Bloomington Progress, Volume 15, Number 43, Bloomington, Monroe County, 8 February 1882 — Page 4

XHE EAST. Toe Lancaster (Pa.) Inquirer Publishing Company's building was destroyed by fire. Lorn, 115,00ft : insurance, (68,000. The adjoining buildings were damaged $20,000. Four Ken wce fat'iLv bnaned by the overturning or a ladle f molten metal in a foundry at Burlington, Vt. Violent gales caused great destruction of projicrty thrcnghout New Kngland, on tuo27tiiand2Sthun. Three persons were in jurcd at Pittstteld, Mass., and a church steeple asblcvn down. Extensive trick buildings wore to pled over at North Adams; A fourstory slue factory at Jfasha.!, N. H., was moved two'fwt cut ofU ne, Htamrjeiling 300 workmen. A bnildiag niled with carnages was overturned at Ki'chKstcr, N. Y. The roof of the gas honae it llocllnnd, Me., was destroyed. Three buildings at Iturlington, Yt., wew robbed of covering, aud the ice was swept out of the bay almost in an instant. At the dumping ground in Ninetyuinth street. Now Yori., a boy picked np what appear! to be a tomato cm fitted with urease. Ac explosion which resulted killed one person and seriously injured nine others. . . .Theopbilus lr-:ons, aged 85 years, t. famous law writer and a Harvard professor, is dead. 'J Hi, woman Blanche Douglass has turned State' evidence at New Haven, CI-, and told bow poor Jennie Cramer was inveigled to her ruin and death by the Halley boys and herself In Allegheny cot nty, Pa., a higMvrt sptctti d vouug man named Ise, while oat hunfirt , met two lady acqu untanceein a grots of tree', and at once "delirwrately tired at them, infl ctiiu flight wounds. On being pursued, he killed himself with hi? shot-enn, Utsrally blowing his head to pieces. There iaaoex-)&natica-of the affair. The death is annewneed of the Her. Henry W. Billows, the eminent Unitarian clergyman and author He was born in Boston in 1311, end was nearly 63 years of age. Oscab Wilde attract-1 to the Boston Music Hall an audience whiA filled every seat Sixty Harvard students appeared in full-dress co.ta and knte-bree.:hcs, and carrying lilies and sunflowers. Tse esthete was heartily cuved, and showed unmistakable auger 0 car L. Baldwin, late cashier of the Mechanic,:' Ban's of Newark, ji. J., has been sentenced to fifteen Tear in State's prison Hiram Miller, of H'.r!dn;er,"N. X., father of the Senator, wtiw ki'ied by a Central tram at a crossing near his home.

The collapse of the Chicago, Portage and tUjierior railroad threw a large number of race ootof workicdl-ft them almost penniless. In reveige, they set fire to the great bridge near V.zie. Wis., belonging to the Omaha company. A call was mile on the Governor of Wisconsin for troops, but toe rioters were soon pacsfitd. Mrs. High, teacher of a public school at West Jefferson, Ohio, called in John Batler, one of the Directors, to assist her in quelling a disturbance among the pupils, instigated by a bov named George Scott. Butler so enraged Scott that the latter truck Butler on the head with a piece of coal End crushed his sknU r-niaU-j-ox among the clerks killed the patronage ant caused the failure of a dry-goods firm hi SUnnfield, Ohio. Foot-pads have bred a reign of tenor in Indianapolis. The attendance at the theaters has fallen off one-fourth, and a lending clerjtyman advocated from his ptupit the carrying of arms in self-deiease. The aged, wife of (Jen. Geor.ge P. Doms was murdered near SL Louis, Mo., by her grandson, EusfseL Brown, and a companion named Patrick HcGlew. Brown made a full confession that they chokod the old lady to desth and stripped tie rings from her fingers. Tonne Brown w the son of a prominent lawyer and Prosecuting Attorney in St. Louis county. Toe affair creates a great deal of comment, on account of the position of the parlies conseroed, Four men were drowned at New Westminister, British Columbia, while trying to cross a river in a canoe. A totjso man who cime forward at a revival meeting in New Carlisle, lad., gave his name as Arthur Thomas, a Chicago burglar, and stated that be had .selected twe safes to be robbed that night, and had strayed into church to kill time. He surrendered his tools, and accompanied the Sheriff of Whitley county to Onnas. to be tried for a burglary committed at that place. Near Logansport, Ind., a, tramp named William Steele called on 'Mrs. BneD for sapper. Finding the woman alone, he outraged her person, aud fled. The neighbors hnmediateiy pursued, caught him, and, without delay, hung him. Then they piled brush about him, and burned the body past recognition. The Sheriff took possession of the body and turned it over to the t'oroaer. " Frkight and construction trains on the Scioto Valley road collided near Hanging Rock, Ohii. To laborers were killed outright, and nvu others badly injured.

A comtehciaii traveler named Hndgins was being driven by a colored man in a boggy from Boxboro to Oxford, N. C. While crciBeiDg a swollen stream on a raft the horse jumped overboard, capsizing the raft, . when Hudgiiis, the driver, arid the ferryman were drowned. August Davis (colored) was hanged at New Orleans for outraging Mrs. KMraheth Deitel in Septomber last He eipreesei himself confident of retchfcig heaven A negro named Ed Helton was executed at MansSed, Hesaidhewas firmiy convinced he would go to heaven, ilo ate a hearty breakfast, and called for a preacher and a bottle of whisky 'ohn Morris wiia hanged at Shelby, B- a THEdamEEre by the recent flood in the Cumberbad valley of Tennessee is estimated at fca Hi.QQG. Near EnoxvUie, on Saturday, the tall it reak of the Bcffalo mountains, having been uadsnmned by the constant rains, feu from a height of 390 feet, alarouu j citizens for a, diatanco of tcirtv mJes. vrjtavamsmn. Gen. Koubkt B. Mitoheix, of Kansap, formerly a member of Congress, vjho won laurel as a Brigadier General of cavalry under Gen. Tbornac. and became known as " Fight :ng Bob Mitchell, " d d suddenly at Wastungiod, after an illnoss ol' otjy two days The Way and Means Committee has decided to admit free of duty a limited number of copies of the r -vised B.ble from England. . . .A Washington dispatch says the err eases of the trial of Ouitvan, apart from the cost of his awful crime, are CffiisMcrable. Jiuk r.-lnit thoy will amount to cannot bo toid, but. at the Iea-t calculation, SSn.iXK) will not be in exocsj of the amount c.id-.d to settle rhe bi U Bcoyiiae a -id the "K'atden of the WibCiagtoa jail have lign-cd that! no more of Gmteau't hUaphumoa addrftaeH to the public -shall be given out, awl that for the present no Giics1tiUl.bc pernuttxd to interview him. The bill introduced in toe Horrse by Mr. Smith, of Illinois, requiring the Surgeon General to furnish pure vaccine viros to the pnoiic tt out, has also been introduced in the Senate by Gen. Logan. The Anti-Polygamy bill reported by Serjttcr'Edmunds fiom the Judiciary Comruittee strikes out from tts ihotuaer in every direction. It provides for the punishment of men in the Territories who marry more than one woman, or who lire with more Uuii one woman as wife ; for tlte punishment of women who marry men who n reudy have wives ; preventa polypamista from Mervingon jums; disfrancbise's allpoiygsmist ,bothmen and women, and puts Utah for election purpoai s under the rale of a comciUisioo apjoiuted by the 1 'resident. A Wa8H13Itos dispaich says that Goiteau b very muct snbdoed, and says Jjttfe except to ois gnaruV. District Attorney CorktuT. has received from Cameron, Mo., a package of new rope with which to hang the assassin. Mr. Scovilfe has accepted a proposition from a manufacturer of ref ngt rators in Philadelphia to take Cinitean's Lodtriaimediati ly after death, pro-erve t and txlila- it in all (be principal i iries t-f Uu- t'uiua S ie i and Kirroar, half the r . ce'i't ' r" to ti: - r -!. v s. C'APr. JUoa Ijclieves thai hia ship-ctnaj-raiiroul ncli-.m- s no; rtcjni-:gi?ir treat

