Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1881, Page 2

eee ee wi bolste: LETTER FROM PARIS, LOCAL NEWS. Three Card Monte Mer im a New | vagrancy; reform B Hote, Ferping his bar open on Sunday in the county; THEY CAPTURE AN OHIO MAN, BUT FAIL TO MAKE | $10. Adams, loua and boisterous; $5 or ANYTHING OUT OF HIM. 15 days. Frank Davia, coll Last Tuesday Mr. Brooke Saunders, of Hamil. | Robert Wilson, vagrancy; © ered ex Bots ton, Ohio, who arrived here on the preceding | 220 J. Beuchert. Keeping oar ee oe orrated Friday night, and put up at the Howard House, | colateral Henry Kaut charged with had some experience with the “three card | contem} monte men.” While walking in the Smithson- lan grounds. a “gentleman” came up to him and engaged him tn conversation, remarking that he was waiting for his friend, Capt. John- Son, of Pennsylvania, who tomest him and bring Sybase, for admission to the Burean of Engraving’anid Printing. Shortly af and el it the monument and river, where a trip by water being pro- b @ man aj ina boat, and they were over thes Posamuace Reaching the shore, one of the party Whe por where some Indians, who far west to see the President, were playing A XEW-FANGLED GAME CALLED “POLO.” ‘md they walked up under a tree, when he sald he did not care about fom 3 “polo,” and would back. As suddenly as If he had come out of 4, a man appeared and asked how he could find ‘his way to the “steam kears to Alexandria,” stating that ne had been to Phila- delphia with a load of cattle from Kentucky; that in Pbiladelpnia he found the cleverest = ever seen; that instead of nap- kins they gave the guests at the hotel red hana- kerchiefs to use at the table, and some of the people after cating wiped their mouths and iaid them on the table, but he put his tn his pocket; and he showed the article—a rei figured nap- kin. He bad gone to see a woman there who Weighed a thousand pounds, but did not se9 her, a8 she Was at breakfast. He then related that they haa A GAYE CALLED “CHUCK-A-LUCK,” on which he lost #100, and he bought ‘some of the “keards,” intending to beat Jim Stmmon3 out of ten head of cattie as soon as he xot home. He produced the “keards,” and the party went to playing after each had lost, $s he alleged drover proposed to play with Mr. §., Dut he declined and insisted on bing taken back, saying he would waik over the Long Defore he would play such a game, wi Was no better than stealing. The party poco bea old man was not so green as he settled the bets, and the Kestucktan refusing to return to the city with them they jeft_him there, and Mr. Saunders was rowed across. The ferryman on landing tue party demanded #3, and Mr. S. invited them to come be Agta him to some store where he could get money changed, but they dropped away from him cne by one, aud he retuned to the hotel alone, chuckling at bis luck in having been able to keep his money in his pockets. An Insufferable Nuisance. IS THERE NO REMEDY? Bitior Star:—I beg to ask you if there is no help for the suffering people of this city? Must We be tormented by the diabolical noises In our , Streets, made by the venders of fruit, vegeta- bles, fish, etc., at ail hours of theaday? nese people are @ nuisance to two-thirds of the rest- ents In the street who will not purchase of them, because their passing i so disagreeable; and it fs ofven in the street where they find the least encouragemont that they make the most horrible yells Sick per- sons, who are not able to sleep during the Bight, are ofien refreshed by a morning naj that boon ts denied here; 16 13 tmpoastole In Washington, for by six o'clock the nuisance commences, abd there 15 no respite for the rest Of the day. MUk carts with gongs are alsoa t annoyance to sick perso oidden. I ask again, Mr. hot put a stop to this nutsaace. AN OLD RESIDENT OF WASHINGTON. Commissioner LeDuc Farmers. Edttor Star:—It ig sald that the farmers want Gen, LeDuc retatned as Commissioner of Agri- culture. The fact is the farmers are a simple and through the etreet | , and snonld be | tor, If we can | tterwards the looked-for ry appeared, and a walk was | the D to into a hollow | &ffray; forfeited. Fleet W. Jenkins, assault on had come from the | Emily Jenkins; $10; Geo. H. Wilson. unlicensed minded 1 people, and are more afiiicted by bucolic | frauds Over 6.000 printed letters of tustructions were mailed by the Washington post oflice to farmers, grangers and others. requesting them to send petitions to the President of the United States, requesting that Gen. LeDuc suould be ah aby other profession. It is sald that | retained, but unfortunately for the success of | the project, the simple minded farmer returned ; the the President, and in this way a good deal has ‘tter Of instruction, with the petition, to | leaked out which was not intended. Gea. | LeDuc bas not yet notified the public that in his experiments with 80 acres of sorguam he made only syrup, bad vinegar and about thres and a haif barrels of sugar. have Cost $50 a pound, quite moderate, msid- ering that practical sugar makers, dui the The sugar must | jast 17 years, have been no more fortuuate than — LeDue tn the matter of sugar making from sorghum. There is a chemical difiicalty in the Way: what that Is the chemist can only te! but bis fs Certain, that sugar from sorghum ts & commercial failure up to this huur. So farmers don't ask his retention because of LeDuc's desire to accomplish great talogs out ofa babble, for there is nothing fa tt tact wes BOt published 17 years ago by tae Sorqamna | Journal. Justice. A Needless Outrage. Editor St feeb SWeepers mst Commence thetr work before dark. watle peo plearesitting at their front doors to get a breata of fresb air, (and I do dD. necessity for beginutng 20 8002.) Un might bave tue u street before starul 2 Last night when they started on M streai, b the surface of the roadway had not boven dimp- ened. The result was that such 4 c’ou t of dust ‘was raised 45 drove peopie ladoors, tlied thelr houses with dust, and left the whole atmo3- phere loaded with a stilling and uudealthy der for balfthe night. Does the ofiztally ited Inspector of streets ever look attr their sweeping in person? Iam afraid not, or such unnecessary disregard for public comfort and health would not be allowed. May 13, i891. HOUSEHOLDER. The Courts. COURT By GENERAL TY ‘ERE. Wednesday, Wright agt. Walter; argument concluded. Gatreli agt. Buchner; judgmeaot affirmed. Williams agt. Gardner; submitted. Th Charter Oak Life Insurance Co. agt. Hosmer; submitted, toe ati . Boyd agt. Douglas; dismissed E ams agt. Gardner; on hearing. Ciacuir Court—Juage Janvs. Thureday, National Metropolitan Bank agt. ‘Todd; judgment confessed. Prentiss agt. Gains; Judgment below aflirmed. Drietus agt. Preli abated. Snowden agt. Jantfer; do. Wagga: man oat Waters; do. Shea agt. Larner aad Davis; do. McDonald; death Pope age Murphy; do, Evans agt. of defendant suggested. Wes- ley agt. Kiddie; settled. Duckett agt. Buck- ner, and Wilson agt. Buckner; motions to quash rari submitted. Tucker & Sherman agt. Kolb; non-suit by plaintif!. Friday, Kiebl agt. Marmon; settled. Ad- journed to Mouday. Equity CovrtT—J: 5 Wednesday, Sutton on: divorce gtanted. Couser agt. Edwards; ry overruled. Keyser agi L. P. Williams ap- poluted to serve sudp: Johnson agt. Hodg- ins: sale ordered and William L. Jaccsoa ap- pointed trustee. ‘Thursda: Schert ai: t. Rein orton agt. ordered. Watker agt. Boyle: lot 5i,sud of 1 and 2, &q. 634, released from operation of suit. Buckley agt. Buckley; time to take testimony Umited. Wheeler agt. exceptions sced w thout prejudice. Gedauer