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|plaindealft J. VAN M.YKC. EMsrart tatfMiw. HoHENBT. BLLINOia WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW. THE EAST. MOSBBTITCOXB died at Franklin Falls, Jit IL, a few days »go, aged 80 yew*. He had feben Superintendent of th* document-room of fee United Stotea Senate for OTOT tw«ot?-five learn, and lmd tended Calhonn »wi Henry QU.y in their last hours....Ben Bu lor, m fho agent of a syndicate, is negotiating with William Sprspne and a eomnmu* of erod- ttoro for thumleof the estate in a lump,... A bov, giving the name of Frank A Frit*. »nd •tanning to be a carrasre-trimmer from Colnin- fctiR, Oh o. killed tlie proprietor of a coffee- . kon»v 111 Oleveiand. No re.«on is known for ^"the deed save the Ktflfc-n>ent of the lad that h» fwind he had no money witti winch to par his and wa« fctnuMed to kiil th« man At th* oanhierV dusk At Patent)n, N. J., a man »amed D. Porta fatally stabbed the father of fke pirl who ri'jwstwi his unit, and made a mw- drrons attack upon Cape lis, the accepted suitor. John GTCKBHR, the Hungarian who has so greatly pn/.sled the authorities at the poor-liouoe at Beading, Pa., after absolute •Hence for 185 day*, found voice to express ma thaukx far a flower which wan given him •I» the eight-oared race of four miles on the Thame* river, near New Loudon, Ct, between the Harvwd and Columbia College crtws, the former won by tkree lengths in twenty-one Btinutex and lortv-five KCimdd According to the revised end fin*l!v approved oennas of Boston, tMt city had 862.839 inhabitants when the enmuieratioa was made last year. Gkn. BEAUREGARD. the vicious horse which recently killed two grooms in New York, gpd has lat ly been in danger of etarmtion lieoanse no one d»red to attend hioa, ha* been •hot is hi* stall as an nnxafe bean Poat- BasUr Cadmu*. of South Am boy, N. J., whose books show a shortage on moaey-orders, took hia own life. JOHN SMBPARD, of Boston, has given Us team a reooid of 2:2S 2-5, beaten* the beat previous time, and it is rumored that Vander- bflt has offend t5l.O00 for the pair A flock it aarriw-pigeonx ewned in Boston have be»n tokening the record. One ef the number flew from 6chenec ady, N. Y., to B«etoa in four hours, seventeen minutes and fifteen seeonds. JOHN G. SAXB, the poet, lost a son at Albany, last week, with whom he was about to make his home for the future... .Five members of a party which left New York for a yachting trip m the sound were lost in a storm off Bridgeport, Ct Peter Cooper has decided to open schools of instruction in type-writing and phonography in Coop r Institute, New York, at a cost of 425,000 A spccial committee of the Boston Council, after duly considering the subject, recommends the immediate expendiiure of $1,500,000 in the creation of a system of public pmk* John bavia. his wife and daughter, of Pittsburgh, were senoudy poisoned bv eating smok<*i stur­ geon which had been cured with creosote. THE WEST. A BATTLE has occurred in the mount­ ains of Utah between the May party of r&ach- goen and a bead of Piutes who had 300 head •f stolen hordes. Bskridge, one of May's partv, killed four rods with a revolver. The whies lost f<.ur men Every gambling- house in St. Louis has b- en closed under the State law making the business a felouy Attorney General <lacVeagh holds that it is the doty of the Interior Deputm ni to remove in­ truders from Choctaw and Cbickaaaw lands ; that ail othe> s tut Indians by birth or adop­ tion. save , Governme nt employes, travole s, holders of permits, and whites employed iw teachers, as mechan cs. and skilled agncultnr- Mta, have no t m Indian Territ .-ry. Te permit laws are declared valid, and the right' to remain expires with the permit. Secretary Kukwood has advised the agent at Mu*k >gee that measures will be speedily taken to execute the laws as above oonstrued. THE harvest in Southern Kansas is aXxmt over. The wheat is of excellent quality, tat the average is fifteen bn»h<4s per acre, as compared with sixteen last year Henry and his ess-'tciatee have filed »t Port- TSff) "articles of incorporation of the Oregon Transcontinental Company, with a capital or 450,000,000. A report has gained credence in St. Louis that Gen. Grant has sold his farm on the Gravois road to Jay Gould for •15,000. v---_ GEOKOS EISSBIA, Assistant City Trt«*nrer at St. Louis, died from the effects of hot weather.... A lost of #25, "00 was mfl cted upon the Atlantic m ne, at Houghton, Mich., by the burning of the engine and shaft houses. ... .A boiler in a saw-mill near Grant City, Mo., was scattered over a miie of territory by au explosion. The engineer, A. B. Williams, was shocking!v mangle! The newly-constructed water-tank on the western hills back of Cin­ cinnati, with a capacity of nearly 3,00?>,000 gallons, burst about midnight, undermining several houses. The structure coat $50,009. AT midnight two masked men robbed a stage-coach near Alamo**, Col., securing from the six passengers about $900 The paper-mill of Averill, Russell A, Carpenter, on Hennepin istand, near Minneap- Us, valued at •85 .O'iO, was burned... .Htoc.. to the amount or $500,U00 htis been taken for a new atot-k-yaras company in Cincinnati. THE anrra. HON. HXXBT STAXBSBY, who was At­ torney General duriug the administration of Andrew Johnson, died a few days ago in his 78th year. For some years patst he has resided •ear Covmgtoa. Sj SOME stockmen from Southwest Mis­ souri recently invaded the gracing lands of Seavey county, Ark., with their herd*. A gen­ eral battle with the ad]ao~nt farmers was the result, in wliieh » herder named George Youiu- blood was shot four times and two farmers wounded The Dirtctors of the Kentucky Central mad have d< cided to extend it from Paiis to Knoxvilie. THE Erlanger syndicate, which pro­ pose* to build a railroad from New Orleans to Menditn, Miss., has paid $290,000 for the Bnanish Fort road, six miles in length, to ob­ tain an entrance into I he Crescent City Cnpt. Rov-ert Hurdie, the onlv survivor of the Drtmoor prison outrage.,f thewarof 1812 died the utlier nixhtat tin.Him..re, aged 83 \ears The steam--oat I'hueton bnrst her »oiler near Mnysvilte, K'., and wa* blown to p eces. Five persons w«-re killed and five mjurod. Tue Pha- on was racing with the Hardv wheu tne explosion occurred. DICK WOOD, a notorious character in Western Texas, was -ak-n from the Sheriff near Cariso, and s-iot t • death. HIKAM WABNEB, formerly Chief Justice of Georgia, died at Atlanta. aft<-r a long ill­ ness. He was bom 'n Williamsburg. Mass iu 1^2. Henry P. MeGr th. the well-known Kentucky breeder and owner of running horses is dead. ' WASHINGTON. WaiiUM G. WaiTNET, a son of the well kuown litigant. