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CURRENT
W. S. Astor's tax
ITEMS.
on
real estate lost
year was $240,000. '
The forty-two theaters in Paris will
accommodate 57,080 persons.
With his four wives Congress con-
eiders Cannon too heavily loaded.
Barry Sullivan, the famous Irish
comedian, will visit America next season.
Scbttrz is said to have decided to write
a political history of the United States.
A Pattebson (N. J.) clergyman, who
lives three miles away, skates to church.
It is Miss Lewis, of Manchester, Eng.,
that they say James Gordon Bennett hae
gone to marry.
The Plvmonth Church people will
hold daily prayer meetings daring the
Beecher trial.
Thk luxury of smoking brought forty
millions of revenue into the National
Treasury last year.
A CoKKECTierrr Justice claims that the
exclamation " Hello !" is swearing, and
he fines a man for using it.
Who are these parties down in Brook
lyn, Bilton and Teecher, who are having
such a thundering long lawsuit?
Thk owner of Occident challenges any
horse in the world except Goldsmith
Maid to trot in San Francisco for
$20,000.
As unknown disease .is, destroying the
cattle in Missouri. It is supposed to be
caused by undigested chinch bugs eaten
last summer.
Lord Drjimex. of - England, whose
wife recently lost $25,000 worth of jewels,
had an income Jast year of $5,000,000,
so we guess he can stand it.
Frederick Seward is attracting much
attention in the New York Legislature by
bis speeches, which are delivered with
finished grace of manner.
Thk last King of Spain, before the one
ynst rroelaimed. bearinsr the name of
m & '
Alfonso XL, historically known as the
Avenger, reigned from 1324 until
bis death before Gibraltar in 1350, so
thai between Alfonso XL and Alfonso
X 1 1, there is only the little period of 225
years.
A dkucately molded Englishman is
spoken of by .the Liverpool Post, who
lately made a wager that he would bite a
toad's head 087 eat an ounce twist of to
bacco, and follow this up with t&ree raw
potatoes. The bet was the price of the
tobacco and two gallons of beer, which
was easily -won.
Among, the distinguished Unitarians
who have died within the past year are
Charles Sumner, United States Senate
Millard Fillmore, ex-President of the
United States ; Nathaniel K. Hall, ex-
Postmaster-General ; James Walker, ex-
President Harvard College ; Ezra Cor
nell, of Ithaca, and Gen-it Smith, of
Peterboro.
Mb. Thomas IIoxxoway, the celebrated
pillman, is now engaged in the erection
of a college for women near Egham, in
Surrey, Eng., which is to cost nearly
SI, 000,000. He also intends to erect two
more hospitals in London, and has an
nounced his determination to devote
$2,000,000 to such objects of charity as
, may be deemed advisable.
A Russian nobleman promised his
: guests a dish they had never before seen.
When the lid was raised from a tureen
five feet long it disclosed the prettiest
actress of the Foliea Dramatiques, dress
ed a la Lady Godiva, on a cushion. The
feast was for the eyes only, and cost
21,000, 5,000 of which went for the
game and $16,000 for the dish on which
it was served.
There probably never was a man with
bis presence of mind quite so far away
as the fellow who was seen flying down
the streets of a town in Texas, a few days
ago, his eoat-tails streaming in the wind
and he lustily yelling, " Police ! police I
while a man at his heels flourishing a big
knife made a pass at him with every
jump. The only policeman in the vil
lage was the man who was yelling.
SAYING IS WEA.LT II.
One great cause of the poverty of the
present day is a fail are of our common
people to appreciate small things. They
do not realize how a daily addition, be it
ever so small, will soon make a large pile.
If the young men and -women of to-day
"will only begin, and begin now, to save a
little from their earnings and plant it in
the soil of some good savings bank, and
weekly or monthly add their mite, they
will wear a happy smile of competence
when they reach middle life. Not only
the desire but the ability to increase it
will also grow. Let clerk and trades
man, laborer and artisan, make now and
si once a beginning. Store up some of
your youthful force for future contin
gency. Let parents teach their children to
begin early to save. Begin at the foun
tain head to control the stream of ex
traTsgance to choose between poverty
jvt1 riches. Let our youth go on in the
habits of extravagance for fifty years to
eoroe as they have for fifty years past,
and we shall have a nation of beggars,
-with a moneyed aristocracy Let a gene
ration of such as save in small sums be
xeared, and we shall be free from all want.
JX not be ambitious for extravagant fort
unes, but seek that which it is the duty
d every one to obtain independence
snd ft comfortable home. "Wealth, anT
enough of it, is within the reach of all,
Jl is obtained by one process, and one
only -saving.
