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The Princes Of Wales.

In alluding to few incidents in the
lives of the princes of Wales, it may be
interesting to note, respecting the birth
of the first one, that, ''when the mes
scneer arrived at Rhudlan castle, where
King Edward I. was residing on poiti-
cal business, and announced to him that
his queen had given birth to boy on
the preceding day. the 25th of April,
1884, at Carnarvon, Edward in his JOY,
made knight of the messenger, stuffed
his pouches with gold pieces, and gave
him house and lands to enable him to
support his dignity becomingly!' Then
follows the story, which every schoolboy
and Girl knows, of the baby's presenta-
ton to the Welsh chicftains, who vowed
allegiance to him and accepted him rs
their prince. Some historians assert
this to have been the occasion upon
which Edward was created prince OF
Wales. On the other hand, it is stated
that 'thc original letters patent by
which he was raised to the dignity of
Prince of Wales" bear the date of 1901.
Be that as it may, Speed says, "his ere.
alton so contentcd the Welsh, because of
his birthplace, they held him as one of
theirs, that when all friends afterward
forsakc him, they always stuck most 10y
ally unto him, expressing wonderful love
and affection, and bewailing his heavy
fortunes in wocful songs, which neither
the dread of his enemies nor length OF
time could ever make them forget. "
"EIeavy fortunes" indeed! for the first
English Prince of Wales was the first of
our kings TO he deposed and murdered.
Although Edward III. is generally con-
sidered the second prince of the illus
trious line, he was never created such.
but he invested his son, Edward the
black prince, with the principality in
1343; after whom came Richard
of Bordeaux, making the third
of the house OF Plantagenet. Two Ian
castrians followed, viz, Henry of Mon
mouth and his grandson Edward OF
Westminster. (IIenry VI. being bus a
few months old at the death Of his
father never received the title.) Then
two Yorkists, Edward Of the Sanctuary
and Edward of Middleham, after whom
two of the house of Tudor, Arthur OF
Winchester and Henry of Greenwich.
OF the unlucky line of Stuarts three have
borne the titlc-IIcnry of Sterling.
Charles of Dumfermline and Charles OF
St. James. Next came the house of
Hanover, OF which there have been four
George Augustus, Frederick Louis,
George William Frederick and George
Augustus Frederick, the latter being
uacle to Queen Victoria.-London
SacietV,
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Raising Millions From the Sea.

John ]. Boyle, general manager OF the
Vipo Bay Treasure company, sailed re-
Gently from Philadelphia for Liverpool.
From Liverpool. says the Times, he o..
20 direct to Vigo bay and resume active
Operations to raise the sunken treasure
which has lain buried beneath the waters
of the bay since 1902. Vigo bay Is c
deep indentation of the Spanish coast,
where in 1862 fourteen galleons loaded
with doubloons were sunk to avoid cap
ture bv the combined attack of the
Dutch.English feet. Millions OF wealth
are supposed to remain in the holds of
these Sunkcn vessels. Repeated attempts
have been made to recover this treasure,
but all have signally failed. The F:go
Bay company has a contract with the
Spanish government to attempt tC recover
it, one-fourth of the proceeds to belong
to the government. Mr.. Boyle visited
the locality last year and returned with
such cheerful accounts of the chances
for raising the galleons that money has
been raised to make this new attempt.
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A Baby'S Tears

think there is no sadder sight on
earth than the tears of baby. To see
the little round face that looks as II it
were only made for laughing, all twisted,
up in snarl of FUCKERS, the bright eyes
souinted out of sight, and great, reai'
tears coursing down the pudgy cheeksl
is enough to make stole weep in sym-s
pathy. It is as if the man in the moon,
were crying. Iknew an English father {
who. whenever one of his babes-and;
there was host of them-cried, woulG
saw in tones of comical distress, "he'd
rather see a five.pun note than one oI
those tears. any day." and it seemed TOD
those little ones to be the height OF dei
yotion and self denial on his part.
Mrs. Paddock, a writer of Salt Lake.
Citv, tells q pathetic story Of broken 4
hearted wife whose first baby neyers
cried aloud but wept in silence all the
time. Sleeping or waking the tears!
flowed from its eyes, and in few weeks
it died, its mother said OF broken
heart. It had shed all the tears !ts
mother had repressed before its birth,
and its weeping face was symbol OF
the face of Utah. In antithesis to these
sad facts is a memory we nearly all can
coniurc up of some fat, rascally baby
who would cry and cry and cry until
eyery member of the family was enlisted
In his cause, when he would suddenly
unbutton his eyes and 10! not tear
would be there. 1t had been q crocodile
bawl of the driest grief.-DetroH Fr~
Droes
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PROMINENT PEOPLE,

