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 .jca. h«i ""' " " â€" '^-a^iS ^U UlirkflaU jItittdarA IS PUBLIMHKO EVERY FRIDAY MORNING In time to uievt th.- e«rly nia'li. It c nt 'ius the l^tMt Fnpei -n »n» Province I 'ewB, Local Intellgience, Connty B"'^*' mercial -.â€" n"« cellany. M»tter« M-l »n lD«'nict.ve lualitied tog U to be a^ the d th« iively to ts miid moraiii W.rl 1 BMy 1 er to eveiy i| t honest 0«ai 11, "the gift 'W pp«n to ng. lan.too. "â- **"-» -nni^i' fnodity of the(Magi4|^ ' DOui{h work in thv cr i iWjectt. Tin ag*:ii ^;i tbin^ ^^ D«xt to mpoenble t em. In tne endlMk' '^r:oD anfll mor^it^j we yrin danger jp j c eit^r the ooe veD a reverend writw' rr/y, from whom wtf' «tter things, writ ne, for tLe eolighl ipose, r.f a seleot crs, uonruses mattes timl it no raey tak d m\ of tbi m. Relieia *v;t ol Uf« "â€" tho G«A\ fte may 1* alleged |i ura' inaciocc in ni^» .eri/:ng hia exieteam* t.^culty â- " u» w|A i „cth.ng â- "S'siiflg^ I f MK'b 3" •oaMB Nuw tins mav |a clerical undt reUndi^g; y have no lUtficalty â-  it, evidf'tt y, the oHk .t readily 'ake it i^ a thing and the tUaf r reli»;i' o and re^pm^ 1 |uite -obvious to tMi g- eiU Religinii may b- I of humnn 1" '" if *• I uiv of the I'leaa wWA ' -iidel to r present; i| nienon " though ftt ibi^uoua ID it is km iniHi A h.cii is " a natah lUy," ax' «t the tmt^ lich consn'-a in thstat I it. and |. -rfeot Being " o-ir ^^rjilexity Inm- rtnirr on, '.f the daaaod I* ".for "in authoriWk ' A dors tliis nta ia ,tt.- "faculty," "•â-º 4 leiiinneoon, ' simetUa^ rvo'^Dit "1 of the ohb m' t" ' \Vu confess this iry "ctinitc notion tusw irc '• » r.h whJe V* ttbemtiKC make a glMk .ml learning in ortolt of »iich- barren tm^Il iioii thci'!ogian proostdi t xix reliijion and moraBty, .f tliise *.. consist of the ..bl "f the law, and ths of tile sitond table, the i,.l f„r wbKh ibmo we tindi Itself in almost as h.it is all religion em- I .ur comuiauidmente ol i» all the m^rality i»- nin- six « Has morality a man's relation to his dative duties of man M ie;y Ih; iRyond the spbew • not tob.MJrawn into ooa et U-youd our depth, and incur the charge of in- ing contrary to ti.c fround|1 n^ IiariKraph ol thi »rti4j ind aU thia will not i,u»|Kcl that to not a fow i.-.tii,ction lietween religion, niilM^r t" '" something [.iriiii ' liian th.- writer of iliDii has dreaini l ot. Anl [•i«s an ti' Ik- kiit out of ;noV«i|taU'l protaiii' such Stadly SeitlieH will have h â-ºiieai. T cite. â-º ••V' â€" 118 of an Election. «1.25in»dvanoe, $150 i" three month-. $2 if not paid tiU end of the year, ^o pa- per dwoonanued not.1 "H, »^»™« .»" ^d. except at the op"on of the pub...her. imd parti* refusing P-lf" "iV"""!, £!?Hn*' up will be held re.po"»""« [«•• t*" "becnp- Uons until they comply with the rnlts. All letters •.llr-^^d ** »»« ^^'^^ ""?* be post-pa"), othe;*"" ^^^^ ™»y "'^* ** taken from the jAJSt .ffice. KATKS UK AUVERTISINO One c-olumn, one yeai/"' " i $50 00 H.i^ de dio ...•.'â-  30 OO Ouarter do do ... 18 00 Kmht do do .••••♦" ,10 00 c-arls do ..... â- '--• 60 Six lines and under, tirst insertion.. SO (^h sulisojucnt insertion From si.v to tun lines, tint insertion. Each suliseijuent insertion Over ten line.' first insertion per line Each i-ul-ci|uent insertion The numb«r of lines to be reckoned by the space oecmiied measured by a scale of solid brevier. Advertisements without specilic directions will be publishrd till for- bid and chargf d accordingly. All transitory advertisement.s must be in the iirti;e of p«b- Kcation by 1 1 o'clock on the Thursday morning prtueding their publication. W. llUTLfUKlE, I'roprietor. ^tt .J v^* .^ 7 :. :-•-.. VOL. I.â€" NO. 2. MAKKDALE, ONT, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, 1880. WHOLE NO. 2 Seeing the Shah at Teheran. THE KCATTIBINC OF FXAWXR8 ALOMO PATHWAY BY TWO UOLY MKS, INTERESTING ITEMS. Tii» Kre.'rh levcnue for lSt« is over $1.5 Oil" 00(1 »Kiv t 'f niTM. TiiKiK have li.in I4» duels in France ,. within .ight months, without the lots of a •ingle life. A .si.