ANVXPLMA8ANT MISTAKE.
A late President of , Harvard College,
says the Boston Transcript, whose heart
vras quite too large to permit him to feel
ranch interest in petty details of college
discipline, summoned before him two
students, to one of whom an admonition
was due for some grave academic irregu--arity,
while with the other a business
arrangement was to be made about some
room rent. As ill-luck would have it,
being in haste to discharge his mind of a
most unpleasant burden, the fine old
man fell afoul of the student whose er
rand was business, and administered to
him as severe a verbal castigation as his
noble nature was capable of.
THE NEW PARISIAN OPERA HOUSE.
A correspondent who was accorded
the privilege of a peep into the new
Grand Opera House in Paris, prior to
the dedicatory ceremonies, gives some
additional ' information respecting the
magnificence of the interior.- In point
of size the new Opera House is not larger
than the old one, but the corridors,
staircases, saloons, foyers, waiting halls
and all the adjuncts of the new building
are on a scale of grandeur and dimen
sion which throws into the shade every
thing that has hitherto been seen of the
kind. Upon entering, the first : thing
that strikes the eye is the staircase
leading to the ' first grand gallery.
This is literally one mass of gold,
bronze, marble and onyx combined with
the richest draperies, statuary and every
thing that lavish expenditure can bestow
upon it. The gallery is entirely Italian
in its ornamentation. Its roof glitters
with the most brilliant glass enamel and
mosaic work of Byzantine character,
while the floor is inlaid with marble mo
saics. Then comes the grand foyer or
saloon, the sides of which are lined with
columns of part Indian, part Byzantine,
part classical composition. The ceiling
is adorned with the paintings of Baudry
and other French artists, and the walls
are adorned with antique masks, exqui
sitely carved, with marble panelings,
gold and glittering enamels and mosaics
in lavish profusion. The theater proper
is an elliptical semi-circle, of great
elegance. The angles of the house are
broken by double ranges of columns,
between which tiers of boxes are placed.
Finally, there is a saloon, for the ballet
dancers, where they can admire them
selves before gigantic mirrors, while por
traits of their most celebrated predeces
sors, and luscious too luscious groups
of dancers, painted by Boulanger, adorn
the other end and sides. There are up
ward of 200 dressing-rooms, with other
accommodations far beyond description.
the wonders of the fly.
A letter to the editor of the New York
Evening Post from Dr. R. U. Piper; the
naturalist, gives an account of some
microscopic experiments lately made by
him on insect anatomy. "I have man
aged, he writes, to make a very care
ful dissection of the tongue of a house
fly, and now I can show the so-called
trachea on the tip of the tongue very
neatly dissected by my own band. I can
also show a very fine specimen of a louse
from a blowing fly, with all its organs
perfect. I have noticed what I think is
a fact, that the flies which survive the
winter are all, or nearly all, perhaps,
females, and have just dissected a house'
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eggs. I have also demonstrated what is,
perhaps, an ontological discovery, that
the central lancet of the horse fly is
(tubular. For what reason as he has a
sucker with which he draws blood from
the wound he makes ? The lancet of the
horse fly the female, for the male has
no biting organs is a compound instru
ment. When closed it presents a point;
when open it shows several points radiat
ing from its base. The two outside
lancets have rows of teeth like those on
the jaw of a' shark. I suppose - the
creature introduces the lancet shut like
the sticks of "a fan. When it is with
drawn it is open in the process, and thus
makes that ugly, tormenting j wound
which these insects inflict upon horses
and cattle. The hollow lancet, perhaps,
carries some kind of fluid to poison the
blood or render it more fluid. There is,
however, no gland to be found by which
this fluid is secreted. That the lancet is
hollow, however, I have shown without
a question, as I have contrived to make
fluid pass through it." j
HALF-FARE.
The various railroads leading from
Chicago to the East and West having
decided to again issue half -fare tickets
to clergymen, accordingly sent them to
nearly all 'living along the line. The
Chicago ; and . Northwestern Railroad
Company recently received a letter from
an indignant minister asking why such
discrimination ' was . made and why all
were not equally entitled to low rates
but he failed to return bis ticket. The
following was sent in answer to the
reverend gentleman : - i ,"' ',"
Chicago, 18, Jan. 1875. Jtev. W. H. Spen
cer, Sparta, Wi.: BeabSib In reply to yours
of the 12th inst., requesting us to inform you
why this company Issues half-f are permits to
clergymen, and men of no other class, and
why the railroad officials changed the rule of
last year requiring clergymen to pay fall faze.
