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German Wives.

The culinary art forms part of the
education of the woman in Germany.
The we'll TODD tradesman,- like the me-
chanie, takes pride in seeing his daugh-
tiers good housekeepers To effect this
object the girl, ON leaving school, which
she does when about IA years of age,
goes through the ceremony of confirma-
ton, and then is placed by her parents
with country gentleman, or in large
family, where she remains one or two
years, filling what may also! be termed
the post of servant, or doing the work
of one. This is looked upon as an APP
premiership in domestic economy. She
differs from servant, however, in this
she receives no wages; on the contrary,
her parents often pay for the care taken
of her as well as her clothing. This
is the first step in her education as house,
keeper. She next passes, on the same
conditions, into the kitchen of a rich
private family, or into hotel of good
repute. Here she has control of the eX-
penditures of the servants employed in
it, and assists personally in the cooking,
but is always addressed as Miss, and is
treated by the family with Difference and
consideration Many daughters of rich
families receive similar training, with
this difference, however, that they re-
ceive it in q princely mansion or a royal
palace. There is reigning Queen in
Germany at the present time who was
educated in this way. Consequently the
women in Germany are perfect models
of economy.-BosteR Traveller.
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Engraving on glass is now done
with the aid of electricity. The glass is
first covered with q concentrated solu-
ton of potassium nitrate, and the de-
sign is traced with fine platinum point
connected with one pole of battery.
1t has been proved in regard to rail-
ways that rails placed in the direction
Of the magnetic meridian are affected
quite differently from rails placed at
right angles % tRis direction; the former
okyii2e and do not become brittle; the
latter do not o&idize, bus do become
brittle; in intermediate directions the
rails particinsts more or less in the
Qualities OF those which are placed in
the two extreme directions.
Prof. r. Weber, of Berlin, has OBJ
tanned the prize of the Berlin Verein
fuer Gewerbefeiss for his investigation
of the causes of mill fires. He shows
that all sorts of -four in dust clouds are
lnhammable, and that some of the so
called fire-damp explosions of coal mines
are really caused by the ignition of the
clouds of dust floating in the atmos-
phere of mines. Free and steady ven
tilation will greatly diminish the danger
of destructive explosions in mills, and
those of "dry mines" can be nearly
made impossible by occasionally sprink-
ling the headings and galleries with
water conveyed in flexible pipes from
the plymouth.
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TIE wAR TROUBLES.

The London Post of the 23d published the
following in semi-official form: Count
Schouvaloff brings assurance that the dis
position in St. Petersburg for peace quite
equals that in London. He is also the bear
er of a certain expression of willingness TO
meet our views and of a general scheme of
arrangement for reconciliation. Russia,
however, declines TO pass the sponge over
the treaty of San Stefano, but is prepared to
discuss in q Congress its various stipulations.
The Count brings assurances that Gen. Tod
leben has been forbidden to make any at
tempt to surprise Constantinople, and also
that the Russian Government is not con-
nected with the manifesto recently issued
by a committee for equipping cruisers.
1t was reported, on the 26th, that England
having rejected the detailed concessions Of
fered by Count Schouvalof, the latter there
upon declared Russia's willingness to sub
nit all questions raised by the treaty to the
sanction Of the Powers. 1t is rumored that
Germany had been officially informed Of
Russia's concession, and would by request
issue the invitations for the Congress, to be
held at Berlin on June IL.
The official Vienna AbendpOSt confirms the
announcement that Russia has consented TO
lay the treaty Of San Stefano before the Con-
gress, that all the Powers have agreed to the
proposal, and that invitations have been is
sued to them to attend the Congress, which
will meet in Berlin on the 18th of June.
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The Mississippi Jetties.

A report is going the rounds of the
press that Captain Eads has asked to be
released from his engagement to create
a channel of so feet through the jetties,
and has abandoned the undertaking as a
failure. This report rose from the fact
that Captain Eads is now in Washing
ton advising thata modification be made,
which will not require the 30-foot chan
mel to be more than 100 feet in width.
