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' tHK FIRST CLI*?#*- i*»t* wt nrwni " JohnJHwith, » young attorney, joat admitted to the bsr» ^ Was solemn and sagacious m -- young attorneys 4 ***; . , . . Aid afrown of deep abstraction held the Mixta of hix face-- , , 'Be revolt of contemplation of the rulee in Shelley a One day In tmm-ttuM Mr.Smith i mm aoue'good men and trne of the body of the county did on their oath report, 'Tint to-wit: upon the second day <a ' "Ifiu W77,' about the hour of noon, in the county and State aforesaid, one Joseph Scroggs, late of „aul county, did then and there feloniously •); " take, steal and carry away ' <Mfe bay horse, of the value of fifty dollar*, more or The th.'n and there being the property, goods i and chattels of one Hezofc iah Hows); Oontmrv to the statute in eueh ewe expressly made And provided; and against tl>c pence and dignity of the State wherein the venue had been laid. if JEfce prisoner, Joseph Scroggs, was then arraigned *3 upon the cfaargp, Ami plead not guilty, and of this he threw himself upon the country at large : • And, said Joseph being poor, the Court did gra- ciounly appoint " <tr. Smith to defend him--much on the same prin- • * '• eiple that obtains in every charity hospitaL where a young medical student is often set to rectify a serious injury to aa organ or a joint. Tfce witnesses seemed prejudiced against poor llr. I. HCROGGS; . Ami Hie District Attorney made a thrilling speech, In which he told the jury that, if they didnt Jului for the State, he reckoned he'd have to " walk their logs"; Then Mr. Smith arose and made bin speech for the defease, JPSWT?"1 ho quoted Shskepeere, B&Qkstane, Chitty, v Archbold, Joaquin Miller, Story, Kent, Tup- '-jk:i^per, Swedes and Marshall, and many other " : ^writers; and everybody said they "never ~ " Peered such a bust of eloquence." And lie said: " On tiki* hypothesis, my client must go free And: "Again, on tki* hypothesis, it's morally im­ possible that he could be guilty, don't you *j,, see?" And: "Then, on this hypothesis, you really cant convict Aad *o on, with forty-six more hypotheses, upon • • {none of which, Mr. Smith ably demonstrated, , could Scroggs be derelict. Bat the jury, never stirring from the box wherein Ihpy rped a verdict of " guilty;" and his Honor straightway sentenced Scroggs to a three-year term in the penitentiary and a heavy line, and ' -^the costs on top of that; ftmd the prisoner, in wild delight, got up and danced and sung; And, when they asked him the reason of this strange vK'Iirivior, he xaid: " It'd because I got off so , easy--for, if there'd ha' been a few more of ' them darned kyjtothesisn, I should certainly ^%avebeen bung!" . •§mm^on<Myfor August. tt: i tULC'S PRESENT. , Everybody declared that Uncle Timp- ' Irinw would be ruined by his generosity. Bat this declaration had now been made for a number of years, and still he con­ tinued prosperous. But Uncle Timpkins had just perpe­ trated an act, the enormity of which dis­ turbed his domestic peace for a long - while, Mid sometimes it seemed doubt­ ful if the sky ever would be cleared. He suddenly took it into his head to look up the widow of a brother who had been dead several years, and, knowing that poor John " never had possessed a . Snack for acquiring worldly goods," he resolved to inquire into the condition of the family. Without telling Aunt Mollie of his plans, he went off very quietly by himself, but he returned not as he went. Aunt Mollie prophesied that no good "Would come of this journey; but when Uncle Samuel opened the hall door, and r«he saw her husband enter with a little girl, she could hardly believe her own -•yes. " This ia my little pet, Mollie, I have ^brought her tome to keep me company," .-Mid Uncle Samuel. "Her name is uLuln." Aurt Mollie looked coldly upon liUlu, who nhremTf hack into herself, and -eyed her husband severely, then turning dndignantly from them, she exclaimed : •" To think that after raising a family of «ight children, and getting them well off her hands, Samuel should go and bring home such a pest as that! It was too • much for flesh and blood to stand !" But Uncle Timpkins had gained his point; Lulu was regularly established in ihe house, and, if not noticed by her aunt, she soon became a great favorite •with her ancle. And not only with him, but with all who came to the house; for she was a sunny-tempered little thing, .making life and gladness where she "Went. It was almost breakfast time, and, •punctual as the clock, the lean, wiry figure of Ephraim Doolittle strode into ' the