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\ CO38IP BY CABLE. An IntJrrtinjt Hudg^t From the M..1 Jii-i l.-in.l. Mr. Bright n completely convalescent. Pricca Bismarck DOW drinks a good deal of Mciiwlle wheu be Mj.ei.ks. A (tmiflt descendant of Mirabeau has oome down to * Uoverniueut tubacoo store. The Hebrew manuscripts discovered last week contain a poem on the fall of Jern- MUfiL, signed, " Jacob, too of Isaac" Mr. Gladstone, linoe Tuexdtty, has been Lord Koaebery'i guest at the I'-r j*u*. Mid it nt*dily improving in Leallb and spirits. The Gatfttf Italia oontrad'.-tH the report that Mme. Ptooclomioi IH reduocd to poverty. Bae H married to the Marquis of FargUP wbo is tbe owner of Inr^e estate*. Mrs. Kgan says Daly, the arrested dynamiter, took the name of Denmaa " beeaune be intended to make, bis .itl.ui an a IUUHIC hall singer under that name. lie intended to return to America at (be end of April. The Conservative! in the Hours of Com- mon* bave decided to oppose tbeeileniuoQ of the franchise in Ireland. \VLn tbe lloote goe into ocinmittee on the Fran- obiw Bill, Mr. lleury Chaplin, Conserva- tive mtmber for Mid Lincolnshire, will make a motion to tbat efieot. Tbe marriage of the Princess Victoria of Heine and Pru.ce Louis of Batteuberg in fixed for April, tbe HOtb. Tbe yueen will attend, but Hbe baa KIM u orders tbat tbere hall be an entire absence of festivity. The couple will oometo England to reside. They will occupy Seouiootte House, near Cbi- ohester. Tbe Queen gives tbe Princess a large private dowry. It it certain tbat tbe last eitimate wbioh General Gordon sent of tbe time he can bold oat IB only two months more. Bat in view of the opinion of Sir Evelyn Baring, General Stevenson and General Graham, strengthened as it is by tbe report cf Capt. Molyneux, of tbe formidable nature of tbe rialu witb which a summer campaign would be attended for tbe English, tbe idea of a summer expedition bat been abandoned . Tbe letters of George Kliot. which are now being prepared lor publication by ber buaband, Mr. Croas, abound ID reference tc tbe American civil war and tbe Franco Gtruan struggle. The writer shows much interact in tbe French Republic, but the WH entirely with Qermauy in the war of 1-Co. Mr. Cross is making nuch slow program in bis work of editing tbat tbe bock Is not likely to be rtady before the beginning ol next year. Tbe private acceptance of Mr. PameD'a rcheme to mine a fund from wbiob to pay a mtlary to tbe Nationalist members of 1'ar liament i making rapid headway. The mooes* of tbe project is becoming assured. Tbe Catholic pnssts are giving active assistance to Mr. Parnell'i Land Purobi and Settlement Company. All tbe priests in abs diocese of Gal way bave purchased ten share eacb, and every curate live bartH. Tbe same thing bat been done in most of the Iriab dioceses. Mrs. Hope, widow of Henry Hope, brother of Mr. Beresford Hope, Ml' owner of tbe Saturday Ilmeu . and son of tbe author of the great, bat forgotten, romance of "Anas- tasius," has left immense weaitb during lit s to ber daughter, the Doeheaa c f Newcastle. Tbe duchess was separated for many years from ber husband, wbo died before 50, a broken down sport. She then married Tom Healer, wbo after a brief and not very successful career of an operatic teuor, settled down into aristocratic relationship. Tbe duchess was represented at tbe funeral of ber not very fortunate first li.isband by a wreath. A London cable despatch says the indi catious that the Government intends to undertake an autumn campaign toward Khartoum are multiplying. ['reparations for sucb an event are being actively made. Tbe survey of tbe Nils as far an tbe second cataract, wbiob Capt. Molyneux undertook some weeks ago at tbe command of tbe Admiralty, to determine tbe feasibility of the use of gunboats, baa been completed. and Capt Molynenx returned to Cairo last Monday. lie baa DOW been ordered to report on tbe upper reaches of the river as far as Shendy. He is ali<o to re port on a scheme for getting the Kogliah regiments across tbe Korosko desert. Several of tbe Iriih boroughs are taking advantage of the Easter reoefs to give a welcome to their representatives in Parlia- ment. Limerick presorts tbe freedom of the city to Messrs. Michael Davitt, E. Dwyer Gray, owner of the Dublin t'rtentn't Journal and member of 1'arlistneut for County Carlow. and Charles Dawson mem- ber for Carlow Borough. On Tuesday Drogbeda will make Mr. Parnell a burgees and feast bun at a Corporation banquet. AtWexford, on Wednesday, a demonstra- tion will be made in honor of Mr. T. M. Healy. member for Monaghan, and of the Uedmond brothers), one of whom, John, is member for New Roes, and tbe other, William, for Wexford Borough. I Mk -MM ! u ... ..I.I -or. I. . I. 4. 