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THE GREAT PLAGUE. Discription of the L)oome<i Cities. COWAKUICK OF TUB FEOPLE. Filthy Condition of Toulon-Burial of the Victim*. A Marseilles cablegram say* : I bave mad* a few days' vml, eay* a special cor respondent of the New York Timet, to tbii oily and to Arlea, in order to learn and re port tbe fact* aud soeuei in connection witb tbe obolera epidemic. I have v.eited ivery room in every obolera hospital tint- ing in ManeiUee aud Toulou, and nave seen the wretched people dying iu the hoepital* and in low hovel*. Ou leaving Pan* to begin my lour in the infected oitie*. I saw nothing untunal until Aries wae reached. Here every window of th* house* wae oloeed, io far a* I could observe them, aud in the street* of thi* town of 25 000 people not a soul wa* to be *een. On the liret view tbal on* get* of Marseille*, uo one would suspect from the appearance of the city iteelf or the people he could see, tbal a pestilence bad aeizjd tbe town. Il *a* estimated at the time of my arrival thai fully 100,000 people bad left tb* oity, but their abeenoa waa scarcely noticeable from th* appeiraoo* of tbe Mrewte In the Hue lie La Oannebiere, in wblub an all tbe finest shops and bnaiueu place, of other kind*, only nine were closed, bu tbe poorer quarter* and God know* tber are enough of them revealed another aid of tbe picture. Paaaiog along tbe narrow and tquaud Roe Caiaserie, over one-half o tbe abop* wen oloeed. From Ik* tene ment region on tb* hill above a stream o fetid water flowed aoroe* the street an< plnLgsd over a precipitous descent on tb other side, through dark lanee, crowd e< witb towering rookeries, swarmed below witb .idle men and obilreo, playing ID nllhy gutter*. A single glimpee of any Ihtii street* i* enough to turn tbe ilomao! of a healthy man. Finally we got on tbe treel known an Toulon road, a wid thoroughfare without a shade tree) Along it* gutter* ran rivulete of drab- colored water, which bad overflown from tb* canal, and wbiob wa* damme< now and th*n by heap* of rolling vege tables and worse snbetauoe*, including d oata and dog*. Four out of *ve*y ' bou*e* were closed. Tboae wbiob remained open were mainly eiiowuiwb where, undei dirty awning* and on dirty aidawalk*. men and women aat drinking or were already reduced to stupor from previon* driokioi and junk mope, in wbiob nlthy people wer sorting rotten rag* in an unspeakably vit atmoepben. Feetering filth wa* around them and a tropical tun beat fiercely upon the eoene. Blinding tbe eyes a* it* ray* were reflected from the while road, acrnea whioh iitba Qiartior Capelette. com III Mi m about tbe au ot a *awer winding Ua w.y ouoovecwd among tb* houses on it. journey to the eea. Thi* Htream wa* laden with sewage of tb* vileet of Murteill (jiarteri, Capelette and th* adjoining one wbiob have tarnished much over one hal tbe deatt* io Marseilles, and It i* an inter eating fact tbat tbe largest proportion of them were Italian*. After this experienoe I decided to viin THI uoerrm.. A young English physician wa* my Meort through tbe ward* of the building now called tbe Hospital Auxiliaredel'naro During tbe tour of tbe rooms, I saw eighty- four patient* io all stage* of th* duease from tbe last agonized breath to tb* period of cheerful convalescence. Evsry face iu tbeee eighty-four, male and female, wa* tbe face of a person from tbe lower walkiof life and this I am told ha* been tbe rule among tb* patient* fr.m first. At tbe beginning nineteen twentieths (f tbe patient* received at tb* 1'iiaro failed to recover. For tbe last fortnight matters bave so far improved tbat only two third* of thoae received bave died. Tbii 4xoan*ivs mortality at first we* largjly due o tbe fact tbat moat of tbe oaaei when received bad developed into a bopelet* coa- lition. Th* highest