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can hardly be overestimated. The address OF
the Flower Mission is given in our local col
umns, and its appeal will no doubt meet WIN
the usual generous response.
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Bnsiness Nctltes.

"ALDERNEY BRAND
puy always OVNp'@S"' Min
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-18

Edwards Pierrepont, who stood by General
Grant through thirty-six ballots at Chicago,
says al cannot see how the Republican party
can be benefited by throwing the Senate into
% the hands of the Democrats as this course
does" A good many others of the 300 have
the same trouble with their vision.
II Is noticeable that the resignation of Messrs.
. Gonkling and Plat has put the Democratic
party in q wonderfully good humOr. An hilari-
Gus Democrat in the Pennsylvania Legislature
yesterday offered resolution warmly approv-
ing3this step, and calling upon Senators Cam
eron and Mitchell to follow so excellent an
example.
girl fourteen years Of age died yesterday
from pistol shot. The police believe it to be
case Of suicide, the girl having been subjected,
with others of the family, to cruel suspicion
of having stolen money from her father The
family allege that the shooting was an accident,
but the weight Of evidence is the other WHY.
The case Is painful one, and the whole truth
about it Is evidently yet to be learned
The announcement that the Ladies' Flower
afission has begun its work for the summer
season should DO sufficient to insure its full
Buccess This can be truthfully said to be amost
Important charity. II brings the grateful in
Auence of flowers 10 thousands Of sick beds and
thousands of homes during the summer; and
IN tie perched and droary LIE of the poor and
su1erne the happiness diffased by this work
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-18

on The chivalric greatness Of CoHkng and the pitt
able weakness of Garfield, The Hgaid remarks:
" We write it with PAM Never mind il, neighbor,
you are giving the public no end of amusement.
Some of the best things ever said by the greatest
humorists were written from beds OF pain. You arc
suffering that the public may rejoice.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-18

The next Collector Of New-York will be q man
named Robertson. The next President of tia
United States will not be o man named Conkling
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-18

Who was it Mr.. Con,clng said was hoist with his
own petardf 1t seems like passage from his auto
biOgraDly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-18

1t is an awful moment for the Albany webblers.
Their constituents are for sustaining the Admins.
tration, while they themselves are In terror Of
Conkling. They may initiate the Primate and
resign.
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Chest Development.

1t is stated that during the last twen-
ty-five years not single singer has died
of consumption in st. Petersburg, al
though this disease has outstripped all
others, and now hold the first place
among the causes of death in the Russian
capital From this and other facts DR..
Vasilieff draws an inference in favor of
the exercise of singing as q preventive
measure against consumption. There
would seem to be room for question as
to the relation of cause and effect. It
may either happen that singers are not
consumptive because they can use their
chest and throat freely, or that consump-
tive persons are not singers because the
weakness which precedes disease inca
pacitates the chest and throat for exer-
ton. Both of these hypotheses are true
up to certain point, but neither holds
good in all cases. A very little observa-
tion will suffice to show that good sing
ing voice may co-exist with q weak or
diseased chest, whereas the perfectly
healthy may be unable to sing. 1t was,
some forty years ago, common prac-
tice to give consumptive patients speci-
ally arranged tube to breathe through,
with the view of exercising the chest.
We venture to hope tine experiment will
not be repeated. Chest development
can only be accomplished in manner
consistent with health during the grow
ing stage of childhood, and then the
most natural and convenient methods of
exercise are the best. Later on in life
great mischief may be done by unduly
straining the muscles of the thorax and
those of the throat, beside the peril of
iniuring the smaller tubes and air vesi-
cles of the lungs by violent exertion, for
which the organs of respiration and
voice are not adapted because they have
not been early trained.
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The WayS of Plants.

