Year: 1876

and in one case the men manufactured a
strong plea for pardon by killing their
commander just before giving themselves
up. Don Carlos is reported to be in sew
eral different places at once, and in that
respect he differs greatly from his
troops. He is everywhere-his troops
nowhere


A GERMAN chemist has discovered
that molasses can be successfully and
proiitably made from corn. The process
has been tested in Iowa, and bids fair to
become great industry. The corn used
was the common crop, such as is fed to
live stock, and the product was excellent
molasses. The farmers in the neighbor.
hood Of the mill took their corn thither
and sold it. So that the operation
was on the same basis as the cheese and
butter factories and the canning estab-
ments.


lT has been seriously proposed by a
prominent Englishman that new and i'm
portant thoroughfare in London be called
Washington street or place, in honor of
one of the bravest men the English race
has ever produced" He argues that
Cromwell knocked about the Kings
men and loyal principles much more
ruLhlessly and with much less reason
than ever George Washington did, and
yet one of the finest avenues in the West
End of London bears his name. For a
centennial suggestion this is rather
neat.


THERE is married couple living in
Larue county, Kentucky, who during
their engagement exchanged rings. The
bride elect took off her ring at one time
and was never able to find it afterward.
She came to the conclusion that it must
have been carried away by the rats After
they had been married about two years
they decided to clean the place of the
pests, and ga rat was found with the
identical gold ring around its neck. It's
head was as large as a full-grown rats,
but its body was very small. 1t is sup
posed that an old rat had taken the ring
and carried it to her nest to adorn the
neck of her darling"


GERMAN inventor, named Eich-
baum, of Chicago, claims to have in
vented machine for making gas from
live and black oak and crude petroleum,
precisely the constituent parts which
compose coal, only in a different period,
or state of formation. Tke retorts are
differently constructed, and no non
combustible element let in to make the
meters move and indicate larger num-
Der of feet passing through than is
actually consumed. Capitalists have
tested the machine at tho fremont
House, in Chicago, and works for max
ing the machines have been started in
Detroit and Racine. The patentees claim
that they can make gas at twenty-eight
and one.half cents per thousand feet.
- A REPORT has just been received at
San Francisco of the accidental discovery
Ofa depositof brilliants in the coast range
of San Mateo country. The person who
made the discovery picked in few
minutes from two hundred to three hun
dred specimens of the sparkling crystals.
The discoverer further alleges that he
showed some of the specimens to persons
in the town of San Mateo, who profess to
be precious stone experts, and they pro-
nounced them to be pure diamonds.
Great excitement prevails among the
ncighboring ranchmen, who have left
plow, harrow and seed-machines,
and taken to the hills to prospect for dia-
monds.


The chief cause of the present insur-
rection of the Herzegovinians against
Turkey is, at bottom, the impossibility
of obtaining justice for Christians in
Mohammedan courts, so that it is useless
for the former to become legal proprie-
tors of land. The Turks and Slavonic
Mohammedans hate and despise Chris.
tians, and generally hold that they have
10 rights that true believers are bound
to respect. They may legally acquire
landed property, and may legally testify
in court, but the Turks pay no attention
to rights or oaths, and do with them as
they choose. The judges are, without
exception, venal to the last degree. The
great reason why the terms of the
Andrassy note are not accepted by the
insurgents is that they know the Sultan
cannot enforce them even if he is so in
clined. The beys do not believe that
firmans of liberal import are seriously
intended, and pay no heed whatever to
carrying them out.


The Carlist war is over and the brave
and plucky Don has escaped across the
line into France. He is young man
still, and if nothing happens, will have
plenty of chances TO resuscitate his lost
cause and plague poor old Spain. He
fought losing battle with courage
that amounted TO desperation, and man.
aged to protract his struggle against the
whole power of Spain without money or
ships or military supplies or foreign aid.
But such contests for merely personal
aggrandizement are century behind
the time, and history will stamp him as
reckless adventurer, numbering,
plundering, and burning to snatch a
crown that was not his. Had he man.
aged TO get himself born hundred years
or so ago he might have succeeded, and
even had he failed would have gone of
the stage in whirlwind of military
glory. One sure way to stop these
desperate fights for crown is to melt
The crown into hard dollars and use them
10 pay honest debts 1t weuld save
world of trouble to burn these old
frnmn merry thrnnea as nuonwnnd