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~The prevent Duke of Wellington has a pun-ion uf SEWOUU a, year since him death of his fMLhI 1' in 1852 He has also $160‘()00 a year from (smug given to his father by the gOVBI'HhA‘Ub, and the intense on 33,500,000 voted L0 in.) Meat Duke by Hm British Par- Iin 1mm after the battle of Waterloo, The prnsent Duke, is 74 years old. â€"â€"In the coursz, of a. fitreat brawl the other day one of the dmpumnts was heard to reit~ cram with rumidumble profanity that he might bu, whipped. has he \vuuidn’t be subju- gn'wd. 1t seoms that, ho miscalculated a. hula on this 11mm, us, he was new the next day going to a picnic along with his wife, and actually carrying the baby. â€"A )‘nung Ind 01” l’rnvidunce hung himself aflmr rcndmg a dime novel. This is a. decided imprnveIm-nt 011 the old plan of seizing a butcher knife and going West with murder in the lxeurt to aluughu'r Indians and Wear long hair and hung bruught back to interview trunk sump bcforu going across two town- Ehlps. »~-The primvrs of Vienna propose to cele- bmtc the four hundredth anmveraary of Gut- tunbem’s invention Hf printing in that. city, :11 a manner wurthily befitting BO important an evmm Twanty prominent printers and publishtra of Paris w11l attend the festivities, and all the hut/1111;; citws of Europe are ex- pected to send. rupmseumtives. â€"In his great Joy over the almost certain recovery of the President, an Arizona. saloon- keeper changed the name of his saloon from “Munich Hall ” to “ Garfield Exchange," and gave u forty-eight hour free lunch to cplebrate tlm (wont. Patriotism loans up like six bits in the suuthwest. ~1‘wu grunt Ltlls have been cast at West 0113‘de in Engl’md, for the tower of the new Eddy-tone 11;. hthouse. Each has a weigln Manna/1.200 pounds and a. diameter anhumnuih of 5 feet 11; inches. Their note is C, and tney are intended to act. as fng signals â€"â€"the one to le'wvax‘d. the other to windward. â€"The invention for easing the strain on horses in sun-Ling horse cars, which has bean in six mumlm’ successful service, is put in operation by a 1mm ptdnl which is touched by the, dxixer‘u fool. It connects the tongue of tho car wnh a lever, which opurates 8. lat- chvt, mixing; holk of a. cogwhm’l in the axle, thus casing the dead pull nearly one half. â€"»Ju.<t before death Mrs. Patton, of Evansâ€" ville, lm].. iuduc’d her husband and her damrhtm‘ by u prvvious marriage to promise to gun warned us suon as she was laid away in the tomb. SM) BVidenLly liked the man and was dotcrminrd to keep him in the family. ”A Kwno, N. 11., young man was recently seven 1) pnis mod by corrtmivu sublimnte con- tained in th rummage upon postage stamps which )m hmi muistefled with his tongue an he stuck them 17pm] 9.01112: 200 envelopes. Tue poison mm hem; mkun in sufficient quantities 1.0 produce violvm pains in the abdomen and limb nud other sy mptoms of quite an alarm‘ inf; natum. ~~\Vlmn a. fellow saves a picture of his little nieco grnwu 11pm be a marriapvable young laxljn. mul hu mm: mlwrs the day upun which \lut meclx’n' mumna first hpgan to walk, it is about time for lnm to brgin taking an interest in cuskvtfl and life insurance companies. A-»]mmed1ate1v in front of the Show window of a Pniiidi Ipliiu iublisliing liouae. on Chest» nut sired. above Third, is a Wide grating upon which insiic folks stand to examine highly colored pictures. There is nothing strange about this, excepting that every morning the store boy finds four or five canem and on Monday mornings especially the number is very largei wQuitu numerous : Sister-A“ What) are you taming lmy lely ?" Billy-J‘ 005 Jack Stone‘s licked mu.” 518L91‘~â€"" What! a little buy like llmt llCl\ you all alone 1'” Billyâ€" “ lifl m raft all ulunn In all; he had his legs and 11:8 rim with him.” \ â€" 01m of Jump-1 Russell Lowell’s apothegms that now harms: the press is “Earth’s noblest thingâ€"n woman perfected.” We hurlback the. base iminuution. Woman is no thing Shem a plump, lovable person- alny, or ought to be. â€"-One L, W. Herold, of Rondout, has a collection Hf United States cents from 1790 to 1881, excrptmu for the )ears 1801,1804, 1805 and 18“}. He has been for years get- ting them toggutlmr. He says in 1857 the last of the lug: suppers. were coinvd, and in the same 5'0er the coinage of the small white cents wan begun. In 1865 was begun the flaming of the small copper cents we now have. ~â€"A Colorado editm Faye. that terror caused a flush of sxx'y-Lwo binck sheep to become perfectly white b: tween twilight and daylight. Thubfzu' Western mribe either mistook a. mountain mow bLOI‘UJ fox terror or else he lied abuut the matter. )‘au can take your ohmic“ ~~Trm’eleemby rail any that the railroad hog is fast becoming a relic of the past. He had to be hauled our of the seat and mapped on thy, floor {ur years before he wonld learn tlm! 110 rnilroad passenger paying one fare ,has a right to two seats, but he has learue it at last. and evm smiles gaod-naturedly when asked to rmmve his luggage and his feet and his hat and mukc room for six people to sit. down. w Philadelphia 1.15: fif.y rem‘zve policemen will] an uvvmye Wright of ‘2 0 pounds. All but fuur memuvu over (i fret-4,113 tallest ham; 6 fern 7% inchm and two others only hall an inch Juss‘ The avn'age is 6 feet 2 inclws. rian L‘jancisco lms placed a Chinese polic: 11mm on duty in the coolie quarters of mm may. prm: the fact that. it may draw «10m: upon us the wrath of the: masses we fro] coxmrmimd to ask if this not a genuine case of Asxmic " coliar," 9h? ”As the noble vessel now rides the waves en route In EuI‘Upc, the: tourist. can seek his benh at night. and lay down to slumbar with the )efieuunn that us he, snows the clockwork dynamite muchim: mm be repusiug in me, hold, laughing m d. moniuc glue and awaiting the proper moan-m “hon it can hurl his remains promiscnuu -1j, war the deep, leaving not even 3 want. by winch loving friends can idsntxfy him. Bob lnng‘a :11 .md Mm-i S. »â€"-»Buncl;es of rnsnR as large an a mll cab~ baga am: fmtenvd above and in front of the Lip and brlow the breast of the must fashion. able womm ut Saratogu and Long Blanch whenuvu' \hey we costumrd for a carriage- drive. w Au Enghs-hmau who has published his ol‘sorvulmns duuugz a trip 1'11 the United States com-Jules Hm: *hc mus; umkiug and tlunwugbly Amvrican churncwrs he saw wore Bob lnwm :11 .md Mm-i S. â€"A hamlit11(11m11'nnyr1 people with light mm and hair Hlt‘ those who have wartm Now is Home 11mm L will 11: 11 tell us What color of 91014 1111! 