Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION- , JAKES A HEALEY, Proprietor*. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA.

General News Summary.

FHon WASHINGTON. Attt.-Gzn. Williams on the 22d tendered and the "President accepted his resignation, to take effect on the 15th of May. The President has emphatically denied the truth of the statement that h« bad requested the resignation of Secretary Delano. It Was thought in Washington on the 23d that the latter would soon resign, as he had intended doing so for some time, but had held on at the request of the President A dangerous counterfeit five-dollar note on the First National Bank of Paxton, 111., has been discovered in Washington. Further investigation into the mail-con-tract frauds has led to the discovery of other fraudulent bids. About six clerks had been discharged up to the 2Sd for complicity In these frauds, and it was understood that a dozen more were implicated. President Grant has assigned Dr. Lindernian, the Director of the Mint, to make the examination ordered by Congress as to what point in the Western States and Mississippi Valley possesses the best advantages for a mint. The investigation will b* made during Uie coming summer. A Washington telegram of the 24th announces that the Spanish Government had paid $45,000 of the SBO,OOO agreed upon on account of the Virginius affair.

THE EAST. Thk United States Centennial Board of Finance cautions the public against counterfeit medals in commemoration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. They have had prepared at th« United States mint, under special act of Congress, a series of medals with appropriate devices, emblems and inscriptions, and which are the only medals officially issued relating to the great events of 1876, the larger ones hiving stamped upon them, “Act of Congress, June, 1874,” and the others, “By authority of the Congress of the United Btates.” These official medals are of four kinds—small gilt at one dollar; large bronze at two dollars; coin silver at three dollars; large gilt at flvedollurs; or all inclosed in one case at eleven dollars. They are now being sold by the Centennial Board of Finance and its agents, and the profits arising therefrom arc strictly applied In aid Of the preparation for the celebration of the anniversary which the medals commemorate. The election for Sachem of the New York Tammany Society has resulted in the "triumph of John Kelley by a vote of 857 to 5 for Comptroller Andrew H. Green. Mr. Beecher’s cross-examination was concluded on the 21st. His explanations did not materially differ from those made by him in his direct testimony. After a brief redirect examination Mr. Beecher left the stand, and the defense called Samuel White Partridge, formerly cashier for the house of Woodrufi A Robinson, who' identified * check for $7,000 drawn by Mr. Bowen in June, 1872, and deposited with that Arm. He was shown a slip of paper, which he identified as one accompanying the check, and which reads as follows: “ Bpoils of new friends fqr the enrichment of the old.’"’ was made to the admission of the slip, and Mr. Evarts said he would prove that it was In Mr. Tilton’s handwriting. The Judge decided it might be read in evidence. Charles A. Dana, who was arrested upon an attachment issued by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, for libel, has been discharged by Judge Blatchford, of the United States District Court in New York John Harper, semormember of the firm of Harper Bros., publisher, died in New York on.the 22d, in the seventy-niuth year of his age.

Thb cross-examination of Mr. Cleveland was concluded on the 33d, and Mr. Moulton was called to the stand for further cross-ex- 1 animation. He denied that he had ever said j to Mr. Partridge (as the Utter testified in his evidence) that Mr. Tilton "had written the life j of Mrs. Woodhull t&p'ut himself at the head of the Spiritualists of the country, as there were ; more Spiritualists than Congregationalists; he had, however, told Mr. Partridge that the Spiritualists of the country outnumbered the Congregationalists. Mr. Partridge wa» recalled and reaffirmed his former statement on this point, saying in his cross-exami-nation that the conversation occurred shortly after the publication of the pamphlet, A tekriblb tragedy is reported from New Tork. James Laflferty, of Rockville, Allegany County, killed his grandmother and robbed her house; subsequently he shot Miss Van Nay, who had refused to marry him, her mother, and then killed himself. The New York Union League Club-House was partially destroyed by fire on the morning of the 35th. Daniel O’Lbart, the Chicago pedestrian, recently walked. 116 miles in twenty-threq, hours and eight minutes, in New-York city, beating the best time on record. Gold closed in New Ydrk on the 94th at The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 3 Chicago Spring Wheat, $1.21; No. 2 Milwaukee. $1.22 @1.23; No. 2 Northwestern, [email protected]; 8ar1ey,51.4501.50; Oats, Western Mixed.TC @7sc; Com, Western Mixed, 9>094c; Pdrlif New Mess, Dressed Hogs, 10010 Lard, 155£@15>£c. Flour, good to choice, •$5.3005-50; White Winter Extra, $5.6006.40. The cattle market was strong and active, ranging from 11c to ISJfc for common to extra. Sheep, clipped, brought 4J 4 '(d6)ac, sad unshorn There were no live hogs offered. At East Liberty, Pa., on the 24th, cattle brought: Best, $6.5007.50; good, $6,000 6.25; common, $4.5005.20. Hogs sold— Yorkers, [email protected]; Phiiadclphias, £9.000 $.25. Sheep brought $4.6007.50 according to quality.

