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THE NEWS.

On the 21st the Berlin Municipal Court sentenced the editor of the Germania to five months’ imprisonment for having published an insulting article on the. Chancellor and inciting its readers to disobedience of the laws. Gen. Kaufman occupied Khokand, in Central Asia, bn the 16th of the present month. The council to treat with the Indians in regard to the .cession to the Government of the Black' Hills met on the White River, near the Red Cloud Agency, on the 21st. Senator Allison opened the council with a speech in which he explained to the Indians the desire of die white people to secure the possession of the Black Hills region by giving a fair equivalent for it A Ragusa telegram of the 22d confirms previous reports of insurgent victories, and says that the entire country between Novowarsch and Vishegrad had been burned over. Trebigne had been again invested.

A Washington dispatch of the 22d says there remained only $28,000,000 of the new 5 per cent, bonds for negotiation. The Massachusetts State Democratic * Convention met. at Worcester on the 22d and renominated Gov. Gaston. Gen. W. F. Bartlett was nominated for LieutenantGovernor. The remainder of the ticket is as follows: Secretary of State, Geo. H. Munroe; Treasurer, Weston Howland; Attorney-General, George T. Perry; Auditor, John E. Fitzerald. The resolutions favor a speedy return to specie payments. Vice-President Wilson sent a note to the Boston Journal on the 22d saying that he would not accept the nomination for Governor of his State. The New York Liberals met in convention at Albany on the 22d and decided not to nominate a State ticket. They resolved in favor of a speedy return to specie payments.

The Minnesota Anti-Monopoly State Convention met at Owatonna on the 22d and inade up a State ticket by selecting the candidates for Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor and Chief-Justice from the Democratic ticket, the Lieuten-ant-Governor and Attorney-General from the Temperance ticket, nominating E. W. . Dike, the present incumbent, for State Treasurer; A. J. Edgerton, the late incumbent, for Railroad Commissioner, and Sherwood Hough, the present incumbent, for Clerk of the Supreme Court. The convention declared in favor of Treasury notes as a legal tender for all public or private obligations; the substitution of such currency in place of the National Bank notes, and that the Government’s bonded debt jhould be bought in with 3.65 convertible bonds,.payable in specie or currency at the Government’s option. The Maryland Republican State Convention met at Baltimore on the 22d and nominated: For Governor, J. M. Harris; Attorney-General, S. T. Wallis; Comptroller, Edward Wilkins. Resolutions were adopted favoring a speedy return to specie payments and opposing further expansion of the currency.

The dispatches received on the 22d from the late disasters on the Texan coast show that the storm had swept over the whole shore line, and, in addition to the damage done at Galveston, that at leastnine towns had been nearly or quite obliterated, namely: Indianola, where but three houses were left standing and from 150 to 200 lives lost; Baluria; Sabine Pass; ' Calcasieu; San Bernardino; Buffalo Bayou; Lynchburg; Matagorda. and Cedar Lake. A large • number of lives were lost, and the destitution and suffering of the survivors were very great A dispatch to- New Orleans from Indianola says: “ Send us help, for God’s sake!” Aid was being forwarded to the sufferers by the people of New Origins and Galveston. t Mayor Davis, of Galveston, telegraphed to the Mayor of ■ St. Louis on the.22d, appealing for aid and saying the survivors in the towns destroyed had lost everything, and that provisions, clothing and every necessary of life were needed. The floods were caused by heavy winds blowing the waters of the gulf in huge waves upon the coast. According to a Belgrade dispatch of the 23d the Servian Minister of War had ordered a large force to the Bosnian frontier as an army of observation. Charles G. Fisher, late Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, has been arrested in Washington on the charge of stealing appeal bonds and papers in District cases. He waived examination, and was held to answer before the Grand Jury. Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont has received telegrams from Mississippi, from persons of both parties, commending his recent letter to Gov. Ames. These telegrams also say that perfect peace reigned in the late disorderly portion of the State. Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, it is said, approves of the Attorney-General’s course in the Mississippi troubles, A report prevailed in Washington oh* the 23d that the Red Cloud Investigation Commission would unanimously acquitSecretary Delano and Commissioner Smith of fraud. A greenback mass-meeting was held at Cooper Institute, New York, on the evening of the 23d. Resolutions were adopted, condemnihg the policy of contraction ; demanding the retirement of the National Bank circulation and the substitution therefor of legal-tenders, and favoring the payment of one-half of the customs dues in greenbacks. Mail accounts received on ths. 23d from Galveston, Tex, represent the loss of property as far exceeding in amount that given by previous telegraphic reports. Three hundred houses were swept away, and the aggregate loss of property would reach

