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THE CHICAGO TKIBUNEs SUNDAY. DECEMBER 7j 1879-T-WEJVTY PAGES. 18 described as perfectly marvelous. In best?" Third year man (scornfully) "VThy, the ace, of course." (Sensation.) Ada mind of the reporter, but the Professor was un to show bis thorough knowledge of the position described each piece on the board. P1t hart "VERDONE.

ground. In the spring the dead oats made a good" top-dressing for the growing wheat. The crop of wheat in the following season was reported to be excellent, while wheat on the adjoining land, planted in the usual manner, was of no value. ceeded but a snort time when Mr Kl. elected, and then I think vou would have besn my successor in tbis office." Slocurn looked rather blue, and he told the President that a person Darned McLaughlin, of whom Mr.

Hayes had never heard, was the imperial statesman who beat him. Gath. The amount of money a man leaves is the had been vainly trying to strengthen a kind of a funeral pile his relatives take the most interest in. The best excuse for suicide we ever heard was A. Great and Original Discovery and In-' vention.

CURRENT GOSSIP. wmcn the blindfold plaver had discovered in defense, hauled down his flag at the twenty move. Sheriff Spens and Mr. Gilchrist wera next to succumb, the learned Sheriff having leave, and bis game being decided against him the umpire. Mr.

Spens and Mr. Gilcari h.J each played twenty-nine moves. The next cava a slight mrnrisp ta thoan.ruw. Vr Tec of the fellow who said he wanted to get into the next world before all the sort places were taken up. Boston Transcript.

OLD ROTTEN. raritian. The Paris market at the present moment is being glutted with a stock of very cleverly fabricated old Rouen, old Dumoustier, and old Mar I stood beneath a hollow tree An unknown man was killed by the cars at the strongest player at the Central Cl'nhh thought on Friday night to hive i v. Stratford the other day. '1 he contents of his pockets, 63 cents and a pair ot scissors, wouiu Its Principle Based on the Idea tuat One and One Make Three.

and In less than five minutes my headache had entirely disappeared." How woilld vou treat other diseases!" By dealing directly with the cause. Disease is heat vou remember that any deviation either wav Jroua forty degrees is fire; consequently, I have to deal with lire. Now, for the treatment of ague. In the chills, the temperature descends in the scale, and In the fever it ascends. Fire is the disintegration of particles xT matter intended to form a body.

It fire is produced in the svstem, verdone attempts to put it out. Nature attempts to restore the equilibrium, aud may do so without medical as-sit since." How would vou apply your remedy?" Now, if I should attempt to tell vou how to cure certain diseases, vou would then have the principle that is involved in my machine for buro.ug water, which I to keep a secret, rhe duo-orinciple. That is why I cannot deal with dhsease." How did you make your discovery?" If I should tell you "'he causes that first led to the discovery of the new element, you would see how simple and easy it was, and my secret would be in danger, lonly wondered howl could have lived so long and not have discov seilles faience. The Dumoustier and Marseilles is not particularly Food, and may readily be suspected; but the false Rouen is excellently able to elucidate more tuny, posaioio more scientific minds ma? recoznize the force of the argument and the illustration, however, and Mr. Woodman's words are given intact for their diffesi ion.

In explaining still further, the Professor asserted, There is no such thing as compressibility. Everv vessel in existence is entirely and nothing can be added or taken Irom, it by any power in the universe." With what is the vessel filled, leaving air out of the question THSRS 19 AN which philosophers have dropped, and which, upon taking up and aual.vzintr, I found to be the greatest thing in existence. It is a thing which philosophers never understood, and, after partially explaining it, they dropped it. And what they did attempt to explain was an error. Now, after I got mv philosophy arranged so that I understood it, I went to work to apply it practically.

My philosophy told me that the eve, if suddenly shocked or startled, mast receive a current of water all around it, in front of it, and behind it, or else there must be a substance in the rear of it composed of oxide, or the indicate tuat ne wu cuuuaieu niiujuuiuuum. Dunbury Xewt. game. Indeed, Mr. Blackburne himself I it would be the first to fall.

Mr. Court, how. by one or two clever maneuvre. managed Itn -trieve his position, and then turned the completely that at this point, the twentv i2 move, Mr. Blackburne resigned.

From thia ini onward, however, the blindfold nlaver "Aw, my good man, what kind of a wesi- forged. The other day a china-repairer, who is dencedo you think wquld suit me askea an also very skilled in acids and patines, an artist exquisite of a house agent. Alter takuig nun n. eve-glaas and all, the agent replied: "Some- in his fashion, and one who believes in his mod- There I No Atmospheric Pressure and No Such Thine as Vacuum. hisownvay.

Messrs. Broom. Briden and w. rison resigned in rapid nuccession, while Mr had his game scored scored againxt him i ithiug like a flat, I should think, would be most appropriate." eft way that almost nothing is impossible, received the visit of a collector who brought the fragments of a Rouen dish to be mended. But it is modern," said the china repairer.

"Mod A man has just died in the Portsmouth (N. Poor-House, who was 115 years old, and Terdoae In the Bole of a Positive Core for FeYer and Ague. The last to finish were Mr. Favre and Mr Mint1, the former a Frenchman, whose experience' of ViT game is but short, gallantly fighting until thefnM second move. Mr.

Mills, who seemed all alo assure himself of a draw, ultimately sncceertHa attaining that result, although at one rimJ a ern!" exclaimed the collet tor; "modern! Why, it has been in my family more than fifty who had been an inmate ot uie ruur-nuuc for seventy-six years. Young man, if you want to live to a good old age, quit your carousing and go to the Poor-House. It beats a liver-pad. years." 1 he humble artist said nothing, but no sooner had the collector goue out of the shop Blackburne hau an easy win within his eras o-whTC he unaccountably missed. l6 sight would be mstantlv destroyed.

I deal lamely than be kissed his little wite, took his curiously- The Professor His Schema with Great Volubility. A man swallowed a small saw, in imitation of cropped poodle, and wended his way to a pou ter's luroace ou the nights Montparnaase, CHESS IN NEW YORK. with refractory light in mv theory. 1 then referred to phvsiotoev, expecting to find something that, would explain the matter ullv. Sure enough, I found that there was a substance the sword-swallowers, the other day, in Reading, and the doctor said it was tool ate to save him.

