Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1877 — Page 2

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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

CVM£*T WUIAWtAm. . Tfce Qemral Assembly of Ohio has adThe Minnesota State Fair la to be held at Hinneapelia daring tbs fin* week in Sep. John Lee & Sons, blanket manufactam* at ITaaliin. England, have failed for £656,000. The decrease of the United States debt ttom March t, 1889, to April SO, 1877, waa #*56,104,8ii Henry Sawyer, United States Consul at ftarinam. Sooth America, daring ttM last twenty ywM, died recently. The President has signed a convention betwesa the Poatoflkw Department at the United Mtatea and that «f Italy. The Transvaal Republic has been formally —to the British Empire and the British iWf bowtedat Pretoria. The Turkish authorities have suspended tfaePma law of 1865, and placed newspapers ander administrative control. The Governor of New York has vetoed a bill which pawed the Legislature authorizing the of women to aobonl offices. A decree has been issued by the Servian Government, forbidding Servians from leaving the country without permission of the authorities. [ The exports of oleomargarine from Mew Sort, during the seven months ending IS, aggregated 3,649,629 pounds, worth #*81.747. » The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has affirmed the sentences of the Mollie Maguire murderers, and directed that warrants for execution issue. The King of Abyssinia has again declared war against the Khedive as Egypt The ipifar has, in ooaseqaence, refused to further assist the Porte. The Turkish Chamber of Deputies has approved the bill for a state of siege throughout Turkey. General amnesty has bean granted to the Bulgarian*.

The low* State Republican Convention for the i it Governor, LieutenantGovernor, eto, has barm called to meet niDesMotnes oo the 27th of Jnoe. An Albany (N. Y.) special of the Bth ■»-« ittoney-Oenmi Fsirehild had returned the dooament to Tweed known a* his confession, and declined to order hi* release. Thomas Carlyle, the distinguished Britkh author, haa written a letter te the London Time*, protesting against taking part in the trouble between Torker and Russia. Geo. M. Pinney, Clerk to Pay-Inspector Spaulding, who defaulted for a large amount and fled from San Francisco eighteen months ago, has surrendered to the United States authorities. The sentence of Maj. Reno of dismissal from the army for indignities offered the wife of a brother officer has been commuted by the President to suspension from office without raak or pay for two years. The full text of .Lord Derby's reply to the Russian, Government has been published In it he plainly states that the British Government did not approve of the action of Russia in crossing the Pruth. Two Deputy United States Marshals and two special United States Bailiffs have been ar rested at Glasgow, Ky., cm a charge of shooting with intent to kill. The trouble arose from an attempt to arrest illicit distillers. The Russian Minister, Count Shiskin, has formally notified the Secretary of State, at Washington, that a state of war exists between Russia and Turkey. Similar notice was given by the Turkish Minister some time ago. Roumania has been notified that, in consequence of the Raasian-Ronmaaian Convention, its agency at Constantinople is suspended. The Porte directs, nevertheless, that the Roumanians in Turkey shall enjoy the protection of the laws.

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Roumanians have taken military pnrevion of Kalafok The oocupving foroe number* 9,000 men, with twenty-four Krupp gnus, and it k proposed to hold the poet against any attempt at ito capture by the Turku. The latter hare bombarded Ibaut, and thk the Roumanian Ohambcts declare ia mra« btld, London dispatches of the 4th say the British Army and Nary wece being placed on a war footing with a new to poauble erentualitiax in the East. He Porte has notified the representatires of the Powers that it declares a blockade of the whole of the Randan coast of the Black Sea. Official information was received at Washington, on the 4th, from our Minister to Mexico, of the release of the American Consul at Acapulco, and Secretary Exacts has instructed the Minister to enter a formal protest, and demand from the Mexican Government a* apology and full reparation for the outrage. The Daily Bulletin, of New York, stated, on the 4th, apparently by authority, that the Attorney-General had come to thecomdonon that the public interest would be best served by Tweed's release, and tins would occur, without doubt, in a short time. Dispatches of the 6th indicated the pas. aage of the Danube tty the Banana in the xicin- ' jjjrid, Silestria -and Bwstrihnk. In Asia the Bus. ff*a« forces were advancing in a semi-circle toward Erxeroom. A heavy battle was momontarOy expected in the vicinity of Earn. The ftiniisrr —tt strongly intrenching themselves luitTimin Ah Alexandria telegram of the 6th says the Russian Qanauhfitenanl and staff had toft Hot*' .

