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Maw York World.]
Very interesting reading indeed an Appre-
ciative etuclent can find between the two
scariest covers of Herr Justus Perthee*
" Alinanach de Gotha" for 1881, the hon.
deed aod eighteenyear of its publication.
For all that may be said "among our fierce
democracy" as to kiogs mid nobles, and
without for a moment pretending to contend
that our Americans are like the iinmortal
"Tommy " and *1 dearly love a lord," the
fact remaina that personal gossip and
statistics concerning those nho in the nature
of things are removed from the sphere of
daily and eommooplacee life are always ac.
ceptable —often fascinating, And very
pleasant cometanion• Herr Justus Perthes
for a jaunt ainoog the imperial, royal,
prioctly, and noble familieeof Europe, though
we have sometimesto complete tbat, in his
easilt-tebe-aecouted-for discretion, he omits
to mention evjoyab.e •facte which do not
exactly " coesist " with the dignity of his
distingejahed subjt eta. For instance, we
are not told that the enipress of Arietria's,
brother Prince Charles Theodore of Bavaria,
is at diplomaed doctor, and a very good One,
too; nor, that the Landaravine Marie Alex-
andria Augustine Louis Eugenie Martilda,
duchess of Wurtemberg, royal highness, and
widow of the Landgrave Charles Of Hesse.
Philippethal, went through the bankrupt-
cy court, last year, like the most piebeien of
land -ladies or millinere. Under tile head
"Russia " there is no mention of the beauti-
ful Princess Dolgorousi, and from the list
of the male members of the house of Reuss
—Leal of whom are Henries, and are number,
ed in the oz -der of their birth, a new series
beginning with a new century—we at last
miss the name of Prince• Henry XX., who
married a circus -rider, Mlle, Cloak* Lois.
and was compelled to sacrifice his
princely rank, become plain Baron von
Reichenfole, and emigrate to Bulgaria to be..
come aid to his old conned°, _Prince Alex-
ander I. Under the title 1tWurtemberg,"
too, we rein the name of the Filmes Pau,
line, a self-willed womati of 26, who on May
day last year reeounced her title end poen
tie°, became plain Fraulein von Kirlaitok,
and married Dr. Willim, of Breslow, a young
physichth who passed his examination on the
eve of his marriage, and apparently Obtain-
ed a good wife, since, when the court'
preacher at the altar dvi elt with clieparaging
flattery on her saorifice; the et -princess in-
terrupted him with the remark that she was
only too 'glad to give opt all to obtainatlite •
man she loved: The princess%is distantly
related to the Ptineets Vida*, .the future
empress of Germany: More beedoken, this
latter princess' aunt (staterrnislaW to tae
Princess Helena of England's married "an-
othee physician, Dr. Esmarch, of Kiel, While
this last lady's uncle married as hie •second
wife, in 1864. Miss Lee of Neta York. : The
roll of the house of Itiatefeldt, too, is now
by the name of the: young prince
who married another ciremerider, Mlle.
Emilie Leisset f still Another egiestrienne's
name is lacking from the "Gotha "—tho 'ex-
prinoesa of Salm-Salni. Whether **us-
riders or gardeners' daughters rank lowest in
the opinion of the editor cannobe said but
he °enmity scorns to mention the union
of the head of the house of ErbaolisErbach
with Fraulein Luck.thou h he records the
morganatic mai rtages of his two sone. - This
fetidly traces its descent trent Charlemagne's '
daughter Emma,- or Inama, and his secretary
and biographer, Eginhard, whom, as *ad-
ore of Longfellow remember, the princess
carried from her bower pick -a -back, Test
the print of his foostepe oa the snow should
betray their loves. The Value of this story -
is impaired:by the fact that Charlemagne.
had no daughter Emma, so far as. le known;
that his daughters generally were "is bad
lot," that Eginhard says none of then; ever
merriest, and that the episode of the anon: -
storm had been told of Henry- the Black
more than two centuries before it was told
of Eginhard.
