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THE way in which advertisers in some

THE way in which advertisers in some
of the London papers parade their
Christianity, and seek to use it as step
ping stone to profit and advancement,
can not fail to strike the American mind
as being mixture of cant and cupidity.
Here are few:
"a clergyman and wife invite a lady,
a sister in Christ, to share their house,
housekeeping and happy parish work"
The capacity in which this "sister in
Christ" is wanted is mystery. Here
is one about which there can be no
doubt:
GA plain cook wanted in a Christian
family near London. State age"
But why should an nybody want to know
the age of Christian cook?
GA Christian, amiable, cheerful, do.
mesticated, aged forty-three, wishes to
be useful in family where confidence
would be valued. Comfortable home
chief object. LAURA"
Laura brings to mind the case of the
theological student who wanted to pay
for his board, by asking blessing al
table.
claw. A Christian desires to employ
his spare time in copying or drawins
abstracts, deeds, etc, for solicitors
Neatness and dispatch. Terms, Id. pc
folio.
This man, having read in the Bible
Bring Genus, the lawyer" seems t,
select the Scriptural nom de plume a
one which will bring him good Christian
business.
"Christian partner wanted, with e5,
900 to $4,000, to develop a splendi'
milling concern in the-south of Ireland.
Concerning this advertisement on
capitalists would say, "Too thinl to
| thin P' .-...-
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rock. All this time he had been crying
for help. When ne reached the rock he
renewed his cries with greater vigor: He
was heard by his parents, who rushed to
the lakeside. The night was bitterly
cold, yet time and again did the grief
stricken parents attempt journey over
the ice, only to find it gave way, and
themselves thrown into the terrible cold
water. What was to be done? Father
and mother, wringing their hands,
rushed along the lakeside in vain hope
that they might find boat. Neighbors
also engaged in the search. The boy sat
on the rock for several hours; the shades
of evening still found him there with no
hopes of being rescued; his cries for help
came fainter and fainter. His parents
saw him make signal with his hands,
and then fall into the water. All was
over; the boy was sitting on the rock
for hours, drenched to the skin, and had
perished through sheer exhaustion in
the sight of his parents, powerless to save
hin,
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Tennessee Murderer Executed.

The execution of j. 4. Hunt, the wife
murderer, in the little village of Madison
vile, Tennessee, was thronged to witness
the last act in the tragedy which began with
murder and ended with its expiation. The
execution had been fixed on November 80,
but the prisoner was respited until Decem-
per Is; by Governor Potter, greatly to the
disappointment OF lafge hHmber of sight
seers, who came in that day to witness the
spectac e. Hunt laughed heartily at the
crowd being cheated of the anticipated
scene, when he received notice of the re-
spite, but he did not again disappoint
them, though he tried hard to do so.
Monday night, just before twelve o'clock,
the guards attention was called to the
prisoner by his stertotous breathing, and on
Investigation of the cause discovered he had
attempted suicide by taking poison. Two
physicians were called, an emetic was given,
revealing large dose of medicine. He was
kept awake by great exertion and by the aid
OF stimulants, and recovered so as to con-
verse ~oherentlE.
During the, morning the prisoner was
visited by large number of friends and
re atives The parting with his brothers
| and aged mother was most affecting, though
not as private as desired. They had visited
| the prisoner the night previous, and one
or the other furnished the poison, it is
| supposed.
At 80 the mournfu1 eortege left the
| riding in band wagon, in which were
seated Sheriff Warren, two Deputies and
brother-in-law of the condemned. On
either side marched a strong guard, one of
whom was Glen. Davis, the father of the
murdered wife. The gallows was rude
atfair-two uprights and the traditional
cross-beams, with iron rings on the center;
and erected about half mile from the
| courthouse.
Hunt, calm and imperturbable, after his
arrival at the gallows and during the reig-
ious services, said nothing, being percepti-
bly, under the influence of the poison,
though stimulated by liquor; btt he had
a letter read to his mother, brother and
sister. His last words were whispered
message to the iailer's wife, acknowledging
| her kindness. go
At 40 o'clock the black cap and rope
were adjusted, the prisoner so weak as to
require support at times, and two min ltes
later the unfortunate man was swinging in
the air, and death soon followed by strangu-
lation.
After hanging twenty-seven minutes the
body was taken dowu and given to his
brother for burial.
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Sunday in San Francisco,