0. d.o - He Is Ir.Ui.d I* I..... r.b-' ..M..II. A last (Wednesday) night's London cable- gram aajs: A despatch received at Cairo trom Gordon, dated March *<0tb, says that on March iJth Gordon disarmed - 'U Baabi- Bszouks wbo had mutinied. Tbe following day be shelled a rebel camp on tbe Bine Nile, killing forty o( the enemy. Marob -'Tib tbe rebels fired upon Klmrtouiu from a village opposite. Tbey were soon forced to evacuate tbe village, lowing lift) nine mrii. Banbi Bszouks occupied it and held it until tbe 30ch. On that day tbe rebels returned in toree and drove them out, but then retired The Whits Nile district ia quiet. Gordon estimates the rebels about Khartoum to number two thousand. Tbe British Government has eut pom tire orders to Gordon to withdraw from Khartoum witb tbe garriaou a* soon as possible. Tbe latest advices from Gensral Gordon, iintr.1 April 4ib. say in an engagement on March 30ih tbe rebels lost forty men killed and eight wouuded. together with sixteen bone*. Tbe Governor of Kaasala ia at-king daily for asHwtanoe. Ii reports that many Ba>bi-Baxouks bave joined the rebels, and tbe garrison is in a paaicky state. In an engagement at Khartoum on March i4th tbe rebel camp was shelled and ll'i rebels killed or wounded. A crowd of Arabs picked up a shell and ti led to din- cover its mechanism, when it exploded. killing sixteen and maiming many otbeia. ATA* AWVl'1. Vw>vr. MS Ike -< faswl - , . N i Hrr Ike II .-..,,,. ..i ikr Arfrrrilirr. lo front of an establishment on Grand street is a small glass show cue in wbiob roosta two pretty little yellow bantam chickens. A large number of dyed eggs are in a basket in one corner, and near them in a nest in which the ben lays an egg daily. As tbe hundreds of people who throng tbe atreet past by they are some- times attracted by bearing tbe rooster crow. On a card In the case is .he sign : "Easter eggt given away to all children witb parents buying shoes here." A', i. Journal. II, .. I III, >0, Ih,., .1 The Government surveying parties are preparing for work in the Northwest. Half a dozen surveyors from Toronto and one from Oakville will start lor Battlelord to- day. Tbe appropriation for this work is 9300,000, only baft of the Bum appropriated last year. During last season 27,000.000 acres were surveyed and sub divided into 1>a acre lots. A Philadelphia despatch says: Capt. James VViltbank. wbo has been for more than a year engaged in dredging operations on tbe Panama ship canal, has just re turned home after a tough tuwel with the dreaded swamp fever. He says tbere is plenty of money tbere. Tbere is only one thing more common tban oasb, and tbat is death. Men die like tbe leaves in autumn Only tbe Italians appear to live. Tbe dead are disposed of without ceremony. A shallow grave, no prayers, and all is in a moment forgotfen Tbere are now 15,000 men at work on tbe canal, mostly negroes from Jamaica and tbe French West Indie*. These negroes are brought over in droves as fast as those at work die, and Captain Wiltbank ventures to Hay tbat not two thirds of tbe 15,000 laborers now at work will be alive a year from now. Five tbou sand died during the past three months ; but tbe large pay tempts men to brave all danger. Tbe company appears to bave an unlimited Bupply of money and pays off every two weeks. illl MTKIN.VIA^* WIHAMTKM. I itpnilu MrbMBSUItrB Allrlkuli. ISM Itrtrk I* ih. \l.. i. .1,1.1 I int. i.i A Halifax despatch says: Tbe inquiry into melons of tbe steamer Danel Stem- maun was resumed tbere yesterday by Captain Scott, of the Marine and Fisheries Department. Captain Soboonhaven. cf