1
OTHERWISE AM) PERSONAL.
Wiljjam D. Howki.ls says thttt no
woman can live m tho same liouso
with a gonitis.
IIahhy Gaufikm) has gone to Bos
ton to attend tho annual regatta of
amateur oarsmen.
The laws of Japan requiro six
months' notico to bo given of inten
tion to publish a magazine anil one
month s notico for publishing a book,
Boston's famous lawyer, Sidnoy
Bartlett, is 8G years old, and estimated
to be worth $12,000,000, chioily derived
from excellent railroad speculations,
Somb of tho English newspapers
printed on machines that fold and cut
the sheet report losses of subscribers,
who insist on tho privilege of cutting
their own newspapers. .
At last Charles Dickons is to havo a
monument in Rochester, near his own
Gad's hill, whore ho wished to bo
buried and which furnishes somo of
tho best local scenes in many of his
hooks.
Havi.no sailed tho Mediterranean
sea for sixty years without boing re
sponsible for a single accident, an
Italian captain recently ran into an
English stcamor, and at onco commit
ted suicide. Ho was ashamod to live
anv longer.
Emma Abbott's lioalth has been im
proved bv her season of rest. She
is
getting a trille stout, and so has begun
to walk six miles a dav in tho bono of
keeping llesh down. Sho takes tho
matter cooly, howovor, and says pleas
antly that it will never do for her to
become any stoutor than sho is.
Attv. uen. Oakland is a queer
combination of sternness and inlinito
humor, writes a Washington corro
spondent. No man in tho cabinet can
raise a bigger breezo on a shorter no
tice than ho, provided tho circum
stances justify it, and, again, none of
his associates can begin to comparo
with him as a raconteur. His stories
are resistablv droll. If there is a com
ical side to anything, you can depend
lpon it that Garland will bo onoof tho
first to see it and givo it a twist of his
peculiarly dry wit.
Carl Rosa says that wlnlo music is
his profession, painting and politics
ro his hobbios. His liouso is adorned
tho works of art, and much of his
income is spent in gratifying this taste.
Mr. Rosa is now 42 yoars of ago, and
is ono of tho most successful managers
in the oporatic and coucort iield. Ho
is notably domestic in his habits, and
spends his leisuro timo in his homo,
wlicro ho has two bright children. His
son Herbert, now 3 j'oars of aire, is
said to bo quite a littlo musical genius,
much to tho doliglit of his parents.
At Schwalbach Mmo. Christ ino
Nilsson is tho chief attraction, says
London Truth. A few days ago a con
cert was given by somo wandering
Tyrolcso minstrels in a littlo al fresco
restaurant in tho woods thero. Nils
son was urosont and listonod, for a
time, with oxomplary pationco, to tho
usual excruciating noises, but suddenly
she disappeared, and presontly, from
the heart of tho greenery, arose,
to tho amazement of tho Tyrolcso
and tho delight of tho Sehwalbach
ians, that voico that Ins given so
much pleasure to thousands, oven
whon thov havo had to pay a
guinea for tho privilege of hoar
iii"r it-
Ninktt yoars old, and for sixty
yoars filling tho chair of history in tho
University of Borliu, Prof, von Ranko
still works about oight hours a day,
rom 8 to 12 and from G to 10. Ho
dictates now to aa amanuensis. A
friendly physician forbids his leaving
tho upper story in tho liouso in Luison
strasso, whero ho lias resided for tho
last forty years. His habits and ways
of lifo aro very simple. His litttlo cot
reminds ono of the equally simplo
couch of tho duko of Wellington. Ho
has a groat horror of professional in
terviews. Ho says that, aftor ho com
pletes his present work on universal
history, ho "intonds, if it ploaso
God, to writo recollections of his
own life."
Mb. Hahold Fkedkic, who visited
tho cholora district in southern Franco
last year, calls attention to tho strango
apathy that provails at present with
regard to tho ravagos of tho diseaso in
Spain. In a communication to The
Pall Mall Gazette of July 28 ho says :
'Wo havo not roachod August yot and
thoro havo been in Spain alono about
30,000 deaths. Up to Aug. 22 of last
year thoro wore 3,950 deaths in 13 de
partments of Franco, and tho wliolo
world was gratoful for tho news that
tho plaguo was abating. Up to July
2G of this year, coloring almost
exactly a month less time, thoro
havo been 27.0S0 choloraio deaths
in 34 provinces of Spain and no
body outside of tho French Pyronoan
country Eecms to know or cam
anything about it. Why wo should bo
convulsed with sympathy and horror
over a few thousand deaths in Franco
and Italy, and pay no particular at
tention to tens of thousands of deaths
in Spain, I do not protend to explain.
