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StTto . . r -x - • sf^ssai VS. -/Utt Stasia pa--ml the Naval Appropria- pTOviuin* $1,000,000 1» eMrtbMM woric 6a the Bobeaon montton, $1,- ttn twain thn boikUng of three steel oraiaen A Obnetch-boat. The Utah bill 1 wttkont action, and the Executive and Judicial i bill mi reported from the com- _____ r Mr. Alltoon. In the Honae, the Senate MNMiMMtate itae Army ApwoprtettoB and the PwtSoSon Aronwrtatfo f̂fiuwere non-flon- to, and ooaferenoe committees were appointed. The Sundry Civil jLgeeeeriackm Mil wax completed in committee «ffiw whole, and reported to the House. Amend- Btebta were adopted prohibiting any lease of the TeDawntoae National Park, and anthorlalnic the Heotetary of War to detail troopa to prevent ®nt Legislative, Executive aad Judicial Appropriation bill was before the Senate on Feb. «L Upon the pro vision Increasing the salary oi the FtabMc Mater to 94,000 a disonssion aroee at •to the Influence of the Printer*" Union upon the aaaaftWDt of She Government Printing Office. Mr- XtoUimaaeked whether this association did not also dictate who should be employed by the PttMto Mate*. Mr. Anthony saia that If any per eon not belonging to the Union ma eHsptayiBd all the members ol tha (Jnlon would leave the office. Mr. Hale thought the Senatora must be startled at hearts* that a treat Governmental establish­ ment, npon which mllllona was epent annually, . the hands of a private, and. aeoret aaaodhtion, which I tta management and monopolised it* Mr. Hale thought the Public Printer ought to weed oat from the eAee every man who belonged t« the Ualon aad employ non-Union men. Mr. Voorhees said thatTfrom the talk in the Sen­ ate for the laat half hoar, it might be supposed the printers were very dangerous people. That was not hte view. He knew of no more consc}- cnttona, nafamtafclng, hard-working class. It was admitted that the printers in the Govern- ment Prtnttnc-Offioe did their work well, and did not receive too mnch pay. Mr. Hawley •aid the printers, like any other class of laborers, bad a perfect right to form an asso­ ciation for their mutual benefit, to agree upon the price they would ask t or their labor, and to say they would not work for less, but t hey had no right to say another man not a member «f the association should not work for less than their prioe If he chose to do so. The amendment increasing the Public Printer's salary was lost. The bUl then passed the Senate. In considering the Legislative Appropriation bill, the House of Bepreaentatives decided toot to phy $5,000 to the heirs of Messrs. Upde- 1 and Herron, whose term ot service as Con- ten would not havo commenced until •it. A resolution was passed censuring the Secretary of State of Nebraska and Mr. Majors, an aspirant to an additional seat in the House, for falsifying census figures. A bill passed to prevent the importation of adul graff i Ita bill to prevent the importation of •parlous teas passed the Senate on the 36th alt A resolution was adopted requesting the President to give any information in regard to the agreement of European Ministers at Lima to make an effort toward peace. Pensions of $50 Bet month were granted to the widows of Rear Admiral Beaumont and Gen. Warren. Tha President sent to the Senate tha nominations of S. G. W. Benjamin as Minister to Persia; Wlckham Hoffman, Minister to Denmark: Lucius H. Foote, Minister toCorea; aad Bwight T. Heed, Consul General at Madrid. In the House, a resolution reported from the Committee on Boles by Mr. Reed, by which the Tariff Mil could be taken up and passed without debate, precipitated a warm partisan debate. Mr. Haase, of Tennessee, denounced the propo­ sition as a crime against the American people, and Mr. Blackburn said so Jealous were the of the Government of control of the' r power that they provided that nowhere on tha continent should revenue Mils originate except in the American House of Commons, let this role ntonosed that a revenue bill shall originate in the Senate, and the representatives oi the people be denied an opportunity to discuss It. Mr. Cox denounced it as an outrage upon the American people. Other denunciatory speeches followed from the Democratic side of the House, when the resolution waa brought to a vote. The Democrats refrained from voting, thus breaking a" quorum, and deferring further ac­ tion on the resolution. Mr. Townshend Introduced in the House a retaliatory bill to prevent the importation of deleterious wines from Germany. Mr. Robinson presented a taint resolution to secure the cession of Ireland to the United States by purchase or otherwise. AJHWHXRXOH was adopted by the Senate eUttoSRtiolt., iHmMn» the Secretary ot aarfatint attorneys by the Department of Justice last year. A message waa received announcing the non-concurrence of the House in the action «f the Senate on the Internal Revenue and Tariff Mil, and a committee of conference was appointed, comprising Me^sr*. Morrill, Sherman, Alarich, Bayard and Beck. Mr. Voorhee* pre­ sented several telegrams from printers aad other workingmen, protesting against any action to exclude "union" printers from the Government printing-office. M*id Davis read a notice of bis intention to re­ sign the Presidency pro tem. Saturday, March :i. In the House, the resolution of Mr. Reed. pro- Tiding that a majority may take the Senate Tariff bill from the Speaker's table and send it to a committee of conference, was agreed to by 130 to 33. The Democrats generally refrained from voting. The Speaker appointed as such committee Messrs. Kelley, McKinlev, Haskell. Randall and Carlisle. Mr. Hammond, Of Georgia, offered a resolution to the effect that the Senate, under the form of an amendment to the Internal Revenue bill, had proceeded to invade the constitutional prerogative of the House by attaching a revision to the tariff, and that the bill should lie on the table aad the Senate be notified of the same. Mr. Haskell then offered a substitute in the form of a resolution with a preamble, all of which recites