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m'9 Home Lire. Maurice Busch.once the friend and sec WONDERFUL LIGHT GIVERS. BOMB BEMAKK ABtB ILLVMIHi-TlOH FOB THE FARM AND HOME. Roll for Flowera, The trouble with many people in raising flowers from soeds Is that they not careful In the preparation of every day and they will do the best for you. A Pennsylvania fruit-grower, when he plants a strawberry bed, applied manure at the rate of thirty to forty tons por acre, and dresses it annually afterward with a full mulch of twenty-live tons more.

He raises 5,000 quarts the acre, and they are big berries. The red spider may be banished plants by the simple process of cutting off the infected leaf. A leaf attacked soon decays and falls oft; then the animals remove to another. By carefully following this amputation plants will become remark, healthy. The cause of club-root in cabbage is claimed by a German experimenter, Woronin, to be a parasitic vegetable, which lives and feeds on the healthy tissue of different cruciferous plants.

weeds of that order (producing pods, like turnips, mustard, radish, should be eradicated while land being rested preparatory to a renewal of cabbage growing. Fowls in spring do not Buffer so Jennnette Inquiry Hoard Tito report of the Joannetfe board of inquiry la made public Of the condition of the vestal on her depart ure from San Fmnoisoo, the re-portMaytt: Her condition wna good and tatls-taotory to lmr oOlnera and crew, except that nb wua unavoidably deeply loaded a defect which oorrected iUwlf by the consumption of ooal, provisions nnd stores, As to her management tho report says: The arrangement to abandon tho uhlp at a moment's1 warning and to guard against lire wo 10 all that oould bo riettii'dd, and Iho evidence shows that, in the itmiMKcmciit of the Jeannette up to tho time lf her destruction, Lieut -Commander De Long, by his foresight nnd prudence, provided measures to meot emergencies, end enforced vUa regulations to maintain discipline, to pre-It'i'vo health nnd to encourage ohenrfulnosa among those under Ids ooinmand. Of the oir-piunstiinceM attending Ihe loss of the Jeannette, Iho report wiys: Any vessel in like position, no matter what her model might have been, or however strongly constructed, and subjected to tlm same pressure as that incurred by the Jeannette, would have boon annihilated. She was abandoned, in a eool and orderly manner, on he evening of Juno 12, and foundered about 4 a. m.

tho day following, and the court attached no blame to any offlcor or man for her loss. There seems to lmvo boon no precaution neglected which would tend to insure the safety of the company. The two seamen, Noros and Niuderman, wuo were in Do Long's party, and wore sent forward for assistance, are held blameless for tho loss of their comrades. The report says: Theso two men did their utmost to make tho natives understand tho condition of tho commander's party, nnd to induce them lo go to its relief, but without success. Of Melville's efforts to save the Do Long and Chipp parties the report says: It was not until Oct.

that Chief Engineer Melville learned that the first cut tor had survived the gale, when he at once stalled and did all in his power to find and succor his missing comrades. He succeeded in recovering a portion of the records left behind by the commander; but, after nearly sacrificing his life from hunger and cold, and fully assured that the remainder of the first cutter's party had undoubtedly perished, he returned southward to Bulien, and then went to Yakutsk, where he at once commenced pre-pamtions for a more extended search, which finally resulted in finding the remainder of the records and the bodies of De Long's party. Considering the condition of the survivors, the unfavorable season, the limited knowledge of the country, tho want of facilities for prosecuting the search, and the great difficulty of communicating with the natives, everything possible was done for the relief of the parties. i'eninle HnoUcri, It is the custom of some of our railroads in the North and West, says a Chicago paper, to employ femalo spotters to catch up conductors und make them lose their situations. Many of those spotters are very pretty girls, and when the conductor comes along to collect fare, the faseinating spotter discovers that she has lost her pocket-book, ticket, money, photograph of hor mother and everything she ltad in tho world, sobs, puts up a distressed mouth and bogs the conductor not to put hor off tho train.

Tho conductor is usually a manly, big-hearted fellow, and he grants hor request and allows her to ride free, nnd tho fascinating spotter reports the conductor, gives the number of his train, and he is accordingly waltzed up to the superintendent's office and discharged for disobeying orders and allowing people to ride without showing a ticket, a pass or paying fare. A short time ago a conductor on a Cincinnati train was discharged for allowing a poor, sick woman with a child to ride free. The poor sick woman was a spotter and the child was borrowed for the occasion. Bur every cloud has a silver lining. Once in a long while the poor spotted conductor takes a trick, and then the managers of the railroad and the spotter laugli out of the other corners of their mouths.

Tom Gibbons was a passenger conductor on a run fro'n Chicago into a town in Iowa, and one morning before he pulled out a telegraph operator whispered to him to watch out for a handsome female spotter who was on the train, or would get on it at some way station. Tom tumbled to the racket and winked a wink that raised a small cloud of dust on the depot platform. About fifty miles out, sure enough a good-looking miss got on the train and after she had nestled snugly into SELECr SU'TINUS. The horse Is a native of Afrlrn, whence he was flrst Introduced into Egypt, and thence Into other cunn-thud. In 1816 Lord Sehworterhury riivo francs for a tooth of Istmc Mow-ton, which la now sot In a ring and worn by the eldost branch of that family.

The Taylor family, in Wayne county, weigh 2.71)0 pounds, it consists of twelve members, tho heaviest of whom weighs 835 pounds, and the average Is 233. The cathedral church, built in Lu-beck in the years 1170-1314, has a curious clock. On the end of the hour hand is a little clock which keeps exact time with the large one. Wasps' nests sometimes take Arc, the ignition being caused, it is supposed, by chemical action of the wax upon the paper-like material forming nests. It is believed that many mysterious fires in haystacks and farmers' buildings have had their origin in spontaneous combustion of this nature.

The Chinese minister at Washington is said to be very rich, and, according to a correspondent, is well fixed for clothes, having a wardrobe valued at 1 150,000. lie never appears twice in public in the same costume, but what he does with his cast-off garments is a mystery. Perhaps he gives them to his poor relations. Mrs. Augusta Smith, of St.

Louis, is ono of the lightest of sleepers. She is awake twenty-two hours out of every day on the average, and when she does slumber it is scarcely more than a doze, during which she is partially conscious of all that is going on around her. She is strong and healthy, with a good appetite, and not particularly nervous. The physicians are unable to bring on sleepiness except with drugs. A curious experiment was recently TI-IE NES.

Gleanings in New England. Uar. Jewell' Will. Tho lute flov. Jewell of I Ini on OnllltOOt IllXHIt ftWIV'OO, which I clovlMiil no.

oonlinu to will iluled Mi A tnwt fmiit uf jpHUIutl givcm to liln brothein, l'Uny una IS, i iui the iton. Die in. vmnii of wlik'li B' mi'mlly to the willow Hid iwo HI iimiliur ana bruthon anil HlaU'iK I'ui li iwiilvu 2.500. The real of the uMiito is 'he In fr hl family, iiinl on tlu'ii' ili'i'i'iwii the whole will bo divided uinung tlm lejiil ln'iin. Terrlhlo A S-ypBW-nld child uf Mary O'DonneMy of )Vv licill'iird, died from the flVaotft of a UiinU of whisky, which tho ohild'n (muul-inoihi'i', Juliiinua Sullivan, eiuneotoil of ud-miiiiMt criiiK.

