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-«There is an artist in New York whose apecialty is to turn his patron’s ruddy noses to a virgin whiteness. He is always rushed with business. â€"-George Augustus Sula, is to write a serial romance tor the new London journal called Fan. The Buffalo Express hopes it will pan out Wall. -- One man on the Pacific slope employed four weeks in writing 6,571 words on a postal card so that whey can be read withou the md of a glass. â€"It is animated that 75,000 women in the city of New York support themselvesâ€"and many of them their familiesâ€"~by their own exertions. â€"â€"Mayor Grace, of New York City. has pre. sented two of the fire laddies with $116 Ben- ett gold medal for their deeds of life saving at fires. â€"-Blind Tom has a dangerous rival. He lives in St. Louis and is 17 years of age. He is an expert on any instrument, but prefer! the piano. â€"â€"The Philadelphia Record wonders if it isn’t time to dlscover trichinn in American horses, now that an American colt has won the Derby. mAn American officer visiting Gibraltar says the coat of the English soldier is so tight that, he cannot- lifi his rifle to his shoul- der. “The ugly crow is exter-uiumiug the singing birds in New England. and thereby worming the New Englander’s mind a onsider ably. ~Brouson Howard’s new play,which he has written for the Salisbury Troubadors will be called The Amateur Actor or The Amateur’s Benefit. â€"The girls wear false eyebrows in St. Louis, and at a late reception 200 pairs were seen adorning the brown of St. Louis bellesâ€"Io says the Post. â€"- A poor fisherman of Tallahaase, Fla., while digging worms for bait the other day, struck a brass kettle that was found i0 contain $1,400in cash. m’l‘he New York Herald complains tha- the people who keep their stores open in that city on Sunday make a parlor of their side walk. ---~The Paris Anti~tobacco Society has j an appealed to ladies to combat; the increasing pretentious of the smoking room in family life. â€"â€"Two English ladies describe the pleasure that they had in tramping, with a. donkey to carry their provisions, cooking utensils, water- proofs and a tent. â€"â€"A law student of Cincinnati has been ren- dered deaf by smoking cigarettes and poison- ing the ear passages with nicotine. ~Tha Japanese stage is made no revolve, and while one scene is before the public another 18 m process of arrangement. «Prince Bismarck is said to give his whole life to business and politics, never attending the opira, theater or an art exhibition. ”A Boston paper says that Boston is worse than any other city in the Union in the habit that men have of sitting while ladies stand in (cars and coaches. â€"-The Canada Temperance act is now in force in 22 counties and two cities in the Do- minimn, the Maritime Provinces containing 20 of the total number. ~~ It is reported that; the two railway kings. Vanderbilt and Gould, have fallen out. Will the fall be a isle to the public '2 There is mourning in the house of Peking. The Empress Dowager of the East is dead ; the second Dowager Princess is very ill, and the young Emneror has the measles. ~Pennsy1vanimls are gumg to erect a. monument to the memory of Col. Drake, the diacoverer of petroleum. “The New York Post, says that a. Boston theanical manager has paid $300,000 for newspaper advertisingmbut it paid. â€"â€"The art critjc 01 me London Times deal not know the difference between an oil paint- ing and u water color drawingâ€"so Mr. Whistler says in the London World. » A license at Bushnell, [11, costs $1 000. A9 a consequence only three saloons have been opened. â€"Geneml Butler’s income is saidtobe 9200.000. Can Anna Dickinson withstand this charm. Jâ€"The official hangman of Germany adver- tise‘} for an appremice. and received 400 applications in 6 dayk â€"-Sixty~slx missionaries from tha Metho- dist and Preabytm‘ian churches are working among the Mormons. - Fifteen flmnuand dentists torture the DI Liw American. «mine eyc sight of Wilkie Cum.) has been wjimd by rheumatic gout. ~ New You; in sending carp to Ecuador w Mock South American rivers. Dennis Kearney was recently hissed and . booted off a San Francisco platform. A Georgia papers calls one of its rivals " the repository of belated information." »â€"Tbe lea-st intelligent of guests, says a mom] writer, are often the sharpest of critics. ~~Modje§ku is scoring a new success at the (Jam: Theater in London as Juana, a mad woman. «A writer in the Watchman tries to prove by quotations from Shakspeare’a plays that he was a. Free Mason. â€"â€"Mr. Finney. a. London dentist. claims to have found a. filled tooth in an Egyptian mummy. Dentistrv was further advanced, 4‘000 years ago in Egypt than is supposed. â€"â€"A California millionaire, who has rented one of the best. cottages at a fashionable senlide resort. was only a few years ago a street car conductor in San Francisco. --'l‘he extensive cultivation of flowers for pol-fumery purposesis about to be started in California. In Europe it is very remun- eratwe ; agood crop of lavender yielding 81,- â€"The Enghsh papers are lamenting um 01d hamlets and towns are passing out of existence,'and the people are rapidly emigra- ting to the great centers of industry-41m cities. tun â€"Thongh the late Eli Perry, of Albany couldn’t npell the word Bagtist correctly, his valuable bequests to Baptist institutions were received with great pleasure by that denomi- nation. ”Kate Field is very modest in her estima- tion of her own professional services She only rates them at $20, 000 per year. accord- ing to an Interview reported In the New York World. -â€"'I‘he new Mayor of Cincinnati draws the reins more taut each day. Now he insists that Saturday night entertainments, including public balls. shallstop promptly on the stroke of 12: oThe known exports‘ of olecmargarine from New York last year amounted to 11,- 000,000 pounds, of which Rotterdam took nearly 7,000,000 pounds and Glasgow 1,500,- 000 pounds. â€"â€"'1‘he new Kansas liquor law is not fully sustained by public opinion. A second trial for violation of its provisions in Topeka has just resulted in acquittal, infim face of law and evidence. â€"â€"â€"An arbitrary mle excludes carriages from Mount. Hope unless accompanying a funeral procession. and so the city peopie wait at the gates until the cortege comes along. then join it and pass in. â€"Siemens, the great European electrician, has cleared $20,000,000 from his inventions, and expects to make as much more from the electric railroad which he has just put in operation at Berlin. ' â€"The two physicians of Maquoketa, Iowa, inoonsiderately chose the lame week for a spree, and their patient: were dangerously AROUND .Kanuart ‘05 are THE WORLD. a fashionable pets in Bel and dentists torture the 1:: of Wilkie 00112;» has been: Ltic gout. " â€"-The Springfield Republican say: that one 9 of the witnesses in a divorce suit before the 1 Supreme court yesterday refused to take the i oath. giving as the lesson Christ’s injunction: ‘ “ Swear not at all, neither by Heaven nor by the earth." He finally aflirmed. 