Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1881, Page 6

== nl EE FASHION WRINKLES. |" a FRENCH REPUBLICAN LEADER. DECEPTION IN FURS. Gow» ExteRs largely into the materials gf | Mi. Gambetta’s Achievements—His | The Skin ef a Very Common Animal | millinery this winter. or Six Bancies on each arm {8 the latest thing. One silpper in the old lady's supersede It. EorgceTs or TULIPS, or of holly, or else of Bree Ss, are chosen to wear in the corsage of tack dresses. THE SLEBVES Of some of the new morning pwhs are gathered tnto the armhole, plaited Er and kept im place by rows of stitching. ‘Tax Newest models for collars are very deep In the back but make very little show in front. ‘They are of Valenciennes and embroidered in- sertion. Lapres Will be glad to hear that ‘fluttered frog” isthe name of the last new color: it Is rather lighter than the “frightened toad” or “angry mouse.” New PockeT-HaNDKERCHIEFS Of sheer linen lawn have'the intual tn hemstitching, usually in block patterns. The hems are either very narrow or else of medium width. ‘THE most important element In parlor orna- Mentation nowadays fs an open fire of wood or coal and a set of brass fire-lrons, including fender and andirons or coal-scuttie. SKATERS who are too-high-toned to carry a hot potato In their muffs are now supplied with a knobby tuber In bronze, one knob un- screwing that the thing may be fled with hot water. A Noventy in fashionable drawing-rooms are bronze incense burners, eopled from an ¢tent temples, in which pastiiles emitting a slight fragrant smoke are kept buraing con- stantly. A VeRY Sad ITEM Comes from Boston, it being nothing less than that blondes are out of fash. fon. Young men who were foolish enough to miarry them will now have plenty of time for repentance. Do not hesitate to wear the striped mufl fichu or kerchief now seen outside the cloak because the said fichu costs but one dollar, for it Is becoming to every one, and much prettier than maby costly neck arrangements.—N. Y. ail. GgRMAN PoRCELAIN Lawes supplement the high lights of chandelfers charmingly. They are set upon stands made for the purpose and are especially useful in lighting up dark cor- weve and for looking over books Or fine engray- Ings. ONE OF THE GOWNS worn at the New Year's reception tn New York was of copper-coloret silk, with a mass of loose towers painted on the train. Another had a train of Diue plush bor- dered With nine plaitings of biuesatio, and was Worn with a pink jersey. WOOr OR SILK STocKIN are most used at this . For wool stockings, solid colors are erred in olive, dark garnet, plum or pea- tS These are either ribbed or else per- fectly plain, or perhaps wrought lightly oa each side with sik or a contrastiog color. SrtkED JET FRINGES are among the richest trimmings of the season, and there are bail fringes of jet, with each d of the fringe finished with a spike or a jet ball, and these bails are 80 large that they click ‘Ike casta- bets when struck together by the motion of the seasc is so generally used that it is now seen fast caps. The soft crown, either round e, 1s of bright red or of pale blue plush, and !s surrounded by pleatings of white lace or else of Surah satin the color of the plush. ‘These are coquettishly fastened on the head with long gilt pins, and give a becoming touch of color. BLack Ner Vetis with polka dots of chenille are worn in the street. The largest dots are objectionable, as they obstruct the view, and the tiniest dots dazzie the eyes; those with me- dium dots are most comfortable as well as be- coming. The gauze vells for warmth are of the barrow gauze or grenadine, with an inch-wide border. They are worn crossed back of the head and tled under the chin, and are most used im gray abd green shades, SPANISH GaUzE Scarrs, fringed with chenille, are wound around the head and throat when leaving evening parties or the opera. White is most becoming for these scarfs, but they are also shown im pale pink or blue, while for elderly ladies they are of black gauze wrought With gold. Muffs of shirred Surah, edged with Spanish lace, are made to match these scarfs. ‘They are ifned with plush, and are sometimes ornamented with a cluster of towers.—Har- per’s Bazar. APPLICATIONS OF RAISED PLUSH are mentioned in an English paper as the newest thing in decorative work. The design is cut out larger than It is drawn upon the ground, sewn ‘round, and the fulness equally distributed over the whole of the covered surfaces by siltches als~ | ong appropriately to the form represeated 18 produces beautiful effects of Mgat ani shade, and contrasts to great advantage with the ordinary flat applique work. Plush, with its exquisite lights and silken softness, lead, self admirably to tats bolder form of neeii> Work. Examples of it are to be seen 1a con Dinations of deep red and goid. Tus EARLY FART OF 4 New York season fs generally given overto debutantes. The bust- ness of introducing young maidens to the World of fashton fs prosecuted vigorously f-om November until January. In fact, were tt not for this necessity or the casual occurrence of + Wedding, the mothers of familie; would rar Open their houses to large aud promfse 19715 assemblages. In the fasuionadle lif? of Now- rk, daughters are quite In the ascendant. Sons are of much less account and are reg: aS amere drug in the market. The despotic reign of the daughter of a family is never dis- puted. Many American motners devote tnem- selves 80 exclusively to the care of their househoids and their rearing during the infancy Of their children, that they are quite untitted to guide them successfully througa the greater per.ls incidental to maturity. ‘Sul, ir their Social tactics be insufiictent to meet the exigen- cles of the moment, In zeal and enercy they frequently atove for other short-comings and often succeed in the noble maternal mission of marrying off theirdaugbters where more sophis- teated mammas fall—New York Hour, A Jury One. You remark that a jury of one man might be better than twelve, because_ he could never dis- agree. 4s reminds me ofthe anecdote of a Case of the kind fn a justice’s court. A jury ad been demanded, but there was difficulty about getting a jury together. One juryman had appeared and it was foally by the Court that they would try the case by a jury of one. Accordingly the case was tried and the Jury (of one) retired to consult of their verdict under the charge of anofiicer. After waiting an hour or twe the jury were called into court to see If they had agreed on their verdict, and the foreman tnformed the court that they had hot agreed and that there was no prospect of thelr agreeing. And the court sent the jury Out again, sand watted two or three hours longer for the result, when they were again called into court, and they informed his honor that they had not aj aud there was no Ene of aby agreement. The hour being te the jury was then discharged without a Verdict. This may have been a farce. but if It ‘Was, It was no more so than are one-half of our Jury trials.