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General News Summary.

the Bth, issued a call for 93,000,000 coupon and *2,000,000 registered 6-90 bond* on account of subscriptions to the 4-per-ceot- loan. Tn Home Committee on Education end Labor agreed, on the oth, upon a Mil making It a misdemeanor for the Master of a reeael to take more than fifteen Chinese passengers, or female, to the United States after ami. in*. Tn President, on the oth, nominated exOor. Packard, of Louisiana, to be Consul at Liverpool, Bag., and ex-Gov. Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin, to be Consul-General at Paris, Prance. Bac’x Evabts has appointed Bret Harte, the author, aa United States Commercial Agent at Crefeldt, Prussia, at a salary of •*,OOO. Harte aspired to the Chinese Mlsstoa. TUB BART. A qcsjmrr of «• oil-executed counterfeit trade dollars hare lately been captured In Cincinnati. They are composed of block tin, bismuth and pulverised glass. They are pretty nearly the standard weight and bare the color and ring of the real dollars. The only moans of detecting them from the genuine Is by weighing them, or biting them with the teeth, when the glam of which they are composed gives forth a cracking sound. Ur to the 7th, the New fork Syndicate had actually taken *30,000,000 of the *80,000,000 new 4%-per-cent. Government bonds, which it moently contracted for with the Secretary of the Treasury.

The thirteenth annual meeting of the National Temperance Society was held In New York, on the 7th. Wm. E. Dodge was reelected President. The annual reoort says that in many of the Btste Legislatures, ss well as In Congress, the liquor traffic has occasioned much discussion, but there has been few important changes in the statutes. Tu flftyAhlrd anniversary of the American Tract Society was held in New York on the Bth. The annual reoort of the Treasurer shows a total expenditure during the year of *400,993; receipts, Including balance in Treasury April 1, 1877, *415,018. During the past year 335 colporteurs have labored In the United States and two In the British Provinces, circulating 198,838 volumes and addressing 788 meetings. The fifty-second anniversary of the American Home Missionary Society was held on the same day. The number of ministers in the service of the Society is 996. With the exception of filling vacancies, caused by death, the officers of the previous year were elected. The Pennsylvania Nationals met in State Convention at Philadelphia, on the Bth, and nominated 8. R. Mason for Governor, Christopher Shearer for Lieutenant-Governor, James L. Wright for Secretary of Internal Affairs, Benjamin 8. Bentley for Judge of the tapmme Court. scs Mr. Shearer, nominated by the Nationals for Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania, declined the nomination, on the 9th. The platform adopted by the Convention embodies the principles contained in the resolutions of the Toledo Convention. Gold closed in New York, ou May 10th, at 100%. The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring, Wheat, *1.19%<g1.20; No. 3 Milwaukee, *1.21% @ 1.23. Oats Western and State, 34@86c. Corn, Western Mixed, 48@54c. Pork, Mess, *9.80. Lard, *7.17%. Flour, Good to Choice, *5.06(8.5.85; Winter Wheat, *5.90(86.50. Cattle, *8.50(810.25 for Good to Extra. Sheep, *4.00(3662%. Hogs, *3.75(3 3.85.

At East Liberty, Pa., on May 10th, Cattle brought: Best, *5.00(85.50; Medium, *4.40(8 4.80; Common, *4.00(84.20. Hogs sold— Yorkers, *3.60(33.70; Philadelphia*, *3.75(3 3.90. Sheep brought *3.00(34.70 —according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on May 10th, Cattle brought; Best, *5.12%@5.75; Medium, $3.87%@4.63%. Hogs "sold at *[email protected] for Good. Sheep were quoted at *4.00(35.50 for Good. ~ ; WEST AND SOOTH, A state Convention of the National party will be held at Grand Rapids, Mich., on the sth, of June. A call has been issued for the meeting of a State Con vention of the Independent Greenback party, at Emporia, Kan., on the 3d of July next, to nominate candidates for State offices, etc. A violent tornado passed over Memphis, Tenn., on the morning of tbe Bth. The Peabody House and a number of other structures were unroofed—the total damage aggregating about *50,000. Senator J. D. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, and Miss Elizabeth B. Sherman, daughter of Judge Sherman, were married at Cleveland, on the evening of the 9th. The ceremony, which took place in the St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal Church, was witnessed by fully 1,000 guests, including distinguished persons from Washington and Pennsylvania, among whom were General and Sec’y Sherman, brothers of the bride’s father. In Chicago, on May 10th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at *1.09%@1.10 cash. Cash Corn closed at 39%c for No. 2. Cash Oats No. 2 sold »t 26%c; and 26%c seller June. Rye No. 2, 58c. Barley No. 2, 51%@52%c. Cash Mess Pork closed at *8.45. Lard. *6.85. Beeves— Extra brought *[email protected]; Choice, *4.75 <35.00; Good, *4.25(84.65; Medium Grades, *[email protected]; Butchers’ Stock, *2.75(33.75; •toe* Cattle, ekt, *6.25(84.00. Hogs—Good to Choice, *3.20(83.75. Sheep-Poor to Choice, *2.75(86.50.

