Miutuern Wr Records.
A reporter of the Star one morning
dropped into the large building on Q
street, corner of Twentiotli, where the
official records of the Into war are being
compiled. General Marcus J. Wright,
uho is engaged in collecting the records
of the Confederate aide, was found in his
office. He said: "Very many of the
most valuable official papers of the Con
federate army were lost or destroyed in
the general breakup and surrender. Our
purpose is to get copies of all such
panel's, and thus make complete tho
official record of that side. Such of the
papers as were preserved were obtained
by the Government, and I ws appointed
to procure duplicates of those that were
"But how do you got these dupli
cates?" "From the officers of the Confederate
army. They preserved papers of every
report, every official paper they sent to
Riehmond.and many of them kept copies
of every official letter they wrote."
'Do the ex-Confederate officers give
their files up to you?"
"Oh, yes. As a general rule they give
them to us, but where any of them have
papers they wish to keep they allow us to
make copies of them, and we return the
originals. General Joseph E. Johnston
turned over to us his entire records, con
taining all his reports, offioial lotters and
reports of his subordinate officers. I
Lave also all of General Pemberton's
papers, and that gives us a complete
record of the Vicksburg campaign as
conducted on the Confederate side."
"Did they turn over their, papers en
tirely to the Government?"
"Yes. We preserve the papers and
they are accessible at all times to these
gentlemen, if they should wish to see
them or make copies. They give them
to us very willingly, as it relieves them
of the trouble and care of keeping them,
and does not deprive them of any use
they would wish to make of the papers.
We take every precaution ogainst loss
bv fire or otherwise of the papers we get.
We have printed copies of each one made,
and eighteen or twenty copies are dis
tributed around omong 'as many of the
departments and other Government
buildings, so that in case of fire we are
certain not to have them all destroyed."
"Genoral, these records are to be pub
lished by the Government, are they
not?"
"Yes, sir; that is what we are collect
ing them for. Tho purpose of the Gov
ernment is to make up a complete official
history of both armies of the civil war.
The Record for the year 1861, of both
sides, will be ready for publication about
the time Congress meets. The volume
will be printed by the Government, as
any other 'public document, and the
usual number distributed among the de
partments and members of Congress.
Then the law provides that the work
shall bo stereotyped, and sold to the
public at the cost of printing, so that any
one can obtain the work at comparatively
littk cost."
"Will the records of the two armies
be printed separately?"
"Yes; separately, and in consecutive
volumes."
"Will the records be edited?'
"No, not at all; simply compiled so as
present in the order in which they were
issued, the official reports, letters.orders,
etc., of the war. The compilation is in
charge of Colonel R. N. Scott, of the
Third Artillm-v. United States army, and
a man better qualified for the work could
not nave been seiecieu.
"How long will it take to finish up the
entire work?"
"It will require several years more to
complete the work for all the years of the
. "Haven't you recently returned from a
collecting tour in the south?
"Yes, sir; I got back a few days ago,
and I obtained a number of vVry valu
oble papers. I first went to see General
Joseph Wheeler, in Alabama, who com
manded the cavalry in Bragg's army. He
gave me his entire file of papers and re
ports, covering the time from his entry
Jnto the Confederate service until the
close of the war. I next visited Indian
Territory, and got a set of papers cover
ing the military operations of the Con
federates in what was callod the District
of Indian Territory. The district was
commanded by Generals Albert Pike,
Maxey (now United States Sonator from
Texas), and D. H. Cooper. These
records are quite important. I also got
all the official papers of Lieutenant
GeneralR. S. Ewell (since dead), who
held an important command in the Con
federate army. I next visited General
E. Kirby Smith, who commanded the
Trans-Mississippi Department, and got
his records. During the war his depart
ment was for a long time pretty effeot
ively cut oft from Richmond, ond the
records there were incomplete as to his
military operations. I found his files
very incomplete, though. Colonel
Richmond of McMinnville.Tenn., prom
ised to send me the offiial files of General
Leonidas Polk (Bishop Polk), who was
killed during the war. These papers
will cover some very important military
movements. I hava many of the papers
of General Beauregard, and he has
promised me the remainder as soon as
his book, now in press in New York.shall
have been printed. He held, as you
know, very high commands, and his files
will cover some of the most important
operations of the war. This winter 1
shall make a trip to New Orleans, Mobile
and Memphis, where I will get papers ol
interest from Ex-Confederate officers
residing at those points. The printing
of these is equivalent to the publication
of an official history of the war. The re
ports of battles from officers on both
sides, and other official documents, will
thus be preserved, and they will speak
truthfully and impartially of the great
events of the war. I had undertaken, on
my own account, the collection of Con
federate records, with the view ofpnb"
lishing them, when Congress passed the
act authorizing them to be eomP11-..
had procured very many valuable
papers, and I immediately turned them
over to the Adjutant-General of the
army. Subsequently it was decided to
appoint an ex-Confederate officer to col
lict the papen of that side, and the
position wastendered to me. -
ington Star.