ment :ti loug'cs, ir-nn-.ofitj-ti.'wil railiosU Wuiuir ffiwtihi it. p. iTic.trT.'tr, rnaidfiit, ha-syet over 1,000 apporitin!' nf s to make. Ii i Ui3 lis! ii a number of icipottant 'Imlomistb and cousp.Kr positions. A Wiliioj,ton d spntcb says the Prenident has rein ed to accept the resignation of Oetfc Public Prhrcr. Ho has been re- - ui oft ioo during Mr. Arthur's Senator pretk: bOl, " ' w too .'lof

has dismissed thn eintested case of Lnier against King, in the Fifth district of Loiiiaiana, A sub-committee reported in favor of seating Hotrow J. Ball as delegate from Alaska. CE.KERAI. At xtiertiT Del Ohocolnte, in texij-, two Mexican officers v-ere wounded (Capt. Jom A. Bomero fatally, and Lieut. F. Gonza!3s seriously) by their own drunken soldiers. ...In Temax, Yucatan, there are 1,700 oases of yellow-fever. Two hundred and twenty-two people have died. It has been asrartained that Lieut McDonald, recent y irrwsted with a party of Indian scouts at Ascension by one of the Mexican anthoritis, showed that ho had crossed the frontier by peruutision of the toirn autboritiea to purchase fcraf, and was released after Ave days' detention, the arms and property returned, and the Kexicans who arrested then all placed in aiL III 1881 them were 822 deaths from small-pox in Chicago, 1,310 in Philadelphia, I'M in New York, and -:M in Pittsburgh, which had the greatest mortality in proportion to popu-

Skfcsins to tale warning from the sounons presage of certain defeat afforded m the almost nnanimons opposition of thssom-

mittceto whati was referred the Htmsterii.l

rrogramme of constitutional revision, Gambetta forced the question to a vote in thj French Chamber Deputies, and was beaten by the overwhelming majority of 306 toll". The Premier and 'Uabtnut thereupon tendered their resignateons to President Grevy. The irtsorgehte of Herzegovina are concentrating in a manntairunu angle in the upper head of the Uarenta r.ver, a position which is de

clared absolutely unassailable The Bank of

J" ranee naa puceti xiw,uuu,iuu irancs io neip the menmants ami manufacturers nf

Lyons through the finiineial crisis.

Hbatt fafloT38 have occurred on tho Geneva (SwitserUnd) Bourse in connection with the Trench financial emus. Nine firms in

the London Stock Exchange failed, among them being the old hvnse of Manners, Smton A Qrahsm, whose debts aggregate .80,000 Prince Bismarck has teen thanked by his im

pel lal master for his derense of tho rescript. GambeUa retjres from the French Uinistr.-

apparently without creating a profound mi-

issron. xne nuicai cnanges proposca uv mbetta were unwelcome to the bulk 7f the

people.

Ds FamroisKr is to be Minister of

Foreign Affairs in the new French Cabinet ;

Jules Ferry nill have charge of public) instruc ¬

tion, Goblet of thn interior and worship, Varroy of finances, and Cocfaery of peats and tejesraphi A London correspondent snys : ''The news that Guiteau has been found guilty

was received with satisfaction and with a feel

ing of great relief here, but the average Engl shman, who n used to seeing a murderer hanged three weeks after bis conviction, cannot understand why the execution of the assassin, should be delayed until June or July. The whole ease has been such a gross burlesane

upon the adndnistratioa ef justice tb.it lawyert here are at a loss to understand American procedure A large foroo of military and police raided for arms at Athenry and Longhraa, County Gal way. A number of treasonable papers were found and twenty arrests made.

....Kngrceer bmivuis, or ine Arcnc steamer Jeannette, bis gone to the mouth

of the Lena tc search for Ii-nt De Long, accompanied by oo Russian officials. Dublin is tnffering frori a local panic Failures have occurred on the stock exchango. Firms m the forrndry and bull ling business have also collapsed. Landlords ire unable to meet their obligations to tradesmen. Heavy failures are also annomvnrt in Hamburg. Ooloarne and

Frankfort

Tub parsons arrested for outrages in

the MiUstreet chsti-ict, Dnbhn, will be charged with treason and felony In Astrakhan 600 fishermen have been drowned by a tevere gale. Richard Briestsy Mnowles, only ramving son of the dramatit, Jiunes Sheridan Knowles, is dead The bursting of a reservoir in the ancient city of Calais, France, caused the destruction of a school-house and two other

buildings, all occupied. Few inmates escaped. ... There are said to be plenty of informers

again in Ireland.

Mb. John Dillon, writing to the Kt .

Hon. W. E. Forster, declines tho offer of leav

ing Kilmainham jail for the continent and asks that the Secretary address him no more communications. . . .Tb e HeTzegovinian insurrectioii

progresses rather unfavorably to the Austrian

Government who -us unwilling to call out the Dalmatian landwehr, on account of their 'resumed disaffection. At Blick twenty men on each side were killed in an engagement. Thirty thousand troops are to be poured into t ho disaffected province.

ADDITIONAL HEWS.

FORTY-SEfENTH CONGHES8.

Thk Governor of Michigan has called j

an extra session of the Legislature for Feb. S3,

to provide relief for ths fire sufferers, and to

taae action on Unngnnslonal apportionment and the report of the tu commission.

A riKKwhich broke ontintheflonr-xnill

of Arnold A Little at Lockport, N. Y., extended to the mills of Thcrnton A Chester and Gibson

A Parser. George F. Woods, assistant engineer of the fire departnient, was killed by leaping sixty feet from a window. The loss is estimated at 175,00a

Seobbtaby Hltht has instrncted Dan-

enhower, of the Arctic steamer Jeannette, to charter a ship in the spring and search the

Russian coast, for whicusvork two naw officers

will be sett. Do Long has been traced to a

uenrme locality. The paymaster's special on the Union Pacific railway rar. into the rear of a freight train near Fort Steele, Wyo. Ter. Brakeman Seeley was killed and Conductor Hobart and a fireman fatally injured. Thw Congressional delegation from Nebraska catted on the President and urged, that some importijit position be given to ex Senator I'addock, the Secretaryship of the Interior being first choiec. A St. Jobs (N. II.) dispatch annonn. ossthebroning, U sea. of the ship Uoxellanat with a loss of several lives. In regard to tho disposition of Gttitean's body, SeoviHe says it remains to be decided by the prisoner's brother and sister. The remains could not be protected from resurrection, and the proceeds of their exhibition could be used in paying debts. Mrs. ScoviUe was interviewed in Chic ago, and stated that the body should not be shown if she starved to death ; beside, sho said, Charles is not going to be hanged. Charles Iteed denounces Sco viile for moposing to erchibit the assacsin's refrigerated corpse, and refuses to be associated with that worthy bny k'nger. KrjssiA prof oses the annexation of Cores, on the ground of its being a menace to her possessions in the Pacific, and also on account of the warlike disposition of tho Chinese At the call of the Lord Mayor of London a meeting tf diiitingnisbed citizens was held to protest against the outrages committed upon Jws in Kustia. Several members of the Rothschild family were present Itosohitions were adopted decliiring that the laws of Russia concerning Hebrews tend to degrade her in the eyes of Christians. Seme heavy subscriptions were made. Thn following is the public-debt statement for January : Six per cent, bono, oiienited I 120,470,930

Five par cents, exteu led

Tom and one-half per cant. your Per cent, boocb BefundiDK cartlAcabw Navy pension fond

250,00,X) 73g,TI,TOI

14,(KK),H1

Total latenst-bsarins debt $1,531,331,6110 Matured dab 3,9ao,005 Legal tender .. 34fi,7l,90S CsrtUlcatesiif oeposll... ll,4UO,U00 Gold and silver esrefi-

74,187,730 7,00,493 43!,398,180

Total wlnwul intE-e. Total debt..... Tntal imerest Oakla inaaary.

