Bloomington Progress, Volume 15, Number 51, Bloomington, Monroe County, 5 April 1882 — Page 4

XBB EAST. niadia-rabber am iar being exhfbtted to tbe physicians of Sew York. He can retch the skin of bin f irehead over his entira face, and tie the ftesh a hit legs ia knots over hiskoe-ee, GttHKM fi, Lasx, of Exeter, N., H. a number of the Govern. r's staff, Treasurer of his eonnty and 1're-nd'iit of a savings, bank, confeMM the embetzlc3it of ti.5,000 and it Ins in stock speca1 .km. He i ia jail at Fortstttocth. .-..John L, Sullivan nnoonow . that bo will ht no buii -with ban knuckles, bntiu gloves ia ready for any mania the Uaioo, . f S,'JOi) a Mde. Bam Brroroa, the actress, was granted a decree of absolute divorce in the Supreme Court ot New York aga.nal her husband George 'H. Butler Ia the La are! mines, near Wilkes- . . harre, Pa., an expieatoii of gax killed live men. Nichom' boordin-house at West Anaoaia, Ot, was burucd, the inmalee escaping with dfflicnlty in tbeu- Bbjht-clolhea. lbs. . Nichols jumped Am tjxe iccood-story window

aiKl reenvea a sonoua ( ontnsaion. Mr. Nssola had his hair and whiskers badly singed. Two boarder, who occupied a room on the third

now, wnore fumed to a ctrlsp.

The imvau. of emigrants at Castle

Grra, ra 0.1 day hut week, exeeeaed ,000. Hearty 8,000 Italians landed there in three

weeks. Their inucigrutioa is directed by ree-

iconi agents, wno provide men wim empoyaient, just as the Six Companies take eare of the Coins! inhj at tee Pa:iflc gates.

. The Wabash road reports" fur 1881 grass earnings of $14,467,798, operating expenses of 019, 7M.13, , deficiency for the jeer ' of $2,472,033 in meeting 1! claims The bill to rastotw capital omuahmenr, in Wisconsin, which passed the Senat;, failed to pass its third xeading'in the House by a majority of 8. The Minnesota Senate, sitting aa a 1 eeort of impeachiaen found Judge B. St. Julian Ojx guSty of dmnkemwie and conduct unbecoming a Judge, afters trial lasting several weeks. The sentence is removal from office and dfcaaMoation lor judicial office tor three jean.' Thx Northern Pnoifi: railroad officials aavsasenred the written consent of the twentythree persons injared by the recent bridge ao- ' cjdent to a settlement with the company on the - following basis : Tbs .-ompany to pay aH exlienaa'of scknoa, rot cor ) clothing, etc., and give Vteraa position on the road as soon aa ' they Meover....An iasenitary fire in W. P. SovAhwonh'a. grocery at Cleveland homed the ' buildings Noe. 114 to J 18 Ontario street. A low of aST.OW was -surtimod by Sonthworth, 1. KranssA Co., H. M. Brown and Chandler Rodd. The Indian jhrnf Crow Dog, who killed Srxjitetf Tin, has beem found guilty by a jary at JDemlwood, and uentenced to death. Keab Tombstone, Arizona, a desper- . s'e ththt took place between -ax men of the arp party and nine cowboys, headed by the notorioas " Coriey BfflJ- who killed Marshal White, of Tombstone. The cowboys antbnshed theEsrss and poured a deadly fire into them, wottnding one man ami killing a horse. The Esrps returned the fire, ami then charged upon, the cowboys, who ran, leaving Cadey Bill dead npon the field, Joint ZiA.no, who was indicted for par-

tfcrpatiag in the robberj of the Anon train at.

'Bhmeat, He. ha mace soll cvnfeesion, by which, it appears that Jease James and hi partners rode away wit! the spoils, leaving th country Isd nothing for their efforts-. ...Ac ex plosioa-acnaa the bay -'rom San Franciaco oo earred in the grannlatii g-hotue of the Takan Powder Company, where the Bsamtfsetnre of ' block Imuting'piwdcr -was in progress. Fin : broke oca in a rooci, co imnnira; mg almoet in- '" stantly to, the powder, only a sm ill qoanlity of which was n -the ' bmlding. loe blast of fame, bowever, rushed scress the ' passage separating tlx. grannlating from tbs drying-bouse. 'In the latter abont three tone Ot powder were stored, which at once exploded. The dry-boue was blown to pieces, killing or woandrag all the men at work then. The death rnu comprtdea Ive white men and six Chinamen.... The annrjd report of the Fira Department of Chieagci places the aggregate loss by fin forthojearat 9il,t35. The expenses of the deportment were s)SSS,76U8T. There were 8 fires, and the average iosa was 673 per fir. ,' Kstrm, aa Alaska Indian, was executed at Portland, Oregon. He objected to 'having his arms pioioued, and force had to : beansd.

j i nn dwltuotive cnnflsgratu oe - - (nsrred at yirbmond, Ta reanatog m the loss nf property worth between 50O,O and $600,000. TIm fire hl its origin in the sonthern enct ef the Piohmcmd and Petersburg railroad bridge, which served as a conductor of the anx, beskte being iuel! burned. A strong Sate was blowing at the time, and the fire was .. (OK that reason oc manageable. After lurrning a large fcu-tory tobacco factory, the sames ' with' wonderful (peed enveloped and destroyed aereral other lobacco factories, and ftenuneries, the Volcan . : Iran Works, a gristmill, twenty tenements occopied by poor people, 300 feet of railroad " ttesfle-work, many freight cars and small buUding and qmntitwi ofsosi and ioniber. A stobm ai'-Sowtliaastern Alabama Mewdosmihe home of . J. Richardson, in 1 fiarfaoox comity, killfaighBa. p. Bedding, near Cothoert, Os,, ani KrA Food nl Mr. Martin, near Brawn's Station, wroe killed. Nnmbers of people wen badly hart and many honse denvoluted. A cjclon passed near Loacbapok, Ala., ilotno; great damage and killing two men. A tornado near Monroe, La swept uwsr gic-hotidce snd negro cabins and killed three or foor people, WAsmrtcrot. Two htjetobkd gaatiemen, among; them fim 8eiaton and a large nnmber of Representatives, met in Wasoiagton for oonsaltaMoa over the varied pro)xi8itknfi to improve watar-rcntee in the Went. Benator Allison cailed to the chair Hon. J. C .Dor, of Chicago, ."who demonstrated the fMt that agricultural product eomprise 82 r cent, of car exIKita. Iteprawntstiva Fioat, of 3t Louis, faworcd the Ghnnepra euil ; Senior Wmdon arked intrraal hnprowruents, and 8ea- , . atur Iiegaa pointed cat the necessity of tbeeaaa, tnateTraca Kick Inland to Chicago. Mpraker Keifex expreHted plesMm in Uie uv tereet Ukea In the teaiortation qixution. BesotntvMis wen adopnd .hat tlie lakes and tna Coper Mississippi, nnitod, would form the mofct extensive witter ronU- in tha world, and ths tho demaudH of corinorce reqmted the removal otsll obtele to litir union. BiwiatTAKr Lracour has discharged Cadet Wbittakw from the HiUUry Academy, tirms recbweodatmn of Hie board, beosnss of deficiency in fiu slndies. Secretary Hunt received a cable message from bent Hsrber, the Jeannetie search expedition, announcing the arrival of himself j ssjc Jtarfer pohmsee at Irkoatskmgood hoallh. JviXtZ AOVOOAT OBKXItaXi SWAlat ssals a report bit week, in which he over-ruled toe sctioa of the coort-martixl that convicted Sergeant Mason. He takre toe gronnd Uut Jtscon is illegally confined in the penitentisrj, because the proceedings f the eoort-marual wenfaregalar and not strictly in accordaiKis with the law... .The Foreign A (St rs Committee of the KoO() fcn sgrce-l to a rrao n ion direct-

