Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 16, Number 21, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 July 1874 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER

C. DOAJIE, PubUsLer. JASrEK. INDIANA ; i j is or iTi:iti:si. l'eroiiftl mill l.llerRry. (icncral MeClellan ami family art in Switzerland. Madame Kistori promises to give fifty lerformaiii'c in the VniUil States, beginning nft March. Ity an order of the Emperor of China, it collection of Chinese pitcins. lroiu tli iarliit tiiiH'i to tin present, istoboiiide. It is i'XjmvUhI tliat tlif collection will lill .hk) v latino. The. London edition of Scribner'a Monthly i vTy much praised hy the English pres. The ( xfonl Herald says that "SVnAwrr' Monthly ls'iirs away tho palm from nil our own magazines fur the Is-au-ty of it illustrations." 'l"lt late Charles Sumner couldn't take nor make a joke. Whittier nays of him : Nm nensc of liunior ilrox' ittt (ill ou tin' lui'l waya liu niro-.e went ; mh I play f fancy liKit'iil toil ; )' k,iuk.e alone ihr llmitf tie inrmit. Mr. Lawn-nee .1. Iliach Is a tifty-oight-vcar-old learned blacksmith at Newman's Town, Pennsylvania, llei a tine astronomer, ami peak English, French, Oer111:1 ci . .Spanish and Italian, all of which he lias learned at home. In addition to this, it is said laat his horseshoe nails and hulltonkin plows posses an ii-stlii'tie tone ot clai ideality, a poetic suggestiveiics of (inline outline, ami a nmliaval delineation ot H' ll. iiKj tout twtemhlt tliat may In discrilx il hut cannot Ite imagined. Such, at least, i tho simple Saxon description of him that lias Is-en ovolvtil from the depths of the inner consciousness of the editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Stockholm lias ln-eti ii'lcbrating tlie centenary of Samuel Owen, a man whose memory "i rt i 1 1 held in deep roiit on aocouiit of tie initotu he gave to the development fooinmem and navigation. It washy him that in lltthe first Swedish steam vessel was launched. Ids idea Iteing taken from tb works then going on on the Clyde. He ued a form of projicllcr, tint it iliil 1 1 t work well, and in 117 a ves.I. 1 1111 sci Willi p:!ii"Ue-wiMeis wax launcum aim others lolloped in rapid succession. Owen's labor cndearnl him to hi" work--cople. and mention is also made of his effort in the caiiM of tenicraiiec. An in 11 1 1 1 nri it 11 inonumcnt of granite was unveiled at .Stockholm a few week ago, in ire.env of a large assemblage, the Kin; and Cabinet 'whig npneiiteij. In the inscription on the monument Owen I namod "111'- f.Hlier of tin Swedish steam fleet." Ih was horn in England in 1771. from which country lie emigrated to Sweden at the age of 2:, with 100 ill his jun ket. Srliol mutt Minrrh. Kite Michigan Methodist liavi in State Convention, Jut passed resolutions in favor of "male suffrage. A Miniie.-ota clergyman has sued thirty-live no-inher of hi cliurch. who refuse to pay tcw-rcnt because lie allade to them in n of his sermons as "empty head-." Kb veil ladies have continued their medical Mi, dies at Edinburgh during the winter, outside the 1'iiiversity. and under the direction of extramural lecturers of distinction. They have rented a shop in tiiithrifxt'ivt, in which they practice dissection. Although the Kfinourh University aiitliorities interdict theni from comM tiii for ai'adcinical or medical deSrree.. thi'V can le cxati.lneAl lcforr the .k iey A jMthecaries of l.omlon, frcm whom they vun reccivea lic-HM to pnu tiiv medicine. t 'onsideraMe pnn'ss has Ik'I1 made the j;ut year towards organic union and closer n utiofsN tw'en kindrel l'rotestiiiit hure'ics. two irinclp'l Mrtholist iNMlie-, North ami South, have approached to something like fraternal n-lations for the first time in thirty years. The S'tMiot!Ut I'rte-Lant ( 'hurches, rth and South, are iie-roti:ttiii;siicfiilly for a re-union ; the Vejleyan and New Connection Mcthoilits of Canada have njrreed to unite, and union movements among the l'reshytcrian ( hnrclieo an in progress. In view of the meeting of tlu Triennial l':r.!etant Kpiopal Confereni'' next liill a warm (lix'ii.