Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1877 — Page 2

The Rensselaer Union. * • ( RENRBELAER, . • INDIANA.

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. -Persia has announced her intention not to join Russia. The whole east coast of Atchin has been ■eeded to tbo Patch. w President MacMahon has required Don Carlos to leave France. The Sheik U 1 Islam has proclaimed a holy war against Russia. ■ ■ - England has notified the Powers that she wW protect the Sues Canal. The Turkish troops which fled from Ardahan have been defeated in the mountain passes near Kars. The Russian and Roumanian authorities have issued a decree prohibiting all traffic on the Danuto. -- ~-- y The Town of Creswell, N. C., was totally destroyed by fire on the night of the 18th. Great distress prevails. The Turkish Chamber of Deputies has adopted a resolution demanding the impeachment of Mahmoud Neddin Pasha. , The greater part of the business portion of the town oF Woodstock,. N. 8., was consumed by Are on the 17th. Loss, 1800,000. Com. Edward W. Carpenter, of the United States Navy, died at Shrewsbury, N. J-, a few days ago, aged eighty one years. W. H. C. Hosmer, well known as the Bard qf Avon,” died at Avon, N. T., on the morning of the 23d. He was sixty-three years old. _ A letter from Kossuth has been published, in which he urges an alliance be-, tween Turkey and Hungary against their common enemy, Russia. *

The reported capture of Sukum Kaleh and the rising of the Circassians, who massacred the garrison and burned the town, has been officially confirmed. Fire prominent candy-manufacturers of Boston have been indicted for the use of poisonous ingredirata. and held to bail in thesum of *6,000 each. Michael Donahue died of hydropho bia, In Chicago, on the evening of the 16th. He was bitten six weeks before by a strange dog with which he was playing. Prince Milan has sent an autograph letter to the Emperor Alexander, In which he states that Berria was ready to take the field with 40,600 men, provided Russia would pay the expenses. ; ’r The Secretary of the Treasury, it is stated, has recently tendered the Solicitorship of the Treasury to ex-Gov. Chamberlain, of South Carolina. The Governor declined the appointment. During the Whlt-Monday amusements at Hull, England, on the 21st, a balloon, about to ascend, was blown against a gas jet and exploded. Eighty-six of the spectators were injured, six dangerously. At Cleveland, Ohio,‘recently, Mrs. John Dona van quarreled with her husband and then jumped into the river with her two children, aged two years and eight months respectively, la herarms. AU were drowned. ;» » —J ■' Another call (the forty-seventh) * has been issued if or the redemption of 5-20 bonds and console of 1865, to the amount of *10;COQjOOO, principal and accrued interest to be paid ou the 21st of August, interest to cease on that day. The South Carolina Legislature has elected Associate-Justice Willard Chief-Jus-tice by a vote of 84 to 44 for all other candidates. CoL Henry Mclvor, the Democratic nominee. has been riueted as Justice Willaid's succeasor. ■ _ During April, *84,500,000 of National Bank notes were redeemed by the Redemption Agency. Since the organisation of the agency Che counterfeits rejected amounted to Sl4,ooq,and the stolen and other notes rejected to nearly *27,000. A reward of *IO,OOO has been ofiered by Hr. F. T. Bagnum for the restitution of the stolen boy, Charley Ross. Immunity is promised to the persons making the surrender. The father of the bog has, it is said, sanctioned the arrangement An Odessa letter says the fail of Sukum Kaleh had caused a panic at Odessa and other Blaek Bea porta. All confidence in the shore batteries and torpedoes had been loak The Governor of Odessa had endeavored to calm the public by issuing proclamations. W Chester, Pa., on the 2M, during the launching of an iron steamer, several workmen, who did not hear the warning and failed to get out of the way as the vessel started, were killed, and others ware seriously injured. Thoaekßled or fatally injured numbered seven. f t ... w , J ■ The Attorney-General of the United States has derided that it is lawful for the Secretary of War to indorse upon officers' vouchers for pap the words: “ The within account Is believed to be correct, and would be paid by me if I had public funds available for that purpose.** A recent Washington telegram says Secretary Sherman had stated that whatever was done under the Resumption act would be communicated first all to the public. Nothing would be dose until after the most careful consideration and with the sanction of the President -a » fl'tij- 1 Advicre'from Asia Minor report that the Mohammedan insurrection In the Caucasus had proved aaftrious cheek tothe advance of the Russian Army. The Insurgents were constantly harassing the Russian outposta. A large force of Circassians attacked the RusStans near tile frontier, and competied them to retreat Ex-President Grant and family left Philadelphia for Europe, bn the 17th, on tiro ffi*J~WlTtlflT* TnAlffiVtffi An jxlwKxreriuf j. Aa a theepteodaa of the event was a massage from President Htytu and wife, con-

