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o ‘rmr - EPITOME OF THE WEEK. i~ OCONGRESSIONAL. SENATE.——Numerousfly-signed petitions for a commission of inquiry into the alcoholie liquor traffic, and ‘memorials for the withdrawal of the legal-tender quality of Treasury notes, were presented on ;%e 18th. ... Mr. Morrill offered a resolgxtion that the Com-mittee-on Finance be instructed to\infiuire as to the practicability of refunding the National debt at a less rate than four per cent. interest, and algo as to whether -or not some effective provigion can be made whereby bona fide subscriptions for sums in moderate amounts may beav:glable. and report by bill or otherwise. ....A bill was passed to admit free of duty articles intended for the Millers’ International Exhibition at' Cincinnati in June next.... Mr. Saulsbury introduced (by request) a bill to preserve the secrecy of telegrams. House.—Mr. Bicknell, Chairman of the Committee on, the Counting of Votes for President and Vice-President, reported back a bill to provide for and regulate the counting #f votes for President and of questions arising thereupon. ... A petition of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church on the subject of the liquor traffic was presented and referred....The report of the Committee on the Revition of the Rules was further debated in Committee of the Whole. / SENATE.—A number of petitions of women, asking for the removal of their political disabilities, and for a Constitutional amendment giving women citizens the right to vote, were presented on the 14th, as were also several petitions in favor of-the Bayard resolution withdrawing the legal-tender quality of Treasury notes, and for a‘commission of in'(}uiry into the alcobholic liquor traffic....The bill to increase the pensions of totally-disabled goldiers and sailors from $5O to s72a month was passed. . - : House.—The bill for the free importation of articles intended for exhibition at the Millers’ International Exhibition, to be eld at Cincinnati in 1880, was reported and assed.... Mr.. McCoid introduced a bill to establish a Board of Commissioners of InterState Commerce.... Mr. Buckner, Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency, regorted a bill requiring the reserves of National Banks to be kept in gold and silvercoin... . Mr Warner, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported back the resolution directingthe Secretary ot the Treasury to report under what law and under what conditions the United States Treasury became a member of %he New York Clearing House, and whethersaid learing House accepts Treasury certificates, payable in silver coin, in settlement of balnaces. or whether the settlement of balances in standard silver dollars or silver certificates is prohibited by the rules of the Clearing House, and the resolution was adopted....The report of the Committee on Rules was further discussed in Committee of the Whole. -SENATE.—On the 15th an additional number of petitions of women wgre presented asking for a Constitutional amendment giving women the right of suffrage.... Majority and minority reports were made from the Committee on Finance on' the Bayard resolution for the withdrawal of the compulsory legaltender power of the United States Treasury notes, the majority report being adverse tothe resolution: the minority report was signed by Messrs. Kernan, Bayard, Wallace and Morrill; both reports were placed on .the calendar.... Mr. Morgan presented the credentials of Luke Pryor, appointed Senator from Alabama, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Houston, and Mr. Pryor appeared and took the modified oath. Adjourned ’u&he 19th. House.—Afler some miscellaneous business consideration was resumed of the bill requiring one-half of the reserves of the National Banks to be kept in gold and silver coins of the United States, and Mr. Price (lowa) spoke in support of the bi 11.... Additional debate was had in Committee of the Whole on the report of the Committee on Rules. ; ‘ : SENATE.—Not in session on the 16th. House.—A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of War for information as to the number, rank, 'names and annual pay of every officer on the retired list of the army.... A bill was passed donating condemned bronze cannon to the Morton %/[onument Association of Indiana....ln Committee of the Whole on the private calendar, a bill to return to Charies Clinton, late Assistant Tressurer at Ncew Orleans, the sum of $5.8060, being the amount stolen from him_ in 1871, 'and re= funded by himto the United States, was debated, the opposition to the same being chiefly on the ground that it was not shown that due care had been taken in guarding the money from the robbers: thé committee finally refused—67 to 72—to report the bill favorably to the House. ..Adjonined to the 19th,