THE WEST. Advices from Kansas City, Mo., state that four soldiers were corraled by Cheyenne Indians twenty miles south of Fort Wallace, Kan., on the 15th, and a bloody fight ensued in which ten Indians were killed. The soldiers finally escaped in the darkness. A general war is pronounced imminent Gov. Bbvkbidge, of Illinois, has signed the so-called “ Anti-Scalpers’ ” bill, and it goes Into effect July 1. The law provides that daemons dealing in tickets shall hare m certificate signed by the officers of all railroads whose tickets they sell, and that if any person shall sell tickets without such authority he shall be fined not exceeding 1500,

and Imprisoned not exceeding one year, either or both. It also requires railroad companies to redeem pro rota any unused portion of any ticket, and punishes by flna and Imprisonment failure to do so. Szcond-Adventists to the number of one hundred or more, under the lead of Elder Thurman, of Boston, who claimed to, be a prophet and had predicted the second com- ! ing of Christ on the night of the 19th, assemI bled in Chicago on the evening of that day to await the fulfillment of the prophecy. It is said many of them had disposed of all their worldly possessions by giving them away, so conti- • dent were they of the near approach of the reign of Christ on earth. Their prophets now claim that an error in their calculations had anticipated ths event by a period of forty-nine years. Th* Chicago Inter-Ocean of April 23 publishes reports from different sections of the i country, Indicating that the wheat crop in 1 Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri am’. Tcn- | ncssee will be less than an average, while in i Southern Illinois, Wisconsin ami Minnesota ' the yield promised to be large. The i cotton and tobacco plants in Tennes- ! see, South Carolina and Virginia had : been injured by frost, and in those'States, as i well as Ohio, Indiana and Missouri, the fruit j crop will be essentially a failure. The great j fruit regions of Southern Illinois and Western Michigan have also suffered, and the | yield of peaches, pears, apples and berries ' will bo small. Oats and clover have been ! damaged in some localities. A Topbka (Kan.) special of the 22d says : seventy-five of the Indians who escaped fi-awl | the Cheyenne Agency had returned, and more would follow. They were nearly starved I to death.

A Kansas City (Mo.) telegram of the 23d says.the grasshoppers were eating up everything in the localities In that vicinity visited by them in tlie latter part of last season. They are also reported to be making their appearance in large numbers in many parts of Minnesota and Kansas. Official returns from all the counties in Michigan except Schoolcraft, Houghton and Chippewa give Marston (Rep.) for Judge of the Supreme Court a majority of 25,428. A call has been Issued by the Michigan Prohibition Central Committee for a convention to meet at Lansing on the 11th of May. * At an election recently held In Chicago z majority of the votes polled were in favor of reorganizing government under the provisions of the General Incorporation act of 1872. Minority representation was defeated by a large majoif ty. The Citizens’ Association will contest tlie election on the ground of fraudulent voting. Nzak Monument, Kan., on the 23d, Lieut. Hindley, with a company of United States troops, attacked a band of Cheyenne Indians, and, after a running tight of two hours, dispersed them, killing twenty-seven and capturing over 100 ponies. Lieut. Papier and Private Treras fellin the engagement, being fatally wounded. Thirty-three Indians escaped, and it was feared that they would return and inflict vengeance on innoeent settlers. Arthur B. Barrett, the recently-elected Mayor of St. Louis, died on the 2tth, after u brief illness. In Chicago, on the 24th, spring wheat, No. 2, was weaker, closing at sl.ol}£@l.o2 cash. Cash corn closed at 73c for new No. 2 and 70Yc for rejected. Cash oats sold at 61)V@6151c; June options were sold at 61®£c. Rye brought [email protected]. Barley, No. 2, $1.24(2! 1.25. Cash mess pork closed at $21.90(222.00. Lard, [email protected]. Choice to extra graded steers brought $6.60 to s6.S7>*; prime to choice native stock, $5.50(« C<..50 ; Texans, [email protected]; scalawags, $2.75(2.2.7.5. Hogs brought $7.70(38.00 for good to choice, and for extra.

