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THE DAILY HERALD : PLATTSMOUTII, -NEIJKASKA, SATURDA.Y, JUNK 15, 18S0. A GRIM TALK OF THIS SEA. A DARK CLOUD FOLLOWS.THE SAXON ACROSS THE OCEAN. Terrible Voynet of SMp from Havre to w Orlritn A Chapter In tlio Life of m Ilrave Marlnr The Awful Death ll-corl on tile Ship's Ia. V.'liat n fearful thins, then it must lio to lie confine! to a ship where tleath Is a daily ocrurrpii"-", wlnni a contagious iliseow 1st rnin iukI no nj :nowi whfii lii.s turn may t-omn nnl hU Iifclei8 form, Inehiwil in a fcl t t 1 li.'iiniM'M'U, limy I hi committal to tho d't-ji. Hueh 11 vyji won tho passao f tho Maine hliiji Saxon, ('apt. Grot on, from Ilavro to New Orleans, in lCl. Cujt. Oroton lias lon; ninr-o as.stt awny, lint f lieso i n-i 1-Jt t s rio related to tho writer ly lii.s lrol her, uikI liwiv Ihj v rifl.-l ly his lr; hook. This lt-' IxhiU is n -"iit iiiikiii.i narrative of l'-a!!i, ht'ii tn nnl ili-aMer, nnl without tlio usual il -script ioii.s of coiiix-m suil.-l, directions of uin.l kii'Ii hour, titato of weather, oliserva tinii.s of latitude, longitude, etc., would l a furt interest in;; volume. Such thin;;, how ever, would have little Interest for theuvcrae n-ail-r. !-t. U, I K.", I. tho Saxon, with 437 passcn Fr, was towed out of Havre, lionn-wurd Uumd on a viiyau that was to try tho soul of her l.rnvn commander. Tho lir.t oritry of tho lo;; Imok is business liko enough. We ore tolil that tho tti'4 to wit n.-4'fi v!1 tho neat sum of tll', nn. I loft tin-in to themselves. IJut in a day or two tho record .f h-ath begins. Oct. II the ominous words, "Hiiried ono r;irl," (-oiin.l.-d the Ley not r cf tho entire passage. Tho next liiy, "Imri.-d a woman," un.l tho next. "Iinrietl n child." U:i Sunday, tho I V h, tho island of Usluint waft mid the captain stat.-s tho pa-sen- pi-rs wi-ro mostly wi-il; lut 0:1 tho IClli tho terribly monotonous entry naiii appears, "Ituriel nn oil man." For tlio next few days tho record nro of fearful gales, sal's Mown to pieces, ami tho ship hovo to for fcafety. Cajio Finisferro is pn.xst.il, and with laml tiil in sijlit, threo of tho jiassciigers go over tho ship's side, find two of tho crew are sick. Up to this tiiuo nothing has lieen said as to the nature of (test donee so rapidly tleciiii.'itinj: tho ship's company, lut now we learn that it is pronounced eh-ler:i by two French physi cians who hapjien to le among the passengers. Now wo learn also tliat tho captain's wife, v.l -);! he hail but recently married, is with l-.iiu on .ljis ill starred voyng. She too ftills ft victjiu. .t five in the morning sho is taken very ill, and fi-iiij that timo till her death the loving husband1:; grief and despair is jiiingjed with tho i! ii ire prosaic details of each clay's events. Sho suiFered no iiiu, but rapidly weakened. Her life, no doubt, was prolonged by tho assiduous c-aro of tho two French doctors, who did all in their jxjwer'to tare her, but in vain. On the morning of tho "1st ho writes: "My wife is very sick and vo-.I,". She is failing fast. She cannot live, fjut 1 biii', hope that sho will. The muto asks if sho dies wrrit is to Ims tlono with the body. If it can lo kept, jyo shall keep it by all fiicnus. Tho mato has uoi left tho room since .Uo vvu taken siek." At 1 1 :.'J0 he says: "She in-s quietly; u dark cloud seems to folio '.v tho Saxon." On tho next day, "Sho is very low, but without pain." At 13p.m., "sinking fast." rt Q a. m. she closed her eyes in tk-ath, and 4 he soi-py-'fnl man exclaims, "1 feel as though J had lost ati jij life worth living for. The jKUvsengers arodviuxat tlio raieof twoaday, find I wwii surrounded by&iekness ami death. The iaswi!ger9 that take cate of themselves are all right, but tlusr? who are u't cj.;an in their habits and careful alout eating, and drinking are the lirst to lie taken." The hard est t.Jow hail fallen upon the unhappy sailor, $ut not f !;e List. On the 21'th this entry aj juais: "Ant)er tU-atli at niMuight my ;nate, .loshua Keller. Ho sufTeretl terrible puin from eriMtips tili ilntli relieved him. 'The doctors say his death was caused by es jiosi'.re and imprudence. His homo va ii; iocklan l, ile. Ho leaves a wife atid infant f.-tiiL.; I am now all alone, and thaonly nav-igat-.