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AROUND THE WORLD. MARKETING IN JAPAN. ! —The wages of a laboier in Russia is eight How Foreigners Get Their Food, and cents for a day’s work of fifteen hours, and W hat They Get to Eat. : (Japan Correspondence Philadelphia Tim es.) he “ finds” himself. “ Yasai ! yasai 1” shouts the old vegetable —Bees were cultivated in the very early man as he comes up our front yard staggering days of m an’s existence. A bee-hive is under his load of fresh vegetables of every found upon, an ancient tomb in Thebes. seasonable variety. The pole which supports —A dog kennel in Montgomery county, across his shoulders the two large baskets Ohio, comprises between six and seven acres of green things at either end bends an of ground, and the dog iiesh is valued at creaks under the weight. Our vegetable »76,000. RAID. man needs no pity, however, as his face over —Justice Stanley Matthews has just paid spread by a grin,will Bhow when he sets down #17 ,500 for a builaing lot in Washington— VOL. X X IV . KICHM0ND HILL, THURSDAY, JULY 28. 1881. WHOLE NO. 1,200.—NO. 8. his burden and wishes us a pleasant “ good the highest prie« ever paid for a single lot morning.” there, and will build a $20,000 house upon it. Well, what shall we buy to day ? Wb*t would the ladies like to purchase ? Some de —Milwaukee is threatened with a water picking up a few shillings in Rotten Row by was certain he fancied the lady who presided IN THE PAR WEST. at him, when he ooolly laid down his Old The Secretary was instructed to return a licious and tender bamboo shoots for soup, famine. The pumping capacity of her water running up to gentlemen on horseback and at. the bazar. He remarked therefore that muHket and leaching back under his dilapi reply to the effect that the club could not or some fine sweet potatoes ? At a sugges works engine is only 8,0o0,(J0U gallons, and exclaiming : “ Stone in your horse’s foot.” he thought that particular article very pretty. Recollections of Life on the Border — An dated со it tails produced a pair of vicious consider itself morally or pecuniarily respons tion from our ruddy cook, who stands by in the daily consumption exceeds 13,000,000 Horse is stopped and tue stone is picked out, ' The lady said : “ Yes, it is very pretty ; my Anecdote of •* Slim Jim.” looking pistols of the bull dog pattern and his white apron and jaunty cap, the old man and a shilling is dropped. One gentleman ible and a hint was thrown out to the gallons. ; mother sent it.” “ Ah ! really,” said the Life in the military posts of the Far West leve.ing them at the now discomfited Indians begins, in a nasal tone, to enumerate his discovered the trick, for the stone was in the Treasurer that it might be policy to hide all —A young lady of Holyoke, Mass., where ! young gentleman, determined to discover the is not entirely bereft of enjoyable features. said : stock : “lino ni, kabu ni, osatsu ni, take-no- man’s hand before it was in the horse’s foot, his funds in an oyster can and bury the can there are live women to one man, has come ! name of the owner of the eyes that bewitched True, the every day routine of soldier duty— “ Now, you fellers hev made yer play an’ ko ni, daikon ni, yari ni, тате no iro iro but sligüt-of nand practice deceived the short under about four feet of back garden. forward as a тшьіопагу to bachelors, and j him. “ Ah really. Let me see, I think I the roll calls, guard mountings, drills, inspec I’ll make mine. Ground arms, every son-of- gt zaimasa ” ; that is to say, “ Potatoes, tur sighted ones. ' WHERE DUTY ENDS. offers to lead a galaxy of one hundred maidenb I have met your mother. Her uame is ------?” tions, dress parades etc. —grows monotonous a-gun of ye, or I’ll pump ye full of forty four nips, sweet potatoes, bamboo shoots,radishes, out West. —A Presbyterian chuich in Pennsylvania j ‘‘ The Queen,” answered the lady. The young and even hateful, aud the harsh tones of the calibre bullets. Drop ’em lively ?” and he “ I am in receipt of a query from Pitts lily roots, cabbages and beans of different lias just suspended one of its members, a gentleman did not wait for the last train from bugle grates unpleasantly upon the ears cocked his murderous looking revolvers. burgh,” said the President, as he displayed a sorts.” With this army to select from, we —The Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe rail Bagshot. letter, “ axin’ me whar our dooty to our nay- road has contracted for ‘2,500 freight cars, Noung man, for dancing. Ho appealed to the doomed to listen to them year after year, yet The guns went to the ground, and the squad squat down a la Japanaise to examine the Prebbytery and defended himself in a speech —A new Hungarian opera in London wae for all this there are ron stood with blank dismay pictured on every bur begins an’ ends up. To be nayburl.y wid vegetables and coat with the vender. ninety-nii. e engines and thirty nine passenger on the point of being an utter failure when a naybur am one of de highest an’ gieatest of two hours, his principal argument being MANY SOURCES OF ENJOYMENT face. How much is this lily root, vegetable coaches, the last of which are to be delivered the snow in the branches of the trees caught principles on airth. Our dooty begins when next monih. mat he wasn’t guilty because he did not know *■ Now every dod durned one o’ ye stand on тап?” іѳ the first query, put in our best how to dance. The discussion consumed the fire and the whole .landscape was soon in And pastime created by the officers and sol we let his chickens scratch up our garden, diers to drive away the dull monotony inci yer heads.” Jauanese, and which m tnat musical tongue, —When the children of Mis. Betsey Per entire day, and then he got ouly one vote out flames. One of the actors pulled off his his children ride our gate, an’ his dog chase kins, of Taunton, Mass., surprised her un her dent to a life on tue froutief, almost without “ Oh, now, see here, pardy,” said a soldier, would be something like this : of twenty-three. He means to appeal to the cloak and together with the ghost succeeded “don’t you know that were only Jo ” our cat widout complaint. Our dooty ends “ Y’avo San kno yuri, go dono kurai ka ?” 