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CASSIUS M. CLAV.
A YIMt In tlip Vrtormi rnlltl-;an' Horn
In MiicIIboii County, lly.
This county of Madison, from which
I write, is one- of tho old nnd rich Blue
Grass nnd former largo slave-holding
counties of tho State. It has n reputa"
tion outside of tho State as tha homo
of Cassius M. Clay, the famous anti
slavery agitator of tho ante-helium
days. I am sure your readers will ho
interested in hearing something about
him (for ho still lives, at seventy-eight
years of ago), especially thoso who're
member the speech he delivered at
Wheeling in 18.VJ and tho oxoitement
that attended it.
"Cash" Clay, as he is familiarly
known, was born in this county, of
Virginia parents, and inherited a large
fortuno in land and negroes. But he
was educated at Vale College, and this
accounts for his anti-slavery ideas. He
imbibed them at the North during his
education sojourn, and never "gave
them up afterward. Ho became an ad
vocate of emancipation in Kentucky,
and in this he had the sympathy aiid
to some oxtunt tho countenanco of his
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" ti v. ' ' t . Jill
J back as 18 lo he undertook to publish an
emancipation paper in Lexington, but
he was mobbed and suppressed. Curi
ously enough, and apparently also in
consistently enough, ho at the outbreak
of tho Mexican war, soon afterward,
volunteered his services and led a com
pany to tho front, although tho war
was notoriously a pro-slavery raid on
Mexico for Texas and other territory.
Ho confessed that ho enlisted in it as a
matter of expediency, to gain tho mili
tary prestige that would give him an
influential following for emancipation
in this State.
I had known Mr. Clay, and corre
sponded quite often with him just be
fore tho war, but I had not met him
since the war until this visit. First, I
went out with a friend, and paid him
a call, and since then have, at his invi
tation, spent a couple of days with him
at his large country home tho largest
and most unique country home in the
county and perhaps in the State. He
lives almost as a hermit in this big
house in tho country, in tho midst of
thirty-eight acres of forest trees planted
by his own hands many years ago. It
is soven miles to the west of this placo
by way of the Lexington pike. .Just
where you turn to leave tho pike and
go across tho country to his home stands
tho elm tree underneath which ho and
Turner engaged in combat at a politi
cal discussion in 181'J, in which combat
both men were wounded unto death.
Clay was stabbed into tho lungs and
Turner disemboweled. Clay barely re
covered and Turner died. The former
having acted in self-defense was never
indicted and, of course, never tried for
tho killing of Turner. This was his
second encounter at a political meeting
and it became apparent to his opponents
that ho was a dangerous man to attack.
Nono but such a man could have car-
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f rieu on too unequal contest wnn slavery
hero. Ilis knifo and pistol woro re
spected, but his arguments were not.
Jlichmond (Ky.) Letter.
HUNTING FAT FROGS.
Tlio ICtpnrlrucn or 11 Xmv Yorluir in tho
Mhi-hIk's r .liTMoy.
"Tho Ilaekensack meadows, over in
Jersoy, is about tho best placo to hunt
for frogs."
So spoke a Fulton street markctman
tho other morning.
"Last winter," ho continued, "I dug
cloven dozen frogs out of ono hole on
Sprout branch of Saddle river. An or
dor came to mo for eight dozen, and as
I had not a jumpor in my winter pit at
homo, and not a nose was to bo seen
abovo water, tho prospects for my $12
for that eight dozen frogs looked blue.
But I took a jaunt ovor to tho branch,
and after looking over tho ground
found a holo that seomed likely, and
all at onco tho idea jumped into my
head to drain it and dig out tho sleep
ing beauties. Wator-loggod wood and
leaves had formed a natural dam at tho
littlo pond's outlet, and it only took
half a day's work to cut tho dam away
and thou bail out tho water which
would not flow, and thoro I had tho
whole naked bod of tho pond spread
out ready for my work.
