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-â€"â€"Mr. Ragsdale, Treasurer of J eflerson county, Ind., broke his engagement with a poor girl t0 marry a rich widow. and a jury . ‘ qpmpelled him to pay 35900 damages. “Well,” he said, as he handed over the money, “I am still about $20,000 ahead by the change." " -’-“Dr. 'J. J. Dr'ysdnle. president of the Liter- ary and Philosopical Society of Liverpool, claims that the mortality of that city has been reduced by 18,000 within eight years by 7 means of sanitary measures. Could not a “still largbr numbetrbe saved in New York? â€"-(‘etewayo, the Zulu King, has been known to kill fifty women and children to feed his golden eagles. A soldier of his with a. scratch ,on his back must be killed as one who turned from the énemy. â€"Mr. Mackenzie, the ,African explorer, sailed from England on the 13th ult., in the steamer Corsair. especially chartered, for Cape Juby, on the northwest coast of Africa. for the purpose of opening that region in commerce. -â€"A relic of Luther is on exhibition at a London book store. It is a Bible containing his signature and sixteen autograph lines. bearing date 1542. â€"An extended trial is being made at W001- wich, England, of Spanish and South Ameri- can males, in the place of horses, for military transport duties. â€"Messrs. Cox & 00., army agents, are re- ceiving subscriptions for the widows and families of the gallant men of the 24th Regi- ment, who fell in South Africa. â€"quk Buckland, the zoologiat, says that the oyster is nearly all ozmozoue, a sub stance which is “ the very basis of meat.” -â€"The Manchester Chamber of Commerce wants a Parliamentary committee appointed to inquire into “ the state and condition of manufactures and commerce.” -â€"-A young lady while on her way to be married was run over and killed. A con- firmed old maid save.eg remarked : “ She has avoided a. more hngering and horrible fate." Yes, I know I have jackets that wear out, And buttons that never will stay ; While on can embroider at leisure, And earn pretty arts of “ crochet." And I know there are lessons of spelling, Which I must be patient to hear ; While you may sit down to your novel, Or turn the last magazine near I Yes, I knew there are four little bedsides Where I must stand watchful each night ; While you may go out in your carriage, And flash in your dresses so bright! Now. I think I’m a neat little woman ; I like my house orderly, too; And I’m fond of all dainty belongings; Yet I would not change places with you I NoIâ€"keep your fair home, with its order, Its freedom from trouble and noise; A1351 1.;er your aim} fanciful leisure; > â€"It is worth noting that the women of the Afridees, in Afghanistan, although Mo- hammedans, do not cover their faces. -â€"Misses Moran and Barr and Mr. J. F. Egan, of this city, sang at the St. Patrick’s concert in the town hall, Guelph, last night. â€"â€"â€"Hard times in Germany are shown in nothing more than in the consumption of 6,000,000 gallons less beer in 1878 than in 1877. â€"â€"Mr. W. H. Smith, First Lord of the British E‘Admiralty, the great stationer, is turning an honest penny by sellmg war maps 0f leul'md. --Pope Leo XIII. has ordered the private chamberlainsin the Vatican to leave ofl the picturesque costume of the sixteenth century and t_o_ adopt one more modern. â€"The statute of Capt. Cook by the sculp- tor Wooluer has reached Australia in safety from London, and has been unveiled on its pedestal in Hyde Park, Sydney, New South Wales. -â€"A negro boy in Elia, Gm, disliked to take care of the baby. His mother left it with him, however. although he declared he would kill it, and when she returned he had beaten it to death. â€"Millais, the artist, has frequently used the face of his beautiful daughter as a model. She is to be married to Lieutenant W. C. James, of the Scots Greys, who has bravely sailed for the Zulu war. And I know that my walls are disfigured With prints of small fingers and hands; And I see that your own household whiteness All fresh in its purity stands. Yes, I know my “ black walnut ” is battered. And dented. by man small heels ; While your own polls ed stairway, all perfect, Its smooth, shining surface reveals! â€"'1‘he army hospital corps in Zululand will carry revolvers, Zulus knowing nothing about the Red Cross. â€"â€"Some of the London barmaids have em- ulated the example set by those above them, and dress in Greek costumes. â€"â€"A coal mine neat Wattensfield, Ger- many. is now lighted by electricity at a cost of about five cents for each light per hour. â€"â€"0n1y two men of the Seventeenth Eng- lish Lancers remain of those who survived the memorable Balaklava charge in the Crimea. And I know that my room is invaded Quite bol‘lly all hours of the day ; While you sit in your own unmolested, And dream the soft quiet away I â€"La.d_v Dudley. in her invitations dance in London, limits the hours item to 2. â€"â€"Dr. von Dollinger, the celebrated leader of the Old Catholics, has reached his eight- ieth birthday. â€"-A great East African Company is to be formed In London on the model of the ex tinguished East India Company. Sir John Lubbock and Captain Burton are among 1t promoters. â€"â€"The Madrid Historical Academy an- nounces, after investigation, that there is no truth in the report that the remains of Chris- topher Columbus had been discovered in the cathedral of San Domingo. And I know that my parlor is littered With many odd trrasures and toys; While your own is in daintiest order, Unhuxmed by the yresenoe of boys! â€"Thcre are sixteen retired colonial bishops now holding good benefices in England. â€"A French painter, with a grim and pe- culiar idea of a joke, not long since gave a. dinner‘party and had astufied mouse con- cealed iu the napkin of each lady guest. When the napkins were opened-'â€" â€"â€" They are again talking of building a na- tional theatre in London. The {Marquis of Townsend, proprietor of the Social Notes per- iodical, lately edlted by Mr. S. C. Hall. is chairman of a committee for promoting this undertaking. ~A man in Springfield, Mass., who wants a. divorce. is in a sad state of mind because he can’t recall the date of his marriage. and the certificate has been lost. Of course the wife will not tell him, and it is necessary for him to give the date in his petition. â€"â€"A bachelor who lately died in Manchester Ehgland,.1eft his property