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THE NEWS CONDENSED.

Fottb famiheof "assisted immigrants from Ireland, and four from Germany, who arrived al New York the other day, will be sent back The brick manufacturers of New York and New Jersey hare agreed to close their yards for the season Sept, 20, thus greatly curtailing the production. Edward abj, Jb., & Co., lace merchants, of New York, have failed. The Labilities are estimated at $1,000,000. The value of the assests is not fully known. . . . J. J. Deavitt, formerly a practicing lawer at St Albans, Yt, has failed for $50,000. WmiiB in the woods neai-Fritztown, Pa., William Seachrist was attacked by seven polecats, who scratched and bit him for twenty minutes. He killed six of them with a dub. and lay helpless when found by his neighbors. Henby C. Peddeb, manager for Arnold, Constable & Co., of New York, has transferred his valuable New Jersey property to the firm, from whom he has embezzled, it is alleged, between $100,000 and $500,000. Herbert Seymour, the confidential bookkeeper of the company, is said to be a defaulter in the sum txf $50,000 Mrs. C. E. Browne, the mother of Artemus Ward, died recently at Waterford, Me., in her 78th year Five suspected eases of cholera in New York proved to be summer complaint among children A company has been formed to build and operate a public crematory, to be heated with natural gas, on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pa. THE WEST. A WOXA5 who keeps a saloon at Marshalltown, Iowa, continued to sell liquor contrary to the prohibitory law. She was arrested and gave bonds, but still defied the law. The Sheriff attempted to arrest her. She resisted, drawing two revolvers on him. After he had secured assistance he managed to take her to the jail, but the people threatening to tear it down she was released. The woman's resistance is said to be instigated by a local brewery. . . . The Rev. L. O. Thompson, a popular author and preacher, his son, Sidney, and another lad named Freddie Bishop, were drowned in the Illinois River at Henry, HL, by the skiff capsizing in the eddies near the dam Charles Pruty, a fire-collector on the bridge at St. Louis, was hurled from the structure by the protruding step of a mail car. He fell eighty feet to the water, and was drowned before aid could reach him. . . . D. E. Swan, chief clerk in the Treasurer s office of the Northern Pacific at St. Paul, has embezzled several thousand dollars and fled with a woman A dispatch from Irontdn, Ohio, announces the failure of Hiram Campbell 6 Sons, iron manufacturers, and places the liabilities at $300,000. Ah artesian well is to be bored at Aber deen, Dakota, with a view to obtaining permanent power to run a mill producing 200 barrels of flour per day. The acauittal of Lair, implicated in the murder of is Ward brothers at Devil's Lake, Dakota, was followed by the quashing of all the indictments Frank E. Everett, banker at Golden, Colo., committed suicide while insane from the use of chloral Mrs. Sylvia S. Olds, living near Paw Paw, Mich., committed suicide by drinking kerosene and arsenic Thx village of Cedar Springs, Mich., was destroyed by fire, four persons losing their lives. A damage of $50,000 was done by flames at the saw-mill of John White, at Cheney, Mich Four men lost their lives in a fire at Toledo. . A. & J. G. S. Harrison, the Indianapolis bankers, suspended last week, the firm applying for a receiver. Two of the men proposed declined to act. and the Sheriff was placed in possession The deposits axe between $500,000 and $600,000, a large amount of which is trust, and $40,000 city funds Cotter, Beattie & Co., general merchandise and lumber manufacturers at Ovid, Mich., are insolvent. ...The commission firm of Harmon, Spruance & Co., of Chicago, has suspended. A shortage in corn amounting to 1,000,090 bushels is said to be the cause of the failure. A HkTjKWa (Montana) dispatch says that five horse-thieves, whose names are unknown, were hanged at Rocky Point, on the Missouri River, by a band of cowboys, organized for the purpose of clearing out the thieves infesting that section. Thirtytwo stolen horses were recovered. This makes a total of thirteen horse-thieves hanged and shot in the Judith and Muscleshell section within the past three weeks. Jcdgb Redohger, at Mason City, Iowa, has decided that the prohibition law of the State is constitutional. At Muscatine a similar decision has been rendered, but an appeal has been taken The owners of 50,000 head of cattle in Oklahoma have formed a pool to reduce the expense of taking care of herds, and will employ one man and eight horses to every thousand head By a boiler explosion at Mount Vernon, Ohio, two tramps sleeping in a blacksmith shop near the scene were killed one named John Carey and the other unknown Some boys playing in a lumber-yard at Davenport unearthed a box containing several pounds of counterfeit 10-cent pieces, bearing the date of 1845 Some carrier pigeons liberated at Springfield, HL, flew to Cleveland in about eight hours.