that the House bill has been so modified under the color of amendments that, in the opinion of the House, It is believed to lie In conflict with the true intent and purpose of the constitution,. and, therefore, it is resolved that, if the bill shall be referred to a conference committee, said committee may, if It shall be considered desirable and necessary, take the question of constitu­ tional . prerogative into consideration, and may report the result thereof to the House. A long debate ensued, the Bepublicans supporting and the Dem- ~*4" opposing Mr. Haskell's substitute. It was adopted--1*3 to SO--four protectionist xats voting in the affirmative, and one iblican, McCoid, of Iowa, voting against it. TBSBB was quite a scene in the Senate on the 28th ult., on account of the action of the Bouse in passing the Reed resolution. Mr. Gar­ land, of Arkansas, asserted that the House had resolution prejudiced the right of the put tariff legislation upon the Little bill, and he thought it was a Perfect farce for the Senate to send anfenes to confer npon a preju­ diced question. He then offered a resolution direct lug the Senate conferees to ask the House SMtobera of the oommittee if they rained the nestton of the right of the Senate, and, it they did, to report back to the Senate for further in­ structions. Mr. Edmunds and other Re- imbHcans opposed the resolution, the Dem- awats, led by Mr. Garland, support- lag it. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 36 to 24. The Mil to Increase the pen- aois of one-armed and one-legged soldiers was passed. Mr. Edmunds made an adverse report •a the House bill to restore to American citizen­ ship such persons as have been naturalised in meat Britain. In the. House, Mr. Randall de­ clined to serve on the tariff conference com- Suttee, and Messrs. Morrison and Tucker Mcoesslvely refused to take, the position, Mr. •peer being finally appointed. The •fiver and Harbor bill was discussed for twelve hours, bnt no conclusion was reached. The •onferencs: committees on the Tariff bill met in the evening, but as the House conferees had a limitation placed on their action Senators Bay­ ard and Beck refused to remain, and Renresent-ave Carlisle soon left the room. The seven [h-tarlff men went forward with the work of aarisioa. aura, oi AT In that rei Senate to Revenue causing a loaa of $8?,ooa A sLSiamse party of thirty-two per- sons in many cutters plunged from an ioy road, near Hawley, Pa, into the empty Del­ aware and Hudson canal. All were badly injured, and one man died of his wounds. AT Philadelphia a master in an equity suit decided that the press rooms of Satur­ day Xight were a nuisance, and recommends a decree that the presses be stopped be­ tween 8 p. TO. and 6 a. m... ,J. M. Portland, of New Haven, who had been convicted of theft, voted while disabilities were existing, for which he was sen­ tenced to eighteen months in jail Charles H. Cate, a married man, fatally shot the Widow Anderson at Lawrence, *"n*--. and then committed suicide 8, H Fox A Co., of Oneida county, New York, extensive glass manufacturers, have failed for *150,- JOHN B. JOHNSON and many other desperate convicts mutenied in the Missouri Penitentiary at Jefferson City. They seised and bound the foreman of the whip and col­ lar shops, and Johnson set tire to a lot of straw, causing a total damage before the conflagration was stopped of about #800,0001 Johnson made a futile attempt to escape, and when captured waa placed in a dungeon and seven o£ his confederates are, in dark cells Manuel Lenliart, imprisoned at Newaygo, Mich., for murder, heard the sound of revelers enjoying a dance in an adjacent building, and, believing it was a party intent on lynching him, Lenhart died in his cell of fright.... The Directors of the Lackawanna road have arranged with the Nickel-Plate for a fast freight line from New York to Chicatro. main­ taining pool rates... .Mra T. E. White, nee Fannie Driscoll (the poetess), died at the home of her parents in Milwaukee. JOHN GILBERT, the actor who jumped from one of the windows of the Newhall House, a distance of sixty-five feet, to the ground, and whose wife, a bride of a day, died from the injuries which she received in the hotel fire, has entered suit for $'20,000 damages against C. D. Nash and John T. Antisdel, proprietors of the hotel The snow-storm of Feb. ™ in Wisconsin blockaded railroads to a greater extent than at any previous time this winter. In some of the cuts the snow was packed thirty feet deep Albert Jones Howell, a broker, suf­ fering from insomnia, committed suicide by shooting himself at the residence of a doctor in Chicago, where he was under treatment THE large retail dry-goods house of Charles Gossage & Co., Chicago, has been bought out by Carson, Pirie, Scott A Co., who will continue*to run the establishment under the firm name by which it has so long been known. Hie consideration named is #1,000,- 000 George Scheller. who kept the bar in the Newhall House, was last week indicted at Milwaukee for petting' the hotel on fire. He was taken into court, pleaded not guilty, and bail was fixed at $10,000. It is thought Messrs. Nash, Antisdel and Night Clerk De- laney will be indicted for manslaughter.... The lead mills at Bonne Terre, Mo., valued at over $:i(K>,0< 0 and employing several hun­ dred men, were swept away bv tire....A sister of ex-Senator Sharon, of Nevada, at­ tempted suicide at the Palace Hotel at San Francisco, by stabbing herself with a pocket knife Mary Burr, a servant, and three children perished in the burning of Peter Dennan's house at Montague, Mich. FARMER BIXLER and daughter, who live near Zoar, Ohio, were overpowered by masked burglars, who carried off #1.200 in gold and silver stored in an old chest A SUPPLEMENTARY report has been presented by the Milwaukee Grand Jury which has been investigating the Newhall House fire It declares that ill-fated hotel to have been substantially constructed, with wtdeconridora; aara|Bm^ns of sgi--a. etc., i explslif nearly 100 peeple were burned