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Year: 1878

CHATTER ABOUT LONDON FoLKs.-
The match of Hannah de Rothschild and
Lord Roseberry is reported not to have
turned out as well as was expected, and
something very Ike separation is in con-
temptation. | ann less inclined to place
credence in this story because both these
young persons have an army of enemies
people whose interest it was to oppose the
match and as long as these latter live they
will never keep their tongues off the Earl
and his Jewish Countess. A good deal OF
the venom spread about them comes from
American sources. There be those on your
side who could murder Archibald Prim-
rose, Earl of Roseberry, in cold blood fer
his having broken off his plighted troth
with Butler Duncan's daughter. 1t is cur
rently reported that the firm of Duncan,
Sherman & Co. would have failed long and
long before it did had it not the intention
been to see through this great marriage for
the daughter of the senior partner. Corr.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Year: 1878

J. B. Fuller, of New York, the electric
ian and scientific head of the largest cleo
trlc company in this country, is stopping
at the Ebbitt. After over years con-
slant illness Mr.. Fuller comes here to look
after his patent matters, which he has so
long been obliged to neglect. In conver-
sation with Republican reporter Mr.. Full
ler let out the following facts, which are
very interesting at the following time !:
In regard to the probability of general
electric Illumination, he says it must come
touches when gas as an Illuminating agent
will not be annihiiated, as some enthusiasts
predict, but will take stand far below
that now occupied by oil. Those finish
ing touches are now being fast applied,
and by such an army of ciear-headed in
ventors that, while no one can receive the
honor of its full accomplishment, it will
be all divided among American inventors.
More has been accomplished here within
two years in a practicable way than has
been accomplished in Europe in twenty
five years. Indeed, the latest and most
valuable inventions now being introduced
in Europe are subject to patents held by
Americans-a fact which foreign inventors
seem to ignore, but will fully understand
in due time. The great bugbear-the di-
visibility of the electric current-which
for years defed all science and ingenuity,
will soon disappear forever. There are
now at least three distinct methods of di-
viding and subdividing the electric current,
Of even hundred thousand candle power,
into any desired number Of luminous
points, from the maximum down to the
falntest spark, and as easily as to divide
current of water. Capitalists are also
now for the first time taking the lead by
coming to the front with their money to
aid the inventors and the enterprise, there
being at this moment five companies Or
ganized in New York and Brooklyn alone,
representing several million dollars of capi-
tai. So we may reasonably look for an
early solution of the problem of general
electric illumination.


His recent disco yeries in electric illumi-
nation are unknown except by few of his
intimate friends. With all the facilities of
his complete laboratory and of scientific
and skilled assistants, there can be no
doubt that he will produce valuable sys-
tenn, creditable to himself and the company
which bears his name but that he will
produce the sine qua non recent discoveries
of others have rendered absolutely impossi-
BILE.


In regard to Edison and his recent dis
coveries, Mr.. Fuller says that If person
has witnessed the performances of the
" Lightning Calculator - they can form
some idea of the manner in which this
man invents. You make suggestion, and
before you half explain what is wanted he
says, s'Pve got it," There it is, but COW
ere with all sorts Of foreign matter, which
he soon clears of, leaving the invention
perfect. Nor is this all. He then Sits
from the chips he has thus made dozen
inventions which he was not looking for.
Year: 1878

Washington Correspondence Chicago Times.


Heller is about the only amusement this
week. Speaking of Heller, an English
tourist, fresh from India, now visiting in
this city, says: "None of the Western
nations know even the alphabet of magic"
He added they are all clumsy amateurs as
compared with the most common profess
sionals of India.


1t would appear so from his descriptions
Of a trick performed by an Indian juggler
in an interior town in lower India. The
juggler was accompanied by small lad
apparently his son. Both were naked to
the waist


The juggler produced small bali of.
twine nearly half the size of his fist. He
tossed it to the spectators and then to his
boy without any further preliminaries.


The boy placed the ball in his mouth,
made great gulp, and in an instant it
was apparently swallowed.


A second later there appeared under
the hard brown skin of the boy, upon his
right side, protuberance he size of the
ball swallowed.


