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COLL. VVT CLKVE,
ALBANY,
OREGON-.
FRESH TOriCS. "
The " oanal frauds " continue to be
the chief theme of interest and discus-
Bion among the politicians of 'York State.
An investigation is in progress.
Tms is the way the Louisville Courier
Journal imprecates a Cincinnati editor
who called him a thief : "" May .Eli Per
sians attend his funeral, and may cock
roaches swarm on his grave."
tion of 1867, and in 1869-70 United
States District Attorney for the Southern
District of New York. He was formerly
a Democrat, but became a Republican
and ardent friend of President Lincoln
in j86i. .; ... '
Hon. Edwards Pie rrepoxt, the newly --appointed
Attorney-General, was one of
the leading counsel for the prosecution
in the Surratt trial. He is a man of large
wealth, and contributed 820,000 to the
campaign 'fund at the .last Presidential
-election. J :' ' "'' ''' t;
Thk press on both sides of the British
-.channel is filled with enthusiastic notices
of Capt.Paul Boyton's last maritime feat.
They regard even his failure as a success
ful demonstration of his undertaking to
swim across from Dover' to Boulogne,
-and as an immense triumph for humanity
and science.
We have been visited by Princes and
-Grand Dukes and a Kanaka King, but
we have never had a real Princess among
us except the Princess Salm-Salml Now,
"however, it is announced that the Prin
cess Louise of England, the very much
the better half of the "Marquis of Lome,
will visit us nest falL .
The steamship Nova Scotia," which ar
rived at Baltimore from Liverpool last
week, reports having passed an immense
ice-field which was Bkirted for four hours,
and hence must have been from fifty to
one hundred miles in length. In this
vast field half a dozen vessels were firmly
frozen in without any prospect of release
until after the ice field should melt.
Doubtless these were wlialing and seal
ing vessels, and they must have been
floating for many weeks, inasmuch as the
ice-field unquestionably came from the
Artie regions. It is very seldom that ice
is met by Liverpool steamers so early in
the season as April, and it is evident that
from now" until next August ice-fields and
icebergs will be unusually abundant in
the North Atlantic.
POLITICAL MEMORANDA.
Prof. KEHAtn,pf the Heidelburg Unij
versity, an .eminent", German jurist, 1ms
lately published an exhaustive review of
the Tilton-Beecher case, in - which be
states that it is the conviction of the legal
minds of Germany Austria and France
that the plaintiff, Til ton, has no case
whatever, and expresses surprise that
" under the laws of America he should not
Lave bees non-suited alter his evidence
"We have read of a nervous patient, in
the hands of a dentist, dropping dead
while losing a tooth, but the case was
reversed lately in Hempstead, Texas.
"The dentist dropped down lifeless while
endeavoring to extract one of a lady's
molars. Probably he was so anxious to
accomplish fcis task without paining hiB
customer j thai he over-Weited" himself,
and stirred into deadly activity some
morbid condition of his vascular system.
The amendment to the Postal laws,
smuggled through at the " close of the
last Congress for the benefit of the ex
press companies, pansr out' immensely
for those corporations. , Under the new
rate for' third-class mail' matter, the ship
ment of bullion from the gold-producing
regions to Chicago' and the East will be
taken from the mails and transferred to
the express companies, who will be able
to exact fioin shippers three or four
times what it cost them before.
Senatob EdsTuitos, ' like Senator Mor
rill, has been sick in. Washington. since i
Congress adjourned. He is slowly re
covering now.
'' Cabii Schttrz's German friends in New
York gave him a sapper on the evening
of the 28th ult., and he sailed for Europe
the following day. .
The Pottsville (Pa.) Miners' Journal
nominates Hon. William D. Kelley as
the " Republican and Centennial candi
date for President.",- ; -; f
The Lower House of the New Hamp
shire Legislature is composed of 373
members. It is the largest legislative
body in the country, with the exception
of the National Congress.
Gov. Dingley's determination not to
run again for -Governor of Maine has set
the Republicans to loo King about lor a
candidate. . Gen. Selden Connor, of Au
gusta, is spoken of with such unanimity
that the choice. seems already settled
upon him.
Mr. Wendeli) Phtlijps and fifty oth
ers have just sent a petition to the Massa
chusetts Legislature against the cession
of the Hoosac Tunnel to any corporation,
on the ground that ; the growth of such
organizations of capital, which under
take to do public work and contrpl pub-.
ho property for their, own advpntage, js
dangerous to the public welfare.
A srsGunAR election, cop test .occurred '
the other day in Portage City, Wis. The
candidates for, Alderman of the Second
Ward were the editor of the' village
paper and the town druggist. . The edi
tor magnanimously voted for his oppo
nent, and elected him, the druggist get
ting 81 votes put of .16Q. It is under-,
stood that the editor flung away ambition
for one time only, ' and that, 1 if he! is
given a good chance at a fat office, he
will not be found committing any fool
ishness with his ballot.
1 ..... i . . , .. . . t . f- . Srfi - , '",''
A WaSHiNOTOSt telegram .says 4 " It
appears that Judge Pierre pont was the
President's third choice for the Attorney-
Generalship. Matt Carpenter was his
first choice, but Carpenter did not want
it. Then he was for giving it to Hen
Butler, but Jewell, Fish and Bristow
made such a vigorous opposition to' "that
idea that he did not even offer it to Ben
jamin. Judge Pierrepont was a compro
mise man, against whom none of the
Cabinet bad any -very vigorous objec
tions." , , ,.