The body of John T. Daly, proprietor of the Windsor Hotel, in New York City, was found suspended in an old house in the village of Woodsids, L. L, on the morning of the 6th. He had been missing sines tbs Ist. 3c is believed to bars been insane over his financial rmBy the bursting of a boiler on the steamship Sidouian, of the Anchor Lino, on a late trip, the Captain, throe engineers, two firemen and a trimmer were killed, and the cook wounded. The accident occurred on the 29tb nit. * Crazy Horae aurrendered to the United States forces at Ounp Robinson, Neb., on the 6th. Over 1,700 ponies and several hundred rifies were recovered. The President, on the sth, issued the following proclamation convening Congress on the 10th of October next: Wbbhus, the final adjournment of the Fortyfourth Congress without making the usual appropriations for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, presents an extraordinary occasion, requiring the President to exercise the power vested in turn by the Constitution, to convene the Houses of Congress in anticipation of the day fixed by law for their next meeting, now, therefore, I, Rutherford 11. Hayes, President of the United States, do, by virtue of the power to this end in me vested by the Constitution, convene both Houses of Congran to assemble at their respective chambers, at twelve o’clock, noon, on Monday, the 16th day of October next, then and there to consider and determine such measures as in their wisdom their duty and the welfare of the people may seem to demand. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the aeal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this sth day of May, in the year of one Lord 1877, and the indepenoe of the United States of America the one hundred and first. B. B. Hayes. By tie President. Wm. M. JKvabth, Secretary of State A Salt Lake dispatch of the sth says that the feeling aroused throughout the United States hy the testimony At John D. Lee’s trial, relative to the Mountain Meadow massacre, had led Hie Latter-Day Saints to apprehend the arrest of Brigham Young and other heads of the church, accused of sanctioning the commission of that horrible crime. The Sainta had determined to resist any movement against Brigham Young by the Federal authority, and to that end they were secretly arming and drilling.

An extraordinary debate occurred in the British Parliament on the 7th. Gladstone arraigned the Government for the pusillanimity of its diplomacy, and declared that British interests must, for once, give way to the demands of humanity. The Home Secretary replied with great energy, defining the attitude and programme of the Cabinet in the Eastern affairs. The debate was continued until the following day. The recent letter of Lord Derby to Russia was considered, a London telegram of the 7th says, throughout the continent as an essentially warlike document. A Constantinople telegram of the 7th says Turkey was endeavoring to secure British intervention in return for the cesaioa of a harbor in Crete for a naval station commanding the Sues Canal. A Vienna telegram of the 7th says the Sultan had resolved to proclaim a holy war. The Russians had oommenoed the bombardment of Widin from K&lafat. The roof of the Cathedral at Metz was burned, on the morning of the 7th It caught from fire-works exhibited in honor of the Emperor’s visit. • At noon, on the Bth, all really vital points in all classes of sewing-machines became common property in consequence of the expiration of the patents thereon. The expiration is expected to work very important changes in the trade and largely-reduoe the price of machines. The Secretary oi the Treasury, on the 7th, issued another call for the redemption of ♦10,114,550 of 5-30 bonds of 1865, May and November interest and principal to be paid on the Bth of August. On the 7th, the President discontinued forty Pension Agencies in various parts of the country, leaving only eighteen agencie* todo the work formerly done by fifty-eight It is estimated that this will save the Government #50,000 per annum. In the British House of Commons the Gladstone resolutions wore further debated on the Bth and the vote postponed until the 10th. The British Government annonnoed on the Bth that it was ready to embark 85,000 troops and 11,000 hones atany moment Vienna advices of the Bth report that the Russians were repulsed a* the late storming of Kan, the two efforts to cany the citadel having been fruitless. On the contrary Parisian advices of the same day report that the garrison was about to surrender. The Cabinet, at Washington, on the Bth, resolved Hurt organised cattle-stealing, and other depredations upo* property of American citisens in Texas, most be effectually stopped without further delay or inattention on the part of Mexican authorities. ?

