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l'i:i!SU.AI. AXI OT1IICK XOTI2S.
Mr. How ells is lo pass the winter ut
Washington.
President Cleveland not Infrequently joins
liia wire in singing sentimental songs in the
evening.
liisliop Klllcot, ot tlio clmrcli of England,
is i crack billiunl player, nnil paints excel
lent pictures.
George Francis Train announces Hint lie
lias now quit talking UchiUlteii. lit; writes
as niucli as ever.
Wade Hampton's lienllli grows lietter as
ho crows oliler, and his old wounds now
cause Iii m little pain.
Congressman Smalls (colored), of South
Carolina, has had his daughters educated
in Massachusetts seminaiies.
Henry Ward Needier declares that he
-will not, cross the Atlantic again until there,
is a bridge spanning its turbulent waters.
Andrew I). White, ex-president of Cornell
university, has a library of over thirty
-thousand volumes, which ho intends to
leave to Cornell.
Loriug Pickering, editor of the San Fran
cisco Call, has just become father to a vig
orous buy. Mr. Pickering is 70 years old,
and Home lime ago married for the third
time.
Senntor Vance's summer home, "Gom
broon," is in the wildest part of the IP110
lthlgonnd l'.lack mountain country, 12.700
feet above the sea and eight miles from any
railroad.
Prince liisnmrck hns resumed his little
dinner parties. IIo invites a few gentlemen
to each, prefers lo seo thorn informally
rircsstd, insiHts upon frank talk, and gives
them two wines only, a good red wine Hint
and a very dry champagne afterward.
Mit-s Kate Field, the charming literary
lady, snys she is tired of the world and
would be glad to live apart from the fash
iouablc bustle. That is where she differs
from the majority of her sister ladies, who
evidently like to have to have the bustle
about them all the time.
Robert Grant read at tho latest meeting
of the. Papyrus club in Boston a clever skit
satirizing both tho idealists and realistic
extremes in fiction, through a dialogue be
tween representatives of tho two schools,
who were endeavoring to collaborate in a
short love story of the people.
that ma i:xi'imss itoiiiinnY.
St. Louis special: A special lrom Ne
vada, Mo., says : Frank James, ex-train
robber, received the folio .vine letter yester
day, containing four new bank bills:
St. .Iosucii, Oct. 31. To Frank Jnmes.
Esq. Dear Sir: Plenseaceept the enclosed
as a memento of tho late 'Frisco train rob
bery of October 125. Yours u iily,
Jim Cumminos.
The enclosure consisted ol four unsigned
national bank notes made for the Mer
chants' and Planters' National bank ol
Sherman, Mo. The notes were one $20
and three $10 bills, the latter of which had
not been detached from each other. Tin
letter was written evidently in a disguised
hand, and was mailed tro a St. Joseph on
November !l. Manager DiiiiisdII, of the ex
press compnnv, was shown the above dis
patch, and sn'id that the detectives were
alreadv following up tho clow contained in
it, biit'he did not know whether tho money
stolen October l'f contained that received
bv Frank James yesterday or not. He
would nHcorlain. however, as soon as pon
sible. He hud two theorit'H in legard to the
affair: The ten I robber had sent tho letter
to turn suspicion upon James and put
the detectives on the wrong trail, or else
some over-zealous detective leally thought
Jim Ciiininiiigs and Frank James weieoue,
and wanted to so whateffect tho reception
of the letter and bank notes would have
upon him and what (Imposition ho would
make of them. Tlio mutter would bo fullj
investigated, and might lead to some inter
esting (lev shipments.
HOW IT WOULD SVAXIi.
Washington, Nov. 9. According- to the
rote of Tuesday last the electoral college con
sisting of 401 electors, would btand us follows:
DUMOCHATIO.
Alnbnmn
-Arkansas. . . . ,
Colorado
Delaware:
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Munhiurt
Mississippi....
Missouri
lOiNevv Jcrey !l
V '..... .'
7 1 New Vor
.... if North Carolina...
.... IljSniitli Carolina...
... 4lTcunc.4scej
.... 12ITVxns
11
9
12
311
12
.... lit! Virginia.
....
.... 8
.... 0
... 1(5
West Virginia (5
Total C01
Illinois ...
Jnwa
Kansas . . .
Maine
Michigan .
Nebraska.
Nevada . . .
22 Ohio
b'l(Oregon
.... 9 lViin-vlvanla.,
2.1
:t
3)
1
11
Vermont. . . .
Wisconsin . .
Total U'2
Calafornln
Connecticut...
Indiana
MafrsaihilscUs.
Minnesota
Dounrrtn.
... 8 1 New Hampshire. .. 4
... (i 1 Rhode Island 4
... 1.)
.... 11 Total M
,. . 7
is a srAiirixa coxoi riox.
