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â€"Subterrtmean telegraph wire laying is progressing rapidly in Philadelphia. The system comprises an arrangement of conduits which have no chambers. each chamber hav- ing a. capacity for accomodatiag fifty Wires. One thousand wires are thus safely inclosed in a conduit. and they can be reached and connections made by means of man~holes, which are const'ructed in every block. «Harrison is a revivnlist, known as the boy preacher, and is working with success in San Francisco. The Virginia City Chronicle says that he has a' striking way of jumping down from the pulpit and placing his foot on the altar rail, as it about m spring over at the obdurate sinner in the congregation ; and he paces the pulpit like a caged lion, and raises his voice to a scream and then drops it; to a-flhieper. ~Voudooistio methods are not limited to the ignorant natiVee of Hayti and thenegroes of the Southern States. Revelations in the case of the death of Mine Josephine Henton of Halifax, who failed to encourage the par sistem attentions of a'young man enamored of her, indicate that the love potion which he gave her to change her attitude toward him, contained deadly poison, killing her. â€"â€"An old negro, named J. F. Davide, who was recently acquitted o? the charge of mm der, at Abbewlle, S. 0.. has been on the gel-- Iowa, 01' at least in sight of them. five times, the Governor having interposed 1n every in- stance. The last time Davide was upon 3he gallows the noose had been actually adjusted around his neck when a mounted messenger dashed up with a reprieve. The chances now are that he will die in his bed. â€"A few weeks ago a large box attracted the attention of the traflic superintendent at the Birsult station of the Odessa section of the Southwest railway. It had been sent off from Pultawa and was addressed to Odessa. It was opened and inside was discovered the body of an aged Jew Under the corpse was found a note. on which was written in the Little Russian language, “ If you Jews Will not quit the country living, we will send you but dead.” --â€"A Massachusetts school teacher was re- cently fined $25 and costs. by a. district judge, for inhumauly beating a boy. one of her pupils. The judge took occasion to pro nounce the assault one of the most outrage- ous cases of cruelty to a child which had ever come under his observation. The teacher appealed. and was held in 8300 for trial at figflggxt term of the Supreme Court. We" in Sam Jose a successful book agent out one who is met smilineg by would be patrons. The reason is explained when it is stated that she is a little mite of a maiden. named Seda Reverse, who conceived the idea. oi selling books to “pay mammu’s rent” Her mother is a. widow with two help- less bubes, and the little tot supplies the wants of the family, for all assist her. ‘s, â€"The face veil is the specialty of the American woman’s toilet. English women rarely wear them, as it destroys the efiect of their mannish style of dress, wh1ie French women are too fond of displaying their lash ionable hats and bonnets to enwrap them in gauze. And though Opticians are constantly speaking and writing of their injurious inâ€" fluence on the eyesight American women will persist in wearing them-probably to protect their frizzes. â€"The Brooklyn police are going to earn their wages. if they have to get the whole population of Brooklyn Inside the bars in order to do it. On Wednesday they arrested aman who was rushing around trying to get a bill changed, on a. charge of larceny. and Thursday run in another who brought to the Itation an ownerleas horse hehad found roam- ing about the streets. â€"â€"The Milwaukee Sentinel estimates that the log out on the Wisconsin river and its tributaries will be 40 per cent. smaller this season than it was last. Heavy rains haw filled the swamps and low lands, making it impossible to locate camps and carry in sup- plies befoze freezing weather.Wages are high- er, feed and supplies are dearer and of poorer quality _; and altogether the outlook is report ed to 116 discouraging and profiuess. to" 6 his seat in the court room. After con 1derable remonstrance he whispered in his lawyer’s ear. “ I can’t go until me man who owned the trousers has gone." " Why ?” asked the lawyer. "Because I’ve got ‘em on â€"-Young meh are warned against marry- ing at the present time. An observer says: "there never was a worse time to marry a. girl of luxurious desires. The girls who would be content with calico and love in a cottage. are growing Scarce! year by year and there ism much use in luokinq for them among the ranks of the tenderly nurtured darlings. And those who have rough hands talk un~ grammatically, and are apt to say ‘Sit’ and ‘Ma’am." â€"â€"A branch of the Washington Elm in Old Cambridge, thirty feet in length and about one foot. in diameter, was blown down last Monday night The police placed lanterns around it and on Tuesday morning workmen were sent to remove it. But they found noxhing but the lanterns, relic hunters having carried away every scrap of the fallen limb. â€"A Frenchman was recently acquitted of the charge of stealing a pair of breaches be- calfii of insufficient evidence. But he refused â€"Until she was 14 years old, Victoria. did not know she was heir to the throne. But on seeing u. genealogical table one day she diacOVered the fact, and said to her governess : “ There is much splendor, but much responn sibility." Then with tears she exclaimed : “ Baroness, I will be good.” She was more sober and more dignified ever after. â€"-The engineers assert that the St. Goth- ard tunnel will be ready for traflic by the lat of January next The blastimz in 1119 tunnel has all been done by dymanite. So wolent â€"-A London contemporary informs us that whens. man is in straightened circumstances he is now said by society to be impyâ€"i. e., impecunious Swift opposed the word mob, a contraction of mobile vulgus ; but the sneera of the great Dean did not prevent its general acceptance. Impy has less to recommend it than mob. â€"Mrs. Fry. on eloning from Unionville, Ohio, left a note kindly advising her husband to get a divorce immediately, and marry a certain frugal and industrious widow of the neighborhood, who would, as she expressed it, “ be good to the sewn small Fry. ” â€"Th9re are twins, brothers, at; Lentbenâ€" wood. Virginia, who on the first of next month-will be 93 years old. Their mother lived to be a 100 and their father 90, and they evidently are going to live to deuble their parents’ age. â€"-‘ This safe is emptyâ€"call at the house." was the card whlch burglars found on the Hate in a. Green Bay office. They called.at the house and robbed )t of $600. and the smart oflice clerk hasn‘t got the big head any more; - â€"Germany has been quick to appreciate and employ the advantages of the telephone In Berlin alone. on October 1, 533 houses were' served with telephonic communications and the total length of wires was 750 miles. --It is said that in one square mile in London whwre the poorest people congregate over 32,000.000 a year is Hpenl. iu mrong dg'nk. ' ~-‘~Mr)n(ay often leads men astray. Some of thém will run affier a dollar ; but a houndydng is more avaricious. He willfollow a scent.