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THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Foor busioess before «f Watford, Ont, hare been desirojel by fire. Loss, I*, ON. At a fire near the city market in Little Boek a Culorcd woman was burned to death. Magistrates in the provinces ate resigning, rather than to be compelled to enfant the religious decrees of toe French assembly. It te reported in Ottawa that the health ci the Princess Louise will not permit her to return to Canada thia winter. The German Count, Von Arnim, who renewed hte petition for a new trial cm the charge at treason, has been refused by high legal authority. The house of James Young, colored, of Philadelphia, burned while he and his wife were at church, and two children were burned to death. The general committee of the missiouof the M. R. ohureh has appropriated $3,600 foe mtastona in Mexico, with a contingent fund in addition ot $14,614. Thirty thousand dollars was appropriated tor the Japanese mteaiou. Alderman Jeremiah Murphy,’of New Tort, charged with assaulting a special marshal on election dsy, has been held in SO,OOO bail. The alderman claims ho did not know the man wasa marshal. By a care-in that occurred at Bebastapool, Penn., several thousand dollars’ worth of property was destroyed, and a number of dwellings have been abandoned by the inhabitants. The earth settled six feet, and mining in the vicinity has been suspended. Indictments have been lodged by the English government against Messrs. ParnelT, Dillon, Biggar, J. O’Sullivan, Sexton, Egan, Brennan, M. O’Sullivan, Boyton, Gordon, Harris, Nally. Welsh and Sheridan, members of the Land League, for conspiracy. August Navarre, a gymnast, fell from a balloon when 1,000 fee; above the earth, near Oourbevoie, Franc*, Sunday evening and was crushed and mangled almost beyond recognition. His body made a hole in the ground two feet deep and rebounded four yards. The persons expelled from Hamburg and neighborhood, tn accordance with the new socialistic law of Germany, include Herr Hartman, member of the reichstag for Hamburg; Herr Aur Saxon, deputy, and the-whole of the staff of the Gtrichits Zeitnng. The telegraph operator at Ozark, Ark., dispsubes that. on the top of the White Oak mountain, two milee north of Ozark, stones two pounds or lees in weicht have been rising from the earth and falling like hall, driving families out in the fit Idu.and that great excitemect prevails. The supreme court-of California has denied the writ of mandate ceitoria and habeas corpus in the case of J. M. Kalloch, sou of Mayor Kalloch, charged with the murder ot Charles De Young, ot the Chronicle. The case will now go to the low court for decision on its merits. ... Reports from the wheat growing regions of the United States, down to September SBth, indicate that the total out-turn of wheat for 1880 will not be in excess of 466,191,900 bushels. Of this California and Oregon promise tt,606/100 and Colorado, Nevada and the territories 10,000,000. At 3 o'clock Monday morning* Mrs. Sarah McManus entered alow drinking saloon in Philadelphia, to look for her husband. Frank Carroll denied that the husband was there, but as Mrs. McManus was persistent, Carroll drew a pistol and deliberately shot her. The doctors say she can not live.' A switchman named John McDonald, while coupling cars on the Burlington tracks at Chicago, Monday morning, had his head crushed to jelly between the timbers which projected over the ends of each car. Death was instantaneous. The deceased was a young man. unmanlea, and resided at 815 West Twelfth street. Thaddeus M. Baird, a well-known citizen of Surrey county, Ya, committed suicide Bunday by shooting himself through the head with a heavily-loaded musket. A few daf■ previous he attempted to cut Mis throat with a razor. He was for many years a conductor on the Petersburg and City Point railroad. Burglars entered the store of Holman Bros., of Sargent’s Bluff, six miles cast ot Btouxcity, Monday night, and nailed up the door leading to the rooms above the store, occupied by one of the firm and his family, blew open the -sate and secured about SIOO. Holman fired at the burglars when they wen leaving, but failed to f Miss Lula Cameron, the eldest daughter of Senator Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania, will be married to Mr. William Bradley on the 12th of November next Mr. Bradley is the eon of Justice Bradley, of the Supreme Court of the United States. The ceremony will be performed al Harris- • burg, Pa., at the home of the bride. Miss Cameron is noted in Washington society for her beautiful eyes. Judge Lawrence, first comptroller of the treasury, has rendered a decision in which he stows that there is no specific statue regarding the payment of lost bonds. The decision holds that when SvVt-rLment bonds payable “To bearer” ave been lost, the government, after a sufficient length of time, may make payment thereof on clear proof of ownership' and upon the execution of a proper bona of Indemnity. Intelligence from the Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific, has been received of an attack by the natives on the steamer Ripple The captain and three of the en.w were killed. Others of the crew were senoualy wounded. The natives were, beaten off with difficulty after lasing titty of their number killed. At New, Georgia the natives; seized and bound the captain of the schooner Esperanza fwo while men on board were put to death th cold blood. Chrisman Hall, the new college for colored youth at Atlanta, has Just been op eoed, sod is already nearly filled with pu pile. It has a president and five teachers, who are paid by the Freedman's Aid Bo ciety, and the price of tuition is very small. Mrs. Cbruman, of Topeka, gave |IO,OOO for the establishment of the college. and the rest of the $40,000 which it cost came from the Freedman’s Aid Society and from Bishop Haven’s efforts to get private subscriptions. Ail the Irsh|agitaten who were indicted have now been served with > summons. At a land league meeting in Dab lin, Parnell said he had reason to believe the government desired to poet pone the trial until the January term, which would prevent those traversers who are members of parliament from taking :their seats at the Hneeting of parliament in February. Parnell said he intended to press for immediate trial. Secretary Sherman says for the past two months the purchase of 6*s of 1880 have been preferred by the department, bet the price demanded by holders has been run up to the full amount of bonds, including interest, when due. The secretary instructed the assistant treasurer at New York to receive offers of 6’s of 1880 last Wednesday as heretofore, the offers to be strictly confined to bunds of that class, and has authorized him to purchase during the present week those bonds to an amount not exceeding $1,500, 000 at 1 08.75.

RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

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GERNERAL TELEGRAND.

ored) for the murder of Charles K. Wai tow (white) In Mhrch 1»TO, took place here to-day in-tberjsU yard fa the presence of toe court officers ami a few others. There was only a small gathering of people on the outside of the Jail enclosure. Mitchell having having hot owe leg, walked to the scaffold with the aid of a crutch- Upon reaching the ecMoid he was placed on the trap, but it being found necearary to make some change in the manner of •ponging it, moved to one side. Everything being made ready, he was again made to stand on the trap. Then in answer to -questions said: “I do not want anybody to do an I have done*. Te.l motber notto gneve, as I am about to go home. I have no ocher cowfession so makn/sor anything elee to say.” After prayer by toe sttending minister, during which the prisoner, with bowed head and leaning on a crutch. his heads were tied behind his back, the rope and black cap adjusted, and at 13:35 the trap wee sprung. The fall was over five feet, Sad hie struggles were brief. The body wae buried in a field near by. . New You*, November 5.- -Thia morning a freight train wike New York, Lake Shore A western railroad, had taken a switch al Horn Creek,New Jersey, topermit a passenger train of toe New York ft New Jersey road to pass into the tun* nd. The switchman, It is alleged, failed to close the twitch, and the paaaeoger train ran into toe caboose of the freight train, killing David Ruachenbust, en gfneer of the passenger tram, the freight conductor, and Garrett Voorhee, fireman of the psasenger tram. No pameagers were hurt. Ch ar lee Ba’lit, the switchman, has fled. The engine of the pss senger train was scattered in various directions, portions lying in a swamp twelve feet from the bank. Freight cars were broken and thrown in every direction. Pseeengera were thrown from their seats and foil amid the broken glees and seats ot the cars. Mr. Blair, of Hackensack, was badly hurt, aad a lady from Woodside tainted. Two of the passenger cars were thrown from the track, but remained upright. The morning was dark and foggy and no signals were displayed. Onoductoc Hoar, of the passenger train, waa Beverly shaken up and received a cut on bis ear and had his band badly bruised. Portions ot the caboose of the freight train caught fire after the accident, and mazed away for some time. The engineer and brakeman killed were badly mangled, .. Cincinnati. Nov. fl.—Two freight trains ran together on toe Marietta and Cinclnnati railroad, near Moonville, yesterday. Engineer F. Lawbead and fireman Chai. Krick were killed, and six of toe crew wounded, nope fatally. The cause of the collision is said to be the failure of the dispatcher to notify the east bound train of an order of the west bound train to run on its time. Washington, November s.—Postmaster General Maynard today received a private letter from Constantinople, bring ing information that Judgment had been delivered in the Ottman central criminal court, in the case of the three men implicated in the murder of Rev. Mr. Parsons, an American missionary. The actual perpetrator of the deed was con detuned to death, and the other two to fifteen years imprisonment with hard labor. ’ ' ■ Paris, November s.—The decrees were enforced here today against the Dominicians Franciscans and other unauthorized religious communities. There was some resistance and protests. Borne of the sympathizers with toe ejected orders were arrested for insulting the police. Madison, Iks., November s.—George Glass was shot dead last night by George Watson at Fred bench’s. It is alleged that Glass hurrahed for Jeff Davis, and in the altercation which followed Glass shot Watson in the leg, and it is supposed Watson returned the fire, killing Glass. Delphos, Ohio, November s.—While a gang of men were engaged distributing telegraph poles along the Toledo, Delphos ft Burlington railroad, between this place and Speneerville, this morning, Pat Conbn.in attempting to lift a pole, fell backwards off the car. Two cars loaded with poles passed over him, severing his right arm and leg. 'He is still living, but can not recover. New York, November 5.—A special to the Telegram from Dublin says: The pr.ieecution ot the leaden of the land league are beginning io bear fruit, in speeches of defiance and increased violence as evinced at Westport yesterday. .There was a mrwrttfF~of the league at that place, at which chairman John Lavelle said: “The people should ‘ now be more determined than ever in asserting their rights. Ths Nationalist of,lreland, England, Scotland and America Will no doubt convince the government by their prompt and patriotic aolien tost the Ci— of freedom, toe banner* of which is now raised .In Ireland, will not be put down without a gigantic straggle.” The land league in Langhrea has issued an address, concluding- as follows ; "The solemn hour strikes upon the dial of time. The tear blotten history of your long suffering country flies open before you* Approach it men of Ireland; write upon its moat glorious page the imperishable word of ‘Freedom ’ God save Ireland.” A policeman went to the office of the land league to-day and denied that detectives wete watching Parnell, The address of foe land league to the people of Ireland will be put in circulation Saturday, and will be also sent to America It dedans that the agitation is thoroughly legal and peaceful, and will be carried oapeacefuliy until its aspect is attaiend. The address concludes by asking a contribution for defense. A demonstration against Parnell took place at Poatadown yesterday. Five tbousand Orangemen and conservatives were present. - Maxwell Close, cnoaervative member of parliament for Armagh counIY, presided. Detboit, Nov. s.—The Gray Medicine Company,of thia eity, otoexwiae William Neils, has made an aMignment The HaMMties are stated as $13,000; (assets, S6OO. The liabilities are principally unpaid bftis for adveriiaing. The company was originally formed by Dr. W.B. Merwin, of this city, who sola out to John Lowden and Wm. Neill, of Toronto, Ont,-lor SSO, 000, much of which was io oaah and ths remainder in notes, which Dr. Merwin bad discounted. Mb Auggft last Neill bought his partner’s interest. . The Boston public library last winter furnished to toe principal of toe Wells school fifty copies each of Mrs. Whitney’s “Leslie Goldthwaite” and Mr. Fowle’s “Pizarro," to be rets inert at the school in dtflsitely. The novel waa first read successively by three cltsees about 150 girls. The book was read at home, and a certain amount of time waa given at the school to discussing it. Style, plot and cnaracter all analyzed, and the girls were thus given a standard of criticism Which will always be a help to them. The history followed the novel, and was also thoroughly discussed. The experiment wae so successful that an application has been made to toe public librarian to provide more books upon this plan. The principal of the school eajs: “1 have no doubt of its success in any school where the plan can be fairly tried. The children are Uurbl to read books more carefully, and are interested in a purer class at literature than usually falls into their hands. Their gain in the use cf language to also very marked, aad must prove of Ineetimste value to toeuL”

