The Noble County Republican. (Caldwell, Ohio), 1886-12-30

              ' " !S i IMM WMBMMWMMWI I ill i ADVERTISING RATES 7f OS t 2 i.'. . I : I iv 'I: li THE REPUBLICAN. ETTJnX TXITTTtSDAY, Df BAHX BKILDOT cuxhILl, eoele ccuitt, ena TEBMIi fl.l r Tw In ACtmm. MAM a tetters te W.KNOUT, wiu NOBiii Co.. Out. lt u sit down, my soul, in the twilight, And take up the past in review ; Let us balance accounts with the Old Year Before we begin with the New. There are moments we've squandered'or wasted, Blighted hours which we can not recall. And the book-keeper Time, in his day-book. Has carefully noted them all. Has he charged us with cruel words spoken. With acts and intents to deceive? Are there hearts that our conduct has broken And who o'er our faithlessnoss grieve Have we turned from the cry of the ueedy, Nor listed the sufferer's calif Have we walked in the path of the tempter, And hissed when the weaker would fall? If the book-keeper Time, to our credit. Some kindness has marked by the way, Borne burdens we've striven to lighten, . Some griefs we've tried to allay ; ,If by labor and kindness we've lifted Borne outcast from darkness and sin, Anc sought to the sweet path o: virtue ; Their (altering footsteps to wii. ; If we've given of food to the hungry. The com and the destitute clad. Have comforted mourners in sorrow, And the hearts of the sick have mado glad-Then methinks the kind Father in Heaven These items will take in review. And square our accounts with the Old Year Before we begin with the New. Atlanta Conttiittiion. A MATTER OF TASTE. j. Traago Dishes That Are Eaten ' . by Different People. Bcptlles, Doj Meat, Bears' Paws, Ele. pliant' Feet, Moose' Noses and Odd Farts or Other Animals for Gourmands to Bevel Upon. Ifothing is more variable than national diet, except it bo national appetite. An Italian ia content with a handful of bread and grapes, while an Englishman oan devour twenty pounds of flesh a day, and a Tartar is mentioned by Captain Cochrane in his travels who consumed infour-and-twenty hours the hind quarter of a large ox, three of the same tribe thinking nothing of polishing off a reindeer at a meal. But even more varied than amount is kind. The New Brunswickers rind a special charm in the loose nose of the moose deer. Sharks' fins and fish-maws, nnhatched ducks and chickens, sca-slugs and birds' nests are all prized ty the omniverous Chinese. The Parisians eat horse-flesh; and in the Exhibition of 1851 M. Broahchieri , showed and sold delicious cakes, pat-tics and bonbons of bullock's blood, rivaling the famous marrons places of the confiseries of the boule- . vards. This seems almost a triumph of art In Havana the shark is openly sold in the marknt and th Chinese ascribe special invigorating virtues to its fins and tail. The Oold Coast negroes are all fond of sharks, as they are of hippopotami and alligators, and the Poly, nesians are also very fond of shark's flesh quite raw. Other people beside the Gold Coast negroes feed on and enjoy reptiles. We ourselves eat one of the tribe when we consume calipash and calipee. But though we revel in turtle, we will have nothing to do with the tortoise; yet half the soup eaten in Italy and Sicily is made out of the land tortoise, boiled down to iu essence. In some of the West India Islands land tortoises are in much repute. The eggs of the close tortoise (testuro clausa) are held a great delicacy in North America, andf Sir Walter Raleigh fed his fainting men on "tortuggas eo-a" while sailing up the Orinoco. In both -North and South America the salt water terrapin is a fat and luscious luxury, and its eggs are much prized. The hideous, scaly iguana tomes out better in the trial than its outside promises; skillfully cooked it resembles chicken in flesh and turtle in flavor. It is really excellent eating; like chicken or rabbit when stewed or curried; like turtle when dressed as turtle should be, and like hare, when turned into soup, its small soft-shelled eggs being equal to itself in purity and daintiness of flavor. Indeed, the eggs of most reptiles are wonderfully appetizing, but none more so than those of the harmless, hideous, yet delicious iguana, unless it be the eggs of the de- ' spised land tortoise. Caymans and crocodiles, lizards and frogs are all eaten and enjoyed by certain people. The typical crocodile is like veal, but some species have a strong flavor of . musk, and some are .like younw, juicy pork, while others resemble lobster. Others, again, have a powerful fishy taste, very diaagreea-ble. On the whole, therefore, crocodile is uncertain eating, and not to be ventured on with rashness. Alligator is supposed to bo invigorating and restorative, and at Manila ia sold" at high prices, the Chinese Clutching at " the dried skin, which they use in their awful messes of gelatinous soup. Alligator is likened to sucking pig, but its eggs have a musty flavor. - The French are notoriously addicted to frogs, which command a high price in New York also, where they sell the large bullfrog, sometimes weighing half a pound, as well as the tender little " groon animal (rana escnlenta), whoso hind legs taste so like delicate chicken when served with white sauce in restaurants and hotels of Paris and Vienna. Of course frogs do not escape the Chineso, who devour every thing with Wood and fiber; and the nesrrocs of Surinam eat tho loathsome Surinam toad. Monkeys are also considered good eating in some countries, African epicures are never more charmed than when they can dine off a highly seasoned, tender young monkey, baked gypsy fashion in the earth. The great red monkey, the black spider monkey and the howling monkey are all eaten by the various peoples among whom they are found. The flesh of the monkey ia said to be both nutritious and pleasant. One species of bat is considered good mating by the natives of tho islands of the Indian Archipelago, Malabar, etc. ; it is called by naturalists the edible bat, and is said to bo white, tender and delicate; but, for all that, it is a hideous beast, like a weasel, with a ten-inch body, covered with close and shining black hair, and with four-feet wings, when stretched to their full extent.In some countries even the fox is considered a delicacy; in the Arctic regions, where fresh meat is scarce, when judiciously made into a pie, it is considered equal to any rabbit, under the same . conditions, ever bred on the Sussex downs. But. strange to say, the Esquimau dogs, which will devour almost every thing else, will not touch fox. Cats and dogs readily find purchasers and consumers in China, where they arc hung up in the batchers' shops, to- ether with badgers tasting like wild oar and other oddities of food. In the South Seas, too, a dog is a favorite dish, and a puppy stew is a royal feast in Zanzibar; but it is only air to say that where a dog is eaten it is especially fattened for tho table and fed only on milk and such like cleanly rlint Thft Australian nitivA Acrr m ; r,. v i rlmcrv ia fiafon hv tho hlaflra Knt Ktr n ', one else; and a South African will give n cow for a good-sized mastiff. The j American panther and the wildcat of i Louisiana are said to be excellent eating; so is the puma, which is so like veal in flavor that one hardly knows the difference. Lion's flesh, too, is almost identical with veal in color, taste rnd texture. Bears' paws were nn iLJJJJ VOL. XXVIII. long a German delicacy, and the fL-sh is hold equal or superior to pork, the fat baing as white as snow. . The tongue and hams are cured, but the head is .accounted worthless and thrown away. Tho badger tastes like wild boar. The Australian kangaroo is not much inferior to vonison, and kangaroo-tail soup is better than half the messes which pass in London nnder the name of ox-tail soup. Hashed wallaby is a dish no one need disdain, and there is a small species of kangaroo as good as any hare ever cooked. An Australian na tive banquet is an odd mixture. Kan garoo and wallaby, opossums and fly- niK squirrels. Kangaroo rats, womoats and bandicoots represent the pieces de resistance, wnne rats, mice, snakes. snaiis, targe wnite maggots, worms and grubs form the little dishes and most favored entrees. A nice, fat marmot is a treat why not? They are quite pure leeaers. The muskrat of Martinioua is eaten. though indescribably ' loathsome to a European; but the slick rats of the sugar cane plantations make one of the most delicate fricassees imaginable, so tender, plump, cleanly and luscious are they. The Chinese are in a rat paradise in California, where the rats are enormously large, highly flavored and very abundant, rat-soup being considered by all right-minded Cele tials to beat ox-tail or aravv soud hol- , .... - . 