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ONLY A LITTLE PAUPER.
Only a little pauper, shivering in the colcl-
Only a little pauper, scarcely twelve years old :
Her face is very thin and pale, and old beyond its
years:
The little cheeks, so dirt-begrimed, are channeled by
her tears.
Only a little pauper—go send her from tlie door!
Onarity begins at home—we've nothing fqr the poo'?.
Only a little pauper, hungry and weak ;
Her little basket's empty—she's come a mite to seek.
There's nothing left of beauty thei;e ;. her form;has
lost its g i ' a c e ' • • f -
There's nothing left of childhood that little wasted
face. ' ..
Only a little pauper, come to beg a meal:
Though hungry even unto death, she'd sooner die,
than steal.
* * * * . # * » *
Only a little pauper, lying in the snow;
Her little feet refused their task—^he could no fur-ther
go.
The keen north wind is driving, the air is bleak and
cold— ." •
Only a little pauper gathered, to the fold. .
MATTERS ABROAD.
— The directors of the Exposition Uni-verselle
have determined to offer prizes,for.
an international rifle contest, to be held in
Paris during the exposition, for the Cham-pionship
of the world. Prizes will be given
for individuals and teams of four and eight
in contests for the championship. A trophy
will also be offered for á grand International
contest for thé championship of the world.
The shooting will be at 800, 900 and 1000
yards, open to all teams, and each country
will be allowed to send one or two teams.
— The Jdpan Mail states that the Seiki
Kan, a Japanese war vessel which was
built at Yokoska, will shortly start for a
cruise to Europe, and will be manned
solely by Japanese. This will be the first
instance of a man-of-wár, built in the East
and manned by Asiatics, visiting European
waters.
— The members of the Provincial Gov-ernment
of Thessaly have addressed a
proclamation to the Hellenic Government,
declaring Thessalyannexed to Greece, and
entreating the protection of the mother
country. There is great excitement in
Greece, and she may; declaré war against
Turkey at any moínéñt.
— The gardens attached to the residence
of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, at
Malta, have been suddenly closed to the
public, because a charity school girl rushed
up and "kissed the Princess Victoria Melita,
aged thirteen months, while she was taking
an airing with her nurse.
— Captain Malcom, R. Ñ., lately sent
by the British Government to assist Egypt
in the suppression of the slave trade in the
Red Sea, has been made a Pasha, the
fourth English Pasha in the Egyptian
service.
— The French Senate again balloted for
a life senator, to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of General Aurelle de Pala-dines.
The Duke de Cazes obtained 122,
and M. Victor Lefranc 127 votes.
— On the occasion of the Royal marriage
in Spain, the directors of the Bank of Spain
distributed the sum of 125,000 pesetas ($25, -
000) among the various charitable institu-tions.
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— The Conclave of Cardinals have not
yet elected a successor to Pope Pius IX.
Cardinal Bilio is said to have the best pros-pects
of the election..
— All the English military officers trav-eling
in this country, have been ordered,
by telegraph, to England, to join their
regiments.
— Germany will be asked by Russia to
act as arbiter, if a,peaceful settlement of
the Eastern Question is decided upon by
the powers. • • ' • -
— The British; fleet, according to latest
advices, has entered the Dardanelles, well
prepared for any emergency that might
arise.
— Among the prisoners at Plevna was
M. Olivier Pain, one of the prominent
leaders of the Commune of Paris in 1871.
— The Khedive of Egypt is said to be
ruining himself by extravagance. He^sus-tains
upwards of twenty palaces.
— Disturbances are reported, in Syria.
Several of the leading inhabitants of Da-mascus
have been exiled to Pola.
— It is understood that the British fleet
entered the Dardanelles in the face of an
earnest protesffroni the Sultan.
— It has been decided by the Conclave
that the next Pope shall have the fullest
freedom of action, - •> . . ;• •
— Austria is going to take a hand in the
fight. An alHanee with England is not
at all unlikely«
— Osman Pasha, though a prisoner, is
treated with distinguished attention by the
Russians.
— There is a general depression of busi-ness
in Liverpool, in London, in Paris, and
in Berlin.
— King Humbert is said to be anxious
to get Nice and Savoy back from France.;
— France and Italy have determined
not to send fleets to Constantinople.
— The African explorer, Stanley, is be-ing
lionized in England.