up in such a model building. The landlord of the hotel was given a dose of mild blame for his neglect to employ suf­ ficient watchmen, and a plaster of praise for his uniform solicitude for the wel­ fare and safety of his guests. The em­ ployes, with one exception, were found to lave neglected to make proper exertions to save life, and the Coroner was accused of harshness and brutality in his intercourse with relatives of those who lost their lives in the tire Geo. H. Taylor A Co., of Chicago, )aper-dealers and stationers, have failed Liabilities between #350,000 and #400,000. .. .Hank Monk, the stage-driver made fa­ mous by Horace Greeley, died at Carson, Nev. I'm sovra, MR. J. S. RHODES, his •wife and two children, and two men, whose names are not given, were drowned at Wolf island, near Cairo, by the upsetting of a small boat THE emigration of negroes from North Carolina to Arkansas has grown to such proportions that the Legislature of the former State has been urged to apply reme­ dial measures Ellis Craft, one of the fiends who participated in the outrage and murder of the Gibbons family at Ashland, Kv., in December, 1881, was found guilty of murder, and sentenced to death. A DEPLORABLE tragedy was enacted three miles below Helena, Ark. J. H. Gant has seventy-five penitentiary convicts employed on the levee below the city. It seems they made arrangements to capture the guard and escape. One of the convicts was working, spading dirt, near a guard. He knocked the guard down. The other convicts then rushed upon the other guards. At this time Gant came upon the scene, riding a horse. He fired at the convicts, but, seeing them armed, turned and retreated, when one of the convicts tired, the load passing through his body and killing him instantly. Seventeen convicts then made their escape A patient in the West­ ern Lunatic Asylum, of Virginia, tampered with the medicines used, and five inmates have died and two are fatally poisoned. THE Governor of Florida has signed bill to incorporate the International Rail­ road and Steamship Company, of which Gen. Gordon is the leading spirit, and a track will be built down the p&insula to Key West W. M. DAVIDSON, £ member of the Legislature of Arkansas, sprang into the river at Little Bock and was drowned. REV. DR. CHADBOURNE died in New fork the other day. He was President of |he Massachusetts Agricultural College for three years was in charge of the niversity of Wisconsin. He served a term the Senate of Massachusetts, and in 1809 an exploring tour of Greenland... & Pfeters. stock brokers at New York, The failure was caused by their . George W. Tompkins, embezzling een #75,000 and #100,000 of the firm's JTJDOE DONAHUE, of New York, re- i?*«v fused an injunction against police interfer V' •'. «nce with the "Passion Play." Salmi Morse t went on with his preparations, and issued r, 1,000 invitations to a rehearsal athis"resi- TWrty officers were on hand. When Itoe high priest began to read from Genesis Capt Williams arrested Morse, and the au diehoe hissed. Morse voiced his indignation, • Abe "Hallelujah Chorus" was sung through, the drop curtain fell, and then the prison !~«r was taken awav to give bail.. ^Attachments for #37,000 have been •Siiwmed against the AugusUnian Society of . Lawrence, Mass. Tne institution was rounded by Catholic priests in 1870, and -chartered by the Legislature. It received deposits anil operated in real estate. The majority of its creditors are femaie mill operatives, and its H abilities are #540,000 Hfe flONM li. OBOWMA, imanager aadtkemn- NOTWOBK- Hie losses have 6e«n carefully THS MI'MB House of Representatives laat week agreed to both the female suf­ frage and prohibition constitutional amend­ ments, but tabled a motion Instructing the Judiciary Committee to report a" hill pro­ viding for the submission of tike amend­ ments to the people at the next general election...'. .The President has appointed Johh W. Foster, of Indiana, Minister to Spain. THE Maine House has passed the bill restoring the death penalty, with amend­ ments for recommendations to mercy, and giving the prisoner's counsel the closing ar­ guments The Legislature of Missouri has received 8,281 petitions and 47,581 remon­ strances on the question of submitting a prohibitory amendment to the people, and will take no action in the matter.... For the sixteenth consecutive year tile lower house of the Massachusetts Legislature has rejected the bill grantiug women the right to vote at municipal elections The vote against the third reading stood 127 to 60, which is a much larger opposition than in previous years The Republican State Con­ vention of Michigan assembled at Sagi­ naw on the 28th ult, and made the fol­ lowing nominations: For Justice of the Supreme Court, long term, Austin Blair; short term, Thomas J. O'Brien. Regent of the University--Full term, Harry B. Hutehins; short term, Joseph C. Jones. No platform was adopted,... .Orville H. Piatt takes the place in the Republican National Committee made vacant by Marshal JewelL ... .The Texas Legislature defeated the pro­ hibition nheasure. ADDITIONAL NEW&i of the most desperate pffaoiial renconters on record took place in a Chicago restaurant the other night, between Jim El­ liott, the notorious prize-fighter, and Jerry Dunn, a well-known local sporting charac­ ter. Dunn entered the restaurant and be­ gan firing at Elliott, putting a bullet in his stomach at the first shot The latter, who is a giant in size, and a Sampson in strength, seized a chair and attempted to brain his adversary, who fired another shot into his body. The men then clinched, Elliott at the same time drawing his revolver. Thev fought all over the dining room until finailv Elliott fainted from loss of blood, and expired shortly afterward. Dunn was dangerously wounded. Each of the combatants in the sanguinary affair fired five shots, every one ot which took effect Elliott was a desperate, bad man, having been engaged in frequent broils during the last few years, and it was a common saying among the