THE SOUTH. Thb majority report of the Louisiana House Committee on Elections, deciding four Conservatives entitled to seats occupied by four Republicans, was adopted on the 20th by a vote of sixty t<sthirty-two. Impeachment resolutions against StateAuditor Clinton for high crimes and misdemeanors in office were passed by the Louisiana House on the 21st by a vote of 73 to 21. A New Orleans dispatch of that date says the Republicans claimed that the action of the Democrats in unseating four Republicans and seating four Democrats in their places was a gross broach of the plighted faith of the Democratic, party, and Messrs. Wheeler and Frye, of the Congressional Committee, lsad expressed the opinion that the four unseated members were to retain their seats under the Wheeler compromise. . Tub Louisiana Senate on the 22d voted—--23 to 10—to take up the Clinton impeachment resolution, and after passing the same to a second reading resolved itself into a : court of impeachment for the trial of the Auditor on the charges preferred against him ; by the House. The House passed a joint ! resolution to extend the extra Session to i May 5. Thb steamer John Kyle, Vhile lying at her dock at New Orleans on the 2Sd, caught Arc : and was turned adrift She floated toward two ; other steamers, the Exporter and Bodman, which were also cut adrift to avoid the burning ; vessel, but they came together, and were all | consumed. Many persons had collected on the decks of the Exporter and Bodman to witness the conflagration, and of them fyom ’ twenty to one hundred perished. The Louisiana Legislature adjourned sine | die on the 24th. In the Senate the resolutkion suspending Auditor Clinton from office fUjr** postponed to 1876.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. A St.Petersbcro correspondent, in a letter j published in the London Daily AVw* on the ! morning of the 21st, says a plot had been discovered in Khiva for the massacre of all i the Russians in the Khanate. The Emir of ! Afghanistan had been accused of complicity j In the conspiracy. The Presidentof the French Geographical Society has handed Minister Washburne the gold medal presented by. the society to the , family of the lateCapL Hall, in commemo- : oration of his exploits as an Arctic explorer. Tex men are on trial-in the City of Mexieo charged with burying three men alive, leav- ; ing only their heads above ground, and then ; dispatching them with hatchets and knives after prolonged torture. i A motion by Dr. Kenealy in the British ; House of Commons, on the 28d, for the appointment of a royal commission to investigate the circumstances attending the Tichborne trial elicited an exciting debate, and was then rejected by a vote of 433 noes to one aye. The police authorities of Posen have notified all Ursuline Sisters in that district who are not natives of Germany that they must leave the country within two months.

Our import Trade—Interesting Statistics.

- Washington, April 14. The annual report qf the Bureau of Statistics and Commerce contains some very interesting information: The following summary relates to our Imports, which, in the aggregate, amounted to nearly $600,000,000 for the fiscal year 1874: WHAT V»R FAT FOR PERSONAL DRESS. For hats, bonnets'and hoods, and for trimmings for. these articles, we paid In the last fiscal year $1,574,800, and on the same articles was pitid $528,606 for duties, which will swell their first cost to ovef $2,000,(XX). But that is not all we paid for adorning and protecting i our heads. Feathers and artificial flowers cost us $3,815,098. For human hair and articles manufactured from it. such as wigs, ! curls and ringlets, we paid $1,117,945, and for hair pins, with which to give it pose and effect, $06,480. Adding these item* together we have $6,683,0)8, which represents the original cost of merchandise purchased ivy the people of the United States during the ; twelve months ending June. 30, 1874, for adorning tlie head alone, and in that sum is not included the, value of ribbons, which form a conspicuous part of the bead-gear <sf our fashionable ladies. To cover our hands ' with gloves, mitts and mittens cost us $4,972,068, and for. the privilege of carrying fans we paid $464,430. which does not include the refreshing palm-leaf, of which we imported 70,131 dozens, at an expense of $.8,029. For our handkerchiefs, hemmed and hemstitched, we paid $393,072. and for perfumery, cosmetics and dentifrices $251,182. Our combs cost n« $327,'223. The cost of i umbrellas, parasols and sunshades ran up to $267,975, and $1,513,836 was paid for our pocket knives. Many ladies will be surprised to learn that 165,971 dozen corsets, valued at $1,255,5 >9, had to tie imported to add to their , symmetry and grace. Tlie importation of a few additional dozens would lie equal to one 1 corset for every woman in the State of New York, according to the census of 1870. It required a larger expenditure of money to cover our pedal extremities than to cbver and adorn our heads, $7,347,347 being the amount paid for hosiery, and that does not include the e-Ost of garters. This hosiery is classified as follows: Cotton, $6,408,876; , wool, 218,924 pounds, valued at $768,784; silk, $169,687. Considering the quantities of enamel to be seen on sale in our fancy stores, adorned with labels certifying their roreign origin, we ! get that article very cheap, as $207 was a sum sufficient to pay for all 1 the enamel Imported in 1874. Whether the enamel thus returned as imported was | for purposes of personal adornment or for j use in tlie mechanic arts' the report does not I state. For the ready-made clothing imported We expended $1,990,029. which does Dot, ! offetnirsc,embrace the clothing smuggled in I by tourists returning home. Our apprecial tion for buttons is illustrated by the fact i that we expended for those little articles : $2,281,590. Our cotton laces, trimmings, and | gimps cost $3,463,895; thread laces and ,lii- | sorting?, $33,862; epaulets, luces, tassels, and ! other articles made of gold and silver, $102,444; embroidejjes of cotton, wool, linen, and silk, $3,837,539; velvet, velveteens and braid--1 ings, $1,758,977; furs dressed and undressed,. $3,139,100. For braid, laces, fringes and gal- | loons, made of silk, we expended $2,678,274, I and for silk ribbons we were required to pay ! $6,695,218, of which sum the United States j received for duties the,sum of $2,321,015, being about 60 percent of the importers’ valuation of the ribbons,