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$4,000,000. It was thought that the total number of lives lost along the coast by the storm would reach 400, and several small towns back from the coast are reported to have been swept away. e Elkins’ (Bep.) majority for Delegate to Congress from New Mexico is placed at 1,500. In Wyoming the Legislature is divided politically as fallows: Council, 2 Republicans and 11 Democrats; House, 9 Republicans and 18 Democrats. Announcement was made on the 23d that J. Russell Jones had been appointed Collector of Customs at Chicago, vice N. B. Judd, resigned. The circular addressed by the Papal Nuncio to the Spanish Bishops was published in Madrid on the 24th. The Nuncio says he had been directed to communicate to the Bishops the substance of the protest sent by the Cardinal Secretary of State of the Holy See to the Spanish. Government upon His Holiness’ attention being called to the toleration clauses in the new Constitution proposed for SpainThe Ministerial papers insist that no concessions will be made to the Pope tending to affect the independence of the magistrates in dealing with the Bishops, and especially the Carlist Bishop of Seo d’Urgel. The Papal Nuncio was recalled on the 24th.

A man ahd woman performing on a trapeze in a hall in New York city, on the evening of the 23d, fell from the ceiling to the floor, and were fatally injured. The National Agricultural Congress was in session at Cincinnati on the 22d, 23d and 24th. W. C. Flagg, of Illinois, was elected President, with one Vice-Pres-ident for each State and Territory. G. E. Morrow, of Chicago, was chosen Secretary, and J. O. Griffith, of Nashville, Treasurer. Resolutions were adopted advising the completion of the four great water routes recommended by the United States Senate Committee, especially the central one, and recommending the reduction of the tax on tobacco to ten cents per pound. The Congress will meet next year in Philadelphia. President Grant and family arrived at St. Louis on the 24th. The Herndon House, in Marshall, Mich., was burned early on the morning of tjhe 24th, and Claude G. Avery, Antoine Gruber, Eliza King and Martha Varsden were either burned to death or fatally iniured while trying to escape. Several other persons received serious injuries. Geo. W. Gage, a prominent citizen of Chicago, former proprietor of the Tremont and Grand Pacific Hotels,’died on the 24th, aged sixty-three years. His disease was cerebro-spinal meningitis. A telegram from Berlin of the 25th says the Sublime Porte had refused to yield to the demands of the insurgents until they have made a full and complete submission.

A Constantinople dispatch of the 25th says the Consular mediation had failed. According to a Paris dispatch of the 25th a Bonapartist council had been recently held at Arenberg, Switzerland, at the chateau of ex-Empress Eugenie, where it was resolved that the Empress should resign the regency and that the Prince Imperial, guided by M. Rouher, should have charge of affairs. The President has accepted the resignation of Secretary Delano, to take effect Oct. 1. The letter of resignation is dated July 5, and the President’s letter of acceptance Sept. 22. Rev. H. C. Tilton has declined the nomination for Governor of Wisconsin on the Temperance ticket. The board appointed to investigate the Chicago Custom-House building made public their report on the 26th. It is to the effect that some of the material used in the structure so far should be rejected and some other modifications made in the plan, and that then the structure may •safely be proceeded with. The Secretary of the Treasury has indorsed the report, and has directed that work on the building be resumed in the spring in accordance with the suggestions made by the commission.