The juggler now steps forward. He
draws keen knife from his belt and ad
vances to the boy. He lances gently upon
the surface of the protuberance and the
blood flows. The long forsfnger of the
juggler is inserted in the small opening.
He feels gently about and later draws out q
thread from the wound. Then he gently
pulls upon it and winds slowly ball that
reaches the size of the one exhibited only
after the protuberance is gone. This is
simple trick performed for the small sums
that can be collected in street crowd.
Explain it who can.
Year: 1878

TAXING LEVELS FOR DRESSING Floors
AND BUILDINGs.-A simple and ingeni GUS
little apparatus for taking and indicating
levels and perpendiculars for buildings
and similar purposes has been invented by
Mr.. John Ryan, of Battersea, England.
who purposes to take board of wood of
suitable length, or it may be length of
metal or other sui table material, the edges
of which are planed or made perfectly
level and true one with the other. In the
center dial is let in or mounted, arranged
with divisions to indicate the level or
amount of the angle of any horizontal or
perpendicular line upon which the edge of
the levelling instrument is placed. A
pointer is mounted upon an axis in the
center of the dial, the opposite end of the
pointer being weighted SO as to cause it to
assume perpendicular position at all
times by its own gravity, and thus indicate
upon the dial level. perpendicular and an
gular lines, according to the position in
which the instrument IS placed.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, June 12.-Secretary Sher.
man has written O letter to the Honest
Money League" in session at Milwaukee.
He says: "It is manifest that my public du-
ties will not permit me to leave this city at
this time. or should be glad to join with you
In the effort you ARE making to secure tothe
people Of the United States honest money, BY
which mean United States or national bank
notes, Convertible at &fe will of holders into
gold and silver coin.


"For now sixteen years we have had money
which lacked the essential ingredient Of being
equal in purchasing power to coin, varying in
value from forty cents on the dollar to nearly
par.


We have now reached time when we can
nope that our paper money can be maintained
at par with coin, and thus secure an honest
money, equal In value to the money OF the
civilized world. Under the law as it now
stands, we undertake to maintain in circula-
tion greater amount of government notes,
at par with coin, than any nation has ever at
tempted before.


The law also provides for the issue and cir
culation oil as many bank notes, secured by
United States bonds, as any company of five
or more persons will agree to maintain and
secure their maintenance at par with United
States notes.


The largest amount Of paper money that
has the Indispensable requisite of redemp-
tion Ia coin can now be circulated, and, be-
Sides our country is producing about $780,
600, 900 in gold and silver bullion.


Surely this result so anxiously sought by
the most intelligent statesmen and business
men OF our own and other times, should not be
endangered by adopting any wild theories
about irredeemabla paper money, without a
fixed standard of value; yet it is to oppose
and defeat such schemes that it becomes
necessary that your organization of
fAose - iaYor q good money should be en-
Year: 1878

1t is now q voluntary contribution on their
part and not forced under threats OF reno
one per cent of the yearly salary. Under the
irresponsible system formerly in vogue, such
Contributors were sometimes crowded up TO-
three and as high even as five per cent Every
employe now contributing not only knows
burden, but that the funds will reach their
proper destination. Secretary Evarts stated
to-day that so far as the Cabinet officers were
concerned he thought the committee would
get more II ghey would asseas Q percentage
upon the cost of living instead OF llpon sala-
rfes received from the government. The COM
mitsee are now holding meetings twice O.
week, and making effective preparations tor
the campaign Ia the way of selecting d0cu-
ments fOr circulation.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, June Gov. Hartranft
writes to the War Department that he is put
ting the militia of Pennsylvania in a thor
ough state of discipline so as to be ready for
any outbreak similar to that of last year that
may occur during the present summer, and
has made a requisition for the States quota
of arms. The Secretary of War has replied
that the department has no authority
Of law to loan arms even to State authorities.
Arms can only be furnished to the State under
and in accordance with the law governing the
arming of the militia. That law does not au-
thorize loan, but provides an annual appro-
pTiation Of $200000 which can be used to fur
nish arms to the States. This sum, when
divided among the States, Is found to be very
inadequate, but it cannot be lawfully exceed
ed. am advised by the Chief of Ordnance
that the State of Pennsylvania has overdrawn
her quota both for this year and the next, and
an emergency only would justify further
advance
Year: 1878

