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Of the American Legation the previous day.
His death was peaceful and painless.
The funeral of the late Princess Alice
took place at Darmstadt on the 18th. The
Prince Of Wales aud Prince Leopold were
present as Representatives OF Queen victo-
ria. The city put on general appearance
of mourning. In London, rninute-guns
were fred in the parks during the funeral
ceremonies.
II is officially reported that instructions
have been sent 10 the Russian Mission ut
Cabul TO withdraw. 1t is rumored that the
Ameer has fed, leaving his son, Takoob
Khan, in power. The British forces are adj
vancing from Jellalabad.
The loss OF life by the sinking OF the
steamer Byzantin was fortunately not so
great as at first reported. The steamer Ri
naldo, with which she collided, has arrived
at Constantinople, and her captain reports
80 persons saved from the sinking vessel.
The Imperial Government has addressed a
letter of coincidence to the Legation Of the
United States at Berlin, expressing profound
regret at the death of Bayard Taylor. The
newspapers publish leading articles eulogis-
tic of the late Minister. The funeral services
took place on Sunday the 22d, with imposing
ceremonies. The remains will be transported
/ to America.
Great excitement exist in st. Petersburg
/ on account of the Government efforts to
/ suppress meetings Of students. The lecture
| halls have been closed, and all meetings are
prohibited, in the universities as well as
outside. The carrying Of arms is prohibit
ed except by express authorization.
The Duke of Cumberland and the Princess
Thyra, of Denmark, were married witt
great pomp at the chapel Of Christiansbort
Castle, Copenhagen, on the evening Of thu
flst.
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Laughed Herself to Death.

One of the most extraordinary deaths
that ever was chronicled in this city oc-
Cured Yesterday, and is to-day the talk
of the town. The circumstances are as
follows: Mr.. Joshua Walker is a re-
spectacle colored man, residing on Fill
more Street, and married o short time
since q Young woman of excellent char
acter, and who was not quite 20 years
of age. Joshua proved worthy has
band, always looking after the house
hold comforts Day before yesterday he
purchased some fresh pork, which he
intended to salt down for the coming
cold weather. Yesterday he went to the
cupboard for the purpose of obtaining
salt with which to make brine for the
picking, and took from jar what he
presumed was the required article,
thereafter proceeded to the cellar to use
it on the meat. His wife, Rosa, being
about her household duties, did not no.
tioe what her husband was about, but
when she came down from the chambers
made the discovery almost Immediately
that Joshua had taken quantity of
granulated sugar to salt the pork. She
did not rave and get mad, but possibly
had she taken that turn she would not
now be lying cold in death. Instead
she set out to hearty laugh, going to
the spot where her husband was. Her
laughter continued for some time, there
being not the least cessation. She
laughed and laughed and laughed, her
presumed merriment getting more bois-
ferrous each moment. Finally the hus-
band became alarmed and sent out for
assistance, and soon his landlord, Dea
con Henry Hazard, arrived, Witnessing
in a few minutes the poor woman's
departure, it is hoped, for the better land.
She had positively laughed herself to
death. The husbands horror at this
extraordinary result of his innocent mis-
take can be better imagined than de-
scribcd He was warmly attached to
his young wife, and is is fitting, in draw
ing the veil over this terrible scene, to
say that they were both exceedingly
worthy persons, and that the husband
has the sympathy of scores of people in
this his hour of trouble.-Providenee (R.
IT. Journal. t
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Smokers.

Robert Hall is said to have preached
his most eloquent sermons after smok-
ing pipe in his vestry; tho same with
DIR. Parr, who sometimes smoked twenty
pipes in one evening, and ",eyer wrote
well except under the inspiration of to-
bacco." According to Bishop Kennel,
Thomas Hobbies, the philosopher of
Malmesbury, retired to his study every
day after dinner, and had his candle
and ten or twelve pipes of tobacco laid
by him; then, shutting his door, he fell
to smoking, thinking, and writing for
several hours, and although such an ex-
cessive smoker, he lived to the good
old age of ninety-and-two. All knew
how the great Sir Isaac Newton smoked;
and how, on one occasion, in moment
of profound abstraction, he placed the
little finger of his " lady-love T" into the
hot bowl of his pipe, in place of to-
bacco stopper. Thomas Carlyle smokes,
as do Tennyson and many other emf
nent men. Campbell, Byron, and Lord
Eldon were moderate smokers, and
frequently bore testimony to the COM
fort of tobacco. Walter Scott was a
great smoker; so was Lord, Palmers-
ton-and the use of the weed did not
shorten his days. We wish we could
say so much for Charles Lamb, 4" the
gentle Ella, who toiled after it as some
men toll after virtue. To say all that
can be said in favor of tobacco would
require volumes.
