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i i i i i iii .1 i i 7 JOItt BEOTTS IN KANSAS. tXi AUI "Terrlfylns; of Fro-Slaverr no by Harder. Lawrence Journal .1 am a native of Harford County, State of Maryland, and was born August 2J, 1815. In August, 1839, I enlisted In Company Captain Benjamin L. Bellt Second United- State Dragoons, and served five Tears In the Florida war waged against the Seminole and Creek Indian, part of the tune under the command of General Tay-lor, and was discharged in August, 1844, at Fort Washita, Indian Territory.

I am a painter by trado. and followed that business in Fallston, in niy native county, Octoler 20, 1855, when I emigrated to Kansas with my family, and settled In Anderson County, on the Potawatomie Creek, bout one mile west of Greeley. I Joined the Potawatomie Rifle Company at Its reorganization in May, 18ort, at which time John Brown, was elected Captain. On -the 21st 'Of the same month information was received that the Georgians were marching on Lawrence, threatening its destruc-tion. The company was immediately called together, and about 4 o'clock p.

m. we started on a forced march to aid in Its defense. About two miles south of Mid- die Creek we were Joined by the Ossawat-omie oompnnv, under Captain Dayton, and proceeded to Mount Vernon, where we waited about two hours, untH the moon rose. We then marched all night, camping the next morning, the 22d, for breakfast, near Ottawa Jones', Before we at this point, news had boon received that Lawrence naa dwu acwroycii, na a question was raised whether we should re turn or eoon. During the forenoon, how ever, we proceeded up Ottawa Creek to within about Ave miles of Palmyra, and Vent into camp near the residence ol Captain Shore.

Here we remained undocided over night. About noon the nextday, the 23d, old John Brown came to me and said had just received information that trouble was expected on tho Potawatomie, and wanted to know if I would take my team and take him and his boys back, so' that thej' could keep watch of what was going on. I told him I would do so. The party, consisting of Id John oJrown, Frederick Brown, Owen Brown, Watson Brown, Oliver Brown, Henry Thomjson (John Brown's son-in-law), and Mr. Winer were soon ready for tho trip, and we started, as near as I cam' remember, about 2 o'clock p.

in. All of the narty, except Mr. Winer, who rode a ponv, rode with me in my wngon. When within two or three miles of "the Potawatomie Creek, we turned off the main road to the right, drove down into the edge of the timber between two deep ravines, ana campeu about one mua aoove Dutch Henry's crossing. After my team was fed and the larty had taken Brown told me for the first tune what he proponed to He said he wanted me to pilot tho company up to the fork of the creek, some Ave or six miles above, into the neighborhood where I lived, and show them whero all the pro-slavery men resided; that he proposed to sweep tho creek as he came down of all the pro-slavery men living on it.

I positively refused to do it. lie insisted upon it, but when he found that I would not go he decided to postpone the expedition until the- following night. I then wanted to take my team home, but he refused to let me do so, and said I should remain with them. We remained in camp that night and all day the noxt day. Some time after dark we were ordered to march.

We started, the whole company, in a northerly direction, crossing 3ioquno Creek above tho residence of the Doylcs. Boon after crossing the creek some one of the party knockedat the door of the cabin, trot received no reply. (I haTe forgotten whose cabin it was, if I knew at the time.) The next place we came to was the rest dence of the Dovloa. John Brown, three of his sons and son-in-law went, to the door, leaving redorick BrownJWiner and myself a short distance from the house. About this time a large doir attackod us.

Frederick Brown struck the dog a blow with his short two-edged sword, after which I dealt him a blow on the head with my saber, and heard no more from him. The old man Doyle and two sons were called out, and marched some dlstauce from the house toward Dutch Henry's in the road, where a halt was made. Old John Brown drew his revolver and shot the old man Doyle in the forehead, and TBrown'stwo youngest sons immediately fell upon the 'younger Doylos with, their short two-edged One of the young. Doylcs was stricken down In an instant, but the other at-tempted to escape, and was pursued a short dlstanco by his assailant and cut down. The company then proceeded Sown Mosoulto Creek to the house of lloi Wilkinson.

Here the old man Brown, three of his sons and son-in-law, as at the Doylo residence, went to the door and ordered" Wilkinson to come out, lcav-. tng Frederick Brown, Winer and myself standing in the road cast of the house. was taken and marched some distance south of his house and slnin in the road, with a short sword, by one of the younger Browns. After he was killed his lodywajdi'ajrged to one tide and left. We then crossed the Potawatomie and came to the house of Henry Sherman, generally known as Dutch Henry, Here John and the party, excepting Frederick Brown, Winer and myself, who werp left outside a short distance from the door, into tho house and brought out one or two persons, talked with them some, and then took thera in again.

"They afterward brought out William Sherman, Dutch Hcury's brother, marched him down Into the Potawatomie Creek, where he was slain wit swords by Brown's two youngest sons, and left lying" In the creek. It was the expressed intention of Brown to execute Dutch Henry also, but be was pot found at home. He also hoped to find George Wilson, Probate Judge of Ahder- son County, there, and intended, if he did, kill him. too. Wilson had been notifying Free State men to leave the Territory.

I had received such a notice from him uav-aelf. I desire to say here that it Is not true that there was 'any intentional mutilation of the bodies after they "were killed. They trere slain as quickly 'as possible and left, and whatever gashes they received were lafllotedin the process' of cutting them down with swords. understood that the killing was done with these swords so as 'to, avoid alarming the neighborhood by the discharge of lure-ferms. Jldeairo also to say that I did not then approve of the killing of those men but Brown said it must bo done for the protection of tho Free State settlers that the pro-slavery party must be.

terrified, and that It was butter that a score of baa men fehould die than that one man who came here to make Kansas a free State should be driven out. Brown wanted me to pilot the party Into the neighbornood wberu'I lived, and point out all the pro-slave'ry men in it, whom he proposed to nut to death. I positively re-X used to do it, and on account of my refusal we remained in camp all of the night Upon Which the attack was first intended 4.o be niads, and the next day I told him I was willing to go with him to Lecompton and attack tho leaders or fight the enemy in open field any-wbere, but I did not want to engage In killing these men. That night and the acts then perpetrated are vividly fixed in my memory, and I have thought iof them many timee since. jrM thought that the transaction was -terribly, and have mentioned it to but few persons since.

Xn altr time, however, I became satisfied that it resulted in good to tne i- ree Mtare and was especially beneficial to Free rotate settlers on Potawatomie Creek. The men were dreadfully terrified, large numbers of them soon left the It was afterward said that one 'Free State man could scare a company of I always understood that George W. Grant cajno.to our camp son Ottawa Creek, near Shore's, with a message from his father, John T. Grant, to John. Brown, asking for protection from threatened assaults of the Shermans and other Pro-slavery ruffians.

But I did not know George W. Grant at the time, and do not remember of seeing him. I frequently heard the circumstances mentioned as a fact. After the killing of William Sherman, some time after midnight, we all went back to camp, about one mile distant, where we had left my team and other things. We remained in camp nntil after noon of the following day, and then started to agnin join the Potawatomie comnany tinder Captain' John Brown, jun.

When we reached Ottawa Jones', about midnight, we found them in camp at that place. The next morning the company was called together just after breakfast, and John Brown, jim announced his rotigua-tiou, and re') nested the company to elect another Captain In his place. The name of IL 11. Williams, now of Osnwatomie, and own were presented and a vote taken, which resulted In the election of Williams. The company then broke camp rmrt started home.