-r oi4 !;-ard tiioshio. tlo.l only knows jshat will Lxcoilv of tho ship and tho passen gers if I haj:Kn to tako ;!: cholera and die." This la-.t misfortu:io, howevoi.', iJid not be tlri ship, though il seems almost a irica. clo thGt ho was spared. Every care fell upon his shoulder The crew an 1 passc?ngers Lad to be watche.1. Even taa second mate and tho cook could not bo trusted. THE OXLT XAVIGATOK LEFT. jCv ery jxri ff tho ship had to be visited laily, and the l;iui!s had to ba sujierin tend ed by iiiu?, for tho d;atLv occurred with horrible regularity. Nov. he inudo this tiujy: "uiitd a chiM;"cn the 'JWh, "Uurlevl two children," nd so on till Djc. 1, wheu foi ty-ltvt had 1L.-1 u the twenty-two days since leaving Jlavro. V7.,;' drtpped off suddenly, some times wit:.it four's warning. Tiie mor tality seemed gx?atesc .::;ong the children. Ou ewa reeurring day of th wee!; pa w hich Lis wi:'t tho pathetic entry occuii, "One, two or tiiffc. weeks since my wife died." Her lxly ha ie!isi'Usly preserved. The remains wero carefully iucloaed in a pan j,s"k and this was thoroughly coated with f.ai at -V,rvaIs he added succeeding tarred ;.-ai:vas cases unii there wero live of these -,Vi-i::gs. One day Lo W,,rd that the passen Vrers v. ,-- cutting up their Wrti p-rds and iiuruing tU-:n. There was no need of this, 3 IhtV were -.v.-n s'ipp'.ied with wood and coal, -n l he promiJy Ih;ontened them with con finement in irons if they persisted. On one i-as;oii bo had to thrash a man for fisut5iS a woi vu,i a' another time ho had to use force u, a fiillt Rmoao theiii They Le-ya-i to 6--.OVI mutinous and duheartened fcirit (."apt. CfOUni waa not a half way ,na:i, ar.d w Lea he speaks or ."astenins"' any .t:c. ir no doubt jjiear.t a soul th?is for the unruly Frencbuiau. Oivj ti.iv a rush was nujdo for him when standi ig a: and at a great disadrfiutage, but at iUj ear.Kst j-preseutations by the French doctors of their helpless coa Jitiou without a navigator, taey concluded cot to throw him overboard. They took it as aj injury that he should so carefully preserve his wife's body, while theirs were consigned at once to tho water. Thus tho weary days went by. On the Cth of December, when near their des liuattou. tho Saxon got agrouud. It seemed As If tho ship would go to pieces. The pas wrwjcrs were safely takon ashore, and at high wau' the ship floated. Tho couipany ro cmbarkyl. aud in a few days landed at New Orleans. Sixty-eight liad itarted from France whose bodies mar!:-"d tho ghastly route of the Saxon riorums the ocean. Many of tha jv-t of tho 437 bare sbice croJ the ocean of life, but sonje no doubt stiU liva to recall their dreadful voyage to the Sv World. As 1 closed the old log book I was invited to look at tho portraits of Capt Groton and iiis wife, mado shortly before her death. Th features of Capt. (Jreton wera those of a man titled to go steadily ou through 6cenes of sick ness and death in tho straight path of duty, but it was sad to thii:k that the lorejy fac of bis wife should havo btttk?d iutothe repose of death at the very commar.aemcnt of what promised to l a hapjy pasiago, but which rau nuirked by coos taut misforiuuc. Cleorgo V . ShSer in Lowitou (He.) JouruaL THE OLD HOUSE. Ia throiiKh tho porch and up the ulli-nt Ktalr: Little ia c-liaiiKi. 1 kuow so well the wayii; Here that dead eauio to ini-t me; it watt then The Un-uiii was dreamed in uoforsotten dajra. Hut who Is this Hint lnirrls on before, A Hitlinx bIi;k1o (lie brooding Hlirvlefl amonxt Sii turiKl-l kuw tier faeo O Uodl It wore The face 1 used lo wear bno 1 was young! I thought tny spirit aud my heart were tamed To deailm-sx; dead the pandit that agotiizm Tliw old tcrii-f Kpt inM to choke me I aai bbamed before that little fliOf l with eager eyes. Oil, turn nw cy. let Iter not kpo, not l-no-vi Hon shouM she U-nr it, how sli'iiild understand? Oh. Iiasteu Uown the stairwuy, liasto und go, Aud leaw her dreaming iu the silent land. The Spectator Ilenert nf Sahara. Tho Sahara as a whole is not below sea level ; it is not the tlry lied of a recent ocean, ami it is not as Hat as tho proverbial pancake all over. Tart of it, indeed, is very moun tainous, ami all of it is more or less varied in level. The upper Sahara consists of a rocky plateau rising at times into considerable fx-uks; the lower, to which it descends by a steep slojio, is "a vast depression of clay and sand," but still for tho most iart standing high alnive sea level. No jiortioii of tho up per Sahara Is less than l.IiOOfeet high a good deal higher than Dartmoor or Derbyshire. Moft of the lower reaches from 2X to 'MO fc-t quite as elevated a Essex or Iicester. Tho two sjiots lielow sea level consist of the tieds of ancient lakes, now much shrunk by evaporation, owing to tho rainless condition of tho