The True Northerner from Paw Paw, Michigan • Page 6

She ruc fjorttwrnc. PAW PAW. MICHIGAN. NEWS CONDENSED. Concise Record of tho Weok.

EASTERN, At the rrou works in South Boston, where a mammoth jrun was In process of eaatiiur, a miu of 130 tons of molten metal eapoded frty feet beneath tho surface of tho ground, and roso to a freight of sixty foot. Tl.o damage la reporUxl at JO, 000. Tlo assignee of tho Peun Bank bo-began suit at Ilttsburgh lost weok for conspiracy ojruinet President Kiddle, Cosh lor Itol-bcr, and M. K. llcMullen, I.

J. Watson, umi 1L II. Kennedy', oil broker, for wrecking the bank by crvlrnwinK 01. Hall lor Uio two former was filed at (20,000 ouch and tl 5, OvQ cacti for the ctbera. Tho fui tiro is anuouncod of Best of Now York, dealer In children's oloth-ttig, whoso liabilities arc S18J.0U0.

A fire wh'ch broko out in Mrs. Onirics rcilly'i Iwkery at I'ralford. do-ttrojod ten etnutures. Two ch Idren of Mrs. IleiHy and a domestic perMioJ In the llameis nnd the frenzied niothor received such urns to rescue bar euU-a that tho ed In a alort time.

Tour other person woe ured, two leiu-r plrs who jtirni cd fio.n upper Etorlc, ono receiving a fatal hurt. WESTERN. A number of hogs at Rockford, which ha hern Lltten by a mud dojf, uro dy-ing wi hydrophobia. Tho net earnings of tho St. Paul lload lor the tn-t half of tho your aro fully pto thoe of tho perhxl, owlnj to at dlmin.

tl of cxioridltun although tho receipts fell nearly It is alleged that tho late Trwmlont T. II. UcGill. tlie Cincinnati nnd lifitorn ltond, who was killed bv falling from a car, procured about ivO.OeO cm si urions note, and that his victims were friends. These do-Yolopments rive rite to the belief that ho ouimittol At tho Chicago Driving Park a "wonderful rerformunee was witni-ssoJ by lO.OO The vcr Wes-tuiont and running mate, hnr o-xl to a road wnon, a quarter Of a mllo in thirty oconda, a half miloMn ouo minute, thrce-quar era in nlno'y seconds, and full mile in Ri.t fir a break by Wtinont o.i last oJjfhtb of a mllo, the rvcerd would have beeu two minutes.

The estimated yield of -wheat in lliehlvan this yenr Is 5, '13 1 bushel 1,513,841 buetu. less fian the crrp of St. I.n's is arranging for an iutcr-satlonal nTo.ition of etcransor tho Mexican war, in (k-tolcr. It 8 riaimod that ITosl-dont I la, has protnifed to an 1 lilt prominent ari-k-i; at8 the athcilu. Fverett Woddell, who for thirty years Lave conducted a pri' ate bunking houao In CTc and, an asJinniont liabilities at il.t They state that thoir eteota are amnio to pay ull claims la lull, wllb lntouot.

SOUTHERN. At Baltimore, Gus Slater, nephew of a noted rambler, hot nnd killed Trlnco" HcOowan, a well known charaotor, as tbo result of a quarrel bojrun In a saloon. JflcGowan met his death a few feet from tho spot where ho killed Ouno Garter, auotnor gambler, two ye.trs ao. Socrf tery Toller has advanced tho President of the World's Exposition at New t.Tlourw. Under rdera from Secretary Lincoln, nil fetUors will be comjiollod toloavo th reioa kr.Ati as Greer County, Texas, which raid to belou to Indian Territory.

Taul Morphy, tho famous ohesi-player, was drowned in his bath tub In his TOiUenoo at New Orloans, la-t week. Ho was 47 years fed, arid had been domoutod for eoiMe years. WASHINGTON. In pursuance of the provision in tho legislative, judicial, and executive appropriation bill redwing the number of internal revenue oenis from thirty-five to twonty, the Commissioner of Internal Hero-nue ordered tho of tho follow In g-named aeents: A. J.

MoKuslok, California; Jehn Vounr, Tennossoe; John M. Burns, Ketukr; J. II. McCoy, Wlsoonsln; Jamon A. Ky, Kentucky: O.

