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German, and, in his broken accents,
he pleaded to be killed, and when he
found his appeals for deliverance from
his terrible position unavailing, he
cried like child, till Inconsistencies
and death hushed his voice. The fire
man was lying very close to him, but
in . more favorable position. The
willing hands of succor were greatly
baffied for some time. The escaping
steam was SO dense that nothing could
be seen around the wreck but the fray-
ments, and when assistance did come
the brave engineer was past all human
aid. The fireman with great difficulty
was extricated, but died, few hours
after the accident. Stevenson, before
his death, lay upon his bed writhing in
agony and praying for the end to come.
"Why was l not killed at once and put
out of this miseryp" was his oft-re-
peated ejaculation. He said he was
compelled to breathe, the furnace
flames, while the steam had SO scalded
him that the flesh hung in shreds upon
the upper portion of his body. His
hands were burned to the bone, and the
finger-nails dropped off. Schil,inger,
the engineer, was scarcely recogniza-
BILE by his old comrades. He leaves a
wife and daughter. Stevenson had a
wife and two children.
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THE NEW WORLD.

AT the election in Albany, N. Y, on
the Sth, the Democrats elected ten, the Dem
ocrats and Nationals twenty.one and the Re.
publicans four Supervisors. John Guttman
tDem.) was reelected Justice of the Justices,
Court by 5000 majority.
A CINCINNATI telegram of the 9Th
says that out of twenty-seven towns in Obi,
from which returns had been received. the
Republicans had carried seventeen, the Dem
ocrats seven and the Independents three.
KANSAS CRY (Mo.) has elected q
Greenback Mayor C. NJ. Keeley) The Re
publicans elected the Treasurer and four GU,
OF six Aldermen.
A WICHITA (Kan.) special of the
Sth says news had been received there that
the Cheyenne Indians were on the war path
having broken from camp and started in the
direction of Western Kansas. An Agent and
an army officer who went to demonstrate with
them were ordered to leave.
A CAUCUS of the Democratic mem.
bers of the National House of Representa-.
tives was held, on the afternoon of the 9th,
at which was adopted a resolution for Mon.
day sessions, SO as to allow the introduction
of general legislation.
The Secretary of the Treasury, on
the 9TH, issued call for the redemption Of
slo,ooO'OOO OF l0-40 bonds of 1864. principal
and interest payable on the 9th of July.
ANOTHER appeal has been made by
the white inhabitants of sitka, Alaska, to the
Government for protection from an antici.
pated attack of the Indians.
The municipal elections in New
Jersey occurred on the 9th. New Brunswick
and Princeton went Republican; Railway
elected Democratic Mayor over the present
incumbent; Hoboken elected q Republican
Mayor and Democratic Water Commissioner
l." vote in jersey City shows gains for the
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aptitudes are unsuited for the loving
and successful study of music in any
form, why not accept the fact, and per-
init her to ascertain and follow her
bent in other directions? Every be-
ing that can live can do something;
this let him do" says gruff but wise old
Thomas Carlyle. The girls cannot all
play the piano, but they are not there
fore shut out of accomplishments. Let
them sing, or sketch, or paint, or EN-
broider, or make and adorn their APP
parel. or lavish their art-instincts on
cooking. A good deal of this futile
forcing of the inclinations comes from
a desire to shave some music in the
house"-and very laudable wish it is;
but why don't such parents set son to
painting, though he may be color-blind
and unable to draw straight line even
with the aid of ruler, because they
"want some pictures in the house?''
1t would be quite as sensible a proceed
ing as the other. Good mechanical
music can be had much cheaper from a
muslc-box or a crank-organ. 1t is to
be remembered, also, that piano-play-
ing is an art that can be retained only
by continual exercise. Even the great
masters of the instrument depend upon
daily practice for the preservation of
their skill. If a girls situation in life
is not likely to be such that she can re-
tain her practice, either for profit or
pleasure, it is folly, and often a cruel
ty, to teach her an accomplishment,
and perhaps give her source of de-
light, that she must so soon abandon.
