Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1879 — Page 4

ODDS AND ENDS.

The London police force he* teen organised fifty yean. The Japanese language Is a complete hieroglyphic system. A Pams omnibus company has 12,000 fine horses In Its Stables. Empebor William proposes a oriel's fair to be held in 1885. There were 131 marriages, 482 births and 530 deaths in New York last week. The mill hands at Bridgeport, Con., spend $12,000 per year for lottery tick- * ets. , ' Princess Lorisc encourages the young ladies of Canada to learn to cook. *

The expenditure of the London School Board this year is estimated at 83,000,000. - A BIRD deprived of food dies on the third day, while a serpent can live three months. One hundred and thirty employes are required atVassar College to attend the building and ground. The expenses of a funeral of an Engt ish soldier in Zululand are deducted from arrears in the man’s pay. Oliver WendejLl Holmes has hud his famous old gold peu repaired, and is writing a new book with it. Machinery baa been erected in Florida to test the experiment of making iHiper from the palmetto liber. Paris Is al*out to expend $6,325,960 in building new elementary schools and enlarging those already in existence. There is iu the ldst rry of Great Biitian t ight societies laboring for the conversion of the Jews, and on the continent a dozen more. The report from the Commissioners f Lunacy in England show that insanity anti idiocy In that country is largely on the increase

A former Chinese student has pre. -ented to the seminary at Eastuarupton, Mass., a history ofChina, written liy Confucius, and printed in Chinese characters. Caleb Cv hinds library, to be sold in Boston next month, is rich in French, Spanish, Mexican and Chinese novtis, but is rather deficient iu English ‘fiction. ’ Estimates of the crop deficiencies iu England place the amount of wheat that must be imporied at 128,000,000 bushels. This is about 35,000,000 bu-h----tls iu excess of an average yield. -*o great have been the changes since the establishment of the Republic •in France that many ladies of high family are studying iu cm vents to qualify themselves for governesses. A German medical writer, iu a ' woik published iu 1877, says that there are but two authentic cases known of live children being bor.. ut one birth A third rase is now reported from Kettwig o’.i the Rhine. A thief seized a pocket book containing fl 2 from an eight year old Rochester girl, who was running no errand for her mother, and the plucky jittife tliii:g snatched it lvu-k, and, after kicking him. wen tun her way. The Hantchoo, China, college students hive had a rebellion a la Princeton, in which sundry sophomore noses were mashed anti divers freshmen pigtails were, pulled. The Chinese are rapidly attaining to c higher state of civilization. Count de Veysy, the enormously wealthy French nobleman, has been taken into custody by the Belgian police for fighting a duel with Baron de -Vaiiloo, iu which the latter was killed. He offered bad to the amount of 1,000,000 francs, but it was refused. • The Whitehall gold, mine on the narrow guaga railroad near Fredericksburg, Va., formerly owned by Commodore .Stockton, has been purchassed- by Boston capitalists, aiid operations will be resumed in October. Some years ago this mine yielded $146,003 iu seven months, A few weeks ago a gentleman of wealth residing near Zanesville, Ohio, died. After his death some valuable papers belonging to his estate were missing, and, although known to exist, could not be found. Finally, after several weeks of ineffectual search, a member of his family happened to remember that be was buried iu the suit of clothes which he wore on his last visit to Zanesville,' aud it was thought possible the papers might be iu them. The grave was opened, the laxly exhumed and the missing papers, along with others of value, found iu the sidfe pocket of his coat

NEWS NOTES.

The Chicago Exposition will close on the IStli inst, A "WAR of life or death” between Russia and England, “sooner or later,” is predicted by a leading St. Petersburg paper. '1 he excess of exports front the United States over the imports for the year ending August 31,1879, amounted to $289,709,341. The Pennsylvania railroad authori tits have notified then freight crews . that their wages will be increased from and after October Ist. ' The announcement is made that the track in Madison Square Garden, New York, on which the recent pedestrian match look place,. Is short fifty-nine feet four inches on (lie mile. . Most of the troops have been forwarded from the Mexican border to the Ute country and the border is left entirely .unprotected,-and a repetition is feared of the raiding outrages of two years ago. The late international walking mutch netted $39,000 for the walkers, which was divided as follows: Rowell, $19,500; Merritt, $7,312 50; Hazael,s4,192.50; Hart, $2,730; Guyon, $1,950; "Weston, $1,365; Ennis, $1,072.50; ; Krohne, SSS7.SO. ' A sieves mine in Utah was sold at! Chicago the other day for $3,090,000, j

q*iii m nji' rfjp v .jr o' .-<•* J , t*jgj the par value of Its stock being $lO,000,000. The mine was purchased three yean ago by its late owners Cat, $25,000. It# net earnings are reported to be over 4,000 per day. The Bev. George Long, a Missouri Baptist preacher, and Frank Goddy met on a public road, near Springfield, with loaded teams, and as neither would give way to let the other pass, they proceeded to fight it out, during which Long disemboweled his anantagonist. « Five of the Directors who assisted in ruining the Glaeglow (Scotland) bank have been released from prison, tl»eir terms having expired. They were hissed by crowds outside the jail, and they should be /eiy thankful that they were met by nothing more hurtful than hisses. __