The Brooklyn scandal is having its
effect on the eyes as well as the morals
of the public In the Hartford Courant
-we find the following : " Dr. Bacon, of
New Haven, while in Meriden a few
days since, to perform an operation, in
all earnestness assured a gentleman that
the number of cases of eye diseases he
treated was unusually large since the
Beecher - trial commenced. In almost
every instance the "' patient sat up late
night, reading the great trial reports."
At a late meeting sin New York of the
Directors of the Northern Pacific rail
road, a statement waa, m&daj of the lia
bilities and assets of the . company. Ac--cording
to this exhibit the assets consist
of 550 miles of .finished 'road, and over
10,000,000s acres of land, while the lia
bilities are; mortgaged bonos,toE the
mount ! ht f 130,000,000 j ' stock s to? -U
amount of $25,000,000, which was dis
tributed as a premium to the bonds, and
-a floating debt of less than $700,000, of
which $500,000 is due to the Directors
of the road. ' t
... i The treaty by "wbich the Sioux In
dians hold possession o i the Black Hills
was made to secure the Union. Pacific
xaflroad frsni jfeetitipn., Thla treaty
was 3 negotiated wxUi them f by Gees.
Sherman, Harney, Terry, and Augur,
and Messrs. J. B. Henderson, Nathaniel
C. Taylor, John BJ Sanborn, and Samuel
P. Tappan, Commissioners on the part
of the TJsited States, at Fort Laramie,
Wyoming;;TerritoryoDt tS& 29th apI fol
lowing days of Apri? 186$; was ratified
by the Senate of the United States Feb.
16, 1869, , and-rw&s proclaimed, by the
President on tSbe lfW'69
A Washington dispatch states that
there are still remaining in the General
Land Office imaeUveredTnearly 300,000
patents for agricultural; landslt Of this
number about 75,000 re from Illinois,
and quite as many ; from Indiana and
MissourL Among them ars patents
signed by every President from Monroe
to Lineoln. The reasons assigned for
the presence of these patents in the
Land Office is that mny;land-owners
consider their title valid if they have the
Twi'a ltm1iftt receipt. This is not
the case, and the Land Office frequently
cancels these duplicate receipts and
issues the patents to new parties.
Judge Edwards Peebbkfont, the new
wi A-fcni-nnv-General of the
United States, was born at North Haven,
Conn.,
in 1817,' was gradnated ai Yale
College in 1837, and studied at the New
Haven law school. " In 1840-45 he prac
ticed law in Columbus. Ohio, and after
ward removed to New York -cityi where
he has since resided. : Ha was in 1857-60
a Judge of the New York Supreme Court;
a member of the Constitutional Conven-
, Bora political . parties recognize the
fact that Ohio is how the Keystone State
so far as politics are concerned, and are
organizing fqr a desperate conflict in
October of this year. There are now
only four States in which October elec
tions are held, and of these Ohio is the
only one that holds an election in Octo
ber oflthis year.? It is therefore, in
some sense; the battle ground of the
next presidential election. The result
will have a powerful influence, not only
on the November elections, but may
practically decide the contest of 187 b.
The contest in the Ninth Georgia Dis
trict warms up well. The convention, it
will be remembered.' failed .to nominate.'
being unable to concentrate a two-thirds
vote on anybody. A majority, however.
passed a resolution recommending to the
favor of . the people a UoL i. is. .Kates,
' who, as the canvass advances, proves to
be a most amusing creature, tie is op
posed by B. H, Hill, ex-Confederate
Senator, a man of great ' influence at the
South, "and a born orator. The two can
didates have been canvassing together in
joint debates. Estes has already com
mitted himself to the laughable theorem-
. . i - a i .it. . a i 'a . a.
ujai i is useless iui line ouuiu m eeuu
men of talent "to Congress, because in
that case the North would retaliate, and
practically things would remain un
changed. This comical coniesion oi me
diocrity is too much for the patience
even of the anti-Hill men, and the ex
Confederate promises to soar into Con
gress on the wings of his aspiring elo
quence. , .,
Extraordinary Realism in Art.
The story , told of Mrs. 'Elizabeth
Thompson's efforts to obtain accuracy
in her new picture of a cavairy charge-
(that sne bad. a -field: tjoaaen, aqwn ty
horses so iheennld; draw the i braised
grass) in more than .matched by an old
anecdote concerning the origin of Meis-
sonier s famous M Ciiargp- oi the (Juiras-
siers. J. his story,, wnicn prooaDiy is
not true in every respect, is told as fol
lows: 'a '
" Tdpaiilt ;Qairassie.sai4, Meis-
sonier, ' X must-needs see tnem. iie ac
cordingly took, a dozen of this corps to
his country bouse, where "they were" re
quired to cnarge down cue pars every
morning, but the revolution did not. last
long, and, before the artist had sketched
an outline of the" group, uie gauant fel
lows were out of sight. You must f ol
lowthem by t train,, said a friend. No
sooner said than done; An engineer was
summoned, rails were laid down rolling
stock purchased, and for several weeks
Meissonier accompanied the charge of
his models by tram. Uut it was sum
mer, and historical accuracy required
that the Cuirassiers should dash over
snowy ground. Thousands of bushels
of flour were then laid down in the park,
and the Cuirassiers, as they charged be
came enveloped m clouds oi farina.
The illusion , was complete; the-; studies
adoiirable, and the finished picture sold
for millions. 1
The Treacherous Stovepipe.:
A very recent case in D anbury '
demonstrates most emphatically that a
stovepipe cannot be trusted. The gen
tleman who tested it is one of our most
affable and intelligent residents. He
lias held several town offices and -has
twice represented this district in the
Legislature.. He moved on Tuesday.
