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The shoeblack plant is said to be the name popularly given to ‘a' "spicies of ' Hibiscus growing in New South Wales and remarkable for the showy appearance of its scarlet flowers. Growing freely in almost any kind of soil. the plant is frequently cultivated tor the flowers which, when dry are used as a substitute for blacking. The flowers contain a large portion of mueileginous juice, which. when evenly applied. gives a glossy. varnish- like appearance. which is said perfectly to replace ordinary blaeking, with the advantage that it is cleanly in use and can be applied in a :few moments. Four or five flowers, with the anthers and pollen removed, are required for each boot, and a polishing brush may be applied afterwards, if desired. A few plants of the Hibiscus Rosa aineneis growmg in the garden would remove one of the minor disadvantages of a day in the country. where the roads are dusty and Lee dz Bixby are almost unknown. Chinese ladies use the juice of flowers for dyeing their hair and eyebrows. In Java the flowers are really used for blacking shoes. The plant is a native of India, China and other parts of Asia. It would be interesting to ascertain to what extent. if any. the Althea, or the Hibi- scus Syriaca, and the Swamp Bose Mallow, another member of the Hibiscus family, possess the same property. Lot The Poor Indian. In his answers to correspondents, Nye thus discourses: “ Carl Schurz â€"â€"You are evident ly in error about the Ute Indians. They are not farming much this summer; so your pro- position to sell them one thousand thrashing machines at a discount is of no practical utility. The chances are that if they had 1,000 Pitts thrashing machines they would trade the entire lot before tall for a plug hat and a pair of red suspenders. The Utes run more to red suspenders and physical calm than they do to agriculture and Pitts thrashing mechines. They started an onion patch on White River two years ago. and it looked at one time as thouoh they would at least raise one onion to each five adults on the reserve. tion; but one morning they got into a dis- cussion about some agricultural point while weeding the fruit, and when they got through the onion bed looked as though there had been a premature explosion there, and the onions were so mixed up with copper colored ears and other Indian fragments that the whole thing was adandoned." A Bangâ€"up Afl'alr A St. Louie paper chronicles with genial particularity the recent simultaneous merâ€" riaze of three daughters ohDr. Bang, 01 that city. As a first-class. bang-up bit of society news. this report seems to appropriate the mnflin. Dr. Charles Bang. the father, has for many years kept a drua store on the cor- ner of Fifteenth street and Franklin avenue, and the bridegroome are respectively a. candy manufacturer, 8 bank teller, and a dentist. They are described as being every way worthy of the fortunate matrimonial prizes they have drawn. The wedding went off cherfully. When Mr. Bang. hevina signed a nlfidavit for one daughter, was called upon 0 sign a second one. he exclaimed : “ What! must I sign again ?" “ Certainly,” replied the clerk; “ this isn’t a job lot. You have to sign for each one.” Rescued from the Surf by His Daughter. An elderly gentleman and his daughter, residents of an interior town in Pennsylvania, came to Atlantic city a few days ago, and feeling that a hotel where they could enjoy the sight of the ocean from the house as well as enjoy its cooling breezes, and engage in hosting and fishing as well as bathing, would add to their enjoyment, they engaged rcoms at the New Inlet house. Saturday morning they started out for a bath. The old gentle- man was feeling poorly, and did not care to go in the surf, where the breakers were roll ing heavily. They ”procured suits near Massachusetts avenue, and walked down to a point near their hotel, between the Inlet pier and the lighthouse. Here the water appear- ed to be calm and the surf looked pleasant and safe. This, how ver, is not the bathing ground. and while apparently smooth and calm. is the entrance to the Inlet, and the shifting bar makes the spot a treacherors one and not desirable for bathing purposes They entered the water, and the young lady, who is an expert swimmer, in fact a graduate of a well known nalaturium, injoyed her plunge in the surf hugely. She paddled around her father, and they both felt that the bath was invigorating. The time arrived when they felt that they must leave the water, and the girl said. ‘* Pop, I’ll swim out a few yards and return to you." She accordingly dashed out a few yards, and on her return was surprised to find that he was nowhere to beseen. As she looked around for him she suddenly saw him floating, face downward, some distance from the shore. Swimming rapidly toward him, she soiled his inanimate form and drew him ashore. Alone and unaided she drew him on the beach. and then her natatorium education came in play, and by means of her acquired knowledge she was able to restore him to consciousness, and he was presently able to return to the bath house, where they both exchanged their clothing, and returned to the New Inlet house. At the personal request of the young lady her name and that of her father are suppressedâ€"Atlantic City Review. 'When the applications Ears all made out, the clerk and to Dr. Bang: " You ought to feel happy to get so many daughters 03 your hands at once." The doctor replied : " They took all I had ; Lhat breaks up the family.” “ Yea," said Mr. Wetzel, “that was a. regu- lar wholesale business; we made a clean sweep." When the clerk was asking for the names that went together in the licenses, Dr Ben man exclaimed : Cured by a Joke. One cannm estimate the power of laughter, even i'. it is no. aways as efficacious as in the instance given by Dr. John Brown in his Hons Subsecivse of the cure of quinsy by a joke. “A comely young wife," he says, ” the cynosure of her allele. was in bed. apparenily dying from swelling and inflame tion of the threat. an inaccessible abscess stop- ping the Way. Her friends stood round the bed in helpless misery.” “ Try her w1’ a compliment, " said her husband in a. not un- oomxc despair. She had genuine humor as well as he. and, as physiologists know, there is a sort of mental tickling which is beyond and above control, being under the reflex system. and instinctive as well as sighing She laughed with her whole body and soul, burst the abscess. andâ€"was well. When everything was concluded, except paying fees. Dr. Bang said : “ The next thing isâ€"“ “ The next thing is," interrupted Mr. Wei- ze], one of the prospective husbands. “to go out and get some beer." “ But the licenses are not paid for yet." “No matter, we can pay for them in the morning when we get them.” “ Don’t you make any mistake. now, and give me ‘he wrong girl; I want the one that belongs to me."fi , The party then filed out gleefully, and no doubt had the beer. The triple marriage re.