Hut tho fact is there." Statistics are
then presented which show that the
deaths in Franco from Juno 14 to the
last of October, 1884, wiro G.7C3 only,
and in Italy 19,622.
CHINESE UNFORTUNATES.
Cripples Cared For, Imt Lpers anil Other
Sick People Neglected.
During a recent stroll throuh
Chinatown imAlta reporter was asked
by an otlicer, who has jrrown gray in
that noisesonio quarter, if he had any
idea of tho reason why thoro is such
an absence of cripples among tho
Chinese. Tho party addressed had
not even noticed that thero were fewer
cripples among tho Mongols hero than
other races, and so stated. "Well, it
is so," returned his companion; you
can ako in tho entire town, and I will
wager that you will bo unablo lo lind n
singlo Chinaman with a missing log or
arm, or so crippled in any way that
ho is unablo to earn a livelihood. 1
exempt lepers, rheumatic sullerers,
and invalids from natural causes, but
include all who havo been disabled by
accident or violent mishap."
Aceopt:ng tho ollioor's guidance,
tho reporter devoted the afternoon to
a tour of tho quarter, taking ii. all tho
hospitals and resorts of tho sick, with
tho result that the assertion was pretty
substantially vcrilied. In ono miser
able littlo hole was found a stifle re r
from olephantisis. whoso distorted
limbs wore twollen out of all semb
lance to human form. In a company
hospital were two paeans, helpless,
and past allcaro of (he loathsome dis
eases from which they wore ailing, and
also an emanciated iellow in tho last
stages of consumption. Descending
into tho depths of tho terrible den
known as the "doir-kennel," two
stories underground, tho pair found
an aged woman, whoso sightless eyes
wore almost as good in tho prevailing
darkness as orbs from which tho
blessed sense had not lied, and in an
adjoining burrow was a paralyzed old
heathen, whoso only comfort is tho
opium pipe, which his withered arms
aro barely capablo of convoying to his
trembling lips. So on through a long
afternoon of horrors. Scores of help
less Chinese wore found alone and
neglected, calmly awaiting death, but
tho weakness of all was tho result of
somo ailmont; and not a single maim
ed Chinaman rowardeu tho search.
"How do you account for it?" asked
the reporter of his companion when
tho horrible jaunt finally eaino to an
end. "Chinamen must certainly broak
arms and legs, like other people. In
fact, from tho published telegrams of
blasting accidents at points whero
thoj' aro engaged in building railroads
anil in other works of liko character,
1 should judge that such accidents are
moro frequent with them than with
tho general run of laborers."
"Yes, that is so," returned tho
ofliocr, "but what becomos of them is
a mystery. In all my experience hero
1 have never seen a Chinaman on
crutches or with an empty sleeve. As
you havo just seen, they do not seem
to caro particularly well for their sick;
on tho contrarv, when they become in
curable they are loft to starve or sub
sist on the meager eliaritv of white
tourists, as fate may decree. That
old man and woman in the dog-kennel
havo not loft their den for years,
but as that hole is ono of the sights of
Chinatown they havo numerous visit
ors and do very well. They aro the
oldest pensioners that tho Chinatown
tourists havo. As a general rule you
will not lind that their similarly dis
abled countrymen last very long.
Their ailment is aided by starvation,
anil tho combination accelerates their
passage to tho grave to a rate that
soon onils their troubles. Rut what
becomes of tho cripples is moro than
1 can tell. "
Some further speculation ensued,
and then tho reporter sought out Leo
i lien, ono ot the most intelligent and
best educated from an American
standpoint on tho coast. Leo is an
oxtensivo labor contractor, and conse
quently well qualified to speak on tho
subject of cripples, many of his men
having boon hurt and" killed while
building roads in tiio southern part of
the state. Whon tho question was put
to him ho hesitated some time botoro
answering, but when he did speak ho
uiitoliled a phase of tho Chinese char
acter that lias uovor beon touched on.