Lumber ia tb* hoe .ilal at any on* time wa* 110 and tbe argeet number received any ooe day wa* 17. ' Tbe treatment here and at Toiilun in tbe fi m stage* i* twenty drop* of laudanum with three grain* of ether and Ice io tbe mouth to itop vomiting. In the second (tegee.when the patient* become very cold, from ten to fifteen gramme* of acetate ammonia, the cam* quantity of alcohol, and two Injection* of morphia given daily. II the patient cannot brestbe, artificial reepiration of oxygen i* produced and the limb* ar* rubbed with turpentine. Tb* third stage ia the cjffio. Late at night I drove outside tbe oity to the Cemetery St. Pierre to see tbe burial of three patient* whom I had observed iu the Pbaro Hoepital in tbe afternoon. B x>u tbe flmt of the hearse* appeared, then fol- lowed the other*. After a brief burial service intoned by a pale young priest, who looked badly soared, three bezel wer* hurriedly lowered into a trench eight feet deep by twenty faet long, and a goodly quantity of lime wai (hovelled on top. It wa* a ghastly trench and tber* wa* plenty of room for more coma*. It wa* a weird and eaddening light. Tboae gaping trenche* were big enough to hold their thousand*. I went back to the central part of the oily and it wa* gay enough. Band* ware play- ing and oaf* lamp* gleaming. People in throng* were walking tbe streets laughing merrily aud many head* were poked out of tbe window* of the Louses. It wai bard th* level ot a tidelee* tea. Theooueeqaenoe* arum 4 from imperfect drainage, with the natural want of slops, are thai tbe sewer* have only a fall ot 18 inob*s, so, with th* *luggih movement, the filth of tbe low* dropa into an almost stagnant aea. At tb* point* wbere tbeee drma* flow, they are only covered witb a plank, and toe filth is 'lugumiiig u> the uoee an! ioipresoe* itself ou the eye*. You DO! only then smell but see thi garbage of Toulon. J ust fancy a people living in thu oily of 80,000 inhabitant*, without Ike firat glimmer of common sense iu regard to public hygiene. Tbe Toulon M tree IB aud shop* displayed nothing of their former bustle and activity. There was torn* few *ign* of life only on the street* of Republic] jo and Lafayette. Hare the shops were open, but else when tbey were oloeed. No business seemed to be tb* rule and tbe visit paid to tbe outlying section* of Toulon showed bow tbe dreaded diseaae bad mad* of tb* streets a solitude. I united thi hospital in th* suburb*, c jn- Iruoted in that unfortunate way ao much in vogue a century or more ago. It ha* been receiving cholera patient* since tbe 14th of July. I saw there 36 cases of obolera. The condition of the patient* differed in no re*p<ct from those in Mar- seilles. There were, however, no child ran in tb-j hospital. I noticed that the doctor* smoked cigars and chewed Considerable quantitie* of oampbor. Thirty yean ago camphor wa* considered in France to be an ami Jo-.o for many diaeaae*. Tb* Joe ton drbok win* and beer freely. 1 put a pieo* of tibaorm in my month, and chewed awiy during my viait. To-day'* n*wi indicate* the spreading of the diteaee in tbe aouth, but it i* tporadie, and easily accounted for. Tbe vael number of refu- gee* must have distributed cholera, though, over a considerable ana. Fright, fatigue and bad food an exactly tbe element* wbiob predispoee human being* to attacks of cholera. A* I said before, there ii little danger of contagion provided precautions ar* taken. I think that fear kill* many a man and woman. 