Game in the tournament at the taking with him the fragments. "Did you ever see a plate like tbis?" said the artist, showing The blat it hollow blew I thought upon the hollow world, And all its hollow crew Ambition and its hollow schemes. The hollow hopes we follow, Imagination's hollow dreams All hollow, hollow, hollow I A crown is bat a hollow thing. Aad hoi low heads oft wear it; The hollow title of a king. What hollow hearts oft bear it I No hollow wileg honeyed smiles Of ladies fair 1 follow; For beauty sweet hut hides deceit 'Tis hollow, hollow, hollow 1 The hollow leader oft betrays The hollow dupes who heed him; The hollow critic vends his praise To hollow fools who feed him; The hollow friend who swears by thee, Where plenty 1 will follow; But all I've found, lite this old tree, Are hollow, hollow, hollow I Exchange.

OF FISH. Brooklyn "Yon kin tell some pretty heavy fish stories, you kin," be observed, as be threw his lee over a barrel and kicked the dog uuder the bar. "Some of yer narratives is right interestin', too; but I allow that sumthin' happened to the undersigned wunst that none of yer would own up ter. "I never was much onter the fish, but 1 got some notes as sez that my 'sperience down to Staten Island last summer was one you fellers I'hilade'ph a Bulletin. We saw a man Doit the broken pieces to the pott er.

by, ves," called 'pigmentum or oiaen paint, uu-hind the eve." ered it before, and how men could experiment for so many years and not find it out." THB KEELS. IT MOTOR. What do you think of the Keeley motor!" Keelev got. the power, it is easy enough to get the power, but the next thing is to control it. Keeley has got the power, but he can't control it." "What first led you to imagine that you could burn water "I never should have thought of burning water it I had not found out the causes which The Great Solvent of All Theological Disputes.

awl ot a dozen bits of plane board the otner day, and what adze to the wonder he wasn't do replied the latter, "I made it." "Can YThite Mr. DeYiaser. ing his level Dest, out mereiy eims oviui meal. Yamcob Strauss. you give me another like it?" "A dozen it you want them." So the humble artist took one, for which he paid the But how was it about burn ng waters" I then thought I could burn water.

I first made a complicated machine, very delicate in construction, no stronger than ordinary tin and The other dav a tenant entered the office of a potter a franc, and he went home with his faith tO 4 BS 5.. Castles to 3 Tioperarv land-agent, aud, throwing a roll oi ful poodle and waited three davs for the. sake of notes ou the table, exclaimed: mere iv ry apoearances before calling upon the collector. penny I have in the world. It's a nan-years hy.

you cannot see the joinings exclaimed the collector, delighted to see again the Rouen nnt, and ve may tase it or lave n. av I'll goto the workhouse; ay ye lave it, rueoio 10.. I to 2 11. to B4 plate that had been for fifty years in his family. How do you manage to make these invisible Americy on The agent ooeued the roll of notes and counted the monev.

"Why, my good man, there is more than a half-year's rent joints! Do you use rivets or onlv glue it is charming. And how much do I owe von?" 13.. takes to IC 5 tn 2 here, here is over iour years- rent me bundle." "The mischief there is," cried tue 1 hree francs, sir." That is not dear." And so the humble artist made a profit of two francs and took a constitutional walk to Mont oar nasse tenant, puttiug bis baud in his pocket: "Begor, takes I gev you the wrong bundle of notes, alter ail." takes Kt into the bargain. The collector was delighted. Jlayfatr.

the artist was delighted, and the moral of the whole story is, beware of old Rouen that comes to Kt3 to Kt K.t takes to 2 7.. Castles K.t 11. to KtS to 3 takes 19.. Kt takes Kp 20.. takes Kt 24..

to Kt4 25.. tunes ea 26.. KP takes takes 28.. toOBS 33.. takes takes takes 37..

to 5 42.. It WK7 Ctt takes 44.. to Kt 2 solder. This machine, wnieo was cumpcu oi many pieces onlv stool two tets; but it did not burst until the solder bad all melted and run down the sides." Were the two experiments all you made?" "Oh, no, indeed. Mv next machine was made with a view ot overcouvng some of its complexity.

Yon see I wanted to make my machine weak, so I could test the strength of water after it had had its disinteeral parts separated. I could have made it of boiler-iron or some other strong substance, but 1 could not have anything about the forces at work inside. Mv next machine bnt I will show it to vou. for you can see nothing; of the machinery inside the case." And away went the Professor into a back room to it the machine, soon returning with a curious little contrivance of tin, ornamented with a great deal of solder about its joints. It was formed something like an oil-can, with a slender spout or tube running straight up from the top.

It h3d a receiver upon one side, about the size of a silver quarter at the largest end or opening, situated near the top. It would hold about HALF A PINT OF WATER. There was a place in the top of the spout into whim a burner could be fastened bv means of a would keen to thelrselves. Ye'd be afraid of THE GAME OF CHESS There is in oar midst a man who proposes to revolutionize the world. He claims to have discovered new principle in philosophy, and to liold upon his Auger-tips, as it were, the results which for ages scientists and mechanics had striven to obtain, and in their despair had riven up as absolutely unattainable.

He claims that ere is not mystery he cannot solve, and not a phenomenon he cannot explain by means of his new discovery. He can, go he says, cure disease, and demonstrate all the principles of thpolojjr and the donbtful passaeesof Scripture. He insists that he can burn water, produce both steam and water from one orifice, and can perfectly control the same at pleasure; can produce explosion and hold the same Id check or utilize it at will. He was a disbelierer in God and the Bible when he commenced his experiments, but now he says he believes every word that be reads in the Holy Book; every proposition and 6sertion between its covers, so far as relates to prehistoric periods, he can vouch for by illustration. He has turned philosophy inside out, and lauehs at all who have participated in its growth from Aristotle to the present.

He absolutely rejects the time-honored principles and erects new ones to tike their places. Old discarded points, the produced heat, quenched fire, and caused explosions. Haying discovered these causes, I was then ready to deal with effect." How about accouutmg for phenomena?" Bv dealing with the causes. I found that it was impossible for water to explode if it was disintegrated. Mv first machine was too complicated.

It takes 4,000 degrees of heat to melt copper, uno about 7,000 to melt caBt-iron. My next machine will heat water to 10.000 Out I shall uot attempt to raise the heat to the point necessary to resolve the waterinto the duo-principle. It is enough that I have discovered ttiat lean buru water, but it is much more that I have discovered this new great principle." How did you happen to name your element 'verdone'?" "I will tell you; I have been experimenting ever since I was a boy. I conceived the idea that copper ought to be a royal metal, and I set about experimenting in the art transforming or transposing metals, so as to tarn copper into gold, because it was so closely allied with gold." I found that it was much lighter, and that it had a tendency to oxidize or collect what is kuown as verdigris. I concluded that tt was proper to call mv principle orelement 'verdone from this, and adopted it as its name anyhow, as bein' disveracitated et yer was ter give it But It's dead so, I tell yer right outer the start, irom Wontparuasse.