—Correspondence Albany Lae Journal, ‘Are We Building Too Many Rall- roads’ {Railroad Gazette } Whether we are building too many raflroads 4s an extremely Important question, whieh very closely concerns the future of the country, but whether too many or not, there can be no ques— tion that the activity In that direction now has a great and favorable immediate effect on the business of the country. The whole subject we hope to aonsider further when we come to re- View the construction of the year. But we may Safely say that the construction now Is at a rate Which cannot possibly be kept up for many years without grave disaster. We chronicle this week the construction of 6.139 .miles since the firs ation has Deen “collected we shall Probably that something of railrond have bee the year, an amoant t exceeded, and which {3 equivalent to increase ‘of fully elgut per cent in the total tolleage of the country, while the annual tn- crease in population 18 not usually more than 2% per cent, and with the unprecedented immi- on of this year can not have been more than 3 per cent. The tnevitable resuit ts that there ts a smaller number of people to support & mile of railroad. At the beginning of 1330 here were about 566 peopie in the United States to che mile of ratiroad; at its end there were only 550, Already for a long time we have had a much larger proportion of ratiroad to poe tion than any other country; and, though | here May be circumstances, which in this country gute frequently occur, where comparatively few people can support a rallroad, Decause its service Is of extraordinary value to them, yet this process of reducing the number of persons go on forever. The construc- ton in 1579 was about 4,500 miles. The effect Of the additional construction of 2,500 miles over 1579, and of 4,000 miles over 1878, ‘When already peed beer gr Flor begun to portant justries, labor, bas of hand should | Past Services to Framce a Guar- antee of the Future, In editorially commenting upon the recently | issued volume of M. Gambetta’s speeches, the London Times says: “It is impossible at the Present time to say anything about Franca aad Freoch politics without making a principal ref- ereLes pine name of M. ae “= bome and foreign questions, the firs Ubing asked 1s, what does M. Gambetta think, what does he wish, what wiil he do? His position and laftuence upon the minds - cf his countrymen are incontestable. How are we to account for them? What has this | man, young still a3 years are counted among | politictans, done that ae should thus take rank #S an undoubied leader of men? How comes It | that his tightest words are lstened to and | Weighed and taken into account as giving the | best obtaluabie clue to the course wAlck france | Will follow; Chat Lis unexpressed wishes see | to fultill themselves; that his prestimed favor or | disfavor have @ certain anc tmmediate tntluence upon the fortunesof a mialstry; that, 1a a word, he holds in bis hand the reallty of power, while he declines the responsibility which the eut- ward a of power would bring with It? His past career 1s the sufficient explanation of it all. He 13 no untried man. . Prance, during the public life of Gambetta, has gone through the darkest period of ner ils- tory. the geueral despair which attended the German Invasion of isi#, Gambetta almost alone among Frenchmen ‘never de- spaired. To the very last he was the center aod hope of the French resistance. Successful he Was hot. The protraction of the struggie eu- talled only more severe suffering and more un- favorable terms of peace, when submission had at length become inevitable, But France now Stands higher In the cstimation of Europe than if she had given way earlier, while she ‘still some resources available and some greund lett to do battle on. The moral credit she has pre. served is due in no small degree to the fore with which M. Gambetta inspired her. ‘To th now dominant political party tn France he had done good service before 170, and he has done good service since. Butistv was, so to say, the test year of his career. To the charge of now shnoking from responsibility he can oppose What he then did. if the like need ever again arises, his country knows where she may look for the like firm guidance and irrepressible en- ergy of resource. “Sai ffonneur De Vous Salue.”” At one of Mile. Bernhardt’s receptions in this city a young Bostonian found the way open to an Introduciion, which he nad eagerly desired. In order not to appear too provincial he called on afriend sifghtly versed in French, to ac- quire intermation regarding the deportment usual On such an occasion. “Well,” sald his friend, “when you are introduced you will bow and smile, and withdraw. If yousee ft you can say ‘Mademoiselle, j'al Vhonneur de vous Salue.’” “Yes, that’s 1t—f want to say some- thing. It would be so stupid io walk up, take a look, and back out. without saying a word.” “It would please the lady to hear herself addressed in her bative tongue” “Splendid,” added the pupil, “but what does the lingo mean that you mention?” ‘“fhat you are giad to see her in Boston, and salute her in the name of the people.” “Splendid.” rejoined the novice, “you Just write it down and 1! commit it to ‘mem- ory.” For the balance of the day the studious young man might have been seen in the horse Cars and at his place of business scau- ning with great care a bit of paper which he tock out of his vest pocket and put back into his vest pocket some two hundred Umes in the course of six hours. He became letter perfect, and as he passed the statue of Franklin on his way home he smiled, and soi’ voce exclaimed, ‘Benjamin, jay Vhonnor de ¥oo salue.” He liked the sound of his own saluta- tion so well that almost Involuntartly he ejacu- lated, “Park sireet church, jay ’'honnor de voo Salve,” and as he looked up at the state house he bowed and whispered, “Glided dome, jay Vhonuor de yous salue.” As he left his aged mother and spinster sister after dinner to per- fect bis toliet he addressed his relatives with Jay Yhonnor de vous Immediate members of bis own family felt that something was Wrong with their relative was apparent from the fact that. as he left the house he was watched by them til! he was out of sight. But it was incrossing the Public Garden that young Boston went through his grand | Gress rehearsal. Tie looked at the Ether monu- Ment in the distance, and at onced imagined that it was the Bernhardt, He appfoached gracefully, took off his hat, and in mellifiuous | tones exclaimed, “Mile. Bernhardt, jay ’honnor de vous salue.” He was so well satisfled that he concluded that nothing more could be done in the way of preparation, and he walked boldly to the encounter, congratulating himself that 8 would die of envy when he heard of this graceful little speech, and already in imagina- | Uon he was basking in the smile of the great ac- | tress. It was some time after the reception had | commenced that he took the arm of his friend who was to homor him with an introduction. As he approached the actress, sculptor and painter, he felt a weakness in iis knees. The room appeared to be turning round while the phrase wich he had imprinted on his memory became a mass of words without meaning. He heard bis name pronounced as if it were some other fellow who was being introduced, and he felt that this other feliow made a bow and suid “Msm’selle.” He knew the other fellow broke Sold Under Assumed Names, Indianapolis News.