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1 ’EE And still another lienm h attempt to til“ 1 stroy humunliie and demolish l’ar di 0 Hall 1 must; he reeorded. As thejunitor \. us mulgâ€" ‘ ieg ready for the Saturday night meeting he , opened t :e stove totzihe a, chew of tobueeo irom the box he had been keeping there since it was decided not to build any more ‘ fires. To his horror it was diwovered that ‘ :0an one had placed a twoâ€"ground can of powder in the stove, and under ordinary cir- cumstances he would have started a lire Without seeing it. The results would have been appallinrr. Samuel Shin. who ulvuys sits nearest the stove, won] 1 have gone out of the opposite Window and demolished the entire rear-end of a. second-hand clothing store. Giveadam Jones would have been lifted off his stool and dasluul into the ante» room, knocking down the Keeper of the l’ass-W'ord and utterly smashing :1. jug con- taining five pints of kerosene oil. \Vaydown Bebec would have been sultreted to u pres- sure of 22,000 pounds to the so rare ineh and under this terrific strain he must have gone seooting up the hall and phnnped dead against SirIsaae “’alpole, smashing the old man to pulp in the wink of an eye. Brother Gardner would have been blown against the on safe containing over $600, and rebound- ing from thence he would have struck Eld- er Toots, killed him stone dead, passed close to Fickles Smith's our, and brought up against the Chimney, falling to the floor a lifeless mass of dark-colored clay. Every iamp chimney would have been brokenâ€" evcry window demolished, and every one of the nineteen joints of stovepipe would have struck :1. Separate head in falling. ' Paradise flail might not have been entirely demolish- ed, but it would have taken at least $13 to cover actual damages, to say nothing of the loss of valuable lives. THE or ruovmnxcn. “Lot dis be anoder u'arniu‘ to you dut do eye of Providence am allus \vatehin’ out,” said Brother Gardner in his opening. “De good am sartin to be protected, while debud will sooner or later urrove at some awful end. Had we been de Common Council, a political convention, or u Mute Legislaehur, (lat fish would have been built, dat powder would have gone ofl‘, an’ dis hell would have bin de picture of desolashun an’ death. De Janitor, who now receives :1 salary of seven ty-fivc cents per week, will have it increa- sed tn eighty, and in fuchcr his 58th will be under dc bust of Andrew Jackson. “'0 will now pass dc water an’ pnrccml to busi- ness.” Thefollowing members were elected amidst a silence so profound that when Col. Jones moved his feet to cross his legs everybody thought the roof was falling in: 'l‘ruthful Baker, Samuel Kylices, Judge Perkins, Ver tigo Hastings, Prof. Hooper. Day'balHVhite and Gulliver Jackson. ,g No ALLIANCE. Some timesince the Lime-kiln Club was 3.8de to cooperate with the “Earnest En- deavor Club,” of Portsmouth, Ohio, in matâ€" ters pertaining to the elevation of the color- ed race. \Vaydown Bebee and Prof. l’in- naele were appointed a committee to investi- gate the record and standing of said club} and they now reported against any alliance. The had discovered that Morth Law, the president of said club, was a man who made a. business of passing twenty-cent pieces for quarters, and Hank Burton, Bill Montgmne- ry, and other members played the string- game for a living. The “earnest endeavors” of all members seemed to be to live without hard work, and to make strangers pay for their drinks. “I understan’ «lat do hull fo’ war ml:- (211 sick at de same time, 2111’ (lat it was short- ly artcr drinkin’ a new beverage concocted by Brudder Green. 