b; pro confesso agulnst trustees. Si y. Lane agt. Lane: petition of Henry | orton; sale under Dili of union | itu; injunction dé- | nied and restraining order discharged. Sinart | agt. Young; exceptions overruled. PROBATE CouRtT—Jwitje Hagnr. Wednesday, estate of James G. Weaver; will admitted to tssued to George F. Graham; bouds $1,000. Estate of Caroline Mozee; petition of Beverly Mozee for letters of admuistration granted; bonds fixed at $500, CRimmyaL CovRT—Judge Cor. robate aud letiers testamentary , This court was convened y<sterday, the seml- | weekly roll cail of tue jury took place, and they Were discharged until Monday. Potics Count, Judge Snel. Wednesday, Jesse K. Ray and Chas, Smith, loud and boisterous; Ray fned $5 or fifteen days, and Smith forfeited collateral Arthur Jones, Lies Shang bonds or thirty days. Wa. E. Vermillion forfetted coliateral. IraJackson, colored, Was ©! Williams {eautied that Unis man ts rd OL exposures of himself to School children. The court cautioned him against repeating the offence, veiling niin that he was arresied for it again he (the court) would fine him $100 or 90 days tu the work- | house. Annie Morrison and Elen Ross, vag- Fancy; bonds or 9% days. Cuarles Tourney, loud and bolsterous; $5 or 15 days. Joa, Brad! bery forfeii:d collateral James Royal and Herbert Lewis, charged wita caustng dogs to Mgbt tm the street; Royal was ficed $5 and Lewis forfeited collateral; Jame; Sweeney, charged with Deing au unlicensed produce dealer; personal bonds to not repeat the of- fence. Lucien Jerome. do: do Rebecca Moore, do.; do, Charles Givds and Columbua Kimmel, petit larceny; Gibbs was faed $5 or 15 days. Jos, S. Conner, assault on Warner D>n- bam; $10 or 50 days. ‘Lucy Carey, lareeny of a Sliver certificate valued at $50 and a €.0 note from John M. Richard; grand jury; bonds $300. Eliza Adams, receiving stolen goods, knowing them tohave been stolen; do.” G Peter- Son, threats to Ellen Peterson, his wife; per- Sonal bonds to keep the peace. John Carroll = paper, Hutehingon, affray; Hutchinson sonal bonds to keep of the in- mates and to making the raid last night. A fine of $10 was im} May Graney, assault ‘Thames Mette: s tg — wuraday, Rich’d Gordon, disturbing the quiet with vag yy. Officer | | fruit or flowers in te center. | with red ingrained cotton, | formed by raised knots of crewels. The leaves | the brushes on a toilet table. mons; $5 or 10 days. Robert Chase, assault on Chas. Price oy him on the head witn astone; $10 or 30 ha Smith, a col- ored girl, was chai with threats of Miolence against a white boy named Robert L. Wrenn, in West Washin: esterday. She was algo cl assaulting Robt, Wrenn, charged with boy's father. She was fined $20 or 30 days for the assault and gave her personal bonds to Keep the Hannah Fitzgera'd, threats to “Ellen ello; personal bonds. Sophia Tighl- Man, assault on Anna Scott; $3. Albert Tolson, commercial agent; fined $205; appeal noted. Yesterday, fe Nugent, vagrancy; bonds or 30 a Richard Taylor, colo mi at a2 inacoent exposure o} @ Capitol groands; $1) or 2 Holly, vagrancy; bonds or 99 days. Jno. Car- roll feud ‘and boisterous, $5 or 30 days. Prank jones, charged with removing sand trom a Street; personal bonds to not repeat the offence. Robert Davis, forfeited collateral. Luke O'Connor, charged with keeping more than two cows’ for dairy purposes, nearer than 200 feet to @ dwelling house other than hfs own; $5. E. M. Harden, profavit 5 OF Kephy, unlicensed p-ovuce dealer; personal boacs to not repew the offence. Alexander Brown, assault on Chas. Braxton; $5 or 15 days. Nellie Brown, threats to Fannfe Holmes; per- sonal bonds to keep the peace for afx months, Henry Giesking fortel'ed coliateral. Emeline Lawrence, assault on Mary Watson; persona! bonds. Martts Bland, larceny ot four razors from Waiter F. Hinson; committed for a further hearing. Wm. Bowers, larceny of three pairs of £0cks; $5 or 15 days, noes The Emu’s Party. DEDICATED TO THR WRITERS OF CHILDREN’S POETRY. An ancient maiden Emu a breezy country villa, Had With an extensive eea- view, On the south coast of Australia. ‘This Emu’s tastes were social, ‘And hor heart was warm and kindly ; So she gave a children’s party, ‘And sent her cards out blindly ‘To the Dodos and the Parrots And the Vultures and the Sea-gulla, And thoughtlessiy ineinded Six little unfledzed Eagles. Then she called on Madam Ather home be And proceeded w ‘To invite her insant daughter. ‘*T will take ear, my dear madam, If you will be soo to trust us with your Sniso, ‘That she eats the plainest food— «*Some simple vi Or only ants ou With smotheres fi: And a tender lary “Mashed angle-worn “She ehsil be at home by bed-time— Ur any hour you cuoose.” Said Mrs. Duck solemnly, i the Kangaroos! fad hot ent my head: Thave but slight acquaintance with ‘Phat fore-shorteued qaadraped.” “Then I'm afraid, Miss Emu, ‘That Susie cannot go; Her grandpa was a mammal, Well connected, as you know. she can never know wild Piseons, Nor those children of the Vulture, Who seem to be dep y Incapable of cultur “If that's the case, dear madam, We'll close this isterview. My friends are birds, and ao am I," Said the dignitied Emu. “Tm gute I know the Eagles, And many others, who Move in vastly highét circles Than the purse-proud Kangaroo. *« Then the Parrots and the Pigeons _Have a regular family tree; un, nor have ‘No animals are higher “There's my grand. uncle Ostrich A better pediziee. Can hold his head as high (As an: Au ry wealthy mamunal, you, ma'am, cood-by."* So little Susie Duck-bill ‘Was forced to play alone By the artificial attituce ‘Of her mother’s social tone. ould see the Parrots ewinginy, r the Euvles’ laughter shrill And said, with tears, “I wish we Dack-bills Weren't eotearfaily venteel.” itor’s Drawer, in Harper's Mag ° for June ODDS AND ENDS OF WORK. iThe Queen} Iwill begin with une new tennis aprons of colored sateen covered with Madras mustin, They are nearly 2 yard square and are u3ually made with on corser forming the blo, and & band around tuo waist outside. Two corners bave ribbon: wn on, and these ribbons tle at the back of tlie skirt. "Pink, blue and mauve are the most fashionable colors, and there are Dows of shaded r!bdon on the two pockets, and @ frill of cream-colored lace all round. The Madras mu 1s two yards wide, so two aprons can be got out of one yard, ‘or three smaller ones. ‘There are other aprons made of plain colored foulard, wiih two flounces of Shaded Surah, and a spray of flowers worked or painted to one side of the plain part. And there are satin sheeting and crash ones, with painted flowers. On crash, red twill is cut Out in the form of large poppies, appitqued and a centre are of crewels, also the stalks. On white and dark blue these twill poppies are very effective. ‘The last novelty is to arrange a few artificlal Poppies, aa a spray or a border; fasten them to the ¢ }, OF Cream, or old-goid saiin shzeting, Temove some o: the petala 60 that tae flower les tolerably fat, and then applique them with red slik, in long stitches, like velos. Tne stalks are done in silks, and the leaves in creweils veined with silks. Tennis pouches are arranged in the same way, also some of the fashtonabie. new sachets fur solding night dresses, and for Sunflowers, on | brown or peacock satin sheeting, and stamped Plush, can be arranged tn the same way. | Handsome and most effective bordering for email tablea, mantel valances, and curtaing are orkamented In this way. sometimes the leaves are of cloth or scraps of velvet, cut cut, laid on, and applique wt siix. Common caroeniers’ baskets