} While atroulng along the streets of Ind'an- @polis the other day, our reporter, Ina dusty cobwebby window, saw a piece of card-board four or five inches square, on which was wrl'- ten, “Pure skunk Oil aud ‘coon ofl.” A moth- eaten, Weather-beaten ‘coon skin hung above the door, which the reporter entered. “* What do people buy skunk oll for,” said the proj in his answer, repeating the question, “Why, they buy it for rheumatism, and, I say, {t never fatis to cure.” The reporter destred to see ome pure skunk oll, having heard there were mauy worthless {raltations abroad, and was shown a pint iask of an olly liqutd of the color of linseed Ol. The fluid had BO more and 10 worse odor than lard oil. “We seil to all sorts of people, white, black, and yel- tow, the richest and the poorest,” the pro- prietor continued. “This oll we get from the skins—that’s as much of the skunk aa I get— andthe yield is usually about four ounces ta the skin. Sometimes we get haifa pint, and sometimes, though seldom, as much a3 a pint, to the pelt. There’s no more than one skio in & thousand that'll yleld a pint of oll. The ant- mal ts thin in flesh in summer, but very fat in winter. Skupk hides, last ‘year, the best quality, were worth from $1.75 to $2 eacb. They Will not be worth much more than half ag mucs this year. T handled 2,000 skunk skins last year early all of which were canght 10 Indiana. The animal abounds in southern and central Indiana. There are a few in this county, not many. ‘The skins have been worth 48 wich as $3.50, but they’ll never see that price again—not very soon, et least. “Is there any danger of the skunk crop in this state becoming exhausted?” ‘None at all. A skunk will have from three to seven youag at a litter—usually about flve. I've been a fur buyer for forty-two years, and there are more skunks in this state now than ever. There 13 @ prejudice against the animal, which makes it necessary to sell the fur to iadles who wear it under several preity altases. among which are ‘fitch’ and ‘American sable,’ Besides being made into muffs and trimmings, the skins are largely used in making fine carriage robes.” Should Horses be Shod? The question of shoving horses 1s discussed at leigth in Fraser's Magazine for December. ‘The writer thinks that horses are now worn out at least fourteen years before they ougnt to be and that tn this the United Kingdom loses $6 0v0,000 every twenty-one years. Different causes for the injury of horses are mentioned, but the writer thinks that abuses of their feet are most serious, and he asks: “If the working Of the traditionary system leaves tue horse a Wreck almost before he has reached his prime, if the lessening of the weight of iron and of the nutaber of nails used in fixing the tron has been followed vy direct and Lmportant beaciits in every instance, if even those wao hold that a horse must, be shod have discovered that that which they look on as a protection to the tore feet is merely harmiul to the hind feet, 13 it possibie to stifle the Suspietor that this tasig- hifleant remnant of a system so fruitful 1a mt3- ebief may have no magic power, and, In short, that the horse may do just aS weil without them?” In his repiy to this he says: “The piain truth is the differences tn the quality Of sell, be it hard or soft, stony or sandy, smooth and slispery, are of compara- Uyely little importance to the horse whose feet are a5 Lature made them. In the words ‘Free Lance,’ ‘the unshod horse can suceessfally deal with all roads,’ and assuredly no one. will dream of asserting that shod horses can do Us, for on the setting tn of frost, for irstance, they cannot be worked until certata ceremo- nies have been gove through at the black- smith’s forge, The unshod horse caa tread firmly on the slime of wood pavement waea shed horsesarestipping and strugg!tug in agony around them: he ean guilop ou ice, and trot for tniles together on the hardest aud roughest fitnt roads,with far more ease and comfort than horses wiose feet are shod with fron, or evea With gutta percha. ‘Free Lance’ rightly re- Marks that if they could not there would be an end of the thing, for evidently the horse should be able to go any where and every- where, and at a momert’s notice,’ Itseems hard to produce the conviction that the natural sole of the horse’s foot fs almost impenetrable, that it is so hard and strong as to protect the sensi- ble sole from all harm, and that ail feet exposed to hard objects are made harder by the contact, provided only that the sole {3 never pared. This adequacy of the horse’s foot to all demands that, may be made upon it 1s forcibly illustrated by Mr, Bracy Clark, who, like Mr. Douziass and Mr. Mayhew, contented himseif with striving to Produce a perfect shoe, although he acknowl- edged that if we wish to appreciate the full beauty of its structure, “we must dismiss from ; Our views the miserable, covrced, shod foot en- Urely and consider the animal in a pure state of nature using his foot without any defence.’ Probabiy Mr. Ciark thought that, though we may consider it in its natural state, few can ever £0 behold it, as all horses in civilized countries are in greater or less degree brought under art!- ficlal conaitions. The pleats fallacious. The horee fs clearly intended by nature to serve as a domesticated antinal: and so long as we do not Interiere with the proper functions of any ari. of its body (and the abomination of bear- lug reins aLd other such practices interfere with them grievously and even fataiiy), we bring ft under no conditions which It was not designedly calculated to encounter. Private OWLETS ald companies whose horses must be bumbered by troops are naturally irritated by down. He heard the voice mentally but the words were unuttered. He retired, seized his cout, and in the cool air of that winter eveaing he wended his way home. As he passed the statue of Washington on gorsenack he looked up and remarked: “Geor§, I have made an ass of myself.” In the dim moonlignt of a ‘eaden eky be thought he saw the horse whisk us tall, and from the brazen lips of the great captain’ came forth in thunder tones—* “uonneur de yous salue.””—Boston Journ it. The Wife Anxious to Please. ““Pearest, de you know you'grieve me ress? . “ve Something's wrong about It may be the height of f: ‘What, in fact, is al But—don't get into a pass’ Change it‘ere the "morrow morn.” Like a kind, obedient lad: Straight the good wife went, T we jerself in vesture shady, Faced him in a sad sae green. ~ Quoth she, bowing te correction, « (“Here's the last esthetic ‘fad’; he, with wild interjection, ‘Bless me, dear, you must be mad.” ne, your dress ‘ashion,— ‘Then she wore a jeysey, fitting Like an ecl-skin all complete, With a skirt so tight that sitding ‘Was an agonizing feat. Cried she with supreme conviction, “*Jhis, Tthiuk, will suit the wen" ; It was not. benediction ‘That he breathed upon her then! Still she kept her temper sweetly, And wish aczravating smiles Dressed herself—and did it neatly— Ina mixture of a/’ styles, — classic, D ly Varden; ‘Then she brought him to his knees! For he cried, ‘* I beg your pardon ; Dress, in fiture—as you please’ (Punch’s Imance Mistaking a Catamount for a Fox. On Thursday evening, the 9th instant, while W. K. Heylman of Ralston, was doing some work near his father’s house, he heard two foxes barking in reply to a neighbor's dog. Mr. Heylman thought they would goon tre of that, and strike out for a moonlight stroll, and by the way call out his father’s dog. So he seized his rifle and stationed him: in the edge of the woods about where he thought the prowlers would come. About five minutes elapsed, when they were within a few rods of him: but as it was quite dark and the brush thick, he could not yet see them, although he could hear them walk, and they were barking at a gleeful rate. Just at that instant he saw, as he supposed, one ot the tox@® coming through the brush, in a direct line for his rifle. Mr. Heylman was In the proper attitude for shooting. and when the quadru: was passing within ten feet of him, he fi at his victim at random, 2s owing to the darkness he could not see the sights on his gun. The animal Er afew bounds and tumbled over against leg. Mr. Heylman, sup) it was dead, cocked the other barrel and prepared for another victim, which continued his barktag. At that instant his dead beast recovered and Sterted off. Mr. Heylman let go the other bar- relat him. without rauch effect. The animal crawled into atree top, and Mr. Heylman ‘in after him, and here the battle began, ‘i'ne catamount, as it proved to be, made at him, and fortunately he had taken a with hin and used it to beat the animal off. The ight was lively for a short tme, but Mr. Heylman came out victorious, though he says had ‘t not been that both hind legs were broken he would have gotten the worst of it. Heylmap sald he thought it strange that a fox would fight like that, and did not discover what he had ktlied until he had taken it to the house. There he Ubrew it down tn the yard, loaded his gun and returned to the woods. His sister came out to see the animal, and while looking at it it seemed to gain a new life and attacked Miss Heylman. She took a hammer handle and beat its brains out.