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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. "Elast. Mr. Stewart, Secretary of the Brooklyn Board of Education, is nowhere to be found, and i a defaulter to the amount of $250,000. The Sunday code was practically a dead letter in New York last Sabbath, the usual avocations on the Sabbath being plied with immunity. Even alleged sacred concerts were given at many public resorts. s The New York Senate Committee on Grain Corners called before it Henry Ward Beecher, who expressed his conviction that the gomblingcarrled on by merchants is far less injurious to public morals than the effect produced by church fairs and religious lotteries. As to stock speculation, he got a liberal education by buying Panama railroad at S4OO and selling at SIOO. The press-house of Laflin & Rand’s powder manufactory at Mountain View, N. J.. blew uu causing the death of three men. James R. Keene, a speculator of twenty years’ experience, testified before the New York Senate committee that he never knew a corner in any production to work injuriously to the public. Ha thought the bucket-shop system should be crushed out by legislation, but legitimate speculation was of the greatest benefit to the people of the country. A steel-rail maker states that Pennsylvania mills have sold Vanderbilt 40,000 tons at 838.

A runaway couple from Oneida county, N. Y., named Thomas Doyle and Katie A. Morgan, were found to have been suffocated by gas in their room in a hotel in Rochester. Henry James, Sr., the philosopher and metaphysician, an associate of Greeley, Emerson and Thoreau on this side of the Atlantic, and of Carlyle, Mill and Tennyson on the other, died in Boston. Earthquakes are generally supposed to be luxuries within the reach only of dwelleM in tropical climes, but the people of Concord, Dover and other towns in New Hampshire were the other evening treated to a genuine shock, which lasted some eight or ten seconds and was accompanied by a rumbling noise. Lewis Thompson, a mulatto, 81 years of age, the first man ever committed to Sing Sing prison, has been sent back for six months for stealing a door-mat in New York. Over forty years of his life have been passed behind grated windows. The City Bank of Rochester, N. Y., has closed its doora Its President, Charles E. Upton, got on the wrong side of the oil market and sunk $350,000 of the bank’s money in trying to get even. Several small savings institutions in Kochester deposited with the City Bank, and many poor people will suffer by its failure. W est. Lieut. Col. George W. Schofield, of the regular army, a brother of Gen. John M. Schofield, committed suicide at Fort Apache Kansas reports an increased acreage in winter wheat, with the crop in tine condition. Judge Clinton Briggs, of Omaha, was killed by falling, as is supposed, from the platform of an eastward-bound express train, near Afton, lowa Sparks from a locomotive at Kansas City started a conflagration which swallowed up the Missouri Pacific freight-house, the Ft ate Line elevator and nine freight-cars, causing a loss of SBO,OOO. Hon. Godlove S. Orth died at Lafayette, Ind., of blood poisoning superinduced by cancer. He is the sixth member of the present Congress who has passed away. Mr. Orth was 65 years of age. For the year ended June 30 the railroads in Wisconsin earned $18,765,4’28, an increase of $3,300,000 over I-SSI. During the above-named period 100 persons were killed by accidents, and 371 were injured. The farm-house of John Clark, in Linn county, Kan., was burned and three small children perished in the flames. Clark had removed two children,and while he was searching for a third the other two wandered back in the house and all were consumed.

South. • The cotton report for December shows a large percentage of increase in some States of the cotton belt, and approximates the crop at 6,700,000 bales of 460 pounds each. Southern matrimonial associations to the number of 240 have been placed on the black list of the Postoffice Department Flames broke out iu a restaurant at Newport, Ark., and spread until sixty business buildings were destroyed The loss is estimated at $250,000. James Lyons, an octogenarian of Richmond, Va, who was a member of the Confederate Congress, died the other day. At Hazel Dell, Texas, two brothers named Fraley, charged with stealing cotton, were swung up to the limb of a tree. The medical students and their assistants recently caught while robbing graves near Richmond, Va., were sentenced to six months’ imrisonment each. It is believed that the cotton crop will be fully 7,000,000 bales, and labor is so scarce along the Mississippi that much of the staple will be w'asted A Mrs. Pigeon (supposed [to be Mrs. Labouchere), who was married in England, entered suit for divorce at Richmond, Va In a hail-storm near Huntsville,. Ala., Dean's milling-house was blown down, killing Albert Driden and four negro women who had sought shelter. Three or four others were slightly wounded

WASHINGTON NOTES. A bill for $3,100 for the funeral expenses of Ben Hill was presented to the

