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-V-- ‘7“ r m The Territorial Government of Dakota has offered. a reward of $5 000 for the discovm'y 3nd development of a. mine of anthracite coal in than Territory, and proapecuors are busy. L)bsfiers, says Prof. Bsckmore, are n0w “taken almost entirely from deep water, and at the present. tune of decrease will shortly become curiosities, to be found only in museums.” ‘pcording to the Drug News, Lon- \. aah'mn given prcference to heliotrope ove‘ ‘il pertumea. Pray tell us, Ladies, if you can. who is that. bghlv favored man, who, though he‘s married many a wife, may be a bachelor all his Me. A clergymnn. It: in thought that as their genera ference next month the Mormons w nounca polggamy. But if they do, will become of me “ surplus ’3" “Yea,” mid Jonas, “ when my. gets mad’ahe reminds me of a vessel. un- er weigh.” “ How 80 7 ' inquired Smith. “Because she's gob her rancor up. The Englishman who said that >Ame_ri‘ The Englishman who said that Amen- can girls did not; know what to do with their arms certainly never had much ax- perieuce in American pnrlors with the gas turned low. The Medic/Ll Journal states than; Iew hand fuls of mum. on salt, thrown daily into cloaete, and an occaaional handf n1 into wash basins, goes far toward counter- acting the noxious cfl‘aota of the omnipres- ent newer gas. A few years ago, says the London Stan- dard, the young people of England be- came imbued with the roller skating craze, and rinks were built all over the comm-y. The fever, however, was ad brlef as any other vagaries of inshiun; the enthusiasm died away, the rinks were deserted, the investors lost their money, and tells! skates disappeared in the land.” (heavens! Gallery, London, a pm: his father, Mr. Robert. Browning. painted for Balliol College, and the poet seated in his university g Colored people are more successfully photographed, as a rule, than white peo- ple are, says an experienced photograph- er, the medium mulmto making the finest photograph in the World. Light complex- ion: are hudeat to take, and hght colored clothing doel not lmk well in pictures. In taking plumes of 3131111315 the instan- taneoua process is best. Cats are the best sitters. There is in 1305502 What; may be term- ed the mini-cure epidemic. It has come up within the last; few years, has taken extensive hold of the popular mind. and is being vigorously tanght and promised asa science. Large numbers of men and women who have leaned the “ science " are healing diseased people, 33 they claim. They have officel. and go to paments as do other physicians. The thing is fash- ionable. too. A bottle, to which a large bunch of bl- valves had gnwn, waa 53‘th up recently by a Baltimore oysterman. Inside the bottle was a fish too large to get out of its mouth. It is supposed that the fish went into the bottle. and either liked lbs quarters so well that; it tarrisd too long. or before it could find its way out had gown 30 large an to nearly fill the bottle. he bottled finh will be sent to the Smith- sonian Institution. Accntdlng to tha St. James’s Gazatbe the bar at this mement in the mast over- stocked profession in Enghnd. The Law Llab of 1884 comprises 242 page: of ammo Bel entitled to practice at, the English bar, and each page contains on an average fath- w- -_-__ rfi er more than thirty mmee. thus yielding a grand total of about 7,200 practitioners for England and those British possessions where English counsel have a right of audience. This total does not include the members of the Scotch bar or of the Irish bar or of the bar of the Isle of Man. A trustee of the Providence Public Li- brary has gathered into a scrapbook the adventures of the boys who read dime novels, and has made it his business to ask the boys one by one who are interest- ed in these stories to spend an hour or two in reading, not the imaginative story, but the way in which the small boy has attempted to realize how boys ought to live, and what they ought to be allowed to ‘do. It is said that the dime novel boy usually reads the scrapbook, which is re- pidly increasing in siza as the fresh ex- ploits of the dime novel adventurers are added to