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“ Oh, what does the quadrant indicate, And how does the sextant stand 5’” “ On, the sextant’s down to freezing point And the quadrant’s lost a hand 1‘ “ Oh, and it the quadrant has lost a, hand, And the sextant [8.115 so low, It’s ourbodies and bones to Davy J ones This night are bound to go ! “ Oh, fly aloft to the garboard stmke! And- reef the spanker boom ; Bend 3. ntudding sail on the martingale, To give her weather room. “0, boatswain, down in the for'erd hold, What water do you find ‘2 Four feet_a.nd a half bythexoyal gaff " Oh how does our good ship head to-night ? How heads our gallant omit ?" 011 she heads to the E. S. W‘ by N. And the hinnacle lies abaft 1” Then up spoke the Cook of our gallant ship, And he-Was a. lubber brave ; ” I have several wives in various ports, And my life I’d orter save.” They bored ahole above the keel To let the water out; B L strange to say. totheir dismay, he wacer it dxd spout. Then up spoke the Captain of Marines Who dearly loved his prog :â€" “ It's awful to die and it‘s worse to be drowned And I move we pipes to grog.” Oh, then ‘twas the noble second mute What filled them all with awe ; The second mate, as bad men hate. And cruel skipper’e jaw, He took the anchor on his back And lea. ed into the main ; Through cam and. spray he clove his way And sunk and rose again 1 "Paint chpgfl a‘j_o_b tq talk about, “ 0, sailors, cnum your marline spikes And each beluyiug pin; Come stir your stumps, and spike the pumps, 01- more will be coming in 1" ' Through foam and spray, aleague away The anchor stout he bore; Tiil, safe at last, he made it fast And warped the ship ashore! For the second mate was hel Such was the tale that was told to me By that modest and truthful son of the sea, And I envy the life of a. second mate. Though captains curse him and sailors hate, For he ain’t like some of the swabs I’ve seen, As wouid go and lie to a. poor marine. ~---A man loses his grip of good resolutions as soon as he gets tight. ~Far better to hold communion with nature than with nitroglycerin. ’Twas the good ship Gyaieutus, Allin the China seas, With the wind 31-138 and the capstan free To catch the summer breeze. They stirred their stumps,they spiked the pumps, They spliced the mizzen brace; Aloft. and alow they worked, but oh! The water gained space. iii: a. tickliah thing to see, An_d sujsh'iu to (19, if 1 my it‘, top, Twas Capt. Porgie on the deck. To his mute on the mizen hatch, Whlle the boatswain bold,‘in the forward hold, Was winding his Inboard watch. -â€"â€"Oliver “ Twist" wasn’t the son of either a baker or a rope manufacturer. â€"A Tennessee journalist heads an article about an old negress over 90 years old with: “ Almost a. Centurion.” -â€"The man has been “treed” who called Judge Lynch a " limb" of the law. â€"-There’s no such word as " flai " in the mecbafiical farm literature of the day. â€"Gunn is a. most unhappy name. Anxious inquirpre are always wanting to know if you are a son of a Gunn. â€"Smmge as it may seem, the thin man often has more capacity than a fat one. â€"The poster plays a truly neutral part during a political campaign-it is always on the tenae. â€"â€"The Gineipatti Enquirer thinks it must harrow the heart of an editor to be quoted and credited in his own patent-inside. 7â€"“Pulverized meat,” is what the Gov- ernment of Belgmm is about to give out an army rations. This must be Belgian. for "hash." â€"-Somehow people who say they enjoy a. thunder-shower always want somebody to be present to enjoy it with them. â€"â€"The moon hangs out her shining shield, The stars in beauty gleam, While Clara. and Augustus spend A 3% for ice cream. â€"â€"A man in Paris has been arrested for training beggars in the art of throwing their shoulders out of joint and walking with a 5815 leg. â€"The new invention known as “ship- brake” W111 not succeed. Vessels are always steered clear of breakers, you know. â€"Studant, fresh from college, to conductor “ I wish to get on the penultimate our." Oon duotor : " We have no peanut car ; you can take the smoker.” â€"â€"The struggle just nqw between capital and labor many sections @f the country is to get enough hands to harvest the crops, whims abundant. â€"The swan, we have been told, sings just before-dying. When we heard Miss Uppaaae vocalize the other evening we couldn’t help wishing she was a swan. n“ Crushed banana.” is no longer a popu- lar shade. The woman who crushed it. came down with such force that she hasn’t been outdoors since that-date. â€"â€"He . "Why d6 you persist in moving away from me so far, dear cousin 1” She: “ Oh, for a distanfi relative it seems to me you are near enough already.” â€"-The college graduate, who is how com- pelled to live in one room, consoles himself wi£h the ambitious thought that his quarters will be in the suite, by-nndâ€"hy. â€"-Be a. Turk ever so great a. villain it is re- garded as quite proper for him to use such expressions as “ God is ever with me,” and “ The Lord watches over my beard.” Ed i‘atherrrrnore befiind !" -â€"-" I notice that Ingersoll has lost $50,000 in worthless mining stocks. It is very evident that Mr. Ingersoll can make a mis» take himself once in a. while.â€" [Mosem -â€"“ Pa," asked little Johnny, “ what does the teacher mean by saying that I must have inherited my bad temper?” " She meant, Johnny, that you are your mother‘s own boy.” â€"Frank James is said to have moved into Kansas and gone into the lightning-rod business. Thus ends all the talk that he had decided to reform and live an honest life. â€"He had lost his knife, and they asked him the usual question, " Do you know where you lost. it ?” “ Yes, yes," he replied, of course I do. I'm merely hunting in these other places to kill time.” â€"'1‘he greatest poet known in history is Mr. Augustus Snodgmsi, an account of whom is to be found m the works of Mr. O. Dickens Though a. poet, Mr. Snodgrass had the howl~ ing good sense never to write any poetry. â€"â€"Binoe the recent cyclone wave on Lake Erie a. tide ebb and flow has been observable. lZl‘he official Government report recognizes the phenomenon. and it is attracting marked at« 'tention. A blackboard can" do a'ny more. -â€"Why til-enchant slang should we decry ‘? In its bold