1% â€"There are in Great Britain 23.000 fe- males who are farming. These women enjoy all the rights and privileges of men with one exception ; they can not vote for membera of parliament, but they can vote on all municip [1! elections. â€"The medical faculty of Vienna have been studying a youn man who wears his heart on his right side. is liver on his left. and in other respects has the small arrangement of the internal human organism completely re- versed. He is strong and healthy. â€"A New York politician, in writing a letter of condolence to the widow of a Congressmen who had been his h‘iend. says : “ I am pained to hear that Wâ€" has gone to heaven. We were bosom friends, but. now we shall never meet again.” â€"An old gentleman. when naked after hi- health. replied: ” I‘m getting quite feeble, and exercise of any kind is almost too much for me; last year I could walk entireiy round the square, but now I can only walk half way round and back agaix ” Supreniecourt yesterday refused ‘9 take .the i _;In the Royal Theater at Munich bouquet oath. swing as the reason Christ’s injunctlon: ‘ throwing. wreath and harp giving, and other “ SW9“ “3‘ 3‘ all, neither _ by 139"“ “0’ by similar tributes .are to be prohibited in the the earth. He finally aflirmed. 1. future except on raw and special occasions, â€"The medical faculty of Vienna have been . such as the reappearance of an actor after a studying a youn man who wears his been long illness or absence, or the occurrence on his right side. is liver on his left. and in of his benefit night or anniversary com- other respects has the small arrangement of : memorations. Other theaters are advised to the internal human organism completely 136- do likewise. A versed. He is strong and healthy. ; â€"The present value of vineyards in Cali- -One of the churches in Patchouue,L itorniais reputed by Preeident Haraszting,oi 1., has made ,1 novel addition to its music 1 the State Board or Vinicultural Commissionâ€" by introducing into the church two dozen 1 ers! to be about $35,000,000, the income from canary birdsin cages. They sing with and a thh amounleti 133‘ year ’30 {353500.000 H0 without the choir, and the music does net:1 ‘3 0f the 0911110“ that Wilhln three years seem to disturb either the minister or congre- l the vineyards will be yielding to their owners gation. 1 $5,000,000 a. year, or 10 per cent. on $50,000.- “ , ,. ..,, "W. ALA u-“ 1000 valuation. ~A young woman at Des Moinies, Mnem- ber of the pmying band, became infatuated with one of the convicts she was trymg to convert, and attempted to secure his liberty by disguising him in the apparel of the band. She failed. â€"-The theatriosl artists will soon be wend- ing their way homeward. Edwin Booth, will return the last of ‘his mouth. Gaorge Fawcett Rowe in July, John McCullough, in August, and Genevieve Ward in Beptem- , bar. . â€"-Said I: reverend doctor at a Baptist Mis- sionary Union: “ If the sharp practices of which I have heard a little are at all prevalent in the foreign mission fields, we shall very soon have to send misflionaries to the mis- ainnuiee." -â€"It is related at Mr. Freeman, the histor- ian, that in his love for the old English and Anglo-Norman period of history his children have been named after the manner of those times. Thus one is called Elfred, another Eadward and a third Emelburg. ~The Baptists of California have at last succeeded in ousting Rev. 1. S. Kelloch from the church. The State Convention had to be demolished and a new one organ- ized by the secessioniscs to accomplish this result. â€"In the land of Wyoming lives Lee Chin and Eva Lee. She thinking she would like Chin added to her name, and he not being adverse to it, they went to Denver and were married. Sequelâ€" Both have been arrested and are spending their honeymoon in prison. «Virginia. colored boys of ten and twelve years of age are set at work transferring cans of nitto-glyoerine from storehouse to mine, and when a can drops and five men are atom- izeed they take the boy out and switch him. â€"â€"John G. 8319; the poet. lost his only sur- viving daughter on Saturday last. His wife diedlast July. and he has buried his three daughters within seven years. Troubles crowd upon him, for 119 is a confirmed invalid and is living in atraitened circumstances in Brooklyn. ~â€"The season of ocean travel is now at its height. Thousands of poor immigrants are flocking here to America to make for- tunes, and thousands of rich immigrants are rushing 03' to Europe to Ipend them. ~M’me Gerster deserves f0 be chronicled as a heroine. She steed on deck and woolly faced the kisses that 200 pursuing women thrust upon her and her baby as she sailed from New York, on route for Bologna. â€"â€"John Archer. a vigorous farmer of 45, living at Randolph, N. Y., died early last week, in ~the opinion of his physician from poison, received into his system while spread- ing a prepared phonphate on a field. "The Chicago J ouma L lays that tho wedded happiness of Mrs. Richard G. Haskell, nee Mary Beebe, once the favorite primo. donna of the Ideal Opera company, did not last long. The partiel have now separated and friends of both my the young lady was Ipoiled by going on the stage. neglectedfor several days until other medical help could be obtained. ~-A gardener at Tampa. Fla.., out recently a bunch of bananas with ninety fingers. The stalk bearing the bunch was a. year old. and grew in his yard. It was of the dwarf variety and about four feet high. --The people are trying to remove a. Roman Catholic school teacher from the public schools of Salem, though it is well known that she does not teach her religions principle- in the school. The Boston Tramcn‘pt think: this sectarian pressure belongs back in the age 01 the witch persecution. â€"-Once a year the London Company of Draper: have a funeral anniversary, and go to View the coffin of a man who left the corpora- tion $150,000 a. century and a halt ago, with this condition attached. â€"A Washington men. sent to a