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THE NATIONAL ELECTION.

ex „. TteEftM BepertsThe returns, as for sa received, up to tbto writing, November 8, indicate clearly that Garlhdd has beta elected by a. docid has gone republican by about 80,00$ majority. The legialatare will’be larMy republican. Tndiana.'givex a republican majority of 8,300. Ohio gives Garfield a majority of from fIOUDOOtofIOUOOO. fltlDols so far as heard from, the congressional delegation will stand, republicans, 1$; democrats, 5. The state gives Garfield a majority of 6,000. r Massachusetts gives Garfield a majority tfeorgiA gives the Hancock electoral ticket a small majority, tie exact figures out known at this writing. ' _ 7 Pennsylvania goes republican by about u. twenty-two small towns give GarMd 1,33$ majority. These cannot alter the rcsak, and will increase rather than decreaas toe republican majority. Maiwe.—A careful estimate indicate a majority for Garfield of 4,500 in the state. The Portland Argus concedes a majority of 4,000, and a plurality over toe Hancock ticket of 4 000. New Jebsey.—The democratic stale committee claim the state has been carried for Hancock and Ludlow for governor. The republicana claim to have elected five congressmen out of seven. The delegation will etand the same as at last Tekmessek*—The vote over the state is unusually heavy. Owing to toe multiplicity of candidates the counties are very slow. The contest is between Hawkinson, republican candidate tor governor, and Wright, state credit democrat Wilson, the repudiation candidate fur governor, to badly beaten. Bourn CaAolqu.—A special dispatch from Abbsrille says it is estimated that toe democratic majority on toe national ticket is 4,000. lowa.—Returns show a clear majority in the state of 40,000 for Garfield over all opposition. It is a moderate estimate, and 70,000 majority over Hancock is a safe estimate. Rhode Island.—Complete, gives Garfield 18,188; Hancock, 10,781; scatterlsg, 141; majority, 7,263, a republican gain of 3,131 QTtsr majority of Hayes. Wisoomsin.—is estimated at least 80,000 majority for Garfield. Six out of the eight members of congress are republican, a gain of one. Kentucky.—gives a majoritty for Hancock, but the figures have not yet 'been reported. Missouri goes democratic. Delewabe;-Returus received indicate a majority,in the state of al least 1,000 for Hancock, The democrats will secure at least 14 of the 31 legislators, and the probabilities are that their ticket will be unanimously elected. Mississippi Democratic. Nebraska.--From scattering returns received from the stale at large, it is probable that Nebraska gives Garfield from 20,000 to 25,000 majority. Michigan.—Returns indicate 40,000 majority for Garfield aad toe legislature by a large majority. The First and Eighth districts ap|>ear close at this writing, but with pro'nabilitcs favoring the republicans. '. Minksota.—Probably elects three republican congressmen, a gain of one. The elate is estimated at 25,000 msj jrity for Garfield. • Texas.—Unofficial returns from a few scattering precincts indicate the usual demecratie majority on the state and congressional ticket. Virginia.—Democratic majority. Exact figures not known. Vermont.—Garfield’s majority in the state wil be about 3,700. Martland.—The congressional delega tion will stand as in the present congress, five democrats and one republican. The majority for Hancock in the state will be about 16,000. Florida —lndications now are that the democrats will make a clean sweep of the state. Until fuller returns are had from strong negro counties nothing positive can be affirmed. Louisiana.—A very light vote was cast. Th° democrats carry the state by a large majority. California.—Returns aggregate 47,800 votes, out of a total of fully 175,000 that have been cast throughout the state, the gains by the republicans, however, show that toe state will certainly give 5,000, and perhaps 6,000 majority. Colorado.—The republicans carry the state possibly by an increased msjority. New Hampshire —The republican majority 10 this state will be between 3,000 and 8.5C0. The congressional delegation will probably stand four republicans and one democrat The legislature is largely republican. Nobth Carolina.—Returns indicate the election of the democratic state and elec toral ticket, but it is impossible to maze any estimate as yet November 4 —Returns do not change toe general result, although the figures in swne cases are different from those of yesterday. Tko state of New York, according to toe Times, has been carried by the repub licans by 25.000 majority. The World (dem.) concedes toe election of the Garfield electors In toe state by from 15,000 te 20,000. Michigan wil (g e Garfield 40,000 majority. It is thought that in Indiana the republican majority will not exceed that of October. Connecticut gives a plurality for Gasfield of 2,888. * TT Oregon to skill in doubt at this writing but conceding it to toe democrats, leaves the electoral vote as follows: Gai field 319; Hancock, 150. •

Some Physical Fruits of Idieness.