"Tho Chinese aro a very health y peo
ple," said Leo in tho commencement
of his answer, "and from tho mode of
living to which the' have accustomed
themselves thero is littlo need of tlioir
boing afllicted with any of tho com
mon diseases that make confirmed in
valids. Consequently, when thoy aro
taken sick their countrymen have lit
tle sympathy for thorn, and do nothing
for them, their apathy being based on
tho ground that their sickiioss must bo
due to somo violation of those laws of
hygiene that most Chinamen respect.
No matter what tho nature of tho
case, this is almost invariably the
courso pursued, although ofton there
is no doubt that it Is unjust and cruel.
Now, regarding tho absconco of crip
ples among the Uhlncso here, tho ox
jdanation is equally simple. When a
man is maimed by an accident it is
a self-evident proposition that it is
not his fault. Ho suffers pain which
ho can not avoid or could not liavo
avoided in tho courso of his employ
ment, and iiis follows sympathize with
him. If his wounds can be entirely
healod ho is cared for until ho is ablo
to go to work again. If he losos a leg
or an arm, or is permanently crippled,
the company of which lie is a member
sends him back to China, whero his
relatives, if ho has anv, support him,
and if not ho is provided with light
employment that his maimed condi
tion will permit of his carrying on.
Tlidt ia llm rniisnn flint nritmlnti nrn
nover soon here."
Pursuing tho subject further, Leo
stated that accidents were not so com
mon among tho Chino.e as his ques
tioner supposed. f ncro were sovoral
reasons for this, tho principal one of
which lay in llo fact that thoy avoided
many of tho dangers which commonly
gave rise to fractured limbs. "For in
stance," continued Lee, "if you look
ovor tho receiving hospital statistics
you will lind that two-thiuls of tho
broken legs that aro treated thero aro
tho result of riding or driving acci
dents. Now (anil a quiet smilo twin
klod in hiseyo-coruors (you nover hear
of a Chinaman taking a week's salary
and hiring a buggy and going on a
Sundav toot out to tho Cliff' house. In
stead thoy save their monoy, and play
tan or go to cricket lights. Then
again, when they take more liquor
thau is bolitting suro footing, thoy
never try to climb on tho front end of
a streol-eor when it is in motion.
Thoy don't settle quarrels by rough
and-tutnblo lights.ithor. and that is a
sort of proceeding that is oiten pro
ductivo of broken bones. Their cloth-
ing, too. protects them in caso of an
involuntary tumble. Lot a white man
in tho garb of to day bo ovor so heavily
clothed, and. if lie gets a fall, his gar
ments will nut a (lord him tho slightest
protection. The soft, loose, thickly
quilted and wadded shirts ot tho Chin
eso form a cushion that saves them
many bruises."
This exhausted Leo's ideas on tho
subject, and tho search aftor informa
tion and its results aro herewith pro
scnted. Alia California.
Slaves of (Quinine.
"Have vou noticed the growing uso
of quinine?" a druggist in the vicinity
of the Fifth Avenue hotel asked last
night. At the same moment ho bowed
and smiled to a tall, red-whiskered
man who strolled in.
".lust watcli this customer." ho said
Tho man was verv thin and cadaver
ous looking. Without saying a word
lie walked up to thesoda fountain, ami
the boy drew out a pill-box, poured
three pills into the palm of tho custom
er s hand, set a glass ot mineral water
in front of him, and turned to tho next
customer. The tall man swallowed
the pills, drank tho water, turned on
his heel, aud stalked away with another
pleasant nod to tho proprietor.
"That costs him 1.40 a week," said
the proprietor, "and boforo long it
will kill him. Ho started to take one
live-grain pill every night about six
nioniiis ago, no now tiiKes iuieon grains
a night before ho goes home, so that it
will braco him up lor his dinner,
Within a month ho will bo taking
twenty grains a night. Of courso ho
takes it at homo besides what ho gets
hero. I've gone out of my way throe
or four tunes to explain to him that no
had a good deal better drink rum
even if lie is deacon in a church, but
his answer is a simple ono; ho says
quinine makes him feel cheerful and
strong, and it has no ill effects. Ho
tried stopping it once, and caved in;
hence he wants to know why ho should
stop. You can't combat such reason
ing as that."