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, was murdered by his brother-in-law, Jamee Y. Clii'i-tniM. The tws men and tlieir families, who lived with Mr«. G ines in tlie Catacazy Infineon, had been in bn«iuess togeth< r. and the qunrrel whioh cm»«d the murdt* nas in r«- p»rd to t»>e s ttlen.ent thereof. Tliey loft the dinntr table U*ether, and as they pa^s<yl into the hall Christ mas drew a revolver and «hot Whitney through the heart. A TBKBuric thunder storm passed over Wafchlngton, unrouflug Ferd's Opera House, the Art Hall and a large number of resi­ dences. The pecuniary damage is placed as high a« $100,000. ATTOBXEY GFNBKAL MacYEAO Hinsists that th« re will he no ' let up" in the star- rout-- prosecution, the Pr sident and the Cabi- n< t U nig determined to go te the root of the bui-ine^s. SIB EDWARD THORNTON has handed to the President his letters of recall from Wash­ ington as British Envoy, invoking a continu­ ance of the kindly relations between the two nations. President G rtield paid the re­ tiring Minister the highest compliments for his services iu bringing about two very itoporunt arbitrations The President has appointed R. 8. Foster to the Marehalxhip of Indiana, made vacant by the resignation of William W. Ihidley... .The receipts from it.tarnal revenue for the fisoat veer were $134,974,186, and from customs $197,600,000. FOI.ITICAL. Ill the ballot at Albany, June 25, for Senator for the short term, Potter and Wheeler each received 32 votes and Conkling 22. For the long term Depew aud Kernan each had 94 and Piatt 20. It was reported that a deter­ mined effort for a Republican canons would be made, in the hope that the deadlock might be ended. Conkling gave the people of Washing­ ton a surprise by his sudden appearance in that city. CONGRESSMAN KBIFER, of Ohio, has already commenced work at Washington for the Speakership of the House. Ramon has some powerful friends and Hiscock develop* considerable strength. IK the balloting at Albany for Sena­ tor, on the 27tti ult,, for the short term, Wheel­ er had 92 votes, Potter SI and Conkling 24. For the long term, Depew led off with 35, Ker­ nan 32 and Pl.v t 21. Mr. Coukltng has Riven np his rooms at Washington An Inter Ocean special gives currency to the rumor that the President is about to ask Attorney General MacVeogh to resign, and thai .William F. Chan­ dler wili pro1>aWy i>o offered the position Twelve indictments were present- d by the Gi-and Jury at Albany, seven of whijh were sealed. IN the ballot at Albany for Senator, on the 28th ult, for the short term. Potter got 49 votes, Wheeler 42, and Conkling 31. For the long term I> pew had 5ii, K-rnan 49, and Piatt 27. The fact has develojjed that. State Vnator Sessions was indicted for bnbery, and he has been held to bail in $*.000. A long con­ ference between the Republican factions was he>d in the evening, and it is state that the administration men refused to trade on tiie bakia of Depew for the long term j aad Conkling for the short one | The Republican State Committee of Virginia ' met in Richmond, June 28, with full rank*. J«ha F Lewis took the ckair. but soon called upon State Senator Early to preside. A reso­ lution calling upon Lewis and Gen. Wickham to resign was finally adopted. It was revived that n convention be held in LynchHtirg on Aug. 10, to which no person won Id be eligible as a delegate «rho had participated iu the K<v- adjaster Convention. J. W. Cochran (colored), of H%k Bgham, was elected Ohvirman The •reenbackers of the Sreoad oi«trict of Maine have nominated W. R. Gilbert for Congress. THE Iowa Republican State Conven­ tion, held at Des Moines June 29, called to the chair Hon. James Wilson. Hon. John Y. Htone was made permanent Chairman. An in­ formal ballot for Governor gave Sherman 416 votes. Larral ee 368, Harlan 146, Compbell 76 and Kimball 17. On the twelfth ballot Sher­ man was nominated, receiving 509 votes, which was made nn&uimtms. On the third ballot O. H. Manning, of Carroll county, was nominated for L entenarit Gover­ nor "Anstra Adams, of Dut>uqu», was selected as candidate for Supreme Judge, and John W. Ackers for Superintendent of Public Iu«truc- tion....The monotonous balloting at Albany shows little eh«nge. For the short term, on the 29th ult., Potter had 52 supporters, Wheeler 41, and Conkling 32 For the long term, Kernan got 62 votes, Depew 50, and Piatt 28. IN the ballot at Albany on the 30tli ult, for Conkhng's successor, Potter hud 53 votes, Wheel r 43 and Conkling 3i. For the long term, Kernan bad 53 support r-, Depew 51 and PI .tt 28. A motion iu the Assembly to adjourn sine die on Saturd>y was tabled, the Democrats voting in the neg­ ative. The Grand Jury indicted A D. Bar er for paying E. R. Phalps $ 12,5 0 with which to bribe State officer*, and Charles A. Edwards for receiving from Joseph Dick-on $7,0. r0 for the same purpose. Phelps was aUo arraigned, and nil three gave bail. It is said that tiftv r.ignatures to a call for h caucus were obtained, but sixty-five were r- quire 1. The latest seuxa- tion at Albany is a scandal involving the name of Piatt CEXERAL. A GREAT slaughter of soldiers on the Morelet> railway, in Mexico, occurred near the village of Mailpois, on the river San Antonio. After the train had been plungtd into the water by the destruction of the bridge, a con­ signment of alconol in a freight-car to >k tire and exploded. No le-»s than thirteen officer* and 192 privates were killed by the fall or wM- ed alfrte. wh le >fifty* othes* susMned