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1t. fancied a strange color, a curious
smell. put it from me and would not
have tasted it for kingdom.
mad not intended to sleep, and did
not undress myself. I merely removed
my disguise, and sat down beside the
table with my pistols beside me. That
some attempt might be shortly made to
murder me I felt to be possible. /
thought of all the old tales I had heard
OF trap doors, and sliding panels, and
secret entrances to travellers rooms. I
was not coward, but I felt strangely
nervous, and singularly enough for a
man IN my perfect health my hands
were growing cold, and my feet were
Jumps of ice, while my head was burn
ing hot.
Fifteen minutes had passed and the
fire was kindled, but the room was not
warm. The blue flames struggled
among the black Goals, and flung forked
tongues tipped with yellowish tints.
into the room. There was nothing
cheerful about the stove, though it was
OF that open style now called Franklin.
Yet drew a chair toward it from
habit, and sat with my feet upon the
hearth. do not know how long I sat
there. Suddenly L became aware that
was not myself. I was losing my
senses. If unseen hands had been
clasped about my neck, and an un-
seen knee been pressed against my
chest, my sensations could not have
been different.
A thought of the evil spirit which nv
friend had suggested family struggled
into my mind. AS I staggered to my
feet a noise like the roaring of a sea
was in my ear. The flames of a candle
turned to a great yellow blue. I barely
retained strength enough to stagger to
the window and fling it open. The fresh.
cold winter air rushed in at it. It gave
me intense psin, but it relieved me. In
a moment more was able to Chamber
out of it upon the shed below.
There I remained until the day dawn.
With my returning senses the truth
came to me. That which had murdered
the three men who slept before me in
the blue chamber was nothing more or
less than the coal stove.
1t was provided with what is called a
damper, and this being caught in a man
ner which closed it sent the poisonous
air into the room. 1t had been kindled
as a wOod-fre would have been at the
hour of retiring, by one quite ignorant
Of the danger possible from coal gas,
and they had slept never to awaken.
Had I thrown myself upon the bed, I
also should have been found dead at
daylight, in all probability.
As for the fact that neither doctor nor
coroner discovered the truth, I have but
to say that they were not deeply scien-
tific men.
OF course I rejoiced the household
by my discovery next morning, and
equally, of course, Nine. Matteau, who
was not only freed from suspicion, but
became the object of universal sympa-
thy. She was always grateful to me,
and she proved her gratitude by giving
what L soon asked for, the hand of her
daughter Gabrielle in marriage.
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Halstead Goes to Hear Patti.

have heard Patti in opera, privi-
lege we are denied in the United States.
It is not far from twenty years since she
was q slender little girl, with great
black sparkling eyes, singing in concerts
under the direction of StrakOsch. Her
youth has been wonderfully preserved.
Her eyes seem larger and blacker, and
glow with a deep fire. There is not
line in her face to speak of the unkind-
liness of time. There is a tenderness
almost weak IN the expression of her
mouth. Her throat and arms are
plump, and have the whiteness of snow.
Her figure is charming, and In grace
and vivacity she is bird-like. In the
third act of ''u TrovatOre" the splen-
dor of her diamonds was astounding.
There we're coronet aud necklace and
girdle- bands and bracelets and rings of
diamonds, a diamond bird and buttor-
f1v in her hair, a diamond bouquet on
her bosom, and as she moved she gilt
tered from head to foot in degree that
was dazzling. The part of LeOnOra is
an exacting one, and as she submitted
repeatedly to be recalled and encored,
she was in the last scene nearly exhaust
ed, and her pallor, which was very
marked, was not all artistic. The ques-
ton as to her appearance in opera IN
America has not been settled. She
agrees to go. All that she asks as
condition is granted. She signs the
contract to go; and then she does not
90. With Europe treating her as the
very queen of song, and shOwering the
richest evidence of admiration and hon.
age upon her, it is not surprising that
size hesitates to cross the Atlantic to
encounter the immense fatigues of q
season in America. do BOT think 1t
important that I should discuss the
question of her capacity as an artist, or
compare her with Nilsson and Lucca-
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" Stars " by the Seaside.