are ornam*nted tr tis way. They ara | ined with colores satin cr Pompadour sateen, | the handles covere? with tne sume, and round the edge outside a broad band of brocaded plush | or satin sheeting; with these arilficla: sun- flowers or pcppies appliqued £3 I have d. seribed. Circular hand screens of straw, which can be had at 44. each now, are covered with a | broad scarf lace, stanuing dat beyond the edge | a'lround, gathered in full in the centre, and Anished off with a pretty spray of artticial maidenhalr, leaves and flowers. The handles are fastened together and hidden by a ribbon twisted round with a dainty bow at eich en}. One yard of lace, about five and a half inches wide, covers eac, and a yard of ribbon Is also required, Larger’ screeis are also used, and have only one large bow of shaded ribbon tytn the handles toge:ner, aad a cluster of artificta flowers in the ceuter. Others are covered with plain or shaded silk, with a lace edging, and a cluster of fruit tn the center. The hand screen3 orfansin colosed silk or lace are much used Low by ladiesin the evening, as well as fire Shades at afternoon teas in the cold days. Tuey are also pretty ornaments to a mauteishelt. The «all baskets have two bows of rloboa on them, one placed in the center of the flat part that is fastened to the wall, and the otaer on the projecting pari. Tats ‘last bow ts large, and fuller than the oiher, and has @ cluster of of plain or shaded ribbon can be cut into leu of seven inches or eight 1aches long, and four inches to five inchee wide, at each end with lace, gatnered up, with one or two rows of “gauging” tn the center, and con- yert:d into pretty ornamen.s for the front of the dress. Musto can be made up in the same way. Scraps of colored sateen can oe mounted over double pieces of cardboard cut into tie form of @ minlature fan, then joined together to Lo'd pins. Thes® fans can be of various sizes, and the divisions are marked colored silk. A small floral design can be worked or painted on. The pins are put tn all round the edge. Other pincusbions of old-gold satin, mounted in the same way over carao»ard in the shape of Maltese crosses, with a small one worked in red silk in the center, and pins put in all round. are als) novelties, A lovely baby’s quilt can be made of a piese of blue, pink or white satin sheeting, with sprays worked at intervals of turget-me-nois, and leaves in arrasene, the stalks belog apja- rently Ued with @ tiny bow of satia rivbon sewn on; lace round the edge, Another quilt can be ed of alternate stripes of piatn and quilted blue satin, all in oae piece, with pleces 01 white cashmere, embroidered en Littie remnants | 18! THE PRESS CENSORSHIP—THE CAMPAIGN IN TUNIEB—A HOT TIME—THE MILITARY SITUA- TION—POPULAR EDUCATION IN FRANCE—THE Spa -Raeatas AND MOBTALITY—PERSONAL, [Special Correspondence of The Rvening Star.) Panis, May 3. Much mirth 1s being indulged in at the ex- pense of the pact of silence solemnly imposed On the special correspondents following the French army of invasion of Tunis, It is Col. the Prince Polignac—a name not happily asso- Clated with the press—that has instituted this “ordinance,” The utility of a journalist con- sists in freedom to see and to write for his Teadere; his country naturally desires to know what is going on, and how matters are belng- conducted. But the cordon militaire thrown round the press exacts that all letters and dis- patches must first receive the visa of a staff Officer before being sent off, under pain of bringing “our own” before a drum-head court- \ martial. THE PLAN OF GEN, ROBERTS ‘was eupertor to this: he told off captains to act as special correspondents, and the Tacl- tuses duly filled the role of Hamlet without Hamlet. England, since the Boer war, seoms tohave teken a new departure in the matter of dispatches, She will tell henceforth the trutn e whole truth, and nothing but the truth, caving to others to still perpetrate the errors of the school of Napoleon the First, who dic- tated his own bulletins, that which made many conclude he must have de3cenied from those Cretons, as described by St. Paul. ‘The French character has two weaknesses: a love for curlosity and an itch tor secrecy. Now the case of the Tunisian war, both might be catisfled without danger. Neither the Bsy of Tunis, nor his ene een corns upon newspaper letters or telegrams. cer- tin the movements of the French. They have horsemen whose knowledge of the mountain by- ways enable them to even outstrip the in- telligence by telegraph. The preventive cen- sure applied to journalists is but a humiliation for the press and @ vexation for the publi Officers could be better employed catia | maps of the seat of war, and the lines of march, than deciding if the letters of “specials” sufficiently adulate the mililaires, and assert not a button is wanting on a soi- dier’s galter. Opening a campaign with closed acors is not without originality, and espe cially in a campaign where the last thing, un- happily, feasible, is to strike a grand coup, and So necessitating a Conrad silence beforenand. THE CAMPAIGN may still be considered in its honeymoon stage, though the soidiers have experienced the ex- tremes of the sirroco and adeluge. There is no Sickness, and d@ach day’s march makes the braves more indurated. The Tunisian army has splendid tents, recalling a fleld of cloth of gold magnificence; but the soldiers have no snoes, As the French penetrate into the un- known territory of the Kroumirs they find themselves in the midst of a land flowing with abything but milk and honey; There are nu- merous marshes, whose borders are covered with rank herbs; numerou3 flocks of birds abound, maby of which already divine their gcod time coming. Footpaths are the only available roads, and admit of but one persoa passing ata time. Everywhere is stillness and immobility. The women encountered so far are barelt ; thelr dress isakind of blue calico toga; their face is of a mulatress and Florentine bronze color, with blue tatoo marks. Around the camp the jackals indulge tn thetr strange mew and bark cries. The neighbor- hood, too, must be weil stocked with kindred game, a8 {t was there the famous lion-killer, Jules Gerard, obtained many a “find.” The soldiers tu marching have adopted the German Plan of singing; that, and the alternation of the band, constitute an excellent surswm corda. Like the Romans of old, the modern Gauls do not disdain to borrow what is good from an enemy. The sirroco ts the great foe for the moment; it compels the soldier to experience a thousand deaths; he advances slowly and triste; the hot southern wind seems to have come out of a Nebuchadnezzar flery furnace; it burns all it touches, and even when in bivouac, after partaking of good coffee and brandy, the tongue Cleaves to the roof of the mouth. But the men do not murmur; they so far differ trom the opening scenes of the war of 1870. Tne gen- erals and officers are very sympatnetic towards their men, and relations on both sides are of a cordial, even of a parentai nature; but the want of non-commissioned officers is severely felt. THE SITUATION. Here, the impatience, yery natural ts general to finish quickly with Tunis. It must be avowed, the government Is ina singflar posi- tion. The Bey declining to join his forces to aid France in stamping out the Kroumirs, and protesting against the invasion of his domin- jons, May create some difficulties; he cannot obviate, though he may prolong, tho bitter end m store for him. Italy remains ina slient mood, suggestive rather of sutlenness than friendliness; she