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A,ROTTNI) Tap. virontip.
-British military officers, are greatly an.
roved ;it having to wear :uniform when, off
duty.
-Patsy Devine, an Illinois nturdererunder
addend of death, whiles Away the. ihne in
prigen by wellbeing jig dancing,
-Twenty American cities. toolay •contain
over100,00t) people each • twenty American
States cont. in over 1 000,900. people doh.
-Agrara continues to have violent shooks
of earthquakes, toppling dawn houses; but
nobody pep it ninth attention new, because
the story is an old 00e. Snell is the world.
- A jury recently decided that Iola Dieks
of Wars w. N. Y., had a right to Bit in his
pew in the German Lutheran church. with hio
feet elevated upon the back of the sedin front
of him.
. -With an inoreaeed production of spirits
" from .15,052.960 gallons in 1079 to 18,519,088
gallons in 1880, Peoria, Ilk, claims to be the
largest spirit producing city in the. •world.
The internal revenue for last year amounted
to 810,694,421.
-Many remarkable incidents took,place at
the last English election, but probably no
more extraordinary item donned in any eleo.
tics agent's accounte that in one furnished
when Sir Francis Burdett stead for Middlesex;
• "To extraordinary mental anxiety on your
aimeunt, $2,500." ,
-Mr. Moody was followed to his lodgings
a fortnight ago by a conyert who wished to
ask him whether it would be right, now that
he had professed to be a Christens,, te pay his
whiskey bills.- The evangelist told him to
pay all his debts, no matter how badthey
might be, and then to make a new dad: •
-A clever literary Englith member of Par-
liament is making arrangements to write the
lite of the late Isthe Butt, Mr.; Parnell's pre -
clammier as leader, of the Irish people, and
many valuable documenthave been placedin
his hands for that purpose. These papers
were left to the custody of a wealthy Dublin
friend. ,
-The amount Won in racing. stakes in
England, including added inoneyon 1877,ivas
nearly £195.000, and during the three , fol-
lowing years this amount never •oetaadi" to
grow, unti11881kit reathecloteariy £247,000.
Despite this there Were btitg,026 horsesstrip!
ped in 1880, which is less, by '500 than the
number .; aced in 1868, 1869,dnd 1870. .
- Sheik Mograbin, an Egyptian dignitary,
has been condemned to death for murdering.
and plundering rich ladies, whom he enticed
by pretending to cure the most .ilifeoult die
stases. Pnor patients he sent away unharmed
with some specific, while those:wearing jew-
elry and coetly dress** he made away with.
Be confessed to eighteen of such crimes.
-Meohi, the celebrated English agrienl.
tural experimentalist, whose failure has been
• recently announced, followed•speedily hiniself
his farm's failure.. He •Wilia an ItIian fem.:
ily and -May be justly styled the Linden
"razor strap man," having acquired 'a large
fertnne by 'cininine in the ceirstrinition • Of
razors. •
-In Cork County alone the sum.expentied
by masters of fox hounds eiceede 6100,000 a
year, exclusive of that spent by those taking
part in the sport; but it is feared that Land
• League obstruction may lead'to naolis being
given up. Mr. Steopoole*. harridia are ad-
vertised for .sale "in consequence .of hobs" be-
ing sent to the meets to preventininting," •
-A -watelimaker-ofs-Copenhagenshatedins-
struoted a clock that needs no winding :up.
It is kept goingoonstantly by meaus,Of an
electric current that operatets on the spring
and niaintaine an unvarying and. 'permanent
atate of tension. Attention to. the'electrie
battery once or twice a year fir atthat
necessary to keep the cloth in motionfor an
indefinite time.
-A measure ie now being considered in the.
Swiss Assembly which makes the:owner ea
factory in whose establishment antsemployee
is killed or injured liable for damages, pro-
vided the accident is not caused- by ,a superior
power or by the unauthorized proceedinge of
a third person who is not an agent, represen-
tative of the employer,a foreman .or derlOoker,
or by the carelessness of the person injured.
-Lord Herriee, the newly appointed Lord.