111111 denotes suoxing many unhappy muninyés \\i!l be pro '(11‘ (1d w ’1‘; a final blmv was struck at the platform whw i1 was found that Guiteau had been 8. lacuna. 11! max fonh communes willlw more careful hmv they allow lecturers to get away from town uhvv. Vim, {not that the cu~tom in Geoigin now is to M“ \wwruielons by the pound don t disovumgmhe nigm in the least; he tales in his nocimmnl mi is the largest melon he can In) hé‘illlifi on. â€"â€" mat} wmm‘ Gamdun of Maine has our) «1 tin ‘u~:'. my fn‘ms in the State. Its yiuld tili- smmn ml] bu 120 tons. ‘- 1' y‘m-osiviun has been made to mime m, nun-n: s mime-n London und Poplar, at 2m u 1‘ nm‘n'd (104 of £1.()U0,00I). )1 m ”whom is 2831mm uld. Not, inâ€" irr qlu .1‘1, w has he”) paid f0; her work at flu- 1': I“ 41 3%) a «My. Her first picz-ure was 100: ma 5.x, Hn- Puriu salon when she was but IE! ywum 0le »« rBuldwiu cvmnty, Ala , has a population of EMNM, among whom is not a, resident lawyer and only om dnutor. There was a lawynr MM? 0 me, but the doctor is said to have dis- p05: <1 wf mm. w ’1‘; 0 final blmv was struck at thp nlntfnrm â€"A gentleman who knows General Grant’s AROUND THE ‘WORLD dWiu cvmnty, Ala , has a population of mom: whom is not a, resident lawyer / om dnutor. There was a lawynr ('9, but the doctor is said to have dis- a published his 1'11 the United ISL Ikiug and to mime ’oplar, at -â€"Judge R. and Journalist H. are troubled with the disease of egotiem, and for the first time, in speaking of each other, brought to my knowledge the fact. that the patient 1811015 aware (2f his own infirmity. ‘* I like the Judge," said the journalist, “ for he is a. man of fine attainments; but I must cut him. He cannot go may from himself. His coat~tail is glued no his base." ” I wish,” said the jurist, “ that H. were less of an egmiat. It. is dreadful to hear him from morning till night. and all night, talk of himeilf. It is { astonishing he does not see what a bore he makes of himself.” ~- A \Vestern circus manager, Who has just returned from Australia, says that while exhibiting at Melbourne an American eagle, the only one of the species ever in Australia, belonging to the Zmologwal gardens, escaped from its cage and soaredheavenwurd, but was attracted toward the poles of the circus tents, where the flags of all nations were flying. The bird Hailmi around for a few moments, and then, as if impelled by some special power, it darted toward the pole from which the stars and stripes were flying and seated itself upon the pinnacle of the flagstafi, there remaining fully half an hour, after which it winged its way to the mountains and was seen no more. If you do not feel disposed to accept this story as truth, just chalk it down as a circus advertisement or a very patriotic lie and pass it along. â€"~Burlington Hawkeye : One day this sum- mer we rode fifty miles in a railroad car, seated behind four men who were playing w1th those awful playthinga of the devilâ€" cards. They played euchre till they were tired of it. They played 9. little seven-up, pedro, and occasionally a trifle of poker. We never heard a dispute. Their' bursts of mer- riment occasionally at some unexpected play repeatedly drew our eyes from our book, They never quarrelled and never called names once. After we got out at our station we sat at the window and watched a party of young men and maidens playing croquet. In fifteen minutes we saw two persons cheat succeed ful y. We heard the one player who did not cheat accused of cheating five times. We heard four distinct bitter quarrels. We heard a beautiful young girl tell two lies, anda meek looking young man three. and finally we saw the young girl throw her mallet against the fence so hard that it frightened a horse ; the other young girl pounded her mallet so hard on the ground that it knocked the buds off an apple treewthey both hanged into the house at different doors. and the two young men looked sheepiah and went ()3 after a drink. Now, why is this ? â€"-When Xerxes had bridged the Hellespont a storm arose and destroyed his work. After beheading the engineers he ordered the strait scourged with 300 lashes. â€"There can be little doubt that much of the apparent force in arguments raised against vaccination would become error of clearest sort if vaccination were more thoroughly and perfectly practiced. Some striking instances of this are brought out in a recent report from the Stockwell committee of London. They ascertained from the super, intendent of the smallpox hospital that of the 704 patients admitted there during the pas: seven months, 191 were children under 12 years of age, of whom 83 were imperfectly Vlccinated. 13 were in doubt if they had ever been vaccinated, and 95 had never been vac cinated at all. Of the vaccinated cases only two resulted in death, and in neither cases was death due to smallpox. ~Larnsier, the French law giver of chem- istry, while experimenting on the intensity of difl'erenc lights, shut himself up in total dark- ness for six weeks to increase the sensibility of the eye. â€"â€"When Cardinal do Monte was elected Pope. befnre he left the oonclave he bestowed a. cardinal’s hat upon a servant whose chief merit consisled in the daily attentions he paid hlB Holiness’s monkey. â€"The belief in centaurs originated in the miatake of some spectators beholding agroup of Thessalonians on horseback while their horses were drinking, the animals headsbeing depressed and out of sight. â€"â€"The marks by which the sacred bull of Egypt was known were a. square, white spot on us forehead. the figure of an eagle on its back. a double tuft of hair on its tail and the figure of the secret beetle under its tongue. â€"-There is, among the relics in the cathe- dral of Perugia, a mug aflirmed to be the very ring of espoueal glven by Joseph to the Virgin Mary. It. is of green jasper. the stone hollowed out and forming both hoop and Signet. â€"It is probable that the question as to Whether the ex-Sultan Abdul Aziz committed suicide or was murdered will remain an open one, upon