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jr. VAN SURE, E#>rroa AND>PuBJJ»HEB, M<#F,N*NT, 'T - TT.T.TNOIS THE PAST WEEK. T " DOMESTIC NEWS. • • ^ * ' '* f * Tft# Eat*. * TO* %ofiSli1lr& flat' ever vintie ̂ Cape lft£, ;Jf. " J., l*»s disocft'eted Saturday Moraine, NotrO, »t 7 o'clock, in the attic of the Ocean ̂House. Th« fife was evidently the work of an inoen î&rv, as there had been no fire- in the HI Ocean Hcraae since the cloee of the season., ̂The flanks rapiflly spread until #500,000 'P' worth of property had been devoured by ||j the flames. The hotels destroyed ate the fol- H lowing: Congress Hall, #100,000; Ocean House, ̂ #46,000;Centre House,#85,000; Columbia House, l|§ #80,000; Atlantic House, #90.000; Merchants' Hotel, #15,000; Avenue Hotel, #5,500. lu 1WW, almost, the same eectiQa was swept hyaflrq " scarcely less destractivo than the present one.... The greatest feat ever heard of in the way of beer-drinking was accomplished during a recent * fire in Philadelphia, when, in less than an hour, 20,000 J)MTP1S were swa&owed tey the flamea.' ... .One building aad the machinery of the ̂Boatpa Dve-Wood and Chemical Compusy'n work?, in East Boston, were burned a few days •go. Loss, #60,000; ineared. ' A TERRIBLE tragedy occurred in Wett Chenango, N. Y., a few days aga Three broth- " ers, Jantee, David, and John Taber, live to- - gather, own antd run * farm jointly. James 1 and David have disagreed for some time about a division of the property. David went to the % ban where James was husking corn. They „ quarreled, and David, seizing a pitchfork, f knocked James down and stabbed him in the chest fifteen or twenty times. He lived only a * few moment* David then went to the woods and blow Ma brains out with a shot-gun, A mt̂ ptino of bankers was held at New York, a few days ago, fifty large batiks be- lag represented, at which the foIlowi&g«(Mne of ac|ion, after Jan. 1, was resolved upon: • -ii Jif Eveline re^Wng gold coin* w special depos­ its, biit accept and treat them only as)awful money. , • 2. 'Abolish special exchangee of gold checks at the 'ffeafciaK House. :, 9. Pay and iwceire balances beiweun bank* at the J|§. !̂ e*rinS Bouse either In gold or United States legal i . "J 'tenders. 7*~ ' 4. Receive silver dollars upon deposit only under 'special* ebntraet to withdraw the same in"kind: ft.- Prohibit payments of balances at the Clearini? Howe In silver certiftcaten or In silver doUan* ex- neptinp as snbaidiarjr (x>in in small 8ums. nay under #10* *. Dtoeontlntte fcolit fepeeial accounts by k notice todealem on the 1st o£ January next -to terminate them. • THE Central Savings Bank, at Jersey v "* /• City Hoiglit-s, N. J., ta being closed, owing po a / 1 _ . lack of profitable business. It is said that all " Ha. obligations will be met in fulL ' The WmU r \ A SPECIAL from Winnepeg says a War bas broken out between the Sioux and Black- ffeet and Awiniboines. Several of the latter b4ve been killed, and serious trouble is feared. HON. NORMAN B. JITDD, [Representa­ tive in the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses from Illinois, and Minister to Berlin under Lin­ coln, died suddenly of apoplexy at Chicago lately, aged Mfts. LUCY STONE BLACK WELL pre­ luded over fifty-four delegates, composing the Woman's National Suffrage Association, at In- dianajpolfa, last week. The feature of the ses­ sion'was1 a fetter from Lloyd Garrison bidding •the assooiatioii to never cease agitating the question of impartial suffrage. . ABOUT 4 o'clock one morning last ffpek the policemen on duty at the bridge at ^aaesvill®, /Ohio, had Ma suspicions aroused at tbe movements of & party in a wagon, and when fhev reached the bridge he ordered them to halt, but the driver whipped his horses into a galtop and escaped. The policeman proewsd assistance said followed them apiae foagtoen mite before he was able to catch »P ffctapa. On attempting to arrest them, the,wh(||̂ party jumped from the wagon apd escape '̂to the woods. The wagon was found to cOnWm the bodies of four prominent citizens Vbo-tfad been buried there within a few days. The poiieetesan riseeived a pistol-wound from the men iattte wagon during the chase. '»<'AJK>*HXR new operatic star of the first magnitude has risen to the view of the Ameri­ can public, and,one the West has reason to be proud of. All disagreements between Max Strakoecli, the priuoe of managers, and Mil" litta--Miss Von Eisner, of Bloomington, Til -- have been satisfactorily harmonized, and she has made her debut in Italian opera in th»« eoautry before a Chicago audience at McYick- er's Theater. Her success Was overwhelming. 