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The Berlin Discussion.

According to the Berlin correspond
ents, who catch the chit-chat about the
doings of the dignitaries in the Radzi-
will Palace, there does not appear the
slightest probability that Beaconsfield
intends to adhere to his former policy of
propping up the Porte To be sure he
told Bismarck that he did not come to
Berlin to yield; but he has already yield
ed, in very pronounced manner, to the
Eastern situation thrust upon Europe by
Russia. The abandonment of the policy
of non-interference in Turkish affairs is
the distinguishing feature of Beacons-
fields present policy, and the disposition
of the territory which lay at the mercy
of the Car after the war, shows that
what England declined to do in 1875,
when Andrassy proposed an European
Commission to regulate the Porte's
provinces, and what she declined to do,
after the Constantinople Conference (of
which she was a member) proposed the
occupation of the territory of the Sui
tans feudatories by mixed European
troops to secure justice for the Chris
tians, England now agrees to, besides
reducing the Sultan's suzerainty to a
mere name =, ~ Trrt-f..i,--p-, ~
Russian influence will extend to the
Balkans Turkish influence south of the
Balkansis to be superseded by European
influence. The Sultan looking, out of
the windows of the Yordiz Kiosk at Con-
stantinople beneath him :; the Sea of
Marmora and the Asiatic hills stretching
away to the south and east; the plains of
'Thrace on the west the forest of Bel
grade, the silyery threading of the Bos-
phorus and the shadows of the mountains
overhanging the Black Sea on the north,
with this grand panorama before him,
Abdul Hamid can only reflect how it is
all slipping from the Ottoman grasp,
and how the power which NEST persist
emily backed Turkish territorial integri-
ty in the past is now among the fore
most to declare, by word and act, that
the Moslem game in Europe is played.
That is the aspect of the case as far as
can be gathered from Berlin briefs.
Russia ought to be satisfied with the
Bulgarian boundary at the Balkans.
That Epirus, Thessaly and Crete, and
the part of Macedonia which is Greek,
will be added to the Kingdom of Greece,
Notwithstanding the Turkish protest, is
reasonably certain. If it is not done
now by the Powers, the Greeks will
walk over and take the territory they
have so long claimed themselves. In
all these southern Turkish provinces
there are Sclavs, but the Greeks pre-
ponderate. They want the national
frontier, which was denied them in 1882
by the Powers. To have a national
frontier they must make their northern
boundary as high up as Philippopolis.
1t is to get a national boundary that
| Greece demanded voice at the Berlin
Congress. 1t will be the quintessence
of meanness if the Powers obstruct her.
Huntsville COarier-,JOuTn1L.
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Illinois Republican Platform.

The delegates and representatives OF the
Republican party of the State OF Illinois In
convention assembled do hereby declare:
l. Our unfaltering faith in the principles
and patriotism of the Republican party,
state and national, and in Its permanent Mt
ness and ability over all other parties to ad-
minister the government of both State ana
nation wisely and successfully.
9. That the Democratic party, being largely
composed of recent rebels and their sympa-
i thizers, can not be safely intrusted with the
administration of the affairs of Government;
that the partial success of that party IN Con-
gress, as well as in several OF the states, only
shows its grossly partisan character and gen
eral incapacity, and lack of honor and patr1-
otism.
3. For the financial system created by the
Republican party during the war, and In
spite of the violent opposition OF the Demo
cratic party, we express our unquallneu al
miration BY its provisions the people nave
been supplied with larger amount OF paper
currency, safer and more uniform In value,
than they have ever before enloyeui tne
credit of the nation has steadily improves,
while both the principal and interest OF the
public debt, as well as the burdens OF natlon-
al taxation, have been steadily diminished
Such results can only be produced by non
esty, economy and wisdom IN tne manage
ment of financial affairs.
T. We are also opposed to any further con-
traction of the greenback currency, ana are
in favor of such currency as can be mann
tanned at par with, and convertible into, coin
at the Will of the holder; we are IN FAVOR Oh
such currency being received for import uu
ties and we deprecate the defeat of the re-
cent bill for that purpose by the Democratic
House OF Representatives. .,
5. The permanent pacificaton OF the SOUTH
ern section of the Union, and the .complete
protection OF all its citizens in all their civil,
political, personal and property rights, Is q
| duty 30 which the party stands sacreoly
I pledged In order to redeem TINS pleuge ~
placed the recent amendments in the Constl-
tuition of the United States, and upon the
righteous basis of said amendments 1t Will
go forward in the work OF pacifcatlon until
ontentlnentthrough justice. = - -
G. That the criminal code should be amend
ed for the protection of depositors In savings
/ banks, by providing for the punishment OF
dishonest bank managers.
T. Finally, be it resolved, We believe that
those who preserved the country should
govern It, instead of those who attempted 10
destroy it. $3.50
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A London Trick.