iag iae snie xiepannient to lnsut on tin speedy trial of Daniel McSween.- and other

iMteatsaby the Bdtidi

Washhotos teieeram i Snrahsrvllnn

Sdmits that Uie fYesjdtmt informed him that be wettUnosnmaie .lassjiceesKor. The President

the Secretary the choice o:' threo po-

wum mnu:u.iee tm v ayd and

TTZ.JT:7.J": - iB for

AnMwpHw w vu oanacnecf sano a rails, sa capitaj and deposasof banks tad bankers! ett matnhest perfumery and peteit inedianas, and far the rednotionof Utespeetsi taxes afieetbag rectifiers and distiltors. The t OU if passed, will rednce Ihe revenue by abont 17,UUO,000 per anrrnm. S Bkfirw Mk. Brtnia, in an iiiterviiiw with a Washington reporter, gave aa emphatw expression of bis views with nigard ti the present status ef the Chit-Pent qnentioo. InhioDnion there has aeon a combinaUoa mado betveen IMH and a syndiat of English eapitalistsfortDSpqrposeofimalnngFtro. This is shown by the fact that the CbiEan Government has aetoerttsed for bale for the parous uf a wsXion sons ot J'eroriau guano, ths pise ia be paid ia lrmtjt on Iioadon. As to xreseott, his instrni. lions from the present admisittration are to remain per fectlv "quiet, and hta pveneoce will in no way uiter'ere with the carrying oat of the barpun The American Asuociatioa of the Bed Cross is about to MdA agents into tbe ovirflq vd region of the Honthwest, and makes mv nrgent appssl for fnnds, which can t pent to ;be Secretary of the Treasury er the Becretary of War. TaxBB were ft ye eec.ttiiM in Pennsylvania oa Friday, Hatch 21. Ja Ken rlioK was swung off at OleaiUcId for killing Samwl FkaaJngtoa; Beory and Frank Bnmborge:r wn hanged at Harriatiirg for the murder of Psntr Tmatmaa in Mteaibar, 1H80 ; edgar

Frank Small was suspended at Pittsburgh for killing Nicholas Jacoby in Sentember lat, and Jonathan Uayer, who partici jstcd in the murder ot John and Oreteben Knentzler in Decomber. 1S77, wae executed at Hiddleborg. John C. McCarthy fell a victim to tbe hangman's noose at Angelica, N. "., for the murder of Patrick Sarkey in November last ; and Win, HeMwagon paid the extreme penalty of the law at Book Island, III, for tho slaying of Dora Eeilwsgon, his son's wife. . . . .Reports are mc runt in army circles that Maj. Qen, McDowell will be placed on tho retired list on or before June L It is thought that Brig. Gen. 1'ope will bo promoted and Buoceed Qen, McDowell on the Patsfto coast Tax Dominion Government has de ended to increase the Northwest mounted pc Koo force from 300 to 600 men. Fort Walsh, the present headquarters, will be abandoned, a being too near the frontier, nd some pome on the Canada Pacific road will probably be selected The distressing condition of aft airs in the Southwest caused the abandonment of the project to celebrate tho anniversary of Ia Salle's discovery of the mouth of the Minaissippt It is announced from Washington that "a patent has just been granted for a main-line

sounder, an instrument to be Used On telegraph

lines, wzucn n is ciaunea wtu revolutionize tue present method of receiving signals by a rulay sounder and local battery. Aside from the important factor of economy, this invention is admitted to be entirely onttide ot the scopo of tbe celebrated Page patent, wbicla practically controls the whole field of telegraphy. Tests have been made between Washington and No" York, Washington and Cincinnati and other distant points, in the preseneeof Patent-Office and o( her electrical experts, which demonstrated that this invention accomplishes that which hsii been heretofore claimed, by electricians to be impossible.' Whbkliso, W. Ta., was visited the other day by a atost-destrtrHivo hail-storm, Windows sad skylights wen riddled, buildings wrecked and many citizens severely bruited. The pecuniary damage is estimated at $35,(100. At Evaiuburg, Pa., a gale blew down a threostory building, killing two men and fatally injuring two others. At Pittsburgh the same gentle zephyr swept away a fraino house and killed two persons. A hnrrioane at Cleveland demolished several unfinished buildings and unroofed hundreds of shanties. A hait-storm at Lexington, Ind., a town of 1,500 uihabitantf, shattered 1,700 wiudow-glasB lights in six minntja. ?OI.ITICAt. Jaxbs Low, a bitter anti-Conkling member of tbe New York Legixlature, hta been nominated by President Arthur to the ConnuUtB at Clifton, Ont....Tba Senate or New Jersey has passed over the Governor's veto a bill giving up the ownership and control of the water-front of Jersey Oily to the Pennsylvania railroad. The new Republican Congressional Committee met at' Washington and organised for the. campaign by the election of a Cnairman and the appointment of an Executive Committee. Beoresentative Hubbell. of Miohhnin.

was selected Chairman, and the Executive Committee was enlarged to fifteen members. CotoHKD votera ia the Foxurtli. Virginia district have tired of electing while n,en to Congress, and will make an effort fei send one ef then- own race to Washington this fall. aWIIEIClK. Ths 'speech which the hot-hsadod gkobeleff made to the Servian students is not tho only assault he has nude upon Germany. The Berlin correspondent of the Loo don Standard reports hia as speaking to some Bussian officers in Warsaw, at which time he said: "The best of Bussiaus is our Cziir. You, and indeed all Europe, know what wa

think on the great Slav question. If, nevertheless, you find me here at our Czar's command, you see in it a fresh humiliation on the part of that roan who by 'blood and. Iron' founded an empire which can only be destroyed

Dytce 'ixooa sua iron of nussis.' Bkkksas, late Secretary of the Laud

League, has been removed from Kiliw.inhmn jail to Kilkenny. Qoinn, Assistant Sesretuy of the Zand League, is removed to Allnagh.

..The .National Assembly of .France ras

passed tbe Education bfil which has beet pending for some time. It is a measure in the in

terest of popsiar intelligence. The Porte after much delay has granted permission to a Btusian traiiKpart with convicts and troops for Siberia to pass tiirotu:& Bosphercs, on the condition that the (ermlssion be ooneidered unique and never be cited as a precedent. .. .In a gale off Havre, while a lifeboat was attempting the rescue ot a shipwrecked crew, nineteen persons were drovned.... The American horses in England have begim the season weO, Wsllenstein winning the Lincolnshire enp, an important event The vant Bertdti, an English daily newspajr at Constantinople, has been scpprtHSed. Seto Cardinals were cres ted at Borna last week, among those .promote! being Archbishop McCabe, of Dublin By the wr.jck of the i teamer Pelton in the British c&amxel eighteen persons were drowned The Csar of Russia is to be crowned after the closing of the national fair at Moscow in May.,.. A urge number of Americans gathered in London, and passed resolutions utging Minister Lowell to ssk a reprieve for Dr. Lamcon, on the gronnd of insanity, . . .Diaoatohes front Ireland reports casein which ansguiseii band cut off the nose of a man because, m the poorlaw contest, he canvassed in opposition to tlia Land Leaguers. The rocidonoe or 11)8 agent of Lord Clonbrock, county Galwav, was wrecked by dynamite, Clonbrock is 'Deputy Lord Lieutenant of the county, and opposed Gladstone. On the same night a meta shell wrecked the house of Mr. Laoas, a wealthy farmer in Dunmary, No one hart. The police ef St, Petersburg hare arrested the chief of the Nihilist Executive Committee, who was connected with the coiuitractionof the mine in Little Garden strew.... A London dispatch reports the docesso of Lord Erskine. A Geneva dispatch states that in conseqnenee of agricultural depression 450 Swiss farmers will emigrate from Oberlund to the United States In the British House of Commons it was stated, that in order to allow public opinion to lipon. the monetary conference had been indefinitely postponed.

