Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 22, Bloomington, Monroe County, 26 March 1881 — Page 3

JOE VZINBOW'S TWO BLOWS.

Why a Pious Man Respected the Memory of a Prize-Fighter. San Francisco Chronicle. A well-known eitizen,remarkable for his ' unos tentatious beuevoienee and piety; stepped into the Pioneef bathnoue yes terday,and asked Mike Price: "Where is JoV Wiurow? I have not seen him round since Xgothack l'roin - theEs' 4 Tht:aM wherry rower pulled out .. a cop v of the Chronicle, and with a tear in his eye, read a.notice of the V velenrn's death, am sorry to hearth" replied the mi&a us customer. r, M)id you ever take an v lessons from

ibim V- the sculler asked.-

i in

' Thepious customer " opened his eyes wide. ? Good gracious, no said he ;

l never put on a boxing glove m my ; life, and t trust Imavnever be induced to liaise my band in anger against any one. They say Wiurow was a great . tighter,1 . ,'r .-., '. 4 sYou bet,' said the sculler, proudly. -43o y on know, "said the oious gen tieman, "that I was acquainted with Wiurow for several years before I could bring myself to believe he was a fighter. He was a neighbor of mine for a long time. When-he moved in some one

told me he was a prise-fighter, and I expected every day to see h i m engage in a quarrel. To my surprise I never saw hinnaVea misunderstanding with o auy crinf lie was always sober and ' pleasant, and H noticedhe used to stop and cha " .with the little children. Eveiy Ik dy spoke kind ly of him, and Tbegan to think There must be some terr.-ble mistake about the reputation he hatl ot being a desperate fighter; I , doubted whether he could dghtat?all, he was av quiet; but one day. downon

atfamstorusezeec, x saw mm save- a

- m tie child from tli

wagohL The driveragrearburly fellow,

toon no irouoie to avoid trie mue one, A " and . the child would certainly ' have been injured or perhaps killed" had not Wiurow rushed In and seized her. . Tfa e drivor only jeered, and would havesv gone on had not- JoeT shouted1 to him . that he ought to be arrested. The V; fel'owstonped at once ah"d commenced to use fearful languages v.- ; -JP i' a gOod"mmd,, said he?to get down ar d give you a licking.' '

, fc rou'tt better try ur said vv inrow;

their services. - Two or three were with him continually. The' patient had always been delicate, and this was against him. ff by strong nourislimenhe could be kept alive for a certain number of days, it was known that the crisis would be passed, and he won id recover. Fn ze n beef blood was introduced into . his stomach, aud brar dy was injected under the ski n . Whim the patient was able to swallow anything at all he was given ice-cold champagne. Food in the most conden. (;ed form was introduced by every possible means. Bui ' nothing could save him, aud he finally said in a whisper "It's no use, gentlemen; Pve got to gd ... . - : Spealdng of diphtheria, Dr. Van Gieen said: "I.have studied this dis-

ease for more than thirty years. I have

read many volumes devoted to it, and I have had a great many eases of diphtheria in my practice. Sometimes I have said to myself : 4 Well, at last I know what dipththeria is,' but if you were to ask me now to describe the 'etiology of this disease, would aiisr ver: 'Igive it up.J . Fortunately , h)Woyer, we are, able, to treat' it successfully in a great " many cases. My met hod of treatment is told in just one w-brdsustain, There are physicians who assert that they had never lost a ease of diphtheria. I have s unetimes

I treated as many as thirty cases sue-

ces- fully, and then I have lost half. a dozn, - one right after the other. Xt . is

who was folding the little gir by the nand? If you sted down"! VVL fcreak

your jaw, ton big ruffian.

The driver jumped down at- once and made a rusn at Joe and I realij' trembled for him, for his a?sailantw:ts a ferocious looking fellow heavier and T stronger. i The ohi Diati did not seem to be a oit scared, though. He just s lifted the child away aJ few feet and then turned and threw out his right arm at the driverrand the fellow went down like a log. I was astonished beyond measure, for the old man did 5 not seem to make any1' extraordinary "f exertipii . The driver got tip at once and made another xush at Joe, and the old man threw out his left hand: and ; down went the; belligerent party again ! "as if he had been shot; I was more r surprised than ever,for the second blow seemed to stun the fellow, and he lay for some time on Iris back in the mud. Then he turned over and crawled on 1 his han ds and knees to the wagon , a ud climbed up in a dazed sort of a v. ay to

tne seafciind drove off. . l noticed that his face wascovered with blood. When 'twas all over, I took i he old man by the hand, and the first thing I kney I wasTcomplimenting ; him, though , I never thought I should be round praising a man for striking another down on the street. The old fellow only laughed, though. . . . a Oh, that's n othi eg said he. ' Why, the duffer couldn't lick a ten year-old boy. I don't brieve he knew how to hit me-if I , had :stowi; still and let Mm?" : " ' ' X ASmglellhfeath. i.Eogllsh Magazine. v E 'shall never forge: an untruth I once told; although it happened when 1 was a very small child. My youngestsister had a farthing, with which she wished to buy a fig, but being too ill to go down to the shop herself, she engaged me to go. Accordingly, I went. As I returned with the fig nicely folded up in a small piece of paper, suddenly the thought occurred to me that I should like to take a peep at the fig. mBo I very; carefully opened the paper. ,1 thought I' could . not help tasting it a little at one end ; I had scarcely eaten this before I wanted all; and without much more thought I ate up the whole fig! Then when it was all gone, I had nothing to do bn6' to think.1 I began to feel very uncomfortable. I stood very disgraced before myself. , I thought of running away some where. I did not kniw exactly ? ..where,' but from whence 1 should ' never come back. It was not long be

fore I reached home; i went as quikt ly as I could, - I told my sister that I had lost the farthing. Iremember she

in to t he garden, and tried to think of .."Something else, but in vain. My own : A guilt stared me steadily in the face.

and I was wretched. Although' it wanted a few minutes to the dinner

hour, yet it seemed very long to me, I .

woo auAiuuj aumc cvciu miui iuici"

" vene between me and the : lie I had

. toiu. i wanuerea aoour -witn . a yeryy 4

r ; .... neavy spint. i tnougnt I would tve yf worlds if it had not happen eel. iMi' ; ' ,r& ' When the: dinner hour J came I was

