Democrat and Weekly Sentinel from Burlington, Vermont • 4

How Prof. Henry Missed Being an i SUMMARY OP NEWS. bonds, being the remainder of the 150,000,000 1 under the contract of April 1L Imperial Endorsement. Owing to tne perfect punty of Dooley's Teast Powder, and its superior excellence in gress Tbe bill repealing the bankrupt law was passed after concurrence in the Senate's I amendment, and went to the President for his HOW NEW VORK LIVES. 840,000 mf that Inhabitant la Tenement lloaaea.

There are, says a New York paper, coral was the polyp's house; but they have discovered that it is the skeleton of the animal really a part of its body as onr bones are a part of our bodies. Only tlie polyp's skeleton is outside of its body instead of being inside like ours. The skeleton is made of the same substance as chalk, or limestone, mixed with a little phosphorus. There are myriads of minute creatures, in the sea. Fanhion Notes.

Watered silk willle worn again. Belt buckles are Tery fashionable. Tbe novelty in scarfs ia the Don Sol All bonnets have strings this season. Lace turbans are worn by boy babies. Pearls are used profusely on bridal toilets.

The Fra Diavolo" is the latest round hat. India pongee is worn again for costumes. Lace mittens are not suitable for street wear. Bracelets of gold filagree are pretty novelties. Round hats are worn only by girls in their teens.

Short overskirts are worn with some of the kilt suits. The wrists of new lisle thread gloves are lace clocked. Mirecourt is the name of the finer grade of torchon lace. Bridal dresses are no longer made entirely of white satin. The swallow-tail jacket is affected by nobby young ladies.

No loopings in back draperies are worn by fashionable women. Four button undressed kids are the thing for full street costume. FOR TU T0DS6 PEOPLE. Mff hto's mm. Blamma, why is it that the ran Shines only in the day 1 Why does he Bhiue 60 nice and warm When he's so far away? Why are the atari ao very large Each one looks like a spark.

Why does the moon shine when it's light 1 And nover when it's dark? Why are the mmmera always warm The winters always cold Why is it that each year mast die When only one year old? And why can't little children be As l'ig as their papas And tvheu I ask yon questions, ma, Why do yon say, Why is it, mamma, when it rains, So cloudy in the sky I'd like to know 'boat lots of thirgs The really reason why. mamma's whts. Myo, why is it little boys Can never walk down stairs, But eliding down the railing so Necessitate repairs 1 Why will they walk upon then- knees And make suoh dreadful holes Why do their hands so often look As if they shoveled coals Why are their pockets full of nails And stoiiCb and iron rings Why is it their delight to see The chairs with strings Why are their seldom clean? Their clothes oft stained with dirt And can you tell me why it is That kisses cure a hurt? Why are small hands so mischievous. Touching forbidden things; Turning the hands in papa's watob, Or wearing mamma's rings Playing with matches or with fire, Or picking at the pie, Or hi jing grandpa's spectacles In florae snug plae so sly And why can't little boys stand still? Why wilt they chase the cat? Why do they never shut the door, Or hang up coat or hat Why is it when mamma is ill 't hey make unusual noise? And why, in spite of naughty tricks, Mammas love little boys i There is a very curious, wonderful and beautiful little creature, living in the sea, bo small and Bimple in its construction that to look at it 'without knowing anything about it, one might suppose that it could be of very little it any use. But "things are net what they seem," the poet tells us; and very true is it in this case, for the Polyps that is the name of the family to which this little animal belongs insignificant as they appear ia our eyes, are really very useful.

Different kinds are found in almost all the seas, rivers and lakes on the globe. They are of various sizes and forms. 'We shall confine ourselves in this articlo to some varieties found only in tropical seas. Some of these perform an immense and important work, no less tiian the building of islands for man to live on. One tiny creature cannot of course do much toward such a grand result, but the large family working together in innumerable numbers beautifully illustrate the truth of the axiom, "In union is strength." The polyps, as has been said, vary in size, some being several inches long, others too small to be seen without the help of a microscope.

They have neither heads, legs, feet, hearts, lungs nor other organs which higher animals have; consequently they are without sense or motion. A polyp may be described as a sack or bag, with an opening at one end. This opening is surrounded by a fringe of line thread-like things called tentacles or feelers. We will call them arms, also, because the animal uses them not only as feelers, but also to seize, grasp, hold and push with. The opening into the sack is called a mouth, not because it looks like one, but because of its use in admitting food to the sack like stomach.

Weak and defenseless as this odd little mite of a being is, when seized by enemies more powerful than itself, ii shows itself brave in securing its own prey among creatures still smaller. The polyp is very greedy. It fastens itself to a leaf, plant, or rock under the water, and when it is hungry as it almost always is it stretches out its Actor Thurlow Weed has written a very in teresting letter to the New York Tribune describing how the late Prof, Henry, the well-known scientist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, just escaped be ing an actor. He soys: My acquaintance with Joseph Henry, commencing in 1815, ripened into a warm friendship. Ha was then an apprentice to John F.

Doty, a silversmith, in State street, Albany. I was a journeyman in the office of the Albany Jiegister, published by Henry C. Southwick, and edited by Solomon So nth wick. During the war with dp laud, which had met closed, the Green Street Theatre, with a strong company, liberally patronized by tne omcers of tne army stationed in Greenbush, awakened much enthusiasm among the young gentlemen of Albany, several of whom formed themselves into an amp teur theatrical company. They fitted up a hall formerly used for dramatic representations, then known as the Thespian Hotel, on the corner of North Pearl and Patroon streets.

They attracted large audiences. Joseph Henry became a bright particular star." His young Norval, Damon, and even Hamlet, were pronounced equal in conception and execution to the personations of experienced and popular actors. His friends, charmed with his talents and genius, urged him to adopt the stage as a profession. His own thoughts aud inclination rendered him a willing listener. Soon the manager of the Green Street Theatre offered him a permanent engagement with a liberal salary.

With that the young aspirant for dramatic honors was greatly delighted. But Dr. T. Romeyn Beck, principal of the Al bany Academy, believed that there was a way opened to the young man promis ing greater usefulness and more enduring honors than the drama could confer. After consultation with the trustees, Dr, Beck invited young Henry to enter upon and complete a gratuitous academic course.

While anxiously considering these conflicting offers three of his intimate friends, James Dexter, a law student, James Hunter, a printer, and myself, were called into consultation. Hunter and myself saw for our friend in a dramatic career assured fame and fortune. Dexter, less enthusiastic, preferred academic honors to those of the "sock" and "buskin." He urged, calmly but forcibly, that if the stage was to be ultimately adopted as a profession, an academic education would increase our friend's chances for enduring success, and that after completing his education he would be quite young enough to become an actor. This argument, after a long and anxious mental strug gle, proved effectual. The following day "Joe Henry" rejected Manager Bernard's dramatic offer and took his seat in the Albany Academy.