.$1,9S7,B,7M 10.MiS,iH4 .. 246,0iH,4iS

Debt ha cash In tnantr $1 ,752,5! -'.H8 Deereaae donnx Jamurj li.'J7S,8l Decrease aiuce June 3D, letn H8,0 r,;OI Current uabutties Interest doe and un.nld. lt!).ia,rsj.i Debt on which '.nlert tia msitjd. . . 1:1 !rii,0 Intertf t rhereon.. ( u-, ii Oold and silvitr certiliimbm. . .". 74,lS7.7'.lo Vnitwl stain' notcm tw'dftir redempticm of ccrtMcatm of di'iioiri: ii,4"ivski Cash balance aval'ubie tub. 1, in',l ,iui:i

Totsl Avaiiable nwfclt Ciaeh W: crcour)'

:4n,(ri,4M . . :i;,i -..i.uif

Bonds uwncd to pnclilc r.i' Iwiy conif units, interest naval le io lawful money, jHtnclpul outstailUng. f 64,1:l.3t2 Inttrctt accrued an.i not vet iwid :ii:iI7 laterert paid by United States. 53,4u.'v77 Interest repaid by conijtainm Interest repaid uy trauaporUtlon ol mails By cash payments c o i-r ram. ol net 1I.S1I.0II earnings. ffiS8,!ifr Balance of iutaeal paid by lh Uiutcd

S7.9in,15f.

- So fab as " Misa Grundy " can learn, lotnas Jefferson was the only one ol the Presidents who never had a reception at the White House. His daitglirs visited him bat twice daring his

Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, submitted resolutions in the Senate, on Jan. 25, in memory of the late Matthew H. Carpenter. Tributes of respect were paid by several Senators, altar which an adjournment was voted without tho transaction of any business. In the House the most of tho day was also devoted to the delivery of eulogies upon the dead Senator. Af ler considerable opposition, the Senate bill to retire Justice Hunt was passed, the vote standing 137 to 89, A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury asked an appropriation of ai 159. 6110 to complete the service of tho fiscal year in the various departments. Mr. Allison introduced a bill in the Senate, Jan. 26, to prorido a reserve fund for the redemption of United lltates bonds, one provision being for the retention in the treasury vault8 of 20,000,000 in coin to take up legal tenders. Mr. Sherman closed the debate on his 3 per cent, landing bill, oUiming that the large surplm of revtuuo was a conntant temptation to jobbers, and that the tariff should be so revised that the chf.rge of robbery could not be attached to it A motion to tibia the bill ws lost by 23 to 16. In the Home, Mr. U'-xlcgraff presented Ihepelition of 4,0((0 citizorw of Ohio for the creation nf a hqnor commission. Mr. Cox offered a resolution calling for the correspondence in regard to the expulsion of American Israelites from Urosia. The bill appropriating 11,000,000 for the reclamation of tho Potomac marshes was niferrod to I ho committee of the whole. Tho Hmice adopted Mr. Browne's resolution of inquiry as to the amounts ifpiircd for pensions for tho next twi'iny-fivo years. Mr. Springer called up the Senate lull granting an additional pension to Mrs. Lincoln, whic h was passed. President Arthur n miiititied Frederick A. Tritle, of Nevada, to bo Governor of Arizona, and Edwin U. Webster to be Collector of Customs at Baltimore. 8. A. Whitfield was named for Postmaster at Cincinnati, W. H. Taft for Internal Hevonue Collector, and Leopold Marl.t ret for Assistant Treasurer. Tho rretident tranfmitted to Congress tho diplomatic correspondence concerning