THE SOUTH

Thkes masked, men at Mitchell's Station, new Culpeper, Va., bound and gagged Frank SomerviHe, took him to the collar of his store, where they removed his clothes and tarred his limbs. They then blew open the safe and carried off $1,800 in money. When SomerviHe was discovered he was unconscious. Mas. AtjMtra Habt LiKcora Phelps, an educational authoress and teacher of high repute, died at Baltimore July 15, her 91st birthday. She leaves an estate valued at $100,000. Whxu Yalentma Fritz was lying in bed at his home in Baltimore, his idiot son, 20 years old, entered the room, and with a hammer drove a three-inch nail into his father's head. The presence of the nail was Mi discovered until the following day, when a doctor extracted it by cutting around it with a' knife to ecnre a hold for the nippers. Frits is still living. Bob Hunt and Dan Parker (both colorad) were hanged at Greepville, Miss. The former killed Burrel Best iMlorcd) at Refuge, Oct 6, 1883.

The latter killed Richard Barrett (colored) on Deer Creek, May 11, 1884. Both confessed their guilt. .. .Commings Nelsan was hanged at Houma, La., in thd presence of 2,000 spectators, for the murder of John Martin, in Terre Bonne Parish. The culprit remained firm to the last Sam Williams, a colored man, was executed at Waynesboro, Go., for the murder of Clem Bush. Martinet, editor of the New Orleans Standard, the organ of the colored Republicans of Louisiana, recently accused the Custom House officials of sending gangs to break up Blaine and Logan Club meetings. Dupont, the Naval Officer of the New Orleans Prrt, resented these statemento, and meeting Martinet the other day, angry words were exchanged, which led to a rough-and-tumble fistic encounter. Both were considerably damaged. Some of the adherents of Martinet and Dupont renewed the row at a later hour, and considerable blood was spilt.

WASHINGTON,

The President has issued the following proclamation : While quarantine regulations are committed to the several States, the General Government has reposed certain powers In the President to be used at his discretion in preventing a threatened epidemic. Feelimr it my duty, I hereby call upon all persons who, under existing systems in the several States, are intrusted with the execution of quarantine regulations, to be diligent and on the alert, in order to prevent the introduction of the pestilence, which, we all re;ret to learn, has made its appearance in some of the countries of Europe, between which and the ports of the United States intercourse is direct and frequent. I further advise that the cities and towns of the United States, whether on the coast or on the lines of intercommunication, by sound sanitary regulations and the promotion of cleanliness, be prepared w resist the power of disease and to mitigate its severity, and I further direct the Consuls of the United States in the ports where the pestilence has made or may make its appearance to exercise vigilance in the carrying out of the instructions heretofore given, and in communicating to the Government of the United States any information of value relating to the progress or treatment of the disease. Chester A. Aethus.

POLITICAL.

Gen. Butler arrived in Washington last week and had an interview with the President. He refused positively to state what he intended to do politically during the campaign. His friends, however, assert with great positiveness that he will accept the nominations of the Greenbackers and Anti-Monopolists, and make the race for the Presidency. Butler says the statements which have been published concerning his political attitude since the Democratic convention are fabrications of ingenious reporters. . . .The Democrats of Michigan will hold their State convention at Detroit Aug. 19. The Greenback State Convention will convene at Grand Bapids Aug. 27. Col. John A, Martin, editor of the Atchison Champion, was nominated for Governor of Karsas by the State Republican Convention at Topeka. Albert H. Horton was nominated for Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court, and W. A. Johnson for Associate Justice.