1t mu said dirt he mix- ed lager beer, skimmed mill; an’ cold tea to- gother to make a beverage to take along to picnics, im’ (lat it msn’t :2 success. \Ve Wantilei’ull perticklcrs. If a. member falls down an’ breaks his leg or cracks a rib we will cheerfully aid him. If he giis upsot while cxporimcntin' on drinks he mus" pull frow (l0 bcs.’ way he kin.” CAN’T TELL rm". (lircminm Jones said he arose in scorch of information. He had received several letters inquiring if the Lime-kiln Club and the spe- cial session of the Michigan Legislature, which convencdon the '23nl inst, would act in harmony. ' The Committcc on the Sick reported that Brothers Green, Bartholomew. Davis and Cuddcr were sick abed and in need of aid from the relief fund, and Brother (lardâ€" nor appointed an investigating connnittoc and added : Judge Undwaludcr added that he had received two such inqun'ics from North Carolina, and “as holding them for :1 dwi- “De mailer inn Lot yet; decided," euid Brother ( lnrdncr in reply. “\Vhilo no one kin doubt Gut a. poi-tech nndcrstandin’ hu- Lwccn do two bodies would result in degin- (val good, it seems to Inc (lat. dc lust propo- sals 101- an alliance should come iron: Lan- aing. flley legislate 101' do single State of Michigznrmwe iur do hull world. Dey set for a few days an’ di'uwdcir pay 311’ go home to be heard of no mo’. We meet fifty-two evenin’s in do y’ar, an” hm allus be heard of day or night, winter or summer. If do Logis- lochur desires to m at us half way it kin have do benefit of our records, reports on7 estimates, an’ Paradise Hall will be made do headquarters of sich members as may wisit Detroit. If (lat body decides to go alone, we shall I "(we it to its fate.” RECONSI DERED. The Committee on Petitions reported that they desired to reopen the ease of Prof. Elbow Shinbow, of Berkley, Va. The Pro- fessor had made applicatlon to join the club when report Cd]le thnthe had been arrested in \Vlleoling for having four when. This of course pigeon-holed the petition, but now comes the Professor with an aliidnvit signed by him:- li' and twenty-six other citizens of Berkley to the ell'ect that the Wheeling bigamist was really one James l’opnli Swipes, and that he boldlyand with malice aforethonght took the sacred (1 n'nomon of the Professor in order to work hnn injury. The committee being satisfied that a great wrong had been done, recommended that the rule's he Unspcndcd and the l’rofesizor be 0100 {.IME- He‘d-uh Flt-2 (in w. 'l'lIE KKK KEN CLUB ‘erummm; mummTMMxm‘vmuhzuflmwMimi-MW ted. A motion h)th the Flutes-so)“ can now 11031 i, and :mnomx «1 1151: in \‘ix ' Limo-Kiln Club esiimate of the distance to the sun, about 11w miles; to the moon, about the same. A ‘ ‘Iltlf‘flu‘ufl'fiiu The Commitmc m: A tronum)‘, nub“ fund their regular mummy report (1.2 11,110» . NumbL-l' of tank nighis since 111:1; ‘rcpm't, twenty-ave. Number of comets dxscovered, three, but too far of? to cause {my run on the bunk. The committee iurtlzm' announced that theyhad changed the name of Venus to “Sarah;” of Jupitm‘to “Cl:u.i'lcs {em-y.” of Mars to “Andrew Jackson,”2md of Saturn to “Sam Johnson.” Astronomers through- out the country will please take notice and govern themselves amrm'dinoly. l" sther changes: will be made as syran nymm and the romls improve. “l uoiis," said the old man as he looked carefully around him \i Mi one 03 c lmlf clos- ed, “1 notis dat sartin cull‘il men of Detroit demand representaslmn on dc purlceec fo’ce an’ 11:11: a nieetin’ has been called to take ax sliuu in de case. I (loaii’ want members 0 dis club to mix up in (la Izmtter noliow. if dc time has arrove to put black men on de pux'leeee fo’ce it has ill'l‘hVC to put 'em in dry goods stores, city oIl‘ces, and all otldm‘ places. De attempt lo laulhloze (l0, White people will be a failure. As black men we have our own fields 01' opemslmm. U do white folks doan’ interfere \i id us why should we interfere will ’eni? N0 honest, inâ€" dustrieus cull’d man has any luck of work or friends. Bewar’ how you let- dc half dozâ€" enblack political shysters of Michigan use your paws to pull deir chestnuts out of dc fiali. “'0 will now somnmubulatn to our homes. Let do band p13 Y ‘Twius in do, Cra- dle’ as we go out, an’ (10 pUbSOH who takes my umbrella by mistake will feel vh'ell'ul ou- ensy befo’ de week am out. 7' _._â€"__â€"¢N<‘®-y gonna». 