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, 1879-08-22

opera was liant presented hero Dy tho Aimee
troupe; nnd aEl ite parts wcro 80 cotnpetentlv
anrc 10 aay tint Aiu,cc carrcii uut thc raYfannu
ssEuIac with mlcll ,,rrnlill Ut characterization.
ash Eaye thr "Sauyu mon Innocence y routn
with rrtnarkalAa tlegrco NJ nntlghty suggcs-
ttycMcsa,
THIS evening the jnlly "Briganda," In ulict,
Aimee Will Introduce two Spanish songs,
, 1879-08-22

CLEVELAND. o., Aug. 2l.-At targct.shoot.
Ing match to-day on tie Fair Grounds young
,nan mined Herman Wassmclr, who had charge
If tic target. was shot anl instantly killed by
the accidental al1schargu Ut rle In tho hands
OF ono Uf the 1norkhtneu.
New ORLEANS, Aug. 9l.-rercY Marks, aged
III, ncphow OF Administrator MarIis, slot hlul-
self tatally thls afternoon.
, 1879-08-22

MILWAUKEE, WIS.,, Aug. 2l.-Gcorgo NJ.
Wasson all Inmate 0t thu Suldiurs' lIon,u, MAS
run oyus bY u trau In tho south ward ot thu ii.
Paul Company tate this attHruoul, uuL 40 badly
injured Aat Ae died IN d lew hOuea.
, 1879-08-22

DETRoIT Mich, Aug. 9l.-A frs at White.
hall, Airh., destroyctl tcn buildings on Laks
street, Including furniture store, two satouns,
groeery sinrc. aeyrtal dNuli,ngs, anu barns.
Loss, SIC, ,000; Insurance. $4,000.
, 1879-08-22

lSukcIaI HlxDufch 70 IAs Tf1buN&.
NnAAD IaAr1ps, Mtclt.. Aug, 9f.-.A special 10
the Gras,l Rapids Tm=s from W,aretono saws
tl1at ulan nal.,cd Atarinn l.. uartor wa, isllls4
by falling tln,ter Ia tle wot,ts hear Ihnt place
yesterday. l1u furnacvlY !svu1 ut Paw Paw, III
THIS AtaLu.
, 1879-08-22
ANIUSI1NIE E.NTS.
ACTORS AMI, AUDIENCES.

They like. nnd lsnva tho greatest hatMl In milking
M nctor's reputation. Journalistic power can.
49, ~ ~ 80 49,, LUZ ~ -
EanA 70 aetors 't Is eotnarRae'e Ihct t!lnt teir
permanent regulations, tlla flnal aild 10 sting vcr-
diet Ut tter merits, ara r,ado chiutIy By their
AUDIENCES. Sometimes thu truo record cuuc.
.ftnr In ,,,ora,. No. 1oo1 ~ T. T. h,,
ss' .'.e p'",es Wv u.au y. 10 ",stten W
.aea WHO poss'o'Y neser u" lhetn. Eo'nhho
hcan's may be called postli1nious reputation.
II you read the nuwspapars of his ttEnU you will
iintt lint ,,urIn,, III, acttr ,ava hr ,voa cn,s1
"ro,ir 49,, ,,n ,n,, ,,n,,tof t:sss,,,,s ,.,.sa.
e'Aott e"t w "Hu 'nau.eo' .'a'''e@ '"pet'
sosatidns were not t''tich written about Ill bts
day. AZ to Durbi1ge, Dcttertun. A,d other IA,
NOUS actors Of their TING. whoso tianra arc IA.
m,l,ar +, ns. when th.v 1lvrI thrTa ware prac.
,..s.,.. ~, ss,..s..s .t,.aI,s 49,. 80 ~" :,
''ea,as u" "e"spapess ~ e"fon'cie t'c'e "orK.
"1oa oollcSe. hcnt That muTlt eventually
makes It's 1nnrk, tn spite Ut professional critl-
49,, ,1.,,,,.. ,sr.,,, -.
Sueeess may " "o"I o'a'S ~ posle'lt5t
~ be'teVe that Whit fl'Its!ences reilly ltlto
they stand by; Sclfo7c tllcr lanl down the
.,,o ,,,,l,o md iurY win ind III. rcr,1I,, ','I
WV 1"ase 1''1 !"t5 ""o ""u '"o 'e'u'l' "'''4
pronounce lt1c Behtehcc' VIII give you an c1-
nmplo III keeping with this raDid aye. | Mn
quite certatn that within twolve huslss Of the
production Of new play Of any importance all
London knows vlIetf,cg the riecc Is II SUCCESS ur
failure, ,o matter whcihcr It haa beet nDltced
in the papers or not.. Earfl ons VI tlle audience
Is se scntre Of little coteri'', ,nld sle word is
oaasEA on from ono TO nautiier."
"What is your feeling In rrgart to nrat-niCht
audiences, apart from the regular pnY.gpng
pub!ici" ..... ;
Is cunfess am happtest It, presence Of what
yon call the regular play-go,ly public. am
latcll nnd cxclted by stnso OF opposition,
, 1879-08-22