THE OLD WORLD, A CasuLdispatch, received in London on the 13th, says the Afghan tribes had again become unpleasant and were threatening to attack the British forces. : THE French Chambers reassembled on the 13th. 'Gambetta was re-elected President of the Chamber of Deputies by a large majority. S THE ex-Empress Eugenie has announced that she will leave for the Cape of Good Hope on the 26th of March, and hopes 1g arrive at the scene of the Prince Imperial’s death by the Ist of June. - A Caßuvr dispatch of the 14th says General Roberts had demanded of the merchants of Cabul a contribution of six lacs of rupees, and had been indignantly refused. THE British Government issued orders on the 14th summoning ‘the- Baronial session for the purpose of considering methods for providing work for the immediate employment of unskilled labor in Ireland. There were indications that the distress in. County Kerry, Ireland, would amount to a famine. o THE Vatican organ, the Aurora, contained a long article on the. 14th advocating home rule for Ireland. A 5 : A sErIOUS disturbance broke out in Pesth on the 14th. The military were ordered out, and cleared the streets, but not before being obliged to fire upon the people. Several persons were wounded and many arrests made. I : FREDERICK, the Duke of SchleswigHolstein, died on the 14th. He was fifty-one years old. : ' A GALWAY (Ireland) dispatch of the 15th says anti-rent disturbances had broken out .in the town and parish of Tuam, and that a company of infantry had been sent there to preserve order and protect the proc-ess-servers, Sixty able-bodied men, with their families, were admitted to the Killarney work-hquse on the preceding day. In a railway accident at Southport, England, on the 16th three persons were killed and twénty seriously hurt. b A MapriD telegram of the 16th says the village of Alcola del Jucar, situated in the province of Murcia and containing a population of 2,000, had been almost whelly destroyed by 4 land-slide. Very many of the inhabitants were killed or wounded. - NEws has been received from Persia announcing a second defeat of the Russians by the Turkomans. - o At a meeting of the Council of the Home-Rule League in Dublin on the 17th a resolution was passed thanking the people of America for their prompt aid to the distressed in Ireland. : . THE NEW WORLD. - THERE was considerable rioting at the Chicago Stock-Yards on the 13th, resulting from the refusal of some of_the ‘packing

houses to employ the late strikers. ' At ome time a formidable riot was threatened, but the presence of 200 policemen and the display of fire-arms quieted the trouble. - ACCORDING to a Mobile telegram ot the 15th the exodus of negroes to the North from Eastern Mississippi had been over 1,000 during the preceding three weeks. One hun dred colered emigrants from North Carolina, en route to Indiana, reached Petersburg, Va., on the morning of the 15th. They reported that several hundred more would shortly follow.