\i.»Ai;i wom-u got eiii|do nieut in male attin: U2. u faun li-nd at Hutchinson, III., but the farm' r ilwchar^cd her on learu- â- ng her sex. Sin- tia- brought a suit to re- cover wagi )• for th.- whole c .ntiact. Mi.is Ki.oi.k ^iiMioN, daujhter of Senator Sharon, is l« troth.'l to Sir Thomas Hes- keth, a W' aatiy Kngli.thinau, who, in tho course if a iour round the world in his steam yacht, has he n making a stop ut Sau Fiau- ciaeo. ,1 Ilim foil wcd the grim exam- 'lie *-MeT, 'h- Kibe and other wbicji oveillowini; their [.lit d' Htrnction o\ r an TiiK U'lirtI pK. Bi't h. r l.y ' (ieriraii riv. i banks, Imv'i wiougi (no. III..US xt.n; 'I .oiint.y. Tnc damage tlbcte.! by ilo..:i in L'pi.er .Silesia is tvr- ril.lo. .S'rvi;i.\.N » i. utters in tho forest of; l)rommin" iIim. \»i" .1 â-  a half-di"iiyi'l o;ik trie .was engravi il " II. \oii Kratk'.witz, ISli, lay by bis .smI. It U .lup Misid that the man elimbeil tl,' tr. ' .iii'l aecidently dropped in- to the hall'.w lriint lioni which there was no t:acapv. A Wki.^mma.s «j- ii xliibiti.m in Lon lion for .-.oine Ila^.^ ^1^ faster. He w.is to fot felt iM dollai.t lor v'y 'liy he tailed food for two Heeka. A w.it li w« or^rinizeil, anil the jiul.lic wn-'ailinitte'l on eond'tion of |iurcliainu' .iriiiks. Thi- .nan made a stuiiig utti iii|.t to carry out hii undertaking, but alter .-.IV lays he fill from the sofa in a state of coii.i, :ind only reived when ful. Amom. till many Heidelberg trailitions of duelling in ihi' loll .uini.' Two stuilents fought, and i-. h .ilieid oM the other'j nose. The iiohVh till to the ground, and, being piekuil up by till' sreonils, were plastered •g.'iiii on tlo lai-.s of the du.lli ts. The kop-ratioii • Mill 1 cled, but in thi hurry the noses had b' III elMn:.'i'd. The aijuiline man I eforward hail ;i ^^lub, and the snub man liad an ai|Uiliiie. I'llK lat »l staJtiMln • "t t!ii OM '.itholic 'hureb in 'iermany s^how that it has one ftiih'ipaiid 47 pries is at wi'rk. There are sides 4 I'rofcssors, tu" iuvalid (iricxts, and A ' withdrew 1.11 .leeount of tli eelilacy Lieeision. hunng the past year tlir.e priests (iluil, two were removed, and two were re- t eived. .About :i .lozeu of the prie.-std have Itakiii wives. Th" numbir of Old l atholics li^ itimatLiI at 4.'i,llUU. I iiK appeal from the t'hurch authorities ^at' loiiiie tor IiIh ral c iitribntions from the itii urgency and persuatioii. The cntri- lutirs air told tlnit in giving to the I'ope hi.y giv'c to the most august mendicant on â- th and f.'r tin- i,'ri atift wiirks of lieniK- 1, e in till- World. They givefoi the bene- il f tl kiid ..I tl It II :ireh, ow It lit- SI'I'S III liii|i.rte.l II " .inioking an (•rtseiita arms the Gjvorn« opposing ciri it'Miifl party r.vlslb/y'ud d.'UbVwhsr- love- nni' ut 13, even ip but s re-teiitativeantlconstitation la, I'ersi.i, or Mandalay ol clutled; lor in those con- l.tjverniucut in ibo alrici hut .in unmodified sato- and their rulers are bat type of Miltinles who »1- it of the Cbersonuese, boi, anil bravest f rieiid. iinowledged ..:i.»t party M' lid that they are fouodea o* .Viuctples, thi nuestioo »UW w IS it tiat principles W lo each other aris' and ooa- iion^; men wli â- Â»â- â-  bii th, »*• due ill n, nave so mABV i aian ir..ii| 'ty ' The true answer, howl ^.,g (i,,-, ., that the opposition of party I (nearly -t nareiiiiliausclual, ujoretis- Jlow n.nci ition.*!. In a suate, '^* 'Jbutlli. ' hng tone is not one of high ft ,„.,„ „ ;. rst lor place and power has Iridge.f i- in keeping up the oppoiB- ig men to supp rt those by expect to chmb to the W- ,he oilice they aspire to. a» p..diticiau bi-J creed is *• iiiary or edu'.-ational I«a" liKm uess of his convictioas Iku lu tonseiiueuoe of PJI^J funeiel negleet received •• party, he turus complet«y I up Ills former opponent*- not a little of sham in pl.K-t tj It. lure a powder niag.i- e"|.ti I I .ippro- â-  " ... • l.:;u. II lid says hr'i.ly, f' .1 res].' e fully, " I'ardon cti iM.t I. I. I .