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THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2G, 1885. Xstml at tii ParteSci. Celurtss. ct. clusBittar. t itetil HIS PURPOSE HIS PLEASURE. Tae Perfect Happlaee Achieved by Famous Benefactor. "It is only a poor kind of happiness that can ccmcfrom thinkingonly about our own pleasure." It was one of the most thoughtful of tne English women of our day who said this, and it is one of her truest utterances, but verr few people prac tically believe the saying. Yet occa sionally we read of lives whose whole existence shows that the- idea of their own personal happiness entered very little into their thoughts. In 1803 a young man of seventeen came to New York to make his way in the world. He was honest and in dustrious, and very soon was able to support himself. And to lay up some thing from his earning.':. He felt the neea of :i better education, which his poverty had denied him. "Itr. God gives "me wealth," he thought, "other young men in future years. shall not feel the need of the means of culture as I do now." The thought became his purpose, and h:i purpose and the fulfilment of it were his enjoyment. He became a glue manufacturer, and his glue was the best and the cheapest that could be ob tained. Later, he built rolling mills, blast furnaces and steel works in vari ous parts of the United States, and in course of time became a millionaire. The years in which he was accumulat ing this fortune were years of hard work, with little of what young oeople would call pleasure in thcni. But in all that time no business transaction was over entered into by him which was not thoroughly upright, while his name became synonymous with sim ple, direct honesty, and he found the highest pleasure in that But in tficse years his purpose strengthened a plan by which his great fortune was to be of use to the people of New York. II's own wants and those of his family were simple in character, :.nd he cared little for the amusements whichhnany rich men esti mate so highly. He had gained a great fortune, and for a purpose. When he was past sixty years old he put into actual form the dream he had from his youth. The Cooper Institute is the re sult of all those years of gathering and planning, and the thousands of men and women who have been trained there for lives of honor and usefulue-s are the witnesses to the success of his schemes for the uolifting of humanity. Probably no private citizen of this century has won the love of so many people as did Peter Cooper. Rich and poor spoke his name with reverence, and whenever his kind face with its fringe of hair was seen, people who would not have moved aside for a Prince made room for h:m. Years came and went, and the Coop er Institute, under the direction of its beaeficent founder. w;is constantly ex tending the .sphere of its influence. Not only his own c'.ty. which was so dear to him, but the whole country felt the impulse which Peter Cooper, through the Institute and through his other charities, imparted to it. At last the busv. kindling life ended, 1 and all New xork was in mourning. It was a long life, lasting ninety-two years, none of which were spent in service of self, but all in that ot hu manity, and thus fragrant with good deeds. Poter Cooper had placed his own happiness as last to be attained. Yet no man ever experienced purer happi ness than he to who it came unsought On that April day in 18SS when his body rested in All Souls Church, three thousand pupils of the Cooper Institute came reverently to lay their roses upon the coflin of their benefactor, and in the heart of cadi one must have been im pressed the belief that the happiuess Winch lasts is not that which aims only at securing one's own pleasure. His purpose of life was his enjoy ment. Youth1 s Compa n ion. '" r- KEY WEST. The Product and Industries or Thin Boun tiful Tropical Inland. At the time of our lirst vis't here the keys were not inhabited, save that on which the town of Key West is situ ated, and Indian Key. the resort then of wreckers. Indian Key be"ng midway between Ky West and Cape Florida, affording the wreckers a convenient rendezvous. Tne wrecking vessels were much like our Northern pilot-. boats and were stationed w.thin sig naling distance from each other along the reef. Should a vessel be observed in the toils of the dangerous reef, the fleet would be seen making all speed for the prize. In ante-bellum times the prizes were surticiently great to excite the most unremitting vigilance. . Cer tain changes in the commerce have de stroyed wrecking as a bus'ness of any moment Another industry has sprung up, which gives occupation to many who have been accustomed to ttie lone- ly life along the reef. On of our traversing Planti On the occasion -itinn lCov In .. ..a...V'.a am.. .u 1874. we encountered on landing a small boy who carred a rusty sabre "at a shoulder." By his permission, our party, consisting of tive able-bodied men armed with shot guns, landed. The guard becoming satisfied that our intents were charit able," we were graciously shown a tract of several acres of recently cleared ground on which were growing rows of pineapple tops. Here was the lirst ex periment in the culture of pineapples in Florida. The success of this venture was so deelded that since then, we are told, many of the keys are quite de voted to "this enterprise. The pines grown here prove to be of superior flavor. The s;-onge business :s yet one of the chief sources of income to the populat ou of Key West The several forms of comiucre al sponges grow in the sh"ailow lagoons