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Rail and River News.

The Grand Trunk authorities, owing to the
diminishing of receipts, have ordered a reduc-
ton of 5 per cent on the salaries of all train
hands receiving over 81 a day. Tho reduction
is to continue six months.
Gen. Joseph b. Frye, formerly assistant adj
jntsnt general of the army, and now on the re-
tired list, is one of the few men who saved the
money he made in the Northern Pacific. It
was the return after many days of bread cast
upon the water. During the war when Willard
was 8 newspaper correspondent, Frye was very
kind 10 him, and when Willard got up in the
world, he assisted the general in making a for
tune.
A contract has been awarded P. Reynolds Of
Rock Island and G. c. Smith OF La Crosse for
grading seventy-five miles of road for the Bur-
ltngton, Cedar Rapids & Northern from near
Spirit Lake, Iowa, northwesterly to Pipe Stone,
MINI. Work will be commenced at once and
completed this fall. The road runs through q
prairie country, and the grading will be nearly
all scraper work. The road Is surveyed to
Bismarck.
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Effect of Merriment.

The man who is able "to set the table
on a roar" will make ever his enemies
like him, for there is nothing that SC
0 o burns up personal hostility as a
flash of merriment. Ex-senator Gwin,
of California, tells the following anec-
lote of VIM. H. Seward. which illus.
tartes his lubricating power at the din
ner-table.
When Seward came into the senate,
[ also entered there. It was about the
year 1850. He was reelected, and SC
was L. He was very much disliked in
the senate, when I found him there, as
an Abolitionist.
Seward said to me one day, "Mr.
Gwin, I want you to invite me to din
nor at your house with most of your
leading southern senator's"
l said, Seward, I'm afraid they WON'T
come"
ooh yes" said he, "they will if you
invite them. When we get at your ia.
bic, I will manage them. He was a won
derfully cheerful little fellow, and it was
of that class of invitations that 1 could
hardly shake off
1 went to Butler, of South Carolina,
and said, 81 want you to come to my
house to dinner, and Seward is going tc
| be there too" .-.
They came, and it is wonderful to see
how that little fellow managed that ia.
BILE. Inever saw his equal at dinner.
table.
He could tell tales that would make
everybody howl with laughter, and a
good many of them were about himself.
He would reflect on himself. In point
of fact, Seward was q wonderful man
both as a table companion and a stu
dent.
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Foreign Flashes.

h indications that the government intends
to undertake an autumn campaign towards
Khartoum are multiplying. Preparations for
such an event are beng actively made. The
survey of the Nile as far as the second cataract
has been completed, and Capt. Molyneux is to
report on o scheme for getting the English
regiments across the Korosko desert. Sir
Evelyn Barring telegraphs the government thar
. plan has been submitted by Sir Samuel Baker
Tor an English expedition across the desert.
Queen Victoria has become oppressed with a
nervous horror Of her approaching journey to
Darmstadt to attend the wedding Of her grand
daughter and namesake in consequence of the
recent dynamite Developments. The mostex-
guard her person throughout the journey. An
extra force of sentries is to be placed all along
the carriage road from Windsor castle to the
station, and at Chaplain Junction and the ter
minis at Sheerness. A pilot engine will pre-
cede the royal train throughout the entire dis
lance, and several high officials of the Queens
Railroad company will be on the engine and in
the carriages Of the Queens train.
Col Majendie, in a report on the recent dy-
Mantle attempts, says the agent used was lignin
dynamite, a substance made in America. the
manufacture of which was not licensed in Eng
land. Slabs of the material were discovered in
paper ~wrappings, which were marked ATLAS
Powder company" an American corporation.
The clocks in the internal machine were Ameri-
can; also the pistols. Lignin dynamite was a
component of the Internal machine imported
into Malta from Bavaria in 1881, was the agent
Of the explosion in Fossil park in Glasgow and
the Office of the London Times in 1888, and was
a component of the machine found in Liver
pool in April, 1883, and of the cartridges found
in Primrose hill tunnel in January last
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Bits ofFun.