phrenolo- gist. one photo of himsélf dressed as a wo~ man, another as an architect, a third as a professor. Three ohartsweresent back. The architect was advised to marry the women, while the professor being of uncongenial tem- perament, was advised not to marry. ”Dr. J. B. Stewart, of Shelbyville, 1nd,, has a wife who regularly takes poison to frighten her husband and so keep him at home on nights. thereby neglecting hil pa- tients, as he must stay M home and resurrect her. and yet the cruel husband thinks this conduct 1!! just cause for divorce. â€"-The little Massachusetts town of Salec has been running electrical lights with pram tical success and without. bragging. The place has had eix miles of street lamps fed by electricity ever since September, and reports a saving as computed with gas at the rate of over $2,000 a year. â€"The Queen of the Sandwich Islands has her gowns made all in one piece in the native style. But they are of blue velvet striped with gold, of peach pink with white jet, and of blue safiin with crimson crushed roses. Slippers for Her Majesty are made of the same material as :he dresses. â€"â€"’1‘he man with a lawn mower who gets up at 4 a. m. and runs his old rattling lawn mower 8.000 times in as many different ways over his 7 x 9 patch of grass. should be com- pelled to listen to the remarks of his neigh- bors as they roll over in bed. fight flies, and stuff the ooverlids in their ears. â€"The two young Princes,aons 6‘! the Prince of Wales, who lately visited Cetewayo in South Africa. asked to see his wives. They were shown four women of the royal house, hold. who have been in attendance on the ex- king during his captivity, none of his wives having been permitted to join him. --The Hungarian women are described as very beautiful. with as fine figures as the Vienna Indies, but preserving their willowy lightness long after the Austrian he: become VOL. XXIV. l â€"A spirited and fastidious girl of Ottawa, 111., declined to be married, though the guests were assembled and the bridegroom waiting, 1 because the train of her dress did not hang ‘ properly. Expostulation was in vain. She‘ l said that she had put a great amount of ‘ thought and money into the garment and it ': would be a life long sorrow to her if she wore it when conscious that it was not a success. t The wedding was postponed as week. â€"â€"The late additions to the Chicago stock 'yards brim; the accommodations up to the following figures: Area of yards 345 acres ; length of railroad and side tracks 40 miles; cattle pens 1,000; hog and sheep pens, 1,200; ‘ stable room for 1.500 horses; total accommo- dations of yards 20,000 cattle, 10.000 hogs _ and 5,000 sheep. With the present facilities ‘ for handling, 1 500 car loads of stock can be loaded and taken care of daily ~-While Tom Keene was playing Richard in San Francisco the other evening, with his daughter Agnes as Lady Anne, he seiz- ed her by the arm and roughly pulled her across the stage in accordance with the business of his part. His little son was in a box with Mrs. Keene. and springing on the railing, shoused : “ 0h, papa. don't hurt Aggiu l"7 ~Haverly’s new theater in Chicago is to have a peculiar feature, original with the master showman himself. There will be a fashion box on eaeh side of the stage, built level with the floor, and so arranged that the ladies occupying them may display their entire miles, from head to toe. From this arises the name “ fashion boxes." -â€"~A hot tempered woman always makes the apiciest dishes. You never knew a mild- tempered woman to make a rich and spicy pie. Her tea is always mild ; her chicken is as tame on the table as it was in the coop. But a sharp witted woman. with a tongue like a buzz saw, will devil a crab, dress a outlet, or serve a rum omelette to a. mum. “Sophia Marsden, 78 years old and blind, is contesting in Philadelphia the will 01 her late husband against her son. The contest involves $70,000, and turns on the genuine~ ness cr falsity of a piece, of paper which Mrs. Marsden’s daughter claims to have discov- ered, which purports to be a will of later date than that under which the son claims the property. -â€"The Pottsviile Mincra’ Jourmal reports that there is great deprivation in the families of the coal miners, on account of the reduced tune which the coal combination has adopted. The men cannot earn nough to supper} their families, and many 0 them are beginning to suffer im: the necessaries of life. Meat is be- coming a delicacy which is seldom tasted. â€"One of the chaplains of the Illinois Legislature refused the pay of $3 a. day which was voted him. He said he hadn't earned the money, He had prayed that the members of the House might have wisdom. honesty of purpose, patience and grace. but he did not think his prayers had availed anything. He ought to have his salary doubled as a reward for his honesty. â€"A St. Petersburg correspondent of aGer- man paper sends a lengthened account of the state of society in lhe Russian capital at the present crisis : “ The lower classes,” he says, “'are true and loyal to the note. 0n the contrary, the middle and higher classes are thoroughly indolent, apathetic and roaten ‘0 the core.” â€"A child strangled to death by getting ire head wedged in a picket fence ; man blown by a boiler across a. river through a. thicket. and buried head foremost under a log; bullock flung a man into the water, holding him there until he drowned ; somebody unfaatenod the reins from a horse’s bh and when the owner went to pull on them he it‘ll back and latally injured himself. fat and shapeleea. They are dark skinned, with glorious eyes, and one 0311 often find traces of the vagabond blood of the gypsy in their faces. «The Inter Ocean sells the story that two_ young men promised to give a ladies' sewing circle 11) Frankfort Ky” 810 if its members would keep absolute silence at its messing for the space of one hour. After they had ex- pressed their opinions vigorously of the young men. they timed themselves, set to work and won the money. â€"â€"An interesting volume is being prepared by a J. R. Boyle pf Hull. Englandâ€"a. biblior graphy of the literature relating to Sweden- borg and the New Church, including also non-denominational wriiings by New Church authors and works written in criticism of its teachings. It will contain notices of nearly 6,000 works. sâ€"A young woman in Maine is about to be informed that her supposed father and moih- or are not her real ones. It is hoped that the blow from this and intelligence will be soil:- ened by the {not that she is an heiress to her father’s estate in Salem. Massachuseltl, who was supposed to be 9. poor man until in died And left a large property. -â€"A Chicago artist who, it is said, can earn 310,000 a. year. has been an habitual drunkard for five or six years. His wife has med a saloon keeper for 825,000 damages on the ground that itis due to his influence that her husband squeuders his money and neglects his work. He should have ituck to the water colors she thinks, and not have tinted hil countenance as he has done. -â€"George Smith had killed several men It Braiuard, Minn., and his success in that line convinced him that he was invincible. He got into a quarrel with Jack O‘Neill in a saloon, and coolly said : ‘ Ilm sorry I ain‘t got a gun, but I’ll go and get one and shoot you when I come back. You won’t have to wait more’n five minutes.” Wth Smith re. turned with his weapon he was easily shot from behind a door by O’Neill. "Among the personal effects of a departed school teacher in Omaha, who was the hero~ ine ofan elopement, that were sold at auction, was a mottoI Love One Another. which brought ten cents ; another: To the Cross I Cling, which sold {or ten cents also ; and two (1001'- plates with the names of prominent citizens on them. Some of the et ceteras oflered for snle were purchased by several gentlemen as souvenirs. â€"â€"The discomfort of traveling in India in hot weather is dectpased on the line of the great Indian Peninsular Company by an in- genious device. The windows in every first class railway carriage are provided with screens made of fragrant khas~khaa grass, which are kept constantly damp by the me- chanism connected with the wheels. By this means the air is kept comparatively cool. â€"0ne does not know anything more dia- gusting than the sight. of a dozen men at a station near the grounds for playing athletic RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, JUNE 23. 1881. -â€"-The long debated question of the repeal of the prohibition of mairiage with a deceased wife‘s meter is exciting much interest just now in some of the British colonies. In Aus- tralia such marriages have long been legalized and the acts of the colonial legislatures to this afiect have been duly scrutinized and ratified by the Queen in council. Under these cir» cumstances the denial of legal recognition to such marriages outside the limits of the col- onies il complained of as a grievous hardâ€" ship. â€"Mrs. Sarah J. Bale, life time editor of Godey’a Lady’s Book. wrote Mary Had a Little Lamb. The origin of the poem is this: Adaughter of Mn. Hale’s neighbor was taken very ill, and the doctor was asking the girl’s mother what she had been eating. Mrs. Hale. who had just come over to the house, heard the mother say ; “ Mary had a. little lamb. and Mary loves lambs, you know." These simple words touchri Mrs. Hale iso deeply that she went home and wrote the immortal poem. â€"â€"Bjornaijerne Bjornson hearing that King Oscar of Sweden had said -‘ that Bjornson had sinned against all the Ten Command- ments.” wrote that he might have broken a good many, but he had killed no one, stolen nothing, or lied against nobody. The King paid no attention to the letter. and the two became enemies. The King probably thought that a manwho owned up to breaking seven out of the Ten Commandments was not enti- tled to an apology. - vThe pronunciation of Beaconsfied has been the subject of agood deal of dispute. The ordinary pronunciation among the natives is Beokonsfield : but among outsiders, and particularly the upper clafieeg, the name is called Beekonsfield. It is believed to have been derived, like Oakfield. Aehfield, eto.. from beeubenfield, a field or clearing among the beaches, and has nothing to do with beac- ons. Unless it were on the seacoast there would likely to be no beacon in any ordinary field in the interior. â€"A fellow came into the room of the Art Loan Exhibition lately with abroken nosed plaster of Paris image in his hands, and lay- ing it down. asked, ” How much Will you loan on this ’em antique ?" 0!] learning that the Art Loan Exhibition was not a. fancy name for a pawnbroker’s shop, the police had to be called in order to get him out. He wanted to break up “ the dâ€"d swindle," but instead oi that, his plaster head was broken up and a plaster adorned his own head where he had to be clubbed. -~»Tha Mayor of Quincy, Illinois, is very fond of fifteen ball pool ; and his sister ls; trying to wean him from thegame. She went to the billiard saloon where he was engaged in it the other day, and gave him her opinion of him. oi the game and of the company in which she found him, and this proving in- effectual she dropo -d upon her knees in prayer for her sinful brother, whereupon the Mayor fled fluough the back door. Even mayors are mortal. â€"â€"The police in Rome have discovered a plot to assassinate the King of Italy. The suspected mandatory is an Italian who came to Rome sometime since accompanied by a fellow countrymen. known to the police as a. member of the International. Simultaneously with the appearance of these suspicious char- acters a number of boxes containing explosive materials for the tunneling of the St. Gothstd have been stolen from the Itslo-Swisl society. Models of these boxes have been sent to all the police stations of the kingdom. â€"â€"The Colony and India says that there can now be little doubt that within a. few years the Australian colonies will be able to supply their own sugar. and that a. consider- able export trade will spring up along the shores of the Pacific. Fijian sugar brings almost as high a price in Melbourne as the heel. Mauritian produce. Forty- -five tens of one per acre, giving two tone of sugar. are an average yield. -â€"'I‘he Adelaide Observer is of opinion that the average yield of the wheat harvest in nearly all the districts of South Australia for the season just closed will be a miserably small one, being no more than five bushels ten pounds to the acre. although there was a much larger quantity of land sown this year than last, the increase amounting to no less than 125.490 acres. The total area 0! ;lnnd devoted to “heat-growing in Southern Aus- tralia this year was no less than 1,583,586 acres, and the total yield about 8,191,860 bushell. " â€"In the Hungarian village of Gycina a young girl has been sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment for a murder committed under peculiar circumstances. She had been aban- doned by her lover, who had taken a fancy to another girl and had married her. On