100th birthday, she shewed her appreciation synod. in extinguishing the flaming snow. The or the pale of civilization. Among soldiers, as when we have lent him our hoe, shovel, of their affection by giving each of them a among all classes of people, can be found tbe “ Up with ye or a streak o’daylight ’11 foller “ Oi sen, go riu Apata” (two cents and five —Small lizards are used in Egypt by some chestra continued playing, and luckily two- a chunk o’ lead through yer auatomy in a spade, ice tongs, ax, sugar, tea, coffee, milk mills) promptly responds^the old man, while »1,000 bond. thirds of the audience having got tired of the individual of a theatrical turn of miud, and an’ butter, an’ ho has forgotten dat he owes of the native ladies as ornaments, and lie there is scarcely a post on the border that holy minute.” the cuok mutters ; •• Takai ne” (too high) 1 — One of the cashiers at a large hotel in half concealed in the drapery that overnangs perlormance had left the theater. There was The troopers obeyed and in a moment a us anythin’ beyan’ a request dat we will come Laying aside the lily root for future ex cannot boast of its dramatic temple, usually ober an’ turn grindstun fur him to sharpen a Chicago is a woman. She is the tirs с of her the lace. Tho red clawed soldier crabs are no panic, aud for the first time in the evening half dozen pairs of legs waved wildly in the periment, we select some of the more familiar sex to assume such a position in this country, the spectators applauded the actors and the built of pine logs, ia which are produced crowbar.” bomeiimes used in Mexico as pins. The ciab plays and variety exhibitions for the enter air. He held them in this position for fully “ murphies” and proceed further to -examine although in Europe women are often employ l? dis.ouged lroni its stolen shell and given a singers for their success in putting out snow a minute, when he permitted them to again THE WEATHER. the stock. ed in this capacity. when it was on fire. tainment of the denizens of the post. Mauy Ceautifui pearly one, or one that has been of the officers have their wives and daughters assume a natural position upon their feet. The committee in charge of themeteorolo “ What kinds of beans have you?” is next —A horse car conductor, who had waited [dated with gold or silver. Fastened to the —The history of bells is one of the most iu the garrison, aud the ladies apparently take Then he got his late companions into line gical disturbances for the coming week re demanded,and the old huckster produces some five mmutes at a crossing lor a lady, re iace by a pm and chain, they make unique interesting iu the record of invention. They a. keen interest in displaying what dramatic (I had sneaked behind a large rock) and for ported the following probabilities : ditfedÄt specimens of the vegetable for our marked : ,4 I am of the opinion that when ornaments. were first heard of about the year 4U0, before ability they may possess. Through the win fully an hour he bel I the entire crowd to Sunday - Look out for thunder. inspection, some of which seem familiar. Gabriel blows his last trump ihat those юо —Persons who believe that good luck which date rattles were U: ed In the year ter seasons especially are these entertain gether, putting them through the most Monday —Hot enough for old maids to go We notice the well-known French beans, the late te get seats will be women.” 610 we hear of bells in the city of Sens, the barefoot. never goes witn the number 13 t CONTORTIONS. marrow beans and some dried реав known army ol Clothaire, King of France, having Tuesday—Shocks of earthquake felt in sev among Japanese as “ Dutch beans.” We find —Miss Mary Anderson, who is spending j longer adhere intiexioly to iheir superstiiicu. by amateurs that would do credit to many of He would make them turn somersaults, walk the summer at her Long Branch cottage, been frightened away by the ringing of them eral localities, and old sinners begin to re some of a new species however, and hold out especially in the matter of horse races it is the stock actors who have trod the stage for on their knees and all fours, lay down and is a devoted Catholic,and may been seen every recalled that labt year the winner of the gland In 960 the first peal of bells was hung m years. pent. a handful to inquire the name. The old man England at Croylaud Abbey. Many ѵеагь rollover, made one of them hold up a stick Wednesday—Opens with a tornado in four Sunday and on holy days at the services of Prix at Longchamps bore that number, and BASE BALL. rolis out an unpronounceable name, and then ago it was estimated that there were at least and the others jump over it like trained dogs ; acts, each act worth the price of the whole the little ât iOlic cnurcn of Long branch. that Foxhall's place on the list this year was This ife a popular sport with the more adds, by way of explanation ; “ These never 2,262 peals of bells, great and small, in Eng in short, he put them through every evolution performance. blossom like other beans, madame. Perhaps —Lord Bute’s new palace at Mount Stuart. No. i3, too. Une would hardly plead that athletic “ boys in blue,” and some of the his brain could conjure up until obliged to two exceptions in succession are required to land. It has been thought that the custom Thursday—Calm as a sleeping babe, but your honor will remember what the august Scotland, will cost $1,250,1)00. If Mrs. Bute of ringing bells was peculiar in England, but posts contain rea ly excellent clubs. Match .cease through sheer exhaustion. Then he told the beasts of the field sniff the air, paw the gets a summer suit and bonnet to match thu prove a rule. gimes between the soldiers and the citizens luler Kishlu said about these beans ?” the cathedral ol Antwerp, celebrated for its tbem to “ Git for camp lively !” and sent them ground and seem uneasy. “ What did he say ?’ we ask, ready to pick house, we shall all know just how much —A Norwich boy lest his grip on the string magnificent spire, has a peal of bells ninety clubs of the neigtibo ing towns are of fre fleeing toward the post. Friday—This will be known as the dark money there is ш tne Bute family. to his toy baloon and it went up out ol sight. queut occurrence, and at these matches the up information from this btudent of history. in number, on which is played every half-hour That night he made it all up, apparently, day. Heavens as black as tar ; moaning in “Well,” replies the old man, brightening at —An immense Indian python in the Lon After the toy had uisappeared tne little phil the most elaborate music. Wettern man’s love for gambling causes large and was inveighed into a game at draw poker the air ; fowls terrified ; grocers forget to put osopher walk-, d up to his mother with the amounts of money to change hands. the prospect of telling a “ Truj.n,” or some don Zoological Gardens is religiously devot —Tupper, the Proverbial Philosopher, and with three of the best gamblers in the post. peas in their coffee ; fish don’t bite worth a thing new, *• his Majesty said, when about to ing htrself to the maternal task of hatching remark, Mamma, 1 had got tired of thai Football, cricket, croquet, hor-e racing .foot They played all night long, and when the cent ; all marriage engagements declared off. thing, so I thought 1 had better give it to the butt of the paragraphers in both hemi racing, target shooting and even glass ball leave Yedo for Osaka : ‘ My Lords, I. shall twenty eggs. She covers them completely spheres, is said as a man to be very jovial, lank stranger took the early train for Rawlins Saturday- Sort of a grand climax, with never see Yedo again until the red bean blos with her coils, and is herself covered with a God." There are grown lolks who, having shoots are extensively indulged in, and the he carried with him over eig t hundied thunder claps loud enough to raise a debt through bad luck or carelebsness Jost their kind hearted, and a good fellow generally ; great plenty of game induces the organization soms ;’ and, your honor, he never did.” blanket. but as a poet, ludicrously conceited. He dollars which he had won. Just as the train outlawed for fifteen years. Clears off towards Of course, after such recommendation we —A religious denomination in Ohio—the money, feel resigned to Providential dealings of match hunting parties, the side bringing in started he scratched a few words on a slip of evening and beer gardens get ready for the m very much the spirit of tne Norwich boy. doesn’t care for contemporary oritics ; “ he the smallest amount of meat to forfeit their must buy some of these remarkable beans, if Dunkards —have solemnly voted that no is content to await with Milton the judgment paper and handed it to one of his victims. It arduous labors of the Sabbath. only in honor of his Majesty. —In the rage lor live jewelry a woman in captures to their antagonists. There is a read : woman of their church shall wear a hat, and oi posterity.” He once saw a famous man MISSING. Then, turning to the vegetables again, we now, if the females of that persuasion are St. Augustine treated a sensation by appear- ready market for deer, antelope,elk, mountain “ You never want to buy a watermelon till iug in public with a chameleon resting oneher on board a steamboat, and going up to him, sheep and bear meat, and- the winners often A person signing himeelf Judge Turntable, ask the housemaid, Chrysanthemum, to ask like other women, there will be music in the said : •* I perceive, sir, that I am not the you plug it and see if it is ripe, or you’re head dress, and held there by a delicate silver realize a handsome sum when the wagers and dating his latter at Racine, Wis., notified the cook to inquire of the huckster what he camp. only distinguished man on board.” He was liable to get left. Good bye. enain. The little creature was perfectly tame, are paid and the game disposed of. the club of the disappearance from the com intends to charge for the assortment of hie quite in earnest and evidently thought he was S l i m Jim .” stock we have laid aside. The old man, — People dread lightning much more than and made no attempt to escape ; but when HUNTING. munity of Lysander Johnson, an honorary they do intensely not weather, yet in the touched by other than its owner its throat paying the distinguished man a compliment. We then knew that our late visitor was member of the club in good standing. The seating himself upon the lowest step of the Wishing to go down in the cabin, he handed The cavalry soldier enjoys greater facilities United States Saturday and Sunday more puffed up and curious waves of color passed “ Slim Jim, of Nevada,” the best gambler, last seen of him was on the Fourth of July, veranda, feels around in the capacious his umbrella to a young lady—a perfect for hunting than does the infantryman. At people were fatally affected by sunstroke than oVdr the whole body, ranging from deep gretn quickest shot and most daring desperado on and he was then overboard from an excursion boBom of his robe and produces a portable stranger—remarking : “ Young lady, you the majority of the posts it is a standing rule have been killed in that country in five years to a dark brown. the lines of the Pacific roads. steamer seven miles out on the lake. The abacus, upon which he figures up our acoount. will now be able to say in after life that you to allow a cavalryman a leave of absence of After a few moments of profound meditation, by lightning. W y o m in g K i t . Judge couldn’t say whether he was drowned —The Zulus are heathen, and have not once held the umbrella of Martin Tupper.” twelve hours after each turn of guard duty, he turns to inform us impressively that the — Comet or no comet, this year starts in been taught the Christian doctrine of non- or not, but he felt justified in believing that In spite of this solemn and earnest conceit with permission to take his borse and rifle tbe club could at least put Mr. Johnson down sum total will be about—yes, just wait a right to become famous for murders, assas resistance, and so when a New ïork Christian he enjoys jokes, and both makes and takes and go wherever his fancy may lead him. THE LIM E-KILN CLUB. under the head of missing. minute, ladies — seven, eight, nine yes, just sinations, shipwrecks, tornadoes, conflagra called one of the Zulus on exhibition there them. Some of them hie away to an ad ten cents, four mills and a half. This seems tions, floods, scandals and other sensations. hard names, slapped his face and annoyed TURN DOWN THE LIGHTS. The college students still continue their joining town, if stationed on the Although the club had a full dozen invita very moderate, and we are just about to Deviltry seems to move with the speed of an him generally, the unregenerate pagan did not railway near a town, but the major “ In wendin’ your varus ways to your varus produce the required amount when our