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â€"The precocily of Maxeuclmaett‘s children has taken on n p‘xinf‘al form. For we read of a. little girl of {our years who is proatmted by a shock of paralysis. 39’ â€"â€"The village of Lachen, in Swiizerland, has been almost destroyed by a watcrapout, which washed down stones from the mountains of several 'tons each. -â€"-The average haight of the British Guards sent to Egypt is stated to be 5 fth 10.1: in- ches, as against 5 feet 10 inches in 1854. â€"â€"Mountatuurt, the new palace of the Mar- quis of Bute. which will cost at least $1,250,- 000, is to be waGy far habitation next sum- mer. â€"â€"Two Indian?u msn built a skiff in a cellar Where the air was comfortably cool, and then worked three days in the broiling sun digging it out. -â€"A man of 20 am! a girl of 17 endeavored to commit suicide by tying t-lmmsnlvos to- gether with a handkerchief and jumping into the Frays, in England. â€"A boy of six and a girl of two at Ballard- ville, Neb., are named for marriage by their parents, who have signed an agreement that the wedding aim” occur in 1897. â€"-A man has been arrested in New York for counterfeiting theater tickets. Bis vi1~ liany‘bas put him in “a bisx,” but he sighs for the family circle.-â€"~t§20uboxwiile Herald. â€"~A girl slept Haventyrt] :90 days at Bomu jon, France. and men awoke very slowiy‘ the use of the faculties as well as the limbs re turning only by gradual steps. Speech was re.» orod at lass. â€"The Scribe who so persisteuuy writes of “ funeral obscqnies” and “ old vuiumna" has now diseovered an ‘- inseneato idiot.” He musl have stood befcre a mirror draped with synonymous adjautivea. ~â€"-Baron William Roihsc‘uiida of Frankfort returned his! Last year’s income a: $1 192,000, While his broiher. Baron Meyer Geri, con- fessed to $1,140.000. The amount of their income tax exceeded $70,000. â€"Emma Vollcr of Red Bluff, Da1., was so mortified by her sweethearts appearance as an wathete at an outct miumnr-t that her mind became disordered, and she died after sulfeh ing intense mental agony. fâ€"Prinoe Hemy of Prussia will start on a voyage around the world next October. He will probably be away a year and a half. and spend most of the time cruising in the West Indies and round the South American coast. â€"The population of Franco. according to the new census, numbers 37.072.000, against 36,905,000 in 1875. The 47 towns! of upward of 30,000 inhabitants show an increesa of 5020005116. contam nearly Gnu-sixth of the total. wl’rince Coffee Jutch, the son of King Coffee Calculli 0f the Ashamees, is being educated under the tuielags of England, bufi the climate of that country being thought too severe for him he has been sent to '1‘sz dad. â€"In Austria. some Ruthenians convicted of high treason ~in plotting for the dismembur- meat; of the empim, were sentenced so im- prisonment for terms varying from three to eiggimonths, with one day's fast every {ort- mutiny Campbell, the well known play~ wru, 1:, While Walking with his wife on one of the streets of Oliiwu, S. L, last. Sunday wen- ing, was knocked flown and buifiy beaten by two drunken rougha. They was arrested and fined $10 each. “King Louis has given to W’agner two well trained swans, Wblc‘u have drawn the small boat containing his highnaes, habited as Lohenmia. on the; blue and moonlit waters of the lake in the _neighborhood of the royal castle of Bohenswargard. â€"King Alfonso has maria mwguifieent presents to the commissiomrs who cunvvyad to him the Garter from England. The Prince of Wales received fiupedtvriea w'ort-h more than $30,000. To the othars are sent specimens of Toledo arms encrusted with gold. â€"â€"At a bull fight in Nimea, France, the via- itors, risen:ng mat the bagels dismjjled u MM.$:F;WV ' - 1 n - ness of the Exhibition by hufilflkfigfiififi down from the galleries. Finany they gel; fire to the propamoa. and committed dam-c ages to the amount of $1.000. â€"â€"Some boys at Tucson, Toxaa, undertook to make a statue, and their plans for getting a mould was to cover their playmate! face thickly with mud. Thay tried it, giving the subject no breathing holes, and he was sufi‘o- outed so nearly $0 (loath that the doatora had great difficulty in saving him. â€"A four year old boy traveled east alone from Illinois. A card sewed. to the back of his coat said : " This is the only son of a widow, whose circumstances compel her to part with him. His name is Nathan. and he is on his way to his grandfather, Jacob Shemp, Chester, Delaware county, Pa. â€"Women clerks at Washington have formed a Beeret society, the object of which is painy the collecnion of information con- cerning politicians who use their influence to get improper persons into the departments. The movers in this society say that. they in- tend to publish those politicians to the world. â€"A bronze statueue recently found at Beyxout is [1 female figure, entirely naked, and crowned with a crescent. One hand rests upon an car, with an inscripfiicn, “ To the Sidonians,” in Phwnician characters. The figure is supposed to rapresent the god- ess Astana, and to be of the time of the Selencida. â€"-Some man who has no senseâ€"of smellâ€"â€" lays that “ a lump of Limbulger cheese tied up in a rag and placed. under the pillow will prevent mosquitoes from diatur‘uing your slumbers.” We should say so. We should have a very poor opinion of a mosquito that would enter a. room where such an infernal machine was concealed. â€"â€"Lyman B. Goodhuo, a. St. Louis drugâ€" gist, is White, and his wife is black. He is suing for a diverse, not on account of the difference in color, but. becauee she treats him cruelly. He bore with her lovingly, he saya, as long as elm struck him only wnthher open hand, but when she threatened his life he moved for a separation. â€"-George Bennett bought a. flying horse for 35, and drove into Maysville, Veh, at a. slash-- ing pace. After telling several persons that he paid $200 for the hottest. which did not show its condition to casual observer,he man- aged to get it killed by a locomotive. Then be sued the comptuy for 3200. The scheme failed and its projector is now in jail. â€"Accor¢1ing to a native Japanese paper. the piclux‘omluo old juxnka which have so often figured in stories and