country ; the soil around these is deep in gyjisuin, and tho water itself is considera bly salter than tho sea. That, however, is always tho case with fresh water lakes in I heir last dotage, as American geologists havo amply proved, in tho ease of tho great Salt lake of Utah. Moving sand undoubtedly covers a largo i.paco in both divisions of the ili-serf, but according to Sir Lambert Flay fair, our best modern authority on the sub ject, it occupies not more thau one-third part of tho entire Algerian Sahara. Elsewhere rtit-k. clay aud muddy lako are tho prevail ing features, interspersed with not infrequent date groves and villages, the product of ar tesian wells, or excavated spaces, or rjver oases. Even Sahara, iu short, to give it its due, is not by any means so blck as it's painted. Cornhill Magazine. To Tay Expenses. The wife of a wit has often as hard a time as tho wife of a philosopher. It is an old story about tho wife of Emerson enduring the sight of her husband breaking tho teeth out of her back comb, thinking, absent mind edly, that they were matches which he was presently to light; but it is quite a new story that of a famous modern humorist who really gets a great many of his best and fun-' niest ideas from his wife. "Wo live from mouth to hand, instead of from hau l to mouth," said ho, in telling the story. "Her mouth utters tho words of uou senso, and my haud writes them down. Sometimes sho rebels at my receiving tho checks in payment of her jokes, though I promptly turn tuost of them over to her, and she wouldn't sign her own namo to one of the jokes for a farm. "Well, one time I was going on a little southern trip, and sho took a notion she wttuted to go along. Wo had just been pay ing for a new caniago house, and there wasn't enough ready mouey in the family ex chequer to take us both. " 'If you go, I shall have to stay at home, said I, trying to reason with her. " 'No, no,' said she. 'I'll make jokes enough to pay all our current expenses. I'll get up early every morning, and joke just as hard as I can for fifteen or twenty niiuutes bc-foro breakfastl' " Youth's Companion. Wanted Tweuty-four Apostles. Stories almost without end havo been told on John Stetson, tho well known theatrical manager, and hundreds of them havo been printed, but here is ono old enough to be a chestnut, but so far as learned has never been iu print. The incident occurred awny back wbeu tho attempt was mad in New York to, produce tho "Passion" play, and Stetson was managing it. This gentleman's ignorance and coarseness have lieen tho subject of more than four-fifths of the yarns told on him, but all have had to admit that his eye for artistic effoct i: setting-a stage is nearly perfect Af fairs in connection with tho play had reached a point where a dress rehearsal wasarrangei Mr. Stetson aud the stage piauager Wer'e seated hi the parquet to observe the scene. Ou the left of tho stage was Pontius Pilate and Jesus Christ ; back of them, but still on the left, was a largo rabble; on the right had been placed the twelve apostles. At the first glance Stetson began to kick. "Why," he yelled angrily, "that stage ain't set right; it's all out of balance.'' TWell," said tho stage manager meekly,' "it is the best vo could dq with tho pooplo wo have." "WTiat's that gang there over to tho right f asked Stetson. "That," replied tho assistant, "why, those aro tho twelve apostles." "Well, get twenty four of 'em then; we must have that corner Ol'iJ up somehow." Chicago Herald. S.ucli Is Fame. Francis Wilson, tao comedian, says that fame la a fugitive and altogether an unsatis factory thing after all He was iu Paris with Alfred Caub, hi3 manager, and one after noon they strolled along the Avenue de rOpera looking at tho shop windows. In an art sinre they discovered a large collection of photogiupui ,i" celebrities from all over the world. This claimed their atUutiQ fcr some time. At length Wilson started in jur priso and directed Cauby's attention to the photograph of a young girL "Don't you recognize that faoei" ho asked. "Wy, that's a New York photo of my daughter Franoes.,, And so it was. Wilson had always been sure that his daughter was a beautiful child, but he did not think that she was so striking ly hauds--i'.ii that her photographs would find purchasers in Paris. ' Canby suggested that they interview the shop keeper and seo if ' ho knew who the original was. So they entered the shop and put the question to the French man. The fciioj, kjVrfr knew, of course, "Oh, certainly, he