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A HEAVY WEIGHT.
DeatI, Of the Fn1tcst Woman In tho
United states,


United Stntcs'
Mrs. Emma NJ. Markley, who was credited
with being the heaviest woman IN the coun-
try. was buried from her home, IN LOMBARD
street Philadelphia, 4 few days since. She
was known to tho amusement public rs Nine.
Victoria. Her advertised weight was over
G.O hounds, and her actual weight about 33O
pounds. She was born in Reading, fenn.,
about thirty three years ago, and was slim
and delicate throughout her glrihood.
At nineteen she weighed ninety pounds
only, but from this age she
hegan to gradually gain flesh. Between
three and five years ago. When she made an
application for al insurance policy, she
weighed $50 pounds Afterward her weight
increased rapidly, until she gained the dis
tinrtion of being the fattesJ woman III the
county, ii not in the worll. This honor was
conferred OIL her at the Fat Womans Con,
grcs;" at the Arch Street Dino museum !ast
winter, when sho carried off the first priZe.
Two years ago she was placed Oh eXhlDl'
tion for n short time in Chestnut street,
and while there sustained an INJURY that
finally resulted in her death The platform
on which her chair was placcl was hastily
constructed and she expressed her Tears as
to its strength. Soon after she ha" mounted
the platfnrm the supports gave way anu Sne
fell to tho floor. Her ankle was spralneI,
and soon afterward she was attacked with
erysipclas in the lc.
licr weight seemed to increase during her
illness. ami sometime before her death meas
ureuents of several parts Of her body were
taken. The circumference nf her arm at the
biceps was thirty. six inches. Her waist
measured ti3i., inches. and from shoulder to
shoulder she measured three feet and one half
inch. The measurement across her hips was
inst four feet. On the night Of her death II
required the full strength oi nine nj II to car
ry her body from the second-stnry troh0
room to the parlor Oh the groun iloor.
The collin was probably the largest ever
built. 1t was constructed OF lhree-inch wal
nut planks, and was stuutly braced on the
inside with dozen heavy iron bars. 1t was
six feet ten inches long, forty-slX inches wlde'
md threo feet deep 1t was too large to pass
through the door. and was taken through the
wide single window anl carried to the uh'
dertaker's wagon by twelve Stout men,
There was not hearse in tho city large
enough to contain the collin. Tile lnterment
took place at the Odd Fellows cemetery. her
burial was against Il wish expressed by her
shortly before her death. She had morbid
fear that her body would be stolen for tht
nurpose of dissection, and asked that 1t be
crelnated. Her husbands limited means pre-
vented him from carrying out her wish.
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THE NATIONAL GAME,

The Bostons have lost seventeen games
this season by one run.
WERR1cK, of the Nashvilles. has played
almost every position and has not missed
game this season. .... -z' 81
IT'S singular, but year after year Buffalo
begins poorly and comes out'strong near the
close Of the season. This year is no e1cep-
tion.
Two short stops have been disabled in the
South. Cahill, of Atlanta, has broken
finger, ,and Beard, Of Nashville. has sprained
ankle.
In Southern league game at Memphis
three umpires and the manager OF the Mem
phis club were thrashed before the game was,
finished.
NASHVILLE has larger average attend
ance Of ladies at the game than any other
Southern league city. Hundreds OF the fair
sex attend every game.
THE Boston National League club has re-
leased Manning, Mccarthy, Hackett and
Davis on account of their recent bad playing.
The club is to be completely reorgamzed
BUFF1NToN, OF Boston, still leads the league
pitchers for this season with sixteen strike
outs in one game. In the American Morris,
Meegan and Matthews have each struck out
fifteen hands :
NEW YORK has no less than six batsmen
among the first dozen leaders in the league,
Buffalo two, Boston two, Detroit two, Chi
cago, Philadelphia, St Louis but one each,
and Providence not any.
WARD, of the New York club, says he will
continue batting left handed He does not
make large number Of base hits, but he
stands q better chance Of beating a slow
grounder or fumbled ball to, first base.
He says that left handed man has an ad-
vantage of ten feet or more over right
handed man in reaching first base
The championship records up to recent date
were as follows:
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MRS, GRANTS OFFERING.
She Lays n Wreath of Immorteiles
Upon her Husbands COffins