{5'fcial nfgya!eh 10 7ns Tfttt;e
CAnL1syI1Ls. ILL.,. Aug. 9t.-petor Wise. nu
old settler Of atacoupln County. living ncar
Vtricu. was thrown from Ills wagon last night
BY hls h0faca rnnltlH, hwaY. tle received III.
juries from whIeh no utc,l In fuw l3uurd.
, 1879-08-22

RATfON3 FOR C4MFS.
WASHINGTON, u, t., Aug. at.-Tte National
Noarl Of Health hns tlerf.icsl not to furntsE,
ratlons to those wtp remain In Memphis or
other infected. cities. md To furnish rntons to
prrsons III camps un<ler supervision unfy for q
limited time and under exceptional circun-
statlcee+
HAVANA,
HAVANA, Aug. 2l.-Deatts from yellow. fever
III tlis city during July, 475. Une from cholera.
, 1879-08-22
AT COLUMBUS, o.

CoLuMnus, o., Aug. 2l.-A t1re broke out IN
Dony g. Harris elevator at half-past to tu.
night, ana entirely destroyed 1t. Loss. s. 500.
Insured on stock III tho Hamburg -GeF.nHuia
for 81 900: on lae machinery, III tho Aurora, VI
Cincinnati, for $500.
, 1879-08-22

preached, takInE 40 bis tl,rule "a 1lappy Man."
and his text, Acts, viii, ~: 'llo went on hts
waY rcjoEcug"
BIshop Andrews will preach sometime to-day.
The Phoenix herald., 1879-06-07
From the Top of Tofana.

The air had become very light, and the breathing induced by such exer- tiou grew painful. Three thousand feet below, the nostrils had become too small, and the open mouth had to help to pump in the needed supply. Lips, tongue, palate, and throat were parched and tired. We halted only fifty feet below the peak. Had 1t been hundred feet, i faith I fear I should have failed to reach it; at fifty feet did reach it- the absolute top. Ghedina began to discourse upon the many distant peaks within sight. I begged him to wait. The air was perfectly clear, and not at all cold, the breeze only fresh. Being warm and exhausted, I threw the poncho over my shoulders, took the coiled rope for an arm rest, and stretched out over sloping couch of precisely the composition one sees in a stone breakers half-fnished heap at the roadside. I have had few so rest full half hours as that passed on this unsybaritic bed. Ghedina gave me a tumbler of wine. I drank a single swallow, took the glass away from my lips, looked in vague and half-uncon- scious wonder over the billowy clouds resting in a sheltered valley below
 
 spilling the wine over my other hand. That was all-probably not fifteen sec onds-but it gave the mysterious change which comes only with absolute sleep. The blood coursed with quieter impulse; the eye became steadier and the brain clearer. 1 was able to give attention to the details of all that one sees from mountain-top.
 The long road of the Ampezzo Val ley looked like narrow bobbin trailed over the dark green fields and among the specks of houses. Cortina, three miles and half distant by the line of sight, looked, through the clear air, like toy village out of a wooden box. We fancIed that with the strong glass we saw a man in its streets. The bell calling the people to midday mass rang clear in our ears. Except for this little stretch of inhabited valley, all else was an unmeaning mass of dis torted rock, desolate, cruel, Dantesque, lncoherent chaos, without expression, without interest, and without charm. The great peaks of Eastern Switzer- land, the sharp point of the Oetler, the Oetzthal group, the Stubaier Fernez, the Grosser Venediger, the Gross Glockner, and the peaks of the Corin- thian and Illyrian Alps, stretching over more than 200 miles of the horizon from west to east, were all in clear view, all near, and aI lo,c. Their height barely brought them into the plane of vision. They and the great lce-feld of the Marmolata all seemed lower than Tofana itself. And Tefana had lost its majesty. Seen from below, it was sublime. Conquered by the toiling tread of two insignificant men, 1t became mere stone beneath our feet. -Coio'ael Geo. E. Wdriaeg. J,-., sn Har- Der's Magazine.
The Phoenix herald., 1879-06-07
Reasoning of Arctic Foxes.

