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Mr. President : The subject, I be
lieve, ia, " Has England been beneficial
to this country the United States of
America t" " Now I -want to know what
was Burns doing at the time of the great
rebellion I I mean Robert Scott Burns,
; who was one of the best poets in jhe
'world for America. Didn't he send in
troops to Boston harbor to waylay the
Chinese pirates when they went for
to destroy our tea, I'd like to know
Mr. President t - Why was it, I
"want to know, that the English govern
ment settled the Alabama claims ? Be
cause Gen. Schenck, our Minister there,
' preached to ' 'em and converted 'em.
But, I wQ ask, why didn't Gen. Schenck
go f order, and call out the troops, and
save the tea in the Boston harbor? It's
because, I guess, his hair was too short.
Here the orator paused, and brushing
back his curling locks, took a fresh
start
What side am I on, Mr. President?
' " Oh; yes,' I've got it I I'm agin England
every time ! Cheers, indicating that the
hearts of the audience were in the right
place. As I was saying, why don't
Gen. Schenck put a stop to this Pacific
mail matter? Is the English a-going to
beat him thar, I'd like to know? And
there's John Pi-att and Bob Shoemaker
taking money from the English for to
. keep up the denied nonsense 1 And
didn't Bob Shoemaker put $300 in the
: Bank of England, and didn't John Pi-att
git $50 of it, and git away with it, and
Bay he'd have 50 more or he'd raise the
.. devil? I'd like to know. He said he
was an editor, and must have it, or he
couldn't maintain the independence of
. these United States of America t Is he
a-going to do that business with British
gold, I'd like to know? I wonder if he
ever heard of Plymouth Bock? That's
-what's the matter with John Pi-att.
That's the rock that done the business
for Henry Ward Beecher 1 If he hadn't
named his-church for it, and stayed
sway from it, he'd been O. K. You see
bo joined the Oligarchy, and he went
under. But you see Andy Johnson he
'went agin the - British Oligarchy, and
le'BO.Jju -isn't he? You bet. Now,
in view of all these things, which are
matters of history, Pd like to know how
' England has ever been beneficial to this
' country? How kin she ever be?
hope youll not forget what I have said
' about the English working agin us
"through the machinations of the Chinese
pirates, John Pi-att, Bob Shoemaker and
-them, ; in" spite of Schenck and Andy
Johnson and them ; and with these few
f remarks, I hope you will decide agin
England every fame. Storm of applause.
Daiton Democrat.
i SOAP AND WA TER.
If all deadly fevers were called by that
old-fashioned name, ."the plague," we
" should more readily realize the danger
arising from the neglect of sanitary pre-
'-ventions. In the middle of 'the last cen
tury, London was alarmed by the rumor
i that the plague had broken out in a cer
- tain hospital. Physicians immediately
i published a denial of the report, but, m
the meantime, Londoners had provided
themselves with disinfectants, and the
demand .for rue and wormwood in Cb-vent-garden.
market on one morning ad-
, vanced the prices of 'those articles almost
fifty per cent, and the gardeners' ser-
, van ts were employed all the day in carry
ing those commodities to market. A
similar panic with, regard to fever and
diphtheria, at the present .time, might
not come amiss here in the New World.
A like rush for ' soap " and scrubbing
brushes would probably prove, in the
'end, a very wholesome " scare." Panics,
I course, are at ail times to be deplored,
' but a moderate panic that will alarm the
people into greater cleanliness, a more
stringent sanitary law, and a closer re
gard to sanitary measures, is at all times
beneficial and advantageous.
tale's honor record. ' j
From statistics furnished to the Yale
.. Couranl it appears that of the graduates
of the academic department of that col
lege, 146 have been members of Con-t
gress, 43 United States Senators, 66
College Presidents, 9 Bishops, - 14
Ministers to foreign , . courts, X 32
Governors of States and one a Governor
of Prince Edward Island), 22 Lieutenant
Governors of States, and one a Lieutenant-Governor
Nrf ' Nova ? Scotia)," 143
"Judges (including the "present Chief -Jus-tie
of th United States), Chief -Justices
f State Courts, Judges of Superior, Su
Treme ajidUnited States District Courts,
and two provincial Judges, one ia Ber
muda and the other m New Brunswick;
3 Secretaries of War, 2 Secretaries of
State, 1 Secretary ! of the . Treasury, 1
Secretary of the Navy, 1 Attorney-General,
r Assislt' Secretary of the Tr eas
TOry, 1 (John C. Cailhoun) who held at
arious times the offices of member of
Congress, United States Senator, Secre
tary . of War, Secretary of State and
"Vice-President of the United States.