kitchen, and sank into the accus- 'tomed seat by the chimney-corner. Of all Timpkins' proteges this was the *one with whom Aunt Mollie had the least patience. For five years he had not ! missed a morning unless detained bv illness, and yet he always cnmc in witn 'the same observation, that " as he hap­ pened to be passing by he thought that he would just drop in. He always went to Uncle Timpkins' to Ineakfast, but upon being invited into *he dining-room invariably observed that "".there was no occasion, wife would be expecting him Lome," etc. This was a Tegular part of the performance, and it •equired considerable exertion to dis­ lodge him from the ciiimney-corner. .It -was in the morning after Lulu's ar- affval, and her uncle desired her to in­ form Mr. Doolittle that breakfast was 1*e®dy- This she did very sweetly, and jBghvaim, making a feint of rising, re- *'1 was just going, my dear--time that I was off, long ago. Stop to breakfast! no, thank you--my wife will be wait­ ing forme." liulu returned to the dining-room and innocently repeated what she supposed to be Mr. Doohttle's refusal. To her gfeat surprise her uncle laughed out, and her aunt had a very queer expression •bout the month. "Waiting what?" abe exclaimed, in a tone of cutting sar­ casm; "maybe they're going to have fritters for breakfast, and they'll be spoiled--he'd better go!" '* Uncle Timpkins, however, not wishing be undone, dispatched Lulu to the fcjtehen with an imperative summons to Mr. Doolittle. She soon returned with fee auswei. : J*< He said there was no occasion." , ..Laughing more heartily than ever at Jjulu'p innocence and perplexed look, 97nole Timpkins went to the kitchen, as he had done for five years, and marched tephraim Doolittle in to breakfast. Lulu astonished at the rapid disappear­ ance of the viands; but Ephraim had taken quite a fancy to the child, and re­ garded her very benignly. "-•fta he went home that morning he be­ gan revolving in his own mind a plan for pee benefit Samuel Timpkins was a g#od sort of a fellow, and, as he had taken breakfast there several times, • m . • • ' he believed that he would make the child a present, by way of testing his grati­ tude. At the wonted hotur Ephraim made his appearance with a covered basket and therein a Maltese kitten. Lulu was enraptured--was delighted; her heart fairly overflowed with love of all sorts of pets, and the kitten was a perfect beauty; just the right size to be graceful; it was plump and sleek and the very color to wear a blue ribbon around its neck. After gratefully thanking Mi. Doolittle, Lulu displayed her treasure in triumph; but, at the sight of the kitten, Aunt Mollie's cup of wrath was overflowing. She couldn't bear the sight of a cat--she detested cuts; it would always be put­ ting its dirty little nose in the milk and cream, and it was just exactly like Ephraim to give a present that would soon eat its own head off 1 One beautiful evening in March I was entering the room, where it seems my uncle and aunt were engaged in serious conversation regarding their financial prospects, when the latter exclaimed: "Well, Charlie! I hope your tuicle is satisfied now! He is ruined ! I told you that it would come to this, and I m only surprised that it did not come long ago!" Thin was poor consolation for a man who had just been confiding to hiswife the story of his misfortunes, and Uncle Timpkins looked into the fire and sighed. But all the attempts at consolation, un­ less they came in the shape of bank bills, would have proved unavailing; for Uncle Timpkins, led away by his enormous heart, had indorsed largely for a neigh­ bor in distress, and the neighbor had gone down, dragging his benefactor with him; and the friend of so many unfortu­ nates saw himself threatened with a Sher­ iff's sale, and he and his wife driven forth in old age from the home which sheltered them for so many years. " It is strange," said Uncle Timpkins, musing, " that father left no more money. There was little besides stock, and everybody was surprised at it. He was always so saving and had plenty of cadi." It was a delightful evening, and Lulu, accompanied by her kitten, liad gone to the old garret, whose mysterious nooks she loved to explore; and there she could have a romp with kitty, in the full en­ joyment of being beyond the reach of Aunt Mollie's reprimand. Uncle Samuel had been very grave of late; and, half anticipating something dreadful, she scarcely knew what, Lulu leaned against the rough beams, and watched the gambols of the Maltese kit­ ten, which seemed challenging her to