"Have you many such regular cus
tom o is f 1
"Well, to bo accurate, wo havo only
three nieii that como in ovory day and
pay at tho end of the week, but thero
aro many others who take their quinine
as regularly as most drinking folks
tako their whisky. It is certainly a
great temptation to weakly organized
and frail people. All they have to do
is to swallow a pill or two, and they
feel robust, wido awake, and cheerful.
Tho practice grows on thorn continu
ally, and it seems to bo spreading, for
our sales of quinine aro continually in
creasing. A good proportion of tho
custom conies Irom women who grow
fatigued or weary while shopping, and
who, instead of buying nutritious
luncheon or drinking a wholesome
bottlo ot porter or ale, resort to tho in
sidior.s quinine pill." Xeiu York Sun,
A Clicertul Visitor.
"Dear mo! Yos, Mis Moon, tho
doctor's jist right about that; you orto
bo kop perfectly quiet, an' not have
notluu happen to upset your nerves!
I was jist sayiu' so to Doliby Ann! I
thought I'd run in a minit whilst the
dinner was bilin' an' see of I couldn't
cheer you up a bit. I know you feel
dreadful down-hearted about bein'
sick so long, an' bavin' things goin' to
rack an' ruin down stairs, liko thoy
always will when the head's laid up
Land o' liberty; why when I got .down
stairs aftor that spoil o' typus I had,
wo hadn't a hull disli to cat oil' of, anil
tho dirt an' water was enough to turn
your stummick. Hut jist keep things
liko that out o' your mind, Mis Moon,
jist bend yourself to yntttny well. Now
thoro was Liddy Ann Crozor; I always
thought Liddy Ann'd a got well, of
folks would a let her, but the neigh
bors, thoy kep a riinnin in an talkin
about how things was a goin' on, an'
lollin' how Philandor got to runnin'
round. nights to saloons, an' places ho
hadu't.orter (you know mon will do
sich things when it hain't ohcorful to
homo). Well, thoy jist got Liddy Ann
worked up to that degrco that thoy
tuk her to tho asylum in a straight
jacket, an' you know sho only lasted
six woeks!
"Yes, try an' git well. Mis Moon;
think o' your children! Think o' them
dear little croeturs Liddy Ann loft.
Philandor'll havo a stop-mothor ovor
them afore long; he's peartin' up
wonderful. A father hain't a mother,
no no Mis Moon, nothin' nover was
truer. 1 was a sayin' to Debby Ann
this mornin' that if it was Mr. Moon
that was laid up instld o' you, littlo
Josio wouldn't n boon a paddlm'
in the duck pond in ids baro feet sich
a mornin' as this, an' tho dipthoory all
ovor tho neighborhood; an Lavinoy'd
had her cough 'tended to aforo this,
it sounds dreadful hollor, poor littlo
tiling! No; a father hain't a mother.
"Now I'll havo to go, or my dinnor'll
bilo dry. I hate to leavo you lookin'
so down at the mouth, but I'll try an'
run in agin soon, an' do keop theso
awful doieful folks out or you'll soon
jino Liddy Ann." Detroit Free Press.
Shake, Comrade, Shake.
Two middlo aged men looked at each
other very intently on a Third avenue,
Nov York, car for somo time, and at
last ouo of them said:
"Your faco is familiar to mo. I
must have scon you somowhorcs."
"I was just going to make tho samo
remark about you. Wo must havo
mot boforo. I think I sawyouintho
army during tho war."
"I wasn't in tho army," replied tho
other, grinning.
"Thon it can't havo boon In th
army for I wasn't in tho army either. '
"Now I know whero wo met. It
was in Canada. Shako, comrade.
Tho bounty jumper still lives. Thoro
aro enough survivors to hold a re
union. Whom aro you going now?"
"I am on my way down town to
draw my pension."
"So am I. Shako, comrado, shako."
Texas Sifting s.
Taconw, VVaatilnstou territory, hat 826
tcuool chlldrer
Secrets of tho Trent Affair.
S. a Cox's "Three Decades of FodaralLegiila
won.
