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He Introduces Diphtheria Germs in His FamilyAThree Deaths Result. A Wellsville (0.) despatoh says : Diph- theria is epidemic here. After a post- mortem examination on one of the victims, Dr. C. N. Kale took a portion of the diseased membrane of the throat to his home for microscopic investigation. His research was conducted with the utmost carelessness, even some of his children being allowed to view the germs. Two died on Monday, and yesterday the doctor himself succumbed to the disease, while five remaining children are at the point of death. To add to the misery of the situ- ation, some time ago Kale became insanely jealous of his wifevand drove her from his home. She sought refuge in Pittsburg, and is entirely ignorant of her loss. One Awards Himself Damages, the Other Believes a Witch story. AVincennes (1nd.) despatch says: At Murphreysboro’, in Jackson county, 111., William Bonner, a justice of the peace, brought a suit against his son-in-law, Samuel Derrington, for slander. Bonner and his regular constable served the papers and brought the case into his own court. At the trial Bonner heard all the evidence, and then called Constable VVoolsey to the chair. The latter administered the oath, and the justice took the witness stand to testify in his own behalf before his own court. He then resumed his judicial chair and heard with patience the arguments of the attorneys on both sides. He finally summed up the evidence and rendered a decision against Derrington, his son.in- law, allowing himself damages in the sum of $5,000. AVincennes (Indr) despatch says: A most remarkable case occurred in a jusâ€" tice’s court in Mifiiin township, which is attracting very general attention. Mrs. Seiler sued John Wahl for assault and battery, claiming that he knocked her down. ‘The defendant set up as his de- fence that the woman was a witch, and by her machinations had caused sickness and death in his family. In order to keep her away from his premises he had, in the name of the Holy Trinity, hung a cross on the gate through which she was to enter, and the holy power thus exerted had knocked her down when she attempted to pass the gate. No other witnesses were examined, and the defendant was dismissed though the plaintiff was badly hurt. Over one hundred excursionists left for Ontario to-day to spend the Christmas holidays. At a. meeting of the officers of the Central Congregational Church this evening Rev.J. B. Silcox tendered his resignation, taking effect at the end of January. He Will pro- bably accept a. call to a California church. The buildings of the Winnipeg Gas Works Company were entirely destroyed by fire at 9 o’clock to-night. The blaze was started by an explosion of gas near the fur» nace in the centre of the main building and the large structure was soon a. mass of flames. By hard work thefiremen managed to save the large gusnmeter fifty feet away, in which the supply is stored. This will last but a. few hours, when the city will be in darkness. Harry Avery, the engineer, is missing and, it is supposed, perished in the flames. The loss is $60,000 ; no insurance. Guelph parties are heavily interested. To-dey it has been learned that a woman exactly answering the description of Mrs. Armstrong, worked the song bird-pledge swindle in Genesee and Livingston counties Several months ago. The result of the work at that time was over $2,700. An old gray-haired men negotiated the promis- sory notes then. The exodus of pastors continues. Fol- lowing up on the announcement of Rev. Mr. Silcox’a call to California comes the news that Rev. Mr. Pitblado, of St. Andrew’s Church, has received an offer to accept the pastorate of a. prominent Pres- byterian congregation in San Francisco. Rev. Hugh Pedley, of Cobourg, is spoken of as Mr. Silcox’s successor. She Got Pledges to Save the Song Birds, and Made Promissory Notes of Them. A Seneca. Falls, N.Y., despatch says : Two weeks agoalittle woman, about 35 years of age, arrived in Seneca Falls. She was in mourning. She had an unusually fair complexion, dark blue eyes and brown hair, and her face was attractive and ex- pressive of modesty and refinement. She said she was Mrs.Ruth Armstrong, of New York, and was one of twelve agents whom the Society for the Prevention of Killing Song Birds in New York had sent out into the rural districts of this State for the pur- pose of getting pledges from influential people that they would do all in their power to suppress the slaying of the birds. She obtained several pledges from people in Seneca. Falls, and on the next day drove over to the hamlet of East Varick, Seneca . county, where she went to Elder Colton, a pillar in the church there, and the richest farmer in the town. She stated her errand to the elder, and was invited to his house to spend the night. The Colton family were delighted with her, and Elder Colton not only signed a pledge, which Mrs. Armstrong presented, but pre- sent ed the lady with three $10 bills for the treasury of the society in New York. Deacon Skinner, of Lodi, was also visited and mowd by the fair lady’s words to sign a pledge for checking the slaughter of song birds. Hezekiah Bishop, Justice of the Peace in West Varick, and Daniel Simpson and Peter Henson, of Tyre, also gladly signed. Next day the pretty widow re- ceived a telegram from Albany, and with tears in her eyes she hastily packed her trunk at her boarding house in Seneca Falls. Her only brother was dying in Albany, she said, and she took the first train for that city. Several days later there were some pretty mad men in Seneca county. The pretty little widow’s bird pledges all turned up as promissory notes. Albert Hall, a banker and merchant at Sheldrake, bought the notes to the amount of $940, which purported to have been given by Elder Colton and Hezekiah Bishop. Mr. Hall bought them of a middle-aged man, who pretended to have sold farm machinery in this region, and thus to have obtained the notes. They had been ingeni- ously constructed from the pledges to pro- tect the birds. Similar notes, varying in amount from $160 to $300 each, have been sold by the man in other parts of the county during the past five days, and it is reckoned that the total amount of notes constructed from the song-bird pledges and sold in this region is 31,500 or $1,600. John Lee, a Chinaman, who had been running a laundry here, and who wsskilled by being struck by a hand car, was buried today by the Presbyterian ladies of this city,,whose class he had been attending for religious instruction. The other China.