veytng their good wishes and hopes for a speedy and aucceesful voyage. ■W* —*— Fite childras, the eldest of whom was nine years of age, were burned to death in a house at Little Hook, Cortland County, New days ago. Mr. Dunnegtd and wife, parents of the children, made every effort to rescue the little ones, whose cries for help could be distinctly heard above the roaring of the flames, which had made considerable headway when discovered. In the Rockford Court-House disaster, the Coroner’s Jury have tendered a verdict finding that the falling of the building was owing to the neglect of Henry L. Gay, the architect. The Board of Supervisors was also censured for carelessness in the examination of the plans and specifications, and for employing an Incompetent architect to superintend the construction of the building.

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States opened ite sessions in Chicago, on the morning of the 17th. Rev. Henry J. Van Dyke, D, D., of Brooklyn, N.Y., Moderator, presiding and delivering the opening sermon. Rev. Dr. James EeUs, of Ban Francisco, was elected Moderator for the ensuing year. A Bucharest telegram of the 18th says the Turks of Tourtokai made a general attack on the Christiane of that village on the night of the 10th. The males and many of the elder women were put to the sword and the younger ones brutally maltreated. A London telegram of the 18th says the latest dispatches received indicated that the Russians were falling back from Kars. The Ffench Legislative Assembly has been prorogued for one month. D. H. Chamberlain* ex-Governor of South Carolina, was recently admitted to practice at the New York bar. The Russians attempted to retake Buknm Kaleh on the 20th, but were repulsed with heavy loss. According to a New York dispatch of the 20th, the Custom-House Investigating Commission had recommended the dismissal of fifty clerks, and requested the heads of bureaus to report how many could be dispensed with in their several departments. The Turkish men-of-war are bombarding and burning the towns on the Black Bea and landing Circassian emigrants at various pointe, who seek to excite the Abchasians to rebellion. Troops have been dispatched to suppress the risings. Kars was again attacked on the 21st, and the Russians were again driven back, with a loss of 800 killed and as many Wounded. A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 21st says the bodies of 800 Turks had already been burled at Ardahan. A Constantinople telegram of the 21st says the Russians were committingfrightful massacres In the Caucasus. The railway bridge over the Akita, near Sestina, fell on the 21st A train of wagons carrying ammunition to Little Wallachia was engulfed with its attendants. ~ A little boy, named Willie Dean, aged between five and six years, mysteriously disappeared In Chicago on the 17th, and no trace of him had been discovered up to the morning of the 22d. It was thought he had been kidnaped by some Italian musicians, In 'whose company he was seen late on the afternoon of the 17th, and a reward of *SOO was offered for his recovery, and several arrests were made of suspicious parties. The father of the lost boy is a depot baggageman In the employ of the Illinois Central Railroad. , On the 22d, a Russian force stationed at Ibrail crossed the Danube in boats toGhiaco and burned the town. The Servians are making offensive preparations at Saltschar and along the Timok. The Turks have stationed a strong corps of observation at Adlio, to guard against a sudden movement from Bervia. A Constantinople dispatch of the 22d says the Abchadlans were in full rebellion, and Turkish arms had been furnished them. A war between Turkey and Greece was considered inevitable, in Athena, on the 22d. A Berlin dispatch of the 22d announces the recall of Bismarck, to consider the situation in France and its probable effect upon the relations of France and Germany. A battle was in progress before Batoum on the 28d. A Bucharest dispatch of the 23d announces that the Turks had fired into and burned an Austrian steamer. Some days ago, a letter was received by the President, purporting to be the resignation of Chief-Justice Lewis, of Washington Territory.' Associate - Justice Green was thereupon appointed Chief-Justice. On the 23d, a telegram was received from Judge Lewis, stating that the pretended resignation was a forgery, and the Piesldent at once recalled Judge Green’s appointment and continued Judge Lewis in the office.