1 low. ine inaiaus eat the beaver. which is said to be like pork, and por cupine is a fine favorite with the Dutch and Hottentots of the Cape, and with the Hudson Bay trappers, and, indeed, with all the inhabitants of the countries where the creature is found, the flesh being good and delicate, and, moreover, accounted exceedingly nutritious. Elephant s feet, pickled in strons toddy vinegar and cayenne pepper, are cousiuerea in tjeyion an Apician lux ury. The trunk is said to resemble buffalo's hump, and the fat is so highly prized by the Bushmen that they will go almost any distance for it Hippopotamus fat is also considered a treat- When salted it is thought superior to our Dreaklast bacon, ana the flesh is both palatable and nutritious, tho fat being used for all the ordinary uses of Dutter. Birds are ot large importance in the supplies of human food, and not only birds, but birds' nests as well, at least with the Chinese, whose dainties are always peculiar. These nests are brought from Java and Sumatra, and are like fibrous, ill-concocted isin class. inclining to red, about the size of a goose's egg and as thick as a silver spoon. When dry they are brittle and wrinkled and worth twice their weight in silver. This nest, which is" of the sea swallow (Hirundoesculenta), is the only edible one known. Many are the delicious morsels afforded by birds. The hecealico in the fig season; the bronze-winged pigeon of Australia, when the acacia seeds are ripe; the young, fat. hideous diablotin or goatsucker, if taken when a tender nestling, and the same bird, when older, if taken when the palms are in fruit; the rice-bird, of South Carolina, when the rioe is ripening; and the ortolan, mere lump of idealized fat that it is these are among the most celebrated of the smaller tid-bits, not forgetting the snipe, the quail and the woodcock of our own land. Some people cat insects, the grub of the palm weevil being held in much favor in the East and West Indies, and the grubs of most beetles in some other quarters of tlw glole. The Moors think a fine, fat locust superior even to pigeon, and the Hottentots make soup of their eggs. The thrifty Chinese first wind off the oocoon, and then send the chrysalis of the silk-worm to the table. Spiders are delicacies of the desert kind to the Bushmen, snails also haying many partisans. The Chinese gloat over sea slug or beche de mer, and a dish of a certain sea worm is one of the events of life to the dwellers in the islands of the South Seas. The people of Chili eat barnacles as we eat whelks, and the Hottentots devour handfuls of roasted caterpillars, which taste like sugared cream or almond paste, and stand to them in the place of sugar plums and oomfits. What a blessing it would be if we could persuade our rising population to exchange sweetmeats and lozenges for nice young caterpillars roasted in the ashes! Think how the farmers would gain by the exchange! Household Word. THE THREE WILLARDS. Brothers Who Rave Grown Rich and Famous In the Hotel Business. "The Willards" in Washington are three Vermont brothers, Joseph, Henry and Caleb, named in order of their ages. The latter is proprietor of the Ebbitt, worth one or two millions. Henry owns much property and bonds. With Joseph, the elder, he is joint owner of the Willard hotel, which they kept for years. His estate is away up in the millions and growing. Joseph is the richer as well as the elder of the three, and is said to spend much of his time cutting coupons from bonds. He is in no active business. He is a widower, and one son is the only heir. He lives the life of a recluse. If he is not a good lover he is a good hater. He has little to do with mankind in general, albeit he has the appearance of a mild-mannered, benevolent-minded gentleman of sixty-five years. He and Caleb have not spoken for years. Joseph does the hating and Caleb the grinningand bearing. The latter owns a long row of property on F street, keginning with the Ebbitt. Only one strip of twelve feet interrupts his continuous ownership from Thirteenth to Fourteenth street. It is next to the Ebbitt. This strip Joseph owns. Caleb has tried every means to buy it. Joseph holds it solely to spite his brother. It is occupied by a tenantless one-story structure. Not a great while ago a snave, business-like gentleman called upon Joseph and stated that he was looking for a location to establish a candy manufactory. He was impressed with tho Fstreot location, and wanted to know if it was in the market Joseph Willard replied that he would sell if he could get his price. Then his visitor asked the terms. Looking up and catching the business man's eye, he said: "My price is f .500,003. You go back to C. C. Willard who sent you here, and tell him that." It is said that Joseph has so fixed it in his will that the property can never fall into Caleb's hands or the haads of hi3 heirs. That he is insane is not suspected. He loves his mother, and makes a daily visit to her in the house of the brother he hates. He and Henry, though not alienated, have little intercourse. There is nothing the matter between Henry and Caleb. The singularity spoken ot. is lodged specially with Joseph. Hs dresses neatly, does not seek intercourse with his fellows, and only a few persons have dealings with him. General Boynton has his confidence and is sometimes the medium of communication between him and others in business transactions. Ho appears to be as happy as any one and attends the church of which he is a member. He is tall and handsome and active. His wife was one of the handsomest women in Washington. Henry and Caleb are enterprising citizens and loving brothers. Both contribute liberally to benevolent objects, especially to the churches to which they belong. Cor. Pittsburgh Times. NOBLE GERMANS AND FRENCH. The Remarkable Size of the PotsJftin - Guards of the Prussian' Army, The Imperial Guard without doubt represents the flower of the Gorman army, what is best in its personnel and most efficient and exact in its discipline Isay the best, but it is a difference only an degree, for the spirit and discipline of the army are in general respects everywhere the same. It is undeniable that the German army has been brought by Bismarck to the. highest degree of perfecton. You see it in a German officer or a German soldier all over the country, whether he is on or off duty. His bearing is military. He carries himself erect and his uniform is well kept I have heard it repeatedly said in France: "Tho Germans are a dirty people" (C est tin sale people.) W.thout entering into the question of the relative claims to neatness of the two nations, it is unquestionable that from a military standpoint the Germans are much the neatsr of the two. Their uniforms are handsomer, they are better made, they are better kept This is astonishing when we consider that the standard of taste is much higher in France than in Germany. The French soldier's uniform rarely fits him, and he does not take good care of it He is often round-shouldered a defect that is rendered more unpleasantly apparent by slouch-, ing habits. The French authorities have begun some changes of uniform which may produce the desired results if the French soldier can only be induced to stand up straight and carry himself like a good soldier, which he certainly is when it comes to the test. Then he rises to the level of the situation and shows all the bravery and staying qualities that are necessary. It is largely on the e'an of the French soldier in time of battle that the nation bases its hope of success in a war with Germany. But the German soldier is submissive and disciplinable. In regard to stature, it would be