A correspondent of the Louisville
COurier-J ournRl, writing of the actors
who soiourn at Long Branch, says:
Edward Adams breakfasts in his Ham
let dress, cuts up his steak with a dag
ger, and drinks out of a correct imita-
ton of Yorrick's skull. He plays bill
iards in the same dress, never forget
ting his cue. He is said to be able to
dig more potatoes in a day than any man
at the Branch. In this pursuit he always
dresses as EnOch Arden. When he
drives it is as Coriolanus in a Roman
chariot, but when he is on horseback
look out for him. He is then in full
plate armor, and with lance in rest
charges furiously upon all hOrsemen
and carriages. His house is hanked by
a tall tower, in the cellar of which is
the gloOmiest of dungeons. Into this
black and horrid abyss he pluuges his
male captives, after stripping them of
their money and United States bonds.
His lady captives he treats with the ut
most politeness and dances dusty min
nets with them in the highways. he
has grown rich by "these his practices.
Chanfrau and his brother are always
dressed in red shirts and firemen's he'll
NETS. They beat each other over the
head with spanners, and enjoy life in a
rational way. Booth, when he lived
here, dressed in plum colOred tights,
and destroyed quite a number of fine
trees by carving on them, in fat letters,
the unheard-of name of Rosalind. Per-
haps it was the name of his cook. Man
ager Henderson has his wife commence
an overture on the piano at half-past
seven, and the big barn doors are
thrown open at eight precisely. The
performance is short, the gas being
turned out at nine o'clock, and in five
minutes after that time the manager is
tucked away in his little bed"
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THE HAUNTING FACE.
By ooNsrANoE 2. wooLso,

said: al viii not know thee whence thou ART
And though thou livest, thou art dead 10 me
seal thee in thy cofin, far apart
From al my life, from all my memory;
I weigh thee down with firm resolve and scorp
within thy oHtcast's grave to lie forloru
And yet, thou hauntest mel
said: " face, bring thee all my gold.
with jewels. sandal-wood, and spices rare.
bring the dearest years my life doth hold
with boarded memories, and dreamfngs fair
To build a royal tomb where thou in state
Shalt lie, with guard OF honor at the gate"
And yet. thou hauntest me
said: "Thou art not beautiful, o. facet
Thy checks are wan, Thy far-oh eyes are dim.
But here IL one with budding, youthful
Who proffers me cup nled to the briun
With lifes eleNir. See I quaff its wine
While loves enchantment, to the full Is mine
And yet, thou hauntest me
I said "The wonders Of the world are vast.
Mine eyes shall see them." Fsrth 20, 10 onest
OF the red-belted lightning coming fast
From out the east, and shining toward the wat
1 hunt the northern lights DER iceburgs high:
1 seek the star-cross in the southern sRv
And yet, thou hauntest mel
[ said: "My heart is falling me for fear.
Ny schemes are shadows. and my hopes a dream.
! grasp them, and behold they Disappear
Nor loves, nor friends, nor joys, are what they
! will begin anew: I will subject
Nyself aud live the straightest Of nv sect -
And yet, thou hauntest me
I said: Art here again, o haunting faee9
Speak, then, aud take my CURSE" Thy pale lips
Thy lifes one love thou canst not thus effaee-
ibut reflect the image In thine heart
Thine own heart knows me, though thy lips may
O false 10 thine own seirl IL cannot die.
This love that haunteth tuee I"
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Bulls Not Irish.