Gen. Grant's Farewell Address.

Kxw Yobk, May 18. The following is the farewell address of ex-President Grant, made while steaming down th* Delaware: «’ Mv Drab Fribndb—l was not aware we would have so much speech-making here, or tha* it would be necessary for me to aay smy more to you, but I feel that the complitaents vou have showered upon me were-not altogether deserved. They should not all be paid to me, either aa a soldie/or as a civil officer. As a General, year praises do not belong to me; as the Executive of the Nation, they were not due to me. There is no man that can fill both or either of these positions without the help of good men. I selected my Lieutenants when I was in both positions, and thqy were men, I believe, which could have filled my place often better than I did. I never flattered mystflfl waaentitled to the place you gave me. My Lieutenants could have acted, perhaps, better thaa I, had opportunity presented itself. Gen. Sherman could have taken my place as a soldier, or in the civil ctffiee, and so could Sheridan and othecs I might name. I am sure, if the country evm comes to this need again, three will be men for the worir; there will be men bom for every emergency. Again. I thank you, and again I bidyouroodby, and once again I say that if I had failed, Sherman hr Sheridan, or some of my other Lieutenants, would have succeeded.” —ii.w i. istt to am . ' —Some persons are never satisfied with the price of produce, and there are cases when they hold on too long. Then, when the market coUapoes, and they have to take a moiety of what they might have had—then the saddest words Of tongueor h °® taen *’ Ww ®

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Minnie shares are depreciating very fast in California. . In 1876, California produced over seven million gaPons of wine. IT posts SSOO to send a car-load of fruit from California to Boston. Berlin, by the late census, Is found to have 1,000,809 inhabitants. Six milijon acres are devoted to fruit culture in the United States Ths! total length of the Dutch railroads is 900 miles. Tue first lines were opened in 1888. During the month of March, 150 ships passed through the Suez Canal. The receipts of the company amounted to SBIB,000. Sxventeek hundrkd women have petitioned the Legislature of Massachusetts to confer upon them and their sisters the right of suffrage. From Dec. 11, 1869, to March 81 last, the names of over 200,000 persons were placed on the register of habitual criminals in England and Wales. England’s leading Jockey is a lad of eighteen, who rode 657 races in 1876, and won 217. He has gained a little fortune of $40,000 or $50,000. His name is Fred Archer For the past ten years men have been boring in the Sutro tunnel of the Rocky Mountains, and it is thought by the engineers in charge that about Feb. 1, 1878, the Savage mine will be reached. The “ header” of the tunnel is now in some thing like 16,500 feet from the mouth. The total distance from the mouth of the tunnel to the Savage mine is about 19,500 feet, so that there remains about 8,000 feet to be bored. The use of electrical power is frequently spoken of as a substitute for steam, but it should bo borne in mind that so long as the electric power depends upon a galvanic battery it must be much more costly than steam-power,' inasmuch as the combustible consumed in the battery is zinc, a substance necessarily much more expensive than coal. If in the production of the electric current a natural force could be utilized, the question would assume a totally different aspect. — Chicago Times. At a recent meeting of the Societe d'Encouragement pour I’lndustrie Nationale, M. Moutenat exhibited metallic tubes which emit sounds when burning coal is placed in the interior. The sound is modified when the place occupied by the coal has been changed. A copper tube Into which metallic gauze has been introduced also emits musical sounds. M. Moutenat is preparingto build large tubes for the International Exhibition of 1878. He hopes the sounds may be heard at a great distance, and, if successful, he intends to propose this method instead of steam whistles for warning on the sea coasts.