ADDITIONAL SETTS. CosoBESSMAjr Davis circulated putillon to the Commerce Committee asking them to appropriate 1 1,000, 000 in the River and Harbor bill for the Hennepin canal. All lUgned it except Hingieton of Illinoiii. Attorney General Brewster has appointed Bichard T. KeiRck, a prominent Democratic lawcr of Washington, D. a, aa Special AssisUat Attorney General to aid hi the star-route proeaenfions. Tbe inference that tho Government means business with the atnr-routo thieves is somewhat strengthened by this aotlon. Several Mormon leadeni, including John Taylor and Joseph Smith, have crnieCy placed their wives in separate honsee, to avoid rre-st nnder the clause of tlio Anti-Pul garny law which makes cohabitation with more than one woman a nriseUmeanoi ... .Henry R Mycr died in (Jrncago at sn advanced ago. Bo invented sleeping oars in 1854, and has ot late been engaged in the cor-struo-tion of a safety car. Be was the father of the late Gen. Myer, of the signal servile.... A San Francisco dispatch gives too particulars or a desperate light at Tombsr.ono, Arizona, betwteeit a Deputy Sheriff and a posse of three and two cowboys, in which two men wero killed and three wounded. . . .A man erased with drlnti shot and killed a fellow-puseeoger on a train between Sparkaville and Medora, lnd. He then jumped from tho train and drowned himself. Tbk Western Union Telegraph Company has seemfaed control of the Mutual Union Unci., Gould purchased 33,500 shares oW right.

and 18,500 are held by George C. Baker, H. C. Fahustock and Georgo 8. ticoX Tho three latter hold the balance of power in the-com pany, and have entered into an agreement t act in accord w.th Gould so long as his policy does not impair the rights and biuiness ot the Mutual Union.... The fastest tirao ever road i across the Atlantic was that of tho steamship Alaska, which reached Qaeewtown. Ireland, March 2, in seven days seven hourji and twenty-eight miuntes frum Nevr York, being twenty minutes better time than ever before made .... A story was published in the Washington Critic that Mr. Blaine thought of becoming a Congregational preacher. Hi) saysit is an infamont lie A fire at Toronto destroyed the wagon-wheel works, the Purifier Company's buildings and Oliver's planing mill, causing a loss of 60,OOC. Walker Hall, one of the Am herst College loildings, burned. Loss, $60,0)0; well inettrtd A member of the New Jersey House informed that body that he had been psld S5C0 and promised $600 mom on con litiou that he would vote to pass tlw Jersey City Water Grant bill over the Governor's veto. A committee was appelated to invostigata the facts. Allen Fox, a wealthy citizev of Louisville, Ky., sged 81 years, revmmlttecj snl. cede with a razor.. ..Mrs. J. XL Ballard, of" Lincc4n county, Ark,, while sutfering from mental aberration killed her three infant chit. dreaaad then committed suicide, .Ukxu-o tins a regular army irf 40,00fi jnea, which cm be uicrotwetl'to lOt',000,

D0OQS OF COHCtKESS. Mr. Piatt made a favorable report to the Senate, on the 23d, on bill tor tho registration

Of tradc-uiarks, Jlr. George reported an

original bill to make the Agricultural D apart

ment an executive one. A bill was introduced for tlie sduvmion of the State of Washington.

The Seorotary of War was direotnd to transmit

full information as to relief furnished to of

needed by the Mississippi sufferers. A

resolution for a reciprocity treaty with

Mexico wan referred. Mr, Mahono reported

a bill to prevent tho spread of aontaeions dis

eases among domestic) animals. Mr. Dawes

reported tlie Indian Appropriation bill, with

several auieuaments. in executive session, A.

u Morrison, jr utuoago, was confirmed as Marshal of Now Mexico. Tho President sent

in the following nominations : John H. Smyth, of Norh Carolina, Minister Resident and ConMil General of tho Uuited Slates to Liberia ; 2uiery P. Bonuchamp. of Indiana, United States Consul at Kt. Gall ; James W. Wilson, of Missouri, United States Consul at Threo llivors,

tjueb o. Too llotlse tcsttmcd dobato on tho

unities bin, nearly all who chose imviuc an

opportunity to aif their views. Mr. Pago

n.w iioiTKunuirai ft uoKmoasns jo pound oqj wsei n) o eonpoj oj )nocapiiours s.nos -sdh MfV -Mnsta ory irojop oj ponun

wjumimra pnatinu ot uom orj jwij JKiv)R piw 'ofop v 6i o;qap oqj jnSnruq defeated by 100 to 181, Mr. Buttorworth's amendment for a fifteon-yoar limit was lost. Tho bill then passed tho House cjnetly as it came from tho Senate by 177 veai to 65 nays, more than two-thirls. Tho vote in the Senate was 29 to 15, or out logs than two-thirds.

Tho House hill to bridgo the Missouri at

Aaron Bonk was passed by the Sonata on March 24. Tho Lifo-Saving-Scrvioe bill was amended

to provide for flvo stations on the Florida

eoast, and to permit the Secretary of the

Treasnn to fix pay on tho basis of servico ren

dered, when the measure passed, Mr. Sawyer

Tirrscnted a memorial from tho Milwau

kee Chamber of Coraruoroa against the

renewal of Datents for steam (Train-shovels,

and resolutions of tho Wisconsin Legisla

ture for throwing open to commerce uic Sturgeon bay ship-canal. Mr. Morrill reported adversely on Mr. Vest's bill to prohibit the issue of notes by banks hereafter organised or reconstructed. Mr. Kellogg reported a bill appropriating (3,000,000 for the improvement of tho Mississippi! and $1,000,000 for similar work on tho Missouri. Mr. Miller mado a speech on The tariff -Commission bill. Mr. Williams introduced a bill to incorporate lb) Cherokee Central llailroad and Telegraph Company. A bill was passed to create two new land districts hi Nebraska. In

the House Mr. Bobinsen asked action on tho

rofolutiou respecting the imprisonment or American citizens hi Great Britain, end threatened to move the impeachment of Minister Lowell. A hill was renoi'tod ammmriatinir

14,8(13,000 for the improvement ef the Mississippi river. In committee of tbe whole on the private calendar tho claim of tho captors of the ram Albemarle was discussed for two hours and perfected, and when the committee rose the bill was passed.

Neither house of Congress was in session

on March 25. The House Commerce committee listened to tho arguments of ox-Giv.