The mind should be always occupied; it is strengthened and preserved in a healthy state by work; whereas it decays or becomes impoverished Ly disuse; or, what is even worse, since it is impossible to keep the brain absolutely at rest, its powers should be profitably employed, or they react on the system, and give rise to the numberles ilments, physical, mental, and moral, ksewa as hysteria. This term almost implies that I am thinking of the female sex; certainly it is to women especially that the want of occupation applies. Young min are fotced to get their living whether they like it or not; but a lirge number of young ladies in a family have absolutely nothing to do. Those brought up in the country have this advantage, that they may always make work for themselves; the village children may be taught and otherwise cared tor; bringing not only a blessing on but a healthy body and mind ta the In town the condition of middle-class girls uto me pitiable. They are too genteel to follow any occupation; they are often too many in a family to asaiat in do mestic duties; they have returned home from echool with soeae very poor accomplishments; their knowledge of French and German is not sufficient to allow them to converse in those languages; and music just enough to indulge m a doleful song or play badly on the piano. They

dawdle through the day iu a listl<»s way, and fall victims to a tooaaand llttlo ail meats which the doctor is supposed to pm right by physic. And Uie uioet curious thing la that should toe instincts of the girl force her to put some of her enerSes into use, she to as litedly as not to be warted by the mother. I am a daily witness to thia; and whew young ladies are brought tome for advice, the invariable story la that they are overtaxing their strength; toe maternal instinct being ao perverted that it has become with many toe belief that every movemeat means fatigue, and absolute rest is the way to insure health. ft is against thia very erroneous view that lam now preaching. These mothers do not come to the doctor for advice, but e>me to dictate to him; and they say: “I want you, doctor, to insist on my daughter not play Ing the argan at church, tor it to Ufo much for her; or having that children's darn once a week, for she is always ill after it; but order her to have her breakfrat in bed, and a glass of . port wine about 11 o’clocr?’ It to this ianclful care ou the part of pareuts which te so injur lous; for the very energy of young people would command them to occupy themselves. I do not know that girls an worse than btnrs in respect of idleness; for probably toe latter would not work unless obliged, and even for them an occupation te good quite apart from that at which they earn their daily breed. The Bev. Dr. Mscleod, father of Dr. Norman Macleod, puuinr through the crowd gathered before toe doors of a new chureh he was about to open, says Chamber’s Journal, was stopped by an elderly man with, “Dr., I wish to speak with you.” Asked if he could not wait until after worship, he replied that It was a matter upon his conscience. “Oh, since it is a matter ot conscience, Duncan, said the good natured minister, “I will hear what it te.” “Well, Doctor,” said Duncan, "the matter te thia. To see ths clock yonder ou the new church. Now there is really no clock there, only the face of one; there is no truth there, only once in twelve hours; and in my mind it te wrong, very wrong, and quite against the conscience that there should be a lid on the face of the house oi the Lord.” The doctor promised to consider the matter. "But,” said he, “I’m glad to see ye looking so well, man. Ye’re not young. I remember you for years; but yov have a fine head of hair still.” “Eb, Doctor,” exclaimed the unsuspecting Duncan, “now ye’re Joking; it’s long* since I had my hair.” Dr. Macleod looked shocked, and answered in a tone of reproach: "Oh, Duncan, Duncan, are you going into the house of Jhe Lord with a lie on your head t" He Teard no more of the lie on the face of the church Adolphus Andrew Hoagland, of Bhadeville, Va., is 70 yean old, and has had three wives. The first waa a widow when be married her, and had a little daughter. When thia wife died her daughter was a widowed mother, and Hoag’.and within a tew years married her. There was some feeling, he says, againt making his stepdaughter his wife, but they were a happy couple, and the prejudice died out. Tin yean ago the second wife died. Her daughter was then 15. Five yean elapsed, and then Hoagland again married hie stepdaughter, who was also his step-grand-daughter. She is still living, and her husband’s Lge, aside from the fact that she bad no daughter when she became his wife, precludes the idea dThir peculiar system being carried any further. He has children of his own by each of the three wives, anl the complications of ‘heir relationships are almost endless. Hoagland declares that his matrimonial experience, covering about fifty years, has been exceptionally happy. The las’, two wives Inherited the good qualities of their mother, and all were so much alike that they have seemed to him the same woman, with her youth accasionally renewed. _ .

The other day an interesting relic of stirring times was recovered from the sea on the east coast of Aberdeenshire. Thu is no less than one of the guns of the Spanish Armada, which has been lying these three centuries in a creek at Biaina, a little south of Peterhead. The St. Catharine was wrecked here in her flight northward. Two guns were fished out of the same pool in 1840, a thiol in 1855, and two more guns and an anchor in 1876. The present And is reported to be the largest and most complete of all. “The gun is of malleable Iron,” writes a correspondent to the Aberdeen Free Press, “is complete in every respect and not even corroded. The extreme length of it is eight feet, from ths muzzle to the touch-hole seven feet three inches, and the diameter io tour Inches. The ball and wadding, still there, take up the space of thirteen inches.” The gun is mounted on an embankment in the neighborhood. A prominent miller of Minneapolis states that the mills of that city will griud 16,000,000 to 18,000,000 bushels of wheat during this cereal year, and Minnesota mills outside that city, will grind as much more. The Chicago Tribune says; “As this is not far from equal to the product of the state, after deducting seed, there should be little wheat left to come to Chicago or Milwaukee. It seems, however, that the millers there are drawing upon Dakota for good wheat and leaving the poorer aorta of Minnesota growth to find a market elsewhere. The mills of Minnesota and those of St. Louis are running to their utmost capacity to -fill export orders for flour. These orders are not sent direct from Europe, many of them, because ecough hat not been on sale in Chicago, and the mills are stated to be generally some weeks behind on orders.” 1 Prof. Boyd Dawkins, of the British association, has been investigating the condition and circumstances of the primeval man, as he calls him, though he does not show but there may have been a man of some sort anterior to him. But this “primeval man,” as he finds from remains of the tertiary periods, wore clothes of skins, and gloves and neck laces, and armlets, and pierced his ears tor ear-rings. He sewed the skins together with bone needles and sketched figures of animals on bone. He had some idea of sculpture also, but appears to have known .nr thing of metals, and had no domestic animals Prof. Dawkins believes those men were allied to the Esquimaux, and he thinks there will be es much progress in the future as in the past, and that by and by men will be as much superior to the best men of 1890, as those of to-day are superior to the early hunters and eave men. A cave in Eastern Tennessee is two miles in length, and has openings at both ends. The owner of the ground around each entranca charged for admission, and acted as guide for visitors. Their rivalry led to actions fights in the cave, foreach held the other to be a trespasser. Then eno of the contestants hit upon a novel and effective means of ruining the other’s business. He sunk ashait so as to admit a large stream into the cave at about the center, and. as there was an incline in a favorable direction, the water poured out at the enemy’s portal, while his own was unobstructed. The matter la to be made the subject of a lawsuit. They were sitting together Bunday tv ««ing, with an album or two between them, when she pleasantly said; “How would you like to have my mother hyswithyouf" In just sixteen seconds be had his hat down halfway over his face, and was bolting through the gate.

