Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1877 — Page 2

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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

CUMCNT PARAGRAPHS. Ludwig 111., Grand Duke of Hesse, is All POlea have been ordered to leave Bucharest. _ The Ohio Btato Fair will be held at Columbus, commencing Sept lu On the 18tli, ex-Gov. HendricXs and wtfo left New York In the steamer Scythia, for Europe. At a fire in Bridgeport Conn., on the night of the Tth, eleven persons were crushed to death by falling walls. The American Medical Association has akeu action favoring the removal of the Government duty on quinine. ■i '■ 1 1 e Three blocks in the business portion of Galveaton were burned on tbe morning of the Bth, involving a loss of about 81,800,000.

Hie Sultan of Turkey has issued an trade, which calls upon Turkish subjects, of whatever creed, to prepare immedially for active service. Senator Morion and party arrived at San frsncisco on the ISth, m nmt> for Ore. gon, where they were going to prosecute the Grover investigation. The President has removed G. R. G. Pitkin. United States Marshal for Louisiana, and directed a commission to be issued appointing Jack Wharton to fill the vacancy. There will be. it is said, 299 new moneyorder offices established on tbe 2d of July, distributed among the several States, and about 160 additional Postofflces will be made money-order offices on tbe Ist of October. Tbe Manhattan Club, of New York, gave a reception to ex-Govs. Tilden and Hendricks, on the evening «f the 13th. A. J. Vanderpool presided and introduced the the guests, who responded in short speeches. A disease resembling cholera is said to have recently broken out among the troops at Ringgold Barracks, near Brownsville, Texas. A similar disease has also appeared In that city, and several fatal eases are re ported. _ An appeal has been made to the people of other localities for aid in behalf of the sufferers from the Mount Carmel (Ill.) cyclone. Contributions may be sent to R. S. Gordon, Mayor, or Jndge T. J. Shannon, Chairman of the Relief Committee. According to a late Washington dispatch, tbe outstanding circulation of one and two-dollar notes was $51,404,511, and $10,183,887 were in the Treasury office reserved for use. The amount in the Engraving and Printing Bureau, nearly ready for delivery, was $9,804,973. Secretary-of-State Kvarts has recently received a communication from the United Btates Minister to Mexico to the effect that thettexi.-an authorities will co-operate with the authorities of this country on the Rio Grande, to prevent raids into Texas and break up cattle-stealing in that section. Passenger trains which left Chicago on the evening of tbe 10th, on the Lake Shore A Michigan Southern and the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne A Chicago Railroads, reached New York City on the evening of the 11th, inside of twenty-five hours, the schedule time, being the quickest trips ou record. Tbe Lord Provost of Edinburgh has tendered to ex-President Grant a public recognition of the high “estimate” the Scotch “ hold of his character and the services which be, as President, rendered to the cause ot general peace, particularly in cementing the friendly relations between the United States and Great Britain.”

Near Point of Rocks, Md., on the 12*h, the regular accommodation train from Winchester, Y&., ran into an excursion train. Chas. H. Keifer, editor of the Examiner, Richard Detrow, Dorsey Walker and Howard Dickson, all of Frederick City! were killed, and eighteen wounded. The accident was attributable to the negligence of the trainmen. The new officers of the International Typographical Union are: President, Darwin R. Streeter, of St Louis; First Vice-Presi-dent, Edward Griffin, of Baltimore; Second Vice-President, Edwin Fitc-George, of Trenton, N. J.; Secretary aud Treasurer, John O'Donnell, of Boston, Mass.; Corresponding Secretary, John Armstrong, of Toronto, Canada. Hon. Peter Cooper, Greenback candi date for President st the last election, has addressed an open letter to President Hayes, criticising the past financial policy of the Government, and indicating that which, in his opinion, ought to be pursued in the future. He says “ our National currency mast be made receivable for all purposes throughout the country, and interconvertible with 3 per cent. Government bonds,” and declares that such a currency would be worth mors to the country than all the gold jn Jie* ever discovered on the continent According tn a recent Washington Associated Press dispatch, “ President Hayes, although informer years predisposed, like many other hard-money men, to adhere to the prevalent doctrine of finance writers in favor of a single gold standard, has materially changed his views during the progress of toe general discussions regarding the wis- . dom and propriety of the act of 1873, which demonetised the old legal-tender silver dol. lar. He Is now in favor of its remoeetisstom, sad of the adoption ot toe double standard of gold and silver; or, in other words, be favors a full return to the con'dition of things In relation to these subjects which existed previous to the legislation of 1813, being convinced that such s return to toe former system will greatly pro. mote toe resumption of specie payments- an object tost he regard* as of the first importance. While, however, he considers toe legislation of 1873 to have been hasty and uncalled for interference with toe legal-tender powers Of a large portion of our circulating medium, he has not yet formed any determination to bring toe snbject officially to the attention of Congress, although it is by no