it, about two hours. He then lays it down in disgust, and nothing can induce him to return to those stories a- gsin. He asks the person in charge of the reading rooms for a. better class of h min. There is still living in the north of Scotland an old lady who can give the curious visitors who sometimes drop in on her an interesting glimpse of Lord Byron. When the century was young she accom- panied two or three holiday makers t ) Glamia Castle, then thrown open to vial- tora, and. at the entrance. fear fell upon them. By and by a handsome cavalier with a. club foot, evidently 8. guest at the castle. aauntered up the walk, and took in the alt round the of the h of s it. I, a! goods. it seem ufi‘ ; just put m 31! HERE AND THERE- in th B. Browning will sen reminds he of a vess'el un- ‘ How so 7 ' inquired Smith. rl’a waist, their general con- Mormona will re- if they do. Wbat be the r‘ a quart k, and m [a nut hi nd to the portrgit of a and deplcls own. DH {ottle of wife 1‘38 hem. which arm Some_'l‘hings that War may Teach. Almost daily, the telegraph brings us news concerning minor wars and rumors of more important ones that are liable, without warning, to become realities. There have bsen Improvement: in ships, cannon and smullarms ; in the means. of attacking, and likewise in the defense of fortificanioiia ; in torpedo boats and in the methods for their destruction. 1 unouuvuu nu u".-- -nvw The more improvements that are made the greater the dlatancee at which fight- ing is done. Breutworka will not afloxd the protectiontney have heretofore given, an machine nus, trained at the proper elevation, wi lraln aJesden shower, at any distance, from a. very short to a. very long range, on the unprotected heads of those who have sought the old-fashioned shel- ter. A charge on a fortified position, however, will be a. forlorn hope in nearly every instance, If the defenders are pro- perly armed. Twenty years a a, muzzle- loading guns were in genera use, the breech-loadern in the United States army having been issued almost entirely to mounted troops. Frequently, in repel- llng a. charge, there would be no time to reload, burn sin. le shot being at the dilpoul of each :0 diet; now, in addition to the many exnellent pattern of rapid firing breech-loaders, are mngnzine guns, capable of delivering from thxrty to forty, and in the hands of an export, fifty nhote per minute. 0! course breech-loaders have been used in recent wars, but no small arms have ever equalled the exam- tion of the Inter styles of magnzine guns. Ulvu v. Mu .â€".. - _.,‘.- , At what ranges will email arms be used '3 Will defeat. be due to a failure to procure the 12mm: Improvements in scien- tific warfare '1 W41 recent inventions suc- cessfully endure that tent of teats-act- ual service in the field? Theae are quea~ tiom in which not only military men. but also the majority of men who use fire vrma, will be deeply interested. It is not unlikely that if a war of any magni- tude is fought, at its close. new needs will have been revealed and some of the supposed improvements condemned. Al- ready, the Afghan: have made the im- portant discovery that muzzle-loading gum are d‘flianlt to manage during a rain storm, their own havin been rendered practically worthleu in t e recent battle with the Bosnian. Tme,cartrldgea can be made that will obviate the difficulty to mme extent, but. the fact remains that troops armed with muzzle-loader: are practically beaten in advance. u 1 .1,,r __:. -1... It is generally conceaded that on iLg to improved rifles and marksmanship, sharp- shooting skirmishers will take a. more im. poriant part than heretoforeln the settle- ment of armed controversies. Great Brit- ain has paid more attention to rifle shoot- lng than any of the other Powers, a fact which will be made apparent if an army of that nation becomes involved with an- other of equal force. The British volun. teers are particularly expert in the use of the rifle, and although pleasant to meet as competitors, would be the most danger- ous of foes. Possibly more than one na- tion wrll soon have cause to regret that it has not followed the good example set by Great Britain in fostering rifle practice ; having learned too hate that a gun is some- thing more than a pike, and that one of the most important accomplishments of a soldier is to know how to shoot. An exchange, in commenting on the capabilities of a newly invented machine gun, says itn adjustmentin every direction is so delicate, that one can write his name on a screen with it. If this means at a very, very short range, we shall be obliged to accept the sta' extent as a fact. In any event, the story is quite moder- ate when compared with that concerning another machine gun, which, it was claimed, if turned slowa while firing, would cut the planks of a wooden target at a distance of several thousand yards, as smoothly as if done by a saw. A peculiar if not, indeed. an unprece- dented strike in yepor§edjfroqx Bulgaria. The clergy of the orthod-ox church'have cloned the places of worshl p throughout the principality, end not only refused to cel- ebrate divine service, but heve also de- clined to conduct baptiemnl and funeral services, or any other 0161 icnlt ificeu. The cause of this extraordinary strike is as follow: : In 1883 the sobranje, or nation- al parliament passed a. bill enacting that the aalaries of the clergy nhould be paid by the state, subject to a church-rate which should be levied upon everybody and which would have about covered the expenditure. The people, however, resented the levying of the rote so en- ergetically that it has never been collect- ed. Last year when M Zankafl‘ wee pre- mier, he endeavored to gain the Bufll‘egee mxer, n6 enaenvutuu w gnu: nauu DUJu-Ew of the clergy for his party by ordering the treasury to advance the sum of 850,~ 000 francs for the purpose of paying the clergy thew stipends, hoping probably that the people might eventually be Induc- ed to pay the tax. This, however, they have still declined to do, and furthermore the 8011.!nd3, taking into consideration the increased expenditure necessitated by the new railway schemes of the present mil- itary requirements. have declined to let the item stand in the budget. at the eame lsta f6: the world to diaaolve 7 All w o are indebted to this office should pay p before that: time. Striking Preachers. Major Holdich, R. E . chief of the Geographical Section of Sir Peter Lums- den's Commlaelon, in the latest note: sent home by him describes the country which is now the acene of opcratinm. He says:- “ Five miles south of Full Kbiti the hills on the rlght bank of the Kulhk River cane handing away round to the left of the Murghub River, lelvlng a well-de- fined delm to fill in the‘forlf babween the two rivers. This delta. 18 a kind of steppe, for the river runs in narrow valleys some hundred feet below it” and out of thin valley plus Ak Tapa. The top of Ak Tn- pa is on a level with the steppe. A): T.- â€"â€"~ 7 ..__J .‘-_A hundred feet below it. and out of thin valley rises Ak Tape. The top of Mr T» pa is on a level with the ateppe. Ak Te- pa is distinctly the strongest and most streteglcal position in the country. It domlustee all the mode to Her» which dl- ‘ verge from the head of the Khuak and Murghnb rivers, and It bare the way to the entrance of the two finest and most fertile valleys north of the Peropamiaue. The Murglnb in a deep and impueeble ri- ver near Al: Tips, between fifty end seventy feet wide. The ruins of the old. Penjdeh fort are some fivo miloe north of Ak Tape on the left bank of the Murgheb end the new f wt in a mile further north. The letter is not remarkable in any way. It in prcbeble that Duh Kepri, mentioned by General Kennel-off, ie in the vicinit of Bend-i-Nedur, where there is a. dam across the Murghnb. Concerning Much bac, on which place the Afghan fell beck when driven from Penjdeh, Major Hol- dioh says it is the only piece of importance between Penjdeh and Bola Murgheb. There in the lumen fort there he hes ever eeen. and remains of a. brick bridge thet could be reconntructed. Bale Murghab is some distance south, 41 miles from Pen]- deh. It he: a. fort in a very good state of preeervatlon, which is occupied by the Ameer'e troop. Concerning Beret, Mejor Holdich uyn itcould be invested without much dlfliculty, the villages affording capital cover for an enemy to