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RoUMANIAN MEN AND WOMEN. Gen
orally the Roumanians, and more partic-
ularly the Wallachians, have handsome
dark faces, eyes full of expression, and
beautifully cut mouths, showing, as they
smile, teeth of remarkable whiteness.
Their hands and feet are singularly small
and their wrists and ankles as delicate as
those of a Grecian statue. Adroit in
body, light and graceful in their move
ments, they are indefatigable on the
march, and support, without murmur,
the most severe fatigue. Their national
costume is worn with inimitable elegance,
and even the Wallachian shepherd, with
his tall cachoula, his broad leather belt,
his sheepskin mantle, and full drawers,
which recall the Dacian "breeks" sculp-
tured upon Trajan's column, strikes the
traveller as model of native dignity.
The women are grace personiied. Wheth-
er they have remained faithful to their
traditional costume, with the wide en-
broidered chemisette, floating vest, many
colored apron, and hairnet brilliant with
gold aud sequins, or have adopted modern
toilets, they always charm with their
perfect taste. Besides this, the Rouma-
nian lady adds to her exterior advan-
tages a quick intelligence, a communica-
tive gayety, and readiness of repartee
which has made her the Partisan of the
East. 1t is the women Of Wallachia, and
not the waters of the river Bucharest, who
have given birth to the proverb: 80 Dim
bovitza! he who has drank from thee
can no longer leave thy banks "
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How TO GET AIoNG.-We have some
suggestions to offer, which will enable
our readers to get through life in the most
easy and comfortable manner. If bee
has the audacity and folly to sheathe his
sting in your cuticle, justice demands that
you should instantly upset the hive where
in the offender has his headquarters and
exterminate every bee therein. If dog
bites you in the calf of the leg, stern jus
tice demands that you should bite the
dog in the calf of his leg. On the same
principle, if an irate donkey elevates his
hinder legs against you, the true way is
to kick back. If a horse falls upon you,
the sublime principles of the ler taIOnts
require that you should fall upon the
horse. If Joggs calls you a liar, the
treatment is to call him liar and thief
into the bargain. If you are farmer,
and neighbor's cow happens to
get into your young corn, your
instant mode Of satisfaction is
to turn all your cows, hogs, etc, into his
corn. BY following out these sublime
ideas Of justice and self-respect, your
daily life will be full of sweet peace, and
you will eventually become as docile and
playful as kitten.
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THE citizens of Mott Haven, New
York, were startled the other day by
the sight of a number Of young women
marching through the streets, their
nakedness slightly concealed by bathing
dresses. 1t appeared that some one had
stolen the street dresses Of the bathers'
aud they were compelled to run the
gauntlet of the town.
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FLArrERY is safe coin which our
own vanity has made current, and which
will never be out of credit as long as
there are knayes to offer it and fools TO
receive il.
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IT is reported that when the doctors
run short Of jaw-breakers they consult q
European war map.
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Hard Training.

A Tartar trains his horse--a strong,
large-headed animal-in manner novel
to see. He selects an animal rising on
eight-one younger than seven is not con-
sidered tit for raiding purposes-and
fastens the saddle to his back, then loads
the saddle with sack Of earth
or sand The first burden imposed
equals only the weight of the rider, but
is gradually increased for eight days to
about three hundred pounds. As the
weight is increased the ration of food and
water is diminished. He is trotted and
walked seven miles daily. At the end of
eight days the load is gradually lightened
for eight succeeding, while the ration of
food and water is still decreased. The
last two days the horse is given abso-
lutely nothing to eat or drink. On the
nineteenth day he is worked until he per-
spires, then he is unsaddled, and buckets
of ice water are poured ever him. Wet
and weak he is pcketcd to the open
steppe and allowed to Craze for seven
days. Severe as this training is, it is not
too harsh preparation for the hardships
which the animal will be obliged to en-
dure. 1t is an epitome of what he often
has to undergo in the actual foray, being
called to swim half-frozen rivers, to carry
great weight, to go for days almost with
out food and to be picketed to the steppes,
perhaps sweating from a long journey, in
snow and heat, without covering. The
Persian horse, who is three parts Arab,
and both fleet and enduring, receives diff
ferent treatment, without detriment to
his race. Instead of being turned out
into the snow to rough it like his Tartar
cousin, he is clothed, fed, groomed, and
warmly stabbed. When occasion requires
he can stand a great deal of hardship.
The rude discipline to which the Tartar
horse is subjected cannot readily be de.
Tended by those who live in country OF
civilization. frequently the animal dies
during the process of training.
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THE MEDICINE OF SUNsHINE.-The
world wants more sunshine in its bust
ness, in its charities, in its theology. For
ten thousand of the aches and pains and
irritations of men and women we recon-
mend sunshine. 1t soothes better than
morphine. 1t stimulates better than
cham pagne. 1t is the best plaster for
wound. The good Samaritan poured out
into the fellow travellers cash more OF
this than wine and oil. Florence Night
ingale used it on Crimean battle-tields'
Take it into the vallays, on board all the
ships, by all the sick beds. Not vial
full, nor a cupful, nor Il decanter iGll,
but soul full. 1t is good for spleen, Tor
liver complaint, for neuralgia, for falling
fortunes, for melancholy. We suspect
that heaven itself is only more sunshine
, 1877-08-31