- oalla an anecdote related at an eccentriu minister a. number of years ago, who was mulled upon to marry three couples at once. The parties wewe standing around promisou onsly, waiting for the arriVul of the minister. and when he came in he marched up to them exolaiming : " Sort yourselves.” Bow TheySalt a Claim “Iwish you would explam to me all about this aaltinn of olmms mat I hear So much about,” said a meek-eyed tenderfoot to a grizzly old minvr who was panning about six ounces of lulverized quartz. “I don’t see what they want to suit a claim for, and 1 don’t understand how they do it." “Well, you see. a hot s'eason Ilka th‘s they hve to salt a claim lots of times to Vegetable Blanking. BRIC-A-BRAC The western side of Grey's Peak is reported by tourists to be covered with wild flowers of all varieties. “"837 are among the brightest and ire-best flowers that grow. notwithstand- ing they frequently stand in uloae proximity to snow banks and ice crusts. But when they are once plucked from their stems, they wither almost instantly, and retain but} poor sem» blance of their former solves. A rctlc Ballooning. Mr. W. Matthew Williams expresses his surprise in the Gentleman’s Magazine at the large proportion of educated people who still believe that the balloon voyage to the North Pole projected by Commander Cheyne will encounter serious diflicultles on account of intense cold in the upper regions of the air during an Arctic summer. Winter in the Arctic regions is bitterly, horribly coldâ€" and Why? Simply because the sun is altogether below the horizon for months; and all this time the earth is radiating its heat into space and receiving none in return. In sum- mer the case is diflerent. At Allen, 312° degrees north of the Arctic Circle. barley has been seen to grow two and a half inches, and peas three inches in twenty four hours. At Hammerfest still further north, the hay is made in a month after the snow has left the ground. In Greenland. from which most of descriptions of Arctic climate are derived, the summer is marred by the glaciers, which fill up all the valleys and flow down into the fjords and sea channels. where, by the immersion in salt water, a freezing mixture is produced. The summer temperature is reduced by these glaciers just as it is in Switzerland. where a few steps carry the tourist from the scorching hillside to the frigid atmosphere that stands over the glacier. and has such a curious ex- hilarating eflect directly he steps upon the ice. The Siberian plains are fed by no such accumulations of mountain ice. and hence the sun does its full work in warm~ ing the earth directly the snow has van- ished. “ “ ' A balloon floating well above the Greenland ice would enjoy a luxurious summer climate ; the son would shine upon it continuously, and some part of its rotundity would alway- receive perpendicular rays, even with the sun on the horizon. The elevation above the lower humid atmosphere would remove much of the chief cause of the difference between the direct heating power of the polar and tropical sun raysâ€"vim, the absorption of a greater quantity of heat by aqueous vapor through which the oblique rays usually travel. “ What I wanted to say, though. was this: You will pmbably at first strike free milling I poverty, with indicacions of aumeihing else. 1 Then you will no doubt. sink till you strike bed rock, or a hue timer gopher hole, with traces of disappointment. i A horrible tragedy is reported to have been enacted during Sunday afternoon on board a pleasure barge onvNiagara river. The story told to the Bufialo Courier was that a party of excursionists were returning from a trip down the river to Sour Spring grove. where they had spent the day. Among others who accompamed the party werea )oung man and his affianoed. While at the grove the young man had drank some. and the young woman had gone walking with another young man. This led on the return trip to alover’s quar- rel, arising from jealousy. during which the love sick swain accused his sweetheart of im- proper conduct. This the girl stoutly denied. Shortly after the boat passed the Interna- tional bridge, and while it was hugging closely to the Canadian shore. the young man walked to the place Where his betrothed was standing and again made the cruel acou- sation. She again asserted her innocence. when the maddened young rufiisn is said to have deliberately drawn a. revolver and shot her through the head, killing her instantly. She fell dead at his feet. as the story goes, and the life blood oozed from a terrible wound in her temple. The male members of the party instantly surrounded the murderer, and he was quickly diesrmed and bound hand and foot with a strong cord. It was also de- tailed that the party landed at Black Book, where the police had taken the avenging lover in charge and locked him up in the dungeon ‘ of the fifth precinct station house. Murder Reported to have been Perpe- trated on a Pleasure Boat. The Ins} seen of the tenderibat he was buy ing a double ban-sled shot gun and ten pounds of rock salt. ‘ There is no'doubt but a mining camp is the place to send a. young man who wan ts to acquire knowledge and fili his system full of information that will be useful to him so long as he lives.â€"Bil1 Nye. “ That is the tune to put in you salt. You can shoot it inté the shaft with a. double bar- reled shot gun, or wet it and apply it with a whitewash brush. If people turn up their noses at your claim than, and any it in snide and that they think there is something rotten in Denmark. you can tell them that they are alear off, and that you have salted your claim and that you know it is all right.” “ Bm what. is a grub stake 1" " Well. a grub stake is astake that the boys hang their grub on so they can carryit Lots of mining men have betn knocked cold by a blow from a grub stake. “ Sometimes you catch a sucker. too. and you have to put him in brine pretty plenty or you will lose him. That's one reason why they salt a claim. “ Then. again, you often grub stake a man â€"" keep it. A fresh claim in good enough for a fresh tenderfoot. but old timers won‘t look at anything but a pickled claim. You know what quartz is, probably ?” "Nu.” " Well, every claim has a quartz. Some more and some less. You find out how many quartz there are. and then put in so many pounds of salt to the quart. Wild oat claims require more salt, because the Wild out spoils qumker than any thing else. OTTAWA, Sept. 18.