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The champion cheese prince 4
claimed by Springyille. Erie county, N
4. MT. ,. Smith Is the honOrcd indiyidu
al VINO mas been sole proprietor OF eleven
iaclories. which have received the milk OF
1,IUo COWS, and made 25.5OO cheeses. O,
10000 pounds, which were sold fol
( Sls5.5JO.
"A new method Of preparing coffee i
becoming popular in France. After roast
ing, The coffee Is ground 10 very fine
hour, which i then slightly mOistened.
mixed with twice ia weight Of powdered
sugar, and pressed into tablets. Coffee
prepared IN this manner is claimed, pound
Tor pound, 10 be susceptible of FAR more
complete utilization.
Mr.. Smith. Of the Cleveland and Pitts
burgh Railway. says that the business of
engineers i not so hazardous as j. gener-
ally believed. He has been connected
with the road for years. and Of the ninety
seven engineers employed on il he could
remember but one being killed and anoth-
er slightly hurt. The brakemen suffer
most. In the same time score of them
have lost their lives. and hundreds Of
them have been pinched between cars.
In an address at Trenton before the
fruit growers of New Jersey, Mr.. Quinn
gives the strawberry crop of that State at
two millions of quarts. which. at fifteen
cents per quart, would be worth 500, 600.
W blackberries, raspberries. and grapes
there about as much more. and he esti-
mates the cranberry crop, IL, 200 bushels,
TO be worth about the same. Thus the
cultivation of this delicious fruit. which
has brought into use thousands of acres of
otherwise unemployed swampy lands,
gives New Jersey the credit of raising half
the entire cranberry crop Of the United
States.
A simple and cheap method of con-
densing milk. devised by Gfal, of Inns
bruck. consists in heating the milk in a
boiler TO from 10 to 100
degrees, and pumping it up through
pipes. AT the mouth of each
Of which Is a perforated rose, like that Of a
The milk thus returns in
separate threads 10 the boiler. and i'm its
passage the watery part il evaporated.
This method is said to give concentrated
milk quite "a good as that BY the ordinary
processes, and with much less trouble and
expense.
Mrs. X. J. Screven. of Liberty county.
Ga. has sent to the editor of the Albany
Neios package of black tea of her own
raising and curing. In her letter she de-
scribes the mode manipulating and dry
ing the leaves. and how to raise and pro-
tect plants, and says that the tea plant
grows beautifully as high up the country
a. Athens, Ca. and is more sensitive 10 |
heat than to cold. She says that grove
IF tea plants, once started, will last life |
lime, and after the roots are well establish
ID in the ground, the plants require no
more attention than any of our fruit trees
)r garden shrubs.
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FOREIGN NOaeN.

The common wood-nettle OF Americs
has been transplanred 10 Europe for IN,
purpose OF being applied To textile par
poses. Being perennial, IL possesses al
advantage over hemp and flax, and Is said
TO necessitate less labor and expense in
preparing the fiber.
Queen Victoria will be formally invit
ed by the Corporation of the City of Lon.
don to participate in the entertainment 10
be given by the City to the Gar, and Il Is
possible that the Queen will take this
opportunity to emerge from her long Sc
clusion.
In the rivers of Northern Australia a
curious fish has been found, which is pop
ularly called the grass-eating fish. Ii is a
little more than yard in length, and of
peculiar shape. Ii lives in rivers, but finds
its sustenance in the vegetation which
grows In shallow places and is left uncov-
cred by the ebb of the tide. Ii feeds chiefly
during the night. and Is wonderfully vorsl-
cious. Ii possesses, of course, air-breatl,-
ing apparatus.
The briefness Of the period in which a
city may become buried in the sand of an
African desert Is illustrated i'm the case of
lsmailia, which was built In 1863, at the
time of the opening of the Suez Canal. IL
then had 10000 inhabitants. 1t is now al
most deserted, a miserable remnant of
900 people only being len. Even the
palace built by the Viceroy TO entertain
his royal guests is becoming dilapidated,
and the courtyard is half fall of drifting
sand. Trains between Carlo and Ismailia
are often sand-bound during storm.
Bismarck Is using every means he can
think OF 10 prevent emigration from Ger
many TO the United States. Allarit. emf
grafton agent i'm Saxony for the State of
Michigan. is annoyed by the police, acting
under orders from Berlin. and many OBJ
stacles are put i'm his way. Silly rumors
are also circulated among the peasantry
one being TO the effect that the American
crown had been offered to Prince Freder-
lex Charles of PRUSSIA. who would enforce
a military system here similar to that of
Germany. The long and severe military
system is terror to the German peasantry.
and great incentive TO emigration. Ii they
could be persuaded that they would have
TO endure il here many of them would of
course stay z: home.