"With a couple of flat boards strapped
to my foot so that I would not sink, I
went ovor tho mud with a scoop
shovel, turning it over to tho depth of
about oight inches, and out of that lit
tlo pond E took eleven dozon table-size
bullfrogs not very fat, to bo sure, and
awfully drowsy; but I soon remedied
that by soaking thorn at homo for a
couple of days in warm water. A frog
takes in water through the skin, you
know, and every conscientious dealer
soaks his frogs boforo ho soils ihom.
My wintor frogs woko right up in tho
warm wator, and when 1 delivered
Ihom woro lively and plump."
"If tho frog has ono ono'my ho has a
thousand. Herons eat him, and so do
ducks, snakes, llshos, kingfishers, owls,
crawllshes, and most every wator in
sect that lives. Man is not his worst
enemy by a good doaljand whon a man
is willing to pay onough for a frog to
onablo thohotol to paymoil a dozon for
them, then 1 say man dosorves ovory
frog ho gets. Yes, thoro is monoy In
frog hunting for ono who knows how,
especially in winter. I havo what 1
call a wintor frog-pit at homo, mado
up of soveral tubs of mud and warm
water In a room kept at a mild torn
poraturo all tho tlmo, which I stock
well In tho fall, and soil from whon tho
raarshoa aro frozon up. It is an old
country Idea, and is common in Paris,
whero thoy novor soo a frog half aa
big as our bullfrog from ono year's
end to tho othor." K. V. Mail and fx-paw,
GARIBALDI'S IDEALS.
A.Mo,Ie, K,tl,n,.tT"n7tl.. OrcU Itnlln
Iiitrlot't ClmrarlrrMI.
It . was as a popular soldier that Gari
baldi won his fame.
had no equal. The forces he captained
Worn in;,T.,lii..... ,
....Kuim..uib in mimoers com
pared with tho great armaments of
modern times. His tactics were Uiom
of the Uio Grande guerrillas; never
theless his success was astonishing, be
muse no was peculiarly adapted to lead
u revolutionary uprising liko the Ital
ian. From the minuteness with which
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- v--uiura inu piuns oi ms cam
paigns and the disposition of his troops
in each battle, and from tho copious
ness oi me military precepts which
ho sprinkles over his memoirs, it
is evident that he deemed himself
a master of the art of war; but
tnc captains of the futuru will not turn
to lilm for instruction in tactics or
strategy. Hi strength lay in his pet-
si-iiiu vaior. and in the unbounded
confidence and devotion which he in
spired in his comrades; and those aro
qualities without which excelence of
discipline, or numbers, or technical
skill can win victories. His favorite
dream, that the Italians could oinnnei
pate themselves without foreign assist
ance, by rising en masse and arming
themselves with a million muskets. was
impracticable for two reasons, which
he ought to have understood: lirst, tho
peasantry (as ho states many times)
were not to be easily aroused; and.
second, a multitude of raw volunteers
could not havo overthrown tho trained
armies of Austria. Tho god of battles
uecides for justice and patriotism, pro
vided they marshal tho best regiments.
When wo havo stripped from Gari
baldi his eccentricities and Haws, trail
sient in their nature, when we look in
to the heart of tho man and conteni
plate his achievements, wo behold a
hero of tho Homeric brood. Wo are
igain in tho presence, of a man of a
few simple but elemental qualities,
brave, disinterested and outspoken,
whose habit it was to exhibit his pas
sions without that reserve which bo
longs to our later, sophisticated age.
Liko Achilles, ho dirt not disguiso his
feelings; ho wept when ho was moved,
sulked when he was angry. Ho was
Inspired by two ideals, and thoso
two tho noblest love of lib
erty and lovo of his fellow-men; ideals
which ho might not cherish in secret,
but, which ho must proclaim before a
hostile world; ideals for which ho en
dured poverty, oxilo, fatigues, and tho
perils of battle, llo believed that in
ovory man thero dwells a consciousness
of right which needs only to ho quick
ened in order to produce righ'eous acts.