. seated at my father's side, when ny

sister maae ner appearance, crying. s. hard and looking very much grieved. ' : ; My father immediately, asked what the matter was- Then my mother j stated the story, the conclusion of i which was that I had tflost the farth-

ing.-' -tcan never mrget tne iook ot kind, perfectly unsuspeet i n g con ti dence with which my father turned on me, and with his large blue eyes fuli in my face, said: " Where? did you lose the farthinsr? Perhans we . can rind ib

a disease that has different1 decrees of

matignaney One-year its attacks may be very mild, and at its next visit it may kill almost ever one who becomes infected with it. As . for the present -epidemic of diphtheria, I am afraid that we have only seen the begin ning 1 of . i t. 'When' I see a d i pt -theria patient, I can generally make up my .mind wnetherhe can . be saved or

the wheels or a milk t n0?:- -"ut the treatment is the samefor

an toon and sjiuiuiantsv; r " Gongh and the Student. -Air amusiug story is told .of John B-. Jough when he went to address the students on temperance a few evenings before an eminent man was to have delivered a lecture at Oxford" 'England), on the 4tEviis of Tobagcoj? The boys got into the haT! an hour beforehand, each with what Dr. Carroll drolly emphasized as a "college pipe' in his mouth: The time for the lecture arrived, but If the lecturer did it; was never discovered rhe vr&s not visible through ' the" fogT The students' sent word to Mr. Gough when he came that1 they wculd n? t have any ., temperance,, andadvised him' not to persist in lecturing. Bat he went to the hall. For twenty minutes he spoke in pantomime amidlxhe deafeninir cat calls of; t the

boys' ' . - - . Finally he stepped forward, demanded British fair play, and offered' to whip4vtry one of the live hundred singly This offer was loudly cheered and promptly accepted, and a big sixfoot athlete was sent upon the stage. Gough, who is a little man, backed off as the big fellow approached him, and , exclaimed: .. 5,My friends, you evidently misunderstand me. This is to be an intellectual contest, not a prize fight," The studente cheered again at this evidence of the American's shrewdness, and ordered the debate to proceed. The college lad was, therefore, obliged to tackle the temperance champion." JFIe was at a disadvantage, but he quoted scripture, and reminded the lucky lecturer that it was on0 of the apostles who wro te to Ti mo thya you n g .an an, too. like themselves to take a little wipe for his stomach's sake and for his off .infirmities. The lads shouted vociferously at this, and wanted to know how Gough could get around it, Gough. slowly examined the six-foot er from top to toe, and then said : 4 'My friends, look at this athlete, this folio vv-with muscles J ike steel, who can wield the club of Hercules, who can bend an English yeoman's bow, who -could knock down an ox with the blow of a hammer. He is the personification of health and strength, but he needs a little wine , for his stomach's -sake!"" v .. - Gongh's inimitable manner of saying this had a tremendous effect. The students cheered with delight, and their defeated champion retreated. Another was sent ; up. He was the intellectual giant of his class, in contradistinction to the six-footer; He with much self-con fidence, made a fi n ished argument for liquor-drinking, based on Chrises changing the water into wine M the wedding feast, y His comiades .cheered him to the echo, and thought his argument unanswerable.andGough was chaffed for his defeat. .? Young men," said he, solemnly, 4lf admit that your champion has forestalled me He has said for me just jwhail came here to charge you to do. 1 Driuk all the wine yorf-jjah find that is made an tirely out of wider IV ; This was enough.

can shout tenderly. They will have to go on in tTncle Tom's Cabin,' and I can tell you we shan't require any. howliug. over "the death- bed of little Eva," ..."Boo hop. boo-hoo, bon-hoo!" ejaculated a tender-hearted colored woman, who appeared to have read the story.

recentlv, and been affected by it. v,Heilo!" v exclaimed Mr. Tooker:

"you'll do. .Step in, '.'and the fortunate candidate's lace immediately lost the air of sympathetic misery that a moment before clouded it, and her laughter was so sudden and demonstrative that it very nearly lost her the situation. "Try me Pah," said a larger and stouter women, elbowing her way to the front. -"I kin shout, sah. "I've shouted before now, sah, at wakes and weddings."

"Well, let's hear you," replied Mr. Tooker. and the woman uttered such a series of extraordinary shrieks that the neighbors were divided in opinion as to whether they emanated from a mad dog or a steam engine. "For Heaven's sake- stop," exclaimed Mr. Tooker; they'll think we have

a yahoo here." ut the woman was not to be silenced, and a policeman stepped across the street to remark that the thing 03uld..not,go on. "There, there," said Mr. Tooker. placing his hand across the woman's inoutnv "I'll test you alone. Your voice is too low and sweet to be heard distinctly here. Step inside." And the woman with a last whoop of triumph, endeavored to make her calling aud election sure by joining her predecessor in the inner room. "Well, what cftn you do, my man?" asked Mr. Tooker of a hand&ome young mulatto, with his fortune invested in the clothes and jewelry he Wore. -"

i'I'se a tenor," replied the candidate calmly. "Let's hear you," said Mr. Tooker. "Sing, but not loo loud. You see, the door is open , and t hey ' 1 1 hear you i n the street; and we, don't want to make 3011 too common." ."o,,sir,V, said the mulatto, apparently mistaking the instructions. " "I never did nothin7 common. But I

-don't fting." . iPWhw T thmiceht wAn :nifl vnn

J , J. W J .... - J

were

a tenor," exclaimed Mr. Tooker.

"So I did. sir," replied the mulatto, "but I meant thatI was a 310 a week man. Jt's a way l have of express' n' m ysel f Perhaps I should have spoken commoner:". . "Well, indeed, it might have saved time," replied Mr." Tooker. "I'll talk with you herealter. Call around some Sunday next week." .... . "You may rely upon me, sir," said the mulatto, walkiug away with great dignity.- ... -...'Uncle Tom's ; Cabin" will be produced in Booth's Theatre on Christmas night." About three hundred "shouters" will foe required; ol which

f nearly half were selected.

la to is

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again." Not for a siutcie instant could

: I brave that lone' and that look,-but , ; bursting in to tears, I screamed outr : "Oh, I did not not lose the farthing I ; ate the fig." . A silence as of the grave - ensued. In an instan t I seemed to be

senuatcd at an immense distance from the rest of ihe family " A great aulf yawned between us. A sense of loheti'nesa and desoladon cams over rce? the impression of which will go wi th me

forever. 1 left the table, and ail that

afternoon, the next day, and during

1 he week; ray feelings were melan7 "choly in tfce extreme. But ray father s ml mother, brothers' and sistei-sr. received me back to their love and favor as time wore . away, and my spirits recovered their wonted tone; Tho whole event left an i neleiibie impression on my mind and heart;

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A Doctor's Dejvotion. ;

Jfaw York San, Two weeks ago Dr. San ford, of Greenpoinfc, lu I., a suburb of 1 Brook lyn, was-called to the bedside of a child who wa3 suffering with diptheria. It - was a very maiienant case, and Br2

gi Sauford watched tire child day and nighfc. At last the air passages were 1 filled : up, and the child would hav ; . r-hoked to death had not Dr. Kanford;. ; who had his knife in baud, immediate Jy madeai ogeniog inthe wjndplpe, throngh wnich' With a small riibbsr tulbe, he drew out with his own mouth tBe poisrmous jftaiHi This way of conducting such an operation is regarded by all surgeons as extremely hazardous . to the operator; r Three French hi r- ; geons are kwrT 4o have lost their ' ' lives iu the samciwayC Young 3)h H aichi nson , the son of a distin gu ishe 1 su rgedn rofs Brooklyn , was the onhAmerican victim as far as knowa ' -Wl?-fhe cae of r. Han ford. r: : A short time a?Ur. operation, the poison w.Se&rhad haei j inoe dated i n. Dr. anfur;f? blood, began fia fb its work. v .s srjoiras it was known thaf he vm . a 51 e ring from trip theria all the alii ' nathic (joctors in; (re6iiriot oilerwl

