Bloomington Progress, Volume 15, Number 49, Bloomington, Monroe County, 22 March 1882 — Page 4

Gemsmxen, -aa aged (dork of the Fourth National Bank of Heir York, in chargo T the call tout department baa been discovered take " short" in bis accounid about tUftXooa Qatar. W. H. Wwar?, who died the death o a dnuikari In Pbutdelpiiia, was once Chief of Uw Kagtneerkg Corps ot tt-e Army Of tte Fc4atnae, and commamted the pioneers on eu- Shaman's march to the son. Ho boil? the briOpaa at Leavenworth and Atchison, and went thb Iatiimns of Panama with OoBnti Is order to dispel curtate rHfflors injurious to his credit the boll ndn, far 3afc took rav paroniiikmt operators to hia office, opened the TaoIU and showed them se curitwe or the par nine of d6O,0O0,HX ermore, U oaristered' in his name. The largest handle mm f 28, 000,000 iu Wtitn Union telngrapa. Be-atoo offered to exhibit 930,000,000 in railroad bonds, but the gentleman expressed themselves satisfied to take his word. Mis. HaimhE. Ho-ve, the President ef the soeaUed Woman's Itank in Boston a hearties fraad and swindle has been sentenced to imprisofment in the House of Correction Tor ran years. . . .Toe Snncannon rolling-mill at New lttoamfield, Pa., has been burned. The tosa is g" 6,060, sad S0O men are thrown eat of esnplOJV&Ottth

A ihkpatch from Albuquerque, New Uexiro, sajs that "it ! Lnnas, (Jnarle Sketton, John Bodmond and Hart; French were taken from jtul ani hanged to the nearest trees far mat kert men. 3helton mordered Fore, roan Woodruff last faH. Bedmond killed Jsme UcDennott last .Ttnuary at Gallup, on the At tantic and Facias railway. French, abas Simpeon, was one of a band of desperadoes who kilted Depot? Sheriff Jones at Crane's. The mob also took two negroes from jail, beat them cnmercifnlly, and rained them loose," Two Iitdiajc murderers, named Marcos and Jeff, were banged at Laieport, Cat, cn a double scaffold Fire at Decatur, Tex., destroyed nine bushx houses on the east sido of the public srjnam. Lose reported to be 9180,000, but thttM orobabrj- a mistake. Insurance bight. A Hrax meteorite fell with a great bock at a point fifty miles sooth of Fort Asainatoine, Uontaua, causing mucii constcrna ion at Fort Benton, nearly 100 Elites to the

A Dozen masked met rode into LinkwiHe, Oregon, where H. Q. Iowa, ciiarged with tonrder, was in the custody of Dtjraty Slieriff J. F. Lewis and Jnstfce Wright, awaiting examination, Tbe officer r.'fnfej to inroader the prisoner, ami find on the lyncher. The latter returned the fire, killing tbo Dejmtv Socriff and wounding Justice Wright Tticy then k it without lakuix Laws The death of two eesrtensrhwn, both Irish women, is announced Mr. WniiriTrid Howard Lal'j, o' Chicago, aged 108, and Mw. Man McElrov, near Gree;iBunrg, lad., aged 106. Tno latrer perished in the Camea of too turning house ef her grandSancnter. In the case of the man Armstrong, UBrd during the labor otearbanees at Omaha, the Coroner's jury deokVd that he came to bis iieath at the hands of soldiers ia the faithful Iicuargu of their dntws. All the labor onions tuToedo.it in process on at the funeral, and ro.ch feeling was asanifestod. A box named Zcraii Hall was workicg on the farm of Gordon Lord, near Lisbon, Xendall eocnty, UL The boy, it appears, had not been treated as be should ham been, and, while all bat the two were away from.thfcboue, snu difficulty arose, while they rem iu the twrn doing chorea, acd the boy was killed by Lord, being shot twicn with a ruvolrcr. Lord, on seeing what Le had done, alter tliinking the matter over, committed suicide by cutting his throat and tanging h'merlf. - At HKrriabnrg, Ark., Prot Wilmot, school teacher,- was mnrdered by County Treasnrer Smith In a dispnta relative to Um ponishassst in seuod of Smith's child. Jambs M. Daks, Deputy Beveane CoDeetorat SashTille, waa way bud and shot dead by a gang of twenty mconaoiners, near SfcHmnville, Tenn. He is aaid to lave arrested ftiliy three tnowsand men for illicit H""B. and is koowa to iaira billed several.

Aia tbe iwliioted star-roateiB axoept eJ HsTsitoDorsey, J. V. Docsey, L. Sanderson and kfcBadnQ appeand in ooart at Washington. Tne crnrt filed the bail aa foUz mi : Gen. Brady 20,10 ; A. Buck, SO,0( 0 ; G. CabeB, S.00G ; J. H Minor, a,60;W. H. Turner, 2vG00; Kate H, Arn .strong, 91,W; Hum M. VaiL 91,000; F. J. Sweet, 1,000; J. A. Mil rir, l,ii00 ; James W. Doheltue, 91,000; W. DBarriujrer. 9L0CO; W. Jaekaon, 91,000, and C harks N. Dickson, 91,000. Tbb coBJtHarti;i which tried the case of Hergeant John A. Xafon, oharind with attirmptmg to shoot th sssassin Gtiiteau in the jail at Wsst: fngtnn last September, found him guCty and imposed tbs seveiit pe talty allowed Gy law, Maaou iaecnttaoed to djabmorabie oby cnarga fron the army, to lose all jay or allowances now dne nr which may becotte dne him, and to asr eht'yean at hard labor aa a eonriet in the Albany penitentiary. Tb eTnty of 8ergeant Haatm's sentence is eenoaDy criticised and eondemned, ays a Waatington dir patch, and is not likely to add to the apprsciatioa in wlticb military tnlsinaU sr held. A dourer east of insanity wan made en behalf of Mason than is customary in most civil trialti. Beside, -Jiere were a great many exteooatng cirenmstances which seemed to tender it iinneccssarv that thf rer5c should he so sevtre. GurrEAB ia mon tardtum .and ja only intireuhJdia the sale of hii photographs, eta ?" ottly ""gaged m eorreethis; tbfs proofs for the sew edifcon of "Truth." PSM.1T1CAI. Jambb M. Comt.1, who was appointed Kfoister Residest to tbe Hawaiian islands by President Hayes in 1877, ha been recalled. It ia rapottad that before. Garfield's death he had rromised Condyw plite to President Hinsdale, of Hiram OjUege. President Arthur, it is said, hsa promisdd toreapbH thewistM'SoI hii predecessor in Suing this place. Tem Governor of Georgia has offi ialiy announced that be irill nut oall a specul sessfanof the LogisUtUT) fox Uw porposeof re. dlatrinting the State. The extra Congressman given to Georgia by the new appSoonmeht wOttMrefoio have to be elected by the State