In great many cases leaves are said
to sleep; that is to say, at the approach
Of night they change their position, and
sometimes fold themselves up, thus pre-
senting smaller surface for radiation,
and being in consequence less exposed to
cold. Mr.. Darwin has proved expert
mentally that leaves which were pre-
vented from moving suffered more from
cold than those which were allowed to
assume their natural position. He has
observed with reference to one plant,
MarasatG aru,adanace0, the arrow-root,
West Indian species allied to Gamma,
that if the plant has had severe shock
it cannot get to sleep for the next two
or three nights.
The sleep of flowers is also probably q
case of the same kind, though, as I have
elsewhere attempted to show, it has now,
believe, special reference to the visits
of insects; those flowers which are ferti-
ized by bees, butterflies, and other day
insects, sleep by night, if at all; \. lie
those which are dependent on moths
rouse themselves toward evening, as al
ready mentioned, and sleep by day.
These motions, indeed, have but an in
direct reference to our present subject.
On the other hand, in the dandelion
(Leontodon), the fower-stalk is upright
while the flower is expanded, period
which lasts for three or four days; it
then lowers itself and lies close to the
ground for about twelve days, while the
fruits are ripening, and then rises again
when they are mature. In the Cyclanaess
the stalk curls itself up into beautiful
spire after the flower has faded.
The flower of the little Liaaria of our
walls q. cynabalaria) pushes out into
the light and sunshine, but as soon as it
is fertilized it turns round and endeavors
to find some hole or Granny in which it
may remain safely ensconced until the
seed is ripe.
In some water plants the flower ex-
pands at the surface, but after it is faded
retreats again to the bottom. This is the
case for instance, with the water-lilies,
some species of the Patanaogetoa (zfapa
saatasas). In Valisneraa, again, the
female flowers are borne on
long stalks, which reach to the surface of
the water, on which the flowers float.
The male flowers on the con-
trary, have short, straight stalks, from
which, when mature, the pollen
detaches itself, rises to the surface,
and, floating freely on it, is waited about,
so that it comes in contact with the fe-
male flowers After fertilization, how
ever, the long stalk coils up spirally, and
thus carries the ovary down to the
bottom, where the seeds can ripen with
great safety.-SSr John Lubbock, IN the
Popular Science Monthly.
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Very Gunible.

Thirty years ago Mr.. VIM. Hall, OF
New York, lent s'friend" named White
$4,000 worth of bonds and checks as q
security in a speculation, with the under
standing that they were ON no account
to be converted into cash. The friend
Immediately converted them into cash
and disappeared. Not long ago he went
to Halls house, and in spite OF Halls
anger placated him by representing that
with the $780, which he had appro-
priated to his own use he had gone to
California, had made large fortune
and had travelled across the continent
for the express purpose of refunding the
money. Mr.. Hall was charmed and
entertained White royalty at his house.
White pretended to be sincerely sorry
for the roguery of his younger days,
and entertained his host with graphic
descriptions of California, and amazing
yarns about the way in which he had
made his princely fortune on the Pa
cific slope. Hall believed every word
he said, and agreed to lend him 81, 200,
on Whites turning over securities in 50
sealed envelope" He had already paid
him 81 200, when Mrs. Hall, rising at 5
in the morning, carried the envelope to
the Chief of Police. On opening it, the
papers were found almost worthless, and
White was arrested. How q man cap
able of being gulled after this fashion
was also capable of accumulating $780,
600, or 80, 600 cents, is q mystery that
would puzzle even phrenologist.
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more revelry and merriment left in his
audience. Each man wanted to sneak
off to his cabin and write the old folks a
letter. The day was breaking as the last
m&h left the place, and the player, lay.
ing his head down on the piano, fell
asleep.
ST say, pard," :" said Goskin, '.Don't
you want little rest?"
II feel tired, the old man said. s'Per-
haps you'll let me rest here for the mat
ter of day Or SO. +"
He walked behind the bar, where
some old blankets we're laying, and
stretched himself upon them. -
ST feel pretty sick. I guess 7 won't
last long. I've got a brother down in
the ravine-his names Driscoll. He
don't know I'm here. Can you get him
before morning? I'd like to see his face
once more before die. !"
Goskin started up at the mention Of
the name. He knew Driscoll we'll.
!" He your brother? PH have him here
in half an hour
As he dashed out into the storm the
musician pressed his hand to his side
and groaned. Goskin heard the word
"Hurry!" and sped down the ravine to
Driscoll's cabin.
It was quite light in the room when
the two men returned. Driscon was pale
as death.
"My God! I hope he's alive! I
wronged him when he lived in England,
twenty years ago.
They saw the old man had drawn the
blanket over his face The two stood a
moment awed by the thought that he
might be dead. Goskin lifted the blan-
ket and pulled it down astonished.
There was no one there!
"Gone!" cried Driscoll, wildly.
"Gonep' echoed Goskin, pulling out
his cash-drawer. "Ten thousand dol
lars in the sack, and the Lord knows
how much loose change in the drawer!"
The next day the boys got out, fol-
lowed the horses tracks through the
snow and lost them in the trail leading
toward Phoebe.
There was a man missing from the
camp. It was the three card monte man.
who used to deny point blank that ne
could play the scale. One day they
found a wig of white hair, and called to
mind when the stranger had pushed
those locks back when he looked toward
the ceiling for inspiration the night OF
December 4, 1857.-,San Francisco Ar-
uOnn72f
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An INTELLIGENT Ana.