A SCARLET RAT., ' ' : .
Says the Tiicnmaai! Whig "Yester
day morning, earlyj as' Mr.; Page, city
gas inspector, was going into bis office
at the' City Hall, he was surprised to see
what looked at first like a red - bird.
Upon catching it the creature gave him a
severe bite upon the hand, which caused
Mm to drop it -with a feeling akin to
disgust. 4 It proved to be a crimson-colored,
bat, something which: no man in
this part of the world 'ever saw : before.
The color of the bat excited surprise, but
-Hjton closer examination Mr. Page was
justonished to discover that it had ' but
- one eye, and that ,in the center of the
forehead. He placed it in a box, and,
strange to say, it does not appear to be
frightened in its new home. Many per
sons called to see it yesterday, among
them several gentlemen well versed - in
ornithology, and all averred that they
had never seen or heard of anything like
this bat. It is the intention of Mr. Page
to send it to the Smithsonian Institution
at Washington."
ROBERT
HUMPHREYS'
LITTLE
. JOKE.. ..
s
One Robert Humphreys proved rather
a queer ' customer to a saloon-keeper
in Jersey ' City, one morn
ing last week. The bar-keeper com
ing down to open the saloon to cus
tomers, saw Robert Humphreys, a very
dissipated person, leaning against a lamp
post outside the saloon, evidently waiting
for the morning drink which is a neces
sity to the habitual drunkard. The
liquor man opened the place, took his po
sition behind - the bar, and waited for
Robert to come in. Robert, he knew,
would take whisky ; whisky is fifteen
cents a. drink, and Robert would con
tribute ten cents profit to the concerr,
But Robert continued to lean against the
lamp-post outside, and the bar-keeper was
led to wonder if the man wasn't hard up
and unable to pay for the drink. The
sun came up over the roofs of the houses
and streamed down upon the man lean
ing against the lamp-post, but he did not
move, and the man who sold whisky
looking out intently discovered that Rob
ert's eyes were closed. This explained
why the man did not come in for his
drink ; he had actually fallen asleep
standing, reasoned the bar-keeper. It is
tantalising to a dealer in any class of
goods to have a probable customer in
sight and be unable to reach him, and
the gentleman who mixed drinks began
to feel injured that the man outside
should not be awakened by the clatter of
passing teams and the noise of people on
the sidewalk and come in. Other .cus
tomers came and went in the saloon, but
Robert Humphreys stayed outside lean
ing against the lamp-post. Finally th
bar-keeper, in disgust, gave up expecting
hifn, and Robert Humphreys came in
Tiree men brought him in ; they said
they believed he was frozen, and laid hirj
down by the stove to thaw. After the
gone, the bar-keeper examinee
phreys and found not only that hi
dead, but that he had been dead tat
sone tune. There, in Jersey City, ia
brod day light, with the roar and bustle
of life around it, with pedestrianon the
sidewalk crushing against it, a corpse had
stood leaning against a lamp-post un
noticed during all the morning. The
joke that Robert Humphreys played npoa
that saloon-keeper was complete, and thf
men jdrinking at the bar during the re
mainder of the day had something to talk
and kWh about. It was quite drolL j
" i
IN THE
THE
AUG EST SILK MILL
1 HOBIJ). t
ThejManningham mills, near Brad
ford, England, are said to be the largest
in the j world. They cover an area of
about 62,500 square yards, being nearly
eleven acres ; and reckoning the several
stories of the mill and warehouse, give a
total extent of floorage of about sixteen
acres. The new mill, to the west, at the
rear of the combing shed is six stories
high, not including the cellar, of very
handsome external appearance in dressed
stone, having a bold cornice with blocks,
and above this an ornamental and pan
eled parapet. The staircase is in the
center of the front, and stands clear out
from the main walls, and is more orna
mental than the rest of the building, and
with its turret-formed roof, surmounted
with a large flag-staff, makes a beautiful
feature in the great length of frontage.
The four corners of the mill are also
marked by raised parapets, which gave a
pleasing effect to the large block of build
ings, iach room contains an area of
2,000 square yards the tier of windows
on each side numbering forty-one so
that at a rough calculation the whole min
will give an area of about 12,000 yards.