— Williamsport (Pa.) Banner. ‘THE AMERica’s Cur.—The London Field, De- cember 1s, publishes a history of the America’s cup. introducing the story a3 follows: “We are glad to find that English yachtsmen are again taking an Interest.in the cup won at Cowes by the America in 1551. We have been asked ge’ we feel ity sure if it were made certain that two or ai; with the same be sailed for the cup that some British yachtsman @ chal- ELOPERS Ixpicrap,—Gustav Heinrichs, a mu- sic teacher, and man of family, elo} to Sar Francisco with a hter of Cay . ree ea iy basse and tee bate and on Tuseday ‘a, reaulsttion: frora a MeClelian, set out after them the accidents constantly oveurring on smooih and silmy pavements or on rough and hard Stone or tlint roads, and in thetr disgust they how ofcred rewards for the inventiou of a slice which shall render the horse tadt!Terent to the Taaicria!s over which he bas to pass, and have }ored for a uLtiorm system of ‘pavements litowns, It seems strange iodecd that no misyiving seems to cross theif minds that they, are taking thought of the wrong surface, aud that tey are scared ey false terrors when they dread the contact of the unshod hoot with Sand, granite, flint, wood, or asphalt. It can- hot, indeed, be too often repeated or too strongly insisted on that the foot of the horse in uo way needs to rest on softand yielding surface! Herrmann’s Bird Trick. Herrmann’s bird trick, which has delighted and mystified many audiences, is thus explained by one who Claims to have soived the riddle: The reader will remember that a small glass box, about nine by four inches, was exhibited, containing a number of canaries. This was placed on the side tables and a cage of ordinary size and appearance was passed among the au- io were thus enabled to see that it perfectly empty.” The cage was then suspended from two wires, which were fast- ened to a couple of upright brass rods fixed in the center table. Two large silk pocket hand- kerchiefs were placea over cage and box, and Herrmann, standing at the small table, fired a Pistol, instantly withdrew the pocket handker- chiefs, ard showed the glass box empty and the cage full of canaries. “For a long time tt 13 Said this trick was a puzzler, but the following ‘Was found to be its explanation: The ordinary looking cage had in reality a false top, or rather @ false bottom to the top. ‘The roof of the cage was peaked, and between its ridge and the bortom of the eaves was what may be called a garret. Before being brought on the stage the same number of canaries were therein confined asthe box contained. The wires which held the cage suspended were connected with a bat- tery outside. The glass box was also peculiarly constructed. ‘The Sides were secured by brass milre joints, but the bottom and top were held together by wires concealed by these joints and could at will be slid down until the top formed the bottom, and the bottom hung below, sus- tained by the corner wires, like the standard of @ whatnot. When the box ts placed on the table it rests on a spring trap, and the moment the eet is fred Herrmann presses the spring, the trap descends, with it the sliding top and bottom of the box, andthe canaries are ‘thus forced out of their quarters. The sprit ig relieved, the box receives again ita top and bottom in thetr places, and the canaries are left in the table. Co-instantaneously with this manegver the watchful attendant presses the bottom of the battery, the floor of the stage “garret” gives way and the released birds tlut- ter down into the cage. Curling. The dull roar of the curling-stones on the keen ice is accompanied by the frenzied shouts of the partisans as some shot of great moment is bel 3 eek Respectable fathers of tam- ies, and kirk elders to boot, are dancing as if they were on hot griddles ‘and possessed by demons. The stone delivered, or rather barely Gropped, from the strong arm of Sandy, the smi is gliding forward on tts fateful misston, “Soop her up! soop her up!” a, na; let abee! let abeet” The brooms are being flour- ished over the shapely brown boulder trom the Burnock + Water, by fingers that burn to lend its legs and direction. ‘Tue voice of the skip dominates all: “Leave alane! leave ‘lane, will ye? She’s a’ there, right enough!” And suddenly, as the stone has Skirted the very edge of’one of the enemy’s surest guar @ tremulous movement 1s to be detected in the handle. The eed f Player, with a dexterous turn of the wrist, has com: muxicated the hitherto imperceptible “side.” The stone, in a graceful parabola, curls gently -tnward, takes an “tawick” off the’ inner edge of another, and circles in to le “a pot-lfd” on the very tee. What yells of pepo and triumph Tend the air! “Shift that if ye can, my lads?” wile: Dreepdaliy chutes and while Dree; fes ant impotent disgust. That ‘great, shot of the smith’s has decided the ‘ ccand the game; for in vain does the schoolmaster—with the laird following to neutralize his play—try to break a Way to that winning stone through the ad- Mowe guards of Bodencleuch.—slackwood’s fagazine, “Yes, ’m fone te Sate n answered »” be ag his teeth rattled together and his ears stood out like sheet-iron medals. “They tried tostutt ie nt ar rpete Br Pasir eee ut T we > “Did one freeze to death?” he “Naw! Come to find out about it, he just froze his ears and nose and Ts and toes, nee bade pany of tone at Go scare any of thelr tales o: borror!”—Detrott free Press, lating Railroad Re: tions. Bette’, snan a Photograph. MF "uation acatate provides railway “" landon Globe.) company may make regulations for @ertain ex- EVery © oe 1s familiar with the arrowed im- Se ee ane Teer Weorkieg of thecal. | PICS! a of a fnger-mark; but tt 1s not so gen ay. Abyriaw of a Tailway company provided | yq-,£KBOWn that the character of the prin wi that “no passenger will be allowed to enterany carriage used on the railway,or to travel therein | upon the railway, unless ‘urnished by the com- paby with a ticket specifying the ciass of car, Mage and the stations for eonveyanoe between which such ticket ts Issued. Every passengei shail show and deliver up his ticker, (whether a contract or season ticket or otherwise) to any duly authorized servant of the company, when- ever required to do so for any Pi ANY passenger traveling without a tc! or fallt or refusing to show or deliver up his ticket as aforesaid. shall be required to pay the fare from the station whence the train originally started to the end of the journey.” A passenger, wita- out fraud, refused to show his season Ucket on pessing over astation Plato ot the company to which his ticket appiced, 4nd was convicted by a magtatrate under this by-law in the amount of the fare from the starting place of the train by which he had just traveled, held, that this by-law was void for unreasonableness in the amount fixed for the penalty, and that tne con- viction must be quashed. —Znglish High Court of Justice. Dreaming to Some Purpose. [Des Moines (Iowa) Register. ] Last Friuay a lady went from Bevington to Winterset and returned on Conductor White's train. Soon after leaving the coach she dis- covered she bad left her parse, in which here Was a considerable amount of money, in the coach. A telegram was sent to Mr. White, who immediately made diligent search, but could not find thé purse. When tho coach’ was turned over to the sweepers in the yard on the east side they were instructed to look out for the purse. They thoroughly cleaned and swept the coach, but saw no purse. As might be ex- pected, the lady worried over her loss and 10st considerable sleep that night, but finally passed into a dreamy state, when she says she went into the coach and found her purse at the end of the seat whereon she sat. The next mor.