-After eroding Mrddle Creek at Mount Vernon, Jolm Brown, with the rest the thai rrVni oivihe fH t.i;.ircui the balance of the company, a4 struck off to Uio left of the main Potawatomie road, In the direction of the cabins of John Brown, and Jason Brown. That night we stayed at the cabin of the former, keeping op a guard all night. The next night we went to Jason Brown's, about one mile and a -half away. Here we remained several days, all the time on the watch. While we remained here Angnst Bundy, and, I think, Benjamin L.

Cochran, Joined us. After several days, as I now remember, a young man by the name of Carpenter came to us from Prairie City and gave the information that Captain Pate was In the vicinity in search of Brown. That evening we all took horses and started for Prairie City, where we arrived the next morning about daylight, and camped in the timber on Ottawa Creek, near Captain' Shore's. While John Brown was cooking breakfast for the company, James Red path came into our camp and bad some conversation with Captain Brown. I saw Red path again after the battle of Black Jack, near Blue Mound, and I desire to say in this connection that I never told Redpath at any time that John Brown was not present at the Potawatomie tragedy.

His statement, which was road to me, to the effect that "two who aided in tho execution," gave him such information ia totally false, so far as I am concerned. As Winer and myself wero the only settlers in the neighbornood not members of Brown's family who were prosent at tho tragedy, I can onl-ycon-cludo ho referred to us. In the, aftepnoon after we camped in the woods near Captain Shore's, we moved up to Prairie City. We picketed out our horses and laid down not over a hundred yards from tho store. About the middle of the afternoon six of Pate's men came riding into town, four of whom were captured and held as prisoners.

During the afternoon Captain Shore raised a company of about thirty men, and in the evening we -started in pursuit of Pate. The next morning before rtnyligbt wo obtained information that lie was camped at Black Jack Point, and we moved forward with about twenty-fonr men to attack him. When within a mile of Pate's forces we all dismounted, left seven men in charge of the norses, ana, with seventeen men, made the attack. In about lit teen minutos we drove them into the ravine. The litrht contin ued about three hours, when Pate surrendered.

About the time we got the captured arms loaded into the wagons ready to move, Abbott's "company came iirt. and we all marched hack to Pralrin City with the prisoners. Here we -remained until Colonel Sumner released them. -At this time I left John Brown, and, in company with Charley Ienhart and some other parties, camped in the timber near tawa Jones'. I make tliis statement at the urgent request of my friends and neighbors Judge Jumes Hanway and Hon.

Johnson Clarke, who have bcoiV present during all the time occupied in writing it out, and In whose hearing It baa been read several times before signing. James Tpwysusv; Lane, Kansas, December 6, 187t. Tlie Home or Pol. To see that game as we saw it played by tho men of a Balti rogiment was exciting enough, and rather different from tiie milder imitation familiar to us in India and at hornet for Baltistan, one of the count ries included in the Jaiooo and Kashmir Territories, ia the home of polo. It is the national game, all classes of society engaging in it as If It were one of the chief objects of their life.

Their child re at a very early age play it on foot, until old and strong enough to take their part in the inHee on horseback. Polo is a very ancient game, for it was played in Turkey in the twelfth century, and in India during the reign of the Moguls; whilo, we possess no reliable accounts of its history as regards Baltistan and Dardistan, it is certain that for very inany years the people of theeo countries have bocn pas sionately iona oi it. mere are certain points of difference between their game and the one played by Kuropeans, and there is no maximum nor minimum number of players, which varies according to the site of the ground. In the game we saw, which was got "up--for the especial benefit of the visitors, the Maharajah himself being present, there were twenty-five picked men on each 6ide. It was" commenced by one with a ball in his hand starting off at full gallop, and when in the middle of the ground throwing it np in the air, and striking it as well as he could toward the goal of his opponents." His own pldo and his opponents followed close behind, and soon commenced the struggle for the second stroke, or the carrying the ball onward by successive slrokes toward the desired direction, in which they are very expert.

Their ponies, too, are well trained, following it ia every turn, and to the b-t of their speed entering iuto the spirit of the game wiih apparently the same xett as their masters, it is very exciting to watch one very well mounted man driving the ball before him and closelv pursued by friends and foes. Then, whAi gets checked, a melee and crowding, pushing aild hooking of slicks, which is allowable, is the order of the day, nntil by some chance the ball gets clear, and is carried away by seme expert hand, when another race begins to make or save the game. All this time the music has been plaviug Mildly; for it is considered Impossible to play w'cll without its cheering iniluence, ana the drums and the Jong horns that compose the banji strike in with especial vigor on the taking off, and on each rnsh or melee. When the ball is caught and the game won, the sounds of victory are given with great force, and so the play continues, until one side, having won the greater number out of the appointed total to be played, are hailed as victors, and the concluding part of tho proceedings takes place. This is, a ceremony which Is decidedly great fun, more particularly to the victors, the vanquished not appreciating it so fully.

The winningside ride up and collect in front of the higher dignitaries present, the band playing what is understood to be a howl of triumph, a sort -of Asiatic version ol the "Conquerinai Hero," and- then, dismounting, receive with undisguised look of glee the salaams ox homage of their lato opponents. This seems to afford them immense satisfaction, which la increased by largess from the Princes and others present, and if particularly elated, as they woold appear to have been tn the' game we witnessed, a grotesque follows accompanied by hideous grimaces and pointed gestures to mark their joy while the vanquished party slink off in silence to hide their diminished heads. "The Happy Valley; Sketohes of Kashmir and tne Kashmires." By W. Wakefield, M. D.

A Bobber's Creed. A curious incident occurred before the Paris Court of Assizes recently in a trial of a band of seven thieves for robberies in houses, and for setting tire to a room they had plundered in the Rue do urbigo. While the accused were in prison awaiting their trial, one of them, named Delattro, who had committed the crime of arson, wrote an extraordinary letter to the examining Magistrate, priding himself on the roblerle9 with which he wai charged. "Everyone," he said, "thirsts for money; every one respects it, no matter how it is ebtaiued while the successful bankrupt, the cunning speculator, the dishonest tradesmau and the Directors of Financial Societies which prey on the public are honored and reepectea, and are allowed to enjoyin peace the fruitsof their intelligent maneuvers, why should I suffer more for having had recourse to means of enriching myself which are only dishonorable because the law forbids themT If you do not condemn me to death, and lean encape, which is not so difficult as yon Imagine, -woe to-- those who-, shall cross my path; for I shall be pitiless, and shall hesitate at no means." The Judge asked Dolattre whether he was the author of the letter, and whether he persisted in his intention to live by robbery. Delattre answered firmly, "Yes 1 The jury having returned verdict of guilty, without the admission' of extenuating circumstances for Delattre, the Court passed sentence of death on him: four of the other accused were condemned to terms of from four to eight years' imprisonment, with hard labor and subsequent police surveillance; one, a woman, to three years detention, and one was acquitted.

'There is every likelihood that the capital sentence on Delattre will not be carried into effect. Winter Dresoes row Dogs. London Trnth.l Winter eostumesfor little dogs: For Toy Terrier aged cne year Carmen velvet coat, richly embroidered In cewefs, bound vUth t-ilver cord crest and initials on the front in raised silver. Hair on forehead caught up and tied with red ribbon, falling over the lutek collar to match, with a dozn silver 1 Small Italian Greyhound Coat of nayv blue stamped velvet, embroidered gold willr name and crest, with squirrel's ti.iv, nnCt boTind with swan's down; gilt THg CmcmNATZ DAXLY IQUIB AlltS TElCT'S 1TOL5DS, Amd nw Bhe Caau te lVftse Xavesa-A Tsuas; Western Idjr, Lost Wheat Child, Seeks Iter Frleads tfee rellee What came mt Father's Brutality. New York Express.