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snow, Henry, 1 give you the word |
'iron.'n
"Iron, sir" be began, " is dug from
the earth in the form Of ore. II is melt
ed, purified, and then used inthe manu-
facture of thousands of articles. Iron
ore is found in several States in the
Union, and in many countries across the
oceans. Without iron we could have no
railroads, steamboats,, street-csrs or ma
chinery."
"What book did he learn that from?n
asked Mr.. Old Fogy. TO
"From none. Two weeks ago show
ed him piece of iron ore and explain
ed what he now knows as well as you
or 1. He isn't ten years old yet and he
can hardly read at all. Now, little Su-
san, here is a newspaper"
g Yes, sir. In the first place the pa
per is made of rags or straw or wood.
Then men called printers arrange metal
letters into words and words into lines,
and when there are enough to fill the
paper it is printed on what is called a
press" -
"Singular-very singular" coughed
Mr.. Old Fogy.
sis it? Your 12-year-old pupil
couldn't have explained single point.
have repeated that twice to this 6-year-
old child and she is as well posted as
you are. Let me ask your pupil what
conjunction is"
GA word connecting two other words,
sir" hef 80 '41s
eyes; and now write me an exam
ple."
He took the pencil and wrote: "De-
troit, Michigan, 1873" eHi Ho sI-
"Your pupil, Mr.. Old Fogy, has an
swered my question hundred times,
and you see how he fails when he comes
to practice. Now, children, | write,
Horses and dogs and please tell me
which word is conjunction?"
"Andl" they cried in chorus. "a
81 gave them like lesson last night
for the first time, Mr.. Old Fogy, while
your pupil has had it for years. You
have taught him the theory-I have
given him the practice. If l were 8
teacher I'd lock up every book and be
gin on the plaster on the walls and in
struct them in the useful CT every day
life"
"Plaster!n he gasped.
"Yes, I'd take that as hevery found
alton. Can you, Mr.. Old Fogy, old a
you are, tell me how plaster for latl
work is mixedP
"I-won't be talked to in this way
sirl" he exclaimed, as he rose to go.
We are sending our children to schoo
to learn theory. They look through
glass windows, and yet have no ides
what glass is Brick walls inclose them
and they have no idea how bricks arr
made. Coal furnaces warm their rooms
but they know nothing of coal. 1t snow
or rains or blows, and no one'exPlain
the interesting lesson of atmosphere,
changes. They have beautiful lesson
in the engravings of their books, bu
they see nothing but the pictures. The.
read print, but know nothing of its valu
to the world. Then, when our boys com
home, and wonder why frost heaves
post out of the ground or board warp
in the sun, we turn around and say:
"Why, you mutton-head, haven't
sent you to school for ten years?"
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Science and Industry.

Charles Francis Adams has bought
land at Kansas City, Mo-, worth $40, 200
and will build there a cotton mill and
cottages for the workmen.
Mine samples of sugar were recent
~ analysed at Richmond, Va, and only
three found sufficiently free from miner
al salts to be wholesome.
Diamond Creamery, at Monticello,
Iowa, took the first prize, 500 in gold,
at the International Dairy Convention,
New York, on sweepstakes, and first
prize, $50, for best butter.
M. Dutertre, of the School of Agri-
culture at GregnoD, France, has invent
ed sucking apparatus with india rub
Der teats for bereaved lambs, who are
thus fed, greatly to their satisfaction,
four times day.
An American egg-preserving COM
pany has been established at Shanghai
for some time. The object is to pre-
serve eggs in such manner that they
will be useful for cooking at any time and
in any climate. The business is entire
ly export, chiefly to England.
"A mandatory of paper bricks has
been opened somewhere in Wisconsin.