"Don't yon mean to marry again. Dea
con Jones'" asked Widow bimpkins.
"No,- gledhe. Td rather lose what
ribs We got than to take any more.
Taxing Bachelors.
The General Council of the Depart
ment of the Rhone in France have just
adopted a resolution calculated to win
them world-wide fame, though adverse
critics have variously characterized their
proceedings as stupid, ridiculous and ex
traordinary. But while this ultra-radi
cal body are thus stigmatized by oppo
nents of the "male persuasion, their
resolution is likely to gain for them the
good will of the ladies, and especially of
tuoso ladies or matnrer years who are
condomned to single blessedness through
the shortsightedness, if not selfishness,
of bachelorhood. The resolution w hich
has gained for the Rhone General Coun
cil this distinction is one adopted on the
motion of M. Ferrer, and in favor of a
substantial tax on mature celibates.
Convinced that continence is alike un
natural and impossible, that vows of cel
ibacy promote immorality, and that a
woman who brings up two children ren
ders more service to the country than all
convents, they aro in favor of deducting
25 per cent, from certain classes of bach
elors, the product of this tax on celi
bates to be applied to the relief of indi
gent children. The Paris pnpers are
disposed to doride the Rhone General
Council. One evening journal exclaims:
"The great citizens wlio vote those ab
surdities are the elect of the second town
in France." But the men who had the
courage to vote for the tax on celibacy
are not likely to be affected by the shafts
of journalistic ridicule. It may be
worth while to quote some of the terms
of the resolution. "Considering, "says
the Council, "that celibacy is contrary to
nature and the ends of Providence, to be
born, to bar children and to dio being
the law imposed on all who exist
that it is bachelors, military men, sailors,
lawyers and men of all conditions who
fill all tho States with corrupt opinions
and evil morals; that churchmen, Trap
pists, and all tho so-called higher world,
are irremediably given up to debauchery
and to shame, which is worse than death
Resolved, The support of abandoned chil
dren will be providod for by deduction
of a quarter of the pay or pension of
every employe or pensioner who is a
bachelor and a resident in the depart
ment of the Rhone, from the most mod
est employe up to the highest official who
belongs or has belonged to the army,
magistracy, or any public administration
whatsoever." If this has not the effoct of
increasing the financial resources of the
department, it may be expected to pro
mote matrimonial desires among the
bachelors of Lyons and other places in
the district. A man who balances the
blessings and disadvantages of married
life will find a wonderful make-weight in
the 25 per cent, of his pay condemned
by the General Council. . Some cavaliers
question the justice of condemning the
celibates to support abandoned children
as an unmeritod reflection upon the
order, but then the Council declares that
celibacy is "contrary to nature," ond that
the children should be maintained bv the
bachelors rather than by men who have
to support legitimate families.
An English Daiby Show. If tho
cheese did not wear the stars and stripes
to as great an extent as it might, the cnte
Yankee inventions for dairy farms did.
From a "cow-milker promoter," a neat
little moral and mechanical influoncer on
the reserved lactary obstinacy of an ob
structive Aldorney, to the "hen per
suader" of a Cochin, there is everything
dairy-like at this show that the land of
the West can proudly exhibit. A Mary
land churnalas, no dairymaid with it I
a Goshen golden pyramid of butter, and
a verbose, nasal-twanged expositor of
"How we git it;" a WestcheRtor and Buf
falo cheese press, with a slab-sided and
drawling patentee, and all the forms of
dairy farming automatically and prosper
ously are here. Can it not be an event
of the milkman of the future that ho sup
plies England with the "pure?" Milk in
this country is a vile sham at a fearful
figure. It is all "skim" with a thick,
creamy prico. A man who has brought
his matured mind down to milk says this
kingdom produces $l,(i00,000,000 gallons,
or 440 gallons for 3,700,000 cows per an
num. And this is for dairy purposes.