. Being upi$n tho foreign affairs com
mittoo of tho liouso of Representatives
when tho Trent affair occurred, tins
writer attended a dinner giveiirb- tho
Secretary at his then happy home. Thil
was at a timo when men held their
breaths in trepidation, lost Great Brit
ain and tho powers of Europe might
mako tho Trent matter the pretext to
cousummnto their recognition of bouth
ern independence. Somo feared that
a disparted republic would havo to giv
way boforo the jealous encroachments
of those who sought to divido our
country, as thev endeavored to ltii
perializo Mexico. On the
right of Mr. Seward was seated
burly English heartiness incarnated
in Mr. Anthony Trollope. the novelist.
His presence was almost a surprise, if
not a satire on tho occasion, ns it con
eluded. At tho other end of the table
eat John J. Crittenden. Ho was then
chairman of foreign affair-) m the House.
Tho author was on his right, as lie was
nearer by sympathy to him than others
on the committee The dinner progress
cd. Ono incident led to another, until
Mr. Soward, with a brusquenoss entire
ly propenso upon his part but surpris
ing tons, drew tho attention of all by
saying:
"Gentlemen, there is only onomnn in
tins country to whom 1 allowed unro
stricted communication with .leflerson
Davis sineo tho war, I novor asked him
what ho wroto to Mr. Davis. I trusted
his honor and lovalty. Ho is here.
I drink tho health of Mr. Crittenden 1"
Mr. Crittenden, throwing back his
shoulders, as was Ins custom when
pleased or oxcited, said:
"Air. Secretary, I never told you what
I wroto to Jell' Davis. I will toll you
now, sir. I havo two sons in tho war
ono is a Union aud tho other a Confed
ernto gonornl. Thoy aro both, of
courso, dear to my heart. I wroto Mr.
Davis: 'For God's sake, sir, sineo you
havo tho gallantry of ono of my boys
on your sido, don't send him to or
against old Kentucky. "
This littlo by-play sent out a gleam
of pleasuro that sparkled around the
board. It was intended by Air. Se
ward to placate Mr. Crittenden for
what was to follow, and it did. Thou
Mr. Soward, witli his exquisite diplo
matie savoir faire, said, looking arouud
tho board :
"I think I must now trust my guests,
as I trusted Mr. Crittenden. 1 will di
vulgo to you a secret. To-dav tho or
der was issued to release Mason and
Slidell."
A dead pauso ensued I All awaited
tho response of the venerable aud p-i
triotic chairman of foreign affairs. Ho
was not entiroly cordial witli tho Con
federate Ambassadors. "With a puzzled
look of anger and chagrin tho great
Kentuckian hesitated for a moment. Ho
seemed liOfid back by the hand of courto-
sy. Llo thon brought down his dainty
glass of sherry with a sudden crash
upon the tablo. Tho littlo fragments
How about Ins plato. Tho golden con
tents bojcwelod tho writer's invest
ments. Thon pausing anothor moment,
half ironically and jocosely, he re
plied :
"A good riddance, sir! You sent
them away nono too soon, sir! Thoy
wore doing much mischief hero; and,
regardless of the occasion, a littlo murky
cloud of profanity dimmed tho atmos
phoro about tho tablo. Novor, sineo tho
days of good old Unelo Toby, was em
phasis moro excusable.
It was not until nino days aftor tho
rolcaso of tho prisoners that tho publio
were brought to realizo what a great
diplomatic victory Mr. boward had
won. Tho demand of tho British
Government had no foundation in in
tornational law. It was against British
precodent. It harmonized only witli
distinctively American doctrine. It
would havo como well from our govern
ment had Groat Britain been tho ag
gressor. Mr. Summer, than whom
none was better qualified to discuss the
truo merits of Mr. Soward's course, do
livero.l a masterly speech in tho Soiiato
on tho 'Jth of January, 1HIJ2. It sot
tho publio mind at ease by showing
that wo had emorged from tho ponding
troublo not only with honor, but by
putting England in a position which
neither formor diplomacy, nor, as Sec
retary Soward said, "tho arbitrament
of war" itsolf had placed her.
The English-Russian Trouble.
From London Truth.