means Improbable that be may bereafb-r conclude thst acme recommendations on Ida part of the nature above outlined will be advisable.”

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

According to a London dispatch of the morning of the Bth, a Russian Ambassador had reached that oity, bearing a letter from Prince Gortsctwkoff to Lord Derby, in which the former stated that Russia did not intend to interfere with the Sues Canal, Egypt, the Dardanelles, or the Persian Quit. Bhe disclaimed any intentiou of acquiring Constantinople, though the would not consent to Its possession by sny other Christian power. The letter concludes by stating that Russia’s sole object in the conduct of the wsr is to improve the condition of the Turkish Christians. On the Bth, the Russian official news, paper published a decree ordering a new levy of 318,000 men. Several Turkish officers have been shot for the surrender of Ardahan. A Therapis telegram of the 10th reports a naval battle of not large proportions at the Sulina mouth of the Danube, in which the Russians lost three torpedo boats and some prisoners and the Turks sustained the loss of oue iron-clad. The five days’ fight at Duga Pass, in Montenegro, was ended on the 10th, and rc suited in the utter defeat of the Turks, who lost over 4,000 men and large quantities of arms aud ammunition, left on the field, On the 9th, the Russians attempted to crosss,ooomen over theDanubeat Rutsebuk with pontoons, but were driven back by the batteries with considerable loss. The attempt was believed to be a feint to develop the location of the Turkish batteries.

A London dispatch of the 11th says the insurrection around Sukoum-Kaleh was spreading. A Bucharest telegram of the 11th soys there were 320 newspaper correspondents in Koumania. The Turkish Minister at Athens has been instructed to demand of Greece the reason for her extraordinary war preparations. A Constantinople dispatch of the 11th states that the insurrectionary movement in Crete, Epirus and Thessaly had grown to large proportions. The Russians began the bombardment of Rutachuk on the evening of the 11th. The Turks returned the fire. Over a thousand of the miners employed by the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Companies struck, on the 11th, against a proposed reduction of wages. Ex-Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, reached New York on the 11th, cn route for Europe. Previous to leaving Indianapolis he was tendered a reception by the citizens, which was largely attended, and at which speeches were made by Gov. Hendricks, Gov. Williams, Senator McDonald,' D. IV. Voorhees and others. Senator Ferry, of Michigan, who had been seriously ill. at hia home in Grand Haven, was reported to be much better on the 11th. The Russians have evacuated Olti, a port oh the Black Sea, and occupied Penak. Turkish and Russian accounts of the 12th agreed in the statement that, up to that time, the cannonading at Kars had been ineffectual and indecisive. The Roumaniau Government has addressed a note to the Powers, protesting against barbarous acts Of the Turks, and stating that, if the Powers do not intervene, Roumania will be compelled to carry the war into Turkey. On the 12th, an election was held in Georgia upon the question of calling a Constitutional Convention. A light vote w.as polled, and, on the 13th, the result was considered doubtful. The Republicans generally voted against the proposition. The Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle ot the 18th publishes an interview with W. W. Bishop, the lawyer who defended the late John D. Lee. He says that Brigham Young would stand a tri|l if he thought he could get clear; if he apprehended conviction, he would fight, and hia followers would stand by him to a man. Under the present jury system it was impossible to convict any of the other participants in the Mountain Meadow Massacre. He was convicted only because the District-Attorney made Young believe that his conviction would be followed by«4he admission of Utah into the Union as a State, whereupon Young ordered his conviction for the good of the church.

