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a Charming Legend.

There is a Rabbinical story, says the
Philadelphia Progress, which tells the
value in which pearls were held in the
early ages, only one object in nature be-
ing thought to be placed above them {:
On approaching Egypt, Abraham locked
Sarah in chest, that none might be-
hold her dangerous beauty. But when
he was come to the plsce of paying Gus
toms the collector said, "Pay us the
custom ;" and he said, az will pay the
CUSTOM" They said to him, "Thou
earliest clethes;" and he said, 81 will
pay for clothes" Then they said to him,
Thou earliest gold - and ne answered
them, Il will pay for my gold" On
this they farther said to him, "Surely
thou Dearest the finest silk :" he replied,
1" / will pay custom for the finest silk
Then they said, "Surely it must be pearls
that thou takest with thee" and he on
ly answered, {" will pay for pearls"
Seeing that they could name nothing of
value for which the patriarch was not
willing to pay custom, they said, ct
can not be, but open thou the box and
let us see what is within" So. they
opened the box, and g the whole land Of
Egypt was illumined by the luster
of Sarah's besuty-far exceeding even
that of pearls.
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The Water Torture in Japan.

The originator Of this cruel device
relied upon the torments of thirst as
more powerful than any other corporal
suffering. The prisoner is for several
days confined to an extremely salt diet,
withot rice or water. When two or
three days have passed, the craving for
water becomes incesssnt, and the suffer-
ings If the tortured man approach the
bounds of insanity. Efforts are then
made to obtain confession by subjecting
the sufferer to the sgony endured by
Tantalus when in the midst Of the in
fernal lake, whose waters he could not
touch. On all sides the thirst distracted
prisoner beholds WHITEWATER for which
he would Observation-Disclosures which
he cannot touch except On the condi-
ton of confession.
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STONE WELLS OF ARIZONA.
Remarkable Natural Formations I'm au
Arid Desert.
Arizona Sentinel.

Afhu DtstFh
Arizona Sentinel.
A wonderful plsce in Tinsjas, about
thirty miles southeast of Mission Camp.
The mountains have one face of hard,
smooth granite. All the water falling
upon this basin has to flow through nine
tanks, one above the other. The lower
tanks are of easy access, and are often
drained of their contents by men and
animals travelling between Yuma and
Sonora. The upper tanks are approached
only by circuitous and difficult limbing
over rocks. To one standing below they
afford no indication of their existence,
nor does climbing the smooth, steep
mountain-side seem possible to one I'm.
acquainted with the way they do it. In
the upper tanks water has never been
known to fail. To this water comes
game of all Kinds in great numbers rom
the great waterless countries around
Tinajss. Antelope, mountain sheep and
deer of several kinds cone in herds.
Rabbits and hares are as plenty as any
where, and are prey for many coyotes
and beautiful Little rock foxes. One
would think that all this game would
be thinned out by the Papago Indians,
who inhabit the country. But these
Indians are superstitious, and avoid the
Tinajas with sbject horror.
Within two miles of this water are
certainly one hundred and fifty graves,
and possibly more, each marked by rows
of stones laid In the form of a cross,
Scores of men Vanished for water have
expended their last strength in reaching
Tinajss, only to find the lower tanks
dry, and, ignorant o the upper ones,
have laid down in despair to die. The
remains have been buried by later trav-
elers, and the graves marked, Mexican
fashion, by Cross of stones. During
the rush to the gold. fields of California,
cholera attacked travellers on the road
from Mexico, as it did American immi-
grants along the Platte pestilence COM
bined with thirst to produce corpses at
TInajas. Recollections of bleached bones
and grinning skulls protect the game
from Papsgo arrows and fintlocks. After
passing thrC ugh the usual fermentstio
the water becomes clear and pure as
any in the world it comes from the
clouds only, and, flowing into the tanks
over insoluble granite, it carries no min
eral matter. Every heavy rain pOurs s
whirlwind torrent through the tanks,
washing them out to the very bottom
no organic matter stays behind. The
number and variety of birds here
is marvellous, many of them appearing
to be of new and undescribed species.
At morning and evening the din of Their
song, confined by the sides of the nsoun-
tains, is almost deafening. All around
TiDaias is the remarkabe vegetation of
the desert near its tanks are many
plants nourished by their moisture.
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FIRsT LOVE.
BIZ JoAoUIE MILLER.

