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Dust-HeapS.

Readers of Dickens undoubtedly re-
member the genial Boffin, or "gOlden
dustman," whose enormous wealth was
gathered from the dust-heaps of London,
and therefore know their worth. Owing
to the carelessness Of servant girls and
unthrifty housewives, many articles OF
value find their way thither; but the
chief value of the dust is to be found In
the Jumps of coal rescued by the hill
women. These poor creatures-it Is a
shame women are so employed-sieve in
hand, eliminate the coal Jumps, while the
cinders and half-burnt fuel are thrown
aside for the manufacture Of bricks. The
coal itself is sold to the poor, who are
only too thankful to buy it at reduced
rates. The value of the coal refuse in
the metropolis is the dust-contractor's
chief profit; but there are score OF other
matters which his diligent agents collect.
The hill-women, with amazing rapidity,
collect these around them in different
heaps-rags, old paper, bones, crockery,
glass, old iron, and other metals, etc.
The money they find they are allowed to
keep themselves, the rags, Of course, go
to make paper; So do the clean pieces OF
paper. Papier mache ornaments ale
made from old printed newspapers.
Bones do duty in many ways. Those
which come from cooked meat go imme-
diately to the boiling houses, where any
residual fat and gelstine they can yield is
extracted. The fat of course, goes To
make soap, and the gelatine for making
the transparent packets used for various
chemical preparations, and for cosmetics.
The bone itself subserves hundred use
full purposes. The turner's mainly en-
ploy it, when in sufficiently large pieces t;
the smaller make the fine animal char
coal, and, lastly, it is ground down, aud,
by the agency of sulphuric acid, it Is
transposed into superphosphate manure
and lives again in luxuriant vegetation.
Glass 10 carefully preserved for remel'ing,
Old medicine bottles are cleansed and
sold rs new. Metals Of ell sorts are val
liable ''finds," especially brass and cop
per, broken portions of ornaments, the
remnants of childrcns toys, etc. Wooden
rags ere used for the famous shoddy cloth.
Old boots and shoes 60 TO the cobblers,
who transform them into apparently new
ones. Thus everything 10 utilized.
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John Milton.