VOKBION INTKLUOEKCK. A Bekux dispatch’ of the sth Bays Prince Bismarck had announced that Germany would observe strict neutrality in case of war between Russia and Great Britain. Th* British Government has ordered a million pounds’ weight of lint and other appliances for wounded soldiers. As Alexandria (Egypt) dispatch of the sth says preparations were making to disembark Indian soldiers at Port Said and Baez. Th* Grand Duke Nicholas reached St. Petersburg, on the sth. He was enthusiastically received. Os the Bth, the British Parliament' was in aeesion for the first time since the Easter recess. In reply to the questions of lesding Liberals, Bir Stafford Northcote, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said the negotiations with Russia continued, but declined to discuss them on the ground that the public interests would be prejudiced thereby. A sractAL from Lyra, in Turkish Armenia, published on the Bth, says that ninety-one Armenian villages had been plundered by the Derain Koords, and that the Ottoman authorities were unable to afford protection. Roumabll has issued another circular to the Powers protesting against the Russian occupation of her territory, and announcing that Roumanian officers had been ejected from their posts In Bessarabia. Buux dispatches of the Bth say that Russia .had determined not to liberate the Turkish prisoners at war, numbering about 80,000, because of doubt as to the course of the Porte In the event of war with Great Britain. Vaunts, telegrams of the Bth say anarchy lUtoned in the newly-annexed district of ycßtetlflgra Albanians, Moslems and Chris-

thus united In refusing to ackrowlodge the authority of the reigning Prince, and armed insurrection was momentarily exported. A TBUBiBU tornado swept over Canton, China, on the tlth of April last, which destroyed or seriously Injured thousands of dwelling* and caused the loss of 500 lives. The foreign settlement suffered severely from the wind and water-spout, but lost no lives. B*tard Taylor, United States Minister to Berlin, presented his credentials to the Emperor on the Bth. He was very cordially received. According to Constantinople dispatches of the 9th, the Russians had evacuated all the positions they held near the insurrectionary district*, so as to give the Porte’s Commissioners full liberty of action. It was reported tb«* the insurgents bid issued a proclamation addressed ts» the Christians of Thrace, Macedonia and Epirus, to mike a vigorous effort to repel the common enemy. A Belgrade telegram of the same date says the Mohammedans and Albanians in Old Servla were rising in rebellion, and that an insurrectionary fermentation was also perceptible among the Mohammedan population of Nisch. A trlcokam from Rome (Italy) of the 10th •ays the Pope was seriously til from Inflammation of the liver. The negotiations for the resumption of diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Russia and the Vatican had come to naught. Ex-President Grant was In Paris on the 10th. A Berlin telegram of the 10th says the German Government had declined the invitation of the United States to attend an International Coinage Congress. Belgrade dispatches of the 10th say the Insurrection in Bosnia was assuming large proportions. The insurgents were compelling all Christians to join them and forcing them to burn their villages. According to a Constantinople telegram of the 10th, Gen. Todleben had decided to make Adrianople his base of operations In the event of war. It waa being strongly fortified and was believed to be Impregnable. An explosion of gas occurred, on the afternoon of the 10th, at the entrance of the harbor of Londonderry, Ireland, on board the Steamer Sardinian, of tbe Allan Line, from Liverpool to Quebec, by which three persons were killed and from forty to sixty more or less injured. The ship was set on fire and was still burning on the morning of the 11th. Tbe passengers were mostly Germans and Italians, although there were some English aud Scotch emigrants on board.

FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Senate not in session on the 4th. In the House, bills were reported from the Committee on Coinage, and recommitted, to retire the five and three-oent silver pieces, and to stop their farther coinage, and providing that fractional or subsidiary silver coin shall be a legal tender to the extent of twenty dollars, and shall be exchangeable at the Treasury for other legal-tender money when presented in sums of twenty dollars or over... .Several amendments to the Legislative Appropriation hill were adopted, among them being one requiring agricultural seedr. to he distributed proportionately among the Congressional Districts, and one appropriating *185.010 for the re-establishment of the New Orleans Mint The bill, aa amended, was then passed. A PFrrripN was presented in the Senate, on the 6th, signed by a large number ol persons, praying that Gen. John C. Fremont be included in the bill to plaoe Gen. James Shields on the retired list of the army... .Mr. Gordon spoke in favor of the repeal of the Resumption act... .The House bill making appropriations tor the payment of invalid and other pensions or the United States for the year ending June 30,1879, waa called up, and several amendments were agreed to. Bills were introduced in the House —declaring that all propositions to change or modify the Tariff law are injurioua and detrimental to tbe general welfare of the people; giving to all religions denominations equal rights and privileges in the Indian reservations; for the appointment of a commission to be called the Farmers’ and Stock-Breeders’ Commission, and to consist of a veterinary surgeon and two practical stock breeders, at an annual salary of *2.600 each, to have charge of the investigation of the contagions diseases of farm stock, their causes, means of prevention, cure, etc., and to report from time to time measures to prevent the importation of such diseases from abroad and the spread of the co rtagion; to indemnify Illinois and other States in regard to swamp lands; to enable soldiers of tbe late war to pre-empt land to the extent of 160 acres.... A motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill reducing the tax on snuff and tobacco to sixteen cents per pound, on cigars to five dollars per thousand, etc., was lost—yeas, 120; nay*, 115—not two-thirds in the affirmative. In the Senate, on the 7th, the Postoffice Appropriation bill was repertedback from committee, with sundry amendments, and placed on the calendar.. . The House bill to forbid further retirement of United States legaltender notes was, on motion—3B to Spreads second time.... The Pension Appropriation bill was further amended and finally passed.... The Indian Appropriation bill was taken up and several unimportant amendments were agreed to.