THE WORD OF SCIENCE.

Scteßtteto have distieguiahed about 82,000 different species of planft, of which number neorly 5,000 are different foms of grass. J. Landerer has stated to the French Academy reasons for believing that the materials of the moon’s surface arc analogous to those of the silicate rocks so abundant on orr globe. After aa alalyau of the black mud existing beneath, toe pavement of Parte, M. Henri Deville concludes tint the condition of the 00U io not such as to canoe diiea-e, but io, instead, conducive to the health of cccupantoof the city. Hess rteyer, aa inveotigator, bee proven that the drowsiness of fatigue te caused by too introduction into the blood of lactic acid, which to-produed by the die integration of bodily tissue of nerve aad muscle. Many of the sensations we daily experience seem to be the direct result of similar chemical change. The pachymeter, lately patented la Vienna, which mecrere*the thtaknesoef paper to the I,oßoth part of an inch, te outdone by the microaseter caliper, now coming into use la thio country, which determinaa the thicknsoo of paper or aay thing else to the 10,000 th of aa inch. * A recently patented German process for making rancid butter sweet te to knead it with perfectly clear lime water, in the proportion of five parts of butter to one Ett of lime water. After a few minutee eadlng the lime water te poured ott, and the butter thoroughly vywhed with pure water. The rancidity is caused by the presence ot certain tree acids, which are neutralized by the lime. lAke animals, plants differ greatly in their habits, aad the food upon which they subsist. The broad-leaved clovers, turnips and mangels abstract from the air a large portion of their growth, while the narrow leaved grains and graves partake more largely of mineral food, which they draw Irom the soil. In this fact lies the great advantage to fanners of rotation ot crepe. The discovery of phosphorescent bodies has been traced back to the year 1608, when a cobbler of Bologna, pursuing the philosopher’s stone, found a very heavy mineral, which, after being hea*.ed with charcoal, became luminous in ths dark. The mineral with which the Bologna cobbler attained so remarkable a result was barium sulphate, which, by the operation in the crucible, was changed to barium sulphide, one oi the moat phosphorescent substances known. According to Dr. Kedsle, of Detroit, the adulteration of sugar with glocoee te rapidly increasing, and the adulteration te being effected more and more skillfully. Pure glocose is not in itself poisonous, or even injurious, but it makes sugar less sweet, so that a greater quantity te required to produce a given sweetening es feet Manufactured giocose, however, Dr. Kedzie states, te injurious to health, because poisonous substances are always associated with it. Glocoee te also said to be a constituent of nearly all candies and syrups. The needle gun is toe invention of John Nicholas Dreyse, a Prussian locksmith. He was 19 years old when toe battle ot Jena was fought, and picked up a musket upon the field, an examination of which convinced him that his countrymen were wqdK armed soldiers in Europe. Dreyse made his way to Parte and entered the employ of a Swiss gunmaker, whom Napoleon commissioned to make a breech loading musket The young apprentice took up toe idea and worked at it tor many yean, until, in 1835, he succeeded in making a breech loading needle gun. The Prussian government tried and adopted the weapon, and supplied the inventor with means for carrying on the manufacture of the gun now used in Kaiser Wilhelm’s army.

The coloring principle of the indigo plant te contained in the stems and leaves, which yield a colorless liquid, changed by fermentation into the familiar dye. About two months after the plants areaown they produce a pale red flower. They are then cut, thrown into large stone veto, covered with water and held down by heavy weights. Fermentation begins in about twelve or fourteen hours; the whole mass appears to be boiling, and bubbles of purple air arise. When the process 1s finished the liquid te drawn off into another vat, and violently stirred to precipitate the coloring matter, which te left to settle. Again (he water Is drawn oft, leaving the indigo, which te dried aad prepared for export. Major Majendt, in speaking of the ignltien of gunpowder by simple percussion, says: ‘’There te ample testimony that gunpowder can be exploded by a blow with comparative ease, the fact being that the temperature at which gunpowder explodes (about 040 degrees to 660 degrees) te readily reached vy percusaioa or friction, it the powder be so placed that there is no absorption of the energy by the cushioning of the blow, and this temperature te a long way within that at which heat becomes visible. Copper took may be made to give out sparks. I have had 4buch experience of this in some experiments which I made., The great thing for young men to avoid, whatever tools they use even wooden tools, te the exercise of force beyond whet te obßolutely necessary, or dteaater may result” An apparatus for causing a boll to ring at any desired hour of the day to described by L’Electricite, its arrangement being astollowe: It comprises a lens by means of which the solar rays are concentrated and directed on a metalic slip or strip, with to raKeptlbto of freal aad very rapiJ dilation. The' malt of the dilation to electric bodtact, giving passage to a battcryourrent which rings too boU. Although the Mm may be covered by clouds, its calorific power to never diminUhM so much as not to dilate the strip. An interesting question has been rawed, namely. ao «> what the cotton of the moon would be, through ate— of high magnify ing power, on a very aeneitive strip. The apparatus wodd also, porimpa, be oeftsitiveof graduation with a view of studying fee radiating powers of too sun.