Superintendent Walling is in receipt of a communication from the West, written by young lady who In this great city seeks the home from which when a little girl she was drivenH5y a drunken father's brutality. The lady's name is Alice Tracy, bnt she thinks that her mother called her Mary, and that she can not have been over three or four years old when she left her home and was taken from the street by strangers, probably in the year 1862 or 1863 Still the data thus furnished are so ievf and indelinlte that the police can not undertake tho search with any hope of success, except by an appeal through the newspapers. There are nearly a hundred Tracys in this year's Directory which one, if any, has a long-lost sister In Miss Alice Tracy, of Kent, Portage Codnty, Ohio? The letter received by the Superintendent is as follows: K3T, POBTAOK CoUBTT, OHIO. To Whofvkb It Mat Cowcrm About the years 1862 or 1803 a family lived In New York dty by the name of Tracy, who had several children. The father was a drinking man, and often abused his family.

The children became afraid of him, and ono, little Alice Tracy, ran into the street one night, sat down, and was taken np by a watchman and cared for -thai night, and in the morning taken to some orphans' home, the name of which she has forgotten, but says she crossed to tho other side in a ferry-boat. She thinks at that time she could not have been more than three or four years old. She has forgotten the names of all her family, except an elder brother. Philip. She remained at the Orphans' Home some tinio, then was taken A est in company with a nnmber of other children by a Mm.

Fregon, or Fregen, to Greens-burg, Indiana. She is very anxious to find some of her family, if they are still alive, but being a poor 'but very excellent girl, has, tbrongh the advice of others, taken this method. If you. In the kindness of your heart, can discover any. way whereby she can learn any thing in regard to her people, you would confer a great favor by answering this.

She has Jnst told me that her mother alwavs called her Mary, and she was probably registered under that name. If you should, see fit to answer, please direct to "Miss Alice Tracy, Kent, Portage County, Ohio." Far CI rowing- Mere Costly. The Globe. The accounts from the fur markets are decidedly depressing; tho better class of skins will bo rare this year, and, in consequents, will fetch high prices. The prices are kept up by the double agency of a diminished supply and on increased demand.

And yel fur, which has not for a long time been so doar as now, has not for years been so freely worn. Tho cause is not far to seek. More than five hundred years ago Edward III. enacted that persons who could not spend 100 a year should not be allowed to wear fur wut at that time fur was finery, and the wearing oi it a luxurv. The law was, in effect, sumptuary, and was passed to restrict extravagance in dress.

In later times the fashion has been based less ou luxury than on comfort and a return to what is called an arctio winter brought with it a necessity wearing cheap skins of homo manufacture. The fashion was withstood in this country for years. We got chinchilla from South America and sable from Northern Asia, the Russian markets being stocked with skins of the little animals hunted by soldiers or exiles sent for the purpose into the wastes of Siberia. These furs were used by those who could afford them, but there was no resort to the cheaper skins of animals nearer home. The rule of fashion became very imperious, and ss one for after liu other came into repute, the entire species of tho unfortunate original wearer seemed threatened with extinction.

Happily, fashion was as inconsistent as it was paramount, otherwise the race of seals might have disappeared, and the grebo would speedily have become an unknown bird. This year and last the taste has been for cheap "and serviceable, rather than costly and ephemeral furs. Many of the tippets at present lu use are made of skins that were hitherto disregarded, and it is plain that we have ltere oned up a department of commerce whore production is as yet unchecked, and importation from distant countries unnecessary. The gain has been direct and without any drawback. A now trade is created, and the pnblic got all the benefit of warm wraps and inexpensive comfort.

A Dnera Landslip. An "Eye-Witness" sends to the Basler Nachrieliten an account of the earthslip which has so feeriously jeopardized the existence of Yitznau, Switzerland. The danger was flrst perceived early on the morning of November 15th, when great masses of rock fell from the side of the Rlgi, which rises above the village, pushing before them a considerable breadth of cultivated land, many trees and loose stones, the whole finally lodging on the marshy slope at the foot 'of the mountain path from Vitznau to Scheidegg. The immense weight of this uititoi of matter pressed from the soil near it large quantities of slime, which, together with pieces of rock and fniiall stones, complctelv tilled up the bed of the Dossenbach, in which, bow-ever, at the time, there was very little water. At first no danger was "apprehended, and it was only when tho stream of slime, earth, stones and water creeping slowly downward reached the bridge from Vitznau to Gersau that an alarm was given.

Then the tocsin was rung, help sent for in hot haste to Lucerne, and means taken to keep tho danger at bav ponding the arrival of reinforcements. The Gersau bridge whs destroyed to facilitate the passage of the river of rruid. Trees were cut down, abattis made, and temporary parapets raised to confine the slimy' stream within its banks, and to protect tho village from the impending delnge. Meanwhile other parties of workers cut channels to permit the outflow the liquid matter Into the lake, and wrought hard to clear the bed of tho Dossenbach of the stones with which it is incumbered. It Is hoped that these measures will be effectual; albeit the danger is fax from being over, and several times the tocsin has been again sounded, and the villagers warned to be ready to quit their houses on short notice.

A singular circumstance is that at the moment of the fall of the rode from the Rlgi the shore of the lake at the embouehttre of the Dossenbach sank considerably, so that the stream will now fall, instead of flowing, into the lake as heretofore. This occurrence tends to confirm the theory that the earthslip was eaused by an earthquake. The Chines Tnnabler. There's a pretty little bird that lives in China, and Is called the Fork-Tailed Parus. He is about as big as a robin, and he has a red beak, orange-colored throat, green back, yellow legs, black tail and red-and-yellow wings.

2s early all the colors are in bis dress, you soe, ana he Is a gay fellow. But this" bird has a trick known by no other birds that ever I heard of. He tarns somersaults Not only does he do this in his free life on the trees, bnt also after he is caught and put Into a cage. He just throws his bad far back, and over he goes, touching the bars of the cage, and alight-iig upon his feet on the floor or perch. He will do it over and over a number of times without stopping, as though ho thought it great fan.

All his family have the same trick, and they are called" Tumblers. The people of China are fond of keening them in cages and seeing them tumble. Travelers often have tried to bring them, to this country, but the sea voyago Isuot good for -them, and they are aluaobt sure to die on the way. An Exact Klag. Johnson commends' Frederick the Great for being able to tell where a particular bottle of wine was placed in the cellar.

The same minute attention, combined with yastness of design, was observed in Henry IV. "lie was so-extremely exact," says Sully, "as to make me give him an account once a week of the money- received and the uses it had been put to. He does not omit to remark that, in casting some cannon, they wanted to rob him of a piece." The only thing he neglected was his own personal comfort and equipment. One, calling Buddenlvon bis tyict ae ehambre for an account of his 'wardrobe, he was told that he had only eight shirts, three of which were the -worse for wear, and five pocket-handkerchiefs. In a letter already quoted, he describes himself as frequently not knowing where to look for a dinner.