A New York dispatch of the 13th says the Attorney-General had returned Tweed’s statement or confession to his counsel. It was believed that he would remain in Ludlow-Street Jail until the $6,000,000 judgment was satisfied. In a letter to his counsel, on the 18th, Mr. Tweed requested that gentleman to take the necessary steps to confess judgment in all the eases brought against him by city, county or State. He was very much depressed in spirits, Benounced the injustice of" the compromise with Sweeney, and declared that the four criminal indictments found against the latter would have led to his detection had he not fled, instead of remaining, as he himself did, to meet the issue. Constantinople dispatches of the 13th report a great battle in progress at Kars. An official telegram stated that the Turkisli Commander had finally succeeded in forcing the Duga Pass, and that ihe Montenegrins were in full retreat The Turks had captured and shot a Russian spy in Rulsckuk. —The following Is given as a specimen of the conversation of Chicago young men: “Do you abbreve?” “Why, cert. Don’t your” “Bet. I think it’s splend, don't you V’ “Magnif.” “Going to hear Carl Schurz' leer” “ No, he’s on Haves’cab and won’t lec here.’ “Is that posr” “Dead cert.” “Well’-it makes no diff to me, I wasn’t going.” There’s nothing,” said Mrs. McKerrel, who keeps the boarding-house up on North Hill, ” that puts all the boarders in such a good humor as nice, tender, roast goose.” “ Ah, yes,” replied the scholarly book agent, waiting for an invitation to stay to dinner, “ a soft anser tumeth away wrath.”— l ■ Hawkeye. v;'.— 'v —A traveling man, the other day, checked a trunk, said to contain $20,000 worth of jewelry, from Worcester, Mass., to Hartford, Conn., and. on presenting the check at the destination, was handed a comparatively worthless bag, some skillful rascal having changed the checks ator between those points. —The latest invention Is artificial teeth that will not chew tobacco.

SENSE AND NONSENSE.

Every man is tbo architect of hi* own trouble* The Government still owns one-fifth of all the land in Alabama. Was the oat sack the original of the sack-coat?— Commercial Bulletin. Gracious Heavens I The potato bug* are tackling the beans.— Boston Pot'. The right eye of an engraver, on which he uscn his glass, is usually tbe stronger of the two. Never choose a one-armed man fora Magistrate. It would be impossible for him to deul even-handed justice. One of the acute sayings of a humorist Is, “ There’s a great deal of liumnn nature in horse trading, but few assets.” A woman may not care for art, but she docs not like to have a man spit on the stove hearth. — Yonker* Ornette. Bays a correspondent: “ The Grand Duke Nicholas is ill. What makes Nicsic just now ? Has lie been too often?”— Boston Globe. When u mau becomes a tramp, he becomes a being bereft of self-respect; and when self-respect is gone, little Is left but a dangerous brute.— Chicago Journal. A woman in New Jersey was cured of deafness by a thunder storm. How many men have been deafened by domestic thunder storms, tlic report does not say. The Warden of Bing Sing Prison says that 1,506 men are easier to manage than 120 women. But wliat does he want of those last two figures.— N. Y. Oraphie.

