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panics Binfeseit eaten principally now
from nerve patine in face and head, and the
doothrs tell hitn that if he will nob have
come decayed teeth removed his aches and
atigniell will continue.. But he is unwilling
to have the old tusks drawn. He suffers
slightly from sciatica, but not much. He
has entirely giveu up smoking, and leads
altogether a healthy life, but, except taking
German veatsre, hes no spacial regimen.
cf, paper read before the California
Wine Growera Aesociation an ingenious
Philological theory wan propounded. "The
old Aswan wine grower," said the writer,
found in his tube and vats the ;same sea.
inent that botheruo today. He had no
chemistry in those times, but he did have
e, healthy protenity. So he called his
substenoe a hell of a stuff,' and probably
so regarded it, Hell in Latin is Tartarue,
and from thie anoient oust word come ip
dueot descent tartar, cream of tatter and
tartario acid."
IN New York a 'man has been turned
ant of a boarding-house beosuee he
- snored. Some persons raay suppose that
as their noses are their own they may the
them as they like, provided they do not
poite them into other people's businese,
and that if they pay their board they
cannot be put it the etreet for nasal
trumpeting at eight. But the police
justice before whom the enoring boarder
was taken was of a different opinion and
decided that, nose or no nose, u. raan can-
not insist on living where he is nct wanted.
Tits old faehioo of home brewing, which
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,abowcpo ten:Addible, a tendency to geytve
a few Tears ago, einiCaris to beegain rapidly
declining in Englaed. After the possieg of
the Beer Dety Act a great number cif
persons who did uot formerly brew' tbok
out licenses for private brewing, under the
impreseion diet by could thus obtain
bees at a lees ooet than they could purchase
•it from the brewers. The . operation of
brewing, however, - is troublesome in an
ordinary docuestio establishment. The
English Commissieners of Iulaed Revenue
express the opinion that it oanuot be con•
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ducted economiosely on a email scale, and
ethst no doubt mealy of those pinions have
found it more couvenient to revert to their
former pramme of obtaning bier direct
horn the brewer. '
ALTIMaGii the rabbit Origin OBI 'neat
the Australian erpietter, he ie threatened
by wither plsgue even more deadly. This
time it is a once ol'erished friend who has
gone astray. Feur hundred and' fifty'
nselees doge, odd' Sir Samuel Davenport at
a recent deputation of the Royal Agricul-
tural and Horticultural Society to the
Commissioner of Crown Lands, had ,been
destroyed in the viereity of Adelaide. All,
these culprits had killed sheep, some e of
them being concerned ip a wholesale
slaughter of 150 wethers. Such ice the
degradation of tile Australian canine reels
that not only terriers, spaniels and New-
foundlends do the mischief, hut sheep,
cattle and womb (legs ilia] the ranks of
the destroyers, end bits and worry and
destroy in their nocterel attacks. .
do-openeSiii-hTtliiS/ riiniing is a SIMMS
at Guise, France. In a late hews of Le
Devoir, the cffioial organ of M. Goeih, who
is the governor of 1 he familisters at that
place, it is stetect th.,t the birth rate under
his bommunal system i 8 about the same as
ID French towns of the same population,
while the ,infeet mormlity is 50 per cent.
lees. The baby farm comprises . a baby
house and a baby gerdere The house con-
tains 100 beds and one hew:litre play -roemi
especially fitted up ler its inmates. It
opens flush with the earddo, and te sur-
rounded with hpacww, verandas. The
administration it by a ge.wruese, with two
assistaets and,the inothere that volunteer
to. serve. The children are generally
brought there in the naorningand taken to
their homes at night but alew ma,keit
Penetineht home.
CompesemMeece with Queen Vioteria by
letter is one of the Prime Minister's regular
and almoet daily duties. When' there has
been an important revision ordebate in
Parliament, and members the hastening
home tired, to bed, the Premier alone can
take no rent lentil he has written to the
Queen his official report of the proceedings.
These. letters are couche&. in the third per.
eon: Mr. Gledetone presents his duty to
Your Majeety, etc..," and Her Majesty's
replica, usually dictated to a secretary, also
run in the third in. reon. 'Though never
dieoursive, the% re felt mere formal
acknowledgmeets se often enter sato
Moody into the qu erten at issue. The
Queen devotes ye, el hours every Morning
to the study of State buteness, and her time
is no longer wasted uow as it .was during
the first 25 yearn of her reign by having to
sign all commissions for the army and
navy. In 1862 lila Ant relieved her of this
tedious task. • She was in that year still
engaged in siguiug the commissions. of the
year 1858, '
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CORNWALL, the Postrnaeter of Dublin, who
10 on trial for such a hideous orime; is the
eon of a landed proprietor in Meath, and
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Mar a short service as' olerk in the London
office was appointed hi 1850 to his recent
position by the Merquis of Clanricaade,
•when Postmaster-Geueral, at thee inetanoe
of the Maxobioness, who was fascinated by
musical accomplishments ankdravong -
room graces. Be staeale six feet; is ef
handsome prase:Joe, but pompous and
pretentious. and with a great deal of vulgar
swagger both in his air and conversation,
There its nothing, however, repellant or re-
pugnant -in his appearance, or which would
give the least index of crime, •.Me iB 61..
