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Kite-fiying in Japan.

Of all the sports at which the boys in
Japan amuse themselves, kite-fying
seems to afford the most fun and enjoy
ment. Japanese kites are not plain
coffin-shaped bits of tissue paper, such
as American boys fly. They are made of
tough paper, stretched on light frames
of bamboo, and of all shapes
oblong, or oval. They are also made
to initiate animals. | have often, in my
walks in Japan, seen n whole paper
menagerie in the air. There were cry
ing babies, boys with arms spread out,
horses, fish, bats, hawks, crows, mon
keys, snakes, dragons, bottles, ships,
carts, and houses. Across and behind
the top of the kite thin strip of whale
bone is stretched, which huns, buzzes,
or sings in the air, like a hurdy-gurdy
or u swarm of beetles. When the boys
of a whole city are out in kite-time,
there is more music in the air than is
delightful. The real hawks and crows,
and other birds, give these buzzing
cOunterfeits of themselves a wide berth.
In my walks l often was deceived when
looking up, unable to tell at first wheth-
er the moving black spot in the air was
paper or real living creature, with beak,
claws, and feathers.
The Japanese boys understand well
how to send messengers to the top of
the kite, and how to entangle each 9th
er's kites. When they wish to, they can
cut their rivals string and send the
proud prize fluttering to the ground.
To do this they take about ten feet of the
string near the end, dip it in glue and
then into bits of powdered glass, making
a multitude of tiny blades as sharp as
razor, and looking, when magnifed, like
the top of q wall in which broken bottles
have been set to keep off climbers
When two parties of boys agree to have
a paper war near the clouds, they raise
their kites and then attempt to cross the
strings. The most skillful boy saws off
with his glass saw the cord OF his antag-
onist.
The usual size of kite in Japan is
two feet square, but often four feet; and
l have seen many that were six feet high. |
OF course such a kite needs very heavy
cord, which is carried in basket, or on
a big stick. They require man or a
very strong boy to raise them, and woe
betide the small urchin who attempts to
hold one in stiff breezet The hum
ming monster in the air will drag him I
of his feet, pull him over the street, or
into the ditch before he knows it. Tie |
such Kite to dogs tail, and no Jap 7
anese canine could ever turn around to
bite the string. If the Government al
lowed it, boys and young men would
make kites as large as an elephant
IraUels IN Japan.
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The Mazarine Bible.

b At meeting of the Connecticut HIS
torical Society in Hartford, the chief in
terest gathered about the exhibition of
one of the rarest and most valuable
books in the world DIR. Trumbull
brought out the Mazarine Bible, belong
inc to the collection of the late George
Brinley. This is one of the only two
copies in America, and there are only
six in the world. 1t was printed in 1855.
Two years ago two copies were sold at
auction in London in the same sale, and
one printed upon paper brought S14,-
600, gold; the other, on vellum, brought
$4,000, gold. Usually vellum copy
of any work brings four or five times as
much as a paper one; but the history Of
the Mazarine Bible raises the value of
the paper copies Relatively to those on
vellum. Gutenberg printed the first
copies in 1855, and those were on paper;
in 1856 Faust got possession of the
types, and his edition was partly on
vellum. These consequently, are not so
completely " original
The Brinley copy is on paper-one Of
the genuine Gutenberg prints, and is a
marvel of the printers work. Its equal
could not be made to-day. The ink,
though four hundred years old and
more, is as distinct as ink could be, and
the paper is still white and clear. The
register" is perfect, and the ap-
pearance of the page far surpasses that
of the best modern books. The work
is printed in Latin, with number of
curious contract symbols in the text,
used to space the lines evenly. Three
different ways of the letter" S"-broad,
moderate width, and narrow-are ex-
amples of the care taken in such re-
spect. This volume was probably bound
about hundred years after printing,
and must have been hidden away for
centuries in some monastery. The
Mazerine Bible was the first book print
ed with movable type:-Haryord
COurant.
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GEORGE H. BOXER, United States