Andrew Jackson was accused of bad spelling, but John Randolph defended him by declaring that “ a man must be a fool who could not spell words more ways than one.” Dkessy shoes are made with the upper* to match costumes; or for walking-boot* gaiters are used. Slippers have rosette* or bows matching trimmings of dresses.— A- Y. Evening Post. Tennessee people depend upon their local papers to tell them when it is safe to take off their flannels. The power of the press is getting to be mightier every day. —Detroit Free Preu. Bermuda is proud of three things—its onions, its potatoes and its roads. It is a delightful island to walk over, and if one is fond of onions there is no place in the world where his taste can be so perfectly gratified. The fickleness of the weather makes a green grocer pause and scratch his head when he goes out on the sidewalk and finds his ripe strawberries frozen until they rattle in the basket like hickory nuts.— Oil City Derrick. A man will carry S4OO in his vest pocket, but a woman needs a morroco portemonnaie as large as a fist, and too heavy to carry in the pocket to escort a fifty.-cent scrip, a recipe for making jelly-cake, and two samples of dress gwds. The fly that curiosity has led to explore the inside of the chimney of a lighted lamp acts when it gets down to the burner very much like a young woman trying to sell a young man a ticket to a church festival. — Turner'» Fallt Rer.oter Ethnologists are indulging in a wordy war over the question whether Israelites of the days of Abraham were or were not taller than those of the present day. This, however, is not the first instance in history of a battle about the Heights of Abraham.

Mr. Alger says “a woman opens a book, sees a dried leaf and sheds tears.” And it is pretty much the same with a man. He opens a favorite book just returned by a borrower, sees a torn leaf and feels like shedding tears—or the borrower’s blood.— Norrist /wn Herald. A mother, in commending her daughter to a situation, was asked if she was an early riser. “An early riser?” she exclaimed. “ I should think so! Why, she’s up in the morning, and has breakfast ready, and makes all the beds, before anyone else is up in the house!” The growing custom of putting the choir at the pulpit end of the church has the very serious drawback that it prevents a man from turning around and looking up at the organ in a critical manner just before the contribution box approaches his pew. —Baltimore Bulletin. A girl that is never allowed to sew, all of whose clothes are made for her and put on her till she is ten, twelve, fifteen or eighteen years of age, is spoiled. The mother has spoiled her by doing everything for her. The true idea of self-re-straint is to let the child venture. A child’s mistakes are often better than it’s no-mistakes, because when a child makes mistakes and has to correct them, it is on the way to knowing something. A child that is waked up every morning, and never wakes himself up, and is dressed, and never makes mistakes in dressing himself; and is washed, and never makes mistakes about ibeing clean; and is fed, and never has anything to do wj|h its food; and is watched, and never watches himself; and is cared for, and kept all day from doing wrong—such a child might as well be a tallow candle, perfectly straight and solid, and comely and unvitar, and good for nothing but to be burned up. —Henry Ward Beecher. State-Assayer Hayes of Massachusetts prints a warning about the use of Paris green to destroy potato-bugs, in which he says: “The danger is much too great to permit its use by New England farmers. It is not known that the arsenic or copper is absorbed by the plants; they may be; but assuming that they are not, then the danger attending the common mode of digging and gathering potatoes, from the adhesion of particles of the poison, in a soil upon which it has been scattered; the danger in distributing it and placing in the hands of the workmen; and the danger to animals, such as poultry, hogs, sheep and even dogs, who may venture into the fields, make only part of a list of dangers that may be readily brought to mind. And when we add to this that the effects of .metallic poisons may not be observed for months, or years in some cases, there is certainly reason for saying that the indiscriminate use of Paris green on these plants may be more disastrous in its results than the loss of several crops of potatoes. I cannot suggest any harmless chemical agents that will drive off the bogs, but do xot use a metallic poison.”

The Story of a Mummy.

For seventeen years the most carious object in the Museum of the Tennessee Historical Society has been the Egyptian mummy. It has a very singular history. In 1860 Col. Jeremiah George Harris was a purser on a United States man ofwar in the Egyptian waters. He went on shore, and was at once ushered into the august presence of the Khedive and his numerous household. He was walking out one day with a member of the Khe~ dive’s staff, when the latter was set upon by ruffians. Col. Harris, who is a man of great strength, interposed, and the roughs were vanquished.

