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How Popular Names and Words are Born.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Popular names for distinguished persons
originate usually in accident. The Duke
of Wellington is styled the Iron Duke, and
the natural presumption is that the term
describes his characteristics. But it is said
that when iron steamboats, were novelty
an iron boat was built and called the Duke
of Wellington. Tom Rowline shortened
the name to the Iron Duke, and from the
ship the name was transferred to the man.
The vessel for which he was sponsor be-
came sponsor for him. In the canvass
which preceded the election of General Har-
rison, Washington correspondent of the
newspapers, writing letter discussing the
probabilities, after mentioning the other
aspirants came to Harrison. "Giye him."
he said, ga log cabin and barrel Of hard
cider and he will be content" Instantly
the managers took their cue, and the log
cabin campaign seated the old General in
the Presidential chair to die at his post in
month. The correspondent referred to
used to relate that after he had mailed his
letter, as lie walked home Che was opposed
to Harrlson) he felt he had done mischief.
He went to reclaim the letter, but was too
late. An amusing book might be made of
such curious things, the origin of which
the world soon forgets.
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A remarkable "Paper Exhibition is
one of the prominent attractions OF Berlin
just now. A correspondent of the Lon
don Times says:
On entering the drill hall Of the Second
Foot Guards, kindly lent for the purpose
by the Colonel Commandaut, one is struck
by the wide applicability of the familiar
and apparently narrow term, "paper,,
You are not easily persuaded that what you
see around you is paper. 1t takes some
before you can bring yourself to believe
that every object in this vast, elegant and
seemingly heterogeneous display is paper
nothing but paper. By the side of the or
dinary qulre on which you are IN the habit
of penning your privates and eon6dentials
there is paper linen, fro m the collar to the
petticoat there are paper hangings, from
the simplest to the most gorgeous
PAPER CARPETS, PAPER CURTAINS,
paper chairs, paper tables. paper chande-
liers, paper frames, and an infnity of mi
nor knick-knacks for furnishing rooms.
There is paper lace for nosegays and con-
fectionery in every color and design, strong
ly contrasting in it's elegance with the less
pretending, yet equally indispensable, ar
ticles of cigar case and blotting pad. There
are paper corals looking like the real 20
ophyte, paper ornaments and jewelry not
easily found out as audacious impositions.
There is the straw paper used for the most
ephemeral productions of the press that
do not outlIve the day on which they are
born ; there is in striking juxtapositlon
that most durable of foolscap used for mar
riage registers. From tiny envelopes, the
admiration of your lady companion, you
stray to rolls of interminable paper Is, 900
metres long from the finest silk note, de-
signed for Gown correspondents !" letters
of professional length, You wander to a
slip supporting en- it's sturdy fibre
WEIGHT OF 600 POUNDS.
A special department is devoted to albu-
men paper and similar niceties required in
the photographers art. Playing cards, in
vitation cards, and cartes-de-visite, master
work of allied manufacturers, printers and
painters, vary with equally grand achieve
ments in the bookbinding, box-making
and fower-making lines. To the most
aristocratic portfolios are enjoined the love-
lest portmannaies to sailing boat are
associated barrels as impermeable and
water-tight as caoutchouc while paste
board figures remind you of the nursery, |
and gold and silver leaves speak of the
Christmas tree and it's social delights.
Grimly overtopping these dimsy vanities
stands the cellulose, or compressed wood
pulp, of which the greater part of all paper
is made in modern days.
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New York's Costly Buildings.

New York can boast of some buildings,
bridges and other things that cost very
handsome sums. The following are the
most noted examples:
The new Post-Office, designed by Null
lett, and built of Dix Island granite, cost
about $7,000,000. The Brooklyn Bridge
has cost little over SO, 600, 900 up to date.
When completed the total bill viii be about
$14, 100000, according to present estimates.
The City Hall, with its marble front and
brown-stone back, cost $500, 900 at the be-
ginning of the century, when labor was
cheap and jobbery rare. Vanderbilt's
Grand Central depot cost 81, 2,250, 900, but
the approach to the depot, through the 4th
avenue viaduct and tunnels, cost six or
seven millions, half paid by the Wander
bilts and half by the city. The Tribune
tall tower is nine stories high, has gin
shop and clock, cost about 5000, 900 and
is mortgaged for 100000, which is just
about its present value. The Croton Water
Works have cost between $25, ,000, 900 and
$30000,0 600. The house that Mrs. A. T..