â€" Acton Free Press. -A seven year old boy. in Harrisburg, Pa. while playing circusga few days ago, stov‘d upon his head so long. that he was attacked with brziiu fever. and died in a few hours. â€"» Baron R :thsc‘aild lvft $400,000,000, â€"â€"Nearly 3,000,000 acres of land in Ireland consist of bugs. TA man 0192 is suing m Der: Moinesi for a divorcu from a wife of B5. ' w-Gen. Roberbs’of Teias says he would walk rather than ride on a railroad pass. AROUND THE WORLD.“ â€"At Economy, Penn., the home of that once large and active community. the “ Her monists," founded by Father Rapp, about one hundred old man and women still linger. most of film: on the brink of the grave. Tl a busmess affairs of the society have always been well managed, and its accumulated wealth is now enormous, in the neighborhood of $10,000.000. it is said. To 8, recent Visitor’s inquiry as to to the final disposition of this vast property an old white haired man replied that he did not doubt that the State of Pennsylvania would gladly~ settle the socieny’s affairs and take the assets for its trouble. â€"There lately died in England a man Who has done more service to his country than thousands Whose names are houeehold words. This W215 Professor Postgete. Working as a boy in a grocer’s shop. he became disgusted with the adultemtiun he saw practiced. and resolved; when he got the chance, to try and arouse public opinion on the suhject. This he was at length enabled to do, through one of the members_ for Birminghvlm, and the recommendatxons for the Select Parliamen- taryGommittee’e new law against eduneration 'were almost entirely based on Mr. Poulgate’a recommendations“ which have done very much to secure to the poor man especially the worth of his hard earned money. â€"â€"Near Leadville there is a trail along the mountain side only eighteen ino‘-:es wide, so that a. local authority says. to look down into the gulf would nuke a. tenderfoot‘s hair stand on end, and he Would have to coon it along that particular spot. The frozen snow has made it as slippury as glass., A miner named Zaru was, with his partner, proceeding along the trail last week. when he missed his foot~ ing and in an instant was whlrling down the slope, wildly grasping the air. His body did not stop falling until it reached the bottom, 1,800 feet below. When found there was very 'little resemblance to a. human body in it. â€"A depositor in the Newark bank resents the remark which an employe of the bank made to the question ” 1f Baldwin left any- thing ?" The cashier, said the employe, left the bank building, the safe and a. three cent postage stamp. This the depositor regards as a canard and a vile imputation upon Baldâ€" win’s faithfulness to his duty. He wouldnot have deserted his post while so much as a cracker remained Hence. although the depositor believes that Baldwin left the bunk building, and did not carry away the atom because there was a fire in it, he does not be- cause there was a fire in it, he does nothelleve he left the postage stamp. It wouldn‘t be like him. â€"The receipts from the fair for the benefit of $116 Ginoinuatti Hebrew Orphan asylum. amounted to 350,000, a considerable portion from the rufflng of pictures and other con- tributions. One of the inconvouiencies of this method of dirposing of goods is discovr ered in the {am that; a fine portrait of the rabbi has fallen to ihe lot of a woman who keeps a house of ill repute. and she is de- determined, although offered @300 for it, to keep the picture for her parior walls. She says it will attract more visitors to her house than the rabbi cm attract to his temple. â€"Carrie Carr and J. J. Underwood met casually in a store at Bear Creek, Tenn. A rumor that; she was about; to be married was mentioned, and she said. “ Oh, no ; nobody will have me.” “ I’ll take you," he replied. An engagement was made to meet at an ap pointed time to have the marriage ceremony performed. Underwood says 1; was all a joke, neither party intending matrimony and he did not make his appearance. But she claims that they were boch m sober earnest, and has brought a suit for 310 000 damages, â€"-The high rents and crowded condition of New.Yurk have evolved a. peculiar kind of furniture, which is made to serve two or three purposes at once. An elaborate writing desk, with ink, pens and papar, is really a wash stand. Au elaborate etuger, or book case. is a. bed or wardrobe. _ A chair can be changed into a foot tub. A chroma provesto be :1 looking glass ; a slop bucket and pine her and basin in a praying stool; and a candela- bra with wax candles proves to be an arrange ment. for concealing towels and tooth brushes. The New York Times suggests that a. piano might be converted into a series of wash tubs. ora. dish washing apparatus, and a Buhl cabinet a stove. â€"A remarkable stampede is in progress to ward lhe Beni River, in Bolivia, unexplored until last winter, when Dr‘ E. R. Heath as- 061 tied it, and discovered vast forests of chincona acoutechone, Fully 10,000 men have since gone there, and the export of rubber alone has risen from 15 000 pounds to 75,000. with promises of 6 000,000 next year. Dr. Heath is sanguine of finding rich deposits of precious metals and medicinal plants along the Madre de dior. â€"A bobtail car driver in Leuisville stopped his car ten minutes, because, as he claimed. there were thirteen passengers in the car and only twelve fares in the box. As none of the passengers would confess to not paying be screwed down the brakes and said he would stay there till the culprit paid up. But