It is respectfully but earnestly sue-
gested that the so, O0O, 900 of American
prople who are in the habit of passing
RESOLUTIONS" on the death Of everybody
and anybody. send them hereafter to
Mr.. Bismark, whose post-office address
is Berlin.
An exchange says: "The colored
people of Washington, N. j., are sure
that Satin is attending their revival"
There is nothing very remarkable
about that. Revivals in this neighbor-
hood are not only attended b. Satin,
but Silk, Velvet, Surah, and other
fabrics may be found there.-Norris-
town Herald,
A Weapon of defence-Dumley was
describing at the supper table q narrow
escape he once had from the attack Of
a highwayman. "And had you nothing
to protect yourself with" asked Mrs.
Hendricks, the landlady, very much in
terested, "a pistol or any weapon of de-
fence| "Not a thing" replied Dunn
ley. II would have given a fve-dollar
bill for n of these biscuits Just at that
time."-Philadelphia Call.
Jones-"Yes, sir. Ihave been insult
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Begging of Rich Men.
From the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Before Jay Gould started south on
his yachting trip he told a friend that
if he gave away o dime for every dol.
lar that was asked Of him by beggars
he would not have o cent left within two
years. So it was with Vanderbilt, who
is constantly besieged by begging let
ter-writers, Nine tenths of his mail is
made up with these missives. Butthere
is another man who, while not quite SO
rich, is VIGOROUSLY free with his gifts,
and consequently receives more begging
letters than any rich man in America.
Reference is made to Mr.. George W.
Childs of the Philadelphia Ledger.
His income from the Ledger is said to
be over a thousand dollars u day, and
and he has other sources of income as
well. Nearly all this goes out in charity.
Mr.. Child's private secretary says that
as many as 200 begging letters are re-
ceived in one day, and that the total of
the applications for money made to the
Ledger publisher by letter often aver
age $50 900 a day. One afternoon,
while a friend waited outside to get an
interview with him, a woman, a perfect
stranger, went in to ask if Mr.. Childs
wouldn't pay off her debts, amounting
to $4,000. Folks will come from a dis
tance of $50 miles to beg Il small loan.
Some want to be educated ut his ex-
pense. Quite o number of you4g wom-
EN- have been sent to Europe through
him to study music, but none of them
have ever reached public distinction.
Not a few of the beggars say they are
ambitious and want Mr.. Child's to pay
for their courses of study that will en-
able them to enter the ministry or other
profession.
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The Ruins Of Raalbec.
!. NJ. Field in the Evangelist.

DR.. q. N. Field in the Evangelist
Everything is colossal. The area is
larger than that of the temple at Jerusa-
lem. We may begin with the walls,
which are half a mile around, and of
such height and depth as are rarely
attainedinth the most tremendous fortress.
When from within I climbed to the top,
it made mo giddy to look over the
perilous edge to the depth below; and
when from without the walls, I looked
up at them, they rose high in air. Some
Of the stones seem as if they must have
been reared in place, not by Titans,
but by the gods. There are 9stones 30
feet long and 10 feet thick, which is
larger than the foundation-stones of the
temple at Jerusalem, dating from the
time of Solomon, or any blocks in the
great pyramid, But even these are
| pigmies compared with the three giants
of the western wall-62, 63! and "a
feet long.
These are said to be the largest stones
ever used in any construction. They
weigh hundreds of tons, and instead Of
being merely hewn out of a quarry.
which might have been on the site, and
left to lie where they were before, they
have been lifted is feet from the
ground, and there imbeddedi in the wall!
Never was there such Cyclopean archi-
lecture. How such masses
could be moved is a problem with mod
ern engineers. Sir Charles Wilson,
whom 1 met in Jerusalem, is at this
moment in Baalbec. Standing in the
grounds of the temple, he tells me that
in the British museum there is an an
Gent tablet which reveals the way in
which such stones We're moved. The
mechanics were very simple. Rollers
were put under them, and they were
drawn up inclined planes by sheer hui
man muscle-the united strength of
great numbers of men. In the rude de-
sign IN the tablet the whole scene is
pictured to the eye. There are battal-
ions of men, hundreds to u single roller,
with the taskmasters standing over
them, lash in hand, which was freely
applied to make them pull together,
and the king sitting on high to give the
signal for this putting forth of human
strength Ell masSe, as if a army were
moving to battle. A battle it was in
the waste of human life which it caused.
These temples of Baalbec must have
been a whole generation in building,
and have consumed the population of a
province and the wealth of an empire.
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Nuptial Fancies.