and creeks along the inner waters of the reef. In most instances the ponge is secured by hooks, appearing, when taken, as the most repulsive of black masses, heavy with water and the jelly-like flesh which .constitutes its living organism. These Tare thrown ashore and left to be washed "by the waves, or are frequently rinsed by dashing water over theiu. In a few 4ays. during the warm weather ot the 'latitude, the soft parts dceomjose and the lighter, more attractive skeletons remain, which constitute the sponges of commerce. What a delight is the lirst visit to a tropical town the first sensations' of a balmy atmosphere born of a continued .trade-wind, the characteristic "trade" that moves so quietly during the winter season-Jn4his semi-tropical region, and is so tempered as nimbly and sweetly to recommend itself unto our gentle senses. We vividly remember the de lights and indescribable sensations of our first visit with the rigors o.f a New England winter air but just shaken off. full mcon was just visible over the feathery tops of innumerable cocoa palas as we landed, and the mellow light sparkled tat ,u sitely on their leaf lets; their sharp, outlines, too. against the sky, with the pervading- odor of -.line, leaon, and jessamine, told a radical change of scene. Still more,' at 'the entrance to oar friend's grounds i tfeese wonarwuiy mam sensations cts lacreasM: easasoart- by characteristic odea foliage. Itie air was 'redolent witt jessamine, and. above alL the verandas, revealed the delicate lawns and linens of summer costumes, and a peculiar and captivating hospitality heightened the Mjoymcnt of this our" first experi ence of the tropics. To the present visitor, the then inevitable Venus in parti-colored turban, passing the deli cate. .refreshng cocoanut water and curacoa, and the grateful services of Cato, with fan in hand, are things of the past The cocoanut before its white meat has become solid, is jelly-like, and this in all stages from the nearly liquid form is esteemed a luxury, and served at luncheon or to evening callers dur ing the wanner season. The cocoanuts will be observed to be in all stages upon the tree, from the beautiful corn colored flowering group, resembling large tassels of corn, to the perfect nuts, which require constant care to prevent their dropping on the heads of stranger sojourners. Those "na tive here and to the manner born"- in stinctively cast an eye above when -passing, liie glory of Key West is the abundant distribution of the cocoa palm. The young and grandly flowing fronds and leaflets, as well as the tall trunks, with their graceful umbrella tops, contribute to an unaccustomed eye a scene of marvelous beauty. There is a cur.'ous ound, simulating falling rain, produced by the gentle movements of the leaflets over each other; this when but little air is .stir ring. Could the beauties of these semi-tropical towns be cumulative, a wondrous aspect would be the result: but the recurrence at certain periods of heavy gales, amounting to hurri canes, strips nearly everything of veg etable form. Besides many plants and trees indi genous to semi-tropical regions others of more pronounced tropical culture have been introduced. The Geiger tree is perhaps the most attractive, on ac count of its large showy red flowers, that look more appropriate to a low plant than a tree, and .ts large showy leaves. Captain Geier. an "old c tisren of Key West in the earlier times, and a noted wrecker, bro ight this tree to Key West from Cuba: and, no one be ing sufficiently acquainted with botanv to name it. it was called as above. It is the Cordia scbestina Linn. In the Jeup collection of the trees of America there is a good example of this tree, and a line pa'nting ot its leaves and flowers. At the period of our lirst visit in 18M, several trees had recently been introduced, notably the royal palm. The visitor in Havana will enjoy the grand examples of this tree on the plaza of the Capta"n-Generar.s palace. The stately and architectural trunks and the rich green of the leaflets or frnnils rndnr t)in trH wrront nnallv" attractive. The date palm is another, of nearly equal interest It requires about seven 3'ear.s for the tree to reach the period of bearing fruit We chanced to remain in the reef region just long enough to see the fruit comn to perfection. Several gardens of the old residents of Key West are embel lished by the date palms, whose thor oughly tropical aspect var.ed by the cocoa palms, first breaks upon the view of the visitor as he approaches th island. Cor. X. Y. Evening Post. AN INTERESTING DECISION. The Government Not ltespontlble ft-r Packages Placed on Top of Mall-Boxe. A very peculiar case cams up before United States Commissioner E. L Gregory yesterday afternoon. Abou three o'clock a young man namec Lawrence, having a package to mail, laid it on the top of the mail-box at the corner of Cherry and Union streets. Shortly afterward he was standing near and saw a negro wan whose name was subsequently learned to be Turner, take the package and start off. He at once followed and stopped him. and Detectives Han'fin and Price ap pearing about that t.me. the negro was arrested, and at four o'clock arraigned before the Commissioner on the charge of interfering w.th the Un.ted States mail. Capta'n Withers. Superintendent of the free delivery department of the Post-office, was summoned to give testi mony in regard to the law, and upon this tet"mony Turner was discharged. According to the law and all rulings upon the subject, the package had not been mailed, and-in cousequonce Turn er was not