sporting char­ acters that he would '•die with nisboots on." His death is a small loss to society. The Cleveland Furnace Company, operating leased works at Steubenville, Ohio, is in­ solvent Its liabilities are #90,000; assets, about one-third. A CAR in the middle of a freight train, on the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensbnrg railway, jumped the track, but remained upright and rolled along for three miles even safely crossing a long bridge, till Adams, N. Y., was reached, when the condi­ tion of affairs was discovered Ties, spike- heads and fish-plates were damaged to a great extent A MADRID journal says the "Black Hand" 'Society Includes 900 other associa­ tions, with a total membership of 49,910t The executive for Western Europe is at Geneva THE constitutionality of the act cre­ ating the Railroad Commission of Kentucky has been maintained by a decision from the Supreme Court of the State. IN the first star-route trial* Cel. George fcliss, special counsel for the Govern­ ment, was paid #15,000 beside hotel and rvtl- ceived several thousand dollars, Mer­ rick was given about the same amount, and Kerhas extracted from the Federal treasury #17,000 or more within the past year.... Senator Tabor, of Colorado, and Mrs. Lizzie & MoCourt, of Oshkosh, were married at Washington in one of the parlors of Will- ard'sHotei. The groom presented his bride with a diamond necklace that cost #75,0001 FABULOUS stories are told of the find­ ing of numerous silver mines by a pros­ pector returned from Kootenay, British Columbia. He states the ore deposits al­ ready discovered are worth #50,000,000.... An Indian camp in Chihuahua, Mexico, was recently surprised by ranchmen, who killed ten bucks and captured twenty-five squawa THE Senate passed the sundry civil ap­ propriation on the 1st inst The Democratic Senators refused to have anything further to do with the tariff business. After Messrs. Bayard and Beck had given their reasons for refusing to serve on the conference committee, the Presi­ dent pro tem. successively appointed Messrs. Voorhees and McPhermn, Morgan and Gorman, Davis and Jonas aad Butler and Maxey, each of whom declined to accept the honor. The chair then turned to the Republican side and called Messrn. Ingalls and Miller to the breach, but they refused. Messrs. Mahone and McDill were induccd to accept. The House passed the River and Harbor Appropriation bill. While this measure was under consideration a scene of the wildest excitement occurred. The item ap­ propriating $60,000 for the improvement of the Sacramento river was read, whereupon Mr. Van Vorhis, of New York, said nobody bnt a gambler and a cut-throat Would think ot tack- int? to the bill such an item. This was a thrust at Mr. Page, of California, whom he had called a mule-driver the previous evening. The words were taken down, at the request of Mr. Horr, and Mr. McLane ofTered a resolution of expul­ sion. After several members had spoken, Mr. Van Vorhis disclaimed all intention of being personal to anybody, withdrew the offensive words, and apologized to the House. Mr. Her­ bert insist d on expulsion, on whteb tto veto Stood 6& to 70. &»*» AN appeal has been made to the Mas­ sachusetts Congressional delegation to se­ cure the passage of a law prohibiting con­ victs from doing any work for the United States. . THE right of the entire telephone business of Minnesota, five counties in Wis­ consin and for all Dakota north of the forty- fifth parallel has been purchased by a Low­ ell (Masa) syndicate. whose lease from the Bell Telephone Company is understood to be perpetual REPORTS froni Shawneetowtf, PL, 4m the Ohio river, to the 28th nit, report a ter­ rible condition of affairs there. The water was five feet higher than ever before known, and the people were suffering for shelter and food. The greater portion of the town was covered to the depth of several feet, and the drowned-out residents were driven, from their homes and occupations, and were huddled together in pubfic buildings and warehouses. Many houses were under­ mined by the wate»\and floated off. It is believed that #250,000 will not cover the damage, the largest portion of which falls on those least able to bear it Dispatches from Helena, Ark, report a vast ex­ tent of country in that region doomed to inundation. A Vicksburg dispatch re­ ports the country under water for. several miles on the opposite side of the river. A New Orleans telegram aays there is a gen- era! belief all oyer tb6 Bt&tc that L#outi3sns is destined to be afflicted with another over­ flow no leas severe than that of last year, The levee is already broken at three points in Louisiana and the waters of the Mississippi river are pouring A Louisville telegram aays that all reports of distress in Louisville or surrounding towns are entirely without I foundation. Nobody Is suffering, nobody MSk ol tte frbtilu* dhases m this ooxtt- ««x* lsat! There isnt aelass so privileged as ~*re here. The ioipeiiai fittttify - 'î Stasma, the royalty of Ger­ many, th* nobility of England are not mortf privileged, as a olass, than the lawyer^ u£ iii« United States. Put yourself oil the witness-stand, for exam­ ple. Ton lure an average citizen. You try to pay your obligations. You attend to business. You try to succeed. You are as honest as your fellows. You take a drink now and then, and you know a pretty woman when you see her, and you wouldn't be a decent fellow if you didn't. But the minute you get on tlie witness stand, with a modern lawyer in front of you, you begin to think that you are the biggest scoundrel in the world. The lawyer will make you a thief, a liar, a drunkard, a libertine, an atheist, and everything else that's bad. He may ^ you if you ever served a term In ^ penitentiary. Of course at this the opposing counsel objects, and the examiner sayr*' "Well, I don't press that question," and so you, the poor witness, are left, half the audience thinking that you have been in the peni­ tentiary. If you are a new-comer to the place, with only a year or two