Washington dispatch: The secretary of
the interior having received from tho war
department a telegram from Gen. Howard
saying that Gen. Miles repents that 700
Ilunlpal Indians located on 11 reservation
in Northwestern Arizona, are now in a
destitute condition in a barren country
and must be fed or starve, has reepiexted
that tlio military authorities issue two
thirds rations per day to those Indians to
tho extent of $0,000, tlio whole of the ap
propriation mud., by congre-s for ther
. support, and in event that that sum proven
iiiHiillicioiit to subsist them through the
winter months, or until they are abo to
provide for theuisel ves; that the interior
department bon.l vised ot thofact before t tie
$15,000 is exhausted, when further provis
ion will, if possible, bo made for their sub
Histeuce. Tho government ration for an
Indian is t lit eo pounds of beei greins and
Lull a pound of Ilour per day.
IXTKItXAl. ItM'HXUK UUCKll'TS.
Washington, Nov. 9. The total collections
-of Internal revenue from the time tho present
system Rt oryan.zed, July 1, 1S0J. up to June
, 3), ibisij wcro f3,aiS12'JJ,l.V. The states In
which t be aggregate col cctlons reached nv.T
$100,0)0,0)0 were: Now York, fiXXl, 700,000;
Jim 01 w.t,.(V o,oo,0; Ohio, $372, Ml; I'eiinm -yania,
26s,!jo,(mi; Kentucky, WU.40i.OM;
AbvK'icbtKeUi. mUiO.OJ; M Mourl, 127.&M,.
'(AM: luiliilllll. Kl I, m 1 fkin. lr. &inr.i,i.l-
UOJ, II IX I iw .l, r,.i mi vim ,i 1
r .. "-pre'aMe receipts from liiteriial rev.
nue," remark.-! un MhW of the tr.-tmirv lo
, ?o fcunlVK,"'t l Imve paid the entire
public debt at IU highem ligur,., f,7.V.43l,
.171 mid leave 11 balai.eje of f rtl.bM.&St if they
had beeu uj.j.ied o thut purpose."
William J. Sexton hu been declared elected
io pari ameut for the wwteru dlvUlon of Uel
JatU The ooiirt rejected the charge of bilbery J
trcforred by Mr. UsslotL I
nu.sTXHss jinmitK rt.i:.tsvni:.
I'rrrlilnil Clrrrlmitl .Xmr f Worli on Ills
.Wriif;r iik( 1171 Xothe llollirml by OJicr
Srrkm. Washington special: Among the presi
dent's callers to-day was a man named
1) ily, who used his hands ns preqiellei s, his
legs having been amputated near the thighs
and only the stumps remaining. It was
remarked by all present, the number of
pretty girls au.l the well-to-do aspect of the
majority of the callers to day, but none
were more cheery and appreciative than
the president's maimed visitor. Calling
lit itt by namo the piesident stoopi-d down
to grasp one of the hands which served as
feet, and the poor fellow straightened up
visibly alter the kindly gteeting from the
brad of the nation. Daily belongs in Phil
adelphia, and is employed as an engineer
on one of the local steamers. The trip to
llostou seemed to have exhilarated the
piesident, and few of his calleis this after
noon were permitted to pass without an
expression of pleuritic at meeting them.
The president's rule not to receive nny
visitors, exiept upon puiely ollicial buxi
ii"ss and at 11 tri weekly afternoon recep
tion goes into effect to-morrow. He pro
poses lo devote his principal attention
iroiu now on until congress meets to the
pre piiriition of his annual message, mid
will not bo bothered about appointments-.
Ni:w SUOAIIl.NO I'KOCKSS.
The follow iug telegram has been received
nt the department of lurirult lire:
"Ft. Scott. Ivan., Nov. h. To tho Com-mi-sioiier
of Agi ieult are: We (iniilied boil
ing eighty-three tons of Louisiana cane to
night; mado nearly 10,00.) pounds of
strike. A weighed portion run into cen
trifugal gave 5 1 per cent of dried mi gar.
This will bo mote than 120 pounds of
BUgar per ton. The nine juice had 10 per
cent of nucrose, 1 h-1 0 per cent of glucose,
nnil 1 per ( cut of total solids. It would
have iiiiule only Si) pounds by the old pro
cess. Wo have increased the yield fully 40
pounds per ton. Sugar of line quality.
Wii.i:y, ( liemist."
This dispatch is regarded bv the aiithoii
tics at tlie ugi iciiltural department as a
iiHilliucnt of the promise of impoitaut re
Hiiltn given by the litst expel iiuonts in the
diffusion process as applied to sugar cane.
Tin: cast, op i-.Mti.isi.i:.
