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â€"An Iowa man tied one end of a long cord to an aching tooth, and the other to a heavy weight, which he dropped from a fourth story window. Two men were taken to a hospital Iin an ambulanceâ€"one with a. broken Jew and ‘one with a. broken skull. â€"The London public is represented as de- lighted with their savage captive, the King of the Zulus. The corporation gives him a grand dinner. The Queen grants him an interview. The London populace ie gremly amused at his quaint remarks and his good humor. â€"Philadelphifia running water pipes for cooking and culinary purposes through com- mon sewers, and thus subjealing the house- hold water supply to the risk of poisoning. The health board protsst, but cannot Vamp it. â€""1‘he Berlin National Gazette reports that I high :apanese office] has been directed by the Government to make a study of the Prus- sian constitution upon a. constitution to be modelled for J span, to go into eflect eight years hence. â€"The Victaria Groés is a ,specinl decora- tion for personal valor under fire in the British army, and though it has occasionally been won by 3 lord. has never yet‘fallen to a prince of the blood. ' â€"A man on Sturgeon xivez‘, Michigan, folâ€" lowed & bear mm the woods and considered himself death on bears. About three hours afterward a party of neighbor's x" 5::qu him from the top of a. sapling where he was cling~ ing and yelling. ' â€"-A Dublin woman has been for years drawing money from the public charity fund. and food from two private charities. The money she has lent at usurious rates. and me food she baa sold, and added the proceeds to her banking capital. â€"Memorial Hall, erected by Phiiedeiphia for the Exhibition of 1876 at; a cost of 81,- 500,000. and intended to stand as a. remainder 01 that event, is serving the latter purpnse by requiring very extensive repairs. The roof cannot hold itself up much longer. and other parts of the pretentious structure are falling to ruin. -â€"At the camp meeting at Lancaster, Ohio, there was preaching at eight different points, and the conversions were numerous ; but it seems that all the sinners Wiihiu hearing were not afi'ected, as during the sptvice a ‘minister last 3535 at the hands of pick- puaketa, and :here was a. general raid on robes and harness. ' â€"-'I‘he freak of a Uhicago police sergeant was in arrest. a lady and gentleman who had come to complain of an insulting patrolman, and keep them in a cell all night. For that. he losas his place. â€"Six hundred Iowa druggists have agreed, in View of the danger of selling alcoholic drinks, not 'to fill physioians’ prescriptions for wine, whiskey, and the like. â€"-The town of Paysou, 111., by a vote put the matter of licensing rumsellers, into the hands of a. Women‘s Christian Temperance union. Of course, no licenses are now grauh ad. â€"-The pay of Mr. Harrison, the boy evanâ€" gelist, for his services at the Loveland camp meeting. near Cincinnati, is officially stated by the treasurer to have been $100 a week and board. electricity. â€"Alezander Salvini, the second son of the great Italian tragedian, will appear in Chioau go this month in the character of Romeo. He has already done a little acting bus 111 trivial parts. -â€"Experiments at a cost of $36900 are be- ing made at Berne with a View to traction through the St. Gotham tunnel by means of â€"There is a farmer in Ohio who has not sheared his sheep in five years, brouuse, as he claims, Providence intended the sheep to wear their wool. -A ei‘zver plated Iron Iawa. -â€"â€"The Italian Government will open a gal- lery of modem art in October, and $20,000 a year will be devoted to the purchase of new pictures. â€"â€"It is proposed to practically abolish,‘ by cutting, twenty feet wide and twenty ~ feet deep, the narrow isthmus which, dividing the east and west locks of Tarbert, Scotland, unites the Mull of Kintyra to the mainland. Such a. canal would give a direct passage from the Clyde to the Atlantis, saving about '115 miles in the voyage to the west and north of Scotland. â€" Fintin Meredith sold his Iowa farm for $1,100, intending to get very wealthy in min- ing. He took his money to the fair now open in Denver, unfolded his plan to a chance acquaintance, and was at once accommodated with a. halt interest in the Mountain Queen mine. He has' not been able since to find either the mine or his partner. The members of the Irish party whom Mr. Davitt threatened to expose when in America, and whom he accuses of creating the differ- ence between him and Mr. Parnell, is Mr. O’Kelly. member of Parliament for Bessem- mon. Mr. Dnvitb, since his return, has with- drawn his communistio scheme, as likely to create divisions and not within the range of practical politics. â€"“ Yes ; I loved Lawson Palmer once, but when a man carries a bottle of muriatic acid in his pocket, and every time he meets you threatens to throw the fluid in your face and ruin the natural smoothness of your cam- plcxion, it does not strengthen a. genuine sentiment of affection.” This was what Miss Mary Spilman said in a Philadelphig police. caurt. Lawson was held for trial. ‘ ~A New Orleans man invented an intoxi- cating beverage, which he said was' bound to revolutionize the process of piéasumbly getting drunk. He invited some friends to dinner and tried the new liquid on them. They drank it with avidity and' rolled com formny under the table ; but the next. day they had to be put under a. physician‘s care, and the host has gone to work to patient his invention. â€"-Neham, a rocky peninsula near Boston. where a few rich people go every summer in quest of pure sea air,hnd a severe outbreak of typhod fever last year, there being about 80 cases. Nearly all. an investigation shows, were due to bmi drinking water. These people, who gave much attention to upholster~ ing. sunk wells and let the water take care of itsell. Out of 190 wells and cisterfis examined, 111 were bad. â€"The right of a woman past the age of 21 to marry whom she pleases has just been vindicated in Missouri. The father of Laura Hobbs, aged 27. attempted to hold her to com tinue service in the paternal home by locking her up in a room when who had made a verbal contract to become the wife of George W. Bishop. A wxit oi habacs corpus unlocked the door, and the marriage took place in spite of the father’s objections. â€"â€"~Mr. Maitland, superintendent of the royal gun factory at Woolwich, England. says that the nature of the productions of such an establishment necessitates the turning of very large and heavy masses, and, therefore, the lakes are remarkable for magnitude and power. They can deal with weights up to six hundred tons, and are sufficiently powerful to reduce by six inches at a single out the diam- eier of a twelve foot tube. â€"Ol those killed by railroad accidents in Great. Britain last year by causes beyond their own control. the proportion was one to 27.