isiun, l'eru ana uoiivia. included in it wad a letter of instructions from Secretary Blaine to Special Envoy Trescott. The arrest of Preside nt Calderon is called an intentional and unwarranted offense. Mr, Trescott is charged not to make to the '-hilian Government any explanation of the conduct of Minister Huribr.t Mr. Garland presented a petition in tho Senate, Jan. 27, from Hot Springs, Ark., for an appropriation of $600,000 to improve the reservation and the streets. Mr. Logan introduced a bill for the distribution of purs vaccine virus to the people by the National Board of Health at eost price. Mr, Edmunds presented a measure to prevent Hie connterfeituig of thi securities of foreign Governments. Mr. Morrill reported favorably on the aot to apply a portion of tho proceeds of publio lands to general eduction. When tho 3 per cent, funding kill came up, the Davis amendment to mako the lxmds payable at the option of the Government was carried by 38 to 26, and an amendment by Mr. Sharman to make their duration three years was lost by 25 to 36. Mr. Ferry introduced a bill for pensions to inmates of Confederate prisoners. The Senate adjourned to Monday, the 30th inst The President nominated John Campbell for Surveyor of Customs at Omaha' Williim D. Lewis for Postmaster at Vincennos' Ind., and Theodore D. Wilson, of New York, to be Chief Constructor of the Navy. In the Hon?, Mr. Townsenq called on the Secretary of the Interior fcr any information at command in regard to Indian outrages in Arizona incited by thu Mormons. Several private I ills vi ere passed, but the hill for the relief of the children of -3en. James H. Carleton was lost The President transmitted a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, giving ' information in regard to the Chiriqui grant An adjournment to Monday was taken. A favorable committee report was made t) the Senate, on the 30tu nit, on the bill for a public building at Pi oris, IU. Mr. Edmunds reported favorably the bill to re-establish the Court of Commissioners of Alabama CI iims and for the distribution of the remainder of tho Gonova award. Mr. Ferry introduced a bilWor a water route to facilitate transportation between Lakes Michigan and Erie. In the House, Mr. Be.-ry introduced a bill to fix railroad fares at 3; i to i)4 cents per mile. Mr. Berry also introduced a bill proposintr a constitutional amendment making any pen-on holding tho office of Presidout of tho United States ineligible for re-election, granting an annual pension of 6,000 to all exFroeidents, and making Cabinet officers ineligible to election to the Prcsideucy for the term following that during which" they served as members of the Cabinet Mr. Cobb handed in an act to repeal tho land giants of several of the unfinished Pacific railroads. Measures were also prtsented for iheadnission of Arizona and Idaho as States. Tho Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill, sotting aside $1,193,530, was reported. Mr. Windom repen ted a resolution to the Sonate, on the 31st ul'1., requesting the President to transmit all 'correspondence with our diplomatic agents in Mexico and Guatemala iuoe January, 18S1. Mr. Harris introduced a till for a bridge aorosii the Mississippi river at Memphis, and Mr, Morgan an act granting the right of wa.f over public lands in Alabama to the Chicago AlrUne railroad. Tie Sherman funding bill was taken up, and the Test amendment was defeated and that by Mr. Plumb was agreed to. Ihe Utter provides for a redemption fund of only $100,000,000. In the House, Mr. Springer i it reduced a resolution calling on the Postmaster General for copies of all correspondence in regard to the necessity of weighing the mails between New York mid Chicago. A resolution was adopted requesting the President to obtain a list of Amer.can citizons confined in English prisons. Mr. II ibesou modified his resolution as to railroad land grants to include all but the Pacific loads. The annual post-route bill was reported and passed. Mr. Colerick introduced in apportionment bill fixing the number of representatives at 316, and Mr. Cox presented jne provid.nj for 307. Several petitions for tho suppression of polygamy were reported n the Senate on tlio 1st inst A favorable report was made on the bill appropriating $15,000 to the National Biard of Health for supplying the people with vaccine virus at cost price. A resolution was adopted calling on tho President to furnish copies of all correspondence relating to a congress of American nations. The Sherman Funding bill was taken np, and amendments were adopted recognizing as binding tho agreement made for the extension of tho 5 and 6 per cent bonds, and providing that the act shall not bo construed to authorize the increase of tho public debt Mr. Sherman said that if Mr. Plumb's amendment were not stricken out he should vote against the bill. Tho President nominated J. S. Bonne's as United States Ditrict Attornoy for Iowa; Mar'den C. Burch, Cuitod States Attorney for the District of Michigan ; Hugh J. Campbell, for tho District of Dakota ; W. H. Armstrong, r Pennsylvania. Commissioner of Railroads. The House fixed upon February 37 for the Garfield memorial services. Mr. Hill introduced a bill for a reduction of letter postage to 2 cents per half ounce. In committee of tho Whole Hie pOHtoflice appropriation of $13,520,30 was discusi ed for three hours. In response to the call of the House for information, the Commissioner of Pensions estimates the amount of money required for tho next twenty-fivo years at 63.347.651,593. The sums grow gradually less imnually, ranging from. $62,000,000 to $23,000,000. The Hew Apportionment. Was hkotos, Jan. 30. The House Commi'tie on Census has virtual, ly agreed to increase the number of Representatives from the State of Illinois from twenty to twenty-ono, which will make the total number of Bepretentatives 320 instead of 310, as proposed by tho McCord hill. Tho apportionment to each Slate under the bill is: Alatama 8, Arkansas 5, California 5, Colorado 1, Connecticut 4, Delaware 1, Florida 1, Georgia 10, Illinois 21, Indiana 13, Iowa 11, liansas 6, Kentucky 11, Louisiana 6, Maine 4, Maryland b, Massachusetts 12, Michigan 11, Minnesota 5, Mississippi 7, Missouri 14, Nebraska i, Nevada 1, New Hampshire 2, New Jersey 7, New York 34, Norii Carolina 9, Ohio 21, Oregon 1, Pennsylvania 10, Texas 10, Vermont 2, Virginia 10, West Virginia 4, Wisconsin 8. A Wash'ngton correspondent says the Apfwrtionmrnt bill agreed upon by the House committee "is cunningly contrived to obtain the united snpport of tho big Bates of New York, Ptniusylvaiiis, Oh o and Illinois, having a total vote of i incty-niuo in tho House. To this number mnt lo added lovawith nine votes, ilSHsac-liuiifitts nith rli ven, Michigan with nine, K irnckv with ten, Missouri with thirteen, In--ii inn wit i tiiirioiii, Virginia with nine and (ioor ii nith line, HI of which gsiu one mcm.r ra-h, between 3.)7 (!Ir. fox's uunibor)

!iul a.'U. wuion is me unmoor agn-uu i. on by tho Hono committee. But h not c moo'.valo tint the 320 bi 1 will get through iho Herat without amendment It dnpiivxs Huodo Inland, Florida and California of a mumper each. Tte wLole Democratic vote nUlbacai't aga nit it in the Senate, and the Itnpuiilciu Kumvtors from IthoSo Island and Ciil fiirni . will ilt agree to it A not improbable' sulution of tlie iinostii n is tho passage of the prost it bill witt.au amendmont giving an exlr.i ni'tnhcr each to llbodo Island. Florida and Calil jrnia." Aljout Worta. Darwin, in his Intent worlt, estimates that there are in giirelc ns 53,767 worms to the hwre, and Hint they would weigh 356 pounds. Having four or five tru:zards apiece, each wonn is able to di

gest a large amount of coarse food, and to bring sixteen tons xr acre to the surface per annum, Mr. Darwin says that ci field near his house has !een cleared of cobble-Btones within his remembrance, arid this not so much from tho fact that the pebbles have boou undermined as because tine earth has been brought to ihe surface. Many of the foundations of Boman buildings recently discovered in Great Britain are preserved underneath this constantly-accumulating tlejiosit of " earth mold," which is from two to three feet deep over tho ruins at Wroxcter.

LIVING ON HUMAN FLESH. Horrible Detatla of tho Crimes of Ifeckwllli, of A If orcl, Ulna. Boston, Mass., Jan. SO. It is now believed that tho murder of Simon A. Vandercook, near the town of Alford, this State, a few weeks ago was the result of ths rannibalistio longings of a powerfully built man of fine personal appearance named Beckwitb, between 55 and 60 years of age, and weighing something over two hundred pounds. On the day when the constable and posse broke into 1 1 li Willi's hut some sickening siglus were presented. In the stove were discovered the head, feel and one hand of a human body, charred and blackened by fire. In an adjoining room was found the rest of tho body, the trunk split through, several ribs split off, and the entrails taken out and lying in a basket near by. Great slices of flesh had been cut Irom the aims and legs, and there were evidences of a ghastly and fiendish purpose bavng boon completed. U ho theory is. and it is said to be well founded, that Bcckwith is a cannibal. It is thought he intended to eat a portion of Vandercook's body, the live r of tho victim having been found in his frying-pan and a portion of it gone. Tho murderer had also, it Is said, washed his victim's icnia ns and otherwise prepared them for tailing down in a barrel, to serve for a supply of food during tho winter. That Beckwith's ,tomnch was not too fastidious for this sort of diet would seem to be impliod by the remark of h stspe-driver that . Bcckwith ato pne of ..i bor-es that died from disease early this winter." Pome of tlio people of Alford say they have heard the murderer boast that he had eaten hn vHH flesh in Australia, and that he could do it egain. ir necessary. It is called to mind that f.n old lady, named Mrs. Willsoy Peck, went I'crrying on (he mountains in the vicinity of Bevkwith's cabin several years ago, and 'has lien r sii c ) been seen. At Ihs time of her diaf.ppearaneo 100 men made search for her. Now ttrrkwith's recent crime gives color to a suspicion that ho also murdered this woman, and, l-n aps, ato portions of her flesh. When Bcckwith was last in Great Barrington, H few weeks ago, he inquired of one of tlio butchers whether the latter wished to purchase some pork. When the cabin was reached, l oon after tho murder, no pork or other provisions of any account could be found, and the ttaitling query now raised among those posicssed of vivid imaginations is whether he intended to sell human flesh as pork. Beckwith's cabin has been burned, and it is reported that there has been found beneath the rubbish Hiibterransan passage, in which it is thought that the remains of 100 persons have been burned.