B. Ilarrlton, John M. Haum, Illinois; Jasper Packard, Indiana: W. L. II ol-lister, llinnPota; A.

M. Crano, California; J. L. Trumbull. Indiana.

Work luw been suppendod at tho Washington Navj Yard owing to tho fafkiro of Conrees to make an appropriation for its continuance. W. S. Jackfon, a banker of Colorado Springs, bos been tvooivor ot tho DoaTcr and lcie Granule Iload. MISCELLANEOUS.

SanTalle, a French journaHst, who was exelo4 from lexic as a pcrnlcloui foreigtier, has arrived in Now York. Ho fate Uwit fer publishlngr three articles, demand rur an Investigation Into the no otia-Urn of a larg public loan, ho was imprisoned In a fort at Vera Cruc and seat on board a anan-of-war. Tho Maaonie Grand Lodge resolved at rirockvl le, that the proi-oneo of Intoxicant on refreshment tubles of subordinate lodffoo was not destrublo. Tho Mcxi an (loverumotit, it ia an-noanced, ha a ed to ve a bonus of "0 per head for Imported CI Inese. BradHlrte'a reports 190 f.iilnrcB in the nlte 1 Ftates f( the week, against 116 In ttio prvced Mg wce.

At Tort 8mi a whito man and two Indians cxeouted by tbo I'ubod tatos autl eiiticf for murler. William and Char os Ham! ten were han atWarron-tur, for killing- (nrl Sicrblo. Ten thousand person were prefent. FOREIGN Cornwall. Secretary of the Dublin rostoJLce, has ted tho city since tho failure of hi rait airalnst O'Brien, as have aUo aer- orai other pontons Involved with him In criminal acta.

Tho French Admiral Courbot telegraphs to Paris that he has occupied a town on tho Chine so coast. The war, therefore, has commenced. Tho Belgian Embassy at the Vatican has been restored. The bullion in tho Bonk of England decreased la the Bank af France about $1,00,000, and In the Gorman Imperial Bank about LATER NEW6 ITEMS. A Are which broke out at resulted in tho destruction of several stores.

The total Ioxb Is ertusatod at The Insurants la about Dullao (Texas) dispatch A tragedy has juet oocarro-l at the National Hotel, In which two of the most prominent young men of this city evidently fought a duel to tho doath. W. II. Beale and Bewlo t-'trango aro both lying dead in a ioia in tho third ftory of the hotel. StrtMiKO part Lilly dressed, and Poulo is nearly stripped, shewing that tley fought as thy wcro aout to retlro for tlo night.

The pistol of each 1a lying by his side. Poth apjK.ar to bo shot through tho heart, anl alo through the bead. Tho doors to thvJr aulto of rcooja were loo'iod, but wore broken open when tho plstd shots wore beard. They wcro dfvotod frlenls, but are said to haro had hard words shortly bo-fore tho tragedy, and ona wai heard to toy to the othor: "I will 11 you." Tho an-noun'-em of their doth has croated a pro-founl 8enatlon, and bundteJs ef peoplo arc in tho streets. The State Dopartment will soon issue to tho public a volumo of information obtained by American consuls as to tho wacs of lab in Uurope, tho cost of living, and tho social condition ef tho lolling masao.

Tho lostinastur-General has moro at his disposal this year than lat year fur tho servico. It Is pro-powd in many eitlo to enlargo tho force of carr'or. Tho froo-delh cry fytom will bo extoudcHl twonty o'tios, of thj up-proprlatlt lo ng available for that putposo. Secretary Folger has decided in tho caso of William Hutler Dunonn and his family that a wod ling trousonu and wc-dding preionts whon brought into this country, even though they form part of the bagaijo of the party for hom they aro intenJed, aro dutiaU. ITioy oxceed tn kind, quality, and value tho personal goods of ordinary passongors and aro In ton Jed for a spocial occasion.

Another attempt has boon made to Mil tho Kmperor Francis Joseph of Austria. Tho rails ovor which his train wus to pass near Ti.4a wore romovod. This was discovered in tlmo to prevent a sorlous and perhaps fatal aocMont. Cholera continues to prevail, and tho incrcao in tbo doath rate at Marselllo4 has Increased tho general alarm. Tho origin ef tho dlwoas') Is traroi to l-'gypt and England's carolosno'S thoro.