impossible to get together in Franco seven thousand men of the size of the Potsdam Guards, though the latter have probably diminished in height sinco Frederick IL formed his regiment of g? . Us. This was disbanded by Frederick th Great when he ascended to the throne, but he developed the same tendency later, for we learn from the correspondence of Voltaire that he complained to his royal friend and patron that he was unable to take the air in the garden of San Souci without having a musket thrust into his stomach by one of the huge guards that surrounded the palace. It was part of the ceremonial observance of the review to march with the parade step oommon in the time of Frederick the Great Every one has seen this in engravings. It consists in throwing out the leg as if the soldier had no further use for it and was absolutely trying to fling it away, then bringing it down on the ground as if he intended to bury it several feet in the soil. Some of the London papers call it "prancing," though that word poorly susrsrests the movement It is difficult and its only advantage is to cultivate the soldier to a greater promptness in the usu of his muscle and a higher degree of pra-cision. All the regiments' passed through the ordeal successfully, but several military schools composed of boys of different sizes, who had been practicing the same step and who were anxious to be put through their paces in the Imperial presenca, were not allowed that privilege. - The nervous force of the Emperor gave out too soon, jno sooner had the last regiment passed him than he asDended the perron surrounded by his suit, and thrust his aged, wrinkled white face and waxed mustache over the balustrade to catch a glimpse of the coming generation of soldiers, and then withdrew incontinently to the inn recesses of the palace. Berlin Cor. San Francisco Chronicle., Story of a Mad-Stone. W. R. Sonner, of Fort Worth, Tex., has a mad-stone that has been used over one hundred times and with success. It has a history. In 1848 Captain Wilson, of Alabama, killed a white deer, and, knowing the Indian theory, looked in its stomach, and there found a stone as large as a goose egg that resembled a petrified sponge. This was the maiitone. The Indian theory is that the white deer is more susceptible to vegetable poisonss taken into the stomach when eaten with erass than other animals. To jjreserve the life of the animal nature has placed in the stomach this porous stone, which absorbs the poison, neutralizes it, and saves the deer's life. The stone, ap plied to a bite into which poison has Deen injected, at once draws it out, and when its pores are filled drops off. Being soaked in milk, the stone is made pure again, and ready for another application. V. K Sun. Mexican Silver Deposits. Charles Lyell, the eminent ffeolodst. says that the interior of Mexico is the richest Known argentiferous section in the whole world, The fact was Ions aSTO established that a mfitalifp.rnna vein runs without interruption through tne entire length or the cordillera of Anahuac, extending from the Sierra Madre in Sonora, near the northern border, to the gold deposits of Oaxaca, in the extreme south of Mexico. This exhaustive vein traverses no phh than seventeen States, and since the day of its discovery its mineral yield has been more than $1,000,030,000 worth. And yet these valuable sources of wealth are estimated to be not more than one per cent, of the undeveloped and undiscovered whole. Merico Two Repub lics. Umpqua Joe, well and favorably known throughout Southorn Oregon as chief scout for General Fremont in his explorations through Northern California and Southern Oregon, and the firm friend and ally of the white settlers in the Rogue River Indian war, was killed by his son-in-law, Albert Pico, recently, at his home on Rogue river, eignteen nines Deiow want s Pass. Pico, after receiving a mortal wound from Joe, who acted inself-defense, fired three shots from a Martini rifle, one taking effect in Joe's heart and the- other penetrating the right lung. Both men were dead in one minute after the firing commenced. Chicago Tribune. A sharp youne man has been swindling the shoe dealers of East Greenwich bysellingthem what seemed to be a remarkably fine article of shoe polish, for which he asked seventy-five per cant more than the price for tho ordinary French polish. After he delivered "the goods and received the money it was discovered that each bot tle contained about two teaspoonfuls of the polish on top of sawdust and glue. Troy Times. m m It is estimated that the asbestos mines m Canada will this year put out two thousand tons, much of which is used in deadening walls and floors and at the same time rendering them fireproof.The San Francisco Chrnnirlr. ro. marks that it is a great pity that women ever ptow nn. W HiHn't k-nnur t.hav did grow up. We always laid that to U .. i-I- T 77 n nw uu. jjuuwii vuitrser. CALDWELL, KILLED BY OPIUM. A Cincinnati Druggist Tells About the Fatal Results of the Drug. "Cne of my customers, who, three yflars ago was a large, vigorous, healthy man, is in his grave to day because of opium, or rather what was jp his case, a preparation of opium, morphine. He was a book-keeper in a largo manufacturing house, received a big salary, had a pleasant home and a happy family. Three yearj, ago he had an attack ot sciatica, which confined him to his home for several weeks, and caused intense suffering, to relieve which his physician administered hypodormio injections of morphine. The effect was instantaneous and delightful. The suffering passed away and instead there came a peaceful calm, an ecstatic con dition of mind which was the more pleasurable because vividly contrasted with the days of pain that' had sroae t(f4 letoerThe ' lyentleinan continued" to use tho injections during bis illness, and when the disease had been cured he was loth to part with his morphine." One day, however, I gave him a good talking to, explaining that he was committing suicide that death was inevitable if he continued to uso the terrible drug, and at last I got him to promise me that he would give it up. He did quit buying it of me, and I supposed that he had ceased to use it, but for prudential reasons said nothing more about it In the course of a year my customer, who was a friend also, and for whom I had a high regard, began to waste away I can not explain it any better. His complexion became sallow, his eyes sunken, his form attenuated, his step got to ba feeble and his vitality seemed to have gone. I spoke to him about his emaciated condition on three or four different occasions, begging him to consult his physician, but he always declared that he was feeling all right and thai he would soon be looking all right. One evening he came in my store to have a chat with me and I opened out on him with all the persuasion I could command, and I en-troated him to either go to his physician or let me give him some tonics. My manner was so serious that it had its effect but the effect was far different from what I had expected. The poor fellow broke down, and with tears in his eyes made a horrifying confession to me. He told me that he had become a victim to morphine, and that when he tried to quit the use of it a year before he had found it impossible to do so. The confession upset me completely, and I did all that I could then and for weeks after to get my customer to stop using the fearful stuff, but he had got into a morbid condition of mind and body and nothing could save him. About a year after that he died a perfect wreck, and to-day his cold and senseless body lies beneath a beautiful monument in Spring Grove Cemetery, itself covering the hidden monument of clay that warns every one to never - touch that horrible drug. Better had my customer suffered the tortures of his disease. His widow and orphans would not to-day be without a protector." "And yet physicians will go on prescribing morphine?" remarked the newsman. . "Well, the physician who prescribed it for my customer will never give it to any one again." "It is bound to kill, is it?" asked the newsman. "In time it will. There is no help for it. The use of narcotics of any kind will