- men in the city were all present. Coal is beiué mined ML Edmonton for 31 pa: 105.4. 7 r r - The first through train for four days arrived from the coast last night. Land- sliQes hays be_en the gauge Vofifrdelrafy. The Shadow 01" ComingCal‘e. Rev. Daniel 1?. Pike, whose death has Mary to Aliceâ€"Your (1011 looks very lately been announced at Newburyport, poorly. What ails it? Mass" is credited with preaching 5,000 Aliceâ€"It frets 3 €003 6631- Alfred sermone,marryingmorethan 2,000persona, knocked out one of its eyes last week, and conducting more than 2,000 funerals, and it lost a. great deal of sawdust, and hasn’t i baptising (by immersion) nearly 1,100 been the same doll ainoe.â€"-Boston Herald. ' converts. An Indian just in from 100 miles west of Battleford reports having seen four buffalo and tracked fourteen others in that neighborhood; The city carpenters have resolved to de~ mand thirtycents per hour and nine hours per day after February lst. A PHYSICIAN’S FATAL BLUNDER. TWO REMARKABLE JUSTICES. A WIDOW AMONG THE FARMERS. The Canadian Northwest. THE YORK-HERALD. The necessity for liberal aid may there- fore be imagined. Already considerable sums have been contributed towards the relief of the sufferers. The Emperor of China has given two millions of taels and the Chinesa have started subscription lists in Shangai, to which foreigners have liberally contributed. Millions have been rendered houseless and entirely deprived of all chances mf earning their livelihood, for their fields will either become permanent lakes or uninhabitable swamps. It is feared that the distress which will be felt during the coming winter will equal in intensity the famine of ten years ago, when charit- able donations contributed from all parts of the world were utterly inadequate. It is stated that owing to the action taken by the Yellow River, it no longer flows to- wards the sea, but seems content in con- verting Eastern Honan and Northern Nganwhui into a lake. It may ultimately flow into the sea through the Kiangon, or it may even possibly join the Yangtse. After Twenty Years’ Absence She Returns and Claims Her Estate. A Sharon (Pa) despatch says: Dr. Edgar and his wife were among the wealthiest people of the county twenty years ago and lavished great affection on an only daughter, about 18 years old Suddenly, to the astonishment of the fashionable circle in which she moved, the girl left the parental mansion, saying her father or mother would never see her again. True to her word, they did not. The parents succumbed to their great blow without ever permitting the community to know the nature of the family skeleton which caused the myterious separation. Death soon removed from trouble the grief- stricken couple, and after months of adver- tising for the lost heiress the estate was put up at administrator’s sale and con- verted into cash. which, in the absence of the daughter, supposedly dead, drifted into the hands of distant relatives. The latter were astonished recently by the reappear- ance, after twenty years7 absence, of a portly, middle‘aged woman, who, with legal assistance, established her identity as the doctor’s daughter. Her identification was placed beyond doubt by a peculiarly crippled hand. Judge Blandin, of Cleveland, with several local attorneys, will to-morrow com- mence the trial of the plaintiff’s case for the recovery of the estate. The Chinese Times, in the Province of Chihli, Where disastrous inundations have also occurred, says there are 270 people homeless, representing those Whose lives were destroyed, and adds that the misery in that Province is trifling as compared with that caused by Huango-Ho, or the Yellow River. The. extent of ground swept over by the overwhelming flood given in English figures is over 7,000 square miles, and the land thus submerged formed a. part of one of the richest and most densely populated plains in Northern China. Y'l'ow River has long been known as China’s sorrow, and the present disaster has served to reassert its right totheterrible title. As yet details of the disaster are very meagre. It has occurred in a. district where but few foreigners are, and the re- ports furnished by the officials and pub- lished in the Pekin Gazette convey a. very inadequate account ot the extent of the loss of life and property and the sufferings of the survivors. The Governor in Honan re- ports to the throne that “nearly all the people have been drowned in the district reached by the water, the survivors being those who escaped to the high ground or took refuge in the trees, where they re- mained till they were rescued.” This gives but little impression as to what the extent of the disaster really is. An Enterprise, Fla, despatch says: At Titusville, Aug. 26th, C.R . Cook walked up to a man on the street and asked him if his name was G. R. Hoyt. On receiving an affirmative reply, Cook told him that Mrs. Hoyt kept him awake the night before by playing on the piano at her house until an unseasonable hour. He finished his com- plaint by telling Hoyt that he would kill him if the occurrence was repeated. Hoyt replied that the