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THE WAR IN EGYPT.

A terrible story Of the atrocities at Tantah,
Egypt is related by an escaped eyewitness
" saw women carrying, tied to bludgeons, the
dismembered arms and legs OF massacred Euro
peans. The soldiers and the rabble fought
for loot. Bedouin Sheik, with twenty
Bedouins, saved the inhabitants OF the Jewish
quarter and took them to his village. An
other Sheik saved myself and party. A mob
from Alexandria murdered three employees Of
the Cadastre and their families and burnt their
bodies with petroleum. The mob killed twelve
Greeks. They tied the vlscera OF one Of their
victims to the tail Of dog and covered him
Dispatches from Alexandria of July n state
that confagraton in the native quarter of
Alexandria, believed to have been set by incen-
diaries. destroyed many houses. The mosques
at Mukbebe we're occupied almost daily by
preachers exhorting the people to take up the
cause of Arab. The latter's government at
Cairo announced that many Bedouin chiefs and
the best classes OF Moslems were aiding him.
Arab proclaimed that any person found dis
tributing the Khedives letter Diminishing the
former from the Ministry of War would be
court-martialed. He also wrote TO the Sultan,
stating that he would oppose with force any
Turkish troops dispatched to Egypt. Admiral
Seymour informed the Khedive that England
had no intention OF conquering his country,
but was determined TO suppress rebellion. The
House of Commons adopted the motion for tho
Egytian credit, 275 TO TO- In the French
Chamber of Deputies Dc Freycinet announced
that Turkey had accepted the proposals OF the
conference for her intervention in Egypt
De Lesseps undertook to prevent the entrance
of the British corvette Orion into the Suez
canal, but his protest was set at naught, and
the war ship went on her way, her commander
even omitting the formality OF paying the GUS
tomsry canal dues. 1t is said the Orion was
the bearer OF instructions materially modifying
the situation at Port Said
Gladstone announced in the British Com
mons on the 10Th ult that the Turkish Am
bassador had sent a communication to the
Government that the Sultan had decided to
Immediately send troops TO Egypt. Arab
Pasha will provide for the safety Of the Suez
Canal so long "a England will respect its neu-
trality. The cotton and wheat crops Of Egypt
are in woful state from neglected irrigation.
The Sultan informed the Secretary OF the
British Legation that England's action with
regard TO Egyptian Affairs irrtsted him that
he would do nothing for that country, but
would be observsnt Of the wishes Of the powers.
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LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The House Committee ON Foreign
Venezuela Claims Commission, and declares its
dolngs fraudulent
A collision occurred at Washington
between the business manager of the Rep1s6ii-
can and the proprietor OF the Sunday Chronicle.
No blood was shed, but both combstants were
deused with writing fluid from the inkstands
used as weapons
II is charged by inmates of the Sol
diers' Home, at Hampton, Va, that the Super
intendent, Gov. Woodfn, has within the last
four years withheld over $4,000 OF pension
money paid to him in trust that ne has in his
employ an ex-rebel and that in various ways
his conduct is deserving of censure. Memo
rails emhodying these accusations have been
received by Congress.
A steady, profitable business through
out the country Is indicated by the clearing
house returns for the past week.
There were several deaths from yellow
fever at Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoras,
Mexico, and surrounding towns have established
a strict quarantine.
In New York city there were 1873
deaths from heat in period Of twenty-four
hours.
The Reformed Roman Catholics, I'M
der the direction of Bishop Mcnamara. Of New
York, have been holding camp-nieeting at
Atlantic Highlands, N. ]. This is said to be
the first Catholic camp-meeting ever held in
the country.
The hour-mills of Hecker & Co., Nos.
2O5 to 267 Cherry street, New York, and the
spice-mills of Sawyer, Beers q Fisher, adjoin-
ing, were destroyed by fire, involving lose Of
S1,25O,00 During the progress of the con-
fiagration several casualties occurred.
The assessment roll of Nebraska
places the value Of property in the State at
1857, 475.
A petition bearing 200 names has been
submitted to the Governor of Minnesota, asking
him to pardon the notorious Younger brothers
out of the penitentisry.
The total number of deaths in Chicago
last week was 81, an increase of 80 over the
previous week. Cholera-infantum carried of
nearly one-third of the victims.
Archbishop Croke addressed a meet
ing in Tipperary and advised his countrymen
not to emigrate.
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A Irving Piece.