Mr. Doty, when informed of his apprentice's desire to become a student hi tlie academy, erenerously surrendered his indentures. It was only a few weeks before the "Young Roscius" became so absorbed in and delighted with his studies that the theatre with all its attractive associations was forgotten. Long years afterward, when we met in Washington or iu his visits to Albany, while recalling the scenes of our youth, the grave Professor Henry, with a world-wide scientific reputation, remembered this episode in his life as partaking more of a dream than as a reality. Utilize the Wind, As we cannot all have what we want in tbe way of music, perhaps the following information how to make the most of what all can get may be acceptable: Double, twibt and wax strong silk thread tie a knot on each end; make two little wedges of soft wood, with the little end split np a quarter of an inch, and put one on each end of the thread, the knot kepping it from slipping through.

Now stretch it as tightly as possible between the sashes of a window where the wind will play upon it; fasten firmly with the wedges, and your rooms will be filled with music so soft and sweet, so full of changeful harmony, you will almost fancy it the music of angel voices, and listening to it will beguile many an hour of pain and weariness. By making the string coarser or finer different tones will be produced, but all full of rest and sweetness. mothers: Mothers I Don't fail to procure Mrs. Winslow's Sootluag Syrup for all diseases incident to the period of teething in children. It relieves the child from pain, cures wind colic, regulates the bowels, and, by giving relief and health to the child, gives rest to the mother.

It is an oia ana weu-inea remeay. Ilurkeye blowers and Reapers. The Buckeye Mowera and Reapers, bmlt by Adriance, Piatt Ic Poughkeepsie, and 165 Greenwich street, Xew York, hae for 21 years held the highest position. While many useful improvements have been made in other departments of agricultural machinery, all attempts to produce a machine that would equal the Buckeye in the simplicity and correctness of its principles of construction have failed; while the excellence of the mechanical work done by Adriance, Piatt has given them a world-wide fame. The New Model Buckeye Mower contains all the original Buckeye features, and is constructed entirely of iron and steeL It is truly a model of beauty, symmetry, lightness, strength, efficiency, and durability.

The Adriance Keaper, built by the same firm ie the nearest approach to perfection yet attained in a light, simple, single-drive wheel iron reaper, combining every desirable feature to enable it to do the best of work under all circumstances. Its platform is very easily folded, rendering it as portable as the Buckeye Mower, and enabling it to pass through the narrowest bars or laneB. Orcat apre carries with it a certain respectability whether it attaches to a person or thing. This is seen particularly in the case of John-sou's Anodvue Liniment, which is the most marvelous internal and external remedy ever discovered. It ought to be kept in every house.

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It will raawaa a fa Taaa twa a Ira jlSli mlr tC wn thro ht nrrP alptflilJta tjiiai-wr-dotrn Atfdrftaa, BOTANIC MEDICINE lit ulan uu CLOCKS Dnring May the public debt was decreased and since June 30, 1 877, it was decrea.ed $26,520,772.62. The cash in the treasury was $238,507,769.57, and the total debt, less cash in the treasury, on June 1 was $2,033,037,450.64. During May the coinage at tho mints was 293,750 pieces of gold of the value of $3,527,400 standard silver dollars, $3,015 000 other silver, $370, and nickel and bronze corns a lb making an aggregate or $6,543,088 for that month. A communication from the secretary of the interior has been laid before the House, rec ommending that the revised statutes be amended so to allow executive departments to pay ordinary advertising rates for the publication of au omciai advertisements. Tne rate prescribed by existing laws, namely, forty cents per one hundred words, is, in the opinion of the secretary, insufficient to secure first-class circulation.

Foreign Nevi, Prince Bismarck signed the invitation to the Powers to attend the peace congress. The following representatives have been nominated: Russia, Count Schouvaloff; England, Lord Lyons; Austria, Count Andrassy and Baron Haymerle; France, M. Waddington, and Greece (if admitted) Sir Peter Armeoi. Lord John Russell is dead at the age of eighty-six. His career in English politics waB long and eventful.

In 1861 he was raised to the peerage, and he was twice England's prime minister in 1846 and in 1865. At the time of his death he was a member of the House of Lords, and in politics was a Liberal. Details of the agreement between England and Russia have been published in London. It is agreed to divide the new Bulgaria into two provinces, one of which is to be ruled by a prince; the other by a governor. receives Bessarabia and Batuni, but relinquishes her claim to Bayazid, and agrees to forego further encroachments bb part payment for the indemnity.

The German ironclad Grosser KurfurBt (Great Elector) was sunk in the British Chan nel, off Folkestone, by colliding with the Konig Wilhclm, another German ironclad, while both vessels were endeavoring to get out of the way of a passing merchantman. As Boon as the vessel struck all on board rushed on deck and plunged into the sea. Efforts were made to res cue the drowning seamen, and, about 183 were saved. The number lost is over 300. The captain of the Grosser Kurfurst went down with his ship.

The bow of the Konig Wilhelm was crushed, but she was able to proceed down the channel in tlie direotion or rnrtsmoutn. lue two ironclads named and the Preussen were on their way from Germany to Portsmouth, their final destination being the Mediterranean where they were intended to guard German interests in the event or an Angio-nussiau war. me weather was hue and the Bea calm at the mo ment of the calamity. As soon as the accident occurred boats from the other ironclads were lowered and a number of fishing smacks in the vicinity hurried to the scene of disaster, but the Grosser Kurfurst foundered so suddenly that the assistance came too late for the ma jority of officers and crew. A number of the survivors died from exhaustion.

The sunken ironclad was one of the most powerful vessels in tne uerman navy. Another desperate attempt has been made to assassinate the emperor of Germany, this time with serious results. While the Emperor William was taking a drive in the avenue Unter den Linden tbe scene of the previous attack some shots from a house on the avenue were fired at him and he was wounded in one arm and on the cheek bv a quantity of buckshot. The emperor stood up in the carriage as the first shot was fired, but immediately sank back again. His personal attendant jumped into the carriage and supported him until their arrival at the palace.

The person who fired the shots was arrested, but not before he had hred upon the persons attempting to capture him. He also tried to commit suicide, and inflicted several severe wounds on himself. He proved to be a Dr. i.donard iNobmng, a doctor or philology, aged thirty-two. The emperor suffered great pain and several grains of shot were extracted, causing much loss of blood, but the wounds were not thought dangerous by his physicians.

The ocean steamer Idaho, on her way from New York to Queenstown and Liverpool, went ashore on the coast of Wexford, Ireland, during a fog, and foundered. The crew and passengers were all Only one session will be held by the European peace congress, during which the basis of peace will be settled and ther final treaty signed. Dr. Nobiling, who tried to kill the Emperor William, had studied agriculture and finance, was a regular contributor to agricultural journals and was in easy circumstances. He admitted that he had accomplices who had been in communication with him on the Bubject of the assassination of the Emperor for the past Six months.

The formal invitation to the peace congress was made public. The international postal treaty has baen signed by all the representatives of the governments taking part in the conference. Further advices from Berlin in regard to the attempted assassination of the Emperor William, state that Hurr Holtfletir, who was also wounded by the assassin, Nobiling. was mistaken by the infuriated populace for the real murderer, and was so roughly handled that his injuries willprove mortal. As the van conveying Nobiling to the hospital was being rapidly driven through an archway of the hotel tho driver's head came in contact with an arch with such force that he was killed; and another man who attempted to arrest Nobiling also received injuries from the effectB of which he died.