Mr. Kirwan, who figures beside him1. and
who will probably be found less of a
criminal than a foolish friend, ill of is Gal-
way family of remarkable gentleness and
purity of ciharaoter, and ie a nephew Of
Lawrence, author of "Guy Livingstone."
Be has that thin fair hair and cream-
ooloyed complexion which speak the slender
mind. The fleet meuti Ai of hie name in
the matter killed his mother. None of the'
amused are genuine Irisb.. They all belong
tie the Protestant colony.,
limo are some hints to the city authori-
ties whoehatty find difficulty in disposing of
ownerleadecurs. At the recent meeting of
the British Royal Sooiety for the Proven -
tion of Cruelty to Animale, Dr. B. W
Richardson described a tilethod releently
adopted at his suggestion for destroying
lost and starving dogs by a painless death.
This consists ia submitting the aidinale to
the influence of 'carbonic oxide gas in a
closed chamber, the• carbonie oxide being
charged also with chloroform by being made
to pass- over a portnis surface. saturated
with that drug. The reeult is, that the
animals to be killed fall at once itito a deep,
Peinlelie sleet), Oat ot whioh
th
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th len of pam,
and the apparatus he describes is the fruit
of hia researcher'. He 19 sauguilie that by.,
and -by the humane system of elaughtering
will be applied even to the destruction of
animate intended for f ood ; and he has hine-
self applied . the method with, complete
success In the oche of sheep; which ere liret
driven into sleep, and, while thue *moon-
' seem, killed. The good wiehes of every
humanitarian wit' be with Dr. Richardson
in this.
Tinc Hebrews] are often spoken ot aa "
race without paupers." Though not
etrictly acenrate, this statement gains color
from the proverbial thrift of the rime hnd
from their excellent system of charities ii
the large cities. For the pest ten years the
Hebrew community in New 'York has
steadily had in operation a scheme for re-
lieving the needs af the poor 'among them
that is worthy of attentiou by all Chrietian
philanthropists. The city is divided into
twenty-four districts, and in each district
a visiting committee investigates all applh
cations for relief. Distribution of clothing
and money is waded out by the executive
committee,and there is also a well organized
medical °ems, whh.a competent phyeichen
in [tech di•striot. One of the best elements
, of the work is a pension seldom by which
.rent is paid for poor widows and helpless
families. There are 'nearly 500 of these
pensioned familiee now in the city, families
which, but fof this aid, would inevitably be
in the poor houses or other public institu-
tions. The true beneficence of the whole
system of the United Hebrew Charities
is shown by the fact that all of the work is
done by velunteers. All the officers serve
without pay,and deepest et distribution iii
never negro, thau 10,. ciente 14 eachalotter ot
benefit. In many bbarita,ble sooieties the
cost of 'distribution is nearly half ot the
straormtdistributed. * •
'Tag 1,200 pound turtle caught in the
.Atlantio the other day by a Menhaden
steamer is whatie known as a "leather;
batik." It is the most ueeleee of the turtle
family, its meat being rank and boaree,
and its carapace unfitted for tortoise -shell'
iiiiiiiefieturers. It ie a good swimmer,
and has been known to weigh a ton. Its
native Neaten are believed to be the Carib -
'beau, but it has been found as far north as
Labrador and emit as Europe: "
qt never re.
long time
nticg with a
of kill -
Am a meeting of the British Medical
Association at Belfaet, Dr. Cameron, M. P.,
read an exhaustive paper on•" The cholera
°microbe and how 50 meet it.", In andel-
potion of an invaeion . of the epidemic he.
recommended .the daily disinfeetion of
public sewers and steioter attention so the
character of public water' supptiese India
was the breeding -place of cholera, so far
as England was coneerned, and if Britain
couldremove causes of disease there muoh
would have been done to free theivorld
from cholera poison.
Art engineer, who has been at work 'upon
the Panama Canal for the past two yeare,
and hae just returned to his home in San
Francisco, 'tells some interesting facts.
Beginning at: Colon, the eastern end,. the
oanal has been , dug for two miles, one
hundred feet' Wide and fourteen' feet deep.