THE PIUXC'E'S POODI.E. 1 Lnnti'm Teleoravh. to it 8q 27.. take ti Communications for this department should be Rt3 addressed to Tub Tmacxa aud indorsed "Chess." and yer can Tely on the conclusions of this yer revealin' I am goiu' fer ter hand over. Jack B3 2 Depression of trade aud "repressive statutes would appear to have resulted in bo much act B3 to 2 33..

to Kt PROBLEM NO. 208. IT A. FEBBY, CHICAGO. Black.

ual distress among the working classes of Berlin son and me went over ter Staten Island last June fer some fisbin'. He was right smart handy in land in' em when they wunst got holt, 31. taSces taices that dog-stealing, which until lately was a pro vm fession chiefly practiced in that Capital by dexterous industrials with the object of de and he allowed that it was a good day cos it rained so. We tuk some grub and things, and Hi HI riving pecuniary emolument from, the re iL went straight in for business. 1 guess we must to ivt 2 to Kt 40..

Kt to 4 5 42.. to Kt 2 Kt so Ktich 45. takes wards offered by the bereaved for the recov ha' commenced along about daylight, and it was mm wmwm ery of their pets, is now carried out upon a 2 fits screw. It is probable that he used an ordinary gas-burner, but this was not attached at the large scale by. hungry operatives, resolute wm mm dark when we let up, steadv ushin' from 4 a.

till we was tired. Now yer talk about fish-in' Ef yer ever git a chance, yer waut fer to go with Jackson. That feller eaii haul in faster ly bent upon the acquisition of a hot meal. Many families, so the informs White resigns. time, lie turned me 'macmue upsiuu uuwn, and placed a few drops of water in the hollow wM its readers, are in mourniug for their favorit and throw out quicker'n a streak o' lightning of his ind.

pugs and turnspits, ihe two varieties of dogs A KISS IN THE DARK. wm "That," said he, "is the purest water or most effected as domestic companions by North can tear the almanac pointer off'n a Baptist steeple. Jist yer watch him wunst or twicet ef yer want fer ter learn fishin' artistic. That yer which vou have any conception, lalk about ern Germans, which have fallen victims to filtering water. this is absolutely pure, Kvcry particle of dirt or solid substance is deposited their too tempting obesitv and appetizing I hart a right to call it anything 1 chose." You say you can explain some thing3 in philrwophy heretofore unexplained "Yes; take, for instance, a row of metal balls suspended from the ceiling and hanging together.

Philosophy says that if you move one of the outside balls and then let go and allow it to swing back against its neighbor, the concussion will cause the first one to bound back, and also the one at the farther end wiil bound an equal distance, while the centre ones will remain perfectly stationary. Philosophers have heretofore given this simple fact up as a phenomenon but I can easily explain it. When fellow would yank up so quick nd drop his sleekness. Piump terriers also have myste book again so sudden that it would go down in the receiver the process oi nesting." riously disappeared in considerable numbers. in the same bole it come out'n afore the water He went on I heated half a pint of water in this ma PI I'lBl lit! Nearly all the dogs whose loss has been an had a chance to close in.

nounced to the police of late have been de How many did we ketch! Jist. ve hold on chine, confining it." scribed by their forlorn owners as "fat." i mm till this yer annydote has done with the prelim "Do you mean to say mat vou connneu me water after it commenced to boil? Hincdice lachrymal It is terrible to inaries. That ver Jackson! Fish! I see him I Mi fei mm mm think of their sad fate, which was unsus crack a clam with a roctc and get the innards "That is exactly what I did. I filled the ma 'aw. pected by the general public until a gruesome opter his hook and down the bottom, and up chine with water, and then I absolutely con onter the deck again afore that yer clam missed mm jUfi ta si incident whicn happeued last week to Prince Henry XXII.

of Ileuss revealed the ghastly truth! His Highness bad lost a poodle of ex his ulster, and when the clams was gone he fined it so that not a particle of steam or vapor could escape. What would you think if you saw a vessel of water boiling, and should immediately close no every oritice and prevent the tuk ter worms, and every wriggler thought he was in his native heath thrasbm' around in an White. White to play and mate in two moves. traordinary talent, which, alas! was as portly of body as it was intelligent in mind. He of 'arthquake.

I'll tell yer what he done. He steam from coming out fered a handsome reward to anv one Who would I should think that something; must give BLINDFOLD CHESS. restore bis favorit, and "no questions asked," way ud should expect an explosion." pulled up that line o' nisn wunst so last that the friction in the water done sot it on fire; yes, sir, the liue caught fire, and the water was too hot to put The following interesting account of a recu modern philospher of Chicago takes to his heart and warms into life, believing them to be all-important. And all of these things he has demonstrated, to his own satisfaction at least, by means of a model machine, in size and general appearance nearly corresponding to an ordinary miner's lamp, a tin affair, not to exceed five inches in bight from its apec to its base. The infernal machinery, whatever it may be, is all inside, and its formation is a secret, ha says, known only to himself.

is enoush, he thinks, to have made the discovery that water will burn, and that it will furnish illumination and a terrific heat; but it is the principle that he has discovered which he thinks is the great thing. The name of this remarkable man who has devoted a lifetime to his experiments, com-menelne when but a boy and continuing in poverty and self-denial until now, when his hair ia turning gray is D. WOODMAN, and the City Directory is probably the only medium through which he has ever appeared in print and yet who knows but this modest artisan may one day read his name among the most honored lists of great inventors, and hear himself pronounced the greatest discoverer oi the age? Mr. Woodman lives in modest affluence in the upper story of 38!) West Lake street, where a TniBtrsit reporter caT.ed upon him last evening. The scribe was Invited into the little front parlor, and, after making known his errand, was re-uuested to consider himself perfectly at home.

that 13 one or the beauties ot my discovery. but in vain. Day after day passed away in sorrow, unbroken by anv hopeful tidings, until one fatal morning ine Prince received a post-card blindfold performance of Mr. Blackburne in Glas A certain Professor of chemistry made some it out. He bad to take my line.

iou bet, Jack gow. Scotland, is from the ueraia ot that city: unsigned, bearing the following heartless In son! JI's a augler. There aiu't no funuy On the 24 1 a and 25th of last month Mr. Black scription: "Serenity! The poodle sends his re burne achieved, at the Central Working Men's business when goes a fishin'. Every fish be small experiments to test the explosive qualities of water, and he blew the whole roof off his rooms.