GEORGE H. BOXER, United States
Minister to Russia, says in an interview:
Germany to-day is one vast camp. She
is stronger than ever before, and better
fitted for war. But this has been ac-
complished at the cost of prosperity.
The army is therefore an object, and
that object is to so thoroughly crush
France that all the idea of revenge by
lie Grand Nation viii be thoroughly
out of the question for a generation
or two. Germany could not
carry out this plan had Russia
been at peace, for the Emperor Alex
ander, when the subject was preached
to him, would not hear of it, and it is
fact that but for his firmness and deciS-
ion the Germans would have declared
war long ago. Hence, in order to eff
fectually dispose of Russia, Germany
was obliged to wait until that power be-
came involved with Turkey, and to eff
feet this the German ambassador spared
no pains by urging upon the Russians
the fact that Germany would not inter
fere with any programme the Gar
would undertake to carry out"
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PROF. JOHN GRAEFF BARTON, of the
College Of the City Of New York, committed
suicide at Hamburg, Sussex County, n. j.,
on the 9th. He was a clergyman of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, and had been
instructor Of the College of the City of New
York for n long time. He had been partial
" deranged at times for more than year
past.
THE South Carolina House Commit
tee, appointed TO investigate the charges
against Associate-Justice Wright, have
recommended that he be impeached for
drunkenness and incompetency.
THOMAS p. SoMAfERvILLE, the New
York lawyer tried for completely, in the
Washington safc-b burglary conspiracy, has
sent letter to Col. William A. Cook and
the United States District Attorney, giving
the details of the whole affair. Sommerville
says several who paid all expenses of the
job, and for whose benefit it was planned,
have not suffered as much rs they should;
and, as far a. he is concerned, ne desires TO
unbosOm himself as much as possible. His
statement will be used in the cases yet TO be
tried.
DR.. TAYLOR LEWIS, of Union Col
lege, n. v, died on the 18th, aged 70
WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT, tt1e rail-
way magnate, has gone to Europes'
Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT held recep-
ton in the Union League Hosse st Phila-
delphia on the 18th, -
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The Great Eastern to be a Meat
Ship.

The owners of the Great Eastern are,
it is said, considering the propriety of
converting that magnificent vessel into
a huge refrigerating chamber for the
conveyance of American meat. A re-
cent examination has disclosed the fact
that, like the Great Britain-another of
Brunel's ships-the hull is practically in
as good condition as when first built,
and the directors consider it would be
wise to raise sufficient money to put new
and improved engines and boilers into
the vessel. They have been empowered
to prepare a rough estimate of the cost
of the new machinery and in view OF the
fact that the vessel can even now steam
as fast as any of the Atlantic liners, the
trade in meat, which is being developed
not only with the United States, but
also with Brazil, promises to open a
wide field of usefulness trade in
which the great vessel need never carry
only half load.
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TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

A special from Denison, Texas, 18th,
says: Capt. Lee, commanding the post of
Fort Griffin, Texas, with a party of 40 SOL
diers and 10 Tonkaway Indians, surprised
band of Comanches $50 miles west of the
post of Griffin on the 4th inst, killed four
and captured six squaws, 60 horses, u lodges
and a quantity of supplies. On the 9th, he
captured and burned three lodges and some
supplies. Casualties, one negro sergeant
killed. These Indians had been depredating
on the buffalo hunters, running off their
horses and otherwise harassing them. The
success of this scout will be a wholesome
lesson to marauders.
Congress has declared Gen. Diaz le-
gally elected President of Mexico, and he
has been formally installed. Upon taking
the oath of Office he solemnly declared he
would occupy the Executive chair for one
term only.
San Francisco harbor was visited by
a succession of sharp earthquake waves on
the 9th and 10th insts.
The town of Iquique, Peru, was de-
stroyed by an earthquake on Thursday, May
10.
A Berlin telegram of the 18th says
The Emperor William has received the
French ambassador and commissioned him
to forward a message to President MacMa-
hon expressive of the Emperor's good wishes
for France.
The amount of fresh beef exported
from the United States to Europe during
April was S,641, 461 pounds, valued at $751;
431.
The City Bank of Macon, Ga, has
gone into liquidation.
On the LIST of May Cuba became part
of the international postal union. The Post
office at New Orleans has been made an ex-
change office for all mail matter passing be-
tween the United States and the island.
The new tunnel of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad, at yer-
sey City, n. j., was formally opened on the
18th.
1t is estimated by the Kansas State
Board of Agriculture that there are at the
present time 36,250,0O0 bushels of old corn
still in store in the State.
At Indianapolis, on the Nth, Gotlieb
Meyer quarreled with Fred Borst, a BUTCH
er, about five cents worth of meat for his
dog. Borst attempted to put Meyer out of
his shop, and was shot by the latter, from
the effects of which he died on the following
day.
Col. Valentine Baker has been ap-
pointed Commander-in-Chef of the Turk |
ISL gendarmerie, with power to organize the |
police force throughout the Ottoman Prov |
noes, and to place English officers in posts |
Of direction, superintendent and inspec-
ion. ,a
At Pella, Iowa, on the 18th, VIM. Mar
in, aged 20, while csrelessly handling gun !
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WAR NEWS.

