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FREAKE OF FORTUNE.

Charles !. Freake, to whose assem-
blies half the aristOcratic world delight
to crowd, and whose residence accom-
modates somewhere about l 200 guests,
was originally pot boy, whose father
gained a livelihood by carrying on a
double trade in beer and building-bOth
on a limited scale. His youthful in
clinations led him to give considerable
larger measure of attention to building
than to beer, and he quickly became a
small speculative builder, trading in his
own name. With him speculation pros
pered he purchased lands, built on
them, and sold the houses. From mod
est houses he went on to build man
sions, and what is known as Queens
Gate, where the most spacious and
costly dwellings in the metropolis are
located. sprang into being under the
persevering toll of this hero of an al
most romantic story.
He now employs thousands of men in
his various works, occasionally gives a
church building it himselD to new
parish. erects schools at his own ex-
pense. is a millionaire, and occupies the
largest of the houses he has built,
namely, Cromwell house. BE did not
design TO occupy budb hOuoOS hO"C'OL'
1t was built for the duke of Rutland.
His grace resided there some time, and
might be residing there still, for he
liked Cromwell house exceedingly well
but, when the adjoining mansion was
finished, Freake settled himself and his
family in it, and as a duke, with his
builder for neighbor, was wholly con-
trary to his grace's ideas of propriety,
and certainly does seem an odd illustra-
ton of the eternal fitness of things,
negotiations we're hurriedly completed
for handing over the larger residence TO
the tradesman, while the most noble
tenant removed to Butte house, on
Campden hill, becoming the next neigh
Dor to his grace of Argyle. Other mobiles
have been less punctilious, and at the
present time the lord chancellor and
the earl of Denbigh are the millionaire
builders very near neighbors, and
princes of the blood not unfrequently
deign to make morning calls, and even
occasionally appear at fashionable gath
erings re.-LOndOll Letter.
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executed die bravely some die joking.
| Troppmann, the wholesale murderer,
was an exception to this rule. He was
awfully frightened at the near prospect
| of his doom. The dressing room, or
chan1bre de toilette where the director
of La Roquette delivers over his prls-
| oner to the executiOner, is narrow
| apartment like bit cut off a passage.
It is whitewashed as to the upper part
of its walls, and painted brown near
the floor three doors, all narrow, and
capable of being solidly bolted, lead
out of it. Its furniture is an alma
nae, six registers, used to keep account
of the relicts and personal effects of
the prisoner about to suffer, two wooden
benches, one chair. The floor is un-
carpeted and uncovered ; it seemed to
me as though blurred and stained with
tears of blood. French executions are
still conducted in public, but a hedge
of mounted policemen prevents the
crowd from witnessing the last agonies
of the dying. Moreover, the guilotine is
not now raised upon scafold as it was
formerly. A man going to have his
head cut off may dress as he pleases !;
and some indulgences are shown to him
If he has any appetite for them, as he
commonly has on the day proceeding
his execution, for attempts seem to be
made with questionable mercy to keep
his spirits up to the last. When the
order for his execution arrives he is dis
posed of with marvellous ceIerity. At
$50 A. NJ. the governor enters his cell
to warn him he is about to die; at $50
he has ceased to exist. The whole
business of preparing him for eternity
is concluded in just twenty minutes.
The terrible ceremony of the toilet
used to consist in cutting off the con-
demned mans hair now the hair of
culprits sentenced to death is always
kept closely cut beforehand, and his
brief agony is not prolonged by any
preliminary formalities. The execu-
toner merely tears off his shirt-c collar
by an adroit movement of the hand,
and then the criminals neck is ready
for the knife. M. Roch, the execu-
pitted with the smallpox, and he does
his duty in cool, collected, very i'm
pressive manner. It is necessary to
send him away privately in a closed
carriage Immediately after each execu-
ton or the mob might molest him.
Victor Hugo and other great French
writer's hava pleaded against capital
punishment J with such passionate
that power in France is evi-
IDENTIFY beginning to get ashamed of
shedding blood and the human ipstru-
ment employed and paid to shed it is
very loathsOme to the populace. Lon
don Ne1US.
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Is SI-FINIS.

