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Died from a. Shower Bath. Mme. Helene Putin Murals, the charming young actress who took the part of Anna. when the dechefls was brought. our. i-u Paris, has lately died from a cold induced by the nightly drenchingY received in represent,- insz Uetvaise in tube Assommoir. The pull of water thrown at her in lhe wash house scene wasusually warm, butouenight through some mistake is was icy cold, and the young! actress was so thoroughly chlllcd Hm. the was immediatelyaexzad WiLll fever. 1: was while playing together as lhe hero and heroine of the Danicblfls that Madame Mauls and her husband first met. and all Paris wasinterested in the courtship of the handsome young, pal: and in the pretty wedding whlo’h lowly umwd them. ‘ After Many Years. Yesterday Mr. Benjamin C. Porter and Miss E. Copeland were married in King ciw Andrew county. The groom is almost. 70 years of age and the bride 65. Mr. Pomâ€"r has bren in St. Joe for 40 years, and is a very popular ‘and linghly esteemed gentleman. The bride is one of the old man’s firut loves and was his early sweetheart. They were engaged fortyvfive years ago, but it was broken ofi. He married another lady, with whom he lived happily and raised a large family. She died about one yrar ago. Tu» happy couple were given a reception to night by their friends A Well kno am New York alchitect was lately urged by a. person who was interested in a certain monument projrch of large pre- tensions to make a. dealgu lor it. He objected When further urged to name a sum he re- plied,“ Well, IVllwmake yuu a. design for $1 - UUU. ” “ 1911 n shat a. irnfle steep. 9‘ ’ said the inviter. “ I don’ a charge 31, UUU for merely making a. design." auuwend the aruhitecn. mining " any man who makes a design 101‘ an American Monument committee is a foul. and when I deliberately make a 1001 of myself, I want at. least $1,000 for it.” More Than His Match, Occasionally. yea. very often, a. woman is more than it match for a men. A farmer living in the outskirts of New Haven waa in a hurry to not llir‘l farm work along. and vent out‘into the field with his boys and hired man entirely overlooking the fact that the last, stick of Wood in the woodpile had been bnrm d to Set the breakfast. Raging hungly tln- force came in at noon. The good wife h (l the table set with all the taste of which she was mistreuu, and in really lO‘lkE‘d inviting : but there was no dinner upon it. “ Sarah. Where's the dinner ‘2” inquired the farmer ‘omewhat anxiously. " I don't know whether i is done or not. There was no wood for a fire’eo l hung it in the warmtst place I could find. It is on the ladder m. the south side in! the house.” The whole force was detailed ax chopping wood that afternoonâ€"New Haven Register. The rhinozerna lives in Aahar and you kam stick a pin in ’im ’cause his wezskil is bill: 0v ole shows. When a rhinozaus is gunter be kilk you muz alwaze guup to him from below 5062 he'll kno somethiu' of it an' try au’ muk a place fora. bullm to gut. in. His nose is got a upper teeth that’s got. no busimz Ware 1t 12, and it a boy should set. down on in he better stay plugged up with the tooth rels ha’ll be all one pore. I'd r :thet be a polliwig it I wuz a rhinozerus, tho, I spose 1i wuz I wuoden’t.â€"â€"-Little Johnnie. rater m it. butter. Milk iz spontaneous, and has done more to encourage the growth of human iolks than enyryrothcr lkaid. ‘ I want to say summing. I want to say 5111111111113 111 reference to milk as a fermizer. There are various kinds ov milk. There iz sweet. nnlk, sour milk, skim Hulk, and the milk of human kindness; bun the mostesl beat milk iz the milk that hazzent the mush Vfii, , “W H, , M111; 1z laateal, it iz also aquatic, wh1le unflgr the patronage oi milk venuers. Milk 1'2 also auoiher name for human kind‘ new. Milk iz' misteflous. Uokemut milk has neygr been solved yet. Milk and bread iz a pleasant mixtur. Sometimes if milk iz aloud to stand too long, a. scum rises to the surface, which 12 ups. to sknre folks that live in cities, but it duz« zem. fuller um the mllk iz many. This scum iz called kreme by fakes who inhabit the country. Kreme 12 the parent, ov butter, and butts; iz 70 cents a. pound. The most kummon miik in use, without doubt iz skim milk; sklm milk iz made by skimming the milk, which iz considered sharp practirs. Mllk lZ obaained from cows, hogs, woodâ€" chux. rats, sheep, nq uirrels. and all other animals that have hair. Snulx and geese duu’s give milk. _ I foygot to state, in concluson, that cow milk, it well watered, brings ten cennsaquart. The Eucalyptus tree has made the malar- iouo diszrlctu known as the Roman Uumpaua inhabitable. The leaves being puma and exhaling a| out four times their weight in water each day have done much toward pumping the soil of ixs superfluous water and making it dry. The waler is loaded “‘iih a volatila oil. the poisonous quantifies of which is taken by the tree as food. The oil a-so becomes oxydized and produces enormous quantities of peroxide of hydrogen, a. most powerful disiufccmnt. and malaria dosiroyer, One of the porters of the Fifth Avenue ho‘el has been talking about. trunks to a re- porter. He says ‘he secret. of handling a trunk 38.!er lies in a knowledge of the fact that the corners are always dovetailed unu strongly braced with iron. Let. atruuk down on the corner an . it’s all right. Big trunks are not. what porters dread. “ It looks m: mendous," fluid this practical philosopher, " to ace 9. man take one of them and Iron up to the top story, but you want. tuiemembex thlB all through life : Wherever a. woman is concerned, things are bound to be light; an when a woman’s trunkâ€"and only women have big trunks comes along‘ a puiter plukr it. up eusnly. With a man. Lhuugll. it’s (inflor- ent. Old travelers are apt. to «my books. and books are mighty heavy. while a drum- mer Will pack half the stock of a dry gone store in his trunktwhich is usuully small, and then make funny remarks when you. heal-l) break your back lifting it." Avery lively skirmish occurred on Penn ‘ sylvama avenue in Washington. Wednesday. A constable, with a. writ of tjectmem, under took to set the furniture out of a. boarding house into the street. The landlady wateheu her household efi'ects dissappearing until she could not exactly in strain herself any longer. She suddenly grabbed