be- fore the guilty party, if there was one, would pay, the next car came along. As there was no question about its passengers’ solvency,the first driver had to unscrew his brakes, say get up to his horas and go on. ' â€"A correspondent of a German newspaper who visited Mecca. not long ago reports that the authorities, probably under European nressure, are at last aroused to the belief that Allah w1ll not work a special miracle to pre~ vent filth from ducmg its usual efiects, even though it be t e Holy City which is the »â€"‘The Boston Journal of Education says that just before his déath the son of a late prominent lawyer, Mr. Durant, of that city, put his ar'm around his mother‘s neck and said: “ Mother. I am going to die; I amgoing to Heaven, and I want you to meet me there." After this, adis the Boaton paper. Mr, Durant never tried a case again. This is a hard thing to say about lawyers. and the fact tha: the Boston paper says it innocently does not softeuit much. â€"â€"When Captain Paul Boyton, after drift. ing for forty seven days down the muddy Missouri, reached Omaha last. Sunday. he was greeted at the river bank by a wildly enthusiastic crowd of 10.000 persona To the fortunate individuals who succeeded in getting hold of his coat lappel he recounted mine of his strange adventures. tie reports thu it is no joke to run against sunken snags or to stick fast in blue mud, but that. such mishaps are as nothing in comparison with being taken for the misuing link and 8110!. at by excited marksmen. -â€"The law may be a jealous mistress. but she could urn retain the affections of a. young Syracuse attorney who‘ an” a careful cnu~ Hidemtiou of his own 69p Lcitiea and a com- putation of the hrieflvss lawyers of his acquaintance, has yielded to the~ substantial, if not, the picturesque, charms of a. tailor'a goose. He thinks his chances for Congless have been somewhat impaired but he now expec‘s to secure a competency and eventually get: to heaven. have been the” explhsions that. many arch stones have been shaken from the root Dur mg the progress of the work more than 201) workmen have been killed, and a. great num ber wounded. chitfly by explosions. or by trucks passing in the gloom of the tunnel. Whichhas been from the first very badly lighted, VOL. XXIV. â€"Herr Rander. a German musical director, has made public some interesting observations on the relations between the condition of the human Voice and that of the weather. He says that apart from the inevitable changes in the intonation, purity and strength of the voice resulting from physical variations, such as illness, nervous tension and the like, he has noted other influences of a barometical nature that seem to indicate approaching changes in the weather. In clear weather about to change into that of a dismal. rainy character, his voice became weak. and showed a tendency to grow deeper. In wet weather about to clear up and become dry and bracing. the opposite was the case. The voice became bright, clear and strong, and was disposed to strike too high a. pitch. Herr Rander was director of a church choir, and teacher of singing in a high school for many years, and had ample opportunity of verify~ ing these conclusmns. â€"John Tsphorn and his wife, who keep Ia saloon in Uincinnati, were aroused from their slumbers the other night by what seemed to be an authentic announcement that the world was coming to an end instan- ter. The floor sank and their bed gave way, a weird and unearthly shriek resounded in their ears, a bell began to toll solemnly just behind the foot-board, a huge volume of smoke and steam rolled over them a miscellaneous din tortured their ear drums, and the whole situation indicated nothing less appalling than the crack of doom. After waitlng a moment for their own particular summons they gained courage to get up and investigate. when they found that :a. freight engine had run oil the track, and into their saloon, where it was at that moment standing, very much in need of refreshments, with it smoke stuck shamelessly thrust up through the ceiling into the proprietors bed room. -»â€" John Freeman was the name of the Arkansas youth who exercised his rights as a freeman to remark, while watching a rain cloud with his companions, that a God Who would allow his people to enlist so from a drought couldn’t amount to much. Instantly a bolt of lightning fell from the clouds, mashing his body into a jelly, tearing his boots and clothing OE, and leaving his body a horribly mangled and blackened look- ing object His companions. though stunned, escaptd unharmed The news of the strange occurrence drew a large crowd to his funeral. and just as the friends were moving away from the cemetery another bolt descended, striklng the grave and tearing up the earth like a plow. “ It may as well be borne in mind," said a skeptical editor, “ that the place from which this story comes is com monly reeogmzed as the fountain head of very tough tales." -â€"Tne oldest. and doubtless the richest convict in the Ohio penitentiary, is Horace Brooks, age seventyâ€"four years, whose long imprisonment is likely to be soon terminated bv a large rose cancer, which has appeared on his forehead. He was received at the peni xentiary November 10 1850. undora life sen- tence for murder in the second degree. and had, therkf we, been in the prison thirtyvone yeara. He owned a farm i n the suburbs of Cleveland through which a- railroad passed-2 Ihe care ran over and killed some of his sheep, and to avenge this injury Brooks obA structed the track, threw off a train,and killed five persons. He was indicted for murder by the grand jury of Cuyehoga county, tried in the courts of that county, and sentenced 140 the penitentiary for life. At the time of his convxction he was a wealthy man, and the property he then owned has become extreme- 1y valuable. having since become a part of the City of Cleveland. â€"Den Emmett, the old time negro min- atrel, is still performing in the Wtst. He is the author of ’Way Down South in Dixie, which was first a ” walk around” chorus. written in 1859 for Bryant‘s Minstrels, then at MechaniCs’ Hall. Broadway. Emmett lately said to at Cincinnati Enquirer reporter : “ l WlSl’l I was in Dixie, was a Northern circus expression, and not a Southern one, as many heve supposed. I had traveled a great many years with circuses in my younger days, and l‘he South was then considered all that por- tion omhe country below Mason and Dixie‘e line, called for short Dixie by showmen. In the early fall of the year, when a frost would sometimes overtake a south boundcircus still in the north, the boys would think of the genial warmth of the section they were head- ing for, and many’s the time on such an ocâ€" casion have I heard them say : ‘ Well, I wish I was in Dixie’s Land now.’ It was this that gave me the cetch tine for my song.” Two years afterward the rebellion broke out, and â€"A hermit calling himself Murrell. al- though his real name was nevrr known, was round dead in his leg but in Arkansas, by a. party of hunters passing that way. A little venison, some dried peaches andm few pelts were all that remained of his possessions. He owned considerable money which he ned received from the sale of skins, but he buried it, no one knows where. So it will be seen that he was an aggravating sort of men. He was believed to have been years ago a trapper along the shore of Lake Michigan, but as that is a. long stretch of territorydncluding four States, it does not seem to identify him with much exactness. However. it may interest some people living on the shores of Lake Michigan to know that there is a little money buried in the State of Arkansas which may belong to them. "An Indian girl, who, before she went to Hampton CollegeJhnght her father’s log hut at palatial mansiun compared with the surrounding tepees and kept up the illusion. looking forward with pleasure to the grand reception her father would give on her re~ turn! burst into tears as she Walked into the rude but and realized how completely her euucation hud isolated hwr from all that had been so romantic in her former surround ihgs‘ 0n the other hand when her sister saw her polonaise, her jaunty hat and her high heeled French shoes she cried her eyes out because she couldn’t be'civililed, too. When the daughter began to “clean up” and “set things to rights" in the old but her in that begun to think seriously about sending her back East. He couldn’t stand any such nonsense as that. «The famous {lDelrymple farm of 75.000 acres in Dakota. is really made up of smaller farms, with separate ownerships ; but all is under the management of Oliver Dalrymple, who owns 4,000 acres Outright, and is likely to soon become half owner of the rest. When he assumed charge the proprietors of the various tracts put in the _ land at a 'fair valuation and money enough to improve it, charging eight per "cent. on the whole investment. The imâ€" portent provision was that, whenever the profits reached over the above and eight per cent. a year. a sum sufficient to repay the entire outlay, half the land should be his. At the time it was not supposed that much, if any more than the promised percentage could be derived from the farm. but the crops have been heavy. and nothing but a. serious mieâ€" hap will prevent Dalrymple ‘lrom realizing his hopes within two or three years. seat; of its operations. Hereafter a quaranâ€" tine of ten days is to be imposed upon ‘lhe pious travellers who come from all parts of Arabia, whether they have made the pilgrim age by land or water. The correspondent adds that this measure has produced much anger in Jedda, where it is likely to cause a. commercml panic. RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, NOV. 24, 1881. Somewhere to the rear of Manzanillo there was once a small lake that was noted for the number of its alligators and for their ferocity. During a tremendous storm the lake burst its confines and poured its turbid waters into the Harbor of Manzanillo. not neglecting to bring its celebrated alligators along. The harbor had 11 numerous and indigenous popu- lation of sharks, and between these and the alligators a terrific war immediately broke out. For a long time victory trembled in the balance, but the sharks finally prevailed and took dinner on the last one of the routed intruders, STRICTURE OF THE CESOPHAGUS One of the most extraordinary cases of stricture of the (Esophagus. known to us, now leStB in a shoemaker, of Boston, who actually keeps himself alive by the habitual practice of an operation that no surgeon in New England would perform in the rough manner pursued by this sufferer. He is a small man, rising of seventy years of age. For many years he had extreme difficulty in swallowing food. Deglutition finally became so painful that he took advice at the Massa» chusett’s General hospital, and, according to his own representation, an instrument was introduced down his throat. The relief was not entirely satisfactory; but discovering that the principle was right, since there was evidently a narrowing in the canal, the idea was conceived of practising upon himself At the extremity of a ratan, perhaps a yard in length, and a. quarter of an inch in diam- eter. he wound a mass of hemp, which was confined by twine. When a pack train of silver is about to leave a mine for the nearest large city, it moves ofi at daylight by the most unfrequenn ted roads, and the mules are driven nearly to death to prevent the bandits from finding out what is going on. If they find out they seize the bullion. An attempt. was once made to partially remedy this state of affairs by im- porting thirty well-armed Americans to guard a large mine, but they were not well treated by their employers and most of them returned to the States. The pureblooded Indians are represented as being more civilized than the mongrel Mexican, and much more easy to get along with. Caravans of valuable merchan dlse are often captured by brigands while pro- ce( ding from Manzanillo to Collma. At every port we learned of lawlessness in the interior. A POLITE ROAD AGENT. An American “he started to ride from Co- lima to Manzanillo was stopped on the high: way by a well armed bandit. ,HV" v..