residence^ you are syre to be disgraced. If you appeal to the judge he tells you that your are not obliged to criminate your­ self, etc. A cowardly lawyer may brow­ beat and abuse a brave man on the wit* ness stand, and there is no redress for the witness. If he spits in bis face and knocks hfa" kown outside the court­ room the brave man is sent to jail, for the members of the bar stand together like a band of bandits. It is not alone in the court-room that lawyers have a license that makes them a privileged class. There is scarcely anything that a lawyer can't do under the cover of his diploma. He can arrange conspiracy, perjury, bribery, and a dozen other crimes for which he cannot be punished because he is a lawyer--"counsel." He can take a fee for anything. If it is crooked he is all right, because he is "counsel." If a journalist should do the same things he would be sent to the penitentiary.--Henry J. Jtamsdell. Absurdities of Men's Garb. Why are buttons placed on the back of a coat? Mr. Gotch remarks that the tailors say that they are there to "mark the waist. But why should the waist be marked? As a matter of fact, the only reason for the existence of these two buttons is that they are a survival from the time when they were of use, when men buttoned back the long flaps of their coats in prder to walk more freely, or found them useful in sustain­ ing the sword-belt. We have no flaps now, we wear no swords now; then why keep the buttons ? Another rudimen­ tary organ may be found at the end of the sleeve. There is always a cuff marked, generally by a double row of stitches, which performs no useful ser­ vice, unless it is to remind us that our forefathers had facings to their sleeves, and that the little buttons which still appear at iihe end were of real use when the sleeve was tight at the wrist. An* other inevitable feature of the coat is the collar. In old times this collar was of some service; it was large and turned Up well in inclement weather; in order to aUow o ̂its buttoning properly arouwS the neck, a nick was necessary. But, though we haraiy ever think of turning up an ordinary coat-collar, and And it of little use if we do, we still pre­ serve both it and the nicks as survivals. The stovepipe hat, too, is only the car­ cass on which our ancestors were wont to display ribbons and knots and other gauds. In itself it is both ugly and uncomfortable. Then we wear absurd neckties that do not tie and pins that do not pin.--Boston Herald. Coflfefe _ The coffee-berry grows wild in Abys­ sinia, where a beverage has been pro­ duced from it from time immemorial. It was introduced into Persia875 A. D.f and thence into Arabia some 600 years later, where it was used mainly by stu­ dents to keep them awake nights. In 16*21, Burton writes: "The Turks have a drink called coffee, as black as soot and bitter, which they sip up as warm as they can suffer, because they find by experience that that kind of drink so .used helpeth digestion and promoteth alacrity"--vivacity of spirits. About 1650 it was introduced into England and France against much opposit:on. It will be seen that our Pilgrim Fathers were unacquainted with the drink. Probably no beverage is now more ex­ tensively used. The essential principle of coffee is caffeine, a poison capable of producing paralysis of the great nerv­ ous centers, but mainly affecting the spinal cord. The same is true of theine, the essential principle of tea. Such drugs are not necessarily harm­ ful. Phosphorus is a violent poison; but it is found in fish. Persons who drink coffee freely eat less food. The Gallae, an African tribe, often, in their long wanderings, live solely oh coffee and butter--a bagful of coffee a day of the size of a billiard ball. Morning Duties. Mr. OUafferty has frequently had occasion to rebuke his boy. Teddy, for failing to have the kindling-wood lenly to light the lire in the morning. A few nights ago O'Rafferty said to Teddy: "What is it, me bye, that you have to do first thing in the morning?" "I know well enough, faytlier, what I have to do first thing in the morn­ ing," replied Teddy, laughing. "What is it, ye spalpeen ?" "The first thing I have to do in the morning is to get the kindling ready , the night before."--Tfcro# Sifting$, • _ 0 and ftimMrtjl owners. Tfaqr dqnenor woodshed, which carried there.a to her a half away in the _ _ caught and toeof twenty rodf, one by one during the night,--Arnos took {Me.) Republican. The Elephant's Task. ?! An ivory-hafted knife to the ordinary diner out is simply a piece of table cutlery, useful at meals, but devoid of all romance. He wonders not at the ingenuity that made the steel and fashioned the blade, with its keenly- cutting edge. Seldom does he bestow a thought on the haft. In his eyes it is only a knife handle and he does not allow its antecedents to interfere with his appetite. But through what an ex­ perience this bit of ivory, so smooth- shining, has passed! It has formed part of an elephant's tusk and was, prob­ ably, dug out of the desert or found in some dense African forest, while the jackals or the vultures were feasting on tile' animal's carcass. It was, most likely, carried hundreds of miles over a trackless country and territory peopled by hostile tribes ready to shed blood for its possession. Like fame, ivory is sometimes very difficult to get, and when, by the exercise of strength, en­ durance, watchfulness and cunning, the dusky natives have brought it to the shore, they deserve a substantial price for the precious load that has fatigued their limbs and made their shoulders ache. A tusk sold last week at Liver­ pool weighed not less than 140 pounds, and it can scarcely be said that the African's yoke is easy and his burden light when he has to toil along, in trop­ ical heat, with an elephant's tooth in Ins grasp. But th'e obstacles to be overcome in getting the ivory to a civilized region are not entirely responsible for the present high prices in the English mar­ ket. The elephant is defunct in Egypt and tusks are only