I have to remark, in an unofficial way, that it is
my belief that the railway managers of Wiscon
sin wished to show their Christian spirit under
persecution, ' and 'they probably based their
action on the fortieth verse, fifth chapter of
Matthew, namely : "And if any matt will sue
thee in the law, and take thy coat, let him have
thy cloak,' alao." . The- Grangers',, in your
State now have oar ooat, and with a Christian
spirit, we voluntarily offer the clergymen our
cloak. We do not, however, oblige' them to
wear it, bat as cloaks, like umbrellas, fit most
anybody, we do not expect to have - many of
these permit returned. Yours respectfully.
w. A. Tbbaix,
General Ticket Agent Chicago and Northwestern
Bailroad.
Thebb was more than the customary
stir at Las Vegas, the other day, when
the stage coach, with four passengers
inside and a corpse for driver, came tear
ing into town. The driver, though
frozen into a beautiful "stiff'," was sitting
bolt upright, with an awful grimness of
face and a death-grip on the lines. : The
ghastly Jehu was helped down from the
seat, and the next day ther j was a big
funeral at Las Vegas. .
: 1 diphtheria. "
At a meeting of the Public Health As
sociation of New York, Dec 10, 1374, the
cause, nature, history and proper treat
ment of diphtheria were discussed by the
physicians present. A paper read by Dr.
Elisha Harris brought forward evidence
showing that diphtheria is not a new dis
ease, but, under various names, has been
known since the very dawn of medical sci
ence. Pour centuries ago it was described
in Europe under, the titles of " putrid sore
throat, "malignant angina," '"angina
suffocative," etc. It was this disease
which carried George Washington to the
grave in 1799. Upwards of 100 years
ago it prevailed extensively in the city
and colony of New York. !
The first fatal case recorded under its
present name occurred in New York,
Feb. 20, 1850. Before the close of the
year, fifty-three deaths had resulted from
the malady in that city. In 1858 and 1859,
it again prevailed in New York in a mild
form, but, in Januaiy, 1860, fourteen
deaths were registered in the Bureau of
Vital Statistics, and the disease became
epidemic, and in certain localities very
malignant. The abstract from the, mor
tality of the disease shows that from
this time until 1864, diphtheria has become
a serious enemy to human life in New
York. In the spring of 1858 the disease
appeared in Albany, and 2,000 cases were
recognized in the first ten months of its
prevalence, and 179 deaths were ; regis
tered. During all this period, not, a case
occurred in Troy, a city only seven miles
distant. During 1860 and 1861, diphthe
ria prevailed as a local epidemic in
many towns throughout the Union; and
the fact was gradually acknowledged that
it was, in a certain way, infectious. The ac
tual deaths charged to the disease in New
jYork in 1874 were, up to Dec 10 1,665
'being 514 in excess of the number regis
tered in 1873. i
A paper read by Dr. Lewis Smith gave
a review of the cause and nature of diph
theria. The malady is contagious through
exhalations from the surface and from
the breath of the patient. The theory is
pretty clearly substantiated that the dis
ease ows its origin to the presence of bac
teria, small vegetable parasites. The
grayish-white spots that appear upon in
flamed surfaces at the beginning of the
disease are entirely composed of bacteria,
which, if not prevented, mnltiplyj rapid
ly, and, by burrowing in the tissues, in
fect the whole system. The bacterian
theory, developed by microscopic inves
tigation, is supported by the fact that
diphtheria prevails most in localities favor
able to the development of low forms of
ftnimnl and! vegetable life, as in crowded
and filthy rooms, and in low grounds.
Confirmation of the theory is also found
in the fact that the disease begins in a
single spot, and may then be easily cured.
It is only in later stages that it. becomes
a dangerous malady. But Dr. Smith
considers that an important factor in the
propagation of the disease is a predis
posing condition of the system. Bacteria
sometimes exist in the atmosphere with
out producing diphtheria, and are even
found occasionally in the mouths of well
persons, and, when breathed, sometimes
cause no injury to the lungs, j These,
with other considerations, indicate that
diphtheria is, in certain cases, a constitu
tional malady in ' its circumstances,
though in the majority of instances it is
primarily local, and only subsequently
constitutional. When diphtheria spreads
from house to house, 'or from room to
room, it is never carried by the clothing,
but by the visits of persons infected
with it. ; , I
From these facts it is obvious that, in
cases of diphtheria, there should be an
entire separation of the sick from the welL
Children should ' be especially protected
from contact with diphtheritic patients.