A man of strict veracity relates these
two facts, of which he was an eye-wit-
ness. He had a very intelligent ape,
with whom he amused himself by giving
walnuts, of which the animal was ex-
tremely fond. One day he placed them
ut such distance from the ape that the
animal, restrained by his chain, could
not reach them. After many useless ef-
forts to indulge himself in his favorite
delicacy, he happened to see q servant
pass by, with napkin under his arm.
He Immediately seized hold of it, whisked
1t out beyond his arm, to beat the nuts
within his reach, and 80 obtained possess
sion of them. His mode of breaking
walnuts was fresh proof of his inventive
powers. He placed q walnut upon the
ground, let q great stone fall ON it, and
80 got at its contents. Ono day, the
ground ON which he had placed the wal
nuts was 30 much softer than usual that,
instead Of breaking the walnut, the ape
only drove it into the earth. What does
the animal do? He takes up a tile,
places the walnut upon it, and then lets
the stone fall while the walnut is in that
pOgition
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

The following further details are given of the
railroad disaster in Mexico. THE train passed
Malpais, and two miles beyond, where the
bridge was washed away, the train at full speed
plunged into the chasm. The engineer and
fireman were killed Instantly. A large cargo of
whisky and alcohol which WAS aboard, caught
fire. The car containing the thirteen officers
fell beneath the load of blazing spirits, and
was burned with its contents. The car contain
ing soldiers was partly burned. A heavy flood
was rushing through the chasm, and many
were drowned and others burned beyond recog-
milton. The night was dark and misty and no
help could be obtained. The news WAS one
day in reaching the City of Mexico, fifty miles
of. President Gonzales has ordered COM
mission to investigate the matter Immediately,
though nothing can come of the investigation.
The Government is somewhat interested in the
road. Great sorrow is prevalent in the city.
A concession for the Morelos road was given
Helm Sanchez, 8 Mexican contractor, from
Mexico to Cuantla, with a subsidy of $8, 600
per k1ometre. The line is a narrow-gauge,
built entirely with this one subvention, and
had no other financial backing. 1t was built
by Mexican engineers, and was first attempt
at railroading. The road was cheaply and hur-
riedly constructed, and an accident was proph-
esied by competent engineers.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

SAYS a recent writer: What has been
the ultimate fate of the Egyptian num-
mics stored with care in the rocky vaults
and pyramids on the banks of the Nile?
They have in these later times been
dragged from their recesses and ground
into powder as an article of commerce to
be exported 10 Europe. The cereal
crops of England are partly produced
from the mumifed remains Of human
beings who walked about the streets O.
Thebes three thousand years ago. TIL.
bodies of venerable Thebans-swells in
their time-laid to rest in fond antici-
patton of securing mortal immortality,
sold at 80 much ton to fertilize the ex-
hausted soil Of an island in the German
Oceanl That is what the ancient EQyp
tians have got by all their skill in pro.
tracting the dissolution of mortal re-
mains. Their marvellous preparations
have ended in a favorably quoted
manure.
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A Horrible Calamity.