obtainable there by dredging in the sand; but the leviathan of the woods is by no means extinct in Africa and India, and would possibly yield an abundance of ivory if the de­ mand only grew as slowly as his teeth. The extensive use to which ivory is put is really the secret of the advance in its value. It is no longer looked upon merely as a material out of which to fashion the beautiful chessmen and ex­ quisitely-carved figures that stand as curiosities on quaint sideboards. It is utilized in making such a vast number of articles in daily use, from the dainty ivory-backed hair brush to the most Lilliputian of pocket knives, from the universally-demanded billiard ball to the fox-head scarf pin, that the price of the elephant's tusk must go up. So dear has ivory become, indeed, that one doubts whether Solomon, with all his wealth, would have ventured, had he lived in these days, to make "a throne of ivory overlaid with the best gold."-- London News. Loss of Confidence. A shepherd was eating his dinner betide a spring when a wolf walked out of the forest and coolly inquired: "Well, how is the wool and mutton business?" > "Pretty fair," replied the astonished shepherd. "I have come to tell you," continued the wolf, "that the hyenas have formed a p)ot to break into you sheep-fold to­ night, and to offer my services as a pri­ vate watchman." "You are ever so kind to give me this warning." "And you just leave the gate open and go to bed feeling perfectly safe. The first hyena who comes fooling around your mutton will find his heels breaking his neck." After some further conversation it was agreed that the gate should be left open and that the wolf should stand guard. Darkness was scarcely an hour old when a great outcry was heard at the fold and the shepherd ran out and dis covered the wolf in a trap he had set within the pen. "Is this the kind of confidence you had in me?" howled the wolf as he struggled to get free. "I had plenty of confidence in you," replied the shepht.rd, "but more in/the trap! Prepare to die." MORAL: Don't lend the horse and saddle to the same person. THE CITY AND COUNTRY.--Boys, farm­ ing is a slow way to make money, and it's all the better for that. Money made slow is money made sure. A dollar dug out of the ground is worth $5 made in town, and better than $100 given to a young man. Habits are formed in our youth, and town habits are to spend all that is made. A young man that is clerking for $50 a month will spend it all going to shows and frolicking around, which ain't so bad, if it wasn't for the habits. He gets so after awhile that he is always hankering after shows and some new excitement. A young man ought to spend three or four years in the country, if for nothing else but his good health--his constitution. It will build him up and expand him. A coun­ try boy can't dance as gracefully and skip as cat-like as the city lx>y, for he doesn't walk on pavements all the time. A country boy walks on a dirt floor. He works all over and dances all over. A eity boy can fight a right good fight for two or three minutes, but a country boy can fight all day. They say the city boys made the most spirited sol­ diers in the war, but tlie country boys had the fiibst endurance.--Farm*Jour­ nal. • A Provident Cat. Cats usually manifest such an aver­ sion to water that they avoid wetting their paws, but in the family of Mr. H. D. Roberts, of Northeast Harbor, there is a sagacious pussy which is quite an adept at fishing, and seems to enjoy it, She not only gives notioe of the v 5©rway Farmers. •, 1 TO$ent traveler among the wegians writes: "Though as far north as Shetland, which is almost treeless, we are here only on the fringe of the great forest regions of Norway. There are few high mountains visible in the background until the head of the lake is reached, and there is evidence of a large and industrious population on the banks. There are houses scattered all over the hillside, some of them at a great elevation, and not only at the loAver end of the lake, but far up the country. To judge by the size and ap- Searance of some of these houses the rorwegian farmers must be well-to-do. As is the rule in Norway, their houses and the lands which they cultivate are the property of the farmers, and they remain in the same family from genera­ tion to generation. The eldest son suc­ ceeds his father in the farm when he dies, and the other sons go to business in the towns or look out for farms for themselves. This is the best grain region in Norway, and farming is car­ ried on with considerable skill and en­ terprise. Nearly every farm has both pasture land and forest, as well as ara­ ble land, attached to it. Many of 'the farmers have as many as 100 cows, and do an extensive trade in dairy produce, and they are extensive timber mer­ chants, as may be inferred from the hundreds of stray logs floating about on the lake and from the vast timber rafts formed at its upper end." Reciprocity Treaties. A reciprocity treaty is one in which two nations agree that they will recip­ rocally receive, each certain products of the other, free of import duty, or at a rate of duty the maximum of which is, fixed. Such treaties are also frequent­ ly termed commercial treaties. The first reciprocity treaty ever en­ tered into by our Government was with Great Britain, and related to the trade with Canada. It was concluded June 5, 1854, and proclaimed Sept. 11 of the same year. Its term was ten years; either party being authorized, after that time had elapsed, to terminate the treaty by giving twelve months' notice. Our Government gave such notice on March 17, 1865, and one year from that time the treaty came to an end; having lasted only six months longer than the shortest time possible. The next treaty was with Hawaii, the Sandwich islands. It went into effect Sept. 9,1876. EGG OMELET. Allow two table- spoonfuls of sweet milk and a pinch of salt for each egg. Beat the yelks until thick and creamy, add the milk and salt, and last the whites beaten to a stiff froth. Pour into a hot pan