the constable, pulled out a lot of his hair, scratched his face into stripes, banged his head against the wall, and run him out of the house. When he recover ed lrom his touch of Shiloh and entered the house the lady was standing on the stems with a gun, and informed him that if he ad Yanced she would shoot him. Being inexedul one he moved forward. when she took deliber- ate aim. fired low, and shot It full charge 0! birdshot into Mr. Constable’s legs. A pulice- man then arrested the lady. The coneteble was hauled off for repairs. Hobart Pasha, â€"A Pseudo Turk. Hobart Pasha. is the son of the Earl of Buckinghamshire, and u descendant of Hampdeu. He was born in 1822; in 1836 he entered the English navy; us a midsmp man be distinguished himself in the suppres sion of the slave trade ; in 1845 he was‘made Wanted Pay for Being a. Fool A Tree that Absorbs Malaria. Josh Billings on Milk A Belllgerenr- Landlady. BRIC-A-BR AC. Buner milk izzeut. the best for The Rhinoceros. Trunks. in “US part of Germanâ€"in the kingdoms of Btvfll‘ld and Wurtemburg, in the duchy ol Baden. etc. In other parts of Germany the prices will not vary much fmm these figures. but would behigller rather Lhm less, panic ulurly in North-em Germany, Prussinfi txony, etc. : Pork. 14 t') 16 cents perpound ; mutton, 15 tn 18 cents; beefsteaks and beef for roasting. 18 L0 25 cents; common bvsf, 10 to 16 cents; chickens, 50 to 75 cents each; but ter, 24 to 335 cents; cueese, 20 to 30 cents; sausage meat. of wlnch' greet. quantities are consumed. 18 to 27 cents; sugar, 10 to 12 cents; rice, 6 cents; fluur, 7 cents; beans. 4 and 5 cents ; Hulk. 4 and 50ents a qua-t; potatoes. 33 to 90 cents percwt ; w<>od.$4.25 m 35 per cubic meteâ€"wood and coal average by Welght, 45 cents for lUO English pounds ; eggs, 15 IO 18 and 20 cents a. dozen, etc. a Lieutenant. of the Queen’s yacht , be after- ward commaudud the Diver in the Bahia, and wue twice mnntioned in the orders of the day ; in 1861 he took command of the .Don. and several times forced the Frdcral blockade of the Confederate ports; in 1867 he entered the Ottoman mi. val service. and was shortly afterward created a Pasha and an Admiral, and last January he was mmle a Marshal of the Ottoman Empire. that Robert Pasha «should stand by the Turks in their hour of need is to his credia. He is a. sailor, and not a politician. In the corrupt. atmosphere of Constantinople he has remain ed Lrue and honest. He is now in England. where both he and his wife, who is termed the Houorablo Mrs Hobart Hmmpden, have been exceedingly Well received. Cost of Living in Germany, To that-e who think tuut livmg.y is cheap. I would refer them no the figurcs below as rep- resenting, the aclunl cost, as near as it 18 possible to gel: thom. of $113 nacessxtles of life The People Who go to Theatres. They are the young couples who never fail to make the rounds, became it bores them so {rightfully to stop at home together. There are the young girls who are just half way stage struck, or actor struck, and who can coax their p lpRS or their grandpspas. or their uncles to go with moat unfailing regu lui‘ity. There are the other young girls who are audience struck. and who only look ob liquely at the stage with one eye. There are the young men who dOu’t visit, because they can't tiff »rd to marry. and who drop into, the theater just to pass the evening. There are the olu ieilows about town. who have made it a life long habit, who never under any aircum :tuncee enjoy it play, but would be hopelessly miserab e unless they saw one every night or their lives. There are the unemployed actors. who go tc noto points and learn new business. There are the newspaper men who gnbsoause they must. There are the people who lead dull, grey lives of toil, and routine, and com- monplaceness, and who strain a pointjust enough to give more zest to the pleasure of going, who enjoy the lights and the bright- ness, and the 11.11.1810. the dresses, and the mountings, who make notes and compare opinions, and argue gravely next day about what would have happened if some other state of afluirs had come about, and who weep and smile with delighllul spontaneity, just accord- ing to what is expected of them. 1 love to sit near such peoiile, to watch their pleasure. and what a luxury it must be to play to them I Then there are the few who look upon acting and play \vriiing as arts, and who enjoy them more than all the others, when they are worth it.â€"1 he Argonaut. Miss Elsie Von Blumen on htr bicvcle had a. race with some horses recently at. Rochester. Anired in her handsumes: suit of grey and gold she road up and down in front of the grand stand on her bicwle, which Is a perfect beuucy. Her graceful nding was greatly ad- miredmul her preposaessmg and unassuming depuumeut mxguc be imlbated with beneficial results by all professlonal athletes. The couduious of the race were that she should ride a mule while a horse trotted a. mile and a half She did so amid the applause of three :housand spectatorsh The Princess Mathilde gave a. soiree at her Paris residence prior to her departure for a country seat at St. (:‘rramen. She was dressed in white satin, embroidered and trimmed with gold, her head encircled with a. diadem of pale gold. hsr neck adorned by a double row of solitaires ; the Marechale Cantobert in white tulle, the Guinness Porlsles in blue oriental satin.me Princess Lise Trubets- kei in solemn black bilk. and lhu Baronne d9 Rorlxschildiu light colored silk, splendid :oli- laires as ear rings. and breach and bracelet flashing fire under the gas jets. The music. was very tiine. A Murmun woman. Mrs. Hampton, has been telhng a Chicago reporter that when Mormon Women get married a white head dress with a flowing cape IS worn. During the ceremony lhlB cups is over the bride‘s‘face untll the groom lllts it. When the Wife dies she is buried With this cape on her head, and when she is luiu‘ in her coffin the cape is thrown over her lace. The teaching of the Mormon leaders is that she cannot be resurr rected until the husband raises this cape from her face; that it he is satisfied that she has been a faithful and obedient wife he will raise the cape and she may be resurrected, but if not satisfied he Will refuse to do 30,11,134} she cannot be n surrected. One of the most cummon threats. she said, by whlch her hus hand used to compel her