- 050,435. The proportion of the injured was one to 630,354. The totals were 108 passenn gers killed and 1,854 injured, and of employee 531 killed and 3,445 injured. From treepasses, suicides, and miscellaneous causes death came to 467 persons, and injuries to 265. The risk of travel is seen to be extremely low. â€"A writer in the Argonnut describes the Duke of Hamilton as “ a great, coarse, senâ€" sual-looking, red haired man of seven and- thirty. without a. feature in his face evinciug intellect or refinement, wilhout a point in his unwieldy person to indicate blood. His estates long since passed into the hands of AROUND THE WORLD. dollar deceiving ---Matthew Arnold, in one of his mixed essays, gives expression to the opinion that ere long the whole world will be American- ized. Events seem likely to ’verify the pre- diction. What would Horace Walpole say if he were to be told that Strawberry Hill, Twiokenham, would. less than a century after his death, he purchased by an American company for the purpose of converting it into a. hotel conducted upon American princi- ples? Yet such is the fact. â€"The King of Ashantee has performed an unprecedented not. in drinking liquor in pnb~ lie. the occasion thus honored being Queen Victoria’s birthday. Be drank the Queen's health in the presence of the British agent and a large number of his own subjects. The true Briton will probably see in this not not. only a most gratifying evidence of the dusky monotoh’e loyal friendship. but one of the most convincing proafs possible of his cnpa city for civilization. â€"Sir Garnet Wolseley, who has just gone out to take command in Egypt, is very quick and brisk in his ways. with a, trim military appearance, and great readiness of adaptation to change of circumstances. He possesses Napoleon’s faculty of calling at a glance the measure of a man. and knowing. how best to use his ability. He has succeeded in every position in which he has been planed. Like Bit erderick Roberts, England's other great General, he is an Irishman from near Dublin. â€"-The Ixieh constnbulm-y, which has jus‘ been in semi-munity, and on which the pre- servation of law in Ireland depends. was cre- ated in 1814, and was borne equally by the counties and the consolidated fund. In 1846 the whole expanse was undertaken by Govern- ment, and the force made semi-military. 1‘ consists of an Inspe‘étor-General, a Deputy Inspector-General, three Asssistsnt Inspector- Genemls. thirty-five County Inspectors, 199 sub-inspectors, 232 head constables. 10,787 constables, acting cbnstables, making a total of 11.255. â€"â€"An unlorseen consequence of cutting the‘ Sue: Canal has been the intrusion of sharks in large numbers into the Mediterranean Sea, wiih terrible resulting havoc among the smaller edible fish. Formerly a shark was almost a curiosity in the Modifiermnean, and there was no ohoicer or better stocked fishing ground in the world. The fishermen of the Provmeial coast supplied the cities of France -â€"-A Kansas story is about three mice that rolled an egg down a stairway without break- age. One held the egg in a close embrace. while the others rolled him like a ball from one step to the other, always managing to let him strike on his back, thus protecting the egg. The man who says he saw it does not hesitate to add that they rolled the egg to a small hollow in the floor. which steadied it while they cut through the shell with their teeth and emptied it. ~ â€"â€"Lawn tennis has become so scientific a game, with the “ volleying ” now in practice. that English clubs are considering changes which will lengthen the rallies, and leave it less dependent on sheet force and swiftnesth is proposed to make the net the same level all over, thus helping the base line player con- siderably. Bis play would then no longer be cramped by the necessity of returning swift bulls over the centre of the net for fear of the court. hia creditors. He then became a pensioner, so to speak, upon their boumy, living on what they chose to allow him. He is married to one of the Duke of Manchester’s daughters." wish the bent of pis‘chorial food, and in never failing, abundance; but they now have difliâ€" cultv in furnishing half the quamity that they then obtained wimh ease. -â€"As an elevated railrpad like ours would probably fail on account of the enormous ex- pense entailed in the acquisition of right of way, the scheme of mfimderground road in Paris has been adopted, and will be at 'once carried out. Accrtain line will run from St. Cloud;to the Lyons terminus, from which will branch a large outer circle and a small inner circle, with additional lines to the vnri~ cue termini. In the south the road will pass through the principal business quarter, and intersect the boulevards at the Place do l'Opera. The length of the lines will be nearly 24 miles. " â€"â€"In the performance of Lady Macbeth in. English in London. Riehri introduces 'c' novel feature by repeatedly lifting her fin~ gere to her nose to express disgust at the scent of blood. This was no: acceptable to the English audiences. but the German orifice pronounce it high art. Her costume in more characteristic of a Roman cantedino than of a. great Scotch ohieimin’e lady. The upper skirt, of Beetle: brocade, reaching but little below the knee. reflemblea the Dalian peasant’s apron, and the rows of bands which encircle the neck and reach to the waist com- plete the resemblance. â€"The Municipal Council of Paris recently passed a resolution calling on the Govenment to change the name of the Rue Bonaparte to Rue Garibaldi. Some of the members also thought the Rue St. Michel should be called after Garibaldi, not because he ever lived there. but because he hated saints. The re- solution to drop the name Bonaparte. how- ever, had the greatest attraction. One mam; ber remarked that as there were a great many vendere of ecclesiastical furniture in the streets, the change of name would be very annoying to them, and was therefore mani- festly expedient. This