Lieutenant �f East Yorkshire, in succeseion
to Lord Wenlock, is of ea very Old Roman
-.Catholic family, and is the first of the faith
who has been created a Lord. Lieutenant in
England. • Lord Retries is a brother-in-law
to the Marquis of Bute. . Menihers of :both
Lord and Lady Herries's families are nuns
and priests. •
-The farmers of Austria are organizing, in
great numbers alai agitating for. e tariff ; to,
protect them against the large and ludas:dug
importations of grain .and cattle from the
United States and Russia, that are being
made at prices with which it wouldbe tuitions
to try to compete. The farmer's upiones also
seek a reduction of the rate of interest on the
part of the banks to 4 per cent. It itj'a kindet
granger movement.
-A comics London paper, Moonshine,.has a
sketch of the Dublin trials, with Judge May
" invisible " behind an iron' barrioade and
the jurors and witnesses all fortified by bullet
proof breastworks, While the police, with
rifles cooked, look out Anxiously for danger,
and the only comfortable 'individual in the
neighborhood is the man in the . dear, whe,.
with a cora.* led, is Contentedly smokIng
dhudeen.
- The Boston School ComMittee has ro.
solved that corporal punishment hi the schools
ought to be greatly diminished. It is here..
after to be inflicted only by a principal, or by
his express authority, and only at a session
subsequent to that at which the Offense was
oommitted. The pupil must he told what this
is, and the principal must keep terecord•of all
oases. Corporal punishment is . obsoletely
forbidden in the high schools and with girls,
in the grammar school.
-The Portuguese Government has •deter-
• mined upon founding agrieulturacoloniea of
Europeans in Angola, and the dietonas duties
levied upon wines and spirits are he set
aside for that purpose. A loan of $5,000,000,
to be repaid by the African colonies, is to be
raised for the conetruotion of roads and pub-
* lie works; and, in order to still tedium show
the interest which the home Government
takes in the project, Don Carlos, the Cream
Prince, will Pay the colohists a visit, attended
by the Minister of Marine. '
-The gamblers of St. Louis are to find
security in the spring in a keno boat which is
to be started upon the river. The boat will
have a large main cabinfor keno,and an:taller
rooms forward for faro, tonlette, and hazard.
Bach passenger is to pay $1 fare, and three-
fourths of the fame are to contaitute three
"pots" for the genie, the bank deducting the
tonal commission. Once fairly out in the
river, State laws against gambling will not
avail, and the United Statee statutes do not
recognize ouch an Memo.
-A London paper sayo that Charles Stead,
who etyles himself Count d'Albany, and
clairne to be a demanded of the young Pre.
tender, being driven by biallealtlate Biarritz,
has arranged and sorted all his papers raat.
dug to the Stuarts, and placed them in the
hands of an eminent Boman Qatholio.
nearly twenty years the Count has been em.
pleyed in the Britieh Ilftisceitn, and many
Other Mamie% in collecting material relating
to his family, and is believed to have got to -
gather muolunteresting matter.
_The conegtof 'Cardinals in Bettie have
ithdertaken to erect a statue to the memory
of the late Pope Pio None, the model of which
has just been finished by the sculptor jaw
metti. "The reigning Pope and the more in-
timate members of his court have giventit
their unanimous approval. Pio Non° in
represented in his atole: kneeling at a low
prig Dieu. The statue 18 to be executed in
white marble end will be placed in one of the
churcheep1 Rowe, probably in the basilica of
Santa Maria Maggiore.
-Miss Johnoon and young -Mr. Olark were
to be married at Roswell, Ind. The wedding
was to be heti at Clark's house, balsam the
Johnson family objected to the match. The
guests assembled, but the bride aid not oomo.
After waiting a long time. the bridegroom's
mother went out to capture the girl, .who had
been looked up by her father. Mrs. Clark
presented a pistol at the head, of Mr. Johnson
when he opened the deer in response to her
rap, and demanded his daughter or his life.
He procured a gun, and drove her off.
-They had a oharivari festival near Sam
Deige in Southern California, at • which the
Mexicans and half-breed Spaniardso*"that
region had a, high time. After imbibing
largely of mescal, a favorite and rather en.
livening beverage, that brought out a long
unused Spanish cannon, dubbed El Jupiter
loaded it with giant powder, stones, and other
ammunition of a miscellaneous character,
and fired it off. It burst and nearly every
one in the orowd'was MOM or lees injured.