ONO LdyD n Wreatn OI A""OSSoAA0>
Upon her Husbands Coffin.
The line Of visitors to general Grants
tomb, at Riverside park, was interrupted at
noon, one day recently, by the arrival OF o
close carriage drawn by team OF black
horses. The carriage stopped in front Of the
entrance and young man followed by an
elderly lady alighted They were not recog-
nized at first Captain Fessenden, Of Camp
Grant, was near the entrance and he recog-
nized Ulysses s. Grant, Jr. The elderly, lady
was Mrs. Grant. Both Mrs. Grant and her
son were in deep mourning. Mrs Grants
long Grape veil was over her face
Captain Fessenden ordered PriyateJo oseph
Eustace on guard to request the visitors to
fall back 1t was whispered through the
crowd that Mrs Grant had como to visit
General Grants tomb, and they stepped back
ward until large semicircle was formed
All the men TOOK off their hats.
Then Captain Fessenden and Mr.. Grant
had half minutes conversation, aud tho
former Immediately unlocked the doors
of the tomb, and threw them open.
arm, walked slowly through the door.
way, and descended two steps to the
floor of the tomb. Pausing an instant at
the side of the steel casket of General Grant,
Mrs. Grant drew from under her long outer
wrapping large wreath of white immor.
te!les. It rested on alarger wreath Of laurel
as base ThesesM Mrs. Grant laid on the
middle of the casket, in a space cleared OF
other offerings by her son.
For a minute Mrs. Grant stood motionless
before the casket. Them taking Mr. Grants
arm, she went back slowly to her carriage.
The wreath is in plain sight from the outside
of the tomb. ..H. .s -
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Tho Second Failure.

An attempt was made to have the race
take place on the following day, and large
number of craft again gathered in the lower
bay to witness the contest At about ll:So
the boats were less than fifty yards apart,
and in tho mauouvering for place they came
tog2lher, the Puritan striking the bowsprlt
it away. The main:ail OF the American
was badly damaged. Tho excitement
was now greater than over, and
the scone of.tllo accident soon became veri-
table pandemonium. AS the Puritan was to
blame for the accident the judges decided to
rule the American s!oop out OF the race,
which was equivalent to awarding the victory
to the British cutter; but the owner OF the
Genesta said he wanted race, not q walk
over 1t was then decided that the damage
done to the Genesta should be repaired a. the
expense of the Puritan, and that the race
should take place on q later day.
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A Broken Heart.

The term broken heart as commonly
applied to death from excessive grief, is
not vulgar error, but may arise from
violent muscular exercise or strong men.
tai emotions. The affection was, it is
believed, first described by Harvey; but
since his day several cases have been OBJ.
served. Morgagni has recorded a few
examples, among them that of George
II. of England. who died suddenly of
this disease in 1860. and, what is very
curious, Morgagni himself became vic,
tim to the same maiady.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GENERAL SHERIDAN is growing stout
DIR. TANNER is named as one Of the latest
converts to the faith cure.
NEAL, Dow is making Prohibition argu-'
ments before New York audiences
Mr.. BLAINE has bought n lot at Bar Har-
bor, Me, and will build a cottage there next
winter.
Iris said that Walt Whitman's royalties
on his publications amounted to less than $50
last year.
THE sultan Of Turkey has presented United
States Minister Cox with a set of valuable
iewelry and rare oriental books.
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The Romance of 1t.