Thi5hasco5t4le000,000e-Men-on-thcrwork-
believe that the cast of the oonspleted canal
will come up to $1,000 000,000, which was
the,. estimate made by the United States
engineers in', 1850, and that the great job
will not be finished ler fifteen or twenty
years to come. .•
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THE project of cutting &ship oanal &doss
the Province of Holstein, connecting the
North Sea with the Baltic, ie now being
taken up by the German , authorities 'in
earnest. The 'canal is to run fromnear
the 'mouth of the Elbe to the harbor of
Biel, Germany's phial naval port .on the
Ostsee." heath be oonstrpoted of such
'dimensions ae to permit the largest imp -
dada in the German navy steaming from
the Baltic to the German' -Ocean, or vice
.versa, thus avoiding the neceseity of - malo:
mg,as at preseut, the long "voyage•round
thaPeninsnlaof Jutland. Detailed draw-
inge on thee,ubject itre to be submitted to
ehenew Reichstag. °
^ jOurl41,0/4:4401:071,,BOStOR,Itl pree
editing an imaginary convereation between
teacher and pdpilemakes the former advice
the latter to 'breathe through his nose.
." At, She' roof of the nose," he remelts,
"the All -wise has provided a sieve -like
bony plate that keeps Out the atoms of dirt
and seeds ofedisease, ' and "silts the duet
'before it gets to the lungs." The, Fort Wayne
Journal of the blediacil Science's infornie the
Boston manthat the ethmoid bone has
holes for the filaments of the ol-
factory nerve and the nasal branch of
the ophthalinio nerve, but that it is not a
-dust °sifter and no air passes through it ; if
it did tt would go to the brain. The West-
ern' writer wonders if it is always an ad.
vantageto sent children to the East for
their education. •
• Mn. Baena, It. A. has been engaged for
the last two months in deeigning the new
equestrian etatue of the Duke of Welling-
ton, which is. to take the place of the Wyatt
statue, now tieing removed to Alderehot
from Hyde Park, • London. The design,
which has new boot completed, has been
approved by the present Duke of Welling-
ton and all the artiste who have had the
opportunity of seeing ft. The stattief whnih
will be of colossal size', will represent .the
Duke 'sitting upon his charger bareheaded,
and attired in the uniform of a field =r-
efute modelled from the uniforna worn by
the Duke at the battle ot Waterloo. . The
horse, the modelling of which (coupled
most of Boehm' e time, will represent the
Duke's charger, Copenhagen. The position
of the ihatue will be faoing'the apex of the
grand triumphal arch, and•the statue itself
WIll face Weetwarde to Hyde Pork, instead
of eastward, as the old statue did, •
TUE annual bombardment of the ,earth
by the .Auguat meteors has been going on
during the last three or four evenings, but
BO silently,that few except the astronomeni
have known of it. ^ Those who had occasion
to be in the open air, in this neighborhood,
were treated to an uhusually fine display.
If these celestial- missiles could penetrate
the atmosphere without being consumed
bythe heat evolved hi their pessage they
might make the earth an uncomfortable
dwelling Place. About the 135h of Novem-
ber another well-known shower of meteors
will be, due, and various other showers,
occurring at different times of tbe year,
have been reoognized. In fact, itis known
that Millions of Meteors plunge earthward
every twenty-four hours, hut the air pre.
eente a shield that very few of them eau
get through. With its transparent buckler
the earth twinge 'safely along, ,through
swarms of flying fireballs, and men aeldorn,
think of the poeeibility of danger hidden in
.the hide depthii of the sky.,
Mara before* perhape, in modern times
hail the world rewarded those who amuse
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end material etti: cre-
tin
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arch, the law, or the army, and le at:
aotor draws a galaxy larger than the
income of the average member of any of
'the learned professiona. In London espo
Wally he lives luxuriously, has his club,
movee in high circles dievee hle own Pima^
Oh; and, if he has performed a military i
part, sticks a 000kade n his servant's hat.
Four or live solireeees bevy, within the 'set
ewe yeers, married noblemen or noblemen
presumptive, and thereoine no longer hs
doubt of the siege having lived down the
rebuke and reproach under which it for-
merly cowered," and Loudon moiety is
ready to receive an actor or actress' if only
well talked about, without regardto any
rumor of scandal, which would be fatal to
the pretensions of a member of any other
.'ielnectiee gives* with all
the soientifici mini the subject del:amide.