tbe lost venHfl, ippeared voluutaiily witU Mr. Ilunue, Belgian Consul. He gave a full account of tbe d mauler as far as he was able, and attributed tbe loss of tbe sbip to the strong current to tbe westward which prevails 111 the neighborhood of Sanibro Ii-land, which bad put him a few miss out in bis reckoning. > . . t ni 1 1. <l on KII. h, I... . The Prince of Wales, as Duke of Corn- wall. baa just been granted letters of administration of tbe personal estate of a gentleman wbo lately died in the county of Cornwall, and is pu.ily described in tbe record a* a " bachelor, bastard and intes tale," sa>s the St.Jamet <ja:.n-'. Legal phraseokgy is not always so curt and unadorned ; but then English law baa never mulled on bachelors. Tbe Legislature bas even sought to make celibacy quani penal, a tax having actually been laid upon the members of this hapless class in the reigns of William III. and Anne. Bachelor dukes (being 25 years of age) had to pay 12 10s. per annum, common panoos" 1 shilling in proportion. Again, in 17H5, bachelors were compelled to pay a heavier tax on their servants than married folk. These thing?, it is true, were done before Malthas wrote. English charity, of course, baa been catholic enough to include bachelors in tbe sphere of its benevclenoe. At Bowes, in Yorkshire, for instance, tbere is (or was quite recently) a fond for the payment of a small yearly sum of money to two or one of tbs oldest bachelors in tbe township." Tbe fund, originally tbe bequest of some person whose name bas long since been forgotten, was gradually reduced by mismanagement from HO to ti.'i; wbicb. at 3 per cent., would give '.) shillings a year. So tbat even at Bowse a man has no exoessive tempts tion to shirk wbst Bacon calls the " dii oipline of humanity.'* Hud lt,,.,t. - for llo. . The School Journal suggests as a topic for consideration at coming teachers' convec- tion*. " What means should be taken to suppress tbe publioation of pernicious literature among our youth ?" Tbe ./imrool cites numerous proofs of tbe terrible effects of snob stories as ' Buffalo Bill," " Jsste JamcH," and ths like, upon tbe minds of children, aid mentions that in .Montreal a boy committed a forgery, in Toronto a lad snot bis companion on tbe street, and in such cane* the cause was too much dime novel-reading. I I . I. I. . ! I h , I ,,, M :,.! Many interesting incidents of Tuesday ' tornado in Georgia continue to come in. In Stewart County tbe three-storey frame mansion of Mrs. Oraoe Miller was lifted in tbe air, the sills upon which it rested were blown away, and the bouse was dropped almost exactly into its old position, where it now stands with its foundation sills gone. At Judge Wimberly's tbe tornado struck a pine forest and for rive miles in a straight line left a clearing 30 feet wide. h.i-it.Hi Tae elveis> Arwn t,rm*tr SB a N*w J, , .. Jail. A despatch tram New Brunswick, N. J., say* : Major General Moore, of the Salva- tion Army, was brougbt bere on tbe Dab inst. and lodged ki ;il by Ohief Fourratt, >n tbe eharite ' defrauding people of money [uruiahed kirn to builo barracks. Be will Be ueM to await tbs action of the Grand Jury, DOW m sevaicn. Moore then said, Toe Loid will j ruuol me. hot furtber refused to say an) t hiug. H* ton* Salva- tion songs and reads bis 1'ible to the prisoners. His trresl has caused great excitement m this city. UA1 IH IA11' IX BMKlr UN. Praise tbe Lord! Tbank tbe Lord! lie ) good and it, He will paoisb the wicked Jersey men who took from as Major General Moore, lie will soon be free and with us agaiu. Halleluiah ! " Tbos spoke Captain Ligbl, lu command ot tbe bead- luarten' stkff of tbe Salvation Army, in Brooklyn, to a I'tltijrom reporter to-day in reference to tbe arrest of Major-Geueral Moore. Tbe cap- tain continued : " Tbs arrest is au outragx, and was brought about by cos or two men wbo seek only to du barm. They are mem- bers of tbe army, but bad one*. It's all a he. Tbe major-general never took a cent of money tbat did not belong to him. He is a soan of private fortune and bas been a business man. He ssorineed family and worloly tbicga to fight for God. H* can make money quicker tban any