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A Louisville despatch of Thursday night says : The most appalling accident known here in many years occurred this evening about 6 o’clock. A caisson of the new bridge now under construction between Louisville and Jeflerscnville gave way, and the workmen employed on it were crushed to death by stone and timber. Only four of the eighteen men in the caisson escaped. The caisson was one hundred yards from the Kentucky shore. As the workmen of the pumping station were looking for the men in the caisson to put off in their boats, leaving work for the night, they suddenly saw the low dark structure disappear in dashing white waves, and heard the roar at a furious maelstrom. A runner was dis- patched to the life-saving station, and three skiffs pulled to the scene of the wreck. A squad of police was a so sent to aid in the work of recovery. The coroner was called and Went With a corps of physicians. The site of the bridge is at the upper end of the city, just below Towhead Island. Within an hour from the disappearance of the caisson 3,000 people were on the shore, and strained their eyes trying to see something of the wreckage. Dozens of boats were plying about over the spot where the cais- son had stood. and lights danced to and fro with them, but there was no trace of the massive structure of stone andtimber. The water rolled sullenly but smoothly down from the Coffer-dam above the pumping barge below where the caisson had stood. The grief-stricken wives and mothers of the victims were among the spectators. The bridge (fl‘icials ordered the reporters off the pumping barge, and made it as diffi- cult as possible to get information. A Bridge Caisson Collar)er While Eighteen Men A re In It. Mrs. Colin Campbell and Fred. O'Connor, of Ottawa. Arrested in Boston, Mass, Charged with Adultery. A Lawrence, Mass. despatch says: The sensational Ottawa elopement case, which caused such surprise throughout Canada six weeks ago. had its sequel here yester- day morning, when both of the parties concerned were arraigned in the Police Court on the charge of adultery. They were . Mrs. Colin Campbell and Fred. O’Connor. Both were represented by Col. John P. Sweeney. and both waived exam- ination. The court bound them over to the grand jury in the sum of $5500, and not being able to furnish this sum, they were committed to jail. ! he elcpement occurred in Ottawa about Dec. 1st. Mrs. Campbell was the wife of an official of the Militia Department, and O'Connor a well-known young man about towu. Mr. Campbell went to New York about Thanksgiving Day for medical ad- vice, and when he returned gave a party to a number of friends at his house. O'Connor was one of the guests, and when he rose to depart, Mrs. Campbell accompanied him to the gate. She delayed her return so long that her husband went to look for her, and reaching the gate was made aware of most unpleasant proofs of affection between O'Connor and his wife. What he learned confirmed the suspicions he held before.but, controlling his anger, Mr. Campbell merely apprised his wife of what he had learned and implored her to save his name and her honor. Two days later, however, the couple disappeared. and it seems they came directly to this city. Here they remained almost all the time since Dec; 1. They registered at the Essex House as Fred. O'Connor and wife. Soon, from newspaper dcspatclresit became noiscd about town that " Fred. O'Connor and wife" were none other than the missing couple from Ottawa. After they had remained at the Essex House three weeks the proprietor put in his bill, and the man affected surprise that it was presented under a month. He was told, however, that the money was needed and must be paid. It was then ascertained that neither the man nor the woman were overburdened with money. After repeated demands, the woman offered to go back to Ottawa, where she claimed to have money in her own right. She promised to send it to the hotel proprietor, while O’Connor agreed to remain at the house. She went back to Canada, but with a double. purpose in view. She went back to throw herself upon the generosity of her husband and beg his forgiveness, or at least that is said to be the fact. She was received coldly and told to go Instead of coming back to Lawrence she went to Boston. In the meantime her companion, Mr. O’Connor. had quietly departed, leaving behind two trunks belonging to Mrs. Campbell. She sent on appeals for her trunks and wearing apparel, but the hotel proprietor refused to give up what property he held. Finally the matter was placed in the hands of Dis- trict Officer Batchelder, and yesterday the couple were arrested in Boston. They now stand in a very fairway of going to jail. Pinkerton Men Employed to Drive Them Out of 'llmlr Cabins. A Punxsntawney, Pat, despatch of Fri- day says : Only three fumilies of the striking miners were evicted to day. After the Sheriff, accompanied by 33 Pinkertons, armed with Winchesters. had thrown out an Italian family at Walston, 300 Italians collected and began yelling and firing into the air. About 200 shots were fired. Mas- ter Workman Wilson arrived on the scene and quelled the crowd. He told them not to bresk the peace or they would ruin the cause. Wilson says that had he not ap- peared when he did there would have been one of the bloodiest riots ever seen in this country, as the Italians were terribly excited. There will, it is thought, be a. great many more evictions to-morrow. Wilson says every effort has been and will be made to induce the foreign element to respect the law. The evicted families are being taken in by friends. Another war- rant was sworn out to-day, charging a Pinkerton man with assault. Crushed Under His Engine. A St. John, N. B., despatch of Friday says : The express for Quebec left Monoton early this morning with two engines and a snowplough ahead. When at a cutting about two miles west of