-ion has sprung up in tlu Church pnss a to the advisahility of a revision of the IliMtk of Common Prayer. I'll re have Ih'H five paities on the question ot revision, as follows; 1. The Reformed Kpisoo ialians, who, dcsjiairing of g ttinanviion within the Church, went out ot it and revise! the Prayer-Iook as they wanted it. 2. The Low Churchmen, who lalior to suppress ritualism. 3. The l.ilx rals. n prex ntcd hy Dr. .lohn Cotton Smith, who want the view s of all turtle resH.ct(., .tn, harmonid. 1. The Smnd Churchiiieti, led hy lr. Hugh Miller Thompson, who are satisfhil with the 1'rayer-lnx.k as it is, hut are w illing that all 'crcmoiiien which tend to the adoration of the 1.1 'sil Sacrament should. le condeniniHl. ft. The Anglo-Catholics, represented partly by "The Confraternity of the HtcHscd Sacrament." hrlf nrr and lntnlry. Kart licit lMH-hive are a novcltj'suoifuliy intnxluct.! in California. There nro clevi'tt woolen mills on tho lVitic const -ight in California and three inl Iregon. They have in I ho aggregate -si) spindles and "2:iJ hroad looms. , S m Francisco claims tho honor of lx-1 nig tho ichidcnce of a lady who has invent-j H a now needle. The improvement con-j seN in making netslles of all slcs w ithout " ve tor I he thread, hut having instca'l hole toii, lonjritudinally Into tho head to the ilepth of ahout a quarter of an inch, whlh hole i.s arrangisl with a screw "'read. It U thought it will Im valuable it a surgii h1 nedle, as it carries a single thread. o making a snuller hole than the "rdu.ary needle with partially doubled thread. A correspondent of tho Smithsonian u-titiito, who has spent considerable time 111 iiuestiynij,,,, ,,f tho subject, in answer to ' cin.ii k ly Professor Henry, that "the iiiiiiien,,. vv, j,wer at Niagara may. in the pi-ogrc.., of practical scienci'. In' 11 p lied to the liiil l.ov ot lmlimfrv " sfiiten t)it liv tho "I. i: census tiu-ro are .iJ.uu waterW III)'! n operation in American inanufactaring 'm .!'!i-liinents, giving ajtowcr of

1.1:10,11(5 horses, while Niagara Falls gives a Ktwcr of ll,:Uht,o;n;hors . The nnt extensive manufactory of I.imburg cIki'm in tho West, according to tho Davenport (Jihrtte, is in Sinitt county, Iowa, David Ankcn, proprietor. Mr. Aiiken avers that nothing but thvlicstot milk is used in making this cheese, but ho keep secret his process of manufacturing, and curing. It takes three months to "rlten" a Minbiirg cheese. They are made a fMtt square and three Inches thick, and wholesale prices in Davenport are seventeen and a half cents and clirhti'ii

cents. Tho Coopcrstown (N. V.) Journal estimate's tho extent of increase in tho hop acreage for 17! in the Statt of New York over that of I s7;, as follows: Herkimer county, seventy-five acres ; Jefferson county, forty acres; I-wis county, fifty acres; Madison county, 100 acres; Oneida county, sevi'iity-tlvo acres; Otsego minify, fifty acres; Schoharie county, forty acres; other counties, :t2." acres; total increase, C.Vi acres. The Journal says a portion of the above is estimated, ami is more likely to cxce-d than fall short of the figures given. II Hp Nlttl .Mi Nil ftp. A Haltimoro boy swallowed a tcauut w hole and died. A Nevada girl drowned horsi If !- cause slie was sprouting a niustai he. Nellie Sullivan, aged sixteen years, dinl of flight ut lVebster, Mass., during a thunder shower. No marks of lightning were found on the house or on her Issly. A house in Fort Dodge, Iowa, was unroofed in a late storm, and a cot in which wrro sleeping two little children was oarriiil off bv the wind out of the house and ?et down in a pond, where it floated with its freight until the children were resouel. A few days ago a passenger named Alexander I'lake, from New Jersey, while iu a lit of teinjMtmry insanity, juiucd from a window of a car on the Chicago, Ihirlington and (uincy Hail road, near Princeton. The train was in rapid motion, hut the man was found to Im uninjured, hut unconscious of w hat he had done. Four or five litth bovs of Providence, II. I., en route for school. ocncd a doctor's medical oa-c which they found in his carriage. Sunt kind of toion was taken, probably moridiiiie, and distributed among il;i in. The result is tliat one, Wil lie llurns, aged four years, is dead and several others in eril. A