Although I am no alarmist, I cannot
help thinking that tho Itubsians will
play us somo trick whon our forces aro
engaged in tho deserts of Africa. Thoy
aro only fifty miles from Horat, and
their influonco at Cabul seems to bo
paramount. Their having tho repre
sentative of England waiting in Afghan
istan for their ropresontativo will bo re
garded by tho eastern world as a
studied insult to us. I do not bolievo
that thoy contemplato invading India;
but still wo must remember that the
native Princes of that dependency can
mako up botweon them 250,000 soldiors,
with about forty guns; that wo aro
short by (5,000 of our proper complo
mont of 00,000 men; that tho Russians
understand how to man ago Easterns hot
ter than wo do, for thoy novor interfere
with their customs and habits, and so
long as thoy pay tributo do not meddlo
with them; and that tho Indian juahom-
ctaiiB hato us, and tho Hindoos do not
liko us. Ono cannot, thereforo, help
wondering what may happon when tho
last of our available soldiers had been
Bont to tho Soudan, or toBochuanaland,
and tho two forces havo met somewhere
near the equator.
Commissioner Black has laaued Hie following
circular: To advance any ono ponalonjclalm out
ita of order lit to retard by much tho adjustment
of thousand of others which procode It In order
of flhuK. To prevent the practico of fraudu
lent Impositions upon the pcnalon office, uo
claims will be made apeclal, that ia, taken out
of their order for expedition, unleaa auch rca
aona are ahown in -writing aa will, In the Judg
ment or (lie cominuaiuonera. warrant aucn
action. Hero atatcracnta ot clalmanta them-
aelvca, uncorroborated by dialutoreated per
oua, will not bo deemed aufllcient to warrant
tucu apociai acuou.
Persian Rread.
"Persian bread, writes a corre
spondent now in Afghanistan, "is a
very peculiar production; it is made in
largo flaps, in some ca03 about a yard
long if ever the Persians reach tho
advanced state of morning newspapers
they might havo them printed on their
bread, so that thev could read the
news while thov oat and swallow
everything literally. On seeing theso
large Haps 1 have often thought that
they must resemble tho blacksmith s
leather apron which was the old
"tandard of Persia; if tho bread is not
made after that model thev have man
aged to produce an article very liko it,
uot only in size, but in color nud
toughness at tho same time. We havo
had now nearly two months exper
ience of this material, and it was a
delight on coming here to get for our
breakfast the first morning bread that
was made on a .-omewhat later model
than an old leather apron. The ehati.-es
of finding a change in th 's detail of our
daily life on reaching the Indian camp
had often been discussed on the waj,
particularly at breakfast, when we
acre hard at work trving to masticate
pieces of the leather kind. One of our
party said ho knew .liij. Kind, the
commissariat officer of llm other ramp,
and that ho was not likely to come
away without tho means of baking
good broad; but we had been so long
used to that rersian kind that these
assurances did not inspire much hope.
Thero ad beon doubts, but the.-.owere
dispelled at our first breakfast. Rut
tor actually appeared on the table
.yith the bread. I fear for the moment
wo either forgot, or thought lightly
of, the splendid pillaws in the break
fast prepared for us by tho governor
of Khorasan's cook at Meshed; or tho
many delicacies Ali Martian Khan
treated us with at Sarrakhs. One man
tried to talk while munching a mouth
ful of bread and butter, the amount
In his mouth slightly inleriored with
his articulation but wo made out that
ho meant to say it was almost as good
as arriving at Dover; of courso ho
meant lo add that it was after having
been a long timo in the cast away
from England, but at that moment he
had not a moment to spare, and loft
the scitciico in its incomplete form as
hero recorded."
.Mr. Boecher in Rtehiuoiul.
In 1877 Rev. Henry Ward Beoehur
came to Richmond for the first time
and lectured on "Hard Times." It
was rather hard times for Mr. Roocher
in public sentiment at that time, and
In; lectured to a house full of men.
Ho said then that ho would live to re
turn to Richmond and lecture, and to
tho ladies as well as gentlemen. Last
night he did lecture to a crowded
house at the theater, and that too, with
as full a proportion of our best ladies
us is generally seen in tin audience.
At 8:15 o'clock Mr. Boecher, accom
panied by Mr. Stable, of the theater
management, came out on the frtago,
and took a seat on a sofa whioli was
placed in the center of tho stage, Hank
ed by two chairs at each end. After
tlio gas was lighted in the rear of I ho
Hut which hid the rear part of the stage,
Mr. Stable came forward and, ad
dressing the audience, road a letter
from Mayor Carrington, in which tho
writer gave a good oxouso for having
to ask to bo excused Irom his en
gagement to introduce Mr. Reochor.