The question of providing MUSCLES
sons for the daughter, except in cases
where she is SO clearly gifted as to
make the course plain, is therefore. in
our view, largely one of policy. If you
can afford the money, and your daugh-
ter the time, it is often worth her while
to learn the little the majority of her
pupils acquire, as matter of discip-
line, and for the pleasure she may feel,
and give to others, in being able to
play the sprightly measures that en-
iven the social circle, or the simple &C
compartments for home-songs. But,
if pursued in this way, and for this pur-
pose, the course of instruction should
not discourage and burden the pupil by
its tediousness and severity, as is too
often the case. 1t takes parents and
teachers long time to find out that
what children study with freedom and
delight are the easiest and best things
for them to learn.-Golden Rule.
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FOREIGN GOSSIP.

A BERLIN illustrated paper repre-
sents Prince Bismarck on steed called
Loll Reform, which is boiling with its
rider. On being asked where he is 60
ing to, he angrily replies, "How do l
know? Ask the horse.''
This is the way in which things are
done in London: A young lady was
sitting with a gallant Captain in o
charmingly decorated recess. On her
knee was a diminutive niece. placed
there to play propriety. In the ad-
Joining room, with the door open, were
the rest of the company. Says the lit
tie niece. in a jealous and very audible
voice, Auntie, kiss me too" We
leave you to imagine what had lust
happened. "You should say twice,
Ethel dear; two is not grammar" was
the immediate rejoinder.
THE transmission of Chinese treasure
is thus described in the Foochow Her.
aid: " Bullion is conveyed to Pekin in
'sheaths,' which are nothing more
than rounded logs, about three feet in
length and circumference. Each log
contains 5000 tbs, or $4,000, and is
split into two parts, which are then
followed out for the silver. Of course,
these halves fit most accurately to-
gether, and cannot possibly be tempered
with. The chink is pasted around with
fine strongpaper, and this is carefully
stamped. The logs are then bound
with iron clamps, and are ready for
the toughest usage"
A cVNNIYU iocto~no nf o,,a
dulity is reported from Munich. The
actress, Adele Spitzeder, who was SEN
fenced there about six years ago to a
term of imprisonment for having swim
died the public out of many millions by
her banking institutions (the Dachauer
Banken), conducted, as she asserted,
for the furtherance of the interests of
the Roman Catholic religion, tried
again, after her liberation from Prison,
to earn living on the stage. Finding
that this could not be done, she has re-
turned to Munich and again opened a
bank. Deposits, on which she pays
per cent. monthly interest, are brought
to her in abundance, and, of course,
another catastrophe will occur in time.
The late Ameer of Afghanistan was
universally called the "madman"
throughout his dominions, and so great
was the awe in which he was held by
his subjects, the Times of India says,
that no one dared tell him of the defeat
of his troops on the Peiwar Khotal by
the English invaders. Shere Ali sat in
his council-room, waiting for news, but
no one ventured to tell him the result.
At last the mother of Abdulla Jan sent
her little girl to tell her father. He
was talking eagerly when the child en-
tered, and she tried hard to blurt out
her message, My mother says I am
to tell Your Highness-" but the Ameer
kept putting his hand ON her mouth, as
the discussion was important. At last
he turned to her, "Well, what is it,
little one?" The child came siding
up, all eyes upon her, "My mother
says l am to tell Your Highness the
Sahibs have crossed the Khotal." An
instant stampede from the neighbor.
hood of the Ameer closed the council.
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A Clever Rogue.

A GENTLEMAN of great experience in
the commercial world cashed a check
at London bank for Fl, 100, taking the
whole in f1OO notes. He was only q
few yards from the bank when a person
resembling a clerk, bareheadcd and
with pen behind his ear, touched him
on the shoulder, saying: "Beg your
pardon, sir; will you allow me just to
take the number of these notes again?
l won't keep you q minute" The
gentleman, taken off his guard. handed
the notes over to the supposed clerk,
whom he followed into the bank. After
giving the former time to reach the top
end and return, he met the gentleman
at the door, saying, "Please walk this
way; that gentleman will attend to you
in minute,'' pointing to clerk who
was deeply engaged. Five minutes
elapsed before the gentleman could
draw the clerks attention to his case,
and he was thunderstruck to find that
this officer knew nothing about it.