Brown, of Tennessee, representing tlie southern raVroads, and of Chauncey JL Depow, of Vauderbilt'e staff. In opposition to tho Baagau t ill. The latter claimed that the real foes to the productive and consuming classes were the speculators in food ; that the interstate commerce act would place the carrying business of the West in tho power of a Canadian railway system, and that any ovils rnijht bo remedied by the creation of a national advisory commission, A resolution was adopted by the Senate, atits session on the 27th nit, instructing the Committee on the Revision ot the Laws to report what legislation is needed to define the phrase "Indian country." A bill was pnssed to grant pensions to the widows of Presidents Garfield, Tyler and Polk. The Agricultural Appropriation bill was- reported back, with amendments. The President nominated Sterling P. Bounds, of- Chicago, to be Public! Printer; Irwin A. Txcland to be Marshal of tbe Eastern District of Utah, and Miss Virginia C. Thompson to be Postmistress of Lonisville. In tho HotleoMr. Haskell presented a bill authorizing tho Department of Justice to audit claims of the medical experts in the Guitoau trial at not over $25 for each day of actual attendance. Mr. WillianM offered a resolution, which was adopted, requesting the President to inform the House whether a protocol for peace in South America had been signed by Envoy Trescott.- The Postoffice Appropriation bill was referred to tho committee Of the whole. Mr. King offerod a' resolution for a committee of five Senators snd ten Representatives to proceed to the overflowed section of the Mississippi and report what measures are necessary to prevent a recurrence of the floods. Mr. Caswell inlrodmed a bill for tho issue of 425,000,000 in fractional currency in exobango for legal tenders. A bill to incorporate the Garfield memorial hospital gan rise to considerable dobate over the liability assumed by the Government, snd was recommitted. Mr. Byrne Introduced a resolution requesting tlie President to secure an additional treaty with Great Britain for tho oxtradition of such fngitivo criminals as are not subject to the present treaty. Jlr. Phelps introduced a bill for & Department of Industry. Mr. Thomas atked an appropriation of ,863,000 tor tho improvement of tbe Mississippi, Mr Harris put forward measure for an Assistant Secretary of tho Navy. Mr. Cox introduce! a bill to repeal the iron-clnd oath. Tho SecMtary of the Interior sent In estimates of 405.880,480 for Mexican-war pensions, and of 42f. 201,032 for survivors of Indian campaigns prior to 1810, The bill to facilitate the payment of dividends to creditors of the Freedman's Savings Bak was passed by the Senate on the 28th nit Ths Committee on Pensions reported a hill fixing (he rate for total dtvability at 972 per month. An adverse report wi msde on the resolution to retire CoL Crittenden as a Brigadier Goners). Several houri were spent in debate on the Tariff-Commisslcn bill. Five amendments were voted down, when the bill passed, 38 to 15. The bill provides for a commission of nine nicrnVrs to lie appointed by tho President and confirmed by the Senate, who are to receive as compensation for tUoir services i10 per day whin actually employed, and turn-ling and other necessary expenses. They aro to invostiga'e all the various questions rotating to tbe

nirncui'.nra', commercial, mercantile, manuract-

Uiihed States, so fax as ths same may be ne-

ot'tsary to the establldunentof a Judicious tariff

or the revision ot the existing tantr and the existlmr system of internal-revenue laws

npon the scale of juntioe to all interests, and is to report to Congress from time to time, and to

max a nasi report not later wan ue nrssalondayin January, 1883. The President nominated Isaac D. McCutcheon, of Michigan,to be Secretary of tbe Territory of Montana. "Tho Houso, after a contost in regard to precedence, went into committee of the wholo on the Tariff Commission bill, on whjob. lengthy speeches were mads by Messrs. Carlisle and Easson. The correspondence between Secretary Frelinghnysen and Envoy TicscoU was submitted. In response to a call for Information the Secretary ot War reported ths necessity of issuing 80,000 more rations for sufferers by the Hood. Mr. Cockrell offered a resolution in the SonMo, on the 39th ult., directing the Socretary of 8ts.te to nuke inquiries respecting the invprinonmont of American citizens in Ireland. Mr. Pendleton's Civil Service bill was favorably reported. A bill was passed to establish the Ea t ru juiiciel district of Kentucky. Tlie Indian Appropriation I ill, amended by the Senate commii tcu to not aiiide $5,160,003, was taken np in committee of the whole. Mr. Hour oiTered an amendment appropriating 2, COO, 000 for the ut port and education of Indian ohildren from outside the five civilized tribes, but no action war taken theroon. The President nominated William Williams, of Indiana, to be Charge d' Affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay, Tho House accepted the Senate a m ndmeot to thebill for a peimiou to Mrs. Garfield, so as to include Mrs. Polk and Mrs. 'Tyler, gtViUg each $5,000 per year. Mr. Stephens submitted a resolution instructing the judiciary committee to inquiro into tho legality of the removal of M r. Hayes, an official stenographer, by 8jeakrKeifor. Mr. Lrd reported back a bill for a Hbip-isuial across the State of Michigan. Bills wero reported for the erection of public buildmgs at Clarksburg) W. Va., and Now Albany and Terra Hanto, Ind. While in committee of the whole on the Tariff Commission bill h petechia were made by Messrs. Carlisle and Errelt The Army Appropriation bill was repotted back. Mr. Fitter reported an net to permit any owner of nold bullion or coin to have the same coined for his benefit

the hospitals. Twenty-five female doctors who took mrt in the niilitor v oper

ations in 1877 have been decorated, by order of tho Emperor, with Ithe order of

St. otanislnna of tbe third class, Tbe

nnmber of female students is steadily

increasing. SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

SuttrfBlOAh exhibitions s.fo likely to

become epidemic. Close upon the Paris

Exhibition caine a proposition to hold one at the Crystal Palace, London; and a like project is now on foot tit St Peters

burg. Americana are suiRularlv back

ward in organizing auoh an enterprise.

FnttorjENT impurities are found by mi

croscopic investigations to exist in the diamond. Organic matter, carbon and

bubbles ot gas are oommon impurities,

Quarts, chlorite, pyrtte and hematite

have recently been discovered in diamonds, and small crystals of topaz have

also been seen.

P.tuii Maboox has described a leaf of

the gtant water lily ( Victoria ficgia) found in Lake Nun a, Pern, ae measuring twenty-four feet nine and a, half inohes in circumference and weighing between thirteen and fourteen pounds. Ouo of the flowers was four feet two inches in .circumference and weighed three and a half ponnds. The outer petals were nine

lncces long.

Soira valuable relics discovered at

Ninevah in the form of fine ivorv carv

ings showed signs of crumbling on ar

riving in rJngland. (Jonclnding that loss

of albumen was tlie cause of tbe decay,

Professor Owen boiled tlie nrtioles. Tiie

experiment proved entirely successful.

and the ivory was restored to its original

nrmness ana solidity.

M. Gayoit has been studying the

phylloxera of the French vineyards with the object of discovering, if possible, some parasitic organism which might be propagated and made to destroy the

pnyuoxera. lie nas found suon organisms, and has striven to cultivate them,

but with doubtful results. He is pursuing the investigation further. The raraires of the tmvlloxera hava become a

source of great Iosb to the vine-growers

of Jfranoe, and any researches promising

ultimate relief uom tno pest are eagerly

encouraged. BbhabkabijB wind pressures are ex

perienced in India. On October 6, 1801.

two passenger trains, one of eight vehicles and the other of twelve, were

npset on the Eastern Bengal Bail way, all

tlie cars being overturned. Several cars were started from sidings by the force of

the wind. On September 21, 1878, a lone train was traveling on the same

railway at a speed of about eight miles

an hour, and was brought to a standstill

by a neaw storm and forced back abont a mile with full steam and brakes against

it. It was found difficult to proceed after detaching half of the train. In

stances of this kind are said to be frequent on Indian railways.

Ths great red spot on the planet

Jupiter still attracts a large share of attention from astronomical observers. This spot is of an elliptical form, with

tapering ends, and covers a vast area, being 29,000 miles long and 8,300 broad. This mysterious appearance was first observed more than three years aso.

since which time its form seems not to have materially altered, although the ordinary dark hands crossing Jppiter's disc are in a state of constant change. Speculations as to the nature of tbe red spot have been numerous, but not very satisfactory. Tire dark lines across the

planet are believed to be due to the

atmospheric movements, and the suggestion that the red spot is a portion of tho body of the planet which has in some unknown way become visible throngh the atmospheric envelope seems

as plausible as tiny ottered. THE DIPLOMATIC SCANDAL.