— It is said that the Bosphorus fairly
bristles with torpedoes.
— The Hungarian press is strongly anti
Russian.
— General Grant is at present traveling
in Egypt.
— A general European war is imminent.
- BILL AND THE WIDOW.
THE MOST LAUGHABLE STORY OF T H E AGE.
>•< Wile.'' said Ed.. Wilbur one morning,
as he.sat stirring his coffee with one hand
and holding a plum cake on his knee with
the other, and looking across the table into
the bright eyes of his little wife, " wouldn't
it be a good joke to get bachelor Bill Smi-ley
to take widow Watson to Barnum's
show next week?''
"You can't do it, Ed. ; he won't ask
her. lie's so awful Shy,.-. -Why. he came by
Jiere the other .morning "when .I wa>s hang-ing
Out the clothes, and 'he looked over
the fence and spoke, but when I shook out
a"night gown, he blushed' like a girl and
went away."
" I think I can manage it," said. Ed.,
"but I'll have to lie just a little. But
Aeh it wouldn't be much harm under the
circumstances, for I know she likes him,
and he don't dislike her, but just as you
say, lie's so shy. I'll just go over to his
place to borrow some bags of him, and if I
don't bag him before I come back, don't
kiss me for a week to come, Nell."
So saying, Ed. started, and while he is
mowing the fields we will take a look at
Billy Smiley.
He was rather a good looking fellow,
though his hair and whiskers showed some
gray hairs, and'he had got in a set of false
teeth; But every one sa-id he was a good
soul, and so he was. He had as good a
hundred acre farm as any in Norwich,
with a new house and everything comfort-able,
and if he had wanted a wife many a
girl would have jumpedat tfhg chance like
a rooster on a grasshopper. ; : :
But Bill was so bashful*—always was—
and when Susan Sherry bottle, whom he
was so sweet on, though he never said
"boo " to her, got married to old Watson,
he just drew his head in like a mud-turtle
into his shell, and there was no getting
him out again, though it had been noticed
that since Susan had been a widow he paid
more attention to his clothes, and had been
very regular in his attendance at the
church the fair widow attended.
But here comes Ed. Wilbur.
" Good morning, Mr. Smiley."
"Good morning, Mr Wilbur; what's
the news your way?"
'' Oh, nothing particular that I know of,''
said Ed., only Barnum's show, that every-body
is talking about, and everybody and
his girl are going to see it. I was over to
old Sockrider's last night, and I see his
son Gus has got a new buggy, and was
scrubbing up his harness, and he's got
that white-faced colt of his as slick as a
seal. I understand he thinks of taking
widow Watson to the show.: He's been
hanging around there a good deal of late,
but I'd just like to cut him out, I would
Susan is a nice little woman, and deserves
a better man than that young pup of a fel-low,
though I would not blame her much
either if she takes him, for she must be
dreadfully lonesome, and then she has to
let her farm out on shares, and it isn't
half worked, and no one else seems to have
the spunk to speak up to her. By jingo,
if I was a single man I'd show you a trick
or two."
So saying, Ed. borrowed some bags and
started around the corner of the barn,
where he left Bill sweeping, and put his
ear to the key-hole and listened, knowing
the bachelor had a habit of talking to him-self
when anything worried him.
" Confound that young bagrider ! " said
Bill; " what business has he there, I d like
to know? Got a new buggy, has he?
Well, so have I, and a new harness, too ;
and his horse can't get sight of mine, and
I declare, I've half a mind to—yes, I will !
I'll go this very night and ask her.to goto
the show with me. I'll show Ed. Wilbur
that I ain't such a calf as he thinks I am,
if I did let old Watson get the start of me
in the first place I"
"; Ed; could scarce help laughing outright;
but he hastily hitched the bags on his
shoulder, and with a low chuckle at his
success, started home to tell the news to
Nelly ; and about five o'clock that even-ing
they saw Bill go by with his horse and
buggy, on his way to the widow's. He
jogged along quietly, thinking of the old
singing-school, days", and what a pretty
girl Susan was then, and wondering in-wardly
if he would have more courage to
talk up to her, until at a distance of about
a mile from her house he came to a bridge,
when he gave a tremendous sneeze,...and
blew his teeth out of his mouth and clear
over the dashboard, and ?striking oh 'the.
planks, they rolled over the side of the
bridge and dropped into four feet qf water.
