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THE RUSSIAN

There would appear to bo no impcra-
tive reason why England should refuse
her consent to the Russian Proposal. Its
substance may be thus ~stated-that a clos.
ing protocol, in which will be recorded
the points Of the Programme of the Con.
terence which had received the adhesion
OF all Tho Powers, including Turkey, shall
be signed by them as a fitting conclusion
OF their work at ConstantinopIe, declaring
that they reserve the power Of deliberat-
ing hereafter on the mode OF action which
1t behoves them to adopt. should the Otto
man Government not conform to the obIi-
cations imposed on il by the adoption of
reforms and notifications contained in the
present final protocol. It is not a sine
qWG NsH that the Porte should sign the
the document. It would be greatly to
her own interest, indeed, should she make
up her mind to do so; but her refusal
will not in any way seriously alter the
decision of the Powers. It is quite un-
derstood that the questions OF the Com
mission of Supervision and the nomina.
ton of Governors will remain 10 abeyance.
The Powers will speedily resume their dt.
plomatic action with a view to influence
the Porte through their Ambassadors, and
to exact from Turkey the full and practi.
cal adoption Of those reforms which con.
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In 1860, 1900 SpaniaFds from Porto Ri
co made a descent upon them in the night,
burned their habitations, massacred all
whom they found under arms, and trans.
ported the remainder. with their wives
and baggage, to the Island Of Bermuda.
In 1851 the French, under De Vaughan,
obtained possession by the surrender of
the Spaniards to his force. The Island
was then rich in forests, but these were
set on fire by the new conquerors, and
the conf1agration, it is said, lasted several
months. But the grounds thus cleared
were at once entirely cultivated, and are
said to have been incredibly fertile" In
1858 Louis XIV transferred st. Croix,
with St. Kits, st. Bartholomew, and St.
Martins, TO the Knights of Malta. Tn
1865 a newly formed West Indian Com
pany purchased the Island from the Or
der Of Malta and in 1914, this compan
having been dissolved by royal edict, tie
Island was again annexed to the French
Crown. In 1896 the population is said to
have been TAT whites, exclusive of women
and children, and 623 blacks. But, not
withstandirg the extraordinary fertility OF
the land when the rains were sufficient,
yet so frequent and destructive were the
droughts at that time, that the French
settlers, having demolished their forts,
abandoned the Island, and removed to
Sto. Domingo. In 1920 the Island was
uninhabited. About this time a project
for its settlement was formed in England,
which was not carried into eff ct. It was
visited by vessels OF all nations, till In
1927 the French captured seven English
merchant vessels which were lying there,
and took possession OF the Island. 1t con-
tinued to be the property of France till
1888, when it was sold to o Company Of
merchants in Copenhagen called the
Guinea Company tor &3O,75O. The rights
OF this Company were afterwards pur-
chased by the King Of Denmark. 10
1854 the Island was carefully surveyed,
and divided into plantations, or obiong
squares tor plantations, each plantation
measuring 5000 Danish feet in length
from N. N. W to S. S. E; and 1000
Danish feet in breadth from f. N. E
TO w. S. w, and containing $50 acres
OF land Of 10000 square feet to the
acre. In 1901 it Was taken by the
British, but restored to Denmark after q
possession Of few months Again in 1907
It was taken by the English. AID was held
by them until 1915, when it was again res
tored 10 the Danes, since which time St.
Cr'ix. st Thomas, and St. Johns have
been Danish colonies. Cmistiansted or
Bassiu, the principal town in St. Croix, is
situated in Ia'irudr l7s as Ii" aud in
Longitude go AZ 81" W. Of Greenwich.
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mus with huge wall, similar to that of Trajan in the Dobrudscha, and forti- fled the adjoining hills of Kara-Djanai, Kulla, Utch-Djilga and Urmemskoi-ba- gar. This wall has now been repaired, armed with guns, and protected by in- trenchments. The southern coast of the Crimea has also been strongly fortified. Large sums lave been expended in strengthening the works round Sebas- topol. Torpedoes have been laid down in the bay of the Tchernaya, and also at Cape Khersonese and Balaklava, which harbor is protected by a fort. There are other Notifications at Sudak, in the bay of Takkieh, near Feodosia, and on the hill of St. Elias near the lat ter town, which is also protected by tor pedoes in the bay above mentioned. Kertch is fortified by works on the western extremity of the peninsula of Taman, on the hill of Takil, at Kertch itself, and at Yenikaleh. Cape Fanar. on the other side of the Kimmerian
 Bosphorus, is also to be fortified On the Caucasian coast the following
 named are the principal forts: Djemi- ter, Novorossiskaya, Gelendtchik, Ten pinsk, Lazarevsk, Golovinsk, Doucha, Soukhoum, Kaleh, Ilori, Rebout Kaleh, Poti and Nikolaya. ...o -"..
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Teaching the Baby.

