The Atchisonian from Atchison, Kansas • 1

f.ti( ATCHISON, KANSAS, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1877. NO. 6. $2.00 PER YEAR. 1 i 6ESEBAL XEWS.

A SLEEPING-STORY. MABKET BKP0BT. Atchisok, Apeil 28, 1877. Since our last report the grain market hat been First Annual Of tut Prince of Wales'! sone, only Prince George la Intended for the naval profession, although both the two elder are nndorg Ing Instruction on that Britannia training ship, fit is said that theere It a good deal of fagging crd the ship, and the two young Princes will have to 1' rn to be ordered about. e-The Turkish naval force is now contused of two Imperial yachts, six Ironclad nine Ironclad corvettes, two Ironclad four wlvea hisself, and Ave children by this yor now disease dlpthery but In Wisconsin.

I don't know tbe facts, but that's what got round. The Other Man. But how did he lose his pop-larlty? The One Man. Well, that's tbe question. You see he introduced some things Into ouderlaking that waz new.

He hed, for instance, a way, as be called it, of maunlpperruting the features of tbe deceased. Tho Other Man (quietly). How niannlperlal-Ing. The One Man (struck with a bright aud aggressive thought). Look yer, did ye ever notice how, generully speakin', ouhandsoine a corpse is? The Other Man bad noticed this fact.

Tbe One Man (returning to his fact). Why, there was Mary Peebles, ei was daughter of my wife's bosem friend a mighty pooty girl and a perfesslug Christian-died of scarlot fever. Well, that girl-I was one of tbe mourners, being my wife's friend well, that gal, though I hedn't, perhaps, oughter say lying In a casket, fetched all the way from some A 1 establishment In Chicago, filled with flowers and furbclows-didn't really seem to be of much account. Well, although my wile friend, and me a mourner. Well, now, I was disappointed and discouraged.

The Other Mnu (lu palpably affected sympathy). SIjoI now! Yes, sir. Well, you see, this yer ouderlaker this Wlkllns-had a wa of correcting all thet. Aud just by maunlperlallou. He worked over tbe face of the deceased until he pcrduced what tho surviviu' relatives called a look of reslgnutlon-you know, a sort of smile, like.

When he wauled to put lu any extrys he produched whut he called heviu' regular charges for this kind of work a Christian's slope." The Other Mau. I waul to kuow. Ye. Well, I udrult uttimejt ll was ulillle sluit-llu And 1 allers said iu little confidentially) that 1 had my UoubtB of being srrlptooral or sacred, being, as )ou know, worms ol the ycarth; aud I relieved my mind to my pastor, but he didn't lucl like lutert'eriu', long ea It was couttued to church membership. But the other day when C) Dunham died you dlsremember Cy Duukuni! Along interval of slleuue.

The Other Msu as lookiug out of the window, aud had apparently forgotten his companion completely. But us 1 stretched my hesd out of the curtaiu I saw four other beads as eagerly rvachvd out troiu other berths to hear the conclusion of tho story. One head, a female one, Instantly disappeared on my looking rouud, but a certain tremulousues of her curtain showed an unabated iuteretl. The ouly two utterl) disinterested men were th" Oue Man aud tbe Other Muu. The Oue Mau (delate hi himn-ll from the window).

Cy Dunham? Yes; Cy hed hed either conviction-ol perfes-sious. Lseter get druuk aud go round ilh women. Sorter like the prodigal sou, only a little more so, ez lUres! Ikiu judge rromlho lacks slated to aw. Well, Cy oue duy petered out down st Little Itock, aud was sent up yer for iutciiiL ut. Tue lamerly, being proud-like, of router.

Uidu'l cpure auy money ou thai tuueral, aud it wnz now between ou and ie -about v. shaptiy and first-class and prime iue e. 1 erursaw. Wilkius had put in his extiyx. He had put unto that prodigals lace A 1 touch; hed him fixed up with a Christian's hope.