Shipherd, when called before the House com

mitteo on March 23, stated, before any ques"

tion had bean put) that be desired to add a word, if it would be in Order, to the testimntn.

given the previous day. ite then stated that ho would waive the techniOil dbjecrion he had raised, and would state that tbe Senator to

whom bo bad alluded was Henry W. Blair, of New Hampshire. He further stated that with

one exception, there was no other Senator or

memocr or congress who bad In any way been interested as counsel or had been approached with a view to scenrinc his services. This

gentleman, Shipherd said, was asked to act as counsel, and declined on tho ground that he might be called on as a member of Congress to pass upon the claims or the Peruvian Company, With tins oxcephon and that or Senator Blair, there was no other instance of snv effort to se

cure the services of a member or cither bouse of Congress. Witness produeed a opv or bis letter to the President. It was

quite long, and rohcar-od in dotail the

claims and plans of tho Peruvian Company. The letter referred to mclosures naming (he prospectus of tho company, tho draft of agreement with Pern, the chain of tho

utie oi uio I'erunan company, and stated it was deemed best to lay the wholo matter before tho President. It sooke of tho mamitnde of

tho interests involved, and estimated the valuo

ot guano at 1, 000,000,000, and indicated that ex-Prosidont Grant would be President of the company, and that ite Board of Directors

wmld mcludo gentlemen equally well known and caps bio.

Shipherd failed to show up in the House

committee room at Wellington on March 21th, ITa BAnf aa a. anhatitntn a. rthvaidan'fl ooriincatA

ruing, milling and industrial interests of the L ., . . . " ; tt..i.i Rtt r.. . th. i, ho the effect that he was suffering, from neu-

Ine Seven Tfise Sen, Those genorahy given aro Solon, Chilo, Pittaons, Bias, Poriander (in place of whom dome give Epi nenidesl, Cleobnlns, and Tlialtis. They -.fere an tln.ro ot the celebrated mottoes inscribed in later days in the Delphian Temple. These mottoes were as follows: 'Know thyself. Solon. " Consider the end." Ohihi. "Know thy opportunity." Pittaons, " Most men are bud." Iliad. ' ' Nothing is impossible tv industry. Periander. "Avoiel excesses " Cleobnlns " Surety ship is the precursor of ruin," Thales.

Russian Medicine Women. Twelve lady doctors in Bnssia are now

olllciftlly engaged in teaching medicine to women. Thirty are in the service of the 2e51H,T08; and forty ot'bors servo

ralcia snd threatened with erysipelas, with a

likelihood of bis remaining ill for several days. Tho committee sent him a notification that thereafter it would be necessary to have his physician's eea-tiflcate sworn to. Feeding Horses Straw Hals. In clearing away the tfcbrls at a fire at St, Louis, it was noticed straw hats that had lieen damaged by water and leather wore thrown from the windows and promptly confiscated by men and oid women, on the street, beforo they scarcely had time to reach tho grohutt One old man was especially active in dodging abont and rollecting mutilated and charred straw hats. When asked what he proposed to do with the hats, ho promptly replied : " I intend to feed 'em to my horse, oi course." " Don't you think they will make your horse sick ?" inquired a bystander. " Of course nut. Why should a straw hat make a horse sick ? Straw doesn't cense to be straw when it is put into a bed or hat any more than a plant ceases to be a plant when taken from the garden and put in a flower pot My horse will eat straw hats. I've tried him. Hay and feed are very dear now, and all I save in feeding my horse is clear gain." At this point he discovered several large broad-brimmed hats floating from the third-story windows above his head, and brought the conversation to a sudden close by placing himself in position to catch them on the fly,' St, Lovit liepublican. Frightful Boiler Explosion, PaTLADiLrHU, March 24. The boiler of the steam passenger ferryboat, Henry 0. Pratt plying between Philadelphia and the Atlantic railroad depot, Walnut street wharf and depot, Koighris point Camden, N. J., exploded at the wharf. Two ot the crew wore blown over the roof on the other side of the street into the water at tbe end of the street a block away. The anchor lodged in the telegraph wires. The boiler was lifted, and grazed the soooud ami third stories of the warehouse on Delaware avenno, 200 feet from the roeno, and, falling, demolished and sunk two tug-boats. The exfloaion occurred at Pier 8, Delaware avenue, orlions of the bailor wero flung across tho nvenuo, striking Noa. 132 and 134, occupied by Kolly, Inoli & Co.. ship chandlers, and Hugh PiUgoruld, wines, destroying the second and third stories, scattering brick, etc., in all directions. The body of Georgo Scully, the Captain of tlie Pratt was thrown over the entire block against the wall on tbs woi,t side of Water street, a shapeless pulp. Burning coals were thrown from tbe Ore-hole on to tho roof (if the handsomo depot of the Philadelphia ami Atlantic railway, 000x200 feet covering the p.c.r where the boat lay, burning it to tbe ground in an hour. Coals wore also thrown aboard tho steam tug Ella and she was burned to tho water's cd es Five men aboard the Pratt at the time ot tb,e explosion wore killed.

THE 1'AMLY DOCTOR. To Com a FBsnoN. As soon as it makes its appearance apply a poultice, of equal parts of salpeter and brimstone, mixijd with sufficient lard to make a paste, and renew as soon as it gets dry, A few applications will effect a cure. Bad Breath. Bad breath, from catarr a, foul stonifcoh or bad teeth, may be temporarily relieved by dilating a lifctta bromo ehloraltim with eight or ten parts of water, and UBing it as a gargle, and swallowing a few drops just befols goit.g out O..WOT PaBVBNTrvB. First get a pieco of chamois skin, make it like a little bib, cut out the neck and sew on tapes to tie it on with; then melt together some tallow and pine tar ; rub some of this on tho bib, and let the child wear it all tho time. Renew with tar occasionally. . Cows fob :?hb Eabachb. Take a small piece of cotton batting or cotton wool, make a depression in the center with the finger and fill it up with as much ground :?epper as will rest on a five-cent pieou ; gather it into a ball and tie it up, dip the ball in sweet oil and insert it in the w, covering the latter with cotton wool, secured by a bandaga or cap. J. Hiaauts, ia the Popular Soienot Monthly, writeis that experience has shown that animals confined in a close apartment where they must inhale over and over again their own exhalations dorolop tubercle of the lungs, and that human beings are no less injured by breathing the air of poorly-ventilated rooms, he thinks is proved by the fact that of eleven preachers who died during eight years in one county of Pennsylvania, eight died of consumption. A medical student of good physique n4 healthy parentage Buffered from shortness of breath, dry eongh, general weakness and despondency. By practicing regularly deep and prolonged breathing 1m wae relieved of his lung symptoms. He acquired, by this practice, a difference ot rive inches in the measurement; of his ehest This is a kind of pulmonary gymnastics which can usuallv be prescribed in cases of "weak eliest" Dr. Fooie's Health Monthly. SoFFEBEtts from consumption will be interested in a method of treatment described in the Medical lieeord, which it i.i said has cured from 60 to 75 per cent, of the cases treated. Six cases ore described ; all had been treated by good physicians according to customary methods. At least half of the patients had vainly tried a residence in the West anc. South. Tho lungs wero deeply diseased. They were steadily growing worse, and seemed' to have been advised that their malady had become serious. Under the new treatment four of these patients recovered, and are again actively engaged iu their business pursuits. One, whose case was greatly complicated by other diseases, after making good progress toward recovery, suffered fresh misfortune from a pleuritic abscess breaking into his lungs, but has since begun to regain health. One, that had been supposed to present most favorable i!a.se of the six when first presented for treatment, failed afterward to gain strength, aud died gently while asleep. The time taken for recovery under the new treatment seems to vary f rum silt mouths to a year, but relief irom tits more distressing sympt mis was obtained in all cases iu a much shorter p? riod. The tlwory of cure is to clear the hugs by a mechanical treatment, chiefly of manipulating tho muscled of the throat so as to cause more forcible breathing; second, to establish pcifect digestion ; third, to promote a jirci -ess of healing the tubercles, so that they shall become chalky or calcified masses ; fourth, to compel the patients to take plenty of fresh air, sunlight and out-door exercise. To secure perfeot digestion, a special diet is ordered in each case, and the food is changed as the power of assimilating it improves ; that part of the firoutmont was fully successful in each of the six instances described. To promote the caiciiying of the tubercles, the salts of lime, which aro found in most vegetable und animal life, must be supplied in a soluble condition ; the tiitory is that too much heat in ordinary 'booking destroys the natural combination of these salts with albumen, and readers them insoluble to a weak digestion. In regard to out door exercise, this is regarded as so important that the patients most go out in rain, snow, diunpness or even night air or dew ; and in the twenty years of the doctor's

pniciice ue suows en uu uiatuuoo ui catching eoltl fsora such exposure. Only strung head winds and extreme hot

weniaor need he guarded against. The.

patients sleep with the windows open, summer and winter. A Monstrous Marriage.

