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i CELESTIALS IX CALIFORNIA. and nine years of age. They are the DJ I T71. -XCeCOrCler and iilXpreSS contributed to the Tribune Medicate he I describes, among other cases, one of in- iflammation of the globe of the eye, shooting him through L'oth hands. Mr.

White, misunderstanding the purpose for which he was shot, e.ndeavorea to make his escape, when additional pistol shots were fired before the joung man perceived his mistake. in a horrible medley, the BK icar me room, eniereu. tnt temple, or house dedicated to the Joss. Chinese inscriptions on bo. uung arouna the wall.

The floor bare, and several small tables set carekssly around. At one of these stands two men were drinking tea out of cups the siz of walnuts. They chanted first men tne otner, then in unison: theh faces were solemn, and they were snrron.71ded by a silent throng rfu Vm frmlr1 trot- rr what they were trying to do. After one verse of their strange, whining feline song, they each tcVk a tiny sip of lea, ana wen sirucc up a wau again. After a half-hour of this amusement, another Chinese took down from a nail on the wall a kind of banjo, and twanged the strings in accompaniment.

This Chinese fiddle was inlaid ivory and pearl, and the box or body of the instrument was covered with snake skin, anaconda skin, glittering, metal- nu-iuoiung, covered wun iiiue scales that look like fine inlaid work. A LAMP THAT HOLDS OCT TO BURN. The altar of the Joss was curtained and draped in crimson, and many glit tering gilt spangles and ornaments were hanging about. Just under the picture of their idol there is a little crystal hanging lamp filled with the oil of the cocoanut, in which the thread-like wick is curled. This lamp never is allowed to go out day or night.

Below the lamp, on a table, is spread rice, wine, candy, and fruit for the god. A Chinese told us while we were in the Joss house that they had just got a new Joss from China, and they were having feast day because they had the new Joss. I asked what good tlie Joss did. "Why," said my heathen, "Melican go to churchee, singee, prayee, talkee to big Joss up in skyee. China boy go to Joss house, smgree and pravee to old Joss in a house.

Melican man want to be goodee, prayee to Joss: China boy want to be goodee, go to Joss house, all a same Cnristain.77 There is in Santa Barbara about one dozen Christian Chinamen, belonging: to the Presbyterian Church. They have their regular corner at the left side of the pulpit. It is a study to me, as I sit JJ a 1 a 1 in a pew mid-way the center aisle, amid tne rustling silks and rattling fans of the fashionable audience, to see one by one these twelve men walk quietly down the side aisle, and, dressed their strange garb, crowns shaven and cues nanging to their heels, take their seats and listen so intently, so breathlessly, it seems, to the words of their beloved pastor. I notice when the contribution box goes round John's silver makes often a louder chink as it drops in the plate than the dime of the millionaire, and I suspect when the rich man gives live cents tne laundry boy or cook gives one dollar AN ENTERPRISING CHINAMAN. Ah Quin is one of the most astute and successful business men of the citv ne runs an extensive laundry, a Chinese intelligence office, a Chinese store containing tea, silk, and Chinese toys, and owns a line of garbage wagons, and vegetable gardens, from which men carry baskets on long poles, TT-JSSS the vr Fround.

brinrinc, thp.mtir the year round, bringing them to your very door, and not alone to your door, but through every room in your house, until they are told to leave. Ah Quin is not satisfied with the extent and variety of his enterprises, but he is now a zealous and apt student in a photograph gallery. Ah Quin says there are no native photographers in China, and ho intends to go back and set up a large establishment in Hong Kong, and "make muche money.77 I he other day, while I was attend ing the Saturday evening reception of fi. iord and wife, artists who claim Chicago as their home, and came here to put on canvas a few California scenes, and have loitered a year, making sketches in the canyons and mountains of Santa Barbara a Chinese, Ung Lee, tapped at the door and asked to see the pictures. He examined each picture carefully, and as there are over two hundred sketches on the walls, it took Wm several houra to go throu2h them.