MeuiCaA ROsSAOiuIleS OF the RhOn0EFaDh.
From the June Number Of the Chicago Medical


journal and Examiner.J


The phonograph opens up vista of medi-
cal possibilities delightful to contemplate.
Who can fail to make the nice distinctions be-
tween every form Of bronchial and pulmonary
rale, percussion, suecussion and friction
sounds, surgical crepitus, fetal and placen-
tial murmurs, and arterial and aneurismal
bruit, when each can be produced at will, am
plitied to any desired extent, In the study,
the ampitheatre, the office and the hos
pital2 The lecturer Of the future will teach
more effectively with this instrument
than by. the mouth. The phonograph will
record the frequency and characteristics of
respiratory and muscular movements, decide
as to the age and sex Of the fetus In utero,
and differentiate pneumonia from phthisis It
will reproduce the sob of hysteria, the sigh of
melancholia, the singultus OF collapse, the cry
Of the puerperal women In the different stages
of labor. 1t will interpret for the speechiess
infant, the moans and cries of tubercular
meningitis, ear-ache, and intestinal collie 1t
will furnish the ring oi whooping- cough and
the hack OF the consumptive. It will be an
laugh OF the maniac and the drivel of the
idiot. 1t will classify dysphasic derange-
Inents, such as ataXic, amnesic, paraphasic
and akataphasic aphasia.


1t will recount, in the voice and words Of the
patient, the agonies Of neuralgia and renal
calculus, and the horrors of delirium tremens.
1t will give the burden of the story Of the old
lady who reeounts all the Ills of her ancestors
before proceeding to the era Of her own. More
than this, it will accomplish this feat in the
ante-room, while the physician Is supposed to
be busying himself with his last patient.


Last, but not least, it will simultaneously
furnish to the medical philosopher the CRATE
full praises and promises of him who Is conva-
lescent from dangerous illness, together with
the chilling accents in which, later, the doctor
Is told that he must wait for his remuneration
till the butcher and the baker have been paid
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, June 12,-There is a report
that Senator Matthews has reconsidered his
determination not to appear before the Potter
and that he will be- there this
afternoon. The committee has had no official
notification of this fact, but the members Of
the committee understand that such Is the
Senator's intention. Ali of the Senator's
friends are agreed that this would be by far
the most prudent course for him To nnrane
Year: 1878

At a meeting Of various persons connected
with the banking interest In London, lately,
institute Of bankers. The primary object of
the institute was declared to be 'to facilitate
the discussion and consideration of all mat
ters OF Importance relating to banks, and
that its secondary object be to afford oppor-
tunities for the acquisition of practical and
theoretical knowledge of banking"
Year: 1878

patience with her bashful lovers Backward
ness, and SO brought matters to favorable
climax by saying to him, II really believe
you are afraid to ask me to marry you, for
you know / would say yes"
Year: 1878

A writer in the Galveston Ne,rs tells
of recent adventure while travelling
in a stage-coach, in Texas, rs follows
On Saturday morning, at one O'Clock,
near Pegleg, 1 was startled from an in
different slumber in the stage-coach by
the clicking of Winchester and by
voices from without hallooing to the dri-
yer, "Turn into the brush, or l will
shoot the side of your face of; 1 will
not tell you again" At the same time
l saw two men with guns, one bearing
on the driver and the other pointed at
the opening of the coach. There were
two passengers beside myself in the
coach, Lieutenant Kirby, of the Tenth
infantry and graduate from West
Point, assigned to duty at Fort Mcka-
vett; the other, Mr.. Barouch, a DRUM
mer, from New Orleans. My pistol
was rolled up in my blankets, the drum
mer had no arms, but Lieutenant Kirby


was well heeled. We had, from the
time we left the road until we were
stopped in the brush time to consider
what we should do. The drummer and
myself concluded that we were not in
a condition TO risk the fight. But the
Lieutenant insisted upon fight, not on
account Of the money he might lose,
but on account of his profession. We
oyerruled him and were ready to sub
nit to the robbery when the coach stop
ped in the brush, two or three hundred
yards from the road. One at time were
called and stepped for ward, was .obbed.