The London Globe of the 9th publishes a Pent dispatch in which it is stated that the Russians had gained an important victory between Kars and Eiaeroum and that the Turks had retreated upon the latter place. It was rumored that the latter bad lost 14,000 men. A Constantinople telegram of the 9th says the Sultan had resolved to proclaim a holy war. A Bucharest special of the 9th says Roumania bad decided to proclaim her independence and issue a declaration of war. A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 9th says a fanatical rising had taken place in the Tchetchenai country. One band of 500 insurgents were dispersed by the Russian troops, with a loss of ninety-nine killed and 350 wounded. The Russian loss wan small. An explosion of gas occurred on the morning of the 9th, in the Wadesville Mines, near 8k Clair, Pa. Thirty men were imprisoned, and the bodies of six had been recovered up to the morning of the 10th. Eight were rescued alive, badly injured, but will recover. A Washington special of the 9th says it has been decided to reduce the army by discharging 3,500 enlisted men, and that the President had directed the Secretary of War to issue the necessary order. At Boston, on the 9th, Alfred Rand, a medical student and a graduate of Harvard, committed suicide. He loaded a small cannon, and, having applied a slow match to it, lay down on the floor, with his head at toe mouth of the weapon. When it exploded his head was blown off. Lieut. Logan, of the United States Navy, was named to a daughter of Admiral Porter, at Washington, on the 9th. Thk State of Georgia has sold the labor of the convicts in the State Prison for $25,000 a yeas, which is at the rate of about eleven dollars a year for each convict The State appears to have been badly swindled, as the contractors are now successfully “subletting" thd convicts at rixty dollars a year apiece. \ <

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Canada ha* 90,000 Indiana, and they never quarrel or scalp. Thk bell-punch is going out of use on the Philadelphia street-car lines. California is to have a slaughterhouse 2,400 feet long, and all sheep who enter there will leave hope and their pelts behind. T uk Knights of Pythias are stronger in Pennsylvania than anywhere else in the Union*. They have 450 lodges and 40,000 members. Choc million five hundred and ninety thousand two hnndred and eighty dollars of greenbacks were destroyed last month, by the new Hecrctary of the United States Treasury. An English official report on the Chinese coolie traffic says that, of the more than one hundred and forty thousand Chinese who sailed for Cuba, upward of sixteen thousand died daring the voyage. Statistics show that more elderly marriages take place in Kentucky than in any other State of the Union. Nothing is tliought, on either side es the house, of tying the knot at three-score years and ton, and along there. In the year 1876 there were 1,154.627 births and 676,028 deaths registered in Great Britain and Ireland. These numbers are equal to a birth-rate of 84.8 and a death-rate of 20.4 per 1,000 (persons estimated to be living in the middle of the year. There are in Colorado oveY fifty peaks which rise more than 14,000 feet above sea level. Blanca Peak, in that State, the elevation of which was determined last year by Hayden’s survey, is probably the highest point within the limits of the United States,, being 14,464 feet above the level of the sea. According to the Almanack de Gotha, the number of towns in the world which contain MX),000 inhabitants or more amounts to 108. Of these, forty-eight are in the British Empire, fifteen in Germany, nine in France, seven in Russia and fifteen in the United States. The cities containing a million inhabitants or more are reckoned at nine in number, London, of course, leading the way, Paris coming second, and New York plot Brooklyn third, Berlin is fourth and Vienna fifth on the list, each of those capitals having rather more than a million of inhabitants. Four Chinese cities—Canton, Biangton (Hounan), Siangfou (Chensi), and Tchautcheoufou (Foukian) —complete the list of the millionaire cities, if the expression may be permitted. Pekin, by the way, which our fathers credited with a population of 4,000,000, is now understood to have about 500,000 inhabitants.

Presence of Mind.

The late Bt. Louis fire suggests, an all such accidents must suggest, the value of presence of mind. In that fire, as in most fires, there were quite as many who lost their lives from a lack of presence of mind as there were who were saved by theii own composure of mental forces that enabled them to make the best of the means at hand. ■ ' The .New York” drummer who, encircled by dames and smoke, waited patiently until a rope was thrown to him. and by which he reached the ground in safety, afforded a violent contrast of character to the lady who, being told net to jump, that ladders were coming, threw her arms wildly in the air, and, leaping from a fifth-story window, was instantly killed. There was one man who coolly dressed himself, and, tearing up his bed-’clothing, made his escape from the window without receiving a scratch or injury of any kind; while, in the same building was another man who, even after escaping, was so unbalanced in his mental machinery that he shot himself. There were women who screamed and fainted, or threw themselves out of fifth-stoiy windows to be dashed to pieces; while there were other women who patiently waited their turn to be rescued, or procured a rope and effected their own escape. All of which merely proves the immense value of presence of mind. However terrible and pressing the exigency, there is always a wise way and a foolish way to meet it. Presence of mind is largely dependent upon mental discipline, and comes not so because an urgent demand has arisen for it as because the mind has been' previously trained to calm thought and intrepid action. It is not, however, altogether a question of intellect, but is due somewhat to temperament A man or woman may be ever so brilliant and accomplished intellectually, yet lack sufficient calmness of nerve to give them presence of mind in any sudden and terrible emergency; while a* heavier and more stupid person would have an appearance of calmness and fortitude, when he was in reality simply too slow to keenly realize or vividly express his senss of danger. » >* It has been well said that the essence of all true and intelligent presence of mind arises from hope, a secret belief that the emergency is not so terrible as it seems, and that escape is possible. This hope prevents the mental and physical paralysis of abject fear, and gives a person sufficient command of his faculties to make the best use of them

