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FREAKS OF NATURE.
Particulars Of the Recent Tidal Wave at Cal.
iabt. - 81 s4s

A correspondent of the Star and Herald
of Panama, writing January 9Th, says
of the tidal wave at Callao that morning. ::
When the tide receded 1T was noticed that
boats and coasting crafts along the shore
were left high and dry, and when the wave
returned it passed with immense force over
the walls of the Muel1a Dorsena, rushing
up over the fiewl, I. 'nade ground toward
the station of the Oroya Railroad for dis
tance of 300 feet, carrying everything be-
fore it. The launches, numerous little
cane huts built on the esplanade, and many
enclosures around the coal and lumber
yards, etc., were completely destroyed !;
also the massive walls of the .Muella Dor
sena in front Of, the Englis railway sta
tion were torn away, and in the station
train OF freight cars were wrecked, such
was the amount of water entering the sta
tion. The surf was tremendously high
The waters in the bay Of Callao during the
day were SO troubled as to render communi--
cation with vessels almost impossible. For
ten days previously several strong shocks
of earthquake were felt at Lima, but nos
serious damage was done. Iquique and
africa experiend several earthquake shocks
on the nightof January 18Th, causing great
excitemer1t and some. damage, while Haysi
was visited by a heavy. raipstorm, a pbe-
,nomenon unprecedented there *withilf the
memory. of man. The correspondent
writing next day, notes the. drowning Of
five men, two being swept from the iron
bridge connecting. the shore with the
docks. -. - - - n
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Drunkenness II Public Life.
Springfield Republican,

The disgraceful spree in which sundry
Senators of the United States INDUCED in
last Friday night is attracting deserved at
tent;on throughout the country Occasion
ally we note melancholy reference to the
debauch as sign that the morals of public
men are retrograding, and sigh for the
good old days. But this is a very short
sighted and one sided view. : The Incl
dent was certainly aiscouraging enough,
but the way in which the country treats it
marks great advance. A generation ago
drunkeILn ness at night session was expect
ed as natural concomitant, and the antics
OF the guilty Statesmen were not brulted
abroad to bring them into merited disgrace.
But during the exciting scenes of the past
two years at Washington, with their re-
peated night sessions and hotly contested
partisan fights, it has been a most noticea-
BILE and 81 atifying fact that the old-fash-
ioned scenes of drunken disorder were al
most unknown. Friday nights spree, in
deed,ss arouses general surprise, and one
would fain excuse many of the sinners on
the charitable ground that they needed to
get drunk in order to vote as they did.
The fact is that it is becoming unpopular
for public man in this country to be in
habit of getting drunk, and this alone
marks great advance in public sentiment.
Mr. Thurman. of Ohio, for example, has
suffered a general fall in public esteem
within the past week. For the first time
in the history of the country the three
highest officers of the nation decline to
offer intoxicating liquors to their guests,
and they are respected for it, There are
some bummers in Congress who would be
good subjects for Murphy; but, if they
persist in making fools of themselves, they
will have an account to settle with their
constituents. The day has passed when
it is a good electioneering argument for q
man in this country to say that he gets
drunk. aa7 si& s ESQ
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Cost af the Sioux War.

In compliance with resolution of the
Senate of December z, 1877, the President
has transmitted to that body reports of the
General of the Army, the Quartermaster
General, Commissary- General of Subsist-
enee, and the Chief of Ordnance, showing
the cost of the late war with the Sioux
Indians and the casualties in the army dur
ing the same. The General
reports that from General Terry, command
ing the Department of Dakota, it is learned
that the cost of the war in that Departments
was 992, sos, of which .$846, I79 pertains to
the Quartermaster's Department. General
Crook estimates the cost of the war in the
Department of che Platte, at 81, 31s, ,T20, of
which sum the 4eneraps 9 de-
pan tment is charged with 81, ,048.1S2. The
thief of Ordnance reports that the value of
ordnance stores lost on the battlefield,
abandoned and destroyed for want of trans
portations DC, amoanted TO 81, 466. 90.
The Commissary- General of Subsistence
reports that the value of stores lost was
$17, 4S6.12, and the excess of the cost OF
stores purchased in the Black Hills over
the cost of the same stores if supplied
from the depots was SO, 311. .S6; total, $23, :
T95.28. ~aE as ss .As RE @
The Adjutant-G General reports sixteen
commissioned officers and 267. men killed,
and two commissioned officers and f23 en-
listed men wounded. Total, killed and
wounded, 408. 81
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Gen. Harney.s. Feot4Raoe
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ST. Louis Globe-DpmoCrat