man in tbe army on this tide of tbe water, lie waul* to save tbe world froji damnation. W bave employed counsel and will make it warm for all parties concerned." Considerable preparation is being made tor the grand festival, which is to be held on May tilb. in the Temple, on Waverley avenue. It is hoped that General Booth, tbe commander m chief, will arrive in this country in time to be present. Capt. Light s id to a reporter : We shall take posses sion of our n*w quarters just as soou after the 1st of May as possible. At she festival tbere will be preneut over 2,000 delegates from all parts of the V cited States and Canada. Tbe figures showing tbe progress of tbe army ou ibis aide of the Atlantic, on a rough estimate, are about as follows : Corps, 52 , outposts, 17 i number of station*. % ; neld officers, 13K , attaoheB to headquarters, 102 : total number of officer*. 23H. Tbe army is nrmly entrenched in 13 countries', and bas a good standing for its papsr, which is publisned in various lan- guages in different parts of tbe globe. Uut of l:, c flioers ID tb - country, only 13 are from abroad. Tbe attaches ot tbe bead- ,|uarters' staff will charter a steamer about the end of tbin month to go from this city to Troy, at which place they will take on be ard delegate!) from Canada. Tbe steamer will stop at tbe various towns on tbs way Lack from Troy and take on board recruits. (Jo arriving in New York a grand proces- sion will be formed at tbe wharf, aud tbe Army will march through the streets, Morons the bridge, aud ou arriving on tbe Brooklyn side will proceed directly to tbe Lyceum, in Washington street, where ser- vices will be held. Un the 1 Uh of May the Arn>v will crcupy its new quarters in tbe Temple, on Waverley avenue. Nothing impairs authority more tban a Haprie I.illie," Blood Washed Cart 1 too frequent or indiscreet use of it. If Maggie/ " John tbe Parson " Mother thunder itself was to be continued, it would ~ excite no more terror than Bill. tbe noise of s 1MB IMM AMO*T *. . !>! ! Ifcc I IB* He rflr.. A last (Friday) night's Pocmhonlas (Va) despatch says : The work of recovering tbe bodies of tbe dead miners bas been progressing all day. The solranes to tbe mines bas been so crowded with sorrowful men, women and children all day tbat tbe workmen were at times much inconveni- enced. Finally ropes were stretched around the mines, and tbe grief-striokeu monrnerB compelled to keep outside the boundary. At 'J o'clock this morning nine bodies had been brought out ot tbe mine and all laid in a row on tbe ground, while tbe crowd was allowed to walk by m HI ogle tile. The work was anxiously watched, and on more tbn one oooaaioo two or three women would be kneeling be* ids a sbat tered corpse, searching eagerly for aoms mark to identify a b unhand , son or brother. Each body bas ben so mutilated and burned thai it is scarcely possible to dintin gnifb colored men from white. Tbe epeo tscle of the laborers reverently endeavor ing to find the body to wbicb some stray arm, leg or bead belonged was* one ol tbe many sad incidents ol the day. Most of the bodies were stripped nearly nude by tbe explosion. No one bul what was terribly mangled. Several of tbem were disembowelled, and others were found locked in each other's arms, orgranr. ing diooer kettles or tods. From tbete facts it m deemed certain tbat they were instantly killed by tbe explosion, and were not compelled to endure sgony of Buffer ings, of the first nine taken out seven were men and two boys . not one set Id be positively identified, although each was surrounded for several hours by wseping and wailing women, who feared that tbe sickening horror before tbem was all tbat remained ol a near relative. About noon the bodies ol two colored men and a boy were brought ap, and tbe excitement wbioh bad commenced to subside, again renewed. Tbe colored men were identified as George and J. Maxwell; tbe boy was Boone Mazey. Tbs work ol recovering tue bodies is necessarily slow, owing to tbe terrible stench in the mine, wbioh prevents tbe rescuing party from remaining long in the mine. A 101 It I M K-U. .IM.IIH Hit. I 4 ..I, III.. |lio|.. I ! ,,,!.. Hi. I-I-I..I A San Francisco