The author of one of the grandest
poems in the English language--Para-
disc Lost-was born in London, Decem-
Der 6, 1905. His father was SERVE
ner, or law-writer, in large practice; and
his mother lady from Wales. His
father had knowledge of books, loved
music, and was one of the best compos-
ers of the age.
John Millions education began at
home; afterwards he went to st. Paul's
School, and in due course to the Uni
versity at Cambridge. He got on 80
rapidly with his studies that it was sad
he was ''ripe scholar and a good one
before he was twenty-one years of age.
His talent for poetry showed itself very
early-"at the age OF ten,' says one
writer, and his fond father was 80 proud
of him that he employed Jansen to paint
his portrait-a half-length in laced
ruffles. From the time Of his leaving
Cambridge, John Milton resided with
his father on an estate which the latter
had purchased at Horton, in the county
of Bucks. In 1857, on the death of his
mother, he got permission to visit Italy,
on musical as we'll as poetical tour, to
collect for his father the works OF the
great masters of one art, while he gained
personal experience in the other by inter-
course with learned persons there. Il
had determined" says he, "to lay up, as
the best treasure and solace OF good old age
if God vouchsafe it to me, the honest liber-
ty of free speech"
The next long stage in Miltcn's life
was his being secretary to Oliver
Cromwell, for which he had very mod
crate salary.
In 1913 he married Mary, daughter of
Richard Powell, ESQ.,, of Forest Hill, in
Oxfordshire. On her death he became
blind, and married for the second time
Catherine. the daughter of Captain
Woodcock of Hackney.
After the death of Cromwell and the
Restoration of Charles H., Milton was a
marked man. But he was now poor and
bind, and no one could pursue with vio-
lence an enemy cast down by fortune
and disarmed by nature.
Milton now turned the whole force OF
his early poetic genious to the working
out of the dream of his boyhood-the
writing of grand poem.
Thus, till his slxtieth year, so little I'M
patient was he of securing fame by that
very gift on which he most valued HIM
self, that the whole of his published
poems scarcely made hundred pages
of print.
Now he felt-poor blind man!-that
it was within him, so his laughter wrote
while he composed.
Paradise Lost was published in 1867 ;
Paradise Regalned and Samson Agonistes,
Tragedy, three years afterwards, these,
with L'Allegro, II Penserosa, Lycidas, Com
us, the sonnets, with few juvenile poems
in Latin, italian and English, completed
his poetical works.
He died peacefully, in 1874, at his
house in Bunhill Fields, and was burie'i
next to his father, in the chancel OF ST.
Giles at Cripplegate.
One moral which young readers may
draw for themselves from John Millions
life is-that youth is the time for book
learning apd industry; and then what
ever may be the troubles or reverses of
after-life or old age, a mind well-stored
in early days can give consolation and
cheerfulness, as the poet found, even
when he was aged, poor and blind.
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IT 10 said that the loes Of stock In Texas
from the snow and cold will ameunt b
millions Of dollars.
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TIE Coopsr usion School Of Art 10
attsndsd by 2SS women.
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II. ~
tightening the World, which has been donated
rs the United States by the French people.
PETITION PREsENTBD:-Of the Colorado
Legislature, asking Congress to authorize
coinage 1t the Mint ut Denver, In that State.
ELECTORAL COMMISSION AND THE JOINT
SESSION or Boru HOUSES. Field offered the
Ordered, that the counting Of the Electoral
vote from Florida shall not proceed In con:
formIty with the decision Of the Electoral
Commission, but that the votes oi Coii,
Young, Hilton and Bullock be counted 10 the
votes from the State Of Florida for President
and Vice. President of the United states.
Hale moved an amendment: Ordered, that
the counting ofthc Electoral vJtes from the
State Of Florida shall proceed on conformity
With the decision Of the Electoral Commits
siom. Passed.
Then followed lengthy discussion on the
report OF the Electoral Commission, after
which Il was ordered that the Clerk IN
form the Senate Of the action Of the House,
and that the House 10 now ready to meet
The Senate In the hall Of the House.
The Senators having arrived, the presiding
MDeer ssid: The joint meeting Of Congress
r3eumes ito session. The two Houses eepa-
rnt~ly have considered aud determined the
obj ctions submitted by mumbers OF the
H1use to the dccisi0n Of the commisston on
The certificates from the Slate OF Florida.
The clerk u the oeusto will now read the oe.
e,si,m 0f the Senate" The decisiOu q the
ornst~ having been read b. lie clerk, and thai
e th~ House BY its clerk, Ferry said: The
| tvO Houses uos cOucurrinx IN ordering oto.
! Geuiss. The dseiston Of The Commission wiu
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G

Sixty Russian siege guns are expected
at Kalafat to strengthen the batteries
there.
Arabian, which was recently occu-
pied by the Russians, has been recap
tured by Ottoman troops.
The delegates from the Greek prov
inces of Turkey, held a meeting at
Athens, Wednesday night, and passed
resolutions in favor of war.
\ special from Paris says the Turk
ish ironclads are expected to arrive at
Alexandria on the 4th Of June to es-
cort the Egyptian transports.
The Russian Geographic agency re-
ports that, according to the latest news
frem Belgrade. Servia has definitely
resolved to maintain strict neutrality.
y band of Bashi-B azouks crossed the
Danube between Kalerkik and Joloud-
eritza. They captured IA Roumanian
military and cut off the calves of their
legs.
The Catholic church in Wieschen,
Grand Duchy of Perrin, was struck by
lightning Sunday during service. Six
persons were killed and about seventy
seriously injured.
Mukhtar Pasha has been dismissed
from the command of the Turkish
army, and will be court-martialed for
representing that he had equipped an
army of 66,000 men, whereas he had
but 10000 at his disposal.
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A Valuable Editorial, Position.