THE COST. OF DHHM fiMIW. We paid for dress and piece goods made of silk £16,494,554, which is about equal to the sum paid for importations of wines and spirits; for silk velvets we paid $1,705,583; silk goods and goods mixed with silk, not otherwise specified, £10,491,078; silk and india-rubber goods, £273,737. The total value of our silk importations was $39,496,985, and that, it must be remembered, merely represents Hie cost of the merchandise delivered on our docks with the freight unpaid. In piece-goods made of wool we received 70,581,408 square yards, for which we paid, including duties, $35,372,764, an average cost of fifty cents in gold per square yard. Of piece-goods manufactured of cotton we imported 49,107,047 square yards, worth 6,939,864, to which add £4,457,325 paid for duties and the list is swelled to £11,397,189. The quantity of piece-goods imported manufactured of wool and cotton, joined together, would cover a surface of thirty-nine square miles. For cotton goods not otherwise specified we paid $8,299'984, and for 13,026pound# of wool Balmorals,. £16,483. SHAWLS, DIAMONDS AND JEWELRY. For 682,525 poinds of wool shawls we paid £3,380.978, and 364 silk shawls cost us $14,290, or ahput £4O for each shawl. Webbing, belting, binding, braids and buttons manufactured of wool were valued at $1,668,289, and goods manufactured from flax, jute or hemp foot up $14,405,873. To cover our floors with foreign carpets cost. £6,172,564, while our beds were supplied with foreign blankets for the sum of £9,256. In the way of watches and jewelry we encouraged the foreign manufacturers to the extent of £2,583,875,; imitations of jet, $3J9,041; bogus jewelry, s.Bsff,Bo3, and coral, £36,5116. To adorn ourselves with diamonds, cameos, mosaics aud other precious stones we paid $3,837,539. All the values here given include the amounts paid the United States for customs duties, save, in a few instances in whltli the amount paid for duties is separately stated. Freight and other expenses incidental to sea transportation are not included.

OTHER ARTICLES. -l A few other articles may be mentioned which will prove of interest. While not articles of dress or ornament, most of theny are nearly allied Njo %eh articles. Some of them for our attfusement, a few are articles of utility, and several are medicines and drugs, Beginning with small articles, we find"that to'import, quill toothpicks we have to pay $18,630, and for musical instruments $1,123,814. The 31,291 packs of playing-cards imported were invoiced at $5,733, and for the privilege of shuffling and dealing them we had to pay the United States $7,359 duties, thus requiring an ante of $13,122 before we “cut” our cards of foreign manufacture. The first cost of our import ed dall-babies was $555,409, that of our Christmas toys $616,057, while our Bologna sausage only cost $167,673, and our sauerkraut only $8,875. For empty skins, into which we stuffed our own Bologna before consuming it, wc had to pay $92,799. Wc broke 7,519,803 dozen of for-eign-laid eggs, for which we had to pay $717,860. For fireworks we expended $4,149, and for 155,25& boxes of Chinese fire-crackers we paid the heathen manufacturers $125,783, and to the United States the sum of $155,396 in duties, thus making the original cost of annually celebrating our natal day in that class of pyrotechnics focrt up $281,179. For every pack of tire-crackers exploded by Young America the Government of the United States exacts cents. For bladders we paid $10,500; Skeletons and other preparations of anatomy, 53.545: and for sinews and nerves. $5,820.' Of metallic pens, we received 504.394 gross, $166,971, and wood leadpencils. 61,450 gross, for which we paid $167,812. There was imported 2,729,483 pounds of Castile soap, at an expense of $234,194, and 200,167 pounds of perfumed toilet-soap at a cost of $166,658. For green fruits from the tropics and for nuts we paid $4,300,350, and for olive and salad oil 6 $448,314. For 1.122,632 pounds of iudigo we paid $967,954, and for 4,644 ounces of "musk and civet $33,145. For the benefit of apothecaries we sent abroad for the following quantities and values of physic: Arsenic, 1,636,335 pounds, costingus $167,698; camphor, 789, 757 pounds, value $150,576; jalap, 116,053 pounds, worth $19,476; ipecac, 26.303 pounds, worth siy,sld; nux-vomica, 297,213p0und5, worth $7,652; vaccine virus. $399,399. Our foreign cheese cost us $639,468; starch, $38,191; jellies, $17,724. For leather and articles manufactured therefrom, not including gloves, mitts and mittens, we paid $8,688,705.,. * the real cost of formgw importations. The articles enumerated in this synopsis will serve to show the character and extent of our annual expenditures for luxuries of foreign growth and manufacture. Liquor and tobacco should be included in order to give completeness to; the statement. For imported wines and spirits we paid $16,552,-