"the latest state of the question " as to
She adoption of the repeating rifle for the
field of battle. G-errraciey, ceentrarY to a
recent report, has not definitely adopted
this weapon 1. execipt as a theorem.' It
has been clouded that the quiokeet firing
arm is of sentimental advantage .to the
oddier in giving him coefidencs of victory,
and in this way, but not in any other, is
the repeating rifie in nee in the German
army. Germany he's yet to fled her
repeater, And she has Wert at least a dozen
systems. The Mouser, of whioh we hear
so much, is but oae of them. Some thou.
kande of Mainers have been made at
Spandau, and three battalions and a part
of the fleet have been armed with them ;
that is all. Nothing has happened as
yet po compel Franike to vendmillions
in"'a new: transforraeti9n,and, fot,he
prose/et Bhp can effoett eir *attimilwritoh
her greet rival. rot that niattef, all the
nations of Europe are in the same istate
Of expeotanoy-Austria, Spain, f taly, Rus-
sia, ited ^ The only two or three
that appear to have made up their mind
are precisely those that do not count -
Norway. and Sweden and Switzerland
'Auother technical prbblem; of even higher
interest, ie. meanwhile pressing for seta -
tion --the reduction of the calibre of tier -
vice small -arms, and ooneequent elonga-
tion of the bell. The happiest remits have
been already attanied ; the improved ball
vvilthileat 2,000 roetree. 'The article winds
up with a proud and patriotic boaab "Vila
shall not be taklin unawares ;- if one of the
great military Powers suddenly decided to
remodel its armament, we should be ready
to at' ones follow its example." No one
concerned in the real progress df civilization
can reasonably require more.
. ASYLUM ISCANDAILis.
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Teeing Man Incarcerated in a Cell tor^
Waywardism.
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A Philadelphia despatoh says: The
exposures recently made regarding the
ill-treatment of insane in this) State are
bringing other owes to light. It is said
that another case of cruelty was discovered
three weeke ago in Backe county almshouse.
The victim was' a young' than who was
confined in a cell with a ball weighing 50
pounds tied to one leg. He Wa8 recognized
as the son of a prominent citizen whq had
been sent to the asylum as a punishment
for waywardness, rather than on account
arental aberration. The chain and ball
were removed under threats of exposure
and prosecution.
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The Deadly Caeunther.
Mr. Martin Tanner, who resided on the
stone road about three miles west of Inger-
sollon West Oxford, died.very suddenly
last Sunday. On , Saturday evening he
':ata largely of potato oske, oncumbdis and
vinegax, and also paelook freely of milk.
After doing so he travelled some distance
for hie cows, and worked until late in the
evening. The result was that his digestion
was arrested, and he was taken with
imams, and although all was done that
medical skill could do they oould not be.
broken, and on Sunday evening ho -expired,
death being produced by paralysis of the
heart, arising from indigestion. He was
about60 years of age* and leives'a wife and
si; large family to mourn his sudden taking
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Principal j. W. Dawson, of • McGill dole
Montrealeiteto beq•knightede with the
title of Sir Williarn Dawson. He he now
at Quebec, whither he was called by Lord
Lansdowne some days ago. 15 18 believed
that the ceremony of his installation will
ID ie public at the opening of the British
Asenoiation meeting on the 275h. He will be
Kdight Bachelor of St Michael and. St
George. This creation will be, when
annoueeed, exceedingly popular in Mon-
treal, and do something, no doubt, to make
.knighthood respectable in Canada. ,
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111 Demoralized Him F—
• After making an excellent speech in the
House of Lords the other day, says the
Atlanta Constitution, the Duke of Argyll
rather ,spoiled the effect by sitting down on
a glass of water placed near him for
refreshment, , Some of the prohibition
people may jump to the. conolimion that
the Duke weeitonlyecommitted assault and
battery upon their favorite beverage, audit
may yet be necessary for him to write a
card explaining the matter. The noble
Duke certainly found himself in an embar-
rassing positiot for an orator.''
Terrible Thauderstorin. •
A Pittsburg,Pa., despatch says: This even-
ing this section wee visited by the wort
thunderstorm of the semen. Rain fell in tor;
rents, the wind blew a hurricane, and hail
as large as marbles fell. Daneiger's trim-
ming store was struck by lightning and the
'roof partially torn off. -The rain poured in
the opening, and dattaged goods worth
810,000.- Library Hall was also • struck.
Many buildings were deenoliehed.
Daniel Duggan, for disturbing the Salva-
tion Army at Guelph on Tuesday night,
has been fined O. •
. In California, the waste from the wheat
harvest hi frequently allowed tore -seed the
land, and le second or eolunteercrop is
raised without any plotighing or* additional
Needing.
• Lica% the pianist, has become blind at
Bayreuth. The euggeeted ohne is smoking
and brandy, 15 18 odd that he consumes
daily a frightful quantity of liquor and
often falls Wi
eep n the theatre.