Then the subiect was dropped, and philosophy set water down as a very explosive substance, but too dangerous to experiment with. Now, I took mv machine, filled it with spects, and begs to inform your Highness that Club and Institute, Tronzate, one of those feaU li tween Hell Gate, aud bandy Hook knows when he has been eaten." the performance of whica he stands unrivaled. he buckles to the collar. I counted ten acres of Chess is popularly oenevea to ue a aimcuit game, bass settin' around onto their tails on too o' the water aoplaudin' with their fins. Some people and urobably with some reason.

Yet here we had water, confined it, and then raised the heat to TDE EL, FPU ANT. Burdttte. Mr. blackburne, not playing the oruioary game at 1,000 degrees, preventing it from boiling." chess, uimcuit though it may be, witu his a uta iro 6ez fish ain't got no sense, but when you see a mackerel pack up his parlor-stove and iookiu'- the first ball bits the second and makes a concussion, producing fire, 'verdone instantly rushes in to extinguish it. The concussion on the opposit side or at the other end of the balls, of course, is equally great, aud vendone likewise rushes into the breach caused by the attempt to make a vacuum.

The consequence is, there is exactly the same pressure on he one side that there is on the other, and the centre balls will perforce REMAIN STATION ART. If you take any article and bestow an equal pressure upon all sides, it follows, does it not, that the object must be perlectlv stationary? If there was still another ball outsiie, the one that is thrown away bv the concussion would be met with an equal pressure of verdone, and that would also remain stationary; but, as there is nothing to oppose a resistance on one side, and there is on the other side, it naturally follows that it will yield to the greater resistance." "I suppose you have solved the telephone problem?" Yes, and can do awav with induction. I now feel like going to work and inventing something, mv principle being ail right." Prof. Woodman related an experience in magnetism and electricity which he had had years ago. ne took a piece of soft iron and inclosed it in a helix of electricity, and It became instantly a magnet, and pointed to the North Pole.

But if the iron was held simply suspended by the helix, or outside of it, it would not become a magnet. That, he said, must be the result in accordance with the true philosophy of the universe, which he claims to have discovered. He continued upon tbis subject as follows: The North and South Poles are magnetized. One day, children, when the menagerie had iou prevented it irom ooiumrs 'Yes. Water boil ins' Is cold.

'Verdone' nist before him aud the board and pieces ou the table between, but seated in a corner of the room, his glass aud move outen a vicinity cause Jackson's been quiet for a long time, the hyena was look back to the foe. without aid from board or men to ing so lonesome aud desolate that the elephant afishin' tharabouts, yer can reckon that a fish has got some hoss intellect ef it ain't had eddy- assist him in devising combinations, depending rushes in to put out the fire, ami the more disturbed the water is the more verdone rushes in to restore the equilibrium and out out the said be reminded him of ''the howl of the wil solely on hi retentive memory ana keen Intellect cashioual advantages. Know him I Jvnow tiktn and thus playing ten skillful players simulta derness" everv time he spoke. "You can't Y'er kuow what a modest inseck a eel is; well neously. It must not be thought for an insUnt I seen 'em gittin' out in their fire.

At 1,000 degrees I found that water would burn, and the only strength required to confine it was a tin can held together by solder. It is prove It," said the hyena. "You tuat all that is required for the accom The wouldn't stop fer to change their clo'es. said the elephant, which wa neither good En plishment of such a feat as tbis is a powerful memory. That is certainly necessary, but wnen tue bliudfold player has recalled the ponlon in perfectly safe.

I have made my experiments with my family all around me, and I am not a particle afraid of it, tor 1 thoroughly understand glish, good grammar, uor good tun, aud nobody laughed but the elephant. 1 gnu you'd any particular game something more than memory sav that," said the 'possum. Hello, old He was a eay younar bachelor His name was Hiram Greene. He loved a charming city belie. Called Amarilla Keene.

He whistled operatic airs, And he could softly Diay Upon the flute and violin, Anil Ee bad the costliest kind of clothes; He bore a stylish cane; He wore a brilliant diamond pin. And massive golden chain. She dsnced in silks and satins gay, At fashionable balls; And in a glittering coupe She shopped and made her calls. She swept adown the dusty pave With a majestic air. Amid the gay and brilliant crowd That thronged the thorough tare.

And. if some little beggar-girl A penny chanced to crave. It was a piteous sight to see The look of scorn she gave. She loved to talk of bric-a-brae And decorative art, She thrummed and hummed the wondrous sin Of C'uoain and Mozart, She wore a "Saratoga wave" To hide her scanty bair: And on a velvet hassock prtyed Whene'er she knelt in prayer. She had a pair of noodle-dogs.

With which she fondly oUred. Her puwe-proud father dealt tn hogs Upon the Hoard of Trade. What wonder that yonng Hiram Ureena Oft came to her abode? Her love between tbe ciogs and him, Was equally besiowed. On Sundays, when the twinkling stajr Began to beam above. He hastened aown the Avenue To call npon his love.

She fondly waited at the door Till Hiram did appear. He did not miss a welcome kiss When no one else was near. One dark and rainy autamn-nteht. When Hiram came to call, -The iiouse was dim no cheerful light Was gleaming in the hail. He heard a sound npon the stairs Of footfalls coming down Then, iu the spacious vestibule.

The rustling of a gown. And then he thought he stood before The being he loved best. And, reaching out his manly arms, He clasped her to his breast. Och Murther; Augh Plaze lit got Plazb lit mk oo I say. Ye spalpeen yiz I the loike o' this I niter saw the day 1" The gaslight gleamed within the hall; It needed but a look: For Hiram Greene to comprehend That he had kissed the cook I is reouirea.

urns win oe oetier unaerscooa oy tne the causes that lead to an explosion, and when I understand you have made a discovery in nuimtiated if we mention first the way in whicn Tail-holt," said the elephant, "don't you 1 understand mat and separate the integral the knowledge of tho play is couveved to aud from philosophy? said the news gatherer. know it's no consequence whit vou think parts I have no icar of the consequences. The machine never exploded until the solder melted Air. Blackourae. ihe ten plavere are seated at in this show?" The bison interfered here, and said the 'oosum might not be a very Yes," responded Mr.

Woodman, 1 am that 1 ara going to revolutionize the each with a chess-board and men before and ran off the can. I have exploded the "Must a' had good luck! Well, jist you violate the 'lection laws right outer that proposition. Jack sou! That man! Fish! Why, cit-erzens, he fished so fast and made the spray fly so that it caught the rain comin' down and sent it the oiher war. This statement is comin' from me. That yer storm went up from the time Jackson warmed to his work till he quit.

