Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1879 — Page 4

ODDS AND ENDS.

THBpeopieof Kalamazoo dfolike to be eaM Kalamazulo*. A Liverpool man baa died from a bite on the linger inflicted by a drunken woman. ] , One millioo pereons in the United States are dependent on the railway* for support. Cincinnati is the greatest sheep market in America. In July 108,000 head were received. It cost considerably over $6,000 apiece to convert live Jews by the Scotch mission* last year. Queen Victoria has received the twenty-five pound salmon caught by Princess Louise, in Canada.

Znto-U-Zuio, the Chinese giant, who is eight feet high, and twenty-right years old, is now on exhibition at the gt. Petersburg zoological garden. Notwithstanding the heavy importation of American meat into England, beef is higher in the London market than it was five years ago. The trustees of the Metropolitan M. E. Church, Washiugton, of whom General Grant to one, have been sued for a debt hanging over the church.

A mam in Parma, N. Y., has been hr nged in effigy by the village boys for whipping his girl who accepted a nice young man whom he did not admire. The New York Tribune offers an amendment to the constitution'providing for the appointment of a receiver for States that do not pay their debts. * A nun has been dismissed from a convent at Sprague for allowing her father to remain in her eeU over night, no filial relationship being recognized bv the authorities.

The girls’ base-ball club is having a lively time down east. The spectators tease them unmercifully; sometimes trip them up as they run, and even seize and kiss them. The California papers are publishing a report of a game of poker between Tony Pastor and George Thatcher and two Chinamen, in which the latter won SIOO from Tony and his partner. The London Echo calls the completion of the jetties, by which vessels can caary grain from the West to England via New Orleans, “another nail in the coffin of the English farmer.” Last wee Ira tramp about thirty-five years of age, walked into a tavern at Tremont, Hchuykill county, and called for beer. The landlady, a buxom widow of fifty, with silver threads amc ng the gold, found her affinity in the stranger and a justice of the peace made her Mrs. Tramp four hours afterward. He now bosses the ranche. i i About 100 peasants are exploring for the treasures of Ivan the Terrible, hurried, according to an old document, in a wood.bet ween Solowizy and Borzy, in the Russian Province of Smolensk. Two gold horse shoes have been found, but a gold cross weighing thirty-three kilogrammes, and sacks full of coin to the value of 48,000,000 rubles, have yet to be discovered. A sixteen year old boy at Sloan eloped with a widow forty years old, and after being married in Missouri, returned home. The bnd«f is the mother of five children, the oldest being only two years younger/ than his step-lather. Thirty-two tramps stripped to the skin took- possession of i Humboldt Well, a small Nevada milting town, and announced that they were going to sack the town, but a squad of mounted miners from a neighboring gulch rode down on them and whipped them with riding whips. They took to the hills and have been peaceably iudined since.

NEWSLETS

Thk trotting horse, Hams, was sold, a day or two ago, to H. M. Whitehead, of .New York, for $36,000. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, of last week, over $5,500,000 of gold was shipped from England for this country. At the recent sia, which destroyed about 200 .houses, sixty lives were lost, including many children. . ' , In consequence of the bad harvest, the Italian Minister of the Interior has addressed a circular to Prefects to provide for the indigent. It is stated, positively, by friends of General Grant in Washington, that he has accepted the Presidency of the Leseepe Nicarauga Canal Company. Thk grain trade of the New York produce exchange, has amended the scales to make them conform to the cental system which will go into operation January Ist. The English mail steamer Durbat, recently made the trip between Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, and Plymonth, England, about 6,000 miles, in .■eighteen days and sixteen hours actual steaming. This is said to be the most rapid long voyage ever made. The production of the Pennsylvania oil regions for July amounted to 1,714,517 barrels of forty-two gallons each, an increase of 33* per cent, fiver the corresponding month of 1878. So great is the production at the present time that thousands of barrels go to waste daily. • ■ Up to the Ist of August there had been adjusted and allowed by the pension bureau at Washington 24,779 claims for arrears of. pension, amounting in aggregate to $12,630,996. The number ailoaed and paid through the Indianapolis agency was 1,987, amounting to $047,614. Henky Tallent, a well known wine merchant of Chicago, lost his speech twelve years agp. Some months later it returned; six years ago it again suddenly left him, the original cause being fright. Again it returned, and six mouth* since he bad an accidental fall. He has not spoken until a day or two ago, when be felt a loosening sensation in the throat and found himself again able to articulate. .