1 (topped over one train at Toulon, during my investigation, and then went again to Aries, but bad no time to viait tb* hospital there. I found no one DEATH ON TBE BOX. DHvra rrl**1lv I . !. .III. b u. 1 P a. Ulna- 4 r|..r >...! lurldrnl 1 ad who could give me an intelligible account of aflair*. Ac old prieit expreeaedbimaelf in uo measured terms in regard to what be called the cowardice of the people. He said Arlee waa deserted and aopaoio-etrioken tbat the dead in *om* n*n remained uo- buried, abd (bat iffontive refuee *till in- cumbrrwl the atreet. Rumor* are beard tier* that the diaeaae i* spreading along tbe Riviera into Italy. Tbe atatement i* con- fidently mad* that many oa*ee of obolera ba>e occurred on the Italian ooait, and tbat panic reign* at Spezzia.wbere several death* have occurred. A* no Eoglwb- taking journalist ha* tbii aeaeon been before m* in thi* portion of Southern France, though tb* condition of affair* U bad enough, tb* report* of the panic and ambulance reported to English and Ameri- can newspaper*, 1 think, have been groeely exaggerated. II v I CiH wX at ATS. A Louisville i Ky) despatch lay* : Joeepb H. BtulU. employed ai tbe Golden Palace " keno rooms. No. 4S> West Jeffer- son street.bbot and killed Jno. Nagle, a hack invar, laat evening at bait-past 11 o'clock, near the corner of Twenty-sixth Htreet and Greenwood avenue. Tbe affair wa* tbe ending of an 'nrkabl elopement, tbat was to bring Btulu and hie divorced wife, Maggie Brooks, together again in th* bonds of matrimony. They were married on March 6th, l->2, aud lived together until about six weeks ago, when they were legally separated. Tbe divorce wa* obtained on plea of abandon meut, at the instigation of her mother, Mn. Georgia Brook*, wbo objected to Blultz because be wa* a gambler. Day before yesterday Mrs. Slultz went to ber hu*baod'i roo.n in tbe Abstract Building, on Jefferson street, with ber little baby, and wbile there 8 lulu aaked tbal the pact be forgiven and that she marry him again He declared tbat that for the future the life that b* wa* then leading should oeaae, and upon that promise aba agreed to remarry him, feeling tbat, for the child's sake, they should be legally united. Kuowing that ber mother would not ,e proposed re-marriage ibe pe with him from her mother ireenwood avenue, and it was ial BtulU and a friend would around tbe corner from tbe o'clock laat night. At tb* ap r Btultz and J. M. Milea, tbe ) down to the appointed place in back No. 34, driven by John Nagle. Tbe two friend* went to tbe rear of tbe bouse, wbere Mr*. Btultz told them tbal ber mother WM still awake upstairs. When she had fallen asleep the men were to go up aud briug down Mn. Stnltz'* trunk. While awaiting the opportune momeLt Mn Slultz handed a self -cocking pistol to Mr. Btultz saying that aba waa afraid to l*vo it io tbe bouse, for ber mother would boot her, or them, if she awoke. SlulU t>mr I-T..O. H.L.nrd b, felMB A fatal el Tra. A Muakegon (Mich.) despatch nay* : Four person* bave been poisoned by " Rough on Rat*" wbile drinking ottf -e at break **t. Tbe victims are Wm. Fritz, hi* two daughters, aged " and 17 yenre, and a narder, named J. Bpriok. Wben Mr*. fatz want to tb* kitchen to prepare tbe morning maalabe notued aomeUuog wroi-g itb the water in the tea-kettle, oat thought at flret tbe white covering *be notioed might come from tbe rggs boiled n tbe kettle. Tbe coffee wa* prepared rom tbe same water, and *he told tbe amily what ah* noticed. Her hucband augbed at her suspicion*, and to show tbat ie bad no fear* drank down a cup of ot Bo* aud atarted for work. Tb* other* only upped ibtir coffee with aapoon. Almost iai mediately tbooe at home became aick and ere attacked witb moet violent pain* in tbe tomaoh. Wbile they were belug oarrd for waggon drove up to the door with Fiiiz, bo had fallen down on hi* way to work. Ie wa* tbe wont nufferer of all and bu life despaired of. Too doctors were mm iioued aud all but Fritz were i-oou brought ut of their trouble. It appears Bpnok, he boarder, baa lived witb a woman named ilullie Mulligan, but afterward* left her. he imponuued him for money frequently wbicb be rtfoeed to give her. <>u Monday