The London Quarterly Review. The Ponnsvlvania Training-school for Feeble-inintlcd Children, at Media, has just been visited by a correspondent of the Springfield Republican." Ha found over hundred young idiots under treat ment caicuiarea to maice ncm stronger in miu i Snd -There are Rfhoel-roomii licU.pg fremtwenty tottdrty pupils-eaea. In- the more advanced classes reading-, writing, arithmetic and geography are taught. In a kindergarten the visitor sw small children modeling in clay, building block-houses, and weaving paper --into fanciful shapes. Cases of remarkable improvement were related.

The great wonder of the establishment, however, is thus de scribed "The trite saying that 'blood -will, out' is exemplified in the idiot savant. who is never found among the lower orders, A curious case of this kind is reckoned among the pupils of this school. Bo remarkable are his cowers of memorv that after listen in to a sermon or otljer discourse he is able to repeat it veroattm, preserv ing, also, tne intonations of the speaker. As a test of this peculiar faculty the lad was once taken to Media to attend a lecture upon some scientific matter, and the next day was asked to repeat it. To the astonishment of all he readily repeated the entire lecture, rendering Latin phrases and technicalities as glibly as tho vernacular yet in his mentality tho reflective power was dull and ieeDio, and he was unable to convert into practical sense the knowledge ha so lightly acquired." A Lfrenl Greg-ory.

Tradition asserts that 'there once existed at Rome a bas-relief representing Trajan on horseback in all his elorv. and in front of him a woman sadly kneeling. Nothing can be more probable, and if such was really the case the suppliant female would no doubt represent a conquered province, just as Dacia is represented, on one of Tra jan's medals as a woman on ner knees. However this may be. out of the tradition sprang a story illustrative of Trajan's justice.

On the point oi starting ou a campaign, it is Bald, the Emperor was suddenly stopped by a poor widow. who flung herself on her knees before him and besought him to right her wrongs. He eipostnlatdd, bnt finally yielded, and did her justice before he resumed his march. This wan the firet half of the story's growth. The second seems to have followed at a later period.

According to the completed legend, as Pope Gregory tho Great passed through the Forum of Trajan one day, he bethought himself of that Rinperor's many merits, and especially of his admirable conduct in riihtinr the widow's wrongs. And a great sorrow came over him at the thouglit that so excellent a pagan should be lost eternally. Whereupon he prayed earn estly ana constantly lor xrajan's salvation, until at last a voice from on higli informed him that his prayer was granted, but that In future he was to pray only for Christian souls. A later addition of the legend told how Gregory learned from an angel that, by way of punishment for his indiscreet though suc- cessTui intervention, ne wouia nave to surfer from certain maladies for the rest of his life. The question as to whether Gregory was untitled in his procedure greatly exercised the minds of many tuedisevil casuists, one of whom solved the problem, and escaped from the doctrinal difficulties which it presented, bv the following Ingenious explanation iso one, he said, can be saved unless he be baptized.

But baptism is precisely what Gregory obtained for Trajan. At tne Pope's prayer the Kin- Ceror's soul returned to his body, Gregory aptized it, "and the soul, again quitting its earthly case, went straight up into heaven." Nineteenth Century. Women at Loadaa Foil. Tliondon Echo. Miss Davenport IIU1, of Belsize avenue, seeks election for the City Division, and in her address says she has had large experience of ragged and industrial schools, and during the last three years she has been the local manager of one of the large Board schools ef the metropolis.

An influential City Committee-has been formed to pnwnote her return. Recently Miss Helen Taylor addressed a crowded meeting of ratepayers in the Lecture Hall, New-ington causeway, presided over by Arnold Goodwin, who said bo thought the work of the School Board was especially fitted for women. Although he was there to advocate the candi-datnre of Miss Taylor, he still hoped that Miss Richardson would, with her, be returned to the School Board. Miss Taylor said that if true economy, were exercised the schools might even be opened free. By true economy she meant caroful watchfulness over the details of the expenditure.

The Board ught not to undertake the work of Industrial Schools. Last year the school fees amounted to less than itto.ooaj t. A V. 1 1 1 1., 4 V. 40,000, and that did not include a sum of about 45,000 spent on- the ship Shaftesbury "Oh "Oh and there was money for its outfit being voted every Wednesday.

Cries of "Shame A resolution thanking Miss Tavlor for her valuable work on the School Board, and pledging the meeting to us its utmost efforts to place her at the head of the poll at the next election was carried amid cheers. A We-ndcrfnl Escape. At the El Ivso Mine, near Leadville, recently, Mark Qniun, a minor, started down a deep shaft in a bucket, or which was being lowered by a man named Patrick Roach. When about ten feet from the. windlass the brakp-lxlt broke, and for a moment it looked like Quinn's time had come.

Hut Roach, with rare presence of miuil, caught hold of the detached rope at the lowdr eud ot which his friend Quinn hung suspended. ''Hold on there. Mark, me shouted Pat, "and I'll bring vou up. Q'iinn held on, but Jnt found It impossible to hold him. Little by little the rope slipped through his hands.

He held on like grim death, lout the cruel rope dragged through his grasp, tearing away skin and floah. Finding be could not sustain the weight he despairingly cried i "I can't hold on any longer, pard good-by," and let go. Down went Qnmn into the dark, deep abyss a sheer fall of nearly two hundred and twenty-five feet, l'a't started off for help to take ont what he supposed to be a mangled corpse. The -surprise of the rescuers may be imagined when, going down tho shaft, they found Mark Quiun so nearly uninjured that he was enabled to walk to his cabin without assistance. ftonc Strang Ftacis.

The Bank' of England has no end of valuables committed to its keeping. The vaults of its establishment hold moldering chests, deposited there for safety's sake, and apparently forgotten by their owners. In 1873 one fell to pieces from sheer rottenness, exposing to sight a quantity of massive plate and a bundle of yellow papers. The latter proved to be a collection of love-letters of the period of the Restoration, which the Directors wore, enabled to restore to tho lineal descendant of the priginal owner. In 1373, a tin box was fished out of the Seine containing more than five hundred letters addressed to divers persons In Paris.

This box set afloat miles above Paris had been hermetically sealed, and was furnished with little metal sails, that it might catch the current of the river at every point but it had failed to achieve a successful voyage, and laid at the river's bottom for years with its freight of letters for the besieged. Parisians, some ot whom, however, hod the gratification of receiving them five years after date. Chambers' Journal. A Caress Cowonww for players from all parts of the world is to be held here at the Manhattan Chess Club next month, at which general and special prizes are to be awarded to successful competitors. As chess is the most intellectual of games, the forthcoming Convention should he a pleasant diversion from the -walking and other merely physical contests with which this community has recently -been satiated.

Chess is now popular throughout civilisation the treatises written on it would make a very considerable library, even the poetry the frame having been illustrated bya copious literature. The Eastern as well as the Western nations have had great players, bnt Paul Morphy, of Louisiana, has proved himself superior to all others, and when he emerged upon the board, so to speak, some twenty years since, the whole country took to chess with a spaemodio energy characteristic of tho Republic. Any number of newspapers, both daily and weekly, bad chess departments; old and youngof both sexes spent hours over problems; thousands learned the game It became for the time a National mania. The civil -war put an end to the symbolic contests, and chess has lan sruished since. Though oalled a game, it is so hard work that many persons can' not play It in the evening without- wakefulness during the night, in consequence of the cerebral excitement attending it.

It is supposed to stimulate the mental facnlties but many excellent chess-players are unqualified dolts, and many higuly Intellectual people can never acquire any skill in it. It is often said that there la a close resemblance between, military strategy and chess, and that able Generals are commonly fine players. But Napoleop Bonaparte wa3' never even a tolerable player, nd George B. McClellan Is reputed1 be quite clever at the game. Xew'York Time-, 187Sv A SAXGUKABT-COlfFLICT.