A WasHINGTON special of the 16th to the Chicago 7ribune says Ouray had a second interview with Secretary Schurz, and it had been about determined to send him, Jack and one other chief back to Colorado, in charge of an agent, for the purpose of bringing on, if possible, the twelve Ute murderers, or as many of them as can be induced to come. The dispatch continues: ‘As there is no law 'by which - these Indians can be tried or punished after they come here, it is believed by those who are informed in Indian matters that the intention is to play upon the fears of the Indians with a view tc get as good terms as possible. Ouray hag persisted from the first that he has no power to bring in these Indians. He assures the Secretary that he cannot compel them unless he can kill them first, which he is perfectly willing to undertake.” : The Maine Fusion Legislature met on the 16th and elected Joseph L. Smith Governor. ‘He qualified soon after and delivered a brief message. Later in the day he issued an order relieving General Chamberlain of the trust confided to him by Governor Garcelon. In the convention of both branches of the Legislature an Executive Council was elected and the following State officers chosen: P. A. Sawyer, Secretary of State; Charles A. White, Treasurer; W. H. McClellan, Attor-ney-General; M. M. Folsom, Adjutant-Gen eral. In the Senate no general business was transacted, and in the House a Republican member was unseated. - _ THE number of failures in the United States last year as per the figures furnished by the mercautile agency of R. G. Dun & Co., was 6,658, and the amount of liabilities, $98,149,052. In 1878 there were 10,478 failures, and the liabilities were $234,383,132. THE paymaster of the South-side Gaslight and Coke Company, Chicago, while proceeding to the works on the afternoon of the 16th, was assaulted by three men and robbed of $4,000. The crime was one of the most daring ever perpetrated in the city. ‘ TaeE Maine Supreme Court rendered an opinion on the 16th upon the twentyseven questions submitted to it not. long ago by the body claimed by the Republicans to be the legal Legislature of the State. The opinion is full and. exhaustive,and appedrs wholly to sustain the position taken by the Maine Republicans. In ‘substance it . decides that the Fusion Legislature is an illegal body; that it lacked a quorum in thefirst instance, and that while a quorum was wanting it had no right to do any thing but -adjourn; that it could not assume the duty of legislating by unseating members and admitting 'others so as to constitute a quorum; that a Legislature so constituted could not presume to elect a Governor and State officers and expect such election to have any valid or binding effect; that the existence of informalities and technicalities does not invalidate an election or prevent a ‘person duly elected from taking his seat, and ‘that it'is immaterial in that regard whether a/member is summoned by the Governor and his Council or not—the main question being whether he really received the most votes. With regtqtrd to the provision of the statute tsat no person shall take part in the organization of a Legislature unless his name appears upon the roll of the Clerk, and is called by that official at the beginning, the Court very decidedly declares the law to be unconstitutional. : ; S THE Department of Agriculture estimates the present cotton crop at 5,020,387 bales of four hundred and fifty pounds each, and the value in round numbers at $231,000,000, against $193,000,000 in 1878. ;

WiLLiam. M. LeEeDps, formerly Chief Clerk of the Indian Bureau of th& Interior Department, was before the House Committee on Indian Affairs on the 17th. He attributed the disaffection of the Utes to the inattention of Commissioner Hayt to their condition, claims and necessities. He assigned, among reasons and causes for disaffection, failure of the Indian Bureau to send to Indians subsistence, supplies and agricultural implements as it had agreed to'do; prohibition by the Department of the sale of arms and ammunition upon their reservation, leaving them under the necessity of traveling ninety miles to obtain'the (to them) necessities of life, as, without arms and ammunition for hunting, they were unable to sustain themselves upon their reservations; the delay of the. Department in furnishing their supplies to starving White River Utes, and notice given in two successive annual reports by Indian Commissioner Hayt that he proposed their removal to Indian! Territory, without making any mention of any proposition to compensate them for their lands. ! In the Maine Fusion Legislature on the 17th very little business was -transacted, except the qualification of four Councilors elected on the preceding day. In the House there was a lively debate on the late bpinion of the Supreme Court, and a Committee was raised to consider the question of the Constitutional organization of the House, and the existing condition' of affairs. The Republican Legislature met in the afternoon. In the Senate Committees on Gubernatorial and Senatorial Votes were appointed, and the answers of the Supreme Court to the questions of the Republican Legislature were read. In the House a Committee on Gubernatorial Votes was appointed, and the .Opinion of the Supreme Court was read. The Becretary of State declined to give up the Gubernatorial returns to the committee, but the latter subsequently made a report showing the vote cast at the late election for Governor. The House then selected Daniel F. Davis and Bion Bradbury as the persons from whom the Senate should choose a Governor. The Senate thereupon elected Daniel F. Davis as Governor, he receiving the entire nineteen votes, and he was declared the legal Governor of the State. A Joint Coniention was then held and six Councilors were chosen. 8.-J. Chadbourne was elected Secretary of State; J. W. Folger, Btate Treasurer; H. B. Cleaves, Attorney-General; 8. J. Gallaghan, -“Adjutant-General. Mr. Chadbourne forthwith qualified, and took possession of the Secretary’s office, but found that the great seal of the State had been removed. In the evening another Joint Convention was held, and Governor Davis took the oath of office and read a short inaugural address, after which he took possession of the Executive oflice. The new Governor issued an order notifying Governor Chamberlain of ‘hia election, and inclosed with it a certified copy of the Sn&%qflo&qflgucebt opinion, whereupon General Chamberlain issued an order recognizing the legality of Mr. Davie’ election, and announcing his surrender of the