A DUBOAXfoa; of the health officers cf varions cit es west of too Alleghemes andcf the Northwest have bi-en in Wa. h,ngton, feekingioaeeam the cc-ptration of Coogrrss ia Preventing tie hnpor anon of small-pox into tb cooEtry. Tbey propose either to vaccinate ach immigrant npoii eot.iarkaiion, or eke to quarantine every unioigrant Teasel fourteen daja before allowing it tu land passengen. Thb Bonora railwuy, projected tliree years sgn to run from Gjaymas, on the Quit of Calrjoni ja, to a connection with the Amw iran Hnos, has been pcrchaied bv the AtUi-mn. Topeto and Santa F Ocmpan. wnl bo onned this year, at a cost of 3,6W,w, aadwih give via Santa Fe a thotougii route from tbe SfJatouri to the waters of the Pacific eoaat The Hteanur Sidnuy buret her steampipe when neat Barensn ood, W. Ta. Two person j wree killed ani ft. teeu wimndod. Scobhtast Szkewood lia ordered Agent Armstrong to send 100 Indian children from the (!row Agenc? in Montana to certain fanners in Ohio, lobe developed ia mind and niii

It is tated iu-a xmponaible quarter that tbe letter written to Cx-Secretary Chase by Gen. Oardcid touching Geo. fioserrane, ra. eently made pubho, waa given out by Mr. Jacob W. Hehnekers. Sir. Bchneaers now lives in Sew Fork ewy. At the time Mr. Chase waa Secretary of the Treasury he lived ia Ohio and was appointed from that Citato by Secretary Cinvto to a 91,600 derksfatp. SabeequenUr he became Mr. Chase's pr.vate secretary. It is also said he has other tetters, tearing on the removal of Gen. hVMecrain, writ en by ex-Preeiileot OarnekL which w il be siade public at an early day. Fot towns in Owia Rica have boen destroy ed by aa eartli quake, and several thoussnd lives were lost. Tbe deatrnion of pmptrty was great and thonsaBds were rendered

Maa, MsnvTrxu, wife of Lieut. MelviBe, enghiicr of tbe Jeanaetts exploring exIdition, las recened a letter from her hashand, in which be speak of DeLong and the ethers as having parisfaed a! the mouth of the I'oa river, and wtimat"H tbs t when be set out on the search in abich lie ia now engaged it was without bopeof liiMlni,; ills ecmradei aliv, but sunp! f to perform tne melancholy iluty of diseoverug, if possible, tint.'- dead bodiea and whatever tnoM of thea- :u,rdhipa and advsnsura they nagat hava behfad-tneny

MBKICtN. Thb correspondent of the London Trntesat Constantinople says that in ofBdia

drdes a deesanttkm of wi between Austria snd Bnssla ls thuj!hi Inevitable. Inthisconneo-

wjwm CPirarmatory inereoi, comes news from St, Fotersburg that the Czar haa refused to aoept tbe resignation of Gen. Ignition", who is the leader of the Pan Slaviat nartv and the ad

vocate of a Rosso-Austrian war,. ..An Ameri

can company is seeking from the sultan Of Tuikey the right to build a railroad in the Province of Bagdad. MacLbAn, the Queen's asaailant, was Tuuuutted for tifial on charge of high treason, n being arraigned he said he would reserve bis defense. Ho declined to cross-oxamin witnesses. His interests were wplrd by t soliritor. The evidence war merely a repetition of what is already known concerning his attempt on the life of the Queen. It overWBdmingly confirmed the slatemeut that hia pistol waa sufficiently elevated when he fired for tbe ball to have struck her Majesty. A.Lobdox Timet dispatoh from Si Petersburg says tbe Sinister of War told SaobeltnT he waa recalled for a tr.aeh or dladpliue in creating disturbance and exoitement abroad. The report ia, Oetv Ignatieff Lold Skoteteff the Our had nothing in partiouUr to say to aim. LosBos advices ate to the eflPeot ih&i negotiations for an international copyright treaty with Great Britain,' which were begun under President Garfield and Secratarv Blaine, have been abandoned. Mr. Arthur and Mr. Fratingbuyseh are reported ns not f avoraMo to the proposed legislation. . . .Br. Thomsa Evans, the American dentist of Paris, was robbed of $120,000 by an employe, who fled to BrtUsuls, where he was captured. Malstsux, a prominent member o the Paris commnnr, was Implied to sn cido by destitution. A leading JonrnaVst of Itomo.also made way with bimseii. Sharp and speedy justice haa been done) by the Engttah court before which Dr. 'Luiaon was tried for the .m order by poison of his boy brother-in-law. Percy John. Tbe trial coi'Jndcd with a verdict of guilty, Hie jury deliberating half an hour, and Lam&m was ltn bHHiiately sentenced to be haisjed-. . . .The Joaunetle searrli la going forward vigorously, APPITIOIfAt SEWS. Jacob B. Shipukbo appeared at Washington, before tht House Committee on Foreign Aiftirs, on the 15th insL, and was sworn. He at ones raised a question as to what constituted a United Statea official, and Iho oomta lt'.-o went into secret session to defibo the phra-ie. The investigation was then postponed to tho IStb, and Mr. Shipherd returned to New York to arrange hia papers in accordance with thedccision of the-committee. dm. Bin BtjttjBB, counsel for tho Iowa Farmers' Association in the barb-wire