One is reported to have been killed out?
right. •
• ,
-The influence a the 'persecution to which
the Jews have been subjected in Germany it;
visible in the attempt that has just been made
by persons unknown upon the lives of promi-
nent Jewish residents of' Trieste, to whom
letters have been sent, through the post of-
fice of the citythat explcided upon being
opened, No serious injuries have been re-
ported as the result of 'these attempts, but
that fact is hardly to be attributed to the be,:
nevolent intentionof the persons by whom
the missives were mailed. No clue to thetn
has been obtained. •
, -The nineteenth centenary of Virgil is to
be commemorated by erecting a monument,
to him in Mantua, hie birthplace
-If Mid Burdett Coutts marries Mr: Bart-
lett they will be a Bartlett Pear, Thia. joke
was invented hy a promising young men, and
is printed. inthe hope thatsthe..priblicsexecreS
ben rnill Add him hem any attempts Of the
same kind for the future. • •,
• -In the trial of' Brown, who has
twice been convicted of murdering her hus-
band, at Indianapolis; the proasoutor •dealt
With gioat severity on her have for Wade, her.
aboomplice in the crime. The prisoner inter.
mpted ;him by screaming, "You are killing
me 1 , • Oh, ' don't 1 don't 1" and • :mooned
aWay.,_ Several other momen also faintedi
Mid the adiftliardifficulty jail:Wing ord.er,
Mrs. Brown's fainting spell was followed by
an hysterical attack, during which she cried
that -the laWyerwao :hunting her :to death,'
and she begged for mercy in tlle most piteous
• . •
• -A very curious and interesting letter
has just been found among the papers of the
late ' Cardinal Antonelli, written by Victor'
Emanuel t� Pius IX: at the time of the ' don
nation of Rome by the Italian troops. The
King days in it that he thought he watt ren-
dering a advice to the Church by ooeupying
thecity in 8 regular manner, instead of .leav,
ing if a preyln the -revolution. 'On this, Pas-
sage there is a marginal riote in the Wind, of
Pins ix. to the effect that he. quite coinpre
bends this reasoning. and is grateful to the
King, bet that before the wild it is names:try
for hint to ptotest. • • • .,
, •
• -Fanny Davenport and. Anna Dickinson
thave had their final falling out. The actives
insisted an making•alteratiensin Miss Dick -
i1313013'13 play; " An American S&L"' claiming
that' they were 'calculated t� improve it, While
,Miss • Dickinson held that they damaged it.
But•the piece did not draw, and in New Or.'
leans. the reed* fell one -night to $80, M
•which $50 went to the author as royalty.
Mies Davenport then telegraphed' as follows to
Miss Dickinson : " The warty of the second
part decides,. as Per centred, your 'play. is• a
pecuniary failure, and accordingly mead to
perform the same." -
• -Brignoli,lite 'tenor, hi company with a
number of gentlemen was recentlyentertained
at Lexington, Ky., by H. Price McGrath.
After dinner eon* one asked. Brignolitolavor
the party with a song. He replied that ting-
ing was his pit:deaden, and he only practiced
it upon the stage. Asshort time afterward he
expressed a desire to see Mr: MOGrath's
horses. The latter told him that racing
horses was •hi s pr.:deaden, and that ' if he
would come to ,the next spring meeting an
opportunity to see bis horeee would be after,
had 'Mignon returned to his hotel without
getting a. glimpse of Tom 'Bowling or hie
stable mace. 1 '
• -..According t� a correspondent of • the
Troy' Times, charge:: are trait:wed up, or
grossly exaggerated, against colored roan 6f
fine physique., and they are then sentenced to
Very long pertodesin the interest of the en-
terprising firm to. Whom at Atlanta, Ga., eon-
aot labor islanned out. One splendiS look-
ing negro got ten year]; on the chain.gang for
'dealing a mackerel: •
• -The rule that whenever a school teacher
marries she must resign her position in the,
sohoolta *based, stays the ,*zeramento. Retort!.