- ing, When the coach arrived, her bhusbaud boarded It to get the purse. “It’s no use,” said the conductor; *‘we searched every place Inthe coach and the sweepers have turned and swept every seat in it. Itisn’t here.” “But I know just where it 1s; my wife found tt last night,” said the woman’s husband, and precisely where she found it. !n her dream was the purse. Con- ductor White’s two eyes stuck out like a loco ays. headlight as he exclaimed: “Weil, that ats me!” Rachel and Bernhardt at Home. {Mre, Hooper in The Philadelphia Telegraph. | ‘sebei Was not in the least versed in tae art of advertising herself. In the early days of her career she lived in the simplest of aparimenis aud in strict seclusion, devoilng herself entirely to the study of her art. She worked hard— those who fapcy that she achieved what she did by sheer force of genius are very much mistaken. When she had made her fortune, she installed herself in a charming ltUe hotel In the Rue | ‘Trudon (now demolished), but her private re | Was regelated as strictly as that of any soctety lady, No one could gain admission to he: without a forma: introduction from 3om: ot ber own personal friends, She received very little, and then only men of the lighest distinction— princess, statesmen, literary and arustic celebrities, ete., and some few— | but very few—of the prominent citizens | and journalists of the gay, such as Jules | danin and SainteBeuva. Every one knows Uhat her morals were far from severe, but the Gisordcr of her life never Involved ber manuers, ‘The little street-singer had become one of the queenllest ladies of France. Once she chanced to ke an engagement in berlin whea Nicholas Was on a visit to Une court. then In mourning, but the Czar had a great dislike to having anybody appear | Detore him in black, 80 one of the Court ladies, Who was very inttmate with the famous sct- ress, had one of her own daughter’s dresses (a ; White silk) hastily arranged for her friend. | Yet, notwithstanding the disadvantage of ill- fitting and burriedly-provided ature, so queenly Was Rachel's walk and so nobie was her aspect as she advanced up the long room wherein the presentation was held, that’ the Emperor rose, 4g if involuntarily, to receive her. “Je salue | te grawle dame” (“E salute the great lady”) Was his remark, Jn contradistinction to this royal lady of the French stage, her erratic successor appears a | Yerltable Queen of the Bohemians. Mdlle. Sarah Bernhardt’s Pavisian household 13 not | unlike that of the “Countess Julia Walker,” 1n the sparkling comedy of “L'Age Ingrat.” "It is a constant whirl of visitors, coming’ and going; everybody can Call who likes, and everybody docs call. All the newspaper writers of Paris, the foreign correspondents, the ristug arusts, the aspiring dramatists, are to be found in the Vast studio on the Avenue du Villiers. A dozen people will happen in to breakfast and twenty Will drop into dinner. There will be 30,00) francs in the house one day, and no money’on the morrow. In the midst of the crowd re- volves the mistress of the house, talking, re- ceiving, painting, modelling, writing, study- ing, the wildest, inost capricious, most extrav- agant Bolhemicnne of Parts. Yet withal she 13 comparative simple ag regards her personal tastes, She dresses ju an original and eccen- tite style, but not gorgeously. How One Irishman Lost His Labor. (the spectator. } s Mr. N— was the most intelligent peasant i and the greatest rebel I ever knew; he used to say God gave him many gifts, health, and strength, and brains, and all were made of no avall by English law. Mr. N—, about the time he came of age, asked permission fro: a landiord to fence in and drain a piece of * wild bog,” and bulid a cottage upon it; he was ia love, and hoped, by industry. care and toil, to create a happy home, As the land he wauted Was not worth a farthing an acre, lus request Was readily granted; he chose a piece of wild Tountain-side, sloping to the high road, with a full southern exposure; and here he tolled day by day, and often far into the night, when the mcon gave ight to guide his hand. Soon a cottage, far better thdn the ordinary run of | Irish cabins, sprang up, as if by magic, and ; here the happy coupie began thetr life of hope. From the surrounding gentry, cuttings of fruit and forest trees were readily obtained, and 23 years went ‘by, garden and fields were sur- rounded by sheltering hedges, Corn and green crops were everywhere, and year by year other acres were added, and no trace remained of the stunted heather or the ‘shaking bog but alas! the estate was sold in the “Landed Es- tates Court,” a new popular came in, and poor Mr. N—— was called upon to pay for the peng acres which he had created £30 a ear, He resisted, an ejectment was brought against him, and as he was more than forty years old, ard could not begin life again, he could only Yield. The valuation of the entire holding, the result of his years of toil and sweat, was not £20 & year; but £30 was demanded from him, and that he was compelied to pay. I remember well the struggle and the grief, as he looked arcund ae the soll which he had created, the trees which he had planted, the house where his children were born, and ‘he could not tear himeelf away. He made his decision. On the last day of grace, as the sun went down, he entered bis house as a rebel, and has ever since been a pauper. I have heard him say, in his simple way, it he could make hig case known to the Queen, who, alas! was too far away. he would be sure to be “righted,” but Parliament and M. P.’s were of no use; and in unhappy Ireland Mr. N— is but a “picture and & type.” THE CIGARETTE FRvER—There has been of late an alarming increase in the practice of Cigarette-smoking, and it 1s evident from the Slatements of medical authorities that the coming generation will not amount to much if the puffing and inhaling practice becomes much more prevalent. One rarely meets a small boy or a young man who is not pulling away at the sickening tent pele Of so-called rice paper and so-called tobacco, taking into his lun deadly doses of nicotine, and paving the way toa@ life that cannot be healthy. To be sure there are one or two brands of cigarettes which may be smoked without positive danger, but the safest way, young man or small boy, 1s not to smoke cigarettes unless your family doctor approves the act, and he generaliy can tell whether your Toe 4s the kind to stand the practice, ”. Mail, GRAVE Roppgry NeaR R&ADING.—A special dispatch to the Philadelphia Buitetin from Read- lng, Pa., Jan. 6, says: Considerable excitement prevails in the vicinity of Moslemen, ten miles above Reading, owing to the charges made that the grave of the daughter of James Rothermel has been opened by unknown parties and the body stolen. The daughter's appearance at the time of burial was very natural and life-like, and many persons expressed a doubt as to her death, The corpse was buried in a private cem- €tery on the farm of a relative. Certain queer Stories are whispered, and an inv furcean spel estigation is ee CANAL QUESTIONS STILL PENDING.