One-eighth is used for rearing calves,
the rest is used in making cheese produce
to the extent of 50,000 tons, or, if into
butter, one-half that tonnage. Really
two-thirds of the milk is used for the ta
ble, puro and simple, if it be so. The
real cheese product here is, say, 120,000
tons, and butter, 90,000 tons per annum.
It is needless to say that this is no
within one-half of the supply equal to
the demand. America sends here on an
average 50,000 tons of cheese, oud Can
ada, France, etc., fully 60,000 tons per
annum. The imported butter here is
valued at $39,000,000 per annum. The
exported British cheese and butter does
not amount to one cent in value. Thus
it can be seen that England pays the sum
of 89,000,000 per annum for cheese and
butter. Is that "quite the cheese' for
John Bull the beefy. Talk about turn
ing England into pasture land after that.
I don't know that this show presents
anything that would be a "wrinkle to
votir American dairy farmer, either from
the horn of a cow of Kerry breed, or a
churn of Buckingham structure. I am
told that America can out-beef, out
cheese and out-milk all creation! To say
more, who can and who would? Modesty
forbids. English Corr. Baltimore Sun.
Pbcsino Rabphekbies. Till within a
few years no horticulturist has ques
tioned the propriety of cutting off close
to the ground the canes of raspberries
that have produced a crop of fruit.
While most advocated removing the
canes as soon as the berries were gath
ered, a few recommended a delay in
pruning till winter or the following
Kg Those who advocated late
pVuning held that the leaves on the canes
which have produced fruit are useful in
the formation of sap, which goes to nour
sh the roots of the bushes. At present
he belief is general among the intelh
gent fruit-growers, that the aooner the
old canes are cut out the better it will be
fnr those that remain. It is now ac
toowleed that the vitality of the cane.
exhausted in producing a crop of
berries, and that their presence among
e canes that are to bear fruit the fol
lowing year, is a great disadvantage. The
ollcanes are likfly to crowd the young
onea. and to cause them to grow in bad
fnrm. .
The editor of the Paris (Texas) Banner
pronounced Lawyer wa"" - """"Ti
ruffian, and Mr.Bonner at once proceeded
"prUthe truth of the aertion.
SHULY.MULLY.
"Well, Philena," said Uncle Job to his
wife, "are you going to see sister Hop-
"I do' know whether I will or not.
Sometimes I think I will, and then again
I think I won't. There's ft good deal to
do to-day and it looks like rain."
"I don't think 'twill rain," said Uncle
Job, plastering his chin with lather.
'Mavbe it won't, Job, but it looks a
little like it kinder grayish like. Still,
we might take the nnibrell, and maybe
I'd better go. But I'm most 'fraid Mary
Ann can't do all there is to do."
"Hurrv and make up your mind, Fhi
lena," callod Job after her, as she slowly
retreated kitchenward, taking down her
back hair as she went.
"Mary Ann says she can get along
with Sally's help, and I do' know but I'd
go if I thought I shouldn't have couip'ny
this afternoon, and it didn't look so
doubtsome about rain" leisurely drag
ging the comb through hor hair.
"Mother, what dress will you wear?"
called cut Mary Ann.
'Well, I dor know which I'd better
wear. Which do you think I'd better?"
"Your brown alpaca, of course."
"I would if I thought it wouldn't rain,
but if it should rain it would spot it, I'm
'fraid. I reckon I'll wear the black one.
It's a little faded and bracked, but if it
should rain it won't hurt it."
"Come, come, Philena," cried Job,
"hurry up! I'm going out to harness
the mare.
"I am hurrying as fast as lean," twist
ing up her hair. "Mary Ann, you may
take down my brown dress, while I
chi nje my shoes; though, come to think
on't, maybe I'd bettor wear these, for if
it should rain i d hate to get the others
wet. Still, these don't look hardly suit
able to wear with the brown dress. Per
haps I'd better wear the black one. You
may take down the black one, Mary Ann.
These shoes are too shabby to wear with
the brown one. Maybe 1 d better take
them off. Come and' see what you think
of them, Mary Ann."
"Chance them quickly, mother, and
put on the brown dress. Father s hitch
ing the mare to the buggy now."