Bi?et Harte, jVI.: Dubois; our Consul at Ax Chapelle, who has just returned Europe after a very agreeab'.e visit

to be credited with the following story about Bret Harte, which is certainly new to this section, and which Mr. Dubois told in; his own inimitable way at a 2?ew York dinner table the other night;' IhJ speaking of compliments one day, Bret Harte said he would give the history of the greatest epmpiiment Which he himself had fever received since he had attained any distinction as an authoi. One time, when he had occasion to take the trip from San Francisco; to Oregon, he reached the boat just as it was about to move off, and without having made any previous application forVstateroom accommodation on board. Fortunate in being assured of his destination at" least, which it was necessary he should gain without detention on a required day, he proceeded immediately to the ticket oflQce on the boat, and. en qui red of the agent there if he could obtain a berth for the night. The agent on thin occasion Jwras a rather curt, gruti' fellow, who made it his special pride to give all information to anxious or inquiring passengers in about as disagreeable a manner as men in his position can very well assume under such cireunistancesi . " -1. '

"There are no staterooms for an one- all sold," said this Cerbero3. .MI' must have one." returned tb author of "The Iuck of Rorio :

. Camp:'" "perhaps that may assist we

in obtaining what :L want, " and he han ded the agen t his visiting card . . f .Thereis no berth here for Bret Harte or any other man," was thorough ans-r wer, and the card was handed backv CiBe you the man as writ The,ILuck of Boaring Camp!' Be you Bret Harte?" exelai m ed a voice hehin d the writer of that celebrated .story, . . ..... " ' Bret Harte turned and perceived a tough looking miner, with pistols peeping out of his belt, awaitinghis replj '-' ;.. '.. .... ; . .. ... ...;. ," l4I have the honor of haviug written it," said he politely. The miner took the card from Harte, looked at it a moment crumpled it my and theif suddenly extending his hand, said with gusto: '., ";- '" ' "Giveiii ter me, yer son of a gun," ,, referringj of course, to Harte;6 own hand ; fcI have a stateroom -; wiru two bunks in it ;-you shall have one. and

Story About Mr. GofH Boston Traveller. . He does not look over thirty years of age, is hardly of medium stature, but is rath er broadly . bui it. - His bea rd less face, not even relieved ,by mustachies, has a good humored, kindly, and yet withal a keen expression. His dark hair is all that saves him from looking positively boyish. A West Virginian of note tells me that General Go fF well deserves his new distinction, and says thathe lias had quite a romantic career. He- is a Virginian born aud bred, and his family is of the oldest stock in the State. He was only eighteen when he joined the Federal Army, and raoidly rose by his bravery and clash t., be Majorof the 4th West Virginia Cavalry. On the 20fch of January, 1864, he was captured in a battle near Moorefield, West Viiginia, was taken to liiSby Prison, and suffered all the miseries of that place for four months, at the end of which time he was notified by the prison authorities that from that time he would be kept in separate and c'ose contiuen.ent as a hostage for a certain Major Ihomas D. Armsey, of the Confederate Army, who had been taken inside the Union lines and sentenced to be shot as a spy. Upon the execution of Armsey he was. to be instantly shot. His sufferings were extreme,a I time?, during his confinement, and he was

f reduced -to live on rats skinned and

c-ioked by the negroes and smuggled in for him. He not only bore these things for eighty-seven days, but had the heroism to write a letter, now on, file in the War Department, in which-' he said that his life ought not to scand in the way in determining Armsey 's fate, "The life of a single soldier," he wrote, "ought notjtofstund in the way of adherence to a great principle.';. Those were great words to drop rrom the pen of a mere boy, as he then was, under such circumstances. General Goff was finally' exchanged, after a transfer to the penitentiary at Sails bury, N. C, in August, 1864, Singularly enough, Armsey and Gk hav

ing returned to their respective ser

vices, met again soon after. Armsey was captured and taken to Ciarksbuig, and the loyal citizens, knowing of the sufferings he bad caused Golf to undergo, wore about to lynch him, when Goif appeared on the scene and saved him. Later still, when the wr was ail over, and Qo'ff ran as a Republican candidate for the Governorship of West Virginia, Armsey, in gratitude for this treatment, supported him in a letter in which he full acknowledged his chivalrous conduct in the field. As he was born on the 9th of January, 1843, he was only thirty-seven years; of age at the time of his recent confirmation as Secretary ot the Navy.

sweetheart, wife, mother. Men con trol aibrlrs, but an turn they long to be eon-

uuieu uy women, anu so Jt lans out that woman .s greater than any Watwick. 1? woman surrenders ever it

must he to fashion, the sorceress to

whoee snell all vield. Whoever has

sought to touch'tlie subject of woman's

uress nas nan moms tor pay. wo man is now a Ions wav straved from simple

tunic and classic robe, but will she aver

that she has imoroved on. them? It

ought to be less difficult to distinguish as between the followers of Iais and

Phryne and those of Aglara and l)elone. But who, as a. matter of fact-

sets tne msJuonr borne ot the current: fashions are in very bad form in all tenses. The style of w&ist called "hour-glass," and affected . by women whose bust; measurement is forty-six inches and whose waist is twenty-1 hree this is not only murderous, but in not even in harm any with true taste Put Venus in suoh "a straight-jacket and her Leauriful form would soon bo ruined. Then, to 5, what shall we say of the full dress, which is so nearly. undress? Well, about all a modest mar can say is; to blush and look the othei

way. Kabelais inscribed it: "JNothing in front, nothing behind, iimd sleeves of the same." These ladies mean no harm; they only wish to lie fashionablethat is all. And when they pay the bill when consumption claims them the officiating clergyman says sweet things about them and chargts God with manslaughter, as be solemn ly calls it "a mysterious dispensation of the All-Wise Providence."

