THE INDEPENDENT, Erery Thnreday Evening, BY H. B. LUCE, Office, - - - Old Court House, HTIXSBOno, OEEGOX. LKflAL ADTBBTIintlVTI (!.) One tqatrs or one UiMrtlun M OuuareMtaut.ttBt UiMrUek.. u BtllVKM ADTKRTlMKBlSarT (enn.) V oolW col l col. TIKI. sq. at. 14. 4i- I month.... t 00$ 4 001 1 00$ 00 T 00,113 OAJ0 00 I 10 0J t month.. aoj it sol tr BO montbi... -1 II ooj 3 80 8 00 n sn looo Tot-ma r wbserlptlon (cola rate.) 8ingl copy per year 93 90 Ilnglscopy sis month. 1 50 Mao;! number 10 month.,. t an II 601 IS 00 S 00 I1W VOL. 4. HILLSBORO, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1876. NO. 15. t resr. to oo! uM jo ooj SO 00 MM S.T Wash pendent in. 4 - I r V To an Absent Friend. BT SOPniA AX DREWS. I cannot tell jou all I feel. The Joy your Friendship brings; Those happy hours I've pass'd with you Are unforgotten things. Tho' Fate should strew my path with thorns. Submissively I'd bend; When I can call that treasure mine A true and faithful friend. For Fortune docs not smile on all, She favors but a few ; Yet, whether weal or woe betide, I've found no change in you. The bitter lesson we must learn, That all things bright must fade; The shadow and the sunbeam By the same hand were made. But Friendship burns with steady light, A boon from Heaven sent. To help us in Life's darkest hour, To bear God's chastisement. Like Mercy's self it is "twice bless'd," A fair and holy thing. To soothe the troubled storms of life, And hope and comfort bring. Entering a Panther's Den. It was while we were in Southern Cal ifornia, in 1857. My brother Lewis ami myself hud located a ranche, and ;oue into sheep-raising, at a place about tifty three miles cast of what is now Millerton. Mutton was very dear in Stockton anil S in Francisco at that time. Lewis and I determined to use what money wo had for buying sheep, and then take them to the high, cool grouuds amongst the Sier ras. We hoped, by this investment, to drive out a flock of several thousand at the end of live years, and thus make our fortunes. Even ordinary sheep were then sold for from twenty to thirty dollars apiece, and the opportunity for a large per cent, profit seemed very flattering. It took ail the money we had to buy a flock of eighty sheep. But if the prices at which they sold would only remain tiie same for the next few years we did not care; Ah, well! we did not then know California so well as we do now. To save time and expense, wo located on a deserted "greaser" ranche. Por tions of old cattle corrals were still stand ing on it, which by a little repairing, we put in order for sheep. The pasture was along the base and sides of a large mountain, that, eight or ten miles to the east, rose in high, bare peaks. In front, towards the north, there was quite a deep gully, or gulch, as the miners would call it, leading down from the mountains. Its edges were fringed with flowering shrubs, high grass and bushes, while its bed was strewn and heaped with ricks of drift-wood, logs, boughs and huge stumps, brought down by freshets. The banks were so abrupt that a per son carelessly approaching the bush fringe was in great danger of tumbling over an almost perpendicular precipice, fifty or sixty feet deep. Higher up, the flanks of the mountain were covered with u heavy growth of piue. Towards the south, on the rising ground, there were beautiful groves of madrono. It was a place where a man would like to spend his life, aud take his ease with his family. It was made tieaitny oy cood air and a lovelv climate. Showers fell from November to March. Then followed a season of almost unbroken dry. bright weather, which lasted during the rest of the year. No colds, nor coughs, nor catarths there. We were quite alone. Our only neigh bor if neighbor he might be called was an aged "Digger" (Indian). The miners had named liim "Old Peelygarlic." He lived with his two squaws and one littte mangy pappoosc, in a hut about a mile from the ranche. We repaired the corrals, built a log house and a store-house, ana turned out our sheep to grow fat and multiply. Having heard that the grizzlies had broken up the former "greaser" proprie ' tor, we went prepared for them, with plenty of powder and ball, and two good rifles, But not a bear molested us dur ing the whole time we were there. For the first year and a half we did not lose a sheep, either from disease or wild beasts. During February of the second year, however, we heard at night, among the mountains by our pasture grounds, queer noises the squallings and screech ing of some kind of pauther cats, and one morning we found that a corral had been broken into and four sheep killed. The body of one of the sheep had been carried off, while the fleeces aud half eaten carcasses of the others lay outside the pai lings. Shreds of wool, strung along, marked a trail from the corral fence out to the gully. The creature had gone down the steep bank, amongst the heap of drift wood. It was a dangerous-looking place. We supposed a den was somewhere down there; but though we followed along the bank, looking over into the ravine, for a mile or more, we could discover nothing. That night aud