The commissioners to treat with the Indians for the Black Hills were somewhat alarmed on the 24th by the warlike attitude assumed by some of the Indians. A fight seemed inevitable at one time, but they were finally pacified. Little hopes of negotiating a satisfactory treaty were entertained by the commission. A horrible murder was perpetrated near Belle Center, Ohio, on the 22d, the victim being a ybung girl named Allie Laughlin. The perpetrator of the crime was James W. Shell, who, according to the testimony of his wife, enticed the girl away into the woods and after a desperate struggle killed her with a knife. On returning Shell told his wife what he had done, and threatened to kill her should she reveal the story. She also testified that he had made previous threats to her against the person and life of Miss Laughlin. Great excitement prevailed in Bellefontaine when the crime became known, and on the night of the 23d Shell was taken from the jail by an exasperated crowd and hanged. He protested his innocence and charged his wife with the murder of the girl. Mrs. Shell was lodged in jail at Bellefontaine on the 25th, as an accomplice before the fact, she having confessed to a previous knowledge of her husband’s intention to commit the outrage and murder.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Lms Stock.—Beef Cattle—slo 00©12.75. Hog* —Live, $8.50©8.75. Sheep-Live, [email protected]. Bbbadbtum-s.—Flour—Good to choice, $5.80© 6.25; white wheat extra, $6.95©7.85. Wheat—No. 2 Chicago, [email protected]; No. 2 Northwestern, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.23© L 24. Rye—Western and State, 90©95c. Barley—sl.22© 1.2’. Corn—Mixed Western, 70@ 73*4c. Oata—Mixed Western, 45©50c.

OUR AIM: TO FEAR GOD, TEIL THE TRUTH AND MAKE MONEY.

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Pbovwions.—Pork—-Mess, $21.25021.35. Lard —Prime Steam, 13K018MC. Cheese—sHollQe. Wool.—Domestic Fleece, 4806ic. CHICAGO. Live SrocK.-Beeveß-Choice, $5.7506.10; good, $5.0005.50; medfam, $4.2604.75; batchers' steak, * $2.750409; stock cattle, sa.oo@ 4.00. Hogs—Live, $7.7508.00. Sheep—Good to choice, $4A604.75. - ' ' Provisions.—Butter —C bolce, 26031 c. -Eggs— Fresh, 18019 c. Pork—Mess, $22.50322.75. Lard—sl3.3o® 13.35. > ' Bbeadstufmi.—Flour—White Winter Extra, $5.7507.50; spring extra, $5.2506.00. Wheat -Spring, No. 2, $1.0601.06U- Corn-No. 2, 55 Q 056Qc. Oats—No. 2, 84034*4c. Rye—No.- 2, 78K074C. Barley—No. 2, $1.0901.10. Lumber. —First Clear, $44.00045.00; Second Clear, $48.00045.00; Common Boards, slo.oo© 11.00; Fencing, $10.00011.00; “ 4.” Shingles,' $2.5002.90; Lath, $1.7502.00. EAST LIBERTY. Live Stock—Beeves—Best, $6.7507.00; medium, $5.2505.75. Hogs—Yorkers, $8.0003.25; Philadelphlas, $9.0009.25.,' Sheep— Btest, $5,250 5.50; medium, $4.7505.00.

In the Steerage and How It Looks.

Instead of small state-rooms there are larger apartments, accommodating from' twenty to forty individuals. The berths are arranged in two tiers and are constructed otherwise in very much the same way as are the sleeping apartments, of a re-, spectable and well ordered pig pen. The unmarried-men are sent to a room by themselves and the married couples and the younger children to another, and the unmarried women still another. The room into which these others all open and to which all classes have access is reached by two flights of stairs from the main deck. This place serves as dininghall and cabin, only there are no red velvet cushions lying about. There is no carpet on the floor and no rack.full of glasses and decanters to be rattling overhead. The tables are quite in keeping with the frugal fare served three times daily; For breakfast we begin with a mug of coffee, hot and sweetened, but not strong enough to be injurious, and, by the way the cows in this neighborhood are quite partial and can’t be induced to give milk for steerage passengers. A liberal supply of bread and butter makes up what is sometimes known abroad as a plain breakfast Oatmeal porridge,fwith black molasses, in addition to the above, may be expected for breakfast once or twice during the voyage. A good appetite will be needed for dinner; you will then be first treated to soup which looks very much like good strong dish-water, but it tastes better than it looks. Soon the steward comes around with a tin pail full of boiled potatoes, some of them about the size of a hen’s egg and some of them not so large. They are supposed to have been rinsed, but not washed or pared before cooking, and, if a little meal were added to the mixture, would be very like what New England farmers use to fatten hogs. After this boiled meat is brought around, not of the choicest cuts, to be sure, but an abundance, such as it is, is given. Dessert will be dispensed with, save on Sunday, when a kind of plum-pudding is added. For supper, about a pint of tea, served the same as coffee, and more bread and butter. The only change we ever knew in the above bill of fare is that of pea-soup and boiled salt fish, on Fridays, in place of the usual dinner.— Boaton Globe.

