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brave and daring, the Haytian seems to con-
cede to You what he asks, and never fails to de
mand everything that belongs to him. You
never saw a Haytian, whether rich or poor, an
ordinary laboring man or Senator, that he
l.angston expresses himself as very hopeful Of
the Haytian government. He says that very
special emphasis is laid by the people upon
education, and that it is an interesting fact
that the youth of the country are being now
especially we'll provided with educational OPP
portunities. He observes that the foremost
people of the republic in point of education
and their condition generally compare favor
ably with those of any other country in the
civilized world. As to the government, he
says it is matter of qualification to phil
anthropists and friends of national progress the
world over that there is being brought about
in the republic q condition of things that prom
Uses more lasting peace than that country
has enjoyed for many years. w.t..
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-09-04
The Chinese Wall.

Mr.. Unthank, an American engin
has been engaged lately making a sur
for Chinese railway, during which
took measurements in many places OF
great wall of China. He gives the h1s
at IS feet, and the width, on top
The foundation of this immense wal
solid granite. The wall goes for i
nile over mountains, chasms and vail
It was built to keep out the Tartars.
Unthank brought back with him b.
from this wall, which is supposed to
been made 900 years before Christi
some places the wall is built smooP
against The canyons or precipices, F
there is sheer descent of 1000
Small stereams are arched over butte
larger streams the wall is built r.
waters edge, and tower is built dh
side. To calculate the time of b 3
or cost of this wall is beyond b
skill. On the top Of the wall ard Pt
works for defences, facing in and 10
that the defending force can pam
one tower to the other without b f
posed to any enemy from eth +.
So far as the magnitude of the IS
| concerned, it surpasses everyF n
ancient or medern times, of whfe
is any trace. 1t is said that p
! mids of Egypt are nething conn t.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-09-04
Dangers of Toughened Glass.

Here is little incident, related by
Prot Ricard, which recently occurred in
Bohemia, and which may give useful
hint to heads of families: ga child's drink
ing-glass was bought one day at Saas,
and during six months it sustained its
character of toughened glass. But one
evening in the seventh month, after hav-
ing been used for drinking sugared water,
it was placed: with silver spoon in iton
a large oak table. Suddenly heard from
my room violent explosion, like pis.
tol-shot, and metallic sound. fastened
in and saw, scattered all over the floor,
needles and fragments of glass; and not
only the floor, but the bed, the table, the
curtains. ETC., were covered with them
The empty glass had burst without
apparent cause, without the approach OF
| a light, and with force so extraordinary
that ali the inhabitants of the house were
frightened. Such an explosion is doubt
less caused by some change in the e1
tleme tension of the fibres Of hardened
glass" ,st . ...s
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-09-04
A Cottage Water-Hilter,
From the Leisure Hour.

From the Leisure Hour.
Those who cannot afford to buy filte1
may easily make one. Stuff piece of
sponge in a hole of a flower pot, pAsr
above this layer of, coarse sand a.
above this layer of pounded chrcoa;
three or four inches in depth. Apthe,
layer OF pebbles should be placed above
the harcoal to prevent it from being
stirred up when the water is pourd in
The contents of the flower pot houlG
be occasionally renewed. But by :
small addition to this a cottag tilte,
may be made Which for practical lse, is
equal to the most expensive filter'f cor
responding size. 1t consists Of tw flow
er pots, one above the other, th lowe'
one fitted with a sponge and tterine
layers above described, and theuppe,
one with sponge only. The uper pc
should be the largest, and if to lowe
one is strong the upper one may and OF
it, or a piece of wood with hol to re
ceive the upper pot may rest on tie orln
of the lower one. The two pots nus al
ranged are placed upon threlegge
stool with hole in it, through wien I'll
projecting part of the lower spoge pass
es, and the water drops into jus place
below. The upper pot serves asa reese
voir, and the sponge stops the caser ID
purities. and thus the tiltering fhyers
the lower one may be used fortwo {
three years without being renewd II II
upper sponge be occasionally aeane
Care must be taken to wedge IN the u
per sponge tightly enough to pre'ent
water passing through the upper |
more rapidly than it can filter throu
the lower one.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-09-04
A PARADISE FOR THE BLACKS,