GENERAL WoLsELEY, commander Of the
British forces in the Soudan, has sailed for
England.
BARTHoLDI, the sculptor, will be in New
York to see that the statue of Liberty is prop
erly rearad.-
minister to Switzerland, has been called to
the chair Of systematic theology in Boston
university.
MATTHEW ARNOLD pronounces Mrs. Joseph
E. Mcdonald, wife of the Indiana ex-senator,
the most beautiful woman in the world with
single exception.
THE birthdays Of General Grant, Louis
Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, and Herbert
Spencer, the English author, occur on the
same day of tho year.
THE three men in England who pay taxes
Oh the highest assessed value of personal
property are Giles Loder, $15 OOO, O0O; Rich
ard Thornton, $l4, ,00o, 900, and Baron Lionel
Rothschild, $l3,5OO,oOO.
The university of Notre Dame, Indiana,
has professor of anatomy, DR.. Neyron, VINO
was q surgeon under Napoleon and present at
Waterloo. He is now ninoty-four years old,
but retains all his faculties.
: WITH the recent death at Bamberg, Ba'
varia, Of the Baron Maximillon Won Paulus,
the famous Paulus family became extinct,
and It's coat-of-arms was solemn!y broken ana
cast into his open grave upon his coffin lid.
The queen Of England had eleven children
In seventeen years Her oldest child is the
crown princess Of Germany and is forty five
wears Of ago. Tho Prince Of Wales is one
year, to the month, younger.
ArroRNEY-GENERAL GARLAND lives as
quietly now as when he was Senator, al
though he has brought himself to put on q
dress coat on extra occasions. His mother
keeps house for him and cares for his chill
dren, ana also entertains guests at the regula,
Wednesday receptions
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Foreign

A GRAND review of 900 native troops Of
Nepau, India. who have been preparing for
active service in tho event OF war with Rus-
sia, has just taken place.
THE Mohammedans of the Upper Congo
have resolved to assert their claims to the
centre of Africa and have rerolted An
army of 5000 Mohammedans under Tipu
Jaib. fired by the reported success of Fl
Mahdi i'll the Soudan, are said to be ad-
vancins, pillaging the villages, and killing
their inhabitants.
A BODY of Arabs were surprised by British
troops in the act of tearing up rails of the
new railway in the Soudan, and several hun
dred of them killed.
THE late Victor Hugo left $4,000 to the
poor of Paris and ordered that his body
should be conveyed to the grave III ''pauper
hearse,' without any religious rites; In tho
document containing this request Hugo at
firms his belief in God. His body was con.
vcyed to the Arc dc Triomphe, Paris, and
laid in state ON a catafalque. A fund for a
national monument to the dead poet has
been opened.
AFTER the bloody collision between the
French communists and the police in the
cemetery of Pere la Chase, Paris, body OF
the former made q second demonstration.
They entered the cemetery with red flags. and
we're addressed by Henri Rochefort, the COM
munist editor. The government forces had
been withdrawn.
ADyICEs from Panama state that des-
perate battle, in which many lives We're loss,
has been fought at Carthagena- Insurgents
attacked the city by land and sea. but were
repulsed. The Haytian General Pautrizello
and George Davis, alias Cocobolo, Wess
Indian negro, have been hanged for partlcl-
patton in the burning of Aspinwall. Colon
ban troops attacked the barracks at Culc-
bar, massacred the fifty inmates, including
two children, and plundered the place.
GREAT destitution prevails among the pee
pie of the burned village of Somerset, Can.
ada The number of buildings destroyed
was IA, and the losses aggregate S3oo,OOo.
A SEVERE shock OF earthquake was felt at
Smyrna, Turkey.
MORE than sixty valuable pictures on e1-
hihition at the Royal academy, London, have
been defaced and otherwise injured by un
known parties.
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LE, S. c. JUNE TO- 1885,
The Great Bore Of the Amazon