Marriages take place at all kinds OF
places-from caprice, love Of ~notoriety
and sometimes from untoward circum-
stances. Recently a couple were united
in a railroad car; the stage co ach has
furnished the place where the bridal
vows have been spoken; people have
been married on horseback, in towers
and balloons. The writer once partici-
pated in a wedding on the piazza of a
summer cottage on one of the Thousand
Islands, the moonlight glinting the ma
jestic river that flowed beneath, and
browning the fair bride with such splen-
dor as the kings daughters well might
envy. Niagara has witnessed the mar
rage VOWS, and behind the bridal
veil of Minnehaha Falls many a
couple have been made one. A Brook
Ign minister several years ago married
q couple from his chamber window, tel
ling them to come round in the morn
ing and sign the necessary papers The
making out of the preliminary papers,
If the clergyman is Il man of tact, is us
ually done after the ceremony, for not
seldom is there a marked hesitancy on
the part Of the contracting parties in
answer to the fatal question of age,
Many times have the eyes of the bride
groom opened wide as the tally of years
counted some half dozen more in the
presence of the clergyman than in the
prenuptial condolences of private con-
versation, and though the records are
astested as true, to the best of the sig
nor's knowledge and belief, yet there
have been occasions in the experience
Of every minister when he he's
been very certain that by
some strange magic at least half a doz-
en- years have dropped out of the rec
objection of the antique but happy
bride. Strange accidents sometimes
happen in the preparation of the certi-
flcate. The writer once spoiled the bri-
dial tourof a young bride by accidentally
copying the fathers instead of the sons
name from the Health Board return ly-
ing before him. The bride was in great
alarm and at once on her return she
visited the minister III great distress,
saying, "You have married me to the
wrongman )" it was withno little difficult
tythat she was persuaded that newcer-
tificate would make the old gentleman
her father-in-law instead of her hus-
band.-Brooklyn Eagle.
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Platform Women

Elemental and moral condition which
the modern platform woman herself ex-
hibits is the surest proof of mischief
which public speaking is working by her
agency on the community at ~large-the
gradual hardening of the countenance
and of the external manner and address,
indicating too surely the real repression
going on within of much that is lovable
and admirable in a woman. Norepose,
outwardly or mentally, is to be found in
her society, she produces a strong i'm
preston of unnaturalness, md of living
In a%ntagonism with the world around
her; an unfortunate frame of mind
which has to be frostered, since her
position is not yet, thank Heaven,
by any means an assured one. and
must be struggled for and pursued un-
der protest from a large section OF both
sexes. Who does not know the shud-
der with which a sensitive, highly
wrought, fastidious man or woman
speaks of those whose persons are con-
%tinually before the world, whose names
are banded about, whose principles are
discussed in half the drawing-rooms of
London? "That dreadful woman" is
the mildest term applied to them. Even
the harder-natured part of the cum
munity receives shocks from its public
speaking sisters occasionally with a
shrug of the shoulders, and makes Jokes
at their expense. And the meaning OF
it all is that the women who take up a
personally prominent position in the
world are distasteful to the good sense
and refined feeling of the major
ity, and, therefore, that female
influence in the world is de-
generating. Their power may be in
creasing, (but that l take leaye still to
doubt but in their proper sphere q
small, it may be only a home circle,
their once all-powerful influence is wan
ing. Would not true width of intellect.
true %largeness of heart and soul, be
shown by submitting to live in what
seems a small space-by seeking to in
huence what appear to be few men and
women to bring up a few children faith
fully-by realizing that a narrow sphere
does not imply marrow svmpathy-that
in fact "the growing good OF the world
is partly dependent on historic acts, and
that things are not so i'll with you and
me as they might have been is half
OWING to the number who lived faith
fully a hidden life and rest in myisited
tombs1Margaret Lonsdale, in the
Nineteenth Century.
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Personal News Notes.