â€"â€"There was a lively old time on the Canadian Pacific railway on Sat- urday alternoon. A number of the Brookville, Almonte, and Pakenham volunteers. who had been in camp for twelve days, celebrated Aihe “ break up " by imbibing rather too freely on Saturday afternoon, and on arriving at the station they boarded the train and took pas- session of the first class cars. The conductor disputed their right to that privilege. and insisted on their going into ~ second clues coaches. Some of the Pakenham men refused to ride by second class. and left the train. Shortly after the train was in motion the men left their seats in the second class car and took possession of first class ones, where several disgraceful fights are said to have occurred. A railway oflScial informed your reporter that bayonets were drawn. and that for a lime matters looked very serious. At Carleton Place the men got more liquor, and would not listen to the commands of their officers. â€"â€"The peculiarities of a new medical colâ€" legs at Baltimore are that dentistry will be mught, women will be admitted as students, and only Christians can become members of the faculty. VOL. XXIV. A NIAGARA MYSTERY. A NICE LOT OF VOLUNTEERU Flowers Among snow Banks. â€"The elephant was put upon the coins of Omar because that annual was called Coezar in Mauritaurin. 1 â€"The late Lord Bemnsfield at twelve years of age was the compiler and editor of a weekly school newspaper. Like clever fellows as they are, says the Philadelphia Times, the Orleanists always manages to keep the different members of the Bonaparte family embroiled. Their chief efiort was to keep the Empress embittered against Plon Plon and Plon Plcn against her. It is only fair to admit that the Orleanist never made any mistake about Napoleon III. and his cousin Pion Plon. He was always rated as the most brilliant of the two men. His speeches in the Senate proved this long after the Orleanists had given it as their opinion. It was to keep the empire from having the hearty support of a man so strong that every means was taken to sow dissensions between the empress and her husband's kinsmau. Between the Empress Eugenie and Plon Plon there has always been a mortal hatred. Almost from the first, the prince strove to alienate the emperor‘s affections from the lovelv Spaniard. But her rigid virtue, her matchless cleverness, her boundless domin ion over her husband, made this next to im possible. Once, however. he succeeded in shaking the emperor’s confidence. All femin- ine Paris, or rather court circles, was in a tumult about a superb young Italian member of the embassy in Paris. This young man was observed to be indifierent to all the alluring of the married female rakes of the court. He appeared at the festivities pensive, moody. languishing. His dark liquid eyes followed the vision of loveliness that Eugenie then presented. It was at once whispered that he was amorous of the empress. P] in- Plon soon heard the story. He was powezful in the Italian embassy. He set one of the young count’s comrades on the watch. This comrade soon discovered a letter written to the empress begging for an interview. From that moment the youth was never lost from sight for a moment. Relays of spies kept him in sight by day and night. At last the schemei's were rewarded. One of Eugenie's lackeys visited the young man. He brighten ed up as if a new man. The empress had given him a rendezvous. Plon-Plon went immediately ,to the emperor. 'Napoleon. in- credulous but‘ agitated, consented to visit the empress‘ wing of the palace. ~- â€"In the year 1710 the weight of fat cattle in the London market averaged only 370 pounds at the average age of five years. In 1795 this was increased to 482 pounds. In 1830 the weight was 650 pounds. nearly dou- ble that of 1710. It is probable that the average weight at one year less age (say, four years old) is at 1118 present moment fully three times that of 1710, and the beef â€"ow- ing to the superior quality of the Effifle and the better methods of fatteningâ€" y fifty per cent more nourishing and economical to tthe 00 Drummer" A STORY OF THE EMPRESS EU GENIE. â€"â€"In olden times, Mr. John F. Watson tells us. when tea was first introduced into Salem, it was customary to boil it in an iron kettle ; then to strain 03 the liquor. and then having placed the boiled leaves in a dish. to butter them and eat them as one might eat salad, washing them down with the deoootion or fluid which we now drink as tea, without either sugar or milk. ‘ â€"A Missouri man had a. $5,000 diamond pin stolen irom his shirt while asleep in a barber their. Instead of raising a hubbub and acquainting everyone with the loss he quietly circulated a report that the pin was an imitation that cost ninety nine cents in a dollar store, but that it was given to him by a friend and that he would pay two dollars for return. It reposed in its old place on his bosom before night. _ â€"Direct descendants of John Alden and Miles Standish, and hearing the very names, are said to be living at Duxbury, Mann. 3 place that was alloted to those two pilgrims. â€"â€"There is a. weekly sale in Pan-is of toads, which are brought in oaska filled with damp moss, One hundred good toads are worth 3mm 815 to 317. These are bought for gar- ens. â€"A willow tree in Bristol, N. 11., measures 22 feet 8 inches In cimumlerence one foot from the : round. and is 18 feet 3 inches nine feet from the ground. â€"In Ehzabeth'a ‘ime “ repeater " watches were 5.) rare that some malice took one that. they heard for the devil. and threw it out of the window With the tongs. â€"The term Quaker was first applied to the sect in derision. When George Fox, the founder, was brought before the magistrate he told him to quake before the word of the Lord. â€"L. Cornelius. of Pike county, Pa., is said to have been the largest man in America. He was six feet high. eight feet two inches about the waist. arms above the elbows