St. Louis Globe-Democrat from St. Louis, Missouri • 2

I I I I St. Louis gaits Horning, December 26, 1878. GENERAL AND PERSONAL NOISY fellow annoys a fallow. New York PATTI'5 engagement da Berlio is the urst she bar played in that city lot Mateen ye ALIFORNIA has this year produced enough 2 for MANY man who lambst soul for buckwheat cakes has found the simple statement, I priced some sealskin sacques on home today," to act like a charm. PRESIDENT HATES is said to be fond of scrapbooks.

He makes up at least one every year. is specially interested in the history of the White House, and whenever he finds anything which tells of ita associations, he preserves it in a scrap-book. ROSZA LANDOR, the Hungarian robber, whose exploits from 1836 to 1870 gave him a romantic the population, lately died in jail. He the man of whom it is said: stole an Archbishop in 1869, a railway train in 1989, and Entanery In BRI JANES B. GOULD, of Rome, Italy, a five of Sharon, has had erected for church soctety in that town a beantifal chapel a memorial of his wife, Mrs.

Emma Bliss Gould, the founder of the Protestant Schools in Roine for poor Italian children. DR. P. DWIGHT, who was A groomsman at the marriage of President Hayes' parents, is still living in Adams, Jefferson County, N. nearly ninety-four years of age.

He recently sent some reminiscences of the marriage to the President, who in return wrote him an appreciative letter, inclosing photographs of himself and Mrs. Hayes. DR. BARING, oue of the same family as the English bunkers of that name, who has resigned the Bishopric of Durham, in doing so gives up a salary of $10,000 and a magnifcent residence. It remains the fourth best place of ecclesiastical preferment in England, and Dr.

Baring is the first Bishop of Durham who ever resigned. is it that you girls are able to go in 90 hoavy for presents this inquired an impertinent male acquaintance of family of daughters in a State street store Saturday afternoon. naively replied one of the rosy creatures; "'you a business man and don't know the good, news?" that gold has touched pa'!" THE University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, has been scandalized. For some time past coldness has existed between Dr. Alexander C.

McLean, resident physician of the bospital, and Dr. E. C. Franklin, dean of the homeopathic modlty. On Sunday morning' these gentlemen inet in the bospital, passed a few hot words and then engaged in a lively fisticuff.

SWEET Julia A. Moore (Julia, amour!) is singing some more. She is competing for the prike yellow fever poem, and has Anished the stanza, as follows: yellow fever was raging Down in the Sunny South, And In many of the cities There was a death at every honse." GROOVELESS tramway was recently inspected in Birmingham. Mr. C.

A. Edge, the inventor, had laid a quarter of a mile of line in the shape of Agure 8, with several gradients, and he ran cars upon it throughout most of the day. The rail is a flat piece, regularly pierced with holes, and protuberances on the wheels fit into the holes. The object is to get rid of the inconvenient grooves of the tram systems now in general use. THE latest popular song in London has this delightful refrain: Oh, Jull-eht Jull-ah! It really is very pecull-ah! I don't know why, but really I Should like to be married to-day! Oh, Jull-er! Jull-er! It really is very pecull-er! I don't know why, but certainly I Wish to be married to-day! A CANADIAN bard, wishing to celebrate the gift by the Princess Lonise of a copy of her royal mother's "Tour of the to 8 faithful female attendant of her trip across the Atlantic, is reduced to the humiliating necessity of advertising for 8.

rhyme to the word The following is submitted for consideration: "base ingratitude, Cried I give a duodecInto edition of a book Unto the steamer's stewardess." Bald he: Stupid: spoil my joke! I uttered no such platituda; But merely said I thought the gift A of case basin-gratitude. AN uneophisticated farmer who visited Rochester, N. flie other day had his attention called to a man on the sidewalk turning on the water at a hydrant. The water was rushlug out forcibly, in obedience to the simple turning of a screw, and the farmer, with an Swan, hastened to the spot. "I say, boss, said he, "what kind of a pump is that?" bydrant pomp," said the man.

hydrant pump? Did Mr. Hydrant patent that? Say, how- much does one of them cost? I swan, if that don't beat said the man, and he kept slowly moving the screw, AN if that little effort produced the big stream. "You go right down here till you come to a hardware store, and they will sell you one." He went with the fire of expectation in his eye. WILLIAM SCOTT claims to be 149 years old. He is known to Baltimoreans, among whom he lives, ay Snowden Disney makes afidavit before Justico Pole, that he has known old darky William for fifty years; that Willam then bore the same appearance as now that the deponent'8 tather, who had been nursed by Wiltinm, gave, the date of the latteg'e birth As 1720.

Uncle Billy might pAss for man of seventy. He lias had six of children--that is, six different familles of children, exactly how many Le doesn't remember. ale was a body servant to Lord Howe during Re sent to England with atta. and English officer at the battle is brought to which, appeArS and wit and forte blessed child! bills, that ring so olear All the wintry morning up the sleeping wort That Christ was bom Mil the And the sorrowful ones of are spent in toil alas! ho place for the dreary Shall hear the tender Come unto me all ye that And gather anew to tread path His have Bing loud And nine each The while your Upon the aft agh Stirred with the Ring Sessions House, Newington, London. To Mr.