piczures of maxi- time life in the fur East are rapidly disap- pearing. at least as far as Japan is concerned. Shipbuilding in Japanese Style is an far giv- ing place to foreign construction that by and by there will be no such thing as a junk ex- cept in paintings. â€"-A band of hrigands, only fifteen in num- M, are unhindered in the neighborhood of Adrianople. They appeared at the‘vilinge of Izarlikieui in broad daylight. and after in- specting the villagers, selected the Primate us being the fittest object for their attentions, as he was the wealthiest men in the place. They tortured him uutil they had extorted $1,000, and he was subsequently burned with petro- leum. -â€"On an express train running between Victoria and Brighton. England. rite four Pullman cars lighted. with incandoecvmlamps supplied with electricity from Fauro accumu- lafiors. The cars have eiectic bells also, by which the conductor or page boy may be sum- .moned. The “covered gangway,” by which the conductor may pass from car to car, is mentioned as another feature of ‘he train. â€"â€"Pollok Castle, lately burned. was one of the most interesting country houses in the we at of Scotland. It was built in the pichur eaque old Scottish baronial style, about 200 years ago. The walls and entrances of the AROUND THE WORLD. li- courtyard were very quaint ; svarywhem were to bu seen carved stone rr-pmscntahiona of the elephant; and the greyhound, the eupporters of the Crawford Pullok families. â€"-Anol.her famous English collection is coming into the market, for among the numerous private bills that have been quietly smuggled through Parliament is one giving power to the trustees of Sir Henry Heat‘s settled estates to sell the heirlooms at Stour- head. most. of which were collected by the well known Sir Richard (Jolt Hoare, who died in 1838. Some years ago the collection was valued at $250,000. “A girl at Long Branch has hair so stiif and course that it does not mat when (Branch-a ed. Ita utility is apparent when she bathea, for others come up from a plunge with their trusses in an insignificant pigtail, while her head is as attractive as when dry. A corre- spondont calculates that 1101‘ peculiar hair will bring her half a mlllion dollars, because it seems to have charmed an heir to that amount, and he is likely to marry her. â€"â€"Ai the last. Prince’s garden party in Lon- don the caprice of fashion was the parsisol. Same specimens were ui great value. There was in plague of jewels on the tap ofone white one which dazzled the eyes of the beholder. The Queen, whose sight had been caught by the topazea and amethysts, encircled by rows of seed pearls, with which it was adorned, turned away with manifest disapprobution, and, like the angel in Moore's poem, “never looked again.” â€"â€"-Au ecclesiastical inquiry has been made in England into misconduct on the part cf the rector of Chastletcn. The Bishop said that the defendant‘s course has been such as to loud almost over one to think that there was Home ground for the charges of im~ morality,th the Court, after considerable hesi- tation. scidet the conclusion that they did not think the proof conclusive. At the same time thc rectcr’a conscience would tell him that he had acted foolishly. ' â€"â€"A dwarf 17 years old and hardly twenty five inches in height. was sold in France to Joan Lemeuu by his falher, to be e'xhibited in a booth. His purchaser conceived the him of establishing a miniature menagerie, with the dwarf as a. tamer. Ha caused a num‘uer of cats to be painted so as to look like tigers, and giving the dwarf a whip, compelled him by kicks and threats to goad the cuts into a furious attack. The poor litals feIIOW was literally torn to pieces by the infuriated bruics. ~Tho second of the four sitting statues thus are to commemorate the landing at Ply- mouth 1620 is completed. The 0113 already in place represents Morality, and this second one, which is the gift of Roland Mather, of Hartfordjs aymbolical of Education, being a woman’s figure of large Size seated on a pedestal. Tue statute is cut from a single block of granite, at a. cost, including, a marble panel with various deaigns, of $20,000. The other two statues will represent Liberty and Law. ~le Paris police have made a raid on the milkmen. The cans are all unloaded in a large warehcuse on arrival in the city, and twenty-five policemen were posted outside, loopholes having been made in the wall to enable them to peep. Just’wllen the milk- men had brought in the water and were be- ginning to make their customary mixture, the pelice rushed in and caught them. They were found to have a large quantity of bicarbonate of lime, together with a contriv nce for re- moving the sealed covers. $ Vâ€"- n V- u’v man with- one an. met a poorly cl’fifi%xfi%o§*mm girl of a w ' mm more. He kindly asked her what was the matter. She hesitated, and then, being an ged to speak out, said that a. clairvoyant had told her to go so that spot at thin time, to meet a one eyed stranger, who would ask 1101' to marry him, which she would consent to do and long happiness would ensue for both. Of course he could not aoubt her story, for he was there with his single eye ? He made the proposal of marriage. and next day the wedding was held. â€"â€"Judge Edward A. Thomas discusses. in the North American Review, the value of oaths in courts. In his judgement the oath should be entirely dispensed with, 8.8 doing more harm than good. He declares that the conscientious man W111 tell the truth, when legally called upon to do so, as thoroughly without the oath as with it, and that die- honest persons are seldom restrained by the utmost solmenity of form. In short, he bea lieves that the oath has lost its force as a restraint, and is merely the formula. of an exploded superstition. ~That the youthful wives of the Hindoos are much under the personal jurisdiction of their mothersdn law is a peculiar fact. Ap~ pulling consequences have been brought to lightin acase of suicide in Bombay. The wife, a child in age. who committed self denudation, was driven to it by the perseouv- tiou at the hands of her husband’s mother. The coroner said that by far the largest) num~ her uf famalo Hindoo suicides are those of women betWeen the ages of twelve and sworn- ty : and