Stewart lives in cost $2, 100000 The Gus
tom House cost 81, 800, 600. The New York
Life Insurance Co.'s building cost round
million. The Western Union Telegraph
building cost 81, 300, 900, The County
Court House was originally estimated at
$500, 900, but owing to unforeseen circnm-
stances the expense was between twelve
and fourteen millions. nearly six millions Of
which went for furniture, and three mil
lions for plastering and painting, Boston
Post I'll asso8
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Beautiful Women.

It will be well to take long breath and a
little clnchona before starting upon the fol-
lowing grandiioquent description, by cor
respondent of the St. Louis Globe Demo-
crat, of the ladies who graced a recent ball
at the Greenbriar Sulphur Springs. Vir-
ginia:
sob, for thousand pens, formed of
quill feathers from angelic pinions and
dipped in the refulgent radiance of the
skies, to tell the dazzling witcheries and
coruscating splendors of the bsautious
throng. But were all-out-of-doors mighty
sheet of t-edged paper; were all the sui
phur and chalybeate waters consumed in a
four-weeks' inhibition, by thousand per-
petual-irrigating-needing frolckers and
flirters, a rushing tide of perfumed carmine
INK; were every twig in Valambrosa and
every rose-thorn in Christendom an ever
asting Faber No. 2 or Gillott's 303; and
every penitentiary deserving villain in Off
cial station, and every counter-hopping
idiot that passes at watering places for a
beau, hundred handed photographic
scribe-it all would fall a million moral fur
longs short of doing justice to such theme.
White Sulphur has rarely witnessed d more
tlanscendently lovely assemblage of rare
and radiant maidens and girls of older
growth. Turn where you would, look
Bhere you might, creatures fairer and
brighter far than ever peopled love-sick
poets raptest dreams, glided and skyvolut-
ed in the labyrinth mazes of waltz, galop,
mazourka aud quadrllle, till enraptured
masculinity went wild with admiring de-
light beyond the reach of all language, in
cluding Choctaw, Kickapoo and High
Dutch, to express.
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PERHAPS the most severe measure in
tended to drive the Chinese out of Cali
fornia is law passed at the last session OF
the California Legislature restricting the
exhumation and removal Of the dead. The
act provides that bodies shall not be ex-
humed without permit from the proper
authorities, on the certificate of the cor
oner or of the physician who last attended
the dead person, as to the cause Of death.
For each permit the sum of $40 must be
paid, and the body must be inclosed in 2
metallic casket. A similar permit is made
necessary for the transportation Of a disin-
tered body through streets and highways.
Violation Of the law is punishable BY
fine Of from $50 to $500, or imprisonment
from thirty days to six months, or by both
such ffne and imprisonment.
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oRvlLLE GRANTS MoNoNANIA.
HIS MOTHERS ACCOUNT OF HIS s.cKNEs
New York Times.

New York Times.
Mrs. Grant. the mother of OryilIe and
the ex'President, was found ut the elegant
residence of the Corbins, and spoke very
frankly of her sons monomania. She is a
gentle-mannered lady, with an abundance
OF silver-gray hair, and face as kind and
motherly as it is delicate and finely cut.
Mrs. Grant said that her son Cryille had
been a trouble to the family for some time.
If he could have been persuaded to remain
quietly at home no restraint would have
been put upon his actions, for he was
kind husband and father, and there was M
apprehension that his mania would take
violent turn. His insanity consisted in a
monomania for immense transactions with
out any capital, and if he could not obtain
the money any other way he would borrow
1t. besides, his mind was so unsteady that
they did not like to trust him alone. Last
fall he went to California to attend to what
he called large milling interests of his. and
to push the fortunes of an invention for
cleaning wheat, from which he expe2ted
great things. He returned in June, and
since then his mania has been worse than
ever. Of course he did not bring back the
anticipated fortune On the contrary, he
had spent or invested in unremunerative
enterprises nearly or quite all the $4,000
ne had made in the timber business. and
she did not think there would be ANYTHING
LETT for the maintenance of the family.