A most horrible accident occurred late FRI
day night on the Moreles Railway, in Mexico,
whereby over 200 people were burned and
crushed to death. The scene of the catastro-
phe was on the river San Antonio, near the
village of Maipois. For some time this sec
ton of the country has been swept by fierce
storms, swelling the streams into torrents, and
laying waste many fertile fields. The bridge
spanning the river at the point mentioned,
although known to be unsafe, was still in use
when the fatal train bearing a battalion of
soldiers, attempted its passage. The result
was crash as the undermined support gave
way and the engine and cars were hurled head
long down the chasm. Scarcely had the mag
nitude of the tragedy become apparent when q
new horror was added. In the freight's van
comprising portion of the train, was con-
signment of alcohol. This took fire, and .
subsequent explosion contributed much to the
loss of life. The few who escaped uninjured
at once applied themselves to rescue their less
fortunate comrades, but it was some hours
before the exact extent of the tragedy grew
apparent. 1t is now known, however, that
thirteen officers and 1872 privates were either
killed outright by the fall, or roasted to death,
while fifty others sustained hurts of more or
less serious character. The train was entirely
consumed. Never in the history of the Repub-
Lie has so frightful a casualty been chronicled,
and its occurrence, it is feared, may still further
prejudice the popular mind against railway
enterprises. However, 'Los Gr1ngos," as the
natives term all 'outside barbarians," can
come in for no share of the blame in this con-
nection. The Moreles road is narrow gauge
being built by Government subvention, and is
entirely the work of Mexican engineers. 1t
was first opened to the public on the 18th of
June. In addition to the loss of life already
presented it appears that the engineer and
fireman of the ill-omened train were scalded to
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

''I had my misgivings, boss" the
waiter said to the landlord, who was
questioning him about his conduct toward
the tall gentleman in blue clothes who
sat at the door, ST had my suspicious
when he sat down dat he was carrying
noah whisky dan was good for i'm, but
he was puffectly quiet, and behaved
himself we'll enough, an didn't pay no
attention to it entwell he picked up a
baked potato and hole it car'fully over
the aig glass wild his left hand, and be-
gun to hit de end of de potato wild his
spoon. He hit it right hard three or
four times, an den he whack it once or
twice on de aige of de plate, and lookin'
solemn as owl all de time, he call me
up to him and say as p'lite and dignified
as president, 'Waita, he say. I wish
you would jest fix this billed egg for me,
if you please; Use lorse a good deal of
sleep las night, and I'm little narvous
dis mornun,' he says. An I know I
hadn't done ought for to laugh, boss,
but hope to die eff could help it.
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The Farmers Hired Man.