Words cannot do justice to poor Bill, or
paint the expression of his face as he sat
there completely dumbfounded at his piece
of ill luck. After a while he stepped out
of his buggy, and getting down on his
hands and knees, looked over into the wa-ter.
Yes, there they were, at the bottom,
with a crowd of little fish rubbing their
noses against them, and Bill wished to
goodness that his nose was as close for one
second. His beautiful teeth had cost him
So much, and the show coming oh; and no
time to get another set—and the widow
and young Sockrider. ' .']
j' Well, he must try and.get them some-
' how—and no time to be lost, for some one
might come along and ask' him what he
was fooling round there for. He had no
notion of spoiling bis .clothes by wading
in with them on ; and besides, if he did he
could not go to-the widows that night, so
he took a look up and down the road, to
see that no oiie was insight, and then
quickly undressed .himself, laying his
clothes in the buggy to keep them clean.
Then he ra»n around the 'bank and waded
into the almost icy cold, water, but his
teeth did not chatter in his head—he only
wished they could. Quietly he waded
along so as not to_ stir the mud up, and
when he got to the right spot he dropped
under the water and came out with bis
teeth iir his mouth. But hark! What
noise is that? A ws^on, and adog bark-ing
with all his might, and his horse is
starting.' 0
" Whoa 1 whoa ! Stop, you brute, you,
Stop !" • •
But stop he would not, but went oil" at
a spanking pace, with the unfortunate
bachelor after him. Bill was certainly in
a capital running costume, but though lie
strained every nerve he could not touch
the buggy or reach the lines that were
dragging on the ground. After a while
his plug hat shook off the seat, and the
hind wheel went over it, making it flat as
a pancacke. Bill snatched it as he ran, and
after jamming his fist into it,' stuck it, all
dusty and dimpled, on his head. And
.now he saw the widow's house on tile top
of the hill, and what, oh what; will lie do ?
Then his coat fell out and he slipped it on,
and then, making a desperate spilrt, he
clutched the bp.ck of the seat and scram-bled
in, and pulling the buffalo robe over
his legs, stuffed the other things beneath.
Now, the horse happened to be one he got,
from Squire Moore, and he got it from the
widow, and he took it into his head to
stop at her gate, which Bill had no power
to prevent, as he was too busy buttoning
¡his. coat up to his chin to think of doing
much else.
The widow heard the rattling of wheels
and looked out, and seeing that it was
Smiley, and that he didn't ofterto get out,
she went to see what he wanted, and there
she stood chatting, with her white arms
on the top of the. gate and her face towards
him, while the chills ran down his shirt-less
back clear to his bare feet beneath the
buffalo robe, and the water from his hair
and the dust from his hat had combined to
make some nice little streams of.mud that
came trickling down his face.
She asked him to come in. No, he was
in a hurry, he said. Still he did not offer
to go. He did not like to ask her to pick
up his reins for him, because he did not
know what excuse to make for not doing
so himself. Then he looked down the
road behind him and saw a white-faced
hoise coming, and at once surmised it was
that- of Gus Sockrider ! He resolved to do
or die, and hurriedly told his errand.
The widow would be delighted to go,
of course the would. But wouldn't he
come in? No, he was in a hurry, he said ;
he had to go on to Green's place.
"Oh," said the widow, "you're going
to ! Green's, are y ou? Why, I'm going
there myself to get one of the girls to help
me quilt to-morrow. Just wait a second
while I get my bonnet and shawl, and
I'll ride with you." And away she skip-ped.
"Thunder and lightning! what a
scrape !" said,Bill, and he hastily clutched
the jjants from between his feet, and was
preparing to wriggle into them when a
light wagon drawn by the white faced
horse, driven by a boy, came along and
stopped beside him. The boy held up a
pair of boots in one hand and a pair of
socks in the other, and just as the widow
reached the gate again he said—
" Here's your boots and socks, Mr. Smi-ley,
that you left on the bridge when you
were in there swimming.''
"You're mistaken," said Bill; "they
are not mine.''
"Why," said the boy, "ain't you the
young man that had the race after the horse
just now?"
'' No, sir, I am not! You had better go
on about your business."
Bill sighed at the loss of his Sunday
boots, and, turning to the widow, said—
"Just pick up those lines, will you
please ? This brute of a horse is always
switching them out of my hands."