The same sanitary precautions 'should
also be adopted in treating the disease as
in dealing with low fevers. j
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FRENCH WORDS WRONGLY USED.
The French words constantly used in
English are often used wrongly. It
would be interesting to know the origin
of our habit of calling out encore when
we wian to near a piece ox music over
again. It is just possible that In some
bygone age the French may have done
this, but certainly no living being ever
heard a Frenchman call out anything but
"bit" on these .occasions Then we
have , adopted the French word morale;
but it. is never used by 'Englishmen,
never even by the most learned histo
rians, without a blunder. The learned
historians say, for example, " Welling;
ton was now determined to carry on the
war a Voutrance, and the morale of his
army was excellent."' Both these ex
pressions are blunders. A Voutrance is
bad French; it ought to be a outrance;
but morale used in this sense! is still
worse." It is hardly possible to imagine
a more absurd mistake, and yet it is
universally prevalent among English
writers...' The historians mean j to say
" the 1 moral of the army was excellent,"
or, in plain Englsb, that the men were in
cheerfully resolute temper; whereas, to
ay that the morale of an army is good is
to affirm that its theories of morality are
sound,, or in plain words that the (soldiers
are convinced that they ought j not to
commit adultery, ,etc? Xe moral, used
in this, , way, j means; mental firmness,
cheerfulness, courage to face difficulties
and bear privations without being cast
down into low : spirts: la morale of a
body of men means their theory, more or
less severe, of moral duty and obligation.
Thus a lofty morale may exist at the
same time and in the same person with a
low moral. . '.
The luster and cleanliness of English-
made pins have a reputation surpassing
those made in any other country. This
is owing, says the Scientific Jteview, to
the peculiar treatment : to which the
better descriptions of the article are sub
jected. They are first cleaned by boil
ing for half an hour in sour beer, wine
lees, or a solution of tartar, after which
' Al
whitened or tinned, by being laia m
strata, in a common pan, made of copper,
alternately with grain tin in the propor
tions of about six pounds of tin to seven
pounds of pins, until the vessel is hileo.
Water is now added, and heat applied,
and as soon as the water gets hot its sur
face is sprinkled with four ounces of
cream of tartar, after which it is allowed
to boil for an hour. This operation is
repeated once or twice, the pins being
washed in cold water between each boil
ing. After tinning, the pins are polished
by agitation in a leather sack filled with
bran, and, after the bran lias been sepa
rated by winnowing, the pins are col
lected in bowls for papering.
MARRIAGE IN THE SAT STATE.
The report of the Massachusetts vital
statistician has a chapter on marriages
which is as interesting as the pages of a
fashionable novel, though, let us hope, a
trifle more trustworthy. The record
shows that the last three months of the
year is the season when most marriages
are celebrated the next favorite season
is spring and early summer. ' During
the year 1873, : the number of females
married at the age of 17 was 439, an ex
cess of 89 above the average number for
the last seven years. One hundred and
seventy-four were married at the age of
16, forty-seven at 15, and seven at 14.
Among the males, two were married at
16, eleven at 17, forty-four at 18, and
one hundred and forty-three at 19. Of
the males above named who married at
18, three took for wives girls aged 16, 15
and 14, respectively; while one young
man of 16 became the husband of a
maiden of 17. A bachelor of 63 was ac
cepted by a maid of 17; and a bachelor
of 22 was united to a maid of 40. A
couple, aged 59 and 52, respectively,
were married, it being their first venture.
A widower of 48 took for his fourth wife
a maid of 24; and a widow of 23 was
married to a bachelor of 27, her third
husband. A widower of 19 found favor
with a spinster of 32. The oldest parties
married during the year were a widower
of 80 and a widow of 67, it being the
third marriage of each. There were
three fifth marriages of males during the
year, at the ages of 62, 57 and 54. One
widow became a bride for the fourth
time, her bridegroom being a widower
of 55, her own aga being 60. Among
those who have been twice widowed was
one who, at the age of 23, was married
to a bachelor of 22. A widow of 17
married a bachelor of 22, and a widower
of 20 married a maid of 22. The record
contains the name of one man who died
at the age of 73 of consumption, who
was the father of thirty-four children,
fourteen by one wife, seventeen by a
second, and three by a third.