You must take your baby just where he is now, not much more than little animal, and educate his physical nature so rapidly developing. For instance, he has just reached the climbing age: every chair and stool is a worry to you, and pair of stairs is perpetual terror. Now show him how to get up and down the stairs, how to. place his feet when climbing up into chairs. Let him tumble little; it will only make him more careful. It is but foretaste of the hard schooling which experience gives us all our lives. Better little fall with you close by to stop it at the right place, than a great one when you are "off guard" some day. (Remember that too, when he is in his teens.) But 1 beg of you, if you want to see him grow up active, strong-limbed and agile, do not keep his white dresses too clean, nor tie his sashes after the pres ent uncomfortable fashion, so that he isn't conscious of any legs above his knees. Then, let him feed himself. He'll make miserable mess of it at first, bnt protect him well with bib and tn tray, and he'll soon teach his spoon the way to his mouth. Let him burn his fingers a little some day when the
 stove is not very hot; he wont touch it when it would be dangerous Scribner.
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Being SOciRDLo.

A great deal of the calling and twit- tering and my-dearing have no more real connection with sociability than the flowers and feathers on woman's hat have with her head. They are purely artificial, and tackled on by the milliner. There is vast deal of social millinery, however, which passes for Natures hand work; and people are often praised for their fine social quali- ties merely because they are adopts in the art of saying pretty nothings by the hour, and exhibiting themselves in other peoples drawing rooms in an en- tertaining way. And on the other hand, those who are eminently social in nature and spirit are often con- demned as unsociable because they say little. and do not care to exhibit them selves and turn their hearts inside out they are deficient in the graees of cul- tivated society; they may not have the gift of rapid utterance or repartee they may find it hard to intrude their thoughts and feelings upon others while more variable natures make the air vocal with their incessant buzz. Be- hind their reticence, and beneath the disguise of modest and unattractive ways, are all the elements of the truest sociability, which it requires but the least penetration to discover and the fit occasion to bring out.
 Being sociable requires something more than ceaseless chattering and gad- ding about. It requires the culture and expression in all proper and helpful ways of those thoughts and sentiments which are unselfish, generous, sympa- thetic and humane. It means a perva- ding interest in others and the general good. It means the lively commerce of mind, and communication of heart with heart, by listening as well as speaking; by large respectively as well as generous giving. And this sociability is just what is wanted to redeem oul social intercourse and make our com Ing together helpful, stimulative, ani ennobling
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An Idle Word.