“ What can I do,” asked the Egyptian officer, ‘‘to show adequate approbation of the services you have rendered me?” *’ Give me a mummy,” laughingly sug geated Col. tfhrris. “A mummy?” repeated the officer, holding his breath and pondering. “ Did you not know. sir. that our laws prohibit the removal of mummies, under penalty of death! But, never mind; your request shall be fulfilled. Just before your vessel leaves the harbor a boat will come alongside. It will contain that for which you have asked.” Col. Harris had dismissed the subject from his mind, but jnst before the hour for the departure of the ship three na tives were seen pulling toward the vessel. The boat contained a bundle directed to Col. Harris. This bundle was not opened until the arrival of the ship at Boston, when it wus discovered that there were six mummies instead of one. They were unwrapped, and the best one forwarded to the Tennessee Historical Society, of which col. Harris was then and is still a member. When Prof. Huxley was here he examined the mummy with a great deal of interest, and said that he believed it to be the best preserved specimen either in America or in Europe. —Nashville American.

FACTS AND FIGURES.

It costs England SSOO a year to support a soldier, while Austria supports one for $235. The Philadelphia signers of the Murphy I total abstinence pledge now number 35,000. The money loss to Savannah by last year’s yellow fever visitation is estimated at $7,000,000. There have been 251 iron vessels of all sizes built in tbe United States since 1868, having u, total tonnage of 197,500. Some amiable individuals in England have subscribed for the shipment of 2,000 plum-puddings to the nearest attainable section of the Turkish Army. The puddings were sent in hermetically sealed cans. A dangerous amusement is that of the juveniles with fire-crackers, on Independence Day. Attention has been called to it by the National Board of Underwriters, in New York, who show that within the last ten years, conflagrations produced by these explosives, have destroyed more than $10,000,000 worth of property. It is recommended that their use be strictly prohibited, and that no more of them be imported. Safety requires of youngsters that this sacrifice be made, and that no more amusement be drawn from this source. —American Manufacturer. The population of the Indian Territory is about 77,000. * The wild Indians by blood,<called “blanket” Indians, who do not cultivate the soil, are the Osages, Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Eiowas and Pawnees, and number 20,000. Those mixed with the whites and partly civilized, are the Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Choctaws aud Chickasaws. A white mau marrying a squaw becomes a “white Indian,” and a white woman marrying *an Indian becomes a “white squaw.” There are also a lot of “ black Indians,” who are negroes. Altogether these number 55,000. Beside these there are 6,500 “ negro citizens of the United Slates,” formerly slaves of the Chickasaws. They do not rank as Indians, while the “black Indian” does. The Journal Offlciel states that the steam engines in France now give an aggregate of 1,500,000 horse-power, representing a force of 4,500,000 horses, or 31,000,000 men—that is to say, ten times the valid industrial population (the industrial population of France now amounts to 8,400,000 inhabitants—women, children and old people included, among whom can be reckoned only 3,200,000 active workers). The first engine which appeared in France came from Boulton & Watt’s works, at Birmingham, in 1789, and was used for distribution of water to the city of Paris. It was not until 1824 that large works for the construction of steam engines were begun. Some idea of the great comparative progress of the last thirteen years may be had from the fact that in 1852 there were 6,000 fixed steam engines in France, representing 45,000,000 horse-power; in 1863, 22,500, representing 618,000 horsepower ; the number at present being as stated above.

An Odd Old Woman.