- mistaken about that coat; ;’ “On closer observation I perceive that I am,” the bandit answered. and disappeared in the wood. A rough mass. six inches long on the stick, and an inch thick at the lower extremity,was thus made. Having oiled it. the old man fearlessly forces it down through the oesopha- gus, fairly into the stomach. This he is obliged to do frequently, otnerwise the stric. tumsâ€"for there are two, one just at the top of the sternum, and the other a little above the cardic orificeâ€"become so closed that the fluids cannot pass at all. Sometimes, after swallowing a. draught of water, it is stopped at the lower constriction. To relieve himself under such a dilemma, he thrusts down a long feather. which produces nausea, and by the sympathy of the gastricapparatus, vomit- ing is induced. and the confined fluid. accord- ing to his account, faced back. Sometimes food is checked in its descent, and at the same point, and ejected by mechanical as- sistence. Startllng Revolutions -Levying Tribute on Foreign Corporations and Wav- laying TraVellers. A correspondent, travelling through Mexi~ co, writes : At Manzanillo a young German came on board. who gave us an insight into what they call a Mexican revolution. The chief of police of the city of Golima, some distance inland, found a policeman asleep while on duty. and killed him with a rude sword called a machette. The brutal official was imprisoned a couple of weeks and then released. The police force thereupon re- volted, pronounced against the State authori- ties, and. matching to Manzanillo. captured the custom house, Not finding the coin there which they expected, the malcontents marched back to Uolima, and kept that city in ferment until our informant departed. A small party of American miners also came on board at Manzanillo. They had journeyed direct from the State of Chihuahua, and gave adiemal description of affairs in Northern Mexico. The country. they stated, is full of bandits, riding around in gangs of from twenty to two hundred and fifty. Whenever they think a. foreign mining superintendent has a little cash on hand, they make a raid on him and levy a contribution that exactly corresponds with his sdpposed pile. On one occasion they assessed. one mine to the extent of 815.000. ahd or. another .occasion captured a mineowner L‘nil compelled his friends to ransom him will: the sum of $10,- 000. I A‘- On Tuesday, of last week, after giving us a, minute history of his condition, the narrator oiled the monstrous probang. forced it down into his stomach, and brought it back dripâ€" ping with gastric juice. Not long since the lower stricture utterly refused to allow the 5 Emmett’s air, which had become popular in ‘ the south. was made the representative tune of the rebels. The author says the work has | paid him about $800. I â€"On the-occasion of the recent opening for the season of the Washington Training School for Nurses, Dr. J. M. Toner gave an interesting account of an interview which he enjoyed, during the past summer. with Miss Florence Nightingale. He said: “Upon my card being sent to Miss Nightingale I was immediately conducted to her room on the second flour. Here I found Miss Night- ingale reclining upon a lounge, by the side of which stood a small table with writing material upon it, also the photographs of the nurses and the pamphlets and chine I had sent her. She held my card in her hand, and addressing me by name as I approached. and without rising, extended her hand and bade me welcome. Florence Nightingale, though of English parentage. was born in Florence,Ԥ Itaiy, in 1820, and is therefore sixty-one years of age, but she looked not it day older than forty-six. Miss Nightingale’s features are‘regular, her face is smooth and unâ€" wrinkled, she has an English complexion. large brown eyes, and 9. Well nourished body; which would weigh 165 pounds, so that she is not now the slight, fragile person which the engraved portraits. taken just after the Crimean war, represented her to be. Though she sat upright on the lounge when I entered the room. and again several times during my stay. yet she did not at any time move her lower limbs, which were covered with a shawl. I do not know the character of her invalidness, but Whatever it is. it in no way affects her montalenergy or sympathy with the work of educating nurses. She has enlarged, clear and distinct views on the sub- ject of nursing and the training of nurses, and expresses them forcibly and fluently.” MEXICAN LAWLESSNESS. '8 m 0‘ ‘- Data’s a. subjeck which has troubled me a. great deal. an’ up to de present time I am onssrtin an’ unpledged. De same tout brush which am sold fur twenty cents on dis s1de kin be bought fur fifteen ober dar. If we an- nex Usnada. we kin hev cheap tooth brushes. On de odder han', de same rut trap dab we sell fur twenty-five cents onylis side can’t be had ober dar fur less dam thlrty. If Canada. annexes us she um suah of cheap rat traps. Dar it am, you. see, an’ Whether we shouid annex Canada or Canada annex us am a queshun which I cannot decide to my own satisfaxun.” TEE SICK. The Committee on the Sick reported that Sampson McAndreWs is lying ill and had filed his application for relief. They had investi- gated the matter and ascertained at he sprained his back by trying to lift grind stone on a hat of fifty cents. “ Den all d8 consolashun he will get heah.” replied the President. “am de advice to cure his sprain by trying to lift a. hoes barn on a hat of a dollar." SANITARY. Trustee Fullback, Chairman of the .Com- mittee on Sanitary measures and Precnulious, reported the following sugge stions for Novem- ber : The band struck up “Oh 1 why did I pawn my overcoat 2” and Sir Isaac passed the bean box for the benefi‘ of the following can- didates : Way Back Smith, Endeavor Jones, Uncle Reube, Sot Down Hastings, Piper Green, Moses Payne, Elder Scott and Trustee Jackson. UNPLEDGED AND UNCERTAIN. The secretary announced a letter from the State Department of New Jersey. inquiring if Brother Gardner favored the annexation of Canada to the United States, andthe old man carefully fall: of his left ear and replied : 2; All de broken WinHV pflsa should at once be stopped up Wid old hats and pil‘ lows. 3. 01d butes, coatâ€"tails, hoop-skirts, fish - bones an’ decayed oysters should be cleaned out; of de back yard an’ dumped in rear of de nighest skule house. 