Cistern Water.

Many persons have had difficulty with the water in new cisterns, or in cisterns newly cleaned or cemented, finding the rain-water which was expected io be perfectly pure and palatable almost unfit for use, and particularly so when heated or boiled—-a heavy scum then appearing on its surface. -The water, moreover, proves to be hard instead of soft. This is evidently the result of its contact with the interior coating of the cistern, and if, after two or three months, all the water is pumped out and a new supply admitted, it is generally found that the quality is greatly the injurious elements of the coating of the cistern having apparently been either absorbed or covered by an overlying deposit. To empty the cistern and wait for its refilling is sometimes, however, a matter of considerable inconvenience. It is said that the water first obtained from it may be purified so as to be at least fit for domestic requirements by putting into a bucketful a small quantity of alum and letting the water settle before using. The sediment thus formed will contain the impurities and the water is left in suitable state for use.— Milling and Mechanical News.

Some Incidents of the Texas Floods.

THE DESTRUCTION OF LYNCHBURG. Thursday night was one of terror. The tide, now to its full height, surged with the fury of the gale. Torrents of rain fell, and the wind howled with all the fury of a hurricane. All but a few tooconfident people of Lynchburg and San Jacinto had gone to the hills for safety before night After midnight houses, vessels, everything yielded to the gale. Friday morning nothing but devastation met the eye. Destruction and wrecks all around; rafts, logs, timbers and fragments of houses, bearing struggling humanity, driven here and there by the pitiless gale; fluttering signals of distress from many a tree top; the fierce wind and waves dimmed all cries for succor; piteous motions alone told the leoker-on of the distress of the imperiled.' The steamer Matamoras No. 2, Capt. Alexander Bell, formerly of the Houston Direct Navigation Company, had been driven across the flats on the north side of the Ban Jacinto. The steamer Star and barges were driven near her. The drift commenced accumulating around them, and fortunately her position was a point of concentration for the floating debris to which people had clung. Capt. Bell, with Mr. Leacock, engineer, and four men got out the life-boat and rescued such persons as they could get near, but the gale was so fearful that they could make but little headway.

About ten a. m. a small raft. with two persons on was seen approaching. As it came nearer they were discovered to be Dr. Chamberlain and wife, of Lynchburg. He was sitting on the raft holding his wife’s head in his lap. Her body was partly under "water, ’fee current swept • them near the Matamoras, and as the raft struck among the drift, and just as their rescuers from the Matamoras got a rope around Dr. Chamberlain, Mrs. Chamberlain’s body was tom from his grasp and swept under th« drift. The husband, thoughtless of his own life, was appealing to the rescuers: “ Don’t save me, save my wife,” and after she was gone begged them to let him down with her. He was hauled on board in a benumbed condition. It is the opinion of Capt Bell and Mr. Leacock that she was dead before seen by them. About noon a family named Perkins, three men, a woman and a child, came floating from down the river on top of a house. It caught among the trees, into which they all got, from where they were all taken in safety by the yawl-boat of the Matamoras. The current and wmd were so strorfg that four men could not manage the boat. After various efforts to set to them Capt. Bell paid out line and oated the boat to them, and took them Off. During the day Campbell, Mr. Leacock and the crew of four men picked up and saved twenty-one persons. The Perkins family say that everything was swept off from Adams.’ Island, which is about five miles below Lynchburg. A number of persons are known to have been drowned in the vicinity of Lynchburg and San Jacinto. The report is that all the bouses along the shore from Lynchburg to the bay are swept off. ' . • .The scene from Harrisburg to Lynchburg is deplorable. The water is up to the top of the cars on the San Antonio. Railroad track at Harrisburg. At. Norseworthy’s it was up to the front-yard gate. At Massie’s the drift marked the height of the tide far up the bank at his landing. Dr. Massie stated to the passehgers on the Fowler that the tide-water fpm the gulf was thirty-four inches above the highest rain-flood within his knowledge on the bayou. ‘ Between Lynchburg and Morgan’s Point not a house is standing on the immediate shore of San Jacinto Bay or on the islands except the warehouse of the Ship Channel Company on the point. Of the residents Mrs. Pierce and four children, little Clara Grafton, Mrs. McKee and Mrs. A u gust are known to have been lost. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander and Mr. McKee are said to have been saved by young Mr. Miltrun. UNHAPPY EXPERIENCE OF TWO FAMILIES.