I'll shod t the man1 wHo's in the other

if you say sOjS'o that we may have the

rooms tp ourselve3." Tender Shouters Wanted.' New Yorlr Sun.- ' 0OI.pitEO PEOPLE WANTED Mailt ho ooa 'shouters" .and havo Voice! acceptable in choruses; soloists also needed. Apply at Uie bisth avenue entrance to IJootii's TUeater. M-en, women and cni M reh. " I "What wo want," said Commodore Txfeer to- the crowd of colored porsons of all ages, 8156KS and sx- xes wln assern bled' Boo Theater to answer, the above ad vertisemen tf "is not perfdnii 1 ers who can shout alone. We should 'have r$o difticuHy at all in . cetliiig

?those, We want men and women Mho

'Peminine Follies and Foibles." Rev, Joseph B. Cleaver, of New York, gives this title to a lecture in

which he talks man fashion of things J

he, nor any otae rmere mau, can ct)mpreheud: "There has always been a vast amount of poetry thrown about that period of a woman's life when, 'standing vith reluctant feet where the brook and rivers meet,' she ceased to bo a child, but is not yet quite a woman that transition time between V'.e closed bud and opening ilower that we sometimes express by the term 'sweet sixteen.': Without being over sentimental,we"(un not deny the charm of a gljrl thus' aged, provided she be neither insufferablv impudent, nor incurably vain, but just a nice, nweet, common-sense girl. We men are no longer accounted angels. Borne of them still are wise and and some foolish. The d rones, the lawn flowers, the brightest bird whose end seeais song and plumage, have each their use. but for the average society lady, cast in a fine mold, heiress'of the eternities, she

degrades herself to the level of a fashion-plate, eats the bread of idleness until the marriage which is so seldom a mating, but rather toO often a legal concubinage, when she eat& $he bread of dependence, nor cares, so long as the cage bars be gilded. Borne pretend to religion, liken he fair and fat wife ot a banker, who would do;:e and read from '"Zola" ail day, and in the eve-

frni n draw tears 'from th e , .eves of. t he

v4fciUn g oeacon . by si n ging. ' 4 One ni ore d ay -work for Jesus. Some affect strong- mindedness take to views instead of honest iovo and kisef'dbgs i nstead o babi eS bu t for all their sneers, mariolat ry still points the truth that woman is never so di? vine m" when with phild in arms and mother .love in eyes slie ap5earF God's prime ministress in the maintenance of the race. Thev may call it if they will

fa coarse animal instinct," but nature's sweet " voice "drowns theirs, and the woman of sound mind, level head and perfect ..physique will still seek to he the one true wife of the true husband,aiid giving him always? love and faith, and -never will she he so;hppy an when his child sleeps on her breast. My sister, youeah best wield your influeijce not by nusexihg yur?eif, but by reniaining, in your own ttue. way,

The Gulf Stream. Now York World. The papers rear! before the National Academy of Sciences yesterday were of much more general interest iharf most of those rend on Tuesday. Tho moi'ving session vas devotetl to tho reading uid discussion of two contributions upon allied topics, "The Basin of the Gulf Stream." by Prof. J. E. Hilgard, and "The Origin 0 the Coral Keel's of the Yucatan and .Floridn Banks," by Prof. Alexander Agassiz. Keceut surveys under Buperintendent C P, Patterson, of the. United States Coast and Geodesic Survey, show that fully one-third of the GuU of Mexico is less than 100 fathoms deep, the depth increasing very rapidly at about the lUO-iathom line to a liau central basin about 2,000 fathom;? in depth. The two large plateaus less than 100 fathoms beneath the surface of the water are along the west coast of Florida, about ISO miles broad, and 10 the north of Yucatan about 100 miles broad. These plateaus show the actual eondnental outline to be very different from the shore line3 of the Gulf. Professor Agassiz, in his paper, showed that these plateaus, whatever may ha ve bee n their primal origin, are very largely composed of limeslone, formed of the osseous carcasses of submarine life, and that whereas they had been in this way built , up to ttie depth at which coral atolls or reefs begin to form, tventy-secen fathoms, as iff the case of the Florida Kys.and thecoraf islands northwest of Yucatan, corai atolls exactly si milar to those in the Pacific, described by. Darwin, were fcund. But Darwin hid explained the Pacific atolls by a gradual, general subsidence of t.e bed of the ocftn, and his theory was tnat all reef formations were sceompamed by suosidenee. Herein the Gulf the formation accompanies mx elevation, and as similar plateau? are found in the coynl regions of the Paeilic. It is concluded ti: a t Darwin was all wrong. and that coral reef formations accompany elevations of ocean beds instead of subsidence. During the discussion lbs interesting fact was developed that the Gulf Stream so called does not come from the Gulf, 'as if; represented in rhe physical geographies, but is an equatorial current which comes through the Caribbean sea from the African coast, is turned northeast upon striking the coast of Yucatau. passea through the Straits of Yucatan aud. Florida and out iuro the Atlantic without really entering the Gulf of Mexico at alb The currents in the Gulf arc not connected with this great stream and are very slow. The mouths of the Mississippi have already projected so far beyond the general coast Hue as to have nearly reached the precipitous declivities of the deep Gulf basin so there is no danger that the channel will ever be stopped again or that the jetty system will have to be extended further into the Gulf than at nresjsnt. The Census of Germany. Philadelphia Telegraph. The census of the German Empire was taken in December last, and , the first summary of the returns was published in our Oft ble despatches yesterday. The aggregate population of the Empire as now 45,194,172 souls, an increase since lS7i of 2,486,100; or at the rate of 5. 7 per cent, for the intervening pe riod o f ti ve ye a i s, Ti x is gi ves an a nnual rate of increase of 1 14 per cent., which is perceptibly greater than the annual rate . of increase during the four years immediately following tne war with France. The population of t he Empire at t ue close of 1875, was 42,757.932, an increase since 18T1 of 1,G99,19), which was at the rate of 4.12

per cent, for folic years, or 1.02 per an

num, in 1871,' alter tue war wun France was over, the population stood at 41.058,702, an increase since 1887 of only 951,617, wnieh was at the rate of 2 32 per cent, tor the four years,oTonl$ .58 per cent a year. Within tho lim its 150W comprised in the German Empire, the population has almost doubled since lHl6,when t he aggiegato u t mul a t R 1 (iS 111. W h il A i f, wi ! I t.h OS

take (Jermany about seventy years to

double her population, rjaguinc ana Wah doubled theirs in the years intervening between 1801 and 1851, and at the annual rate of increase prevailing during the ten years, preceding 1871, would go on doubling every fifty-six years. The population of the United 'States has risen from 23,191,870 in 1850, to 50,152,554 in 1381), thus more than doubling itself in thirty years. .' . .... W Going Up Salt Hirer. A New York paper making inquiry into the first use of the phrase, 4 'Going up Salt river," has learned the origin of the term, which is given as follows:' Khortiy. after tVe admission of Missouri, a candidate for Congress was defeated by an overwhelming majority in this State; inceed, so badly was he beaten that lie determined to leave the district in which he ran forthwith, without consulting his neighbors. He retired to the neighborhood of Florida, Missouri. Shortly after, on being inquired for by sympathizing friends, they were in

formed that he had "Gone up Salt river, Salt river, Missouri, is formed bv three .branches which unite near Florida. It flows tbeuee east, and

after a semen tin e course of 85 mdea

enters the Mississippi river in Pike county. . Small id earn boats can ascend from its mouth to Florida, There being a7 salt river m Keulucky, which empties into the Ohio, a similar story is reported of a gentleman who ran

for (jon&rress there, nid who was, like

the other, badly beaten, but the Mis

souri river is the Simon pure. Bald

river is therefore conveniently local et for the politicians, being about equi

distant from all sides of the union.