Desiring to obtain some Arctic foxes, Dr. Rae set various kinds of traps, but as the foxes knew these traps from pre- vious experience, he was unsuccessful. Accordingly, he set trap with which foxes in that part of the country are not familiar. This consisted of loaded gun set upon stand, pointing at the bait. A string connected the trigger of the gun with the bait, so that when the fox seized the bait he discharged the gun, and thus committed suicide. In this arrangement the gun was separated from the bait by distance of about twenty yards, and the string which con- nected the trigger with the ball was concealed throughout nearly its whole distance in the snow.
 The gun-trap thus set was successful in killing one fox, but not in killing a second, for the foxes afterward adopted either of two devices whereby to share the bait without injuring themselves. One of these devices was to bite through the string at its exposed part near the trigger, and the other device was to burrow up to the bait through the snow, at right angles to the line of fire, SC that, although in this way they dis charged the gun, they escaped with out injury rJ-bAc DaAt Oo1AS Pu41Ou OO1OW tuO line of fire, before the string was drawn sufficiently tight to discharge the gun.
 Now, both of these devices exhibited wonderful degree of what think must fairly be called the power of reasoning. I have carefully interrogated Dr. Rae on all the circumstances of the case, and he tells me that in that part of the world traps are never set with strings, so that there can have been no special association in the foxes minds between strings and traps. Moreover, after the death of fox No. 1, the tracks on the snow showed that fox No. 2, notwith- standing the temptations offered by the bait, had expended a great deal of scien- tific observation on the gun before he undertook to sever the cord. Lastly, with regard to burrowing at right an- gles to the line of fire, Dr. Rae and 8 friend in whom he has confidence, ob-
 served the fact sufficient number ot times to satisfy themselves that the di rection of the burrowing was really tC
 be attributed to thought and not tc | chance.- Wdrerley-
The Phoenix herald., 1879-06-07
The Good Old Times.

We oft, with wistful eye aKd quaint desire, Recall events which early days inspire. For these our untaught souls are wont to yearn, And sigh for good old times,'' which ne'er
 return.
 As down the vale of time our being flies, Scenes, new and changing, every moment rise. Each passing hour new vibration feels, And each newborn phase of life reveals. But when the mind, with retrospective eye, Reverts to scenes which in the distance lie, Imagination paints their forms anew, And " distance1ends enchantment to the view" But if the time so old and held so dear, Should, at a moments warning, reappear, Should customs. dim with years, around us
 spread, Aghast we'd stand. with wonder filled and
 dread
 Vain is the retrospect, and vain the thought Even could the good old phantom once be
 caught, 1T would be myth. A change, as yet untold, Lies deep within ourselves-s0e hare grolon old.
 Boston TraUelLe7-.
The Phoenix herald., 1879-06-07
The Heart-broken Merchant.

The shre wdness and business capa- city that have made the Yankee the first of traders and promise to turn this country into the workshop of the world, received a striking and happy illustration the other day. The scene was hereabouts, the characters Q rising young merchant and a pretty woman. He had an affection for her, she liking for him, so they became betrothed. After time she found out that she didn't love him well enough to marry him, and the match was broken off. It was severe blow, and he staggered under it; but he fought well for him. self, protested that his life was ruined, asked if she could not learn to love him, and in all ways did the proper thing. She was immovable, however, and he sadly and reluctantly took his leave. While his eyes were full of gathering tears he bade his faltering farewells, then closed the door upon his hopes. A moment later he opened it, stepped back into the room. and, with tears in his voice, brokenly mur- mured, $ I hope this will make no diff ference about your coming to the store, Miss; and that your mother will continue to trade with us. I shall be happy to give the usual discount. Our stock is large and varied, our aim to please" And the door shut finally, leaving him alone with his grief.-YOT- Gck in Portlaud Press.
The Phoenix herald., 1879-06-07
Agassiz and Home.