0L1879 Cm"tV 882,817, against 56,103,063 gallons in 1878; gallons withdrawn from bond withpaid in 1879 numbered 57,896,779; in 1878, 99,573,689; gallons withdrawn from bond for export in 1879, against 6, 490,252 in 1878; gallons landed abroad 4n 1879 were 7,799,071; in 1878 the number waa 3,864,616. S The production of petroleum in Pennsylvania is now 60,000 barrels daily. Mr. Henry E. Wrigiey, author of a work on the geology of that State, reaches the conclusion that the total future production of Pennsylvania will not exceed 86,000,000 barrels; and that a continued production of anything like the quantity now raised will exhaust the entire possible area of productive territory In Pennsylvania in ess than six years.

The excitement among the oppressed farm tenants of Ireland and England against the extortionate rates demanded by the owners of the land continues, aud in some instances takes the form of mob violence. The aristocratic and unconscionable landlords will in time appreciate the impossibility of their squeezing more «n rentals out of their, tenants than the latter’s annual profits amount to. * The British farming system is destined to an early revolution. , .

a recent estimate gives to the Church of Rome about one-seventh of the population of the earth; to Protestantism, between a twelfth and a thirteenth, and to Christianity as a whole, a little less than three-tenths. Another authority places the whole number of Catholics in the world at 216,356,000, of which number Europe has 153,444,000, America 51,400,000, Asia 9,167,000, Africa 1,695,000, and Australia 650,000.

There is likely to be serious trouble between England and Spain. At last accounts England was moving to get a foothold in Morocco, with the design, as is believed, of annexing it to her dominions. ■ British troops had landed at Tangiers, and were fortifying. There is great excitement in Spain, which is exceedingly jealous of England’s power in the Mediterranean. Spain still fosters a fond hope of some day getting possession of Gibraltar, now held by England, and it is a knowledge of this fact, probably, that causes England to desire to gain a foothold on the African coast oppposite Gibraltar. An International Machine Market, on exhibition,, was recently held at Leipsic, Germany, and the United States Consul at that port recites, in' connection with it, some facts of great interest to Inventors and manufacturers. The fact that the demand for American and implements in Europe—a demand which .-these acknowledged saperiority would] warant—is not as large as might be anticipated. is principally due to the fact that owing to carelessness of new inventors in not taking out patents for their inventions, in thtf* several countries, imitations of all our principa machines are manufactured in Europe rudely,- but at less cost.

INDIANA INKLINS

The latest novelty at Peru, is a twelve toed baby. An Anderson man claims that the English sparrow feeds on bees. Muncib is all tom up on the gas question. Forty men are laying gas mains. Indianapolis has recently been receiving hundreds es car loads of coal per day. Gtandfather Polk, of Wabash, aged about seventy years, is “cutting” a new set of teeth. At the recent couuty fair at Crrefenburg, twenty-five pick-pockets and burglars were arrested. The Goshen School Furniture Company recently shipped $7,000 worth of school seats to one county in Ohio. John Welsh, of Anderson, got away from the torment of a whisky craze by taking an ounce of arsenic. The temperance people of Portland are charged with the destruction of a saloon at that place, th® other night, by stoning it.

Kokomokians have been expiating their sins of omission in the matter of cleanliness, by suffering the stings of myriads of mosquitoes. Baltimore peaches have been selling at $1.50 per bushel in the Indianapolis market. The home raised article brings a dollar more per bushel. James McLaughlin, of Coal Creek, Fountain county, recently killed a rattlesnake" that was five feet four inches long, and had twenty-three rattles. Recently, on a farm in La Porte cojjnty, when a well-known farmer was threshing his wheat, twenty church members were present, of whom fifteen were Baptists. Several cows were killed at Anderson, recently, by eating spoiled fish and fish-brine which some careless person had emptied on the banks of White river. Wm. Messier, of Elkhart, is raising muskmelous this year, a specimen of which is four feet feet In length and the largest part is not over one and a half inches in diameter. It Is called the snake muskmelon.

