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 ' -^ ".VT' ^1 y; and th. *».to whip 'eolation of f^ pitched ^^e tt«eti at the foot »ga«i river, dashed, ap! et thefiTni or the dew â- Mt be done i the horse, caed on the »ly exhibi. coach was ;th and the before the ^hathadoc- ^y ^neral laskell with ind bravery, trength uid of contiaa. 3d too mach The con- d the neces- lieh he wu 'O this end, to abandon said lible to sleep entirely and never knew for." .n irely?" bit it wu This state larly twenty n IwentaU old not walk pable of any constant d^ 1 night, and ig a gallon ' drops could h. sediment, tirely audi ne long b*- tder her ad- )d the dosed lore wonder sediment ed, and lam renty more of Warner's iers foe me TbrUUBS *xperi««oe _^tbound express of the Northern ^/^M at Helena a. 8 o'clock Saturday mtt witt a severe aocidtnt c n the """'^f.ne about twenty -nwo nulea f«an Y«""^« ' We BOt the foUowing partioni- )til*r: T s G Van Wart, of Helena^ who He OB tile nine' ,1. in'^^^acger on the iTiin. He aaya the rt *^„nDiig alonj? under a steep moon- •"Tie to the YeUowstone Kivtr. (lis Uost o'clcck Saturday coaehfS express, morning, baggage. with emi- t ira'l and Pjlmaa cars, wnea the fire- '"discovered a hcge pile of rocfc moving the ..a^'d come-jump gV is repeated lousands of An mi- le existence Tbo do not re in ontil and death face. To ters is like Loara above a New with Mr. tk City, saw *e Hire, ana Ikl, opporo; eant roon" lion dollafa tne be* railroads lUve l)ett* Hotel thtfi I oitT« forgot to monttiin aoout thirty yards ^^ a" d cried out to the ecgineer I "See •f^'come-jumP for your hte?" at the ' time j-mping himself and lightiug Mo on the siae next the river. In a mo- t the engineer )nst«Mi of jumping to " hU own life, thought of a hundred pas« ""erg wtoe lives were in his hands, "" BEVraSED THK VSQISS Unntonthe air breaks, but atiU the *lvv train m'^^^ on apparently to utter .VuctionaM-'-stthe huge pile of rwks â- Itft bad plied up on the traok a few feet Ljc, The CO lisioa came, and the looomo- «ewa«fofCbd high upon the reck*, the dtr tel scop ;d into the first exptesti car for Sat hal' it" length. A huge rook, estimat- liby Chief Engineer Anderson, who wan Lid the tia n.t weight fifty t;ns. jumped Ltraok in Jroat of the engiae, carrying rtiy the head-light and smcke-stack, and Ldiie to doie on the other side that a «t 01 it had to be cut away to allow the Uintopvs, which took forty men twelve lotrs at hard wc rk. It was a great meroy lit the rock came down in front instead of â- kiss the train in the middle, when a loss life by di owning in the river would have grred that would have been appalling to ite. It was a mercy, too, that a brave ioecrwas in charge ot the train, who j dating enough to ply the brakes before considered his onn safety. It appears it the mountain was over a COAL MINE THAT WAS ON FIBE, id that the combuEt'on loosened the rocks the 8;de of the hill. Tite passengers, wuo .ifelt the concussion, being assured that was only a forward car off the track went k to bed and slept till mcraing, in the ssence of what came very near being one the most dreadful acciaents ever known the history of railway smash-ups. The iductor had to walk eight miles to a tel- iph station before he could call assist- i:e. He snmmoned wrecking trains from east and west, and both came with ge force of men. who worked bravely to ilear the track and tsCke back the wreck, so the train, which was about fifteen £1118 behind time, could move on. F^r- itely no one was injured, aad amid igrainlatiocs next morning among the isstngers upon their deLiverauce from a adiulfate t.hey did not forget stout- riid Eagineer Gleascn, whom they ccm- imtnted by a series of resolutions and a indiome puibe, which they forwarded to icquartira, with tie signature and thanks eury passenger on the train. Engineer (3800, WuS the leaiplent cf a goia watch I a former occasion, when by his presence mind and braye action he Eaved the lives uother train load of passengers. It is by cli brave deeds that men become heroes on a more exalted field tL an tiiat of bat- Iffects of Temperature. Tee effects of ttmperature tn men 'do not ^pecd so much ou tbe mean tor the day, Dth, or year, os on the extreme i, as when ledays are hot and the nights comparative- cool the mergy of the system becomes ially restored, so that a residence near It sea, or in the vicinity of high mcuntains, !iot climates is, other things being ^q'-a^ enervating than in the plains, as tne lilt air is generally cooler. It is common- iKlieved that hot climates are necessarily irous to Europeans, by causing frequent '"derangements and diseases, dysentery, lera, and fevers. This, however, is, to icotain extent, a mistake, as the recent ical statistical returns of our army in show that in the new barracks, with ecardal supervision as regards diet and ing, the sickness and death rates are â- i reduced. Planters and others, who al)oat a good deal, as a rule keep in â- y good health but the children of the 'Peans certainly degenerate, and a'tar cr three generations die out, unless they inarry with natives and make frequent " to colder climates. This fact shows wdbof leuccesBtt^ Ice has be* ipresentW baoner •»• iSejjllT*; aen "5 jettoe to SS lenojtoS " ilraa' liould,o£ jidenflWg -Mo-*'** lth«*f aeediiff- |any " fg^lS [lot climates, probably by interfering the due performance of the various «8 eoncerned )n the formation and iction of the bodily tissues, eventually uie foundations of life among Europeans; low far this result has been caused by babita as regards food, exercise, and „„ â€" --^ â€"•""onlgence I cannot say. Rapid changes °' Se^ â- ^P*'**"e in this country are often very IS HUiona to the young, and old, caoaing " ca and derangements of the liver when 1 1 I °*""» »^d inflammatory diseaces l«« lungs, colds, etc., when the air be- ' wddenly colder, even in summer.â€" 'Rie Monse-Eating Spider. I ^t tnree years sgo I succeeded in get- K* hve specimen at last, or rather three tr^ al together, in a nice box fronted •ire netting. I bought them from a 'iWhoEells cigars and walking sticks «t.'^^« *l»«f in Bahia. a town on ij'^tofBrEzii, ^^ ,/ "ne time after they commenced I IS*" "'^y *t8 nothing, though I put •w ccckroaches into theircage. Then th a "" ^its of fresh-killed raw beef ^«y seemed to suck and then, as if "*i Whetted its appetite, to my great m tin" '^^^' the other two and racked "U M,iy the dry sheUa were left of °'?**Eg itself visibly in the prooesa. »^.';oegan to get cold I filled np the m"»hay, under which it retired and itdJk ' "" " t*at condition was J^ °y rail from Southampton to the » it hardens in Ltndon, where I next Wut* 'Plendid glass cage, laheUed "sonm ?*"" several inches in length, VK"P'^««"iy for it. Itmjj^'it the "mouse-eating" spider, ' jn,; "ntd to prefer thelxxlies of • V)dft!- *° anything else. At first it li*i8erW- °^* ""lood as vigoiondy ac â- ^« »ot ♦ 'l" ^t* compaDioni, bat after S fcad r °^ *^^'® "• â„¢^*" " *•" *!ed JJv** *t could have as many as it ?»ift il '.^"I'i out out the top of the *l(iTitk. "^P nippers, rack the braine "Test. foot thiek foaadatioa we aoeient palace on the nn low the ohamber o^a^bi that point to an end. Their objeetwaa to putbetween thirty a«l forty bw^. of gui powder uto the mme. and to blow the king and the Pnnce of Wales, the lords, and bishops, to atomo. They shortly found a Mllar whijh answered their purMM better Here they banked up their barrW under a mupicions quantity of coal andi»th»r futL When the train « as laid, it led, however ta themselves, and when the cxplosioa came. It «ai under their own feet Theywtre scattered to the fonr winda. When the fated members