to obedience was that if the didn' t obey him she should never be resuuected. The Mormon Church looks with disfavor 01.1 the fztlflllidl'lli s of certain styles of mod- ern dancing, and the bishops have sought to re; ula. c this matter among the young and yidoitr saints. At a dunes in Salt Lake re cently the bishop expressed himself as highly l dis-oh aseu with round darwinu. He said that it “as condemned by the priesthood and ifll 1h: mints could not get along without the round dances they had bx tter go home. The young folks rcmonstruted with him, but all to i you puipose. “ it you must walt’z. let me i rhUW you how to do ir, said he and he got ‘ on the. floor wilh u 183 pound blonde. The hand stiuck no the Blue Danube, and away they slid. Down the hull glide the bishop and the blonde; the tips of their fingers touch. and the cruel spam: is between them. This was the church methodâ€"the priestly impioved arm’s length waltz. Soon there was a, slight contraction of the arms, and the space between gradually decreased. Presently one arm encircled the fair form. The blonds was the first to give way. and her cheek lookud like a sunflower in a tulip field as it rested on the shoulder of the man of God. Bound and round they went, and the fascina- ting, wierd like strain floated like heavenly music to his soul. Forgotten was the round dance dogma. ofthe church, and by the calm smile that stole across his face we knew that theology was defeated and one man at least utterly indifferent to a future punish- meritâ€"Graphic. -~â€"“ If; it true that you are going to marry agam? “ It is very true.” “ And whom do you marry ‘2” “ My dead wife’s sister." “ I she handsome ?” " No." ” Rxch ?” “ Not at. all." “ then why have you chosen but 27” “ Tu tell you the truth, dear friend, in order not. to change mother in-luw.” VOL. XXIV THE WAL‘l'Z OF ABISHOP. CONCERNING WOMEN. Mr. Uhairman~I gladly join with my tel ow townsmen in extending a. hearty welcome lo these illustrious generals and these war- scaired soldiers of the Republic. This is a proud day for us, and, if the sincere desire of our hearts has been fulfilled, it has not been an unpleasant day for them. I am in full accord, sir, with the sentiment of the toast, lorI have always maintained with enthusiasm that the only wise and true way is for the soldiers to fight the battle and the unprejudiced civilian to tell him how to do it. Yet when I was invrted to respond to this toast, and fur- nish this advice and instruction, I was almost‘ as much embarrassed as I was gratified. for I could bring to this great service but the one vir- iue of absence of prejudice and set opinion. Still. but one other qualification was needed, and it was of only minor importance. 1 meanâ€" knowledge of the subject. Therefore I was not disheartened. for I could acquire that. there being two weeks to spare. A general of high rank in his Army of the Potomac said tWL) weeks was really more than I would need for the purpose. He had known people of my sxyle who had learned enough in forty-eight hours to enable them to advise an army. Asule from the compliment this was gratify iuq, because it confirmed an impression I had had helore. He told me to go to the United States Military Academy at West Point, and said, in his floWery professional way, that the cadets would “ load me up." I went there and stayed two days, and his prediction proved correct. I made no boast on my own accountâ€"none. All I know about military matters I got from the gentlemen at West Point. and to them belongs the credit. They treated me with courtesy from the first, but when my mission was revealed, this more courtesy blossomed into warmest zeal. Every- bidy. otficers and all, put down their work and turned their whole attention to giving me military information. Every question I asked was promptly and exhaustively ans wered; theref ire I feel proud to stale that in the advice which I am about to give you as soldiers, I am backed up by the high est military aulhority in the landâ€"yes, in the world, if an American does say it ~â€" West Point. At the Army of the Potomac Society’s Banquet in Hartford. At the banquet of the Armyof the Paloma;- to the regular toast, “ The benefit of judicious training,” Samuel L. Clemens, (Mark Twain) replied as follows : 3‘ Let. the thoughtful civilian instruct the soldier in his duties. and the victory is sure." â€"â€"Martih Farquharfi'l‘upprer VogtherArt of Way. To begin, gentlemen, when an engagement is med1tated.it is best to feel the enemy first ; that is, if it is nuzht, for. as one of the cadets explained to me, you 0 not need to feel him in the day time. because you can see him then. I never should have thought of that, but it is trueâ€"perfectly true. in the day time the methods of proceiure are various ; but the best, it seems to me is one which was introduced by Gen. Grant. Gen. Grant always sent an active. young man redoub. to recon- noitre and get the enemy’s bearings. I got this from a high officer at the Point, who told me he used to be a redoubt on Gen. Grant’s staff, and had done it often. When the hour for the battle is come, move to the field with celerity â€"fool away no time. Under this head 1 was told of a favorite maxim of Gen. Sheri- dan’s. Gen. Shertd u always said : “ If the siege train is not ready don‘t waitâ€"go by any trains that are handy, to get there is the - main thing" Now, that is the correct idea As you approach the field it is better to get out and walk. This gives you a better chance to dispose of your force judiciously for the assault. Get your artillery in position and throw out stragglers to the right and left to hold your lines of communication against a surprise. See that every hod carrier connected with a mortar battery is at his post. They told me at the Point that Napoleon despised mortar hat- teries, and never would use them. He said that for real efficeucy he wouldn’t give a hat- ful of brickbats for a ton of mortar. How. ever, that is all he knew about it. Every- thing being ready for the assault, you want to enter the field with your baggage to the front. This idea was invented by our re- nowned guest, Gen. Sherman. They told me that Gen. Sherman said that the trunks and baggage make a good protection for the soldiers, but that chiefly they attract the at- tention and rivet the interest of the enemy, and this gives you