undermine the constitution until the victim becomes a wreck and the wreok breaks up. I have a customer now for sulphato of morphine, a lady, and a young lady, too, who was married only two years ago, and who has a fine baby boy. Some time ago she took some sort of a "patent" medicine for neuralgia. There was morphine in tho sunt, and she toot the medicine long after the neuralgia was cured to procure the dreamy effects of the drug. Then when she discovered what it was that gave the effects she got to taking the morphine itself, and she comes to my store and buys it by the drachm. She knows that she ought not to use it; she knows it is ruining her, but the habit is firmly fastened upon her and she can not shake it off. I warned her Ions: ago, but she said she oould not do without her morphine, and so she uses it day after day, always increasing the dose. Her husband does not know oi her weakness; it is a secret between her and myself, but within the next three years I know she will die, and that morphine will have caused her death." Cincinnati Times-Star. DETECTING COUNTERFEITS. Experience Absolutely Necessary to Pro ficiency in Detection. - L nor any one else, I believe, can tell how to detect counterfeits. There are people teaching the art, if I may so call it, by a system of "points." While I do. not deprecate the school, still I think it would be of little benefit to me. would require to see and study coun terfeits rarely met with. It would bo of value to a beginner, as it would lay the foundation of an education in that line which could only be acquired by long experience, as it might be years before he would come across such a bill as hi3 teacher gave him "points" on. Here in a rush you require a quick eye and good memory, and I claim that experience is the only protection. I nave handled money since loba, with the exception of four years. During those four vears new counterfeits ap peared, and with them I am not familiar. If in doubt I would take the bill and study it. I would be out only that amount, and it would save me in the future. Some peculiarities of coun terfeits aro very pronounced. In 1870 or 1871 there appeared a bill on the Traders' National Bank, of Chicago, and a more miserable sample I have never seen. The country was flooded with tbem, but they did not last long. Ine next which! noticed, and a few of which may stifl be met with, was the United States Treasury twenty dollar bill. It was considered danarer- s. The counterfeits of late years are much better, bcinsr made by the photo graphic pen and ink process. One ot the most dangerous 1 have ever seen was presented last week. It was a ten dollar National Bank of Richmond, Ij)d. It had no particular peculiarities, except what is peculiar to all counterfeitsbad lathe work. They succeed in shading the letters, but the fine scroll work they can not accomplish. They are unablo to g;t the fiber or put the silk thread in the paper. In some counterfeits, almost perfect, the apparently silk thread wuld prove to be only ink. Silver cor Herfeits aro all alike, with a dark, leauen look. They all have a greasy feeling, and can be detected by feeling only, with the eyes shut. Gold is tho most dangerous to handle, chiefly from light weighu Some fifteen years ago a twenty dollar gold piece appeared with a ring, but very light. At that time experts claimed that a gold piece could not unde rgo any manipulations and retain the ring. Upon investigation it was found thai the light piece had been split by some fine process, the gold scooped out ol the center and replaced with melted glass, and the halves put togethei again. Many other ways of takina from the weight and retaining tin sound might be given. So, you see, experience is necessary to proficiency in "detection. 0. V. Maratta,in St. Louis Globe-Democrat, COUNTY 0., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1886. AN OLD FAMILY. A name milcii Has Survive! Many mange, jrroumes and Temptations. Tho Smiths are a numerous tribe, Who hath not known a Smith? They are an old family. History makes no mention of the time when there were no Smith. They take their name from the trade of their founder, as do mosft families in some way or another. The Fletchers were arrow-makers, as their: oiame signifies, and the Taylors, the kinners, the Butchers, tho Brewers and other familiar examples. Probably the ordinal Smith, old Smith, .lather of the first "Smith" boys," was Tubal Cain, who ran a large establishment where swords and armor were fabricated in quantities to suit. Tubal Was familiar figure to school-boys of thirty years,, ago, and thev delighted t.-il - that is; 'trrssorfMce, thatiiy the fierce rea light of the furnace bright -the strokes of his hammer rang. But we digress, and have been led into the digression by reflections on the antiquity of the Smith pedigree. That it is ancient is evident; ; that the family is still numerous and flourishing is made equally apparent by tho great gathering of the Clan Smith at Peapack, N. J., when three thousand Smiths, descendants of Zach-ariah Smith, who settled there a century or more ago, reported for pleasure. One is readily prepared to accept the statement of the reporters, that when the three thousand Smiths sat down to dine together, throe thousand Smiths feeding as one, the scene beggared description. Among so many people there were of course many types of the genus Smith. There were Smiths with raven tresses; Smiths with golden locks called red hair by brunette Smith girls tall Smiths, short Smiths; radicals who firmly believe all Smiths are created free and equal; patrician and exclusive Smiths, from Smithbor-ough, who wish it distinctly understood that they are the same in blood with the Smiths of Smithville, but in worldly circumstances far different. All those and many more were present Lizzie Smith lives there a man with acquaintance so circumscribed that he has not known a Lizzie Smit'i? read a poem "written for tha occ.ijion." In this poem she remarked The Smiths are here with much to boast Of honored names; a ml(?htr host Of poets, authors and divines: Their words appear in g-olden lines. - The family tree is spreading still, And Smiths are crowding valo and hill. ; Three cheers for all irood.Smitas, we say, And greeting give them all to-day. Really, we don't know why the Smiths have not a good reason to feel that the poet 'Was only stating tha facts. For the Smiths have giyeh to the world many men of first-class talent, if they have not swayed empires or written popular novels. America has special reason to remember the Smiths, for the name is intimately associated with her history from the time ot that never to be forgotten club meeting at which Captain John Smith came so near being immolated by the first families of Virginia. Probably the doubts which are cast upon the authenticity of his narrative are due to tho hostility of the Browns or some other c!aui-a little less numerous than the Smiths. That "Smiths are crowding vale and hill" hardly needs demonstration, but if it did, the circumstance remarked by one speaker at Peapack, that on the borders of Cayuga Lake dwell four hundred Smiths, who hold reunions annually, would bo accepted as evidence. The Smiths may fairly claim to be one oi our oldestfamilies. -Boston Transcript. A LOST NECKLACE. One of th Most Neatly Performed and Audacious Crimes on Bacord. One evening when Napoleon L was in all his glory there was a grand gala production at the Grand Opera. How many reigning Kings and Princes occupied the boxes and balconies it is impossible for me to estimate; the very seats usually occupied by the claquers were filled with noblemen. The Princess Borghese, the beautiful and accomplished Pauline, sparkled and shone in her box, eclipsing all around her by tho splendor of her loveliness, as the sun does her satellites by the brilliancy of its rays. On her neck she wore a necklace, the diamonds and massive pearls of which, intertwined and blended with transcendent art, still further enhanced her incomparable brilliancy. ' The imperial box opened in its turn, and the master of the world appeared. saluted by these King3 and Princes with a lormidable cry oi "Vive 1 