igbt after 10 o'clock tbe woman wa* seen angiog about Fritz'* place, and snipioion XHal* etrongly to her ae tbe pereon who tole into the kitchen and put poieon into hi kettle. Soe bad been at work ae cook in a hotel here, but wben the police rent there to arrest her they found abe had eft there Monday night and had not been een einoe. ant night. took the piitol aud handed it to Mile*, with the requral tbat b* go out and give it ta N*gle and auk him to wait for them. Mile* told Btultz be bad better go himself, and Blultz started out to the back. In a mo- ment a abot waa beard, and tbe orim of a man in tb* alley attracted Mile* and Mr*. Blultz to tbe spot. There they found 8 lull z, who told them that he bad accidentally abot Nagl* while handing him tbe putui. Btnltz and Mile* then hurried into tbe bouse, lecured Mrs. Blultz'* trunk and put it upon tli* box at tb* feet of tbe dead man. Mile* and Mr*. Btultz entered tbe back and Stultz got upon tbe box seat and, witb on* hand around tb* Corp**, drove rapidly to Mr*. Edward*, Mo. 780 Will Green itreet Here, believing thai Msgle wa* not dead, be jumped from hi* aeat and carried tbe body into tbe hallway. Mr*. Edward* aoon obtained a phyaioian, but life wa* eitiuct. Tb* body wa* viewed, a* it lay upon a bier in tbe rear of the bonae, by a large crowd of people who bad learned of tbe accident, until Folio* Captain Hard- ing ordered tbe body removed to tbe home of tbe deceased, Mo. 2.213 Griffith* avenue. Mr. Blultz bad prroeeded the moment he a-oer tamed that Nagle wa* dead from Mr*. K Jward' to the jail, where be gave bimaelf up. His wife and little child accompanied him. Tbe killing aeem* to bave been accidental, and it i* probable that Snlli will be discharged from ouatody to-morrow. Bbe wai arrested in Chicago for me to believe tbat I bad ja*t visited hospitals, had wikaeaaed death, or tbat tbat terrible scene at the eemntery wa* a reality and not a mere pbantaam of tbe imagination. My viait to Toulon wa* ceeemary in order to ibow me more plainly what were tbe effect* of tbe epidemio. Tbe country people seemed to have lout their wit*. Station* along th* road were deterted, nave by tbe railway official*. Ae at Arler, and everywhere elir, wbere there wae a stopping-place, pile* of bag<ag, bed- ding and Household fnrnitcrd iuoumbered tbe platform*. Tb* Burgeon* in the aer- vice aud the Bon* Prefect eitimate tb* peo- ple in town to-day to be about 26,000. If in a sanitary sen** tba condition of ManeiUee wa* frightful, tbat of Toulon struck me a* limply murderous. Although Toulon baa a background of mountains, tb* city iteelf u aituattd on a flat plain a few feet abo\ < i i 1 1 M> . nmir -i >. i io v ii. . .. oi ih. l I, , i , i, Hallway- New nn.i ..., I. . I ir,,lnr'l<lor. A Cleveland de*patoh aayi: Tb* firct ommercially *uooe**lnl electric railroad n America waa carted in operation Here n Saturday by tbe Ea*t Cleveland Street ailway Company, wbo bave just oom- let*d a mile of tb* road and ran oar* on it i-day for th* firat time. Tbe experiment a* ao auooemf ul that tb* company expect i change tbeir entire *y*tem, comprising 'er 30 miles, into electric road*. The our- >nt i* oariitd on underground ; thecoodue- tors -.re laid io conduit* like thoe* of the cable road. Tbe oar* ar* atarted and topped and re v rued with the greatest eaee. Any number of oar* up to 15 can be run at one time on a single circuit, and from on* machine, which i* a rtsnlt not obtained by any European system. Tb* success of tbe new load ha* made a great sensation in both etreet railroad and electrical circlee, and ia expected to greatly extend the field of electrical development. ; i 1. 