A Poker-Player’s Bluff on a Pair of Fours.

One night I was sitting by the chair of a player, who was an old acquaintance and a Virginian. It was a pretty high game, the chips being fives, twenty-fives and fifties. At one stage of the game somebody got to raising before the draw, and in a minute or two there was as much as SI,OOO on the board. When the hands were helped, one man took one card, another stood pat, another took two cards, and so did the party behind whose chair I was sitting. They all bet before he did, and the amount put up by each was, if I remember, SSOO straight. When it came to my friend’s turn, he went into his breast-pocket, pulled out a wallet, and flshed thence a certified check or draft for $8,500. Going to a desk, he wrote his name across the back, resumed his seat, threw the paper in the center, and said: “Gentlemen, I’ve been runout of VirSinia. . I was once a man of wealth, but xe war came and closed me out. I settled up my business the best I could, and that certified check for $8,500 represents not only the fortune I once had, but is eveiy dollar I have in the world. 1 see that SSOO the gentleman bet, and the balance of this check, $8,000.” The man who stood pat, as he turned up his cards and showed a big flush, said: “I lay down mine.” Another laid down a full; the next, three aces. My friend then raked in the pile and showed his hand. He had a pair of fours.— Washington Republican.

Japanese Audiences.

AU the Year Round gives the follow ing rattling description of the stage and audience business in Japan: Free-and-easiness is the great characteristic of Japanese audiences. During the performance everyone smokes, eats and drinks; criticisms are very audibly expressed, conversation and chaff are very general, people come in and go out as they like; if the weather be hot, superfluous raiment Is laid aside sans ceremonie; coolies enter with their implements ot trade, and reeking with the dust And sweat of the day, much in the same aay that one may observe peasants slouching into continental cathedrals for a few minutes* prayer. On the stage the same nonchalance is apparent. If an actor be not “word perfect” the prompter follows him about without the slightest attempt to disguise; a stage carpenter, wanting a light for his pipe, does not hesitate to crawl in front of one of the actors and take one from the stage candies; men “ who are killed” during the play are allowed to make their exit behind a piece of black cloth, boldly brought and held up by a boy, and no hitch or accident ever justifies the drawing across of the curtains. Applause takes the form of wild shrieks—mos frequently the name of the actor. Dissent and disapprobation are invariably expressed by loud and long-continued chaffing and hooting.

An $800 Trick.

Thr Meriden Savings* Bank, Meriden, Conn., had a little streak of bad luck the other day. It was robbed of *BOO in cash and some unnegotiable bonds by a new trick, and perhaps *BOO was not too big a price for the trick. It was worth it. The Meriden Bank is not burglar-proof, and each day’s accumulations of cash and other valuables are deposited in another and safer place after business hours. The back door of the bank is of wood, secured by a wooden bolt. It was eleven o’clock in the morning. A circus was passing, making a noise and attracting the attention of the people. Mr. Yale, the bookkeeper and only occupant of the flunk, was standing in the door. A carriage drove up containing a man who was a stranger in town, he having arrived a day ot two before with some friends from New York. Hfs name was Boughton on the books of the hotel. He did not appear to have any business in Meriden but to drive around in a hired carriage. He had now driven to the bank and called Yale to the

sidewalk to have a word with him. Boughton wanted to know of Yale how they sold drafts on England. Yale said they did not deal in them stall, tome other con versa.ion followed, while Yale kept his eye on the door. He was detained several minutes while the circus was passing with ite hubbub. At length Boughton drove rapidly away toward th® Springfield depot—it being almost time for the train to start, which he was going to take, and did take. 1 ale stepped into the bank, and found the back door had been broken open, and the bank cleverly robbed of the amount above stated. The robbers and their confederate all got awv—Missouri Republican.