'PW (company in which she is engaged is un- daujbtedly ̂.finest StrakoscU has ever col, lected, embracing no le«s than four prima donne, Kellogg, Litta, Muroo and Cary, with the Subordinate roles filled by talent of the first order. This fine company remain all this week, giving several favorite operas. ' THE High Court of Foresters, in ses- staa at Sk<Louis, Mo., completed its business lasf evening, ami adjourned to meet ia London, -Can., tke> second Tuesday of next Ootober. " The South. MAJ. BRANTHAH, of the Howard Asso- caation of New Orleans, is of the opinion that witbin the past four months there were 40,000 <$MM* of yellow f«v«r in and around that city. Physicians have just reported 1,500 cases treated by tbflm wfoieji bad not been hitherto reported. •, , s, FLOYD SMITH and his wife (colored) were banged by a mob near Hernando, Miss., the other night. They were charged with the murder of a little white girl 0 yews old. " -uulhyj .• • ' IT is reported from Washington that sfter the 1st of January next, as an aid to the riBSttmptiou of specie payments, the Treasury Department wfll4 said to parties desiring it the standard silver dollar in quantities of #1,000 and upward, free of transportation, in exchange for like sums of greenbacks deposited with Gov­ ernment depositories. dffieial vote of New Hampshire at the recent election is as follows: Head, Re­ publican, 38,085; McKean, Democrat, 31,088: Brows, Qre îiHMjker, 0,385; Prohibitory and scattering, Read's majority for Governor, 488- " THE Washington dispatches repre­ sent the President " as unwilling to be regard­ ed M having changed or abandoned his South- «rn ^blicy.idr kB having ctmfessed it to be,a J I4 failure. He is statitnent tbat bfe|d^#amatd . . wmain mm * has bsen, a pollw of prol«6ticillo tibe etttilBn îl w^atevat poWcal : rights, and tt«»l the only «ilM# be igoaei" a change is his ssHiklle of j em character. lie means now as heretofoi*' J that the constitution and laws guaranteeing { absolute political equality shall be enforced j wherever they may be dtwagarfled, only he no* ! Bees more reason than ever before for directing I special attention to such enforcement in the j South." Pennsylvania's official Votif at the itW BWUBWI WIT iM-mum-. 'Ifof""CTovernor- Hoyt, 3I«,*5RT;' Mill, Democrat, 297,000; Mason, National, 81,758; Lane, Pro­ hibitionist, 8,1)5!*. IN a recent interview, Mr. De La Matyr, Congressman elect for the Indianapolis district, gave it as his opinion that the Nation­ als will hold the balance of power in the next Congress, and in that event they should stand together, wield their power as a unit, and de mand an uncompromising greenback maa for Speaker, and a fair proportion of the appoint­ ments and patronage of the Hopse for the Na­ tional party. He also recommends a similar policy in the Legislature of Indiana. SECRETARY EVARTS has written anoth­ er letter to Minister Welsh oc the subject of the Halifax award, attacking in the plainest terms the fairness of that award upon the Government of i the United States. He takes direct 'issue wiih* the finding of the Halifax commission, both as to the amount of the awwnd and the planner in which it Was rendered, holding that the #5,500,000 is an outrageous, price to set upon the benefits of twelve years of fish­ ing in Canadian wafers, and that, if paul at all by the United Sates, it must be regarded as covering the value of those benefits in per­ petuity, and not for any term of years; and also making the objection that the adoption of th$ or any other award by the Commission by a bare majority is not to aocordauce with, the terms of that clause of the Washington treaty providing for such a commission, and that the award is, therefor ̂hot binding upon this "Gov­ ernment. " • t • ! THE railroad markagfers, lAtely in ses­ sion at New York, have arranged for the pool­ ing of east-bound freight on thirty-four West­ ern roads under the management of one com­ missioner, who, it