piano was the property of his wife’s sister and that he could not con- trol it. Cook flew into a rage, said he could not have any more piano-playing and shot Hoyt dead. He barely escaped lynching. Achange of venue was obtained and he was tried here toâ€"day and convicted, with a re- commendation to mercy. A plea of alco- holism was his only defence. The people of Titusville are indignant that he should have been recommended to mercy. The loss of life is incalcuable and the statement is made by missionaries that millions of Chinese are homeless and starving. Thos. Paton, one of the Ameri- can missionaries, writing from Honan Pro- vince, under date of October 28th, says: “The newly gathered crops, houses and trees are‘all swept away, involving a fear- ful loss of life. The country was covered with a fine winter braidy, which is gone and implies complete destruction of next year’s crop; “ Bread, bread,” is the cry of thousands who are on the river bank. Benevolent people go in boats and throw bread among the masses here and there, but it is nothing compared withtherequire- ment. The mass of people is still being increased by continual arrivals even more hungry than the last. There they sit stunned, hungry and [dejectecL without a rag to wear or a morsei of food. Huts are being erected for them. What it will be in two months I cannot conceive. The misery is increased owing to the bitter cold weather.” The Yellow River Overllows and lnun- dates Seven Thousand Square Milesâ€"â€" Terrible Loss of Life and Property and Great Suffering. A San Francisco despatoh says : The steamship City of Sydney arrived to-day from Hong Kong and Yokohama. Chinese papers give details of a disaster occasioned by the Yellow River overflowing its banks in the Province oi Honan and describe it as one of the most appalling occurrences in loss of life and property recorded in recent times. The river broke its banks on the evening of September 28th, southwest of the city of Ching Chow, and not only com- pletely inundated that city, but also ten other populous cities. The Whole area is now a raging sea, ten to thirty feet deepY which was once a densely populated and rich plain. The former bed of the Yellow River is now dry, and the present lake was the bed of the river centuries ago. n-u u AN HEIRESSS STRANGELY DISAPPEARS. Piano-Playing Led to the Kurd vr. VOL XXX A CHINESE FLOOD. Cowen, the composer, hastakenthe place of Sir Arthur Sullivan as conductor of the London Philharmonic concerts. A posthumous opera of Flotow’s, entitled “ The Musician.” has been applied, with fair success, to the patient people of Han- over. Mme. Patti senas word to her American friends that she loves them all and longs to return to themâ€"“they are so enthusiastic.” This is the first authoritative announce» mcnt that Patti contemplated another fare» well tour in this country. In order to try the extent to which a tragic actress is moved by the whirl of stage passion, Sarah Bernhardt’e pulse was once tested at the wings immediately after a. scene of great intensity. It ticked as regularly and normally as an eight-day clock. Germany’s Preparations for War and ‘Vish for Peace. A Berlin cabl‘e says : According to the Raichsmzzeiger’s version of General Von Schellenderff’s speech on the Military Bill yesterday, the Minister of War said that the object of the Bill could be perfectly summed up in the words of the Emperor on the opening of Parliamentâ€"that the Empire, by God’s help, should become so strongthat it could meet every danger with calmness, from Whatever quarter it might be attacked. The Minister, continuing, said that danger threatened, not from the warlike disposition of the allied Powers, for the German people always leaned towards peace, but from attacks by other people. The Empire was strong and it had allies, but in war its might depended only upon its own strength. The Bill aimed to increase considerably the numeri- cal strength of the army through the ex- tension of the term of service in the Landstrum. The additional strength given i would be of great value, and with the , physical hardiness of the Germans no i difliculty will be experienced in giving effect 3 to the provisions of the Bill. The Ger-l mons, he felt sure, would not be sparing of 1 their powers when the time came for beat- 3 ing off the enemy. After referring to the 1 technical military arrangements required , under the Bill, the speaker concluded by expressing the wish that the day when it would become necessary to put the measure to practical use was far off. Still, he said, everything must be ready, if an attack were made, for the German army to enter upon the war-path armed in the most perfect manner, so that their flags would again lead the German people to victory. Faure, the baritone, is going to Vienna. to sing in opera. aqd concerts. Anfim Rfibinstein has endeavored to fuse the operatic and oratorio styles in a new work entitled “ Moses.” Rev. Dr. Warren claims that if there were no women on the stage no men would go to the theatre. How does he account for the time-honored popularity of minstrel shows ? Wilson Barrett proposes to revive the Princess successes from ” Lights of Lon- don” and “Romany Rye” onward. In the same way Grace Hawthorne talks of reviving all of Boucicault’s dramas on a. scale of magnificence not yet attempted here. It is reported that Boucicault him« self will appear in well known characters. Mr. Joseph Murphy, the comedian, is about to take a. long rest from the stage, and will travel in Europe and otherwise court leisure for a year at the close of this season. During fifteen years of continued work the actor has accumulated a. large fortune, one of the largest among men of his profession, and now he will rest awhile, content with both fame and fortune. Patti is going on a. South American tour in the spring. She says