With such width the 24-foot channel
would probably be not less than 400
feet wide, and the 22-foot channel about
500 feet. The act under which Captain
Eads is operating requires chanel no
where less than 80 feet deep for a width
of $50 feet, and it is thought that to
create such a width of 80 feet water be-
tween the jetties will be injudicious and
tend to injure them. Captain EadS eX-
pressed this to the committee when the
original bill was being drawn, and he is
confirmed in his opinion by observation
at the jetties, and therefore proposes
the modification referred to above. As
an increase of the flow into the pass
can be readily obtained, not One-tenth
of the whole discharge being used, it
remains entirely for the Government to
say whether the stipulated size shall be
adhered TO or not. There is now a
depth of 23I feet in the whole length of
the channel, and in one part hollow of
80 feet in depth has been created by the
current through the jetties. BY the
terms of the law the contractor has I'M
til September of next, year to create a
channel q feet deep, but so fast has the
work advanced that it is probable that
a channel $50 feet wide, of depth of
"a feet, will be obtained during this
month, as but 3,740 cubic yards of ma
terial is in the way of its realization.
Captain EadS also asks for modifi-
cation of the mode of paying him for
the work done. Upwards of so per
cent. of the work required to complete
the jetties has been done, and less than
20 per cent. of the contract price has
been paid by the Government. The de-
Law in payments under the present act
is so great that it is impossible to push
the work as rapidly as the public inter-
ests require The work is now so far
advanced and the success so pronounced
that it is for the interests of the Govern
ment and the country that the work shall
be pushed with the utmost vigor to such a
point as shall insure the utmost eflicien-
ey of action in increasing the capacity
of the channel. The board of engineers
to whom the question of the modiiica4
ton of the terms of the act was referred
approves of it, and it would certainly
seem to be good policy to give Captain
Eads all the facilities. he needs in for
warding the work, due regard being had
to the proper progress Of the channel,
that-the money be not advanced faster
than the work is performed and the
permanent depth of the water assured.
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wife dealt him triple.s the other day,
looked at them gloomily and exclaimed:
"Three of kind and nothing in the
pot; just mylucklr
Why is it, my dear SIR" said Waf-
hes's landlady TO him the other day,
"that You newspaper men never get
rich?" 81 do not KNOW was the res
ply, "e4ceptit Is that dollars and sense
do not always travel together
Pats description of fiddle is very
old, but it has never been eScelled:
st was the shaHe of I turkey, and the
size of a goose; he turned it over on its
back and rubbed its belly with stick,
and ochl St. Patrick 8 how itz-did
squale!"
A serawny-looking individual came
into the Office, the other morning, to adj
vertise his wife who had left him, that
people should not trust her on his 'ac-
count. He asked the book-keeper the
price, and when told, said, in some sur
prise: sis that so? Why, that's what
| paid to advertise my first wife.
thought prices might have come down. "
-DGnb,Iry Meas. rl3a arf taa
p. t. Barnum says: 81 tell you,
as a Snowman, you can't make animals
drink whisky They know better" The
Snowman is mistaken. We once heard
woman call out of a second-story win
dow TO an object that for nearly an houl
had been trying in vain to unlock the
front door: :. Drunk again, you old hog
are you?" And if a hog isn't an ami
NAL, what is PANorrist01oH Herald.
The following is the Chinese yer
sion of Mary and her lamb: Hs-.
Was gal name Mol had lamb,
Flea all samee white snow,
/. Evly place Mol gal walkee, ..f
Ba Ba hoppee long too.
m Exchange.
We heard son of Erin trying to sur
round Mary and her little lamb the othe
day and this is the way he understood it
Begorry, Mary had little shape,
And the wool was white intoirly:
An wherever Mary wud sthir her sthumps
The young shape would follow her com
- -.- Council BE,,Ss Globe.
So celebrated poem should have
1 French version: -.. ..i... ...
La petite Marie had lie june muttong,
Zee wool WAS blanehee as re snow,
And everywhere la belle Marie went,
lie june muttong was zrTre to go.
STANFORD AdrOcdtS.
Oui, monsieur; YOU avez un very larg
imagination; mails comment est this
pour Deutsche; s.i ...., ....... ID .