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General William S. Harney, Of this city,
when a young man, had the reputation of
being the swiftest runner in the army, as
well as the best Indian fighter. He was a
strict @disciplinarian, hut not one of the
~"stnck up kind 80 common nowadays.
He would often mingle with bis men. W hen
not ON duty, and laugh and Joke with them,
ON terms of familiarity, and went so. far as
to compete with them in the exciting sport
of foot-raelng. An impression prevailed at
one time that almost any Indian could out
run white man but General Harney be-
l!eved he could beat any red rascal that
wore inoeeasius, and, whenever he. met a
warrior who boasted of his heetness of foot:
he would challenge him to a race and al
ways came cut ahead Only once did he
fail to reach the winning post before his
adversary, aud that was BY q foul. The
affair occurred at Fort Winnebago in the
winter of 1880, when Fox river was frozen
ever and the weather was very cold. An
Indian had cemmit4ed same breach of the
rules of the garrisons for which Harney.
then captain, concluded to. administer
fogging. He always believed ia giving
every man sfair shake" white or red,
and on this occasion he conducted Mr.. Lo
some distance up the river, and, giving him
100 yards the start, told him if he reached
certain point without being overtaken he
would escape the fogging. The race was
on the ice, which, at some places was thin-
ner than others, on acceunt efthe forma-
tion, of air-holes. Both men wore mocea-
sins, and both were stripped and belted for
the race, Harney swinging cowhide In
his hand, with which confidently ex-
pected to accelerate the movements of the
gWiRnebagO on overtaking him. At. the
word go both started at full speed, the
Indian doing his Best to save his hide, ane
the white man anxious to preserve his rep
utation az q runner. Harvey gained rap
idly on the warrior, and was getting ready
70 swing the rawhille, when the cunning
savage made an obNdue movement coward
a spot where the lee was thin, Being of
much lighter weight than his pursuer, he
passed over the dangerous place In safety,
but as soon as Harney stepped upon tho !
thin Ice it shivered like glass, and down
went the tall Captain, sinking into the /
water like sea lion. Being good swim
nser few strokes brought him to- the edge
OF the thick ice; and, clambering npon it nd
made his way to the quarters, spangled
with lcicles and as mad as q buffalo bull 1
he lost his cowhide in the water, bat that
was a. small matter, ais Mr. Winnebaao
never returned TO the Fort while the Cap
tain was there. Captain Harney' q foot-race /
afforded old Twiggsn occasion for many
2 joke, and 1t was long time before he |
heard the last gift. ,ensls
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sls AF
INGERSoLl..
The Danger Of Advocating RELIGIOUS Hos. 5.,,. !.
esy in Washington. Es AShE3