Gomez anti Maoo, two prominent Cuban
leaders, are reported to be on their way
>from Cuba to Key Wed, Florida, alld a
revival of filibustering operations on an
increased 'Beale ie appreheaded.
Mary Clertmer, "Mrs. Madsen," died at
her residence in Washington last night of
hemorrhage of the brain. She hiad been
too ill and feeble for several months to
keep up her.nsual literary work.
To be belie& the passion must be Cheer
hal arid gay, nob gloomy and melancholy; a
propentsity to hope and joy is real ;
one te fear and sorrow, real poverty.
LATE OLD WORLD NEWS.
Sir Lepel Griffin is.oalled by a Paris
paper "the lueldeEnglph yepeptio.'"
The Eniptis of Garin 3+,1 who is in
feeble Width, will pass the autumn et
Baden-Baden.
Tie ex, Khedive of Egypt, Ismail Pasha,
has permanently taken up bis residence in
'Emmen.
Female students are to be allowed to
com.pete for positions se surgeope in the
d
Pas hospitals. •
lieregay is free from oboleris, quarantine
and accusations of dynamite oarrying, to
travellers.
leave days' quarantine is enforced on
eoileg through the St. Gothard and Mount
Cents tuunels.
Id, Alexandre DMUS inveighs against
the extravagance of women In Vrallhei
where they epend enormous BOMB on their
dresses.
Mr. Edwin Arnold's "Light of Asia" is
being translated into Bengali, and is also
very likely to be reproduced in India in a
Sanskrit version.
iiielteatiefied linguist to Frenoh diplomat
-" How much would I have to say before
you 'UMW by my pronunciation that I was
not a Frenchman e" 10 One word," wee the
prompt and decisive reply. t
The new English Church opened on the
Riffel Alp, above Zennatt, is 7,000 feet
above the sea level, and it is the loftiest
place of worship in the world, with the
exception of the Monastery of St. Bernard.
it is said that thesGranct Dukaof Hale
contemple,tea abdicating in favor of his sod,
Prince Eirnst Ludwig, who is only 17 years
old. fins recent marriage and consequences
have seriously oompeomieed his position
amonghis Buie ote. •
The Czar et Cracow announces that thd
meeting of the Enipefor of Austria aud the
Czar will take plebe at Granioa, in Poland.
Thence their Inaperial Majesties will pro-
oeed together, 'via Warsaw, to 'Aleitandroff,
where they will be joined by the Emperor
of Germany.
The Englith railway companies, improv-
ing the occasion and taking advantage of
thsoholera there, which will keep thousands
of people in England this Hummer and
autumn, have made extensive arrange.
Wents for trips to well.keown English
watering and pleasure pieces.
Sir William Gull sayethat for many peo-
ple who are susceptible to seasickness a
pill of cayenne pepper and opium is the
cornet thing to take On hour before era -
barking. Then keep youreyes shut and don't
movtfaticiut, sad the chances are that you'll
escape the horrid Mal de mer.
De Lessips organ, La Bulletin du Canal
Interoceanigne, tells at great length how the
Ptomain' Canal is to be opened in 188e, and
yet, according to its own allowing, only
one-thiltieth of the work has been done in
three years and a half. ,There has been
'spent there about $49,090 000. .
Ur. Biggar, the Irish Home Ruler and
menaber of Parliament, gave • notice to the
Clerk of the House "50 ask the Chief Sem
retary of the Lord Lieutenant of Irelaud it
it is true that Sergeant Corbett,. of , Strad -
badly, is.in the habit. of firing shote out of
thebarraok dcior and on the barrack pre-
mises killing birds andscirows."
Gabriel Max is exhibiting his last grand
painting, " The Conversion," which fie
-making---quite-a-auffsAtiefrin-M-M1117-Ir
represents a Roman girl, who for having
embraced Christianity is imprisoned and
sentenced to death, and whom three young
'Romanis vainly attempt to eave by per.
her to renounce the new faith.
The mithetio bOom' inaugurated by that
shrewd aPoetle, Oscar Wilde, is completely
defunct in England. To bemethetio now is
to be'out of the fashion, -and the greenery,
yellowery maidens are looked upon with
contemps by their more robust sisters and
brothers. Mr. Wilde hillneelf has settled
down to a quiet and prosaic citizenship,
broken occasionally by lectures which are
quite sensible and commonplace. Mean-
while the man who made the mathetios
ridiculous made Decor Wilde famous, and,
gave Gilbert his theme for " Patience" --
the man, in fact, who was responsible for
the whole testheties graze, and who started
ID on his. own, boorn-is oompere.tively
unknown. Del Meader, of Punch,,
deserves all the honors and gets few of
ie probabhe that Parliament will rms.
seeable either,on Thursday, Ootober 28r5,
or on. Tuesday, 98th. •
The infant Duke of Albany is to be chris-
tened at Osborne before the Queen leaves
for Scotland. 'The Prig% of Wales and the
Crown Prinoe of Germany are to• be god-
fathers and the Queen will be godmother.