The mayor took occasion to assure
Mr. Boucher, to whom tho letter was
addressed, of his deep regret at not
boing able to bo present, and express
ed the hope that the timo would yet
come whon ho could testify his high
appreciation of tiio distinguished visi
tor. "On tins account, ladies and gen
ilemon, I have the pleasure of intro
ducing the Rev. Henry Ward Bomber,
who will now proceed to deliver his
lecture," said Mr. Stable. Mr.
Heoehor lias not altered any sineo his
last visit. He looks healthy and hap
py, and a soil-satisfied smilo played
on his jocund face as ho came forward
and in a low but distinct and measur
ed voico said: "It gives mo groat
pleasure to bo in Richmond. Many,
many mon worthier than 1 desired it
long and died without enjoying It."
Ho then alluded to the changes that
havo taken place, referred to Clove
laud's election, and said: "Not as a
matter of form, but with deepest sin
cerity the south and north had stretch
ed out hands to each other, aud with
their hands had gone their Jioarts. It
had boon the earnest desire of his
heart to see this country united, and
that, too, on a piano of perfect equali
ty to all, and that desuo had been
realized." Thi3 was received with
groat applause, as was Mr. Reecher's
lirst annearanco on tho stage. lltch-
vionul (J'rt.) Dispatah.
Water for Blasting Purposes.
The use of water in connection with
blasting in mJnosand quarries is rapid
ly extending In this country and Eu
rope. A tu ho lined with water is ill-
sorted in tiio bore holo next to tho
i w i ivnv fi rli'iil tm in flilin linfmr nf tliln
phito or ovjii of paper. Tho usual
tiiiiinlnir loiiows, and when tno explo
sion occurs, the tube containing the
water is buvst, tho oxplosivo violonco
being increased by tho presonco of tho
water and o clouded ovor tho enlarged
interior aren of tho bore hole, duo to
tho Hoaco occupied bv tho water tube.
A much larger quantity of the niatorial
to lie mined or quarrlod Is thereby
brought dawn or loosened with a
smaller quantity of oxplosivo used,
while tho heat of the explosion con
verts a portion of the water into steam,
which, with tho remaining water, ex
tinguishes tho iliui.o and absorbs and
neutralizes tho gases aud smoke gen
erated. Alia California.
A Building of (iliiH.s.
A queer building is in process ot
oroction in Chicago by a Boston man.
Tho walls will bo of plato glass, ami
thero will bu very littlo material in tho
wholo struuturo except glass, cement,
and red slate. Tho building io to bu
used for olllces, and it is calculated
that 75 per cent of tho entire npaco
can bo mado available, whoroas so
much room is taken up in ordinary
buildings by walls, halls, etc., that the
available space is only from 42 to 64
per cent. Tho walls of tho now edlllou
will contain about 370 lineal foot of
glass. Boston Transcript.
PASSING EVENTS.
A popular preacher at Chattanooga,
Tonn., is named Dumboll.
Mito steel is tho very latest for can
non, being extremely tough.
Work has commenced on a $100,000
court-house at El Paso, Tor.
Tho population of Atlanta, Ga. is
increasing at tho rate of nearly live
thousand n year.
A deposit of zinc oro thirty foot thick
and two miles long has been found ia
Marion county. Ark.
Aftor a druggist lins tilled a proscrip
tion it belongs to him, and not the cus
tomer who brought it to his store.
A largo number of miners aro leav
ing Victoria for new diggings in Alas
ka and northern British Columbia.
The convicts in tho Ohio poniton
tiarv ate -1,600 boiled eggs at Raster,
an average of three to each inmato.
It is stated that tho advanco orders
for tho revised biblo already exceed
those of tho revised Now Testament.
Distilled water is gaining in favor
for tablo use as well as in' tho treat
ment of diseases of tho digestive or
gans. Kentucky has usually beon classed
ns ti southern state, but now liguros in
the geographies as an eastern contral
stale.
A novolty in Long Island farming
tho present "year will bo tho oxtensivo
cultivation of peanuts as an experi
ment. It is said that thoro has not boon
such a run of shad in tho St. John's
river, Florida, for len years as during
tho present seaeon.
