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A Celestial Picnic.

The different organizations IN San
Francisco having for their object the
evapgelization of the Cinnamon held
picnic recently in WoOdward's gardens,
and the spectacle was a novel one.
Nearly two Thousand men, women and
children assembled, and were accom-
nanied by the Caucasian teachers. A
peculiar and very noisy feature of the
occasion was the music PLAYED by a
Chinese band of ten pieces, being of
kind that made the monkeys that are
kent in the gardens run shrieking to the
toms of their cages and the great seals
Dlnnge into the water and remain hid
den in the muddy depths for the rest OF
the dav. The opening exercises began
about noon. at which time there were
between eight hundred and nine
hundred Chinese in the pavilion, the
remainder being outside IN the walks
and shady hooks, spinning tops and
gazing at the wonders and beauties OF
the gardens. The exercises consisted
of singing, praying, reading the Scrip
tures and addresses both IN Chinese
and English by the different clergymen
nresent. one Of whom was ChInaman.
n the afternoon the p rogramme was OF
a more secular character, which the Chl
nese seemed to enjoy IN a much greater
decree. 1t consisted of music by the
Chinese band, Chinese sword exercise
in costume. and Chinese singing, accom-
nanied bv a Chinese band. The troupe
II Arabs also gave an exhibition for the
special edidcation of their Tartaric
brethren. The latter were overloyed
at the wonders performed by the Arab
ian athletes, and acknowledge that
thew had never seen anything like 1t
even in China. After this the Celes-
tials wandered around the grounds.
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raj election three months ago:

The difference in the results IS not
great. The lawyers in the house of
commons in 1874 are 139 as against 129
in 1873, constituting nearly one-fOurth
of the whole number of members. But
what is this in comparison to the aggre-
cation of lawyers in the senate and
house of representatives of the United
States? 1 have not Mr.. POOre's congress
sional catalogue to refer TO, but am
pretty sure that, if consulted, it would
show that nine-tenths of the national
legislature of the United States are gen
tlemen more or less "learned in the
law"
It appears that there were 100 sons of
peers in the British house of commons
in 1873 against 90 in the year 1874.
The enumeratOr stopped short too sOOD.
He should have counted up piers heirs
presumptive, younger sons. grandsOns,
sons-in-law, brothers, nephews, broth
ers-in-law, fathers-in-law and cousins.
As far as I can estimate, the sum total
of this aristOcratic crowd, naturally
disposed to set the interests of their
class ana their own particular families
far above the interests of the unrepre-
sented multitude, the working bees of
the hive, can not be less than $50. This
is a strong power in a body of 652 mem
bers.
Two members are set down In the
new house of commons as miners.
This might convey the idea that they
are workinEmen. On the contrary,
though they have risen from the ranks,
they now are men of vast wealth. Mr..
George Anderson, NJ. p. for the city of
Glasgow, is believed to have revenue
from mining of e30, 900 a year, and he is
owner, also, of at least two very consid-
erable landed estates. In point of fact,
as no pecuniary payment of any sort
not even an allowance for a penknife as
" stationery paid out of the public
purse to members of either house, no
workingman can sit in the commons.
In time, perhaps, when the working
classes can unite upon eligible candl-
dates out OF their own ranks, they will
subscribe a sufficient sum to maintain
him respectfully so long as he is in their
service-voting and speaking honestly,
and exercising his own judgment In
either or both. There is scarcely sin
gle NJ. P. fancy, who considers him
self bound to vote precisely as his con-
stituents may desire on the contrary,
each man claims to exercise his own dis
position and power of action.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-17
Where Artificial Flowers "GrOw.''