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Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, who sent it back for a fair pruning. The United States Supreme Court has rendered a decision in the political assessment case of Gen. N. M. Curtis. The constitutionality of the law under which Gen.. Curtis was convicted is affirmed, and the petition for a writ of habeas corpus denied. The House Pension Committee has agreed to report a bill giving $8 per month to soldiers engaged for thirty days in the Mexican, Blackhawk or Florida wars, or to their Widows, Jeff Davis alone to be excepted from the provisions of the measure. The Finance Committee of the Senate does not expect to be ready to report the. Tariff bill before jhe middle of January. The Senate Committee on Railroads has agreed to make a favorable report on the bill authorizing the Southern Pacific and other railroads to consolidate into a continuous line from ocean to ocean.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Propositions to wipe away internalrevenue taxes on tobacco have almost paralyzed that great interest Southern Congressmen are especially clamorous for some settlement of the issue. The Clearing House statistics show that Chicago is still hugging Philadelphia closely in the amount of financial transactions. The coast of Newfoundland has just been visited by the worst storm of fifty years. The blow lasted twenty-four hours, wrecked numbers of vessels, and caused the loss of some thirty or forty human lives. Fifteen vessels were wrecked at Twillingate alone, and some fifteenpeople were drowned. The sailors whose ships were fortunate enough to ride out of the storm describe the sight as the most fearful they ever looked upon at sea r l’he descendants of William Blackmore, who settled on this side of the Atlantic in Colony times, claim heirship to the ground upon which stands the United States Capitol Building, the White House, Treasury, Navy and other Government buildings, and hundreds of fine dwellings and business houses, as well as thousands,of acres of land in Georgetown, I). Maryland, and. Washington county. Pa The principal claimants live in Pittsburgh, and the papers have been drawn up for the institution of an ejectment suit All the city officials of Ahuucaltar, Mexico, were abducted by' brigands, and are now held for ransom. Trenor W. Park, the original proprietor of the Emma mine, in Utah, and President of the Panama railroad, died ou a steamer bound for Aspinwall. A fire at Pembroke, Ont., consumed the Copeland Hotel and au adjoining Mock. Three persons were burned to death, and property to the amount of 8100,000 was destroyed. Yee Ot, who made a fortune in the laundry business at Allegheny City, has returned to China to marry his cousin. The matter has caused a vast amount of talk. Secretary Folger was appealed to, and decided that under the last law the bride cannot be brought here. A large meeting of iron manufacturers was held at Pittsburgh, at which the condition of the trade was reported to be fairly good and the prospects for next season unclouded. The convention unanimously indorsed the Tariff Commission’s report, and urged the present Congress to make it a law.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Democrats of the Seventeenth Ohio district have .nominated Ross J. Alexander to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Updegraff. Gov. Porter, of Indiana, has called a special election for Jan. 9 in the Ninth Congressional district, to choose a successor to Hon. Godlove 8. Orth. Gen. Curtis was discharged from custody at New York upon payment of a fine of SI,OOO inflicted for collecting political assessments.

FOREIGN NEWS. At a banquet given in Cork to Par- j nell, O’Connor and Sexton, a stranger pro- I posed the health of the Queen of the Belgians, and drew a revolver on the officer who seized him. During the last eleven months the exports of France increased ' 147,000,000 francs and the imports 106,000,000 francs over the corresponding period of 1881. - The changes in the British Cabinet have been completed Earl Derby becomes Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Kimberley Secretary for India, the Marquis of Hartington Secretary of War, and Mr. Childers Chancellor of the Exchequer. A fire causing the death of nine persons occurred in the town of Le Puy, France. The Rev. Francis Close, Dean of Carlisle, and one of the dignitaries of the English Church, is dead An unknown vessel was wrecked on the coast of Kincardineshire, Scotland, and all hands perished Eight hundred houses in Canton, China, were destroyed by a conflagration on Nov. 7 and 8. Many firemen and others were burned to death. Nearly 3,000 persons' in Carrick, Donegal county, Ireland, are in danger of starvation. Indian meal is the only article of food to be had Mr. Parnell, in a speech at Cork, expressed the opinion that there had been already saved upward of £3,(XX),IKK) in arrears of rent, and further announced his intention of opposing any proposition to encourage the Irish to emigrate to America unless they were given a bonus which would enable them to land on this side of the water with enough funds to keep them from becoming a burden upon the communitv. At Loughrea, Ireland, a number of aborers paraded the streets, asserted they were starving and demanded food or work. The Catholic Bishop distributed some money among them. According to advic s from Berlin the greatest uneasiness prevails in financial circles there, the cause being the strained relations between Ger>>”>nv and Russia arising out of the gathering of Russian soldiers on the Galician frontier. • Bismarck has recently caused to be published a number of articles insisting that the Austro-German alliance is for purely defensive purposes, and the warlike movement of the Russians is considered as a practical protest against thia Upward of twenty women were killed by the explosion of a cartridge factory near Paris. The Czar has deferred until autumn the tour he intended to take next spring. Joseph Reichardt, a Vienna leather

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merchant, has failed, with iM 4000, liabilities. In the election for Spanish Crnncils General the Government was everywhere successful Mr. Bontoux, late President of the Union Generale Bank of Paris, and M. Feder, the manager, have been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of 3,000 franca Forty young farmers were arrested for connection with a proclaimed meeting at Ballymena in Antrim. Bail w r as refused. Michael Davitt attributes the death of the Land League to the commission of outrages and murder, which excite the English mind and prejudice it against land reformation in Ireland. Michael Flynn, upon being convicted at Dublin of murder, thanked the Judge when he had pronounced sentence of death, asserted his willingness to meet his Creator, and bade all goofl-day. Overdank, the Austrian bomb manufacturer, was hanged at Trieste.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Seven men attempted, to rob a Texas and Pacific train at a water-tank 150 miles this side of El Paso, but a squad of State rangers on board opened fire and drove the robbers to the brush. Eastern manufacturers of all descriptions of iron, at a meeting at Philadelphia, while not approving the changes proposed by the Tariff Commission, expressed the belief that the reductions would not paralyze the industries affected. A negro in Brooklyn, named Alexander Jefferson sent the contents a doublebarreled shot-gun through the window of a residence, killing Henry Hicks and wounding Celestial Jefferson. He then entered the house, cut Mrs. Emma Jefferson’s throat and severely slashed Annie Jackson. A loss of $85,000 was incurred at Oswego, N. Y., by the burning of the Mansard block and the Union Hotel The Commercial Advertiser building at Buffalo and Miller & Greiver’s grocery house aftd, other structures adjoining were destroyed by fire. 'The loss is placed at $300,000. Gen. Stone, late chief of staff of the Egyptian army, has resigned his commission and intends to return to the United States. Twenty persons were killed in the Hardenburg mine in Prussia by the fall of a cage on which they were descending. Prince Kraptokine, the Nihilist, was arrested at Lyons, France, on the cViarge of belonging to a society whose objects were to overthrow social order by mean t of pillage and assassination. ./ A Dayton dispftK'h chronicles the death of Bear Admiral James F. Schenck, retired, who entered the naval service in 18’21 as a Midshipman on the Hornet. The auction-house of W. H. Hagarty & Sops, St. Louis, was ruined by fire, and, as considerable damage was done to adjacent buildings, the loss is placed at SISO,(XX). A murderer who has been in the Michigan State prison for sixteen years piled the contents of his cell against the door, poured over them the oil in his lamp and applied a match. As he was naked it took but a few moments to literally bake him. Senator Logan has prepared a bi 1] for the reorganization of the signal service which provides in effect that .it -h ill be transferred to the control of the Interior Department, and that civilians shrill be employed instead of enlisted men a ; signaling officers. Mr. Logan claims that it is unfair to debit the army with the cost of the signal service.