Bef ore lea ving he Mr. Ford, 4t Melican man make pictures nne all game ag out door He then drew attention to a little woodland them, and said he knew where that water was, and how much money was it worth? Mr. Ford told him the price was $G00. I take it," he replied, and counted out the gold notes, to the surprise of the artist and his friends, and carried away the picture under bis arm. In a few days he returned and wanted to learn to paint like Melican, and at my last visit to Mr.

lord a studio this Chinese art student was painting in the corner at his easel, and Mr. Ford says he shows remarkable talent. And all the anti-coolie meeting on this coast will not be sufficient to eradi cate or drive away from America the Chinese who have tasted of the fruits of knowledge held out by the hand of the "New World." As I am penning these lines I hear the strange metallic clack of Chinese I VAVVw AA. VUW VVVJ tUl4 0SJ CL VAAIi WW voices the street, and see going by door 8ix or geveQ Cninese walkmg an in a row, one alter another, talking at tne tQp of their voiceSf apparentiy to the air, for they never look around into the coimtenance of the person whom they are addressing. It is a singular 1 iact mat tne uninese never wa side by side, but always go single file, one after another.

Another strange thing about them is that they are never ragged nor untidy looking. I have never yet seen a Chinese wearing a dirty or torn garment, and their socks are always as white as snow, and their sandals trim and whole. I have heard many Eastern people here remark con cerning the neat feet of the Chinamen and the freedom from rags and hlth of the poor foreigners of the Atlantic States. FUNNY NURSES. Following the walks through the grounds of the hotel, I see a baby car- riage, containing a Diue-eyea, goiaen haired little Saxon of the higher class.

Her 1 ttie silver-mounted coach is pro- 1 m. pelled by two smau Chinese hoys ot six BPPnp in rohioh limnlMdro mnaa and W. AA II A MA I AtVJAjM. mj AAA 1 AA AA most comical looking little nurses that a child ever had. They wear the whitest stockings and neat slippers, trousers, and gowns of light blue cotton.

Their hair is only eight or ten inches long, but there is red silk thread fastened to it and braided into long pig tails that reach to their heels. Their heads are covered with red silk caps. These quaint almond-eyed, red-braided little men wheel the carriage along carefully over the graveled walks, and stop under a shade tree and gather grass and flowers for the little maiden in their care. The younger boy's brown hand offers the blossoms, which are seized by the dimpled white fist of the baby, who tears the pink petals apart and throws them out of her reach. For fully an hour the little group stays under tho tree.

The smaller boy seems the fa vorite with the little lady he lays his head at her feet, and she kicks him with her little blue shoes she pulls his long, red silk cue, and opens his closed cres with her soft, baby fingtrs. To all of these attentions the boy only an- swers with1 a childish laugh, and catches her hands and kisses them, and at last geta his arms clear arouad the blue silk bonnet, and kisses the baby. An elegantly dressed lady comes in search of and instead of reprov ing the hireling only laughs at him, and pulls the bonnet around straight on the pretty curls and fastens the baby's costly lace bib by a gold pin. Tho older boy wheels the carriage along the sidewalk toward the beach, and the younger boy catches the lady's finger and talks to her in broken English, and then runs ahead and peeps into the wagon, calling which brings from within the carriage chuckling laughter, and a glimpse of fluttering hands and yellow curls, as tho little one twists herself around to find her hidden servant. The children are evi dently privileged favorites with the ady, for she stops and points out tho peculiar mountain peaks and flowery foothills, and they listen with bright faces to her explanation.

The group gradually pass, out of my sight down he street. Deacon Marvin, of Lyme. One of the early settlers of Lyme was Reynold Marvin. He was a rich land holder, a militia captain, and a deacon of the church. He professed to bo governed by Divine communications.

