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AT KAWSMOUTH STATION. supplying the human family with its various beverages, some of which cheer, and some inebriate. I HOW DICKENS COULD WALK. The Experience of an American blossoms. Somehow the seen4) recalled to my mind Scott's young Lochinvrar "from out of the west," and the fair Ellen of Netherby hall; and I found myself repeat ing, under my breath -They'll have fleet steeds that follow, quoth youog Lochinvrar.

A view of similar fancy must have reached the heart of my friend Wabash, too; for as the happy couple crossed the river bridge and sped past the pink orchard, and sauntered up the bluff and in among the concealing foliage he observed, with an admirable smile "It looked like the last chapter of some old romance!" "Heaven bless 'em" said Markley. Then the bell sounded, and we hastened aboard the train. A few minutes later we had turned our back on Kawsmouth, and set our expectant faces towards the land of ozone and wheat the verduous, ague-less slopes and the odors that Homer sang the land where the sun is in leasrue with fate, and the fruits of the soil are for the healing of the nation. TOMBS OF THe'bONAPARTES. The Remains of the Late Prince to be Taken, Probably, to Corsica.

Boston Times. We have as yet no knowledge as to where will be deposited the remains of the late prince, but it is probable that they will be transferred to Corsica. As is well known, the body Napoleon I. was interred in Hotel des inva tides during the reign of Louis Phillipe. This great soldiers' home was to become for the Bnuapartes wbat St.

Denis had been for the Bourbons, whence it was to be deemed not a family burial place, but the mausoleum only of those members who had worn crowns. In accordance with this principle of selection. Napoleon HI. caused the body of King Joseph to be brought from Florence, where he had died in 1844. This was in 1862, and in the following years tbe other crowned Bon a partes (Louis of Holland and Jerome of Westfalen) followed him.

Forthe others the late emperor bad a fine mortuary chapel built by Aiaceio. The crypt, underneath the chapel floor, is octagon in shape, three of the eight tombs being already occupied. The center of the chapel itself has but four walls, the spaces corresponding to the other side of the octagon beneath, beiug open halls, forming together a Latin cross. Of the four walls, three are occupied by inscriptions in honor of the persons buried beneath; for the fourth and last place no candidate has till now presented itself. One of the inscriptions runs: Marie Laetitia RomolinaCarola Bonaparte nnpta, A.

MDCCCLXVIl. cm inclvta proles. Joseph HispaniaeRex. Napoleo Gallaie Imperator. Lncianns Caninae Princeps.

isa gumma Tbuse "ae Dux. Ludovicos Hollanuiae Rex. Paulina Gnataldise Dux. Carolina Neanclis Rex. Hieronyni us Guest nbaliae Rex.

Bomae obit. II. Febrnrcrii, A. Reliquiae depositae, A. MOCCCLIX.

Tbe other persons honored by inscriptions are Cardinal Fesch and Charles Bonaparte, second Prince of Canino. and famous for bis knowledge of natural history, who died as Director of the Paris Bo tanical Garden in 1857. When in power the Bonapartes have always had great means of getting rich, but most of them have lived so extravagantly as to have nothing left when once more out of office. Laetitia and Fesch, however, were exceptions to the rule, both having left large properties. That of the first eventually came to Napoleon and was of great use to him in carrying out the coup d'etat.

Fesch left most of his wealth to Joseph Bonaparte. The property of the late Prince Louis Napoleon, came from the Princess Bacciochi. Had Thin Soles an his Shees. Baltimore Every Saturday. "Are you a good walker?" inquired' the English friend who drove me to the Station from which I was to start for Gad's Hill, on my first visit to Charles 33 i on "Pretty fair," I replied, with thai American confidence in the ability to do anything, which has made my countrymen famous.

"All right," responded my friend, with a quizzical look at the thin soled gaiters affected by N.w Yorkers ii 18C6 a look which I did not fully appreciate until forty-eight hours afterwards, in my room at Gad's Hill Place, when I endeavored to coax those very gaiters off from my swollen, burning and painful feet. During that interval I had met Charles Dickens and we had taken one of those walks together. He loved walking for its own sake he practiced ii for its beneficial effects upon his health; he utilized it as a means of observation he preferred it to any other means of locomotion; he found in it rest, recreation and unlimited enjoyment. To ask you to walk with him, in town or country, was one of the highest compliments -which he, who paid so few compliments could offer. Many are the happy Lours, along London streets and Rochester roads, that many now tenderly recall; but these pleasures do not obliterate the exquisite pedestrian pains that followed my first walk with Dickens.