An official Constantinople dispatch of
the 18th says the Russians, having on the
previous day attacked in great force the po-
sition occupied by the vanguard of the Turk
ish auxiliary troops, in the vicinity of Ba-
toum, an engagement ensued lasting eight
and one-half hours, resulting in the COM
plete rout of the Russians, who lost 1000
men. The Turkish loss was considerable.
The news of the Russian defeat at
Batoum was confirmed by special dispatches
of the 14th to the London papers. The fight
lasted over eight hours. The Russian loss
was said to be 1000.
War news of the 18th: A Russian
corps reported to have crossed the Danube
into Drobudscha, near Potback, and an en-
gagement in progress. Another Turkish
victory reported in Asia, the Russians being
driven out of the fortified lawn of Sukum
Kaleh, on the Black Sea, with great loss. A
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collision has occurred in Greece between the
insurgents and the Turks, with what result
not stated. 1t is reported from Pesth that
Roumania mas declared war against Turkey.
The Turkish commanders in Bulgaria have
been instructed to destroy ali towns which
they are compelled to evacuate. The Mir
idites have driven the Turks from Oroschi
after a sanguinary fight, wherein an entire
Turkish battalion was destroyed. 1t is re-
ported that the Miridite Chief will bring
down strong corps to cooperate with the
Montenegrins.
A dispatch from Bucharest, 10th,
gives the following as the Russian plan of
campaign: The army will cross the Danube
at eight points simultaneously, and press
forward toward the Balkans with all posi-
bic rapidity, leaving behind Bulgarian civil
officials charged with the reorganization of
institutions. The Roumanian army VIII re-
main on the defensive within its own terri
tory.
War kilograms of the 18th DENY of
ficialIy that the Russians had crossed the
Danube in any locality. The slowness of the
Russians in advancing to the Danube is ex-
planned by their lack of facilities for trans
portation. They have few army wagons, and
the rolling stock of the railroads is
ridiculously inefficient. The Rus
sian army in Armenia had adj
vanced from Kars towards Erzeroum,
and the Turkish force at the latter city was
to meet it. A pitched battle was expected
at Toprak-K aleh, little town, on the road
from Erzeroum to Bajazid. The Turks APP
pear to have gained signal victory at
Sukum- Kalch, for the Russian garrison
was completely dispersed, and bands OF
Circassians were being organized to raid
the railroad from Poti, on the Black Sea, to
Tifis, in the interior of Georgia.
A dispatch from Erzeroum, 18th, says
an attack of the Russians on Arabian has
been bravely repuised by the Turks. The
| following account of the situation on the
Danube is furnished by correspondent: Al
Galatz the Russians have projected prodigi-
Gus lines of Notifications, behind which
are assembled 80 brigades of infantry, ag-
| gregating 10000 men, 1900 cavalry
and a great mass of artillery facing
| southwestward to OltenitZa. The army
| forms continuous front in Echelon, en-
| bracing a total of 10000 men. To the west
ward of this, at distance of from one tC
| three miles from the Danube, thinner line
| is carried to Widen, on the extreme Rus
| sian right. Re-enforcements were pouring
| in mainly ON the left and center. Rouma-
nian levies were used to mask
Russian movements, and every artifico
adopted to lul the Turks into tho
belief that no formidable movement would
be attempted on the Danube. 1t was OpeI
talk in the Russian camp that the Russian
army of the Caucasus was to advance stead
lily toward the Bosphorus, drawing off thu
Turkish forces in that direction, and leaving
the army of the Danube an easy road through
| the Balkans. -
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THE MARKETS.