GENERAL

It is reported h$ way of Jamaica that the Cuban insurgents under Aguero obtained two rather important victories' over the Spanish troops recently. The CaptainGeneral has summoned a council of officers to agree on a concerted plan against the rebels. The Government troops are said to be demoralized. Lieut. Greely and six of his fellowexplorers were taken from their permanent camp in Smith's Sound, on June 22, by the steamers Thesis and Bear, and were landed July 17 at, St. John's, Newfoundland. Seventeen others of the expedition perished from starvation, and one was lost while hunting seals. The corpses . of twelve of the party were brought back, the remains of the other five having been swept out to sea by the winds. Greely and his surviving associates would have perished in forty-eight hours but for the relief expedition. They won the honor of reaching the farthest known point to the northward. Capt. Ash, ice-pilot of the Bear, gives the following particulars of the discovery and rescue of Lieut. Greely and his companions: An officer of the Thetis found a record on one point of land, intimating that Greely and party were all well, and had left Fort Conger An?. and, after an auspicious journey, arrived at Barred Inlet Sept 29. The record also Indicated the exact point on Cape Sabine where the victorious exploring party were encamped. The steam launch of the Bear was immediately dispatched to the Indicated locality, which was distant about three miles. In the meantime the Thetis sounded her whistle, which was heard by Greely In his camp. The unwonted sound awoke the slumbering and fast-sinktmrexplorero. When the launch reached the ice in the vicinity of the camp a 'Solitary man was seen descending to the strand with uncertain steps. He had heard the whistle and saw the approaching boat. The crew of the launch regarded this as an evil omen. As soon as the ice foot was touched I jumped ashore, and accosted the lone stranger : "How are you all?" He answered faintly : "There are seven of us left yet." We were all struck with dismay. Gathering up hastily a little food and stimulants we hastened to the Greely encampment and there beheld a heart-shattering scene. A gale of wind was blowing. The tent had been shattered and had fallen' on the wearied and dying men. We entered and saw a scene of unspeakable misery and desolation. Haggard faces, staring eyes gazed at us . One of the six sufferers was pointed to as dying. We at once began to feed them with light food, ana dispatched the launch to the Thetis for assistance. Cant Emro and Dr. Ames came on shore, a fire was kindled, hot milk-punch was prepared, restoratives were applied, and in less than an hour the woebegone sufferers were able to stand staggeringly on their feet. Ten bodies were unearthed and two disinterred from the ice foot and brought down to the steam-launch to be transferred to the ships. Two of the living party were strong enough to be led along on their feet. The other five were bozne down on stretchers with the greatest care. In the midst of a tempestuous sea and a terrible gale of wind the living and dead of the Greely arctic colony were placed on board the Bear and Thetis and conveyed to St. Johns. A correspondent of aLondon journal, who was sent to investigate the commercial resources of Mexico, reports having been so badly clubbed by bandits that he lost his hearing, but he boasts that he killed his assailant The cholera scare is materially affecting European travel. FOREIGN, Paul Hammer, the alleged American who has been arrested in Austria on a charge of preaching Mormonism, turns out to be a portrait painter, a Dane by birth, and only a resident of Nevada for a very brief time. . . . .Owing to the disaffection of the native police at Cairo, British officers will be appointed to take their place. Gen. Walkek, United States Consul at Paris, says that city is unusually healthy. There has been no cholera there as yet He promises to use every precaution to prevent the introduction of the contagion into the United States. . . .Advices from China indicate that the Chinese troops have been withdrawn from the Tonquin frontier, as was demanded by France. This, it is thought, will avert war between the two countries. Dunxxa the voyage of the steamer St.

Dunstan between Marseilles and Liverpool two passengers died from the effects of cholera. Oh its arrival at Liverpool the steamer was twice disinfected, and the stores taken oh board at Marseilles were destroyed L. A. Englehardt a London merchant, has failed, with liabilities put at 270,000. .... The Marquis of Lome is becoming interested in the importation of healthy cattle from the Western States of America through Canada, and is to introduce a deputation to Lord Carlingford in that interest. There have been 100 arrests at Warsaw in connection with the plot to blow up the palace during the Czar's visit.