How inadvertently spoken, and yet how frequently with serious and pain ful results? How many hearts has an idle word severed-how many broken? For true is it that thoughtless express sion will make a breach between those that fate, in it's visitations, could not divide; hearts that would have strug- gled together through the storms of life, that would have clung to each other for strength when its buffetings had almost overwhelmed them-that would, have braved all the changes of fluctuating fortunes, and still see in their own un- changing love gleam of brightness through the blackest cloud. And yet an idle word-one-has separated hearts like these. The. breach once made, others step in to make it wider and wider; false pride, mistaken feelings, the sudden bitterness the heart can feel even toward those it loves, all aid the work of cruelty; the distance increases day by day, until, finding it impossible to return, like the wrecked mariner, they give up in despair, and sit down to mourn over their fate, careless, it seems, whether they live or die. And this is not the romance of youthful affection, though there is perhaps more suffering from the early disappointments of the heart than the more serious ones in after life produce. No, it is witnessed in the experience. of every one; in the friendships of life, in the family circles, in business; what misunderstanding, what ruptures, what bickerings, strife and irreconcilable differences, have arisen from one idle word; it may have been spoken in jest, in a spirit of levlty, in an attempt to be witty, or it may have been said innocently or inadvertently with no motive and no intent, and still, for some cause of which you were to- tally ignorant 6 certain party applied the remark, and in moment a fire brand was kindled. Jokes are danger ous articles to play with; they are sort of mouth grenades that are apt to ex- plOde before you are aware of it. A joker should understand their nature, dllO IuC udIuIC Ol 1llS "Cu,
 before he introduces them. He may suppose they will recommend him to favor, but he is frequently mistaken.
 The man who labors to be witty, loses his breath and is considered to have rather weak mind. Never was there truer sentence written, and one which view it in every way, must result in the same conclusion, that GA silent tongue showeth a wise head"
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fer them to be nothing more." "Oh perhaps might prefer that alsoW It must be owned the god goes among us with limping gait and blear eyes. You wonder whether it was so always; ; whether desire was always equally dull and spiritless, and possession equally cold. I cannot help fancying most people make, ere they marry, some such table of recommendation as Hannah Goodwin wrote to her brother William about her friend Miss Gay. It is so charmingly comical, and so pat to the occasion, that I must quote a few phrases. "The young lady is in every sense formed to make one of your dispo- sition really happy. She has pleas ing voice, with which she accompanies her musical instrument with judgment. She has an easy politeness in her man. ners, neither free nor reserved. She is a good housekeeper and a good econo- mist, and yet of a generous disposition. As to her internal accomplishments l have reason to speak still more high ly of them; good sense without vanity, a penetrating judgement, without dis position to satire, with about as much religion as my William likes, struck me with wish that she was my William s wife," That is about the tune-pleasing voice, moderate good looks, unim- peachable internal accomplishments, after the style of the copy-book, with about as much religion as my William likes; and then, with all speed, to church. To deal plainly if they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed; and among the others there would be not few tumul- tuous households. The lion is the king of beasts, but he is scarcely suitable for domestic pet, in some way, I sus- ect love is rather too violent a passion
 to make in all cases good domestic sentiment. Like other violent excite ments, it throws up, not, only what is best, but what is worst and smallest in mems character. Just as people are malicious in drink and brawling, and virulent under the influence of religious feeling, some are moody, jealous, and exalting when they are in love, who are honest, downright, good hearted fel- lows enough in the everyday affairs and
 humors of the world.-CornhH Maga&ine.
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Russian Strong ShOIds on the Black
 Sea.

A contributor of the Allgemeine Zei- Notifications on the shores of the Black Sea. The first of the naval fortresses in southern Russia is Nicolaieff, and no pains have been spared to make it as strong as possible. The extensive ar senals and ship-building yards are in- cessantly employed in producing the requirements of naval warfare, and Nicolaieff now possesses depots of am- intuition and park of artillery which
 will enable the director of the coast de- fences to strengthen any required point at very short notice. The entrance into the Bay of Kherson, from which one passes into the Bug Liman, and then to Nicolaietf, is defended by two naval forts. The first of these, Otchakoff, is on the Bessarabian coast, and is tolera- bly, protected on the west by swamps; the other is Kinburn, lying opposite on the Nogai steppe, and surrounded by creeks and canals. From OtchakOff to Odessa along the coast is about eighty versts. Odessa is surrounded by series of Notifications which extend to Aker- mann, on the Dneister. This chain of works, armed with guns of heavy cali bre, supplemented by submarine torpe- does, would make an attack from the sea very difficult. But the line of de- fence extending from Odessa to Nico- laief has one weak point, at Perekop, where the Crimean peninsula is connec- ted with the Nogai steppe. The whole of the northern and western coast of the Crlmea is almost unprotected. though Russia has little to fear on that side, as
 any invading army which wished to circumvent the line of Notifications be- tween Odessa and Nicolaieff would be obliged to cross the isthmus of Perekop. When the Tartars ruled over the Tau rian peninsula they blocked this isth-
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Two Institution Of Breslau.