Hovv much of .pathos and tragedy some of
hietory ate generally of thehazieee and moot
inaccurate Bort. No one will be astonished
to learn that the evergreen eMperor of Ger.
manyenow nearly 84 year old, is the eldeet
ef v tag soveregus, the nextpoint
seniority being the duke of Brunswick, born
April 25, 180 ; Leo XIII, born March 2,
IMO; the king of the Netherlands, born.
Fob. 19, 1817. and PninccPo of
Sohanntbourg•Lippe, born OP the let of
Au net in the sarne ycar. The king of
Denmark is eixth on the list tbe Czar.
seventh; Queen Victoria, eleventh; Dole
Pedro of Brazil, sixteenth, and the emperor
of Auetria twenty-fourth, the two sove-
reigns under thirty being Prince Milan, of
Siberia, born Aug. 10; 1854, and King Al-
fonso xi'. of Spain, bent Nov. 28, 1857,
who in his short life has assisted at two
revolutions, km been married twice and
'shot at twice. Butthe poeitione are man ii -
ally °hanged when we come to regard the
length of ' each ruler's teige. Dom Pedro,
of Brazil, heads the list, having ascended
the throne April 7, 1831, at the age of six;
the duke of Brunswick (Apeil 20, 1831),
comes. next; Queen Victoria is third—June
20, 1837 ; Francis Joseph of Auenia: is eixth
--Deceinter 2, 1843; the king of the Neth.
erlands siveuth—March 11,the czar
is twelfth, and the Emperor Willi= (as
king c f Prussia) only nineteenth, King
George of the Hellencrs ascended the throne
more than five months•before his father as-
sumed the royal dignity. The junior sove-
reign is Charles, prince of Schwerzburg-
Sonderschausen, who.. though is man of
fifty, only began to reign on the 17th of
jirly last.
Upon the list of orders there are inscribed
158 different orders, some of whieh 'contain
several classes, while 24 other decorations
are mentioned .conferred bydethroned
sovereigns or no longer recognized by the
coentlies to whichthey are attributed.
France has a single order—the Lemon of.
Honour—Auetria hes 9, Brown* 13, Spain
13, Prussia 12; and Russia 8. Six orders
went out with the kiegdotn of the two
•Sicilies ; .three withrthe downfall ot Maxi-
milian—those of our Ledy of Guadeloupe,
the Mexican Eagle and St. Charles,• and one
With the overthrow of Lopez, the tyrant of
Paraguay. Itepublican orders are not un-
common—apart from the Woes oftthe Legion
of Honour, a strict republican might accept
the older of Santa Rosa of Honduras; tne
order Of Chivalry of San Marine, the order
f San Juan of Nicaragua, or the Medal of
the bust of Bolivar, of Venezuela. The
ladies cannot complain that no .stans and
crosses are provided for their gentle breasts,
since to them are allotted the Starry aro*,
of Austria the Bavarian cross cf.Merit and
orders' ot St. Elizabeth, of Theresa of Ste
Anklet -4)f ..Mitniete_atist_ef -St. Anne, of
• Wurzburg ; the 'cross of .the 'Legion of Hon.
• eur t the Victoria and. Albert, Crown of
Indian and': cross of St. Katherine of
England . the Gram,: ecrois (only; of
the Order of the crown. ,of the. Vends, of
Mecklenburg; a Persian order --not netted;
the Uhler of StIsabella, of Portegul ; the
Pruetiait Order of LouisaandCross of Merit;
-Itlice-OrdereofeRte-Catharine, of Ruse* ; the
Order of .Sidonia, -9f Saxony ;. Mid the Order
of Olga, of Wurtemberg.
