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coll. v.a.ht oleVj:.. altlvny. OREGON. FUESll TOPIC? 1 The standing committee of the Diocese of Indiana have voted against the con firmation of Dr. DeKoven as Bishop of Illinois. A son of Alexander Hamilton, now living in New York, at the age of 90, claims that his father wrote the whole of "Washington's farewell address, with the exception of the first three lines. "was a stage-carpenter at Ford's Theater. It was alleged against him that he took charge of Booth's horses, and arranged to have a way kept open for him in the theater to escape. Spongier, in company with Dr. Mudd and Arnold, was par doned and released "from his imprison ment at the Dry Tortugas about the close of President Johnson's administra tion. About two years ago he took up his residence with Dr. Mudd, with whom ho was on terms of very close friendship. Of the other parties, Booth was killed; Harold, Atzerott, Payne, and Mrs. Stir- ratt were executed, and O'Laughlin died at the Dry Tortugas. The fiery, untamed Florence McCar thy, ex-preacher, etc, has abandoned religion and taken up law. He has been admitted to the Chicago bar, and won his first case in a Justice's court the other day. These are hard times with Illinois railroads. Eleven lines in the State, embracing a total mileage of 2,186 miles, Lave gone into bankruptcy within the last few months, and are now in the hands of receivers. The members of the Louisiana Inves tigating Committee are agreed upon only ne point that the Conservatives were illegally deprived by the Returning Board of a majority in the legislature 'which met on the 4th of January. Upon -everything else they have agreed to dis agree. The absurdity of ante-dating news papers is -well illustrated by a New York hebdomadal issued, according to the date-Kne, on March 8, and in its leading editorial announcing that " this number of the makes its appearance on the Anniversary of the birth of, George Wash ington." Das Rice, the celebrated showman, "has just gone through his regular annual bankruptcy process. This year he owes over two hundred creditors, scattered all over the United States, and his indebt dness amounts to 200,000. Assets, one old worn-out trick-horse, $2.50; one suit of clothes, S5; total, 77.50. Germanx controls 2,800,000 men for military purposes. Russia has more, and France and Austria nearly as many. They and all other European powers are perfecting their armies. This does not look much like the millennium. The plowshare and priming-hook transfor mation scene seems to be indefinitely postponed. The youthful Alfonso is making the unpleasant discovery that he is not to be carried to the Spanish throne on flowery beds of ease. With the Car lists provok- ingly obstinate in the north and assassins lying in wait for him in Madrid and else where, the young man is beginning to re alize soma of the perils that environ the lan who wears a crown in Spain. " "We learn from a report recently sub mitted to Congress that the number of bales of cotton seized in the South under orders from the Treasury Department after the close of the war was 33,638 ; jjross proceeds, $7,650,676 ; total ex penses, $2,160,434 ; proceeds released, (X)3,570 ; proceeds in t the Treasury, S4.-886.672. It appears from official data that the number of Indians captured by United States troops in 1873 was 227; Indians killed by United States troops, 405; citi zens killed by Indians, 44; soldiers killed by Indians, 48; and during six months of 1874 the number of Indians captured by United States troops was 73; Indians killed by United States troops, 158; citi zens killed by Indians, 36; soldiers' killed by Indians, 3. One who attempted to work through the muddle of the great scandal case, jjives us as the result, that after one week he found his mind giving way, the next he felt a gentle haze of mild im becility stealing over him, and the third he came out a confirmed idiot. There was no need of excluding jurymen from the box on the ground of having formed an opinion ; the trial is fatal to the mind itself, of which not one vestige will be left by the time it comes to a verdict. Gentlemen intending to be robbed would do well to have the operation per formed in a railway depot. Mr. Jason 'Weeks, who was attacked by a highway man in the New. Haven depot, in New York, several years ago, and robbed of Stlfi noo.- sued the company for the 7 -7 - - amount and has just obtained a verdict, on the ground of negligence on the. part -of the company in protecting its passen gers. ';tB the decision is sustained it will Vw. . precedent which -will be awkward for the railway companies. Washxnotox presents some rather re markable phases of social life. There is at this time in that city a granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, who, with her .young son, is pleading for an appoint ment for one or the other as a means of ' support. V The daughters of ex-Secretary .of the Treasury Robert J. Walker, and v.