Well, it wuz about the turning point, for thar was some, of the members aud the pastor himself thought that the line ought to be irawa somewhere, aud thar waz some talk al Deacon Tlbbut's about a reg'lar conference meetiu' regardeu' it. But it wasu't thet which made him oupopular. Another silence; no expression uor reiieetiou from the face of the Other Mau ol the least desire to know what ultimately settled the unpopularity of the uudertuker. But from the runaiun of the various berths several eager uud oue or I wo even wrathlui faces protruded, suxlous for the rcull. The Other Man (laxily) recurring to ibe Joi-t topic.

Well, hat wade him unpoplur'n The oue muu Kxtrys, 1 thiuk that Is 1 suppose uol kuowln' (cautiously) all the fjcts. When Mrs. Wlddecombe lost her husband, 'bout two mouths ago, though xhe'dbaen through thu valley of the shadder of death twice this beta' her third marriage, bavin' been John Baker's wldder- The Other Man (wllh uu Intense eiprtiti-iou of Interest). No, you're fooliu me! The One Man (solemnly). If I was lo appear before my Maker to-morrow, yc! She was i lie Berlin, by the census, la found to have Inhabitants.

A son of Stephen A. Douglas Is studying law In In North Carolina. Francis Joseph of Austria la a great fiddler-one of the best amateurs of Vienna. Flogging Is still permitted In tbe British navy, but in 1870 there were only fourteen instances. Petrified clams 1,000 feet above aea level have been found on N.

C. Irvln'a ranch In the Kocky Mountains. Emperor William of Germany has eighty-eight decorations. He wears the insignia of very near all tbe orders of Europe. The fisheries of Iceland nave failed for a thUd successive year, and great distress Is thereby cnil-ed among the inhabitants.

Salt Is now Imported In large quantities from Europe at low rates. Shipowners prefer ll to ballast for the western passage. There are now but two Field Marshals In the British army, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief. The Bed Bank (N, Standard declares that one of the young men of that town Intends to settle down lu New York and grow up with the place. It was computed In July, lT.U, that within the psst 1st months Great Britain had exported WD.OUO quarters of wheat, valued at in ,000,000.

Times have changed. -The i'ouug Meu's Christian Union of Boston has consented assume all the duties and expense of sending poor children Into the couutry for a week's vacation during the heated term. A plece'uf coral five Inches high, six inches lu diameter at thu top and two at the base, was recently taken from the submarine cable at Port Darwin, Australia. Ths cable was four years old. The San Francisco newspapers aay that Jim Keene has beeu using up his capital very fast la Wall street, and that he has sold a thousand shares of Bank of California stock to get more ready mouey.

We do believe If the lives of some men were to be prolougued by minding their own business tbry would prefer sticking their noses Into other people's affairs and passing In their checks immediately. The Dutch Uovermnent has officially notified tbe Vatican that, as a measure of policy, It has removed the Papal arms which former consult to the Pontifical States have been accustomed to display on the doors or other portions ot theLi dwellings. Menottl Garibaldi has left Italy, at last accounts snd Is probably In Paris now, to demand satlsfse-tion from tbe editor of Figaro, on account of an article published in that journal which, he believes has outraged the good usuies of his father and himself. --Capt. Cameron, the African explorer, sues a very Interesting account of some African tribes addicted to feeding on human flesh, snd ho preferred, for the most part, their lellow beings when pretty far gone.

Not a word Is set down as to salt and pepper. -r-Accord! a lo the Transcript, a common gronnd sparrow as recently sreu lo vanquish six English sparrows In a coutest in the Boston Public Uurden, and to cud the fight by taking one of the Invaders by the wing mid him. ss terrier would ral. The new jury law of Flmldn provides- that whea in un cs, civil or criminal, a knowledge of reafisng, writlngubd arithmetic Is necessary to enable a juror to understand the evidence to be offered, he may be challenged it' he does not possess such qualification. "Do you really believe, Mr, J'uilUns.

that anybody could make a head from buitor?" ukcd tbe landlady. "Well, yes, ma'am, I should thiuk they might," said PodkJns, as he pushed buck his Individual butter plate; "somebody Lis ot asfaras tbe hair with this." Dr. Benjamin Franklin inveuu .1 aud constructed three clocks, and oue ot them is owucd in the Old Ki np's Arms Inn. in Lancaster, Kuglsnd. It has only three wheels aud strikes tbe hour.