BISMARCK'S LETTER.
famous confidential letter from
The
Prince Bismarck to Count Von Arnim
upon the election of the next Pope the
disclosure of the contents of which, by
Von Arnim, was one of the principal
causes which led to his arrest and sub
sequent punishment baa at last been
published. ' In this letter Bismarck as
sumes the fact that sooner or later the
old Pope will die and a new Pope must
be elected, and that Germany has an in
terest in this election, as she has a large
number of Catholic subjects, and as the
Vatican Council by its recent decrees as
to Papal infallibility and jurisdiction
has completely changed the relations of
the Pope to his Bishops, and priests, and
to the people , He therefore contends
that the governments of Europe should
ascertain whether the election and the
person elected would afford any guaran
tees that these prerogatives would not be
abused, and have a mutual understand
ing with each other, so aa to prevent any
serious complications growing out of
such an election. The particular request
conveyed in the letter is that Count Von
Arnim, as the representative of Germany,
shall ascertain from - the Italian govern
ment whether it would ..feel disposed to
exchange views with the German govern
ment upon this question, and especial
caution is imposed upon the Count to
treat the letter and its contents with dis
cretion. ' '
ENGLAND'S SOUTHERN EMPIRE.
England's empire in the Southern
Hemisphere covers 3,000,000 square
miles, the 'size of the United States, less
Alaska. The white population of Aus
tralasia, as these great islands are called,
was, in 1850, about 240,000. Now it is
but a little less than 2,000,000. Victoria
has " grown from 77,000 ' to 732,000 in
these twenty-five years, a ten-fold growth.
Queensland has grown from 9,000 to
125,000. Tasmania, which had a popu
lation too small to be counted in 1850,
has 100,000 now. New Zealand has
grown ten-fold in the quarter of a cen
tury, from 26,000 to 266,000. - The pop
ulation of Australasia is largely English,
and strongly Protestant. 7 Emigration
has been freelyfpncouraged. Several of
the colonies are no longer penal, and the
actual number of criminals on the inlands
is very smalL ' ,
Englishmen are the owners of the
seven largest Bteamers in the world. The
largest is, of course, the Great Eastern,
now " the property of ; the International
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance
Company. It is 678 feet long and 77 feet
broad ; the second is the City of Pekin,
423 feet long, and 48 feet broad, 6,000
tons burden ; third, City of Tokio, about
same size, and both owned by the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company ; fourth, Li
guria, owned by the Pacific Steam Navi
gation Company, 4,830 tons, 460 feet
long, and 45, broad fifth, the Britannia,
White Star Line, 4,750 tons, 455 feet
long, " and 45 broad sixth, the City of
Richmond, Inman Line, 4,600 tons, 453
feet long, 43 broad ; seventh, the City of
Washington, 4,600 tons, 450 feet long,
and 44 feet wide. ,
CoMPULSOKY education Beecher
pay-
ing for Bessie Turner's schooling.
they are washed. They i
A. PETRIFIED CITY.
Charles Warren Stoddard, writing to
the San Francisco Chronicle, says, in de
scribing a visit to the ruins 'of Pompeii j
" I cannot understand how a people who j
are supposed to have been luxurious in
their tastes ever lived in such ridiculously
small houses . as are those of Pompeii.
The bed-rooms are like state-rooms, and
the stone beds, like berths, fill the longest I
side of the apartment. There are no j
garden spots ; even the baths, the crown
ing luxury of the time, are ' small. The
forum and some of the temples are of
more respectable dimensions, but the
resorts of 30,000 people could hardly be
less. The private life of the Pompeiians
must have been narrow, meagre, and un
healthy. The gardens without the city
probably afforded their only means of
recreation, and I wonder how any one
who has once breathed pure air can have
returned to sleep in such miserable
quarters as the Pompeiian bed-rooms.
Single partitions between all the houses,
no gardens, no open courts,' save in the
mansions of the wealthy, and the glare of
the southern sun streaming on walls
glowing with red and yellow paint such
was Pompeii in its best days. No doubt
it was a brilliant and lively spectacle,
and Bulwer has made the most of it. It
seemed to me to be the correct thing to
loaf about the place with a copy of Bul
wer's Last Days ' in my pocket. This
I did at a later date. I frightened the
lizards in the forum, and chased the
butterflies in the Temple of Isis, and
languished in the house of the wounded
Adonis, for it was awfully hot. I sat the
sole spectator . in the well-preserved
amphitheater, and walked in the Street of
the Tombs. The House of the Tragic
Poet ' received me, and t explored for
myself some dark passages tliat led under
certain houses, where I met with an odor
of sulphur that was almost overpower-
THE ORE A. TEST FARMER OF CALI
FORNIA. !
