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Year: 1876

A MAN KILLED BY A MoUsE-An ex-
traordinary occurrence was brought to
light at an inquest beld on the body OF
a man ia South London. In a work
room where many young girls were at
work small mouse suddenly made its
appearance on table, causing,of course,
considerable commotion and a general
stampede. The intruder was seized, how
ever, by young man who happened to
be present, but the mouse slipped out
of his hand, and running up his sleeve,
came out between his waistcoat and
Shirt at the neck. The unfortunate man
had his mouth opened, and the mouse,
on the lookout for some convenient
place of concealment, entered the mans
mouth, and ne in his fright and surprise,
swallowed it. That mouse can exist
for considerable time without much air
has long been popular belief, and was
unfortunately proved to be fact IN the
present instance, for the mouse began TO
tear and bite inside the mans throat and
chest. and the result was the unfortunate
fellow died after little time i'll horrible
agony. Several witnesses corroborated
the above facts, and medical testimony
as to the cause of death having been
oiyen, a verdict Of accidental death y
was returned.
Year: 1876

or be compelled to join in a deadly
struggle for life in any bloody outbreak
if such should prove the truth OF


THE SPECIFIES PROPHECY.


The facts as given above were obtain
ed with difficulty, and then only Oh
promise that the name and residence of
the unfortunate watchman shall BE kept
secret until he is better able to bear the
annoyance of 4 crowd of curious people
and wonder-stricken auditors. .-Rsad-
Ing, Pa, Engle.
Year: 1876

but whether it was an armed and NOR
tai conflict or merely rush to aid
wounded and dying men, he could not
ascertain. One part ofthe crowd seem
ed victorious, and the other was swept
backward in 4 dark mass OF struggling
and falling men, all disappearing III the
darkness, while far over the floor
spread darker and deeper gloom, the
shadow of
Year: 1876

The Committee on Rules and Discipline yes
teray reported favorlbly upon the case Of Paroman
Thomas Mcbride Of the Fourth Precinct Police and the
matter will come before the full Board to-day Mcbride
at the peril Of fe has saved four from drown
ing In the East River He II regarded by his comrades
a. one OF the braycst the force and has
been known to finch IN the face of any danger. Some
time ago a watch stolen from a lady In the
middle Of the afternoon. Oilccr McIiIidc saw
the thief running away and ran after him.
Finding that the officer gaining, TIE thief ran into
tall s.x-story tenement. Up stairs ho went and out
through the scutte upon the root which which steep
and very slippery The thief along the ridge, and
when he was opposite OF the largo chmucy- Lid
down to H. believing that officer would risk ms neck
by following Mcbride did not hesitate an instant. lie
followed thief, and slid down Ia the chimney the


lcf had done. Tie thief worked himself around the
chimney far he could but McIidc seized him by
the collar and shouted Tor bep. comradc saw Mcbride,
went thr ridge o the roof. and reached down h
club, which Mclrdr caught aud drew himself up 10 the
ridge with his prisoner The Thief sen, 10 sing Sing
for a tern Of years.


The last time that Mcbride saved drowning person
he WAS bged 10 jump into the water with all his cloth


ng on. The cold water nearly rendered him p0WcT ss
at first but he struck out nanuy and saved life. For
hrrasm the Life Saving Association Of the city ~
New York have presented him with large silver medal
suitably Inscribed The Police Board have ordered his
bc inscribed the roll Of honor AMI also
be placed the record OF M rritOriOus officers.
Year: 1876

A wIFEs FATAL QUARREL WITH HER HUSBAND


Coroner Woltman held an inquest yesterday
at the Fourth Precinct staonhouse on the body OF Mary
Knight who died on Jan 10 from the enect OF wound
in tho throat received BY being pushed DOWN stairway
Year: 1876

President Clark, of:he Massachu u
sets Agricultural College, explai ms
the flow ofsap in trees in the spring,
as follows:


"The circumstances which affect
the flow Of sap from the sugar
maple, the daily and hourly flow
correspond with the weather. The
most unfavorable weather is that
which is either, steadily and severely
cold, or uniformly warm and foggy,
while the best sap days are such as
are bright and warm at midday,
but preceded by freezing nights. =
Such varieties Of temperature as
affect the flow of maple sap are
most likely to occur when the
ground is covered with snow, be-
cause the heat of the sun durin o
the day cannot then accumulate to
moderate the cooling influence oil
the night.