rviuarkable accident is reported as having occurred in New Orleans a short I time ago. A young lady was walking bv a house, when suddenly" she was struc k violently on the bead, and fell senseless. It appeared 011 investigation that some one 111 the house had Itocn chasing a dog, w hich through terror or mistake suddenly sprang through the window, carrying w ith him a tlowcr-jKt sitting on the Villi Jhtth dog ami tlowcr-jtot struck the lady, and she was seriously injured. " Professor" of course Newmarsh, of New Orleans, w its selling a pa'cut kerosene rectifier, by using which tho most non-explosive fluid was rendered jterlii'tly safe, when his sample article interrupted his laudatory remarks hy cxploding.burningotl liis hair and most ot his epidermis. Hint generally reducing him to the condi tion of a ilg who has tried vainly to steal a bect-steak out or a kitchen on washing lay. As soon as he recovers, he w ill take the stump and expose humbugs. Col. L. M. Temple, who broke his leg live weeks ago. while putting on a new iMtot, savs the .VisliTIIIe Manner, had tin bandages removed recently by direction of I r. l-.ve. In leg having kintUiI thoroughly together. Last Sunday he met with another remarkable accident. While simply turning over in Is-d he broke hi leg again, altout live inches Ik Iow tho former frac ture. It would seem tliat hi system has Iteconie so thoroughly depleted that all the enduring qualities of his Itones an' gone, and there is scarcely anything left liuta clialkv sunsianec. lie 1 now proiioiiiMvi to lie in a very critical condition. Foreign Xofek. Ill fJermany. when tho vote of the jury stands six against six, the prisoner is acquitted. A vote of seven against five leaves the decision to tin Court, and by a vote of eight against four tho prisoner is eonviottil. " Then are some iterson." says the Vail Mall Gazette, w ho w ill go any dis-taiH-c and incur any amount of inconvenience lor the sake "of a little excitement, and these cannot do I tetter than proceed to Iceland on the second of August next, when the inhabitant of that island intend to celebrate the thousandth anniversary of it colonization." Sir Charlc llird lately dclivend a hitun in tendon on "IMucation in America." He praised our system of sclotol. and, in conclusion, said : "As nn Knglishmau I greatly admire the educational hist unions of America, and I live in hntc that in twit generation (in at lirltain may ow n w ith pride a peonle not less virtuous, ami even more highly duoated, than their transatlantic cousins. One i foremost in the rait, the other is swiftly pn-ssing on, striving for the mastery, liod Mtcod them both, for both shall Ik crow nod a victors, a the cry of both I 'for Jtd ami for our nation !' " Tho custom of preaching without notes is making gnvit prognss in this country and Kngland. Formerly this mode of pn-aohing ttelongcd especially to the Kouian Catholic and the Methslist Kis'opal clergy, and w as supposed to Ik idled for by the popular character of their audience- and tho largo iminls r of plain ttcople among them who needed strong mid familiar language. Now the tendency set in the other direction, and thcie are many pn-aehers in the Protestant Fpi.oeopal, i n'sttyterlan. i oiigngational, and other churches who generally pn-ach without notes, and w ho secure attention hy their earnestness and fom. As an illustration of tlie ndinirable organization of the KnglMi Post-olli', a correspondent writes to the London Timr sjiying that w ith a view to tost the jMtwcrs of the Post-office clerk he wrote a postcard to a friend, and wrote both tho eontents and address in short-hand. Within three hours of posting, the gentleman to whom it wa addressed received the card, tlie address having been translated in nil ink. Another time he wrote a letter, and. after having scaled tho envelope, addressed it in short-hand to himself, llv return ot post he nvcived hi letter in perfect safety, the cnvolo i;i not !een oftencd, aiid

more still, there was no mark of any kind on the cnvclo'tc except the u-uaf postmark and the short-hand writing. This Involved, of four, a kuowlcdgv of sliorU hand not only by the sorting clerk, hut also hy tho letter-carrier.