to thirty women who had refused his matrimonial offers. He said in his will that to their refusals he owed the peace be had enjoyed during life, and that he felt himself their debtor. Yes, I know theta are stains on my carpet - The traces of small, muddy boots ; And I see your fur tapestry, glowing All spotless with blossoms and fruits! â€"-Pope Leo is desirous of raising Arch- bishop Eyre,rof Edinburgh, to’ the purple, but has been dissuaded by Cardinal Manning who would personally rejoice at such an honor for his Scottish colleague, but thinks “ the pear is not yet ripe.” â€"The debt of the city of Paris is now nearly 3400.000,000.and the interest about 620, 000,000 a year. The credit of the city, 110 ~- ever, is, if possible, even higher than that of the country. The municipal taxtion is near- ly $22.50 per head of population. But gfie'me my fofir spléHdld 3651's ! WORLD WIDE NEWS. filo'l‘ll E R’s BOYS. ' â€"The acceptance by the Swiss people of the St. Gothard compromise has been quickly followed by a scheme for the piercing of the Simplon. Herr Favre, the contractor for the St. Gothard line, is now negotiating with several French financiers for the execution of this project. The estimated cost of the tunnel i1, $14,800,000. â€"~North coast fishing captains believe that other cod banks exist off the Alaskan coast fully equal to those near the Choremagin Islands. But as the expense of a mret‘ul survey would be considerable. Indivnuunls hesitate to assume an outlay the results of which would belong, in part at lea-st, to others. ~â€"Fortune favors the industrious. Mr: Archibald Forbes, the London Daily News} correspondent, findmg that the advance against Cabnl would not take place until April, took a run over into Burmah to find a few subjects for letters, and a. week after he had reachad the capital the King massacred seventy Princes. â€"“ Roger” Castro, alias Tichborne, writes from his prison cell :â€"â€"“ Dear Onslowâ€"You cannot cope with the machinations of a. mighty government any more than I could. It is no longer V0.1; populi v01: Dei in this country. Vex Dizzy v0.1: Dei is the order of the day; therefore I must remain a. victim.” -â€"-The Chestertewn (Md.) Transcript states that, from careful estimates, the fact is es- tablished that the number of peach trees growing on the peninsula is less by about one-third than it was three years ago, and that old orchards are annually been extermi- nated in a greater portion than young ones are planted. â€"A Sheffield correspondent says that manufacturers there say that national ex- positions do not pay exhibitors, and that the great house of Joseph Rodgers & 00., had no intention of exhibiting at Paris umil person- ally requested to do so by the Prince of Wales. But there is a disposition to send goods to the show at Melbourne. â€"The Paterson (N. J.) clergyman have decided to issue a. memorial to the inhabi- tants of that city. requesting them not to hold any funerals on Sunday. The preachers complain that, in consequence of the number of funerals on Sunday, they sometimes do not fiind time for their meals. â€"â€"Wha.t is said to be the largest bill ever introduced into a legislative assembly was the new code submitted to the Ohio Senate. It contained 3,200 pages, and, us it was in- sisted that it should be read in full, the Senate sat up till midnight to hear it through; even at that, hundreds of pages, it is reported, were slyly skipped. â€"â€"It is said that the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland were watched by German detec- tive officers from the moment they landed at Lubeck until they reached Austrian territory, and that the episonage only ceased upon the protest of the English Ambassador at Berlin against such an indignity to a Prince of the English royal family and a sister of the Prin- cess of Wales. â€"The late Mrs. Grote des1red that her body be borne to the church by four villagers, and the funeral services were then read by the Rector of the parish. the latter portion over the grave by Dean Stanley. By her desire neither hearse, mourning, coach, palluor hat- bands were used. â€"The women in Russia are making as great progress as the men, and are rapidly learning to think and act for themselves. Re- cently a number of ladies in Warsaw formed a. joint stock enterprise under the name of “The Artists Photographic Company,” and built one of the finest studios in Russia. â€"-A lad of 18, confined in prison at Paris for theft, has recently constructed a. watch which runs three hours, his only materials bemg two needles, :1 pin. a. little straw and some thread. Efforts are being made to pro- cure his release, in hopes that he will, as a mechanic,be a useful member of society. --â€"England is expected to come out of the Zulu affair the gainer. It is thougt that the Zulu wax, besides resulting in the annexation of Zululand, will lead to the purchase of Dela- goa Bay from Portugal, and toavast extension British influence on the southeast coast of Africa. â€"-A fine recumbent statue, an hermaphro- dite, has been discovered in good preserva- tion five metres under ground in what used to be the gardens of the Vivva Strozzi. be- hind the Hotel Quirinale, in Rome, where the foundations of 9. new teatro nazio-nale are being dug. â€"The gloomiest accounts of the famine at Cashmere have been received. A large stock of grain is about to be imported there, but it is inadequate to the wants of the starving people, even if Justly distributed, a just distribution by the Hiudoo ofiicials among the oppressed Mussulman population being very doubtful. â€"In 1695, in the township of Eastham, Mass., a. regulation was made that every un married man should kill six blackbirds and three crows a. year as long as he remained single. If he neglected this order. and wished to marry, he was not allowed to do so till he had shot his full number of birds. â€"Two hundred clerks of the Bank of France have petitioned the President of that institution for permission to wear their beards, a privilege now denied them. The petition speaks of the interdiction as humilia- ting. and promises that discipline will be in no wise affected by the wearing of hair with which nature has endowed them. â€"Miss Lizzie Frey of Ottawa, 111., aged 27. sued a man for $10,000 damages for breach of promise of marriage. One incident of the trial was the appearance of the plaintiff‘s