How Not to Talk to Children.

One day I sat in -a car seat on the Eastern road behind a pale, care-worn lady who was taking a little boy from Bostoji to Malden. As the little boy was of a very inquiring mind, and everything seemed to attract his attention, I could not help listening to some of his questions. “What is that, auntie?” the little boy commenced, pointing to a stack of hay on the marsh. “Oh, that’s hay, dear,” answered the care-worn lady. “What is hay, auntie?” “ Why, hay is hay, dear.” “But what is hay made of?” “Why, hay is made of dirt sind water and air.” “Who makes it?” “God makes it, dear.” “Does he make it in the day time or in the night ?” “In both, dear.” “And Sundays?” “Yes, all the time.” “Ain’t it wicked to make hay on Sunday, auntie?” “O, I don’t know. I’d keep still, Willie, that’s a dear. Auntie is tired.” After remaining quiet a moment, little Willie broke out: “Where do the stars come from, auntie ?” “I don’t know, nobody knows.” “Did the moon lay ’em?” “Yes, I guess so,” replied the wicked lady. « “Can the moon lay eggs, too ?” “I suppose so. Don’t bother me!” A short silence, w hen Willie broke out again: “Benny says oxins is a owl, auntie, is they?” O, perhaps so!” “I think a whale could lay eggs—don’t you, auntie ?” “O, yes—l guess so,” said the shameless woman. “Did vou ever see a whale on his nest?” “0,1 guess so!” “Where?” “I mean no. Willie, you must be quiet; I’m getting crazy!” “What makes you crazy, auntie?” “O,dear! you ask so many questions.” “Did you ever see a little fly eat sugar ?” “Yes, dear.” “Where?” “Willie, sit down on the seat and be still, or I’ll shake you. Now, not another word!” And the lady pointed her finger sharply at the little boy, as if she was going to stick it through him. If she had been a wicked woman she would have sworn. There are eight million little boys like Willie in the United States.— Brockton Gazette.

A man who imagines he has solved the problem of perpetual motion is always an object of commiseration to his friends; but with how much pity must the resident of Ware, Massachusetts, be regarded, who thinks lie has invented three perpeutal motion machines.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.

Explosion of Three Boilers in an Agricultural Manufactory at Canton, Hl. The Building Demolished and Nine Workmen Killed. Nine men were killed at Canton, HL, by the explosion of a boiler in the agricultural implement works of Parlin & Orendorff. The building was nearly torn to pieces and then set on fire. We glean the following particulars of the shocking accident from dispatches telegraphed from Canton to the Chicago papers: At about 7:10 o’clock a deafening sound was heard, and buildings throughout the city shaken from the foundations up, causing the people to rush to their doors to learn the cause of the unusual occurrence. In a very short time afterward the fire-bell sounded an alarm, and a dense volume of smoke and steam was observed over the extensive agricultural-implement works of the Parlin & Orendorff Company, located on Elm street, in the east part of the city. It was at once inferred that the shops were on fire—people not imagining the awful catastrophe that had just occurred. Three large boilers, which supplied the manufactory with motive and heating power, had exploded, scattering death and destruction and completely demolishing the brick engine and boiler room. The extent of the calamity could not be seen from the street, the boiler-house being located on the south side of the north wing of the building, which is three stories high. The force of the explosion tore out about forty feet of the brick wall of the three-story section, the brick and debris falling directly upon the wreck of the engine and boiler room, and breaking all the windows in the north side of the building. In the ruins could be seen the bodies of some of the workmen, and it soon transpired that others were missing. The fire company, which was promptly on hand, soon extinguished the flames that had burst forth in the ruins, and, with the assistance of hundreds of citizens, commenced the mournful task of removing the dead and wounded as rapidly as they could be got at. Six lifeless bodies were removed, and three more were taken out before life was entirely extinct. Two of the latter did not "regain consciousness, one of them dying while he was being carried home, another living but a short time after his removal to the office of the company, and the third, who was conscious for several hours, expired at 4 o’clock this afternoon, making the total number of deaths from the explosion nine. William McCamey, engineer, crushed out of shape; found lying across the engine, with his oil-can in his hand. Lemuel Hunnicut, fireman, burned and mangled horribly. Hiram Palmer, crushed and scalded William Miller, crushed to death; founct a circular-saw table, with a stick of timber in his hands, in the work-room, just in the rear of the boilers. Archie Henderson, crushed and scalded so as to be almost unrecognizable. Alexander Nickerson, literally cooked ■ Joshua Oldham, burned to a crisp on the arms; head crushed and scalded all over. Robert McGrath, the last man taken from the ruins, was crushed and cooked into an almost shapeless mass, one foot hanging by shreds of skin, bowels crushed out, aucl bones all broken. Samuel Bell fearfully scalded and bruised about the head and chest Only two persons in addition to those killed" received injuries—Calvin Armstrong and Joe Drake being slightly Injured by bruises and scalds. The cause of the explosion is a mystery, and will probably never be known. Two of the boilers were "torn into small pieces and scattered all over the yard. The third boiler was one-half blown away and the other half forced through the partition wall into the woodwork-room adjoining. Pieces of the boilers were hurled a distance of 10V yards.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