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Amengthe state's enumerated in the secinul
part of the 'book some deserve a passing
notice. • There 18• the republic et Andorra,
for matt:nee, with a population variously es-
timated at from foot to eighteen thousand—
where, by the way, they tried to get up a
revolutienthe other day. It. has for its
suieinius the " odless" rim:While of Fronde.
and the Catholic ishepof Urgel, who divide
the nonematnnt of . the judicial authorities,
and recerre as tribute annually. tte 'Mats re-
spectively, of $192 and $178.20.: The
punishes, or rather four heads of families in
each pariah?. elect the council, from which
the syndic is chosen. By the way, during
four months of the. year the Bishop of Utgel
is 'Pepe of Andorra; and nominates to ft-
elestastical offices without asking the 'sane-
_
tion of Leo XIII: Andotia offers rare
facilities for the establishment 'of another
foreign mission. Bolivia pre& ents the ie-
teresting 'spectacle of a standing army one,
posed of 8 geneints, 359 officers of high rank,
. 65a. superior officers, and 2,000 men. Hayti,
the stattstican •says,. cautiously, 1* has .a_ti
A Bankrupt 'World—
um•g..,••
The fact has been ciphered out that the
world owee About $20,000,000,000 and is
nuinifeetly nimble to pay its deb* The
world *void evidently be in a had fix if its
creditora were residents of another planet
and should commence proceeding's to close up
accounts. But whatever the world owes 10 •
owes itself. It is like &nation which owes
A large debt to its own people. A failure to
pays As debts will not diminish the amount
of wealth in the natio* Debt -creating is a
proceee by which the accumulations of the
wealthier plusses are cencentrateet in one
fund on the promiee thet interest shall be
paid on the money thug taken charge of
until the prineipal is reterned. The indi-
vidual bondholder of a nation whose credit
is good can get his coin whenever he want
it by :main his bond ; but.if the time should
ever come when the mess, of bondholders
wanted to 001, bonds would go clown to,
zero. Government then will have been the
agent by which the surplus wealth of the
manes that have something was distributed.
Who gets the money so distill:120d it is
hard to say. In some cases the bondholders
get a portion of it in their dealings with the
Government as (metre °tore, offi;eholdelo, and
the vadat* capacities in which the Govern -
meet is terve* Military and naval nations
distribute targe sums in paying the gammon
aoldiera Of their ernes . and Device:, and
the worknam who. Manufacture arms, the
farmers who furnish provit ions and other
material for the use if either branch of the
service; That a time will come when the
debts thus accumulated nal te wiped out
by some other precese then payment is ap-
parently an asenred feet. The aulk of the
world's indebteduest was created: *within
eighty years. The European* tuitions most
heavily loaded with debc in 1880 had no
debt ot any consequence in 1800. Within
*these 80 years a debt has been piled up:
which calls for one-third of • their :annual
revenue. Of .09pree taxes muat be inceased •
to meet this additional expense. If taxes
fail more debt is creatcd. Occasional lune
men* made in prosperous and peaceful
years do not materially affece the ratio of
tncrease during a long petiod•of time. The
astonishing feature of tide debt.ercatitig
business is, that the poser to increate debt
seems id proportion to the debt already in. •
correct, France ov: es iome $4 700 000 000
kV
the annual interest of which is '$203,000,-
000 ; yet France could acid:am:Alt:tr.:thousand
million to its debt now more, aitetly than it
could have borrowed the iunoUnt of its pro.
sent interest when it had no interest t� pay.
England owes.$4,000,000 and if is theeat of
war 'Mould occasion a denamid for a few'
hundred millions more, the value of the pre-
. sent debt would not be materially impaired:
These debtecould, not haveaeein areatect
'there lied not be'eci people in the world who
hed nioney to spare, . and could 'not be ma-
terially,. increased if there 'were not inane
people an a stmiliar financial condition.: The
loss of al force; liquidation, if eau made,
will fall on the: class that has aectutuilate4
wealth; ratherthan onathe class which has
hard work to 'makea living.
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W'. 4.• a ...a
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The Fortifications of AGED 100 YEARS OR MORE. .
••••••••••..
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It wits said in Louie Philippe's times that
the fortifications of Paris were rather made
to quell. chaturlaance within than to offer
realatance to twenties without. We all
know that since 1870 great enlargements and
modificatione have been mud!) *these forti-
fications. Why Pates should require fern,-
finatione at all has often been questioned.