1t was a Scotch woman who said that
the butcher of her town only killed
half a beast at a time it was a Dutch
man who said that pig had no marks
on its ears except a short tail and it
was a British magistrate, who, being
told by a vagabOnd that he was not mar
for your wife. It was an English re-
porter who stated, at a meeting of the
chronological Society there was exhib-
tied " casts of the skull of an individ-
ual at different periods of adult life, to
show the changes produced in ten
years." though Dean Swift certainly
mentions two skulls preserved in Ire
land, one of a person when he was a
boy, and the other of the same person
when he grew to be a man. It was a
Portuguese mayor who enumerated
among the marks by which the body of
adrowned man might be identified when
found, a marked impediment in his
speech" It was a FrenchmaH, the
famous CarlinO, who, contentedly lay
ing his head on a large stone jar for
a pillow, replied to one who enquired
if it was not rather hard, Not at all,
for I've stuffed it with hay." 1t was an
American lecturer who sOlemnly said
" Parents, you have children, or if not,
your daughters may have" And it was a
German orator, who, warming with his
subject, exclaimed, "There is no man,
woman or child in this house, who has
arrived at the age of fifty years, but
what has felt the truth laundering
through their minds for centuries.
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The Plaques of the Southern Planters.

And now, with his accustomed Tegu-
larity, comes the boil worm in some
parts of Alabama, Mississippi and Lou
isiana. The boil worm is no stranger.
He is an annual visitor, but this season
he is later than usual. Fortunately its
ravages are confined to comparatively
limited areas, and seldom extend be-
yond the immediate neighborhood of its
birth, the worm not being migratory in
its habits. It's destructivenessi is as great,
however, as that of the caterpillar, as it
attacks the exterior of the boil and bores
entirely through, completely destroying
the fibre, cGelyx, etc. Last year the in
sect ravaged Upson, Marion, Twiggs,
Stewart, Coweta, Calhoun, McDuffie,
Butts, Baldwin and Heard counties,
Georgia, destroying the cotton crops
and infiicting much pecuniary loss upon
the planters there but on this occasion
this year Georgia is spared. The cater
pillar, however, is said to have put in an
appearance in some of the counties of
that State, but we do not learn that
they have done a great deal of damage
as vet It is sad to reflect that nothing
has vet been discovered that will prevent
the ravages of the boil worm and cater
pillar. Millions of dollars have been
lost. and hundreds of men bankrupted
by these pests; but, excepting empiri-
cal " destroyers, nothing has been dis
covered that will enable the planter to
get rid of them.-NetO York Bulletin.
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The ROYAL Family.