nib) brought by Washburn, Moeft & Co., hu interested Attorney General Browfter in tho question oi tho validity of the various pnoiitn, which, be believes, will result in favor of tho farmers..., The Chicago and Kmimw City Air L:nu Btiboad Company has been UicorporatcX Tbe capital in (5,000,000. Tas buaine83 of the Patent Offioo this year is nearly 85 per cent, groater than ever before The House Commit ten on Railways and Canals will present a favorable report on the Henderson bill for the construction of tho Hennepin canal, and will reeommoiid that tho necessary sppropriation bo inoluds.1 iu the Bivtr and Harbor Apcropriutiou bill. Tiuss BtritrBKD prominent Democrats participated in a banquet of tbe Iroquois Clnb of Chicago. Letters from Senator Bayard, Gov. Tiidi n an 1 Jndqe Bicck woro road, and speeches were mado by Gov. Hendricks, Hon. W. . F. Vilas, Elitor Wattersonand others.... Gn. Biemrana has been elect e.1 permanent Chairman of the Dninocratte Congressional Com-n.ttee. . ..At a Republican caucus, in Washington, it was uuan -mously agreed to oppose the bill to reduoe tho tax ou whisky, totacco, etc. Tax hank of Balnton, McQuade &Co., at Petrous, Pa., closed its doors with liabilities supposed to be 9300,000. . . . .South BethtoLem, Pa., with a population of 4,000, has 120 cases of small pox. Insects ia India Ton awe Bitting at dinner with all 7001 (loci's open, and suddenly you hear a familiar sound, and a beetle ia wheeling hia droning flight" around the room. Hop ! he falls on the table half stunned. Yob seize him and aro amajsecl at the strength of his straggles, and still farther at the squeak he utters, showing that he must have vocal organs like the death's head moth, which squeaks loudly when touched. Eiomino him, and yon will find that he is the Egyptian scarab (Sco rubeit sacer) or dung beetle, varying in size from half an inch to an inch and 9 half long, and relatively, I believe the most powerful animal in the world. Take an inch specimen and place him on the tablecloth under a foil quart bottle of wine or beer. Presently yon will see the bottle move, and, if unchecked, it will slide mysteriously across the table, poshed by the giant beneath in its efforts to escape. Yet one other incident Toward the close of the rainy season, generally in September, "flying bugs" appear on the scene, attracted as usual by the light; small, black and shining heteropterous insects, surcharged with n disagreeable powerful odor, which they generally distribute all aromd. Yon may encounter a flight when otit driving in the evening, and perhaps feel something creeping in your whiskers. On raising your hand to eject the intruder, your nose is overpowered, and your fingers defiled with the odor, Chambers' Journal. DvB-ity or tbe Earth. Herr von Jolly, cf Munich, has been applying the balance to ascortain the deiuaty of the earth. The balance used was placed in the upper part of a tower, and from each of tne settles depended a wire, through a a;uc tube, having a second scale at the lower end, 21,003 metres below. These lower souies were 102 m. from tho prund, so Mint a lead ball one metro in diameter might be brought under one of tiiem. A body brought from an uj-per scale into a lower one has an increase of weight com spending to its ile ;rce of approach to the earth's center ami to the iucrease of acceleration. When the lead ball is brought under the same lower scale its p:tll i adtled. The difference of the implements of weight, with and without tho lead ball, iudieates the mount of pull of the latter, and the quotient of Him pull and that of the earth a'one famishes a means (with tho law of gr.vitation) of co in pn ring the dvnsity of the earth with that of the Jean, and, the latter being known, of determining the mean demuty of the earth. The author finds the moan density to le 5692, with a probable error of not more hu 0 ()6 eith r way. This agrees more or less with other determinations ; but from the mean of those with the torsion balance it diverges about ten per cent, Senator Ben Hill Dying. WaoHraoTOR, March 1S Benator Ben Hill to-day remarked that life was all behind him, and be was only waiting for the ems. He is temporarily easier than a few days ago. Hat friends have no hope of hia permanent improvement, He has undergone four operations. The first was the removal of a small wart-like excrescence on the ido of the tongue; the second was the removal of about one-fourth of the tongue and entire floor of the mouth, and the third, a hard and painful kernel developed hi the posterior part of the mouth, was removed. It was afterward discovered tbat the parotid ghvnd was attested. It swelled and became violently inflamed. Tbe symptoms were so violent tbat the gland was removed. From this time the patient steadily failed, cancer being a commonly fatal disease iu bis family. Labor XroBbles at Umaha. Omaha, March 13, Tbe militia in the dty to protect the nonstriking laborers were annoyed last evening by a adhering of men and boys, who threw brickbats at the officers acd hit several. A squad of lofabera charged on the crowd to drive them back from the militia quarters, and several of the issibuita were severely wounded by bayonets. One of tbe wounded, named G. P. Armstrong, formerly a machinist, who was wounded in the breast and taken into the guard-house, supposed to be slightly hurt, baa died from the wound. u bad been slightly under tbe inlluenae of liquor, and was

sbuins the suldhaa. He was inoffensive when

pontes or conqbebs. A resolution try Mr. Sawyer was adopted by tho Senate, on the 9th inst, instructing the Secretary of War to report the oost of constructing the Sturgeon Bay eanal in Wisconsin) with . view to making It free tti commerce, A resolution was passed Instructing the Secretary Of State to ascertain tho cause of the imprisonment in Great Britain, of ,&b Amorfcan dtfet-u . nailied Daui'tl HcSweeney. The bill for a liquor commission was taken up, and it waa agreed that not more than three shall be prohibitionists. Tbe Chinese bill waa amended to provide that no Celestial shall be naturalized within the UnRcd States, and that no laborer.t bail immigrate within twenty tears, and then passed, by a vote of 29 to IS, In the House, Mr. Duiuu.ll reported a bill for canceling stamps on tabaoco exported by rail. A bill was also reported for tho admission into the Union of the Territory of Washington. Tho Agricultural Appropriation bll came up, and amendments were adopted for statistics in regard to tho manufacture and exportation of oleomargarine, for statements of freight charges by rail and rtvor, lo appropriate $38,000 for experiments in making sugar, and to increase the allowance for hit oBligating forestry, When the bill passed; The Senate adopted a resolution; it iti sesitou bn the iOlh, requesting the President to arrange with Nicaragua for the settlement of public and private chums. A resolution was passed directing the use of Government vessela in distributing supplies along tho Mismasippi and its tributaries. A bill was pawed for the creation of a commission on tho liquor traffic, to be composed of seven persons. Mr. Voorheos introduced a bill appropriating $125,000 for the improvement of the Wabash riven The Behato refused to take Up the Japanese In-demhity--fubd bill ly & voto of 14 to 24. Cot Bufas IngalU was BohBraled as Quartermaster General of the United States army. In the House, a minority report was presented declaring 0. D. B.U entitled to a scat aa deltgato from Alaka. Four memorials from Utah, with over 60,000 signatures, were presented asking a suspension of action on all bills relating to tbat Territory, and the appointment of an unprejudiced commission to determino tho itato Of aft airs. An appropriation of l",O00 for extra expenses by the Lighthouse Board) caused by tho flood in the Mississippi, waa passed. A Joint resolution for tho use of Oovernra mt steamers in distributing food to the sufferers by -the overflow was adopted. Mr. Sherman presented in the Senate, on toe 13th, a resolution of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, asking that Congress take steps to relieve the sufferers by overflow along th8 Jflsslssipph . Bills were reported for the allotheul di land in severalty to Indians, and for the erection of a public building at Hoi Springs. A resolution was adopted directing the Secretary ef the Interior to furnish a list of Indian reservations at which troops are stationed, and information in regard' to tbe destruction of tinibsn The Tariff Commission bill was takeh Up, and Mr, Slater Urged the adoption of a fitoy-trade policy. The PresidoUt sent a message to Congress in regard to establishing a seaboard, quarantine against small-pox. He- recommends the pass