Thh wife of Granville Morgan committed suicide by drowning herself In Mud creek, near Castleton, in Marion county, recently. The supposition is that she committed the rash act because of one of her daughters becoming insane. Rev. J. Cole, a colored minister who resides Id Oorydon, this State, has a circuit that embraces three counties and yet he walks to all his appointment. He recently attended conference at Detroit, Mich., having made -the journey on foot.

found, and from its appearance it ie auppoeed the monster waa twenty-live feet in length. Secretary op State Sharkuh will have 1,500,000 tickets printed, to be need at the election on the constitutional amendments next ApriL These tickets will contain the amendments to be voted upon, with a No and Yes ao attached to each one of them that the voter can express his sentiments by “scratching.”

New Albany has a haunted house. The “spooks” amuse themselves by tossing the furniture around, slamming doors, kicking over the kitchen stove, and raising Cain generally. The moat critical investigation Calls to develop evidence that the racket is not caused by real ghosts. The Ledger-Standard Is authority or the statement that Mrs. Nancy Thurman, of New Albany, is endowed with the power to cure disease by simply laying her hands on the person afflicted. Mrs. T. has numerous letters in her possession from persons whose infirmities have been cured by her peculiar.method. A young lady of Corydon became so enangered at the County Treasurer, who had brought suit against her for debt, that she armed herself with a briek-tnt and an ax, and repairing to the office of the Treasurer, opened her batteries on him in real earnest. After dodging the dangerous missile which was burled at him with violence, he found himself attacked with the ax, and would doubtless have been injured had not the City Marshal arrested his assailant. She was heavily fined, aud held in S2OO bonds to show herself.

Wifely Fealty.

Evening Wisconsin. There is now living in this city a lady whose life so far has been filled with more real romance than are the most delicately wrought characters of fiction. Twenty-five yearsagoshewas married to a man who like herself, was in humble though respectable life. Their courtship had been pleasant, and, ’ for aught the lady knows, harmonious and mutually agreeable. On the day following the wedding, however, the husband left home without any apparent reason or any warning whatever. The wife merely supposed at the time that business had called him hence and that he would soon return. Days, weeks, months, years passed before she was aware that she was a deserted and wronged woman. She heard nothing from him, but could not entertain the idea that he was dead, and instinctively believed that she would again see him. And just as she became convinced that she was deserted her m&rSrrdom began. She was thrown enrely upon her own resources for subsistence. and they were simply honest toil, a living faith in the reward of duty-doing, and a great self-sacrificing spirit. Thus she toiled on, never hearing a word from her husband for many years, but still clinging to the strict and self-imposed duty of silent forbearance. One day, after eight years, she accidentally met him. but he failed to recognize her. She did not speak to him, but learned from others that since his departure he had led a roving life and had been into every State in the Union. Now that she knew he lived, and yet did nothing to aid her in the battle of life, her action toward him, herself, and the world remained unchanged. And just here she exhibited to a degree her almost saintly charac ter, for instead of accepting any of the numerous and advantageous offers of marriage which she might have done, she silently did her everyday work, bearing his name and cherishiug the same affection for him that induced her to become his wife.

There was then another long time that she neither saw nor heard from him. But fate seemed to favor her, and again she met him by accident. He acted as If pleased to see her, .told her what he had been doing, that he was still her husband, but never referred to his strange departure, nor offered her any means of support. Their conversation was a brief one, and they parted without enmity. Neither had idea of the plans of the other, nor asked to know. The next that the wife knew of her husband was learned from a newspaper. There she learned that he had been arrested for leading Fenian riots in Canada, and was sentenced to be hung. A subsequent report informed her that his sentence was commuted to six years’ imprisonment. During those six years she retained her love for him and clung to the faith that her constancy would eventually be recognized and appreciated. After the mail was let out from the prison Cell he again became an adventurer, and again accidentally met his wife. He then said to her, “What did you think when you saw me sentenced to be hung?” She replied, *“I supposed you would be hung.” A short interview, in which neither learned of the plans of the other, was the result of this meeting. And again he was off. After several more years they again met, recognized, but passed by in silence. Strange as has been the first act o this comedy of curious actions, the sequel is still stranger. Last February he wife received a letter from her eratic husband, fn which he begged for orgiveness, and asked her to go to Washington and live with him. He is in thegovernmentemploy, and she has consented, and will start for her new home in September. . Twenty-five years elapsed between the day of the wedding and the receipt of the letter. During that time she never ceased to love him, and he never commenced to love her. Neither ever tried to obtain a divorce. The lady is the picture of health. The man was a fine-looking fellow when he was married, and had jet black hair. To-day he is much thinner and his hair is almost white.