77 7 Baifiy Fond of Hundreds cx' Millions. Lice is a cereal of even gr later importance than wheat, for it is more lm'gcly grown and nonsumcd than any other article of daily I'noil. {ice is, indeed, the “:‘tafl‘of life” of 3. third of the human race. The botanical name of rice is org/:1; saiirzt. \Vhen ‘in ear it b 'ars a closer resemblance perhaps to barâ€" ley than any other corn plzuit grown in Eng- land, euch grain being terminated with an aura or beard, and is enclosed in :L rough yellow husk. The stalk is not unlike of wheat, but the joints are more 1111111 ous. It appears to have been originally a native of the East Indies. but is now culti- uted in all quarters of the globe, and almost whcrevor the necessary conditions of warmth and moisture are suitable. The lat- ter especially it needs. it is cultivated, it is almost needless to say, very exclusively in India, China, Cochin China, and Other south-eastern parts of Asia, Japan, Egypt, &c. It is from India that very large supplies come; and the quantity of Burmah rice ship- ped during the past year was no less than 738,200 tons. 1n the south of Europe it is grown to some extent, principally on the plains of Lombardy, and in Valencia, in Spain. Rice is deficient in flesh-forming substances, but has a 1:31 “or amount of fat- forming or heat-giving SlfifitallCCS than any other grain. It is as Professor Church points out in his work on food, most usefully em- ployed when 'it is consumed along with ur- ticles rich in nitrogenous or flesh-forming matters. Thus it may be used with meat, eggs, and any kind of pulse, as peas or beans. It should not be boiled, but merely (us good housewives are aware) steamed till tender, for it yields to boiling water a considerable part of its nitrogenous and mineral consti- tuentsâ€"them conmounds, in fact, in which it was already deficient. But this objection to boiling rice, does not, of course, apply to its use in soups. 11; cannot be substituted for green vegetables for any length of time without an unhealthy condition of the body, and sometimes scurvy being the result. in hot climates, howerer, it is peculiarly well adapted for food, as ituppcnrs to be almost a cure for dysentery and other bowel com- plaints, independently of which it isn sidii‘ eiently nutritious food without being heat ing. A pound of it contains somewhat 0\'C1‘ twelve ounces of starch, more than t“ o oun- ces of water, an ounce of fibrin, i‘L'c. : the other constituents being; fat, cellulose, :md mineral matter. Sonic intizl stingicmnrhs concerning (Ion. bko‘uelen are contributed to the (Ifu/ognc (Jill/{iv by 0111: of its (,m'l'eszpondom:4, who had good opportunities cf uh? wing him during the lhisso-Turkish war. The pupllllll' notion that (Suzi. Skohelcli‘ is a dashing wvnhv oliivor, lull of warlike unthusmsm, is, ficquiWilllg to this (-m'i'ospundvnt, mitime false. cxlmonlinury pmw‘nal mmmgc was 110% film fruit of impulse, b1": 01' lm m- flection. "5' once 1' arked tn the (hm-ml,” says the (ruri‘vspomlenu. “ thL-t he “‘(ftml \‘cx'y imprmlmitly in ermstzuitly (“cpoesixw himN If to thu enemy”: fire ‘rithonn 1ha ’ * havensit)‘ fur so doing. ‘ llu 3w) was tin: unswz-i'. ‘thui if me {my pleasure to lot the "Phil s‘ 51 ’ 11' 1 go ixxlo danger 1 haw good l'UJ~(7i:.