is reported, is invested with power to enforoe orders. XIORD SALISBURY replî P toMr. Jjfarts, and insists upon the English, interpretation of the treaty of Washington. The two Secretaries are wide apart, and probably will not reach a1 conclusion before the award is due. ' An International Commercial Con­ vention has jnst been held at Chicago, nearly all the commercial associations and communi- . ties of the North apd Southwest, and some of those in the Jbast .raing represented; by delega­ tions. The object jsas to consider ways and means by which the foreign trade of this coun­ try can be extended, especially in Mexico, South America and "the islands of the sea." Hon. George W. Morris, of Kentucky, was Preekfoht of the convention. THE Atlantic arid ' Great Western railroad is reported to be about to unite with i-«w Erie, >. .Senator Voorhees, in an interview, states that one of his first acts, upon the reas­ sembling of Congress, will be a movement to make the trade dollar a legal tender. ̂ THE National Woman's Suffrage As­ sociation, in session at Indianapolis, have elect­ ed Mrs. Rebecca N. Hazzard, of Missouri, President; CoL T. W. Higginson, Lloyd Garri­ son, and Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, Vice Presi­ dents; Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Corresponding Secretary, and Mrs. Myra BradweH, of Chicago, Treasurer Sterling exchange h*s been pur­ chased by the Government to pay the Canadian award to England. £D1SON has not yet succeeded in ob­ taining the United States patents upon his neW electric light, though it is expected thatt̂ e first papers will soon be issued. 1 • n 1" FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. LORD BEACONSFIELD, at the Lord Mayor's banquet, has unfolded some Of the ideas of the Government regarding affairs in the Elsi He did not feel apprehensive of trouble on the Indian frontier unless Asia Mjuoor.s^nd the Euphrates vidjey were occupied by either a very strong power or; a very weak one; and he hinted that England might take the initiative and obtain oontrol of that territory hetself. ANOTHER big failttrte' is atttootinced from Scotland. The Benbar Coal Company of Edinburgh, with a capital of over #»;,<)()0,(XT0, has suspended payment....The Paris Exposi­ tion has at last formally closed. The receipts since the opening were over 12,000,000 francs. ItussiA has ordered the construction of Jkiveral more ironclads... .A dispatch from Constantinople reports that ]l(idhat Pasha has been appointed Governor General of Syria. SEVERAL shojn, etc., in connection with the Central prfSjft at Toronto, Canada, were destroyed by Are lately. The loss reached #100,000. THE Kaffirs in South Africa are likely te give England considerable trouble before they are finally subdued. An outbreak is again considered imminent... .Taine, the noted au­ thor, has been elected a member <?f the French Academy.̂ 4 VRfttiATXLg: GKNXVq. England no doubt possesses the cham­ pion jack-of-all-trades in the person of one .who styles himself Prof. Pur- linger and lives near Chichester. He . advertises himself as a contractor; inven­ tor, fisherman, builder, carpenter, joiner, sawyer, uadertaker, turner, cooper, paint­ er, glazier, sign-painter, wooden-pump- maker, paper-hanger, bell-hanger, boat- builder, clock-cleaner, locksmith, um­ brella-repairer, china and glass mender, net-knitter, wire-worker, grocer, baker, farmer, taxidermist, copying clerk, let­ ter-writer, accountant, surveyor, engi­ neer, land-measurer, bank agent, vestry clerk, assistant oversee?, clerk to the Selsay Sparrow Club, clerk to tfie Selsay police, assessor and collector of land tax and property and income tax, col­ lector of church and highway fates. This astonishing person has also served at sea, in four quarters of the world, as seaman, steward, sailmaker, coot; mate, and navigator. . r < i : : ̂ MORE than half of the total popula fi°n ot Frajice depen^pn, As a means of living. . . „ . ONE of tile Senators- of Prance, a •rominent follower of Gambetta, named acolin, i»s been compelled to *»%n. e was detected cheating a*, mrd* THE gross earnings of all the railroads in the United States for 1877 %ere $472,909,272--a decrease of *24,348,687 .from 1876, and the smallest gfonfs earn­ ings since 1862, when