Kra- pereur!" It was generally remarked mat- tne Jinipress seemed unable to take her eyes off her sister-in-law, and appeared to be fascinated, dazzled, like the other occupants of the vast auditorium, with' the marvelous brilliancy of the necklace. Suddenly the box of the Princess Borshe'se opened, and a young Major presented himself, wearing the brilliant blue and silver uni form of the aides-de-camp of the Emperor's staff. "Her Majesty, the Empress," said he, bowing low, "admires tho wonderful necklace worn by your Imperial Highness, and has expressed the liveliest desire to examine it closer." The beautiful Pauiine made a sign to one of her ladies of honor, who unclasped and detached the necklace from the .Princess neck and placed it in the hands of the staff officer. Th3 latter bowed gravely and disappeared. This episode occurred toward the middle of the second act The fourth act came and passed, and the entertain ment concluded, yt still the necklace was not returned. Tho Princ3ss Borghese took this for a characteristic freak of Maria Louise's. Next day, however, she asked if the necklace had pleased the Empress, and whether she had found the setting and arrangement of the jewels to her taste. The Empress was thunderstruck, for she had not seen it and had sent no officer for it as desoribed. Napoleon deigned to mix himself up in the affair. He had the names of all the staff offi cers on- duty the preceding evening ascertained. And then, one by one, under some pretext or other, he had them called before his sister. She did not recognize one of them. They summoned the Prince of Otrante, Minister of Police. A long council was held. Every thing possible was done, but in vain. The unfortunate Fouohe was ready to tear his hair in despair. He had set his keenest bloodhounds at work. His best detectives were literally worn off their legs, without result. As to the:r imperial master, he was literally bubbling over with rage, and was alfnoft on the point of thrashing his chief of police. But neither the necklace (which was worth nearly a million) nor the audacious thief was ever seen again. Home Journal. The only pack animal inJackrabbil district, says the Piocho (Nev.) Record is a squaw. She packs all the wood on her back down the mountains to the cabins of the prospectors, packs up the packages ani bundles sent out from Pioche by stage from the station at the road to the camp, and frequently packs off things that she finds lying around loose. Women in Japan no longer blacken their teeth, and they now smile ia all their native comeliness. THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD. Honey-raising is gradually becoming the chief industry in Nevada. The yield of one Dakota farm is given as 60,000 bushels of wheat, 8,000 bushels of oarley and 12,000 bushels of oats. A Trenton (N. J.) firm has used more than oni . ousand tons of copper during the pas. season in the making of telegraph wue. Maine has during the last year put up 10,701,600 cans of corn, oyer 840,000 cans of succotash, and over 144,000 cans of lima beans. Three Portland firms have done most of this business. In railroad building tho United States far outstrips all other nations. Up to the close of 1884 there were throughout the whole world about 291,-000 mile3 of railway, of which nearly one-half was in the United States. Chicago Journal. Trre- amnnt-of wool "going" info consumption in Europe is much larger this year than previously, while the demand in this country is also increasing, which give3 an encouraging outlook for wool growers. Cincinnati Times. Roshester parties are going into tho frog-raising industry on an extensive scale. They have purchased a large tract of land on the western shore of Lake Cayuga, near Canoga, N. Y., on which they will erect improvements necessary for the carrying on of such a business. Buffalo Express. There is more wool grown on each sheep than formerly, the average having doubled in twenty-five years. In 18o0 the product was two and one-half pounds per sheep, while in 1885 it had risen to five pounds. This is due to the grading up of the common flocks and improving them with the use of merino rams. N. E. Farmer. A corn harvester has been patented in which, combined with a frame and platform, is an elevator and its driving mechanism, with receiving box, all so constructed as to remove the ears of corn from the stalks and deposit them in the receiving box as the machine is drawn along the rows of corn, the stalks being left iu the field. North Dakota Farmer. In the spring of 1883 the land department of the Central Pacific railroad decided to make a faithful experiment of wheat growing on the sagebrush land of Nevada without irrigation. At first the experiment was a partial failure, but this year it has proven, it is said, a most gratifying success, the land yielding fifteen bushels to the acre and the quality of the wheat beino-good. N. Y. Telegram. The production of the Minneapolis saw mills during the season just closed was 262,636,019 feet, or more than 50,-000,000 feet less than that of 1835. This decrease seems to have been largely due to the fact that the season was the shortest on record, bjing from a month to six weeks less than the preceding. The fact, also, that the logs in the river have been almost completely cleaned up would seem to indicate that the re-result was partly owing to a decrease in the log cut as compared with preceding years. Chicago Mail. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.- The man who "expressed his opinion" at a ward caucus says he will send it by a freight train next time. N. Y. Independent. When a young college graduate commences to study law he wants something a grade above common law. AC O. Picayune. Italy wants to borrow 3,500,000 lires. As this is a very busy season with newspaper correspondents we are afraid this country can't oblige her. Burlington Free Press. 53 A correspondent wants a list of the "one hundred best books." Well, there's a well-filled pocketbook to begin with. By the way, we have forgotten the names of the other ninety-nine. Norrislown Herald. The theory that baldness is caused by heating the hair with gaslight would have been interesting to Rameses II. of Egypt, who was as bald as a pumpkin. The gaslight at Tanis 3,003 years ago wasn'ti-emarkablyhot.either. Springfield Union. Smithers "What do you do when you go home early in the morning a trifle overcome and your wife meets you at the front door?" Johnson "Do! I don't do any thing. My wife can attend to all that. I guess you don't know my wife, do you?" C7it-cago Tribune. "Mrs. Dearmont, of Chicago, and Mrs. Waldo, of Boston, are to lunch with mo to-day." said a lady to her husband, "but I hardly know what to give them." "I would suggest," replied the husband, "that a delicate compliment to both ladies would be a dish of pork and beans." JV. Y. Post. "I've been on this road ten years," said the conductor on a Southern railroad to a passenger who complained of the slow time, "an' I know what I'm talking about." "Ten years, eh?" said the passenger. "What station did yon get on at?" Harper's Bazar. "I see that an Ohio postmistress has resigned her position to get married," remarked an old Benedict to his wife. "Poor thing! I pity her!" -'Why so?" "Because, after the honeymoon is over, she'll have to sit up every night and wait till the male comes in."