Minister. LonDsto,.:s Opinion of Haytt and
E. r.-f ..E. Its People. .. a.a....
| Washington Special aug. 26) to Chicago
Times.
Mr.. John NJ. Langston, minister resident and
consul general at Port au Prince, Hayti, ar
rived here from his post of duty on Saturday.
He came home on official business, and will re-
turn, taking his family with him, on the first
steamer leaving the United States for Port au
Prince after the LIST of October. He visited the
President and secretary of state to-day. The
visit was purely official and formal, at which
the condition Of affairs in Hoyti was generally
and fully discussed. Mr.. Langston expressed
himself as delighted with that country, and
says that if he were asked what place
outside of the country he would rather live in
he would say without hesitation, Port au
Prince. To quote his own language: The
country, the people, the government, general
society, and all those enterprises that tend to
intellectual and moral as we'll as material de-
velopment and advancement Of the people, are
growing and afford subjects of interest to any
one who takes pleasure in thinking about
things of that character. The finest specimens
of the negro race that have ever seen are
Haytians. Manly in form and demeanor,
without any bringing in disposition, or any
servility in conduct, always polite, respectful
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-09-04
Strange Things in Bee-dom /.

Several years ago, when the seventeen
year locusts visited US, says correspond
dent, I noticed, one morning in August,
that the bees were. going to the wood
pretty lively, There were no flowers IN
that direction, and the weather was such
that no honey dew could be looked for.
1 follow them to the mountain, and there
among the rock oak, their busy hum sI
could be heard for considerable dis.
lance. An examination proved thai
wnere the locusts had punctured the
small branches, sweet substance exud.
ed, which the bees were collecting II
considerable quantities; in fact some
gathered twenty pounds from this source
Its taste was rather unpleasant, but the
bees wintered we'll upon it.
While the bees were working on tnll
! substance one cool morning, about sun
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-09-04
Small Waists.

Small waists and early deaths have
been the subjects of recent comments of
a physician of celebrity, and his notion
that the latter is the certain sequence of
the former is borne out by almos, all
authorities of every country. Yet, no
matter how the psychologist or the ply
sicians may talk, women have always
compressed their waists and expanded
their skirts, and they always will, until
public opinion pronounces for heavy
figure. It has never influenced fash.
1onable woman yet to hear that the
Venus de Medici had a large waist she
has been told so ever since that faultless
image of female beauty was disinterred.
She merely shrugs her shoulders and
draws her laces tighter. She knows very
we'll that if she went to a ball with that
figure of Venus no man would ask her to
dance. So important a matter is it to
have small waist that it has become a
matter of pride to the Austrian people,
and is mentioned in the court journals
that the empress Of Austria is celebrated
; for possessing a waist which only
measures sixteen inches. This is great
Ell nobility than even the possession of
, sixteen quarterings on your shield, with
} out which you cannot be admitted to
'best society" of Vienna. ''Sixteen,
,, therefore, is magic number at Vienna
t There are many persons, to be sure, who
have as small waist; but they have; not
+ the height, and contour, anu becoming
! fullness which the empress has.
3 Undoubtedly there will always be
n foolish mothers who make their daugh.
f tiers sleep in their corsets, and many fool
! ish women who will always draw theil
' laces too tight, but the golden mean re.
mains. A figure we'll, but not too stitiy
supported; waist slender, roundup
not too small for the adjacent figure
the grand desideratum of female beauty
:" A large woman in France-where womel
have taste for the becoming in dres
90 conferred upon them by Providence
wears ample draperies, loosely fitting gal
~ ments, and corset which does her tn
r best possible service, for it makes he
y look and feel at her ease no lahore
e. breathing, No unnatural redness, no fea
~ of suffocation. She is simply a larg
u beautiful object, instead Of pillow tic
= in the middle, with a general air OF as
~ ~ phyxia. Large women should remembt
en- en- that no tight-lacing makes the'
ed look any smaller. Age, which r.
nd duces everything else, is apt to add 9
zee the figure of women, and time brings 9
IN IN undesirable stoutness. This cannot
he better treated than it was by the la
raj duchess of DevOnshlre, one OF the mo
to beautiful Of women, who grew at the as
,e, Of forty years, as English women are a
y, nv to do, very stout elbow have you ke
tut your complexion so pure, my de
ms duchess9" said one Of her fellow ladie
IRE in-waiting at the court Of Queen Victor
Of OF, "Bv dressing at ease and keeping m
ny ~ temper" said the handsome duchess.
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CALIFORNIA WHEAT.
;San Francisco Chronicle.

