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The Patrican TOnbs.
Correspondence San Francisco Chronicle.

Correspondence San Francisco Chronicle.
A monk-as merry monk as one
would hope to see of a summers day in
fair ltalia-led us down a long flight of
steps into the tombs. The long, low
narrow halls were joined one to another
by passages at the extreme ends. It
seemed as if we strolled mile or more
up one hall and down another, until we
were quite at loss to return to the steps
by which we had entered. On both sides
of these halls lay heaps of boxes, piled
one above another, five or six deep.
Some Of these boxes had windows in the
sides single panes Of glass; some were all
Of glass, like show cases. Within them
lay tine bodies Of the late residents of
Palermo, dressed in the best, and fire.
quently exhibiting their caStes de visite in
a gilt frame on the: outside of their show
cases. One man held bis photograph in
his white gloved hand, 80 that you could
see it readily; and there he lay with a
waxed moustache and pair of staring
glass eyes, white necktie and plumpers,
fondly regarding the counterfeit present.
ment of the swell he was, and smiling at
lite's feeting show as one might
smile who considers himself. beautiful
forever.
The first families Of Palermo, when.
they perish, are carefully anointed with
balsams and .decently buried. In q year
or two they are resurrected by contract
and examined. The we'll l-preserved are
arrayed more of less gorgeously and
hung up on a nail to dry. The doubt
full cases are allowed to rest in their cof-
fins, but they may still receive the gaze
of the curious through skylight or
show, window, so they have not died in
vain' Rows of stuffed children sat: in
little chairs, awaiting the last trump, and
gathering more dust than is becoming.
Virgins were crowned with silver-gilt
crowns as high as section of stove pipe,
and still they looked not happy. Young
men smiled with a sad stage smile thai
came back to me long after / had fled
from the place, and chilled me TO the
marrow. Old men dropped away into
the corners Of their, cases and looked
bored even in death. The walls were
lined with these mummies, all ticketed
and labelled. all festooned along from
arch to arch, devilishly decorative, and,
as we went to and fro, not. knowing
whether to laugh or to weep, large cat
sported among the bodies and from time
to time ceased purring and arching her
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back, IS she sprang; At a:fy on the cheek
OF; some old acquaintance, or played
with the skirts Of q. lady in blue; satin,
with q wreath ofllaIge yellow roses tilt
ing over one: 1eye.d We were asked to
kindly take: hold of othe tongue of: z
monk, just within arms reach, which
was like q bit Of leather; and that men,
Der had ceased towag for more than a
hundred years. This is indeed deaths
victory, when onetis held up to everlast.
ing derision, and the embarrassment Of
such an exposition as II this is the graves
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Barriere, the French dramatist, once
decided to kill himself, loaded his pis-
tol and called. in friend to receive his
wishes. The friend did not attempt to
dissuade bin, but calmly, jotted down the
dying wishes, them while Barriere was
writing farewell letter, took up the pis-
tol and began examining 81 1t was
cooked and the muzzle was pointing d.
rectly at Barriere. The intended suicide
ducked under the table With remarkable
agility, crying: "Look out! The thing is
loaded! You'll be shooting me the first
thing you know"
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THE LAST RlIOFSUMMER.

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II is the lasthy Of simmer,
- All his merry COMPANIONS :,4, :
Have vanished and gone! So. !.r:.i
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Not In graceful gyrations J - :;i =.
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And stiff III the limbs.-
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His flights have grown shorter,
He crawls Io'ef the table. - :
Myspapermolests.
Yet, ghSseeminglv DOING,
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ATr1clx that vwouldn,t win.