Mr. and Mrs. West (formerly Mrs. Grafton) occupied a new house at Baytown. Mrs. McKee and little Clara Grafton, Mrs. West’s child, were with them. When the water rose over Hog Island Mr. McKee, Charles Post, the lightkeeper, and Mrs. Pierce, with four children, abandoned that place and came in a skiff to West’s, Thursday morning before daylight. During Thursday the water rose gradually in the house, and by afternoon reached the ceiling. They hung on by the windows until about four p. m., when, finding that the water was gaining, they got into a skiff, with the hope of reaching the high land. In half an hour the skiff was swamped, and in getting hold of the windows again two children were lost, the oldest and youngest girl. Mr. West then made a hole in the roof, and all were got on it. Small hand-holes were made to cling to. In a short time the root was swept away from the building, the tide cariying them up the bay several miles. They drifted about Thursday night and Friday at the mercy of the waves, during which time Mr. McKee and Mr. Post got in a tree, when the norther came out on Friday and drove them back down the bay. Of the occupants of the roof none remained but Mr. and Mrs. West, Mrs. Pierce and one child, and Mr. Post The wind drove them across the bay and the current into the mouth of the canal. Just as the roof entered the canal it turned over and Mrs. Pierce and child were lost. Mr. West rose, clinging to his wife, and seized the roof again, the current swept the roof over on the east side, and when it struck the bank the two were thrown up on the side of the dump. Post was able to reach the bank, West was senseless, and Mrs. West stunned, but moaning. The tug Coates had been driven Jby the gale on the point, and lay on the ojher side of the dump. Mr. Nelsqn, who had brought her up. from «Red-Fish through the gale, and Mr. Rhett, mastermechanic, were on board. Hearing the moans, they went over the dump and carried the rescued pair on board the tug. About seven p. m., within half an hour after Mrs. West was carried on the tug, she was taken ill and gave birth to a boy. These rugged men, fathers themselves, yet unused to such ministrations, aided by Mr. West, faithfully performed the duties belonging to gentler hands. The brave little woman who had undergone all these perils, seeing mother, child, sister and her four nieces swept away before her eyes, gave directions which doubtless saved her life and that of the babe. As soon as mother and babe were in condition to be moved and the gale would permit a couch was made, and the men of the dredgingfleet carried them up to the old Morgan place, occupied by Mr. Tom Edwards, where every possible arrangement was made for their comfort. Yesterday evening, when the Fowler left Morgan’s Point, both were doing well.— Houston Telegraph, Sept. 21.

—The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has just decided that “real estate held by a religious society, not more than sufficient in extent to meet its reasonable requirements in this respect, and devoted by such society in good faith to the erection of a church edifice, upon which the work of erection already commenced is prosecuted without reasonable delay, is entitled to the exemption from taxation given by statute." Judge Wells dissents' from the opinion of his associates, and holds that “ it is not enough that the property is intended to be appropriated for the purposes of religion or of religions worship and held for no other purpose; it must be a house of religious worship.” —Having observed that the discharge from a powerful electrical machine produced remarkable changes in the color of plants, M. Becquerel ascribes this result to the rupturing of the cells containing the coloring matter. This opinion is sustained by the fact that when the cellular envelope is washed the leaf becomes white. Weston is the man who has two soles and but a single thought.