Ismail Pasha, the ex -Khedive of Egypt,
is about to .return to Italy. His stay in
London and his presence at many of our
great social gatherings during the past
month have been among the features of the
now departed season,
Mr. Gladstone will probably take a short
oruise in Lord Wolverton's yacht Palatine
during the early part of the rooms. He is
to stay at Dalmeny Park .with Lord / and
Lady Rosebery during his visit to Mid-
lothian, and will arrive there on the 28th.
A certain Mr. Walter Browne has con-
ceived, or borrowed from Amerioa, the idea
of buxlesquing the Gilbert & Sullivan ex-
travaganzas, and will ehortiv produoe, at a
morning performance at the Vaudeville,
IraPatience, a Piratical ana Pinaforical
Operatio Ini healthy." ,
Williameltiff, one of the wealthieet and
best, known colored man of Philadelphia, a
co.worker with Garrieon'Phillips and
Luoretia Mott in the anti -slavery cause,
and the anther of the book "The Under-
ground Railroade' hoe announced hiniself
forCleveland and Hendrioks.
Mr. Steubingemunsel for Mr. S.M.Dyleps,
the champion draught player, has filed a
bill for divorce ageenet Eliza Draper Dykes
in the Fort Wayne Divorce Court, Indiana.
The grounds upon which the champion
lake for separation are . desertion and
incompatibility of temper.
At Ceres, near Turin, a young woman
poisoned herself hot month on the marriage
of het youeger sister, from fear of boom -
ng an old maid. .
The black ex -Queen of Assab, Turin's
royol gueate refused the aid of dootore dur.
ing a recent indisposition, on the ground
Shat it was against African court etiquette
for white hands to touoh her. •
The celebrated painter Franz Limbach, of
Munich, has just finished a portrait of the
Pope, with which hie Holiness has
expressed bis extreme satisfaetion. The
Pontiff hats further desired Herr Lenbaoh
to execute for him a likeness Of Prince
Biemarok in the same style.
The spade at Zoar, Egypt, has just un-
earthed a huge sarooPhague in a royal
tomb, LB extraordinary dimensions are
14i feet in leegth, 7 feet oi inches in width,
8 feet in height and the material is hard
granite. Mr. Petrie recently exeatrated the
broken wheelie of Reanesee It, the ore
premier of the Israelites" oe proportions
Unknown in Egyptologioal annals of colossal
Statuen. The sareophagus hae net yet
been assigned a_king or dynasty. -;
EFFECTS OF TUE BEAT.
idaivalIon Avow 61011.111ed.
On Saturday night a terrible aoeident
eoeurred the Salvation Axiny Berraehei
elicit are eituated on the third story of
:lie Metropolitan Block, Belleville. A
Youtut woman named Mary Elizabeth
Glenn, aged 23, who resides in Amelias -
burg, boug seriously affected by the heat,
walked to an open door 'at the rear ot the
hall, which was formerly used for bringing
in baggage front the hole% and which
opens Into a passage between this and an
adjoieing buildieg. A. young man tried to
warn her of her danger, but she paid no
-
Attention to his cry, aud fell from a height
of about 40 feet. She struck on her breast,
instant death being the remit. ,
Baulk Fires Feared.
A Barrie despatch says: The 'exception-
ally dry weather of the past few days has
roused fears on the part of saw -mill owners
in this vicinity, Mr. 0. J. Phelps, M. P.P 7
who owns extensive newts ip Floe town.
ehip, states to your correspondent thee the
situation is very critical. We have, satet
he, 8,000,000 feet of lumber which a very
common accident might ignite and destroy.
So tar as our mills are concerned, he
states, we have every proof against fire,
but there is no protection against careless
workmen- who might drop a match and
destroy my whole busineee. In 1881,
when the' groat ° bush fires occurred, the
whet° centltry Was swept, and we among
the rest suffered. In -this dry weather the
least thing possible may produce a fire.
As it ie, though bush fires are raging0.11
around our men are on the alert and
determined to fight Off the approaches pf
the fire fiend.
Sultry Weather in England.
A London cablegram says: ThoWeither
in London contimies sultry and almost
tropical. Many persons have been prom'
trated with minstrokes, several of whit%
have proved fatal.