of the conspiracy w« ra sought and found, a number were slain m the ar- rest, a lew escaped, but the remaindir were put to the tortnra and tried. Qny Fawkea and seven othera weie arraigned beforo a special oommisaion in Wesminater Hail, and Coke, the Attorney Qenend, managed the proceedings agunst them. The r^ratt war, ot course, an imiiediate and hornbte exccu tion in the rear of the Hall, and close to the sceneof their labors. With very natmal in- uatice this infamous attempt was attribat- eJ to the Catholic party. The ccnwqnence of all this was the im mediate formation os an imaginary explosive compound, that went by another name than gunpowderâ€" a threefold mixtoreof this pop nlar rumor, soae actual Cjitholic discontent, and some latent treason, the fright of which lasts, in form at least, to this day. Parlia- picnt always looks under the bed at the opening of every new session, the Prayer book turns pale on the 5th of November, and Guy-Fa«kes is dishonored with a mock procession. But there was a period, and a good long one, when the memory of it reviv- eii in some more fiery form than this now fos- sil ceremonial. In the nervous imagination of the people the explosive compo ana w as al- ways underneath the government. The mere spark ot suggeation was enough to let the whole train fizzing. This, for the mtst part, was after the Rebellion, at which time the throne was undermined and overturned by the Puritan party without exciung near ly 80 much scandal. The peoplo were only afraid when the papists were at it. So when Titus Oates, seventy-four years after the Gunpowder Plot, told his enormous lie, they rushed, metaphorically speikirg, toche cellars again to find the "popish plot" which had no existence, to seizs and drag to judg- ment about as many supposed coiispiiators with supposed dark lanterns and supposed explosive materisli con^iezded as Guy Fawkes had ever aitn^lly to do with, and again Westminster Hall had evau more bloody work on its hands over this fiction of a mal- icious brain aud thiu credulity of a auspicious people than it had over the veniiole plot Itself. It was a petard which, ;ieverthe- less, worked so undesignedly we.l t at it nearly hoisted Charles the Second oucof bia throne because he had the best reason for not believing it, whii-h did hoist all thepi- pists out of Pailiament so high that they never cams down till George the Fourth's day, and the ring of the detonation was to loud that: Jame the Seccnd had afterward to put his hanuti to his ears and leave the kingdom to the Protestant triumph which Has prevailed e\ er since. The e %•. raor J inary peculiarity of this gaseous version of the Gunpowder Plot was that is blew up the royal family alter all, and with the nation's joyous consent. â€" Harper's Monthtj, Electricity as an Aid to Lion Tamers. The latest application of electricity is an invention made in the interests o' 1 on tam- ers, which consist of an appaiaius of great power, shaped like a stick, about three and a half feet in length. M. Rinspach, the in- ventor is a lion tamer himself, who has been "a good deal wcrned" during a lOng and successful professional career. He has al- ready experimented with it upon the deni- zens of the cages in his memgerie, an 1 re- lates the dififiiieni: effects upon the brutes. Three of his liens raceiving the shoos: immed- iately showed signs of the greatest terror. They were seized with Irembling and growl- ed fitfully, The tiger was mare quickly subdued, became stupefied, and crouched in a corner of the cage. Bruin was mere re- fractory to electricity, which seemed scarce- ly to effect him He would growl and show his teeth, and was subdued after repjated discharges. The most astonishing effects, however, were perceptible in the hoa constrictcr. On receivmg the discharge, the specimen from