He took every care with the pipe. There
were seven lengths to one stove, and he
hired seven boys to carry them.' As soon
as he took down a link a boy Would take
it, proceed to the street, and there wait
until joined by the next boy' with the
succeeding link, each keeping . four, feet
back of bis predecessor. Every length
was numbered with chalk,- and each boy
had a corresponding number- on his hat.
Our friend said it was a good deal of
trouble, but the saving in the end would
amply pay. him, , With each boy armed,
they . 'were started ahead to the new
house, and he followed behind. -It was
an impressive spectacle. The gentleman
did not take his eyes from them an
instant. He followed them into his new
yard and halted them in the order they
marched, and had them stand thus until
the stove came along and was put in po
sition. ' There was no earthly possibility
of tlnse links getting mixed, or varying
a hair's breadth from the order in which
they were taken down. ' When all was
ready, the first boy marched up to our
friend who stood on a chair alongside
the stove, fairly trembling with Susoense.
It was the piece which started from the
stove, and it went over the cast-iron
guard without trouble. Our friend grew
calmer, and said cheerily :
" Now,' sonny, we 11 have you, to the
second boy; 7 " '
He marched up. - tiis piece was taken
and confidently applied to the end of
the upright link. It did not join. The
prominent citizen worked it gently, to
one side,' but tnere was no improve
ment. Then lie ended it, and made an
other trial,-but "with no better success.
He looked at the link. It was. chalked
No. 2. He looked, down at the expect
ant boy, and the same figure was there.
The color began to drift away from his
face.' He tried them again, but the two
lengths would not, affiliate. He got down
on the floor, with them, and weaved them
to and fro, and changed their ends, and
hit them with the poker ; , but "it was no
use. .He was very white in. the . face
now, and his eyes had a scared look. .He
took the lengths into the yard, followed.
by the boys,, each, in lus .proper order.
They formed about him in .a respectful
semi-circle, with the lengths of pipes
under their arms. ' He took the hammer
and tried to bend in the top of the lower
length, and to' bend -out the bottom of
the upper length. ;" Then he; put them
together again. 'They fitted up better,
and he commenced to" hopei1,He got
them" so' nicely adjusted that all that
seemed necessary "was to' "hit the top
length -a gentle tap and drive, it right
down. 'He did' hit ; and it' came down
cm one side, pinching the first finger of
his left hand, and falling - over to the
ground. He said ".Gracious " and
picked up the length', and 'made another
careful attempt. He could get them to
match all around excepting about a half
inch, and every time lie "attempted to lap
that, the other side would fly off, and the
same finger would be caught again in
about the same place. - Every time that
finger was hit the smart increased, and
the pain was already becoming madden
ing. Jtie- lost his nerve and more and
more of his composure. His face got as
hot as a stove, his clothing stuck tight
to his back' and legs, and bis eyes be
came so- dry and hard that it seemed as
if they would burst asunder and hurt
somebody. But he clinched -his teeth
and said nothing. At this - juncture his
wife appeared at the back door, and
said : '-. : .:.(
" Gracious, Joseph, what a ridiculous
fuss you are making over a little bit of
stovepipe." .. t I
That was the last feather ! that was the
climax to all the woe ! With a drowning
rush all the emotions the ! sharp, bit
ter emotions of his heart, came to the
surface, and ' with a cry- - like that of
wild animal at bay,' he dashed the length
of pipe" he- was nolding into the mud,
flew at f the Other -with the fury of
maniac, and danced around in a perfect
eestacy of rage. At the first cry every
boy promptly -dropped ' ins length oi
pipe, and thro win sr himself over the
nearest fence in blind terror, uarted
swiftly from sight He hasn t seen them
since. , so the experiment; aiuiongn
failure, was not really expensive.- Dan-
bury.Aew8. ' ..i I ; !
A Reminiscence of Pioneer Times.
John Delaney used to tell this story of
how Judge Dunn wrought a reform in
his court, in the tiusn tunes oi Wiscon
sin Territory, with a zest and accent which
made it better to listen to than to read in
language not his own, though the same
in substance : ,
" When I was a law-student in Mineral
Point, in eighteen hundred and forty
something, there .was an array of legal
talent in Iowa county that would have
done honor to any place. There was
Mose'Stroritr. Judge Cothre'n., M. M.
Jackson, Sam Crawford, Parley Eaton,
Frank Dunn, David W. Jones, Gen. W.