participate in the fun. The kitten was making a terrible scratching against the boards, and Lulu endeavored to call. her off. _ She really believed that she had discovered a mouse--it would be horrible -to see her kill it and eat it, like other cats; she should not love her a bit after that--and Lulu tried to pull her away. But kitty was very busy scratching something from unaer a board, and, having put in one velvet paw, she succeeded in dis­ lodging a dark-colored roll that certainly was not a mouse, nor anything else alive. Lulu examined it with trembling fingers, and found bank-bills to the amount of $5,000. With glowing cheeks sparkling with excitement, she rusned into the room where her uncle sat buried in his gloomy thoughts; and, paying no attention to her aunt's exclamation of " Lulu Timkins, go back this instant and shut the door! you impudent little scapegrace! " she placed the soiled and crumpled notes in his listless hands. *4 Where did you get these?" said he, so calmly that Lulu feared he cared very little about them. But when the story was told, Lulu and her pet were both lifted in Uncle Samuel's arms, and his tears rained down upon the bright curls, as he whis­ pered : "Lulu, do you know that you and kitty have saved your old uncle from being turned upon the world? Mollie," said he, looking reproachfully at his wife. It was foreign to Aunt Mollie's nature, but she gave way for once, and folded Lulu in the first embrace that she ever had bestowed upon her. " I wish that Ephraim Doolittle was here," said Unele Timpkins. " Had it not been for his somewhat unwelcome prenent, this morscj would still have been idle. I chould really like to sec him." "Can't you wait till to-morrow morn­ ing ?" said Aunt Mollie, so drily that it extorted from her husband the first hearty laugh he had indulged in for a long while. The house, of course, was not sold ; and the very singular manner in which it had been preserved traveled about like wildfire, and Lulu and her kitten became objects of the greatest curiosity. Ephraim now began coming to dinner, on the strength of his gift; and if he had taken Tip his residenoe there altogether Uncle Timpkins would doubtless have made him welcome. stranger coming here for ? I declare," she continued, "if he hasn't got For- tuna in his arms!" This was the name the kitten had received on that mem-' ©fable day when it saved Uncle Timp- km' house. " Bun, Lulu," continued Aunt Mollie, " and take him into the parlor." Lulu opened the door with a height­ ened color, and a somewhat elevated head-, for the offer of buying her favorite was still fresh in her mind. The visitor, a handsome man of 30, with an air of foreign travel, doffed his hat with a low obeisance to the beautiful apparition be­ fore him, and perhaps he too felt con­ scious of his misdemeanor, for he was de­ cidedly embarrassed as he followed Lulu into the parlor. " I hope," said he with a smile that disarmed all Lulu's indignation, in spite <rf herself, "that you will pardon me my unintentional rudeness ? I expected to find in the owner of the cat some mdi^Cut old lady or thoughtless boy, vo whom a few dollars would prove an ir- resistable allurement, and, as I had taken a great fancy to the animal, I con­ cluded to try the experiment." " And I," replied Lulu frankly, " ex­ pected to see, in the finder of Fort una, a disagreeable, purse-proud individual --but whether lady or gentleman I could not decide." The half compliment conveyed in this answer, brought a look of gratitude from the visitor that made Lulu wish she had not said it; but, just as an awkward crisis was approaching, Uncle Timkins entered the room, and politely saluted the gentle­ man, whom he had recognized as the senior partner of an influential firm. The visitor introduced himself as Mr. Ch ad wick, and at once entered into an easy and agreeable conversation with the master of the house. The story of the kitten was told and commented upon, and the gentleman learned, by adroit questions, that Uncle Timkins' circum­ stances were by no means flourishing. He immediately expressed his want of an agent to oversee his plantation, which he pronounced to be sorely neg­ lected, and acknowledged Uncle Timp­ kins' qualifications for the office. He did not lose sight of Lulu's speaking eye, which rested upon her uncle almost beseechingly. This was just the thing for him, it would require so little labor; but Uncle Samuel was not the one to recommend himself, and Mr. Chadwick was obliged to ask him point blank. After a while it was all arranged, and the handsome