an opportunity to whirl the other end of the column around and attack him in the rear. I have given a good deal of study to this tactic since I learned about it, and it appears to me it is a rattling good idea. Never fetch on your reserves at the start. This was Napoleon‘s first mistake at Waterloo. Next, he assaulted with his bombroofs and ambulances and embrasnres, when he ought to have used a heavier artillery. Thirdly, he retired his right by ricochet~which uncov- ered his picketsâ€"when his only possibility of success lay in doubling up his center, flank by flank, and throwing out his chavesu de files by the left oblique to relieve the skir- mish line and confuse the enemyâ€" such a. maneuver would confuse him-â€" and at West Point they said it Would. it was about this time that the Emperor had two horses shot under him, blow often you see the re- mark that Gen. So and-So at such-and such a battle had two or three horses shot under him. Gen. Burnside and many great Euro. , pean military men. as I was informed by a i high artillery ofiicer at West Point. have i justly characterised this as a wanton waste of projectiles, and he impressed upon me a con- Veisation in the tent of the Prussian chiefs at Gravelottte, in the course of which our honored guest just referred to »â€"Gen. Burn. sideâ€"observed that if " you can’t aim at a horse so as to hit the general With it, shoot it over him and you may bag something on the other side, whereas a horse shot under a general does no sort of damage.” Iagree ‘ cordially with Gen. Burnside, and Heaven 1 knows I shall rejoice to see the artillerists of . this land and of all lands cease from this 1 wicked and idiotic custom. At WtBh Point they told me of another mistake at Waterloo. 3 , namely, that the Fiench were under fire from i ' the beginning of the fight till the end of itâ€" 5 which was plainly a most efieminate and ill tuned attention to comfort and a foolish ‘ division of military strength; for it probably L took as many men to keep up the fires as it . did to do the fighting. It would have been i much better to have a small fire in the rear, and let the men go there by detachments and get warm, and not try to warm up the whole army at once. All the cadets said that an assault along the whole line was the one { thing which could have restored Napoleon's i advantage at this juncture, and he was actu- i ally rising in his stirrups to order it, when it i sutler burst at his side and covered him with dirt and debris, and before he could recover, Wellington opened a tremendous and devast- ing the upon him from a monstrous battery l: of vivandisrs, and the star of the great , captain s glory set to rise no more. The 3 ti cadet wept while he told me these mournful Nparticulars 1, When you have a battlefield, always leave it in good order. Remove the wreck and rubbish, and tidy up the place. However, in the case of a. drawn battle it is neither party' s place to tidy up anythihg. You can leave the field looking as if the city gevernmeut of New York had bossed the fight. When you are traversing the enemy’s country. in order to destroy his supplies and cripple his resources, you want to take along plenty of camp fol- MARK TWAIN’S RESPONSE RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, JUNE 30. 1881. A young man who left Detroit for Dead wood in Mai‘oh in the best of health and with lots of good clothes and plenty of money. got home the other day with his weight reduced twenty e1 in pounds, his elbows and Knees out to the weather and his stomach entering upon a third‘day’s fast. He had no particular adventures to relate and no apologies to make. All that ailed him was that he didn’t understand them far Western people. He didn‘t realize that you have got to take ’em on the run to bring’ em down, and he conse- quently pvt his foot 1n it at every move. Soon after reaching Deadwood, and while getting awaytwith a d aner at a restaurant, a stranger came in and called him a enip and a blizzard and/u ehieken and several other ornithological cognomens, and ended by kicking the crown out of his plug hat. Now, the proper way would have been to pull out a pepper and have popped that stranger until the noonday sun would have lighted up his whole interior, but the Detroiter let the golden opportunity slip away and was whistled out of the neigh- borhood. _ THOSE CURIOUS WESTERN PEOPLE Then some one had told him than he might strike a job in fine railroad oflices. If he had obeyed instructions he would have been all right. He was told to slant his cap on his ear, lighta fresh cigar and walk in on the magnum a‘ndrsay :7 lowers. The more the better They are a tiemendously efiective arm 5? the service. and they inspire in the foe the liveliest dread A Wee: Point professor told me that the Wisdom of this was recognized as far back as Scripture times. He said it was from the new revision, and was a little different from the way it read In the old one. I do not re *ollect the exaot wording of it now, but I remember that it Wound up with nomething about such and such a devastating agent being as terrible as an army with hammers. I believe I' have nothing further to add to this. The West Pointers said a private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom, or never, proceed so far as to char suggestions to his geuelal in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war it is permitted to none below the rank of news. paper correspondent to dictate to t .6 general in the field. -‘ Hello! old 7x9â€"how’a your bully health this morning. Have a. smoke I Bet you wxll I How are all the boys. au3how ? Got a place here for a. chap who’s up to snufi, and the strongest brand at that 7 Come out and gulp something at my expense. Nothing mean about me. and don’t you target it, old pard !" Yes, he lost the situation through his own obstinacy. He sneaked into the office lilu a. sheep stealer, put his hat on a. chair, and faintly inquired if they would be so everlaut- mg good as to inform him if there was a one- horee vacancy to be filled. 