On one occasion he announced that tho Lord had directed him to distribute his cows among the poor. A shiftless fellow who was omitted in the distribu tion finally went to the Deacon and said he, too, had received a communication from tho Lord, who had sent him there for a cow. Of course, then, you must have a was the reply. "But what sort of a cow did the Lord say I must give you a new milch-cow or a farrow?" A new milch-cow, sir.77 "Indeed! Your commuuication could not have been from the Lord, for I have no new The bafllod beggar departed. Another time the Deacon opposed some church measure, which was carried in spite of him.

He promptly refused to pay his church taxes, and was sued, and his saddle taken for the debt. He esteemed himself deeply wronged. and rode upon a sheepskin (wheeled vehicles had as yet hardly appeared in the colonies) forever afterward. And riding upon his sheepskin one day, ho reined his horse up to the cottage door of pretty Hetty lee. It was an old Dutch door, cut into in the middle.

She came and leaned upon the lower half, her blue eyes opened wide, and her dainty hands holding fast to a plato which she was wiping. said he. solemnly, "tho Lord sent me here to marry you." Uetty7s eyes fell upon the doorstep, and so did the plate. The deniuro maiden, however, ralLcd instantly. lhe will be she re plied.

lhe Deacon nudged his horse and trotted slowly away, and the maiden finished washing her. dishes. Betty7s father was not friendly to the Deacon, and tried to break the engagement. He did not succeed, as appears from the "publishment" which, according to the custom of the times, was posted, upon the church door. It was the production of the prospective bridegroom, and ran thus Reynolds Varvin and Betty lo intend to marry.

And though her dad op-po-Bed be, They can no longer tarry." They were married, and lived in peace, and in a small stone house on the west side of "The Street," brought up a large family of children, and in due course of events were gathered to their fathers. On a time-worn headstone in the Lyme cemcterv mav be seen the following inscription "Thia Deacon, aged sixty-eight, Is freed on earth from Barring; May for a crown no longer wait, Lyme's Captain Reynold Marvin. During a recent thunder storm the dwelling of Ira Soper, in Flint, was struck by lightning, lhe lightning first struck an evergreen near the house, whence it ran along the ground, looking like a huge ball of fire, to a brass conductor, which it followed to the top of the house, where it left tho conductor and went crashing through the roof. The ball then passed through into the sitting-room, striking a sewing-machine at which Mrs. Soper was at work clipping off a corner of the machine table and knocking Mrs.

Soper to the floor. From here it glanced to the top of a table across the room, on which was a box containing needles and other metals, which it knocked into a thousand fragments. It then passed through the floor into the ground. The entire family were shocked, Mrs. Soper, it is feared, fatally.

The man who has just one word to say is at large and equipped for tho campaign. Tho editor knows him. This man must be killed this year. It will be a good way to signalize the Centennial year. The girl students of chemistry, mineralogy, and botany at Harvard are pronounced hv the professors fully equal to the men.

eretlnS JPIetnre of T.ife Inside Cniucse IloniesBig Feet and J.iUle eet Kow they Wash and Iron Kcou- omy or Spce-A Chinese IXoliday. From the Courier-Journal. toANTA Barbara, May 18, 1876. I will take back every word I ever said aboHt not believing that any Chinese women have feet only three inches long. The great big-footed Chinese women who tramp bareheaded through the streets of California as usual thing, the ugliest, flat-soled, big-ankled pedal extremities I ever saw.

Their slippers are generally about half as big as their feet, leaving the heel and half the sole of the foot projecting over their sandals. The other day! heard that a Chinese lady of rank had lately come with her husband on a visit -to Santa Barbara, and her feet were only two inches and three-quarters long. Making inquiries of our laundry boy, Ah Foy, as to where the Chinese lady with little feet could be seen, he told me her husband was a cousin of Sing Lee, proprietor of a wash-house in town, and she was staying there. So accompanied by several ladies and gentlemen I entered the ironing room, where a dozen heathen, clothed in white drawers and white gowns, were putting the gloss on stiff mieu. vjii ine lauie oy eacn ironer there was a yellow basin filled with water, and after the garment to be smoothed is spread out, rough-dried on the table, the Chinaman, suddenly .1 "I 1 1 A 1 1 1 uucisxng ma neaa over tne do wi, up a mouthful of water, which he spirted in a fine spray through his closed teeth over the clothes.