Mm. Snlhvnn isuudoi' smut, and thu nuitti'i' will ho inyp.slifiit(l. HlH Fire. Oullcndor's flevon-Htory blllinvd factory at tstuinl'oi'd, wiis Imrnod to the ground a few ni'hti uo lo.sa ostiinatod nt One hundred und twenty-live men tiro thrown out uf work. Tho tire originated in the varnish room and is clmrgcd to ioiitttneoua combua.

lion. Alltt lllvuiTl! Movement. Tho New Kiyliiiiil divoive reform league elected these ollici'iw in minimi meeting at Boston: Vrosi'li'iil HMh l'mltlock; vico-presi-deuls, ox-tiov. William tt. Washburn, Kov.

Dr. Alvnli limey; corresponding seoretaiy, Kev. Suiniiel V. Dike; ltwordiiur Mwretary, Ui'v. F.

ilarmwK Miikcpcncoi treasurer, Mr. lii'iiodict (re-eluclcd); c.xecut ive committee Mnwau'liusi'ttH, Kev. Dr. Harris; Maine, Kev. George S.

Dii'kcinmn; New Hampshire, G. L. Demurest Vermont, President M. H. Buck-ham; lihodo Island, Rev.

William M. Morrison; Connecticut, S. E. Baldwin of New Haven. Till-: National rubber conipnny of Bristol, frunramees to its idlo help hall-pay till April 1.

The Sprnsjiie milk firm of 1S8 acres near the Cranston print-works was sold at auction in Providence, It. 1., to the. Union company for 1700. Tho Spricxno iiirni lands in Cranston Were appraised ul tjlHUII an aero in 1873. Tiikuf.

is a oIniikt lor a friend of the Lowell institute at to buy for it the Hollis-street church, which will soon bo In the market and is very much wanted by tho institute. The endowment fund of by rest lie-tion of its l'lmnilcr, cannot iio used fur the erection or purchase of a building. 1'oiiK pecking is becoming an extensive business in Fall liiver, Mass. A North Ulssiniitox, man went to Bennington, live miles distant, a few days since, taking his wile as company. "When he was readv to return, he drovo home leaving his better half, who was calling upon a friend, and did not discover his mistake until called to supper.

A hecmox of the Lee family will occur in Hartford, in August, 1884. All the descendants of John Lee, the emigrant, are expected to participate. John Leo was a native of Colchester, and landed in Boston in 1CU4, and the following year settled in Connecticut. John Ntcholls of 'Westfield, yawned, not wisely but too much, and dislocated his jaw. John- Axdkkws of Cornish, Me, was bitten by a dog last spring.

Two weeks ago ho began to show symptoms of hydrophobia and the other day he died in horrible agon'. Mas. Ivop.y Loan, wile of tho proprietor of the Mt. Culler house at Iliram, hanged herself in a til of insanity. Kev.

"William Brenton Gkeexe, of the Columbus-avenue Presbyterian church of Boston is culled to the Tenth Presbyterian church of Philadelphia. Church ItobtMd Tha Church of the Transfiguration, In New York known as the Little Church Around the Corner, wu entered M'ew niht4 ago and five sttcrud vwweU wore tuken from it. These veiU nnd each a very tender UMNoclatlon, and were ru follow; A large (diver ilajron, the gift of mother in memory of hor daughter; it hud a raised lily on one side and an inscription on theuthm'i silver gold-lined chalice, tho gift of a daughter in memory of her mother, into tho knob of which were set her mother's wedding ami two other ring; a silver gold-lined paten and a square, silver, Rold-lined box for holding tho saomim-nlul bread; there also wore Rift In memory of the same mother; a sum II pttten timid in giving communion to the sick, (he gilt of a woman employed by tho Church of the Tmn-llumlion to vi-lt und relievo the sick and milVunng poor. Tito money vnluo of the ankles stolen is several thousand dollars. Many Men Smothered, The terrible flood in Illinois caused the mine at Braidwood to rave in.

The mine which caved in was tho Diamond mine, operated by a stock company, Floods nnd he recent thaw had loosened Ike earth about tho mouth of the pit, and a landslide began about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, which in a few minutes imprisoned some 80 miners. Reports are very indefinite, but place the loss of life as from 30 to 60. Two thousand men are ready to work at rescuing, but only a few can get at the place at once. The oavo-in is nearly 90 feet square. Braid-wood is one of the largest cool mining plucos in the state.

A dispatch from Chicago snys: A brief interview just held with A. L. Sweof, president of the four mines comprising the Diamond mine company, confirms tho reports of the terrible disaster at Braidwood. Mr. Sweet's information is that 300 men wore in the various shafts In the afternoon, when the ground gave in under the weight of water that had at once saturated and loosened it.

Sixty-two were in one shaft, which caught the bulk of the falling debris, and which was instantly flooded. Every one of them was either drowned or smothered inside of five minutes. Their bodies are now buried beneath many tons of earth. A hundred acres have been excavated, and the miners not in the ono unfortunate shaft all escaped. Digging and pumping are going on vigorously, but it will be a long time before the first of the bodies can be roriehcd.

The mine was of the ordinary kind, supplied with regular shafts, and Bupposod to be well protected from accident. Briullautch Seated. A demonstration in favor of Air. Bradlaugh, was made in Trafalgar square, where about 7000 persons assembled. One hundred policemen were present, posted at the of tho JNelson column.

An attempt to erect a plat-torm caused a rush of the mob, smashing tho structure. Afterward there was slightly better order. Mr. Bradlaugh, accompanied by his daughters, arrived unexpeetedly, ami, consequently, was not greeted with much enthusiasm. A second platform having been procured, resolutions protesting against the exclusion of Mr.

Bradlaugli were" carried unanimously, amid great cheering. The proceedings occupied half an hour, and terminated with perfect order. At 4 o'clock Mr. Bradlaugh entered Westminster hall and took his usual seat in the House of Commons amid the cheers of his friends. Two German frigates landed several hundred armed men at Amoy, December 29 last, who took from the Chinese authorities certain goods manufactured by a Gsrman firm at Amoy und seized by tho Chinese on the ground that, the treaty does not permit their manufacture.

Tho Germans claim full right to manufacture the goods. This is tho second time that German ships of war have taken peremptory action to redress grievances. Count Corti, Italian ambassador to Turkey, has been instructed loak satisfaction for renewed insults to Italian officials in Tripoli. United States Minister Wallace has arranged lor the settlement of all American claims against Turkey, excepting that involved in the Berdan question. The ship Cromwell of Boston, from Havre for Delaware Breakwater, has taken refuge at Falmouth, Eng.

She is badly strained and has lost sails and yards. Meyer Magnus, a German Jewish philanthropist, is dead at Berlin. A socialist pamphlet which has been published at Altoma, Prussia, abuses sovereigns, and challenges democrats to liberate the countries oppressed by their rule. Eleven socialists have been arrested and a number of seditious works have been seized. Edwin D.

Morgan, New York's war governor, died at his home the other morning. All the early hours of the morning he was quiet and apparently suffered no pain. At 7 a. in. lie suddenly grew worse, became unconscious and remained! in that condition to the hisL.

Secretary Folger'b health is not good. He exhausts himself from overwork, rests for a day or two and then prostrates himself again. Just now he is sick in bed with a combination of disorders. He thinks his physical powers are still unimpaired, and so from time to time taxes them. Mr.

Frte presented in the Senate a petition of representatives of the Society of Friends of New England in favor of Mr. Hoar's bill providing for a conference between nations, with retary of Prince Dismarck.has published several interesting articles ubout the powerful chancellor, the title of which is "Bismarck in his Dressing gown," We are Informed that ISismurck, notwithstanding his outward appearance and reputation as a boor, has a soft heart and qualities that are an absolute contradiction of the opinion in which lie is generally held, lie has hours of fearful despondency, In which he asks whether the advantages he gained for Germany are worth the Mood spilled for them, in wnicn lie doubts whether ho has made any one happy. In his younger days he was fond of humor, and even as late as the French war he often had a laugh at his wife's expense, of whom lie tells the aged emperor: "Sho would like to see all the French men, women anil children murdered and spiked, just because one of her sons was wounded during the war. And I suppose," adds Bismarck, most mothers think the same. I should not like theinto get at me just now." Bismarck was a passionate hunter in past days, and his favorito game was the bear and wild boar, which he hunted in Russia when minister at the court of St.