a permanent foim of government for the Die trict of Colombia was paaaed.... A motion to go into Committee of the Whole on the Tariff bill was agreed to—lo 9to 108—and Mr. Banka spoke in opposition to the bi 11.... A bill was introduced and referred to provide for a Tariff Commission. In the Senate, on the Bth, the House bill to forbid the further retirement of United States legal-tender notes was referred to the Committee on Finance... .The House joint resolution to amend the joint resolution of July 3, 187$, authorizing the Secretary of War to issue aims, so as to provide that arms shall be issued to the Te*ritoneß as well as to the States, not exceeding 600 stand of arms to each Territory, was amended so as to provide that the present quota of the States shall not be diminished on account of such additional issue, and the resolution, as amended, was passed ... Several amendments to the Indian Appropriation bill were disposed of. In the House, the Speaker announced the Committee on Census as follows: Cox (N. Y.). Mills, Stenger, Lignon, Smith (GaJ. Carlisle, Hatcher. Ballou, Jorgensen, Ryan and Williams (Ore.).. The Committee on Elections reported in tlje contested-election cases from the Seoond South Carolina and the Sixth Mississippi Districts and Oregon, declaring the sitting members, Cain, Chalmers and Williams, entitled to the seats, which report was adopted.... The Tariff bill was taken up in Committee of the Whole, and Messrs. Tucker and Robbins, of the Waya and Means Committee, spoke in its favor. In the Senate, on the 9th, the bill to provide for the distribution of awards made under the Convention between the United States and Mexico, concluded on the 4th of July, 1868, Was considered in secret session and afterward paaaed... -Several amendments to the Indian Appropriation bill were agreed to, and the bill was passed... The conference report on the bill regulating the advertising of mail-lettings was agreed to . ■ .The bill to repeal the Bankrupt law was further debated. In the House, a joint resolution was passed for the enforcement of the Eight-Hour law in all departments of the Government.... The Senate bill authorizing the citizens of Colomdo, Nevada and the Territories to fell and remove timber on the public l*mk [ . for mining and domestic purposes, was passed, with an amendment providing that such lands shall not be open to nulroaid corporations for the cutting of timber... Further debate was had on the bill to regulate inter-State transportation by railroad. ■. -The Tariff bill was taken np in Committee of the Whole, and Hr. Kelley, of the Ways and Means Committee, made an argument against the measue, and Mr. Harris (Ga ). of the came committee, moke in favor of the bill. The House joint resolution authorising the expenditure of 836.000, of the 8300.000 appropriated, to give greater stability to the foundation of the Washington Monument, was passed in the Senate, on the 10th.. . The bill to repeal the Bankrupt law was taken up, and an amendment was agreed to—27 to 21-providing that the repeal shall take effect Bcpt. 1 1878, and the bill,as amended, was passed.... Adjourned to the 13th. A bill was passed in the House providing that the notice of contest, under the Pre, eruption. Homestead and Timber-Culture laws, moat he printed in newspapers in the dbunty where such contest lies. ...A bill appropriating 83,800 to Richard Heater, of Virginia, for stores and supplies taken by the United States Army during the war, gave rise to considerable discussion on war claims in general, and heated remarks were indulged in by Messrs. White (Pa.), and Hue.ton (Va.) Toward the close of thecontrovezay, Mr. White having been called to order, and paying no attention to the call. Mr. Turner (Ky.) approached him with clenched fist and demanded to know why he (White) did not take his seat. The two gentlemen were )<-d to their by their friends, and the j

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. -VIW man’s an ignoramus. And Minds no postage-stamp. i —Courier Jmnal. —A little stealing is a dangerous part, Bat a calling largely is a noble art; Tu wrong to steal a hen-roost of a hen. But stealing millions makes ns gentlemen. —Boiton W atchman. 1 —Chinese people have s notion that the soul of a spring poet passes intq a grasshopper, because it sings until tt starves. —The target season has arrived, when grown ipen can lie down on their backu and find enjoyment shooting over their toes with a rifle.— N. O. Picayune. —The Czar is self-sacrificing. He is even willing to give Servia some more Turkish territory for the sake of peace. That beats A item us Ward’s patriotism.. — Graphic. -Nothing- is impossible.. A man jnay think he can’t climb over a picket fence, but a big dog will settle the case in the affirmative at the first growl.— Detroit Free Press. —Horace Greeley might have been a greater man than he was if any one had kindly stepped in and told him that the hind wheels of a one-horse wagon cannot be made to do duty on the forward axle.— Detroit Free Press. ■ \ —The Herald has discovered that the Feast of the Passover is to commemorate “ the passing of the Israelites oyer tbe Red Sea!” That’s the same paper that thinks the Fourth of July is celebrated in commemoration of the birth of St. Patrick.— N. F. Graphic. —The other dav an old woman named Pamela Bradbury died at Farmington, Me., and upon her person was found silver, gold, nickel and copper ooins, and a note for SIOO, all amounting to S4OO. The weight upon her person amounted to some seventy pounds, and this she constantly earned about while doing housework. —The Wheeling (Va.) Standard says: “We earnestly recommend every man who is languishing for A job to retire to the country; rent a farm, raise everything that you will need for ths support of your family; sell what you cannot use; be frugal, enterprising and industrious, and all the panics that the world has ever seen may come and go, for they will not affect you in the least”