The most probable explanation o1
the effect Of these alterations, ap
pears to be that the outer tissues OF
of the tree are partially emptied ol
their contents, by the contracting
influence of cold, the sap being
driven into the heart-wood of the
trunk and large roots. Meanwhil,
absorption goes on as usual under


ground,aad thus when relief is af
torded by the heat Of the sun, tn,
sap rushes back to the surface ant
| flows abundantlv
Year: 1876

PROGRESS OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP coETKsTA


The leading bowling clubs OF Now York and Williams
burg, having formed association known as the ma
tional Bowling Association" and arranged 70 play
series Of match games to determine the question OF
championship, largely increased interest in the game
has been the result Each club that joined the asso-
citation has already increased its membership and the
interest In the play has acquired a considerable impe-
tus that now the members Of the several clubs In
the ASSOCIATION number upward OF 600, and practice
games held every night the week at the different
alleys


The programme OF the championship was drawn up
and agreed TO convention Of delegates the clubs
held during the closing week OF last year. The
features Of the rules for the championship matchea
were that each club should play every club the
oation contest consisting OF the best two and three
gaines 10 be played by picked team Of ten men, TO
play ten frames each In each game, the winner OF tho
majority OF matches to be declared the champion bow
lers for the year. The emblem ef championship, which
rs TO be to the winning club by tbs assoeia
ton is 10 be handsome 'tsn-pin" In silver, appropr
atcly engraved The opening game OF the series was
PLAYED on January at the headquarters or the Empire
Club OF New York on Third avenue, II being between
the selected teams of the Empire aud Terpsichnre
clubs of New York. The game was won by the En-
pres Since then match games have followed IN quick
succession the interest in the contest increasing with
each game The following is the record oil the games
played up the present time, the nrst named being
4 ha win
Year: 1876

Another interesting little episode in the career Of
ex-senator William NJ Graham ex-president Of the
Waikiki National Bank, has been brought TO light by
OF the testimony being taken before Regis.
ter John W. Little of No. Warren street. In the suit
OF the United States against the estates Of
Graham and Charles Il Horton. the former cashier Of
the waikiki Bank for the full OF the deficiency
IN the accounts OF the bank at the time OF It's failure


While Graham president OF the bank he was once
invited into a gambling saloon on Broadway, neal
Twentysxth street. In this city, and during his pla,
lost about $50. 600 He paid lew thousands of IN,
debt with the money which he had about
his person, and then made a check for The
balance, about S23, 600 the Waikiki National
Bank, and certified II by writing across It's lace
Good. w. N. Graham, PresidenLn The check was
Immediately forwarded 20 the bank for payment and
Graham was kept IN an intoxicated condition IN the
gambling saloon until II could 10 presented IN order
10 not give him an opportunity TO change his mind
and withdraw the check. Horton however refused "a
pay the money until he could see Graham Then ths
~capper' Tor the faro bank who had introduced
Graham TO the proprietor and who knew he would not
receive his "whacI" OF the gains unless the money
was paid threatened to expose Graham Tor entering
such place u the remainder OF the debt was moi
forthcoming. Al nrSt Graham deled tue gambler but
when he saw some days aiterward statement in tue
newspapers that "the President OF an Ulster county
bank had been seen playing faro in the house mem
TONED he weakened and tearing that his name would
be gwen TO the public he agreed pay the amount In
instaments, which he subsequently did
Year: 1876

To EDITOR OF THE HRRALD:-


Our great American colleges are at present preparing
for the great take place at the Centennial
Exhibition in a few months Would It not be well for
those colleges challenge their English rivals in their
intellectual progress well as their physician We are
sometimes told that have colleges whose curriculum
OF studies Is not up TO the standard OF the European
universities that too practical people and not
wiling search the beauties OF ancient eo-
quenee think that IL would be very proper II some
OF our colleges would let these people know that the
American Is not behindhand In classical lore, though
he is practical j. i. 1.
Year: 1876

does the sand in the hour glass-passeS
through the horizontal tube between the
two bulbs and ascending one Of the pipes
to the little tube in the glass basin shoots
up beautiful Jet some Eve or six inches
high, making height Of about eight
inches above the top Of the bulb ~