1 1 1 i \ i n it t ^n i n A -. n... u.,n n. . Mrrrlt ml ft rd. rl< ii, A Frederiotoo deipatcb sajs : A aenaa- tionalkffair occurred on tbe street* tbe other afternoon. Mrs. CbarleiL Richard* was proceeding along tbe atreet a few even- infcs ao, and it ia allege 1 that, in paaiiug Mr. Hannah, a bank ol> rk, and Mr. 8t. John, a visitor, who were itandiog together, tbey laughed I her. Thi* i* said to be the cause of tl : disturbance to- day. Mr. Richards, ar. ied with a thick cowhide, met tbe duvm uratt on the corner <>f Queen and Regent htreets at 5 o'clock. Qe proceeded to laah tbe two of them right and left, and tbey returned tb* attack witb oanm. Mr. llarvey Strick- land took Mr. Hannah to one eide, aud tber* wa* a rough and tumble encounter between tbe other two com- oatant*. Cooatable Boone now appeared on the scene and succeeded in wreucbmg tbe whip from Mr. Riobard*. wbo got It again and used it till Collector Btreet in- terposed and matched it. Then a crowd joined in on both *id**. Tb* collector eventually relicquiihed tb* weapon, ao tbat the owner, urged on by a comrade, recom- menced the attack on Mr. St. John. Another melee ensued and tbe belligerent* were finally separated. Mr. Richard* oaine outof theitruggl* breathless aud unscathed, and tbe other combatant* received a few bard knookti and eoratobei. About two hundred people were on the soen*. and there wa* a prospect at one time of a riot, a* the feeling on both side* wa* running high each party having warm sympathizer*. Taaekrrav aad III. cigar. I flr*t saw Tbaokaray at th* hou*a of my TMB < not KK t BCABK. k late I oMrt>i * m ! el Ik* F !. nd U* Kr .Mil. A London cablegram aay* : Cook, tb* tourist agent, wae interviewed to-day and aid : " It i* tlmo*t impOMible to exag- gerate tbe effect* of tne cholera oatbreak. in Franotx Beidee tbe d*pres*ion which it has brought upon general busin*** on the continent, it* effect* upon Koropean summer travel, both commercial and holi- day, have been limply enormous. II i* true tbat the praeent nub from tbe southern and taitern countries to England somewhat compensates for the louse* in tbe regular transportation eastward and ontiiward, but tbe general effect of the obolera panic upon European travel ha* beeu duaetrou*. The quarantine* are probably driving back a* many touriit* a* the plague. Take Ventimutlia, in Northern Italy. There were at last aaoounta a. 000 traveller-, imprisoned there under quaran- tine. Tbe rich, the commercial tcaveller* and the poor emigrant* were all herded together like animal* of a common bred. On Lake Maggiore th* (teamen were pro- hibited by the zealon* authorities from carrying traveller*. Tb* hotel-keeper* and boat owner*, in despair, refuted to respect tbe prohibition, and tbe military have been placed in possession of the lake to sup- press travel upon it. Tbe oily of Toulon, deepite tbe aliuoat incessant work to make it sanitarily habitable, (till remain* almoet indescribably filthy. The heat there ha* been terrible and the atmo*pbere uiout and humid. In tbe work of reno- vating the town an old sewer ha* been die- covered running right under the chief boepital of the oity. Thi* newer reeked with filth, and had been untouched for three year* pait. Ten of tb* workman who were employed to open it wben it was found were overpowered by tbe escaping stench and tainted. A* for England, there ha* been a revival of nneaniueee here lino* the arrival in th* Mency, from Marseille*, of tbe French steamer Saint Duatan witb obolera on board. The fact that two per- son* died from the malady during th* trip from Marseille* ha* evidently shaken the public faith in tbetftioacy ot French quar- antine method* and iutenufl*d public fear." CURRENT TOPICS. Tin eccentric Scotch Profeeaor lllaokie ha* written a clever poem on " Female Beauty." After aMcriblng certain pbyaioal charaotvristios, hi nays : All keea, fair maid, may ahow A ftultloM muulii Iroui tip to toe i oi lack ill* ouo tninjf that tuaks* woman. More thau the