"Is he? Well, I'll take another look to
raa if T think its likelv to rain, and if I
think it ain't why I'll wear the brown
one. It don't look as much like it as it
did, but then you can't tell much about
it this time of year. But I guess I'll
risk it, and wear the brown one. Got me
a pair of stockings, Mary Ann."
WLarn qm tlinv mntliorV"
"In the bureau drawer, I guess. Look
there first."
"Which ono? Theyare not in the first
one.
"Well, then look in all of them, and if
they ain't there, look in the basket under
the bed."
"Here they are under tho bureau, but
there's holes in them."
"Is there? Well. I meant to have
them mended Saturday, but I didn't get
to it."
"Philena ! Philona 1" callod Job.
"Yes. I'm almost ready. Mary Ann,
take a needle and darn up tho holes in
my stockings, will you ? No, you needn't
either. Tho buttons are half of 'em off
mv boots I meant to have sewed 'em on
yesterday, but I forgot it. I'll wear those
I've got on, for I shouldn't be surprised
if it did rain."
"Here's your dress, mother; do put it
on. Father won't wait much longer."
"Oh, I can't wear the brown dress with
theso shoes; bring the black one; it's
good enough for such a day as this, for
I'll bet anything 'twill rain."
"Philena Marier Mathews ! voice from
somewhere outside I ain't agoing to
wait for you more'n four hours longer."
"I'll be there in a minute, Job. Mary
Ann, look in tho closet for tho nmbrell.
Goodlordy! there's hardly a hook an'
eye on this dress, but I guess I can pin it
up so 'twill do. I ought to have put
some on, but I didn't get timo. Mary
Ann, do hurry 'round and get mo a pin
or two."
"I can't find the umbrella" in smoth
ered accents from the closet.
"Can't you ? Woll, run out and ask
your father if he won't go to tho barn
and look for it. I let George Washing
ton take it to play circus with I don't
supppose I ought to, but he cried for it,
so I let him have it."
"Father, Father !" who had more to
endure than his namesake did in his
boiliest time "mother wants you to go
to tho barn and look for the umbrella."
"Darn the old umbrella. Twont rain
in a week" clambering to tho ground.
"Tell your mother if she ain't ready
time I get back I won't wait another"
but Mary Ann had gone.
"I do declare, Mary Ann, I'm a good
mind not to go now. I know it will rain
and I shall come back sopping wet, and
shall get such a cold."
"I can't find theumbrell; 'taint there,
said Job. "Come along ! You don't want
it."
"Job Mathews ! I'm not going to stir
one step without it. It will rain cats and
dogs."
"I'm going." .
"No, you ain't. Tie my bonnet quick,
Mary Ann. There goes the string. Never
mind I'll hold it on. The wind don t
blow much. There's a pin on your waist,
give it to me, quick!" .
" Phi-le-na-a I Are you ever a-commg 7
I'll be dog-gened if I'll wait much
longer!" , , .,
"Just a minute, Job. Oh, here s the
umbrella, right under the sofa. Im
coming now, quick's I find my gloves.
All right. Here I be, Jo Mary Ann !
he's gone !" Western Jlural.
MIOCT ITEMS.
rn.. -ifo nf Senator" Edmunds will
remain in Carlsbad during the coming
winter.
a-., -.mot TVr.1ia.1rv is to receive the
decoration of the Grand Cross of the
Order of the Uatn.
T-;1 RtAfcHi Minister Foster is mak
ing a tonr of Mexico, and is meeting
with marneu aiienuuu.
Senator Hill has abandoned the hope
of reconciling the Democratic factions in
New York and gone home.
Governor Simpson, of South Carolina,
nd Holliday, of Virginia, who have
been visiting Philadelphia, have returned
home.
The relation of the Czar of Russia and
his wife is that of armed neutrality.
The live as far apart as possible and
never meet if it can be avoided.
The "Homing Instinct" la rijreou.
One of the most striking powers
possessed l,y animals is that of finding
their way home from a great distance;
and over a road with which they are snj
posed to be unacquainted. It has long
been a question whether we aro to attri
bute these remarkablo performances to a
purciy intuitive jMiroeption by tho ani
mal of the direction and the practicable
route to ltis homo, or whether thev are
the results of a conscious study of tho
situation, and a definite carrying out of
well-judged plans.