The noise made by a dozen men spurting water that way resembles the hum of sewing: machines. Immediatelv af ter the mouthful of water has been discharged, the iron is run over- the dampened place until it is perfectly dry then another spot is moistened in he same way. Sing Lee courteously conducted us through the dark wash-house, where men were beating clothes with bamboo sticks, scrubbing them in the suds with DaniDoo crushes, ana a Uhma boy was cooking dinner in a big pot over a little 1 A.t urnace, to a raBge of berths like those of ocean steamers, and, lifting the cur tains oi tne bed, introduced us to the ady by saying: 4 This is my cousin.1 The woman immediately rose from the bed on which she was sitting, and ex tended her hand to us, saying, How do.7 7 Her husband was sitting by her side, holding a boy a year old. He was very pleased at our visit, and proud of the notice we took of his boy, who was already dressed in trousers and gown, and wore a red silk turban-cap on his head. lhe wife dressed than any was more elegantly Chinese 1 had yet seen.

Her hair was elaborately dressed, and fastened up in puns and coils by long dagger-shaped pins of gold. Her gown, or robe, was loose, extended to the knee, and had big loose sleeves, dis tended by hoops. Her robe was of dark blue silk, embroidered with yellow and red silk her arms had several bracelet ornaments her hands were small and well formed, and covered with rings; she wore big hoops of gold in her ears she had a pretty face, oval-shaped large eyes, small mouth, and dimpled cheeks. ihe smiled frequently as we conversed with Sing Lee, but took no part in the conversation. I think she only could speak a very few sentences When 1 said we wanted to see her loot, she evidently understood, for she laugh ed, and put out her tiny, pointed slip pers.

1 got on my knee, and took her foot in my lap and examined it closely, and measured it. POOR FEET FOR WALKING. The foot and leg were bound tightly in white satin, apparently sewed neatly around the limb. I here were bands ot gold around her ankles; her ankle measured ten inches circumierence at its smallest place her foot was two and three-quarter inches long, two inches broad in the middle, and one inch at tne toes over the white satin band or stocking she wore blue satin slioners. embroidered in silver.

The slippers came almost to a point at the A aw 1 toe. She could only walk by aid ot her cane, which was on the bed beside her. veuwiiu iwa ncx vyxn. mg and painfully slow. The doll-baby loot, so eiaDoraieiy uecoraieu iu umu and silver, hanging to tne tocratically molded limbs and feet.

Her leffs looked like sucks 01 wood whittled down to a point for a foot. But she was evidently very vain of her deformity. Her baby, one year old, had 1 1- Vv-rr ieet nve mcnes iuujt was and entitled to masculine freedom of limb. It looked incongruous to see so much gold, silver, satin and jewels on one poor little crippled woman, sitting in a little room bacK 01 a wasn-nouse, and dressing and living the bunk of a hp.rL set against the wall. But she seemed to be as much at ease, and have as much room in her curtained six feet hv fonr.

as American ladies find in a twentv-roomed house. She rose again, when we said gooo-Dy, ana repeaieu 1 A 1 "jrood-bv77 after us in parrot-like voice. We followed Sing Lee bask through the dark steaming wash-house, and saw, nnder the sliffhtlv disarranged curtains that surrounded tne long ironing wuiea 0 me noun iwj -j and learned that tne men wno wdu aim iron nere sieep auu mo uCi rrT" ironing tables, on the floor. xnese Uhmese unaerstanu ecunuury anuDUkuucmv-uuwv After leavinsr Sing Lee's establish ment we wandered through the Chinese quarter of the town, and espied a grand nhinpse flag flving from the Joss house. drew near the crowd of men who AtA the door, and asked what the flag was there for.