~ New York Graphic &1S Az --&sx
Colonel Bob iEgersoll had better be III
&le more cautious If sheeyer expects to set
ms blessed home again, and 9. Tho Woman
4 W"ditIhout Superstition. He is in Wash
lngton delivering tremendous invescsiyes
4 against the church, the Bible, and Chris.
SANITY, and even while he is banging his
desk and enptying his mighty lungs, some
. curious antiquarian has found an Old la u
tnat entitles pious Washington to infiict
nngual muthations upon him for his here
sles. Our SPECIAL from Washington to-day
Col. Bob Ingersoll is delivering his lee
lures on religious Subjects here, and for his
information it should be stated that the At
,tofney- General has recently decided that
the old colonial law is still IN force in this
aalnsAtrict, never having been repealed. The
hrst 81 ctlen OF this law provides that SaIf
any person shall deny nnr Saviour, Jesus
Christ, to be the son Of God, or shall deny
the Holy Trinity, the Father, Son and Holy
Ghost, or the Godhead Of any OF the thres
f,-r,,sis arg fha IInif1r a9 4ho (sSs3baad a..
-shall utter any profane words concerning
the holy Trinity or any of the Persons
thereof, and shall be thereof convicted, he
or she shall, for the first offense, be bored
through the tongue, for the second offense
shall be stigmatizsd by burning in the FORE
head with the letter B, and for the third
ofense,f shall suffer death.
The penalty Of death is, perhaps, further
than even we would go in Christening Col.
lngersoll. The B. (for Bob) on his fore
head is all right, and boring his tongue
would only be retribution in kind of a live
ly member that has bored SO many, while
the whole in it would give him new posi-
bilities of infection and accent. Seriously,
however. for the topic is not very jocose
one, this city had best bestir itself to repeal
that infamous colonial Law. which serves as
a still unbroken, though disused liganent,
connecting America with the dark ages.
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Glfllan interviewed.

The autograph fend has been in the
Treasury Department.. He had his little
book with him. Russia bound, gilt edged
and a neat blotter to mark the place.. He
bounced into the Treasurer's Office, where
he saw a man sitting 10 the messenger s
chair with a head like Sir Walter Scott,
talking with several gentlemen, whom he
interviewed as follows:
s. Are yeu the messenger of the Treas
urer?"
"What did you want9" asked the urbane
GiIfilian.@s !.
y g Iwant to pgets the autograph of the
United States Treasurer, and the Assist
ant Treasurer and s-,as~.
can give you the Treasurer, ''said Gil
fillan, taking the book from the man and
proceeding, to his desk, Swhere he la
boriously achieved. the necessary pot=hooks
In the meantime the fend, whose face
first assumed indignant incredulity, began
ito assume an aspect of perplexity, which
rapidly deepened into conviction, and grad
uated into crimson astonishment as he re-
ceived back the book.
The courteous custodian of all Uncle
Sans money followed the young man to
the door and pointed out where he might
find the Assistant Treasurer, and for once
oil tsusoSI6pu ASuQ WAS 50 HCUpluSS6Q as 10
be rendered speechless at having mistaken
tbs Treasurer for his own messenger, who
is a stalwart scion from Afric's sunny
fountains.
. He receded rapidly as the Treasurer re-
turned to his laughing friends, saying OUT
city :" Well, everybody always takes me
for somebody else. never show my face
in street car without having somebody
Instantly pass their fare to me. But /
never was a car CONDUCTOR ~
That's not the poiat at all, ~ remarked
one of the gentleman. s.tThey think yod
are a safe man to entrust the money to-
Gilfillan scratched his head, and when the
idea leaked through, slowly reached down
into his pocket and fished up quarter,
which he passed to the gentleman, with
brief direction as to the precise locality of
Welcker's, and softly signing, resumed his
labors.- Washington Union.
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WHAT The WITS SAY.
----1--E--z---- :
& Minute men-The e2d Rep,n,eut.-f