Humor in the Family.

Good humor is rightly reckoned a most valuable aid to happy home life. An equally good and useful faculty is d sense of humor or the capacity to h»ve a little fun along with the humdrum of life. We all know how it brightens things up genially to have a livdy, witty companion, who SMS ths ridiculous pointe of things, and who can turn any annoyance into an occasion for laughter. It does a great deal better to laugh over some domestic mishaps than to cry or sooM over them. Many homes and lives are doll because they are allowed to become too deeply Im pressed with a sense nt the carm and responsibilities of life to recognise Its bright end especially its mirthful side. Into such a household good but dull, the advent of a witty, humoroue friend is like sunshine to a cloudy day. While it is oppressive to hear people constantly striving to ray funny things, ft is comfortable, seeing what a brightener a little fan is to make, weU t o tarn off w> impatient question sometimes and to regard ft from a humorous point of view, instead of becoming irritated about it. “What in the reason I can never find a clean shirt?" exclaimed a good but rather impatient plied: I never could guess conundrums; J. m laughed, anti they both laughed, and she wept and got

Ii find sstuusiod of biwuhclt and he ktesed her, and then she felt happy; and so stoat might have been aa occasion tor hard words and feelings became just the contrary, though the little vela iff humor that cropped out to the surface, borne children have a peculiar faculty for giving a humorous turn to things when they are reproved. It does Inst as well oftentimes- Laughter te better than tears. Let us have a little mon at home.

Rules for Health.

Never go to bed with your feet sticking out of the window, particularly when it to raining or freezing. Never etand in therein cistern all night. It checks preapiration, and spoils rain water for washing purposes. . „ Never spank your children with abend saw, or box their ears with the sharp edge of a hatchet, as it to apt to affect the brain. ‘ More than three pigs’ feet and half a mince-pie eaten at midnight, will not cause the consumer to dream ot paradise, accommodating bankers, and other good things; at least they are not apt to do sa To enlarge the muscles of the arms and lege, eltmWng up aad down too chimney (especially If the house te a four-storied one) throe or four times before breakfast, is a cheap exercise, and gives a voracious Earache in children te a common and vexatious complaint. To cure it at once, bore a hole in the tympanum with a gimlet and pour in oil and things. If the child keeps on crying, bore it all the way to the other ear. Corns may be easily cared. The moot torturing corns can at once be extirpated as follows: Take a sharp knife, and find the Joint of the toe whereupon the corn resides; insert the knife in toe articulation, cut off the too and throw it away. It will never return again, unless your dog brings it back to you in hte mouth. (Patent applied for.) , • The habit of drinking can be cured by giving the drinkers all toe liquor they want to drink all toe time. We know ot two in our own experience who were cured in three weeks. One jumped out ot the fourth story window and ran a curbstone into hte head. The other didn’t get up one morning, and has now a curbstone growing over his head in the graveyard.

Thirteen Conundrums.

Why te it that there is a late passenger tor every train ? Whj dots a lady always examine the postmark on a letter before she opens it? Why do new acquaintances al ways open conversation by criticising the weather? Why does every man think hte grandmother made the best pies he ever tasted ? Why is it that every farmer oomplains bitterly of his crops when he comes to the city? Why do ladies who sing always complain of ,a cold when invited to entertain a parlor party ? Why has it become a general custom to signify friendship to invite your friend to drink * Why does everybody using the telephone introduce the conversation by bawling "hello.” Why do candidates for office shake hands heartily with every slight acquaintance before the election, and hardly ever recognize them afterwards? Why do all male acquaintances of a gentleman want to try on his new hat, and why do all female acquaintances of a lady pronounce her hat a "perfect flight Y’ When a train comes at the depot, why d-o passengers push and crowd one another to get out as though picnic struck—just as though life depended on reaching the platform without a minute’s delay ? Why do some extremely pious people think it is wicked to read a Bunday paper upon which all the work is done Saturday evening, but are eager for a Monday paper, upon which aH the work te done Sunday? Why does a man when standing before a fire turn his back to it and fold his bands behind him: and why does a lady while standing before the nre turn her face to it and told her hands behind her?

A Wonderful Clock.

The most astonishing thing a contemporary ever heard of in the way of a timepiece is a clock describe! by a Hindoo Rajah as belonging to a native prince of upper India, and Jealously guarded as the rarest treasure ot his luxurious palace. In front of the clock’s disk was a govg, swung upon poles, and near it waa a pile of artificial human limbs. The pile was made up of the full, number of >arte of twelve perfect bodies* but all lay leaped together in seeming confusion. Whenever the hands of the clock indicated the hour of 1. out from the pile crawled just the number of parts needed to form the frame of one man, part Joining itself to part, with quick, metallic click; and, when completed, the figure sprang up, seized a mallet, and walking up to the gong struck one blow that sent the sound pealing through every room and corridor of the stately palace. This done, he returned to the pile and fell to pieces again. When 3 o’clock came two men arose and did likewise; and so through all the hours, the number of figures being the same as the number of the hour, till at noon and midnight the entire heap sprang up and, marching to the gong, struck one alter another each hte blow, and then fell to pieces.

The Great Glaciers of Alaska.