It is to be sold at auction in May, ith other curious historical objects, are becoming scarce iu the Columbia river, and proprietors of salmon rauulng factories there are looking out for fresh fields aud pastures new. Two factories are to be established near Sitka, Alaska, this aummer, where the supply of the delicacy Is ineihsustlble. Irrigating the dry lands or Colorado from wells by windmill power has been recently found practicable by a farmer, near Evans, lu that Stste. With one small mill au acre of vegetables was watered, and the thirst of a herd of eighty head uf cattle, horses and sheep was qneucbed. The Anglo Indiau budget for Id77-S Uses the amount which It will be necessary to burrow during the eusuing year at and the ludisn Oovcrumeut recommend that the Secretary of State should ask Parliament for power to borrow lu Euglund aud the rest lu ludis.

Mollk Mlrva has been appointed Coiniinimlcr-lu-Chlef of the Persian corps of observation. The headquarters are at Choi, Ou the l'ersluti general staff thirty-six European officers are employed. Russian merchants embark lu a port of the Caspian sen arms and munitions for the I'urslauaruiy. A portion of tho great meteor hich passed over northern Vermont a few weeks ago Is reported found uear the town of Jay, embedded about four feet in the earlh. It 1 said to have the ap pearauue ol Iron ore, lava aud aoepaunic, uud to weigh about two tons, Keport says this Is the largest rrollte ever discovered in this country.

A safety envelope lo prevent taiupurlug hss been devised, Ou tbe flap the words "NteDipt to open" are printed with a double set or chemicals, tho first Impression conululug uutjjalls and the second green vitriol, If the flsp be steamed or moistened, in aay wsy, Ihe insirlv printing will VPtar. The rostdeuco snd grounds of Wlnsus, the Baltimore mllllotiulre who teeetitlc died, occupied an entire square, mid woi ld Imw becu very ornamental to the, neighborhood hint tliej lum enclosed by high brick wall. Yeat so some of tbe staid residents cotnplatnctt of the nude similar; exposed lu Mr. Wlnau's palace, and lie lnived his anger by building- the wall. -Paul Morphy Is still In a New Orleans Insane Mylum, a hopeless maniac The attending physicians believe that his disorder wsS enusnrt by the I mental strain of playing lung.

matches at Over ten years ago he suddenly developed a repugnance to ihe game, the tU-Wtfj nmminllti? nearly to niiinlu, and rarely nf erwarrt plsye It; but the liumtal disturbance (rrsstnHlly luewassd and several mouths oyo so bnl its' re-stra'tit was iirceMuvy. Rwrol lections of a Winter Xiirlit. WoMtorUt at a Ximber of Down the Bel-llnd" Ml JEoIena Harps-Ae Popii. law tladertaker an I Ever Knew. I Prom tbe Philadelphia Times.

I( a Pullman sleeping-car on a western iobd. After tbe nrnt plunge Into unconsciousness whirb the weary traveler takea on getting into liia bi-rth, I awakened to the dreadful revelation that I bad been asleep only two bourn. Tbe Ificater part of a long winter night was before ine to face with atarlng even. Finding It impossible to sleep. I lay there wondering a number of why, foi instance, the Pullman sleeping-rar blankets were unllko othera; why they were like square cut out of buckwheat cake, aud why they clung to you when you turned over, and hung heavy on you without warmth; why the.