Mr. Chadwick departed, with a warm invitation to renew his visit. "Fortune again!" exclaimed Unole Timpkins, as he related to his wife this piece of luck. But Aunt Mollie glanced at Lulu in a very significant manner, and looked little disposed to give the cat much credit this time. " If Ephraim were here now, I could almost give him a hug," continued the old man. "He will be here to-morrow morn­ ing," replied Aunt Mollie, as dryly as ever. Uncle Timpkins entered at oi*ce upon the "agency," which turned out to be very little beyond a name and a salary; and Mr. Chadwick availed himself to the fullest extent of the invitation to renew his visit. " Miss Lulu," said he, quite suddenly, one evening, " do you remember that, when advertising your cat, you promised that the finder would be suitably re­ warded." Lulu looked surprised at this address, and endeavored to escape from the win­ dow. " I left it altogether to your generos­ ity," continued Mr. Chadwick, gravely, " but I have as yet received nothing." Lulu stammered out something about not wishing to insult him, but he replied veiy coolly that it was not too late to make reparation. The next moment Lulu's hand was im­ prisoned in both of his; and, as she did not withdraw it, he acknowledged him­ self ** suitably rewarded." Time sped on. the kitten had grown into a cat, and Lulu had become a young lady. Her cousins laughingly declared that she had entirely super­ seded them in the affections of their parents; and a stranger would certainly nave supposed that she was the pet daughter of the house. One day an advertisement to the fol­ lowing effect appeared in a paper pub- lished in the city: " Lost, on Thursday evening, the 4th ult., a Maltese cat, with a blue ribbon around its neck. On returning it to No. Camp street the finder will be suit­ ably rewarded." The following day the paper contained the following answer: "The finder of the Maltese cat, ad­ vertised in yesterday's paper, is ex­ tremely anxious to retain it. What would the owner consider a sufficient induce­ ment for parting with the cat?" Lulu was perfectly indignant, both at the insult and at being separated from her pet, so she sat down and wrote: " If the finder of the Maltese cat does not re­ store her to her rightful owner, he or die will be searched out and exposed before the community." When the paper containing thia threat appeared, it brought a reply from the culprit in person. Aunt Molfie was look- 1D8 forth from the sitting-room window, when she suddenly exclaimed: "What on earth ia handsome A Remarkable Dog. A Milwaukee paper relates the follow­ ing: Mr. Nelson Strong, living on First avenue, between Orchard and Mitchell streets, has a black-and-tan dog that is just now engaged in a domestic enter­ prise worthy of record. The dog is a female, and a number of months ago gave birth to a litter of pups that were reared and weaned by her. A short time ago Mr. Strong brought home a pup and placed it with Ms dog. She took to the strange pup kindly and allowed it to nurse. Ker full flow of milk was brought back, and suddenly she was missed from home. Search was made and the dog was found in a neighboring alley with a large litter of kittens nursing her. She had placed the kittens upon a large sheet of brown paper and kept them on it, ap­ parently for safety. Near by was the dead body of the mother of the kittens, probably killed by the dog, who has al­ ways manifested great hatred for cats. The dog, with the kittens, was removed to Mr. Strong's residence, and they are now there to be wondered at by the visit­ ors who go in to see for themselves the strange sight of a black-and-tan dog nursing a Utter of rapidly-growing fe­ lines. The case attracts a great deal of interest here, and will be something foi the curious to wonder at. Life a Failure. Charles F. Locke, a native of Boston, shot himself at his residence in San Francisco a few days ago, after repeat­ edly and affectionately kissing his wife. He left a note addressed to his brother, as follows : " I tyn sick of life, and I am going to make away with myself; so kiss your children and your wife and sister-in-law for me, and so forth. What is the use of living ? Life is a failure, especially with me, and always was since I have been 8 years old. We were raised well, and had all that money could pro­ cure. We had too much then and too little now ; but, nevertheless, by night this 9th day of July I will be either in heaven or the other place. Good-by, Ed." . Coal Area of the United Htates. There are only 450 square miles of anthracite coal in the