ADMTIOUTAIj NEWS The Kansas Democratic State Convention will meet at Topeka Aug. 20, to nominate candidates for State officer. . . .It is said that Senator Mahone will endeavor to enjoin the Secretary of State in Virginia from issuiug poll-books under the new apportionment, claiming that the measure failed to pass the Legislature by a twothirds vote. TflE assignment of Tucker, Hammond & Co., jobbers of small wares, at Boston, is announced. Liabilities, $100,000 The private bank of G. Hall, at Elmira, N. Y., patronized by business men, laborers and farmers, has failed. The deposits are reported at about $100,000. President Arthur has called for the resignation of Gen, Longstreet, United States Marshal of the District of Georgia. Attorney General Brewster complains of Longstreet's inefficiency and carelessness, and has recommended his removal. Mr. John E. Bryant, it is thought, will succeed Longstreet. Near Chesterton, Md., two thousand men engaged in a riot at a negro campmeeting, in which one person was killed, ten fatally injured, and a number of others seriously cut. A dispatch from Chesterton gives the following particulars of the bloody affair: "Excursions were run to the colored campmeetiug in JarrelTs Woods, near Worton Station, in this county, from several points in Maryland and Delaware. From Millington, in the latter State, came a crowd of men who had a feud with the negroes of this vicinity. The 3,000 negroes on the grounds had been drinking whisky all day, and were in a good humor for a fight. One of the Millington men commenced to ill-treat the horse of a negro from this town and precipitated a row, in which 2,000 men participated, which lasted nearly three quarters; of an hour and during which fully one thousand shots were fired. The mob became thoroughly infuriated and carried on a guerilla warfare from behind trees until a Sheriff's posse, two hundred strong, charged through the woods into the center of the camp. The new-comers had arrived by special train from Charlestown, and promptly scattered the rioters right and left, capturing eighteen of the ring-leaders. William Ashley, of Millington, was found dying with a bullet through his body. Razors had been used freely, and nearly every man captured was bleeding profusely from wounds inflicted by these weapons. Many of the Millington party were also hurt, but escaped. About ten men were fatally wounded." The Rev. Dr. Henry Cosgrove, VicarGeneral of the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, who became its administrator on the death of Bishop McMullen, has been appointed to succeed that ecclesiastic as Bishop of the diocese The Laflin & Band Powder Company attached the property of the St. Louis Ore and Steel Company, and Ethan Hitchcock was appointed provisional receiver. It is stated that an extension is all that is needed by the company, as their assets are ample to meet all claims. The capital of the company is $5,000,000, and the bonded debt, $2,600,000.... Judge Blodgett has decided that the Chicago branch of the Bank of Montreal must pay internal-revenue taxes on what money it uses in business at Chicago, which formerly averaged $1,500,000 per month. He gave judgment in favor of the Government for $59,229.68, with interest at 6 per cent. for the past three years Frank Calvert, divorced husband of the present wife of ex-Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island, died suddenly in a Cincinnati hotel. There are suspicions of suicide, but all hi friends agree that he died of a broken heart.... Representatives of St. Louis, Omaha, Burlington, Ottumwa and other mills formed a linseed oil pool last week at a meeting at Lake Minnetonka, Minn. Manitoba, with a vastly increased acreage of wheat, estimates the yield at 9,500, -000 bushels . . . .The Clearing House exchanges last week $690,735,112 were $12,910,477 less than reported the previous week; and when compared with the returns for the corresponding period in 1883 show a decrease of 32.6 per cent.

