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Another household hazard is upon us in the shape of a substitute for beeswax, which is dug up near the large coal-gas beds of Austria. It is very combustible and with difficulty soluble even in oil of turpentine. It exhales a benzine-like odor, and in its purest form, after bleaching, is used for candles, wax flowers, polishing, pomades and laundries. At a Lady "Washington tea party given by the negroes of Columbia, Georgia, a few nights ago, General Washington was dressed in jean pantaloons and a gray sack coat, and wore boots and spurs. Mrs. Washington wore a black domino and a white nightcap. Mary, Queen of Scots, appeared in a pull-back muslin frock, and King Henry of Navarre carried a blue cotton I'mlrella. All the guests were black, no mulattoes being allowed to participate. The largest diamond at the Centennial Exposition, of unrivaled splendor, is lemon color, and once belonged to the Mad Duke of Brunswick. It may be found in the Tiffany collection. This gem, it is said, cost the Duke thirty thousand dollars ia gold. It now forms the central portion of an ornament for a woman's head, surrounded by white diamonds, but over the pale stones the great yellow king flings his golden rays, and the whole ornament gleams with a splendor entirely its own. A colossal bust of Horace Greeley has been made by Charles Calverley. It will be of bronze, and will be placed in Greenwood Cemetery. It represents Mr. Greeley as he was ten or twelve years ago, and " the old white overcoat" is used, instead of the toga, for dignity of effect. The bust is to rest upon a granite pedestal, ornamented with bronze tablets, one representing Mr. Greeley as a printer working at the case, and the other bearing his name, together with the simple record of his birth and death. The monument is to be known as "The Printers' Greeley Memorial," and is to be unveiled in October.

Bri xel's Thames Tunnel has long been thought a failure. It is astonishing, therefore, to learn that work on a new subway under the Thames was commenced at Woolwich, August 25th, by boring on the north side of the river, and it is expected to be completed within six or nine months. The new tunnel is being constructed under contract by Messrs. Sharpe.of Cannon street, London, under the superintendence of Mr. Gilbert, engineer. The scheme was started in consequence of nine men being drowned on a foggy morning whilst crossing the Thames to Uieir work in a small boat, the steam ferryboat which usually conveys some thousands per day between North and South Woolwich, not venturing to run. The Pennsylvania oil wells are giving out a reduced quantity, and the demand on them steadily grows. A correspondent writing from the oil region says the average yield iaonly twenty-five thousand barrels a day, but that the average sold every day during August was thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight. According to this eleven thousand three hundred and seventy-eight barrels were taken every day from the reserve stock. The increase of sales for August over the corresponding month of last year was two hundred and eighty-two thousand two hundred and eighty-eight barrels. The demand increases every day, and it is no wonder that the prices continue to advance. The price has advanced nearly two dollars within a month three dollars and ninety cents being demanded and received. The probability is the price will be up to five dollars in a short time. Ix 1875 the total shipments of coal from the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania was 18,0S2,294 tons, being a decrease of two per cent, on the previous year. The falling off is in large measure due to the depression of the iron trade. Our enormous deposits of bituminous coal may also have a restrictive tendency. The only anthracite to be found east of the Mississippi River is in Pennsylvania, seven counties east of the Susquehanna. A high authority gives total number of tons estimated to be contained in this coal area at 12 885,179,250, which at the present rate of consumption would last four hundred and forty-four years. There is no fear of an exhaustion of the supply, but the limited extent of the land offers temptations to the speculator, to the great injury of the coal business. At present it has little effecton the price of the staple, but it may have a very great influence at no distant day. The production of the mines is, of course, limited by the demand, and there need be no fear of a short supply for some centuries to come. Speaking of theextensive sale of arms and ammunition to the Indians at Fort Peck, Western papers affirm that not many months since an active officer, sent on a mission from the Platte Hi ver North, encountered a train en route to the Indian camps with two hundred Winches ter rifles and eighty thousand rounds of ammunition, against which he was not authorized to offer objections. When the roops were ordered to the Yellowstone ast spring, it is reliably told that the game boat taking the troops was heavily loaded with a cargo of guns and cartridges consigned to an Indian dealer at Fort Benton. As late as two months ago, a train of thirteen pack-mules, carrying twenty thousand rounds of ammunition, was sent to form at Carroll, Wyoming Territory, and start for the seat of the Indian difficulty, in charge of white iDdian traders, so well known and friendly to Sitting Bull that any one known to be their friend or agent is safe in the great lit d Napoleon's camp. A well-informed army officer has also reported that, from Standing Pock Agency, one hundred thousand rounds of cartridge Hve been . to the Indians, f?' ' :'m-' rrrtei thirty

IS SElFIKIITfEMM PUCT!