A striking illustration of this was given by a man who made his escape from a very large rattlesnake, whose baleful eye he suddenly encountered. When asked how he had escaped the paralysis of fear that would seem most natural under the circumstances, he said that he remembered that a rattlesnake never spnrog upon its victim until it first uncoils itself; and not icing that the reptile was coiled he at once felt that he had time to make his escape. Five times out of ten the danger that threatens may be compared to a coiled rattlesnake, and in the moment of grace that is allowed before the fatal spring is made there is generally time enough to escape the peril, provided one can command one’s faculties sufficiently to make the best use of the means at hand. ' A celebrated philosopher once found himself with a lunatic on tne top of a high building, when the lunatic, throwing his arms about bis companion, exclaimed: “Now let us immortalize ourselves by jumping together to the ground.” “ Pooh!” exclaimed the philosopher, coolly, “it wonld be nothing to jump down. Let us go down and jump up. That would immortalize us.” The lunatic consented to this very original idea, and the philosopher gravely went with him to the ground, that he nfight try the experimentof jumping up, and thus escaped. A record of such instances is valuable, because calculated to educate the mind concerning the value of calm nerves and a ready wit. As in times of peace we should prepare for war, so in times of safety we should prepare „ the mind for danger, and cultivate cajmness of nerve for all ordinary occasions, that we may be the better prepared for any extraordinary occasion where life may be saved cr lost, according to the manner in which we have

conquered or have been conquered by an emergency. There are few persons who cannot speak wisely concerning another’s folly; and there are many who can think after the crisis it passed how they might have bettered themselves if only they conld have thought when the time to think was at hand. And this question of calm nerves and quickness of mental perception applies not only to times of danger when a man’s life is the price of his action. but it is equally valuable for all ordinary occasions where swift-footed Opportunity passes and repasses, and serves only •haje who are swift to seize and strong to

A Cretan Town—Its Character and People.

The town or Kli&nta Is entirely Inclosed wi 'tin fortifications, wuich remain fust aa they were left by the Venetians—powerful works in those days; but now the great exposed masonry-scraps would fall to pieces at the assault of modern artillery. The deep and wide ditch forma the vcgetablo garden of the town. As we enter hy the main land gate, that through which passes the road to Soda Bay, we find ourselves at once in a busy scene, almost completely Oriental. A street of shops, filled with buyers.and sellers, leads us through the open market-place down to the water gate. The Mussulnmn shop, keepers sit cross-legged in theiropen shopfronts, while the noisy crowd oi peasants, Zapties, soldiers and women bargains for its needs. At tho street corners sit the money changers, with their tables and boxes of money before them. Conspicuous among the objects for sale are the long boots of yellow leather worn by the peasants, for which Crete has teen famous ever since the days of Qalen, and short cloaks of the pattern described by Aristophanes. If we wander otf in the main street, we are at once lost in a maze of streets, or rather passages, for they arc scarcely six feet wide, between the tall stone houses. There is an air of comfort and substantiality about the town that few Oriental cities possess, owing to its having these solid stone buildings, instead of houses built only of sun-baked brick. We make our way to the ramparts, and work round the port to the projecting bastion which forms one side of the entrance to the harbor. Here stand upon old carriages tottering to pieces and scarcely able to bear the weight, Turkish and Venetian bronze guns of great size, and of those graceful forms and that bright green color which have disappeared in our- ugly monsters of iron. The cannon founders of those days were proud of the guns they made, ana ornamented them with many a scroll and quaint device; while mottoes-of valoi on the Venetian, verses from the Koran on the Turkish guns, mark the age when war has not yet become the practical and nnpoetic task in which the soldier and the sailor are fast becoming subordinated to the chemist and the mechanic. No one interferes with us as we stroll round the ramparts, and note that, however worthless against a formal bombardment, they are stiii a complete defence against any possible attack of insurgents not possessing artilleiy. From the southwest comer of the ramparts we notice a small village just outside of the walls—a cluster of huts, isolated, alone, desolate. Interested in what we hear, we pay it a visit. It is a leper villuge, and, as we enter, the unfortunate wretches beg for help, stretching out their awfully distorted limbs to move our pity. Each district in the island has a place set apart for its lepers, leprosy being a common disease. Whence its origin, what its source, we know not. Tho natives look on it with dread and believe it to be contagious. And so the wretched lepers are outcasts —herd together, marry and breed leper children.. The first signs of the fatal spot is enough; the victim is at once thrust out to the leper’s den, in spite of youth, position or beauty. No attempt is made to cure the disease; no lepers’ hospital has ever been established. The people sit still under their curse and never attempt to call in the aid of science—as though they were yet living in the darkest blackness of iheDark Ages.—Blackwood's Magazine.