THE MARKET. NEW YORK. Beeves ; $ C.00 7.25 HOGS 6.75 C.25 Flouu Extra 4.00 6.60 Wheat No. 2 Chicago 93 .93 No. 2 lied 1.00 1.01& COKN No. 2 60 $ .62 OATd White 42 .45 POEK Mess 15.75 (16.25 CHICAGO. BEBYE3 Choice to Prime Steers. 6.75 7.25 Good Shipping. 6.25 6.50 Butchers 5.00 $ 5.50 Hogs 5.25 g 5.75 Kloue Fancy White Winter Ex 5.23 5.75 Good to Choice Spring. 4.50 5.25 Wheat No. 2 Spring 83 .84 No. 2 lied Winter ,87 $ .8'J COPN No. 2 54 i .56 Oats No. 2 30 & .31 Rye No. 2 61 ($ .63 BAHLEY No. 2 61. .C2& Butter Choice Creamery 16 .13 Fine Dairy ..12 ($ .13 Cheese Full Cream o .o(J6 Skimmed Flat 03 .04 Eoos-r-Fresh lfi m .16 Potatoes New, per brl 2.00 2.25 Pork Mess 23.25 (23.75 LAKD 07 .07 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Bed M .00 Cohn No. 2 5$ .58 Oats No. 2 33 m .37 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 w & .86 Corn -No. 2 55 .57 Oats No. 2 31 .33 Barley No. 2 54 $ .50 POBK Mess 14.75 (glfi.25 LABD 7.C0 7.25 ST. LOUIS. Wheat No. 2 tie .87 Corn Mixed 47 .48& Oats No. 2 .i .37 Rye 56 & .58 POBK Mess 15.75 &16.25 CINCINNATI. Wheat No. 2 Bed w .90& CO.N 54 & .S5& Oats Mixed :ta $ .35 Pore Mess 16.)0 16.50 Lard ogn .otk DETROIT. FlXWR 6.00 ($6.50 Wheat No 1 White 1.04 & 1M Corn -Mixed 52 $ .55 Oats No. 2 Mixed..,.. .35 .37 Pore Mesa ie.00 17.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. 2 Bed 85 .87 Corn Mixed t9 .51 Oats Mixed.. 35 .37 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE-Bcst 6.75 7.25 Fair 5.50 6.50 Common 3.75 & 4.25 Hogs 5 36 (3 5.75 Sheep 6.25 (g) 5.75

A BIRD'S STRATEGIES!

Feigning Cripple! to Save Its Nest I was walking through a sandy bit of ground near the river, hoping to catch a duck or two napping in the weeds under the bank, wheu up from my feet jumped a saod piper, a bird so dreadfully crippled that it was nothing short of a miracle that it lived. One wing utterly refused to perform its office, having evidently been broken at the shoulder; one leg had also been apparently shattered ; the creature's feathers stood out every way, and altogether, a more miserable and pitiful fowl "was never seeu. It squeaked wildly as it hobbled out from under my feet, and fluttered and staggered away before me. It tumbled and rolled about in a fashion calculated at once to excite all of a man's sympathy, and a lull determination to run and catch it. Animated by these emotions and particularly the letter, I set out at once in pursuit, droppiug my cap, however as I did so, for the reason that will hereafter appear. After a step or two the bird lay as if wholly exhausted, but, as I put out my hand to take it, it gathered a little strength and feebly evaded my grasp. I followed and ar ain essayed to capture it, but ftgain missed it by a foot or two, and this operation, with a like result, was repeated a dozen times, until at last, when I chased the sand piper about a dozen rods, it pulled itself together, ejaculated "peet-week," in a mocking to:ae, a number of times and flew away, miraculously recovered, as sound and listy a bird as ever was Jcnown. I drew a bead upon it with my gun to show it how easily I could have paid it for its cheat if I had a desire to do so, and then, went back to pick up my cap. This done, I looked carefully about the ground, and, as I ejected, found a nest Keooped out in the sand, with five olivecolored, mottled eggs in it -So I compromised by taking the eggs, knowing that as manymo;re would be laid within a week, and went away, pluming myself that this old trick had grown too threadbare to take me in at this late day. Nearly all our earth building birds are acquainted "with this artifice, and I have had them all attempt to play it ou me sand pipers, sparrows and goldencrowned thrush or oven-bird. This latter species, however acts with more dignity in the matter. He is above resorting to the deceit of stimulated, lameness, and will not flutter and thrash about on the ground as his less scrupulous cousins do. When he sees you coming through the woods he crawls nimbly out of his nest and skulks along boLiad the bushes and leaves until he gets some distance away from hhi treasures; then he appears in a conspicuous place and sedately and quietly walks along before 'Ou, looking over his shoulder, and inviting jou to come up and take him, as being a bird who somehow never found use for his wings, and to whom the science of flying is unknown. When yon see this bird thus conducting himself, all you have to do is to note carefully the direction in which he is traveling, then walk back in a staight line, and, if you look ,caremlly, you will mid the nest some where within three or four rods of where the bird appeared. If you have any respect for gentlemanly deportment, however, you will not take more than half the eggs of this quiet, composed and dignitied oven bird. New York Sun. Women in Mexico. This is the first year the ladies, even Americans, could walk throagh the streets of Mexico alone in the daytime without being grossly insulted. They look her straight in the eye and say whatever they please. As to their own wives, they are prisoners always. They are never permitted to walk or ride out for a moment without their husbands, unless the need is very imperative. One call from any gentleman will com