leaves her Consul Maccl still at Tunis, and who 1s accused of con! uing Lis efforts to thwart French interest: Italy would hardly regret the Killing of a few of her subjects resident at Tunis, in order to have a pretext to send some fronclads and exercise an Interference in the fina! settle ment of the difficulty. Other nations wo2ld ako send ships. If a massacre of Europeans eS place in Tunls,1t {3 on France the re- -(OUSIDUIty must fail, as the powers Keep alow ‘norder not to fetter her action, Tne ex- sected tetler from Gartbaidl, certifying his ap- plobstion of France elbowing his countrymen { Tunis, 18 coming after the fashion of Sister Anne. ' ‘The French opposition press 1s not marked}y patriotic. It indulges dally ta Cassandra predict ons, that Tunis is the begin- bing of theend of the republtc; but propne- cles of @ similar nature nave go often beea made and boas Tigre fallacious, that a little incredulity mi excused. More important, perhaps, would be the constitutional question: Can the cabinet declare war against Tunis, and to engage France, without calling the legisla- ture together and obtaining its sanction? POPULAR EDUCATION 1N FRANCE. After maintaining peace, tne next mostim- portant subject for the republic is that of pro- moung popular education. Plant the school- master everywhere, Is the order of the day and the great plank in the repubdiican platform. Recently Paris has had several pedagogic re- ublons; the last was the most important, belng in a sense the States Generans of the national teachers. The body at large elected twenty- five representatives, femaica included, who met In Paris under official auspices, but where the fullest lberty of discussion was permitted. Each delegate had been presented with a sum- mary of the views of all the local reuntons on the jeading educational questions of theday. The Congress displayed remarkable voluntary dis- cipiine, much practical sense, and professional competence. The position ‘of the national schoolmaster tn France hitherto has been very painful, and he js only now on the cy road to be emancipated; he was to be at once something of a call boy for the local mayor and clergymao, and when these two individuals were of opposite politics his situ- ation was purgatory. For the future, he will be the employe of the educational department of the state; he is no longer dependent on the minister or the mayor; he is still an agent of the prefecture—a connection that will also soon be sundered. In a word, the national teachers Tmust be employed to make electors and not elections, and it Is only by neutrality tn politics and religion that they can maintain their inde- pefidence. It was the unanimous opinion of the delegates that no legal measures could coinpel. regular attendanee at school, but the merits of the master, his professional aputude, his character, in a@ word, his tact and devotion to make the pupils “love school.” It was aso decided that there was room to makea distinc- tion between “Infants” and ‘chilaren” attend- ing Infant schools, and that females ought to be employed in teaching boys between 6 and 10 years ofage, Asfor the religious instruction that was @ matter for the clergy of respective denominations; the schoolmaster was simply to Incuicate morality and steer clear alike of ecclesiastical fanaticism and “orthodox athe- ny THE ANNUAL SALON. The busiest persons just now in the city are the artists, preparing for the annual exhibition of their works. The display will be very inter- esting this year, as the government has left the whole management in the hands of the artists themeelves. BRIDES AND BRIDEGROOMS, The first Saturday after Easter is famed for its humerous weddings. That just past illus- trated the habit was on the increase. Brides and bridegrooms were to be encountered in the suburbs as plentiful as blackberries. Some side statiatics have been published indicating that the ee is making an effort, very com- mendably, to increase and muluply. But mor- tality also ents rapidly, and in Paris the new necropol some twenty miles from the city, is being debated, as the cemeteries: are full. People sweer they will neither go there curing their life or death. One town councillor proj 8 allocating ths St. Swithin portion of the Bois de Vincenues as a city ceme- try; while another advocates cremation, and the dedication of a portion of the same wood for that end to St.Lawrence,whom it is well known was cremated on a grill. PERSONAL, The Princesse d’Sagan gave her annual ball It was, as usual, perfect in point of luxury? deeoration, and selection of the gratin of so- sequently hesses, SICKNESS IN THE CARS. A Simple and Easy Preventive. (Boston Herald. Many persons, especially lagies, are great Sufferers from that form of nausea and head- | ache known as “car sickness.” A journey by ~ ion for them all the gpecnes ae foot) at an ocean voyage a Ly travellers. The effects ot the motion of the car rabge from a mild disturbance of the stomach and an Soom pany ng headache to “deathly sickness,” with intense nausea and complete prostration, according to the con- dition and gensitiveness of the victim. In the lightest form the sensation is sufficiently un- plessant to make travel by rail thoroughly disagreeable; in its worst, and by no means uncommon type, tt invests this necessary and convenient method of journeying with dread and despair. A simple and harmless preven- tive of car-sickness has recently come to the knowledge of the writer, under circumstances that leave no doubt of its eficacy with some persons; and ifthe device will work equally well in other casea, a knowledge of it ought certainly be spread abroad. It is at least Worth a trial of all who suffer this inconve- nience in travelling. A lady who had occasion to take a short trip on the Lowell road—and she never travels by rail for pleasure—was, as 1g usual with her, a8 thoroughly sick ay ever a landsman is on the “heaving deep,” by the Ume she had ridden adozen miles. TLe con- cuctor of the palace car, who was apparently very familiar with such cases, told the suffer- er’s companion that a sheet of writing paper, worn next to the person, directly over the chest, Was a sure preventive of the trouble in pine cases out of ten. He had recommended it to hundreds of travellers, and rarely knew it tofall. The prescription seemed very like a “charm”—a Norse chestnut carried in the pocket to ward off rheumatism, or a red ttripg around the neck to prevent bleeding at the rose, But it was simple, and could at least do no harm. For the return trip, a sheet of common writing note paper was fastened in- gide the clothing as directed. Result—a per- fectly comfortable journey, withouta hint of the old sickness that had for years made travel by ralla terror. It was so like a superstition, ora happy accident, however, that the lady would not accept it as real until subjected to a more severe test. This came in aday journey to Now York, and that hardest trial of all—a night trip in an “alleged” sleeping car. Both were taken in triumph. The “charm” worked. And the lady writes: “The day journey wasa perpetual wonder and delight to me. I could Sit up and read, and look at the landscape through which we wae and act a3 other eople do, And sill I didn’t feel ready to con- less to @ cure until I had tried the sleeping car, which has always been a horror to me. But even here the ‘spell’ worked. I ate a hearty supper in the dining car—and kept it! Slept soundly all night, got up as comtor- lably, and dressed with as level @ head and a3 Steady a hand as though I had been in my own room. Read