in which a piece of butter the size of a walnut has just been melted. The mixture should at once begin to bub­ ble. Slip under a broad-bladed knife frequently to prevent burning. Cook three or four minutes, and when the top liegins to set, fold over, shake the pan to free the omelet, and carefully turn over onto a hot platter. When a large omelet is needed it is best to divide the mixture and make two or three smaller ones, sending each to the table as soon as done. AN elderly lady in Athens, Ga., owns the original manuscript of "Home Sweet Home," as written by John How­ ard Payne. The words of the poem are interlined, with here and there an endearing expression from the writer to the lady who now holds it. In the old days Payne was devotedly attached to her, and she has many of his letters. She has been offered a large sum for the manuscript. OLD age is the night of life, as night is the old age of day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and for many it is more brilliant than the day. --Mme. Swetchi* • Tif f, I hope, hope will not A successful mail is not oontented man. Jane Cfarfyfo, the Wife of the great writer, said, "I married from ambition. My husband has attained fame and suc­ cess beyond my hfehest dreams. And I am most miserable." And her hus­ band was no better. Talleyrand, one of the most-success­ ful diplomats in history, who managed to keep a foremost place in the French Government, in all the many changea of rulers, found little joy in his brill­ iant public life. Reviewing it in his old age he bitterly said: "Eighty-three years gone! What care! What agita­ tion ! What ill-will inspired! What vexatious complications! And without pny other result than great moral and physical fatigue and a profound sense of despair for the future, and of disgust for the past." Rothschild, the wealthy London banker, when greeted by a friend on New Year's day with the usual greet­ ing, "A happy'New Year, Baron!" sad-? lv answered: "It will need then to be different from the last, for that btought me not one happy day." The San Joaqain Yalley. Stockton, Cal„ is the commercial center of the great double-linked valley of the San Joaquin. Not a stone as big as a fiat obstructs the cultivator in all the great longitude and latitude of that rich and peerless plain of alluvial sediment. The soil is mostly adobe, surprisingly strong, fertile, black and unctuous; when wet, cloddy or slicy, and proof against harrows and cul­ tivators; when dry, hard and impene­ trable. In that country of very scanty rains plowing is, at all possible seasons for horse culture, mere lumpage and but half production. Horse cultivation is ill adapted to the work and unworthy of the far-famed repute of American agricultural machinery. Instead of only now and then, as with horse field- work, spiral steam blades would cut up, pulverize and seed the land the year around, with scarce a week's inter­ ruption. A steam plowing company has accordingly been formed to take advantage of these natural conditions of the soil. The locomotive plow would seem best suited to the San Joaquin valley. In England traction plows are an enforced necessity by ever-hurrying weather. In either system, thirty acres is a day's work, seeded, covered and rolled. The Farmer and " the Gentleman.*' "One day," said this gentleman, "be* fore harvest, I met a fashionably- dressed person with a large handful of ears of wheat taken from my fields. I saluted him respectfully, and expressed my admiration of the beauty of the wheat. ' Yes,' said he, 'it is truly a fine sample, sAd does the farmer great credit who grew it.' I acknowledged the compliment, asking him from which one of my fields he took it. After he had pointed it out he assured me he al­ ways liked to take a good sample home as it interested the ladies. Upon this, noticing with admiration the style of his coat, I asked him to allow me to look at the skirt. He readily did so, and I quietly took out my pen-knife and out a large piece from the tail. The gentleman bounced and swore, but I ioiu him £ always took samples of cloth, as I found they greatly interested my wife. I added, that he had no more right to take my wheat than I to take his coat, and that I wished the public to bear this truth in mind." This was experience bought with a vengeance.-- Chambers' Journal. t The Mistaken Tramp. A Tramp, who had not tasted Food for twenty-seven days, and who was Anxious to reach Buffalo in time to see his Mother die, knocked at a Door, and asked the Woman for Heaven's Sake to S've him some work Whereby he might »rn an Honest Quarter. "Walk right around to the Back Door," she Promptly replied, and in About four Minutes the Tramp was in­ troduced to a Pile of Hickory Wood and a Buck-saw. Then his Heart glad dened, for he meant to steal the Saw and Ax, but as he made for the Alley Fence a 200-pound Dog played with his Coat-TailSj and rolled him over the Asli- pile until the woman came out and Chided him for his Impulsiveness and said to the Tramp: "Now you Climb! and as you Pursue your weary way through Life's Cold Paths, remember that Truth is Mighty and Honesty is.& Big thing on Ice."' Decaying Teeth. Dr. Franzius finds that the tooth most often affected by decay is the third molar, such cases forming one-half of the total number. The teeth begin to decay in a certain successive order, the lower third molar lieiiig first attacked, then the upper, then the lower fourth molar, and so on, the incisors and the canine teeth of the lower jaw being the last reached. The upper teeth are more durable than the lower in the pro­ portion of three to two. The right teeth show a greater vitality than the left. The durability of teeth is less in light persons than in dark, and less, in tall than in short persons. These re­ sults were obtained by an examination of 620 Russian soldiers, of whom 258 had unsound teeth. Indians Never Kill a Defiant Man* "Indians are like children," said Mr. Kirkpatrick, in recounting his advent­ ures to a reporter of the Philadelphia Times. "If you