Mr. Voorhees addressed the Senate In opposition to the Pendleton Civil Service bill on the 16th inst He said (he bill provided for admission of competitive examination to only the lowest grade of public offices. Therefore the treatment of the bill in the Senate seemed to him to be “much ado about nothing.” The zeal of the Republicans for a reform of the civil service seemed to result from deathbed repentance, which was brought about not by hatred of their sins, but by fear that they would not be allowed to indulge in them 'much longer, and the Democrats were soothing the sufferings of the deathbed with the esthetic gruel of politics. Who had ever heard of any political scandals occurring among lower-grade clerks’ They were not the public officers who figured in star-route or whisky-ring transactions. Yet this bill proposed to examine and regulate and replace these poor minor officials, leaving the strong, arrogant, corrupt higher officers undisturbed. The real demand of the people was for penal laws to punish wrongdoers in high places, not for contrivances to wrong poor clerks. An amendment to the measure by Mr. Brown to limit the term of the Commissioners to four years was lost. The House devoted the day in committee of the whole to the Postoffice Appropriation bill Mr. Sherman presented a bill in the Senate, on the 18th inst, to extend for two years the time in which spii'rts must be withdrawn from bonded warehouses. Mr. Plumb reported a measure to authorize the sale to settlers of part of the Fort Dodge reservation. The provisions of the Indian Appropriation bill, which sets aside $6,625,000, were explained by Mr. Dawes, and several amendments reported by the Senate committee were adopted. Mr. Brown stated that the committee appointed to attend the funeral of Ben H. Hill expended only $1,025. The House resolution in regard to the death of Mr. Orth called out tributes of respect, and caused an adjournment The President nominated to the Senate John F. Gimsted, of the District of Columbia, to be Commissioner of the District. In the House, the desk of the late Hon. Godlove 8. Orth was draped in mourning, and the Chaplain alluded to his death in tender phrases. Mr. Butterworth offered a resolution reciting the injury done the tobacco trade by the proposition to reduce the tax, and pledging the House to grant a rebate on unbroken packages should the tax be repealed. Mr. Kelley reported back unfavorably the resolution for a holiday recess, arid it was voted down by 105 to 123. A resolution offered by Mr. Robeson, to impose a fine of SSO per day on members absent during the holidays, was adopted. Mr. Logan presented a bill in the Senate, Dec. 19, which was referred to the Judiciary Committee, regulating charges to be made by telegraph companies. It provides that such corporations must transmit messages for other companies in the same business at the same rates as are charged the public. The understanding is that the bill rs aimed at the Western Union, which has been in the habit of levying a prohibitory tariff on messages given to it by the Mutual Union. It is also alleged that the Western Union has been charging a royalty on Atlantic cable messages. A similar' bill was introduced in the House by Mr. Joyce, of Vermont. Mr. Sherman presented a memorial in the Senate asking that monthly publications be carried by mail at the same rate as weeklies. The Indian Appropriation bill was passed with an amendment directing the removal of the Crow Agency to the vicinity of ' Fort Custer. The bill to extend the time for the withdrawal of distilled spirits in bond was called up by Mr. Sherman. Mr. Ingalls secured an amendment for the collection of 5 per cent, interest after the expiration of three years from entry. Mr. McPherson offered a resolution for a rebate in case the tax on tobacco is reduced. In the House of Representatives, a bill was introduced to limit the number of liquor saloons in the District of Columbia to 200. Mr. Mills offered a resolution inquiring of the Postmaster General if letter-carriers had been prohibited from wearing overcoata A number of requests for leave of absence having been presented, it was voted, by 177 to HI, to adjourn from Dec. ii to Jan. 2. Bills were introduced—to pre-

vent Federal officeholders from Interfering with the freedom of elections, to stop the importation of adulterated tea, to annul the anti-polygamy law and to repeal the statute for the pre-emption of public lands. A resolution was adopted that the Garfield Board of Audit report all claims presented and allowed. The Postoffice Appropriatin bill was considered in committee of the whole and the relations of the Pacific roads to the Government were fully explained. The Senate passed the Consular Appropriation bUTDec. 20. Mr. Saunders, by request, introduced an act for the admission of Utah as a State, and a bill for the construction of a bridge across the Missouri directly between < )maha and (’ouncil Bluffs. When the Civil Service bill came up, Mr. Pendleton offered an amendment striking out the provision that original entrance to the service shall be in the lowest grade. This provoked a free-for-all talking match, in which several Senators tired out their tongues, when an executive session came to their relief. The House passed a bill to permit retired armv officers to hold civii offices in the Territories, after rejecting an amendment to cover their retired pay into the treasury. The Postoftice Appropriation bill was passed. Mr. Lynch offered a resolution to extend the provisions of the Pension Appropriation bill to enlisted colored men. A proposition for a holiday recess was voted down by the Senate, Dec. 21. The Agricultural Appropriation bill was passed Petitions were presented for a rebate on tobacco, for the repeal of all taxes on that article, and for immediate action on the Bonded Whisky bill Mr. Bayard gave notice that he would"endeavor to quiet apprehension in the. tobacco business by pressing a tobacco rebate resolution. Mr. Saunders offered a resolution in favor of reserving ail Government lands for actual settlement In the House. Mr. Kelley reported a resolution for a rebate on tobacco in stock hi the, event of a reduction of the tax, and Mr. Kasson presented a substitute affirming "that the only reduction made will be that provided lor in the bill now pending. The Speaker presented a report by the Collector of Customs at Sitka, justifying the bombardment of an Indian tillage by the revenue schooner Corwin. The Armv Appropriation bill, which sets aside $24,681,700, was considered in committee of the whole. Mr. Hewitt argued in raver ot giving land-grant railroads for transportation only half what is paid by private parties, and Messrs. Hiscock, Robinson and Butterworth antagonized his position.

Elisabetta Sirani.