What is Chiccory!

h short time ago Gossiper made a visit to a coffee-grindibg establishment to get some idea how the fragrant and delicious Mocha is manufactured, and there fur the first time he was made practically acquainted with chiccory, one of the most common and successful adulterants of coffee. Along one side of the room in the mills were a number of bins capable of containing eight or ten sacks of coffee. They were nearly full at the time of the visit. In the first was coffee of a superior quality, next to it some not quite so good; then came chiccory, then barley and other grains, all being roasted and ready for grinding. There was nothing deleterious, only that the most of it was not coffee by any means. Chiccory is a species of dandelion, or' rather it belongs to the same botanical family as the dandelion, and there is a great resemblance in the shape of the leaves of the two, although those of the chiccory are much the larger, coarse, and darker colored. The roots of the chiccory are fleshy and milky and grow to about the size of a parsnip or carrot. They mature in October, when they are taken from the ground and spread out to dry on raised platforms. A few days' exposure to a hot sun makes them suffi. ciently dry for the roasting furnace, which is made in the form of a cylinder suspended over a hot fire and kept revolving until the roots are parched to a crisp. This and the drying process reduce them about one-fourth in bulk. After roasting, the roots are ground to a coarse powder, like ground coffee, which is barreled and sent to the market. The beverage made from pure chiccory is unpleasant to the taste. Chemical analysis proves it to possess few of the elements in common with coffee and very little of the nutritive properties commonly ascribed to it. In cases where it is used a long time its effects are often deleterious, especially upon the nervous system. One variety of the chiccory is cultivated in England as a salad, the tops having a pleasant, pungent flavor, and even the common variety is sometimes eaten here when other salads are scarce, but it is very coarse and strong and rather too suggestive of the diet upon which' Nebuchadnezzar was for a time compelled to feed. The chiccory grows wild in great profusion along ‘the lanes and byways in England, ana in most parts or Europe, and in California on the banks of the San Joaquin, near Stockton, a large area of land is yearly devoted to the growth of this plant, and the rich alluvial soils seem to be peculiarly well adapted to its luxuriant growth.— Boaton Commercial Bulletin.

Capture of Brigands.

Writing of Sicily reminds one of the capture of theAlfani brothers, two famous bngands, who were arrested in Palermo on Easter Sunday. The two brothers, who have been for a long time the 'terror of Sicilian provinces, and on whose head was set a price of *I,OOO each, ventured into the city to pass the day with some comrades and friends. Although perfectly disguised and surrounded by trusty friends, the police, in some mysterious way, discovered that the brigands were ifi Palermo, and an ingenious plan was laid to capture them. Two police agents disguised themselves as peasants out for aholiday, and strolled about the city until they got near the house in which the brigands were feasting with their friends. When within ear-shot the pretended peasants feigned to quarrel. Words ran high, and the two made such a noise that the brigands came to the window to see what was the matter. They saw, as they supposed, two peasants quarreling, and, enjoying the sight, they remained to look on. At last the pretended row reached such a pitch that one of the disputants drew a revolver, upon which the other ran away, and the brigands’ house being the nearest refuge he ran directly into the doorway, his adversary with the revolver following in hot pursuit. Meantime another part of the plan was being carried put. While the noise outside was going on the house had been gradually and quietly surrounded by the police, all in plain dress, however, and all more or less concealed, except two, who, at a given signal, suddenly appeared on the scene, as if attracted by the dispute. Seeing one man, revolver in hand, pursuing another, what more - natural than that they should, give chase J The first two rushed into the brigands’ house, the others followed, a whistle was heard, and still other men appeared, and before the brigands comprehended the situation the room where they were was filled with armed, men. Then, but too late, it flashed upon them, and, although both brothers attempted, a. desperate resistance, the odds were too great for them and they were soon overpowered. Pinioned and handcuffed to each other, they were brought out into the streets of Palermo, where the report that the terrible Alfani brothers had at last been taken spread like wildfire, and the people crowd* ed into the streets, cohering the polic<aS they marched along with their prizes.— Boston Transcript.