gain their confidence you can do what you please with them. I never .made a promise to an Indian that I did not keep, and that is why I made plenty of; friends among the tribes. They like bravery, too, and will not hurt a man who shows no fear when overpowered. When the Indians get you in a corner, if you stan 1 up and are your breast, and tell them to shoot, they will never do it. I have had to do that twice in my life, and so speak from experience; but I never knew them to kill a prisoner who defied them." An Indignant Cat. A cousin of mine had a cat which had just brought into the world some fine healthy kittens. According to the us­ ual custom on these occasions, some of the kittens were drownfed, while two were retained for their mother to rear. These were kept in a compartment of an old kitchen table or "dresser." Tl is snug retreat had a little door, which was kept closed by means of a bolt. One day a young visitor desired to st e the kittens, which were accordingly taken to the drawing-room by one of ̂daughters of the honse. During > tin amimi, wa, mwmt no- i rage and kjft thelrftohen, her taiHSsk with in­ dignation. --Chambers' Journ a!. Xfatfam in Parre. The Boston Journal gives an aeddt&l of an article, or rather a collection of articles, which it asserts is about to be patented. It is called the "Yankee Multum in Parvo, or the New England- er's Anti-Atmospheric ^Egis," and con­ sists of a large, stout bag in the shape of a valise, into most ingeni­ ously packed in folding sections a buf­ falo overcoat and a moliair duster ; a. sealskin cap, son-wester and open-work grass hat; coat, vest and trousers of extra heavy Scotch woolens and a com­ plete set of seersuckers; a pair of cavalry boots, pumps and rubber fishing boots; a remedy for sunstroke and a handy manual of instructions for the resusci­ tation of persons apparently frozen to death; goggles and veil to keep the dust from the eyes and a pair of stilts for use in the mud. A Satisfactory On February 22, last, the flag upon one of the United States naval vessels at Newport, Rhode T«Un ̂ was by mistake hoisted "union down.'* The officers of the station, noticing the error, at once telegraphed to head­ quarters at Washington: . "The ship is lying at anchor here, union down." Headquarters, of course, saw the joke, and telegraphed to the officer in com­ mand of the vessel: "Officer , ship---- is reported at anchor at Newport, union down. Who's dead?" Quick as thought, on reading the message, the officer returned the reply: "George Washington." This completed the correspondence satisfactorily.--Editor's Drawer, in Harper's Magazine. Party Brlc-a-Brae. "Shawl I?" he asked dreamily, as he held out the cobwebby meshes of a white mantle when the last dance was over. "A-lace, no!" she replied, "it is too area, give me my fur-lined cloak." He wrapped out a single oath as he entangled his boot-heel in tlie meshes of the lace shawl, "Darn it," said he, *lt will. never show!" A young rival, who watched them make their escape, remarked: "It's very singular that he should suspect that lovely gurrel of carrying concealed weapons!" "How do you know that he does?" asked a friend. "Why, I heard him ask her where her arms were."--Detroit Post. ; Railway Building, ' Although, at first blush, tfiere might seem to be almost no limit to the ex­ tent of railroad building, the statistics by decades show how rapidly territory is being traversed by the iron tracks, and how near is the end. While the totals exhibit an ever increasing mile­ age, there is a relative decrease from period to period. When the percentage reaches zero the earth will have a full and adequate railroad system. The fol­ lowing table illustrates both the actual mileage increase and the rapid decrease in the decennial percentage. In 1840 the total number, of miles ia-operation was 4,990: Far cent increase. 3M, 17? • M 78 ' . 1 Decade. Increase. Total. 1840-1850 19,000 34,000 1850-1860 43,000 67,000 18G0-1870 63,000 190,000 1870-1880 102,000 282,000 Where a Day Is Lost. Chatham island, lying off the coast of New Zealand, in the South Pacific ocean, is peculiarly situated, as it is one of the few habitable points of the globe where the day of the week changes. It is just on the line of demarcation be­ tween dates. There high 12 on Sun­ day, or Sunday noon, ceases, and in­ stantly Monday meridian begins. Sun­ day comes into a man's house on the east side, and becomes Monday by the time it passes out of the western door. A man sits down to his noonday dinner on Sunday, and it is Monday noon be­ fore he finishes it. There Saturday is Sunday, and Sunday is Mondav, and Monday becomes suddenly transformed into Tuesday. Who said the inventive genius went unrewarded ? A New Hampshire man who has invented a machine to make cloves out of basswood has been offered $50,000 for his patent. The cloves are sold to hotels by the bushel. There is a family in Milton, -Ky., consisting of father, mother and six children, every one of whom chews and smokes tobacco, and the youngest is only years old. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. Baaifcs.̂ $s.m « 7.ia* Hoof!:..... 733 ® 7.«0 Ftotm--Superfine S.o.J 4.00 Wheat--No. L White..... 1.16 IF 1.18 No. 2 Red 1.22 COBN--No. 2 71 OATS--No. 2 .51 PORK--Mess tt.00 LARD CHICAGO. BEEVES--Good to Fancy Stem. 6.40 Cows and Heifers 8.25 Medium to Fair........ 5.18 HOGS. 6.25 FLOUB--'Fancy White Winter Ex. 6.50 Good to Choice Spr'gEx. 4.75 WHEAT--No. 2 Sprine 1.07 No. 2 Bed Winter 1.09 CORN--No. 2 .66 OATF--NO. 2 .40 RYE--NO 2 .64 BARLET--NO. 2 80 HOTTER--Choice Creamery .37 Koos--Fresh 25 PORK--Mess 18.00 LARD MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2.... 1.07 CORN--No. 2 .56 OATS--NO. 2 a# RYE--No. 2 R8 BARIJEY-̂ NOW 2 82 PORK--Mess 18.00 LABD ST. LOUI& WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CORN--Mixfd OATS--No. 2 RYE. PORK--Mas*. LABD. CINCINNATI WHEAT--No. 2Bed....... CORN OATS. RYE. POBK--Mess LABD. TOLEDO. WHEAT--Not 2 Bed CORN. 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