Severe 1.1 roUght in the !States.
The torrid Wave ieeterday caused a gen-
oral suspension of outdoor Work at Dove,'.
E. H. The mercury reached 100 ati 11
o'clock. Several people was prostrated. §I
The weather Is so hot atrfroy, N.Y., that
apples have been baked in the sun. .
Certain portions of the Alps have been
covered with enow this summer to an un-
precedented extent Not only did the winter
enow not melt, but a fresh supply fell in-
july. •
The effulgent August sun has been too
strong for the "cool wave" which on Mon-
day peemed to be creeping over the North-
west. The heat is in full -swing again. -
A Croderich despatch says the weather
continues dry and bob. Vegetation is suf.
fering very much for the want of 'moisture.
No rain has fallen in this neighborhood for
some time. Serious bush fires are raging
tbrough the county. Notwithetaning the
dry spell the grain crops are splendid.
A Bismarck (Dale) despatch says the
heavies; rain of the season is now falling.
Reports from the West show muoh damege. •
At Belfield the crops are entirely destroyed
by hail. At Little Missouri it is reported
11 miles of railroad was washed. out. Hare
vesting here is needy finished and will be.
but little damaged
Ad East Timms" despatch says
serious forest firee are raging in this neigh,'
borhood. Two houses were burned.
Farmers are desertiug their hotties mid
burying their household goods.
Froru Columbusse) Theeterribleeelleats
of the past ten Sysha had the effect of
drying pp and withering the pastures. At
the present time -vegetation of all kinds is
in drooping condition. ,It is feared the
crops will now fell short of the estimate'
glean on the lst inst. The rivers 'and'
streams are all very low, and the Majority
of springs are drying up. The roadway, •
through Central Ohio are oovered with dui t
to a depth of several inches. The west)). r •
oontisues burning hot. NO rains have
fallen far about four weeks. • , ,•,
From Chicago; Despatches are pour'Eg
in to the, Board of Trade cperatore ft om
widows pow te in Illinois, Iowa -9n5 Win
°media cornerning the threatened damage
to -crops in come quenoe of the extreme heat
and prolongel drought. In this oity for the
-
^ past few days the heat him been excessive,.
the therniometer at times reaching 9,5 'ti-
the shade. • '
A Bit of atxperlence.
I have met with a good many people
iottelee ceer liftee varied way',
I've eneountered the °toyer, the 'maple,
r The crabbed, the grave and the gay;
I have travellee with lawny, with virtue,
have beau with the VS', the bed,
I bave laughed with the ones who were retry
And wept with the ones Wl20 Were Bad.
One thine I have learned in my learney-
Ne^er to judge one by vrbat tie appear
Tbe eyes teat seem sparkling with langlater
Oft battle to keep back the tears,
And lone, sanctimonione.races
Hide often the Bolas that are vile,
while theherat that ianierry and cheerful
Id often die freest from
And I've learned not to look for perfection
In one of our frail horn -an -kind,
Iii /marts the most gentle and loving
Some blemisn or fault we can lieu,
But yet limy.' neer found the greaten)
do tow, So depraved or so mean,
But hacl ecome good impulse-oome virtue
Tbat Meng his bad traits might be peen.
And, too, I have learned that most frlendslaipe
We make are as brittle as glue. •
Jest let a reverse overtake us- •
Our "friends" on the "other side" pees,
But, ah 1 I bave trend florae tew loyal -
Some hearts ever loving and true!
And the joy and the peace they have broughtns
Bave cheered me ray whole journey through
The wayfarers.
Young man with the keen hlue eyee,
Clear and bold,
Why, as thou dost fare,
With sasearelaing air
Scanned thou each faue thou dost behold,
each small flower, faint-eolored like the skiee,
Growieg by the way? Why gazest thou •
• O'er the round hill's brow?
"Alt, in every bearded face,
Looking deep, .
My heart's friend seek I;
La each maiden shy
My heart's dearest, dreamed, upon in sleep
• Ana hi each fair flower, a hope I trace;
thabill may hide the flashing sea
Tbat doth call to me 1"
iole-raan with Dui letie'loue eyes,
- , • Mild mid clear,
.• Why, as thou dost fare,
With that pondering air,
Into passing faces dost thou peer?
Why dust pause where dim, like autumn Aloe •
StarrYakstere grow ? Why gazest thou
O'er the round hill's brew?
'Alt, from each gray -bearded face
Would I know
'What tbat heart hath found;
and in youths that bound ,
Sce a youth that vanished long ago;
Ili each flower a memory can I trace;
O'er the hill the green, still place may be
That doth wait for me."