Cayenne, nearly twenty feet in lengtn, be- came at once paralysed and remained motion- less for kix hours afterward. When he re- covered, he showed signs of numbness for three whole daj s. Finally, the elephant on being electrified by a touch of the stick upon the tip of hw trunk set up a series of wild erica and btcame so strange that the tamer feared the brute would break its heavy iron chain. M. Rauspach ia said to intend ad- dressing a paper upon the experiments to the Academy of Sicenoea. The Oldest Anthor. Rev. W. K. Gleig, of England," one of the warmest friends of the second dnke of- Wellington, recently decease^ Mr. Gleig is almost an nonagenarian, and is the oldest Uving author who still wields a pen. He was present at the battle of New Orleans m 1815/' "y* Labouchere in Tnih, "and raw Gen. Paienhsm killed and some of the picked regiments of the British army de- feated by Gen. Andrew Jaokaon and a few American backwoodsmen. Mr. Gleig, who rabeequently took orders and became chap- 5nSa«rsi: wrote spirited description m his 'dubaltem' of the engagement at Me* Orieuis. and, havina starMd as m author m 1816. has quite lately oonlRbnted en wtioie memory are etiU entirely undiaken^e wae a l^t favorite with the Iron Duke." PhiladOphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Prai. J. R 141 ijMitiio "Relative: lai^:«~ Hilgard read h^biliil »*cipf indlt-l,!jVia|ffaigthe paricf the "fTorth Adjhlil oeeaaj'^e at Ifazieo. ud the Tbi^Stataa cast o MiariniBprrivrt. Tfee princi(al fraftna^ which he directed atteation w«re the fwt that theaotaal omtinental cutllne does sot correspond to the present acddentai liiAita of land .and water, bat to the one beadr^d fathom ewe, so that the oohtiBeii^ limit is far out under the aoa. Florida and- Yiieai» tan have mora than twice thsdr y o giap hical limits^ white the West Indies and the An- tilles aroviv aaa vaatenbmsrine continnatioii of.tlw Ilorida peninaola, tlie mounthin awa* mits of wliioh only -appear above the aea. ThiasQbmarine plataaa. exteadJag to the aonllleaBt. forma, with thaooaatHMof tt» listed Statsa, a great Iright n«iij ai laqia •train as the Gulf of Mexicc. which ProK Hilgard designated the Great Bay of North America. Whatever the oansea which pro- duced the gulf atream, they mnat ^ve rise to an elevation af the guU above the Atian- tio in order to occasion the etream â€" phy- aical fact demonstrated by the most aoooiate measnraments. The eqplanatimi of tiie sto^eam was that the North Atlantic trade winds set the water of the Caribean sea against the "Spanish main" (Centrid Ameri- ca), deflected northward along the coast of Tuoatan. where the flow ia through the straits between Tacatan and Cuba, and thence through the Bemini channel u.t-t the Atlautic ocean, thus forming what is ki own as the "Gulf .Stream." The part which the Gulf of Mexico has in this is mainly that of a reservoir or '^accumulator," maintaining the outflow at a more uniform rate than^the assigned cause would admit of without such a reservoir,^ eBADIS OF GOLD. Love and reason seldom go together. The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. If youth only knew and age only oonldl Let us enoonrage the beautiful, for the useful encourages itself. Nothing is rarer in literary histcy than a ecaolar who confesses that he has been re- futed in anything. Sober thought about one's own Fober soul and its destiny is by no means a favorite oc- cupation with men. Liberty is a privilege which carries with it high duties snd tsrave responsibilities. The right to say what is false implies the duty ot declaring that which is true. Liberty is a glorious light, but ft demands duties and sacrifices greater than any which tyranny exacts, and mere is required from freemen than from slaves. A CMlwItTaf theBtoctrieal ExUhitfoB. Am ni the curiosities in operatitm at