Petersburg. Ho is fond of nature, but he is indifferent to art, and indeed there is little to show artistic taste either in his palace at Berlin or in his castles and country houses. But he likes music, and when somber thoughts overcome him he gets Ilerr Von Kendoll to play to him, and after a while softly hums the melodies. It is a well-known fact that he has few friends, but in his youth he had many. Among these is one whom he remembers with loving words even now the American historian, John Lothrop Motley.

In lus young days Bismarck was an atheist, but now he has come to a belief One whose power is supreme and whose hand all things rest. He writes to the countess that he cannot conceive how any one can be really quite happy while he denies the exist ence of the soul and eternal me. should not be the man I am were I not true Christian." And indeed it could scarcely be possible that such a lasting, faithful friendship as that which has sprung up between Prince Jiis- marck and the German emperor could exist if their opinions differed upon this point. Bismarck is an excellent linguist. His French is equal to that of a native Geneva, and he speaks and writes English fluentlv.

He speaks German without the slightest accent, not a very common thing in Germany, strange as it may seem. He learned Kussian in St. mersDurg, ana tne Emperor Alexander II. was greatly astonished one day when Prince Bismarck made him quite a little speech perfect Muscovite. But he has got rid of all his classic lore, and once said: "I dare say no one would believe it if I told them I was once proficient in Latin.

Now I should not be able to write a correct letter, and Greek I have forgotten altogether." Bismarck is not a rich man, if his position be considered. His property, Schonhausen, in the Altmark, was all possessed until the day when a grateful country voted 400,000 thalers as a gift to recompense him for his faithful services. This sum was devoted to the acquirement of Varzin, his favorite place, and his resort whenever he is fatigued by cares of state or worried enemies and opponents. But landed property in that part of Germany does not bring much income, and Bismarck was heard onee to say If I had bought Varzin only to walk and ride about in it would be all very well, but it is I can grow nothing on the land but clover." There are, however, extensive, forests, whicli are at once the pride and delight of the chancellor. His salary is 54,000 marks a year.

Social Duties in Washington. It is related of Miss Harriet Lane, "the model lady of the White House," that in response to a foreign gentleman of distinction, who had spoken to her in regard to the great amount of work done by high officials in Washington, she replied, significantly: "Oh, it's not the amount of work they do which hurts tin m. It's their close attention to social duties which tells on their health." If this statement was true in the comparatively simple times of Buchanan, what shall be said of "the social duties" performed by high officials in the Washington of to-dav Without exaggeration it may be well stated that the man who can withstand the wear and tear of high official position under the present administration must literally have nerves of iron. From week's end to week's end there is a sound of elegant revelry by night in and about the White House which is echoed and re-echoed in the magnificent dining-rooms and dancing saloons of cabinet ministers, supreme court iudses, the general of the army, foreign ambassadors, distinguished members of the lobby from Xew York and elsewhere, prominent senators and wealthy members of the House. Balls, dinners, suppers, break fasts and afternoon receptions follow each other in bewildering succession, and from the public prints it appears that at all these entertainments, sometimes at three or four of them in one afternoon, evening and night, the heads of the government are on hand to perform "the social duties wtucn seem to be inseparable from their po- sitions.

Even the President appears to be unable to escape from what, to ordinary mortals, would be the down right hard work ot attending inese routs and parties. New York Times. The Heads of Great Men. It is usually supposed that men of great intellectual powers have largfj. massive heads, dui me weory wnicn Dr.

Gilbert, physician to Queen Eliza beth, was the first to suggest, is not borne out by facts. An examination of busts, pictures, medallions, intaglios, of the world's famous celebrities almost tends the other way. In the earlier paintings, it is true, men are distinguished by their large heads, but this is attributable to the painters, who agreed with the general opinion and wished to flatter their sitters. A receding forehead is mostly condemned. Nevertheless, this feature is found in Alexander the Great, and, to' a lesser degree, Julius Casar.

The head of Frederick the Great, as will be seen from one of the portraits in Carlvle's work, receded dreadfully. Other great men had positively small heads. Lord Byron's was remarkably small, as were "those of Lord Bacon and Cosmo de'MedicL Men of genius of ancient times have only what may be called an ordinary or every-day forehead; and Herodotus, Alcibiades, Plato, Aristotle and Epicurus, among many others, are mentioned as instances. Some are even low-browed, as Burton, author of "The Anatomy of Melancholy," Sir Thomas Browne and Albert Durer. The average forehead of the Greek sculptures in the frieze from the Parthenon is, we are told, lower, if anything, than what is seen in modern foreheads." The gods thero- selvf are represented with "ordinary.

if not low, brows." Thus it appears that the popular notion of tie matter is erroneous, and that there may be great men without big heads in other words, a Geneva watch is capable of keeping a good time as an eight-day clock. Journal of Scitnct. A genuine red Indian, belonging to a Berlin museum, is miking a great sensation among the young women of that city, who send him photographs and love-letter? are the is soil this fine I a in by a in i flotilla Unit limit PlinlliiareHanl (ibnal-Aiilni'ili mini Wlili'h mmM Aulmnl lUutter lllumlnaMd. A New York medical man told sora friends about a curious rock found just beyond Salt Lake City. Said ho; "It is a well-known limestone, resembling a soft sandstone, colored somewhat with oxido of iron, and so phosphorescent Jthat the slightest scratch oi blow produces light, but stranger yet, different colors aro produced at will.

If metal or glass is used to strike it, a red light lasting several seconds Is the result. Rub two pieces together and a white light appears, while if a piece is heated in a glass tube it glows foi several minutes with a deep red, finally turning wiiite. It was first discovered by some miners, "It is not so remarkable," continued the speaker, that so many persons believe in ghosts, as the ordinary run of people cannot be expected to familiarize-themselves with all the phenomenal nature, and a little superstition-with equal parts of ignorance, well shaken, produce sometime-s the most' astonishing results I was called to attend a case the other day, and found the family convinced that the man was going to die, as a sperrit had been seen hovering over him. When tried to laugh tnem out of it they told me to call at night and see for myself, and so I did. Sure enough, when I looked into the darkened room there hung over the patient a luminous mist, a very fair sort of a ghost, but merely a phosphorescent exhalation from the patient, which I had some difficulty in proving, and I doubt they yet believe me.

Such cases are no means unusual, uot only with man but all animals. As early as 1687 a work, now rare, was written on the subji ct of Fabrini, of Leipsic, but regards positive explanations of the cause of phosphorescence of the human body about as much was known then now. Phipson, the English chemist, says that he has seen a pink metallic "light in the eyes- of a man in total darkness. One of the strangest cases of light-giving higher animals was in the monkey observed by the naturalist Reniger. In passing through' forest late at night he saw two bright lights, and thinking that it might be some rare insect, attempted to take them in a net, but they moved away.

He fired and brought down a monkey that fortunately was only wounded in the leg. He kept for some time, and its eyes were so brilliantly luminous in perfect darkness that they illumined-objects within six inches of them, and coarse print could be read by the light. A. case well known to the Italian medical profession, and recorded by Barthulini, was that of a lady who'suddenly discovered that she was luminous in the dark. The slightest friction produced a luminous halo about the entire body, so tnat she was called mulier splendens.