A curious story is told of Miss Joanna Farnham, who recently died at the American House in Boston, aged eighty years. She had long been housekeeper there, but was supposed to be very poor. .When her trunk was opened, however, it was found to contain a variety of dry goods, notes for $5,000, a bank book of the Blackstone Bank, showing deposits of $1,700, a small sum of money, and also a piece of paper having a trunk key wrapped up in it, and on the paper was a writing stating that the key belonged to another trunk, which could be found at the house of a relative in Milton. This proved to be true, and this second trunk was packed full of all sorts of fine wearing apparel, and contained also a key in a piece of paper, upon which was the statement that this key belonged to another trunk at a certain other house. And so this thing was followed up until twenty very large-sized trunks and three huge packing-chests were found, all crammed full of the most expensive articles of ladies’ wearing apparel and house furnishings that the Boston marxet afforded. When these trunks and hexes were all collected, they loaded down a four-ox team, and were drawn to a large hall in Milton, unpacked and inventoried, preparatory to an auction sale for the benefit of the heirs. Among all these valuables were eighty-nine dresses—new and perfect—made of silk velvet, satin and all kinds of plaid silks, black and colored thibets, poplins, alpacas, brilli&ntines, cashmeres, etc.; three silk velvet cloaks, nineteen shawls, from common to the richest Paisley ana wrought crape; 106 skirts of all colors; 114 pairs of hose; undergarments too numerous to mention, table linen, towels, handkerchiefs, counterpanes, blankets, coverlets, sheets, livegeese feathers, sets of elegant chin aware, a large lot of table and teaspoons of best coin silver, silver knives and forks, a fine gold watch and chain, and a large lot of line jewelry, etc. All of these goods are perfectly new and in the best order, never having been used at all. There is enough of the whole to stock a large store. Yet there is said to be no doubt that she came hobestly by ail, as it has since been ascertained where and of whom she purchased them at various times as she went along. The original cost of these goods was not lews than $3,000, and the owner, wMle she lived, went dad in the very cheapest apparel. —Handkerchiefs and neck-ties for morning wear are trimmed with the new colored torchon laces, either blue or red with white, in insertions and edgings.

Science and War.