that the cause is, in nearly every case, the despotism of a mother-imlnw. --A great change has been decided upon in the Russian army. With the exception oi the Cursssiers, Life Guards, and Cossacks, the whole foroa of the regular cavalry is to be transformed into dragoons, carrying small bsyonet rifles for the performance of infantry service. The existing regiments of Hussars, Lancers. Mounted Grenadlers, and others will retain their present titles, but as regiments of dragoons. The reasons for this change are chiefly economical, and seem to be directed toward lessening the enormous expense which is entsiied in a. national 3mg like that of Russia by too great a variety of uniform and equipment. VOL. XXV: -â€"Among the most recent additions to the London Zmlogical society‘sgollection of liv- ing animals is a. young male African elephant, which now occupies the stall in the elephant house lately vacated by Jumbo. Jingo. as he has been named, is at present young in years and small in stature, beiugonly 4feet2 inches in height, and weighing about 700 pounds. He is, however, without biemiah or defect of {my kind, and perfectly tame and gentle. In course of time it is hoped that he mny’attain the full dimensions of his predecessor. Jingo was captured by Arabs in Upper Nubia about eighteen months ago, and is believed to be about three or four years of age. ~Much annoyance has been caused in France to the authorized bearers of the insig- nia oi the Legion of Honor by the wearers of foreign orders who imitate the French decor.- ation. The matter has been brought under the consideration of the council of the Legion who, with the sanction of President Grevy, have issued a new code of regulations. with a warning that any infraction may deprive the ofiender of permission for wearing foreign decorations, besides involving certain penal- ties undefthe code. A. list is published of seventeen decorations which must not hence forth be displayed without the appropriate cross suspended to the ribbon, which must be of a. prescribed diameter. â€"Juet before the death of Councillor Scharf, 101 years ago, he became a bun erupt, and the Royal Greet Britannia Electorial Brunawickiun-Luneburghish Chancery of Justice, in Hanover. publish an official an- nouncement to the effect that his estate would undergo liquidation in due course. That process is now being closed by the Second District Court at Goettingden, which informs the German public by advertisement; that the heirs of Uouneillor Schuxf's creditors will do well to prefer their claims to his estate, inasmuch as the assets theruof amount to 841000. This am]: the court holds an the disposition of'the estate creditors. As a legal transaction this liquidation in bankruptcy commenced in 1781 and terminated in 1882. â€"-A physician calls attention to the fact that if tobacco smoke is instantly ejected from the mouth find throat before descending into the cheat and be made to poas through a cambrio handkerchief drawn tightly acroas the open lips, a permanent deep yellow stain corrosponding in size and shape to the open- ing between the lips. and having numerous diits ofa darker hue pervading it, will be left on the handkerchief; but that the pro- longed puff from‘ the chest after inhalation from a cigarette fails, under similar circum- stances. to produce any but a scarcely per- ceptible and speedily evanescent mark. What in the lat.th case becomes of the substance which stains? This physician thinks it re~ mains in the lungs, and he therefore cone demna the common manner of bmoking cigarettes as dangerous. â€"The Vicomte de la. Panouse, husbuné of Mme Heilbron, the actress. has adroitly managed to get the better 05 his Bouuze credâ€" itors. When the late cmeh took place, the couple were supposed to be utterly ruined. The Viscount had lost $500,000 and owed 200,000 to two stockholdem. He at once gave out his departure for tha Cape, while the Viseountess was to return to the stage during his absence. But {she had no sooner sold their hotel to pay 013 some of their debts than 9. wt was smelt, and the Visuouut, who had made over everything to his wife, was found to be living like a fighting cook in a quiet little village in Auvargne. The stock brokora forthwith sued him. His counsel, however. took advantage of tho coda, which admits certain Bourue speculations to b ille- gal, and the court has non suited the pla tifis on that ground. â€"â€"'1‘he{:1ther of a thousand children has just diud in Vienna. Fcrdinaud Reidt was a man of considerable weuhh and was happily matrix-ad, but the great regret of himself and wifa wan that they had no children, ami nhcy concluded to not as parents of the fatherleas and motherleas. For nearly a quarter of a cen- tury he was known as ihe father of the orphans. He cummeucud by taking charge of a couple of orphans, but his zeul and re~ pute increased to euch an extent that an the time of his éeath he was the legal guardian cf more than a thousand fazherlesa children. Those Whom he adopted in this manner were not fitfully picked up and than let drop, but he kept consciemious watch and ward over them, from their curly education until mar: tinge. or their start in adult life at the close of their npprenticeahip. He never sought fame or pnbiiciéy, and tuck no credit to him- self for his devotion to those who had no natural claim upon him. 4 .