A California paper publishes the fol
lowing respecting the farming opera-1
tions of a man whom it denominates
" the largest farmer in the world," and,
considering that Dr. Glenn " runs " his
farm of 50,000 acres himself, personally
superintending it all, the appellation is
correct : j y
" The great farmer of the world, Dr,
Hugh J. Glenn, of Jacinto, Colusa coun
ty, CaL, has raised and ; harvested the
past season, on his own farm, 600,000
bushels of wheat. This would load
eighteen 1,000-ton ships or three hun
dred canal boats. All this wheat he has
now in his own warehouses, ready for
shipment when the water in the Sacra
mento river rises sufficiently. The doc
tor pays $90,000 freight to put his wheat
in San Francisco. The doctor is a won
der to the agricultural world and to him
self. He can mend a trace and make a
key to an ox-bow with his jacknif e, just
as easy as drawing his check for $100,-
000, which he can do every day in the
week. Dr. Glenn has only experienced
one surprise during the year, and that
was when a friend informed him that a
panic had entered the land. Glenn is a big
hearted man ; was born in Augusta coun
y, Va., and does honor to the Old
Dominion.' Send the medal to Glenn."
It is said Glenn has an unconquerable
weakness for draw poker. He bets with
the some impetuosity that he does every
thing else. He has been known to stand
' pat ' without . a pair, and raise '
$10,000 ; on several occasions he has lost
immensely. . He is not always unlucky,
however, and his nerve has driven out
many players holding better hands.'
Dr. Glenn is one of the most remarkable
characters that California has developed,
and deserves to rank with the great hero
of mining stock notoriety, Bonanza Sha
ron." ' - j ' ' ; .
MARTHA RIGDEN'S ROMANCE.
It is about a suit in England, in which
a Capt. Charles Frederick claimed to be
the lawful descendant of his grandfather.
In 1773, Capt. Charles Frederick, a
handsome, gambling spendthrift of the
Grenadier Guards, ran away with beau
tiful Martha Bigden, the daughter of a
malster. They took up their abode in
an obscure part of London, and whether
they were married or not nobody could
tell, but two daughters were born.
Finally the dashing Captain's debts were
so pressing that he exchanged into an
India regiment and became a Colonel.
Mrs. Frederick, nee Bigden, followed
him to Bombay, where she was received
in the best society as Mrs. Col. Frede
rick. , He also wrote home, declaring that
Martha Bigden was his lawfully wedded
wife before leaving England, which af
or circumstance he entered in his Bible
There was no evidence, however, of the
marriage in the registry of the little
church of Stratsfield. After the
Colonel's death the pension of the East
India Company was paid to the widow,
but neither her relatives, nor the rela
tives of her aristocratic : husband would
ever believe there had ever been any
union. There was much perplexity in
the case, but the sentiment of public
opinion was with the young fellow suing
for his own from the ) first, and that
probably carried it, with the jury, for
they, brought in a verdict confirming the
marriage despite the absence of all proof
of a registry by overwhelming presump
tion. And, so, after a century, Capt.
Charles Edward Frederick takes up his
own on the baronetage of the nation.
'.' PRINTERS' BLUNDERS. -
The New York Sunday Timet gives
some specimens of typographical errors.
The misplacement of a j " space" made ,
Adirondack Murray - refer recently to
" them asses of . the people," when he
meant the masses. The Dunkards, the
most temperate of people, ' generally
appear in print as Drunkards. General
Butler begged the voters in 1867 to give
a good account of themselves for the
honor of the Old Bay State, and an en
thusiastic compositor produced it as,
" for the honor of the Old Boy's Tafl."
A printer who once asserted that Mr.
Thurlow Weed had gone out of his way
to compliment him on close punctuation
and clean setting, made in a single
take" of ."copy," one of the most
ridiculous blunders on record. It was a
portion of a sermon of a prominent
divine of Chicago, that had been written :
And he saw Abraham afar off,- and
Lazarus in his bosom." The "clean
setter" read it : " And he saw Abraham
afar off, and a horse's ears in : Boston."
A compositor on a St. Louis paper, the
other day, made an editor say that " this
war-cry is the key-hole of victory."
THE FIGHT WITH THE 'JAMES
DESPERADOES.
Yesterday a rumor reached our city
that the residence of the mother of the
notorious James boys had been invaded
by detectives on Sunday night, back of
Kearney, in Clay county, and that a des
perate fight had ensued. The report
gave rise to many surmises on the streets,
soma doubts, and many predictions, yet
in tile absence of facts all opinions ex
pressed were drawn wildly. The arrival
of the train last night on the Hannibal
and St. Joseph road at 9:30 brought a
confirmation of the story, yet no particu
lars. The attacking party, it is said,
were four detectives, who had learned
that the two boys, the James brothers,
were at home. On Sunday night they
visited the house, and in attempting to
gain ingress were met with opposition,
and a desperate fight ensued between the
inmates of the house and the detectives.