Fro m points in the Acklin versus Oar
rail- contest from the third Louisiana district,
published In the New Orleans Times and
other papers, it appears the late attempt by
Darrall to indict Land will recoil on him.
Acklin has secured the original correspond
cnce between the parties, the wife of one hav-
ing given Darrall's witnesses away, and pro-
duced this correspondence, which exposes the
whole conspiracy. By these documents and
by corroborative testimony it is shown that
large amounts Of money were paid parties tes-
tlfying for Darrall. Acklin contemplates pro-
ceedings against those parties in the State
court. Acklin's friends claim that the only
object Of the prosecution against Land by OAR
rail was to delay the case before the congress-
lonal committee.
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A rebellion broke out at Punta Arenas,
which the governor was at first unable to
quell, and was organized solely for the pur-
pose of cxterminating Capt. Guizaldc, chief of
the garrison. The rebels, after cruelty assas-
sinating him. set fire to buildings, including
hospital with all the patients in it, stole
$1,000 from the treasury and robbed all the
commercial houses. In the confusion they
were killing each other. OF the houses COM
posing the colony only about one-half remain
standing. The number of killed is forty, with
fourteen wounded.
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The Proposed New TerrAeorv.

The subcommittee of the House COM
mittec Of territories, on the 2sth heard an ar
gument from Delegate Corbett, of Wyoming
in opposition to the bill for the establishment
OF the territory Of Lincoln. Cerbctt based his
opposition mainly upon the argument that
the population af the Black Hills country is
not OF permanent character. He also op-
posed the bill because it provides for in
cluqing portion Of Wyoming within the
boundaries OF the proposed new Territory.
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Shet Pepsl Allecuti>n.

The Pope held consistory at the Vati-
can on the 2Sth. Monseignor Moretti and
Cardinals and some Bishops were appointed.
The Pope delivered short allocution, thank
ing the Cardinals for their solicitude concern
ing his health and asking them to pray that
God help the Church and preserve unimpaired
the mind Of Its head whose body was ailing.
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Judgment for the People.

OhOBn0Dt 1OH C0O F6op1e.
The attorney general of New York has
been notified that referees in the Belden ca
nal case have found Judgment in favor of the
State amounting to $ss7,0o0. This is the Port
Schuyler unbalanced bid case, where work
was claimed to have been performed which
largely exceeded the amount bid for.
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Werkinsnen,s Copsress.

AT Newark, N. T., on the Goth the
workingmen's congress in open session ex.
PEELED two members, Carl Savory and Nc
Grady, for joining the Republican party, and
e%ensured % President strasser, of the interna-
tional cigar makers union, for suppressinp
the dispatch sympathising with the New
York cirgar makers strike. The name was
changed to the Socialist Labor party, and
platform adopted declares the workingmens'
party necessary because other parties afford
n4 relief. 1t recommends the formation Of
TRACE unions and labor organizations through
oot !1e country, favors repea ling all laws
against: labor combinations, conspiracy and
s1t3rti1kkes: s13t1 a resolution was adopted against
Importing coolie laborers.
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Ne, Privllesea from Arrest.

Judge Clayton of Chester, Pa, has de-
cided that Representative Bullard is not priv
ilcged from arrest. Bullard claimed when ar
rested for embezzling funds of the building
association, he was on his way to Harrisburg
to attend the session Of the legislature and
was therefore exempt from arrest
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Asje.rns without q Settlement.

The Tennessee legislature having
reached no result as to the settlement of the
State debt, passed resolution to adjourn
sine die at noon on the 2sth The senate billIto
compromise the State debt at 50 cents, graded
interest 4, and per cent was defeated in the
house after an amendment, to make the inter.
est per cent. for 1, and per cent. for Is
years, high tax men voting against il because
not in compliance with the proposition of the
bondholders, which was so cents and pc
cent. interest.
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GEN. Butter On tho Situation.

At dinner OF the Banks club, in Bos-
ton on the evening Of the 10Th, Gen. Butler
spoke at length on the political situation. He
defended the Presidents title, but criticized
the Southern policy. About eighty prominent
Republicans were present. Banks and others
made speeches.
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1t is the opinion Of Southern papers,
almost without an exception, that the
negroes in the South are dying almost Ut
the rate of four to one as compared with
the whites. The 'causesa are uncleanliness,
lack of proper food, ,jclothing, shelter, and
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MOBILES COUNTY

= - % = = , -
PRoy1s1oNs;-Pork $1l:75 cash; $1o9o@
1l.OO seller D@ecember; @ Sl1714@1l.D seller
47.70 cash and Seller January; $3.50 seller
February. Bulk meats, shoulders, 4Ac; short
rib &c: short clear 611c. = --' -,
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lnterestinG - Medical iBtuaents.