Correspondence of the Boston Journal!
This cosmopolitan city is not made up
of church-going people. The Sabbath
is more of day of recreation than of re-
ligious observance. Thousands go over
to Oakland, or ride ont to the Cliff
House to spend the day. 1t is fegttlar
holiday The three thousand bar-rooms
and beer gardens do a lively business.
Sunday targetcompanies have now given
way to hunting parties in search of field
sports, and you have. only to ride q few
hours in the cars before you will hear
the crack of the huntsman' gun and the
yelling of his dogs. All sports and gay
cites are open and above board. There
is no attempt at concealment. Therep-
resentatives of every nation have their
own way Of enjoying themselves in pass
ing the Sabbath, and those who do not
observe its sanctity are the foreign classes
which are so largely-in the ascendency
here in point of numbers. The theaters
and other places of amusement are gen.
orally crowded The most popular resort
is called Woodward's Gardens, which
attracts thousands of people on Sundays.
1t is such remarkable place of enter
tainment that it calls for more than a
passing notice. The price of admission
is only two bits. When inside you find
the grounds very extensive, covering a
good many acres, while the variety of
sights are of such a rare and unique
character that you don't wonder that
thousands go and see them. On all
sides you find curiosities from all parts
of the world in mineralogy, ichthyology
crustaceans, mollusks, insects, orni-
thology, and guadrupeds. In strolling
over the grounds the eye falls upon
parterres of the rarest of exotics, while
the melodies from aviaries of birds from
every cline delight the ear. You can
plunge into illuminated caverns filled
with aquariums of fish of all kinds
you can recline ON green, velvety slopes
shaded with grotesque trees from all
quarters of the globe, while at your feet
runs crooked, rippling stream over it:
rocky bed, and then forming a succession
of cascades before it debouches into {
pond, where boat is at the disposal o
amateur oarsmen; you may behold vari
Gus strata of rock Of immense siz,
piled up to initiate wild natural beauty
with dimples of hillocks wet with spra,
of fountains and fringed with trailing
vines; you can step into an immense in
closure and take a look at an unsur
passed collection of wild, ravenous ami
mails confined in cages, and who, whel
prodded by their keepers, will startle yo1
with their roarlngs; you can while ava
an hour in concert room, where visitor
are refreshed with beer and Il band 0
music; or you can pass another hour i
an amphitheater and become dazed wit
feats Of zampillereostation and all sort
, of wonderful performances. And a
, this for twenty-five cents, and of Sur
day as well as week days. Such is lif
, in San Francisco that | can not realiz
: 1 am living in an American city.
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A Daring BOYS Fate.

The Toronto Mail says: A disaster is
reported from Coboconk, County of Vic
toria. Late one afternoon son of
Mr.. J. Campbell saw deer crossing a
small lake in the neighborhood of his
fathers farm The lad resolved to fol
low the animal Away went the deer
across the,ice. at full speed, and after it
rushed the boy, who was very fleet
footed. Suddenly, and when about four
hundred. yards from the shore, the ice
began to crack. Still the boy ran on.
All at once the ice gave way under him,
and down he went. He managed to keep
himself from being drawn under the ice,
but failed to, find any strong enough to
bear his weight; and as effort after effort
failed, the daring youth saw that all he
could do was tosendeavor to reach rock
about fifty yards off. BY dint of the
most strenuous endeavors-by half rum
ming and half dragging his body through
the ice-the heroic boy reached the
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Kidnapping i'm Connecticut.