there we» 18,000 miles less of railroad. . The net earn­ ings for 1877, however, wei$ only $ITE,476,055 less- than in 1876^ ̂£ao^dTie . tavi'KT'm . THE irulls pitice grind slow, but they do grind! The prosecutions in Utah for bigamy have been waiting for the trial of the Moun­ tain Meadow massacre cases, which was first necessary to re-establish confidence in civil authority. The bigamy cases are now going, on under a staitute passed sixteen years ago. / i r THE electors of the fund lor rthe relief of those who were made orphans by ̂Princess Alice disaster in the Thames, after obtaining no less than $150,(XX) for that purpose, are at a losd what to do with it. They can find only twelve persons thus bereaved, And, though it is proposed to educate them and give them a Sum of money to start in life, it is jnstly thought that $12,500 apibce would &8 Anexcessive sujtn. A BOSTON child was at the point of death from water on the chest. Its parents would not consent to a surgical operation, although told that nothing else could save his life. The physician got a priest and several nuns to inter­ fere, but their arguments had no effect. At ,|ength the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children took fprcible possession of the little patient, who was then cured by the physician. OEOBOE TITUS has lived in the best hotels of the largest cities for five years without paying any board worth men­ tioning. He wears good clothes, talks like a man with plenty of money, and is so dignified in his demeanor that the clerks hesitate to demand prompt pay­ ments. He is rarely turned out sooner than a month, and is often able to stay longer. However, he is at last under arrest in Boston as a swindler. BEAR stories are common in the far West, but the one that Charles Norton told was corroborated by a crunched jaw and a broken Wrist. He says that he was hunting near Boise City, Idaho, when he took hold of a small tree to pull himself up to the rocky crest of a' steep hill. A big she bear lay close un­ der thp other side of tlie ridge with her tys. She seized him by the face with her teejfch, hugged him, and rolled with him down the hilL He managed to get his gun aimed at a vulnerable part, and killed her with it single shot. IN Great Britain are published 1,885 newspapers and 818 periodicals, which, with 56 organs of learned and other so- cieties. make a total of 2,759 publica­ tions, 486 newspapers and 598 periodic­ als being contributed by London alone. Of the newspapers 542 are Libetel, 881 Conservative or Conservative-Liberal, and 941 neutral Three hundred and ninety-eight of the periodicals deal ex­ clusively with religions questions. There are 287 illustrated papers, of which 33 have colored illustrations. Questions relating to labor are treated of in 14 newspapers, while there are 104 prints representing trades and trade so­ cieties. LIBERAL subscriptions for the relief of stockholders in the broken Glasgow Bank--many of whom are financially ruined by the assessments fiecessary to pay the debts of the concern--continue in Scotland. The amdrtnt obtained in Glasgow and Edinburgh for this pur­ pose equals about $600,000. The fail­ ure is utterly unlike anything of the kind in this country, in that the cred­ itors lose nothing, while the sharehold­ er suffer severely for their negligence ot bad judgment in putting untrust­ worthy persons in charge of the busi­ ness. There is a. probability that an­ other such leisson will not be needed by owners of Scotch banks for -years to come. . • THE figures contributed by'the free- delivery division to t*he annual report of the Postmaster General show that the letter-carrier system of the country is rapidly growing in efficiency, while its expenses are diminishing. The follow­ ing are the totals, which bring out this fact : Number of free-delivery offices, 87; increase over last year, none; total num­ ber of carriers, 2,275; increase of the same, 10; total number of pieces handled, 715,782,150; increase in the number of pieces, ^9,218,672; average number of pieces handled by each carrier, 314,629; increase in average number, 20,385; average cost per carrier, $799.07; de­ crease in cost per carrier, $35.59. The total cost of the system for the year was $1,824,166.97. Against this is placed the