mother, who desciibed the endearments she had witnessed by the aid of an adroitly placed mirror in her bedâ€"room while the plainfifi and the defendant were seated in an adjoining parlor. â€"The pilgrims to Mecca. the last season have been rather more numerous than usual, and numbered between 80,000 and 90,000. Their health was very good, and the Turkish authorities insisted on their taking unusual sanitary precautions and being subjected to sanitary inspection, their pilgrimages being oftentimes fraught with much danger to the public health. â€"The detectives who have been investigat- ing the Lynn trunk mystery seem on the point of giving the ease up in despair. and the theory is now broached and supported by considerable evidence. and that the whole affair is a ghastly joke, the body of the girl having been placed where it was by medical students, who wanted to get rid of it and to make a sensation. â€"â€"The University of Zurich has just confer- red the degree of doctor upon a. young lady of Dalmatian origin, named Helen Druschkow‘ icz. Women’s rights have in this instance, been recognized, not as many have been imagined, for successful competition in the dlssecting room. Far from. it. Mlle. Drus‘ch- kowicz won her laurels with a. study upon Byron's "Don Juan." â€"-â€"There is a German colony of 425 persons on the Pozuzo on the Eastern slope of the Andes. The colomsts cultivate cofle‘e, cocoa.‘ tobacco, cotton. rice, Indian corn. swwt potatoes, sugar cane and tropical fruits.- They keep cows and pigs; Ants and cockroaches are the only insect plagues. The colony is prosperous, but its development is prevented byvthe want of roads. K H ERAL VOL. XXI. â€"Seventeen Irish Catholic bishops as- sembled at Maynooth on the 18th ult., signed a declaration expressing their “ surprise andi disappointment that the government are ton make no attempt to settle the Irish Univer- sity question this session." The Freeman‘s Jaurnal threatens a renewal of the obstruc- tionist policy by the home rulers if the de- mands of these. prelates are not satisfied. â€"The Zulus are found to be armed with the best breach-loading rifles, are capital marksmen and have a supply of explosive shells of the latest pattern. The Natal au- thorities are much exercised over the ques- tion, “ Who arms the Zulus ?” the credit or blame being generally attributed to the Pot- tugese of Delagoa Bay. The Americans and Russians are named in the same connection. â€"An insane man who wants £500.000,000 from the British Government has bothered the New York Vice-Consul of that nation for several weeks past. Last Friday he was brought before a. magistrate, and in the course of an examination said : “If I don‘t get the money from the British Government. I’ll get it from the United States, and if I don’t get it from the United States, I’ll get it from both." â€"This is the latest story that is being told of Mr. Southern’s “ playful eccentricity” He objects to his dog forming new acquain- tances. so he fastens two very sharp needles to his nose, leaving the ends projecting about an inch. When a strange dog rushes up to “ shake noses” with him, he gets a thrust that sends him 011 bowling, and the effect is such that Mr. Southern‘s dog cannot get within gun-shot of any other that knows how the trick works. -â€"One of Charles Dickens’s daughters-in- law, Mrs. Alfred Tennyson Dickens, has met a terrible death in Australia, where her hus- band has, for several years been living and prospering. She was driving out with her little daughter, when the horse became frightened, and. running away, finally over- turned the carriage. The child was killed, and the young wife was so dreadfully injured that she died in a few hours. â€"â€"The Russian Government favors the project of admitting women to pharmaceuti- cal schools and drug stores. In Holland women have enjoyed this training since 1866, and female druggists are eagerly sought for being reccommended by their orderly habits, accuracy, and cleanliness. In this country the women who struggle for new fields of work have thus far overlooked the drug busi- ness. â€"The oflicial list of the cardinals ta be cre- ated at the next Consistory is as follows : Dr. Hergenwetker of Wurzburg; Dr. Newman of England ; Mgr. Desprez, Archbishop of Toulouse ; Mgr. Pie of Poictiers, Mgr. Meg- ha. Papal Nuncio in Paris ; Mgr. Sanguigni, Papal Nuncio at Lisbon. and a few Italian prelates. It is believed that through the appointment of the Chaldeau Patriarch the question of the relations between the Vatican and Turkey will be settled. â€"Now that the President of the French Republic is a civilian, the black dress coat reigns supreme. The height of courtesy and delicacy consists in avoiding uniform. There is. too, a great and grave question as to whether the white cravat ought not to give way to the black eravat. The old men prefer the latter, and the young men the former. There are, therefore, two camps. In many of the crack clubs, however. theblack crevat has been adopted exclusively for dinners. â€"The magic of a. name has thrown no protecting charm around’ four softly eur- named celebrities of current criminal history. The burglar and murderer, just hanged, at whose career England is still aghast, was Mr. Peace, the youth in jail on charges of a share in the Manhattan Bank robbery is Mr. Hope; the famous Pullman defaulter is Mr. Angell ; and the central figure in Chicago's latest sen- sational murder is Mr. Lamb. â€"-Mr. Guildford Onslpw, accompanied by three other gentlemen and the eldest son of Tichborne claimant, went to Portsmouth jail on March 3 to visit the latter. The son wait- ed outside. On learning that he was present, the claimant expressed a desire to see him, but as the time allowed for the visit had ex- pired, his Wish was not granted. The claim- ant told his visitors that he felt in much bet- ter health, and weighed 15 stone 8 pounds. He had no complaint to make, but urged the Tichbome Release Association to continue their efforts for his release. â€"-Professor Blackie, ofiEdinburgh, preach- ed a sermon at St. David’s church, on Sun- day evening, February 23. He wanted to prove that Christianity is identical with Con~ servatism. He said that Christianity favors “authority, order, subordination and obedi- ence to existing law." while the liberals were characterized as “the party of restlessness, discontent, self-assertion, unqualified