until breakfast time—a thing I had never before done on the cars—and was hungry for my morning meal. It 13 really wonderful, almost too good to be real. For the first time in my life 1 have experienced the Pieasure of travelling. I wish the conductor to be specially thanked. I wish also that I knew his name. I would like to call the Lord’s Particular atiention to bis case, @&id don’t Want to make any mistake and have the bless- ing descend upon the dae | man.” If this should meet the eye of the oflicial in question, will he please consider himselt thanked? To the scientific guessers 1s left the explanation of this peculiar potency of a sheet of paper. And, as a further possible contribution to the welfare of qualmish travellers, It 13 suggested whether the charm would not work equally Wellin preventing sea-sickness. The experi- ment ts certainly worth trying. The Younger and the Elder Booth. #Trom an early age Edwin Booth was asso- lated with his father in all the wanderings and strange and often sad adventures of that wayward man of genlus, and no doubt the many sorrowful experiences of his youth deep- ened the gloom of his inherited temperament, Those who know him well are aware that he has great tendgrness of heart, and abundant playtul humor; that his mind 1s one of extra- Ordinary liveliness, and that he sympathizes keenly abd cordially with the Joys aad sor- rows of others; yet that the whole man seams saturated with sadness, isolated from com- pantonship, lonely, and alone. It 13 thls tem- perament, combined with a sombre and mel- accholy aspect of countenance, that has helped to make him so admirablein the character of | Hamlet. Of his fitness for that part his father Was the first to speak, when on a nigat many years ago, @ Sacramento, they lad dressed for St. Pierre and Jaifier, tu Venice Preserved, Edwin, as Jaffier, had put on a close-titting robe of black velvet. “You look like Ham! | the father said; “why don’t you piay 12” ‘1 time was destined to come when ¥iwia Boot! would be accepted all over America as the greatest Hamlet of the century. in tbe season Of 1864-65, at the Winter Garden Theatre. New York, he acted that part for a hundred nights In succession, accomplishing thu; a feat unprecedented in theatrical annals. Since that time Henry Irving, in London, has acted Hamlet two hundred consecutive times in one season; but this latter acnlevement, in the present day and in the capital city of the World, seems less remarkable than Edwin Booth’s exploit was, performed in turbulent Rey York in the closing months of our terrible civil war. Tce elder Booth was a short, spare, muscular map, with a splendid chest, a symmetrical Gréek head, a pale countenance, a voice of wonderful compass and thrilling power, dark halr, ard biue eyes. lwin’s resembiance to bim ts chiefly obvious in the shape of the head and face, the arch and twist of the heavy brows, the radiant and constantly shifting lght of expression which animates the counte- bance, the natural grace of , and the celerity of movement. Edwin’s eyes are dark brown, and seem to turn black in moments of excitement, and they are capable of convey- ing, with electrical effect, the most diverse meanings—the solemnity of lofty thought, the tenderness of affection, the piteousness of for- lorn sorrow, the awful sense of spiritual sur- roundings, the woful weariness of despair, the mocking gice of wicked sarcasm, the vindictive menace cf sinister pi 38, and the pening: glare of lefnl wrath. In Tange of facial expressiveness his counte- nance 1s thus fully equal to what his father’s Was, and to all that tradition tells us of the countenance of Garrick, The present writer saw theelder Booth but once, and that in a comparatively inferior part—Pescara, in Shiel’s ferocious tragedy of Apostate, ‘He was a terible presence, He wa3 the incarnation of smooth, specious, malignant, hellish rapacity. Hig exultant malice seemed to buoy him above the ground. He floated rather than walked. ‘His glance was deadiy. His clear, high, cut- ting, measured tone was the exasperating note of hideous cruelty. He was acting a fisnd then, and making the monster not only possi- ble, but actual. He certainly gavea greater impression of overwhelming power than is ven by Edwin Booth, and seemed a mere formidable and tremendous man. But his face wag not more brilifant than that of his Tenowned son; andin fact it was, If anything, somewhat less splendid in power of the eye, There is a useful book about him, called Tie Tragedian, written by Thomas RK. Gould, who aiso made a noble bust of him in marble, and those who never saw him can obtain a very good idea of what sort of an actor he was by Teading that book. It conveys the tmage of a greater actor, but not a more Obrilliant one, than Edwin Booth. Only one man of our time has equalled Edwin Booth in this stogular splendor of countenance. ‘That man was the reat New England orator Rufus Choate. Had heate Deen an actor upon the stage—as he was before a jury—with those terrible eyes of his, and that lonate Arab face, he must have towered fully to the height of the tradt- Uon of George Frederick Cooke.— William Win- ter in Harper's Magazine for June, Cultured Capitatists. (Silver Cliff Prospect } Mr. Mackay and his father-in-law, Co Hun- gerford, sat side by side in a proscentum box in | | changed its name, and will be known here- . BELIGIOUS NOTEs. — It appears that there are 25 distinet Metho- dist denominations In the world, witha total Of 4,630,730 members. —The African Methodist Episcopal church Claims that it has 337,566 members and proda- toners, against 215,000 reported in 1879, — The Providence Methodist conference has after as the “New-England Southern confer- ence.” —In Indianapolis, where the Rev. Mr. Har- rison, the “Boy Preacher,” is now lavoring, 500 conversions were the first fruits of a fori- Dight of revival work. —The First Protestant church in Albuquer- que, New Mexico, has just been opened. It is a Congregational society, the only one of that order in the territory. —A Roman Catholic paper says that had the church retained all her children there should now be In the country from 20,009,000 to 25,000,000 members of that church, whereas there are now leas than 7,000,000. It attributes = ee losses to the iniuence of the public —A venerable Rector of the Diocese of Can- | terbury, who has repeatedly complained of the | smallness of the offertorties, took an effectual! step to remedy his grievance on a recent Sunday. After the church wardens had de- livered the bags, he emptied the contents into the basin and exclaimed, “Not enough! round again.” It is added that the resi very satisfactory. —The Rev. Dr. Burton, of Hartford, has been in the ministry for twenty-eight years without having had a single quarrel with a church choir. He remarks: “A minister should not of necessity be a technical musi- clan.e Of course, if he is by nature an toter- meddler, a sort’ of picayune pope, the choir will be likely sometimes to make It unpleasant for him. But there 13 no necessity of anything of the kind.” — When poor Tom Hood was dying, he could hot resist the temptation to say to a melan- choly clergyman who visited him,“My dear | str—I hope your religion—hasnt disagreed with you!” How many people there are | Whose religion might: be justly criticised trom | this same standpoint. The man whothen lay | dying was perhapsa better Christian than the | dyspeptic who met this strange rebuke.