—Counsel in. the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal case will come before the United States Circuit Court. to-day for a determination by the court of what orders in regard to the costs in the re- pauls and rendering of accounts of expenditures and receipts to the court by the president and directors of the canal com- pany. The counsel-for D. K. Stewart, the com- plaipant and in poe older, will ag a the court for order tors to render in court’ monthly a Wa8 Hanexp at Walla Wala, on, Tuesday, for the murder of ©.W. Brum: ‘and for complicity in the murder 6f Amanda Sins and ctonaind Bi wikis ages ged with ig concel in it. Pr A boller in the Allentown (Pa) rolling-mill expla yestran, damating thal and fatally wounding five, j ing tach prisoner sign with his ting: | astonishing, showing that not less than tes considerably foreach individual. f *. person can be readily and faithfully iden by the marks of his thumbs when otuer physi- cal pecuitarities are at fault, Had the finger- warks of the genuine Roger cunberae Deen by aby sibility preserved among archives of that noble and notorious family, the interminable question of his identity with the person called the “Claimant” might have been solved in a moment, and the time and money aid judiciai eloquence wasted on it might bave been saved. The slender yourg Roger with the melancholy eyes Wight grow into the adipose elderly party bow recovering his original agility en the wholesome regimen of Dartmoor Prison; but the ‘Wavy lines of Roger’s thumb wouid never alter inio’ the iikeness of the Claimaut’s. The per- sonal development of a generation seems to meke little or no change in the pattern of the epidermis, In general, the print of a man’s finger differs from that of a woman's, and a Hineu’s from a Eurepean’s, but individual dif- ferences are sq marked, even in the same Tamily,. that it would be unsafe to pronounce apy given signature to be that of a male or a female, a Hindu or an Eng-ishman. It ts inthis individuality of the impression that its value as a true sign manual iles, because this property Prevents its being forged. For more than 20 Jears the method has been used with great suc- cess in India by Mr. W. 1. Herscheli, who now suggests its adoption in the English army to prevent desertion, and in the Eng/ish prisons to dentity the criminals. Mr. Herschel tried 1 first on the Indian government pensioners, (and jor Ortentals, Who seem 80 much alike to the European eye, there is a be gre advantage in employing it:) then he tried it in several regis- tration offices, where it “put a summary sto) to the very ifea of either personation or repual- ation,” abd lifted the cloud of suspicion which always hangs over such offices in Indla. Finally, he introduced tt into the oe nd any Offictal visitor could thereafter sati=fy him=elf in an instant of the identity of the man before him. Imaqreation.—Some official of the general hospital in New Haven writes to the Af; Wea! and Surgical Reporter of @ queer case of une power of imagination, A female patient with chronte gastritis had habitually taken morphine in the form of “sleeping drops.” For the first few times she was given morphine, but, after this the hospital physician had a bottie careful- ly labeled “sleeping drops,” and filled with Water. Of thts she fook a drachin at bedtime. At first she claimed that the medicine was too strong and inade ber head feel badly the next day, 80 that the dose was reduced. This she tock for pearly a month, sleeping nicely whea she did take, and not sleeping at ail when it was kept from her for the sake of ¢ perlment. RAILROAD CoNnsTRUCTION DUx} G@_1850,—The Railay Age, presents a summary showing the | Inlleage of tract actuaily laid down in the Untied States during i830. ‘The footin, Miles of bew track were laid during the past twelve months on at least 234 different lines. These figures are greater than for any year e Intl, and the mileage !s greater by 54 p cent, than that of 179." The Age anticipates that final figures will increase the grand total to 7,500 miles, a mileage greater than bag beeu constructed in the Untied States or any other country in aby previous year, The total mil- eage of the country ‘THE POPE ON AFFarRS IN IRELAND.—The Lon- Gon News says:—We are informed that on ‘Tuesday the Pope addressed a pontificial letter to the archbishop of Dublin for tramediate pnb- estion, im whicb, while sympathizing with the Irish Catholics and desiring improvement in their condition, he exhorts thein te do noth- Ing ccntrary to law, and declares that Ireland wil! more readily obtain what she desires from the government (in the justice and political ability of which he expresses every contidence) if she keeps within the strict limits of legality. The Pope urges the bishops to take measures in order that the Irish peopie at such a critical sien may act in accordance with these e: jortattons, 2 THE OngIpA Communrry.—A stock company fs to take the property of the Oneida Commu- nity, ‘The stock 1s to represent the $600,000 of accumulated value, and is to be divided, in pro- portions intended to correspond to the shares Gf each in producing it, among the families (so called) now composing the community, with the proviso that no stock can be disposed of to Outsiders within three years, and then only after a thirty days’ option to the present mem- bers totakeit. This step may be regarded as the sequel to one taken in August, 1579, when Noyes, the leader, formally advised the aban- doument of the system known as “complex martiage.” The Oneida body, it is announced, Js to go on in its business occupations, and, the change may be considered the reaction from a fystem which has for some years been mata- tained, against disintegrating forces within, by the personal power of the leader. But the Change Is far more than an abandonment of the peculiar sexual relation; it practically turns the communal body into a ‘simple colony, for it in- troduces the ordinary worldly element of per- sonal ownership which 1s the direct opposite o the communal idea. There is only the single difference, that the colony sets out in possession of created wealth and without having to under- go tbe experimental stage, but the trial will come when the older members begin to disap: pesr, and, with them, the influence of the coin. munal training. Whether this ts the begiunin; cta breaking up of the communistic societic : oe States is yet to be shown.—V ork Ties, HEIRS TO 4 MILLION AND A HALF.—Mrs. Mary Glenn, who has been considered by her netzh bors as a poor woman, Ilving with her hust<ud and four children on a small truck farm, at 15 h and Dickinson streets, has recently sudden'y beccme wealthy, her father having dled in Mei- bourne, Australia, and left her $1,500,000, For nine long years Mrs. Glenn had ‘mourned her father as dead. Often, almost hop- ing against hope, she wrote to his far- distant home, but none of the letters elicited aresponse. A few months ago, however, a letter with the Irish slinark reached the house, This proved to from an uncle, and contained the information that her father had Oiled, leaving an estate of about £235,000, nearly $1,500,000; that her only brother had also died in 18/4, and that therefore she (Mrs. Glenn) was the sole surviving legatee to her father’s wealth. ‘This Information seemed almost incredible to the Glenns, who could not realize the possibili- ty of being raised from their present humble Position to one of luxury and affiuence. Letters Were sent to the Australian lawyers, the good news wascontirmed, and within the last week Mrs. Glenn has recelved a letter from solicitors in Melbourne askirg for a certificate of birth. ‘This must be obtained from* Ireland, and the whole charge of the matter has been placed in the bands of Lawyer John Austin Purcell, who will take the necessary steps by which the fam- ily can come into possession of the enormous fortune.