The other clerks were Intercepted, and
they were equally in the dark. Of
course, no time was lost in going to the
Bank of England, but too late; the
clever rogue had been before them,
and obtained gold for the notes.
Chambers Journal.
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A Pie.Eating Match.

A PIE-EATlNG match was one of the
attractions to speculative benefit per-
Torrance at the New National Theater
last evening. In addition to the other
features it brought quite a shower of
silver to the box-clerk and an occupant
to every seat in the building. A pie
match to the sporting mind suggests
at once two conditions. First, the win
ner shall bite through a greater num-
Der of pies, placed one on top of an
other, than his adversaries, the pies
under each wide-opening jaw to be of
the same thickness, and to be bitten
either from corner or side, as the
agreement may be made. Second, all
contestants shall be stationed at equal
distances from and around table, on
which is placed an equal number of
pies for each person engaged. When
the signal is given each man grabs his
pie, and the one disposing "by fairly
eating his pie or pies' first is the VIC
tor, and thus wins all the stakes con-
cerned. Such a match was the one
last night. There were four contest
ants, each to eat one pie placed near
the edge of the table which each person
stood touching. John Kelley, James
Hynes, Daniel Lindsay and Peter DON
nelly came to score. The subjects on
which they were to operate were dys-
peptic-looking mince pies, each fully
ten inches in diameter, and suggestive
of their general appearance of having
been kept in stock since-say, Christ
mas. Stage Manager Jones said:
Ready-one (each man Strengthened
his limbs and gave his body sort of
warning shake), two, firer' and in an
instant a pie struck each mouth with a
report almost like that of a cannon.
The man who held the watch lost the
count in establishment, for he said that
he saw the top of q head fall onto
pie SO suddenly that he could think eff
nothing else except the funny trick-bed
he d seen in pantomime, which turned
into table, chair and great big
whale in less than two seconds. In
fact, he was not sure whether the head
merged its identity in the pie, or vice
UersG. He was trying to tell about it,
and had just said: "Why, it's like
pantomime," when somebody called
'time." The pies were gone. but the
watch-holder had no record. However,
ZIG WluucI was Ddlllcl AluUSdys WIN
gulped down his last tremendous NOR
sci while the other three were choking
over piece that preceded their last,
and thus the match ended, and Lindsay
pocketed ten dollars for his success as
bifurcated pig.
There was another match for five
dollars that nobody won. Three lads
came to the table, and at the word each
grabbed his pie. Simultaneously with
the arrival of each pie at each mouth
came an oath from each contestants
suffering out of the morsel bitten of,
and the hollow sounds of pies thrown
violently upon the stage found an echo
in the wild laughter that arose from the
crowded house. The man who would
have won that five dollars would have
eaten a pie of which an uncooked salt
mackerel, large piece of leather, a half
pound of straw, not to speak of a lot
of wires, a few nails and piece of
cloth. were among the ingredients
PbilatlelphiG Times.
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Shall She Take Lessons !

ALMOST every person having daugh
ter to educate is pretty sure to be con-
fronted with this question at an early
period of the +" finishing process. And,
in speaking of taking lessons" the
piano is, of course, understood to be the
instrument in question; for its hold on
the popular favor is so strong as prac-
tica1ly to rule out all others in the great
majority of cases. So much does the
piano stand for, in estimating the social
status of community, that it conveys
a very intelligent idea of the character
of a village in the newer-settled por-
tons of our country to speak of it as
"a ten-piano town." or "forty-piano
place" Ability to perform on the
National instrument has, therefore,
been one of the first things sought for
by daughters in well-te-do families;
and, as step up and out of the un-
lovely and often hard conditions of
common life, it was ambition to en-
courage. That we have so much home
music in this land to-day, and have
seen within forty years SO rapid and
wide an increase in the popular
knowledge of really coed music, is
due more to the piano than any other
instrument-it might also be said than
to all others. The first thing to be con-
sidered in answering the question,
Shall she take lessons? is whether she
wants to. This idea will probably be
new to a great many parents, who &C.