amenable fo the United States law. but the value of this pack age being small, it only containing a rubber stamp, the prosecution did not care to push the matter. A word in regard to this practice of placing packages and papers on the top of mail boxes will not be amiss, and probably prove of service to the gen eral public not posted in the matter. Letter-carriers arc positively instructed not to take such papers or packages whi'i it interferes with the delivery of first-class mail, and as they are nearly loaded with as much mail' as they can well carry, packages thus left often re main there until the following day. Their taking or leaving them is dis cretionary. Letters, papers or pack ages are not mailed and under the pro tection of the United States postal laws unless they are placed within the mail box or in the Post-office. People often leave valuable packages in this manner, laboring under the impression that the Government is responsible for them. Such, however, is not the case, and if stolen, the person is only liable under the State laws. Nashville Union. A Singular Reptile. A snake of a very rare kind is now at the Smithsonian Institute. It was captured near the'famous Buck Horn Wall, -on the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, near Deer Park, Aid. The peculiarity of the snake is that it can. and does whistle and sing 1-ke a young mocking bird. In general ap pearance it is use the ordinary snake, except its head is shaped somewhat like a pug dog. In length f is tour feet long, and the largest part of its body is four and a quarter inches in circumference. When it whistles or sings it makes a series of jumps like a frog. The head snake professor of the Smithson:an institution is now at Wood's Hole, Mass., and it will probably be sent there for his ex amination and classification. It is in shape and color altogether different from any of the African singing snakes, and besides issues a louder and more harmonic sound or whistle than is re corded of any of the classes of snakes that are found iu the East Indies. A similar character of a snake is said in thcbooks to be frequently seen on the island of Sumatra. So far this is the lirst singing or whistling snake that has been found in this country. The man who caught it supposed he was chasing a young mocking bird. Wash ington Cor. X. Y. Herald. . . A paper-making linn in New Jer sey is .turning out counterpanes and pil lows of paper. No. 1 znanilla paper is used, two large sheets being held to gether by a slender twine at intervals of three or four inches. The twine 5s summed, so as to hold the sheets firm ly together where it lies. A hem is Jdacea on the counterpano to keep it rom tear'ng. The safety edge is com posed ot twine, ornamental designs are stamped on the outer surfaces of the covers and cases, giving them a neat,' attractive appearance. When these counterpanes and pillows become wrinkled from use they can easily be smoothed out with a hot latiron. The new paper bedclothing is seventy-five casts per set, and will probably Tieaoirn. popular. JT. T. Trikum. WILL STICK TO HIS LAST. 1e Speealatfaa' Which Taagfct Mr. Willow to Couflae lite Koers'a aa Brato to Calico and Xaalla. Sam Willow was a prosperous; dry goods merchant His store on Four teenth avenue was the coder of fashion in that part- of the city. However dull his neighbors might be his store was crowded from morning 'until evening, and the cries of "Cash !" followed each other so closely and continuously that it sounded from the street like a ftublic school on examination day. So ong as Mr. Willow devoted his'entire attention to the dry-goo:ls business be prospered. Owing to his excellent judgment in the line of calicoes, mus lins and hosiery he was always able to dispose of his purchases at a handsome profit But Mr. Willow had one un fortunate habit. He was restless and ambitious. He never learned to let well enough alone. He was continu ally investing his surplus wealth in outside speculations, which were with out exception disastrously unprofit able. "So you think of mortgaging the bouse to raise fifty thousand dollars, do you. Sunison !'" observed Mrs. Wil low to him one morning recently. "Yes, my dear," responded MY. Wil low, with ardor. I have a sure thing." " Sure thing ?" returned Mrs. Wil low, incredulously. "Do you recol lect the sure thing you had last year? It was in wheat, I believe. You got your pointer from a man who was get ting up a corner. "Yes, my dear," answered Mr. Wil low, "but th is not a speculation at all. It is as sure as taxes." "Is it in the dry-goods line ?" " No. not exactly, but it will pay better than any dry-goods store since Stewart died." "What is it ?" inquired Mrs. Willow, with more curiosity than she had yet exhibited. "That's right," replied Mr. Willow, illogically but enthusiastically. "I new you would agree with me. It Is a jrold mine." "A gold mine, Samson Willow?" "Yes, my dear, a veritable golcouda, a bonanza." We will be princes, both of us. Sure thing. Secret No one knows of it but myvlf and one other man. 