You fellers mav know a heap about fishio', but, when yer have ever reeled up so fast that the reel swells uo the size of a eiindstone, then ill in-terduce yer ter Jackson." "How many fish did you take, all told?" queried a bystander. Didn't git. a derued bite, but harte-beast, but he bad a rij-ht to SiJeak if- him, while Mr. iilacfcburue, as we have already said, sits in a corner of the room with his buck to machine in a mild wav several times, but I un irortd." "Well. well, old buflaloafcr," laughed the derstand the nature of all the particles compos- hi antagonists.

Tne boaids are numoered 1 to 10, "1 came over to have a chat with you, and I elephant, "1 reckon you're here as the bieoniti- ins water, as well as the danger attending the and the blindfold player calls out his uuve for each sould like a description of your new theory, for cation of instice, are you, vou old bison of a separation of the integral parts. It is impossi- in succession. This having been done ths teller gun? I'd like to see anybody pull the wool goes back to No. 1, who makes his move, and the Dle for it to explode as 1 have- arranged it, be the benefit of the readers of Thb Tkibunb." over vour eves." The bav mule down in the teller cans it out 10 Mr. jjiacsourne, jur.

ii. re cause I do away with that portion which is ex "Mv theory is not new. 1 believe I have plies, and the teller proceeds to the next game. comer here remarked that he'd like to see anv struck the only true theory, the philosophy of calls out tne move niaue, ana receives air. uiact- bodv pull the wool on the end of his tail; plosive.

1 am confident that I ean bum water safely; but at the same time I could fix that diminutive machine easily -so that it would blow this whole building to atoms." burne's answer. Ia this way thepiargoeson.no the world. Before 1 discovered my new princi out nobodv let on thev heard him. men, move ueing repeated to Mr. Blackburne after he ple, I was a disbeliever In God and the Bible, when the eagle tried to say something, the the elephant aked bim if he hadn't just got has once oeen distinctly informed oi iu it win at Your experiments must cave been very in hnt now 1 believe that evervthins in the Bible is once be seen irom this wuat an important pari the one positive, and the other negative.

Thev are attracted toward each other, and this is" what boids the world together and keeps it in place, attracted by he sun." Diverging a little from this subject, ha said "Everythiug in nature must have a place, and no twathings can occupy the same place at one time. When one particle leaves or is torced out of its place another particle must enter into it and fill it ut. You mav take a particle and divide it aud subdivide it lown to a point where the integral parts are reached and further subdivision is impossible, and that integral atom will at. once become surrounded with Every particle iu nature is either a teresting." trne. and can be demonstrated.

Moses handed the memory pia.s in tne perlormance or the off a Sixth vVard political transparency, and then said he thought he remempered HORATIO SEYMOUR. Cincinnati Knquirer. A citizen about 75 or 80 years of age, in whose eye there appeared to be no guile, dropped into this office last night and said: "Thought I would step in anc see if you gentlemen knew that Horatio Seymc orrs worked the lessons of the Deonle which he had re ta3lt: but after the games nave proceeded a seeing him on a barber's pole. Then the bear few moves another power conies into action, which it is very diilicuit to describe. Mr.

Blacknnrne ceived from away back to the time tlie Devil was introduced, which was the time thev built the aucient monuments, the ruins of which we spoke and said they'd had enough of that nonsense: and the eieohant told him he'd better having recalled a given position to bis recollection has to decide upon the best move to be made, ilow Rea to-day. Thev were as much ahead of us ia haul himself inside the hat-store before it rained, and asked if soft felt would be much does he do so? With the position in bis mind's eve be sees that a certain move looks feasible. But worn this winter. And then he finally got the those flavs as we arc ahead of the Darbarians In our own dav. But my tneory is old, as well as new.

1 believe that, to get at the origin of the that is not enough. He must assure himscif of lis monkev to crving bv calling him Mr. Darwm soundless; he must examine his opponent possi and telling him he looked enough like a man to ble repues, and his own answers to those replies. run lor Congress. And iu a little while he had Dunna this process of mental anulvsis the game principle, you must go back into mythology; it ia as old as God Himself." The reporter discovered that Mr.

Woodman hockme considerably nervous as he advanced in the menagerie in such an uaroar that the lights mav branch out into numerous rammcations. which could onlv be mastered by the clearest intellect. had to he out out and the people sent borne. When the earae has advanced a few moves book Land. ves.

children, the trouole they used to his talk, and it was with extreme difficulty that he could be Kept uoon the track of his descrip knowledge avails nothing. the variations are He have with the elephant no tongue can tell, was always such a tease. endless. We donot know a singie case in which identical plav has occurred to dikerent players, or tion. He would commence a subject, break off in the middle of a sentence, and go back to even to the same players, after the middle of the game has been reached.

The player utiien thrown esother tonic, which had a tendency to confuse A. UTTER AS A CUITIC. Paris Paper. entirely on his own resourct-s, aua ic may well be tue listener. While appearing to thoroughly understand himself and to have philosophy and imagined that in the case of play the mental elfort required must be something wonder Once upon a time as Dupre and Theophile Gautier were talking together Gamier observed chemistry at his tongue's end, he was frequently at a loss to express his ideas.

He also ex- by the day in this city." "No! Did be, though?" inquired a rter, pricking up his ears. "Drove a street-car." "The deuce he did exclaimed the reporter, taking down the exact language. "Yes; worked on the first street railroad ever built in Cincinnati. That was long before your time. I was conductor on the same line, aud remember him well.

He was than sin when be came to town; didn't have one red cent to rub against aaorher. I loaned him 15 cents to get his dinner, and bought him a linen duster to hide his nakedness, for he was raggeder than the Prodigal Sou on the home-stretch." The reporter took it down. He worked on the line about six weeks, and then married a little mulatto woman down on the River road. One night he hirfld another man to drive his car, and he went off on a tear that lasted tliree weeks. During this time he had innumerable figiit, and in one of them he cut a man's head off with a pocket-knife.

He wound up hia protracted spree bv stealing a frebh cow and driving her over into Posey County, where he sold her for $0. Theauthorities never followed him or gave him any trouble, nnd he has lived their ever since, and," I am told, has been a very peaceable citizen." ful. of Claude Lorraine: Blindfold chess is not of motle.rn invention. In Dressed some misgivings about unbosoming Lawkpale, Chicago. coins J.

Hilt. himself for fear that the secret of his life might Claude Is a greatly-overrated painter; the the eleventh century, and even earlier, as we learn from old manuscripts, it was practiced by the Per Yes, they were. In my last experiment there was a remarkable philosophy exhibited. I ACTUALLY BURNED WATER, and had steam coming out at the same time; or, in other words, through one orifice, no larger than a knitting-needle, a stream ot fire and a stream of steam came out simultaneously. The flame was of a beautiful pink color and of intense heat.