DowE e-der The hill, and there under the hT-tree
~ the spring. and looking far out il the valley,
Che stsnts as she stood in the glorious oidsu,
Swinging her hat in her right hand dimpied
The other hand toys with hoDeysuekis
That hss tiptosd up and is trying TO kiss her
Her dark hair is tWining hsr neck and her temples
A. tsSd- iss-He beautiful Baliz. marble.
60 9 eyes Of lustre and love and passion
" recent face like the seA-shel tinted
VI 70 cloud With the sun beams tangled in il p'
I er,se a. stood iu IN dust beneath her,
Ar6 ess on the goddess my boy heart wOr.
sttpped
Wsit 8 love and passion, part Of madness
Is Dse-ier r. she said and a tinge Of displeasurs
Ewsp. over her lace that should disturb her
g A. Of the fair world is spread eat before you.
Go down and posses il with love and devotion,
And heart ever ten der and touching as voman's,
And Re snail be isir the frst kiss Of morning."
I tornsa down the pathway was blinded no longer
Another was coming tall, manly snd bearded.
b. & ne a shrine ia the iuuermoss tenn pie
IN the .nnermost rim OF the hearts red centre
And placed her therein, sole pOssessor and priest
esf
temple.
They ssy that he wooed her there under the rtree,
Iha. &c won her one eve, when the katy ID ds
E-ocked her.
Bs a.sy have a maiden aud call her Merinda ;
Bui "a. 3e lie the one that stands there forever,
Lsis,7ely swinging her hat by the ribbons.
They fsy she is welded, No, not my Meriuda.
For nsne stands forever there under the fr-tree,
GAZING and swinging her hat by the ribbons.
They tel me her children reach up to my shoulder.
Us fs.se. did see her down under the hr-tree,
WhsI the stars we're all busy G-weaving thin laces
Zads sed with taeiE gold and the moons yellow
B0sssee,
Elcv lining her hat AZ IN davs Of the Olden.
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Josh Billings.

Mr.. Shaw, otherwise Josh Billings"
has given serious biography, as fol-
lows: i am from Massachusetts. My
father and grandfather were both MEM
bers of Congress and distinguished men.
At one time it was intended that L
should be the private secretary OF John
Quincy Adams, and l went down to
Quincy, where he lived, and stayed with
him three months. had plenty OF en-
ergy, and knew how to talk, and, 1
thought, how to write, too, but never
how to make money. l turned away
from Mr.. Adams, and have been nearly
all my life frontiersman. AS long ago
as 1885 joined party with the inten-
ton of crossing the plains to the Pa
cifc ocean and colonizing under the
Mexican Government. At that time
there was hardly trail across the con-
tinent, and we had to give the scheme
M; but / settled as far West as it was
possible to live, and there spent most
of my maturing years"
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continued my way always farther and
deeper into the forest, not daring to stop.
Only once-it might have been mid
night fell to the ground and began to
sob and pray; and in tears and prayers
I regained new strength. After this
climbed several hills, crept through
bushes and desert places, which looked
as if they had never been trodden by
the foot of man.
At last the morning broke. As l had
outlived the night 1 hoped the day
would not see me perish. Forward, then,
with renewed strength
At last found my companions under
the Pirkovac- Hau. Guided, as it seemed,
by an unseen hand, had struck into
the right path during the dark hours of
the night. What joy for me to see my
friends again And what joy for them,
teo, who had already counted me among
the dead
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THE CRUEL KHEDIVE.
Nix ht Scenes on ihe Lii, e OF an Egyptian
Railroad.


Railroad.
Communication in Hartford Post.
The accounts of the distress now ex-
isting in the valley of the Nile remind
the writer of scene he witnessed in the
winter of 1866. Starting from Cairo
for a trip up the Nile, we stopped the
first night near the ruins Of ancient
Memphis, to which we walked in the
moonlight. We were surprised at seeing
on the plain mile or two south OF US
large gathering of people bearing lights.
Upon going to the spot we found more
than thousand men, women and chill
dren engaged in throwing up an embank~
ment for the railroad the khedive was
building from Cairo to Thebes by forced
labor. No machinery or tools whatever
were used except baskets. These the
poor wretches were filling with their
hands, placing them upon their heads,
and slowly and YEARLY, except when
accelerated by the voice and lash of the
overseer, dragging themselves up the
embsnkment and dumping them at the
end. The embsnkment, l judged, was
about twelve or fifteen feet higher than
the plain, and perhaps forty feet wide.
The baskets of the men would contain
about three pecks oil the light, dry, allu-
vial earth; those of the women about
half bushel, and the children p9haTs
peck. This wss all forced labor-nO
pay Whatever. The khedive would
send steamer up the river to village,
and call for from fifty to two hundred
people OF all ages and sexes to go, with
out pay, and work on this railroad for
one month, at the end OF which time he
would send them, or what was LETT OF
them, back. Inc bodies of those who
died from exhaustion helped to swell the
embankment. No time for sentiment.
What their hours of labor were | could
moi OHu OuL, DuI saw GhSAh ~ "O-A az
10 p. m. l saw villages up the river
partly depopulsted, because OF q late
visit of these steamers, and one entirely
abandoned and partly in ruins, having
been fired into, as WAS said by our drago-
man, because the sheik" could not or
would not furnish the required quota.
1t was the intention to grade the entire
road of several hundred miles in this
wav. Whether it has been accomplished
! am not aware. Our party chartered q
steamer for the trip. At
the coal stations the officers impressed
the first natives they could catch and
compelled them to coal our steamer in
the same manner the railroad was being
graded, in baskets carried on the head. |
I do not wonder that with this system
of unpaid labor in full force, with sll
the palaces of the khedive, with his
crest desire for. Improvements, and his
large and disastrous attempts at cotton
growing and sugsr-making, there should
finally be distress in the valley of the
Nile.
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Whose Pigs I?
Londcn Sporting Times