“T#® PENNY YR MEANT TO GTE." There’s a funny tale of a stingy man, Who was none too good, but might have t . ; been worse, Who went to his church on a Sunday night, And carried along his well-filled ptrrse. When the sexton came with his beggingplate— The church was but dim with the candle’s lightThe stingy man fumbled all through his purse, And chose a coin by touch and not sight. It’s an odd thing now that guineas should be So like unto pennies in shape and size. “ I’ll give a penny,” the stingy man said; “ The poor must not gifts of pennies despise.” The penny fell down with a clatter and ring! ’ And back in his seed; leaned the stingy man. “ The world is so full of the poor,” he thought, “ I can’t help them all—l give what I can.” Ha, ha! how the sexton smiled, to be sure, To see the gold guinea fall in his plate! Ha, the stingy man’s heart was • Perceiving his blunder, but just too late! “No matter,” he said; •• in the Lord's account That guinea of gold is set down to me. They lend to Him who give to the poor; It will not so bad an investment be.” “Na, na, mon,” the chuckling sexton cried oat; ? •. 1 “The Lord is na cheated—He kens thee well; He knew was only by accident That out o’-thy fingers the guinea fell! “He keeps an account, na doubt, for the pair; But in that account He’ll set down to thee Na mair o’ that golden guinea, my mon, Than the one bare penny ye meant to gi’e!” There’s a comfort, too, in the little tale— A serious side as well as a joke; A comfort for all the generous poor, In the comical words the sexton spoke. A comfowt to think that the good Lord knows How generous we really desire to be, And will give us credit in His account For all the pennies we long “to gi’e.” —St. Nicholas for October.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Do tea roses grow on tea grounds? “ Come where my nose lies bleeding,” is the title of a new ditty, It is played on a catarrh. — Danbury News. Gen. Spinner, estimates that there are 2,000,000 lead nickels in circulation, and so if you get one you needn’t feel flattered about it. ’ No w|>man with American blood coursing through her veins will ever give up her washwoman on her day to Oblige a neighbor. There is something capricious about a boy’s memory; He cannot tell you how he tore his jacket five minutes after the accident. The front-gate season is at its high noon, and messages between the young and romantic are nightly stamped by private posts.• It would be a most happy arrangement in many cases if, when one person is tied to another for life, both of them could be tongue-tied. A man in Phoenix was badly injured last Saturday by a spider—it was an iron one and his. wife had hold of the handle.— Fulton Times. * Connecticut turns out a cucumber five feet long, but they’ve got to cut it in two to pickle it, and that’s soothing sirup for the rest of us. It is a vexing thought to most men that a collar-box Occupies a little more space than any pocket that ever was made for an honest man, It is hard to tell which will bring the most pleasant expression into a. woman’s face—to tell her that her baby is heavy or her bread light Let us rejoice that the direct cable has been put in repair again. Jfhe.mermaids once more have conveniences for performing gymnastics. An English philosopher comes forward and remarks that the earth is 2,253,541 years old. None of us were there and we can’t knock* aTsingle year off. A Chicago woman says of sleeping-cars: “ It’s so nice for one to lie there and wonder where the smash-up will take place and how many-will be killed.” When San Francisco elects a Superintendent of Police he is given a triumphal ride in a carriage. When he goes out of office he is given a ride on a rail.

The hard times have made gravestones so cheap in Vermont that thrifty people there are dying off rapidly, just to take advantage of the bargains offered. No one but a close observer of human nature has noticed that lovers always bite he top of the gate pickets as they stand to say a few words more before separating. Mrs. Williams, of New Jersey, a widow woman, works a farm of 132 acres on shares, and when she says “ haw!” to the steers they come around with their tails standing out straight. Many offenses may be forgiven; but that charity is an unknown quantity in this world which can wink at the act of the man, or at the man himself, who says pyanner and pyazzer. A conscientious farmer in Lewiston, Me., wiped the mud from his cart wheels before permitting his load' of hay to go on the scales to be weighed. But such men are never sent to the State Legislature. Canada is not going to stick to Friday as hangman’s day any more, but will swing a murderer off most any day that he wants to go. This disposition to oblige a man is commendable. They even tolerate such a brief-named

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man as Frank Tubb near Schoodywobskooksis Lake, in Maine. Frankly speaking, the bchoodywobskooksisians ought Tubb be ashamed of themselves. The American family shot-gun, *fctandinsdfrthe corner of the bed-room, hasn’t slain quite its average number during the last month, but among its victims have been some very promising children. It is understood that Mrs. Sheridan has gone so far as to refuse Philip the selection of his own neckties; and .it seems to us that when tyranny reaches thus far it is time for war.— . Rochester Democrat. Miss Hulett, the Chicago lawyer, refuses to have anything to do with divorce cases. She says that “ any woman who will marry a man ought to be forced to live with him.” There seems to be philosophy there somewhere. There is one Canada Custom-House official who doesn’t imagine that the Weight of the whole government rests on his shoulders, but he was dying at last accounts and didn’t want his name njentioned;