trust conferred upon him by ex-Governor Garcelon. ' GENERAL GRANT and party were at Paiatka, Fla., on the 13th, and intended to start the next day for Bt. Augustine. Tre Ohio Legislature on the 13th elected General Garfield United States Senator to succeed Mr. Thurman. Mr. Garfield received the entire Republican vote in the House. The vote in the Senate was: Garfield, 20; Thurman, 13. . ) It was reported on the 14th that small-pox was prevailing to such an extent in Ottawa, Ont., that several theatrical companiesjhad canceled their engagements there, and Mémbers ot Parliament were urging that the sessions be held either at Montreal or i Toronto. : ‘ THE Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections on the 14th continued the examination of witnesses in rebuttal of testimony taken before the sub-committee in New Orleans. Mr. Twitchell and Pierre Magliere swore positively that they had not been bribed, when members of the Louisiana Legislature, to vote for Mr. Kellogg. . THE Jowa Legislature assembled and organized on the 13th, and the Wisconsin Legislature on the 14th. Republican officers were chosen~in both bodies. | TELEGRAPHIC communication with Oregon, after a week’s interruption, was restored on the 14th. On the 9th the city of Portland was visited by a destructive hurricane, which caused nearly $lOO,OOO damage. One man was killed and several were seriously hurt by falling buildings. The storm raged with great violence in the interior, and great damage to property resulted and several lives were lost. The lines of railroad extending from Portland to Dallas were buried under fallen timber so deep that new lines will have to be constructed. A SANTA FE dispatch of the 14th states that Major Morrow caught up with Victoria’s band on the Lead waters of the Pershaw River two days before:. Victoria madea stubborn fight from noon to sundown and then fled toward the head-waters of the Anima. Several dead Indians were left on thie fitld. The United States forces had one man killed and several wounded. TaE Louisville Savings Bank suspended on the 14th, upon the discovery that J. H. Rhoer, the Cashier, was a defaulter for over $67,000. After acknowledging the deficit, Rhoer started for the jail to surrender himself to the authorities, but the Directors overtook him and informed him that he would not be prosecuted, and that the stockholders had decided to make good the deflcit. UroN representations made by the Bee-Keepers' Association, the Post-Office Department on the 15th reconsidered .its order that queen bees be excluded from the mails. ON the 15th the House Committee on Indian Affairs began an investigation into the causes of the recent Ute outbreak. General Adams was before the committee, and gave a long statement of the grievances of the Indians. Miss Meeker was present, but did not testify. Reporters were excluded. - THE New York Graphic of the 15th had a report from Menlo Park to the effect that the carbon horseshoes, the main reliance of Mr. Edison in perfecting his electric light, had failed, and that in consequence he had decided to suspend their further manufacture. Mr. Edison, however, was not down-hearted. Another report was to the effect that Mr. Edison denied that the lamps had gone out and that the carbon horseshoes had broken; it was true that some of the lamps had been cracked, and that air had thus gained entrance to the flame, but this did not affect his invention, and was only a mechanical fault—a trouble with the glass, which he hoped, by continued experiments, to remedy. A WIDOW WOMAN named Mrs. Margae ret Tumy, aged seventy years, died on the 17th, at her home in Walnut Hills, near Cincinnati, from the effects of voluntary starvation. She bad been a sufferer for years from dyspepsia, and a few weeks ago recovered from a serious illness, but the attack had developed in her miund the remarkable hallucination that her stomach was gone. No amount of persuasion could convince her to the contrary, and she from that time persistently refused to take food. After she had suffered from starvation for nearly two weeks she was prevailed on to take a little meat, which she was in the habit of holding in her mouth a short time, swallowing nothing but the juice pressed out of it. This and a few ounces of liquid was all that entered her stomach during her long fast of four weeks. Sheé remained conscious till within an hour of her death. ° :