diction pray believe. Hyve had _been~snffioi_ent “‘flyh” To say when Satnm temptefl’by, " Not this Eyeâ€"another Eve," " Good Evfl’ would then to he): apply. â€"â€"An Iowa editor advertised liver pads to the amount of {$280 and took it all out in pads. Then he was mad because his hired girl wouldn’t take twentyueight of them for two months‘ services. â€"Detroit arohheots speak of the English aparmw in tones not loud but full of sweat This is the tale that waafiold to ma. ‘ r , By a. battered and shattered son of the seaâ€" To me and my messmate, Silas Green, When I was a guileless young mqrine. ' 1figomic; fludget. A Sailor’s Yarn. â€"An observant contemporary says: “ Now that the lady who fell through a. coal hole has been awarded $510,000 damages. folks need not be surprised to find their eellara filled with females every morning." â€"Hens’ eggs 1,200 years old have been found at St. Elio, France. Their usefulness for all purposes must be considerably im- paired. Even as tokens of regard for pre~ senmtiou to crank Hamlets they are utter failures. â€"“ Your honor and gentlemen of the jury, I acknowledge the reference of counsel of the other side to my gray hair. My hair is gray, and it will continue to be gray as long as I live. , The hair of that gentleman is black. and i! will continue to be black as long as he dyes.” â€"â€"A visitor, on calling at a fnend’s house during the session of the Legislature, was questioned thus by a little boy: “ Where is your ax 7" “ What do you mean. little bby ?" asked the visitor. “ I heard pa any that the reason you came to town was becauee you had an ax to grind." words. There can be no more fancy cornices until this miserable pest is hunted to death. â€"Free Press. â€"About this season of the year high school boys tend essays on the power of the press and the duties of editors. These secure them positions as managing editors of dailies the following weekâ€"New Orleans Picayune. -â€"â€"’.I‘here must be house cleaning in hotels the same as in private houses ; but no guest ever sees anything of it. The bed stead is probablyfiken down the back stairs at mid night, and some time during the day as much as a pint of whitewash is used somewhere or other. â€"“ See here!" yelled the farmer to the city chap who had just fired into a flock of ducks on the pond down back of the house. “ Those are not wild ducks. Those are domestic ducks. sir.” “ Can’t help it, air, if they are,” answered the city chap, calmly reloading. “ They're just as good for my purpose, ex» actly.” 1% is a. wise man who knoweth whnebait when he is called upon tortaste it. Epicured cantend that the beat way to eat asparagus is cold with a dressing of oil and vinegar. To eat it hot they declare to be an abomination. A salad of emails was served at a Delmonioo dinner party the other evening, but: we do not learn that there was much gastronomic enthuâ€" siasm over it. “ Show me a man eating lettuce,” said Lord Beaconsfield, “ and I will tell you What man- ner of a man he is.” The highest epicurean authorities all agree thzit to cut lettuce is to rain it. _ 1 ram 15. _ , Blane fiiage of olden times was an alto- gether different flish from what; we have now 'under that name, and used to include in its ingredlents almonos, rice. salt and even uniseed. Frog legs, soft shell crabs and sea, snipe are now included in the luxuries of the season. "“He whoqukp thh his mouth full.” said Dr. Johnson. “rarely has anything valuable to commmuicate." Considering Dr. Johnson's own table manners this was a. queer speech for him to make, but still one some of us would do well to remember, Francatelli is authority for the statement that the palateis as capable and nearly as worthy of 9ducatioy up the; eye_ and the ear. At a private dinner party at Pinatd’a this week, the strawberries' were served inside of a. large artificial strawberry made at 159 cream. and tinted to resemble the real fruit. The surprise was clever, and the combination of fruit and cream delicious. Of fruit them is now a wealth in market. Bananas, oranges. pineapples, cherries peaches, plums and strawberries are all in- cluded on the list. the prices for which are within the reach of all. "In the morning fruit is golden and at night it is lead.” Warm weather has produced several new kinds of ice cream whlch the confectioner’e have witheld unlil the weather was of a Iliind to make people appreciate it. The namesjor the new creams are fanciful. But people soon find out for themselves " whats in a name. They have now at the restaurant of the Racquet Club a cook famous for the variety of ways he 31m prepare and serve macaroni. Macaroni dinners prepared by this culinary artist from “sunny Italy” are said to be “ things of beauty and gqnuine joys forever.” In one of her recent article's on gastronomy, Miss Juliet Carson described a soup made of white wine. eaten cold, and which she affirms to be a favorite dish in Austria. Another Wine-soup she describes is made one-half of consomme and the other half of claret. In Berlin lately a noted professor who de- votes more or less of histime to gastronomy, gave adinner party, one of the courses of which was snake’s egg. It is said that the company partook abundantly, but how many were obliged to call in physicans the next day is not recorded. Restigduce salmon is abundant, and by some is placed at the head of the list of fish, forgetting sheepshead, red-snawper and see- bnss. Just now the fish market offers a very large variety; and with the high price of beef housekeepers find it economical to add mom fish to their daily food.