The bricks are said to be exceedingly
durable and moisture proof. They are
also larger than the clay article. Paper
is now also used for making barrels.
Straw pulp is run into a mold made in
the shape of half barrel, cut vertically.
The barrels are higher and two thirds
cheaper than those of wood, and -four
will not sift out of them while in transit.
The slaves are three eighths of an inch
thick.
Another form of type-setting ma
chine has been contrived by German
inventor. By means of lever, which
is worked by a series of keys, some
thing like piano, the letters are raised
out of box in which they are kept,
and placed in a position fixed fer them.
By employing very simple mechanism,
second setting apparatus can be adj
iusted, and by means of this arrange
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.


John Russell Young will arrange /
Gen. Grants account of his travels for |
publication.
Ex-senator Alexander Ramsey has |
presented his private library to the Min
nesota Historical Society.
james E. Anderson, of Louisiana,
celebrity, has taken the city editorship
of the Eureka (Nevada) Sentinel.
Buffalo Bill has made, it is reported,
about S135, 900 on the stage, most of
which he has invested in cattle, having
in all $500 head.
Iii Kwei, Chinaman, who-visited
this country under Government orders
during the Centennial, has put his ex-
periences into four volumes.
Maria Fechter, daughter of Charles
Fechter, is said to be charming actress.
She has taken to the dramatic stage, the
weakness of her voice obliging her to
give up the opera.
Mime. Nilsson will be installed as
Grand Mistress of the ancient charitable
Masonic order of the eastern STAR"
which is composed of ladies of rank and
distinction whose husbands belong to
the fraternity.
Miss Helen NJ. Mcdonald argued
her own case about an infringement of
her patent for an improved dress pro-
tector in the United States Court in
Boston the other day, Gen. Butler being
one of the opposing counsel.
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson, the actor,
finds time amid his numerous theatrical
engagements to indulge his taste for art.
He has recently finished two pictures
which are pronounced by competent
critics to excel his previous Efforts
Ne10 York Tribune.
-Ameer SEere Ali can not read, but
has accumulated much information
from conversation with his attendants,
who have been better educated than
himself, and through a clerk, whom he
has maintained for many years, to trans
late articles from the English newspa-
pers of India. His ideal man is Napo-
leon.
The drunkenness of Edgar Allen
Poe was under discussion by Rich
mond temperance society. A speaker
dwelt on the poets disgraceful death.
DR.. Mason, who attended him in his
last illness, replied: % He died like a
gentleman. For days before his death
he utterly refused stimulants of all kinds
to allay his nervous excitement, and
died sober man, truly penitent for his
past career"
1t was rumored that Burbank, of
the New Orleans PicGyu,ae, was to write
book on yellow fever, entitled "Jack
and l." Referring to this, he says: I" /
have no intentions of writing a book OF
any sort, much less on the subject of
yellow fever. Of that l have had
enough. Its record is written in this
city on 1900 new graves, on vacant
chairs, in broken family circles, on sable
garments and sorrowful faces. There
is no fun il it,
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WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

A Minneapolis dispatch says Porter
Guernsey, aged Is, son Of a prominent
druggist, and Florence Wyckof, aged 16,
daughter of a Presbyterian clergyman at
Lake City, while skating together the even
ing of the 14th, were drowned. The bodies
were recovered.
The United States Supreme Court has af-
firmed the decision of the Supreme Court OF
the State OF Kansas in the case Of the Kansas
Pacific Railway Company versus the Missou-
ri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company, In
volving the title TO $4,000 acres OF land in
Kansas. The decision is in favor Of the
Kansas Pacific.
Mr.. b. H. Eddins, Judge of Elections at
Bartlett, Tenn, has been convicted by the
United States Circuit Court at Memphis of
fraudulently stuffing a ballot-box with
Democratic tickets at the last Presidential
election.
Rudolph Fink, of Alexandria, Va, has
been elected General Manager of the Mem
phis and Little Rock Railroad, vice Col. NJ.
Priehard, deceased.
Nine murders are reported to have been
committed in Western Nebraska in a single
week, and the Governor declares that owing
to want Of money he is powerless to bring
the assassins TO punishment.