Minute men-The 62d Reglmeut.-G Com
@o1s'' s+.'-.h 4sS sy-s ze1 - II. a.. Fsaz ISL.
Even . barrel hoop will turn when trof
upon. Ianbury Nssos.
ii As q rule, men of letters do not use post
al cards.-N. p. PicGyune. s g5
J The Queen Of Spain thinks of nothing
J but ALT. and Alf.-Gin. CON- bns -s.S
I'he chiregrapher's MAXIM, ,Whateye,
is, is write; ;",--Hakensack ,Republican.
!. ~ No. Clarence, you are mistaken. George
Eliot's middle name Is not Washington.
7 HGUEeue. ~ Eaa&AA& LIS 1854 ~ ,sVt q
| Nasty wants leather dollar. That's
our currency. We're often strapped.-
r r. Reporter. 4.-.s..-.s.. :,
Bismarck's latest mot. Will England
fight Russia Ya'as, when the fishes make
war on the horses, sE@se e Sssogczg
Speaking of Oonstantinople, the British
ers bitterly say that "Fools Russian where
angels fear to tread. "---C Chicago Journal.
4 Sunday-school boy, on being asked
what made the tower Of Pisa lean, replied,
s. Because OF the famine in the land
t1@SefIs0cS Ifep,eottsaaY N ~ ss-. al
lis this the Adams house ?" asked a
stanger of Bostonian. eyes" was the
reply, nit's Adams house till you get to
the roof-then it's eaves.' @
If all the dirt that has accumulated on
the nickels of our currency was scrubbed
OFF there would be enough to make mon
ument for Henry Clay Dean.-N. 7. Her
aid. - 90 f f
/ 1t staggers an Englishman when he gets
over here and hears afellow called Colonel
who Doesn't look as though he knew
enough to cock q cannon.-Breakfast To-
wv. 7!-aE.t5 @rs,..s a.z. gss v.:e.
John Morrissey says he is not afraid to
die.s 1t is his delicate way of remarking
that he doesn't fear John g. Heenan in
any way, shape or form.-Bufalo Br-
press. -4 9 : :.--- -.
: Say, Governor, Bill says the ancients
never knew what it was to be bitten by in |
sects. told him I'd bet there were Mo- |
abites in the olden time. Amorite?"
kers GGzette. = o Ets 1z /
p The Philadelphia Times thinks that /
Beecher,is now on the fence in regard to
hell, unable to touch bottom on either
side, but he is perfectly safe 80 long as the
fence don't burn away. ..s
You haven't d drop of the great MAJ
poleon's blood in your VEINS" said tesvy +
old Jerome Bonaparte to his nephew, the
Emperor. "Wel1," responded Louis Ma
poieon, 81 have his whole family on my
shoulders
x Two Irlshmen were proceeding in COM
pany to a jaihyard to- witness an execution
when one said to the other: 81 say, Pat.
where .wud yez be if the hangman had his
1ues?" Begorra," said Pat, 8. I'd list
be walkin' down this street alone.''e ~
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FROM AFRICA.
stanisy ami Cleopatras Needle Arrive in
London.

1ONQOn..
In one week from weird Afric's land, -
IWo visitors have reached our strand,
Each welcOme-each wonder;
Linking in combination strange
Two eras which on Times long range
Lie distanty asnnder.
Five thousand years, the sayans saw
Lave crept or flown since that lar day
When sandy Heliopolis
First saw that rosy spire arise
Which now, to pierce the Vests wan skies,
Have reached our dim metropolis.
To no new City of the Sun.
But big Babel dark and dun,
Tum's monoth has travelled
From Nile to Thames! Thought of the things
That stone has seen gives Fancy wings,
And Jos s-tr0t brain leaves gravelled
When Joseph ruled. when Moses wrought
His miracles, when Caesar fought,
And Cleopatra revelled,
IL stood, and now is here to greet
Stout Stanley's home returning feet
And young gray hairs disheveed
From the mysterious continent
Trophies he brings of years well spent
In raising growth of laurel;
or Mlf a Who'd gfudge dye those well bays
Punch hereby proclaims quarrel.
The cinging Serpent of old Nile,
Upon so true a man might smile
And Africs later daughters
Long hence may make his praise their theme
Who tracked the mighty Congo's stream
Down to the western waters
That continent of riddles dim,
Yields it's one-guarded keys to him,
Her woocr brave and manly,
High up among her heirs of Fame
just History will write he name
StaQncl Ran0rtpr
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P 0 ETRY
Three Fisher Maidens.