ST. LOUIS, May 10, ls77.
BEEvEs-Choice, s.. SOC 5s7H Good to Prime,
S5.25d550; Cows and Heifers, S3.OOG5.O0i Corn
Fed Texans, $3.00G4.75.
housekeeping, Si.50G5.OO.
SHEEP-CommOn to Fancy, S2.5Od6.l2z:
-FLoUR-ChOice Country, SS5OGs.io; AAA'
S7.75aS25.
WHEAT-Red. No. 2. S2Ola2.O7; No. 3, Sl.sl
6I92.
CORN-No. Mixed, sos S50Kc.
OATs-No. 2, 4:IG45c.
T RYE-NO. 2, T01 dc.
TIMOTHY SEED-Prime, Sl.50al.67H.
ToBAcco-Dark Lugs, Si25dS.15; Medium
HaYNChoice Timothy, sl2OOaH50
BUTTER-Choice Dairy, l9G20c-
EssGS-Fresh, 81 a9c.
PORK-Standard Mess, Sli.35al4jO.
WOOL-Tub washed, Choice new, S5a56O;
Unwashed Combing, l962Sc.
T CoTToN-Middling. 101zc.
NEW YORK
n BEEvEs-Native Steers. $500 300
SHEEP-Unshorn. a.75 "a $50; shorn' $'-'o
6400
UoGs-Iive None.
FLOUR4Gcod to Choice, $3.50 $50.
WHEAT-No. Chicago, sl-s4e i-s9. .e.,,>.
CoRN-Western Mixed, Ungraded, 61a6e5sc-
OATs-Western Mixed, 43d65c.
PORK-Bess, Sl490g 100.
CoTToN-SEddling, l05le
CHICAGO.
REEVEs-COmmOn to Choice, S3.ye 9.io-
HoGs-COmmOn TO Choice, $50 9o0
SHEEP-Common to Choice, SI.JoG6.5. =.
FLoUR-Chofce Winter, slo-0aI I-oo' Ciioi0o
WHEAr-spring, No. 9, $685. l64' spring.
No. 8, S150Sl.5l
CORN-No. 2, l3<d5lKc.
OATs-No. 9, 42d42Sc.i
RYE-No. 2, Stds2c.
PORK-Mess, Sl405dl4.lO.
KANSAS CITY.
FLOUR-XX TO Patent, s390d5.25-
COKy MEAL-9Oc6SlOO-
BEEvEs-Native Steers. s55O05.00; Native
Cows, g. 25d4.00. rrr1 II lt
HOGs-s3-50df-55.
WHEAT-NO 3, Sl.79dl-s0-
CoRN-No. 2. 41l4d42l4e.
MEMPHIS.
FLOUR-ChOice, S9-25@9-5O.
CONSUMED, 72615c-
OArs-White, 53d5Sc. II "
corrox-Midding, 101zc.
.-.. NEW ORLEANS.
FLouR-ChOice Family, $1,000 1850.
CORS-White, 61d6}c.
OATs-St. Louis, 49d50c.
HAY-Prime, S15.00al7.oO.
PoRK-Sew Mess, {15.40715.5o.
BAcOH-6x9Szc.
COTToS-1liddIing, l01c.
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CURRENT TOPICS

PROF. RILEY, Chief of the National
chronological Commission, after three
weeks investigation of the grasshopper
problem in Texas and Kansas, saws he
rs satisfied that in those localities where
the eggs have already Matched the young
hoppers have almost entirely disappear
ed and no great damage need be appre-
hended. In a communication to Gov.
Anthony he says:
am the last TO desire that this favorable
report should lull your farmers into an UNI
due sense Of security. The security against
injury will depend altogether on the proper
ton Of eggs which have been Matched.
Thus, in the more sandy belt west of line
roughly drawn through sJunctiOn City
and Florence, not one per cent. Of the eggs
remain unmatched, while east of that line,
where the eggs were laid later and the soil
is mostly colder and more tenacious, from
one-half to three-fourths Of them are yet
unmatched, and with few exceptions sound.
In the former area few fields may suffer,
especially along the river courses, but there
will be no general destruction in the latter.
The injury may yet be great and should be
provided against.
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THERE is no use asking the Sprig-
ginses to subscribe again for any New
York paper. Mrs. Spriggins spoiled ten
yards of calico, week before last, trying
to cut out dress from the pattern pub
lished in one of the big New York dailies
which that paper printed over the
ridiculous label of Z" A Map of the War
in Europe Last week one OF her
neighbors, relying upon the religious
character of the Christian Union, tried
to cut out a chemiloon from its pattern;
but the thing doesn't fit worth a darn,
being too bias in the left limb. After
this if any subscription agent calls in
that neighborhood he win get scalded,
sure, unless he travels for one of the
regular, old reliable fashion papers,
Ercltdnqe. E-. u
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A NOVEL substitute for daily paper
is in vogue at Bardstown, Ky. 1t is the
register of the Ellis House. Sandwiched
between each days arrivals are brief
memoranda of events that transpire.
Every body who knows any thing drops
in and jots down his items. If avagrant
goat eats up widow woman's garden
truck, or any body gets drunk and raises
a row, or gets married or dies, it goes
on the register,
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If every mans internal care
Were written on his brow,
How many who our envy share
Would have our pity now?