Representative Wellborn of Texas, who
is one of the ablest nnd most expeiieuced
parliumeiitariaus 111 the house, was asked
to day what effect a contest over Carlisle's
seat should there be a contist would
have upon Ids ciindidaey for the speaker
(.hip of tho house. Wellborn replied:
"Should there be a contest over Carlisle's
Heat the house itself will, in some suitable
way, select a committee on elections, and
thus Catlisle will be relieved of any possi
bil ty of enibarnissment on that score. To
hold that Thobe's contest w it li ('a rlisle
disipial lies the bitter for speaker is illog
ii al and absurd. If such holding were fol
lowed, the inlliienceand powerof tliecliosen
leader of the dominant pin ty in the house
could be effeitually crushed at any time by
spi inging a contested elect ion ease, no inn I
ter how absolutely devoid it miht be of
merit."
Tilt; API'KOl'Itl.VTION nn.i..
Mr. Randall, chairman of the commit too
on approprintioiis, is expected to urrivo
here on the IStli inst. to get things in
lendiness for the meeting of his committee,
which takes place, if a quotum can bo
brought together, on Dee. 2. Among the
nieiiibeiH who 1110 confidently expected uro
tlm-e composing tlie sub-committee 011 tlie
sundry civil uppropi opriatioii bill, which
measure it is said to bo Randall's tiurposo
to have in readiness to be reported to the
house at tlio opening of tho session. The
estimates aro now in the hands of the
printer. It is said, though not by otlirial
milhority, that their uggicgato is slightly
helow tlio total of last year s appropria
tioiis.
Tim yiki.u or coiin.
Tlie yield of corn, acceirding to tlio re
vised returns, is twenty-two bushels per
aeie, making the product upon present ad
justmentof acreage of 1 ,(i(i8.000,000. This
accords well with the present returiiKot the
couduiou, and will not lo materially
changed in the final review work of tlio
year. Tho yield of great rorn surplus
states is wtrinolc, t no lowest, of course, 111
tlio region of tho drought. Ohio, .12.;!; In
diana, 2.1; Illinois, 21.7; Iowa. 2J.o;M a
souri, 22.2; Kansas, 21. II; Nebraska. 27.5;
Now York and Easternstatesexceed thirty
bushels; Pennsylvania nearly as much, ami
the Southern states a geueially reduced
rate of yield.
Till! 1IOSTOX ICXICIITS AllOVSr.l).
lioston dispatch: There has been con
siderablo excitement among tlio Knights of
Labor in this city recently over tlio dis
covery Hint qnito a number of members of
the order had gono to Chicago to inn k in
the parking houses in which labor troubles
aro at present existing. Tho Exerutivo
lloard of District assembly. No, 30 of tho
Knights of I.nbor to-day issued a circular
to all Knights in tho district, cullimr their
attention to tho packing liouso troubles
mid forbidding them under penalty, to go
to Chicago to work in those houses until
the troubles aro bii tlrd.
Jle Is Afraid,
It Is quite likely that Powderly himself
knows what he means, but It Is quite certain
he docs not desire that nnvbexly else shall.
Ills annual address to the General Atsi-mbly
of tho K. of L. at Richmond Is merely a string
of words of no more value to tho worklngmen,
for tho tlckliui; of who'e cars they are spoken,
than are the wouls that ling In party platform
resolutions. Powderly says the "contest" In
which the knights are engiigi d Is "not a war
of labor against capital," but that it has to
be "determined wh eh sha'l rule monopoly or
the American p onle, gold or manhood,"
Further ho reuiiuks that "the monopolM of
to-day Is more dangerous than the slave owner
of the wist," and that "anarchy Is the legiti
mate child of monop'ilv." In reviewing the
many labor failures of tho jear, Powderly
tavs that the cigi t-hour strike'was premature,
and that before tho -hnrt-hiur syMctii will he
of any hem lit the relation wluci the woikman
beuis to labor mv ug machines must undergo
a radical change, "The inuchlno must be
come the slave of the mini Instead of the man
being subord ualc to the m ichinc."
In other words Powderly is willing to talk
war us long us it be thoroughly understood
that there Is to be none, and to admit the
lights of labor a, Ions 11 s It will undertake to
merely thcoilze upon the subject and commit
no overt act tow r,l claiming those rights.
Under such rules of conduct the K. of b. be
comes a mi re machine for the purjxeof pav
ing hall lent for weekly Indulgence In oratory
and the collection of assessments for the pay
ment of olllccrs' salares l'owelerly Is evl
denilv contented that It shall so remain, and
It w.ll bj well for the mouoKillsts as long as
the Order Is as content us Powderly,
We do not hellere Powderly really wants to
ftand jitlil; he Is simply afraid to 'move le
cause he do bts his Jxiwcr to Hop any move
ment when once begun by an organization
numbering at least 1 100,000 un mb ts In good
standing. O ie of the noted Hour chiefs was
niim-sl 'Yniiiip-1 Man-Afrald-nf-HU-Ilnraes."