age ot tuo nuna uiu wiuu soiue iuuuuictmiiuub. Secretary Linsola sent to the Senate a statement fchowing that for the past ten years the cost of maintaining troops in the Indian country haa been over $23,000,000 per annum. The President sunt to the Senate tho names of Samuel Blatehford,. of New York, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ; John Russell toting, of riew York, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to China ; John G. Watte to be Marshal of the United States for tho Western district of Vrginia, and Edwin R, Kirk to be Postmaster at Sioux City, Iowa. In the House, the Speaker presented a memorial from the Assembly of Utah asking a suspension of aotion on the affairs of that Territory until a tborourh investigation can be mado by a committee. Mr. Belmont asked leave to offer a resolution calling on the Secretary of State for information as to tho oompensation of Envoy Trescott, but Mr. Williams objected. A bill was passed permitting the bridging of the Mississippi near Wabasha, Minm TUB Army bill, appropriating 929,293.380, was referred to tho committee of the whole. Mr. Dnnn introduced a bill to enable women to enter public lands. The Antipolygamy bill was taken up and fought over for hours without a vote being reached. A memorial from the Legislature of Wisconsin favoring the improvement of the Mississippi in conucotion with the great lakes was presented in the Senate on the 14th. Mr. Harrison, in response to instructions to the military committee, reported that 50,000 persons were driven from their homes iiy the overflow, and presented a joint resolution appropriating 9100,000 additional for the sufferers, which was passed. Mr. Cockrell made favorable reports on bills to lend artillery, tents, ex., to various soldiers' reunions. The Postal Appropriation ' bill was taken up and debatedi A special message from tbe President wis received, recommending legislation to prevent the spread of contsgious diseases. The House took up tho Anti-Polygamy bill, tte pinduig issue being the demand for the tiroviona question, which had not been seconded. Mr. Blackburn claimed an opportunity to amend the bill, in which he waa supported by Mr. Burrows from the Republican ride. It was resolved that tli measure be open to change or debate under the five-nun-ate rule. After long discussion tbe bill was passed without amendment, by 19l to 4S. The anU-Chineae bill was debated kt length. Mr. Brown reported a bill to the Senate, on the 15th, granting to the St, Louie and San Francisco road the right of way through the lands of tho Cboctaws and Chickasaws. On account of illness in his family, Mr. Edmunds obtained indefinite leave of absenoe. An appropriation of 920,(00 was voted toward amonu mout ou the batt!o-field of Monmouth. Mr. Garland called up hk bill to expend 918)000)000 on the levees of tho Mississippi river, and appealed for Fsderal aid for the South, as did also Messrs. Jdons and Vest. The Postal Appropriation bill was amended by adding 9150,000 for clerha. Mr. Allison submitted tho report ou the contingent fund of the treasury.

At au executive session John Russell xouug was confirmed aa Minister to China, and Cornelius A. IjOgan as Minister tu Chili. In tho House, Mr. Hoiik reported back a hill appropriating 9291.000 for the payment of 1,300 claims f iloffod by the accounting officers of 'ho Treasury Department, and it was passed, Mr. Rice offered a resolution directing the Judiciary Co nmitttfl to report if tho coif victiou of Sergeant Mason by a military court was not in violat Ion of the laws and constitution of tho United States. Mr. Hiscock reported back the Senate bill to iucrease the relief for the Mississippi sufferers to $200,000, and authorizing the expenditure 'of a portion thereof for labor on the leveas. It was amended to appropriate 9150,000 and passed. Some hot words between tbe Speaker itnd Mr. Money caused a discussion on the po wers of the chair which lasted an boor.

dwellers of that better land whore there fire no htwyers, no Judges and no courts. Amen." The court bit its lip, tho attorneys' ribs could hardly be restrained from Blinking by the solemnity of the oocasidn and bttflihnss waa hot taken hp until Bottlo time after ra.yer; Tho parsou ddiUiUasB meant that OU the other shore there wotiid. be 110 occasion for legal pkiceodingg, biit tlio bar persisted in misunderstanding that there were to be no lawyers among the elect, CewisimMe.) Jotirndl.

WHAT IS MAS I

X Sparrow's Faith and Trnat, The railroail station was not intended as a lodging Louse, yet it has a regular lodger every night. This little lodger ia au English sj arrow. Opposite the large lamp at the corner of the building, up in the outer corner of the awning, on tho inside, is a. round hole an inch and a half or two inches across, partially through the bofu( put thpre for no o:ie knows what. Into this hole each and every night may lie seen this sparrow, snuggled closely away, protected on all sides from the cold winds, safe from cold and harm, and apparently sleeping. Tte numerous trains that come and go, tbe crowds of people that gather at the depot with every train, tho scream of the whistle, the ringing of the engine bells, the rattle of Iho wheels over the rails none of thorn disturb him in the lenst. The glare of that lamp full into his resting placo, or tho gaze of curious eyes all the night until midnight, causa no s'gn o! pertnheration in his jeaceful little breast. Ho may bo watched steadily for hours, and ho won't wink. He knows ho is safe ther. and he attends to his own business fctrictly, letting the outside world look ut for itself. In the day time he is away, getting his living, but ono among hundreds of sparrows hopping aliont and picking np whatever they may find, .but at night lie perches himself in hit; lesting place, as if there was not another hparrow in the world, and ere ho fal's asleep looks calmly down upon the busy scene below, perhaps with a measure of contempt for the rush and buritle and cares of humanity. He did havo a nest there, but when the awning was painted the ruthless band of improvement destroyed the nest-, However, his love of locality is strong, and he alii-.ks to his old home, putting up with less comfortable accommodations for the sake of renaining there. Providence Journal

A Mpark er ITiire, a Drop sfWalrr-fssis Intereaitnar ObierTsUoai About ine lln ann anatowy, New Turk Km. "While the gnstrio juice has a raild, bland, sweetish taste, it possesses the power of dissolving the hardest food that can be swallowed. It has no influence whatever on the soft and delicate fibers of the living stomach, nor upon the living hand, but at the momeut ot death it begins to eat thorn away with the power of the strongest aeMs. There is dust on son, on land, in the valley, and on the mouutain; there is dust always and everywhere ; the atmosphere is full of it ; it penetrates the noisomo dungeon, and visits the deepest, darkest cave of the earth; 110 palace door can shut it out, no drawer so secret as to escape its bresence i every breath of wind dashes it upon tuts open eye, yet that eye is not blinded, because under the eyelid there is incessantly empting itself a fountain of blandest fluil in nature, which spreads itself over the surface of the eyo at every winking, and washes every 'atom of dust awny. But this liquid is mild and so well adapted to tho eye, itself has some acridity! whfchs tinder some oireumstances, becomes so decided as to be scalding to the skin, and would rot away the eyelids, were it not that along the edges of them are little oil manufactories, which spread over their surface a coatiug as impervious to the liquid necessary for keeping the eyelids washed clean aa the' best varnish is impervious to water. The breath which leaves tho lungs has been so perfectly diverted ot its lifegiving properties, that to robrcnthe it unmixed with other nir tho momont it escapes from the mouth, would cause immediate death by suuoeatiou : while if it hover about us, more or less destructive influence over health ami life would be occasioned. But it is made of a nature so much lighter than the common air, that the instant that it escapes the lips and nostrils it ascends to the higher regions above the breathing point, there to be rectified, renovated, and sent back again, replete with purity and life. How t apidly it ascends is fully exhibited on frosty mornings. But, foul and deadly as tho expired air is, nature, wisely economical iu" nil her works and ways, turns it to good account iu its outward passage through Uk organs of the voice, making of it the whispers of love, the soft words of afti e tion, the sweetest strains of ravishing music, tho persuasive eloqnt nce of the finished orator. If a well-made mau bo extended on the ground, bis arms at right angles with the body, a circle making the unvel its center will just take in his head, the flnpers ends, and the feet. TheiH'-tance from top to toe is precisely the snwe as that between the tips of the finders when the arras are extended. The length of the body i just six times tluit of the foot, while the distance from the wig of the hair on the Jorehead to tho edge of the chin is one-tenth tho length of the whole stature. Of the sixty-two primary elements known in nature, only eighteen are known to the human body, and of these seven aro metallic. Iron is fouud in tho blood, phosphorus in the brain, limestone in the bile, lime iu the bones, and dut,t and ashes in all, Not only these eightoen bunion elements, but tho whole sixty-two of which the universe is made, l.a'vo their essential basis in the Tour t-iibstauct s of oxvgen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbtm, representing the more familiar names of fire, water, saltpeter, and charcoal. And snob is man, the lord of tho corth ! -Ht spark of fire, a drop of water, a grain of powder, an atom of charcoal.