LOndCn sporting Times.
When the Bishop Of Peterborough
was installed in his country parsonage,
he used to go out good deal among his
parishioners, and on one occasion came
across a boy minding a SOW and her lit
ter, when the following conversation
took place:
Vicar-Well, my little man, and whose
pigs are those?
Boy--Whoi, that old COWS, to be sure.
Vicar-No, no, don't mean that
who is the master of them?
Boy-Whoi, that little black chap
there vie the curly tail-he ticks the lot
on 'em.
Vicar (amused)--No, no, yot don't
understand me; mean who is the own
er of them? Whom do they belong to I?
Boy-Belong to? whoi, TO my father,
o. course.
Vicar--Well, and who is your father
Eli?
Boy--Well, look ERE; if you just
moind the pigs, DILL run an ak mother.
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elf skies were bluer, and frogs wei

elf skies were bluer, and frogs were
fewer, and fewer the storms On land and
sea; were shiny summers perpetual
comers-what Utopia this would be |
If life were longer and faith were strong
err; if pleasure would bide--if care
would fee; if each were brothers to all
the other--what an Arcadia this would
be-" So sings the English poet Leigh
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All. he is coming I with weary 9

All, he is coming with weary step
and to Glow music. We have been ex-
pecting him along, for we knew he must
be almost ripe. The man who knows
that the peach crop is ruined by the
frost, the sap being one long icicle in the
center of the tree, and the buds and
branches black pulp and dead sticks, is
crawling out like the prophetic ground
hog to cast shadow over every one he
meets.
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will be made to appear as little like
what the Lord intended them to be as
it is possible for human ingenuity to
make them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-18

master-mechanic, was encountered stridng along
in mid-air with the careless gait he would use
on the sidewalk. During the past WINTER ne
crossed from pier TO pier on the foot-brdge nearly
every day. and ON occasion he mace inc
tim when the wind blowing mt the rate OF MY
miles an hour. He stood. with his hands IN ms
pockets, near the edge of the narrow bridge,
which swayed peTceptibly with every footstep ana
smingy gave the inquirer the information ne de-
sired He said, There Will be work Tor large
number of men in a few days. About thousand
workmen can be employed TO advantage on the entlre
structure. The gaps the tops OF Wonder piers WIZ
then be topped with stone baustTades The anchoi-
ages are 10 be built M about eight feet above
the cable ends and TO he provided with cornlces
similar 10 those on the piers, but less ornamental
The cables are now complete, and you see they are
marked at intervals where the suspcndeI- Oanus are
TO be placed. The work the roadway OF the bridge
Will be begun, probably, within three months time.
Bids for materials Xpected to be about
May l. Some changes have been made from the
original plans regarding the materials. For some
parts of the roadway steel is to be used IN place OF
iron-as was intended orignally-in order to make
the roadway stronger and lighter. The work OF
placing the suspender ropes and laying the road,
way will begin at the piers and VIII proceed
toward the anchorages and the centre
of the bridge. Care will be taken TO keep the same
amount OF weight each side Of pier SO as TO
cqualize the strain on the cables. ii suitable
number of men can be kept at work regularly,
think the bridge will be ready for public travel III
abOut two years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-18
4 STPoLL ACRoSs THE BRIDGE.