oii Hud r.ntii. Kyes have they, yet m-o not nenlles. A man is thinnest when lnA a-shav-iii" An old lady in Massachusetts ls-ing informed that a dam altove tho village where she lived was likely to give way, immediately w ished for a pair of clean wliite stockings, saying in explanation that she once taw a woman struggling in the waters and that she tloatcd along Pi t upward. The Chicago and I Mroit newspapers are discussing the beauty of the women of tlielr respective cities with more acrimony, perhaps, than the subject demands. Whv, tor instance, should a Detroit editor publish the following scandalous insinuations against the daughters of Chicago: "Chicago may talk altout the homely women of Detroit, but there is one redeeming tower. W lieu one of them gets mired they don't have to dig up half the street to get a six-toon-font scantling under her foot for a pry. ' California tea-pod are far superior to orange jsh-I for throwing the unwary pedestrian off his equilibrium. Hereis'w hat hapitcned to a lady in San Francisco, as dosorilted by a pajs r of that city : "She kicked w ith both tit t as high as a ballet star, gave the js-culi ir, shrill, feminine scream, sat down, said Hi my,' smoothed down her disordem! attire, looked around wildly, rose quickly, shook herself to m c if anything was loose, gave a wither- ! in J-'1"'-'' "til.. pli.-.- when s. llM't flllcn, and. w ith all the spare blood she had in her fail, went on w ith her shopping." A hater of tobacco asked an old negro woman, the fumes of w hose piie w en annoying to him. if she thought she wa a Christian. " Ves, brudder, I stects I i." "Do you Itclieve in the the P.ible?" "Ves, bru Iiler." " Do you know that then 1 a pas-age In the Scripture that declare) that nothing unclean shall hfticrit the kingdom of heaven " "Ves, I've heard of it." "Well, Chine, you smoke, and you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven, ttecauM . there is nothing so unclean a the breath of a smoker. What do you say to that "" " Why, I .pts-t I e;ive my breff bellilld when I go liar." An Irishman, newly imported, made application for work. On Iteing a-kul if he could hold the plow, Paddy said ho could do that or anything else. He wa accordingly employnl, and hi nia-ter went w ith him to tlie field to see him commence ("iterations. It was soon found that the Hils rnian was new to the trade. "Did you not tell me, sir, that you could hold the plow?" "A rnih, le aisy now," said Pat, "how the divil can I how Id the plow, an' tliiui two smiIm '.e. ov horses drsiggin it away from me? Ibid give it to me iu the barn, an' Is jabers, I'll how ld it w id any boWy." Kecentlv, near ( 'ermaiitown. a woman w:is m'omi nit by the cow-catcher of a locomotive. The train couldn't Ite stot)mi1 until it had run half a mile. The wis man was unhurt. When the story of her esca'tc was told to her husband he said, sadly: "Well. I'll Ite darnel if wimnieii ain't hard to kill. There wa my linest I lurhain. He got on tho track and the locomotive struck him, and then wasn't enough life left in him to supply animation to a fly. And 1113 horse ran away w ith tho gig, and the train came along and hit him and it, and the horse was kilhil and then wasn't a pieii of the gig left big I enough to make aping for thw spigot , hole of a barn l. Now that wife of mine is ot no aci'ount, and she csoaitcs. It's always the same. If you have two eggs in your hand, and one is bail and the other g'Msl.and you let tliom drop, it's invariably tho gissl one that bnak." And he looked sad and turned his chew of tobair t iu hi mouth, and cogitatnl on the strange incoiisistcitcica of an idwits. Max Adder, Turkish Women. There I a gnat dal of misconception in this country a to the status and treatment of women in Turkey. Most M-rsons imagine that every Turk i inon or less a IUue-ls anl, w ith four wives at least, and a many mncubine to Istot a ho