Mr. Baden Pbitcharp write* in Nature : “ Recent wars have had particular interest for the man of science. Starting irom the close of the Crimean war, the first in whitfh the electric telegraph was employed, we find ample examples of tbe assistance furnished to the soldier by scientific research. One instance taken from the war of 1858 is especially interesting. The Austrians held Venice at the time, it may be remembered, and, to protect the harbor, torpedoes were laid down. The torpedoes were fired by electricity and contained gun cotton, this being the first instance on record of the employment of eleciric torpedoes and of the newly-io-vented nitro-com pounds. Nor was this all. The torpedo system devised at Venice by tbe Austrian engineers had yet another point of scientific interest. A camera obscura was built overlooking the harbor, and upon the white table of this instrument were reflected the waters of Venice. As the torpedoes were sunk one by one a sentinel in the camera noted the place of their disappearance with a pencil, giving each torpedo a consecutive number. A row boar in the harbor described a circle around tlic sunken torpedo indicating the zone of its destructive power, and the sentinel, again, with his pencil, made a corresponding ring upon the camera table. In the end, therefore, while the harbor itself was apparently free from all obstruction, a very effective means of torpedo defense was established, the key of which was only to be found in the camera obscura. The sentinel here had wires in connection with every torpedo, and was in a position to fire anyone as soon as he observed—by means of the camera—the presence of a hostile vessel within the limits of any of the circles marked upon his white table. In the American war of 1860 the electric torpedo, invented but two years before, played a most conspicuous ro.’e, and formed, indeed, with tbe use of big guns aud monitor iron-clads, one of the most important features of the struggle, at any rate, from a scientific point of view. The war of 1866, when the Austrians suffered such a terrible defeat at the hands of the Prussians, will long be remembered as a combat between the old muzzle-loading rifle and the breech-loader, in which the latter was victorious. The Franco-Ger-man struggle of 1870, again, though marked by the employment of no special arm, if we except the mitrailleuse, was assisted by important applications of science—to-wit, the reproduction, by means of photo-lithography, of the French oi finance maps and plans, which were distributed in thousands throughout the German army, and the establishment in France of la poste derienne, to communicate with the besieged garrison of Paris. From Sept. 29 to Jan. 28, when Paris was practically cut off from the rest of the Republic, no less than Bixty-four balloons left the city with passengers, mails and pigeons, and of these only three were lost, while five were captured. The return post, by ‘ homing pigeons,’ was hardly so regular; but, nevertheless, half the number of dispatches given in by correspondents at Tours ana elsewhere, or, in other words, 100,000 messages, were, by the unflagging energy oi the postal authorities, carriedinto the beleaguered Capital. The {•resent Russo-Turkish war cannot well be ess interesting than those that have so recently preceded it, and we may especially point out two directions in which fresh examples of scientific warfare will probably manifest themselves—in connection, namely, with the cavalry pioneer and the Whitehead torpedo. Both of these will probably be seen in warfare for the first time, and, before many days are past, we may hear of their doings m action. The cavalry pioneer must not be confounded with the Prussian Uhlan, who played so conspicuous a part in the last war. The übiquitous Uhlan, terrible as he was, did not work the injury which some of the Cossacks will have it in their power to inflict if accoutred as pioneers. These are selected from the smartest and most daring troopers, lightly armed and well mounted. In a belt round their waists they carry a few pounds of gun-cotton or dynamite, and with tnishighly-destructive explosive they may work incalculable harm. A small charge of gun-cotton placed simply upon a rail and fired with a fuse suffices to blew several feet of the iron to a distance of many yards, thus rendering the railway unserviceable on the instant. A trooper may dismount, place a charge at the base of a telegraph pole, fire it, and be in his saddle again within sixty seconds. Wires may thus be cut and communication stopped in the heart of an enemy’s countiy by fearless riders, who have but to draw rein for an instant to effect the mischief, while lines of railway in Ihe neighborhood are entirely at their mercy. Even light bridges and well-built stockades may be thrown down by the violent detonation of compressed gun-cotton, and forest roads considerably obstructed by trees thrown across, which are never so rapidly felled as when a small charge of this explosive is fired at their roots. The influence of the Whitehead torpeao, of which we have heard so much of late, will likewise be felt for the first time during the present war. An implement so ingenious in it* character that, as Lord Charles Beresford the other day happily remarked, it can do almost anything but talk, is in the possession of both belligerents, and will, doubtless, be heard of before long on the Danube and in the Black Sea. These torpedoes are manufactured at Fiume, on the Mediterranean, and, like Erupp guns, are to be purchased by anyone who chooses to pay for them.”

The Olympian Excavations.

The Olympia in Greece, under the patronage of tie German Government, are still continued and still repay the labor and expense. The trenches which are dug in all directions about the Zeus Temple reveal a number of old walls, and a terrace supposed to have been a part of the sub-structure of the eleven treasure chambers, has been uncovered. Between two parallel walls a marble base and female Roman figure have been found, the figure resembling the statue of Livia in the Neapolitan Museum, the head being well preserved and having traces of color in the hair and eyes. Another Reman structure has been uncovered, with a frontage of 1,140 feet and a depth of 000 feet, ana a large addition in the rear. The building contained many sculptures in a more or less injured condition; among these are conspicuous fourteen marble statues larger than lifesize, eight of them being female figures, mainly matrons, a few youthful figures and a little girl. One of the male figures is the statue of an Emperor clad in richlydecorated armor; his arms-bearer is near by, also a palm free with one branch; three other figures wear the toga, and the sixth is that of a lad wearing a mantle. From inscriptions it appears that the statues of Faustina the younger, wife of Marcos Aurelius, and of her son Commodus and his