two feet two inches. about the wrists one foot three inches, thighs four feet two inches, weighs seven hundred pounds. The Tuileries were in those days a net work of secret passages. The prince and his cousin were in a few moments behind the arr-as in Engenie's bondoxr. They had not long to wait when the farther door was opened. One of the empress’ pages announe ed the Count de Villetri. The young man came forward, radiant. Falling on his knees before the sovereign. he kissed her hand. He then tremblingly pro ceeded to tell her that she had r_e- stored him to life. for he had made up his mind to commit suicide if she had refused his request. The empress, in a tone denoting anything but passion or agitation. proceeded to inform the youth that he was behind im prudent ; that he should have bowed to a diciiion which she feared must be final; that the emperor had set his heart upon the matter. and that she feared that she could not chamze the aflair. The youth protested that a Word from her would give him the ob ject of his life. The fact was that the young man was in love with a beautiful ' S‘ niard. who was. in a certain sense, award :01 Na- poleon. and a relative of the empress. A great marriage, upon which Napoleen had set his heart. had been arranged for her, and the 5"qu Italian’s suit had been treated as ro- mantic and absurd. But Eugenie, who had an irresistible weakness for love matches. had let the girl see or suspect that she didn't op- pose the youth’s pretentious, and it was to see the sovereign hefself and plead his case that the youth had implored permission. Napoleon understood this scene at once, and retired Then, sending a page to announce i his presence. he entered the room before the lover» could even rise from his knees. â€"A man in Schoenberg has a vine with three thousarfi bunches of grapes which when pressed will produce sixty six gallons of wine. â€"A farmer near Bellefontaine. Q ,' has a pill 10 months old. weighing; 150 pounds,that was born with but two legs, and it walks around on them. â€"A Connecticut woman has given her son a. large comforter made of hair out from her own head during ten years â€"â€"At Pompeii, combs have been found ex- actly like the modern fine tooth kind. â€"Knoxville, Tenn. boasts of a woman with a beard fourteen» inches long. CURIOUS FACTS. RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, SEPT. 29 1881 " G «d dâ€"n you,;you’m a. detectxve, and I‘m going to kill you." was the reply. “I’m Jesse James. and ’now me and my outfit, and I'm not going‘ , at you give me away.” His story has created a. good deal of in- terest and comment. Sheriff Timberlake of Clay county came over to-day. He believes that the old gang are in the plot. and take little interest in the capture of the former boys. Another official in high position said to-day: " All this talk about having cap.- tured eight train robbers is nonsense of the rankest kind. They may have one than. John hand. There is nothing in the capture of the others which would tend to indicate that they are the right ones. Now le: me put a final clincher on my ".25. n- ment. There has beenacoufession 111mm. It was said yesterday that Jim Wilkinson confessed to the Chief of Police. This is utterly false. I think some of the robbers will be actually caught some time if the officers go about it right. You mark my words. The present excitement will gradu ally die out. The people, satisfied that “onus of the robbers are in jail, vnll cool down. and then the prisoners will be discharged one by one. That robbery was never committed by boys, and there are seventeen in it. The same number were said to be in the Glendale robbery, and when simmered down it turned out there were only six. In all probuhility there were only eight concerned in the Blue Cut robbery. I think the old quortette was engagedâ€" â€"Jessie James. Ed. Miller, John Cummi s and Dick Little. Then I believe they h'syfour greenhorns with them There may have been one or two boys. Mr. Nunnelly replied that he was a. new- paper reporter, and earned his bread and butter by woxking 1113- news for his paper. ' If it was a case of musthby he’d die. Just about. this tima Mr Nunnelly made an unexpected and desperate break from his captors and brought against a. barbed wire fencekover which h . " .n a heapjust.‘ 1n time lit out for his life. Striking the Chicago and Alton track, Nu’nnelly followed it toward the depot with his pursuere in his wake, fixing and yelling. As he approached the building all lights were promptly extinguished and it was only by dint of knocking and loud cells for heln that NnnnellSI succeeded in gaining admission. The pursuere finding their man had gained a, reitwe, disappeared. and Numielly, after a. brief rest at the depot. returned to Independence. having suffered no more serious damage than a considerable laceration of his clothing by the barbed fence and the natural shaking] up of hit] nerves. A Reporter’s Adventure-The Arrestsâ€"- Who the Robbers were. Kansas CITY, Mo., Sept. 10.â€"-An evening paper publishes a story to the effect that 6., W. N unnelly was attacked by some of the rob- bers or their friends last night, about 1]. 30 As we were leaving the telegraph office in Independence a man stepped up to him and invited him to drina, and Nunnelly proceeded ‘ to a neighboring bar room. They were joined there by another man. and both strangers, representing themselves as newspaper men from Kansas City, persuaded .Mr. Nunnelly to join them in an expedition out toward the scene of the robberygsaying they had a pointer to work up. After a tramp of about a mile and a half in the mud. rain. and darkness, Mr. Nunnelly protested that if they were to go much further. they had better strike 9. farm house and secure horses. “The men assured him it was only a short distance further, and the procession marched on. Presently, in a. dark. lon ely spot. the party suddenly halted, and each man presented a revolver at Mr, Nunnelly’s head. ordering him to hold up his hands. Five men suddenly appeared from the sur rounding bushes and grouped themselves around the newspaper man with drawn revolvers. The leader, one‘ of the men who met Nunnelly in Independence, then said :4 “ You are the dâ€"d of e that has been sending in those reports about the train robbers. You‘ were run out of this county in 1875. You’reworkiug as a detective with Pinkerton's men. I’m going. to kill you, G â€"a d â€" 11 you." , to (10!?) av féilezi 'flefltflant