—The cucumber graceth the festal board Enshrouded in condiment* rare. And the epicure gleefully rubbeth hi* paunoh At the eight of the treasure there. The doctor nmileth a ead-like smile, And givetb a crocodile groan. And the marble-man goeth oat the while And polisheth up a stone. The undertaker mournfully asks “ What will hi* measure be?" And the sexton marketh a spot “ reserved” All under the willow tree. ’Tie hard the times and ’tis scarce the cash— And so with a zestful joy We welcome waft to the fitful fruit That giveth the folk employ. —St. Aoms Journal. —An agricultural paper gives several directions “ How to tell a good egg.” They are not altogether satisfactory, however. The quickest andsurest way to tell a good egg is to place it in one hand ana mash it with the other. If an odor arises that leads you to believe that a bone-boiling establishment and Limburger cheese factory have telescoped, the egg is not good and you want to throw it away and wash your hands. This method'never fails.— Chicago Journal. —The late Prince Napoleon Lucien Murat lived for a time in Jefferson County, New York. He there erected grist-mills and saw-mills, and laid the foundation for what he expected would ultimately be a large city, to which he gave his father’s name, Joachim. The name still clings to the place, but nothing remains to mark it except the bridge across the river and the ruins of the dam. Joachim did not flourish, and the fortune of the Prince gradually wasted away, and he had to borrow money to go back to France. —A wonderful circumstance occurred in Watsonville, Nev., recently. A gentleman well known in that section owns a lot of hens. One ofihein, a few weeks ago, commenced laying in the wood-pile, her nest being situated between two sticks of wood placed far enough apart so that as fast as an egg was laid it would drop upon the ground .*l.. least two feet below. After laying, twelve or fifteen eggs, the hen commenced sitting on the hole between those sticks of wood, the eggs being on the ground below, two feet distant. Three weeks passed by, and eleven of those eggs hatched successfully.—Exchange. —The first literary effort of Flavius Josephus Cook has been made public by his old teacher. It takes up the subject of “The Cow,” and discusses it as follows: “The cow is a good animal. She has two horns, and two eyes, and gives milk which is good to eat. She has four legs and eats grass and hay. Some cows are red, and they have long tails.” There is very little to be said by way of criticism of the production, except that it bears evidence of the writer’s immaturity. His information is correct, but his way of putting it betrays the fact that it" was written before he had become erudite and competent to address a Boston audience acceptably. Doubtless he meant to say that the female of the bovine genlu* is a beneficent mammal; that this ruminant quadruped is possessed of corneous protuberances, projecting from the occiput, that her vision is binooular, and that she yields an edible and nutritious lacteal exudation; that she is quadrupedal and herbivorous, assimilating her fiDod in both tbe succulent and exsiccated state; that some of them chrortiattcally correspond to the seventh color of the spectrum, and that they are endowed with caudal appendages of exaggerated lojgiuulinality.— Worcester Press.

New Bonnets.

New suggestions are found in the Paris bonnets brought out later in the season. The handsomest chips and straws have the inside of the frontlined with dark velvet or satin, and edged with a single row of gold braid or else the new rainbow braid that has tinsel threads of many colors to match the rainbow beads; they have no other face trimming. A great many beige-colored chip bonnets are in the late importations. Some of these are trimmed throughout with the same shade, having watered beige ribbon strings, satin or gros grain mops, ostrich tips and darker brown velvet for a bandeau bf fillet in front and for facing the brim and curtain. Other beige chips have deep cardinal red trimmings mixed with beige color, and for flowers a wreath of small strawberries with brown foliage. A new fancy in white chip bonnets is to have at intervals rows of rainbow tinsel braid. Some new chip bonnets are merely brims and curtain bands without crowns. The vacant space for the crown is surrounded with a wreath of flowers that form fringe, and t his fringe fills in the empty crown. Gilt rings, through which the silk or gftfrin in pflggftd ffrnmni the urown am