- U. S.Mail. Bagloy "Say no more, Aurelia. I forbid the match. Young Spriggs may be a gentleman, but he is poor." Aurelia "But he is one of the heirs to the great Hogg estate of sixty-four mill ions." "jNothingof the sort, girl! He is deceiving thee. "Why, pa, I'm sure he told me that he is one of the lawyers enjaj-ed to defend the will. Philadel phia Call. Mrs. Mushby "I metMr3. Motherwell this afternoon. What a tedious thing she is! Forever talking about that baby, you know." Martha "But aunt now don't be cros3; did it ever occur to you that Mrs. Motherwell might think yoa a grain tiresome when you get talking about Rover?" Mrs. Mushby "That's an entirely different thing. A dog is so interesting, you know." Boston Post. Rich but penurious hostess to poot society friend "I notice that square dinner plates are the thing now, and I've ordered ten dozen; butl'm worried about one point in serving a dinner with them." Friend "What are you in doubt about?" "Ought I to servo round steak on these square plates?" "That depends. There ma' not be enough to go round, judging from the dinner you gave the other day." Bos-ten Record. A Hint to Girls. Some one has said that there are thousands of ruined Englishmen roaming about the Continent because they could never persuade themselves to lead trumps at whist Similiarly, there are thousands of women living only half lives because they have never taken tho trouble to examine their cards, find out which is their strong suit and study how to play it with the highest skill. If girls were only taught to concentrate their energies upon what they are really clever at and would learn to do that something as well as it possibly could be done, there are very few of them who would not be able to earn a living if necessary. London Truth. SOLDIERS' DEPARTMENT. THE SOLDIER-ENGINEER. train at Kio, had been a gallant soldier in the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin. You have read of the wreck at Rio Of the terrible holocaust Where, pent In a flaming prison, Tke lives of a score were lost; i Ton have heard how "some one blundered,1 And how In a single breath The flying express train thundered Through the open jaws of death; rVhile firm as a man of iron. Her brave old engineer Eemembering but his duty Stood stanch, without a fearl You may tell of history's heroes; But find me if you can One man who has pledged more freajy His life for his fcllowman. Cne thought of the souls behind him Of the horrors before and then His hand had grasped the lever With the strength of a doien men; . , One sigh for the friends who loved hinu, For his comrade a last "good-bye," But never a thought of flinching He would do his best and die! How cooly he "threw back" his engine. How firmly the brakes he set The men whom he saved to tell you Will never in lif o forgot A tear for our railroad Bayard : Devoid of "reproach or fear, A wreath of honor unfading for the soldier engineerl The man whom brave men honor And tender women bless . . Heroic Thomas Little Of the "Limited Express." J. C. Davit, in Railway Age. ME COURT-MARTIAL. Bow m Brave Connecticut Officer Disgraced Himself and How He Won the Good-Will of General Sheridan. The name of the hero of the follow Ing incident, as well as the number of his regiment, are suppressed; because, although the incident, taken as awhole is entirely honorable to him, there may be those who would be wounded by the publication of his name in this connection. There are certainly hundreds of the survivors of the First Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, who will have no difficulty in supplying both name and regiment; and there is much in the incident so characteristic of ouryolunteer officers, that it has something more than a l;;cal coloring. I mean by this that the same scene Defore the court-martial was frequently enacted in our armies, and that there was. not a few cases where the accused finally vindicated himself in the same courageous and resolute way. To preserve the incognito, I shall style tho victim Captain Johns. His regiment was of the Connecticut infantry. - Sheridan's battle of Winchester was fought September 19, 1S64. About one week previous to it I was detailed as one of a general court-martial ordered by the General commanding the division above named, and which court convened in camp near Berryville. We disposed of several cases before the advance of the army, on the morning of the 19th, suspended our proceedings among others, that of Captain Johns. This of ficer had acquitted himself well upon the battle-field in Louisiana and was brave and competent but he had fallen before the soldier's besettino- sin strong drink.-' Shortly before isheridan had pressed the enemy back from Charlcstown beyond Berryville. Thev oiywij-, ueuiilllllg Until near the latter place, when several regiments on our left became engaged. The affair began and ended in aslightskirm-ish, but the enemy remained in force close at hand, and peremptory orders were issued for the whole army to stand under arms till further orders. The regiment to which Captain Johns was at ached was ordered about noon to take ground further to the front The line was formed, but the Captain was not present to command his company, and it moved without him. Some of the men came back to the old ground after some missing canteens and Captain Johns was discovered stretched at full length, hardly concealed by an old blanket in a stupor of drunkenness. His exposure and arrest followed as a matter of course, and the charges camp before our court-martial for trial. The facts as they are given above could not be denied. The accused only sought to extenuate them by a statement which he made to the court and which was regarded in our deliberations as true. He said that he had been np all the previous night on picket and came in that morning wet and fatigued. After drinking some whisky he lay down to sleep, and from that time he knew nothing until informed that he was nnder arrest He supposed that the heat of the ' sun had produced the effects which had disgraced him, and pleaded that he had been guilty, at the most, of a mere inadvertence, which might well be overlooked in view of h's past good conduct He also introduced some testimony which corroborated his statement.I think we deliberated over this case two full hours. The defense was very simple, but no human ingenuity could have devised a better one. The articles of war are peremptory as to this offense, deolaring that an officer found guilty of drunkenness on duty shall be cashiered. His conviction was therefore inevitable, and then the tug came as to the sentence. The court was at first about equally divided, some favoring the extreme penalty and others urging that a qualified finding be adopted, which would show the extenuating circumstances of the case and justify a lighter sentence. A majority finally inclined to the side of extreme justice and the utmost penalty, among whom was a Captain of the delinquent's own regiment Two or three of us, who thought we saw an opportunity to save a valuable and experienced officer to the service and rescue him from a disgrace that might utterly ruin him, held out stoutly to the last but it was in vain. The finding was simply "guilty" of both charge and specification, and the sentence "to bo cashiered." At least one of that court returned to his tent that night with a distressful feeling of sympathy and pity for the condemned. His fault was' a grave one and it had found him out, but a very si ght change of circumstances would have screened him from exposure, and the consequences to him were painful in the last degree. It is the greatest misery of these courts-martial that weeks may intervene between the action of the court and the publication of the order from headquarters reviewing the proceedings and confirming or disapproving the sentence; and in the meantime the victim remains in arrest, if an officer, and in confinement, if an enlisted man, harrowed by doubts and fears as to his fate, while ail the members of the court are bound to the strictest secrecy as to the proceedings. A more galling and tormenting situation for a sensitive, high-spirited man it is impossible to conceive. While Captain Johns was waiting in this un enviable situation, the 19th of Septem ber came and ushered in one of the most desperate battles of the war Sher idan s V inchester. 