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A MARRIAGES ROMANCE.
The Future Marquise and Her Adorcr-Mrs.
LesIie's Love Story.

LesIle's Love story.
New York Correspondence Pittsburg Commercial.
Really, you mustn't ask me when I'm going
to be married, for can't tellmyself yet laughed
Mrs. Frank Leslie to a reporter recently, as a
becoming little blush dyed her cheeks and she
glanced coyly at nguished-looking gentle
man seated at her side. Marquis de Leuville
has only been in America this time II few weeks
and we have not had time yet to fix date for our
marriage, much less to determine what kind of a
wedding we'll have" and the beautiful manager
of the great publishing house of Frank Leslie
east down her eyes and gaZed at her dainty little
white fingers as modestly as an inexperienced
school girl
Mrs Leslie was seated in her handsome apart
ments in the Victoria Hotel. and the manly
looking foreigner at her side the Marquis
de Leuville, the gentleman who had the good
fortune to win her heart and the promise of her
hand.
1t was nearly three years ago that Mrs Leslie
and the Marquis met, and after their introduce
ton the Marquis paid the most devoted atten-
ton to Mrs. Leslie, but she was deeply i'm
mersed in the cares of business at that time, and
so earnestly engaged IN extrcating the enor-
nous business that had been left to her charge
from almost hopeless tangle, that she had lit
tie time to think of matrmony.
One evening theater party was enjoying a
play at an uptown theater, and among them
were Mrs. Leslie and the Marquis de Leuville
Mrs Leslie being in the deepest mourning pre-
ferred to sit III the back part of the box and the
Marquis as usual, occupied seat close at her
side. When they got up to go Mrs. Leslie drew
off her glove and in doing SO drew her wedding
ring off with it and it fell to the floor
A hunt was Immediately begun for it. but
the Marquis, slipping calamity up to the
anxious little lady. while the others were
busily hunting slipped his family crested ring
from his finger and gently put it on in the place
of the missing circle and leaning over, softly
whispered to her to wear that wedding ring
in the place of the one she had lost.
MYc eli nrpY1l Or of 4I,a+
entertain the idea of matrimony until she had
indicated her late husbands honor by placing
his enormous business upon firm financial
footing Over year ago she achieved this VIC
tory, and her success has placed her to-day
among wealthiest well as the best known bust
ness ladies of the world
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Human Life in Mexico.