- f fihief Justice Taney, are doing vmr!n M imeans of livelihood, and 4t.ow am the grandchildren of Presi- .fa,. Generals, and hundreds of other .distinguished people pleading for labor :at even the smallest remuneration, that they may be able to live. - .' . ., A Baiothoeb paper contains the fol lowing announcement: "Died, at the -wudenee of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, near Rmntnrn. Mii on the 21st day TVHnrarv. Edward Spangler, aged 55 a native of Pennsylvania." reader need scarcely be told that Span rA or was one of the parties who was ar rested for complicity in the assassination -of President Lincoln. It will be remem .bered that, at the time of the murder, he The St. Louis Merchants' Exchange has prepared and had introduced in the Missouri Legislature a bill of a novel character, setting up a Mercantile Court for the adjustment of business differences upon any mercantile or commercial sub ject. The bill provides for the appoint ment of an arbitrator by the Governor, who is to be Judge of this Mercantile Court. The Merchants' Exchange is also to appoint some one to be the clerk of the court. When the matter in desxrate is brought before this official arbitrator either party may file an affidavit object ing to this sort of jurisdiction, and the case is thereby thrown out of the Mer cantile Court, but if this is not done it is considered that the parties agree to the jurisdiction, and the case proceeds. Each party is entitled to appoint a friend to sit with the arbitrator, and the three constitute a board of arbitration, the ma jority report being considered the judg ment of the court. But if the parties fail to do this within five days of the commencement of the proceedings, then the case goes on before the arbitrator alone. The powers of swearing wit nesses, issuing subpoenas, and the usual rights of the courts are conferred upon the arbitrator or board of arbitration, and the judgment is made of the same effect as a ruling in the Circuit Court. The bill is very broad, but is interesting from its novelty. The idea is to set up some cheaper mode of settlement among business men than the usual costly and protracted appeal to the Circuit Courts. The decision diners from that in the courts, in that it is final, although pro vision is made for a rehearing before the arbitrator on good and sufficient cause. POLITICS AD POLITICIANS. so Allen T. Caperton, the Senator-elect from West Virginia, graduated at Yale with Cassius M. Clay. Ex-Gov. Phtt.tp F. Thomas, of Mary land, will be the " Father " of the new House, having served his first term in 1839-41. Cincinnatt Timcs "Young Brown blackguarding Butler is suggestive of a four-year-old pinching the tail of a Cali fornia mule." Gen. James Longstreet has abandoned Louisiana and the fortunes of the Kellogg party, and has bought a farm in White county, till., where he proposes gage largely in sheep-raising. Bes Butler uses diplomacy selecting a seat in a railway says to en- even m in a railway car. lie " I sit in the forward end of the car for two reasons : To avoid the bad breath and foul air which one finds col lected in the rear of the car ; and, next, because there is far less danger in case of telescoping. I prefer the left side, j because every ear door opens to the left, thereby throwing the draught to the right.'" Judge McMillan, the new Senator- elect from Minnesota, was born in Fay ette county, Pa., in 1826 ; graduated at .Uuquesne College in 1849 ; read law in the office of Edwin M. Stanton and Judge Shaler. Came to Minnesota, set tling at otillwater, in 18o2 ; was elected District Judge in 1858 ; was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in lob ; elected to the same omce in 1865, re-elected in 1872, appointed and elected Chief-Justice in 1874. He has never held other than a judicial office. A Careful "Woman. One cold night last week a lone old woman arrived in Detroit from some town in Indiana, in search for her son, and she put up for the night at a hotel on Woodbridge street, boon alter daylight a seryant girl, passing along the hall, found the old lady's room open, and entered the room to discover that both windows were up. and that a rag had been tied over the gas-burner after the light had been extinguished. When the woman was aroused and asked to explain, she said " I ve seen this ere gas before, and 1 don't believe you can be too careful about handling it." Detroit Free Pres. Missouri Republican . ""Many a country editor whose subscribers have failed to come down with the cord wood as they should, had their hearts warmed with a new hope when it was reported that Congress had restored the franking privilege as to public documents. They felt that the time was . approaching when delinquent subscribers could go to somebody else and sell their cord wood and welcome, for would they not have Patent Office reports enough to keep every stove red hot from November to March i But alas for human editorial hopes! Congress has rejected the bill, the editor's stove is cold, the delinquent sub scriber has hibernated, and the bleak winds of winter howl a wild and dismal wail through cracks where zero steals in. " At.t. of the twenty-five Senatorial va cancies which will occur on the 4th of March, have now been filled. We give below a list of the retiring members and their successors, showing the parties to which they belong, and the gains and losses of either party. The names of Republicans are in Roman, Democrats in Italic, and Independents in small capi lals : ! RESTORING BURST MONEY. An Interesting Process Kxpert Manipula tor of Burnt Currency. CWaKhington Cor. New York Evening Post. It will be remembered that about four or five weeks ago a Northern express car was burned near Washington. The gov ernment alone had 85,750,000 in it, and the private property amounted to nearly half as much, including jewelry enough to till seven safes. t . j Up in one of the sunny, well-lighted rooms of the Treasury Department four ladies from the Treasurer s office are at work ou these charred treasures; and their process is one of the most interesting features of the service. All the safes were transferred from the cars to the Treasury, and a committee were selected from those most expert at such work. First the private safes were opened, and in these were