Yes, many old things have passed away even in Breslau, but many still remain in this transition period, so that the picturesque and the antique have not wholly vanished. First and fore most come the hearses, horses and beadle with severe mien and three cornered hat, walks in front; and such melancholy strains as are discoursed- discoursed is the proper term-by the musicians, that the deceased. in whose honor the display is arranged, is to be congratulated that he does not hear the sweetly soothing, nerve exciting strains. The goose still remains the tutelary divinity of the town. It is no wonder that the animal has become grossly conceited, and its countenance is far more prepossessing than that of a New York goose. The Breslau animal is conscious of the fact that he receives extra attentions from the cook, and decks the dinner-table in every variety of form and preparation. The animal is held in such estimation that it is fairly worshipped in winter months, and after February the era of stuffed geese begins. Naturally throughout winter the streets witness many goose chase, and it is common thing to see boys, men, and women carrying geese in their arms, or tied to theig shoulders; |; sometimes the animals are secured in baskets, and sometimes they are held tied together in the hand. But in all cases can be heard such a cackling of geese, barking of dogs and shouting of bystanders that the pen is unable to de- scribe the scene.
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Familiarity.

There are one or two proverbs that contain more truth than falsehood; and one of them, unhappily, is that famil- iarity breeds contempt. Though mys- tery is good key, it is bad lock; it does very well to open the door of a heart, but it is by no means we'll adap ted to keep it safe and secure. This must be done by sheer strength; and of sheer strength, over-much talk about love and art, and the youthful affecta- tions of long locks and mild wicked ness, are in no wise symptoms-at least not of the sort of strength that is re- quired to hold forever a woman who has opened her eyes to the fact that the good things of the real world are by no means to be despised.
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Fourteen Little Things.

Life is mainly made up of trifes. A pinhole will in time sink a large ship. A small saving per day or week will speedily amount to large sum. An extra production of 8 small thing, as an extra egg per day or week, a good hill of corn in each row, a bushel of wheat, or corn, or potatoes, extra per acre, will in the course of years make one comfortably rich, or what may be better, will buy many convenient or useful thing as one goes along, and such extra production is easily secured by trifling thought, care or labor. To il- lustrate what the aUeekly saving, or the extra production will amount to in c single gear, we select the following com
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California Lumber Fumes.

Lumber fumes in the Sierras are generally constructed of planking, thirty inches wide and sixteen feet long. There are nailed together at the sides, making a V shaped trough or box. They are then fixed in brackets, thus forming a continuous channel for the passage of water which is let into the Hume from a diverted mountain stream. In the fumes constructed two were used to box. In those now build ing by the Sierra Plume and Lumber Company, three are used, thus adding to the strength of the Hume. The rapidity with which the lumber is transported varies of course with the falLo With down grade of one inch to the box (sixteen feet), or twenty-seven feet to the mile, the lumber travels from two or three miles per hour. With grade of two inches to the box, or fifty-five feet to the mile, the rate is about trebled, and the increased velocity is in similar ratio where the grade is augmented. Thus grade of five or six inches to the box ensures a velocity of from IS to 20 miles per hour. On the Blue Ridge division the thirty miles from the mountains to the dump on the Sacramento River is made in about three and half hours. On the Chico branch lumber put in at the Arcade mills reaches Chico, a distance of 40 miles, in less than four hours. As showing the capacity of this kind of transportation, may state that during the past season the Chico Hume has carried over it an average of 10000 feet of lumber daily. Of course it is necessary. to have men constantly en- gagged in watching the Hume to prevent the lumber from punching, as it is called. For this purpose a walk plank is constructed its entire length. But an ingenius contrivance does away with much of the labor formerly necessary to keep, the lumber in motion and pre- vent it's blocking the finme. It consists of a sluice gate which occurs at inter vals on the line of the fumes, and which is operated by simply moving a handle. The water is. thus turned from the reg lar Hume into siding, without any grade, when the lumber. is rendered motionless. Men are stationed who take up the lumber which has punched and throw it over into the regular Hume to commence the journey anew.-San
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The ProbabiIfties of Sickness.