promise any married woman in Mexico. It is not believed to be possible that a woman can innocently appear alone upon the street without her husband. An American lady, who boards at the Hotel Iturbide, tells me of a SpanishAmerican wife there who, though as well as imprisonment will permit, has not been out of her room once in seven weeks, except to go to church (confessional perhaps) once on Sunday. Her meals are sent to her. To see American ladies out shopping seems to these tyrants and victims a degrading spectacle. I wouldn't like to be a young girl in "Mayhe-co,M as they call this land or a young fellow, either. It is considered indecent for them to speak to each other till thoy have virtually become engaged, or to see each other till they are married. To behold a Mexican youth at first courtship gazing lackadaisically up at a brown girl a hundred leet distant on an upper balcony, whom he has never been permitted to speak to, holding his steed immovable and gazing up, on his head a collossal hat brave with great ropes and arabesques of gold, on his legs breeches of some fine stuff, gorgeous with silver buttons or coin down the legs in double rows, holding; his place with unwinking eye an hour at a time, and coming there day after day, week after week, rain or shine, especially rain, drenched to the skin persistent and passionate well, I know few more edifying spectacles. In two months, if he is lucky, he will be able to get into the house and sit in the "front room" with the old folks. And in two months more he will marry her und lck her up. Letter from Mexit'Cm A National Vhat-Is-lt. "My daughter came home from school," said the colonel, "and asked me what kind of government existed in the District of Columbia. She goes to the JeiVerson sohool, and her teacher had asked the question of the roomful of half-grown girls. Not one of them could answer, and the teacher told them to find out before the next day. That's the way my girl came to ask the question. When I tried to answer her I was badly puzzled. It isn't either kingdom, empire, republic, nor Democracy. It has neither czar, emperor, king,, nor president, bat appears to be an institution with three heads and one body. The name of the girl's school reminded me that Jefferson