The widow complied ; then he pulled one
corner of the robe cautiously clown as she
got in.
"What a lovely evening," said she ;
" and so warm I don't think we want the
robe over us, do we?"
(You see she had on a nice new dress,
and a pair of new gaiters, and she wanted
to show them.)
"Oh, my," saidBill, earnestly ; "you'll
find it chilly riding, and I wouldn't have
you catch cold for the world."
She seemed pleased with this tender care
for her health, and contented herself with
sticking one of her little feet out with a
long silk necktie over the end of it.
" What is that, Mr. Smiley—a necktie ?"
'' Yes,'' said he.. " I bought it the other
day, and I must have left it in the buggy.
Never mind it."
"But," said she, "it was careless;"
and stooping over. she picked it up and
made a motion to stuff it in between them.
Bill felt her hand going down, and, mak-ing
a dive for it, clutched it in his hand
and held it hard and fast.
Then they went on quite a distance, he
still holding her hand in his and wonder-ing
what he should do when they got to
Green's ; and she wondered why he did
not say something nice to her as well as
squeeze her hand, why his coat was but-toned
up so tightly on such a warm even-ing,
and what made his face and hat so
dirty, until tliey were going down a little
hill and one of the traces came unhitched
-and they had to stop.
'' Oh, murder !'' exclaimed Bill; " what
next?"
"What is the matter,. Mr. Smiley?"
said the widow, with a start which came
near jerking the robe off his knees.
" One of the traces, is oil'," answered he.
"Well, why don't you get out and put
it on again?" ..'"•.'.'
" I can't said Bill. " I've got—that is,
I haven't got—oh, dear, I'm so sick!
What shall 1 do ?" . ,
"Why, Willie," she said tenderly.
"What is the matter? do. tell me !"
She gave his hand a little squeeze and
looked into his pale face ; she thought he
was going to faint, so she got "out her
smelling bottle with her left hand, and
pulling the stopper out with her teeth,
stuck it to his nose.
Bill was just taking in breath for a
mighty sigh and the pungent odor made
him throw back; his head so far that he
lost his balance and went over the low
back buggy.
The little woman gave a low scream as
his bare feet flew past her head ; and cov-ering
her face with her hands gave way to
tears or smiles, it is hard to tell which.
Bill was "right side u p " in a moment,
and leaning over the seat humbly apolo-gizing
and explaining when Ed. Wilbur
and his wife and. baby drove up behind
and stopped.
Poor Bill felt that he would rather have
been shot than had Ed. Wilbur catch him
in such a scrape, but there was no help for
it now, so he called Ed. to him and whis-pered,
in his ear. Ed. was liked to burst
with laughter', but he beckoned to his wife
to draw up, and, after saying something to
her, he helped the widow out of Bill's buggy
and into his, and the two women went on,
leaving the men behind.
Bill lost no time in arranging his toilet
as well as he could, and then Ed. got him
to go home with him, hunting up slippers
and socks and getting him washed and
combed, had him quite presentable when
the ladies arrived.
T: need not tell you how the story was all
wormed out of bashful Bill, and they all
laughed as they. sat around the tea-table
that night ; but will conclude , by saying
that they all went to the show .together,
and Bill has no fear of Gus Sockrider
now. '
This is the story about Bill and the
widow just as we -had it from Ed. Wilbur,
and if there is anything unsatisfactory
about. it, ask him.
BENARES.
What a singular spot is this : sacred
city of the Hindoos ! From all parts of
India pious Hindoos come to spend
their last days and die, sure of thus ob-taining
their peculiar form of salvation.
All day long, from the earliest dawn
till sunset, thousands of people bathe
on the steps of the ghats which run along
the river's bank for. nearly two miles,
in the sure and certain hope that by
such ablution their sins are washed
clean away. It is an extraordinary
sight to sit in a boat and-quietly drift
with the stream alongside the whole
length of this great city and watch the
bathers who fill up almost the entire
line. Men and women are thus piously
engaged, and the usual plan is to bring
down a plain robe which they deposit
on the stone steps, whilst they descend
into the water in their other robe, and
there perform the necessary amount of
ablutions.