Union, upon the theory that the pablie
wheels are, to be ;regarded as asylums or
refuges fee the destitute; that thepositions
of teed/ids are given to them in order that
they may be enabled to 'support themselves;
and that as when a female teacher minim it
is presumable that her httabend will thence-
forth maintain her, it is no longer neoemary
that she should draw pay sfrom the public
treasury. . .
-The following letter WAS lately addressed
to the wife of a French Prefect who had taken
a part' in carrying nui decrees against the re-
ligieue cadets "Madame la Prefect°, for the
past six years we have washed the linen of
the prefecture; we Were glad of it f we had
need of the money it brought us,. Tetley we
think yen. After what took place at the
MonaaterY of the Maid fathers last Friday
we can no longer render you the same eervioe.
If the reverend Maris* fathers would do as
the honor of intrusthig their /inen to tut, we
should be happy to look nfter it for •nothinn.
The sidersPincentin. washerwomen."
-With reference to teaohhg morale in
school Barnes' Bducationaf Alouthfy say:
The ten commandment% the precepts of
Christ, and the 'dcettrines of theApostlee be-
im* to no branch of the churoh. Catholics
and Protestants alike agree in the duties of
honesty,: virtueand love. • All Christians
alike believe man overruling Providence a
COnSeien00 and a final day of reckoning. 'kith
the epeeist dogmas of the sects we 'should
have nothing to do in the public school, but
all that which related to the full development
of all our powera-moral, senritual, mental
and physical -should carefully be attended
to.
-Uruguay and the Argentine Republic a
net stem inclined, 'to let the Pacific coast
States have all the glory of fighting. The
relations of these two La Plata powera are
now becoming strained in consequence of
the impression of Argentines into the Uru-
guayan army. The Argentine Republic, hav-
ing lately Laded to her navy what *probably
the • MOSi powerful ironclad possessed by
South Amerieran,powere, is naturally not die -
Posed do beslighted by small powers like
UUruguayruguay, be,slighted
would in fact be Only a
mouthful for her nowerful neighbor on the
western photo of the Rio de la Plata; still,
She has•Brazil at her baok, geographically,
end might have her 'there pOlitimily.
-The republic of Andernt has been gov-
erned from time immemorial by two Viqul.,
era" or Presiclentkene aalecto litsPrancetthe
rabidly the'Spenish tish-cip oX Ur. ell. Being,
however on the southern, slopes. of the
Pyrenees,,the French 'nominee has long beta
held Mensal account. At length the revolu-
tionary party has mustered up sufficient
strength to drive away altogether this French-
man. Napoleon I. condescended to display
wonderful clemency once when' passing by
Andorra, "1 raciall,".said he, "a minia.
threrepublie, lost in, a corner of the Pre-
nees,
Which lamented aa a political ,ckri.
°shy." Andorra has at last repaid this con-
decension. ' •
. .
-Bruno Hidalgo and Juan. Payee, wood-
chopperenear San Antonio, Texas, hal a vie
lent quarrel in the forest, while at work. and
Hidalgo struok 'Pose with an . axe. • The
wound was salon% but probably would net
have wooed fatal. An argument Man hour's
duration ensued between the two men,, the
question being whether Hidalgo should • help
Pat/es to the eity.where surgical help could be
'Procured,or complete the work of killing him.
Payee offered to take an oath that tho would
never reveal the facts if the former course
was token 4' but Hidalgo; would not trust laini
and slid him through the head, leaving him,
ter dead: • Ile did die, but not before he had
told the'story. • ,
•
cortespondent of • the .Landon• Daily
.Oleiesswriting.droinCantles, saye:-.1.:Iss. went
•yonto give a word'ngainat that hell ofthis
neighborhood,'Monte. Carlo: it is• no Oredit
to the French republic, . and le a disgreee to
the eitilized world. 'should doubt .11 :there
was a pled) in, Europe 'around whicli'more
'degrading Imo:totality is gathered than that
beautiful epot on -the Riviers: ..Thie gambling
establishment,* a thing ,of beatify outside,
whileyrithin allis corruption. • I. hear that
ere long Mt nfluentia1 committee :"Will be.