W. H. VANBlUaBLLT TALKS.

The A ttompte d Refund in g Con - solidation of tho Telegraph Companies His Views on Wall Street. New Yorir. Herald, "What do you think of the congressional attempt at refunding the debt by 8 per cent, bonds?"

"To preserve the present prosperity of the countiy it is necessary for the government to keep it's-- credit up to the highest standard. In my judgment it is a groat mistake to attempt to fioat Donas at so tow a rate or interest as 3 percent that ft doubt will aiise whether it will sell at par in-any and all conditions of ''the market. A low interest bond with a short time to run is speculation and a mistake. Even if the new bond were 4 per cent., it would iu any condition of the market bring par, and in the present financial condition of the country at a premium, reducing the interest to the government to at leasts per cent By this method tho greatest oonlidence arid stability will be given 1:0 business ard the credit of the country, aud the

government will receive the full value

of lis securities.". "Your name has recently figured very prominently iu the consolidation of the telegraph companies?" 14 Yes; a great deal has been said about telegraph consolidation, So far

as 1 am concerned 1 .acteu iu perreut good faith, and according to my best

judgment as a director ot the Western

Union company. Aooub the tune 1 was less interested in the stock of the company than an time for. three years previously, but there was jlio

difference of opinion in the executive committee as what was for the best

aterests of the company, and f have .

.ailed up to this time to hear of a large

shareholder ot the property, nearly all

of whom have been isteady investors, for years past, who ha3 not considered the consolidation ai the most ad

vantageous aud businesslike arrangement that could have been made. I

would not hesitate to jo it over again

to-morrow. It is unusual that a trans

action of this magnitude, should have

met the approval of all parties inter

ested, with but one exception." -

"But as to the interests or tne pun-

lie?"

"I fail to see how 'he public are in

jured. There has been no advance of

raws, but the company will be. enabled

to transact its business at less expense.

There is no charge at present that the rates of telegiaphiiig are too large, or that the service is not properly conducted. The advantage of three lines

was only felt by a few large cities of the

union, aud all minor points were fast. I- . t Z A. n. i-i s4Z J1 1 III It AMI' f. s 1V1 .

OKOUUJJI1S UiltUBJieM. iuuuum wmoeri t ion would soon have demoralized

ral es, and. properties would have great

s' deteriorated m vaiue wi 111 out any

permanent good to Hie public1'

ln view of what you nave said as to

the speculative fever, do you think the country is on the path of eontiuued prospeiitv, or tnat a speedy financial

crash is impending?" -

"Oh, the country is all right," Mr. Vanderhilt replied. "It was depressed too long for a 'return to prosperity to last only a year or two. Of course business may have its set backs, and the present great prosperity may last three years or it iny last live, but it will last some ti me. Of that I feel convinced. It looks, by the way, as though we are to have good crops. A heavy deep snow, you know, must be a grand thing for crops." 'For the benefit of the many who are notin the enjoyment of your mil

lions, may 1 ask you if you gst more ; than three meals n day and a good !

night's rest, if you get that.?" Mr. Vanderbilt laughed and said, :'Ohf after a man has got money and has secured for his family all they require, he is .as well of! as if he had $100,000,000. Ittsfaet. he is better cfi, for he has all the comforts and enjoyments that he can reasonably require, without the increasing care of increasing millions. A man whose controlling desire is to accumulate great wealth should be very much on his

guard against theft elingof undue mis- ! eiiiuess, which is apt to come with

this eagerness for increased weattn." "is there any danger to tho public welfare in the accumulation of vast wealth in a few hands?" "I do not think there Is hftlf the am bition amonjrrich men to accumulate greater wealth in their har ds which the public give in em credit for. ft is the spirit of speculation more than that of accumulation which is rampant now." The conversation continued in this informal fashion, -and, speaking - of Wall street, Mr. Vanderbilt. summarized it in this characteristic fashion 1 There are a couple of thousand of the smartest fellows do wn there in .Wall street, Now, they don't livw on each other, .they live on the outside public, and a man who has anything tb lose is a perfect fool to try his gam e wi th those men. I never buy anything for a turn : what I buy I buy as an invest' meat Of course, if a connected at tack is made on New York Contra!, Lake Shore, or any of the properties in which I am heavily interested, and I were to buy a certain number of shares to support the market, and afterward, upon, the reaction, let the

market have the stocks again at a lair profit, I should not consider this a

speculation. I consider this as a pro

tection to my property, well knowing

that the value is there."

Mr. Vanierbilt thought that the

popular tendency was to exaggerate immensely the otsse:sion ol rich men.

People now talk about millions as

they once used to talk about thou

sands. If a man is worth a million

you will hear at: once that he is worth r .-(. (Hr rt.ui Alii

ten. ana u ue nun &a-twj9vw tu,-

000,000 you will hear he is worth $30,-

000,000. You may pui it as a sale nue

that if a man makes a large amount

of money you will near of it three or

four times as often as u he incurs a heavy loss. Any man who by his

talent or industry accumulates 100,000 will appreciate it more than if he had ;5tepned into the money over

night bv an operation in stocks, and

it will stay by h im, ...

"What is your guiding maxim n

life?" . -s

Mr. Vanderbilt turned suddenly

around and abruptly said : ;

"Do what you think is right

fair to others, regardless of what pie may think."

stonily the fair-haired girl of Middletown rises to his fancy's view and a host of tender thoughts are revived. Of course he enters the parlors, aud though the lady's back was toward him, voice and song he knew were her's. A convenient mirror enables him to see her face and her to catch a glimpse of his, She knew him at once. She, too, had been wounded by the archer, Cupid,

and it &eems she had never forgotten

the face. She began the next verse, hesitated, faltered, and breaking down, rose from the piano, declaring she ccuUlilugno more that night. Of course their old acquaintance, with a few polite formalities, was renewed, and in a few minutes they were strolling arm iu arm on the piazza of the hotel, with no one to molest them and no bnght moonlight to disclose her blushes or his eager and happy face. What he said and what she answered is not known, but the nature of the interview may be inferred from the fact (hat the twain were made one during the., early days of last November. And this is not the first time uBobin Adair" has opened the gates hymen iaL The Art of Being a Bore. l,e Voltaire. "The other night at the opera ball 1 met one ot our comediennes, who is generally recognised as among the most amiable in her profession, and especially fond of g&yety. 'Well, you have pleny of fun,' T observer!.

Oh so, so! the men, and especiair ly the young men, are such bores.?. "In. a single word the fair speaker had u neon ciou sly defined the constitutional malady ol this French people, which passes lor the wittiest . Nation iu the world, and is so in fact; but. which occasionally expands a vasi) amount of wit for . the purpose of appearing to be witleS3. "I may seem uttering a paradox, a ludicrous contradiction, but he fact 1 speak of is simplyj the exaggerated result oi: our instinctive horror,, of all that is cold, s ad and serious. "So great is our horror of ennui that we defy it, for the saftie reason . that savages worship what they most fear. This is why in this insolvent, skeptical, mocking, laughing France of ours it has become a profession to be a bore. .-.. . "Xot a vulgar profession, but si excellent and incomparable one, without risk or peril, which opens all doors and is a f afe conduct co all aspirations.