The story of General Grants life savors
more of romance than reality; it is more
like fable of ancient days than the his
tory of an American citizen of the nine
teenth century. AS light and shade pro-
duce the most attractive effects IN
picture, so the contrasts in the career of
the lamented general, the strange vicis-
STUDIES of his eventful life, surround him
with an interest which attaches to few
characters in history.
His rise from the obscure lieutenant to
the commander of the veteran armies of
the great republic; his transition from
frontier post of the untrodden West to
the executive mansion Of the nation; his
sitting at one time in little store in
Galena, not even known to the Congress
man from his district; at another time
striding through the palaces of the old
world with the descendants of line Of
kings rising and standing uncovered in
his presence; his humble birth in an Ohio
town scarcely known to the geographer;
his distressing illness and courageous
death in the bosom of the nation he had
saved-thcse are the features of his
marvellous career which appeal to the
Imagination, excite mems wonder, and
fasciuatc the minds of all who make a
study of his life.
Many of the motives which actuated
him and the real sources of strength en-
ployed in the putting forth of his slngu-
lar powers will never be fully under.
olInI +<. hohSt nf
ming much with himself was a modesty
which always seemed to make him shrink
from speaking of matter so personal to
him US an analysis OF his own mental
powers, and those who knew him best
sometimes understood him the least. His
most intimate associates often had to
Judge the man by the results accom-
plished, without comprehending the
causes which produced them. Even to
the writer of this article, after having
served with the general for nine years
continuously, both in the field and the
presidential mansion, he will in some re-
spects always remain an enigma. His
memoirs, written on his deathbed. to be
published only after his decease, furnish
the first instance of his consent to un-
bosom himself to the world. In his in
tercoursc he did not study to be reticent
about himself; he seemed rather to be
unconscious of self. While visiting St.
Louis with him while he was President,
he made characteristic remark showing
how little his thoughts dwclt upon those
events of his life which made such
deep impression upon others.
Upon his arrival horse and buggy
were ordered, and q drive taken to his
farm, about eight miles distant. He
stopped on the high ground overlooking
the city, and stood for time by the
side of the little log house which he had
built partly with his own hands in the
days OF his poverty and early struggles.
Upon being asked whether the events of
the past fifteen years of his life did not
seem to him like tale of the arabian
Nights" especially in coming from the
White House to visit the little farmhouse
of early days, he simply replied, "Well,
l never thought about it in that light. !"
General Porter, in Ha,Der's.
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"Whats the man talking aboutl" in
tcrruptcd the voice, shrlll, sharper and
more distinct still. ''The new patient
has just come by special conveyance from
Warrentown."
Then who is this9"' gaspcd the re-
spectacle man, his lower jaw falling like
that of fish.
'Im Betsey Bliven," said our heroine.
''Let me out, I say! Bctsey Bliven.
from Maine. I'm the new waitress and
chambermaid at $14 month, and they've
taken me for madwoman."
"Hush-hush-sh! For heavens
sake" whispered the respectable man in
black, as he made haste to unlock the
door. "Nobody is mad here-:hcy're
only peculiar. I'm sure ma'am, l beg
your pardon. But We were expecting
Mrs. Lamarque, from Portland, and you
correspond almost exactly with the de-
scription, and we didn't know that the
new waitress would be here until to-mor-
row. And Mr.. Lamarquc is subject to
dangerous turns. and.--and l hope,
ma'am, YOU won't mention this to the
superintendent"
''No," said Bctsey, with grim
chuckle; she was beginning to sec the
humor Of the thing now. $50 this IS
-madhouse eh?"
"It's private sanitary retreat" said
the respectable man. Very select and
exclusive. III introduce you to the
housekeeper at once, ma'am, If you'll
step this way. You'll find her most
ladylike person, ma'am."
sShe amt mad, is shc?' asked Betscy.
mot at ALL" said the man rather
shortly.
"Ah," said Betsey. II didn't know
but that everybody in this establishment
was little cracked in the upper story.
You must be or you would have never
taken me for one of yourselves.
To which taunt the respectable man
had no answer prepared on the spur Of
the moment.
Three months aftcrward Miss Bctsey
Bliven wrote to her cousin, Mrs. Mid
get:
'Tm in a mad house, Matilda, my
DEAR" she expressed herself, "and
really, except for the name, I find
everything very nice and comfortable =
We're very select, and on the whole I
find society here good deal politer
and more cercmonious than it is outside
the walls. And l suppose you'll say
that l am us mad as the ladies and gen
tlemen that I wait on, when I tell you
that I'm engaged to be married to Mr..
Babcock, the head keeper. But I'm
getting rather partial to insane people
and really I see my way clear to doing
some good in the world if conclude to
stay here permanently"
So Miss Biiven found the place life
long benefce, and when Mrs. Midget
was asked by the cousinhood, "what had
become of Betsey," she was wont to
answer in nasal whine:
"Poor dear! she's gone into a lunatic
sylum and she's married to the head
h ?cper and I don't know but what it is
as bad as being crazy ones self. But
Betsey seems to like it. Betsey always
was peculiar"
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LATER NEWS