In spite of ridicule and denunciation,

women whoso emotions are stronger than their heads continue in all ports of tho

country to visit murderers in their cells

and pet tliem as if they were noroes in

distress. Tley find a strange, pleasura

ble 'excitement in carrying bouquets to wretches whose hands are red with

blccxl.

An extraordinary incident occurred in

San Francisco a short time ago which

will attract renewed attention to this

singular clatw of women, who alternately

amuse aud disgust their more iieamiy mimli'd fellow creatures. George 0.

Gottung, a house painter, thirty-one yeiirs of age, murdered his wife with a dagger, the motive being bis belief that slid was unfaithful to him. Sho had an intuit in her arms at the moment he plu nged the knife into her breast. He wai .found gu ilty and sentenced to ten

yenrs imprisonment m nan iuenun. During this iutoresting person's incarceration in tbe San Francisco jail he was frequently vkitod by Mary E. Willis, a number of a highly tethetio association of females known as the "Fruit and Flower Mission." The young woman,

aged twenty -l'onr years, is the daughter

of a well-toiio and respectable House anil sign painter. Besides taking flowers and tracts to the murderer, Miss Willis

wa? in the pious babit of singing iiymus

with him. Immetliat-ely nftor sentence had been pronounced upon Gottung, the young woman hastened to the County Clerk s office, procured a license, obtained an order from the Sheriff to admit her to the Ctmrtv Jail, induced a Justice

of tbe Peace to go with her, and actually

married the murderer 1

Whether this amazing occurrence will

have a tendency to cause such sentimen

tal women as havo anv lingering sense

and self-re6pc!t to keep themselves out of the way of tho fascinations of mnreler-

era, or whether it will result in a matrimonial boom throughout the jails of the country, nobody cau tell. It is said that the father of the San Francisco female idot is distracted. No wonder. He should, however, restrain his natural und decent inclination to brain the monstrosity of which ho is the Enent, and ask the Commissioners, in utuicy to send her to an asylum. firffiniaiNev.) Chronicle Beware of Hot Rooms. Dr. Win. A. Hammond warns against overheated apartments. He says: "An ovprheate 1 apartment always enervates its occupants. It is no uncommon thing to Had roomti heated in winter by an nn .ergrt)und f irnace up tc 90 degrees. Fights ai.d murders are more numerous in hot than iu eold weather, ami the artitiBially-heitBil air that rushes into our rooms, derived as it is of its natural moisture by the baking it has nne'ergone, is even more productive of vicious passion. It is no surprising circumstance, therefore, to find the woman whoBwelteranll day in such a temperature and adds to it at night by suiwrfluons bed-clothing, cross and disagreeanle from litfrio nyiryday troubles uat ipoiild.

scai'celv rvtfflo her tcmner it she ken

her rooms at 65 degrees and opened the mi n it rt.iro mnm nnw on.) 41, an

Smugglers In High Life

i'he smuggling of to-day, especial y that which is in vogue at this port, say a New York paper, is very far removed from the smuggling of old, abont which so much of romance was made to cluster. An stoutly, according to many chroni

clers, tho smuggler was a daring personage, very like a pirate ill many of Ma ways. He did brave deeds, exposed hia

lite recklessly, bad bid bouts or encountom with coast guards and revenue1 crnif ers, and had a leaning as much to

ward tho poetical and picturesque as to

ttic practical side of bis life. Witn new

times, however, have come new manners.

And the smuggling ot old has given place to a new practice, whose adepts

rc tbe losbionabie laay and gentleman,

There is no doubt that persons, even among those moving tlmrmg the highest HM'ta! circles, have not deemed it be

neath t hem to engage in casual smug

gling, and their ways of doing it have called for the exercise of much ingenuity. The prof.-siional traders in contraband gcKids, who are said to havo carried about their persons small fortunes in silks, laces, and jewels, may and maj not have existed, but at any rate very

few of them nourish now. There is still

some smuggling done by officers and

seamen, but the bulk of tho articles which escape the legal duties are

brought into tbe country by tbe cabin passengers of the Atlantic steamers. The roal cause of the smuggling which goes on at the present time is that tho officials

do not :eel themselves called upon to examine every pocket of every garment, and to ascertain beyond the possibility of a doubt, that no dutiable articles are secreted among tne pieces of baggage which they pass. Passengers are well awuro of this fact, and tho most of them do not hesitate to profit more or less by it Some of the most innocent people in

America go abroad in the summer with

out the slightest intention of smuggling anything on their return homo in the autumn. Bat they ifall in with more hardened tourists than themselves, and

receive from them instructions in this supposod-to-be-forgoltisn art Aud while abroad they refuse to purchase articles

which they desire for the reason that tbe

duty is so high that they cannot afiora

to take them home Tf o shop-keepere

Innga at such objections, and explain luiur tiiA mAtfor nan be nrr-avowl vprx

easily and the duty saved. By suet

means the innocent travelers become enlightened, and the result is that the

persons who were at tue start innocent of guile return home adepts in smuggling. Aud for months afto-ward these perverted people will boast tf how they got the better" of ths custom-house ffioials. When a new drosti which apparently has not been worn in discovered among the baggage of a lady, the official asks her if the dress is new. A silk dress will show even at one wearing. Some ladies forget this fact and state that the new dresu has been worn. But if there are

no marks of wear on it it is tho duty of

the ofiioial to seize it, notwithstanding

tlie protest of the owner. Whenever

through ignorance a person forfeits some of his effects he can go to the collector

at the custom-house and state the case.

He is then usually fined the amount

which the duty woultl have been, and

the articles arc returned him. Passen

gers are allowed to brlniar a few such arti

cles as gloves for their own use without paying duty, but tbey must state that

tney do not bring tneae lor tnoir irienas or to sell to others, lint in many instances they immediately sell the articles r else give them to friends. Watches and otlur articles of jewelry aro very

easily hidden, aud consequently large

nnmuers oi tnese ore smuggled into tne

country every year. The officials watch closely commeicial travelers who frequently go anil come, and it is difficult for these people to smuggle to any great extent Cloth which foreign tailors had cut into natteins was at one time

brought over by ageuts and passed over as ordinary cloth. But when the officers

deraantted the Mtmo nuntes wnicn were

asked for imported clothing the practice mi dreirned.

Oaetom-liouse people say mat very few ot the smugglers who are said to have concealed valuables about their

rvonioiiB have ever mndo more than one

or two voyage-. These pooplo very soon

become known to tne eietvcuvua, ami aro

oblincd to airo ut the bn.-!litBS of smug

gling. According to the detectives, the

amount i smuggling uuu uj fnsfiionala hot been Kteatly exaggerated.