There was nothing, except my friend's tentative question at the station, prepare for the sacrifice. A basket carriage was waiting at Gad's Hill station to drive me to the Dickens' mansion in time for dinner. Next day tho host himself dr ve me about Cobham Park. It was not until the second morning, when we had become better acquainted that he proposed that walk to lioch ester around Rochester, through the marshes to Grave send, by Chalk church, that sent me back to London footsore from unaccustomed exercise, but with head and heart full of the genial and wise gossip of the great novelist. quite twenty miles out and back," said Dickens, as we reached Gad's Hill Gate, "but good walking for five hours and a half considering the country." Considering, too, he might have added, the stoppages for hearty laughter; the episodes of flower gathering and stair-climbing the visits to roadside hostelrieay -old church yards and curious ruins the talks with the tramps, with children and with inquisitive dogs, and the merry accompaniment of anecdote, reminiscence and remark, that made each mile a miracle of delight to one who was, for the first time, alone with the Dickens of his boyhood's adoration ami -his youthful dreams.

Who Comforted Job I Boston Hear Id. Who comforted Job?" was the question by the pastor of the Norwich Universalis church Sunday. Abright-ejed little lady announced her readiness to respond by raising an agitated hand. The pastors eye caught the zealous activity of his little scholar, and pleased to gratify a child's desire, he said Well, Gracie, speak up, loud now who was it comforted Job?" And the response came clear and with sincerity "His sisters and his cousins and his aunts. This brief quotation from Pinafore produced a momentary sensation, but the good pastor quietly informed the child that Job was comforted long before the days of that popular comic opera, and the reivew proceeded, and the laugh also.

Ohio got the title "Buckeye State" from the party of New England emigrants who landed April 18, 1788, on the site of the present city of Marietta. Two of tbe settlers immediately took their axes, each wishing to cut the first tree. Neither of them knew the species of the tree selected One attacked a beech, which being bard wood the process of felling was slow. Tbe other selected a buckeye, which, bemgr soft, soon came to the ground. And thus it is affirmed Ohio came to be called the Buckeye State.

The successful compet -ltor was Captain Daniel Davls.tf Killingiy, Windham county, Conn. have none in Boston to speak of." These notions were so novel, and presented so earnestly, that everybody in the room was obliged to listen. Even the young man waiting for his sweetheart forgot himself a few moments, and gave surprised heed. Only a few moments, however. Then he took up his dropped conversation again with the little lady in alpaca, who seemed to be humoring his worship of the coming wife as if it had been a religion and who shall say it was not? "This is Clara's profile," he said, timidly, reaching out a little morocco picture -jase.

"I don't want to brag about her, but, honestly, I think she's awful nice." "It's a real sweet face," remarked the little lady in alpaca. "I'll never quit wondering how it came about," he continued. "I haven't the least idea what makes her like me; I know I ain't good enough for her. She does like me though. Her leaving a good home and coming so far, all alone, to marry me is enough itself to make that certain.

I'd ought to have gone after her, I know; and I offered to, but she said it wasn't any use to go to that expense. I do wish I had gone as far as St. Louis to meet her, though. But I reckon she'll surely be here on the other train. One train's in from St.

Louis, and she didn't come on that. I suppose it's silly to borrow trouble over it, but I can't help feeling shaky about her. to save my life. If anything should have happened to her." "Perhaps she's given you the grand bounce," Markley suggested, with a teasing pretens'e of alarm. The young man drew himself up as if his very existence hal been challenged.

The color came and went in his cheeks, and his lips were set in a rigid scorn. "Bounce nothln' he said, haughtily, and walked away. "You'll notice," Markley made haste to urge, "that the average yield of corn per acre in Kansas last year exceeded that of any ether State. But we have a higher ambition. Our bright, particular thing is wheat.