amu- Mm by Jesse James and his axing. The barbed wire fence probably saved Mr. Nunnelly’s life, for it also sewed as an obstacle to his pursuers in the darkness, whlle he picked himselt‘up and The emperor was it heart the kindest of men. and approaching the young man play- fully, he demanded: “ Well Monsieur 1e Count, what does all this mean ?” PlonPlon was also preasent, for it was he who told the story to his crony. the late Emile de Girardin. The empress, somewhat troubled, told the story. At the end Napoleon promised, good naturedly. to interest himself in’the afiair, and the count retired ecstatic. Then the emperor, turning to his cousin, said, in the presence of his wife: “ Mv cousin. let this be a lesson. There is nothing so deceptive as appearances â€"-save the truth." Whether the empress comprehended the epigram or not the discomfited Plon-Plon did not say, but she gave him abundant ground afterward to understand that there was no love lost be~ ween them. Curiously enough. none of the emperor’s intimates liked the empress. The Duke de Morny, Napoleon's half brother. never let slip an opportunity to satirize her. It was his favorite sarcasm to call her a legii timist. alluding to her passionate adoration of the memory of Marie Antoinette, whose fate she always had a premonition she was to share. She narrowly missed it, and had it not been for the courage and ingenuity of Evans, the American dentist, there is no doubt but the Paris mob would have torn her to shreds after the initial news from Sudan. Captain of the Police \mlldy, on she other hand. believes than the right men have‘ been captured and can be couvio'ted. A Terrible Crime and a Terrible Punish- ment. errm: ROCK, Ark, Sept. 17. â€"News has been received that a tragic afieir occurred near Dykee Mill Lu., not [‘91 from the line of Columbia. county, this State. A negro woman, named Jere Campbell. lived in the vicinity, supporting herself and two children by washing and cotton picking. Tue other day she became angry with the children be -- cause they disobeyed her in some trivial matter, and taking a pine knot she been out their brains. Coroner Sykes held an inqueEt over the remains, the jury finding that the children came to their death from wounds caused by a club in the hands of their unne- tural mother. After the verdict was an- nounced. and the cause of the death of the two children became generally known, a moh,composed of blacks and whites, gath- ered, seized Mrs. Campbell, tied her to a. stake, and, despite her screams and cries for mercy, literally roasted her alive.1‘he crime and punishment are wit‘. umt parallel in the criminal annals of this country. v --A girl received a reward of MO hom- ht r father for climbing a church simple at Sar- anno, Mich.. standing on the knob, andqheer- ing for Cal. Ingeraoll. â€"An old Japanese we; set looks am if made from three pearl shells. The hall of me man pot 15 formed by cutting away pm: of the shall; ‘he feat am fragments of shells: and the spout. and handle appear :ike p1 Jun-ring :BURNED AT THE STAKE. MISSOURI ROBBERS. 'How the Monfiollens 61' New York fell into the Ways of Western Civiliza- tlon. Mongolian civilization Thursday took a step upward and onWand. Poor old Conlucius dawdling with his platitudes iorgot how fast the world was spinning ardund. and far see- ing as he was omitted from the economy of the universe the irrespressible chowder party. The high toned son of the moon shut upin his magnificent exelusiveness never realized how indispensable an adjunct it was to the .happiness of his beloved subjects, and none of the mandarins or other high mightinesses of the flowery kingdom ever figured on the num- ber of the population they could save from impalement and other gentle processes of ex- tinction by encouraginga widespread indiges- i tion through the means of such organizations. It was left for an anonymous Chinaman of law degree to discover just when his kindred lacked to be up with this rapid age, and he hied forthwith to the abiding place of Man. rice Hyland. a sixth ward magnate and a man of controlling influence among the almond eyed race. and he thus declared himself : "‘ Italan habee chowdel palty. Dultchee habee chowdel palty, Ilish habee chowdel palty, Chinaman no habee. How can get ’2" almond eyed race. and he thus declared himself : "‘ Italan habee chowdel palty. Dultchee habee chowdel palty, Ilish habee chowdel palty, Chinaman no habee. How can get ’I" The soft, persuasive eloquence of the cham- pion of his people. won all the hearts in Mott street, and Tom Lee. who. besides being all sorts of unpronounceable functionaries in the Chinese tongue. is a deputy sherifl in plain United States, was notified of the want of the hour, and in a twinkling took measures to secure {or his kindred the inalienable privilege of American citizens to have a chowder party. It was to be no commonplace, one horse affair, with a big stage, a half a dozen or lanterns and a stack of fish horns. Not a bit of it. There were to be hang up baronches for the whole of the party and -a Melican on the first turn out with double barreled lungs and a tally ho horn. It was announced that the party would leave the Club house in Mott street at ten o’clock yesterday morning, and such a crowd gathered to give them it send ed as the ward has not witnessed since the days of the Dead Rabbits. There were the coaches all in line and when they brought out to one of them a tom»tom, which the populace took for a chowder pot, and various other brazen and reedy instruments, the enthusiasm of the onlookers knew no boundd. Then the chowderers filed outJâ€"big Chinamen and little Chihamen, some with pig tails. more with straw hats and most of them trussed out in genuine “ Melican" fashion. There was an aroma of the laundry about the party, a suggestion of the opium den, and to the crowd about the fact that they were going to a banquet aroused all sorts of suspicions trying to the stomach. They were a well conducted set of people, though, and took their seats in the . vehicles with true Asiatic indiflerance to the ‘ medley of voices around them. At length Tom Lee stepped into one of the equipages, and at a sign from him the procession moved on. Then sounds wonderous. indeed, for the neighborhood arose. The East seemed to have been snapped up in Aladdin fashion and deposited in Mott street. Tomtqms trum med. cymbals clashed. gouge boomed and strange wind instruments shrieked the most weird