.ssBrudder" Jasper preached his sun-do-move
sermon in Richmond Sunday and lifted q
church debt of 800.
Wilbur T. Story, of Che Chicago Times has re-
turned from n three months trip to the Michi-
gan and other health resorts, and is watching
the completion Of his s1,OO0,OO0 palace ON the
Grand Boulevard
Caleb Dickinson, an eccentric, who used to
so about Hatfield, Mass, wrapped in a heavy
cloak and wearing a woman's large plush hat,
with q cloud" effigy of a bird on ;ts front, left
q will giving 3l00,UO0 to founding a hospital for
INDECENT sick of Northampton, Hatfield and
Whately.
Judges G. E Flandrau and wescott Wilkin
were rendered a banquet at the Cafe Brevoort
st Paul, Mimi. Tuesday evening the 15th, previ-
GUS to their departure on their trip around the
world Judge GreenleafC Clark acted as toast
master and some of the responses were bright
and witty. Judges Flandrau and Wilkin &C
knowledged the honor in well-tlrned addresses,
which were received enthusiastically.
A ST Louis Post Dispatch reporter saw Fred
die Gebhardt in Mrs. Langtry's car in that city,
Wednesday, the 9th, sitting in his shirt sleeves,
readings newspaper. Mr.. Gebhardt has been
with Mrs. Langtry since Saturday, the 9Th inst.
living in the same car and travelling with her. II
is his practice to travel with Mrs. Langtry in
secret, returning to New York occasionally for
the purpose Of throwing OF suspicion.
lu6 OeLallo OF the death
Of Charles Reade, which have bcen
made public, disclose the fact that they
had been suffering intensely for several months.
The maladies with which he was afflicted were
emphysema and enlargement Of the liver. From
the first diagnosis there was only faint hope of
his recovery. Hence his relatives a month ago
urged his return from Cannes, sotlat his death
might happen in England. From a state Of
acute suffering, he passed on Sunday last to a
comatose condition from which he never rccov-
cred. During the early part of his illness he
was IN the fullest enjoyment Of his faculties,
and he had recently undertaken to contribute a
series OF tales to Harper's Magazine, which
were to be followed by studies Of biblical per
FRonages.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Washington News.

Abill to retire John G. Fremont was intro
duced in the house.
The supreme court of the District of Co
1umbia decides that an appeal does not lie from
the commissioner Of patents to the secretary
of the interior.
COMMISSIONS Mcfarland had one OF his lady
clerks for a partner at whist the other night aud
won every hand He said she was the best
player he ever aaw. She said he ought to pro
mole her, and he did next day, from a hoo,
place to a u, 200 one.
Gen. Poe, Of the engineer corps, who used to
! be q ember.o of Gen. Sherman's staff, and was
ordered to Detroit when the general retired, Is
in Washington, packing up his household
goods preparatory to removal. He has been
in the army thirty years, and has had but two
stations, Washington and Detroit.
The bill Of Representative Turner of Kentucky
~recites: Bondholders and millionaires have
paid no tax on incomes TO support the federal
government for over twenty years, that tax
alton should be justly imposed, and that there
should be n favored class, and enacts that an
income tax Of 3 per cont. on over $4,000, 5 per
cent. on over $4,000 and 10 per cent. on S 100,-
coo shall be levied and collected.
A statement prepared by the postofice de-
paltment shows that while the revenue for the
quarter ended March 81 was less than that of
the corresponding quarter of the preceding
year, the issue Of two cent stamps exceeded by
" per cent. the combined issue OF two and
three cent stamps that quarter. The issue Of
postal cards has fallen off about 10, 0OO,0 600
pieces since the inauguration OF the two cent
rate.
Maj. Thomas J. Eckerson, Of the quarter
master generals department, sends a contribu-
ton to the proposed confederate soldiers
fund from his far-off post in Montana. saying
that being the oldest soldier on the active list
Of the army, he wants to be the first to con-
tribute to the cause. Lieut. Eckerson of the
Nineteenth infantry, his son, will soon marry
Miss Armour, the niece of Maj. Bernard of the
Eighth ca valry.
The president has nominated Charles E.
Coon to be assistant secretary of the treasury,
.ice John G. New. This isl civil service re.
form promotion. Mr.. Coon is at present as.
sistant chief of the loan division, and has beer
connected with the department for over twenty
years. Hell considered to be one of the ablest
officials in the department., and has ut different
times held responsible positions in connection
with the governments finances. He represent.
ed the governments interest at the London
syndicate several years ago. His selection il
generally regarded as wise and deserved.
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The american Forestry congress isto
meet in the department of agriculture
ct Washington May z for hepurpose of
calling the attention Of congress to the
existing need Of national Legislation re-
3lating to forestry. The stripping Of
the forests from the land has brought
ruinous drouths and desoluting floods
upon large areas Of country in the
United States, and in some cases if not
in many disease and death have fol-
lowed as . natural result. There can
notbe reasonable doubt that the ex-
pernience Of those countries which
were once covered by forests and fer
tile fields but are now barren, rocky
j whichdwell a poverty stricken and
hopeless few, will be repeated on q
grand scale in America if she follows
Their example by destroying the forests
which have made the land habitable.
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Bound For The Frozen North.