Probably tho most prominent example
of this wonberful power is the case of
homing pigeons. These pigeons are very
strong of wing, and their intelligence is
cultivated to a high degree; for their
peculiar "gift" has teen made use of
since "time whoreof tho memory of man
runneth not to the contrary." Tho
principle of heredity, therefore, now
acts with much force; nevertheless, each
young bird must be subjected to severe
trainiug in order to fit it for those
arduous temptations which annually
take place among first-rate birds. As
soon as the fledgling is fairly strong on
its wings, it is taken a few miles from
the cote and released. It rises into tho
air, looks about it and starts straight
away for homo. There is no mystery
about this at at all when it has attained
the height of a few yards tho bird can
seek its cote, and full of that strong love
of home whioh is so characteristic of its
wild ancestors, the blue-rocks, it hastens
back to tho society of its mates. The
next day tho triul-distanco is doubled,
the third day is still further increased,
until in a few weeks it will return from
a distance of seventy miles, which is all
that a bird-of-tho year is "fit" tJ do; and
two years old, will leturn from 200
miles, long distances being left to more
mntnre birds. But all this training
must be in a continuous direction; if
tho first lesson was toward tho east, sub
sequent lessons must also be; nor can tho
added distance each time exceed a certain
limit, for thou, after this way and that,
and failing to recognize any landmark,
the bird will simply come back to where
it was thrown up. Moreover, it must
always be clear weuther. Homing
pigeons will make no attempt to start in
a fog, or if they do get away, a hundred
chances to one they will be lost. Nor do
they travel at night, but settlo down at
dusk and renew their journey in tho
morning. When snow disguises tho
landscape, also, many pigeons go astray.
None of theso circumstances seri
ously hampers tho semi-annual migra
tions of swallows or geese. They journey
at night as well as by duy, straight over
vast bodies of water and flat deserts, true
to the north or south. Homing pigeons
fly northward or southward, east or west,
equally well, and it is evidont their
course is quidod only by observation.
Watch ono tossed. On strong pinions it
mounts straight up into the air a hun
dred feet. Then it begins to sweep
around in groat eh clou, rising higher and
higher, until if the locality is seventy
five or a hundred miles beyond where it
has ever been before it will go almost
out of sight. Thon suddenly you will
seo it strike off upon a straight course,
and that course is homeward. But take
the same bird thoro a second timo and
nono of theso aorial evolutions will occur
its time is too pressing, its homesick
ness too intense for that; instantly it
will turn its face toward its owner's dove
vota.Hieribner for November.
Fkeakb of Fobtunk. Great freaks of
fortuno seldom strike thrice in tho samo
place. Last spring Farmer Harper, of
Midway, Kentucky, exhibited, with par
donable prido, to ono of our correspond
ents, two bay stallions filled with fire of
Flying Childors. "There," said ho, "are
the only two horses in this world from
one stablo that have run a mile in 1:40,
and that fellow (pointing to Ten Broeck)
did it inside o .1:40." Tho other horse
was Longfellow. Successively, within a
short period of timo, they had boon tho
phenomenal wonders that drew applause
from the quartarstrcteh. At the late
meeting in Louisville, the great Ameri
can stallion stako for threo-ycar-olds,
one mile and threo quarters, was run.
Twolve racers, from fifty-one nomina
tions made by prominent breeders of the
Southwest, laced the judges. Among
the tried ones were Bucktie, Aureolas,
and Good Night. Tho keen critics of
the turf placed their faith and money on
Bucktie and Aureolas for tho first and
second places. Farmer Harper had two
sons of Longfollow in tho string, Irish
King and Jils Johnson. Few saw their
"pints," as the old farmer calls the run
ning qualities of his colts; and none
accorded them a place in the race. A
tremendous struggle ensued, and there
was great consternation on the quarter
utruh-h when Irish Kintr bounded under
the wire in the astonishing timo of
3:05,'i , equal to the Dost on record, wiui
Jils Johnson second. Neither Bucktie
nor Aureolas captured a place. Tho
farmer had struck a triple of victories,
either one of which the careful rich
Lnuuiara won Id have riven a king's ran
som to have won. Mr. Harper is known
as a careless, easy, old man, paying no
attention to theoretical experiments.