1 he orders for the advance early in the morning were issued the night before, and instantly thelion of this brave man s nature was aroused. How con d he remain in the rear while the Connecticut was in battle? I do not know whether his action then taken was with theconsent, or merely with the passive non-interference of his Colonel, but I believe there was an entire wi ling-ness in his regiment that the Captain should have a chance to redeem himself. So, wbeu the line was formed in CAN. NO. 23. the mists of the morning that ushered in that day of terrific slaughter, Captain Johns took the right of his company, without a sword, amid the cheers of his men. With the regiment at the head of the men he bad been used to lead he crossed the Opequan and threw himself into the rag ng cauldron of battle that whirled and seethed and smoked that afternoon in the valley. Spare muskets were not wanted as the hours went by, of those who could never nse them again, and one of them Captain Johns wielded, instead of his forfeited sword. He held himself and his men to the grim work, escaped unscathed, and his conduct during the day was fully reported to headquarters of the army. He had, aocording to the articles of war, committed another offense in resuming duty without orders, but General Sheridan was not the man to censure such a breach of arrest as this. In a few weeks came an order from the War Department reciting that Captain Johns had been dismissed the service, by order of General Sheridan, upon the action of a court-martial, but that before the publication of the order he had been recommended to be reinstated by the same General for gallant conduct at the battle of Winchester, which was nrcnrrl. ingly done. He resumed his sword to tue satisiacuon oi everynody who knew any tiling of the case, and during the remainder of tha Sfii-vinn his mnHnnl was unexceptionable, and more than justified the Opinion which the minority of the court-martial had held as to the proper disposit'on of the charges. . xi was my tortune during the war to have a large experience as member of general court-martial, and more tbas once I voted for thp. inflir-linn nf i death penalty, but the case of CapUm Johns stood alone in the extraordinary elements or. interest that surrounded it and fh its fortnnain. snnnnl .Ttime Franklin Fills, in Philadelphia Times. A SOUTHERN VIEW. A Confederate General Tries to Expluin How Gettysburg Was Lost. General E. M. Law, of South Caro lina, writing of his experience at Get tysburg, tells of a proposition which he made to General Hood for an attack on the Union left, and says: "I found General Hood on the rido-n whp.rn hi line had been formed, communicated to him the information I had obtained, uuu puinteu out tne ease with which a movement by the right flank might be made. He coincided fully in nty views, but said that his orders were positive to attack in front as soon as the left of the corps should get into position. I there) ore entered a formal protest against a direct attack, on the grounds: 1. That the great natural strength of the enemy's position in our front rendered the result of a direct assault extremely uncertain.-, 2. That even if successful, the victorjould be purchased at too great a '3acr n(e--or4ais, pnd our troops would be in no condition" to improve it 8. That a front attack was unnecessary the occupation of Round Top during the night by moving upon it from the south, and the exten sion of our right wing from that pqint across the enemy's left and rear, being not only practicable, but easy. 4. That such a movement would" compel a change of front orrthe part of the enemy, the abandonment of his strong Eosition on the heights, and force im to attack us in position. "General Hood called up Captain Hamilton, of his staff, and requested me to repeat the protest to him, and the grounds on which it was made. He then directed Captain Hamilton to find General Longstreet as quickly as possible and del.ver the protest, and to say to him that he (Hood) indorsed it fully. Hamilton rode off at once, but in about ten minutes returned, accompanied by a staff officer of General Longstreet who said to General Hood, in my hearing: KJeneral Longstreet orders that you begin the attack at once.' Hood turned to me and merely said: 'You hear the order?' I at once moved my brigade to the assault I do not know whether the protest ever reached General Lee. From the brief interval that elapsed between the time it was sent to General Longstreet and the receipt of the order to begin the attack, I am inclined to think it did not General Longstreet has since said that ho repeatedly advised against a front attack and suggested a movement by our right flank. He may have thought, after the rejection of this advice by General Lee, that it was useless to press the matter further. "Just here the battle of Gettysburg was lost to the Confederate arms! It is useless to speculate upon the the turn affairs might, have taken if the Confederate cavalry had been in communication with the rest of the army, and if General Stuart had kept General Lee informed, as he should have done, of the movements of the Federal arm y. In considering the causes of the Confederate failure on that particular field, we must take the sitnation just as we find it And the situation was as follows: The advance of the two armies encountered each other on the 1st of July. An engagement ensued in which the Confederates were victorious. The Federal troops retired through Gettysburg and took positon along the, heights east of the town a position which, if poorly defended was practically impregnable to a direct attack. "The whole matter then revolves itself into this: General Lee failed at Gettysburg on the 2d and 8d of July because he made his attack precisely where his enemy wanted him to make it and was most fully prepared to receive it. Even had he succeeded in driving the Federal army from its strong position by a general and simultaneous assault along the whole front (which was the only possible chance ei success in that direction), he would have found his army in very much the same condition that Pyrrhus found his when, after driving the Romans fronl the field of Asculum, he exclaimed: 'Another such victory, and I am undone!'" Century. HONORING OLD PINK. The Monument Erected Over v. Kobl and Faithful War Horse. General John Hammond, of Crown Point, N. Y., has just erected a handsome granite monument over the grave of his old war horse, "Pink," who died last winter at the age of thirty-one. The monument is built of Westerly granite, and it is twelve feet in height and suitably inscribed. It faces the Cr.own Point so diers' monument, which stands in the village park. Old "Pink" had a remarkable history. He was a grand-, son of the noted Morgan "Black Hawk," of Bridgeport Vt The dam was of Hambletonian blood. He was taken South by General Hammond at the opening of the war, and was present at eighty-eight skirmishes and thirty-four battles, notably Winchester, Harper's Ferry, Orange C. H., Second Bull Run, Hanover, Pa., Hanover, Va., Gettysburg, Hagerstown, Boonsboro, Brandy Plains, Buckland Mill Races, the Wilderness, Spottsyl-vania, Milford Station, North Anna, Ashland, White Oak Swamp and Ker- neyville. Dunns ms severe army service, and indeed his entire life-time, old Pink was never known to show fatigue. He was treated during his last years with as much tenderness and care as if a human being, and up to the day ol his death retained his early fire and courage. He has a record of service for his country that any man might be proua ol xv. i. iruuiw, i Ob oolumn ana year. . . tut a One-half oolumn one year.... One-fourth column one rear. ID 01 Ona-eighth oolumn one rear If (J Boad NoUmb. $3.00; Attachmemt Notices, I2.S0; Legal Advertising at the rau pratoribt ky tew. ......... ...v Laoal AdTerUtiat, ten sent! yet Has tm vary publication. Obituary Besolutions from Order and Boatej ilea, when they exceed six lines, five cents pet line for each additional line of eight word wnnay te aooomjanr the resolutions. CONGRESSIONAL. The Senate -n the 16th passed a bill to permit the owners of American vessels and their cargoes to sue the Government for losses caused by collision with United States vessels arising from their mismanagement. Mr. Van Wyck'i resolution calling for information as to the ap portionment of money by the Missouri' Kiver Commission was adopted. A resolution was also adopted instructing the: Committee on Finance to inquire Into the pro-' priety of reporting a bill providing a rebate on. aU Imported materials incorporated with domestic materials, or converted into other articles, and exported to foreign countries for sale. The Senate resumed consideration ot the tenure of office act, which was favored by Mr. Edmunds and opposed by