Frederick- the. treaTa Accurately Saaftmed rPall Mall Gazette. The battle of Torgan, fought by Frederick the Great in 1760, is well known, to have been one -of the most murderously contested actions which have ever taken place, but until lately no trustworthy enumeration has ever been given of the killed, wonncrea ana missing on eimcr side. In the last number of the Militar Woehenhlatt. the ortran of the German general staff, carefully prepared tables are puDiisnea oi tne losses mnereu vj iu 7 Vnnmian regiments of cavalry and )tt at iortm of eneatred.

and from these it appears that the fifty-nine- battal- ions wnicn toox part in iud autuii, which numbered altogether 26,000 officers and men, lost a total of officers and men. or about 60 per cent, of their aggregate effective. In the thirty-nine battal ions which fought under tne personal direction and immediate refers of the King, the proportion of losses was even greater so that after the action the five battalions of grenadiers had to be formed in one battalion, the remnants of six battalions of two other regiments being also temporarily organized into one Dattalion. Of the 26,000 infantry soldiers who went into action, 3,350 were killed, 7.956 were wounded, while S.130 were rcDOrtcd as missinir. As a contrast to this terrible proportion of killed, wounded and missing, it may be mentioned tnat tno loss sanereu at urave-lotte amounted to only one-eleventh of the whole number of troops engaged on.

both sides at Worth and Mars-la-Tour to one-sixth, at Spicheron to one-eighth, at Koniggratz to one-iifteenth only, and at 11 ta ana Hoiionno ro one-eieventn. BeasrtifMl Vealee. Worcester Spy. Another favorite place of resort is the Giardino Reale, a little garden of tbeGraud Canal, where a small orchestra of stringed Instruments plays dance music and oiar-atic airs every evening. There wan a i-'air dunnx our stay for the beneht ol a certain Orphan Asylum, and this garden waa very prettily decorated with different colored banners, while the booths under the trees were brilliantly illumbiated hung with white, red and green nags, lwo bands alternated with each other in play ing for several hours, and every one who did not enter tlie garden took a gondola and floated on the canal listening to the music Thero is nothing so luxurious as the cushions of a gondola, and nothing so delightful as its motion.

There is such a soiteutng, quieting innuence aooui tuia modo of navigation that every one spoaks in a hair whisper And half asleen thev reem. tho' nil awake. And manic In their ears tlieir beating hearts do make. The loveliost part of Venice is where the Grand Canal broadens out toward tho lagoons, nere Is the beautiful Church of Santa Maria della Salute, bidlt in accordance with a vow to the Virgin, who was supposed to have caused the inroads of the plague to cease; the neighboring Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, with a graceful, slender ratnpamie at its side; on the opposite side of the canal is the ducal palace, and a glimpse into tlie pi-azza the wider waters, the sailing ships lyfng at anchor aud. tlie steamers that plv between Venice, Trieste and Alexandria here and there a black, silent gondola moving noiselessly about with a single right In the prow; all along the shore rows of gas lamps, snd every-where" so many lights that it seoms as if the city were in a perpetual state of festal illumination.

Such is the asoet of Venice on a summer night. When you have left all this, what wonder that you find yourself repeating. Could it, indeed, have been other than a dream? A Curious Story. In a recent number of the Golos we find the following strange story, copied by that journal from the leading newspapers of Warsaw A Jewish peddler, recently traveling on foot through" the Grodno District, was attacked in a wood by a footpad, who robbed him of all the money he had about him and then let him go. Proceeding on his way, the plundered peddler-, met a mounteil gendarme, whom he related bis mishap, and who proceeded at ouoo to search for the robber, accompanied, by: the plundered man.

They soon came up with the object of their qneat, upon whoso, person the stolon money was found, as well as two clasp-knives and a pockot-whistle, of which "unconsidered trifles" the gendarme took possession. Having bound the culprit's hands behind him, and attached him to the gendarme's saddle by a cord, they started for the neat-oat village, tho poddlor on foot, the policeman on horseback. Presently It occurred to the police officer that ho might as well ascertain what sort of a tune could be produced by the confiscated whistle, which her accordingly put to his lips and blew with untimely vigor. Straightway there appeared' upon the scene a horde of armed brigauda, who surrounded the party, and, after freeing theiroomranefroni his bonds, attacked his captors. Tho gendarme put spurs to his horse, broke through the circle of his assailants, and got away with a bullet in his shoulder.

But the unfortunate peddler, unable to escape, fell a victim to the brutality of the bandits, who hacked his body to" pieces and left his mutilated remains on the high road. Prepa-tions are being mado by the dlstrk autho-ities to surround the wood in which this band of malefactors has fixed its headquarters. Idimttseer and the Lions. It is now more than fifty years since I made the acquaintance of a Mr. Christmas, himself an animal painter.

He told me that ho and Lahdsccr used to study together, and that they used to go to Mr. i.ross' menagerie, at Bxeter Change, and there sketch and paint the animals then exhibited. The monkeys first claimed their attention, and the study culminated in the "Monkeyana," Ther next- stndied the lions, arid one noble animal especially claiming attention, they both sketched and painted him. On. its death Mr.

Cross presented them with the carcass, which they removed to their studio, and- again studied as Jong as. possible; The skin was preserved and stuffed. -They then dissected the body. Tho skeleton was articulated and set np, and formed the object of future drawing and study. From this painstaking study of the Hon and his anatomy arose those splendid pictures, "Van Am burg In the Lions' Den" and the "Dead Lion of the Desert." and the numerous f)ictnres of this animal which were exhib-ted in.

the Academy from time to time. Tlie prostrate lions at the base of the Kelson monument in Trafalgar Square wore further illustrations of Sir Edwin's profound knowledge of the anatomy of the lion's paw, for though at flrst the world censured, yet It was ultimately confessed that the modeling was perfect. I do not know what became of Mr. Christmas, my informant, bnt be told me that he felt so thoroughly outpaced by his great rival that he should give up the raoe. Kotea and Queries.

a A Caris Reauutce ia Heal Life. A curious romance in real life has. according to a' Madras paper, lately been brought to light in Bangalore Many years ago a corporal in a battery of artillery located in that station married an Kast Indian giil, whose parents and relatives resided there, bnt being sent home, his young wife accompanied him. Shortly after his arrival in England. he and a body being fouud 'floating in the Thames, was Identified as the levanting corporal, and buried.

His wife, believing her husband to be indeed identified the corpse, married another husband he she married again the third husband died, ajid she is now living wikh a store sergeant in the ordnance lines, Madras. Shortly after the arrfral of the wing of the Thirteenth Regiment in Bangalore, a Sergeant happened to espy a photograph of The man who was supposed to have died and been burled many years ago. He at once said be knew him, and on being told he eo aid not as he had been dead many years, he replied that the. identical individual was at that moment in Bellary, and was Paymaster clerk of the Thirteenth Regiment. On this statement -the photograph was scntjf rom one man to another all identified it as being the likeness of the real Simon Pure, and -as a last step it was forwarded to the Adjutant, who also agreed that it was the paymaster clerk.