whole United States. The Beading Company owns no less than one-third of the whole. Of bituminous coal land there are now in America 200,000 square miles, and 8,000 square miles in Great Britain. THB Isthmus of Panama ia 70 milea wide and 350 long. GROWING PLUMP. OciMt Indications that the Typkml AMftr- toftn Woman is Taking on Flesh. [Harper'R Bazar.] Europeans generally concede that our American women are handsome, though they say they are so fragile, that they early lose their freshness, and with it much of their beauty. They particularly remark the tendency of our women to grow thin with years, while we remark the tendency of their women to the ac­ cumulation of flesh as soon as they have passed their youth, and often even be­ fore that period. While we must allow that our women are, for the most part, lacking in roundness, there are few of us, we imagine, who would not infinitely prefer the New World slenderness to the Old World stoutness. A medium between the two might be the standard of the becoming, and this medium we seem to be approaching, slowly perhaps, but steadily. The opinion of the thin­ ness of the feminine part of the nation is based rather on what has been than on what is. The majority of our women are still too thin for beauty, but they are far less lean than they werejtwenty- five or even fifteen years ago. This fact--for fact it unquestionably is--can scarcely have escaped observa­ tion. It is noticeable everywhere, par­ ticularly in large towns and cities, and is due to different causes, all of which are easily recognized. The fleshiness of a people depends largely on the age and development of their country. Where everything is new, and, in a certain sense, raw, as is this land, their is very little leisure or repose. Our entire en­ ergies are directed to cur advancement; our minds are absorbed by thought of the future and what it promises. We hardly take time to get flesh; we think and fret off that which we have acquired, instead of acquiring more. Our women do not perform so much physical labor as our men, but they work longer in their way, and worry more; and anxiety or any other form of mental disturbance insures meagerness as noth­ ing else does. These live too much through the mind to live quite comforta­ bly through the body, and the body suf­ fers in consequence. In the Old World everything is fixed. The future is not likely to be different from the present; there is small occasion for wistfulness or solicitude. Material conditions are not usually so favorable as here, but they are permanent, and by their permanence, especially by the clear understanding that they are so, they beget content, whence adipose matter. American women neither work nor worry as they used. The republic is more developed, things are more settled, somewhat of the European feeling is creeping into the national mind, and less thinness is the result. American women take vastly better care of themselves than formerly. They have more acquaintance with nygienic laws, and hold them in far higher es­ teem. The days when they exposed themselves to dampness and wintry cold in thiri slippers and silk stockings ; when they abstained from flannels next the skin; when they pinched their waists to semi-suffocation ; when they sacrificed comfort and health to what they con­ ceived to be their appearances--those foolish and unhappy days are gone for­ ever, have barely been known to the ris­ ing generation. Our women now have no mawkish, morbid notions as to them­ selves ; they no longer think that to be unhealthy is to be attractive ; that indi­ vidualism and interestingness are sy­ nonymous ; that pale faces and com­ pressed lungs are tokens of beauty. They dress seasonably; they wear thick boots and warm clothes in bad and cold weather; they allow themselves to breathe freely, and they find their looks improved, not injured, by the whole­ some change. There are exceptions, many of them, doubtless, but the rule is as we have described, and the exceptions are constantly diminishing. It may be safely said that sensible women are be­ coming, if they have not become, con­ verts to nature, and that they heed her behests, recognizing the great principle that what is not natural cannot be beau­ tiful. Little more than a quarter of a cent­ ury ago young American women were ashamed to show a hearty appetite in public. They were affected with the Byronic philosophv ; they wanted to be spiritual--as if all true spirituality did uot rest on sound physical conditions-- and to look elegantly wretched. Many of them had half their wish; they