serious injuries. The en^int^r and fireman were scalded to death. The ro<d is a narrow-gauge, was built by native engineers, and had been opened only a week. EX-AXDERMAN CLANCY, of Ottawa, Ontario, entertained thousands of people by an exhibition of his flyiug-machine, on which he has been at work for thirty years. Il has winus and is woiked be a crank, aud he kept steadily in the sir tor a quarter of a mile at an average height of tw> lve feet. Tne excess of Ameri­ can exports over import s for the % ear ending May 21 was $266,773,866. EDWIN BOOTH and wife and J. H. and Mrs. McVicker have reached Sew York Par- nell has not yet decided as to the date of his visit to this country, the object of which is to di-courage the exertions of O'Donovan-Rjasa and his skirmishtrs. THE recent electrical storm swept over a wide expanse of territory, inflicting heavy damage. A tornado and hail storm at Frank­ lin. N. H., moved the Catholic Church nix i tches and ble* down two residences Maj. Gen. Zirvando Canales. of the Mexican army, commander of the district of Tam tulipas, died last w> ek, at Matamoras, in his 4uth year. THERE are 44,490 po-.toffices in the United States. During the year 2,b9i were es­ tablished and 1,408 discontinued. The number of Poitmasters commissioned i< 10,441 Work on the Yorktown centennnial m.luament, wheh u to co&t $100, OJO, will bs be^un at once. TORSION. AT Hull, England, a Are at the docks entailed a damage of $150,000. The steam­ ship Othello, loading for New York, was badly damaged Strikuig workmen of Christiana, Norway, in order to release their comrades who had been arrested, attacked the Town II *11 at Drammen. The troops firod upon the not -rs, killing one and wouud ng several. O.ie officer and some soldiers wore injured Seventeen persons were killed an l tiv« iiijured by an ex­ plosion in a Prussian oolliery. THE construction of another railway is immediately to lie commenced in Japan, aud the people of Hong K n^ demand a telephone exchange The Secretary of Stat* for Ind^ announced in the House of Commons that ihe subsidies given Attdurruhmtn K'lan. tue Ameer of Afgha. istan, amjnnt to il3'J:l,l(00 Baron Magnus, late German Minister nt Coix-uli gen, who was recalmd tor at'enrhn.{ the Bernhardt baoquet, has become iu^aue.... Lightning tire<l a house in a 8w>ss villsge, and caused the de- stiuotion of 300 homes. WHEN an express train stopped at Brighton, England, one day lately, a man was f'.und in one of the carriages badly wounded. The presence of several bullets in the wood­ work, and the injured man*s slory, cans d a search to lie made in Bilcombe tumie1, where the mutilated corpse of a retired bnKiness man of Loudon was tound,, his money havuu beeu taken. The wounled man is a young newspaper reporter, who will be charged with t:ie murd«r Tho Empress of (Germany has undergone a severe surgical operation, and is reeov<.ii ig quite rapidly Tue delegate from Russia to tne Monet rjr Conference has submit ed to his Government a report opposing bimetallirfn. AN avalanche in the Canton of Grisels, S w i t z e r l a n d , o v e r w h e l m e d 1 , 3 0 0 s h e e p a n ' their sh< pherds. In the Cant/ n of B rne, a tract on which there are meadows and bouses is gradually slipping down tow <rd the I ke At the Wiltshire session*, in England, M -rquis Town»h"iid was fit ed X500 aud co*U, and held to k«ep the peace for one ye >r, for h >rsewhin- pina Lord Edward Thynie. 'Jhe latter had abducted the Marquis' wi e. Col. Neapau was fin^d £10.1 for abett ng the assault The Fr-nch flshiag-boit Emil Ernestine was snuk off the coast of New Brunswick, bv colli­ sion with a bark, and six of her crew were drowned An Irish process-nerver, named McAuliffe, was shot dead in his bouxe, near Cattle island, for giving evidence against tbe President of tne local Isnd letgu tioe Coleridge to sixteen months' imprisonment for wriline an article anpniving Oi' the assas­ sination of the Csar. Mo*t responded: "We might as well be in Rnssia." A xx)S3 of £30,000 w«a incurred 4t Norwich, England, by the tmrafogr of a mustard warehouse In the Henley regatta the Cor­ nell boat was cut by striking that of the Lon­ don Ciob, necessitating a halt for repair*. On the peoontl start the Americans lose the race, coming ont third.... The dir -ctor« of the Do LesMM's Canal Company have practically com- p eted the purchase of the Panama railway for $17,500,000, and the canal is to follow closely the line of the track. Tobaoce Production la the United WrnMrnm The report of J. B. Dodge, special agent for the collection of statistics of agriculture, show­ ing the tobaooo product of the United States for the census years 1880 aad 1870, has been iwued from the Census Office in Washington. The comparative statement presented in the report shows an increase in production of 80 per cent during the decade, the prod­ uct in 1980 being placed at 473,- J07,«73 pounds, and that of 1870 at 2fci, 735,341. This apparent incren>«, Mr. Dodge says, exaggerates the»raal advance tn to. *.«o cultivation, as tho preceding census crop was a small one, and the tovr of taxation may have operated to prevent a fu 1 c< nsns of the tobacco in 1870. Tue crop reported in 1880 was one of good p odurtum, aud not in exoe-s ot preeent ruquir-mouts of home consumption and exportation. Fif­ teen States produce nowj as in 1870, more - than 99 per cent of the tobac­ co of the United States, though it is reported in twenty-two oth»-r States uiid Terri­ tories. Of thene only Mi6uunn, lllinow. Indi­ um aud Massachusetts produce less th rii in 1S70. Kentucky orcapies the first position, producing 3t> ]>or cent of the total product of the country. Virginia holds tee second place, IVmiKvlvania has advanced from the twelfth to toe third, Wis-xir.mn fio<u the fifteenth to the tenth, and North Carolina. Connecticut and New York have each gamed one pouit in the rank of the tobacco States. Those that have retrograded, relative to pro­ duction, are Massachusetts. Msrviand. West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri aud Ten- neree". The average yield per acre is i bowo to be 781 pounds, vai-ying hom 1,599 pound-i hi Mftssachnset'.s to 471 ponnds in Nor.h Csro- lir.a. This variation in the rate of vield, tt>e report states, is duo, iu a differing degree, to the use and neglect of ferti eaert, hit bit ol growth of the different varieties and vici&ii- fudes of the seasons. The fo.lowin" table shows the 'otal product in pounds and the yield per acre, in 1880, in the fifteen leading tobacco-growinc States : •rtwtwfs. Peracrr* Kentucky Virginia Pennsylvania Ohio Tennessee North Carolina. Maryland Connecticut Missouri Wisconsin Indiana New York Massachusetts lllim-i" West Virginia 171,421,184 HO- 3»,85\TT2 3t,7">.