incident shows the irreligious spirit of someof the Paris authori- ties. â€"Some of the meteorsâ€"or“ extra. terrene." as he terms them â€"-are believed by Mr. Proctor to weigh but a. few grains, and from this up to a ton or more, hundreds of thou~ sands of these becoming incorporated with the earth every twenty four hours ; and yet such small secretions to the earth’s matter would, it is computed, take many millions of years to add a single foot to its diameter. Briefly explained, these meteors travel in vast belts and in highly eecentricorbits round the sun, are very numerous, and when their orbits intersect that of the earth they are brought within the influence of its gravitation, and on entering the earth’s atmosphere be- come luminous and fail to strike the surface. â€"Au imposter has been travalling about in some of the provinces of Austria and repre- senting himself to be the Crown Prince Ru- dolph. The farmers were treated by him with great afiability, and were assured that when be mounted the throne he would con- fiiscate many of the large estates of the no- bility and divide them among the country folk. They readin swallowed this, and com~ peted for the honor of having him a guest. Their tables were spread with the choictest vinnds, they entertained him at an extrava- gant banquets, and begged him to receive presents from them. Detectives who at- rested him iound that he had previously been a journeyman seddler in the city of Crneow. --Lieut. Giraud has left Marseilles for Zanzibar as leader of an African expedition. After organizing at Zanzibar he intends to go to Lake BangWeolo, which he proposes to cir- cumnavigate by means of an English built boat which he takes outwith him in sections. It was on the south shore of this lake that Livingstone died, and the new expedition in- tends to take up the exploration here where he left it. Gimud hopes on reaching the Lualaba Congo to be able to descend it to the west coast in canoes. Although he has a. mission from the French Minister of Public VOL. XXV. â€"Water mixed with ice gives the best lem- per to steel. One may insert some small tools to advantage in a lump of ice, as jewel~ ers and watchmakers do when they temper them in sealing wsx. Often oil is used, and is preferable to water, because it is not so easily evaporated. Dameaoened blades are tempered in a strong current of cold air, pass- ing through a narrow chink. a. temper more uniform'then with water being thus obtained. But of all the means for this purpose, it is believed the most elficscions is a metallic liquid, and, mercury being the only one known, always a. good conductor of heat, as well as the best of liquid conductors. it has come to be regarded As an unequal bslh for the temper of very sharp steel tools. â€"-The Princess of Hanan. who died the other day at Prague, in Bohemia. was the widow of the lute Prince Elector of Hesse. She was a. daught; r of a vine dealer of Bonn, and while a young girl 3 Lieutenant in the French army fell in love with her and married her. The;r had been joined many years, and had several children, when the future Elector, then Crown Prince of Hesse, was fascinated by her. and after she obtained a. divorce he married her. Evil tongues said that the Prince bought her {mm her former husband for 330.000. He had been betrothed to the Countess Reichbsch. The wine dealer‘s daughter ruled the Prince to her heart‘s content. and became very rich. She has left property amounting to 14,000,000 perks, to to divided among six children; ‘ â€"Cnlorado‘s mining exposition, which opened last week. is now in good working or. der. and is well spoken of by those whohave visited it. Tons. of. glittering ore, rich in lead, iron, silver and gold. lie in heaps, or are piled in pyramids. The exhibition admits agricultural as well as mining products. Denver is as proud of this show as Paris or Philadelphia was of its world's lair, since it almost exclusively represents the products of Western soil.‘ There is s Corliss engine, just as in Philadelphia, and even a gallery of psintings is added. Leadville contributed a military display for the opening. It is be- lieved that the exhibition will pay the pro- jectors; if so, it will prove an exception to the ordinary rule in such displays. --In a single week Chicago - had two mob performances. - In one case. Bite“). lumber vessel had been unloaded and the work paid for by-the job, the men demandpd’filB more because of some timber handled, bombarded the ship with mis'siles when it started away down stream, took possession of one of the city draw bridges so as to stop it, and then seizedvessel. captain, and 1 crew. and made luoh demonstrations ' that the captain gladly paid the $18 to get away alive. A dayror two later a siniilar demand was made after a vet;- sel was unloaded, and when payment was re- fused the ship was tied to the dock with a mulfipliciiy of lines,;t_he men steed about each one will: a. knife in his hand pretending to Whittle. and after two hoursyaiiing, with no sign of help from the policetthe captain also paid and wes'allowed to go; ' Education, he himself bears all the en pauses. â€"-M. Fave has found that a steel bar, mag- netized at a temperature of 350 degrees 0.. and then allowed to cool, develops on being heated again a quantity of magnetism, which is indeed sometimes as much as three times the amount possessed after the cooling. Some of the experiments, however, made with a view to observe the influences of changes of temperature on the magnetism of steel bars, have shown still more peculiar results. Thus, when certain bars were magnetized at a high temperature and cooled, their magnetism entirely disappeared. and then changed sign ; so that. if a bar had been magnetized when hot in a certain direction, it was found to be magnetized in the opposite direction after returning to the ordinary temperature. â€"The goid'ouniially taken from the Siberâ€". ion mines is estimated to be worth $6,000,000. The'fiist discovery of the metal in that counâ€" try' was made at the beginning of this cen- tury. The average cost of -' an expedition in search of gold is estimated at $3,000. There- fore,.only capitalists can indulge in the lux- ury of ‘experim'ents.' One of the .