freedom and individual lawlessness.” â€"-The Empress of Austria had her first day with the hounds in Ireland at Batters town, when one of the largest fields ever seen at a stag hunt in Ireland assembled in the demesne, The stage was enlarged at Duns- haughn. and, on the word “go,” the Empress Capt. Middleton, and M1. Leonard Monogh jumped off in front, the Empress being al- ways in the front rank, at times completely outrunning her escort. â€"Those romantic creatures who hate to call a spade a spade, and who always have the “ varioloid" instead of the small-pox, should go to China. Small-pox is called “ heaven’s flowers,” and inoculation is called “ cultivating heaven’s flowers." It is per- formed by blowing pulverized scab powder into a child’s nostrils. It is a. very effective preventiveâ€"~if the person does not die, of which there is quite as much danger as of the disease taken in other ways. â€"New Zealand, like Australia, groans under the rabbit past. A Mr. Cowan killed 26,000 on 29,000 acres in four months. The cost of destroying them was 3 pence each,‘ or over $1,600, and the skins only fetched half that sum. A member of the Legislature said that they had rendered whole districts worthless. It is estimated that a. couple of rabits will in four years increase to the enor- mous total of 250,000. â€"â€"Gordon Pasha has resumed his interrupt- ed labors for the extension of the Egyptian sovereignty over Equatorial Africa. He has just appointed the young Austrian naturalist, Ernest Marne. Vice-Governor of the province of Qualabat, the frontier region to the west of Abyssinia. on the upper Atbara. Since the conclusion of edefinite peace between Egypt and Abyssinin. there is no longer any insuper- able obstacle to the establishment of the Egyption posts projected two years ago on the Somauli coast. -â€"â€"For the benefit of covers of pillow laces somebody has made the following divisions into styles zâ€"Mediwval, with its grotesque groups. wreaths and trees, down to 1550; geometrical, with its square and circles, from 1550 to 1620; renaissance, with its flowing leaves and garlands, from 1620 to 1720; rococo. with its stiff and disconnected bou- quet and flowers. from 1720 to 1770; and dotted, with its small flowers, “tears” and bees, from 1770 to 1810. â€"Some one has invented a. sort of pe- dometer that will tell the rate of speed a train travels at by utilizing the swinging motion of the cars. It is described as follows 2 Within a case clockwork is fixed,which causes 9. large horizontal plate to rotate once in twelve hours. On the plate a Risk of paper is held RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1879. 1 â€"Bread forms one of Warrant important parts'o‘r‘the ration of the German soldier. In time of peace, while he receives only five and one-quarter ounces of uncooked meat daily, the private soldier is supplied day by day with one pound nine ounces of bread; when fighting for the Fatherland every oflicer and man with the mobilized army is entitled to a free ration of over two pounds of bread, and field bakery trains and steam ovens for providing the large amount of bread required form a recognized part of the equipment of an army. In some recently published at- ticles, however, the Allgemeine Militar-Zei- rung strongly advocates the abolition of all such travelling bakeries, insisting that fresh bread is not necessary for the sustenance of men on active service, and that it would be far wiser to abandon the attempt now made to supply them with it, except indeed. under very exceptionally favorable circumstances. â€"â€"A crime of a most fiendish nature was recently attempted in Dublin. A woman, ad- vanced in years, enticed a nicely dressed little girl, about four years of age, away with her, and eventually brought her at dusk to a. place well known as "The Back of the Pipes,” near the Grand Canal Harbor. Here the kidnap- per completely stripped the child. hurled her over the wall into the river, and then slunk ofi into the darkness. Fortunately the girl was only momentarily stunned by the fell, and there was only about two feet of water in the stream, thereby enabling her to regain her legs. Her cries were heard by a men, who found the half-drowned child grasping the bank in a deathlike grip,and almost dead from fright. She was tenderly cared for, and speedily recovered. Her story was told to the police, and detectives were at once put on the track of the would-be murderess. The child’s clothes were found at e pawnbroker‘s shop, but the woman herself has not been discovered. -â€"In an exceedingly interesting and witty article on “My Friends in Ant Hill City," in the last Saturday Magazine, is the following : “The best time to see the inhabitants of Ant Hill City at their busiest is night, and it has always struck me that the young gentleman primarily upbraided in the second person, and then called a. sluggard, had good reason not to obey the command to go to the ant and consider her ways. Had he put himself to the trouble of going he mustfirst have wasted his substance in buying a candle, and then have sat up all night only to find Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Ant coming to the conclusion that they would not go hours till morning, or, at any rate, till daylight did’ appear.” â€"Carlyle’s age has compelled him to give up his midnight ssunterings in Cheyne-row. A lover of his friends, he dislikes strangers, especially Americans and Frenchmen. Truth tells how he once replied to a. German who criticised " Faust.” “ Did you ever hear of the man who complained of the sun because he could not light his cigar with it 7" In early life he would have become despondent but for a friend’s suggestion that he study German literature. He is happy in his mar- riage ; his only little “ vice” is smoking ; at a great dinner of Sir William Hamilton’s he refused everything but a potato ; he never reads newspapers ; he once bought a. neigh- boring house to get rid of the crowing of a cock, and the neighbor on the other side im- mediately bought a cock ; he has an income of $4,000 ayear from his books and he re- fused 3. title. ' â€"Examples abound of great men being a prey to despondency on the eve of that tide in their affairs which is to bear them on to fortune. Wellington was only prevented leaving the army by being refused a Commie- sionership of Excise in Ireland, and Bismarck wrote from Petersburg in March. 