the birth of child- ren has spoiled Gerster’s voice, as it will any woman’s. Patti has no children. “ Mme. Nilsson’s voice is as good as ever,” added Patti, “ only she prefers not to sing. Then I hear that Mlle. Arnoldson, who is young and pretty, has a. remarkably sweet voice; but what is this I hear about her engagement to Robert Stmkosch ? Is it trfle ‘2)” “ I think not,” the correspondent replied ; “ I heard M. Stmkosch himself deyy if: tg-dayi _ Little Josef Hofmann a few months ago was asked by an English lady of high deâ€" gree to spend a week at her country seat. He was too well bred and too knowing to decline the invitation. To his father,hOW» ever,he whispered : “ I don’t want to go, and I won’t go I” ” Why not?” asked his father, not a little dismayed. “ Why?” Because there are too many ladies in those English places. And they cut off my hair and they ask me to write in their albums all day long, andâ€"they kiss me and hug me from morning till nightâ€"and I don’t like it, there l” Just you wait ten years, little Master Josef, and thenâ€"â€". A Detroit special to the Cincinnati Enquirer says: The Pension Department has unearthed the following singular story: A veteran in Pennsylvania applied for a pension as Daniel Tenney, of the 83rd Pennyslvania volunteers, company F. A woman in Stanton, Mich., applied at about the same time as the Widow of the same soldier. An investigation was instituted, and resulted in showing that the woman was acting in perfect good faith and believed that she was a widow, and that, further- more, she was a good and honest person. Her husband was a worthless man, who one day started out for a hunt and never . ‘ came back. The neighbors at Stanton concluded that he had perished in the woods. When the snow went oil the next spring they found the mangled body of a man, a black bear and a cap, lying in the woods near Farwell. It was supposed Tenney had been killed by the bear. It is now found that Tenney was not killed by the bear, but had gone to Pennsylvania, where , he took up life with another woman, who was his first and lawful wife, of whose existence, it is presumed, the Michigan woman knew not. Finally the Pennsyl- vania wife went to Nebraska to get rid of him. Then he married another woman. Now the question arises, ” Who killed that bear and the man who was found dead by the bear?” The man certainly had on Tenney’s clothes. Suspicion looks toward Tenney, and the natural conclusion is that he may know more about the matter than any one else. Meanwhile no one has got the pension, and there are three women who think they have an undivided interest in the husbandship of Daniel Tenney. Mr. Tenney is in Pennsylvania and saying nothing. N. K. Fairbank, the big soap and“ lard manufacturer of Chicago, is a. New Yorker by birth. He began life as a. bricklayer’s apprentice at the age of 15. He is now worth several millions, and is considered one of the handsomest men in Chicago. An Old Soldier and His Three Wives. THE GERMAN MILITARY BILL. Musical and Dramatic Notes. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, D ECEMBER 29, 1887. A PECULIAR STORY. Barefooted like his sovereign, Ras Alulu is noted for the elegance of his attire and the richness of his belongings, both at home and in camp. His cheerful and lively manner is in striking contrast to the demeanor cf' the gloomy, morbid and fanatical king. S‘carcely older than his generalâ€"in~chief, and himselt a noted fighter, King John has all the fears for his rpirsonal safety that usually torture a despot. A king who de- nies tobacco to his pi e-loving subjects be- cause the smell of it 0 ends himis probably justified in fearing that internal plots may ‘some day prove his overthrow. The best picture of King John iepresents him on a spirited charger, carrying a lance, the chief weapon of his army, and looking like the brave soldier and the leader of men he has proved himself. His big toes alone rest in the stirrups. Perhapsit was this picture that induced Queen Vittoriaupon a certain occasion to send a pair of scarlet-topped boots to the barefooted king. By way of compliment to his distinguished friend, the king with great difficulty pulled them on. He had 9 ‘ enjoyed the civilized luxury of tight before, and as his attendants could n hem off again his majesty went to th his boots on. It was not long befo he king’s discomfort became insupportable, and, with all due respect to Queen Victoria, her present was removed from his feet in pieces.-â€"â€"New York Sun. ” Pretty near time to ;_'0 home, ain’t it ‘2” said one Ninth Warder 0' mother, as the two stood at the four ‘ .n‘gfls wsfiting'i’ur the last car. Dolls have amused the girls for ages and seem to have been well known in the days of the Pharaohs ; for, in the tombs of ancient Egypt, figures of painted wood, of terra-cotta, of ivory and of rags have been found whose limbs were made moveable for the delight of children. It is quite probable that Pharaoh’s daughter threw aside a mimic child for the real baby which she discovered in the famous bullrush basket. In the tombs of Etruriaâ€"by the way, where was Etruria ?â€"similar toys have been discovered; they were spread in the East, and in China, as well as in India, moveable figures were made to act from time immemorial by hand and on strings, or as shadows behind a curtain. The ancient Greeks were experts in the manuâ€" facture of puppets, including wax dolls, and several of their poets allude to offerings of dolls to Artemis and Aphrodite made by maidens before their marriage.