An umbrella trick has been intro
duced by London thieves. The operator
enters jewelers. store with an umbrella
in his hand, having pulled down the silk
covering, without securely fastening it,
so that its folds hang around the handle
and form an open-mouthed net. Into
the bag thus opened it is not difficult to
Jerk ring or two, or even a larger ar
ticle, which will fall into it without the
slightest sound If the shopman misses
the treasure thus distracted, he will run
after his customer, and, as matter of
course, the other will protest innocence.
A search will ensue, at the end of which
the owner of the umbrella will be struck
by bright thought, and will himself
bring to light the desired object, apol-
ogizing in the blandest way, and max
ing merry over joke which has so
nearly, as he says, assumed serious
character.
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Has an Ear for Musie.

Mr.. Booth, of this family journal, is
slightly deaf While in California
recently he took trip on the Sacrament
to River on the steamboat Whipple-
This boat is provided with ''calliope''
"a sort of steam hand-organ-which
grinds out yankee Doodle" "Rise up
Young William Riley, land other popu
lar operas. On his return to Austin he
told us all about the calliope, and said
it gave forth the sweetest music he ever
listened to-. ss:I don't like the clashing,
noisy music of piano, and fiddle, and
trombone, and bass drum, and flute, and
eornet, and fageolet, and hand-organ,
and ACCORDION, and jews harp, and
harmonica," he remarkde, "because
can, not very plainly distinguish the
allegro from the staccsto; but the low,
soft, sweet notes of that steam thing
playing Yankee Doodle stole in on my
soul like the subdued footing of the
Manhattan mill-whistle playing the
Dead March in Saul. Austin Nee J
ReuetIIe.
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school and Church.