A Japanese Theater.

The interior of a Japanese theater resembles our own in many respects, but in many others is quite original and peculiar. The house is similarly planned—that is, with the money-taker’s bureau and the vestibule for clogs and coat at the door, a gallery running round, in which are private boxes, ana the cheapest scats running round the pit. The roof is festooned with quaintly-figured lengths of gaudily-col-ored cloth, and the lighting of the house proper is effected by huge lanterns, symbolically painted, suspended at intervals. All else is entirely peculiar to the country and the people. From the stage, running through the midst of the audience to the passage between, passes a platform known as the Hana Michi, or “ flower path,” along which the most important actors make their exits and entrances; processions pass, and traveling litters or sham animals are introduced. Above the stage, in a cage with blinds, are the orchestra—singers, fife, drum, cymbal, guitar and gong players. The stage itself is a marvel of ingenuity and handiness. That parton which the actors are is circular, and works on a windlass beneath; thus the hurry and confusion so inseparable flrom shifting flies and scenes is obviated by the simple expedient of turning the stage round, so that the half hitherto behind appears as the new scene. Though peculiar in their ideas of perspective and the harmony of.colors, the Japanese are wonderful scenic artists. Borne of the effects produced, notably the favorite weird, solemn, midnight scenes preluding a fragedy or a romantic event, are really excellent; for realism the Japanese are not enthusiastic, hut in their imitations of nature they are generally very happy. No one who has witnessed Japanese juggling and slight-of-hand can wonder that In the science of ** stage-trickism’’ they are adepts. Without half the ingenious, mechanical appliances used in our London pantomimes, the Japanese actors, by swiftness and cunning of hand, can produce an endless variety of startling illusions, and the spectator cannot help, sometimes, wondering whether what he has seen has really taken place, or whether his eyes have played him false. Within the last four or five yeais gas has been introduced into <me or two of the big theaters of the capital, but until the year 1878 the means of illumination were feeble. Three tallow flambeaux stuck into sconces served as footlights, and even with these it was necessary that each leading performer should be followed by a boy draped in black, so as to simulate invisibility, holding a long bamboo, at the end of which flickered a candle, within a few inches of the actor’s nose, so that every distortion and play of feature might be observed by thsau-diencc.-*AU the Tear Round.

SENSE AND NONSENSE.