TOur duty at this present moment is to maintain the empire of England. ,S2cA of Mr. Disrarfi, August 11, 1876 J England speaks and Europe listens what doth England say ? From ttie very shrine of Freedom cnies a voice today Comes a voice from Christian England, bids them spare or slay. Is it death, or is it life ? What doth England say ? " Shall a brother help a brother, If the waves run high ? Shall a nation save a nation, if it lose thereby ? Keep the peace, endure oppression, trade and gather pelf, England's mission (hear it, Heaven !) is to tare herte!f.'" Hath he said, and shall the world say, "This is England's choice ?" Nay, but this is the supplanter, thisisJacob'B voice. Shall he rob us of our birthright, right to help the .Sclave ? Right to comfort the afflicted, right to hear and savi? bhall the Danube hurry seaward, red with Christian blood, Outraged maids and ripped-up mothers rolling down tlie flood? shall the savage lust of Islam hold its revel there. And the putrid breath of corpses lade the sluggish air? Oh, for Milton's rolling thunder, Cromwell's fiery zeal tor God ! Then should England rise to vengeance, tread the path that once she trod. Once again for sacred Freedom should her hosts go forth to fight, And the battle-cry of England should be, 11 God dofend the right!" FOR LOVE ALOE. " Of course," said Mrs. Dorrance, " we must have a new Brussels carpet for the guest chamber, since Fanny Pynhurst is coming. The old one is positively not fit to be seen. And Swits muslin draperies, with fluted rutties, for the windows, aud a dressing-case with a mirror back." "Anything else?" demanded Mr. Dorrance, with a sarcastic elevation of the brows. " That's all I think of now," said Mrs. Dorrance. " You see, dear, Fanny Pynhurst is an heiress six thousand a year, Dorrance, in her own right. And I shall invite Flotian here for the time of her visit. Such a chance as this, my dear, don't often occur. It's a very nice concatenation! of events," added the complacent matron, playing with the geld tassel of her watch-chain. " I happened to see in the papers the arrival of Miss Pynhurst and her uncle at Pontifix Hotel, and recognized in ' M:ss Pynhurst, of Pynhurst Place,' the Fanny Pinhurst who ued to be my schoolmate at Mrs. llipley's seminary. And I remember how attached dear Fanny was to me in the old times. Isn't it lucky, Dorrance, that we took this cottage for the summer? Fanny Pynhurst can't help falling in love with Florian in such a picturesque wilderness as this." "Humph!" grunted Mr. Dorrance, who was nearly bored out of his life in the absence of city interests and occupations. "So I'll write toFlovian at once," said Mrs. Dorrance, drawing her rosewood desk toward her, and examining the point of her gold pen. And thus it came to pass that Florian Field, in the luxuriant surroundings of his favorite club rooms, became conscious that his sister had formed plans for his benefit. " Why can't these women let one alone?" grumbled Mr. Field, stroking his magnificent mustache, "though, of course, an heiress wouldn't be such abad idea, if she wasn't absolutely humpbacked. I wonder what her name is? I wonder where she comes from ? Just as likely as not she is a regular Gorgon. However, 1 suppose Clara won t be satisfied unless I go and play the decile brother, and Clara has been very good about helping to settle some of those small bills of mine." So Mr. Field packed his portmanteau and set out for the station. " Hallow, Field !" cried a burly, graywhiskered gentleman, as he entered the iron and crystal station where the traveling world most doth congregate. " Going up the line?" Florian nodded. "As far as Swectville ?" asked the gentleman, takiutr him by the arm. " Yes." "Just the fellow I want to see," said Mr. Warland. "A young friend of mine is going, and I am prevented at tlie last moment from escorting her, by a telegram summoning me in another direction. But I shall be perfectly satisfied to put her under your care." Florian Field winced a little. He had been contemplating a cosy ride in the smoking carriage in the companionship ol a cigar and the last new novel, and here he was detailed to play tie unwilling cavalier to a young person who was a perfect stranger to him. But Florian had tco many of the instincts of a gentleman to back out of the diiemma. "I shall be very happy, I am sure," said he, rather ruefully. And Mr. Warland led him up to a young lady in irreproachable traveling costume, who sat near the door of the waiting-room, and introduced him. "Field! what a pretty name," thought the young lady in gray silk. "And how handsome he is!" Pynhurst! What a very unusual surname, passed throucti the srentlemsn's mind. "And she is not at all bad looking, either. Perhaps, on the whole, she'll be better company than the novel would have been." "I am going to visit a dear school friend," said Fanny, " in Sweetville." " No !" cried Field. "Are you ? Why, so am I going to Sweetville." " Is it nice there ?" said Fanny. " Delicious," answered Florian. So they chatted on, becoming more and more pleasurably intimate as the train sped on. They soon seemed to each other quite old acquaintances. " Shall I tell you a secret ?" said Florian, merrily, as he folded the end of her traveling shawl closer around his fair companion. "Do," said Fannie, laughing. " I'm going to Sweetville to be presented to my future bride." " Presented !" echoed Fannie. " Do you mean to tell me seriously that you have never seen her?" " Never." " But how do you know you'll like her?" "How do I know she'll like me?" gayly retorted Florian. " I don't understand you." " Well, I will try to explain," said Florian, lowering his voice to a confidential accent. " You see I've a sister that is a bit of a match-maker, and she wants me to make my fortune by matrimony; so she has invited an heiress to visit her, and I am come down to try my best to make an agreeable impression.'' " But," cried Fannie, " you surely never would " " Marry for money?" here interposed T-'ield. " Never !" For since lie had seen dove-eyed Fannie, he felt sure that all ihst gold in creation had not power to move his heart. "But pour sister?"' " She'll be disappointed enough, I dare say, but one can't expect a man to

sell himself for a mere bag of gold. If I marry," with a glance at Fannie, "I shall marry for love only." And little Fannie Pynhurst looked shyly up at him from under her long eyelashes, and secretly thought what a noble hero he was. But all this time these very heedless and inconsistent young people never thought of telling each other where they were going, and when the train ran into the station the Dorrance carriage was waiting. "Mr. Dorrance's, if you please," said the driver, touching his gold-banded cap. "To meet Miss Pynhurst." Fannie looked around for her escort. He was busy sorting out her trunks from the miscellaneous heap of baggage on the platform. " I am Miss Pynhurst," said she. And just about as she was to enter the carriage Florian Field made his appearance, flushed and breathless. " Where's Miss Pynhurst'?" " Here I am," said Fannie; "my friend has seDt her carriage." Florian opened his eyes wide. ' This is my sister's carriage," said he. "Mrs. Dorrance's?" " Yes, Mrs. Dorrance's !" " You you are Mrs. Dorrance's brother?" cried out Fannie. "And you are my sister's heiress," echoed Florian. Fannie Pynhurst burst out laughing. Florian. discomfited though he was,