the next, Lewis and I took turns in watching the corrals. Two days after, however, a lamb was missing from the pasture, and the next v day an other a tine large lamb was caught. We saw the sheep running, and had a glimpse of a slate -gray creature, as large as a big mastiff. It dashed out of a thick et of aialeas that bordered the gully, and seized the lamb and dragged it off. We ran out to the spot, but did not get an other sight of the beast. We now determined, at all hazard?, to put a stop to his depredations. Some Eart of the ravine was evidently the east's favorite retreat. Taking our rifles and our dirk-knives, we went to the gully, and climbing down, followed up its bed, going past our pasture and towards the mountains. It was a dismal hole. The overhang ing bushes of the edges shutout the light; and we were expecting every moment to come upon the creature, croucmng oe neath a pile of drift-logs, or in some hole under the bank. But we were disappointed. The brute's den was not near. We found, at the bot tom of the ravine, a well-trodden path, winding among and under the stumps and logs, and leading up the gully. We followed this trail at least four or five miles, up among the mountains, to where the gully narrowed into a mere rocky chasm that separated crags seventy five or a hundred feet high, down which had toppled the dead trunks of great pines. , It was as wild-looking a place as ever I was in. Directly in front of us, a rock, larger than an ordinary house, which had fallen from the cliff above, blocked up the chasm. Beneath the rock there was a low cranny, scarcely a yard in breadth, through which the brook found its way. The trail led under this rock. In mud and water we crawled on our hand and knees through this cranny. Clambering over and under huge Imul ders and damp logs, we suddenly found ourselves in front of a hole in the left side of the crag, seemingly the mouth of a den. A second glance made us sure of it, for chewed-up wad of wool and bones lay scattered all around. Here the beast had dined and supped on our lambs, and on other animals, also; for there were bushels of bones lying around, some quite fresh-looking, other old and dry. The mouth of the den was an oblique cleft in the rock. We examined our guns. Here was the very lair of the marauder. What if he should rush upon us! Lewisflung a stone into the cleft. There was no response. The animal might be away from home. Going up close to the mouth we looked in. Far back we could see light, a if it came through a fissure from above. My brother Lew, though only a boy of nineteen, was very brave and determined. "I'm going in here," he said, and in he crept. I waited a moment or so, and then fol lowed, holding my rifle ready to shoot. After crawling under rocks for ten or a dozen yards, we came to a large hole, into which the light shone from a great crevice above. We at first thought we had reached the end of the cave, bet look ing about, we discovered in the rocks another dark hole, which turned short to the right. It was dark as pitch, and dripping with water. We listened, but could hear nothing except the dripping of water. "I'd go in there if I had a torch," Lew said. I had matches with me, in a little bot tle that I always carried. Going out of t' ttve, each of u gathered an armful of sliver and dry boughs, with which we kindled a hre near the moutli ot the dark hole. When it was blazing. Lew- took a brand in his left hand, and hold ing an open dirk-knife in his right, crept in. I closely followed, with my gun ready. Crawling twenty or thirty feet through the wet, we came into a larger opening, ami rose up on our feet. By this time Lew's brand had become a mere smoking coal. We were poking about, trying to make out how large the place was, when we heard a rumble, and then an ear splitting squall. We were so startled that we scrambled out very lively. Being in the cavern, the dark hole through which we had crept seemed quite light. I assure you we went out through that hole in a hurry. Once outside, in the lighted part, we stopped. "We've got him now, penned in !" ex claimed Lew, throwing brands in the hole, to keep the animal from coming out. We prepared better splints for torches. Lighting one of these, aud holding others ready to light, we again crawled in. The bright blaze showed that we were in a long, narrow, ragged fissure, some twenty-five feet high and ten or twelve feet wide. How far back it extended we could not tell. The rocks were black and damp. Water dripped from above. The light did not shine tar ahead, as it does in caverns where the rocks ure white and glistening. We knew the beast wa somewhere ahead of us, and advanced slowly, stop ping at every step to listen. Lewis then went back after more spl in ters and hi ritle. We each lighted a splint, and started forward. We had not taken many step before we heard a scratching noise, as of nails on the rocks, and then a fearful squalling and growl ing. The noise sounded as if the ani mal were near, for there was evidently more than one. In that dark, narrow- cavern the sound were frightful. This time we stood our