on many new hats. The large Alsacian bow is now made of narrow dpuble - faced ribbon in many loops, with, several ends indented or notched like saw teeth. M&ny pipings are on the edges of straw bonnets; some have the piping folds alternating with gilt soutache. A double bow of satin ribbon is set on straw curtains, and covers them entirely. Many rough straws or else figured satin straw bonnets are shown; some are all black, some white, some beige color, and many have gilt braid introduced, or else white lines are interwoven in the black. For dress bonnets' for summer beige tulle is embroidered by band in colors, such as olive, pale blue or pink. Gilded Greek fillets are imported to put in the front of bonnets. Brooches of dead gold are the mostsuocessful ornaments. Thick fringes of buds fall from under upturned curtain bands; other bonnets have pleated crepe lisse under the curtain. A large gut screw is an ornament of questionable taste seen on French bonnets. Less fruit is worn than last season, though there arc some luscious looking berries, cherries and plums. A noveltv is a wreath made of loops of ribbon grass, in green stripes and in maple red, with many ends of the grass cut in trident forks. Sage-leaf wreaths have stylish shades of green, and for color they are mixed with scarlet poppies. Many entire wreaths are in beige shades; these look well when representing pine cones, burs, thistles and seed pods, but the “sereand yellow” leaves are more especially popular; these are used on black and beige-colored bonnets. The olive shades of mignonette make it a most popular flower. It is combined with Jacqueminot roses and spikes of white lilacs. For little girls’ hatsjthe novelty is tine Manilla, with a wreath of flowers painted by hand on the soft brim. Wild flowers, poppies, bluets and trailing arbutus are artistically painted on these pretty hats. Boyish-looking straw hats with rolled brims and flat crowns, or else round Derby crowns, are also shown for young girls; beside these are the pointed Japanese crowns and the picturesque Tyrolean, with the jaunty sailor hats.— Harper's Bazar.

A Grand Rascal.

They have got hold of a real grand rascal in Boston. His name is Plymouth White—called “Plin” White for convenience. This man has led a career of swindling and wholesale robbery all over the States and Territories for over twenty-five years, and now that he is safely in a Boston jail, his victims everywhere are hunting him up and identifying him and resolving to pursue him till death. .Among other victims are three wives. This man’s good looks caught the women, and his oily tongue and business fluency the men. And all these years “Plin” has lived in grand style, traveled much — often to keep out of the way of his hunters —and says that he has “ barrels of money” now with which to help himself out of jail and take a fresh start in his career of malefactions. All the favor he asks is that his “wives shall let up on him,” and not tell half they know. But one of them says there is no “letup” in her. He was first married to a rich farmer’s daughter of Saratoga, N. Y., in the year 1854. He sot $5Q,000 out of her father and rother at once. They found he had swindled them by misrepresentations. The brother committed suicide on this account. The wife, after much misery, bought a pistol, loaded it, and gave him warning that she intended to kill him if he aid not behave himself better. He paid no attention to her, and she shot at him twice and missed. This ended her communication with him. With another wife he went West. He next swindled a Denver, Col., firm out of SBO,OOO, and a member of the firm became so depressed about it that he committed suicide. The other member of the firm died soon after by poison. He, sent a daughter by wife No. 2 to Europe to receive her education. She is now about fifteen years old. Whenever his victims got too hot on his track, he was in the nabit of going to Europe to look after his daughter’s education. In this way he is said to have crossed the ocean sixteen times. He married a third wife a short time ago, and No. 3 is said to be living in New York. She has not yet come forward as a witness. He is said to have swindled one merchant in St. Paul, Minn., out of SIOO,OOO, another out of $9,000, and numerous smaller swindles are laid to his door. In 1862 he talked a Mr. Locke Winchester, of New York, out $lll,OOO. “Plin” White’s successes were in winning women and getting money without an equivalent. The number of his wives and the size of his piles of captured money proclaim him a grand rascal. His boasted “ barrels of money” left may not buy his freedom, even if his wives “let up” on him, or testify that he is one of the best and purest men alive. Wife No. 1 has had to work days-work for her living for many years. Nos. 2 and 3 appear to have been better provided for. At any rate, they are not so fierce in their denunciation of “Plin” White. White appears to be at the end of a busy life -Missouri Republican.

Astrology.

Charles He.witt lives in Macomb County, and pursues agriculture. When he had sold his load of potatoes on the market he took his way to a female fortune-teller and paid his dollar-bill to have her roll her eyes and begin: “You live on a farm. You are a true good young man. You would go a mile out of your way rather than nit a poor mosquito with a sledge hammer. You love a girl. Beware! She pretends to love you, but she’s a base hypocrite. Crush her memory from your heart this hour. You will soon meet a rich lady who will fall in love with you and lead you a life of Heavenly happiness—that’s all —turn to the left as you get down stairs.” Charles reached the. street with pale face, shining eyes and spelling heart, and he took from his pocket a photograph, tore it into strips, and kicked up behind in'his rage as he hissed : “ Over six shilling squandered on that faithless girl this winter for peppermint drops alone!” When Charles was picked up at midnight he had crawled under a wagon in an alley and cried himself to sleep. “ Boy!” began his Honor, in a voice which made the stove-pipe tremble, “ you are too pure and innocent for this wicked world. Bijah will hunt up your other suspender and the bottle of hair-dye which were taken from you, and then you skit for the blessed country and swallow enough rose-buds to bring on the galloping consumption.” “Blamed if I don’t,” was all he said as he went. —Detroit Free Press. The Washington Post says the weary editor knows the hour of six o’clock ' a |tv only hi* rft nntfttion. * • . 1