Ilis career, which typifies in tho largo
that of thousands of his contemporaries,
confounds those materialists who assert
that tho ago of emotions, of high-souled
unselfishness, of romance, of truo trag
edy, has been left behind, and that wo
have entered tho Sahara of egotism and
commonplace. In the history of mod
orn Europe, which is the history of
the reconstruction of society upon tho
principles of nationality, political
equality, and commercial equity, feud
alism having crumbled into ruins, thoro
is no nobler chapter than that in
which the unification of Italy is told.
Garibaldi was tho popular hero of that
opisodo. Tho race whoso heart beat
tr-it, iu Garibaldi, and whose head
thought wisoly in Cavour, if its char
acter weakens not, will contribute
generously to tho civilization of tho
future. Mr. It. Thayer in Atlantic.
CRUEL CHILDREN.
Uvliiff Ti'HtlniiinliiN to tlio Trutli of tho
Dni'trliii) of OrlKlnul Sin.
In the gradual development thoro is
always a senso of pleasure in the ex
orcise of power, but this pleasure has'
to bo subordinated to tho good of so
ciety; and this is ono of tho first nec
essary stops to successful social growth.
So tho young boy who is, oven among
us, more frequently cruel than sympa
thetic, may go through a period of bul
lying, etc., to becomo a refined and
sympathetic man, full of generous im
pulses. I say this is tho ordinary
method, but, as might bo expected,
some boys never becomo kindly, and
some, instead, grow from cruel to
brutal, and end as social pests. It is
supposed that tho lower animal, es
pecially tho carnivora, aro pleased
with tho torture thoy cause, but I doubt
If this is tho only interpretation of tho
treatment of the mouse by tho cat and
of his victim by tho lion. Thoro
aro children who inflict torture
on ovory kind of living thing.
Thus I havo known a child of tondor
years begin by pulling oil tho wings of
flies, thon proceed to bake frogs, and
next talco birds and boro out thoir
eyes, and later still try to Injure any
child who might fall into his power.
I havo known such chihlron icicle cats
and dogs to death, or sot light to them,
or pour boiling wator ovor thorn, tho
ilondish plonsuro being increased if the
young of tho animals wore thus re
duced to starvation. Tlio morally un
dovoloped child has boon pointed out
to mo by soveral dovout frionds as a
proof of tho oxistonco of tho dovll aa
well as of tho truth of tho doctrine of
original sin, and I own their actions
-o far to sutisfy thoso who sook such
support. 1 Jo not know of any ago at
which this brutality may not dovolop,
as I havo soon brutos of this naturo as
young as four. In ono such tho vico
and cunning woro oxtrome. that
though many ovll and cruol doods wor
dono tho culprit was long undiscov
ered. Another most serious trait is
that thoeB morally insano children will
mako false accusations, and will ovon
destroy their olotho" and produco tho
Hppeanm,-.- of Injur- to support tales
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KEEP DABY WARM.
nor? m a umber of I'.rer li:tetrtltit
urcry Topic.
Keep babies warm In the fir.it place,
doing away with aches and crimps, and
perpolual need of handkerchief; keen
them well fed. and strike off all dys
peptic trouble; dress them loosely and
lightly, covering wrists well, and If
they cry, nervously, soothe them by
nut-door airing, or a warm bath, or
warm wet cloth laid over tho skull, or
by stroking them from the shoulder
iown with both hands as they lie on
-ho bed. The mesmeric influence of
this treatment is wonderful. Not a
fow babies are born insane with nerv
Diisness. and cry violently at slight
discomforts, which are not slight to
them. "I'm afraid of these crying
babies." said a wise doctor to mo one
day. "1 havo several of them In my
practice who cry for hours, apparently
without cause. I am always afraid of
mischief with the brain in sich cases."
The treatment for such highflyers is
aot spanking, but a warm bath when
ever the fits of crying come on. dr ing
with soft, warm towels nnd -a Ions:,
loiwurely rubbing or stroking as it lies
ia its one gown on tho blanket.