despatch says In the Aharon divorce cane yesterday. Mrs. Sliawau. a witness for tbe defence, was accused by plaiunlt s lawyer witb being a disreputable peratn. Hbe pat bar band in ber pcoket as though to draw a revolver, but was checked by defendant's lawyer. The witness' >on also attempted to ap- proach f, laintiff a lawyer, but was stopped by tbe la tier's son. who threatened to shoot him if be attempMl to draw a pistol. Tbe court ordered tbe vitness and ber son to be removed from tbi room, and declared a reoe>. In tbe afbrnoon tbe court refused to bear furtber mtimony in the case un- less as* ured no on> in tbe court-room were armed, and it wond require tbe certificate of tbe policeman at tbe door to tbat (fleet. Penny, ' Singing Ida," and " Emma Ever Thine," answer to roll call In tbe Newburg / N. Y barracks of tbe Salvation Army MM Maurice Conroyded on Marob I'.'tb at bis residence in Market street, Sligo. Tbe Kilkenny J trnal on March I'.ith en- tered upon its one hundred and eighteenth year. Dr. Lyons, M. I' Mr. M. Brooks. M. P., and Captain B. Let Guinness have been appointed deputy li utenants of tbe county of Dublin. Kev. Dr. Blaikie, >f Edinburgh, says tbat the oon. ing Council at Belfast will be as numerously attendee 1 and as influential as e tuer ot its predecessors Baron Dowse took suddenly ill on March 2()th in the Record Court, county Antrim, owing to severe bleeding from the noes. Ue is recovering. A number of families have been Hooded out of their homes between Atblone and Seven Churches, about six miles, and tbe greatest destitution prevails. . . in i. !,, i 4 la i .,ii, inn The spring is fully thre weeks earlier than usual this year and tbs hyacinths in Hyde Park, which Hhars witb ths tulips tbe beds between Stanhope and Orosvenor Gates, are already at their best. In a fort- night or so tbe tulips will be oat also. North ot Grosvenor Gate will be found the pan- siss ; they are being planted this week and their bloom will follow that of tbe tulips. Happy the Londoner whose morning walk during the next month takes him daily from the Marble Arch to Hyde Park corner. He could not have a gayer, a sweeter, or, we may add, a more expensive parterre if be were tbe owner of Cliveden or Belvoir. Pall Mall I- mill I nllli.i.ll Matins*. " \ ulgarity, pure and simple, is pretend ing to be what you are not." " Theft is not lens tbett because it countenanced by political usage." " Tbe great need of tbe day ia men who are not for sale." ,' So long as tbe rich remain indifferent to theoutoant poor tbe gulf between them will widen and deepen." A IBAMCB f K I * t M H-. M, BWl yn y ! Sorrow ia tbe porobway to joy, the path way to maturity and peace. No one bas ever become good and great wbo has not met and mastered sorrow. HIYTV fKAMH IN CHAIN*. A S/HHtllr -. . . . I M. . .ill, .1 b. l>. ,.,h I h. I >. lh.1 Katotrd Hrlorrn Hralfcrr. A Huntingdon, Pa., telegram says : A confinement of sixty years, which was the rtsolt of insanity a secret long kept from tbe public terminated here yesterday in the death of Daniel Hawn, in Juniata town- ship, six miles from this city. He had been confined since 1*23 by bis brothers, aud was 84 years old. Tbe maniac was one ol five brothers wbo, wben young men. worked together on tbtir father's farm. His malady is said to bave been caused by drinking from a cool stream while over- heated in harvest time, lie was imme- diately confined by bis brothers, and was ever afterward totally excluded from tbe world. But once ia tbe subsequent sixty yean did be regain bis freedom, and that was about fifty years ago, wbsn be sue oeeded in escaping from tbe bouse. He was soon captured snd returned to bis im prison ment. The room in which be was kept was of small dimensions, with but one window, and to prevent him from reaching tbe latter be was chained in an opposite corner. A stove was placed in a *mall opening in the partition, with the front facing into a ball, so that fires could be made without entering tbe room. His brothers remained unmarried and lived to- gether, accumulating money and property, which they held in common. Two of tbem survive, and are the owners of '.'00 acres in the