IV, and for tobacco and manufactures of tobacco $14,521,819. The figure* given In this statement represent only the valuation S laced on the goods by the importers with »e amount of customs duties added. When It is stated that our imports for the last year reached $600,000,000 the figures are simply a factor by which we determine the extent of that class of our commerce and by which we may make comparisons with former years. The figures ao not represent the value paid by the consumer for that class of | merchandise. If we add $160,522,285 (that being the amount collected by the Government for customs duties) to $595,861,248 (that being the value of the mer- | ehandisc imported), we have, as the first cat to the tradesmen of oor importations, the <um of $756,383,532. To cover the cost of freight, insurance and expense incidental to transportation, Including profits of import- ’ ers and merchants, at least 25 per cent, of the cost of the merchandise is added before l it reaches the consumer. Add 25 per cent, to the original cost, and If will be seen that l the American people paid for foreign mer--1 ehandisc of ev.ery description during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874; tlie sum of $945,485,047, a sum nearly equal to one-half of the entire national debt. Computing our 1 imports for 1873 by the same, system of cal- ! dilation, we paid that year for foreign mer- ! ehandisc $1,099,453,473.

Success of Paul Boy ton’s Life-Pre-serving Dress.

Paul Boyton, the American, who has been making a sensation in London by making himself perfectly at fiome for hours in the waters of the Thames, in the 'u-e of his life-preserving suit, has added a real aeb ievement WTlIs“ former successes. On the 10th inst., clothed in his life-pre-serving apparatus, he started from Dover, England, at three o’clock in the morning with the intention of journeying through the water to the coast of France. He went along hopefully, smoking his cigar, and jit the hour of six*o’clock in the evening was five miles distant from Cape Gris-nez, the nearest point of the French shore lying | opposite to tkajt of Britain at South Fore- ! land, having traversed more than fifty miles. The sea was so rough that nearly all on board the steamer were sick and the darkness prevented the steam-tug which i accompanied Boyton going closer to the i shore. The people on the steamer were, I assembled in council, and after due deliberation it was decided to take Mr. Boyton on hoard, which was done. He was not. fatigued, and his clothing, which was worn under the marine dress, was dry. The | temperature of his body was lowered one degree. His pulse was ai eighty. He had been fifteen hours in the water, and had traversed a distance of fifty miles, the pilot having taken a wrong course. The physician stated, as his professional opinion, that Boyton could have remained in the water six hours longer. His failure is attributed to a change of wind and the delay in .starting, whereby he missed favorable tides and was compelled to struggle with the current from ten until one o’clock, making no progress "and barely maintaining his position The piloting was also defective. Tm reporters publish a joint declaration that Boyton’s coming on board was solely due to their remonstrance because of the increasing darkness and roughness of the channel. The Queen and the Lord Mayor telegraphed their congratulations.

The Ostrich.