safd. '.'iSai u daugh tairo of zo famous Aiyericaui, ' Bob Icger-soll.r--New York Star. Palate Tickling, ' The venerable M. Chevreul never cared for tho pleasures of the palate, consequently he a to very little himself aud railed at those who ato more. He considered that the revolution did Franco a gieat evil bybrowing the cooks of royalty ani of the" nobility put of employment, aud thereby leaving them noth ing to do but to open cheap restaurants and serve palate tickling meals to the masses. M. Chevreul may have gone to an extreme in lite belitjfs, but it is a generally admitted truth that more iiin&w p$ paused by over eating than by under eating. Sao Fiauiasep ff" naut. . " A l'Ou trance. 'I Eee," said tho man with the newspaper, "that a French journalist has been killed in a duel." "At last," exclaimed the man reading the time card. "Yes; died of old age waiting for the other fallow fo come." "Well, the French are terrible fighters when they make a business of it." Burdette io PrppUjy Eafflft.- . I OUT WEST IS 'VAGUE. A RELATIVE TERM SUBJECT TO SEV ERAL CONTINGENCIES. Out I the I.-it Ion of the Speaker When lie I'xen the Kxpren.ioii The Itleul, the Kc-u! and the "Wild Woolly" An Inci dent In ISiieii Vlnta'n Kurly Day. When Horace Greeley said "Go west, young man, go west I" ho should have ex plained how far west ho meant. He should have said whether ho meant wt-st of Chicago or merely west of New York, for "the west" is merely a relative term, and a place that hi some localities i i spoken of as "tho west," in other port ions of America is mentioned as "back east.'.' In Iloston and New York even Chicago is thought of and spoken of as "the west," while in Colorado every small town in Indiana, every hamlet in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas or Wisconsin is mentioned as "back cast." H i tho terms "out west" and "liack east" are, after all, merely relative and mean only so much or so little of tho real east or west as may enter into tho conception of certain localities. Nevertheless there are distinctive sectional characteristics In-longing to each. There is an ideal west, a real west, a cultured west, and, alas and alack-a-day, a "too, too utterly wild, woolly west!" TIIK IUITAL ASH REAL. The ideal west is "the land of tho free and the home of the brave." It is redeemed, re generab.il and disenthralled from tho "out worn" creeds of a materialistic and often corrupt civilization. It is not afraid to say that its soul is its own lest it should loso a dime or risk the loss of a dollar. It has no exaggerated ideas in regard to tho value of money. It has "old fashioned'' notions of propriety ami has no foolish affectations, fondly supposed to bo "so English, you knaow." It has strength without brutality, dignity without pomposity, sympathy with out "gush," and a discriminating hospitality that never- fails to render "honor to whom honor is due." The ideal west has lilierty without license, conformity withoutservility, ambition without small trickery, and a mag nilicent enterprise that means devotion to noble uses. This is tho ideal west, and it is fair as tho moon, bright as tho sun, and to all forms of "genteel ignorance" it is indeed terribloas an army with banners, for it has a "frankness in sa3-ing what others only think." The real west differs from the ideal and is open to the sat no objection advanced by Mr. Ho wells j-Oung lad3 who refused her lover becauso ho was "too much of a mixture." Tho real west is like a merchant's "job lot," where twenty-five cents will buy an article worth fifty cents or one worth only ten cents, according to tho discrimination of tho buyer. There is a modified west where certain land marks enable one to feel that ho has "got out of the wilderness" of utter chaos. Reasonable concessions to long established aud widely ac cepted customs take away tho "stranger-m-a-strange-land" feeling incident to tho totally unaccustomed and one is given a "leave to bo" that discloses in a very short timo tho nature and extent of his possibilities and limitations. Tho cultured west is the ideal west and is perhaps a dream of Utopia, since it has both vigor and elegance, both law aud lilierty, jiower without tyranny, and an independ ence whose most eager ami joyous manifesta tion is to succor the weak aud oomfort the faiut hearted and lend a hand to help every beneficent iniluence. TOE "WILD AXD WOOLLY" WEST. The "wild woolly" is kind according to its conception of "kindness." Sensitive people sometimes shrink, as