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A negro in North Carolina fracturad his skull by batting abrick Wall. —A Rhode Island sparrow has whipped a rat. The fight was about some crumbs. A Savannah, Ga., man pursued his eloping daughter, and found her in a hotel with her new husband. She was of age, and therefore he could not force her to return home; but he was the lawful owner of her clothihg, and he compelled her to go to his room and take off' every shred of it. Then he went back to Savannah with a large bundle under his firm, and the women in the hotel contributed something for the bride to wear. —There was a touching scene recently over a fresh grave in Spring Grove Cemetery. A little boy, an only child, was being buried. Among the mourners was a divorced couple, the lady b«* ing the sister of the weeping mother there. Her divorced husband had brought crosses and wreaths of flowers to place on the coffin, and also on another grave, that of his own little boy, buriea in the same lot two years before. In the emotion of the moment the man handed to his divorced wife the floral tribute to place upon the grave of their lost little one, ana their tears mingled over both graves. —Cincinnati Commercial. —While an express train on the Erie Railway was sweeping down the Valley of the Delaware last Wednesday afternoon, the engineersaw a little girl walking the track. The locomotive shrieked, but within two seconds she was overtaken and the train passed the spot where she had stood. The engineer looked behind the rear car, expecting to see her mangled body, but the track was clear. He stepped upon the guards of the locomotive and saw the child lying senseless on the cow-catcher. He succeeded in rescuing her as she was about to roll to the ground. She was slightly cut about the face, but escaped without further injury.— N. Y. Evening Post. —Twenty-three years ago Mrs, Ellen Phillips, now residing on Factory street, Watertown, lived in Utica. One evening while dancing her baby on her knee, she felt a sharp pain in her left foot, and on examining her slipper found a small hole in it, as though made by a needle. She at once sent for a doctor, who examined her foot and gave his opinion that no needle was in it. Seventeen years passed on, the circumstance was practically forgotten, but six years ago. the point part of a broken needle of less than half the length worked ite way through and came from her left leg. This brought to her mind the occurrence of so many years before, and the perforated slipper was the subject of conversation again for a time. It turns out it Was forgotten, until last Tuesday, when the remainder of the needle, the eye, with a little more than half shank, was pulled from her right leg, a little above the knee. After finding a resting-place in this woman’s body for twenty-three years, the needle was not rusted, although somewhat discolored.— Watertown ( N . Y.) Despatch.

Good Health, and How to Keep It.

There are few subjects, we imagine, around which cluster so many theories as the preservation of health. Let a person pass from one to another in a large company, making a few simple inquiries as to the best way to keep health, and not two in twenty will agree. Each one will give sage reasons for not accepting the theory last propounded One is positive that half “ the ills that flesh is heir to” are the results of improper food. There is much sound sense m that idea; but the trouble is to be sure what is improper food. Each may start from the right point, but the abrupt divergence, js amusing, as well as often bewildering. One asserts: “Too much meat is used. It inflames, and fills the blood with impurities. Pure milk, good stale bread and fresh vegetables should constitute the chief part of our food. If this idea,” they insist, “could only be accepted and acted upon, the next generation would be a strong, healthy race, pureblooded, pure-hearted, generous and noble; for the mental qualities are as largely influenced by the physical condition as the latter ia by the quality of the food that is used.”

Another will earnestly argue that a vegetable diet will make poor, watery blood, and insure an indolent, effeminate people, while fresh meat is absolutely essential to a vigorous constitution, to an earnest, energetic character; that a diet largely of salt meat dries the blood and makes those who use it lean, cadaverous, desponding and ‘dyspeptic. After thus taking the opinion of a score of people one is inclined to doubt if wisdom is found in the multitude of counselors. We believe that it is as impossible to make rules for health that will apply to all as it is to lind two constitutions exactly alike. “ One believeth that he may eat all things.” and he can: another, who is wea£, eftteth herbs, and should do so. .After reaching what is called the age of discretion, each must to a large extent judge for himself. Medical advice may be desirable, and sometimes indispensable, but physicians often find themselves in a dilemma, and all their skill, founded on what they think well-established theories, is at fault. They will tell a patient, “ Use no fresh bread, but use that which is at least twenty-four hour* old.” The advice is followed, but the result proves disastrous. The stomach rejects such food, because acid and sore. By stealth, as it were, the patient ventures on a piece of well-raised, well-baked, sweet fresh bread, and is comforted. At that one time, if no other, the stomach was not in a state in which stale bread was beneficial, and in defiance of all medical rules craved and secured that which was found to be

of great benefit. Much fresh meat with some constitutions induces fulness of the head and a feverish state of the system, because it makes blood too fast. It should, therefore, be discarded, and a little salt meat or fish, if the appetite craves it, with fresh fruit and vegetables, will be found probably to be just what the system requires. In truth, with health, as in many other things, each person must be a law unto himself. In acute or minor matters they cannot decide. It is true that what is “one man’s meat may fee anotner man’s poison,” and, a little poisoning now and then seems indispensable to teach us on? individual physical as well as mental idiosyncrasies. Experience thus gamed, if not carried to such excess as to prove too severe a schoolmaster, will be of more value through life than all the doctors in Christendom—with all respect be it spoken—beside saving many a long bill at the drugstore. As a general rule, it is not advisable ; tn use hot bread .too freely, though the