R. W. BALLARD, Saginaw, Michigan, U. 8. By Steamer The Denmark, From London, 20th 1878.

died, mother where's the use of such things ape left him- -that, shout embodles the whole story -in. Engiand, going God knows where. Then the was care of by an aunt, a Mrs. Onkley, living near London, but after 1 while she too seemed to have tired looking after the little fellow, and then an unele living at Saginaw agreed to take care of him, providing he was sent out. It is no small responsibility to send a child 4,000 miles on a journey without care, and for long time the difficulty appeared almost insurmountable; but at length the good-hearted stewardess of the Denmark, hearing about the little fellow, and of the aunt's anxiety to ship him across, volunteered to look after him during the voyage.

Accordingly he was sent on board the steamer and was placed in the indies' cabin. Evidently he was of good parentage, for his dress and linen were remarkably fine, and his manners and address only such as could result from careful training. I was 80 pleased with the little chap that I took him ashore with me, and drove him to the office. Here he at once developed An extraordinary inquisitiveness. Drawers, packages, anything and evervthing he could lay his hands on, were subjected to the severest scrutiny, not only of eve and touch, but of taste also.

Nor was he. fully satisfied even with this, but would go to some of the clerks or myself and ask what this and that was for, and why did we do one thing in this manner inatead of in some other, he had seen done in England. Some of my boys later in the day took him out for a drive on Broadway, and in the horse cars and over the Elevated Railroad. His delight was boundless, and his expression of it so enthusinstic as to draw the attention of the other passengers. Then, too, he would draw comparisons Invorable or unfavorable, and my clerks, joining in the fun, led him on.

His loyalty to his sovereign was, however, the topic on which he was most inclined to take umbrage, facing up to the youngsters who were tormenting him by deriding his queen and country. After a time, though, he seemed to suspect the trick and treated them with a silent contempt. In the evening I sent bim back to the steamer. He remained here for two or three days and was with us about the office during the day the whole time. The evening before I sent him off to Saginaw.

via Detroit, we took him down to Fuiton Market to give him some supper. Talk of boys eating. It was a sight that inade us laugh to see the way in which he went through soupe, fish, flesh, fowl, sweetmeats and coffee. None of us, (there were four in the party) could cat anything for laughing. I deciare, positively, it was astonishing.

The next morning by the 7:30 train I dispatched him from the Jersey City station for Port Huron. I should have mentioned that the lining of his coats and vests and on all his linen was stamped his name in this far hion: Master EDWIN FLYNN (Boy eight years), From Mrs. Oakley, One thing is certain, those who sent him across were determined that he should not go astray for want of his name and address being known. Just before starting a most amusing little incident occurred. When the ate wardess handed him over to me she told mo that he had 10s English money, which had been given him for pocket money.

and which be had not spent. Asking him if he would not have it chunged to U. S. currency before he left New York, he said, and then after a moment's consideration, reque te that I would get all 10c pieces, these veing most easily counted, and, as he expressed it, be less chance for the Yankee boys to cheat me." At the exchange office I gave the broker the cue to give him one piece less. After gravely counting the money three times, be looked up at the man and said.

"There's one and the broker, laughing at his sharpness, handed him a couple, saying, "That'll make it right, won't it the boy replied, laughing; now you're giving me one too On the way to Saginaw the Port Haron train deposited him at Flint to wait for the evening train. Here he fell asleep, and was found tired and wearied still carrying a stiff upper lip -by a lady who, for the rest of the journey, took him under her care, delivering him to his friends, who were in waiting at the station on the train's arrival, on Thursday of this week. If mistake not, there is a bright future before little Edwin Fiyun. How to Play Draw Poker Profitably. From the San Francisco Chronicle.

1. Don't buy but half as many chips at the start as the other players. The expectation is that you will win, and it you lose it is better that you borrow or "'owe' up. 2. Never ante up till some one tells you to, and then say that you have, and stick to it, which will generally persuade some one else to in twice.

This rule, though an excellent one, must be followed with discretion. If practiced too often is liable to produce unpleasant feelings. 3. Towards the end of the evening it is always better to "owe" up your ante for minute' than to up, as the winner of the pot frequently forgets to charge up the debt and none of the other players will remind him, as they may wish to do the same thing. 4.

When the credit system begins to creep in, as it generally does about the middle of the game, you should "owe up' if possible, and bet chiefly against those who always "'put up." This is one of the most important rules. To win in cash and lose on credit is the great secret of successful poker-playing. 5. In dealing always observe the bottom card. which you can easily do before the cut.

Then, by noticing how thick a cut is made, you can tell whether that card goes out. This may help you in the draw. 6. Keep a sharp eye on the discards. They may be of service if your draw is not satisfactory.

7. When you are "fin luck, watch your opportunity, from time to time, to put some some of your checks in your pocket without being seen. This will enable you to up? if luck turns, and will prevent the others from borrowing from you. 8. When any one wants to buy more checks and you have plenty, get him to buy of you, it possible, in preference to the bank.