But Pada differs from all other capitals of
the world, for Paris is Frauce. Centraliz t -
tion him existed through so many coati:Wes
*that once Paris falls the mot d'orsk for all
France is wanting. M. Tenet, who has just-
nritten a most interesting 'study on the
fortificationa of Paris, cemmenting on this
necessity of making Parts impregnable,
;leers "The importance of Paris results from
historic forces which are ieresitalne, ° Con-
tempotaneous France did not create it, but
is oblged to make the beet ot A." In 1840
the exped ency of M. Diens *fortifications
were questioned; but as the Saturday Review
Las it, **the utility of fortifying the place
recerved a practical answer in 1870." If
not for at letist the temporary check the
Germans received before Par*, and the ne-
cessity they felt of reducing it, they would
" have swept all over the land in irresist.
able power. The wisdom of M. Thiers be-
comes quite evident; then, and that latter
criticism which declinestto give this states-
man thd merit of being sound on military
topics is fairly, refuted. Formerly, the forts •
were situated some two thousand to three
thousand yards away from the bastioned
enceinte.'" To -day, artillery has so much
greater precision with increased range that
the outer cirele has been moved back a dis-
tance of trent 8,000 to 18,000. yards. "Tho
important advantage gained is that it would
require an army three times more numerous
tan e ermans brought up against Paris
in 1870 to abut tho city in now, as they did
before." With a necessity on the part of,
the besiegers to Cover more ground comee
the advantage to the besieged Of concentrat.
ing attacks by sorties on particular points.
In the huger fats there are 60 new 'rated
steel pieces, with a range of 8,000 yards.
The whole of the exterior forts and batteries
can be held by 20,000knen. A Germatt
braid, who has been looking at the defences,
gives the following opinion t "On the
whole, then, we eonsider that five or six
forts must he taken and three or four sil-
enced before an efaceciours bombardment of,
• Paris °mild commenee," The whet° effort
',item to hate been on the part of the new.
French engineers in charge to remove the,
ehemy se far as to preclude • the chime° of
plaiting batteries near enough to affect Paris.
In increasing the circle, which is not large
enough from a main centre to prevent it Ve-
in armed and fought, it necessarily aug-
. enentstitrinueh -larger proportion thelirre,of -
attack on the part. of the enemy. They
mint alturele of 100 -miles; whereas in
• 1870 50 was the Unlit, The army nem:Mary
to defend Paris would he 80,000 regulars
•aed 120,000- "territorials," but from the
foices in thefield ne extitegoldiei would be
• drawn. • It is supposed that if an enemy
couldbeam together 20 army corps of 30,000
. men. eiteht he might succeed in establishing
a blockade, but theti before he could reach
that stage Epinal, Belied, LangresjBesait-
con, and many other strong. places recently
1
force of 160,000 men ; but the allied left,
composed of Austrian troops, was separated
•by a precipitous defile frorn the mainbody.
Instantly profiting by the mistake, Napoleon
sent Mutat to ettack the Austrian deft,
whieh he turned. and burst with his irr
sistible cavalry •12. 000 strong' %teethe rear
• The tout Was cemplete, and then Napoleon
addedesedthimself to the Russian right,
whwirthe drove back upen ite .reserve. At
this monietit Moreau, conspicuous hi front
:Asa •Ruseian aivision, was Aro* on the
right knee by a panne* shot, which; paising
through his hone, shattered. his left leg.
ale°. Both legs Were amputzted, but mord,
ficatien aet io, itncl five daysdater he died.