ground, and strained our eye to get a glimpse of what was before us. Lew threw forward one of his splints. By the light of its blaze we saw a great heap ot rocK. I ny or fifty feet farther on, which seemed to block up the passage. v "I see one of 'em," Lew muttered. Laving down hi splint and dropping on one knee, he fired. The report nearly deafened us, while the concussion whiifed out the splints. e were in pitch dark ness, and a frightful growling going on close at hand. To say the least, I felt queerly. Striking a match, we lighted two of the pine slivers. Our courage rose again. Laying the splint together, we built a little fire, which gave a much better light, and Lew went back and brought in a fresh armful of splints. As these blazed up I saw a big gray brute far back in the darkness, crouch ing among the rocks. Taking a good aim, I shot it through the head. It rolled down, and after a few kicks, was dead. We could still hear growling. Lew threw brand ahead, which, fall ing among the rocks, started in sight an other gray-coat. We both fired, but lost sight of it at the same moment. The growling, however, stopped. After poking about, we mounted the rocks and saw the beast lying in a heap behind them. Another shot finished it. As we stood looking at the dead beasts we heard a rustling noise, and peering alout saw three cub, or kittens, lying under a rock. We poked at them with our rifles, and they spit and yawled, though they were not a quarter grown, and scarcely seemed to have their eyes open. Not wishing to leave any of this sheep eating breed alive, we killed them. Fear ing that others might be lurking about, we blocked up the entrance of the hole with big stone. We meant to extermi nate the whole family, and I think we did, for we were never troubled again. No wonder we had lost sheep, with such a nest of panther cat for neighlors. I say panther cats, for I suppose they mut have been a kind of panther. They were of apurplish or slaty gray color, and had big cat head, with long feline teeth, and slurp, formidable looking claws. Yvuth Companion. The Orange Free State. The correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing from Philadelphia with reference to the Centennial, give the following exceedingly interesting infor mation : At the corner of the Main Building nearest to the principal entrance to the grounds, visitor come upou a small en closure draped with yellow and orange, mingled with tin; familiar red, white and blue. The name iucrilad alove the por tal put everybody's knowledge of geog raphy to the test. "Orange Free State." it read. "Whore is it?" ask the puzzled visitor of each other. Not one in ten appears to know. The general opinion is that it i situated some where in Ger many, but some say Central America, and many frankly acknowledge utter ignorance on the question. The trophic of ostrich feathers that first strike the eye furnish some clew to the problem, and the courte u attendant within dip se of it at once by replying to the fire of questions somewhat in thi wise: "The Orange Free State is in South Africa, north of the British colony of the Cajte of G od Hoje. It i inhabited by Dutch emigrant and their descendants, who are called boers (farmer or peasants), and native Katlirs alxmt 73,000 of the former and 2o,000 of the latter. The Government i republican, and i admin istered by a President and a legislative body called the Volksraad (People's Council). The country ha an area of about 70,000 square miles, and the pro duction are wool, cattle, wheat, corn, diamonds, and most of the fruit of the temperate zone." When you have heard this you will say to yourself or to the friend at your elbow : "Wonderful! Here is a country of which we knew nothing, or next to nothing, that ha sent its products from the other side of the earth to do honor to our Cen tennial; it 73, 000 KiopIe, lost from the sight and knowledge of the civilized world iu that terra incognita, Africa; without a seaport or a railroad, without a town as large as an average New York village, have actually done more for our Exhibition than have several of our own States more than Georgia, lor example, w ith her million of inhabitants, or Texas." When yon thh.de of thi 3 011 w ill feel like taking otf your hat to the little Dutch African Republic and giving a cheer for its yellow and white flag; and when you get home you will, no doubt, get out your cyclopedia ami read the romantic history of tho country. It will tell of the great trecken or emigration of thousands of Dutch colonist from the Cape of Good Hope, who, in lS.i'J, to escape from Hrit ish rule, sought a new home in the wild country upon the Orang-j Iiiver; of their struggles with the warlike blacks, who harrassed their settlements just as the In dian did those of our forefathers; of the renewed oppressions of the British, and of the final grant of independence in 1834, growing out of the desire of the English Government to have the aid of the Boers in a threatened Kaffir war. What do they show, these enterprising Dutchmen, who are thus civilizing a bar barous land? Not many things, but the few