Dot Mary haf got Elm leedle schaf;
Nit hair yust like some WOOL; 81
Und all der blaze dot gal did vent,
Das schaf go like elm fool
., -Hackensaek Republican.
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United States Minister Seward writes of
the famine in China, that actual starvation
is pressing upon 100000 Of people, while
6OO0Q,000 are suffering more or less dis
tress. The crops, he says, have been
good Immediately around the stricken dis
trict, but as food can be transported only
on wagons or pack-animals, it can not be
taken thither in sufficient quantities to save
the lives Of the people. In Tientzin a house
made Of mats, for the accommodation of the
suffering women and children from the fam
inc districts, was burned and $50 lives We're
lost.
Reports have been received at London,
from Shanghai, announcing that there had
been a rainfall In several provinces, that
sowing is general and prospects for harvest
ing encouraging.
The pleasure steamer Empress OF India,
with party Of about Is persons on board,
became unmanageable and capsized over a
dam on Grand River at Gait, Ontario, on the
night of the 22d. All the passengers were
plunged into the river below. Only one body
has been recovered, that of Henry Jaffray Of
Gait, reporter for newspaper. Among the
missing are Edward Wren, Thos. Elliot,
Fred. Kane, John Brazer, Jas. Montgomery,
one Of the proprietors of the boat, Andrew
Jackson and David Scott.
President Andrew White, Cornell Uniyer-
sity, has been appointed First Vice Presi-
dent of the Jury Of the Educational Group
in the Exhibition. 3.-. En.
Virulent cholera has appeared at Moran in
India. OF ~ Europeans attacked 80 have
died. One hundred cases among the native
population are reported,
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Insurance ON the Tiber.

(" Marcus CseliuS," Cicero said to his
legal friend, meeting him one morning
on the other side of a screen under the
Capitol, "what shall it be?"
Calius said he would take a little
spiritus fumenti optimus, straight, and
the orator remarking that that was
about the size of his, went on:
" I-wish you would get out the neces-
sary papers some time to day, and bring
suit for me against the Yellow Tiber
Fire and Marine Insurance Company
for the amount, of its policies on my
villa at Tusculum and my town house, "
NJ. Calius looked up in amazement.
f" Why" he exclaimed, "when did
they burn down? And what was it +?
Accident? Mob? Some of Clodius's
people n.eiIsssssA z11ou. 7gGGgs pit
mo" Cicero said, "they are intact
as yet, and, in fact, / haven't insured
them yet, but L am going to do so to-
morrow, and want to bring suit against
the company now, so that If they ever
should happen to burn l won't have
quite, SO long 70 wait for the money!
Calius saw that the orators head was
level, and brought suit that afternoon.
Eleven years aftarward the villa at Tus-
culum and the town house were both
destroyed by fire. The suit had by that
time been inafive different courts, and
had been confirmed and reversed, and
remanded, and referred to the master to
take proof, and stricken from the dock
ct, and amended, and rebutted, andsur-
rebutted, and implicated, and rejoinder-
ed, and filed, and quashed, and contifu-
ed until nobody kHewhiwhat it was
about, and Cicero was notified three
weeks after the fire that he would have
to prove willful and long continued abb
sence and neglect as he could not get a
decree simply on grounds Of incompat-
ability of temperament And when he
went 70 the Secretary of the company,
that ufficial told him the company didn't
know any thing about the fire and had
no time to attend to such things. u Tie
cempany's business, the Seeretarysaid,
was to insure houses, not to run around
to fires, asking about the Insurance. II
he wanted any information on those
points, be would have too.aska the fire
men or the newspaper reporters 5un b
The more a man reads ia these old
histories, the more he is convinced that
the insurance business IN the days of tie
pretors was great deal more like sis
CHARACTERIZATION Hasckeye.
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CURRENT NEWS.
WASHINGTON,


The Potter Bfesfeation Committee, TO
inquire into the allegs Presidential election
frauds in Florida and louisiana, consists OF
the following named gentlemens Clarkson
n. Potter, Of New York; William r.