as though they suppose that BLOSSOMS"
are all that is required to make a
musician. We have not enough con-
sidered, in this country, the adaptable
ity of children to their avocations; and
so q large share of the round holes in
our industrial and professional activi.
ties are filled with square pegs, and
vice versa. If o girl has no special lik-
ing for the piano, and particularly if
she be manifestly deficient in the
natural gifts requisite to its mastery.
why should she waste her time, and
you your money, in vain attempt to
learn it? Perhaps she could learn the
organ better, or the violin, or some
other instrument. Or, if her ear he
dull. for tones, her sense of time de-
ficient, and her physical and mental
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Have you any
A Terrible Death.

will he shoot me in the heart or cut my
throat?' was the cry raised by Nicholas
Schillinger as he lay in agony, the
victim Of an accident on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad. The Buffalo & West
ern express train from Philadelphia
and New York left on time. The
engineer and fireman had been changed.
The engine was one of the best upon
the road, and the engineer, Schillinger,
one of the Oldest EN- ployes of the COM
pany, had taken his seat at the lever.
Henry Stevenson, for the past half
dozen years upon the payroll of the
company, was in the fireman's seat.
The signal was given, and the long
train, loaded with human freight,
started off at q thirty-mile run. 1t was
bounding along through the suburbs of
the city at the usual even speed when
it entered cut at the northern bound
ary of Wilkesbarre, Pa. 1t had never
been considered q particularly danger
Gus place, and no Waterman had ever
been stationed there. The train had
proceeded but few hundred yards
into the cut when, as the fireman said,
the engine began to 60 up and down,
and, an instant later, it had plunged
headlong into the right bank of the cut.
The engine tender doubled over upon
top of the engine-house, and buried in
the ruins were the engineer, Nicholas
SchilDinger, and Henry Stevenson, the
fireman. The pipes, filed with scald-
ing water and steam, were broken, and
their contents turned upon the poor UNI
fortunates lying under the engine. The
baggage car of the train alone left the
track, but the suddenness of the stop
produced several severe Commissions and
great fright. Ladies tainted and men
were thrown over the backs of seats
and upon the floor. The voices of the
engineer and firemen crying piteously
for help almost drowned the noise of
the escaping steam. Schillinger was a
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CONGRESSIONAL.

SENATE.-The Army Appropriation
bill was reported, without amendment, ON the
9Th. Mr.. Blaine gave notice of an amendment
making it "a penal offense. punishable with fine
and imprisonment. for any military, raval or
civll Officer OF any other person, except for the
purpose .S s.a named in the bill to appear armed
special election for Representatives to Congress
ls being held" MIR. Bayards resolution calling
ment Of the sums paid to John 1. Davenport,
supervisor Of Elections at New York, since 1870.
y was 9Ss a. Mr. Hsy,ss intrGdgced bill
and the Disqualification Of jurors in courts Of
the United States. The New Hampshire Sena-
torial case was further debated.
HOUsE.-Quite a debate was started
upon the prOpriety of instructing the Chairman
OF the Committee of the Whole (when the House
should be in committee ON the Legislative Ap-
preparation bilD 70 award the floor in accordance
by any list of speakers which might be formed.
The subject matter Of the discussion was finally
referred to the Committee ON Rules. The Leg
COMMITTEES Of the Whole. and several proposed
amendments were rejected or ruled out Of order.
SENATE.-A resolution was intro
duced ON the 9th, calling on the Secretary of the
Treasury for information a. to sums peid Fed
eral Supervisors of Elections AID Deputy Mar
shals in the State of Florida from 1870 to the
present time, including amounts paid to District
Attorneys. ETC.. "A bill was introduced 20 au-
thOrize the Consolidated Great southern Rail-
way Company 70 construct : railroad in the State
of Georgia. The New Hampshire Senatorial
case was further debated.