-prinoipnl ‘ope'mtorsois said to have spent a' quarter of a. million before finding any ore. , The miners ate‘paid only 63 a month, with boardand lodging. The sale of liquor is forbiddenwith: in twelve miles of each shaft, that discipline mayvbo maintained. The number of mines has already increased’sinoe the second quartet of the present century.but that period was the moat prosperous in the history at Siberian- mining. The labor of the sari; then 00le next to nothing, though the pay of the work- men is now pitlably small. _ -â€"'1‘he desideratum’ of a. locomotive pos- sessing the utmost possible power in the way of making quick starts and stops while drew- ing heavy loads has led‘ to many ingenious plans. According to one of the latest of these, no separate tender is used, but the fuel is carried on the. rear portion of_ the engine itself. which is extended back in the shape of s. 009.1 bunker a distance of. about seven feet; and which gives capacity for three tone of- oosl. The water tanks are planed upon the engine, and extend book nearly ~to the .103!“ end of the coal bunker. their capacitybeing from 1,200 to 1,600 gallons. The engines are double enders. with a pilot front and book. allowing them to -he run forward and back upon the lines without changing ends, and are also arranged with accommodation coup- lers for high or low built ears. The total length of the engine is some forty feet, and it stands upon six smell drive wheels fifty inches in diameter. and with two leading and two trail wheels twenty-six inches in diame- ter. â€"â€"At a London meeting to raise money to complete the excavations at Epheus, Mr. Wood, the explorer, told how he discovered the temous temple. No writings existed to afford him the .slightest clue to the where- abouts of this wonder of the ancient world. But he hit upon an inscription from the wall of that theater to which St. Paul would have entered, but the disciples 'aufiered him not. This described a. procession in‘which certain images were carried from the temple through the city gates. After much search he found the gates. and then at length hit upon the paved way, worn into grooves by the wheels of chariots. Little by little he made progress at the city of Epheus until he reached the temple of the great goddess Diana. The fragments of friezcs and column drums give aglimmering idea. of what the whole must have been. They are now in the British museum. ‘ : â€"'1‘he increase in the consumption oi coffee is very strik'mv. Twenty~five years ago the quantity grown was estimated at 330,000 tons, but in 1879 the total was 570,000. The con- sumption was greatest in the United States. The principal cofiee~producing country is Brazil. the crop of 1880 being estimated at 280,000 tons, but when the emancipation of the negroes is complete, as it will be in twenty years, the question is whether the oofi'ee planters will be able to find laborers enough to keep up this high total. Next to Brazil come the Dutch Indies. including Java ‘ and Sumatra, into which the cultivation of 3 coffee was introduced bb Van Hoorflin 1669. It is only within the last quarter of a century that the oofiees of Ceylon and the East Indies have been exported in any quantity, but at the present time the export of Ceylon oofiee is 40,000 tons, andof East Indian coflee over ; 30,000. The coffee plant has been found to RICHMOND HILL; THURSDAY, AUGUST 31_ 1882. â€"Ramleh is almost entirely the creation of European merchants, and is described as “ a little bit of Europe in Egypt." Those who want to get further away from Alexandria in summer time prefer Bas-elBirr (the head of the land). a. small sandy peninsula be- tween the Mediterranean and the mouth ol the Nile, several miles beyond Damietta. There are no houses at Basel-.Birr. People live in wigwams made of poles and matting, and a few who stay during the summer fur- nish them with some degree of comfort, but most of the visitors stay there only two or three weeks. In winter the waves dash en- tirely over this little peninsula. What recon- eiles people to the roughness of the place is its coolness and salubrity. There are no hot nights. The sea breeze blows through the wigwams. People who go once generally re- turn. The bathing is perfect and every one bathes; Plenty of fish are caught in nets, ‘milk and eggs may be got in the neighbor- hood, and other stores from Damietta, the famous old city, once of great importance, where the Crescent finally gained the _ victory over the Cross. At Ras-elâ€"Birr, the wide river on the one Bias and the open sea on the other, with the contest, in a strong breeze and current. between the waters of the river gd the sea. produces a striking and peculiar ect. ‘ â€"When George the Third was king it was much more an offence for a woman to_appear without rouge than it now is to.be seen with it. Young girls were not allowed to wear it, however, and the saying arose, “ She is marrying to wear rouge and diamonds." It was supposed‘that gold had the property at attracting the blood to any spot on which it might be rubbed, and girls used to rub their lips and cheeks with sovereigns. Of all rouges now in use the one said to be the best is made by dissolving a quarter of an ounce of finest cal-mine. in half an ounce of liquid ammonia, and adding, after two days, a pint of rose water and half an ounce of triple essence of roses. A new rouge is perfectly white when applied, but the pale girl has not been half an hour in the open air before her cavalier is delighted to perceive that a rich healthy glow is overspreading her cheekland heis rather inclined to think that his eonu versational powers are partly responsible for. the improvement. The preppration must be carefully used. as it is not easy to judge of the efleot until it changes color. All rouges injure the skin in time, particularly those in which mercury is an ingredient. â€"-The German tradesmen are rapidly ris~ ing into higher flights of the advertising art as shown by the following ingenious para- graphs from the advertisement in the Ber- liner Tageblatt and the Wiener Vorstandi- Zeitung : A German , Knightly landowner wishes to find a female life Companion who resembles, externally as .well as in character, the heroine of Sacher Maroeh’s'nowl, Frau van Soldsn. published'in' the April number of 'Auf der Hebe; by E. L. Morgenstern, Leip- zig. Address Karl-Eggar, Beiderwiese, near Passsu. . An enterprising Viennese tailor has hit upon this :. How to become a houseown- er: Quite latély ' a gentleman made his fortune on the Wieden in an astonishing and absolutely original manner. At my shop he purchased a morning suit for ten florins. a dress suit for nineteen florins, a mi: of sum- mer