Last year we raised more of it to the acre than any State between us and the Alleghenies. And we've only just started. When we get to working to our full capacity, making wheat our main crop and corn a mere side issue, Kansas wiil be the rainbow of the Union." Wabash and I both laughed, in spite of ourselves; and Markley himself let his face relax into a broad smile as he proceeded: "You don't see the point, do you? Very well, recovering his earnestness of manner; "what constitutes a State? Men, high-minded, tough-sinewed men. And what makes such men? Wheat bread, gentlemen, wheat bread. Corn does for so to speak, hogs thrive on it, but it takes wheat to win in the long run.

Now, I have no doubt that the North finally triumphed in the rebellion because her soldiers lived on wheat bread. The soldiers of the South were brave enough, but ttiey wei loose-jointed, and lacking in that finer, conquering strength of muscle and brain that comes from wheat; they lived on corn, you see. Granting all others to have been equal, this difference in diet alone was sufficient to turn the scale. Mind what I tell you; there's destiny in wheat. And look what an abundance of it we'll be able to produce a few years from now! There are forty -Reven million acres of land yet unused in Kansas first class wheat land, all of it.

A perfect empire! Now, taking the present acreage about fifteen bushels to the acre look how many bushels this land will yield in the aggregate every year, wnen it all comes to be cultivated. 6 He sharpened his pencil to make the calculation; but much to his chagrin, be had to defer it, for a locomotive whistle uttered its warning scream down under the river bluff, and a quivering, widening belt of steam, glittering in the sunlight, shot up like a comet's tail among the branches of the trees. The station waiting room was vacated with a rush. The St. Louis train was coming.

JUJIt was cut lous to watch the young man waiting for nis sweetheart. He stood apart from the rest of us, at the extreme end of the platform, oblivious of everything but the slowly approaching locomotive. Very likely the world stood still, in his tense thoughts, while that great puffing, hoarse-throated thing drew itself towards him over the creaking rails; for was not she coming with it. to make life a long, glad song to him? It was not strictly a happy look he had, however. It seemed rather to indicate that sharp sense of joy which has a touch of rear In it, and so becomes in part a pain.

And when at length, the train reached the platform and stopped, we noticed that he did not hasten to the cars, as we had supposed he would, but walked doubtfully along the outer edge of the crowd of alighting passengers, with a strange stare in his countenance. At last though, she stepped out of a rear coach, and stood there with her head slightly inclined, smiling. We all knew her at a glance. And the next moment ne was by her side, and she had put her hand in his, and they were both blushing to their very ears. "Why, Seth!" she said.

"Hew d'y'do, Clara!" That was all there was of it; and it was disappointing to the spectators, I mean. No doubt th parties in interest were satisfied with it, however; and could we know what warmer greetings they would exchange in the shade of their road through yonder forest? They had a little whispered consultation that we did not hear, but we could surmise that it related to her trunk; for presently they sought it out and claimed it, and she opened it and took from it certain neatly folded and mysterious articles, which she put together in a little bundle, and pinned what looked to be an apron around them. Then the trunk was handed over to the station agent, apparently to be kept until sent for, and they walked briskly acress the zigzag complexity of railway tracks to where the horses were impatiently waiting to carry them to the wedding. "We stood gazing after them from the station, as they mounted their torses and rode up the green and inviting valley he on the nigh-stepping bay with the flowing mane, and she on the brisk, sidling chestnut sorrel, that wore the new saddle, and the bridle gaudy with blue and white ribbons. Behind them and about them was the bland April sunshine; in front of them, Just over the river, in the bluff, glowed the pink mirror of the peach too.

He was telling the pale little lady in black alpaca, who sat near him all about it; how he had preempted it five years before, and paid for it, with two years' crops, and built a snug house of three rooms and 'a beauty of a and how the front yard was sodded, and evergreens put out, and wisterias planted by the south porch. He was telling her, also, of the young wo man who was to be queen of all this, and who was coming that morning to claim her crown, "if she hadn't got left, or the cars didn't run off the track, or something else didn't happen to her. "May be you saw her at St. Louis. Did you notice a young woman there in a drab gown cut goring, and a sleeveless jacket, and a brown hat with two red roses and a bunch of white-heads on it, --artificial you know? That's the way she wrote me she was going to dress?" "A smallish woman, with large hazei eyes?" asked the little lady in alpaca.