On Friday afternoon, November 80, as
Miss Fannie Burt, aged seventeen years,
daughter of Charles Burt of Westport,
was seated in her fathers house, her
only company being ain infant belonging
to her sister, two strange looking men
alighted from a covered carriage in front
of the premises. They'came to the door
and asked for a drink of water. While
Miss Burt was obtaining the water the
men entered the apartment. On hef re-
turn, one, of the men stepped behind
her, seized and held her, while the other
| forced handkerchief, saturated with
chloroform, into her mouth, and
kept it there until she was insensi-
BILE. While in that condition they
stripped her entirely of her cloth
! ing, invested her in pair of trousers,
overcoat, hat and shoes belonging to her
father. dragged her from the house,
threw her into the carriage and drove off.
When she came to consciousness it was
night, and she iii strange apartment
poorly lighted and furnished. There
she was kept prisoner for the space of
four days, during which time she was
denied food, except the meanest sort,
and repeatedly outraged while under the
influence of chlroform. On Tuesday,
December 4, Miss Burt fohnd herself
alone. Taking advantage of the circum-
stances she forced open the door of her
prison and escaped.
After journey of four days and
nights, during which she did not eat,
drink or sleep, she reached Westpott ON
Saturday night, having walked a dis
tance cf fully seventy-fve miles. She
appeared in state of such exhaustion
and with garments SO tattered and torn,
that her parents failed to recognize her,
and it was only after hearing The sound
of her voice that they were enabled to
realize that the lost one was found.
DIR. George B. Bouton, who was called
} to treat the injured young lady, pro-
nounces her physical condition critical,
with the chances mnch against speedy
recovery. The greatest excitement pre-
walls among those residing near the
scene of the abduction. Miss Burt ex-
presses the belief that she can trace the
course taken by her from the house of
her captivity to the depot at New
Britain, and can also identify her perse.
cutors if brought near them. She will
though borne down by bodily weakness
proceed by rail to New Britain and aid
in seeking clue to the perpetrators OF
this high-handed outrage.
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They Couldn't Stand the Pressure.
Cincinnati Breakfast Tab


The other morning couple of men
were loading up dray with tobacco
stems in front of Fifth-street cigar
store. A capricious breeze was dancing
around from one point of the compass to
the other, trying to find out the one
with which it could feel the most at
home.
A handsome young couple came trip
and Christmas presents, and querying
to one another " hat such fine looking
young man as Ned Spoonaker could see
f1irt, Dora Minzie.
When within about ten feet of that
pile of tobacco stems they suddenly
paused with one impulse, grasped each
other hervously by the hands, looked
into each others eyes with startled,
uncomfortable, apprehensiTe gaze, and
then said she:
"Tck-ou. esz-oo-te-k-c-tschoow
To which with mitch spirit and i'll
concealed emotion, he responded. -
"Ka-a-a-chee-chee -ku-chi-o-o-k kuisdp-
zjgghee-p' ,-.-
She interrupted to confirm her first
statement, and nodded 80 violently just
as he was doing the same thing that
two heads felt bad about it, and two
pairs of eyes at once began cleaning
house, and two pocket handkerchiefs
Immediately filled pressing appoint
ments.
With badly punctuated remarks, they
passed on down the street, with damp
eyes and busy noses.
A woman carrying a babe and leading
three small children, came iiext upon the
scene. The little ones were the first to
find fault with the atmosphere, but be-
fore the mother could get through order
ing them to be silent, The baby took ex-
ceptien to the ruling. By this time the
mother saw and admitted her mistake,
and left the chiidren clear out of sight
with the vehemence of her ilasal de-
nunciations.
Next came d dirn-sighted decrepid old
gentleman, walking With two canes.
He paused and threw out protest With
such avidity as to make his head trem-
BILE like a boy with an engagement in
| the wood-shed, and the conclusion iarred
loose his speetacles and shivered them On
the sidewalk.
The next arrival vas man hurrying
along with a handbook full of mystery
for his wife. AS he neared the insidious
dray sudden presentment seized him
that he was going to have dynamite
explosion in his head. Involuntarily
he threw up his hands to save as mitch
of his nose as he coiild, and the precious
handbook sat down on the sidewalk just
in time to get acquainted with a
scissors-grinders shoe bigenough tohold
boys treasures. The grinder man was
in stich mingled terror between the ruin
he had wrought and the boxed d-up
tornado that he felt was about to break
loose in his own cheese-tester, that he
shut his eyes and tumbled backward into
the frame Of his .grindstone, where he
sat and sneezed till his ears Topped over
and his nose turned blue.
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THE EUROPEAN WAR.