Ample evidence having been produced, the paymaster clerk Is now a prisoner at Bellary, having given himself np as a deserter 1 As MCE has long been regarded as oneof the staples of this conntrv, it seems odd that we have, according to the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, been obliged to bring from abroad during the last fiscal year nearly 76,000,000 pounds of the cereal. Any one might have thought that we should certainly have grown enough for our own use, if not for export, especially all through the South, and as we have As long as 1850 we produced about buiihels, of which South Carolina aloaa furnished three-quarters of the whole. Since the civil war and the abolition of slavery, the rice-fields have been, we believe, much neglected, the free blacks being unwilling, their late masters say, to work in them, owing to the severe labor required and the unwholesomeness of occupation. Such objections, it might be supposed, could be overcome. The rice crop 1 usually abundant, regular and remunerative, and such conditions ought to insure its energetic cultivation.

Where money can be made, means can always be found to make it. We suspect that tlie insufficiency of rice is largely due t6 want of enterprise and determination on the part of the Southerners. If rice could be produced in Massachusetts, Ohio or Illinois, and could be made profitable there, we venture to believe that the yield woulT be ample for the market. South Carolina has been mourning over her poverty and general misfortunes ever since the close of the war but she seems to have neglected many of her opportunities, notably the cultivation of her rice-fields. She has lands for the purpose that can not be surpassed, and there is little doubt that she could produce much more of the cereal, with such facilities as are now at hand, than sheiias ever done hitherto.

Now that we are supplying so large a part 'of the Old World with the fruits of our soil. itaoDears stranarcftnough that we should be importing from abroad paying heavy freight ana auties wnat can so readilv and profitablv raise at home. Rice has been grown In this country ever since 1647, when Sir William Berxiey got sixteen bushels in Virginia from half a bushel of seed. It was first raised in South Carolina forty-seven years later, the seed having been obtained from a ship from Madagascar which had pnt into Charleston during a stress of weather. It is certainly singular that after growing rice for two hundred and thirty-odd years we should be compelled to depend on foreign lanas for what we need for home consumption.

Early Atlantic HMunhlp Days. Montreal Wttness.1 This afternoon a Witness reporter waited iiDon Mr. Joseph Georere Danter, who is now in Montreal, and who -was tho second engineer of the Roval William, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Mr. Dan ter, who is over seven! years of age, is a native of Liverpool, and has leen a marine cneineer all his life. It is fifty years since he lirst vi-sited Canada.

Ho says the Royal William was built at. Ouebec in 1KJ1 by Mr. George Blaek, for the Quebec and Halifax Steam Naviga tion Company. Sho is described as follows Burden, 360 tio-fti tons one deck, three masts, 110 feet loug, breadth above the main walos, 41 feet; between paddle-boxes, 28 feet schoonor-rlged, carvel built. Sho was towed td'Montreal, where she was fitted with marine engines with side levers bv Messrs.

Bennett and Henderson. The ship created a profound sensation, and especially upon tho officers of ono of Her Majesty's frigates, who fired at her as she was steaming through the Gulf, and she was compelled to lay to until the ruler of the King's Navy had convinced himself that there was nothing diabolical in her construction. "What cargo did she carry on her trip across the Atlantic asked our representative. "Coal," was the reply; "and we used it nearly all on the voyage." The good people 6f Cockaigne, it seemed from Mr. la nter's statement, thronged to see tho strange craft in the Thames, and were heard to remark that the "Indians" were not unlike themselves, tho hallucination being strengthened by the faet that the ancient mariners were talking French, tho enlightened Cockneys only recognizing two languages, one of which is Kuglush and the other isn't.

While in the Thames, tho Royal William, according to our informant, was sold to the Spanish Government, and became the Isabella, the Second, and the first war vessel of the Dons. A Wontna's Cileve. A woman's glove Is to her what a vest pocket Is to a man. But it is more capacious, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is much better regulated. A man will carry UK) worth of small chango, fonr matches, half a dozen toothpicks, a short pencil, and yet not bo able- to find a nickel, or a match, or a jcneil, or a card when ho wants it.

Not so with a woman. She has tho least bit of a glove, and in that glove she carries tho tiniest hand, and a wad of bills, and the memorandum for her intended purchase of dry goods, and car tickets, and matinee checks, and may be a diminutive powder-bag. We have no idea how sho does it how she manages to sqneexe those thousand and -one things into that wee space. But she does it every time, and the glove never looks the least discomposed or plethoric or ruffled. And when a woman wants any article concealed about that glove, she' doesn't seem to have the least trouble in the world gettingat it.

All that is required is a simple turn of the wrist, the disappearance of fairy fiugers, and the desired article is brought to light. It is.a wonder that no savant can explain. Boston Gazette. 1111 ana the levll. Apropos of cold, Mr.

Conway reminds ns that hell, wldch we ore accustomed to regard as unpleasantly warm, really means a plai-o of tiiTlcas darkness fire being far too agreeable in northern latitudes to lie regarded with disfavor and he traces the superstitious desire for burial to the south side of a church to a wish for proximity to the happy abodes of Brimir and Sind'rl firo and cinders! This passage is instructive, apart from its humor, for it teaches us how in the constant revolution of opinion the God of to-day is the fiend of the morrow, and how, as Mr. Piske has pointed out, the German Abgott sums up in a single etymology tho history of the havoc wrought by the monotheistic idea among the ancient symbols of DCity. To this degradation certain later forms of demon were due, and it is thus, that t-he Gypsy language retains as the word for God that which we employ as the appellation of the deviL Nature. Latk advices from the City of Mexico announce that "peace prevails hroughout the Republic." Peace is made in Mexico like pie-crust in New England, only to be broken early and often. Peace of a permanent sort might as well be looked for in Cuba or in a United Irish Society, as in that ever-disordered country.

Its -nataral condition is civil war, and such, in all probability, it will continue, so long as the people are buried in ignorance and prejudice, and subject to the Influence of any and every cheap demagogue who chooses to harangue them. The worst moral ailment of that unhappy land is its mixed race, who nave always shown themselves incapable of self-government, of common sense, or common justice. Most Mexicans are composed of native Indian, of negro and Spaniard, and worse compound it is not easy to discover. They are of the same mingled blood as the majority of tho inhabitants of the South American Republics, which are also involved in endless Internecine strife. To call Mexico a Republic is a stinging sarcasm.

It is a disestab- 1 lished form of maladministration, in which a few unprincipled leaders misrule. Thev have a periodical election for President there, and the defeated candidate regularly takes up arms and makes war upon the successful candidate. This goes by the name of exercising the elective franchise, which really means down there the right to rob your neighbor and to murder him for being robbed. We see that some of the Mexican newspapers are alarmed at the inroads of our people who have been invited to go there to develop the country. They are afraid of annexation.

Intelligent men do not wittingly annex the small-pox or yellow fever. The journals are needlessly alarmed on- that point. No doubt Americans will continue to pour into that calamitous State so long as they think they can make money, but they are too intelligent to have faith in any peace which they may not conqner with their revolvers. New York Times. A bepoet just issued by the municipality of Berlin gives some interesting information as to the growth of the population of that city.

At the end of the seventeenth century, when London and Paris each contained considerably more than 100,000 inhabitants, Berlin was an unimportant town with a population of little over 10,000. It was enlarged and embellished under the Great Elector and the two first Prussian Kings and at the beginning of the present century Its population had already risen to about 150,000. It increased still further after the close of the war with Napoleon and daring the long peace that followed, but at the end of ISoO, though the municipal district of Berlinr had been considerably extended, it did not contain much more than 500,000 inhabitants. During the sixteen years that followed, however, its population was almost doubled. This has not been the case wit any town "of the same size except New Since 877 the population of Berlin has been over a million, and it is now the largest -city, in Euroff efter London nd Paris, A inULTSG ADTTITCIIE.