A writer in the London Review says :
" Ladies who deck their hair with MIN
ic bloom have IN general little idea of
the way in which those false flowers
grow. They wear them light -heartedly
in the gayest scenes, and think not that
they are transplanted from the saddest.
They put forth their leaves and delicate
hues in sitting garrets, in fetid back
kitchens, or in hot, over-crowded fac
tories, where the health of those who
made them was whitening away, where
the gas burners are often without glass
or shade, and gas stoves are set on the
tables to heat the tools, while hundred
women and girls, from nine years of age
and upwards, bend over their hot-house
plants. Some hold the hand stamp
which cuts through sixteen folds at a
time of the muslin or silk that is to make
the leaves or flowers. Others vein the
leaves by pressing them between dies,
or paint the petals separately with a
brush when the centre is to be left
white. Most of them are busy with the
finer work of constructing the flowers.
They gum and wax, dust for bloom with
potato flour, or with blown glass pow
der for frost they twist paper or silk
thread to the stalk, and make the foun-
dation on which the petals may stick.
Slender wires are run through the bios
SONS, and a small gofering iron gives
them their curl. All this is straining
and fdgety work, especially by gas
light, with blistered fingers, thumb
nails worn to the quick, and the dust of
paints and other materials inhaming the
eyes and preparing patients for the
Ophthalmic hospital. The bright blues
and carmines try the sight sadly, and
the latter causes heaviness In the head.
Arsenic green and verdigris blue are
now seldom used but enough is left to
poison the poor flower girl's' existence.
She works in London fourteen or fifteen
hours a day, and sometimes longer.
After thirteen hours work girls often
take home sufficient for two more
hours "
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Russian Railways.

It appears from statement in Rus
sian papers that the Russian railway syss
tenn covered, ut New Year last, q total
length Of 5,s42 veEsts, OF which 5,262
versts were state-owned lines 65l
versts are in Finland. The figures re-
fer only TO lines already fully COM
pleted and worked 1,740 yersts more
are in progress of construction, and
2,343 versts are projected. OF the hfty
railway companies existing in the en-
pire. only ten hRve constructed their
lines altogether without government as.
s1stance the remaining forty are guar
anteed-twenty 70 their full amount Of
their capital, the other twenty only 70
partial extent. The entire sum annually
guaranteed by the state ia the shape Of
iuterestand repayment Of capital amounts
to 81. III, ,627 roubles. In 1873, II, ,592,-
172 roub1es, being 1852 per cent. Of the
sum total, we're actually psid out Of
the exchequer. The charters granted
10 railway companies are for the most
part terTninable after between seventy
Eve and eighty-hve years. Some small
companies have charters only for thirty
seven years.
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Lang Branch aad Brighton.

A Long Branch correspondent OF the
Jewish Messenger says = have heard
Long Branch compared TO Brighton, bus
/ really do not see the resemblance. In
the first place Brighton is city all the
wear round. while this is only temporal
Tysummer camping ground. Then-this
is the great difference between the two
az Brighton one may any day see a noble
lord or parliamentary leader lying at
full length on the beach, dressed IN q
rough summer sur and with a straw hat
cooked over his eyes, throwing pebbles
into the sea, or lady OF noble rank
dressed in plain calico and q wide
brimmed straw hat hunting for crabs
and star-fish while here people sport
more dignity than in town, even wear
purple and fine linen and jewelry the
FIRST thing in the morning, and low
necked, short-sleeved dresses, broad
cloth and kids late at night. This IS
certainly the most ridiculous feature OF
Long Branch life. To see, as have
seen, women coming ont Of q breakfast
room at eleven in the morning dressed
in silks and laces is a sight worth tfaV-
cling for It makes one feel sorry Tor
the husbands of such women, and sorry
for the women that they have not prl-
vate milliner privileged to tell them
what is aud what is not rational or even
excusable. in female fashiOnB.
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Railroads and Panies


Mr.. Thomas Toeks, in his 81 History
of Prices" attributes the recent panic
in this country to the fact that too much
Of our floating capital had been convert
ed into fixed capital in railroad enter
prises, and asserts that this was the
cause of the financial ciisis in England
in 1847. England recovered rapidly
from the shock, and the United States,
he predicts, will soon do the same thing.
The Railway Monitor divides the rail
road development in this country into
three stages, and shows that Mr.. TookR
theory holds. The first period, between
1929 and 1S49, but 1855 miles of rail-
road were built; even this slow progress
was too much for the financial strength
of the country, and the railroad pro
jectors were ruined. Then the simulta-
neous flow of gold from California and
Australia infused fresh strength into the
civilized world, and at the end of the
next period, in 1859, the railroad mile
age was 2S, 7S9 miles. The third period.
which closed IN 1873, found total OF
II. .565 miles Of railroad, and the
strength of the country is again ex-
hausted. The present conditions differ
from those Of the first period. Thor
We had the life-giving flow from the
gold mines now we are struggling
against the perilous excitement Of pa
per-money imitation. The Monitor con
cludes that for many years to come the
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-17
Power of Bearing Heat.