-â€"The Postivists have been (1111):? ‘ng a little among themselves in Paris. " hen Auguste Comte (lied to bequeathed all his works manuscripts and the objects which had been his especial personal property to his little band of disciples. The disposition in his will did not please his widow, who dispu- ted it in 1870, and lost her suit. But Pierre Lsfflte, the chief of the Positiv‘ist school, was gallant enough to give up to Mine. Comte a. portrait of her husband, which was the only one in existence. on the understanding tba'u it should come back to the Positâ€" ivist Society on her dame. ~‘Eilhe lady forgot this agreement, for before her death in 1877 she gave the portrait to Wyronbofl. Then Lsflitte forbade the administration of Mme. Comte‘s estate to give up the portrait. The picture remained in the administrator‘s hands until the death of that person, and a. few days ego the two Positivists, Lafayette and Wyronboff, had a. legal wrangle for the possession oi the coveted object. The court has sustained the judgment of 1870. and the Positivist society is authorized to receive and keep the portrait of the founder of its school of thought. During the trial a constantly growing adherence to the {irinciples in France was clearly shown. â€"The Prefect of the Seine has drawn up a scheme by which associations of workmen will be admitted to compete for public works in Paris. The workmen’s delegates have maintained that, if the Administration would consent to make regular payments on ac- count, they would undertake to leave as a guarantee until completion ll deposit of from 20 to 80 per cent. The Administration has agreed to this arrangement, but exacts other guarantees and conditions on the part of the men: First, the creation of s speciulfund in aid of those of the associated workmen who may fall ill or may be wounded in the execution of the work, end for the widows. and children of the deceased partners ; se- condly, the establishment of an arbitration board of three membera charged to regulate all disputes between the men, without prelu- dice to the authority conferred by the regula- tions upon the oflicial architects and en- gineers ; thirdly, the nomination oi one or more syndics, furnished with fulllegcl powers to act on behalf of the association and with certificates of capacity and good conduct ; these syndics will draw up the tenders, and, in case of their being accepted, will superin- tend their execution as clerks of the works, under the supervision of the architects and engineers; -A depution of Maori chiefs from New Zealand are in London trying to lay before the-Queen a. narrative of the wrongs under whi'éh they are perishing. The Government will not receive or recognize them, will not allow them to see the Queen, not ofier their petition. To their bewildered questioning, the reply of the Foreign Ollie: is : “ We have a Colonial olIice in New Zealnhd and cannot receive complaints or communications except through that oifice.” But. that olfice is the very thing they have to complain about, for it imprisons them in order to con- fieceto their lands. and outrages them in many ways. The chiofa attended a bulliunt reception, and their loader, an old man, with his taco all tattoo, was invited to make an address. After speaking awhile through an interpreter, he began a low chant. much like the recitative of a priest before an altar. Some of the company laughed; but soon per- ceived that hilarity wan inappropriate. Then there was a. hush, and the pathos of the old man’s tones made its impression. The interpreter said that it was an improvisation, in which he said that he felt grateful for this sympathy. but still he could only think of his poor country. and though he would carry back with him memories of kindness received, he would have to carry them back in a broken heart. â€"Arabi is kept “ standin ”-â€"-' at Bay. g m type and â€"-At every station on the Russian railroads is a. grievance book, in which the traveller may inscribe his wrongs in any language he likes. and which is periodically read by the authoritii s. â€"-Italian papers announce the discovery at Dorgali, in the island of Sardinia. of a great Malachite cave. Fifteen galleries have already been traced. In one of them there is a row of pillars like White marble, and the floor is smooth, resembling the finest basalt. When lit {lgvfiith toréfiea the combinations and varieties of coloring are wonderfully beauti~ ful. RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 1882. An Englishman Criticizes the Way We 5 Eat in the Far West. It was in the Ogden refreshment room, waiting for the train for San Francisco, that I saw a performance that filled me with as- tonishment and dismay. It was a. man est: ing his dinner. And let me here remark, with all possible courtesy. that the American is the most reprehensible ester I have ever seen. In the first place the knives are purposely made blunt~the buck and front of the blade being often the same sharpness to enable him to eat gravy with it, The result is that the fork (which ought to be used simply to hold the meat steady on the plate while being cut with the knife) has to be used with great force to wrencn ofi fragments of food. The object of the two instruments is thus materially abused, for he holds the meat down with the knife and tears it into bits with his forkl Now. reader, don’t say no. Furl have been carefully studying Americans and their food (all over the West at any rate.) and what I say is strictly correct. This abuse of knife and fork, then, necessitates an extraordinary amount of elbow room, for in forcing spurt a tough piece of boot the elbows have to stick out as square as possible, and the consequence is, as the proprietor of a. hotel told me, only four Amer- icans can eat in a. space in which six English- men will dine comfortably. The letter when feeding keep iheir elbows on their sides ; the former square them out on the line of the shoulders and at right angles to their sides. The American orders a dozen portions of as many estables, and the whole of his meal, alter the filthy fashion of the eating houses at which travelers are fed, is put before him at once. To eat the dozen or so different things he has ordered he has only one knife and fork and one teaspoon. Bending over the table, he sticks his fork into n pickled gherkin, and while munching this casts one rapid, hawk like glance over the spread of vlunds, and then proceeds to eat. Meherculol what a sight it is! He dubs his knife into the gravy of the steak and picks up with his fork a piece of bacon, while the one is going up to his mouth the other is reaching for something else. He never apparently chews his food. but debs and packs at the dishes one after another with the rapidity which merely as a. juggling trick might be per- formed in London to crowded houses every day. end an impartiality that, considered as dining, is as savage as any meal of red Indi- ans or of Bssutos. Dub-dub, peck-peck, grunt. growl and snort ! The spoon strikes in every now and then, and a. quick, suckiug‘up noise announces the disappearance of a mouthful of hucklcberries on the top of a bit of bacon, or a spoonful of custard