The elections just held in Germany indicate an overwhelming victory for the Liberals and a corresponding defeat for Bismarck. In spite of laws which virtually prohibit free discussion of public affaire, the German people have proclaimed themselves in ftivor of progress and against the encroachments of kingly power. Some of the lecture associations of England which paid Rev. Mr.. TBlmage, of New York, from S2OO to SSOO a lecture last Summer, lost money by the speculation, and are not yet done abusing him as an “ illiberal Yankee,” he refusing, in any ease, to reduce the amount agreed upon, aud demanding his pay In advance. The prospect is strengthening that we are to have a bloody war with the Ute Indians of Colorado. United .Slates troops, to te» number of 2,000 or 3,000, moving jorthcrly from Texas and New M«iticc, and southerly from the Union Pacific Railway, are now en route to eugage the hostile savages. Friends of Giant in Philadelphia contemplate * ext?. ding to him an nnique reception, in the shape of the re-assembling in that city of the Centennials Congress of 1876, and some outsiders, and present to him a state paper of July 4th, 1576, which bore the signatures of the administration. It was oii exhibition at the Exposition. Tmi Government Ims begun a war upon (he lottery dealers, which threatens to . seriously interfere with their profits. The Postoffice Department has decided, ami will enforce the decision, that hereafter letters directed to lottery companies or their agents shall not be mailed; also, forbidding the sending of money to lottery companies by postal order or registered letter. The . Chinese authorities have expressed u willingness to have the article in the treaty between China and tile United Status, which citizens of either country the right to reside and trade iu the oth#f abrogated. If this is done this country will have t* e privilege of excluding Chinese and the Chinese will lie at liberty to keep Americans out. of their country. The Chinese government thinks tbeir people cun stand it if ours cau. Such an arragement would greatly please the British pooplc wbocould then monopolize the Chinese trade. The liiigntiofi over tqe immense estate of Brigham Young, the late Chief of the Mormons at Salt Lake. Utah, has been settled by a compromise. The suit was brought against the exdcutors of the estate and the Mor mon Church for the recovery ofsi,ooo,000,alleged to have been fraudulently paid by the executors to the church. The seven mutinous heirs, plaintiffs in the suit,received $56,000 and their lawyers SIB,OOO, and a decree Was entered confirming the acts of the executors in turning over to the church, out ofßrlghim’s property, about $1,000,000 worth of property. The mothers of minor heirs are appointed guardians and trustees, and their proportion of the property set apart for them.

INDIANA STATE ITEMS

The estivated cost of the new bridge ! across the Wabash at Peru is $42,000. I Tin: young ladies of Warsaw and : Kokomo have organized a cooking ' club. I The saiinon'i’lanted three years ago i in the lakes hear Goshen, are being j caught for use. The tobacco crop in Southern Indi- [ aua. has been seriously damaged by the j late heavy rains. Jim Means, of Peru, sold a black, . four-year old horse to Mrs. Lake, Bar- : num’s lady rider, for $260. * , ! The amount of unreported taxable*) ‘ discovered by the experts iu Howard | county, was only $3,G<>9.63. Mr. Peter D. Z.ur.v, a Huntington County farmer, two thousand | bushels of potatoes this year, j A book the .Smith "family, | was arrested iu Richmond, the other | day, on a charge or* attempting to outrage his land-lady, Mrs. Martin. An old lady named Smith was a work in Columbia City, the other day, picking tomatoes, vheu, feeling badly, she went into the house, and expired almost immediately. A jury at South Bend recently, called to determine whether a person charged with being insane was really a ), returned a verdict, “Not insane but possessed of the devil.” A wealthy New Albany merchant offered his son $5,000 for the latter’s promise that he would forever abstain from the use of tobm eo. At last accounts the young man was considerin on it.” “HoosfEß Tom,” a somewhat noted trotting horse, fell dead on the track at the Dunkirk fair. The animal had given uo sigus of being uuwell, and fell dead just as he was being driven up to the score. Pastor Little, of Wabash, married a couple the other day, standing at the gate of his residence, while the twain sat in a buggy, but, sad to relate, the newly made swain drove off without