\‘ mr il. My superiors (‘m‘ymo on :MJL‘UUHC- of my sucm ‘._, and would gladly f xlge :m 02>"5f)1'lll1i- it-y of gettin rid of me. The, gm; w y, therefore, of \cppingm)‘ plawc is :0 man: my troops so enthusiasti ‘ully nitauluul to me that they will follow me anywhere, and make me indispensable ; fllltl in onlci 4.211 do this I must behave with that weldist hi'nvo~ ry which always end 111‘s 3 Lomnumnlol' in his mm.” upposc," 1: It seems to have wiped the notice 0:” those who are screeching against the de- cisions of ihe COHHHiS‘lOHm‘S that Scotch landlords are almost everywhere reâ€"letting their farms at quite as large, :1' in many cases, at :1 much larger rednntien than the judicial average in Ireland: 1 ham 0 1'L‘(tui‘\'((l articulars of several emes ‘ v» iiih ] com- mend to the attention of the aggrieved landlords and their miting partisans whom: zeal is by no means; in accordance. with their knmvledge. A large farm in \‘fest Fife, having; been re-rnluefl, is to he let at £700, in'steml of £1,100, \rliile the rent ml" another in the same [lislrizs’f is to he i'c-Czneul l(l~', pm“ acre. n râ€"«H <o.‘> o¢â€"â€"â€"â€"~-â€"~ ~ Scotch Land Rent Reductions. gâ€"nuoo «o.» 06% A “'ORI) (r13 ADV“; General Skobeleix. (Kent was madc, L j'his hand on ,p! gunk ‘Sl‘ and hiS The Incredibic: ‘l‘orn’zoa to 'Which Ani- mals "C 8111332621921 by the Viviuec- tloxisfs. M. 311le Sch-all is {a 1 r mun of distinction, member of the Asxaeie society of Paris, author of a learned work on Islam, etc. 1-11 September, 1879, M. Scholl left his retreth among the Alps and sclt‘cd himself at Lauszume, to work out, with the help of French, German and English treat- ises and reports, a book which should serve to acquaint the governments of Europe with the nature of contemporary \‘ivisection. In spite 0f failing eyesight, M. Scholl has now completed his task; and if every English voter could but read his pages, there would be very little question afterward, we be lieve, of the fate of the two measures re- spectively, intended to repeal the exist- ing act against Viviseetiou and to strengthen it. literary gen' Notably, there are the cruel and useless experiments on poisons (of which we are threatened with fresh repetitious just now) ~~l)1‘. Bennet's 61-9 trials on dogs and rab- bits, which Dr. Bonnet himself confessed were so little satisfactory that he abandoned them; Dr. Fayrer’s 290 experiments with serpents poison on cats and dogs, 6120. We must try to condense into one extract some specimen of what follows. In every case, chapternnd verse is given by M. Scholl. llcre are a, few samples of experiments. “Plastering a terriers muzzle with gypsum: \'arnishing and oil-painting dogs and 'rab- bits (varied in a. ‘ very interesting’ manner by the thicknes's of the coat of paint and the surface covered). Injecting chromic acid into the eronia. of dogs and rabbits. Experiments on the pancreas, by dragging it with pincers out of a wound in the side, and replacing it with tubes sticking in it ; the records commencing by the observation that the ‘organ is so extremely sensitive that it is necessary to choose animals which can best sustain pain.’ Baking of animals alive in stoves by Delaroche and Berger, as well as by Bernard ; a table of time neednt to kill dogs of equal size at various degrees of hesitwmaximum, thirty minutes, mini- mum, eighteen, at 120 centigrade, Innnm- erable operations on the vertebral column, remarked by Cyon to be ‘ perhaps the most painful operation of all for the animal. Heclard praises Bernard for a. most ingeni- ous proceeding for taking away altogether the ' t consists in seizing the spinal nerve at the hole opened in the back, and effecting, by tearing, it out, the destruction of its roots. Blatin mentions hearing Flourens say that Majendie had sacrificed four thousand dogs to prove Bell’s theory of the nerves, and four thousand more to disprove of the same, and that he, Flourens, had shown,by vivisec- ing still some thousands more, that Bell was right. Next come experiments on the brain. Dr. Munk, of Berlin, condemns Ferrier. His examinations (Munk says) were done in a totally inefficient manner. Erroneous results have followed. The prin- ciples laid down by Ferrier differ in nothing from an arbitrary edifice, and his other views are utterly worthless (ebenso urm‘thlos). For himself Munk says, ‘I. have procured twenty-nine animals for erimenting on the ape. I lost eight. 