Whilst the bathers stand up to their
waists in water, devoutly folding their
hands in prayer, or shedding offerings of
leaves into the running stream from
large baskets, the priests are squatting
on the shore by scores, each under an
enormous umbrella or plaited bamboo
some ten or twelve feet in diameter, and
each with a continually-increasing heap
of small coin presented by the bathers
—for what purpose I do not know.
One of the ghats is called the " burn-ing
ghat," where are stacked great
piles of wood, and where the boats that
you see coming down the river with en-ormous
stacks of wood upon them un-load
their burdens.1 Here, in the midst
of the bathers, the dead are burnt by.
their sorrowing friends. , The body is
brought down lashed upon a small
hand^bier. If a man, it is wound
tightly in white - robes, so that every
part is covered : if a woman, the robes
are red. The body is then plunged
overhead in the stream and then left
lying in the water half-submerged,
whilst the friends build the funeral-pyre,
When the pile is half-built the body is
laid on, and then more wood, and then
the torch is applied, and the smoke ot
the burning soon pours forth in thick,
murky volumes. When the wood is
burned all the parts of the body that
are left unconsumed are thrown into
the Ganges, down which they float till
the birds and fishes finish what the fire
leaves undone. This cremation goes on
daily ; and during one short visit before
breakfast I saw six funeral fires lighted,
but I did not feel called upon to watch
the entire destruction of the several
pyres.
LAST OF THE GRAND VIZIERS.
More than four centuries and a half
ago Ortogrul, the father of Oihman,
was the real founder of the empire of
the Ottoman Turks. His son was Oth-man,
from whose loins the Sultans of
the Caliphate have sprung, and Oth-man's
son was Orchan, who, in 1326,
first appointed Ala-Ed-Din Grand Vi-zier
of the nascent Empire, and thereby
placed him in a position only second to
his own as Commander of the Faithfiil.
We are told that in the Arabic, from
which the word is derived, the title
being interpreted means a "bearer of
burdens," and the Viziers, from first to
last, have most certainly borne at least
half the burdens of the Empire, and
not only of the newer but of the older
Caliphates of Bagdad and Bussorah.
The office has ranged.,itself with some
of the most illustrious, many of the
most splendid, and yet more of the iïïost
romantic periods in Mohammedan his-tory;
It sprung into life almost as soon
as the disciples : of Mahomet by ; the
marvelous military conduct, and. the
valor qf the Arabs and the Moors first
gained a footing among the Imperial
Powers of Asia. The name was even
known in Mecca and' in Medina when
Ali the uncle was in office, .and in blood
only second in authority and influence
to the Prophet of El Islam itself. It,
has been illustrious, in Aleppo as well
as in Constantinople and in Bagdad.
I t was fabled i n the Arabian Nights, it
was carried into the reality of grand
action under Mohammed I I . , under the
Selims,.underSoleiman,the.Magnificent,
under the more fortunate of, the Amu-raths
and the Bajazets. Under Genghis
Khan and Tamerlane, and throughout
all the Oriental splendor of the Empire
of the Moguls, the same name, although
sometimes .changed, was preserved in.
all popular traditions, in, the breath of
of popular favor. ' . . ' ,'
And now all this historic grandeur of
the Vizierate has disappeared from its
last resting place. It had faded in the-process
of ages, and the power oE the
Vizier had declined as his expectations
of life after political failure had de-;
creased. Under Mbhaïnihed IL theïe
were seven Viziers, but àll werë liable
to that.death, by, the bowstring which
overtook so many under,the rule of the
more impetuous Sultans of two or three
hundred years ago, when an unfortunate.
Minister received as a special favor the
cord which was t o end his life, woven
into alternate strips of blue and green
] iiibon. Those were the days when the
Sultan, upon ascending the throne,.sent
to summary execution all his brothers
and relatives who might possibly rival
him, and when any one of his numerous
wives was in danger of being sewn up
in a sack and cast into the Bosporus.
The times, are changed now. Within
the memory of every intelligent reader,
Midhat Pasha was Grand Vizier, and
upon his courage and statemanship the
liopes of all Turkey rested, He dis-pleased
the men who, like Mahmoud
Damad Pasha., were the flatterers of the
Sultan. But his only punishment was
exile. Had he lived even 100 years ago
he would not have escaped so easily.
He would have received the bow-string,
and, like Seneca at the bidding of Nero,
he would, have died patiently, with the
word " K i s m e t " upon his lips. The
Vizier, in l a t e r as well as in earlier
ages, was the Lieutenant of the Sultan.