could not but join in her mirth ; for, you perceive, the situation was so very ludicrous. "Miss Pynhurst," frankly said Florian, " what a fool I mut have appeared to you." " I think you have been very kind and polite," said Fannie, earnestly. And Mrs. Dorrance, who had not expected her brother until the next day, was quite surprised when Florian led in the little heiress, with a face all rosy and smiling. " How do jtou like her, Florian ?" Mrs. Dorrance asked, when Fanny had gone to her room. " She's an angel !" answered the young man, enthusiastically. " How do you like my brother, Fannie ?" queried the same fair arch-plotter, when Fannie reappeared, and Florian was smoking a cigar in the dining-room with his brother-in-law. "Oh, he's splendid!" confessed Fannie, laughing and coloring. And the upshot of it was that Florian Field married the little heiress after all. But it was for love alone. Price of Cows for the last Forty Team. .Media (Pa.) Democrat. William Sheldon, of Upper Providence, well known as one of the most extensive dealers in Montgomery County, has furnished the American with some valuable information on the subject of t he price of cows for the last forty years. Mr. Sheldon is a careful, methodical man, and his statements may therefore be relied on. He says that previous to 1835 and during that year good cows could be bought from 18 to 24. From 1835 to 1836 the average price was $20. During the years of 1S37 and 1S38, Iu 1837 the average was 9 per head ; in 1840, average $30 : with a dull trade during 1841 the average price went down to 19, at which price the market stood the t wo following years of 1841 and 1842 ; in 1843 there was a slight rise, the average going up to 22 ; in the next year there was a rise of about 1, the prices being $26 per head ; in li4b 24 per head ; in 1S47 and 1848, 22 to 25; in 1849, 1850, 1851 and 1S52 the markets averaged 26 ; in 1853 the average was the same, but the market net so strong ; iu 1S54 the average was 28 ; the highest price was 40 and the lowest 22 and 23. In 1855 and 1856 the average was 30. In the spring of 1857 the market was excitable, and the average for the year reached 34, but prices went dowu very low at the end of the season. In 1S5S and 1859 the market was low and hard, averaging 29. In I860 and 1861 good lots brought 35 per head. During the next three years good prices were obtained, the average being about 65 per head ; some good lots averaged over 100. Since then the markets have been high, and drovers have done well. Just now there is a downward tendency, and the prospect is that prices will continue to decline for some time. Mr. Sheldon says that the best cow he ever sold was from the mountains, and she made eighteen pounds of butter per week. Sue was a muley of the common stock. On ller Ear. The Reese River Reveille tells of an Austin man who was reading a story to his wife the other night, and came "to a piece of " fine writing," in which the ear of the heroine was compared to " some creamy-white, pink-tiuted shell of ocean." " By-the-way," said the husband, cutting short his reading, " that description of the ear reminds me of your ear you have an ear like a shell." It was the first compliment she had received from him since the early days of their marriage, and a blush of pride suffused her face as she asked : " What kind of a shell, darling?" " An abalone shell," he replied. She had never before heard of or seen an abalone shell, but she did not want to display her ignorance, so she made up her mind to hunt it up in the "Condensed Conchology" that ornamented the center-table. Next morning the first thing she did after her husband left the house was to hunt up the description of an abalone shell. She found it. It was described as a shell about the size of an ordinary wagon wheel. She nursed her wrath during that day, and when her husband came home that night she met him at the door with the towel roller, and now his ear is as big as an abalone shell, but it looks like a piece of pounded beef. The table on which Benedict Arnold ate his last breakfast prior to going over to the enemy is in the possession of Mr. William D. Garrison, manager of the Grand Union Hotel, New York, nearly opposite the Grand Central Depot. It is in the gentlemen's reading-room. As a relic it is quite valuable, as Mr. Garrison refused five hundred dollars for it from the New York Historical Society. Arnold sat at this table with several of Washington's officers who were on their way to West Point from Hartford, where the note waa handed him giving information as to the capture of Major Andre. Arnold excused himself, and, without finishing his meal, retired to his room for a few minutes with Mrs. Arnold. He mounted a horse belonging to one of Washington s aid-de-camps, rode to the river, entered a row-boat and was conveyed to the Vulture that layout in the stream. In the Main Exposition Building the American Bible Society exhibits an attractive case, containing Bibles in two hundred languages, arranged with open pages so that visitors can examine them.