The Danbury News isn’t a dead journal yet by any means, but continues at intervals to hit the nail on the, head with astonishing force and precision. It says: “ What this country really needs is a good five-cent cigar.” The seven stars comprising the big dipper shine with noticeable brilliancy these nights, which reminds the Austin Reveille of the Piute’s idea of the dipper. Pointing to the first star of those which form the handle he said: “ One big Piute Captain, him. One, two, three, four, five, six squaw, fflm;” meaning that the firstnamed star is a big Indian brave and the other six his squaws. “Whoa, I tell ye!”. This is what a farmer said to his oxen as he stopped to talk with a man on the Dodgetown road yesterday morning. The animals were frisky, for oxen, and started again. “Whoa, I tell ye!” repeated the driver. He had but uttered the words when some one in a carriage driving past reined in and remarked: “My dear sir, do you know that you are wasting the Queen’s English? It is not necessary that you should say more than the word 4 Whoa!’ to those oxen. You are entirely ungrammatical if you are superfluous, and you are superfluous if you employ so many words.” The man in. the carriage was Richard Grant Nh\te.—J)anbury News.

An Unfortunate Predicament.

People have noticed that one of the handsomest young men in Burlington has suddenly grown bald, and dissipation is attributed as the cause. Ah, no; he went to a church sociable the other wteek, took three charming girls out to the refreshment table, let them eat all they wanted and then found he had left his pocket-book athome and a deaf man that he had never seen before was at the cashier’s desk. The young man, with his face aflame, bent down and said softly “ I am ashamed to say I have no change with ” “ Hey?” shouted the cashier. “I regret to say,” the young man re-peated-on a little louder key, “that I have unfortunately come away without any change to ” “ Change two ?’ ’ chirped she deaf man, “ Oh, yes, I can change a five if you want it.”

“ No,” 1 the young man explained, in a terribly penetrating whisper, for half a dozen people were crowding up behind him, impatient to pay their bills and get away, “I don’t want any change, because ” “Oh, don’t want no change?” the deaf man cried, gleefully. “’Bleeged to ye, ’bleeged to ye. ’Tain’t often we get such generous donations. Pass over, your bill.” “No, no,” the young man explained, “I have no funds ” “Oh, yes, plenty of fun,” the deaf man replied, growing tired of the conversation and noticing the long line of people waiting with money in their hands, “but ;I haven’t got time to talk about it now. Please settle and move on.” “ But,” the young man gasped out, “ I have no money ” “Go Monday?” queried the deaf cashier. “ I don’t care when you go; you must pay and let these other people Come up.” “ I have no money!” the mortified young man shouted, ready to sink into the earth, while the people all around him, and especially the three girls he had treated, were giggling and chuckling audibly. “Owe money?” the cashier said,’‘of course you do; $2.75.” <• “ I can’t pay!” the youth screamed, and by turning his pocket inside out and yelling his poverty to the heavens he finally made the deaf man understand. And then he had to shriek his full name three times, while his ears fairly rang with the half stifled laughter that was breaking out all around him; and -he had to scream out where he worked, and roar when he would pay, and he couldn’t get the deaf man to understand him until some of the church members came up to see what the uproar was, and, recognizing their young friend, 'made'it all right with the cashier. And they on ng man went out into the night and clubbed himself, and shred his locks away until he was bald as an egg.—Burlington Hawk-Eye. Industry is but poorly efifcouraged in Trenton, N. J. A thief stole twenty-two ladies’ watch-chains there in one night, ’ and daylight revealed to him the fact that every one of them came from a dollar store’ —The honest man smiles and courts the investigation of his work, while a rogue grows angry and expresses indignation at the “ insult.”

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Drying Herbs.