As dream-like and unnatural os all this may seem, it is asserted to be true by a responsible and highly esteemed lady, whofje relations with the wife gave Her the means of knowing the particulars of this extraordinary romance. *"*“* " . Louisville,( September 2.—A report has reached here of a most cowardly and unprovoked murder at the little townofCamden ville, Andersonoonuty Kentucky, about sundown on Saturday evening. Robert Mosely, the town marshal, and Bud Oliver, a former saloon keeper, were neighbors. Oliver bad been hunting on Saturday, and as he returned home and entered bis yard with an unloaded gun, he wae hailed by Mosely and asked if he was ready to settle that difficulty, when Mosely commenced cursing and übusing Oliver, and finally drew a pistol and shot him dead. Mosely was arrested, and is under guard.

STOLEN HORSES.

mala e Bfowwd. - ChkWoTlger The Times has, on different occasions, noted the prevalence of honethieving in this part of the world, and mildly speculated as to whether it waa the work of an organised gang or of isolated crooks. ffwwwhM undertaken by lieutenant Ben field of the West Madison street station, within the last few days, have pretty well settled this question and done much toward breaking up a dangerous organisation of thieves which, while making Chicago its headquarters, has not confined its exploits to any particular section of the countiv east of the Missouri. The story of the way in which the rascals were unearthed runs something in this wise: On the night of July 24th, Henry Kutch, of Bremen, Cook county, lost from his barn a valuable span of horses and a light boggy - Twenty-four hoars later, Mr. A. Butterfield of Marseilles was despoiled to a similar extent. Both these cases found their way to Madison street station, and Lieutenant Bon field, on hearing of them, concluded that perhaps a resident of his own bailiwick “up South” might know of the whereabouts of the stolen property. It was, of course, one thing to suspect a man, but a far more difficult task to prove him worthy of arrest So the Lieutenant knowing the difficulties which lay before him, adopted a novel and ingenious plan. He wanted to get his men in a bam kept by a man named Rawson, at the comer of twenty-eighth and State streets, and he also wanted to accomplish this without arousing any suspicion. So four policemen were detailed to do the business, two wearing plain clothes and two in uniform. They proceeded to the scene of action separately. The lads in citizens’ garb were a block or so ahead. When they reached the stable they rushed in aud through, and disappeared via the back door.„ In followed the unifomed patrolmen, breathless and with clubs drawn.

“Did you see two men come in here?” they asked. “Yes,” was the reply, “but they didn’t stop.” “Well, they’re desperate villains, and may be you’re mistakeu about their going out. We don’t suppose you’ll object to our looking about the place for them a bit?” “Of course not. Go ahead; but I tell you they’ve gone.”- - The coppers began their pseudo search ana soon fell afoul of two of the missing horses. They took them away, leaving Rawson to curse his luck and think the discovery had been made by accident. So for the result was highly satisfactory, but Kutch had as. yet foiled to g«t any trace of his wagon and harness. Bon field knew that the police “racket” could not well be worked twice on the same parties, so he laid out a new scheme, with Kutch as the principal actor therein.: He sent the bouest old German out to a saloon in the neighborhood which was known to be a sort of rendezvous for the suspected parties. Here Kutch sat and drank lager and talked. He wanted to buy a horse—perhaps two, for that matter —and he would pay a good price.. He seemed an elegant “mark,’* and he was forthwith taken over to Rawson’s lively stable, wherehe saw, lying about, the ny-nets and neck yoke which were a portion of the goods he had lost. He selected the horse he wanted, and then suggested that he would buy a wagon if he could get a bargain in that line. No sooner had he made the remark than the boys steered him to a place at the corner of Twenty-sixth street and Cottage Grove avenue. The barn had board? off* all about, and looked as though deserted, while;the yard in connection with it was concealed from improper scrutiny by a high fence. Inside there ranged a long array of veh'cles of every nature and description, but in all the lot Kutch couldn’t see his own. He used his eyes to good advantage, however, for he noticed that the basement to the tumble down barn was substantial and evidently in use. He also got a squint at the buggy lost by Butterfield, and learned that the “owner” of the stuff was one Frayne, alias Keed. Armed with this intelligence he came down to town and reported. It looked like a good case, ana Kutch, at the suggestion of Lieutenant Bonfield, swore out warrants for the arrest of Reed and Rawson. These men, as will be remembered, were captured a day or two ago, and after a preliminary hearing, held to the Criminal Court in bonds or $1,500 each. Now comes the sequel. After the apprehension of these parties the subterranean stable at the corner of Twenty-sixth street and Cottage Grove avenue was entered and examined. It was found fitted up with box stalls and all conveniences for Suine com form, while atnong the furture of the place were all sorts of implements and drugs for so transforming a horse that the owner might buy him and never know the deceit. Another important discovery was also made on yesterday, in the finding of a shop at the corner of Thirty-fifth and Vincennes street, where carriages and vehicles of all sorts are put through the transformation act with neacness and dispatch. It was as well ascertained that one of the recently stolen horses had been ostensibly sold to a man named Donahoe, who hangs out at Thirteenth and State streets. Indeed, up tjo ten o’clock on last night Lieutenant Bonfield was not only in possession of the facts detailed above, but also Of additional “pointers” which go to show that the places mentioned are headquarters of a gang comprising at least a score of persons and operating throughout Illinois and lowa. Had the raid on Frayne’s “ruined” stable been delayed one night, il is now known that no less than six valuable horses believed to have been stolen might have been captured. The operations of these parties have hitherto escaped detection, but now that some of them are in the toils it is believed that less buggies will change paint and form, and fewer horses go into the stalls bays and come out mouse-color-ed and with changed toils.