Among the followers of Guido Reni, this Young woman, who died when but twenty-five years old, is conspicuous for her talents and interesting on account of the story of her life. She was the daughter of a reputable artist, and was born at Bologna about 1649. She was certainly very industrious, since one of her biographers names one hundred and fifty pictures and etchings made by her, and all these must have been done within a period of about ten years. Much has l>een said of the ease and rapidity with which she worked; one anecdote relates that on an occasion when it happened that the Duchess of Brunswick, the Duchess of Miraudola, ami Duke Cosimo de’ Medici, with other persons, all met at her studio, she astonished and delighted them by the ease ami skill with which she sketched and shaded drawings of the subjects which one after another named to her. The story of her life, aside from her art, gives an undying interest to her name, and insures her remembrance for all time. In person she was beautiful, and the sweetness of her character and manner won for her the love of all those who were associated with her. She was also a charming singer, and was ever ready to give pleasure to her friends. Her admiring biographers also commend her taste in dress, which was very simple; and they even go so far as to praise her for her moderation in eating! She was well skilled in all domestic matters, and would rise at daybreak to perform her lowly household duties, never allowing her art to displace the homely occupations which properly, as she thought, made a part of her life. Elisabetta Sirani’s name has come down through two hundred and seventeen years as one whose “devoted filial affection, feminine grace, and artless benignity of manner added a luster to her great talents, and completed a personality which her friends regarded as an ideal of perfection.” The sudden death of this artist has added a tragic element to her story. The cause of it has never been known, but the theory that she died from poison, has been very generally accepted. Several reasons for this crime have been given: one is, that she was sacrificed to the jealousy of other artists, as Domenichino had been; another belief was that a princely lover, whom she had treated with scorn, had taken her life because she had dared to place herself, in her lowly station, above his rank and power. A servant girl named Lucia Tolonielli, who had been long in the service of the Sirani family, was suspected and tried for this crime. She was sentenced to banishment; but, after a time, Elisabetta’s father requested that Lucia should be allowed to return, as he had no reason for believing her guilty. And so the mystery of the cause of her death has never been solved; but its effect upon the whole city of Bologna, where it occurred, is an exact matter of history. The entire people felt a personal loss in her death, and the day of her burial was one of general mourning. The ceremonies of her funeral were attended with gr eat pomp, and she was buried beside her master, Guido Reni, in the chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary, in the magnificent Church of the Dominicans. Poets and orators vied with one another in sounding her praises, and a book published soon after her death, called “HPennello Lagrimato,” is a collection of orations, sonnets, odes, anagrams, and epitaphs in both Latin and Italian, all telling of the love for her which filled the city, and describing the charms and virtues of this gifted artist. Her portrait is in the Ercolani Gallery at Bologna.— “ Stories of Art and Artists,” by Mrs. Clement, in St. Nicholas. A member of a certain church was laid aside by illness, and complained bit’erly to his pastor that only one or two persons had come to see him. “My friend,” said the minister, “jAm have bee.i a professing Christian for thirty years. During this long time how many sick have you visited?” “Oh,” he replied, “it never struck me in that light. I thought of only the relation of others to me, and not of my relation to them." The United States Commissioner of Education gives figures to show that in ten years private benevolence in this country has given for educational purposes no less than $61,374,060, and this does not include the recent gifts of Slater and others, amounting to $8,000,000. The largest sum in any single year was $11,226,000 in 1873, and the smallest $3,015,000 in 1877. School swings banks are to be introduced in lowa.

A MOURNFUL RECORD.

A Cbr<.niele of the Noted Men and Women Who Have Died During 1882. We present below a list of the prominen 1 people of the world who have died during the vear 1882: JANUARY 3. —William Harrison Ainsworth, famous English novelist. 4. —Clement C. Clay, ex-Benator from Alabama; John W. Draper, the eminent author. 5. John Phillips Putnam, Judge of the Superior Court of New' York. 7.—Richard H. Dana, Jr., eminent jurist and author. Edward W. Stoughton, lawyer and ex Minister to Russia. Judge Pierpont, of the Vermont Supreme Court. Rev. John Cotton Smith, New' York, eminent preacher and writer. Hi—D. A. Goddard, editor of Boston Daily Adv.-rtuur. 13.—Caroline Richings Bernard, famous opera singer. 15. Jared Macy, noted philanthropist, at New York. I<l Hon. John J. Stewart, one of Maryland’s most prominent men. 21. —Gen. Silas Casey, retired army officer, at New York 23. —Hon. Clarkson N. Potter, a distinguished public man of New York. 25. —Hon. Edmund Burke, ex-Congressman and an old-time Democratic jioliticiau in New' Hampshire. 26. —Gen. Robert B. Mitchell, a conspicuous figure in the war of the rebellion and an ex-Con gr essm an. 27. —Theophilus Parsons, eminent lawwriter and professor at Harvard University. 29. Alexander Holley, an eminent engineer. 30. —Rev. Dr. Henry W. Bellows, an prominent New York divine. D. W. Waller, a veteran actor. George Williamson, ex-Minister to Central America and a prominent citizen of Louisiana. FEBRUARY4.—Thomas J. Durant, a well-know n Wash ington lawver. 7. —Ex-Congressman Elijah Ward, of NewYork. 8. —Judge Charles Fox, the oldest member of the Cincinnati bar. 9. —William Milter, aged 98, the oldest Mason in the United States, at Caldw ell, Ohio. Berthold Auerbach, the famous German novelist. 13. Robert Ayres, one. of the lour men in Jefferson county, Ky., who in 1860 voted for Abraham Lincoln. 14. —Bishop Wightman, of rhe M. E. Church South; John E. McDonough, a well-known actor. 16. —Joseph Sheffield, founder of the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale College. A. B. Meacham, of Modoc massacre fame. 24. —Catholic Bishop Lynch, at Charleston, & C. 25. —Robert H. Pruyn, a prominent New Yorker, at Albany. 27.—Mrs. Caroline Leroy Webster, widow of the great statesman," Daniel Webster, aged 85.