I'm kinder lookin' around the market
for hired man." he exclaimed, as he
stopped at one of the stands and nibbled
at an onion. 81 kinder need one, but
vet I kinder hope I shan't be able to
find him."
"How's that?"
"WaI, there amt no profit in hired
man no more. No, sir, he's no good any
longer"
"What's the reason?"
''Oh, dozen reasons. First and fore
most, times have changed, and the hired
man has. changed, with 'em. All! sir, it
makes me sad when I think of the hired
men we had before the war-great big
fellers with the strength of an OK and
the vim of locomotive. didn't have
to holler my lungs out to git one of 'em
out of bed at 8 o'clock in the morning,
and it was all I could do to coax 'em to
go to bed at 10 o'clock at night. I'm
afraid that we shan't never see no more
hired men wuth keepin' around for their
board"
''That's sad."
"it's sad, and more, too. Now, as I
to pay $1l or $12 month for smart
all day and ali night, but that amt me-
before o'clock-never. I allus give my
man three-quarters of an hour at noon.
unless the hogs git out or cattle break in
or shower is coming up. After man
has worked right along for nine hours
his system wants at least half an hour to
brace up in. They don't quit work on
some farms till 8 o'clock, but I'm no
such slave driver. AT half-past I tell
my man to knock off All he has to do
after that is to feed the stock, cut little
wood, NOW some grass for the horses,
milk four COWS. fill up the water trough,
start a smudge in the smoke-house, and
pull few weeds in the garden. ] never
had a hired man who didn't grow fat on
my work, and they allus left me feeling
that they hadn't half earned their
wages"
He stopped long enough to wipe a
tear from his eye, and then went on:
''And now look at the hired man OF
to-day! He wears white shirts and col
lars. He won't eat with knife. He
wants napkins when he eats, and if we
don't hang up a clean towel once week
he wipes on his Handkerchief. Call him
at and he gets up at g. He wants a
whole hour at noon, and after supper he
trots off to a singing school OF sits down
to newspaper. Fifteen years ago il
my hired man was sick for half day
could dock him. If he died could take
out a months wages for the trouble He
was glad to get store orders for his pay,
and he would wash in the rain barre
and wipe on the clothes-line. There's
bin change, sir-an awful change, anG
if a reaction don't set in pretty soon, you
will witness the downfall of agriculture
in this country"
"Then you won't hire another?'
''Wall, can't just say. Work is pow
erfully pressing, but I'm going slow.
Before I hire him I want to know
whether he's man who'll pass his plate
for more meat and taters, and whether
we've got to use starch in doing up hi
shirts. The last man 1 had took me t.
task for not holding family prayers twic,
day, and after 1 had done SO for thres
months 1 found it was only game of hi
to beat me out of half an hour day
He thought he had a pretty soft thing
and he looked mighty lonesome when
cut old Hundred down to two line
and got through with the Lord
Prayer in forty seconds. detroit Ere
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Passing Away.

A Rochester On. W dispatch says: ''Obser-
vations made at the Warner Observatory show
the offshoot of the comets tail, which is 40O0,-
600 miles in length, is rapidly absorbing the
main portion. This supernumerary part ex-
tended up to the North Star. The comet is re-
ceding from the sun, and probably from the
earth, moving at the rate of 1000 miles a
day. While it will be seen for some time yet,
it will undoubtedly grow DINNER. Claimants
for the Warner prize of $500 are pouring in by
the hundreds from all parts of America. A
Connecticut man claims he found it on the
19th.'
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Sfurgeon Eaters Poisoned.

John Davis, wife and daughter, of Pittsburg,
shortly after partaking of lunch, we're seized
with intense pains, vomiting and purging. A
physician was summoned, who after examina-
ton, stated they had been poisoned. The only
unusual article of food they had eaten was
smoked sturgeon, which was submitted to an
alysis, showing a large amount of creosote, a
drug largely used by unscrupulous persons in
curing fish. The physician worked with the
patients all night and finally was rewarded by
the dangerous symptoms disappearing, and
they were put in a fair way for recovery.
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Murdered BY Molly Maxuires.

Maurice Healy, foundryman Of the Dunbar
Furnace Company, at Dunbar, Pa.-the heart
of the Connellsville coke region-while walking
with two of his companions along the railroad
near the furnace, was murdered. The mur-
der occurred at the mouth of ravine Mrs.
Harper, whose house stands close to the scene
of the murder, saw the three men pass, and a
moment after she and her mother heard three
shots and a cry "My God, men, you are not
going to use me that way, are you?" and all
was quiet. Martin Carter, little later return
ing from church, found the body cold in death
in pool of blood by the side of the railroad
track. Healy had received several threatening
letters Of late because of his energetic opposi-
ton to the whisky men. The Dunbar Furnace
Company offer q heavy reward for the
murderers
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Indicted for Bribery.

The Grand Jury, at Albany, New York, re-
turned an indictment against A. D. Barber, for
paying E. R. Phelps $4,000 for the purpose Of
bribing State officers. He was admitted to
bail in the sum of $4,000. after pleading not
guilty. E. R. Phelps was also arraigned on
similar charge, and admitted to bail in the sum
of $4,000 He also pleaded not guilty. Chas.
A. Edwards was also indicted, for receiving
from Jos. Dickson, $1,000 for the purpose of
bribing State officers. All the cases are held
over until the next term of court.