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LORD BEACON SfTcLD AND THE
CLAIMS OF GREECE.
To THE EDITOR OF the HEnALp:--

To THE EDITOR OF THE HgKALD:-
Lord Bcaconsne!d has taught The Greeks a lesson
against putting their trust IN foreign diplvmatista
When the Greek people were disposed to neip them-
selves the English government venturcd 10 interfere
with unsougnt profr,rs oil help. tho conalion was
made that No active steps should DO taken until
tho END Of The Russian war, and then Eng
land was to take care that tho interests of
Greece did no; suffer. Every one was pleased with
OF the Cabinet. The creeks did not want to
fight II they could obtain what they desired
peacefully. The Turks haa OH hand at the
time quite much as they could mansgc
In attending to the Grand Duke, with his Ilou.
tenants, Gourko aud Sk obecn. Tho Russians
felt that game was theirs anu they did not wish
TO share tho glory OF winning with any other nation
Lora Bcacobsned has done what no other English
taught the Greeks that the promise OF Brush
government may DO ghby gwen and Iigbtiy
worded dispatches IRON LORD Derby and Lord
Salebury winch were communicated oy SIR Austen
Layard to I'll. Hellenic government. aud every one
gwen that the Greeks were prevented from taxing by
orce the provinces which were slreauy in arms
against the Turks short limo In congress veil
inclined 10 the Greek claims tho English Premier
declared that the work oil the Powers was 10 consol
DATE not 10 dismemver Turkey, and released point
blank TO givc effect to the pledges OF his colleagues
sbuinng arrangement was made to advise The Porte
TO 40 something Tor the creeks, as II the Porte had
ever listened 10 advice s,ncs tno Crescent
first waved over 81. sophia and n Is
specially stipulated that the sultan Is not
~ be cocrced into dong moro than he pIeases.
moro miserable trick surely never pcrpetraled
by "a Brush Minister, and even Lord beacops ucid
never mani, cstcd moro reckless disregard or truth
IL was once the boast of England that the weaxer
peoples oil tue world had friend an her whom they
could implicitly trust aud whose disiutcrestcdncss
was uniin peachabie Bat now what nation viii rely
upon BRUSH honor, at least so long Great
Britain Is ruled by statesman who IL
ibhuenced BY motives when are sometimes
superior to the dictates Of honestly Lord
Besconsncd has been welcomed home amid the ap.
PROVING yells oil thougatess metropolitan moD aud
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ASTONISHING HIS OLD AcQUArNTAycEs.
FROM the Hartford Timsr ! ulv cal
From the Utica Herald, July 26.l

II General Grant has said abroad in public and Ia
private, one-tenth part OF wha, his faithful Boswell
mas reported, II is, indeed, true that the age Of
miracles is not past for the silent sphinx has become
"a most ioquacous oracle. II General Grant IA Eu.
rops can Freely express himself ana sometimes
noiys on politics. parties, pnbnc mon and measures,
rcceht history ana thnEs genoraly IL would have
p,cn better Tor him, and, possibly well for the
Soun.y u he had icon abroad Tor the past years.
MS boswell monory, however, Is at times detective,
s'nce Grant IS nov made 10 say very distinctly aud
great iepgth, precisely tho opposite ssiu
10 brcf only snort time ago, ose arc oecasons
10 Warrington and elsewhere, where circumstances
VVmetimcs ''beyond his control'l unlocked his
tongue and prompted MIN to air his ew lat limit od
VOCABULARY Enc proysrO makes foreign travel eqnivs-
tent 90 liberal educition. aud certainly General
Grant during comparatively snort soourn In Europe
has suadeni, developed an amount OF informs ton.
combined Win au extraordinary command OF Iuu.
guage' wuieh larry astonishes ILLS Oldest acquant-
auccs.
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THE BURLINGAME TREATY.