1.-THE following prophecy was first announces
in IS45 by a Mother Shipton. 1t will be gOOt
news to people having long mortgages to run
etc.'1
Carriages without horses shall go.
And accidents fill the world with woe
Around the world mans thoughts shall fly
In the twinkling of an eye.
Waters shall yet more wonders do;'
How strange but shall yet be true.
The world upside down shall be.
And gold be found at the root of tree.
Through hills man shall ride,
And no horse or ass be at his side
Under water men shall walk
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk,
In the air men shall be seen,
In white, in black in green,
Iron on the river shall float
As easily as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found and shown
In lands not now known,
England shall at last admit Jew,
And fire and water shall wonders do.
The world to an end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one.
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shipping Cotton Goods to England.

1t is said that some of the eastern
cotton mills are about to ship an invoice
of cotton goods to England with view
to opening up market for them. This
idea was suggested by the decline of
these goods in this market, while the
same reduction has not occurred in
Great Britain, leaving a difference in
favor of our goods that offers hand
some profit to ship. The only obstacle
is the introduction of them to the Eng
lish consumer, as the quality is claimed
to be superior, while the price is lower.
1t is expected that the experiment will
be successful, in which case more ex-
tensive shipments are contemplated. 1t
is now true that cotton goods are lower
in the United States than in any other
market in the world. This is as it
should be, and if the rapid decline in
these goods the present season shall
prove the means of opening up markets
for our mills, not only In England, but
in all the countries which England now
supplies. an advantage will be gained
that will not only far exceed the losses
occasioned by the fall, but it will en-
able our mills to find a market for full
production.
SOCIALISM is on the decline in Ger
many, the number of its adherents
having dwindled IN few years from
$40. 900 to about $4,000.
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by the author of the Northern Farmer
But space forbids us to dwell longer on
details. We can but end as we began
by saying that we do not know where
to look in past-Shakspearean English
poetry for poem in which the true fire
of drama so burns as in Mr.. Tennyson's
Queen MdTq,
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Those INDIAN ExILEs The trans
portation of the Indian murderers Of
the Ge-maine family is no doubt
fresh in the mines of our readers.
The citizens of st. Augustine, in
Florida, the most venerable OF Ameri.
can cities, will, no doubt, be delighted
to learn that they are shortly 10 be
favored with the company of some three
hundred squaws and pappooses, to oe
sent at the expense of the government 70
Florida to soothe the pangs OF exile
and imprisonment which now wiring the
manly breasts of tho fifty or sixty
Kiowa and Comanche WARRIORS. four
ordinary white assassin once caught IN
the clutches of the law, Is deprived
throughout all his term of punishment
of the amenities of family and social
life.
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MOSS.


Strange tapestry. by Nature spup
vi NleWlesS looms, alOOf from, sun
And spread through lonely pDoks and orots
Nhere shadows reign, and leafv resi- ,
moss of all you dwellinq-spofs
III Whloh ore are you lovelieste
~ ~ When near grim roots that coil
A.elr % shaky black through humid gouo
r. II you wrap, in woodland gIooms
ne great prone pinu-tIunks- rotte5 rsd9
VI when You dim, on sombre tombs
The requiescats Of the dead?
w IS ~ when vOur lot is cast
-L ~'u b quaint garden of the mast
: me gray crumhlrd basins brirn
WIN cor chs that mildewed TritoDs 'bJo,-
-'tiLle Wonder, through the poplars prim.
Looms up the turreted chateau?
p, luN''Il'St are yOu when Tim yraavez
.L,,,, .-, 'In Minis on low, dark caves.
Wee pink F0roh-roses peer.
A'd 40" dbinCs brrak in fratraDt foam,
m I,,s,h ~ lau',n, . and you can hear
1A' "eahngs Of the heart Of Home.
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EuthanaSy.