Home Pronunciation. Lippincott'fl Maeazine.J A traveler who visited the old home of Charlotte Bronte, at Haworth, some years since, relates that he found it very hard to make a peasant in the neighborhood understand whither he wanted to go. He tried various fanciful pronunciations of the name, but none of them seemed to convey any definite impression to the man's mind. At last the countryman said : " Per'as thegenleman means Horth." This proved to be just what the gentleman did meau ; whereupon tlie other exclaimed: " Well, then, if you meant Horth, whv didn't you say Horth?" This affords a good illustration of the frequent variance between the orthography of geographical names and their "home pronunciation." In England many places whose titles are really very significant and appropriate receive in ordinary conversation among their inhabitants, designations which are not only meaningless, but often very ridiculous. And, as the original is seldom changed to agree with the colloquial form, such difficulties as the one experienced by the traveler just mentioned must often occur. A stranger who should desire to go to Smithlield would be obliged, if he wished to be understood, to ask the way to SmifTel. Holburn, in popular parlance, is Hobuin ; Hyde Park, 1 Pard ; Gravesend, Grayseu ; Southwark, Sutherk ; London Bridge, nearly Lumbridge ; Warwick, Wark ; Norwich, almost Narch ; Newcastle, Newksul, and Birmingham, Brummagen. If space jermitted numerous other cases of the same kind might be mentioned. The same thing occurs, though less frequently, on the continent. A traveler wishing to be directed to the capital of Wurtemberg would probably have some difficulty iu making himself understood if he were unaware that the common people pronounce the name 'Shtugg'rt, while the German name for Munich (Munchen) must be turned, iu intercourse with the inhabitants thereof, into something like Minshen. Frenchmen, as a rule, substitute an explosive, short, uaal sound for theirgeographicalnames, very little like what a foreigner would suppose to be the proper pronunciation. In their mouths the old punning witticism about the loss of the letter a causing Paris to be "taken" (pris) become almost a reality ; and the Gallic way of pronoimcing Mctz is literally, making a Mess of it. We Americans are not much better than the Euglish in this respect. We have, in fact, inherited a great many of their names in which this variance occurs, such as Leicester, Worcester, Gloucester, etc. But we have also followed their example by mispronouncing names of native origin. This is especially noticeable in the numerous American names which were taken from the Indian dialects, and from the French, Spanish, German and Dutch. But to counterbalance these cases, in which the home pronunciation is incorrect and indefensible, there are many others in which it is inucli more proper than that adopted by the outside world. This is especially true in America, where many Indian names, which are mispronounced abroad, receive very nearly, if not exactly, the true aboriginal sound. Niagara is pronounced Niagara by all European poets who have used the name, except Moore; but as the Iroquois title (meaning simply "a neck," and applied to the reck of laud between the lakes,) was Ncdugara, it is evident the American accentuation is more correct. In the same way it is the fashion in England, and even in many parts of our country, to pronouuee the name of the beautilul falls on the Pacific slope Yo Semite or Yo Scmight, but the home pronunciation, Yo Semeety, is entirely in accordance with the proper Indian sounds. The River Potomac, also, usually called Pottomac in England, furnishes an instance of the same kind; for the Virginian pronunciation, Potomac, though it does not correspond exactly with the original Algoukin name, is much closer to it than the other form.

Too Much " Centennial." The word Centennial, says the Paterson I'resz, had for us, at first, a peculiar charm. We thought well of it, and we confess that the sound was pleasant. We liked to write it and to roll it arouud on our tongue. But shades of the early martyrs, how terribl' have we been punished! How has that name, ence pleasant and exprcivo, assailed our ear from every quarter, by every tongue and in every connection ! How has it stared at us from every oyster cellar, tripe stall, coflee booth, grand hotel, haberdashery, candy shop, and fish stand! It is the very first formation of letters that greets our eye of a morning, it follows us relentlessly through every hour of the day, and is the latest object fixed upon the retina ere we close the 'ids over tired and Centennial-seared eyeballs at night. Oh, it is "lorrible, most horrible!" this Centennial specter from which there is no escape. And there is none. We are, perforce, compelled to dress in Centennial fabrics and walk in Centennial boots, drawn over CentennLsl hose, and polished with Uenteunial blackjpg. Our nect is inclosed in a Centennial collar, and we wear a Centennial scar.f, in which we stick a Centennial pin. Vpur hat is of a Centennial pattern, our i'hair is cut in Centennial style aud cS'pred with Ceu-' tennial dye, and our nos we wipe on a Centennial handkerchief if we wipe it at all. Do we travel, we take a Ceu-1 tennial train, composed of Centennial j coaches, and we put up at a grand Cen- j tsnnial hotel and eat Centennial hash, smoke a Centennial cheroot, and are bitten by Centennial bedbugs. Agents approach us constantly with Centennial books, and our pardon preaches from a Centennial Bible (Holman's) a Centennial sfrmon, and urges a Centennial Contribution toward f Centennial project. At home our furniture, ddf, carpets, pictures, shades, everything, are all Centennial; we draw a Centennial counterpane over us at night, use Centennial soap and Centennial tooth powder and Centennial perfume in the morning, after which we go forth to see our friends "oil for the Centennial." As if all this were not enough, there are some who have, with fiendish disregard for generations yet unborn, and a refinement of malice difficult to understand, taken measures to perpetuate the infliction by naming their offspring Augustus Centennial Fitzgibbous, Georgianna Centennial Finnigan, etc., etc., which appears to be the very ecstasy of Centennial madness beyond which there is no advance. Oh ! give us a rest for a hundred years and a day. The Adventists of the United States are actively engaged iu spreadmrr their views throughout Europe by means of tracts ana lectures. One of their missionaries from this country has established himself at Basle, Switzerland. Preaching and lecturing tours are also made in Germany.

An Effective Speech. J Tersoim not ued to making addresses J should emulate President ti rant's silence j rather than risk the inevitable embar- j