At the time that '' spiritualism '' was most popular in New England the men of science were adjured by intelligent ladies and gentlemen who thought they could believe the testimony of their eyes, and who thus considered them selves to be Observers" to investigate the phenomena. Agassiz was among the foremost of the scientists who stepped forward in answer to this ap- peal, but he and his associates could not force the spiritualists to comply with any of the conditions under which scientists observe. They were con- stantly taunted for not Investigating the wonders which they were constantly prevented by the wonder-workers them selves from Investigating according to the accredited methods of science. Agas- sig during this controversy happened to meet Home, the chief magician of the sect, in railway car. ''It is sad, MT. Agassiz," said Home, |" that the prejudices of you men of science inter- pose to prevent the advancement of science, owing to the fact that you re- fuse to investigate the phenomena which are nightly presented to all un- prejudiced observers. MT. Home, :" was the reply, " I never refuse to inves- tigate anything which promises to adj vance science, and nothing will give me more delight than to investigate the marvels which occur, as you say, at your meetings" Well, then" replied Home, "come this very night and wit ness the appearance of the spirit hand. D Nothing will give me more pleasure, !" answered Agassiz, " than to be one of the selected guests around the table where the spirit hand appears. My opinion is that it is physical hand with little phosphorus rubbed over it.; but am open to conviction. I am q little skilled in the use of weapons, and all ask is that shall have the privi- lege of putting my stiletto through it.. If the hand is spirit hand, no harm will occur /; if it is a human hand, I feel confident in my power to transfx it on the table, much to the discomfort of its possessor." Home declined the test Such want of faith, he said, would necessarily prevent the spirit hand from appearing. And, indeed, all means of investigation which Agassiz suggested were dismissed as not calcu- lated to induce the spirits to commu- nicate with any company of which he was a member.-E. ?. Whipple, in HGrpers.
The Phoenix herald., 1879-06-07
Another Trouble for England.

The English government has another
 tariff question on its hands, similar tc
 that which disturbs it's relations with
 Canada. It has been giving protection
 to the cotton manufacturers, which il
 now proposes to withdraw in part, il
 not wholly. At present the Calcutta and Bombay mill owners are able to
 import free coal, free machinery, and
 free skilled labor from England, and | with these aids to manufacture goods
 which the protective duty secures them
 ready sale for at higher than the nat
 ural prices in the Indian market. But
 these mill owners also export large
 quantities of goods to China and other
 foreign markets and the excessive
 profits obtained in India put it in their
 power to undersel1 English competi-
 tors abroad by charging less for their yarn and cloth than they would other
 wise be compelled to. The Bombay
 Gazette, commenting on this state of affairs, says a double injury is infiict- forced to buy clothing at dearer than the legitimate rate, and on the English manufacturer, who finds himself shut out of the Indian market and menaced with what may be described as a subsi- dized competition in other Eastern mar kets. It is absurd to expect England to maintain her dominion over India for the purpose of thus ruining an i'm portant branch of her own trade, for the benefit, not of the people of India, but of small class of Indian mill owners" The Gazette further says:
 The wealthy Babus of Calcutta and their friends, the mill owners of Bom bay, have probably less to complain of than any other set of people in this world. Utterly helpless as they are to protect themselves, they enjoy the ad vantage of being protected by the strong English government and allowed to accumulate riches In peace and they are so lightly taxed for the maintenance of English rule in India that the amount they contribute to the national exchequer may fairly be said to be in Yet they are so grasping and discontented withal that any one would suppose by their outcries they were being stripped of every rupee they possess whenever the government asks them to bear their fair share of taxation; and their antipathy to English infu- ence, which has at least made their for tunes, is so intense that under the pre- text of becoming champions of the cause of a struggling Indian industry they have the presumption to demand the continuance of a commercial policy which is doing serious injury to the cotton export trade of England. We have never been able to sympathize, for our own part, with the rich natives who claim exemption from direct taxation and, if we opposed the license tax last year, the only motive of our was desire to see an income tax imposed in its stead. As for the pretensions of the mill own CTS, we need not repeat the arguments we have often used to show that it is not desirable to destroy the Indian market for the cotton manufacturers of for the sake of enriching the Nursey Kessowjees of Bombay.
 The English government is likely to have plenty Of business in pacifying it's jealous and ambitious colonists, and in lighting their quarrelsome neighbors. American IrdUeler.
The Phoenix herald., 1879-06-07
NO. 26.
Domestic Education.