trousers for three florins. and a complete costume for; his little son at the low figure oi three flori and a half. Having reflected that, had a bought these articles in any other shon, he would have been obliged to pay at lesst twenty florins more for them, he resolved to invest his savings to that amount in a ticket for the Crown Prince Rudolph Lottery. At the next drawing his number came out the-first prize of twenty thousand florins, which-sum this lucky person forth- with invested in a comfortable mansion. Thus, through dealing ’atmyestablishment, he became a houseowner and a wealthy do well in some parts of Africa, such as the region 01 the Mozambique and the Cape Verde Islands ; but it has not; answered at Sierra Leone, on the Guinea coast. at Natal. or in the Cape Colony. Attempts are now being made to acclimatize it in the Fiji Islands. â€"Edwin Price. the husband of Fanny Davenport, was asked ,in London why she was seeking an op'ening'on the stage in that city, in view of' the fact that she could do much better financially in her own country. "' It is true that Americans know what they like,” he replied, “ but they are stimulated to fresh evidences of approval when they see their favorites well received elsewhere. They like to know that their- judgment is fully. corroborated. 'I never felt this so strongly as during the past season. When Mr. Booth went through America the last time prior to his engagement with Mr. Irving in London he certainly did a large buainese. But it did not reach more than half the dimensions of the results of the season following that en- gagement. I happen to speak knowingly, because our company followed only a few nights after his over a. large tract of terri- tory, and no such houses were ever known as these he drew during that part of his tour. Now, how do you account for that ? He was a standard attraction already, and might be looked to for large business. But when. he was suddenly enabled to draw $2,000 for a single performance in a city that had never before given him more than 3700, there is only one explanation. It was the London 1 sueoess that made the difference? -â€"-'1‘he center of population in the United States was twentyrtwo miles from Baltimore in 1790, and has moved westward st-theaver- age rate of fifty~one miles at every decade. deviating to the extent of a degree north or south of the 'thirty ninth parallel. The greatest progress was between the years 1850- 60, when it travelled eighty-one miles from a point in Virginia to twenty miles south of Chillicothe, Ohio. 4 This movement was caused by the settlement of the Pacific coast. The center of population in 1870 was forty- eight miles northeast of Cincinnati. Accord- ing to the last census, the center had adu vaneed westward titty-eight miles, and de- flected to the south about eight, being near the village of Taylorsville, Ky., about eight miles from Cincinnati. It is anticipated that the next census will find it 'in Jennings county, Indiana. Supposing the westward movement of population to continue, the cen- ‘ tral point should cross the Mississippi about 1940, not far from the mouth of the Missouri. It is considered probable, however, that it will'never go so far westward, as there are large ‘ areas in the West which I are only adopted for mining and grazing pursuits, and will support but a scanty population. The increase in the region beyond the Mississippi, after the close of the present century. may not much more than counterbalance that of the rest of the country, in which case the center of population will remain almost sta» tionery in southern Illinois. â€"â€"Venezue1a celebrates her centenary July ‘ 24,1883, and the arrangements have been made for an international festival beginning on that day, which is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bolivar, the Liberator, and ending Aug. 2. The proclamation of the national holiday in honor of Bolivar and the ensuing iestival invites the United States to join with Venezuela in the celebration, and sets apart the 3let day of July for the exclusive purpose of ofiering admiration and homage to the great North American republic by un- veiling a colossal statue of Washington, the lather of the great people who founded re- publican institutions in the New World as a model to the Spanish-American nations. “ Iâ€"I has dun forgot. sub." “ Am night (19 time to hunt rabbits ?” “ Dat‘e de werry best time 30 hunt some kinds, ash." “ Au’ you wasn’t arter chickens ?” " Chickens ! Why do werry name of chickens makes me sick. I was lookin’ arter mxflknife in; _de alley, 331’ ; glidn‘t find it.” _ “ Brudder Bulger. :19 club says not guilty," obsarved the Presidenfi, “ but it am such a powerful close shave dat I deem it my dooty to warnyou dat de nex’ time anybody goes out rabbit huntin’ and takes you fur a rabbit, your place in dis club will be dealat’d vacant in a tone of voice dab will make de cold chills canter cl’ar up to de back of yer neck 1 We will n'ow confiscate to tie regular order of bizueas." “ Chickens !" " Yes, chickens 1 When I say chickens I doan’ mean calves. A 31min white man was watchin’ a ’isartin hen-roost. A pusson to him unknown climbed do fence to neoumulate poultry, buttock fright an' started on a run. De gun went ofl garter him, an’ some of it ootched him. Brudder Bulger, has you any». flag to say befo‘ de committee on Harmony leads you to the head of the ets’rs an’ lets you dropA?" " I reckon I has, ssh. I doan’ deny flat I .was shot in do back, an’ I admit dat it war’ in an alley, but it was done by a boy who was out huntin’ rabbits. Yes. ssh. an’ he’s dun begged my pardon an’ axed my forgiveness, an' h_e's ggvingtq pay all de expenses,” The roll was called, and the vote stood : Guilty, 54 ; not guilty. 