Bather Severe on the Lawyers. The Supreme Judicial Court for one of the counties adjoining us sat and one or two merobeis of the Androscoggin bar attended. A clergyman wan invited to open the court with prayer and did so. Tbe divine closed his petition in this njapger; !:At last may we beoomb

Josh Billings. The famed writer of the Yankee prov

erbs is now about sixty in yean, and

shows it. His hair, which is as long and

unkempt as ever, is iron gray, and hia stiff, drooping mustache is fast changing to the color Of old age. As he grows older, be seems to become mora and more supremely regardlest of persons, snrronndino-u or orjinions. As he areata

ono with a machine-iiko "How do ye

do," or an inanimate "Wood day," the impression is conveyed that he has arrived at the state of life and prosperity where he deems fate powerless to work

any alteration for worse. Billings is essentially a man to himself, taciturn and unobtrusive everywhere. He is not so popular as formerly, his only work now being that which appears in the New York Weekly. For this service) he receives, perhaps, f3,000 ft year. Hia royalty from the circulation of "Ptorerbs," his almanacs and other works swell his yearly income to about $5,000. He is now a willing, but not an attractive lecturer ; his services in this field are small and waning demand. From the proceeds of his labor he has amassed a fortune of over $50,000. All this money apparently affords himself and wife but meager and inelegant oomfort. They pass a quiet-, relegated, but doubtless contented life, in an unpretentious Sixty-third street dwelling-house, the garret of which ia made to answer the combined purposes of literary sauotum and store-house. From a New York Letter. Government Publications. Very frequently it occurs that one, hearing of a certain book having been published by the Government, wishes to obtain a copy, but is ignorant of the Winner of procedure necessary to procure it. Now, in order to obtain a copy of any government publication, you must first know the full name of the book, the author's name, date and department it is published by. Having learned all this, you must next send a letter of request to your Congressman or United Btates Senator. Either one will do. The shorter your letter the better, as Congressmen usually have enough to read without being troubled with long letter which can easily be reduced to a dozen words. It is not necessary to givo your reasons for wanting the book, nor is it uroevsary to give your family history, references, etc. Secretaries of societies shouM always affix the seal of the society to the letteiB unless tho secretary bo personally acquainted with tho Congressman or Senator. Always be sure and give your full address Stat, county, city and street and never fail to return tho enclosed receipt blank to the proper persons, postag-a prepaid. In ordering books always write a separate letter for each department. Never write to two different men for the samo book, as the various departments keep a record of all books that go out, and if caught trying to get duplicates, without, good reasons for doing so, you are liable to fall into trouble and not get any books at all. Indianapolis Herald. Thb name of the chameleon is tie rived from two Greek words signifying "ground lion," a name sinpnlarly i'iitt,tpropriate, Bince it is one of those creatures which is especially fitted to livo 011 trees and ia ill at ease on the surface of the earth. A fins quality of almonds is grown in PfHL

(MlSTKUCTIOa IS CONGRESS. The Democrats) at TUelr Old Trlcke A gat u. Tin 1 course of publio legislation in tha American Congress, under the present conditions, says the Chicago Tribune may lie obstructed Os effectively as in the Iiritisli Parliament, where the absence of the cloture has occasioned so much embarrassment. There is nd