In answer to many inquiries we would
state that we have no vacancy at pres
ent in our office, but n prospective one;
the young man who has charge of the
reception calender department, and
receives the propositions to adver-
tise washing machines, pumpkin seeds,
cabinet organs, plants, patent medi-
cines, sewing machines, lawn mowers.
blueing, bee-hives, medicated apple
sauce, &C.. one-quarter payable in adj
vertising and the other in cash, who
has occupied the position for three
months, has acquired n fortune, and
will soon retire. The position, owing
to favorable contracts made with the
junk dealers of the country, to take at
one cen per pound the above circular
material, including also the circulars of
newly established advertising agencies,
inquiring rates and circulation, and the
fact that the young man is allowed the
whole of these as the salary of his po-
sition, renders it one which for the
rapid attaining of a competency is
without a parallel. Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
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NIGHT REPORT.
WASHINGTON
Hayes and Foreign Ministers.

hayes and foreign MINISTERS.
Washington, May 31.-To two gem
tlemen who called upon him recently,
the President said he had decided to
adopt the .Jeffersonian doctrine of
changing all foreign ministers who had
been in Office four years. In reading
some of Jefferson's works, he said he
found his doctrine set forth at length;
that it met his unhesitating appro-
val, and would now constitute a part
of the policy of his administration.
sNo American citizen sent to serve his
country in a foreign country, should be
longer than four years abroad, and he
ought to be content to return to his
own country at the expiration Of that
term of service" The President said
further that there would he no eXcep-
ton to this rule.
1t seems to be thought that Minister
Plerrepont will not be disturbed for the
present, he having been minister only
one year, In April, Geo. L. Seward,
minister to China, was suspended from
office. So was also Consul General
Myers, at Shanghai. While no official
action has yet been taken, it is under
stood that Minister Seward will be
retained and that Myers will I've re-
moved from office.
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wharf, bridge and all the dwellings
were swept away in an instant. and are

wharf, bridge and all the dwellings
were swept away in an instant, and are
now a mass of ruins, far inland. Five
live We're lost, and quite q number
were bruised and had limbs broken.
A woman was found by the boats off
Hoolii. 81
The boats of the American whale
ship Pacific, Capt. Smithers, lying in
the harbor, picked up six people who
were swimming for their lives in the
bay. The Pacific was lying in four
fathoms of water, but she grounded
when the sea receded and then was
whirled round and round as the sea
came in again. All expected to see her
drag ashore.
The sea continued to rise and fall all
day. L timed one of the tides in the
morning about Z O'Clock, and, from its
lowest ebb to its full flood, it was only
about four minutes. 1t rose about IA
feet perpendicular height in that time.
In the afternoon, in the space of one
hour and a half, the sea rose and fell
three times, with q height above half
tide of Z, 10i and 3 feet each time.
The wave at Waiaka must have had
n perpendicular height of 16 feet to
have taken off the bridge and wharf
where they now lie. The water swept
completely yer Cocoanut Island, and
the hospital there has disappeared.
Yours in haste, /. SEVERANCE.
Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions.
The volcano of Rilanea has been
unusually active of late. The steamer
arrived here on the End inst. As she
passed down the coast on the following
night, the light of the crater was un-
usually brilliant.
On Friday, at 2:45 in the afternoon,
several pretty sever earthquake shocks
were felt, followed q few minutes later
by a jet of lava thrown up from the
floor of the crater nearest the bank,
through n crack which had evidently
been made by the earthquake. Lava
continued to spout at this place, grad
ually ascending the steep bluffs to its
summit, then moving along the 18TH
mus, connecting the large crater with
the smaller IL of Kilomaiki, down
into the pit of which the lava ran.
This continued for six hours, lava being
thrown in numerous jets along the
line at different heights-at times
reaching IL hundred feet. FIRE.
%quently there would be ut least fifty of
these jets at once. making a magnificent
display.
The locality of this eruption and it's
general characteristics appear to be
identically the same as those of 1882,
1910 and 1868. simultaneously with
this the fires of the old South Lake
were suddenly extinguished, and for
two days following no fires were in
Kilaua.
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London, May 31.-The Times Paris
correspondent says, according to n let
ter from Russia, emanating from a
very trustworthy source, Prince Gorts-
chakoff accompanies the Gar to Ploies-
ii solely to prevent Servia from being
involved in war. Gortschakoff don't
wish to abandon the delicate question
to purely military management.
1t seems probable that Russia will
attempt the rapid seizure of Rustchuk,
and there propose peace after a signal
victory. Gortschakoff of course wishes
to be at the Emperors side, should this
occur, for if Russia accepts peace on
the basis of tn. reform proposed by the
conference, she will wish to act in n
thoroughly formal ann by placing
the peace reforms under the protection
of the protocol.
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NEW YORK.
Another Church Panic.