â€"-New York Mail. The town of Connellsville, Pa.. has a gen- uine sensation. It consists in the discovery that among the laborers in the railroad shops has been numbered a genuine noble man. His name is Edgerton Davis. Two years ago he came ragged and wearied and applied for aid at the hands of Rev. W. F. Stoner, rector of the Episcopal church. Representing himself as a devotee of that faith and in want, the rector freely aided him, not only in supplying his needs but in procuring employment. As the result of the clergyman's influence the tramp was given work as a coal beaver in the employ of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Subsequently he was promoted to grease-Wiper in the round house and thence to work in the carpenter shop. In every place he worked assiduously and faithfully. By good behavior he won upon the esteem of the community. ‘ he kept up a correspondence with his wife in ‘England. who has just informed him by letter that by the death of an uncle he suc- ceeds to the title of Earl Elsemere with an inâ€" come of £50,000 a year. His story is an in- teresting one. Born at Liverpool in 1837. he was educated at Eton. Then reverses came and he learned the trade of a cabinetmaker. and subsequently engaged in business with an extensive coal and iron firm. Then health failed him and he came to America. landing in New York. After repeated misfortunes there he went to Philadelphia, where he was robbed of what remained of his effects. After an unsuccessful efiort to recover his stolen property, in which all his resources were dissipated, he then became a tramp and visited all the cities in the United States, terminating his nomandic life with his ap- pearance in Connellsvillc two years ago. He is a. man of good address and prepossessing appearance, and though his accession to wealth and station is sudden, it causes less surprise than might be expected. He left Thursday for his home in England. ~Robert Browning, the English poet, rev aembles uprolifio hen. He dosen’t own a complete set of his works. VOL. XXV. AN EARL AS A COAL HEAVEB. THE MORSE-LS OF GASTROMONX. ,-Some great Dutch capitalists are going to reclaim the Zuyder Zea." The dykes will be stupendous. â€"Aix~la>3hnpelle will have a paying pa~ tient this seasonâ€"the Emperor of Morocco. â€"Ma.rried. At Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Means, three feet and a half high, to Miss Harrison, three feet high. â€"-Tha wonder in Denver is who threw a. dynamite bomb in the Rev. Charles Marshall’s house, and why. -â€"Maden. a Leadville gambler, had a. brain weighing 62% ounces, or 8:} ounces heavier than Daniel Webster‘s. -â€"Knute Knutson, noted in northern Wis- consin for the great size of his feet, milized them go kick a. wolf to death. â€"Milwaukee’s only female lawyer has rived at the conclusion that the trial and eoution of Guitenu prove that republican stitutiona are a. failure. â€"The sport of two Michigan boys was to take a younger playmate into the woods, bind him to n log. whip him cruelly, and torture him with lighted matches. â€"«An Ohio phymcian dug seven graves for a. like number of his patients, bilfi was sent to an insane asylum before he could kill the in tended victims. ' â€"Ohantry was paid $35,000 for his statue of Pitt $20,000 for Rendert Bluir,’ 1535.000 for Watt, $10,000 for Grabtan, 050,000 Vfor Wellington, and $40,000 for Sir T. Mux'n'o. wThe top of a. fence in an inundated tract in Illinois reached just above the water, and for days every post and board was piled high with snakes, endeavoring to save their lives. *Tennyson sees no one without an apr pointmem, especially in the American tour: iat. season, when he retreats from the Isle of Wight to a secluded nook at Hamp- shire. â€"â€"Lady Sykes, well known in New York, Wore at a. recent London wedding white satin spotted with black, and a. red satin bonnet, and carried a red patasol trimmed Wizh roses. â€"A handsome monument is being erected by military subscript-ions to Prince Louis Napoleon opposite ‘he Royal Military Acad~ emy in Woolwiah, where he was for some time a student: â€"â€"John Babcaok is under .arrest at Not- wich, Conn; for destroying the stone that marked his daughter’s grave. The marble had been put in place by the dead girl’s be» trothed, and Babeock had forbidden it. ~Theduke of Hamil on and his only brother are children, and their father was the only son. The next; heir is a boy of 12, who will find the honors barren enough should he sue- ceed to them. â€"-There is a; Chinaman in San Francisco with red hair. His countrymen treat him with superstitious respect. At nhe table he has the best of everything and at all ceremonials he takes precedence. -â€"'1‘he English National Gallery cleverly secured at. the Hamilton sale a Tingoremto of extraordinary merit for 3750, Bald to be worth at least twelve times as much. It was very dirty, and passed almost unnoticed. -â€"~Sir Greville Smith, a. rich eccentric bar- ronet. has given twentyiwo acres. worth quite 25,000 an acre. as a park for Bristol and Lord Holmesdale wlli for the next few months open his beautiful park two days 9. week. â€"Old Holenson of Decorah. Iowa, feared there was foul air in a. cistern which he was about: to clean, and prudenzly sent his daughter to find out. His appre" he'neion was not groundless. The girl was suffocated to death. â€"E{enry Clark of Camden, N. J., became convinced that Water was geod food, and during forty-one days is believed to have swallowed nothing else. He seemed to have suffered no physical injury, though eman ciated, but was made incumny insane‘ â€"At the next meeting of the Royal college of Physicians, London. a resolution will be proposed that the custom of members of the college g1ving testimonials to venders of sale able articles should be discontinued. as deroga- tory to the dignity of the profession. -You can’t make water rise higher than its source without resort to artificial means. You can‘t work a clerk sixteen hours per day, year in and year out, and obtain the beat that is in him. He can’t everlastineg toil and not suffer therefore. Of course he can’t. ~Helywell street, parallel with the Strand, aLondon thoroughfare. notorious up to the date of the act against immoral literature. known as Lord Campbell’s not. is doomed. Of late years it: has about]de with second hand booksellers â€"â€"Two Michigan girls went. bathing in Lake Huron. and had fun riding on a. log at first ; but a. wind blew them several miles from the shore, and for thirty-six hours they were burned by day, chilled by night, and tortured by hunger, before a boat picked them up. â€"â€"â€"Prof. William J. Land. a chemist of wide reputation, committee suicide in Atlanta. This was a second attempt. It is regarded as strange that he did not utilize his knowâ€" ledge of chemistry to provide a. painless death, instead of which he used a ruler and a pistol. -â€"Annie Louise Gary is still without a voice for anything