The greatest feat of an Arab-hunter is to capture an ostrich. It is the largest of living birds, and probably the of all running animals. Being very shy and cautious, and living on the sandy plains, where there is little chance to take it by surprise, it can only be captured by a well-planned and long-con-tinudd pursuit with the swiftest horses. The ostrich has two curious habits in running when alarmed. It always starts off with outspread wings, against the wind, so that it can scent the approach of an enemy. Its sense of smell is so keen that it can detect a person at a great distance, long before one can be seen. The other curious habit is that of running in a circle. Usually five or six ostriches are found in a company. When discovered, part of the hunters, mounted on fleet horses, will pursue the birds, while the other hunters will galiop away at right angles to the course the oStriches have taken. When these hunters think they have gone far enough to cross the path the birds will be likely to take, they watch, upon some rise qf ground, for their approach. If the hunters hit the right place and see the ostriches they at once start in pursuit, with fresh horses, and sometimes overtake one or two of the birds, but often two or three of the fleet horses fall, completely tired out with so sharp a chase. (See Job xxxix. 18.) When taken the ostrich may defend itself by kicking out sideways, and is able to give quite a dangerous blow to anyone within its reach. Dr. Livingstone found that it could run at the at tonishiug speed of twenty-six miles an hour. When running at this speed the feet and legs of the bird could no more be seen than the spokes of a rapidly-re-volving wheel. The length of its stride or step is then from twenty-two to twen-ty-eight feet. * There are nine passages in the Bible which are believed to refer to the ostrich. In six or seven of them the Hebrew words are translated “owls” in our English version, though the correct reading (ostrich) is given in the margin (with references) in most of these cases. The ostrich is one of the tallest of birds, being sfiven or eight feet high. Each of its wings with its feathers is about three feet long. The long feathers are > generally white. These are counted very valuable, and are much worn and highly prized, as many of our young readers know. The young people among the Egyptians in the days of Moses liked to wear an ostrich feather quite as well as the American girls. It was a part of the head-dress of one of their gods, and was a sign of truth or justice. The feathers were also worn by Egyptian soldiers, and by priests at religious festivals. When Arabs wish to call anyone very dull, they say, “ Stupid as an ostrich.’" They say it is stupid because when hunted it sticks its head into a bush and thinks the hunter does not see it, and because it will swallow hair, wood, cord, stones, nails and other substances with great voraeity. Date stones are a favorite food. Dr. Shaw saw one swallow some bullets, hot from the mold, and another traveler lost his pocket-knife and a big bnckle in the same manner.— The Unitermliet. —An elopement in Millbtxy, Mass., had no novel features, but it called attention to* a strangely complicated family. The wife who eloped was twenty-one years old, having been married seven years, and the husband whom she left was sixty-seven. The husband’s two sons a previous wife are married to his recreant wife’s two older sisters, and her brother is the husband of her husband’s daughter.

The Darwinian Man.

Baboons are remarkable for an inteTTVgence superior to that of many of their congeners. Their chiefs—for there exists with them a veritable hierarchy— have a wonderful manner of transmitting their orders to their lieutenants and the latter to their subordinates. They use a kind of language composed of numerous and varied intonations. To us they are cries, yelps, howls and snarlings; but what sincere observer will not aver that sometimes a foreign language uncomprehended by him has not appeared, an uncouth compound of incomprehensible and ridiculous sounds? In imitation of the people of the South of France, they accompany their discourse by quick, animated gestures in connection with the subject which occupies them. Baboons are very capable of having a rudimentary language, if we may judge of them by the following adventure: An Oriental had a baboon, well trained and very intelligent, which he had taught to watcli his dinner while it was upon the fire. Although man may claim to be .the only cook, our monkey soon took a great interest in this occupation, in which he bei came very expert. But one fine day, when | the Oriental had put the fowl in the pot to ; boil, Master Baboon, stimulated by curij osity, raised the cover of the vessel. The i odor probably pleased the fellow and made his mouth water; he tasted the article; it appeared good to him. By dint of tasting ■ the chicken, the latter was soon admira- : bly dissected. Before this result our I gourmand must have calculated in I advance the inevitable chastisement i which awaited him. What was passing in I his monkey brain ? To what reasoning, to what association of ideas did he apply himself? We cannot know; only that he did extricate, himself, or thought to have done so, in an admirable manner, and this is how he endeavored to do it, proving, before saying anything, that, in order to invent the expedient which we relate, the faculties of observation, subjective and objective, of reasoning and observation, were brought into play: Nature had endowed a part of the body of bur baboon with a red color, so like that of uncooked beef that on rolling himself in the dust and curling up he had the appearance, at a distance, of a stone upon which a piece of meat had been put. Besides, there, as in all the Orient, hover numerous birds of prey, easily Attracted by the odors of the cuisine, and mors voracious than perspicacious. So, as soon as they saw what appeared to be a fragment of abandoned flesh, they swooped down quickly. The first which approached paid dearly for his gluttonous temerity, for, seized immediately by our quadruman, he was, notwithstanding his cries, his blows from beak and wings, thrust alive, feathers, beak and claws, into the boiling pot; after which the baboon again resumed his post as guardian with the quiet ease which belongs to a clear conscience. I do not relate what the master thought when he wished to eat his dinner; neither if he found chicken and broth of a delicate and agreeable flavor. The reader’s imagination can supply the remainder of the narrative, — From the French, for Chicago Inter-Ocean.