«06 W,S6K,0Sa W,086,448 2rsseiM47 n.fH4,e i 11,9*4, WT 10.ST8, 63 8,lTi!2,843 6,5»f>,361 6,369-86 3,936,7-10 2,306,136 706 673 l^iU 10t> 707 471 683 l,62:i 173 1,214 742 1,327 1,5*9 699 664 The Tension Office. On turning over his office to his successor, Col. Dudley, Mr. Bentley, Commissioner of Pensions, made the following stat< ments as to the condition m which he would leave the office, and as to the future of t e pe i 'ion serv o -: '•The number of new pensions gran<ed during the year wfll be about 25,000, exc'nsive of the War of 1812 pensions. This is an increase of more than 6 per cent over the number granted last year. A portion of thlh in^-reire is nc ounted for by the fact fiat we have handled a very large number of new claims during the year, mmy of which were for gunshot wounds," or for some disease of which there was a record This element will enter morn largely into the work of next yeor, and continue to i.eease the number of an inal settlem. nti until the c'aiuia that are pending bu not yet reached for adjustment have Uen fixed. Alter that the work will again fall b*ci into irs tisna course. The ?ettlenient* mat jear ought to reach from 45.000 to 5).<4i0.' First, tLire are probably fr. m 5,000 to 7,000 cast* on the flies realv, or ne ily so, fur the issu^of ctrtih^tes. . beyond, will be «W" Iilerease or the examining fore *, inc'udmg that relieved from the w >rk u.rfin the ne~» records, equal to nearly 50 per c •! t Third, there will be a large inc ease in the number of hpecial agents, which, uu.hr t e law as modified last winter, ougu- cotwi'T bly to increase the number of c uim< that will he settled. These advan a^es, together with the character of the cl.iuis bef< re rcfcrrel to, ought to nearlv if n>t quite d nt.lo the number of allow .ncoS. NYe Jiave ex­ hausted the jieiiwi n appropriati -n this year, $50.302.306.6H, and " a\e l»en c,vm- pelled to carry over into July nearly >.11 the May : nd June settlem-nts. 1 think thev w II r< quire for the first psMi. nt-i about $50,1.00,000. This, added to the exu-cted increase m the settlement next year, will brini; ti e amonnt for next year up to "nearlv or quite $ 9!),N00,000, BO there will be require! for the pensions i-ext yeir an appropriation of $40,000,000 iu addition to the $50.000,a'roidy appro | ins ted. New claims continue to come in very rai i llv. Tliere have been filed this year upward of 30,000 new original claims." Thecouitat. Constantinople lias sentenced to death the three Pashas and six serv^uu con­ cerned in the murder of Abdul Az z. Two other I'ashas are to under o ten vea's of penal servitude... .Johann M'S", the tditor of the London Freiheii, was sentenced by Chief Jus- A Swindler Foiled. Upon one of the train* en route from the Pacific coast, a sharp nndertook to sell a diamond ring to an old miner who had made his pile and was returning home. The miner looked at the ring and said to the seller: "They've got com­ mon stone up in the diggings wli <re I've been that'll cut that diamond all to pieces!" "If you'll find a piece of htone that will cut that diamond I'll give it to you," replied the peddler. "All right," said the miner, "if I can't cut that 'dia­ mond' with a stone I'll buy it of yon." THereupon the miner took the ring in bis hand and pulled from his vt-st pocket a small piece of hrown-looktng etone, similar to a bit of'jlark freestone, except the grain was very fine, and with this he proceeded coolly to cut and scratch the diamond" with severnl ugly-looking ga»lies. A group of passengers that lia i gathered about the initier were amazed, but while they Hmih-d the ped­ dler with hi-* "oiamond" withdrew dis­ comfit-, d. "That little piece of brown otou«»," explained the miner, "is a piece of corundruin that I got in the Rocky mountains, and it's the best diumoud tester in the world. It won't scar a genuine diamond, but it will everlasting­ ly cut up pieces of glass or quariz." Predictions Verified. Senator Jack sou, of Tennessee, was retniuded not long since by a friend who was at the Uuiversity of Virginia with him of the curious v^ rifie-ution of predic­ tions made thirty years ugo and more. Jackson, Thomas Mahone aud Charles E. Feunor occupied contiguous rooms in the Uuiversity of Viiginia. They were fast friends, coast int companions and the foremost met. in their cla*s. A brother student sketched the three in a group one day. " What shall I put un­ der each figure ?" he said, when he had completed the drawing. "Put un .er mine," said Jackson, "Jackson address­ ing the Senate of the Umte-d {State*." " And under m^ne," said Mahone, " de­ livering a lecture to the students of the University of Tennessee." "And under yours, J?ennor?" "Oh, Pennor an­ nouncing a decision from the Supreme bench of Lou siana." The inscriptions were appended. Jackson is to-day in the Senate of the United States, Mahone is at Vauderbilt University, Tennessee, and Fennor is a member of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. f ACTS FOB THE CUEI0U8. A PROFESSOR at Cornell, lecturing on the efiect of the wind in some Western parts, remarked : " In traveling along the road, I even sometimes fouud the logs bound and twisted to^eth^r to such an extent that a mule couldn't climb over them, so I went round." Tms raaor-ftsh, though it liw» in water, seems to abhor sail THE tusks in a full grown male ele­ phant sometimes are ten feet long. THE white shark sometimes attains the enormous weight of 