the Jacquet River an immense pile of snow caused the plough to jump the track, taking with it the two engines, one of which went almost com- pletely through the other. They rolled over on one side, burying beneath the debris Driver James McGowan and Fire- man F. Gaudet. The latter soon got out, badly scalded, bruised and wrenched, but will reooyer. McGowan is still buried under the wreckage and no doubt is dead. The baggage and other oars left the truck, but no passengers were injured. The driver and firemen of the other engine were slightly injured. Interesting for the Bloods. ALondcn cable of Tuesday says: In the trial of the persons charged with con- spiracy to defeat justice in connection with the West End scanda1,a boy Witness to- day referred to two aristocrats who fre- quently visited the house in Cleveland street. The court ordered that their names be suppressed for the present, and that they be indicated as “Lord 0. and Lord L.” Mr. Parke, editor of the North Lon- don Press, now awaiting trial on the charge of criminal libel made by the Earl of Enston in connection with the affair, has placed at the disposal of the court twenty- six letters and photographs to be used in tracing the criminals. The description of a missing man which was sent to the Columbus (0.) police headquarters contained the statement that he wns 65 years old and small for his age. THE STARVING MINERS. F0 UBJ‘EEN KILLED. IS THIS 'IHE END ? In a Matrimonial Quarrel and Now Gains Some Notoriety. A Chicago deepatch says : The name of Robert T. Lincoln, Minister to the Court of St. James, is associated with the divorce suits of Juretta A. Cutler and James M. Cutler, a prominent real estate broker. The husband filed his bill last week charging his wife with cruelty and attacking him with a loaded revolver in one hand and a hammer in the other. Mrs.Cutler entered a sweeping denial today, and brought suit herself accusing him of desertion, cruelty and numerous attempts upon her life. She was a. young widow with two children and $10,000 when Cutler married her fifteen years ago. She has the children still, but not the money. She took her husband to Texas when he was ill, and woke up one night to find he had gone to Quincy, 11]., leaving her with five cents in a strange city. Their home here was next door to Minister Lincoln’s residence on the fash- ionable Lake Shore drive. Charge Thirty-nine Errors of Ruling and Ask a New Trial. A Friday’s Chicago despatch says : This afternoon Attorneys Wing, Donahoe and Forrest filed a motion for a new trial in the cases of Uoughlin, Burke, O Sullivan and Kunze, convicted of the murder of Dr. Cronin. The motion was filed in accord- ance with the order of Judge McConnell, before whom the arguments will be made on Monday. The motion assigns thirty- nine cases of error in the rulings of Judge McConnell during the trial. These grounds of alleged error embrace every point con- tested by the attorneys for the defence, and range from an objection to the court’s over- ruling the motion to quash the indict- ments up to the assertion that the defence has since the trial discovered new evidence which entitles them to a new trial. The first error alleged is that the court erred in over-ruling the motion to quash the indict- ment made on behalf of each of the de- fendants. The denial of Coughlin’s mo- tion for a separate trial is made the basis 0! four alleged errors, there being a. separ- ate count for each defendant. The refusal of the court to permit the defence to show that Messrs. Mills, Ingham and Hynes were employed in the prosecution by private parties, who were actuated by improper motives, is alleged to , have been prejudicial to the de- fendants. The court allowing these three lawyers to assist in the prosecution is said to be an error. Mr. Hynes is made the subject of a special count in the motion, in which he is said to have been moved by a spirit of personal hostility towards Uoughlin, Burke and O‘Sullivan, and was not fit to act as a prosecuting attorney. The over-ruling of the challenge for cause preferred by the defendants to a long list of jurymen whose names are given in the motion, is said to be an error. Side remarks made by the State Attorney while examining jurors are charged to have been improper. Judge Longenecker’s opening statement to the jury is cited as an error and characterized as improper and illegal and prejudicial to the rights of the defend- ants. Another alleged error was the failure of the court to enforce the rule excluding witnesses for the State from the court-room during the trial. It is charged as an error that the prosecution was permitted to in- troduce as evidence and exhibit to the jury the clothing, instruments and hair of Dr. Cronin, the false teeth in the trunk, and all material evidence in the case. The intro- duction of Dr. Cronin’s knives after the State had closed its case is said to have been an error. Objection is made to a num- ber of the instructions given to the jury by the court. The verdict is pronounced con- trary to law, and not justified by the evi- dence, and finally it is said: “ The de- fendants and each one of them have dis- covered evidence which entitles them to a new trial.” One night last year the cries of Mrs. Cut- ler, who was being beaten by her husband, reached the ears of Lincoln. He called a policeman, and sent him to the Omler re- sidence with the advice to have the wife- beater arrested. This was done and Cutler was convicted, but spent only three weeks in jail owing to his wife’s intercession. She claims to be pennileee, while her husband has an income of $5,000 a. year. A Woman Hon-1be Mangled to Gratll'v Popular Morbidity. A Paris cable says : Miss Sterling, who was attacked by the lions in their cage at Bazier’s Monday night, entered the den again last night with Redenback, the tamer. On both occasions the girl was hypnotized and was insenslble to her dan- ger. Last night a