which future historical students will exerciae their powers of argument With as much effect as those of today have upon the question of who was “ the man in the iron mask,” and similar ones. Several men have been convicted of murdering the ex Sultan. and yet Dr. Dickson, an eminent English surgeon, who examined the body within a few hours after death, hasdeolared positively that it was a case of suicide. His description of the wounds make it appear so. â€"A serious difl'erence of opinion as lo the color of the Devil appears at one time to have threatened the church of Japan, there being several opinions on the subject. The infallL ble Mikado settled the difficulty by declaring lnim L0 be all four colors at once ! â€"The rare phenomena of an inverted rain- bow has been observed at. a Prussian town. [‘he ends of the semi-circle. the center of which was the sun. rose and moved westward with the latter for some thirty minutes; when the appearance vanished. -â€"The word “ hurrah ” is pure Slavonian. The origin of the word comes from the idea that every man who dies heroically goes straight to " Hu-ray," heaven, and so the word is shouted in the shock of battle to remind the combatants oi the immediate recompense of a brave death. â€"- The school fund of Texas will at no dis- tant day be enormous. That; State has yet unsold 40,000,000 acres of school 13ml, which will probably bring to her public school fund $100,000,000. a sum equal to the combined School funds of all the other States of the Union. The University of Texas. soon to be established, has more than $500,000 with which to erect buildings. and a permanont endowment of between $2,000,000 and 33,» 000,000. “Czardine was reading from a paper that droreses for the dead could be made without any back to them, when Mrs. Czardine quickâ€" ly spoke up and said : “ See here Czardine. I want. you to promise me one thing. And that -('9 never to lay me out. in sich dude, for when (abx‘wl blows his horn I’d feel mighty xhamed to be obleeged to stand up agin the fence to hide my back, while old Jane Todd and all the rest of them good-for-nothing huzzies was 3 getting in the front row." daughter. Mrs_ Sartoris, in England. says that her marriage, though it was criticised in this country, has turned out a first class match. Her husband has a respectable income of probably $10,000 a year, and, with ,_.-V_V v. r ...... J u'Au,\,I\)\I a val, nuu, wuu a home manv years in his family, he lives upon his income easlly, and has plenty of lime for hunting, fishing and boating. Nellie Sxxrtoris has three lxving children, and likes England and her mode of life. VOL. XXIV CURIOUS FACTS Thousands of men have envied Astor, Stewart, Vanderbilt, Mackay, Keene, Gould, and the other fellows who can buy strawberv ries at 31 per box. but the richest of them are mere vagrants when compared to some of the ancients. There was Ninus, for instance. He was the son of Nimrod, the old hunter. who made lions scratch for holes and tigers take to ditches. Old Nim left his boy about £130 000,000 in cash, besxdes 120,000 cattle‘ a piece of land about as big as Arkansas, and 14,000 likely slaves. There were no lawyers in those days who made a specialty in break- ing wills and gobbling estates, and young Ninus quickly took possession and cast about for some plan to keep himself out of the poor house. He was considered a poor young man, and had he been see'n lugging his girl to an ice cream saloon or riding out in a livery rig, his friends would have said he would bring up in a garret. By a lucky cap ture of territory from the Assyrians, together with 20,000 slaves, 125,000 cattle, ten wagon loads of silver and jewels, and a few other trifles, Ninus walked up the social ladder until big bugs asked after his wife and babies and he could lose three games of billiards without wondering if the owner of the saloon would take a ‘ stand ofi'.’ He was worth £350,0(I),000 when he died, and yet for the last five years of his life he went without mutton because the price had raised to three cents per pound. The heiress with a $50 000 bani: account ; F oons1ders herself some pumpkins. but what a, ' ' three cent piece she would have been along- ‘ side of Queen Semiramis. She not only had the lucre left by Ninus, but in ten years she i had increased it four fold. Just miltiply 2, £350,000,000 by two and you havethe amount of her bank balance, to say nothing of jewels and clothing and furniture and palaces and slaves and csttles. Had she sold out and ‘ cleaned up she could have drawn her little 3‘ check for about £700.OOO,IOOO. She didn’t worry about where her spring bonnet came from, and when a new style of dress goods came out she didn‘t sit up nights for fear some neigh-i her would secure a pattern first. While she made it lively for her enemies she was soft ‘ onher friends. She gave her waiting maid half a million dollars in a lump. for dressing her hair in a new style, and she tossed the same amount to her dressmaker as 3 a reward for the excellent fit of one particular dress. Une day when she saw a. poor old man traveling the highway on foot: the pre- sented him with 500 asses to ride on, and insisted on hm accepting £50,000 is pay his toll and tavern bills. l . .' lg mg, sayi' i: “ Verx l (3002119 n01 la led to But in And p ing 's “ Pay , up the d judge. “ I he ‘ 19.” Then heart wi I biscuit o l And y :l for nr-rin person cl dignity. Some Chaps Who Had a. Dollar or Two *There is nothing like a bicycle to put flesh on a man. A Marathon man has had one only about a week, and his left. ankle is three inches larger around than it was when he first rode it.’ ~If Uncle Sam was mixed up in this Algerine queatton the name of the city of Sfux wouldn’t stand fifteen minutes. He’d make sasa’sfax of it or get ens staxtinn some- how or other for be trouble of sailing over there. â€"â€"An old bachelor, who particularlv hated literary women, asked an: authorises 1f she could throw any light. on kissing. “ [ could,” said she, looking archly at him. “ but I thmk it’s better in the dark.” â€"A young lady bearing the azistocratic cognomen 0f Jardine recently deserted her lover, because in an impassioned sonnet he made her name rhyme with “ sardine.” “The Cincinnati GazeLta openly and badly advises the female Sc x to hang a limb on eiflher side of the bicycle and ride to health and story. And its editor is a deacon ~Dean Swift hearing of a. carpenter’s falling through a scafi‘olding of a house which he was engaged in repairing, remarked that he liked to see a mechanic go through his work promptly. â€"The Boston Post mentions twenty-eight different diseases to which the human tongue is liable. and for the life of us we can’t see how both parties manage to dodge through campaigns as they do. â€"» “ Marthn,w11y will you leave our sercice ?” " Because, madam, you are a brunette and 1 am a blonde. I can’t take any comfort wear- ing your dresses.” at that ! â€"â€"A Georgia editor says: “ Gold in thirty- three counties in this State. copper in thirteen. iron in fortymhreo, dlamonds in twenty-six, whiskey in all of them, and me last gets away with all the rest.” Cyrus, King of Persia from the year 538 to 580, had some little change to begin with, and in ten years he could draw his check for £500.000,000. He didn’t. haggle- over the price of a. slave when a man came to buy, but presented him with 1,000. He at one time owned 30,000 homes. 40 000 eBt’tle, 200.- 000 sheep, 15,000 asses and 25,000 slaves. and when he got tired of a palace costing £1,000,000 he gave" away to‘ some poor --Although we are not troubled an the ancients were in makmg bricks without lati'aw, still a straw is a great mid to a fellow deflrinzz to pm a brick in his hat. ~“An’ that‘s the Pillar of Hercules ?” 3116 said, adjusting her silver spectacles. "The land sakes ! What’s the rest of his bedclothes like, I wonder I" ~Detroit is lmown as “the city of the Straits," and Chicago, bound to be difierent, very naturally takes the name of “the city of the crooks." â€"â€"The idea that nothing harder thmi dia- monds could be made has been exploded a St. Louis bride having baked a batch of bis- cuits. -Here is another attempt to deprive woman of her rights A male wretch has got up an invention to prevent the slamming of doors â€"Texas alfbinga asks : " Mlght we not have min if all the politicians with clouda hanging over them were called together in conven lion?” â€"â€"Rustio cha‘rs are pretty objects, and as long as a man can resist the Inclination to sit in them they are desirable to be about. â€"â€"Gold ore and a deposit. in the savings bank are very much the same, inasmuch as they are both 111 hay in accrued state. â€"Henry Watterson pronounces Talmage'r: sermon on water “delicious.“ Wonder what he would say to water itself. â€"From the prices that some physicians chargemne can readily imagine that high heals are fashionable. â€"A wife muat be like roasted lamb-â€" tender and nicely dressed. No sauce re- quired. â€"»Bernhardt’s future tomb, we learn from the New York Commercial, will be adorned with Sara phims. â€"The new kias 1nvented by Emma Abbott [ opens in from, A big} '0b' 1n the hose lineâ€"tho stocking; of the Merrimac.1 â€"A tragediun is a dangerous man-he‘ takes life so cheerfully. 1‘ 1 i “Many mudents bum midnight oil, but do very )itblu midnight toil. ~11; is hard to grow a beard, because each particular hair is a stub born. ANCIENT HISTORY. ALL SORTSv RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, AUG. 18. 1881, And when ye Sign or engrave upon thecov- enant thy seal, he will {Jo on his way rejoic Hing, saying unto hi mseif: “ Verily, did I not strike the dufi‘er hand- _;some1y did I not turn the trick 1n bunt-n ~11p From his lips droppeth tafi‘y tube amp from the sugar trees in wur fathers. ‘ washerwoman with seven children to support. ‘ , boxes. . wounds of gold coin. . to Thebes to see the He one day sat down to a dinner which had cost £30 000, and in the afternoon he went ' on a £50,000 drunk. The police didn’t run ‘ him in, or he would doubtless have insisted , on paying a fine of £20,000 and presenting j his Honor with a corner house and lot in the toniest part ot Babylon. King Menes was another well heeled man. It was too much trouble to count his ca.sh,and so he weighed it. One day when an old frlend asked him for the loan of a few dollars until Saturday night he sent him a procession of sixtx asses, each animal loaded with 150 He paid £100,000 for a bird which could whistle, the same for a trick dog. and he had such a fondness for white oxen that he shelled out £25 000 apiece for them, and atone time he had a drove of 2,- 000. When he not out With the boys he made things lively. During one spree in his city of Memphis, he gave away £500,000, and didn’t get dead drunk at that. At one time he had 600,000 gold chains, 1.000 000 finger rings, 100,000 costly swords. 300,000 (daggers, and land only knows how many fish lines, jack knives, cork screws and tobacco His wife had £1,000,000 a year as pin money, and when his eldest son went up elephant, he was fol- lowed by 500 friends, 1,000 slaves, 2,000 horses and £500,000 for fare checks and beer money. POPPING THE QUESTION Some Curious Precedents in Makln , Proposals. ‘: (Chamber’s Journal.) I ‘ Sir Arthur Helps believed that never si 3 the world began did two lovers make love ; exactly the same way as any other ‘ 1 lovars. Whether he was right is equi f beyond proof or disproof. Certainly no qt 1 lion has been put in such a. variety of w. ' as the momentous one a man can ask oi woman answer; how it is put depends n} time, plies, circumstances, and the temps ment of the individuals concerned. A MARRIAGE WITH A GENEBOUS MOTIVE. A curious marriage proposal was made a reverend bachelor who entered the ma menial state on his deathbed. He called housekeeper, and when she entered the re he made her sit down; and, after telling 1 how anxious and sorrowful he had been cause he had no money to leave her, he or tinned : “Of course you are aware that there is ministers’ widows' fund. so that if the 11‘ hand dies his Wife will have an annu during her life. New, supposing you ma‘ me, although I am almost at death’s do you will be amply provided for in the tutu Will you consent to this ?" “ Master, dear, you must be doting! Wl -~â€"'l‘here are 32,222 generals in Venezuela and the present plesident has been very economical in his commissions, too, for he has iaaued only 8.000. The rest of the inhab. itauts are women and children. Look no}: upon the: model of the machine that goeLh forth into the fields to reap mm