Blaine and ihe State Department. Washington dispatches say tha t the publication of the correspondence between Secretary Blaine and the diplomatic representatives of the United States to Chili and Peru has produced a profound sensation at the national capitol, and may be expected to excite an equal degree of interest in other parts of the world. In this publication is made known lor the first time the policy of the State Department in reference to the South American republics a policy which has been completely reversed since the retirement of Secretary Blaine and the appointment of Secretary Frelinghuyseu. Within the space of one month this important change has occurred, and the measures which Blaine originated and set on foot presumably with ths l ull assent and support of the President, give place to entirely different measures and plans, which hav'o in their turn received the sanction of the President It is claimed on ono side that this change of attitude ha s averted a war with Chili, which President Arthur behoved to bo inevitable unless the United States abandoned the role of mod -ator and protestor in the affairs of tl.o South American republics ; and on the other side, the friends and supporters of the vigorous measures inaugurated by Secrets -y Blaine see iu this sensational reversal of the policy of pluck and energy a square backdown which will redound neither to the credit nor advantage of the United States as a nation in tho eyes of the world.

Mr. Blaine, having been interviewed in Washington, has given Ins version of certain matters connected with the reigning diplomatic senialiin. He pronounces as false and without foundation in truth the assertion that his iuHtrnct ons to Trescott were dratted and forwarded without the knowledgo of the President, and states that not only were the infractions fully discussed between the President and himself, but after being written out they were no less than twice submitted to h m for criticism and change, and lm has in his possession the original draft boaring marks of the modifications desired by tho President Mr. Blaine recalls tho fact tout the President, in his inaugural messago, Bpecilicilly referred to Trescott's mission and instructions. He promptly acknowledges the right of the Presidout to change his mind and reverse any policy previously agreed upon, but lor himself says he can see no reason to take a different view of the wisdom of tho prior course marked out. He (ears that ono result of the change will be tbo ulter destruction of the commercial interests of the United States on the South Pacific coast Iu tho concluding portion of the interview. Mr. Blaine declares that the Hilation of Peru demanded by Chili is equivalent to the secession of the eleven States in rebellion in the years following 1861, and tho loss to the Union of the Pacific Statfs beside. 'It amounts," says Mr. Blaine-, " tq tho wholesale doslrucion of a friendly republic a dull traction as complete aud as cruel as the partition of Poland " " FBESIDENT ABTHUa'S VEBSIOK. A statement is made, on authority traceable directly to the Executive Mansion, which contradicts the assertions of Mr. Blaine in essential particulars. It is stated that the President did not examine or anprove the particular draft of instructions sent by Blaine to Trescott, and on tho subsequent examination of the correspondence was astonished and alarmed to find that the important modifications ordered by him had not been made, and that the text of the instructions was such as to immediately invite, if not to provoke, a declaration of war by Chili. Upon the discovery of the precise character or Blaine's communication to Trescott the President directed the telegraphing of counter-in-stmctionB to ward off the impending mischief, mid with the same object in view Secretary Frplinghnyser sought an interviow with tie Chilian Minister and gave personal assurances that the offensive language employed in Trescotl's instructions did not correctly represent the sentiments of the President, regarding the affair with Chili. The President's desire in the whole matter sas to protect tho dignity of tho United States without inviting tho hostility of Chili and without endeavoring to act as an aggressivo interraeddler in the affairs of other countries. The spirit aud letter of Mr. Blaine, if they accomplished the one purpose, could not have dono so without inviting the hostility of Chili, if not open war with that country. This, in inibstanee, is the statement of those well informed as to the views of the administration, and it will be seen that this explanation leaves s-ill a very sharp and well-defined issue with Mr. Blaine.

The ew French Ministry. The new French Cabinet, as formed by De Freycinct, is as follows : M. Do Freycinet, President of the Council iiuyt Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Ferry, President of Publio Instruction. M. Goblet, Minister of the Interior and of Publio Worship. M. Loon Kay, Minister of Finance. M. Varrov, Minister of Publio Works. Gen. Billot, Minister of War. Admiral Janregulbcrry, Minister of Marine. M. Tirard, Minister of Commerce M. Ooohery, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs. Tho Department of Agrioulturo is separated from that of Commorce, M. Do M&hy.has accepted tho Ministry of Agricul' lire. Tho Post of Minister of Fine Aits, created by GamlH'tta, is suffered to fall in abeyance. Hio progriunmo of the now Miuistry, as read to tho Chamber of Deputies, met with great favor, ami the now administration is in a fair way to get along smoothly with tho clement which ; lit an extinguisher upon Gambetta's llaming ambition. Commencing with tho assurance) of peaco at homo and abroad, ho announced that tho laws rclilivo to the press and to the right of publio meeting will he applied in a liberal censo. It is though! best to postpone a revision of tho constitution until the next legislature! moots, but the judicial, military aud educational reforms already undertaken will bo persevered with. An impetus will be givon to labor, but there will lie no compulsory conversion of the debt or purchase of railways. It has been assorted by Prof, Buckland that the most violent poisons havs jo effect on tlio hedgehog.