terrible scene was pre- sented to the large crowd present at the§ exhibition. One of the largest of the animals pounced upon the girl and dragged her around the enclosure. Redenback attacked the animal, who drop- ped the girl and sprang on the man. A terrific struggle then ensued, which again ended in the escape of both the man and woman, but suffering from fearful wounds. The spectators had been wrought up to a terrible state of excitement, and many women fainted. It was found that one of Miss Sterling’s legs was so badly mangled that amputation was necessary. She his not fully recovered consciousness, and it is feared that the shock will cause her death, The action of the authorities in allowing such exhibitions to be continued is inexplic- able. Crushed in a. Church Collapse. A Brooklyn despatoh of Friday says ; Two persons were killed and five injured by the fall of a well of the Troop Avenue Pres- byterian Church on an adjacent tenement house last night. The killed were David Purdy, aged 14, and May Emma. Purdy, aged 18. The injured were Caroline Purdy, aged 17, hurt about the head and shoulders, death expected; Richard Poole, injured about the head and contusion of neck; Mrs. Samuel Purdy, bruised about the body and severe shock; Mrs. Mott. aged 75, severe shook, may die, and Mrs. Sarah Mott, 45 years, out about the face and head. A despatch from Rome says : The Pope, notwithstanding the contradictions of some papers, is in very delicate health. He is not allowed to have a window of his rooms opened, nor to remain standing, and it he has to pass from one room to another he is carried in a. sedan chair and covered with a cloak. as if he were going out of doors He is fed on the strongest comommes,Bordeanx and champagne. He is somewhat irritated at these precautions, but Dr. Oeccarelli is firm, and does not leave him for an hour, to see that his prescriptions are followed. â€"It is better to have a turnup nose than n cabbage head. VOL XII THE CRONIN’S MURDERERS The Pope's Falling Health. IN THE LIONS' DEN. HE 'INTEKFERED At some of the holiday gatherings in country houses a fine old olannish air was given by some families by having the little ones Wear kilts in the plaids affected by their mothers and bringing out the small girls in silk sashes and handkerchiefs to correspond. One might have thought, if the whim were not a shade too eccentric, that the idea was to imitate the heads of houses in Scotland, where this winter on‘ all ftSliVBl occasions on the estates both host and hoteas appear to the tenantry wearing their own tartan. Some of the newest tar-tens are in neu- tral colors. A handsome one which I saw this morning was a rough gray cloth plaided in brown and darker grey. It was made up with a petticoat of gray velvet, over which fell long pieces of cloth at the back and on the sides, the velvet showing in front. The bodice had a velvet vest, anti the sleeves were of velvet from the shoulders to the elbows, where they were caught under long tight cuffs of cloth. ihis gown was made for a quiet, nun-like little woman, whose taste in her own soft colors is perfect, and who wears with it a long coat of gray cloth of artistic out, lined with pink broohe and with oufis and high collar of chinchilla. The costume is com- pleted by a “Puritan cap " bonnet of gray Velvet, with a simple bordering of gold braid. For the street I have seen a number of tartan gowns in poplins, with tartan muffs to correspond. A very smart one stopped a Fifth avenue stage one morning and showed funedged boots as it was climbing in. The colors were a new moss-green plaid, with blue and brown cross-bars. The straight front and princess heck opened over a side-planed skirt of dull roapoplin, edged with a woven border of lynx far. The bodice had a vest of. rose velvet, and was draped with a soft rose silk not wholly hldden under the short jacket, whosefronts had not been closed in the warmth of the winter day. A Directory hat was worn of moss-green velvet, trimmed with pink ribbon and brown feathers. That there are preferences is certain, and the Douglas is about as popular as any tartan. I saw a highly successful gown at the theatre the other evening in its mingled dark blues and greens, with a relief of nar- row white lines crossing this ground. In the tight fitting bodice the stripes and checks were wonderfully well matched. though it is to be doubted if the most care- fully cross-out bodice, which a little while ago nobody would have tolerated, can ever satisfy the eye as well as a little plain waist. However, the way in which this corsage was arranged to button over on one side was especially becoming to the figure. ' The skirt was out in a severely simple style, but one which suited admir- ably the design of the tartan. Culver in Bad Odorâ€"Ills Libel Suitâ€"The Motion for a New Trial. A Chicago despatch of Wednesday says: The State’s Attorney was asked yesterday What effect it would have upon the recent verdict in the Cronin case should it be shown that one of the jurors had been bribed. He replied that it would be ren- dered null and void. ” Would than: up 1 to Be a’ c as well ?" he was askegy gg a an The last and brightest novelty is the tartan cloak, and it is always amusing to see what an amount of attention one of these. with in; broad blue and greenplaids, with narrow lines of white, red or yellow, will attract on Broadway or in any place of gabliqgnthering. A fierce fight is now in progress between ex-Jnror Culver and the Chicago Herald, the latter doing its best to find proof to substantiate the grave charges it brought against Mr. Culver for his action as a Cronin juror. Culver sued the paper for 325,000 damages. 