â€" Philadel phia Times. “ Well, I guess it is, though I have already been to bed toâ€"night,” replied No. 2. . “ How is that, do you say ?” “ Well, for years I have been troubled with insomnia, and I used to take quanti- ties of morphine to invite sleep, but that lost its virtue. Then I tried dumb-bells and Indian clubs and other violent exercise, but as I had Aldermanic ambition I was afraid I would hurt my chances, and so one night I hit upon a substitute that never failsâ€"riding on the street oars. Before I can get to sleep at night I ride a bob-tail to the four corners and back as regularly as I used to take morphine. Sometimes I find it necessary to take two, and I have taken as many as three trips, but usually 10 cents’ worth of street car puts me in such a condition that I fall asleep as soon as I strike the bed. The only time it has failed me was the Saturday night before it was announced street cars would be ordered off Sunday to comply with Sun- day laws. Then I suppose I worried at the thought of returning to Indian clubs. Mr. Eli Forsythe, one of the most promi- ennt citizens of Hannibal, Mo., hobbled into a‘faith cure meeting in that city recently on a cane and knelt at the altar to be cured. For forty years, as his neighbors could testify, a stiff knee had made walking a most painful thingfor him. After remain- ing in prayer a few minutes Mr. Forsythe arose, declared himself cured, threw away his cane and walked around the church like a. young athlete. “ No, sir; for suicidal purposes I s'up- pose morphine has its friends, but as a cure for insomnia give me the bob-tail car.”~â€" Rochester Democrat. A wonderful case of faith cure is re- ported from Toledo, Where the Christian Science Convention was recently in session. Miss Edna. Coffin lost her voice last J anu- ary, and from that time until last week she could not speak a. word, although the best physicians treated her. On Monday, De- cember 5th, she was converted to the faith cure doctrine, and on the following morn- ing she walked into the convention hall at Toledo and astonished everybody by speak- ing in a. loud voice. Wannnaker, the great Philadelphia. ciothier, was employed for years in his father’s brickyard at scant wages, and his first work away from home brought him only $1.50 a. week. He now has 3,000 clerks to do his business. Many of the farmers and lumbermen in Northern Michigan are making use of dogs this winter to draw theirfisleds. It is said that the dogs become very expert at the work after a little training and in many ways equal to the Esquimau dogs. A A King John and Bus Allanâ€"Interesting Orientals who Always go Barefooted. Except the king himsalf, the most note- worthy Abyssinian is the commander of the army, who this summer has defied the Italians at the very gates of Massowah. Ras Alulu is described by Europeans who have seen him as one of the best-bred and handsomest of his race. “Are you a Christian ‘2" is the first question this im- petuous warrior addresses to his white visitors, all of whom he would willingly consign to perdition if he mistrusted them of coveting an acre or his native land. Less than 50 years of age, he has long been one of the chief agents of the king’s abso- lute will. Last week’s despatches indicate that Ras Alulu is up and doing, determined to maintain his fame as a hard fighter, everywhere at once, and very difficult to catch. The coast tribes promised Italy 10,000 warriors, many of Whom are now in camp near Massowah. The dashing Abyssinian improved the opportunity early this month to swoop down upon the coast, knocking to pieces all the native forces brought against hi and advancing to Assaorta, about fifty. miles south of Masso- wah. It has been Italy’s policy to make no aggressive movement until prepared to take the field in earnest and settle the quarrel once for all. For five months, therefore, Ras Alulu‘s cavalry has amused itself so frequently by charging through the environs of Massowah that no soldier has been permitted beyond the protection of the guns. Girls Had Dolls in Pharaoh’s Time. A Novel Substitute f" " Morphine. TWO ABYSSINIAN CHIEFS. Two Faith Cured. A very peculiar argument was once urged against the guillotine. It was said that a man could feel after his head was off. The instant the head fell the trunk ceased to feel, because cut off from the brain, the seat of sensation; but it did not follow that the head immediately lost all feeling or even consciousness. Ridiculous as it may seem, it is asserted that the lips of the ill- fated Mary Queen of Scots moved for a full half-hour after she was beheaded. Guillo- tine himself was present at an execution, and attests the fact that a criminal’s de- capitated head being addressed by name the eyelids were raised and the eyes turned from side to side. Another case occurred at Coblentz, when the half-closed eyes opened wide and looked with reproach at those standing around. These instances are hardly to be classed with the cases of the Irish knight beheaded by Saladin in the holy war, whose head got up and avowed that it was never out off by so sweet a cimeter before; or the case of Legaro, the assassin, whose decapitated head swore roundly at the executioneer for not keeping a sharper axeâ€"Pittsbnry Dis. patch. The Man “'ith Safety Match, Who Can Light it Anywhere. General W. F. Walsh, of Arkansas, who is now at the Hoffman House, New York, has recently made an extensive tour in the West, and he says that the safety match has become a substitute for the three-card monte game as a swindlmg device upon railroad trains in the West. General Walsh says that on his way East from California two weeks ago atypical looking frontierman got on the train at. a station in Wyoming. The man seemed utterly uncivilized and 'flié’flhé? Whomméfi upon his strange appearance. Finally the man took a. safety match from a box attached to the side of the car and tried to light it upon the sole of his boot. He scraped away for some time Without the match showingany sign of igniting, and then attempted to light it against the wood. work of the car. In the meantime every one was laughing at the fellow‘s apparent