looked wretched, but not elegant. They were charged with drinking vinegar, eat­ ing slate-pencils, and committing other monstrous absurdities. They may have been unjustly accused, but their theories warrant the accusation. All such non­ sense belongs to the past. American women to-day eat as much as they want, and more wnolesome food than they once ate; they walk more, court the open air, cultivate their bodies as well as their minds, believe in perfect digestion, un­ broken sleep, the glow and glorjr of un­ blemished health. No wonder their Eroportions are fuller, their cheeks more looming, their eyes brighter, their steps mere elastic. The growth of the country and their common sense are serving them generously. The scrawny, sallow, peaked woman, If she be educated and fairly placed, will ere long cease to be the type of the mid­ dle-aged American woman. With the steady growth of the republic, the in­ creased ease of circumstances, and their complete health, American women will be comelier and rounder than they have been. External and internal conditions assure this. They are not likely to be­ come gross, as so many of their Euro­ pean sisters are ; the character of the country, its institutions and its atmo­ sphere, with their own temperament,will preserve them from that. An Eccentric Family. A singular family, named Kunkel, lives near Wernersville. It consists of four brothers and one sister--the oldest (the sister) being 70, and the brothers ranging from 50 to 65, and they are all over six feet tall. Neither of them is married, they being an anti-marrying set. They own the property on wnich they reside, a fine farm, do all their own work, and are quite wealthy. A sister married some years ago, and they paid her share of the estate to her and dis­ carded her, not having spoken to her since. Neither of the five has ever been out of the county. The farm has been handed down for more than 100 yean, and was acquired by their ancestors ovef a century ago. Their house was erect* ed more than 100 years ago, after tha style of the first settlers--split logs for $ floor, filled up with clay. ---Lancmter New Era. A PITTSBURGH INCIDEHf. Xtawth of Henry Shaw, of the Fhlladolphl* ' Tenciblet. [From the Philadelphia Pretw.J U Henry Shaw, a private in the Stat* Fencibles, who, it has already beeii stated, was wounded in the Pittelmrgil riots, has died from the effects of his in« juries. Lieut. Charlton, of the Sixtli regiment, tells the following story of hit friend's death; "It was during th* march of the First division, when they were going up Butler street and nearing the bridge which crosses the Alleghany below Sharpsburg, when poor Shaw re* ceived a terrible gunshot wound in the, groin. He across the street,- and into the door of St. Philomena's Cath­ olic Church. Service was going on, but the officiating priest at once dismissed the congregation, and, taking the wounded man, hid him in a place of safety near the altar. In another moment th< mob entered in a search for its victim, but were foiled in their attempt to dis­ cover him. After comparative silence had been restored the priest procured a carriage, and, placing Shaw inside, drove him toward the hospital. The carriage on the way was surrounded by the mob, who, learning that a Philadelphia soldier was inside, clamored for his delivery into their hands. The priest s|ood up, and, finding persuasion of no avail, threatened them with vengeance if they should attempt to lay a hand on the wounded man. He was successful in getting him from the hands of the blood­ thirsty scoundrels." A Pittsburgh paper gives the conclusion of the story: " Poor Shaw was afterward taken to the West Point Hospital, and, after surgical treat­ ment, was in a few hours pronounced in a fair way to recover, and information to that effect was telegraphed to his mother iu Philadelphia. But night before last inflammation unexpectedly set in, when it became apparent that he could not live much longer, and he was anointed by the reverend father who ministered to him when the wound was received. He died about midnight. He has a mother and five sisters in Philadelphia." A Results of the Strike. The damage done to the material in­ terests of the country by the riots can­ not yet be estimated with anything like exactitude; but it is clearly within the limit to say that the people of the United States are $30,000,000 poorer to-day than they were when the railroad strike at Martinsburg commenced. Ten million dollars is not too high a figure to put on the railroad property destroyed or dam­ aged ; $5,000,000 will not cover the rail­ road earnings that have been lost; $5,000,000 more would not compensate the business men and farmers of the country for what they have suffered, and $10,000,000 is not too much to claim for the enforced idleness. These are the elements of direct damage. It is too soon to estimate the indirect loss. For more than a week past there have been over 50,000 men under arms. Let each man's earnings be called $2 a day, and we have a loss of $100,000 a day by call­ ing them away from their employment. To put them under arms and keep them in readiness for action has cost the pub­ lic at least $2 a day for each man, or an aggregate of $100,000 a day. In other words, the military demonstration has at the least cost the country $200,000 a day, which in ten days amounts to $2,000,000. Nobody can tell how much capital has been driven out of active work, but those who think the amount is small know very little of the average capitalist. To these features we must add the danger that the riots will be held by a majority of our more influen­ tial citizens to require a considerable increase in the standing army of the country--an increase costing not less, probably, than $15,000,000 per annum. It would, we think, as a matter of money, have been better for the work- ingmen of the United States to have paid $100,000,000 than to have had this trouble occur. In our estimate we must include the lives lost and the bodies maimed. According to the record as it now stands there have been over 150 persons killed, and at least 500 wound ed. It used to be estimated that every able-bodied man in the United States was worth $800 to the country. Worse than the actual loss of life and limbs is the certainty that the criminal classes must be largely augmented by recruits from the ranks of labor--men being now outlaws who two weeks ago belonged to the law-abiding class.--Brooklyn Eagle. The Colorado Beetle. The Cologne Gazette states that, from careful observations and inquiries made since the burning of a potato field in the neighborhood of Cologne, it is evident that the object of that destructive pro­ cess has been completely attained. There is no further trace visible either of Colo­ rado beetles or of larvae, neither above the soil nor in the same. There is rea­ son to believe that not one beetle has escaped. The Government has given strict directions to all who may find beetles, larvee, or parts of the same, to give them up without delay to the au­ thorities. The lleiehsanzeiger, in an official paragraph, states that it is not known by what means the beetle was first imported into Germany. The Swedish Government has, in _ conse­ quence of its appearance, prohibited the importation of potatoes from Weater» Germany. --London Morning Pott, THE British House of Commons re­ cently had a most remarkable session, lasting twenty-six consecutive hours. The House was in Committee of the Whole on the South African Confedera­ tion bill, to wbioli there had been, at every stage, long and persistent objec­ tions by the leaders of the opposition. The struggle lasted through an entire dRy and night, and led to numerous ex­ citing scenes and incidents. Within re­ cent histoiy there has been no parallel to this sitting. •frfn. CHABXJBS FRANCIS ADAMS. Jr., de­ sires to see the school system subjected to a thorough and intelligent overhaul­ ing. His experience is that the scholar sent up from the grammar to the liigh schools who can really read and write ia the exoeption and not the rule. DROPPING CORK. 1 *T KAUKIOK TBOMrtOg, Pretty PhaBbe Lane and I, % M 1» the soft May weather; • "Mefoot down the furrowgWWlit ' ©topping corn together. Bide by aide acroea the fletft forth we hurried; AU the golden grains we dropped Boon the plowshare baried. Btaebirds on the hedges sat 11 the iiiiiu la willing 7 Sol whispered, * Phoebe, dear, „ - JP® -- Keep on dropping 4 Cwed her father from hia ntow, There's no time for stopping! " " The oord was loosed--the moment The golden charm waa bcekaa. &SS Never more between us two Word of love was spokem. What a little slip, sometimML All our hopes releasee! How the merest breath of BreaJtn w te pkcca I % JMtfciiafc: Sorrow's cup, though after Never lacks for filling: And we can't get Fortune's kin ' When the maid is willing. -Atlantic for August. •ft PJTH AMP POI&T. How DOES a cow become a estate ? By turning her into a field. "WHAT'S a fellow to do, doctor, when he's in company and has nothing to sayf" " He should say it quietly," replied the docter. " SOME woman, but heap lots of fool," was the remark of an Indian when he saw the Omaha females put on trails*-*-' Detroit Free Press. 