The Gatling Gun.

Scientific American. Among the many important and valuable inventions in firearms, of which the present century has been grolific there is none that equals the latling gun in originality of design, rapidity of fire, ana effectiveness. The severest teste and trials, and its practical use in warfare, have indisputably established ite high reputation as a most formidable deatbdealing weapon. The main features of the gun may be summed up as follows: It has usually five or ten barrels, each barrel having its corresponding lock. . The barrels and locks revolve together; but in addition to this action, the loexs have a forward and backward motion of their own. The forward motion-places the eartrlgee in the chambers of the barrels. and closes the breech at the time of each discharge, while the backward motion extracts the empty cartridge cases after firing. The gun can be fired

■ gm» is the several operations of loading*!*ing and are on The gun is supplied from feed cases (containing forty cartridges each) which lit into a hopper communieatinr with the chambers; as soon as one Is emptied another takes its place, and thus continuous firing is kept op at the rate of over 1,000 shots per minute. ’ « We believe the Gatling is the oaly firearm in the world in which the three sets of parts, namely: barrel, locks, and inner breech, all revolve. Having the barrels, lode and inner breech revolve simultaneously, enable* the gun to be loaded and fired rapidly and continuously, while under revolution, and without producing recoil to destroy its accuracy. - That the gun is simple and durable is evinced by the foot that 100.000 cartridges have been fired from it without injury to any of its parts. The gun has recently been greatly improved, and also its ammunition, so that now its rate of fire is over 1,000 shots per minute. *

Acute Observations on America.

Sir George Campbell, who visited America two years ago, adds another to the ever increasing list of those who have written us up and down m a book. It is, however, well to see ourselves as others see us. Here area few of the reflections in Sir George’s mirror: Socially considered: If you want to have an idea of the general state of society which exists in America, I would put it to you in this way: If in this country (England) you were to kill off all the country gentlemen, with all their wives and families, and make the formers the owners of the land they till, you would have something which you could hardly distinguish from America. Americans marry earlier and trust to their wits to support a family more than we do.

The American girls are certainly more independent than our girls are. They think it a reproach if they cannot be trusted to go with a young man either to a church or theater. I won’t say whether that is better or worse than our system, but I do admire the independence of the American girls in helping themselves by useful employments. The country gentlemen element is altogether wanting, but the plutocrats, the money people, are quite as strong America as in. Engiaud—perhaps in stronger; that is, socially and in everything not regulated by the first principles of the American constitution — these they cannot get ove*. In all other matters the plutocrats, it seems tome, rule the country even more than they do here (in England). The rich people rulcf the press and the press rule the country. General Sherman: He does not affect the style miiitaire, but is more of a good, shrewd Yankee, like his brother. He says they have had enough of war. The only war they would like to undertake would be one against the Mexicans to make them take back New Mexico and Arizona.