postage receipts upon local matter--that is, letters and postal cards for delivery in, the same city, where (hey are mailed amounting to $2,452,251.51, anincrease over last year of $197,658.68. The of postage on local matter over the total cost of the service was $628,084.5& The average cost per piece far deleitery is given at 2i mills, a decrease of thirty- one hundredths of a mill from last year. A COMMUNITY of Trappists has pur­ chased a lot of land in "WeaU^ru Penn­ sylvania, with J* yiew to establish a mon­ astery there'. The sofeiety Will consist of 200 monks from Prance, IrelancJ antf Turkey. The Trappists, the most aus­ tere of ail the religious' orders of the Roman Catholic Church, were founded in the seventeenth century by Armand Jean de Bance. They rise at 2 in the morning; devote twelve hours of the day to devotion and the remainder to hard work, mainly in the field. No sec­ ular conversation is permitted; oh meet­ ing they salute one another with " Re­ member death" (Meiiier$p mori),and speak no more, They subsist on water and vegetables. Meat, beer and wine are etrictiy prohibited. They sleep on a board, v?itb. a pillow of straw. They never undress, even in illness. There are only 2,500 of them in the whole world. Ah Indiana man had a $5 national- bank note chewed up i>y iiis dog. Be sent two fragments of the note to the Treasurer of the United States and wanted a good one ,in return., Treasu­ rer Gilfillan refused to return a good note, there being nothing to show that the other fragments might not be sent for another new bill The Indiana man then sent the two fragments back again, pinned to an affidavit he had made be- fdre a notary public, as follows: "Per­ sonally appeared before me this day, , who, being by mej duly sworn, makes oath that the remainder 6f the bank bill hereunto attached was totally destroyed by his dog ;, that lie detected him in the act and rescued these rem* nants, taking them from the dog's mouth, and that the remainder ot this bill was chewed and swallowed by the aforesaid dog, and thereby totally de­ stroyed. Subscribed and sworn before me," etc. This being considered suffi­ cient evidence of the dog's voracity and the Indiana man's veracity, the Treasu­ rer sent on a new note. WBJLT LAW CAN jDflfc , ,j, Four men in India, partners in busi­ ness, bought several bales of Indian rugs, and alsVsome cotton bales. That the rats might not destrdy the cotton ̂ they purchased a cat. They agreed that each of the1 four should bWn a par­ ticular part of the cat; and each adorned with beads and other' Orna­ ments the leg thus apportioned to' him. The cat, by an accident, injured one of her legs. The owner of that member wound around it a bag soaked in oil. The cat, going too near the hearth, set this rag on fire, and, being in great pain, rushed in among the cotton bales, where she was accustomed to hunt rats. The cotton and rugs thereby took fire, and they were burned up--a total loss, The three other parties brought a suit to recover the value of the goods de­ stroyed against the fourth partner, who owned this particular leg of the cat. The Judge1 examined this case, tod de­ cided thus: ' ' ' " The leg that had the oiled tag on it Was hurtV the cat could not use that leg; in fact, it held tip that leg, and ran with the other three legs. The three unhurt legs, therefore, crrried the fire to' the cotton, and are alone culpable. The in­ jured leg is not to be blamed. The three partners who owned the three legs with which the cat ran to the cot­ ton will pay the whole value of the bales to the partner who was the pro­ prietor of the injured leg."--Carpet Trade. _____ lVSB Of LIFE. Some men regard life as a vast work fthop. Others, as a playground. The latter class try to. increase it by intensi­ ty. Duelling on a low plane, develop­ ing none of the faculties of the highest order, they try to compensate the es­ sential poverty of the career on which they start by the concentrated interest they devote to it, and the number of objects or pleasures they crowd into their whirling days. This is what is us­ ually called now " a fast life." It may be a fast life of business; it may be one of fashion; it may be one of guiltier pleasure; whatever is the form of it, the distinction of it is the desire to 'do