55. Elder Toots, being asleep. did not vote, and Samuel Shin asked to be excused on the ground that he loved the J udxe’a half sister. “ Bruider Bulg-er', what am He nanie of dat boy 1" Â¥ _ 'The president aoiétched his ear for a min- ute, and then said : “ I’d like a. wote of de club on dis queshun. Seggetaryl call de you.” The Glee Club struck up the good old air of “ Walk Along With Sarah! ” and Sir Isaac Walpole-arranged his side’whiskers to keep in any climate and passed the bean-box with such sweetness that the following c‘a’ndidntes were almost instantly elected : Seldomfed Thomas, Prof. Jeems Elliott. Swansy Dunn can, Strawberry Jackson. Whistling Charlie, Moses Jackson, Goodwill Simmons and Fri- day Smith. Alter Samuel Shin had struck the triangle the usual six strokes, and Pickles Smith had got his dog made fast to the club safe. the President arose and asked: “Am Judge Stavesway Bulge: in de hall dis eavin' ?” “ He are,” was the answer from a. spot near the yaheryailz _ The Judge advanced with apprehension in his eyes, and his knees knocking together, and when he had reached the desired position Brother Gardner continued: " Bmdder Bulaer, I iz relisny informed 69.: a. surgeon picked 22 bird shot outer your back (18 odder day." “ Y-yes, Bah.” “ Au’ I iz turder informed dat de said shot afiruck you while you war‘ gallopin’ down an alley on the Cass farm.” “ J-jist 50, 88.11.” “ An’ de las’ information am to de effect dut you didn’t git do chickens you war’ at- ter.”~ ~ ' PROBABLY WILL. The secretary announced a communication from 001. Sweetbrend Simpson, of Tunkhnmm nook, Pa... asking if the Lime-kiln club would grant achatter for a branch' club at that place in case seventeen charter members got together. The secretary was instructed to :open correspondence and ask :_ “ Den I.would like tohava you step for’d to de desk." V ‘1. Areyofi in harmony wnh 'our' foreign polio): ? _ r . . 2. ,Do you propose to elect any knock-knead men to membership ? 3, Do you believe in dreams and {signs? t. Will you insist that every applicant shall be able to read a circus-bill and own a dog ? CAN’T. ran IT. The President then remarked that he de- sired to make a personal statement. A man giving his name as Corkscrew Gardner; and his residence at No. 10 Lemon alley,had been passing around among the colored people and claiming to be the brother 01 the Limekiln Gardner. He was a base imposter. The President had eleven sisters. but no brothers. He had hunted for the base villian a whole day, but had been unable to meet and anni- hilate him. All members of the club were re- quested to beware of the villain and to pron 3 vide themselves with slug-shots at the ex: pense of the club treasury. RULES IUBPENDED. Giveadam Jones then eecured the floor to announce that he hadgreceived a personal let- ter from Hebo Ham Sloan, of Cobb 00., Ga... asking why his application for membership had not been acted upon. He was not called “ Professor." but he had a cataract in one eye, owned seven dogs and was the father of six- teen children. Being a widower and about to roman-y. he was only wait- ing for action on hie petition. Brother Jones had discovered that the petition was among the twenty-tour swallowed by a calf belonging to Pickles Smith some ten weeks ago, and he therefore moved that the rule be suspended and Mr. Ham be made a member. Whalebcne Howker at once seconded the motion in a voice full of pathos, and the rules were men pended and the Professor voted in. THE PICNIC. The annual club picnic was one of the grandest affairs of the kind that has ever taken place on the American continent. ‘ Delegates began to arrive on Thursday, and ‘ by eight o'clock Saturday morning the num- ber of honorary members present numbered three hundred and twenty. Almost every State in theiUnion was represented, and every delegation was headed by either a judge, professor or 0010961. At 10 o’clock Saturday iorenoon the entire club marched to the foot 0! Elevemh street and took a barge and were towed to Fighting Island. On the way down a. fight occurred between Professor Gilmarzin Smithera, oi North Carolina, and the Rev. Cayenne Coopersmith, of Vermont. but they were separated after the sixth round, find nothing further occurred to interrupt the peaceful flow of harmony. On landing at the ialaud the programme of the day was a; once entered into. The foflow- ing are the names of the successful contest- ants for_prizas : Bunnihg raceâ€"Samuel Shin. Premium, 3 hagd painth sawbpck. Julfiping match â€" Judge Snewball : premium, 5 tin lantern with the Golden Rule pajgted 911 fly: glgss i_1_1_1_red1_emter_s. - Wrestling Mitchâ€"Elder Junebazry Jones ; premium, two bottles of red ink and six sheets of note paper. _ Boxing matchâ€"Givesde Jones. Brother Jones stood up for half an hour against all comers. and at the end of that time thirteen different men were bathing their faces in the river, and three more were sitting in the shade and nursing their aching jaws. The cham- pion was presented with a steel engraving of John Quincy Adams and a photograph of the tomb of Washington. THE LIME-KILN CLUB. AT THE ISLAND. ELECTION . eel} The club returned to the city at 5 o'clock. 0n the way up a delegate from Chicago had his nose broken off by falling off the rail, and Weydown Bebee and Doctor Black pulled heir over our foreign policy, but the trip as a whole was very pleasant. THE ELECTION- After the Lime Kiln Club had disposal of routine business as far down the programme as electing Mr. Earn, the doors were thrown open and all the delegates invited in. After a brief speech by Brother Gardner, the annual election took place, with the following re- sult: For Prosident--Brother Gardner. For Vice-Presidentâ€"Hon Snowball. Secretaryâ€"We. down Beebe. Tremsurorâ€"Pic es Smith. After the results of the ballots had been an- nounced the President said: “ Gen'lem, I thank you fur dis new dis- play of confidence. Dis club am now io’ y’ars ole. It has 1,722 members. It has 15780 in safe. It has 6,280 books in de Library. It has 147 relies, valued at $4,294 13. Our motto am "Progress." an’ we stan’ in wid Congress, all do legislaolmree, de Concord Skule of Philosophy, all scientific sooiettee, an’ wid all departments of government. Doo- rin’ de oomin’ y’ar we shall make our influ- ence felt in ebery county in de land, an’ we shall gather to our councils de wisest states- men, do moae’ brilliant orators an' de keen- lest philosophers in de laud. Bein’ somewhat obercome wid do hilarious excitement of de day, dis body will now adjourn to a shed on Hastings street wharin am deposited 198 watermellyons, a bar‘l of lemonade an’ sixty- four coooanuts dat am warranted not to out in de eye. Let de triangle he stricken an’ de Glee Club raise deir tuneful voices." The dinner was a grand afisir, and was est- en during a. rainstorm which took all the color out of the pickles and somewhat thin- ned out the mustard. Just at the hour, too, the 224 dogs which had accompanied the club 301: into a political dispute and declared war, but in spite of all drawbacks the meal gave the most eminent satisfaction. The Rev. Forthwifih Hastings was the champion pie eater, having