THE influx Of strangers has been great,
or in Paris this season than for seVcrM
years past, and the good effects OF their
arrival have already been felt by the
Paris tradesmen, who long for the great
Exhibition, which will certainly set them
ahoat again. FROM the 18th to the Soth
of February, Is, ,7lO travellers were regis
tered at the different Paris hotels.
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A WOMAN may give intellect, genius
and virtue to a profession and fail to find
patronage; but if the same woman we're
to put on tights and sing a comic song,
the citizens Of our great Republic would
fill the house, and applaud until they
were hoarse .-Ddnbury Necs.
, 1877-08-31

BoOKs.--Books are not made for fur
niture, but there is nothing else that so
beautifully furnishes house. The plain
est row of books is more significant of re-
finement than the most elaborately carved
sideboard. Give us house furnished
with books rather than furniture-both if
you can, but books atany rate. To spend
several days at friends house, and hun
ger for something to read, while you are
treading on costly carpets, and sitting on
luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down,
as if one were bribiDg your body for the
sake Of cheating your mind Books are
windows through which the soul looks
out. Ahouse without them is like room
without windows. No man has a right
to bring up his children without sur
rounding them with books, if he has the
means to buy them. II is "A wrong to his
family. Children learn through being in
the presence OF books. The love Of
knowledge comes with Teadingand grows
upon it; and the love Of knowledge in a
young mind is almost warrant against the
inferior cxcitements of passion and vice.
, 1877-08-31

THE man who fell into error was lifted
out by the lever Of public opinion.
, 1877-08-31
A Grouse Filtration,

In the breeding season, the cocks select
some hollow fallen tree, and suffering
up and down, beat it with their wings,
making a mutfled, drumming sound, that
can be heard for half a mile. The beat
is at irregular intervals, Begin ming slowly
and measuredly, and gradually inCreas-
ing in quickness, until it ends in a roll.
If the bird succeeds in finding dry
log, perfectly hollow and well placed,
his tattoo of welcome can be heard a
mile, and it is one of the pleasantest of
woodland sounds. 1t has the same ac-
celerated pace, and is about the same
duration as the call of the raccoon, and
is only heard in the daytime, as the rae
coon's is only heard at night. When its
mate hears the drumming, she slowly ap-
proaches, and, coquettishly picking at
seeds she does not want, comes within
sight of the drumming-log. No maiden
is seemingly more unconscious Of the
man she desires to attract than is this
russet dame of her gallant musician. A
snail is on the May-apple plant right be-
fore her; she pecks at it three times be-
fore hitting it, and then scratches negli-
gently at imaginary seeds. The cock
raises his ruff till it looks like Queen
Elizabeth's; the yellow skin beneath
tlushes with pride; he spreads his tail
like fan; he thrums his guitar, cluCks
an Introductory welcome or two, and
launches himself out and flies to his
bride. If, however, another cock hears
the drumming, be feels insulted at the
sound on what he considers his own do
minion. He flies to the drumming-log
and dashes at the brave drummer, and
the one. who is inferior in courage
and strength yields his place to the bold
er, and retires discomfited. d.-Scribner's.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-08-31
CHINA AND Japan.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.-The steamer City
of Peaking has arrived from Hong Kong via
Yokohama, with dates of Hosg Kong to Aug
4th. Cholera continues in the Chinese seaports,
but it is believed to be decreasing. There were
renewed reports of Chinese victories in the wes-
tern provinces.
The United States ship Kearsarge was iseri-
ously damaged in storm off the coast of Turk
elm.
J.C. Myers, late Consul General at Shang.
hal, returned to America by this mail to pro-
test against his removal at the instigation of
Minister Seward.
Yokohoma advices report the rebellion is en-
tirely broken up, but there will probably be ir.
regular skirmshing for long time to come,
and there may possibly be one large final en-
gagement, though it is not expected. Insur-
gent bands now retreat before every advance of
the national and abandon strong positions with
out struggle. The whole rebel force are con
fined within limited area in the province of
Hinga. A large portion of the national army
were Withdrawn, as they are no longer needed
in the field.
The Emperor returned from Kiota to the cap
ital July 3Otb, with the Empress and court. All
branches of the government are now operating
in Toxic.
Nothing has been heard of the rebel leader
Sagio for two months. Whether dead or alive
is unknown.
The census of Japan for 1875 gives the pop
ulation as 80, 625 CTS.
There was a severe storm July Goth along the
Japanese coast. There were many wrecks and
considerable loss of life. Ships from America,
Germany and Denmark were lost.
The French Minister had threatened the SUP.
preston of the French journal published in Yo-
kohama for the reproduction of sstirical arti-
Gle by Edmund About from the Nineteenth
Century of Paris.
Admiral Reynold, of the United States Navy,
was compelled by i'll health to return to Ameri-
ca by this mail.
There is an extraordinary combination OF
English newspapers in Japan to spre ad the re-
port that the torture had been revived. Their
purpose is unknown. The story is totally false.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-08-31
THE DIES MONIES DISASTER
Eighteen Dead Bodies Taken from
the Ruins.

NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-A Des MoLes special
says:
The accident on the Rock Island railroad was
caused by the rain undermining very strong
culvert. large bridge mile further west
was also washed out. Had the train crossed
the culvert it would have been wrecked at the
bridge, and none would have escaped At six
o'clock II bodies had been taken from the wreck
fourteen men, two women and child. One
of the wounded-Baker, one of Barpum's men
has died, making Is dead in all. Two more
bodies are known to be.i the wreck, and there
may be others.
The bridge was over the Little Four Mile
creek, nine miles east of Des Moines. 1t is a
small stream, generally quiet, and never before
known to be so high as at present The chan
mel of the stream was 40 or so feet wide, and
the banks about 20 feet high. The locomotive
landed at the foot of the western side and hall
buried itself in the earth. Barnum's car was
next and dropped into the channel. The bag.
gage and mail car followed The men in that
car escaped alive, and the lamps were not put
out. The first passenger Car pitched into the
channel where the water was Is feet deep. The
next car was plunged under this, telescoping
| with 1t. and the next telescopiDg half through
both., The sleeping car did not 60 into the
| wreck, and its occupants escaped. Most Of
the killed were in the car in front of the sleep
| ing car.
| The scene at the time of the accident is de.
| scribed as terrific. The rain tell in torrents,
accompanied by wind, lightning and violent
| thunder; the lights were extinguIshed, and the
| scene of terror ensuing can hardly be mag
| ined. The men who were not injured and
| could get out, went to work at once to rescue
the living and wounded. They had to go
mile to get axes to chop them out, but they
worked heroically, and by daylight had rescued
most of the wounded. There were many pitt
full scenes. One mother was killed between
her two children who escaped unhurt The
dead were brought here on train at II o'clock
Some of the wounded came with them. The
officers of the road were at the wreck all day
| caring Tor the dead and wounded. About forty
| persons were injured.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-08-31