-formedinsIsoliderstospublialltetheieorIdsthre
doings at Monte Oinksand to, ,Make an ap-
peal to the :French Republican Government
for, its eatly supervision: • . ,•
dittio'ciationof Physicians in H, amburg
hate been Studying the ease , of Ethelkott; a
Ruesitirisitho was born without :legs or arms,
or anything to supply their place eiceptil
very short .etutdp attached to the •..right
shoulder, yet who otei . drink, eat, fire oft
pistols,' thread needles, and even write I in-
deed, can write's° well that lora year and It
half he aided as,a copyist in. Rtissian employ.
All this he acquired the ability t� 46 withhie
Month, aided bythe stump 'dependent from
hiteright shonidet..," Although by birth enelle
monstrosity, KOelicoiv. 006.13 . not present a
repulsive speotaale. o Has always been. in
geed health,. cheerful, rather pleased • to see
theintexest that he awakens, and is, beside,
'happily married and the 'father elltto sturdy
children: ' . . • s ' •" •
-A" preliminary prospectus, for private
circulation, only," , which has. been largely
distributed through England has - excited
some sensation. . The title is " Proposed
Land Company for Reload." • The capitats
ten millions. sterling, and is heiog formed by;
a powerful ;Indicate of capitalists of . London,
Paris and New York, for the' purpose of ac-
quiring property iii the 'south ' and Veit of
Ireland; to be worked �n a gigantic scale
.which is declared to have "succeeded sewell
on.the enormous estates of the railway 'mono-
polists in weetern,America.". The Managers
nre to be colonial, the natelfinide licotehnieni
and the *horde Welshmen,: as they ate
"sheep, industrioes and sober,"' .The pro-
duce.* to be taken to : English- Moikete. A
dividend of from ten to twenty . 'pet cent. le
looked for. •• • • : "
-Edwin Booth says that the most gennine
compliment he ever .received was on the °odd
sion Of the playing Dzyo for the first time . at
Grass Valley., then a.new mining omit: The
andientieswho had not seed espies+ • for years,
were do much incensed at this .app.arent vil-
lainy that they pulled ' out their e shooters"
in the middle of the third act, and began
blazing swop* the stage. Othello had the
tip ef his nose ehotoff at the first volley, and
Mr. Booth only escaped by rolling over and
der up the stage and disappearing •theciugh-
a trap door. A • hpeeche'from the Manager
calmed the honee'•'' but even then Mr. Booth
thought 'it best to pais . the night in the
theatre, ao 'a number of the most elevated
1,31)13004ra were making strennous.efforts to
Nance the Vigilance sConimittee . to lynch:
"the infernal sneeliing cue." ..•
e• -?It would be tvellif theater.goere generally
, .
possessed the pool head of Gen. Qanrobert. A
play was once beings noted in a temporary
theater, conetruded of wood, sn' the camp of
Chalon% The house was oraramed te Buffo.
cation, when a cry of fire tnade itself heard'
Instanby every. ono rote and a stampede
Mote dangerous than fire Would have com-
menced; whon Cantobett, who was in one of
the boxes, with his wife, ,oriedoutin a 'ringing
voice, "Let every one stay in hie place." The
spielers immediately becama mottotilese, and
the Marshal Manned : Let every Mid 00'
Out quietly in • orders the younger soldiers
firetSthen the Older, after them the non.cotn.•
inierioned einem, then the officers, the high.
ed to go, last." in a fete minutes, though it
Was no *lee alarm of fire, the theater was
empty without a eingle mah's toe being 'trod,
den on. The Marshal and hie wife Went last.
-The Importetion et American satnon
into Eutope is ceding trouble among_the
fiehermen in some dietrids of Getroany. They
have been accustomed to dipply Metz. Stress.
burg, Brut:wale and other eitiee both within
and, beyond the borders of the German, em-
pire wtth all this salmon (home -caught) needed
by them, and upon this trade they hem been
dependent for a Meagre living. The • Ameri-
can fish, caught in enormous quantities and
pnt up with ail the best appliances, now Comes
into the European market at a much lower
price, and. seriously disturbs the business of
the German fleherinen. The competition nes
already reduced the price of the German
salines% , nearly one.half; At the mane time
American grain is troubling the farmers of
Auetria, and American lard, beef and cheese.
are 'causing • more or less diaturbance elsc..
where. it is more than probable that pro-
tective tariffs will be resorted to fbr the pur-
pose of making competition in these various
lino of production possible at living prime.