Letter in Springfield Republican.
AS an instance Of how little regard the govern
ment has for life, let tell you a pitiful story:
A child was missing from mining settlement
at the edge of Zacateeas, and as weeks went by
bringing no trace of him, the distracted parents
imagined that he had been kidnapped There
upon some thirty persons most of them labor
ing men about Mines We're taken out and shot
on the merest suspicion that they might know
about the lost boy About three months after
ward somebody happened to look downinto deep
hollow (probably an abandoned prospect hdiej
not many yards from the fathers house, and dis.
covered something therein which excited his Gu
rIosity. Closer investigation revealed a small
skeleton. The poor child had undoubtedly
fallen in during of the epileptic fits to which
be was subject, and had starved to death within
sight of home. happened to be present when
the little mouldy jacket and muddy shoes were
brought up, amid crowd who wept with sym
pathy for the, mourning mother; but nobody
had thought for the thirty victims-mostly
fathers of families-who were sacrificed in the
unaVailiup search
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brooklyn tnlon
Osnan Digmas attempt to revive his dropping
followers by promising to give them himself that
immunity from wounds and death which they
appear to have sorely needed in the recent bat
ties, might be greatly aided by a little Of that
dexterous sleght of hand through which Robert
Houdin, the famous French jugger of the last
generation, convinced his Arab captors by ocular
demonstration that he was actually invulnera-
bic. DO you think / fear your weapons17
asked he sternly, when they threatened
him with death; you shall see how much
power they have over me- Give me pistol 8"
The wondering Arabs obeyed, and Houdin put
in before their eyes the powder, the wadding
and what appeared TO be a genuine bullet
but which was really a ball of brittle clay
Now said he, handing the weapon to the near
est warrior, ram that down and fire it at my
face The man did so, but the ramming home
of the charge necessarily ground the clay bullet
TO powder, and the willy Frenchman. standing
unhuit amid the smoke answered tire shot with
a laugh of defiance. Look here,n he cried and
dropped from his mouth into the palm of his
hand real pistol bullet, which he had artfully
concealed there. In another moment the whole
band were PROSTATE at the feet of the wonder
working magician, inplorinG him to be merciful
and allow them to escape the terrors of his ven
geance, which Houdin with perfectly grave
face, kindly promised to do.
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san Francisco Chronlcle.
Railways have hitherto been failure. A
start was made six eight years ago by foreign
spectators and line was laid from Shanghai
to Woosung. 1t was ptitT0nized fairly well and
promised to be d success, but the mandarins in
terfered, bought up the concern and then tore
up the works The last l heard of the thing was
that the material was lying corroded with rust
and utterly and irremediably ruined.
1t need hardly be mentioned that the great
difficulty in the way of opening railways in
China is the superstitious dread they have of
turning up the soil. The great doctrine of Flung
Shut forbids any such DETACHMENT OF the eoun-
try. To mar the CONFORMATION of their hills
would bring untold calamites upon the popula-
ton. Added to this is their vehement re-
sistance to any proposal to disturb
holy dust of their forefathers. These objections
do not apply with such force to telegraphing, and
a very successful start has been made in this de-
partment of public works, One or two lines
have been laid in the north, and line was laid
last year between Canton aud Hong Kong. To
show what difficulties heset the pioneers of civ
iliZation in superstitious country like China, it
may be mentioned that two or three hundred
viceregal troops were required to protect the line
from the opposition of the villagers. 1t must be
explained that the line runs from Canton or the
city of sheep, through Fumun tigers door, to
Hong Kong 1.-THE nine dragons The idea of bring
ing the sheep into direct communication with
the tiger and the dragons was thought to bode
i'll to the sheep. Besides this they be
lieved that the electric wires were
some joss instrument possessing some
magical and occult powers, which the foreign
devils were introducing to effect their internal
purposes. The party of progress, however, are
not deferred by these difficulties, and another
overland line is to be constructed shortly, con
Meeting Shanghai and Canton. The telephone
has been patronized by some of the richer Chi
nese merchants at several of the treaty ports.
OF all modern appliances there is none which
astonshes the natives like this. One bright
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Red Jackets Model Hatchet.


One little anecdote of Red Jacket, related by
Judge Sheldon at the meeting of the committee
of the Historical Society, yesterday, will be
found interesting: There was onceh said the
Judge, "a blacksmiths shop on the corner where
the postoffice now stands kept by a man named
Reese lie was a very fine workman, a real artist
in his line. One day Red Jacket came into the
shop with his nterpreter-he would never speak
English, you know. Well, he wanted new
Ratchet or tomahawk made. They had some talk
but Reese finally said he would make the Ratchet
for him, and told him to come in two weeks
for it, When the time was up Red Jacket came
for his Ratchet 1t was a fine piece of work
manship, TOO He went off, but returned In
day or two with the Ratchet. 1t didn't suit him
OF course, Reese was mad, but he told Red
Jacket if he would make model out of maple
wood of just such tomahawk as he wanted he
woUld make it for him. So Red Jacket made
his model and brought it to Reese, who told him
to come after it il. week Red Jacket came in
a week, with his interpreter, as usual. Reese
had told several people and several were in the
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Painful state of Affairs at the Hub.