curtain before you could not have been made opaque, without being no thick and suffocating; why it would not be as well to ait up all uljht half asleep in an ordinary passenger car at to lay awake all uighthalf asleep in a Pullman, But the snoring of my fellow-passcnjiers answered thin question in tbe negative. With the. recollection of last uight'a dinner weighing ou me as heavily and eoluly a the blankets, 1 bczan wondering why, over the wholu extent of the continent, there was nu local dish; why tbe bill of fare at restaurants nnd botels was lurariablyouly a weak reflex of the metropolitan bostlerles; why the entrees were always the sume, only more or less badly cooked; why the traveling American always wa supposed to demand turkey and cold cranberry sauce; why the pretty waiter girl apparently shuffles your plate behind your back and then deals tbem orer your shoulder In a semi-circle, as If they were a hand of cards, and not always a good one? Why, haring done this, she Instantly retired to the nearest wall and gazed at you scornfully, as oue who would ray; "Pair sir, though lowly, lam proud; if dost imagine that I would permit undue familiarity of speech, beware!" And tben I be-Hgn to think of and dread the coming breakfast, to wonder why the ham was always cut half an inch thick, and why tbe fried eggs always resembled a glass eye that visibly inked at you with diabolical dispeptic suggestions; to wonder If the buckwheat cakes, the eating of which requires a certain degree of urtlftlc deliberation and preps-tion, would be brought in as nsuul one minute before the train started. And then I bad a vivid rocollection of a fellow passenger who, at a certain breakfast table in Illinois, frantically enwrapped his portion of this national pastry iu his red bandanna handkerchief, took it Into the smoking car, and quietly devoured It en route. Lying broad awake, I could not help am some observation' which I thiuk are noticed by Hie day traveler, first, that the speed of a train is not equal or continuous.

That at certain times the engine starts up, and says to the baggage train behind it: "Come, come, this won't do! Why, it's nearly half past two; how shall we get through? Don't you talk to me. Pooh, pooh!" delivered lu that rythmical fashion which all meditation assumes on a railway train. Exnnpli gratia. Oue night, having raised my window curtain to look over a moonlit snowy landscape, as I pulled it down, the lines of a popular comic song flashed across me. Fatal error! The train instantly took during the rest of the night I was haunted by this awful refrain: "Pull down the bel-llnd, pulldown the bel lindj somebody's kllnk-klink, 0 don't be ehoo-shoo!" Naturally this differs on different railways.

On the New York Central, where the road bed is quite perfect and the steel rails continuous, I have heard this Irreverent train f've the words of a certain popular revival hrnm a'lcrthis fashion; "Hold the fort, for I am Sanky, Maody slingera still, Wave the swish washy back from kllnky, kllnky klanky kill." On the New York and New Haven, where there are many switches, and the engine whistles at every crossroad, I have often hesrd: ''Tommy make room tor you whoppy, that's a little clang, bnmplty, bitmplty, boopy, cJIklty. tllklty, clang." Poetry, 1 fear, tared little better. One starlit night, com-iug from Quebec, as wv slipped by a virgin forest, the opening lines of Kvangcllno flashed upon me. Hut all I could make of them was this: "This Is the forest rimral-eval-cval; tbe groves of the pines and tho hem-loi ks-locks-locks-laeook." The train was only "slowing" or "braking" up at a station. Hence tbe Jar in the meter, I had noticed a peculiar Julian harp-like cry that ran through the whole train a we aettled to rest after a loug run an almost sigh of infinite reller.

a musical sigh that began in and ran Krsdually up to natural, which I think most observant travelers have noticed day and ulgbt. No railway official has ever given me a satisfactory explanation of It. As the car, in rapid rnn, Is always slightly projected forward of Its trucks, a practical friend once suggested to mo that It was the gradual settling back of the car body to a state of Inertia, which, of course, eve ry poetical traveler would reject, Four o'clock the sound of bool-hUvlcIng by tho porter faintly apparent from the toilet room. Why not talk to him? But, unfortunately, I remembered that any attempt at exloud-ni conversation with the conductor or porter was always resented by them as Implied disloyalty to the company they represented. 1 recalled that once I had endeavored to Impress upon a conductor the absolute folly of a midnight Inspection of the tickets, and had been treated by him as an escaped lunatic.