To the Commander of the Faithful he
stood in the same relation that an En-glish
Viscount stood to an Earl when
the latter was strictly a title of territo-rial
jurisdiction. He was his lieutenant.
He was in place of a Ministry, in lieu
of a Council, and merely the executant
of Imperial orders. He performed the
orders of an able master and aided in
deliberations, and supplied the want of
energy of an inferior. *.' Hence he stood
between the Sultan and the people in
the position, while his, life was safe, pi
a second autocrat., The abolition of
the Vizierate will be regretted by. all
who remember with affection the - old
traditions and legends of history, but
in sober earnest fact, the substitution
of a Council is a great step to liberal
reforms throughout the whole Ottoman
Empire.—Si. Louis Globe-Democrat.
DOMESTIC GRAPES.
In the efforts to increase and diversify
Ameriefin agriculture and its kindred
pursuits, all must be glad to see the at-tention
bestowed upon the production
of fruit. In the single item of grapes
the progress made everywhere in the
Northern and Western States has been
immense. For a long period the grape
culture was vehemently opposed by the
advocates of temperance, as being
solely useful for the production of
liquors ;, but since it has been seen that
American grape-growers supply our
markets abundantly with fresh grapes
for the table, thousands have entered
into the business who otherwise Would
have had nothing to do with it. In such
a settlement as Vineland, N. J., for in-stance,
where no tavern is allowed and
no license to sell liquor can be had, the
culture.of the grape is yet universal.
Prior to this extended culture at
home, the supply of grapes for the table
were almost entirely obtained by foreign
commerce, and the Mediterranean
ports had a monopoly of the trade. So
celebrated did the grapes of some of
these ports become, that to this day it
is : difficult to convince anyone that
an American grape can equal them.
Yet we can safely challenge a compari-son.
In many districts, it is true that
this culture leads to the demand for the
distillation of wines, and in New Jer-sey,
New York, California and Ohio
the grape culture has been largely
owing to the extent of the wine busi-ness.
Our present purpose is not to op-pose
this in any way, but to advise a
general attention to theraising of grapes
simply as a fruit crop.
Of late years the market for Mediter-ranean
fruits has been much expanded
here in the Atlantic cities, by the sys-tematic
efforts of the importers and
dealers, who bring in large cargoes and
throw them rapidly upon the whole
field, so that the fruits are almost im-mediately
for sale at all points.
Of our domestic fruits the apples,
peaches and berries enjoy the same
facilities for immediate sale. This is a
crop the South should have made a
great one of long years ago, but in com-mon
with everything else, it was ne-glected
in the rage for cotton and to-bacco,
and now the North is embarked
in the business so extensively that we
are able to supply the South itself with
table grapes. As to the production of
domestic wine, we are already engaged
in the business on a large scale. What
now appears to be, needed is the produc-tion
of raisins for the home market,
and the development of a mercantile
interest sufficient to market any grape
crop that can be raised.
IDA LEWIS.
Ida Lewis, who is in delicate, health,
having never recovered from thé expo-sure
and nervous shock attendant upon
her efforts te save drowning men, is at
present- living àt the Limé Rock Lights
house and attending to the light her-self.
A Newport correspondent, of the
Boston Transcript says an effort will be
made this winter to induce Congress to
g^ant this girl a pension. She has been
in the Government employ all her life,
having in reality cared for the light
long before her father's déath, ten years
ago, though he drew the pay, and it is
thought by many persons that such ser-vice
and bravery as her§- should, have
some public recognition. Her. last res-éuei
was of. United States soldiers who
were attempting to reach Fort Àdàins
in a storm. Miss Lewis is a cheery,
contented little woman, who asks no-thing.
for herself, and has, never courted
the tame or attention she has received.
BEAVERS IN SCOTLAND.
Near Rotlisay, the Marquis of Bute
has comfortably established a colony of
beavers. They have a pine wood and
a portion,of a mountain stream to them-selves,
and are so walled in that they
cannot escape from that domain. Al-ready
they have built three dams, and
hq,ve cut down many' of the trees in
their park. Willow boughs are given
them for food, in addition to what they
can themselves secure. They have
bred in their new home, and seem to
be flourishing.
^ a m t i e s .
—The Chinese smoke arsenic.