Its Practice in India--EfTOrt for the
Suppression of the Custom.
During the incumbency of Sir Cecil
Beadon (the friend of India of the 22d
of Nav says) an attempt was made to
regulate the practice of taking sick peo-
pie to the riverside to die but nothing
was done then; as the government of
India and the secretary of state did not
consider any interference in this matter
necessary, although the more advanced
section of the native community threw
their opinion into the scale with the
lieutenant governor. That some regu-
lations are absolutely necessary will be
seen from these facts: On the Thurs
day before last, at about five o'clock in
the afternoon, a procession was OBJ
served passing through station not
far from Calcutta, accompanied by the
usual din and noise. At the head OF
the procession was man about SIX feet
high carried on litter about four feet
long, in much the same way as the bed
of Procustes in the olden time was
made to accommodate its victims of any
stature. At first the occupant of the
stretcher was taken for a corpse, but
on a closer examination it was discov-
cred to be human being in the last
stages of prostration. The head was
dangling over one end of the stretcher,
and the face exposed to the full glare
of the sun, which the dying man at
tempted to keep off by shading it with
his right hand. This was observed by
his son in the crowd who opened an
umbrella and held it over him. The
procession stopped at a gate opposite
the station public library, and the
stretcher with its burden was laid on
| the ground. Tue sick man expressed q
wish for something to drink, and cup
of milk was held to his lips he then
had a SNAKE and conversed freely In
the meanwhile with his friends who
had followed him. A miserable looking
and shabbily-attired native who was
addressed as the koberai mohashal,
| held the pulse of the sick man with q
! gravity of circumstance worthy of 8
| disciple of Galen. To cut the matter
short, the sick man was kept at the
| gate till the Saturday following, and af
he still persisted in disappointing his
friends and relatives in their expeeta
tion of seeing him depart this life, ht
was renewed to another gate higher NJ
the river, where he was kept for time
immersed in water with the head and {
portion of the chest above it, till ht
expired in this position. The deceased
was a man of the weaver caste and o.
some prospects. He had removed tC
this station some years back from
Doud, where a portion of his family
are still residing. Another ghastly
murder took place about two or three
weeks ago. In this case the victim
was a woman, the wife of respect
able shop keeper.
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HINTS ON DIET.-The stomach should
never be overloaded. Bread is the staff
of life and is very nutritious as well as
as digestible. The best bread is made
of unbolted wheat Graham -FOUR 1t
should form a part of every meal.
Bread and milk is the best diet for
children, and is good for adults. Too
much salt irritates the stomach.
Colds are frequently produced by drink
ing hot tea and exposure afterwards.
Late suppers induce heart disease.
Pastry, cake, and fine flour bread con-
stipate the bowels. Boiled potatoes are
not SO healthy as baked ones. Fruits
are to be eaten at breakfast and dinner.
The stomach must rest to be healthy
pursstive medicines weaken the bowels,
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SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
GRooERs CHEATING ~ ENoLASD.-