The new warehouse, further to the rear.
parallel with the mill, but separated from
it by the reservoir, is six stories high, and
will furnish, reckoning each floor, room
to the extent of about 14,000 square
yards. The top rooms in both ware
house and : mill are arranged in a novel
form, having shed roofs and may be used
for loom weaving. A noteworthy feature
in connection with the new works is the
erection of an immense chimney of a
somewhat novel design, at the rear of the
central shed and at the end of the ware
house. -. It is already raised to a consid
erable height, and an idea may be formed
of the imposing appearance it will have
when complete. It will be eighty-three
yards high, square in form, and out
wardly of a uniform width frocs bottom
to top. Nearly 7,000 tons weight of ma
terial will be used in its construction.
A REAL ROMANCE.
On the 30th ultimo Sylvester Guiber
son, a son of N. W. Guiberson, of this
county, was t married to Miss Minnie
Waters, of Excelsior, Minn. , and this is
the way it happened r A young gentle
man and Miss Waters were on the lake
skating when' suddenly the ice gave way
and they were treated to a remarkably
deep and bold bath. Three big cowards
stood , near them, but would lend no
assistance, ; Mr., Guiberson was almost
a quarter of a mile distant, but heard
their cries of distress, rushed to the
scene, at once comprehended the situa
tion, and in a moment proceeded to
rescue the youncr lady.i who was almost
drowned and frozen, and on arriving at
the snore informed ; the three cowardly
whelps that if they did not cro and ewt
, . - . . v u -
her young companion he would throw
each one in after him an order they at
once obeyed. Mr. Guiberson carruvl
hia young prize to the nearest house,
where she was properly cared for, and as
soon as she was able he escorted her to
her home. This was enough for the old
aunt of the young lass, and straightway
the courtship began, which culminated
in their marriage.
CHINESE MILITARY MANEUVERS.
A grand review of Chinese troops oc
curred last year in the province of Emise.
Two divisions were marched out to the
parade-ground and mustered face to face.
Each company bore two splendidly
colored flags, and the soldiers carried old
fashioned arquebuses, called "tyfus,"
ten per company, as four men are required
to shoot this weapon. Each division had
half a company of lancers, with their
heads tied up in hankerchiefs, the ends of
which were left to float in the breeze ;
also archers entirely dressed in yellow,
bearing huge round shields, dragon
painted, and wearing short swords. Be
tween the two divisions stood a band of
music, composed of flutes, horns, and
tinkling cymbals and drums, big and lit
tle. Near the band the General-in-chief
and his staff, with a colossal flag and a
few smaller ones, took up his station. At
a given signal the General's big flag
waved ; then all the other flags waved,
and the most intricate chasaez-croisez of
maneuvers commenced among the sol
diers. At another signal the lancers, arch
ers, and specialists ran about, gesticu
lated, jumped, and cut the most fantastic
antics. The archers performed by sitting
down on the ground while holding their
shields over their heads for protection,
and suddenly leaping up with frightful
cries and shaking of their various armor
which, of course, put the enemy's cavalry
to flight, as intended. The lancers formed
in little bands of skirmishers and ad
vanced to hunt for the enemy gone to
cover. They found him after rapid firing
along the whole line, made a show of eat
ing him up alive, including painted drag
ons and monsters. Closing shouts of
victory ; grand gongs. These tactics are
the result of long experience but they are
hot Molke's.
A SOLD I3TS I'RANCE MA1T.
Printers are naturally in for a joke.
They are proverbially fond of fun ; but
to look at them you wouldn't think it.
Here is a good joke a " printer man"
played on his fellow lodger in Pottsville :
A certain insurance man in town, who
boards at the same hotel with one of the
night compositors of the Journal, in or
der to save the subscription price to a
newspaper, entered into an arrangement
with the printer to get the news as soon
as he got up. The printer was to write
out a brief sketch of all the important
news and stick the paper under the in
surance man's door. A few mornings
since the latter got up and dressed him
self, excepting one boot and stocking
and his coat, when he espied the paper
under his door. He picked it up and
read as follows : " Grant assassinated.
Country in an uproar. Mrs. Sartoris and
Mrs. Grant carried off by masked kid
nappers while insensible. A member of
the Cabinet supposed to be the wagin,
$100,000 reward offered by Congress."
Without completing his toilet he rushed
out of the room and wakened up several
boarders, told them of the great news
and scared them out of their wits. We
leave to our readers to conjecture, if they
can, the disgust of the whole party when
they found how they had been sold.
The insurance man has sworn to sub
scribe to a daily paper. :
THE COXCORl EIOIIT OE 177 S.