to Richmond a few days ago and got outl&ndiahly drank. Being in delicate health the Mayor declined to send him to prison In default of paying a fine, fearful that the confinement would kffl him. Wabrkm Tate, the murderer of Wm. Love, at la'fenflk. has paid the widow of his victim $2,500 and released a mortgage of $1,500 on some property owned by Love. In consideration of this Mrs. Love withdraws her salt against Tate for $5,000 for killing her husband. The new oompaay, organised at Evansville, for the purpose of manufacturing iron or steel rails, will soon have tbeir immense rolling mill in good running condition and in operation on double turn. The company have the promise of all the orders they can fill for iron and steel rails. Captain John B. Ford, of Jeffersonville, the inventor and patentee of the new process for manufacturing gas, water and sewer pipes of glass, has organized a company of large capital for the purpose of putting up extensive works for the manufacture of glass pipes. He claims that glass pipes will not cost more than half as much as iron.

A Huntington man got drunk the other day, traded for a mule, and then traded the mule for a bird dog t sold the dog for one dollar, took the money and bought a jug of “forty rod” whisky, took a “pull” therefrom, fell down and broke the jug, and then got kicked out of the saloon. Plymouth Republican: We see that a correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal says the terrible rain in the northern part of Marshall county last Friday night is supposed to have been a water spout. It was nothing of the kind. We saw or heard at least most of that rain, and it was only a steady rain, the water falling as fast for hours as it usually does in heavy rains for a few minntes. Home idea of the quantity of water that fell can be given by stating that a man who had left a barrel standing out reported the water in it the next morning 11J inches deep. Peru Republican : Mrs. Fitzgerald, of Butler township, shot a big horned owl Monday night, and with a revolver, too. The barking of the watch dog aroused her in the middle of the night and, without calling ether members of the family, Mrs. F. seized the revolver and went out of the back door, where she saw a huge owl perched on the hen house intently watching the dog that was trying to get at him. Taking aim she fired aud the owl rolled to the ground to be torn to pieces by the dog. Prowling burglars wouldn't find that a very healthy place.

Tho True Story of “Bobin Adair.”

Newcastle Couraut. The hero of “Robin Adair” was well known in the London fashionable circles of the last century by the sobriquet of the “Fortunate Irishman but his parentage and the exact place of his birth are unknown. He was brought up.as a surgeon, but “his detection in an early amour drove him precipitately from Dublin,” to push his fortunes in England. Hcarcely had he crossed the Channel when the chain of lucky events that ultimately led him to fame and fortune commenced. Near Holyhead, perceiving a carriage overturned. he ran to render assistance. The sole occupant of the vehicle was a “lady of fashioh, well known in polite circles.” who received Adair’s attentions with thanks, and. being lightly hurt, and hearing that be was a surgeon, requested him to travel with her iu her carriage to London. On their arrival in the metropolis she presented him with a fee of 100 guineas, and gave him a general invitation to her house. In after life Adair used to say that it was notjKSo much the amount of this fee, but Che time it was given, that was of service to him, as he was then almost destitute. But the invitation to her house was a still greater service, for there he met the person who decided his bite in life. This was lady Caroline Keppel, daughter of the second Karl of Albemarle and of Lady Ann Lennox, daughter of the first Duke of Richmond. Forgetting her high lineage, Lady Caroline, at the first sight of the Irish surgeon, fell desperately in love with him and her emotions w*cre so sudden and so violent as to attract the general attention of the company. Adair, seeing his ad vantage, lost no time in pursuing it; while the Albemarle and Richmond families were dismayed at the prospect of such a terrible mesalliance. Every means were tried to induce the young ladhv to alter her mind, but without effect. Adair’s biographer tells us that “amusements,” a long journey, an advantageous offer, and other common modes of shaking off what was considered by the family as an improper match, were already tried, but iu vain. The health of Lady Caroline was evidently impaired, and the family at last confessed, with a good sense that reflects honor on their understanding as well as their hearts, that it was possible to prevent, but never to disolve, an attachment; and that marriage was the honorable and, indeed, the only alternative that could secure her happiness and life. When Lady Caroline was taken bv her friends from London to Bath, that she might be separated from her lover, she wrote, it is said, the song of “Robin Adair” and set it to a plaintive Irish tune that she had heard him sing. Whether written by Lady Caroline or not, the song is simply expressive of her feelings at the time; and as it completely corroborates the circumstance just related, which were the town talk of the period, though now little more than family tradition, there can be no doubt that they were the origin of the song.

Deadly Poisons.