^ni'tkiiii; iH not allowed liciv.' Tl t • I" ' I, With a superb gesture, lili;;s aw.iy t .. l' 'T ,-(iil i^ives the l.tithful jtini-l a 'ttiit^ 't'or. .\s m.iiu as hi^ got kroiiii't til. "rii' r the f.ialiful sentinel with jroU'l tl "11 his riiggeil countenance, ^iek.-. lip th t i^ar and tiiiishes it with every luanile^l itiiiu of delight. lii'M-\i' an et'ceiitric obi bachelor, w days a;.;o in AshUud, Ulilo, and his will it W.1X found that he had • all Ins [.roperty omsisling of bonds, licsiiies considerable real 1' K. t'lawson ff llayesville, II act of charity done him while iiic years ago. It is stipulated ill. however, that t'lawson niuit my '•iiiii' girl hot kn 'Wn to him now, on r It. li.ie the Ith of .March, ISSl. Failing do this, t'li' money :^oi8 to chant iblc ob- tK, aiiil t i.ly the real istittc to (lawsou. tkti lusiug to watch l,lie« of elec-.ors when who shil' occu^iy their Coiuuioi Tho eagar lity, auo lavish plVinJ* and thei â-  friends, tht I t.nus witty, and al? iroanoua meetings, the II result, and the other e poluog-day, gii' ,y of s'.udying hum. St buuioroua asiie.- of the more o.~ burning word~ 'I h y unworthy mo ves nil the positiv y mrl innueadt) :iud l t:i(.ii' oppt'Dcnls, a* il to one with t!i^ leaat 8 ill hii composition. a the poUiDg-diy-r â- ivals. HacLsfnrryto voters to time. Mono; Somewhat dubioi resort.d to in Uie si c, and, when the t d, the ex-'iteinent tauds at fever heat collisions mvoiving t) not lesoiteJ to wbil* it- dec 3.03. Tue sm ne 13 at ieogth declared. t^:roperament and his is the ixpression ol W* mej lie smiles serenelyi S"nowledgnients of I he is excitablte, ussibly hystencaL Oj* a defeated rival it U certain amount »[ :d misfortune and m the ro.us of Carthage fell in the fonim. â- *•_; n .ntles, and ao pro*" misplaced oonfld***' lople. •1 election â€" â€" -.,^, rthus:-lt Ji»*f pjUtics L s rri w ,ed man be fairly Itfent, a^le to id "indifferaat i-li Ctirrcs|MJjitleiit of the London ites " The |Hitat« crop is simply II".. What few m;n cm recollect ling is i.ow seen on all Uauds â€" liclJs be- Aining t.t wither naturally, without a sign 9 .lisiase. This is iliielly owing to the t^ug" of sie' the ' (.'hampions, ' being planted on all bantl« east to west, and fully .^^, bearing out the i:oo,l tli'iigs »|io'ien of them. a collWO'l^e pnc.' ot oats .unl cnttle h.is doubled oe last yi'.ir, that of pi'^smore than doub- Oats.an a goiiil crop, and turnips and langols never hioked better." TllK writer of the words and music of (.ml Save the Kiiig.";i.~ now unmistakably jCj to bo Kougel tie i'lle, the author ot Marseillaise." It is true the sovereign honi the Frenchaian invi.uketl diviue (From the London D»Uy News. I have had an opportunity of seeing his Majesty proceeding in ttate to visit his First Minister. Though daily, necessarily, in contact with his Minister, the Shah an- nually pays him three public visits to do him honour, the entire royal household as well as the sovereign being entertained at d inner. From the door of the house at Teheran where the Shah was paying a visit, up to the mansion of the Minister, a dn. Jtnce ot over a mile, the thoroughfare was lined with troops. Though they had taken op their position at six in the morning, the Shah did not appear till nearly twelve o'clock. Some half hour previous to this sundry old-fash- ioreil ca-nagas, drawn by a couple of horses each and driven by nondescript-looking coachmen, who to all appearances might have been royal scullions in undisguised pro- fessional costume, might he seen making their way, outside the ranks of the troops, in the direction of the Miuisfer's residence. The-ic carriages coutaiued st.ine of tbt- prin- cipal harem favourites, and were preceded by a crowd of men in ordinary Persian ci- vilian costume, beating the air and the ground with long oz'er rt ds, unil vociferat- ing to the bystanders to "be blind " and to turn their faces to the wall, lest by any ill luck they might catch sight of any of the " lights of the harem" in the carriages. The arrival of the Shah was heralded by the ad- vent of a uumber of mounted pi'Iicemen dashing along the ranks in an impetuous manner. These police, organized by the Count de Mouteforte, an Italian othcer, ar- rived at Teheran within the last two years, are very creditably got up, and, I am told, are very eihcient in iiiainiaining onler in the capital. They wear a bl ick tunic wuh vio- let facings on c.ilbir I'ud cull's, and a stripe of the same colour down the d-irk tn users. V small bl.ick cylindrical shako and long boots complete the cost.iine. The foot po'ice carry short sabres of a Europein miidel,that hum III skeleton in I of the mounted men being longer. After the .•\ watch, on which p„lice came a crowd of some thirty horse- i men bearing large silver maces and, behind ' these, about a hundred others armed with sabris and having double-barrelled fowlii „ ' pieces and ohl-fashioned Persian muskets i slung at their b^cks. All these i eople were dressed viry plainly in sombre c doured ci- vilian co-tuiiKS. To the-e succe deil some ' tifty (nliHy costumct persons, proceiding at a trot on either pide of the way. They were I the King's running lootmeu. I Rich u.ao Wore a rather lonu-skirtcd rcil i tunic, ornamented with a fi w scraps of gold I lace ^ewn hoiizoutally on the breast a pair ol dark knee briechcs, white c ttton stock- iiigs, and shoes with buckles and rosettes. The oddest part of the costume was the hat. It was of black gb.zed leather, ami was not i unlike a lireman's helmet lievcloping into a i lancer's ca8i|ue, or the head-dress worn by the ccceutrio peucil nieichai.t in Paris tome years ago, when be us. d to ilrive aliout the 1 streets in a carriage m ling hi^ wares. From the centre and foi wanl and rear ends of the tall, strai^ht ciest rise three bunches of red artificial Howers, maile to resemble sweet- william blossoms. These are ixed on long stems, tl'at iii the centre: b ing the tallest, all thiec! iiotlding comically with every movement of the hea.l of the xeuier. On all occasiiiiis when the .Shnli apjiearj in pnb- bc be is invariably accompanied by these comical-looking persons, who run ahead, on each snle of, anti bi hind his horse or car- ria'.-e. In the mi.lst of these rode a^roup of forty or lifty of the highest dignitaries if the State, incluihng the First Minister and the Commander in. Chief of the Aimy, the Hes- sem el Seltaneh, ir "Swoid of li.e King- dom." All these functionaries were dressed ill an exc e lin^ly platu manner. --Vt their hcail rode the .Shaii bimsell, if pos-ibly still more plainly dnsseil than the Kroup around him. Were it not for the crimson umbrella which be carried open above his head sk an emblem of supreme authority, I should cer- tainly have lieen uuable to make him out in the crowd. A" I siw him, lie seemed to le a much younger and handsomer man than bis ilioto^rapbs would lead one to believe. Perhaps it was the glow cast by the red um- brella which matle him seem younger. Be- hind him came an immense concourse of horsemen, piesumably belonging to the royal household. Then followed a closed carriage, resplendent with plate glass and gilding, not unlike the Lord Mayor's state coach. Next come some led horses, splen- didly caparisoned and a number of police closed the procession. Pcrhaiis the oddest part of the procession consisted of the apes and balloons led along by their keepers, and intended to amuse the ladies ol the harem. There was a new feature introduced into the sceneâ€" new for Persia, I b-lieveâ€" the scattering of flowers along the way in front of the Shah. One would have expected that children, or at least some U.lerably good- looking persons, would have performed this graceful act. Instead, there was a couple of ugly old men, whose ordinary avocation is to throw water from