'Fraid he'll ;o to Jay Gould or Vanderbilt with it if I don't give him my answer to-day." "Let me hear more about it," said Mrs. Willow, excitedly. "This man arrived here last night from Montreal. He came that wa- be cause he was afraid it would excite suspicion if he came direct from Ari zona." "Arizona?" "Yes. my dear. That's where the mine is. He discovered it while he was prospecting for lead. No one knows there is any gold there. He picked up a boulder of sol d gold, worth fifteen thousand dollars if it's worth a penny. He says there is lots more of it there. I took it in my hands. It is heavy and solid. He wants me to go into gartnership with him. If I give him m fty thousand dollars he will give me a ha'lf interest and the nugget We will use the money to buy machinery and develop the mine." "Let me sec the gold, and if it is true I will sign the mortgase," ex claimed the old lady with decision. "You shall see it. this very day," re turned Mr. Willow. And so she did. The next day the mortgage was recorded. The gold was promptly transferred and the lucky miuer went to Boston to buy the ma chinery. Mr. Willow was ra an ecstacy of joy. He could hardly wait to sell out his store and visit his wonderful purchase. Last week he bought back his store at a loss of twenty thousand dollars and rented his former house. He will never leave the dry goods business again. The cause of Lis change of mind is explained in the following item which appeared in a local paper a few days after the sale: "The large nugget labeled 'Austra lian Gold,' valued at fifteen thousand dollars, stolen from the Geological Museum in Montreal by burglars, turns out to be merely a plated lead facsimile of a celebrated nugget found some years ago." Al I'. Graphic. A DIETARV BLUNDER. Sir Ileurjr Tlioiuptou so Denominates the I of Concrete Substance in water. Sir Henrj- Thompson writes: "Most people might naturally be aware that the primary object of drink is to satisfy the thirst which means a craving for the supply of water to the tissues the only fluid they demand and utilize when the sensation in question is felt Water is a solvent of solids, and is more pow erful to this end when employed free from admixture with any other solid material. It may be flavored, as in tea and otherwise, without impairing its solvent power, but when mixed with any concrete matter, as in chocolate, thick cocoa, or even with milk, its capacity for dissolving the very qual ity for which it was demanded is in greater part lost So plentiful is nutri ment in solid food that the very last place where we should seek that quality is the drink which accompanies the or dinary meal. Here at least we might hone to be free from an exhortation to nourish ourselves, when desirous only to allay thirst or moisten our solid morsels with a draught of fluid. Not so; there are even sonic persons who must wash down their ample slices oi roast beef with draughts of new milk an unwisely deviled combination even for those of active habit but for men and women whose lives are little occu pied by exercise, it is one of the great est dietary blunders which can be per petrated." One would think it was generally known that milk is a pecul iarly nutritivo fluid, adapted for the fast growing and fattening young mammal admirable for such, for our small children; also serviceable to those whose muscular exertion is great, and when it agrees with the stomach to those who can not take meat For us who have long ago achieved our full growth and can thrive on solid fare, it is altogether superfluous and mostly mischievous as a drink." The. Lancet. The picture of Washington cross ing the Delaware has popularized a scene that recurs every spring. Except for the absence of the figures of the commander and his compatriots, it has lost none of its picturesque features. When the winter snows are melting and the spring rains fall the swollen current of the river sweeps along with its burden of jagged ice-cakes as resist lessly as when it imperiled the lives of the vugged little army who dared the passage that Christmas night .one hun dred years ago. At the point where Washington crossed the Delaware it is comparatively tame to what it is along the upper courses of the river. Boston Globe, mum William H. Robertson, who re cently retired from the position of Collector of Customs at New York, was the second oceupant of the office who since the organization of the Gov ernment served the full term of four years. Of his predecessors one died in office, a few resigned, and many were removed. Troy Press. Curled maple is only an accidental form of sugar maple, in which the grain is beautifully contorted. This form is highly prized by cabinet mak ers, and one thousand dollars has been given iara singb tree Chicago MmU. ALL VERY TRUE. Bob Bardette'a Aalrlce to a Sraatallnr aa DUaatlsSed Toutb. Yes. my son, I know, these expensive) funerals and expensive monuments and costly tablets and such things cost great deal of money that might other wise go to the poor. I know that the churches in the United States eosft many thousands of dollars which alto might be given to the poor. I know, my son, that onr modern Christianity is much given to worldly show and grandeur, and has departed from the simple ways of the fathers. I appre ciate yourgrief over all this. You are not alone in your sorrow. You are not the first man. my son? that lifted up his voice and wailed: "Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred 'pence aud given to the poor?" Come, mv son. let us reform things. Let us sell all the churches and give all the money to the poor. Let us bury oar dead in unmarked ditches by the road side and send the cost of a Christian burial to the heathen. Let uspaint onr legs, let our hair grow long and go naked, so that we may send the money we now waste in fashionable adorn ment to the perishing millions of India, Let us do all this. Then, you see. the poor heathen will have everything and we will have nothing; they will wear clothes and live in houses, and we will wear rings in our noses and live in caves; they will be civilized Chris tian men