v LATER., SEVERAL private bills were passed in the United States Senate on the 19th. Mr. Ferry introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution that suffrage shall not be restricted on account of sex or any other reason that does not apply to all citizens. THhe bill to pfevent cruelty to animals in transportation was discussed at considerable length, a number of Senators participating in the debate. A number of bills. were introduced in the House, and an invitation was accepted by that body to be present on the occasion of Mr. Parnell’s speech in Washington, on February 2, and a resolution was subsequently passed—96 to 43 —tendering the distinguished agitator the use of the hall for his address. AMONG the nominations sent to the Senate by the President on the 19th were tége following: James Russell Lowell, of Massachusetts, as Minister to England; John W. Foster, of Indiana, Minister to Russia; exGovernor Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsiu, Minister to Bpain; Philip H. Morgan, of Louisiana, Minister to Mexico; Eli H. Murray, of Kentucky, Governor of Utah Territory. ’ ' THE Supreme Court of the United States has rendered a decision that soldiers who enter soldiers’ homes cannot be deprived of their pensions, thus sustaining & former ruling of the Commissioner of Pensions that such pensions should not be paid to the officers of the homes, but-to the pensioners themselyes. BErore the House Committee on Indian Affairs on the 19th General C. B. Fisk arraigned the Indian Bureau for incompetency, and charged it with responsibility for the Ute revolt. Among the reasons assigned by him for the rebellion of that tribe was that they were cheated out of their lands; that the Government failed to pay them their annuity; that from 1876 to 1878 supplies were not furnished ' them; that the sale of arms and ammunition on the White River reservation had been forbidden, and that Agent Meeker was an injuc Hus and unfit man. Commissioner Hayt denied many of the General's assertions, and attributed the abuses in the service to his predecessor in office. - Bora houses of the last - organized Legislature of Maine met on the 19th and transacted routine business. Henry B. Cleaves was chosen Attorney:General and General George 8. Beals, Adjutant-General. Governor Davis nominated Colonel Wilder for

Raflroad Commissioner; W. A. Luce for Superintendent of Schools, and John D: Myrick for State Librarian. State Treasurer White issued an order instructing his subordinates not to honor any demand for payment of money emanating from or issued by authority of either of the bodies claiming to be the Legislature of the State, until further advised by him. In the afternoon Mr. Cameron, President pro tem. of the Fusion Benate, and Mr. Talbot, Speaker of the Fusion House, with the Becretary and Clerk of these bodies, appeare:l at the State-House door and demanded admission as members of the Legislature, but this, by order of Governor Davis, was refused. Subsequently Governor Smith appeared and demanded admission as Governor of Maine, and he, too, was denied. About this time Speaker Talbot mounted the fence surreunding the State House and called the Fusion House to order, and a resolution was adopted that the House adjourn to meet on the following day in. Union Hall. The Fusion Senate was then called to order in the same place, and promptly concurred in the House resolution and adjourned. ; AN Oswego (Kansas) dispatch of a recent date says negro emigrants from Texas continued to arrive in that county in great numbers on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, and by trains across the Indian Territory. The winter was mild, but houseroom was not to be had for them. Some were living in tents and-wagons in the woods. Some deaths had taken place, and some suffering from poverty. '

The Love of a Bonnet. Since bonnets began, women' have always had an affectionate regard for their head-gear, and have given, it may be, more consideration to that than to any other portion of their dress. Even the Ophelias and Madge Wildfires deck their hair with flowers and straws rather than wreathe their bodies with garlands; and there is something reasonable and natural in the act, whether practiced by sane or insane, owing to the conspicuous situation of whatever is thus used, whether wild bramble vines or silk and lace foundations. The bonnet, of course, [sets off the face, and makes the fit contrasts with the color of the complexion and hair, with the shape of the cheek and chin, and is, moreover, the very top-knot and finishing point that either ruins all the rest, or else adds a grace that exalts it to perfection. Perhaps men, who have not the necessity of balancing these points, to whom matters of complexion, hair and curving ovals of face are of no importance comparatively, cannot quite realize the value of the bonnet. Yet any woman with a sharp wit who has ever accompanied husband or brother in the purchase of his own head-covering, and has made a few pertinent or impertinent remarks upon the spot, hears afterward very little said concerning the waste of the vital forces in the purchase of hers. and enjoys considerable liberty in the affair. :