Never was Boston in so lively state of cul-
ture. Nothing less learned enters into current
conversation than comparative estimates of
Arnold and Emerson, the Importance of revela-
ton to natural religion; the views held by
Pythagoras, Plato and st. Augustine; or the
dramatic ideal as it is in Irving-an ideal of
which the purity is doubted by the disciples of
calls and madame at once inaugurates converse
ton by informing you that she has been reflect
ing deeply over the inability of Mr.. Arnold to
fully comprehend Emerson and she has con
cluded that this defect in him results from a
note of hesitation in his mental scale Where
Emerson would swiftly and surely hitch his
wagon to star, Arnold would be studying to
find the star The fact is, Boston has not had
in years so much to talk about in purely intel
lectual and artistic way
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why General Schramm Was Not Made "A
Marshal

General Schiamm, who recently died at the
age of ninetysX, proudly entitled himself the
foremost piOnpion Of France This name of
pionpion is usually bestowed upon the gallant
and humble rank and file of the infantry of our
army. General Schramm was sub lieutenant
at the battle of Austerlitz, a chief of battalion
at the siege OF Saragossa. colonel at Lutzeu
and % general at Pirna His every successive
grade was attended with new wounds in battle.
Why, it may be asked, did not he, after having
been of France, under Louis Philippe.
become u marshal under the second empire AT u
time when Napoleon H. so greatly delighted in
surrounding himself with military men who had
served under his uncle, Napoleon II IT. is said
that the reason Of this was that Schramm had
Inundated, i'll petty way in 1870, Louis Ma
poleon, the future Emperor The Prince at that
epoch was DESTROYS of publicly displaying his
military science, Of which he was very proud.
so a sham battle was decided upon. The battle
took place not far from Lougchamps, General
Schramm being at the head of tho troops repre-
senting the enemy. The old tactician, by u
skillful vancouver, turned aside the regiments
commanded by the PRINCE president and cap
tured him and the entire staff Louis Napoleon
was greatly mortified and he never forgot that
incident Dating from that day Gen Schranm
was in complete disgrace.
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De Lesseps's Babies.

Paris Letter to London Truth.
The juvenile Lesscps were brought forward on
Sunday to make collection at the Cymuase l'az,
with the children Of some wealthy bourgeois.
All the brothers and sisters, save the infant
Jack" attended. They were not present while
their father and other eminent Frenehmen We're
making orations on the platform but were anus
ing themselves behind the scenes, and entered
lust at the moment arranged by the organizers
of the fete. Stewards took them round They
were, as usual, in broad brmmed, plain hats,
sand dark blue dresses that hardly covered them,
but blooming with health and bright with api
nal spirits pitied the other children whose
dresses were cumbersome from overtripinng
and whose movements We're awkward oad CON
strained. The venerable eXcavator q canals
walked to the edge of the platform win spungy
step, stood erect when speaking m.% Jokes, was
Indignation when taking the paRot the sisters
of Charity who have been eXpe)ea from the F"is
ho spitsls
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W. +. a. Archibald, in London Daily Telegraph.
My attention has been called to an article in
your issue of to-day, in which you refer at some
length to an anonymous letter received in Au-
gust 1860 by my uncle, the late Sir Edward
Archibald, then British consul at New York In
which the writer intimated that the Southern
States would be ripe for rebellion in the follow
ing November, and suggested negotiations for
the return of those States to their allegiance to
the British crown Would you allow me to say
that Sir Edward Archibald never for moment
attributed the letter in question to Mr.. Judah p
Benjamin, Queens Counsel, nor, l should think
would any one who knew Mr. Benjamin have
troubled hira to repudiate such production The
letter was actually received, and in the then
condition of American politics Sir Edward Archi-
bald considered it necessary to send reply,
which, | need scarcely say, was an indignant re
fusal to entertain any further communications
upon the subject. The original letter. together
with q copy Of the reply, are, ! believe at the
Foreign Office. having been handed to the Secre-
tary of State. But the late Sir Edward Archi-
bald kept copy of the anonymous letter, and
gave another copy to the late Mr.. Thurlow
Weed, who Was collecting documents relating to
the civil war upon the understanding that it
should not be published until after the death of
them both. Upon the recent deeease of Mr.
Thurlow Weed, his representative, not know
ing presume, the tsrIns upon which the copy
was given, published it in the American papers.
and Sir Edward Archibald did not survive him
long enough to know of the publication.
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"CALL ME ROBERT"
A Contribution to the History of the Late
War That Is Quite Fresh.
Towle, in Boston Traveller.