cook, ëxpress train. efforts to appear as gentlemen. Some of them tions to participate in outside parades and cele turn the other cheek also, Dut seized a Піскогу j had a supper at Stratford, Connecticut, a few ity provide themselves -with a liberal homes,” said the President, as the clock Seikichi, turns upon the huckster with a stick two inches thick, and struck the Chris brations, most of the members remained in —A drunken man in Reading, P., drove evenings since, and it had scarcely commenced stock of ammunition and seek for sport in the pointed to the hour of 10, “ let each one carry fierce air and says : “ О make yo, о maiyel” tian on the head, inflicting a severe scalp Detroit on the Fourth. Paradise Hall was his horse into the bar room of a hotel when dishes and their contents were thrown chase. When the officers oiganize a hunting wid him the feelin’ dat a meek answer (reduce the price, you), and, seeing we are v/ound. The 2ulu needs to be labored with open to callers from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. and on Tuesday night, thence through tne din from one end of the room to the other, waiters party they go in ambulances or army wagons, the register shows that over 600 visitors passed turneth away wrath, an’ dat bluster am re about to expostulate, says to us in a milder ing room and up three flights of stairs into aud converted. warded wid a black eye. We will now turn were hustled about, walls bespattered, and the well supplied with tent* and camp equipage, the portals. Among others were ex Judge tone, summoning all his English : “ He a room where he was awakened and taken to out de lights an’ humbly pursue our way—my — Senator Hoar of Massachusetts said in landlord got a pair of black eyes while seeking to the vicinity of some good hunting ground, Suffietiê, of Canada; Col. Shellbark, of bery bad man. Too much high.” The vegetable the station house. his recent address before the graduates of to stop the genteel amusement. There was where they locate their camp aud form this as Wisconsin; ex Senator Cauliflower Jones, of hat bein’ da one nearest tne doah.” man, evidently impressed by the bargain —Six hundred and fifteen out of 1,117 Bos Yale law school : “ I hope to see our profes talk of cleaning out the house, and some of a base, making forays upon the lordly elk or Ohio; Miss Ada Hooper, the “ Colored driving cook, humbiy inquires : “ How much AUTOMATIC LAMPS. ton teachers have replied to a circular asking sion everywhere return to its ancient and the lady guests packed their trunks and fled fleet footed antelope daily. They are attended Nightingale of Virginia, and the representa will your honor give ?” healthy abhorrence of contingent and every to safer quarters. Most of the supper was left by detachments of cavalry, as escorts, and “ Five cents,” replies Seikichi, relentlessly their opinion of th e advisability of forming tives of several colored military and civic That part of Central Рягк which lies be thing that savors of speculation in justice. on the walls and floors, and about twenty by their garrison cooktt and servants, who But, fortunately for the vegetable man, he has an association for aged and infirm teachers. societies. During the afternoon Miss Eôoper tween the Fifth "venue entrance and the top When you are once known to the people, not students received injuries which had to be are usually private soldjers detached for such tender feminine hearts to deal with, so slip Four hundred and twenty eight favored it, sang several songe and took up a collection of the Mall has just been lighted by an auto b ut o n ly 220 are willing to join. as masters of the law, but as traders and attended to by the surgeon. We do not know duty. for the benefit of the Chicago fire sufferers. ping the proper amount into the old, yellow braübkers yo^r own gain, the virtue just how many cour ses of Ф'дя can be found W hen ri tin ? çara seek various matic lamp which presents some novel fea hand, we re-enter the house to laugh over our At 4 o’clock sixty members of the club in tures., There are altogether some seventy of —Now tlie chowder’s in the pot, and the has gone out oi you.” in a Michigan lumber camp, but we do believe modes of amusement to wbile away the time quaint old vegetable man> v dulged in- a street parade lasting for an hour*, these new illuminators placed on eithen^side days are getting hot, and we all begin to —A memorial asking Mr. Gladstone to that decency aud good manners are better that would otherwise hang heavily upon their Eoi* веѵегя' our fibhman_Jja^y^t_ ap and then returned to the hall to indulge in of the roadway, at distances of 85 feet apart. swelter with a swelt, swelt, swelt. While the assist in passing a deceased wife’s sister bill taught in the rude shanties under the pines hands. At each post there is a saloon and peared with his usual supply of fish for" our lemonade, buttermilk, root beer, cocoanuts, They are mounted at the usual elevation crimson lemonade through a straw enchants was recently presented by 253 members ol than within the walls of a classic college billiard hall, in which the clicking of the table, so Argue call Seikichi to accompany peanuts, and other patriotic fodder. above the ground. Each lamp is independent the maid, who displays a bunch of flowers at Parliament, reprooenting, it is said, one-hall whose students will behave as did the young ivory balls can be heard day aud night, while her to the fish market in Kubo Oho, and runs WHO ARE INSANE? of the other and takes its own illuminating her belt, belt, belt.