Tho water falling from the Jet into the
basin runs down the other pipe into the
lower bulb. This goes on until the water
i'd the top bulb Is exhausted and has
run down from the basin into the
lower bulb. To re-start it, 1t Is only
necessary, as in the hour-glass, to reverse
the position Of the bulbs by which the
action Of the fountain can be kept up
indefinitely. There is no pressure upon
the water in the bulb, and yet, contrary
to the laws Of hydrostatics, the phen9me-
non we have mentioned occurs. Our
philosophical friend Fisher could not
explain, and the parties in the East from
whom he purchased II as curiosity
did not deign to throw any light on tho
subject. Neither do We; il is 'philo-
sOphical nut. r-. n 4,
Year: 1876

SONS excited individual in the gallery
last might gave vent 10 terrific whoop
during one Of the most affecting scenes in
the play OF "Unclc Toms Cabin" Mayor
Sweeney snapped his fingers, and Officer
Birch nailed his man and led him out
into tho fresh mir.
Year: 1876

Judge Benedict held court yesterday for tho scn-
tcnce OF prisoners and the herring of motions Dr. E.
b. Fooc, convicted OF sending obscene matter through
The mails arrnigned for sentence. Judge Benedict
addressed him, saying that he man OF sufficient
intelligence to appreciate the position into which he
brought by the violation OF the law. He himself
felt it to be his duty to discriminate between various
classes of this offence and therefore had examined this
with He found that the obscene pamphlet
had not been distributed with view to profit
arising from its sale, but with view to obtain
practice result OF its circulation. Under the
circumstances, the Doctors patients might
suller il he imprisoned, and as rmany per-
had called to HIM with regard TO tho case ho
would sentence him under the fourth count to fine OF
So, 800, and would suspend sentence under the first
count, under which no liable 10 ton years. i'm
prisonment Tho prisoner handed up long statement
to the Court supposed to he IN cxOneratOn of hts acts
or explanatory OF the motives actuatng Ism in dis
trbutIng the offensive pamphlct which, he alleged,
not intended by him To secure pecuniary bcnchts
to himself, but TO be of service to humanity. The
Judge in court parance took the document, but re-
served his opinion thereon.
Year: 1876

The affairs OF the Now York State Loan and Trust
Company, now In the hands Of the Central Trust Com
pany OF New York receiver, are stn without any
chance Of immediate final settlement. The dcposors
have been all paid and the stockholders await
ing tho result OF number OF suits pending In the
courts and Tor other payments before beginning to
think OF dividend According to present appearances
the affairs Of the company will not be hnslly closed tins
WAR
Year: 1876

Late English files bring accounts OF
terrible dynamite explosion in
Wales, which surpasses in horror any
thing since the Bremerhaven affair.


The occurrence took place on April
81 in railway tunnel in process of
construction at Cymmer, near MAJESTY,
Wales. The tunnel was to be 1000
yards in length, and operations were
carried on night and day. The night
gang were ut work when the explosion
took place. There were thirty men
employed ut the time, and of these
thirteen were killed outright, and
their bodies found in horribly mutt
lated condition. In the dynamite box
was day 8 store of the explosive ma
.terial-about 200 pounds-and also
several pounds of gun cotton and
quantity of caps. This magazine was
located about $50 yards from the
mouth of the tunnel, and midway be-
tween the mouth and the terminus Of
the excavations already made. The
explosion shattered space in the tun.
mel sixty yards in area, and the only
surprise is that the entire gang instead
Of thirteen should not have been killed
outright. 20
Year: 1876

Artificial clouds of smoke are often
used in France and Germany as pro-
lection against frost. One plan which
has been very successful, consists in
carefully mixing gas tar with sawdust
and old straw and piling this mixture
in large heaps in the vineyards, and
when morning approaches fire is set to
the mass. This plan would not work
we'll on the prairies of the northwest,
where the atmosphere is so buoyant
and pure.
Year: 1876

There is considerable difference be.
tween the right man in the right place
and the wrong man in the wrong
place: illustrated by the estimates of
Belknap and Taft as secretaries of the
q. s. War department. Taft signifies
his willingness to run the department
for SIS, ,607 Cos less than Belknap want
ed for the same purpose. Judge Taft
deserves to be let alone as long as he
manifests qualities so rare.
Year: 1876