the wedding night the forsaken maid eflected an entrance intc the room occupied by the newly married couple, where ebrisk fire was burn- ing in a stove. and crammed the stove pipe lull of rage. This caused the coal gel to fill the room, suffocating the bride and bride- groom. â€"While Vienna was hurrahing over the re- cent Imperial marriage a. poor tailor. the father of five children, all starving shut him- self up with them in a room. butchered them and stabbed himself. Suspicion having been aroused, the door of the room was burst open. and the police found him just alive but cov- ered with blood. He sat up fora. moment. glanced at the five corpses, and then at a cage in which a. canary was singing. “ Give him to the janitor," he remarked “ otherwise he will starve to death ; " then he lay down and died. â€"Thore is a curate in Warrington, Eng- land. who is liable to comic attacks at incon- venient moments. Last Sunday, having to christen 9. couple of pug nosed twins, he got one on each arm, and than burst out laugh- ing. the congregation joined heartily in the twin laden curate’s merriment. The mother of the twins objecting to her oflspring being treated in this Wild, farcical manner, snatched them indignantly from the curate, and the vicar hastened to explain that his curate is subject to attacks of hysteria. which often caused him to laugh in the wrong place. games rushing madly past two or three ladi< s so that the latwr do not get the best seats. Men who enjoy the eight or the playing of sturdy games would hardly be thought of as trying to obtain the best seats in a car when there are ladies who might have had them. “â€"The authorities of the Paris Mint propu» e to substitute for the present bronze piecee« a new coinage of a smaller and more elegant kind containing 20 per cent. of nickel. Speci- men coins have been struck oi the respectixe values of 5 oentimes, 10 centimes and 25 cen- times. The die used is an old one, cut in the troublous time of 1793. Its device is an allegorical head of the Republic wearing a. cap of liberty. â€"Wagner, the musical composer, is fit to edit a. newspaper and read what his esteemed contemporaries say at him. or run for Con- gress during a heated campaign. He has just published a dictionary which he styles “ A Wagner lexicon, or dictionary, of impolite- ness, containing rude, mocking. hateful and slanderous expressions, which have been used against the master, Richard Wagner, his works and his adherents, by enemies and soorners â€"tor delectation of the mind in leisure hours.” This sounds as if Conkling might have written it. -â€"â€"At one of the numerous May religious meetings held in London. it is reported that a reverend doctor lBid, amid“ great laughter, the: " the way in which the churches leaned ‘ upon the fleshy arm of the world struck him 1‘ much in the same light as if St. Paul had tiqurlted Felix or Agrippa. to preside at n ! meeting in order to secure a. big audience, 01' had asked Simon Magus to perform a few I tricks 1n order te increase the pay for a min E sion to the Romans." If there were truth in i these cynical remarks, we do not see where ‘ the great. laughter properly comes in. â€"It is really true, it seems, about the an- nual crop of spring poetry. The poetry that is accepted for Scribner’s Monthly is kept in ft long drawer in a safe. Each poem is placed in, an envelope, under date of receipt, and address of the writer. The envelopes are then placed in the long drawer, which is, perhaps, three feet long, and arranged iac~ cording to subjects. First, come the poems that admit of illustration. These take up about two inches. Th'n there is an inch of Winter ; then four inches of Lowe ; then some miscellaneous subjects, taking up half an inch to two inches of space ; and finally â€" packed ciose~there is about a foot and a half of Spring! The next question is where are all these poets ; at least, where do they keep themselves ‘2 -A London publishing house has decided upon an experiment which should succeed. London managers run eagerly after the plays of modern French dramatists ; why. then, should not the English public welcome trans- lations ofthe best French novels 7 Care, of course. will have to be bestowed on the selec- tion, and this publishers recognize. At present, with the exception of Dumas and Hugo. the works of French novelists are but little known in England. We do not see why English novel readers, unacquainted with the French language. should not be as apprecia- tive of clever French works of fiction as English playgoers are of clever dramas‘and opera bouffes. â€"â€"An eminent chemist has been making an analysis of elephants milk supplied by 8the female elephant Hebe, who had a calf several month: since. The globules of cream are wonderful in size and very transparent. In flavor and odor it is superior to goat‘s milk and fully equal to cow‘s. The elephant calf, weighing 213 pounds at its birth, March 10, 1880. gained 700 pounde in one year on this milk diet. Now that it has been demonstrated that elephants are productive in captivity, it would be something of an addition to Ameri- can wealth in live stock to include the ele- phant. A good sized herd would supply an ordinary city with milk and do all the heavy pulling, loading and unloading in business. The Parisiens, too, learned. to eat elephant steaks when they were obliged, while the African hunters all declare that elephant meat is very palatable. ~The Governor of the two Arabian Cities of Mecca and Medina was a terrible and blood thirsty tyrant. and so was the Csliph under whom be governed. Once the Governor was riding without his soldiers, and falling in with an Arab, asked him what he thoughtof the Governor. “ He's an outrageous tyrant." said the Aral). “ Hevé you complained of him to the Commander of the faithful 7" asked the Governor. “ No." said the Arab, “ for he is even worse. Allah, curse them both 1” At this juncture the soldiers came up, and the Arab, taking in the situation at a glance, winked at his questioner and cried: “ Mind. Prinee, that you disclose the secret which is between us to none but Alleh l " The Gov- ernor laughed and dismissed the Arab with a gift. -â€"A member of the Pennsylvania Legisla- ture named Hardieon was foolhardy enough to say that if he were Speaker he would never allow the House to act as diegrecefully as the Speaker, Mr Hewitt, did. So the other day Hewitt called Hardisou to the chair. He had scarcely taken his seat when cat-calls, shouts of derision and loud laughter greeted him on every