Or: Strong, demonstrator of anatomy
in the Rush Medical college, has devised q
process by which bodies brought to medica
colleges during vacation for dissection, and
which have usually been wol thless on account
OF the inability to preserve them in a condition
valuable for dissection, may be perfectly pre-
served. Some two hundred were kept
byfithis process last summer, and are
now being dissected with highly favorable
results,
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Diocesan Convention.

D1OC08o0 COnV00flOm.
The standing committee of the diocese
of Quincy has forwarded request to Bishop
McLaren to call convention of the diocese
al that city for February 26 to elect bishop
for the position declined by DR.. Harris of Chi
cago.
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A rev Turn to a Noted Scandal.

a NEW I0fn % q Noted Sc000al.
Henry Curtis, who was arrseted on the
charge Of burglarizing DR.. McCarthy's house
in Cincinnati and stealing papers appertain-
ing to the bastardy suits now in progress in
the courts at Mddlctown, Ohio, has been
identified by DR.. Mccarthy and his wife as the
man who presented a revolver at their heads
in their room, also by servant girl who saw
him prowling about the ncighborhood the
dav' BEFORE
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Legally, klecteA.

The hesupEeme. court: at Yankton, Dako7: Il
ia Territory, Observation-Disclosures oficers elected.
were lawfully elected and arc entitled Ito thefr
officers. z.4jlEt ;fui1 J., 1.:4.s:lj IJ..:-'2
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Tho way Of tho Onlee-seeker.
AoAthly C0al Sales.

Seventy-6ve thousand tons of Scranton
coal were sold in New York, at auction On the
2Sth, by order of the Lackawanna company.
There was large attendance and prices were
firm at 10 to As cents per ton more than last
month. Sales: 5000 tons steamer at 81. 400
2.4211; $4,000 tons crate &2.2714@2471{; 12,
600 tons egg $2621l@2.75; 1900 tons chest
nut $267h@2. so; $4,000 tons stove $3@3.10;
5000 tons pea $167A.
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81 ~ Alliance Against Uae1e 8an.
-aIhc newspapers Of the City o. Mexico,
urge close alliance of the Hispano American
republics against northern aggression. There
has been grand military display at Chapul.
eig5 rn1 r. .t''-.. -
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tepec. Five thousand troops were out, well
armed, uniformed and drilled. Minister
Romero, of the treasury, claims to have made
improvements which will augment the treas
ury million dollars.a A motion was made in
congress to abolish the zona librei and estab-
lish instead custom houses in the passes of the
Sierra Madre, but congress adjourned before
the measure could be acted upon.
The Way of the Onlee-Beeker.
The Hon. j. Willus Macnard, colored
ex-senator in Florida, went to Washington
last summer and made vigorous demonstra
tions for the Belgian mission, which he urged
should be given him as a recognition of his
race. Failing in this, he sought the consul
late at Liverpool, then clerkshlp, and at last
has received and gratefully accepted the po-
sition Of watchman in the postofice depart
ment at $60 per month. -. ~.
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How to Manage a Watch.

Always wind up a watch at the same
time every day, and be very careful that
no dirt is contained in the barrel OF the
key, and that it is in good order. A
watch should be continually in the same
position, and when carried in the pocket
by day should always be hung up at
night. When you regulate a watch, as
you move the regulator towards the
parts marked "fast" or "slow," take care
that you do not move it too much at q
time; it is better to move it a little every
day, until the watch does right, than to
move it too much at once. Also be
careful that no dirt is contained in your
watch-pocket, otherwise it may gain ad-
mission into the inside of the watch and
impair it's action. 1t is advisable, when
wearing o watch, to keep it in a soft
wash-leather bag, made for that purpose,
by which means the watch is prevented
from being scratched or injured by
friction against the rough lining Of the
pocket. When the key-holes for wind
ing and setting a watch are situated at
the back of case, never open the front,
since by 80 doing you may not only adj
NIT dirt and moisture, but also may
dislodge the glass, and perhaps break it
If your watch is a chronometer, or has a
duplex movement, when settingit to the
correct time, always remember to move
the hands forwards, and never back
wards. Although this is not of so much
importance in watches of other construc.
ton, yet it is advisable to do it in all
cases. Lastly, care should be taken to
keep a watch as nearly as possible at the
same temperature, otherwise it will
never keep correct time.
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Dangerous Paper Hangings.