—” Driver, said a gentlefhan to a hack--’ man whom he had engaged by the hour, “ why is it, the moreyou oeat your horses the slower they seem to proceed.’’ “That’s cause I has ’em trained,’’ was the reply. Questioned further,- the fellow, said: “When I whips pae of my’oeaes on the left side he understands I’ve got a party what travels by the'hour,i and so he earns ’is oats by loafin’.” —ln the light of ? a recent event the Boston Trawtier says: “ Better give the baby a rattle. He can get lots of fun out of a revolver, but it is apt to go off and hurt somebody. When you see the baby in the back yard with a revolver, find* reporter looking over the fence and whistling, ‘ I hear an angel calling,’ It fr as weU to go out and take the weapon away from the child.” —A celebrated Judge bad a very stingy wife. On one occasion she received his friends in the drawing-room with a single candle. “Be pleased, my dear.” said his Lordship, “to id us have a second eandle. that we mar see where the Other s'ands.**

SENSE AND NONSENSE.

Spring showers—Clerks showing new Blood relations—The hews of th* "next few months.— Punch. Soda-water tastes like—like when one's foot is eslce\y.—Exchange. V. Jg What the Russians want Is iriofe room* —for instance, more Roumania. Is rr a mere coincidence that a man in the habit of getting corned always looks seedy? • Every faithful Mohammedan feels tnat this is the tijne of all times to Mecca a pilgrimage. “ *_• •" Bretonwe suits for chlldreii at* made of pique, trimmed with India ribbons and smoked pearl buttons. Kalafat has been occupied by the Turks. Marrowfat may fall next, and then farewell to pease.—Carson Appeal. The Washington Star says no one but a spider escaping from>an ink bottle ever came near forging Gen. Spinner’s signature. No man can do a 2 per cent, business on money borrowed at 12 per cent., and expect to get rich right off. — Chicago Journal. Hugh McCulloch says that’ in no branch of industry are the people of the United States behind Europeans except in fanning. A W A vagrant, who had beefi lined regularly evety week for begging, requested the magistrate to fine him by the year at a reduced rate. History says:" Ctesarnaal^lsßrutus.” But somehow or other, we always had the impression that Bruttts rather had Caesar. —Bob Burdette. A- recently-published notiqe of a marriage in Phfladelohia ended With the' announcement: “No cards; no flowers; nobody’s business.” In winding up an article on the last corn crop, an Alabama editor remarked: “We have on exhibition in dur sanctum a magnificent pair of eart. * ’ This is about the time of the year the ice men begin to circulate reports that their crop of ice was ruined bjithe late frosts. —Philadelphia Bulletin. Eminent but intemperate citizens, who are hereafter invited to dine at the White House, are arranging to pretend that they are Russians.— Nqfunch Bulletin. Massachusetts has a new law for the protection of lobstere. Any person offering for sale a lobster less than ten inches in length is liable to a fine of $5. When you see a tramp jolting bls weekly meal you are comforted with the reflection that beyond peradventure flour is going down.— Rochester Democrat. When dogs are Bushin'around alone, it is proper that thq decree of Muzzfem should go forth. Whenever a mad dog appears the war-cry of the police is “ Mflim it!”—W.JF- Graphic. .. The Oxford (N. 0.) Torchlight asks: “Is debt a blessing or a curse?” Bob Burdette replies: ” Both, sonny; both. It is a blessing to the man who can get into it deeply enough, and a curse to the other mao. who has it to collect.”.. All other signs may fall; $Ut Wheh you see a woman'with a straw bacon he* head, a drop of whitewasli on her nose, and an expression of great executive ability on her features, you may bet tiiat the season of ethereal mildness is at hand.—Worcester,Preet. The Orientals are very trusting to each other. “ Are you not afraid to go away from your shop without lodking it?” a traveler asked an Egyptian up the river. 11 Oh, no,? answered the man coolly, “there is not a Christian within three miteii” Z