0n the rest I prac- ticed about fifty experiments,‘ on the visual and the factile sphere. IThe number We small compared to my experiments on dogs, owing to the rariety of the material.’ Again and over again the sensibility and intelli- gence of the mutilated monkeys were tested by the whip, or by lighted matches burning their muzzles, and after extirpating pox-- tions of its brain, a. dog was kept without water for days waiting its last mutilation. Another blinded and mutilated creature re- sisted the operator’s blows (Prugel) to make it move. Sometimes the victims are kept alive for months, but this is said to be (lif- fieult, ‘ because the mutilated hemispheres of the brain become excessively sensitive, and the terror and anguish which are the consequences of the o erations (Schrmiken, mid Angst) bring on ini amations, etc. Such things, however, are described by the vivisector as ‘ beautiful (“schone”) cerebral inflammations ;’ and he proceeds to still more ‘interesting’ observations. Herr Goltx (another rival of Prof. Ferrier’s, and the honored guest of the British public at the recent congress) is in the habit of ‘mxama OUT THE BRAIX,’ linking it squirt forth Out Of a hole ‘ like : nuishroom.’ Here is one of his cases: ‘Jr vigorous bulldog on NOV. 8, 1875, had two holes made in his skull; the brain rinsed, Became blind Nov. 10. Dec. 11, ablation of the eye. Jan. 10. 1876, another ti‘epan. Iiiilg, and more brain rinsi’tl out: the. dos: hecmno idiotic. Feb 5, third rinsing (if brain; apurulcnt neuingifis sets in, and the (log (lies Folk. 15. Similar histories of other (logs are repeated agiin and again, with the same remarks ()2: the growing blindness, idiooy, (mil helplesan 9 of the Victims. In one 0:150, on a; fourth ope-:1- tion, there. was not room left for another hole on the left Si(l(‘, so a large space of bone lict‘A'POR‘. the old and now holes was broken Clown.7 A ‘ roumrkablc’experiment is made by putting the blinded (log; on a, tahle and trying to make him jump down. Then followed an ‘intcrcsting’ experiment of dqull'tillg water on the animal, and mak- ing it, in its terror, ‘ mock itself again-st a hair. lllill purposely in ifs way.’ “ Twice {nor-e was is dog mutilated, and than it died of mcnmgitis. ’l‘hesum total of results wasâ€"‘thc Jugs 1111 lust the faculty of using the right pa '.'.’“ “ The experiments of M. lhnl Bert (the new minister of worship and instruction in France) are numbered by hundreds, and are perhaps. the most terrible of all. A dog (No. SETS of his victims), described as a ‘new dog,’ becunsonot hitherto tortured, ig'plgccd under the compression of eight ahnospheres from 3.56 P. M. to 4.45 1‘. M. \thn tak- on out of the machine its throat is full of foam, its paws are stiff, its whole body in tonic convulsions. By 5 o’clock the con- "alsions are of extreme violence. the eyes are convulsed. At half-past 5 fresh con- vulsions are excited by shaking the table and pushing uthermometer into the body. The animal grinds its teeth as if to crush them. At 11 nextmorning it is found lying still, with permanent contraction of the limbs, and dies in the course of the (lay. Another dog. No. 286, Withdrawn from the I'?:‘i\:l1in(c in mm ‘nlsiens, becomes stiffened, IN ERIE INTER TS CF SCIENCE. SPINAL N HI’LVE FROM A LIV ~(a: ANIMA L‘ (M "1m gator. . ~Mn<<®> was *7 A Prince Leopoid’s Bride. The Princess Helena oi \Vahieeh is going to Paris, says The London Trill/I, to buy her troussea-n. She will procure it at estab- lishments patronized by the queen of llol- land,and is to be taken to them incognilo by a lady attached to the Dutch legation. I am told that queen Emma is showing her- self very generous to her sister, who is to stay with her from the time she has done with her Parisian outfitters untilshe goes to England to get married. The ducal