ACTIVE WORK oS THE ANCHORAGEs-THE ROAD
WAYS TO BE BUILT sOON-A BED's-EYE YIEw
OF THE TWO CITES.
The office of the brooklyn Bridge Company was
beseeed by a large crowd Of unemployed men We'd
nesday, IN consequence Of the resumption Of work
on the bridge. Many Of the men remained standing
in the street outside for several hours before they
could get an opportunity 10 make their
applications Among the persons in the office,
when a TRIBUNE reporter visited 1t were
several local politicians and oilice-holders
who had come TO press the claims Of some of Their
supporters with President Murphy. An Alderman
of this CITY, who was present. said he bad obtained
places for several of his friends last year and lie
wanted them reGngaecd. The clerks in the office
said that the numb of men already engaged was
about one hundred, but that they expected
a much larger force of men would be set
at work in a few days. Having obtained
permission to inspect the bridge the reporter
climbed the staIrways Of the Brooklyn anchorage,
and thence made bis way along the foot bridge
over the towers to the New-IOTk shore.
About forty men were found at Work at the
BROOKLYN anchorage With the aid of stationary
steam engines and large cranes they were
lifting huge blocks of stone to their places
on the anchorage which Is now buit
only few feet above the arches. similar scene
was Witnessed at the New-YOrk anchorage. On the
ION of the Brooklyn pier solitary workman was
engaged in cleaning an cngIne which was uScd last
wear 10 lift materials from the dock OeoW' Vh tle
~ York uicr SIX men were similarly employed.
BEFORE the piers are made complete nearly a hun,
dred large stones are 10 be placed on each, TO M
I'm the nOtches, or saddle pits, thrOhgh WhlSh tLe
cabies PASS Everything on the piers had been
lent in neat order during the suspension OF work;
Coils of wire, chains, and the WoISinens Ioois aad
been packed away snugly, ana nau peSu p IoJo'Su
Nv Coverings, Those parts Of the cables when lie
" re saddle pieces cannot be wrapped, and they
have been painted and covered Win temporary
While crossing the foot-bridRe, Nh Harrington the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-18

VIM Clyde q co; Neptune Berry. Boston, II P Dimock'
rTaDcODia. Rragg Portland. Ames
ships w III COrsar (BT COnrteDay, Liverpool Williams a
GuiOn; EewWOiid, Hammond, London, Gnune, Minturn.
&
Barks Deseti Dubrovacki (AusD Drabaz Amsterdam
Fuuch fedye e co: Palermo (BrD McIanrhin Bordeaux
Parker & Co; Franklin, Cementsen. Copenhagen Den.
& Tobias & %.
Brig Ataaya. Eve. Clon,uegos, II A Thicker & co.
Schrs Harvest, McDaid Providence Roberts; Arn0n,
~ George BERMUDA Middleton co; Mary Oliver, Bakor
Wilmington G. r staples Joseph Potts, Mid. New
Haven Cartwright & DOYLE; Jacob T. RdgHay, Townsend
Para Budctt Pond; Annie Moore Eskfidpe. hOntego
Bay Cohen; JOS Baker. Davis, Georgetown, Dem
LeaycraH & Co .....oo
LONDON April l7.-Bark Adene (Brl Cap. Grant from
condtou Hr ere, saved ard landed a. Queenstown
LEGHORN, April I4-Bsrk Carrara llta capt Pontremoh
which sailed from this port Apfl or put Dsc1
After again sailing went ashore, and remains
FOREIGN PoRrs.
LONDON. April 17-Str Alsats, from New YORK for this
port, has passed the Lizard.
LIVERPOOL April l7-Arr Caribbean. from Batmorej
Chrvsolite. from New-OTleiDs
sailed rs Bayaran Palestine and Massachusetts all for
Boston.
QUEENSTOWN April l7-saed the 9Th Inst. sr Adratc,
-YrOk
BRrsToI. April I7.-Arr Fernville. from Ee~.York.
SOUTHAMPTON Apul -Arr scr BTdunsoiiNt S, from New'
Orleans fOT Bremen.
LOSDoN April sailed inst sOlnaer; 10Th inst, For
the latter for New YORK. 10Th Inst Hag2esund, Edgar
GioaniD W * jenkins; 18th inst. Thor. .
Arr "a inst, COIceZiOne Immacolata llth INST Frehe,
Hedvig EleOnOr; l2th inst Hans Nielsen Hppge Leo l9I
inst Zedenrusl shanghai Atlantic Ma'po John Bunyan,
Feisa Jugua Gonzales. JOyen Joaquin. John /ttiOsen,
Henue. Arlington; 18Th inst Albion. 1ur- Aphe Carver,
Grace Carver 18th inst, Flnzel NiscounL Mustang.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-18
SALE OF PICTURES At KURTzS GALLERY.