found about $100,000 worth of diamonds, a hundred watches, old gold and silver coins, and alas ! for the course of true love a package of love letters and a tress of pretty brown hair. Picking out the valuables was compara tively easy work, for though many of the Stones had fallen from their setting it was not hard to find them. The gold was blackened. j Jewels and watches were returned to the express company. The letters were not read, though they presented a great temptation to some members of the com mittee. They and the curly lock were sent together to the Dead Letter Office, where they will be burned. Perhaps it was all for the best ; they may have been returned in the heat of a lover's quarrel, which now will have time to cool. The money in the government safes is so charred that at a breath it crumbles ; and yet it is expected that four-fifths of it will be deciphered. ' Each little shrivelled piece is demched with a thin knife and laid on rough blotting paper. There the ladies examine it with magni fying glasses, and after deciphering as much as possible they paste it, lace up, on a strip of thin paper ; and so, bit by bit, a whole note is pieced out. It is such trying exercise for the eyes that those engaged in it can work only three hours at a time and on bright days. ; The trust reposed in them is great, for the money is dehvered directly to them, and remit tances made on their reports without further questioning. After the terrible fire of October, 1871, Chicago sent two hundred and three cases of burnt money, aggregating, at owners' valuation, 164,- yyv.ys. It came in sheets, in bundles, in any packages, rumpled and crushed as careless hands had pushed them into side pockets or purses. Each little parcel was swathed in cotton as carefully as if it were the most precious jewelry, and as the black, brittle packages were unrolled, it seemed really impossible that anything could be made of such cinders. Yet out of tlint 164,997.98, 8126,541.33 was re deemed and returned to the owners or banks. Boston profited by Chicago's experience, and packed her burnt money so carefully that nearly all of it was re deemed. Eighty-three cases, containing S88.290.80 were returned to her, beside a number of policies, notes, bills and other valuable papers. The . most skill ful person on this committee is a lady who has had much experience in such work. Once she deciphered $185,000 out of 200,000 that had been in the hold of a burned ship for three years, and Adams Express Company, which was responsible for the amount, gave her 500 in acknowledgment of her services. Another time she and her associates worked faithfully and long over some bonds a crazy cashier saw fit to throw into the fire. The bank asked for only 8100,000, but the ladies picked out $145,- 000 ; whereupon the directors, with reck- less extravagance, presented the commit tee with 82U about $4 apiece. acter displayed in its most selfish aspect, all eager for gain, many plotting how to emulate certain Tammany leaders, and yet elude the penitentiary. Has it any in fluence on features, do you ask? Let lynx eyes, corrugated brow, hooked nose, and compressed lips answer. Visit the library of the scholar, or the sanctum of the poet, and strikingly do the spacious head, lofty brow, and thoughtful face of the one, or the dreamy, absorbed, spiritual face of the other, re veal their inner life and profession also, Walk along Broadway, ana mars the ex pression and look of the elegant, refined lady, and then visit the dingiest tenement-house that New York contains, and note the difference in the look of its in mates. Annual of Phrenology and Physiognomy. The New Senate. The following is a list of the Senate of the Forty-fourth Congress. There are of straight Republicans (in Roman) 41 ; of independent jsepuoiicans ux hmaui caps) 4 ; of Democrats (in italics) 28 ; vacancy, 1 ; total, 74. The year in which each Senator's term expires is set oppo site his name : ' ALABAMA. 1877. George Golthwatte. 1879. George E. Spencer. CALIFORNIA. 1879. Aaron A. Sargent. 1881. Newtos Booth. DELAWARE. 1877. Uli.Saulsburv. 1881. Thomas F. Bayard. GEORGIA. 1877. Thomas M. Xorwood. 1879. John B. Gordon. INDIANA. 1879. Oliver P. Morton. 1881. Jot. E. McDonald. KANSAS. 1877. James M. Harvey. 1879. John J. Ingalls. LOUISIANA. J. Rodman Meat. 1877. 1879. (Vacancy). MABILANB 1879. Georae R. Dennis. 1881. William P. Whytt. MICHIGAN. 1877. Thomas W. Ferry. 1881., I. P. Chiiiktianct. MISSISSIPPI. 1877. James L. Alcorn. 1881. Branch K. Bruce. NEBRASKA. 1877. t. W. Hitchcock. 1881. I. 8. Paddock. MW HAMPSHIRE. 1877. Aaron H. Crairin. 1879. Bainb'ge Wauleigh. NEW YORK. 1879. Koscoe Conkling. 1881. Francis Kernan. OHIO. 1879. John Sherman. 1881. Allen G. Thurman. PINNKILVANIA. 1879. tmon Cameron. 1881. IT-iw. A. Wallace. SOITIC CAROLINA. 1877. This. J. Robertson. 1879. Jthn J. Patterson TEXAS. Mroan t!. Hamil ton. Samuel 13. Maxey. VIRGINIA. Jthn W. Johnston. Robert E. Withers. WIKCONRI3. 1877. Timothy O. Howe. 1881. Angus Cameron. 1877. 1881. 1877. 1881. ARKANSAS. 1877. PoweU Clayton. 1879. 8. W. Dorsey. CONNECTICUT. 1879. Orria S. Ferry. 1881. Wm. W. Eaton. FLORIDA. 1879. Simon B. Conover. 1881. Charles W. Jones. ILLINOIS. 1877. John A. Logan. 1879. Richard J. Oglesby. IOWA. 1877. George G. Wright. 1879. William B. Allison. KENTUCKY. 1877. John W. Stevenson. 1879. Theo. C. McCreery. MAINE. 1877. Lot M. Morrill. 1881. Hannibal Hamlin. MASSACHUSETTS. 1877. George 8. Bout we 14. 1881. Henry L. Dawes. MINNESOTA. 1877. William Windom. 1881. S. J. R. McMillan. MISSOURI. 1879. Lewi V. Bogy. 1881. Francis M. CockrelU NEVADA. 1879. John P. Jones. 1881. William Sharon. NEW JERSEY. 