10,000 pounds. Is high mountain altitudes the boil­ ing point of water becomes so low that food cannot lie cooked iu it. IN hot climates the eight-armed cut­ tle-fish sometimes becomes of such size as to measure twelve feet across its cen­ ter iiml to have each of its arms between forty aud fifty feet long. ANOIKNT Rome was divided into four­ teen quarters. It had seventeen prisons, eleven l>asilicas or courts of justice, 133 temples dedicated to fhe gods, nine cir­ cuses aud three amphitheaters. THERE are no fewer than six different breeds of ponies in Britain, varying in height from seven and a half to fourteen and a half hands. They are the Shet­ land, tho Welsh the New Forest, the Exmoor and the Yorkslnremoor. DR. WAIAASTOV, the distinguished scientist, who first made platinum use­ ful for the arts, obtained wires of plati­ num, gold and iron, in excessive tenui- ty, by first drawing the metals into a fine wire, which he covered with silver. THE dinmeter of the infusoria is but one 250,000,000th of an iuch. Yet Eheruberg asserts that he has seen in­ fusoria provided with 200 stomachs. Mmute as monads are, they ur^, to use Humboldt's expression, "dwellings and pa-ture grounds'" for other animalcules still less. DUJORDIN observed that when a mil- i i'a (;t microscopic aiiimal) attempted to o imb up the side of a vase, it eourd im­ provise, as it were, on the instant, and at the expense of its own substance, a provisional foot, which stretched itself out rapidly, ana performed all the func­ tions of a permanent n.ember. When it< task was done the foot was at ouce absorbed mto the body. ' A POPULAR notion existed in the olden times that thunder prognosticated evil or good, according to the day of the week on which -k occurred. If it oc­ curred on Sunday, it brought about the death of learned men, Judges and oth­ ers; on Tuesday, it augured plenty of grain ; on Wednesday, death of harlots md bloodshed; on Thursday, it b ought pleuty of sheep and corn ; on Friday, " the slaughter of a great mau aud other horrible murderson Saturday, pesti­ lence and death. It was also a popular Taney that the ringing of bells in popu­ lous cities charmed away thundei. THE soundings made in the Atlantic show its bottom to be an extensive pla­ teau, varying in depths at different points. The average depth is 12,000 feet, though the steamer Cyclops ob­ tained a depth of 15,OJO feet. This ocean Hoor begins about 150 m Jes from the Irish coast; there tlm descent from the shallow to deep water is very ra iiJ, reaching 10,500 feet in fifty miles, giv­ ing an angle of descent greater thuu that of Italian Alps. The deepest part of tlie Atlantic is on the American side, near the banks of Newfoundland, where a great basin exists ranging east and west for nearly 1,000 miles, and whose depth is believed to exceed the highest of the Himalava mountains. The Nearest Star. In an interesting article on Southern stars, reprinted iu Science, Mr. Pope, of New Zealand, describes Alpha Centauri, the known nearest fixed star to the earth. This magnificent dou »le star, he says, is the finest objecta^lie kind iu the heav­ ens. Beside b^flHfttbiliary qiar of very short period, every*>ile knows that Alpha Centauri is our next neighbor among the stars, and that it was the lir*t to give up the secret of its parallax under direct transit circle observations. The color of this star is straw-yellow, or sometimes golden-yellow, according to the state ol the atmosphere. When there is a haze, of course the smaller star is somewhat more affected by it than the larger. This tends to give it a slight brownish tint when the tky is ii"t clear. Alpha Cen­ tauri is a star of the second diss. Its spectrum is very like that of the sun. Eveu the principal dark lines are fine, and they apparently occupy the same relative positions as do the well-known lettered lines in the solar spectrum. There can tie no doubt, in fact, that the physical constitution «f this great star is, in most respects, the same as that of tlie sun. It is piuhable, however, that Alpha Centauri is less developed than tue sun; for, as Mr. Proctor has poiuted out, its light is brighter than its ma^s would lead as to expect it to tie, judging from the light of oar sun as compared with his ma&s. While the mass of the star is to the mass of the sun as 2:1, the light of the star is to the light of tho sun as 3:1. Now, if it is true, as ph> sicista have good grounds for believing, that the sun is, and has been, very s owiy Inn surely losing his heat, just as our earth has most certainly lost an enormous amouut.of hers, there must have been a time when the suu and h s system were less developed, but far hotter aud bright er, thau they are now--when they formed, probably, a white star--that i» to say, tliere was, quite possibly, a time whei< the light from our SUM bore the same relation to his mass as the light from Alpha Centauri bears now to its mass. We may also liel eve that matters are less advanced in the planets (.1 there are any) of this neighboring system than they are with us. The Size of Moleonleg. With regard to the absolute diameter of a molecule aud their number iu a given space, everything at present is only probable conjecture. Still it may be interesting to state the views which are held ou these questions by such investigateira as Sir William Thompson aud the late Professor Clerk-Maxwell; but we give these withont, attempting to indicate the characte r of the sjieculations on which tln ir conclusions rest. Sum­ ming up then both the known and un­ known, we may state that the molecular weights and velocities of many stilistauces are accurately kuown It is also con­ jectured that collisions take place amoug the molecules of hydrogen at tho rate of seventeen milliou-millioii-million per sec­ ond; and in oxygen there are less thau half that number. The diameter of the hydrogen molecule may be such that two miliiou of them in a row would measure a millimetre. Ltistly, it is conjectured that a milliou-millioii-million.million hy­ drogen molecules would weigh alnmt four grammes; while nineteen miMion-million- inillion would be contained in a cubic centimetre. Figures like these convey no meaning to the mind, and they are introduced here only to show the charac­ ter and present state of the research.