- We read in Land and Water "1 have
now in my hand the dried tongue of a lion ;
it is covered with sharp pointed, horny pap,
ilhe, set very thickly uproa its surface, The
papilla) on the front portion of the tongue are
muth larger than %twee on the rear part of
the tongue, but the timelier ones are set much
Moser together than those in front. Bach
papilla consists of a horny spine, the point of
which is curved and set directly backward,
reminding me much of the spines on the tail
of the themback ray. On applying this lion's
tongue to the cheek, I find that the, roughness
is so great that with a little pressure ti wound
might madly be made in the human akin.
The Use Of ttiS st� screws off the meat from
the bones of the anima*, for the lion is not a
great bene eater -he leaves the bones for the
hyenas to crack, these animals having teeth
especially constructed, for the cracking of
bones.. This peculiar roughneesef the.tongue
is, also preeent, but in a lees degree, in • the
common cat, and it can be seen when the Oat
is lapping milk, but still better if the tongue
ef a defunct spechnen be taken out, put for a
while•in spirits, and then pinned, out tighten
a board. Thie tough tongue is of great ina-
portance to the health of the lion."• •
1-4 bravo boy who'kept twenty*Indians at
bay died oel his wounds; a iew day e ago, at
Denver. Col. Three days after the battle of
White River, in which the galltintThornburgh
lost his life, Freeman E. -Wray, who was in
charge Of • cattle forty-five miles ; north
of Whjte Riviie Agency, was attacked
by. a band ' of •savagee., He 'con-
trived to get his rifle and trimake so good
a defence that they betook- themselves to a
rayine and beateged lum at their 'leisure.
After awhile • he got out of ammunition,
and was kneed, to climb inks& wagon to get a
new supply. While he was executing this
movement a ,bullet struck him in the calf of
the leg, pasting directly through. In 'another
instant another ball caught. him at •the hip
and knocked him doltn. With a whOcap and a
yell the savages tan toward the ends expect-
ing to take their phielry fee prisoner. But
theyswere agthisloiledsfor • Wrayswes-ouly
down temporarily,and, getting his feet
again, scrambled ' into- the wagonswhere lay
his ammunition. He .pulled &retell ot flow
iii front of him and piled a bag of beano on
top of that, and took hold of such other arti-
cles within reaches made for him • a barn-
oade against the shower. of belle that was
Promised. Bapidly cutting a hole in thecon-
yese wagon cover' he saw the 'Indians Ian.
preaching. Leveling his ride he fired at the
-foremostothiepurseertso'swithent'illersball-
taking effect. This threW the Indiansinto
confusion, and theyr,etreatedto the walls.of
the ravine. They threw a hailstorm of bul-
lets into the side of the wagon, Where the
plucky bey lay sintrenehed: • Otte of those
leaden. messengers caught yoting Wray:in the
right eye, ,orashing through - his .brain. The
Indian o finally retMated. After" protracted
delay the boy's wounds were dressed and the
bells extracted, and after five month's nurs-
ing he Beamed to•be entirely Well, although
be hadlost the tise of one eye. One of hie
wounds broke out afresh :eighteen 'mouths
after the fight and caused his death. "
A TERRIIILE DEATH.
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,•:NEWIM
HAETtJ
. an. 18. -About four o'clock
Sunday morning, the farm, haus° and pro-
perty of Mr. W. Stoddard, one mile west of
Bradford, occupied by Mrs. Anson, was burned
ta the ground. The eldest son was aroused from
his sleep by a feeling of suffocation, and dis-
covered the re0/11 full of smoke. He imme-
diately awoke his brother, and rushing into
their motheearoom, Iowa her standing on
the fieor enveloped in flames. When they
succeeded in dragging her to the open air' the
flesh was literally roasted on her. Barefooted
and bareheaded the sone (Tarried their dying
mother to the residence of Mr. Stoddard, a
distance of 800 yards. She lingered for 16
hours in great agony, when death terminated
her sufferings.. The two sons were terribly
btfrnt and frost bitten. The fife is euppoited
to have been caused by a tramp, who, after
lighting his pipe, threw the Match among
aome shavings. •
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AERIAL N.A,VIG.A.TIoeS '
. .