the in exhibition of eleotn»l "'â-¼â€¢""O" .,„,^ Sdphiaie a magnetic table. I*",*â„¢!' ^li^^tiens stand, with a plwu innocent SSffiS!SU!bat beneatii ftiiian deowo- SSS. A takSil of nail, lay «P«tt y* SSrSoddenly andwittamt ai^ P^P*' S; S^ Saroee and silentiy etood np» ^tionoftheemaUbil* A moment tiwy nation ox "~~:^f «jmI then enddenly like circa* tiimblwa. ACL SORTS. English Sekoalg. The following were recently among the written answers in txam njt ons on Scrip- ture by her majesty's incpsctors of schcols: "Who was Mosea?" "He was an Egypt- ian. He lived :n a hark maid of bnllrashes, and he kept a golden carf and worshipt brai- zen snaken and he het nothin' but qwales and manner tor forty years. He was kort by the air of his 'ed while ridin' under the bow of a tree, and he was killed by his son Absion es he was hanging from the bow. His end was peace." "What do you know of the patriarch Abraham?" "He was the father of Lot and had tew wives. Oue was called Hismale and the other Haygur. He ke pwnn a home and he hurried tne other into the desert, where she became a pillow of salt in the day- time and a p llow of fire at nite." "Write en account of the Good Samari- tan." "A certain man went down from Jerslam to Ji riki-r and he fell among thawns and the thawns sprank up and choked him. Wh( reupon be gave tuppins to the boast and said tak care on him and put him ' en his hone bass. And he past bye on the hother side." â€" i^onfon Times, A Tonng Mother. Recently there occurred four miles west of Alexandria, Ky., a case of maternity the most remarkable in the history of American obrtetrics. The mother, a young|colored girl namad Rsna Freeman, was bcrn. March 5, 1873, and is therefore 11 years and 6 months old. She is small of stature, being abont 4 feet 8 inohes in height, and weigh- ing bat 90 pounds, and is a child in every- thing buc experience. After her confinement she acknowledged that she had bsen seduced by her brother- in-law, Ross Johnson, a burly negro, aged 30, and the fa Cher of two children. When taxed with tne seduction of his sister-m-law he did not deny the charge. Her aoooucher, Dr. T. S. Orr, i^ays the case is without a par- allel in the medical history of this country. He had considerable diffioolty with the pa- tient, the infantas size and weight, ten pounds, neoeaaitating the operation of orani- otomy. â€" CtnetRnoti Inquirer, A TawB Where ReitherClaal Mr WMd b Wanted. Notaponndof wood or coal is oonramad at Crdghton, twenty milea from Pittsburgh, where the Pittsburgh Plate Glaaa Company have th«r plant. Glass factory and reel* dencee are heated and lighted by natural gas. Gaa was struck at 1,200 feet in a five inch bote. A torrent cf what the ownen deecribeaa "pire nilrogn gaa" bant oat with a force of 250p(mnda tothe aqnare inch, and after three years ia flowing with as much energy as ever. The visxtor sees no coal, no wood, no eindcte, no aiAea,iw smoke. In tie fomaoes is a larid, iteady heat regulated by doek work. Nogrii^ atoker aweati his liCs away at fnmace doon* but instill' aoalmpersosi with a etaiaed ^iHBriueldiBvilMyoa tolodtatthe tiireagh the open famaoe doon» glaieaa heatraffioiaat to deter a Sbadiach, Meahadi and Abednego. Over- iMad gasbamera are ablaze in broad day, because it is not wortii iriiile to take tioie to torn the bonen off and as^.a• tbna ia plenty d gaa and to eparau In the dencee a tiumb aenw regnlateB poratue to alMolnte perf eo»oi|. LIMti Dti^ OMmala had ' Tb fbe lart toaat of aoiamer. A trade eesatsr -The driinuner. The death rifP^ uai/fdjfikn'a MIL A tie game' mfing th^ueatiaiB. A waiit of «nie~aaold iaid'ik ' A. Cfaineee oiiBft Gslsatial moliei The heated spellâ€" hH)-a.t*e-d. False hair does not antedate false pride.