1877. F.T. Frelinghuysen. 1881. Thos. F. Randolph. NORTH CAROLINA. 1877. Matthew W.Ransom. 1879. Aug. ti. Merrivum. OREGON. 1877. James K. Kelly. 1879. John 11. Mitchell, RHODE ISLAND. 1877. Henry B. Anthony. 18B1. Amorose Dam- Bide. TENNESSEE. Henry Cornier. A ndrew Johnson. VERMONT. Justin S. Morrill. 1881. George F. Edmunds. WEST VIRGINIA. 1879. Henry G. IJavi. 1881. Allen T. Caperten. 1877. 1881. 1879. CHIT-CHAT FOB LITTLE FOLKS. i Counting the. Flnfrerg. . " Davy, dear, your fingers hold; Listen till my story's told. ; " Thumb's a rogue, and whispers, 'Come, Let us steal the sweets," says Thumb T " Straight First Finger bends to hear ; She's a rogue when Thumb is near. " SA-ond Finger wn, 111 go ;' i Cries Thir t Finger, Count me, too. j Ltltla Finger stands alone, 5 Says, Tho sweets are not our awn. " Thumb says, Let no Finger ay Where the sweets have gne to-Jay.' " Finger First then cries out, No ! Mot a word from me shall go.' " Second Finger shakes her head ; She would suffer death instead. Finger Third is full of fear. Lest the marks of guilt appear. " Little Finger cries, ' For shame I I shall ten whtre lies the blame. " 'If we all are made to smart, With ths rest I'll bear my part.' And I think that through and through Little Finger's right den'tyou?" The poor man bad to go without his dinner, that day, bnt you may be sure he eared little about that, while Listening with tears in his eyes to the thrilling story his son bad to relate to him. He must have been proud of him that day, as he wrapped him in his own warm over coat and took him home to " mother." And how that mother must have wept and smiled over the lad, and kissed him and thanked God for him 1 Grace Greenwood. . Donkey Boy. Th donkey is the great institution of Egypt. The long-eared creatures crowd the narrow strets of those far-off cities, ambling along sometimes with a fat Turk balancing himself with difficulty on the ungainly saddle. Again one paces along carrying an amused traveler intent on sight-seeing. And often, on the banks of the wondrous Nile, under the shadow of the palm-trees, beneath the golden light of the Egyptian skies, you may see one bearing a woman with a child clasped in her arms, so like to that old familiar picture that you have looked upon many times, of Mary and the infant Jesus in their' flight into Egypt t It is a more beautiful and touching sight than any other in that Eastern land. I had almost comoared the donkev-bovs of Egypt to the news-boys of New York ; and, indeed, I do believe them to possess many traits in common. Their rough, independent life, their intercourse with every class of humanity, their shrewd cunning, all may be found on this side the Atlantic in the streets of our own city. They are quick to catch foreign phrases, and many of them " can speak, though imperfectly, three or four languages. When his passenger is mounted, the owner of the donkey that is, the donkey- boy always runs behind his property, urging him forward with a stick which he carries and with one magic word, well comprehended by the donkey, sounding like " Haa ! " The boy will often run a long distance, apparently without fa tigue, now and then breaking out into a wild kind of singing. They are the tit. State. California...... Connecticut.... Delaware....... Florida. Indiana ... Maine ......... Maryland Massachusetts.. Michigan....... Minnesota. ..... Mississippi..... Missouri ....... Nebraska....... Nevada ........ Vew Jersey.... New York...... Ohio.... Pennsylvania. . . Rhode Island... Tennessee...... Texaa Vermont ....... Virginia. West Virginia.. Wisconsin.. . Terms expire March 3, 1875. Hager ....... Buckingham. Bayard ...... Gilbert ...... Pratt ........ Hamlin....... Hamilton.... Washburn ... Chandler .... Ramsey...... Pease... ..... Sohcbz . . . TnPTOf...... Stewart...... .Stockton..... Fenzqbt ..... Thurman. . . . Soatt ........ Scraene ..... Bro widow ... Flanagan . Edmund., .. Lewis. , Bo reman Carpenter.. fur the eueeeeding term. .Vewtan Booth. William W. Eaton. Thomam F. Bayard. C. W. Jonee. Jomeph E. McDonald. Hannibal uamiin. Wm. Pinckney Whyte. Henry I Dawes. Isaac P. Christianoy. S. J. R. McMillan. Branch K. Brnoe, e. FrtmeieM. CockrelU -Algernon St Paddock. William Sharon. Theo. F. JRandolvh. Franai Kernan. A lien O. Thurman. William A. Wallace. A. E. Burnside. Andrew Johneon. .Samuel B. Maxey. George F. Edmund. Robert K. wither. A lien T. Caperton. Angus Cameron. A Fatal Experiment. The power of the; imagination is truly remarkable indeed, almost beyond be lief ; and many people are great slaves to its whims and caprices. One-half the ills that flesh is heir to are superinduced by the fancy of the sufferers, as hundreds are known to have died by mere symp toms of cholera, yellow fever, and the plague, induced by dread alone of these terrible maladies, i People of strong nervous temperaments are often exeat slaves to the tyranny of mind over mat ter. Young medical students are very fond of illustrating this fact by practical jokes upon unsuspecting people. We very well remember a case m point which occurred in tins city not lonpr asto. but which we do not remember to have seen in print. It was that of an amateur butcher engaged in a slaughter-house, and who, in placing his meat upon a hook, slipped in the blood upon the floor, and hung himself instead of the meat upon the barbed point. His screams, were deafening, and when he was released from his frightful situation his agony was intense. He was quickly carried in the arms of three men to the nearest physician's office, and so great was his pain (in imagination) that he cried piteously upon every motion made by the doctor in cutting the coat and shirt-sleeve from about the wounded arm. 