pie on the heels of e radish. It is perfectly prodigious. It defies coherent description. But how on earth does he swallow it? Every now and then he shuts his eyes and strains his throat. This I suppose is when he swallows, for I have seen children getting rid of cake with the same sort of spasm. Yet the rapidity with which he shovels in his food is s. wonder to me, seeing that he has not got any "pouch" like the monkey orthe pelican. Does he keep his miscellaneous food in a “crop” like the pigeon, or a. preliminary stomach like the cow, and “chew the cud” afterwards at his leisure ? I conicss I am beaten by it. The mixture of his food. if it pleases him, does not annoy me, for if 9. man likes to eat mouthfuls of huckleberries, bacon, apple pie, pickled mackerel, “Jess, mutton, gherkins, eye: 45, :3’Adii'ilx'WJ‘flutOCd,‘ ’31: and and » poached eggs (this is a bone lids meal, copied from note book on the spot) in indiscriminate confusion, it has nothing to do with me. The Virginia accent is made fine sport of by most Northern pens writing of the habits and manners of that class which frequent re- sorts like the White Sulphur and Old Paint. It does seem absurd and unmelodic as writ- ten. But you cannot write it phonetically. We attempt it with sub for sir, and with an elision of the final letter, as in do for door. They and the like give really no idea 0! his Southern pronunciation. I have never met a person who. having an acquaintance with a Virginia lady or gentleman of cultivation has not been charmed, with the quaint and sweet fashion of speech that prevails from the James to the Shenandoah, Listen to it on the pinzzns and in thapsrlors of the hotel, where are gathered representatives of the best people in the State. {They speak slowly, their voices are low and well attuned, the e is always broad, and the 2‘, following a vowel, is rarely sounded. It is provincial, but doubtless no candid observer had not rather have even this provinoielism try his care than the high pitched, incisive tones that one hears at any given resort in the North. But it sounds queerly enough as it salutes you when you enter the hotel doors, and sinuses you whenever you may pass two or three Virginians talking together, It is as it you were among another peopleâ€"rather as if you had fallen among a company of fforeigna are who have learned to speak lnghsh v'ery . ‘ perfectly, but cannot rid themselves of a. strong remembrance of the ’mother tongue. Then there are the two shihboleths of the Southern man or womanâ€"I reckon and the oh that seldom fails to prefix an address. " 0h, John !” calls the wife to the husband. “ Oh, Annie 1" calls out the young girl to her companion in the water. Some one has said that it is as impossible for s Southerner ever to unlearn this habit, as it is for a Frenchman to thoroughly master the English th, He who was born south of Mason and Dixon’s line, though he spends his youth at northern schools and his mature ife in northern cities, must betray his birth at one time or another by this one fashion of speech. But if he of Provence can never be thoroughly Parisian, what matters it ? Pro‘ vence is a. very good country indeed and there isthat in Paris, outside of its accent, which is neither pure nor can be imitated in Pro- vence. DICKENS FAILURE AS A DRAMA- TIST. The best dialogues of Charles Dickens are altogether non-essential to the story, and are enjoyed on their own account, not in the least because they promote the action of the piece. Directly Dickens sat down to write comedy or farce, he failed, because he felt fettsrs of the drama. He had to make a story tell itself in dialogue, and to this his genius was really not suited. The nearest things he produced to efiects of this kind were melodramatic effects, such as the final “explanations” in " The Battle of Life," and others of the Christmas tales. And we do not hesitate to say that all these melodramatic efiects, even though in a sense highly wrought, are utterly untrue to nature. and extremely disagreeable in their artistic efieet. DickensI as we think, was quite at his best when he was freely invent- ing humorous variations and caricatures of the efiects which were not in the least dramatic, but rather imaginative extensions of his wide and quaint experience. Directly he tried to tie himself down to telling a story in dialogue. he became either poor, feeble and conventional, or disagreeaby excited and melodramatic. It is said. that as an actor he was marvelously earnest. which means, of course, that he threw his whole mind into the attitude of the moment. But then he so often threw his whole mind into a thoroughly HOW AMERICANS EAT. THE VIRGIN]: =CCENT. unreal and affected attitude that this is no evidence at all of dramatic capacity as an author. When, for instance, he makes Fth ence Dombey. throughout a whole conversa- tion, insist on personally addressing the old mathematical instrument maker as Walter’s Uncle, the reader is positively outraged by the intolerable sentimentality of this melodramic earnestness; and, no doubt, if Dickens could have acted a girl’s part, he would have in- sisted on this odious conceit with supreme earnestness. Dickens Wits doubtless a. very effective actor. for he could take up in this ways. totally false attitude of mind with as much zeal and earnestness as a true attitude. But he was no dramatist. He described the effects of character far better than he impen- sonstes action in speech. His dramas are as poor as his poetry, and much more vulgar ; and though he could write melodrama, that only means that he could spoil very good conceptions by stimulating his imaginary characters into attitudes of passion and. con flict, and self vindication, in which every sentiment became artificial, and every note was uttered in a falsetto key.