The following affecting tale Is COM
mended to all who wish to test their
ability in spelling and pronunciation.
1t is the production of friend OF ours.
Some might think he was laboring un-
der a spell, and pronounce him insane,
but we assure them that there is no
ground for any such suspicion:
ROLAND AND DIANA.
Roland and Diana were lovers. Diana
was ephemeral but comedy, hypochon-
driacal, but not lugubrious, didactic but
not dishonest, nor given to ribald or tru-
culent grimaces. Her pedal extremi-
ties were, perhaps, trife too large for
playing organ pedals successfully, but
her heart was not at all adamantine, and
her address was premptory without be-
ing diffuse. Roland, on the other hand,
was of a saturnine countenance, at once
splenetic and combative in disposition,
80 that his wassails and orgies were al
most manaical in their effects. He was
telegrapher 10y profession, having re-
ceived diploma from Caius College,
but aggrandized bis stipend by dabbling
in philology, orthoepy and zoology dur
ing his leisure, 80 that he was accused
of fetichism and regeneration by his
patrons. Still his acumen and presence
were such that only a misogynist would
discern that he was an aspirant for the
gallows. His acetic, rather than his
ascetic nature, naturally inclined him to
visit chemical laboratory, well filled
with apparatus, to which he had access,
whence he often returned with globules
e - ~ Fob
shoes, which subjected him to the risk
of numerous alterations with his land
lady, virago and pythoness in one, and
with the servant, her accessory or ally.
Roland had, however, become acclimat-
ed to his place, received everything with
equability, reclined upon the divan
where he contemplated the elysium
where Diana dwelt, and addressed dona-
tive distiches to her in the subsistence of
raillery.
There was a certain artisan who en-
deavored to dispossess Roland in the
affections of Diana. He had sent her a
ring with onyx, chalcedonic variety OF
stone, and once hung q placard where
he knew she would see it from her case
ment, but she steadfastly rejected his
overtures and ogled him as if he were a
dromedary. The artisan betook him
self to absolutory prayers, but continued
his digressions and inquiries. Roland
became cognizant of this amour, and
armed with withe, he inveighed against
this ''gay Lothario," who defended him.
self with falchion until Roland dis
armed him, houghing his palfrey. After
the ioust the artisan abjectly apologized
albeit in scarcely respirable condition,
then hastened to the pharmaceutic'
arie for copaiba, morphine and quinine,
and was not seen again till the next
Michaelmas. Roland returned on
Thanksgiving Day, took an inventory of
his possessions, which consisted of a
large package of almond cement, q
package of envelopes, dish Of anchoyy
sauce, tame falcon, book of acoustics,
miniature of amirage, Q treatise on the
epizotic, stomacher lined with sarcen-
ct, cerement of sculpture, cadaver
and bomb. The next day the hymen-
cal rites were performed, and she be-
came henceforth his faithful coadiutant
and housewife.
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History Class, Attention!