GALVESToN-Cld2 Sd, sch Maggie NJ Rivers, Riv-
SAVANNAH Cid 28th, sch Amos Walker, Poland
Boston.
Sid 2sth, brig Jos Clark, for st John, NIB; sch May
WILMINGTON. NC-Cld 9th, schs Hattie Turn
er, Hupper. Kennebunkport; Annie W Barker, Snow
RICHMOND, vA1Ar 9th, sch Oliver Jameson
ALEXANDRIA, Ar 2Sth. sch Charlie Morton
Pike Windsor, Ms.
stephen Bishop, drom Richmond for Lisbon; Char
lotte Buck, (from Norfolk for Kingston, j.
Passed in 29th, parque Alert, from Portland fol
BALTIMORE-Ar 2Sth schs Emma Drummond,
Higgins Navassa; Starlight. Reed. Bangor.
Cld 2Sth, sch M Champlin. Freeman Portland.
Cid 29th, brig Houston, Griffin. Port Spain.
Sid 26th, sch Fred A Carl, for Queenstown.
phi PHILADEhPHIA-Ar 2Sth, brig Abby Thaxter
Below 2Sth. sch Mary Van Cieaf from Cardenas
Cid 28th, schs White Sea, Slower, Savannah; B L
Sherman, Alley, Boston; M S Bradshaw, Vangilder,
Portland.
Rockland NIB; Porto Rico Armstrong. Bangor; Robt
Smith, Smith, Portland; Neptunes Bride, Lind
sey, Fall River; Huntress, Brown, Lubec.
Treworgy, Bangor; Nile. Metcalf, and D Ellis, Tor,
rey, Rockland; Nancy J Day, Munroe, Bristol: Geo
" Whistler, Burgess, Hallowel; Delaware, Kellar,
Thomaston; Maria Theresa, Kalloch Rockand
Hoen Thompson, Bradford Vinalnaven.
Ar goth. barque Geo Kremelberg, Patterson. Havre
sch Olive. Crosby, Fernandina.
Cid 29th, barque l. I Stocker, Tyler, Port Spain
schs Canton Henley, Kingston ia; John Lord
Thomas. St John. NIB.
FALL RIVER-Sld 2Sth, sch Keystone Hatch, fol
New York or Pembroke
NEW BEDFORD Sid 29th, sch Charter Oak
Poole, Boothbay.
BOSTON-Ar 10th, brig Chas Dennis, Dodge. Bal.
timore; scbs Hattie A White, Bellatty Miragoane
W Andrews. Grover. Lingan, CB; P Hazeltine
Wadlin, Pensacola; Skyla1k. Small, Baltimore; VIM
G Mowrey. Eaton Rondout; Marcellus, Pomroy
and Castalian, Means, do.
Cid goth, barque Reusens, Leighton Queenstown
for orders sch U Fisk, Crowe, Baltimore
Sid 18th. barques g Reusens, Addie Sleeper; brig
M Penne.
PORTSMOUTH-Below Goth, sch A Hammond
Goldthwaite, for New York.
Sid goth, schs Abbie Willard, Ida Nav Pulaski
John. and Other5
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-08-31
The Chicago Bank Failure.

CHICAGO, Aug. 3O.-The dissatisfaction which
the depositors in the savings bank have felt
with the appointment by its officers of Col.
Abner Taylor as assignee, was not abated to-
day by notice from that gentleman that he
would be pleased to have committee of three
appointed by the depositors to assist him in the
investigation. This afternoon an uproarious
meeting was held by the aepositors in Market
Square, and after much speaking and quarrell-
ing John Wentworth, L. q. Letter, T. A. Mo-
ran, Bernard Callaghan and Michael Kelley
were appointed committee to call meeting
of depositors only in some hall to take meas
ures to have another assignee appointed by the
courts. Some peculiar and suspicious TRANSACT
tions have been unearthed, by which the Off
GERS of the bank during its last days got num-
Der OF certain mortgages, notes, etc, which the
bank held against them, and by which they
transferred to the bank their stock and took
up the notes, mortgages and other obligations
as equivalents.
The morning papers will publish minutes of
meetings held and records of stock transfers,
which taken together constitute an arraignment
of the officers which places them in a criminal
light. The banks assets are likely, under sure
developments, to shrink to almost a nominal
figure. The stockholders and its officers have
realized on nearly the whole of the stock. The
absconding officers have not been heard from
aud the general opinion is that they will not
return to Chicago, and in the present mood of
the defrauded depositors it would be with per-
sonel risk that they did so.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-08-31
MINOR KILOGRAMS.