R. Smith, Cad. Washburn,' and others of
less repute.. Among those of light cali
bre was a countryman oi mine a regu
lar Dogan- who was the best illustration
I ever saw of the maxim that small brooks
are noisy. . His name was Jimmy Nagle,
and a more cheeky, conspicuous, insolent
limb of the law never retained " the,
Irish brogue." Mr.' Charles Dunn was
on the bench ; and out of term time he
was, in all respects, one of us in "our
feocial relations, and it must be admitted
that in those times there was a heavy
practice at bars where were dispensed
more liquids than law. " And so it came
to be a property at ease for the bar in
court to address the bench in the same
jocular, free-and-easy, familiar style so
characteristic of pioneer equality. The
tiling was getting intolerable, and it be
came manifest to his Honor that an ex
ample had to be made of somebody, to
impress the bar with the respect an dig
nity due tiie court. An opportunity was"
soon offered as he well Knew there would
be as soon as Jimmy, Nagle, had a case'
called." As usual, Jimmy became con
temptous, and presently he blurted out :
" Charley, ye know full well your ruling
is conthrary to law and decency if ye
don't know mooch else t" . Whereupon
' Charley" directed the entry of an order
summarfly debarring James Nagle from
further practice in that circuit. It was a
new order of things ; and whilst the bar
sat aghast in silence, I tremble for my
country and countrymen, as Jimmy gath
ered tip his papers, and in a tone of
meekness said : "Well, yet Honor, I
s'pose it's all right and jest, as I'm in the
power of ye, but it strikes me that the
court is' domnably imprignated with daig
nity all at once !" The-bottom fell out
of that court's " daignity" more suddenly
than it had been " imprignated," as it
joined in the general guffaw, which none
of us could suppress. ! -' -'; '
Poor J immy ! we all sympathized with
the victim,' even though the bar was well
rid of a nuisance. But twas no use ; he
was never reinstated ; but his parting
malediction became a byword all over the
leading region. Wisconsin -State lie
glster. ' .."'' ; ' .",
A Pimple Killed Him. . - ,
A dispatch from Bennington to the
Troy (Ni Y.) Jrces says : "A week ago
yesterday,: 'in the afternoon, Charles
Wright, a cutter at G. B. Sibley's tailor
ing establishment, discovered a small
pimple on Ins lip,- whicn he supposed 'to
be a cold sore it grew rapidly; ana be
came more painful'. On Monday he sup
posed it was a boil, and left work a little
earner than usual in the afternoon;" Km
Tuesday morning 'he went to his work,
but had been in the shop but a short
time when he fainted. Mr. Sibley took
him to his own house, and desired him to
remain till he got well. Fearing he would
give the family trouble, Mr. Wright
went to the-Stark House on Tuesday
evening. - He went to bed and never rose
again. ' The swelling rapidly extended to
his entire - face. Yesterday morning he
died at 7 : 25, less than one week from the
time his hp began to pain ' him. The
doctors say his disease' was erysipelas,
which caused congestion . of the brain.
His head is swelled to a monstrous size.
He had never been seriously sick before.
Mr. Wright was 22 years of age, and a
very worthy man." -. ? '
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
Helping Papa and Mamma.
Planting the corn and potatoes,
Helping to scatter the seeds.
Feeding the hens and the chiokens,
Freeing the garden from weeds, .
Driving the ooirs to the pasture.
Feeding the horse in the stall
We little children are busy ;
Sore, there is work for us all,
- Helping papa.
Spreading the hay in the sunshine.
Baking it np when 'tis dry,
Picking the apples and peaches
Down in the orchard hard by,
Picking the grapes in the vineyard ;
Gathering nuts in the fall -.
We little children are busy ;
Yes, there is work for us ah,
K- Helping papa.
Sweeping, and washing the dishes, t
Bringing the wood from the shod.
Ironing, sewing and knitting,
- Helping to make np the bed ; . - -.
Taking good care of the baby,
Watching Her lest she should fall
Wo little children are busy j
, , Or, there is work for us all, . . .
"t Helping mamma.
. Work makes ub cheerful and happy.
Makes us both active and strong ; .
Play we enjoy all the better '
When we have labored so long-,
Gladly we help our kind parents,
Quickly we come at their call.;
Children should lure to be busy ;
There is work for us all,
Helping papa and mamma.
children, and became so very much intei-.
ested in them, that he decided to have
an edition of "The Old Curiosity Shop"
printed in raised letters for their use.
" Bless their hearts 1 They shall find
little Nell in the dark J" he said, .all
aglow. And so, in time, my boy was
bending over the story, as happy a little
fellow as one could wish to see.' .
, " 'Did he read it easily I asked. .
" 'Oh, yes, quite so!" said the Generak
cheerfully. , .'The letters, white as the
rest of the page, are raised, and are about
an eighth of an inch long.i , Benny runs
his finger along the lines one by one, and
understands every word. Yon . would
think he had eyes in his finger-tips. The
sense, of feeling, is very acute, you know
when one's sight is gone." ... ; ,
" I like Dickens more than ever now,"
said one of the boys, when the school
mistress finished her story. . -r .-
"And bo do I," said four of the chil
dren.i5Vor? f'Jizck in the Julpit,'S St.
Nicholas for May. - , . ;
A Harmless Dumb Man. , ,
- Amonji the, novelties in the peniten
tiary at Shelby county, Tennessee, has
been a dumb convict -who, to the quality
of dumbness, added that of idiocy,
Quite a curiosity was this man Wylie,
and one offering much entertainment to
everybody, for his crazy freaks of singing
and dancing and making faces were funny
m the . extreme. So harmless was ne,
though,. and so docile that he was allowed
to polish the boots of the, officers of the
prison, .- going outside- the wans every
morning, toperfona his task.- So, for
two .years, Wylie has been one of the;
features of . the institution, but . he isn't
a special feature any longer. - A few Sun
davs aoo came theonnortunity the dumb
man had been waiting for. He stole two.
coats and a pair of pantaloons and all the
money, he could, and was gone. . The
country was scoured and Wylie was cap
tured again .but he wasn't the same
Wylie in most respect, i He was well
dressed, fluent of . speech and anything
but idiotic, lie. was taken back, but
doesn't clean boots now and doesn't
attract much sympathy as a poor,' harm
lees lunatic iH -:--:v. "-' ' :-
The Maw Who Sets His Own Editorials
The anion men thonSnt thev h&b had the
q hronicle a disarAntage because iiei fron-1
ply imagmep that tha art aien vwuve ox an arts
waS one that cool p not qe dracticed novices.
They reckonep without their host' howeAer, as'
this paragoapq will pjove we never sot typo
before to-night, yet We can point drondly to this
ehort aa specimen oi clean oatnpoauou. m
thing looks so well in the ssck we sJuiost
temdied to issue a challenge .to the entive pro
Season,' Hereafter we Bhrll set our own edi
loriala. WtuhinaUm-Chr&nicIe.' 1,1
This effort of Brother Harlan's at type
setting must not be too severely judged.
