come to a close. There may be, and doubtless will be ai irregular pe­ riods, visitations by migrating swarms, but it is not at all likely that the present generation will witness another such a series as that which has just passed." A correspondent at Atchison, Mo., writes to the Prairie Farmer : "The battle with grasshoppers has been fought and, to all intents and pur­ poses, won. At intervals they have swept down on this country like a besom of destruction, and many have anticipat­ ed that they might, in time, render the new West uninhabitable, or extend their ravages to the Atlantic. But necessity is the mother of invention. Saying nothing about their extirpation by para­ sites and natural causes, enough has been done already this season to demon­ strate that in a cultivated and thickly- settled region this pest can be destroyed. They have multiplied indefinitely in the deserted West, and in this age are brought for the first time face to face with civilized man. As usual in Bach circumstances man comes off victorious." A Tramp's Wonderful Vitality. An accident, attended with the most extraordinary circumstances; occurred on the Northern Central railway, near Troy, Pa., a few nights ago. A tramp named James M. Bowers was walking on the track toward that place. Being tired and hungry, he sat down by the railroad and fell asleep. When he awoke he attempted to get up, but, as he said when discov­ ered, found that he could not use his legs. He had thrown them across the rail in his sleep, and a train had run over them. One was nearly severed be­ low the knee and the other was broken. No train was in sight, nor had he heard the noise of any train passing. He took his knife from his pocket, and cut the skin and flesh that still held his one leg, severing it entirely. He says he lay there unable to move, wholly conscious and suffering the most intense agony, for at least an hour. Finally he neard a train approaching. He had a match in - j r i is a Methodist preacher Atlanta (Ga.) police force. AMHERST COLIAMB needs $500,000 to > supply its pressing needs. ' ,v THE cotton-manufaotarinff bnsilMM&l1 Great Britain is veryS^ . THIS is the season when apples BEGIN to lose their flavor. The same be said of butter. THE plague which has broken out th^s ' year at Bagdad has been dormaii f$ ' forty-two years. j MB. ALBERT RHODKS has just hmntto the editor of the Daily Nation oi ington. It is to be an independent journal. A CORRESPONDENT of the Journal' Geneve states that the medical staff of | the Turks does not exceed on&ner 1,0004 strength. BOYS are engaged by farmers M the - northern and western portions of New. York to pick potato-bugs at five cents a ' . hundred. NEARLY 250,000 passengers were' O6N-: ? veyed on the London Underground rail- ; road on Whitmonday, the largest num­ ber on record. THAT merchant who doesn't advertis* can give the beet definition of " Nothing" (s when he stands all day in his store and looks in his till to find--nothing ! V A SIIEEP-WALKINO young lady in Cot- % tonwood county, Cat, while paMng through her father's sleeping-chamber, ^ was awakened by his hand upon her^ shoulder. She fell down dead. fi| SECRETARY THOMPSON is graphicalljri described as a thin, nervous little man, * with snowy -white hair, a quick gray eye, and a wrinkled face withottt mustache or % beard; he wears a rusty suit ol blade and* a white necktie. f ( A CINCINNATI clothing dealer, . being * : "v' unable to suit a countryman, ened to have him arrested if h not buy a coat. The simpleton there- v< upon paid $18 for a $5 garment; btit the police compelled 'the clothier tore-' ^ -3 turn the money, jr_^ FRENCH publicists employ a regular s staff of fighting men, who asaume re* r ~ sponsibility for articles reflecting on t „ individuals, while imprisonment result- | ing from censure of Governmental af­ fairs is borne by substitutes, who re- ceve $1 a week. i -: 1 ^ ONE of the Southern newspapers tell* of a man whose life was saved by a pta£ of tobacco carried in his pocket. Apwfcjl bullet fired at him lodged in the tdbnMOf and the man was unharmed. Moral : • If you will use tobacco, don't take is ottt J of your pocket ' •' | OF the 40 members of the graduat&gr class at Williams College, 12 are to be t , v| ministers, 7 lawyers, 4 physicians, 3, ' • business men, 3 teachers, 1 a journalist* ( and the rest undecided. Every man is a Free Trader, and there are 10 who l:' class themselves as Independents in pol- *f itics. • f. C MAJOR BOIJ>KN of the 8ixty-«ightii). British Infantry in India, went tige£j| hunting near Manselghur, in the estate g| of Sliahpour. He was upon an elephluiV ' in the act of firing, when the beawstid^ ' | denly started on a run and threw"bimy 'If Matters were then reversed. The tiger !; hunted the Major, and before aawstanoft i^ arrived had killed him. A WELL-KNOWN Clergyman of the « / Church of England, in Liverpool, has J resigned his charge and left the neigh- ; 4 f> borhood in consequence of haviiig be- |v - come serious!j involved in specotetton# |^. •on the Stock Escliangs. HewasitteaBi-- bent of one of the most faahioiiaW at- tended churches in the town, fib fossoi- are estimated at from £7,000 to £10,000, LOWELL'S acceptance of the mission, LO ; Madrid incites Western ne * reproduce what, as Hosea wrote thirty years ago: I du believe it's wise an' good To Ben' out famn mlSBiona, Thet is, ou M,rtln understood An' artbydox conditions; , I mean nine tliouean' dolls. Nine thouaan' more fer oi An' me to recommend a man The place 'ould Jest about fit. A VIRGINIAN has just genealogy of the descendants of Poca- iiontas. During the course of his labors he incidentally gathered the i pedigrees of nearly all the prominent families of Virginia, and his investi­ gations reveal the singular fact that /;• nearly every family in the State of any duration of residence may be inter- ; linked lineally or collaterally; - THE well-to-do pauper isn't a pekflaa -^v to read about with much equanimity. In Dubuque, Iowa, one woman who owns several houses and lots, and another who has a good bank account, have been re­ ceiving money all along from the county. In St. Paul a woman purchasing a vain- • able lot of a real-estate dealer asked that ' nothing should be said about it in the newspapers, as she was " getting a iittle aid from the coiinty." AT the Hammersmith Police Court in London, the other day, a laborer named Hemmings was arraigned for whipping his child Mary with the buckle end of a ^ belt. The magistrate, in order to test the girl's knowledge of the nature of an oath before swearing her, questioned her as to her knowledge of the Bible, and she replied that she never heard, of it. The magistrate, expressing, par- prise, adjourned the hearing a fort­ night, and gave instructions for the fe child to be taken to a school and in­ structed as to the Bible aad the nature of apoath. - ' '• 33 so IS THS STQBY TQUV. A fair head meekly lxm*d, A shy gtanee coming attar, Voices not overload, And a low sweet laughler; 80 is the story told Up iu the cottage old Under the wmoky rtfttr. A fair maid flushing re& With au unknown But shamed to bow her he«A For all her lover'a kneeling; So is the story told Down *iu*i Um wkite and Under tbe paiatod oeflta|. -AqMr'tAmr. IM t'* i'sM u j •Air.-J