/ The Dakota Presbytery has 800 In.
dian communicates. 1i- ''''i
9 -Rev. Dr.. Newman estimates that the
Chinese spend S158, 000,0 900 in the wor-
ship of ancestors.
The subject of endless punishment
is attracting attention in the Episcopal
Church in Ireland.
The English New Testament Com
pany have reached the seventh chapter
of Hebrews.
Mrs. r. G. Saunders is one of the
assistants in the Harvard College Uni
versity. She reduces observations made
with the meridian circle.
There have been only three ecclesi-
astical trials of Bishops in the Protest
ant Episcopal Church in the United
States since 1887, and only one involv-
ing criminal immoral conduct.
The New England Methodist Con-
ference, lately in session at Westfield,
Mass, passed unanimous vote ''dis-
couraging" the holding of more than
three regular services in any church on
the Sabbath namely, sermon, BIZ
BILE service or Sabbath-school, and a
prayer-meeting.
AN institution for colored students,
to be known as "Clark University, is
shortly to be built near Atlanta. 1t will
not be sectarian, and it will offer poor
students work which viii help them to
pay their college expenses. 1t will be
in part an agricultural school.
The Regents of the State University
of Iowa have elected Miss Phoebe w.
Sudlow, present Superintendent of the
Davenport City Schools, Professor OF
English literature, with salary of ST.
ZOO year. Sheis said to be thorough
" competent, and in justice to her sex,
if not in obedience to her own wishes,
should accept the honor without hesita-
ton.
The University of London having
obtained its charter for admitting wom-
en- to degrees, University College at
once takes the step for which it has been
steadily preparing during the last ten
years, and next October classes in all
subjects of instruction within the Facul-
ties of Arts and Laws and of Science
will be open to both male and female
students, who will be taught in some
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According to Liebig there ought to
be IA O and to Reichardt 1871 per cent.
of solids in good milk.
"A Vermonter has put floating
saw-mill on Lake Champlain, and does
a good business at his stopping-places
on the coast.
-Three-fourths of the licorice manu-
featured in the United States is said to
be prepared in New Jersey. Spain and
Asia Minor furnish the root.
"A new mineral, to which the name
rhabdophane is given, has been discov-
cred among some specimens of English
blende. 1t contains no zinc or sulphur.
Prairie du Chen, Wis, is proud OF
its magnificent artesian well, $50 feet
deep and flowing 100000 gallons a
day, from which the city receives its
water supply.
Herr Ferdinand Noll, of Brandon
burg, has invented and presented to the
International Postal Congress, now sit
ting at Paris, a clock which runs on the
decimal system, with 20 hours in day,
100 minutes in an hour, and so seconds
in a minute.
"A large portion of the area of the
Bahama Islands is devoted to the cult
walton of pineapples. As many as l.
100000 of the fruit have been collected
from single acre at one crop. The
pineapples of New Providence are supe-
rior to any other variety, and often at
tain an enormous size.
The experiments with the new
modes of using the electric light have
not proved altogether satisfactory.
Many encouraging trials have been
made in France, but the recent attempt
to light up the space in front of the
Bank of England, London, was a fail
ure, and there have as yet been no mark
ed successes in this country.
Among the many devices for the
utilization of sewage, that of convert
ing it into cement is not the least Curl
Gus, and it has actually been put into
practice at Burnley, in England. The
town sewage runs into settling tanks,
being mixed on the way with cline
cream" After settling the sludge is
dried, and finally packed in kilns and
burned, no other fuel being necessary
than lust sufficient coal and shavings to
set it alight. l"Cement clinkers" are
the result; and these ground into coarse
powder make the cement, which is sala-
Bile as Portland or other hydraulic ce-
ment. Either Portland or Roman ce-
iment, or,agricultural lime, is produced,
according to the quantity, of lime en-
ployed.
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CURRENT NEWS.
wAsHINGroN.