The only man among the officers and
rev of the steamer Bear. which is to be
IL. a,n.o ali, sc +ho cr.o,y re,;af
nv
SAPeoi'ion' VINO mas nau "ns $500
experience IN the TAT Horta - Aieu"
John G. Colwell. Lieut.. Colwell was
one of the search party who sailed to
rhe relief Of G,eelv ON the steamer Pro.
,nn 100 IT. nr,ooa IN
'o'l' :. ~"
experimenting IL work on ehe Dear
In a recent interview with a Brooklyn
reporter, he said:
Tins will undoubtedly be the best
equipped expedition that has ever sailed
to the Arctics, and l have no doubt that
it will accomplish its purpose. Had
three ships sailed on the last expedition
there would have been no necessity for
the present one. As it was, just as
soon as we lost the Proteus there was
nothing left for us to do except to turn
around and make our way back"
Are you like Chief engineer Melville,
an Arctic enthusiast?
No, L am not" The trip at best Is
far from enjoyable, and | should V
have gone again had l not been very
ambitious. If the truth were told, L
think every officer who accompanies the
Greeley expedition does SO for a desire
OF tame and glory.
l.. Did you experience much inconven-
fence from the col during your last
tflp
:! dld not. l was there, you know,
turing the summer, and L found the
weather no colder than the winter IS
here. we had some fine days, when
the weather was almost sprlng-llke.
After the Proteus was crushed III the Ice
OH cape SABINE, L passed39 days In the
open ar, travelling 9oO miles III q small
open boat"
what nationality OF men did you
una made the best sailors IN an eXpedl-
tlon OF this klnd?'
The native Americans. They have
the nos grit and backbone, and can
stand the cold better than any OF the
others.
How do you like the steamer Bear"
- am very much pleased with her,
Ina l talnk that she Is strong, service
1ple vessel VI course IL would oe pet
ser II ner ehgines were not In the cehtre
y tne snip, put we are trying 10 rene
~ 'hls delect by strengthening hef IN
every Possipie way
Hof how many men will the crew
consist!
the relieving vessels may be de-
tanned for n or more winters III the
ice, n compliment OF each ship will
be reduced to a MINIMUM, In order to
give each man abundant air space.
h crew Will consist only of useful
men, fitted for the vigorous service be-
lore them. The officers and crew OF
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Gen. shernen says there is no longe

Gen. Sherman says there is no longer
any west in this country, and therefore
be does not advise young men to go
there. He urges them, however, to
move into tho suburbe Of cities, where
they will find land about as cheap now
: il was thirty years ago, and to seize
the yer growing opportunities which
the farmer has VINO lives ct e
convenient distance from acity, spring
ing from the increasing demands Of the
CITY on the agricultural supply neal at
hand. The generals advice is worth
considering BY all young men who ara
10 amy way adapted to a farmers life,
and Especially those who have o taste
for gardening. Gen. Sherman tells the
truth about the low price Of land in the
reighborhood of cities, i. g., within an
hours ride by team. Land forty miles
away is relatively q good deal dearer,