1. It am nolonger safe for de women folks to go bar'footed befo’ breakfast. A 5, When do number of dogs sleepin’ in do house exceeds six it am de safer way to burn a. rag ’long ’bouc midnight. Die precaushun am in (19 interest of (19 dogs. ' TOO MUCH INSANITY. “ Ihev heah a letter from Ohio axin’ me if dis American naehun am not becomin’ a nan shun of lunatics,” said the President, while the janitor was fixing up the stove new. “ Dar am good reason to think so. W 'en a. Cabinet officer sells his honor fur money what shall we call it ? When (19 judge panders Bro, Gardner: DEAR SIR : I am Prof. Moonshine Smith. I am also a lawyer and a doctor. I also break colts, cure the hollow horn in cows, compound a certain cure for chilblains, and have on sale 200 difierent songs of my own composition. If you think it will add to the standing of your club to elect me as a mem bet, I amwilling you should do so. I also play on a horn. Let me hear from you at once. andI get the highest rates of any man in the world for blanking stoves and putting on my Unrivaled. Excelsior Double Sirength Whitewash. . PROF. J. SMITH. The petition was carefully placed in the waste basket. a brick carefully placed on the petition, and if the professor ever gets into the Limo Kiln Club he will be thoroughly surprised. 4. De time hash-1115' arrova fur tukin’ ofi white pants an’ linen coats an’ borrowin’ woolen garments. “ Continer, my trans, to believe dat honesty om do has? policy, but doan’ expect too much of so called honest men. You kin trust men with your wallet who would borrow a pitch- fork and neber return it. You kin lend your boss to a man who Would cheat you blind in tradin’ overcoats. You kin send home a pa’r of dead ducks at noon day by a man who would steal your live chickens at midnight. vW'hen I lend my nsyhur Mocha cofifee I like to wonder if he won’t pay it back in Rio. When de 018 woman buys kaliker on a. guarâ€" antee she rather hopes it Will fade in do wash- in'. I solemnly believe dam do world am hon- est huff jisb as it am. When you gin your word stick to if it busts de bank. When you (in a job of work do it well. When you make a debtpay it. Any man who am mo’ honest dan dat will want you to cut a penny in two to make out his shilling ; he will ring you up at midnight to return your mouse trap ; he will take one shingle from your bunch an’ ofier you do one hundreth part of what do bunch cost; he will borrow your bootjack an’ insist dat you borrow his wash- board to offset it. We will now purceed to bizness.” Among the seventeen petitions preaénted was the following : “ If I should find a perfeckly honest manâ€"- honest in his expresdons, honest in his deal- ings sin0r~re in his statementsâ€"l shouldn’t like him,” said Brovher Gardner as the meet- ing was called to order. “ He would be a lonesome object in dis aige. He would seek in vain fur companionship. While I believe dat honesty am do bes’ policy, I dnan’ look to see it praciised beyond a certain limit. When I trade mules wid a men,1 kinder like to doubt his word. I want to feel dat he am keepin’ still ’bout de ring bones en’ spavins, an’ det de beast he says am jist turning fo'teen y’ars will nebber see his 21st birth- day no moat. It am monotonous to deal wid a man who’nm perfeckly honest. If I lend a men money I want him to be honest ’nuff to return it, but if he k n trade me a watch worth $3 for a gun worth seben I shall think ‘ none do less of him. If men were so sincere dst we felt obleeged to believe wheteber dey asserted we should hev no use fur theories en’ argyments. When I gib my note I ex~ peet to pay it. When I ax a man how he would like his Wheelbarrow fur my dog I’m not swine to inform him dat Caner am all bark -an' no . bite, an’ be am not gwme to tell me dat he borrowed (lat wheel~ barrow in (19 night and forgot to return it. If a grocer leaves me in charge of his sto’ Ize gwine to sat fur half an )1: ur beside a box of herrings an’ keep my hands in my pockets all do time. Yet, if det same man sells me a pound of tea he expects me to try an‘ pass ofi on him a. half dollar wid a hole in it. A more singular case. one more truly forâ€" midable in character, and managed in the rude. fearless manner here described, cannot be found, it is believed, in the annals of surgery. Under any plan of treatment but his own. this man of ten millions would have been dead years ago, a victim to an incurable malady. With the cvurse he is habitually phi-suing, life may be protracted until he is unable to repeat the operation, and then he may die of sts.rva.l.ion.â€"boston Medical Journal. great swob to pass. Recollecting that tobacco was a relaxer, while the rats!) was protruding above his teeth. he calmly lighted a pipe. and by taking a few \vhifls. had the sa‘tis» faction of retaining the muscular grip, and down the mass want, passing the rebellious point into the great membraneous receptacle below. TEE LIME KILN CLUB. gum“, 6a., October 28, 1881. ELECTION. PETITION E More than all, the blessing of a good news paper is in its evangelistic influence. The secular press of this country discusses all religious questions, scatters abroad religious intelligence and multiplies sermons until lhe Gospel comes Within the reach of all. May God speed it I When 1 Ste the printing press on one side and the telegraph on the other, I pronounce it the mightiest force in our civilization. So I pray for all editors and publishers. The other evening 9. Brush street policeman heard a whistle shrilly blown and a. female voice calling for help, and after a short run he reached the scene of commotion. A man was: getting up and filling down again on the door steps, and a female had her head out; of an upper window and seemed to be half scared o den ht " What’s the matter? ” asked the officer. “ A man has been kicking on the door,” she ansmered. “ This man here? ” “Yes. I thought he’d tear the whole house down.” Another step forwaid for: newspaperdom will be when in our colleges and uniVeTSitiPS we open opportunities for prepzrihg candi dates for the editorial chair. We have in such institutions medical and law depart ments. Why not editorial departments ‘2 Do the legal and healing professions require more culture and careful training than the editorial and repertorial profession? Let there be electurrsh'p in which there shall appear the leading editors of the United States, telling the story of their struggles their Victories, their mistakes, how the work ed, and what they found out to be the bent way of working There will be strong men who climb up with such Hid into. editorial power and efficiency. So do men climb up to success in other branches by sheer grit. But it we want learned institutions to make la vyers and artists and doctors end minister, We need learned institutions to make editors. The most potent inflneuce for good on earth is a good editor, and the most potent influence for evil is a bad one. The best way to rein force and improve the newspaper is to endow editorial professomtes. When will Princeâ€" ton, or Harvard, or Yale or Rochester lead the way ? The officer reached out for the man and made two discoveries at once. It was the woman’s husband, and hewas fighting drunk. “ Why this man Wouldn’t hurt youâ€"he’s your husband,” he called out.” “ Is that so? Charles, is that you ‘2" “ Bet; yer life’s smee,” mumbled Charles. ” Then you really must excuse me Mr Officer. You see. we have only been married six weeks and I do nqt readily recognize him yet. I’ll be down in a minute, darling."’