. Moreau. •-•
(Fortnightly Review.) '
a •
Upon Auguilt 27, 1813, there was toneht
at Dresden one of 'those treniendous battles
which sufficiently proved Napoleon's en.
equaled maptery of •the •details by which
great viatories are won. The French ArMY;
30,000 strong ,' had to.ericounter an allied
ths em a me body was carried to St Pet.
ers nrg, nd buried with great pomp in the
Catholic Church. His widow reeeived a
lump sum of £20,000, and a Russian pianaima
of £1,200 a year; nor Was there ony dissent
these closely -pi inted pages eontain Qoe, outrageously large number of generale, and •
name alone appears in the first section un- is fleet of two ships—on tho stocks ; the lat
der the title " Maieon Bonapartea-Ligne e
pope had a fleet of one vessel, but Leo XIII,
Teepee:de de France " that of the ex -eat. abolished the papal nevi?, we believe, frorn
press Eugenie, widowed, childless, • and
motherless, though twice that family has
occupied the proudest position in the book
established before Napoleon Bonaparte was
born. The ex -empress has played a mote
heroic part, than did the wife of 'Napoleon 1.
Metternich has told'us how Maria Louisa,
when the .conqueror asked her in marriage,
desired her father to disponi:a ef her without
may regard to her persomd prefereners, but
solely with an eye to the *tenets of the em-
pire. He has also told us that Napolec n
was a remarkably good husband to her, for-
bearing to vex. her as he had incessently
vexed Josephine. But Sismondi has° pre-
served the letter which the empress wrote
in the midst of the agony of the hundred
days, hoping fervently that Count Neipperg
had not broken his poor dear leg ; this 'same
Count Neipperg she subsequently married,
and their soo is alive, the head of the in-
conspicuous house of Montettuove. The
second section of the Bonaparte notice*
devoted to the jeromist branch—"Plon-
Plon's " wife by the wily, was the "Iphige-
nia of Italy," ever re Maria Lottisa was the
Iphigenia of Austria—but in law, •religion,
and justice ehould contain the. namen of
the dem ndents of Betsey Patter:gm; just
across the page comes the family of Bour-
bon. Wt thrones•remein to them after
more than two centuries of plaoning, plot-
ting, conquering, and marrying. Denmark
and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha unquestionably hold.
the first place in Europe at the present
through their alliances. Christian IX.
twenty years ago was leading. the life of a
retired country gentleman in Denmark with
a comparatively limited *dome. 'One of
his daughters will be Queen of Englarid,
another empress of Raids, and a third
would be queen of Hanover but for 13is-
marok, while the fourth child has wieeeded
the throne of Greece. One prince of the
house of Saxe -Coburg married the queen of .
England, and mother the queen of Porte -
gal ; prince of that holm. efts on the
thr.ne of Belgium; his sheet was 16r is
brief perilous period empress of Meitico;
and ao on down a long list, -
A glance tho table of ages and reigns
will rather eurpiise the average reader,
motives or economy. I:haler the head of
Lichtenstein we fiiad no notice of the fact
. that that gallant little Principality with its
populration of 9,124 stills is still at war with'
the German emphe 1 itis, for ten Prudsia
and Atistria made:peace in I866;they forgot
to iticlude Lichtenstein in the tteaty, Wad
hence Prince John- II,—the enumeration of
his royal family takes up nearly three pages
of the Alreanach de Gotha—has been left to
wage war singlehanded against the Kaiser,
Bismarck, and Moltke fen nearly fifteen
'years. Monaca has an *my of nine office*
add sixty-three men, and may be expected
to offer a desperate :resistance when France
—as she teen will—gebbles up the principali-
ty whose gambling hells now put such Im-
mense sums into tho. pockets of Prince Ro-
land Bonaparte, the husband Of Mlle. Blame
The little republic of San Marino is better
prepared to retest any attack on its independ-
ence by Italy, sine° with only' 7,816 inhabit-
ants it has an army of 950 men, including
131 offieers. How many readers would off.:
hand 0140 Santo with Bulgaria—and, lila
deed, with Egypt—as a tributary principality
of Turkey? And finally, *hat a standing
army Uruguay has! tt originally contained
2,100 men, but having been reduced by a.