And it is really an affair of moment to her, so far as dress is at all of mo ment. Half the time, if her bonnet is all right and not too obtrusive, it is taken for granted that the rest of the toilet is its equal, whether that is the case or not; and half the time, as in carriage or theater, no more or little more than the bonnet and upper shoulders is seen with any distinctness. Meantime, whatever is her whole dress, an ugly bonnet can destroy what good looks she .has; but a pretty bonnet, from its store of surplus beauty, will lend her good looks that she has not. She borrows for herself some of the idea of the freshness and sweetness of its tints, if it is gay-—some of its gentle gravity and sobriety, if it is simple. As the appearance of any thronged public place gains by the charm of the bonnets worn there, till an audience is bright as one vast bed of flowers, so every woman personally gains a little by the becomingness and beauty of her bonnet; and it is therefore quite worth while for her to ponder and try this shape and that, this tint and that, this plume. that flower, during a certain proportion of the time that she allows herself for her toilet from other duties, sufficiently to feel assured that her bonnet will be no mistake, and especially in these days, when every flower, fruit and feather that one can dream.of or devise, within bounds, is legitimate adornment, and when the blending of hues and materials, the bending of brims, the drooping of feathers, the crushing and curling of roses, the poising of birds, have reached a more artistic point than ever, and one is tempted toregard that person as a genius who first conceived the fancy of inclosing so-much loveliness in so little space, so that the bonnet itself in all its combinations is as pleasing and as unique as flower or bird. ' Of course —although they very often do so—those who can have a bonnet for every toilette need not spend as much thought on each specimen as those must who have but one, or at most two, for the season, and perhaps for next season also. For when a wearer is limited, it requires an amount of skill and taste of which the uninitiated have no idea to make that single bonnet suitable for every occasion and every kind of dress—gay enough for concerts and pleasures, not too %arish for solemnities, rich enough for calling,. sober enough for street wear, of a base that will bear the adding of ornament for evening and more ‘¢ gressy” needs, its abstraction for the morning shopping or errands, and all the while becomin to the face and not incongruous witfi the rest of the attire. Heads of houses who must make just such an appearance on just such insufficient money require much more commiseration concerning their. bonnets than so small a subject would seem able to bear. But as for the young lasses whose bonnets are not all they want when they see the Paris importations in the shops, or the last novefiy adding splendor to the appearance of some more fortunate companions, they may make themselves alittle happier by remembering that, bonnet or no bonnet, there is no young face without its charm, since the comeliness of youth is itself so great a charm that they will never really negd a prett bonnet less than now, while they recafi the verses: e Eil _ R " Such a Quakerish little hat! i ,%&tnewr'asoult‘mfm‘; Sy ere such a blooming tace is - v Thinks of aught but the rose on that!”