The comparative failure of the wheat crop in
California last season renders any comparison
between the business of this and last year in
this particular trade of little value. 1t is with
lS76-77 that the present season may best be
compared, because the circumstances are more
nearly similar. In 1851 California sent
abroad the largest quantity Of grain known in
the history of the State, the exports Of wheat
and hour-the latter reduced to its equivalent
in wheat-amounting in round numbers to
600 900 tons. or Il, 100000 centals. This
son the estimate OF the available surplus, is,
in the opinion of the best Informed
dealers, about the same although there are not
wanting many persons who believe that the
unprecedented surplus of that year will be ex-
ceeded, owing to the wonderful yield in the
San Joaquin valley. So far the movement of
wheat closely approximates that of 1876, the
quantity which has come to Underwater during
the first six weeks of the season being almost
Identical. The exports also nearly correspond.
Up to August, 1876, 1,140,610 centals, valued
like date. ,l91 1863 centals, valued at S2,022,-
400, have been dispatched. Preparations for
moving the crop are, however, on a more extern
sive scale this season, 68,445 tons of shipping
being under engagement to load against At ,675
tons in 1876, and the quantity Of disengaged
tonnage in port is also much larger, footing uE
69,356 tons against only 1920 tons two years
ago.
1t is not only in bountiful yield that oul
farmers are blessed this season. Prices anc
rates of foreign freights are also greatly il
their favor. In the middle of August. 1876
California wheat in Liverpool was qoted a
9s 1d@9s I'D per GENITAL for average, and 9s 5d@
1Od per GENITAL for club. To-day the value i
los 3d@10s I'd per Genital for average, and 10
6d@10s 10d for club, and wooden ships ar
rocurable for Cork for orders, at f2 Is Cd pc
ton, while in August, 1876, they were wort
s2 los per ton. The result is that good ship
ping grades of wheat bring in this marke
$1.75@1.80 per GENITAL against $l.5O@l.521
per GENITAL at this time in 1876, and the ixe
charges, such as harvesting labo
Sacks and transportation to marke
being lower than they were, eve
more than this increase of twenty-five to thirt
cents per GENITAL goes directly into the poke
of farmers. Practically, the crop is realizin
quite 20 per cent. more TO producers, and IL
outlook is favorable, as the English marke
have strong tendency. In only one respe
is this market likely to have setback. TT
rates of freights now ruling are quite unr
munerative to ship-owners and the decli1
which has occurred from 93 per ton, at viii
the season opened, to 92 Is Cd to G2 IS per to
the best now obtainable has checked the
Hux of ships, and the number on the W
shows marked decline. The tonnage und
4 engagement is larger; the disengaged tonna
in port is larger, but the tonnage on the "
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-09-04
in Sorrow.

The wondrous wheels of life win turn
When am seen on earth no more,
The sun as bright in heaven will burn,
The sea still flap the tawny shore;
The daisies still will snow the sod.
y The vestal snowdrops sweetly spring,
The heavens reflect the power of God;
The woods with birds loud warblings ring
Sad thoughts of that dread time come on;
What is our doom when life is spentg
Our joys as soon as seen are gone,
( Appear but for one moment sent.
Would I could live as lives the rose,
Unconscious OF time OF gloom,
Or be the humblest flower that grows,
Forgotten when cease to bloom!
This life so short SO full of tears,
Has only fitful dreams ofrest;
Where are the eyes that shed no tears!
And where is one unsorrowing breast!
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vILLAINY IN AN ALMs-HOUsE.
Shocking Disclosures bu JiUe PaMper Girl
Taken to Chicago 6y the Officers.