.if - f.n-m Iknva tsh riilft Ins matrh-
Bliuwajuo ' - y -
less horses over fields of stumps after the
cows, and along dusty roads to the coun
ts mtnra and nostoffice. He follows a
slack system of training. Ktil! tho fickle
goddess percnes iuku uu m miuh
orange and red. It is one of tho marvels
of horse breeding. The Louisville race
has a strange sequel. It seems that,
although Mr. Harper entered both colts
; i.; nun namn lie had given Irish
King, when a yearling, to his colored
trainer. The trainer ciaimou me
bnt Mr. Harjer refused to surrender,
.;.,,r l.ot .Til Johnson had been pulled
inVder to allow Irish King to win. The
trainer has taken this novel case into
court, and tnrfracnj look for the result
withexceeding interest.
The Archduchess Christine will be
married in silver cloth.embroidered with
sparkling white jet. Included in her
trousseau is a costume of embossed vol
vet and opal-covered satin, trimmed with
fringe of small pearls and silver lace.
Patrick: "And Biddy, darlint, they've
been telling me there's too many of us in
the wnrruld. Now Biddy, if you an' me
get the praste to make n two wan, troth,
won't there be wan the less?"
Matrimony U a holy institution. Not
only does it unite a man to hi best
friends but it f urnishea a good living for
thousands of divorce lawyers.
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.
Selfishness will eat into our spiritual
joy like canker.
There is no place so secret where there
are no temptations.
No wise man ever wished to be
younger. Jonathan Swift.
The time to save money is when every
body else is sending it.
Experience is a torch lighted in tho
embers of our own delusions.
To-morrow is the day on which lazy
folks work and fools reform.
In temptations and affliction man is
proved how much ho hath profited.
It is out of life's darkest clouds that
sonio of life's sweetest consolations
come.
Tho Utes object to being civilized, and
the white men on tho border object to be
ing Utelizod. Boston Conner.
"What have yon to remark about my
singing?" asked an irate vocalist. "Noth
ing," replied a spectator; "it is not re
markable." Congress will bo asked to vote $5000 to
mark the grave of Daniel Morgan, the
hero of tho Cowpcns. His grave is iu
Mount Hobrou Cemetery, Winchester,
Virginia.
Albany Journal: It turns out that
General Joe Hawley wrote "Beautiful
Snow." For Mark Twain himself lias
said it. The exposure has cast a gloom
over tho eutire State of Connecticut. It
is understood that tho Hartford tburant
will ask Mr. Hawley to resign.
"Oh," said tho afllcted wife, woeping
over his remains, "ho said he would take
off tho flannels anyway, and tho poor
man, he little thought how soon ho would
go to the place where flannels are never
needed."
Bridget; (to caller): "Will yo kapo
still a minit whilo I look at ye?" "No,
misses haint to homo. . She told mo if a
woman come with a wart on tho end of
red uoso to say she want to homo, and
there's no mistaking that wart."
A Ijohanon lmner says a rooster in that
place daily lays an egg. This is some
thing for the liens to crow over, but the
rooster ought to bo ashamed of himself.
tie might advocate tho rights of the
femalo sex without usurping them.
Mr Edward Compton, tho leading man
in Miss Neilson's company, is a son of
one of tho old English school of come
dians. It is to bo hoped ha is an im
provement im the gifted Barnes who sup
ported tho fair Adelaide on tho occasion
of her Western tour.
The Moouish Tea-pot. There is a
good deal of coffeo imbibed by tho lower
classes of citizens, in small coffee-houses
not frequented by tho elite of Moorish
societv. Almonds are occasionally
roasted and eround with tho berries, and
tho mixture is sometimes soentod with
rose-water. In the towns, too, the water-
sellor s boll seems to tmklo incessantly,
as with goatskin water-bag he peranbn
ltttos tho dusty streets in quest of thirsty
customers. Milk, especially sour milk,
is tho pet "quoncher" of tho country
folk. But groon tea is, if not the
national, certainly the favorite bovorage
of the higher classes, who to a man pre
fer tho perilous stimulation of Hyson to
the gentlo exhilaration of Pekoe, Cougu
or Souchong. Most woll-to-do natives
toko tea both before and after tho last
threo meals of the duy; so the reader will
iio prepared to believe that tho consump
tion of green tea in Morocco is larger in
proportion to tho number of its popula
tionsay 7,000,000 than in any othor
conntrv. Tho tea eiiuipairo usually con-
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BISMS III a UIlUK viunn WUJ, vmuutttwij
chased, whereon are placed tiny glass
tmv irhiHB tumblers and a small metal
pear-shaped tea-pot, in which is put half
a handful of HyBon, with sufficient loaf
sugar and boiling water to muKe a nun
syrup, often flavored, in liou of cream,
with marjoram ilowers, orange blossoms,
citron loaves and blooms, wormwood, or
ambergris. To see a Moor calmly sip a
dozen or moro tumblerfuls of tho scald
ing and siokly-swoet infusion at one sit
ting, is a sight calculated to inspire tho
European spectator with a profound
admiartion of tho adamantine natnro of
native norvos and gullets. Tinsley '
Magazine. .