side ; a paper ball struck him in the eye and he called on the Sergeantat-Arme to help him preserve order. Hewiht was one of the most disorderly. When hardison was relieved of his office he came down from the chair threatening to “ Kick the stuffing out" of the men who threw the paper wad if he could find him. â€"A Detroit (Mich) doctor, who has vacci noted over 500 persons, reports many odd experiences with subjects under the lancet. Not more than two men out of ten have it done in a straightforward way. They hesi- tate, ‘meke inquiries and postpone it a few days. One insisted upon being strapped feet to his chair while the operation was performed. Another wanted to take chloroform. A negro was one day seen to walk past the oflice several times. and the doctor finally stepped to the door and asked him if he wanted to be vacci- nated. “ Deed. sah, dat’s what I cum for," he replied, “ but do werry minit I turned dat corner de blemed thing quit aching.” As a rule, the men, when they feel the lancet, cry, " Wooah l” or “ Thunder 1” The women cry ” Ouch I” generally, but now and then one screams, “ Oh, Lordy 1” Children have to be flattered. coaxed or soared into submis‘ srou. ._Mrg_ Deacon Grover, aged 90, was seated ‘ my a direct cable to the Dominion for Cana- mend‘ing her son’s stockings in his house in l d1?” _busmess. 0““ merchsnts hope that the town of Horseheads, New York.lastweek,‘ “113 H5 "118’ {‘0‘ they say 1‘ 15 {1111 time when a trsmp entered and asked for some-‘ Canadisns were saved from the ignominy thing to eat. The old lady went to the cellar 1 0f 1"?“"8 all their news filtered through and when she came bgck her gold rimmed : Amerlcau sources. In this report I have en- spectacles were gone. She sand to the tramp: ' (193“)er ’50 embody the news Whlch I 118% u You've got my specs." He denied it, and, i heard generally expressed by all sections of quietly laying down the plate, she went to 3 <5 the community on this important matter to bureau. took a revolver therefrom, pointed it i Canadians. at the tramp and told him if he didn’t lay 1 ”*â€"~â€".'*â€" those specs on the table she would shoot him 1 THEODORE PARKER 0N MARRIAGE. where he stood. The tramp took the speots- I â€" 0ch from his pocket and mildly laid them ' Young people marry their OPPOSitCS in down. “ Now, said she, “ eat what 1 have temperaments and general character, and such brought for you and get out.” He ate and de- rnsrrisgeshre generally good 0'183- They d0 psrted. When her son Augustus appearedghe It mBUUOtWGIE The 5’0ng man does not old lady, again taking the revulver from the say, “ My lek eyes require ‘0 be wed With bureau, said to him : “ Augustug_ how do you blue, and my over vehemence requires to be a cock this weapon 1'" little modified with somewhat of. dulness and ~An lowajustice was sent for in a great hurry by a young man who was at work in a neighboring field. and on arriving at the des ignated place found him sitting on a log in a grove. By his side was a young woman with torn and draggled dress, hair down her back, without a bonnet and almost breathless. The Judge began to palaver about the romance of the situation, when the young woman ex- claimed: “Hurry up. 'squire, father’s com- ing 1” “Rush it. Judge 2’” said the young mm). The judge looking up the road saw a party riding furiously down upon them. By great expedition, the justice got the ‘young people married in as few words as the law allows and finished just as the riders came up. There was a feud between the young woman’s family and her bridegroom’s people, and she had already run away once. but was caught and taken home. She staid until the day of attaining her majority and took the first chance to escape. â€"â€"The domes of all the great Russian churches are plated with gold 3 quarter of an inch thick. The new church of the Saviour, just dedicated in Moscow. has 9. cost which cost $15,000,000, and the Issac cathedral in St. Petersburg represent three times that amount. Although these churchcs offer to the starving peasantry such fine chances to plunder they are never touched. The wretches fear Divine vengeance and would starve rather than invoke it. What short work a Pacific bonanza king would make of them if he could get possession of them 1 It would not be a race so much as a steeplechcse for the gold plate and the silver shrines. â€"Mr. Labouohexe tells the following story m Tee“ Powerful Feeling Developing Against the Scheme. MONTREAL, June 8.â€"-A very powerful feel- ing is being rapidly developed here against the proposed" unseemly that will beasts}:- lished if the amalgamation scheme of the tele- grapl companies is carried into effect. The opposition is not confined to the general pub» lic alone, but is very strong among the share- holders of the Montreal company, who see in it a virtual surrender of their rights and their future prospects of larger dividends. It is also stated on good authority that even the directors of the senior company are not a unit. but are pretty well divided on the ex- pediency of entering into the arrangements. In addition nearly every member of the board of brokers is decidedly against the proposal, and as they can bring a powerful pressure to bear against it through their clients, it is now very doubtful when all these combinations of circumstances are considered whether a minority of the shareholders would vote away their future interests even if the measure received the endorsement of the directors. It is no secret that the inception of this scheme did not occur with the directors or any of the bona fide shareholders of either company. It is the product of the brain of a New York speculator, who has been notori- ously manipulating the market here for some time, and whose only interest is to make a. further fortune. He has made one, it is said. by the stock appreciating to a higher figure on the consummation of his hopes. There is another point of view in which this question is canvassed. and that is the attempted 71018.