It enables you to conceal the sinount of your win- You This rule: lost at a a much as your poker in the mate not avoid. about asking for Dottto Brooklyn Belle Brboklynite brains which have Clinton 1 and Tod out devoted mystery watch was placed in the It doors rattled and pounded just violent and the bell rang with all its nocustomed ness. Mr. Smith la no believer in ghosta or Spiritualism, and to prove to the frightened ladies in the family that the bell was certaiuly rung by human agency, he sprinkled four and ashes along the approuch to the front door, and confident that he would thus be able to show the footsteps of the disturber of their peace. But the bell was rung, and no footsteps were discovered.

Then Mr. Emith sought the aid of Brooklyn's infallible police, and Cupt. McLaughlin, of the Fourth Precinct, was persuaded to look into the matter. The Captain and Detective Price went to the house last Monday evening, determined to capture the ghost and treat it to a night's lodging in a police cell. They had been at the house only a few moments when the familiar pounding and ringing began, and they were utterly unable to fathom the mystery.

The disturbances ceased at 10 o'clock, and the police officers left completely mystified. On Tuesday evening they visited the house again, heard the same phenomena, and met with the same non-success in determining the cause. On Wednesday evening the disappointed Captain posted several ottieers around the house, with instructions to the slightest movement that might be made. Then he and his detectives stationed themseives just inside the door, and waited ready to open it the instant the bell was rung, whle an officer outside kept his eyes fastened steadily upon the door" In a moment or two the bell rang violently and several heavy blows were struck upon the door in quick succession. The Captain sprang out of the door and clutehed just what the officer outside on guard outside had seen- space and nothing more.

A path leads from the front yard arouad the house to the two rear doors, as the house stands several feet from the buildings adjoining on either side. This path was securely guarded by the policeman, and yet while Captain MeLaughlin was trying to recover from his astonishment at the front door, a large brick was suddenly thrown through the dining-room window, which fronts ou the path, shivering the glass and falling inside the window. The brick must have been thrown from the pathway, but the officers are positive that no person was there. This was the most serious demoustration the invisible agency had yet made, and can only be accounted for on the theory that the ghost, if ghost it was, wished to show its contempt for the Brooklyn police. Yestorday Detective Price ransacked the house from cellar to roof, and found no concealed wires or other mechanism by which human agency could produce the phenomena.

Fortified with the most profound skeptieism in the matter of spooks, and fully delermined to cover the Brooklyn police with confusion by ferreting out the cause of Mr. Smith's strange visitations, a Times reporter visited No. 136 Clinton avenue late last evening. Whistling, to keep his courage up, as he turned the corner from Myrtle avenue to Clinton avenue, he saw a crowd of several hundred men, women and children standing in front of the house, and a single policeman vainly trying to make them move on." Pushing through the throng, and hearing many subdued stories about "'Stewart's ghost, shure, the reporter dodged the policeman, rot into the yard, and was at door in as quick time -46 a ghost could have done it. In answer to the bell, the door was quickly opened, and in answer to his inquiries of Mr.

R. B. Thomas, Mr. Smith's boarder, the reporter was informed that Mr. Smith was at home, but was prostrated with nervousness, and could not be interviewed.

the ghosts at work asked the reporter, who was grievously disappointed by Mr. Thomas' reply, which WAS to the effect that everything Was as quiet 38 could be; the police were no longer on the watch. and the crowd outside was the nearest approach to anything ghostly that had been seen or heard during the evening. Mr. Thomas said that he knew no earthly power had caused the phenomena which they had witnessed for two weeks past, but he was not prepared to admit that any spiritual agency had been at work, for he had no faith in Spiritualistic doctrine.

Mr. Smith, he said, was inclined to lay it all to some evil spirit which had a grudge against some occupant of the house. Several Spiritualists have been there, and reqnested permission to hold a seance in the evening, which had been refused. won't get in here, 1 said Mr. Thomas.

consider ourselves perfectly able to take care of any ghost that comes along, without any help from any Spiritualists. The whole thing In a nutshell is just continued Mr. Thomas, have had the most mysterious sounds and actions about this house for a fortnight. We have tried our best to fathom the mystery, and can't. The police have tried and failed.

We don't know what it is, but we do know that it is no earthly agency." Mental Arithmetic. the University Some years ago a German named Dase exhibited his wonderful powers of calculation and memory before the Queen. I once met him at the house of a friend, but unfortunately arrived too late to witness more than few of his feats. Sixty-four figures were chalked upon a board, whieh Mr. Dase gave, what I thought, a cursory glance, and immediately turning his back upon them, he stated the order in which they were placed, and then repented them backward.

He was then, without altering his position, dodged one by one of the company, who asked, What is the twentythird He answered at once and correctly. Again, vast amount of dominoes -I wondered where they got so many-were distributed on the table among several ladies, who had arranged them in squares of various dimensions, while Mr. Dase stood with back to the table. He was then requested to run around, and in an incredibly short space of time he told us the number, not of dominoes, but of spots. Thus far for the evidence of my own eyes and ears.