No, there was uo relief from this suffocating and Insupportable loneliness to be calncd there. I raised the window blind aud looked out. We were passing farm house. A light, evidently tbe lantern of a farm hand, was swung behind a barn. Yes, the faintest tinge of rose In the far horlaou.

Morning surely, at last. We had stopped at a slatiun. Two men had got into the car and had taken seats In the oue vacant section, yawnlngoccasloually, aud conversliigln a languid, perfunctory aortof may. They sat opposite each other, occasionally looked out of the window, but always giving the stray Impression that they were tired or each other's company, As I looked out of my curtain at them, the one Man said with a feebly concealed yawn "Yes, well, I no ion he was at one time as popular an odder-laser ea 1 knew." The Other Msn (Inventing a (liiestiou rather than glvlngau answer, out of some languid social impulse )-flut was hn-thls yerou rtertaker a Chrlstlan-had he Jlned the church, The One Man (reflectively). Will, I don't know you might call him a purressln Christian! yes, ho bed conviction.

1 think l)r. Wylle sad him nailer conviction. Kt least that was the way I got It from him. A long, dreary pause, The Other (fcllng 1 Incumbent upon him to say something), bat why was he poplar ei an undertaker The One Man, (laally). Well, he wss kinder p.ipUr with widdera and wldderera sorter soothea Vm kinder heirless way; ilung'tm anthln1 here and sometimes outer the Book, sometimes outer himself, ea a nan of eiperlsno az bed hed somir.

Ha, tbny aay (very cautiously), lost three very unsettled. Wheat especially hat been in a very fluctuating condition, yet with a general upward tendancy. It la very hard to givt precise quotations as each principal market hat Hi own quotations, whi'h are almost Impossible to reconcile with others. For instance in Milwaukee wheat Is quoted at about 10 cents per bushel higher than In Chicago, and although this may be partially explained by the better grade in Milwaukee, still it it a good indication ot the unsettled state of the market. It is altogether probable, howeve, that the price of wheat and flour will continue to rise.

There are several reasons for this expectation, a-niong which are, first, the fact that the supply In Liverpool is only about one half the usual quantity at this time of year; second that the port or Odessa, and other ports of Southern Russia, upon which Western Kurope depends for verj large proportion of its wheat supply, are now closed on account of the war between Russia and Turkey, and, third, because the supply of old wheat in this country la not nearly so large as was generally supposed. It is therefore very probable that wheat and flour will continue to advance in price for some time yet. Of course a great deal depends upon the extent and duration of the European war; hut from present appearances that Is likely to extend anduru long enough. Corn and other grains have not advanced In the same proportion with wheat, which wasvnaturally to beexpected; but still the advance has been sufficient to make the corn of Ka us vis's very valuable item of its wealth considering the amount oa hand. Of course these high prices are tubject at any time to a relapse, and we would advise our farmers when they get a lufBcent-ly good thing to take It.

Of course they should try to get the best prices they can, but at the same time they should be careful nut to let the good opportunity step by. PROVISIONS. Hog products were very active and buoyant, aud a considerable advauce in prices wss made during the week. Take him altogether tbe hog Is looking lip. Beef is steady and quiet, as be ought te be.

POTATOES are exceedingly scarce, and that Is about all tha ueed to be said about them. BUTTSK ASDIUOS are exceedingly weak, which is an nnusual thing In this market for butter especially. Gold Wheat, No. it spring at elevator 1 48 8 tall 1 85fel 90 4 fall 1 451 88 Corn, from wagons 40 cts in cur lots 4'ii, cts Potatoes 00 Karly Rose potatoes 85Q75 cts Apples, per bbl 8 SOW 00 Broom corn, per ton 00 Kggs 77H cts Butter 1013 cts Hogs Vt cts Cattle for Butchering tKtWi cts Cattle Tor shipping 4AVt cts PLOLR. $5 00 XXX $4 60 JCJXXSU 4 75 I XX 8 50 Cornjncal 90c LEATHER.