from a red hot iron, when this "kindness" happens to touch a "galled spot;" but in that case thoy are "very sensitive," or "real crank-,!' or "aw fully exactiug," or "better go back east if they don't like our west." Nevertheless, kiuducss is kindness and uot to bo spurned whatever its manifestation. To illustrate: A woman once died in the town of Buena Vista, Colo. Sho was tho mother of four or five children and tho en tire family lived in tw-o small ruoiim aud drank tho dregs of a prosaic and repulsive poverty. The woman died suddenly aud died in red flannel underwear, that seemed to make death moro hideous. Nothing iu her surrouudings but tho chil dren suggested anything not simply repul sive. iMotherlossiitiss, however, is always pa thotic, aud when tho husband and father at tempted to kill himself tho sympathies of the entire community wero aroused and tho little hut was packed with sympathetic neighbors aud friends anxious to render tho last honors to the dead and tho first offices of kindness to the living. The funeral sermon was preached iu oue of the village churches, and there wan not a vacant seat. Tha dead iyouiaii's female relatives came, dressed iu "their Sunday best," and with a profusion of hair dressing suggestive of in tervals when curling irons had usurped the throne of grief and anticipations of tho funeral had obtained tho mastery over sor row's mad abandon. The funeral sermon wsis a "literary" effort, and at it3 close tho cougitgation requested to "avail them selves of ' tho' corpse' by passing up one aislg anil down another, in order that they might, by viewing ho deceased, who was men tioned as "tho deceased," show their "re spects to the dead." There was nothing to do but to march up with the procession and view the woman in her coffin, if one would not refuse "respects." She had died in red flannel; she had been sallow ahd thin 'and violently tu deshabitly hi her death hour, yet hi her coffin ' 'she wore white tarletan and artificial flowers made of paper, hdmo tu-tite, aud evidently ma,de for the occasion. Her face was covered with cosmetics and her forehead profusely orna mented with "slato peuci1. curls," narrow, stiff, burned and laborious curls that would have made a professional hairdresser lan-j himsclf'iu fags at tins tiaytisty oi his art. Thus did the kindness of tho "wild w-oolly1' manifest itself and therein was it perhaps quite as successful as in its "intellectual salads," "literary lunches," and cultured cu olii," a4 yet it is suggestive that a large majority" of "the wild 'yoolly west'J we'fd, born in New England and' emigrated from tho rura districts there a;ul elsewheie. Agues Lnard Hill io Chicago Time The Nation's Wards. The Indian reservations in 1SS0 in the United States amounted to 212,400 square miles, all that is left to the. race Of 3,2dO;C0) square miles, onca all their own. The total Indian population of tho United. States is '47,ToL Estimated number of Indians ia Alaska is 30,000. The Indian agencies are CI in number. Number of Indian church members in the United States is 2S.6G3. Number of houses occupied by Indians is 2l,Zxi. Number if Indians living on arid cultivating lauds is S.C12.' dumber of In dians in the ' United States who wear ci.i zeu's dress is 81,021. Number of Indians in the United States who can "read Indian lan guages is 10,027. Nuinfcer of ndians in fbe United States who pan read English is but 2o,4'.lo. There are 10 Indian ' training schools located iu different parts of the Union. Exchange. MODERN MIRACLES. Delicate Kelutloim of Miml and Mutter A Moral for Doctor. Without any affirmation or denial of "mi racles," there is one way of accounting for the cures reported from Boston, from Ixuirdea, from I'aris, and just now by Canon Wilber force. May we not lie on the track of some notable discovery as to tho intlueuco of tho mind over the body F Tho late I)r. W. II. Cur-peub-r, a very skeptical aud unimaginative linn, records in one of his scientific works a singular incident of impressionability. A lady raw a heavy window sash falling ou tho lingers of her child. She screamed, but she was too late; the little lingers wero terribly bruised. Hut as sho took up and soothed tho sufferer sho saw that her own fingers wero bruised exactly the same way. Tho mental impression produced a physical result. When a blush comes ton boy's or. girl's face as tho result of a word or thought, wo seem to havo a milder form of tho same thing, and tho birthmarks on newly born children, the consequence of somo fright suf fered by the mother months liefore, are i: liea tions of similar susceptibility. Dr. Carpenter ulso records how a man prisoned in his chair for tea years by a paralytic attack roso and rushed up ttairs on hearing of tho sudden ill ness of his favorite child. Hero wo had what would b calh'd a miracle if it had boen preceded by prayer. Tho question is, how far does intense men tal exoct.