The London Saturday Review SAYS !:
q" For nearly three centuries royal per-
sonages were so scarce in England that
1t was no wonder that, when they began
to be more common, people began 20
look upon them as a distinct class from
other people. All through the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries the
royal family consisted of very few mem
befs; sometimes, as in the reign of
Elizabeth, there could not be said to be
al y royal family at all. Between Henry
the Fourth and George the First six
sovereigns only we're the fathers of a
Prince of Wales two Of them, it may
noted, were the fathers of two Princes
of Wales. And in all that time Charles
the First, as Prince of Wales, and
James the Second, as Duke of York,
were the only son or brother of king
who had ever the opportunity of play
ing any part in affairs. The rest either
died young or succeeded young.
Through the whole sixteenth century
there were crowds of people who had
contingent claims to the crown. but
they were not people whom any body
would have called royal. The 'royal
family, as a working institution, really
takes leap from the son of Henry the
Fourth TO the son and grandson of
George the First-is it too bitter a sar.
casm to say from John Duke of Bed
ford to Frederick Prince of Wales /?
Between these there was only a prince
or princess now and then. It was no
wonder, then, that when the royal
family began again they started on
quite new terms. And, after all, no
one has ever told us what Is the royal
family. No one has yet been further
off the reigning sovereign than first
cousin"
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the kingdoms of the earth, it was q very
fortunate circumstance that the Pyre-
nees hid Spain from his view, or we do
not know what might have happened.
One of their common proverbs says
"Quien dice Espana dice todo "-'' He
who says Spain says everything"
Another says: "German is the Ian
guage of hogs; English, of horses ;
French, of the ladies; italian, of the
angels but Spanish is the language of
God"
Another one goes still further, and
says "Si Dios no fuese Dios seri rev
de las Esponas, Y ell de Francia su Co
cinero -" If God were not God he
would be King of Spain, and the French
king his cook / F"
Further than this it is difiult for
human pride to go.
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glyphics of the Pharaohs. Tne high
comb has engraved on its arch the tri-
umphal professions of Caesar. Ear
rings are patterned after old lines of
beauty in which Cleopatra and Zenobia
delighted. The connoisseur is charmed
with a ring that bears the the similitude
OF the searRbees. In a word, the one
requisite for fashionable iewelry is that
it shall, bear the stamp of antiquity,
although it is well know that it has lust
Some from the Rorkman's hands
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SOMEBODY told us the other day that
If Won will put little syrup and water
in . bowl and set the DO VI on your ta-
bIe. with a small piece of wood extend
mo from the table to the rim of the
bowl. to serve as a sort of bridge, you
can catch all the reaches in the neigh
borhood in a single night. We tried It,
The reaches went to the syrup and wa
ter by companies, battalions and brig
ades, but when you gave them smal!
scare they shot up the sides OF that
bowl faster than a lightning express
train can travel an upgrade OF three
feet to the mile. A more dlabollcal
fraud upon a confiding and unprotected
orphan was never perpetrated.-CouTteT
Journal.
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MORE CERTAIN THAN PHmosOPHIoAL.
One of the students at Davidson
College, who was too lazy to do any
thing right, was in the habit of cleaning
out his iamp-chimney by running his
finger down it as far he could and twist
ing it around. After he had cleaned it
out in this partial manner, one day not
long ago, a fellow student took it up
and carried it to the residence Of one of
the Professors, with the inquiry, g Why
is II that this chimney is smoked up to
this point and no farther ?" The learn
ed gentleman entered into an elaborate
scientific explanation of why 1t was,
arguing with great lucidness, and citing
various authorities to show the correct
ness of his reasoning. When he had
finished. the student said to him, " No.
sir, vou are wrong" GO Why is it, then p
INQUIRED the Professor. "Because the
fellows finger wasn't long enough to
reach any farther" replied the student
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''No ANIMAL, says q writer IN Fraser,
contending against Darwinism, "has
ever been so hOnored, so carefully
tended, and so priced by man as the
horse. He has been for many years the
companion and darling of man. Yet.
is the horse of to day more exalted than
the horse of Job, and Homer, and Vir-
gil 4? Do we notice him to be in
course of transition to a higher state of
being accompanied with some change
of form, and with q manifest enlarge
ment of capacity2 We notice nothing
OF the kind, and, moreover, expect
nothing of the kind. We confidently
expect him to remain a horse, he and
his descendants, to the last chapter of
this worlds history. Neither the ant
nor the bee is q whit more sagacious
than they were in the days of Solomon
or Virgil. They are not in course of
transition to a higher platform-they
are absolutely stationary-their organs
no way eithsr improvedor multiplied. q"
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TIE return to antique styles in jew
eIrv has been very marked. The trade
in canoes copied from ancient patterns
has become a regular branch of Euro
pean industry. Modern styles have
been utterly discarded. Egyptian,
Etruscan and Greek models are most in
vogue, The bracelet bears the hero
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THE Board of Health of Washington
publish report on vital statistics, in
which they make oct Washington the
healthiest city in the United States.
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In reply to various inquiries Treas
urer Spinner has issued letter declaF-
ing that national bank notes should not
be cancelled before being sent to him
for redemption. Redeemed notes will
be cancelled in the treasurer's Office.
Second, that national bank votes viii
be received to make good the five per
cent redemption fund, but the first de-
posit of FIVE per cent. must be made in
legal tender notes. Any excess over
the amount requir, d to make good the
five per cent. fund of the bank, for.
warding the same will be remitted in
legal tender notes forwarded from the
treasurer's Office. Payment for the pro-
cess eannet be made in drafts.
Third, that the assistant treasurer
sheuld receive an account of the trans
fers of deposit of such bank note as
are redeemable at their full face value
at the treasury department.
TIE doom-palm of Upper Egypt
forms the principal food for the poor,
and its infusion with dates is an agreea-
BILE drink, and considered a reliable
cure IN fever. The Thebais Is a district
in the southern part of Upper Egypt,
on which stood the ancient and nagnifi-
cent city Of Thebes. The DOOM palm
forms extensive forests In the Thebais,
the roots spreading over the deeply
buried ruins. And q very useful tree
il is, its leaves furnishing roofing, and
the trunk material for constructing
dwellings; the down attached to the
young leaves serves for filing mat
tresses and pillows the ribs of the
leaves and fbres of the rOot-stalks are
used fNr baskets and brOoms. There
are two harvests Of the fruit, which is
the seize Of an orange, but Of an irreg-
uIar shape. The outer skin, which is
red, is peeled of, and around kernel
is a spongy, dry substance, which is the
food OF the poorer population Of Upper
Egypt.
TIE famine in Turkey is only little
less severe than it was In India, but il
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THE PUBLIC DRBT.