"Yes, yes," he replied, quickly and fondly. "I did see such a person looking among the baggage, returned the little lady in alpaca. "I remarked her, I remember, on account of her elegant little feet. Are your young woman's feet very small and trim, about twos, I should say?" He dropped his head, blushing, and said in a kind of hesitating undertone, the big, bashful, simple-thoughted fellow. "I never noticed Clara's feet." No, indeed.

For aught he knew, or cared, her drapery might have concealed the finny wonder of a mermaid. He worshiped her, that he knew; and she was unspeakably sacred to him; and of course he had never noticed her feet. "She gave some one a letter to mail for her" "Yes," he interrupted, "that was for me. No, it couldn't have been for me, either; she wouldn't have sent me a letter when she was coming right on herself. No, it wasn't for me," he appeared lost in a puzzle of thought.

Then, directly, he looked up again, and remarked, with quiet earnestness, "1 don't think that was Clara." "But to drop generalities, and come down to details," I heard Markley saying, "in these six counties with the red marks around them there were in 1870 only about a hundred settlers, and there was little of anything raised but the hair of casual emigrants who fell into the hands of the Indians. Now there are more than thirty-five thousand people living there, and they have in cultivation over three hundred thousand acres of land, and own good houses, with books and pianos in them, and the women folks wear pullbacks, and that sort of thing." Just here, a jaded, pinched and calico-clad old woman came in with a basket of apples, and this afforded Markley an excuse briefly to commend the rare advantages of Kansas as a fruit country. "You know we have already taken several first class premiums in the pomological line; and I'm sure you saw our fruit display at the Centennial exhibition, everybody saw it. And we haven't hardly begun yet. Wait a few 'years, and we'll astound you; it's a mere question of time." Then he purchased a half dozen of the eld woman's apples, carefully choosing the larger ones, I could see and divided them among his auditors; and he said to her very kindly, as she made change for him, "My good woman, you ought to go out into Kansas, to a higher, drier latitude; you look anguish." "Thank you," she answered.

"I'm as well as common. It's kind o' warm, and I'm a little down-hearted like; that's all, I guess." "Speaking of asrue," Markley went on, without further notice of the shrinking old apple-woman "speaking of ague, I don't see how any body can stay where it is, when it's so easy to go to Kansas." "But you have ague in Kansas, the same as in every other new country, don't you?" inquired Mr. Wabash. "Only as it is brought in temporarily from other States," Markley politely responded. "It is not indigenous.

We have no malaria. Our atmosphere is rich in ozone; and ozone is nature's own purifier. Homer mentions it in the Odyssey, you recollect, where ho speaks of the atmosphere being 'quite full of sulphurous That's ozone." "I presume the atmosphere of the infernal regions is also quite full of sulphurous or ozone," baid Mr. Wabash, with a chuckle. "Yes, I suppose so," Markley retorted, promptly, "put there, no doubt, to tantalize the fellows with suggestions of Kansas.

'Sorrow's crown of vou know, 'is remembering happier But as I was about to say, ozone dispels malaria, and keeps the climate free from bilious conditions. Besides the ague is really a matter of morals rather than of physics, you understaad." But we did not so understand it, and he therefore graciously proceeded to enlarge upon the btatement for our benefit. "The ague always hovers over low, flat lands, where the soil is thin and jaundiced-looking, and where the inhabitants go on voting for Gen. Jackson for president. Take those quinine river bottoms in some of the Western States I shan't call names where the men gather at the saw-mill every Sundav to pitch horseshoes and shoot at a mark; that's where you'll find ague every time.

Then move out on the high, open lands, where they have Sabbath schools and debating societies, and Collars to their shirts, and you'll see very little of it, usually none at all; the sickness there, when they have any, runs in the nervous way." Mr. Wabash laughed good humoredly. and ventured some light remark about finding out more the longer we live, but Markley kept on in a solemn and impressive manner, as it charged with a special mission on the ague question: "It's considerably due to our school system, our free press, and our numerous churches, I tell you, added to the abundant ozone, that we are so little bothered with the thing in Kansas. We have four million dollars worth of school-houses, and nearly two hundred newspapers, and churches till you can't rest. There's no foot hold for the ague among such things, and a sky full of ozone hanging over them.