—Fuck. of the entire electoral body of Great Britain. men at Stratford. around the various card tables games of every to array herself for the walk. Soon a clatter known description are played. Gambling “ What I war’ going to remark,” began power from a fluid of gravity 76, which is —There are people moving in good society The Premier answered that the dillicuities —It is a Polish superstition that each of wooden clogs at the front entrance an among the officers is never indulged in. Brother Gardner as the hour arrived and the contained in a reservoir attached to the lamp in England who add to their income by lead connected with the Irish Land bi.i would month has a particular gem attached to it, nounces that Seikichi is ready aud awaiting ing conversation in a direction which will triangle sounded, “ am to ask who among you and holding about six quarts. The reservoir his mistiess. He evidently appreciates the probably not allow him to aid the petitioners which governs it and is supposed to influence PLAYING TRICKS UPON STRANGERS. is so arranged that part of its polished exter enable them incidentally to recommend the at once, but, said he, ** I sincerely hope that am insane ? I should like to make out a list honor of accompanying the young lady down the destiny of persons born in that month. Is regarded as raro sport by the soldiers, and as soon as possible, an’ I hope dat no lunatic ior acts as a reflector, spreading the rays of goods of certain houees, from which they re it may be in my power to do so.” It is, therefore, customary among friends and unfortunate indeed is the tenderfoot who town, and ha* got himself up in all his ceive a commission on all sales made through will feel backward1 about handin’ in his light over a considerable area of space. The bravery. His jetty hair has been securely —An English traveler says : “ In France loveis to present each other on the anniver falls into their clutches. The Indian scare is name. flame is equal to about fifteen candle power, their influence. sary of their natal day with a ring containing the favorite sport in this line, the innocent licked uown with pomade to his glistening, the knee is bent to two things—money . and “ You look surprised,” continued the old whi.e that of th-- common coal gas lamps is shaven pate ; his face shines with a recent —Warner “ got his foot in it ” in offering esprit ; in England one and only one—social their tutelary gem. Thus : Januaiy, jacinth, victim being induced to accompany a p-irty man, as he walked up and down in front of about nine. This of course gives the relative a prize of $200 a piece lor the discovery of or garnet, denotes constancy and tiuelity in out from the post a short distance ostensibly scrubbing aud his black eyes with pride. He poaition. On German soil it is otherwise, his desk, “ but I am quite satisfied dat vie proportion of power between the two lamps as has on his best silk haori, or ouier coat, and comets. He could not have suspected that and tne humblest prolessor is held in esteem, every engagement ; February, amethyst, pre to shoot antelope. When near some gulch or have at least a dozen lunatios among us. De being in the direct ratio of nine to fifteen in either comets or comet-hunters were so serves mortals from strong passions and in pile of rocks a howling troop of soldiers dis a neat blue cotton rube beneath, while he has because he represents in his own person man dat shot de President could read law an’ favor of the new one. Another advantage is put on snowy socks for the occasion, and a plenty. There are over 500 claimants in the no matter how unworthy, the mighty brother sures peace of mind; March, bloodstone, guieed as Indians dash at the hunters (?) plead it ; he could cheat, lie, swindle, bilk that the light in the automatic lamp is per case of the current big comet, and new ones denotes courage and secrecy in dangeroub firing blank cartridges and emitting the most brand new j:air of cloge. Seikichi’s pride aud hood of the learned. Germans, by the way, hotels, buy an’ sell, come an’ go, puwh his fectly steady, soft and white in color, while crowning glory is a large willow basket, • are heard from daily. can never understand why it is that in Eng enterprises ; April, sapphire or diamond, de hideous yells. Of course the soldiers in the claims fur office an’ go on long journey, an’ in the common street lamp it is flickering, notes repentance and innocence ; May, emer hunting party fall as if wounded and yell at which has traveled over the great American —A poor old English woman who was fam land a professor, a teacher, a Gelehrte, hold yet he am decla’ed to be crazy. No one eber dull and reddish. The new lamp is lighted continent of the Rising Sun Kingdom, is ihe ishing, saw some milk in a pint can on a no mark. ald, successful love ; June, agate, insures the victim to run f jr his life, and then the knowed it ’till he became an assassin If he by means of a double perforated bottom, aud long life and health ; July, ruby or carnehan, fun begins. Such wild leaps as are usually honored receptacle of sundry delicate luuches, doorstep and drank it. The Euglish law sits —A Cincinnati m an named Nealus was hadn’t tried to commit murder we would still the flam? itself is divided into nine jets. Dur and is the objeot of much solicitude. Tms down heavily upon offenders of this C ia s s , and angry because his wife went to a Fourth of July insures the forgetfulness or cure of evils displayed by the frightened “ greeny,” who be looked upon as a dead beat instead of a ing the day time the lamp is not extinguish arising from friendship or love ; August, sar darts toward the garrison with every hair ie a useful and distinguisuing appendage, the poor old dame was sent to prison for two picnic without his permission, and he decidea lunatic. Now I propose to take time by de ed, but the light is merely turned down so which raises Seikichi above ail the common months. At all events she will get some to burn her up. He budt a fire directiy donyx, insures conjugal felicity ; September, erect, forms so ludicrous a picfure to those 4 lock and make a list of de lunatics in our low that passers by cannot see it. Such is chrysolite, preserver from or cures tolly ; who are iu the joke that spasms of laughter cooks, who only carry Japanese home made thing to eat there. under the floor where Mrs. Nealus’s bed club fur de benefit of de purleece. Let each the construction of the burner and the method a f fa irB . —Arkansas is not an inviting State for stood. Had it not been for the fact tnat some October, opal, denotes misfortune or hope ; at once supplant the demoniac yells which assassin stan’ up as hi« name is called by de of protecting it that no wind can extinguish a moment betöre tortured the pure mountain So, fully equipped, Argus and Seikichi sally immigrants. Nine men have been lynched of the neighbors were unable to sleep owing November, topaz, insures fidelity and friend Seckretary.” the light. The amount of fluid consumed ship ; Decemoer, torquoise, denotes the most air. When he reaches the post the affrighted out, the la iter keepiug carefully behind to in the State in about a mouth, and no efforts to the almost