can atl'onl, tli whole of whom an the men? slaves of his caprice, Jaih rnl by eunuch, and without domestic authority of any kind. Nothing could well lie farther fmm the n-ality. Instead of this paradisic plurality Iteing the rule, jtolygainy, iu fact, i fast going out, a of the present generation of Mussulmans few have inon than two w ives, while the great majority have only one. Odalisques, again, are the "luxury" of the very rich, and a very ran luxury too. ior in lurkey, as iu monogamous j lands, wives an jealous of their right. I and whatever may have Isi-n the iaxer rule in the good old tunes thi'V liow-a- : days sot their face stoutlvand successfully against illegitimate rival. Tlie khanuiii is In reality a much mistress ehez elle a any Christian wife of tlie day, and ha, if anything, more than her fair' shan of au thority in-door. Instead, thenfon, of tho harem Iteing a prison guarded with bolt and bars, it Is rather a sanctuary front which care ami trouble an, a tar as humanly ttossible. excluded. The man Is always the bnad-w inner; he alone I rear tho attendant anxieties of life, while the woman passes her days. If not In Arcadian innocence and calm, al least free from the frivolous and not always Innitcent amusements which sometimes make up tho existence of her Christian sisters. The Turks an unfortunately, not fni front evils, many introduinl from foreign coun tries, nut then I one evil tho social evil which has no home among them. The yashmak, foridile. and shalwar. it i true. still hold their ground, but feminine coquetry has long simv diplanl the old opaque swathing, that hid everything ex- 1 cept the ey es, for the diaphanous gossamer i liirough which tho whole battery of tho ! wearer's charm. now plays a fni ly a if ' no single fold of muslin "remained." Tho! bright eye flash and the tcarly til th daz-, zle beneath the veil, which, trout the tine- ; lies of it texture, no longer serves to comi-al. but rather adds mi additional ! cnarni 10 me natural itcauti' oj the wearer. The yi How oapoosh. too. has largely yielded to the clastic Kuroitean boot : but the Loui Ojiatorzo abomination ami it "(Jraccfiil (ireeian ls-nd " are a vet for eign to the pru incts of Stambouf. 7ns per'a llaznr.

OUt ItAILKOAbS. VYIial II hh ilrm Arroiunllaliril lliirlnv l"7;i- A 4 wiiirelirnItr l.kblbll of I lie ItMllronU l nl-rrlr r ur 4 uunlry . The New York Keening Pout condensi-s the following statistics front proof-slm ts of "PMtr's Manual," now being published. It says : lhferring to tho proof-sheets, we find tliat there are Oi.if.n', miles of railroad in the I'nited States, of which the ojHrations an given, against .7,:i2: miles in ls72, and 41,011 miles in ls7l. Nearly all the new road built in ls7 was during the first quarter of the year, building since that time having practically stopN'd, at lerstso

lar a new railroad lines are concerned. The aggn gate cost of the several roads at the end of l7:i was f.'UUl.lt-'i, or nearly double the amount of the national debt. The increase of cost for 173 over 172 was $i.o-..VSi,2i., ami over 171 w:is fl.tK",MI.nox. Of the totiil cost at the end of j l7;t, $l,!M0,ti;s..Vvl wms represented ly shan capital, and I.IJUI.": by van-1 ous forms of debt. hieUy bonds maturing at a distant day. The total gross earnings , for the year 17; w ore .V7.,2!d.:i"2:i. against .s(;s,2li.0.."t for 172, and 4).'t.:t2,..-'Us; fr j lv7l. The lucrca-c of earnings for 17.1 was $."'!i,0.V).-'i ; for 172. J'JI.'d l.s:,7 ; the total for two year being $1..m;;,1 ."i. The iM-rcentage of increase for 17:1 over 17J 1 was 11.1 iter cent.: for 172 over 171, 11 ltcroent. Of the total earnings for the year 1S., $... 12. '.! wen nivivod from f reights, and f l:i!,7 I,.V11 f rom pass.r,.rs The current operating cxciies were !?.U l.:!7,."2. or i;.".2 s r ti-nt. of the gross earnings. Amount paid in dividends was s."