7 “ I never thought of that," he answered, “ and hence; cpulpn't any. " _ â€" The motion for a. new trial will be argued next Monday. In the meantime the four prisoners, having recovered their equenl- mity, are resting quietly in jail. Sullivan, the iceman, is suffering less than usual, and says he feels better. Pretty Girls and Modest Matrons Who Promenade as Though Fresh from the Highlands. A New York despatoh says : The sudden popularity of tartan garments of every sort and description is traced of course to the Fife marriage. The fashion which began in London in the summer was quickly taken up on the other side of the channel, and all through the autumn and early win- ter French women have been wearing tartan gowns and cloaks, both in wool for daytime and in silk or poplin for evening. This being the case, it was to be expected that the whim would cross the Atlantic, and that American women should be inter- ested in nothing so much as Scotland, having the names of all the clans at their finger tip and recognizing instantly the (inference in the shade of a color or the width of a shape which to ordinary eyes would be quite imperceptible. 1‘ ~ .1 An Elmira, N. Y., despatch of Friday night says: The sharp crack of a pistol was heard in the house occupied by Mrs. Mary Eilinberger, at 502 East Church street, at 4 o’clock this afternoon. When officers entered the house they found Mrs. Eilinberger hysterically weeping, and in the hall leading to the front door the body of Wm. R. Edwards, better known us “ Bill ” Edwards, a well-known sporting man, lying in 5 pool of blood. An investigation showed life to be extinct, death having resulted from a pistol shot in the back of the head, the bell entering near the base of the brain. The woman was arrested. Ancient history had its Julius Caesar, its Antony, its Paris. Modem history has its MgGinty.‘_ ---. .. ,. . . .- ..‘ The pathos of Virgil, the heroic fire of the Iliad, and the bneehanalianism of Horace are combined in the epic which narrates the sudden rise and fall of Mr. McGinty. From the ohms of night this full-orbed character has flashed upon the world. Into the depths of oblivion his meteoric course has gone downâ€"down. Like a. thunderbolt from Jove the MoGinty phantom has sped on the wings of lightning to destroy hi: enemies. Like a summer night after a. storm, Mr. MeGintv‘e endis supposed to be peaceâ€"Chicago News. King Carlos 0! Portugal, who posseses sixteen Christian names, while his younger brother answelja to no less than thirty, is personally one of the most amiable of monarchs. He is a handsome, blonds young man, who carries himself with a military sir. ' RICHMOND BILLTHURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1890. The Rise and Fall of MoGinty. PLAIDS ARE A CRAZE. TEE CRONIN JURY. Probably a, Murder. BOYS IN KILTB. How it Appears to an English Observer from His Standpoint. The rank and file of the American army are composed of all nations who can speak the English language snfiiciently well to be understood and to understand the word of command, and include almost as many Germans and Englishmen as Americans. The English and Irish emigrants, unable to obtain remunera- tive labor at home, or conscience stricken on account of some dread deed com- mitted by them, to the disgrace of their friends and relatives, who will no longer give them their countenance and support, go across “ the Herring Pond" with the intention of starting afresh on new soil, and find their way eventually into the ranks ; the German,in order to avoid the martial imposition in his own country, escapes to America, ” from an.» iryingpan into the fire," so to speak; Frenchmen and Spaniards, sailing across on voyages of adventure, dissipate their means and have no alternative but to re- main and join the forces; thus there are many who enlist to escape punishment in other countries, and who divulge to none their past history; and some do so on account of reverses of fortune, having got disgusted with civil life, or are actuated by more sinister motives still, intending to desert as soon as they obtain something better to do. Owing thus to the kindly disposition on the part of the American Government, as representatives of the people, to help everybody to live, and to its wise determination to make everybody who seeks its protection work in some way for his maintenance, the foreigner finds him- self received cordially into the forces. It is, at any rate, certain that remarkable men do sometimes find their way into the ranksâ€"men of fine sensibility, possessing a rare store of information, and qualified to fill and discharge the duties of many of the highest offices within the gift of the Government with honor and credit to them- selves. Indeed, there are many soldiers in the American army at the present day who have fought in England‘s late wars, and not a few of good birth and education. From this it will readily be inferred that a high percentage take assumed names and come and go without either receiving cor- respondence or their superior officers being the wiser. When application for enlist- ment is first made by the would-be recruit, a minute description is demanded of him in writingâ€"his full name, the town and coun- try in which he was born, his age, height, breadth round the chest, color of his eyes and hair, his occupation, how long he has been out of employment, his reasons for wishing to enlist, whether he has ever had any nervous or veneral disorder, the name, age and occupation of his father (if living), the name and address of his nearest friend, whether married or single, etc. To many of these questionsâ€"much the same in all armiesâ€"the recruit replies in equivcoating terms, if he does not tell out and out false- hoods; but, of course, there is no one to ascertain whether or not he is speaking the truth, and as it would certainly involve too much time and labor to investi- gate cach case, it is a fact that the descriptive lists of private soldiers contain a number of false statements. Hence, it is no uncommon thing to see a woman early in the morning crying out frantically at headquarters, “ I want my husband." To get married while in the service, or, being married, to enlist as a single man, is con- sidered a very grave offence and renders a soldier liable to obtain a dishonorable dis- charge. On the whole, it is a very easy matter to become an American soldier, so long as the eyesight and hearing are good. The medical examination in many districts is not strict or searching. The age, so long as the would-be soldier does not look too much as if he had escaped from the nursery, is of little moment, and many veterans, twenty and fire and twenty years in the service, will enlist again at 50, so hardened do they become and so utterly incapacitated for any other occupation. The next step after examination is the declaration of allegiance to the United States, and one month's easy drill qualifies a man to undertake the entire duties of a soldier.