—Sn- | ni day School Times, — A writer in the Churchman explains that | children and grown folks go to the Sunday j School more freely than to church because | the Sunday school Is democratic and free. In | our citles the Sunday school has its own room | Where seats are free, and any one person has just as much right as any other. If misston | children in a Sunday school attempt to go to | the church, they find there isno place for {hem except by sufferance. | —The Presbyterian says: “No Protestant church is now working down to the level of the utterly depraved and seml-depraved of our | cities, Not even the Methodists, the great fore- runners and pioneers are doing it effectiveiy anymore, They are ashamed and distrustfal of their old methods, so necessary to reach the neglected ones” Therefore it urges the en- | couragement and support of the Salvation | ae which is @oing the work abandoned by — The Presbytery of Maryland met in Balti- | More last week, and when it adjourned did so | to meet at Poolesville on the 22d of September | Dext, Rev. N.C. Campbell, pastor of Pooles- | ville church, offered bis resignation as such, | stating that his time was much occupled with his duties as principal of the Andrew Small academy, consequently the congregation did hot receive the care it should at a mialster’s hands. The subject of his resignation was | taken under advisement unti] next meeting, When it will be acted upon. — The American Congregational Union held its annual meeting in New York Thursday. The report for the year showed the working capital | to be $55,359 35, Direct receipts from all sources, | $43,723.40, Contributions recelved from 964 | churches, increase over the previous year of | 184. Of the contributing churches, 424 Were in | New England, and the churches in that section | alone contributed $22,385.57 of the receipts. | Grants or loans have been made to 71 churches; | 48 grants, amounting to $21,462.52, have been paid, andgrapts have been pledged to 5s other | churches. Rev. Edwin B. Webb, D. D., of Bos- ton, Mass., was elected presigent, and the 6 were also elected tnirty vice presidents and six- | teen trustees, —St James's Church, Hatcham, once t! £ scene of the Rev. Arthur Tooth’s ritualistic labors, is still rent with parish feuds. The | Easter election of church wardens was very | aisorderly. The vicar poe and his curate supported him. One of the parishioners asked whether it was with the vicar’s sanction that the curate had requested the prayers of the | congregation for the Rev. Mr. Green, a prisoner | in Lancaster Castle, and whether, if a burgiar in that parish were In custody, prayers would be asked for him, He also asked whether it wa3 with the vicar’s consent the curate gave out Uiat there weuld be a three hours’ agony ser- a Paris theater the other night. They looked complacently over the vast and brilliant assem- o jong tong audiences,” sald Mr. Mackay to Col. Hungerford. - “Wee” replied the Colonel to our John. “Eleet—cram de la—hote tong, eh?” quoth John, a8 bis shirt bosom sweiled with con- scious pride. “Wee,” said the Colonel. The Colonel then shook hands with the Comstock millionaire and congratulated him on his flow of French. Tbe curtain went up, andone of the stars flashed lke a meteor before the spectators. “Maguifeek!” cried the Colonel, “Tray bean!” shouted Mr. M. “Onkoree!” shrieked the Colonel. “Toot sweet!” yelled John. After the drew the Colonel to one side whis| in hisear: “f don’t mind tellin’ ye, I spake Italian aa well as Ido yea replied the Colonel, "I guess we've oth been cultured in the same hot house,” The executive committee of the Journeymen ” Union in New York have resolved to “boycott” all houses who do Bot employ union men, te 200 of the union strikers stil vice on Good Friday. A person presént said he | bad experienced two hours’ agony in listening to the performance. The chairman said he Would not answer such questions, A motion | wes made calling upon the vicar to resi ®hich the chairman refused to putto the meet- ing, but it was declared to be carried by a | Majority. Avother motion, requesting the Bishop of Ruchester to revoke the license of the curate, was also carrie}. —The sixty-first annual meeting of the Amer- ican BibleSociety was held in New York Taurs- day. =he annual report shows as follows:—The society have 20 district superintendents in this country; 127 agents paid by auxiliaries, and 3,520 unpatd volunteer distributors. Recelpts for the year, $606,434.96; of this amount $149,- ioe was from legactes; ‘$266,229.76 In payment and other sources; $135,634 has been appropri- ated for foreign work during the year. Addl- tions of the Japanese New Testament in six different forms. The translation of the Zulu Bible is completed. Two thousand gospels in Muskokee, and 3,000 testaments in the lan- guage of the Gilbert Islands. Of the ible, 1,035,696 copies were manufactured at the Bible House; 275,953 were printed é 1,458,498 were issued at home, and 316,105 abroad. Since the organization of the soclety the issues amount to 35,852,511. Gratuttous work for the year amounted to $342,585.99. Of this amount $108,120.63 was in cash appropriations to foreign lands, besides gramts of Scriptures sent from thatcountry. By the employment of 198 col- Porteurs, 202,538 Volumes of Scriptures, in cheap form, were put into homes aificult of acess, chiefly in the southern states. The combin results pf ell agencies of the society for supply- ing the jutute ure as follows: Families visit— ed, 691,545; families found with Scriptures, T1S,661; ‘destitute families supplied, S4,191; Indi- viduals in addition, 42,915, Total circulauon in foreign lands was $40,551 copies; 213 persons are employed as distributors in foreign lands. SIR EDWARD THORNTON. What they Think of Massachuset - The London Post of Saturday, says it 1s po3- sible that Sir Edward Thornton at present British Minister to Washington, will succeed Lord Duffering at St. Petersburg. Perhaps no public man, and especially none occupying go exalted a position as Sir Edward, won so many friends in this sectien as the British Minister whiie occupying his summer residence on Une banks of the Merrimac. In his ramoles he had some quaint experiencies with men and boys who were unacquainted with his official position. On one oveasion he asked aladin the vicinity of Kimball’s pond where the best fishing ground was. Johony immediately led the Way and watched with tn- tense curl fisherman and his good luck. At last the boy ventured to remark: “I guess you know how to fish better’n Ido.” “Yes,” the minister, “but I need a little boy likeyou to tell me where the sh live,” and placing & gold piecein the lad’s hand, put up his rod and was getting Into his vehicle, when the lad inquired—“‘Say mister, haiat you made a mistake”? “Jump into my wagon sonny, I willcarry you home and then we will see about It,” was the reply. The boy was carried to his home and for some Weeks the story was told that “an Lord, or somebody,” had given a boy an Eag- him to Kim- Neh gold sovereign for ball’s pond.” r laborer on the Him up in ts. On another occasion a Foliy Mill road was ask jump into my team and you for your trouble and ime.” The ‘80 liberal was the reward, that he remarked, “Say, stranger, I gueas you a EeeT See wn eetnguns van ir Edward was an r among the boat bullders on the Merrim: row! ag Ratoes the river in a dory pure’ ofthe Loweil’s, and manifested much interest in this littie branch of industry. Svarcely a | Madame de Ratnneville’s drawing-room, that | comparison | worked with her hands for supsisti NEW RUSSIAN EMPRESS. Her Fears for Her Childrem—The | The Nuisance of § Grim Romance of Sephie Perowsk —A Strange Carcer—Beautifal As