Spiritualists assort that thoexecssivo
use of tobacco drives oil' good spirits
.mil attracts all sorts of bad onos,
which work mischief.
The New York' Mail says a well
known society woman gaVo a largo
dinner party to celebrate tho reception
of her divorce papers.
Accident has added moro thau ono
weaj.on and appliance lo the armory
of wtir. The discovery of shot is duo
to a mechanic's dream.
An unusual number of houses am
now for rout in Now York, and many
private residences on Fifth avenuo aro
being converted into stores.
The Philadelphia custom-houso
comes under tho civil-service rules.
The mint does not, but in its manage
ment tiio rules are invariably followed.
There aro saitl to bo over two thou
sand postmasters in the United Statos
with a salary of less than $10 a year.
At Redolta, it. C, last year, tho salary
was I) cents.
It is comforting to remember that a
cold, Into spring brings a good har
vest. According to tho ancient saying:
When April blows his horn,
It doth Kod b.ith for liny nud corn.
Tito first fox-hunt of tho spring lias
taken place near Baltimore. Aftor a
good day, the club returned without
tho fox, which went lo earth near
where it started.
There is a salt lako in Hidalgo
county, Texan, which is ono mile in
length, live miles in circumfereuce,
and from three to four feet doop. Its
bed consists of crystals of puro salt.
A house tit Los Angeles, Cal., was
supposed to bo haunted, but an inves
tigation showed that an immonso
swarm of bees had mado their homo
in ono of tho walls and had storod it
with a largo quantity of tho finest
honey.
livery Salvation army ollicor plodgos
himself in writing not to court any
girl who belongs to his post. Unlos's
tho Now York Salvation lassies aro
axcoptions to tho rule, says The Graph'
ic, we should think tho precaution en
tirely unnecessary.
Fifty-three gold doposits, amounting
to l.'J.OItO ounces, were made in tlto
Helena, Montana, assay olllco up to
March ill, 18SI. Up to March ;il, 1885,
1G9 deposits wore mado, Hiiiountin;; to
2;i,,r)07 ounces, showing an increase
ovor 1881 for tho same period of 10,477
ounces.
Two writers, a Gorman and Ameri
can, havo written now learned treatises
on the sito of tho Garden of Eden.
The Gorman decides that that resort
was tho Syro-Arabian desert. The
American locates Eden at tho North
pole. Botii results are equally con
vincing. That pegged shoos and boots aro
still quite extensively used might bo
inferred from the tact that n pog
manufacturing company at Bartlott,
N. II., is turning out tho littlo wooden
articles at the rate of 1,800 bushels a
day, and has orders on hand that will
requiro several months to.fill.
A loading man of a Now York thea
ter illustrated tho hold which super
stition still maintains on many who
would bo least suspected of tho woak
ncss. Going up to. a minor actros.s
who felt complimented to bo addressed
by tho prominent actor, ho bogged a
favor. "Ho not carry an opeh parasol
on tho stage. It is 'bad luck. Tho
play will not succeed if you tako on
that parasol, I am suro." To oblige,
tho olliwidliiir articlo was closed anil
tho actor's fours calmed.
An Atlanta, Ga., man claims to havo
discovered a new principle in hydraul
ics that will revolutionize pumplug.
Hitherto it has beon an established
belief that water will not rise in a
Vacuum to n higlit of moro than thirty
three feet. For that reason pumps aro
gonorally sot within twenty-six foot
of tho water. By tho now discovery
the pumping machinery can be put on
the surface of tho earth and us fur
from tho water as is necessary. Tho
inventor claims to have pumped water
out of an artesian well in'lexas six
hundred feot deep.
i Roport has it that a female dentist
In Uregou resorted to a novoi uovico
to obtain a husband. She had as u
mtient n luindsoino gentleman, and
ono day gave mm a uoso oi other that
confused, but did not mako him insen
sible. Thou alio Bont for a clorgyman,
and while tho subjoot was under the
intluenco of tho drug tho two were de
clared man ami wife. When the man
recovered his senses ho expressed sur
prise, Aim somo disgust, at what hsu ,
occurred, owing to tho fact, not be
fore known to the fair dentist, tk&tta
ttlready possessed wife.