One said, "Big day for China boy;" another said, China bov no work to-day all a same, Washington's birthday." Pursuing my 1 innniriPS fnrther. another lnlormant tt AU odd Fellows' cele- bration;" another, "Auasamennsir mas." The Joss house is an old, two- story adobe with porches ex tending from both doors. lhe upper porch is hung with colored Chinese lanterns, trimmed with many gilt orna ments. We went through the gambling of the first noor, where money AWT JJL AAV mf was clinking and shrill voices shrieking which was, of course, disproportionate- ly large, looked any thing but hand- some, according to my standard of aris- ulr- I I I -a i 1. I nsf omnl lient treatment, and yielded quietly 10 the inilaence of The wellknovrn junceu3, has been lately utilized, in Southern Europe, in the manufacture of textile fabrics.

Its fibre to be capable of indefinite subdivision, and hence suitable for the finest cloths it retains heat, and may, therefore, supply the place of wool it is a good absorbent, and takes the most delicate dyes with the same facility as do animal textile materials it successfully resists the action of acids and of salt water, without undergoing any change or losing its tenacity, as has been satisfactorily proved by its immersion for a whole month in diluted sulphuric acid its strength is also found to be one-third greater than that of hemp, and it is 13 per cent, lighter so that, with 15 per cent, less of raw material a rope may be obtained, the relative strength of which, compared with one of hemp, is as of three to two. Foreign Notes. It is insisted in well informed circles in Great Britain that a matrimonial alliance has been contracted between his Royal Highness Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and the Princess Frederi-ka, daughter of the ex-King of Hanover. Prince Arthur is now in his twenty-seventh year, having been born May 1, 1850. President MacMahon has pardoned or reduced the sentences of eighty-seven participants in the Communist insurrection.

There will be no other further prosecutions, except in cases of involved attempts upon life or liberty, or in case of insurgent leaders, and such cases will be referred to a council of Ministers before prosecution. "Speak Up!" is becoming as familiar a cry in the British House of Commons as Divide!" During the midnight and early morning scenes "Speak Up" has become quite a joke. Whenever some member is bawling out at the top of a stentorian voice, in the hope of roaring down opposition, he is assailed at every momentary pause with the crv of "Speak Up!" followed bv shrieks of laughter. During one of these recent scenes the old-fashioned cock crow, disused since Tittlebat Titmouse ceased to be a member of Parliament, again announced its shrill presence. There are various indications that the visit of the Prince of Wales to In dia may institute some important reforms in that countrv.

The old re strictions placed upon women in India were relaxed so much that thev can hardly be so severe hereafter. For the first time the women were liberated from the hard walls of the zenana, and were seen in open carriages, unvaiieu, enjoying with rapture the fire-works and other festivities. They were given to understand that this unprecedented freedom was granted at the express de sire of the Prince, and he will always be regarded by them as their liberator. If, is also stated that the Prince rebuked the insolence of certain Englishmen toward natives in such a way as has produced an excellent effect. John Paul has invaded Paris, and the impressions he gets of men and things are altogether pleasing.

The Frenchman, he tells us, is not a big feeder. He breaks his fast in the morn ing with a little coffee and a good deal of bread and butter. Along towards noon, if ravenously hungry, he seizes on a radish, or perhaps the hind, legs of a sparrow but for dinner ye gods, what a gorging is there Two spoonfuls of soup, the backbone of a smelt, a morsel of meat the size of a saddle- rock ovster, a mushroom, an onion, a clove of garlic, a smell of cheese, a gallon of red wine, and he is ready for an opera or theater. 1 he frenchman can cook a dinner, but when he comes to eating: one, why, bless your soul, an Englishman can eat all around him. A.