San FRANCISCO. July 81, 1873
Ih-Nium-Cook who arrived from China yesterday
In the steamer City OF Toxic, take the position Of
Chinese Consul at this port, says that the Chinese
government has TO abrogare the Burlingame
Treaty, docs 10 iee any IT'S subjects the
Unted States believing that this government has
will and power to protect them He also stated that
the Chinese government had gwen the subject OF
grafton TO this country much thought, aud did not
ind employment
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his actions have been appauded by many whose pre-
JUDGES control their principles tho remainder OF
his dsys Will probably DO PASSED in glare oi gaudy
triumph such he best loves; but for all that lie VIII
have fastened a stigma upon England by his un.
worthy ickery OF Greece which VIII cling 10 II ana
sully It's lair lame when his baeful influence shall
have passed away forever. ALEXANDER.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-07-28
A SEw PHASE OF CHARACTER.

FROM the Washington Republican, July "a
General Grant talkirs history and rcel,ng IL on in
scntcntous criticisms OF men Ind measures presents
new phase VI b character to hts fellow citizens
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MODEST AND aust.

From the Buffalo Express. July 2el
General Grant is always entertaining wneu he re.
views the war and talks OF tho sc,ors therein Be
never inaenaes his own part nor wilhholds praise
ffom others
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The Document That Temporarily Settles
the Eastern Question.
BULGARIA AND EASTERN ROUMELIA
A European Commission to
Complete the Work.
PR0FUSE PROMISES FROM THE PORTE.

The following is the text Of the Berlin Treaty, care
fully translated from the French original published IN
London July 49,
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Severe Exertion After Meals.

The practical rule of avoiding serious
e1ertion Immediately after eating has
long been acted upon in the treatment
of the lower animals, and no one who
sets any value on the lives OF his horses
or dogs, ever allows it to be disregarded
with respect to them. And yet the
Same man who would unhesitatingly
dismiss his groom for feeding his horse
Immediately after a chase or gallop
home, would probably think nothing OF
walking into the house and ordering
dinner instantly served for himself in
similar circumstances. In the army the
difficulty of managing troops on march
in this respect, has often been remarked.
Fatigued with the days e1ertions, they
can scarcely refrain from food 80 long as
to allow it's being properly cooked.
They consequently labor under the
double disadvantage of eating before
the system is in sufficient state OF re-
pose to benefit from the supply, and OF
having the food in condition unfit for
easy digestion. The old campaigner,
instructed by experience, restraints his
appetite, kindles his fire, cooks his
victuals, makes his arrangements for
the night, with deliberation surprising
to the recruit; and he is amply repaid
for his temporary self-denial by the
greater enjoyment and support which
he derives from the very same materials
which the impatience Of the other has
aused him in a great measure to waste.
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A Changing Scene.

One can hardly realize that Alexandria
is in reality an Eastern city, and one OF
the capitals of a Mahommedan country.
As one walks round the great square
and notices the broad pavennents, the
frequent gas-lamps. the lofty houses, the
spacious shops, the crowd Of carriages,
the Frank costumes, one feels quite
western. But you turn q corner and
straightway stumble against camel
with bis noiseless tread, anda man in
blue gown offers to sell you sherbet in
the name Of Allah; and you see a narrow
little opening in the wall and men going
il and out with their shoes in their hand,
and you pass in and see broad space
covered with mating, where people are
PROSTATE in prayer, and above is little,
minaret, where an old man in white cot
ton quayers out the invitation, and tells
you there is no God but Allah, and that
prayer is better than sleep. las You fgoi
on. you see money-changers in the street,
letter-writers doing the correspondence
of q dozen, cross-legged schoolmasters
teaching their children to recite the Fat
wah, the chapter of the Koran that all
must know as we know the. Lords
Prayer; you turn into police court and
listen to q long robed Cadi administering
Justice to half q dozen screaming men
and women; and then suddenly you come
upon big warehouses full of Manchester
goods, stores piled with cotton, steam
presses turning out hundreds OF bales
per day, q great market where English,
italian and Greek are almost the only
languages you hear, and a port crowded
with shipping of every nation. 1t is .
singular combination Of the Old World
with the New.
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Flyinp Foxes.

