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Flats or Houses.

The Lancet, noting the tendency in
London to substitute flats for private
houses, calls attention to the bad san
itary condition of most of the existing
apartment houses, and warns the
country against such future modes OF
sons ruction rs will expose occupants
to the dangers of sewer gas and DIM
cult ventilation. The servants quar-
tiers in existing fats r specially re
fe,rsd to as liable to engender disease,
as they are either without windows
or are ventilated" by a hele over the
kitchen sink.
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Pistol shots.

A London Newspaper has an article
on 1.-THE Emotional Language oil
Bees" The language OF a bee is no.
az emotional as that of q man who Is
| bit en- by the tail end OF tho insect.
| Nor as emphatic and sulphurous,
Teacher "Defne the word exca-
vate." Scholar ut 9 to hollow,
out.n Teacher: construct a sen
tence In which the word Is properly
used" Scholar : "The baby ~excavAtes
when 1t gets hurt"
A fashionable lady. in Boosting oil
| her new "paIaiial e-idence," said the
windows we're all of stained glass.
'tThat's too bid! cried her mother
"but won't soap aud turpentne take
the stains out?'
The season is now approaching
when wea. thy philanthrolists re-
member the poor by spending q cou-
D e OF hundred thousand dollars on
a char ty ball that nets eight hundred
dollars.
Mrs.. Langtry Is unlike the father OF
the historic prodigal son. Her Rosa
lind proves that she ha. no fstted cali
to kill.
A hotel boaster who was Wanting
| bis knowledge of the world before a
| crowd OF newcomers, was asked by q
wag at his elbow ii he had ever been
in Algebra? "Oh, yes, certainly
! said he, "I passed through there on
| top of q stage about a year ago."
Fritz to Miller To-day Is my
| birthday.n Emma "And mine, too.'
| Karl: "Mine, tool" Bertha: mime
too ~ Miller: why, what a re-
markable coincidence, n%elghbor. !"
Mother: "Ah yes, you see. we ceie-
brate them all on the same day be-
cause its chsaper.n
What other business do you follow
besides preaching ?n wac asked OF an
| old coIored man. 81 sp~ecnlates a lit.
tle.n "How speculate ?" "Selis
Chickens "Where do YOU get the
chickens 2, "My boys fetch 'em in"
"Where do they get them ?" II DOM
know, sab, Use allirs SO busy with
my preachin' dat I amt got time TO
K"
The New Bedford man who tainted
away out in Montana was only
brought out of the ft by placing
dead fish at his nose. As he slowly
began to survive he murmured
How good 1t smells just Ike
homei"
An Alabama editor winds up an
editorial on the corn crop with the
remark : "We have on exhibition ID
our sanctum a pair of magnificent
| cara
Bugle TRIMMINGS aye recommended
for q windy day.
Some of the Aslatics arenow cook'ni
their meals on Yankee stoves. Thii
is preferable to the old style OF serving
up Yankees on Asiatic stoves.
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Roadside chat: Old epigrammatfc
conversation between a clergyman and
,rAveIer-C. "I'vs lost my porlman-
teau." 7. "I pity your grief" @. my
sermons are in It," r. II pity the
thief" A more mode III and altogether
more Arkansaw way OF holding sim-
liar conversation would be: @. "pve
lost my demijohn." T. II pity your
grisf.n G. my whisky was in It."
T. "Let's look for the thief."
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Christmas Then and Vow.

W. used to hang up our stockings.
When / was a child. dear me;
Not ever thought for q moment,
OF having an Xmas tree.
You zee we were old-fashioned chill 'ren,
Not wise Iittls women and men,
ST. Nicholas came down he chimney.
We had wide opsn fireplace then.
They said he dwelt In a CO vern. :.
Far of in tue freq sn North,
And wrought all year with the stifX3iu
At Xmas to sally 'ortbSy%5s ses II
A pack on his back like w 5ore
And steighfal of beautt. Hulvs
10 nll up IL Xmas stockiaeast halnts
ofsood little girls anafbn juiraThe
And d zing on Xmas EveAnTaWosge !
/ faacisd tnat | could hear NEE 4
Ehe paiter upon the shingles.
OF the hoofs OF nimb Q reindeer;
Could hear him ca ling ~ Pra CT,
Aud telling BLK an to " wnosr"
Iye looked on tie x Gas morni ,g
To a I'D their tracks in the snowi
We went to bed In the twilight,
To O. en- ere yet L. was dawn,
And empty with trembling fingers,
The s~tockinss pa Xmas MORN.
But now, the tree vitn It's tapers.
Is lit on IT, g Eve instead,
And hug sing IL cir Xmas presents,
The little OF % go to bed.
But then, prav, where is the stocking
G ,uli ho d half the wonder;nl things
The triumphs OF human Invention,
T5e modern Saint N ohoias DTingsf
Nov steam lakes the pi4ce Of hts reindeer
Those ne+t. fairy clur-ers OF yore;
Aud since we Oh We closed up the chimney,
He Aeeds must come Ia at the d, or.
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Blu gle TRIMMINGS aye recommended
for q windy day.
Some of the Aslatics arenow cooking
their meals on Yankee stoves. This
is preferable to the old style OF serving
up Yankees on Asiatic stoves.
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Christmas In Verse.
Christina, Balls.