gather up the sheaves. Nor upon the pump that requirehh not human aid to seduce 1mm its subterranean bed the sparkling waters for the refret-Ihmcnt of the lowing kiue. Shun him, oh ye agitators of the windied field, for he will draw over thine eyes the flmcy substance which is wool ;yea., 'varfllee wifi nornswoggle ye with words that are plans- nm unto ‘he ear. He will say unto ye : " Sign ye ‘his eoven ant that ye may act; in my stead and supply the ceiling masses with my handiwgrk. >~Sir BMW), From muted rtllat in a. Bingle year more than £3,5UUJKJU Worth of dia- monds have passed thmngh EH43 Cape Town post office. . â€"One fifth more siding and' flooring is needed than the number of square feet of surv face to be cowred‘ because of film hip in the aiding and matchim: of the floor. ~~~Five couraes of brick will lay 1 foot in height; on a chimney. Nine bricks in a courae will makea flue eight. inches wide and 20 inches long; and eight bricks in a course will make 21 flue 8 inches wide and 16 inches long. -~â€"Denver has a population ofless than 50.000. but it includes aix men who are worth from 31000000 to $5,000,000 each, 20 Who are wort-h $500,000, and 200 who represent $250,000 in then‘ own right. Denver has besides its batch of rich men, 81X widows whose combined formues aggrcgate $3,000,- Hear me, oh ye tillem of the soil; open ye yogr ears and harkcn unto my voiLzP. Turn ye away from him who presenteth $hem; flee from the sound of his velvet emv broidercd voice. Put not your trust in men {vim nhow‘ mm ye models of strange and wondmful inven- tions, else ye be buml'r ozled and deceivad. “ Servé’ye as my agent, for will ye not therefore wax rich ; will not the silver and gold flow intq flax gofiersr? â€"» A cord of stone, three bushels of lime and :1 cubic yard of Band will lay 100 cubic feet of wall. ~«One fihousund Katha will cover 70 yards of snrl’me. and 11 pounds of lath nails will nail them on. Else it bite ye like a aerpent and sting yo, like the prickiugs of the conscience of him who defraudmh the publisher and payeth not “his yearly tinhes. 7 “ Sign quickly/I beseech ye,that another may not reap the golden harvest in thy stead.” -â€"~A parrot in flarlum. N Y., speaks 250 different words. “Ireland has three thousand five hundred and sixtyiour doctors of medicine. â€"â€"-A thermometer plunged into the snow to the depth of four Inches will mark nine de- grees more heat than at the surface. â€"There are in Great Brilaiu and Ireland 22,836 doctors. 0131mm there are in Eng- land, 14,918 ; in Scotland, 3,454; in Ireland, 3 564. ~Oue thousand ahirwfles laid four inches to the weather will movvr 100 square feet of surface, and 5 pounds of shingle nails will asten them on. -â€"The amount of common salt in the R08: is «estimated to be about five times the bu“; of the Alps. ~Owing to low water over 250,000 feet of lumber wxll be smck in the Ottawa River this summer. â€"â€"Within thirtyâ€"seven yeam the Church of Englandhas erected 2,381 churches, and ex- pended on church buildings $200,900,000. When a. fortnight paspes the machines have came not ; the wonderful mechanism hath la Sed to materialize. ~ One person out at every 246,582 is struck by lightning. â€"-â€"Eight bushels of good lime? 16 bushels of sand and one bushel of hair willmake enough monar to plnaaer 100 uquare yards. But in their stand there cometh unto ye a person clothed in fine raiment and a look of dignity. -â€"Laat year England imported 783,714.720 eggs. “And meacheth unto ye your covenant, say ing '57 u“ Pay unto me what thou owest ; pungle up the ducata, else I bring ye before the judgg._ â€"â€"The rose gardens (f Adrianople cover 14,000 acrea. ' “I hold here thy note of hand for $722 19.” Then ye will wax sore afraid; and 50m heart will be in your bosom as heavy as the biscuit of the amaseur cook ,' And ye will go down into your garmuuta for scrip and pay the am aunt, while the stranger wears an electric smile. And when the man of fine wimont depart eth ye will say unto your wife : “Yum, verily, am not I a eondemned fool.” And she will softly reply, “ You be." When you will seize your ledger and write upon the debit side thereof : To damnfoolishness .............. $72210 And on the credit side thereof By experience . . . . . . . . $10,00C FACTS AND FIGURES CHRONICLES $10,000,000,000.000 as dmppeth the camps of When Lord Strengeford sat down to criti cine a book of travels by Miss Beaufort, he little dreamed that before long he would Write to the young authorcss: “ I was thinking the other day about that communication from the Emperor Akbar to the King of Portugal,which contained s request for copies of the holy book of the Christians, and in which the fol- lowing sentence occurs : ‘ In the World of lium'mity which is the mirror and reflection of the world of God, there is nothing equal to love or comparable to human aflection.’ For many years I have felt and known this, though I never stud it till to day to any one. When you next write. please give me the possessive pronoun of the first person.’ Suiely never was a declaration made in qiminter fashion, saving perhaps, by the Scotch handle. Who led the mouse housemaid to the churchyard, and painting with his fin- ger siemmered : “ Mv folk is there. Mary ; wad ye like to lie there ‘2" Or the luguhriously humorous Irish lover, who took his girl to see the family vault, and then and there naked her if she would like to lay her bones beside his bones. Loaise de Snvnio popped the question to lourbmx, but had to take “ No," for an an- swer, the constable courtly declaring that the disparity of years between them, and his own feeling, rendered the union impossible. WOMEN FIND A WAY. Cleverly cornered was the western man whose girl told him she was a. mind reader; whereupon he naturally inquired if she could read what was in his mind, eliciting for re- ply : , It is plain the notion did not scare her any more than it did the Galloway girl, who, when Jock. coming Into the kitchen while she was pie-paring breakfast, said : “ I think I’ll marry ye, Jean 1” Answered : “I would be muckle obliged to ye if ye would i" and so concluded the bargain: not. even stipulating like another ready lassie on accepting as Sudden an offer. “ ‘But‘ye maun gie me my dues o’ courtiu’ for u’ that, Jamie." The right of