MARCH 4. Milton S. Latham, ex-United States Senator and ex-Governor of California. 6. —Dr. Joseph Pancoast, an eminent Philadelphia physician 5. Henry C. Pindell, a leading lawyer of Louisville, Ky. 24.—Henry W. Longfellow, poet and literateur. Rear’Admiral Scott, of the navy. 28.—Hon. Stephen A. Hurlbut, United States Minister to Peru. APRIL. 8. Maj. Charles W. How ell. United States Engineers, at New Orleans. 4. Maj. Jack Wharton, United States Marshal for Louisiana 5. —Dr. Max Lilenthal, of Cincinnati, a distinguished Jewish rabbi. 9. —Elisha R. Potter, a distinguished jurist of Rhode Island. 10. —Congressman Thomas Allen, of St Louis, Mo. 11. Mrs. Ida Greeley Smith, eldest daughter of Horace Greeley. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. eminent English author and jiaiuter. 15'—Michael Hannan, Archbishop of Halifax. 17. —Ex-Congressman O. J. Dodds, ot" Cincinnati, Ohio. Capt. John W. Cannon a famous Southern steamboatman. Ex-Congress-man Samuel C. Fessenden, of Maine. 20.—Charles R. Darwin, author of the theory of natural selection in nature. 2:2.—Gen. W. L Burt, a leading citizen of Massachusetts. 24.—Capt. Robert Baldwin, the oldest steamboatman on the Ohio river. 27. Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet and philosopher. 28. —John T. Hodgen, un eminent surgeon of St Louis, Mo.

MAY. 3.—Horace Maynard, ex-Postmaster Gen eral, and lor many years a member of Congress from Tennessee. 6.—Hon. 'F. 11. Sweetzer, a prominent Massachusetts lawyer. 14. Ex-Gov. Cailwallader C. Washbume, of Wisconsin. Gen. Joseph G. Barnard, for many years at the head of the United States Department of Euginees. 15. —Gen. Kauffman, a distinguished officer of the Russian military service. 16. —James Vick, the "well-known seed-man, of Rochester, N. Y. 21.—Moses Taylor, a merchant millionaire of New York. 27.—William Barton Rogers, of Boston, a distinguished scientist JUNE. 2.—Gen. Garibaldi, the Italian patriot Commander Terry, United States navy. 15. —Ex-Gov. "William Denison, of Ohio. 29. —Congressman IL M. A. Hawk, of Carroll. HL 30. —Wilson McCandless, a distinguished Judge of Pennsylvania. JULY. I. Ichabod Godwin, the first w'ar Governor of New Hampshire. 6.—Skobeleff, a famous Russian General. 9.—Ex-Gov. John B Alvarado, of California, 11. Bishop Levi Scott, of the M. E. church. 16. Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the late President Lincoln. 20. —Miss Fannie Parnell, sister of the Irish agitator. 21. —George P. Marsh, American Minister to Home. 23. —John C. Hamilton, of New York, a son of Alexander Hamilton. 24. —Aaron C. Burr, of New York, adopted son of Aar on Burr.

AUGUST. I. Gen. Barstow, of Maryland, a retired army officer. 4. Artemus Hale, of Rockton, Mass., the oldest ex-member of Congress. 5. Charles A. Vogeler, patent medicine man of Baltimore, the biggest advertiser in the United States. 7. Hear Admiral David 8. McDougall, United States navy. 9. —Gen. G. K. Warren, of the United States army. 11. Ex-Senator George R. Dennis, of Maryland. I&—Jesse Hoyt, millionaire merchant of New York. 14.—Prof. William Stanley Jevons, a distinguished English writer and philosopher. 16. —Senator Benj. H. Hill, of Georgia. 24.—Dr. George W. Musgrave, of Philadelphia, an eminent Presbyterian divine. 26. —Timothy Bailey, inventor of the knitting machine/at Ballston, N. Y. 27. W. H. Allen, President of Girard University. SEPTEMBER. Si—E. 8. Sanford, Vice President of the Adams Express Company. 8. —Ex-Gov. Isaac Murphy, of Arkansas. 11.—Moses Williams, a very wealthy Bostonian. 14. Dr. Pusey, a very celebrated English churchman. 17. —Sir James Anderson, physician to Queen Victoria. 18. —Dean Wellesley, Chaplain to Queen Victoria. 26.—F. C. Beaman, ex-Congressman and a distinguished citizen of Michigan. OCTOBER. 4.—Adelaide Phillips, a celebrated vocalist 10. Congressman William M. Lowe, of Alabama 18. —Samuel C. Davis, leading dry-goods merchant of St Louis, Mo. 15. Count Napoleon Ney, son of the famous Marshal Ney. 17.—Frank Queen, publisher of the New York Cliirper. 19. —John D. Defrees, ex-Public Printer. Ex-Congressman Edward Hammond, of Maryland. "20.—Robert Paine, senior Bishop of the Methodist Church South. 21.—Ex-Gov. E. A Straw, of New Hampshire. ’

$1.50 uer Annum.

NUMBER 48.