The unfortunate lady was convinced that sbe was the victim either of some supernatural visitation or a slow combustion; but she was not aware of any ill effects, and the strange condition gradually disappeared. "Dr. Lane, while in the Arctic regions, had some curious experiences. Strange lights appeared on the handle of his revolver, and by many of the men were considered ill-omens. Phosphorescent light appears about some persons previous to dissolution, but only after extreme and long prostration.

In England and Scotland strange lights of any sort about persons are called elf candles. These ghostly lights are otten seen about dead animal matter, the phenomena having first been brought to the notice of scientific men in 1592. In 1641 a poor woman bought a piece of meat, and, having occasion to go into the pantry where it was in darkness, was horrified to find the meat seemingly ablaze with light. Numbers of persons visited it the next evening, among them Bartholini, the famous Danish philosopher, who obtained a piece of the fiery meat and found that the luminosity disappeared when it began to putrify. "In many countries about springs damp ground, swamps or stagnant pooh, curious patches of very phosphorescent matter have often been seen, and are considered especially by the Belgian peasants to be the binning matter of comets and shouting stars, and Mulder, the chemist, called it mucilage It was chemically analyzed by hiin and Cams, and found to lie the curious mucus that envelops the egg of the frog, looking like jelly.

A "remarkable light-giver, according to Sir John Richardson, is found in the gecko, a curious lizard from the Ka-t. It has been found Iving on a br.inch which was brilliantly illuminated by the strange ravs of light they gave out, and when thev ran along it seemed like flashes of golden yellow light darting in and out among the trees. They are subjects of great dread to the natives. In many parts of the Eastern country travelers have se(n curious lights moving in and out among the leaves of certain trees and on dead trunks. For a long time the nature of this phenomena was unknown.

By some ob servers it was referred to as that of insects, while others considered it some peculiar phase of vegetable phosphorescence, but finally the light giver was captured and found to be one of the tree toads. In many animals the phosphorescence is confined to certain parts of the body, but in this case it was diffused over the entire surface, so that the deli -ate f. rm of the little creature, with its sprawling legs, stood out in bold relief in lines of lire. The usesof this property to livingani-mals are not known. but they undoubtedly serve some purpose in the economy of nature, the explanation, however, of a phenomena appearing in animals both living and dead, would be difficult, and has bem successfully attempted, although the writings oi the subject, especially in earlier" times, are replete with theories and suggi'sti his." Put Hi in 111 Bill.

The follow in st ry is told of th Earl of Stamford, "a great sjwting nobleman," ili recently in Loudon He hal unlimited faith in the power of monev, th" stmremacv the aris- tocra and n-rai rthlessness of of humanity. One day he an I a few itr ns of thf turf were dini: at the Star and Garter, at Rich-m -n where says it will cost von ten and ixin -J to look at the waiter. It ct-ts th- earl somewhat more than su a. He had some word- wit'i the and. think-in the man insolent he sprang up, and, to the horror of all present, sent the untortuDiit- man neCK and heel crashing 'he indow down on the terrace iw.

Th" man's cries alarmed the ol n'-igiilMrhood, and the landlord ra or at dess up the stairs. and said: My Lord, you have kiUed the waiter." -Thash a'l ri." hiccoughed the earl. "Jusht put the Mlla.n down in the bilL" The injur w-iit was interviewed. He named the -uin that would satisfy his wounded and it was put down in th bill an ii Uee-rfulIy paid by the boozy earl Another 'largest te'est-ope in the world" has just ea em-ted. An chancre savs: "It brings the moon close that the man can uistir heard yelling, -Don't shoot soil.

Some people plant in clay soil, and then lay the blame on the seedsman because the seeds did not come up. The best thing for clay soil fine coal ashes mixed freely with the in the spring. Anothor cause for failure is that the soil is soured by angle worms. The best remedy for is salt. Last spring I had some candytuft plants, and when about two inches in height I transplanted them Into another bed.

At first they grew very well, but the next morning was very much surprised to see that some of them had disappeared. In digging where they were planted, I found that the worms had drawn the plants into their holes. I then scattered salt in the bed, keeping it away from the roots of the remaining plants. The result was that I never had such splendid flowers. From my small experience I think that one part salt to five parts ashes, well mixed, is the best thing for clay soil.

Progressionist. Conillmentnl Food for Fowls. There are so many different preparations now so extensively manufactured and sold in all parts of the country for poultry food, each brand claiming some particular excellence or superiority, it is next to impossible for novice to tell which ono to take, and even old breeders are equally at a loss making a selection. Those breeders who give their birds unlimited range at all times otten wonder why condimental foods are so largely bought and so generally fed by poultry feeders throughout the country; yet it is simple enough, this demand, when we remember the fowls kept in confinement, either entirely or throughout the full breeding season, are liable and subject to disorders and ailments, while the lack of exercise naturally begets a sluggishness which must, in a great measure, be overcome special feeding and by special food. Any one who is posted on breeding live stock will readily understand this, while those who are not will, ere long, gain the necessary experience.

There is, no doubt, many a case where the use of condimental food is not only useless, as far as good results are concerned, but soon becomes posi tively injurious, the same as tonics to sick person are ot great bsneut, properly taken, while they would prove decidedly injurious to a healthy, vigorous person. Judgment and common sense must be the guide this matter as well as in all other departments of successful management, and the exercise of both is assuredly needful when feeding stock with a preparation the nature or ingredients of which are not fully known or their action on the system clearly understood. Bed or cayenne pepper is used to a considerable extent by farmers and breeders, when a mild and healthy tonic is needed. For this purpose it is most excellent, but, like many other good things of this life, must be used in moderation. A weekly meal of it, with the cornmeal or other mixed and moistened food, will do a great deal of good to the birds, both old and young, whether the poultry be on an extended range or confined to restricted quarters.

There are somo foods which are made and sold to further special purposes, noticeably so the "egg foods," some of which are good and others decid edly not. Any food, however, which serves to keep the fowls healthy and vigorous.no matter whether it is labeled egg'f ood" or not, will assuredly influence egg production, and that is the basis the manufacturers of such supplies work on when preparing their goods, and that they can and do get-strong testimonials from prominent poultry-breeders is not at all surprising to" those who are posted. Poultry Monthly. About FaHPniiiu Cattle. The following is summarized from reports of the experimental depart ment of the Ontario Agricultural college "Most animals eat in proportion to their weight, under average conditions of age, temperature and fatness.

Give fattening cattle as much as they will eat and oft-times a day. Never give rapid changes of food, but change often. A good guide for a safe quantity of gran per day to maturing cattle is one pound to each hundred of their weight; thus an animal weighing 1,000 pounds mav receive ten pounds of grain. Stall-feeding in the fall -will make the winter's progress more certain by thirty per cent. Give as much water and salt at all times as thev will take.

In using roots it is one guide to give just so much, in association with other things, so that the animal may not take any water. In buildings, have warmth, with complete ventilation, without currents, but never under forty degrees nor over seventy degrees Fahrenheit. A cool, damp, airy temperature will cause animals to consume more focd without corresponding result in bone, muscle, flesh or fat, much being used to keep up warmth. Stall-feetling is better for fat-making than box or yard management, irrespective of health. The erowine animal, intended for beef a mtle exercise dai'v, to Bromote mu.scie and str ng 'i oi promote stitution; when ripe, only so much as to be able to walk to market.

Keep the temperature of the body about 100 degrees, not under ninety- five degrees, Fahrenheit. nor over 105 degrees Don't forget that one animal's meat may be another animal's poison. It takes three days of good food to make up for one of bad food. The aster the fattening the more profits; le ss food, earlier returns and better flesh. Get rid of every fattening cattle beast before it is thiee years old.