GBocERs CHEATfEG ~ ENGLAND
| In apt adulteratiOu
Our trsdesmen now exnlt
| They'd hill the English natlon'
Both infart aud adult.
| In trade what lots Of trickery!
In ale how little malt!
| The coifees full of ci2ioory,
The beer II full Of salt.
Nutrition for tho nursery,
For babies plump and arcl'
Turns ont upon a cursory
Inspection 20 be-Htarch
Maizena, and Oswego
Are starch without the blue;
But where the deuce will lac go
Who dares such things TO dor
What though msn has led list
OF traders OF renowuE
Even "a Moscow medAiist
The analyst runs down.
And O how sad tO utter
The statement Punch has seen,
That even best fre-h butter
II made from butterinel
The truthful grocer non est
Alas his fraud. are gross
Neither In yintner honest
Nor brewer, inter nos.
IL YOU would wear gray locks on
Brains that with age won't fail,
Grow your own sheep and oxen,
And brew your own good ale.
THE Scotia, the last side-wheeler Of
the Cunard Line. has been withdrawn,
as too expensive and too easily dis
ordered, TO be worth keeping.
THE wife Of "Max Adeler" weighs
300 pounds: and the Brooklyn Argus
says when Max asks her, "Shall help
you over the fence p she replies, de-
murely, "No ; help the fence"
THE "Black Death" scourge, which
has recently appeared in the rivers
Hgris and Euphrates, ~ the same which
destroyed millions of lives in Europe
and Asia during the fourteenth century.
MoNTAIGNE said "The thing / am
most afraid OF is fear. He never
thought Of woman watching the night
latch Of a front hall door at one o'clock
i'm the morning, with fire enough in her
eyes TO save the expense OF gas-hght.
WHEN a mother cuts her sons hair
with such nice precision and artistic
neatness that the boy ~ ashamed 10
take off his hat when he goes 10 bed, 1t
is about time our domestic institutions
we're overhauled and remodeled.
ELDER sister (condescendinRly)-See,
Ethel, You had bctter come and walk IN
my shadow. IL will he cooler for you
Younger sister (who Tescnts patronage)
You are very good, Maud but have
a shadow Of my own, thank YOU
SMITH spent two whole days and
nights in considering an answer TO the
Why il an egg underdone
like an egg overdone? He would suffer
no one TO tell him, and at last hit upon
the solution-because both are hardly
done.
The Hartford Times reports that on
Tuesday there were seen on wharf IN
that CITY no fewer than sixteen children,
between the ages of four and eight
wears. all drunk They had obtained
access 10 some of the vile liquor OF the
and drank enough 10 set
hem crazy drunk, or helpless. some
were weakly trying 90 stab each other
with such weapons as they could reach.
A New Jersey man has Invented an
easy method of killing the potato. bug.
de shuts the bug mp in room iorty-
eight hours and allows 10 10 eat nothing
but salt. Then when he let's the insect
ont il makes straight shoot for the
nearest creek 30 get "A drink, and the
chances are ten TO one, II there is no
creek nearer than ten miles, that some
wagon will run over the bug and smash
il before il gets back 10 thepotato-p patch.
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LOVES YOUNG DREAM DIssIPATED. =
There is a family at Sandy Hill, n. T.,
which has very practical way OF view
ing events in life and dealing with sud-
den emergencies. The fOurteen-year-
old daughter of this family, who has
been addicted to dime novels and other
sentimental gush, eloped with school
boy, got married to him, and then re-
turned with hira to be forgiven, after the
manner of the lovers in the dime novels.
The parents, however, were not ike the
parents in the dime novels, for the
mother soundly spanked the girl, and
the boy or his way out OF the house
was kicked eighteen times by the father.
AS neither of them had ever read any
thing of this sort in novels, the denoue-
ment was genuine surprise to them.
The welcome of the fond parents, how
ever. is said to have worked like
charm, and both of the lovers are cured
of their folly. Love may laugh at a
locksmith, but when it comes to spank
ing and No. II boots, love can raise at
best only very sickly smile.
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THE following occurs in Moore's
"reminiscences Scott told of Ger
man in some small theater, saying, at
the very moment when the whole au-
dience was in still and breathless atten-
ton to the sorrows of Mrs. Beverly,
"I would like much to know who dat
was dat spat in my eye"
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FEATHERS are shooting all over the
toilettes. The gossips say feather fans
feather parasols, and feather hats are
all the go. Feather trimmings are now
arranged with so much ightness and
beauty that they are considered as suit
able for summer as well as winter wear.
They are mounted with fringe as well as
bands, though as bands they are used
for the trimming of bonnets and para
soils
New-York tribune., 1875-05-17
THEMES IN THE CHURCHES.
u1TERANcEs OF LEADING PREACHERS.

UTTERANCES OF LEADING PREACHERS.
sERMONs DY THE REV. HENRY WARD DEECnEN,
BISHOP JAMES. TIE REV. DIR. HUGH MILLER
THOMPSON, THE REV. W. J. TUCKER. THE REV.
DR. CHAPMAN. AND THE REV. w. II. ALGfR-
PENTECOsT IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES.
The Day of Penecost was communicated IN
the Roman Catholic churches yesterday with
impressive ceremonies and appropriate dis
courses. In Plymouth Church. in BROOKLYN the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher preachcd-at somewhat
greater length than is his wOnt-upon PauPs words,
"uaving done all. stand.' He was heard Dy rs
many as oven the outer limits OF the Church would
give space to. In the Madison Square Presbyterian
Church in this city, the new pastor. the kov, w.
Tucker, preached from the text, He that gathercth
not with me scattoreth abroad" In the Allen Street
M. f. Church Bishop E. S. James gave
discourse concerning the relief which Christ
offers to the weary and heavy Laden. IN ST.
Paul's NJ. E. Church, at Fourth-ave. and Twenty
second-st., the pastor. tho Rev. DR.. Chapman took
for his subject the lessons to be learned from the life
of Abraham. The rector of Christ Church. in Fifth
ave., the Rev. DIR. Hugh Miller Thompson. preached
On "The Work of the Holy Ghost' The recent great
ocean calamity was, in some part the suggestion OF
the sermon of tho Rev. William X. Alger, in the
Church of the Messiah i'll Park-ave., which Was upon
the Tragedy Of the Sea"
New-York tribune., 1875-05-17
FPETTING.
U,.Ien yyunf in the Jn5ependsnt