About three weeks ago he went to Boston
and entered into contracts for pianos and
other manufactured articles to the extent
of more than 100000. His friends went
to Boston, cancelled his contracts, paid
his hotel bill and brought hlm home. It
appeared upon inquiry at DR.. Morton's
that Mr.. Grants monomania is one of long
standing, and that the President at one
time consulted distinguished alienist with
view to have him ascertain and report
upon his brothers. mental condition, It
was not thought necessary at that time,
however, to place him under restraint, and
the quiet surveillance of friends was re-
sorted to instead. Mr.. Morton said that
the patients mind had been for some time
affected, but the family had hesitated to
send him to the asylum, and tried every
means to keep him at home. Strangely
enough, he had gained in flesh rapidly
since his monomania took decided form,
He appeared to be man of very robust
temperament, and the only physical synp-
tom observable was that he got tired very
easily and would complain of extreme
WEAKNESS. At such times the malady
showed itself in the most pronounced form,
and he wonld walk the floor for hours at
night, talking to himself about his won
derful projects for making a fortune. 1t
is useless to give the particulars as to the
rawlings of monomaniac. At one time it
was one thing; at another time it was some
thing else equally marvellous. Sometimes
he had received forty kilograms, and so on.
DR.. Morton describes the disease as a mon
omania for commercial operations, but
ventures no opinion as to Ills ultimate re-
covery.
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The DEATH SHE,
THE THAMES EXCURSION STEAMER THAT
SUNK WITH 800 ON BOARD.

The Princess Alice was one of the best
equipped steamers of the London Steam
boat Company. She was a sister ship of
the famous Alexandria, that has been max
ing, during the past month, SO many moon
light excursions to Greenwich and North
Woolwich Gardens. AS an excursion boat
the Princess Alice was regarded as per-
feet model. She had superior accommoda-
tions for passengers, and her large saloon
aft was commodious and tastefully decora-
ted. A special orchestra platform was
built amid ships between her lofty paddle
wheels. She was very narrow forward, and
her Prov was tapered to such fine point
that she skinned through the water at a
great speed. By many experienced boat
men she was thought to be the fastest river
steamer afoat, rivaling in swiftness many
of the f1rst-class boats that run of the Firth
of Clyde TO Arran and Butte. shs. often
carried as many as thousand passengers
and was frequently chartered by special as
sociations for picnics down the river or out
to sea for days excursion.
The proprietors are the London Steam
boat Company, which is one of the wealth.
est corporations that own pleasure crafts on
the Thames. All their boats start from
their spacious wharves at the Old Swan
Pier, London Bridge. Steamers are dis
patched during the season to Grayesend
Rosherville Garde MS, Southend, sheerness,
Kew Gardens, Hampton Court, Richmond,
Greenwich, Woolwich and Battersea Peak
The Princess Alice was of too large a
draught and sat too high in the water to
pass under the bridges up the river. She
was usually employed on long trips. When
she made trips three times week to sever
al watering places, her favorite destination
being either Margate Or Ramsgate. In the
Whitsuntide and Michaelmas holidays,
when the working classes indulge in days
excursion, she was very literally patron
lied, some large factories securing accom-
mediation for as many as 400 to 800 Of their
employees. On these days attractive ad-
vertisements would appear in the London
newspapers. The fare for the round trip
would be fixed at minimum sum. Chill
dren under 10 years of age were charged
half price and perambulators free. One of
the most recent excursions of the Princess
Alice was mammoth trip to the sea--or,
as the Company called it, ga whole day on
the water" 1t was ON behalf of the funds
of the London Hospital, and there were
more than thousand persons on board.
The steamer started from the Old Swan
Pier at $50 a. M, called at Blackwell,
Rosherville Gardens and Sheerness ON the
down trip and landed passengers on the re-
turn home at Gravesend The band of SO
pieces attached to the special service of the
Frlncsss Alice was on hand, ,as usual. .fhe
fare was 81 20, but for ordinary excursions,
such as the one that has proved such a ca
lamity, it does not exceed fifty cents.
Barking, where the accident occurred, is
within an hour and half of London.
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gREE.gARRELED NAME.
HOW RICHARD GRANT WHITE TOOK A
BRITIsHER DOWN.