PoMileilv m glit be culled "uld-Man-Afra.d of
111 Asseuiliile." ban VjHfure JJai.y K
port. "Now come and tell me, Deane, what was
Ibe most Interesting thing lu the sermon this
morning." "Why, mamma. It was where the
minister told about somebody taking some
ls,dv else 'a hart:' b it he didn't tell vrhv It was
- v ' 1
done, or how he wai put together egalu." J
,'il.jl, IttrtXf.
Wealthy Xrg-tvtps-.
doim W. Cromwell. a tu'ro journalist
in IMiilailidpliia. lias i-ompiled an iut r
itinj i'li bit of the business condi
tions ef his nu in America.
The Carolina take the load in tho
number of well-to-do negroes. North
Carolina Inn twenty who are worth
from ilO.liOO to S.50.0.W ouch. In
South Carolina the negroes own $10. -OOD.OOO
worth ef property. In Cnarles
ton fourteen men represent 'OO.OOO.
Thotna K.Smalls ts worth .lS.(lOi), anil
Charles C. Leslie is worth $12.0 0.
This family of Noisettes, truck fanners,
are worth' $150,000. In the city sav
Yvz banks the negroes have $121. MO.
IIo on deposit. One man has over $",
000. He recently bought a $10,U0J
plantat on and paid $7,000 in cash.
In Philadelphia John McKee is, worth
half a million. 'He owns -tOJ houses.
Several are worth $100,000 each.
The negroes of New Yeirkown from
live to six mill on dollars' worth of real
estate. 1'. A. White, a wholesale) drug
gist, is wen-til a quarter of a million and
has an annual business of $200,0 0.
Catherine lilaek is worth $1.10.000.
In New .Jersey the negroes own $2,
000.000 worth of real estate. Haiti
more has more negro homo owners
than any other largo city. Nineteen
men are worth a total of $300,000.
John Thomas the wealthiest, is worth
about $150,000. Less than a hundred
ncgreics in Washington aro worth a
total of $1,000.0 M.
lu Louisiana the negroes pay taxes
on $l."i.000.000 in New Orleans and
$;il).00J,0J0 in tlui state. lon e Laf.ni.
u French quadroon, is worth $1,100.
000. Tlie Mercer lirotliers, clothiers,
carry a stock of $.1)0.000. Missouri
has twenty-seven citizens worth $1.
OOd.OOO. 111 amounts ranging from $2J,
000 to $'.ViO,000.
The r chest colored woman of the
south, Amanda lCubanks, made so by
the will of her white father, is worth
$100,000, and lives near Augusta, (la.
Chicago, tho home of 18,000 colored
people, has three colored linns in busi
ness whose proprietors represent $20,-
0)0 each, one $15,010 and nine 10,-000-
Tlio Kastlake furniture company
is worth $20,000. A. J, Scott has
i?35.000 invested in the liverv business
and is worth $100,00J, including a well
stocked farm in Michigan. Airs. John
Jones and llichard Grant are worth
$70,000 each. A. G. Whito of St,
Louis, formerly purveyor to tho
Anchor line of steamers, after financial
reverses, has since the ago ef 45 re
trieved his fortunes anil accumulated
$130,01)0. Mrs. M. Carpenter, a San
Franc see) colored woman has a bank
account of $50,000, and Mrs. Mary
Pleasants has an inconio from eight
houses in San Francisco, a ranch near
San Mateo and $100,030 in govern
ment Ijonels. tn .Marvsvillc, Cal.
twelve individuals are the owners of
ranches valued in the aggregate at
from $150,000 to $1S0,000. One of
them, Mrs. Peggy lh'edan, has besides
a bank account of $10,000. These
statistics show that the brother in
black is making some headway in the
world, He is learning to '-tote his
own skillet." Exchttnye.
Young Disciples of Zola.
A trial which lias just taken plaeo in
tlie Pas de Calais discloses in a sink
ing manner the pernicious u fleet of cer
tain hinds of literature on the weak
minds of the young. Two cousins of
111, sons of comfortable fanners in tho
department, had be.'n in the habit of
reading sensat onal romances. One of
them named Clement Muchenibl -d fell
in love with a girl of 15 named Mane
l.eelent, and their amours became the
subject of some verses written at tho
carnival time by a local poetaster.
Those verses we're rather uncompli
mentary to Clement, who consulted his
cousin ilonry, a notary's clerk, about
thorn, lie had received his copy of them
from Marie Ledent, with whom he was
accordingly fur.ous. Tlio two cousins
armed themselves with long knives to
ho like Fenuiinore Cooper's heroes,
and called themselves by two Indian
names used by that novelist. They
had at first intended to hang or shoot
tho g rl Ledent as she passed through
a forest, but resolved to dispatch her
with the knives instead. They soi.eel
her one evening, and, having cut her
throat, gashed her body in seventeen
places. The young rascals had writ
ten a long account of the murder and
tlio circuinUances leaeling up to it,
which they had entdleil "A Horrible
Drama" The production showed
touches of naturalism worthy of Zola.