Let the baby lie undressed on a pil
low in a perfectly warm room, and
sprawl like a frog to relievo his mus
cles and make them grow. It is good
for tho development of children to let
them run about a warm nursery naked,
half an hour at a time, after they can
walk. You remember the lovely figures
of children in Alma Tadeina's classic
Interior, playing naked about tho gyna
cojum and tho bath. They were nobly
built, because naked, or nearly so, tho
first year of their lives; and their
houses, with thoir heating flues iu the
walls and under tho floors, were bettor
than any thing wo shall have In this
generation, Tho constraint that bands
and tapes and tho weight of cloth rta to
a baby's pulpy form and butterfly
strength can hardly bo understood by
us "grown ups," but thoy are quite
enough to deform in frequent cases.
Carrying a child too much on ono arm
will make it misshapen. Babies ought
to bo hold with their breasts against
tho mothors, and an arm at their back,
supporting tlio back of tho head by a
hand carefully, as it rests against tlio
shoulder. They should lie on thoir
stomachs a good deal, on a pillow or
icross the knees, for chango of position
and the ease given by warmth and
pressure of the little abdomen.
Babies' limbs aro mado symmetrical
and vigorous by leisurely, tondor strok
ing, and if thoy will get bow-logged
by dancing on thoir eager foot too soon,
there is no need to torture them with
surgical appliances and steol boots.
i'lio surgery for such cases is daily,
hourly stroking tho legs with both
hands, and gently moulding them into
straightness. Clover doctors discour
age tho uso of appliances for straight
ening young children, profcring the
gradual traction of tho mother's hands.
which will be found all-eflloient. You can
do any thing with a baby, except keep
him still, when awake. And there is ono
ule which ought to bo tho Draconian
codo of nurseries: Never wake a child
for any thing less than a lire or an In
dian attack.
Tho babies who havo tho best chance.
1 really believe, are thoso brought up
in homely ways, in the warm and neat
living-rooms, along with kittens and
house plants and singing of kottles, in
the sunshine of tho mother's constant
presonee, comforting voice and ready
tendance. Most of our great men and
greatest beauties havo been reared so.
l'ho child is apt to got more of the con
ditions for healthy development in this
unstudied way than in formal, secluded
nurseries. Shirley Dare.
ANTIQUITY OF SUGAR.
Tim I'mci-m of Milking the Swnct Hub-
Htitnre of CliiiK'HH Origin.
The Chinese, who inventod almost
overy thing boforo any body olso hoard
of it, claim to bo tho original discover
ers of tho process of sugar-making, and
it is said that sugar was used in China
as long ago as three thousand years.
I'his is misty, but tho fact Is well estab
lished that it was manufactured in
China under tlio Tsin dynasty two hun
dred years at least boforo tho Christian
era began. India has put forward a
claim for priority of invention, but the
probability is that tho Hindoos learned
tho art of sugar-making from tho Chi
nese and that through them tho knowl
edge finally spread to tho Westorn na
tions; Search us, whon sent by Alex
ander on an exploring voyago on th;
Indus, brought back reports of "honoy'
which was mado by tho Asiatics from
cano without tho holp of bees. At this
tlmo neither tho Greoka nor tho .Iowa
nor tho Babylonians had any knowl
edge of sugar, but later tho art of mak
ing tho artificial "honoy became
known and practiced, though Its prog
ross and development was exceedingly
slow. It was proscribed as a medicine
by Galon in A. . ISO, and up to the
sovonteonth century It had becomo
nothing mora than a costly luxury, to
bo used only on special occasions.
Kvon as lato as tho beginning of tho
eighteenth century tho annual con
sumption of sugar in Groat Britain had
reached only 20,000, 000 pounds, wlioro-
as It is now moro than 'J.OOO.OW.OOO
pounds. Kenned sugar was not mado
In Kngland till 1059. Tho art of rofln
lag was learned by a Vonotiau mer
chant from tho Saracens, who sold tho
socrot to him for 100,000 crowns.-
Good Housekeeping.