Tha (Canadian judicial authorities have decMo 1 against tho oxtradltion Of John C. Kno, tUo abooaUnx Nw York bank r. An explosion of coal-oil at West Wlnol'onter, Ontario, causolthj distruetl jn of mill, a faotory, and f-overal dwellings, all ahiel at "Boss" Shepherd, after acqiring con-8'dorabio wealth by mining Mexico, will return to Washington, wbrro his admirers proj oso to givo him a jjrand reception. Somo citizens cf Kewancc, I1L, tarred and feathered a social STomlor, and iok' him out of town on a rail to tho musloof sleigh-hells. The Iirnois Department of Agriculture reports an avorago yio a of Inter whoat in tho northern division, onl about threo-fc urths of a crop in theoontral and touthorn lortior.s of tho Mate.

The Now York dry-goods houso of Ilalstodd, Halrcs Co. made an assignment fer tho of Its creditors. Tho liabilities aggregate about 52,000,000. Israel H. Hamburger, ef New York, hns made an assignment.

Ho was In tho stationery busln ss, and his Labilities aro put at Kllas Brown, a comb manuitaoturcr, also ma-lo on assignment. At Conshockcn, John Mann, a fhoomaker, fctabted his daughter seventeen, and thon himself flftoua, times, and died. Tbo daughter will die. Sbo repolled tho unlawful advances of her father. THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. BicirvKs ot no llWt B.M 5.7 Kixcn Kxtra, fr.oo (ffl Wueat No. 2 Chicago. .3 No. ailed 7'S Corn- Na 7 CO i lUra White 4 .4 POiiK Mew 16.25 015.75 CI1ICAOO.

P.EffVE-Choloe to IYlraa htcera C.75 7.05 Fair to Good 6.25 cr 6.u Butehnrs' t.uo 6.5J IlrtOfl ft. 25 6.75 l'LOUit Fancv White Winter llx 6.25 6.75 Good to Choice BprLng.M 4.64 rt 6.2S WnniT No. iO No, 'i lied Winter 87 at Conx No. 2 81 9 .6:1 OAT Na 3 21 ('4 IUW -No. 2..

CO .01 Baulky No. t'O BoTTKU Choice Creaiuery 17 tf 11 no Patry 13 .15 CmtESB Pnll Crcsm. OH 4 hklmmed Flat 03 .04 Kooft Frehw 15 Potatoes New, per brl loo 2 POKK Mcm 32.25 2X75 LAUD 07 (J4 TOLEDO. WnTAT No. 2 JM1 COBN No.

2 4 .65 OAT No. 2 J31 t9 .31 illLWAUKUl-i Wheat Na 3 ft CoitN No. 2 .47 OATs No. 2. 31 l'4 .53 BARLET No.

2 ft k9 I)UK Mhhs 1A.25 rUft.75 LABU 7.00 7.60 BT. Wheat No. 2 ft Corn MixchL 45 ti ,44 Oath No. 2 4 .27 Rye. 65 .604 I'ORK Mene CINCINNATI.

Wheat No. 2 Red jn ct oi Corn jm .55 Oath Mixed. 34 Pork Mens ia.no Lard 07 (to 1 DETROIT. FLOTTR 8.00 fit 6.R0 Wheat No. 1 hlte 1.01 tt 1.03 Corn Mixed.

6 Oath No. 2 Mlxel 5J r4 .35 1-ORK Mess 13-33 t5t3.75 lrfblAN'AlOLPi WnEAT No. 3 Red ft Corn Mixed 49 (ft OATS Mixed 0 1ABT LrUKRTY. CaTTLB Brst KOQ (1 .60 Fir. 6.50 a.

25 Common. 3 15 rl 4.. 6 ITOOI. 6.69 4 butcp too 4.50 W03IAW G0S3IP. A XTevtrru alld's Dnnua.

(f coid k'tch onto the wlnira ef a bird I would light la the lortlet tre twitter a twit that oould plalolf he heard '10m Jlaitown clear ut to tho tov 1 waible a note of such terriulo force That the clemeuta wildly would 1 ind the Indian chkttalu would fail from his we Au 1 hp. It uU shirt clear up hU back. If I were ontJittod with elcphant'a fejJ, My trild treat! would rewound. It 1 ll animal li would in terror retreat "len thousand lingoes unJer th graad; nd If I 1 i tV voice or a llai I'd roar I ill tho wide nnherao UHt Its wit And tho blrila would fold up their licet wings an keel o'er And tile In hysterical fits. If I were a dweller lieniath the dep WUh th bgnre and power of a whab.