As soon as tbe news of the attack upon the emperor was made known telegrams of sympathy from all parts of the civilized world, including one from President Hayes, were sent to Berlin. CONGRESSIONAL NUMMARY. Senate. The Senate committee on foreign relations made a Teport on the fisheries award message of the President, accompanied by a bill providing for the payment of the award The bill to prohibit further retirement of legal tender notes was passed by yeas 41, nays 18, and went to the President for his signature. The bill reads: That from and after the passsge of this act it shall not be lawful for the secretary of the troasury, or other officer under him, to cancel or retire any more of the United Ssates legal tender notes, and when any of Baid notes may be redeemed or be received into the treasury, under any law, from any source whatever, and" shall belong to the United States, they shall not be retired, canceled, or destroyed, but they shall be reissued and paid ont again, and kept in circulation; provided, that nothing herein shall prohibit the cancellation and destruction of mutilated notes and the issue of other notes of like denomination in their stead as now provided by law.

All acts and parts of acta in conflict herewith are hereby Adjourned after an executive session. The Bonate refused to take up the bill to remove the legal obstacles to women practicing iu tho United States conrts, by yeas, twenty-six, nays, twenty-six Tho river and harbor appropriation bill was reported. The aggregate amount appropriated by tbe House is increased by the fenate. Adjourned. A bill was reported from the judiciary committee to create an auditor of railroad accounts, as a substitute for tbe Senate bill relating to the filing of Pacific Railroad reports.

A bill was introduced by Mr. Cameron, of Wisconnin, authorizing the present Legislature of New Hampshire to elect a Sonator for the term beginning March 4, 1870.... The bill authorizing the appointment of an additional judge in the seventh judicial circuit and Indiana) was parsed Tbe legislative, judicial, and executive appropriation bill was disposed of in committee of the whole and passed The fisheries award concurrent resolution was discussed without action. Ad-Jon rued. The House amendment to the Senate resolution for a final adjournment of Congress on the 17th was The Senate resumed consideration of -the concurrent resolution approving the report of the foreign relations committee on tbe Halifax fisheries award.

A long debate took place, in which it was argued that the award, notwithstanding it was exorbitant, should be paid. Hevorai senators intimated that the proceedings of the Halifax commission were not regular, and that the award had beerTreached through improiwr influences. Finally, an smendment was adopted declaring that the provisions of articles 18 and 21 of the Washington treaty ought to bo terminated as soon as possible, and then the resolution authorizing the President, after further correspondence, to pay the award, was adopted. Adjourned Mr. Dorsey, from the committee on the District of Columbia, reported favorably on the Senate bill for the protection of dauymen and to prevent deception in sales of butter and cheese in the District of smendment to the Houe bill appropriating for the expenses of the Ixmtsjana and Florida presidential election investigation committee was reported from the jndiciarv committee, appropriating fcfl.OfK) for any investigation the Senate may order dnring the forty-fifth Congress.

post route bill was taken lip and various amendments adopted. Mr. Hamlin submi'ted tu smendment virtually reviving the franking privilege, which, after discussion, was rejected by 20 to 29. Adjourned. The Senate bill to repeal the I'atikrnpt law was signed by the president of the Senate, and it wont to the President for hfs The committee on appropriations reported the army bill.

The Honse provision reducing tbe army to 20,100 men was amended and tbe force left at its present figure 26. 000 men. The committee also ruck out the section pro hunting the useef the army as a pom (mm Untu for the purpose of enforcing aud executing the lawn, except in cases expressly Authorized by Congress, The clause In the Hoime bill transferring the Indian bureau from the interior to tbe war department was agreed to by tbe committee. Adjourne I. He The army appropriation MH was passed with ameudmenl.

The main featnrosof the bill as passed are, fixing tbe strength of the army at men, fixing the nnmW of cavalry regiments at eight, (with companies not exceeding 126 privates.) and of infantry regiments at IS, fwith companies of not less J.h 60 privates;) reducing the force of the various stsff departments, provid ng for a board to reorganize th'-e departments, providing for a Iwiard to recommend the retiring or the mustering out of officers, fixing the number of major-generals at one and of brigadier-generals at three after thowj figures shall have been reached, reducing the number and rank of aide do ramp, refneit the pay and emolument of officers, franpferring the Indian bureau to the war department, an I prohibiting tbe employment of troops for civil pur poses unless specially authorised by act of Con signature. Adjourned. The House refused to postpone the subject of final adjournment till June 8, as agreed upon in the Democratic caucus, and nxed. Jane 17 as tbe day for closiug the session. A bill appropriating $20,000 for the expenses of tie Potter Committee was reported, and, under a point of order, was referred to the committe of the whole, but the opponents of the appropriation so retarded progress that the committee at length rose, leaving the bill at the root of the calendar.

Adjourned. On motion of Mr. Atkins, of Tennessee, the bill appropriating $20,000 to defray the expenses of the Florida investigation committee, was taken from the calendar and passed without a division. bills on tbe private calendar were passed The speaker ap pointed Messrs. mount, Manning, ana fori as the board of visitors to West Pout on the part of the House.

Adjourned. The House non-concurred in the Donate amendments to the legislative appropriation bill A bill was passed exempting post office employes from military and jury The bill to reorganize the life-saving service was Eassed. motion of Mr. Wood, the tariff ill was taken up in committee of the whole. Debate was limited to two hours by a vote of 129 to 86.

At the close of speech against the bill by Mr. Garfield, Mr. Wood moved that the committee rise, which waB lost by 111 to 82. Mr. Wood then demanded the first reading of the bill, which was proceeding when Mr.

Butler proposed that a vote should be taken at noon on the next day on a motion to strike out the enacting clause. Agreed to. Adjourned. The Tlonfte Presidential Election Invent I na tion. The House special committee appointed to investigate alleged frauds in the Louisiana and Florida presidential election opened its sessions in the basement of the old Capitol, which bad been fitted up as a court room.

The full committee was present, and Secretary Sherman was represented by Messrs. Shella-barger and Wilson, as counsel. The firBt wit ness called was James E. Anderson, a journalist, who had been supervisor of registration in the parish of East Feliciana. during the election in 1876.

Witness stated that be fore tbe election Governor Kellogg and others tried to drive him from nis post because, knowing how the election would go, he refused to make up a case of "intimidation;" that after the election be had been aked to sign a protest, alleging the election had been carried unlawfully, but that be refused; that subseouentlv he did sien, but not swear to. a protest that had been garbled and changed to suit the purpose for which it was in tended, namely, to throw out the vote of the parish. Witness gave the particulars of an interview which he and Don. A. Weber (supervisor of registration in West Feliciana parish) had with Hon.

John Sherman ia a New Orleans restaurant. At that interview, witness said, Mr. Sherman made the following remark: "Gentlemen, I want to see you, as I understand there is some difficulty in your respective parishes. This is a time when the assistance of every Republican and true patriot is needed, and I trust you will stand by us." Mr. Weber remarked that in endeavoring to do their duty they incurred the displeasure of Messrs.