chute: round it right up to the foot of the mud \ walls of the city. Mmy of our readers no doubt, lave bend of ankiei and his famous nimn- ac, but if we are not mistaken, it has not as yet had a. very extensive circnintion in the Dominion. The fire: edition of tint famous work appeared in the year 1831‘ As the ticie page informs us, each num- ber contains "prediction of the weather, voice of the share, numerous useful tables wibhs hieroglyphic.” In the preface of the first edition reproduced in than for 1885, stkiei says: "Exnmine for your- selves. If you find any predictions veri- fied by the course of events, do not con- clude that chance he: brought it about, because there is no such thing as chance ; and even if there be, I had no monopoly of ibâ€"ib is likely to be against me as in my favor." Lei: us put; stkiei to the test. In the Voice of the Stars for Janu- ary we find this prediction : “ The Can of Russia will feel the stingof aid Sasnm; moreover, as Msrs emers Aquarius. vio- lence reigns in these vast domains and on the borders of Persia. Our Government is warned to take precmnions against. the Russian advance toward our possesaions." Again in February we read,"‘Mars speeds on his way through the sign Aquarius and conjoins with the sun on the 11th instant. Hence this will not be a peaceful month for Russia and we shall hear of violence and turbulence in that land.” This is at lent; as good a hit as any of our own weather prophets has made. But the besbis yet to come. The Voice of the Stars informs us that “ In Canada and the United Sashes martisJ proceedings will be the order of the day, violence shall reign and turbulence cause serious trouble?’ Who will have to say. after that, that Zudklel is Loli a true pr-wphe‘? A Prosperous Communistic Township. Every one knows something of the pros- perity of Swiss townships, where so many things are in common,but a more remark- -. ble instance still of a thrivin commune is given by M.de steleye int is month's Contemporary Review. It is the town- ‘ ship of Freudenstsadt, at the foot of the Kniebis, in Baden. There are 1,420 in- habitsnts,eeoh of whom has as much wood for building purposes and firing as he wishes, while he can send his cattle out to pasture on the common land during the summer. Schools, churches, thorough fares, and fountainsnre all maintained by the com mune, and every year considerable improvements are made. Twenty-five thousand dollars was spent in 1883, for instance, on esmbllahing a new water sup- ly in iron pipes. A hospital, too, has geen built, and a pavilion in the marketâ€" place, where the communal band plays on fete days. The villagers have never paid a'slngle f “thing in taxes, but, on the mn- imry, esoh year a. distribution of surplus revenue is made among them, and each family usually obtains from $12 50 to $15. All this is done with about five thousand acres of pine forest and meadow lnnd be- longing to the township, a. fact which seems ‘ to show that communism is not alqu \ unfavorable to the production of wealth. is not known tn menb, although The Scene of operations. â€"4-â€"OO<->CO'â€"â€"â€"â€" Blel‘s Rebellion Foretold ‘ncle Severa‘ Answered the Advertiseme “01163 tery to but Ins-stenwm 9 above story. The dog ohave read the advertise he may have seen it. Wh‘ England's Position. The whole world known that Mr. Glad- stone is alow of entry to a quarrel, but there can no longer be any doubt of the determinebion of the moat peaceful Min- ister who ever held the reins of power in the onuniry to go to ,wer if the Reunion Government does not hold its hand. Pte partitions are being pushed forward with- out: excitement, but; with an amount of earnelineee not seen in the country since the Crimean War. There is no excite- ment even in London ; the people look upon the negotietione which my plunge them into war withe kind of indflurent resignation. They know that the quarrel in being forced upon them, but once in it they mil carry in through with a will. The wnr,if war it must be, will be terrible ; it my be long, and it» limit: may exâ€" tend fer beyond ihe border cf .