Evcrv er atura aroi aid mo In terror would flee At fauta-i lo ribt ef my tull. I would Hwamp a great ved or two every day, An i lonin the ocean ho blue. O'er the feast 1M say graco la tho usual way And make a squaro lucul of tho crew. But slur am ily a modest young maid A vlnl fnJer iJower ot the sy The Irirliig d-'lrea 1 ani reallv afraid Must be ttjwned, oj It wen, and suppressed. Since I canuot rabw Ilule.s by such a rank lay.

My t'ag or doiJro I maxt furl. And dream the deleetnide mojeents away. Ah a awevt, timid, gt ntlo young girL Not Illm On. UnreposHCSsing Old Uaclielor And why do yrwi think I ought to get married, Mhs Mabel? Miss' Mabel (aged 12) Oh, you look as though you nocdod omobody to take caro of you, and oh, goodness! you didn't fiink I said that to lead you on, did vou? Life. Tor Guest! at Your Table.

I'retty device for designating tho place certain guests shall tako at tho table aro employed by thow happy housewives who can devote time to tho poetry of homo. Ono very pretty way is to have an alphabet made of tin, have each letter about three inches high, and tho little tin forms deep enough to hold a little sand or wet moss. Then 1111 the forms with tiny llowers and leaves. Another way, though net so easy to make, is to have tho form in tho tdiapo of a card, and on tho background of gTooti put in tho guest's initial with small iYt'W Orleans Times-Democrat. Women hi tbo Long Ago.

In the essay on "Woman in tho Fourteenth Century wo read somo thing which, in view of tho emission of tho word "obey" recently from tho marriage servico oi the Methodist Church, may In ro.ul with interest. Speak. ng of a "Uook for Women," by ono (loof-frey do la Tour Landry, in the early period referred to, Prof. Wheeler says: "Wifely obedience is pushed to extreme (in tho book). Three morelnnts laid a wager that each had tho most dutiful wife.

Tho test should bo 'lep-iug' into a basin of water. Then they went to their hornet, ono after the other. Tho lirst wifo refnsod to lean, and tho husband 'up with hi fust and gavo her two or three grct stroke' in the of tho other merchants. Tho second wife also refused, an I hor lord beat her with a stall'. Tho third lady misunderstood an order to bring salt for a commend to leap upon tlio table whero they were all feasting, and, being better bred than tho other wives, obeyed tho order as she understood it, leaped upon tho tablo and brought it down a crash.

Tho wager was declared won without to tho basin experiment. 'And so ought everi good worn tn do the comm uidmcnts of her husband, be it evil or woll; for yet ho biddo her thing that she aught not do it his Impoliteness. The French may bo the politest nation in tho world, siys a Paris letter, but Frenchmen do not, a a rule, have that icspoct for women which is so characteristic of tho Americans. It is certain that ladies whom business or pleasure may force to travel alone, meet everywhere in this ''land of gallantry" far more of hostility than courteous attention, lint this is tho least ofl'ensive form in which tho national want of respect for women shows it-folf. It is dilllcult, I am tempted to Kay it is impossible, for a lady to go about on foot in tho streets of I'aris, or in any large town in Franco, without being exposed to numerous vexations annoyances, and even instills.

At certain hours of the day, if a lady ventures out without a male protector, tho chances arc that sho will bo aceo itod by some impertinent fellow before sho has taken a dor.en stops from her own door, it would bo utterly for her to appeal for protection to a passerby or a policeman, for this sort of tiling would seem to bo an accepted custom, and that tho gentler sex aro regarded as the fair prey of every street lounger who wishes to pass for a masher iu tho eyes of ono or two admiring companions. There are a lot, of fellows in Paris who seem to consider themselves irresistible, and that they have, liko Caar, only to show themsVdves iu order to bo sure of victory. Another curious thing in this connection is that instead of when a woman is alone being entitled to assistance aud protect! exactly the contrary is the c.iso. If a woman goes to a respectable hotel unaccompanied the chances are that sho will bo rofusod a room. I ca'i understand that a woman who is accompanied may have a suspicious apj earanco in tho eyes of a hotel-keeper the members of that corporation being, as every ono knows, models virtue but how they can poj sibly lind anything suspicions nbout a woman who is entirely alone passes my comprehension.