For the rest, I was told that he can multiply in his mind 100 figures by the like number. He is an hour about it, but the result is always correct. I was told, that he can extract the square root of 100 given Agurea in Alty-two minutes? feel that the maidens of Canada are so well provided good -are so robust and he as well mentilly phys- a Mnoto them to sufficient. Let them their own' ideas of exercise, industry, at had they will follow the example of the Princess, and, whenever tHey And themselves diyerting from the line of march, they may be full well assured they are wandering into devious paths and hastening to dangerous territory. ado has been about an order all ladies attending a appear In low dress, In which case would be allowed.

REALLY NO OCCASION very pronounced condemnation of the Which some papers thought it was necThe order was signed Now. I know him very and kinder, more unaffected man, perfect gentleman, os one less guided by can call ideas, does not The order in an exact copy of that the occasions of her. Majesty and the Colonel doubtiess felt that, Canada receiving a Royal 45114 as the head of her soclal system, there nothing incongruous in elevating the status of these gatherings. could, if necexplain fully to, Colonel and to me the raison of the order: but the leas said about he No one need fear for a moment that either his Excellency or her Royal Highness has any ider whatever of forcing on the Canadians any offensive reg ulations; but know I may for the ladies of Canada, that they will regard. with pleasure all orders framed with a view to the elevation of Canadian society, at the head of which her Royal Highness now stands, It was generally anticipated here that the Vice- regal Court would be one of much greater state than it was during the administration of Lord Dufferin; but those who have been honored with invitations to Rideau are loud in correcting this idea.

There is ACTUALLY EVEN. LESS. Our new rulers have evidently come to Canada determined to captivate by simplicity, courteousness and affability. The polish which such people almost unconscionsly carry with them, and the very marked refinement of their smile, will do their own work. There is not the slightest danger of our falling to the level of American freedom in society while we have such leaders of our manners; and yet there is conversely no danger of our being invited to spe European style and state which are utterly incompatible with our position.

The milieu' will undoubtedly be preserved; and Canada, while honored as no colony or dependency of- Great Britain has ever before been honored, will take a first position in fostering love for the refinement and polish which are the essential characteristics of a superior race. FIVE MILLIONS. Boston Syndicate That Went Into Sierra Nevada and Staid in Too Long. the San Francisco Post.1 When the recent excitement in Sierra Nevada and other north end stocks got fairly under way, a syndicate of prominent Boston capitalists was formed for the purpose of interesting themselves in our market. This syndicate had its beadquarters with Stone Donner, leading bankers on State street, in that city, and about $5,000,000 was put up by members for operating uses.

The Boston syndicate bought largely on telegraphic orders to this city of Sierra Nevada, Union, Mexican and Ophir. Their purchases were not confined to these stocks alone, however, for they corralled quite a quantity of such collaterals as Gould Curry, Savage, Hale Norcross, Bullion, with the view that the developments in the Sierra Nevada must cause a vigorous appreciation all along the Comstock line. The syndicate received the best information obtainable by telegraph from day to day regarding the condition of the Sierra Nevada, and the internal forces at Work in the market. Having purchased most of the stocks before the inflation WAS at its highest, and having made several successful turns with their holdings, the syndicate could have cleaned up and retired from the field. before the final crash came, had they been so disposed, with a third as much of our peopie's money as they themselves had originally invented.

But, like a great many syndicates and combinations formed for the same purpose on this coast, the Boston capitalists were thoroughly enthused and carried away by their first success. They hadn't had such glorious opportunity to make money since the good old times during the war, and they were going to take advantage of the occasion. They were advised that some kind of fight was going on in the market between two rival combinations struggling for power, but they placed very little importance upon the fact, feeling like thousands of others, that none of the heavy holders of the favorite stock would ever dream of selling out at less than $500 per share, and that the Sierra Nevada mine waS going to realize all the guine expectations of its frends, immediately when cross-cutting commenced on the 2,200 foot level. The great crash therefore took the Boston syndicate unawares. It came stealthily as a thief comes in the night, and the enormous shrinkage in values happened so suddenly that they were unable to dispose of scarcely any stock.

Their profits were destroyed. But deeming that the decline was merely a stock job, a result of the supposed fight between Flood and Skae, and that the showing of the mine was not responsible, they did what a great many other people nearer home have done- averaged the cost of their collaterals by purchasing more shares on the decline. Two or three days of averaging in the face of fearful shrinkage and constant call for money caused the Boston syndicate to weaken. found themselves loaded to the guards. They suspected that something was wrong.

Not knowing exactly what that something was, they dad what has always been deemed the proper thing by Eastern people, under similar circumstances, they fell to anathematizing California, Nevada, the mines, and everybody else connected with them up hill and down dale. Just what is to blame for the havoc caused among our Boston friends is a difficult matter to state. A combination of things is at the bottom of the disaster, any one of which may have been the cause. The mine did not show As rich as was expected on the 2,100 or 2,200 levels. It is quite certain that the large blocks of inside stock were thrown upon the market.

The bonanza firm until recently made no effort to check the decline. But it the dissatisfaction is great in Boston, it is still greater here. More anathemas on the market will be heard on Pine street in one hour than in the staid old in a week. But we do think the Sierra Nevada mine will yet come out all right, and that Boston will have chance to get even on its investments; but it must not be impatient or too hasty. Our folks out here are not worse than people there, the syndicate man to the contrary notwithstanding.