The town of Concord, Mass., purposes
to celebrate the Centennial anniversary
of "Concord fight" on the 19th of
April, 1875, in a manner appropriate to
the importance of that day which "made
conciliation impossible and independence
certain." The exercises will consist of
an oration by George William Curtis, of
New York ; a grand military and civic
procession to the site of the "Old North
Ridge ;" the unveiling and dedication of
a bronze statue of a Minute-Man on the
spot where Davis and Hosmer fell, and
wnere was Urea the shot heard around
the world ;" a public dinner, n$ith toasts
and speeches, and a grand ball, in the
evening. The people of Acton, Bedford,
Beverly, Billerica, Brookline, Cam
bridge, Charlestown, Chelmsford, Dan-
vers, Dedham, Framingham, Lexington,
Lynn, Medford, Needham, Newton,
Roxbury, Salem, Stow, Sudbury, Water
town and Woburn have been invited to
participate in the celebration, as their
fathers did in the struggle for liberty.
The town of Concord hopes that all those
who are connected with her by descent
or affection will join with her in this in
teresting commemoration.
xrxiojsr pacieic lajtds.
A request having been made . to the
Commissioner of the Land Office to con
strue the act of 'June 22, 1874, for the
relief of settlers on railroad lands, so as
to permit the Union Pacific ; Railroad
Company to select lands containing coal
and iron, in lieu of the agricultural lands,
which it proposed to release in favor of
actual settlers, the Commissioner re
plies : " The act of f June last provides
that nothing herein contained shall in
any manner be so construed as to en
large or extend any grant to any such
railroads. : Your company-receives all
its coal and iron lands without diminu
tion, on account of the claim of any set
tler. To allow you, in addition, to sur
render the lands purely agricultural and
take the reserved coal lands of greatly
increased value, would, in my judgment,
materially enlarge your grant, and would
therefore be in express violation of the
act under which your claim is presented. "
; AIT VH HEALTHY TRADE.
A physician of Sheffield, . England,
makes the statement that the forkgrind
ers employment is ' probably more fatal
than' any mother pursued .. in England.
There are generally from eight to ten in
dividuals at work in each room where the
industry is carried on. The grinding is
always performed on dry stone, and the
dust, composed of fine particles of stone
and metal, rises in clouds, and pervades
the atmosphere to which the' operatives
are confined.'; The dust, which is inhaled
with 1 every breath, gradually , inducee
disease of the lungs, and undermines the
vigor of the constitution. Difficulty of
breathing, coughing and wasting of the
frame are of ten experienced by workmen
i i XI j rm
at the early age oi iwtay-uve. . j.ne
average longevity of members of the
trade does not exceed thirtyi years.
4 '
" eo WEST.
Although rightoiunking people j must
ever deplore panics, it can but be admit
ted that anything which brings together
the unemployed and the ever-busyj farm
ers is beneficial in the end. A good
man, out of employment in his regular
business, would surely be better in
health, comfort and self-respect, while
fulfilling the duty of a "farm hand,
than in seeking a precarious living from
charity in a city. Good sense and good
temper will enable almost any man to be
useful on a farm, and it is an open ques
tion how far "the republic " is bound to
provide f orthose who have such' open
ings and will not enter them. On the
other hand, the majority of the farmers
of this country have more land than they
have hands to work, and would often
draw a larger return from ten acres ade
quately worked than at the present rate
from fifteen. In fact there are large sec
tions of the country where farming is
going out, or going out of American
hands, mainly because the occupants
will not work themselves, and cannot get
others to do it. They rush to over
crowded cities, intend to " live by their
brains," and desert one of the safest and
surest forms of industry in the country,
If working men could be persuaded to
accept the situation, take their share of
the burdens of the community in a man
ly way, and, if - they cannot have four
dollars a day, work for three dollars or
two dollars rather than go into depend
ence on the commonwealth. Here and
there may be found cases of selfishness
but as a general thing American employ
ers are fair-minded and anxious to do
their utmost for the employed, j
AIT UNHAPPY ATTACHMENT.