â€"M. Quad. - If a. man should. from childhood to old ago, see only his Bible, Webster's Dictionary and his newspaper. he could he prepared for all the duties of this life and all the happiness of the next. It would work vast improvement if all our papers should, for the most. part, drop their impersonality. This would do betterjustice to newspaper writers. Many of the strongest and best writers of the country live and die unknown and are denied their just fame. Most of them are on comparatively small income, and, a. after while, their hand forgets its cunning, and they are, without resources, left to die. 'I; always gave additional force when you occasionally saw added to some significant article in the old New York Cour ier and Enquirer, “J. W. W ,” or in the Tribune, “ ii. Gr ,” or in tho Hvrsld, “ J. G. 8.,” or in the Evening Post. ‘ W. C. B ,” or the Evening Express, "E B.” â€"An elephant in a North Carolina circus recently drank a pailful of hlskey. There is some fun in being a. circusgzlephant. I discuss to day, said Mr. Talmaqe, the immeasurable and everlasting blessing of It good newspaper. Thank God for the “ Wheel in“ of eyes l” I give you one over- whelming statfstic. In 1870 the number ot copies of literary and. political papers issued was 1,500.0U0,000, The grandest temporal blessing that God has given this generation is the newspaper. We would have better ap- preciation of this blessing if We knew the money, the brain. the losses, the exaspem. tions, the anxieties, the wear and tear of heart string involved in the production of a. good new papfil‘. It is folly for one who cmnot sucoc ed in anything else to try newspaperdom. To publish a newspOper re- quires the skill, the precision, the boldness. the Visilance, the strategy of a commander- iu-chief. To edit a newspaper requires that one be a stalemae, an essayist, s. geographer. statistician, and in acquisxtion oneyeloi as line To man, to govern, to propel a newspaper until it shall be fixei institution and a Na- tional fact dem inds more qualities than any business on earth. If you teel like starting a. newspaperyamderstand that you areâ€"being threatened with softening of the brain, and, throwing your pocketbook into your Wife’s lap, start for Bloomingdale before you do something desperate. The Rev. T. De Witt Tuhnnge of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Presbyterian. Mr. Talmage’s sermon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle yesterday morning. was on the character of the newspaper press of the pre- sent; day. He based what he had to say on Ezekiel X, 21 ~-“ And the Wheels were full of eyes ;” and on Am; xvii, 21 â€"“ For all the Athenians and avraugars which were thre spent; their lime in nothing elsa but either to tell or to hear some new thing.” The Secretary further announced an unpaid telegram from the Rev. Penstock, who had gone :30 Davenport, 1a., to see his grand. moaher die. The Reverend had discovered that he lacked $7 of Buflicient money to pay hm fire home, and appealed to the club to send it on and save him a trump of 180 miles over the highways. The Secretary was in- structed to forward the amount in $1 bills with the: corners torn off, and the meeting turned “Self out doors. “ Let me sav to you dab I doan‘ believe in insanity. Deinsaue burglar who enters my cabin will miss de top of his head. De lunatic who draws a. knife on me am gwine to get hurt. I keep a. dog to bite de insane thieves who want to plunder my garden. It 1 am drawn on a jury I shall woce to send eben insane prisoner to de penitentiary for de longest possible period. When a man steals I shall call him :1 thief; when he rubs I shall call him a robber ; V3130“ he kills 1 shall call in murder, an’ hold dut de jury who lets him off um eminled to thirty lashes apiece at de whipping p033.” to de criminal class what shall we term it ‘2 When honest, respsctable men will turn poli- ticians an’ wallow in de mire fur de sake of securin’ office kin you call it anything but; lunacy? Men commit murder an’ we dirleé‘I‘ dat (Rey hev bin insane fur years. Men steal, rob an’ embezzle, an‘ insanity has to b’ar de burden. I kin pick up die ink bottle an’ walk over an‘ crack Elder Toots’ skull an’ plead insanity, an’ expect a jury to clear me. Pickles Smith kin‘ wayla‘y me as I go home to-night an’ rob me of two dollars in silver, a receipt fur saliing down glnms, an’ a photo- graph of Ginarfil- Jaackmn ‘landin’ from de nin3flovver, an";y"et if he plexus insanixy lie am sartiu to go free. NEWSPAPERS AND EDITORS WHOLE N0. 1,216.â€"â€"N.O_ 25‘ NOT USED To HIM. DETAINED. I Teef! Turrur. The spot Where the ships were bégéi my the ice and where they were abandoned, he fate of the commandm‘ and many of the crew,all these are poingg lopg ago made I; own to the Wolld. But there was on mmtrr which remawed a mystery. Whut Dad become of Crozier 7 Captain Adams here u marked : “ During the course of my vtlynge I had on heard a very intelligent Eequimaux. He belonged to the Igloolik aettlemem, on the northeastern coast of the 51 lville peninsula. He told me that when he was a boy and traveling with his father he met three men, being the surviVors of a. party of seventeen who had traveled from two English rhlPS far to the west. I showed him a chart and questioned him very minutely upon this important subject, but he never wavered in the least, and I could not shake his story. He 5 Lid the three men were very much worn and severely frostbitten. A most interesting incident in the adven- Iurous and- formulate voyage of Captain Adams was his meaning With an E-qulmaux who told something which shed fresh light on the dark, pathetic story of the Franklin ex- pedilion. Succeaswe march voyages have almost cleared the mystery which once sur- rnuuded the missing crews of the Erebus and Captain Adams then showed the cones- pendent on ma chart the track of the three survivors and the places