A Danish officer has invented u
portable Dullot prooi hiiioiu lor two
holdiors, which may bo easily carried
and fixed, and the men then cooly blaze
awny from buhind, either with rifles cr
machluo guna, without being plokoil eft
b unv luintf loa tiiau a zunnon uuu.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Tho Chinese word for "hash'1 Is
tho longest and most dlfllcult word to
pronounce in tho language.
A man in tho northern part of
Maino recently moved a barn. After
tho building had been raised on rollers
the man placed himself underneath
tho building and turned It around.
It Is said thero aro twenty cen
tenarlans In Paris, tho most noted
being M. Chevreul, tho famous chem
ist Of tho twonty, four aro bachelors,
ono a benedict, four aro widowers, ono
a maiden lady, ono a married woman
and soven aro widows.
Meinbets of a church at Adrian.
Mich., have been supporting an old
widow there for years. The other day
sho went on a spree when she boasted
that she had been saving the money
received from the church for that pur
pose. An Investigation showed that
sho possessed four hundred dollars.
A lady of Kansas City had a large
mole on her cheek which she regarded
as a disfigurement. She didn't liko
her teeth, and had them all extracted.
Brooding over her imaginary personal
plainness she became morbid, and
leaving written directions to "llx mo
up to look as nice as you can," sho in
haled a half pound of chloroform and
died.
A resident of Litchfield. Conn.,
who carved his initials thirty-flvo
years ago on tho limb of an apple tree,
found tho souvenir tho other day just
as a piece of tho tree was going into
tho fire. Tho gentleman has often
looked for tho initials but thoy had
disappeared from tho surface. A short
time ago the tree was cut down, and
tho letters, as found, must have been
about four inches from tho surface.
Two innocent looking farmers were
arrested tho other day at Pittsburgh
and taken to tho police station, whero
they were asked to disclose tho con
tents of a small satchel thoy were
carrying. "Five thousand dollars in
good greenbacks," thoy replied. Tho
satchel was opened, and was found to
contain old newspapers, for which tho
verdant countrymen had paid $175,
thinking they woro getting counter
feit bills.
In some parts of Africa a man's
wealth is judged by tho number of his
wives. A man with sixty wives is
looked upon as a sort of bonanza king.
Ilis wives probably go out washing at
fifty cents a day, or mako shirts at
forty cents a dozen. In this country a
man's wealth Is judged by the number
of dogs ho owns. Tho possessor of
eight dogs is generally too poor to
pay school fax. and his wife takes In
washing. Drake's Magazine.
Tho members of a Nnugatuck
(Conn.) family were awakened tho
other night by tho screams of a young
woman who dreamed some ono had
kissed her. Tho father of tho family
appeared with a lamp in ono hand and
a revolver in tho othor. No man
could bo found, but the daughter said
ono must havo been about, as sho folt
his moustache. Tho mystery was
thoroughly solved when a pot kitten
emerged from behind a pillow.
Tho Statue of Liberty on Bedloo
Island has wonderful attractions for
tho swarms of birds that aro at present
migrating southward. They bocomo
attracted by the glare of tho oleotrie.
light, and rushing headlong upon it
aro killed in great numbors. Tho
other morning no less than five hun
dred birds were picked up lit tho baso
of tho statue. Twenty-llvo distinct
species wore counted. Nearly all of
thorn were small, and most of thorn
were "yellow" birds. A red-headed
woodpecker, two cat birds and several
English sparrows woro among tho
slain.
In a recent scientific discussion of
"Benevolence" it was said: "Kxpor
ionco is showing moro and moro that
thoso who aro supposed to stand in
need of all this voluntary benovolenco
derive but little real advantago from
it; that, on tho contrary, it further
weakens thoir already defective char
acters, and tonds to mako thoir condi
tion ono of chronic and constitutional
dependonco on tho assistance of others.