Rosalind—From a Palace to the Scaffold. ‘The Paris correspondent of the N. ¥. Tribune gives the following interesting detalls, derived from Russian visitors to the Frenca capital of the condition of affairs in St. Petersburg: | The new Empress has pretty ways and is @ charmingly pretty woman. At Christmas she gives nursery parties for the children of the poor quarters = ‘St. Petersburg, Dut holds in nervous horror democracy, Dil- Canis, “and Indeed, ail’ those ‘robust over. powering forces of ‘our Her’ weak physical organization ts not equal to th: 3 which she and her husdand are u — SOPHIK PRROWSK should, as they threatened before the ex Uon of the five, aveage on her children tha death of Sophie Perowsks. It would have baca good policy to have made @ host: Uraordinary heroine, who ts already At appears, as a martyr by the discouteated classes in Rassia, high and low. Her postua- mous influence and pri are said to be tn mevse. Alihough political assassin attoa ts 0) acrime that tempis Fren men and wome admiration is expressed everswaere for Sop. Perowsky. Of whom the preity Vico Ralnoveville, a leader of fashion tn the Oriea vist part of the Faubour; main, Was a Orst cousin. The uccle of Sopile was aiso the fir-t \utor of the present Czar, and ao io'imu riend of Mourlavief. It 13 ‘pered, too, lu the nihtiist heroine was a natural daugh’ Alexander IL Be this as it may, sas would not have joined in her sixteeuth yi tae ni- hilists, aud set ou from a luxurious how self linposed mission, had tt not basen tha’ Mourtaviell was “tus bateler of Pola hand was destined by her paraat Line, the Generai’s son. Sophie recotled froin the marriage. A teacuer beloved hy Polish lady. who had seen the Wai Ues which Mourtaviefl perpetrated, rowsky st that time had eyes of sapphire, golgen hair, and a complexion of such delicacy that a rose petal only afforded a standard of for it. Sae had a nalve, tano2zant, wondering expression tn her young facs, watch confirmed the Suspicion of ber unavowed rela- tion to the Czar. Her schooltellows called her béeté when she was quite a big girl. Hor tore- ead Was vast almost to deformity, and the mouth beautifully and firmly modetied.tnouga somewhat “rose-bud.” She was at the head of her class always at school, but from generosity refused to compete for prizes. ‘A STRANGE CAREER, Her parents, when she came home, pressea her to become the wife of the promising young Offical wnom they had destined for her has- band. Sherefused. Tney continued to press. Then she disappeared, taking no money bat her own small S.vings with her. Lette 5 ‘ AS she was a giri of slender form, and apparently delicate organization, it never occurred to them that she had embraced a life of the most fearful hardship. Tuey imagined | that ehe had ran away with some iuurried man who was keeping her hidden. Sh> was not. This beautiful young creature was braviug every Mlto which poverif-stricken humanity is Mable, tg instil Socialist doctrines into the minds of peasants and working-folk. Sane ee, Choosing the tasks which were most Nkely to bring her into contact with those soctally lowest abd most burdened with misery. Her propa gabda was auricular, for she was a low-volce4, Umid girl, and of ‘hestitating speech many listened to her. The news fel thunderbolt five years ago that rested by the police usder the charge of lead- jog a socialistic and democratic propaganda tn tae southeastern provinces, The couutry of the Volga, which she went to stirup, has a mercurial population of Gypsies, Jews, Tartars | and hybrids. She chose the Voiga, because ideas are more rapidiy communicaied along the courses of rivers than elsewhere. A river brings with it cbmmercial stir and is a great instrument of exchange. Sophie. was treated with fearful harshness, but offered pardon if she would reveal the secrets of the nilillist or- ganization, which did not then atm at cide. She kept a close mouth. For twenty-four months she was in a cell in the prison on the north bank of the Neva, and was almost frozen to death in winter. At the end of that period she stood her trial, and was banished to ato#n on the White sea. When she escaped and go to St. Petersburg she fell iu with Hartmann, of whom she the lotimate associate, bat not the mistress, They lived together for a few years. hie Was supposed to b? a wash- erwoman and he a mechanic. What an extra- ordinary career hers was! ON THE SCAFFOLD. The St. Petersburg correspondent of th: Triboulet states that she in the dock feliow-conviets, and with qutet cheerfulness told them to rejoice. He was told by Baranoll, the prefect of police, not to telegraph thls de- tail, which he has sent by letter. other for- bidden detail was astatement made by Michael- off to the effect that he had invented a balloon susceptible of being directed, and that uniess the Czar gave a constitution it would be used him. The Voltaire’s St. Pe- tersburg correspondent compares Sophte for beauty, aristocratic elegaace of torm, and for candor, to Rosalind and Viola. Yet_she could be secretive. ard her rases ' | father was Archbishop of Cai | there ts not a piano tn ttt” “ANCESTRY,” in Fiction in Social Life. ana A writer In the London Times says:-- In novels the introduction of ancosiry ts ay- Solutely intolerable. Waen I see that hatetul chapter headed. * pective,” 1 pass over to the other side, Ike the Levite, only quicker, What ao I care whether “our’ hero's” grand. terbury OF a pro. dody-snate! I don’t even care which of the two was my Own personal friend's ndfatber, and how much less can I take af interest in this imaginary proge: or the creation Of an authors brain? The introduc Uon of such a coloriess shadow ts to my mind the height of impertiaenoe. If I Were Mr. Mudie 1 would put my foot down resolutely and stamp Out this literary plague. As George IL, who had an objecijon to commerce, ts said to hav observed whef asked to confer’a Daronetoy « one Of the Broadwood family, “Are you su 0 should Mr quire of the publisher Defore taking cop re you sure there Is not a grand. gain what a nulsance ts ancestry in our octal life! It cannot, uphappily, be done away With as a fact, Dut surely It need NOL De a Lo; te. How often have I been asked by some far Lelghbor at a dinner party, ‘Is that Mr, Jon's Opposite one of the neses OF fordsuiret* One's Orst tropuise ts naturally to ask, “W OD €arlb 18 Lat to you or mt But exp «hee leaches pradeace, and I reply with rever ence, “Yes, of Bedfordshire,” which at all FVeuts puts @ Stop Lo argument upon the mat ter. Moreover, she seems to derive some sort Of mysterious fatisfaciton from the Informa. Mov, and It ts always well to give pleasure, A Weil-hnown Wit was Once ta con one of the Cavendisbes. whodad lat | America, and was recounting ts experien “These republican people have sach fui names,” he “I met there a man of tao name Of Birdseye.” * Welk, and ts not Lat Just in evading the police were endless, The account | given by Figaro's correspondent of the manner in which her slender litle fee: daucsd in ine air when the executioners strung her up to the ‘allows has excited the greatest horror in Paris. at extraordinary artist, “Alceste,” has taken this dance of Geath of Sophie's feet for the theme of an article, the most w ird, grim, striking, extraordinary and, for czarism, omi- nous, that I remember ever reading. Poe migat have written in the same strain if he had had to treat the same grim subject. It 1s worthy of note that M. Emile de Girardin has, in his seo deserted his Imperial Russian frien His maxim 1s to lead public opinion by following it. Zhe Natinoal compares