and women and we will be wild barbarians, perishing in be nighted ignorance, lifting up our ap .pealing voices for the price of the box of ointment Then we will know how it is ourselves. Is that your idea, my son? Stop your paper and pew rent, then, and peel off your clothes. I will sell them for you and buy you a spear, a bear skin and a string of beads, and if I have anything left after deducting my commission I will send it to the heathen. My boy. when you are tempted to howl because a body of Christians builds a church that costs fifty thousand dollars, you sit down .and hold your noise and wait until yon see in how many years that church sends out one hundred thousand dol lars to the poor and the sick and the heathen, at home and abroad. I tell 5'ou, my son. when a roan invests one thousand dollars of his money in a church building he manages to pay the interest on that amount for church purposes. And then but before go ing on with this sermon you protest so vigorously again.st expensive churches, what are you doing with the pew rent you save? How many poor do you pension with the money you hold back from the preacher? Ah, yes; I thought that was your car when I saw it com ing. Ta-ta. Brooklyn Eagle. - s A COLONY OF EXILES. Sandy Point, the Chilian Penal Statloa Its Location, Surroundings aad Besowrcea. Sandy Point is a Chilian penal sta tion, and a large portion of the inhabit ants arc exiles. When we were there the war was still going on between Chili and Peru, and among the prison ers were two Americans, who had been captured in an attempt to blow up the Huascar with torpedoes. They came very near being executed, but were finally exiled. The Governor himself was in a state of semi-exile, and found life much more agreeable in Sandy Point thau he would have done in Val paraiso. Gold was discovered several years aro in the mountains about two miles from the village, and a quantity taken out by panning, but at that time there was no excitement about it I saw considerable in the form of grains and small nuggets, the largest of which was-about the size of an English walnut, and had been made into a watch charm. It was thought that some of the mines would prove to be very productive, if properly worked, but no one there seemedto have the money or energy to develop them. There is also a vein of good coal about three miles from the village. It had been worked some a few years previously, and a railroad had been built from the mine to the wharf, but after war broke out with Peru it was neglected, the whasf went to ruin and the railroad was destroyed. The only coal to be had there was brought from England and a good price was charged for it. We coaled shin and were obliged to pay nineteen dol lars and fifty cents per ton and deliver it ourselves. The timber on the moun tains does not grow to a great height, but is of fine quality, and tne trunks are of large diameter. During the summer months it does not rain at all, but every winter a large quantity of snow and rain falls, so tl j. there are no dry years. The pi:, is furnish excellent grazing, and the .oil will yield good crops. There is every reason to believe that it will become a good grain-producing country. I had read much about the great size of the Patagonian Indians, and thought the reports must be greatly exaggerated, but I found that they were true. None of the bucks that I saw were under six feet in height, and they were broad in proportion to their height The squaws are about five feet six or seven inches, and are heavy, but not fleshy. Like all other Indians, they are very fond of the white man's fire-water. Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. Premises. This word is from the Latin "prami to. sent in advance. In law the literal meaning of the word "premises"' is "statements previously made." but the word is now commonly used as signifying a house and its surround ings. In this sense it had a singular origin. In a legal deed of conveyance it was customary at the commence ment of the document to give a formal description, at great length, of the property to which the deed related. Where in the same deed it was neces sary again to refer to the property the" words "the premises," in the sense of "that which has already been de scribed," saved useless repetition aad weie well understood. By some extra ord'nary change, the phrase "the prem ises" came to signify, not the descrip tion of the property, but the property itself, and in this sense the word has now become incorporated with the English language, and has been used in legislative acts relating to or describ ing lands. The dictionaries have no reference to this misuse of the word. 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. A traveler pictures the guano coast of South America as the most desolate region on earth. On one side is the Pacific Ocean, with its great swells sweeping almost aronnd the globe, as regular and constant as the throbbing f the human pulse. On the other side the impenetrable Andes rise in a .range whose altitude averages fifteen .thousand feet and whose peaks tower ; twenty thousand and twenty-two thon- sand feet above the sea. Between the , ocean and the mountains for one thon .sand miles, with ayarying width from twenty to fifty miles, lies a strip of drifting sand which no river waters and where rain never falls. There is not a well or a spring along the coast, and drinking water is an article of merchandise, like ice or flour, costing about seven cents a gallon to the con sumer. - : The London journals have not yet decided whether it is Saakin, Suakiaa. Souakin or Souakim; hut when General .Graham gets home he will be ,ablc to settle it. He has had considerable of a spall at that place- -V. Y. WarltL FOREIGN GOSSIP. There am 87,000 paupers in Ixu don. In 1 l'iO the first tnk ug clock was invented by a Cisler'cau mo k. Many of the plant 11 thc'luilerics Gardeusarc two and three huudred years old. The lance has disappeared from the list of weapons ucd in the Aus trian armv. The lancers will be con verted into light cavalrymen. A Paris judge refused to hear a eae against a wife who had thrown her husband cut of a window and brok en his leg. but ndvt.s.'d her to open a gxmnasMiiu at which other wives could train. - It s oliic'a'Iy rep.irt-d that -.800.