It ' must be remembered that since he
first became known as a journalist he has
seen a grs-tt deaf of life. lie has been
successively a circuit-rider in '' the Meth
odis Church, a member of Congress, a
United States Senator, and Secretary of
the Interior. On returning to his trade
and taking up his stick, it is not surpris
ing that he finds himself a little rusty.
Courage, brother ; patience and perse
verance will, in time, restore to yon the
r dexterity of former days. Chicago Tri-
oune. ' ' - - ' '
The? haVe a new wrinkle ' in Boston
for making chickens out of old hens
that is. breaking the breast bone; about
one and one-half inches from the point
where a person feels fox it. r It looked as
if it had been done with long'priers by
Vwmdincr the bone up. It is very nicefy
done, and cannot be discovered until the
chicken is dissected. This is no fish
story, for I bought them myself ; but I
should call it foul play., ,
Mirth at Meal-Time. i-
Evervbodv should plan to have - pleas'
ant1 conversation at the table, just as they
have good food.. : A' little story-telling
it may be of humorous things, anecdotes,
etc.: win often stimulate the -joyous ele
ments of the mind 'and cause it to act
vigorously and healthfully. Think -and
say something pleasant.' : Cultivate mirth,'
and laugh when anything witty is said.
If possible, never at .alone.- Invite a
friend of whom you are fond, and try
and have a good time, friendship and
friendly- intercourse at s the table pro
motes the now of animal' spirits and aids
digestion. . 1 runic . jof . i a. sulky - churl
munching nis meat in a dogged temper.
Me will become dyspeptic .Never bring
a corroding growl or complaint to the
table. Is the pudding' too salt? - Was
the bread burnt f ' Do mot mention it
especially at the table. Let that pass,
though yon need not eat that which may
not be palatable or neaithiui, but polite
ly decline it. He who j brings the most
happiness to the table is the best citizen.
Otra revolutionary - fathers used to see
tough times. An old; Virginian book
tells .how- two of them received fifty
lashes each for being I absent from the
army roll call, and it speaks: of another
who received: 100 lashes for misbeha
vior." For one month's pay a soldier
in the patriot army received $33,000, but
be paid a,uuu a yard lor clotn to mafce
a coat, and his buttons cost him $1,500
. An Old Horse., ,
A correspondent of the Turf,Field'
and Farm- writes: I wrote you last
year of a living curiosity' - that I saw - at
Pittsburgh; and, as 1 predicted, it is still
living a'. horse owned by ? Mr. Wm.
Smith, of the National' Pipe' Foundry,
which is now 47 years old. He uses it
for the children to ride, and they have
no trouble-with it till spring,' when the
grass begins to shoot np its sweet tea
drjls. He longs for the green growth,"
ana ll at onoe feigns lameness, so that
he has to be turned out. He has played
this trick each successive 'spring for the
last six years. ; I don t think there is a
horse judge in America who could guesss
within thirty -nve years of - nia age even
upon a critical examination,' ana ' no
knowledge of the circumstanoes. ' Of
course - were - are cases of greater lon
gevity, but they are rare." -
v ; . packing Egjrs to Ship.
Mary C. West tells in the .Mobile
Henister how to pack eggs for shipment:
Wrap each earg by itself in several
thicknesses of newspaper, and then pack
them nicely in' cotton, being careful to
fill the spaces between them. When the
eggs are thus nicely packed, the box, if
it is not yet full, can be filled with
chopped straw or sedge, bnt never with
sawdust,' and particularly pine sawdust.
xiie turpentine in pine sawaust wouia
almost, invariably ruin the eggs for "sit-
tinp;" purposes. " '
The lid should never pe nailed on a
box intended for "sitting," ; as the jar
consequent is apt to injure
Crying for the Moon.
There was a little girl once who wanted
the moon. It was so bright and , large
and beautiful that she fairly broke her
heart yearning for it. All the toys in
the world were , nothing to that round,
golden thing that shimmered and shone
so ; and sne begged- everybody to get it
for her. First her papa,; because he was
so tall that if he went out on the roof he
could surely reach it. But he declared
that the thing . could : not be done,- and
advised her , to be contented ,with her
doll, a big One . with blue eyes, that
opened and shut, and real yellow hair
a doll instead of the moon but he did
not understand. . She could not make
him see that it was the moon she wanted,
not a doll. ' , ' . -.:
Then she went to her mother.-, Best
and dearest mother, who. would do any
thing for her. : She was kind. .. She said
she remembered wanting the moon her
self ; but no one ever got it for her. -It
was a beautiful -moon. .If, one had it
one could go about lighting up the places
where one went, so beautifully; but as it
was, it shone very prettily. Could she
not look at it, admire it, be content, and
nave instead ever so many pieces of brae
and pink and yellow silk, and needle, and
make some pateh-work or bonnets for
her doll. ' 1 "
Mamma was very kind, but she did
not quite understand either cOh, no.
Then tnere was her big brother,- wtio
grinned, and teased her; and her big1
sister,' who begged her not to cry, and
gave her a great, sweet sugar plum; The
moon was not to be had, they said; -but
she knew better. ' --' ' . '
That night When she ' went to bed, ehe
asked the nurse; old Dinah, whether it
was true that she could never, never,
never reach the : moon'; and Dinah con
sidered, under the red and yellow turban
like a email connagrataon, and, after con
sideline?, she said: - ! ; -' ,
-"Well, honey ; reckon you can't reach
de moon, - no ways specks uat a im
possible ; but I tell ye what ; when dat
yar moon gets ready it will come
down to you. Yes, chile : de moon will
come down to you when it gets ready.