If we possess any advantage over the syndicate, it is that they did not clean up and remove from this coast large profits when they might easily have done so. Old, Loved Home Still. the New Orleans Picarune Paris All- brought pleasure excursion trains up all the railways. Among them was one from Alsace. There were a large number of people assembled; each person came to carry home kin or friend from Faderland.

None of them all looked more eagerly for the coming train than three persons who stood side by side, evidently one family- two women and a child held in the youngest woman's arms. The child prattled: isn't grandpa coming soon?" The words were scarcely out of his lips when a small, puny, broken, scrawny old man, very plainly, clothed, but not a speck of dust to be seen upon him, made his appearance and advanced to the three persons. no sooner recognized the comer than he clapped his hands and chirruped: There's grandpa!" The old man waved a nosegay of wild flowers, and without staying to embrace the wife, daughter and grandson, gave them the nosegay, saying: They are from the old home." All burst into tears. These flowers were fragments of the old home, war shattered, on French soil once, in foreign land now--old, loved home still. English Photographic Wrinkle.

(From the Boston English photographers avoid the strain on sitters' eyes, which usually results in a ghastly stare, by having a -face as the point to which they are directed, eyes being allowed to travel slowly from the figure XII all around. The rotary movement of the eyeball in adapting itself, step by step, to the figures upon so small a circle at such a distance, is so excessively fine as to cause no interference with the photographic process. The eyes are excellently well defined, even to the iris, and the pictures have marked superiority over those previously taken in the manner in which the details of the eyes are reproduced. The sitters have expressed themselves as not having bad any strain upon their eyes. STERN JUSTICE.

The President of a Phitadelphia Railway and His Cashier Sent to Prison for Ten Years for Having Issued Shares of Fraudulent Stock. From the Philadelphia S. Morton, stand up!" P. Huhn, stand The two men who, but a short time ago, were honored and respec ed, stood up in the Criminal Court yesterday to receive the judgment of the law. Each face was 3 study.

Morton held his head high, as if to brave the storm. Huhn appeared almost unconcerned. Two weeks before, Huhn, in a chat with Record reporter, expressed himself as almost certain that Morton would get three years, perhaps five, he added, "will get two years and a This foreknowledge was cause of his but how bitter the disappointment in store for him! Judge Thayer adjusted his eyeglasses, cleared his throat, and then spoke: John 8. Morton and Samuel P. Hubn, on the 1406 of February, 1878, you severally pleaded guilty to a bill of indictment charging you with the fruudulent making and issuing of certificate of stock for 100 shares of the West Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company.

Although the indictment charges the forgery of but 100 shares, it is a well-known fact, and, indeed It appears by your own admissions, that the actual amount of these issues was in the neighborhood of 10,000 sharea, quantity which, at the par value of the stock, amounted to about $500,000. I consider all these transactions, however, as part of one offense, and I presume, and, indeed, am advised by the prosecuting that it is the intention of the Commonwealth that, whatever the puntent inflicted. it, shall be for the whole offense. The offense one of the most grant ita kind committed in this Com the chosen stockholder of the corporation confided their intere tr, and not temptation you Detrayed that confidence and wrought widespread rule on those had trustod you. It is necessary that I should say this much that it may be horne in mind the punishment which the law imposes be great, it may also be remembered that crime Itself great.

convicted, it is the sentence of the Court that For the offense which you hare been you, and cach of you, do undergo an impris onment in the Eastern Penitentiary for the period of ten years, that you PRY a fine of 1 cent to the Commonwealth, and that you stand committed until the. sentence is complied with. About ten months have elapsed since you pleaded guilty, and it is but just that the time during which you have been in conflie: ment shall be considered in the imprisonment imposed upon you. Your sentence will, therefore, date from the day on which you pleaded guilty. The men looked at the Judge for a moment, then at each other, bowed their heads and sat down.

During the delivery of the sentence, which was in a calm. clear voice, not a muscle in their faces moved, and only when his Honor referred to the infamy attached to the crime did Morton's head involuntarily bow. When Morton and Huhn resumed their seats, an effort was made to obtain Judge Thayer's permission to have them taken to the Penitentiary in carriages by their friends, but this his Honor declined to do. E. Spencer Miller, Mr.

Morton's counsel, requested that Morton be allowed to return to Movamensing Prison and procure some valuable papers which he had left his clothing, added a young lawyer. 44 He will not need any clothing, replied Counselor Miller, sadly; will give him new suit out The request to revisit the prison was denied, but the court issued an order on the authorities to return to Morton his papers. When the big wide gates of the Penitentiary were swung back, an hour later, the baying of the bloodhounds in the yard was the first sound which greeted the ears of the party. There were Tipstaff James Erickson, and Deputy Sheriffs Wildemore and Gordon, who accompanied the men. The officers bade their charges "'and then they were taken into a small apartment known as the "receiving room.

Adjoining this is the pen where the bloodhounds are kept, and no sooner did the dogs hear the movements of the men in the room than they commenced furious barking, which was kept up until their departure. Warden Townsend directed Morton to step up to the desk, when he vegan to catechize him. Your name?" John S. Morton, was the answer. Then followed a series of set questions as to birthplace, business, winding up with: were you sent here "Forgery The simple word seemed to choke and strangle in attempting to come out, but it was uttered quickly.