There was a stream of hydrogen and a stream of steam side by side, one burning with intense heat, and the other puttiug the fire out. I could take a piece of wood, apply it to one side of the orifice, and it would take "fire instantly; then, by turning it over the least trifle, the fire was instantly put out, for you know that nothing will quench fire as quickly as steam. This was a remarkable exhibition, and went to sbow the chemical provision of Nature in following chemical bodies, each haying its natural position." The reporter asked Prof. Woodman to explain as thoroughly as possible his duo-principle. "This duo-principle," said he, "is this: Every particle of matter is held together by a chemical union.

The attraction of particles does not produce the chemical union without disintegrating the particles which compose an element in resolving them into their prime condition. Now, two particles, to form a union, must beheld together by a third principle, the result of which is, that one aud one are three, and can never be otherwise in forming a chemical union. This third principle which unites the two I term That ia the matter which I have to contend with to overcome the explosive power of steam. This has taken a lifetime. I had to learn the nature of 'verdone' and cause of explosions before I could deal with 'he results.

If a vacuum is attempted to be produced, 'verdone would rush in as quick as thought to fill up the gap." It must be a very fine, rapid, and penetrating element?" "It is; it is the finest element In Nature except life. I estimate that it will travel at the be revealed. best of bis works that I ever saw are only fit sians and Arabians, even to the extent, it was said. POE'S RAVEN." Said he. I posses mv secret alone now, and of pluymer tn games simultaneously.

A translation in the British Museuin of an Arabic work ov for fans ana fire-screens, nis pretended genius is an immense practical joke that has been played you must excuse me if I feel afraid of giving it up to anybody. If Edison were to get hold of on our credulity for two centuries." it he would immediately go to work upon it to 'Abu Muhatnmad Bin 'Uinar kajii records that whiie performing tnafeat ''some nave bejn known to have recited poetry, or tola amusing stones, or Dupre, a passionate admirer of the great art it. He has plenty of tune and ist, sat stupefied. "If you are not in fun. monev: he is an improver and an imitator, but conversed with the company present, it was uot.

be is not an inventor. Grav and Bell are origi However, until the middle or latter half of the hf- teeulh century that the first exhibition of blind nators, but Edison never originated anything, Gautier," be said, "if you are not merely maintaining one of your absurd paradoxes. I should just like to give you my opiuion of Claude the fold chess took place io this country. About that He simply improves upon other people's in time there arrived in London Philrior, the famous first time vou have an hour to spare." French player, and be astonished the students of Nothing more was said at the tim, but a few ventions and CLAIMS THEIR HONORS." "What do vou call vour new principle?" male or a female. The rule applies equally to animals, vegetables, and integral particles.

The female particles are guarded bv verdone against the incursions of the males until certain periods of heat are arrived at, when the female bursts loose from her chains, and the two sexes come together. The result is that the poiar atom is thrown off, this being the "How about utilizing water-in the way of illuminating purposes?" asked the reporter," interrupting the erratic gentleman, who was evidently becoming lost in bis subject. "Anything that can form tarbon must produce intense light. All that is needed is the machinery, and water is comparatively cheap. The flame, as it is in its natural state, Is colored.

I don't know how it would work inclosed in a glass chamber where it would burn the air; but, of course, it would have to be brought to an intense heat, and carbon would have to be used. You have to use a carbon on your electric and your calcium lights. The expense would be nominal after you got your machine." The hour was getting late, and (ho reporter realized that he must brin; this interesting interview to a close. He arose to depart, but the Professor, who had become thoroughly warmed uo to his subject, detained him. THB CHICAGO FIR IS.

"I can philosophically account for the Chicago fire," said the philosopher, and prove that the water which the firemen put on the buildings actually burned and helped to increase the couflagration. It would have been better have torn down the build Jigs and not put a drop water upon them." Much more might be written regarding this strange man, but enough has been said to give something of an idea cf what he has upon his niiud. He may have become crazed in his experiments, and his theories may be founded upon fallacious reasoning; but he has. in his mind, demonstrated the fact that he can produce a beautiful piuk flame, of intense heat, fiom water. He says that he will shortly make the experiment in public, and then he may be prepared to meet a storm or criticism and abuse from scientific men.

He is very poor. He was for years an adjuster of sewing-machines for one of the large companies, but his health partially broke down under his double labors, aud for six weeks he has devoted bis entire time to experimenting upon his machines. He is brimful of confidence, aud is only afraid of having his idea stolen from him bv Eui6on, or some other great improver." the same by mentinsc three antagonists simujtane' days later Dupre met Gautier at a wine-snop ously. The feat was then unprecedented, and at thev both frequented and said: tracted a good deal of public attention. Philidor 1 call it It is a word that 1 coined mvKflr.

I had io call it by some name, ami it Well, you heretic, do you still hold to your never played mot! than three, aud would have looked with amazement at a modern performer absurd opinion that Claude never contesting four and five times that nam painted anything but fans and fiie-screens?" I do. candidly and conscientiously." caight as well be called that as anything else." "What is "Verdana Veraone is a new principle in nature, som ber with apparent ease. tince Philidor's time there have been two blindfold piayers who Thereon Dupre, the eloquent enthusiast. Wnere'a Posey County demanded the reporter. In Indiana." Horatio Seymour lives in New York, sir said the reporter, throwing down tis pencil.

"Oh, that's another man altogether," repl'ed the old citizen, moving toward the door. "Tbat is the man who is talked ot for the Presidency. The Seymour that I knew was of an entirely different breed of cats; no relation at ail. sir; no relation at. all," and the citizen nulled the door after hiui, and has not been seen siuce.

thine like an old principle dropped in philosophy, touched to the quick on oue of his tenderest have stood pre-eminent in their day. The first or these, Moruhv, tae American, came to this country the name of which I cannot just now call to soota, look uo his parable. He gave a long aoont twenty years aijo, and nlayed first In Bir lecture on light, color, barmony, tne beauties of mind." What is this principle?" minirnam. then iu Paris, and lastly in London. In Lorraine, his perspective, his magical half-tints.

each case the num ocr of eames piayeo was eight. "The principle involved is that one and one his shadows, his luminous style; he warmed. make three, called the duo principle. These and in Paris Morphy occupied ten hoars in playing that upmuer. Moruliy's performances were a great grew hot.

talked, thundered, and Gautier lis are positive and negative particles of matters, tened, smiling, uumoved, unconvinced. advance on those or ruilidor, and. although. Mr. liiactcourne, the irreat player ot the present day.

and canstitutes the uniting link that produces ilie first or lowest union. I not A few davs later D.upre was stupefied on tak cannot be said lobe in the same decree superior to An answer to Edgar Allan Foe's poem, Ths Jlaven" sitmestei bv a sermon of the iitv. Dr. J. Monro Gibson, delivered Sunday, ov.