General Butler: I saw him on the stump—a wildlooking man. Ferries: Their ferry boats are much superior to anything to be seen in Europe. Common politeness: Drivers of vehicles, ’busses, and tramways seem much more on their good behavior than in London. The elevated railway: It is, I think, infinitely cheaper and easier, and it is certainly very much higher and more airy than our underground railways. West Point: The cadets go through a very loLg and very scientific course of education, and are turned out accomplished officers to a for greater degree than can be the case under our military arrangements. New York at night: New York in the evening very dull. No books at the hotels. Streets indifferently lighted and nothing going on. None of the liveliness of a great European city in the evening. The American buggy: Exceedingly light and strong, judging by the work they endure. They last quite as well as our heavy vehicles, and 1 cannot imagine why we do not follow the example in getting such like traps. As to American rascality: We must not judge of the American people by what has taken place in the New York municipality; that is exceptional. T : Religion:

There is much inclination among American religious sects which do not differ in essentials to come together' on common ground. Different persuasions do not hate one another on account of religion, j New York hotels: My only complaint was that feeding was overdone; you were expected to eat too much, atid the waiters did not seem to have any mercy on you if you did not comply. There is a sort of dead level of uniformity about the hotels. There does not exist either the cosy, comfortable English hotel or the foreign case. I agree with Mr. Trollope in denouncing as the most horrible place*in the world the ladies’ room (of the American hotel,) which is always the stiffest, barest and most uncomfortably gorgeous place that It Is possible to conceive. Americans seem to eat the meat underdone to a degree which astonished one, American ladies will eat in the sweetest manner meat which I could not touch. Central Park: Central Park is ever so many miles long and very well kept. Called “Central because it is a long way off. A cross between Regent’s Park and the Bo is de Boulogne. Political meetings: I should say their speakers were more deiuonslratioe tiian with us. and the people less so. Political temper. I know no people in the world who aecept defeat in so thoroughly a good humnorod way as the Americans. American cities:

My complaint of the American cities is that they are to big—that is to say, too many people come to the towns who had better go to work in the country Too much land: What the Americans suffer from at present is too much land. Beef-raising: Nothing impressed me so much throughout my tour as the great extent of country north, south, east and west into which the formers go into cattle breeding for our markets with enthusiasm.

Avaricionsness to the English.

N. Y. Tribune. Nothing is more novel nnd stunning in its effect upon travelers from this country in England than the constant obtrusion of the everlasting six-pence

gratuitously. If be Ml* you the way on the streets or gives you the time of day, or a light for a cigar, mo how good his coat, the ehaacea are so expected to tip the servant who shorn her to the drawing room; if you stay by invitation at a private house over night, you will find the whole corps of servants drawn up waiting for their money in the halltothctobroing; their master saveshinmelf so much of wages by your gifts, and counts on **• Vfcy few Americans would be willing to throw open the privacy of their homes to the public to increase their income; but if an EagUsman’s house is his castle, oreanby any means be made a show place, he turns an honest penny by exhibiting it. The shilling, or crown, or sovereign paid by ▼fetters to the servants who escort than through the great houses, goes, not to the servant as is often supposed, but directly into the pocket of the master. In the cases of Chatsworth, Blenheim, and places of that grade, the revenues of the ducal owners are increased ttfbosands of pounds by this means. The American is just as fond, probably, of the almighty dollar as hfe British cousin, but he manages to get it in a different way.

An Eastern Apologue.

From Chambers’ Journal. Jesus, says the storv, arrived one evening at the gates of a certain city, and he sent his deciples forward to prepare supper, while be himself; intent on doing good, walked through the streets into the marcel place. And he saw at the corner of the market some people gathered together looking at some object on the ground, and he drew near to see what it might be. It was a dead dog with a halter round his neck, by which he appeared to have been draged through the dirt, and a viler, a more abject, a more unclean thing never met the eyes of man. And those that stood by looked on with abhorrence. “Faugh!” said one, stoppiug his nose; “it pollutes the air!” “How long,” said another, “shall this foul beast offend our sight?” “Look at his torn hide,” said a third; “one could not even cut a shoe out of it.” “And his ears,” said a fourth, “all draggled and bleeding.” “No doubt,” said a fifth, “he has been hanged for theiving.” And Jesus heard them, and looking down compassionately on the dead creature, he said: “Pearls are not equal to’the whiteness of his teeth.”' Then the people turned to him with amazement and said among themselves: “Who is this? This must be Jesus of Nazareth; for only he could find something to pity and approve even in a dead deg.” And being ashamed, they bowed their heads before him, and went each on his way.