Kurtz's Gallery, No. East Twenty -thlrd-st.,
was crowded last evening the sale Of the Harrison
collection of oil and water-color pictures. The bidding
slow and the assemblage apathec that II was
11:15 o'clock before seventyeight numbers had been
knocked Persons began 10 leave the gallery be-
fore the sale tbreequarers and the last lew
pictures put up before the fifteen or twenty VINO
sat the sale out All things considered the pictures sold
very well, the total realized being little over
$1,000. There was only bid OF 500 on
the original portrait OF George Washington, painted
by Rembrandt Peale for the Soldiers Far IN
Philadelphia, and that, too, came from an English
man. who appeared to be the only person in the gallery
who wanted the picture The spirited bidding was
between two gentlemen for rather small landscape by
the Dutch painter Jacob Ruysdacl. This painting was
started at $500 ana sold for 5000. The large
Schreyer, " Horses Frightened by Wolves" was with
drawn by Mr. Harrison before the auction began. The
following are some Of the prices obtained; W. liaits
" landscape" $175; Giois's a Billiard
Party" 500; Duycnicks d" Interior OF ST.
Marks $l75; Defcanx's Sheep" -, Sl6O
GliseutPs Tuning w." $40; JocO:acci's The Pro
posal $40; lorns" Tasting the New Wine" 500
scape," $780, Harrson's "rhe Cavalier" 5000; Coro''s
small watcr-color, SO; ROthermel's Little Bcgglr
Girl" Sl4J,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-18
SEEING And HOUSEKEEPING.

The closing exercises of the Seventh Ave-
nue. udus. school took place last evening at Seventh
ave. ana E.sutceuth-st, under y. direction Of Miss
sands tn, school, which, like sonGny of the charities
oil tie city, is performing useful work
m reaching the poor girls Of The part OF the town within
n. iuTi.d.c,luu how 10 sew, has lately adopted
tine Kitchen Garden sI~tcIn iuVrntrd by Miss hunting
ton and iist introduce sou Mission The Kitchen
Garden gca attracting the attention If people inter
,,i.c Boo charitable work ta,s year and has grown
favor last that wIcr,as the fret puLiIC exhibit
ton Of II given Oniy year a-o, the system mas
been tau ht fourteen dicreut place. 10y permission
of Mss Huntington. during the Winter Just closed.
The seventh Avenue Industrial School Is Of the
institutions which found ~ advantag ADOPT
the system for the training u the hte girls under lis
care. The exercises last evening began with hymn.
AMI with reading iTOm the Scriptures by SIR.
Galway. Their was then prayer followed
by recitation OF texts, aud exposition OF
tie iul, of sewing. accompanied by The residue
Of the csruiug was devoted Ia an exposition OF the
Kitchen Garden. with its pretty songs its recitation OF
runs Tor setting the table bed-nakLs washing, sweep
ing, etc, aud It's picturesque gymua-c An
address was delivered 10y the Rev. DIR. Hall and the
exercises closed with singing aud a Denedction.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-18
REMOVAL OF EXCHANGE ROOMS.

The members of the Mechanics and Traders tx
change intend removing on or before May from
their present rooms in Church-st. to No. lo9
Broadway, opposite the Western Union building
The reason for the change is desire TO have the
fouud also that the constant passing of the trains
on the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad in front Oh
the windows of the old rooms was a source OF an
novance on account of the noise and smoke. The
now rooms occupy the entire first floor of No. 1913
Broadway. The large front room will be used as
the Exchange proper, while in the rear Will be a
room for the sole of the officers oil the corpora
non. These rooms have been unOccupled ever since
the building No. 1913 was erected. SIX years ago
the owner refused TO give lease of these rooms
for ten years AT an annual rental OF SlO,VoO. now
the Exchange gets a lease of them TOR three years
at 81, 800 year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-18

Union. with their 526j teachers and 90 scno,-
ar5 will celebrate the sem -centennlal anhl'eis"S
of the formation of the Union on May ZZ'
1t is reported that the City Railroad Company re-
grets tbat the control of elevated roads IN the
city is likely to be in the hands of outside capla-
lists and is seriously considering the project OF re-
placing its its surface tracks with elevated tracks
Reports have been received from England una!
Erastns r. Chase. age forty-nine formerly living at
No 1876 Gates-avc., and engaged IN the real .SIats
business who sailed in the steamer Atlas, on March
90 was lost overheard soon after leaving TINS port
He had received commission TO settle up sea cap
tans state IN West Africa. Iienformed his business
partner. Mr.. Greenng, that if he found chance to
make money in that country ne wonldreinaih mere
town, l.. L. valued at - 900. For fifteen years ne
had been sea captain himself 1t is surmlsed thai
he was on deck in storm aud was washed over
board. MIR, Chase was married. and his wife lives
in Boston.