ignorance. Finally a passenger, whose egotism had made him conspicuous, told the man that the matches were of a kind that could only be lighted upon the box. “ I bet you $10 I dim ligHt one without the box,” said the man. Ferry Boat Collision. A Jersey City despatch says : A colli- sion occurred in the North River last night between the steamship Breakwater and the ferry boat Pavonia. The guards and a portion of the stern cabin on the gentleâ€" men’s side of the Pavonia were demolished. Three men were caught in the wreck and seriously injured. Frank Moriarty, 30 years old, of Medford, Mass, was hurt about the hips and chest; ex-Assemblyman David Henry, aged 50, was crushed about knees and abdomen ; Richard Coughlin, 75 years old, was hurt about the side and head and both of his ankles were broken. The excitement among the uninjured pas- sengers on the ferry boat quickly subsided when it was ascertained that _she was in no danger of sinking. Several of those who were slightly hurt left the boat at Jersey City with improvised bandages of handker- chiefs. ' “ I’ll go'you," said the egotistical passen- ger, as be selected a. ten-dollar bill from a roll. The strange-looking man covered it, and then, taking a. match, lighted it against a groove in the car window. Of course most of the other passengers knew this was possible. G:eneralWalsh afterwards learned that the man was a. regular bunco man. A NEW SWINDLE ON THE RAILWAY. Look at their faces to read their story. Not one in a hundred has the face of shame, of unhappiness, but of stolid resig- nation to inevitable privation and disgrace. See that long line of gray misery marching to its noonday mealâ€"a human centipedeâ€" a hundred locked togetherishui'fle, shuffle, shuffleâ€"the very step is a degradation. Slowly they file into the cheerless room, and in silence, and with bowed head, each sits to devour his portion. Not a word, not a whisper, all wants expressed by signs. Long lines of keepers, each coldly and keenly watchful, each ready with pistol to suppress the slightest token of revolt. for this is the time of danger in a State prison. The meal is soon over. At a beckon they arise and lock togetherâ€"shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, shuffleâ€"back to labor again.â€" Hem‘y Guy Carleton. A man must follow his heart, sweetheart, Night and day ; for, in short, Man Without heart is a. part, sweetheart, Of naught. Mr. O’Meara, the Irish dentist, is in Afghanistan, where he recently fixed up the mouths of three of His Ma jesty’s wives. What a record of hopelessness, of despair, remorse and gnawing misery the pitiless stone of those cells could tell! Small wonder that after years of confine- ment every kindly trait of nature is with- ered, root and branch, and only sullen desperation and hatred of society remain. To be the companion of the vilest, cheek by jowl ; to wear the garb of infamy ; to be driven from the cell to labor, and from the labor to the cell ;to see on all sides the high walls and the redoubts, Where gleam the rifles ready to kill the insurgent ; to know that however skilfullythe esoapeis planned, however bravely executed, there are keen- scented and lynx-eyed pursuers to track and the strong arm of the law to recover; to feel that by no power can relief come until the long distant day appointed, save the power which can bless an unhappy life by ending it. I‘hink what it is to enter those walls and face that clock, whose slow pendulum shall beat outâ€"net seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks or months~but years of your pre- cious youth and manhood before you again see the world which has discarded you 1 Think of the unrelieved round of toil, suc- ceeded by the solitary cell and miserable hours of thinking what might have been and what is I How slow the hours to him with- out hope, without profit in his bitter toil, without respect in his solitude, without honor, without comfort, without liberty ! How slow the days make the week, and the weeks the month, where each is drearin ‘ the same, season in and season out, till the { doljful year is told' I‘ Reflections After a Visit to Qua Inmates of Sing Sing. A man must follow his heart, my dear And I must follow mine, Until it‘s parcel and part, my dear, Of thine. A man must follow his heart, my love, When it leaps from his breast, And seeks. with passion and art, my love For rest. LIFE IN THE PEN ITENTIARY. Living After Decapitation. THE PHILOSOPHY OF IT. WHOLE NO 1,533 NO. 26. Plain plush wraps are to be exception- ally popular. They will be trimmed with flat-beaded trimming and with rich orna- ments at the front of the collar, on the sleeves and at the lower ends of the fronts. A Capital Recipe for Cheese Fritters. The following is a capital recipe for cheese fritters: Grate very finely three ounces of cheese. Beat the whites of three eggs to a very stiff froth : throw the cheese into this, adding a. little salt and pepper. Mix well and lightly by beating with a fork. Take up dessert-spoonfuls of the mixture and fry them in boiling lard until they become a nice brown complexion. The fritters must be sent to a table immedi- ately they are cooked, and eaten at once. For Young Honsekeepers. A much worn broom is very hard on the carpet. Breathing the fumes of turpentine or catholic acid is said to relieve Whooping- cough. On invitation cards the initials R.S.V.P. have been superseded by the plain English, “ An answer is desired.” Fairy lamps, placed in the centre of a large dish of flowers is a table oi'namentaâ€" tion now on the occasion of a, fashionable dinner party. Long black cloth ulsters trimmed with astrachan on collar and cuffs and lined with fur are shown for men, “ to be worn over the dress suit only.” If possible, keep one utensil sacred to onions alone. Do not allow the spice boxes to become disorderly. Have each