The' Escape the Shin Helen Mar from Straar-aUbbed Budi lee. San Francisco Chronicle. A thrilling tale of privation and hardship is told by the crews of the Helen Mar and Mercurv, the former of which reached this port on' Wednesday last with the crew of the latter on board. Ther are two whalina- barks, which had been hunnng in company in the Arctic Ocean. Cold weather had heen coming np gradually since October 15th, and new ice had begun to form.

The "vessels were then, on the 19th, in longitude 74 deg. west, about eighty miles from Herald Island, and as far as the sight could stretch to the westward the ocean presented one glittering mass of ice to the view of the hardy mariner. Occasionally the ships would find small st rotehe of clear water, and then again Lthey would encounter large blocks of old ice. tne weatner ooauaueu colder hour by hour, the young ice grew faster and faster, and the vessels, seeing the danger, were swung off, so as to work through the ice. On the morning of the 22d the ice had formed so heavy as to stop the ships, and the anchors were dropped.

All around them there was nothing but ioe, and the Arctic seas were covered by winter's cloak, through which no vessel eonld ever hope to break her way. On the morning of the 23d the ice had become so solid that -it would bear a ton weight. It was then decided to abandon the Mercury, the Helen Mar being the strongest vessel, and more capable of resisting the death-grip of the concealing masses. The provisions and blubber of the abandoned vessel were placed on board the Helen Mar, and on the evening of October 24th Captain Hick-mott for the last time looked upon his gallant vessel and heard the ominous creaks of her timbers, as tho surrounding masses slowly drove their hardened edges into her planks. The night was a bitterly cold one, and as the hardy seamen heard the chilly aough of the gathering gale glide through the rigging their hearts lost hope.

Many, many miles from shore, wholly unprepared for the dismal Arctic winter, locked in between the ever-irnnding. saw- incr masses which eventually would rip up the seams of the ship and drive them to take refuge upon the vast fields of ice, to perish slowly of cold and- starvation, tho hone for lifo was slight indeed. But the wind grew stronger and soon blew a perfect hurricane from the The surrounding icy fields began to crack ominously and finally began to break. Hope revived. Cables and anchors were run out, sails were set, and the imprisoned vessel commenced to slowly pick her way toward liberty and the open ocean.

Tho' force of the hurricane packed up tho surging, grinding masses of ioe about the vessel, threatening to ingulf the fragile craft and draw it to destruction. The crews worked desjier-atelv. as it was their only chance for life and libcrtv. For six days and nights they broke their passage, momentarily expect ing a lull in the breeze, when nature again, despite all human labor, in the short space oi len minutes wouia nave nxea ner icy fantrs about the Helen Mar and held her to her sure destruction. At last, after, four days of agony, despair and nope, tne open sea was reached, and with all sails Hung to the breeze, but her sides ripped aud splintered ly the sharp edges of the ice, the liberated "vessel made her way to port.

Extern pore 'Playing. Extempore playing Is now almost entirely at a discount whether this is a result of a decline in musical constructive power, or whether it is owing to the modern view of the objects and scope of music, which assumes the necessity of a poetic basis or at d'etre for a composition, and therefore almost precludes the idea of music produced off-hand and to order. The feeling of Mendelssohn on this point is more than once expressed in his letters when he claims, for example, of people insisting on his extemporizing after supper, when he was sure he had "nothing in his head but benches and cold fowL" But if the stricter, forms of composition are ont of vogue, and have given place to merely emotional music, and if the science displayed by Mozart in his extempore fugues and fantasias might be now thought a loss important musical element than it then was, this fact does not in the least detract from the intellectual brilliancy of his achievements tho conditions of the art as then understood may or may not have' been the highest and best, but the "roadlness. insight and concentration necossarv for the extempore handling of musical fornt under those conditions can not, from any point of view, be called In question. As to the Mendelssohn criticism about extempore playing "(which ft quite in the spirit of the modern school), it is at least a fair auestion whether the ligher capability or higher genius Is man- nesieo; uy a musician woo can oniy produce any thing worth hearing when he is "in the mood" and under suggestive circumstances, or by- oiie who is always in the mood, and has sufficient wealth of ideas to draw upon alwavs at theshortest notice and upon the slightest hint.

The Westminster Roviow. Fishlas; With Dynamite. Atlanta Constitution. In several of the counties in Northern Georgia there is much excitement over a now and terrible method of- killing fish, wnicn is being practiced witn great eincacy. When the Government surveyors wore improving the beds of the Etowah and Coosa Rivers they used dynamite in blasting rock.

It was discovered that' the explo sions were very fatal to the fish all around mem. ino shock was so terrible that hun dreds of dead or stunned fish would rise to the surface and he easily taken. The Seople around tho country heard of this estructlon fish, and resolved to put it to practical use. Thoy procured a number of dynamite cartridges and began such a killing of fish as was never heard of before. The practice rapidly spread until now it is common in several counties in North Georgia.

A place in the stream is baited well for several days until fish congregate thickly there. Then the managers of the destructive plans go to work. The dynamite cartridge is placed deep under the water. It is exploded by means of a small galvanic battery or by some cheaper method. A terrific stir is made in the water, and for yards around fish are killed by the hundreds.

We learn that not far from Carters- vine the other day two. hundred pounds of fish were thus killed in one stream. The news of this practice ia rapidly spreading, and wherever it is heard of there is a desire to try it. The destruction of fish In the streams and ponds is consequently terrible. Much indignation is felt those who deem this an- extravagant waste of nan, dui tnere seems to be no way to pre vent it.

Luminous Flowers. One of the elesrant novelties of the hour now offered for sale on the Paris Boulevards la nhosDhoreseent flow ers, which glow with a lambent light in the dark and reveal their natural tints. They are rendered luminous by coating the petals witn transparent size ana men dusting them with a phosphorescent substance. such as Canton phosphorus (sulphide of calcium) or Bologna phosphorus (sulphide of barium Cauton phoaphorus is the best, and yields a vft. yellow liicht.

According to M. Beoiuerel, a good quality can bo made by lulling forty-eight parts of flowors of sulphur with fifty-two parts of calcined oyster-hell3, and raisirig them to a temperature between eight hundred and nine hundred degrees centigrade in a crucible. Alter exposure to sunlight dur-inor dav or to the electric or maiz-nesinm light the flowers thus coated become brightly luminous in the dark. Daring Lom Absence, I see thy face no longer In visions of th niht; Too far away is that last day That lent thee to my sight. "But thonsrh the waves no longer Reflect their absent Queen, Do ttd forget? love, long set, I follow thee unseen I hear thy tones no longer Amid the voices round; Too long unnmote by hat sweet note, My ear forgets the sound.

But though ilia aliell no longer Can bear the ocean's roar. It echoes still thy words fill My heart for evermore. Spectator. 1 a The new administrative reforms proposed by the Emperor of Russia commence with the establishment of a Council, which is to have a purely deliberative vote, without any right to control or interfere with the action of the Government. It is to consist of two bodies, one chosen by the peasantry, with a very slight middle' class ingredient; the other consisting of nominees selected by the Czar from the ranks of the ancient 'hereditary nobility.