No doubt is felt that Naval Officer Cornell
Will be asked to resign, and if he refuses, will
be removed after Secretary Evarts' return to
Washington.
The Sd regiment of infantry now at Scranton.
Pittsburg and Wilkesbarre, has been ordered
to Manitoba without delay.
The visiting governors at Philadelphia yes
teroay morning viewed the industrial parade.
AT Clock they took a special train to Ches-
ter to witness the launch of steamer.
by the fall of scaffold at the Girls High
ocnool IN Montreal Wednesday, two laborers
were killed.
A Philadelphia despatch saws the reception
OF governors at the centennial exhibition Wed.
nesday, was sparsely attended, and was a
comedy of errors.
During a storm in New York Wednesday
John g. Hitter was killed by lightning az
Northfeld, and young man named Lake at
Marshall.
A fire in Ashland, ILL.,, Wednesday night,
destroyed eighteen buildings, being nearly the
entire business portion of the town. Loss $685.
OOO; insurance $500.
Emigrants who left for Australia April 16,
nave reached their destination. Scarlet fever
prevailed There were five deaths and three
births on board.
az Union Springs, Ala, Wednesday, two
youths named baugh and Vaughan had an al
tercation. vaughan was hit on the head with
base ball bat and died last evening.
Judge A. B. Soanaker of Louisiana has
been appointed special agent of the Internal
revenue Office.
The bark Commerce for Shanghai took 1883
bales of domestic goods, and the steamer Eysia
ports.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-08-31
War Notes.

Advices from Athens state that 1000 Italians
have offered their services to the Greek army.
In Crete the agitation continues. Five hun-
dred Christian families have asked permission
to leave the island, but the government has re-
fused.
A Vienna correspondent remarking on tho re-.
cent re acement of Mahomed Damad Pasba
at the war office, where he has been supreme
since The fall of Redf Pssha, says: It ia he
leyed at Constantinople that Mahmoud Damad
ia responsible for ordering the wasteful attack
on Sbipka Pass The heavy losses there with
out corresponding success seem to have made
the Sultan accessible to the advice of those who
have represented to him the forcing of Shipka
Pass as a great fault.
A despatch from the commandant at Nevsi.
rye 9th, saws that the main Montenegrin army
has Withdrawn from before Nicslcs, leaving
only a CORPS of observation.
1t is reported that the British consul general
| at Belgrade has seriously demonstrated with
Prince Milan relative to the attitude of Servia,
| declaring that if the Servians are defeated the
prncipality will be abandoned to the discretion
| of the Turks
A Russian bulletin says that the Russian
| losses in wounded in Shipka pass TO the 2Sth
| were 237l
Yesterday Gen. Melikoff's army commenced
| a forward movement.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-08-31
MINOR TELEGRAms.

The committee of the New York Board of
Alderman appointed to investigate the frauds
OF the Tweed ring are going to apply to JUS
tice of the Supreme Court for summons to
compel Tweed TO appear before them.
Chicago banking circles were quiet yester-
day.
The September mail departure from San
Francisco for Japan and China has been chang
ed to the Sth and GOTH
Samuel Aiken, aged II yeare, was drowned at
Lowell yesterday.
Edward Havemeyer distant relative of the
late Mayor Havemeyer, and recently an in
mate of lunatic asylum, has been vctimizing
New York stable keepers and some hotel keep
ers at Coney Island to the amount of over
$1,000. He is in Jail.
James Horohoe was found beating his broth
or in Washington, N. Y, Wednesday night,
and dangerously stabbed policeman who ar
rested him.
The franklin House and stables at CIyde
N. Y, were burned Wednesday night.
Fire in Fayville Wednesday night DESTROYED
q wool house with its contents, owned by
Beard, Grouse & Co., and the farm frame
buildings adjoining. Loss $50, 600; insured for
$4,000.
Bridget Mcnamara fell from the fourth story
window of 147 Fulton street, Boston, yesterday
afternoon and was instantly killed.
The International Coal Co.'S property at
Sydney, N. S., was sold by the sheriff yester-
day to Mayor Beaudry of Montreal for $780,
900. The mortgage en- the property is over one
million.
The barque Annie Fleming of Greenock was
stranded yeste rday at Noithhead Combe, N.
B. Crew saved.
In Prince Edward Island excellent crops are
being harvested by the farmers. The fisher
men are making good catches
B. Devlen, M. p from Montreal Centre, was
appointed senator for the Regand division in
the room of the late Senator Wilson.
The Hempfeld Railroad, assert road con-
Meeting Washington, Pa, with Wheeling w.
Va, was sold by the U. S. marshal at Pitts
burg yesterday for $4100. Purchased by the
Baltimore & Ohio road.
Charles johnson, Swede, 27 years DID, wss
shot dead by Ephraim Williams, age II. at
Southwick, Mass, yesterday in quarrel. Will
liams claims the shooting was accidental. He
was arrested.
A meeting of business men of Louisville last
night agreed to petition Congress and earnestly
engage Kentucky representatives to use their
influence to secure the repeal of the bankrupt
law.