Richard Grant Whit, Ii, verbal purist
and hair-splitting grammarian, in his last
contribution to the atlantic says /: A GER
tain new fashion in names-the use of two
christening names or pr@nomens-is very
generally regarded in england as an Amer
icanism. Many years ago heard English
men scoff at what they called the "three-
barreled names" of Americans and more
recently, at country house In Essex, a
gentleman-he was a Cambridge don, and
although young man of note, altogether a
person of whom greater accuracy or more
discretion might have been expected-said
to me, apropos of some American who was
named, Chow is it you Americans always
have those cripple names It is quite an
American thing" eyes I've remarked
that myself" was my reply, there are
those well known Englishmen, Washing
ton Irving, and George Bancroft, and Ma
thaniel Hawthorne, and his son Julian Haw-
thorne, and Abraham Lincoln, and Jeffer-
son Davis; and then those Yankees, Will
liam Ewart Glanstone, and William Make
peace Thackeray, and Samuel Taylor Col
eridge, and Walter Savage Landor, and
Percy Bysshe Shelley and might have
added, Arthur Penryhn Stanley, Martin
Farquhar Upper and Charles Holden
Spurgeon, if had happened to think of
them, and not nearly have exhausted the
list of notable tripple-named Englishmen.
He WINGED little, but jaunt;ly suggested
that few exceptions one way or the other
were of little import. Thereupon went
to the booktable, and found that more than
two-thirds of the authors represented there
all British-had two names besides the
surname. Then taking up the Pail Mall
Budget, which was also on the table. I
turned to the long list of births, marriages
and deaths, which filled two pages of the
paper in very small letter; and in these the
proportion of ard double pranomens was
found to be about the same; which also
proved to be true of the names in the Co.
gette, that filed two pages in the same let
ter. This discovery was received with sur-
prise, which faded away in smile half de-
preciating, half cenfessing. Of course
there was nothing to be said. Afterwards
I looked through the Army and Macy Re-
0sesc and the list of the members of the
House of Commons, with substantially the
same result. Yet the beliof in England
that a three -barreled name is an American
distinction is so general as to be almost
universal.
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SEPTEMBER.

E4GU4ocn-
Sweet is the voice that calls
From babbling waterfalls
In meadows where the downy seeds are flying;
And soft the breezes blow
And eddying come and go
In faded gardens where the rose is dying.
Among the stubbled corn
The blithe quail pipes at morn,
The merry partridge drums in hidden places,
And glttering insects CLEAN
Above the reedy stream,
Where busy spiders spin their flmy laces.
At eve cool shadows fall
Across the garden wall,
And on the clustered grapes in purple turning,
And Pearly vapors lie
Along the eastern sky
Where the broad harvest moon is redly burning.
All, soon on field and hill
The winds shall whistle chill,
And patriarch swallows call their focks together,
To fly from frost and snow,
And seek for lands where blow
The fairer blossoms of balmier weather.
The cricket chirps all day,
''Oh, fairest Summer. stay!"
The squirrel eyes askance the chestnuts browning;
The wild fowl fly afar
Above the foamy bar
And hasten southwark ere the skies are froWnlng
Now comes fragrant breeze
Through the dark cedar trees,
And round about my temples fondly fingers,
In gentle playfullness
Like to the soft caress
Bestowed in happier days by loving fingers.
Yet though a sense of grief
Comes with the falling leaf,
And memory makes the Summer doubly pleasant,
In all my Autumn dreams
A future Summer CLEANS
P assing the farest glories of the present!
George Arnold
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WHAT IT CosTs TO BE A GOVERNOR
GENERAL.-During the six years in which
Lord Dufferin held the Vieeroyship of
Canada his expenses aggregated S79O,0oO
or over $4,000 year. This includes his
salary of $50, 900, expenses of his staff, $780,,
600, and the cost of his numerous trips.
Certainly Mother Victoria willhaye to send
the Princess Louise and her Marquis, the
coming Vlceroy, an occasional check out of
her immense personal income to help them
out, for they will spend great deal more
money than Lord Dufferin did and the tax-
payers are not at all satisfied. The Gov
ernment, Parliament, official salaries, gener-
al and provincial, now foot up $4,000, 600 a
year, and Canada has population of not
quite 1000, 900 and is poor.
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FRUIT CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES.
Fruit culture is making rapid progress in
the United States. According to recent Of
fclal statements the land appropriated to
this branch of industry is 1, 800, 900 acres.
Upon this there flourish 112,000,0 apple
trees, 2s.00O.000 pear treea, 1i2, s7O, 900
peach trees. and 141, 200, 900 grapevines.
This total value of the fruit crop through
ont the United States is set down at $685.
216, 700. an amount equal to half the value
of the average wheat crop of the country.