8, 1879. rnojt TBI uavks." "Prophet!" cried he, "thing of evil! prophet still If bird or devil, "Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed taS here ashore, Desolitte yet aU undaunted. In this destert land en etian ted, On this home by horror haunted tell me truly, I plore! Is (here- is there balm In GUead? TeU me tell me. 1 Implore! Uuoth the raven, Xevermore! ASSWIH, Long upon the billows driven, like a vessel tort and riven! Without rudder, chart, or compass, safe to guide it lo the shore. Was this sonl of hope forsaken, by Its own tbougnts o'ertaken.

By the voice of bird thus shaken, croakingo er nis chamber-door; To this soul, to turd thus pleading, sayings Of to Bible lore Must be "words, and nothing more. Had his eyes but left the raven, aud oy chance have seen engraven, Near "the placid bust of Pallas just shove nis chamoer-door, There, in zephyr worked, a token, wrought oy Mr whose loss bad broken AU his hopes ner love had spoken by his lovea and lost Leuore Words like these, "Believe on Me and thou snait live forevermore Stul not words, and nothing more. Had that bright and gifted, to ItsGod that uraver but lifted, Saying. "Is there balm is GUead? Tell me teu me. I implore! And then stilled the tempest beating in hi heart oy oft repeating Words of love, of faith entreating, which tne Savior spake of yore.

His sad soul would have been "lifted" from tn" "shadow oa the floor" Christ forsaking- nevermore. Then "the airM might have "grown denser. pr- ing up a review to find an article Oy Gautier on Claude, iu which everything he bad said was the American, yet it is undoubted that bis achieve go back into theoloey. There is a state rest, which is about 40 dear. Fahrenheit.

Any reproduced in Uauncr's most nervous, original, rate of about 290,000 miles in a second. It will pass from the realms forty-five miles above us, which is the limit, I believe, of the earth's atmosphere, as quickly as the sound of the shock produced bv me in striking these two books together illustrating. 'Verdone' tends to produce life, and it also tends to destroy life to produce heat, and to destroy heat to restore rest, and to destroy rest. It may fitly be called the great destroyer of Biblical times, aud was probably the source deviation from that poiut eiiherwav, fire is the ments this brancn or the game are far aoove those of the latter. There are several first-class piaycrs at present who piay blindfold, such as Zutertort, Paulsen, and Steiiiitz, but none of these and picturesque style.

result, aud disintegration of particles of matter "BOSS" M'LAUGHLIX. XTushinulon Correspondent', Sew 1'rrk Graphic Gen. Siocum arose one night in Brooklyu sev-eial years ago and said: Fellow-citizens, you have not felt iu person the kind of despotism under which you live. Not long ago, without my wish or work, my name was seDt into your Board of Aldermen by the Mayor of the city as his nominee for one of the plain city trusts. The person known here The critic," says Alfred Sensier, had neither eve nor opinion, he was a blind man can play witn the same ease and freedom as Mr.

produces tliat result. the moment j-ou deviate from mat point, rushes in to arrest ri-otrress sn1 put out the fire. It is not neces Blacaburne. It is a remarkable fact that some of his blindfold games are ilio most brilliant feeling for a dog SnAKSPEARE IN MICHIGAN. sary to civethis whole philosophy; but, if I specimens of chess play on record, item'imberine this, it is not surprising that bis exhibition at the Cemral Club should cause considerable interest anion? local player.

He bad a very strong team A book-agent, selling the complete works of Shakspeare, recently strayed into the highly-cultured town of Mason, Mich. While canvassing the place he called at the residence of a prominent citizen, and was met at the door by the opposed to him, there being such wn players as SueriS Soeus, Messrs. Court, Tait, uilchrist. Crum. Mills, and Harrison.

Play about a quarter to 8. The modus operandi we have already descr.oed. and it may be ladv of the house, when the following brief imagined tuat the progress or the play was waicaed conversation ensued: by the spectators with rhe closest attention. It was observed at a very esrly stase of the contest that Sheriff Spens had obtained an advantage, and Good morning, madam. I am taking subscriptions in your village for the complete works this, of course, drew a number of the onlooker to of William Shakspeare, beautifully illustrated.

bound in lurkish morocco, and that part of the room where the learned frherin was seated. Shortly this Sheriff Di'tii. in order to obtain a very doaotf ul attack, sacrificed a valua "Who did you say was the author!" inter rupted the ladv. ble piece, lesseninz very materially, as we be. lie veil, his chance of scoring tue came.

It was nn William Shakspeare, ma'am," replied the book-vender, the immortal bard of How ettierew Beat. A racy story of one of the liveliest races on record is eiven as occurring on the railread to Sioux Falls, a few days ago. Two lawyers, Pettigrew aud Bottineau, who bad certain rival deeds of property valued at $10,000, were upou tue train, and the ownership of the property depended on who should get to the Recorder's office first aud get hia deed on record. They met on the train, suspected what was up, pumped each iier of all that as needful to confirm their suspicions, and thecontest seemed likely to occur between the depot and the Recorder's office after reaching Sioux Falls. But oa stoppiug at a station Pettigrew stepped uoon the engine and hid, and when fairly under wav showed the engineer an order from the general management of the road to do as Pettigrew reauested.

The result was that when within two miles of Sioux Falls the coupling was loosened aud rhe engine shot ahead, leaving the cars to get along as best they could. Pettigrew fortunate that so late an hour in the evening was fixed for commencing play, for shortly after 10 ves," again interrupted the ladv. "1 un Tumeu oy an unseen censer, Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled oa the tufted door Then a spirit, ever living, and the words of truia many of the competitors who resided out of town derstand. It's one of Shakspeare's books, is it? had to leave for home. In cousequence of tins it He isavery fine writer, sir; but Mr.

Shakspeare is er giving. was deemed shortly atter li. to defer further piay bsvs writing a new dook, and 1 ttunx 1 saall wait aud And the seeking e'er forgiving. miat get that one. Good morning, sir." from which the iaea of a great destroyer or Devil originated.

1 don't wish you to think that I have become a religious fanatic, or an antiquarian, but I believe that prehistoric days had a philosophy that we know nothing about. Theirs was founded upon the true ohilosopay of the universe." "To descend from the realms of speculation to the lowly fields of fact, what practical results do you expect to reach by means of your discovery!" I believe that 1 will not only burn water, but I will REVOLCTIOSIZB THB WORLD. Heat and motion are life, aud 'verdone tends to destroy it. I am hav.ng a machine made which will be but one cubic foot in capacity, but will have the strength of twenty-five-horse power." But the practical uses to which you will put "One will be to barn water: another, to produce explosions iu the air, at a trifling expense, so violent as to cause rain in times of drought. A locomotive will take on water for both fuel aud steam, and the boiler will not have over one-tourth the capacity of the boilers now in use.