Packard and Kellogg, and were compelled to leave their respective parishes; and in the event of Mr. Packard's election as governor, we will get nothing from the administration, whereupon they were assured by Mr. Hherman that they would be cared for as Mr. Hayes weuld control the Federal patronage. All he desired of them was that they stand firm and let tlie record run along as it ts.

After a lapse of a ort time Messrs, Weber and Anderson concluded to forward a letter to Mr. Sherman, informing him that they were not satisfied with their conversation with him as regards being taken care of. and requesting that he inform them in writing a to whom they should look for the fulfillment of his piotnises. Messrs. Hiscock, Butler and Cox, of tbe committee, objected to the reading of what was claimed by the witness to be a copy of the reply to their letter to Mr.

Hherman, taking the ground that Mr. Sherman should first see the document, and, if he recognized it as a copy of his reply, then, and not until then, should it be admitted in evidence. After discussion it was by the committee to call Secretary Sherman and allow him to testify concerning the letter. After a recess Secretary Sberman appeared before the committee, and the letter, which was claimed by Mr. Anderson to be a reply to his letter, was shown to the secretary, and he said: "Mr.

Chairman. I believe from my recollection of the views I have taken that I never wrote such a letter. If it was written, it must have been when the returning officers convened to count the returns, and I do not believe I ever wrote this letter. At the same time, there are things in this letter I would have written to these or any other men engaged in such occupation; but I do not believe I wrote this letter." A vote was then taken, resulting in favor of hav'ng the letter read. The document was as follows: "New Orleans, Nov.

20, 1876. 1 Messrs. D. A. Webeb and James E.

Anderson. Gentlemen: Your note of even date has just been received. Neither Mr. the gentlemen who accompany me, nor the country at large can ever forgot the obligations under which you will have placed us, should yon stand firm in the position you have taken. From a long and intimate acquaintance with Governor Hayes, I am justified in assuming the responsibility for promises made, and will guarantee that you will be provided for as soon after the 4th of March as may be practicable, and in such manner as will enable you both to leave Louisiana, should you deem it necessary.

Very truly yours, John Sherman." Secretary Sherman left the witness Btandand the examination of Anderson continued. He testified that he came to Washington and tried to obtain a suitable position through the aid of Hon. Stanley Matthews. Mr. Matthews asked witness what position he wanted, and he replied: Nothing in particular; whereupon Mr.

Matthews advised him to proceed to New Orleans, and, if possible, secure the original written promise of Secretary Sherman, guaranteeing that Weber and himself would be provided for. He succeeded in obtaining the copy, and forwarded it to Mr. Matthews, but he did not succeed in getting a satisfactory position. Witness was cross-examined at great length by Mr. Butler, but nothing new was elicited.

Under the call of the States the following bills were introduced and referred By Mr. Bland, of Missouri Authorizing the issue of $50,000,000 in United States treasury notes to be applied for the improvement of the Mississippi river from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico. By Mr. Culberson, of Texasj To restrain the secretary of the treasury from paying the out-standing 5-20 bonds, except in legal tender trecsnrv notes.

By Mr. Wright, of Pennsvlva-nia Authorizing the issue of $400,000,000 United States notes, to be known as national money A bill was reported to let the print ing and engraving or tne national currency, United States notes andbonds, after public advertisement, to such parties whose proposals shall be most advantageous to the government. Adjourned, On the second day of the sitting of the committee, the cross-examination of tbe witness Anderson was continued by Mr. Reed, of the committee. The examination was largely devoted to an endeavor to convict the witness of discrepancies between his testimony on the first day and statements heretofore made by him before the Senate investigating committee that visited Louisiana last year.

The contracts between Anderson and Nash (candidate for Congress from Louisiana) and between Anderson and Weber wore largely used for the purpose of showing contradiction and discrepancies and disregard of moral considerations on the part of the witness. Witness had stated in relation to the Nash contract that at the time of its date he had no evidence of fraud in his possession andhadnot pretended that he had. and yet the contract recites that he is to suppress evidence showing that East Feliciana hal been fairly carried by the Democratic partv, the consideration for such suppression being that Nash was to secure for him the position of naval officer. Ho was pressed on that point as to whether his statement on the first day (that he had no such evidence) was correct or not, and he asserted that it was, except that be had the Sherman letter in his pocket at tbe time (if that could be construed into snch evidence) and also except that he had knowledge that tbe vote of the State was to be thrown out on a forged protest. He admitted also that he did not ex(ect to got the position of naval officer, Anderson further stated that he had pur; posciy misled the Senate investigation committee that went to Louisiana last year, ia order to carry out as far as possible his implied agreement with Mr.

Sherman. Coming down to bis testimony as to the interview with Mr. Sherman at Morean's restaurant, in New Orleans, Anderson was closely cross-examine and made to repeat in detail all the circumstances of the interview, but his answers to all the questions put to him on that point did not show any notable variation or discrepancy. A (Julckencd Conscience. Dnring a lull in the conversation yesterday evening, grandfather Lickshin-gle startled the family by remarking: "I've lived over a hundred years by tbe watch, aud never felt this way before," and he blinked iu a very sorrowful manner, What's the matter?" asked mother, who was at his side in an instant.

"I don't know," be said, "nnlese I have a quickened conscience," and he blinked and stared by turns in very alarming manner. I feel sort hot around the he went on, 11 an' mebbe I'd better confess. His whole frame trembled like ft leaf, and a deadly pallor overspread his face. A window wb thrown open, which seemed to revive him, and lie gasped: I wrote Beautiful Hnow 11 Yon did nothing of the sort," yelled father; I wrote it myself, and I can prove it," Grandfather went on with his confession "I killed old man Junius, and wrote the Nathan letters Bind up my horse Give me another wound 1" Another window was opened. Summoning his strength again he whispered: It was I who struck Billy Patterson struck him twuv; once for a next time for a twenty," an 1 ffmndfathpr fell back in his chair exhmstd.

OM Cif) Derrick. Eaatern Middle Statea. The Rhode Inland Legislature organized at Newport and inaugurated the State officers. In the Senate a resolution protesting against the Florida election investigation was panned. A bast of Mazzini.

the Italian patriot, has been unveiled in Central Park, New York. The Fennavlvania Prohibition partv held a Staie convention at Altooua and nominated a ticket headed by F. H. Lane for governor. Decoration Day in New York thU year was observed with unusually imposing ceremonies, aithongn the programme or tne day was marrea by the heavy rain that set in during the forenoon and continued all the afternoon.

The military prooesesion was reviewed by Gov. Bobin-BOn, and among the officers in line were Generals Bherman, Hancock and others. All the statues in the city were beautifully decorated with flowers, notably the equestrian statue of Washington, in Union Square, which was completely surronnded with floral archeB and inscriptions. The ceremonies at the different oemeterieB were curtailed somewhat by the rain. At Gettysburg, the oration of tbe day was delivered by Hon.