th: effect on opinion of Sophie Perowsky’s death to the emotion caused in the United States by John Brown’s execution. This view has been ado,ted by Victor Hugo. PLL TAKE A GROSS, While the proprietor of the Matson Doree, ‘New York, was standing behind the counter the other day, catching flles for currant cake, and Wishing that a little of the business wave that the eastern papers say 89 much about ‘would slop over into his restaurant, as It were, EA fared smile on his face and @ big box under his arm entered. * Don’t want any sleeve battons,nor nothin’,” ego the dyspepsia distributer, glancing at @ Dox. “ No, nor I,” sald the stranger, affably, de- positing the box on the counter and removing the lid. ‘But what you do want is the great- est Invention of recorded time—the restaurant keeper’s friend—the -house keeper's “Roach poison?” sald the steak stretcher, contemptuously. “ No, sir,” retorted the young man, taking a handful of sin; ly shaped objects out of the box. “Some! that beats the phonograph and the telephone all to hollow. I refer vo the “Skidmore chop! ’” “Why, it's the most economical device of modern times, and [ll prove it right here. Suppose you are serving a dinner wo say a dczen persons? Now, how many chops do you usually put on the table?” = ‘Well, about two aplece, say twelve, ‘And how many are eater?” peach Se tat Bs about ‘the average, as our restaurant statistics show. As a matter of course, however, you are compelled to cook Unree times a8 much as you need to make a show. Now, if you could save six chops every dinner for a year it would amount to—” “ A fortune,” said the man of catlets eagerly. “all we can do with ‘em now isto work em over into ha:hes,” “ Peace | required {0 accomplish the | clrcumspection, a8 good a3 Cavendtsin?” replied the wil who But the remark was nol was also a sino} appreciated, Aucestral people do not.as & rate, apors- clate wit, bul, on the other hand, & must be admitted that ‘this is not a defect’ pecallar to them alone. T once knew a man of letters Who, though he had risen to wealth and ems nence, was of hu ess for svoldi hter married nose literary talents were not of a high order, This gentleman wrote a ietter applying for a certala government appolntumest, and «x pressed a Wish for his father-to-law’s opinion Upon the composition. “tis a very bad letter,” frank criticism the other made upsn - “The writing 13 bad, the spelling ts tait ferent, th eis abominable. “Good heavens! ur Telallves and ant le descent, pedents? * Was the reply, “wh are yours? F T heard you speak about ibe." Nor did he ever b him, for father-in-law ever spoke another word to iim The Regicida (the ‘ On April 16,1 a suburb of St. Peter there was destroyed by explosion the dynamite which has been taken owt of Lae mine made in Latte Garden street, and the exple i Ue bors found in the rooms of the conspirators, Bot sives are the Nihilist preparation, of tue expiosives was eighty-live po experimest was made ou a Ves: which wae sunk during the Crimean war. der its bottom, ten fect under the surface of | water, were ‘placed four chargea; the frst charg® was thirty-five pounds of the Dlack fifteen pounds of the biack dynamite and nine pounds of the celluloss Gynamite; the Uutra, twenty-nine pounds of the Ulack dynamite; and the fourth, seven pounds of the explosive jel'y aud twelve pounds of the cellulose dynamite, covering the surface of the water Was nearly three feet thick. The dynamite was exploded bye In placeswhere Uhe}water was eleared of le’ columns of water rose, carrying along wooden debris of the vessel, stones ‘and sand. Shas- Lng Of Ube Ice Was p plible 149 feet from the place of tue explosion. The fourth charge, cu taintog the explosive jelly, was (ae most ‘pow- erful. “The first charge was not ed on account of bad arrangement of the conduccors. It was raised from the water and exploded on the open space. The can containing the black dynamite was placed In snow on the ice, and iU was covered with a stone welghing about six pomecegnl cangrne and a beam ten feet long and eight inches thick was placed upon the sion. ‘Two pieces of the beam, three feet and a haif long, Were thrown in atfferent directions. One fell 196 feet away, and the other 350 feet from the place of Une explosion. Smaller pieces Were picked up 490 fect away. The stone was broken into small pleces, Which were scat Th tered. On the trial Nibilist Kitbalchich, the dyna- mite anf bomb manufacturer, tried to prove (bat the quantity of dynamite and of theex plosive jey put in the mine was the minimum urpose—Killiag the Czar—end that no passer-by on the side- Walks, Dor the people living tn the house near- est to the mine, could suffer any fatal injury. The experts decide that, had the mine yeen exploded, it might have produced Gestruction and a great loss of lite, Trout and Cockroach, No sooner the thought than the rod ts put together. The fluest gut bottom Is attached, & No. 7 hook thereto spliced, and a cockroach hghtly impaled, By standing on the crowa of a willow, somé 15 vards off, I could see (he ad of my quarry, though bé could r 2 me by reason of the pataral ext laws governing refraction aud re quietly 1 let my batt down on and paid out the five ne to within 3f feet of the nose of the trout. Now bh rived the time for foessing. With the uty with a slow, fluent, clidt Motion, the cockroach was lowered on—ou— on—till within a few inches Of the fish's moata. Then I withcrew it, as If to take It eutirely from the water. No notice took he. My heart again failed me, weil nigh, at least, for I had ‘ied by this time persistenuy for some weeks to capture this lordly fish, and as eaen failure ‘was added to its prodeomar my desire of pos- gession matt grew greater and greater. ery, Ve y ery genily moved up a few yarés, and again watched the bait down toward ‘the stolid fish. This Ume the cockroach had sunk di in the water, and with a sort of chuckle, Twatched It gradually approach his muzzle in the same plane, and not as before, rather above. As it neared him, tomy inex~ ressible joy, 1 saw bis under lip show as if it by some mechanical impulse connecied with the bait, automatically moved. Nearer Passed the balt onward, the jaw lowered yeu and, like a child taking a mop, like an unfledze: it bird taking in @ worm, Denind the portals of that polished head. With Suppressed. breath and paipitating heart I counted—one, two, three, four, tive—then, with a side move- ment, 1 struck; pot violenuy, but swiftly; no Michtliy, but strongly. Ye gods, he was booked, and out yards ih the stream he sped! Of course he was only landed after the usual interregnum of splendid struggling, aud 1 be- came the hero of Une hourin the possession ot this splendid fsb.—Fhke Practical Fisherman, Keene. The Limekiln Club, “What I was gwine te remark,” began the 01d man as Elder Toots finally got his feet drawn back under the bench, ‘am to de effeck dat one halt of de solid tojoyment I could take in ais world if let alone am spilt by a set of men whotn I airnestiy hope de nex’ ginerashun w:ll cast into de sea. 1 can’t pick up & paper widou! being’ startied by de announcement dat we eat too much, sleep too Little, sit up Too late, go to too warm or too cold, walk ‘De croakers ata con- atantly at work to pul de rest of us on de ragged alge of anxiey. “One day we hear dat consumpsbun has become our nashunal complaint. Nex’ day it am ted dat de fewel supply of de worid nnn’ short, Next flag vc har of am de statement dat de alverage of human life am win” shorter, or dat cignt men out of teu have liver complatnt.or dat & comet am ‘proach-