Towle, in Boston Traveller
Even some of the native Virginians find
time occasionally to make fun of the staggering
braggadocio of some of the citizens of the "Old
Dominion" A gentleman from Richmond said
to me day or two since: 'The most eccentric
character in the confederate army, as far as
know, was Sergeant John r. Carp, man al
ways boasting of his own valor and achieve
ments. Carp was q character, and no
mistake. He said to me one day: I did
more to brighten the Yankees at Charlottesville
than any other one man. Why, sab, l had six
teen niggahs, sah-yes, sab, sixteen niggahs, sab
loading guns for. me, sah and l moved the
Yanks down like was using scythe, sab. Yes
sab, they laid out in front of me in heaps of
dead men. While l was doing my level best
and enjoying the results of my execution, an
officer, sah-yes, sab, an officer sah--in "a gen
erals uniform, rode up to me and exclaimed
Is this Sergeant Carp, of Goochland county
Virginia. l responded by saying, 1T is, sah. He
raised his hand and said, Sergeant, why this in
discriminate slaughterl VIII not your revenge
ever be gratifedP l saw, sah that the whole
id Yankee line was wavering, and / said
General Lee, only let me kill few more of EN-,
l inlplore you. l shall never forget the look on
his face when he glanced at me and said Don't
call me general call be Robert. " We often
hear of funny stories from the Union side but it
is seldom that genuine confederate yarn ereeps
into pfint
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Water as a Soothing Syrup.
PAN Mall Gazette.

Sir Joseph Fayrer, president of the Medical
Society, and the first authority in the world
about snake poison, has come forward in a new
fretful children to sleep In nearly every
Himalayan village the native baby is placed in a
trough, into which there trickles constant
stream of water, This falling upon the vertex
of the Uranium induces sleep. Children lie in
mothers go about their work We fear Sir
Josephs plan would be only too successful in
this country. After day or two's exposure in
the water trough the child would probably sleep
the sleep that knows no waking. The system
may work in India, but it cannot be guaranteed
as safe for home application.
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Chinaman was one day exhibiting and trying the
instrument before a wondering crowd Of neigh
bors, and exclaimed. enthusiastically, See the
cleverness of these Western people-they cannot
only make wires write, they make wires
talk" An imperturbable mandarin who saw one
day the effect of torpedo ON an old junk, forgot
excitement, declaring that the very devil must
be i'll men who could invent such machines
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shop when Red Jacket came in. Reese handed
him the Ratchet. Red Jacket looked it all over
flung it across the room, grunted Ugh, and
went off mad as thunder He had forgotten to
make eye in his model and Reese made the
Ratchet without an eye
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London Life.
DR. Zintgraff, traveller just starting for the
Congo, has carefully armed himself with phou-
ograph, complete with all the latest improve
ments. The idea is, not to blend instruction
with amusement for the benefit Of the noble
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of q substantial brick
q Real Estate Auctioneers
TRUSTEEH SALE OLA VERY Observation-Disclosures
STORY BRICK HOUSE. ON NJ STREET. NEAR
THIRD STREET NORTHWEST, WITH MODERN

TRUSTEE SALE OLA VERY DEsIRABLETHREE-
STORY BRICK HOUSE. ON NJ STREET. NEAR
THIRD STREET NORTHWEST, WITH MODERN
IMPROVEMENTS.
By virtue of deed Of trust, dated December L.
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ct of the land records of the District
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APRIL A d, 1881. at FIVE O'CLOCK NJ. the follow
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taken. depost of 300 required at time of sale Terms
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conveyancing and recoriing at purcha -er's cost
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