but Whispering. On the occasion of her last public appearance in her home city of Portland, 3465., prior to her forthcomlgg marriagetsbe could not sing a note. Physicians tell her that she is done with vocaliam for a. year, if not forever. â€"King Meneleek of Chou recently sent to M. Grevy a rare species of zebra, which the French President, in turn. presented to the Jardin des Plantes. Unfortunately the area- ture soon died of apoplexy; but it. has been stufied, and will shortly appear in the mus~ eum under the name of Le Zebre de Grevy. â€"Lord Westbury, grandson of the notori- ous Lord Chanceller (Richard Bethell), is to marry Lady Agatha Tollemache. granddaughr ter of the late Lord Dysart,who lefther and her sister 31,000,000 each. The other sister mar- ried a young man named Scott, who, a few years ago. was a. broker’s clerk in New York. â€"-A Philadelphia society has undertaken to close the beer gardens of that; city en Sundays, and. instead of dealing first; with the disreputable ones, has proceeded against a rather fashionable resort. The excuse for this is that, by ehumng up such a. place at the outset, the rest of the job will be made easy. “In a recent tour the French Minister'pf agriculture is said to have found that the only vines which by completely resisted phylloxera were those imported from this country by the Duchess of Fitzjamos. He has therefore resolved on recommending State aid to assist their importation, which small vilioulmrists cannot afiord. â€"â€"Dr. Nicholas N. De Menil was one of the oldest and most successful medical men in St, Louis. Yet. when taken seriously ill. be said that he would die on July IQ, as he was con- vinced that he cbuld not survive a change of the moon. The physicians in attendance wondered at his superstition, and wondered again when he died the 10th. â€"At the Queen’s last state concert the Countess ot Seiton wore a. dress composed of AROUND THE WORLD RICHMOND HILL, T‘figRspAY, JULY 27 1882. ar in- white and silver brocade, the brillianey of which was enhanced 1153a ‘tximming of black velvet: The lgee of great magnificence and exquisitely draped. was held up with loops of satin and silver. A body trimming of silver wheat and black poppies completed the dress. â€"â€"Some Cornish keepers near Camberne resolved, in order tefitch poachers, to divide into two parties. During the night a gleam of moonshine revealed to the lurking poachers a fierce conflict, the keepers having mistaken each othet'e party for the poachers. ~~During the first five months of this year no less than 5,000 tons of Italian produce, eggs. butter, vegetables etc., have been im- ported into Great Britain. 'Thia trade wil undoubtedly be increased by the quicker transient consequent on the opening of the St. Gothard. ' â€"-Dennie Fuloher is ‘3 Georgia. young lady of refinement. and excellent ,sooial connec- tions. She has )uet“marrie_d Willie Loo Chong. a. Chinaman. "But he has lived in Augusta. ten years, is spmsperous merchant, wears American clothes. has cut ofi his cue, and belongs to apharoh. â€"Two men were rolling a heavy hogahead up an incline in Oiucmnati on a hot day. It wili be seen the work was of a. kind in which either could ehiIk hm fuil half ; and when the further fact is taken into consideration that both were fight-ere, bearing the scars of blades and bullets. the conditions can be understood as favorable for a row. The men fought with pistols, and both were dangerous- ly Wounded. â€"â€"A gentleman at ghe last royal levee in London decorated up wrists with ruffles of old lace. As this wu's against regulations, he was taken to a. side room, where the ruffles were eut‘ofi‘ before he was allowed to appear in the Presence chamber. TArrangements have been made by which some of the college lectures at Oxford will be thrown open to female students. Among the lectures thus openedfiifl be those by the Master of University on English history, by Mr. Butcher on Greek liteigature, and by Mr. Pelham on ancient history. ' â€"-A quart of cream can be kept perfectly good for months in the highest temperature by an ounce ‘of boro-g Veeride. Prof. Bari! proposes to save railr'o 'qmiage for milk by condensing-it 1n the chantry and mixing it with boro-glyoeride. so that it has pnly to be mixgd with water when needed. Wayor’Wilsoniof New Bedford gave some homely adNice to‘the graduating class of the high-school, telling the boys that. a trade was a desirable acquirement.» and the girls that. housework ought to be inoludef in their ac- complishments. Some 0! the boys and girls listened with manifest scorn. â€".A Western circus manager arranged to have a wax baby dropped from.a second-story window in every town which his show visited, just. in time to be caught by One of his ath- letes. The performance Was successful sevâ€" eral times, and crowds went to seethe hero of the rescue, until the nervspapers exposed the trick. ' -There were 302 cases in England in which flogging formed part of the sentence for offenses during the period between the 13th of July, 1863. and the and of the ,year 1881. The number of ‘eas‘es- in which the same offender had. beanieund guiltylof simi- lar offences and become liable to be reflogged was five. â€"-Admiral Seymour's combined broadsides sent fifteen tone of iron ashore at every dis~ charge. Arabi has encountered the Sirocco of the Saharm, and he probably thinks it mild as compared with the bail storm gotten up for him by the dogs of miebelievers. â€"A policeman was shot while on duty at Fargo, Dakotah. Before dying, he said that the bullet came from the residence of Jack Knudson, a bad character. A mob hunted Knudsen all night, and would have hanged an innocent man if they had found him,fot in the morning a woman explained that it was she who fired on the officer, mistaking him for a burglar. â€"â€"It is the Atlanta Constitution, published in the once duel encouraging State of Geor- gia, which says: “ The impetuous Carolin. ians, who seek to establish that doubtful ar~ ticle called honor in blood would do their country more service by engaging in the corn field at fifty cents a day. it is time to understand that a bullet hole neither makes right wrong not wrong right. â€"Five adventurous young men have gone from San Francisco on an