—Phila. Bulletin, 6th. SHor Dzap By A Lunatic.—A telegram from Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 5, says; Amaziah’ Living- stone, coachtnah at the State Lunatic Asy ium, Was found near the asylum gate this evening with a pistol wound in the back of his head, from which he died soon afterward. At the coroner’s inquest it was in evidence that an in- mate named John Lawser, who has been con- fined in the asylum for the past year, had ac- companied Livingstone to the city this morning to visit his brother, Ti asylum, and when near the gate a man answer- ing his description and who was in the sleigh was seen to fire and then run away. Lawser Was found in the city this evening by his brother with a revolver on his person, He was arrested and is now in jail ‘THE MysTERIOUS DEATH OFA WOMAN AT Nica ARA Faiis.—People at Ni have been much excited over a case of alls foul play. On Sunday morning the body of Mrs. Mannah Leyden, who bad been missing for a week, w: found in a field three quarters of the village, frozen stiff and ys covered with sow. It lay onits back. ‘The left hand was clinched, and underneath the back; the right Land was upon the breast. The head ‘was raised four inches from the ground. Mrs, Leyden was in the habit of wearing her hair twisted in a coll. When she Was found it was all down. On the throat and also upon the forehead were ee spots, as ee ie had been struck or . Mrs. Leyden was 65 years of age,quite feeble, and lived with two unmarried sone at rick and Michael, firemen on the Central rati- Toad. They were accustomed to give money to ‘herally Carried it about their mother, who Be | He A d a s' i Pi aE Ee : i E i E fe Tas A GOOD YEAR FOR COMETS. ~ Something Abeut These Erratic Visitors. (New York Times. Eighteen hurared and eighty was an ex | tonally geod year for comets. Some 20 these erratic nebuilm have been seen in this | cent 80 that those seen in 1850 were more | than a fair allowance for several ordinary | years. in Prots. Gould, of | Cordova, and Gill, of Cape Town, announced a | comet which has been authoritavely spoken of | as “one of the greatest astronomical wonders | of this century, if not of modern umes.” It | Was 120,000,000’ miles long, or far more than the distance from the earth to the sun. Unfor- tunately, this rare visitor escaped ougNorthera | telescopes, for it was ouly visible in the South- | ern hemisphere. Early tn April, however, J. M. | | Schaberleon, of Ann Arbor, found a little one | Rear the north star. On August 11 Dr. Swift, of | Rochester, saw one, and at the end of Sep | tember Prof. Harrington, of Ann Arbor, saw | | apother, On October 10 Dr, Swift, of Roches- ter, bagged a second, making the flrteenta which has been discovered in this country. Of these, Six go to the Doctor's indiv dual score, and for | Lhe last four years his average has been one per apnum. That, vulgarly speakiag, “gives him the cake.” It was shortly after this that another eminent sclentific person, who, apparently bad | some dificulty in aiming bis telescope, took oc~ | | caston to print a letter In which he referred to he “usuai bungling way” in which Dr, Swift Tepares the occasional rents, Ineomprehenst- t Ioby the vulgar,which tell his colleagues when ‘omets and other astronomical delicacies are in season. Finally, ab the endof the year, came Cooper's comet, which, however, has had its fires pretty much extinguished by the cold water which has been thrown uppn it by our own astronomers—if we may be allowed that figure of speech. in the best encyclopedias, under the title Comets, may be founG page after page of the choicest italics and hieroglyphics known to :clentific persons. It is impossible not to have he highest respect. for whatever these crypto- rains may mean, but for general reading some- hing more intelligible, even if less exciting, €ems ic be Cemanded. There are in all about $30 rec “ded comets. ‘The 540 seen before 1610 | bust, of course, have been observed with the naked eye. The first known comet appeared in 1770 B. C., so that the average of discovery then was about one in twenty-four years. But from the birth of Christ to the invention of Ube tele- scope they were seen much more frequently. In those 1,600 years the average was one comet r every four, In the 210 years since the invention of the telescope, 2% comets have been seen, but only a few of them with- out aids to vision. Tycho Brahe, the Danlsh astronomer, Who died in 1601, was Ube first to show that they were celestial Bodies moving In regions far beyond this earth's atunosphere. Aud Isaac Newton first showed that tneir ad- arently erratic paths, were sirictiy governed BF the laws ofgravitation. A modern inven- tion, the spectroscope, shows that they consist in part of vaporized carbon. So that while a reat deal remains to be learned about comets, yet enough is known to make them no more portentous objects than any planet. Even ia quite recent Umes, however, the ignorant have been deeply moved by them. Thi ma Miller's predictions of the coming of Christ ana the end of the world found no small support in the comet of 1543, which was visible to the uaked eye at noon, Eve more ludicrous was Of some that the frst steam-boat ver Salied on the Ohio was the comet of 1s!1, which had fallen into the river, The:extreme absurdity of this best appears from the almost inconceivable tenuity of the substance of a comet. in comparison With it air is almost @ solid. ‘Thus a comet may be thousands or millions of miles broad, and Yet faint stars may be seen shining through 1. So that, even though Uney move a million miles ab hour—something which it ls hard to believe of So incoherent a mass—tey would suiler far more than this world in case of a col- Usion. Itis, Indeed, belteved that the world aciually did pass through the tall of a comet on June 30, 1561, and there was met then even a smell of smoke. And the collision between Jupiter and a comet in 1770 1s known to have resulted disastrously to the comet. It ald, } a ot it is true, try tts best to pass the planet, but Jupiter's attraction was far too strong, and the comet became caught among Jupiter's moons. Not one of those little bodies was disturbed in the slightest degree, Dut the comet, when it was released after some four months’ conflnemeat was so chapged in its orbit that it could scareely be recognized by its most intimate friends. This Habuity to disturbance makes computations avout cometary orbits iable to errors. Other- wise they would arrive according to schedule ‘Ume with far Soc reguiarity than any rall- Toad train. Brorsen’s comet is expected in iss4, and Halley’s in 1911, and many others might be named. Some of the figures about comets are amopg the most stupendous play- Ubings of astronomers, those Braumins among mathematicians. Thus, Donatl’s comet's year is equal to 1950 of the earth's, and lis greatest disiance from the sun 18_ 5,000,000,000 miles. ‘The corresponding figures for the comet of isii are 3,040 years, and 40,000,000,000 miles, The Allotted Years of Man. It is unquestionable that with the spread of sanitary know! among the masses, the average duration of life bas appreciably in- creased. ‘The mortality tables of the insurance Comipantes indicate this. More people, too, pass the century limit of age.probabiy, Unan 50 years ago. At any rate, the newspapers report more such Cages of late years than formerly. Hardly @ week passes without the chronicilag of sev- eral centenarians among the New England items of the Republican, ‘The election re the fact that William Masters, of Stratford, H., was the oldest voter in that state, his ag being 110 years; at Brewer, Matne, died last Week, Mrs. Mercy Studley, aged 106; at New