'When at last the arm was bared not a scratch was there. The hook-point had merely grazed; the skin and torn the shirt-sleeve. j ; i . These thoughts i were suggested to us by an experiment just tried at St. Peters; burg, Russia. A criminal condemned to death was handed over to the surgeons of the hospital for the purpose of a cer tain experiment, j He was taken to the dissecting room and laid upon a marble slab, his hands, feet and body were se curely tied to the; table upon which he lay. He was then told, after being care fully blindfolded, that he was to be bled to death. A pail was brought, the sur geon snapped his lancet upon the main artery of the arm, while an attendant stood by pouring a small stream of blood warm water upon the arm, which ran oft into the paiL The poor criminal heard the steady stream flowing into the pail, and soon grew ; weak and faint, then swooned, and in j exactly twelve minutes was dead. I Here was an unmistakable evidence of the power of the imagination, illustrat ing in a remarkable manner the reflec tions mentioned ! above, for in this in stance not one drop of blood had been taken from the; body of the criminal. His fancy had proved as fatal to him as though he had actually bled to death. jew rore weekly. Oar Faces Open Books. The mysteries of the schools, or the learning of the ancients cannot be studied by all, but pages from the great book of human nature are scattered all around us. - t - , .. . m. . ill ever-cuangeiui uiversny. xnere is no repetition, no sameness there ; bnt all are original copies, for the author is Omnip otence. Enter the schools where the " coming man " is being prepared for his high destiny, and we note the oron eve. the unruffled brow, and the undeveloped A 11 J . t . -. ieacuxes, au aenoung innocent cmianood ana immanrruy. into another, ! a dif ferent class of children, and bh, how forcibly does the care-worn brow, the sharpened and pinched features speak of poverty ana suitenng, oftnmes oi crime ! Loiter in places where business men congregate, and there may be seen char- Cotton Manufactures of the Country. The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, has some valuable and inter esting statistics of cotton manufacture, which shows that there are in the United States 847 cotton mills, having 186,975 looms, and 9,415,383 spindles, winch consumed during the past year 567,583, 873 pounds of cotton, and manufactured goods as follows ; Thread, yarns and twines, 149,000,000 pounds ; sheetings, sliirtings, and similar plain goods, 707, 000,000 yards ; twilled and fancy goods, osnaburgs, jeans, etc., 306,000,000 yards ; print cloths, 588,000,000 yards ; ging hams, 33,000,000 yards ; duck, 30,000, 000 yards ; bags, 6,000,000. Of these mills, 660, running 8,927,754 spindles, are in the Northern States ; and 187 mills, running 487,629 spindles, in the Southern States. There are 489 mills, running 7,538,771 spindles, in the six New England States, and producing three-fourths of all the cotton, goods made in the country, distributed as fol lows : Pound cotton 36.473,547 . 69,759,468 2,7;M,ltiT 208,3-25,299 S8,144,9t4o 48,514,613 Old Acquaintances Deecrlbedi In Prose. And as the old lady rode slowly up the hill upon her white horse, Bhoda perceivtd that every one of her ten fin gers wete covered with rings to the very tips, and the end of her boots were cut off to let but her ten toes, to every one of which was tied a little silver bell, all of different sizes ; and as she rode, Mother Banbury rang these bells by the motion of her toes, and produced the most charming music you can imagine that is, from such a source. Besides all these, Mother Banbury wore a chain of large glasss beads wound ten times round her neck, which hung all over the front of her dress ; and she wore brace lets and ear-rings, and a large hoop in her nose and a great bunch of hair on the top of her head, stuck full of feathers and flowers, and jewels, and bows of ribbon, with long, floating ends ; and she had. a great silk balloon tied round her waist, which stood out behind ; and a stiff lace ruffle round her neck ; and a -i , ii - . ?. , -i oron nme nat prccnea over ner eyes ; ai- happiest race of boys in the world, together she was a very curious-looking Nicholas person. The CHiimney-Elf led the way down the other side of the hill. About half way he turned off into a level nook set around with bushes and paved with large flat stones. At one end of this space sat a cat with some music upon a stand in front of him, and a fiddle beside him. Fixing his eyes upon the music, the cat extended his four paws with all the claws out, and began to scratch and tear at the fidddle-strings with all his might, accom panying his efforts with the most hor rible screeches and yells imaginable. The noise was so frightful, but at the same time so funny, that a small dog, whose business it was to howl in chorus with the cat, was able to do nothing but roll upon his back from side to side, stuffing his four paws mto his mouth to stihe the peals of laughter, which would have offended the cat very much if he had perceived them. In the center of the dancing-ground a red-and-white cow was gravely and laboriously performing a polka in the old-fashioned style of jumping up very high and coming down very hard. The only spectators were a pewter-dish and iron spoon, who seemed to be tired of the ball, and were just stealing away among the bushes. "1 suppose you ve heard of the cow that jumped over the moon ?" said the Chimney-Elf. "People generally sup pose that she Uved on the earth, and jumped over the moon and down again ; but such people could never have no ticed a cow s habits very particularly Mills. Maine 24 New Hampshire... 