Removing his right shoe his foot was measured, and then his arms were bared to ascertain if there were any indelible ink marks or scars. The color of the eyes, hair, position of the cheek-bones and other prominent points of his features were noted, and, while he was engaged in conversation, one of the keepers quickly threw a large wack over prisoner's head, enveloping him to the waist. Morton was directed to follow the officer, and he walked up and down stairs, in and out of corridors to another room, where he was divested of all clothing and the sack removed. He was then given bath and afterward new suit of clothing, the prison garb. The apparel the prisoner wore when he entered was packed away, the number upon it corresponding with that of Morton's cell, which is up in the "nine thousands, the exact number not being revealed.

Again was Morton's head enveloped in the sack and Morton was marched around and about through the corridors and finally landed in his cell. Here he loses his name, and John S. Morton is unknown to the little world in which he has so recently taken up a residence. Hereafter he will be known by his number only. The cell is plainly furnished apartment, and here Morton remains for twenty four hours, his only companion being a Bible, which lay on the table, and the printed rules of the prison, which are suspended on the wall.

Until to-morrow he sees no one but the keeper, who furnishes his meals. After that he is put to some honest employment, Immediately after Morton had been disposed of, Huhn stepped up betore the Warden, and he underwent the sume treatment. The men were not shaved or their hair cut, as it is rule not to heap any indignities upon a prisoner, and unless he request it this part of the performance is omitted. Thus the prison gates end the history of one of the greatest crimes Philadelphia has ever known. Wonderful Rat Story.

While workmen were tearing up the old floor of the Central freight-house at Auburn, N. lately, preparatory to relaying, they came across an unused scale-box some eight inches deep and about four feet square. It was pried up from its position, and as it was being raised a rattling sound was heard inside. men broke it open, when out jumped a monstrous rat. Chase was given the rodent, but the animal managed to escape by running into a pile of freight.

The rat Was large as good-sized kitten, and so gray from age that it was almost white. The bottom of the box from which it emerged was found to be completely covered to the depth of an inch or more with peanut shucks, corn, corn cobs and the like. The only opening that could be discovered was a small hole about an inch and three-fourths in diameter, through which rod had passed. When young and small. the rat, it is supposed, crawled into the box.

and after gorging itself with plunder was able to get out, and thus became a voluntary prisoner. It gradually grew until it reached enormous proportions. The materials found in the box indicate that other rats fed it, and thus kept it from starvation. The rodent Was undoubtedly confined for several years, and the action of the other animals in supplying it with means of subsistence, shows a degree of intellence that the rat has rarely been given credit for. How the imprisoned rat obtained water or other liquids to quench its thirst is a mystery; but that it was in the box for several years there can be no doubt.

Its long imprisonment did not seem to impair its physical qualities to any extent, as was evidenced by the sprightly manner in which it dodged about to get away from the workmen when it was released. A Delightful Kasy Chair. A recent number of London Nature contains an article on Chairs." After noticing the favorite attitudes of different races, such as the Hindoo, who sits on the ground with his knees drawn up to his chin; the Turk, who squats cross-legged; the European, who poses on a chair; the American, who lolls with his feet raised above his head, the writer sums up the modes of getting rest from muscular fatigue follows: "For an easy chair to be perfect it ought not only to provide for complete relaxation of the muscles, for Sexion and consequent laxity of the Joints, but also tor the easy return of blood and lymph; not merely by the posture of the limbs themselves, but, by equable support and pressure against as great a surface of the limbs as possible. Such are the theoretical demands, and these are fulfilled by the bamboo easy chairs manufactured in India, made in the shape of a straggling which the languor consequent upon a relaxing climate has taught the natives of India to make, and which the rest of the world a deer rentlemuste of unos cordially little delegates perbet kindly goodhis Eroeliency the lady the informed, be, thotigh afternoon, in the and withThink of that, of Hamilton, without a gold chain sad who would social you perdrawing- Jewelry. lady equaled love of advisedin are domicousins; and the tastes, and destroying the people.

But, young you. You are but the 'abeddy' asserts itappreciate of her been educated and tastes have to simplietty directors of your liven the cancer of vulextravagance will comto into our social state. Have Yes, and no. have seen Her in the street; but, when walkIng she is always heavily veiled, NO that I can not yet judge of her features. when I have bad an opportunity of studying her I may send you my impression of her personal appearance, and of ber charseter 80 far an 16 may be read by the facial lines.

In the meantime, I will tell you something of her habits; but you must understand in doing this I tell you only what is generally known in Ottawa. One of her chief characteriatics is HER LOVE OF EXERCISE. She may be seen in the dull gray mornings of which we have had so many since her arrival, at as early an hour as 8:30, vigorously walking in the romantic neighberhood of Rideau Hall. She comes to town nearly every day, not in carriage, but in good stout English walkingboots, in which she tramps through the mud and slush with a bold, firm step, which puts to shame the mincing ladies, who, if they venture out at all in bad weather, pick their Way as tenderly as if they were walking on eggs. I met her last Sunday, at about clock.

near Chaudiere. I must tell you that Rileau Hall is about a mile and a half from the Parliament Buildings. and the Chaudiere Falls are but a mile farther west. She was Walking with his Excellency, Lady Sophia MacNamara -recollect that she is Lady Sophia, not Lady MacNamara-aud the The Princess was dressed in black, over which she wore a long gray ulster; her head was wrapped in a white cloud, and she carried a gmail cane -she always appears in the streets WITH A CANE. You ask why she carries cane.