family of PyrmontfiValdeck is old, proud, and for from rich. Most of its domestic arrange- ments haVe been made on the needs-must principle. If the portions of the numerous daughters of this house had not been fairly good the eldest of them would not now be queen of Holland. Princess Helena is of a. romantic disposition, although something of a blue. stocking. Her father‘s little state is beautifully picturesque and fearfully pov- erty stricken. It is a country of high hills, wooded qlens, and brawlng streams and strelmlets. Prince Leopold met his future wife at Rupeuheim. Sheis connected ' with the royal family of England, through the duehess of Cambriige and the Princess of “Vales, and was highly spoken of by the grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt. He opined that she would be just the person to lead with the prince a quiet, studious life at Claremont, and be, if his health broke down, a. ministering angel to him. A mem- ber of an embassy here has told me that the Princess Helena would make an ideal wife for.an earnest and charity-disposed English rector. Through the Nassau fami- ly she has some great and wealthymelations, but she has not been reared in grand style. She is trm-simpldr, fair, fresh, gentle, and of a cheerful, even temper, and, though not very tlistinqw, she is certainly not rustic in her unaffected simplicity. so that the ‘uuimal may he myriad by om: paw, like apiece of wood.’ A cut subjected to the same experiment fucbly mews and crawls on its forepavm, and, when dissected, shows a marrow ‘whiuh {lows like cream. ’ "’ The queen of Holland, by the by, is com- iug out as a. leader of society at The Hague. She is fond of elegant toilets, music, dancâ€" ing, and such gayeties as the Dutch capiter affords. it appears that she has grown quite pretty since her marriage. Her hair, which is of a burnished bloude color, is very fine, and she understands how to dress it to advantage. The complexion is made up of roses and lilies, and the neck and arms, if wanting in purity of outline, are beautifulâ€" ly white and plump. Blue is her majesty’s favorite color. She sits in a boudoir hung \Vithhlue silk, decorated with Nankin blue porcelain, and she often dresses in blues of various shades. At a ball given at the pal- ace about ten days ago she was in a white satin skirt, covered with old 1v>i11t 1:. :e, sky blue corsage and train, and had her garni- tures and head-dress blue feathers and pearls. The sister of the duehess of Con- naught has thrown aside her widow’s weeds and was at the ball. She and the queen dancedinto the small hours of the morning. Princess Pauline, the youthful heiress pre- sumptite, suffers from her teeth, and does not appear to have a robust constitution. She may not, therefore, stand in the way of the grand ducal family of Saxo-‘Veimar. The prince of Orange, on the other hand, is not so wretchedly delicate as he was, but he keeps aloof from his father and stepmoth- er, and is engaged in collecting materials for a. history of the Dutch branch of the. Has. sau family, which he believes has got to the end of its tether. Mrs. Susan Edson, Garfield’s faithful nurse, last Week made a call upon President Arthur. The disease known as “American pink- cye” is rapxdly s weadmg among horses 1n Liverpool. “A. lobster nevm‘ comes ashore,” says an old fishmongcr', "without great risk of get- ting into hot V'atel'.” The Emperor of Germany took part in the march round the grand hallnt the Berlin 0p- cm. house a fortnight ago. Many swell New Yorkers are burning wax candles instead of gas, tlunking it mom zes- thetlc to illuminate m that way. Garibaldi says a man should live fifty years and no longer. It depends a good deal what kind of a life he is hauling. The cizyfwthcrra of Montreal compel the street railway companies of that city to pay $56,000 annually inio tlxe municipal km- wry. A Misaisfippi Rumm- .9: gs that the great trouble with the people In his country is thatvevery m1)” 1:; tx'ynxg to make an “easy” hung, Nilsson’s sight has been greatly impaired by her constant crying; over the illness of her husband, and She is mmtpclled to wear g1: es. The I’I'n'mm'ug/ivcm.’ (lozmml says that. trcz planting; should be largely increased, :23 it improves the drainage of the soil and the leaves :thcn'b dampness. The Boston Star says that the chief trou- hle with the age in which we live is that it believes too much in \‘m‘msh and veneer, and too little in solid wood. Florida, papers say that the bronze or rus- ty oranges are much the sweetest, and can he lwpt longer than the ripe fruit, but that they will not sell at the north for hnif the pri :13 of the fair fruit. As {how is no lady fut the White House, ‘ - ' ' ‘inghuysen, the daughhr of the . ,tmy of Shite, runs ox er and directs the steward how to arrange the table when the President gives a dinner party. Frederick May, whom due] with James Gordon Bennett still lives in memory, was married 12m", week in San Francisco to a niece of the late millionaire, O’Brien. The bride’s mother ' ; worth sewml millions. A New York correspondent says that this. has been the best kind of a winter for msc bud style of girlg, for nearly all have be- come engaged, and the engagement society regards as of the " entircly satisfactory" kind. The Boston (gr/m xhinka, as we all do. tha when a woman (1003 :L man’s work she should get a man‘s pay. It also adds, "that as a rule, when they are obliged to work, women have as much l'wpoufiibiiit)‘ to shoulder as men. " â€"â€"â€"â€"-«<«o»«-â€"â€"â€"r NOTES OF THE DAY. mm: :vsv'mm'rmm'mzmmmrs mm’mmxm, nu. The exâ€"Quocn of Spain buys a ticket in every lottery of which she hears, repeating the proverb, ‘ never shut the door against fortune.” An astvologer in Nevada prophesies, and backs up his prediction with a, wager of an oystér suliper, that some monarch now reigning; in Europe will die during the month of March. TH}: recent elections for the Hum . (2:! assmnlfly indicate the complete downfall of the 01d missionary inllnenuc in the sandwich islands. A negro woman of Kansas City adver- tises that if the parents bf an infant late- ly left with her do not inunediately claim it and pay charges she will dispose of it at auction. ' Dctroit has a house of < last year paid a profit oi - p 7' . x .‘X‘I‘CCLXOZI “11:0 1 .. . The death of a girl in a ballroom at Georgetown, Colorado, was caused by tight lacing. She did not squeeze herself from choice, but because she wore her slendcrer sister’s dress. Gen. Garibaldi’s health is so much better that he Wishgs to g9 to Influx-mo to’attend the commemoration tiicre of the Sicilian Vespers, which “'111 begin on the fist of March and continue four days. A play bxfl dropped from the gallery of the Volks Theatre. Copenhagen, took fire from a, gas jet in its fall, and, alighting on a. lady’s head, burned off her bonnet and nearly all the hair hefoxe the flames couhl be extinguished. In a ,trial‘ before a Justice at Dodge City, Kansas, a witness who was being bullyrag- god by u crossexamining lawyer called on the Court for protection. The Justice handâ€" ed him a pistol. “I have no further ques- tions,” said the lawyer. The religious revival in Louisville has ta- ken an exciting hold 011 the negrocs, twenty three of whom were immersed in one evenâ€" ing. An impatient convert, unable to re- strain himself until his turn came, threw himself head foremost into the water. The popularity of the violin among tine laboring classes of England was recently shown by the attendance of over 400 appli- cants for instructions at the recent opening of the “penny violin classes,” at Birming- ham. Only a. penny a lesson is char:- cd, the instruction being given in large classes. Late estimates indicate that nearly a million acres of French vineyards have been turned to other