A WouiM Willi KkKIIKKI) AlINKHTY.
Homo of the "advanced" French journals
have lately giyon proof of thoir innate
capacity for lioro-worship by extolling
to the skies the civic virtues and moral
excellences of a female luminary of tho
Commune hitherto unknown to famo.
This lady has recently lieen amnestied
by the President of the Republic, but
from hor lofty naturo the puling senti
ment of gratitude is conspicuous by its
absence, if we may judge hor character
by a letter she has addressed to that
august functionary upon the snbject of
her pardon. Condemnod in 1871 to
transportation to a fortified place, Louise
Michel was imprisoned for two yeors in
Auberive, and was thenco conveyed to
Numea. There she founded a school, in
which she taught her own peculiar theo
ries, physical and ethical, to the children
of her fellow-convicts. An interesting
feature in her cnrriculura of study was a
brand-now catechism, in which she ex
ercised her pupils daily. It commenced
as follows: "Who created yon? Nature."
When the commutation of hor sentence
was announced to her, she commented
upon that act of grace in those remarka
ble terms: "I have eroeted in my heart
a Paris and a France after my own taste.
But as this France of mine does not as
yet exist, I prefer to remain hore among
the savages. My hour is not yet come.
I am proud, ami do not choose to incur
the reproach of moral weakness in the
endurance of my exile. I know that
Paris takes a deep interest in me, and
that the Government would be delighted
Anil 1.1 it iliw-nvftr the least blemish in my
character." A martyr to ber convictions,
Louise Michel, onerea iroeuom auu io
turn to the real France which, perliaos
fortunately for Euroi. differs so widely
from the France created by her fervid
imagination, choose to remain in a inal
colony and to inculcate her peculiar doc
trines upon the rising generation of
Numeans. On the whole, we opine Uiat
our vivacious neighbors may reasonably
congratulate themselves upon her selec
tion of Numea as a place of residence,
and upon the circumstance that their na
tive country does not come np to her
I'nnM nnffht to lie m OT
der that ita moral condition should
justify her in returning to ita shores.
London ielcgrapu, uciooer m.
Tiie Farmrr and Ilia Money.
King Frederick of Prussia, when he
was out riding one day, saw an old
farmer who was ploughing his field and
singing cheerfully over his work.
"You must bo well off, old man," cried
the King. "Does this aero belong to
you on whioh you so industriously
labor?"
"No, sir," replied the man, who of
course had no idea he was speaking to
the King; "I am not so rich as that; I
plough for wages."
"How much do you earn each day?"
asked tho King.
"Eight groschen," returned the man.
That would be about twetity cents of our
money.
"That is very little," suid tho King;
"can you get olong with that?"
"Get along! yes, indeed, and have
something left over."
"How do you manage?"
"Well," said tho fanner, smiling, "I
tell yon. Two groschen are for myself
and wife; with two I pay my debts, and
two I give away for the Lord's sake."
"This is a iiivstory which I cannot
solve," said tho King,
"Then I must solve it for yon," said
the farmer. "I have wo old parents at
home, who kept and cored for mo when
I wus young and weak, and needed care.
Now that they aro old and weak, I am
glad to keep and care for them. This is
my debt, and it takes two groschen a day
to pay it. Two moro I spend on my
children's schooling. It they am living
when thoir mother and I aro old, they
will keep us and pay hack what I lend.
Then with my last two groschen I suj)
port my two sick sisters who cannot sup
port themselves. Of course I am not
compelled to irive them the money, but I
do it for the Lord's sake."
"Well done, my man," cried the King,
as ho finished; "now I am going to give
joa something to guess. Have you ever
seen me before?"
"No," said tho farmer.
"In less than ttvo minutes you shall
seo mo fifty times, and carry in your
pocket fifty of my likenesses.'
"Hub is indeed a riddio wiiicu i can
not solve," said the farmer.
"Then I will Bolve it for yon," said tho
Kins: and with that ho put his hand in
his pocket and pulling out fifty gold
pieces, placed them in tho hand of the
farmer.