Thebb millinery store in Boston which is overrun with applications for employment, the applicants fill offering tc work for Nothing. The rush is explained by the fact that within seven years fiftyseven young lady clerks have been married from the store* The last thing a Turk gives to his family when he enlists for war is an order to* keep the horses fat, no matter what comes. The Russian ' soldier bids good-by to his family by throwing a kiss at the dogs and telling his wife and children to . divide their last crust with them, H nectetory. < Dr. Holland wants to know “ Who Sn tell .what a baby thinks ?” Well, what ouldDr. Holland think himself if he had to Wear clothes a mile too long fttf him, and have his back stuck so full of pins that there wasn’t room on it for half a square inch of prickly heat?—Burlington Hawk Eye. Th* first thing a young man ges on head. When a young lady sees fin acquaintance with Mfr new iJqnneton, she just lifts her nose and serenely Wonders “ where the thing got that fright.”—Calekill (W. F.) Recorder. .... .Thky were out walking/ enfoyinjftht cool and refreshing, air. The fright moon cast its rays over the lady, giving her almost an angelic appearance, and imparted to her flowing curls a still more golden hue. One of her soft white hands rested irehis, and, ever andi snoij. she jpet tyis ardent gaze with one of pttftfTove. Suddenlya change came over her features; her full red lips trembled as if with sup-' pressed sighs; the muscles of her fruitless mouth became convulsed;‘ she gasped for breath, and, snatching her hand from fhe~ soft pressure of' his, she turned away, buried her face in her cdmbric handker-, chief, A Washington letteMvriteTsays “ Mis’s Wiifr, daughter of theOiirf Justiqe.haa the rare ftfcußy oA bdfag able k to-talk to •severkl people at once.” Rare' faculty! Oh, ignoramus! Did you never hear.a scream instructiohs to tlih wdmkfl taking up the yell at the boy nackingtiro-* china, tell the hired girl what to do with the tinware and. stove furniture,.shriek her husband intq a Soil iWveai-forfrßiptying' l half a.bushel,pf soot OUtof the stove-pfpeP the parlor floor, gntff at the wdtoaitdren for nine dffiarem Jffibiffik with one and the same wagrfjfcher flexible tongue? Ewenl of * SandwfrhlALandjs Prince. Albert Hbfiar’has shown us an extra of the Honolulu AdaMtfih*/bf April 10, announcing the death; rifi that day, of “His Royal Highness, Prince William Pitt Lelelohoku Kaiahoolewa, brother if HiaMajastythe'KiAg. heir-apparent to the throna.” Tbe Prince was twentytwo years old; and . died of rheumatic fever. A private letter to Mr. Hfres from his son, now in Honolulu, contains-the ftmeral programme and fun particulars of the halfbartarib splendor wfgfjjvhith titer obsequies were cdebrtfhd;" Tbffbfrdy Wm kept from tip 10th to the 58th of April, •nd from the 10th until the WTaJargsl

force Of cabinet-makers were errertsatiy employed upon the coffin. It was made of some rare wood or the islands, now very difficult to get, which is said to be alnHist *FW<ni* iron and susceptible of a jVonderfut polish. The Prince was a Scottish-Rife Mason, and had taken the eighteenth degree. At his funeral the sendees of both the Blue Lodge and the Scottish Hite "were performed, and the burial service of the English Church was read- The haarse was drawn iy three hundred natives, dressed in white. Ttwas preceded, attended and followed by people carrying “ Kahili*” immense pluiw», in the form of feather dusters, except mat Ihe-«airHtow«»4ifteeii feet high amLof corresponding size, composed of rare feathers and each adorned by a few of the rareiyollow fomhers of a species of blrtt now exjinct, and which feathers in Hawaii ate exclusively rbyal property. The remains were deposited "In the Royal Mausoleum, ?wsere are deposited the ccffins which contain the bodies of the Hawaiian nobility. Thefesre some twenty of these coffins in the mausoleum. The bodies are immersed in alcohol and other ingredients, and whether or not the souls are saved there Uno doubt about the bodies being pickled.— Virginia Citjf (Neo.) Enterprise.