slater, were placed here by Hsrodes Attica*. Herode* seem* to have built the great hall cn the high bank of the Kronion River, affording a fine view of the entire Altis, or Grove of Zeus, in which to group tbe members of the reigning dynasty as a votive offering. Other members of the Imperial family and of the hotue of Ilerodes were afterward added in token of their gratitude by the Elians. Although they are all only portait statues, the fourteen figures are none the lees works of art in every respeet. The Byzantine Church, or Hippodatneion, the discovery of which has already been announced in these columns, has been completely freed from the surrounding and superincumbent earth, and a well constructed aqueduct surrounding it.on three sides has Deen exposed to view, with here and there outlets for the water. Thiß aqueduct is supposed to be of more antique origin than the church. Explorations are now going on at the eastern entrance and in the interior of the church. A despatch received in Berlin on the 11th of May announced that on the day before one ot the oldest and most important structures within the Altis, the Temple of Hsra (Juno), had been discovered, in a somewhat rained condition, but still recognizable.— N. Y. Evening Post.

She Killed a Man.

Soon after daylight Tuesday morning a widow woman occupying a cottage on Fort street east ran out upon the street and excitedly called to a policeman: “ Come over here—hurry—quick—l’vekilled a man stone dead!” “ Where is he?” asked the officer as he came up. “ Rignt around in the back yard, sir! Oh! sir, I heard a noise at the window, and I got up, and there was a burglar trying to'get in, sir! 1 took tbe shot-gun from behind the door and fired, and you’ll find the corpse under the window! Oh! I can’t hardly catch my breath, and I’m afraid they’ll put me in jail!” The officer walked around to the rear of the house, looked over every foot of ground, and failed to find a corpse. One of the windows was raised, but there was no blood, no marks of shot and no evidence that a man had been hit. “ You are sure you saw a man, and sure you hit him, are you ?” he asked of the widow. “ Oh, I know I did—l’m certain of it.” “ But where is the body?” “ Perhaps his partner carried it off,” she suggested. Tbe officer looked all over the windowcasing for shot marks, but there were none, and he asked for the gun. It was lying across the bed, and he was only a minute discovering that it was not loaded, and had not been for months. The lock, too, was out of order, the hammer broken, and no one could have fired the gun. “Iguessyou didn’t kill a man with this,” he remarked, as he put the weapon down. “Why didn’t I?” she innocently inquired. When he had explained matters she burst into tears and wailed out: “ It’s awtul to be a widow, and shoot at a burglar, and to miss him, and to find outlhat you never shot at all! Seems as if everybody was down on me!”— Detroit Free Press.

He Went Fishing.

Several of the Clevelanders who went to Kelley’s Island, by the way of Sandusky, last week, after black bass, reached borne night before last. One of them, Brown, rushed into his house, and, in his joy at meeting Mrs. Brown and all the little Brownses, attempted to clutch them all to his bosom in one wild embrace. “ Go away!” yelled Mrs. Brown. “But my dear —” “ I ain’t your dear! I never saw you. My Leonidas never had that ugly red all over his face, and never smelt like a beergarden police!” The baby began to yell, the oldest girl started into the back yard after the dog, and the hired girl fainted dead away in the pantry. “I am Brown; I swear it! Listen, Mary Ann. Your upper teeth are false; your switch cost two dollars and ahslf; you demolish cloves for the benefit of your breath; you keep a bottle of brandy in your wash-stand. Hear me for my cause. What stranger could have learned all this? What man—” “Me love! me love! ’Tis he! ’Tis thee!” And she collapsed into his arms, and thus prevented the gathering neighbors from learning any further particulars about the internal economy of tbe house of Brown. “ And now,” says Brown, “I am fully determined to brain tbe first man who says ‘black bass,’ and especially when the sun is hot enough to turn one into a Hottentot or a Fijii Islander in twenty-four hours.” —Cleveland Herald.

—When a fond mother can go into a school-room and whale a six-foot teacher for whipping her boy, it is not wise to say that if she were in politics she could not run a primary meeting.— N. Y. Herald. —The Houston Age offers a year’s subscription to any member of the last Lqgislature who will answer this conundrum correctly: “ How many counties are there in Texas?” * J

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