Morrison, Of Illinois; Eppa Hunton,
Of Virginia; John A. Mcmahon, of
Ohio; w. 5. Stenger, OF Pennsylvania;
Thomas r. Cobb, Of Indiana; Joseph c.. S.
blackburn, Of Kentucky; Jacob d. Cox, of
Ohio; Benjamin +. Butler, Of Massachu-
sets; Thomas j. Reed, OF Maine; and
Frank HiscOok, OF New York. The first
seven are Democrats; the other four Repub-
licans.
Secretary Sherman has addressed a letter
to Hon. Clsrkson n. Potter, Chairman OF
the Florida and Louisiaua Investigating
Committee, declaring the charges made
against him 20 be absolutely destitute Of
even a shadow oftrtth, and Offering to prove
that the elections in East and West Felici-
ana parishes, Louisiana, were controlled by
force and intimidation, and that the protests
referred TO were true, supported by testi-
mony and properly acted upon by the Re-
turning Board. Mr.. Sherman has desig-
mated Hon. Samuel Shellabargar as counsel
for him before the committee.
The Committee on Commerce Of the Sem
ate agreed TO report favorably the nane
of ST. Gem for Surveyor Of the Pert of st.
Louis.
The National Democratic Committee met
in Washington on the 23d for a general i'd
terchange OF views. The only public ex-
preston of their feelings given is embraced
in resolution approving the action Of the
House in appointing committee to inYesti-
gate the frauds alleged so have been com
mitted in the late Presidential election, to
the end that the truth may be made known
to the people and a repetition Of such frauds
be prevented in the future"
Representative Phillips of Kansas has pre-
pared bin declaring the contract between
the Secretary Of the Treasury and the syn.
dictate for the sale of 1-2 per cent. bonds
contrary to law, aud providing that hereaf.
ter all sales OF bonds shall be made bv oper
subscription, or, if by contract, TO the low.
est bidder after due publication.
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CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate, on the 2lst, long debate
took place on the motion to place Gen.
James Shields on the Retired List. The bill
was defeated for the reason that an amend
ment was offered and adopted, placing the
name OF Gen. Grant, also, on the Retired
List The Financial Committee reported the
House bill forbidding the further retirement
OF legal-tender notes In the House, the
Army Appropriation bill was discussed in
Committee of the Whole in both a day and
nj hit session.
In the Senate, on the 22d, the bill for
the relief of settlers on public lands, passed
1t gives settlers who had been on public lands
two or three years, under the pre- emption
laws, the benefit of that time upon changing
their claim to be under the homestead
law. A long discussion was had on Mr.. Dav-
I ISIS west Val resolution TO extend time TO
the finance investigating committee. The
greater part of the session, was devoted to
consideration of the Texas Pacific Railroad
bin, Mr.. Lamar making strong argument in
favor thereof. -. In the House, a resolution
extending the power of the Potter inyestigat
ingComrnittee TO any state where there may
b. well grounded allegation OF fraud, was
adopted without division. Bills for holding
a term of the United States Court at Quincy,
III :, and for the relief OF settlers on public
lands whose crops were injured by grasshop-
pers. passed. A resolution calling Tor infor-
nation as to Presidential parcons of crimi-
nals since March, 1877, was adopted. Ten ar
ticleS of impeachment presented against o.
b. Bradford, late Vice Consul General at
Shanghai, We're referred TO the Committee on
Judiciary. TIE Army sappropriation bill,
discussed at5ength, ssas not disposed Of
Ii Che Senate, on the 2Sd, Mr.. Plumb CALI
ed up the Senate bill authorizing the secre-
taryof War to have erected headstones over
graves Of Union soldiers intefred IN private
cemeteries; passed. The District of Colum-
bia Government bin was considered and sew
eraf sections disposed of......In the H0use,
Mr.. Robertson, of Louisiana, rising to ques-
ton of personal privilege. stated that charges
had been made against the citizens of the
Parishes of East aud 4 West Felfciana
which IL true would compel hifA toretfre in
shame from his seat. He sent to the Clerk
desk and had read that portion of Secretars
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beth shehan, daughterof Judge Cullenblne,
upon being refused further permission TO
continue his visits, armed himself, and,
gaining admission 10 Mrs. Shehan's apart
ment, shot her, but without fatal effect. She
then ran down stairs, pursued BY him, and
the father attempting tosrrestthe assassin,
the latter fired at him, ihe
ball entering hts hip. .kesrncy
then seized carving knife from
the. table, with which he deliberately cut
Mrs. shehan's throat from car 10 ear. and
then with razor he severed his own Jug
lar, falling back ENTHUSIASTICALLY. Mrs.