42 Vermont 10 Massachusetts 194 Rhode Island 115 Connecticut. 101 489 7,538,771 408,954,079 It will be seen from . this table that Maine, with much more water power than all the rest of New England, yet has lens cotton mills and spindles than any other New England State except Vermont. Massachusetts has half the cotton spindles in New England, and over a third of all in the country. Even little Rhode Island has twice as many spindles as Maine, although her mills average only half as large as the Maine mills. Spindlen. 609,898 855,189 58,948 3,769,692 1,336,843 908,202 An Iowa Romance. The State of Iowa is not exactly the region to which one would naturally look for melting romance of the story paper type. Yet from Iewa comes a tale a true one which even Mrs. P. tj. K. . de Montmorency could not surpass. 'Twas a lovely young lady, who was dis covered one cold day this winter skating beautifully upon a lonely lake. Sud denly the ice gave way, and the shriek ing damsel fell into the deep water. Three boobies stood upon the shore and never moved to rescue her. But a knight brave as De Lorge heard what the immortal Dundreary calls "squeams. and though at the moment a quarter of a mile away, soon arrived upon the scene. " bet me be calm,'' he said, and plunged mto the waves. He saved her, and dnppniEr but beautiful she was es corted home, casting upon him the while a blue and favorable eye. Boots it to tell the rest ? He fell a victim to her gentle charms ; she loved his manly grace and bravery ; they have been joined in holy wedlock, and i; is to be hoped will dwell in peace and happiness iorevermore. acw l ork Tribune. Facts To Be Remembered. One thousand shingles laid four inches to the weather will cover 100 square feet of surface, and five pounds of shingle- nails will fasten them on. One-fifth more nirfino' and flnnrino is needed than they never jump high, but, like the one the number of square feet of surface to States ranks second in this respect, and we jui, ow, mL-j uaiatia j uiAAp ouuui, uv no covered, oecause oi me lap m me siu- i jttussia third. the matching oi the floor. Persons and Things. Crviii war is imixunent in China. Illinois is to have females notaries -public - - .. J AsiAno cholera has broken out in Mexico. ..- ' , - Austbalia will be represented in the CentenniaL . ".. 5 .y i i Db. Pains believes that bronchitis is caused by parasites. Legal rate of interest in China is set down at 20 per cent, per annum. Forney says' he didn't see a single lobbyist about the French Assembly. Ths greatest beer-drinking city in the world is said to be Munich, in Bavaria. CmcASSiAN girls are plenty and cheap this year in the slave mart at Constant!- , nople. 1 ' Choice breeds of cattle are beingf shipped from the Channel Islands to this country. Tub Supreme Court of Maine granted four hundred and eighty-seven divorces last year. A English traveler speaks of seeing a wild coifee tree in Liberia seventy-five feet high. The army of Spain is to be increased 70,000 men. Eight thousand reals will exempt a man. A Turkish porter will trot along with perfect ease, carrying a weight of six hundred pounds. Thb salary of the Governor of New York is now $10,000 a year, instead of $4,000, as formerly. Madagascar, having abolished slavery, is ready to join in a coalition of civilized nations against Spain. Workmen in nearly every branch of industry at the East are striking against a reduction of wages. Prompted by the experience of this winter, the makers are hereafter to build thermometers as high below zero as they ' are above. " Xiabge quantities of steel rails are being gathered at Deposit by the Erie railway, to be used in laying their new track the coming year. Charlks Orton, brother of the Tich- borne claimant, was recently an appli cant for relief from the Lambeth (Lon don) poor-box. Des MorNESt Iowa, will have to de pend on dips and kerosene for light for a month to come, on account of the re cent injury to the gas works there. The only stream of water running through Lincoln, Neb., has its source in the immense salt beds in that part of the State, and is itself as salty as brine. At a recent sale of antiquities in Edin- burgh two of the bones of Robert Brnoe are said to have been sold for 5. and one of the vertebrte of William the Lion for 5 10s. A dispatch from Washington says the total amount of mutilated currency re ceived from the Treasurer, by the Comp troller, since the passage of the act of June 20 last, is $41,066,805. A femalb lawyer in Wvomimr was re cently obliged to suspend her argument before a J ustice in order to administer to to the wants of her baby, who was argu ing for its dinner in an adjoining room. France, as you may be surprised to hear, is the greatest - wheat-producing country in the world. She produced 332,209,000 bushels in 1873. The United the moon's or the earth's surface. This cow is coming out as a ballet-dancer as soon as Barry O Lynn can find time to make her a belt with a fringe to it,' From " Moon folk." What the Body Requires. The Inter-Ocean, in answer to a cor respondent, Bays : " The requirements of the body vary with age, sex, occupa tion, health, work done, climate, and race. Therefore any attempt to decide just how much a person should eat or dimk would be fruitless. In the first place it may be stated generally that a healthy person requires from 700 to 800 pounds of perfectly dry food a year, which amounts to about two pounds a day. In addition to this is required about six pounds of , liquid. Dr. Play fair has made extensive observations on this subject, and gives the following table of daily diet, according to work done: Flesh farmer. Subsistence 2.0 Quietude ..'