The miscreants have been condemned
to fifteen yerrs' penal servitude each,
and the r parents havo to pay X'3-'0 to
the father ot the murdered girl. 'am
Cor. London Tclajra h.
His Creditors.
"I am sorry you havo takon down
tho window screens, madaiuo," said
Dallawag. "I felt tolerably secure
from being bored by creditors as long
ns tho screens were in."
Creditors!"
"Ves, for tho last fow nights, thny
have poured in and presented their
bills, a elozon at a time.
"Well, I'm sorry, I'm sure; but 1
haven't seen a soul call on you for 11
week. And as for coining through a
third storv wiudow. vou must havo
dreamed it."
"O, no, 1 didn't; there is onoof them
on the ceiling now, that I paid In full
last night," repl ed Dallawag, as ho
pointed to a gorged mosuuito on tho
ceiling. Cart I'relzeVs Weekly.
Feathers Aro Unhealthy.
Don't liko your bed, Mr. Withers?"
"No. ma'am, I do not,"
'You're tho first boirdor I ovor had
that kicked on the buds. It's an insin
uation against my establishment, sir."
Can't help it.
Feather beds, too, for every boarder
in tho house!"
'That's lust it I in satisfied that
they're unhealthy."
"reatlier been iiniicaitiiyr'
"Yos, ma'am."
"What makes you think so?"
"That Miring chlolcon vou had for
dinner to-day. He slept in feathers,
and aee how lough he wasl" Chicago
Led'jer,
CURING HARD DRINKERS.
J, l'lilliidolpliln Woman'M Wonderful
Success In tlie Troittniciit ol
Victims of Alcohol.
What should be the treatment of vic
tims of alcohol is a ipiestion, says The
l'h.liuUlihia Times, wh eh has been
discussed and argued for many jenrs
ami is still undetermined. Various
forms of treatment have been offered
as the best and safest, but as yet there
has been no specific remedy accepted
by the world. The poor bummer who
is whirled to the station-house in a
patrol-wagon with his brain muddled
with 5 cent rum. lies in his cell all
night, and goes to Moyatnensing
prison the next morning. Unless ho is
actually attacked with delirium tremens
ho is allowed to stiller the tortures of
tho damned unattended by doctor or
nurse until turned out. If ho has be
come a nuisance to tho policemen tho
bummer may bo sent to tho house of
correction. There the eloctor doses
him with bromido of potassium unt.l
his nerves are c timed, and a few weeks'
work in the epiarry makes a new man
of him. There are retreats and sanitari
ums and ri'Iorinalory homes bv tho
score in an 1 about the city for inebri
ates of social .standing ami wealth, and
the hosp tals care fer the unfortunates
who may be brought to them, but in all
of them the attendance in furnished by
men. In but one iustane is tlie physi
cal care of drunken creatures devolved
upon women.
St. Joseph's hospital, situated at,
Seventoentii street and Girard avenue,
is a well-known institution, but fow uro
familiar with the departm nt set aside
for tlie cure and treatment of rum v e;
tims. It has been in existence for nine
years, under the supervision of Sister
liuptista, whoso success has been re
markable. Within the past two ve.irs
although hundreds of in -n havo been
under her chargo, from the raving
maniac in the agony of elel rium to tlie
harmless toper whose mind is incapa
ble of frenzy, not a death has occurred.
The department consists of twenty
large, bright and airy rooms, and is
comfortably furnished, with cheerful
d ning, reading, and .smoking rooms.
Appl cation tor a.linNs on is madelo
the mother superior, but Sister Hap
tista has thu department under her su
premo control. Each patient is placed
in her charge immediately em entering
the hospital, and she al once assigns
him to a room, makes a thorough diag
nosis eif his case, and studies bis tem
perament, in order to understand not
only how to treat, but also how to con
trol him in h s abnormal condition.
From information and p.-isonal obser
vation the sister eleeides up. 111 tlio man
agement of each particular case. To
this is largely due the wonderful suc
cess that has attended her labors. It s
a desperate e-aso that under Sister Hap
tista's care and niauancineiit is not
controlable within a week. Tho pre
liminary st -ps taken she proceeds with
the medical treatment, ke ping careful
watch over patients who have reached
a dangerous age and are w Id and
ll.ghty. The first ot.j -ct is to secure
the patient sleep and rest. With sloop,
even though induced by opiates, the
danger line is passed, and then the
work of tenting up the nervous system
and strengthening the stomach begins.