‘Jghan' Iten. The longer it lute the mum fatal must itbeto Rania. Hu- donflnion is only asserted in the vent regions over which she mlnby mean- c fa. grindingdupotilm. Her Government in demoted from the Caucasus to the confines of Tart , and the heart of Russian oivliunbion is nrly threstened with erminl and financial ruin. One or two Victoria: in the field nighl even hand to consolidate the power of the 0m. but 1 prolonged cempeign withoni luocele would probe.be leed bodmnrbnnoee Remlhtent fever has of late yea." played sad havoc among the Jamahidxs of Kunhk All the neighboring valleys, including Penjdeh, me infected, and are only habit.- able in up: ing and summer by the acclim- abmd. Another drawback to this valley is the numw r of snakes which infest it. In spring mg country must swarm with them : as present they are to be found, when there is occasion to dig. some eight:- teen inches or two feet below the sax--me, hibernating in sleepy torpor. .n. v B_f-)re viiuter closed in, one of the Lm- cersâ€"a. strong. healthy ysnng fellowâ€"â€" very nearly fella. victim to one of these reptiles. When picking up a stone he was his in the back 0f the hand. and he owed his lite to his own prompt presence of mind and Dr. Charles’s care and skill. Tearing ofl a. strip of his turban he bound is tightlyâ€"no tightly that in the hospital they ounll not loosen itâ€"round the arm above the wrist. He then made off for the hospital, and half an hour after being his- ten he was under Dr. Charles’s care. But already there were signs of paralysis in the left leg, and this gradually spread till both extremities were completely par- alyzrd. He suffered from great heab, fol- lowed by intense cold, tingling and numb- ness in the arms and legs, and much pain over the heartâ€"his heart was “ on fire,“ he complained. Altogether his case. after an hour or so, seemed hopeless. He was plied with brandy and ammonia, and made to walk till his legs were deadened by paralysis, and then he was put betweeuhot blankets, and hot bricks were applied to his feet. Hypodermic injection of ether was found very useful, and at last, after three hours of unremitting care, he slowly passed out of danger ; and Dr. Charles has the ss‘is- faction of being one of the few who have suoeeasfully treated a snake bite. How- ever the men did not completely recover at once. He suffered from blood poison- ing, three weeks before he was discharged from the hospital. Snakes in the Penjdeh Valley I have among my acquaintances some very fiercAe young men. They have the soul of a despair-M10, though forced to boll at the ledger or the newspaper desk for the vulgar and prosaic naceasltzles of exis- tencr. While not doubting their cour- age, I am often skeptical about their thirst for danger. One of them, a commercial traveler, was at last gratified wlhh an adventure. He was ridmg on the top of of an Oregon staga. This is the story : “ Well, air. when we came to the top of the hill we My two highwaymen going through the pockets of some poor devil out buelness stage.” Real Bravery pocket: or some hured on the road w of vou were the an cows, however, 03 depind upon tho If Lhe entrance to 111' '1! Now for it. whipping that was none of ee ; in saving the re there! from tk up hi [none 01 Queen v Auuusun u- vAlu yuan. ,0“... try : “The barber must always keep him- self clean, in order not to compromise his mojesty's health. The treasurer shall not keep rugged scallion. who walk about al- most naked and sleep or lie down before the kitchen fire. No menu beyond a cer- tain price shall be served on the king's tables. The servmts to furnish a suffi- cient guarantee to provide mainsfi the ab- straction of wnndzn plum“ and copper ntonelle belonging to his mljesty. Pew- ter plate being to oosnly for daily use, the greatest «are must be taken of the wood- en platter: and pewter spoons. No boy or commissioner shall be kcph an court for the use of the servants. Women who ate prodlgnl shall be banished from the court, As llkewi-e Ill kinds of dogs, ex \ept. a small number of Ipanlols. renewed for the me of maladies. Theeflieersof theklng’: household to live in l’mmony with each other. The stable boys not to steal his mtjnty’a Ih'IW to m in their beds, as a sufficient quantity as been given them. Between