and sent TO the front of the horses, The
coach was then plundered of money,
jewelry and arms. Each one had hid
den portion of his money and valua-
bles while in the stage. l threw mine
in the hay in the bottom of the coach,


the drummer tucked his away in the
top of the coach, and the Lieutenant
put his in his boot. Mine was found !;


the balance they did not get. The
drummer delivered them twenty dol


lars, the lieutenant five dollars and l
twenty-five dollars. They also got the


lieutenant's and the drummer's watch
Year: 1878

In the summer Of 1916, three men
living about three miles above the
Falls, saw a bear swimming in the
river. Thinking he would be a capital
prize, they started for him in a large,
substantial log canoe, or ''dug-out."
When they overlook him he seemed
quite obliged for their kind attention,
and quietly putting his paws on the
side of the canoe, drew himself into it,,
notwithstanding that they vchemently
belabored him with their paddles. As
he came in on one side, two of the men
went into the water on the other side.
The third, who may be called Fisher,
could not swim, and naturally enough,
felt somewhat embarrassed. Much to
his relief the animal deliberately sat
down in the bow of the canoe facing
him. As the noise Of the rapids and
roar of the falls reminded him that they
were ominously near Fisher resolved to
take advantage of the truce and pull
vigorously for the shore. BIT when
he began to paddle the bear began to
growl his objections enforcing them at
the same time with an ominous grin.
Fisher desisted for while, but feeling
their constant and insidious approach
to the rapids, he tried again to use his
paddle. Bruin then raised his note of
disapprobation higher. and made a
motion as is he intended to get down
and ego for" him. The man whoswam
ashore, soon however reappeared in an
other canoe, with loaded musket, shot
the bear, and ended Fishers terrible
suspense. Bruin weighed over three
hundred pounds.
Year: 1878

The immense stones used in the erec-
tion of the pyramids of Egypt were OBJ
tanned from the quarries in the Arabian
hills, and were carried to the river and
over a bridge of boats. They were then
brought forward by means of cause
way, which of itself took ten years to
construct, and which is said TO have
been a fine work, with its polished
stones and figures of animals engraved
upon them. One hundred thousand
men were employed at time, and these
were relieved by the same number at
the end of three months. A long time
was spent in the leveling off the rock
on which the edifice stands, and twenty
wears for the erection of the pyramid
itself. The stones were raised step by
step by means of machine made of
short pieces of wood, and, last of all,
commencing from the top, the stones
were cemented together with a layer of
cement not thicker than a piece of
paper, the strength of which is proved
by the age of these enormous memorials.
Year: 1878

There died recently in Beleview Hos
pital, New York, woman named Mary
0'keefe. She was known to the crimi-
nal authorities for years by the alias of
Sergeant Mary" She has had quite a
remarkable history, which she fire.
quently related to her jailers while
on the island. She said that when quite
young, she formed the acquaintance of
4 young man TO whom she was engaged
to be married. The day for the we'd
ding was set, but before the happy event
occurred, her lover was arrested for
highway robbery, found guilty and
sentenced to imprisonment for twenty
years. This so effected her that sine re-
solved to remain single. Some time
afterward she became very intimate
with another young woman who had
likewise met with many crosses in love
and had similarly resolved. Becoming
intimate, they determined to live to-
gether ever after, and agreed that one
should put on mans apparel and that
they should live as man and wife in
another part of the city where they
were not known. They drew lots, and
by it Mary was made the man. She
found male attire and assumed a new
name. For several wears these women
passed as man and wife. and would pos
sibly have done so until Mary's death,
but for an unfortunate accident. While
on the street one day she met former
friend, who recognized her, and thI eat
ened to expose her if she did not return
home. Mary told her companion of the
discovery and they agreed to part.


She returned to her home, where she
lived for short time, but as her parents
used to taunt her she again left home
and took to drinking. During the late
war she formed the acquaintance of a
soldier and set him drunk, after which
she stole his money and uniform. She
soon spent it and then went to one of
the military stations. and enlisted in a
company of volunteers. One night
Mary got beastly drunk ana was ar
rested by the guard. While in her
drunken stupor she told her secret. The
captain of the guard was called; she
was arraigned before him, and, on being
closely questioned, admitted the
truth. She was dismissed from the
ranks, not, however, before she had
been given the name of Sergeant Mary.
Year: 1878