"Nevertheless, it mt.st not be sup-1 posed that one can succeed the first-1 time, or in one day iu becoming aj

perfect bore. Une is. not norn sr.' . under tins sun of ours. One can or.iy become so just as one becomes an orator, after long and continued violence done to bis own nature, Even With the true vocation and especial natural aptitude, one must patiently practice for years- . ... "For it will not suffice to be simvly a bore; one must also be serious, very serious. "A certain apprentice in diplomacy who was not greatly worried! by his excess f brain-uower once asked M. de Talleyrardf for advice how to succeed-in his. career, . " 'Fhvt of ail,7 replied Prince de Benevent, 'never laugh!' 'Thanks, Monsigueur and then' 11 'And secondly never laugh." "There is no use denying it, the whole secret lies iu that. Fancy the influence a man must have who never laughs!" A Mountain Piano . Diirango (Col.)lieeoni . Mrs. t '. M. 'Williama'is the fortunate possessojat her pk ant home on itailroad aii'S street:, of a real piano, and theonlv one that is known of in our beautiful valley. It went through much ad versitv ere it became ensconsed in the luxurian t apartment which it

now adorns.

The Bait river district in Congress is

now represented Buck her.

by Hon, A. II,

Kev, John Kj.'iEK, presiding tide.'

of New Albany district, the oldest

presiding elder n the Indiana conference, had two of his ribs broken by be ing thrown from his h.tigg3' while out on his district a few day-' ago. but con -tin wis to preach, not having missed an appojutmentojij apeou-nt of the acel-

1 dent

route a

MiAti the terminus of the railroad,

whence it was trans forced to a wagon aud the tender mercies of a male team, which must have known that it was precious freight or. what happened to it would never, have taken place. . Three miles this side of Bear creek, wheie the roaCn eagtt the upper rim of a bowlder strewii hill, the piano lurched, and the mules, in stead of standing their ground, weakened and rolled to the foot with tue precious box. The packingease was skittered into kindling wood, but t he piano and "mules were both uninjured, to the great delight ol Mr. and Mrs WHUams, who were riding in the rear, in their light wagon, and who witnessed, with bated breath, the promiscuous descent;. First the mules was 011 top and then the piano, and the only music! that was forthcoming was the bass voice of the muleskinner,, who "cussed" chose mules until lie was blacker in the face than were his hands. The nMtsie-box was tin ally recovered, and safely transported over the snowy pyramicsibac intervene tho summit and BtfM'igo. And if any one doubts that it is oot more highly prized because of; its singular experience, let him observe with what a delicate touch its accomplished mistiess caresses its ivory keys, and listen to the sweet strains of some familiar melody from the inexhaustible resources of this iudistruetibie instrument, whose strings touch a sympathetic chord in the heart of iheir manipulator.

in "Hildreth's Pioneer History," that on the 26th of December, 1788, the Delaware and Ohio rivers were bOtbt froj'.eu over and navigation was suspended opon them until the 18th of the follwhig March. In 1792, when solJiers were sent to the disastrous battle-field of General St. Clair to bury the dead, they encamped where Cincinnati now stands, January 13. The

su ow was reported two feet deep upon -

the ground, and the Ohio was so strongly frozen that soldiers rode their horses across from Kentucky on the ice. The 8th of February, 16J07, was known for years as cold Friday, and was the ground woik for many a grandfather's tale. On the evening 0 the 6th the. weather was mild and rain began to fall as night set in. In a few hours the rain changed to snow, which fell to the depth of six inches, after which a hurricane began to swe ep over the land. It grew colder and colder as the night progressed, . and the next morning t'ae trees in the forests were crackling like the reports of guns, and everything was bound in fetters of ice. There was no thermometer to register the cold, hot tVo day comes down in history and tradition as cold Friday. Rachel and Bernhardt at Home. Sirs. Hooper iu Philadelphia. Tim&s. Ltachel was not in the least versed in the art of advertising herself. In the, early days of her. career she lived in the simplest of apartments and in strict seclusion, devoting herself entirely to the study of the art. She worked hard those who fancy that she achieved what she did .by her sheer force of genius are very much m is taken . Whe a sh e had m ade her fortune, she installed herself iu a charming little .hotel in the.. Rue Tru don (now demolished); hot her private life was regulated as strictly as that of

r any society lady. No. one could gain

ad mission to h er abode wi thou t a 1 or-. mal introduction from some one of her own personal, friends. She re

ceived very little, ana tnen only men of ; the highest distinction- pi inces, statesmen, literary arid ai tistitJ celebrities, etc., and some few -but very few -of the prominent citizens and journalists ot the day, such as Jules Janin and Bain te-Beuve. Everyone knows that her motals were far from severe, but t.ie disorder of her life never involved her manners. The little

street singer had become one of .the J

queen lieufc ladies of France Once she chanced to be fulfilling an engagement in Berlin when the Czar Nicholas was on his way to the Court. Ilachel was then in mourning, but the "ear had a great dislike to having anydy appear before him in black; so one of the cour t-ladies, w ho was very intimate with the famoun a:-tress, had one of her own daughter's dresses (a white silk) hastily arranged for her friend. Yet, notwithstanding the 'dis

advantage of ' ill-fitting and hurriedly-.

provided attire, so queen ly was Kachel's walk and so noble was. her aspect as she advanced .... up tho long room wherein the presentation was held, and the Ernperor rose, as if involuntarily, to receive her.' "Je salue le grande '.dame" ("I salute- the great

lady") was his remark.

in ccnttrauisuncuou to uus royai lady of the French stage, her erratic successor appears a veritable Queen of the Bohemians. Md lie. Sarah Bernhardt Parisian household, is, not-, unlike that of the "Countess Julia Walker," in the sparkling comedy of 'iL'Age Ingrat " It is a constant whirl of visitors, coming and goiug; everybody can call who likes, and everybody does call. All the newspaper writers of Paris, the foreign correspondents, the rising artists, aspiring dramatists, are to be found n the vast studio on the Avenue du Villiers. A dozen people will happen iu to breakfast and twenty will drop into dinner. There will be 80,000iraues in the house one day and no money on the morrow. In the midst of the crowd revolves the mistress of the house, falfefnsr. reeeivmff. oalntiner.