SENSE AND NONSENSE. A DEAR little thing—the diamond. KETIRED from the ‘‘service’’ — A breken teacup. % - It is estimated that in this country only one person in five hundred owns a horse. Are we a neighshun?— Chicago Times. : S ““I HAVE a theory abowe the dead languages,” said a new student. ** What is It?’ ‘asked the professor. ‘‘That they are killed by being studied' tbo hard.” ¢ : | A NEGRO boy in Memphis, when askinfi for a ration the other day, told the following story: “I'se got a brudder, and he’s got free ribs broke an’ de spine and his leg, and ’less he gits something to eat he's bound to die.” He got it. e STERN PARENT—¢ Now, Tommy, you haven’t looked at this! If you make one more mistake I shall whip you!” Tommy —¢l thought you never whipped us for accidents, mamma?’ S. P.--¢ Well, sir?”’ Tommy—* Well, I make mistakes by accident!”" THE man with a headache has a faint recollection that she asked him to call again—next' New Year's Day. He should have commenced sending his card in as soon as he became un?,it to compliment the ladies with his actual presence.—N. O. Picayune. “Whay did George Washington cross the Delaware on the ice ?luring the storm of an awful night?”’ asked a teacher of her young class in history. ‘I reckon,” piped a small voice in answer, ‘it was because he wanted to get on the other side.”——Worcester Gazelte. ' : NEVER give away a penny indiscriminately, says a facetious exchange. If.a beggar tells you he is starving, order him.to come to you the next Bay. If he makes his appearance it is a proof of the falsehood of his statement. If it had been true he would have died during the night. © : ~ ““MARIA,” observed Mr. Holcorhb, as he was putting on his clothes; ““there ain’t no patch on them breéches yet.” ¢lcan’t fix it now, no way, I'm too busy.” “Well, give me the patch ’ then, an’ I'll carry it around with me. I don’t want people to think I can’t afford the cloth.” ' ‘ MR. Curr Tis once asked Mr. Greeley, in response to a similar question put to him by the great editor: ¢ How do you know, Mr. Greeley, when you have succeeded in a public address?”’ Mr. Greeley, not averse to the perpetration of a joke at his own expense, replied, ““ When more stay in than goout.” ‘*No,” EXCLAIMED Mr. Penhecker, *No, madam, I object most decidedly. Once and for all I say it—the girls shall not be taught foreign languages.” ‘‘And why not, pray,”’ said Mrs. P., with withering sarcasm. ¢‘ Because,” said Mr. P., with more withering sarcasm, ‘‘because, Mrs, P., one tongue is enough for any woman!’ Mrs. Penhecker responded not.—Judy. ~ OLp X lectures his nephew, a confirmed gambler. ‘‘Then you never played, did you, uncle?’ ¢¢Yes, once, in 1847, at Baden. A gentleman whom I didn’t know propose§ a game of ecarte at ten francs. I was weak enough to agree; he lost ten games.”” ¢ Then you must have won & hundred francs?’’ ‘““Yes, I won them, that is so; but I ‘might have lost them, and I have never touched a card since; it was a lesson.”’ —F'rench Paper.

~Two oF those ornaments made of plaster of Paris flavored with sugar were bestowed upon an urchin, with the usual warning, ¢ Don’t eat them, whatever you do; they will poison you.” For some time they were regarded by him and his younger brother with minsled awe and aamiration; but at no istant day their mother missed one. ¢“Tom,”” said she to the owner, who was just setting forth for school, ‘“what have 'ee done with that figure?”’ “Giv’d it to Dick,” was the reply; ‘“and if he’s living when I come home, I mean to eat the other one myself, I can tell 'ee!”’ IN the life of the late Charles Mathews, the comedian, an anecdote is told illustrative of Lord Blessington's character. A party had gone to explore some ruins rising out of the sea. Mathews describes how, as he was leaping from stone to stone, ‘‘ Lord Blessington called out more than once, to my great surprise, ‘ Take care, take care! %‘or heaven’s sake -mind wheat you are about! You'll be in, to a certainty!?” After one or two repetitions of his alarm Lady Blessington, losing patience, exclaimed: ‘Do let the boy alone, Blessington. If he does fall into the water, what can it signify? You know he swims like ‘& fish.” ‘Yes, yes,’ said his Lordship, *that is all very well; but I shall catch my death driving home with him in the carriage.’” WiLLiam HOWARD, who committed burglary in New York recently to save his wife and child from starvation, has been the recipient of much charity since the facts weire made publiec. A number of business men offered him employment, several physicians called and tendered thei# services, and work was offered Mrs. Howard as soon as she is strong. Over forty ladies called, and a number of persons sent letters with money in them to Mrs. Howard. A ton of coal was sent to the family, rovision baskets in numbers were deFivered at their rooms, and the Cotton Exchange gave one hundred dollars. Mr. Theodore Moss I§ave bail for the appearance of Mr. Howard whenever wanted on the charge of stealing; but it is hardly likely that he will be prosecuted. 'i:he_pro'prietor of the shoF he robbed has sent the family five dollars and a promise not to appear against the husband. :