Benjamin F. Butler, and short addresses were also spoken by President Hayes, Attorney-General Devena and Secretary McCrary. Hon. James G. Blaine has been elected chairman of the Maine Republican State eonvention, which will be held at Portland on August I.

A gravel train on the Prospect Park and Coney Inland railroad, Brooklyn, waB thrown from the track, and five of the sixteen workmen on the train were killed by the crash. The accident was caused by obstructions that had been placed on the track. The Second National Bank, of Scranton, Pa.t has suspended. During May there were ninety-five failures in New York city, with liabilities of over 000 and assets less than 1,000,000. The trial of the Rev.

George B. VoBburgh, pastor of a Baptist church in Jersey City, N. on the charge of having attempted to poison his wife with tartar-emetic, resulted in a verdict of acquittal. The case had exoited intense interest on account of the prisoner's standing and the fact that his innocence was believed in by a majority of his parishioners. Mr.

Vosborgh preached to his congregation on the day after his acquittal. The Rev. C. C. Burleigh, late pastor of the Florence (Mass.) Free Congregational cnurch, was run over by a train at that place and fatally injured.

A larae indignation meeting of women was held at the Cooper Institute, New York, to denounce the remarks derogatory to their sex made bv Judge Hilton, manager of the late Stewart's Women's Hotel. The language which called forth the meeting was to tbe effect that in his experience as a manager of the hotel Jndge Hilton had found that women were not so easily satisfied as men that the hotel proved a failure as a women's home because applicants became dissatisfied with the rules and left, etc. Eleven resolutions expressive of the indignation of the meeting were passed. Western and Borneo States. Fifty perform were killed and from 200 to 250 seriously injured duriDg the recent tornado in Wisconsin, wbile the destruction to property will reach into the millions.

Woe and desolation were visible everywhere in the track of the terrible storm. Joseph Oberlie, Alois Smith, Edward Williams and Chris. Turner, while engaged in cleaning a vault in Cleveland, Ohio, were overcome by foul gas, and, falling into the vault, all four were suffocated before they could be rescued. All wire married and leave large families. Democratic State conventions have been held in Iowa, Tennessee and Alabama, and candidates nominated.

In Iowa the ticket is headed by T. O. Walker, for secretary of State in Tennessee five candidates for judges of the supreme court were nominated, and in Alabama R. W. Cobb, for governor, headed the ticket Much excitement was created by the discov ery, in the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, of the body of the venerable J.

Scott Harrison, father of President Harrison and ex-member of Congress, who had recently been buried at North Bend, Ind. A guard had been placed over the grave, but notwithstanding the precaution body-snatchers succeeded in stealing the body and transferring it to the college, where it was jabout to be dissected when discovered by a son of the deceased while searching for another body that had been stolen from the same cemetery. At Bowling Green, William Henry Robinson Ccoloredl was hanged for the murder of Eliza Roy, a young colored girl who had refused to marry him, and at ManaSeld, Ohio. Edward Webb (also colored) suffered a like fate for murdering an old man named Finney. At Springfield, Mrs.

Thompson, a widow about fifty years old, highly respected and connected, while temporarily insane killed her sixteen-year-old daughtor with a razor and then cut her own throat. A portable sawmill boiler on a farm near HiUsboro, Ohio, exploded, killing three men and dangerously scalding three others. The boiler was found 300 yards away and one man was thrown completely over a tall tree. Two men entered the house of Mrs. Becky Baldwin," a young widow residing near Tazewell Court House, and demanded her pocketbook.

She went to her dress, took out the pocketbook, and threw it into the fire and as one of the men stooped to recover it Mrs. Baldwin snatched up an axe and dealt him a terrific blow, which she followed up rapidly by others, dashing his brains out. The secoDd robber rushed at her with a dirk knife and stabbed her in the left breaHt, hut not before the resolute woman had nearly severed his right arm with a fearful blow. The miscreant fled and his dead body was found the next morning, two miles from tbe house. To a young man passing by several hours after Mrs.

Baldwin told the story of her terrible encounter, and her death soon followed. A hurricane passed over Richmond, leveling to the gr jund over half of the buildings in town. More than one hundred houses were totally destroyed, and the loss on property will reach $250,000. Whole blocks were completely swept away, and the debris was scattered for miles. The Shaw House, a large brickjhotel, was demolished and its inmates were buried in the ruins.

Ten persons were killed, three mortally wounded and over thirty seriously injured. According to late advices from Tort Benton Montana Territory, Sitting Bull is preparing to go on the war path again soon. He recently madeja rancorous harangue promising to return to the United States when the grass grows and make the soldiers weep. A grand war-dance and mustering of the various tribes followed this speech. At Omaba, a woman named Oleson, while in a fit of temporary insanity, seized her daughter twelve years old, and threw her into a pond and then jumped in herself.

The screams of the girl alarmed people within the sound of her voice, but not within sight of the pond. A search was mida, which resulted in the finding of the dead bodios of mother and daughter. The Baltimore Sun publishes a long cabel message from James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the Now York ArafrZ. in regard to the recent stories published abont his duel with Frederick May. Mr.

Bennett intimates that none of these stories are altogether correct that he will arrive In the United States about the middle of July, When he will bo ready to assume tbe legal responsibility for the duel if public; opinion should require it that as Erincipal he cannot say ativthing in reprard to is actions during the duel, but that be feels at liberty to withdraw any injunction of secrecy upon the gentlemen who acted as seconds. A farmer named John W. Caldwell, living about fifteen miles from Am eric us, killed his wife, three children, aged ten, six and two years, and his sister-in-law. Miss Mitchell. The murders were all done with a smoothing iron.

After he had committed the terrible crimes Caldwell made three efforts to commit suicide, by jumping down a well, leaping from the top of his house and precipitating himself from the roof of a gin house. The last attempt resulted in death. The caune of his crimos is attributed to the improper relations which existed between him and his sister-in-law. From Washington The marriage of lieutenant R. ti.

Hnxie, of the army, to Miss Vinnie Roam, the well-known sculptress, took place in Washington the other day. Tbe letter of Hon. Clarkson N. Totter, chairman of the Florida investigation committee, has bronght out two long replies -one from Hon. Alexander H.

Stephens, and the other from Postmaster-General Key. Mr. Stephens denies that he was acting in concert with the Republican party, but entirely upon his convictions when he opposed the investigation resolutions. Mr, Key's letter is addressed to tho peop'e of the South, and he says in it that the title of President Hayes "was settled irrevocably by the Forty-fourth Congress" and that "uo man need hope that the schemes of the men who have engineered tha movement to unseat Pre. deut Haves can be carried oat without bloody civil war." At a oauens of the Democratic members of the House it was resolved to postpone any action upon adjournment In the Honne An official statement made by the bureau of statiHtiss shows that the amount of export and imports during tbe ten months which ended April 30, were as follows Total exports of merchandise, 593.187,2M; imports, f.ttfryWil.fiM; excess of export over imports, exports of specie and bullion, 27,077,914.

imports excels of specie oxports over imports, excess of exports over imports of merchandise and specie, Pub-committees fromths'Florida election in-teati Ration committees will go to Louisiana and Ho rid, to take testimony. Mr. Cobb, of Indiana, one of the members of tho Florida election Investigation committee, resigned on account of Ill-health, and Mr.Hpin-ger, of Illinois, ws appointed in his place. The committee resolved to sit with open doors and to allow Herrfrfary Hherman to sfrpaar bv ennnset as requeiited by him, Metwrs. Blackburn, Spring and Reed form the tub-commit tee to take testimony in Louisiana, aud Messrs, Hun-ton, Htenger and Iliscox the sub-committee to perform a similar duty In Florida.