modeliosr. vritincr. stud vincr.. the wild-

W . ' v

and one of the candidates seized the pl and rushed oil: through the tidcte brush to the creek' to. get water with , which to make cetfreeV but the ol her W8S the smarteir of the twohc did not go out. When tbe first came back tired and covered wlth hrusb, but witrtj the pail full of water, he found his op-; ponent kissing and hugging the baby,and telling the women how pretty w was and how much it looked like itar mamma. The other csndidate Vlosi? co arage, hacked down, anlcl his oj 5 ponent.was elected. The- lecturer remembered when a certain Judge wss - he askei a lof

of people to his house to take some) , peaches and cream. When there they discussed the quesion' of baptism, mhI it soon began to get quite 'lively be? v tweeh the Methodists and Baptists , ; and the candidates had to hike s les. The one who stood by - the Baptisfsj : was a smart one, and he quoted G2 eek to sustain his p si tiOn to ah alar or.1i ig ' degree. A young clergyman who hap pened to foe present interrupted;' mm ' arid asked him to repeat eome of his Greek expressions, but he waived hio affide, and as his onpanent conldl not contradictor eyeii question h!ctif pf ceurse he carried the' day. Re after- j ward told the speaker that he did noH y know a Greek character from a6 turT key's track; he 3a,W the BapistaHverer,,i in the majority, and so he went in to win. The rule was that waen? on candidate intended to speak he should notify his opponent.": One smart y aung fellow gotii strong, fast h orse and made bis appointments from5 3 fey to eighty miles apart His opponent, who was an elderly man, ; could nou k eep u p wi th him, so he had it all t o -himself and was elected. -Mr Piersoii r told a number of other very amnsing:r V anecdotes, and closed with a glowing tiibute to his brave old hoie, which, : ., h e said had carried him r thousands f miles and deserve? a niche in the 1 temple of fame. Onee when in the S'uthwest he stopped at a place where- ; there was verv mahv ea oa biers. As he ...

came up the road he saw that they all ' noticed his horse. He dismounted, ; gave the animal to the hostler to bet fed and cared for. He had scai!cely f f finished washing bis face and hands when arfjig burly fellow, with his hands full of bank bills, who had got Z his name from the hotel register, came rushing upjto him, saying, 'Mr, J 'ierson, wi ll von let your horse" rari 4 ; What do you mean?" asked the minister. " Wov, weiwant to get np , a; race, and I have liet $200 he can , beat anvthing in this town.'' The minis-. ter answered "No" fery .sharply? The ' next morning as he was leaving ' town fie had to stop at the blacksmith's to -get his horse's shoe fixed. When the v workmen had finished the job he looked the preacher smilingly in the v face and said : VThis is the horse you wouldn't let them race yesterday, ain't 1. he?" "Yes," answered the minister. , Wa11 finawered the man. iUthev -

run him an v was? andne?

money, too.

v won

the

The Cause of 'War- Between -pihilii - - t: ; anxi Peru, ; . " J .

' ; ml

It was shinned from Denver last No-

vemneilUU enjoyrei a ,iwe uy uie fitewt f ci. mMrMnrimnii: nns.t ATlravjicant

as lar as xai ur, w Bohemienne of Paris. Yet wi

thai she

is comiiaratively simple as regards her

persona! tastes. She dresses in an original and eccentric style, but not gorgeously.

OFPICE-SEEKI N.& STOBIBS.

; The Sfiiumors of Political Campaigns

in the West, of Years Gone By.

New York Times. -The New York Historical.

met last evening, President

Society

Frederick

and ueo-

A Short Love Story.

Eliaira, N. Y., Kreu Press?.

And now "Itobm Adair7 has devoid

optd another pretty romance, which

runs tin us: Four years ago a New York gentleman, aged t wen by -eight, of musical tastes, attendexl a meeting of the Orange County Musical Asoeiation in Middletown, and was much, impressed with tiie appeamuce of a young lady who sang the song V'llobm Adair." She was not a great singer by any means, but she sang tastefully and with feeling... It was a ease of love at mat sight on the parf of 1 he gentleman . Iuri ng

the even ing Jie managed to secure an ; introduction to the lady, iut in the ' bustl? and excitement of the occasion misunderstood t he name. A short chat with her not only deepened the impression the lady had already made nu his susceptible heart, and during the brief interval of conversation he learned that she, like himself, was onlv a visitor in that section. He was called next morning suddenly to Sew York, and in the hante of departure was una ble to get her name and ad Iress.

Tno next chapter 1 i this true story opens tit Asb.ury Park in July las!';, with t he liero? u in m e r i n g at a wa tor i n g p ace holei there. Wt rolling abotr: tho second day after his arrival., he passes near the parlor door of his hotel and hear a voice aeccunpanicd by a piano, singing ''R.ibiu Adair." ; A Hood of u400PHesrtfit(j )n1o his lrai,t anu is-

- . ..- ;--; ' - Tho CaicJ Winter of One Hundred - ' 'f Years Ago. The winter of 1779-80 (says the Albany Argus) began aa the present one

did, and before the slight moderation in the at mosphere, Sunday, xnanygj the older residents, whose fathers and mothers had ..told tfa em many tales of

.that terrible winter, where speculating

as to whether tne present one' weird resemble it in o'iher respects. La 177 i)80 the cold set i.i a'DOUt the middle of

November, and continued until the middie of February. During that long period tJ:iere was not enough warmth in the snns rays to melt the snow on the grou nd, not to affect in the least the fetters of ice that bound the creeks, ponds find rivers One snow storm followed another until finally the grrottn&'was so covered that it was d$flicult to go from place to place, and the ice upon the rivers at all convenient point s w is used by men and teams and animals in place of road.;. The cold winds were so piercing that wild turkeys we?e frozen ro dealh in the forests and domestic fowls fell frozen from their roosts. The deer aud buffalo sought shelter from the blasts around the cabins of the set tiers, and all kinds oi .wild animate perished in the forests for want of fooa, vluch was burwd beneath the snow. . : he fierce wdf anVi panther, which usually skulked abottt ttoo boundaries of the settlements only -by night, now cane near in hroatl daylight in search of the bones and rfUd thrown from the cabins o;f the lettlers. No rain fell, and the pioneers were compelled, to

obtain water, for etriniang, cooking,

etc, by meltifig ice and snow, north fro ard western rivers

tightly bounc by frost, and even as far south as iSTiishville the Cumberland

vas frozen o-. er wiiu iuu luhjb vuu Atm

were

for the safe passage of emigrant trains. TheBebuvaro, at. Philadelphia, hud ice

threa feerSrj thickness, and .Ohesapeake Bay ami lMng; Island Sound were -Vozen 6ver. Another similarity be-

twAnii im iiressnt winter and that of

77(J-3GywuH the mild Autumn weather that pre: edeclit. When tho cold began, in .So'C m ber, 1779,1 ho leaves had hardly fa-Ileu from tho forent trefs, and