Every day an animal is kept after being prime there is loss, exclusive of manure. The external evidences of primeness are full rumps, flanks, twist, shoulder, pores, vein and eye. A good cattle-man means a difference of one-fourth. He should know the likes and dislikes of every animaL It pays to keep one man in constant attendance on thirty head of fattening cattle. Immediately when an animal begins to fret for food, immediately it begins to lose flesh; never check the fattening process.

Never begin fattening without a definite plan. There is no loss in feeding a cattle-beast well for the sake of the manure alone. No cattle-beast whatever will pay for the direct increase in its weight from the consunip: oi of any kind or quantity of food the manure must be properly valued. On an average it costs, on charging everv nossible item, twelve cents for every additional pound added to the weight of a two or three-year-old fat tening beast. i Shi.

nntrr the market value store-cattle can be increased thirty-six ner cent durine six months of the fat- tening nnsn. In order to secure a sure profit, no store-cattle beast, of the right stamp aud well done to, can be sold at less than four and a half cents per pound, live weight rr- Do warn good fleeces next year? tha sheep full and comfortable to from once but ably All is they The All of and soil the they fry or of to a of to is in a a of much, for as the warm days come on gradually lose relish for stimulating food, and thus wean themselves. large breeds do not stand heavy feeding as well as the smaller birds. the Asiatics, the Dorkings and Houdans take on an immense quantity fat, whether confined or at large, whereas the Spanish, Hamburgs, Leghorns and Games will lay off the surplus. Country Gentleman.

Gladiolus bulbs should be planted in succession, at intervals of two or three weeks, through the months of April May. They should be planted about three inches deep, a little pure or sand being laid over each before earth is closed in about them, an arrangement which may be advantageously followed with bulbous plants generally. In hot summer weather should have a good mulching of half-rotten manure, and, as soon as the flower spikes are produced, liquid manure mav occasionally be given them. Recipes. Steamed Brown Bread.

One quart of Indian meal, one pint of rye flour; stir these together and add one quart of sweet milk, one cup of molasses, two teaspoonfuls of soda; add a little salt and steam for four hours. Cabbage Fried with Cream. Chop a quart of cold boiled cabbage, it five minutes with sufficient butter or drippings to prevent burning, season it highly with pepper and salt, and stir into it half a cupful of cream of milk with a teaspoonf ul of flour mixed with it let it cook five minutes longer, and serve it hot. Chicken Soup. Cut a chicken into pieces and simmer it gently in a gallon water until the meat is in rags.

Skim well, strain, and return the broth the pot. Add a cupful of rice and tablespoonf ul of parsley let it simmer for another hour. Season with pepper and salt; add a cupful of boiling cream just beforeserving. Bread Cake. A pint bowl two-thirds full of bread dough; add to it one teaspoonful of dry soda, two-thirds a cupful of butter, one cupful of sugar, three eggs, one cupful of chopped raisins, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves taste; no extra flour is required, but must be well mixed or there will be streaks in it.

Bake as soon as mixed a patty-pan or a biscuitftin. Scotch Eggs. One cup of lean, cooked ham, cut very fine; six hard- boiled eggs. Cook one-third ot a cup of stab breadcrumbs in one-third of cup of milk to a smooth paste and mix it with the ham; add one-half a teaspoonful of mixed mustard, one-half a saltspoonful of cayenne and one raw egg. Mix well; remove the shells from the boiled eggs and cover each with the mixture; fry in hot fat for two minutes, drain and serve hot or cold.

Plum Pudding. Three cups of sifted flour, three eggs, a wineglass of molasses (this will give it a dark color), one and a half pints of milk, one large cup of suet chopped very fine, one cup of currants and one of raisins; add mace, cloves and cinnamon to suit your taste, one teaspoonful of soda and two of cream of tartar; for at least two hours and a half, but three is still better. The two and half are sufficient to cook it, but the other half hour's boiling gives a certain lightness to the pudding, which is greatly to be desired. Eat with any good pudding sauce. An Indian Poet and ATenger.

There are on the Comstock many men who were well acquainted with John Kidge, who was a really remarkable man. He was a man who could sit upon a point of rocks in the high Sierras for hours gazing down upon the valleys, the huge pines and tum bling canons, drinking in ana enjoying the beauties of nature, so absorbed in thought as hardly to move hand or foot; yet arouse the Indian in him and he was a man of steel and without a thought of anything humane or poetical until his vengeance was satiated. It was as two different souls within the same bodv. His Indian name was "Y'ellow Bird." John R. Ridge was the eldest son of Major Iiidge, cliief of the Cherokee Nation, who was murdered in his house by a deputation of the rival Boss party, and John Boss in consequence became chief.

The little John was concealed in the weeds, saw his father stabbed and shot to death and swore vengeance on the murderers. When he became a man he armed himself and went on a still hunt on the warpath and followed on the trail until he had slain thirty-two of them. At length the mysterious death of one of their number, in 1849 aroused the vengeance ot the noss men who, suspecting the author of their calamities, pursued Kidge several hundred miles over the plains, but being well mounted and in company with the celebratad Charley Macintosh, he made his way in safety to California. Some time" in 1859 Mr. Bidge was editor of the Marysville Democrat, and one night received a dispatch from Weaverville, stating that a party of Cherokee Indians from Cherokee Bar were on a spree in town and one of them was boasting that he had had a hand in the death of old Major Ridge and had stabbed him five times.

That same hour the avenger was on his trail. Without mentioning his purpose to any one in the printing otf ce Kidge hired a horse at the livery stable and started for Weaverville, over two hundred miles, hut somehow the enemy got telegraphic intelligence of his coming, and on his arrival not a i herokee could be found on Trinity I ri er. Mr. Ridge died a few years ago in Grass alley, universal'y lamented and leaving to the world the most glorious poem ever written in California that on "Mount Shasta." txta Courier. The Sew Fire-Cent Piece.

A numismatist writes to the Philadelphia Times as follows: I have before me the new five-cent piece, and I must say that I feel disappointed, as I had expected the design was new and original and the work of Colonel Snow- 1 den, of our Philadelphia mint. But as son as I saw them 1 rememoerea iu I had coins of a sinidar design in collection. I therefore hunted tnem up and I herewith send you a of the reverse of the live piece issued bv Portugal inl.wnicn I consider almost like our new ece, with the designs of the wreath terei The obverse, or heail or uue. a uu to be an exact counterpart of the head I of Srain.issmdon the four I pesos of 1S6L with the difference only that this is a laureated head, while i ours is a tiara. of I if by as as a it Railroad Miscellany.

The Lemoille Valley extension railroad company are said to have made arrangements with V. II. Yanderbilt and George B. Phelps for the completion of the road from Swanton, to House's Point, N. Y.

This will give connection with tho Ogdenburg Lake Cham-plain road and make for the New York Central a through line fur northern New England trallic. Hitherto the New York Central, though it has reached northern Vermont, has been obliged to use a short strip of road controlled by Ihe Central Vermont, and the bulk of the traffic has fallen to the Grand Trunk on account of its alliance with the Central Vermont. This link between Rouse's Point and Swanton, which is contracted for nnd is to bo finished ny August, will give the New York Central direct, connection with Portland, and create a powerful rival of the Central Vermont and Grand Trunk alliance. Defew Patterson, drunk, was killed by the cars near New London, recently. The refusal of the Boston Lowell railroad to longer continue the traffic arrangement exi-ling for the pat year with the Concord railroad gives the latter an opportunity which, it is rumored, the Concord intends to avail ifelf of.