S " previous question " ib the United

States Soiuto ; any motion of the same effect which is made in that body ia resisted as a dangerous encrooohment upon the lights as well as the courtesy of the Senate. There is no means to close debate in tho Senate except by unntiimouH consent or agreement, and a voto on any subject in hand cannot be forced as long as the resisting faction has the Ability to talk about it It is popularly supposed tbat aft obstructive spirit can be controlled in the JTousa by the operation of tbe " previous question," but experience has shown that the latitude of dilatory motions is large enough to serve a minority iu its extremity, uud the character of existing rules practically shuts out from consideration all publio measures to which there is city material opposition, with the singlo exception oi the appfopria lion i supply bills; These rules were) adopted by the iJerriocrats whert theiy were in power, and were devised by ex Speaker Randall Randall's purpose seems to liavo been to prevent the Democratic majority from passing laws -which would dumage party interests before the people ; evidently he hall -no confidence, in the wisdom of his party's iepreaonliitiveS: . The peculiar feature of the House rules, ns they were framed under Randall's direction, is the calendar system. Three calendars are provided, to which all measures reported by committees are referred. One is the calendar of " the Committee of . the Whole House on the State of the Union," to which appropriation bills are referred us they ur6 reported by the committees. This calendar has the right of way, so to speak, a'.d there is no objection to that. But the two other calendars are simply bury-ing-grounds for public legislation. One is k uovttJ aa the House calendar, to which .bills of a public character, not raising revenue, are referred'; the' other is the calendar of " tho Committee of the Whole House," to which other bills favorably reported by committees are assigned. It is readily understood that the various committees first agree upon minor matters about which there is no great difl'ereuco of opiniou, and upon bills of a private or lucul nature, upon which favorable reports are secured by trading or "log-rolliug." These, thou, nns the bills whioh ore reported first, and, wheu placed on the various calendars, they take precedence of the measures of greater importance which arc not roported and pluood on the calendars till later in the session. Once upon the calendar, bills ace taken up in the rotation reported, and iu order to roach any nientmro of vital importance which may be near the bottom of the list it is necessary under the rules to dispose of all wiiiah precede it, or obtain a majority vote to jump ovsr and take up a certain bill as a special order. The calendars of the House are crowded this session not only with new projects of legislation, but with a mass of unfinishe 1 busiuess left over from the last Congress, which accomplished practically nothing in the way of naticnal lawmaking. The Republican majority of the Committee ou Rules has devised a remedy fo; this state of things which should commend itself to the public-spirited men of both parties ; but the Democrats in Congress have determined to resist its adoption by all the resources of filibustering. The Republicans propose that there shall be a morning hour for the transaction of publio business, and that this hour cannot be dispensed with except by a two-tairds vote. It is designed that each committee, in its regular order, shall have the right during this hour to bring before the House any tneasuni it may see lit to take up, without regard to its position on the calendar, and whether it has been previously reported or not. The hour is to extend at least sixty minutes every day, and may be prolonged when there is no objection. Tho effect of this rale would bo to afford a hearing to public measures which are now shut off by tha rule of precedence in time alone. Thus in their turn the Ways and Means Committee could bring up the Tariff Commission bill, the Judiciary Committee its bill rogulatiug special legislation, the Foreign Affairs Committee the Geneva Award bill, and so on ; and the House might become an efficient engine of legislation instead of a cabal of intrigue. Tho Democrats, in deciding to oppose the new rule, pretend that their opposition is due to the danger it threatens to the rights of the minority. This is a mere sham. The minority has all the rights it hod before, except that it may not prevent the consideration of publio legislation. The some freedom is allowed as now in the discussion of any measure that may be taken np under the proposed rule, and those who are in tbe opposition may then as now employ all the cilatory motions, recognized by the rules for tho purpose, of postponing or defeating by obstruction the final passage of any bill thus brought before tb House. The real fact seems to-be that th Democrats hod not suffloiont confidence i themselves when they were in power to frame new legislation oi a publio character, and are not now willing that the Republicans should take that responsibility. They fear that Republican measures will prove to be popular just as they Vared that Demosratie measures would have proved to bo uupopular, and they prefer to go lief ore the people next fall and denounce tho present Congress as a "Do-nothiug Congress," just as the previous Congress, controlled by themselves, was condemned. This is a dog-in-the-manger policy whioh will not be to the advantage of the Democratic arty if it shall bo persisted in by the i.-iaocratie. Representatives iu Congress. The Democratic Revolt In Kentucky The revolt of tho Kentucky Union Democrats against the rouol Bourbons is taking on healthy proportions. The Bourbons ao tryiug to belittle the movement, and their org.m, tho Louisville Courier-Journal, to cough itdown. "Go to thunder with your old ark ; it won't be much of a shower anyway," say they all in chorus. But it is a rovolt of 40,00 I Dnioiiisb, w o ISt the Union party soon alter the close of the R (hellion and joined the Confederates in a fit of anger at the Northern Republicans because of their refusal to pay for the etunucipatod slaves of Kentucky. Tt.o R pulUci;is held to the position that there was no property in uwn, and t :i.tt tho oolor.nl peofle. of Kentucky woro American citiBeas, and were not to bo paid for as chattels by the Government. Hut these Kentucky Unionists now see that they hav; been biting off their noses to spite their laces, nu,l (hat itisttio height Of folly, and stupidity to contiuuo auy longer turning the Bourbon grindst me. One of them in a lottor from L'ui.--villo Btates their grievances. In regard to the prospects of tho revolt su 'oeoding, the write! says: " The Union Democratic strength in the Statu is coucrdml to I e about 40,0)0 votes, and Gov, Jucjb is certain to take this number from tho ranks of the Bourbons. The Republicans of Kentucky

are almost a unit in favoring an indorsement of tho now departure, as, the office not being a political one, no sacrifice of principle as involved, and a golden opportunity is aSordod to rid the State of the Bourbon incubus. President Arthur has intimated that the coalition will receive the cordial support of the administration, and if it is effected victory is Certain. The total vote polled at tho Presidential election in 1880 was 264,04? bf which 147,099 were Democratic, 104,550 Republican and 11498 Greenback. The majority of the latter will support the now party, arid the toW may safely bo estimated as follows t Henry, Confederate Democrat, 110,000 ; Jacob, Reform, 150,000."

ISDIASA ITEMS. Thb total taxes levied by counties in Indiana, in 1881, amounted to $10,148,197. Tan Governor's Guards, of Terra Haute, bate been mustered out of tha State Legion, I is said that a Terre Haute physician received 81,300 for an operation at Paris, UL, recently. A TABAKTDiii. popped out of a bunch of bananas in New Castle, the other day, and scared everybody. TWO HTWDBED AND SIXTT-yOUR Cars were turned out by the Indianapolis Car Works in February, form boys were arrested in the act of burglarizing a grocery store at Sullivan. Their ages range from 8 to 16. Attioa. is to have a new fruit-canning factory if the citizens will assist the enterprise to the amount of $2,500. Barhett Watts, an old citizen of Fulton county, drank too much rot-gut in Pern, and died on bis road home. Catt, Conner, of the Indiana Statistical Bureau, has appointed weather observers in fifty counties of the State. Thb furniture works of the CooieyMorrison Company, at Connersville, valued at $60,000, recently fell a prey to flamfti. Ah old soldier at Jefferson ville has just received $7,800 back pay from the Government for the loss of his eyesight in the late war. At Decatur, during a saloon row, Daniel King, ex-Sheriff cf Adams county, was so badly beaten that he died of his injuries. Taa remnant of the Miami Indians, who recently received.their last annuity from tho Government, are rapidly drinking themselves to death. One of the finest pieces of land in St. Joseph county, the famous Dickey property in Olive township, 480 acres, was sold the other day for $33,000. A JilQuoB tjhaijEB at Somerset; Ind., having run away, the citizens subscribed enough money to buy the stock from his wife, and enptied it into the gutter. Miss Bettik GnntsTiET, a youug lady of Gouport, has been appointed signalservico observer for Owen county. She is the first lady in the State who has obtained such a'p.psition, . .. . There is. apprehension at New Albany that a great deal of sickness will follow the flood. In the year 1832, following tho flood, the fever and cholera raged to a fearful extent. A Series of Quaker revival-meetings at Richmond ended with 150 conversions and one girl in the insane asylum. At similar meetings at Economy, three women were made lunatics. Active preparations are being made to remove the division headquarters of the Wabash railroad from Fort Wayne and Lafayette to Antioch, Ind. The new yard is said to be the finest in the West Trr-fbcakob county haa now fourteen toll-roads, with a capital of $167,530, on which more than $20,000 was collected in tolls last year. It is proposed that tho county should buy the roads and make them free. Sixths tbe starch-works at Columbus began operations, a little over a year ago, there have been manufactured and sold by that company 5,000,000 pounds of starch, worth 5 cents a pound at wholesale $300,000. Capt. Wsr. M. Meredith, formerly ot Indianapolis, now of Chicago, is an applicant for the position oi Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in the Treasury Department. The Captain has been connected with the Westem Bank Note and Engraving Company of Chicago for several years. . Ninety-six orchardists of this State have answered the request made by the Secretary of the Indiana Horticultural Society by naming the variety of apples best suited for home use and market. The favorites ate in the order named ; Maiden blush, early harvest, Ben Davis, ram bo, winesap and Rome beauty. A new frame house was blown down by a hurricane at Fort Wayne. Four men were at work on it, of whom two escaped by jumping, but Mr. Tail, a carpenter, had a leg broken, and John Doris, the aged father of the owner of the house, was crushed beneath the roof and fatally injured. Several other small buildings were blown down. Princeton Clarion t Rev. K. L. Cushmon, while digging out a stump on his farm near King's Station, uncovered a lot of Indian arrow heads, which had evidently been buried at the root of the tree. There were eighty flint arrowheads in the lot, and the manner in which they were placed indicates that they hod been deposited there by some human hands, Thb Cambridge City Tribune says : Our School Board contemplates bmlding a new school-house for the colored people on tho west side of the river. It has been decided by the board, as well as by the courts, that the colored children shall not be admitted into our publio schools and receive instruction with the white children Thb second annual report of the State Coal Mine Inspector, 'Thomas Wilson, Jr., shows that fifteen counties have coal mines in operation in the State to the number of eighty-six, employing 4,567 men, and producing last year 1, 771,876 tons of coaL The capital represented is $1,442,210. Only ten fatal accidents were reported during the year. The Inspector finds that the want of practically educated mining engineers is seriously felt, particularly with regard to the ventilation of mines, as the airway in most of them is entirely too small. This, he says, is the result of mining on tho cheap system. He finds that Indiana is the fourth coal-producing State in the Union, and there is little danger of a coal famine in the State. Sooth Bend claims the champion pie-bitor of America. He is a barber. A match recently took place in his shop, in which he and two other admirers of pastry participated. The pies wero niince and warm, E ton contestant took a pic in his hands and waited the signal. When the word was given the barber made his pie the shape of a moon three-quarters full at the first bite. The second bite took off ono of tho horn's, and the third the other. After the third bito the others came in such rapid succession that nobody could count thorn, and the barber swallowed the last of his pie iu just one minute and two seconds from the first bite. The others followed, one in three and one-half minutes and tho other in fivo minutes.