It said that the deadliest poisons art* those which cauuot be detected, and there are some so noxious, that a single drop inserted in the veins would produce death in three seconds, yet so subtile that no chemical science can distinguish their presence. Just so may a reputation be slain by the poison of evil speaking, although it be so insiduous, that it utterly escapes detection at the time, but it is sure to produce its results in due time, and contaminate (he finest culture, the beet motives and the purest hearts. A cold wave—Putting aside an jee question. ,

Coming Queens (of Hearts.)

They are both young, spirituolle, blooming, and—were I from across the Atlantic I should say—perfectly lovely. As it is not thought In France consistent with the dignity of ladyhood ft* sovereign belles to suffer their likenesses to be set up to public sale, English professional beauties need not fear an eclipse of their photos in the print-shop windows. The coming Queens made their debut this season in the feshionable world on their wedding days. But as they were married when the Chamber was up, and the salons closed, their royalty h— not yet ooiained its full social recognition. Their Majesties (of Hearts) have all those temporal benedictions which French women, most desire, exeept old names and servants brought up in their own and their husbands' families. Ivy has not yet had time to climb about the palaces they inhabit, nor moss to give verdure to the fountains which play in the marble courts of their dwellings. They, however, may console themselves in surveying stately chambers, veneered all over with the frescoes and wainscoating of ancient chateaux. Our coming Queens (of Hearts) are Mme. Georges Cochery, nee Hunebelle. and Mme. Gaston Menier, nee Rodier. The former is la belle Gabrieile and the latter the no less beauteous Julie. I give the pas to Queen Gabrieile because she is to do the honors next winter at the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs. Were she not, the precedence should be accorded to Queen Julie, who had by six weeks the start in getting married. Comparisons are said to be invidious. Do not believe they are. I, for my part, do not, but then I am, I know, a sad heretic. To compare is to discover contrasts and to give value. What a fearful tiling light would be if shadow did not dog its footsteps, and what a hideous thing is a polar winter when Aurora aud Apollo kept below the horizon? I may. after this short explanation of the heretical view 1 have been propounding, institute a parallel hetween the coining Queens. M, Cochery’s daughter-in-law is taller than M. Emile Menier’s, and might in England be deemed the making of a finer woman. She steps well, bears gracefully the graceless square train, bolds her head nobly, and her bright spirit seems content to be lodged in so fair a body. If she were thin, she would be a no leak admirable lay figure than Bara Bernhardt. But she was nursed on fat kine, and will be under no temptation to muffle up to the throat when called upon to receive company at the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs into which the Grand Hotel will probably be transformed. Pearls would harmonize with the soft neck of Mme. Georges Cochery. Mme. Gaston Menier is a pocket Venus. She is mignonne. Her skin is like alabaster, and Ido not rise aloft from plain prose to to hyberbole when I tell you that her features are delicate and regular, that piquancy is imparted to them by the faintest soupcon of a rstroussee curve in the nose, and that a mouth of the “Cherry Ripe”—as Vestris sang it—character breaks iuto smiles on the smallest provocation. Add to these charms a polished forehead, even and gently-arched - brows, long lashes, sparkling eyes, humid as those of a child in the milk-teeth period, a nicei? finished chiu, aud the neatest little figure in the world, and you may possibly call up before your miud’s eye a vision of Queen Julie. Do not, because I speak of a nicely-formed chin, imagine her face an oval one. Your ovalfaced beauty lias au over-crowded mouth. There is not room iu it for proper detention. If you doubt me, ask a dentist before you prouounce against me. Now Mme. Gaston Me-, mer’s thirty-two pearls are set with beautiflil evenness, from which you may draw the conclusion that her face is not ot the egg-sbape. I have often seen girls on the Prado in Madrid of her figure. She can boast of the neat wrists and ankles of a Spanish belle, the sparkle and the movement. Diamonds will become her, and she will have plenty of opportunities to wear them There was a dazzling show of these jewels in her corbeille de manage. At a ball last Spriug I was Queen Julie dance in a cotillion, and momentarily expected to see a goat with gilded horns and hoofs approach her. She held a tambourine aloft, and looked the picture of Esmeralda in “Notre Dame de Paris.” Queen Gabrieile is much more repose. It is said that she has made a love-match, for, though his expectations are great, M. Georges Cochery is, compared to here, no Croesus. M. Huunebelle, her father, owns as mauy streets in Chaillot as the Blessington family poeessed streets in Dubiiu; and that quarter of Paris is now a kind of French Belgravia. Where formerly the Chateau des Fleurs resounded to the noise of wild mirth and (lance-music, there are Rues Galilee r Kepler, Newton, Copernic, and so on inhabited by wealthy foreigners who hire expensive dwellings of the opulent M. Hunnebelle. The estate of this gentleman extended far west,Trocaderoward, in the parish of St. Pierre d« Chaillot. where Queen Gadrielle’s wedding took Diace. The little church of St. Pierre was not large enough to accommodate those who were invited, but the triends and acquaintances who were obliged to stand outside were at a reception at M. Hunnebelle’s town mansion and had an opportunity to obtain a close sight of the bride, and to shake hands with her aud besmiled on by her. .