Thes> should be gathered as soon m they begin to open their flowers. In drying them two methods are employed; one is to tie them into bunches as soon as cut, and hang them up in a room or shed; the other is to first lay them out in the sun to dry; by both these methods the quality is deteriorated. If fermentation takes place sufficient to discolor the leaves, such as occurs, more or less, when herbs are tied up in bunches while green and sappy, their best properties are destroyed. In confirmation of this, it is only necessary to point to the extreme care taken by the growers of lavender, mint, etc., for distilling; for such purposes they are not allowed to lie together, even fora few hours. If, on the other hand, herbs are exposed to the sun, much of their strength is dissi* pated; they become quite brown, and that fresh, green appearance which they possess when the diying is well managed is destroyed. But when herbs have been improperly treated, loss of strength is not the worst result; there is always imparted to them a disagreeable flavor. In drying herbs an open shed or room, where plenty of air can be given, is necessary. Stretch out a piece of netting, such as is used for protecting fruit from birds, wire-netting, if at hand, will do; on this lay the herbs (which should be cut when quite dry) thinly; thus treated, air acts on them from all sides, and they dry quickly, which is the primary object, without losing their best properties. When perfectly dry, put them loosely in white paper bags, tie them up, and hang them where they will be free from damp, dr they will become moldy. Herbs treated in this way will be found to be little inferior to such as 'are fresh cut. Sage should now be propagated by slips, taking off. middling-sized branches, and inserting them moderately deep in the ground in rows where they are to be grown. If the weather becomes dry give them plenty of water until they are rooted. The advantage of growing sage from slips or cuttings is that plants so produced have not stich a disposition to flower as those raised from seed.— The Garden.

An Amateur Farmer.

A man named Cary came down to our country a short time ago and bought a little farm just below Us on the river. He didn’t profess to know much about farming, and the most wonderful stories have been floating about concerning his performances. Cooley related some of them to me the other day, but, of course, I allow something for exaggeration. He said: “ Well, Cary’s just the most phenomenal agriculturist in the State. : Do you believe that he actually came over to ask me if he ought to plant mashed potatoes in hills or sow them broadcast; and when I asked him what he was going to plant them mashed for, he said that he preferred that variety for the table to eat with gravy. Then when he put in his com what does he do but buy eight or ten gross of boxes of white felt com-plasters and sprinkle them around over the fields as a fertilizer, after which he safrout out four dozen Faber’s. black lead-pencils in the garden next to the asparagus bed. When he told me about it he said he was convinced that there was money in raising lead pencils, provided you took great care in harvesting the crop; but he said he couldn’t tell for the life of him how they grow those square pieces of india-rubber with which you erase lead-pencil marks. He said he’d planted some in a corner of his long field, but they hadn’t come up, and he thought maybe the seed might have been bad. AwfUl, isn’t it? “ Then on Thursday he asked me what time of the year I plowed for heifers, and when I came to inquire I' found he thought a heifer was some kind of an amazing potato. When I corrected him he began to tell me how he had been frying to swarm oysters by daubing molasses on a hive and beating on a tin pan with a stick. It was only the other day I asked him why he didn’t put up a worm fence on the north side of his pasture, and he told me he wasn’t afraid of worms. They couldn’t hurt him, and he wasn’t going. to the expanse of building a fence to keep them out. The ignorance of that man is simply scandalous. I believe he’s capable of planting parasols so as to raise a crop of umbrellas. You can’t never count on a man like that. “ Why, I actually found him out in the woods with an auger boring an oak tree, and he said his hired man told him that was the way they got soft soap. It ran up with the sap, and bulged out when a hole was made. When I discouraged him from frying any further he talked across the field with me and told me that he had two thousand dollars buried in his cellar because he understood that compound interest doubled money in eleven years, and he was' going to keep his where it was safe and let it double in peace. Then he asked me if I grafted my egg-plant frees or just let them grow as they were and waited till the fruit got red before knocking it off with a pole. “He said this thing of farming confused him like the mischief. When he first planted potatoes he waited for the potatoes to come out on the branches of the vine, and after a while somebody told him that they grew on the roots. Sowhen his tomato vines grew he imagined that the tomatoes also were on the roots, and he dug every- vine up to hunt for the tomatoes and spoiled the whole crop. He told me yesterday that he was going to cut down his apple trees to-day and run them through the threshing-machine to thresh off the apples, and I’m just on my way over to see how he does it. Good morning.”— Max Adder, in N. F. Weekly. —An over-sea-er—A sailor.