expedition into the unexplored eastern part of Alaska. They expect to find mineral wealth. and are pre- pared to spend five years in the search. They will go up the Yukon River 1,500 miies in a chartered vessel. and then, in a steam launch of their own, try to penetrate 1,200 miles further into the mountainous region. -â€"Dr. Ulaxton, says the Philadelphia. Re- cord, has found that rabbits soon die from an injection of human saliva, and that the saliva of some races, notably of negroea and resi- dents of the tropics, exhibits an extreme de- gree of viiulence, a virulence that bears :61!» tion to the amount of tobacco used by the in. dlvidual. â€"A grand exposition of the arts and in: dustries of Siam was opened there in April. The King’s brother. Prince Damroksah, is President. The exposition was inaugurated by a religious fete, lasting six days, during which prayers were said in all the pagodes of the city. The King then made a circuit of the show, which is very rich and interesting, and declared it open. -â€"On one of the street railroads in Chicago the cars are drawn by wire cables. The plan has been in use only six months. In that time it has killed eight persons, and injured many others. The difliculty arises from the olumsiness of conductors and passengers, and the company claims the practice will eventu- ally render both expert, but with how much» further loss of life Is not estimated. â€"There has lately been exhibited in the Botanical Garden of Berlin the biggest flower in the world ~the great flower of Sumatra known in science as the Rafflesia Arnoldi, and peculiar to Java and Sumatra. It measures nearly ten fem in oircumsnanoe, and more than three in diameter. Sir Stamford Ruffles and Dr. Joseph Arnold were exploiing in com- pany when they discovered this champion plant. â€"Alonzo D. McCarthy, 8. young lawyer of Decatur, Ind., had great difiiculty in winnmz Miss Rhodes for a bride. She loved him, but feared that his frequent habit of intoxication would make him a sot, and would only eonâ€" eent to marry him on his solemn promise ’oi total abstinence. On the day appointed for the wedding he committed suicide, leaving letters to explain that he could not keep his pledge. and would die rather than ' break it. â€"â€"â€"The small circuses that travel in the west cannot fill so many tents as the big concerns, but their advertisements are quite as wonder ful. One of them, which does not even an~ nounce the name of the proprietor, is a. glor ions and oolosaal consolidation of big railroad shows, It 13 an enterprise surpassing in mag- nitude. outvieing in splendor, and over~ whelming in attmotions any amusement cor poration ever thought of since the world be gen. â€"0iruuluting libraries of an entirely new desorlption are about to be started at St. Petersburg. A society has been founded for ‘he purpose of supplying the horse cars of that city with daily newspapers and illustrat- ed Weeklies. Pasaengers who avail themselves of these literary states are to drop into a box a copeck for each paper they read. No watch is to be kept over the box, the payment being left to the honor of the readers. The sociely trusts that it will be only occasionally de- fraud’ed. -â€"â€"The London Truth says of Queen Vio- toria’s favorite servant : “ John Brown has about the best time in the spring, as the Queen’s salmon fishing on the Dee is at his disposal, and her Majesty’s stretch, whioIf'ex- tends from ‘Inveroauld Bridge to Balmoral bridge, is one of the finest on the river‘ and contains many excellent pools. John Brown has enjoyed excellent sport during the last month, the river having been in capital order. One day he landed fourteen fine elem salmon.” â€"-A Dumiriesshire laird in Scotland left a strange will, by which ‘ his whole fortune, amounting to upward of $600,000 was be queathed to his shepherd. his ooachmen and his farm servant. The next of kin have brought an action against the document. it being alleged that he was of unsound mind, and that his affliction had been aggravatedby habits at excessive drinking; moreover, that the logatees had acquired undue influence over him. The case, which is to be tried by jury in Edinburg, is exciting considerab interest in Scotland. -â€"The first wife of Brigham Young died at Salt Lake last week. She became a convert to Mormonism at Avon, N. Y., in 1831, and went to the Mormon colony. then in Ohio, where she married Young. It is said that, having accepted the dootrine of polygamy, she made no opposition when her husband began to practise it extensively, though she invariably fell ill from excitement and grief at every new, marriage. She lived separate from the other wives, and kept her five chil- dren as much as possible apart from the rest. â€"The unfortunate animals imported to England from America, says the St. James’ Gazette. still continues to sufier untold mis- ery during their passage across the Atlantic. From the United States there were imported, in 1881, to the ports of Barrow in Fumess Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow. Hartlepool, Hull, Liverpool, London, and South Shields, 473 cargoes of animals, consisting of 103,693 cat- tle, 47,223 sheep, and 1,773 swine, of which 176§csttle, 96 sheep, and 10 swine were so much injured that it was necessary to slaughter them immediately on lending ; 3,887 cattle, 947 sheep. and 221 swine were thrown overboard, during the voyage. -â€"Some of the districts in Thessaly are still overrun by brigands, who gave a great deal of trouble. One of these bands the other day attacked the village of Lohovo. and car-- ried all three of its wealthiest inhabitants, who had on a former occasion been made prisoners by another band, therefore,flattered themselves that they would be spared further molestation. The leader is a native of the place, who after spending the winter in Thes~ saly.where he murdered his wife and his mother~in-law, took to brigandage, simply as a means of annoying his relations, who viewed his conduct toward his wife and motherin-law with exlreme displeasure. -It is seldo that success in passing an examination leads to the suicide of the stu- dent. but such an instance has just occurred in England. About four, miles from Ply- mouth. Major Letts prepares military stu- dents for