At Meridian, Texas, on the evening of
Sunday, the 18th, while most Of the citizens
were at church, a band Of so masked men
forcibly entered the jail and riddled with
buck-shot two Of the prisoners, Mont. and
Tom Harrels.
On the 18th, as George Rowland was quiet
ly riding into the town Of Caldwell, Texas,
he was met in the street by Sidney t. Hud-
son, who, deliberately raising a shotgun,
fired and shot Rowland dead. Hudson al
legged Rowland had seduced his sister.
The body Of Michael Nepham, cook in a
restaurant, was found under the ruins of a
block OF small tenements at Fort Worth,
Texas, on the 10th. II was supposed he was
murdered and the murderer set the house
on fire TO cover up the crime. A man named
Ssfroe, proprietor Of the restaurant, was
arrested on suspicion.
Lee Armstrong, residing near Benson,
Ky, was out hunting with man named
Lillis, and while Lillis was attempting TO
climb a stone fence his gun accidentally
went of, and the contents lodged in young
Armstrong; abdomen. He died in an hour
afterwards.
The total receipts Of hogs at Kansas City,
from january 20 December Is, were 49,
$50, against 1875, 500 for she same time last
year. Since the opening Of the beef packing
season there have been Il, 613 head Of cattle
killed by packers and dressed-beef opera
tors.
Governor Gerber, of Nebraska, has offered
a reward of $4,000 for the apprehension of
the gang Of villains who burned Ketchum
and Mitchell alive, in Custer County, not
long ago.
The Southern Pacific Railroad is now COM
pleted to ella City, % miles by stage from
Yuma, but only fourteen and a half by the
railroad. The grading and traek-laying will
average a mile per day to Maricopa, about
10 miles by the survey, but 191 by the stage
road. This viii bring the road TO that point
tits temporary eastern terminus) by the
early part Of May. Tucson then will be with 1
y is hours stage-ride from the terminus,
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School and Church.

President McCosh, of Princeton
College, in his address before the
Princeton alumni at Pittsburg lately,
said that during the last ten years he
had received in donations of various
amounts for that institution the sum OF
S2,500,000 from unknown sources.
I'm a sermon preached at Corners
vile, Ind, on Sunday, Elder Burgess of
Butler University illustrated the immor-
atty of the times by the remark that
formerly one sermon converted 5000
persons, while now it takes 5000 SER
mons to convert one sinner"
The girls are bound to come to the
front. Lima Berger, young Swiss lady,
has just taken the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy at Berne University, after a
brilliant examination, and two other Ia
dies, American and Austrian, have pass
ed as Doctors of Medicine
"A remarkable revival of religion is
going on at Fall River, Mass. Hun
dreds of men and women, with some
children, have been converted, includ-
ing some of the most intelligent of the
population. On the streets, in offices,
shops, banks, stores, mills, conversions
are COMMUNICATIONS is the universal
topic of conversation.
This is the way our Sunday-school
children are sometimes taught to sing
The verse is sample from new book
of praise:
love to see my teachers smile
love my classmates, too;
love to learn my lessons, while
I've nothing else to do.
The love of learning, according to this,
is something that will do to sandwich in
between hours for which there is real
employment. The children who sing
this rubbish are not supposed to make
business of study. They study only be-
cause they have nothing else to do. The
Superintendent and choriSters who in
troduce this sort of hymnology into their
Sunday-schoolS can not be too severely
censured. Better fill up the time by
singing "Grandfather's Clock" or
Johnny Morgan"
The Cologne Gazette says that
committee of experts having examined
the document known as "Luther's
WILL" which is in the possession of the
Protestant Church in Pesth, has declared
it authentic. The document found its
way, with number of manuscripts of
the learned theologian, John Benedict
Carpzoino, to Hungary, and came into
the hands of private collector, rich
proprietor named Jankovicks, from
whom the Archduchess Maria Dorothea
obtained it for 400 golden guldens. She
q. l.
Pesth, in whose archives it has since
lain, nobody being positively certain
that it was authentic. 1t is henceforth
to be deposited in special case in the
National Museum at Pesth.
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ment the sentence is twice set in the
same time. The machine is said to
claim the advantage over all others of
the sort, of uncomplicated construction,
so that it is not only easy to be worked,
but performs the setting in a quick and
correct manner. From all that APP
pears, however, in relation to this ma
chine, its efficacy is not likely to come
into serious rivalry with hand cCMposi-
ton.