-000 acres of grez ng lands in the king dom of the Netherlands supports 1.5U0.00 cattle i7.i.lK0 hor-es. JvH).U00 sheep and S.0.'i.i'J hogs. This is less than.on.1 aero to the animal. , During a recent spcch in favor of cremation. Sir Spencvr Well- men tioned that an epidemic of scarlet fever broke out in a country town on' the opeuiug of some craves of persons who had d cd with that d sease thirty years previously. In Normandy bird dealers arrange singing contest- lietwef n favorite chaf fiucues Ahii-h are .sometimes.couipelled to sing alternately as many as eight hundred t me.s. Occas.onally the cruel practice o depriving thcni of sight is indulged in. : s bl ud b rds arc often the best s age .. The Yr - ' :i ! who on the march at 1 : .1 private to a mule's sadd i .1 . -1 -.1 c.tsh ered for a year, and t .- .. wrmnent journals cpio'e th s ptim.hmi'iil as evidence that torture i- not to.e ated in the French army, although the opposition prints attain that it rs frequently inflicted. There arc now established on the coast of Great itritain -1 lifeboat sta t ons. In th-: current year there were o.tiM ca-ua!t cs to .shipping around the Br tish Ilcs: fi.'W lives and eigh teen ves-c!s were saved, in addit on to 189 lives by .shore boats and other means, where rewards were given, be'ng a total of 7tf:i lives saved through the agency ot the society. During the year 1 feboat were launched 'Jo'2 times, and not one man of their crews was lost The New South Wales reg ment whi.-h took part in the Soudan cam pa gn. has arriwd home in Sydney. J'hey were g.ven a tremendous re ception. The day was made a public hoi da. Delegates, cauie from all tho colonies in Autral:a and all tin; ava lable troops were drawn up to wel come the returning .soldiers. The Governor delivered au address to the cont'i'.guiit. thank n-f thciu 'u the name of the Queeu and the enlon'cs for the great 'services they had ren dered. Japan is made up of a chain of voleau v moaiita ns. and tiie arable land of the empire :.- o.Hc ally put at ll.iriy.riO"' :-r s 1c s lh:i 1 one-half the area ot the : late" ot .Sew York and this is so fcrt !e aud thoroughly cult -vated that it feeds a populat on" of 37. OW'"! about that of Fvance. K'ce is one of the principal ciops. and of thi -om ". . n.wo l.iKhels arc raised auntia'lt. Hand labor is generally used, ;.n;l two or three ciops a. ear are rased on the same land. Artificial irrigation is genjral. bfing necessary over one-half of the cultivated land", and frequent! the water is taken from streams from twenty to th rty miles d stunt The total number of horned cattle is '.ll",o:(l. and of horses l.tiOA,--0o. Wood of all kind.-, is choap and abundant AFRICA. Lour Wag. thtt Rule ou the Dark Couti. i.t-ullutrrestiiiff Fact. The following is a picture of life in Afrca as portrayed by Consul Peter Strickland, of Senegal: Drunkenness to a greater or lesser extent seems to be the general cond tlon of tin vast raa'ority of tin; trades and other people j of Senegal who are not Mohammedans. It is niy deliberate conv ct 0:1 that it costs tho nat.ve trades-prople in Sene- I gatub a more for rum than it does for ioou. auti wuai mates it very annoying for their employers is the fact that their -crviec- can not be depended on .so long as they have the means in hand toJmy rum. House servants are as bad a ; the rest, and unless Euro pean families are lucky enough to se cure Mohammedans for their cooks. ' they can never know wheu a fast will be intruded upon Uiem. Tho women in vhe matter of drink ing, are. if anything, worse than th; men. and if cuiplovcd for waters ate .-uiv to .sna-h all the crockery wi bin their reach in an incredibly short pace of I me. It is a custom among tlfem al.-o to form themsidves into lr 11k ng clubs of a dozen or so each, a d wlieuever their accumulated ni-nn? are -uNic cut to purchase three or lour gullo s of liquor, they will, after excusing themselves from .work o 1 some fr vol.nis pretext, meet at a hou-e .selected for the purpose and in dulge in orgies too terrible to be de scribed. It is .-omefunes a week be fore they recover from these debauches, and the" interests of those who are obliged to employ thi-m sutler accord ingly. 