I am afraid that the true secret of this affair is that tho level of mor.diiv in this country is a low and that there is nowadays very little respect in Franco tor anything. I cannot understand how it is that men cm forget it is possib'o for their wives and daughters to bo thus insulted when out alone, and tho argument so often advanced that it is nowadays diliicultto tell good women from bad one3, no similarly avo they painted and attired, is not olo with wirch I nm in accord. Painted women r.ro a distress in tho sight of most men, rnd yet there aro a roo I many intelligent and honest ones who "lay it on thick" before leaving their boudoirs, while, on tho other hand, (here are demi-mondainea who never paint at all. Exchange. Woman In the Lime-Kiln Clab.

"I hold hcah a letter," said tho President a the meeting opened, "axin' dis club to report its observashuns on do intlooenco of do female sex on liberty, olly ticks, art, progress, and bizness. brother JJobee, whut do you know of the inilooence of females on the matter of liberty?" Urother Kebee repliod that he had of late years observed a disposition on tho part of tho female sex to do a they pleased, go where they pleased and carry a bundle of liberty under each arm day and night One hundred years ago liberty was a persimmon on the highest limb of a tall treo. Today it was a pumpkin which anybody could roll along tho ground. Everybody breathed it. ate it, and walked arm-inarm with it, and the masses could no more be deprived of liberty than bob-tailed cows could toko the llrst premium at the State Fair.

"Brndder Pickles Smith, what do you know of de inilooence of do female sex on polly ticks?" asked tho President. lirothcr Smith replied that ho knew of several wivoa in his neighborhood who bossed their, husbands' votes. lie could also recall three or four cases wherein women had exercised a powerful inllueneo after their husbands got home from a convention. "Brudder Penstock, has you noticed any pertickler inilooence of do female sex on do matter of art?" asked the President. Brother Penstock had.

Such a thing as making an old, yellow, four-gallon jug a thing of beauty and a parlor ornament would never have been thought of but for the gentler sex. A man would pass an old tomato can in tho back yard a hundred times a day without a second look. A woman would seize npon it at tho first opportunity and transform it into a Grecian vase of exquisite beauty. Twenty years ago an omnibus with a landscape on the side would be followo-l around tho streets by a crowd. To-day a six-gal Ion crock, to bo used as an umbrella-holder, with a view of tho Yosemito unted all around it in nino different colors, could he drawn all over the city in a hand-sled ithout exciting remark.

Art had become a part of our every -day lives. A stout woman couldn't even fall down on an icy corner without displaying moro or less genuine talent for the artistic. "Urudder Fullback, has you noticed any partiekler inilooence of women on de matter of progress?" inquired Brother Gardner. Fullback thought he had. "Women had discovered most of tho comets, projected tho grandest bridges, engineered the greatest tunnels, and wrested tho most secrets from science.

If it hadn't been lor the progressive idem of women, stage coaches would yet bo miming Lotwooa Now York and Chicago. Judge Cadaver was asked what influence women had on business, and he drew a long breath and replied that, if it wasn't for the female sex, the business of tlf world would drop one-half; one dry-goods store in a city could supply all the men, but the women supported two or three hundred of them. Women net only maintained business, but established new manufactures. For instance, the decoration of female hosiery gavo employment to persons tho year round. It was all out of sight and utterly useless, but it circulated millions of Puds, bustlen, paints, cosmetics, and false hair were of no real service, convenience, or ornament, and yet joO.OOO.OOO and the labor of 1100,000 people were the annnal results.

Women are straight business. When a wifo whoso husband earns only $25 per week can keep a carriage, wear $100 bracelets, and put on a ii0 sealskin sacque, the man who contended that the female sex had no financial abilities had hotter hang up. Detroit Free 'reus. Composition of Comets. In a recent work Prof.