-- Chamber's Magizinc. Friendship. Friendship has its duties. You owe your friend sympathy in his sorrows and in his joys. You owe him cspntideno * and the information alwmt y ourself whi -h confidence implies. Yet that information is to lie given with a certain reserve, so that you do not seem to force your affairs upon him, or to make hirp responsible , for jtm. Of crises in which he could not akt yon, or would be pained by his • . inability, it is of en wise to say nothing. There is a fine subtle instinct which • J guides in suoh matters. However near iyoar friend brings you to him, you are i j to respect his individuality. Information that is purely personal you must wait for. If he does not volunteer it, be satisfied that he has his reason. Do not seek--above all, do not claim--it as a right of your friendship. Be generous, not exacting. The Farmer's Illred Han. rm kinder lookin' around the market for a hired man," he exclaimed, as he stopped at one of the stands and nibbled at an onion. "I kiuder need one, but vet I kinder hope I shan't be able to find him." w "How's that?" "Wall, there ain't no profit in a hired man uo more. No, sir, he's no good any longer." "What's the reason?" "Oh, a dozen reasons. First and fore­ most, times have changed, and the hired man has changed with'em. Ah! sir, it makes me sad when I think of the hired men we had before the war--great big fellers with the strength of an ox aud the vim of a locomotive. I didn't have to holler my lnngs out to git one of'em out of bed at 3 o'clock iu the morning, and it was all I could do to coax 'em to go to bed at 10 o'clock at night. I'm afraid that we 6lian't never see no more hired men wuth keepiii' around for their board." "That's sad." •„. • " t's sad, and more, too. Now, as 1 said, I want a hired man. I'm willing to pay SI Lor §12 a month for a smart one. Some farmers want a man to work all day aud all night, but that ain't me. I have never asked one to git out of bed before 3 o'clock--never. I alius give my man three-quarters of an hour at noon, unless the hogs git out or cattle break in or a shower is coming up. After a man lias worked right along for niue hours his system wants at least half an hour to brace up in. They dou't quit work on some turms till 8 o'clock, but I'm no such slave driver. At half-past 7 I tell my man to knock off. All lie has to do after that is to feed the stock, cut a little wood, mow some grass for the horses, milk four cows, fill up the water trough, start a smudge in the smoke-house, and pull a few weeds in tlie garden. I never had a hired mau who didn't grow fat ou my work, and they alius left me feeling that they hadn't half earned their wages." He stopped long enough to wipe a tear from his eye, aud then went on: "Aud now look at the hired man of to-day! He wears white shirts and col­ lars. He won't eat with a knife. He wants napkins when he eats, and if we don't, hang up a clean towel once a week he wipes on his hatidkercher. Call him at 3 aud he gets up at 6. He wants a whole hour at noon, and after supper he trots off to a singing school or sits down to a newspaper. Fifteen years ago if my hired man was sick for half a day I could dock him. If he died I could take out a mouth's wages for the trouble. He was glad to get store orders for his pay, aud he would wash in the rain barrel and wipe ou the clothes-line. There s bin a change, sir--an awful change, aud if a reaction don't set in pretty soon, you will witness the downfall of agriculture in this country." "Then you won't hire another?" "Wall, I can't just say. Work is pow­ erfully pressing, but I'm going slow. Before I litre him I want to know whether he's a mail who'll pass bis plate for more meat and taters, ami whether We've got to use sfttrch in doing up his shirts. The last mau I had took me to task for not holding family prayers twice a day, and after I had done so for three months I found it was ouly a game of his to beat me out of hidf an hour a day. He thought he had a pretty soft thing, aud he looked mighty lonesome when I cut 'Old Hundred* dowu to two lines and got through with the 'Lord's Prayer' iu forty seconds."--Detroit Free Press. Inconsistencies of the Stn«re. There is no person in the world that is easier to overlook the inconsistencies that show themselveR on tho stage at theaters than we are, but once in a while there is something so glaring that it pains us. We have seen actors fight a duel iu a piece rif woods far awav from any town, on the stage, and when one of them fell, pierced to the heart with a sword, we have noticed that he fell on a Brussels carpet. That is all wrong, but we have stood it manfully. We have seen a woman on the stage who was so beautiful that we could l>e easily mashed if we had any heart left to spare. Her eyes were of that heavenly color that has been written about heretofore, and her smile as sweet as ever was seen, but be­ hind the scenes, through the wings, we have seen her trying to dig the cork out of a beer bottle with a pair of shears, and nsk a stipe, in harsh tones, where in -- that cork-screw was, while she spread mustard on a"piece of cheese, aud finally drank the beer from the bottle, aud spit the pieces of cork out on the floor, sit­ ting straddle of a stage chair, aud her boot heels up on the top round, her trail rolled up into a ball, wrong side out, showing dirt from forty different stage floors. Those things hurt. But tlie worst thing that has ever occurred to knock the romance out of us, was to see a girl in the second act, after "twelve years is supposed to elapse," with the same pair of red stockings on that s* e wore in the first act, twelve years before. Now, what kind of a way is that? It does not stand to reason that a girl would wear the same pair of stockings twelve years. Even if she had them washed onoe in six mouths, they would be worn out. People notice these things. What the actresses of this country need is to change their stockings. To wear them twelve years, even in their minds, shows an inattention to tho details and proba­ bilities of a play, that must do tho ac- tpessesan injury, if not give them corns. Let theater goers insist that the stock­ ings be changed oftener, in these plays that sometimes cover half a century, and all will feel more at their ease, and the stockings will not become moth eaten. Girls, look to the little details. Look to the stockings, as your audiences do, and you will see how it is yourselves.