..3.5 Moaeratft. exercise 4.2 Active labor. 5.5 1 Hard work 6.5 "Science" teaches that the best pro portions of food for the body generally are, of fat, nine parts ; of flesh-forming materials, twenty-two parts, and of starch and. sugar, sixty-nine parts. When we eat of food which is deficient in any necessary ingredient, we generally com bine it with another that contains an ex- ss of it. Thus', we combine bread with butter, lean meat with potatoes, salad with eggs. On the other band, we should never mix together a great variety of food containing an excess of carbon aceous matter and a deficiency of nitro genous." Fat. 0.5 1.0 1.8 2.5 2.5 Sugar and starch. 12.0 12.0 18.7 20.0 . 20.0 Dont IK) It. Don 't flirt with a fool. It's bad enough to f ool with a flirt. - Don't underbill your age. - Your de tection is only a question of time. JJon't rush. At the end of the race you will wish 'twere longer. Don't waste your breath. ; A few words will suffice to convince the world of your folly. Don't magnify your neighbor's vices. At s worse than extolling your own virtues.1 Don't boast of your brain work. Some inquisitive cuss might ask for a speci men brick.- ? . Don't advocate the doctrine of univer sal salvation. "Hell on the Wabash" is a matter of history. Don't turn up your nose at barren land. A farmer without "rocks" never makes a stir in the world. ' uon t dream that the world can't wag along without you. A grain of sand is not missed from the desert. Don't attempt to do too much. At twenty-five men imagine they will re iorm me world. At forty they are con tent to reform themselves. A Little Hero. In the city of Hartford, Ct., lives the hero of the true story I am about to re late but no longer little, as the per ilous adventure which made him famous in his native town happened several years ago. Our hero was then a bright, active boy of fourteen the son oi a mechanic, xu the severe winter of 1835 the father worked in a factory about a mile from his home, and every day the boy carried him his dinner across a piece of meadow land. One keen frosty day, he found the snow on this meadow nearly two feet deep, and no traces of the footpath 're maining, let he ran on as fast as possi ble, plunging through drifts, keeping himself warm by -vigorous exercise, and brave, cheerful thoughts. When in the midst of the meadow, fully half a -mile from the house, he suddenly felt himself going down, down I He had iaiien in a wen. He sank down, down into the dark, icy water, but rose immediately to the surface. There he grasped hold of a plank which had fallen into the well as he went down. One end of this rested on the bottom of the well the other rose about four feet above the surface of the water. ! The poor lad shouted until he was almost speecniess, out au m vain, as it was im possible to make himself heard - from such a depth, and at such a distance from any house. So at last he concluded that if he was saved at all he must save himself, and begin at once, as he was getting extremely cold in the water. o he went to wors. First he drew himself up the plank. and braced himself against the top of it and me wan oi the well, which was of brick and quite smooth. Then he pulled off his coat, and taking out his pocket-knife he cut off his boots, that he might go to wors to greater advantage. Then, with his feet against one side of the well, and his shoulders against the . other, he worked his way up, by the most fearful exertion, about half the distance to the top. Here he was obliged to pause to take breath and gather up his energies for the work yet before him , Par harder was it than all he had gone through, for me Biue oeing irom mat point covered with ice, he must cut with his knife grasping places for his fingers, slowlv and carefully, all the way up. It was al most a hopeless atttempt, but it was all that he could do. And here the little hero lifted up his heart to God and prayed fervently for help, fearing that he could never get out alone. Doublcss the Lord heard his voice calling from the deep, and plied him. : He wrought no miracle to save him, but he breathed into his heart a yet larger measure of calmness and courage, strengthening him to work out his own deliverance. After this the Utile hero cuts his way upward inch by inch. His wet stock ings froze to the ice and kept his feet from slipping, bnt his shirt was quite worn from his shoulders ere he reached the top. He did reach it at last crawled but into the snow, and lay down fox a moment to rest panting out his breath in little white clouds on the clear, frosty air. He had been two hours and a half in the well. His clothes soon, froze to his body, but he no longer suffered with cold as, full of joy and thankfulness, he ran to the factory, where his father was waiting and wondering. . ing and One thousand lath will cover seventy yards of surface, and eleven pounds of lath-nails will nail them on. Eight bushels of good lime, sixteen bushels of sand, and one bushel of hair will make enough good mortar to plaster 100 square yards. A cord of stone, three bushels of lime, and a cubic yard of sand will lay 100 cubic feet of wall, i! ive courses of bncK will lay one foot in height on a chimney, six bricks in a course will make & flue four inches wide and twelve inches long, and eight bricks in a course will make a flue eight inches wide and sixteen inches long. IVswspapers In Paris. The number of journals, daily, week ly, etc., published in Paris, amounts to 754. Of