leather bag* they carry on their backs, to allay the dust when the Shah passes, sod who, having tirst perform- ed the more uteful part of their duties, were "".r I now to be seen hurrying about with articles resembling wooden coal scuttles under their arms, scattering what looked like the sweep- ing of a nursery ganlen iu a very business- like fashion. At the moment Teheran, with its tele- graphs and its police, of M. Sohindler and its Count de Monteforte, is no longir the ro- mote Eastern capital such as Marco Polo might have hinted at. There may be holes two feet siiuarc iu the thoroughfares that Hank the King's palace, and at the bottom of which, at unknown depths, run hidden watercourses and there may be rumours afloat that the half dozen adventurous thieves who stole the Shah's regalia from the old man who was conveying them to the jeweller arc to be blown from the mouths of the guns in the main sciuare (for which civi- lized punishment the King might claim a well-known precedent) but, practically speaking, Teheran, with its Italian police, Its Austrian soldiery, (and Russian C-os- sacks), its macadamized thoroughfares, its electric light, and its two cafes, has cessed to have claims upon romance. of hospitals, ouls. orphanages, i-ii..\rK at .Sci'ck|iort, Kugland, i' I t.atli that he ovirlieard a wo- I ^y to her sist4.r " How iii "l to ilay " " Fifteen shillings, liter a dial of rambling about. tils tliee got'" " Five shillings, II t brill alioiil iinu'h.' He saw I'l lieen hanging on one of the ^i"ik|Mirt, enter a [mblic house, I I' fresliin:; himself with lii|Uor, "pI'cr.H changC'l f'r silver to the \rii shilliiii^s and sixpence, boast- liail eollectc.l that in two hours. to b«i eMBM Ifiat h fk-rf* [B Bkal he npTooTJnlw****** j^SlRon was not one of the four tieorgcs, ^ffZuia .XVIII., at whose tirst restoration \bli, Kougct wrulea hymn with the title efi.un of " Ditu preserve le Koi." The ;ii 'tiod Save the King," the words of bicli »cre a bold paraphrase of the Han- eriaii .iiithein, was republished, and is now kusciiateil by the Paris press for the pur- f showing that Rouget de I'lle was republican. It'll II \t:o women bc.tt tho world. One of em at least contrived to be..t the Central |cilie Ua'lro^d Company. L'ke .Schneider, wanted t" buy a d.ig, ami she liought it f San Fraiieisco and had it sent by express CbioaKo. When the dog arrived the hair _j all off, and the sued the company for (5 for allowing a locomotive to scald all the ofr her dog. she obUined judgment, what is more remarkable, the money. erwarda the eon,j,a„y fo„„,j ^^ ^j^^^ ^^^^ I wa a .lapanese ,iog and nr-ver had any The company tne.i to catch the wo" who played this bal.t trick on them, but escapedâ€" probably had a hairbreadth cs- the leading jouinal of Geneva a well- i'wn Alpine tourist, publishes an aecount Ithe proceedings of a raven tribunal in the 1 mountains. Descending from tha re- i of glaciers, he came npon a small ae- ied glen, surrounded by thick cover. J sixty to seventy ravens had formed a lie round one of their fellows, obviously iprit, whose oatte thay were di s on ss in g much croaking and wing flapping. and then they interrupted their debates sten tu the energetic representations of prisoner, who conducted bis own defence ' amaziuK fervour, the judges breaking into a deafening chorus of comment, I refutations after his every statement, ently, having arrived at the anaoimoas iluaiun that the arraigned bird had fail- exculpate itself, they dew npon him I all sides, and tore him to pieces with rbesks. A Toung airl Sleeps tor Many Months (From the Dally TelcT»l«h.) Scarcely less astonishing that Dr. Tanner's recent feat of fasting is the condition of a y oung lady, the daughter of the Mayor of tiiambke, a village near Bremen, who is said to have been fast asleep ever since the second week in January, with the exception of a few hours of semi-wakefulneas at inter- vals of from six to eight weeks. An