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thumb at Home.

The Rev. W. H. Adams, of Massachusetts, has written a letter discribing a visit to the home, near Middleboro, Mass., of the world renowned dwarfs, General and Mrs. Tom Thumb, in whLh he says: “The public are not admitted to their sumptuous home. Only a few favored friends, who its proprietors are con Aden twill appreciate the privilege, are reoeived. 11 is a three story wooden mansion, tastefully painted, with piazzas and bay windows commanding an extensive view of variegated scenery, with dome and spires of Middleboro in the distance, and having the air of luxury. A Scotch maid announced us, who subsequently told one of the ladies that they could not help loving Mr.‘and Mr. Stratton who were always kind and seeking to make them happy, The General gave us a hearty welcome and ushered us into an elegant drawing-room adorned with Italian and Chinese paintings and a portrait of his father, who died some years since at Bridgeport, Conn., where the family still reside. On the ma ble center-table lays a large family Bible alone. Chairs and sofas were all adapted to persons of ordinary size, and nothing in this story of the mansion suggested Its owner’s wee-ness, save in the library, replete With brie-a-brac and articles or virtu re from all the world, souvenirs of travel where a child’s rocking-chair of block walnut received the little Madame, while her

w from a M—nnif apron a hundred years old to an elephant carved from a tuss, but those tusks, alone of the whole animal, were not of ivory, but of brass. To a curiously-carved walking stick surmounted by a long-bearded bead with great glass eyes they have given the name of ‘David’ from a fancied resemblance to the sweet psalfoist of Israel. Mrs. Stratton, pointing to an elegantly carved set of East India chess-man, remarked her fondness for the gams, and (archly and with the General’s goodhumored response) her husband's dislike, because, ‘modestly I say it, I always beat him.’ could well appreciate her assertion ‘that the General and she had always got along well together.’ He is forty yean okl, and four years her senior. He now weighs seventy-five pounds, having weighed fifty pounds at fifteen years of age. ‘But,’ said he, ‘I began life a good big boy ofsix pounds.’ Going upstairs we fefPinclined to be so unmannerly as to take two steps at a time, for the stairs of both flights seemed but four or live inches in height; but we were not so exalted above measure as thus to indicate our own pedal superiority. At the head of the first flight, in the sewing room, stood the diminutive Wheeler and Wilson sewing machjng, a wedding present, fifteen years ago, from that firm, who at their own expense caused this exquisitely pearl inlaid plaything to precede the little travelers in every land they visited around the Slobe. It is a plaything in size alone, Irs. Stratton making it do good service to the present day. In the front entry over the entrance was the General’s grand piano, about two feet high, one of his pastor’s fingers strikiug three of the keys at ouce, aud with difficulty covering only one. It was made in England, and cost SSOO, being inlaid in pearl and richly gilded ami enameled. But the General was 'out of practice;’ indeed, ‘had given up playing altogether.’ “Perhaps our greatest treat was the inspection of their own apartment. Here were the Penates. Admitted iuto the penetralia, we may be permitted to write that here every thing is adapted to themselves alone. Bureau, cabinet, dressing taLlo, # ofa, chairs and bed were all diminutive; the last elaborately carved from ebony, and richly canopied in damask and lace, a gift from bis father.”

An Arkansas Romance.