rassmeut and probably break down. A California paper says: 4 A young gentleman of more than ordinary intelligence, but who is an exceedingly bashful young fellow, concluded to pay a Tisit to a public school not more than a hundred miles from Colusa. He was particularly partial to the intermediate department of the institution, over which an accomplished and bewitching young lady presided. After the usual afternoon exercises, the prejossesing preceptress a.-ked her pupils if they would not like to hear a few remarks from Mr. , and the unanimity with which the little folks answered "yes!" made it equally as embarrassing for our hero to attempt to decline as to attempt a speOch, and he aroe and opened with the following exordium : "I love to noto such an advancement as you are making. And I know you love your teacher, "do you not? I do! And that is, I mean I loved my teacher when I was a little boy." After this declaration laughter prevailed among the students, while the speaker was nervously handling an inkbottle on the desk by which lie was standing. Alt2r the cheering subsided, he again proceeded, still fumbling with the ink-bottle: " 1 have often seen boys and girls act the fool, but" At this juueture he tipped the ink over, which went streaming down the desk, and he immediately hauled out his snow-white handkerchief, wiped it up, and then placed it back in the pocket from which he took it. In the meantime the scholars were giggling, while the schoolma'am shook her head at them as much as to say that she would settle with them in the morning for their bad demeanor. He then continued : " As I was about to remark, when I was young, I I well " ' He became confused. The perspiration began running down his burning cheeks, and, while "he was endeavoring to think of something more to say, he drew forth his handkerchief, with which he had rid the desk of the spilt ink, gave it a wipe across his brow, and then down e ich cheek. Happening to discover what he had done, and coming to a realizing sense of his situation, he grabbed his hat and went out of the schoolrcom like a shot out of a gun, without even bidding the charming young schoolmistress a fond farewell Fall Fashions. Vest simulations 'brmed by s-'ule pleated garnitures are rery dressy. Cloth shaded black silk suits trimmed j with cashmere will be worn this season, t Side pleatings of all widths for garnitures on waist, skirts, and sleeves wiil prevail. Brocaded materials are still popular. Those of light tints prevail in combination costumes. At Jackson's mourning store one can find rich French cashme-res for sixty-five cents to $1 per yard. Wide silk galleons handsomely embroidered in "the mmle trimming for evening dresses of pale-tinted silks. The first novelty in Autumn toilets is white and pale tinted fabrics designed for over-dresses and sacques. Evening gloves come in ten aud twelve buttons. "Light colors correstwiding with the dress dye &recomrie il faut. The plainest models are accepted for over skirU", the drapery and trimming constituting the dress appearance of the garment. The most startling innovation in toilets is the high crown hat, not exactly an Alpine peak, but somewhat after this lofty style. Camel's hair suiting, coming in shaded grays and browns, will doubtless form only a pait of a street costume, time this style of goods is rather " loud " for ail entire suit. French and Grecian surplice waists, handsomely modified by extra side bodies, have met with favor in Paris, and will doubtless be accepted as favorites in the American beau vwnde. Long side pockets, arranged in self material and profusely ornamented with passementerie and ribbon bows with long ends, add much to the novel transition in seasonable toilets. Flat garniture and showy cord and tassels are considered the chief forms of dress embellishments. For evening costumes the scarf-apron and the diagonal mode of over skirt are retained, with but slight alteration. Closer and lougpr draperies in costumes is presented and smilingly approved by " Vanity Fair." " Pull-backs " are evidently favorites with Eve's fair daughters, in spite of the fun Adam'-! sons make over this pinched-up fashioir. The Gift of France. New York Graphic The statue by M. Bartholdi which is to Btand ou Bedloe's Island and rear its colossal head two hundred i'eet above the waters of the harbor will be the largest ever constructed, as well as one of "the most artistic in conception and execution that the world has ever seen. There is no instance except this of one nation rearing 5 tatue on the ground and for th hoiwrJtif another ; sucli a scheme was reserve!ittr the gallant and generous French, who assisted us in our earliest struggle for liberty and have always been our warmest friends. When the proposition was made in 1871 in Paris to present the United States with a statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World" it was at once received with acclamation and promptly acted upon. The municipality of Paris headed the list of subscriptions with 10.0U0 francs, and the remainder of the estimated cost of 300,000 francs was raised at once by the private subscriptions of at least 20,000 Frenchmen in amounts of from two sous upward. M. Bartholdi volunteered his services aa sculptor, aud entered upon his work without hope of reward beyond that which would accrue to him from the artistic excellence of the work he should accomplish. It was then found that, in order to be sufficiently conspicuous, the statue itself must be made of still more gigantic frame, aud stands one nunarea ana niteen leet high on a pedestal eighty-five feet high. The subscriptionsdid not meet this previously uncontemplated exigency, and more money is now needed to complete the whole. We can do nothing less than raise the required amount at once ; a committee for the purpose should be appointed and set about its work with the zeal shown in France. It would be an ineffaceable istain upon us if we should fail to do this, to which we are bound by every sentiment of honor and friendship. You want nothing do you?" said Tat. " Bedad, an' if iu nothing: ve want, yt'll find it in the jug, where the '!-iiwt-'j u-a o whisky was,'

AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

Ax Association has been formed in ! Delaware for the raising of sugar beets anil manufacturing of sugar therefrom. ' Anything which is likely to make the ! " sweets " in this lifecheapand abundant ! deserves support. The time for husking-bees comes soon. The husking-bee is a delightful entertainment given by the farmers, and is generally attended by eighteen young men, who kiss each of the girls in the house seven times, husk four earsof corn, and go home as soon as they have disposed of "what cider they can find. It is a mistaken idea that a pond or stream is absolutely necessary to succe s-s in raising ducks, for, although it is beneficial, it is not a necessity. Those who have fondness furduckscan succeed with them without a bountiful supply of water, yet they will not thrive in confinement. If one has enly a small yard he should not keep more than a pair or a trio, but a dozen or more can be kept with profit if they have the range of a pasture or meadow. Every bee-keeper is probably aware of the fact that bees, in regions where the common BasswtHxl or Linden tree abounds, gather large quantities of the finest honey from these flowers. Knowing this, we often thought it strange that farmers did not plant these trees more abundantly for shade and ornament about their grounds. Early autumn so soon as the leaves are or begin to fall from the trees is as gxxl a time as any to transplant these trees. Fakmehs as a class cannot be made to believe that Erras seed will succeed just as well, and often a groat deal better, if j sown alone than with grain, 111 the usual way. If the land is rich atvd the following season is favorable to the growth of grass, then a go jd staud may usually be obtained by sowing witli grain; but if droughts should occur the young, delicate grass is likely to be smothered or to perish for want of water. The grain among which it is growing being so much larger and more vigorous will appropriate- to itself the bulk of the moisture and fertility of the soil. Ix Australia there is a wild plain known as the Darling Pea (a species of Su-ansimia), which is very injurious t sheep. It is said some sheep are very fond of this plant, others do not touch it, hence it isnecessarv to cull out those ani mals having a depraved taste, putting j them in pastures by themselves, In ex- j amiuing sheep that have died from eating the jKiisoned pea the kidneys arc found ! in a very uuhealthy state. Salt has j proved to be an excellent remedy as well i as preventive, the same as with many of the aihclious which are common to sheep in this country. The head of the Department of Agriculture is receiving some more severe criticisms from the agricultural press, and it is very worthy bestowed. In the report for May and June an article upon "Cross-breeding of Grain," by tlie Commissioner,, i a perfect jumble of nonsense, and exhibits the grossest ignorance of practical botany. The following quotation from the essay is given especial attention by the editor of the American Agriculturist : The leaf or flower wliieh protrudes frotu the glume of wheat is neither au anther, a pistil, nor a stamen, aud neither emits nor receives the ferti!ir.ingpo!len. He says: "The absurdity of this sentence may not be so striking to the nnbotanicai reader, but it woufd be just as sensible to say the cellar-dooror gridiron which protudes from the chimney of a house is not a bootjack, a coffee-mill or an andiron, anil neither mends the cellarstairs nor puts the baby to sleep." Puor::ssoR Hii.ey, the entomologist,, at a recent hou.se keepers' convention in St. Louis, stated that Lees do not extract honey ready-made from flowers, but make it. The nectar lying iu the flowers, says the professor, could never be manufactured into limey, no matter how manipulated by men ;but it is taken up by the bees and passed through a state of .semidigestion and excretion, resulting in honey, yet still retailing in part the flavor or perfume of the flowers from which the nectar has been extracted, by which we determine one kind of honey from another. This view has since been corroborated by a chemist and botanist of Louisiana, who described the changes undergone by nectar in its elaboration into honey in the bee's stomach. At the same meeting l'rof. Itiley intimated, in reply to the query. Do lees injure fruit." that they do, but only in seasons ol severe drought, and when urged bv ne cessity. The fact, however, is 110 derogation to the usefulness of the insect, for its utility as a polienizer more than counterbalances all depredations upon fruit. Teaching Parrots to Talk. According to Cuvier, the celebrated French naturalist, parrots may best be taught to talk by covering the cage at night, or rather in the evening, and tiien repeating to them, slowly and distinctly, the words they are desired to learn. They should be kept away from places where they would be likely to he;.r disagreeable uoises,such as street cries and the whistling and shouts ol boys at play, or they will imitate t hem, and become too noisy to be tolerated. Parrots may be fed upon soaked bread aud biscuits, mashed potatoes, and rape seed. They are fond of nuts. Cayenre pepper, sprinkled upon a bone, and given to them occasionally, is said to be very beneficial. They should be kept very clean, and allowed a bath frequently. It would be difficult to oint out mode of treatment of the diseases of parrots, but when they become affected it is bes-. to keep them warm, change their food for a time, and give them lukewarm water to bath in. The French are getting alarmed over the figures of their population. Large families have not leen in favor for many years, but since 1872 the excess of births over deaths has greatly decreased, and the per centage of mortality has exhibited an equally alarming increase. It baa been calculated on the basis of this proportion of births and deaths that a duplication of population ensues as follows: In Norway, in fifty-one years; Austria, in Hxty-two; England, in sixt--three; Denmark, in seventy-three; Sweden, in eighty-nine; Germany, in niuety-eight, and France in three hundred and thirty-four years! Bad as this looks, it does not tell the whole truth, for the many foicigners who settle in France to lead a cheap and plea.anl life, should be taken into consideration. The ! evils of this Btate of things is not confined to the future, for the family and good morals are closely connected. In recognition of this a "Society for the Encouragement of Maternity" has been organized. Its special object is to induce mothers to nurse their own children, and thus check the mortality which so often follows the consignment of infanta to mercenary persons.

How the Locusts Come. i The New York Titaf publishes an j original and cuanu teristieaecount of the ! gra-shopper plagu. given in a private let- S te r from a Kansas farmer to a gentleman in New York city: j About ten o'ci. t k the other morning, : I noticed 3 heavy sn! ,fce ri-ing in the j west. I said to myself, "That is stranselooking smoke. What cause? it I sat j on my wheat drill and watched it. j Rapidly it rose smoke rising to the I south, to the north, to the liurthe.ist. j In a few minute the column of smoke : extended from the south around by the west to the northeast to the extreme ; limit of vision. While I wa saying to j myself, " Yes, I understand you now," i my heart s!ow!y s.uik. Unhitcbir. my j leini. I put my full wheat .sacks ia the ; wagon, hitched to it, druve to the gran-j ary, unloaded, drove to the !iou-e, got my ; cuu, anl weiit prairte-chirken shooting.! My wife I., .led at me in mild surprise, i Quitting work cm a beautiful day to gn i shooting was a queer thing, she thought. I did not have the heart to tell her that in I less than four hourberiiice warden lie cleaned out, and that all our wheat would be gone. Soon the low hum, as ol a distant thre-hhig nuti-hine, fibeJ the air the advance oi the locusts. Louder. ! ever louder the hum. till in a roar the j countless billions of devourers were on , us, all around us. The air was suri with them. They settled constantly. The earth was covered with them, yet not one in a thousand ti;jL To the east j they went in a vast cloud. A west wind, i a gale, blew them. For six hours they1 tk-w, a solid cloud; and to-night there is , not a wheat plant left in any of the