division carefully labelled and permit no mixing of the con- tents. Short; hair became fashionable in France when an accident to the king’s head during a. snowball fight necessitated the removal of his flowing locks. Full-bottomed wigs were invented by a. French barber named Duvillier to conceal the fact that one shoulder of the dauphin was higher than the other. The Latest Fashion Fads. _ Gray in every phade is coheiglered in Emeralds are sought after more and more every day, the finer grade being very scarce. Young matrons have re-adopted fanciful breakfast caps for home wear in the morn- mg. India embroideries in metal trim evening wraps made of the new changeable velvets’ and plushes. Coronet fronts will appear on most fash- ionable bonnets. They will be of beads, feathers or velvet. A present style consists in wearing four gold-wire rings on the same finger, each being set with a single small stone, as a. sapphire, emerald and ruby. Champagne pitchers of glass in the form of a. tulip are new, and, if not always useful in prohibition families, are certainly ornamental. They come from Vienna. Large breastpins, containing a picture of some ancestor, are more or less fashion- able among “ pedigree people,” who, if they’ve no ancestor of their own, use someâ€" body else’s. Some of the women of Vanity Fair are wearing button shoes with tops of the same material as their dress, which, of course, must be made to order ; and thus do we get our exclusive footwear. Clam broth is said to be excellent for a weak stomach, and ginger ale for stomach cramps. To take grease spots out of clothing wet them thoroughly in ammonia water, then lay white soft paper over them and iron with a. hot iron. Galvanized iron pails for drinking water should not be used. The zinc coating is It was to hide the short stature of Louis XIV. that high heels and towering per- ruques were introduced. Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Anjou, had his shoes made with long points to screen from observation an excrescence on one foot. colors. A pretty bonnet called the “ Florentine ” is entirely covered with real applique lace. The holiday dolls may be said to capture the Charlotte Russe,for they are exquisite. Black velvet basques, with long skirts and almost completely covered with jet of the most costly kind, are already seen on ladies who do not buy their finery at the bargain stores. The Queen’s grandchildren are nearly all remarkably pretty blondes, and she can be proud of her sons and sons-in-law, splendid men, all of them. The daughters, Princesses Christian, Louise and Beatrice, and the Crown Princess of Germany, are all very large, fine women, and Beatrice has a charming face. The Princess of Wales is a snowflake, or a white lily leaf, and there is a combination of stateliness and gentleness in the poise of her dainty head and the contour of her flower-like face. She does not look over 20, and though very slender her form is beautifully rounded. Her complexion is as smooth and pale as white marble, eyes very , large and of a violet color, hair softly curling and pale brown, golden when kissed by the sunbeams. She is a woman to be adoredâ€"a creature of saintly life, and with a beautiful face. The Prince of Wales is charming. He is very handsome, only a little too stout, and is so graceful. His wonderful personal magnetism extends even to a great multi- tude, and when the crowds roar, as they do the moment they spy him, he lifts his hat and bows and makes every one feel as if he or she had been personally thanked. Prince Albert Victor, his eldest son, is a tall slender youth, very like his mother, giving promise of a handsome man when matured. The Queen is not goodâ€"looking, and is very stout, but there is something regal in her presence and in her stern, grave face, with its sad lips, and the cold blue eyes of her family. She bows sweetly and graciously, but seldom smiles, although in the jubilee procession she smiled a little to the old pensioners when they bared their grey heads to her, whom they had so nobly served when her life was young. Origin of Ugly Fashions. Charles VII. of France wore long coats to hide his ill-made legs. Queen Elizabeth patronized immense wife because her neck was not handsome. An enthusiastic young lady, writlng from Lo_n_don,Asays ; Aunt Kate’s Weekly Budget of fashion and Other Gossip. THE LADIES’ COLUMN. A Family of Blondes. M Tee“ Bronson Alcott celebrated his 80th birthday on the 29th of last month. His gifted daughter, Louisa M., celebrated her birthday the same day. A Lady Sues a Dead Man for Breach of Promise of Marriage. In the Appeal Court at London the other day was heard the suit of Finlay vs. Chirney and another. The action was brought by plaintiff, Mrs. Isabella Finlay, a widow, living at Hepscott, near Morpeth, against the executors of the late Alderman George Beaumont Chirney, 0E Morpeth, for an alleged breach of promise of marriage. The deceased, who was formerly an alderman and mayor of Morpeth, had carried on the business of a butcher in that town and had realized a considerable fortune. The plainâ€" tiff had had three children by her late hus- band, who died in 1880, and a fourth by the deceased, who had been an elder 1n the Presbyterian Church. In the beginning of 1881 the deceased purchased a small farm at Stob Hill, two or three miles from Morpeth, and engaged the plain- tiff as superintendent and manageress of his dairy. According to the plaintiff’s case, shortly afterwards he, being then about 60 years of age, and she 40, made her a promise of marriage, under which it was alleged he had seduced her. The deceased subsequently broke off the engagement, and he died in April, 1886. After his death the plaintiff brought the present actiop against the executors of the deceased. When the trial came on at Durham, before Mr. Justice Cave, his