inter- esting account of her extraordinay state is published la the llanovr CovrUr. It ap- pears that she lies, plunged in a profound slumber and entirely unconscious ot all that goes on around her, night and day, ncliniog on her left side, warmly covered up "and with a light gauze spread over her hea i. Nuur- ishmon'., chiefly in a liquid form, is daily administered to her, which she twalUws without awakening for a second. She is a pretty, slender girl, of a pallid complexion, but she does not lose m weight during her trances of from forty to sixty days, and whep awajfe, exhibits a cheerful disposition and an eager desire to perform snch small household tasks as her strength enables her to fulfil. Her fsther is a well- to-do. man, who has consulted several emi- nent medical men, in the hope of discovering some remedy for bis daughter's abnormal condition, which entails serious incnnven- enoe and constant anxiety upon the other members o( the family but all efforts hith- erto made to keep the unlucky girl awake bav« revnited in total failure. Sinoe the case of the sleeping tJblan at Potsdam, no such interesting subject for study and ob- servation on the part of the faculty has arisen as that of Uie strangely somnolent Borgomas- ter s daughter ol Gtambke. AiloNO the stonelayera employed npon the building of the new Hoose of ParliameDt wai one of • peculiarly thoaghtfnl torn of mind, a man of speech and ambitian above his trade. That man now ahs in the House he helped to bftil^. wd he u Mr. ^koad hurst, the member for Stoke, whoaa s p e so h on the Bmployen' liability bill haa umfkaA Ua oat for ParliMnwitaiy 20, The Oieat Steamship, City of Rome- At a recent meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Barrow-in Fnmeas, an interesting paper, from which we take the following, was read by Mr. James Hum- phreys, on the Inman steamship City of RomeV now in course of construction by the Barrow Shipbuilding Company. We hope in an early nnmber to publish Mr. Humph- rey's paper In a complete form, with dia- grunis, bnt in the meantime we may give some of the leading particulars of the vessel to which it relates. Tois splendid steamer will, when completed, be the largest vessel sfloat, with the exception of the Great Eastern. Her dimensions are Length be- tween perpendicnlats, 546 feet length over all, 600 leet extreme breadth, 52 feet 3 inches and depth of hold, 37 feetv She will have staterooms for 271 passengers, and accommodation for 1,500 emigrants, provis- ion being made for carrying about 260 emi- grants at the fore end and 240 at the aft end on the main deck, and for 1,000 more on the lower deck. The grand dining salooB is 72 feet long. 52 feet wide, and 9 feet n%h, or 17 feet in the way of the large opening through the di awing room above this saloon will afford accommodation for dining 248 pertoos at once. The estimated weight of the City of ISome complete and ready Tor sea is 8,000 tons, while her displacement on 28 ftei meaA draught is 13,500 tons, so that she will have a dead weight carrying-power of 5,500 tons: Her holds, however, have a cubical capacity of 38,600 cubic feet, equiva- lent to 7,720 tons measurement at 50 cubic per ton. in the constructive details of the City of Kome every endeavour has been made to in- sure strength combined with high-class ac- commodation. The hull IS divided into water-tight compartments by a number of bulkheads, the maximum of any one of these compartments being about 60 feet. All tlie bulkheads are fitted with water-tight doors of the Admiralty pattern, worked either from above or lelow, and provided with tell-tales on deck. At the fore end a double 'bottom is provided for a length of about 160 feet from the stem to give greater safety in the event of stranding. The fram- ing is of the ordinary type. The vessel has two complete iron decks above, while the lower deck is complete for half its length, and has wide side plating tor the