Little Rock Gazette. About twenty miles from Waldron there lives au old man named Wayne. Aside from a hale, old style wife, there belongs to the family a beautiful girl named Lulu. A few months ago, while the old man and lady were away from bome a young Indian named Warn bo called at the bouse aud asked for a drink of water. Lulu invited him into the house, Where be remained in conversation some time after he had received the aqueous fluid. The Indian had been well educated, and his handsome face and manly form immediately awakened within Lulu’s bosom a sentimental interest, wnile Warn bo was pierced, as though by an arrow of his aneient fathers, with a thrill of love. He pressed the maiden’s hand when he left, and said that he would return. True to his promise, he returned on the following Suuday. The old lady and gentleman had gone to church. Another conversation ensued, aud when the Indian left he pressed the maiden’s hand with even more ardor than had characterized his first visit. This time he-did not leave without remarking that he would return. A week elapsed before the girl saw him again. This time the old people were at home, and though the girl had not spoken to her pareuts in regard to the Indian, suspicion was immediately awakened. However, the Indian and the girl spoke to each other sentimentally ; so much so that an engagement of marriage was the result, the young Indian promising to come after the girl on the following night. The girl knew her father would be bitterly opposed to the union, and warned her lover. Next night, while the moon was shining, while the foliage was waving, the feet of the Indian brushed the dew from the grass. On his shoulder he bore a light ladder. Placing the ladder on the ground, he ascended to a window and peered into a room. In another instant he was tumbling to the ground. The old gentleman had discovered the plot, and arming himself with a club, stood at the window. The Indian was not very badly hurt and he had not much more than gained his feet when the girl rushed from a down stairs room and joined him. Then the two began a flight through the woods, arnoug the brushes, over the rocks. Afraid to shoot, the old man ran as rapidly as his long used legs would allow him. In attempting to climb a ledge of rocks the young lady’s dress caught and held her fasjb. In trembling haste the lover tried to disengage her, but the old gentleman was upon them. “If you love me, leave!” said the Kiri, The Indian dashed away, and in another moment the girl’a father stood beside her. She was marched back home. She is still there, but the young Indian, by no means slow, may make an outbreak atmiy moment.

Persiflage.

“It is easier to raise a beard than to raise a dime,” said a young Oil Citizen who has stopped shaving. “A fraud in silks,” is the startling head line in an exchange. Ah! went back on you did she?—Rockland Courier. “We wish,” says a Texas newspaper, “that a few of our citizens could be Sermited to live till they die a natural eatb, so as to show the world what a healthy country Texas really is.” The Bloomington Eye heads its list of births, marriages, and deaths; — “Hatched, Matched, aud Dispatched.” “Half a loaf is better than none,” as the corner loafer said to the policeman, when told to move on. “How dare you swear before me?” asked a man of his son, recently. “How did I know you wanted to swear first?” said the spoiled urchin. Letter from a boy spending his vacation in the country: “We dug a woodchuck out of his hole; it was a skunk; we slept in the barn that night.” A woman was told to “make oath” in a New Haven court. She blushingly said “Damm it,” and protested against the regor of legal necessity. Formerly here were foolish virgins who had no oil; but now they are the foolish virgins who are too free with the kerosene.—Puck. tTHE Philadelphia Press reports that he Rev. A. A. Wlllits is a good shot and tells this story about him: A Quaker who met him as he returned from the field with his game bag well filled, said to him in an admonitory ‘‘Friend Wlllits. It seems to me a bird has a right to live till its time bakcome to die.” The doctor replied: r you a ft d 1 ‘‘P B * perfectly, for I find that generally when I get my gun trained on a bird his time to die has come.”

Read! f “Wen Jorg Washington wuz at Vale For < hiz troopz wurln ned ov kiothing and liker. It wuz vere kold wether and fu ov them had shuz on ther set. But Jorg Washington's kurig never laid, and at last Kongress sent him supliz, and he catcht the eneme feur to Nu Jerze, and wipt him at the batel ov Trenton.” That’ll do beys. -Run out new and play.— Philadelphia Bulletin.

A Romantic Wedding.

Pittsburg Dispatch. A few days ago the notice of the marriage of a prominent young Pittsburg artist to the daughter ofa well-known iion merchant appeared in ail the city papers, and the statement was made that the couple had gone to New York on a bridal tour. .Nothing further was said about the marriage at the time, bat there is a little romance connected with it worthy of notice. About the Ist of July the artist met the young lady who afterwards became his wife, in the neighborhood of Emsworth. She was highly accomplished, belonging to a good family, and was very pretty, being a tall, brightlooking blonde. The friendship or the pai broadened into love, and the artist went down the Ohio river to the iron mill where the youug lady’s father is in business, and he laid the case before him. For some reasoathe father would not listen to the lover, and finally turned him out of the office and ordered him to never call at his house or speak to his daughter again. He would give no reason for this action, but it is said the youug lady was engaged*to a clergyman, whom she did not love, but who was a great favorite with her parents. The young lady told her father and mother that she intended to marry the artist, and they said that if she did so she must leave their roof forever, aud not to take any of her belongings with her. Accordingly she went to the home of her lover’s mother, the latter being a very wealthy widow. The young lady left all her jewelry, clothing, ect., behind her and took nothing but the costume she wore, and eveu this was sent back when her mother-iu-law had provided her with an outfit. The wedding was a quiet one, at the home of the groom’s mother, and the bride was given a number of presents, among them being au elegant set of diamonds and several other articles of jewelry, which wer# given by the young husband’s mother. The bride also was given a superb wardrobe by her husband. It is said the couple will reside permanently in New York.

The Romance of a Lost Hoiress.