â€"â€"Westminstar Review. Four Wingless Birds From New Zealand Reach England. The Zoological Society in London has just acquired two specimens of the apteryx in addition to the two which have been already exhibited for some months. All the four birds are temporarily placed in the tortoise house pending alterations in the insect house, which will be their per- manent resting place. These birds should be attractive to the visitor for several reasons. In the first place. they are some- what difiioult to catch a glimpse of. For- tunately for themselvesâ€"for they have no doubt flourished and multiplied on account ‘ of this very habitâ€"but unfortunately for i the public, they are nocturnal; the rarity of their appearance will therefore add to their interest when they are seen. In the second place, they are remarkable even 3 among " Wingless ” birds for the very rudi- tmentary character of their wings, which elite entirely devoted to a nightly hunt after worms has almost improved away altogether ; but it the apteryx has no wings worthy the name, it has a pair of very stout legs which allow it to hurry over the ground at avery respectable rate, and to defend itself by vigorous kicks. The apteryx only occurs in New Zealand, and it has been said to make its nest in a way which seems very characteristic of its artipodean habitat. Instead of depositing its eggs in a nest and then sitting upon them, the apteryx first buries its egg and then digs a hole underneath it, in which it remains, and thus site not upon but underâ€" neath the nest. It must be admitted, however, that this statement has been disputed. One of the most unreasonable supersti- tions is that possed by so many people that deters them from making their wills, trust- ing to good luck to have time when the candle of life is flickering out. A lady of unusual culture and strength 0! character, a leader in a wide social circle, and active in movements for the advancement of her sex. died not long since of a third stroke of paralysis. She had a good deal of property and many articles of rare value that she designed to leave to a cherished young lady companion, but even after the second stroke, and she knew that a. third would be fatal, she could not bear to thinkof making her will. She dropped off suddenly, and her friend is without anything, while re- mote relations get all. The instance is familiar to. many in this city, but is not \ s‘i'ngularrâ€"St. Paul, Minn., Globe. How much more agreeable the man who wants to, sell than; the man who. wants to buys Prejudice Against Will-Making. THE AMERICAN ARMY. THE APTERYX. And it is so to a great extent with the genus which Plato is said to have described as “ the twclegged animal without feathers "â€"the genus homo. It is, in spite of Noah Webster, arrant nonsense to call that “ overweening conceit " which is noth- ing more than a just oonecicuness of ene's qualities, whether of body or mind. The desire to please, to attract, to charm, is as natural to the human family as to any other branch of the animal kingdom. It is innate and inherent, as is demonstrated every day by tiny children, too young to have been taught to assume airs and graces and to preen themselves for the admira- of their fellows. These aspirations, born in us, grow with our growth and strengthen with our strength, and we suspect no harm in them, until there comes along some cold blooded dictionary-maker who informs us that that which we had believed to be natural and proper was an overweening conceit in our personal attainments and decorations, and at once we feel a sensa- tion of shame, as though we had committed some grave oflence. All our innocent de- vices to make ourselves agreeable and to attract the esteem and admiration of those around us become distorted, as though re- flected by a curved mirror. We blush, even when alone, at the thought that a dictionary-reading world has been accusing us of over-weaning conceit, when in reality we were but following out our natural traits and tendencies. It may be shrewdly suspected that those who are so severe upon vanity have little or nothing of their own about which to be vain. There are no such severe or cruel censors as those who can have had no personal experience upon the subject against which their censure is aireoted. There are no such keen critics of the bringing up of children as the childless ; no such harsh judges of the poor as those who were born with silver spoons in their mouths ; no such censors of the successful in any line as those who have not suc- ceeded. The same rule unquestionably obtains in regard to the matter of vanity. .he wrinkled old codger who says that in his time there were no dudes and dandies, really means that as a. young man he was not possessed of those personal attainments or decorations which could make him attractive : and the vinegary spinster, who affects to be horrified at the innocent coquetries of the young girls around he: and their evident desire to please, was probably no better looking in her youth than she is now. when in the sere and yellow leaf. I 1 The usual analogue for vanity, says the San Francisco