The House committee on His revision of he laws, has reported favorably a bill to repeal that section of the revised statutes which rs-lttes to tbe sending of obscene literature through the mail, on tbe ground that the law ts unconstitutional and in many instances bas be executed in an and tyrannical manner. The syndicate jf hankers lias siihrriled formally, for $15,000,000 of ths per cent according to the records of the depart ment of buildings, tenement houses in the city of New York in a total of 78,000 buildings of all kinds. Taken all through the city, the new and the old, the first and the second classes, they average four stories in height, and are constructed to hold two families and a half to each floor, or ten families'to a house. Accordingly, if all these buildings are full, the tenement house population of New York is 210,000 families, which, at five persons to a family, would make 1,050,000 men, women and children. This is evidently an overestimate, but certain experienced agents of tenement houses on the east side say that twenty per cent, is all that need be deducted for houses or parts of houses not occupied.

That deduction leaves a net tenement house population of 840,000 sonls. It has been said that the tenements averaged two and a half families to a floor, or ten families to a house, but the population is not at all equally distrib uted; in some buddings there are as many as five families on a floor, and in others one or two. Most of the build ings are so built as to effect the greatest possible economy in space, in ventila tion and in safety. High and narrow, with contracted hallways and walls of the minimum thickness allowed by the department of buildings, with little or no open space in tne rear, ana fre quently a rear tenement building instead of a court, they are hardly bearable as places of habitation in the winter, aad still less so in the summer. Indeed, it has become a common sight to see their inmates sleeping on summer nights on the roofs of their dwellings or in carts in front of them rather than suffocate within doors.

It is their cheapness and their cheapness only that gives them any attraction to the poor, and their oheapness is due to the possibility of packing them with tenants and to the practice of building them on the most economical plan. The tenement houses are not, as many suppose, confined exclusively to the Wwer districts; they lire fonnd all over the city, and fringe the island on the extreme east and the extreme west sides all the way np town. The most fashionable part of New York is flanked by them on either side, and a straight lino down from Murray Hill to first avenue on the one side, and from Murray Hill to Tenth avenue on the other, would discover some of the very worst of these dwellings. They are constantly increasing, too; within the past eighteen months 800 new ones have been put up, some down town- below Houston street, and others up town as far as Harlem. The distress of the time has not relieved them of their usual class of tenants so much as it has filled them with a new class, which formerly inhabited private houses.

The cheaper tenements are better patronized than ever, and landowners who would not venture to build ordinary dwelling houses to stand vacant, are willing to take advantage of the present low price of labor by erecting tenements, which insure a safe and steady, though slow, return for the investment. In most of these houses there are from fifteen to twenty families, and in some there are more huddled together, and making life bearablo as best they can. The crowding would be less tolerable but for the fact that, by their male tenants at least, the tenements are used almost exclusively as sleeping places. In the spring and summer months the women, too, forsake the close buildings for the not much fresher air of the curbstone and the pavements outside. A walk along First avenue, in the locality indicated, after dusk, at this time of the year, will discover the doorsteps alive with women nursing their infants, and with young girls gossiping among themselves or flirting with the young men; the sidewalk aud roadway literally swarming with children screaming and shouting at play, while the scene is lit up by the brilliaut lights of the myriad liquor saloons.

Perhaps the most noticeable feature of this tenement house district is the extraordinary number of liquor saloons it contains. At a casual glance one would say that thero was a grog shop to every five houses; on one block there are no less than seven. These aro different in appearance from the German larger-beer saloons of the lower districts as the people who patronize them are from the German beer drinkers. Instead of the low-roofed, dark basement, with its modest little counter and its sombre proprietor dispensing beer from behind, one sees large, showy stores, brilliantly lighted without and gorgeous within. with long mirrors reflecting the array of shining and vari-colored glasses ranged along the counter.

Times are very hard among the tenement house people. Hardly a house but has one poor family in distress because the father or husband is out of work. There is no mistaking the signs of real hardship. Many of these people are in rags and many more have not the means to buy a meal for their families, who have to depend to a great extent upon the charity or good will of neighbors. And tenement house neighbors are usually very kind to each other, not knowing when kindness will be needed in return.

Peat Men and Women in Shetland. The lives of these peat men and women are simple aud uneventful enough. The chain is a very short one and the links are not scattered. They go forth to their daily work aud return to their daily rest, aud have no thoughts or ambitions beyond. Their aspect, I have said, is picturesque.

They are of all ages, some young, others bending under the weight of years. There they go, one after another, with their baskets or kisbies, as they are called, fastened upon the back by means of a strap over each shoulder, rising above their heads, and piled np with squares of black peat. This naturally gives them all a stooping position, suggestive of hard work and feminine weakness, that quickly appeals to the sympathies. Many of them wear shoes madeof cowhide, strong aud cheap, perhaps, but without form, and with small pretensions to neatuess and cleanliness. And these they often "save by carrying them in their hands.

Many, too, are without stockings, and they trudge along bare-footed and barelegged, and only look in consequence the more poverty-stricken. Their petticoats are short, and generally of some dark, coarse material, with the color of which the peat-getting sufficiently harmonizes. Upon their heads they wear the inevitable kerchief of Shetland wool, generally gray, but sometimes red. Their faces are sun-bnrned and weather-beaten. Those of the old women are often strangely and wonderfully wrinkled, with their bent attitude gives them a look of extreme age, and almost decrepitude.

The younger women are many of them handsome; I saw a fow really beautiful faces. As they go along the road nearly all are kitting stockings or some other article for wear. They appear to knitby instinct an hereditary gift. Their heavy loads and somewhat difficult progress in no way seem to interfere with the flying needles. These never arrest their motion as their owners for a moment raise their heads as you pass, and wish you good-day; or, it may bo, turn round to look after the otranger or the gun no doubt the gun, Arynnj.

Ladles' Skirts. The present inordinate length of ladies' skirt appears to have so greatly excited the ire of the police of Leipsic that they have restored for their suppression to the sumptuary laws of the middle ages. A notice has appeared in tho Leipziger Tsgblatt that all persoDS whose clres is fonnd trailing on anv streets or footpaths within the municipal boundaries of Leipsio will bo lis-ble to be mnlctured in penalties varying from five to fifty marks according to the extent of the skirt wo presume. Constables are instructed to arrest, and conduct to the nearest station, all offenders against this regulation, snd the names of the guilty one will 1 published at the end of every week. whose bodies ntain a good deal of phosphorus.