- tion of a special act of the Dominion Parlia- ment passed to prevent such a monopoly as that about to be attempted. Of course, if done at all, it can only be done by a trans» parent subterfuge to evade the law. Public opinionis beginning to be greatly excited over this question, and from the mutter- ings one bears on the streets from mercan- tile men and in well known resorts, the scheme will meet with a hostility that will be fatal to it. What makes the shareholders of the Montreal Co. object most strenuously to the arrangement, is that at present the com- pany's business is yielding more than eight per cent., whilst the prospects were never so good for greatly augmented earnings in the future. There are people here who say Sir Hugh Allan is now in England with the view of enlisting the interest of capitalists who will lay a direct cable to the Dominion for Cana- dian business. Our merchants hope that this is true, for they say it is full time Canadians were saved from the ignominy of having all their news filtered through American sources. In this report I have en- deavored to embody the news which I have heard generally expressed by all sections of â€"When the Erie railroad went no further than Turner‘s Station. fifty miles from New York, the engineer on that and other roads was in the habit of running the train accord- ing to his own judgment, the conduct-or being counted out altogether. Ayres, the conductor of the Erie train, consisting of engine, freight cars and passenger cars in the rear. did not fancy this .fashion, and de- termined to try a new plan. He ran a stout line from the passenger car and fastened it to a log of wood on the locomotive, and told the engineer to stop the train when he raised the stick. The engineer on starting out the stick loose. Then next day the captain rigged up his string and stick of wood again. “ Abe,” said he, " this thing’s got to he settled one way or the other today. If that stick of wood is not on the end of this cord when we get to Turner’s you’ve got to lick me m 1' I’ll lick you.” The stick was not on the tring when the train reached Tur- ner’s. The captain pulled ofi his coat and told the engineer to get off his engine. Bam- mill declined to get off. Capt. Ayres climbed to the engineer‘s place. Hammill started to jump ed on the opposite side. The conduc- tor hit him under the ear, and saved him the trouble of jumping. That settled forever the question of authority on railroad trains, and was the origin of the bell rope. â€"â€"A tree was recently brought from Aus. tralia to‘ Nevada, which has been in the habit at night of going to roost like the chickens. The leaves fold together, and the ends of the tender twigs coil themselves up like the tail of a well conditioned pig. After one of the twigs has been stroked or handled, the leaves move uneasily and are in a sort of mild commotion for a minute or more. Indignant at having been transplanted the other day,it had hardly been placed in its new quarters before the leaves began to stand up like the hair on the tail of an angry cat. and soon the Whole plant was in a. quiver. It gave out 8 most pungent odor. which filled the house and was so sick- ening that it was found necessary to open the doors and windows. It was fully an hour be- fore the plant calmed down and folded its leaves in peace. It would probably not have given up the fight even then had it not been that its time for going to roost had arrived, The whole household now stand in awe of that plant; Young people marry their opposites in temperaments and general character, and such marriages are generally good ones. They do it instinctively. The young man does not say, “ My black eyes require to be wed with blue, and my over vehemence requires to be a little modified with somewhat of dulness and reserve." When these opposites come to- gether to be wed they do not know it, but each thinks the other just like himself. Old people never marry their opposites ; they marry their similars. and from calculation. Each of these two arrangements is very proper. In their long journeythese opposites will iall out by the way a great many times, and charm the other back again, and byvand- bye they will be agreed as to the place they will go to, and the road they will go by, and both become reconciled. The man will be nobler and larger for being associated with so much humanity unlike himself, and she will be a nobler woman forhaving manhood beside her, that seeks to correct her deficiencies and supply her with what she lacks. if the diver- sity be not too great, and if there be real generosity and love in their hearts to begin with. The old bridegroom, having a. much shorter journey to take, must associate himself with one like himself. A perfect and complete marriage is, perhaps, as rare as perfect personal beauty. Men and women “ Talking of ladies riding, I shall never forget last year seeing Miss Wombwell, the eldest daughter of the popular Sir George, riding a grand chestnut horse. Just as she entered the Bow he commenced backing. In common with others looking on, I was quite fright. ened. expectinglevery second that the horse would back its rider off, but no such thingâ€" she steadied him beautifully, got his head up, and did not move one inch in the saddle. There was no seat ‘ regained’ there; she simply smiled to herself, as she patted his neck, as much as to say. now I hope you feel better ; and, without looking right or loft. trotted quickly after her father. An elderly man standing close to me. and evidently an old sportsman, said out loud, but to himself : ‘ Ah, but it does my old eyes good to see a gal as can sit like ‘thnt.’ ‘ You are right.’ I replied. ‘ and I should be glad to follow her across the country.’ ‘ D’ye think yer could?’ he returned. TELEGRAPH AMALG AMATION‘ WHOLE NO. 1,195.â€"-NO, 3, «It was fourteen years ago that a Maine man got up from dinner, took hil bet and walked out of the house, leaving his wife and little girl at the table. He did not come back again. Two or three years since he we: eating his bacon and beans alone in a hut by Table Mountain, California. when; on looking up, he saw a woman and a young lady standing in the door way. “ Ye've got here at last, lmv ye ‘2” laid he and went on eating. Two years later the woman and the girl disappeared, leaving him alone. The other day the mother was fourth in a San Francisco walking match, and the daughter, forsaken by a lover, tried to drown heraelf. Let But Harte hat that l The struggle in Bulgaria is chiefly import- ant for the light it sheds on the beginnings of Parliamentary Government. When the Congress of Berlin decreed the virtual inde‘ penden'ce of Bulgaria and raised it to the rank of a principality it also determined that the .State it had thus created should choose its own sovereign. To this end. on the 25th of April, 1879, a Constituante, or National As- sembly elected by popular sufirage, was got together at Tirnova for the express purpose of weighing the claims then and there to be sub- mitted to it by rival candidates for the Bul- garian throne and of making definitive