And very little smuggling is done by the crews of the ocean steamships. But.

as an old eifheial Bntd, '."ibe articles smuggled into this port by cabin passengers each year, if all brought together, would make a very large and very valuable heap. This m about the only kind ni aniiicirliiafir which is carried on now.

And anl ss we make it a rule to insult

every passenger of reiectabie appearance. I do not see how the practice can .. a 1 tt

be entirely cnecnea.

The Widow Stewart and Her Lonely

Home.

Mis. A. T. Stewart hits passed seven

years- in widowhood, and during that time has occupied the most spacious house over built in tlie Fifth avenue previous to tlie Vonderbilt palaces. She

lives here entirely alone with ' the . sole

exception of her house-keeper, half

ttoiien servants ana tno coaenman. The establishment is kept closed, and in appearance, at leant, is one of the loneliest places in die city. The palatial structure stands bock from the street at least

thirtv feet, for Stewart's taste required

a display of retirement Yiewed in front the immense structure appears like the

abode or suence. u iw curtains ore down.

and the broad pe rch which graces Thirty-

lourtti ntreet is seldom entered till even

ing ; in (act, the enormous building now suggests tlie idea of a mausoleum.

What is to become of it ? This is a very intr8ting question. Its occupant is

old and.cannot lost Ions, and henoe the

place is peculiarly liable to the law of

mutation, Mrs. Stewart Beldam leaves tlie building, bu s the servants can easily step out by the rear gate, for they never use the grand entran-jo. Judge Hilton

aud Mr. Iiibby often make short calla,

and Dr. Sfarcy is occasionally in, but

these exceptions narcity break tbe long reign of si lence. The first floor contains the receiving-room, drawing-room, dining-room and picture gallery. The ceilings are eighteen feet high, except the lost mentioned, which is nearly for

ty. The furniture is elegant beyond da-J

8t-riplion. Ascending a marble staircnsi tlie library is reached, and also the Stewart bedroom and the apartments for guests, all gorgeously furnished. Think of so grand an establishment being solely occupied by a widow and her servants. This palace, like most structures of tho kind, is highly inconvenient One would think, indeed, that it was built more for appearance than for comfort The latter, however, is rarely con

sidered in the domestic architecture of a great city. Had Stewart been disposed to make a spacious and nooommodating house he could easily have accomplished his object ; but what would he world say r

The determination to exi'ol all tbat bad

irone before him led to tho construction

of this showy "nut inconvenient house. Bender, think of that feeble old lady be ing obliged to make tho ascent of thirtysix steps (each six inohes) in order to reach her bedroom. No wonder the poor oreature got a severs fall, from which she suffered in a serious and protraoted manner. Personally speaking,

Mrs. Stewart (as I saw her recently in

Eublio) is a snuvl woman, and wears a rown wig, her sole ornaments being

diamond earrings of a very showy cuaraoter. She is the richest- widow in the

city, beirifi worth at least $20,000,000, w-Vew wk letter.

PACTS FOB THE CURIOUS.

Tbs African negro in remarkaule tor his length o t arm and leg ; the Aymara Indun, of Pern, for his shortness. The microscope chows the hair to be like it coarse, round rasp, but with the teeth extremely irregular and ragged. Tub traveler who would make the circa it of the would in tight days would require nearly twenty-four yenrs to circumtiavigate the sun. Te Greeks held garlic in iraoh ab horrtinofi thati those wht p&rtook of it were rogardel as profane. The Romans, on tt e Contrary, gave it to their soldiers, with an idea that it excited their courage, nd to their laborers to strengthen them. Teb tallest trees in the world! are in Australia. A fallen tres in Gippsland measured 435 feet from the root to the high ist point of the branches. Another Btnncing in the Dnndelong district, in Victoria, is estimated to be 450 feet from the gronnd to tlie top. Tbe ticicntljte. American refers to observations of the act ons of carp in the Berlin aqttariom to settle the fact that Bah do Klisep. In Bermuda, where fish nre abundant, there sxe places where fish can be seen asleep any day for they sleep dining the day as well as at nigh; and nometimes they sleep so soanl that along poll tickling their rita will not atouse them. Tee snn's surface it nearly 12,000 timeti, and its volume or bulk more than 1,30(1,000 times greater than that of the eartl . If the earth ia represented by a three-inch glebe, tho s in, on the same scale, will be more than twenty-seven feet :n diametor, and, itn distance 3,000 feet It the nun we re hollow, and the eartl . at its center, there would be room for the moon 5140,000 mues away, and for anot ler 190,000 miles beyond her. A uEi.BNED Swiss lias pointed out that a poplar, or other tall tree, may, if its root stt iko into the damp soil, serve as a ligtitntng condncto r to protect a house; and he thinku he ha-i verified the oonjecttre by examination of a number of individual cases of lightning stroke). In the case, however, where the house stamls t etwee n the tree und a piece of water, a pond, well or stream, the shortest rath for tlie lightning irom the tree to tlie iret conductor may be through the hontie.

Mormonism is to-day stronger, mors aggressive and more active than ov.From an adireat in San IVamitoa, bg

Dr. JewalW

OlfE of the most lingular mechanical operations imaginable is the making of gold wire for what is known as gold face. The refiner first prepares a solid rod of silver about an inai in thickness ; he beat) this rod, applies upon the surface a shjetof gold-leaf, burnishes this down, and so on, until tho ,jold is abont 100th part the thiokness if the silver. . The rod s then subjected to a train of process is vhich brings it down to the state of fine wire, when it is passed throngh holes in a steel plate lessening step by step in diameter. Tho gold never desertii the silver, but adheres closely to it, and shares id! its mutations ; it is 100th part the thickness of the silver at- the beginning, and it ( maintains the name ratio to the end. An to the thinness to which tbe gold-coated rod of silver can be brought, tbe limit depends on the delicacy of human skill. It has been calcilated, however, that the gold actually placed on the very finest silver wire for j old lace is not more than one-third of one-millionth of an inch in thickness ; that is, not above oie-tsnth tlie thickness of ordinary gold-leaf. A llabyle Woman'!, Weaving-. We cot down at the entrance of a dorlc, Btioky room. Tlie busy flngere wars alone distinct the threads of the loom forming a thin veil before her figure. The humble -minded artiit was weaving a dress with elaborate patterns; yet she had no desigi before bar to help, and moreover had to manufacture her own machine and ai range the threads.

I w is astonished at the simplicity of tne loom; the wnrp won fixed in an upright frame made of canet ; she used no shuttle, but passed the woof from side to side with her fingers, and jammed it home t-ght with a metal hand-comb moft laborious method of weaving. But because the mechanical meant, were rnd?, let not the reader imagine that the work was so, for exactly the reverse is tbe truth. She brought me as old dress made some years before, much used, but mot t beautiful in workmanship, design and color indeed, u a piece of color, it excelled alt other woven cloths that we saw in that part of tbe country. She was pant middle ago, and strength and 6ight Bccmed to be failing; she hail lost tho sight of one eye, sitting, ever working in that smoking e.tmosphere. A young and comely woman, probably her daughtjr, tending a sleeping babe, gently twinging its cradle slung from a beam in tbe roof. An I watched the figure of the veaver, distinct or half lost according as it approached or receeded from the web before it, while the busy fingers peepedont now ltere, now there, moving ceaselessly, I was remindsd of the description of tho h and-maids ia the Palace of Alcinous: ta nlv the loom : tbeii busy Angara move

Like poflar leaves when. ISepbrr fans thegrove. . . . , , . i ...

1 could not mup ccmLnsuug irer witu then ladies at horn who take part in tli movement for art needlework. I un

successfully attempteol to learn the nature of 'the dvet employed, and wes

shown some mysterious substances.