Tha polyp feeds on some of these and bo takes in phosphorus, which, in a way mysterious to ns, is mixed with the chalk, which it also gets with its food from the sea and converts it into coral. If the polyp has any motto to inspire it, it must be Excelsior," for it is an aspiring little being, continually aiming to greater heights, toward the light. It works only in tropical seas and never so far down iu the water as to get into the cold currents of the deep sea. There are high rocks, rising from the bottom of the ocean, which have been thrown up by volcanio forces. On these the polyp fastens itself and builds higher and higher, constantly making for itself a new skeleton on the ruins of an old one, which dies and hardens when the live polyp deserts it.

This is the way great coral islands are formed, little by little, by the constant and persevering industry of myriads of these tiny creatures. There are several kinds of coral, of various forms, and of different colors, white, red and pink. It is very interesting to watch the coral makers at their work. Sometimes they are at rest. Then myriads of tiny thread-like feeders or arms may be seen spread out of loveliest forms and the most brilliant colors, looking like exquisitely beautiful flowers beneath the clear water.

But, generally, the tentacles are in motion. The polyp requires a good deal of material for its work, aud as it can get it only by eating, and as it uses it up as fast as it gets it, of course, the little thing is always hungry and greedy. Their greediness serves another purpose, however, beside coral-making. There is always in the sea a great deal of dead decaying matter which would make the water very impure if not disposed of. As the polyp is not at all fastidious in its choice of food, it devours a good deal of this offensive matter, and through its simple digestive apparatus, converts it into the useful, curious and beautiful coral.

they serve with the lobster and some other creatures as scavengers of the sea. How wonderful is the economy of nature. In her vast workshop nothing is wasted. Even the most unsightly and impure matter is made over into new forms and colors of marvelous beauty and use. The coral-making polyp used to be considered a sub-marine plant, because its lovely forms and bright colors resemble flowers so much, Later, it was supposed to be both animal and vegetable.

But still more recent investigation have decided naturalists to class it among the simplest form of animal life. Mrs. Pig's five little children were dressed up one morning by their mother in clean white aprons, which they dreaded, and were told that they might go out on the grass under the trees to play. "Be sure that you keep on the grass, though, children," the mother put her head out of a window to say, and don't go near the puddles in the road." So off they ran, capering and frisking, and would have been very happy but for so much starch in their aprons, and for the fear of getting a speck of dirt on them. They played "Dickie's Land," and "Puss in the Corner," with the trees for corners, and tried to be contented; but all the while they thought of the beautiful puddles that the last night's rain had made, where yellow butterflies were fluttering, and where there was such a lovely chance to make mud pies.

At last the temptation grew too strong for them, and one by one they slipped through the gate out into the road, where they soon forgot their clean aprons and their mother's warning, and made mud pies to their hearts' content, and even waded out into the water up to their knees. Their mother soon missed them from the grass, and went in search of them. She had felt sure that she should find them where they ought not to be, and so had armed herself with a stick. She went grunting and grumbling along, and sure enough, there they all were, paddling in the forbidden puddle, and mixing up their dirt pastries, nntil the five aprons were the same color as their pies. They caught of their mother before she reached them, with her cap-frills flying aud her threatening stick in the air, and with one frightened squeal away they scampered aud hid themselves, breathless aud terrified, under the barn.

What happened to them when their mother caught them, I do not like to tell. Youth's Companion. Lending a Pair of Leas. Sometimes we ask people to lend a hand," and sometimes we can hear them say Lend me your eyes." Here is a story about a boy who lent a pair of legs juht to accommodate. Some boys were playing at base-ball iu a pretty, shady street.

Among the number was a lame little fellow, seemingly about twelve years old, a pale, sickly-looking child, supported on two crutches, and who evidently found mnch difficulty in walking, even with sueh assistance. The lame boy wished to join the game for he did not seem to see how much his infirmity would be in his own way, aud how much it would hinder the progress of such an active sport as base-balL His companions, good-naturedly enough, tried to persuade him to stand on one side and let another take his place none of them hinted that he would be in the way but they all objected for fear that he would hurt himself. Why, said one at last, 1 yon can't run, yon hush said another, the tallest boy in the party never mind, I'll run for him, and yon count it for and ho took his placo by J.mmy's side prepared to act. If you were like he said aside to the other boys, 'yon wouldn't want to be told of it all the How many times loving hearts will find a way to lend their powers and members to the aged, the poor, the sick, and the weak. What There Is in an Egg.

Any one who eaU three or fonr eggs at breakfast consumes that number of embryo chicks. All the materials which enter into the legs, bones, feathers, bill, of the new-born chick exist in the egg, as nothing is derived from outside. The little creature which lias just peeked his way out of his calcareous prison-house has lime and phosphorus in his hones, sulphur in his feutnres, iron, potash, soda, snd manganese in his blood, all of which mineral constituents came from the egg, and are taken into the stomach when it is eaten as foot). The valuable or important salts are contained in the yolk, and hence this portion of the egg is the most useful in I some forms of disease. A weakly person, in whom nerve force is deficient and the blood impoverished, may take the yolks of eggs with advantage.

The iron and phosphoric compounds are in a condition to be readily assimilated, and although homoiopathio in quantity nevertheless exert a marked influence upon the system. The yolks of eggs, containing as they do less albumen, are not so injuriously affected by the heat as the whites, and a hard-boiled yolk may be usually eaten by invalids without inconvenience. The composition of a fresh egg, exclnsive of the shell, may be presented as follows: Paris. Pari. Water 74Ollorft 10.B Alhnmen 14 Mineral salt 1.6 Total 100.0 The whole usually weighs abont 1,000 grains, of which the shell makes a tenth The capote, or cottage shape, is the favorite Btyle for mourning.

The Marie Antoinette fichu of black silk is a favorite light wrap. Bourette batiste is a new knotted linen fabric for mid-summer wear. There is a revival of spotted silks and satins and soft twilled foulards. Tbe Don Sol scarfs are of silk chenille, and bright colors are preferred. Jaspe silks with bourette effects are the latest novelties in dress goous.

New summer fichus of lace and crepe hsse have collars and culls to match. The "Devonshire" and Oxford are leading shapes of rouud hats for this season. Crimped braid fringe, combined with crape, is used for trimming mourning dresses. Beicre beads in graduated shades are a novelty for trimmiug black silk dres ses. White muslin veils, dotted with Roman pearl beads, are pretty novelties for full ureBS.

The most fashionable trimming for linen and batiste dresses is Russian embroidery. Striped black silk crrenadine, with chenille bourettes, is used for bonnet capes and strings. Young girls who are iu deep mourning wear crape round hats in all the popular shapes. Beige chip, lined with black velvet and bound with gold braid, is the favorite style of bonnet. Grenadine lace is the name given to a new trimming of open work designs embroidered on grenadine.

The fashionable belt buckle of the moment is of cut steel and gold, or of diamonds for evening wear. Largo bonnets and still larger round hats are the fashion in Paris. The bonnets have large flaring brims indented in Watteau style, and broad flat crown. The Amazon. It rises in the little Peruvian Lake of Lauricocha, just below the limits of perpetual snow.