An Electric Stove., Aw electrical stove has astonished the natives of Valley View Station in the Far West. The proprietor recently undertook to put some wood in the cooking range, and received such an electric shock. that he drO}lleed' the lifter and staggered back with an exclamation of surprise. His wife then attempted to take a stew-pan from the fire, and fell to the floor. About this time the hired hands came in to get dinner, but it was found impossible to take anything off the stove. Charley Palmer, the stage-driver, attempted to

manipulate a coffee-pot from the stove and sprang two feet in the air with a yell of pain. Con Dense thought it would be the easiest thing in the world to move the pot of ca,bbage, when he was landed in the corner of the room, and made no further attempts. The stew-pans were finally removed from the stove by Mr. Curtis, who encased his hands in sheepskin gloves. Many theories were advanced to account for the presence of so much electricity. Mr. Curtis. finally observed that the current was the strongest during the prevalence of high winds, and this led him to infer that the electricity was - generated from a windmill; which was about fifty feet from the house. The fluid - reaches the stove- pipe by the means of a wire which is fastened.to the windmill. When the windmill stops there is' no electricity in the stove; but after it makes half a dozen revolutions it is not safe to handle utensils on the range.—XN. Y. Tribune. -+ AJolly Wedding. In Central America isa country called Towka, and without doubt the Tow‘kans, whatever else -they may be, are ‘the jolliest people in the world.at a wedding. They appear to be such an ignorant race as to be unable to keep record of the age of their children, except in a manner somewhat similar to that adopted by Robinson Crusoe with his notched post for an almanac. The Towkans, however, do not notch their children. - They hang round their necks at birth a string at with one bead on, and at' the expiration of another year they add another bead, and so on, the main object being seemingly that there may be no mistake when the young people arrive at a marriageable age. When a girl numbers fifteen beads she is mariageable, but. the young man must possess a necklace of twenty before he is reckoned capable of 'taking on himself so serious a responsibility. But the wedding feast is the thing. - The invited guests assemble on what answers to-our village green, and set in their midst is'a canoe, the property of the “bride-groom, brimming with palm wine, sweetened with honey and thickened with crushed plantains. The drinking cups are calabashes, which are set floating in the fragrant liquor, and seated round it the company fall to—a ‘mark of politeness being to drink out of as many calabashes that have been drank out of by somebody else as possible. It should be mentioned, however, to the Towkan’s credit, that his bride is - not present at this tremendous drinking bout, or rather, boat. She remains in her parents’ hut, and when her intend‘ed has finished with the calabashes he takes his whistle of bamboo and his “tom-tom,”” which is: a hollow little log, tied over at each end with bits of leather, and, seating himself at the door of the dwelling of his parents-in-law prospective, he commences to bang and tootle sweet music until the heart of the tender creature within is softened | and they let him in,—London Globe.

. A Difficult Conundrum. At dinner the other’night the conversation lapsed, as it sometimes will lapse with the best of hosts, into questions hardly distinguishable from conundrums. A distinguished historian was present, and' I put a question to him whichl knew had puzzled a é}”eat many people at different times. ‘“What is the surname of the Royal family?”’ ‘‘Guelph, of course.” That is theusual answer, and it was the historian’s. I ventured to suggest that, although the Royal family are Guelphs by descent, her Majesty’s marriage with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg must have the effect which the,m‘arriage of a lady has in-all’other cases, and that the surname of the present house must be the Prince Consort’s. But what is the surname of the Prince Consort’s family? Simple, but s,taggerin%. No one knew. All guessed, and all were wrong. I happened to have looked up the subject a few months agvo,, so I knew that the name was ‘“Wettin.”” Of course no one had heard it before.. Every one smiled lat the horrible idea of the Guelphs being reduced to-Wettins! The point was referred to Theodore Martin. ‘“ You are quite right,” said the graceful biographer -of the Prince Consort. ¢ Wettin -is the family name of the house of Saxony, and the minor Princes of the house are therefore all Wettins, or, in German, Wettiner.’’— Whitehall (London) Times. 2 _—————————— - —The ‘blunders of one man form the foundations of another man’s sue-

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