Mr. George in lengthy arguments. Without acting upon the measure the Senate went into executive session and soon after adjourned The House passed the Senate biU providing for payment of a pension to all who served as , enlisted persons in the navy or marine corps (It is designed to cover cases of those who rendered the same service as appointed petty officers, although actually enlisted.) Senate bill allowing Admirals Rowan and Worden to retire after forty years' service with highest pay of their grades was passed. Also bill providing for the allotment of land in severalty to Indians. The Urgency Deficiency bill for public printing was passed, and the House in Committee of the Whole resumed consideration of the Sundry Civil bin. After the adoption of a few unimportant amendments, the committee rose and reported the bill to the House, and the previous question was ordered-. Adjourned. The Senate on the 17th passed th bill to repeal the tenure of office act by a vote of 80 to 28. The following bills were also passed: For the retirement and recoinage of the trade dollar; extending the free delivery system to cities, villages and boroughs containing a population of 10,000 ot post-office revenue of $10,000; authorizing the issue of money orders or postal notes at a fee of three cents; authorizing em- ' ployment of mail messengers in the postal service; authorizing the sale of the custom house and po8t-offloe property reoentty destroyed by fire at Eastport, Me. A number of petitions were presented and referred, praying for a reduction in the tax on oleomargeriiie. A number of private bills were passed, and after an executive ' session of Ave minutes the Senate adjourned until the SOth.... Consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was resumed in the House; all the amendments made in Committee of the .Whole were agreed to, and after an unsuccessful attempt to amend the bill relative to the management of Soldiers' Homes, it was passed. Business on the private calendar was then taken up and among the bills passed was one for the adjustment of the McMinnville ft Manchester railroad. At the evening session the House passed eighteen pension bills. Ths House on the 18th took up and passed the bill providing for an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Mexico. At the expiration of the morning hour, Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, moved that the House go Into Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union to consider revenue bills.. Mr. McKinlcy, of Ohio, demanded the yeas and nays on the question, which were ordered, resulting yeas 145, nays 164. A motion to reconsider the vote and to lay that motion on the table was then carried, and the House adjourned The Senate was not in session. The Senate on the SOth passed bills granting the right of way through the Gila river Indian reservation to the Maricopa ft Phoenix railway, and for construction of a road to the National Cemetery at Cornith, Miss. A number of private bills were tiset" : passed; also some joint resolutions of mjf importance, after which the Senate ws iin 1 m' executive session and soon adjoume-'--In tho House the rules were suspe and the Senate bi&4actta&ing-wuxaarappropriation for the militia from 200,000 to 1(00,000 was passed. A message from the President in relation to the invitation from Her Britanio Majesty to participate in an International exhibition at Adelaide,' Australia, in 188T, was referred. Mr. Townshend made an effort to have -the rules suspended and a bill passed limiting the jurisdiction of United States courts in patent cases and to protect those who, without notice, are bona fide manulaeturers, purchasers, vendors and users of patents. This gave rise to considerable discussion, and in order to prevent a vote on "' ja bill Mr. Mills, of Texas, moved to adjern, which was agreed to yeas 124, nays 121. The Senate on the 21st passed, without a dissenting vote, a bill fixing the charge of passports at one dollar. The Urgency Deficiency Appropriation bill for the public printing was also passed. Mr. Morgan introduced a resolution, which was adopted, calling on the President for correspondence with Nicaragua relative to the Nicaraguan ship canaL The House resolution for a holiday recess from December 22 to January 4, was agreed to. Mr. Cullom called np the conference report on the Inter-State Commerce bill, and Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, addressed the Senate at length In favor ot the adoption of the report. Without action the Senate went into executive session, . and when the doors reopened adjourned.... In the House, Mr. Morrison's concurrent resolution providing for a holiday recess from December 23 to January 4 was agreed to. The Senate amendment to the bill for relief of survivors of the Arctic exploring steamer Jeannette was concurred in. The House set aside January 80 forconsider--ation of suitable resolutions respecting the deaths of Messrs. Arnot, Beach and Dowdney. The Senate amendments to the Urgency Deficiency bill were concurred in, and the House adjourned. MARRIAGE IN TURKEY. lime-Honored Customs Observed by the Higher Classes of Moslem Society. All weddings in Turkey, among Turks, whether in provinces or cities, are arranged by old women, and are complicated, tedious affairs. The brides-groom holds fete several days at his home for his men friends, and the prospective bride at her home with her young friends girls, of course. The night before the wedding the married women of her acquaintance come and eat the married woman's dinner with her, which consists principally, as Sam Weller would say, of a "swarry" of leg of mutton and trimmings. The next day the bride is taken to the bridegroom's house in a sedan chair, with a retinue of slaves carrying her wedding presents on trays on their heads, covered with colored tarlatan. The procession is sometimes quite imposing. The bride's female relatives are also there in the new harem until nightfall and they retire to their homes, leaving the bride sitting on a sort of throne, veiled. The bridegroom is then admitted, and he is to throw himself at the bride's feet and offer her his wedding present of some handsome jewelry, and beg her to raise her veil and strike him blind by her beauty. Sometimes he is struck dumb by her ugliness, for he never looks on her face until after the wedding. When a babe is born in any house, there is great rejoicing if it be a boy, less if a girl. The wife is proud for awhile; but Turkish women are not good mothers. They are too child-like themselves. When a.girl is born to a Sultan they fire seven guns; when a boy, twenty-one. The boys die early; the girls are more apt to live. This is supposed to be a divine interposition of Providence to prevent too many, claimants to the throne. Babies are dressed like mummies in swaddling clothes for six months; then the boys are put in trousers, sometimes in Generals' or Colonels' uniforms, regularly made. When the Sultan takes a wife no ceremony i3 considered necessary more than to present his bride. The new Sultan inherits all the widows and slaves of his predecessor, and every year of his reign, at the feast of the Kamazan, he receives a new one from his mother and takes any other girl or woman to his harem who happens to strike his fancy. Slaves who become mothers are instantly promoted to the rank of Sultana. Six months before the feast of Kamazan, the Valide Sultana orders that all the young candidates be brought to her, and she chooses fifteen and sometimes more of the lot. These are immediately put under diet and training, and at the beginning of the great feast ske again chooses, and this time the choice is final. Girls arrive at legal majority at nine years of age and are frequently married at ten. Children of twelve and thirteen are often seen with babies of their own. They are old at twenty-five. The old Turkish women have a hard lot of it Beyond a respect for age which they contrive to inspire by tooth and nail among younger wives than they, their lives aro not happy. Still, they are provided for, and as long as a man lives he feeds his family, one aud aU alike. Brooklyn Magazine. ,1 X 1 ti 4' So , ; :