THE most utterly heather class in
England are what are known as 90 bar
gees" and their belongings. Being per-
petually on the move along the canals,
it is exceedingly difficult to reach them,
and the religious world is too much Oe-
cupied in the costly and often not alto
gether satisfactory process of convert
ing Jews and South Sea Islanders to be-
stow much thought upon those equally
ignorant of the Christian faith who are
gliding past their doors. Such dreadful
revelations have lately been made rs to
the life of this nomadic population that
it will shortly form the subject of par
liamentary inquiry. One of the ins
spectors of factories says in his last re-
port that the only thorough remedy
would be to forbid any child under ten,
or any female whatever, to be found in
any canal-boat on any canal or river
connected with canal, and that no
bargee shall be permitted to start on a
voyage without a certificate from his
employer testifying that no prohibited
person was on board the boat for any
purnase whatever. -
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THE amount of property destroyed at
Iquique, Peru, by the recent earthquake,
was considerable, including stores,
quays, and about 10000 tons nitrate of
soda, ready for shipment. The harbor
and railway connections were so much
damaged it will require month to re-
pair them. The earthquake extended
along the Peruvian coast and to Bolivia
At Pabellon de Rica number of vessels
were wrecked. No lives are reported
lost
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OK May u and - four steamships
sailed from New York for Europe car
rying nearly 100000 bushels of grain,
about 100000 pounds of fresh beef,
besides large quantities of pork, butter,
cheese, canned goods, etc. 1t is said
that so anxious have the British people
become relative to these shipments of
food, that the mere sighting of a vessel
so loaded at any point along their coast
is made the subject of special kilograms
TO London newspapers.
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THE Secretary of War has notified
disbursing officers that there will be no
funds available for the purchase of sup
plies for the army after July l, until
Congress shall have had time to act up
on an appropriation bill, and all dis
bursements for contracts will, rs the
contracts themselves will state, depend
upon future appropriations.
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In Grass Valley, California, there was,
about the middle of April, a large APP
pie tree in gentleman's garden, the
fruit of which was left ungathered last
autumn. The early spring made it a
beautiful spectacle; a large number of
golden apples adorned it, while the fra
grant pink and white blossoms clustered
around them, and the delicate green
foliage peeped out here and there. From
this same tree, few years ago, excel
lent fruit was gathered and eaten in the
month of April,
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The largest decrease during any one
month was in June, 1870, the decrease
being $40, 2O3, 772.04.
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In the House of Commons, on the
14th, Gladstone's resolutions in refer
ence to the course of the Government
on the Eastern question were rejected
by vote of 354 to 1913, and the amend
ment offered by Henry Wolf, of the
Conservatives, TO the effect that the
House declines to entertain any resolu-
ton which may embarrass the Govern
ment in its maintenance of peace and
the protection of British interests, with
out indicating any alternative line Of
policy, was adopted without discussion.
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A NEW YORK telegram says that invi-
tations to attend the Chamber of Com
merce banquet, at which President
Hayes occupied the seat of honor, were
sent TO ex-Gov. Tiiden, GOV. Robinson,
and other prominent Democrats, all of
whom declined to attend, lest their pres
ence should seem to be an Endorsement
Of the declaration of the election of Mr..
Hayes to the Presidency.
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RUMoRs are current in London that
the Russian Government is being aided
bv Jewish bankers, in consideration of
I'M understanding that, should Palestine
he captured from the Turks, it shall be
placed under control of the Jews.
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A STATEMENT of the reduction of the
national debt, issued by the Treasury
Department, shows that the debt of the
United States, including accrued inter
est thereon, less cash in the Treasury
on the 1st of March, 1869, was 81, $685.
463, 26101. From March l to the end
of the fiscal year, June 80, 1869, the de-
crease was $50, 400, 779.43, and for each
successive fiscal year the decrease was
ne follovrc.
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THE Rev. Joseph Cook inquiries:
..Does death end all?' There may be
exceptions, but it is safe to say that it
ends nine out of every Worcester
Press
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THERE were startling rumors from
London, on the 18th, to the effect that
English participation in the pending war
was considered foregone conclusion.
The Russian ambassador had gone home
to warn the Gar of the impending dan
ger, and couriers follow him in rapid
succession with reports of the situation,
which are too compromising to be in
trusted to the post or to the telegraph.