A painful scene occurred in church in
Bucks township, Ohio, a few Sun
days ago. yihe church had lately
undergone repair. Among other im
provements a new coat of paint was
placed on the pews, followed by a coat
of varnish. The result was most pleas
ing to the eye ; but, unfortunately, the
varnish had been applied so late in the
week that it had not had time to become
hard before Sunday, when the congrega
tion flocked to their seats. No apparent
inconvenience was suffered until the
clergyman was about to deliver the bene
diction, when the congregation was hor
rified to find that they were unable to
stand up ; they were, in fact, glued, or
rather varnished, to their seats. Their
spasmodic efforts to rise were most dis
tressing to witness ; in vain did the
clergyman exhort them from the pulpit
to resignation. They were seized with a
kind of panic, all the more frightful be
cause they were for the moment power
less ; at last, by what seemed to be a
simultaneous and herculean jerk, they
managed to tear themselves from their
sittings ; but at what a sacrifice? The
pews were literally covered with frag
ments of Sunday appareL Shreds of
silk, lawns, calico, broadcloth and cassi
meres were left as souvenirs of the var
nish used in beautifying that church, and
the hapless congregation, rushing from
the doors, hurried homeward with an ex
pression on their faces as though their
hearts were even more severely rent than
their garments..
HARRELED LIVE PORK.
A Portsmouth man lost his ipig from
its sty in a mysterious way the other day.
A vigorous search of the neighborhood
did not reveal its whereabouts. Two
days later, as the sad owner was standing
by the deserted pen, meditating upon
his loss, he cast his eye toward a barrel
that stood on end within a few feet of
the inclosure, and noticed ' something
feebly beckoning him to approach. He
looked again 'twas a pig's tail. He
walked along quickly and looked into
the barrel, and there was piggy, with
scarcely a breath of life left in him,
The pig had evidently fallen into the
barrel when he jumped from ' the pen,
and had stood on his head for two days
and nights, while his owner was hunting
all over the city to find him. I
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I 'THE GRASSHOPPER CALAMITY.
1 Mr. Watts, the Commissioner of Agri
culture, in summing up the grasshopper
calamity, makes out the devastated area
to be about 200 miles north! and south,
and about 500 miles east and west, alto
gether an area of 100,000 square miles,
or a district nearly one and a half times
as large as New England. The popula
tion of this district was half a million
four years ago, and is now probably
750,000. As nearly as can be deter
mined, fully 50,000 are in more or less
destitution, and probably 75,000 will not
cover the whole number of persons who
have suffered damage. :
v Mb. Thomas House, of Stanford, Ky.,
good, honest yeoman, owns the model
cow a cow more wonderful' in some of
her qualities than the one that jumped
over the moon. Mr. Thomas House, ,
truthful and reliable farmer, tells about
the cow himself to the editor of the
local newspaper, and he says that she ia ,
ten years old, and that she has" never
seen a rail off the fence, or a gap down
that she did not put it pp with her
horns. . And if she sees a gate standing
open she will close and fasten it. H
she sees other stock oh the place
break into another inclosure she will
drive it out and put up the fence. Here
is a quadruped as is a quadruped, my
covey 1 If that cow, as a breeder, is not
held second only to the mother of his
sturdy young Kentuckiansj in the esti
mation of Mr.' Thomas House, he isn't;
fit - tq own her the cow, we mean.
Careful, -wise and conscientious, why, I
that cow ought to be made Secretary of
cue xreasury. i
TREMENDOUS ARMIES.
The Gratia Swnrfl Dance of Nation II
Europe oh the Ev of a Mighty War?
Prom the London Times.
In the gloom that surrounds us one
thing is perceptible. All men are arm
ing themselves. It is the darkness that
may be felt, and the sensation is not im
aginary. At the word of command
Germany is arming en masse, and the
surrounding nations that is, the best
part of the world cannot but do as she
does. The momentary dreams of peace
and quiet, arts and progress have fled
away, and Germany recognizes the stern
necessity of the case, which is that what
she has won by arms she can only hold
by arms, as long as the arms bx in her
hand. It is no longer possible to doubt
the sagacity and truth of her rulers, and
they say that henceforth every German
sound in wind and limb must be a soldier.
From the age of seventeen to forty-two
every man not belonging to the army or
the reserve is to be liable to be called out
in the case of an actual or even threat
ened invasion. The nature and contin
gencies of this new enrollment are by no
means fictions on paper. As to its nu
merical amount it is sufficient to say
that, added to the line, the Landwehr,
and the existing Landsturm, it raises the
disposable force of the German empire
to 2,800,000 men. The Landsturm will
be German in arms as distinguished from
the standing army of Germany; but even
that distinction threatens to disappear,
for the gaps of the line are to be filled
from the reserve. So far from the latter
having the special exemptions and im
munities which England associates with
a reserve or a local force, it seems even
more at the beck and call of absolute
power than the line. ! The orders given
in the contemplated emergency are not
to be published; so that the German mal
content or partisan may know as little
as the foreigner and the foe who are
called to arms, how many, and where.