The President has directed the Secretary
Of she Interior 70 request the late Hot
Springs Commissioners TO continue their
work in accordance with the provisions Of
the bin passed, but not properly enrolled,
trusting that Congress at its next session viii
confirm their acts and vote the necessary APP
preparation TO pay the expenses of the
Commission.
A Washington special states that the Pres
ident, after consultation with the Cabinet,
has decided 10 make use Of only such por-
tions OF the appropriations made by Con-
gress in the River and Harbor bill and the
sundry Civil bill, as the public service and
interests Of commerce actually require.
Work on public buildings in course Of erec-
ton will be proceeded with, however, and
the improvement Of some Of the rivers and
harbors will continue. The reduced reve-
nues Of the Government, it is claimed, make
this course necessary.
A number of affidavits have been filed in
the Treasury Department, charging Collect
OF Thomas and other Custom-house officers
at Baltimore with setting at defiance Execu-
tive Order Mol by particfpatingin and man
ipulating Republican Primary Convention
in Baltimore last week The Treasury De-
partment viii investigate the charges. In
consequence ofthe interference of the Gus
tomb officers, a ticket issued by them
with the likeness Of Gen. Grant at its head
was successful. There is a division in the
party in consequence, and two Republican
tickets willTberun.
The American members Of the Silver Con-
gress have been summoned TO Washington
to receive their Instructions. 1t is under
stood that the Congress viii meet in Paris
on the 18th Of July.fllH7
Justice Miller of the United States Su-
preme Court has recently UNDERGONE pain.
full and dangerous surgical Operation known
aslithotomy. 1t was performed By DR.. Smith
OF Baltimore, and is believed TO have been
entirely successful, d, +... =, s-.-.. ..,.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Herman Linde, the Shakspearean
reader, viii play Othell, and other
characters next season unier the man
agement of Mr.. Strakosch.
james K. Randall, who wrote "Ma-
ryland, my Maryland, is now SO years
old, and editor of the Augusta (Ga.)
Chronicle and CoflStit1tioTsGltst. He
was q Captain in the Confederate army
during the war.
MIR. George Nicholson and Mrs. E.
j. Holbrook, proprietors of the New
Orleans PicayUne, wers recently mar
ried. The lady is well known in litera-
ry circles under the nom de plume of
Pearl Rivers.
old Mr.. Lowell, the author of some
of the most successful plays of so years
ago, is dead. He wrote Wife's Sc
cret" for Charles Kean, "L Look Before
you Leapn for Ben Webster, f" Loves
Sacrifice" for Charles Kemble, and
''The Provost of Burgess for Macready.
He died at the ripe old age of "a.
Gen. James Grant Wilson, at whose
residence the poet Bryant happened to
have his fatal fall, is about to turn the
accident to good account by writing 60 a
biographical memoir" to float new
edition of Mr.. Bryant's Library OF
Poetry and Song" The EUening Post
makes this announcement the text for
some pungent remarks on biographical
peany-a-lining.
The venerable Richard Henry
Dana, now in his 91st year, is the last
survivor of that brotherhood of poets,
Bryant, Dana, Sprague, Pierrepont and
Percival. He enjoys good health, is
able to read without glasses, and his
mental faculties are still vigorous. He
was much saddened by the death of Mr.
Bryant, with whom he has been init
innate for more than half a century.
The author of "Father Tom and
the Pope,'' stout, sporting Irish priest
has been made Sir Samuel Ferguson,
Q. c., Ii. D., Deputy Keeper of the
Irish Records, for poem which ap-
peared in BlGcka0ood, entitled 90 The
Widows Cloak" and expressing Vic.
toria's dominion over India. The au,
thor has been comparatively unknown
to renown before, though he is the
4 best exponent of ancient Irish literature
in English, is q distinguished arch;eolo'
gist, and is withal one of thehkindest
and most genial OF. men. -,..-,;.,, .; -,
IA BRYANT,
Room for out Poet in the immortal choir! 2
| His soul is passing; as the morning breaks
He to the dawn of perfect day awakes =. ~
The Master Bards await him with desire
|. Present his singing robes, his golden Tyre,
And the vast portal with their welcome
quakesi
Now have they crowned him-he their 10!
partalzesl
Kindled to new life by seraphic fire.
The day is breaking over sea and land;
The sun may shine forth, but a light NOR
grand
That heightened, and yet softened Nature
face
Has disappeared: in shadow now we stand
Bereaved, while gazing upward to the plac
That presence late illumed, its path to trace
Elizabeth C. Kinney, in ". T. Tribune
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A Bird-Eating Trout.