Dr. Reginald Southey has recently been delivering course of valuable lec- lures on "Individual Hygiene" in London, and in one he introduced a table of Expectations of Sickness. !" which he had prepared, and which is as follows:
 At twenty years of age calculate on four days of sickness, yearly.
 At twenty to thirty, five or six days.
 At forty-five, seven days.
 At fifty, nine or ten days.
 At fifty-five, twelve or thirteen days.
 At sixty, sixteen days.
 At sixty-five, thirty-on days.
 At seventy, seventy-four days.
 Of course this refers to people of ave- rage good health, and not to those who may be affected with an irradicable or chronic ailment.
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How To Make a Pickle.

Take your youngest male child when about three years old. Let him have every thing he wants; let him make as much noise as ever he likes; let him eat and drink as much and whatever he has fancy for; give strict instructions to his father, his big brothers, visitors and servants that he is never to be pun ished in any way for anything he may do, and never even contradicted in any, thing he may say. By the time he ar rives at the sweet age of seven, your youngest male child will be very nice pickle.
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mon items :

A practical suggestion is that any one of the above items saved or produced extra, will just about pay for this pa- per a whole year which will place be- fore your family over fourteen columns of reading, contain multitudes of hints, carefully gathered and prepared, that can hardly fail to be of use to yourself and others in developing thought, and suggesting modes of doing many things. Would it not be we'll to pass the above along to your friends and neighbors at this time9
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Cultivated Women.

Sheridan said, beautifully: "Women govern us; let us render them perfect. The more they are enlightened, so much the mere shall we be. On the cultiva- tion of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men ''
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AT THE WINDOW.
FROM THE BOHEMIAN OF PIcEK, |.

FROM THE BOHEMIAN OF PICEK,. BY R. H. sToDDARD. s5 .tE l saw him through the window---.:-.. The new moon was In sight sl' y. Come stealing down the garden, ...t One balmy summer night -.., .. He tapped upon the window; "Glve me kiss" he said:
 And straightway was hidden. [.| Like little mouse, in bed. One eye above the bed-clothes
 Was-oh, so fast asleep
 But the other beneath-'twas lucky
 He was not there to peep! 7- a!aT He called again, as eager i2 aEH,a 34i AS the stag for cooling brooks, s4E Or the bee that in the lilies --I . ..,-s- For golden honey looks The silence of my chamber f~- It almost made me start .Fsi For nothing there betrayed me,
 But the beating of my heart! He knocked and called, and called me, And his voice, so clear and sweet, It pulled away the bed-clothes, .. And stood me on my feetl s,r.., ,,1 It drew me 10 the window;
 'tHe must be gone" ," thought F I raised the window softly, .a.7s s{ And, peeping out, was caught! ..uT Was caught, and showered with kisses: How many did he get? ., As many as my bushes, sgs.l If a4 For I am blushing yet a.Ft A
 -Scr1bner's Monthly.
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Daniel c. French, the sculptor of the Minute Man at Concord, Mass, is now at work in Washington on group representing Peace and War, for the St. Louis Custom House. The figures, IA feet in height, will be cut in granite.
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9 It is stated that the Central Rail- road has expended over $500, ,000 during January in paying snow-shovelers.
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ssFolds of the silk and cream-colored, roses. You will have the hats just alike, then?'' asked Miss Lucinda Smith, mil