said: 'Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed but that proposition didn't tit, for we never consented to any auch thing. It certainly wafen't a government of the people, by the people, and for the people for s,s matter of fact the people have mighty littie to do with it. My girl asked if it was a monarchy, either absolute or limited, and I pointed out the absence of royal families to prove that it couldn't be. I finally told her to tell the teacher that this district was a small protectorate of the United States, chiefly used as a city of refuge for surplus statesmen that were slightly tun down at the heel at home. Washington Republican. "Money is Power," About fifty years ago, a youtog man whom we shall here call J ones was graduated at one of the leading colleges in the country. He had much intellectual force, and his comrades supposed would study a profession. "No,n was his answer. "Money ia power. I am going to -be rich !" His means were limited. He went into business, and worked by day and night to achieve success. He had been fond of history and of literature, but he never opened a book now, unless it concerned his trade. He had strong religious feelings, but as time passed, he ceased to consider his relation to God or to his fellow-men, except as a vender of goods which they should buv. He succeeded in his purpose. By the time he had reached middleage he was at the head of an immense bu iness, and was one of the solid wealthy men of his city. Outside of his business he had no interest or influence, and nought for none. Other wealthy men tried to work reforms, to better the world; or they widened their lives by travel or study, by the love of art, or of books, or they became faithful servants of God. But Jones lived only for his business; he was penurious in his household and a hard, grinding employer. His wife and children feared him, and his workpeople hated him. Mrioney is power" he quoted as his motto throughout his life. He had two sons, neither of whom he educated, although they were heirs to a vast fortune. They were put into "the house,, as soon as they understood arithmetic, and worked their way up to the higher positions. "What do they want with college training, or society, or religion ?" their father was wont to say. "Let them learn the business. That is to be their life." Our story has a brief ending. At sixty, still in the prime of life, Jones was struck down with a nervous disease, the result of overwork. He fled to Europe; to the Nile; turned his back in terror to his work7 but to no purpose. He died alter months of agony. The enormous responsibility of the business devolved on his eldest son, a man weak in body and mind. He succumbed in less than a year, with softening of the brain, and lived an idiot The other boy threw up the business and plunged into wild dissipation. He had been given neither education nor principles to restrain him It was not long until the whole accumulation of years was scattered. The story is true and needs no moral. It is not often that the claims of the body, the brain, and the soul, when neglected, vindicate themselves by so swift and terrible results. - But sooner or later they avenge themselves inexorably, and no money has power to avert a single paia which they inflict. Youths9 Companion Life in a Flat. Have you ever been in a New York flat? It is like playing keep house. There are seven or eight rooms, all on one floor. They are ail small, and the onlv difference between them is that some are smaller than the others. Some of them are lighted by windows to the outer world. Some of the rest are more or less lighted by windows opening into air shafts, so that you can very conveniently smell what all your neighbors are having for dinner. Some of them have no windows at all. Now and then you find a fiat with closets in it, where you can hang your clothes. When you do catch a thing of this kind, it is your

duty to gather it in right awajf because the chances are that you won't see another if you live to be 1,100 years old. A few flats have private hallways running through them. More of them can only be promenaded by going through the various rooms. It is nice, if you have a guest, to go roaming through his bed-room in the morning, or to have him came through yours, if he wants to reach the dining-room. All your .cooking must be done in a little bit of a place no bigger than a yacht's gallery, and all your coal, groceries, and other things come up on a dumb-waiter that makes a noise like a ten-cylinder printing press. The janitor invariably amuses himself by starting this machine about 6 in the morning and keeping it going until 10, Then he couldn't be hired to touch it again before bed-time. There is a speaking-tube running from vour flat down to i;he front door. They tell you it is put there ,so that when your bell rings you can whistle down and find out who it is before you open the door. It isn't there for anything of the sort. It is simply so that the street arabs can pull yorx bell and then whistle up to tell you to go and soak your head, or something equally nice and reassuring. There are two doors at the foot of the stairs. The outside door is left open daytimes, and closed at night after a certain hour. You haven't any key to it, and all the bellhandles but one are inside, between the doors. That handle is supposed to lead to the janitor's room. But he goes out into the back yard, or up on the roof to sleep, so that when you come home late and ing, he will be sure not to hear you. Under these circumstances the only chance you have to get in lies in breaking down the door, in which case you will probably be arrested for burglarly. For all these reasons, living in a flat is hardly the poetic idea of sweet and serene happiness. New York Letter.