"The coin is genuine," said the King;
for it comeB from our Iiord God. and I
am his paymaster. I bid you farewell."
And ho rodo on, leaving tho old man
overwhelmed with surprise and delight
at tho singular interview.
rillNl'E GOBTCHAKOKF AND TIIE KaIHKII.
Among tho many persons of note at
Baden. Baden, Prince Gortchakoff.who
is livincr next to the Eniporor. attracts
tho greatest attention. The Russian
Chancellor, whoso bitter altercation wan
his Ocrman oolloague, ouco his liost
friend, now forms the chief topio of con
versation in political circles, has been re
cruiting his health at Wildhod during
tho summer, where Count Sehouvaloff,
Baron Onbril, and other loading Russian
.1.'..1..i.ifiua iviirn iitnviniT Tllfl (llllin-
UU'lUlimvinw " ' ' " J ' 1 n ' "
cellor has quite recovered and is suffi
ciently strong enough to carry ou a
wordy strifo with Prince Bismarck. In
taking up his quarters at Baden-Baden
the wily statesman seems to hope that he
may sueeood in casting discredit on
Prmco Bismarck by exposing to the Gor
man Emperor his hostlo machinations.
Prince Bismarck, having tho ntmoHt ven
eration for his sovereign and highly
valuing tho estimation in which ho is
hold by him, is said to bo a little alarmed
at tho contiuuod insinuations diroeted at
him by Prince Gortehakoff. Apprised
that the latter charged him with the want
of support grauted to the Russian pleni
potantarioa in the Berlin Congress,
hritmn liiumari'k had bv moans' of tllO
North Gortmm (hurtle categorically con
trml ii-teil t.lmiu insinuations and and
publicly laid bare the defects of Prince
(lortchakoli s iioiicy. ronnnowiy ior
Russia as woll as Germany tho firm
ship of the Emperors excludes any possi-
lllllty 01 Hie personal roiuunv ui hid vw
r'luiiiKi.llnra nnrliuui extending to a Con-
oral conflict. So long as Kaiser yilliam
and the Czar Alexanderrenkin tuoir scep
ters wo noed not fear the outbreak of a
Rnsso-German war a contingency that
can only arise after their death. In or
.im. tn im fiirnarmpil niriiiiiBt tho eventu
ality of a Franco-German alliance, on
whoso conclusion rrineo itoruimsuu
seems to bo bent.tho Gorman Chancellor,
never at a loss to gain his end, has de
cided on a chosen eaimna wiui Aumrm
ir..nn..w l. wl,i..1i Im nift dictate the
iim. j . - j
peace of Europe. Berlin Letter.
Gold in the Sub-Tbkasuby. There
are nearly ono hundred and thirty
million of dollars of coin, ete, in
tlin IT M aub-trnasnrv of this city, most
of it in geld. To many people these fig-
ures are uecwouiy vrgue, uui to wo i
i.ir.Lnr ilmv hava an immense meaning.
The very bnlk of all this coin and bullion
is impressive, and suggests at raw
qneBtion of how many carta would be
required to take it away. The care of it,
also, has ita very impressive side. A
single day's business at this thegroatest
sub-treasury in the country greater
than a half dozen others is, esjiecially
in those "booming" times, simply tre
mendous. Thus, yesterday, the receipts
in this single building were 1747,000,
while the payments were Sl.WHJ.fllS.
The currency ballance was $1:1,453,177,
and the coin ballanco220,737,OMt. Near
ly one hundred and thirty million of dol
lars in that one clasio and yet rather
modest looking building on the corner
of Nassau and Wall stroeta, and is it so
much wonder that the authorities, know
ing that such figures would at last come
to be really pondered, put up recently
their strong iron gratings in tho solid
masonry? To-day the volume of busi
ness is very large, but so systematic is
the great transaction that there is very
little bustle. The presont great reserve
in the sub-treasury here is regarded by
the business men as showing the real
tide of prosperity upon which we hsvo
entered, exchange being so much m our
favor and the foreign demand for our
products, esjiecially grain, being so great.
N. Y. Telegram.
Bo careful when yon have your infant
christened to give the clergyman the
correct name. An Elmyra baby whose
parent, intended it to be 'called
Josephine, retired from the baptismal
font as William Henry. Little Bdly felt
Tery mad about it, bnt the mischief has
since been rectified.