Instead of sending its trallic over the Boston Lowell, as heretotore, it is said the Concord road proposes to use its Acton branch, which gives a connection at Concord Junction, with the 1'itchburg railroad. By this route the Concord road will run its cars 15 miles nearer Boston over its own road than it does by way of Lowell, and the entire run from Na-hua by that route would be only three miles further. The acton branch was originally built for a double track and could, therefore, be utilized with a comparative! small out lav, Young Willis S. Felch of North AY care, N. while unloading an ox sled by the railroad track the other afternoon, was struck by a special train and killed.

freight conductor A. A. Tliur- low of DcE'fing, 26 years old, fell between the cars at Bartlett, N. and was killed. The various obstacles in the wav of a transfer of the section of the "U'oonsocket division of ui j.m!w on cc rew r.ngiana nuiroau, wincn is to lorm part of the Newton circuit, to the Boston Albany, have been overcome.

A shocking accident occurred at AVnllingford, the other day, resulting in the killing of three persons. Alice Franks of Meriden, aged about IS, together with Emma Mottram, William Meyer and William Howe were returning from Meriden in a sleigh, and attempted to cross the railroad tracks just as the fast express train enme along. It struck the sleigh and killed two of the people ou1 right, while a third died soon after. Miss Mottram received spinal injuries, from which it is thought she will recover. Thf horse attached to the sleigh was instantly killed, and the sleigh was wrecked.

The occupnnis were thrown something like 100 feet, nnd were terribly mangled. Several inhabitants of Wallingford, who were awake at (lie time of the accident, are positive that the engine's whistle was not sounded. A sevcn-years-old daughter of Miles Fox was run over by a construction train at Birmingham, and killed, and her mother, who rushed to save her, was dangerously hurt. H'iraee Wilcox, president of the Meriden Cromwell railroad in Connecticut, proixwes to run a dailv line of steamers from Cromwell to New York. The boats will go through by daylight, and will connect at Cromwell for Meriden.

William II. Farrell of Pownal, a brakeman on the Hoosac Tunnel road, was crushed to death while shackling care at Mechanicsville. Whitingham, Vt. for the second time not to aid the proposed Bmt-tlcboro Wilmington railroad, 16S to 105; another meeting will be held. Thomas Keeler, 22 years old, a brakeman on the New York New England road, was probably fatally injured while coupling cars at Hartford, give Wallingford 'the free use of a piece of land JN.

ii. H. railroad otter to opposite its depot in that borough. It is pos- sibie that tne town win inane a pane out oi u. General Manager Pugh, superintendent Piteaim and motive power superintendent Ely of tho Pennsylvania railroad, euests the Boston Commercial clnb, went on a pleasure excursion to Fabyan's.

They were met at Portland, by 20 prominent railroad men who accompanied them. It pays to earn the reputation or treating the people well and to keep it. The organiza- tion of the Orange county, N. formers to reform the milk business by sending inspectors through the milk trains to reject skimmed and adulterated milk has been so effective that the demand upon the Producers's association has greatly increased, and unless a similar reform is effected hy milkmen in other counties they will find it difficult to compete with Orange county. The people of cities wish perfectly pure milk, and the association that can furnish it at any price within reasonable bounds can control the trade, if its managers are competent, and to only competition is from dealers who sell the watery article heretofore called milk.

Some curious reflections arc suggestea bj Georgia's recent celebration of the sesqni-cen-tennial anniversary ot the founding of her chief city. While Oglethorpe is now in the eyes of all Georgians as the first permanent settler under English authority, some of those who are versed In history have been urging that Vcrrazzano, a Florentine traveler, landed on the coast in 152-5. more than two hundred year?" before Oglethorpe, more than fourscore years before the settlement at Jamestown, and only thirty-three years after the discovery of the Sew World by Colnmhus. Still, since Verrazzano is alleged to have been speedily killed and eaten by savages, he cannot count as a founder, while De Soto, who is said to have wanderec" within the boundaries of the present state, is also to be considered only a premature visitor. Oglethorpe is entitled to reverence as the true father of Georgia, and every fifty years should be permitted to land by proxy at Savannah, and be welcomed by To-Mo-Chi-Cbi and his Yamacraws.

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I su a I I her seat, Tom charged down on her like the wolf on the fold and demanded fare. he smikd graciously as a young alligator and commenced rummaging her pockets, after her purse; and first she went through one set of pockets and then another, and then tried to turn red in the face by holding her breath, and pretty soon she said "Goodness gracious, alive! I believe I've lost my pocketbook." Tom said he guessed not, at least he hoped not, and suggested that perhaps he felt around in her pockets he might possibly find it, and offered to assist her in every way, but she became indignant at his rather obtrusive kindness, and finally broke down into the regulation sob and hysteric busi ness and begged Tom not to put her off, and she told him she was on her way bomb to her father's funeral, that she would get him the money at the station, that she was a poor school- teacher all alone in the world, and a great deal more which might have in fluenced Tom had he not known just exactly who she was and what she was there for. So Tom told her it was of no use; it was pay or be dumped, and although some ot the tender-hearted passengers said it was a shame, and then shoved their money farther down into their pockets without offering to whack up tor the girl tare. Tom waited until he was about nine miles from any house, in the depth of a dis mal forest, with a heavy rain-storm howling in from the northwest, and there be dumped Miss female spotter right in the mud to hoof it in to the next station by the rays of the cold, white moon. AVe understand that one of the maddest women in Chicago visited the superintendent of the railroad the next day.

She told him that she wanted to settle up right away quick and go out the spot business right on the spot. And the company paid her off, and the next day Tom sent in his resignation, and thus the company not only lost their fascinating female spotter, but one of the best and most valuable men they had in their employ. The truth of the whole matter is, conductor who has the interest of his emplovers at ftake and will do what right, is always a humane man, and although lie is not liable to be imposed upon by dead-beats, he should not be asked by any company to make a brute of himself, to resist the tearful appeals of an unfortunate maiden or a woman apparently in great distress. A man who is brute enough to do this will not hesitate to steal the company blind if he gets the chance. And the officers who ask him to sink his manhood are as monumental brutes as they would make of him.

How Arabi.was Degraded. The London Telegraph tells how Arabi Pasha and his companions were publicly degraded in accordance with the sentence passed upon them: The prisoners all showed themselves extremely nervous, especially Toulba, who visibly shivered with fear. None of their English friends were present to reassure them and to convince them that they were not being led out for the last time, which more than one of them seemed to apprehend. Arabi, Mahmoud Sami and Yacoob Sami were brought up in the first carriage, followed by Abdella, Ati Fehmy, Toulba and ilahmoud Fehmy in the second They were escorted by mounted police with drawn swords. In spite of the extreme secrecy observed, the inhabitants were grouped along the road and a considerable crowd had gathered at the gates of the Kasr-el-nik barracks.

For the most part the onlookers preserved the silence habitual to an Egyptian crowd. Here and there, however, there was a murmur, "God help thee." In the third the innermost court of the barracks, drawn up in columns on the right, were the new gendarmerie. On the left were the regular infantry. Almost the whole of the existing armed force in Egypt, except the cavalry, may be said to have been present. A few English officers, accompanied by Consul Moore, as the representative of Lord Dufferin, were grouped in the court.

The calleries of the first floor barracks were filled with British offi cers and a few ladies. Immediately upon their arrival the prisoners were led into the open space between the columns of troops, and a ring was formed round them, the sub ordinate officers carrvine naued gworas. The under secretary of ottite for war then advanced, and, after calling out the names of the prisoners, read aloud the khedivial decree, that their rank and decorations of every kind should be taken from them, and their names erased in perpetuity from the Egyptian army list. It was added that these decorations should be delivered immediately to the police. Mahmoud Sami alone answered in acquiescence.