counties about here. I .-at cm a hill and ; watched them, aud sujitrd as I saw s :ue ' bed t bun ircd.4 tacit le asniauwer, ana iau: a I saw that sr.:ii'ovr vatii-h. How thick they were! How harmless they looked ; but, grc.it Jove, how they ate ! Ah! what appetites they have. It would make a dv -!-;: io turn creen with I envy to see th way they fasten to anythintr and everything edible. The char- ' acleristic of a grasshopper's appetite is, that ail he cats runs to appetite. Sixty j acres of my wheat was up. Now it is j down the gulU '.s ef the loca-is. I siip- ' pose they will take the re-idue as it I comes through tlie ground. Well, I shall j have to rt-sft-d, that is ail. But the loss i of Htd ami labor is pretty s ire on me j this year. I have joy iu saying that I ! have eighty acres of corn that will try ' their tt-eth "omi-what. Itisashardas corn I can be. I walked down the other after- ! noon In how they were making out ! with it. They had thestalks a'.l striped ! of loaves, and were sawing at the cora. lint 1 rnulil se taat it was no go. lr.tir teeth slipped ovt-r the bright yellow si -- fine. I have gone to haying again, and will Uny until the locust leave. I still keep three plows running, and will r- -seed as soon soon a pos.-iL'e. Our garden is perfectly cleared ; beans, cabbages, tointat'es, melon-, everything utterly gon. The vines to the potatoes are gone, and I am expecting a boss hopper up here at any minute :o request the loan of a spade "to dig up my ptat.s wi;h. I shall refuse hi- request with scorn. The Bangers of Ij iianiile. A prominent manufacturer of dynamite was a-ked by the reporter oi the New York Jth' I whether he were not constantly in dread of his life. The centleman laughed a he replied in the negative. " I have never once,"' 1 he, "been so much afraid of dynamite as 1 have iH't-n of guni-owder on .1 dozen occasions. Why, 1 have had a dozen hairbreadili esrapes from gnnjwwder in the old days l.eforc nitro-gly cerine and its coinjtunis were thought, of. I was iu tho.-e days Superintendent of a copper mine in North 1 an.li :ia. An expio-.v.-material was stored in a magazine built of rock. The structure was intended to le fire-proof, and, to in-ure that qualification, its iron door were made to clo.-e down upon solid rock, which was not u:iIrequeii'ly covered with scattered graiii of powder. The miners usl to conic there with orders from the fureuiau J r powder, and when a man pre-ented Lis order he was permitted to kuock cut the head of the keg if there was not one already open and fill his can without ceremony. The floor was covered with rough, dry Inwards, and was almost constantly covered with p wder spiilel "by careless miners. Ia fact, the crevice? were so filled up with it that we cou'.d not have swept it up it we tried. One bitter cold winter morning a stranger entered and presented an order for two kens of ivmder. As there were two thotiand tive hundred kegs stored in th e magazine at the time he had no di:aeulty in getting his order tilled, and he started otl n iih one keg under each arm. ! He had not gone but a few yatds when j au employee seize 1 my arm and cried j out, 'Good Coo 1 IjJk there!' I fol-j lowed the direction of his glance, and saw that our departing miner had : depesited bis two keg of powder upon ! the ground and was at that in-tant fixing i au old clay pipe witn one hand, while with the other he had just ignited a friction match by drawing it across his tiow-ers, Dnzed for a second with fear, 1 looked at him, in silence, while he ap- ' plied the blazing match to his pij-e and i beiran to puff. I dared not cry cut to J him for fear he would be startled, and j throw the lire u;hu the powder strewn j floor, and my only hope was to catch his I arm before he could drop the match, j Starting forward with my hand outstretched toward bin:, as if requeuing him to save the light until I should ignite my cigar, my heart almost ceased to beat, while the thoucht of the twentyfive hundred kesrs ran throuch my brain like lightninsr. Just as I reached the ex fellow' de he verv deliberately tinguished ttie match between hi thumb J and finger, and then dropped the charred j remain on the floor as he emitted a put!" : of smoke, and, turning, picked up ins j burden: Need I tell you he never re-j ceived any uiore powder from that j store?" j Toilets at Saratoga, Eli Perkins thus exposes some of the secrets of feminine toilet at Saratoga: I see several young ladies who sdways look J sweetly in muslin. Tbey came here with j six while Hirudin dresses and twenty-four j yard of ribbon. "How do vou wear the rillon?" I asked one of them. " W. hue bur six vards .f blue rib bon. This we make inta bow, -';f and the like. Whoa we wear line, it is blue tbrougotit blue on the hat, blue Ki-h, blue bowa. blue stocking.." " And the other ribbon " Why. we also bny rx yard of cardinal, six yard of pearl, and -ix ysrds of etraw color. So, you see, with t-ix m u 1 i n d re.-wc , and tbrvewH t e cL ipba:, we can come out in anew suit every day, and if we have colored parasols to mati), why, the effect is perfVct. and twentyfour dollars' worth of rilln does the business'