Xewcomb gavo somo intf resting points rolative to tho physical constitution of comets, and said that a theory of this, to bo both complete and satisfactory, must bo founded on the properties of matter as made known to us here at tho surface of tho earth; that is, wo must show what forms and what continuations of known substance would, if projected into celestial spaces, present the appearance of a comet. He held that this has never yet been completely doue. Theories without number have been propounded, but they fail to explain some of tho phenomena, or explain them in a mnnnor not consistent with tho known laws of matter and force. Ho thon proceeds to consider thoso properties which are to some extent sustained by facts and seem to havo most probabil ty in their favor. The simplest form of those bodies is seen in the telescopic cornet, which consist of minute pai ticlca of a cloudy or vaporous appearance.

Now, we know that masses that present this apjK'aranco at tho surface of the earth, whero we oan examine them, ara composed of detached particles of solid or ii ju'd it-tor. Clou.ls of vujor, for instance, aro composed of minute drops of water, andsmoke of minute particles of carbon. Analogy would lead us to suppose that tho toloscopic comets are cf the samo constitution. They are thousands of miles in diameter, and yet the smallest stars can be seen through them. Tho strongest evidence of thoir constitution is afforded by tho phenomena of meteoric showers.

'I ho only alternative to this theory is that tho comet is a mans of true gas, continuous throughout iU wholo extent. This gaseous theory derives its main support 10m tho which show 4 tho spectrum of the telescopic comets to consist of bright bands, tho mark of an incand 'scent light. lie holds tho gas-eons' theory to bo unsatisf.v tory. Then ho proceeds to say that tho question, "Why docs thii mass of vapor, tho tail, always llv awav from tho sun," is one to which science has not yet been able to return a conclusive answer. Inter Ocean.

A Chicago lady says sho never knew what trno happincs wai until her husband lost his last dollar and sho had to do her own housework. BT. PETER'S. a. Graph le Description of Botne'a Great Cathedral.

Tho great church is before us. Wonderful St. Fetor's, with its broad and inviting approach. Tho facodo rises like tho front of a temple not planned by man or made with hands, while over til is seen tho lolty dome, symbol of tho heavens out of which it seems to have descended. Wo ascend tho spa-pious steps and enter tho veatibule, where marblo statues, rich freicoos, nnd wondrous doors of bronxo givo grand suggestion of tho magnificence within.

We push amdo tho heavy curtain at the door nnd enter. Fnter, do say? At tho first glance you are arretted by tho magnilicence that bursts resplondent upon your gaze. You atand entranced. Were it not idolatry you would fall down and worship. Standing thcro, your feet are on the round slab of porphyry on which the Frapcrors were forme.ly crowned.

We advance along that spacious nave, impaneled with rarest and richest marbles, hung with gorgeous tapestry, adorned with choicest statuary, on cither sido rising pillars and columns supporting lof arches through wliich aro seen chapels, tombs, and altars of surpassing splendor; and over all, 100 feet above that mosaic lloor, the richly coffered ceiling. It seems as if tho xound world had been tearcho I for treasure with which to enrich this marvelous pile. And here aro magnificent pictures, so worulrously executed that thoy hold you in their contemplation until your admiration becomes astonishment when you find that these are all wrought with almost superhuman ukdl and patience in mosaic every feature, even to tho eyebrows, accurately portrayed. But wo aro now tho groat dome, where wo look up gh 103 feotof glorious sun-mi-tto its vaulted cei dug. Around tho frioro or rim, in mosaic letters, each six fe long, runs tho legend in Latin, "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I w.ll build My church, aud to thco 1 givo tho keys of tho kingdom of heaven." Tho dome is divided into sections by ribs covered with gilded stucco.

Hero wo see four series of colossal mosaic pictures inoi'o than two acres of mosaics. Around tho lowor part run scenes in tho life of Chiist. Above these aro seen scenes in the life of tho Virgin, then a series representing the apoitles, wailo away on tho lofty ceiling, as if looking out from the heavens, is seen God tho Father. But let us mako tho usccnt of this dome. Wo climb 110 steps, winding our way around a central shaft, tho walls of which bear memorial tablets of royal personages who havo gono fore jis, and we come out upon the immense yoof of tho church.