'lhey gave him the boss bounce inside of a. minute, and after that no boonblack would look at him. “ Now, this Jones is rather queer, and you must strike him right. You want to go in and ones him from his eyebrows to his toe hails, and When you get through you can pre‘ lend that you took him for old Smith, just - n- ‘ud the corner. He’s a greet cusser, and mm you like molasses to a. shingle.” hi you was also lost. The Detroiter called at the store, explained that he had heard so and so. and ended with n wishy washy request to be taken on trialâ€"salary no object. Old Jones heard him through and then called him a. Michigan dish rag, an Eastern mulberry and ever so many other things, and tried to hit him in the back with a. barrel of Chicago hard tack. The Debroiter coul'd’t. fly. but be had a gait of SIX miles an hour, up hill and down. He also got a. lift on a freight train now and then, and he has now returned to a. people whom he 02m understand and appreciate. - M. Quad. Then there was a provision dealer who was terriblylin want of an assistant. The Detroiter was just the man for the placeâ€"except that he wasn‘t. He was put on the right track by a. hotel clerk. who explained : It was the same in a dozen other cases, and finally a promiuem citizen of the town took it upon himself to halt the Detroiler on the snreet and say to him : “ Say. boy: this ain’t no ‘own for you. Htgn'tjou better gi'gug and fly ‘7’: Arioh native recently died in Bombay whose course of life had been such that it was evidently necessary to take special pains t) secure his eternal welfare. According to the custom, the widow repaired to the priest to obtain a letter of introduction to his brother Gabriel on behalf of her departed husband. The priest, seeking an excellent chance to practice a sort of celestial blackmail, inform' ed her that owing to the acknowledged wickedness of her late husband it would be a difficult and expensive job to propitiate Gabriel, but that he would undertake it for 5(l0 rupees. The money was paid and the widow went home With the letter of introduc- tion, which emoined Gabriel to take good care of the new comer and to grant him among other faVOrs a separate bungalo and a pomegranate tree. The letter was tied around the neck of the corpse, which was thereupon cenfidingly buried. A son. however. a pre- cocious youth, whose intellect had been sharpened by an English education did not approve of the loss of 500 rupees. and sur ruptiticusly removed the letter of introduc- tion. He then endorstd upon it in a clever imitation of the hand writing of his father. a statement that the latter, having duly present- ed his credentials to the Archangel Gabriel, had received instead of the separate bungalo and the pomegranate tree nothing but abuse. Armed with this letter the lad visited the priest and informed him that he should in- voke the aid of the police for breach of contract unless the 500 rupees were lestored forthwith. He promptly received the money. Did you ever hear two married women take leave of each other at the gate on a. mild evenlug ? This is how they do it : " Good by l” “ Good by 1 Come down and see us." " I will. Good-by 1” “ Good by I Don’t forget tooome soon.” “ No. I won’t. Don’t you forget to come up. ‘ n A" I won’t. Be sure and bring Sarah Jane withiyognextjgignp.” _ ' _ .. I'will. I’d have brought her up this time. but she wasn't very well. She wanted w some awfully” “ Did she now 2 That was too had? Be sure and bring her next time.‘ “ I will , and you be sure and bring the baby. ” "‘1 will. I forgot to tell you that he’s out another tooth." " You don‘t say so I How many has he now ?" “ Five. It makes him awfully cross." ” I dare say it does this hot weather. Well, good by 1 Don't you forget to come down." - “ N6, I won’t. Don’t. you forget to come up. Good by .9” And they separate. â€"-Tbe average Harriston man would rather belong to the Brown base ball clu than to the Dominion Senate. PARTING OF MARRIED FEMALES. HINDOO SUPERSTITION. â€"A Brantford bride is accused by the Ea:- positor of wearing her “trousseau” during me ceremony. â€"-Oakville claims to be the prettiest village in Ontario. It is handsome. And its girls are extremely fuotaome. â€"Brantfotd is not a profane town. It has taken since early in the apring,,up there, to nearly complete one dam. -â€"A Hamilton man says a. cyclone is the left, mm and queen, with the right, joker and king against you. â€"Sad warning: A Brantford man quit drinking 30 years ago, and smoking 20 years ago. He died last Saturday. â€"Kentucky has a whiskey “ boom." New dlatilleries are goingup. and all the old are adding warehouse t9 warehouse. - Tue Georgetown Herald and Acton Free Press are quarreling. Each wants to be conuidered me xempexance organ of Haltou. â€"-“ 0 say not woman's love is boughs,” is a. familiar line in an old song ; but you can’t always say the same thing about her back hair. â€"The Grees nmde it too hot for the Sioux up in the Northwest the other day'. The Sioux found themselves Cree-mated. â€"A Guelph bookseller advertises that he has now "a lull line of the revised New Testament." He might have waited all he got a full verse. â€"Helena, M. T.. impriaons all Chinamen caught smoking opium. â€"In these days we fight for ideas. and the newspapers are uul‘ fortresses.â€"Heine. â€"()ue position which the Grits have taken up they will continue to hold-opposition. -â€"0ne swallow (1083,1301; make a. summer but old tapers say it imparts a pleasant warmth, â€"-'I‘he man who invented the whistling buoy is dead. But. the boy remainsâ€"and the whmle. ~The Herald has been started at Pene- tanguishene. Its mission is a. of a. Reform-a.- I‘ory nature. â€"J0hn Tanner, a Galt man, was the first to di‘tingmsh himself by feeling the teeth of a buzz'saw. wmle in motion, at Minnedusu, N. W. territory. 7-Poets compose, edit-«rs dispose ; Under the desk efl'usions all gose. Uonsigned to the worst of tho um Item’s fose, Kindest assistant. the editor knowâ€"â€" -â€"The Swiss use carrier pigeons to smuggle watches from thcir State into Italy. â€"The railway syndicate is the most tract- able corpdration in Canada. ~St. Kits sports. catch ohubs and think they have speckled trout. The waste basket. â€"â€"â€"The fear, which obtained last winter. that the potato bug crop would be injured by the long continued. and severe lrosms, was utterly groundless. â€"â€"0ne Brantfurd editor says another ditto ditto steals jokes, and the other ditto ditto says the one Brantford editor was banged in the eye with a baked apple. â€"The Exposztor says Brantford young men kiss each other. This is in exceedingly bad taste. Or it is non complimemary to Bran tford ladies. â€"â€"The Grits of Welland assembled to- gether,Fnday. and said the syndicate bar- gain was afraud. This is a positive fact, awful as it, may appear. â€"There was a young girl of Eau Claire, Who was Witty, and good, and Bean faire; All the other girls found, Thu. when she was around. They were just counted out as norm whaire. â€"â€"Two brainless girls in Michigan were in love wirh a brainless man of the same State, and neither being willing to give him up the whole brainless crowd have gone to Utah to test the merits of polygamy. â€"The Baltimore boy who wanted to please his mother and therefore stole money from his father to give to her as his own earnings, has been sent to the reform school. -There lived a young maid at the Seult, Whose eyes were a. beautiful blault ; But moan and to relate Was this luvely mmd's fa.