Christmas Bells.
"Peace and goodwill" the nations say.
It Is the Saviour's natal day.
In heaven above and earth below.
GOODWILL, and peace, and love for Ioi
To worlds throughout infinite space
Extends His ail-redeeming grace.
A fount of mercy each NAV ind.
"Good-wiIl and peace to all mankind"
peace and goodwill" let mortals sing
In chorus. while the sweet bells ring;
And through the choir of ages voice
The words In which our souls rejoice;
Rejoice for blessings manifold,
Rejoice for happiness untold,
Rejoice for forts which have brought
Their harvest from b seed of thought.
Rejoice for sunlight, which must bring
Its glory to the shadowtng;
Rejoice for darkness, to-. for night
Reveals the stars SO calm and bright
Stars far and fair as that bright gem
Which snone for us at Bethlehem
A pledge, as all @ DDS cFeatures md,
or ransom TO the hums n kind.
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offered me this place, which is well
paid. I took it. But y for fencing,
l know nothing Whatever about it."
VOLTA cstte fo,s," says M. C-Aretie,
sdu vrai-courage.n and he does not
seem to be far wrong.
The club Of the FfGteynslia. with
which NJ. de Graves de~is, was. as
has been said, founded Ia the 1880 pc
Rod In Bordeaux, and the things
which led TO its being founded were
such Is these. The Comts de Laril-
liere, one of the weil-born among the
~bretteures, met one dag in the street a
business man named Uastera walking
with his young and pretty wife. He
advanced to him and said. with . low
aud polite bow, II beg your pardon,
but I have made . bet with my friend
here, whom / BEG TO introduce to you,
| that l would kiss your wife while she
was walking with you"-here the
other man turned livid-"after having
given you . Flap in the face" Casters
fought him next day with pistols
| The Count's first shot hit Castera on
the right ear, his sscond on the left
| Before the third he said. "Cette fcis j.
feraf mouche," and with the third hs
shot Csstera through the eye. Gas
terra was avenged In > manner dra
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FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THE failure is announced of Amariah
Storrs & Co., of Boston, wholesale dealers
in cards and fancy papers.
A LOSS of $4,000 was incurred at Leav.
enworth by flour-dust explosion in the
Novelty mills. Five men were seriously
burned.
AT sale of the Montgomery White
Sulphur springs in Virginia, the porch Of
the hotel fell, killing one man and injur
ing twelve.
In a snowslide at Genoa, New, Mr.
and Mrs. Bowen, Miss Berlin, and from
seven to twenty Indians were killed
Some of the bodies have been recovered.
EIGHTEEN deaths from small pox have
occurred at South Bethlehem, Pa, since
Friday, and most of the stores and sa
looms are kept closed.
NEW ORLEANS dispatches report that the
breaking of the levee at Ships Bayou has
submerged most of the plantations in Ten
sas Parish. La. The water is twenty feet
deep.
GREAT destruction has been caused al
Milliken's Bend. where a erevasse hai
been developed into whirlpool, caused
by meeting the back water from the va
zoo.
The Parasot steamboat company, that
runs steamers up the Yazoo river and its
tributaries, is said to be doing more to as
sist the people, than the government and
every body else combined.
BARTHOLOMEW DESMOND, of Cincinnati,
who had done time in the penitentiary
fell in the street, while intoxicated, with
an open knife in his pocket, and was found
dead, the femoral artery having been sew
cred.
THE American Association of the Red
Cross is about to send agents into the over
flowed region of the southwest, and makes
an urgent appeal for funds, which can be
sent to the secretary of the treasury or the
secretary of war.
THE river at Memphis has declined two
inches, and is steadily falling at all
points. The outlook at Helena is much
brighter, and it is thought the overflow
can be readily drained off the city. The
country south of Memphis is swarming
with buffalo gnats. and much stock that
was saved from drowning by the overflow
are being killed by these insects.
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Teller's Trouble.