â€"-London Spee- ator. A story} about which there is a fascination which it is impossible to resist when you hear men tell of it is that of the Home of Gold. Somewhere in southwestern New Mexico, in the Sierra. Medre, it is said there is a wonderful valley. Small, inclosed in high, rock walls and sceessible only by a secret passage, which is known to but few, is this extraordinary place. It is about ten acres in extent. has running throughfiit a stream, which waters is thoroughly and makes it a. perfect paradise, with its exquisite flowers and beautiful trees. In it are then- sands of birds of the most bountiful plumage. Running across it is s. ledge of pure gold about thirty feet wide, which glistens in the sunlight like a great golden belt. The stream cro~ses the ledge and, as it runs, murmurs around blocks of yellow metal as other streams do around pebbles. The lodge of gold is supposed to be solid gold and to run down into the center of the earth. The legend is of Indian origin and around it clus- ters a. number of Indian stories, in which the name of the ill fated Montezuma occurs freâ€" quently. The descendants of the Aztecs believe firmly that the day will come when Montezuma will return and free them from the dominion of the descendants of the Con- questodoree. They beliexethnt the money necessary for this work will be taken from the Mndre d’ Oro. The secret of the. entrance into the valley is carefully guarded by a tribe of Indianslivingneur it, and among them it is only communicated to the oldest man, amid the solemn ceremonies of the medicine lodge. Having such n. story to work upon there is little wonder that the vivid im» aginstion of the Mexicans should have built upon it tales of men who have found this won- derful place. One is that a certain Jose Al- varrz, while wandering through the moun- tains in search of gains. saw the valley from the top of the well. Finding that he could not hope to enter by climbing down. he took up his abode With the Indians who guarded the canon leading into it. The daughter of the chief fell in love with him and betrayed the secret to him. Exactly how she found it out they do not tell. Having been shown the en-- trance, Jose went in and would possibly have gotten sway with some of the gold had he not weighed himself down to such an extent that he could not get up the dccliviiy at the lower and ot the passage. He was discovered and the Indians sacrificed him on the golden ledge with all the terrible ceremonies of the old Aztec religion. She, in despair at losing him, threw herself from the high wall into the valley below. Hundreds of prospectors have spent months of toil trying to find the ROMANCE OF THE GOLDEN LEDGE On some of the Western roads they attach a passenger car to a. freight train, and call it “m1xed.” It isn’t in the order of things that such trains should travel very rapidly, and sometimes there is considerable growling among the “traffic.” Haif an him later the nervous‘mau ap~ proached him agaju. _ "Aide we most them, conductor? ” asked a nervous man for the hundredth t-ime. “ Ra- member. my wife is sick. and I am anxious.” “We’li go? there on time,” replied the con ductor, stolidly. “ I guess she’s dead now." said he. mourn- iuily, “but: I’d give you a. hula something extra, if you could manage to catch up with the funeral. Maybe she won‘t be so decom- posed but what I would recognize her l” . The conductor growled at“ him, and the man subsided. “ Conductor,” said be after an hour’s silence, "cenductor, if the wind isn’t dead ahead,I wish you would put on some steam. I’d like to see where my wife‘s buried before the tombstone crumbles to pieces. Put; your self in my place for a moment.” The oohéuctor shook him off, and the 1mm relagsed into pgofpung mglanpholy: “ I say conductor," said he after a long pause, “ I've got; a. note coming due in three months. Can’t you fix it so as to rume along a. little ?” Madre‘ d'Oro, but it is scuiceiy necessary :6 say Without result. ‘- If you come near me again, I’ll knock you down! ” 51101th the conductor sav- age1y. The nervous man regarded him sadly and went to his seat. Two hours later the con- ductor saw him chatting gnyly. and laughing heartily with a. brother vicnim, and approach ed him. ' " Don’t feel so badly about your wife’s denth’g 7” “ Time heals all wounds,” sighed tho ner- vous man. “ And you are not: so particular about the note ?" smeared the conductor. “ Not now. That’s all right. Don’t worry. I've been figuring up, and I find that the note has outlawed since I spoke to you last !" We have all heard the Chinese charged‘ with infentieide. We believe that crime to be less prevalent with them then it is with us. If children are ever exposed, as has been seen on e wayside altar near Honam, we believe that bitter want, and a hope that charity would;provide for the child better than the mother could, have been the moving caus- es. As a general rule, self-interest acts as the strongest bar to this vice. That the life of the male children should be preserved is most important, as the Chinese law will com pel the sons to maintain their parents. and in the event of all the sons dying no one would be able to offer thstiworship at the tomb of the father and mother on which their happi- ness in another state is supposed to depend. With the girls. preservation is almost as im- pertsnt, and they are a marketable commoâ€" dity either as wives or as servants. Indeed, it is no very rare thing to see a. beeketfull of babies sent down from Canton to Hong Kong {or sale at prices ranging from $2 to $5. These are all girls ; and the purchase of one or more ‘ is generally the first investment that a Chin~ eee Aspasia makes of her earnings, 9. specula~ tion sure ultimely to pay 11 very large inter est on the money sunk.â€"-Temple Ber. CHINESE INFAN TICle Las Cruces Republican A MIXED TRAIN " Brudder Shin, how am (19 sacred b’ar traps ‘2" “ Dey hang on (19 wall. Bah." “ Brudder Bebee, what of de sacred bust of Andrew JuckPou ?” “ It sits on the shelf, Bah." “Librarian, what of (19 library?” “ De 1,700 almanaxa am well preserved, ‘ After the thermometer had got settled down to mark ninety-three degrees, and the door of the ante- room had been locked, the old man arose and asked : sah. “ Janitor, what of de stove?” “De stove has seben cracks in it, and bonf hinggs am bqgncd 95 de doah.” "ultram well. I now announce dlfi lodge open fur biznesa on de 146511 degree. Secre- tary, am dar petishune in red ink T” THERE \VAS. The secretary announced the applications of Judge Suspender Taylor, of Macon, Ga.. and the Rev. Callforth Davis, of Brietoe Sta- tion, Va. Both are eminent members of high colored flociety, and have been known to put on four clean shirts per