22.—Ex-Congressman John Hanna, of Indiana 27.—Alexander Hamilton, an eminent St Louis lawver. NOVEMBER. 2.—Rear Admiral Charles H. Poor, United States navy. 4.—Rudolph Hoffman, celebrated German painter. 2ft—Prof. Henry Draper, eminent scientist 24.—Gen. Daniel Tyler, retired army officer, at-New York. •M— Hon. James S. Pike, a prominent Maine editor. 20.—Congressman J. T. Updegraff, of Ohio. Congressman A. 8. Herron, of Louisiana. Thurlow Weed, eminent in journalism and politics. 80.—Samuel Remington, President of the Remington Arms Company; Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, an old-time politician and prominent citizen of Ohio. DECEMBER. 2.—Rear Admiral Wyman, United States naw. 4. Rt Rev. Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury. 5. —Louis Blanc, a prominent French editor and political leader. Von Flotow, the famous operatic composer. ff—Ex-Congressman Worcester, of Ohio, a brother of the lexicographer. Anthony Trollope, celebrated English novelist B. W. F. Blakeney, inventor of the turbine wheel Sir Hugh Allan, the great Canadian ship-builder. <i.—Josiah A. Noonan, once a prominent citizen of Wisconsin. 11.—William Gailignani, a famous Purls journalist. Iff—lion. Godlove H. Orth. Congressman from Indiana Iff—Robert Onld, a prominent citizen of Richmond, Va. 18.—James Lyons, of Richmond, Va., conspicuous in the affairs of the Confederate Government. Rev. Francis Close, Dean of Carlisle Eng. Iff—Trevor W. Park, a wealthy Vermonter original owner of the celebrated Emma mine. 20. —Henry James, of Boston, essayist and philosopher. 21. —Rear Adndral Schenck, of the navy.

THE CENTENARIAN DEATH-ROLI OF 1882.

During the year 1882 public recoi l was made of forty-three deaths in the . JJnileu States of persons more than 100 years old. Of these, twenty were men and twenty-three were women. The oldest of these was Mrs. Sarah Wood, of Buford, Ga.. who passed away in December, at the extraordinary age of llh years. Following is the list of the centenarians who have died duiiug tin-year, together with their ages and places of residence : Samuel Bickley, Flint, Mich.—Age, I<>U James Isom, Richmond, Ky.—lo 2. Peter Mankins, Fayetteville, Ark.—lll. Catherine Brearton, Cincinnati, 0.—102. Judith Twombly, Lowell, Mass.—loß. Elvira Sullivan,'Dallas, Tex—l6s. o Catherine Brancli, Boston, Mass,—ll2. Judy Powell (colored), Pittsburgh, Pa. —ll3. Mitchell Forteax, Shelby, Mich.—llo. Abigail Alden, Bridgewater. Mass.—lo 2. Travis Murphy, St Charles, M 0.—104. Winifred Lally, Chicago, 111.—1 Off Mary McElroy, Greensburg-, Ind. Bernard Duffy, Buffalo, N. Y.—lol. Simon Frazer,' Troy, N. Y. —1"5. Ann Collins, Buffalo, N. Y.—107. Albert C. Bogart, Paterson, N J.—102. Elizabeth Treadwell, Gree.ntield, N. H.— 104. John Springer, Marietta, Ohio—1( 8. George Imhoff, Richmond, Ind.—lo 7. Matthew Robinson, Lafayette, Ind.—loß. John Ash, Eaton county, Mich.—lol William Miller, Henry county, Ky.—Biff Abigail Burbank, Warren, Mass.—loo. Mrs. William Bearing, Perry county, Alu. —lO7. Adam Hedgeox (colored), McKinney, Tex. -120. Charity Howard, Pine Bluff, Ark. —llO. Hui dan Robertson, Bethel, Vt.—lo 3. Mary Austin, Indianapolis, Ind.—lo*. Lucy Pickett, Saugatuck, Mich.—lls. Don Santiago Ortiz, Ysleta, Tex.—l Iff Angus McDonald, Montreal, Canada—loß. Daniel Webster (colored), Philadelphia, Pa. —lO5. Mrs. Ruth Freeland, Rapid City, lll.—lol. Mourning Ranielv (colored),St. Joseph, Mo. —lls. Hannah Smith, Brooklyn, N. Y.—lOU Anna Spence, New York City—los, Isaac Newsbaum, Wabash, Ind.—lo 7. Abigail Hull, Trempealeau county, Wis.— 100. Patrick Hanlon, Chicago, 111.—101. c Amv Robinson (colored), Philadelphia, Pa. —115.' Maria Appleby, Morristown, N. J.— Sarah Wood. Buford, Ga.—l2l.

The Lion in Art.

No animal has been treated so variously as the lion. Seeing that he is a beast showing little difference of type —not having been given over to the dilettantism of the breeder who has done so much for the race-horse, nor to the experiments of the servant who has played such pranks with the pigeon- - it is wonderful how different he lookin art at different times and under dis- | ferent hands. He has been more con- < ventionalized than any object in nature, . and no “allegory on the banks of the. ' Nile” can ever have lieen quite so al- j legorical as the allusive fancy of man I has made him. He has done decorative ■ duty, preserving only hints of his own ! form, and lie has passed with art and ' literature through the phases of the heroic, romantic and realistic conception and treatment. It must be added that the royal brute has been fortunate in his laureates. Rubens—the true Lion of Flanders!—preferred him over all other beasts, and painted him with the whole might of his vast and enter- ' prising genius. His imagination had I continual food in his contemplation; > his imperial hand found continual • pastime in his portraiture. The savage ! majesty, the brute romance,‘the bestial i royalty of the creature were depicted by him as by no other painter in all time. It is to be noted that the passion for painting lions that distinguishes the master distinguishes his followers and scholars likewise. Thus his friend and collaborator, Franz Snyders, was inspired by the great man’s encouragement and example to add the living lion to his models, and to paint lion I hunts and lions in fight where once he ! had only painted fruits and flowers anr! I the fur and feathers of dead game. ' Again, the man among moderns who has best succeeded with the lion is unquestionably Eugene Delacroix, who was perhaps the liest and strongest pupil the Antwerp master ever had, and who has drawn and painted lions and lionesses w-ith an intensity of imagination, a vigor of line and color, a mastery of gesture, an energy of conception and execution, that Rubens himself would certainly have been proud to own. After the lions of these two great men, the lions of Landseer and Rosa Bonheur, good as in some ways they are, are apt to seem a little tame, and, as it were, to fall a little flat. It must lie owned that the lions of Mr. Briton Riviere are in much the same case. That lion of his. for instance, who is guarding the gentle Una through the perils of the present exhibition at Burlington House, is not a bit romantic or impressive; he is a kind of carpet lion—a lion to do duty in the pages of Mme. d’Auluoy, and behave with politeness and grace to such heroes as Prince Azor and Prince Charming, and such heroines as Princess Fair Star and the Damsel with the Golden Locks.— From CagKtirn Art Magazine. A Vermont man who has been there fourteen times, says the meanest thing aliout a misfortune with a polecat is the difficulty of keeping it secret.