Poisoned by Nicotine.

Parisian, A rather unusual case of nicotine poisoning occurred lately in a Parisian suburb. The victim, a man in the prime of life, had been cleaning his pipe with a clasp knife; with this he accidentally cut one of his fingers subsequently, out as the wound was of a trivial nature he paid no heed to it. Five or six hour later, however, the cut finger grew painful and became much swollen; the inflammation rapidly spread to the arm and shoulder, the patient suffering such intense .pain that he was obliged to betake himself to his bed. Medical assistance was called in, aud ordinary remedies applied ineffectually. The sick man, questioned as to the manner In which he had cut himself, explained the use to which the pocket-knife had been applied, adding that he had omitted to wipe it after cleaning bis pipe. The apparent mystery which surrounded the case was thus cleared up, and, as the patient’s state had become alarming, he was conveyed to the hospital. Upon his admission the doctors attached to the institution declared that In the Immediate amputation of the arm lay the only hope of saving the patient’s life;. The poisoned member was therefore amputated; but, in spite of the promptitude with which the operation was performed, the man lies, in so precarious a condition that the chances of his recovery are said to be slight.

A Nevada Sunset.

This is the way an enthusiastic Nevada reporter describes a sunset: The western horizon was banked up with billowy masses of cloud-cushions, like vaporous oouches of the gods, and down into this yielding bed sank Helios! The whole con volted cloud land had, but a moment before, been bathed In the golden sheen of his dazzling rays, but as the feathery edges of the clouds disrobed him of his splendor, the beautiful Apolo seemed like a marvellous fair woman, who lays aside her jewels and her gold ornaments and appears in her natural beauty,so roseate and softly bright did he become. The cloud which concealed the sun became black on Its earthward side, as it fell into shadow, but through the lessening thickness of its margin the dazzling white brilliance of the sun’s light was seen, and from the scalloped edges the aerial darts of the god shot away to the zenith and to all parts of the skv, quivering In their flight. Around the border or the cloud, from the bank of *which this magnificent halo emanated, played all the colors of the rainbow, blending Into tints which could uot be counted for their number or described for their loveliness. There seemed to be rain foiling from one of the adjacent clouds, and. traversing the prismatic drops of the shower, the sunlight divided itself into its teven hues, which wove themselves together agfcin with the most varied and exquisite result.

A Sinking City.

By Telegraph to the New York Herald, Wilkesbarhk, Pa.. August J 7.— I The populace of Mill Hollow, a suburban mining village of this city, was thrown into excitement to-day by alarming subterranean sounds. For some months past the tenants of some of the houses have been conscious of peril by reason of signs of a caving in of the surface. Last night at about li o’clock the surface of the ground in the rear of the dwellings of the Messrs. Morgan, Williams and Weiger began to sink. At about 3 o’clock this morning some two acres of the gardens and nurseries belonging to the aforesaid went down about eight feet, cracking the house and alarming the community to such an extent as to drive all in the vicinity from their homes. The ground around the sunken pit for acres is cracked, and it is believed that the entire surface of the land undermined must go if.?* man 7 private and pubik; buildings. The disaster was owing to the fact that the vein of coal worked is not protected by a rider of rock and slate. That chap who comes to the concluwortd *■ bad but himself, will still run half a mile at the top of his speed to see a dog fight.

AGRICULTURAL

sSEStHS&Sr* «£ Of f s & fouls each year from sixty to one hundred cattle, the manure of which, together with SI,OOO worth yearly purchased, goes to enrich the land. Early fields of seed leaf tobacco are now reported as nearly ready to be cut in Wisconsin. Borne pieces of Spanish have already been cut. Tim 7 crop of 1878 is about alt sold out so that when the new crop comes in \t will have a dear field. On view of the late ravages by grasahoppers in the Pacific States, it is proposed to import and naturalise the migratory quail of Southern Europe there. From March 1 to August 8,1,291.000 hogs were slaughtered in Chicago. For a corresponding period in 1878 the number was 1,345,000, and 1,005,000 in 1877. About 4,000 bead of cattle were lately add in California for sl3 per head all around. When rebranded they are to be placed on a ranch at the bead of the American River, u

Mr. L. 8. Crosier, formerly of Marseilles, France, and the wealthy cultivator of mulberry trees and silkworms at SilkviUe, Kan., proposes, It isjsalkl, to introduce the industry in West Feliciana, La. At the Agricultural Congress held at Liego, France, to study into the best means to stimulate agricultural education, it was suggested that the teachers of the national school ought to visit with their bed pupils the superior formsteads in the vicinity. Another enemy to wheat-growing is reported in the shape of a weed somewhat resembling cockle. In some parts ot the East it has become so abundant as to cause serious alarm; especially so in North Carolina, where it springs up simultaneously with the grain, and nearly smothers it. Tt has a white blow, all bears numerous pods, in each of which are four seeds. The * people have given it the name of ‘‘Dutch ooikle.”