1861: “For the rest I‘heve reconciled myself with the life here, do not find the winter at all as bad as I thought. and ask no change in my position until. if it be God’s will, I retire to Schon- hansen or Reinfeld to set the carpenter at my coflin without unnecessary haste." â€"-English newspapers announce with con- siderable interest the discovery made by the Paris Acclimatation Society, that“ Japanese wheat, planted in April or May, is ripe and ready for the harvest quite as early as Euro- pean grown wheat, sown some five or six monthsearlier, and that the yield is equally large with that produced from any of the various of European wheat.” If the same result can be obtained in other places, says the Tokio Times. the use of Japanese Wheat, it is presumed, will become universel. though no explanation of the phenomenon is yet supplied. DEH'I‘RUCTION 0]" war!!! FISH. Seth Green, the well-known Rochester sportsman, writes to the New York Times on the wholesale destruction of Whitefish, a subject, which everyone will agree with him, is of vital interest. When he was in New York last week Mr. Green says he saw tons of two year old Whitefish, not weighing over eight or ten ounces. which are bought and sold for cisco or herring. These fish had passed all their early dangers, and if they had been permitted to grow one year longer would have weighed two and a half or three pounds, and been worth to the fisherman who caught them 20 cents each, wneress as they were then oflered for sale they were only worth to the catcher one or two cents apiece. The larger proportion of these fish, Mr. Green states, were hatched by the Fish Com- mission at Detroit, Milwaukee, Wis.. Windsor, 0nt., and at the New York hatching works. They are caught in all the upper lakes in pound nets in the fall, and are mostly frozen, and shipped all over the United States during the winter. Mr. Green thinks it strange that the Commissioners have not notic- ed t‘his great slaughter, and put IE top to it. â€"'-For upward of $1,000,000 have the insur- ance officers been “hit” by the premature and entirely unexpected death of the Duke of Newcastle. Early indiscretiens and much too facilea disposition to accommodate with his name and his check book the host of “ friends” who acted the part of sponges threw him into the hands of money usursera and bill discounters. For some time his available income did not exceed $7,500 a. year. AN ENGLIHIINIAI' AND AN AMER! (JAN LADY. This same most charming American maiden told me that a. number of gentlemen were in the habit of visiting herâ€"an asser- tion which, I think, would have staggered most English mothers. but did not seem to afiect her American one at all ; on the con- trary. Mrs. Hudson appeared quite pleased. But as the daughter was telling me that she had much enjoyed a dance on the previous night. and had been “ real pleased” at the Way English people did it. but was very tired, I suggested that she had perhaps better go to bed. This. it seems, was a. grevious sole- cism ; for Mrs. Hudson pulled me up very short with the remark, “ I’d have you know, Sir. that American ladies don’t go to bad, they retire.”â€"â€"Londan Examiner. by a spring, the border being divided into hours and minutes. The point of a. pencil is attached to two springs and a, pendulum, so that the pencil makes a zig-zag line arognd the paper; on removing the latter the rate of traveling may be studied. ' â€"-Cetywayo, wears clothes ; King of the Zulus, nevér at least hardly ever. A woman named McCullagh, aged 35, was murdered on Sunday morning. Feb. 23rd. at Rooskey Gortin, a. village situated about eight miles from Omagh, county Tyrone. The Great Northern Railway Company of Ireland, which has been steadily and rapidly increasing its receipts heretofore. ‘has, like the other Irish lines, a. decrease on the last half-year. While the Viceroy and party were pres- ent in the Theatre Royal, Dublin, on the 15th ultimo, a series of disloyal cries were raised, such as “Cheers for the King of the Zulus.” The death is announced of Mr. Nicholas Conroy, of Dromerkin, at the age of 78 years. Mr. Conroy was father of the late Most Rev. Dr. Conroy, Apostolic Delegate to Canada. Sir Arthur Guinness, M. P., replying to a deputatlon at Dublin, in favor of closing public houses on Saturday evenings, said he thought the Government was sick of agitation on this subject. _ The crown authoritieshaving consented, the two brothers McGrenaghan, who were com- mitted for trial for the murder of Lord Lei- trim and his two servants, have been released from Lifford jail on bail. The popular candidate for Cork having been elected, the parish priest of Middleton has started a. collection to defray the election expenses. This is unnecessary, as Colonel Colthurst is wealthy, but the people wish to crown the victory they have won by the liberal act. Prof. Blackie. of Edinburgh, preached a. sermon at St. David’s Church on Sunday evening, February 23rd. He wanted to prove that Christiamty is identical with Conserva- tism. He says that Christianity favors “ au- thority, order, subordination and obedience to existing law," while the Liberals were char- acterized as “the party of restlessness. dis- content, self-assertion, unqualified freedom, and individual lawlessness.” Large numbers of sheep are dying in several districts of the county Galway. owing to the prevalence of liver disease, or as it is called, rot. v Another centensrian passes away. At his residence. Altenure Park, 00. Derry, on Feb. 12th, Mr. Bernard McIlhinney died at the extraordinary age of 115 years. Deceased was of a kind and gentle disposition. and possessed his mental faculties till within two hours of his death. On Feb. _21st, Mr. Brooks, M. P., pre- sented petitions in the House of Commons from a. public meeting held in Leiuster Hall, Dublin. and signed by the Lord Mayor and citizens of Dublin and. its suburbs, in favor of woman’s suflrage. The Irish were always gallant to their ladies: ‘ The sum of £1,000, bequeathed in 1853 to accumulate twenty-five years, and then to be devoted to erecting a memorial of Wallace and Bruce in Edinburgh, is to be put to the in- tended use presently by the town council. The proposition is that the memorieltake the form of an “ ornamental piece of water ” in North Loch, with a fountain in the centre, and colossal statues of the two