where they are buned, as pointed out to him by the Esqui- maux. It is highly probable that those three worn, frustbitten men were the last survlvors of the crew of Sir John Franklin. In answer me an enquiry, Captain Nilson reports from Gothenburg that the Oscar Dick- son was crushed in the ice on the 2d of Aug" but that the crew were saved. â€"Golden rod is rivaling the big sunflower in the aesthetic world of fashion. Captain Adams’ Account of his Recent Voyages. A correspondent has had a most interestâ€" ing interview with the now famous Captain Adams at Dundee, and learned from him many interesting particulars of his dashing voyage in the Arctic seas. He entered Lan- caster Sound in June, giving the slip to the other Whalers, who love to hunt in company and do not like to trust themselves alone in unfn quented regions. lie pushed up Prince Regent’s Inlet, but was driven out by the ice. Crossing Lancaster Sound he waited Beechy Island and then carried his vessel to the very head of Wellington Channel and thence back again into Barrow Straits. He then boldly ventured into Peel Bound and penetrated with- in a short dlstance of the spot where the Ere- bus and Terror were abandoned. Had (Jap- lain Adams not been on a. whaling voyage he says he could have gone on and reached Dease and Simpson’s Straits and made the Northwest passage, a feat never yet eoodm- pushed. “ I believe," he said. ” that the Northwest passage can be made by way of Peel Saund, and by that way only, and that if Franklin’s vessels had been steamers he would have made it in 184”. I may myself live to go into Lancaster Sound and report myself at Honolulu.” Returning from Peel s‘ound he again tried St. Regent‘s Inlet, and this time successfully advanced to the very entrance of the Fury and Hecla straits. Then as the brief season open to such hazardous namgation was ended, he pushed for home, rewarded by a most ample cargo. “ One was a great. captain, and was looked up to by the others. He died and was buxied by them, and they crlad very much. The other two men lived in his father’s but [some time. but they also died. All three were buried in their clothes, and the last two with all they possessed, according to the custom of the annimaux.” â€"- It is said that considerable attention has latelv been directed in Belgium to the new system of dephnsphorizelion of iron brought out by M. Antione Roller, of Creusot. There are two alternative processes. In the one a cupola with basic lining is used ; the phos- phoric iron is mixed with lime, flour spar, dolomite, etc., and the mixture brought to an intense heat in order to obtain a liquid basic slag. In the other method the dephosphorizn anion is caffi‘é‘dffiii’ifififissemer cb‘fifiér‘t‘m" or a fire furnace ; the phosphoric slag whieh is formed during the first part of the process is removed, and the other impurities are then taken away by one or other of the ordinary methods. ' â€"â€"â€"A short but excellent paper on insomnia and ether troublws connected Wth sleep in persons of gouiy disposition has appeared in the current number of Brain. The writer, Dice Duckworth. deprecates the use of so- callcd hypnotlcs as mrans of relief, and says that strict attention to diet, a free dilu~I non of the blood with bland fluids, regulated exercises of both the mental and bodily facul- ties, together with accesional mercurial pur- ganves, will commonly avail 1:0 ovemome the misdirected tendencies and to secure good nights fur sufferers. â€"-'1‘he Superior Committee of the Pans Electric Exhibition have decided that‘though there are twelve hundred French exhibits, and but five hundred in all the foreign sec- tions, the International Jury shall consist of French and foreign members in equal num- bers. The for-i411 sections are requested to propose jurymen in proportion to their ex- hibits. The minimum number of the jury ie‘ fixed at 100. The committee mll place at the disposition of the jury fifty gold medals, two hundred silver and five bronze. ~â€"-When the earth in which a. plant grows is much warmer than the air. the plant grows very thlck, ceases almost altogether to increase in height. and finally shows deep transverse rif‘s which make turther gromh in imbass‘lbilhy. These effects were produced by M. Pnilleux, who used a large dish of earth, it; which be planted the seeds,and kept theeurlvhtun degrees warmer than the moist air of the chamber. ~ Ex; e:iments by German sciengists in as- certaining me peculiarities of the electric light “ambush the fact that it is not qnly haulihier thin plher methods of iiluminafion Ill leaving this air purer. but that it increases the poWer of the vision in some respects, expecially in distinguishing colors. Red, green, blue and yellow are made much more distinci and marked under this light than by daylight. â€"-In his address at the York meeting of the British Association Professor Huxley predicted that,fifty years hence, or in the centennial year of the Association. whoever underlakes to record the progress of paleont- ology W111 note the present time as the epoch in which the law of succession of the forms of the higher animmle was determined by the observation of paleontological facts. The precision of modern engineering is forcibly illustrated by the recently accom- plished feat of picking up along unused ocean. cable from a depth of two thousand fathoms. The scientific engineering which locates a. fault with so much exactness and so readily finds a mere thread two miles un- der the sea. must adl much to the security and value of ocean telegraphic property. ~Charles Brush is said to have invented a new style 01 storing electricity. He uses metal plates that can store large quanti- ties of the fluid and retain it a. long time. With this invention people can make their own electric lights and run street cars and machinery. -â€"â€"Iod0f0rm is recOmmended by French authonties in drama of one >third of a. grain, in pillular form, four or five times daily. as a means for lessening the painful and spasmodic cough of phthisioul patients. â€"There is in the Paris Electrical Exhibi- tion an indnciion coil capable of givmg a. spark forty-mo inchps long and piercing a block 0! gmBs six inches nhick. --â€"Itis recommended to treat carbunglea and boils with p'ure carbohc acid, irjacted hypodermicany m .sufiiaeut' quantity to thoroughly saturate the swelling. FRANKLIN REMINISCENOES.‘ POPULAR SCIEIV CE.