they send are interesting and good in their way. There is white wheat with remarkably large berries; excellent corn; a singular grain called Katlir corn; wool in huge glass-topped boxes; the hide of the springbok, jackals' skins, dried fruits and bituminous coal. Then, in the way of manufactured articles, there are rhinoceros-hide whips, harness of first-rate workmanship, ami a model !" a wagon f.r wool transport. Among the natural curiosities is the fruit of the cream of tartar plant a small gourd containing a handful of brown seed about a large as Lima bcuis, each covered with a white powder, which it is said possesses all the properties of cream of tartar. The cases of stuffed bird of brilliant plumage give an idea of the ornithological richness of the country, and a diamond in the rough, worth a I sour. $7,00 ), stand for the re cently discovered wealth of the diamond fields. A p air of elephant tusks are the ingest in the Exhibition except those of the Egyptian seciio.i. The Orange exhibit is a Government uffiir, made through the agency of Mr. Charles W. Riley, the Consul-General of the republic in the United States. A handsomely printed pamphlet give a good resume of the history and statistics of the country. A photograph of Presi dent Brand, taken in Biociiifoutcin, the capital, represents a man of about fifty, of the square-built Holland type, with an intelligent and remarkably resolute ex. pressiou of countenance. George Ticknor thus describes the way in which the news of Washington's death was received: "There never was a more striking or spontaneous tribute paid to a man than here in Boston when the new came of Washington's death (17UD). It wa- a lit tle before noon; and I often heard per sons say at the time that one could know how- far the new had spread by the clos ing of the shop. Eich man, when he heard that Washington wa dead, shut his store, as a matter of course, without consultation, and in two hour all busi ness was stopped. My father came home and could not speak, he was so overcome; my mother was alarmed to see him in such a state, till he recovered enough to tell her the sad new. For some time every one, even the children, wore craje on the arm; no boy could go on the street without it; I wore it, though only eight years old." Bringing Them Up. A good old lady, whose grandchrild ren play alout her knee, remarks re lative to the training of children : Bad temper is ofteuer the result of un happy circumstances than of unhappy organization. It frequently, however, ha a physical cause, and a peevish child often need dieting more than correcting. Some children are more prone to show temper than others, and sometimes on ac count of qualities which are valuable iu themselves. For instance, a child of ac tive temperament, sensitive feeling and eagar pur'tose, is more likely to meet w ith constant jars and rub than a dull, passive child; and if he is of an open na ture, hi inward irritation is immediately shown in bursts of passion. If you repress these ebullition by scolding and punishment, you only in crease the evil by changing passion into sulkiness. A cheerful, good-tempered tone of your own, a sympathy with Id trouble when ever the trouble has arisen from 110 ill conduct on hi part, are the best antidotes; but it would le better still to prevent lcforehand all source of annoyance. Never fear spoiling children by mak ing them too happy. Happiness i the atmosphere in which all good affections grow the wholesome warmth necessary to make the heart-blood circulate healthy and freely; uuhappiuess, the chilling pressure which produce here an inflammation, there an excrescence and worst of all, "the mind' green aud vellow sickness" III temper. CriiKixr Jki.i.y. If the fruit i gath ered Ixdore lead ripe, it will make firmer j -11 y. and it i not necessary to pick it from the stems, only remove all leave- or sticks. Put the fruit in a pail, or pan, over a kettle of bailing water, and heat enough for the skin to break easily, then dip into a bag made of flan nel, and squeeze till dry. Measure the juice, allowing for every pint, one pound ot w hite sugar, but do not add the sugar to the liquor till it has been allowed to gently boil over the fire for twenty min ute or more, removing any scum that may arise. The sugar is now added in the proportions mentioned, when the pro cess of coagulation i so rapid that lump of jelly are often formed before it i dis solved, while iu color it grows with all the richness and transparency of the gar net. The secret of making all fruit jel lies is to boil the juice lefore, and but little after adding the sugar; if lxilcd together, the product i apt to be soft. dark and gummy, if it ever become jelly at all. I se a ound of sugar tor a pound of fruit in preserving currants, and if all the necessary boiling h i taken place be fore the sugar i added, the juice will be come a tender beautiful jelly. Goon fruit can be canned withoutsug.tr. If the fruit i sweet, ripe, ami good, sugar i neither desirable nor necessary. It is good enough without. Fruit prop erly c.okcd and put up hot, and the cans sealed, will keep, if