* Slitting, on the hands doesn't dig the jotat oee. Tne qneition of the honrâ€" What time o' dayieic? Maid .of hall workâ€" th^ hotel eotridor •weeper. A rapposititions caie â€" The primi donna's jewel casket. A screaming farceâ€" The performance of an amateur opcr^ singw. Should a mustard plaster be claaaed among drawing materiala T A joatice'e paatalooiuoan hardly be called breacnea of the peaoto. The enaigratioa of bank caahiera to Caiuda looks like an ex-owed us. The Cair of Roada may be Warsaw off than it he liad staid at boms. It is the successful trapeze periormsr who generally reaches the climb-acts. The last rows of rammerâ€" Those taken on the Ink's just before leaving tor town. T^e cream of a joke would be lost upon a milkmuiâ€" he wouldn't know what it was. Life ia shortâ€" only four letters in it. Three-quarters Of it is a " lie " and a half of it is an "if." Pat this on "file" if you would as " lief." In China Fon Chow means " Happy City." â€" D^roit Free Press. Wo thought it meant something go )d to eat. â€" Chicago 8 itn. Wall, something good to eat makes a happy city. " Truth lies at the bottom of a well," bnt in this enlightened century men are able to carry on the same business very successfully on top of the ground. A Bewitched Wedding Dress. A very singular case has come oat re- cently in reg^ard to a young girl who was engaged to be married. She was poor and her intended husband bought her a wedding dress at an expense of 950. Be- fore the wedding day the Intended bride- groom was taken aick and died. The bride-elect mourned his loss, and finally iinagined that he waa present about her, and that she would still be,inarried to him. She told her parents how she felt^j and they told her that she must get rid .t^ 'the wedding dress. She sold it for $10 to an acquaintance and soon recovered her spirits. The girl who bought the dress after she got it imagined tb^t she woald lead a bad life, and was so afieeted that she was out of her head, and her parents sent the dress back when she recovered. No. 1 was soon affiected as before, and so much so that she sent the dress back to No. 2 again, and then she recovered. No 2 was again affected, and an attempt was made to return the dress again to No. 1, but her family declined to receive it. A police ofEicer was sent to take the dress back, after consultation with counsel, but neither party would receive it, and now the friends of the officer are looking to see him go off' his base on account of the dress. It would seem as though the old Salem witches possessed the dress, and it is barely possible that the garment may be burned. â€" Boston Globe. SOHE SMILES. thai The Ihdn efWelUiVtM*! EiperteHit. pablio boildliagaof Leaden a man aaft writ tag at a tablaoovend witii papers. He waa a short, atr oa g iy bailt figure, with a promi* nent mme, and a iaoe hara Mid massive aa a givtili atatne, waariag tike set look peeii- liar ta affs wlM have aamionnted grea' dif- fiooltiai and aoefiaated giaat aarik. Few, indeed, had had aore pnottoe la both sftan this aui, for he waa no other than tiieDake of WelliBgteii, aad hie crowning violory at Waterioo-was atill'bnt a few years old. There was the tinkle o' a bell ontnde^ and then a murmur of vuoee in tne anteroom; bat the D jke never raised his headfrom hia writing,even when his aecratary entered and said: "If it pleaise your Grace, that man witii the bullet-proof breastplate has called again, and wishes very much to see your Graoe for a moment." The Dake'a iaoe darkened, as well it mlf^t, for the man in questiim was themoat pertmao COS bore whom be had ever en- eoonteted. The bnllet-proof cuirass was hia own invention, and he iiever lost a chance of dsobunng that the aafe^of the whole British army depended npon its instant adoption of this "anparal!eled discovery," which he carried ab^ut with him, and ex- hibited at all times aid in all places, Had this .been all, he would soon have been