effects produced by its use may often depena more upon the character of the bread than upon Its temperature. • Neither salt meat or fish, nor fresh meat or fish, all the time, is advisable —though the salt food may be a trifle more economical. A judicious mingling of both is the better course. Good, healthy, well-cured pork,.well cooked and used discreetly, is not injurious for a strong, healthy person engaged in active or out-door pursuits. But we doubt if it is wise for students to use mfich, or for sedentary persons, or those at all inclined to humors or eruptive troubles. It is not safe to allow so large a liberty to young children. They arc not capable of forming correct judgment, of governing themselves at all. Parents must do that for them. After they are safely through the teething period it is not necessary to confine them to a milk diet; but they still need the parent's restraining hand'to withhold rich food, or sharp, hot condimepts. Plain, siraKle but nourishing food, ripe fruit and erries in their season, are, we think, indispensable for growing children. But their meals should be regular -no lunches between —and never just before retiring. Many a mother will give her very young children rich foodpastry, cake and sauces and condiments of the most indigestible or fiery kind—and tell you her children are healthy, and nothing hurts them. Perhaps the injury is not apparent at first, but it will not be long before headaches, indigestion of the most serious character, or dyspepsia, fixed for life, will be the harvest to be reaped from such injudicious and sinful indulgence. — Mrs. H W. Beecher, in Christian Union.

Parallels for the Phonograph.

It is quite common to try to assist our comprehension of the marvelous nature of the most splendid feats of scientific invention, by comparing them with something equivalent s the wildest excursions of poetical fancy, as, for instance, after submarine telegraphy had been accomplished everybody was told how much it surpassed the boast of Shakespeare's Ariel that he could put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes. It is a curious illustration of the estimate put on the phonograph that a resort is had, not to the poets, but to Baron Munchausen, for a parallel. The truth in this case is so astonishing, it flies so far beyond the bounds of credibilitv, as to seem stranger than the bold fictions of that noted raconteur. The Pall Mall Gazette says the phonograph “must have already reminded many persons of those frozen notes in Baron Munchausen’s horn that became audible music when the thaw et in.”

This comparison is apt, but it is by no means the happiest that might have been chosen. One of Addison’s humorous papers in the Tattler is altogether more illustrative, and the fact that it did not occur to a writer in so scholarly a journal as the Pall Mall Gazette shows into what neglect the classics of Queen Anne’s reign have fallen in our age. In the amusing fiction alluded to Addison professed to have come in possession of an unpublished journal of Sir John Mandeville, from which he published an extract. Mandeville’s English ship, together with a Dutch ana French ship, being caught in the Polar regions and compelled to winter in Nova Zembla, the crews built huts of turf and amused themselves as best they could. A period of intense cold coming on they found themselves unable to be heard, although each sailor seemed to himself to talk as well as ever. This terra of utter silence had continued for several weeks, when with s turn of the wind there came a thaw and the frozen words began to melt. First a crackling of consonants over their heads, then a breeze of whispers, afterward syllables and short words, and at length as the thaw progressed entire sentences and whole conversations were let loose, until all the congealed words were heard precisely as they would have been at the proper time if they had not been frozen by the air the moment they passed the lips of the speakers. Addison, or rather the fiction journal of Sir John Mandeville, repeats many iudicrous and diverting specimens, among them the oaths and curses of the boatswain, who took the opportunity of silence to free his mind respecting the Captain and got strappadoed when his curses thawed out, with equally amusing scenes among the crews of the Dutch and French ships. Now the phonograph surpasses this wild freak of humorous invention. It catches p.nd imprisons words and whole conversations and songs, as the air of the frigid zone was supposed to do, holds them for any length of time, and gives them back as faithfully as the frozen air did the ejaculations of Sir John Mandeville’s sailors in memory of their distant sweethearts in Wapping, as faithfully as the groans of the Polar bear were made audible three weeks after its flesh had been pickled in the meat barrel. —New York, Herald.

A Mean Slander.