!t,."i.i;,;ili;, or :i.7 per cent, on the aggregateninoimt of share capital. The ratio of mileage to inhabitants in l 7:i was one mile .ol road toeyerv ."t2 iniialiitants, :traint one mile to every lV) inhabitants in 172. The Iterechtage of net earnings upon the cost of the road for l7;l wa 4.!h;. against Ti.20 for 171' and .VM for 171. The increase of mileage in 172 and 173 was 17.:7. while the increase of the cost of the roads in the same time was $ 1 .(i.,;il.Mi.. A explaining this point, we quote Mr. l'ttor, who say : "It is hardly possible that the canting should increase in ratio to such an enormou ex'tciiditure. a two or three year oitoii olape after its oitening Is fore a railroad is in position to do much busi ness, for the want ot aden irate oouiime'its. I or from the uiilini-hnl condition of it track, or lor the want of suitable connection, or from pecuniary embarrassments. On the other hand, the earning of these works, p. r head of population, in 17.1, wa .12.0. againt jdl.isl for 172, and ?:. 1 for 171. This i a most eniuraging feature in oonin-otiou with these work, as it show that, under ordinary condition, their earning must incn ase for an indefinite m riod. in a very rapid nitio. more clearly sctthil the incnae cr head in the Kateru States Iteing fully a great a in the Western and inon -juir-ely settle! States. At the rate of the past "three year the earning of our railroads will double themselves in tho next six years without the construction ot an additional mile of line ; the ipulation i inTeaing at the rate of l.Om.iMlaiinuallv. liv 10, file earning of tho roads now in operation . 1 11.. ii...ui. ........... will probably exiifil $1.0nu.Uoii.(m. be jHTii ntage of their earnings to their cost will come fully up to twenty icr cent. a rate which, with go! management, i sufficient to n ndcr the whole investment reasonably remunerative." Classifying the railroad of the country by section, we find that the mileage of niilroads in the New Kngland group of States for 17:1 wa .V&U. against J,."74 for 172. Their cost w as J2ii:l.uli7,77, against it2.'!o.ilO,..7!l in 172, and was made ifp of l ll.loi..!20 of sfiare capital and 1 22.221, 1 1! of debt. Their average cost iter mil wa $i:i..2, against j.Vi.ll for 172. Their gros earnings were $-il.;7).i.Si, against $f..l!i.N.'Ci for 172. Of the grt earnings 2!i.alO.OM wen nu ivnl for tlie transportation of Ircight, and $22,.Tt.Hl for the traustortation of pa'iiger. The iHTci-ntago of gross eaniings to the cost if the roads wa T.t.i; i-r i-ont. T he net earning wen $1. ".OH. 777, and tipialeil 2.!2 r. cent of sin h citst. The earning tcr head of population equahil Jl l.:U). against $l:l..Vl for 172. The dividend paid amounted to fH.OOl.f:, and equaled 'i.:ti jht i nt. on the total share capital. T he ratio of total mi lage to Kpulation waone mile of line to every ! inhabitant. against 70; for one mile in 172. The mileage of the railroad in the Mildlo States for 17J was 12.111, against 11,d7 forl'i. Their cost was $1.12ii.7i'2,K7 for l7:i, against ??:!i2.7oo.77ii for 172. Their gros taming wen Sl!l,0.V2,:tO2 against $1;'I,jo."i.:)7 hr ls72. Of the gritss earnings $l.2.2."ti).noo were derived ironi in tgiits; ami rM-'ju.t.uou trom si ngers. Tho net earnings were $';'J,."si0.-J (ni, orl.22 jtereent. of the cost as it stinxl at the end of ls7:. The dividends paid amounted to $:ti).."il!.22", or 4.7 icr cent, on the shan' capital. The miles of railntads in tho Western States for 17.1 were :t2.t. against 2M.S7S for L72. Their cost was fl.7iM.l.s."22, against'l,172,i'.2.t,2;t2for H72. '1 heir gross earnings were $211,717,71, againt fl7:l,X2i'..'2.i2 for 172. Of these f.sl.SMl.lHN) were derived front f n'ights.aiul $I.i7.!uo.OO0 fnun passengers. The dividend paid amounted to $IJ,0.Vt,:il7, or 2.2i' jter cent, on the fchare capital of the roads. The mileage of railntad of the Southern State for 173 wa M,M."1, against hl.!ii; for 1S72. Their -ost was $.'o;.:t21,loi, against $inl.u:i.ji;7 in 172. Their gro earning wen $.VI,i.!m!.hi;, against $17,Kss.rkW for ls72. H the earning $:W.:KV 420 wen derived from freights, and $l.'i.UlO.tKI from passi'iiger. The dividend paid amouuttil to $:i."d ,;"'., or les than tw o s r n ut. on the shan capital. The miles of railroad in the PacinV State for 17;J wi n 1.42S against l.w or 172. Their co-t wa $l."tl.