THE FAMILY IiOCIDR.

OoNSiumtiNU tho common habit of wito-beating iu England, the Pall Mall Gazette wonders whether there are not too inuuy coiuplinuuu paid to English bravery and gallantry. AnsiNTiiB dunking i-i London is on the iticretw. r,ui ibjiiot i ol a yi thiwitsli given, mill prulrovted use terminates iu Bolteguig 4 tiro brtni uud death.

How to Tbkat UiparirBBiA. For young children give two-jrrain quinine pills, adult four grains evsry night; this will keep down fever. lake chlorate of potash one part, sulphur one part, and sugar (white) two pert, mix tiioronglily; take this mixtuie, a pinch lit a time, letting it dissolve slowly in the mouth. Apply a warm po lltice of flax seed to the throat, wrapping a piece of dry flannel on the outside; Mild aperients should be given. ' . A Reiiedt fob Rheumatism. Senator Voofhees has a remoly for rheumatism, which, as he hasn't; patented it, may as well be widely adtertised. He says : " I have cured ni.ys.elf of rheomatio gout by a simple remedy taking lemon juice in warm water .twice or three times per day. Consequently, I am able to do what I havt not done for years walk from my lodging to the Capitol and back, a matter of four miles, every day, and outstrip the young fellows who go with me." Soda the Best of Au Ukmedies fobs

Bubns and SoaIids. Accidental burns f

and scalds, even when not very severe, extensive or dangerous, cotomonly cause so much pain for an indefiaite time, depending probably as tc duration and severity a good deal on tt.e age of the sufferer, and on the greater or less degree of sensitiveness of the individual's skin or constitution -not forgetting the feverish reaction and the dangerous internal secondary inflammations that a,-e npt to follow in some cases thu.t any easily applied and quickly available ren.edy and relief, without perhaps the irrimecliate necessity of calling in professional assistance, will be acknowledged as a boon

by most person-; and especially so when I it in remembered that, the sooner agon- i -.-. 1 t-- ! -I . . I

izmg, ourning pain in wiu pan f'sii do allayed, the less chance there is of dangerous secondary effects, beside sloughing, etc, so severely tryinjj to children and old persons. The usual first applications to these painful injuries, whether so-called popular retne&ts or such as are usually reoommondod by members of the profession, are numerous enough, but cannot unfortunately hitherto be considered as generally Muecessful in giving certain and speedy relief from pain, and, too often, intense suffering. It is now many yeirs ago that the author of this paper, while' engaged in some investigations as to the qualities and effects of the alkalies in inflammations of -the skin, etc., waa fortunate, enough to discover that a saline lotion, or saturated solution of thebioarbonated soda in either plain water or camphorated water, if applied, speedily, or as aoon as possible, to a burned or scalded part, was most effectual in immediately relieving the acute, burnitg pain ; and, when the burn was only fuperfk-.ial, or not severe, removing oil pain in thocourse of a very short timu ; having also the very great advantage of cleanliness, and, if applied at once, of preventing the usual consequences 1 painful blistering of the akin, separation of the epidermis, and p erhaps more or less of suppuration. For this purpose, all that is necessary is to cut a piece of lint, or old soft rag, or even thick blottingpaper, of a siz; sufficient to cover the burned or scalded parbi, and to keep it coustantly well wetted with the soxlaio lotion so as to prevent its drying. By this means, it usually ha opens that nii pain ceases in from a quarter to half &n hour, or even in much lesti time. When the main part oi a limb, such as the hand and fore-arm, or the foot and leg, has been burnt!, it is best, when practicable, to plunge, the part at once into a pail, or jug or other convenient vessel titled with the soda lotion, and keep it there until tho pain subsides; or the limb may be swiithed or encircled with a surgeon's cotton bfindago previously soaked' in the taXurated solution, and kept constantly w. :l with it, the relief being usually immediate, provided the solution be saturated and cold. What is n )w usnally sold as bicarbonate of soda is what I have commonly used and re jommended ; although this is well kuonn to vary much in quality according to where it is manufactured but it will b found to answer the purpose, although probably Howard's is most to be depended on, the common carbonate being too caustic. It is believed that a large proportion of medical practitioners ore still unaware of the remarkable qualities of this easily applied remedy, which recommends itslf for obvious reasons. F. Peppercwne, L. JR. C. P.. in London Practitioner. Perihelion and Aphelion. The earth reaches her perihelion or nearest point to the . sun the 1st of January. She is then throe million miles nearer the sun than wheu in aphelion, or her most dwtont joint from the aun on the 1st of July. Aa the earth moves in an elliptical orbit, and the snr. is Situated in one ol! tbe foci of tho ellipse, she must some times be nearer him than at others. Her nearest point, ia called perihelion, from two Greek words meaning near the sun. Her most, distant point is called aphelion, from two Greeks words meaiang- from the sun. Though much nearer to ho sun than in July, the increased proximity is not even perceived by fur the greater portion of the myriads of human beings on whom the sun shines. And yet the three million miles that measures tbe earth's increased nearaeae , is a distance of whioh we enn form little conception. By measuring the sun's diameter from day to day throughout the year, wu hav6 the means of determining the relative distances of tho sun from tho earth. In this way the shape ol' tbe earth's orbit was found out The earth moves fastest at perihelion, for the sun's attraction is -then strongest, arid the greater his attraction the faster she moves. This is proved by measuring the sun'a apparent movement through the euliptic Thus on tho 1st of January he :noves through sixty-one minutes of the iscliptio, on the 1st of July, he moves through about fifty-seven minutes, gi ving four minutes of a degree in increased velocity, which means oountlesss miles :in the earth's actual speed. An interesting question mnneotekl with perihelion is the reason why we do not have our hottest weather when we are nearest the sun. It is be muse it occurs in tho northern winter when ths sun's rays fall obliquely upon the earth and give comparatively lit tle heat, though it is probable that tho severity ot midwinter is tempered by the. benign ant influence. Tbe reverse takes place in the Southern hemisphere, where doubtless, the occurrence of perihelion increases the midsummer heat. Tiiis theory accounts for the fact that in Australia and Southern Africa the temperature iu winter is higher than in correponding latitudes north of the oquator. The earth's perihelion is, therefore, an interesting topio for study to those who would understand the play of some of ijjie great forces that rule Iho worlds in space, for the same laxis control the movements of the saiall 1st planet and the largest sun. Providence Journal. The " buck j Escape." On the night of Oct 14, 1651, a tall, swarthy young man with a companion slipped into the George Inn, Brighton (Eng.), and said he would wait to meet a seafaring acquaintanco. In earlier days the host had been enployed in one of the London palaces, tnd he recognized in his seedy visitor Prince Charles, son of the monarch who, more than two years before, had 'been beheaded at Whitehall. Aitor tho bat tle of Worcester the young King hal experienced many adventures and worn many disguises there was a price upon his head; but the innkeeper, either from loyalty or discretion, did not offer to molest tho fugitive or his companion. The Captain of a col tier, Nicholas Tettorsell, then appeared, and. took, Charles.