The Stick ine is perhaps better known than any other river in Alaska, because of its being the way back to the Caseiar gold mines. It is about 850 or 400 miles long, and navigable for small steamers to Glenora, 150 miles, flowing first in a general westerly direction through grassy; undulating plains, darkened here and there with patches of evergreens, then curving southward, then receiving numerous tributaries from the north, it enters the Coast Range and sweeps across it to the sea through a Yosemite valley more than a hundred miles long, and one to three miles wide at the bottom, and from 5,000 to 8,000 feet deep, marvelously beautiful and inspiring from end to end. To the appreciative tourist sailing up the river through the midst of it all, the canon for a distance of about 110 miles is a gallery of sublime picturea,-an unbroken series of majestic mountains, glaciers, falls, cascades, forests, groves, flowery garden spots, grassy meadows in endless variety of form and composition,—furniture enough for a dozen Yosem—while back of the walls, and thousands of feet above them innumerable peaks end spires and domes of ice and snow tower jjmadly into the sky. fifteen miles above the month of the river you come to the first of the great glaciers, pouring lown through the forest in a shattered nearly to the level of the river. Here the canon is about two miles wide, planted with cottonwoods along the banks of the river, and spruce and fir and patches of wiki rose and raspberry extend back to the grand Yosemite walls. Twelve miles back to this point a noble view la opened along the shoot River canon-a group of glacierladen Alps from 10,000 to 18,000 feet high, the source of the largest tributary ot the Stickine. Thirty five miles above the mouth of the river the most striding object ot all comes in sight. This is the lower expanded part of the great glacier, measurein g about six miles around the snout, pushed boldly forward into the middle of the valley among the trees, while its sources are mostly hidden. It takes its rise In the heart of the range, some thirty <*, forty mfles away. Compared with this the Swiss mer de glaoe is a small thing. It is called the* Ice Mountain,” had seems to have been regarded as a

motionless bim, cntttd on thi? epfr*. like Um rock* sad trees about, without hatermg to guess as to how or when. The front of the snout is about three hundred feet high, but rises rapidly back for a few miles to a height of about one thousand feet Been through gape of foe trees growing on one of its terminal moraines, as one sails slowly along against the current, the marvellous beauty of the chasm* and clustering pinnacles shows to Am advantage in the sunshine; but tame indeed must be the observer who ia satisfied with so cheap a view.

KOMICK KUTTINGS.

Fireside ooaapaairo; th* pokes. »■ Cutting a swell; lancing a boil. "The trout is often “caught on the fly-* A ease of susoended animation: siwne* inginahamoc&r A highway robber; A pickpocket oa an elevated railroad,. Why do hens have no future life? B***na* they hav* their neck* twirled in thia. There are three feet in a yard. Thi* doe* not apply to* schoolhouse yard at Bears are so plentiful in Michigan that th* hunters have tried to bear the vrohtui market It la all well enough to say, “Taka things as they cone,” but suppose they don’t come? Chamber’s Journal says that cows have an original taste tor music; but they hook too many bars. ▲ blind man climbed to the summit of Mont Blance, recently. It was ail blank to him, though. ABoetonlartist painted an orangepell on the sidewalk so natural that six fat men -slipped down on it. Th* pitcher that goes often to the beerhouse I* broken at last. It is the same way with the catcher, v It requires but a short time for a lady out shopping to learn all the countersign* of the (fry good* trade. A California man ha* a farm of 05,000 acre*. It ia fortunate tor him that he hasn’t them in his Jaw. A* a street car conductor took a rural passenger’s money the other day, he call* ed it an agricultural fair. The weekly income of W. H. Vanderbilt is said to be <IB,OOO. Just our income to a figure, omitting the ciphers. There are two distinct kinds of boys in this world—the human boy and th* boy who exist* in Sunday echoed books. And now the “aweet girl graduate,” having had her summer’s rest, begin* to wonder what her next duty in life u. The Philadelphia Chronicle is doubt* les* correct when it asserts that the fair sex cares more for pickles than for politic*. Distance lends enchantment to the view A starveling a thousand miles away ia far more interesting than one in the nearest alley. A romantic young man says that a ra woman’s heart is like the moon—jgea continually, but always hag * man in it. The mule has met bis match. It was' in Delaware. He died the next day. The little bee is never too busy to decline an invitation to fight. “Subscribers coming in at the rate of fifty a day,” said an editor; and the rival paper explained that they were coming in to order their paper stopped. A paper has been started called the ’’Handkerchief.” There is a great deal of blow about it, as the editor nose a thing or two, and is not to be sneezed at. The theory of the distinguished starviatflhat people can get along with almost no food, does tot work well in practice. The Irich have tried it in Ireland. The dog haa a queer way of wearing more clothes in summer than in winter. In winter he wears only his coat; but la summer he wears his coat and pant*. A parishioner sent his minister a load of wood. The minister sent back hi* thanks, and added, “As one good turn deserves another, won’t you send a man to cut it up?”. In a little village of Dore-et Lorie may be read on the portals of the cemetery: “By decision of the Municipal council, only are to be buried here the dead who live in this Communel” Mayor Prince recently received a letter from an Illinois woman asking him to a her a small piece of ailk to match a as, enclosing a sample, and adding, “Please do look well in all the stores.” Our Sam, who wears a No. 12 shoe, made to order, has recently bought another pair. He was loth to part with hi* old ones, but console* himself by singing of “There golden slippers laid awayJ’ Faith may be able to remove mountain* but when a woman take* her knitting and patch-wok, it will take a derrick *a well aa faith to remove her to her own house in time to prepare her husband's dinner. “Look at thia coat.” add Mr* Snood, kins, holding up a garment rather gone in the seam*. “It’s in a nice state.” "Ah. yea,” said Bnodkins, aoiemly, “sew it* seam*, sew it seam*.” A tailor made a suit which didn’t suit The customer refused to pay the bill and the tailor determined to sue it. Bo h* brought suit for the suit which dldn” suit by a large majority, ’I wish I could settle this confounded coffee,” add an impatient traveler at a railway restaurant. “Try * broomstick,” sdd a moody man with a scratched noee. “That is what every thing is settled with St our house.” A school-mistress, while taking down the names and ages of her pupils and the names of their parent* d the beginning of • term, asked one little fellow, “What’s your father’s name? ’ “Oh, you needn’t take down hi* name; he’s toodd to go to school to a woman," wa* th* reply. “Isn’t it funny f" he exclaimed, as he leaned back in hi* seat at the theatre, and wiped away the tear* that the laushterproyoking comedian had produced. “Yes Isbell say so "responded hl* fair comproton; “itjs onset her sister’s old ones ,tW dropped into his fcprohetnmed togaze upon the young “• p,rc On* of th* most interesting scenes in “Lee Miserable*" is where Jean Valjero. carrying Marious wounded from the street flgbt. escapes with him on his shoulder through a sewer, only to find the police detective, J avert, at the mouth of the sewer, where it empties into the river, waiting to arrest him. Hl* feelings might have beefe appreciated by fly* long-term convicts of the Auburn (N. Y.) State prison, when, after crawling aa how or so on their stomachs through the slime and filth of the prison rower, they discovered the Deputy War dro and other prison officer* awaiting their exit, only to waah and “iron” them, rod take them back to their cell*. Forty-seven Indiana hunter* went north •<* long ago with thirty-three hound*. When they got through with their sport only three of the enti re pack were left The dog button and deadly bullet diapo* ed of the remainder.