Iix and seven o'clock the officer charged Vlth service of the king’s cham- ber shell light the fire and by straw in the private apartment» of his majuty. Coal will only be furnished for the apnrhuents of the king, the queen. and those of Indy A King’s Household In olden Times. The following curlouo regulations for the use of the royal homehold of Henry VIL of England. compare amusingly with those of Queen Victori; of the lame conn- . The ladies of honor to hnve a piece of white bread and come beef for (.1191: brethfmt. A present will be nude to any at flm k‘ng‘a ctfim‘s marrying on condxtion they maka a present; to his majesty. Britain appears to have stolen a much upon R‘Jfifllfl- in the emulation of port. Hamilton or Qualpaerb Inland rum is more generally 0111.1 The island belong: to Corea a. femhtory of Calms. The inland has an uunvatled pow.th as a place d’ar'nes 1*. bars efl'wtnadly the entrance to the Sea of Japan and bu the Russian ports in the Pacific; it commands Cores. and in but a. chart sail from Southern Japan and North em China Its wine in tins respect has long been recognized by our diplomatic and naval officers In the east, and the armp which has now been taken is probably due to the unsettled state of 33.11» all over the Eat, especial: 17 u in the one of a conflict. between Ja- pan and China the owner of Qaelpae-tt ,74 A- can intervene to stop hostilities and to compel peace. A5 a oommetdnl entre- pot the place him no value 111 itself or in ize niznazion with ngard to other count.- riea, bu: its annexation now is doubtless expected to give us the name predomi- nant pnsizion in Northern China, Cores. ani Japan that Hong Kong gives qua in Southern Cnina. Russia of course wlll prutesfi and probably will retaliate. Whamver'may have been the casein Penj- deb, England has been first. no grab in Caren. A Strange Four-in-hand. No man ever sacrifi nd so much time, or so much prope ty, on pucticfl or spec- ulative sporting ae the E-rrl of Orford. Among the mos: cnriins of his exploits was that of drivmg four red deer stage in a. pmeton instead of horses. and these he had reduced 17) perfect discipline for his excursions and short jmmeys upon the road ; but, unfortunately, as he was one day driving to Newmmket, their ears were saluted with the cry of a pack of hounds, which, soon after crossing the road in the rear, caught scent of the “four~in-hand” and commenced a. new kind of chase, with "breast high alacrity.” The novelty of the scene was rich beyond description ; in vain did his lordship exert all his chariot- eering skill ; in vain did his wellrtrained grooms energetically endeavor to ride be- fore the frightened nteeds ; reins. tram- mels, and the weight of the carriage were of no effect, for they went with the celerity of a. whirlwind ; and this modern phaeton in the midst of his electrical vibrations of fear, bid fair in experience the fate of his namesake. Luckily. however, his LAW .._._.-.... lordship had been accustomed to drlve this set of “fiery-eyed steeds" to the inn at Newmsrket, which was now close at hand, and to this place of succor the thoughts of the earl were at once directed. Into the yerd the steeds presently bound- ed, to the dismay of ostlers and stable boys, who seemed to have loet all presence of mind upon the occasion Soon, how- ever, the animals were oveerWered, and the stage, the phaeton, and his lordship were all instantly huddled together into a barn, just as the bounds appeared in full cry at the gate. Cranmer‘s 01d Chain Bible at Canterbury. Al: Cmterbury Cathedral recently the old chain Bible was replaced in the posi- tion it originally occupied upon what is known as Cranmer’a desk, in the north- east aisle of the cached‘al. Upon receiv- ing the Bible from Mr. Wetherelb, by whom ibhas been carefully renovated, the Bishop of Dover sail that it gave him gceat pleasure to replace the volume in the position in which it was chained in the reign of Queen Eiizabe‘h, ah the time when Blblza of the same edition were nlaced iu uanhedrala and Deans houses placm bhrou Cant The gathering darkness must come to a. head at daybreak. CI! Q ucl pzert Island VIII mnr 133 aged w finds t1 The D on H 31118011