torrid condition of the weather, The Secretary went through the roll in his during the day is so insignificant that it would avoid stepping on his employer’s shadow, as brilliant succebs and nappiness in every con victim yells for men to at once fly to the have been made by the authorities to seek Mrs. Nealus and her Dabies wouid have un usual sing-song way, and not a member stood not amount to half a cent per lamp in a fort the law of manners and morals teaohts “ that out and punish the murderers. Where the doubtedly been suffocated or burned to death. dition of life. rescue of his wounded comrades, and then up. night. The lamps are oval in shape, and reci es a story of terrible combat with an a student or a servant must walk behind his laws are silent in such cases, it cannot ne As it was, they had a narrow escape, aud four —An Albany doctor has expressed himself *• Wârry well,” said the President, “ let de furnished with a handsome opal colored master the whole length of a shadow.” Down expeoted that they will be well executed in houses were burned. strongly against the practice of sleeping in a overwhelming foroe of savages, in which he Seokretary make a note of dis. You have all dome, which latter also assists in softening displayed unwonted heroism and fought like the hill they go in this fashion, gradually others. —The contents of New Hall, Sutton Cold room with a coal oil lamp burning in it, the plead guilty to bein’ perfeckly sane, an’ you and distributing the light. The method of diifting out of the well bied repose of so aris —If any one wants to bet that the Turkish light being partly turned down. When turned a demon. When the bogus Indians come in, mus’ take de consequences. If ary one of you bupplying the tank is by means of a wagon field, which is reputed to be the oldest in doubled up with hysterioai laughter, the dupe tocratic a neighborhood, into the .plebeian Pashas condemned to death for the murder of down m mis manner the lamp gives out deadly walk out of a grocery wid a codfish under driven from lamp to lamp This wagon has habited house in England, have fallen under either acknowledges the sell and joins in the noiso of the market street. First our pedes Sultan Abuul-Aziz, will not be back again in the auctioneer’s hammer. It is the ancient stinking fumes, which the sleepers inhale, as your coat, or am obei hauled by de purleece a carrying capacity for about 150 gallons of trians pass whole rows of clog shops, then Constantinople in ten years and be again the ventilation is rarely sufficient to carry off hilarity or sneaks crestfallen from the post wid a bag of chickens on your back, doan’ try burning fluid. From it the fluid is pumped family т а п ь іо п of tne Chadwicks, was orig and foots it to the nearest point. anairayoftoy stores; after these the baker the politioal bosses of the Empire he will inally built in 1200, and was enlarged in I860, the disease causing elements. Hence arise the to shirk the consequences by pleadin’ insan up to the lamp reservoir. The light is turned ies, with a sprinkling of tea houses between ; find lew takers in Europe, except on the sup from which date it has born its piesent name. sick headache or the disagreeable nauseating CAUGHT A TARTAR. ity.” up or down in night or day by men who are then the stores for ladies’ hair pius and other position that the empire will be wiped out by Mr. John de Heley Chadwick is the twenty- symptoms under which persons labor when One day while sitting in front of the head ELECTION. mounted on horse back. The rapidity and ornaments. Piesently they come to the that time. sixth lineal discendant of the founder. Chas. they get up in the morning symptoms which quarters at Ft. Smith, conversing with the The following candidates were elected by a dexterity with which the operation is done vegetable stalls, and at last to the fish dealers’ —The late Edward Russell Thaxter, the I', was concealed at New Hall when a fu this doctor believes, are those of poisoning, lamented Maj. Thornburgh, then command clear vote : Elder Tobias Hopewell, Uncle deserves praise. The reporter saw it the stands. The sudden halt of Aigus before a Amorican artiet, whose deatu was announced gitive during the civil war. more or less rapid in its effect according to ant of th9 post, I observed a long, lank, Ben. Jackson, Deacon Smart, Trustee White, other evening on that portion of the drive stand upon which a splendid specimen of the last week, was born in 1857, and was there the victim’s constitution. The after effects, roughly-dressed fellow, standing up near the Judge Boliver, Col. Thackerry Phillips, Boss which is between the Fifth avenue entrance of Japanese “ tai,” or sunfish, lies in a dying —In the year ending Juno 1 twenty-eight he says, are chiefly seen in diseases of the the park and the mall. The lamp lighter fore three years younger than has been stated, deaf men were killed ou the railroad tracks poet trader’s store, surrounded by a group of Green and Ten Days Jones. condition, is the signal for a curious crowd his age having been given as 27. Though his throat and lungs. In proof of the reason soldiers. He wore upon his cadaverous fea kept his horse at a brisk gallop between each to gather round, composed of numerous and ol the United States. In the same year two ableness of his theory he adds that morning EXPELLED. lamp post. The quadruped seemed to under life was brief, it was ioug if judged by what were shot for burglars while prowling around tures au idiotic grin, and looked for all the inquisitive natives, who press round the un he accomplished in the six years he devoted со after morning, on visiting his patients, he has world like a recent graduate from an inland The following members have been expelled stand his business, for upon approaching a fortunate Argus and make her the subject of hous--s. aud fourteen were run over by vehi from the club for the reasons given : the pursuit he loved. found a sooty secration gathered on their Missouri farm. Suggesting to the Major post he would stop suddenly, as though he a variety of remarks. cles in the public streets. It is asserted on lips, which he has traced to the lamp, which Maj. Gybo Hastings, of Winchester, Va.,in had been brought on his haunches by the —Thirty years ago one hardly dared sleep eminent medical authority that while sadness that there might be some fun in store for