their examination, and one his of pupils, Mr. J enkinson. having undergone his examination, was awaiting the result. Dur- ing the day Mr. Jankinson was much excited. In the evening the news arrived that he had passed with special distinction, and that his oommission had been granted. Upon rcâ€" ceipt of this intelligence he was overjoyed, and retired to rest in a very excited state. Early in the morning a fellow student, who was in an adjoining bedroom, heard the re- port of a pistol. and,- entering Mr. Jenkin- son’s room found him dead on the floor of the room, and saw a pistol lying under the bed. â€"â€"There is danger of a corner in the sar- dine market. For two years the fish have failed to make their appearance oi! the coasts of Europe, thereby inflicting a loss upon Brittany alone of not less than 15,000,000 francs. The cause of their non-appearance has been made the subject of a discussion in the Academy of Sciences at Paris, and has occupied the attention of some of the leading French savans. One thinks that unusual winds have driven the diminutive fish which serve as food for the sardine out of their re- gular course, and that the sardine has been compelled thereby to make the same devia- tion. Others are of the opinion that vast ice fields coming from the north have affected the current of the Gulf Stream, by which the sardine is supposed to be drawn to the coasts where it is caught. If this cause, whatever it may be, is merely of a temporary character. we may see a good haul, and possibly a very large one. in the next season. Otherwise this widely consumed article of food may be. come seriously scarce- â€"'1‘he iollowmg story has recently gone the round of the German papers : 0n the morning of the recent eclipse Capt. von 8-â€" of the â€"- Fusileers issued the following verbal order to his company, through his ser- geant-major. to be communicated to the men after forenoon parade : “ This afternoon a solar eclipse will take place. At 3 o’clock the whole company will parade in the barrack yard. Fatigue jackets and caps. I shall ex- plain the eclipse to the men. Should it rain, they will assemble in the drill shed.” The sergeant-major, having set down his com- manding officer’s instructions in writing as he understood them, formed the company into hollow square at the conclusion of the morning drill, and read his version of the order to them. thus ; " This afternoons solar eclipse will take place in the barrack yard by order of the Captain, and will be attended by the whole company in fatigue jackets and caps. The Captain will conduct the solar eclipse in person. Should it rain, the eclipse will take place in the drill shed.” â€"Prince Krapotxin, the Russian Nihilist, writes to the St. James’ Gazette : “ During Nicholas’ reign men were killed by the ad- ministration o! 7.000 strokes of the rod ; but a special imperial order was necessary for that, and the chief of police knew periectly well that he might himself share the same fate for an-abuse of authority. Now the chief of police murders peaceful men with his re- volver, perfectly sure that he will not be prosecuted if he says that he suspected the peaceful man to be a revolutionionist. If I could reproduce here a mere list of such deeds as occasionally find a record in the Russian newspapers during a fortnight, the English reader would shudder at it. I could reproduce a long catalogue of peasants flogged. put into cold holes, or ordered to walk on their knees over dry peas for the purpose of exacting taxes ; of other peasants beaten, killedl thrown into prisons, or de- ported by hundreds every week to Siberia, under the pretext of disobedience; of men torn away from their occupations ruined. and exiled at the whip of a chief of police ; of ar rests on false accusations; of briberies and robberies committed in low and high placesâ€" all under the pretext of saving society from Nihilism. This would give a true picture of the realities of Russian lite." â€"Thu man with a cock-eye scatters his Views broadcast. “ Oh, dear I” granted Mrs. Spoopendyke, “I'm sure I’m going to die!” and the good woman flopped over n the bed and oontemn plated her husband with a pale face and a. look of general debility. “You will be good to baby, won’t; you, dear ?" “I 'don’t know," moaned Mrs. Spoopendyke. "Look on the top sh of the closet. If it isn’t there, try th bottom drawer of the wardrobe; or it may be in the pantry. 0w WI" and Mrs. Spoopendyke doubled up andgtmighiened out with a. jerk. “ 0h, ho I” returned Mr. Spoopendyke, pounding her tenderly on the head with his big band. “ You‘re all right. Bear up against it, and you’ll be well in an hour or two. I’ve often had the cholera morbue, but you never seen me give up like this. Where’s the ginger ‘z” “You can’t remember any other Congres- sional dish-ion; represented by that ginger, can you 7" growled Mr. Spoopendyke, prowl~ ing around the room in an aimless but ener. getio fashion. “You don’t call to mind a couple more roosting places in which that ginger is to be found, do you? Where’bouts on the top shelf 7” and Mr. Spoependyke rah tled around among the old bottles and empty pill boxes. ” Look here! I’ve found that court plaster I wanted day before yesterdayl” and more than gratified with his find Mr. Spoopendyke utterly forgot the original object of his search. , “ You’ll send baby to a. good schqol, and see that she marries happily, dear f” groan- ed Mrs. Spoopendyke. adopting a. woman’s ater of hinting “Hat the ginger would be aoceptaola. ” you’ll bury me by my mother 2" “ Certainly,” replied Mr. Spoependyke. im- mersed in the contemplation of the court plaster. “Where‘s the sheet of flesh color that was here ‘2" he demanded. “ Idon’t seem to detect the presence of that particular element 0! adhesiveness 1 Where’s the flesh colored portion of this-curative 7" and Mr. Spoopendyke ran over the little squares again in a vain search for the piece he missed. “ Did you look in the wardrobe, love ?" askegi Mrs. Spoopgndykq, f_n.i_qtly_. " It isn’t here I" growled Mr. Spoopendyke, raking over the contents of the drawer and turning them over with his foot. “ Whatâ€" 2 Upon my word ! you're a pretty woman 1 I thought you said that old razor strap of mine was lost when we moved. Here it is as big as life and twice as dirty. Glad I found that strap,” mumbled Mr. Spoopendyke, rubbing it tenderly and blowing off the dust. Got a piece of cloth ?”