1 The cause of Paul de Cassagnac, the well-known Bonapartist bravo, having declined the duel offered him by Dr. Clemenceau is now known. The latter is so excellent a shot that, when formerly provoked by an officer, he de clared before hand he would shoot him exactly in the diaphysis of the shin- bone, that is, at a place where shot wounds can be healed without amputa tion. When his friends doubted so ex traordinary proficiency in handling the pistol, he gave proofs of it to them by shooting at a number of staves at a long distance, with a certain part of them painted black, and afterward made ood his point on the officer's shinbone. Uassagnac, therefore, refuses to meet the Doctor with firearms, but tries to provoke him into committing: anVmsult which would enable him (Cassagnac) to have the choice of arms.

With the foil the Bonanartist duellist is sure to kill his man. Haps and Mishaps. A' little son of John Dutcher, of Bloomington, 111., was killed by eating potash. Mrs. Henry Krout, of Indianapolis, was fatallv burned from a kerosene lamp, which exploded in her hand.

Mrs. Larry McCarty and four chil dren were badly burned bv a kerosene lamp explosion at Osrdensburg. N. Y. The mother and one daughter died.

By the upsetting of a teakettle full of hot water at Angre Village, Frankie, a 3-year-old daughter of W. H. Galhgan, was scalded to death. Luther H. Foster, Ludington, discovered a robber in his house the other night, and in an attempt to capture him Mr.

Foster was killed A doer ran into a garden in Water- ford, N. after being poisoned with arsenic, and saliva from its mouth flew on some lettuce. An entire family was made almost fatally sick by eating the leaves Mr. James H. White, of Clay Coun tv.

met with a very serious acci dent. th other dav. bv being: mistaken for a tnrkev cobbler. He himself up so as to appear as nearly as possible like a turkev. and went into the knobs to call up one.

A young man wno imp- rened to be nassinp- near him mistook the mimic for an old turkey gobbler, nnanaA Uh a Tistol. I BECK SEIITEB, Proprietors. IHOLTON, KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST. Pcrioual and LtUrujr. Harriet Martineau, the English is dead.

Lieutenant Cameron, the African-explorer, didn't see a newspaper in three years. The Spanish Republican orator -Emilio Castelar is expected to visit the Centennial Exhibition this summer. Tllft TTorirr Woi-il TXaanYioT Tift a been engaged by a Boston lecture bureau to lecture eighty nights during the coming season for $40,000. Pierrepont Edwards, British Consul at New York, -is a match for Edwards Pierrepont, American Minister at St, James, so far as names are concerned -Mrs. Louise Pomeroy, wife of Brick" played Jwfte at Trenton, N.J.

It is said that she contemplates regularly entering upon the dramatic profession. Dr. W. H. Russell, the correspondent of the London Times, is writing, for publication in book-form, an account of the Prince of Wales's tour in India, and of his visit to the Courts of Athens, Cairo, Madrid, Lisbon, etc.

Sidney Hall, the special artist who accompanied the Prince, will illustrate Dr. Russell's work. Miss Dickinson closed her dramatic tour of New England at Portland, -on Saturday evening. She will spend the summer in studying and reconstructing her play, "A Crown of Thorns," preparatory to her appearance in New York next season. She has also in prospect several new plays, and designs making a tour of the States, beginning early in the autumn.

"Gail Hamilton" is not, as one might imagine, a dried-up specimen of the genus old maid (to be sure she must be crowding fast toward the halfway post) but her appearance is that of a jolly, plump and bouncing blonde of the Lydia Thompson make-up. As every body must know, Gail's" real name is Abigail Dodge, and her home is at Hamilton, though she is at present sojourning in the National Capital, writing letters and cracking jokes upon widower Congressmen. Dr. Mary Putnam acobi, the distinguished physician of New York, says Jennie June, is a small, brown-haired, gray-eyed woman, active in movement, but quiet and reserved in manner, and with nothing in her appearance to indicate the singular strength and vigor of her intellect and character. She has conquered, with wonderful patience, perseverance and courage, the obstacles to thorough medical scholarship, and has won a place acknowledged equal by the highest representatives of medical skill and science in the country.