out into the world of a ball room floor
hach thought her hair was most gracefully curIed,
the door. ~ o"' i0lh
For me must work that women NAV keen
Tue lsngtn OF their reves lest ever they weep.
AND Their fond mamma be scowling.
Ihree fathers sat up by their iedgers so blank
Ahd they conned their accounts with their beads
low down; ~ ""'
Ard Trey added their bills and their checks ON the
5na resd the dread roll of the days wreck in town
t Bnt men must work lest the women sbonId ween
1hough lonely his lot and troubles deep,
1he pattern papas not growing.
Three bankrupts were posted in merciIess print
In the Aorning Gazette. as the panic went down
AND tfer daughters went duly from frenzy to faint
For the tragedy thrilled the elite of the towr '
For men may work. and yet women will weep
Aha the sooner they're married the sooner 10 sieep
Ana DEFY the ma ma and her scowling
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"a HUaE DTsH OF SCANDAL. CceK.N,

fs "A HUaE DTsH or rsScANDAr.f CeeKsNa.
One of the cleyerese of the score or more of
female writer's here, has been bnsiiy at
work for some time past In collecting nate
rails concerning the morality of ossr great
men, as d new argument in favor 6 giving
women the right 90 vote and to hold offices
She proposes to unveil the domestic lifs,of
Washington, to nnearth the confessions of
Hamilton, to revive the stories told by the
fedralists about jefferson, 60 give some for
gotten chapters OF the earlier and later life
of jackson, to give eicirenlationsagain 10 In-
gersoll' q stories about Webster, to publish
lJohnson's outrageous department, and to
create o sensation in Massachusetts, by
narrative which the public have hinged, yet
dreaded to hear. The privacy of the illus
trious dead is to be einqnisitively invaded 10
ascertain whether in their lives they con-
formed to the ten commandments, or
course, these scandalous chronicles win all
tsrnate besHseRPianant truth ssnd gross,
n0ei. asasss. M us,sss ssssssws.ssssk ss2a
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= GATH ON BOB Turning
to Ingerso1f Tsee Thani of .rather animal
presence, OF with ALI the. signs of good liy-
ing and fne health, a frame rather large
and filled up with a belly sizable but not
gross, He stands Ave feet e1even,p weighs,
225 pounds, has light Temperament and
complexion, and perfectly hairless face,
With thin fair-and gray h&ir on the growing
badness Of the medium Intellectual head.
His lips and mouth being exposed, add to
his earthly look. His skin ia of O. reddish
sandy. His power arises from bis quick
ness, fancy, biliousness and poetry He
runs by law of his mind TO epigram and
sitnilitude, i,eing a high type of what the
principle of assoclationa aan do. Present
anything to him and hundreds of other
things;are summoned to surround it; his
agile fancy. nearly humorous, plays over all
these things until driven By. the principle OF.
art and abettea byjpoetry lowering around
his almost volatile BRAN, he forms pictures
and clinaxes. Color and feather, wit and
sauce, light and shade, digression and al
version ,iRterleave and chase each, other.
The product is brilliant and the perform,
ance, on the whole; eieyating Corr. Gin.
Enquirer. @''7's. s'ssss
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A BLAST AT BOB INGERsoI.L.-Tt strikes
us that man Bob Ingersoil has been lion
lied about enough. Though every shade
OF religious doctrine may not be exactly
true, and some creeds may be very wide of
the mark, it is very certain that TO good
can come from general assault on the re-
ligious sentiment. We cannot afford to
wipe out the churches We cannot afford
to break down faith in the Christian relig-
ion. If there is need 10 tone up or tone
down certain creeds and doctrines, let it be
done in the intere SITS of the churches, and
not for the purpose of their destruction.
Ingersoll has had all the attention he de-
serves. Let him step down and out. - Et-
mira Aduertiser.
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FOREIGN MINISTER'S
Nominations Ry the President to Germany
Venezuela and Belgium.