(r.si.t!l, against $l:U - -t lu.l I .. 1 . . . ...1 .).., .'.si 111 1 - i. "5.1 17, Their gros earning wen against $l:5.!M0.727 for in.', "i iiiese earning 5-:i.. ',.: were nii-viil from fn iht transtortcd. and .Vi:i,!iUfrom passenger. 1 he net earning w en js n.s,(h(0. Mr. Poor concludes the introduction to , hi I took as follows : I ' Within the past five year 27.7"t mile ; of railroad have Iteen constructed in this country at fcl'i.ooo jht mile: the cost of ! these work haslti-cii $1,111 llKi.(nn). In the ' meantime, .."si,000.ou have been annually ' .......... I... I i ....: .1 1. r.js uiiru hi ini.OOI III' ill 1 I M 1 1 1 1 1 H l.ltions and increasing the f leilitics for bu-i-ness of road aln-ady in o'tcration. In other words, there have lti-n extendti upon our milroad $.su.(nio.(m) annually in the last two year. If we have not ex-

eeeiled our means ir. tlie iniistruction of thcM. work, w have puslml tliis great Intent out of ali protortion to others. We have only to stop construction to have the eiiuilihrium sjsnlily n-storetl. The method i a very umple one. The earnings of tho railroads of the Western States the Ifist year equaled $H..'.'J per heal of ikiulation. ' he pnMnt year, hut for the effect of the recent panic, they would equal $l.'t.:i:i mt head ; and in lf"7". $I0..'M js-r hea l. This gain is certain to be made as soon as the counti v recover from the priesont prostration. In the mean time the population is increasing at the rate of more than 1,0110,000 annually. The contribution of this IniTease to the railroads will add. at the prrent mte ot earnings. $1 ijxum

I annually totheirgritt-seariiings. Thetoiiiauon 01 mo country increases at l lie rate of 2..V) s-r cent. annuaJly. The eanilngs of our railroads incn-ase in alsuit sixfold gTeater ratio." The (iermlhetrj of Disease. The germ-theory of liease hs nn ntly neei vula most interesting and demonstrative contribution from an eminent Oerman scieiiti-t. The comniiiiiication of his exN'rimeiital investigations and the conclusions he ha n-achul an singularly and strongly continued bv H linholt. 011 the continent, and Tyndall in hnglaud. 1 lie researciies which an so decisive win made by Pn 'lessor I'inz. of lUmn, with twerlul inicntseopie apparatus, and extend over a itcriitd f ev r;d years. 1W ing a victim to the ilistn-ssing malady, hay fever so prevalent in May aiid June in thi country the lionu investigator MisM-ctii! from the seasonable pn valt iiee of the tlisi-iL', tliat it was tnuvablo to the vegetable organism. Having aruml himself w ith the iMtwerful immersion lens ot a llartiiack microH-oite, lie subjected the nastl Mi n tions to analysis. In examining the si-crctinn he uniformly found organism wholly absent, except when suffering fntin tlie di4-ase in the spring. When laid on tlie warm side of the microscope those organic or parasitical Inniies wen distinctly Mt-n in motion, vibrating hackwards and forwards in lite, and, after several days, had evidently incrcail in size.' They adhere tenaciously to tlie lower cavities of the noe, andean Ite discharged only by violent sneezing. Hut the niot iM-uuti-fid part of the ri M-anh wu in the dintvery of the n uinly for their presence in the human system. On preparing a neulltfl iMihitiult f sidphate .f quinine, frifrom adulteration by ciiii hoiiia, and applying this to the nostrils w ith a pipette or siuiph nos' douche, the desinil etlii't was immediately M-cunil. The oisoiniu action of quinine on