It is generally supposed that the hu-
man frame cannot endure much heat,
and if exposed to it will soon sink IN
exhaustion. This is true in hos climates,
to which people have been accustomed.
But in this case the effect may be due
to influences from vegetation, or To some
disturbance of nature.
II is certain that artificial heat, lar
Greater than the heat of the sun of the
torrid zone, may De bore without
special suffering or harm. The British
Journal of Science says that men 10
iron establishments work without IN
convenience with the thermometer con
stantlv at 100 degrees, and in pits for
making the Bessemer steel at 40 de
orees In Turkish baths the sham
boomers are often busily engaged for
four or five hours in succession, with
the temperature at 110 degrees, In the
Red sea steamers the stoke hole marks
145 degrees; and in ensmel works the
operators are compelled daily to endure
a heat of 200 degrees. The elastic pow
er of the human body in accommodating
itself to extremes is wonderful.
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Critiques and Obituaries.

A writer in the New Quarterly Review
says: perhaps the most singular of
the contents of the Portuguese newspa-
pers are the obituary notices. Written
in a STYLE so exquisitely rompous and
stilted as to make the foreign reader in
cline at first to think them ironical
These long eulOgies on the dead are
paid for as advertisements, and are gen
orally signed with the name of one of
the relatives of the deceased person.
A few extracts will suffice to show how
false emotion and a false style can des-
ecrate feelings which it is only common
ly decent to hold back from Observa-
tion st is now seventy-two hours since
the pious Mr.. A. B. ceased to exist
L is now seventy-two hours since the
most evere affiiction has stricken the
hearts of his bereaved relations in their
most tender flores It is now seventy
two hours since he died, in the summer
of his life, as also in the height and
summer of his virtues. 1t is now sew
enty-twO hours since this great man,
great in his intelligence and In his prac-
tice of all the Christian virtues ; and
so on through long list of paragraphs,
bes inning with the same minute chre-
biological calculations, and all full of
the same rhetorical foOlishness. The
deceased gentleman, if recollect right
ly, had kept a cigar shop in Lisbon.
Another similar and very curious de
velopment of Portuguese journalism is
the insertion of paid eulOgies of literary
productions. use the expression Gu
rious only because the payment is
avowed and open, being honestly signed
with the name of the friendly critic,
and placed in q column set apart for
advertisements. It is impossible alto
gether to disapprove of this practice.
It is odd that it has not yet occurred
to Portuguese critics to enhance the
value of their approval by occasional
dispraise. never saw an unfriendly
critique in a Portuguese Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-17
A Retiring Veteran.

A rumOr comes from England that
the duke of Cambridge is about to re-
tire from the command Of the British
army. He has fallen victim to gout,
and for three months has been unable
to take any exercise. George William
Frederick Charles, second duke of
Cambridge, is the grandson of George
Ill and q cousin of Queen Victoria.
He was born in Hanover in 1919. At
the age of eighteen he was appointed
colonel in the British army, and eight
years after was promoted to the rank Of
major general. In 1850 he succeeded
his father as duke of Cambridge IN
1854 he was made a lieutenant general
and in 1856 he was made q general. He
commanded the first division of the
army sent to the Crimea, and led his
troops at the battle of the Alma and at
Inkerman. in which latter engagement
he had a horse shot under him. In
July, 1856, he was appointed COM
mander-in- chief of the British army,
and in 1862 he was created a field
rparshal.
The duke has been fast liver, while
he has been a good soldier, and now at
the age of only fifty five it seems he is
compelled to retire from active service.
For many years he has been living with
Miss Fairbrother, who was an actress,
and, in her youth, quite celebrated for
her beauty. The relationship has been
known to the public for so long q time
that Miss Fairbrother is generally re-
garded as the dukes wife, though no
marriage has ever taken place, and she
does not reside In his official residence.
They have a number of children, who
90 by the fathers name of Fitz-George,
and some of the sons are officers of the
army. Some of the queens sons have
been considered a little loose in their
morals, but with such an example set
before them by the oldest member of
the family, it is not surprising that the
moral teachings of their mother should
have been sometimes forgotten.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-17