Shocking Disclosures bN FIVE PHNper GiftS
Taken to Chicago 6y the Officers.
tlChicago Special to New York Times.1
A story came, to-day from the Erring
Woman's Refuge, in this city, which, if true,
shows that investigation into the manage
ment of a Long Island IN. Y. alms-house is
needed. It appears that there is a young
girl at the refuge who give sher name as Lucy
Downs, who says her home is in Suffolk
county, Long Island; that her father resides
in the town of Riverhead, and that for five
months previous to her departure from SUI
folk county she was an inmate of the Yap-
hank alms-house, where she went of her
own accord, owing to family troubles.
She says that she had also strayed from
the paths of virtue and given birth
to child. The story she tells further is,
that four weeks ago next Wednesday Stephen
r. Williams, superintendent, and John
Lorden, keeper of the Yahpank Alms-house,
arrived in Chicago with five girls. Their
names were Lucy Downs, Maggie O'Niel,
Sarah Ricketts,, Ellen Seeley, and Anna Slen-
| nam. the latter a mere child, not more than
16 years old. All were or had been mothers.
None were respectable girls. It was repre-
sented to them that positions could be Sc
cured for them in Omaha. Arriving here
| they went TO a lOCel Wnefe Gne men reSlStefeu
themselves and the girls under assumed
names. The subsequent portions Of the re-
cital are too scandalous to mention, but the
girl Downs says it was no new thing, an6
that the men had sustained the same
relations to the girls at the Yaphanl
Almshouse. Situations were founi
for two Of the girls as walters
while the others, after being abandoned b,
the men, were left to shift for themselve
as best they could. Lucy Downs father il
named Nathaniel Downs, and is captain O
some craft on Long Island Sound. To-da
word was telegraphed from the grandfathe
r of the girl to the effect that investigation
: would be made at the asylum as to the work
: ings of that institution. An investigating
, committee here has found that Williams an
4 Louden cut the coupons from the girls tick
= : cts, good from here to Omaha, and sol
= them in this city. According to Lucy
r story the rottenness of the Yaphank institr
d ton exceeds anything ever before heard Of
n She says adultery is the rule, and is pra
), ticed openly and without rebuke. Loude
!! ! is said to have wife and four children, an
= Williams has family. z -.
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CHICAGO JUSTICE.

AoW the S,vindliaO Savings Bank Officers
Ofthat CITY Haze Beess Punished. ~
1t being year since the failure of the State
Savings institution through the dishonesty of
its president, which precipitated the other bank
failures in that city, the Chicago Times reviews
the work accomplished in settling up the af-
follows: -
And now at the end of year, what is the fate
of the twenty-five Thousand victims of Spen-
Ger, Josaphat. Myers, Haines, and Greenebaum?
As miserable as villainy can make it. One div.
idend of 10 per cent. has been paid by Receiver
Otis of the State; one by Receiver Turpin of
the Fidelity; none by the Beehive, none by the
German Savings, none by either of the two
smaller swindles. But meanwhile the receivers
arc all drawing from $5, 1000 to $40, 1000 year
out Of the depositors' money, and not
one of these officials processes to know when
as will be able to pay the depositors another
cent. Old age has suffered the winter cold and
the summer heat while its little hoard has been
consumed by strangers. The widow and the
orphan have despaired of their petty allowance,
and self-denying poverty has learned in terri.
BILE experience that economy may be purchased
in heroic ways-for the benefit of bankers and
receivers. A few of the swindled victims com.
mitted suicide. They preferred death to star
| walton. Doubtless many were hurried to the
grave by the deprivations inflicted upon them
and the impossibility of replacing the small
but ample store of which they have been
robbed. And what is the fate of the robbers:
Spencer's hiding place has never been dis
covered. Bulkley and Guild were indicted
nearly year ago, but on account of services
rendered the bank, they have never been
brought to trial. Myers az stated, was indict
ed but has not been tried. Haines was moi
Indicted; why he was not since Myers ant
Spencer were, no one has yet satisfactorily ex
planned, but since none of those indicted hav
been brought to trial it may hav
been just as we'll not to play the farce again il
Haines' case. Thieves who steal small amount
are tried and convicted every day. Grim
clothed in rags is punished, but against thu
thieves who have robbed twenty-fiv
thousand people of Chicago of the savings Q
their lives. the 'sstrong lance of Justice ha
not even been hurled. If it be, doubtless
will ''hurtless break In other parts of til
country, bank thieves have been uniforml
sent to the penitentiaries. In Chicago not on
/ of them has been tried. The year has bee
full of misery for their victims, but in the
, suffering they would at least have enjoyed ii
spectacle of seeing the majesty of the law 81
ting in judgmsnt upon the chief criminals
the greatest crime ever committed in OF
| American city.
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Lie in q Live House.