devoured six apple pies in five tminutea. The premium was a pognd of fifty gent tea. Throwing the hammerâ€"Col. Shinback Smith; premium. one bottle of pain killer. The colonel made one of the greatest thrown on record, knocking down two men and kill- ing_a_dog belonging to Pickles Smith. “Swimv‘ixing fiatEhâ€"Gen. Crusoe Buck ; premium, ten yards of bed ticking with blue “ripen.” The professionals summering at Mount Clemena,Mich., are at timesratherhard push- ed for something to do to kill time, and the boys have their heads together the most of the day arranging some scheme to while away the long summer vacation. Last season Gus Williams and Charley Young were the ringleaders in mos: of the devilmeut, and many are the funny stories told of their pranks, in which they were ably seooyded by the reat‘ of the gang. - While over in the bath house this morning Gus learned that a number of old gentleman from the south were to arrive an the after- noon train to examine the baths, and if satis- fied that the waters were as aepreeented, they would take up quarters for the summer. Haw ing obtaiced the above information. Williams concluded to have some hm will: the expect- arrivnl4, and with his chums arranged a pro- gramme that will he unfolded further on. At 4 o’clock six benevolent gentlemen, suff- ering from rheumatism, gout, eto., arrived at the bathhouse and calling for tho superin- tendent, visited the different baths, and then proceeded to the reception room and com- menced to put the superintendent through a cross examination in regard to their chances of being cured, and the cost, etc. While the discussion was at its height, a terrible uproar was heard. meet the entrsnoe of the bath house, in which groans, shrieks, and yells of agony Were heard that made the the new guests turn pale and start from their seats in alarm. The irontdoor was soon opened, and Gus Williams rushed in exclaiming : “For God’s sake. Doctor, get two bathe ready at once 1 Two men have just been taken ofi the train who we are afraid, will not live to get to the baths. Can you hear them out side? Here they come now.” said Gus. as other unearthly yells went up that would have made a Sioux Indian jump for joy, and the door opened, disclosing the length forms Charlie Young and DeWitt Cook holding up the apparently dying tonne of Emotion and Clark, who were on crutches. their limbs bandaged. and their faces the pictures of den. Pair: _ - “ No use for a bath toe. those poor men." said one of the kind Aold gentlemen, “‘they will not live an hour.” "They are had," said Williams. “but we must put them in ; it is their last chance, and the boys were led 013 to their rooms, keep- ing up their groaning so pitilnlly that the new arrivals could scarcely keep the tears from their eyes, big beads of perspiration standing out on their faces almost 03 large as hen’s ‘38”; V7‘1‘he poor fellows are dead,” the 0. G. “I think not.” said Gus; wait' "till the waters take effect." In a few minutes a. noise was heard from the bath room that sounded like some one humgzing a liyely song qqd flange git. “Thot’a a. shame,” said the O. G.., “to be singing 80 near the presence of death." J was at this point out rushed Charley Young, saoing: “ Gus. they’re better; do you hear them singiBg ?"_ “"Y5u don’t mean to say ,” said all the 0. O.’s at once, “ not the men you just took in therel and whq rappgarierd t9 be dying 7” “ The same." said Charley,'end just as he said this a. crutch soon came flying out of the bath room. soon followed by by three more, and then Emerson and Clark themselves in their bathing dresses, who proceeded to dance a double clog. to the astonishment of the 0. G.. who would seoreely believe his eyes.” "Howâ€"howâ€"howâ€"msny baths have these men had ?” said one of the 0. G. in a trembling voice. “ This is their first,” said Williams. “ We will stay here for the summer,” said the leader of the O. (3., “ and we want a bath now.”â€"Dramatic World. TEE QUICKEST CURE ON RECORD. Una would scarcely think that the world could be weighed in scales, like a package of merchandise; but Herr von Jolly, of Munrich has done so. and finds it 5,692 times as heavy as a. body of water of the same size. or about half as heavy as it it was of solid lead. He placed his balance in the top of a high tower, and from each of the scales, suspended, by means of a wire, a second scale at the foot of the tower. Two bodies which would balance in the upper scales were out of balance when one was removed to the lower scale, because the latter was nearer the center of the earth. By comparing this difierence with the differ- ence caused by a large ball of lead (1 meter'in diameter) in close proximity to the lower scale he obtained an equation which. with the known size ol the earth. gave the density of the latter as above stated.-â€"Eestern Ee- cord. -â€"A city belle at Newport won a wager that she could mi“: a cow the first time trying. .WHOLE NO. 1,261,â€"-NO, 13, WEIGHING TH E ERTE, said one of Is annexed to in; name. Is derived from “ Rejected Addresses." Shelley expressed many a. beautiful thought But perhaps never a finer than this : “ Life, like a dome of many colored glass Stains the white radiance of eternity.” It is not strange that the poet should have been accused in spite of such an admission of immortality, of holding views at variance with such a doctrine 7 Young in his “ Night Thoughts ” speaks of “Nature’s sweet reetorer balmy sleep.’, But Beaumont and Fletcher excel even the poet who wrote so much upon the subject when they speak of it as: 'One of the authors of the Rejected address- es. James Smith, wrote the following in his nieoe’s album: " Shouldl seek Hymen‘s tie, As a oat I die, Ye enedicta mourn my distresses, qu what little fame orn‘ som cab, is dead. at the age of seventy- eight years. The Prince of Wales must be ubiquitous. The new olfioes of the London Daily Tele- graph were opened recently, and his Royal Highness. accompanied by the wife of one of the proprietors, and the Duke of Albany along with the Lady Maoyress‘? went through the entire establishment, and waited for the first impression of the morning edition. The Rev. Sydney Smith. an able but eooen- iric divine, who wrote many hard things about the Methodists and the American repudiation, died on the 22nd of February 1845, at the age of seventyâ€"six. 6 died worth nearly half a. milliondollars, much as he wrote against the rich and taxation. An honest dramatic critic Via a rarity ; but he of the New York Times is sufficiently blunt in speaking of the fulsome manner, in which an actress is spoken of as having been received on her westward journey with a perfect ovation. The critic thinks it is Miss Gray’s delusion that she is the most import.