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INDIANA MATTERS.

liullnna School .Statistics. The annual report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction shows the following facts: Number of schoolhouses—stone, 83; brick, 2,481; frame, 6,944; log, 48: total, 9,556; estimated value of school-houses, including buildings. grounds, seats, etc., $11,907,391.09; estimated value of school apparatus—viz.: globes, maps, etc. —$403,513.52; total estimated value of school property. $12,310,904.51; the special school tax on each SIOO, 21 cents; special school tax on each poll, 44 cents; local tax for tuition assessed on each SIOO. 15 cents; local tax for tuition assessed on each poll, 33 cents; number < f volumes in township library, 274,257; number of volumes added to library, 5,825; amount paid Trustees for managing educational matters, $89,892.37; number of school-houses erected during the year, 303; value, $85,439.81. Report of private schools: Number of pri; vate schools, 365; male teachers, 167 s female teachers, 441; number of pupiladmitted within the year, 12,852; average daily attendance, 8,659; average cost per pupil per month, $1.17; number of township institutes during the year, 4,299.

The Kankakee Swamp Land Survey.

The final report of Prof. <L L. Campbell upon the survey of the Kankakee swamp lands has been submitted to the Governor. The report is’lengthy and gives a vast amount of information relative to the Kankakee region of Indiana, which is comprised chiefly in the counties of St. Joseph, La Porte, Starke, Jasper, Porter, Newton and Lake? A careful survey made some years since statei that between South Bend, Ind., and Momence. 111., there are 2,000 bends in the Kankakee river. The approximate length of the stream is 240 miles. The river drains an area of country estimated at 1,000,000 acres in Starke, Jasper and Newton counties The uplands are sandy and the adjacent marshes have little depth, but there is no part of the valley which is not worth fur more than it will cost to improve it. The number of acres which it is estimated mav be recovered iu the marshy region is estimated as follows : In St. Joseph county, 39,633 acres: La Porte, 124,253; Porter, 75,543; Starke, 153,625; Jasper, 99,450; Newton, 79,854; Lake, 131,438: total, 624,805. Estimating the increase in value at S2O an acre, the aggregate addition to the wealth of the State will be $8,000,000, while the general increase of the entire section of the Kankakee region will make it not less than $10,000,000. The entire cost of draining this section is estimated at about SOO,OOO.

Indiana's Deaf and Dumb.

The report of the trustees of The Deaf and Dumb Asylum for the fiscal year ending with October makes the following showing: The appropriation for fbe’support of the institution was $55,000 and of this amount $816.87 was expended,.leaving $2,181.13 in the treasury. Out of the appropriation of $3,000 for repairs $2,982.37 was expended, leaving a balance of $17.63. The icceipts of the general fund were $30.18 and for clothing $741.82, making a total of $782. The appraised value of the property of the institution is $457,782 iu real and $35,527.05 in personal, making the total appraised value $493,837.05. The number of pupils during the year Inis been 383. Of these forty-four have been dismissed from tht institution and 342 remain. The cost per capita, inclusive of clothing, has been $156.30. The necessity for more buildings is urged,and repairs upon the present property are needed. An appropriation of $62,000 for annual expenses is asked for the next two years. Of the pupils, now in attendance 206 nro males and 177 are femalese. The number ot counties represented is eighty four, the largest number being thirty-three from Marion. Vanderburg county has thirteen pupils and Wayne, Tippecanoe and Montgomery each • eleven. The proceeds from the sale of the farm products during the year amounted to $2,709.74. The health has been good, only a few deaths hav'ng occurred. Howard C. Gillett, one of the dead, has been a teacher in the asylum from 1856. During the year fifty-six applications for admission have been refused for want of room to accommodate them.

Indiana Female Reformatory.

The annu d rbport to the Governor of the man gers of the Indiana Reformatory Institution of Women and Girls is quite lengthy ami contains much valuable information. There are at present in the penal department fifty-five convicts. During the year thirty-three have been received into the institution, one recaptured and twenty-two have been discharged upon the expiration of their terms and one has been released for new trid. In the reformatory department there are now 144 girls. During the year fifty-one have been received on new commitments and seven re turned from ticket-of leave; twenty-one have been discharged, forty released on ticket-of-leave and one has died. A number of escapes have occurred but all have been retaken. In the two departments the average nunflier of inmates during the year ha -. beenl92; five gi eater than that of any previous year. The expenditures, including all salaries repairs and improvement-, have been $28,000, being the amount of the general appropriation. Total amount dtav. n for State ti eaxury .Itf.ooo.co Deduct amount expended in repairs.... 1 eaves cost of siv port, salat lea, etc.5J5,4(11.153 Deduct from this the amount paid into the State treasury, net earnings of inmate , $070.00, and the amount paid into the State treasury by the counties for clothing and subsistence of child) en committed to the reformatory department from said counties, $8,178.92, make a total of $8,855.01, which shows the total expense of the institution to the State for clothing, support and caring for 192 inmates during the past year, $16,590.6?. The expense of each inmate to the State was $2.89 per week An attempt is to lie made to run locomotives, or rather trains, through the St. Gothard tunnel by means of electricity. At present the products of combustion left in the tunnel make travel very uncomfortable,