Here is a of small domes and houses of tho workmen who aro continually busy upon the great structure. Families dwell up there, and children are born and die there. 1 10m the roof wo obtain magnificent view of Bomo and tho classic Albau and Sabine hills beyond. But on wo go, for thcro aro feet of climbing yet before wo reach the summit of tho dome, aud we must yet reach the Ml th stepbeforowecan rrstoursdvesaj the lantern, and thero then wdl be over i.s the immmens3 copper ball in which sixteen persons may bo seated. It seems as if we aro ascending to tho very skies.

Hero a giandand startling view is obtained of tne interior of botti tho dome and tho church. You shrink back as you look far down to the marblo Hoors, whero altars and chapels seem as toys, and men as children. Voices are hushed down there. The chanting of the priests and tho mu-ic of tho organ seem far away. Beneath us is tho great altar covered with its imposing canopy of bronco of nearly one hundred tons weight.

And there is the reputed tomb of St. P.t before which burn, with never-expiring llamc, eighty-nine lamps. "And now, if wo descend from our perilous height, and examing the four massivo buttresses, which Rapport this Jlo'ne, wo shall find that th re might bo hid inside of either a church feet square, with a steeple ono hundred feet high. Within that dome could ho placed the far-famed Trinity Church, of New York, with its towering spire. Twenty church' cou'd be piled in tho nave of St.

Peter's, and all thoir steeples packed away in its dome; while along tho magnificent cor-Jiiee, which extends around tho great lime, a span of horses aud a carriage might to driven. In that nave eo.dd Vest a vessel the size of Noah's ark, ith loom at tho end for a church ninety feet long. Beneath that roof are nearly six acres of s.irfaco; and on thoso floors 51,000 pooplo can ussenble. Once upon a time a regiment of soMiers, numbering V'00, went thcro to worship, aud their commander went in search of them ho was on the point of leaving without finding them when they came filing oat of tho church. Such is St.

Peter's, thoerocti of which taxed tho skill of nearly a dozen of tho greatest architects tho world bus seen, and re piired the patronage of nearly a score of Popes, and has ccst a hundred million dollars. liCv. John Alabaster, of Indianapolix. Henry Clay's Son John. Situated about one mile and a half from tho city of Lexington, on tho Tate's Creek Pike, is tho home and breeding farm of John M.

Clay. 'I ho place contains something over three hundred acres, and wus, originally, a art of Ashland. Along irbout 1U) Ht-nry Clay purchase! Ashland, then containing 1,500 acres, paying for it only $111 per acre. Some timo beforo his death, he beet mo posso sod, by gift and purchase, of quite a number of high-bred horses, which, upon the settlement of his estate, passed into the hands of John his youngest son, whoso tasto nnd inelinnt'oa verg. toward turf and field sports.

For thirty-five yoars last past tho numo ot John M. Clay has been prominent as a successful breeder and turfman. Thero is no turfman, if I except tho fatuous Sir Joseph Hawlo.v, who ha, from a few select mares, bred so many high class horses as Mr. Clay, and from this fact ho ha been fro styled tho Sir Joseph Hawloy of America. Mr.

Clay parted with Kentucky for 0 when a ho was afterward ioid for tho lurjest bona fldo p'fro flver paid for a horse in A'ucr-ica. He was on the turf from a J. to a year old, and during that timo sustained but one dcfea he being at that time notoriously out of conditon. Ho was, indeo 1, a grand borne, and probably no better one has been seen upon the American turf. He sold Lodi for for hauco'ox he received $7,0 )0, and not very long ago he parted with two brood mares, Sly Boo' a and.

pie 'z'em, for $7,500. Ho has, without-doubt, sold as many as ouo hundred head of horses at prices rangi.ig from $1,000 to now, mind yon, all of these of his own rais ng. Mr. Clay has never at any ono time owned a very largo number of mares, but thos he-did havo on hand wcro always selo in other words, pure diaraoude, none of them being off color. His rosidenco his a handsome two stories high, of the old style.

Wide halls and large rooms, furnish in a manner that xvell bo -omos a comfortable homo of the Kentucky-gentleman. Lexington letter. A Curio of 'Frisco' Streets But to return to this human curio of the Pacific. Tho most striking peculiarity about him is his dress. Who set tiie fashion for him is moro than I can tell, but most likely it was some lunatic tailor.