A correspondent of Land and Water
tells a well-eredited story of a trouteaught
in the act of swallowing a sparrow which
it had seized. The trout had been. kept
for some time in an open shallow well
or spring, and had become very tame.
In the well was fiat stone, one end of
which projected above the water. On
this small birds would alight to- drink,
and the villagers suspected that more
than one of them bad fallen victim to
the trout's rapacity. This surmise prov
ed to be correct, for one day, while the
owner of the well was passing with
some friends, splashing in the water
caused them to turn and look. There
was the trout struggling hard to gulp
his prey. One of the spectators, fear
ing that the fish would be choked by the
wing feathers, thrust his hand into the
water and caught hold of them. But the
trout, unwilling to surrender any part
of his prize, held on resolutely, and the
feathers had to be taken from him by
force o. ffH D
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What is really needed is tive-cent
cigar that will consume its own smoke
-Cosrter-Joa4rsGJ. sniz o,s'ag ss,if 81
-"Age and wedlock bring man to
his night-cap," remarked the philoso-
pher when his wife inquired why he
chewed cardamom seedsSi bed.-Ou
City Derrick.
"A reduction has been made by land
lords in Paris. Two wooden toothpicks
are now sold for three francs and the
price of board is now only advanced on
newcomers once in "a hours. - Boston
COMMERCIAL RuIIstin. fI 80, Ear
Wisconsin, has three legged baby
"a natural result, we take it, of the re-
cent Indian scare in that State. In these
emergencies, particularly in view of the
limited power and number of the army,
three legs are not too many.-Bufdlo
Express. -9tet ef 4
An English medical authority says
that the persons who blow the big horn
in band rarely live beyond period of
three years. The same may be said of
persons who swallow big horns in q
whisky saloon. Even the Big Horn
country and the horns of bull are dan
gerous. Avoid all s'horns'-even those
OF a dilemma.-New York Star.
There is on either side of the equator
zone of perpetual flies. Farther north
is the zone of migratory flies, while still
farther north is the happy region where
flies are unknown. 1t is in contem-
plating the distribution of flies that we
perceive why the Esquimaux cling to
their frozen homes. Superficial per-
sons have often asked why don't the
Esauimaux leave the Arctic regions and
come south to comfortable climate?-
N. Y. Times.
-Adolphus Augustus, while calling
on Amelia Alice, commonly called
sssissy,'' ran his hands through his hair,
pulled down his vest, and asked, "Why
didn't William Cullen Bryant invent
any thing better than Thanatopsis?"
and when she gave it up and he replied
s. Because there is nothing which
demonstrates the poetry of motion more
Thanatopsis, - she declared she wound
have nothing more TO do with such a
bold, bad man, and broke Oft the en-
gagement. -Keokuk Consultation.
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FOREIGN.

The Berlin Peace Congress have agreed
upon the boundaries of Bulgaria as follows
The frontier Of Northern Bulgaria to be
fixed at the Balkans. The Turks are to
have the right of terrifying the Balkan passr
es and to garrison the fortified places.
Sophia and Varna are to be included in Bull
garia. The Turks are to retain Burgas.
The northern frontier of Montenegro and
the boundaries of Servia are TO be restricted,
those countries TO receive compensation on
the south. The new province south of the
Balkans is to be named Eastern Roumelia.
withdraw her troops fyOm Eastern Roumelia
and Bulgaria.
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Mrs. Simeon II. Smith, of Jersey
City, is lady of distinguished scientific
attainments. She has a cabinet, col
lected by herself, of shells, fossils, ores
and gems, which is worth $4,000. She
spent two years in the School of Mines,
Freiberg, Saxony, and has been down
into the depths of many of the mines of
Europe. She writes valuable papers on
science, is an accomplished linguist and
is now translating scientific work
from the French. She is a member of
the American Association for the Adj
vancement of Science and was the first
woman to be made member of the
New York Academy of Sciences,
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The Ioui.lana Sub. committee.

The sub committee Of the Potter Commit
tee met In Parlor P, St. Charles Hotel, New Or
leans on the 18th. Ex-Gov. Packard made a
of the election, the canvassing of the
votes, and his own contest with
Nichols for the Governorship. He
holds that his own title was as
good as that of President Hayes and that
had he been recognized by the President he
could have maintained his position even
without the use of Federal. troops. He was
under the impression at the time that the
Harlan McVeagh Commission were inimical
to his interests, and used their influence "a
break up the Packard Legislature, but had
no knowledge of any improper methods be-
fnu used.
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mendation- Secretary sherman's letter
ton of alarge number OF witnesses TO prove
the existence of an organized system of IN
limitation in the Feliciana parishes, and the
reply of the Committee thereto, denying the.
request on the ground that the profered evil
dence had already been taken in whole or in
part by seven different Congressional Com
mitfees, and was now matter of official re-
cord, were made public.
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Thanks to the editors that has
spoken in favor of my writings; may
they ever be successful in all their un-
dertakings. The editors that has spok
en- in a scandalous manner have went
beyond reason. -7'hs Sweet Singer of
MichiOan
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"A West Virginia law enacts that if
any person shall be concerned in man
aging a rattle or gift enterprise at a
church fair or festival, he may be i'm
prisoned one year and fined $500, and
the property be forfeited to the State for
the benefit of the School Fund.
-Gauze and effect-a thin undershirt
and cold Wheeling Leader.