Toward that large sum apples are held to
contribute $50, 40O, 900; pears, ia, 130, 900
peaches, SAC, 1s5, 900; grapes, 81, ,11s,O00
strawberries. $5,0oO,oOO, and other fruits,
$40, ,4S2, 900.
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A VEGETABLE DIET.-Byron and Shell
ley, as is well known, both abstained ha-
bitually from meat; and Trelawny, in his
recently published records, relates that
Byron, in bidding goodbye to him one
evening after ride in Italy, said: Cant
ask you to dine, for my dinner is soda-water
and biscuits" To which TreIawny re-
piled, g promised th Shelters. His ban
quet is less luxurious ! han you-bread and
and unsophisticated watsr.'' Walter
Scott, on the other hand, who was put on
vegetarian diet after an illness, says he was
affected during the months the experiment
lasted by g a want Of decision in feeling
and acting. an unnecessary apprehension
of contingent misfortunes, "and other symp-
toms of an inconvenient ind.-Boston
Courier.
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" General. Cut the Keerds, I"

The New York Star says Judge Asa B.
Dixon, of Morgan county, Ills, arrived last
week, bringing $4,000 in drafts with
which he proposed having q time in Europe.
The Judge was to have sailed in the Brit
tanic. Instead of doing SO he went back
West poorer, but wiser. The story is that
he met an old friend, Gen'l Chambers, of
Frankfort, KY, accompanied by Squire
DAN Rucker, Of the same State. The
Judge arranged dinner party, and they
were to meet at o'clock in the Judges
hotel in upper Broadway. Subsequently
Judge Dixon invited Hon. Samuel Silyely,
of Peoria, and Mr.. Thornton, of Cleve-
land, to join the party.
After dinner q poker party was proposed.
and the party got to playing heavily-$10
ante without limit. After raking in pot
of 5000, Judge Dixon said : ST learned
this game in Congress years ago from Bob
Schenck and Clark Ingersoll. 1t cost me a
pile of money, but if there's anything /
know something about it's draw poker.
General, cut the keerds.'
The play went on until the Judge was
some $1,000 ahead. Then Gen'l Chambers
got hand and bet, and the Judge ran the
pot up to $4,000. Then the Judge
!" called the General, who showed his two
pair of aces. Judge Dixon said, That
does settle it. and nnder pledge of se-
crecy the friends parted. Judge Dixon has
gone to Chicago. and Gen'l Chambers has
engaged passage for himself and wife to
Europe. The Judge was cleaned out .
completely.
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A NEW KIND OF HORSE SHOE. la Eng
land they are adopting horse shoe made
of cow-hide. and known as the Yates shoe.
Il is composed of three thickuesses of cow
hide compressed into q steel mold, and
then subjected to a chemical preparation.
Il is claimed for it that it lasts longer and
weighs only one-fourth as much as the COM
mon iron shoe; that it win never cause the
hoof to split nor have the least injurious
influence on the foot. It requires no calks;
even on alphalt the horse never slips. The
shoe is SO elastic that the horses step is
lighter and surer. It adheres so closely to
the foot that neither dust nor water can
penetrate between the shoe and the hoof.
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THE EXTENT OF FLoNDoN.-London cey-
ers nearly TOO square miles. It numbers
more than 4, 900, 600 inhabitants from every
quarter Of the globe. It contains more Ro-
man Catholics than Rome itself; more
Jews than Palestine; more Irish than
Dublin; more Scotchmen than Edinburg !;
more Welshmen than Cardiff; has birth
every five minutes and death every eight
minutes; has seven accidents in it every
day in its 1900 miles of streets; has 124
persons every day, and $1,000 annually
added to its population !; has III, 900 habit
nal criminals on it's police register, and has
IS, 900 drunkards annually brought before
the magistrates.
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P oETR 2
OUTWARD OR HoMEwARp.

Still are the ships that in haven ride,
Waiting fair winds or turn of the tide;
Nothing they fret, though they do not get
Out on the glorious ocean wide.
o wild hearts. that yearn 10 be free.
Look, and learn from the ships of the sea!
Rravely the ships, in the tempest tossed,
Buffet the waves till the sea be crossed;
Not in despair of the haven fair,
Though winds blow backward and leagues be lost.
o weary hearts, that yearn for sleep,
Look, and learn from the ships on the deep!
Spectator.
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The -Four Counties, paper published in
Texas, heads one of its columns with this
pertinent query g Is this paper yours or q
borrowed one 10