For 500 miles it flows wittly through a deep valley. Then, turning sharply eastward, it runs 2,500 miles across the great equatorial plains. Two thousand miles above its mouth its width is a mile and a half, increasing to more than ten miles at the head of the delta, where it divides, and after running 400 miles, presents a front of 150 miles upon the ocean. For a great distance it is bordered by side channels or "bayous," as they are called upon the Mississippi, named by the Indians iga-rapes, or canoe paths." From Santa rem, the principal town above Para, one may paddle a thousand miles parallel to the river without once entering the stream. For twenty-five degrees of latitude every river that flows down the easteru slopes of the Andes is an affluent of the Amazon.

The volume of its waters is greater than the breadth of the river would indicate. At Nauta, 2,200 miles from its mouth, the depth is forty feet, increasing rapidly as it approaches the ocean. The largest ocean steamer could doubtless steam 2,000 miles up the Amazon. The vegetation of the valley is exuberant There is a bewildering diversity of grand and beautiful trees, wild, uncorjquered vegetable giants, draped and festooned by creeping plants. The moment you land upon the shore yon are confronted by a solid wall of vegetation, through which, if you wish to proceed, you must hew your way with axe or macheta.

Palms, of which three varieties are noted, constitute the majority of trees. Then there are cow trees," a hundred and fifty feet high, yielding a milk of the consistency of cream, used for ten, coffee and custards. The "cauclu or rubber tree, though of a different species from that of the East Indies, produces a gum which constitutes most of the rubber of commerce. Of ornamental woods there is no end. Foremost among these is the Motra-Pinima," or tortoise-shell wood," the most beautiful in grain and color of any in the world.

Enough is wasted every year to veneer all the dwellings of the civilized world. For many years to come the exports of the Amazon Valley must be mainly the products of its fora.ts. Contrary to all that we might expect, the climate of the Amazon Valley is temperate rather than tropical. It is more equal than in any other region of the world. Year in and year out it ranges from seventy-five to eighty-seven degrees the fair mean being eighty degrees.

A Fatal Explosion. That it is as dangerous to sleep over a tor shop as over a powder magazine was shown one evening in Paris recently, when a small Btock of ammunition for drawing-room pistols exploded in the Rue Beranger with such force that it hrotight to the gronnd a house inhabited by over 100 persons. The terror which the explosion caused in the immediate neighborhood was immense; and the audience in the Troisieme Theatre Francaig, waiting for the curtain to rise, rushed from the house in alarm. The gronnd floor of the hose was a toy shop and manufactory owned by a man named Blanchon. Above the shop there were twenty-eight rooms, all of which were tenanted, the total number of occn-pnnta being n.nety-two; besides the Maison Blanchon itself, which employed sixty workmen and women.

The explosion took place, luckily, at the Paris dinner time, abont eight o'clock, so that most of the people were away. At half-pnst nine o'clock followed a second explosion, bringing down the walls of the contiguous houses. This caused another panio for the moment Many of the women had fainted from fright, and were brought down in tlie arms of the firemen. Others tore np their sheets and blankets and made ropes to descend with. One poor old man who had been paralyzed for years was rescued just as the floor of his room was about to fall in.

Three little girls, who had been locked pp while the mother went out to fetch some bread for dinner, were fonnd playing in an attic, unconscious of the danger which surrounded them. Many other striking escapes ooonrred, snch that of a little girl who was found buried in tho ruins with a table over her, which had to be sawed in two before she could be rescued, when she was found safe and sound. The rescuers worked all night at tho ruins, beneath which the groans and shrieks of human beings were hoard. A dosen bodies were fonnd 'icfore morning pBPTtrr. Some people continue under such gruss and habitual self-deception that the most blundering obsfrver of human nature can understand tliera better than thev can themselves.

There are persons wiio have so accustomed themselves to all the arts aud tricks of falsehood, that to gain a plain end in a plain way would be as tasteless and nsipid as warm water. arms in search of food. Whatever i comes within their reach is quickly seized find pushed into the stomach, Sometimes the thing seized is larger than the polyp. But it makes no difference as to the victim's fate, provided it is not strong enough to free itself. It is pushed and crammed into the captor's month, and held there by its many arms until it is digested.

Unwary little worms for there are worms in the water as well as on land often come too near the polyp for their own safety, and, in spite of all their squirming and wriggling, they have to go the way of all flesh that is not stronger than the polyp. It is almost impossible to kill one of these strange little animals. Probably the only way of doing so is either" to keep it out of water until it dies, or grind it to atoms. Possibly even then the atoms would livo for if a polyp is cut into two parts, the month will keep on swallowing, even though the food drops through the opening made by the cut as fast as it is taken in at the mouth. If the creature is all cut up into pieces, these piects will live right on, and, strange to say, each one will grow until it becomes a complete polyp.

If ODly au arm is cut off, the arm will live, grow and become the parents of a largo familv. Once a polvp was turned iu-sideout. What did 'it do? Die? Not a bit of it. It went right on living and taking in food just as if nothing unusual had happened The outside of its body seemed to make just as good a lining as the original inside, although the polyp appeared to be conscious of its false position, and made many unsuccessful efforts to put itself right again before the world. The baby-polyps of one branch of the family grow like buds on the body of the mother.

Just as soon as a bud is perfected, it puts out a bud too, anil this bud" sends out another, and so on, until one polyp becomes the parent of many. As soon an the youngster becomes of age it leaves the parental home and starts housekeeping on its own account, and prepares to send forth a numerous progeny into the world. This kind of polyp is inclined to folitndo. Each ono lives by itself and sends its children away from homo to shift for themsolves ns soon as possible. But they have rel.

atives of a more social turn. They are the coral-making polyps. They live in large communities, each one occupying its own apartment or cell. They work together most industriously in perfect order and harmony. A coral -maker's baby dons not grow as the solitary polyp's infant does.

It is at first only a drop of jelly provided with fringe of fine hair-like appendages called cilia. Thesn cilia enablo it to swim about in tho water. They are in constant motion. This tiny drop of a thing is left by its mother to take oare of itsolf during its babyhood. Fora timo it leads a free and careless kind of a life, enjoying itself, do doubt, unless it happens to be gobbled up by some greedy and unfeeling flub, After a while it fastens itself by its eilia to a rock, or piece of coral, and settles down.

Then the cilia being no longer necessary for its motion, become quint. Changes begin to take place in the young polyp's appearance. The little lump of jelly bpgins to swell itself up into a tiib6-like shape. A kind of rim is formed around the top edge of the tube. This is the beginning of the house, or frame work, or, more probably, the skeleton which the little creature is going to make for itielf.

Then a little rising appears, which soon forms itself into a month and feelers, or arms which at once begin to work. The arms seize everything they can get hold of for they are neither scrupulous nor dainty and push it through the open mouth info the stomach. Then the little creature begins it life-work, which is the manufacture of the lovely Coral from which so many fine ornaments are made. Naturalist nned to tnppoM that the part. 1.