and live af great deal in a rfhoit time, and to escape the misery of a plodding exist­ ence in the common ruts, by giddiness in occupation, or the continued stimu­ lant of the superficial sensibilities into delight. But the man who thoroughly understands life and its capabilities neither works nor plays unreasonably. He suffers, works and plays alternately, as becomes a man to do, and, having worthily filled the hours of his day, can meet the night with eyes that are at once content with what has been, and hopeful of what will presently be. For it is evident that none ban enjoy greatly who has not suffered greatly, that none can work well who has not also played, and been glad in his play. But he whose life is blank and unoccupied, ex­ cept for pleasure, is to b* pitied as uracil as he is contemned. THE PMAMMMX MtMAXm. The mirages of the plains are of won­ drous beauty. In the autumn, when alfthe atmospheric conditions are per­ fect, strange transformations take place upon the prairie ocean. It is the morn­ ing of such a day. Along the eastern horizon a narrow belt of silver light ap­ pears. As it grows broader the silver- gray of its lower line changes to gold. Fleecy, clouds above the belt take -- m- yellg>w-p .̂ Th§ grayish shadows of the dawn lift slowly from the earth, and imperceptibly float skyward. Jnst before the red disk of the sun peers above the horizon line, weird islands appear in the sky--islands clothed with trees and waving grasses, and held together by threads of yellow and green and azure. The earth stands, inverted in the sky. The wooded bluffs and timber islands of the prairie turn bottom upward in the glaucoas ether above, with their feet knee-deep in water. ' The ground-work. of this illu­ sion is a grayish semi-opaque mist, but the smallest, object upon the plain ie limned against it with marvelous fidel­ ity. Objects far beyond the range of vision over the prairie are brought into plain view by this ethereal mirro .̂ I have seen a little village thirty miles away, over the plains, standing in the sky, every feature traced with the- minuteness- of a line engraving. I could distinguish the dogs wandering through the streets, the cows standing idly about the yards, and the opening and closing doors in the cabins. I have seen dog-sledges, whose'trains were out of sight beyond the horizon, trail through the heavens in a tortuous course; long lines of cart-trains swaying to and fro over the sand dunes in the sky.' In all these caqes the ground does hot appear--only the objects growing upon or passing bver it. Everything has the appearance of standing or grow­ ing in water. The feet of the animals, the roots of the trees, the foundations, are all lost in an aqueous mist. The ordinary features of the tnigfcge --the simple drawing of distant objects near' the spectator--are of common, and in many places, of every-day occur­ rence at some seasons of the year. A few rods away, on every side, a slight line of grayish mist, exactly like that rising from lake or stream .in early morning, appears, and upon the surface is limned the whole landscape, changing constantly, like the color of a kaleido­ scope, as i the traveler advances. The illusion continues but a few minuses, however. The gold fades from the fleecy clouds overhead as the yellow light descends upon the plain, chasing the receding shade before it. The sun rises, and the dissolving views of the mirage fade slowly away.--Dakota Correspondence. .. HUB8ED THRrUP. jv.y Among the passengers on the train going on the Keokuk • route, the other day, was a gentleman who had with him a pup only a few days old. The dog was of a fine breed, and, in order that life should be sustained, the traveler carried with him a nursing bottle filled with milk, at wliieh it was his intention *bi pup should have an occasional pull. As the train sped south, the pup seemed to be forgotten, its owner being interested in a newspaper. Finally he laid the paper down and thought he would take a survey of his fellow-passengers. As he glanced back of him he saw four mothers, and each mother had a baby, and each baby was drawing its rations of milk, but not from a nurse bottle, how­ ever. The sight seemed suddenly to remind the gentleman of something he had forgotten, and, seizing the nursing