The flying fox is a very curious inhab-
liant of the forests near Moreton bay, in
East Australia. It lives in focks, and
moves generally towards the dusk of the
evening and the noise produced by the
heavy Tapping OF the so-called wings is
very singular. The focks like quiet
places, where there are large arsucarian
trees, with an underwood OF scrub and
creepers. The foxes hang in vast num-
bers from the horizonal branches of the
pine trees. When there is clear space
amongst the trees, an enormous number
of the animals may be seen, and their
noise can be heard for directly they
see anything unusual, they utter short
bark, something like the sound made by
young rocks. Often every branch is
crowded, and the flying foxes are seen
either Tapping their wings, and holding
on with their hind feet, and with their
heads downwards or snarling and fight
ing for places. Suddenly the whole take
to flight, and flap their furry, wing-llke
sides, and wheel around like heavy
birds. Many fly with their young hold
ing on to them. The creature is not q
true fox, and there is q fold OF skin
which reaches from the fore to the hind
legs, This is called the wing, and 1t
enables the Pteropus, as the animal ls
called, to float and turn in the air.
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The Path OF Timur.

Among the "kings and counsellors
of the earth, which built desolate places
for themselves, none was more renown-
ed than Timur the Tartar, whose name,
from China to the pillars of Hercules,
was at one time whispered with fear
and trembling. Wherever he carried
his conquering arms slaughter and ra-
pine marked his course, and behind
him he left naught but ruined cities
and towers of human skulls.
Clavijo, the Spanish ambassador in
14O3, saw, in Persia, four of these
towers, "each a stones throw in
height" and built entirely of human
skulls, the interstices being filed in
with mud. Yet the immense empire OF
the Tartar, won at the cost of millions
of human lives, and nurtured by human
gore, crumbled to fragments Immediate
" after the great devastator' s death.
At the time of Timur's death the
traveller journeying through Persia
might arrive at what was once flourish
ing and populous city. But the, de-
stroyer had passed through it; it's
houses and mosques we're in ruins, and
high in the air rose the awful monu-
ment of Timur's fame. But already
the husbandman had pitched his tent
amid the crumbling ruins-the oxen Ia
Dor in the burrows, and innocent children,
in their fresh, young life, play beneath
the Tower of Death.
Yet few more years, and 30 transient
is the glory of violence that even this
ghastly trophy has disappeared: The
city has arisen again from it's ruins; is
again filled with the noisy rattle OF
peaceful commerce and nothing is left
to mark the glory of the Tartar.
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A Prosperous Farmer.

When you see barn larger than his
house it shows that he will have large
profits and small affections. When you
see him driving his work it shows that
he will never be driven from good resolu-
tions, and that he will certainly work his
way to prosperity. When you see in his
woodhouse suficiency for three months
or more, it shows that he will be more
than a ninety days wonder in farming
operations, and be is not sleeping in his
house after drunken froGc. When his
sled is housed in GUNNER and his farm
ing implements covered both winter and
summer, it plainly shows that he willhave
a good house over his head in the sum-
mer of his early life and the winter of
old age. When his cattle are properly
shielded and fed in winter, it evinces
that he is acting according to Scripture,
which says that ga merciful man is
merciful to his beast" When he is seen
subscribing for paper and paying in
advance, it shows that he is speaking
like book respecting the last improve
ments in agriculture, and that he never
gets his walking papers to the land of
poverty. .-.
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Fashion Notes.

Pocket handkerchiefs are very small.
Black satin is becoming fashionable
again.
Gold trimmings never look well by
daylight.
Black draperies grow beautifully less
and less.
No overskirts are seen on fashionable.
costumes.
Belts are worn with pleated or Gre
clan corsages.
Cut-away jackets are in fashion for
young ladies.
Pleated waists with or without yokes
are coming in vogue.
There will be much costier toilets
worn at the balls and receptions given
after Lent than were at those before the
penitential season.
Pin-hea1 checks in various shades
the same color, on darker or lighter
ground, are seen in the prints and per-
Gales of the season.
Willow pompons, the ends terminating
in seed pearls and tipped with an aigrette,
are shown in all the light and beautiful
new shades of color.
Long, narrow trains, either perfectly
square at the end or rounded to describe
lozenge pattern on the floor, are de
riguer at the moment.
Ball dresses are either long trained,
fourreaux, or princess or empress dress
es or if made basque they simulate the
dress in one piece.
Gauntlet gloves, with the monogram
on the back of the hand embroidered in
silk and picked out gold threads, are
among the novelties in gloves.
Crepe batiste is one of the novelties
for summer dresses. It is a thin linen
fabric woven in Grape effects. 1t comes
in all delicate shades of pure bright
color for evening wear.
Opera mantles of raw silk bourette, IN
delicate shades of color, are threaded
with lines of gold and silver, and trim
med with chenille and gold and silver
fringes to match.
Wide galloons of silk and velvet, and
plush mixtures are seen on ball toilets
in delicate colors, shot with threads of
gold and silver, or seeded with Roman
pearl or fine glass beads.
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A Witness Who Went Prepared.