THE st. Petersburg Gazette announces that
General Todleben has been appointed COM
mander of the Army of Rustchuk, with
Prince Imeritinsky as his CHIEF of Staff.
LATER orders to the British navy-yard
show unwonted haste for the preparation of
war ships and troop ships for sea. The
Admiralty have ordered the iron-clads
Monarch, Nelson and Northampton into
commission at the earliest possible moment
three of the finest ships in the navy; also
that the guns for the Infexible, now being
specially made, be fastened.
THE effort of the Porte to obtain the medi-
alton of the other powers is reported as
total failure, and Russia is preparing for a
second campaign. Already orders for the
mobilization of sixty addition battalions
have been issued. A general advance of the
Russian armies has begun. Hence England
must either desert her old allies altogether
or provide the sinews of war at once and
take the field in her support. From both
Russia and Turkey come reports showing a
probability of another desperate campaign.
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THE PITTSBURG JULY RIOTS

The official report of Major General
Pearson has been submitted to the Ad-
jutant General of the State, and explains
many things in connection with the July
riots which have not hitherto been
known or understood. By it the fact is
brought to light that General Pearson
was not present when the firing took
place at Twenty-eighth Street, but was
in the telegraph Office at the outer depot
in communication with the Aujutant
General. The latter, who had his head
quarters at the Union depot, was about
to start up to the crossing, when he re-
ceived the intelligence of the collision,
and, turning into the Office, he sent for
Major General Brinton. Whenhe came
in they had consultation with Vice
President Cassatt, who, fearing for the
railroad property, requested that the
troops be brought in to occupy and
\ guard it. This request was complied
with, and the troops ordered into the
.round-houses and other buildings.
The Philadelphia militia were without
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Living by Proxy.

1t is no easy matter to convince the
average man that fellow who makes
his fortune and retires from business
can be very unhappy, even if he be an
old bachelor. The Pail Mall Gazette
tells a charming story of French mil
ionaire, who having become country
gentleman, considered himself bound to
go out shooting, though he hated the
trouble, hit nothing, and wondered why
men of sense spent money, time and en-
thusiasrn in killing birds which could
be bought, ready picked, for few
cents apiece. One day when he was
pursuing his melancholy way, gun in
hand over his lands, he was conscious
that the boy who attended him and car
ried his game-bag, followed all his move
ments with envious eyes. "You would
like to see the poor birds dropped, eh ?"
said he to the boy, who replied: All !!
that should, sir; especially if it was
l that brought them down." "Why
should you wish to kill them?'' asked
Riches; they have never done you any
| harm" "Ah! but you can eat 'em,"
answered Poverty. The millionaire
handed over his gun to the youth and
himself carried the game-bag, which
presently grew so heavy that he had to
beg the boy to miss bird now and then,
if quite convenient. A new light burst
upon him. 1t was possible to enjoy
ones property by a deputy, as it were.
He could get around him acquaintance
who would be glad to eat his dinners
ride his horses, drive his carriages
shoot his game and so on. He collected
about him ioyous COMPANY. who
gladly relieved him of any necessity fol
making personal use of his property
On certain day one Of them said tt
him: cold boy, you are only fifty, ane
you are a bachelor; why don't yol
marry? There are several pretty wo
men setting their caps at you" Richie
pondered awhile, and at last replied
"No; l really think that this is a lux
ury must deny myself. You are awar
that l live, as it were, by proxy; but
agreeable as 1 have hitherto found tha
kind of life, the line must be draw
somewhere"
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Startling Disclosures of a Villain.