disposed of; but unluckily, he liad con-, trived to interest in hia invention one or two of the Duke's personaljiriends, and to get from them 1 -itters of reconimmdatioo which even Wellington could not eaaily disregard. Something must clearly be done, however for although the fellow had hitherto baen kept at bay, he wai evidently determined to give the Duke no peace till the matter had ben folly gone into For a moment Wellington looked so grim that the secretary bsgan tt hope for the order whio»» he would gladly have obeyed, viz., to kick the inventor into the street forthwith. But the next instant the iron fase cleared again, aad over it played the very gboat of a smile, liki a gleam of winter sunshine up'n a precipice. "Show him in," said he, briefly. Tne obsert aut secretary noted both the tone and the smile that accompanied it; and he inwardly decided chat it would havebMn better for that inventor if he had not insist- ed on seeing the Dake. In came the great discoverrrâ€" a tall, slouching, shabby, slightly red noied man, with a AO ild-be jiucty air, which cave way a little, however, befo e the "Ir..n Duke's penetrating glance. "I amgUd to think that your Grace ap- p. eciates the merits of my invention," said "Heigh-ho!" said Mri. Sprigg'ns, that p'lor old Mr. Wilkini haa died "I see intes- living wou'd ruin ids atmwMkk aevere attack of aeoraigia. A viritor eaDed, and while waiting in tiie parior. asked Dot how bar motiier waa. Sherq^lied, "ahaki â- i^ aha'a go* tiia isonlilf " tate, I alius said high innards." A little fellow with a tall, stalwart wife was asked by a friend if the contrast be- tween them didn't often expose liim to mor- tifying remarks. ' 0, I don't mind that," he said cheerfully; "but fince Sirah's (Town near sighted I have to look aharp for fear she'll step on me." Little Freddie was talkini; to his rrandroa who was something of a skeptic. "Grandma, do you be'oug to the Presbyterian church] ' "No." "TothePaptist?" "No." "To any church!" "No." "Well, grandma, don't yon think it's about time to get in some- where?" Two sides to a queition. â€" "Say. Smith, are yon coming down town to -night?" "No." "Why not?" "Well, my hired girl left this morning, and Mary will be lonesome by her- self." "My hu:ed girl left this morning, too, and that's why I'm coming down. I'd hi awful lonesome with Maggie." Facts About the chelera. Remarkable revelations are report«l at a recent meetingof the medical oom ai ee at Marseilles. £xperience has aho i that the cholera will rage during two coa- .!utive yean in the same plaue. it has been ascer- tained that cholera made iti app aranoe at MaraeUlee laat year, a ease followed by death having occurred at the hospital in a room containing namarous othw patients. The disease nade a good many victnns. The mayor, who was immediately advise 1 of the fact, proceeded to the hoipitaL Bnergetio measures were tafeea to prevent fnrdier con- tagion, and in order to avoia a puuo in the town, the mayor tolidted andaeooieV the silence of all persons aware of the facta. Tta« diief sorgeon, two hoaae mi^ieona, a warder, and twoSistera of Msnytookaa oath to divulge nothing, whioh oath striotiy kept till thewndle prooeeding made known to the medioal oommittee. TheaaaUiartheOwsiw Unlike most otiier great riven, the Conoo hia no delta. It diadtargea into the sea fy a da{^ nnbroken estoary, sevanaad a faauf oulea aoroaa, in whioh aaoandiag line of two hnndred fathoms dooa not everywhere toooh bottoBi, and a onrreot raas td five to seven knota aa boar. Dua tBonnoas yoluine.elc-; oeeda that of every other known stream ex- cept the Amazon. Aeonasrvative estimate of Ae anaooht of water disehamd iiy it ia 2.000 000 oafaiefeetperaeeoad. TaeMisa^ iasipiH, wtienat flood height^ earrieanown no nwrathan 1,6Q0.OOO eabio feet and ainka in the dry aaason to 