THE FAHILT DOCTOB. Soke Chest. Apply, upon retiring, hops saturated with vinegar, till relieved. Sleeplessness. Induce injsoalar fatigue by welking, and refr ihing sleep will follovr. A student once asked his preceptor, "When a young man is troub'ed with loss of memory, has lascivious dream, eta, what should he do?" "He should call upon a doctor," was the reply. So we say to ail young men so affected: Give patent medicines wide berth; call upon a doctor; and you will necessarily derive from medicine all the virtue that is in it. An Unsuspected Souece of Disease. Since parasites do infest everything organic, we are not surprised to read that M. Joannas Ohatin has found a parasite in the common onion that gives rise to disease. M. Pasteur, who has examined it, finds it similar to the parasite of mildew in wheat, but with less vitality. The affected plants should be pulled up and burned. Nettle Bash, or Ubticaria- This is a nervous ikffection of the skin, in which blotches resembling those of the nettle-sting, appear upon the surface, accompanied by itching and burning sensations. Disturbance of digestion is the usual cau&3. For immediate relief, bathe the parts with a solution of soda or saleratus, a teaspoonf ul to a pint of of hot water. Simple sponging with hot water, or hot salt and water, a tablespoonful to the quart, is in some cases still more effective. The axciting cause must be removed to effect a permanent cure. Bacteria: theie Mutability. Dr. Carpenter, at the British Medical Association, said that he believes that thfe same germs m ay, under altered circumstances, produce different diseases. A severe attack of any particular disease ' may so affect the system that a disease arises which cannot be recognized as related to that from which it proceed ed. Under favorable conditions an ordinary intermittent fever mav develop into a virulent form, which is highly contagious. Even the innocent bay bacillus may undergo such an alteration in its type as to become the germ of severe disease. Precautions During Choleba. As a prevention during cholera time, two drops of cruprum acet., (1 centes, dilution,) every night, and a flannel belt with a small plate of copper next the skin, worn constantly. The strictest moderation in eating and drinking, especially the latter. Avoid chills, cold draughts of air, over fatigue, aad excess of all kinds. Live as you usually do, but take no damaged fruit or high meat. Let your dress be comfortable and warm. Have a bath if possible once a day at all events twice a week. See that the drains of your house are in perfect order; have traps and closets well flushed twice a day, and chloride of lime or Piatt's chloride put down twice daily. Health and Home. What to Drink and Keep Waem. "If you want a drink that will keep you warm a whole night long out of doors,1' said an old policeman to a friend, "don't drink whisky, or rum, or any liquor. The heat they afford ia short-lived and leaves you cold and weak. They are worse than nothing. But drink a glass of ale and pepper new ale and common black pepper. It will not affect your hea 1, but it will keep your blood warm in the . keenest wind and colder rain." "I new tried the pepper part of that prescription," said a Third avenue car driver, "but ale is, I know, thought to be very warming. We drivers have colder 'work than policemen, do, I think, and the old ones among us have tried every drink you ever heard of. We were talking the whole thing over the other night. Hot rum, hot whisky, brandy, and gin ger, and all the clear alcoholic drinks were discussed. But the majority were in favor of hot coffee. That is the least hurtful, the most heating, and the longest lasting drink I know o" The Belle of Richmond. "Pretty girls in Bichmond 1 I should say we had!" exclaimed a passenger from Virginia. "The town is full of them. Ever been there? Not Well you ought to go down. But I'll bet you've seen the photograph of the prettiest ghi in our town a thousand times. You don't think you have, but you have oil the same. I'll tell you You have certainly seen tne show-win

dow advertisements of a Richmond Arm that makes a popular brand of smoking tobacco, the advertisement being adorned by a photograph of abeautiful young lady. Of course yon hare seen it hundreds of times. They are in every tobacco store. Well, that is a real photograph, and the girl is a belle of Richmond. There is a little romance connected with it, too. The young lady was courted by a young man of our town, but he made poor progress in winning her affections. Like all beauties she was vain and ambitious. She became actually envious of Mrs. Langtry and wanted to go on the stage herself. One fliglA she was saying how she would love t3r have her picture hung up in showwindows find admired by everybody like Mrs. Langtry 's. What would you give to have it?' inquired her suitor. 'Anything, everything,' replied she, enthusiastically, but not thinking it meant anything serious. So a bargain was made, playfully on her part, that in cose wi thin six months her photographs we:re on exhibition all over the country she would grant the young man any honorable request. He is a member of the tobocco manufacturing Arm I spoke of, and is a smart young chap, with an eye to business, as yon can see. They are to be married." Chicago "Traiv Talk:9 Tramps should goto Italy. "Ottida says of lifd there: "Here one wants so little ; the air and the light and a little red wine, and the warmth of tind, and a handful of maim or of grapes, and an old guitafr, and a niche to sleep in near a fountain that murmurs and sings to the mosses and marbles these are enough in Italy. "Better no divorce than the goal to which we are now madly tending remarks Judge Noah Davis.