Jfotintain Xe in JLUftar .

A Bone That Did (feme "Awful Can

ning Xhinirs." Morses, ex I take it. is jest 'bout the

cutest critters a-iti.vin'," remarked old

Jerry, m he drew a i'.ttle nearer the fire; "sni," continued he, 'Tve seen 'em do som j awfuf cunnin' things. Onoet, durin'the late war, wo hecln't a sol'tary maim in the camp, an' we was in tliundeiin bad fix. when all at onoet an

idee struck me, an' I told th' boys I'd light one o' th' camp-lires quicker than tit' 'orthodox heresittair' could scorch a featier. Well, I j-es't waltzed out an'

got oi- 'iranee, wno was a powerrui kicker, an' fetohed liim rhrht np to whar

th' tire was already for to set a match to. Tbey was a big flir t rook nigh whar the kindlin' wood wero lyin', and I jest booked ol' Pranoer up clone to thet thar

reck, andoneo' th boys held 'is head

while X commenoea noKung mi iieeas with a rve-etraw. Onioker'n Jersey

applejaok'll make n man aee torchlight proceotuons, that thar hosa commenced kick in' agin that fh'nfe t ook, an' the sparks flew so thick th' boys bed a roarin' Ire in lew time then it takes t' tellit"

"And 'nother time, continued the

venerable narrator, seiirooly panning to take breath, "I think 'twere in tbe battle of Gettysburg the Ktlw was a beltia" th' hot ithot into our camp thicker 'n oold moltisses in January, when all 't onoet I

seed a shell a-comm', tight aa it could com ), right t'ward us. It struck nigh who;: I were, an' come a-rollin' t'ward me. I anspioioned every minute were my last when all 't onoet ol' Prancer turn ad 'round, an' jest liftin' his heels, sent thet shell a fly in' squsje book to the enemy's camp. Ye see, he kioked it a turrible whack, an' it full inaide the

enemy's line an' b'li.ted, an' killed mon t'n a doaen men. Our captain said

thet mr hoes havtn kiofced thet that

hell war a special prov aenoe, bat I ay 'twere pure munsrieas in the hoss,"

Ti e Great Growth of Mennonlsm. Tl e crrowth of the neot is absolutely

wonderful. In 1660 ite number was 40,000 ; in 1870, 8T.000 ; to-day it ia not lees than 250.000 in Utah and the ad

jacent Territories. Its progress has eclipsed even that of Methodism; and in tniito of the Pacific railroad-, the death of Brighom Young and the general spread of enlightenment nnd friction of ideas, all of which were oonftdcptiy tfjtpeeted to houton it decline,

Tint for Mm t Ry

" There is no question about it," said VIr. Crandal), the inventor, as tie sU in

his mechaniical study in Brooklyn, at work upon something new. "A flying machine can be TOnstrncted, and aa noon as I get to my mark m nwney making I am going to construct one. l am rare that I eaa do it Of course, the bird is the model, jusUn the fish . the mcdel for a I oat My notion i toniak a body, eg(;-shaped, out of rawtide, drawn over a model tr, d formed ybea wot, and to a aspend it beneath two l uge wings of papier-machel Those wiagtV of course, wi U be iiiade like a bird's. It has often piwled me to know how a bird, after making its first leap from the ground, monated higher and higher, I have, I am. mire, discovered the meelwav ical method, and I provide for it by tting the wingn with holes, and oovering the holes -on tho under side With thin shutters mads of light paper anil oen ing downward, so that when tlie Wing are raised ajruicst the air thejr will bt sieves, and the resistance of the air will be lessoned, mid when tisey are .lowered they will be" solidly against the air. These wings I should hate made upon a frame, working in a socket with ball joint where they touch the boat Now, a bird's body hangs bslaw its wings when it flies. So should the boat il flying machine. A biid can turn its wings almost at any angle. The man ia my flying machine can do the siuno thing by pressing orwnpetdiOa'Hrai' bottom of his boat He can thus have perfect control oi Discourse, andean shape it to any point of the compass." " What woidd be your moUvtBpower?" " ISlectricity. I would run tho wlag by an electric engine, ojKjrating a crook in the middle of .the boat I calculate that the rawhide boat would not weigh over ten noun 3, and that the ehnstrie engine would be of about he same weight The wings would be about fifteen, feet long, and tlie spread of tha: machine would depend upon the velocity at which ' these wings may be worked. See what a weight in tody the gossamer wing, of a humming bird carry, or the wirga of bumble bee. Yet they fly at great speed, because they move their wirtg with great rapiditv. I think that' wi th batteries of bottled electricity and the tiy electric engines of groat power the ilying machine is taken out of the eatejgtiryof dreams, and appeals to tbe inventive faculties of piactical men. "I believe that before another oentury is gone by men may have flying' toavchines on their housetops in Brooklyn, that thev can take a seat in them;; ton a tiny switch and put their feet upon t&air pedals, unfold a morning, paper, raw! cross over to Ke w York with as little ootvcern as they now feel in a ferryboat oc as they may some time, soer or U.'vf feel on the'bridgo. The plan is simtOe, Mid, as I am aot ready yet to begin A, I hope some ether inventor will tales it up." r New York Sun. The Pint Railroad West ef the AB ghenles. To Kentucky is the country iadebtett for the first liiilroad west of the AJUvghenies, and one of tho first built in thm United States, The road from Lexitigton to Louisville is oneof the erfdest railroads in the ocuintry, aud was chartered hv the State Igisloture on the 27th of January, 1830. as tlie "lxin,ton awt Ohio Railroad" Its name was ttuward changed to the "Iin8toa aud Frankfort "then later to "jruiovillc, Frank foil and Lexington," wad later Mill to . "Louisville, Cincininata and Lexington Railroad," by whioh: name it is now known. It was iutended that it should 6a bait fn.-the most subslwntial manner, lneteayd ef wooden crostieR, stone "rilfa" wwaaal lengthwise, to which theinwiMla'WW to le soldered. The first stone sill was laid ett the 241 of October, 18:11, in h preeew9of a large conconrs3 of people who ImK sembled to wttuess the ceremony. 'Th imposit.g ceremonies' attemdwgthe'rjrmsr pletion of the Union Pacific took plaow on tire 10th ol May, 1869, near theeadj of Gwat Salt Lake, where the Central Pacific, chartered by Csiifornia, and the Union Pacific, ntarttng from' the Miseotflti River, met, end were, in the preeenoo of an assembled crowds" the fast tieV-ef polished laurel wood, bound with eilre bauds was laid, audwasfiatened with mgold spike furnished by California, a silver one ftmuhed bv Nevada, and oe

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mriiisnea oy.vnzona. iuoKirw wia telegraph were, by a iireconoert'sd rrangement, ionnected with tbe sara sledge used to drive the last spike ; and, says- a coireioident sf the pre as, ,4' the intelligence that (he country had. been spanued by the railroad waa know at the instant of its aeMxmrrilishment in Suit Franci-wo and New York.". Bat ibis grand ohmax to nuroad p-'ogrese, awy out on the great plains of the far Went, presented a project which, in arir epcrieitce, was o;' far less magnitude th:i that inaugurated fifty years ago amid tlt strains of martiid music and thetiiundeir of artillery the laying of the "fliBtv stone sill" of a railroad design, to rtu fr;m tho littfe VUlife of Islington bathe Oaio River. The latter waa looked npon by many as an uuiana proj0t ild beyond the power of human entttrprite to accomplish; the former as hat tlie "culmination of railroad growth" of tUe perioil Lou isvilU Courier-JournaL Thus whale has sand. There are severn diffoieut sort of bomb-lawsee .to kill him with, and yet he doesn't JAibbir over it

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