So go to sleep,- and don t bother no
more." '.- - " '
The little girl was happy, and said her
prayers and went to sleep on her little
wfute pillow, thinking of the happy time
when the moon should come down to
her..; ;- -t ,
Late in the night,' after every one was
sleeping, she awoke. The moon had
gone behind the nouse, and she ' could
see it no longer. ' ' - i .
" What if it has come down," she said
and she got' up and 1 went to the win
dow, pattering softly over the floor in
her bare feet so that she awoke no one.
Outside of the window lay a little pond,
and there on its breast was the reflection
of the' moon' she could not : see. The
beautiful yellow moon. -
it lias come down to me," she said.
The moon has come down of its own
self;" and she danced for joy. Then
knowing a way out out of the house, she
crept down, stairs, not .even waiting ior
her shoes, and . out into the. cold, still
garden, where ;all: the -flowers bloomed
and the grass was wet with. dew. She
went down the path,' and . opened the
gate, and ran down to the pond. Far out
in its very center the moon that had come
down to her .floated on its back. . . , ; ; .. - -
" Come here," said she ;. but the. moon
did not come.; : ,
".Don't you hear me?" she cried. The
moon made no answer, . . . .
There 'was nothing for it but to wade
out and bring it in. . She tucked her. lit-.
tie nightgown up and started -, '
-.. The moon smiled' at hec . She waded
in. , Her feet were wet; now ner little
knees; bnt she almost .touched the moon.
She took, one step more; it was on water,
As she went down- she caught at the
golden shimmer . with her-, little white
hands., ;". r -.j irf-;
" Moon, I have got you 1" she cried
and then her head was under water. ; '
Somebody - in the house heard .her
scream, and came out in a terrible fright:
Papa, big and strong, wauced into the
water and brought the .little girl out.
She was choking with monthfuls of dirty
water, - ohe was all over mnd and mire.
Oh, her pure white gown, the little baby,:
maiden dress, how dirty it wast The
tiny feet .were- black as Dinah's, and in
the "small dimpled hand, were .clasped
two or three long pieces of very rank;
lU-smeittng -water weeds, and sne was
nearly 'dead; "but as soon as she could
teak, this was wnat sne said ! '
" The moon came down to me. and I
went to get it ; and then she pulled me
down ana axowneu me, ana aixiea me,
the nasty, wicked moon.
Moral All " the strong-minded little
girls that want the moon, beware". You
cannot reach her, and if she does come
down you'll have to wads through dirty
water to get her: ' Your ' feet and your
white garments wnt be soiled, and you
must touch evil weeds, and perhaps you
will be less lucky than our little girl; for
no one may come to your rescue, and
you niay; be 'quite drowned, not only
nartially so. ' by that wicked, treaoher-
- 1 - - - ,
ous moon for whicn yon pine ana speecn-
' ; The Ungrateful Children. ; " t
It is justly said that God, parents and
teachers can never be repaid for ' the
kindness they have bestowed on any one.
But alas in this world it goes too often
according to the i well-known problem,
that a father can easier support six chil
dren than six children one father. Here
we have Such a narration about a father
who, while living, gave all that he
owned to his children, and " expected
them to support him afterward in Viia
old age. sut when ne had lived awhile
with his eldest son. the 'son became tired
of him, and said : " Father, last night
my wife gave birth to a son, and where
your arm chair stood the cradle must
now stand. Will you not move over to
my brother's? He has got more room
than I have." ' '
After awhile, the second son also be
came tired pf him, and said : r "Father,
you always liked a warm room, and I
have the headache from it: .would you
not like to go to my brother, who is a
baker; he can stand it better.''
The father went, and after he had
stayed some, time, the third son said ;
" In my house we are always running in
and out, so you can 'never get your
afternoon sleep ; would you .not ' rather
go to sister Elmai who lives' outside the
ty gate ? , xou will be more quiet with
her. The old man looked at the clock
and said: '. " Very well, Twill go and try
imu live wiui jny uaugmers. .. . j.
Women have generally 'a "tenderer
heart than men. But, after he , had
stayed . a while, ' the daughter became
anxious to get rid of him also, and pre-,
tended to be very much, afraid whenever
her father had to pass down the high
stairway, either when going to church or'
anywhere else, and sawi: '"At sister
Marias you need not go down any steps,
as she lives on' the' first floor." . The old
man admitted that She "was right, in or
der that evervthinar should sro oh 1 Quiet
ly and peacefully, and went to 'his sec-
When he had staid a oounle of davs.
he became a burden to her also, and she
gave nun to understand, tnrougn a tmra
person, that, her ..house., being .too near
the water, was too, damp for a man who.
suffered from rheumatism ; . . but , ner
sister who was married to the sexton, of
St. John's graveyard had a dryer and
healthier house. '.-
gt-So he went to the ' house of , the
People and Things.
iPjLtrn, the swimmer, is only 7... ; , ,
DisBAEm grows jolly as he grows old. -SiiEzvkuess
basques are still in vogue.
No strawberries or peaches in the West .
this year to speak fV i ' '" ''"" ; " -
The season for broiling your, neck and
catching no fish approaches.
Mabteisbtjbgh, N. Y -. has nineteen
inhabitants over 80. years old. ; , - .
Thbeb hundred thousand immigrants j
have moved into Texas since last;
October.- ''- ;-.-- j ' '" '
The people of this extravagant country
expended 2,841,590 for foreign buttons
lass, year. ..; .... ...... -. , .j
Give me to write the songs of a nation-'
and I care not who does the outdoor '
work; N. Yr World.