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The Madison Marine Railway company The Library es the Wabaah college was levied upon Tuesday evening by the delinquent tax collection tor $9,Q8&.8T for £g£x*s> <** Charles Kelly and A. Poffenback, on trial tor the killing of E. Dice, in a.atroet Wednesday. ‘‘ ■ 1 '“ 3 ' ’ ' * The L., N. A. and C. railroad, haring completed the laying.of steel rail* in contents, including two valuable harass. Com about <IJOO. Supposed to ba the The establishment of the free postal de livery in Richmond la a fixed feet, the Pootaflto* Dsprotmrot having srot <a special agent to exam in* th* claim* tor on* and received a affitofiMMiy report. Thera is • strode probability that Hock coal will go still Mrhsr, as the Ohio river is so lew that hut little coal is coming down, and th* re *nwt*oto ver* at Naw Alalready calling m Qay county » An infant was found afloat in the Ohio river, opposite New Albany, Monday, and brought aahore, when it wa* discovered its skull had been crushed in. tfc* supposition is the child wa* murdered by its* mother at Louisville and then thrown into the river. A i Th* October election cost Marion county <2,10087. Thtt ft the price of this county’s share of the luxury of telegraph ing to the boys that the constitutional amendments ware overthrown by the supreme court. Jama* A. Boyd, a tramp printer from Boehm—a large, (fine-looking man—waa drunk, lying on th* track of the L., N. A. rod C. railway, six mile* north of Mitchel, ‘ st th* water tank, when the freight train coming south, at about 20 o’clock, cut off hl* left arm above th* elbow. Oran Huntington, owner and for naariy forty years proprietor of th* Huntington Hous* died of age at his boarding place on Sixth strtot Richmond, last Monday, aged eighty years. He has beu out of business mor* thro a year. Bunday morning at 1 o’clock Daniel Sherry’s saw-mill, a mil* and a half east of OonnemviU*, was burned, with 50,000 feet of popular lumber. The fire originated from a roaric from the engine of the mill. Loss, <B,OOO, with no inroranoc. Thomas Dfshern, a resident of Summitville, fell from a Cincinnati, Wabash a Michigan paroenger train recently<TO that place, receiving injuries whieh the physician* say will prove fatal. He stopped too long to talk to a friend on the train, aad attempted to get off alter it had

A Telephone Exchange for Union Qty iw»asssk*« is <B,OOO, divided into thirty share*. Fifty instrument* are taken, and line* will be put up, and the exchange ea. tabliahed in working order inside of thlrtydays.: . i Attorney General Woollen has decided mat O’Rourke, the prosecutor elect of Allen county, is entitled to his commission. The reasons assigned are that Bench, whq enjoined issuing the commission, is debarred from the benefit of th* four-years term by the statute of limit*, tions running against him irom 1870 instead of from 1878. Granville Bishop, an artist of Noblesrille, wa* assaulted a lew evenings ago at Kokomo and robbed of <2O by romeup. hung scoundrel. Mr. Bishop being a confirmed crippl* make* the deed mor* cowardly. The blow, given by some hard instrument, fell upon the right temnle inflicting a terrible wound. Effort* are being mad* to secure th* thi«f. • Andrew Drooley, a young married min wwktog to th* chair factory of Mor A M*ri<re> hadtwo <rf th* fingers ‘n** ®Wted by mrohiEry recently. He ,_Waa taken to the office of Dr*, fane* and M. T. Shivelev to have hi* wound attended to Dre S**® Wo*, between two freight tnSnr and foretajsS «iJsKSiXuS?S < ESt »nen Jumping off the trains in time toMva themroive*. The collision delaved reon , While William Hammond was enrobed ? Afiftch roth*fem ’ Atototoa» *i*>rwemtlaa. <w> tW orlM— ■ miAhl mng acrorofimm orosSeto Citiren’s bank jrf waaMß* ' Z - was realized. This year they October 10, and expect to turn out 80 000 >ounds of sugar daily. Last year the about <IOO per acre for their brou. They hope to do better thia year.

Those troubled with coughs, oolda whooping cough, weak and bleeding lungs, etc., wiUbi pleased to learnthM Dr. James, of Hew York, to introducing his celebrated Cough Pills in this section. Try them. Price 25 cents. They an not a cathartic. . , Plentyful in the neighborhood of Almont that they have been freely offered at five cents a buihel and no buyers. Bome have been sold at three cento, many given away for nothing, and a large part of the crop will be left to rot, because no one wants It bad enough to come and take ft away. The reaidento of northern Michigan do nut wish to have the deer exterminated. S'uX p = come, and would probably lose, their does if ther came. Thrift, request is disregarded, and the mortal ito Among the dogs by reason of poison, & greater than among the deer. *

INDIANA.

Good News.