'Added to the annoyance from their drinking hab.ts. is also the fact that most ot these nU'inpcra'.e women arc of s::ch easy virtue that the'r husbands seldom trust them, but leave them for others on the .slightest pretext Ihe women also change partner-1 as often as chance follows occasion, so tht so e'etv, a3 we recognize the term, scarcely has an existence. It is one of tie iuost com ron of things among the so-called Chr.stiau n-itivcs of S'ene gambia, to see children, brothers and s'stors, through their mother, but all having different fathers, thus com pletely reversing the Mormon custom, where chiMrcn are ofteu brothers and sisters through their father but not through their mothers. Scores of chil dren also d e through neglect ex posure, and diseases, for which the drunken habits of their mothers are d lcct'.y responsible. It docs seem as though our Government must be culpa ble iu granting drawbacks on rum and alcohol which are exported by the ship-load, to debauch and destroy the unrclh-ct ng inhabitants of uncivilized countries. It is my deliberate opinion that rum in Africa is at present doing as much mischief as the slavo trade ever did, aud that it is a shame for a civilized country like, the United States to aid any of its merchants in exter m nating these northern Zulus of Af rica." Consular lleporL The Peruvian Army.. The Peruvian army is made up niostlv of Indians and Cholos (as the mixed races are called), and are brought in from the mountains tied with ropes. 'A train-load of these 'volunteers' came fu from the country," says a Lima letter, ".f all of them with their hands tied behind'them. and were driven into a corral like so many cattle, where they were g vca un forms and runs and put through a course of sprouts. It is of little interest to tho Indian on which side he fights, for ha knows npth'ng about the political troubles of the coun try, and serves anv commander who happens to capture him, like a mule or a horse, until bo is shot or runs away They are obedient, tractable and en during, and although those who know enough will cut oc hands and feet to avoid service in tne army, .taetr mu tinies always originate wish the wnoaresasih." OF GENERAL INTEREST. . Brooklvn cla'ms a population t 70.000. of about half that of New York. The only Way to tell a good cirtr is to smoke it. Color ha; nothing to do with it Chicago Herald. As a rule not nions than oue letter out of twenty written to the President reaches its destination.- -IVusluugtan Post. About one acre in a hundred of tho arablejand in the country is occu pied by zigzag fences. Xathville Amer ican. ' ' The Vermont State Prison con tains six persons serving life sentences for murder and three serving ten, twelve, and eighteen year seuteuces for manslaughter. People of violent temper, savs a barber, have close, growing hair. Coarse hair denotes obstinacy, wh le line hair indicates refinement, and peo ple whose hair is harsh have amiable but cold natures. I'hi'.mldphia Press. It having been brought to the no tice of a tramp who was mentally en feebled that there were authenticated instances of. weakness of the mind hav ing been cured by work, he smiled idiotically and inquired: "Who wants to be cured?" A. Y. Mail. A plant called by the Mexicans gonagra. indigenous to the deserts and uplands of Arizona, has been found to possess superior tanning qualities and is coming into extensive ttee for that purpose. It is an annual growth and hat a root resembling a beet Many a mistakun marriage and many a needless and wrongful divorce would be prevented, even among peo ple who have nd real respect for relig ion, if the ministers of every denomi nation would not only teach but act upon the scriptural doctrine. Aliuuna (Pa.) Tribune. A twelve cent table d'hote dinner suppliedjjy a New York caterer con sists of soup, fish, one k ud of meat to be selected by the diner, with salad, chow-chow, coffee, dessert, aud pleuty of bread and butter. And the caterer prospers with an average prott of forty dollars per week. V. 1". Herald. A patriotic Philadelphian sent to the New York World1 pedestal fnnd the other dav the handsome sum of one hundred dollars, and with a modesty equaled only by his niuuiliccuce de clined to give his own name as the donor, but desired that the coutr bu tton should be cred'ted to Genera' Grant. Philadelphia Times. Whale shooting is a growing .busi ness on the Maine coast Several steamers are engaged in the business, another trying factory U to be built, and the success which has attended the operations thus far warrants the belief that whale hunting, will eventually be come, one of the important industries of the State. Boston Herald. - Delimit and delimitation are new words to American readers. Webster doesn't have them, and in the first pari of Worcester both words are marked a "rare," Stormouth's English Dic tionary defines delimitation: "The boundary-line of a country; the fixing the boundaries of a country, or coun tries, especially wheu a rearrangement of territory is to be effected. Louisinllc Courier-Journal. A man talks to an assessor one way and to a mercantile agency an other. With the latter he wants to put his possessions at a value as hi;h as possible to get conimcrc'at standing, with the fofmer he values them as low as possible to escape taxation. He does not think that the mercantile agencies verify his reports to them by the amount he returns for taxation. Indianapolis Journal. A writer has been estimating what It costs each individual for necessary food of sufficient variety per day and yar; aud also the value of the total amouut of food upon which the people of the United States subsist for that time. He makes it $4.:MO.OOO.O(0 an nually for the whole people, and for each individual "58U.81 per year; and only twenty-live cents and eight mdls per day for eaeh person. Detroit Post. A recent visitor at Sanborn. I). T.. was .surprised to find that a cowboy there was a bright voting miss of th'r teen years. All last season she herded alone over fifty cattle, riding a pet Indian pony. At eight o'clock every morning she jumps astride of the bare back animal, drives the herd to the prairie and watches them all dav. She takes her books and spends her leisure hours in readiug and study. Chicago Times. A South