FIRE IN NEW YORK. isH 1,000,000 A Number of Persons Humeri to Death. A disastrous fire, entailing a Iobs of aboul $1,000,1100 and tho death of at least seven parsons, cxKurred at New York in the five-story building with two cellars ownod by Orlando B Fetter, and occupying the south half of the triangular block bounded by Park row and Nassau and Beekman streets. The building was almost exclusively occupied by pecplo engaged directly or indirectly in the printing and publishing business. A numlier of weekly papers, among them the Obserrrr, the Seimfiflr Avuricaii, the 'Vtirf. FMdand Farm, the Sivtlirh American and others, had their offices there, and there, too, several loading advertising agencies were located. Adjoining and separated by a parly wall, was the ofiice of the New York Timer, which nairowly escaped complete destruction, aud new by was tho postoffice building, which was at one time thought to be in great danger. Iu tho rickety old fire-trap in wbioh the flames originated, aud which should long ago have been remodeled or olso pulled down as a dangerous structure, wero employed 500 people, who wero all at work when the fire broke out in the hall on the lower floor. The rush for safety through the narrow passage developed with terrible force the danger that had long keen known loosist. Tho means of egress were shamefully insufficient, and an awful horror fillsd tho hearts of tho vast multitude which assembled in the City Hall Park as spectators of the frightful drama. Tho scenes as described in our disp itches wero fearful almost beyond imagination 590 people ponned up like rats in a blazing (rap leaping from the windows to find dei.th on tho cruel pavement below, or falling back into tho flames through fear.of taking the appalling leap ; 100,000 people gathered to watch tho issue of life and death, powerless to save or succor. Six or seven parsons were taken from the building by firemen or others on the Nassau street side, eight or ten on Bookman si reet, and five or six on Park Row. The number of deaths assured is live. EHen Buck, a colored woman 34 years old, janitress of the building, who jumped from the fifth story and had her skull lracinrcd. Joseph Cunningham, foreman of tho Observer ccm-poaing-room, 55 years old, who used to set type at, the same stand with Horace Greeley, and wm an intimate friend of both he and William Cullen Bryant, burned in the nuns. Richard 8. Davcy, an Englishman, a compositor in the Fcotlish-Awerican office, fell Irom a fourth-story window ; 40 years of age t left leg, left arm and lower jaw fractured, and severe internal injuries. Alfred W. Harris, 38 years did. The assistant foreman of the O0server composing room burned in the building. Mary Blount, Now Jersey. Mary O'Connor, city. Mary Smith, city. William Stubbf, photographer, Brooklyn. Three others. Four weekly newspapers were burned out The pctoflico escaped ignition by closing lis iron shutters. Munn & Co., of the HcietUilc Ameriixut, lost a large amount of patent models. A. M. Stewart, editor of the Scottish A nericon, was rescued by one of his compojuoi s. Peculiar Weddings. Numerous peculiar weddings are happening nowadays. A girl at Coultersville, N. C, was locked in a room by a father, who chained a savage bull-clog under tho window ; but her lover poisoned the dog, pried open her window, and carried her to a clergyman. Mrs. Ileeder, on the death of her husband, in Baltimore, received the following letter irom Franklin Broillar, of Oarroll, Mo. : "I have just heard the news. Will you marry me now ? Enclewed find $100 to bring you and your children here." Broillar aud Mrs. Beeder had been engaged before the war ; but an uncontradicted report that he had been killed in bt.ttle, led her to marry another man. When he learned that he had lost her ho went West and and waited twenty years to renew the courtship. She said yes. Old Edgerton, of Bellevue, Iowa, decided to get rid of his wife and marrj a younger woman. This ho accomplished by means of an irregular divorce and with the consent of the original wife, who remains in the Edgerton establishment as housekeeper, while the bride plays the idle lady. A Nashville girl being forbidden to marry her lover, promised obedience, but one day requested her father to hand their pastor a note on his way to business. Thus hci was unsuspectingly led to deliver an invitation to the clergyman to call at once and perform the prohibited ceieuiony ; anxi the latter, presuming that parental consent had been obtained, readily obeyed the stunmons. A Desperate Battle. Daxvuxe, Vs., Fob. 1. A desperate, novel and fatal battle took place on the plantation of William Lanier, Pittsylvania county, between Thomas King, one of Mr. Linier's tenants, and King's mother, on tho one side, and George Slato and wife, hirelings of Mr. King, on tho other. A complication of circumstances led to the difficulty, but it was mainly Slate's aggressive temper and his refusal to deal rquarely about some property he had found 'and refused to advertise. Slate left King's employment and canm bao"t to demand his wages. Finding King in his stable. Slate drew a pistol and told htm he would shoot him if ho came out of there without bringing with him the disputed property. K'lig called to his mother to bring him his shotgun. Tbo old lady was approaching with the gun in one hand and a cane in the other. Slate, seem ' this, told his wife, who was with him, to knock the old woman in the head. The old lady was thrown by the younger female, when Mr. King came running to the aid of bis mother. Slato tired at him but missed. A desperate struggle ensued, in which ail four wero engaged. King secured the guu and shot Slate in the thigh. State's wife then got hold of the gun aud knocked King senseless, when Slate himself drew a knife and stabbed him in eight places. Meantime tho old lady bad been seriously cut and beilen, ant a large piece bitten out of her arm by tho female. It was a desperate life-and-death struggle. All four of the combatants wore covered with gore, and fought until thoy had to coaso from loss of blood. When neighbors came on the scene they found King and his moiher dying and Slate terribly mangled, so that life is despaired of. The wife was painfully hurt, but it is thought not fatally. The Revolt in Herzegovina. The insurrection which has broken out in Bosnia aud Herzegovina is very simihr in its incipiency to that which in 1875 led to the war between Turkey and Russia. The occupation of these provinces by Austria, which wns allowed conditionally by the Berlin treaty, has substantially changed to annexation. Annexation has baen followed by heavy increase of taxation, and the taxation has been let out to Turkish collectors, whose methods are always brutal. Following upon the heels of this came the military conscription, and this has aroused resistance. So far as Bosnia and Herzegovina are concerned, Austria can make short work of the insurgents , but the danger is always imminent in tho Balkan provinces that an iusurrcction w:;ll spread, and involve Austria in a war of such large dimensions that tho other powers may find themselves necessitated to interfere. Should tho rebellion, however, bo confined within its pi-uscnt limits, Austria will not only make short work of it, but she w ill improve the opportunity to make a further stride toward Salonica, the goal of her ambition. The occupation of posts far advanced beyond her present limits already points in that direction. The Coal of the Country. Wasuixotos, Jan. 30. The census office has just published a report on the production of bituminous coal, from which it appears tho total amount mined in the United States during the ceuBtis vear 188.) was 42,420,580 tons, of which total 29,842,210 tons were produced in the Appalachian coal Hold, Alleghony couuty, Pa., furnished over onetenth, and the States of Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio nearly three-fourths of the entire product. The avorago price per ton at the mine in 1880 was $1.22, while in 1870 it was $1.92. at a cost of 88 cents. An average or 431 53-100 tons was raised tier man and 16.8 per ceut.of tho year's working time, or about twenty days per man, was lost in strikos. Hulnciont information was gathered to justify the assumption that the exhausted Holds form but a vory small fraction of the total available coal land. Attention is cillod to the fact thai, although the valne of tho product has fallen, wages have no correspondingly decreased, and the totals prove again nearly a third of a million dollars annually in favor of labor. Anthracite product was 286,649,896 tons, neatly all furnished by tho State of Pennsylvania, making tho total product 'f the country for tho census year 761,066,576 tons. England produced 716,818,122 tons iu tho s.uae roar. , Bad manners disgraced the Kim; of Sweden, "At supper," says Mies Knight, "his Majesty was seen to scratch his head with his fork, and also with his knife, and afterward go on eating with them. A boy who takes Ids bow and arrow and shoots off the heads of adozon English sparrows, is greater than tho man who makes a Fourth of July oration.

THE FARM, Prottdw ths. Norway Sbpqctb, Pruning may be done for very opposite ends. If the spruce is planted as a hedge or screen, then it needs to be dwarfed, rather than encouraged to grow upward. Cutting back the new growth, before it has yet hardened, is generally done in June ; this has the effect to keep the tree in a dwarf, compact form. If the object is merely to regulate the shape, by removing or shortening certain branches, it may be clone in autumn at any time before severe weather comes. For outting away the lower limbs of a Norwaj spruce, cr other evergreen, there is nc one " proper time." Gvpsum Plaster op Paris. When gypsum, or erode plaster, is heated tc 272 degrees it loses the water it naturally contains, and becomes plaster ol Paris. Though the operation is often called "burning," it takes place at a comparatively low temperature. When mixed with water, it re-unites with that, and becomes chemically the same rs ii was before, and when re-ground if probably as valuable a fertilizer as the "raw stone." We say "probably," as we are not sure that it is quite so soluble as at firat, though it is not likely that there m any perceptible difference 'n this respect. The usual time for applying gypsum on clover is in the spring, when vegetation is just starting. Remedy for Sn-is Hoioc in Cow's Teat. Make the edges of the opening "raw"" with a sharp knife, or cauterise with a pointed stick of nitrate of silver. The hole may then be closed with strips of adhesive plaster, or better yet by a coating of "otillodion," which can be obtained of any photographer, if the nearest druggist does not keep it. In milking be careful not to displace the dressing and it will perhaps be better to draw the milk with a tube for several days. If the opening in the teat is not quite small, it may be necessary to close it by a stitch just through the skin with a fine thread. In most cases the scratching of the edges of the opening with a knife and the application of collodion will, however, be sufficient .dmerican Agriculturist. Preserving Eggs. Several plans have been tried with more or less success. To preserve eggs, the pores oi the shell must be stopped up, for two reasons : to prevent the entrance of the air, and consequent spoiling of the contents ; and to prevent the evaporation of the moisture of the egg and a drying up o.' the contents. Placing the eggs in a net or basket, and plunging them for a few seconds iu boiling water, long enough to cook or solidify a thin film ol white next to the shell, is successfully practiced in some families, but it would spoil the eggs for sale. Closing the pores