THE f-AIKT

K 1 1 A . rv.tl ..m 4 I - W 1 i V Ti" . . ' ' T v r T'.".i i.rlv watfa yeiri..: t.e ; Tnl only i-vn ? unit xom, A:1 i ;o i!.'t i w . ; : Tis 1.HJri lira t-u toouii s'r f. I t .:rv3. sn'l :br?T the Too cii csn memory . t.vr: ;.-t. That f :. n -.. .. i . , i; : -r ,..:: t w- i? Ix'Te ms-is it nii ; ir I.-ot tati ifcrt Wba ail tl linnfit erf Xiru r pug. TBUTHS AM) TRIFLES. '' My dear wife, I w:-h you would try to keep your temper."' My dear husband, I wish you wttiild try to get rid of yours." She was plump and beautiful, anl te was wildly l-md of her. .The bated Lin!, but, woman-like, she strove to catch bin.. What was be? A Siea. Whitehall 77m. Quoting poetry and retreating Stakpean-, don't pcs8 La!f the attractions to win a wife that a quart of warm roa-ted peanut do. A PAIR of slipper a A man of steady haAHsaiways wears the same c' exch a n ge lovers k i .--e s. men railroad conductor cut: pie v ee.s. -the man who Lttbes. lulls i f .-ee-itre-i r 2T f If we are to t; live alter aeath. whv don't we have some knowied siid a skeptic to a e'-ergyaian. didn't yMi have some know led: world beSoreyou e. ::.:- into it".' can-tic retori. e of it:' " W: y e of this wa-s tbe A I'.U A.v. Wi Aii li.i Ur in K.r.'.ii'id. Vt.. a man has iust : Lai a piece of window glass mow iiian two inches long uken Jrvin his kg. where it has been for eighteen years. It n.fty ' I truly said that daring the eatire pei riod Le has never teen absolutely free . from j :uo. . The lazie-t man is on a Westers j-stx r. He sjiis photograph, " 4vvrai h." Unly three men have it-en worse l!?an he. t'se lived in Kansas, and dated hi letters ; "llworth,"" another spelled Tennessee, " HtiiC," and the other wrote Wyandotte, V.v. " A fa It v Eli in Checang.) County, New York, who lest his voice two years szo, recovered it the olLer day s- suddenly as ; it "left him, on Lis attempting 10 yell at ! a stubborn mule which he vu driving. ! Mem.: Persons who wi-h to recover lost voices should l-ecuiue mule-drivers. Mansers have been son:ewhat cyr.i- ; ca'.ly defined by wie men to keep 3.:s j at a distance. Fa-h.cn is shrewd to de1 tool those who do Dot i-elong to her train, ; and seidmii waste- her attentions. N ! ciety is very s. .it in its instinct, and if you do not belong to it, resist- and sseers at you, or quietly drops you. Enter:-,. I W hat men usually say of misfortune , ; that they never come alone, may with ; equal truth be sai-J of good fortune; nay, : of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonioa way, whether it ari-e from a kind ci tatshty, or that ! man ha the power of attracting to fcimi self things that are mutoailj related. Llf.oaxce of uictioB. fays :N?rK-ca. is not discarded by philosophy ; lubor should not be -pent for but mucl .he s.ke o: inins; in ou rex pres.- ion ; the main ctject is, to speak wn&t we think, &ad to think of what we ssy; the pruiosepber should not M-t-sr to amu-e, tut 10 instruct. Truth ought to be explained in language that is plain and unambiguous. A scF'Kirriox paper, circulated for some charitable purpose, was pretested to a wealth French iiianuf&cturer, who subscriUd twenty francs!" said the lac list to him; "why ashamed of jourself scribed f.:':v rr..r.cs." francs. Twen who presented the y..u ought to re our :i 1 :!.- s'..l- " Taat is xil v, rv wel replied the fcianufacturer; ' my son has a rich father, an-i can xtord to give more than I, who Iil not 11. Lent anvthini." Disraeli as t Peer. I he elevation of rremser l.?ra.i to t...e ercser lJira i-eeruse. with the title of Earl of IW.acor.s- ! i 1 e 1 d . h as bee n b r le fl y & r, n o u cod b y ca 1 : e, S In lso'.t the jueen oSered to make Lira a vL-ccunt, but be declined the honor, j A coronet, however, was riven to his ! wife, and -she is now known to history j as the first and or.'v Countes of iSe&cons1 field. The place 'frvm which the taste ! of the new F.iridom is to le taken i a ! small town iu the County of Bucks, j which Li-rAeli ha rc re-entel in Parliament, sine la' !;.. The elevation of Disraeli ha aa interest all it own. derived from the antecedent of the mao and the nature of the contest fce ha m successfully waged through b.ie. lie entered Use with an excellent edacaticc, an acute mind, and a courage that feared nothing. But be waa cot mexely without mxial intltiertee and wilt out great wealth, but Le was cn:ed '7 l'rf judice as old a Christisr.sty. Iiis rr;-.r:-father waa a s" pa sua Jew, who accumulated a competency in trace ar.i c;ed, leavinsr feia came id Lis money, but nothing more, to his children. Iae iwraeii, tie Earl father, added iic-tl:,:.-c .w fortune wLkb bad bee a li rjneathed to hirn, si. 1. a.thocjh I tor himself an Lorn-rat-le p'nee ;n u.e i literarv anna! of Ecelar.d.ct-J 5 tfvs.sg to advance hion axor tiiro.;;ifiiw of the period. Without the aol of wealth or t.-oviiiy presiipe. and by Li ao unaided srenius and tiivr-y IVvj.ir.an 1 H s r&e 1 s i -.:; J r ; 1 o bi:r.e.i leader et u.e bus?cf Cowmen. Minister of I'iuance, and twice 1 he . v.?r Of ttie Empire : and bow, ta fci evei i 1 V " rear, retires from tie Urrsiip ci tl He-use of Comic io an aristocrat. :v which be is well c&l lAtea to sdon

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