MIR. John g. Branner, formerly OF tnd
imperial geological commission Of Brazil,
has published paper on the rororoca,
or bore, of tho Amazon, manifestation
of force peculiar to the northern divi-
sion of the mouth of the great river, OF
which the inhabitants of the adjacent
country stand in extreme terror. 1t was
not his privilege to witness an e1hibi-
tion of the phenomenon, although he
much wished to do 80, while the people
with whom he was staying desired that
he or any one else should not, but he
observed its effects and had the scene de-
scribcd to him. The most impressive
manifestations of the force of the wave
are near the mouth of the Araraug,la
river. An eye witness of one of the ap-
pearances OF the pororoca, at that place,
one OF party of soldiers, related that
"shortly after the tide had stopped run.
ming out they saw something coming to-
ward them from the ocean in long white
line, which grew bigger and whittier as
it approached. Then there was sound
like the rumbling of distant thunder,
which grew louder and londer as the
white line came nearer, until it seemed
as if the whole ocean had risen up, and
was coming charging and laundering
down upon them, boiling over the edge
of this pile OF water like an endless cata'
ract, from four to seven metres high, that
spread across the whole eastern horizon.
This was the pororoca! When they saw
it coming the crew became utterly de-
moralized, and fell to crying and pray
ing in the bottom of the boat expecting
that it would certainly be dashed to
pieces, and they themselves be drowned.
The pilot, however, had the presence OF
mind to heavc an anchor before the wall
of water struck them; and, when it did
strike, they were pitched violently for
ward md then lifted, and left rolling
and tossing like cork on the foaming
sea it left behind, the boat nearly filled
with water. But their trouble was not
yet ended; for, before they had emptied
the boat, two other such seas came
down on them at short intervals,
tossing them about in the same
manner, and finally leaving them within
a stones throw OF the river bank, when
another such wave would have dashed
them on the shore. They had been an
chored near the middle of the stream be-
fore the waves struck them, and the stream
at this place is several miles wide" The
signs of the devastation wrought upon
the land by this gigantic wave are very
impressive. Great trees, dense tropical
forests, "uprooted, torn and swept away
like chaff"-the most powerful roots of
the largest tree cannot Withstand its rush;
the destruction of the banks for some
distance inland; and the formation OF
new land in places are among the signs
of its ravages. The pororoca is an &C.
compartment of the spring tides, and
is due to the resistance offered to the
tidal waves by the sand bars and narrow
channels which they have to meet. Its
effects are most marked in the northern
channels of the mouth Of the Amazon,
while little is known OF it in the south.
ern channels. Popular Science Monthly.
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Large Profits on Small Farms.

It is we'll known that small farms are
plentiful in Los Angeles county and are
becoming more numerous every day,
Farmers who have been accustomed to
attend to large ranches have not gener-
ally sufficient money to carry them on
with profit in raising vegetables, cattle,
trees and hogs. But the small farmer,
who is taking all the way from ten to
forty acres, as he wishes, and according
to his ideas of raising carly produce for
the markets, is winning success. Most
these farmers usually pay cash for their
lands and residences; but if not entirely
paid for the interest is very low on these
investments, and single good crop OF
dcciduous or other fruits, or crop OF
vegetables, will about pay the balance
due. All that is needed is experience
and energy in getting out good crops at
the proper season, and the planting sea-
son lasts all the year for these little sue
ccssful farmers. Some of these farmers
make all the way from 500 to over
81 900 per acre yearly from varied crop
of vegetables, which is tie best crop
known in our opulent county. Los An.
yeles (Cal.) Herald.
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The AppOmatt0x Surrender.