" The Boston Gkbe of "1981" days S" While
the motor race was going on the. wonderful
progresd made during the' past ten years was
exemplified in thecontest for airships, of
which some fourteen entered, of all shapes
and builds. The start was made from the
dome of the rink, the course being to Wash-
ington, 1). 0., and rethrn, the craft failing to
return to the starting pant within ten hours
to be ruled out. Some twenty ships, convoy.
representetivest of the leading dailies, a0 -
Companies' the race. The start was in good
style, and the crafts kept in a bunch as far
ae NOW Haven, above which two °elided, ow-
ing toteareless steering, and. one was obliged
to descend for repairs, With the aid of
glamor] the race 'could be men as far ae
Philadelphia, where the George Francis Train
appeared to be leading, With the Conklin
a close second, hard; pushed by the Canon
°het. .
A CAUTIOUS MAN.
The othe night as the Bpffalo exprese was
whirling along the Erie, a queer looking old
man, who might have escaped from the curi-
osity department 'of the Historical Society,
got up from his seat in the sleeping car and
shouted: "Is there a •doctoar in the car?"
Commotion and excitement immediately en-
sued, and as there was no Medical man in that
particular car, several passengers hurried
through the train, and finally found one.
"What's the matter?" he said to the little
old man. "NOthing," said he, "but in case
I'm sick and yell Out like thunder in my sleep,
my bunk's No.20 ; now, don't forget it !"
HE, otrutspD THE. QUEEN.
And was Arrested end Med in Heddil--
ton.
The Elmira (N. Y.) 44vertiser tells the fols
lowing story: " Wee, Motorail, who has
started for Englend; 'tells an amusitig mci."s •
dent that once bad himself and °hunt with
whom he was on an extended spree when be
was along in the twenties. He does not know.
how they got there or where they weregoing,
but the two were waiting at the Great Western'
depot at Hamilton, Canada, for attain to take,
them aomewhere. The day was the 24th of
May, which, as we all know, is *teen Vic-
toria's birthday. A great many red -coated
soldiers were on the streets, getting ready for •
%grand celebration ; bends were playing 'God'
Save the Queen,' and men were yelling them.
selves hoard] with the same sentinsent. The
two Yankee pilgrims watched the proceedings
eilently for a while, and then sine of them -
history hap forgotten whish --yelled out in a
very indiscreet voice, 4--- the ,QueenT
blatantly there was great uproar among the,
soldiery and populace, who looked at the two
men as if what they heard them utter was be-
yond belief; for the Canadians loved their -
Queen, and it seemed to them simply like
Putting a rope around one's neckto uttersuch
a remarkable sentiment as that. The tour-
ists wereinamediately surrounded by an ex-
cited crowd, and emit pleasant exclamations,
as "Treason," "Hang them," "Shoot them
etc., greeted the noW thoroughly affrighted
blasphemers of the Queen, They were looke&
tip for the night, and strongly guarded:. 1t
was finally decided next • morning to take
them before a magistrate to be tried for utter-
ing eednions language .calortlated te ;bring
Nand*. upon the. _peace a,nds, dignity of the
Cretin. After muth •grave ionsulteatien ,
was derided by the magistrate to fine the, '
peisoners twenty pounds each, which they
paid, and were discharged with a reprimand.
They took the ode and started for Detroit.
While on the ferry boat crossing over the,
river from Windsor, Billy's companion went.
up to the captain and said: "Captain, are ,
we in the United States yot?" "Yes," said
the captain"All right," said the recent
prieoner, "— the Queen, Bill, any
how." Mr: Maxwell has never seen his com-
panion of that incident from that day to this,
and thinks there is no doubt that he soon,
died from hie,excesses."
' THE SAND BLAST.
• Among 4lle wonderful and useful inventiopts •
of the times is the comrecin and blast. Sup-
pose you desire a piece of marble for a grave-
otelhe. Yeu cover the stone with a sheet of
wax no thicker than a wafer; .thenyou out in
the wax the name, date, eta:, leaving the.