The government may call out the re
serve of one state and not of the next;
the youth of a province immediately
threatened with invasion; the older men
of one not so threatened; in a word,
whatever it pleases, without being bound
by any rules or slavish uniformity. The
whole reserve is immediately to have its
arms, if not the newest, those' that were
new the other day. It is admitted that
the Germans do not generally like fight
ing, but they like it better than being
killed in their beds, or made beasts of
burden, or carried into captivity. Some
of them even like it better than being
divided into a dozen states, or into two
or three, each only half German. All
are told they have to fight or die; fight
or be slaves; fight or be beggars, fugi
tives, and wanderers over the face of the
earth. They seem to be only too well
aware of it. For a man to be always ex
pecting a murderous attack is sometimes
supposed to embitter life, and make it
hardly worth having. But people man
age to live and be comfortable in volca
noes, coalpits, ships and powder-mills.
In like manner, the three millions of
Germans, expecting every day to be
called out to fight an enemy at their very
doors, and themselves unfortunately ad
dicted to habits of provocation, may be
happy. It is to be hoped they will be
nappy on these conditions, for it is all
the happiness Germany is likely to en
joy for many a year the happiness,
namely,; of .an even chance with a des
perate and would be deadly foe.
If tins enormous, this preposterous
armament is provoked by the attitude of
France, it provokes in return. A man
who goes about armed in time of peace
is suspected of hostile intentions, and
Germany lends itself easily to that delu
sion, if such it be. It finds itself unex
pectedly a great military power, and
even a maritime power, victorious, suc
cessful, and its luck by no means ex
hausted. On every side north, south,
east and west it finds that which it still
wants to its completeness, and which it
sees a way to. Its turn is come. After
a minority of ages under evil guardian
ship, it steps into its patrimony, and is
once more an empire. For ages Ger
many has possessed all the glories, ex
cept those of policy and war. Now it
has these, and the others as well. It is
surrounded by great empires. The
prosperity of England and Russia alone
would be enough to tempt an anchorite
to ambition. Like the wise Kin?. Ger
many asked only for wisdom, and now
has it with riches, honor, dominion, and
the life of its enemies, which it did not
ask for. But now that it has tasted these
delights it is a different being, with a
new and nobler consciousness, and not
content or satisfied on the same easy
terms as before.; Why ; should it now
shrink from an appeal to arms, which
can not but cive it more than evr
This is the now attitude of Germany
all or nothing for in her case not to ad
vance is to recede. " ' Accordingly, the
more she arms, the more does France,
the more does Russia. The former now
commands, under all heads, about a
million and three-quarters of men ; the
latter more than three millions and a
third. Austria,, Italy, Denmark, Hol
land and Switzerland are arming as fast
as they can. It is a universal strain on
the energy and resources of the world.
But self-preservation never yet was
found sufficient to keep up high tension
long. When all nations arm it will be
for something, and they will look before
as well as behind. A dozen millions of
men can not be withdrawn from common
industry and civil duties and engaged in
the most costly and destructive of all
employments,; except to the continual
loss -and hindrance of the V people.
Where the women work like horses, as
they do in Germany and France, the
presumption is that both men and horses .
are wasnng or misapplying their powers.
Germany is not a rich oountry. Even
with its singular wealth of parsimony, it
can not keep even a million men long
under arms without appreciable sacri
fices. In fact, a time will arrive when
the burden of a much larger armament
will compel a question between disarma
ment and ! initiative in war. 11 only to
secure peace, Germany will have to ap
peal to arms, or, if not she, some other
power involved in this wild sword-dance
of nations. Such is the inevitable re
sult of an inflation of armaments pro
ceeding upon rivalry and provocation ;
and it can only be averted by a timely
resolution to be content with what one
has, and to stand only on one's guard
against unprovoked aggression.
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TOO HAPPY TO LIVE.
The Paris journals tell of a young
couple who were too happy to live, at
least the accounts seem to be colored
with that idea. M. Bastein was a young
architect of promise. He had married a
young lady of beauty and accomplish
ments, the daughter of a rich merchant,
M. Channard. The couple had been
married nine months on last New Year's
Day, and appeared to be sincerely de
voted to each other. Mme. Bastein's
person gave proof of her devotion, and
she expected soon to become a mother.