The Boston Traveller says: Poison
Gus wall paper is becoming so common,
and it is so difficult to distinguish it
from the harmless article, that it seems
to be the part of prudence not to paper
walls. Dealers are not to blame for
this state of things, but the manufact-
urers are, and they have no more right
to spread arsenic on, the walls of dwell
ings than : milkmen have to place it in
the milk they sell-the milkmen would
never think Of doing anything Of the
kind. Arsenic is well known to be a
cumulative poison, and men can no more
breathe it with safety than they can
swallow j with safety. and it is inhaled
by every one who makes use of rooms
papared with arsenic-laden paper.
HEALTH is first destroyed, and then life
is lost, by inhaling the air of rooms
that are poisoned in the papering.
Women and children, as being the more
domestic, are the greater sufferers, nurs-
mr. moshuzxudth1trFbabss are pecul-
yepen&o the NokH ngs Of the reeking
zf8 eene6tz Tim beautiful walls.
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Lost Her Head.

A Boston letter says: Every one knows
that among all the rest of our schools
for women, there are ample means
now for o woman who seeks to become a
physician to make herself familiar with
all the principles of practice and all the
secrets of medicine and surgery. A
young student who has pursued her
studies up to a certain point in another
city came to Boston last winter and pro-
ceeded to visit a certain d~issecting room
to which she had been invited. Mount
ing the stairs, she st last comes to the
landing, from which opens the apart.
ment where the wonders of the human
frame are, materially at least, all found
out. Waiting to catch her breath, per-
haps to catch her courage, she over
hears the following from the physician
in attendance upon the class: "There
are not enough heads to go round.
Some Of you must choose something
else." The listener turned pale and
leaned against the wall. She thought
she wouldn't pay her visit that day.
She thought she would 60 home and
perhaps study a little further and ap-
proach the dissecting room O little more
gradually. As she turned to carry this
resolution into effect, she met the JAM
tor of the building, who was evidently,
familiar with visitors and students in
this stage and state of mind, for he said,
encouragingly, eff you'll wait a minute,
miss, you'll be all right. They all of
'em feels this way at the first start"
But "miss" didn't wait that day.
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HI'm q Ounce, Sir"

"What's your name ?" a teacher out
in the country asked a new pupil.
Elm a Ounce, sir" replied the boy.
The teachers eyes dilated a little, and
thinking he hadn't understood, said:
"What did you say"
"I'm a Ounce, sir" repeated the boy,
who was rather q bright-looking lad.
"You're a Ounce, are you ?" said the
teacher, smiling.
"No, sir" said the boy.
"Why didn't you say so?"
emo, sir"
"Yes you did,"
"No, SIR"
The teacher was about to appeal to
the school to sustain him when q
thought struck him, and turning to the
boy he asked:
"What is your name7"
"Isaac, SIR"
"And your ne1t?"
"May, sir"
The teacher was quivering with ex-
element now, and he was fairly trem-
bling with eagerness as he asked:
"And the last ?"
"Dunn, SIR"
CHOW say it again, the whole of it"
shouted the pedagogue."
81, May Dunn, sir"
"Boys," yelled the teacher, "alwsys
be careful and be correct and partien3as
In your pronunciations Isek fshis b3a
warning to you"
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How Not TO Bore.