The great war mania—Rou-manix. Bhkaijhti kvs are rising. It is ye East The girl of the period—the European crisis. The old-fashioned silver comb is corn ing in vogue again. One patient in the Maine Insane Asylum is but eleven years old. Turret’s policy is the policy of Pashafi cat ion.— Cincinnati Timet. The time when apparel will be a burden is coming clothes upon us. As you cannot avoid your own company, make it as good as possible. When the Cossacks go Russian into battle., they naturally cry, “ Hu-Czar!” The West should step carefully. It la treading on eggs—grasshopper eggs.— Puck. So far the seat of the European war haa mostly been located in American Bourds of Trade. It is expected that Greece will be thrown on the troubled waters.—Cincinnati Ti:net. Admiral Porter says the Turkish Navy is like a Chinese fort—they only use it to fire salutes. It may be warm, but don’t lay off your flannels yet, unless you wish to lay on immortality.— Puck. They have five elevators at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, one of which runs all night for—invalids! The King of Siam has nine wives to support, anti when the woodpile gets low he looks just as careworn as thereat of us. A Covington (Ky.) physician has been compelled to pay $5,000 lor using impure vaccine matter on the arm of a child. The child died. When it is noon in New York it is seven o’clock in the evening at Constantinople and the fighting is all over in lioumania for the day. “What are you doing hen?” asked a New York policeman of a boozy individual leaning up against a street lamp. “I’m (hie) ’njoy’n’m’ Evertin' (hie )Po»t, Cap.” The following order was recently left on the slate of a New Hampshire doctor: “Doc, cum up to tlier lious; the old man lias got snaix in his’ butes agin an’ raisen kain.” Funny Folks has discovered the seven ages of man to be as follows: 1, image (of his father, of course); 2, nonage; 3, of age; 4, marriage; 5, parentage; 6, anecdotage; T, dotage. It is this lying awake nights trying to determine whether to leave your fortune to an orphan asylum or a home for old men that makes the newspaper business so wearing.— Borne Sentinel. The Norwich Bulletin man says that he has frequently observed that the individual wlio always states what lie would have done if he had been there is the kind of person who never gets there. Caution often averts danger. An uptown man who heard burglars in the house, the other night, woke up his wife and sent her down stairs for a drink of water, and then crawled under the bed and wasn’t injured in the least.— Danbury Newt.

Once more the love-lorn swain will leave her swinging on the gate and mosey home in the moonlight softly humming to himself— Tis sweet to court, but, oh, how hitter! To leave her unwed when you know you could git her. Home one asks: “What Is moTC disgusting than waiting for a train when it is behind time ?” We should say that atrain not waiting for a man when he is behind time might he equally disgusting to a sensitive" and hurried party. — Chicago ■JourruU. ll eke is a bit of human nature, and very encouraging it is, too: “Ain’t you going to save one of those peaches for your little brother V” He replied with Christian severity of temper, “ Oh, yes; I don’t want to be mean. I’ve saved the rotten one for Tommy.” “Mr. Jones, don’t you think women are more sensible than men!” asked Miss Smith. And Jones, after scratching his favorite bump for a moment or two, said: “Why, certainly, they are—they marry men. and men only marry women.” Miss Smith beat a hasty retreut. — Ruck. A correspondent of an agricultural paper says that after long experience he finds that the best way to sow grain is on horseback. The science of agriculture progresses. A young farmer will soon be able to .take his girl out carriage-riding and sow several acres of grain or pick five acres of potatoes at the same time—thus combining business with pleasure.— Exchange. Rain, min, min, rain, Straight and slanting, scolloped and plait Fraught with pleasure to duck and crane, And to many a hopeful rustic swain Wh6 loves the leisure that Jets him remain On the parlor lounge with Elizabeth Jane. Moisture, bringing regret and pain To the damsel who draggles her dress en train, A splendid, scrumptious, new girt* grain. And who sighs and utters a thought profane Concerning “ Old Probs,” that he should ordain A soaking shoWer, and not refrain When she most go out and a bonnet obtain. Cause of many an ontward stain, Cause of many an ankle sprain; Yet we will do as they do in Spain— When it raina we will let it rain. Rain, min, min, min!—jV. T. Graphic. A woman will take the smallest drawer in a bureau for her own private use, and will pack away in it bright bits of boxes, of all shades and sizes, dainty fragments of ribbon, and scraps of lace, foamy raffles, velvet things for the neck, bundles of oid love letters, pieces of jewelry, handkerchiefs, fans, things that no man knows the name of—all sorts of fresh-looking, bright little traps that you couldn’t catalogue m a column, and any hour of the day or night she can go to that drawer and pick up any article she wants without disturbing anything else. Whereas a man, having the biggest, deepest and widest drawer assigned tc him, will chuck into it-tliree socks, n collar-box, an old neck-tic, two handkerchiefs, a pipe and a pair of suspenders, and tosaveuis soul he can’t shut that drawer without leaving more ends of things sticking out than there are things in it, and it always looks as though it had bech packed by a hydraulic press. —Burlington llawk-Eye.

American and English Physique.