Surgeon-General Hammond remarked of a thesis of Dr. Putnam Jacobi upon the blood, that not three men in New York could have written it. a.waaa I A. I A AA AAMMhV School and Church. The Reformed Episcopalians are moving for a University.

Eleven young ladies have been made Bachelors of Arts at Elmira, N. Y. The friends of the late Prof. Charles G. Finney, of Oberlin (O.) University intend to endow a new professorship of doctrinal theology there, which is to bear his name.

Right Rev. Geo. N. Cummins, senior Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, died at his residence in Lu-therville, Baltimore County, on the 27th, of inflammation of the bowels. The ares of the Northern Methodist Bishops are given as follows Janes, 69 years Scott, 74 Simpson, 65 Ames, 70; Bowman, 60; Harris, 59; Foster, 59 Wiley, 51 Merrill, 50 Andrews, 50 Haven, 55 Peck, 65, Considerable excitement has been created in Louisiana by the withdrawal of the Rev.

T. Vaudray, of Baton Rouge, from the Roman Catholic Church, and his accession to the Protestant Episcopal Communion. The committee appointed by the late Advisory Council of Plymouth -Church to select a commission for the investigation of charges or evidence in the case of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher have chosen as such commission Judge N. Shipman, of Connecticut; Hon.

A. Finch, of Wisconsin: Judge S. B. Gook ings, of Indiana; Hon. Jonathan E.

Sargent, of New Hampshire; Judge -Jos. C. Knapp, of Iowa. The old custom of requiring six months' probation of a convert before his admission to membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church is just now the subject of much discussion, lhe Southern church has abolished the practice, andgets along better without than with it. It is thought by many to be a damper on religious fervor, and an unnecessary hindrance to religious growth.

The indications are toward its speedy abolition in the Northern wing of the Methodist Church. Science and Industry Pennsylvania produced 36,347,615 of the 50,507,175 tons of coal mined in the United States last year. Two hundred and fifty women will be graduated as telegraph operators this year from Cooper Institute, New "York. The "JPoste Atmospherique," for the dispatch of messages between Paris and Versailles, is completed. Itisl3 miles in length.

Each tube is 13 feet lonSi inches in diameter, two-fiths of fnch thick. They are laid 8 feet un-der ground, on a flooring of wood, and pitched within and without. jyX Leverrier proposes to the French Government to establish a system of warnings to -colliery managers of probable falls of the barometer, the fact ibein now well established that the -chance of explosions of fiiamp ls seriously increased when the atmospheric pressure is lessened. -Dr. Poggioli advocates the use of electricity as an energetic t'nlsn Jiot only in nervous only in nervous Odds and Ends.

It was a very little boy in New Jersey who said "Yes, soda water's good; it's like your fool's asleep." Wednesday, according to the almanacs, was the longest day in the year, but almanacs don't always tell the truth. The longest day we've known this year was the day when we lent a fellow 10 just for 24 hours, and the sun hasn't set on that day yet. N. Y. Commercial.

The lady officers of the Missouri Grange fell out about a handsome young Granger recently and their disagreement culminated in a passage at finger nails, in which Flora was Ceresly Pomonaled by the goddess who presides over the fruit department. Hawk-eye. A New Jersey editor lost his best gold pen and holder a few days ago. After making a thorough search all over the office and. accusing a dozen tramps with its theft he happened to remember where he placed it, and bending down the top of his ear, discovered no less than fourteen penholders of various styles which he had lost during the past two years.