The Famine in China.

Simultaneously with the dearth which is causing so much anxiety in India, a famine is raging ftthe nerth of China; but while the care and energy of the Indian Government reduce the distress in the former case te a minimum, people are dying by thousands In China of sheer starvation. The scenes of the chief distress are inthq north and east, in the extreme north of Kiangsu, in Shantung, in Pechili and in Shaasc; and-from Shantung especittfiy the accounts which reach Us are heartrending. The whole tract of conntry in question suffered last summer from severe drought, which ©early.destroyed the crops; and the peasantry, having eaten what little grain instore, or were able to gather, are reduced now to the last stage of want. The picture draw© by Jfeptestant misffioßaries in Shantung, and who are distributing the alms liberally contributed by the foreign communities in China, is terrible. Mr. Richard writes: “ Having finished their com, t|te people are now eating grain husks, potato stalks and elm bark, buckwheat Stalks, turnip leaves and grass seeds, which they gather in the fields. When these are exhausted they pull down their houses and sell the timber, and it is reported every, where thaT many eat the rotten sorghum stalks from the roof and the dried leaves which they usually bum for fuel. Of their eating fuel leayiss there is no doubt; thousands eat them, and thousands die because they cannot get even that. They sell their clothes and children. . Having j»o clothijut*left protect them from the cold,'many take refuge In pits’built underground, to keep themselves warm by the fetid breath of the crowd. In the east Suburb of Chingehow Citythert are four such pits. One-third of the number (240) originally put in them are now dead within six weeks, and no sooner is a corpse carried out than a crowd are struggling for the place. Villagesof 500 families report 800 deaths of starvation; villages of 300 report 100 persons dead.” Almost the whole Province of Shantung is suffering; but the suffering of . eight hien districts is said, to be beyond description; and as each contains an average of 1,000 villages, the thousands who have already perished mirt be too readily conceived.—London Times' Shanghai Correspondence. ; - , i

Decay of Timber.

Wet and dry rots are the two 1 ferine of which attack timber that is exposed >to the weather, and the cause of both may be said tq be heat With moisture. Cpnflnea air cause dry rot, jind imperfect evaporation wet rot, to a greater or less degree. ■ Tnvestifcatioti shows that as a preventive agaipst these rots the timber should be well seasoned end if used where‘liable to be under the influence Of sun and rain should be wey.painted, or, if not painted, shoqld be impregnated with linseed or oil of. tar. The best, preventive, howeyer, is found to be that of allowing a free circulation of air around the timbers, and the walls to be allowed to dry thoroughly beferq the intrqdfictibh of the tlinbers; should the timbers, hate taken either of these rots very little can be done to preserve them. In case the rot is perceived to be at the end of beams only—where in fact.it generally pommenfies—tjie best method of preserving the rest oylhe timbefS in to effectually cut away thfdecayed portion and spars with sound; if, however, this should, not be practicable, the wood may be scraped and cleaned of all fungus or extraneous matter and then impregnated with any of the' uSßal.oils. — CinctnnttJi* A»st. A French machinist has discovered that by keeping his 1 turning tools con'stuntiy wetted with petroletfaj he was ahtb'-to cut- metals.and allays wjththem, although when the tools were .used without the oils their edges ware turned and dulled. . Ttefiaitiret Vteelchhbe turned Easily if the tools be thus wet with a mixture W two prirts erf 'petroleum with one part of turperftine'. ' 'J' I''* 1 ''* *

THE MARKETS.

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