- ant actress in the country, while her acting is as aimless, unintelligent and bad as the act- ing of many foolishly advertised American women is.” ' The Judge was hardly prepared for such a speedy arrangement on the part, of a female client, when he suggested a. compromise. and told her counsel to ask what she would take, she replied; f‘ I’m much obleeged to his Lordship ; as he is so kind, I'll just take a. glass o’speerim. Curious as it may seem, it is nevertheless a fact, that the magistrates of Castlehra-lla', England, held a court in the, churchyard of that place. on the 4th November 1844, to hear evidenee respecting a. tombstone, with the viegv of establishing 9. claim to the peerage. William Pitt was unquestionably the great- 9815 of England's statesmenLike most of the great politicians of England, he began as the adherent of a party from which he seceded, and became the brilliant Tory leader and Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the age of twentyvtbree. He was Premier at the time of England's greatest troubles. and carried her safely through them all. ' He was a. bold and fearless Minister, and faced the worst ditfieulties that ever a_ nation contended against it. He died on' the 23d January, 1806.in the 45th year of hia age, and was ac- corded a public funeral and interred in West- minster Abbey. The Irish drummer had his with about him when, under the influence of the ardent, the General asked him. “ What makes your nose so red?" he unhesitatingly answered : "1 al- ways blush when 1 spake to ageneral officer." An extraordinary duel was fought in France on the 3d May, 1808. between M. de Grand-u pare and M. Le Pique. They agreed to fight in balloons, and accordingly each went up in a. balloon aceompanied by hie second, and armed with blunderbusees, at the height of about 800 yards and 80 yards apart the fight began. M. Le Pique fired without ef- fect, but M. Grandpare’s fire penetrated his adversary’s balloon, consequently it fell m- ' pidly tovthe earth, and M. Le Pique and his”;- second were both dashed to pieces on a house top upon which the balloon fell. Some odd blunders are made at times, and they are not confined to Irishman either. The London Daily Telegraph reported a. member 01 the House of Commons as saying of an- other member, that he had “ eat at the feet of the Gamebird of Birmingham," instead of the Gamaliel. Another London paper. al- luding to a conflict between the police and the people. said, “in the Union infirmary lies John Smith with his shattered leg, which was amputated on Tuesday." A Scotch journal not to be outdone by its contemporaries in Cockneydom, gave this account of a. disaster at sea: “ The captain swam ashore, as did also the stewardess. She was insured for three thousand pounds and carried 200 tons of pig iron." 01 course it was the ship the reponer referred to. That wives are not always as sympathetic as they might be. perhaps too many husbands know. Great men have, in most instances, been married to women who had but little sympathy with them in their actions. Many an author has had an unsppreoistivo wife, as for instance, Siebenkees, an eminent German writer. Ono day, having finished one of his finest pieces of imagery, he desired to let his wife hear it read. She listened with evident interest, and apparent satisfaction to the close ; but on olosing the book he was startled by the exolamation: “ My dear, pray don’t put on your left-stocking tovmerrow. I see there is a. hole in it.” There is always something new turning up. China ware, Japanese oddities, and all sorts of rarities are about to be thrown in the shade. When the Centennial exhibition was in full blow, the Japan section was over-run by, searchers after the curious ; but some on- terprising American has decreed an end to such vulgarities as the wares of China and Japan. He has penetrated that hitherto sealed land called Cores, where no outsider dared‘ to: venture, and the result is that-«a Corean were after this is to supersede all such trash as comes from the celestial land. Any other human than a Yankee would have been slaughtered by the Coreans in the en- deavor to explore their country. Douglass Jerrold was the Prince of wits. None but a born wit, and genius to boot, could have written Csudle’s Curtain Lectures. An actor said to Jerrold one day, in speaking of an absent friend : ' " Call that a kind man r A man who is away from his family, and never sends them a. farming; call you that kindness 7" “Yes.” said Jerrold, “ iun‘ea mitting kindness.” A friend remarked, " God has written honest men on his face,” speak- ing of a particular ‘eoquaiutance. “ Hnmph I” said J errold. “ then the pen must have been a very bad one.” A gentleman in a company where Jerrold was exclaimed : “ Nobody can guess what I had for dinner today.” 0! course none could answer; when he said, “ Why, calf tail’s soup." Jerrold shouted “ extremes meet." ” Care-charming sleep, thou ease: 01 all woes Brother to death." Decker says with reference to death that: A“ There’s a. loan fellow who beats all conquer- The Sultan of Morocco muet be really fond of photographic pictures, if it be true that he has given orders to ,3. French photographer at Tangiers to photograph the wives of his hlghness. The work Will be anything but a labor of love, seeing that the wives number 364. With a wife for nearly every day in the year the Sultan may {eel happy, but how will it be with the French artist, who has not only to get up the pictures, but put them in an album which must be closed with a lock, of which the Sultan is alone to have possession of the key. Surely it is enough for his High- neee to shut his wives out of view without also locking up their pictures. â€"Bnfialoea in Dizkots. scratch their pon- derous foreheads against the telegraph poles so vigorously that much damage and incon- venience are caused to telegraph operators. â€"An order to the Russian army forbids any ofiieer to wear eyeglasses while in uniform. The fashipn for them, which has lately sprung up in ~the Russian army, has made four-fifth of the officers claimant: o! bad sight. DE OMNIBUS REBUS. Hansom dead. I n, inventor of the Han- nt the age of seventy-