—They have a " Sour Lake' ' in Texas.
—Iowa's last curiosity is a five-footed
mule.
—Agassiz said that people had ex-isted
upon this earth 150,000 years.
—A young man at Vigo, Indiana,
towers seven feet in the air. Where's
Barnum ¥
—The tomb of Adam is still shown
to the traveller, about ten miles from
Damascus.
—Several Catholic priests in Germany
have lately been married, according to
the papers.
—One of the cats -in the cat show in
New York would, fetch and carry like a
trained dog.
—England and Wales together are
about equal to the area of New York
and New Jersey.
-—Sharks' fins are a favorite dish with
the Chinese, who regard them as es-pecially
strengthening.
—When a bank-note is paid into the
Bank of England it is never re-issuecL
The bank employs about 1200 clerks.
—The Turks, with all their murder-oils
proclivities, are no cowards ; " they
fight like brave men, long and well.".
—Carrier pigeons have been- known
to fly at the rate of 200 miles in an hour
—? rate of speed almost beyond concep-tion.
—Friends of the Cuban patriots have
succeeded in landing arms and ammu-nition
on the south side of the Island,
lately.
—Our version of the Bible translated
into Japanese is m universal circula-tian
in that unique country, as it also is
in China.
—The Italians are now building the
largest and most expensive iron-clad
man-of-war which has ever been con-structed.
: —American cheap clocks do much
abound in ; Japan, where they are prized
as a cheap and almost necessary domes-tic
article.
—On German railways red caps are
worn by the station-masters, and the
price of a ticket is always plainlyprinted
upon its face.
—There are forty-five daily papers in
Paris. The circulation of these papers
is given at very large figures, which can-not
be reliable.
—The first time a reaping-machine
was employed in Ireland, it caused a riot
which obliged the calling out of the
military to suppress !
—The population of Japan is very
dense, but there Is no idling and no
begging. The people are temperate,
frugal and industrious.
—The regular army of Holland is
comprised of only 60,000 men. Small
for a continental power. Mexico has
about half that number.
—Another giant devil fish has been
captured at Catalina, Trinity Bay. It
got washed ashore in a high tide, and
was landed high and dry.
—Nevada has a law which makes
public whipping the penalty of certain
crimes, and has a whipping-post in front
of the court-house at Austin.
'—Watchmaking in Switzerland is
declining very gradually, but very
surely. American watches- are taking
the market all over the world.
—Russia has just ordered 1'200 guns
of large calibre and latest pattern from
Herr Krupp. They proved very effec-tive
in the hands of t h e Turks.
—A white robin has been bred from
in England, and produced white young.
I t is believed t h a t we are now to have a
white variety of this, favorite bird.
i —They have a lake in Nevada called
Pyramid Lake, which seems to be bot-tomless
; at least .no line has yet, been,
found long enough to reach bottom.
—Silver and gold mines abound in
Japan. ' One productive locality is'
known as the ' ' Gold and silver islands, " "
situated in the eastern part of the em-pire.
.
—Now that, the grasshopper,pest, does,
not prevail in the West, they have a, pest
of rats so numerous as to destroy the
contents of thè • grain-bins in. a very
few days ! ; ' . . .
—Thè nautilus is a . marine animal
whose shell consists of one spiral valve
divided .into, several apartments J>y par-titions.
When it sails ; it extends two
of its arms, and.;between these supports
a membrane,- which serves as a sail.
With two other; arms it rows or steers.
This curiousi animal is supposed to have
suggested the first Idea of sailing-vessels.
- '
—The was a Ronian coin, órigi- 1
nallyof .a pound weight, but reduced
after the, first Punic war to two ounces,
in the second Punic war to one ounce,
and by the Papirianlaw to half an, ounce.
The As was originally stamped with the.
figure of a sheep, a- cow or an ox, and
afterwards withthe.figureof a Janus on
one. side and on the reverse a rostrum or.
the prow of a ship. ,
—The, pagodas of China are religious
temples and never "used^ as, domestic
dwellings, .They are frequently orna-.
mented with bells at every corner of
their numerous roofs, sometimes t o the
ntimber of 150, which are kept perpetu-ally
ringing.by every sweep of the wind.
They are also decorated with an equa
iiumber of the gayest lanterns,'shedding
a brilliant illumination, in the night
time.