• regiment of cavalry and et battalion of in-
fantry, if can not now number int)* than
1,625 isoldiets of all aims. who *ill be lod •
to victor) when necessary Ity 2 brigadiers, 8
generals 59 colonels, 83 lieutenant colonels,
and 1,000 other officers.
A party of eetiolestie exiles from Ger.
many have gone to Texas, with a vietv of
buying land au southwestern part of the
State, and founding a community of a 00 -
operative • or Committal character. They
are accompanied by their families, and it is
said will be joined by others feom St. Louis,
Chicago, and New York.
The lecturer who bid an audience of three
old maids and one man and his wife said he
drew a full' house. ---three of a kind atul a
pair •
It it •a fixed fact that there is a great fa.
tura for everybody who can live long enough
to see it. •.
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'confirmed by the eubsegaent judgment of
posterity—that Fiance, however rich 'in
great Generals, had producea few abler
fighting soldiers than Jean Victor: Moreau,
Aferniont indeed piaclairns with truth that
"Moreau knew nothing of strategy.His
skill displayed itself in tactics. Personally
brave to a fault, be handled,well, in presence
of the enemy, troop, oecepying ground with -
In the limits of hits vision ; but he delivered
his principal battles. with only is portion of
• his force." Such 'was also the verdict of
jomini ; **the eimpedati 9f 1796; the pass.
..aue of the Rhine in Mee of the enemy in
1797, and the battles of Bibetach and of Ho..
henlinden are sufficient to place Moteati on
a very high pedestal,With all ailfnIsificat
tions of history at 'St. Enlena,"Napoleon
could net deny that Moreau—Whom he hated
for many reasons, bat especially because
Moreau was bitterly opposed -to the creation
Of the Legion of Honor, Whieh he turned
ietet ridicule—hadno superior amotte his
Getweals except Messene; Dessaii, andKle-
tot, of whom the het two fell early in the
wars of that convulsive period. Subsequent
writers of all countries have.ratilied IvIoreau
as inferior in the field to Napoleon alone.
• When Massena met Wellington, aud had to
*coil fret; before the impregnable lines of
Torres ,Vedras, tho Weight of yea*, aoticig
open a:constitution naturallyfeeble and im-
paired by war, had beguu to tell upon the
French Genetel, and, witheutdetracting for ,
a moment from Wellingten's tranacendaut
men*, Englishmen nay, perhaps, be per-
mitted to rejoice that their great con:inlander
heft not, with far info' ior strength', to faeo
Moreau as Generalissimo in Spain, with
.Ioinini.as his thief of staff, *stead of Mas -
sena,. Marmont Snit, and. Xing Joseph,
acting separately. ' Indeed, Moreau and
.
serying thus together, *tub' have
been as formidable . a pair as Blu0t,er and
Gneisenau.
_
• fortified would have to be, carried. • What
has been. done once may be done again, but
vereecertainly the nut which was cracked
by Moltke in 1070 will present greater diffie
:mails when the next gigantic struggle takes
place.
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The Mistletoe. •
(Macmillan's Magazine)
.Tho infstletoe was sacred of old with the
Pereians and the. Massage: re, an the rever-
ence paid to it by theDruids was something'
. special, and exceeding that paid to
other objects of religious importance ; for,
as Pliny tells us, "The Druids hold nothieg •
more sacred than the mistletoe, providel it
be on an oak. • They 'look upon it as a cer-
tain sign that their god *Almada choice of
that tree for himself. But it ts a thing very
•rare to be met withal (th t " '
and so it le Iliaw,).ancl when it is found they
resort to it with groat- devotion," They
deified the mistletoe, and might only ap-
proach it in the most devout and reverential
•
preached they marched with ereat solemni-
ty to gather the mistletoe of the oak in order
to present it to Jupiter, inviting all the
world. to assist at the ceremony with the
words: The new year. is at hand, gather
the mistletoe !" Thie Borlase tells Ile ; and
?Maid says that in Burgundy :the country
people, on the first day of the 'year, salute
one another with the ;words, "Au Guy, Pan
• .