q Of the three nominations for foreign
missions made by the President on Friday,
the name best known is that of Bayard
Taylor, Of Pennsylvania, who isto,suoeeed
j. u. Bancroft Davis as Minister at Berlin.
MIR, Taylor, was born, s,n Chester county;
Jan. II 1926 was apprentlsed, ii a print
ing Office in 1912, and first masiet,s His mark
I'M letters as the author Of ssViews Afoot, u
the result Of extensive travels in=Enrope in
1S44-45-46. In 1862 lle- accepted the posi-
ton of Secretary to the American Legation
in St. Petersburg, and in 1858 was made
Charge d. 'Affaires. He married daughter
of Professor Hansen, the eminent German
astronomer: +:s = .s.ss.s.e s-.a-s., az, 90
John Baker, nominated for the Venezu.
ella Mission, was born IL Fayette county,
KY, Nov. 4, 1922; was liberafly: educated
has aclie!ed prominence as ssbarrister, and
has served for several terms in Congress.
- WIN. G. .Goodloe,- nominated to be Minis
ter to Belgium, belongs to one 'ef the old
families of Kentucky, and; it naaya be as
sumeds will take with shim,to Brussels the
genial afsbility, the ready wit and the
readiness in affairs that seems naturally
to belong to the region of the Blue Grass.
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THE PopE,s COSTUME


The ordinary costume Of the Pope con
sists of the zimarrs. callote, on skull CAP,
stockings andsliPpers. The zimarra is q
lQng white gown or robe. much resembling
| the ordinary. ,soutane. with false sleeves
bnttOned from the elbow Co the wrist, and
around the neck, descending 30 the ahoul-
ders, "a bayarett0, IN clese-ffsting ,pelerine.
! Itis made of eloth;n winter asd nerino in
summer, the trimmings, buttons, button
holes, ETC., being of white silk !; q collar
attached to it surrounds and protects the
neck. The callote, or skall-cap, il of white
silk throughout, in the form of hemis-
! phere with triangular sides. This is worn
on the back Of the head, one edge being
barely pereeptible in front. The stockings
were Of white wool OF silk, according to the
season The gaSie or slippers were kind
of light shoes, with fiat soles, made up of
morocco or red cloth for the winter, and Of
silk for the summer. They were tied with
strings of red silk, and had cross embroid-
cred with gold on that part of the upper
overing the instep. 1t is this cross which
the Holy Father presented to the faithful
to kiss. The ring worn by the Holy Faith
or In ordinary costume WAS of gold with
a cameo or precious stone in the setting.
The ring 10 the sign of alliance or union
with the Holy Roman Catholic Church, and
s1asassorn on the fourth fnger of the right
hand. Plus TX was the first to commence
to wear the pectoral cross, because It CHAP
acteiizes more particularly the Episcopal
order. It is of gold, and reats on his
breast suspended By O. gold chain. The
Cincture Of white mohair was another OF
his innovations. It's extren,ities, which
hung toward the front, were ornamsnted
with.a plain silk fringe ora band of, gold
braid. During the winter large red cloak
Of FOolen material or cloth was worn BY the
Pepe over bis shoulders. Tn winter some
times ne were the camaura, large deep
cape, made Of velvet and embroidered
With ermise, Plus TX was, tie only Pope
since Plus vi who wore the calnauro. The
capellone is . low hat with d very wide
leaf, made of red felt or straw covered with
red sillc for the summer. Itisof peculiar
form, allapspele. The aleaf. Is raised as
each side, and is attached to cash side by
strings, IL Is bound with ribbon or gold,
and -is surrounded by a cord of red lsilk and
gold passamenterie, swkich iss Terminated
by tassess Of gold. - ss,s@.,s. -