_ . " Oh.do look in the pantry I" pleaded Mrs. Spoopendyke. “ I'm sure it’s in the Pantry!" Mr. Spoopendyke charged on the pantry like a column of horse and hustled are 41 3nd bumped his head. but didn’t see meet with much success. “ I don't see any,” he muttered. “ Don't you know where you keep your cloth I I s'pose I might stand around here till dooms- day, while the moths corrode and thieves do break into this razor strap and steal the whole business, without finding a piece of cloth to wipe it on. Haven’t ye got an old skin or something ?” And Mr. Spoopendyke drew the strap under his arm two or three times and regertiedjt efieotienately, “ 0h,pleaae find the ginger I”'squealad Mrs. Speopandyke, as anomer spasm caught her. " Never mind your old strap 1 Find the ginger 1 ” “ Ain’t I Jookmg for it ?” reborted Mr. Spoopendyke. “ Here's a. cork, and the bot- tle can‘t be far off. When I find that bottle I‘ll have a. clue to the ginger, and I’m going to follow it to the bitter end. You ought to save these corks anyway when I go fishing. What kind of a bottle was it 1’" Mrs. Spoopendyke arose from the bed. pale but firm, and stalking across the room seized the bottle and flounoed backinto the bed with a. bump that showed she was mad. There is nothing on earth that will so express a woman’s wrath as that one dive among the sheets. “ It was long and narrow,” replied Mrs. Spogpendyke, n‘lmgsj i_n desgair. _ “ I ought to find it from that description," muttered Mr. Spoopendyke. “Most bottles are perfectly round. Here’s the ethics bottle upside down, and I told you to keep it filled. I might knock my elbow into the next Pres- byterian General assembly, and I’d have to wait all day before I could get a. drop of arniee to soothe my anguish l What’s this straw hat of mine doing in the bottle box. anyhow? What particular malady did this but have that suggested such a disposition of it ?" and Mr. Spoopendyke smoothed out the crown and squinted with one eye while be straightened the brim. "That’s a. good hat. yet.” and he put it on and regarded himself in the glass. You wanted some ginger, didn’t you! Where is it? Where'd you put it 7_" Mrs. Spoopendyke eyed Him, but made no respoAna‘efl “ Getting better. ain’t ye ?" snorted Mr. Spoopendyke. “ I told ye the cholera. morbus didn’t last long Where’s that razor strap? What’d ye do wighfihat syn-59 ?" _ ‘7 Point out to me the present address of that strap 1” howled Mr. Spoopendyke. “ Take this finger and lay it tenderly on the home and country of that strap ?" and Mr. Spoopenkyke whirled around like a grind- stone and filled the air with bottles and boxes, and powders and pills. " Come out of the jungle and face me I” yelled Mr. Spoopen- dyke apostrophizing the strap which he remembered having in his hand but a. mo~ ment before. “ Show me to the strep ! Take that strap by the ear and lead it before Spoopendyke in proper person I" and the en- raged gentleman thrust his foot through the crown of his hat and drew the wreck up to his hip. “ What's that sticking out of your breast pocket 2" asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, scraping 03 external applications of an assortment of drugs: “ Umph !" grunted Mr. Spoopendyke, draw- ing out the strap. " Found it, didn’t ye? Another time you let things alone, will ye ? Made me spoil my straw hat with your non- sense 1 Another time you want anything you just stand back and let me search I Y’ understand 7” “ Yes. dear,” murmured Mrs. Spoopendyke, and as her husband left the room she took a. consoling swig at the ginger bottle and re- flected that he hadn’t enjoyed the attack of oholeramorbus much more than she had.â€" Brooklyn Eagle. A Father Meets Ele 50-Year-Old Child for the First Time at a Funeral. A strange thing happened at Frederick Sta- tion, in Montgomery. 00., Pa , a few days ago. Aaron Bout, a well to do trucker of the neighborhood, a hale old man of '50, was introduced to his lather, Aaron Bout, a. rich old merchant of 70. who lives on Hens street, :in this city. Neither knew that the other was alive. Although they have been maid-- in within two hours’ ride of each other for a quarter 0! a. century this was the first time they had ever seen each other, and thereby hangs s. isle. Fity years ago the father was a. well known horse jockey in Montgomery county and lived near Frederick. He was a crack rider across country and the most popu- lar horseman to be found in a. radius 0! fifty miles. At all the county fairs young Bout was authority on all matters pertaining to horseflesh, and none dared dispute his opin- MR. SPOOPENDYKE’S SEARCH. WHOLE N0. 1,256.-â€"N0_ 8, VERY STRAN GE. ion. He was a perfect dare devil in the saddle. and one could manage the ribbons of a four in hand as gracefully as he. At 20 he went off with a circus, and in a few menths his first son was born. He did not return to Frederick until the day, fifty years after, when father and son first met face to face. The mother had died and the father sup- posed that the son had also died. But while the one was roaming Athe jarth, leading an adventurer‘s life, the boy ‘grew to manhood and to middle 9.86.. After many years of wandering, and when he had been lost to family and friends in Montgome , Bout, the elder, married and settled in P ' - adelphia and beeame a domestic man of. busi- ness. accumulated property and became the head of the family. is last child in now but two years old and was born when the father had reached the ripe old age of 68. There are twenty-four other children, not in- cluding the supposed-to-bendead first born, all of them alive. In the meantime, Aaron Bout, Jr., had lived an uneventful life, had married, bought a littlefarm and also reared a family of chlldren. One day Mrs George Bilger, of this city, who was a relative of Mr. Bout, died and was taken to; Frederick to be buried. Among -the mourners was the father, and in the company at the church was the son. Neither was aware of the other’s name or identity. An old patri- arch of the neighborhood met Bout, sr. He had known him when both were boys, and was amazed to find him alive. Felling back in the funeral procession he took the son aelde. “ Come," said he, “ I will introduce you to your‘father.” V “ My fgpher.” cried out the astonished man. " Impessibie l I haveno father. He is dead.” ' In a few minutes the father of 70 and the son of 50 years, each somewhat bewildered. were in a long ahd warm embrace. For hours the two eat close together under the friendly shade of a. neighbor‘s vine-clad porch, all Im- conscious of the curious gaze of the cannery folks who had attended the funeral. ” No, no,” replied his friend, “ he is here. Come with me.” The son, who has been in Philadelphia but once in his life. was pressed to pay a visit to his father’s house on fleas street. above Twelfth, and when thé crops have been har- vested on the Frederick hiil there Will be an- other meeting.