InfiiMtria was (wrfectly brought out. the i-ymptoin of irritation coinpletcly disapiteanil, and the leu nveahil thecntire abenee ot anlmalciihe in tin subsequent secretion. The n-sults agni with thosi' arrived at ill 170 lv Ir. Frick holer, of S liwalhach. and IroA str ItUM'h. of Itonn, Itoth of whom, with llelinholt., the gn-at physiologist, have snui'ssfully applitil quinine for the cure of this parasitical malady. These highly interesting and lteautiful inquiries in intilioal science, U -ides estattlisliing tlie gn at value of quinine, and pro , viding a n innlv for adi-eas,. which is ex ; tn-meiy uitnssing, mil give an unstus to an investigation whit li 1 the most promising in modern tlierasutii. A distinguislHiI leader ot imiiieaJ thought in New York, in a public a ldn-s, nu ntlv said, if there wa "one direction In which pngnss is now so markul a to constitute u dominant feature of the piesent shite of miilicine, and to embrace a new idea, it is the origin and propagation of disease hy indc-s-ndciit organic erui.M No late physological investigation h:u N111 so promisingly puhed,and none ha ofli nil so many liie-s of solution for the mysterious epidemic which, from time immemorial, have utllicted man and ltcast. The atmosphen i loaded with matter w hich, however invisible Im thenaknl eye, need only to Is- sifti-d in a strong beam of artificial light to reveal countless particle, each of w hich may afford a nidus for toisonou infusoria. " With gnater jterlirtiwu in optical apparatus, this fa t will doubtles jet Is' made more startlingly apparent. Hut wlias ver science can ui.ma-k, however alarming it may be, tlie progress of all remedial and curative processes can only Ite advanil by such unstinted analysis. Kmineiit physicians nad original investigators, a M. Pasteur, of tlie Fnnch Academy of N,ieuees.Pnfitor Lister, of Ldiiihurgh, and other, iu their longcontinuiil and exhaustive expi riinents.n ai 1ml conclusions hannonioii with those ot llelinboltzai. t 'l'yndall. W hile it will always In true that doctor will differ, thi diflerenei will not impair the enorniou practical utilitj' of sueh nen he. Tho sanitary and imiliial isue they involve an so manifold ami momentous that it would Is-a grand step in the right ihnvtion if a tiumttcr of eminent inlcrofipi.t and physicists, well provided with means, cou'd combine their .-kill for a final solution of tin- problem on which so much dJteiids, AVmj Vork Herald. Alt I'neasy Head. When it wa stab d. in the description of tin preparation made in Kngland for the ntvption of the i'zar, that the State Imi made exttn'ssly for hi use tad hint taken dow n iNi-aiise he brought Li ow n Nil w ith him. tM-ople wondenil at such an ! exhibition of ImisTial eccentricity. They i had it In London. In fore hi departure j however, that the reason for thi .strange fancy was that he wa afraid that he might Im- tumbled into arM nicatnl siui't. This I was not the only indication tliat hi crow mil head reshil w ith gnat uneasiness, j for it i n'torted that even while in 15uckj iiigham Palace hi Iml-i hanilier wa , guarded bv two faithful Cossai ks. one of w horn slept jut outside and thtj other just inside the d.tor. The ii"a-ina!ion-haiint nl Kmis ror of nil the Hussia must have been not a little sitrpri-il at the fnnlom With which hi lloyal llighiie the Prince of Wale loated llU'iit the iiy of IOlldolt and atteiidul all the i hn k-apnm balls without aimed atti nd nit at hi back. There Was a little squabble over the pneiileliee to Im- given to the Inichess ! Kdinburgb. but the t zar can return to his homo w iih at h a-t the imnfort of tel ling auriil that in p. ac able and loyal old Kngland hi daughter w'ill Im in iio danger of Iteing staMted. or shot at or toi oniil. Courier-,' vrnnl. Ax obituary tiot'ni in a Coiuniticut naper conclude. ith tin atuiounci nicnt that "the dni'ascd leave two infant daughters, both girl-."