The i officers then led the troopers in thecry. "Long live our khedive, thnce repeated, after which the ring was broken. The prisoners were then led back to the carriages, at the steps of which an Egyptian major took the opportunity of remarking to them that tbey had ruined Egypt, and ought to have had their taroati cut. Apart from this individual instance, no insnlt was offered to the prisoners, nor was any evidence of hostile feeling given. At 3:15 o'clock this last act.

of the Egyptian rev olutionary drama closed with a march, the troops playing the khedival anthem. The prisoners appeared to feel the manner of the degradation more than the actual deprivation which thev suffered. They protested, nevertheless, against the assumption by the khe- i A MHnnt th, Almond culture is quite successful in California. in in a of in he by as made at Paris to determine the power of a crocodile jaw. The animal was fixed on a table with its upper jaw connected with a dynamometer.

An electric shock caused him to give a sudden snap, 308 pounds was marked on the instrument, and it was calculated that the contractile force of the muscle causing the movement was 1,540 pounds The muscle of an ordinary sporting dog showed 300 pounds. The Calcutta correspondent of the London Times says that the census returns from the Xorthwest Provinces and Oude show that the Chamars, the lowest of the castes, exceed the Brahmins in number by no less than Among other curiosities of the returns it appears that those provinces contain 1,100 3,000 ballad singers, 146 healers by incantation, thirty-three gamblers, ninety-seven snake charmers, fitty match-makers, four poets, 10,000 singers and dancers, four story-tellers and seven thieves. The cultivators of the soil number seven and a half millions, the landlords and the money lenders 40,000. Manufacturing Oil Paintings. Oil paintings, twenty-four by thirty-six inches, mounted and stretched, are sold in this city, says the Mew York Sun, at a prolit for $50 a hundred.

Eight artists have been known to produce 125 of these paintings in a day. Large, handsome, Hat Dutch gilt frames for the paintings sell for $1. These are wholesale rates. The pictures retail for from $2 apiece up, and one of them has been sold as high as $250. They are solci chiefly by peddlers, who carry stocks of them through all the mining towns of the West.

Many show an amount of labor and skill in execution which it would seem impossible to command for ten times the price asked. They are all landscapes, as nothing el-e sells so well. The paintings come in many sizes, but the price does not vary much. They generally represent a river, mountains in the distance, a bit of country with fences and trees, and here and there a farmhouse. One of the largest of these oil-painting manufactories is in Greenwich street, where there are rooms filled with racks containing hundreds of Sn- ished paintings.

On an upper floor a reporter cigui I'ciauna, ma vi whom were young women. They were hard at work, and painting rapidly. The proprietor, Mr. William Levin, is an artist who studied four years under Gerome in Paris. Finding very little money in high art, he invented a process for the rapid production of cheap paintings.

The naintings are made on heavy muslin, which is first wet and stretched tightly on long frames. It is then cut into the required size, ana stretcnea Dy a machine on a Square pine irame, wnere it IS made fast. Next the mUS- 1: ii nnA lin is tinted a light blue, and after this has dried -it is ready for the painter. A coating of oil is first put on it, and then a stencil plate is laid on the muslin. This stencil is of thick paper, with all sorts of odd shapes cut in it.

i iv iwy suiuua un uuc omo and a girl on the other, and near them i i. sf tha tql.la are several small pots of paint. They daub the paint into the hole3 or tne stencil plate with great rapidity. When the stencil is removed the muslin is seen to be spotted here and there with paint. Another stencil is then used, whose holes correspond to other parts ol the muslin, and more paint is daubed in.

Two more stencils follow, and when the work is done the muslin is completely covered with a patchwork of varied colors. It is then handed to a young woman who blends the tackground. She uses several brushes in running the colors into each other, and finally goes over all with a large camel's-hair brush. The result is surprising. The Datehwork becomes a harmonious com bination of blended tints.

The muslin then goes to a man who blends the foreground in the same manner. Xext I it is dried and passes to the finisher, who works from a model hung on her 1 easel. She outlines the trees, fences, shrubs and other accidents of scenery with extraordinary rapidity. The colors are mixed ready to her hand, and she has simply to lay them on. A fourth and more skillful artist gives the finishing touches of light and shade.

It finally goes to the artist, who may be called the architect. He puts in the palaces, castles, bouses and boats. The rapidity and skill with which all work is due to long years of practice. The paint used is common house painters' paint. In the paint-room are racks containing small pots of paint of .1,000 different tints.

Onirklr Cleaning ft. Horse by Steam. "We can make a horse as clean and sleek as a new pin in four mifr utes" said the stable bos of a Phila delphia street railway company, as pair of brushes, operated by steam, were making dust flv from a car horse in the stables. The stiff I ristle brushes are attached to the revolving shaft by flexil le arms, which permit the brushes to be applied to any part of the horse and at any angle. There are four sjts in operation.

Th horse is placed between a set consisting of two brushtg somewhat like a cannon swab, each of which is operated on either side of the horse at the same time. With these machine but a few minutes are required to clean a horse, while under ti oil style, with currycomb and brush, at least thirty minutes were rt quirel to do the work. Southern cotton mills increase re- of I8S-2 they took W.0U0 bales of sta- pie, an increase of thirty jr cent, from 1S1. while the Northern mills took but 928.2.V! bales, showing an actual decrease of nine per cent. her she if of is The Old and New Worlds.

The Missing Link. James Carey, lalo one of the town council of Dublin, anil on trial as one of the Phenix park mui'derei, tin ned informer. Alter giving the details of the ionization and movements of the Irish invmeiijlcs. he testified about tha Cavendish-Burke murder as follows: On the morning of May 6, he met Smith, a laborer employed about the caMle, and who knew Mr. Burke's appearance.

Witness confirmed the detnils of lvavannlfs testimony concerning a ear being at AVn-n's public house, with brady, Kelly, McCamvy and Delaney. The witness created a painful sensation by saying that he hail two of las little children with him In the cab early in the morning of the 6th ol May, when he was going in a cab to the park, and was accompanied by Joseph Hanlon and Smith. The witness minutely detailed the movements of the conspirators on the morning of the murder, the counsel for the crown carefully eliciting every point. A pin could have Deen heard to drop when Carey detailed how he saw seven men meet the two gentlemen, lie said Curley, Joseph Hanlon and i'iigan were the first, Brady and Kelly were next and McCaffrey and Patrick Delaney came alter. Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr.

Burke were allowed to pass through bv the first three, and the last four then faced right about. When Carey again looked, the two rear men had closed in on the two gentlemen. The witness continued: I saw Joseph Brady raising his left hand and st riking a man dressed a gray suit. That was all I saw. I timed my own movements accurately during the day.

AVhat I related occurred at 7.17 p.m. After I lefi the park I met at the Island bridge Joe Smith, a person who was acquainted with Mr. Burke's appearance, and had accompanied me for the purpose ol pointing him out. It was Smith who told Kavanagh to hurry up and take the nose-bag The witness repeated the conversation he had after the murder with stated that he had stabbed Mr. Burke afterward "settled" Lord Frederick Cavendish After that he went back to Mr.

Burke and put a knife in his throat. Witness said Smith did not know what he was wanted for. He (Carey) said this because he wanted to save an innocent man if he could. Before the murder he (Carey) was wailing at the polo ground, and was summoned thence by Curley, who said he did not know what moment they might be wanted. Carey admitted making the prearranged signal with a white handkerchief.

Curley, ho said, directed the arrangements Tit the scene of the murder; Carey, on Mr. Burke being identified by Smith, pointing him out to Curley as the man in the gray suit. Curley told Carey to tell Smith to "go to out of Smith went off to- ward the Hibernian school. The murderers then held a council, and Carey asked Brady what he was to do. He was told to go off.

Before moving lie said: -'Mind and be sure it is the man in the gray suit." As he turned toward Iland bridge the two victims were 200 yards oft. The witness detailed his conversation with Curley in the evening, who said he had at first feared there was going to be another failure when he saw the men face about. Three of them were armed. Brady had two knives. After the murder, Carey saw Brady wiping a bloody knife on the gniss.