need be, ages with out sugar. Sug ir, i. e., crystallized sac charine, is a modern invention. Sugar was unknown in Europe till about the middle of the fifteenth century; and when used too freely, and it generally i, i a source of much disease, and especially among children. Many of the little in nocent are hurried into eternity by the misguided love of fond mothers, in stuff ing them with candies, cake, pies, and sweet-meats, aud sweetened milk. The poor stomach, unable to cope with such saccharine conglomerations, is thrown into a ferment, and the result is bowel complaints, worms, and fevers, and the grave prematurely open its mouth to receive the victim of folly and ignorance. Tomato Paste. Scald and peel as many tomatoes as will fill a large stone jar. Set them in a warm oven for an hour, then skim off the watery liquor, press and squeeze them in a sieve; add salt, cayenne pepper, pounded mace and cloves to your taste; to every quart ot tomatoes allow half a pint 01 la-sl vinegar; stew all slowly for three hours, stirring well until it become a smooth, thick paste. Then put it into sin ill jar and cover with egged papers. It is excellent when fresh tomatoes are not to le had, and is a nice addition to soup. Tomato Honey. To each pound of tomatoes allow the grated peel f a lemon and six fresh peach leaves. B il them slowly till they are all to pieces, then squeeze them through a bag. To each pound of liquid allow a p Mind of u?gar and juice of one lemon. Boil them to get her lialfau hour, or until they became a thick j ;lly. Then put them into glasses and I ly double tissue piper over the top. It will scarcely be distinguished from real honey. To Make Pic.vi.tlm. To half a bushel nicely chopped tomatoes, which must be squeezed dry, add two dozen onions chopped tine, one dozen green pepMr chopped, one box of ground mustard, one large root of grated horseradish, nearly a pint of salt, four tablespoon ful ground cloves, four of allspice. Mix thoroughly iu a stone jar aud cover with vinegar, in iking a hole in the cen ter to let the vinegar to the bottom. Wild Fowl Pie. The fowl should be trussed like a duck for a pie, larded with anchovies and seasoucd with pepper, salt and sweet herbs; put a good quantity of butter into the pie, and flush like all other. Rolled Jelly Cake. One cup of sugar, one cup flour, three eggs, one ta blespoonful sweet milk, half teaspoonful soda, essence, etc. Beat sugar and egg slightly, then put all together and beat thoroughly. Rice Custard. Into a quart of boil ing water stir in two tablespoonfuls of rue flour, dissolved in a little cold milk; add two well beaten egg to boiling mix ture; sweeten aud flavor to taste. Corx Cake. One quart of sour milk. three eggs, one teacuptul ot flour, yellow corn meal enough to make a batter as thick as for pancakes. Bake quickly in pans well buttered.' Cham, the French Caricaturist. The greatest caricaturist in France is the Comte Amandeo de Noe, better known as "Cham." He wa born in 1819, and of most aristocratic lineage, for his father, the Comte de Noe, was a peer of France. His mother was, however, English, and young Amandcc, having been brought up entirely by In r, acquired a British ac cent, w hich he retains to this day. Very tall, thin, and upright, scrupulously cor rect and English in hi attire, of manners externally cold and polished, he thor oughly realize tho Parisian idea of the Londoner; the more so as, like the sailor in Gilbert's ballad, he never laugh and he never smiles, though he is one of the most practical jokers in existence. On an occasion, going into a res taurant, where he wa unknown, he set tled into a corner seat which luppened to be generally reserved fjr a stock broker who dined iu the house every evening. The waiter said nothing; but the stock-broker coming in, felt wroth at the usurpation, and wa about to com plain of it, when he recognized the fa miliar feature of the caricaturist. He thought he wouhl have a joke at the ex pense of Chun, Miid calling the landlord aside, asked him if he knew who was that tall, thin, most solemn stranger? No; the landlord had never seen hint before. "Ah, well, then, I advise you to order him out a quickly a osib!e, else he will scare away all your other customers," whispered the stock-broker. "It i Hei deniich, the executioner." The landlord gave a jump; but, without an instant's loss k" time, walked up to Chain and begged him to depart, adding that he would not ask him to pay for wh it he had eaten, and wouhl, indeed, not consent to touch hi money at any price. Ciiam' feature betrayed not the slightest wtir prise at thiscommunication. ".May I nk who revealed to you that I am the head man?" he said in hi gravest tones. "It i that gentleman yonder." "Ah, quite so," answered Cham, imperturbably ; "lie ought to know me, for I flogged and branded him at Toulon not two years ago." It i alleged that the stock-broker recorded a vow never to play tricks on Cham again, aud similar resolution are generally made by those who measure wit with the nimble caricaturist. A Frog Barometer. Out at the Lafayette Park police sta tion they li