bottle in one hand, and the pup in the other, he wis soon as deep in the mud as the four mothers were in the mire The situation was discovered by the rest of the passengers, and whiles the ladies blushed and tried to frown, and ended with a hysterical giggle, the gentlemen grew very red in the face, distended their cheeks, tried to look solemn, and finally unbuttoned their vesta and laughed until they nearly shook the car from the track. The four mothers looked up inquiringly, discovered the situation, tumbled to it, and in a second and a half were struggling with four in­ fants, very red, awfu?ly wrinkled, su­ premely bald, and terribly mad because their supplies had been cut off without due noticcs.-^Keokuk Constitution. amusement, the tSKtidbp of a womul is no more to be respected, than th# ̂ woman who is addicted to the game of ** captivating, fofthe moj l̂gg pleamix#;'. ;:4 It affords, the nWrfe of men '̂.. - i : *«4uwjr#« -- .*<£• , Even in these days there are not who are sufficiently superstitious to bew.\ •': ; lieve in " signs " and " omens." th* . ,Phri4tian».Mnion Mm. fieeehe»- wwni. ," <j mothers against repeating these abauadl. ' . * ties to their eirildfen. I£ a mother' m\ d r i tliat the nurse has began to indoctrinate, , • the little ones into these superstition ̂- : ̂ s$ie ought not to rest until she hasful* , ministered an antidote in the form of 4 , f> 1 •tear explanation of their absurdity. Mrs. Beeeher saya: - • , f , ? , . . - ^ ̂ "A few days since we heard three iittl#. 9 girls talking in the cars. One took of ^ her glove, and her companion exclaimed ̂ ' as she took her hand i ' . : , i{ V" '® Minnie, look at the white speckjp ̂"• j on your nails! They are covered Wit|L 2 J> ttonr." What a naughty girl'yolTffifflfcY., :f| be!' said she, laughing merrily. ̂ * , * j "4 Why ? Ify mother says these speckav r ̂ are a sign I have bruised the nail a lit** tie. Is there anything naughty in thatS ̂ "' My grandmother says,' replied th» ' / I first, ' when she sees them on my nails,. | that they never come unless I have tola | a lie, and, do you know, I think she re- j ally belieVes I have. But I know th$î § isn't a word of truth in it.' * | "' Well,' said the third,' I guess these- .] "signs'.' are all nonsense. I am always told if a "ifrhite speck comes on my naijjfc it's a sign of good* luck. But toamnii always tells me to be a good girl, and pay no attention to these silly '* signs. Y "We knew a young lady whose en­ gagement ring broke on her finger while she lay dangerotirily ill. Among many, to this day, that is a sure sign of speedy 'death. - .>' / : • " If the yortng lady's mother had iybt ̂ taught her more sensible lessons, and, at the moment of this occurrence, en­ forced them by her own cheerful r6t marks as she picked up th& fragments, the little accident,, coming when the, young girl was ill, might have Had seri­ ous effects. " We were once most solemnly urged by a nice old lady to swallow the firnt tooth which one of our children lost, be­ cause if we did not the child would never have any new growth of teeth!: " Was there ever anything more ab­ surd? And yet it id not many year* since this advice was given, and by one who, in every other j*espect, wm wi$0 and sensible." ' " TUB JAPANRH1S KIP TAN WINKLE* The Japanese have the story of Rift, Van Winkle in another form. A young- man fishing in his boat on the ooean was invited by the goddess of the sea to her home beneath the waves. After three days he desired to see his old father and mother. On parting she gave him a golden casket and a ,kqy, but begged him never to open it. At the village where he lived all was changed,* and ho could get no trace of his parents until an aged woman recollected having heard of their names. He found their graves 100 years old. Thinking that three days could not have made such a change, and that he was nnder some extraordinary spell, he opened the box. A white vapor rose, fUB}d tinder its influence the young man fell to the ground. His hair turned gray, his form lost its youth, and in & few moments he died of old age. « <" THE writing-paper manufacturers of the country have held a meeting at Springfield, Mass., and agreed to reduce* the production by 2,000 tons. 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