Brigadier General NJ. R. Morgan, after
reading the resolutions of Colonel
Charles Marshall, chief of General Lees
staff of the surrender at Appomattox,
writes:
Twas present, as an officer of General
Grants staff, at the meeting ct which the
terms of surrender were agreed upon,
and find Colonel MarshalPs account the
most accurate I have yet seen published.
General Grant was dressed, as to uniform,
as he had been for months past. He was
accompanied by the members OF his
staff, oil of whom were introduced to
General Lee by General Seth Williams,
who had been Lees adjutant when the
latter was superintendent of the military
academy at West Point. The members
of General Grants staff remained in the
room after having been introduced. In
the course of the proceedings General
Lee asked General Grant to have his
army fed, and the latter turned to me
(his chief commissary) and instructed me
to feed General Lees army in the man
ner related in the accompanying copy of
letter written by me April 25, 1878, to
General Badcau:
HEADQUARTERS DEPT. OF DAKOTA,
OFFICE CHIEF Con-. OF SUBSISTENCE, 7
Sr. PAUL, Mimi, April 25, 1879
DEAR BADEAU: Your favor OF April was
YOU allude to in your letter very well. After
The terms for the surrender Of Lees army had
been arranged (April 0, 1869 General Lee
asked General Grant to have rations issued
to his army. General Grant, turning to me,
said: "Colonel, feed General Lees army"
asked: "How many men have theyl" Cen
eral Grant repeated my question, addressing
General Leo. General Lee went into an ex-
PLANTATION to show why he could not tell the
number of his men He said: - have not q
complete organization in my army:
Many companies are commanded by mon.
commissioned officers. The books are lost"
When he got thus far I said, suggestiyely:
"Say q. 900 men, General Lee said: Yes,
25. .O00.n went from the room at once, and
meeting Colonel NJ. P. Small, chief commits
sary of General Ord's army, asked him II he
could spare three days rations Il think it was
three daysO of beef, salt and bread for tha
army Of Northern Virginia, numbering 49,
600 men. he said: ~ guess can" was
not at all certain that he could do it, because
we had been having some lively marching,
and doubted if the provision trains and herd
were up with the troops. But Small was
equal to the emergency, and told him to Is;
sue the rations. You remember we started
back to City Point the afternoon Of the next
day, April 10, and I did, not take
much more interest in the number
of men constituting the army OF
Northern Virginia. have since learned
that the number of men Of that army paroled
at that time, officers and men, was 26,1l5,
divided as follows; Cavalry corps, oiticers' sgs'
2l3, men 1901; artillery corps, 9thcers' ss7 ss7
men 13, 1888; Gordon's corps, officers 674, men
1888; totals, officers 2,G51, men 2S, 464. You
may be sure that this is correct.
You may remember that Fitz Lee went on
with his cavalry, and that General Lee sent
out after him to come in and surrender. he
came in, think, after we left. remember
you very well and pleasantly.
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THE manufacture of broom corn toothptcks
Is growing Kansas industry.
The price of diamonds has fallen within o
few years from SIS to 81. Is per carat.
NEW MEXICO spent last year for liquor &c.
ks5, 900: for churches and schools, $45, OOO.
A NEW japanese dictionary of the Chinese
language, comprises no less than forty
volumes
THE pearl fisheries Of the lower California
coast are said to have produced s15, 900
last year.
IT is proposed to utilize the Yellowstone
rark for preservation Of the bison, which is
now very nearly extinct.
The ship State of Maine recently made the
distance across the Pacific in twenty days,
the fastest time on record
STORMY and cold weather has been general
throughout Europe, and much damage to
crops and property is reported.
A HARpooN Of the pattern made over forty
wears ago was taken from a whale caught
near Coos Bay, Oregon, recently.
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LATER NEWS

GOVERNOR HILL has vetoed the census bill
passed by the New York legislature in extra
session. He asserts that by adding irrelevant
features the legislature has made the bill
clearly unconstitutional, and has deliberately
and unnecessarily rendered approvalo Of its
legislation impossible.
PATRICK PRENTISs, of Orange, Mass,
placed tumbler on his head and told his son
to fire at it with a shotgun. He was
obeyed and Patrick fell dead. His son was
arrested. Both men had been on a spree
FIFTY-EIvE thousand children took part in
the annual parade Of the Brooklyn Sunday
school scholars.
HENRY HERRMAN's big furniture factory
in New York has been destroyed by fire.
The loss is about 100000.
4 PROPOSITION to give women the righ :.
to vote at elections for church Off GERS wa
voted down at the annual convention of the
Episcopal diocese of Illinois, held in Chicago.
CRors in the Northwest are reported gen.
orally in promising condition.
MILLIONS of young grasshoppers have ap-
peareu Ill IOiOIuuO.
FLOODS in Texas have destroyed thousands
of acres of cotton and washed away many
houses \ number of people and much stock
We're drowned.
The Kentucky tobacco crop will probably
be one of the poorest ever known.
CYCLONES have done great injury to prop
erty in Northeastern Kansas, wrecking rail-
road depots and demolishing residences. Sew
eral persons were fatally injured.
By an accident to the car in which thirteen
miners were ascending coal mine twenty
miles from Charleston, W. Va, four were
dashed to death and the remaining nine Sc.
riously injured.
THE special train carrying the Theodore
Thomas Concert troupe and Mmo. Materna
to San Francisco was boarded at Coolidge
New Mexico, by band Of cowboys, who
with drawn revolvers, made the musicians
play and the singer warble.
THREE young colored men, including ex
Cadet Whitaker, of West Point notoriety
have just been admitted to practice law ii
South Carolina.
COLONEL A. LoUDoN SNowDEN, superin'
tendent of the mint in Philadelphia, has for
warded his resignation to President Cleve
land, to take effect June So
The President has appointed Edward
Campbell, Jr., to be United States marshal
for the southern district of Iowa The ap-
pointment of Mr.. Campbell is in place of c.
l.. Williams, who was originally selected for
the Office, but whose commission was with
| held in order to allow the President further
time to consider fully tho wishes OF the resi-
dents Of the district.
ADvICEs from India report that reinforce.
ments of Cabul infantry have arrived at
Herat and that more arc going thither from
Cuudahar and Cabul; also that the Afghans
are busily repairing tho defences Of Herat
CHIEF PoUNDMAKER, tho leading ally Of
Riel in his late rebellion, has surrendered, to
gether with 24O braves, to General Middleton
THE Paris municipal authorities censured
the prefect Of police and the police officer:
| for their interference with communistit
demonstration at the cemetery Of Pere Ii
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SELECT SIFTINGS.
There are about 10000 one.legged
men in the United States.