ive a weather prophet w hich eclipse Tice and all the Oaromcter in the neighborhood. It i a frog of the genus Hyla, more familiar to the general reader as the free-toad. Hunt, the Super intendent of the Park, wa mildly abus ing hi barometer one day for inis-lead-ing him, when the ollier on the beat, an old frontiersman, said he would show him a tiick. He took a gla j ir and threw into it some stone and a couple inches of water. Then he whittled out a little wooden ladder and put it in the j ir. After some lively scrambling a tree-toad was caught, chucked in and a tin top screwed on. The weather indicator was complete. When it i going to be fair weather that toad roots on the toptonud id' the ladder solemnly blinking the hours away. From twelve to fifteen hours be fore a change to bail weather, ''the gen eral," a they call him, begin to climb down, ami hour Ik fore a storm he squat himself on a stone, and with hi head just above the surface of the water, peer aloft at the coming storm. Let the weather be changeable and "shifting," "a old Prob" says, and the toad goes up ami down that ladder like a scared middy. When it is fair and the toad roost aloft his skin i of a light greyish green. When the change come the skin turn black as the toad goe down the ladder, becoming a jet, shining black by the time he reaches the bottom. The fame of the toad ha spread through the Lafayette Park neigh borhood. St. Louit limes. Our Exports. With the exception of a single year, 1874, says the Boston Pot, the gold value of our export i estimated to be greater for the current fiscal year than for any previous one in our history. Right here in Massachusetts, where Fall River shipped to England 17,000 pieces of cot ton cloth weekly six weeks ago, she now ships 21,000 pieces. And our exports ol manufactured leather are showing a simi lar encouraging outlook. Only cotton, bacon and che-se, for a very recent week's cxpoits from New Yoik to Liver p ol, run ted higher iu the -c. lie than cot l mis aud leather. It is Iccko led that the export of cottons thi year will be twice what it wa iu 1S7.J, and leather i in creasing almost at a similar rate. Thi: proii ability of any occasion ari-iiig for large cxjMdt of speci., iu view of the condition of the great bank of Europe, i very small. A they are more than supplied at present w ith gold, aud the rates of interest rule at three per cent, and below, the preference abroad is, of course, that we should pay our debts in product and interest-bearing bond rath er than in that of which they always h ive a glut. These facts, takeu together, go to establish the conclusion that we shall not soon be favored with a better opjtor tuuity to bring about resumption, whether it Ikj approached by the sale of bond for the slow but steady accumulation of gold, or by the sale of bonds for the purchase and retirement of greenback, or both. Another KExrircKT Woxder. The Louisville Courier-Journal says: Lucy Kennon is her name. She is black; live at Milford, Bracken county, and wa formerly a slave of Mr. K bert Kennon. According to a correspondent of the Bracken Chronicle she is within a few days of being 123 years old. She ha been married seven time and is the mother of twenty-three children. Her teeth are sound, eyesight good, hearing perfect and memory astonishing. What i pel hap equally remarkable, she h is always been an invalid, and never within the recollection of the living did a day's work. Keutucky may challenge the world on the centenari 01 question. The door-sill of home is the threshold of heaven. A Barbarian Monarch's Funeral. The Journal de Paris contains a letter from an eye w itness, giving the following particulars of the atrocities committed on the occasion of the funeral of Kain rasi, King of Ounyoro, iu Central Africa. Ati immense grave or pit, capable of hold ing several hundred people, hat! been dug, at the bottom of which the wives of the defunct King had been placed in the form of a ring, to be In readiness to receive upon their knees the corpse of their late tyrannical and barbarou. master Several regiment of the K yal Guard had beeu scut on the preceding night to silent ly surround some of the neighboring vil lages. The first human being -bo it man, woman or child that made its exit from the surrounded hut, was forcibly seized and carried off, aud the captives entrapH'd in thi manner conducted to. ward the pit prepared for the funeral. Here, there commenced the most horrible scene. The limb of these poor creature-, arm and legs, were broken by the soldiers. The lamentation ami eric, of despair of the victim intermingled with the shouting of the fanatical crowd, and one by one tliey were tin own into the gaping gulf below. Then commenced the beating of drum, the flourish of trumpets, me piercing sound of the whis tle and pipe, whicli, together with the violent vociferation of the crowd, drowned tho crie of tho victim. The soil dug out of the pit toe pieviou day was then thrown b.icli into the monster grave. Tho fanatical spectators of the dismal drama, a soon a it was filled up, commenced to dance on the summit o the grave, stamping