The Council is to represent only European Russia; the Caucasus, Siberia -and all other Asiatic possessions being, for the present, left to the absolute control of their Governors-Geiieral. The Provincial Representative Assemblies fcv1 9 treaty QgO, li3 deprived of all the rights of administrative control in the subsequent reactionary period, are to be restored to at least a modicum of their former privileges. The capitation tax of the lower orders is to be superseded by an Income tax extending to all classes alike. The secret police Called the Third Department of the Irupe- rial Chancellery, the most arbitrary and inquisitorial body which ever existed, wiy be remodeled, and obliged to at-knowled at least the forms 'Of judicial procedure Side by side with these improvements there are measures that will be severely felt by the classes affected. Jews are to remain outcasts, and the Cossacks, who have so long 6ent only every third adult to the army, will be subjected to the most rigid universal conscription and formed into a regular cavalry.

17rxenns Strikes OIL. It is commonly supposed that petroleum is a modern discovery but It was known in the time of Alexander, though he ancients made no use of the find. The following is a most Interesting passage: "For a Macedonian called Proxenus, that had charge of the King's carriage (baggage), as he digged in a certaine place by tho river of Oxue, to set VP the kings tent and his lodging, he found a certaine fat and oily veine, which, after they had drawn out the first, there cam out also another clearer, which differed nothing neither in smell, tast, nor savour from the natural oile, hailing the glosse and fatness so like, as there could be discerned no difference between them; the which was so mnch the more to be wondered at, because in all that country there were no oliues." (Sir T. North, tr. of Pla.

Jr tarch's "Lives," ed. 1C31, p. 702.) This pas, age is more than curious, for it may useful. If there was rock-oil beside th Oxus in Alexander's time, there is prob. ablv some there still.

It might almost be worth while to go and see and if any 0119 should there "strike oil," let Lim thank Plutarch for bis remark. The Athenmuiu. Hla( William's Doctor. On the return of King William from Holland in 16P9 ho sent for Radelirle, and, showing him his swollen ankles, while tli rest of his bolv was emaciated, said: "What think you of these?" "AVhv, truly," replied Radcliffe, "1 would nut have your Majesty's two logs for your three kingdoms," which freedom lost'him the King's favor, and no intercession could ever recover it. When Anne came to the throne the Earl of Uodolphin endeavored, in vain, to reinstate Radcliffe- as first pbvslelanbut the Queen would not be pre-vailed upon, alleging that RadciLfle would send her word, as he had done before, "that her ailments were nothing but th( Vapors." The Queen, however, sent for hiniMn her last illness, when he answered "that ho had taken physic and could not come." The Queen died ou the first of August.

1714, and Radclitl'e on the first of Ni-vember following, his death having, it is said, been hastened by the dread of the populace, who were Incensed atrainst liita for his neglect of the Queen. The Londou Quarterly Review. Ualf-Hoot. Chambers' Journal.f One of Brougham's earliest appearances as an advocate was in behalf of a man av cused of stealing a pair of boots. The evidence as to the theft was conclusive, but Brougham contended that his client munt be acquitted, the articles stolen being half-boots, which he argued were not boots auy more than a half-guinea was a guinea, or half a loaf a whole one.

Lord Kskgrore, knowing his man, guessed that he was being played upon, so, without asking tlie prosecuting counsel to reply, he nt once overruled the objectlon, saying "I am of opinion that 'boot' is nornen generate comprehending a half-boot. The distinction is between a half-boot and half a boot. The. moon is always the moon, although sometimes she is a half-moon." A HORMBIE suspicion, which has been whispered about in Russia, is now beginning to take shape in hints in newspapers outside the control of the Russiau police. It has been noted as very remarkable that the Nihilists are frequently possessed of information which could bo known only to high official personages; that when money is wanted for certain purposes it is alwavs forthcoming, anrfe that the Czar himself has.

on more than one occasion, shown distrust of members of his own family. It is remarked upon as strange mat me zarewitcn, wno -was 10 1 have met his father at Moscow, waited fo'Jr him at St. Petersburg; still more stranirf: srhun fVnF it nrot. tn fit' TetTM. I burg the Czarewitch was after all not pre, ent to receive him.

That the heir ai- parent to the throne of Russia has always favored the Panslavist party, md that bis tour through Kurope was undertaken for the purpose of forming alliance against any Teutonic, league, is matter of common gossip, but a dispatch from London of date December 10th says that the report is not well founded. There is a wonderful dog in Detroit aa Irish water spaniel. She alwavs awaken her master at exactly six o'clock in the morning. On Sundays when he takes his cane and puts on his coat she is frantic to accompany him on his walk. She has a useful talent for bringing; in firewood.

She has also a passion for sardines sits at the table, butjiever oners to eat what is ou her plato until the family have finished and risen. She is expert In catching ball." And has arrived at the dignity of a long notice in a Detroit newspaper. Speakjnir of dogs, there is one In Sacramento famans for his hostility to Chinamen, and it one of them enters the house he is liable to bo nibbled. Tho other day the dog went to the dining-room aud at one became furious. He growled, barked and bristled, and ran all about in quest of his enemy, but as no Chinaman was present, his conduct was regarded us inexplicable, until a crock of Chinese preserved ginger was observed on the table.

That was what the dog smelt and what he was after so at least says the veracious narrator of the story. The decision of the Tribunal of Brans-wick, annulling the testament by which the late eccentric Duke made the town of Geneva his sole heir, has caused some excitement in Switsorland. It appears that the present branch of the Dukes of Bran wick is threatened with extinction u'poi the death of the now lljng Prince. Th next heir is the son of the late King of Hanover. The question Is, wijl Prusi permit the transmission of the crown t6' Guelph If not, it will be Prussia which might one day be called to clainj from Geneva the twenty and odd millions thai it has inherited and spent; 1 A WKDPiNO party was assembled at l4 residence of the brlde'g father at Rochester The groom and the rest were waiting or the girl, who lingered in her room.

Hsu an hour after the appointed time thea noun cement was maae that she had been united to another suitor, having changed her choice at the last moment. Thd jilted man was dumbfounded, but he rallied quickly, congratulated the bridegroom? kissed the bride and proposed a continuance of the festivities, and they were ao" cordingly continued 'y. The Vallejo, California. Chronicle di covered a thoroughly Americanized China man in a smoking-car on a railrord trais that passed through that place. A colore steward of a steamboat entered the car, and, taking a cheroot from his asked, with a lordly air, for a light from the heathen cigar.

With a look Of the Chinaman replied: "No; yo takee the Habana all out me givee yet matchee," and with that he took from Ms pocket a match, struck it and passed it over to the colored gentlemen. 1 a A tivirLT. writer describes the younr Queen Marie Christine of Spain as a "slip of immaturity, a bread and butter miss, slender, colorless, and with a face indicate ing nothing so much as utter neutrality ia all things. Her other, however, Is pronounced "a charming creature, in the final days of her thirties, round waited, plump shouldred, with soft, dark, laughing eyes, superb black hair, and a bust of ivory whiteness." Death was desired by a woman Greensboro, N. and she decided to complish it by drowning.

Clasping the pump-log, she slid slowlv down into ths welL The distance was fo'rty-five feet, a before reaching the water6be evidently repented of her act. The imprint of br fingers and.shoes shows that she tried stay her course but the wood was and she could not save herself. SoiiK time ago a medical man in extensive practice sued the London and Southwestern Railroad for compensation for in-Jury and obtained lo.CKHJ. Subsequently he renewed the suit on the plea of iuai quate compensation, and he has je received go.oot.' 1 "Life is but a span i a douMe team vouth" to old is 1 2 aticcj ail ol'J i 3.