-incy account for some of the c;iscs of cure recorded in modern time.-!? If a man is told by a Uoslon healer, a French priest or a Parisian doctor that at a certain day and hour he may look for a change, does the mind triumph over the bodily ailment ami disjicrso ill Colli patients and physicians are well aware that quite apart from their drugs somo doctors seem to bring healing with them. Their pros.-.;c.- U io:v 4. ;...!.:. ! l..:ui tir prescriptions. Is this magiirtism, or does tho mind of tho patient, acted upon by tlio genial strength of his physician, work out tho cure? It is also certain that sometimes when the regular doctor retires a man called a quack wid produce a result. Does ho do so by elic iting faith by making the patient believe that ho is going to be cured? Tho "faith healers" begin their process, ac cording to American accouuts, by telling the patients that they are victims to a delusion: they aro not ill at all; it is a diseased fancy, nothing more. So tho invalid walks across the room wherein for months ho fancied him self owerless. In regular practice plrysiciaus frequently meet with tho curious phenomena of simulated disease. A hysterical girl us sures her doctor that her right knee is so tender she cannot bear even tho pressure of "a thin sheet, aud if he attempts to touch it she screams aloud in what seems agony and is to her real though purely mental pain. If, however, tho doctor can get her attention diverted ho can press unseen, with all his force, ou tho scat of tho imaginary disorder, und inflict no suffering. Tho moral of all tho fads would seem to bo that medical men should neglecS no department of their art, ntid that it is their business to study the minds as well as tho bodies of their patients, for iu tho occult connection between tho two may lie the secret of all the ages. Loudon Telegraph. The Pallium. The pallium is a band of white wool worn ou tho shoulders. It has two string? of the samo material and four purple crosses work ed on it. It is. worn by iho popo and sout by him to patriarchs, primates, archbishops anil sometimes, though rarely, to bishops, as a token that they possess tho fullness of the episcopal office. Two lambs are brought annually to the Church of St. Agnus, at Home, by tho apos tolic sub-deacons while tho "Agnus Dei" is being sung. These lambs aro presented f.t the altar and received by two Unions of tho Lateran church- From this wool tho pallia are nmdo by tho nuns of Tarro do' Specehi. Tho sub-deacons lay tho pallia ou t ho tomb of St. Peter, whero they remain all night. A bishop cannot, strictly speaking, assume tho titlo of patriarch, archbishop, etc., can not convoke a council, consecrate bishops, or daiu clerics couseci ato eiisms Oi churches, till ho has secured the pall. Ho is bound, if he is elected to a see of metropolitan or higher rank, to licg tho pallium from tho pope, "in- stanter, instantius, instantissmo," within threo months after his consecration, or from his confirmation, if ho was already a bishop aud came to tho metropolitan see by transla tion. MeanwhiJo ho can depnto another bishop to consecrate if he has in duo time applied to tho pallisuan. Ho receives it from tho hands of another bishop delegated by tho pope, after taking an oath of obedieuco to tho latter, and wears it on certain great feasts, a list of which is given in tho pontifical. Ho cauuot transmit it to his successor or wear it out of his own patriarchate; prqT iuc-e, etc. ' If translated he must beg for another pallium. The pallium, or pallia, if ho has received more than one, nro buried with the bishop to whom they were given,. New Orleans Etato. The Curfew Bell. An interesting bell ringing custom was that of ringing tho curfew, a modified form of which still exists in this country and ia England. Curfew, of which Gray speaks so feelingly in hi3 elegy, v.