and unearthly tunes. The denizens of the place W‘l‘e in an uproar. Some thought it a wedding, some a circus parade, but most believed it a funeral. From these heirs the reporter learned the Mrs. McKenna has recently been in Windsor. ‘ conferring with her brother’s children upon the matter of breaking the will and that they had interviews with prominent Betroit law firms upon the subject. They do not propose to invest any money in the suit unless necesâ€" i aary, and their present negotiations are ! directed toward retaining some able ' attorney who wrll conduct the case for a percentage of the property recovered. They do not agree as to the present ? value of the estate, plus the income derived therefrom the past twenty years, but vari- ously estimate it from 82,000.00() to 83,000,- 000. To an old chancery lawyer in this city they have offered twenty per cent., and he is now holding the proposition under con- sideration. meanwhile making an examination into the merits of the case. Should he accept the terms oflered. the sun will be commenced without delay; but should he decline, Mrs. McKenna will put the case into the hands of a prominent firm of Canadian lawyers. - As to the evidence upon which the heirs rely to substantiate their claim, they are quite reticent, but state that they have dis- covered an old French domestic who was in Walter Harper’s employ at the time his will was made, and will sw'ear that he was not in right mind aud had not been {or some time. Also a male witness who, about that time saw Mr. Harper playing marbles with street boys, and wrangling and quarreling in true “ knuckle down " schoolboy style. Inasmuch as the litigation, if successful, would remove irom Detroit one of its great beneflccnt insti- tutions, the outcome of this movement will be attended with great interest. -â€"-â€"â€"-â€".â€"-â€".â€" PROFESSOR PIOTET'B STEAMER . . Professor Raoul Pictet, one of the two chemists who succeeded in solidifying hvdro- gen, has recently been turning his attention to the construction of a novel steamboat with which he expects to reach a speed of forty miles an hour. The dimensions of the ex-_ perimental boat are 16 metres long and 3.50 metres wide. When lying at anchor she Will draw 33 centimetres fore and 44 centimcti es aft ; at full speed 1 centimetre forward and 16 centimetresaft. The engine will be placed amidsh'pa, from which point to the stern the screw shaft and the keel form an inclined the MU: nlnnn- ham: urn In."- o.....-.'.... â€"“ Dieu 6!; mon droit” is the motto of the royal family of England. It was first as- snmed by Richard 1.. to intimate thnt he held his sovereignty from God alone. It seems to have been dropped anion: the im- mediate successors of that prince, but was revwed by Edward II[., when he first claimed the crown of France. Since, in the reign of Elizabeth, William IL, and Anne, it has formed the royal motto of Eng- land. “ Well,. the loikes 0’ that.” said a buxom resident of the street. “ If there ain’t thim Chaneymin wid carriages and a band 0’ music {or all the wurrld as if they wur rale Fadther Mschew min. God be good to us, what is the toimes comin' tot". ‘ ON THE ROAD. Among a score of such salutes the carriages moved on through Chatham street and down to the Staten Island ferry. Once at Vander- bilt Landing the drivers whipped up their horses, the gangs and tom toms boomed and the strange oavaloade went wepdin'g along the road. the locus of a hundred wondering eyes. At length New Dorp was reached. and the vehicles drew up in front of the quaint little establishment in the Richmond club grounds. At once the celestisls s'catte'red about. Some [flayed football, some raced, and some breast- ed the~bar like the average law abiding citizen with a whiter skin. The local population came down in swarms 'to look at them. The Sherifi, a brace of physicians and no end bf people of lesser degree gathered under the hospitlfile roof â€"-lor hospitable it both looked and smelled. Savory dishes were being prepared within, tootbsome morsels were about to be served up. Was ~â€"It was the Emperor Charles V. who invented the title of Your Majesty. sovereigns having (been previously addressed as Your Grace. â€"â€"Morocco bindings for books same into use in 1494. bemg introduced by Grolier, wno was the treasurer and ambassador of the King of France. â€"Iu the sevenih century Paulul Ayineta defined sugar an “ the Indian an“. in color and formhke common salt, but. in taste and aweetneashke honey.” â€"The an of iron smelting was known in England during the time of the Roman occu- pation, and working 1n steel was practiced there belqre the Norman conquest. TBetwsen the years 1783 and 1857 six great earthquakes took place in Naples. which loan thereby 1,500 inhabitants per year of that period. -â€"Tne original invention and subsequent improvement 0? the bayonet are due to ‘he French. who first introduced it in the Nether- lands in 1647. â€"â€"Iu the seventeenth century. on the con- tiuent, boots were never worn without spurs. -â€"Queen Elizabeth wore her prayer book hanging from her girdle by a golden chain. â€"During the region of Edward VI. Tyn- dale's Bible was printed more than 30 times. â€"â€" Among the Greeks the death punishment of certain criminals was aggravated by :he denial of funeral rites. â€"Edwsrd the Confessor was the first mon- arch of England who used a seal in his charters. Tuis is the origin of the broad seal of England. -The Scandinavians believe the earth to rest upon nine pillars. â€"In the early days of printing the paper was only printed on one side and the blank aidesjusted together. . â€"Hippocmt€s. born st Cos. 460 B. 0.. was the first, person to apply himself to :he study of physio as the sole business of his life. Pope John XII. added the third crown to the Papal tiara. ' â€"â€"-'l‘he first mills in England for turning grind stones were set up at Sheffield. CHOWDER AND CHINAMEN. HISTORICAL. M Teef y As to the evidence upon which the heirs rely to substantiate their 01mm, they are quite reticent, but state that they have dia- uovered an old French domestic who was in Walter Harper’s employ at the time his will was made, and will swber that he was not in right mind aud had not been {or some time. Also a male witness who, about that time saw Mr. Harper playing marbles with street boys, and wrangling and quarreling in true “ knuckle down " schoolboy style. Inasmuch as the litigation, if successful. would remove lrom Detroit one