There is one sin which it seems to me is
everywhere and by everybody underestinaed tolerated
win undue tolerance, and quite too Euch oYCGOohed III
of yaluaons OF character. is tn sin Of fetng. IL
ia as common as air, universal speech; so common
that uce il rises above its usual monotone we do not
even observe IT, Watch any ordinary coming together OF
people and sec many minutes IL will be before some
t.av f.rts-that is. makes more or lesS complaining
,tatrnnt Of something other, which, most probably,
cyecy IA the rooIn the stage. or tho car or the
corner as IL may be- knew before and which, most
pr6babv nobody help Why say anything about IT
il IS cold IL is hot, it wet, 1t is dry; somebody has
broen an appolntmoiit Ill cooked meal stupidity or
haS fh sone here has rcsu.ted In discomfort There
ae always penty Of things TO fret abon Ihe days win
yenicnt TO somebody's fixed plan. All men 90 astay,
speaking lies and making bnders as soon as they ne
BON III is simply astonishing HOY much annoy ance ana
discomfort may be found in the course OF every day
living even at the smplcst,f one only keeps sharp eye
ont on that side OF things Even Holy Writ says we are
born to tr0ube ~ sarks fy upward, But even 10 ne
sparks Dyis upwn in the blacklist ~ smoke thcic is
blue ~ above, and the less limo they vase on thc
road the sOoncr ;hey viii reach it, Fr;ttnS Is Ill unc
wasted on the road
New-York tribune., 1875-05-17

TO stand patient, waiting for parents don't mean that
tho father drunkard and that the cnld ws , ahs ,h
boys are ali gono and the old Vermont farm s hard OF
so and full Of rocks and the Youngest s0 m a. isaS m1.o
have gone and made their fortunes except MIN. ana nc
as saraS, leave ha% %e so Sa Weat &or
inscription in the silence OF his own heroic soai nc s"s'
And so with many young woman. She says. ." viii
not my home, my mother my yonng slseer L ~
not leave them cannot take them No in "a and I'S no
saint the Catholic rcelsry-a registry OF no9, ~,
Is Uo ond fer Contents herself With undscosed in
dividual o. How parents wllt ior tlen - bcp
and mother in waiting for the return OF their errIg ann
pyreckod child ana the bitterest part OF ,s Dl..
est part OF mans lilo after waiting wbea he bears OF
tho childs final destruction There ia mystery ana get
bow many silent walters, how many nave Drcn IA 10 ',o m
closet night and day yet there comes no coer ana no
comucnt except "hayng done all, stand.' Ana 'ney
What then are these considerations and motives which
help to these things which arc so hard we arc e
servant OF the Lord jesus Christ Wo are us s'ryapts
net by proTe but becauae we do and bear ana sner
Was Ns III ihs II sse ito most cnrsod Class Of men lo
dcnsd the full experience of growing activity Yet 10
tIoln it Is written Obey in al things your masters ac
corins 20 lie flesh" Not that they were their masters
and Paul Is very careful never to acknowledge tnas
doctrine Your maser v,cs aecosdg wgcrDeosers 'ns
but n of hears and fear OF God and watso-
d. 10 it heartily" Bo glorious MS msn OeS' %"ns
Wbatever sain they reap" But you The servant Of
God says the Apostle. DO this and you Wiz hnd your
self so changed and 50 active, that IL VIII DC your '
desire. ,,
In the old laboratory the purbnd Jew stands IN hs m
shop, and, with great rough diamond in LIS han no
studies in every way. and determines the manner OF
cutting It, that instead Of being lnsieres stone @ ,e !.
emory wheel and works it with diamond dust w
day and by night and rubbing Win Sa oil worhi abs
upon it for months, until at last 1t Is GROUND.
And now he rbs it, and taking 1t to tho light for tne
first time lie holds il up and Ec sun flashes from nun
dred faces, such beauty as men never saw In III IL
before. And when this great round OF tlne grang US
by 10y and sorrow, shall have completed us Wofi.
taken at last into the presence or the sun OF
RiShtcousnoSs, there shall lash from every sGe o. us
such glory and beauty entered into the Het Oh
man conceive In the hope OF this termination, IN te
faith Of this cOnsm2toD, in the joy of anticpati0n learn
only do all but, when Gods providence siaii
bring tho other part learn how to stand ana