r find Irfo companion, who was the Earl of Rochester,- on board bis vessel and landed them lit France, for wfaioxx service many things were promised. The Restoration came, bat Bene of tho gifts, and Tettersell therefore smled into the Thames and moored off Whft assail, where hia dingy bark attracted the attention of the King, who, being thoaxminded, gave the Captain ring, a perpetoal annuity of 100 a year, and took the collier into the navy under the name of tho Lucky Escape. , , : The Advantages of Utterlm. Tho notion that grew trpabont abx years, ago that every one ought to be mthetio, and that every one who followed certain recipes could be so, and gh he-nlthy enjoyment of art !ry mrery living in a certain atmosphere,' waa ono tha would Scarcely have needed refutation had it not been the genuine expression, though in an exaggerated form, nC the reaction from the Philistinism of the earlier part of the century. At the bottom of the sham sentiment and iwhionable foolishness, which, as it were, armor-olated tho asthetio moveaceaC

there was a real desire for a little mors) beauty in the surroundings of life, and perhaps even a wish for a less material view of lite itself. Possibly the weauseat: stapling who pored over a lily in aghsrs of water waa as estimable a spectacle sW " the First Gentleman in Europe'' being' hoisted into his inexpressibles by half a doze;i valets, and the ladies who waved peaock fans slowly in tbe dim light oC sage green drawing rooms would havs compared favorably in all but complexion, with their prototypes of the Segt ny. At all events, both the male and1 female aesthetic had some faint notion of an ideal not wholly selfish, not wholly base and, though tho ideal was as nebulous as the atmosphere of their bat doirs, it was sufficient to prevent their being wholly contemptible. Unliko Kinjjsley's maiden, they did no "noblo things,'' but dreamed " them all long; " and, though their dreams. were irritating to o thers at least, when they issued ia action they in the end worked a considerable change. It would be difficult now for any one, even buying furniture or domestic utensils of any sort, to avoid bee anting possessed , of a com iaer able number of objects which were really good in form or color, and the importation of really beautffnUfabrics and embroideries from the East has increased enoi mously. It is almost aa common tea see a bit of Rhodian embroidery in drawing-room now as it was to see , piece of Berlin wool-work a dozen J ears? ago, and the houses are few and beta eon, iu London, at least, who have not A bit of Japanese art, whether it be on piper, lacqner, bronzei, or oilk, lighting np some odd corner. And good, too, has been done to painting, indirectly, by n:nktng artints fed that tht sympathy trf a considerable mass of th publio is with them, raid so encxmra&ing shew -to-tiike heart of grace to work tcaiiij their own way. Spectator. A Field of Battle. ' I had my letter to write" and poet, and this involved "a five-mile drive by moonlight to the rear across the mo!, gbaatir field which can well be imagined. I jmd some trouble in finding my isarriagev I bad left it at a well-df fined position otm the battle-field of the cay before, but to reach it I had to walk for more than m mile over it plain wheis tho carcass; of men and horses were not merely thickly strewn but frozen into all sorts tif fatitaatic attitudes. The thermometer had beeir 16s- below the freezing point on the. previous night, and men only slightly wounded, who had not been able to

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of the ruddy blase. Then come th hard part of the corres.pondeiit'a life. L had still to dine. I had lived einco tb morning s coffee on a loaf of livjad, which Iliad been picking at all day i then to write my iotter a good two hours task; then to see that it was safely posted, either that nijlit or thaj next morning early, so as to give m time to get to the Held for the thum day's battle. And all this after having; been on a strain of exertion and excitement since davlight; and then the gentleman at ease in Loudon reads it nil m his arm-chair after bnsakfaat for a peony', or at the most, twopeno halfpenny. Blackwood1 JlagazirtA, "Rtjfus, wluV comeo yo brnddert' , " Wlia' brudder yo' mean, mammyf Wha' brudder? Now, Buffet, ?s yo gwan iuterroate dat dart been a freshet o boys in youfambly?" "No, msumiy, I haint intermtitin', bat yo knows d'olo man tuk aeben ob 'em off on a clam hunt din mornin', an nine ob do res ha'n' come hum fo'in Its' night's coon rumpi;, t ah' free ob do balance ia down wid 'o meazles, an tea' yo means Clem, ilia kermittee caa't gib so rpoU" Sentinel. ' ' Aooobmko to the census report 40,000,000 gallons of wino were made in this country last yeas, . ' THE MARKE1B. H3W VOB1L BramHl $ Hons . Cottom M

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