However, it suit tho "hood's" idea of stylo, and this fact ought to bo sufficient Tho male is conspicuous at first glanco by his si.irt, which is made of tho gaudiest ima ina-ble colored patterns, and an Indian or Southern negro would give his all for ono of them. His vest is cut low, aud. as much of tho shirt front is exposed as possible. Tho effect, as may bo is wonderful. Then his pan a-loons; they are a marv 1 of tailor's skill.

They aro made to fit tho leg skin-tight, and with a "spr rg" at tho bottom that almost covert a foot as largo as a medium-sized ham. Tho coat is also remarkable It is gouerally a sack, with packet-flaps cut in various, fanciful de signs, and tho wholo bound with braid of a loud pattern ail the way from half an inch to an inch wide. The shoulders aro padded square across, and in roposo tho mm under the coat-looks like ho had been sawed 01. of a. piece of wood.

Tho entire outfit is topped off by a still-brimmed hat at one-end and high-heeled boots at another. Tho hoodlum invariably wears hair-long, and has it lively puffed and. liberally smeared with oil. iio is a victim of the cigarette vice, and is generally to bo seen smoking a cigarette and twirling a switch-like cine. In stature-tho male is generally tall and thin, while the female is just tho reverse short and "tout.

Tho latter is as peculiar in tho manner of her dress and stylo of getting herself up as it tho former. Her dresses aro generally of some brght and showy, but cheap, material, raado very full and very r.hort, so as to show tho tops of a 3 pair of highdieolod shoes with tissels and white' laces. A loud hat of a stylo that it is impossible to describe covers hor and her hair sho has banged jUo.ro across her forehead to her eyes. Go down Kearney street, tho principal shopping thoroughfare in the city, and tho hood and his girl can daily bo seen enjoying an airing and convening-with each other in a language thai-sounds foreign at but which is-nothing but slang lingo that tho class havo adopted. Cur.

Chicago Keiva. Tho Best Of tho eight pounds which a man eats and drinks in a day, it is thought that not less th in livo pounds leave hia-body through the skiu. Aud of those livo pounds a considerable percentage-escapes during night. Tuis, being in reat pat gaseous in permeates every part of the bed. Thus all parts of the bed blanket, as well as sheets soon become foal, and need purification.

Tho mattress needs this renovation quito as much as the sheets. To allow the sin eta to bo used without washing or changing thro. or six months would bo regarded as bad housekeeping; but I insist, if a thin sheet can absorb enough of tho po'son-ous excretions of the body to mako it unfit for use in a few days, a thick mattress, which can absorb aud a thousand times as much of tiiesc poisonous excretions, needs to be pur. lied, as often certainly as once in three months. A sheet can bo washed.

A mattress cannot be renovated in this-way. Indeed, there in no other way of cleansing a mattress but bv steaming it-or picking it to pieces, nnd thus in fragments ev posing it to the direct rays of the sun. As these proccses aro scarcely practicable with any of the ordinary mattresses, I am decidedly of tho opinion that the good old-fa ttiioued straw bed, which can every threo-months be exchanged for rIi straw, and the tick washed, is the swe tot of beds. If in the winter season tho porousness of the straw-lied makes it a little uncomfortable, spread over it two-woolen blankets, which should be washed. With this arrangement, if yon wash all the bod-covering you will havo a sweet, healthful bed.

Now, if you have the bed to with open windows during t.ie day, and not make it up for tho ght be'oro evening, you ill have added greatly to-the hweetnoss of your rest, and, in consequence, to tho tone of you ftlth. I heartily wish this good be everywhere intio luceib Only thoso who have thus attended to this important matter can ju.lgo of its influence on tho ceueral health and. spirits. Home Science. He Didn't Want to Bs Tor) Handy.

"Suppo wo wa'k over into the cemetery." Raid a fr end to his compauion "No, I believe not" "Come on. It's pleasant place, for tho flowers are blooming." "You'll hav.i to oxenso me Ton Bessmon i buried er there." "What difference do. that "Wei, you see, I owo him a little balance, and don't care to hang around where he is. Not super, tit ion, oi snow, but Tom was a terrible hand to-dun a fellow." A kansaw 2'rave er. Ol.D Dr.

Sam Johnson I know how to r.b tain, but I don't know how to bo moderate.".