uses, and that more than two-thirds of the remainder are more or less: affected by the phylloxex'u. Everywhere in in the wine dist-riots wimllasses are at work tearing‘up the shrivelleil and black- ened stalks of the vines; to be carted away for firewood. Mr. Carlyle gave the lately discovered manuscript of his .lrish diary to a. friend who is now dead, and who preserved it as 1L kind of secret treasure so carefully that its existence was long unknown. The style is described as racy, and it contains many frank observations on such points of national char~ actor as are of the highest interest at the present political junctme. Mr. Froude is greatly impressed with its importance. and intends to write an introduction to it. Here is a real adventure in 1he far ‘Xesi. for boys to read : Christian Alison, aged 12‘, usmlnmdxinlto Utah Tile was em )luyed " while on E’shcep ranch}: , to do the work, and was lllSUha-I‘gcll. 1'01: twenty days the poor little fellow trudged aimlessly about, in bitter cold weather. scantily clothed and fed. One day be “‘zm found insunsiiile in a snow drift, with :3 lit- tle flour in a tin pail as his entire sick-k of provisiong, and so badly frozen that, on be- ing sent; to Salt Lake for treatment, his fact were amputated. University professoxs in Melbourne have a. rather startling way of deciding their dis- putes, and two of them have recently been punished for disorderly conduct in doing so. There was 111 (-lection MPI'osident of the facfilty which caused {L good deal of sharp canvassing. At the \‘Oll'lflg' one of thn pro- fessors, Imhxcd Nm‘son. lzeing accused by Ellington of “>1ng unfairly. . , orth by walling Elhington a liar. l’mf. lfllkmgton, therefnyo, knocked P101} Nzxrson down, and helm since been suspemlml for a month from his duties and cmnhunmh Narson got off with a fine of 1 A new method ofl‘nnnivipul hm;sprn‘tation is about to be tested in Huston. By means of a system of coupon: the passenger, upon his arrival in quton, can bake a, coup-’3, es- pecially reserved for 155m, and be conveyed directly and speedily to any purl; effing city desn'ed. No attention to his ‘iggnge will be required, :13 that will be provided for by the company and will follow him at once to his hotel, residence, 01* office as onlei‘etl. The company having charge of the matteris now COlnplL'iJlllg the details of the arrange- ment, and already lr :1 contracted for the construction of S. Hill elegant coupe, and cubs. A, man named l'ietrn Foam rceenLly (hel at alllotel in l'esth. where he had Leen a waiter who, in 1872 under a, much more sounding title. tool; the trmlesn‘ien of l’ari. by storm. H rppeared in the French capi. ml as the i‘rlarshul-Cmmt l-antello hoseolo, Due do linsignnno, Patrician of \‘enire, at taohed to the person of ll. 12». H. the Prince of Sknnderborg, King of lipirns and Albania. Due de lhlsigano was known ewrywhere, and it is supposed that his euree nrnished Dandet with material. for his “l g .1 Ex» ile.” He went out in search 0t men who wished for rank and distinction and were willing to pay for it, and promised them in- terviews with his Royal Highness, chief of the most knightly Order of the Star of Epir- us, At last the police looked up the “King’s” record, and, learning their inten- tions, his Majesty escaped, leaving the Mar- shal as a guarantee for his return. The lat- ter was tried on a charge of swindliug; his real, name, Pietro Foseu. was {lung at him ; but, with tears in his 07, 4,5, he told his Jud- ges the vicissitudes of his noble family. and how his ancestor. Murine Faliero, had been heheaded on the Giant‘s Staircase. lie failed to move them. and was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, which he underwent with becuming dignity, aided rifling presents sent by elderly ladies who sympath- ized with him, and really believed him to be a persecuted and unfortunate nohle~ man. ISIZSC“? ELLANEOUS ITEMS