courtship is one out of which no woman ought to allow herself to be de~ frauded. . A ""011, yesl You have it in your mind to ask me to be y, m- wife; but you are just a iictle scared at the idea." Li‘tle as faint heartedness in a. lover may he the liking of a fair lady. it is sufficiently flattering to rbercondgmerd; but where spy " I am fifty years of age; have an inceme of a thousand a. year ; am 9. total abstainer from intoxicadng drink; have a good house near MR lbwurne and all I want is a. good wife iiutt- .11) puabgeuium, \xuu.dy‘do mind mkn‘g me W ” I have no objections.” And a few weeks later they were made one Caleb in search of a wife chooses to sue by delegate. he assuredly deserves to fall igno- miniously. Love is not to be won by an attorney. and oftentimes the attorney has thrown his client overboard and carried off the prize himself, as happened when William Grimn went courting in his brother’s behalf. Hooker escap d that risk by leaving every- thing. even the selection of the lady, to Mrs. Churchman, who found him a wife and achieved a son in law herself at the same time. Proposing by proxy is the rule, no: the execution, in Greenland. Time was when the Greenlanders won their wives by capture ; but since their conversion by Danish mis- sionaries they have become the tamest of wooers. Now a candidate fer the holy state goes to a missionary, and tells him he wants a wife. Mr. Smith, coming all the way from Aus- trnlia on the lookout lor a wife, saw a young governess on board 0. Glasgow steamer, whom, from hrr. kindness and attention to some children under her charge, he fancied would suit him. So he went and intro- duced himself. and taking a seat beside her Said : A big, good natured doctor was desperately in love with, and had been twice refused by a fair haired woman. After the last refusal he told her that if ehe ever changed her mind to let him know, as his love for her was un- changeable, and he Would be proud to be her huaband. Some months later he was driving home from seeing a patient, when he saw his lady love riding in his direction. Supposing Him would merely bow and pass on. as she had olten done before, he did not pull up his horms, But the moment Miss Dixon came up to him elm reined in her horses, stopped, and milled out ; “ Won't you stay, Dr. Bill ‘2” He mined his hat and replied. ” I shall be happy to do so," than waiting for her to ept ak. 1 “ Dr Hill I have been closely watching you lately, and Boeing nothing but goodness and noble mindedness in your character, and believing you will make an excellent husband, I am willing to marry you.” Will you consent to this ?" “ Master, dear. you must be doting! What would people say '3" “ I was never more serious in my life. Mary -, and I am sure people will say we have both acted wisely in this matter. Take till the evening to think it over, and bring me your answer.” In the evening Mary told him she would take him. So, tan days after they were mar- ried, and three days later the good old man died ; but. the widow still enjoyed her share of the widow’s fund. Dumb declarations are in vogue too among the Boers of South Africa. Mr. Anthony Trollope tells us that when a young Boer goes in quest of a wife }*e puts on his best clothes, sticks a feather in his cap, provides himself with a home of sugar plums and a candle v a wax one if possibleâ€"mounts his horaeâ€"rldes to the house holding the young woman he would honor, hangs the reins on the gate, dismounts and enters. His smart gear, his fen A curious marriage proposal was made by a reverend bachelor who entered the matri‘ moninl state on his deathbed. He called his housekeeper, and when she entered the room he made her sit down; and, after telling her how anxious and sorrowful he had been be- cause he had no money to leave her, he con- tinued : “Of course you are aware that there is a miniatvrs’ widows' fund. so that If the bus- band dies his Wife will have an annuity during her life. Now, supposing you marry me. althnugh I am almoat at death’s door, you will be amply provided for in the future. Will you consent to this ?" Some Curious Precedents in Making Proposals. (Chamber’s Journal.) Sir Arthur Helps believed that never since the world began did two lovers make love in examiy the same way as any other two lovers. ‘Nhether he was right is equally beyond pmof or diaproof. Cerminly no quek akion has been put in such a. variety of ways as the momentous one a man can ask or a, woman answer; how it is put depends upon time, p1 we, circumstances, and the tempera- ment of the individuals concerned. QUAINT AND LUDICROUS PROPOSALS SHE CHANGED HER MIND Pmposme BY moxy A CANDLE PROPOSAL NO 0BJECTIORS When you go into your house or your oflice, after being out in the cold, don‘t. go at once and stick yourself by the register, but take off your coat. walk up and down the room a little, and get warm gradually. Warming yourself up over a 8. register just before going out in the cold is one of the worst. things you can do. Never take a hot toddy to warm you up unless you are at home and don’t expect. to go out of the house again until the following morning. In short make some use of your common sense, and thus emulate the lower animals. Above all, be careful of your feet in cold, damp weather. Have thick soles on your shoes, and if caught out in a rain which lusts so long as to wet through your shoes despite the thick soles, put on dry stockings as soon as you get home. But in cold wet slushy weather don’t be caught out. without over shoes. Rubbels are unhealthy, unless care is taken to remove them as soon as you get under sheltrr. They arrest all evaporation through the pores of the leather. Cork soles are a. good invention. Uncle Pleasant Batkins is 60 and his wife 72. The other day a friend said : “ Unclr Pleasant, why in the mischief did you marry a women nearly old enough to be your mother ?" “ You see, boy,” he replied, with a. sigh, " I was wurkin’ for Long John Free man, in Hanover, when I was jest eighteen, and Mary Ann Buss, old Mrs. Russ’s only daughter, was thirty if she was a day. At every quiltin’ she used to chnse me for her partner, and everybody said it ’peared likt she war a courtin’ me. She gimme four pair of cotton socks and a heap of things. but sti|1 I didn’t have any notion