An Englishman, who recently brought
suit against a railway corporation tor
damages caused by an accident on the
line, not only went into the witness box
we'll crammed, but even took his note
book with him. BE referred to 1t 30
often that Sergeant Ballantine TOOK 1t
out of his hands, and himself introduced
it in evidence while cross-e1aminlng the
witness. The book contained WRITER!
account of the accident in the form OF
an address to the jury, interspersed with
remarks. such as "Take it easy
"Don't get furried," "Take care"
These, the plaintiff candidly admitted,
were to act as warnings to him in giving
his evidence. Sergeant Ballantine then
questioned him as to the meaning OF the
figures /, 2, 3, which occurred from time
to time in the notebook, and it appear
ed Chat these were intended as reminders
to the witness to count three before an
swering any question put to him. The
entry "Never mind him." referred to
the learned sergeant himself. The sue
cess of this thoughtful gentleman-he
won the suit and obtained 81, ,25O dam
ages-may encourage other witnesses to
adopt a similar system of notes and
checks for use in,the box.
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A Moving Town.

The Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise
rays Our town is very quietly and very
slowly moving to the eastward down the
face Of the mountain. This is owing to the
settling of the ground over the bonanza
mines. As all the town is going to-
gether, it is not much noticed on the
surface, where no cracks are seen. The
water and gas companies are better &C.
ouainted with the movements taxing
place in the ground forming the site OF
the town than most others, as the insta-
bility of the earth tells upon their pipes.
On B and O streets, north of Union, the
ground is moving both north and east. A
water main, running north and south,
uncovered yesterday at the corner OF b
street and Sutton avenue, was found TO
be telescoped to the distance of over a
foot, and, besides. had in it great kink,
which made it necessary to take out q
piece nearly two feet in length. About
the Consolidated Virginia pan mill the
pipes are crowding in from both east
and west; at least, owing to the settling
of the ground in that neigborhood, there
appears to be two movements. Although
there are as yet no cracks in the central
part of the town, there is large one to
the westward. It begins at Cedar ra-
vine, runs south to near the large water
tank of the Ophir, on the hill west OF
town, then turns east for considerable
distance, when it takes it's course south
ward west of Stewart street, and finally
Joins the old crevice below the Gould
and Curry groupings. Toward the
north this crevice is about eight inches
in width, and the ground on each side OF
it is about three feet lower than on the
west side. Capt. Overton, of the water
company, whose opportunities 1or OBJ
serving these movements are unsur-
passed, says that as the ground settles
over the bonanzas that. on the slope OF
the mountain, where it is not much un-
dermined, gradually moves down. he
says the International Hotel has moved
east about five inches since it was built.
If such is the case all the buildings in
that part of the town with the ground
on which they stand, must have moved
the same distance, as no cracks are to be
seen in the earth. As we are travelling,
however, 1t will be sometime before We
reach the Sugar Loaf.
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Words of Wisdom.

When you dispute with fool, he is
very certain to be similarly employed.
Silence is the best course for any man
to adopt who distrusts himself.
Make yourself all honey, and you'll
soon find flies to devour you.
Every other sin hath some pleasure
annexed to it, or will admit of some ex-
cuse, but envy wants both.
Show me land that has mountains
without valleys, and I will show you a
man who has joys without sorrows.
The current coin of life is plain, sound
sense. We drive q more substantial and
thriving trade with that than aught
else.
He that waits for repentance waits for
that which cannot be had as long as it
is waited for. It is absurd for man to
wait for that which he himself has to do
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She Didn't Scare.