A BRONZE statue of Commodore Perry was
unveiled at Newport, K. l., few days ago,
with appropriate military and civic ceremo-
MES
Ex-CoNGREssMAN SCOTT LORD, a noted
lawyer, and once partner Of Ex-senator Ros-
coe Conkling at Utica, N. Y, died a few
days since at Morris Plains, NJ, aged sixty
five years.
MASSACHUSETTS Prohibitionists at their
State convention in Worcester nominated
ticket headed by Thomas J. Lathrop for
governor.
THE Mississippi Republican State commit
tee at meeting in Jackson City adopted
resolution which says: "In view Of the fact
that an organized opposition to the Demo
cratic party in this State this fall is useless,
because of the well known impossibility of
securing at the polls an honest election, it is
the sense Of the Republican State committee
that no convention be called looking to the
nomination of State ticket by the Republi-
can party"
THE President has appointed Rensselaer,
Stone to be collector of internal revenue for
the first district of Illinois, in place of Joel
D. Harvey, suspended
SEPTEMBER returns to the department of
agriculture indicate large yield in the corn
and cotton crops, general average for all
spring wheat Of SG15 against o5 in August,
and general average in winter wheat of
G5.S against Gj in July.
TIE expulsion Of foreigners from Ger
many and Austria continues. Hundreds Of
destitute Poles, expelled from Silesia, are
flocking into Warsaw and Cracow. Accord
ing to tho Austrian papers over thirty.five
thousand moro Poles will shortly be elected
by the Prussian authorities, among them cO,-
Coz Austrian subjects and 1000 of French
origin.
THE Spanish government has dispatched
special messenger to Berlin with note to
Germany Tho note requests Germany to
rcnounce all intention Of establishing a SUI
crainty over thu Carolines and Pelew islands.
Without such guarantee, Spain must decline
to give salts faction for the recent insults to
the German embassy at Nal lrid.
Count PAUL FEsTETICS, of Hungary, has
killed NJ. Pochy, son Of the president Of the
Hungarian delegation, in duel.
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HUGE FRAUDS
MANY Indiana Towns Involved In
School Fund Syvindles.

mAnV InQldnd 1O"ho AASoASoN AA
School Fund Sxvindles.
The illegal issue Of township warrants or
orders by the three trustees of Davies coun-
ty, Ind, to a very large amount, and their
recent flight to Canada have been instru'
mental in bringing to light gigantic SWIM
ding scheme, which is known to have been
practiced in several Indiana counties and
there is at present no means Of ascertaining
how extensive such operations have been. l5
is certain, however, that in Daviess county
orders to the amount Of $4,000 OF. S10o, OOo,
and probably more, have been issued and SOLO
to innocent parties, and there are rumors OF
like transactions in other places. An atror,,
ney of indianapolis, who has just returned
from Fountain county. says that large
amount has been issue1 from that
and Vermillion counties, and dispatch from
Posev county announces the discovery there
that George D. Rowe. who for fourteen years
was trustee there, has issued $4,000 of lille
gal warrants. 1t is feared that the game has
been played in many counties, and it is pos
sible that tue frauds will run up into tho
millions.
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"SecOnd Wind"

Every one who has run mile knows
what it is to gain second wind, !"
though he may not be able to explain
why one minute he is out of breath, and
then feels as if he could run several miles.
A writer in Longman's Magazine gives
this clear explanation of the fact:
The reader may not be aware that in
ordinary breathing weu only a portion
of our lungs, the cells at the extremity
not being brought into play.
This is the reason why those who are
not 'in training" and who try torun for
any distance, soon begin to gasp, and
unless they are courageous enough to
persevcre in spite Of the choking sensa-
ton, are forced to stop. But if they will
perseverc, the choking goes off, and the
result is what is technically known as
"sccond wind" When the second wind
is fully established the runner does not
become out of breath, but goes on run
ming as long as his legs will carry him.
I know this by experience, having been
accustomed for some years to run three
miles every morning over very hilly
IOdu liz 1dSG 49, tiloe on G'oi liH 8, Wv
furthest portions of the lungs are choked
with air, and the remainder do not supply
air enough to meet the increased circula-
tion caused by exercise.
By degrees, however, the neglected
cells come into play, and when the en-
tire lung is in working order the circula-
ton and respiration again balance each
other, and the second wind" is the re-
suit.
= Now let the reader repeat his expert.
mcnt of holding his breath against time,
but first let him force out OF his lungs
every particle of air that he can expel,
and then draw as deep breath rs hie
lungs will hold. If this be repeated
seventy or eighty times by way of imita-
tion of the whale, the experimenter will
find that he can hold his breath for q
minute and half without Inconvenience.
Should he be swimmer, he should
always take this precaution before ''tak.
ing header" and he will find that he
can swim for considerable distance be,
fore he needs to Use for breath.
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A PATH LEADS ALL The WAY