-as established iu the year 1058 "by William tha Conqueror, or, as the English pcoplo moro frequently say, Will iam tho Normau, aud was partially abolished about the year 1100. Tho curfew bell was rung promptly at 8 p. in., at which timo the people were compelled to put out or cover up their fires and blow out their candles. Henry I fixed the matter iu the year last nior-tioaed so as to not nl-solately prohibit lighted, caa dles'un'til after tho iiinth: hour. The curfew bell was rung in order to compel every one, high or law, to cover up aud put out the fire, which in those early days was in a hole in the center of the house a hole being cut iu the roof to allow the smoke to escape. The word "curfew" is a corruption of two words convre fu, literal1'' '-covti- ure,V. $hj cusioia being tof Cover fha hole iu the floor with a'large flat rock or metal basin made for that purpose. As long as these customs were strictly adhered to great conflagrations were thought to be well nigh impossible. Bo this as it may, the people did not look upon it in that light, they only thought pf tho rigi-4 6w'ay of tho conqueror Thomson thus describes the feelings of the eohquered people who were forced to put out their cheerful fires by a "foreign invader:" The shivering wretches, at tho curfew sound. Dejected sank into their sordid beds. Aad, through tha inouTfu', ibui of. better times, - Mus U sai or dreamt 6t better. ' John W. Wright in St. Louis Republic. earned Mei. Pondersou Ha ! what's this? "Tho poste rior third of the inferior convolution of the left frontal lobe is diseased in aphasia." Now, this is really startling. I ll tell that to Mr. Stickle; he's always interested in such mat ters. Oh, here he is now 1 I tay. Stickle-, were you aware that the posterior convolu tion of the aphasia is diseased in the left third of the inferior lobe? And then Stickle knew just as much abor.t it as Fenderson did; but it yas on interesting matter, and bo'.h gentlemen stuck' their hands' in their jiockets and felt that it would bo a terrible setback to the earth should they be taken out of it. Boston Transcript. IRVING BISHOP'S FEATS. tTlint llli 1 rlcnil Ilixe)' Sei-n Him Do lit Mind Kealiii. "I knew Irving ISishop for fifteen ycuis," said Henry E. Dixey, the actor, to a ivorter, "and ho was tho most remarkable man lever met. Ho was not simply remarkable as a mind reader, but ho was a clever genius iu other rcsjn.-cts. Appan ntly a little insignifi cant fellow, he courageously went into Rus sia and besought tho czar to grant him an opportunity yf displaying hw wonderful gifts. After repeated applications the inon arch deigned to ru'eivo linn. His perform ance In-foro tho Uussiaii court was to l a crucial test, which would demonstrate whether tlio young American was a phe nomenon or a fraud. "One of the czar's sons took daggers, and, while l!i.-h( p was blindfolded and put into another apartment of tho palace, went ! through all tho actions appropriate to a stealthy attempt at stabbing. I hen the prince jumped into a sleigh, und, liehind hf three horses, ho rode through the dark roads to a point alKHit a iiii'o distant troui tho im perial household, and there, in n dvp snow bank, secreted tho dagger. On tho prince's return Hishojs eyes were uncovered nnd ho got into the sleigh. The mind reader direct-il tho hors.-.-;, ulthough tho roads were imkuoun to him and tho night was pilch dark, and alighted at precisely tho same point whero the young man had got out. Ho went straight to the snow bank and took out the hidden weapon. Returning to tho palace he gave a perfect counterfeit presentment of the mock stabbing affray, and concluded, to tho be wilderment of tho czar and his family, by putting the point of thedngcr exactly at tho plaeo on tho czarina's left shoulder w here her sou had touched her. "Irvinir llishop never had a confederate. II:.- .('. .r,i: -. s . ! : ; . ..: i.:0.r- domain. Iji.Uiop had a lino education and was a thorough cosmopolitan. He had an in comprehensibly keen perception and power of concentration. Tho mental and nervous strain was intense during somo of his -r-fornianccs. 