Marble exposed. Now pass it under the blast,
and the sand will out it away. Remove the,
wax and you have the raised letters. • Take a.
pieced French plate glass, say twd feet by
eix, cover it with fine lace and paoeit under
the blast, and not a thread of the lace will be
injured, but the sand will out deep intothe
glade-wherever itignotcovered-hylholacess*-f Now remove the lace, and you hate-dety,
delicate and beautiful- figure raisednpon the, .
glass. In this way beautiful figures. of all
kinds are cut in glass at a small expense.
The workmen cad hold their hands under the;
blast without harm, even when it ierapidly•
cutting 'away the hardest glade, iron or otone,,
bin they muetlOok but for , finger nails, for • •
they will be 'Whittled off tight hastily. If they
putoil stedthimbles te protect the nails it •
will-deslittles-gooksforothessited-WillSethia -- -
whittle them away; *06 11 they wrap a piece .
of soft cotton, around them they are 'safe. s r
You.will at once seethe philosophY•of it.:Thes -
dna whittles away, and destroys any herd ; .
substanceeseven glass -and does not affect . • : •
substances that are; soft and yielding, .like:
wax, cotton or fine lace, or even the !minim • •"
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ON THE WAR PATE.
Battle between the Cress and Sioux -Sit-,
. 'ring .‘•
Wtionego, Jan. 17.• -•es• thee With who • t •
drivedat Abrianis, Bettie River, last weak ,
from theCypiess Hills reporte that tiro weeks ,-, • ‘. :
been° six haltbreede and thirty Crees were • ". • .
killed in an:engagement With the Sioux. The; ' • • '
pollee did all they could toprevent blood -shed, , "
but Mad not-Foitylodges of half?breede • . • • ;•
who had pitched acmes. the -Missouri riverhad ,
all their horses stolen. .• . ••
New Yorks Jan. 17.-A specialfrem Wiille , ,•,„„
Point, M.. T., Jan. 12 says : Two White men . •
arrived at Wolfe point on the night ; Of tho •
llth from the steamer Bet:helm, which iS
laid up near the month of MilkRiver. They • •
report that Long Day,a chief of .SittnigBtall's
can*, and a white man named, Thompson, •
vrho is living in Sitting • Bull's damp, and
about twenty of Sitting Bull's bucks stopped
over night on the dehmer Batchelor on • the .•
10th. . They . toped Sitting Bull camped
twelve, mild} from' the mouth' 61 Milk river. ••
Theysay Allison, ..the adornment Scouts •
promised tenter:a in fourteen or fifteen days ' •
with three wegOrt leads et • protisiOns.
He has not returned according to promise, ,
and Sitting Bull thieke he is trying • to draw .
him into a trap, and has 'ordered his .,men ' •
to reload their cartridge shells And preparefor ;
PERISHED.IN TEE FLAMES..1
Fatal Fire, and Heroism Of ' a Boy at
• • ' Underwood. : , •
Uttnintwoon, Jan. 19: -The house of Mrs. ,
Masan of this place was disooveria to b 3 on ;
fire about three o'clock yesterday • meaning. • ".
The Alarm was first given by her father, an.
infirm old man, who 'roused the 'inmates.
Mrs. ateLean's eldest son, after first awaking
his mother, sister andbrother, emaped by
thefront door, getting badly berated abont the.
heed and handsgo then succeeded in
rescuing lire sister and brother by the bedroom
Window. The mother bedame otterpOwered:
ay the heat and dueled and_ perished in 'the,
flames. The Children gave the alarm teethe
neighbors, who,turned out and aucceeded
preventing the fire catching in the ottablea,
attached to Brno* hotel, width, 'were only' a
few feet distant, The man is • badly burned ;
about the head. The fire is supposed to hare '
originated from a defective stove pipe, ,
-Eastport Me., eiported 65,000 oast* of
•
sardines last year, worth $650;000, against
25,000 in 1879. : Seven new factories were
elected, Making thirteen tie* in operation.
,--What with nturdere, hangings, lynching%
shipwricks; railroed dieasters, life -destroying
fires, horrible explosions and other like oe
threenceo,'1881 etants off in rather a ghastly '
and illdimened fashion.
-,-Aceording to the 011 Oity Derrick, Sarah
Bernhardt hung %tiler dothing on Oliristinati
Eve, and the Only thing Santa Claw] put in
it was a lightning Md.
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