The time, wo hold, has now come,
whon, broadly speaking, tho host thing
any man can do is to hold hlmsolf
orect, to practlcoa high-minded justice
in his relations with his follow-mon,
and to cschow all modos of action cal
culated to oncourago others to expect
that thoy may reap whero thoy havo
not sown."
Tho most plauslblo vlow, among
many doctors was that baldness was
especially liable to follow tho wearing
of a tight-fitting hat, tho blood vessels
bolng constricted and the scalp de
prived of tho necessary supply of blood.
But this view has been controverted by
a fact brought to light about tho Par
sees of India. Tho Parsees aro com
pelled to keoptho head covorod during
tho day by a hat so tight as to crease
tho seal) and possibly tho skull, and
at night thoy wear a skull cap; and
yot not ono of thorn has boon known to
bo bald. Tho Orientals say that worry
causes tho nair to fall, and it may bo
truo in some cases. Tho general state
of health naturally affects tho scalp,
but tho fact remains that no special
cause can bo given for baldness.
He Thinks It a Success.
"What is your opinion of tho question
now occupying so much spaco in tho
paperri.'IsMarrlago tiT'alluroP1 " asked
u gentleman of a now acquaintance.
"Well, I am emphatically of tho
opinion that marrlago is a groat suc
cess. Indeed, if it woro not for mar
rlago my occupation, liko Othello's,
would he gono. '
"Ah! Mny I ask your profession?
"I am a divorce luwyer." I'ucL
SUNDAY IN LONDON.
nip Sliurnr of Cintr:it III Miilrnpoll
tun I.I To Vlvlilty Itonllrril.
If one wants to realize tho real sharp
ness of contrasts in London, whore
horrible slums aro side by side with
wealthy squares, and whero the beggar
nnd millionaire tread the same pave
ments, one can not see it better than
by walking a very few stops from the
well-dressed, middle-class decorum
assembled in St. George's Church,
Bloom-dairy, or the tine drawn intel
lectualism of Mr. Stopford Brooke at
Bedford chapel. Into Seven Dials, on
any Sunday morning. It Is really a
matter of some di'.Teulty to pass along
Noal street or littlo Karl street, so
crowded is tho wholo roadway with
costerniongors and Cheap .lack's bar
rows. Kvory one of the little povorty
stricken, grimy shops is open, and th'j
wholo sceno is more busy than it is on
any other day of tho week. The sight
is ono to freeze the heart of a strict
Sabbatarian, but more than that, it is
a truly dreadful picture of the real con
dition of life in Wvst central London.
1 stood for some time in the doorway
of ono of tho sickoningly odoriferous
butcher shops, where loathing scraps
of trimmings of bone, fat and skin were
sold at two pence a pound. A tall,
gaunt woman eamo and looked them
ovor, but tho butcher said: "No pick
ing; yer 'takes as thoy comes' with
them, missus!" "Well," she answered,
"then yor might, let me havo two
pounds for three ponce half-penny."
"Can't," was tho vender's prompt and
laconic roply. and tho woman turned
away; but sho sto;.l by the barrow of a
potato dealer till his buck was turned,
and furtively appropriated first ono
and then auothor of his Inborn.
Not only woro tho evidences of pov
orty something appalling in this Sun
day fair, but the looks of utter degrad
ation of soul and body in the majority
woro truly lamentable. Angry words,
and an occasional blow ovon, occurred;
but that terrible apathy and sullen in
dttToroueo to all but tho immediate ob
ject in view, spoke volumes of tho lives
thoy lived. Young men in dirt and
rags; girls who had lost tho feminine
prido of vanity which leads them to
bestow a thought upon their personal
appearance, strong, middlo-aged men
whoso lovo of drink was apparent;
mothers with babies in thoir arms, but
who looked old and careworn enough
ti bo grandmothers, these prevailed in
thb crowd. And tho noiso and tho
bustle, tho tumult and bargaining, lasts
till about 1:!10, whon things resume a
moro week-day like tranquility. But
one passes out into Shaftesbury avonuo
and sees tho conventional and well-to-do
going homo to Sunday dlnnors. and
ono realizes that in London of all places
"Quo half of tho world knows not how
the othor half lives." London llcho.