1 recollect that after one exhibi tion his pulse actually beat lo0. "That performance was tho most marvel ous I had ever witnessed. It was in. Louis ville, and as I sat on the ttao and watched the entire performance critically, 1 am sure ho had no assistance. An old Ken tuckiun, very wiso in his own way and skep tical, offered to wager a large sum that Dish op could not reveal the secret he would try to conceal. '"Now, my friend, said Bishop', 'Charles Foster would give you a pad and ask you to write something on tho upper leaf and then tear tha page off and put it into your pocket,. Foster would tako back tho pad, in which In; had a piece of manifold paper, and seeing u duplicate of 3-our writing would tell you what you had put into your pocket. That was a trick. Now, I will do something u.i -ro difficult. I won't use any tad aud I wu;,i you to take your own iiiier.' Tho sneering old fellow bxjk a scrap of paper from his pocket, and while Bishop sat blindfolded in another part of tho stage the old 111:111 wrote a namo oil the paper and put it into his pocket. Bishop's bandage was removed, and going over to the old fellow he said, smilingly: 'That's quite a man 3-Gu wrote about. Won't you conio out and have a smoke with me? You wrote tho name of Henry Clay or-, tint pajierT You never saw a mo, o surprised ir,an in jour iit'o than that old fellow. 'Henry Clay' was really what hud been written. But Bishop had worked him elf into a most agitated state and th' dot-tors then found his pulse to bo 11V). "IIo did another thing which puzzled me greatly. Ho gut a man to get an ordinary needle, mark it, and then go pjo-'.g to a stor" a quarter of a milu aw.iy aud mix tho needle iuuvii.g a boxful. Bishop then went to the store, took tho particular liox of needles, although there were dozens of boxes there, and picked out tho needlo instantly." New York News. Imjirovlns tlio Dibits Tlioso who aro l-- ct qualified to judge of 6Vc'A nitittei"-- Hgvee in pronouncing tho King Jaiiies version of tho Bible a model of stylo. But tho Rev. Rodolphus Dickinson thought otherwise, aud ho therefore put forth a new translation. Concerning the old version ha said in his preface: '-There is much ir.o! cgance and inaccuracy iu tho selection of words, tho structure of sci.tenws, aud ia every cottipataeut of composition." Hero jiro a few of his improvements: " When thou art beneficent, lot not thy left hand ba conscious of what thy right haud performs." "Contemplate tho lilies of tho field, how they advance." "Bo not, therefore, anxious for to-morrow; since that will claim correspondent atten tion." "Then his disciples approaching sai l to him, Art thou conscious that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this observa tion? But he, answering, said, Every planta tion which my heavenly Father has not cul tivated shall be extirpated. And Peter re plying, said to him. Elucidate this parabl:?." "Salt is salutary; but if tho salt has be come vapid, how can it be restored?" "Bo not surprised that I aimcun&ed tj, thee, ye must bs reproduced." ','ior this the Father loves uie, becauso 1 give up my lifo to bo afterward resumed. No ono divests ino of it, but I personally resign it. I have authority to surrender it, and I havo authority to resume it." ''For corporeal exertion is of minor ad vantage; but piety is advantageous in ail re spects, having a proiuist at the present uu 1 of tho future liio," 'This is a correct remark, that i a man ardently wishes a spiritual superintendency, ho earnestly desires an honorable employ ment." Youth's Companion. Turguenief on Tolstoy. Turguenief read aloud portiuioi Tolstoy's works, especially tho forly-third chapter of iho r'uvt phrtof" ''War aud Peaee,"and greatly excited said, shaking his head: "I know noth ing 111 European literature finer than this de scription. That is a description." But while Turguenief thought TvKiny a great writer, and admired and prized his tal ent, ho froja iuue to tune considered him from his owq moral and aesthetic standpoint. Iu other words, ho applied to the views of Tolstoy tho measure of his own views about men, and was not always satisfied. While Lv was reading "Anna Karenin" U.? c-ould uot understand why TIuiuy was so evidently prjXuMsiaeiJ tn favor of IeA in, who was to him an unsympathetic character. "Can you for a moment believe," said Turgueiiiv-r o Polonsky, "tho.t levj:i is h, Jove with Kitty, or im he could ever love anybody? No; lore is ono of those passions which annihi lates our 'Me' and compels us iu somo degree to forget ourselves and our interests. But, Levin, even after he knows that ho is loved tnd is happy, never cr-ases holding fast to his JW13 pcraCoiajUy aud flattering himself." Eugene Schuyler iu Scribntr's. It Would Make No DiRercevv. A lady, greatly ev'itpd, osKs to see the editor of a daily paitr and is told that it is imjKissibie, the editor being too busy to speak to any one, no matter who it may be. "Oh, that makes no difference,' is her reply, "1 shall t'.o jiU the talking myself." Paris Figaro. lt.r-. UlMlMAM, Jens a. I, VII A, Notary Public. Notary 1'uhllo u iviii v:.u iavii:m. 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