Name some of the most important
events that have happened in American
history:
1920. Landing made on Plymouth
Rock.
1921. First Thanksgiving kept. No
turkey.
1922. First Westinghouse built.
1910. First printing press.
164S. Witches first hung.
1649. Men are commanded to wear
short hair.
1862. More witches hung in Salem.
1702. Yale College founded IN New
Haven.
17O4. First newspaper printed at
Boston.
17O5. Coffee is tasted.
ITO. Tea is tried, but taxation makes
it costly.
I'LL. Postoffice started.
1721. Potatoes planted as a curios-
ity. Singing by note in the meeting
houses, which caused q great deal OF
trouble.
174O. Tinware manufactured.
1855. Al organ built, but not al
lowed to be played in the meeting
house.
1756. Benjamin Franklin invents the
lightning rod.
176O. First attempt at fashion. Col
lars are worn on shirts and chaises APP
pear.
1765. Liberty talked of. No more
using of stamped paper.
ITO. Wooden clocks made.
1773. Trouble begins about tea; chests
of it thrown into Boston harbor.
1774. The streets of Boston are
lighted with oil-lamps.
1880. Umbrellas used by few rich
people, and laughed at.
1892. Silk worms raised, and In few
houses silk carpets are seen.
1795-1800. Pantaloons take the place
of breeches for ordinary wear, and plates
are used at breakfast and tea.
1907. A steamboat on the Hudson.
1917. Stoves first appear in meeting
houses, although some think they showed
more fire than religion.
1918. A steamboat on Long Island
Sound.
1919. A steamer goes across the At
lantic.
1923. Gas in Boston. Coal. Steel
pens take the place of quilts.
1928. Ruffies disappeared from shirt
fronts.
1923. Love apples are tasted hesitat-
ingly, but are found novel and palatable,
and are called tomatoes and used as a
vegetable.
1882. A railroad built.
1888. Matches used instead of the
Undertook.
1887. First paper money used, called
shin-plasters.
1888. Envelopes first used.
1889. Daguerreotypes are taken.
1874. First electric message sent.
1847. Sewing machines invented.
1858. Ocean cable laid. Only one
message sent for about ten years.
1861. Quarrel between North and
! South breaks out. Monitors built, lots
of paper money used and years spent in
fighting.
1865. Abraham Lincoln assassinated.
1871. Chicago burned.
1876. Party in Philadelphia called
the Centennial"
1877. Silver coming into use again.
1881. Garfield assassinated.
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De Lesseps, on learning that the British troop
ship Orion intended TO land men at Ismaia,
started at onco for that point, declaring that
the English should only debark after passing
over his dead body and that OF his son.
The French Admiral ielegraphed to Paris grave
complaints about De Lesseps' behavior. He Is
said TO be in daily communication with Arab
Pasha The British forces in Egypt have de-
stroyed the fort at Gabari and blown up the
large powder magazine at Mekhuron.
Alexandria dispatches of the Is: inst. report
numerous outrages in the territory dominated
by the the whites, The Khedive authorized
the English to occupy the the Suez
canal, while DE Lesseps has been given
The conference ut Constantnople terminated
without arriving at any conclusion, owing to
the attitude assumed by the Russian represent
alive.
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NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.
East

A yacht is being constructed at Bris-
fol. r. l.. for gentleman of Port Huron on
condition OF making 100 miles in five hours or
no pay. Her estimated cost is $4,000.
John @. Hamilton, a son OF Alexan-
der Hamilton, died at Long Branch in his 91st
year.
An ex-Alderman of Brooklyn, named
James Dunno, is matched fight Tug Wilson
in Louisiana or Mississippi for $4,000 side
and the championship of the world.
Aaron G. Burr, an adopted son Of
Aaron Burr, died in New York. He was q son
OF Count dc Lsle, and was born in Paris in
1893.
Three Swedes sat down to rest on
railroad track at Jamestown, N. Y, and two of
them were killed by passing train.
West
Every polygamist in Utah is now liv-
ing openly with only one wife, having slowed
away the rest against the advent of the COM
mission
The wheat yield of Indiana is immense
this year. A farmer in Lawrence county har-
grain having thrown out ninety-six well-headed
stalks
A large party of Indians attacked
wagon train near Clifton Arizona, killing tive
men. The teamsters, seven in number stood
of the Indians fer two hours and MORALLY
wounded one Indian In the face Of q heavy
fire they rushed out and dragged the wounded
I'd; int nh tna fc,l,t
scalped him and roasted him alive.
The new city directory of Minneapolis
contains 2s.92S names.
South.
A duel was fought near Christians
burg, Va. between John S. Wise, Readjuster
candidate for Congrossman-at-Large, and JOAN
S. Crockett, States Attorney for Wythe county.
After three shots had been harmlessly ex-
changed, Crockett, the challenging party, said
he was satisfied and the affair ended. II
originated in political quarrel.
Durham, Orange and Pinder counties,
N. c., were visited by destructive tornadoes.
Houses were destroyed and the cotton crop
injured.
Martin Beckett, a negro, was lynched
at Hampton, Del, for an assault on young
white girl.
Three masked men robbed stage near
Shreveport, La, taking thirteen registered
packages from the mail pouches and relieving
four passengers of their money.
A negro named Isaac Turner was
hanged at Lexington, KY, for numbering Abe
Ray, another colored man, in June, 1881.
Fire at New Orleans destroyed four
business buildings in Tchoupitoulas street and
damaged three adjacent structures, creating q
loss estimated at $1,000
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-08-04
His Love.