I don't know, but I suppose she is guided by the good common sense which tells her that such an appendage is useful on slippery streets, and that the extensions of the muscies of the chest is promoted by the swinging of the arms, which the use of a cane increases. You may be certain there is some simple, sensible reason for it. I know ladies who would think themselves degraded by wearing heavy walking boots, boots fit to keep out the wet, and with which muddy, slushy roads might be traversed with impunity. She delights in them, and is apparently as much at home and as happy while doing her six-mile walk on any indiferent road as she would be in her drawing-room, and I suppose more so. The party had walked from Rideau to the Chaudiere, and, when they reached the Government House on their return, they would have covered at least five miles of rough road.

This was a Sunday afternoon constitutional. I believe that in some of the pious parts of Scotland it is considered a sin to walk out on the It is evident that his Excellency does not hail from any of these seats of Puritanic ideas, and the Princess clearly possesses one of those pure, healthy minds which sees beauty in God's works, whether they be viewed on Saturday or Sunday. She is evidently one of those TRUE, SIMPLE, AND BROAD- WOMEN who treat with silent contempt all affectation, all snobbery, all show, and all pharisaical profession. The Rev. Mr.

Harrington, a very excellent Church of England clergyman, whom I have the pleasure of knowing very well, is the incumbent of St. Bartholomew's Church at New Edinburgh, and has been appointed Private Chaplain to his Excellency and her Royal Highness. He attends every morning at Rideau Hall at 9 o'clock, when the morning service is read, the whole household taking part; and on Sunday evening at 10 o'clock he goes through the evening service before the same little congregation. The Presbyterians of Ottawa hoped to secure the attendance at least occasionally of his Excellency and the Princess at St. Andrew's Church, and be did attend morning service there last Sunday; but large pew has been fitted up in St.

Bartholomew, under the direction of the Hon. Mr. Moreton, the Comptroller of the Household, and it is now pretty generally understood that the services of the Church of England are those which both will attend. This habit of walking exposes the Princess to much inconvenience, for there are always ill-bred people who stare at, and even follow, her in the streets. SHE SEEMS FOND OF SHOPPING, and has already visited a number of the leading dry -goods houses.

But she does not confine herseif to the first-class houses. A few days ago she was seen suddenly to stop before sinall tin-shop. She saw something in the window which attracted her attention, and, after observing it for a moment, walked into the very humble place. Now, what do you suppose had struck her fancy? A small tin -pot A Jittle common thing, with a.capacity of about one cup, and worth about 25 cents. She bought it, and, I was told, put it in her pocket; but this I doubt.

Now, this shows the utter absence of that false pride which makes so many of our women objects of ridicule. Plain, simple, unostentatious, affable, and courteous, her Royal Highness has already won the affections of all who have come within her influence; and there doubt that her example will be of incalculable value to this young country, and will go far in checking the growth of the pernicious modes life established among our American cousins, which have already done much to make our women unwomanly, and our girls idle, and proud and snobbish. Let the young women of Canada watch the life of this daughter of Royalty; let them imitate her industry, her simplicity; her pure, 'healthy, useful life, as well mental as physical; let them recollect that no life is happy which is idlethat the highest and purest enjoyment in this world is the consciousness that we are constantly employed in doing good and being useful-and that the most wretched of all lives is that of the woman of fashion, or of the girl who spends her time in the whirl of social excitement. The life of the Princess Louise in Canada will, I do not doubt, be CONSTANT AND MOST POWERFUL PROTEST against the enervating, listless, showy life which is, unfortunately, distinguishing American women, root in and this which is also, unfortunately, striking fair Canada of ours. But a truce to moralizing.

It is proud AN AMUSING RASCAL. How the Editor of "Truth" Played 1t on One Who Played it on Him. the London Truth.1 Hour and on About twenty-five years ago I was an attache at Munich. Public employes led an easy life then, and all the other members of the mission were away. I was seated in the Chancery, when a bronzed-looking veteran entered, and, telling me that he was on his way back to England from the Crimea, asked me to advance him 100 florins.

I was verdant, and handed him the cash, proud to be of use to one of the gallant defenders of my native flag. After he had left, I came across an order to have a man of his name arrested and for numerous iniquities. I went to the police. No one was in, so to make sure that my friend should not leave the town, I wrote him a line to say that some Bavarian officers were most anxious to make his acquaintance, and that I hoped that he would honor me with company to dinner the next day. The following evening the Captain, beautifully arrayed in evening dress, made his appearance.