Suspense in court, as it completed the identification of the prisoners with the fearful scene in the park. Delaney eaid that Carey was the source of all his troubles. Another prisoner said: "Carey'3 brother is a man, which Carey himself is not." Curley waited until the murderers were on the car, and then got into a cab and came to Dublin. He put a card into the box of the Dublin Express office, statinir what had been done. The next day he gave similar notices to the Times and the Freeman's Journal.

The cards read: bv order of the Irish Invinci- bles." The witness detailed his conversation with Brady, who said he stabbed Mr. Burke in the left shoulder. The other gentleman came tip and called hiin a ruffian. He ran after him into the road and "settled" him. He then looked round, and aw Kelly coming away from Burke's body, and he and Brady went and cut Bnrke's throat.

Carev denied that he became an informer because he has received money. Being arrested, he desired to save his life and the lives of thoe who were innocent. The evidence given in the trials at Dublin has caused intense excitement in London. The Mrs. Bryne mentioned in Carey's evidence as the wife of the secretary of the land labor leasrue in Great Britain, was arrested in Peck- ham, London, on a charge of conspiring to murder government officials.

The Czar's Coronation. At Moscow the preparations for the corona tion of the czar are proceeding upon nfabuloas scale of magnificence. Eleven miles of tables are being coit-trm-tea for the banquet on the plain, and eiphty-five circular counters for the distribution to the mounts ot yw.UOU pies. Riibeustein is to write a march and direct an orchestra of 1CK) mnsicians and 800 choristers. Sixteen enormous vats to hold free beer, ar being built in the public places, and an English eompanv is covering the kremlin with electric lights.

Meanwhile the anxiety about the nihilists grows apace, and the latest report is that German police have got possesion of some of Hartmann's communications to nihilists, giving instructions on the subject of the coronation. Ittomaged hy Water Jeffersonville, flooded with from 2 to 20 feet of water. At Lawrenceburg, 5000 people are homeless and many hare lost all they had. A large number ol" cottages in the lower part of the city are swept away, and hundreds of people are quartered in second stories of public building and business bouses. Food is sent to them in skiffs.

The loss will reach over $1,000,000. Louisville, is also suffering from a severe flood. The Ion Times pobli-lws arthorit. tiTe statement ivgnrdirg the interview between ex-Empre" Eugenie and Prince Jerome Napoleon, whioh. it pbts.

has cleared np certain prirate mroinderslandings between the er-em-preae and the prince, and has led to the formal the inner as the head of the RrmTirte fiimilr. The recent visit of the em. preas'to Pari wna a mark of svnjpathv with IVju-e aecomtf of his illegal ar-re. nn.i i4 of respert for the views of his mmiif' -nv he dw-liiinis participation in any imiuwfol or clandestine enterprise aeainst the repn'ilk-. ilie pr.nre.

on his part, states that ii a p-tpnl-tr tote shMld pmnoiinee in feivor of a rciMiwie be bow to it. I he repnolie has never Tet. fce polled a clear majority nf rhe re- istered electors, and It therefore. pTveroini merely by virtue of the popular apa- a view to substituting arbitration tor war. The contract for building the Yorktown monument at Yorktown, has been awarded to tho Hallowell granite company of Hallo-well, for the sum of Matters in Washington.

Troubled. The star-route defendants are troubled by Rerdell's testimony. It is almost conclusive as to the facts affected, because it is so interwoven with documentary evidence that it is sustained at every point. The documentary evidence is as strong as such evidence could well be. Counsel for the deiense say they will be able to so discredit Rcrdell and his documentary evidence as to destroy any effect it may have uDon the iurv.

Thev expect to involve his evidence in contradictions, and to prove that his documents were doctored for the occasion; They will have difficulty in doing either. More Extravagance. The appropriations recommended the river and harbor bill, reported in the House, funount to Among the items are the iollowing: ror the improvement 01 tue Mississippi river, $2, 150,00 for improvements from St. Paul to aud including Dos Moines rapids, East River and Hell Unto, 1, channel between Staten Inland and New Jersey, Burialo harbor, 50,000, Delaware breakwater, Baltimore harbor, cmn-ieston harbor, Savannah harbor, 150.000. rsew Jersey creeks and river are urns provmta for: RiiritHn river Cheesequakes creek, 7000; Elizabeth river, 8000 Matta-wan creek, 4000; Passaic river, Rah wav river, 5000 Shrewsbury river, 5000 Mantua creek, 3000; South river, 10,0) Woodbndge creek, 1000.

Ihe appropriation for Oswego is Ohio river, 250,000. Of the Mississippi river appropriation, 000 is to be expended lrom tne head ol the passes to Cairo, including the harbors of New Orleans, Natchez, Memphis, and the reaches at Plum Point and Tiake Providence; from Cairo to the Illinois river, nnd l50.0l'0 from the Illinois river to the Des Moines rapids. The money is to be expended under the supervision of the Mississippi river commission. Carelessness. Some excitement was created in the dead letter ofhee, -office department, over the report that a large numler of letters had been rifled of money.

The report, on investigation, was found to be incorrect. A bundle of registered letters was by mistake, thrown into the waste paper basket, where it was found several days afterward. Important ET.de nee. M. Itardell, formerly private secretary for Senator Dorsey, has turned agiiinst his former employer, and gave evidence in the star routers' trial as follows: Became acquainted with S.

V. Dorse in December, 1872; met John Dorsey in the spring of 1878 at Gen. Dorsey's house on I street; first met Peck about '69 or '70; became acquainted with Brady in the spring of 1879. In August, 1875, witness wa appointed to a position under the district government, at the same time acted as Dorsey 's secretary. Miner had an office in the third storv of Ijisey's house in January and February, Boone, Watts and Senator Dorsey were frequenters of Miner's office.

Early in February, 1878, the night before the pn-jmsids were put in, witness betran his con nection with the mail onsiness. He testified to iti--ting Miner in filling out proposals at the request ol Senator Irey, and that afterward Miner -tatf-d that the figures in the proposals were filled by Senator iJorsey. In June, 173, Senator Dorsy gave Rerdell charge of le'ters from the post-omVe department addressed to Dnrcy, Peck, B'one, Miner and W'mMsi. In July he was sent by Dorsey to the West to assist John Dorsey in putting services on the Bismarck Tongue river route, Senator Dorsey giving hira his instructions and15K) before leaving Washington, and placing in the Gernkin-American National ink to the crelit of John W. Dorsey Co.

Witness signed the firm's name, John W. Dorsey upon the books. When witness returned he negotiated three blank notes signed John W. Dorsey and indorsed S- W. Pnrey.

In stocking the Tongne river mot- HtHk) was nsed before wituess went West. 1-Mrsey furnished him with postal blanks, and told him to establi-Ji a station off to one side of the ronte, about 60 miles, and put in applK-Rns to have it pot npon the route. It was calctdnted that this would make np for the distance lost through erroneous advertisements. Witness selected the site of the proposed side fiVe, and even picked out a name for it. At Milea ity witness got up a petition, and erery one wlwnu he asked signed it.

He bad a letter of introduction to Gen. Miles, aud got him to write a letter to the department. Whne left John Dor-ser at Miieg City. Witness pk-kd out a place on the map fci a new post-office, bnt knew nothing about the aumber of inhabitanu of the place. "It ww? a paper rrt -office" askd the court.

The witness replied affirmatively. S. W. DoTBsaBtroctionewere tohvrild the stations about 1 or 16 miles mpart. He said the srrnre would be increased, and until that time ther could ok every third statioB S.w a 4 lit tit I 17 'V tt I.

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