the soil down vsith all their might, so a to form a hard, com pact layer aoovc those buried alive. All the lamentation having ccacd, nothing was left to indicate the Ceremony of the aboniinahlo cpultut e ; the iioUo of the instrument had ceased ulo, and the as sembled crowd retired, satisfied with theineives, and admiring the gruatne of the King w hose inane demanded such sacrifices. Mme.MacMahoii and the Green Grocers. Mine. doMacMauou is much more pop ular with the green grocers of I'ui is than wa Mine, 'inicis, who, though very wealthy her sister and herself being Co heiress of several I urge fortunes is said to be adverse to spending money for any thing that can be procured otherwise. During M. Tliiei's teuure of power his wile purchased neither vegetables, fruits nor flowers, ull of which she procured gratis from the gardens and hot beds ol tne Grand aud IVtil tri llion. A coaii dential maid wa scut, regularly, every morning, to the lovely little supplemen tary palaces so dear to Malie Auliouette; and under her direction everything eata ble in the garden, wilh a grand provision of flow ers, was sent oil' in light carls to the Presidential residence. In three in nil h the head gardener at the Trianon sent in i'lt worth of green peas, whicli ought to have beeu paid tor, Out were not, besides other things iu the same propor tion, to tlie great vexation of the shop, keepers, who complained that ' tne Stats gave tiie President a civil list, vvhicn hu kept Hi his pocket uodc-ad of spending, and Was made not only togivchliu a huge salary, but also to I'urniih liim tvo-thiid of hi dinner." Tho people of Versailles accused the ladies who were then at the head of the Presidential housekeeping of wanting to get their butter aud eggs iu the same way from the Trianon; b it as the cows and ioultry of It former days have long since disappeared, thi part ol their programme could not bo carried out. Mine. le MacMuhon, on the contra ry, purchases freely, and is geuerou iu various ways. Iu honor of her Excel lency's forty-fourth birthday recently, the green grocers decorated their shops aud otherwise celebrated the day. Official Corkci'Tiox. The following story conies from Egypt: A woman was mortally wounded oy the falling of m wall. A neighbor took her iu, tended her, and brought a female doctor t see if anything could be done. The paiie.it died iu the neighU.r's house. The doctor in attend nice must sign a certificate that death is from natural cause before the hody t:an be buried. She icl'u.cd to do so without backsheesh. Too mail in whose house tiie person died would be held responsible without s ich cerliticale. lie therefore gave the backsheesh. The certificate had to be countersigned by the government doctor. He also refused, ami tne man, again afraid of the nltci'iialhc, again paid Oackshei-sh. Foially, tiie Zi iir, or he til of p ;ice, lefasj l hi per mission, wh.c!i i also nece-saiy in such case. Hi backsheesh was tiie biggest, and the man could tand the lax 11 longer. lie went to tho Zihit and said, "Now, look heic, this b..dy has been out of tho ground four days. You are bound to bury it 111 twcnty-foiii hour. You are tho cause of the delay. Unless you sign at once, 1 shall goto the .Moudir and report tho non-burial of 11 body for four days, and you will lose your place." Tne Zibit wa defeated, aud signed at once. At last New York i to have a fresh water and marine aquarium. Tne pro ject, though begun a a private enter prise, promise to be worthy and success ful. The building is now iu course of erection on tho plot of ground at the corner of Thirty-fifth street aud Broad way. The inclosed area will be about twenty thousand square feet, and the tanks will vary in length front one to one hundred feet. Iu referring to thi enter prise, it is with a pardonable degree of pride, since in the coming quai iuui we ce the partial result of long-continued efforts. A special feature of thi work will be the scientific library and leading room, and tho naturalists' laboratory aud workshop. Tnese will be free to stu dents and teachers, aud every facility will be afforded to those who desire to pursue special lines of research. At an early day we hope to present a full and adequate description of this Hquaiium, and it will then be seen that the estab lishment is one worthy of It aim as au instructive audi cutertaiuing resort for the people. The Sultan of Turkey. Col. Thomas W. Knox gives us, through hi publishers, a very entertaining vol umo of "Life and Adventures In tho Ori ent," that land which echoes and re echoes with the cry of "Bacluhcenh, O Howadjl!" "Turkey has been borrowing money in Europe, and some of her loans have been guaranteed by France and England, Nearly all the money has been wasted; a very little has gone for the construc tion of railways, but most of it has been put Into ptlaccs, diamonds for tho women seraglio, ships of war, mosques snd tlio like, and every day there are thousands of pounds wasted on senseless displays. "Here is a specimen case: They built an Imperial palace, known as the Palace Tshlragjn, where they had already pal ace