‘ e : Died of eating too much codfish stault. ‘ â€"But.termilk, five gallons 8. day for ten years‘ is the latest specific for the gout. -â€"-One advantage of the inordinate June caloric is that it takes much less time to melt; the buzz saw laminated lined edge of average Shop laundered stand up neck tor- turer. â€"-“ The only lady that ever impressed me much.” said a. grumpy old bachelor. “ was a. three hundred pound woman who was stand- in a car. and when the car turned a. corner full against me.‘ â€"“ Sam, you are not honest. Why do you put all the good strawberries on the top nf the measure and the little ones below 7" “Same remon, Bah, dat makes de front of our house marble and (is back gate chiefly slop bar'l Bah." â€"A child was once sent with a. cent to buy crass Of a. nun: who sold his cross for a. cent. ' He seemed a sell and sold for a cent A ceut‘a worth of areas to the child who was -â€"In the churchyard at Old Savoy is a. stone with the fullnwing inscription : Beneath this stone, a lump of clay, Lies Arabella. Young, Who on the 21%th M iy Began to hold her tongue. ~“ Young Husband ”â€" House-cleaning means for the women to tie towels around their heads and run too men into the street without any breakfast for a. week or so, while they break lamps and spill whitewash on the stairs. â€"“ Have you seen my daughter’s new baby 1'" asked a. proud grandmother of a neighbor. “‘ Yes, it is a handsome baby ; but how very small it is.’ “Oh, that‘s not sur prising. The doctor who attended her was a homoaopathist.” â€"~“ Hello. Uncle Mose. hello!" cried Jim Webster, as he hurried down Austin avenue‘ trying to overtake ‘he old man. “ Be keeriul, Jenmas be keerful how you ondresa yo’self to me; I ain’t no telephone," replied the highly indignant deaconâ€"Ex. sent With a cent to buy a. cent’s worth of cross And thus by assent and common consent The cent that was sent became a. cross bent). - â€"Dr. Holmes says that if a doctor has the luck to find out a new malady, it is tied to his name like a tin kettle to a. dog‘s tail, and he goes cluttering down the highway of fame to posterity with his aeolian attachment fol lowing at hi5 heels. 0 â€"The Chicago Journal says that “as Niagara. hackmen are under licenses, they dare not cheat or swindle. '1‘th have reached the end of their reign, and all they have now is the reins of their haltstarved horses.” â€"’Twa.s at a picnic in the sylvan wood, Where balmy zephyrs kissed fair maidens’ cheeksâ€" Where rubins sought their naked helpless broods, With so re ufirighted worms Within their beaksâ€"â€" That John bowed his excuses, and did quick Unto a shaded hiding place advanceâ€" When tthlfre he swore a. aware and grabbed a. s m , And scmped a mince pie from his after pants. â€"A young farmer purchased a. plough While his Wife Spent her cash on a cough. But the cough broke the plough, No One ever knew hough, And they all had a. dance: of a. rough. TABLE TALK. The‘practicability of an electric railway is already demonstrated. People may see it for themselves at the Crystal palace, and the German capital gives yet more convincing proof. The great potency of the invention consists in the transmission of the motive current by a simple w1re. Whether through a cable or more strand, nothing can be more facile than this mode of communication. The wire can is bu'ried or hung aloft or twisted and turned in any desired direction. The distance to which the currentcan be conveyed and the amount of energy 10st in the transit are matters which more immediately affect the economical aspect oi the question. But allowing that only half the power expended can be recovered and turned to account. Mr. A. Siemens shows that cheapness would be efiected in many instance as compared with the use of small steam engines. The idea is that of a central stat-ion, where powerful steam engines, working on the most econom- ical principles, would urive a. number of elec- trical;- machines to produce the re- qnned currents. It would be easy to lay wires from the central sta- tion, in the same way we see them now laid in cast iron pipes in the city. From these main wires there would lie junctions leading into the houses and the1e would be no difficulty in providing two separate currentsâ€"one for lighting and the other for powerâ€"to be used as required. Already we have the city illuminated by currents generated at a distance Once thought imprac- ticable. The transmission of power by the electric current is shown, not only by the Siemens railway. but by various other appli ancrs. Cranes are worked and ropes are pulled by this agency at Charlton. near Lon- don. whlle double furrow plows and also a thrashing machine have been worked by a Gramme machine in France. Dr. Siemens is making the electric current perform all kinds of handiwork at his country residence near Tunbridge Wells, the mesh being that one man at the farm is enabled to do the work which would otherwise occupy three â€"» u. fact which may claim attention from the agricultural interests hard pressed by for- eign competition. Sir William Armstrong has utilized the power of falling water for the working of a machine whereby he gains sufficient electricity to light up thirty or forty Swan lamps. Dr. Siemens turns a wire fence to account by making it take the return current. â€"-Take half a teaspoonful of black pepper in powder, one toaspoonful of brown sugar. and one toaspoonful of cream. Mix them together and place them in a room on a plate where flies are troublesome and they will very soon disappear.