Sister Haptista has reduced this portion
of the treatment to perfection. As soon
as slie considers it safe the patient is
ollered light and nourishing soups,
grind, eir beef tea, but they aro not
forced on him, If he declines one
another is placed before him. and if
that fails to tempt his appeiite still
another, and so on until something is
found that Ins stomach responds to and
will retain.
After the first successful attempt tho
appetite grows rap illy and the eligcst
ive organs resume their functions.
Then the patient beg ns to look and
feel like himself, and generally within
two weeks can elo full justice to three
meals a da, with an occasional lunch
con thrown in. Absolute rocovesry elu
pen.ls in a great measure upon the con
stitution iinel will-power of the man.
The names and identity of patients aro
sealed from the outsid 1 world, but a re
cent patient g. ves somo interesting in
cidents of the daily life of the depart
ment. "It was astonishing and often amus
ing," said he, "to seo tlio wonderful
control S ster Haptista obta nod over
patients whose braim wore racked by
long dissipation and who would run n
fear from their relat ves and fr,onds.
I havo seen patients of this k 11 1 wuom
two strong watchmen could not force
into their room, at a weird from th s
delicate little woman iju'oily go to their
beds and beg the s ster not to lock
them up.
"In their preliminary treatment pa
tients aro given 1 epior at intervals, am!
it is pitiable to listen to their pleadings
for an extra allowance, anil the argu
ments with with winch they bos eg.) the
sister. She listens to them patiently,
reasons w.tli them good nature. Ily, but
tho extra ration never follows unioss it
is apparent that it is a nee tssity.
here aro not a few who have boon
sent out by Sister Haptista reloivd to
health and recouped lor the dot es of
life more than once to have them re
turn in u few months or a year, agu 11
wrecked by ruin. A well-known and
prosperous business man periodically
enters tlie retreat when liquor has the
best of him, in a fow days recovers his
appetite and senses, and ruiurus to iiis
famdy. A singular case is that of thu
head of a leading I'hdadulp iia ineliis
try, whom 1 saw there convalescing
from the alcoholic malady. When ho
became rational and was on the high
roael to complete restoration, his wife,
who had devotedly watched his treat
ment, one morning insisted that he re
turn homo, ns h s large business de
manded Ids attention. It was agaoist
Sister Haptista's judgment and advice,
as she was niralil lie was not strong
enough to resist temptation mid requir
ed a longer probation from 1 epior. IIo
left, however, looking br glilann cnur
fill, and his wife accoiupauied him from
thu hosp tal a very happy woman.
That even ng he was brought back
loaded with liquor and a fghjuol for
furtu.-r repairs.
"1 saw a young man not out of his
teens, whose father sn ropoutod mur-
i chant ntV?l whose mother anil s'stor
idolize him, b -ought to this r. treat
while I was there. se ora.v and un
I nmi!i!oablo from a protracted spree
I t hat it was nee 'ssary to lock him up.
' It was two ilav s b 'fore it was safe to
leave him alone. He saiel he had been
in drinker but a .short tini . but his
I associates were stteh that it was one in
1 cessunt round of dissipation w.tli him.
His parents had tried every wav to lead
I him to .sobriety and lie had struggled
I hard, but in vain, to please) them and
I redeem himself. They had placed him
under Sister Haptista's care, and he
I was glad of it. for he believed that if
he was once thoroughly sobered up ho
I would not fall again. " At present lie
is lining a responsible position in his
father's establishment.
"In striking contrast with his case is
that of an old man over O'O years of
age, who has retired from business
with sonic $20,000 who has for years
bo. u a regular patient of Sister
Haptista. The whisky habit is chrou e
with him, but as he has no immediate
relatives or friends to nurse or care
for him when he breaks down, from
excessive drink, and as ho is harmless,
he is roe -ived whenever he applies,
Which is at frceptc nt intervals."
A Novel Settlement.
A City of Mexico correspondent
writes: Up in the mountains, about
twenty leagues from this capital, there
is a "pueblo." or commuii.ty of pure
Indians, winch is governe I bv six wise
old men and s venerable women, who
form a sort of patr. archill council, to
which all the disputes or d Herenees
occurring in the Village aro submitted
for arbitration. In order to attain pa
triarchal d gnity, a man must, during
hisvoiith an 1 middle age have been
honest, laborious, and truthful. The
in. anarch must have brought up a fam
ily of children proprlv, and never
been given to lying, stealing or gossip
ing. lu this pueblo each Saturday is sot
apart for labors of love and charity.