of her. Well, one Christmas eve, I went to the old women’s, and had hardly sot down before Sary Ann brought me some sweet potato pie, which the knowed I was monstrous fond of. While I was eatin’ it. I heard th ; old women up stairs a oountin silver dollars. Now, thar was no plaster to the ceilin’, and the up- stairs floor had cracks in it as wide as my finger. So. you see, I could hear the jinslr of the money just as well as if I had been up that myself. When she had counted nine hundred and six I drawed up to Sery Ann and popped the question, In course she said she‘d have me. and next Thursday we was married. Now, what do you think I tound out the next day ? Why, that the old W0 men didn’t have but thirty Mexican dollars. and that she counted ’em over and over just to fool me. Don’t merry for money, boy, specially not for silver dollars.” It you shut to walk home from a down town office, and carry yom coat» on, your arm because the Walking makes you feel warm, you are huble to take cold. Therefore dou’ u do it. If you should take the same walk after eating a hearty dinner, your full stom- ach would be a protection to you, but even then my advice would be, do not , take the risk. A person properly clothed may walk in a strong Wind (or a long time without taking cold, but if he sits in a mom where there is a slight; draught-.110 may have a. very severe cold in a few minuxes. Therefore, do not sit Where there is a draught. Warm mufflers worn about the neck do not protect you against taking cold, but on the contrary render you extremely liable to take cold as soon as you take them 01?. They make the throat; tender. “ Mnkin’ quilts ‘3" he observes. “ Yes,” she replies, brightening up. for she is great on quilt-s. “I’ve just finished a gorgeous Eagle of Brazil, a Setting Sun, and a Nation’s Pride. Have you ever saw the Yellow Rose of the Prairie .‘” “ No." More silence. Then he says: “ Dou you love cabbage ‘2” “ I do that.” Presently his hand is accidentally placed on hers, of which she does not seem to be at all aware. Then he suddenly says : “ I‘m 3 great mind to bite you." “ Why would you bite me ?” ' “ Kase you Won’t have me." " Kase you ain’t axed me." “ Well, now. Iax you.” “ Then now I has you.” Cooney dreams he hears a sound of kiss- ing, and the next day the young man goes after a. marriage license. Dr. Bevelly Robinson in u paperon “Onlds anu their conuquencus.’ gives me following gogd practical buggestiona : Ladies ought to wear warmer flannel under clothing than they do now, if one may judge from the articles one sees hanging in the windows of the shops. People take cold from inhaling cold air throug their mouth oftener, perhaps than by any other way. Ladies dross themselves up in heavy furs. go riding in their carriages, and when they get home they wonder where they got that cold. It was by taking in the cold open air, and thus exposing the mucous membranes of the throat. The best protection under the cir- cumstances, is to keep the mouth shut. If people must keep their mouths open in a chilly atmosphere. they ought to wear fitter. todly. “Your dog Coony.” “For ketching ’poasuma !” Silence for half an hour. “ He looks like adeer hound )7" “ Who looks like a deer hound ’2” “ Cooney.” “ He is. but. he’s sort. 0’ bellowed, an get; tin’ old an‘ slew, 311’ he ain’t no'cuunt on a cold trail." In the quiet ten minutes that ensues she takes two stitches in her quilt, a gorgeous afiair made after the pattern called Rose of Sharon. “ Your ma raising many chickens .9" “ Forty odd." Then more rocking, and somehow the big rocking chair and the little rocking chair arejammed side by side and rocking is im- possible. ther, and his candle bespesk his errand. To make the point quite clear, however, he offers the candle to the daughter of the house. If ‘ she takes it, it is lighted; the mother sticks 21 pin in the candle to show how long the young: people may stay together without inter ruption, and she and everybody else retire Mr. Trollope says a little salt is: sometimes put in by somebodv to make the wick burn slowly,but when the flame reaches the pin mamme comes in, the “freying” is over, and a day or two afterwards the pair are made one. THE TEXAS WAY. They manage these things differently in Texas. This is how 'a fond couple came to an understanding. according to one who we tends to know, H sits on one side of the room in a big white rocking chair. she on the other side, in a little white oak rocking chair. A longâ€"eared deer hound is by his side, a basket of sewing by ‘hers. Both the young people rock incessantly. He sighs heavily, and looks out of the west window at a myrtle tree ; she sighs lightly and gazes out of the east window at the turnip patch. At last he remarks: â€" “This is mighty good weather for cotton pickmg." “ ’Tis that, " the lady responds “if we only had any to pick.” The rocking contiues. “What‘s your dog’s name?” asked she. "Coony ! "' Another sigh-broken stiilness. “What’s be good for ?” “What’s who good for ?” says he, abstrac- WHOLE NO. 1,203.â€"â€"â€"N0_ 11 DON’T MARRY FOR MONEY HOW NOT TO TAKE GOLD \k/Wfiâ€"M! 'W’QHW 6:; “ But Idoan’ Wish to take up do waluable time of dis meetiu’, an' I will close by deservâ€" in’ dat all occaabuns seem supplementary to do gineml debility of the furlong. Dar am no mo’ reason why all of you shouldn’t agitate generosity of do sincerity dan dar am fur do ‘ elocutoin to operate disastrusly against do [ terribleness of do octave." Elder Toots cheered. Giveadam Jones doubled up in a hard 'l‘neaday~ look out for a thaw. If the sleiuhing goes off now we won’t get another run before September. Wednesdaywfligh winds. Clothes lines should be firmly anchored and small children kept undu‘ cover. May be a good day for fishing. but it’s according to what you’re fish» ing for. Thursday-Calm, very calm ; so calm that dishclotha on the back fence strike meditative attitudes. Fridny~Signs of a great disturbance in me upper lake region. Chicago renews her claim as a summer resort. eronade with a. stick in it will be in demand on the Atlantic coast. A nun; GIFT. After the elction, Brother Gardner an: nounced that he had received notice of the shipment to the club of a rare gift to the museum, being a No. 8. shoe unearthed from the ruins of Troy by Dr. Schliemann. The sole