neuf 1" "Ad Viscum annus neves.") Guy
nr gu e e ica name still retained
for the mistletoe in French, while in the
upper parts of Germaey, •where heathen
customs abound, the common people ac-
ctrdeng to Keysler, about Christmas Awe,
run about the villages striking doors and
'windows with hamtnere, and 'shouting,
-"Gut hy1, gut 411". words which Are
'plainly equivalent to the Druidical name
of the mistletoe used by Pliny when he calls
it 'mania mans, All.heal. For. iudeecl,
there is hardly anything which it has not
been said •to cure, . In Brittany, Where it is
now become "Tilorbe de In Croix,"
burn al' rOCIZ) it is considered to heal fever
aria to give strength for wrestling. • Bacon
say': the mietletoo upon. oaks ia counted very
medicinal, and the Druids considered' it a
remedy against all 'kinds of poisons and a
sovereign remedy againat vermin.
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&Tenet on AFRICAN' COMME.—Our sec-
ond day's tnarch hem Pangani ended at
sunset at the village of Kwamakumba
which, like Midanga, is eituated, the}
heart Of an impenetrable forest. In this
Ogee clothes are manifestly at a (11w:out:it,
especially among the ladies, who have no.
thing but a small piece of cloth hanging
from their Waists. • This they never wash,
nor do they ever sew rents. Hence their
" dreas " is generally one of slinple shreds
and tatters, kept together no one knows
bow. They prefer, moreonete the very
thinnest of materials. Even. gauzeis not
considered too airy a fabric. One young
damsel sported as the sole apology .for
garment the remnant of an old fishing net.
—Good Trordl.,
thankathheeyla
oftheetzhgesepresent daY lay idle tnOte
•
manner. • When t end of the year a -
The names of towns and settlers -tents in
Arizona possess the merit of originality.
Hero aro some of them Tombatonee Good
Enough, Tough .Nnt, Contention, Family
Fuss, and Dyscipline. •
114104 SARA11 jonaseon died on Tuesday
at rqua, Ohio, Aged 102 Iworetain-
edhe retain-
ed 1 Iten lee Up to Within few
months of het disease:
.A.A.roirat LisrArran. died. Jan. 26 at Love
-
lend, Ohio, just as he was nearing his 100th
birthday. When a boy he fought under the
great Napoleon, aod loved the eervioe,
ASnorr McKim:NY of Sago made his will
just as he olesed A century of life, and ex-
ecuted is codicil at is later date, He died
recently at the age of 102 years, and now his
will is being conteeted,
Wither Thomas 14. Gorman presented Mrs.
Black Bear; an tedium. woman living among
the settlements on the Munouri, with a pair
of speotaoles, she wile delighted, as it enabl-
ed her to. age once more. She is suppotied to
be 115 yea* o14, • ' •
An old Kentucky slave, named Seralt
• Qlark, died Jan. 10, after living to be, it is
believed, 126 years of age, She retnember.
ed the breakiug oot of the Revolutionary
•wer, and said. ahe was the mother of two
children at that time, She nursed the
grandfather of Gen, Clark, Congressman,and
afterward en officer in the war el 1812.
So/touter Maximo° and his wife of Cabe- •
ceiras city, Breed, are aged reepeetively 103
and 97. They contemplate celebrating the
eightieth anniversary of their wadding goon,
Ot the tfrenty-three children born to this
• aged pair, fourteen still survive. One hun-
dred and twenty-six grandohildren and
ninetydevennreat-granclebildren vi ill attend
the wedding anniversary. .
13einomm hfunimr, born in Ireland, died
recently at Buffalo, aged 101 years. Whe n
18 years old, during the rebellion of 1798,
' she was sent seven miles by her uncle to
hide a large eum of money in a bog hole.
She was met by British soldiers on the way,
but supposing She had nothing of value,
• they let her pass. The money was recover-
ed two years litter. She came to Buffalo
in 1744 She leaves seven children, the old-
est of whom is over 70. She has sixteen
great-grandchildren in this city, and probe.
bly a number in Irelealci.