All the able-bodied men and women
leave their own land or usual occupa
tions anil till the grounds of the wid
ows and young orphans, or else work
torthe bcnetit eif the old, sick, blind,
and helpless. Sum. 'times, when there
is a large family of bos and the par
ents can not give each land "whereon
to raise his food," soin 1 energetic
youth, who has heard of tho great
world called "Alexico City." desire to
go there to earn his bread and prehaps
that, toei, of some dusky maiden whom
he elesigns or hopes to wed. Tho fact
that he does not know a phrase of
Spanish rarely deters him; moreover,
there are a few learned men in .Mexico
CiU w lio understand the Ottouite lan
guage. When the family of a young Indian
has consented to the proposed exodus
the patriarchs and the matriarchs
hold a ".solemn comic.. I," wa.s and
means are discussed, and then tho
would-be emigrant is earnestly admon
ished: "He) brave, honest, truthful, and
industrious, and never disgrace your
pueblo by any act unworthy an Otto
nnc." The lad's departuro is a serious af
fair. Tho entire community accompa
ny h m to a certain boundary litt; and
the "venerable fathers and mothers"
bestow llieir benediction upon h in.
In the cotirs) of tini ;. or whenever thu
exile has a chance to send a m.tssago
to his nat vo laud, tho "venerable
father! and mothers" aro in teuilorlv
remembered as Ins own ' blood kin'
What Ailed Him.
"Oh dear, doctor!'' cried out Air.
Pauginpaunoh, "l can't stand these
pains. Every now and then I gel. a
sort of a cucumber yank that makes mu
feel as if mv semi-colon was doing duty
as gonlian knot. Is there no help for
mo?"
"I can tell better when I havo learn
ed the came of your trouble. Have
you been over indulgent at the table,
Air. l'anginpaunch? '
' Far from it, doctor! far front ouch!
ni-m-in inighty, Goliah! what a yank
that was. O doctor! do lull mu what is
tlie ma tor with me."
"F.rsl tell mo what you have oaten,
my good sir!"
"Nothing nn-uii-un Usual doctor. I
took about my Whoopy! they've luni
cel the crank again; I feel as if they
were winding my duodenum on a wind
lass There, there! Its letup again.
Notli ng unusual, doelor. I had somo
mulagal.iwiiy soup and somo vension
and a hltlo tripe and a fow eggs, some
potato salad, a do.en or two rice cakes,
an oyster p e, a platter of eaulillowor,
half a .lo.eii of sweet potatoes, a pint
of ice cream and a watermelon.
That's all, doctor.''
"That's all oh? Oh, then you're
merely sufl'uring from an attack of hog
cholera!'' Yonker.i Uutetto.
Matrimony Day,
"Matrimony Day" iu gedt ng to bo
epi te an institution nt county fairs. A
Now York count, fair rccontly gave a
$500 wedding outfit to a couple who
were marred on tho grounds. Hon.
It. I'. Flower added $U0 from his pri
vate purse and the railroad running to
Niagara Falls passed the happy pair
free to that groat curiosity una back.
This is a rather high pruui tun to pav
for gott ng two young people married,
but a good deal less would no doubt ef
fect thu object, in many instances. On
the whole the malr inouinl feature of
the comity fair cannot help proving an
inturuitiug and excellent cue. Terra
Haute Mail.
Scandinavian Names.
"Funny thing nbout my ancostry,"
said Ole Williamson, u son of Scandin
avia, tlie other day. "Away back, my
original ancestor was Ali Olesou, his
sou was Ole Alison, and he named his
boy Andrew Oleson. His sou was John
Anderson; his sou Andrew Johnson.
M grandfather was Jacob Hurgotrom,
his brother William Stromberg. My
lather was called Henry Jaeobson, and
they named mu Ola Williamson."
"Thou your sou?"
'Will bo William HenryBou." Chi
cayo Ledger.
BYRON AND BULWER.
Tticlr Domestic Dlnicultlcs nr.d At .
tempi nt Arbitration.
In his "Heininiscenccs" just published
S r Francis Do.v lo says that on two oc
casions Ids father "hail to tako upon,
himself the difficult and disagreeable
task of arbitrating between a husband
ami wife, anil that after a reconciliation
hael become impossible1. Tho husbands
in both cases were eminent men, though
not ijuitc of eepial eminence. Lady Hy
ron, an olel family frienel of ours, whun
driven to desperation, applied to my
father to act on her behalf."
"Tins he did. Hut as ho felt bound
in honor te) disclose nothing, the greedy
our.ositv of the public must not expect
any food from me, who know no mora
than the-y elei. I can only tell them that
inv father never repented of what ho
had done. The one point I can speak
of which appears to 1110 worth noting is
this: Here were three men m father.
Dr. Lushington. and Sir Robert Wilmot
llortem, a cousin and early friend of
Lord Hvron's. They were all three men
of great ability, they were all three
thorough men of the world, they wero
all three men who had worked out their
lives on perfectly ditVcreut lines. My
father had been tos-eel about tin world
from the time that he found himself 11
captain 111 the ariuv at 11; l)r Lushing
ton was a distinguished Oxford man
ami fellow of a college, whei bi came a
highh -successful uihoeu'e; Sir Robert
Horton, the cousin, a lounir) seiuiro of
goeel position, afterward an able civiL
servant and profess onal politic an.