NAPOLEON'S FAMILY.
How tlio I.il Ilmpm-or Wat it.itlsoroil j
Ambitions Iti'lutlviw.
The late Kiuporor Napoleon does not
appear, from Count Falloux's memoirs,
to havo got on very woll iu his privato
transactions with his numerous rela
tives. It was during tho period of tho
Presidency of tho Republic that his
Uncle Jorome, we aro told, said ono
day to his nophow, after a storm of re
proaches, "You havo nothing of tho
Lmperor about you," to which tho
President answered bitterly, "You aro
mistaken, my dear undo; I havo his
family." While his colleagues In tho
ministry woro deeming it good policy
to show court to tho Emperor's "un
cles, cousins and aunts," M. do Falloux
"dispensed with all this," and ho adds,
with a sly touch of cynicism, "tho
Presidont novor showed me any lll-wlll
on that account." It was a rollof, ho
assures us, from a painful oinbarrasa
mont when M. Odlllon Bnrrot helped
to solvo tho problem how to provide
for "needy undo," by suggostlng that
ho should bo mado Governor of tho
Invalldes. Tho President appears to
havo been equally frank in the
case of Ills cousin, Prince Napoleon.
M. do Falloux rolatos that when
M. Drouya do Lhuys, at a Cablnot
Council was entering, with somo em
barrassment and much poriphrnsls, on
tho subject of tho Prince's lntrlguos at
Madrid, whore ho was thou occupying
tho post jf Fronsh Ambassador, tho
President interrupted him, and "with
his usual coolness and deliberation1'
said: "I seo your conclusions, M.
Drouyn do Lhuys. You may bollovo
that I am woll acquainted with my
cousin. My cousin Is a monster.1' It
will bo percoivod from tills, as woll as
from othor passages In the volumes,
that lack of outspokenness with thoso
ho know Intlmatdy win not ono of tho
Kmporor's failures. In 18(10, when M.
do Falloux, as Director of the Academy,
sought, according to custom, an audi
ence of tho Kinporor, in ordor to an
nounce tho election of Father Lncor
daire, tho ox-Miulbter took occasion to
express his opinion tliut tho English
alliance, from tho dynastio point of
view, was no moro favorable thun tho
revolutionary alliance. To this "our
illustrious neighbor and good ally,1, as
it wan thou tho fashion In many quar
ters to cull him, replied, "I know that
very woll. Kngland novor Is a truo
ally;" und ho added with somo bitter
ness,11 sho is ovon an onomy. Sho
spoils ovory thing sho touches." Juh,
itappQiirs, was the private opinion iu
18G0 of tho sovereign who eleven years
later was dreaming, tw wo know, of
retrieving his fallen fortunes by incit
ing Germany to an unprovokud wur
against that country. Clovelund
Lcwler.
-According to report, thsro aro 2, Vi2
physicians mid surgeons, 105 minUtora
and 75 Inwyora in thia country who are
woraoa.
I
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
About 150 species of lishos aro
known in tho waters of Indiana, ac
cording to Profs. Jordan and Kvor
niann, and about fifty may bo regarded
,Q food fishes.
The Interesting and important dis
covery has been mado that tho fila
inents of incandescent lamps soon break
when used near moving belts or other
sources of frictlonal electricity. Tho
life of such lamps may bo greatly in
creased by covering them witli wire
netting connected with the earth.
-A new material is announced, un
der the name of culluvert, being mado
by passing paper, or any form of cellu
lose through a bath of nitric acid; tho
glutinous surfaces thus produced aro
then pressed together and washed,
forming a very tough and hard sul
stance, useful In some of tho industrial
arts.
-Scienco has claimed tlio sponge
fishery of tho Mediterranean. Tho na
tive divers, who could stay under
water not more than two minutes, aro
being driven out by men in regular
diving armor, who can work by tho
hour. A German professor has origin
ated a method of planting cuttings
from sponges, and it is being prose
cuted with success.