uy smearing tne sneii witn lard, suet, ot linseed oil, has been tried with more or less success. Many years ago a patent was taken out for the use of shellac varnish for the same purpose. The cars required in the use of the varnish, as eaoh egg must be treated separately, and as a slight uncovered space would allow the egg to spoil, besides tlte discoloration, prevented this from mining into use Feed fob Latino Hbns. Fat heni rarely lay. If hens are fed so much ot so often that they begin to fatten rapidly, they will soon stop laying. No food "is better than Indian corn or ground corn (Indian meal), to fatten hens, and oi course it should be fed sparingly to laying hens. If hens do liot lay and are fat, feed them but once a day at evening just before they go to roost giving wheat screenings, buckwheat and oats, in such projiortions as you jndge best. Throw the feed upon clean ground only so fast as thoy pick it up. Stop just as soon as you see any of the flock begin to wander nway. Liet them forage all day for weed seeds, grass, insects, etc. They must have warm quarters, well ventilated at night, and a suuny run by day in winter. After a while begin tc feed them sparingly a 3ittle meat scrap chopped fine, broken bones, oyster shells, etc., and thy will probably soon begin to lay. Weight and Heatiho Power of Different Kin ds op Wood. More fnel is required daring January than in any other month, in the year, and a few items may be interesting as well as useful. Another article ("Keeping Warm "1 describes the production of heat. Carbon (pure coal) is the chief source of all heat used for domestio purposes and for driving machinery by steam power. This carbon is mainly derived from wood, hard coal and peat. Coal is most used for producing steam power, but taking the whole world together, wood is much tne most extensively used fuel. For the present purpose we may consider all wood as essentially composed of carbon or charcoal and water (mainly as sap). All woods heated away from the air yield watery vapor chiefly, leavingnearly pure oharcoal, which when burned leaves more or leas mineral matter as ashes. Of green wood one-third to one-half or more of its weight is water, parity depending upon tbe time of cutting. In Schuller'a experiments Cut in January. Cut in April. 100 lbs. lbs. ater lbs. water. Ash wood contained 29 38 Sycamore contained S3 40 White pine contained.... 53 61 A praoticul lesson for this month is 'here indicated. All kinds of wood cut in January contain from 15 lo 25 per oen. less water than after the sap is in motion in April, and considerable earlier in the Southern portion of the country. It is well to now cut down the trees designed for fuel, even if working them np is delayed to the following months. As wood seasons naturally in the air, it loses one-sixth to one-third its weight of water, but still contains one-oeventh to one-fourth its weight of moisture. A considerable! part of the latter may be expelled by kiln-drying, and most of it if the kiln heat be raised to 212 or boiling-water temprature. Some careful testa mfule bv one of our Western readers showed that five cords of beech and maple just out weighed as mnch as eight cords of the same wood when thoroughly air-seasoned. The above teaches two important practical lessons. 1. To haul and handle green wood requires a very large waste of strength. In handling five cords of green beech wood for example, we have loaded, hauled, and unloaded three or more tons of useless water, which a few months seasoning would have removed. 2. Aud still more important : When wood is not thoroughly seasoned is used for fuel, its w-Mr "' sap must be erpolled before its carbon comes into play to produce heat. This takes place gradually on the outside, or on one side, as little of the ctarbon comes into action at a time. But, us stated in another nrtiole, tlte escaping vapor conceals or carries off a very large amount of heat, sometimes almost enough to use up all the heat produced by its carbon. It is safe to say that on the average, a cord of green wood will not supply for use rme-half as much heat as would be produced by the same wood after thorough seasoning. A cord of wood is 128 cubic feet as it lies piled no. But allowing for the tnterestices in fairly piled wood, we mav reckon a eqrd to actually oontain about 72 cubic feet of solid wood. Thoroughly dry wood weighs about as follows : 1 cubic ft loord. lbs. lbs. nickory 62 M4 White oak 53 3.816 White ash 49 3.528 Red oak m 3,276 White booch 45 2.240 Apple tree 48 3.096 Black birch 43 3.096 Black walnut 42 3,060 Hard maple... 40 2,880 Soft maples 87 2.664 Wild cherry 37 2,604 White elm 30 2,628 Butternut 3bH 2-55G Redcelar 35 2.620 Yellow pine 34 2,447

White birch 88 2,876 Chestnut 89 2,304 White pine 28 1,872 Belative value of a cord of various seasoned woods, taking into ticcount weight, heating power, etc., and calling hickory wood worth $5 a oord :

Hickory $5.00 Whit j elm $2.90

White oik 4.05

White ash 8.85

Apple 8.601 Red oak 4.45 White beech 8.25

Black walnut 8.25 Black Birch 3.15

Hard maple 3.00

Led isedar 2.08

Wild cherry 3.78 Soft maple 2.70 Yellow pine 2.70

unestnut 2.60

Buttiornut. .... . 2 55 While birch 2.40 White pine 2.10

We find no record of careful experi

ments to tent the relative value of two woods extensively used in some pnrta of our country, viz., cotton wood and rosewood or linden. The hickory named above is what is known ati the shell-bark hickory (Carya alba). The "pig-nut hickory" (fiarya porcina) in of nearly equal value. The "Wentern hickory " (Carya sulcata) weighs about 25 per cent less than the shell-bark, and it relative value per cord in estimated at $4.05, or the same as white oak. American Agriculturist. Woman's frss. Under the head of "Hints, Question and Experiences," Beeoher's Christian Union remarks: Few subjects have leen more fro quently discussed than the healthful dressing of women. Where the weight of the clothes should come is at last decided without question. But how few, even of those who admit that the weight of the clothing should come on the shoulders, wear their clothing of a pattern that makes it possible. Every year witnesses greater improvements iti the undergarments made for women, but few avail themselves of the relief and comfort to be gained by their use. Look at the young girls on our streets, with waists to compressed that no artist, or any other person witlt a full realization of the (rue beauty of the female form, could heboid without a feeling of impatience if not disgust How many of those girls when they comj-ress their waists in this unnatural manner know that they entirely destroy their freedom of walking; and that, while they appear to themselves to have freedom of motion, to others, who watch them, they present a very comical combination of freedom and stiffness ? The uppiir part of tho body being in a vice is perfectly stiff from the waist up. The shoulders arc held in position far above where they should be, and the elbows are at sharp angles two or three inches behind the line of the shoulders. Loss of grace is not the only penalty paid. Many girls destroy good voices by this vicious manner of dressing. The waist being so unnaturally compressed, it is impossible to breathe from the right place. To test this for yourself, place your hand on your ehest and take breath from below the belt, and ring the syllable, La. Then sing it breathing from the chest, where you aro compelled to breathe if the clothes are worn tightly at the belt, and note the dilferenoe in the sound. Try, for a short time beforo rising, to breathe from below the belt

without moving the cnost. In snort, try all the time to breathe as low down as possible, and watch how the hard, disagreeable head tones for which American women are famous will dieappear. You w ill sing wfthon.6 half the effort, you will be able t walk without " getting out of breath" and lose altogether the tired feeling from the chest that so many complain of when walking. This can be tried by all. It is not for the young alons. Many of tho fretful, nervous women can hold their imperfect breathing responsible ton much of their fretfulnens and nervousness. Think of it when sewing, and breathe below the belt. At first, it will senm hard, bat if persisted in will finally become as it should have been from the beginning, nature itself. Wato'h your husband and brother, and you will see their chests make no perceptible movement when breathing, because they breathe naturally. They have not worn their clothing so tightly belted that lungs and other organs of the body have been deprived of room for growth.