It is said that thick lime whitewash, thinned with strong tobacco juice, and applied to young fruit trees in the foil, is an effectual preventive against their being gnawed by rabbits. A pailful is sufficient to cover two hundred trees. We have seeu so many orchards ruined by these pests that it is with some emphasis that we say, don’t neglect some protection—eitherthis or something else—for your yoimg trees. If they have been unmolested thus for, so much the greater will be your loss if they are ruined hereafter. The State Agricultural College buildings of Mississippi at Starkville, are expected to be completed by New Year’s day next. It is said that leading practical educators and public spirited men of the State, among them Geueral George, W. B. Montgomery, Dr. D. L. Phares, and Governor Stone, have taken the matter in hand, and that a real practical, sensible working school, will be organized where “the industries will be taught without the aid of the dead languages, astronomy and a polished classical education.”

The Weather as a Pain-Producer

1 It is a familiar experience that certain bodily pains vary according to the weather. A series of observations on this subject, made with much ability and perseveranoe, has lately been reported to the American Academy of Science by Professor Mitchell. They are by Captain Catlin, of the United States army, who lost a leg during the war. and since that time has suffered a good deal from traumatic neuralgia. He carefully noted, during five years, the effect produced on him by changes of the weather. For the first quarters of these five years there were 2,470 hours of pain, for the second quaiters 2,100 hours, for the third quarters 2,056 hours, and for the last quarters 2,221 hours. The best “yield of pain” is in January, February and March, and the poorest in the third quarter—July, August and September. During these five years, while the sun was south of the equator there were 4,602 hours of pain, against 4,158 hours while It was north of the equator. The average duration of the attacks for the first quarters was 22 hours, and for the third quarters only 17.9 hours. Taking the four years ending January 1, 1879, it is found of the 687 storms charted by the Signal Bureau, 298 belong to the Winter quarters, against 230 for the Summer uuarters. Hence we have the ratio or the numbers of storms of the Winter and Summer quarters corresponding to the ratio of the amount of neuralgia for these respective periods; and the ratio of the average duration oi each attack for the same time corresponds closely with the ratio of the respective tetal amount of neuralgia for tne same periods. The average distance of the storm-center at the beginning of the; neuralgic attacks was 680 miles, Storms from the Pacific coast are felt further off very soon after or as they are crossing the Rocky Mountains, .while storms along the Atlantic coast are associated with milder forms of neuralgia, which are not felt until the storm center is nearer. Rain is not essential in production of neuralgia. The severest neuralgic attacks of the year were those accompanying the first snows of November and December, j. One other interesting observation is as follows: Every storm sweeping across the continent consists of a vast rain area, at the center of which Is a moving space of greatest barometric depression. The rain usually precedes this sterna center by 660 to 600 miles, but before Mid around the rain lies a belt, which may be called the neuralgic margin of the storm, and which precedes the rain about 160 miles. This feet is very deceptive, because the sufferer may be on the far edge of the storm-basin of barometric depression, and teeing noth of the rain, yet have pain due to storm. Pittsburg, September 2.—About ten o’clock last night Prof. Victor Deham, a music teacher in the Pittsburg Female College, was aroused from bed at his home iii Castle Shannon, a suburb of this place, by his wife, who told him thieves were in the vinevard. The Professor, his wife, and hired man went out—the two men being armed. Deham fired bis revolver; then another shot was heard, and the Professor fell dead. It was at first thought the thieves bad killed him. This morning investigation shows that he was killed by a shot from the double-barreled gun or the hired man, Peter J. Bower. The latter has been arrested. The killing is supposed to be accidental. Cincinnatti, September I.—Mr. John Winters, for many yean ticket agent of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad in this city; was found dead in bed this morning.