There are about 10000 one.legged
men in the United States.
Twenty-Five years complete the round
of weil.cared for canary's career,
The entire coast line of the globe, so
far as known, is about 116, 500 miles.
The faculty or sense of equilibrium is
thought to be in the deep part of the
hearing apparatus. It is said that a
large proportion of deaf persons are in
susceptible of being made dizzy and do
not become scasick.
The nine worthless, originally compris-
ing Joshua, David, Judas, Maccabaeus,
Hector, Alexander, Julius Cesar. Arthur,
Charlemagne and Godfrey of Bouillon,
appear from very early period to have
been introduced occasionally into Eng
lish shows and pageants.
The abolition of slavery in Scandi-
navia in the carly centuries is unqucs.
tionably to the effect of the Christian
religion. One of the first Christian
kings of Norway, Knut the Holy, at the
end of the eleventh century, publicly
proclaimed that slavery should be
abolished.
Wheat, now the most important ce-
real crop cultivated in all parts of the
world, and one of the principal articles
of human food, was derived from wild
form of grass, and can only be improved
and maintained by careful culture. AL
though widely disseminated it is no.
where found growing wild.
Colored people are more successfully
photographed, as rule, than white peo-
pie are, says an experienced photographer,
the medium mulatto making the finest
photograph in the world. Light COM
plexions are hardest to take, aud light
colored clothing does not look we'll in
pictures. In taking pictures of animals
the instantaneous process is best. Cats
are the best sitters.
The giraffe has perhaps the most as
astonishing mimicry of all animals. Its
great size, which enables it to subsist on
lofty tree boughs in its native African
forests, makes it also most conspicu-
GUS object to its enemies, of which the
most dreaded are the lion and man.
Such is its mimicry, however, that the
most practiced eye has failed to distin.
guish the giraffe from one of the dead
and blasted trees which abound in the
haunts of this animal. Reliable evidence
assures US that lions have been known
to gaze long and earnestly ut motion
less giraffe, and, being unable to decide
that it was not tree, to turn and skulx
away.
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MY STOUT OLD HEART AND I.
Iy stout old heart and I are friends,

My stout old heart and I are friends,
Two bivouac friends togetherl
Nor daily wars, nor daily blows,
Have called out our white feather.
We've listed till the campaign ends
For calm or stormy weather.
MY stout old heart and l have been
Through serious scenes OF trouble.
We've been denied; our hopes have died;
Our loads been more than double.
And yet we've lived. And we have seen
Some griefs in Lethe bubble.
My stout old heart and l I.have fought
Some bitter fights to ending;
And if or not we've victory got,
We've not been hurt past mending!
The wounds are all in front we've caught,
And easier for the tending.
My stout old heart and I, you see,
We understand each other.
old comrade true, my hand to you'll
On honor, tell me whether
You're daunted yet: ITO arms" beats ne
"Retreat is for another!"
Eyes right! Guide center! Forward march
Dress where the colors ny
Six feet of ground, or triumph's arch
My stout old heart and I!
e. Hough, IL, the Current.