Chronicle, is the peacock. He has been held up to scorn for centuries as the embodiment of vanity. But why? Has he an overweening conceit of his per- sonal decorations? By no means. He is an object of beauty and splendor, and he simply purposes to allow an admiring world to feast its eyes on his perfections. He knows he is beautiful, if he knows any- thing, and feels that it is his mission in life to pose in such attitudes as to display his perfections to the best advantage He simply puts his best foot ioremost, and for this he has been vilified and abused time out of mind. Should he hide himself beneath a hedge or trail his glorious plum- age under the barn he would not fulfil the object of his being, but would degrade himself to the rank of the ordinary useful but not esthetio fowl. We might as well ascribe vanity to a waterfall, or a rainbow, or a glowing sunset, as to the peacock. The truth is that vanity, Within due and proper bounds, is one of the most valuable attributes or qualities that the human family possesses. It is incentive to innumerable acts of kindness, of goodness and of justifiable ambition. It is a fruitful source of self-respect. without which re- spect from others will be sought in vain. It makes us regardiul of claims of others, for the great law of compensation, the universal principle of give and take, is as operatine here as elsewhere. It makes us avoid that “ pride which apes humility,” and puts us on the proper plane of estima- tion and valuation by the world. for it is assuredly true that if we value ourselves cheap the world will be only too ready to take us at our own valuation. It is not self- conoeit, which is always offensive, but it is a just and proper appreciation of who and what we are and what we can do ; and there is little danger that we shall ever ever- value ourselves, for there is always an abundance of people at hand to pull us up short if our vanity tries to run away with us, and to restore us to our proper level. A man or woman without vanity, especially if young, is certain to be a fail- ure in this world; for if we make doormats 1 oi ourselves we may be sure that the world i will wipe its feet on us. Within Proper Bounds it is a Valuable Attribute of the Human Family. What is vanity? If we are to pin our faith upon Noah Webster, it is “ empty pride inspired by an overweening conceit of ‘ ne’a personal attainments or decora- tions,” but it was long ago agreed that the lexicogrnphera do not know everything; that their craze for definition has fre- quently led them into gross exaggera- tions. and that their explanations must frequently be received with a great deal of caution. ' A Lady’s Chances of Marrying. Every woman has a chance of “ catching a husband.” but it is conceded that young ladies between twenty and twenty-five years of age are more likely to draw the matrimonial prizes. However it is not an unusual thing to hear of the marriage of a lady who has passed the three-quarter cen- tury mark. Yet, how can a woman, weak, dispirited, enervated and tormented by diseases common to her sex, hope to become a happy wife and mother ‘2 Of course she cannot ; yet by the magic aid of Dr. Pieroe’s Favorite Prescription, all these obstacles are swept away. As a powerful, invigorat- ing tonic, Dr. Pieroe's Favorite Prescription imparts strength to the whole system, and to the womb and its appendages. in par- ticular. For overworked. “ worn-out,” “ run-down," debilitated teachers, milli- : ners, dressmakers, seamstresses. “ shop- girls," housekeepers, nursing mothers, and feeble women generally, it is the greatest earthly boon, being unequaled as an ap- petizing cordial and restorative tonic. One Useful Invention. A very useful invention, tending to lessen the possibility of accidents in factories, is now being extensively adopted in England. The breaking of a. glass, which is adjusted against the well oi every room in the mill. will at once stop the engine, nn electric current being established between the room and the throttle valve of the engine, shutting off-the steam in en instant. By this means the engine was stopped at one of the mills recently in a few seconds. emit a young girl, whose clothes had become sn- tangled in an upright shaft, was released uninjured. ‘ PERSONAL VANITY. WHOM NO 1,638; NO 39. Try to Have It the Sunnlest and Cheer- lest in the House. A sleeping-room should never be a small one, dependent for most of its air on an open window. Such a room is seldom safe, and in certain states of the weather the air is sure to be shut efi. Few rooms are large enough not to require continuous Ventila- tion. The two sleepers are constantly vitiating the air. No air is pure which contains an excess of carbonic acid, and at every breath a certain amount of oxygen is converted into this poisonous gas. Think of 12,000 such inspirations during the night. Moreover, each breath conveys the carbonic acid and throws into the air effete matter thrown ofl by the lungs, which is also poisonous.~ Nor is even this all. Millions of sweat tubes are all the time pouring their polluted waste into the room. Ventilation, it is evident, is a hygienic necessity. Sunshine is essential to a good sleeping room. Sun- shine is a powerful disinfectant, and every sleeping room needs to be disinfected daily. Let the head of the family appropriate the sunniest room; the guest chamber, with its occasional occupant, is of secondary importance. The sleeping-room should be in an upper story. As the night air cools many of the disease producing particles sink to the lower strata. It is said that one piay live safely in a malarial region by avoiding the night air and sleeping above the ground floor. The sleeping-room should be not only one of the most spacious, but one of the cheeriest and neatest and best- lurnished rooms in the house. It should be emphatically “thenhamher of peace.”