It's very much a matter of civilization, the ague business. It's the difference between the sallow squirrel hunter, with his rifle on his shoulder and a gaunt hound at his heels, and the clear-com plexioned grammar-respected man of the new era, with books and papers on his table and a canary-bird swinging in the window. They had no ague in Athens, you may be sure; they Captain Henry King's Story in the Atlantic for August. "From Indiana, did you say? My jlear Bir. you have mv warmest sympathy.

He grasped my friend's hand with a cardial gripe, and there was a persuasive proselyting look in his face as he contin-u3d "1 used to live in Hoosierdom, and I know how it is myself, so to speak. You're going to Kansas, of course. Correct, sir, correct. Let me congratulate you. That's Kansas, just across the river there." We were at the Kawsmouth railway station, waiting for a train to Topeka, and this chance acquaintance was like a whiff of fresh air to us, in the sultry strangeness of the place.

He had an assuring countenance, slightly abated by an equivocal little twitching at the corner of the mouth; his bearing was easily familiar without being offensive; and his voice had in it something of the sparkle of the April sunshine that was making gold of the cracked and dingy station windows. Moreover, he was quite intelligent in his way, and uniquely original at times; and if he presumed upon our credulity, as I fear he did to some extent, it was done so adroitly and so graciously that no chance was left for de-toction. "You'll like Kansas, he went "it's the very perfection of a prairie country not flat "nor boggy, but gently swelling, with rich valleys, and sloping everywhere, Jen sloped, you remember 'beautiful as the gardens of the angels upon the slopes in And the climate is simply celestial, if I may be allowed that word. Do you know, the average temperature of Kansas at the present day is very nearly the same that Greece enjoyed when she was at the pinnacle of her greatness? Fact, gentlemen, sure's my name's Mark-ley." So saying, he took from his pocket a roll of papers, some printed and some written; and, leaving my friend to the study of what I took to oe -unassailable proofs of "the glory that was Greece" in the weather of Kansas, I turned my own attention to the young man who had been furtively passing back and forth in front of us as we talked, and who now stood gazing out through the dusty east window, a few steps away, with his elbow against the wall, and his hands against his cheek silent, listening, and absorbed. He was a wholesome, honest-looking fellow, this young man, with frank blue eyes and the limbs of a gladiator.

Evidently he was unused to the glossy, black clothes he wore, for he wriggled about in them now and then as if with a haunting sense of their illogicalness; and in various noticeable ways he betrayed that confessing flutter of the heart which marks a man at once for a lover thinking of his mistress, or a criminal apprehensive of pursuing officers, it is often hard to tell which, the two are so much alike. But he did not leave me long in doubt on this point, for as I walked near him he faced about, and said pleasantly, in answer to a question concerning his destination "I'm not going any whery that is, on the cars. I'm waiting for a young woman. She's to be here this morning, and I'm mighty afraid she's got left at St. Louis.

She had to change cars there, coming from Macoupin county, Illinois. One train's in from St. Louis, you know the one you came on--and she wasn't on that. There's another one due at 10:30 though. I reckon she'll be on that; but I don't feel easy about it at all." He went i the door, and looked eagerly out along the railroad track eastward; and then, returning, he added "We're to be married to-night, that's the truth of it; and we've fifteen miles to ride into the country after she comes.

It would be too bad if we didn't get there in time, with the license bought, and the preacher all ready, and the folks waitiner and notion-ing about us. It would take us down so, you know. Is it much trouble for a woman to chancre cars by herself at St. Louis?" "Not much," I assured him. "No doubt her ticket was over the other road, and she'll be here all right, when the tram gets in." "Yes," he replied in a dubious tone, "if she didn't get left, or if there hasn't been an accident on the way.

It's foolish, 1 suppose, but do you know I can't help being shaky about it? And the nearer the time conies for the train, the shakier I feel: I do really. Things are so uncertain, you know, 'specially railroads; and he tried to laugh, but it was a hollow mockery. Glancing towards the man Markley, I saw that he had spread out before him various documents, full of queer parallel lines and plentifully sprinkled with figures, from which he was interpreting to my friend, "Mr. Wabash," as he had named him, the marvelous growth of Kansas, a growth which nobody would credit, he remarked, "were it not for the records which I have here in black and white." "The population of Kansas, "he went on to say, "grew from one hundred thousand in 1860 to over three hundred and sixty thousand ik 1870, a gain of nearly two hundred and forty per cent in ten years, against an average increase of less than twenty-two per cent in the whole and more than four-fifths of it came during the latter five of those ten years. It doesn't seem possible, does it? And now, in 1878, the population is certainly three-fourths of a million, at least.