ilainyof tb* ouzntuon, Tbe one fair thiug- to uiorteli given To bridge the g >p from earth to beareu Th* inspiring soul tbat to a godlike grao* Atluufn i-aou move and ipnadb a glory o'r she H*Bj A I'ARLUMCKTART paper abow* tbat tbe total cost to England of tbe Suez Oanal sbares (including fv il I paid as commit UKt -t IIS I-..III.U u .. Arll.lr of K..U. There i* talk in England no* regarding tbat important article of diet, oheeae. Certain objector* assert tbat in tbe raw atate oheeae u an unhealthy article of diet. A* a result of tbu experiment* have been made. An Englishman, Mr. Matthew William*, lecturing on tb* subject Dairy Conference, icn to Messrs N. de Ralhaonild A Hons) a* 4.076.68). Th* Khedive ha* ainoe paid yearly liM,ttW 9a. (being interact at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum on the actual purchase money in consideration ot tb* deferment of tbe right to receive dividends on luoh ihar**), and it i* esti mated that the amount of debt on tbe transaction remaining unredeemed i* jBS 465,406. ST. PAUL'S i* a resting place not for the dead only. There i* no greater contract to be found in London than by pawing into 81 Paul* from Ludgate Hill on ooe ude or Cbeapaid* on tb* other. At noontide, especially on hot lummer day a, the cathe- dral i* well tilled, if not with worshippers. at leaat witb quid and orderly visitor*. Hound the atales there u a steady stream of sighteeer*, but on tbe benches in tbe nave there are all aorta and ooudition* of men aud woman, some of them workmen doting in the unwonted quiet, other* men ot busi neee pausing for a moment from tb* hot oh* i* lately before a pointed out the faot tbat tb* moil concentrated and iiiiimnual food in tb* market, a 20 pound oheeee con- taining more nitrogenous substance than a sbeep weighing 60 or 70 pound* ; and, although it ii of th* great**! importance for feeding the million, yet in thi* country it doe* not bold it* own, aad it i* oompara- tivaly neglected in favor of far more costly meat diet, even by person* of considerable intelligence and very limited mean*. Mr. William* aak* why it baa not super- ceded meat, and proceed* to aniwer by pointing out on* reason that people found adittuuliy in digesting it. Thi* waa because tbe salts ot the milk were left in tbe whey when cheese waa mad* with rennet. Tbeee. especially potash, were moet necei- aary to assist dtgeetion, and food which did not contain them should not be taken alone. Reasoning upon the** two tcientilio truth*, be had made a number ot exptnmente a* to variou* way* in which obeeee mi k ht b* mad* digestible. Caaein ilaelf wa* not indigestible, because it wa* taken with advantage by infant* ; aud in milk there were two salts which were necessary to nutriment and easy digestion. Hi* aim io the experiment* be bad per- formed wa* to bring these constituents to- gether and iee what nourishing aud palatable food* could be made from them. By putting a lixtb of au ounce of bioar bouale ot potash with a pound of scraped obeeie, and adding to them a (mail quan- tity of milk, b* found them to dissolve and assume a liquid form. He used double Gloucester obeeae in thi* in*' H , and the A tricycle trip from Italy through France ban beeu intde by two Euglinh Itdies, wbo bave raoently arrived at Boulogne from Porto Mamiz o. on the Oulf of O*ni a Taey Bpenl forty -ix d*y* on the journey A Baltimore apinster baa btoime insane over tbe death ot her pet dog. Bbe should bave stuck to parrot*. Tbey never die. A woman wa* arreited in Paru carrying a parcel of diaceverad bam an remain It traoapir** tbat *b* had beeu very drunk. Borne medical etndents perceived her state aud put tb* col lection ot ghastly anatomical relics in her arm*. brother. i staying i Payne, tb getber a* never ing wi had been tion of old with whom I wa* then louoeater