On New Year's Day the couple went to
dine with M. Channard, and returned
home at midnight. M. Channard was
engaged to dine with them next day. In
the morning the lady went out to make
some purchases, and returned at noon.
In the course of the afternoon there were
several rings of their door-bell, but no
answer was returned. According to ap
pointment M. Channard came and rang
no response. He was told that several
other persons had been equally unsuc
cessful. A locksmith was called and the
door was opened. The young people
were found dead in their bed, Mme,
Bastein clad in her dressing gown and
her husband in his trowsers and waist
coat. The remains of the breakfast of
which both had evidently partaken were
on the table. A bottle of ammonia and
one of sedative water were on the mantel
piece. These were the only answers to
blank inquiry and searching grief. Noth
ing was disarranged in the room, and
there the young man and wife lay locked
in each other's arms, and death had
clutched the last smiles on their faces,
It was a photograph of love and peace,
They were perfectly happy, and they
locked themselves m with their happi
ness and called death to turn the key.
The world could not rob them now, and
they lay and smiled the smile of victory.
A medical man said they had poisoned
themselves, and gave it as his opinion
that the wife died first. Was there just
a moment of regret at the separation in
the husband's heart?. Did he look in
her face and smile when he thought that
he was about to rejoin her and meet that
sweet face on the other side ?
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
We copy some valuable statistics in
regard to the comparative cost of living
in Europe and America : One dollar will
buy twenty pounds of flour in Boston,
one or two pounds more in several Eu
ropean seaports, but the same or con
siderably less in a majority of the places
compared. Butter in Europe averages a
pound more to the dollar than here,
cheese less by more than that, except in
a few spots. As for potatoes, they are
cheaper here than in England and dearer
tthan in Ireland or Germany. Seven or
eight pounds of pork for a dollar are sold
here, and not much over half as much
can be obtained for that sum in England
or Europe, and nowhere else as much ;
in rice, milk and eggs, they have the ad
vantage of us. Tea costs less here than
in England, but more than on the conti
nent. J With coffee it is about the same,
though the difference is little. In sugar
the Iintish are a httle better off, the Con
tinentals a good deal worse. Coal is
cheaper here than in Germany, and
dearer than in England. Merrimoc or
common prints are much cheaper here
than anywhere in England or Europe.
Boots are about the same here as there,
generally speaking. There are but two
or three places in Europe or the conti
nent where brown sheetings are cheaper
than here, while in brown shirtings the
foreigners are better off. Rent for four-
roomed tenements is from two to four
times cheaper in Great Britain or on the
continent than in Boston ; in Austria
dl A- 1 - .
iumwii tames cneaper. soaril also is
from once and a half to twice as cheap
in i.urope and Great Britain as in Boston.
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I HORRIBLE DISCLOSURES.
A rich wine dealer residing in London,
recently, on his death-bed, being in
great distress of mind, acknowledged to
his friends that his agony was occasioned
by the nature of the business he had fol
lowed for years. He stated that it had
been, his habit to purchase all the sour
wines. 'he could, and by making use of
lead and other deleterious substances, to
restore the wine to a palatable taste. He
said he had no doubt that he had been
the means of destroying hundreds of
lives, as he had for some time noticed
the injurious effects of his mixtures on
those who drink them.' He had seen in
stances of this kind 'where the uncon
scious victims of his cupidity, after
wasting and declining for years, despite
the best of medical advice, went to their
graves poisoned by the adulterated wines
he had sold them. The man died rich.
But alas 1 what a legacy did he leave his
children! v
When you can't think of what your
wife charged you to bring home, get
hair-pins. They are always handy in the
house. Get them out of your pocket
without breaking the package. A stray
hair-pin may sometimes wreck a house
hold. A young man took home a hair
pin, one evening last week, to his wife.
He presented it to her as a birthday gift.
She was delighted, until she found a
long hair attached to it. His doctor
thinks he may possibly recover the use
of his eyes.
WOMAN'S WAYS.
Few, if any, brides this season have
worn white satin. -
Marabout feather head-dresses are
worn now by the dowagers. -
Speculations upon the coming spring
bonnet begin to occupy the female mind.
- Black velvet (small) muffs, trimmed
with fur on wide black satin ribben, con
tinue the most fashionable.
Shobt walking-skirts are fast waning
in popularity. The silly fashion was.
carried to ridiculous extremes.
a TlsvitsYn trirl who.
wants a new undergarment called.
prima," because it is the first to be.
put on. .
The Scientific American has found,
a woman 83 years of age, who at
tributes her long life to abstinence from
bathing.