Judge FrrinKBTOii, of Tilton's counsel, .
has bought 600 acres of land near Fair-,
fax Court House, Va. , .,.
At present there are fifteen States of
Europe which recognize horses, donkeys -and
mules as legal food. ' .
National banks are to be" 'assessed Xor
the expense attending the redeeming and ,' -reasserting
61 .their nqtes. ; '... . x
Tms is the way an " intelligent comp"
Bet up the Halls ' of . the Montezumas :
"The Hells of the Monte Games."
The Historical Society at Buffalo has ,
in its possession the tomahawk presented. ,
to Red Jacket by George Washington. .
Nevkb spend any time musing on the .
meanness of an enemy. . Better use it
thinking of the virtues of your- friends.
Ix Russia a commission is to examine '
the expediency of reducing the number '
of holidays enjoyed; by that too happy
people. " ' "
Mrs. Theodore Tilton- will keen a .
summer boarding house at Cornwall, an ;
up- Hudson resort, not very far 'from. .
Peekskiil. i . . . ,; - ,- .
I Daw; .BIiyant, Nelse Seymour, Una- "
wbrth and Budworth were once mem
bers of the same minstrel organization,
and died within sixty days of one an
other. 11 "
- '7 11 ' - ' -f -
A Kentucky coroner has purchased a.
silver ball for 'the pupose of presenting.
it to the base ball nine -that shall show.
the highest death rate at the end of tha .
season. ,.... . ;-..-.'-, - .-";; :,. ... (..:
A dead Emperor is a costly luxury at '
best. Over' 850,000 worth of valuables,
besides quite a handful of widows, were 1
burned in performing the funeral ntes or
the late .Emperor of Uhina.' ' ' "
" A-wbtteb from one of Gordon's stations
in Central Africa, says that both -sexes
tinge their hair with a fine red or golden
ointment and that magnificent natural ,
chignons are worn by .the men. ; , ; ,
In an old curiosity shop in Ninth street;
Washington, are a piano formerly ownett '
by Washington at Mount Vernon, a vio- '
lin of lad J-iin coin, and- the sadoi
used ini the last "Mexican war by Santa
Anna. : -- ''' .-:,)' f ; i-.'mi
Capt. J. B. IEaps, the proprietor of
the jetty system for the improvement o ,
, . , i . . i . ... -.-'
navigation oi me moum oi tne iuasBia
sippi, has engaged the same contractors'
who put up the tit. J-iouis bridge to do
youngest daughter, Iiaurina. He had the jetty work. , :" ", ,
staid a very shor line, when' her son ixia now beheved that serious oUseases
said to him
" Mother told Aunt Hilda, yesterday,
that for you there were no better quar
ters than such as father was digging in
the erraveyard. .
When the aged parent heard these
cruel words, his heart broke, and he fell
back into his arm-chair, and died. ot.
John's , graveyard received him, ' and
showed more mercy toward him than his
six children had shown ; there he can'
sleep undisturbed.
A Woman's, Seareh for a Medical Ednca-
The Concord, (N. H.) Monitor says
"Miss, Eva J. Bickford. daughter, of
Jerome Bickford, of this city, has shown
a degree of perseverance, in procuring a
medical - education which is very .rare
among either , gentlemen or ladies. In
lima she was a member of onr mgn
school ia this city, and in 1867 - secured
the appointment pf instructor in the.
normal , department , of , the school for,
contrabands at Wilmington, Del. , where
she remained for two-years, xne year
1869 was passed at the Medical School
of Philadelphia, where she attended the
lectures. o the year. Ueing desirous oi
advantages beyond the reach, of ladies in
uie meoicaj. scnoois oi our oounirT. uua
went to Europe in 1871, : and spent six
months at Edinburgh ... Finding; that
some of the privileges of , the college ,
were not to be accorded to persons of.
Her sex, she left ,and -went, .".to. Switzer
land, where she passed six months in
the study of anatomy at Zurich., From'
thence she went to Vienna, where her
highest aspirations, were fully met,, one
of . the first colleges m the world, being
open.. in all -its departments, to .ladies.
Here she had free access to a hospital,
for two and a half .years, in which the
number' of patients seldom fell .below
2,000, and:' devoted herself , to all the
branches taught in the medical course.
giving special attention to obstetrics and
diseases of the female sex. , . In this line
of study she had live months experience
m the lying-in hospital, where the annual
number of births exceeds 10,000.". , -
' ' r,-.J ! '; ' ' ' '. . 1
Danger of Protracted Sleep. ,
should be put on with screws.
Postaii Cakds. The invention of
these convenient cards is attributed to
Professor Emanuel Herman, of Vienna.
They were used in England,' Germany,
and Switzerland in 1870. in Belgium and
Denmark in 1871. and in Norway, Rus
sia, and the United States in 1872-73.
In some foreien countries a card is at
tached on which an answer' niay be re
turned. H It is said that tons of postal
cards are destroyed in our Deaddetter
Office, because people write their mes
sage first, and then foreret to address the
card. ' To guard against this omission, it
is well to make a rule ef addressing the
card before writing the message.