many o,l tin? trees and sfyrutts were

nutting foxtlli new growth. 1 no same

conditio ttor things was wiiuessetl last

fall. TOO UinWa of 1783. 1781, 175,

17S3. 17fr:3;lT96 ft fid 1790 are all report

ed us having been severe, It- is stated

De Peyster m the cnatr, aud on the piatform with him were Vice-President. Benjamin H. Field, the Rev. Hamilton W. Pierson, Df IX, Jacob B. Moore and Colonel Andrew Warner. Am org the audience were Judge Freedman, William rf. I)owd!. George Kemp, John A. WeeksV and the Rev. Dr. Bavin, The Secretary read a letter from Mr. A. Fisehel, formerly of New York, and now at Amsterdam, in which he says he sen t by the same mail a copy of the Dutch pamphlet, containing the history of the Transvaal Republic, and asks that it be placed in the Society's library. , The Rev. Dr. Hamilton W. Pierson

was then introduced and read a very interesting paper on "Candidating, or Old Time Methods and Humors of Olfice-seeking in the Southwest." He said he had spent many years in traveling all over tue: Southwest as a preacher and distributor of Ilibles, and he thought the people . of New York woXdd like to kno w more of that country. His first experience was, when he stopped at a residence, a young lady skipped into, the sttt hig-rcomas soon as her mother . had passed out, and asjeed him if there . was anything fun ny in. a missionary Js life, that her mother had so many tracts and re1 igious papers and told her so, much about the seriousness of the mission of a missionary, that she was curious to know whether he ever had any fun at

all. This was the first introduction to the Southwest, and though it occurred over thirty years ago he would never forget it. He had traveled many miles by steam-boat and many thousand of miles on horseback, and all he should tell would relate to ante-bellum times. In the Southwest there was no valley so deep oi so well hidden, n 3 mountaiu so high, no ...spot where there was a human habitation that the ofiice-seek-er, tne candldate,had not found it. The firss salutation he met most, everywhere was, 4 How d'ye do, stranger? I guess you must.be a candidate," Gut there they did not do the political speaking as they do here. The.people would meet, . say, in a .Court-house, aud perhaps half a dozen candidates, all running for the same olfieer would

he there, too. and all ventilate tneir

claims, one after the.. other, They al

ways sj)oke of an election us "a race." He remembered one speech by a man

who had already served the people

twelve years in the Lower House. He

told them how he was born a poor boy among them, and was a poor man

then. He was an exainpie to poor

bo vs. and he had assisted to educate

almost enough poor boys to-elect him

themselves, but ho sa-.d that if no tost that race ho wished them to under

stand he would bo. a candidate in the

next. He wished they would elecc him again, and, after they had elected him, to come down to tne Assembly and see how much better lie was than many other men there, - and, said the' speaker, he was re-elected, and, though when he first entered the Assembly he could not oven write,, he subsequently became one of the brightest men from tho Southwest. -: The candidates did a itreat deal of Soifeitinir in private

among friends, although they always

. traveled togetner: on tum'eoacK. :rnc sneaker remembered1 one family which

was visited by two candidates togeth

er When they amven the mother W3 getting thlwgH.3 ready tor supper,

Boston Transcript. , i , The cause of the success of little' Chili in everlastingly thrasing her big neighbors, Peru and Bolivia, is not far -to find. Chili, for fifty years, has lived under the same constitution', the ;mih . tary power has been strictly subordinate to the civil, the people have lived in peace and qniet, and law and order . have prevailed. In Peru and Bclivia, au the other hand, the "man on horseback" has been continually coming and going, revolution has': succeeded -revolution-there have been 'overadozen in each, of these alleged Republics within the time named au a the result has been to render both Peru and Bolivia :lropotent in war, tm. the event has proved. They eu tercel into.

a secret treaty, ofiensiveand defsnsive. They agreed how the plunder that they -were to take from Chillia was hj be dii vidftd. Thev nicked ra quarrel witii?

i Chili, and set about, crushing her; It r , was to be a sort of partition of Poland, .v;

But it didn't worfc. Jsoima w whipped and humiliated. Peru was beaten out of her boots, and the army. . ; of Chili, victorious in the field, is at the gates of frightened Lima, die ating tarms. These will include heavy In demnity for the expense that tie war hascaused.Chili,;and ample secut'ty for t the future. Constitutional goye&im est? . has triumphed over milifciTy dicUiiorj ship against enormous' odds, and tnes South American Repubheshaye learn 4 1 ed a costly lesson. , ! . - Handwriting aiid Charaoter; . , London Society . r.rr f:- f.;- - v'l i You never take a pen in hnd but; " : ; you are- showing something of; your character.' Tne very styieolhe hand-, : writing i3 au element in the determn nation of charicter. ' The wy ni . which a man dashes otf a iettei- is very. s much, the way-jta which a man uses lus voice. There is a modulated ease- m f 1 i-?.!. haiidwritiner. ' vv ith-

out professin g to be expert, like Messrs. ; tChabot and "Netherclit, we can cer- 5 w

tainly gather ageneral from the handwriting. A -Minister :j was oommei ting on a.very sto-onar dis- -patch iu the presence of his vereign. rThe language is strongvM aM tho , f statesman, 'but the vwriterj$ not , mean it; he is irresolute. : -. . . Whence d' vou see irresolation? said the King. "In his n'a iind g, please your M?jesty. Only it is to be said r that a great deal of humbug is nftea, talked by people who profess to' bo ' fudges of haiwlwriting. IshowedaprofeKor of cafdigriiphy a letter which; I had received. He took a very unfavorable view of the handwriting.. iHa. said it was the bandwriiingof a, man without learning, without genius. without feeling. . , f.":

And now sir." JL said, "wm you iwi

at the signature?" Tne letter . written byLord Alacaula.

'- ' Mm

was?

; French ptxiolbowemf , : : s Pall Mall GKwetteV., f : The evil habit of vitrioi-throdn s : seriously inci-easing in-FraaiceJ and it? ; beginningio looked upon as a legits s, mate method of offence by tlie en w- v , , inal classes, instead of, as heretofore,. . the special weapon of avenging woa fatv davs aco a planter .

named Lassieur, who rented r; small snop in the quarter of Polie- JJencourt, was served with a writ of ejeotmeut oy his land-lord, M, Hatureau, v hose Reasonable ....requests.--, for Lis rent .had been treated by bis tenant with refusal rtitsi uti Mi'., Jnvoux. tie Com-

misary, attended by M. ttutyau. w 3 ; , ga pome policemen, paid a visit ,to thf refractory Lassieur. who had bamcs- ; , m bed himelf in the mnerjroom, whicljt

Of :

u nc,, no iahoratorv Oip; atteniiw

mnr iA'mno inn until. .... . -.

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him, and before he could in trench piyx

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A gentleman living , easi 'of Ivmg ston had his curiosity aroused lass Sunday, while the: trees were covered so thickly with ice, as ,to the relative , weight oflheiee and thd wood it sue- j ; rounded Seat 10 o'clock he out oil a g small limb, and it weighs lPWJft.iJ; after the ioe was melled off it weighed -2 ounces? another t trial waa ma.de; at firstf M Wi ightad 4 . pounds; after the ice was '?renoyea weighed :v ounces: a tiledf trial. M:A pounds, limb 4 ouneesf -roiirtli

pounds md limb 2 pounm n:aKimgi- : m

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