Quite a number of shots were fired on
both sides. Two shots from the detect
ives took effect, one breaking the left
wrist of the mother of the boys, and an
other killing their half-brother, whose
name we failed to learn. The boys, Jesse
and Frank, escaped, and have not been
seen since. The wounding of the mother
and the killing of the boy is greatly re
gretted, yet till full particulars of an
authentic nature are obtained, we are not
prepared to condemn. We hope the
affair is not as rough as report makes it.
Kansas City Journal of Commerce,
Jan. 28.
A TERRIBLE STORY.
Dr. Bicardo, of Passaic, N. J., recently
mulcted in heavy damages for alleged
malpractice in dressing the arm of a little
boy, is now on trial for a criminal charge
of assault with intent to kill to cover up
the malpractice. It is claimed he gave
the lad morphine, and then said he would
die. The child survived that night,
which seemed to greatly surprise the
Doctor on his arrival the next morning.
The next night the same watcher was
called in, and he was told that the child
would certainly die that night, and the
morphine powders were ordered to be
given again. The Doctor went to an under
taker and told' him that the child would
die that night, and made arrangements
with this ' undertaker for the burial.
Bicardo then told the watcher, the un
dertaker, and the mother of the child,
that if the child died, not to remove the
bandages, as it would be dangerous for
them to do so. The reason that the child
did not die was because the powders
were not all given as directed, only a por
tion of them being given, the attendant
and the mother being alarmed at the ex
cessive size of the dose. Seeing that the
child did not die, Mrs. Schaner sent for
Dr. Watson, an old family physician,
who examined the wounded arm and
found that it had mortified and partially
decayed,' the flesh fairly falling off from
the bone. The arm was amputated, and
the unfortunate little boy (now ten years
old) recovered.
A MONSTROUS ARMY.
The army of (jlermany, which in the
last few years has played such a consid
erable part in Europe, furnishes an in
teresting topic of inquiry to all who see
that sooner or later the champion fight
ers on that continent will again get to
licking each other, in the teeth of ell
civilization. WelL the brute force kept
on hand by Germany is thas labeled off :
31,830 officers, 1,329,600 soldiers, 314,970
horses, 2,700 field cannon, and 820 siege
pieces. Moltke has them all rubbed up
every morning, and so they are kept
bright and shining. Out of this effective
total, 846,720 men can be got thoroughly
ready and equipped to take the field six
weeks after the first order therefor. The
Lands turm law which has just passed the
Reichstag will add to the army 202,500
soldiers, 3,718 officers, while the organi
zation of the "fourth battalions" will
also furnish 152,100 soldiers and 3,400
officers. Thus ' when the day of battle
does come, the grand total of the im
perial army will be 38,948 officers, 1,684,
200 soldiers, and 331,170 horses. One
hardly knows whether to pity most the
poor horses or the men caught in such a
trap. ' : - '
Jf.BJrO.Rr. ,
The human mind in this life may fail
to recall or recollect, but all it learns will
be remembered eternally. Some evinoe in
this life this wonderful power of recol
lection; but hereafter all shall remember
the facts of life as well any remember
them here. The notorious Count of St
Germain is a wonderful instance of the
power of recollection. Any newspaper
he read once he knew by memory, and
was furnished with such a gigantic, com
prehensive power of numbering, that he
retained a series of numbers, which he
could recite forward, backward, and
pulled out from the middle. From the
court of Henry TXL, in Cracow, he de
manded one hundred packs' of picquet
cards, mixed them together in disorder,
let him name all, the succession of the
cards, ordered it to be noted down exact
ly, and then repeated them, following
one after the other; without being wrong
onoe. He played almost every musical
instrument, was an excellent painter, and
imitated any handwriting in the most
illusive manner. He had but one pas
sion playing all games with absolute
mastery.
A MESALLIANCE, NOT A MISTAKE.
There is in the Department of the Inter
ior at Washington at least one heroine of a
messalliance who has made a woman of
herself, which she' never "would 'Wve
been had she stayed at boraej 'afid prob
ably married without a ' choice. Her
father was a wealthy New YorlTmerchant,
and took his daughter traveling with him
over Europe for a couple of years. She
was the only daughter of the family, and
her father and mother and brother
watched her closely and cared for her
tenderly. In fact, they forgot she was a
human being, and always wanted to keep
their angel in the house. None of the
young men were good enough for her,
and she was not allowed to receive or go
into company. But she was allowed to
drive out in a fine carriage, and on the
box was a good looking young coachman.