WASHINGTON, March pa report
is being circulated that the nomination
of Senator Teller as secretary of the
interior is contingent on the agree
ment of Gov. Pitkin. of Colorado, to
appoint ex-senator Chaffee to the va
cancy caused in the senate by Sen.
Teller's acceptance. Colorado men say
that if Teller's appointment to the cab
met depends on Chafee's selection to
succeed him he will not become one of
the presidents constitutional advisers,
because Gov. Pitkin is a candidate for
the senate and would not appoint
man who would be likely to interfere
with his prospect to secure the senator
ship for the full term beginning March
4th, 1888. Teller is alleged to have
said to-day whether he would accept
the interior department would depend
upon advices he expected from Denver.
This rumor has given credence TO the
reports above alluded to. Chaffee is
expected to arrive here tomorrow.
Probably the problem will be solved
shortly after his arrival.
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FOREIGN.

THE Danish chamber of deputies has
voted an appropriation for polar expe-
dition, to start in July.
THE emperor of Germany is confined to
his room by injuries to his knee and elbow
received in fall ON a stairway.
A ROMAN journal recommends that prep
arations be made by Italy to unite with
Germany and Austria against Russia and
France.
A CABLEGRAM from Panama reports the
destruction of four towns in Costa Rica by
earthquake, several thousand lives having
been lost.
MINISTER LOWELL. respo nded to toast
to the Representatives of Foreign Pow
ers at the annual banquet of the asso-
ciated chambers of commerce in London.
A FIRE near Northampton, England,
swept away twenty-five houses. At Emod,
Hungary, $50 buildings were burned and
nine lives were lost.
DURING a performance at the Winter
Livadia Theater in st. Petersburg, the
other evening, fire broke out, but no
lives were lost.
THE English ambassador having been
very pressing in his inquiries. the hey OF
Tunis admitted the cession TO French cap
italists of the principal esparto grass dis
tricts.
An invitation to Moody and Sankey TO
spend year in London in evangelical
work has been signed by three hundred
persons Of prominence in Great Britain.
BY vote of 3S7 to AZ, the British house
of commons granted to Prince Leopold an
additional annuity of 10000 and a pen
sion Of $4,000 yearly for his widow in the
| event of his death.
A RATE collector and agent was shot and
mortally wounded while driving with his
family to church near Clonmellon, county
West Meath, ireland. Other members of
his family were wounded.
IT is said that Prince Bismarck apollo
gized TO the German Parliament for not
attending to national affairs by stating that
his time was fully occupied in preserving
the peace of Europe.
SOME citizens of Ravenna. Italy, assem-
bled to celebrate the anniversary of the
Paris commune. A conflict with troops
ensued, in which one soldier was killed
and another wounded.
Victor HUGO, while entertaining some
journalists in Paris the other evening, re-
ceiyed a telegram from st. Petersburg an
nouncing that the car had spared the
lives of FIVE nihilists at his request. There
upon Hugo toasted the car.
THE feeling in Paris against Nj. Bon
toux is so deep that outside brokers will
not negotiate his shares in the new bank
to replace the Union Generate. and the
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GENERAL. NOTES