township. i.i, - 1ST H. l.i. III., i,.. Dr. Alex. Ds Borra, of Crystal Springs, N.Y., writs' that, after years of practical test of tbe milk diet for Bright's disease, be has a long list of oases in which he bas made perfect cure*. Great care is taken to get absolutely pure skimmed milk from healthy aud well fed cows, and no other food of any kind is given after tbe patient can bear five pints of milk a day. Up to tlm point, and onlil tbe stomach is able to take care of ao mocb, is found to be the most trying period in this treatment, but no other medicine is given, and band and hair-glove robbing is daily administered. Another correspondent takes exception to tbe claim made, that no drug ot any thera- peutic value in tbat disease bas yet been discovered. In support of bis assertion be sends us a recipe wbioh be claims bas effected a care in Bright's disease, as well as in dropsy, in every case in which it baa been tried during tbe last fifteen years. He recommends the drinking of an infusion of dry pods of tbs common white soup bean or corn baas. Wben tbe latter cannot be readily obtained the pods of tbe " snap short " bean will answer, and even tbe Lima bean, though tbe latter is of inferior strength. The recipe is as follows : " Take a double handful of tbe pods to three quarts of water ; boil slowly for three boors until it U reduced to three pints, t'se no drink ol any kind but this, the patient drinking as much as he conveniently can ; it may be taken either hot or cold." I b. WrM CtoBB WkMM Ts A New York dealer in grain ran bis Dozers through the wbeat in a shallow straw board box on bis desk yesterday as is said to a reportsr : II you newspaper reporter, would ap- ply vour inventive faculties to a problem which I will place before yon, I doubt not some one of yon would add weaitb to bis preneat glery." The moving fingers were constantly tending toward one corner of tbe box. In a short time tbe brown grains of wbeat in thai corner were tbickly mixed witb a very black grain of about toe nams nze. tnougk a UMls shorter. That's cockle. Tbe problem ia to get it out of tbe wheat." How did it get there ?" taid tbe young man. It's the seed of a weed, a very pretty on*, toe. wbsn in blooiu that grew in tbe wbeat utld. It was gathered with tbe wheat " Why do yon wast te get it out Because it bas a bad taste and darkens tbe floor." Has tbe thing been tried?" ' Frequently. Tbe earliest effort of tbe mill wrigbl's apprentice is to make a cockle wparator. When be is old and on his death bed bis latest fantasy is a something which does not take shape, except that a large spout streams pure golden grain, and a small one pears out only black cockle and dirt." What bas his craft dene to take tbe burden from bis mind and to relieve tbe poeket of the miller Tbe moei common method of separa- tion is an inclined vibrating screen. This is a sheet ol thin metal with boles ponobed tbrougb it. Tbe boles are large enough tc allow the smaller grains of ooskle to drop tbrougb but too small to permit tbe wbeat ir tbe large cookie to pass. The large grains of cockle are as large as ordinary ;rams of wbeat. So the screen is a partial uooess only." What eise has been done '.'" " The wheat bas been dropped through a spout, throogto which a graduated blant of air rise*, bat the specific gravity of cockle a so near tbat of wheat tbat this was a total failure. One ingenious fellow noticed tbat when pressure was applied to a grain of cockle it was crushed to a powder, while the same pressure applied to a grain of wbeat only flattened it. This was a prom- sing discovery, fer, by running tbe grain through rollers and then over a screen witb a gentle current of air to help tbe dost down through, tbe prospects ot a good paration were excellent. Tbe details of construction and tbe fact that considerable lour was lost when tbe wbeat was flat- tened laid out this invention." Tbe reporter had been handling tbe grains of cockle while the dealer spoke, and noticed that they were nearly all of irregular outline. You an not the tint one wbo bas noticed tbat," said tbe grain dealer. " A Western man has constructed a horizontal revolving cylinder of sheet metal, through