heroes in bronze. Ireland. During 1878 about 8,000 Irishman left the Old Country for the United States and Canada. A meeting has been held in the Dublin Mansion house to inaugurate a. movement for the estabhshment of a convalescent home. The Nenagh Board of Guardians have adopted 9. motion to the eflect that the guardians petition Parliament, praying that the town of Nenagh be made a. borough town, and that the seat now vacant in the county by the disfranchisement of Cashel be conferred on Nenagh: Notices were posted on the 24th ult. that the two cotton factories in Drogheda, belong- ing to Messrs. Whitworth and Company would be closed for a, fortnight until some improvement in trade takes place. The result, it need scarcely be said. will be felt very severely, not alone by the hundreds employed in those concerns. but by the town. A heavy gale and snow-storm at Dundee was preceded by the appearance in the sky beyond the harbor of a. large running ball of fire which followed the course of the river for a. distance, and finally burst with a. loud noise near the “ Mare ” training ship. 0n the 26th ult., at a meeting of the Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh, overtures were given notice of by Sir Henry Moncriefl' in reference to the celebration of the centen- ary of the birth of,Dr.Chalmers, which occurs on the 17th March, 1880. The daughter, aged twenty, of a linen draper at Omagh, Ireland, has gained $4.000 from a wealthy barrister, aged thlrty, who is Crown prosecutor on the Northwest circuit, for breach of promise. He used to stay at her father’s house whenon circuit, and had promised to settle $4,000 on her. Lawyers might be expected to keep clear of such en- tsnglements. Recently as three men named James and Daniel Dinnen and Patrick Haneen were re- turning to their homes in Kilmurry, they were attacked by a. party of seven, who beat them on the head with sticks. When the police arrived, the men Were stretched on the road insensible; one man was arrested. It is believed the waylaying was the result of an old faction feud. It is expected that about two millions and a. quarter will be realized from the first call upon the shareholders of the City Bank. The nfixt call will be for one thousand pounds per 5 are. The returns from the Irish Savings Bank, compiled by Dr. Hancock, for the past year, show a falling-off in the deposits and cash balances in joint-stock banks of £1,516.- 000, as compared with the preceding year. Between 1876 and 1877, there was a decrease of $1,000,000. The decrease is accounted for by the depression which has generally prevailed for the past two years. 'The 7th Dragoon Guards willbe stationed at Edinburgh on removal to Great Britain frog} Irelgnd in the spring, _ The subscriptlons In Edinburgh towards the National Fund for the relief of the sufferers by the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank now amount to £96,895, 199. 8d. Scotland. A proposal is made to establish day feed- ing 50119015 in Edmburgh. __ - §ingufar to relai'e, during the year 1878 not a single entry was made in the marriage registellof Afisaig. _ 1t Coupar-Angus 79.” curling match was played by csfndletlight. _ Yl‘he Scotchmex‘; of Ceylon have contributed 17,016 rupees to the City of Glasgow Bank Shareholders’ Relief Fund. On 25th Mr. Patrick M’Namara, who stood charged with the murder of a farmer named Patrick Kearney, in January, 1878. was re- leased from Ennis jail by order of the Attor- ney-General and transmitted in charge of a warder to Queenstown, there to embark for America. The Government paid the expense of his passage out, and provided him with an outfit, the condition being that he is never to return to his native country. It was reported at a meeting of the Guar- dians of the North Dublin Union a fortnight ago that. in pursuance of an Order of the board, the small-pox hospital at Glasnevin had been cleared out, and the bumng of the sheds occupied by the patients was being proceeded with, the patients having been re- moved to the South Dublixg Union under the OLD WORLD NEWS- lost rewup'pmziéé" ‘o‘f’le‘tfiflg ‘flie‘éifled Stuart know that his room was much to be preferred to his company.\ Yet another royal Stuart. his brother, both as Duke of York and James II., the discrowned King of England, went from London to Paris, in ways the most roundabout. Two titular Kings of Great Britain, France and Ireland, James 111., and Charles III., called respectively the Old and Young Pretender, were destined for a season to make Paris their abode when they had much rather have been at St. James’s or at Windsor. At St. Germaine the old Chevalier de St. George held for awhile his phantom court ; and then as Charles Edward he quitted Paris with high hope, only to return, after many adventures and misfortunes, agged, forlorn and penniless. By and by the French Government made peace with England, and the English Ministers pressing- ly demanded the expulsion of the “ Pre- tended I‘rince of Wales” from the dominions of the King of France, which the Chevalier obstinater refused to quit. So they found a short way for him. Alighting from his carriâ€" age one night at the door of the Opera, he was seized by a body of armed police. bound hand and foot, flung into a dungeon at Vin- ceunes and a few days afterwands hurried to the frontier. No English King or Prince of Wales has been in Paris since those times until the reign of the present family. The three Georges never set eyes on the towers of Notre Dame ; George IV. passed through Calais on his was to his Hanoverian do- mimons, but did not visit King Louis XIV. at the Tuilleries. and there is nothing to show that William IV. ever saw Paris. Queen Victoria will leave London on the 25th of the present month for Paris. The dis- tance between the two capitals is not very great. It has been done in much less than nine hours, and can be done readily in ten ; and yet it is now a quarter of a century since Queen Victoria crossed the channel and landed in France. It was not until she had been seventeen years on the throne that, accompanied by the Prince Consort and her eldest son and daughter, she returned in Paris the visit which Napoleon III. had paid her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Many Kings of England, or heirs to the crown thereof, have made the journey between London and Paris, by all kinds of more or less circuitous