He was the only young man she was
allowed to talk to, and he warmed her
heart. : And both ' were human. What
wonderful resolution it must have taken
to induce her to marry him. He was a
conscientious boy, too, but he could not
resist such a chance. It would not have
been human had he refused to link his
life with that of the girl. And their Uvea
and fortunes were joined, and the house
raged, but the young couple kepfc out of
the storm. They went to living for
themselves, and both put their former
lives all behind them. 9he began teach
ing music and writing for the periodicals.
She did her first work, and really just
began to live. He was busy, too not
driving a coach. - . They', breasted the
cross currents of the world together and
thrived. She is a government clerk at a
good salary and is well paid for literary
work, too. He is educating himself np
to her high station of perfect independ
ence. And both are happy and com
fortable and live J they do not simply
stay. Her father is dead ;-Her mother
and brother are enjoying the luxuries of
fortune in New York. She would not go
back to that life again for double the
fortune. Life is worth more than that.
It may be cailed a mesalliance, but it
was not a mistake, for it resulted in a
happy, active life.
BOOKS AND DOGS AS PROPAGATORS
OF DISEASE.'
Among the many agents for the spread
of infectious diseases are, it seems, " our
domestic pets." For the propagation of
fever a dog is sometimes as bad, or
worse, than a drain, and a case is refer
red to in the Sanitary Record in which,
scarlet fever was carried from one child
to another by a favorite retriever. The
dog had been reared in a house where
scarlatina prevailed, and was subsequent
ly given to a friend of the family.
Shortly after one of the children in the
dog's new home was attacked with ma
lignant scarlatina and died. Disinfect
ants were used plentifully, and every
-precaution taken to prevent a recurrence
of the malady, but in two months' time
a second child took the same disease, in
the worst form, and died. As the dog
had been the constant companion and
playfellow of these children, its woolly
coat, it is alleged, became so charged
with contageous matter as to render it a
source of disease and death. Although
it is only fair to the dog to admit that the
children may have caught the fever from
other sources than his woolly coat, yet
there is reason to fear that both dogs and
cats, especially the latter, do occasion
ally assist in the circulation ?f infectious
illnesses, and where fever prevails the
sooner they are lodged outj"f ' the house
the better. They are, however, proba
bly not more dangerous in this respect
than books. No one who takes a book
from a library ever troubles himself or her
self as to the antecedents of the volume .
it may have just left the hands of the
fe"ver patient. Pall Mall GaSttte.
A QUEER BEE-HIVE.
Mr. George Many, of East Penn Town
ship, Carbon county, Penn.,- is regarded
by bis neighbors as an industrious and
skillful blacksmith, '.but just now he is
not a little hampered in his operations by
a cqlony of bees that hold their habita
tion in his shop bellows. It.ppears that,
while away from the' shopJSjie day last,
summer the swarm gained entrance to it
and domiciled themselves within the bel
lows, without as much as laying "by
your leave," and though Mrt-M. has ap
plied his ingenuity in various ways to
oust them, his efforts so far have proved
fruitless. Early in December last, on a.
pleasant day, the yellow-baeks ventured
out in such numbers that Mf? Many be
came impressed with the idea "that they
were intent upon swarming, and getting
a basket and veiling bis face, he watched
them all day, so as' to be able to trap
them, but the thing was no go, for to
ward evening they retreated to their
comfortable lodging-place, where they
remain to this day. It is likely that if
they pursue their honest vocation without,
molestation to the horses and persons
frequenting the premises, they will be.
allowed to remain ., undisturbed, other
wise they will have to undergo, some
rdeal to bring them under subjection.
A Fbskch naturalist has recently -grouped,
for public convenience, a num
ber of his observations upon animn,lat
showing that many members of tiie brute
creation maybe used, as living barom
ters. Bain or wind, he says, may be ex
pected when the spiders shorten the last,
thread by which their webs are suspended
fair weather when they lengthen them;,
and the duration of either by the degree
of contraction or expansion observable.
When swallows sweep near the ground,
uttering plaintive cries, rain is at hand .
when they mount up, fly from side to
ride, and play together, fine weather will,
follow. When a single magpie leaves its
nest in the spring it is a sign of rain, but.
the reverse is the case when two parent
birds leave it in company. Bain is near
when the peacocks utter frequent cries,
when parrots chatter more than usual
and when geese are uneasy.