1 " IT is not loud praying," says lb- Arkansas circuit rider, " which counts with the Lord, so much as giving four full quarts to the gallon." "I NEVEB felt r.o frightened in my life," she said to her lover; " I turned aa white as your shirt front--no "--on in­ spection--" very much whiter." THE sewing-machine agent, since the patent run out, has to talk just as much and just as fast, and tell just as many lies for $28 as he used to tell for $123. As GEN. TCHEBTHEMOSIiEMSHEADOtV was leaving for the wars, his sweetheart remarked to him, in tears: "Though I no more behold thee, yet is thy if spell." FAIX Missus O'Toole, take a schmall little ocnlou, Its flavor is folne ; it's an illigant brade, Truth, wid me oon hand, sure. 1 rared up the crature; And in me oon garden I planted the sade. IF the Czar wishes to perfectly anni­ hilate the Turks, he should arm nis sol­ diers with firearms "supposed to be empty." They do more damage now-a- days than any other weapon.--Philadel­ phia Bulletin. SOME men can never take a joke. There was an old doctor who, when asked what was good for mosquitoes, wrote back : " How do you suppose I can tell unless I know what ails the mosquito!" " HE is a man after my own heart, pa," said Julia, reverting to Charles Augustus. 4' Nonsense !" replied old practical. -' He is a man after the money your uncle left you." And then all was quiet. THE wickedest thing a woman can do is to hand out a $20-bill to pay for a paper of pins when she has $4.18 in her pocket in small silver--and then she will look so innocent all the while. V MADAME," said a certain nameless one to Mrs. Brown, the other day, "you are talking simple rubbish." "Yes, sir," replied the ever-crushing lady, "because I wish you to comprehend me. FAIR charmer (who thinks that ahe knows everything about college affairs)-- " Is it possible, Mr. Thompkins, that you are not acquainted with my brother ' at Harvard ? Why, he sings second base in the University base-ball crew." " I APOLOGISE for saying you could hot open your mouth without putting your foot in it," said the editor, sternly re­ garding the horsewhip she held over his head. "I solemnly assure you that when I said it I had no idea of the rise of your foot." A GENTLEMAN, in search of a man to do some work, met on his way a lady not as young as she once was, and asked her: " Can you tell me where I can find a man ? " " No, I cannot," she replied, " for I have been looking these twenty years for one myself." A BICH but parsimonious and very old gentleman, on being taken to task for hisuncharitableness, said: "True, I don't give much; but if you only knew how it hurto me when I give anything you wouldn't wonder. I am in hopes to feel different when I inherit brother Bill's property!" FROM a French paper: A young wife lost her aged husband two months ago, after he had lain helpless with paralysis for eight months. Yesterday she ap­ peared at the Mairie to announce her in­ tention of marrying her cousin. " I beg your pardon, madame," says tlie clerk, " but the law is peremptory in forbid­ ding a widow to re-marry till ten months after her husband's death." "But those eight months of paralysis--don't you take them into consideration ?" " HAVE the railroads struck ? " asked an excited man, bursting into the sanc­ tum like a Russian torpedo. "They have," we replied gently and firmly; "lots of it; you'll find the railroad's truck over at the baggage-room." And then we smiled our sad, sweet smile, and the celestial calm of an angel bene­ diction filled to overflowing the depths of our soul with tender peace, like a pound of corn-starch overwhelming the narrow restraints of a quart-cup. --Hawk-Eye. Deadwood City. The Daily Champion, published at Deadwood, in the Black Hills, complains of the misrepresentations of correspon­ dents of Eastern newspapers. Dead- wood, it says, is no such place as they represent it to be. There is not, on the contrary, "a quieter, more peaceful, well-regulated, and orderly community in the whole Western country." The local columns of the Champion contain an account of the robbery of the pas­ sengers of a stage coach near the city, and an attempt to throw the County Treasurer out of the window of his offioe. Barring these and other trifling incidents of local disorders, Deadwood appears to be orderly enough for a small town. QUEEN VICTORIA has been visiting Mrs. BagBter, the widow of Samuel Bag- ster, the publisher of the polyglot Bibla. She is an ancient lady, 100 years old.