Miss Mary j. Holmes, the observant
London correspondent Of the Memphis
Appeai, i'm her last letter says: "There is
a style of riding here that strikes an Ameri-
can as being horrible. Men ride with the
stirrup strapped up so short that the legs
are quite bent, and then ride mostly trot-
ting, which causes the rider to raise in the
saddle and stand In the stirrups at each
bound of the animal Add TO this an in
of the body forward, and the fig
ure is anything but graceful. In looking
at them, | can not help but contrasting
them with some Of our Southern riders.
whose horse and rider seem one. and no
daylight is ever seen on the saddle; no
thrusting forward OF the body or bounding
motion that gives the appearance of I'M
arms closely held to the side,
without being thrown up by the motion
of the horse. This kind of riding would
produce a sensation here
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Mr.. Frederick Seward il writing bio
graphical memoir Of his father
-Bayard Taylor Is in Germany. colec:
ing material for joint biography of Goethe
and Schiller.
-General Hood il preparing a reply 1,
such portions of General Johnson's boob
as reflect upon his military career. Tn,
reply Will appear as "A series of newspaper
articles in the New Orleans Journals
and afterward il will be put in pamphlet
form.
Mr.. Edwin Forests biographer saws
that every winter orders were left with the
grocer with whom Mr.. Forrest dealt 10 re-
fuse no person wanting credit, and send the
bills 10 him for settlement. IL was left To
the grocer To discriminate As 10 the recip-
tents Of his bounty.
The late Benjamin Tyler Reed of Bos-
ton, after making liberal requests 10 his
wife and family. gives 10 the Episcopal
Theological School at Cambridge 500, 900.
and $1,000 TO other charities. Mr.. Reed
several years ago gave 100000 toward
founding the school which he has again so
generously remembered.
Governor VIM. Ii. Washburn. the new
Senator from Massachusetts,, is not related
TO the celebrated Washburne family of
which Gov. Israel Washburne. Gov. G. G..
Washburne and 4. Il. Washburne are
members. The new Senator comes from
the western part of Massachusetts,. and is
in no way connected with the others.
General Francis A. Walker. Superin-
tendent of the Census. is doubtless the only
officer in the service OF the United States
who refuses 10 receive any salary. At his
own request the word emoluments was
erased from his commission, and he would
only consent to continue in the service on
the condition that he receive no pay.
Alexander ii. Stephens has left Wash
ington for his home in Georgia. Before
taking his departure he was called upon by
a company of friends. and during the con-
yersation remarked that unless his health
should become improved by the trip. he
never again expected 10 visit Washington.
He is confirmed invalid. a q has not been
in his seat on the floor of the House for the
past two months.
Mary Clemmer Ames writes that
William Walter Phelps, the new young
member from the deserts of New jersey.
who has the reputation OF owning more
railroads than she can take time to count,
i a most loquacious gentleman. for. COM
ing 10 Washington in the same drawing
room car with him. she decided that he
talked faster and longer than any mascu-
line mortal that she had ever beheld. and
concluded that he was a wild Bohemian
Just let loose from his lair on his way to
the capital 10 write up Injin " story
chronicles of Congress. Instead he i one
of the menagerie himself. and threw of
from that flying tongue Of his. the other
day. very bright speech that made every
body laugh-even when translated TO the
newspaper stern test"
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Leisure is sweet to those who have
earned il, but burdensome TO those who
get il for nothing.
BY the time a man has achieved his
fifth wife. contemporary is unreservedly
OF the opinion that no one can accuse him
ofnot laying up his treasures in heaven.
A cockney tourist met with a Scotch
lassie going barefoot towards Glasgow.
'Iassie," said he, II should like to know
if all the people i'm this part go barefootr'
part of 'em do. and the rest of them mind
their own business" was the reply.
One of the habitues of the Dublin
Theater, talking offemale authors. said that
though they have tact, grace and fitness,
they have no creative genius. and seldom
produce any perfect work. 1T is easy TO
SET" said Mrs. L., the actress that it was
woman who gave you BIRTH"
While youthful couple were being
Joined i'm wedlock in Justices court in
New York, recently. the damsel rather
astonished a number of spectators by sud-
denly breaking out with IL want to know
whether we are 10 keep house or board.
before going into this thing?- The Judge
ruled the question out of order. and the
ceremony proceeded.