sit before my door at eve
And looking westward softly say,
Should these garden precincts leave
And cross the meadows sweet with dew.
And climb the hills so deeply blue,
And follow still the setting day
Still other gardens I should find
And other meadows dewy sweet.
And still the summer roads would wind,
And still the patient earth would lend
Though a thousand miles should wend-
Herself unto my patient feet.
The rivers hide meath many bridge,
The better pleased they greet the day;
There's guidance DER the toughest ridge;
Aye, though tits thousand miles or more
To where she sits within her door,
There is path leads all the way.
Oh, blessed land Of the dear earth,
Betwixt us still, though wide we stray,
Thou seem'st to lessen thy great girth
In dusk and Stiffness for my feet;
Thy futile limiting yet is sweet;
There is path leads all the way!
And at its cnd she sits the same,
With even face serenely bright,
With lips that sweetly speak my name;
While through her look and smile there play
Suggestion still of holy ways,
That conquer parting, change and night.
M E. Bennett in Springfield Republican
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MARINE DISASTERS.
A British anil an Italian Steamer
with ,5hirtv.ouc Persons Lost

n
with Thirty.Omc Persons Lost
Information comes from Genoa; Italy, to
the effect that the st .alner Villa do Malaga,
with sixty passengers and crew OF
twenty-cigh foundercd near Savona.
When tho vessel, which was supposed
to have struck upon rock. was
found to be sinking. q terrible panic tnSued
among the passengers and the crew, 1t is
said, ,availed themselves Of the confusion th!s
created to lower thrco boats with which the
vessel was provided, and made COOL their es'
sengers, however, managed to save tileni-
selves, the remaining sixteen being drowned;
The cowardly action of tho crew has aroused
much indignation here.
Dispatches from Copenhagen bring news
of disastrous collision between the German
gunboat Blitz and tho British steamer Anck:
land The Auckland was sunk and fifteen OF
her crew of seventeen were drowned.
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FOreigIl.

THE prince of Wales has been travelling in
Sweden.
TWENTY-FIVE deaths in one day of small
pox in Montreal has induced the adoption Of
rigorous measures to stop the spread OF the
disease.
Mr. STALLo, the new United State min-
lister at Rome, has been heartily welcomed
by the Italian press.
FROM Berlin it is rumored that Prince Bis
marck intends to propose to tho German
Rechstag a further increase of the duties on
cereals against all countries but Austria
Hungary.
GENERAL DE CoURcY, the French COM
mandcr in AMMAN, reports that serious dis
orders have occurred in Quinhon. Numsr-
GUS Christians have been ma sacred and n
number of villages burned.
THE Bosphorc Egyptie", of Cairo, Egypt,
has again been suppressed for publishing ar
ticles which were doomed injurious to French
interests.
THE dispute between Germany and Spain
over tho Caroline Islands is to be amlcably
settled Spain has responded to Germany's
demand for reparation for the insult to the
German embassy at Madrid by expressing
regret at the occurrence and declaring the Of
Tenders will DO punished. Emperor William
no intention of trenching upon Spanish
rights, and that Germany will abandon all
designs upon the Caroline Islands.
ADvIcES from South Africa state that
Congo cannibals have attacked several sta
tionS of the African association and roasted
and devoured number Of whites.
RIELS appeal from his sentence of death
las been dismissed, and the belief is general
II Winnipeg that the half breed rebel leader
will be hanged.
THE fishing schooner Guardian Angel cap
sized Off the coast of Newfoundland dur
ing n squall, and all on board except one man
were drowned.