of its great beneflcent insti- tutions, the outcome of this movement will be attended with great interest. Professor Raoul Pictet, one of the two chemists who succeeded in solidifying hvdro- gen, has recently been turning his attention to the construction of a novel steamboat with which he expects to reach a speed of forty miles an hour. The dimensions of the ex-~ perimental boat are 16 metres long and 3.50 metres wide. When lying at anchor she Will draw 33 centimetres tore and 44 centimsti es aft ; at full speed 1 centimetre forward and 16 centimetressft. The engine will be placed amidsh'ps, from which point to the stern the screw shaft and the keel form an inclined plane ; the bows are long, tapering and wedge shaped. Professor Pictet reckons that his invention will lead to a great saving of fuel, inasmuch as a steamer built on his plan, after being started with saw 100 horse power. may be kept up full speed with an expenditure of force equal to thirty horses. The form of the hull. on which the maintenance of the ship's equilibrium will depend. cannot be explained without a. diagram. Professor Pictet is quite confident in the success of his invention. and his previous scientific achieva- ments have been so remarkable that many people who cannot follow his reasoning have no hesitation in accepting his conclusions. An English inventor not long ago proposed to build a wedge shaped boat of this kind, but his ideas were received with much ridicule and were never carried out. â€"Doctors of diviniix‘ are pillars of the ahqrch. but doctors of medicine are pillars of -George and Elizabethâ€"and is hu‘Mhéi-fi‘ will she was cut off without even {he tradi- tional shilling. Elizabeth Bhipley; the daughter, married James MoKexms;mn engineer on she Great Western railway; and"! resides in Hamilton. George Shipley. she son, fluently died. leaving several heirs, “so of his sons being in business on Sandwich street, in Windsor, while a. daughter is the wife 01 Lsing. the grocer. â€"Tbe Brunswick monument at Geneva, which was built at a. coat of $300 000. and completed only two years 31.10.1133 become so dilepitaied owing to the subsidence of the ground, that it stands in need oi repairs which will cost 84. 000. The reporter sought out Jacob S. Fmand, of the board of trustees, but that gentleman had heard nothing of the rumor, and was inâ€" elined to regard it as nothing but a rumor. In Windeon, yesterday. the reporter struck a trail. however, that led him to theleete in the Walter Harper had two childrenâ€"t; ‘aon. who died wnthont issue. and a daughter; Elizabeth, who marneereotgb Bgiglpyflor many yeah! 3 'mexnhanh mfl‘brin’w'izfié‘ Elifubéth ShileVQ’b' gwyoawpmg In Which a Hamiltonian is Interested. The Detroit Free Press of Friday says : Afew days since a writer (or the Free Press received an intimation that the heirs of Walter Harper, whose will bequeathed his entire property. including his interest in the present site at the Harper honpital. valuable business property in Phila- delphia,and farming lands in Michigan. to trustees, are to contest its validity, the first information being that the contest was to be made because of the action taken by the rustees of the hospital to sell or rent a porâ€" tion of the property on Woodward avenue, claiming thereby a violation of the terms of the behest. This was incorrect. “Gee hominy." quoth the questioner, as he turned off with a face all awry, “ I’ll skip he courses, and I won't have enny of the dessert,” and he lounged away with the Vifiil n of a free lunch’ he had raised vani‘shed into thin air. At length the board was spread. and the curious onlookers aâ€"yed the dishes in ahurry. and retired dilappointed. Spanish makerel, broiled chicken, hot corn, sweet po- tatoes. tea? Nothing but the ordinary fare of Western civilization. Some people thought themselves cheated at losing the chowder, but the banqueters did not seem to think so. and they did ample justice to every- thing. Out on the green the sports then be- gan anew. John Loomis, the horse trainer, started {our of his steeds, with a Chiuaman on one. about the track, and the Mongolian was the oleverest rider of the lot. Then he gave an exhibition trot ; then the music jarred and whistled and banged again, and the route homeward was taken. Last night Chinadem was full of gossip and fireworks, and the most orderly and pleasurable chowder party of the season was ovenâ€"New York Herald. “ Ah, it is eh? Pooty good emin' in it, eh ?" A bow once more. I “ I reckon you go: some bird‘s nest-:1, eh f" A bow. “ And some rice. too ?” Another bow. “ Say. tell me," this time very gingerly. “ hev you got enny dnwg in it.” Still a bow. The aborigine hesitated and then in a fearful whisper he asked. “ I: there enny rats 1" it the chowder â€"tbe Chinese chowder ? And if so what wasit made of? Visions of all sorts of strange. mysterious edibles floated before the mind’s eye of the com- pany. and the general sentiment of curiosity was fitly voiced by one angular aborigine who approached a. voracious looking Celestial and said : “ Chowder gettin’ ready 9" The other grinned good naturedly. but in :is ignorance of the tongue only bowed his as . To which the inevitable bow and grin W8! returned. ‘ WHOLE N0. 1,209.-â€"NO, 17, A QUEER WILL STORY. E THE WESTERN BANDITS. It is said that the 6X judge does not even yet know what made the other lawyers double themselves wnh laughter as may did at that Ian: mmurk of his. One of the disgraceful features of the matrimonial enterprises of the Marvin man, who married fifteen wives, in that he went as a. stranger to each of the clergyman who per- formed the marriage services. Thtse clergy- men, knowing nothing about him or the ladies he brought with him, appear for the most part to have solemmzed matrimony with the same business dispatch as might be expected of at merchant selli- g a ton of coal or a barrel of potatoes. This was very care- less on the part of the ministers. There are some clergyman who have an immense run of marrying patronage. The ceremony they perform is a purely perfunctory one. It is “ business" from beginning to end. The mostimportsnt and solemn transaction that can take place in the history of two human beings is hurried through as lightly as if it were the entering oi aoouple of names in a directory or the measuring two people for one suit of clothes. v This 1s not as it ought to he. The clergy- man who unites in marriage persons about whom he knows nothing