228,000. Moreover tiie Congo nevsr raas low.. Is aweUs and sinks, aathe rainy aad dry seaaoaa suoceMl eaeh bat within a relatively nanow ra^e ne, in a patronizing t( ne. "They are, in- deed, too imporiant to ^e undervaliied by any great commander. Your Grace cannot tail to remembsr the havoc made by your gallant troops at Waterloo among the French cuirassiers; whose breastpUtes were no bullet-proof: whereas, if â€" " "Have you got the thing with you?" inter- rep«;ed Wellington. The inventor unwrapped a very showy looking cuirasa of polistied steel, and waa just beginning a Iodk lecture upon itamerita wbea the Dake cut him sbo"t by asking, "Are you quite sure it 18 bullet- prjol?" Qaiie sure, your G-ace." Put it on, then,and go and s'and in that corner."' Tne other wonderin/ly ob ive-l. "Mr. Temple,' shoutud We liugtoa to his secretarv, "tfU the sentry outside to load with ball-cartridge, and corns ia here to test this cuirass. Quick, now!" But quick ttiough the eecr^'tary was, the inventor was quicker stiT. TaO moment he realized that ne had been set up tuer^ on purpose to be fired at, and to be shot dead on the spot if his cuirass turned out to be not bullet prcof after all, he leaped headlong through the optn window with a yell worthy of a Blackfoot Indian, and dartmg like a rocket aoro3S the courtyard, vanished through the oiter ^afceway;nor did the Duke of Wellington, from that day forth, ever see or hear of him agan. â€" Davtd Kes, in Edi- tor's Dbawsb, Harper's Magazine for Oc- tober. The Chsnese War and Tea. The war in China has visibly affected the tea market. Racentiy 30,000 caests of black tea, including Fo3 Chow, Among, and For- mosa, were sold here at an advance of three cents per ponnd. In London the prices of tea have (tone up five oetata. From the is- land of Formosa this country^ receives an- nually 250,000 chests of tea. and if the French, who have already f e zed Keelnng, an important tea exporting point, should close up Tamsul, brokers say there will be a big advance in the price of black t mm. About 59,000 packages of teas annually have usually come to tiiia oonntry from Foo Chow. â€" Albany Express, LIfe'« Burdens. A large part of life's burdens are aelf-im- posed and wholly needless. Fean ofealam- ities whioh never happen, a dol^al habit of looking at the wont, a aospioiooa disposi- tion, ajealoos turn of mind â€" ^these are the tyrants that load us wich burdens heavy to bear and needless to carry. If we should honeatiy examine the various hardens of oar Uvea, we would be surprised to find how many of them are of this obaraoter. Not only may we drop them if we wi'l, bat Joa- tioe to othen demands that we ahoald. A man or woman habitually unhappy is eosen- tially selfish, and is al vays a thorn in the community. There are enough cmsses and tarsals in Itfe wluch must be bime, without mannfaoturing artiflcUl and nee Uesa ones; and the more thoroaghly we rid oanelvea of the latter, the mwe eneigy and spirit w» can bring to bear apon the former. »»Ihe Cone ef eriteMu** Waahiagtim apodal Chioago TrUnmK Bia mwdorof PoUosCMBcerFowIerbgra negro rough in the ohaingang haa remmded aoma a uu e iati tieaa people of tiie eane vi Goitsau. Polioa (MBoer Fowkr waa one of the three mounted men who goaried the aiaasain^ van in bia trips from tiM jail to the eoBrt-honae tiuoaghoat. the trial. Guitcau, the itight the yiin(i^a|in^ hrooght ia, in tiie dark oonrt room cBaily lighted b^ ean^Ue%gIar- iiw like a wild beast, invoked aouaen^an aU whd kid been cooneoted with ti^4riaL Tkcse hava-tiMn a nainber^ daa ttfi^ par- sooa who were so opanaetad, iwnamigin their number joron, dootno, detectives, jailen^ poBceassa *f* ,e«WmMB._iWitii- ia two weds ^iM^^daMead |^JGNK|#»a curse have died â€" Dr. Ipeod^ ot liha ty, one of Ga^field'a wiiiiqns. aad noir '^i 1.1 'tl I. i^ f ' r ' i V,