Csillenbine, iH attempting to wrest the
knife from the assassin, was also badly cut,
but both she and her hushandwiil recover.
Kearney was about 40 years OF age, and had
been visiting Mrs. shehan for about year
The latter was the mother OF two children
and had been separated from her husband
for some years.
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School and Church.

There are IS different denomina-
tons of Methodists in the United States
Mr.. Surgeons church has now
5,045 members, being the largest so
eiety under the care of one man in the
world.
Rev. Florence Mccarthy, who some
time ago left the Baptist ministry in
Chicago for the law, has joined the
Methodist Church on probation.
Eight hundred persons have joined
the churches of Hartford as the fruit Of
the meetings held in that city by Messrs
Moody and Sankey.
The German Baptists have dedicat-
ed new publishing-house in Cleveland,
o. Their society publishes one weekly
and three monthly papers, besides nu-
merous books.
The Professors of Yale do not suffer
from poverty. Ex-President Wolsey is
assessed upon property of S47 1926
Professor Dwight on S5l, 290; Professor
Silliman on S37, 800, and Professor Hop
pin on S34,7S1.
"A Summer School of Natural His
tory will be held at "The Illinois State
Museum of Natural History at Nor
NAL. The classes will open June &c, and
continue to July "a, under the charge of
Mr.. S. A. Forbes.
Rev. Dong Gong, converted Chi
naman of Portland, Oregon, is assault
ed every day by his countrymen, and
has narrowly escaped assassination
twice. He still breaches Christianity,
however, but carries two revolyers.
Bishop Stevens, of Pennsylvania,
has recently gone through the formula.
of deposing from the ministry" the
Rev. William Newton, of Philadelphia,
who withdrew from the Protestant
Episcopal and joined the Reformed
Episcopal Church. '''''
qo.-The Presbytery of Cincinnati has
passed resolutions against going to thea
tiers, circuses and balls, and also saying
that Presbyterians must not dance, nor
play cards. These resolutions further
lament the prevalence of g hilltop and
suburban resorts " where beer is sold
and Sunday is desecrated.
DIR. John Hall opposes the practice
of advertising the subject of sermons,
and advises his brethren not to be
tempted into it. He considers the re-
suits of this to be that "the poor, unin-
structed owners of itching ears and va
cant minds have good time, and per-
suade themselves that they are talking
religion when discussing the relative
merits of the performances" y-sia
The Society of Friends has pur-
chased thirty acres of land at Bryn-Ma-
nor, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, as
the site for large college for g the bet
Ter education of females.n 1t will be
of the same class and grade as Haver-
ford College, and the ground, with the
building and its endowment, will be
worth together about 81, 100000.
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Science and Industry.

The Philadelphia Press prints cal.
culation to show, that the electric light
is 81 times cheaper than gas.
ian Epson salts mine has been dis
covered about II miles from Chat
tanooga, Tenn. The deposit is feet
thick, and easy of access. 1t is pure,
and only requires crushing to make it
marketable. .su0i - .,sal
Tool steel is generally first harden
ed by heating it to a cherry-red and
then plunging ii into cold water. At
terward the temper is drawn by moder-
ately heating the steel again. q a-
"A firm in Richmond, Va, has
ready second steam fire-engine for
the city of st. Petersburg, Russia This
same firm Just before the war built the
first engine used in the Muscovite Capt.
tai. ft
Norway has some curious exhibits
at the Paris Exhibition. She has fish
skins tanned for gloves; eel-skins pre-
psIred for harness; shark skins, 10 feet
long and 8 feet wide, for various pur-
poses; and whale-skins, 60 feet long, for
driving bands for machinery.