--''Young gentlemen. do not get into
the habit of betting" said professor to
his class. mo kind of bet is excusable-
in fact, every bet Is a sin rs well as mark
of vulgarity. Have nothing to DO. young
gentlemen. with bet of any kind
THAT. | suppose. puts finisher upon our
dear old friend the alphabet exclaimed
one ofthe students. The professor smiled
blandly upon the young man. and gave
him fifty extra lines of Greek.
Echo Answers.-Of what has Heaven
given us an equal share?-Air. What
does rumor often do when IL flies lilies.
Which is the loveliest flower that grows
Rose. Whose children are we apt to think
the sweetest flowersg-Ours. What In
manner Is sure TO please Ease. What
will frequently overcome the most aus
tere ?-Tear. What loses its flavor when
we borrow it?-Wit. What is 1t that
wealth seldom extinguishes ?-Wishes.
What traits are difficult to extermnate p
Innate. What did Cleopatra to her bosom
claspy-Asp.
"A trial took place before Glasgow
baltic who excelled more as citizen than
as a scholar. A witness had occasion to
refer to the testimony of man who had
died recently, and he spoke Of him fire.
quently as the defunct. Amazed at the
constant repetition of word he did not
understand, the bailie petulantly said,
f" What's the use o. yer talkin' sac muckle
ABBOTT this man Deflnctg Gamma We bring
him here and let him speak for himsely"
THE defunct's dead, your worship" re-
piled the witness. "Oh, puir man, that
alters the case" said the sapient admins
traitor of the law.
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1t j. stated that in New York there are
fifteen preachers whose salaries average
$4,000 per annum.
Henry Ward Beecher has declined the
six months vacation voted by his congre-
CATION. He says he does not need il now.
and when he does he will take 1t.
According to the published statistics
the Registrar General of England, on the
lst of October. 1873. had on his list no less
than III different sects, each having at that
date places registered for divine worship in
England. The Frenchman' remark about
many religions and few gravies might hold
good in some places as well rs others.
The vestry Of Trinity Church. New
York. have summarily dismissed the Rev.
Alvah Wiswall. for sixteen years an assist
ant clergyman Ia the parish. The cause
assigned is lack of influence through pro-
ceedings for divorce prosecuted by his
wife, although the minister is exonerated
by the vestry from all charges preferred
against him.
The Chairman of the Domestic Mis-
sions in Western Texas calls for help to
enable the Church TO care for the amazing
number Of emigrants that are flooding the
country from almost every part of the
world. Many of them are Presbyterians
from the older States. and settling as they
often do. out of the reach of the Church.
will be lost TO the communion unless fol-
lowed up.
Ministers libraries. in the view of the
Lynn Methodist Conference. ought TO be-
long TO the churches, and il therefore adj
yises the congregations within its limits to
furnish their parsonages with these neces-
sary pastoral helps; and il also recon-
mends the ladies' circle.- or other agen-
cies, to add few volumes every year and
20 keep the minister well equipped i'm this
respect. This plan is good one, but
some objection might be urged against
one reason of il. that ministers salaries
have 10 be- made larger than they other
wise would BE- If they have to purchase
their Libraries. Let the salaries alone and
throw the books in too.
The Bishop of Lincoln has struck hard
blows at the evil Of simony, or Of buying
and selling church livings. which seems.
he says, to be increasing i'm the English
establishment. Sometimes the advertise
ments OF livings for sale are set forth with
strange recommendations. such as the al
lurements of greenhouses. gardens.
coaches and stables. trout streams and
watering places, and hints of the lightness
of the work. the smallness of the congre-
CATION. and the old aye Of the incumbent.
The Bishop SAYS: I'VE have shut np the
slave market at Zanzibar, but we have
opened slave markets Of souls i'm London"
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the fire as soon a. he possibly could. and
took him to ravine only few yards of.
and endeavored TO cxtinguish the fire in
his clothing by rolling him in the water.
But the clothing was Of cotton and so
thoroughly and completely ablaze by the
time he got him there that he did not sue
coed IN doing so until his entire apparel
was consumed and his skin burned to one
complete blister. The poor little fellow
suffered the most intense pain for some
two or three hours before death relieved
him of his agony.
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A National Association of Manufac-
tlirers and Dealers in Creamery and Fac
tory Butter has been formed. The first
meeting Is TO DC held at indianapolis in
June.
Successful experiments have been
made in the cultivation of jute in North
Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana. 1t can
be raised with more ease and greater profit
fifty per cent. superior to the India article.