place, *ay* Jam** ivi-lmt. Tbey had lived to- ng men at Weimar, bat had anotherunoe, and their meet- interesting. Tbeir line* in life iry different ; but the rtoolleo- iee drew them together closely . A onrioni and characteristic thing bap. psned on the occasion in queetion. Tber* wa* a doun people or BO at dinner, ill unknown lo Thackeray; but he wa* in good spirit! and male himself very agree- able. It disappointed me exoeeaively, wben, immediately after dinner, be in- formed me that he bad a moet particular engagement, and wa* about to wish good- night to bit host. " Bat will you not even smoke a cigar flrtt?" I inquired. "A cigar ? Ok I Tbey smoke here, do they ? Well, to tell you tbe truth, that wae my engage meat I" and he remained for many hour*. experiment wae muat successful. With American cheese it wa* not ; and from this fact be wa* led to presume tbat double Gloucester cheese waa made with rennet, a* it ought to be, while the American cheesi wa* not. Tbequtetioo of the lolubllity of oheeee might tnerefore become a teet a* to it* purity, but in any case Qlouoeetertkire wa* right. In Italy cheeee wa* used in an infinite variety of way*, of which sprinkling it over soup waa on* of th* most common. Macaroni cheese, a* it waa aerved in Lug land, was frequently browned. Tbe idea of browning cnetie half oarboniz.og it before it wa* eaten wa* won* than eating it in raw lump*, because it rendered it more iudigestiol* than ever. One excellent way in which to n*e oheeee wa* to scrape it and put it in porridge. Maebed potato mixed witb cheese scraping* mad* a capital pudding, which wa* fit to eat. Cheeee stirabout wae excellent food. In Ireland th* people used large quanti- ties of Indian corn for food. Thi* alone wa* very ieupid, but wta*n taken with grated oteeae it wa* a different thing altogether. luitead of taking lump* of bread with lump* of oheeae for aupper, a far better (Ian wa* to mak* a oheeae pudding. This could b* done by placing alternate layer* of thin break and cheese in a pi* diib, with a little milk and butter, and cooking in an oven. A most delicious and perfectly digestible pudding wai tb* remit. Wben au egg or two were mixed with the iogre- diente a meal wai made fit for a toman emperor, and withal it wai on* of the most economical diibei that could be made. Tbe will of H. R. H. Prince Leopold of England ha* been proven. Tb* value of thf pernoial estate amount* to over $230,- 000. Tb* operative part simply itates : " I give all my property of every deaerip. tion unto to my beloved wife Helen Frederic Angara, DaebeM of Albany, for her own absolute use and benefit. " Tin report on the oity oompanle*. says the London Truth, shows tbat 100 000 per annum is spent in eating and 175,000 in " maintenance." Tbii latter item cover* a multitude of strange practice*. Generally a city ompany become* tbe spoil of some particular family or gang. Tbe solicitor i* one ot these favored individual*, the archi- tect another, tbe surveyor another. Wben anything ie to be done a committee u appointed, and the committee iunohee and pocket* fees. In thiseort of none*o*e and in feeding, 276 000 i* annually expended, whereat all legitimate requirements might b* covered by about iUO.UOO. In New York they charge lor admiiaion to weddings. A BKKUN correspondent write* that tbe malady of the Empree* of Germany, which ha* aaeumed a oauoeroni character, date* back forty yean, to the birth of ber daughter, tbe Grand Duchess of Badea. To tbe repeated recommendation* oi her physician* to quit Berlin, she ha* always given the anewir, " A home need* a bouse wife and a court a (jueen." Her residence ome twenty yean ago at CoblenU U aaid to bave been tnggwted in an unmistakable manner by ber biuband, in oonaequeno* of her having abown a dupoeition to oppose tb* view of Prince Biimarok. Tb* Km proas' luffering* have helped to mak* ber deeply aympatoetic witb thoee of etben. TB> itatiatios of inioidi in th* Austrian army show that of late yean military uicide ha* been ooniiderably on Ibe increase, and, as tbii phenomenon i* by no mean* confined to Austria, it *e*m* lo indicate an increasing avenion on tb* part ot tbe modern European to military eervioe. Tbe total number of enioidee committed from 1869 to 1878 i* 2.636, or an average of 2.'