Charles IHokrns and the BUnd Cliildrn
Talking of the pretty school-mistress,
them. It reminds me of something I heard her
telling her boys and girls one day when
they were seated about ner, on the wil
low stumps as usuaL;- She said:
"Do you remember wen. t, my
But here, as in so many other cases',
the evil, of deficiency has its counterpart
in the evil of' excess. fc Sleep 'protracted'
beyond the need 6f repair, and encroach
ing habitually upon the hoars Of waking
ooaon, unpuisniore ot ibbh tne xmio
toons of the brain, ana 'with them all the
vital powers, t This observation is as old
as the days of Hippocrates and Aretseus,
wha severally and - strongly comment
upon it. The sleep of infancy, however.
and that of old age, do not oome under
this - category Of excess. These - are
natural oonditions. arinertaininflr to tha
respective periods ef life, and to be dealt
with as such. In illness, moreover, all
ordinary rule and measure of sleep must
be. put aside. ; Distinguishing it from
coma, there are very! few cases in which
it is not an unequivocal good ; and even
in comatose state the brain, we believe.
gams more irom repose .than from any
sruumiu suempra m rouse it into action.
j!,atnourgn Jievtew.
result from eating fish cured during the ,
exhaustion which follows the spawning.'
season. Among them is a modified form
of leprosy and elephantiasis, diseases di
rectly traceable to the causes referred to r
bqth in Norway and in India. Z, s , ...... , .
IiOTjrsyrf.T.whaw had a sensation!- A bnH
dog belonging to a prominent citizen at-'
tempted to chew a -" spoon" fish-hook ;
one of the prongs entered his upper lip,
and the other the lower. No one dared'
to take it out until chloroform was ad-
ministered to the furious animal. - '
A New York man got inside of eighth" .
een secret societies, but death "had the ;
pass word at every door and .found him! "
The Masons managed.' the funeral, tha ,
Odd Fellows held a service at the grave,,,
and the sixteen other societies had tie -privilege
of attending in a body.", ' f.
Hsnbietta Robinbow, the "veiled
mnrderebs," is one of the three women,
now in the prisons of New York who will i
be affected by the passage of the law for-
41ia 4wmm,i4rCLt4nn T . if A nmasmiM I'M a 9 ('M .
fifteen years of good behavior. She is
ia the insane asylum at Auburn, "
. Two Englishmen in search of sulphur
on the island of Dominica, West Indies ,
have discovered , eight or , ten miles in
land, in the crater of an extinct volcano,
a boiling lake. It is, half a mile wide,
and two miles in . circumference, 'and '
even' at . the, shore the hand cannot be
immersed in the water without pain. ,.
t ' - - - - '. , - ' ' i. '
The rabbit forms an important article
of food in Great Britain and Ireland. '
Large ' numbers are - imported from tke
Continent, and it is estimated that 27,
000,000 are annually bred for food. Tb'
flesh is; sold at twelve cents (gold) &
pound,' which - is fully a third lesa thai -the
price of beef and considerably - under
that of the choicer portions of the sheep ;
The "value of the annual supply is esti-i
mated at $7,875,000. ' ' ; 1
i, -V; i ): .- . i i-W."";.:; ;
Hundrmds of thousands of chaffinches t
and skylarks are annually )uaughteredi
along the Dutch eoasta ; and the last
autumn- a birdcatoher near , the Uago s
caught bo less than .11,000 ohaffinches in
the course of six weeks-rand these bird-'
catchers may be counted by hundreds, j
In Austria, Italy and Spain, matters are
worse still ; in those countries not only
chaffinches and larks, but even robins;' :
nightingales, titmice, wagtails, in fact all '
lands oi small Dirds that may be caught,
are brought to the market for food. '
dears, who once visited us in the school
rooms? ' ' ' " .- .
" Oh yes !" cried the children.
" Well, when he took tea with me on
that afternoon, he happened to say that
his boy had just been reading the ' Old
r : Ql,nn .11. -
1 Now, as X knew that the General's
only son was " blind, I was not a little
puzzled. ' Probably Gen. S- 1 read
my feelings in my face, for he added:
Did you never hear . of Charles
Dickens' visit to the blind asylum where
Benny was taught ? He talked with the
' Decrease of Immigration.
The immigration statistics for 1874
now made np show a falling off of more
than one-third from 1873. The f oflow
ing is the comparison : -;
From the British Isles. . . ... .i.. 1.59,33
- ., , , Gfrmany 133,141
,r , j Scsadtnsvis ...i'...-.., 2.83
, Csoada ..-..,". .... UV.lOi
All oountripA. . A-- 110'
' The decrease is over ifiO.OOO- but avpti
this does not embrace the whole truth ;
there was a large emigration from this
country back to Europe in 1874 larger1,
perhaps, than was ever seen before
caused by the scarcity of work and the
general depressson of industry. '
100,42a
5,9-j
;t 14,1
.i ao.iso
soutis
- Tea Drunkards.
Dr; ArKdge, one of the Pottery In
spectors of Staffordshire, has put forth
a very sensible protest ' against a' very'
pernicious custom, which rarely receives
sumeient, attention,' either from the med
ical profession or the general public.
He says that the women of the working
classes make tea a principal article of
diet instead of an occasional beverage: '
They drink it several times a day,' and
the result is a lamentable amount of
sickness.' - ."'---' "' '
Tea, in - anything beyond ; moderate
auantities,1 is as distinctly a nareotio
poison as is opium ' or alcohol. - It is .
capable of ruining the digestion, of en
feebling and disordering tne iiemi. ,
tion, 4 and of generally shattering the
nerves. " And it must be .remembered
that not mefebr is it a question of nar
cotic excess, bui the enormons mount
of hot water which tea-bibbers ueof Hsa
rily drink is exceedingly prejudicial,
both 'to digestion and nutrition. In.
short, without pretending to place this
evil on a par as to general effect with
those' caused by alcohohc-diinks -one
may well insist that our teetotal reform
ers have overlooked, and even to a smaU
extent encouraged, a form of animal iv
dulgence which is as distinctly sensual- '
extravagant and pernicious as any beer '
drinking or gm-swilling in the worlJ- i