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All good people rejoicc to learn that the
rcont difficulties Of the coal miners Of ST.
CLAIR county, which for some time threat
cned 10 assume great proportions, has NJ
length been settled upon fair and satsfac-
tory terms We deem il needless to give
the details ci the meetings, speeches, con
fercnces. resolutions passed, etc, but will
append tina resolutions adopted at joint
meeting Of Goa. operators and representa-
tiycs 1T the Miners Union, ut the City Hall
in East st. Louis, on the 18th ult, which
form the basis Of settlement Of the matters
in issue between the bosses and the diggers
WHEREAS, We. the miners Of st. Clair and
Madison counties, believing that the present
suspension, If allowed TO continue, will result
in great detriment to the interests Of the citi.
Eens Of st. Louis and,
WHEREAS, Having net portion Of the coal
operators at the City Hall in East st. Louis,
who are disposed 70 pay four cents, and VINO
are willing to abide by the basis of 1872
therefore,
Reso.red, That we will commence working
on Thursday morning for any coal operator
who will agree to pay in accordance with the
agreement in 1872
Resolved, That meeting of delegates Of the
Miners Association, TIE operators and coop
erative companies he called, to be held in the
City Hall, at East st. Louis, on Saturday, the
2Sth day Of the present month, to Xix upon a
basis for digging coal for one year.
Upon the adoption. of these resolutions,
it was understood that the miners would
all resume work And thus ais we'll that
ends we'll.
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the hirhwatsr mark of 1857, Nnd the
country above and. below 10 flooded tor
mica Recent rains flooded the hason ns
river, which rose ok feet in one n'gns.
sweeping away immense numbers on nS.
and slaves. some cotton, and even es,..
numher az horses, cattle, hogs and ms a.
Tn. white river rose o feet in one nakns
R.s n.y. and much property was, was oarr'e S
AT Many FARMERS barely had time 20 ca
~. a, shS hills. Crevasses arc feared be-
low here.
Tho river opposite the city In now over
forty milcs wide. the water having flooded
tho entire country 10 the vest bank Of the
ST. Francis river and Crowley's ridge.
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A FKMALE REvoLr-The Snan

A FEMALE REvoLT.-The Spanish peo-
pie are 30 accustomed to revolutions that
even the women leArn the trick of it. A
couple Of weeks ago a manufacturer of CT
garetts in Madrid wanted to put up a
newly invented machine for their manu-
facture, and discharge most of the women
in his employ, whose fair hands had hith-
erto wrapped up the delicate morsels ;
whereupon the women collected together,
swore an oath, issued pronunciamiento,
and inaugurated rebellion. The Mayor
OF the city was compelled to call out the
guard and shut up the manufactory, In
order to suppress the revolt. Pending
the restoration Of order, the price u cigar.
cites advanced.
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CARPENTERS.

n LBANY, NY.L-OAKPENTERs AND
a J0NEAS UNION. Robert PARKER, prvs. Daniel
John J. Htsxerald. rBc. Richard bovls m nbe.
Alfred Trayier. asst nm ssey; Jsmm Psndsrs Rsnp.
Z. D. Dillsnbsck. cer. ssc. s3.Rr -
Roksr PArksr, f07 Lsuber strsst
10 Dulsnbssk. 80 .. rs9s3 stFssa AIEHmv. w.yEsYs
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WATER HAVING A HIaH TrME.-The
river, says Memphis paper of the 9th
inst, rose two and half inches. II il
now within eighteen and half inches Of
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GRAND LODGE UNITED ORDER OF
VI AMERICAN PLASTERERs' HeasldSsrters
Brooklyn, N Y. p. J. Walsh, pres 24I Nav street.
John Ennis, sec, 1899 Third Avenue. New York CITY
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CARPENTERS AND JOINERS MA
~ TIONAL UNION-wm. }. Je-~up, Pre~'t, No II
Norfolk st. New York City.
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THE MINE RI Q.

MINERS BENEVOLENT AND PRO
INI TECTIvE ASSOCIATION or THE STATE or
ILLINOIS, INDIANA AND MISSOURI.
9RAKD COUNCIL.
Geo. Kinghen, President West Beiyille, III; p d.
Lewis vice-Preuident, Bevier, Macon Co., Mo-. John
Jamsa Secretary, BrAidwood, WIN Co. III. Richard
Wailllscruat Treasurer. Springfield. III.
MINERS BENEVOLENT AND PRO-
Iu TECTTvE ASSOCIATION, Of Indiana, meets
The fourth Friday in each month. The officers OF the
General Council are President, John Carne knights
vile Vice President, Robert LINN, Harmony Treas
urur James shaw Brazil Corresponding Secretary.