At a recent distribution of prizes by
the School Board of Leeds, England,
every prize, with one exception, was taken,
by a girl.
; There is some probability of the
revival of crinoline in all its glory
next summer. The news ought to occa-.
sion regret.
Velveteen is very httle worn this,
season. There is little if anyeconomy
in buying this material, more especial
ly as velvet was never so cheap as now.
Milwaukee is on the verere of depopu
lation. - Her girls have' resolved to die
old maids -rather than marry any one
who can't be happy without intoxication.
Katie Bates, of New Bedford, lost a.
large piece of her tongue by applying it
to a frosty iron hitching-post the' other
day. Katie will miss it when she grows
up.
Questions put to his sweetheart by a.
bashful lad, during their first tcte-a-tetet
How's your father? How's your mother?
How are your parents ? How are your
father and mother? How are they both ?
A few weeks since a Chicago drummer
saw a young lady plowing a field in Ma
coupin county, 111. He stopped to ask i
" When do you begin cradling ?" " Not
till heads are better filled than yours,'
was the sententious reply. The young
man passed musingly on.
An ambitious Providence undertaker
went to Boston, and there falling in lova
with a wealthy lady connected with one
of the "old families," asked her hand in
marriage. The proud damsel looked at
him for a moment, and said, "Sir, I
must consider your proposition a grave
joke.'. . ' f.
Pretty Sallik Adams, of Portland,
brought the man she .. loved to the
popping point by saying to him,
while gleams of love-light shot from her
half -shut eyes, "I have had two offers
of marriage. The first did not please
me, and, as for the second, I I , have a
superstitious regard for odd numbers."'
PRODIGIOUS MENT.XL PEAT.
Mr. Rosenthal, the celebrated French
chess player, recently performed another
of those surprising mental feats for
V 4 m '
wmcn ne is so famous, lie played at
the Palais Royal twenty-seven games of
chess at once with that number of the
.1 t . i
It was stipulated that Mr. Rosenthal
should have only one minute for each
move, passing along the twenty-seven
tables in order.. Of course each of his.
antagonists had time to study the game
while Mr. Rosenthal was busy at the
other twenty-six tables. It is quite un
necessary to point out the mental strain
of keeping thus in mind so large a num
ber of games at once, during the time
they lasted, which was from 9 o'clock at
night until 2 o'clock in the morning.
The result was marvelous. Mr. Rosen
thal won twenty-three games, three were
drawn, and he lost only one, which was
gained by a Hungariin player named
Rakowski, who thus achieved a victory
of which he may well I e proud.
WEBSTER AND COR WIN.
Senator Tom Oorwiiz. who. despite ho
impediments and difficulties of his early-
years, rose by the sheer force of genius.
to exalted station and commanding influ
ence to be, in fact, the friend "and as
sociate of such men as Daniel Webster,
John C. Calhoun and Henrv Clav in
consequence of some peculiarity we have
never seen stated, acquired the sobriquet,
of "Solitude." This "nickname," we
presume, must "have been applied to him
on account of his retiring habits and con
stant avoidance of society. Mr. Cs.
ugly face (for it was extremely ugly
could have had nothing to de with thiv
designation in question ; yet Mr. Web
ster, encountering him " full m the face""
one- fine morninsr on Pennsylvania ave
nue, thus broke out :
" Oh I Solitude I whet are the eharma
TbatMgeahTaeenUi(Ajrar' ,
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WHERE'S THE COIN T
4 "
. Notwithstanding the prevalent k-
" shinplasters." the United Stalwa min
is busily engaged in manufacturing the
" coin of the realm." thouch whnm it
all goes to so quickly is a general mar
vol. .Lost month the Philadelphia mint,
turned out no less than 1.272.900 ;k-
coins, not to mention 690,000 five-cent.
pieces made of base metal, and 1,180,000
cents. '- And yet we meet with ver fW
silver coins in circulation. Sometimes.
a stray dime makes itself " good for sore,
eyes " by claiming the popular acquaint
ance, and occasionally a silver quarter
dollar invites our admiration, but new
half dollars are scarce as butterflimi i.
January. , They must be hoarded up by
. . . . .
umia people. y
s ; Wrra extraordinary strides, the com..
erce of France is passing beyond anv
era in its history. The exports and id-
ports in 1874 amounted to over $1,500,
000,00(, exceeding any former year, ami
showing an increase over 1873 of $50,--
uuu.uuu, and over loos, when the em
pire flourished most, of 8280,000,000.