And yet these three men. so different
in their antecedents and characters,
were completely iu unison, and held that
Lady H run had no choice except to sep
arate herself from her husband! Thoy
were, 1 said, all men of the world. In
other wends, if Lady Hy run's anger
had been roused eu discovering Hint
Lord Hron was not an irrcprotuJinblu
husband, they would, 1 am sure, have
told her in very pia 11 language: "As
you chose with your eyes open lo mar
ry a man of wavward "genius, who is at
the .same time the spoilt chilel of socie
ty, you can not expect him te) behave
exactly like a model archdeacon; you
must accept the consequences of tmr
own lashness, and try to touch" tho
higher and better parts of his nature by
gcntless and preserving all'cction." As
they did not tako this course, 1 must
leave le Lord Hvron's partisans to set
tle for themselves how it came to pass
that since these threo gentlemen, be
ing the men they wore, if Lord Hyroti's
conduct wore pardonable at all. never
suggested lo his wife that she should
pardon him."
Again, many years afterward, ho at
tempted te mediate between Lord and
Lady Lyttem (shu was a cousin of ours),
but iu vain.
"Her temper was in such a state of
inllainmatiou that she would listen to
no moderate counsels, anil my father
had to sit still under her furious in
vectives wh 1st ilying of heart disease.
1 have always thought that by hor im
placable egotism she shortened his life.
Long after h.s death I put my resent
ment on one side and tr oil to help her,
but she soon became intractable. Lord
Lyttou. who al wins behaved with per
fect courtesy, both te my father and
in sul f, ollered to increase her allow
ance on certain conditions. 1 thought
them reasonable enough; but the very
mention of the word "conditions"
drove her wild with rage, and a storm
of abuse fell on my devoted head. Our
intercourse enilcd'with a letter address
ed to me with a hostile direction. Tim
inside of the letter matched the out
s ele, and 1 never saw or communicated
with her again."
Imagination Precedes Fact.
At least two of tho amusing soion
tilic conceits of that erratic French nov
elist, Jules Verno. have this year boon
proven to ho practical realities. Soma
weeks ago wo gave an account of a
new torpedo boat grimly named tho
"Pcacoinakor," which actually sailed
about under the waters of the Hudson
with a crew aboard, after the ma iner
of Verne's "Nautilus." Now, apro
pos of that writer's "Around tho
world in Highly Days" wo not uo that
the steamer Alameda, of the Oceanic
Steamship Company, arrived at San
Franc sco October -', having mado tho
trip between Sydney and that port in.
twenty-three days, six and a half horns,
the tastest time ever made. Thu
steamer brought a mall which had just
arrived at Auckland thirty-seven days
from Loudon, and this ma I was for
warded from San Francisco by train
and is expected to arr vo at Liverpool
October 10, thus making the trip
around the world 11 sixty-nine days.
While the voyage from England to
Auckland requreil forty-two days, that
from Auckland to England b way of San
Francisco will bo made, it is expected,
in live days loss, showing the advan
tage of tho route by way of tho United
States.
Very possible aoruil navigation may
bo real zed in a fow years after tho
manner of "Five Weeks iu a Balloon,"
but it will l)o some tone before tho
"Journey to the Alexin" is madu in a
projectile. M. Verne is not entitled to
be called a prophet. He has simply
written iu the instances noted nbovo
mom truly than he know. Do$tou
Commercial Bulletin.
Movements of Fast llorsco.
An interesting statement has recent
ly been worked out, showing tho dis
tance a trott ng horse goes at each
second ut various rates of speed.
Maud S., when sho covcrod a mile in
'2:083, traveled 41 1-3 feet por second.
At 11 2.-20 ga t a horse travels 87 6-7
feet per second. At a 2:25 gait ha
travels iltfj feet per secon I. At a 2:30
ga t lie travels JJ6 1-5 feet iu thu same
time. At a 2:1)5 gait ho travols 34 1-6
feet; nt a 2:40 gait, tho ilislnaco traveled
is 33 feet; at a 2:45 gait, 32 foot; ut a
L'.Gogat. 31 1-17 feel; at a 2:55 gait.
30 1:16 feet. When going a mile in,
threo minutes he travels over 29 feet
pur second; at a 3:10 gait, 27 feet; at
a 3:20 gait, 2G 2-5 feet; at a 3:30 gait.
25 1-7 feu'.; at a 3:40 gait, 2 1 feet; ut
u 3:60 gait. 23 feet, and at & 4:00 gait,
2 feet per second.