â€"-Guelph Mercury. Of course they willâ€"there’s nothing flies like better. â€"Short, golden curls, a. tangled mass Clung clone to her snowy brow; His manly form he bent as he said To himself, " I’ll kiss her now." He pressed his lips to the shining strands. As bees for the honey seek, But when he let 20, his mouth was glued So tight that he couldn‘t speak. She saw his awkwax‘ l plight, and turned. A sort of crimson green, And gasped. with u frightened look, “ 0 law! I forgot the bandolinel” --’I‘he followmg document. was picked up on the lake shore near Port Rowan, with no date: “Sen high, boat leaking fast, no time to write much; foundering ofi Long Point; do not expect to reach shore; may the Lord have mercy on myself and family. Signed. by Thos. Robinson, of Windsor. P. S.â€"Please publish." After lecturing at San Francisco on the non-existence of a hell. “ Bob" Ingersoll was advised by a reporter of the San Francisco Chronicle to try the Ophl!‘ mine, at Virginia. City, and get new views of the subject. He was quite willing. saying. “ Bring it on ; I’m not afraid of your lowest levels here or here- after." They dropped him down to the 1.475 foot level. “ Call this hot l" said Col. Bob, perspiring at every pore, “ show me some. thing warm, can’t you ‘2 I’ll freeze here i" “ Well,” said the foreman, “ we ain’t got no red hot drifts here now, but come this way and I’ll give you something a little warmer than this.” They all branched off, and the air changed instantly as they turned north. It was warmer ; it kept getting warmer as they proceeded. It got hot. “ It is cool along here,” said the foreman, “ but it is a little warmer in the face of the drift.” Inger‘ soil was puffing. but still seem cheerful. “ Come on girls this don’t amount to much. Talk about your hot mines ; don’t see where they come in,” Ingersoll plodded on. until they met a miner with his head down, rush- ing out of the drift. “ Where did you come from; my man '1‘” asked Ingersell, as the minor passed him. ” Come from the face of the drift,” replied the miner. Ingersoll yelled : “ And where are you going 7” "Going to hell to cool ofi,” replied the miner. Ingerroll halted and said to the foreman : “ Pelhaps we had better not go any farther. I see the girls are not followmg.” As he came back and met his wife he whispered huskily: “ Eva, it I thought there was a place hotter than this we’d go up and join a Methodist church this very night." Then they went down on the incline 300 feet fur- ther. in the ‘* girafl," where the foreman told Ingersoll he bade. curious naturalphenomen- on he wanted to show him. Ingersoil followed him down an abandoned drift where the air was so hot that the oldest miner woul - not work until a fresh air pipe was introduced. When he came back he was shirtless,drenebed with perspiration, and scarcely able t6 walk. They were afraid he would faint. “ Well,my friend,” gasped the Colonel to the foreman, “ if you get us to the surface uncooked, I will write you an obituary that would make an angel turn green with envy when I get to Chicago.” (From 3. Salt Lake City Cor. of the Lowell Mail.) But of all the ill conditioned, God fursakrn, hapless looking people I ever saw, the women here beat them all. Yesterday was supply day for the Mormon farmers living outside the city. They bring their wives to town in dead axle wagons, and fill the vacant room with children who look fully as bad as their mothers if not worse. Many of them are lame and humpbacked. and all look sickly and ill clad. Two out of every three women on the streets yesterday had nursing infants in their arms, and four out of five of the children are said to be girls. One of the saints has thirteen wives and ninety four children ; another has nine wives and five nursling babies, which he exhibits with all the pride I should take in a lot of fine horses. I never realized the nature of the infernal 1n- stitution nor its effects on society as I do now. The sooner our Government crushes it out 3 the better for humanity; particularly in this beautiful valley; so green and lovely, with apple, peach, pear and plum trees in full blossom~grass waving in the wind, bees humming and birds singing, like our July weather, while just beyond all this, in the back ground are the mountain tops covered w1th snow. It» is the prettiest sight I ever saw and one which I shall never forget. â€"“ They do not die on the premises,” is the recommendation ngen for a patent rat poison. It makes the rats feel so bad that they go away and die at the house of a neigh- bor. There is nothing like it. WHOLE N0. 1,196;â€"~NO, 4, A GODâ€"FORSAhEN PEOPLE INGERSOLL CON VE RTED. ELECTRIC RAILWAYS‘ .9867 (London Standard.) The Deposition and Arrest of a. Turkish 'Conspirator. The circumstances of Midhnt Pasha’s escape rfrom his palace in Smyrna and his seeking refuge in the French Consulate are very dramatic. The story is thus told by himself: “ I was fast asleep. when suddenlv I was aroused by the sound of n. bugle coming from I the barracks situated opposite my residence. I at once got up and dressed. The bugle l sounded a second time. Being Governor of the place and being ignorant of any cause for this ‘ alert’ I soon understood that it must be for myself. I then saw the soldiers coming toward the large gate of the pala'ee, and had no resource left but to get away by a. small secret door. UnfortunatelyI could not lay hands on the key ; but there was no time to lose, so by a supreme effort I succeeded in unhinging the door itself. On reaching the street I was attacked by a pack of hungry dogs, who were not accustomed to be dis- turbid at that early hour. Happily a convoy- ance passed a!