A writer on Nine. Campan, nee Genet,
relates the following: She wsa a very
lively, merry person, and one day Louis
XIV. surprised her dancing by herself
IN front Of a large mirror. His majesty
stopped and waited until the young
lady had finished her solitary waltz
and then said to her, as she eourtesled,
red with confusion. before him; :" Mad
emoiselle, they tell me you are . very
learned person. D.. hes many laneyaaees !.
snsvered rnademoieelle. "De you
singP" Yes, your majesty" q1oth
mademoiseiie, still bobbing courtesies.
" You draw p " Yes, your majesty" ="
"a God help your husband, whenever you
get one" said the monarch, 80 be
turned on his heel,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-17
sugar Crop PrOspects.

The agricultural department makes
the following favorable report of the
growing sugar crop: Six states report
the cultivation Of sugsr-cane, In all of
which the acreage has been increased,
viz Alabama, 131 Mississippi, 40 ;
Texas, no; Georgia. 108; Louisiana,
iO4 +; Florida, 103. The condition in all
these states is above average, viz Lou
isiana, los Mississippi and Texas, I05;
Florida, 1O4 /; Alabama, 102 and Geor-
gia, 1O1. 1t is the prevalent opinion
that the Louisiana suRar product VIII
be equal to that of 1873, notEithstand-
ing the overflow.
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MILLER's LAST.

JOAQUIN mlLLEGt'S LAST.
Alone and sad sat me down
M rest on ROuaseau's barrow isle
below Geneva. Mile on mile,
Aud yet with many shining town
T0wrd Dent dH Midi danced the yrave
Hepeath the moon. Winds went ana con-
And famed the stars into a flame.
] beard the far lake, dark and deep,
Rise up and talk as in its sleep,
heard the laughing waters lave
And lap against the farther shore
An idle oar and nothing more
Save that the Isle had voice, and save
That round about its base OF Stone
There FLASHED aud flashed the foamv Rbone
stately man, a. black as tan.
Kept mp . stern and broken round
Among the strangers on the ground
/ named that awful African
A second Hannibal. gat
Ny elbows on the table sat
with chm in upturned palm TO scan
His face, and contemplate the scene
The moon rode by a crowned queen
/ was alone. Lo not man
To speak my mother tongue All mall
How more than all alone can be
A man In crowds Across the Isle
My Hannlhal strobe on. The while
Diminished Rousseau sat his thropeI
OF books, unnoticed and unknown.
This strange strong man, with face austere
AZ last drew near. He bowed he snake
u unknown tongues. could but shake
/ rose and sought another place
Again I mused. The kings OF thougbt
Came by, and on the storied spot
1 lifted up fearful face.
The star-set Alps they sang t1ne
Unheard by any soul but mine
Mont Blanc, as lone and as divine
And white seemed mated TO the moor,
The past was mine, strong-yoiced ana yss+.
stern CALVIN, strange YOltaire, aud Tell
And two whose names are known too we'll
To name, in grand procession passed.
And yet again came Hannibal.
King-ike he came, and drawing near
I saw his brow was now severe
And resolute. In tongues unknown
Again he spake. I was alone
Was all unarmed, was worn and sad &.
But now at last, my spirit had
It's old assertion I arose,
As startled from n duh repose
With gathered strength, 1 raised n hand
And cried, Il do not understand
His black face frightened as snake.
He bowed he Wagged his wooIIy head.
He showed his shining teeth and said. -
sar, II you please. dose tables heres
Are consecrate to lager beer;
And, sar, what will you have to take?D
Not that loved that colored cuss-
Nay he bad awed me all too much
But sprang forth, and with a clutch
graeped his hand, and holding thus,
Cried . Bring my country's drink for two ~
For on that speech Of Saxon sound
To me was as a fountain found
In wastes, and thrilled me through and throupb
On Rousseau's Isle, in Rousseau's shade
Two pink and spicy drinks were made:
In classic shade, on classic ground,
We stirred two cocktails round and round.
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Last year a correspondent of Notes
and Queries, considering that the then
recent passing of bill whereby future
elections to the house of commons must
take place by vote by ballot, drew up a
synopsis of the composition of that
house when the ballot was thus en-
grated, after many failures, during the
last half century. His enumeration
may be properly placed side by side
with a second synopsis which he pub
lished in the Notes and Queries in the
month of June. The first column shows
the house of commons as it stood in
April, 1873, before the ballot came into
operation ; the second shows u hat was
the result under the ballot of the gen
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Cotton Types.