Another singular development ofinsect
life is that shown by the class known az
ic7tneunsons, which deposit their eggs
within those of other insects, being pro-
vided with an ouipostor which enables
them to pierce the eggs of the other in
sects at the moment they are laying their
own, and thus depositing them inside of
this singularly chosen receptacle. This
does not prevent the original egg from
being duly Matched out; but in time the
unhappy insect that thus comes into ex-
istence finds that it has to give itself up
to the new life that is gradually develop
ing, and calmly yields up the ghost. The
new insect or insects (as sometimes q
great number of the smaller eggs are de-
posted in one of the others now have
their own way, and they soon eat their
way out of the living house in which they
have been harbored, and fly away as IN
concernedly as if another life had not
been sacrificed to theirs. I found very
pretty white and red caterpillar on the
leaf of soistara. Itappeared to be alive
and we'll: as if resting for a moment on
the leaf, holding on to it with its little
feet, while the wind caused the leaf to
sway backward and forward.
Observing what appeared to be some
regular black spots on its back. I
examined it more closely, and found them
to be little orifces, arranged in regular
order diagonally across the back; and
while observing it I saw little pairs of
eyes peeping through the holes, and after
ward tiny mouths eating around the edges
gradually little heads appeared: and the
an arm was put out and by-and-by ali
other arm and then body was drawn
up, followed by two long hind-legs, and
instantly pair of gossamer wings devel-
oped themselves, and away flew the crea-
ture into the air. l counted no less than
fifty of those holes, and one by one there
flew out of each an insect, so that this
poor caterpillar had been dragging cut q
miserable existence with family of fifty
foreigners inside of him, ready in due
season to take possession of his whole or
. ganization and convert it into birthpla.
and residence for themselves. On exau-
lining the caterpillar after the last parasite
had taken its flight, found that its Whole
structure had been converted into COM
pact arrangement of cells, and n.thing
was left of the original animal Int it's
outer covering, holding on with its little
feet firmly fixed to the leaf while these
; fifty microscopic pirates appropriated its
life to themselves.-Eg6ertL L. Viee, ~
Harper's Magazine for August,
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Envy.
AY EDGAR FAWCETT.

Where spacious oak-trees thrive, in rustling
state,
No fragile sapllng quivers with weak hate
Where palaces loom proud, in sculpture
height, .-...-
Nolowller roofs desire the earthquakes nigh
Where groups of chaste-urned lilies whitley
blow,
Dark soilure does not crave their balmy snow
Yet what life ever lowered sublimely sweet,
But sneers, like adders, Kissed about its feet:
-Appltton's Journal.
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makes poor showing. Summed up, the visi-
BILE supply is: el.
Vessels engaged, tons. 47,675 6s445
Vessels disengaged, tons. 33, 900 69356
Vessels on the way here, tons. 266,03l l6O,5N
Totals, tons. SAG 99e 298, s75

So that while the requirements are quite as
large the prospective supply is smaller, a1d
the freights now ruling do not encourage &C
cessions to the list of vessels bound hither.
Under these circumstances wheat is likely to
be pushed forward to take advantage of the re-
duction to which ships have been compelled to
submit in order to fill up and get away, and,
within the next two months, much larger
proportion than in 1876 will have been realized
from the proceeds Of our crop.
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A DESERTED CITY.

Memphis Correspondence Chicago Tribune. !
I have thought to supplement the wires by
the mailbag tonight, promising that the MSS.
shall 60 through seven processes of disinfec-
Ion before it :, dror:~l into the box. o. it
j., TO :1cub:e. ass,;:s you. There are gallons
u carboic acid .yir;; about, and burning tar
ana sulpnurous fGnles befoul the air under the
profession of purifying it. When look out
on the dark, silent street, and these vapors are
waited through the open window, I feel the
oppressiveness of the presence Of death with
that horrible odor of carbolic acid which
rises from the little saucers beneath the coffin
It is si& ta
CITY WITHOUT PEOPLE,
this. The echo of my music, as I whistle tt
keep my courage up, comes back in sort O.
wall that jars on my ear. 1t is almost as bat
as midnight stroll in graveyard, ones i'm
agination assisting to picture the hand of dealt