es, which were left i'm the coach. While
the coach was being robbed we were all
guarded, Winchester bearing on US.
The robbers-the two we saw-were
men of good address, and executed the
robbery skilfully. They attempted no
disguise, except the boss, who evidently
thought knew him; to the others he
was unreserved. They talked amoug
themselves, from which we learned
that another party was to rob the down
coach and that they were within sup
porting distance. When they COM
menced cutting the mail bags open j
made an appeal to them, stating that
they would hardly find any money in
registered letters going up the country.
They cut two, however, and then STOP
ped, putting all the mail back. They
asked about the paymaster. A short
time after the lights of the down coach
came in view. They told us we could
get i'm the coach and not to make any
noise or strike light, and if we did
they would fire on us. The down coach
tumbled along in few minutes and we
got back on the road and came along.
Before we left the boss said "You may
tell the Maynard people Dick Dublin
has come back to stay awhile" The
robbery would not net more than three
hundred dollars in money, arms and
jewelry. My first sensation was that
of bad dream. which soon vanished
before humiliating and outrageous
reality. l was struck with their cool
ness and audacity. One thing seemed
singular, they declined to touch us per-
sonally, that is, to put hands on us in
any way. They frequently threatened
to kill us if they caught us in lie, but
never made any personal search. A


little less than year ago the stage was
robbed on the very spot where Ne were
stopped. Then, and in this last, the in
tention was to rob the United States
paymaster. was impressed with the


terrible earnestness with which they


acted, something like that displayed by


an eXecutioner when he executes the
penalty of death. l understand they
did not rob the down stage. This is
strange. i can only account for it on


the theory that they found they would


not get anything but arms, with prob
ably some jewelry and little money.
Year: 1878

with blazing eyes into the black water,
where circle of sharp ripples fringed
with phosphorescent fire, widened in
lines of pallid flame and vanished.


There had been single deep groan,
and figure had plunged past the cabin
window; a figure whose heart was
cleft by keen blade whose edge was
worn so thin that it had been snapped
of, leaving only the handle in the exc
cutioner's hand.


At the same instant a star, the single
one visible in the murky heavens, had
fallen in swift sweep of light.


Next day it was known that the ira
veler, so lately snatched from death
upon it, had fallen overheard in a
drunken fit, and been swallowed by the
sea.


''And the man? The child ?" asked,
when my story-teller drew a long breath
wiped the perspiration from his drawn
brow with the back of his hand, and
tossed his finished cigar into the water.


ATc tucN dllNe.


''Faithless padre nio," said voice
behind me, and slender. brown-skin-
ned, free-limbed girl of thirteen, bare
headed, bare-foOted, and clad in the
picturesque peasants dress of the coun-
try, stepped past me and smote my
friend lightly on the face with melon
leaf. SIS this your promise? Pardon
me, senior, but you know not how false
he is. He pledged Inc faithfully to take
me to the theatre in the plaza to-day,
and here find him, as always, staring
his eyes out at that wretched old ship
yonder. What can there be about il
that he feasts his eyes upon it so, like a
poor woman praying at her shrine?"


'-It is a shrine. monument" said
the story-teller, his eyes cleaning for
a moment with savage joy, which
softened TO such look of love as one
rarely sees when he brushed the girls
heavy hair back from her forehead and
kissed her.


''Senor, you ask whether the man
and the child of my story are alive.
They are.'


And hand in hand with the girl he
went up the blazing sunlit quay, and
vanished in the busy streets.
Year: 1878

alone kept from becoming au-
dible. But, as a comic actor,
Burton may be said to be
without a peer. captain Cutie !"
was, perhaps, his greatest part, but
his "Toodles . was inimitable. He
was coarse at times, but his humor
was infectious, and bis command
over an audience simply marvellous.
His mere appearance as Toodles I"
in the drunken scene set the audi.
ence in such laughter, and he had
such a faculty Of causing the mer-
riment to break out afresh by a look
or movement, that it is scarcely
an exaggeration to say that they
might have been kept at it all
night, had be desired it. The blank
look on his face, with its heavy,
pendant cheeks, gave him, in this
drunken scene, something of the
look Of great frog; but his power
was in his eye, which was his 5ost
weapon with an audience. He had
magic eye, and in that feature lay
one of the great secrets Of his great
success.