New York, May 31.-A panic took
place in the Roman Catholic Church of
Stanton county this morning. A large
congregation was gathered to witness
the administration of the Holy Com
munion to the Sunday school children.
All of the latter Wore gossanler wells,
one of which took fire from n candle.
A cry of fire was raised, and Il greater
part of the congregation rushed for
the doors, but the efforts of the priests
and ushers who kept the doors closed
prevented q terrible calamity, and the
fire having been extinguished, and the
congregation treasured, the services
proceeded without further interruption.
Some parties received severe bruises
during the stampede.
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THAT TIDAL WAVE
Takes in the Islands of the Pac

Takes in the Islands of the Pacific.
San Francisco, May 3l.-By the az
rival of the City of Sydney, we have an
account from the Honolulu Advertiser
of the great tidal wave of May 10th.
1t appears to have occurred simulta-
neoIsly all over the group ut kahauli.
On the island Maui the first unusual
susidence Of the sea was noticed about
5:45 a. m. An observer in this town
who was near the harbor and saw the
exposed reefs. places the occurrence
at exactly the same time. j. j. Porter,
of Hilo Hawaii, fixes the movement of
the wave which overwhelmed the vii
lage of Waiakea at precisely the same
time, and the statement of Capt.
Smithers, OF the whaling bark Pacific,
which was lying at the time in Hilo
bay, c~orroborates this. The difference
between tile highest and lowest water
mark at vorious localities we ascertain
to be as follows: Hilo. on the east side
of Hawaii, SO feet; Kalakahua bay,
west side of Hawaii, 80 feet; HAWAII
hal, west side of Hawaii, 3 feet; Ka-
hualui, north side of Maui, % feet;
Lahoa, south side of Maui, % feet; Lo-
haua, south side of Maui, II feet;
Honolulu, south side of Oahu, 4 feet 10
inches; Nawiliwili, southeast side of
Kauai, 3 feet. In some cases the diff
ference in heightsmay be accounted for
by the Irregularities of the coast and
the outlying reefs.
The following is an account of the
disaster ut Hilo from an eyewitness:
HLo, May II.
To w. o. Parke. Esq:
DEAR Strive had n great disaster
at Hilo Thursday morning, the 10th
inst. About 4 Il. IN. the sea in the bay
was seen to rise and fall in an unusual
manner. and at . O'Clock it swept in a
mighty wave, washing into nearly all
the stores in front of the town, carry
ing off Il great deal of lumber and all
| the stone wall of the wharf.
The perpendicular height of the wave
has since been a~scertained, by leveling,
to be II feet above low water mark at
| Waikeai. The damage was frightful;
every house within one hundred yards
of the water was swept away. The
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TICKS.

-
Sixty treasury clerks were removed
Thursday.
a Montreal special says the losses by
the fire Wednesday will reach half a
million dollars.
The American Missionary society
commenced its annual session yester-
day at Boston.
Ex-Governor Yarmouth was mar
ried at Newark, Wednesday, to Miss
Sallie Durand.
Gen. Butler is preparing what he
claims will be a crushing reply to
Wayne McVeagh's denial of his state
ments.
Rumors are in circulation in Havana
of peace arrangements between the
Spaniards and Insurgents, but cannot
be credited.
1t is positively stated that Gen. Com
ly, of the Ohio State journal, has ac-
cepted the ministership to the Sand
witch Islands.
At Portland, Me-. the house of AL
exander Snyder was destroyed by fire
Wednesday night. Two children were
burned to death.
The steam propeller Hammill burned,
Tuesday night, on the Sound, off the
mouth of Connecticut river. Five men
on board were saved.
Horace F. Smith, general freight
agent of the Louisville & Nashville
railway, was drowned in the river OPP
posite Memphis, Wednesday.
Mons. v. Alvergnot, an instructor
of French in the Hartford school, who
was bitten by a dog on April Both, died
Thursday morning, of hydrophobia.
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Two gentlemen recently interviewed