Haven, Conn., Thomas Evelyn, the oldest resident, ylelded up the ghost at 104; while nearer home was recently noted the death of Miss Sophia Bliss at Sunderiand lacking oniy four months Of 100 years, Some of these ages compare favorably, at least with those of the | SOD Of the patriarchs. When we take Into ac- count that the years ascribed In the Old Testa- ment to the antediiuvians should probably be | divided by four, because of the likelhood that | the year of that period consisted of three months instead of;12, 1t mes apparent that the pos- sibiliues oz human life have not decreased toa very great extent in these latter days. Even in Moses’ time the man whose life compassed a4} century was the exception, for did not the leader of Israel declare that the allotted years of man were three-score-and-ten. Wheiher life beyond this allotted span 13 worth having depends upon circumstances, Generally it 1s weighted with enough of weak- nesses and listo make ita grievous burden, but there certainly have been notable excep- Uons to this rule, even in later days than those of the patriarchs. There be those, too, who maintain that by reducing the economies of lire to a science the average Uhree-score-years-and- te be doubled and yet not prove burden- some to the bearer. A few centuries since the secret of long iife lay in an undiscovered foun- tain of perpetual youth, or the posses- sion of a fabulous elixir. It is now Sought through a formula of sanitary Tules. There is a little book on “The Art of Prolonging Life,” written nearly 100 years ago by Christopher William Hufeland, ge in the university of Jena, very popu- lar in Germany and sh translation in England, which has just been reproduced tn this country by Lindsay & Blakiston, the Phiia- delphia publishers of medical works, that is usiy interesting. One remarkable thing about It is the evidence it contains of the smaii advance that has been made in sanitary knowi- e within the past century. There is very little in it that does not accord with the latest canons of sanitary science, It was Prof. Bufeland’s opinion that the limit a ae iife it be Set at 200 years. ‘This on the general principle that the life of a creature is elght times the years of Its period of growth. at which 1s quickly formed quickly perishes, and the eariler complete de- velopment ts reached the sooner bodily decay ensues. More women reach old age than men, but more men attain remarkabie longevity than women. Some animals grow to be very old. Horned animais live shorter lives than those without horns, ferce longer than timid, and amphibious longer than those which inhabit the air. The voracious pike exists, it is said, to an age of 150 years; the turtle is good for a hun- dred years or more; and among the birds the golden eagle is known to have ilved nearly 200 years, while the sly and somber crow reaches the venerable age of acentury. P: upin the scale of life to man, and skipping triarchs, we find many liny notes that in the reiza of the Emperor Vespasian, in the year 76, there were 124 men living in the limited area between the Appenines and the Poe of 100 years and up- ward,—three of whom were 140 and four over 135. ‘Cicero's wife lived to the 3 London 3 ae i ul HY i Hs fi scientifically quickened age Prot Hutelaed iaid down with sduairabl’ Hons, or the mere fer ng and grooming uman body. He recognizes that the yhysical man cannot be separated from fis ce moral object, aud he thinks that “it wil heighten the value of the moral laws tn the = many by en, — — are indispensably necessary ie physica: support and prolongation of lfe; that without moral cultivation man isin continual oontra- diction with his own nature; and laat by cul- ture alone be becomes even physically perfect.” Per! no more pithy and ete suin~ mary of the rules for attaining long life wae ever made Uban this by Plutarch: “Keep your head cool and your feet warm; instead of em- ploying medictne for every indisposition, rather fast a day; and while you attend to the body bever Beglect the mind.”—Springiela Repulti- can, outis? Wedding **Forth« coming” Aga {London Correspondence New York Times.) The marriage of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts with Mr. Ashmead Bartlett havn been “fnally poned » Mr. hav- ing applied to have himself elected a memver Of the Bachelors’ AS ub, coe whole Dastnees havi een pul quashed, an ready al- Tost “forgoten, 1 am authorized to declare, alter the manner of the people tn Gilbert's far- cleal “Wedding Procession,” that “It ts on again.” You may be sure that I take no pleas- ure in making the announcement (except sucr pleasure as comes: giving you a piece of exclusive intelligence), Uthat my last ote about the baroness was the chronicitny a Bartlett's intimation that it was “ om. Perhaps the young Anglo-American sent in his name to the New Bachelors” Club tn order to mislead the press and put an end to rumor, Be that as it may, I am in a position to inform fon that ext month (nearer the latter end of it than the first) Lady Burdett-Coutts will be married to Mr. Bartlett in. York Cathedral, ‘This famous chtreh ts selected for the ceremony: because it ts out Of the diocese of Canterbury, Whose archbishop, at the request of the Queen, remonstrajed with the Baroness about ber de~ sire to marry. The Kev. Henry White, of the Savoy, will be the chiet ofticiating minister. The lady gives up her house in Strattan street, Holly Lodge, and ali interest In Coutt's bank. The will of the Duchess of St. Albans enforces these sac- rificesin the event of marriage. Tbts will was made more than forty years ago to protect the Baroness from the matrimonial machinations of atriend of the Count d'Orsay. It excites Odd reflections to think that a bullet so adroiily cast for a scheming beau of forty years agoshouid to-day Bring down a young American not then born. It is true that the other day, when console Were at par, the baroness sent the young fellow $500,000 worth of scrip, but not as a “consolation: Up” for a broken-off marriage, but rather a contribution In advance, a trifle to whet the golden appetite, just as one gives a friend oysters aud chablis to lead up to eanvas-back ducks and champagne. If riches are the “pe all and end ali” of this life, Mr. Bartlett ts greatly to be envied, for his’lady-love” ean afford to throw away a fortune for the right to become his wife, and sull have a princely revenue lett. A telegram ® ELeCTRIC DISTURBANCE. to the N. F. Herald, from Omaba. Neb., Jan, 6, says: During the last twenty-four hours @ singular atmospheric phenomenon, known as the annuai electric storm, has been raging be- tween Omaha ané Ogden. During that time the telegraph wires have been useless through that region. The storm was accom- at by snow and high winds over eight ubdred miles, between Omaha and Green River. The tutensity of the storm 1s shown by the fact that when the telegraph key was opened by the operator a steady electric licht burned at Ube connecting points. It is now ractically Over, and the wires are again open. H. Korty, chief operatorof the Union Pacific telegraph ines, has kept a record for years and With but ove exception In twe! ‘Storm occurred on the 6th, 6th or uary. It 1s believed that the entire Rocky Mountain region is visited by them. These storms have attracted the notice of electricians and sclentitic men generally. Robert Samuel Bowden, charged with Ln at 1n Ireland, was handed over to the cust ot & Londonderry detective in New York yester- day, under the extradition treaty, and who de- eS with him om the steamer Baltic, for verpoo!, or THR NATIONAL OAPITAL. ; THE EVENING STAR THE WEEKLY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. c. 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