â€"Philadelphia Record. Old Jim Doolittle used to keep a. store in Cottonwood, Neb., but he is now out of the business. He was a. very peculiar salesman. If a customer didn’t buy everything he looked at Doolittle regarded him as an open enemy. He took very little stock in the motto. “ No trouble to show the goods.” In consequence of his peculiar method of transacting business Doolittle’s trade dwindled until he was able to enjoy all of that solitude for which his nature seemed to yeern. Oue day a lady strayed into Doolittl‘e’s store and timidly asked the poor boon of looking at some cheap calicos. Doolinle clung heroic: ally to his nail keg. and kept right on whit- tlifig‘ “ You want to look at some prints, do yes? he snarled. “ If you please,” replied the lady. _ “ Well, now, at yer air going to buy some, I’ll show ’em down ; ef yer ain’t I don’t pro-’ pose to nnlimber the goods and muss up she counter.” The lady fled. ' A man from the North Loup stumbled on to Doolittle’s store and went in to buy a pair of boots. The stock of men’s foot wear was not very extensively sorted up, and every pair the Loup Fork man tried were too small for him. The last pair of split leather kips were mourniully laid aside. and with a sickly smile he said be guessed he had better go some- where else. "Yer don't act like a. man as wanted any boots.” said Doolittle, glaring at him like a wounded hen hawk. "“They‘re too small, pardner." “Don’t you aallme pardner, you old lantern jawed snoozer. Yer one of these flunicky chaps as can’t be suited nowhere, thal’s what yer air. What do yer have such cussed bxg feel; for, anyway ‘2" ‘- I guess I’d better be a going,” said the 01m Fork man, pulling on his old pair of moccasins and starting for the door. _ ' “Then you don’t want no boots ter day," snsgped Poolittle. “7365, I've got to have some butes, pard- ner,but it seems these aire alltoo small weigh}: , " Yer had that. yer splay footed old mud- dobbet. Here, hadn’t 'you better come back and try on me case! Mebbe It’ll fit one of your hog fat. feet.” Something like a. crowd gathered in front of Doolittle’s store immediately after‘this collo- quy. There seemed to be a kind of theatri- cal entertainment going on inside. Anon the Loup Fork man would swing something over his head a few times, and then he would fetch the door a thwack which made all the alabaster crockery and nutmeg graters rattle on the shelves. The floor was strewn with canned peaches, cove oysters. boneless codfish and pant buttons. The dust was so thick that the excited audience couldn’t see exactly what was transpiring within,but from certain ejaculatory sentences overheard it was surmised that some one was trying to sell Doolittle a bill of goods on thirty days’ time. five per cent off for cash. But as he shot out into the heart of the crowd, and lay there in a kind of soft, pulpy condition, his face high- ly ornamented with displayed ads. and cuts, and a half pint of teeth scattered around him the assembled multitude reverently made way for a tall stranger who issued from the store minus a hat. with a flushed lace and a long rent down the back of his coat. â€"â€"Wi11iam H. Cook was the Surrogate of Philadelphia and a lawyer of good attain- ments. One day in 1878 he started for Doylestown, Pa... and was seen by numerous acquaintances on the way and at the railroad station. Then he disappeared, and his relatives searched in vain, no trace of him being found. He was given up for dead. But he was alive. A sudden afiection of the,brain had destroyed hi memory of the past, and he could not even recall his name. Be wan- dared about for several years, and at length became a runner for a Newport hotel, where he was known as General Hill. His feeble- ness of mind and body, together with his change of manner and dress, prevented any chance recognition. A short time ago he had brain fever. and in his delirium told who he was. He is now back with his family, and slowly regaining his reason; but the five years of lunacy are a blank to him. â€"-The great Chicago fire is to he repro- duced, on a reduced yet extensive scale, in a Boston summer garden. The spectators will look across a lake at a section of old Chicago, which will take fire and burn with historic accuracy. “ Over 150 persons.” says the manager’s glowing announcement, “ will take part in the representation, as citizens, fire- men, 620. Fire engines,drawn by real horses, will battle with the blaze, boats on the lake will take away the fleeing populace, railroad trains conveying engines from other cities will dash into the burning town, and every- thing possible will he done to give the event the air of reality." â€"Referring to a St. Louis paper’s lament that American boys do not learn trades which are likely to pay so much better than average clerkships, the Indianapolis Journal remarks that this arises less from false pride than from the extreme difficulty of procuring in- struction. Many a parent can attest lhat it is among the impossibilities for boys to secure situations where they can become skilled in any of the more desirable trades. It is, in fact. a great favor to take a boy. AN AGREEABLE STOREKEE PER. â€"In the middle of June the snow lay thick at Balmoral, Scotland, and the cold was in- tense; Snow also fell in Fxfeahire and in Nor- folk, J 11115. â€"Eolland, being Protestant, sends nearly all her fish to Catholic Belgium, and it is at times diflioult, even at the Hague, to get a. fresh herring.