A boy who wes disappointed the other
day in making a sale of tinware to q
woman on Park street, Detroit, mutter-
ed something which excited her indigna-
tion, and she gave him q great big piece
of her mind. In "jawing back" he
said:
"Your husband ought to be arrested
for working on Sunday !"
"Working on Sunday-come here,
bubl Now, bub, if you'll prove that
nv husband ever worked on Sunday, or
any other day in the week, I'll give you
a dollar I've lived with him for twen-
ty years, and have always had to buy
even his whisky and tobacco, and now If
he's eons to work I want to know it !"
The boy backed off without another
word.
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Watches.

Watches we're originally made of steel
and iron. No glasses were used until
about 1915, the cases being wholly OF
metal, and to admit of readily seeing the
time, the cover of the, face was some
times. perforated in elegant designs.
Instead of the form now universally
adopted, various styles of casing were
employed, such as globular, octangular,
cruciform, skull, coffin, acorn, pear,
melon, tulip, bird, and, in fact, nearly
every imaginable shape that ingenuity
could invent or caprice suggest; and, as
a consequence of this and the fact that
many of those watches were provided
with striking movements, they were 80
bulky that it was inconvenient to carry
them in the pocket, and they were hung
at the girdle with swives, so that their
faces could be readily turned for OBJ
servation without being removed. from
their position. The hairspring was not
introduced until about 1868, and was q
great improvement on the early watches.
About a century later, the smallest re-
peating watch ever made was presented
to George III. of England. 1t was
smaller than our silver half dime, and
weighed only five pwts. seven and three
fourth grains, case and al-the move
ment itself only weighing two pwts. two
and one. eighth grains. It was necessary
to make a set of minute tools for its
construction. For this watch the manu-
facturer received present from the
king Of Ave hundred guineas (about two
thousand five hundred dollars), and it is
reported that he was aftervard offered a
thousand guineas to duplicate it for the
Emperor Of Russia, but he refused it,
so that his gift to the king mig ht remain
unique. A smaller watch than this,
however, formed a part of the Swiss
exhibit in the Worlds Fair of 1851, but
this was not a repeater. It was only
three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter,
and was set in the end of pencil case.
1t not only gave the hours, minutes and
seconds, but the days of the month also.
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.EItti -I'F'T N - y
, Journalism In Russia.

=. journalism ISIS far older institution
in Russia than may be-generally sup
posed. st. Petersburg was founded in
l7O3 by Peter the Great, in the fifteenth
year of his reign. The autocratic re-.
former, who may be said to have created
the Muscovite Empire out of political
and social chaos, died in 1725, and three
years later was published the first num-
ber of Russian paper, entitled the st.
Petersburg Vedonaosti. In the last
week in January this journal celebrated
the one hundred and fftieth anniversary
of its existence. The occasion, at once
important and interesting, was done
ample honor and justice to. Messrs.
Komaroff & Usoff, the proprietors, sent
invitations to all the leading journalists
of the Russian capital, and to the mem:
bers of the literary, scientific, and legal
professions, the teachers of the public
schools, the officers of the etat-msjor,
the employees of the public departments
in word, to the representatives OF ev-
ery walk of life in st. Petersburg.
Even the Czar's right-hand man, the
Censor, made speech there and then,
setting forth the merits of journalism In
general and of tho VedomosH in partic-
ular. The gathering of guests was in
the spacious hall of that paper. Varl-
GUS literary exercises were performed,
including the reading of an essay on the
"Ideal Editor and Newspaper" q poem
entitled "The Black Sea" and an ad-
dress to the editors of the Vedoneosta
from the conductors of the st. Peters
burg press. A choral performance fol-
lowed. BY the members of the Imperial
Conseryatoire, of q selection OF the beau
tiful peasant songs for which Russia is
so remarkable. Next were dramatic and
operatic scenes, foreign and native, and
a magnificent banquet, at which patriot
ic toasts and speeches were delivered
ad Iib., closed this remarkable celebra-
ton in the small hours of the morning.
Those who have been accustomed to
regard Russia as nation of Doors, and
ST. Petersburg (despite its imperial IL
brary of over q million OF volumes) as .
sort of savage place, will be surprised
at learning from US that one of its news
papers is over $50 years old. With the
exception of the London Gazette (Which
is not newspaper, but publication OF
government and other announcements) },
the Oldest of all the London journals is
the Morning Post, begun in 17S1, more
than half century after the establish
ment of the Vedonaosti, of st. Peters,
burg.