Regular Monthly ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ina june sI,2s2s SEQ.
The public debt statement has just
been issued, of which the following is a
recapitulatiOn
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TIE famine in Turkey is only little
less severe than IL was IN India, but it
is restricted TO q much smaller district.
The accounts of suffering are enough
TO destroy one's appetite for a week.
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KING CHRISTIAN VIII, of Denmark,
has determined to visit Iceland this
year to be present ct the Thousand
Years Feast. BE viii take with him
two distinguished men of letters, Prof.
Warsaae, the Weil-known antiquary
and the poet Carl Andersen. This is
the first time that q Danish monarch
has deigned to visit this most forlorn
dependency. There is not much good
hotel in Iceland. A good place to go
from,
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All About the Redemption Reserve.

4otA5. - ., = A. S2oIi 80 -
cal wear.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-11-10
HOW DRY IT WIS.

An honest old farmer from the country
gave his recollections of the hot spell as fol-
lows. sit was so dry we couldn't spare water
to put in our whisky. The grass was so dry
that every time the wind blew it few around
like so much ashes. There wasn't q tear shed
at a funeral for month. The sun dried up
all the cattle, and burnt off the hair till they
looked like Mexican dogs, and the sheep looked
like poodle puppies, they shrank up so. We
had to soak our hogs to make 'em hold swill,
and if any cattle were killed in the morning
they'd be dried beef at dark. The woods
dried up so that the farmers chopped seasoned
timber all through August, and there ain't
match through all the country-in fact, no
wedding since Widow Glenn married old
Baker, three months ago. What few grass
hOppers are left are all skins and legs, and I
didn't hear a tea-kettle sing for six weeks.
We ate our potatoes baked, they being so all
ready, and we couldn't spare water to boil
'em. All the red-headed girls were afraid to
stir out of the house in daylight, and, tell
you, was afraid the devil had moved out Of
his old home and settled down with US for life.
Why, we had to haul water all summer to
keep the ferry running, and-say, it's getting
dry; let's take suthin."
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-11-10
AN INDIANAPOLIS WOMAN CUTS 4
FEW CAPERS.

From the indianapolis Journal, October al
No little excitement was Oceassioned by the
insane antics of Chestnut-street woman, the
wife of an American express employee, SatUr-
day. The first ecceatricity noticed was when
she entered neighbor's house and began
breaking the furniture and crockery. From
this foray she returned to her own house and
attracted crowd by appearing at her second
story front windows and lesping from one to
another on the outside. firing of this sport,
she climbed upon the roof Of the house by go
ing out on "lean up or shed and making
her way upward. Arriving on the roof, her
next step was to ascend the chimney feat
that was successfully performed. Then push
ing back her hair she cracked her heels to-
gether, and, giving an unearthly yell, swung
out on the lightning rod, with the evident in
Iention of reaching 8 still higher eleYatiOn.
The frail rod gave way, however, and preeipi-
tated the climber to the roof, down which she
rolled until within three feet of the caves,
when she recovered her feet, and, after q few
gyrations, just to show that she was there, the
woman made her way to terra tiTmG. Without
delay she then came out upon the street, down
which she ran at a terrific pace, finally bring
ing up at house several squares distant where
she again began to smash the furniture and
decrease the supply of cats. Officer Clary aud
the husband soon after arrived on the scene
and conveyed the woman home, where she was
quieted at last, and yesterday she had entirely
recovered from her temporary alteration of
mind.