II was evening in the country. The
moonbeams peeped softly between the
leaves of the pulseless elms and kissed
the song-birds lost in happy dreams.
The rose and the lily were asleep, SO
we're the parsnip and the string bean,
and all the amorous air was toned with.
lanouid scent to the sublime altitude OF
a swell drug store.
They were walking up the shady
avenue from the village, whittier he had
taken her to prove his boundless adj
miration and love at fve-cent soda
water fountain.
enc" he commenced, for he knew
they were getting near her vine-ciad
cottage. and he hadn't much time to-
lose, "my love for you shall never wane,
wilt or grow less. With you shall sail
through life as TRANQUILITY as over a
placid moon-ht lake In a fiat-bottomed
boat, with virtuoso at the stern play
ing the odd Folks at Home on an
accordion. You are my evening star
this evening and every other evening,
and you shall have seal-skln sacque
every Christmas"
She clutched his ready-made coat
or rather its sleeve-in wild ecstasy OF
ineffable delight, while he continued
"You are the sweet particular idol OF
my life, and / shall take you to the cir
Gus next week. My love for you is deep
as the iceman's cunning and the plumb
er's pocket, which, like spring, refills
itself when drained. Mine is wild en-
thusiastic passion that will withstand
the rigors of the Arctic butcher and MILL
ner. The strawberry vender may lose
the cunning of the hand that arranges.
the meaner specimens below the large
ones in the three-quarter-pint measure
which he guarantees to hold quart
but my love you will never lose, even
if you bet it on horse race. All, yes,
fair Imogen, while life lasts you shall
have in me a defender against all the
trials and tribulations of this vexed, un-
certain life. My love for you burns like
dollar in poets pocket ; it also burns
like yon snowy star, and not till
that goes out"
at has just gone out" she broke in.
Alas, too true !" he sighed. 81
have been swearing by q Forth-of-July
balloon.
And he didn't say another word until
he good-nighted at the gate.-R. K
Munkittrick, IN Harper's Magazine.
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINos.

The Russian creoles In Alaska are
being decinsted by scarlet fever and measles.
The President of the Ontario Ento-
biological Society announces that the Hessian
fly will destroy 20 per cent Of the wheat in that
province.
Up to the present month emigration
from Germany to the United States has de-
creased 10000, as compared with the same
period last year.
The Indianapolis and st. Louis rail-
road was sold to the Cleveland, Columbus, Gin
cinnati and Indianapolis Company for o., $780,
600. The second mortgage bondholders will
contest the sale.
An immigrant who recently arrived at
Castle Garden writes to Superintendent Jack
son announcing himself as candidate for the
Presidency, offering to perform its duties for
&26 per year from each State.
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FOREIGN NEWS.

Fourteen persons were killed in fight
on a railway near Vienna between peasants and
laborers
A small box which was sent from
Granada for Senior Sagasta, the Spanish Prime
Minister, ON being opened was found to con-
tain nitro-glycerine. Several persons have been
arrested an suspicion.
A detective of the Irish constabulary
has been sent 10 venezuela TO receive o'Brien,
who confessed completely in the murder Of Lord
Cavendish.
Judge Fitzgerald. Baron of the Irish
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Exchequer, has resigned because Of objection
to the duties imposed on him by the Repression
bill
A cable dispatch states that the Most
Rev. Patrick A. Feehan, Archbishop Of Chicago.
viii be elected Cardinal at the next Consistory.
Six business houses were destroyed by
fire at Exeter, England, involving q loss Of
$250,0O
The son of the Russian Consul in Rou-
mania has been arrested at Odessa for supply
ing dynamite to the Nihilists.
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The Old Home.

A large proportion of our girls who
read this, will some day love and marry.
1t is well; it is right; but do not be in
hurry to be grown up and away from
home. Life will never give you any
thing sweeter, better, happier, than you
have now, No love purer than your
mothers; no care more kindly than your
fathers: no companionship like that of
your brothers and sisters. Even TO the
man who loves you, you will not be the
little Lily who was baby once; who,
learned to walk and prattle, and who
was prettier than any other baby ever
was; nor the little girl who was so.
wonderful genius when she played
her first tune on the piano or worked
her first book mark. He who falls III,
love with you may have known twenty
other pretty girls, and have been,
perhaps, at some time, In love with half
of them. In some things you will fall
short of some one he has known. Your
eyes will not be so fine as those of Miss
Lavina, and you will never make cake
as his mother does. Here at the old
home you have been perfection; even if
prudence kept your parents from say
ing so, they cannot believe any one
quite so nice as "our Lily" Then lin
ger little here, where some one else
shoulders the burdens and shields you
from life's worry; where the love is a
love that does not change because of B.
new face; where the innocent days o4
childhood have been passed-your first
and best home.
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POLITICAL POINTS.