â€" Youth'a Companion. Great Destruction Caused by a Deluge of Semiâ€"Liquid Peat. The shifting of peat-bogs in Great Bri- tain from one place to another is not a rare occurrence. On the 3rd of January, 1853, a hog at Enagh Monmore, Ireland, nearly a mile in circumference, and several feet deep, began a movement which lasted about twenty-four hours. It stopped when } it had made an advance of about a quarter ‘ of a. mile. Pennant describes another affair of this kind. The Solway moss in Scotland was an expense of semi-liquid bog, covering 1,600 acres, and lying some- what higher than a valley of fertile land near Netherby. So long as the moderately hard crust near the edge was preserved the moss did not flow over. On one occasion some peat-diggers imprudently tampered with this crust, and the moss, moistened by heavy rains, burst its bounds. 0n the night of the 17th of November, 1771, a farmer who lived near by was alarmed by an unusual noise. He soon discovered that a black deluge was slowly rolling in upon his house, and carrying everything before it. He hastened to give his neigh- bors warning, but he could not reach all of them. Many were awakened by the noise made by the Stygian tide, while others knew nothing of its approach until it had entered their bedrooms. Pennant says that some were surprised with it even in their beds. These passed a horrible night, not knowing what their fate would be until the next morning, when their neighbors came and rescued them through the roofs. About 300 acres of bog flowed over 400 acres of land during the night, utterly ruin- ing the farmers, overturning buildings, filling some of the cottages up to the roof. and suffocating many cattle. The stufl flowed along like thick black paint, studded with lumps of more solid peat, and it filled every nook and crevice in its passage. It is said that a cow stood for 60 hours up to her neck in mud and water, but was finally hauled out. When she was rescued she did not refuse to eat, but would not touch water, regarding it with as much terror as if she were suffering from hydrophobia. Ex-Minister Phelps adds a curious chap- ter to the discussion of the marriage ques- tion. It is his theory that the sensational and highly emotional novel of modern times is at the bottom of most divorces. A woman becomes absorbed in this kind of literature, and her mind becomes diseased. She judges all men according to the stand- ard of the impossible heroes who form her constant mental companions, and in com- parison her husband seems tedious and too common-place for her. He hasn’t the grand ideas of life and destiny that the ideal hero has, his conversation is not sufficiently poetic and Ioniantio. When a woman begins to feel in that way regarding her husband some other fellow is sure to happen along whom her distorted vision will transform into a hero. This is a serious charge to lay at the door of the novel, and one that has much truth in it. The ordinary love story which is continued from week to week in the monthly and weekly story papers is nan- seating to a healthy mind, and injurious to a person capable of being interested by it. The great novelists depict life as it is, and their heroes have faults and foibles with the rest of mankind. Thackeray and Dickens are responsible for no divorces. The woman who reads either of those authors will learn that the highest ideal of life consxsts in taking human nature as it is and in making the most of it.~â€"0’hicago Herald. It may be interesting to some of our readers to know something of the life of the late Bishop of Durham. He was born at Liverpool in 1828, and received his education at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a scholarship in 1848, and graduated B. A. in 1851 as a Wrangler, Senior Classic and Chancellor’s Medallist. In 1852 he was made a Fellow of .his college. In 1854 he was ordained Deacon at Man- chester, and in 1858 was admitted to Priest’s orders. From this and up to his death his career seems to have been one of unbounded success, receiving appointment after appointment. and in January, 1879, he was nominated by the Crown, on the recommendation of the Earl of Beacons- field, to fill the See of Durham. The late Bishop was the author of agreat many works and took an active part in the revi- sion of the New Testament. Wife -And you won’t give me the price of a winter bonnet? Husbandâ€"N01). W. (with a sob)â€"You are one of the meanest men ; one offhe smallest. H. (sarcastibally)â€"You are a lady 5nd 8. model wife. W. (with aignity)â€"â€"I know it, air. The opinion is universally held that the mean- eaLmqn gay _the_ b_est gives: H. (lufighing) By Jove 1 That speech is worth a bonnet. Here, my darling, is my poglget’pook, "Use it 33 you (Ike. . W. (in siniles and Emmyâ€"Let me kiss you, lovey ; I alwuya knew you were a. dent. The Late Bishop of Durham, Eng. Novel Reading and Divorce. THE SLEEPING ROOM. A STORY OF THE DAY. Domestic Felicity. People Addicted to Rubbers Are Usually the Worst Suffer-en. Many people, especially women and chil- dren. suffer the whole winter through with cold feet. This is mainly due to the fact that they wear their shoes too tight. Un‘ less the toes have perfect freedom the blood cannot circulate properly, hence follow stiffened and benumbed toes, cold feet. and often a numbness up the limbs. People who wear rubbers the whole winter through generally suffer with their feet. Rubbers make them very tender by overheating and causing them to perspire. They should only be worn during stormy or slushy weather, and even then should be removed as soon as one enters the house. The draw the feet, keep them hot and wet wit perspirationâ€"then as soon as one goes out again into the air the feet are chilled. In the country 1 have noticed that the farmers put some dry straw or pieces of newspaper in the bottom of their boots. I. myself, have often tried the latter, and can assure you that it is a good preventive against cold feet. This is doubtless because the paper or straw absorbs the perspiration and keeps the feet dry.