The principle will also apply to the treatment of disease. I can cure acy ease of fever by its application in a few minutes. The other night, while studying aud think ng, my head commenced to acne, and I thought I would turn my attention to the cause. Heat was caused to rise to nay brain oy the concussion of ideas, exactly as by the concussion of physical "elements. It is customary for people to apply cold water iu times like these, but I directed my daughter to bring some warm water, apply it, aud then pat the top of my head so that the reports could be beard.

The consequence was that fire was produced, having a tendency to create a vacuum, and the result was that the great equilibrium restorer, rushed in, put out the fire, should explain everything, you would say, Why didn't 1 think of that before i But vou can explain enough for me to get somethiug of an idea as to what you mean to do. cau you iiot?" "jiow, I don't know that I can explain to you how I originated the explosion part, because that would Eive away my principle to you." "But vou mhrbt eive me an outline without betraving any secrets. 1 am not a mechanic." When 1 was a boy at school, 1 was told that there was a pressure of fifteen pounds to every Bquareiuch of my body. I could not understand, at that time, how' this could be so, aud I have found that it is not so, and cannot be so. 1 was also told that a vacuum could be produced.

There never was any such thins as a vacuum in the world. We were also told that there was such a thing as latent beat, a most absurd thinsr; heat is the result of motion aud the arrestof motion." How do you explain your first "Well, when one sttnds between two forces, one of less resistance than the other, he would receive force only on one side of him, would he?" This answer was not quite clear to the reporter, as regards the application, because he had been taught to believe that the atmosphere created an equal pressure all around us, and so he beeged Mr. Wodman to further explain. "If," said he, man stood in the orifice of a dam, he would receive the immense pressure of the water above him. Because there would be less resistance, a less dense substance to resist the pressure from below; but, if the water was let ia from below, the pressure would be removed instantly from both sides of him, and it would seem to him that he might walk upon water.

Were this philosophy of fifteen pound to the square inch true, this could not be the case." 'Xhe point was not jet clear the obtuse crossed his chamber-door, While he pondered long and deeply o'er tu woras of Bible lore 1 Tr i Vina mnrft. the book agent sta jgered to the bottom of the steps and then fell senseless to the sidewalk. as 'Boss McLaughlin cam.e to me and said, in a menacing manner: 'What time have you pulling out his watch. 'I will give you just twenty minutes to take your name from before that Board of Aldermen, or I'll have you And rejected I was upon his order only. Now," continued Siocum, I have commanded more soldiers on the field of battle than you have voters in the city of Brooklyn, but I find I am of less consideration here than a Drize fighter for any position of trust." Years after this was said came the opportunity to run Geo.

Siocum for Governor of the State against A. B. Cornell, whom the Republicans cut more than ".30,000 votes. Again Boss McLaughlin was ou the soot with his Suliote md, aud the decision rested upon the Boss alone. Nearly half his followers were desirous to support Siocum.

County held the balance of power in the Convention, and New York offered to support bim solidiy, or any other man Brooklyn might name, inclusive of the young presidiug officer over the Convention, who's was the Senator from Brooklyn. Fervid speeches were made showing that this act was ail that was needed to carrv the State for the Democracy. But no man in that delegation, tnough mere were some otherwise respectable, dared to vote tor Siocum, becaua McLaughlin ould have beaten him from any office in the city forever alter. Mr. Morris, who had been working all nignt for bis friend Siocum, had to rise in the Convention ajad second the nomination of Robinson, who was easily defeated.

It is related at the White Uou.e that some time after this, on the dedication of the statue of Geo. Thomas, the President had Gen. Siocum to dinner, and he said to Siocum You came very near being the nominee of the Democratic party this month. Gen. Siocum.

Had you been nominated joa would have been For several days he hovered between life and death, but finally gained sulfide at strength to leave town. Mason will be troubled by that book agent no until the following arternoon at 3 o'clock, -t the hour of adjournment it aid not appear that any of the ten competitors bad succeeded in jrainuiK an acvantage over Mr. Biactburne, while, on the other band, in at least five of the games, that gentleman had ootained a superiority, though in each case it was very slight. Mr. Blackburne has always an objection to adjourning the games, out in tbis case there was no help for it, and it certainly does not detract from the remarkable character of tbe feat tost ue snouid have been able to take up the game after sucn an interval, and without having hi memory any way refreshed.

The effort to retain so many games iu his recollection seemed, however, to cost Mr. Blackburne very little trouble. Before proceeding to tbe scene of action on the Saturday afternoon he visited the Glasgow Cness Clnb, where he chatted away oa various subjects, the mental feat before more. QUIPS. An Indian agent The tomahawk.

A dry-dock A physician going in to get a rushed to the Recorder's forhtwitb, aud Bottineau came in just thirtv-five minutes behind him. The result caused a tornado of profanity, aud the end of the contest is not yet. Sowing; Oat and Wheat Together. Sew Jort Sun. The experiment has been made of sowing oats and wheat together, with a view to obtain- a winter covering for the wheat.

The seed, in the proportion of one Dart of oats to two parts of wheat, was sown in the fall, and the oats sprang up quickly and were killed bv the earlv drink. From the Bible, where it liveth. snd to all men seeking giveth, Where lay 'mid "quaint and curious volumes of forgotten And its ban as it iniijht have broken, and truin him have spoken Truth risen migat have spoken, as it on done oefore A brigut and radiant spirit springing from tnatoow of yore Breathing, Live forevermore. Chicaoo, ov. 14.

179. B. A Cun- Jim Fisk'a Widow. The widow of James Fisk, South Deerneld, with a couoie formerly were ber coachman and cook. lm not Irom economical inotivea, boweytJTi fo 1IW hiA a tundjorite svcateas The Boston Courier says It's a sneezy thing to take snuff.

bim appearing to oe the nrthest iroai nis thoughts. Proceeding to the Central Cluo. tbe positions were all verified" by the eentleman who on tue previous evening recorded the moves. Mr. Blackburne having been informed about half-past 3 o'clock that ail were correct, then took up the various gases with an.

eass and a rspioitjr that cau only be Oar weather-prophet predicts that the coming winter will be as hard as a hotel-bed. Seientijte American. Professor "Now I ask you, as a practical micer. what stade da ou think id the yerj irost, the stalks and leaves lying on the ground all winter, Keeping the snow from blowing away, and preventing the sun from tnawing the frozen.