- that very moment and took me here to the French Consulate. Mean- lwhile Helmi Pasha, followed by an aide de . camp of the Sultan. had entered the palace, and had given orders to fire three guns, announcing at the same time that there was a fire in the town, and that the Fuchsâ€"meaning myselfâ€"had been obliged to proceed to the scene of danger. He did not find me at home. I was already at the French Consulate.” The foreign consuls agreed to telegraph to their respective embassies at Uon- stantinople. This same day Helmi Pacha call at the French Consulate, where he exhib- ited a dispatch appointing him ciwl as well as military governor of the town for the time being. The dispatch further contained in- structions that he should take the necessary measures to Prevent Midhst Pacha from es- caping. Helmi Pacha pointed to a passage of the dispatch, in which the Sultan said: "I hive jus' sent to the French Embansy to ap- ply for the extradition of dehat.” Helmi Pacha then asker *he French Consul whether it would not bej tato deliver the fugitive at it would not be jltffto deliver the fugitive at once. but the latter replied that Midhat Paeha was the most eminent personage in the empire and governor of the town ; that. according to his official declaration. he had taken refuge not only under the French flag. but under those of all the foreign Powers, and that conâ€" sequently the consuls general could only give him up after receiving formal instrumions to that effect from their respective Embassies. Toward three o’clock in the afternoon the foreign Consuls were again assembled at the French Consulate to compare theinstruotions they had received. The French, German and Italian Consuls were already in possession or telegraphic orders from Constantinople. but the English Consul had not yet. received his. The three dispatchrs were couched in the fol- lowing terms : “ Give Midhat to understand that we have no right to,.and we cannot afiord him protection on lhlS occasion.” Mid» hat finding himself abandoned, surrendered to Helmi. Pacha. He was visibly dejtcted and anxious. His la t words on leaving the Consulate were : “ 1 fear nothing as regards my own person. All is over with me. What breaks my heart is third have children whom I have not been able to educate, and I have no fortune to leave them. Yet I submit to my destiny." He Shoots the Man who Had Eloped With His Daughter. MAmsonvrnnn, Texas, June 10.â€"0n the mm of December last a man and woman, both young. arrived in the Midway neigh- borhood, in that county. on horseback. They had but little baggage, and were strangers to every one. They stopped at a. Mr. R. Rhoda’s, and the man contracted with him to make a crap on his farm the ensuing year. He had some money, and boughtfurniture and set up housekeeping. The man was young, good looking and intelligent, and the woman (a. mere girl) was quite refined and attractive. They seemed Very devoted. He prepared for and planted his crop. add was esteemed a good worker, and had a bright prospect for a fair yield, and all went smoothly with the young couple. who seemed to have but recently been married. and the strangeness of their arrival had been forgotten during the half year that had elapsed smce their advent in our midst. . Two days ago, a solid. middle aged man, a stranger, came into Madisonville, stopped an hour or two at noon, talked with the citizens quiet and intelligently, and then mounting his horse. evidently a good one, inquired the way to It. A. Rhoda’s, and rode on, passed through Midway, twelve miles distant, and stopped for the night within a few miles of Rhoda’s house, and after breakfast yesterday morning proceeded in that direction. Arriv- ing at the fence near where the couple known as Mr. and Mrs. B. 0. Musgrove lived, he dismounted, tied his horse, and went into the field where Musgrove was at work alone, though buta ihort distance from his own house and from Mr. Rhoda’s. What the meeting was is left to surmise. We know what was the parting. A cool, determined man walked back to Musgrove’s house, and Musgrove lay across the row which he was hoeing when his slayer approached him, with two bullets in his head. Thus ended the career of a man that had forsaken a. devoted wife and innocent babe, and guiltily fled to ruin With the only dangh. ter of a fond mother and doting father. His wife had heard the pistols, and, rushing to the field, met her husband’s slayerâ€"her fatlier-â€" coming toward the house. But little was said. He told her he had killed Musgrove, and mounting his horse, rode leisurely off The slayer o! Musgrove, a Mr. Holtzclaw, from near Rookdale. in Milan county, a well to do farmer of that vicinity, rumer says quite wealthy, rode at a moderate gait, and when he had proceeded about twelve miles, was overtaken by an officer and poses. flultzclaw was taken before County Judge '1‘. A. McDonald on a. writ of habeas corpus. After hearing testimony showing that Mue- grove had a. wife and children in Milan County, the court said that in his opinion the case could not be more than manslaughter, the provocation considered, and fixed the bail at 36,000. His decision met with universal appioval, and though James Holtzolaw was a perfect stranger. hie bond was made within half an hour, Mr. Allpin, Weetmoreland, Major View and others of the beet citizens of the county, going upon his bond. sepopo, King of the Mamtses in Southern Ahica. wears a European coat, a. plaid shirt, turned down collar and Derby hat. ; also an ostrich plume, a. string of beads, and an amulet of bune around his neck. H18 Ma- jesty punishes disobedience among his wives in a. simple and efficacious manner. One of them named Sitan was dealt with in this manner : He ordered a number of canoes full of peo- ple to push off into the middle of the stream, t ‘king his place in one of them with the cul- prit. He then had her bound hand and foot, and ducked under the water repeatedly until she became insen sihle ; on her recovering consciousness he asked her to tell the people how she liked being drowned, and warned that If ever her offense should be repeated he should simply put her under water and leave her there. At. the recent anclion sale of the double colleccion in Paris, Mrs. Mackey purchased the Bufion dinner service for 90,000 francsâ€"- an astonishingly low price, say the amateurs, when it is considered that the service is com- plete and that not one of the 109 pieces re- veals a flaw. Buflon called this service the Sevres edition of his chapters on birds. allud- ing to the feel. that he furnished the designs. The ground is pea green and the decoration is formed of medallions in which appear alter- nately single birds and the heads of illustri- ous men. At the same sale one of the Roth- childs purchased for 170,000 francs a pair of small vases adorned with the most delicate and exquisite paintings representing scenes in the battle of Fontenoy. They were ordered by Madame de Pompadour and decorated her mantlepieoe at Versailles. S A FATHER'S VENGEANCE. MIDHAT PASHA. THE AFRICAN KING.