which tbs grain is passed. Perforation!) in this o) Under supposed to be adapted to tboee irregularities let ths cockle oat. It is a pretty fsir machine, and many are in use, but it does not completely fill tbe bill." What U tbe best thing in this line ' " It is an inclined screen, say three feet long by two wide. A belt revolves around rollers at each end of tbe screen so tbat the under side ol tbe belt sweeps along as far above tbe screen as a grain of wheat IB tbiek. Thai keep* the grain of wheat from tiff ing upon end when it reaches a bole in the screen, and thus it passes over a bole the diameter of wbioh is less than Ine length of a grain of wheat. Tbe occkle is not so long, and therefore it drops thro ugh." Why is not that a practical machine ?" The belt is so wide that it will not run even ou tbe rollers. It drags near tbe middle of tbe xsreen. Then tbere is a diffi- culty in tbe bolea in tbe screen. Tbey are too large for one grist ol wheat and too smell for tks next. Bat wben yoa consider that as high as 'JO per cent, of some griata U composed of cockle you will see thsre IB a need of a separator." ?! I'onr . ...i.l I h, ii III. ,1 Horace Bhaw forced open the door of his sitting-room at Attleboro, Mass., Monday evening and found his wife lying dead on tbe floor in a pool of blood. Her bead was pierced by a bullet, and a revolver lay by her side on tbe floor. Pinned to tbe bosom of ber dress was a note containing this doggerel : 1 bad to 'In It ; ne friends bave I. bend for Sparry. Uood-uy , (ood-br. Sperry is tbe name of tbe local under- taker. Mrs. Shaw was an attractive woman of 27, and bad one child. Her husband is a successful jeweller, in busi- ness for himself. She had been despondent for some time, and lately had been living with ber lather. She got the key ot tbe house from her husband at tbe shop Mon- day night. There are many men who appear to be struggling against poverty, ana yet are happy ; but yet more wbo, although abounding in weaitb, are miserable. Tari tut. Mrs. Upehur, wife of Col Upsbnr, re oently, in India, was standing on a rook while a tiger was raging around. Tbe lady illed the tiger at first shot. I..M. . lor I . l.r. 'loin, ni- A Maine girl, who is a graduate of Vaisar College, bas built a porch aod r. shingled ber father's house just for tbe fun of it. A Butler county, Ky somnambulist left bis bed, buckled a saddle upon an old log near the house, mounted it and rode for two hoars, and then returned to bed with- out waking . Ewing label), of Warren county, Ken- tucky, was born on Washington's birth- day, bis wife was born on tbe Fourth of Jaly. and tbtir only child was born on Christmas. While the Kev. Mr. Pierce was in bis pulpit at St. Elmo, III. .on a recent Sunday. Mrs. Mary Smith, a young widow, left ber seat in tbe body of tbe ocuroh, aud going into tbe pulpit, stood beside the preacher and announced to the congregation tbat she was determined to become Mrs. Pearoe. Among the records of tbe town of Wor oester, Mass., is an account of a I) year-old boy, wbo. in 1771), bad bis ear bitten off by a horse. Tbe manner in wbicb tbe injury was received was carefully recorded by tbe Selectmen, so that the loss of tbs ear should not be prejudicial to tbe boy when be grew to man's estate. Nine years ago James Lobdell was sup- posed to bave been burned to deatb in bis barn, at Cxford, N. Y. Bones resembling those cf a human body were found and a funeral ceremony was beld. He recently returned to Oxford, saying he bad wandered all over tbe Union and had never once com- municated with bis friends. At Central City, T. J. Young was tried for helping himself to coal belonging to tbe I'uion Pacific Uailroad. He took it from oar* passing through tbe town. Young's defence was that no coal could be brought tbere and be was out. The jury's verdict was: "Not guilty, and case of malicious prosecution without justifiable cause." Tbe west is nothing if not practical While the preachers of New York and New Kngland are lamenting the deterioration of morals beoanse yoang men do not marry, a minuter out West advertises In tbe local paper: " Matrimony made easy II down and balance in monthly instalments."