of the shoe bears the letter “ H” and is supposed to have belonged to Helen ol ’l‘roy, as she is known to have worn shoes of that number. The gift is from the Colored Art Association of Pennsylvania. before which society Brother Gardner will deliver an essay on “ Ancient Bunions” some time in August. The Secretary wasinstructed to return thunku and the relic was ordered placed directly over the Bear Trap. HAVE. WE kNY ESTHETIOS? The chairman of the Committee on Agri- culture announced that he was ready to re- port on the query : " Have we any aesthetics among us ‘2" The committee had carefully invettigated for two long weeks, and had reached the conclusion that if there were any such persons in Detr01t they were hidden away in gai'rets. The committee had run across sad eyed girls, having a sorrowful puckcr to the mouth and carrying sorrowful hmd parasels. but they are not aesthetics. They had merely been disappointed in not going to the sea side. The committee had run across and eyed young men. carrying and little canoe and wearing spirituelle hats, but they smoked five cent cigars and chewed raw peanuts, and aesthetics never do that. The committee had labored diligently and well, and was forced to the conclusion that the only fools in Detroit were natural born ones. THE WEATHER. The Chairman of the Weather Bureau hand- ed in the following square facts for the coming week : Sundayâ€" Promises well for was‘: day. Mondayâ€"But it; was a delusion. Begins to win at daylight, and never lets up till 9 o’clock in the evening. More whiskey and less water is the need of the hour. Snturdnmesual thunder and lightning, followed by increased respiration; toothache, 100. Don‘t buy a Sunday watermelon unless ycu plug it. A letter from Akron, 0., warned the club that a halibut colored man had left that place for Detroit with a satchel full of bottles of liquid warranted to remove wrinkles and knock freckles higher than a. kite. Colored people in Akron had purchased liberally and found themselves badly swindled, and the writer hr ped that the African element in Detr01t would give the fellowa cool reception. THE ANNUAL. The annual election of officers of the club occurs on the first Saturday in August, and preparations are making to entertain at least 100 honorary members. No dinner will be ~4iven by the club this year, but arrangements !'0r a boat ride are making, and seven hundred watermelons have been engaged for delivery early Saturday morning. Every State will be represented by from five to thirty delegates, and most of them will remain in the city three days. -â€"There is nothing like dealing with a. dis- creetgmarketman after all. ”My ownest own,” quid Mr Nipspree to his wife the other day. as he returned from an alleged trout fixE-ing reunion of three days, " did you rwmve those splendid fish I sent you from Luke Uhabot the other day?” Mrs. N. translix-d the base deceiver with a look that made mm feel as though an ice water Bridal Veil Fall was running down his spine, and replied : “I received some fish. I believe, but the market 3mm also leftward that he had gotten your felegram, but as he hadn't enough fresh Water trout he sent you some first~mte cod- lish instezu ,” “D did, eh ‘2" etummu'ed the wretched Benedict. “ Yes, he did; and now, sir, perhaps you’ll be good enough to explainâ€"9’ But we draw a veil over the horrid picture. â€"â€"Thoro was a Frenchman who lived in Bor- deaux, ‘Vho had long sought to shoot down I croa-ux, At last a chance come, So, taking good aim, H0 laid him out in oxtansolux, The following candidates were duly bullnted for and elected on the run; Mualqn Ion Skoof, David Smith Caesar Jonee, llmms Jones, Mandrake Green, 8011 JohnlJu uuu Geneial Bufler. The Secretary announced the receptlon of an invitation to attend a. colored camp-meet- ing at Beeto, Tex., with watermelons selling in that part of the State at ten cents apiece. Also, to a colored church picnic to be held in Richmond. Mr. Johnson was taken out in such a weak and exhausted condition that the janitor ha] to {an him th slump of 009.1 and run around the corner after a whiskey straight. It ha? been long waeks since Paradisa Hall was favored with such a tremendous oratorical effort. Also, to attend the celebration of the anni vernmy of emancipation in the West Indies to bf: held at Uhatham, Ont. an’ trsbblo on a boss kyar it would take us fo’ weeks to git dsr? Astronomy teaches us dut do atmosphere in de planet Jupiter am so ol’ar an’ transparent dat you kin see a. boss fly six miles away. In de planet Mars 1 de air is so cool dat a dead dog kin be left in front of a first class hotel fur nine weeks. In de planet Venus it am allus good weather fur goin' a-fishin’, and do air am so bracin’ (lat do women sllus split deir own Wo’od. De planet Saturn furnishes its inhabitants straw- berries sn’ cream do hull y’ar round, an’ de wery bes' kind 0’ lager beer kin be had fur sixty-eight cents a keg. Way back in de dark aiges nobody knew Wheder de sun was ten IDIIBS or ten millyon miles off. De sight of 8. ’clips skeered chill’en into fits an’ made strong men crawl under de bed fur safety. De stars wsr’ supposed to be pieces of tin nailed to de midnight air, an’ men would no mo' be- lieve dat (is sirth turned round. dan you now believe dst de day will soon come when men will go sailiu’ frew do air at de rate of two miles a. minute. knot Pickles Smith fainted dead away,und he did not regain consciousness until Waydown Beben ran the cold handle of the water dipper down his back. A8 the meeting opnuod Brulher Gardner announced that the Hon. William Johnson, of Port Huron, "as awaiting in the ante- room for admission, and on motion of Assasâ€" sinaiiou Smith the Committee of the Recep. tion were instructed to bring him in. When the duty had. been performed the President introduced the visitor. made him welcome, and Mr. Johnson led off as follows : “ What am de comet? Who is she ? Which is is ? What am he heah fur ? How many of you kin answer dese queshun ? My frens, do study of astronomy am full of interes’ an’ pleasure. But fur astronomy how could we hev known (131; de moon am peopled by a. race of one eyed giants. an’ dat de distance to de sun am so great dat if we was to sot out THE LIME KILN CLUB. A SHABPER ADVERTISE]? INVITATIONS ELECTION