SENATOR BEN HILL has improved SO
rapidly that he hopes soon to ride out.
His physicians think the cancer has been
entirely removed.
THE region south of Memphis is
swarming with buffalo-gnats, W ho are
killing what little stock was saved from
drowning.
AT Lawrence, Mass, the strikers and
others idle on their account number 5000.
They have refused to work at the Pacific
mill at reduced wages.
A JUSTICE at Bloomington, ILL.,. went to
the Jail, and married Charles Wright, a
convict BURGLAR. to Mary Anderson, a
Canadian woman imprisoned for larceny.
Boston merchants advised Postmaster
General Howe that fast mail train be-
tween New York and San Francisco would
meet the wants of all traders on the east
ern seaboard.
A MASS MEETING has been called in New
York by Mayor Grace and other leading
men, to voice public sentiment in regard
to the Imprisonment of American citizens
by foreign governments without trial.
THE author of the bitter attack on the
character of President Garfield published
in a Washington journal, proves to be
Mr.. Brown, of K entucky, delegate in
the Chicago convention. He will al
once reply to his critics.
THE Pacific mills at Lawrence, Mass,
have shu. down in all departments ex.
cept the print-works. The weavers voted,
by $40 to 90, to continue the strike. There
are indications OF an outbreak in the mills
at Saco and Biddeford, Me-, which oper-
ate 100, 900 spindles.
FIFTY ONE teachers and scholars of the
Chinese Sunday school which meets at Far
we'll Hall. in Chicago, have sent petition
to President Arthur asking him to veto the
Chinese anti-immigration bill if passed by
congress.
THE report of Lieutenant Melville, of
the Jeannettee Arctic Expedition, dated
Yakoutsk. Siberia, Jan. 6, has been re-
ceived at Washington. 1t gives the men,
oranda left at various points by Lieuten-
ant belong and party.
The trade and labor assembly of Chi
cago, at meeting passed resolutions con-
demning the governor of Nebraska for
using troops in civil Inference between
employers and their workmen, and men,
orilizing congressman to call on the presi-
dent and urge him to withdraw the federal
soldiers.
A CINCINNATI journal alleges that in
part consideration for the transfer of the
Baltimore and Ohio telegraph wires to
the Western Union, Gould will vote his
stock at the Ohio and Mississippi cleo
ton in favor of taking the road out of the
hands of the receiver.
s. THE Illinois legislature assembled at
noon, March %, AZ senators and 100 rep
resentatives being in attendance. The
message of Governor Cullom points out
the duty of reapportionment, asks for the
conditional transfer of the Illinois and
Michigan canal to the federal govern
ment, and advises legislation to enable
Judges to fix sentences in criminal cases.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

The senate military committee will re-
port adversely on the bill to place General
Pleasanton on the retired list.
In the house Mr.. King introduced bill
asking an appropriation of $500, 900 for
the relief of the Mississippi sufferers.
SINCE General Grants appearance in
Washington, steps have been taken for the
early retirement of General Mcdowell.
JAMES Low, bitter halt. breed member
of the New York lesislat ire. has beer
nominated by President arthur 10 the
consulate at Clifton, Ont.
SHIPHERD, the Per Iyian manipulation
protests with cheerful alacrity his willing
ness to respond to the last resolution pass
ed in the House.
An intimate and confidential friend
of ex-senator Conkling's" declares thai
any rumors of Conkling accepting office
under the present administration are idle
talk.
IT is said that Colonel Webster Grants
former chief of staff, will be appointed to
an army paymastership.
On the ground that technical evidence
should not have been introduced in the
Whitaker court-martial, the cabinet has
disapproved of the sentence of dismissal
from the service.
THE House adopted a resolution to
make the Geneva award bill the special
order for April Ii. Mr.. Gibson submit
ted telegram from New Orleans stating
that the supplies distributed by the war
department are exhausted.
THE tobacco manufacturers. in session
at Washington, adopted a memorial to
congress protesting against the passage Of
the leaf-tobacco bill, and asking that nc
change be made unless the entire tax be
abolished.
JUDGE FRENCH. assistant secretary OF
the treasury, is to be succeeded by A. G.
Olmstead, of Potter county, Pennsylya'
MIA. The first authorship is to be given
to ex-congIessman c. w. Gil6llan,
JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG has been nomi
mated envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States tc
China, and G. Watts q. S. marshal fol
the western district of Virginia, and
Judge Blatchford, of New York, for az
sociate justice of the supreme court.
GUITEAU is said to receive $50 per day
from the sale of autographs and photo
graphs. Most of the money goes to his
publisher, but he recently forwarded small
sums to the Scovilles and to his brother.
He has one cell to sleep in and another
for an Office. He expressed pleasure al
the publication of the letters in the Rose
Grams matter.
In the q. S. Senate. bill has been in
troduced to admit Washington as state
The Secretary of War was directed to fur
nish information as to the extent of re
lief thus far furnished the southern food
sufferers. Morgan's resolution for reel
procity with Mexico was referred. TIL,
agricultural committee reported in favor
OF establishing bureau of animal in
dustry.
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A FEDERAL detective captured at Meril-
| Ion. Wis, two counterfeit bank-note plates
and considerable unfinished scrip.
A CONVICTED horse-thief in Texas. nam
ed Bondy, iumbed from train near San
Antonio, aud was shot dead by the guards.
A CLERK in the mint at New Orleans
| gave TO a stranger negotiable receipt for
| $I5 600 for two brass bricks with a thin COW
ering of gold.
| Mrs. AUGUST GINTEN, wife of driver
of an engine in the fire department. OF
| Milwaukee, committed suicide by hang
ing.
SIX prisoners escaped from Jail at Cam
dera, Texas, by picking the lock with a
steel boot-shank while the guard was
asleep.
6 THE examining trial of Charles Ray,
who killed his cousin, James Kennedy. at
Louisville. KY, resulted in his aequittal
| on the ground of justifable homicide.
In the trial of Grow Dog at Deadwood,
| the defense insists on calling the squaw
of the accused as witness, claiming that
her testimony is competent under terrific
rial laws, and that an Indian marriage is
| not such as is contemplated in the federal
| statutes.
| ROYAL B. CoNANT, when cashier of the
Eliot National bank of Boston, embezzled
SIC. 900, and was sentenced TO Dedham jail
| for seven years. On the ground that his
health has been undermined by two years
confinement, President Arthur has grant
ed him pardon.
| GUITEAu is said to be apidly breaking
down under the strain of his gloomy pros
poets. He is losing appetite and flesh,
and in the event of decision by the
court in banc adversely to a new trial, il
is predicted that he will die of fear and
inanition before the day of execution ar
rives.
Mrs. MILES and lobe Traverse have
been arraigned at Hudson, Wis, on the
charge of attempting to murder George
Miles. They waived examination, and
were bound over to the May term of the
circuit court in $1,000 bonds each, which
both procured. 1t is expected that the
same proceedings will follow in the adul-
terry case.
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Boston, March 24-Longfellow, the
poet, is dead.
Boston, March 24.-Saturday last
Longfellow was out part of the after
noon walking upon the piazza. On
going into the house he complained of
being slightly cold. At dinner he was
suddenly taken i'll and soon after went
to his room, and in short time he had
violent attack of vertigo. Sunday
he complained of severe pains in his
stomach and opiates were administered
to allay the trouble and induce sleep.
His condition seemed somewhat i'm
proved until Monday when dangerous
symptoms became manifest and the
family we're seriously alarmed. Tues
day morning these symptoms be-
gan to assume an aggravated
form and it became evident that death
was near. Wednesday and Thursday,
however, there was a slight improve
ment and disposition to sleep almost
continually during the afternoon and
evening of Thursday. He talked a
great deal on various topics and seemed
to recover a large portion of his usual
bright and cheerful dispersion. Later
in the night he became partially
unconscious and restless. This morning
he revived, though his talk was some
what incoherent. This condition
continued until about one hour
before his death, when he again
became unconscious, and so continued
to the last, little past o'clock,
suffering but little pain, apparently.
The cause of death was peritonitis. all
the family were present at the time of
dissolution. The people of Cambridge
were apprized of his death by the fire
bells toiling 75-one stroke for each
year. He has not been in good health
since the death of his intimate friend
Prof. Agassiz. That event was great
shock to him, and from it he never fully
recovered.
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Chicago Notes.