us, “ She’s young,” says one, in a stage whis had been burning all night. When turned we walked up to the crowd, and reached it jail for eloping with a mule. sudden check of a Spanish bit ; the man per. “ Good looking, too,” responds his in a house not protected by a lightning-iod. usually accompanies blindness, obstinacy goes down the flame is not strong enough to con Elder John Fairface,of Mobile, fled to Texas gave a rapid turn to a small lever handle Twenty years ago lightning-rods were be with deafness. When a deaf man plods along just as one of the troopers asked : companion. “ Queer kind of clothing those sume the gas arising from the oil while in a ‘ Do you like to hunt, pardo?” to escape arrest for pocketing church collec and his work was done. So rapid was lieved to be perfect protectors “ if well on the railroad track, head down and eyes on foreigners wear,” гетагкв a female tormen partial state of ignition. If the lamp must 1 Hunt, wal I reckon I deu- Back to hum tions. the operation that it took a coupe (in tor. “ Most ungraceful costume,” says an pointed.” Ten years ago people began to dis the rails, he does more than most men with remain in the sick room, he would insist on Andrew Jackson Smith, of Milwaukee ; which the reporter was) at a smart trot to cover how the world had been humougged, two good-ears would attempt. I uster be the best hunter in the neighbor other. its being turned on to its full height. Even hood, an’ could knock the delights outen a raising a check for fifteen cents to $1,600 and keep up with the lamplighter. In cleaning The children cease the play, and with and to day not one man in thirteen has any Olive Logan says she is living in clover then he would have the windows open as far sent to State Prison for ten years. the lamps the globes are taken on a fast wag faith in the rods or will put one on his house. squirrel nearly every pop in the tops o’ the chubby fingers in their mouths stare at the in London, In the first place, she knows as possible, so as to secure full and free ven highest hickary trees. Oh I I’m no small THE ANNUAL ELECTION. on to the posts and clean ones put up on strangers, and then run away, convulsed —The workmen in digging for the found nothing—about vice. That is to say, about tilation. pertaters when it comes to huntin 1” The Committee on Judiciary reported that the 6pot, while the dirty are carried away to with laughter, to oall their mothers and ation of the new depot in Meriden, Conn., vice in London. “ For me, in this my newly —Mr. Fawcet, Postmaster-General of Great Here was such a victim as the fun-loving the annual election of* honorary and active be cleaned at the depot. The cost of illu aunts. have uncovered a section of the original rail recovered London, ail is beauty. The flowers Britain, is a most extraordinary ma a. He soldiery seldom caught, and every heart beat officers would be held as usual on the first minating a given area is little more than one- It is not until Argus has seen the coveted road track which was laid in Meriden some shed perfume on an atmosphere inhaled by was made totally blind when a young man by high in anticipation of rare sport. The details Saturday in August, but that the usual picnic third that of coal gas, while the superiority “ tai ” fish wrapped up in crisp, dry paint forty years ago. It consists of a thin strip of only men that are noble, women who are the bursting of a gun. But iu spite of that, were soon arranged, and a party organized to and out door sports would be dispensed with of the automatic lamp is in the ratio already leaves and placed safely on the bottom of the iron spiked on heavy timbers laid on ties pure. There may be creatures who are not he is one of the best informed men of the go upon the chase. A short time before the this year as a mark of courtesy towards Sen named. The new light has been used for cherished basket that she begins to feel the much farther apart than those now in use, so, but they are beings undreamed of in my day ; a profound mathematician, and widely hunters took their departure the “ Indians” ators Conkling and Platt. All honorary mem more than twelve months at Prospect Park, heat of the noonday sun and the need of a and is a curious relic of early railroad build philosophy.” Variety is the spice of iife, and read in literature and history. He can handle could be seen sneaking away in the rear bers who can be present will be lodged and Brooklyn, and the town of Bedford was il friendly street car to convey her home. But ing. Olive likes a change as well as the rest oi us. a rod and fly with wonderful success. In the of the quartermaster's store house, and has boarded free of expense, and it is hoped to luminated by it last year. The lowest report a remedy is at hand, for Seikichi steps out —Henri Rochefort was the victim of a —Those people who have for years past j House of Commons he is greatly respected by tening toward a rocky gulch half a mile dis secure half fare rates on all the principal rail ed bid offered for lighting the Twenty-third into the road and calls, “ jin riki sha !” which curious mistake the other day. He was driv annually expressed sorrow for bald-headed all parties. An attendant guides him to the tant. Determined to see the sport I joined road lines. The session of the olub will labt and Twenty-fourth wards of the city was $29 is the name of the very useful little hand- ing with a friend when his acquaintance men in fly time have simply wasted their door, and there ready hands are always to be the party of which our rural friend formed a two days and two nights and it is already a year per lamp, and it is claimed that the drawn vehicle so indispensable to Japanese bowed to a gentleman whom they met. breath. Surgeons declare that flies avoid found to direct the sightless Minister to his member, and we set forth telling him the known that members will be present from new light, which is brighter than the old, street travel. Rochefort, mechanically, or out of politeness, bald heads on account of the odor of the place. When he is addressed he turns his head, most improbable stories of the quantity of every State in the Union. can be furnished for $20. The nightly cost Immediately a half dozen ooolies, who had as though he could see the person to whom his for burning fluid is, including the labor for bowed to, and the gentleman thus saluted