week. ELECTION. “ Am dar any candidates fur de146th den gree ?” asked the President as a shiver of awe ran down one side of the hall and up the other and sat Giveadam Jones to feeling for a quinine pill. The Secretary announced the names of Commodore Stifi and ,Hon. Holdbsck John:- son, and added that they were waiting in the snteu‘oom to be inflicted. The officers don- nod their rcgslia, the Most High Reception Committee proceeded to the ems-room, and the candidates were brought in and put through the usual exercises. Although warned in advance by the janitor that they need not fear for their lives, the Judge fainted dead away during the tolling of the funeral bell, and the Rev. Davis became so excited while in the hands of the Junior Warden tht the rattle of his tooth was heard on the street below and was supposed by the police to be a trial of some sort of wart removing machinery run by hand power. THE HIGHEST DEGREE. The 146th degree is the highest on which the Limo Kiln Club works, and the meeting opens on that. degree only four times a year. During the last three years only twelve can didates have presented themselves to' travel the dangerous road, and out; of this number three were rejected on account of a squint in the eye. The successful candidate for the 146th must have a record as pure as snow and a churacier which would make him scorn a Congressional nomination. REPRIMANDED. During the most solemn port of the core- mony, end while Pickles Smith was as pale as death and Samuel Shin was sipping pepper- mint essence to drown. his emotion and sweeten his breath, Tunlsahunnock Hastings drew a muskmelon belonging to Prof. Flowers from under a bench and deliberately began devouring it by “sections. As soon as the ceremony was concluded Brother Hastings was called to the desk and fined $5,000 in cash and ordered to sit under a. leak in the roof unzil the last meeting in January. The President said that a member who would seize upon such a solemn moment to gobble a melon belonging to a brother member and to smack his lips over the fruit until the at~ iention of the entire club was attracted from the business on hand, deserved to be escorted home by a. club, but he would condone the ofl‘anse this once on account of Mrs. Hastings having a sprained ankle. in: WAS CARRIED. When the President asked if there were any’resolutions for the good of the order the secretary rendithe lollowmg : __ “ Whvaraa. Owin’ to do chuliar construoka shun of dis American kentry do weather am in de habit. of changin’ about thirty-six times per dfiy ; an’_ “ Whams, A majority of de members of dis club am anus mo’ or less afllickted wid hard colds in de head an’ohilblains on (19 (eat (much coughing and moving of feet); now darfore " Resolved, dat from an fitter dis occashun dar shall be an intermishun of two minits at dis stage of de meetin’ to gin all afllickted members an opportunity to alleviate deir alfiickshuns.” The resolution being supported by twenty- nine members in chorus, it was put to a vote and carried by a unanimous majority. Elder Toots being the only member voting in the negative. The President thereupon announ- ced that the chilblnin members could retire to the ante-room, and those afflicted with colds could remain and cough and sneeze to their hearts content. A There was 9. heart« breaking time for a. couple of minutes, and when order was restored the routine business was continued by a. call for reyports. THE WEATHER. The Committee on the Weather, through their Chairmen, Shinbone Scott, submitted a. report in which they admitted that tho Weath- er for thelest few weeks hndhdcfied all control. One of the committee thought that the spate on the sun had something to do with it. Another argued that the earth was gradually tipping up on one side, while the Chairman was inclined to believe that the 250 bushels of onions stored in one warehouse in Detroit occasioned much of the tribulation. M Teer Tho committee were ordered to preflict fine, dry weather for Septembar, and cautioned that if they made any more failures they would be discharged from any further meteor- ological work. The Committee on Internal Economy re~ ported v. slight decline in the price of water- melons, but advised all purchasers to insist on having melons plugged according to Hoyle before paying over any cash. They further reported that the lee usually charged by ministers for performing the marriage cere- mony was altogether too high. One clergy- man had said that as long as nails and bat- iron couliuued firm he should to his scale. Another charged 510 because oil of vitriol had advanced. Another would not out his prices until a Greeley hat could be bought for a dollar. The commitSea would recom- mend that no colored man fork over more than one dollar 0.8 a marriage fee. and pay half of that. in whitewashing the back fence, if possible. The Secretary then announced in u tremu- 1011!; voice that an invitation had been re- ceived by the club to attend the comedy- drama of ‘* Brother Gardmr and His Lime Kiln Club,” to be given at the Detroit Opera House on the 213i, 22d and 23d, and appear on the stage in the second act. Pickles Smith supported the motion, in case there was any motion. If not, he would support (my move- ment to get into the Opera. House on the deadliede plan. The Rev. Penstock objected. From his aband-point of morality the stage was calcu- lated to demise. He once last; a. wallet con- taining $64 in a public hull, and had never heard who found it. WHOLE N0. 