lordship nonsuited the plaintiff on the ground that there was not sufficient corroborative evidence of the promise of marriage. On an application for a new trial before Mr. Justice Field and Mr. Justice Wills, sitting as a divisional court, their lordships held that the learned judge had improperly nonsuited the plaintiff, and ordered a new trial. The matter now came before this court on appeal from their de- cision. Theirlordships reserved judgment. THE seven Bibles of the world are the Koran of the Mohammedans, the Eddas of the Scandinavians, the Try Pitikes of the Buddhists, the Five Kings of the Chinese, the three Vedas of the Hindoos, the Zenda- vesta and the Scriptures of the Christians. The Koran is the most recent of the seven Bibles, and not older than the seventh cen- tury of our era. It is a compound of quo- tations from the Old and New Testaments, the Talmud and the gospel of St. Barna- bas. The Eddas of the Scandinavians were first published in the fourteenth cen- tury. The Pitikes of the Buddhist’s contain sublime morals and pure aspirations, but their author died in the sixth century before Christ. There is nothing of excellence in these sacred books not found in the Bible. The sacred writings of the Chinese are called the Five Kings, king meaning web of cloth, or the warp that keeps the threads in place. These sayings cannot be traced to a period higher than the eleventh cenâ€" tury before Christ. The three Vedas are the most ancient books of the Hindoos. The Zendavesta of the Persians is the grandest of all the sacred books next to our Bible. Zoroaster, whose sayings it con- tains, was born in the twelfth century be- fore Christ. Moses lived and wrote the Pentateuch fifteen centuries before Christ. Ring out an alarm and it is heeded. This is to notify you that base substitution is practised when the great, sure-pop com cure is asked for. Putnam’s Painless Corn Extractor never fails to take corns off. It makes no sore spots and gives no pain. Be sure and get “ Putnam’s." I IT is a favorite phrase of the Irish land- lord, remarks the London Truth this Week, that the Irish peasant is impoverished be- cause he is idle and dishonest. No more effective repudiation could be desired than was given at the private View of the exhi- bition and Christmas sale of Irish hand- work in embroideries, laces and home- spuns at the Donegal Industrial Fund, 43 Wigmore street, on Saturday. It is only four years since Mrs." Hart, finding the Gweedmore peasants starving, set herself to improve their skill in spinning and weaving, and to teach them the ‘arts of vegetable dyeing. \Vithin that time she has developed what was a private charity into an important public enterprise, and now the embroideries, homespuns and allâ€" wool underwear of the fund make their own way into the wholesale markets. The Irish peasants have shown themselves deft, skiiful, laborious and honest. Eight hunâ€" dr d ersons now find a Jiving in these de- Mme. Adam said the other day that since Oscar Wilde had cut off his hair and become a father London was no longer picturesqae or amusing. He is a proud parent of a. baby who is less like him, happily, than its beautiful mother, who has lost none of her girlish loveliness in matron- hood. She was ata swell reception the other day in a gown designed by her hus- band. It was a thick brocade of dull, deli- cate pink, made in the empire fashion, with the waist under the arms and long, loose sleeves hanging from the shoulder, lined with that soft, quiet shade known as old blue. There was a Medici collar lined with the same blue and edged with pink pearls. Her dark curling hair was heaped high on her head, with little Reoamier curls on the brow. In her hand she car- ried a big fan of pink feathers with silver sticks. 1mm: mil-mafia seas; 11561;“; $61161}: some eighty distressed Irish ladies are em- ployed. A carpet, particularly a. dark carpet, often looks dusty when it does not need sweeping. Wring out a sponge quite dry in water(a. few drops of ammonia help brighten the color) and wipe off the dust; from the carpet. This saves much labor in sweeping. To prevent pie juice from running out in the oven, make a. little opening in the upper crust and insert a little roll of brown paper perpendicularly. The steam will escape from it as from a. chimney, and all the juice will be retained in the pie. To keep moths out of closets, clothes and carpets, take green tansy. It is better before it goes to seed. Put it around the edges of carpets and hang it up in closets where woollen clothes are hung, and no moth will ever come Where it is. A starch superior to gloss starch for calico and cambric can be made of flour by wetting the flour up with very warm water a. day before you need the starch ; add boil- ing water and cook when you want to use it. For bunions get 5 cents worth of salt- petre and put it into a bottle with sufficient olive oil to nearly dissolve it; shake up Well and rub the inflamed joints night and morning, and more frequently if painful. It is said that in canning fruit, after the jar is filled, if the fruit is stirred with a. spoon that reaches the bottom of - the jar, until air bubbles rise to the top, the con- tents will never mould on top. A remedy for cats.th is t6 éather hops when perfectly dry and sift the pollen or “ flour ” through Swiss muslin. Use as a snufl early in the morning or on’retiring at night. ' If the stove is cracked, take wood ashes and salt, equal proportions, reduced to a paste with cold water, and fill in the cracks when the stove is cool. It will soon harden Honey sometimes has an onion flavor, from the bees gathering from fields of onion seeds. If allowed to set a. few weeks the unpleasant flavor will soon pass off. readily acted upon by water, forming a poisonous oxide of zinc. CURRENT TOPICS. REMARKABLE CASE. The Fire Bells