scalp, and that one shock headed man will game to be found, and posting him as to the VOTE OF CONFIDENCE. been enjoying a quiet gossip over their pipes who had ncticed the first greeting, res suffer more from fly bites in one month than reply is directed. The most remarkable fea use of his gun, which, by the way, contained lighting, two and three-quarter cents. It is The Committee on Internal Resources re and cups of tea, start up, seize the shafts of ponded by lifting his hat. It was Marshal ten bald heads will all summer. Keep your ture about his speech is his wonderful com a blank cartridge. claimed by some that leakage from the gas their several carriages, and rush to surround ported that it was in receipt of intelligence MacMahon. sympathies for the heathen of Africa, who mand of facts and figures which, thanks to When we reached a point about fifty yards pipes destroys vegetation in the park, and from various parts of the country to the Argus and her faithful attendant, each in are beset by flit s, fleas, snakes, lizards and his acute memory, he masters with marvelous listant from the gulch the Indians rose and that the use of the automatic lamp will obvi effect that the supply of melons and green sisting that his own vehicle is the best and —■An invention for the instantaneous ex scorpions the year round. rapidity and retentiveness. He is greatly poured in upon us a terrific volley—of smoke ate this. The fluid itself is a compound of the cheapest. tinction of fire has just been successfully corn promised to equal the ordinary de aided by his wife, whose attainments are al —and then charged us yelling like demons. petroleum and naphtha, and may be looked When Seikichi has seen his mistress safely tried in Paris. One of the most remarkable —A correspondent of the London News mand, and on motion of Pickles Smith the most equal to his own. Since he was made Every one of us but the stranger fell at the upon as being non explosive. The use of in a fine looking carriage, contenting himself experiments of the trial in the Champ de says that Niko, one of the Greek biigands following resolution was unanimously adop PostmaBter-General he has introduced many first fire, and in piteous to n e B we begged him the new lamp commenced in Central Park on with a more shabby conveyance, he gives Mars, was the putting out in less than £ who captured Mr. Suter, home time ago cap ted ; reforms, improved the postage stamps, in t o run for his life and send us help. Instead the 14th.— N. F. Herald. tured two >oung girls, about seventeen years “ Resolved, Dat dis olub has full confidence the word, and soon Argus, Siekichi, fish minute, of an incandescent lake of tar con troduced a new system of money orders or of doing so, however, he stared at the attacK and jin riki shas all vanish in a cloud of taining 7,000 pounds of that substance, aftei of age, of diffeient parents, and demanded a checks for small sums, and a plan by which in de agryculchural resources of diskentry,but —O, the pleasant Boston dip, sum of money as ransom for them. One of ing partv in a dazed manner,giving utterance dust in the direction of “ home sweet home.” the flames had reached the height of the third the postoffice receives stamps as deposits in to but the words : at the same time we wouid advise all mem D r e a m y d i p ! the fathers could not pay in the given time, bers of dis club to plug dar watermelyons As through melodious measure merry men and ■tory. savings banks, in order to carry out his “ Wal, I swan to gosh 1” the other did and got his daughter back bbfo’ passin’ ober dar’ money.” maidens skip: —Galt ought to be a happy town. It hai favorite idea in offering the poor every pos The firing party dashed right up to him. W ith their graceful genuflections, —That eighty year old rum which did the Го the one who could not pay the body of the only one church bell, and that is not a mon President so much good has been cast in the eible facility for practicing thrift. blazing away vigorously, but greeny never A COMING SHADOW. How they come and go in sections ! ster. daughter was sent by Niko, cut up in nine- How calm ly in p.atoons they salaam to the tunes, flinched. When they got almost close enough ühade. Sunday there was received at thf pieces. The atrocities committed by thi* The Secretary announced a communication More quiet than the Irish rigdaoons! —“ I ’ve sp’iled my thum m er hat,” was the to poke him with their guns he said : from Mrs. Amanda Hopeshot, of Cairo, III., Now they sway and slide and slip— White House a package containing four bot nand, he adds, are without parallel even in the —A Dundas man в 'on i of green food. A first remark of a three-year-old London girl, ties of Jamaica rum, nearly, if not quite, 10( gentleman recently presented him with “ W’at in the name o’ common sense ail.- containing intelligence of the death of her Joneses, M ulligans De Veres, on being pulled out of a cistern into which horrible pages of bnganuage. And the glory of escutcheon and of station disap years old. They were a part of several whicl pineapple, which he igleetully took home. ye ? Air ye crazy, or hev ye eat somethin’ husband by his own hand, caused by his fail p e a r s , ehe had fallen through rotten planking. were preeented a short time since to a Ne* —The following really occurred at the Che next day the gentleman asked him how that kinder disorganizes yer innards an’ ure to secure admission to the club, and her As they skip, skip, skip, skip, skip, —There was a young woman of Augusta, York friend of the President by an EngiisL Bagehot bazar recently in England : A young he liked it. “ Well,” said he, “ we boiled it cramps ’em up ? Ye act like a drunk lunatic determination to begin suit for $5,600 dam 'Neath the terror and the trem or of ihe shaking W ho thought she would go on a bust, ah chandeliers, baid she, “ It's m y dream nobleman. gentleman ihought he fancied a certain article for two hours with a chunk of corned beef, asylum turned loose 1” ages unless a check for 1300 was forwarded by As they trip, tr p. trip, trip, trip, trip, trip, To be tilled w ith ice-cream ” ; —A shrewd chap in London has been exposed for sale at one of the bazars, and he but I can’t say it was as good as cabbage.” With renewed yells the party made a dash return mail. To the m usic of the Boston-osten dip 1 But, alas 1 no saloonist would trust her.