Sole-Buffalo tan 31 34c Mate 28 to 81c Cityoak 40 32c country oak 35 89c Calfskins-French 1 SO 2.33 American 1 00 1 50 Klps-Frenrh 1 00. 1 50 American U0 1 10 Upper-oak 20 25c ft Hemlock 20 25c Toppings (all colors) 00 11 00 dozen Linings (pink white) 50 9 50 Kuasetta 4 00 7 ou Moroccos Boot leg 35 S9c ft Calfkld 36 00 42 00 dozen Ladies 35 Site ji ft mas. Urc-en i 7 7'c Dry tllut 12 15c Suited 10 He Damaged, off Sheepskins 20 1 00 Tallow 7 8 La C'vtma, April 27, 1877. Wheat, bushel 1 Corn II bushel 20 23 Oats, bushel 20 SO Flaxseed, 1 00 1 23 Potatoes, ft bushel 50 60 Apples, 1 00 1 25 Kggs, (J dog 8 Butter, fresh, lb 17 Hams, lb. Hi, ia Lsrd, lb 10 12 Chickens, live, doz 1 50 1 73 rATTLX, Good shippers, avc.

1,400 to 1,500 hundred 4 25 4 30 Shippers, second class 3 25 3 75 Butchers' stock 3 00 3 15 nous. Live bogs, hundred lbs 30 4 00 Dressed hogs, hundred 6 50 Indepknuknce, April 27, 1877. Itutter, lb 13 20 Chickens, doz 1 75 2 25 dressed fl lb 3 Turkeys, dressed, lb 6 live 40 50 Corn, bu 20 22 Kggs, dor. 8H Hides, green, $tt 3 6 Hides, Hint, per to 13 Dsrd, per lb 10 124 Oats, per bn 30 Potatoes, 1 20 Salt, per bbl 2 50 2 60 Whest, per bu 1 00 1 80 Hogs, live, per 100 lb 3 25 8 60 Hogs, dtessed, per 100 It) Wichita, April 27, 1877. COItllKCTEl) BT IIEIXKH a SNIT.LKK.

Wheat, per bu 1 10 1 15 Oats, per bu 30 65 Corn, perbu r. 80 ,32 Bay, per ton 4 00 4 SO Bogs, a SO 8 75 Fat cattle g)f 8a COAL. i. U. COVEIIT.

I. Q. ACLU. J.M.C0VEI.T&C0., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DKALKRS In all kinds of COH Now lu the mai-kei, Oid'TS J'touiptlv filled. l'KKMS ST Kin (ASH.

Ottlci aid yard corner Third and UuOi sMeeis, of rullroud truck, ATCllIMHl hH.Vm.S, Grand ATCHISON JULY 4, 1877. TAKE NOTICE! AND GOVERN YOURSELVES ACCORDINGLY Mtcfa Pilslii Co. PUBLISHERS OF THE ATCHISONIM! AND THE ATCHISON COURIER, WILL HOLD A GRAND mm snou OIV July 4th, '77, IN THE CITY OF ATCHISON. COMPETITION OPEN TO A HANDSOME Baby Carriage, VALUED AT $50.00 WILL HE GIVEN TO THE BEST LOOKING BABY! A BEAUTIFULLY EMBROIDERED CLOAK To the Second Best Looking Bitbv; a LOVELY BABY BONNET For the third; and tt FINE ENGRAVED SILVER CUP For the fourth babv Every Subscriber in THE ATCHISONIM WILL KKCfilVK FRKE AftUlKSIOX. EXCURSION! Trains will be run at Iiwer Prices tluiii em be.fi'ir.