(Saturday Night. There is an estate worth over SIOO,000 awaiting Rosa Dietehe, of Rosa Noll, and a reward of SI,OOO is offered information that will lead to her discovery, by Mr. Dietehe, who is making au industrious search for the lost heiress. The story is quite romantic atid Interesting. About twenty-live years ago the Dietehe from Baden, Germany arrived in New York. The family scattered and one of the girls Rosa, shortly afterward married Henry Noll, iu Syracuse. After becoming the father of one child, Catherine Noll, he deserted his wife aud went to'‘Chicago from Westport, where the family then lived. Mrs Noll, three years afterwiad returned to Syracuse aud found employment iu the family of Dr. Blanchard Fisgage. This is as far as she has been traced. It has been ascertained that after the separation Henry Noll proceeded to Chicago, and by hard laltor and frugal habits amossiki a large fortune. Ten or twenty years since he was taken sick, and after a lingering illiness, died. On his death bed he repented ofhfc unfaithful conduct towards his youug spouse, and willed her his vast estate, amounting to SBO,OOO. This will was admitted to probate and during this long period of time has never been claimed by tho legatee. The interest accruing has swelled the amount until it has reached the handsome sum of $160,000 aud upwards. The gentleman who was iu search of Mrs Noll is an own brother. He says his sister is now over forty-five years of age, and the daughter about twentyfour. Mrs. Npll’s personal appearance is described as follows: Tall in stature, blue eyes, dark brown hair; and prepossessing countenance. * J

Human Sacrifices in India.

The British Government has at last succeeded in putting down the secret society of religious murderers in India caliedThugs, who. in the servise of their Soddess Doorga, strangled and plunered travelers. The laborious process of hunting them out occupied thirty years, and it is only lately that some of the miscreants were brought before the Prince of Wales, one of whom boasted of having committed murders with his own hand. The god Juggernaut is no longer suffered by the government to crush the devotees who fling themselves under his chariot wheels. It is not long since a host of human sacrifices were offered by certain non-Brahinin tribes; the village were this took place used to purchase for the purpose men, womed and cheldren, the so-called Meriahs. British officers have had the difficult task of effecting the deliverance of these Meriahs and the suppression of the sacrifices, partly by force and partly by gentle means. A single officer, Major Campbell in the course of eighteen years, according to the Contemporary Review, rescued 1,500 men doomed to the sacrificial death. It requires watchfulness and energy of of the British Officials to put down the practice of Suttee, and the allowing widows to marry again were an attack on the Brahmist religious system, and reckoned among the pretexts for the Sepoy mutiny. The value of human life is to a Hindoo infinitely below that of a cow; he would rather kill ten men than injure one cow.

A Herculean Negr.

A negro named Elijah, who died some time ago at Oxford, North Carolina, was famous throughout that whole region for his amazing strength. He was six feet four inches high, and weighed 230 pounds. He cotud take up a barrel containing thirty or forty gallons, stand erect apd hold the bung to his mouth and drink out of it* he could throw an ordinary sized anvil twenty-five yards; he * could “puli do wn” four men with ah&ndspike atone time; he could shoulder and carry a log that would make seventy-five or a hundred rails; and could lift a threeyear old colt over an eight-rail fence. He once killed a deer on Maysfleld’s mountian with a rock, oyerlook and dispatched a black bear with an ax, and caught and hamstrung a ferocious bull.

A Denominational Joke. A party of Baptist clergymen were blue-fishing off" Martha’s Vineyard the other day. A question arose as to whether a certain specimen was really a blue-fish. “We call ’em Baptists/’ said a native fisherman. The Baptist clergymen rather eagerly asked why. “Case they spile so soon arter they're taken out o’ the water.” Cincinnati for the National Conventions.

AGRICULTURAL.