enough for a dozen Sultans, fhd Sultan moved Into the building when it wa Mulshed it cost to million pound sterling, or dout ten million dollars In g ild and he lived there Just two days! Then he moved out because he had an unpleasant dream, and the palace will never again be occupied. It stands idle, empty and beautiful, on the banks of tho llosphotu, and will thus stand till de stroyed. "A couple of year ago the Saltan com manded that a conservatory should be erected in his girden. Glas and other material were ordered from Europe, and hundred of men were set to work. It . wa finished at a cost f over a million dollar-, and hi majesty went to see it. The old idiot I widi to be respectful, us he I a Sultan was not in good temper, for soui'j reason, mid determined not to bo pleased. Ho raised hi languid eye to the roof of the building, aud then turned away. "'I don't like if,' he said; destroy It I "Ami before night every piece of glass was broken, and the beautiful conserva tory wa leveled. "This I the way the Sultan and hi government have been ulng tho money borrowed at a high rate of Interest; and they are now borrowing money at high Interest, to pay that interest. This thing will go on until Turksy can borrow no more money, and then the whole concern will collapse." In Amieiit Times. In the wardrobe of a Hebrew lady tho most splendid article of clothing w as tho turban, for those who could afford if, The poor people had to be satisfied with winding a piece of cloth round their head and fixing it a well us they could. The turbiu wt-ie of dill'crcnt colors, aud wound in different ways; some of them were like a high tower, Shoes and stock ing were unknown, but soles of leather were fastened with two lachct. Tho ladies, who carried luxury into every de partment, and who are supposed, even in the present day, to be far from imlilferent to a nice, neat hoof, or to elegant slip pers, had their shoes, or rather sandal', and their lachct, made of colored leather; lark bliu, violet ami purplu Were favor ite colors. The ankle were decorated with bracelet of gold or dainty silver chain and rings, w ilh tiny silver bells. 11 air net and head-bands went iu great request. The latter wero made of gold or silver, and worn under the net, extend ing from one ear to the other. Ear-ring were much thought of; wo are told of some that weighed a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, and were so largo that a man could easily put Ids hand through them. Some of the wom en wore several ring with little bell attached to them. They were generally made of horn or silver. But the moat popular l ing was tho nose l ing. The left nostril wa pierced lor the purpose, and a ring made of ivory or metal was put through it. Bracelets were favorite orna ment, and were generally worn on the right arm. Some of them wero exceed iugly lare, so that they reached up to the c-lhotv. Ring on tho fingers were worn; ch iinsof tine gold, or string of pearl with little silver balls or small tinkling bell, worn round the neck. A Fnoa Sioiiv. O io i ceii hilf In dined to accept a ludubitalrTo whit Elian tell u of thu wafer sn ikes a id the frogs of Eypl. The former h ive, ho informs us, a pa-sion ite liking f n- frogs that Is, for dcvouii'.g and digesting them. No one knows this better 1 1 1 six the frog, and, accordingly, when they lucct ill the p uid, woudeilul is the dia lling that ensue. The water snake glides up a if iuteiitioules of evil, but our other slimy trie id i quite awaro of the p ii tnlc-ookiiig so ike. Ho in ikes for the nearest twig, seiz.'s It, and carries it ncro.s his mouth, and then Icarlosly approaches I he hydra, The latter now makes at the l'i'i with opj.i Jaws, but the twig hcios the frog's mouth is much w ider tn 111 the jisvs ol tlu snake, ami he cm by no pos.ioiiity swallow the much desired frog. Ti.o bit or looks down his enemy's throat front the outside, holds fast to tho projecting twig, and laughs. The water snake tiies again and again; he glides around his anticipated victim, but the frog always contrive to keep him iu view, mii I tho end of every at tempt I that the foiled snake finds the bar carried by his anticipatory victim lying across his open Jaws, aud the frog once more laughs d iwn hi throat. Tho hydra at length gives up in despair, and froggy, plumping Into a safe spot, where he knows kindred to be assembled, lolls his exciting tale and raises very uolsy croaking congratulations, The tire which des ite I p irt of Q to bee 011 May 30 was singularly destructive. Beginning at 3 r. M. in a stable owing, it is said, to tho incautious use of matches by children it soread rapidly, and be fore midnight had destroyed nearly 700 houses, rendering about 7,000 persons homeless. The houses wero chiefly of wood, and were occupied prlncipilly by people of small mesu. The tire brigade was ineffective Iu staying the general progress of tho fl ime. The supply of water was scanty, and utterly Inadequate to the emergency. The lire had in fact unchecked control In the burned district, an I subsided only wheu there were no more bouses on Its eastward track, ! i . . - 0