A gang of river thieves, residing in Nor
folk and Portsmouth, Virginia, aid whose
names are Linn scotsman, Robert Craft,
Cornelius Jenkins and john Taylor, were
captured AMI brought before the Mayor of
Richmond, Va, recently, on the charge of
committing piraties on vessels in the har-
Dor, setting fire to inhabited houses, rob-
berries, firing vessels, and committing depre-
dations generally.
One OF the party, Scotsman, from near
Elmira, turned States evidence and made
a startling revelation of the operations of the
gang within the last few months, and gave
a detailed statement of the manner in which
thirteen vessels, lying in the harbor, had been
boarded, the crews manacled, and the ves-
sells plundered and then burned. He de-
scribed how the schooner Lucy A." bound
to Northern port was destroyed, after
which the men pillaged and burned a
sash and blind factory in the city of Nor
fo k. He also testified as to the burning of
a number of buildings in the village of
Berkeley near Norfolk, and how perfect
reign of terror in that vicinity had been in
augurated.
The disclosure unearths vast amount of
villiany that has long puzzled the officers OF
the law. The prisoners are all young men
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A CORRESPONDENT at Pleyna tele-
graphs concerning Osman Pasha's re-
ception by the Russians. The Grand
Duke Nicholas rode up to Osman's car
riage, and for some seconds the two
chiefs gazed into each others face, with
out the utterance of a word. Then the
Grand Duke stretched cut his hand,
shook the hand of Osman Pasha heart
ily, and said: "I compliment you on
your defense, of Pleyna. 1t is one of
the most splendid military feats in his
tory" Osman smiled sadly, rose pain
fully to his feet, in spite of his wound,
and said something which l could not
hear. He then reseated himself. The
Russian officers all cried, "sBravo,
bravo" repeatedly, and all saluted re-
spectfully. There was not one among
them who did not gaze on the hero OF
Plevna with the greatest admiration and
sympathy. Prince Charles, of Rouma-
MIA, who had arrived, rode up, and re,
peated, unwittingly, almost every WORD
of the Grand Duke, and likewise shook
hands with Osman, who again rose and
bowed, this time in grim silence. he
wore a loose blue cloak, with no appar--
ent mark on it to designate his rank, and
a red fez He is a large, strongly-bult
man. The lower part of his face is Gov
cred with short Black beard, without a
streak of gray, and he has a large Ro-
man nose and black eyes. 1t Is a
grand face" exclaimed Colonel GALL
lard, the French military attache.
was almost afraid of seeing him lest
my expectations should he Disappointed,
but he more than fulflls my idea" "1t
is the face of great military chieftain, y
said young Skobeleff 81 am glad to
have seen him. Osman Ghazi he is, and
Osman the Victorious he will remain in
spite of his surrender. .r-
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IT is related that one evening when
Miss Cushman was playing in Washing
ton, President and Mrs. Grant entered
the theater during the second act, just
when the actress had started to I" come
on" and the orchestra at that moment
began to play "Hail to the Chief"
Dufield, Duffield," she cried, "what
is that noise about? The orchestra is
composed of fools, l verify believe" 1t
is the President" said poor Mr. Duff
field. "And suppose it isp' said she
angrily. Mr.. Ford has given orders
that the orchestra play Hail to the
Chief" Hail to mischief. would
not stop performance for the best man
living. Mr.. Ford is a goose!'
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"HE is not handsome, but he has such
pleasant way that one cannot help lik-
ing him." is remark often made con-
cerning some popular man. And there
are thousand pretty, engaging little
ways which every person may put on
without running the risk of being
deemed affected or foppish. The sweet
smile, the cordial bow, the earnest move
ment in addressing friend, the inquir-
ing glance, the graceful attention which
is so captivating when united with self
possession, these will insure us the good
regards of even churl. 'r
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ERANHEopT IKN Uo..,

FRANKFORT (Ky.) Yeoman: Sam.
Luscher ordered a bulldog from Gin
einnati. 1t was sent by express in a
large box, and chained inside. Some
where on the Kentucky Central the dog
broke the chain, and gnawed out of the
wooden prison. AS soon as he did so he
hunted up the express agent and went
for him. The agent ran three or four
times around the car, and finally was
forced to draw his revolver, and put its
contents in the live package. He
brought the carcass here and delivered
1T in bad order to Mr.. Luscher.
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NEVADA dogs seem to be made of
sterner stuff" than other American
ours. Last week one fell down a ninety
five foot shaft-struck with emphasis on
hard rock, lived sixteen days without
food or water, was taken out after that
time and Immediately ran down and to-
tally destroyed rat that presumed too
much on appearances and approached
rather too near the sickly-looking ca
nine
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OsMANPAsBA, commanding at Plevna,
was wounded during the siege of that
fortress by the Russians. Without food
or fire, with death by starvation or
freezing staring them in the face, the
Turks were compelled to yield. But the
courage, skill and daring of Osman
Pasha, in his defense of the place, is the
admiration Of the brave of every
country, Russia included.