these, 53 refer to theology ; txj to jurisprudence ; 10 to geography and history ; 56 to light reading : 25 to pub lic instruction and education : oo w literature, philosophy, ethnography and bibliography ; 11 to painting ; 2 to photography ; 8 to architecture ; 5 to archaeology : 17 to music : 8 to the theater : 57 to fashions : 4 to hair dress ing : 78 to different trades, etc. : 69 to medicine and pharmacy ; 47 to sciences ; 23 to military and naval affairs ; 18 to agriculture ; 12 to the horse ; 19 are un classed. There are 37 political journals and 11 political reviews. Fine Company. A female member of the codfish aris- toeraev. in regaling a country friend in the presence of her son (a wicked youth) with an account of a grand party she had recently given, said. "Would you be lieve it, we had two Generals, a Judge, a popular author, a musical composer, and a man who writes plays! xes, chimed in the above-mentioned wicked youth, " and there was a Deputy Sheriff who said he wanted to see dad, and they went out before supper, and dad hasn t come home yet. When the youth went to school the next day, with his head all tied np, he tried to make the teacher be lieve he had the toothache. In the Way He Should Go. " Well, my son," said a Detroit father to his eight-year-old son the other night, " what have yon done to-day that may be set down as a good deed f " Gave a poor boy five cents," replied the hopeful. " An, ha I that was charity, and charity is always right. He was an orphan boy, was he t" - -' - " I didn't stop to ask," replied the boy ; "I gave him the money for licking a boy who spit in my dinner basket." jjeirote jcree urress. At the meeting of National Council of Sovereigns of Industry at Philadelphia last week' the report of the President is said to have shown that the order has members in twenty States, and an aggre gate membership of 100,000. "A metallic coffin, containing the re mains of a boy, was dragged up from the bottom of the Mississippi, a short dis tance above New Orleans, a few days ago. The casket was of a kind that lias not been made within fifteen years. Says the Kennebec Journal . " The Superintendent of the Augusta Gas Works stopped his paper yesterday be cause we alluded to the miserable gas he is furnishing his patrons. He had no particular need of a newspaper with no gas to read it by. We recommend that he put in kerosene." Glasgow is going to erect a monument to Livingstone in the form of an indus trial mission settlement at the south end of Lake Nyassa. Half of the sum of 10,000 needed for the enterprise was raised at the first meeting. The station is to be put under the charge of Mr. jh, D. Young, R. N., who commanded the Livingtone search expedition. ABOUT 1.000 men are now employed in the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Phila- delphia. Three locomotives .for Brazil and one for Cuba will soon be completed and shipped. The firm have orders for sixteen first-class engines from Brazil. They are also making six for the west coast of South America, and a number for roads in different parts of the United States. , A cable dispatch announcing the sat isfactory termination of the indemnity negotiations with Spain, growing out of the Yirginius affair, is the cause of much congratulation in diplomatic and official circles at Washington, because it re moves the last pretense lor a war with Spain. Under this settlement Spain is to pay $500 to the family of each white man who was taken from the Yirginius and shot, and $500 to the family of each colored man. Three Noted Italians. Garibaldi's routine bill of fare is the following : Breakfast, coffee and bread: dinner. soup, one plate of meat or fish, fruit ; supper, none. Pius IX. is similarly a frugal eater, differing only from the first in being a wine-bibber (don't call him a drunkard). Victor JKimmannei is uraYjr lover of food and wine, eating indiffer ently of most things, from the tripe and garlic of Piedmont to the snakes and mussels (Lucullian style) of Borne, in clusive. All these are at present happily living in the latter city, after much hurly burly and battles fought and won, and the caricaturists depict them together, arm in arm, sauntering through the Oorso, with toothpicks in their mouths. Beethoven's snuff-box is to be seen in Chicago. He was a great composer, but he snuffed snuff like any old woman. The Society Bow. Another kink is in the kind of bow, which is the height of elegance, because it is "foreign. You are not to bend your head with the least degree of rever ence. That's only suitable in saluting your acknowledged superior, but you are to look the party you address ooolly in the eye, smile your sweetest, and gently incline your head to the left shoulder with a little backward movement at the same time. It's a little difficult to do at first, and practicing before the glass you look as silly as you feel ; but never mind it's " the thing,' and such matters are as contagions as the measles ; so you 11 get it after a little. It's easier than saying "Good morning !" at 8 o'clock. Newly elected M. O.'s bring their wives here every winter. It takes a man months to find out the "tricks and the manners' which distinguish society people ; but the average woman, either from the prairies of Nebraska or the pine regions of North Carolina, will catch all necessary "airs" in a single winter, and be ready to instruct the next new comer. Washington Let ter. ... - " : ': -" ' " AKeene's Station (N. Y.) man fell dead upon hearing of the failure of a bank where he had deposited $800, and his wife also died within a week, irom. the same cause combined with the Vvif of' her husband.