1,261â€"N0, 14. “391.15%; Pfiuback, Sundown Smith and others favored the idea, and the president finally arose an}; sagid-z - .1--“,, " Gem’lem, dis club dcuepts de invitaehun, an” we shall be seen at; (16 place at de proper time. Sich of you as find you will be debased kin remain at home an’ lick de chill‘en ’an THE LIME KILN CLUB. MATRIMONIAL. ACCEPTED. jaw 66 ole woman ’bout de size of her feet. We will now disqualify de maetin’. Remem< her. as we percolate homewards, dat while a pusson may have a woice like a tornady an’ a. mouth like a woodshed, de man who winks wid his left eye allus gets de bcs’ glass of sody- water. Let the tri-angle sound and de Glee club sing.” In huuling up the battle field of Jonesboro I came across the usual score of blind roads leading no one knew where, nudgin following one through the woods I came to a point where a fence blocked further progress. On the other side of the fence was 8. farmer how- ing com, and. after the usual talk about the weather I asked : “ Say, colonel, is this the end of this road ?" “ This is the end.” -' Don’t go any further ?" “ Not a. rod.” “ And I’ve got to ride back ?" “ I reckon so. but you’d better come over to the house and have a. bite first.” “ Won‘t it puk you to any trouble ?” “ Not a bit. Ride down into the scrub and you’ll find a low spot where you can jump the horse.” hVWhren I had followed directions and reached his side he continued : “ Stronger. I want to post you in advance. When the Yankees came down here they ripped open our feather beds. broke open our chests, smashed our crockery and stole our chickens. I never laid it up agin ’em, but my wife can't forget it. When you reach the house she’ll take a squint at ye and ask if you are from the North. You’ll say yes, and then she’ll ask if you was in the Yankee army. You‘ll say yes, and men she’ll open on you and call you all sorts of hard names. You won’t pretend to hear a word, and she’ll heave chairs and boot jacks and flat-irons at ye and yell at our four dogs to chew ye up. That’s a whim of here, you see, but she can’t hit ye if you are agood ab dodging, andthe (logs desn’t bike anybody.” “ But 1 don‘t wait; to be greeted that way.” “ You never mind. It’s only a whim, and after she has tired herself out jawing and throwing it'd tearing around she’ll set to and cook the best dinner in the State of Georgia. There was :1 chap here from Chicago only last week, and after he had dodged three chairs, a dozen sticks of wood and six milk- pzms the old woman pulled him off the hoes and made him feel so much at home that I reckon he may marry our oldest gal this fall.” 7 I positively declinea to take dinner with him, and I think I hear him calling yet; as I gulloped away 3 Unpublished page from the life of George Washington. It is the merry summer time. To him, the mother of the father of his coun’ try : W ” George, dear, where have you been since school was dismissed ?” “ Hain’t been nowhete, ma.” “ Did you coma straight home from school, George ‘2" " Yes, nm’am I" “ But school is dismissed at three o’cicck and it ii: now halfâ€"past six. How does that (some ‘2” “ Gob kop’ in.” “ What (or ‘2” " Missed m’joggrufy less’n." “ But. your teacher was heat only an hour ago and said you hadn’t been as school all day ‘2” “ Got kep' in yeaiiddy, then.” “ George, why were you not at school to- day ?” :‘ Forgot. Thoughball the time it was Sat- urday.” _ “ Don‘t: stand on one side ; of your foot in thm manner. Come here to me. George, you have been swimming.” It No’me-S! “ Yes you have, George. Havent’ you 7” ‘4 N 0 a p." “ Tell your mother, George ?" “ N u c k.” ' “ Then what makes your hair so wet, my son ?" “ Sweat. I run so fast coming from school.” “ But your shirt is wrong side out." “ Put it on that way when I got up this morning for luck. Always win-when you play for keeps if your shirt’fl on hindaide out.” “ And you haven‘t the right sleeve of your shirt on your arm at all, George. and there is a. hard knot tied in it. How did that come there ?” ” Bill Fairfax tied it in when I wasn‘t lookin'.” “ But what were you doing with your shirt off ‘1’" “ Didn’t have it ofi. He jes took'n tied that knot in there when 1‘ was on me." “ George I” “ That's honest truth, he did.” , About that. time the noble Busher came along with a skate strap, and we draw a veil over the dreadful scene, merely remarking that boys do not seem to change so much as menâ€"Burdene. Two of a. party of young gentlemen at Marblehend went in swimming, and while rollicking in the lirenkcm they were startled to see a yang lady deliberately take her seat on the ble and watch them. The first of the gentl: men to discover the fair visitor was a young yatchsmnn who was standing in a. small boat preparing to dive into the water. Gloncing over his left shou‘dor he saw her sitting on the rocks fanning haraelf, and. as it struck by a bolt of chum lightning, settled himsell back into the boot and stored at the apparition. Tho othor, who was about to wade ashore to dress. caught sight of thelady and sit once dashed for deep water. Then ensued a series of pantomime between the swimmers. One thought it would be a. good idea. to swim about an tighth ofza mile away and gain the show from that point. The other was willing, but remembered that they would have no clothes to put on if they did. Finally, as a. last resort, one of them yelled out : “D-uâ€"n it, mama, can’t you see ‘ that we are in swimming 1" Still the maiden moved not. Then the other chimed in, “ Please go away, we want to come aehore and dues.” But she was (leaf to all on- treatios. At length, in a fit of desperation, and concluding that she could not be much, one of the young men swam to the shore, and wrapping himself in eel grass and sea weed, crawled out canticualy along the rocks until he reached the spot where his clothing had been left. The shouts of laughter which rent the nit at that moment divulged the whole plot, and the swimmers found that they had been made the vizatims of a. first clues practical joke, the intrusive and over bold young lady being no other than one of their gentleman friends, who, with the aid of sev- eral lady acquaintances had gotten himself up for the occasion. NEW YORK, Aug. 25.â€"-Telegraphic advices to Bradstreet’s Journal today from leading centers report continued improvement in the crop situation northwest and west. There is no change to record as to damage to cotton crops from ruins. General trade continues to expst in volume and points to a heavy fall trade. The industrial situation has visibly improved. The great coal strikes in Mary- land and Pennsylvania and the labor troubles at Cohoea. New York, have been formally broken. I The situation at Pittsburgh is more in favor of the employee than ever. The failures reported throughout the United States during the week were 103, or sixteen less than last week, and fifty three more than in the corresponding week of last year. Conn ada had eight A VVGMAN WITH A WEIM. BRADSTREET‘S REPORT. WATCHED BY A. WOMAN. BIS JUVENILE DA {S Boston Post,