A. Hawk and. a Rattlesnake.
•• From the Miscue. Globe Chronicle.
• My inusing on the ages' of ebange that; it.
must have taken to mould the scene toits
present aspect were broken in upon by r.
large tattlesolike gliclinn out on a bare %reek
within fifty feet of the point where I was.
sitting. Be seemed to search around like a '
dog for a place to suit his .snekeship, and
then etreaehed hiiriself out'to enjoy the
Warmth: was thinking if ,it were worth
to-leeanc-a atone -at -thennonstereewhere-nes
a big shadow swept down and a halt* nearly
caught. him _napping, but not quite. The •
snake sprung his rattleand coiled himself
• reedy for attack, while the hawk hovered.
round, making a dash, now 00 the right and
now on the left. • It was quite an interesting
:skiimish, but at last the snake made a spring:
. and apparently failedsto strike, and before he
could recon •hiniself•the hawk seizeO him
with bethataiona close behind the head. In
fact, be had, him' on the neck, and swept
into the air,- while the snake straggled and...
:twisted, away uedoto the blue in nide °fret -
big sweeps,: until the struggling reptil hung
limp and lifeless, when the hawk came down.: • .
to earth Again, .and, alighting on a neigh-
bouring tree, -mad:this meal on the snake;
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„How We Abuse Our gorses.
If we say thatof all brute animals none in
more valuable to man than the lierse., and
Shat the neglect 4 any mearia whioh may
rprottiete his welfare and efficiency is a blun-
der not easily .aistinguisltable from crime, .
we may fairly .be charged with uttering
trueisma. If we urge that this value* not
recogniied Ile it should be, and that this neg-
lect Is inisectablyatornmon, we may still be
accused .Of wasting breath . on atatenients -
which no one would think of calling into •
quest*. Every one, We may ba told, is
Well 'aware that the management of horses
is very faulty, that their lives are shortened a
by the •ignorance of these who have.charge •
of them rather than by any wanton cruelty,
and they are readored practically uselese
knig befere their existence is brought to An
end. To the plea that the same, or muehe. •
the same, things May be said of mon as of
horees, we may answer that the..blame muad
be apportioned to the degree Of 'carelessness
with • which .evits affecting. either men or
horses aro allowed to go nneheidted, or are
foolishly dealt' with ; mar can failures to
improve the conditioe of mankind furnish
reason for reftishig to do what.may improve
the coudition of 'hotites. .
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4. Cunning Oat.
(Fremtho Carson 4ppeal.) .
A gentleman who took a trip into the coun-
try yesterday, when on the plains, a mile
from any house, uoti.d a cat, a huge one,
p
almost as large as at ir-eized dog. It was
iyina upon the groud its feet uppermost,
in Welt .ft way that he 'had no doubt that it
had fall.* is victitn, to some vicious ' dog.
Around: it, feeding unsuspectingly, wage
flock of. smell bird'''. The apparently lifeless
bat was withiu range • of the vision of the
observer for some tirne, and just as he was
thinking how much easier it would bp for
the animal to feign death and eateh is bird •
het deceiving it than by slipping upto.it, he
was astonished to see the cat 'suddenly roll
over and grab one of the feathered tribe that
was %/cream:tar. The other birds floW away'
a hundred yards or so and alighted. The .
cat only made ono or two Mouthfuls of the
game, and thee crept around to theewinde
ijard ofth b' el , laid itsolfatitg d
once more successfully played the 'dead
dodge. The gentleman drove away without
seeing how many birds it took to satiefy the
feline. . . •
• In California the =lei formotly outnuni.
tested the innales very largely, but this die.*
proportion has been gradually 'deoreasing,
and now the disparity is comparatively
small. According to the last census, the
population of the State, exclusive of. Chins
eae, Who aro nearly all mon, ia 740,686,
of which number 443,271 are males and 340, i•
415 females.
A. chapter of mo:dents is known by He
broken heads, •
a
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