Maj. Henry Howell, of Sarnia, Can
ada, is claimed to have invented q
new process of refining petroleum with
out the agency of heat. A sample man.
ufactured from American petroleum of
As gravity is stated to be very brilliant
and white oil of 48 gravity and 122 FIRE
test. The yield from the crude was SO
per cent. But the most extraordinary
claim for this process is not merely that
the means used are entirely mechanical,
but also that there is no production OF
gasoline or benzine, and the entire pro-
| duct is standard white Illuminating oil,
far superior to the oil refined under old
methods. This new process, if what is
claimed for it be true, is just precisely
what the producers have been looking
for. 1t will be saving of at least $780,
100000 per annum to the region, and
will settle the little differences now eX-
listing between the producers and re-
finers-that is to say, if they secure the
exclusive privilege of using this wonder
full process. How the lighter parts Of
crude petroleum can, by mere me-
chanical process, be retained so as to
stand a fire test of 122 degrees, is some
thing truly wonderful, and is simply
equivalent to mechanical decomposi-
ton of chemical compound. The full
particulars of this extraordinary process:
will be locked forward to with deep in
terest by the entire trade.
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Sure Signs.

To lose money is sign of bad luck.
To meet a funerals sign of death.
To dissipate to-day is a sign your hair
will pull tomorrow.
To kiss pretty girl against her will
is a sign you'll get your face scratched.
To take home q piece of beefsteak
is a sign there will be broil in the
family.
To see dog fly at farmers leg is a
sign misfortune is going to befal his
calves.
To see 8 man loa6ng around bar
room is sign he'll drink-if you ask
bin to.
To see your sweetheart kiss another
fellow is a sign you will be disappointed
in a love affair.-Rey11oldS Herald.
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to cremation. The Roman Catholics
express an unqualified disapproval, the
Jews decline to express any opinion,th
Protestants say it would only necessi-
tate change in their liturgy, and the
sanitary officials recommend it after
battles, during epidemics, when the re-
mains are to be sent to distant places,
and when the ground is not suitable for
the interment of bodies.
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EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

At Boston, on Sunday morning, the 10Th,
Charles Callahan shot his bTother-in-law,
Patrick Cain, four times while the latter
was In bed, and afterward cut his own
throat, dying almost instantly. Both were
sporting men.
Jack Kehoe, the acknowledged skiing Of
the Molie Maguires," was hanged at Potts
vile, Pa, on the 18th.
Ex-Governor Curtin, Of the Twentieth
PENNSYLVANIA District, has served a for
NAL notice of contest on Yocum (Republi-
can and NationaD for seat in the next Con-
gress.
Henry f. Hoy, of the publishing firm of
Gait & Hoy, New York, committed suicide
recently on account of financial trouble.
The statement of the condition Of the
Massachusetts savings-banks shows a loss
of deposits during the past year Of $27,5O0,-
600.
At Freichlers, near Allentown, Pa, on
the 18th, Mrs. Menich was fatally burned
while trying to eXtinguish the burning
clothing of her young child. The latter was
also burned to death.
At Cohoes, n. Y, on the night of the 10Th,
Patrick Rourke and his entire family Of five
children were burned to death in their own
house.
The jury in the case Of James E. Whalen
against Gen. Sheridan, on trial in the United
States Circuit Court, at New York, brought
in a verdict for the defendant. The suit was
for the recovery OF over $780, 900 for the seiz-
ure of the Littona plantation in St. Charles
Parish, La, in August, 1867, and the eject
ment of Whalen by military order of Gen.
Sheridan, who was then military Governor.
A motion will be made for a new trial.
The members OF the Csnvassing Board of
Brevard County, Florida. have been indict-
ed by the United States Grand Jury for
making fraudulent returns, and are in Jail
at Jacksonville in default Of S., 900 bail each.
The Grand Jury in the United States Cir
cult Court has indicted r. w. Arnold, Hen
~ Birdson and J. S. Ellis, for violation of
the election laws in the election of Peter W.
Robinson, United States Supervisor of Flee
ton, from voting precincts at Waverly Sta
ton, Sussex County, Va.