A Boston correspondent writes to a Western paper that [" American women seem to have awakened to the fact at last that the servantgalism matter Is in their own hands to mend or mar, and the present indications appear to point to the mending of the long crying evils very decidedly. One of the first indications was the opening of the schools of cookery, to which wise mls- tresses sent their domestics for train ing" While some benefit will result from these cooking schools, still larger hopes are founded on another and new department. To the industrial schools in New York and Boston have been added recently what are called kitchen gardens. Miss Huntington, the lady who has inaugurated these schools, has introduced her system into fourteen in dustrial schools, and in them hundreds of little girls are learning table-setting. dish washing, bed-making, door tend ing. fire-making, in short, everything needful in household life. Besides these essentials, their religious training is impressing upon them the impor- tance of honesty and truthfulness- If these kitchen gardens spread all over the countr9, what may we not hope for in the next generation of servant girls The wonder is that our housework Is done as we'll as it is now, when it Is so generally intrusted to girls who never knew a well-ordered home, and have picked up what knowledge they have of cookery. It is doubtless true that C We may live without poetry, music and art We may live without conscience, and live with
 out heart;
 We may live without friends; We may live
 without books:
 But civilized man cannot live without cooks He may live without books-what Is knoHledge
 but grieying?
 He may live without hope-whxt is hope but
 dtceiving2
 He may live without love-what is passion but
 pining?
 But where is the man that can live without
 dining
 The cooking schools of the past have been places of amusement for wealthy young ladies, where, in dainty white aprons and jaunty white caps, they learned to make '' costly salads and Charlotte russe." Now there is sol emn proposition afoot in Massachusetts to establish State cooking schools where the preparation of all useful articles of food shall be taught, and the princi- pies of chemistry applied
 Much of this work would be unneces- sary if mothers would generally train their daughters in domestic affairs at home, but since they do not, or can not, let the training schools go on-
The Phoenix herald., 1879-06-07

GREEN PEA SoUP.-Boil till tender one pint of shelled peas. in just water enough to cook them remove from the fire and mash very fine; then mix thor oughly with two pints of sweet milk. strain through sieve, and return to the fire. Season with butter, pepper and salt to suit the taste, and when It boils, serve with crackers, the same as oyster soup. My family think 1t splendid dish. String beans can be prepared in the same manner
 SWEET PIcKLED PEACREs--One peck of peaches, six pounds sugar, one pint best cider vinegar. Peel the peaches, put three cloves in each peach let the sugar and vinegar come to boll skim well, then put in the fruit. Do not let it boil too much, so as to go to pre- serves. Care must be taken not to have the fruit too ripe. The above Is excel lent for pears and plums.
 To make Honeycomb Pudding. take one-half cup flour, one-hslf cup sugar, one-half cup New Orleans mo Iasses. half teaspoonful salt, one dessert spoonful of soda dissolved in water, one ounce butter. Beat the yolks of four eggs very light, and mix all together Bake in buttered dish three-quarters of an hour, not too quickly Serve hot.
 SWEET ToMAro PIcKLE- = Seven pounds ripe tomatoes, peeled and sliced three and a half pounds sugar one ounce mace and cinnamon, mixed one ounce cloves one quart vinegar The spice must all be ground. MIX all together and boil one hour.
 TOMATOES. = Slice green tomatoes. and boil in weak brine until tender Dissolve one pound brown sugar m one quart vinegar. Scala with spices to your taste, and pour over the tomatoes-
 PAINT SPors.-When neither turpen- tine nor benzine will remove paint spots from garments try chloroform- It will absorb and remove paint which has been on for six months.
 STEAMED BREAD.-Bread is splendid steamed instead of baked, but should be steamed from half an hour to an hour longer, according to the size of the loaf
 Beeswax and salt will make rusty flat irons as smooth as glass
The Phoenix herald., 1879-06-07
Australia's International Exhibition

No part of the world Is now so re- mote that its industries are without in terest to the people of the United States. There IS no country with which we do not have or hope to have commercial intercourse, and If we are not interested as sellers in the market of any land, 1t may be that we are or shall be buyers of its products. Aus tralia Is by no means too distant to be commercially available to the United States, as existing relations already in- dicate. But were there no hope of ex- tending our trade with that fertile isle of the sea, there would yet be reason for acquainting ourselves with its in- dustries. Australia Is destined to be- come no insignificant rival in certain branches of trade of markets of the world which we hope to supply. It is, therefore, wise for us to become ac- quainted with Australian industries. A very favorable opportunity for such an acquaintance Is to be afforded in the International Exhibition which is to be opened at Melbourne the first of Octo- Der, 1880, and continue until April, 1881. The Parliament of Victoria Is to defray the expenses of the erection of buildings for the Exhibition, in Carl ton Gardens, and the provision prom ises to be ample for the accommodation of exhibitors from every quarter of the globe. The Commissioners are em- powered to invite British, foreign and colonial governments to take part in the display. Since Australia has been represented in every worlds fair since 1851, 1t is not too much for its people to anticipate friendly cooperation in every land of civilization in insuring the success of their proposed Exhibi- tion.-N. r. MaH.