All lands on which clover or grasses are grown must either have Sme iu them naturally, or that mineral must be artificially supplied in the form of . stone lime, oyster lime, or marl. Senator Brace (colored), of Mississippi, has bought IO,OQO acres of land In Kansas, and will settle there as soon as his present term as United States Senator from Mississippi «rplwi«. In Greece sheep and goats are daily animals. There are 23,000,000 sheep apd 1,836,000 goats, and the average product of cheese from leach animal is eleven pounds; butter, two and thjreefourth pounds. J Western Newjfork and Ontario are beginning to ship apples to Europe by way of Montreal. The few shim men is already made turned out well, and a large business Is anticipated. Advices from Liverpool are enoouraging. Mold is indispensable In every soil, and a healthy supply can alone be preserved throughf the cultivation of Clover and grasses by the turning in of gresn crops, or by the application of composts rich in the elements of mold. fallow plowing operates to impoverish the soil, while it decreases production. Suhsoiling sound land, that is not wet, is also eminently conductive to increased production. Deep plowing greatly improves the productive powers of every variety of soil that is not wet. The ladv grape, one of several white sorts raised from the Concord, has gained enthusiastic praise from ai> extensive cultivator near Berlin, Prussia, on account of its earliness. fine flavor, vigorous growth and health of vine. He reports that out of some 350 varieties cultivated the lady grape is ahead of them all. Sweet eorn is much better than the field sorts to grow a? fodder. The stalks are sweeter as well as the grainr It should not, however, be sown. Grown iu close, compact masses, excluding the light, the stalks possess little value and will not be relished. The better way is to drill widely apart, so as to give room for the cultivator to work Itetween the rows. Than cut as the ears are beginning to form.- Sweet com is more difficult to cure; but this is not its best use. Enough should be sown for feed in August and September for the cows, and if grown as directed above it will not disappoint. reasonable expectations. - A method in practice among tbebest butter makers in England, for rendering butter firm and solid during hot weather, is as follows: Carbonate ot soda ana alum are used for tbs purpose, made into powder. For twenty pounds of butter, one teaspoouful of soda and alum are mingled together at the time of churning, and put into the cream. The effect of this powder is to make the butter come firm and solid, aud to give it a clean, sweet, flavor. It does not enter iuto the butter, but its action is upon the cream, and it passes oft with the buttermilk. The ingredients of tiie powder should not be mingled together until required to be used,’or at the time the cream is in the chum ready for churning.

The Jewess Queen of the English Society.

The death of the lady whose pleasure it was to be known from the title of the second of her four husbands,as Frances Countess Waldegrave, removes a conspicuous figure from English society. The daughter of John Braham, the vocalist, whose real name was Abraham, her life was a succession of social con3uests, It illustrates strikingly the octrine of the closing essay in Geo. Eliot'S last volume. TheophrastusHuch might have appealed to her career and position as a proof of the intellectual power of the Jews, and their capacity of ’ becoming masters in tlie communities in which but lately they were despised and proscribed outlaws. Iu politics, in finance, in journalism, in society, the Jews are playing the princi- 1 pal parts. A Jew Is Prime Minister; * a Jewish house controls in a great degree the political finance of the couiP try; a family of Jews are the proprietors and managers of the most largely circulated and, for its own purposes, the most skilfully conducted newspaper in England or perhaps in the world. A Jewish girl, the daughter of a public ballet singer, became a sort of mistress of society, rebuffing or admitting to her favor some of the haughtiest and most squeamish members of our old nobility. Lady Waldegrave’s receptions in Carlton House Garden and her hospitalities at Strawberry Hill has often been described. The marriage of a niece of Horace Walpole's with the Lord Waldegrave, who wtw “Governor” of George 111 when Prince of Wales, and afterward Prime Minister of George 11, brought the celebrated Twickenham House into the family of the late Lady Waldegrave’s first and second husbands. With all their property left away from their own family, to whom nothing has descended but a poverty Earldom, it became hers in full possession.* The report is tliat by death of her present husband, Lord Carlingford, who, as Chichester Fortesque, was a member of Mr. Gladstone’s Cabinet; and had a large share in the preparation and carrying out of the great Irish measures ol the Government. Bold and adventurous, generous, frank and kindly, a mistress of the arts of management. Lady Waldegrave’s career, if ever it be fully recorded, will be as strange and piquant a story as the political romance of Lord Beacon field’s life. Though belonging to opposite sides in politics, . their sympathy was strong, and Lord Beacon field was a frequent guest at Strawberry Hill. Indeed, the way in which the Jews hold together and play into each other’s bands while playing on society is remarkable. Minister, financier and journalist understands each other and work together. ,

Heaviest, Tallest, and Oldest Men

Chicago Journal: The tallest men of whom record is made were a German named Hans Bar and a Hungarian soldier, name not given, who lived several centuries ago, each of them being eleven feet hign; their weight is not known. The heaviest man of whom record is made was Miles Darden, the Tennessee giant, who was seven and one-half feet high and weighed over one thousand pounds: he died in 1857. Daniel Lambert, the English “mass of flesh” was five feet and eleven inches Jin height, and weighedeseven hundred and thirtynine pounds. In 1565 there was buried at Bengal, India, a man named Cugu*» who claimed to be three hundred ana fifty years of age. The oldeetpe&o who died during thejpre?®”* was a Frenchman In Part*;*** . «- . Golem beski, who *35 °° A man nained iSr who claimed to be one hundred and Mixteen years old. * Thebs was no horse-racing at the UllnoisState Fair this year/and yet, with one exception, It was the most successful exhibition ever held in the State.