Old as is tho theory that trees pro
mote regularity and plentitudo of rain
fall, and generally accepted as though
an axiom in natural philosophy, it is
being vigorously attacked, says tho
Similary Xews. The trouble has been
that only facts favorable to this hy
pothesis' havo been available. Now
tho result of impartial investigation
seems to show that cause and elTcct
havo been badly mixed.
Masons will be interested in tho
invention by an Knstern man of two
kinds of plastering composition. That
to bo used for tho first coat consists ot
sand, sawdust, plaster of par is, slacked
lime, sugar and carbonate of soda,
while that for the second coat is mado.
of cream of tartar, pumico stone, sugar,
lime, and plaster of purls, each compo
sition being compounded and applied
in proportions and after a inannor de
scribed. Botli compositions havo been
patented.
Professor Brown-Sequard has boon
making experiments to determine
whether the human breath was capa
ble of producing poisonous ofToeta.
From the condensed watery vapor ot
tho expired air or breath, ho obtalnod
a poisonous liquid, which, when in
jected under tho skin of rabbits, pro
duced almost immediate death. Tho
rabbits died without convulsions, tho
heart and largo blood vessels being on
gorged with blood. Tills seoms to
show that human breath contains a
volatile poisonous principle which ia
moro deleterious than carbonic acid.
A Belfast machinist has discovered,
a process by which tho fibors of tho
plant rheea can be readily soparatod
from thoir woody and gummy cover
ing, thus producing a liber at a low
price which will admit of being used
for tho manufacture of rope, cordago
and woven goods. Bheon is a plant
grown very widely in Southern and
Eastern Asia, and ono capable of cul
tivation in the temperate parts of
Europe and America. Ills tho strong
est vegetable liber that has yot boon
discovered, and is, besides, tho smooth
est and most lustrous.
Thero aro fow, if any, branches of
manufactures, in which labor-saving
and liine-savlng devices aro moro gen
erally used than in boot and shoo
making, and iu none of them has in
ventive genius been more gonerously
ruwardod than In this. Tho luvoator
wlio can save a fow cents In tho cost of
making a pair of shoes is suro of a
handsome fortuno, often greater than
any of tho people who uso tho product
of his ingenuity can hope for. For tho
ono object of lasting shoos by ma
chinery no less than t'Dfl dilToront do
vlces havo been patented. Shos ami
htather lleview.
Wholesome Regulations.
Tho most strenuous efforts will bo
mado in soveral States, including Now
York, to improve tho medical profes
sion. It is boglnning to bo rocognizod
that tho present looso plan of allowing
moro tyros to practlco on tho public
health is dangerous, not only to indi
viduals, but to communities. Tho
council of tho medical societies of Now
York City and county recommends,
among othor changes, that a minimum
ago bo fixed, under which no one van
practlco as physician, dentist, or phar
macist; that not loss than two full yours
of study bo required; that prelimin
ary studios bo required equal to
thoso required of studoiits admit
ted to a law school that no medical
school bo Incorporated without u
specified minimum capital that will In
sure thoir ability to thoroughly toach,
and no ctuiloiit shall bo licensed to
practlco who does not reach a grade of
at least seventy in a prescribed course
of study. All courses of study must
Include botany, chemistry, physics,
anatomy, surgery, physiology, hygicna,
microscopy, as woll as obstetrics und
diagnosis. Tills form will ho com
mended by ovory one who seeks a
family physician without running the
risk of securing a moro charlatan.-
HI. Louis (I lobe' Democrat.
A Reasonable Voter.
"Who'd you vote for for Congress,
Colonel?" asked one citizen of another.
".Jim.11
"Jim? Thought you didn't bollovo
in Jim?"
"Noltlu? I do. That's why I votod
for him. (Jot tirod o'soelu' hlm laiiglu'
'round home." -llarjier'a Muqaiia.