The delegates to the National Cotton
Exchange convention have adopted a
standard of classitications which Is said
to be unsatisfactory to the New York
dealers, being too low as compared with
the long usage of that market. Accord
ing to the New York types New York
low middling is little better than old
fashioned strict good ordinary.
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extension of our railroad system must
stop. In the hurry of speculation the
work has been poorly done, and the rc-
sources of the country must be expended
in bettering what We have ms cad oi
adding to it. This advice Is sound,
and probably indicates the railroad pol
icy of the country for some time u
come, for the reason that it is about tia,
only policy left.
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BAxARD TAYLOR writes from 1celanC
that he offered an Icelander piece O.
money for some small service and the
man laughed and ran away 1t is then
in this remote land that the hotel seq
want Of the future is to be sought.
What a paradise a watering-plaee would
be whose servants laughed at the Offer
of a gratuity. But they must be taught
not to run away.
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The circular boat attracted much atten-
ton, the Chinese filing it to overflow
ing and remaining in it for hours, sing
ing their hymns and choruses to the
music of the plashing oars.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-17

THE wild waves rolling IN upon sara
toga beach whisper that John MoTrlsSey
las made a clean profit of $40, 900 this
year, with three congressman TO he'N
from.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-02-15
G STAR CATHOLIC MESSENGER Sunday FEBRUARY 49, 1874

arena of his opn accord, and will make no
speeches, no disturbance, but will disappear
| for ever in o decorous and legitimate manner
| "You are q man of immense merit, my
sejanus" replied the parsonage in gore.colored
purple, " and will some day reward you more
than 1 can do while merely the Cesar of an
Augustus-whom may tho gods protect! The
| mother perhaps we can let alone, or she could
be put on board a corsair as an Offering to some
| god, to procure me good fortune in other
/ things. We shall see. Meanwhile, execute all
| the rest with as little delay as the order and
| propriety of the several matters, one before
the other, will allow, and report to me puno-
tually atevery step"
Reckoning to one of the troopers, who ap.
preached with the spare horse, .Tiberius now
mounted. The soldier Immediately withdrew
again, and Tiberius said to the Pretorian COM
mander, BE upon your guard with Paterculus:
he Is doubtless devoted to me, but is a squea1n-
ish man clever, indeed, too. Still, there are
clever fools, my Sejanus."
Then waving his hand, he rode slowly away,
out came to halt at a distance of twenty
PAGES, and turned his horses head round. Sc.
Janus strobe quickly toward his master.
You know, of course, that the Germans
encouraged by the slaughter of Varus and his
legions, are swarming over the Julian Alps
into the northeast of Italy from Illyricum,
How many legions are there available to meet
them"
"We have within reach at this moment.
twelve" said Sejanus, besides my Prsstorians'
Half the present forces of the whole en-
pre-" replied the other " Germanicus is to
drive back the barbarians. He will become
more popular than ever with the troops gen.
orally. But the Pretoriaus do not care for
him, suppose I"
Even the Pretorians revere him." answered
Sejanus.
"Why, how sof They have SO little to do
with him."
They know @ soldier" began Sejanus.
And am not soldier 2" INTERRUPTED his
master.
They love you too, my Caesar, and dearly.n
Peace! Tell me exactly; what think the
Pretorians of Germanious ~
They foolishly think that since the day
when Caius Julius was murdered, no such SOL
dier-u
Enough! Foolishly. say you! Remember
my Instructions. Yale :" And Tiberius gal
loped north, his face ablaze with brick. red
flush deeper than ordinary.
(To be continued.)