Norristown Herald. The royal striped Ichthyopthal-mite, on exhibition in the Agricultural Building at the Centennial, was severely bitten by the wild Psittacoglossum of Borneo yesterday, and in endeavoring to separate them the keeper struck the gray-nosed Angiomonospermous on the head with an iron bar, instantly killing it. The Acanthopterygious has been sold, because it is so difficult for the commissioners to obtain the Hypo-tracheliums which constitutes its only food. Hawkeye. When a young married woman thinks that she detects evidences of the waning of her husband's affections, let her not go into a slow decline until she has first examined his clothes to see if missing buttons are not at the bottom of his discontent.

Enough coldness has sprung up over places where buttons ought to be to freeze out all the couju-gal love in the universe. Scold your husband if he needs it, reproach and upbraid him, button no condition neglect his clothes, as thou lovest him. Brunswick News. Doni Pedro in a New Bole. There came an energetic ring at the door-bell the other morning; and we descended the stairs and grappled the door-knob.

A middle-aged man, with sinister countenance and ginister breath, stood before us. 4i I am Dom Pedro, Emperor of Bra zil," he said. 'Ah!" we replied, "how's the Em press Never mind the Empress." he re- joined; "just give your undivided at tention to the JKmperor for a few min utes. You see, since leaving: Brazil I've become a little short up for means, and am making: an effort to raise the wind, as the Americans say. I am sell ins: the Centennial spelling-book.

I met a party down town who said you were an editor, ana needed a spelling-book badly, and "What else did he tell your" we in terrupted. He said you had a wife who was or- thographically shaky, and eleven chil dren who should each have one of my books by all means." "Any thing else?" "Weil, yes. He said that you wore old clothes and pretended to be poor, but that you were in reality a foreign Prince, with gold enough to sink a canal boat, and that if approached by royalty you would unbosom yourself, and, as the Americans say, come down.7 77 "That isn't all he told, is it 7 No he also informed me that you had wine in your cellar that was made 11 .1 d. A ATt 3 in ine lime oi tne nrsi jjrusaue, aiiu that you would invite me in and fill me so full of pound-cake and the juice of the ancient grape that 1 would be com pelled to get into one of your mos luxurious beds and remain over Then you are the Emperor of Brazil, are you?" "I am the simon-pure, bona fide Emperor of Brazil.77 Well, Pedro, as you came along the fence there, did you notice a section it that swings on Why, of course 1 did. You mean the gate, I suppose.

How do you expect I got into the yard?" "We thought perhaps that, as vou were an Emperor, you spurned to walk through an ordinary gate and crawled under the fence. redro, old boy, let's see if you can get through that gate again without knocking any oi the paint off the posts.77 He started slowly down the path, but stopped presently, and by the movement of his lips we judged that he was indulging in anathemas. We quietly picked up a brick and he moved on again, and was soon out of sight. That's the only way to deal with Cen tennial spelling-book Emperors. Franklin (Ky.) Patriot A Motherless Chicken.

Assistant Postmaster Lewis, while walking in the yard at his premises yes terday afternoon, heard a little chicxen and, after looking every where olse, discovered it in a box, where it had evidently been hatched by the heat of the sun, the nights lately not having been sufficiently cool enough to interfere with the process. Some of Mr. Lewis7 hens were accustomed to lay in this box, but, one of them showing a disposition so set, he broke her up by removing all the eggs except one, which had been used as a nest egg, and At i i rrui cuveruig ine oox wim a ooaru. iuia was done eight days ago, since which time there has not been any hens in the nest, ine box was not exposed to im sun, but stood under cover, and doubt ine oox was not exposed to ine less where the heat was tolerably uni form. The chicken is as sprightly as chicken ever was.

Sacramento (CTaZ.) Union. A Chinamah wan a mil. heavy beard passed through Sacramento a few davs I ago, and there was much staring among I the Cannasiana ferng outlined a crystal pool hedged in sycamore3 and live oaks, giving a -k" A 0 glimpse of purpl iin acute a r-.