John Seat, KnightsviIie Hour o. meeting, eoclock.
M.
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STOCKHOLDERS.
BUSINESS HOURS.

~ x open III, ~ ous'nem S2 ~ tsxeeP. sunoAs
AID irom $50 g s r. Also from $50 % d
r. M On saturdays md Mond.ys, In order o accom-
For sssmn Dspssitoss monsg Willis rsniissdt 70 and
collections made on al the principal cities of the United
States and Europe kishous any other charge than cost
to the Bank
me isttsr q Dsposifnrs uddruussd 70 the hank viii
BE- delivered Or iofwArdlsd % tAW mAy direct.
savings Depoeitors may c6malt the Cashier at any
tme on their psfvnts business. or Cor information
thgy may rcquire. -.
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IL 0. s. C.-The following is the list
In Of officers Of the International Grand Lodge ~
the X. o. 5. c. for the ensuing year
!. 9. s. k.-James P. Wright. Baltimore
ID. g. 5. k--Hosea z. Osborne. Milwaukee
l. O. k-Benj. B. Scully. Lynn.
L. q. SC. q. Mower Towanda, Pa
g. Treasurer Richard Murphy, New York m
Trustees-Harry Farquar A. b. McIain and Edward
Broome.
O. c. MOVES. /. q. :. IT H. u : G..
Box "a Hopkint0D Mass
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DAUGHTERS OF ST. CRISPIN. OFF,
- GERS for the ensuing year,. O D.-Mis~ Nancy
Whitmore, Rochester, s. @. D.-Mrs. Della Mckay,
Stoneham LIST @. D.--Miss Mary Weaver ind q. D.
Miss Katie Stanton, Louisville, Ny I'd G.. D.-Miss
Maggie Sotspke, Rochester @. S.-Miss Esther Bell.
Baltimore; @. T.-Mrs. Eliza Rogers Lynn, Mas
All correspondence business Of the order should he
addressed TO Mizs Nancy Whtmore, =. @. d., No. ~
Sbley Block, Rochester, N.Y. to Esther Bell @ =,
Baltimore. Nd.
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DRIckLAVERe.

GO-BRICKLAYERS' ASSOCIA-
~ T1oN meets at No. ~ " Randolph street every
Thun-iav evening" 4 PM DanT Gleason, w. NJ
VIM ri. Maddsn, d. NJ; w. Soper, rec sec'y-;
Wsldum A. smith, On. Sec; Arch. Sinclair, cor sec;
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MACHINISTS AND BLACKsMITHS

WI INTERNATIONAL UNION HeadquarterS-
Cleveland, Ohio. J0HN FEHRENBArcH, President lock
box 2 First Vice Pres, Lewis G. Wilcox Buffalo " "
Second Vice Pres, Richard Swami, New Orleans La /.
Third Vice Pres, William n Hariman. Altoona Pa :
Fourth Vice Pres, James W. Levesley, Tor,-tn Ont .
Treas. Fred. p. McFeely, Middletown, n NJ. See u
the Ins Dep, William =. Upright. Syracuse n ~.
Judiciary Committee Duncan Dewar. indianapolis Ind
J. j. lllingworth, Utica, n " Robert Ennis Warren
Pa. James =. Graham. Rochester, n. ": W d. Bal
lantne, Savannah, Ca; John Munce. Buffalo, n VI
S. T. A. Van Solver NorwaIk o.
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National LABOR UNION-Organiz

NATIONAL LABOR UNION-O Organized
IN August 20, 1885
RICHARD TRFvuLIlK, President, Fisher Block. Dc
rot.
HoRAcn II. DAY, First Vice President, New York.
MIS- T. o. @. WILLARD, Second Vice President Chicago.
c. BES. JOHNSON, Secretary, TAmaqua, Pa
A. G. CAMRRON Treasurer, 62l West Madison street,
Chicago.
Executive Committee "A G. Cameron, Of Chicago W
j. sylvs, q Sunbury, Pa, N. W. Field. Detroit, Mich
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NOOPERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION
~ Of North America. headquarters, Cleveland, u.
M A. FoRAN, President, Park Building, Cleveland
Ohio
ROBERT ScHILLISo LIST Vice President Park Building
Cleveland, o.
BYRON PoPE, Secretary Park Building Cleveland 0.
THOMAS HESEBERRY, Treasurer s. Scott st. West
Side Cleveland O.