All of the dresses were devised by
Miss Dickinson, aud they are qneenly
in richness and elaborate in detail, as
well as historically correct. They are
four in number. one fVr each act, and
were not made in Paris, rs has been re-
ported, but by her dress.maker in New
York and under her direction. The
cost of the outfit was 50 900, exclusive
of diamonds and ornaments. As Anne
Boleyn is supposed just to have re-
turned from France, some license is
allowed for French taste. Miss Dick
inson wears gold-bl0nde wig. and
displays her costumes with exquisit
taste. There is 4 marvel of feminine
art in her exhibition of her queenly
robes, as act after act brings them be-
fore the public eye. The first is the
court dress Anne Boleyn may be said
to have worn when the admiring eyes
of King Henry were attracted by the
girlish beauty. 1t is a creamy brocade.
with ruby velvet trimmings and gold
embroidery. This robe is sbewildering
in its blended beauty, and it is as ex-
quisite for harmony as elaborateness.
The second is dress supposed to be
worn at the house of her father, Sir
Thomas Boleyn. It is Metternich
green satin, with crimson and cloth
Of gold overdress of the Venetian
style, and it may be described As
unique and piquant, with subtle sug-
gestion of the ante.renaissance period.
The third dress is q marvel of brecaded
beauty as is fitting for the royal robes
of an English queen. It is the azure
Of an unclouded sky. and is made more
queenly by train of blue velvet and


ermine and a girdle of diamonds and
pearls, with a diamond crown and
necklace. The stomacher is of woven
pearls and old lace, The last dress is
not the. traditional black velvet in
which queens are supposed to be led
to the block. 1t is somber, but full of
4 passionate suggestions of intense and
smothered fire, typified hy blending
of black and crimson satin under rich


black lace. 1t is such dress that a
queen might almost wish to die at the


hands of the executioner that she


might be able to wear it; and this


brings us to the rising of the curtain
Year: 1876

Justice Miller, of the United States
Supreme Court, publicly rebuked a dig.
nified old gentleman who was talking
aloud in the courtroom. Somebody
afterwards told the Justice that it was
the Emperor of Brazil whom he had
rebuked. The Justice said: EN-
perors must respect the proprieties of
the courtroom as we'll as common
people, ~
Year: 1876

WITH Blaine as candidate for President


the Illinois Republicans claim that they can
carry the State by fifty thousand majority
and gain five congressional districts now
held by the Democrats. They are practically
unanimous for Blaine. A correspondent OF
the New York Times, who has been travel
ing over the State, exhibits surprise at the
strong feeling in favor of the ex-Speaker,
and essays to explain it, saying: Blaine, al
though popular, had no strong hold on the
State until the debate with Hill, and the
idea has got into the heads of the people
here that in revenge for his crushing that
champion of the rebellion he is being perse-
cuted by the Democrats. That, they say, is
probably the chief cause of his popularity;
but there are others. They admire his abili-
ty, his readiness to meet every emergency, to
Year: 1876

MAJOR MERRILL protests against accord.
ing the man who fought to overthrow the
Republic the same honor and praise which
is so gratefully bestowed upon the soldier
who gave his life for national unity and
human freedom. The protest is both timely
and sensible.
Year: 1876

DECORATION DAY was general observed
yesterday throughout the country by services
OF more than usual impressiveness, showing
that as years pass, country-loving people
recognize more fully the debt of gratitude
they owe to the saviors of the Republic.
Year: 1876

The Democrats think that Judge Davis
would carry the South with rush, because
so many of the Southerners would think they
were voting for JEFF and the lost cause. The
latter part oftheir belief would be well found
Year: 1876

THE greater part of those in this state who
propose to visit the Centennial Exposition
are not going until September and October.
There is a prospect that there will be an inn
mense and uncomfortable crowd during
those months. 1t may be remarked that
June is good month to 60 to Phiadelphia.
Year: 1876

We do notread anonymous letters and commune
cations The name and address of the writer are In
all eases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Ct good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1876

assume every responsibility. He is bluff, sim
cere, brave, they think, in his political con-
duct, and so are they, which creates COM
mon tie between them. With the tomb of
Lincoln casting is shadow over the state the
resentments of the war fade away more slow.
ly in Illinois than elsewhere. The Republ-
cans are as aggressive in their Republicanism
now as ever, and they believe Blaine TO be
the same. 1t is not that they would renew
the war, or deprive the ex-rebels of any of
their rights under the Constitution, but they
believe that the national safety demands
that the Republican Party should continue in
possession OF the Government, pursuing a
policy of rigid adherence to its principles,
and they think that Blaine believes the same,
which makes another bond in common. For
these, among many other reasons, they pre-.
Ter Blaine to any other candidate, but at the
same time they admit that among his COM
petitors are some whom they would willingly
trust with the Government.
Year: 1876