None of the books of etiquette that
we have yet read give prescriptions
which will cure the tendency which
most of US have to bore other people.
The reason is that none of us suspects
he is or can be o bore under any posi-
BILE combination of circumstances. The
supposition is so wild and absurd as to
be discountenanced at once. And yet
80 often are we bored by other people
that it would only be reasonable for us
to conclude that we too might sometimes
place ourselves in the same unenviable
light. To know when to come and when
to 20, when to be silent and when to
speak, what to say and how to say it, to
be properly aware how to express those
thousand little tones and acts which en-.
dear one, it is difficult to explain pre-
cisely how, is either q natural gift or an
art obtainable after long years Of train
ing. Yet he who is not master of these
things will run the risk some time or
other of being considered a nuisance.
We NIL ought to learn how not to bore.
We owe it to our neighbors as well as
TO ourselves. IL IL d kuOW1cuBo ~o
exact from them. If they do not betray
it we feel personally aggrieved and are
apt to consider them, for a time, our
enemies.
One certain way of not boring is never
to give people too much of u COM
pany. This is a rule difficult to observe.
There are times when We are too ready
to believe that our friends want us more
than they really do. We take their pro
testations literally, and when they say
they could live with us forever and a
day, we positively give them tho day.
This is a great mistake. Proba-
bly, six hours Of the day would have been
quite sufficient. But we are unwilling
to believe that our destinations are 80
weak as not to stand a longer trial, and
Welding to that weak prejudice in our
own favor we become unmitigable bores.
It would be we'll if we could hold the
hand-glass up to our failings in this re-
spect and see ourselves as we really are.
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Rain.

The first water-how much it means
Seyen-tenths of man himself is water.
Seyen-tenths of the human race rained
down but yesterday! It is much more
probable that Caesar will flow out OF q
bung hole than that any part OF his re-
mains will ever stop one. Our life is
indeed a vapor, a breath, a little mois-
ture condensed upon the pane. We
carry ourselves as in a phial. Cleave
the flesh, and how quickly we spill out!
Man begins as q fish, and he swlms IN a
sea of vital fluids as long as his life lasts.
His first food is milk; and so his last and
all between. He can taste and asslml-
late and absorb nothing but liquids.
The same is true throughout all Or
eanic nature. IT'S water power that
makes every wheel move. Without this
great solvent, there is no life. admire
Immensely this line Of Walt Whitman:
"The slumbering and liquid trees"
The tree and it's fruit are like a sponge
which the rains have filled. Through
them and through all living bodies there
goes on the commerce of vital growth,
tiny vessels, fleets and succession OF
fleets, laden with material bound tor dis,
tant shores, to build up, and repair, and
restore the waste OF the physical frame.
Then the rain means relaxation; the
tension in Nature and in all her orea-
lures are lessened. The trees drop their
leaves, or let 20 their ripened fruit. The
tree itself will fall in a still, damp, day
when but yesterday it w%ithstood a gale
of wind. A moist south wind penetrates
even the mind and makes it's grasp less
tenacious. It ought to take less to kill
O man on q rainy day than on a clear.
The direct support Of the sun is with
draw; life is under a cloud; a masculine
mood gives place to something like 2
feminine. In this sense, rain is the
grief, the weeping of Nature, the reliei
o a burdened or agonized heart: But
sears from Natures eyelids ase always
remedial and prepare the esyfosnstsnt.
or, purer skieA-Joha fHrrossgds, q
.N6N{hS1GN NggH,5.r EEi-El SE&t~5Ht
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The Tinted States consumes annually

The United States consumes annually
between six and seven hundred thou
sand tons of cane sugar, less than thir.
teen per cent. of which is of home pro-
duction. The leading sources OF foreign
applys are: Cuba 450, 900 tons; Spanish
possessions, &c. 900; Porto Rico, 10000;
French Islands, %, 900; Brazil, $4,000;
Dutch East Indies, II, 900; British West
Indies, TO- 900; British Guiana,7 l6, 900;
Sandwich slandsl0,o00 Twenty one
' .sssS zsssassiss sagp 3 a ssss n sha1 lss q
81 Ssrssasrp product as,sbs t,sn siovl "
q i sssaSstons 70 is5h Tine crop
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An old bachelor was rather taken a-back
a day or two ago, as follows: Picking up
a book, he exclaimed, upon seeing a
wood-cut representing a man kneeling ct
the feet of a woman. "Before I would
ever kneel to the feet of a woman I
would encircle my neck with a rope and
stretch it," And then turning to a
young woman he. inquired: "Do you
not think it would; be the best thing 1
could doP" AA"It would, undoubtedly,
be the best 8Ring for the wcmar, was
Tho sarcasfie reply.