BABY SHOW THE IR frigate, nv Ironclad gunboats, fonr shl flof-the-llne, seven corvettes, fifteen coast live schooner, four cannon sloops, and fli J-three nondescript teasels lu all UK with 75D fn and men. (S(, The archwolglcal sectiou of the of Science In St. Louis will soon have their co he on exhibition in the new rooms of the Met or Science and Arts. The section was ily a few months ago, aud has already one of th collections of mound builders' remains P' he shape of pottery, stone Itnplliueute, and ski? ln the country. A Yankeo, having patented a device for miici'g the tops offences impassable by cats, adveMiil a as follows: "Practical tests of the Invention nave been show "that It is discouraging to cats la a high degree.

Tom cats of exceptional intelligence, who have Vang treated with contempt such trivial obstacles as spikes and broken glass, have retreated baffled before the teaser." A curious scene was enacted at tbe church of St. Bartholomew the Oieat in London on Oood Friday. According to the provisions of an ancient will ihe rector proceeded to the churchyard ml deposited twenty-one sixpences on the grave of the testatrix aa a donatlou of twenty-one widows, the conditions being that they were absolutely needy and not too stiff In their Joists to stoop aud pick up the money. Mr. John T.

Kaymond played Col. Sellers at Lynn, the other night, aud an ardent temperance man called on Col. Sellers after the play aud urged him to sign the pledge. The cold water advocate said the colonel played his part to perfection until be got drunk, and then he made a confounded old fool of himself. The colonel smiled, and during the next hour he "smiled" several times.

-His hat sailed high In air, It did The hat which pleased his vanity; Such things we seewheu April winds Do persecute humanity. And she, poor girl, embraced a post With tenderness quite curious Such deeds take piece when clonds of dust Are blowing tast and furious. -At the great milk product show held at Ham-btrg the best collection of cheese came from Holland, where they turn out mauy grades of cheese to meet the tastes of the various countries to which they export. Their cheese Is scientifically made, with a view to keeping in all climates. The shape of tbe cheese generally determines Its grade and quality.

Some fine specimens came from the Kussian dairy' schools near Moscow. Blsinark'e hours are those of a new spaper man snd he is an incessant worker. Ue works all night, rarely retiring before daybreak. At noon be gets up, takes a tingle cup of tea, aud then attends to despatches until two o'clock, when he receives Cabinet Minittera aud Ambassadors. Between three and four he drives to the Parliament House, where he occasionally takes part in debute.

About six he aeea the Emperor and then dines. -The following statistics show a remarkable increase la the supply of certain favorite remedies since 1956: In that year tha central pharmaceutical establishment of tbe Parisian Hospital furnished x82 pounds of chloroform; ln1875 the quantity bad risen to 616 pounds. The Increase of chloral from to 1875 waa from 10 pounda to 730 pounds. Bromide of potassium, fi pounds In 1855, waa pounda in 1873. morphine, 1 pound 0 ounces in 1856, was 29 pounds In 1875.

The progress of alcohol considered at a therapeutical agent it especially worthy of notice. Between 1863 and 1873 the consumption or alcohol in the hospitals Increased from 1,270 to 40,000 quarts. Brandy does not appear on the list until when bar quarts were supplied. In 1875 Ihe quantity had risen to 1 108 quarts. -Certain persons In Alsace, who claim to be heits of Tuk'bmid Metzgcrdo Welbnum, Lieutenant Coneral of the Dutch Cavalry, who died at the lla-ue in I'sJl, have appointed a committee to request lite Kivnch, Swiss and American Governments to take diplomatic action in the interest of sach of their citizens as may claim also to be heirs of Oen.

Meuger. The General died leaving IW.INJ.0uo francs, or in personal estate, and no will could be found. The Dutch Government, under William I. of Orange, took possession of the property. The will was not found uutll 17M, when William III, of Orange, In conjunction with his Government decided that the right of the Government to the snccosslon had become con-flrued.