routes, since the days of Agincourt. The child Henry VI. was crowned King of France in Notre Dame, but was soon ignominiously expelled from the realm which his father’s valor had won. Charles 1., when Prince of Wales, passed through Paris on his romantic trip to Spain. Charles 11.. was an unwilling visitor to Paris during the Protectorate. He had no money ; his mother, Henrietta Maria, was well-nigh starving at the Louvre, and the French Government, to please Cromwell, New and Interesting Facts in Referenco lo the Poet’s luau-jugs. The life of Archdeacon Hodgson has just been published by his son, the Rev. T. P. Hodgson. His chief claim to the attention of posterity rests in the fact that he was an early and much trusted intimate of Lord Byron. A good many of Byron’s letters to him were printed by Moore, to whom, how- ever, Hodgson surrendered but a portion of this correspondence. His son here publishes a number of new letters, together with a great many communications from Mrs. Leigh, the poet’s sister, and two or three from Lady Byron. The book throws con- siderable light upon the much discussed epi- sode of the separation between Byron and his wife, and upon the character of his devot- ed sister. Mrs. Leigh wrote to him at the time of Byron’s marriage, which caused her happiness, that her brother had “ said that in all the years that he had been acquainted with you he never had had a moment’s disa- greement with you. ‘I have quarreled with Hobham, with everybody but Hodgson, were his words.’ " He had a great esteem for Hodgson‘s judgment, both in literature and in the afiairs of life. Their intimacy had been formed previous to 1808, during Hodg- son’s visits to London and Cambridge. From this time until 1816 the friends conâ€" stantly met, and when absent as constantly corresponded. Hodgson was completely under the charm of Byron’s richly endowed nature; but his affection, warm as it was. was of that pure kind which leaves the judgment unbribed. In 1811,while the second canto The Council of the League met at Dolier street, February 2lst, and passed the follow- ing resolutions :â€"“That we highly approve of the resolution adopted by the Home Rule members attheir meeting held in London on the 15th inst., in which they reiterate the national declaration that nothing but the concession of the national demand for self government can satisfy the Irish people and in which they pledged themselves to the maintenance of that demand, and hereby declare our conviction that in all earnest- and practical measures which they may adopt for the carrying out of the foregoing resolution. they will receive the hearty support of all patriotic Irishmen. At the recent annual meeting of the Bel- fast Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Alexander Johns, J. P., presiding, after the secretary‘s annual report had been read, the president in his remarks made some admirable sugges- tions. He referred at length to the rela- tions existing between employers and em- ployed, and advocated the co-operative share system in joint-stock companies as likely to create and maintain more kindly relations between them. He said special shares of, say £10 each should be created, to be held by persons in the employment of firms. the heads of departments to receive them first, and secondly the faithful servants of the firm, or they might be paid for by money al- lowed to remain from week to week. He thought such a system would encourage thrift". of “ Childe Harold” (Hodgson was helping to revise it) was going through the press, the poet’s affectionate Mentor had, by letter, a religious discussion with him. Hodgson’s side of the controversy has disappeared. but Byron’s skeptical rejoinders are full of wit, levity and cynicism which, (like his cynicism through life) was half natural and half affec- ted. “ As to your immortality. if people are to live, why die ? and any carcasses, which are to rise agam, are they worth raising? I hope, if mine is, that I shall have a better pair of lrrgs than I have moved on these two- and-twenty years. as I shall else be sadly be- hind in the squeeze into paradise.” The letters which throw light upon Byron’s unhappy marriage are all of great interest. Hodgson’s correspondence with Mrs. Leigh. which be- came an intimate one began in John Rea. gave them a dose in the Belfast police court recently. He was engaged in a dog fighting case, which he commenced by objecting the presence of one of the magis- trates on the bench ; he then read an almost endless affidavit on the history of Ulster since the plantation. and wound up in a vituper. ative cross-fight, in which choice expletives were freely used. The magistrate rose, but were powerless to stem the torrent. John came off with flying colorsâ€"in the arms of the police. John is an Orangeman and a Fenian. and a. big injun. recent afrangement entered into between the two boards. ENGLISH ROYAL TRIPS T0 FRANCE. A FRIEND 0F 1.0RD BYRON‘ WHOLE N0. 1,083â€"â€"N0. 48; A Belgian professor has published a work entitled “ Periodicite des Grands Deluges Resultant du Mouvement Graduel de la. Ligne des Aspides de la Term,” in which he warns us that we may be on the lookout for another deluge of the world. At certain regu- larly recurring intervals, he maintains, the waters of one hemisphere are suddenly pre- cipitated across the equator and flood the other. The last of these deluges, which al- ways flow from north to south, or from south to north. was that of Noah’s times, which was from the north. Hence the explanation of the great preponderance of water in the Southern Hemisphere, and of the general southern trend of North and South America, Africa, and many other minor peninsulas. The next of these deluges will flow fro m the south to the north. The cause, he argues, is the alterate increase and decrease of the ice caps at the poles, and the consequent change of the earth's equilibrium. Since 1148 the South Pole has been continually en- larging, while the North Pole has been pro- portionately diminishing, to-day the diameter of the southern glacier being about 3.000 miles and that of the Northern 1,500. When these two glaciers shall have arrived at their maximum and minimum extension, then will the earth tilt over and be submerged by an- other great flood, the fifteenth of the kind that has occurred. The piece tie-resistance is principally os- trich. but this can