One of the meanest slanders afloat is that which charges that one of our clergymen swore an oath the other .night. The circumstances are simply these: He went into the house, and attempted to make his way in the dark through the sitting-room to the pantry to deposit a bunch of rhubarb presented him by a parishioner, forgetting that housecleaning had commenced. The wretched girl had left a pail of soft-soap near the door, over which he accidentally stumbled. Making an herculean effort to sate himself he grabbed for something with both hands, and as he alighted firmly on his stomach pulled down on top of him a table full of crockery 1 . Rising promptly to his feet he made apitch tor the match-safe, but, happening to plant his foot in a puddle of the soft-soap, he promptly sat down in a tub of preserved fruits. His poor tired wife, who had retired early; was roused from her slumbers, and, thinking that burglars were abroad, shrieked for help, to which the hired girl responded, rushing into the room and tumbling headlong over the man in the washtub. These are the simple facts in th* case, and that is all there is of it. Our good friend did not say a word hat could be construed into profanity. He simply sat firmly and quietly among the preserves until a light was struck, and then mildly inquired How much longer, dear, does house-cleaning last ?' r —-Ithaca (N. Y.) Journal. From a report recently printed in the London Times, it appears that the postal savings banks, under the direction of the British Government, produced a pyofit last year of £145,849, or abont $728,000, over thq^intcrest allowed and the expenses ofearri ing on the office.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—On the 28th of May Andrew Johnson's monument will be unveiled. —A large depositor of the broken Reading fra.) bank, who lives in Cheater, Pa., aid not learn until a few days ago that the bank had failed, although the disaster occurred last November. —The Widow Oliver, through her attorney, has filed a document in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, demanding that ex-Senator earner 01 shall produce before the court all the letters which he has received from her. —When Mr. Anthony Trollope was a very young man be applied for advice to a distinguished person and asked how he might best “succeed in literature." The reply was characteristic: “ Fix yourself to your chair with a bit of cobbler’s wax! I ’ in other words, “ stick to work.” —Not long before Ben Wade’s last sickness he received a letter from Reading, Vt., saying that a little boy there had been named “ Wade” in his honor. He acknowledged the courtesy by writing the lad a letter, which, however, went to the Dead Letter Office through misdirection, and was returned to Jefferson, Ohio, after the ex-Senator’s death. Mrs. Wade will send It to the boy, with a photograph of her late husband. —A naturalist visited the Kanin Peninsula in Northern Russia, last summer, to make natural history collections, and also to study the peculiarities of the Samoyede inhabitants of that region. These primitive people took alarm at his proceedings, especially when he attempted to measure their heads, and, believing that ho had some sinister design toward them, they marched with their reindeer far into the interior of the peninsula, taking the enterprising man of science with them. He was finally rescued by some fishermen, but he lost all the insects he had collected, as the Samoyedes drank up the alcohol in which they were preserved.— Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.

—Hathaway, the notorious swindler at Fall River, in Massachusetts, has been so secretive during his career of crime that his own brother did not dream of anything wrong, and six weeks ago bought some shares of the ruined mills, for which he paid SIOO each. Hathaway’s best friends suffer most. A railroad conductor was asked by him to purchase some stock, with the assurance that he would not be obliged to pay in anything, for the dividends would pay for the stock in time. The conductor said he did not do business in that way, but was surprised a short time afterward to receive a notice that the first 10 per centum assessment on SI,OOO worth of stock was then due.— N. Y. Evening Post. —Ms. Edison, as a young telegraph operator at Memphis, was* known tor the quaint drawings with which, in odd leisure moments, he illustrated the Southern press reports. One habit was to convert the tails of his g’s and y’s into faces, with the most ludicrous expressions imaginable. Another habit was to draw a railroad curve around a hill with a train of cars at full speed; on the first car a T, on the second Y, and so on until Tyler, the signature to the report, was spelled out, and on the last car, barely perceptible around the curve, was “30,” or finis. This continued for some time, until a Memphis editor published a paragraph praising in the highest terms the beauty of the sketches, but objecting to them on the ground that the printers took up too much time in admiring them, and in trying to find appropriate cuts to represent them. This was the last of the “ illustrated press reports,” as Edison was exceedingly sensitive. Chicago Tribune.

Oppression In Egypt.

Egypt is a country groaning beneath a frightful tyranny. Writing to an English journal, from Assouan, Mr. Douglas Murray says: “Provisions, always dear, are now at higher prices than ever, and how the year’s taxes will be raised in Upper Egypt is a mystery yet to be solved. I suppose those who can’t pay will suffer the usual penalty —the bastinado and imprisonment without food. They may die, and it matters nothing to the Government, which lives for the day, and apparently cares nothing for the future. The unfortunate people are constantly taken from their own homes to work ou thß Khedive’s estates and factories. A small proprietor is taken from the land he is cultivating. His camel and donkey are earned on to the factory, where it is all work and no pay. A modicum of sugar cane or corn is all he gets till the mills have finished the season’s work. His la* uis deserted. I' he has crops they are ruined. He is promised payment, but never gets a farthing. The landholders are charged enormous rents and every profession and trade pays :*or its license. Thousands of the bazaai ..hops are closed to escape taxes. Even a cook’s boy has to pay sls a year for a license, and a donkey boy pays not only for his own license, but for his donkey’s. Every conceivable thing, animate or iuanimate, is taxed. Soldiers are at present entirely unpaid, and officers have received nothing for about a year. Few of the civil servants, unless Europeans, have seen salaries for months. Such is the price Egypt has to pay for a progressive Prince, bent upon Europeaffizxng his country. The condition of his people is worse than that of the French in 1780. Will similar results follow? While his people are starving he has given five of his sons magnificent palaces, and his daughters, too, have princely abodes.” Mr. Murray says that this is his fourth visit to Egypt, and each year he finds the wretchedness greater. The deplorable aspect of the people, who, in many places, have that pinched look which only long continued starvation can give, largely takes away from the pleasure of traveling on the Nile. At Girgeh he found that the children’s food was sugar-cane previously sucked by others. " A lawyer once asked the late Judge Pickens, of Alabama, to charge the jury that “it is better that ninety and nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be punished.” “Yes,” said the witty Judge, “I will give that charge, but in the opinion of the Court the ninety and nine guilty men have already escaped in this county.” Eighteen thousand men are now engaged in the express business in this country, 8,600 horses are employed, and there are 8,000 -■ officers. The capital invested is estimated at thirty millions. A LIGHT employment— The lamplighter’s.