LIEUT.. CAMERON tells how an African
woman made pottery. First she pounded
enough earth and water for one pot, with
pestIe such as they use in beating corn,
till it formed u perfectly homogeneous
mass. She then put it either on n fiat
stone or on the bottom of another, and
giving it a dab with her fist in the mid
die, to form u hollow, worked it into II
shape roughly with her hands, keeping
them constantly wet, and then smoothed
out the lingcr-marks with a corn cob, and
finally polished it over with one or two
bits Of gourd and bit of fiat wood--the
bit Of gourd giving it the proper curves;
and finally ornamcnting it with a sharp
pointed stick. 1t took forty-iive min
utcs, and then it was put away to dry
four or five hours in a shady place. The
shapes of many are very graceful, and all
are wonderfully truly formed, like the
amphora in the Villa Diomcd, at Pom
Deii,
Year: 1876

The leading citizens of Philadelphia
are very much cnragcd over the refusal
OF the board Of Park commissioners to
allow the main exhibition building to be
retained permanently upon the centen-
NAL grounds as was projected by the
PhiladeIphians who were in fair way
to raise half a million dollars to purchase
the building, The reasons controlling
the commissioners in this decision arc
not known.
Year: 1876

Frcn2icd appeals are now being
made to the colored men to vote
against the democracy, and not with
out cause. We have been informed
by reliable parties, and some of them
colorcd men, that there are three or
four times us many colored men go.
ing to vote the Democratic ticket
this year, as voted it two years ago
They are beginning to find out the
"shams aud Illusions Of the Rcpub'
lican party
Year: 1876

If you see man going about per-
sistently untidy-neglectIul of such
matters as his boots, his hands and
his linen-you may be certain that
sooner or later he will become a
slouchcr, and chat his affairs will be
always more orlcas muddled. Thus
it will be unsatisfactory to have deal
ings with him either in his business
or domestic capacity, He will be
continually forgetting, he will be
cverlastingly putting of, what he
ought TO do, and ending often by not
doing it at all until it is too late
Thus it is a perfectly correct and re-
liable instinct which leads people to
judge men by their appearance,


We are not advocates of unosten-
tatious splendor, but we would have
men remember that they often allow
those who are really their interiors
in capacity to pass Them in the race
Of lie, and solely because they are
careless and Indifferent in the ways
in which we have indicated, Lei
conspicuous offenders against good
taste realize that the Struggle for eS-
istence is now peculiarly keen, and
that, other things being equal, he
who takes pains about himself in
small matters is certain to outstfip
the individual who does not, The
former will often be favorably lccei-
veG where The latter is hardly recei-
we'd with courtesy. OF course it is
possible to run from one extreme %
another, 1t must however be obv-
Gus, that neatness does not involve
splendor, ror enhanced expenditure,
both of which things should be dis
carGed, by individuals of modara.J
means 1t is quite possible tn ;
care and frugality can go hand in
hand-indced many meanly dressed
peoplc demonstrate this beyond {
doubt. In a word, sloyenlincss i'll.
wolves extravaganza and discredit,
neatness, economy and credit. Were
the people of the world not foolish,
it would be unnecessary to state such
sclf-eviGent fact.
Year: 1876

The LOBBYIST OF THE SEASON.-The
Washington correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune says: We have Il lady here
this Winter who bids fair to make more
noise than any of her predecessors, so
high does she fly her kites, and SO GER
tainly does she secure her victims. In
deed, she boasts that no job measure can
be carried through Congress without her
approval, for which she demands a hand
some contingent royalty on the expected
profits. III addition to a retainer in cash.
Her lnhuence has often secured the at
tendance of a member when his vote was
SIRE and needed, and her destinations
have been exerted when it was necessary
that an opposition vote should be absent
from the Capitol. She is not handsome,
but her steel gray eyes fascinate like
those Of snake, and her manners are
bewitching. True. she is advancing in
years. but n'iniports. she has genius, tact,
thorough contempt for the convention
alItles of society, a good share of strong
Practical common sense, and a keen per-
ceptlon OF human nature. just now she
Is the special champion of the Philadel-
phla Centennial Exhibition.