More than deubled, you see, since 1870." He Daused a minute, in an exultant way; and then, adjusting his documents, resumed: "There are now over five million acres of cultivated land in the State. More than three million of it was raw prairie eight years ago; and in i860 less than half a million acres had been And then, you must remember, the war had to be fought meantime, and Kansas was in the red-hot of it all the while. You may have forgotten that at one time she had twenty thousand men in the army out of a voting population of less than twenty-two thousand, and she actually gave more lives to the Union, in proportion to the number of troops engaged, than any other State." These were indeed striking figures, we readily agreed and I sought with the best intentions in the world, to win the younsr man waiting for his sweetheart to an interested notice of them. But the effort was provokinglv futile. He was not looking for land.

He had a home in Kansas, FACTS ABOUT DRINKING. Statistics of Amount of Beverages Drunk in America aud Other Countries. Americans take high rank among the peoples of the world as coffee drinkers. Recent statistics place the amount of coffee used per capita each year, in different parts of Europe, as follows: Russia, 1-5 of a pound; Great Britain and Italy, 1 pound; Austrian -Hungary, 1 1-2 pounds; France, 2 3 5 pounds; Germany, 4 1-2 pounds, Denmark, 5 pounds; Switzerland, 6 3 4 pounds; Holland, 7 pounds, and Belgium nearly 9 pounds. The consumption of genuine coffee in the United States during the year 1878 was about 7 pounds each man, woman ami child, or about five times as large an amount of coffee as of tea.

The consumption of bogus "coffee" also amtountea to one or two pounds per capita. The use of coffee throughout the world has increased in large ratio during the past 40 years, and the present requirement for all nations is estimated at 850,000,000 pounds per annum, against 490,000,000 per annum from 1840 to 1850. An increased use of coffee does not necessarily mean a decreased consumption of other beverages. As will be seen by the statistics given above, the Germans, who are particularly distinguished as beer drinkers, are also prominent coffee drinkers; and the French, who are somewhat noted wine-bibbers, also drink considerable coffee. The champion people of the world are undoubtedly the people of Bavaria, who drink 147 1-4 gallons of beer per head, for which they pay $13.50.

The total outlay in Bavaria for this beverage is more than $65,000,000 per annum. The figures given forthe two principal cities of Bavaria Nuremburg and Munich ana for In go Is -tadt are still large per capita. The former city has a population of about 90,000, and consumes annually about 212 gallons for each inhabitant. This is an average expense to each person of about $19; total about $1,700,000. The population of Munich is about the beer drank per person ennually is about 248 gallons; this is an average expense of about $22.

30. Total, about $3,900,000. Ingolstadt, with a population of only about 15,000, expends annually for its favorite drink about $715,000. This is an average to each inhabitant of about $47.60. with an average consumption of about 528 gallons.

The average consumption of lager beer in the United States is leas than a quarter of a barrel per capita per annum, though the use of this beverage in place of stronger liquids is constantly increasing. The average consumption of tea is about a pound and a half per annum; of wine, but little more than a quart, and of whisky, gin and rum, nearly two gallons. A vast amount of capital and labor find employment in There has been, at this writing, no official declaration that the yellow fe-ser is epidemic in Memphis. It is not prob--able that, so far as the city is such a declaration would make any differ ence. All who can leave the stricken place have left already, or will do so sfc once.

Neither would it make any difference with the rest of the countiy. Cities-are acting upon the supposition that tho disease has become epidemic in Memphis, and are taking the necessary measures tZi precaution. THE TIDY HOUSEWIFE. The careful tidy housewife, when she is giw-ins her house its spring cleaning, should bear sa mind that the dear inmates of her bouse are more precious than bouses, and th at thtsr easterns need cleansing by purifying the blood, regulating the stomach and bowels to pre pent and cure the diseases arising from spring seals) tia and and she should know that these is nothing that will ao it so perfectly and isrtly-aa Hop Bitters, the purest ad best of all nisW cines. See other column..