Captain, I said. "'allow me to introduce you to the officers who wanted to know you; they are officers of the On this he was led away and lodged in prison. The papers demanding his extradition were not ready, and the Minister of Police proposed to keep him under arrest for the 100 florins borrowed of me. But we had no evidence of the fact, so we hit upon the following expedient: He was brought before the Minister of Police, who said to him: "'You borrowed 200 florins of an attache of the English No, replied the Captain; "this is an infamous falsehood; I only borrowed 100 florins. replied the Minister, admitting the fact; you will now go back to prison, because you owe money which you can not pay.

In durance vile the Captain remained for one year, and during this time we tried to arrange his extradition. But we failed, and the we found, could not be sent to England. Some years later I came across this worthy man at Florence. He then was representing himself as a secret emissary of Lord Palmerston, and in that capacity was made much of by the Florentine Prime Minister, Ricazoli. On meeting me he took his departure.

A year or two later I found him at Venice, with his son. He called this son nephew of Lord Palmerston and himsell the son's, tutor. Again, on seeing me. ho fled. The last time' I met him was at Constantinople.

There he passed himself off as a Catholic anxious to become a Protestant. Many kind persons took so deep an interest in his spiritua welfare that they ministered to his physica wants. When I left, he had been accommodated with a lodging in prison, and since then I have never heard of him. The trick of this man was to advertise for a governess for his children. When the poor woman came to him he would take all her money, and then turn her into the streets.

But he was a most amusing rascal. When 1 unearthed him from Florence he went to Spezzia. Charles Lever, who was Vice Consul there, although he generally lived at Florence, started off after him, breathing fire and vengeance. On his return I asked him what had happened. found him, said Lever, "'living in the best hotel, the friend of half the town." is he in I asked.

"Well, no, not exactly, replied Lever: "the fact is, he amused me sc that I lent him £10, and he went off to Spain. How to Buy a Horse. The Rural New Yorker says: 4 An ing purchaser should have the horse brought out before him, and watch the animal as he stands at rest. If the owner is continually starting the horse into motion and urging him. to 'show off, something may.

be suspected, because it is when the horse is at perfect rest that his weak points are divulged. If the horse be sound he will stand square. on his limbs, without moving any of them, the feet being placed flat upon the ground, and all his legs plumb, and naturally posed. If one foot be thrown forward and the toe pointing to the ground and the heel raised, or if the foot be lifted from the ground and the weight taken from it, disease or tenderness may be suspected. ONE COLD after another will, with many constitutions, securely establish the seeds of Consumption in the system.

It you are in need of a remedy for any Lung trouble or throat disease you will find Dr. Jayne's Expectorant always prompt and efficacious. HELP! FOR THE WEAK, NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED! The afflicted can now be restored to perfect health and bodily energy, at home, without the use of medicine of any kind. PULVERMACHER'S ELECTRIC BELTS AND BANDS, For self-application to any part of the body, meet every requirement, The most learned physicians and scientific men of Europe and this country indorse them. These noted Curative appliances have now stood the lest for upward of thirty years, and are protected by Letters-Patent in all the principal countries of the world.

They were decreed the only Award of Merit for Electric Appliances at the great World's elsewhere- Exhibitions and Philadelphia, and have been found the most valuable, safe, simple, and efficient known treatment for the oure disease. READER, ARE YOU AFFLICTED and wish to recover the same degree of in former years? Do any of the following health, strength, and energy as experienced symptoms or class of symptems meet your diseased condition? Are you suffering from 1ll-health in any of its many and multifarious forms, consequent upon a lingering, nervous, chronic or functional disease? Do you feel nervous, debilitated, fretful, timid, and lack the power of will and action Are you subject to loss of memory, have spells of fainting, fullness of blood in the head, feel listless, moping, unfit for business or pleasure, and subject to fits of melancholy? Are your kidneys, stomach, or blood, in a disordered condition? Do suffer from rheumatism, neuralgia or aches and pains? Have you been indiscreet in early years and find yourself harassed with a multitude of gloomy symptoms Are you timid, nervous, and forgetful, and your mind continnally dwelling on the subject? Have you lost confidence in yourself and energy for business pursuits Are you subject to any of the following symptoms: Restless nights, broken sleep, nightmare, dreams, palpitation of the heart, bashfulness, confusion of ideas, aversion to society, dizziness in the head, dimness of sight, pimples and blotches on the face and back, and other despondent symptoms? Thousands of young men, the middle and aged, and physical even debilthe old, 1ty. suffer Thousands of. females, too, are broken from nervous down in health and spirits from from disorders peculiar to their sex, and who, false modesty or neglect prolong their sufferings. Why, then, further and neglect happiness a subject when 60 there prois at hand a means of restoration ductive of health PULVERMACHER'S ELECTRIC BELTS AND BANDS cure these various diseased conditions, after all other means fail, and we offer the most convincing testimony direct from the af-.

flicted themselves, who have been restored to HEALTH, STRENGTH, AND ENERGY, after drugging in vain for months and years. Send now for DESCRIPTIVE PAMPHLET and THE ELECTRIC QUARTERLY, full a large Illus trated Journal, containing particolars and INFORMATION WORTH THOUSANDS. Coples mailed free. Address, PULVERMACHER GALVANIC Cor. Eighth and Vine CINCINATE, 0.

Avoid bogus appliances claiming electrie qualities. Pamphlet exclains how, distinguish the genuine from the spurious..