Carolinian tells a strange storv in natural history. While out hunting he k'lled the mother of some young squirreN and secured four of the l'ttle ones unhurt. He carried them home and gave them to a cat that had lost her K'ttens. She took charge of them, and became exceedingly fond of them, and now they are frisk v little fellows running everywhere and grow ing fiuelv. They seem to like their step-mother. It is a pity some of the poor peo ple on either side of the Atlantic can not have the vast quantities of meat annually thrown overboard from ocean vessels. From a report jut issued bv the British Agricultural Department it appears that dur.tig 1884. of live ani mals imported from Canada, 608 cut tle, 1.770 sheep and one pig were thrown overboard, and 81 cattle am! 324 sheep lauded dead. Of those iui- poUed from the United States, 1,570 cattle and SVIiT sheep were thrown over board, and 85 cattle and 92 sheep landed dead, or a total loss of 4.8.ti animals. X. Y. Tribune. A recent writer on beating of green-houses and conservatories says that the secret of successful heatiiig is to raising the temperature of the watar in a short space of thne so as to cause it to flow through the mliat'ng pipes with such velocity that it may re turn to the boiler before losing all its heat. Th's is achieved by bringing the water under the influence of the lire in small continuous bodies, and 'if this is carried out the radiating pipes can be reduced in size with advantage and economy. .The time for putting all such things "in order is during the warm t-aon. Chicmjo Journal. The New England "Meteorological Society propose- to find eut this sum mer all it c.u about thunder storms, aud to that end invites observers iu ev ery town iu New England to iinitt; iu ma'rking the leading features of such storms as come within their ken. and report to headquarters. The simplest data are such as can- be gathered by anyone the" time rain begins to fall, the direction of the wind, duration of rain, etc.: while more difficult and del icate observations, such as the height of the storm clouds, character of light ning flashes, and Vulocity of wind, are to be undertaken by specialists. Bos ton Journal. In the Clinical Record Dr. Holland relates that one of hi. lady patients once called on a 'psychometric healer." vho greatly impressed her with his prescience iu telling her that she .MiiVercd from occasional headache Mid pain in the side due to the fact that her liver was bound back to her dia phraghm. The lady thought that only a map of diabolical' insight could have discovered her symptoms without an examination, and she hastened ner vously, to her physician. There she' was informed that almost every woman E silent a doctor has is a sufferer fronr eadache and sideache, and that she would be in a bad way indeed if hei liver were not ancaared in the saanner stated bj Ins ehsrlstnn. Happiness results from that true contentment which Indicates iwrfcct health of body and mind. You may possess it, if you will purify and invigorate your blood with-Ayer's Sarsa parilla. E. M. Howard, Newport, N. II., writes : I suffered for years with Scrof ulous humors. After using two bottles ot Ayer's Sarsaparilla, I Found great relief. It has entirely restored me to health." James French, Atchison, Kans., writes: "To all persons suffering from Liver Coiuplaiut, I would strongly recom mend AVer's Sarsaparilla. I was afflicted with a disease of the liver for nearly two years, when a friend advised me to take this medicine. It gave prompt relief, and has cured me. Mrs. II. M. Kidder, 41 Dwight t, Boton, Mass., writes : For several years I have used Ayer' Sarsa parilla, in luy family. I never feel safe, even At Home without It. As a liver medicine and general purifier of the blood, it has uo equal." Mrs. A. B. Allen, Winterpock, Va., writes: "My youngest child, two year of age, was taken with Bowel Com plaint, which we could not cure. We tried many remedies, but he coutjnued to grow worse, aud finally became so reduced Iu flesh that we could only more him upon a pillow. It was suggested by one of the doctor that Scrofula might be the cause of the trouble. We procured a bottle of AYER'S Sarsaparilla and commenced giving it to him." It surely worked wonders, for, in a short time, he was completely cured?' Sold by all Druggists. Price $1; Six bottles, 95. . Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer .t Co.. Lowell, , Mass., U. S. A. THE FALL TERM OF.TIIK FREMONT NORMAL -AN'D BUSINESS COLLEGE, A.t Fremont. XclrnNlcn, Will beL'in SEPT. 1st, 1885. UNUSUAL A IVANTA5KS WILL I5K AFFOKDED I'KlfOXS W1SH1XCJ TO TEACH. THE BUSINESS DEPARTMENT affords every opportunity for improve ment, Penmanship, Business Arithmetic, Hook-keeping, Commercial tNirreHpoml ence, and imitation of actual Ihimiiu.-'s. Music. We can speak with the utmost conii- dence of the instruction joveu m our Music Department. .Mi l"oe Conrad, instructor of the Piano Forte, a graduate of the Cornell Conservatory of Music, ii not only a brilliant performer, hut a pains-taking and tuiperior teacher. Tim instructors iu Vocal Culture, Note-reading and Singing arc thorough and suc cessful. Expenses. - Tuition for ten weeks, $10 to 1 if paid strictly iu advance. lius in cludes admission to Normal and Itusines. classes. Music, $12 for twtnti lessons. Short-hand, $12 for twenty lesions. Type writing, with use or instrument, $10 tor twelve weks. Good day hoard can he obtained in the College Home at $2.25 per week. Hooms ."i0 cts. to 7.1 cts. per stud ent. W. PJUNILS A. m. 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