CHICAGO, March 22.-Forty gradu-
ates of Oberlin college, tonight formed
an association.
The creditors of Smyth, Greenbaum
& Co., to-day agreed to accept 30 cents
on the dollar.
Fifteen cases of small pox. Seven
deaths to-day. The largest record since
July. Cause, cold weather.
The Union rolling mills strike ended
to-day in compromise.
The war passenger rates to Kansas
City and the east collapsed by mutual
understanding between the Alton and
Rock Island road.
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THE TOBACCO CONVENTION.

The members of the National To
bacco Association assembled at the
Ebbitt House and proceeded in body
to the White House to pay their re-
spects to President Arthur. He re-
ceived them in the private library, and
listened attentively to the short address
of Mr.. g. w. Helme, president OF the
association, who explained their desire
to defeat pending legislation contem-
plating reduction on the tobacco tax
and their particular objection to the
free-trade bill, but made no response
except to say he WIS glad to meet them.
All the members were individually pre-
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LAWS 0FWisCONsIS.
Published March 10, 1881
fsII4nfsEf1 "a

IN AIT to appropriate certain sum OF money q er
III named 10 Henry q. Moulton and A. ". Laiis
via.
he people Of the state OF Wisconsin. represented .
ses.aLe md assembly, 90 enact as follows
seetion !. There Is hereby appropriated TO Henry
Moaito, clerk OF the circuit court Tor Dane county
any money in the general fund in the state
not otherwise appropriated, the of tweuty-s d.,
lnrs ald cents, being the amount in full due hin
for clerks fees in state Mills ct al, and cl3.
nan g. state.
section 2 There is hereby appropriated to A. "
baldwin, clerk of the circuit court for Rock county
amy money IN the general fund in the state treist,
Otherwise appropriated the sum of two dollars
eighty cents, being the amount in full due hini
cierA's lees in case state VS.. Robert A. Baker.
Section B. This act shall take effect and be in for,
from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March 8, 1852.