â€"Detroit News. Says Charles F. King. the American educator: Fold me so close 1 scarce can breathe. And kiss me, for. 10 1 above, beneath, The blue sky fades, and the green grass dries. And the sunshine goes from my lips and eyes. 011, God lâ€"that dreamâ€"it has not fledâ€"- One of us old and one of us dead. “ The great commercial countries to-dny are, according to value, Great Britain, United States, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Russia, Austria. ” The commerce of the British Empire. including India, Canada and Australia, is greater than the united trade of France. Germany and the United States. The commerce of England to-day is about nine times as great as it was in 1800. The com- merce of France in the some time has increased still more rapidly. Great Britain has the most trade with India, of all her possessions; next comes Australia, and when Canada. The United States imports only about half as much from Grant Britain now as in 1870, but she exports to Great Britain nearly twice as much now II in 1870. ' 'tnougfit, ' "7 ‘ Long since my love had been brought 2 It had sunl} with years from a. high mound ' 7 v To a level no stranger would have found ; But I, I always knew the spot ; How could I miss it, know it not '1 Darling, darling. draw me near, For I cannot shake 01f the dread and fear. lass 1" Sometimes I seemed to hear your feet, And my grief-numbed heart would wildly bent ; And I stopp’d andnamed my darling’s 118ntâ€" But never a. word of answer came. The men and women ceased at last To pity pain that was of the past ; For pain is common, and grief and loss ; And many come home by Weeping Cross. Why do I tell you this, my debt '2 Sorrow is gone now you are here. You and I sit in the light, And fled is the horror of yesternight. The time went on, and I saw one day My body was bent and my hair was grey. But the boys and girls a-whispering Sweet tales in the sweet light of the spring. Never paused in the tales they told To say : “ He is dead and she is old." There’s a. place in the churchyard where I " England has over twenty thousand merchant vessels, manned by over two hundred thousand seamen. Her commerce is protected by the largest navy in the worm. She has established jortified naval depots for coal and provxsicns along all the great routes of commerce. For example, in the Mediterranean are Gib- raltar, Malta and Cyprus; on the South African route, St. Helena, Cape Town and Mauritius ; on the East India route, Aden, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore and Hong Kong; Melbourne, etc., in Australia; Jamaica and Baliza in the West Indies; Halifax and Quebec in Canada. The sun never sets on her flag." Said Ralph Waldo Emerson : “ England is anchored in the side of Europe, and right in the heart of the modern world. It has the best commer- cial position on the whole planet.” And the men stood still to see me pus And gmilgd grave smiles. and said : " Poor sweet: ; You had gone to your rent with nntired teat : And I had prayed to come to you, To lay me down and slumber. too. But it might; not be, and the day: went on, And I was all alone, alone. The women came so neighborly And kissed my lace and wept with me ; Oh, thank God, it is you, it is you, My own love. fair and strong and true. We two are the same that yesterday Played in the light and tose’d the hay. My hair you stroke, oh, dearest one, Is alive with youth and bright with the sun. Tell me again, love‘, how I seem “ The prettiest queenvor curds and orealn." Fold me close and kiss me again : Kiss off the shadow of last night‘s pain. I dreamt last night as I lay in bed That I was old and that you were dead. I knew you had died long time ago. And I well recalled the moan and woe. You had [died in your beautiful youth, my “ Every natural deficiency is compen- sated bv wonderful energy. The country. though foggy and rainy, has furnished the world with astronomical observations. Its short rivers do not afford water-power, but the land shakes under the thunder of the mills. With no gold mines, there is more gold in England than in all other countries. ['00 far north for the vine, the wines 0! all. countries are in its docks. ‘ No fruit ripens in England but a baked agple.’ says a French critic, but oranges an pine-a plea are cheaper there than in the Me iter- ranean." "A power,” says Webster, “tth he- dotted over the surface of the globe with he: possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martin] sits of Eng- land." The new lighthouse at Honsthclm is the most powerful in the world. The beam is of 2,000,000 candle power. and shows clearly at Blokhus, a distance of thirty-five miles. It is produced by are lamps, ted by De Meriten's dynamos, driven by steam engines, To prevent the extinction of the light through an accident to the machinery the letter is duplicated ; one set coming into play should the other fail. The light is further supplemented in thick weather by two powerful sirens. or fog trumpets, working with compressed air. The fasci- nation which a powerful light exercises on wild birds is curiously illustrated by this lighthouse. It is said that basketluls of dead snips,larks. starlings,~eto., are picked up in the morning outside the tower. They kill themselves in dashing against the windows of the lantern. Fold our arms around me, sweet. As :19 against your heart doth belt. Kiss me, love, till it lade, the (right 01 the dreadful dream I dreamt last night. Jules Verne any: : I am now fit my 74th novel. and I hope to write as many more before I lay down my pen to: the last time. I write two novels every year, and have done so regulnrly for the lest 37 years. I do so much every morning, never missing a any, and get through myyenrly ml: with the greatest of cue. What Americans Shy of Englsnd. The Greatest Lighthouso. AS TO COLD TOEB. nor Dream. â€"00mhm Magaxim.