selec~ tions from among the different competitors. Aspirants to the Crown, it will be remembered, were not lacking upon that occasion. General Ignatiefi, Russia’s crafty representative at Constantinople before the war, was one. Another was [rinse Dondoukofi-Korsakofi, Russian Commissioner General in Bulgaria during thefdnterregnum between the signature of the San Stefano Treaty and the convocation of the Constituents. A third was Prince Henry VII., of Reuse, then German Ambassador at the Austrian Court. Pr nee Waldemar of Denmark, a lad but just out of his teens and younger brother to King George of Greece, and Prince Alexander of Battenberg, a scion of the ancient house of Hesse by a mor‘ganatic marriage, and lieut- enant in the Prussian Gardes du Corps regi- ment of household cavalry, were the remain- ing candidates. By the User’s order the Russian candidates were withdrawn and the choice fell upon Prince Alexander. In the autumn of 1879 the Principality underwent the process of a general election, and the first Bulgarian Parliament was solemnly oonvoked in Sofia. The new Prince made an opening address. “ He had scarcely left the hall,” says Mr. Farley, an impartial witness, “when, instead of beginning the labors of the session, the opposition turned upon the ministers and all those who did not share its views, heaping insult upon insult, using the most opprobrious epithets. The same evening the ministers presented their resignations to the Prince, which, however, he refused to accept. The sittings continued almost daily for five weeks, and it would be impossible to imag- ine a greater caricature of a Enro‘ pean Parliament. The Sofia Assembly contained scarcely a dozen persons outsideol the ministers capable of discussing a project of law, the majority being simply peasants, who listened with open mouths to the bom~ bastic phrases of a few renters of the Left and waited patiently for the signal to raise the hand and vote.” By the 18th of December â€"â€"the Courmouf Cabinet having in the mean- while resigned and Karavelofi having failed to form a ministry in its placeâ€"Prince Alexan- der had dissolved the assembly and convoked another, which was hardly more competent than its predecessor. During the past eight- een months the government has been in con-- fusion. The evils of the State are gross, open, palpable. Nihilistic agitation is rife, and has been encouraged, or at any rate not discouraged, by the cabinet. No disposition has been shown to fulfil the specific obliga- tians imposed on Bulgaria by the treaty of Berlin. The national finances have been squandered in preparing for the absorption of Eastern Boumelia. Prince Alexander, finding his kingdom discredited abroad and disorgan- ized at home, declares that he will resign his princedom unless the people consent to extend his power. 7‘ I don’t know," growled Bill Barker Lem Williams in a. chorus. “ Stranger,” said Lem Williams, as he rose up, " I don’t like to dispute a man’s word. but that’s a blazing lie, and I ain’t gwine to believe it," and he and Bill Barker, out lied and disgusted, mounted their horses and left Tipper with a serene smile en his face as he whittled the edge of a cracker box. “ Speakin’ about strong men.” remarked Bill Barker, “ sorter causes me to remember an old steamboat captain who used to run on the Yazoo River in ’58. One day he stopped at a landing for some wood, and the niggerl were kinder slow about bringing it aboard. 01d Jenkins the captain, roused up and cussed everythin' in reach. Says hel walkin’ up to the woodpile what the nigger: were at work : ‘ Pile on your timber, yer onery skunks. and let me show you how to carry wood,’ and be stretched out his arms. Well, sir, the nig- gers piled on the wood. and kept pilin’ until Jenkins had a cord and a half of firewood on his shoulders, and he turned and carried it on the host jest as easy as if it was a. balmy. He was what I‘d call a putty tolerable stout man.” “ You see, one day he was hauling some fence posts in an ox wagon, when the wheel: begun to crank like if they needed greasin'. He looked under the wagon for his tar bucket and found it warn't that, and what do you ’spose _he bid '1" “ Well. I’ll just tell you what he did. He propped up the axle tree. tuk the wheel ofi and steppin’ out in the woods he picked up a pine knut, held it over the axle and squeezed the tar outen it. Old Pew Jennings had a “ That reminds me of a nasal used to know in Budford county, Alabamy." said I stranger named Tipper, who had been in the nexghborhood but a short time. All eye! were turned toward the speaker and they be- gan to size him up. “ I guess mld Pete Jen. nings,” continued the stranger, “ was about the heftiest man in these United States. it I ain‘t mistaken." “ Yes, this here country ain’t 'good for misin’ com," said Lem, as he took a fresh chew; “ but if you want to see corn what is com. you just otter go to Fort Bend. When I was farming on the Brazos. in that country, my corn grew so tall and thick that I had to hang lamps on the mule’s ears to see how to plow a fourrow. It was com and no mistake, and in the full the stalks were so high that I had to knock the earl down with 9. sassafras pole. Darn my skin, the earl were so big that it tuk I strong man to carry more'n three of ’em at} time.” A Few Startling Yarns Told in a Ten. Grocery. Hank’s grocery is situated on the edge of n prairie in Southern Texas and on Sunday quite a. crown used to meet there and snap news and lies and have horse races and got boiling drunk and indulge in other harmless amusement. 01d Lem Williams used to be on hand every Sunday and was considered the boss liar of the State. One Sunday Lem Wil- liame himself was seated in front of Hank's grocery, spitting tobacco juice at a. grasshop- per, when Bill Parker inquired : “ How‘s crops up your way, Lem ?" “ Well.” he replied, ”oorn's sorter 'gin to tasseling, but the stand is powerful poor.” “That seems to bk tile generil oom- plainj,” rqmarked Bill. are married fructionally.now a small mo- tion, then a large fraction. Very few are mart ed mull), and thrn only, I think. after some forty or fifty years of gradual approach and experiment. Such a large and sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season. BM a reel, happy marriage of love and judgment be- tween a noble men and woman is one of the things so very handsome that, if the sun were as the Greek poets fabled, a god, he might stop the world in order to feast hi! eyes with such a spectacle. CONSTITUTIONAT EXPERIM INTB. CHAMPIOi-i LIARS.