-- Peck'* Sun. Seventy Thousand Lost Children. They form a large item in police duties and during the last year they numbered 5.096, beside 10.) foundlings. Tho aggregate of lost childreu during the last nine years is nearly 70,000. It seems quite remarkable that the largest numl>er occurred dtiriug 1862, when 9.806 lost children were picked up in the street, au excess over 1869 of more than 50 per cent. I can only explain the dif­ ference by the war excitement of that time and by the fact that nearly 60,000 soldiers were enlisted iu this city, thus depriving mauy females of their guardians. About 800 foundlings have beeu eared for during the nine years re­ ferred to.--New York Cor. of the Troy Timet. m THE FAMILY DOCTOR. DISINKB FOR FEVER PATIENTS.--Drinks made from fresh or preserved frnits are sometimes useful in fevers. Rhubarb tea is a very refreshing spring beverage. Slice about two pounds of rhubarb and boil f r a quarter of an hour in a quart of water; strain the liquor in a jug, add­ ing a small quantity of lemon peel and some sugar to taste ; when cold it is fit for use. Apple water may be made in the same manner. The apples should be peeled and cored. Sugar should not be added to either of the above until after the liquor is removed from the fire. Iu the absence of fresh fruit, a pleasant beverage may be prepared by stirring sufficient respberry jam or currant jelly into the required quantity of water, straining the liquor before giving it to the patient. BEDS.--Our beds are our night-clothes and ought to be kept as clean as our shirts and coats. Woolen blankets are healthier than quilts; put a heavy United St ites army blanket over a kettle full of hot water and see how fast the bteaui makes its way through the weft; a quilt would stop it like an iron lid, und thus tend to check the exhalation of the human body. In order to disin­ fect a quilt you have first to loosen tho pressed cotton; a woolen blanket can be steamed and dried in a couple of hours. For bimilar reasons a straw tick is belt-r than a horsehair mattress, though a woven-wire mattress is per­ haps preferable to both. Feather beds are a recognized nuisance. Children over 10 years should sleep alone, or at least under separate blankets, if tlie bedsteads do not reach around. GLYCERINE IN FLATALENCY AND ACID­ ITY.--An old gentleman, who for many years suffered from distressing acidity, read in a daily paper that glycerine add­ ed to milk prevents its souring, and he reasoned thus : " If glycerine prevents milk turning sour, why should it not preveut me turning sour ? " and he re­ solved to try the efficacy of glycerine for his acidity. The success of his experi­ ment was coon pie te, aud whenever tor­ mented by his old malady he cures him­ self by a recourse to glycerine. In­ deed, he can now take articles of food from which he was previously compelled to abstain, provided always that he takes a dram of glycerine immediately before, with, or directly after his food. Since tliis was made public several physicians have prescribed glycerine in acidity and flatulence with the most happy results. MEDICINES.--We are a medicine-taking people--at least to far too great an ex­ tent. " What shall I take V" is asked far more often than "What shall I do ? " The aged and experienced among medical men, as a rule, recommend but little--and that only when indicated by common sense. But the people will take it--buying it from peddlers, horse- jockeys, grocers,' etc., all as ignorant of the nature of the remedies and of dis­ eases as themselves. In most instances, when feverish, if oue would bathe, sweat, fast, Wreathe more of the pure air of heaven, bask in the sun, drink freely of pure water, keep calm and quiet, give up tobacco and whisky, tho fever would starve. Pure air renovates the blood f ir more than sarsaparilla ; the light of the sun is one of tho best anodynes; good food is one of the best tonics ; fact­ ing and exercise are among the best ap­ petizers. If we will bat take care of our­ selves, eat only plain food and only what nature demands, cease to overwork and fret, be regular in all our habits and sleep all we cau fairly, we shall take le^s medicine.--J>r. J. il. Hanaford. What the Clerk Wanted. ' Old Piriteliem sat 'in his private office the other day figuring up his profits, when his head clerk, looking as pale as a sheep aud as red as a cow by turns, entered and began: "Mr. Pincliem, I--I--" "Have you got those goods off for Kalamazoo?" interrupted tlie old man. ' 'Yes, sir, they are off. Mr. Piudiem, I have long--" "And about that order for starch?" "That has beeu attended to, sir. Mr. Pincliem, I have long wanted to speak to you." "Ah! speak to me. Why, I thought you spoke to me fifty times a day." "Yes, sir, I know, but this is a private matter." "Private? Oh! Ah! Wait till I see how much we made on that last ten thousand pouuds of soap. Six times four are twenty-four; five times two are ten, and two to carry are twelve; three times seven are twenty-one and one--ah, well, go ahead; I'll finish this afterwards." "Mr. Pincliem, I have been with you ten long years." "Ten, eh? Long years, eh? Any longer than any otlter years ? Go ahead." "And I have always tried to do my duty." "Have, eh? Goon." "Aud I now make bold--" "Hold on! What is there bold about it? But nevermind--I'll hear you out.' Mr. Pinchem, I want to ask--ask--I want to ask--" "Well, why don't you ask then? I don't see why you don't ask, if you want to." "Mr. Pinchem, I want to ask you for --for--for--" "You wan't to ask me for the hand of my daughter. Ah! Why didn't yon speak right out? She's yours, my boy! Take her and be happy. You might have had her two years ago if you had mentioned it. Go 'long, now--I'm busy." "Mr. Pinchem." "What, you here yet? Well, what is it?" "I wanted to ask you for, for--" "Didu't I give her to yon, .5 ou rascal!" "Yes, but what I wanted to ask you for was, not the hand of your daughter, but for a raise of salary." "Oh, that was it, eh? Well, sir, that is an entirely different matter, aud it re­ quires time for serious thought and earnest consultation. Return to your work, and some time next fall I'll see al>out giving you a raise of a dollar a week. Six times four are twenty-four and two to carry; aud three times--" --Free Press. 