Small-Pox in Rome.

Dr. Toscani has made an exceedingly interesting report of the recent epidemics of small-pox in the Italian capital, by which it appears that in the space of one hundred and thirty months 3,149 persons were attacked, of whom 1,219 died, the first four being unvaccinatcd. In 2,770 cases the disease declared itself at the patients’ homes; in three cases at the hospitals; in fourteen cases in the prisons; in twenty-seven, in the colleges and seminaries ; while two hundred and forty-five patients belonged to the Agro Romano and ninety to the contiguous districts. The poorer classet furnished nearly all the victims; the higher classes only twenty-two; the middle classes, including the garrison, 233; the mechanics or working classes, 964. The persons vaccinated who were attacked were 521, of whom 72 died, or 13.81 per cent. The persons not vaccinated who were attacked were 2,289, of whom 1,065 died, or 46.61 per cent. In 339 cases, of which 82 were fatal (24530 per cent.), it could not he discovered whether vaccination had been practiced. The deaths varied in the following proportion, according to the place in which the patients were treated: At home, 46 deaths per 100 patients; at the hospital of San Spirito, 23 percent.; at San Giovanni, in Laterano, 21 per cent.; at the Military Hospital, 8 per cent.; at the Hospital of the Fate-Ben-Fratilli, 36 per cent.; at the Lunatic Asylum, 60 per cent. Among vaccinated the greatest number of deaths occurred between one, seven, fourteen and thirty years 6f age.

Sun-Drawing.

With that proneness to go wrong which we notice in most things human and which crops out in science as well as elsewhere, the art of making pictures by the chemical action of radiant forces has got a false name. This is all the worse, as it was at first correctly designated, and that too by him who had the clearest right to give the process a title. Davy and Wedgewood early in the century had labored to produce sun-pictures by means of the camera-obscura, hut had met with little success. In 1814 M. Neipce, of Chalons, in France, took up the subject, and, in the course of ten years’ assiduous work, he succeeded in a method of forming sunpictures on chemically-prepared copper, pewter and glass plates, by which the lights, semi-tints and shadows were represented as in nature, and he also succeeded in making thp impressions lasting. In 1827 he sent a paper to the Royal Society accompanied with specimens; but, as he kept the process a secret, the communication could not be received. The process, however, lie named Heliography, or sun-drawing, a term by which it was truthfully characterized. M. Daguerre, another Frenchman, had been working at the same problem, and in 1829 thqse two men, with a common purpose, formed a partnership to carry on their researches jointly. Neipce died before the work was matured, and Daguerre, very naturally, reaped the honor of it. The French Government bought his secret, paying with a life pension and promulgating it to the world without restriction of patent in August, 1839. The new pictures were at once known as daguerreotypes, and the mode of making them the daguerreotype process. ThesQ uncouth terms endured for a while, h ut were at length supplanted by the word photography, or light-drawing , yyhich has become established. Yet the appellation is incorrect and the error is as broad as the difference between light and darkness. It is not light that makes the picture, but dark radiations that are associated with it and that have the peculiar effect of producing changes in certain chemical compounds.— “Chemical Radiations ,” in Popular Science Monthly. —lt costs less to take a good weekly paper than a diligent hen can «am in a year at tiie market price of eggs.

SENSE AND NONSENSE.