Mr. Richard Grant White, who has recently been abroad, and who has set down certain of the experiences purchased by his “ penny of observation ” in an article, entitled ** English Traits,” makes a few affirmations which, while contrary to general opinion, accurately accord 'with ~the facts as we have seen them. They refer to the comparative physical condition of the English and American people. Mr. White asserts that he has watched crowds of English people at theaters, festivals, churches and rail way-stations; that he knows the human physiognomy of all quarters of Lon-

don, and has walked through country villages and cathedral-to*ns; and, as the result of this wide observation, he declares that “ the men and women are generally smaller and leas robust thanjours, and, above all, that Ibo women are, on the whole, sparer and less blooming than ours.” He thinks there are more ruddy people in England, but that delicatelygraduated bloom is not very common, while the proportion of people without color in their cheeks is nearly the same as here. Now, we, also, unwilling to let a vague impression go for troth in this matter, have stood and purposely watched crowds of people at English railway-sta-tion*—wherever, indeed, there were fiat) l erings of men and women —ana could but feel that, compared with similar assemblages here, the physical difference was but slight. But Mr. White dwells upon another point that we also noteu, although the descriptive phrase he uses is his own. He speaks of the superior “set-up” of the men meaning, of course, their carriage and bearing. This, he tells us, “ appears in a marked degree in all militaiy persons, rank and file aswell as officers, and in the police lorce, which are, on tho whole, inferior in stature and bulk to ours, but far superior in appearance, owing to the ‘set-up* of the men, and the way in which they carry themselves.” This ‘‘Bet-up’ 1 is not alone, according to our observation, confined to drilled bodies of men. Mr. White must have noticed what a superior body, in appearance and carriage, the omnibusdrivers and hackmen are to ours. The London omnibus-drivers are no such ragged and slovenly vagabonds as those who make unsightly the Broadway stage (by way of compensation, the New York vehicle is much superior). They are gen. erally well clothed, often wearing a “high hat,” that stamp of respectability in England, and they sit on their boxes with the dignity ana upright carriage that here we never see, except on the box of a private carriage. Whether omnibus-drivers there are subject to any form of drill or discipline, we cannot say; if not, then they must be animated by greater pride and self-respect than ours are. Similar facts may be observed with English rail-way-officials, especially with the guards and porters, who are always trim, neat, cleanly “set-up” men, prompt to serve, but always commanding respect This is not a slight matter. If the habits of American life tend to make men slothful and negligent, if they encourage the spirit of the loafer and the vagabond (and the recent rapid multiplication of tramps would seem to confirm it), it behooves us to look well and see whence may come the remedy, and how to apply it. The good effect of uniforms in dress upon the nun ale of men has often been observed. We see, therefore, one way in which, in large bodies of men, the evil mentioned can be partly remedied. Conductors ou city cars, for instance, just as they are now on the steam lines, might be pnt in uniform; in all other cases where it is practicable this should be done, as one step toward counteracting an evil tendency of very serious nature.— Appleton'* Journal for Man.

Billingisms.

It is easy enough to play the monkey, but to play it well, iB the most difficult of all professions. When a fellow feels an inward itching to write something for the newspapers, aDd cannnot think of any good subject to write on, he has mistaken the cause of his. itching—sawing wood is what his itch meant. It is truly wonderful how much more a man’s opinion is worth in market, after he has seven or eight thousand dollars at interest, than what it was when he was at work at nine*dollars a week. Love and beauty are two hard things to define. The more work that anyone has to do the better pleased he seems to be with the job. There are but few men who know the full extent of their power, because there are but few who ever exert it. The fools are always, telling us moj-e than they know, the wise are always knowing more than they are willing to tell as. The man who can slip down on the ice, where the water is about an inch and a half deep, and enjoy the joke equal to the bystanders, is either a fool or a philoso. pher, 1 do not care which. There is no misfortune that happens to man that grieves his spirit like ridicule; and ridicule is a great deal harder to forget or forgive than the kick of a mule. The man who can swap horses and tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, has got safely over one of the worst spots on the road between here and the Kingdom of Heaven. Men who know they are right are seldom obstinate; they can afford to let the other fellow buck against their stone wall until he gets tired. True bravery is alwavs amiable and easy. The most terribfy brave men I have ever met would yield _ nine ( points gracefully, but lay down their lives on the tenth one. The only way to oonquer bad luck is in a stand-up fight. Bad luck never listens to the cry of “ quarter,” but pelts its victims all the harder when they are down. — * Jo»h Billing*, in N. Y. Weekly.

THE MARKETS.

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