1-isease Conquered by Will. It has been proved by experiments that imagination may cause sickness, and may even occasion death, without any organic disease. Physicians assert, on the other hand, that a resolute will may baffle dangerous disease and bring recovery when reasonable hope be lost, Mr. Andrew Crosse, the famous elec- tr cian of England, has shown that hy- dro| hobia can be resisted and overcome by pow< r of will. He was bitten by a c.it, which died of madness the same •lay. The wound healed, and the cir­ cumstance was almost forgotten. But one day, three months after, intense pain was fe t in his firm, attended by great thirst. In attempting to drink a severe si >asm closed his throat. A sudden faintness came over him, and with it the thought that ho was doomed to die of hydrophobia. He determine •< to conquer the disease, and, taking a gun, went forth on a long hunt. In spite of the pain in his arm he kept up a vig­ orous tramp all day. On reaching home iii" ui the evening he felt better, and ws$* able to eat and drink water. The next day the pain retreated to the elbow, the* following day to the wrist, and then left bitn without harm. Au experienced phy­ sician affirmed that a decided case of hy­ drophobia had l>eeu arrested only by the- ma&tery of the will. "Botte/ A. Michigan man traded a mule to his- neighbor for a horse, warranting the old. brayer to be sound in wind and limb. Not ten days had elapsed when the mule brayed his last bray and kicked his - last kiok. The former owner refused to be held responsible, and the result was a law suit. When the plaintiff had told what he knew and thought and suspect­ ed, his wif* was put on the stand, and on the cross-examination defendant's lawyer said: " Mrs. Smith, what did that mule die- «f?" *' Botts," was her prompt reolv. "Are you sure?" "Yes, sir," "Wasn't the beast choked to death, with some fish-bones you gave him along with his slop ? " " No, sir. We haven't had a fish in the house for a year." "Wasn't it possible that he might have swallowed a hair-pin ? " " No, sir. I've counted my hair-pins and none are missing." "Do you ever buy poison to kill rats?" "Never." " Were you home when the mule was first taken ? " " I was." "And you knew that his ailment was botts ? " " Yes, sir." " And you told your husband so? " " I did." "Mrs. Smith, do you oall yourself a. horse or a mule doctor?" "No, sir." "Well, how are you so certain that this mule died of botts ? " " Because I am." "I want a plain answer. How are Sou so certain that the mule died of otts?" " Well, I looked him all over, and he didn't have the measles, chicken-pox, whooping-cough or dumb-ague. My husbaud looked him all over, and he didn't have poll-evil, colic, sweeny, or blind-staggers, then we knew it mast be botts." ' • How did you know ? " " How did I know ? " she echoed in an indignant voice. " Do you suppose I've kept house for thirty-two years and been the mother of eleven children and not know what the botts are ? Why, I've had 'em a dozen times myself, and the old man here would have died with 'em in March if I hadn't put on mustard poultices and drawn 'em out of his sys­ tem by way of his feet! Botts ! Why, I know 'em from Dan to Besheeby 1" A Royal Invention. Tlie late well-known Vienna optician, Jacob Waldstein, was a frequent visitor at the Augarten Palace of the Archduke- Palatine Joseph, who was greatly de­ voted to the science of optics. During one of these audiences Princess Marie (tho present Queen of the Belgians) requested the good-hearted old man to assist in perfecting a little invention of her own. This invention had reference to the Princess' short-sightedness, which fre­ quently greatly interfered with one of her delights, riding on horseback, and at times made her forego it altogether. She strenuously objected to wearing spec­ tacles, and a monocle proved to be more of a hindrance than a help. The upshot was, that she had invented an eye-glass of a peculiar kind, namely, a lorgnette with a spring, left into tlie haudle of her riding-whip, to be used at will by the mere pressure of her finger. Waldsteiu made the "riding-whip a lorgnette" to the Princess' entire satisfaction, and to this day the Queen of the Belgians' in­ vention is patronized-- made by all op­ ticians in Belgium, without giving a patent royalty to royaltv. Some Definitions. One of Thackeray's daughters has just published a little book about her friend, Miss Evans, in which she prints some delightful definitions made by that lady. Some of tlieso are as follow: "A privileged person--One who is so much a savage whoa thwarted that civil­ ized persons avoid thwarting him." "A liberal-minded man--One who dis­ dains to prefer right to wrong." "Radicals--Meu who maintain the supposed right of each of us to help ruin us all." "Liberals--Men who flatter Radi­ cals." "Conservatives--Men who give way to Radicals." "A domestic Woman--A woman like a domestic." "Humor--Thinking iu fun while we feel in earnest." "A musical woman--One who has strength enough to make much noise, and obtuseuess enough not to mind it" THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. Bnvn HOOK COTTON FLOCK Superfine. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring No. -I Ited CORN--Unitrxlod OATS--Mixed Western POKK--Mess 1 LAUD CHICAGO. 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