—The original greenbacks—frogs. —Furr in’ parts—Alaska and Hudson’s Bay. —Pie-plant and spring suits are again in vogue. —Men who never do wrong seldom do anything. —The latest thing in front-door locks—-night-keys. —Occupation is the great safeguard; idleness is sure to run to weeds. —Prosperity is no test of character; it is adversity that surely finds us out —The small-pox and affectation both ruin many very handsome faces. —While we are inclined to forgive too little we are apt to forget too much. —He was a Warm Spring Indian th* moment he sat down on a hot stove. —Big Cow, one of the sub-chiefs of the Arapahoe tribe of Indians, stands seven feet high in his moccasins. —ln answer to a correspondent we state that the reason why Cardinals wear red hats is the same that makes millers wear white ones, namely: to keep their heads warm.— Toledo Blade. —Don’t sit up nights to see how long that young gentleman stays with the young lady across the street. If she thinks him worth the oil burned it is none of your business; he isn’t making love to any of your folks.— Yonkero Gazette. —Was it the Philadelphia Ledger whieh recently contained this? Our little Johnny’s on the shining shore, He doesn’t wear his little pants no more; His little peg-top now he never hums, He died a cutting of his little gums! —He stobd, alone at the bedside of his departing wife, and seemed tlie very picture of woe. “John, you’ll do thq. right thing when I’m gone? You won’t send me off to a cheap country churchyard—you’ll bury me in Greenwood, John,?” “ O Jane, Jane, how could you doubt it?” sobbed the wretched man, gathering his nose in the folds of his pocket handkerchief and wringing it as if his heart would break. “ Bless you, bless you, my husband—and let it be in a fashionable quarter of the cemetery.” —“ Mark Twain used to run a boat down here, didn’t he?” inquired a traveler of a Mississippi pilot lately. “ Mark Twain ?” repeated the old riverman,“ Mark Twain ? Do you mean him as was Sam Clemens? Wal, yes, he did try pilotin’ yer awhile but be couldn’t do it, couldn’t do ’tall, hadn’t the genus. But I tell ye what,” continued the grizzly veteran, giving his wheel a twist, “ if ye’d a-gin him boats ’nongh while he was a-pract icin’ he’d a-clared the river of snags, for shuah.”

—Does it spoil children to praise them ? Judicious praise is sunshine to the child, and there is no child that does not need it. It is the high reward of one’s struggle to do right. Thos. Hughes says that you can never get a man’s bqst out of him without praise. You certainly can never set a child’wbest out of him without praise. [any a sensitive child dies of a hunger for kind commendation. Many a child, starving for praise that parents should give, runs off eagerly after the designing flattery of others. —The Yolo (Cal.) Mail , some days before the Ist of April, told the following goose story; “ While hunting in the tides near the sink of Cache Creek on Monday last, Abe Green, an old hunter, discovered a petrified wild goose, standing upright, with legs buried about one-half in the adobe soil. He thought at first it was living, and, creeping closely up to it, fired his gun at it, but the bird did not budge an inch. He thought it very strange and walked up to it. He found it dead, and, in trying to pick it up, w r as astonished at its weight. It had turned to stone, and a mark on its wing, near the forward joint, showed where the shot had struck it, knocking a piece off. He managed to raise it up out of the ground, and when he laid it down a piece dropped from its breast, disclosing a hollow inside, from which pure, clear water commenced running. Its feathers were very natural, and its appearance was calculated to deceive — so lifelike. He took it to his cabin, down the canal, a few mile 3 back of Washington, where it can be seen by those who wish to see such a strange and unusual sight.”

Friendship of a Dog and Parrot.

The Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle relates the following: ‘‘Capt. Stearns, real estate agent, residing at the corner of D and Carson streets, is the owner of a Newfoundland dog. He is also the possessor ■ of a large green parrot, which is said, tobe at least seventy years of age. Within the last few months a very strong attachment has sprung up between these two creatures, and they are almost inseparable. The parrot talks all day long of the "dog, and keeps calling him by name when he is away. The dog seems very uneasy when the parrot is out of sight, and wanders about, evidently in an uuhappy frame es mind. He has licked all the feathers off one of the parrot’s wings, but still the latter seems rather to court his strange caresses. It is decidedly interesting to witness the manner in Which the two play together. The parrot walks along the dog’s back, out on to the tip of his nose, when she gravely pecks that member and as gravely walks back to the rear. This stately promenade is kept up for hours, the parrot all the time croaking out its canine friend’s name, and applying endearing epithets to him, such as ‘Oh! yon old bum, Jack!’ ‘Jack, you rascal!* and others which are frequently hurled at the dog by the neighbor’s boys.”

The Salaries of English Bishops.

The Anglican Bishops are m possession of large incomes. The Archbishop of Canterbury has $75,000 a year; the Archbishop of York $50,000; the Bishop of London $50,000; the other Bishops sums ranging from $40,000 to $21,000, with the exception of the Bishop of Sodor and Man, who has only SIO,OOO. But these Bishops complain that they have too much work to do. They ask for more Bishops; and a new see is now to be carved out of the corners of several of the others, and to be called St. Albans. But when it came to providing for the endowment of the new see the Government refused to give a penny, the laity drew their purse-strings tight, and the Bishops found themselves compelled to endow it themselves. The Bishop of Winchester gave his town house to be sold; it is worth £60,000, and to keep it up costs about £3,000 yearly. The Bishop of Rochester gives up Essex and Hertford and sells Danbury Palace, which is worth £40,000. Some of the Bishops also cd|sribute, and thus a decent living for the new prelate will be provided. And in thus putting their hands in their own pockets the Bishops show themselves wise in their generation. —London Cor. N. T. World.