be served with rice as a potvaufeu, or steaks can be broiled,the wings, which are the greatest delicacyâ€"something like turkey, "perhaps even finer"â€"being sent up as an extra dish, the gizzard roasted a l’lndiennc; and for the third course, acus- tard of ostrich eggs. sugar and gin. The guanaco, when fat is said to be not unlike beef ; but at certain seasons of the year it is terribly lean, and in that case only the head can be consumed, and it is usually roasted under the embers and eaten cold. The mulito, or small variety of armadillo, is considered a great delicacy, and during the winter and pring months, when it is fat, the puma. is greatly prized. Indeed, puma. fat seems to be invaluable to the hunter, who finds it im- possible to subsist on a diet of lean meat; and to this he is often reduced when his stores of biscuit and other provisions, and even salt, are exhaustedâ€"Spectator. A new telephone has been recently exhibit- ed before the Academic des Sciences, said to give emarkably good effects. It is the in- vention of Mr. Gower, an American. He uses a very strong magnet bent into a semi- circle, with its ends or poles projecting in- ward and having each a small oblong piece of iron, on which is mounted a coil of wire. These parts are inclosed in a shallow cylin- drical brass case, the cover of which carriel the vibrating membraneâ€"rather thicker than usualâ€"separated from it by an excessively thin chamber, and attached by means of a brass ring and screwsâ€"which latter do not touch the membrane at any point. The old form of telephonic mouthpiece is abandoned, and a flexible acoustic tube, with mouthpiece, is attached to the middle of the cover. Thus one may speak sitting at a table while the telephone is attached to the wall. A novel feature, also, is the use of a telephone call, consisting of a small tube, bent at a right angle, and cantaining a vibrating reed ; this tube is fixed on one side of the membrane. On blowing into the acoustic tube this reed is vibrated, and, consequently, also the mem- brane, which then moves in excursions large enough to be felt with the finger. A corres- ponding strong sound is produced in the re- ceiving telephone through vibration of its membrane, which sound may be preceived in a hall of any size, and even when other sounds are present. The tube with the reed in it does not injure, or rather improves the distinctivness of transmitted speech. Simple phrases spoken with a loud voice into the transmitter are heard as far as sixteen or twenty feet from the receiver.-â€"Another im- proved telephone is that invented by Prof. A. Righi, of Bologna. In this instrument the transmitter, a membrane made of parch- ment paper, metal or wood, is vibrated by the sound waves. A piece of metal is fixed in the centre of this membrane. the lower end of which has the form of a flat piston. and rests upon a mixture of finely pulverized carbon or plumbago and silver, contained in a little thimble or short cylinder. This thimble is attached to the free end of a flat spring, whose force is regulated by a screw under- neath. A small battery is used in the circut. The results are said to be very satisfactory. Over a line three or four miles long the voice of a person at one end of the wire may be heard at a distance of from six to nine feet from the receiver ; singing and the sounds of musicial instruments at from twenty-five ~to thirty-five feet. PARAFEINE OIL FOR INSECTS.â€"The London Garden says that three wineglassfuls of paraffine to four gallons of water is instant death to bugs, without the least injury to tender plants. He puts the oil first intoa. pot, and then fills in the water vigorously with asyringe. In applying it one man is kept liftinga syringeful out of the mixture and discharging in into itself, while another applies it to the plant. In two or three minutes it is syringed off again with clean water. â€"~Miss Blaisdell found that the biggest boy in her North Adams school was unruly, and made up her mind to settle the question of supremacy definitely. She led him into an anteroom closed the door and undertook to whip him. There was a rough-and-tumblo fight, in which the combatants pounded each other, rolled over and over on the floor, and. tore their clothes. At length the boy was thrown flat on his back, and the mistress knelt on his breast to hold him down. He was conquered ; but an hour afterward he was taken violently ill, and his recovery is doubtful. â€"Deun Stanley makes no gestures when preaching, and stands quite still. The story goes that one Sunday, after returning from church, he asked his wife why the people looked so intently at him during the service. She replied: “How could they help it. dear, when one of your gloves was on the top of your head all the time?” It had dropped from his hat. â€"A mean young scnoolâ€"ma'am of Ancestor, Ten foreign languages can master; Could you hear her speak French, Latin and Greek, You would say no one’s tongue ne'er went faster. â€"â€"-If you see a bank note on the sidewalk or crossing, be sure you pause, stop and pick it up. In not doing so you might be guilty of passing a counterfeit bill. â€"A true tale is told of the late Charlel Mathews, that. personating an eccentric old gentleman, a family friend, he drank tea with his mother without her finding out tbs cheat. â€"President Grevy being asked recently to write something ina lady’s album. indited the following : “ Lifeis like a. game of chess; each one holds his rank according to his quality. but when the game is over, kings, queens, knights, and all the rest are thrown into one common box.” Mrs. Leigh says to Hodgson in writing 01 her brother: “Ii I may give you my opinion. it is that in his own mind there were and are recollections fatal to his peace, and which would have prevented his being happy with any woman whose excellence equalled or ap- proached that of Lady A., [from the con- sciousness of being unworthy of it. Nothing," she adds, “ could or can remedy this fatal cause but the consolation to be derived from religion, of which, alas I dear Mr. H., our beloved B. is I fear, destitute.” 1814 and lasted for forty years. There are several létters of Mrs. Leigh’s during 1816, after the marriage had taken place, going 'on into the winter of 1816, when they assume a highly dramatic interqst. ANOTHE ll DELUGE (JOINING. IMPROVED TELEPHONES. A PA'I‘AGONIAN DINNE B.