At a Cabinet meeting in Washington,
the other day, the opinion OF Attorney General
Brewster on the subject of political assessments
was the chief topic Of discussion. The opinion
was accompanied by letter from Secretary
FoIger, expressing his views. The subject was
generally discussed. The President expressed
his views freely and fully. They were, in sub
stance, that no person in any one Of the execu-
tive departments declining to contribute shall
on that account be subject to discharge or crit
cism, and no attempt to injure him ON this
ground will be countenanced or tolerated.
The Independent Republican State
Committee Of Pennsylvania rejected the sug-
gestions toward harmony made by the Cameron
organization
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

The President has referred suppl e.
mental petition bearing $4,000 signatures from
the Garfield Club of New York city, asking the
pardon of Sergeant Mason, TO the Secretary of
War, together with several other and similar
petitions.
Commissioner Raum reports the en-
tire collections of internal-revenuo taxes for
the past fiscal year-Sl46, 52o, 273-has been
accounted for and turned into the treasury.
Gen. Walker, says Washington tele-
gram, is receiving pretty sharp criticisms for
having projected so extensive a plan for the
census, one which involves such q large def
cheney appropriation. Senator'S very plainly say
that it was never the intention of Congress to
enter upon such comprehensive census plan.
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THE NUMBER OF FARMS.
As shown by n Census Bulletin for
the Inst Four Decades.


A bulletin from the Census Office gives the
number OF farms in the United States in the
years 1880, 1870, 1860 and 1850, together with
statement Of the rate per cent. Of increase from
1870 to 1880. The great increase in the North
erp, Western and Pacific States and Territories
is explained by the rapid settlement Of those
regions during the past decade, and an increase
In the Southern States is accounted for by the
subdivision Of the large plantations OF ten and
twenty years ago. The total number of farms
in the United States in 1870 was 2 659, 9S5, aud
in 1880 zoos, 907, an increase OF 81 per cent
The State OF Ohio is credited with 1876. 953 farms
in 1890 while in 1880 there were 247, 1883. an in
crease OF &c per cent. Kentucky shows a re-
markabe increase OF Al per cent in the last ten
years. having total OF 11s,422 in 1870 and
l66, 453 in 1880. Indiana has increased 20 per
cent, showing total OF 1874 ,013 farms in 1880,
against 16l, 2S9 in 1870. Tennessee has in
creased the number OF her farms 40 per cent.
IN this time, having a total of 1876, $50 at tho
last census. The largest increase is in Dakota.
where the enormous gain OF ola per cent. il
given. Nebraska is next 10 Dakota. with an
increase OF 4l5 per cent The New England
States being but little subject to changes. show
the smallest increase, Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont having increased the number of
their farms 8, 8 and 8 per cent, respectively.
Massachusetts is credited with an increase of
As per cent, but this figure is disputed, owing
to the defective census OF 1870 in that State.
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A Sunday Toy.
Texas Siftings.1

An Austin clergyman, on his way
home from church, stopped his carriage
to rebuke boy who was industriously
firing off toy pistol.
Don't you know it is wrong to fire
off toy pistol on Sunday"
cit isn't wrong to fire off this toy
pistol on Sunday?"
"Why not?"
Because / bought it with the money
ma gave me TO put in the contribution
box. This is Sunday toy, this is" re-
piled the boy playfully shooting q hole
in the clergyman's stove pipe hat, before
he could get out of range.
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The "RuIing Passion. "

A pointed example of the "ruling
passion is recorded of one of the toll
keepers in Scotland. These tolls are
gradually disappearing off the face Of
II not of the earth, at any rate of Scot
land. Many and varied are the recol-
lections that inger around these toll
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TlPPLING HOUSES.

Census of the Saloons i'm the United
States.
Every place where liquor is sold must
have a federal license. The United
States Internal Revenue Department
makes this return of the retail liquor
trade, showing the number of saloons in
each State and their proportion to popu-
lation:
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houses. In the case in question the les
ee's wife had been taken sick nigh unto
death. The services and sympathies OF
the clergyman were called in. The rev.
erend gentleman was asked TO engage IN
PRAYER at the bed. ide. He did so, and
began, "Oh, Lord"
"Whisht % interrupted the feeble,
woman, 81 think hear cart. "-Har-
per's Maqazine.