Two gentlemen recently interviewed
the President upon the JeferSonian
doctrine Of changing all toreign ministers
pho hare been in office -four gears. Re-
publicans should be cautious in ac-
cepting the news contained in this
telegram, under the caption of Hayes
and Foreign Minister'S" 1t is sus-
piciously unlike Mr.. Hayes to say any
thing upon the subject whatever. The
eat in this particular bag that is about
to jump, seems to have something to
do with Minister Pierrepont, who, it
seems, Twill not be Gi:turbed for the
present, he having been minister but
Il year" We have read the inter-
views of "reliable correspondence and
"reliable gentlemen before, and now
two gentlemen-names not given
have called upon the President, and
said, etc.
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News from the Capital.

Washington, May 3l.-The President
has not yet been informed whether Gen.
Comfy will accept the Hawaii mission.
All representations on the subject of
the Chisholm massacre, have been re-
ferred to Attorney General Devens,
who will examine tho laws, for the pur-
pose of ~ascertaining whether there is
any authority for federal courts to in
terferc. The Secretary of State has
taken part in the investigation only
from the fact that the British authOri-
ties complain that n of the parties
murdered was a British subject.
The appointments to fill the Austrian
and Brazilian mission have been agreed
upon, but it is not yet known whether
the persons designated will accept, and
therefore their names are withheld.
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THE Moniteur publishes all article
repeating its recent declaration, that
President MacMahon would not resign.
The article concludes as follows: lin
one case only could Marshal MacMahon
be led to entertain an idea of r~esigning,
viz: If he found himself opposed by
both chambers, but as regards the Sen.
ate, this is a hypothesis which will not
be discussed at. present"
1t will be seen by this that the Mar
shall will in any event entertain only
the idea Of resigning. MacMahon will
resign at the head Of his army in the
event Of an emute, and not then until
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Terrible Loss of Sheep in California.

1t is estimated that from one-half to
two-thirds of the sheep in the State
have persisted from starvation. The
loss of cattle is not so large, rs they
were taken into the mountains in time.
DR. Swain, of jacksonville, started for
the mountains from Fresno on the 21st,
with over 5000 sheep, and the ~lifelesS
~carcaSSes of over $500 of them now
mark the route taken. The doctor says
that unclaimed dead and dying sheep
cover the plains, and hundreds of sheep
and lambs fall into line behind the
wagon of the traveller and follow, in
the hope of getting Il morsel of hay.
One man from the San joaquin valley
lost every sheep he had-1l, 000-in II
storm, and went home n penniless man.
Another, an Italian, thought he could
save the cost of ferrying his sheep
across the Tuolumne river by swim
ming them, and 500 We're drowned in
the attempt. Another man, EAST of
Visalia, despairing of ever getting his
sheep to where there was feed, turned
1000 out to starve. If he undertook
to drive them to the mountains, many
of them must die of starvation before
reaching there, because there is no feed
on the way, and then when the noun
tains are reached, all the good feed is
already taken up by men who hold pos
session, shotgun in hand, and who are
desperate enough 10 fight to the death.
There will probably be a good many
cases of bloodshed and death in the
mountains this summer, and many stock
men will m~ysteriously disappear to re-
turn no more. Jacksonville (Cal. Tran
script.
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CAPT. SAMUELs, of the clipper ship
D~readnought notoriety, who made a
reputation for making the quickest
passages on record across the Western
ocean, is in Russia, negotiating with
the naval authorities of that power,
who are DESTROYS of purchasing the
Stevens battery. BY all manner of
mean sell the battery to Russia, if you
can, Captain. Mr.. Stevens built it as
q present for Il government, and it
would not accept the elephant. 1t cost
its original owner hundreds of thou
sands of dollars, but as he was rich, he
could afford the expense. 1t has cost
his heirs as much more to keep this
curiosity i'll their yard at Ioboken.
and it would be a source of relief to
hear of this monster off at last to
Europe. Honestly speaking, however,
we would not care to ship on board of
her for the trip. 1t would be tempting
Providence to go to sea in such a pom
derous and unwieldy affair. But sell
her, captain, if you can and get it out
of the way.