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

A Fumble of Expedients. Do not attempt to keep hoiuie without a bottle of mucilage. 1'here are hundreds of littlo things which ma' be neatly repaired by this simple treatment. It will quickly fasten this loose leaf in your school-boy's book; itspeedily repairs a break in your wall paper; it will daintily secure this pretty framelesa picture, or d. cors ted card to the wall by simply touching it with a brush; a few drop will Btiffen a linen collar if your laundress is tardy; with it aid some pretty dado paper, or Jtpanew handkerchiefs from which to cut figures of flowers, birds, bamboo reeds, fans, and innumerable quaint designs, secured to a background of old gold, ciirdinal or any pretty tintod shade you may fancy, you may speedily and beautifully decorate all the Hue stops in the hous6 and have them match the hanging) in every' room. Care is to be had to make them as odd as possible and not to crowd the figures. Afterward anply a thin coat oi van lush. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever," and even a common-place clumney stop is florified and dignified by artistic taste, andsomer ones are mads by covering the stop with cloth or silesia and handpainting thorn. The latter are unique testimonials for "tin weddings. " Both are pretty, and by the side of them the common cmatom-painwd ones look tawdry. Another source of comfort is a small camels-hair brush and a bot tle of best varnish . With this potent spell you may charm away every unsightly scratesh upon your furniture, by simply tracing over carefully the defect, until it is obliterated. A larrte brush is useful if it is desirable to varnish a whole article, and if the chemical imell is not objectionable, it is rather pleasant work, to renew the furniture throughout the house by touching it uia in thin way occasionally. And nothing is so cleanly, efficacious and healthy, for keeping bugs from beds, as this simple expedient of varniBhing, in early spring, the whole inside frame, the ends or the slats, and the cavities whera the frame unites, also cracks or knots in the wood. Repeat if necessary in midsummer . Old tapestry Brussels carpets, which are worn and unsightly, may be utilised by ripping and turning the seams on tho woolen side and finishing with a bright inexpensive border. This makes an elegant dining-room carpet. A Paris Wit's Performance. One of Vivier's favorine performances: Having marked down his prey, an elderly citizen who has ordered a glass of beer and is preparing to assimilate it oat the asphalt in front of a cafe, Vdvicr approaches and salutes him profoundly, then with mingled volubility aad brusquenesn thus addresses him : " Monsieur, I am one of tlio inspectors of the new Department of Chemical Analysis, established for the purposo of detecting adulteration in articlrw of daily consumption. I have been detailed to the subject of beer. My face being know to the proprietors of the establishment, if I were to order anything they mierht take the alarm and servo me quite a different article and thus baffto me. Permit me, therefore, to taste your beer," The stupefied victim offers no resistasm nd Vivier drains the glass at a draught, and sets it down, remarking : " Eviwitent 1 excellent ! You can drink that boer with impunity 1 I thank von

in the name of sciouoe. and the municipality for your unselfish co-operation. Good afternoon 1 WaiioT, another beer

for this gontiemai 1 and vanishes. Dex.ibbra'to with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graeiousness or oppose with firmness.

An electric signal apparatus on a, French railway causes the blowing ot a steam whistle upon a locornotive approaching a danger signal. The engineer is thus warned. This apparatus is femnd valuable in fogs and suow-stonaa, when ordinary signals often, eaoape-notice!. The number of varieties of insects is vastly greater than that of all other living creature. The oak supports iCO species of insects, and 200 am found in tho pine. Humboldt, in 1849, calcnleied that between 150,001) and 170,000 species wero preserved in collectioiiis, but reoent estimates place the present numbar as about 750,000 species. It is a very general belief that groat burial places exert a noxious iufluenos, which must reLder the localities verinnhealthy as places of residencev, This idea is shown to be a mistaken one by the results of any inquiry into Che sanitary condition of the cemeteries of Paris. The composition of the air in the cemeteries is reported to be incbstingnishable from that cf arable lands. Concerning the moon's effect ost -tides, the Astronomer Royal for Ireland recently stated that, while the day is gradually lengthening through lunar action tides, tho earth reacts on the moon and drives it away farther and farther. Looking backward, the moon moil have been nearer and nearer the earth, and at one epoch in the remote ages of the past perhaps about 50,000,000 of years ago the two bodies must have been very dose together; Then the day was but three hours long instead of twenty-four. At that distant period, the earth rotated once every three hours, and the moor? revolved with it ist the same time. So near was the moon that, if there had been oceans in those days as now, the tides must have been 216 times as great as at the present time: and, rising to an immense height, would have swept over the whole of England. AsiitAL life in the Sahara is somewhat peculiar to the region, and, according to M. Vogt, the traveler is struck with the absence of all bright colors in the animals of the desert. As a rule, their hue approaches that of the ground, aad tho adaptation is most remark aide in birds, reptiles, grasshoppers, etc. Black ant white exisr. iu some animals for instance, the male cetrich which bam nothing to fear from enemies ; and a single exception to the rule ocoars among insects the Coleoptera are nearly all black. To t xplain the existence in safety of these insects whose color must make them conspicuous, M. Vogt states that they feign death on the approach of danger aud in that state slcmely resemble the excrements of gazelles, goats, and sheep. This description, with their disagreeable odor, srives them sufficient protection. The general color of the ground to the desert is, of course that of sand. At the Crystal Palace, London, a second international electrical eixhibition is to follow closely on the heels of the

first at Paris. The objects to be exhibited are chiefly compared in these classes ; Apparatus used for the production and transmission of edeertricity and magnets, natural and artificial ; mariners? compasses ; lightning conductors, and applications of electricity to telegraphy and the transmission of sounds, to the production of heat, to lighting and the production of light, to the service of light-houses and signala, to apparatus giving warning to mines, railways and navigation, to military art, to fine arts, to electro-elieuiiBtry and chemical arts, to the production and transmission of motive power, the me-i-hanical arts, to surgery and medioineY to horology, to astronomy, to meteorology, to geodesy, to agriculture, to apparatus for registering, and to domestic uses. It is expected that the exhibition will prove mnch more attractive to Americans than that at Paris. "Stonewall" Jackson. Trie story of tho killing oi Genera Jackson has been told over and over again, but never seems to be wanting in Iraciatic interest, and is as often road by those whom the history of the struggle for freedom never fails to attract It was at Ohancellornvil!e, io May, 1863, when he turned Hooker's right, upon which he turned by surprise. The illfated Jackson rode out vrith his staff and escort. That was & or 10 o'clcok of ihe aiglit of May 2. He was riding on hia well known "Old SorreU" toward his )wn men. The little body of horsemen wero mistaken for Federal cavalry charging, and the Betel regiments on thft eight and It ft of the road fired a sudden roiloy into them. General Jackson ra eeit-'l one ball in his left arm, two inches below the shoulder joint, shattering the bono and severing the chief artery: a

second passed through tne same arm, Between the elbow sad wrist, coming oat through the palm of the hand ; a third entered the jwlm of tu right hand, about the middle, and passed through, bref king two of tho bones. He fell fwm his horse, and was caught by aa officer at Land. Later he was found, placed jpoi a litter, and conveyed to the rear. On liia way to a place of safety, one of the litter-bearers was shot and Jackson fell from the shoulders of the men, receiving a severe contusion, adding to the injury of the arm, and injuring the side xim.iderably. He died eight days afterward at Guinea's Station, some fiva miles from the place where he fell. It is generally observed that pecaona of a sout 40 years, especially young Jadiaa of that age, are. very forgetful of those with whom they were ncquaiotod in, childhood. This remarkable dimtvsaa of memory has bee a appropriately styled "Tbe darkness of the middle airea.'N

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