HOUsE.-The Committee on Rules
made report. which, after being modified, was
agreed to. Az adopted. the new rules provide
for the appointment of Select Committees, ON
the Census. Reform of the Civil Service. the
Law Respecting the Ascertainment and Declarn-
ton Of Epidemic Diseases, Ventilation of the
Hall, Causes of the Depression of Labor and
ALSO to increase the committee membership as
follows: Enrolled Billa to seven, Coinage to
eleven, Ways and Means TO thirteen, AQricuit-
ure. Judiciary, Elections, Commerce and Al
preparations to fifteen each; that the COMMITTEES
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When a man commits crime, it
is usual tosay that he belongs to one of
the best families. If the same man runs
for office, it will be found on the Oppo-
site stump that he belongs to one Of the
worst families. --New Orleans Rcavss,ae.
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In tie Pennsylvania oilregion people
carry nitro-glycerine in jars. The rail-
road companies are continually on the
watch to prevent it being taken on the
cars
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You may break, you may shatter
the lamp any night, but you may be
blown higher than Gildcroy's kite
Boston Transcript.
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Lady peripatetics are the polite for
female walking matches.
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The best are the cheapest. This is
more especially so in the matter of
wives.
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1t is stated that in one small river,
not far from Nancy, France, there are
annually collected some $4,000 kiio-
grams of the "ablette," small white
fish, from which is obtained substance
called the essence of d'Orient, and is
employed in the manufacture of arti6-
ciai pearls. This SUBSTANCE accompa-
MES the scales of the Athletic, and is de-
tached when tho scales are rubbed up
for a considerable time and thrown
into a vase of water; to collect it, the
water is poured off from the vase upon
a fine hair sieve, which retains the
scales and allows the water and the
product sought to pass through it. The
latter sinks to the bottom, and is OBJ
tanned pure by decanting the water, a
little ammonia being added to prevent
its decomposition.
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Detroit Police COurt-Artlcle VII.

EPHIAS JONES was q little old man,
his face as wrinkled as walnut, and
his voice as pipy as a tin whistle. He
was brought in for disturbing the
peace on the street. He was so cranky
that he elbowed and kicked the pedes-
TRANS and refused to "move ON for
street car or carriages. Bijah had
hard work to put him in cell, and
twice as hard to get him out. He had
to bring him in his arms, and the old
man kicked and scratched like boy of
ten.
"They can't nobody shove me
around'' squeaked the little old man as
he was dropped before the desk.
"Has anybody abused you?' mildly
inquired the Court.
"No, because they dasn't do it. I'm
little and old, but won't take word
of sass from any man in the State of
Michigan"
"Do you want to go home?''
IF want to go, shall 90. If l
don't, won't!'
"Have you family?''
Il won't tell your
His Honor saw that he had an origi-
ndI cndFdCGcf W Ucitl WIFI, stIlu uo Sdlu
to Bijah:
"Take this nice old man into the
corridor and read him Article VII. and
let him out by the private door,"
Uncle Ephias was carried away, kick
ing and clawing. No man outside of
two has any idea what occurred in tho
corridor. 1t is known that Bijah
brought down four of his best spankers
the other day, and he has often been
heard to express his opinion that GER
tain old men deserved certain
line of treatment when they got to
carrying on as this one did. The news
boys who were packed in next to the
wall affirm that they heard old familiar
sounds, we'll laid on, but it is mystery
that may never be unraveled. When
the old man was let out, he jumped
clear into the gutter with yell, and
close observer could have detected
splinters from pine single hanging
to his coat-tails. Detroit Free Press.
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change?
scads?
dough?
rhinO?
shin-plasters?
sinners?
ducats?
soap?
rocks?
Have you any spondulix?
brass?
scrip?
legal tender7
lucre?
tin?
chips?
pewter?
wherewithal?
lready come down, John7
or else dof his abashed hat to the su.
perior fexibility and greater variety
and verbal wealth of the United States
language. Burlington Haack. Eye.