Several appeals had beun made by relatives from 1701 to that time, bat without success, and appeals have continued almost to the present day. With interest and compound Inttvest since lsvl, the property would smouut. to more thau all the gold coin ou tho globe. A House of Our Owu. Next to being married to tho right person, there is nothing so important in oiic's life as to live under one's own roof, There is something more than a poetical charm in tho expression of wife writing to a friend who said: "We luivo our cosy house.

It is thrice dear to us because it is our own. We have bought it with the savings of our earning. Many were the soda founta-i us, tho confectionery saloons, and tho necessaries of the market we had to pass; many time my noble husband denied himself the comfort of tobaco, the refreshing draught of beer, wore his old clothes and even patehed-up boots; and 1,0 me! made my old bonnet do, wore tho plainest clothes, did the, plainest cooking. Siiviug wan the order of the house, and tt have home of our own, had been our united uim. Now we have it.

There is no landlord troubliuir us ith raising the rent and exacting this or that. There is no fear harbored in oiir busont that in sickness or old, ago we will bo thrown out of house arid home, and the money which would have otherwise gone to pay rent, is sufficient to keep comfort in the winter days of life." ft 'II 4 11 I 1 4 ft. ft widder of Baker. The Other Man. Well, Iswow.

The Oue Man. Well, this widder Wlddcowhe she put up a big fuueral for the deceased. Mhe hud Wilkius, and thet undertaker Just laid hisself out just spread hisself. Onfortunately perhaps fortunately in the ways of Providence one of Wtd-deoombe's old friends, a doctor up thar In Chicago, comes duw to Ihe funeral. He goes up wllh the friends to look at the deceased, sinllin' a peaceful mile, and everybody sayln' he's gone to meet his reward, aud this yer frieud turns round, short aud uddeu ou the widder slttlu' In the pew aud kinder enjoylu', as women will, all the complluieuls paid to the corpse, uud kescy, se.

he: "What did you say your biwbaiid died ol tosrni?" "Consumption," sujashe, wiping her eyes, poor critter, "censumptiuu- (nllopiu' conoumpliou." "Consumption be sex he, beiu' a profane kludof a Chicago doctor, and not belu' ever uuder conviction, "That mau died of sliychliine. Look at thet contortion of them ladal muscles. Thet.s strychnine. Thet's risers riurdoulcus (that is what he said; he was always sorter "Why, doctor," says the widder, "thet -thet's hi last smile. It's a Christian resignation." "Thet be blowed; dou't tell he.

"Hell is full of thet kind of resignation. Its plKoo. And I'll why, dern my skin, yes, we are, yes, It's Jollel. Well, now, who'd bate thought we'd been nigh oulo au hour?" Two or three anxious passengers Dow their bcrlhs: "Hay, look yer, sliaugerl Old uissi! What became of" But the One Man and ths Other Miu had 11 arte. Prominent European capitalists have beca ne gotiating for some time, and at last successfully, with tbe Laud Commissioners of Florida for OOtMXKI worth of orange lands.

They Intend to bring Into the stats s.un) or ft.uOO hardy farmers from England, Uermsiiy, France aud Italy. The r.iplU of Ihu cultlvstlon of pea nuts Is due to the use uow made of them for Ihe 1 they contain. Last sessoa's product renehed bushels, valued at The' oil Is In large demand as substitute for olive and almond oils, aud keeps a much longel1 (true wllh-out becoming rantld. Tha London Spmtalor says: "Most people len they marry are the unfortunate recipients of a vast quantity of what can only be described as ornamontal rubbish, procured at a largo cost from divers, fashionable establishment for the encouragement of bad taste, aud the waste of mouev, Surely there nasi few of us who have not grou- ned In on time under this plsgue of ormolu, and ba finally ernabed by the arrival or a seventh blotting book or twentieth Inkstand.".