takes the risk of doing a great deal 0! misehief. Some minis- ters have have a fashion of marrying any strangers who may happen to come into their houses and request them to unite them. A case actually happened in Brooklyn 9. week or two ago where an apparently respectable clergyman married a half drunken young man and young woman who came to his house for the purpose at two o’clock in the morning. There seems to be in some minds the idea v that a minister is by law or by custom obliged to marry any and every couple who may ask to be married. This is not the case. It is entirely optional with the minister. There are some ministers who always posi- tively refuse to marry people whom they do not know or who are not properly intro- duced to them by responsible persons. marriage fee' 18 a very paltry consideration for perfouming an act which may inflict on some innocent and confiding person irreparable damage. The judge put up his watch and sank back in his chair. “ Well,” he said. “of all men, dying or alive, that I ever saw. 3011 can meal- nre time the best." After three minutes had pasged the ex~ judge became impatient and exclaimed. “See here, are you going to keep us here all day?" But the sailor made no answer As five and six and seven minutes went by the lawyer became almost wild in hm assumed anger at the man for keeping them so longheyond the time But not until the hand of the clot-k was on the exact notch of ten minutes did the sailor speak. Then ‘he said carelessly : “ Guess the time mns‘ be ‘beut up.“ â€" â€"A proof reader in Philadelphia named Foster is up on a charge of bigamy, ten wives claiming him. Proofreaders are hardening fellows. however. and this little dash of grief will affect him very little. if any. -â€"A pair of boots made for Andrew Osman, of Iowa, whose anooator’s are supposed to have settled near St. Louis, weigh six pounds and are numbered 13}; heel. 17 inches; instep, 12?; ball, 12%; call. 21} ; length of foot, 12:}; bredbh 0! ball, 5} Andrew is still grow- ing. and hopes to produce a pmr of feet worth talking about before reaching man’s estate. â€" The grape crop having Iailed in France, and the apple crop having done ditto here, the boys will hsve to come down from cham- pagne and cocktaila'to plain K. K. , ~iuâ€"a ' --â€"w-w , ‘ demnd baton n; V 5 Wu ‘ an instant and made no objeo ‘93:] The ex- jndge stood with his back to the ', minis! on which a link clock was quietly indicating the time. an the sailor. whq lay facing it. . ‘ “ Aye. aye, " the sailor laid and remained silent. This made the lawyer a little mad. He jerked his watch htrpm his pocket and Raid' m aquerulous h' pitched voice: " Oh you do do you? @311 I'll tell you when to .hegy‘m, and mu 3911119»le Amy” The old sailor turned slowly in bed and eyed his questioner. Then he turned back again and said indiflerently : " Waal. some- timetimes wid a watch and sometimes wid u olnack.” “ Howraé you generally measure ten min- ute‘s)” pgrsiappd the laqur. 7 " Ten Limits-a ! Ten minutes i“ exclaimed the lawyer. jumping up. “, Man, how long do ygu think ten minutes to be ?" "Jest’bout ten minutes,” was the un- mflieii reply. Information Leading to the Apprehen- sion of Some of the Outlaws Furnished by a. Woman. CHICAGO, Sept. 17.â€"A. H. Trude. who went from here as special counsel for the Chicago and Alton railroad, in ferreting out facts regarding’the recent train robbery, states that his trip was brought about by a short visit to the headquarters of the Chicago and Alton railroad in this city of a middle-aged woman who, ten days ago. gave the company some valuable pointers leading to the apprehension of the outlaws. She revealed the fact that certain dark and mysterious conferences had been held in the house of Si. Chapman, near the scene of the robbery and gate the names of the participants. As a result of her talk and submquent investigation. Trude be, lieves the robbery was planned by a man named Cla1k, an expert professional train robbers. formerly associated with the notorious “ Hooaier Bill” and the Reno gang. Clark is ostensibly a cattle dealer in Missouri. Trude thinks his assistants were hoodlums. green at the business, who believed their leader was Jesse James. The day following the robbery Clark lost a large sum ei money in Kansas City keno d1ves. and raised more by spouting jewelry. The mysterious woman has been ruined and deserted by two of the outlaws, and has long been waiting for revenge. The gang were informed of her mission so early that some of them escaped, but more important arrests are expected. In this connection an officer of the Chicago and Alton railroad company stated that the road had served a notice on the Missouri autuori- ties that they will be held responsible for damages precisely as the authorities of Pitts- burgh were in 1876. 9 Sr. Louxs, Sept 17.-â€"A special from Kan- sas City to the Post~Dispatch says: Last niuht an armed paste under Deputy Marshal Holland left Indeprndence {or the scene of the lam robbery of the Chicago and Alton train. having received information that J. W. Brassfleld. an escaped convict from the Missouri penitentiary, was one of the rob- bers. The home 01 his father in-law. Milt. Daltman. was surrounded and Brassfleld called out, when he was placed under arrest and sent to Independence. where he is now lodged in jail. He claims he can prove an alibi. About eight years ago Brassfield was sen- tenced to the penitentiary for forgery, and, after serving eighteen months, escaped, since which time he has been at large. Ifi namen of the robbery, he will be returned to out his unexpired term. A good story. told at the expense of a well- known 9: Judge, is going the rounds of the lawyer’s offices. and it is heal-lily appreci- ated by those who best know the irascible "out good hearted disposition of the old gentleman. It was an admiralty case. where he is most at home. The deposition of a. sailor; who was soon to die, had to be taken at his bedside in Brooklyn. one day last week. “ How long.” the tax-Judge snapped out as the first question on cross-examination. " do you think it was after the vessel left the wharf before the collision occurred 1" The sailor was himself something of a character, and not so near death but that be appreciated the vital importance (if “ getting back on" a orosa~exsmiuiug lawyer. “ Waal,” he drawled 0113:“ ’bBut ten min- utes} s'd judge.”r A LOOSE WAY OF MARRYING‘ HOW HE TOLD THE TIME. (From the Yhiladolvhia Times.)