Poor Tired Mather.
, They were talking of the glory ofthi land beyon
th.
e skies, na
Of ffie ligh: and of the gladness to be found
Of dteatrorre
ie'rs ever blooming, of the never;
Of thieginuciC:igonngssihrongh'llae golden streets Of
appy white -robed throngs;
And said father, leaning cozily back in his easy*
chair
(Father always was a master-ha/id for comftel. -
ever wh r •
''What a lapin thing awould be to know tha5
when this life, is o'er
Ore would straightway bear a welcome from the
blessed shining shore 1" •
All CI Isabel, our eldest girl, glanced upward frontl,
„the reed
She with pan:thug on a water jug, androurmurede
"Teo', indeed." a •
And Marian, the next hi age. a moment droppete
b er book.
And "Ye,, indeed!" repeated with's., most Nista.
tioloolt. , •
But mother, gray-haired mother, who had coma
_•to sweep the roma,
With a patient smile on herth,in face, leaned
,
lightly on her broom- •
'Pcier mother f no one ever thought how much she
bad t d
'And said, "I hope it is not Wroag.not to agree
But seems to me that when 1 die, before I iotXi.
the blest,
I'd like just for a little while to lie in pay gale,
end rest."
• . •
•
ran SUTER.
She never knew that musks soft and sweet- .
The patter of a little baby's Saab;
She never knew tne world of joy and bliss
That lingers in a husband's tender kiss;
She neinieltnew the heartache•and the pain
Ot.livieg loving, and that loving vain; •
:she never knew the sbrrow and the woe
01 losing light from eyes whose radiant glow
Was all her sun!
. She lives in vain, you say
lf, then, to live in vain, is day by day
Tap among the lowly Lind the poor -
5 ray of sunshine to eaela darkened door;
To, soothe with gentle words and gentle touch
Wretches who sinned,and sinned to suffermuch
To be the link that ji.ine a weary life • .
` to %ad; to be the comforter of strife;
truly lives kraan m vein
IF tat grand we
the soothing balm for every
e
a
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WHO IS UNACQUAINTED WITH THE cEO'ComeNv OF TailS COUNTRY, WILL
SEE BY EXAMINING THIS MAP, THAT THE
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nag4, "
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CHICACO, ROCK ISLAND 84 PACIFIC R'Y9
Being the Great Central kire, affords to travelers, by reason of Its unrivaled gee -
graphical -position, the shortest and best route between the East, Northeast and
Southeast, and the West, Northwest and Southwest. •
It Is literally and strictly true, that Its connections are all of the principal lines
Df road between the Atlantic and the Pacific.
By Its maln line and branches it reaches Chicago, Joliet,. Peoria, Ottawa,
La Salle, ceneseo, Nionne and Rook Island, In Illinois; Davenport, Nluseatine,
Washington; Keokuk, Knoxville, Oskaloosa, Fairfield, Des Moines West Liberty, .
lowa City, Atiantic, Avoca, Audubon, Harlan, Guthrie Center and 'Council Bluff°,
In Iowa; Caiiatin, Trenton; Cameron and Kansas City, In Missouri, and Leaven-
worth and Atchison In Kansas, and the hundreds of cities, villages and towns
Intermediate. The • .
"GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE,"
As It is familiarly called, offers to traveiers ail the advantages andcomforts
incident to a smooth track, safe bridges, Union Depots at 011 connecting ocents,
Fast Express Trains, composed of COMMODIOUS, WELL VENTILATED, WELL.
HEATED, FINELY UPHOLSTERED and ELECIIANT DAY COACHES; a line of the
MOST MACNIFICENT HORTON RECLINING CHAIR CARS ever built; PULLMAN'S
latest designed arid handsomest PALACE SLEEP'S° CARS, and DIN'S° CARS
that are'acknowledged by press and people to be the FINEST RUN UPON ANN+
ROAD IN THE COUNTRY, and In which superior meals are served to travelers at
the low rate of SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS EACH.
• THREE' ThAINS each way between CHICAO0 and the MISSOURI RiVER.
TWO TRAIND each way between CHICAGO and MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAW,
, via the famous
ALBERT LEA ROUTE.
A New and Direct Line, via Seneca and Kankakee, has recently been olatintec,
between Newport News, Richmond, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and LO Fayete'
and Council' Bluffs, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Intermediate points.
All Through Paseengers carried on Fast Express Tieing- ••
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Well as 'Tickets, at al( principal Ticket Offices in the United States and Canada, or at
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R. R. -CABLE,. - . . E. ST. JOHN,
' Vles-Presot & Oen,' manager, raeso4 Viet & Paster Aion
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CHICAGO. '
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