>3 per annum. In Irt74 th* average was 307 ; tbe year after 314. Tb* lowest nnm ber wa* l'.<7 in tb* year 1873. Mutilation and attempt* at inioid* ar* generally found among tbe autordmatee, but in 1878 thrrti were 23 higher officer* and 08 offioen of a Ijwer rank among them. A* far a* Ike motive* can b* ascertained, fear of puniab- meut, monetary trouble*, diseatufaotiou witb the soldier ' life, and mortified ambi- tion are laid to be tbe moit common. Death wa* generally inflicted by revolver. Mm-ACMtrm i* becoming aomewhat alarmed at tbe growth of illiteracy, a* abe may well b*. Tbe laat census showed that there were in the Btat* 75.635 pereon* above tbe age of 10 who could not read, being 5 03 per sent, of all pereon* atx ve that age, a proportion which i* exceeded ly no other Eastern Btate except Rhode Island. Tb* last Legislature paired a law which, it U hoped, will tend to check the advance of tbi* percentage. It provide* tbat any pereon wbo i tuple ? a minor 14 years of age, wbo oannot read and write, ball forfeit from 120 to t60. and tbal any person wbo employe a minor over 14 yearn of age wbo oannot read and wiile, provid- ing aucb a minor ha* been for one year a rtiident of a city or town w'urein free evening icbools are maintained, aba'l for- feit from I JO to $100 for every inch tffance, to go to tn* benent ol the evening ichools. TIII Chinese farm house i* a curious looking abode, dually it i* (bettered with grove* of feathery bamboo and thick spreading banyans. Thi walla an of clay or wood, aud th* interior of the houie oon- lit* of one main room, extending frjm tbe floor to the tiled roof, with closet-looking apartment* in th* corner* for eleepiog room*. There i* a sliding window on tbe roof, made of out oyiter shells, arranged in row*, while tb* side window* ar* mere wooden shutters. Tb* fljor i* tb* bare earth, wbere at nightfall there often gath era together a minoellaneoua family of dirty children, fowl*, duokn, pigeon*, aud a litter of pig*, all living together in delightful harmony. In some district* infected by marauding baud* house* are itrongly forti- fied witb high walls, containing aperture* for flrearme, and protected by a moat crossed by a rude drawbridge. THB fint time Mont Blanc wa* ascended wa* in Augunt, 17*15. by two Frenchmen During tb* ninety yean from 1786 to 1876 no fewer than 63& expedition*, consisting of 661 persons, reached the bigheit point, known a* tb* Monarch." Of nosuooees fui attempt* 115 were made from 18(7 to 1861, wbile in tbe following fifteen year* no lesa than 410 such are recorded a faot which shows how much mountain climb ing i* developing in our days. Among tbe 661 penon* wbo a*o*nded Mont Blanc S86 were Engliih, 110 French (including tbe 72-year old Marquess Tnrenne and a lady of 17 summer*), 70 American*, M Ger- man*, 30 HwisB (among whom Mile. Marie lUradu, the fir at woman who reached tba " Monarch," in 1009), 8 Italian*, 7 Rnv Mam, 6 Australian*. 4 Bpaniardi, S Pole* 2 Dutch, 1 Swede and 1 MorwegUn. In 1878 three Dnei, Cnnnt Bebnlin-Zauthen aud hi* wife and Herr Carl Hall, who furnishe* the prnent ittatiatie*, (welled the rank* of the inroenfnl climbers. Tbe number of viotimi claimed by MootBlane during the about 30. present century amount* to Statistic* show that there i* le*i crime io the Uoited State* in proportion to In* population than in any other country in th* world.