remainder. There are nine tiers of keelsons running fore and aft, the five central ones being of uni- form height, and being carried unbroken through engine and boiler rooms. The stem frame, which is now being made at the Mer- sey Steel and Irou Works, is estimated to weigh tons when Hnisheil, and will be the largest single forging of its kind ever made. The City of Rome will have a single screw, 24 ftet in diameter, driven by three sets of compound engines of the inverted tandem type, these engines actuating cranks- set at 120 ° Each engine has a high pres- sure cylinder 43 inches, aad low-pressure cylinder 86 inches in diameter, the stroke btingGfeet. The high- pressure cylinder is ^upported above the corresponding Inw- piessure cylinder by three wrought iron columns, tbe arrangement givingready access to tbe stuffing boxes, etc. The cylinder covers are male in halves for easy removal. The valve faces are on the fronts of the cy- linders, the valves being driven by eccen- trics on an independeut shaft coupled to tbe main shaft at each end by a pair of mortise wheels. The crank-shaft is a built up shaft, and is being maile by Sir Joseph Whitwnrih it'll., of their compressed steel. It will weijh complete 64 tons, and will have roai-i bearings 25 inches in diameter by 33^ inches ioi.g, and crank pins 26 itches iu diameter by 2S inches long. The screw sha't'ng is also being made of the Whitworth compress- ed steelTand will be hollow. The inter- mediate shafting is 24 inches in diam'ter, with a 14 inch hole running tbroa'..h it, while the propeller shaft is 25 inches in diameter by 30i feet long, and will weigh 18 tons The thrast shaft wdl weigh 17 tons and wi.l have 13 collars .SitJ inches in diameter, ^iv- inf( a surface of 6,0U0 stjuare inches. The eUj^ine bed plate will weigh 100 tons. Tue surfaje condensers contain nearly 17 miles of tubing, exposing 17,0(X) square feet of sur- face, and the condensing water will be sup- |ilied by two double-acting circulating pumps, 26 inches in diameter, with 3 feet stroke, worked by the forward and aft en- gines respectively, as are also the bilge and feed pumps, and tbe air pumps, tbe latter beiug 39 inches in diameter, with 3 feet stroke. There are .ilso a large ce3trifu.;al pumping engine (for pumping heavy leaks, and which can be arranged to discharge through the condensers), and three auxiliary pumping engines for boiler feeding, bilge pumping, etc. The boilers are eight in number, arranged in two boiler rooms of moderate size separ- ated by a water-tight bulkhead. The boil- ers, which are of the cylindrical double-end- ed type, 14 feet in diameter by 19 feet long, are arranged fore and aft in four blocks of two each, the two central blocks being se- parated by the transverse bulkhead just mentioned. The coal bunkers are along the sides of tbe ship and form part of the struc- ture it is intended to make these buukers and keelsons water-tight so as to constitute t be inner skin at the points where they oc- cur. Ijtch boiler has six furnaces, 3 feet 9 inches in diameter, and with separate com- bustion chambers. The fire grates are six feet long, the total area being 1,080 square feet. Each boiler has a steam receiver, 13 feet long by 4 feet diameter. Tbe furnaces .and combustion chambers are of Bjwiing iron, and the shells of iron made by Sir John Brown Co., the plates being 24 feet 8 inches long by 4 feet 4 J inches wide and li inches thick, the weiuht being nesrly 2^ tons each. The boilers are made for a working pressure of 90 pounds per square inch. The engines sre mtended to develop in regular work 8,000 indicated horse power, but to be capable of developing 10,000 horse power. The speed expected is 18 knots per hour. The ves».el will have four masts, and will be full ship-rigged, with the addition of the fore and aft rigged jigger mast she is expected to be ready for service next summer and will ply between New York and Liverpool. f »â- â-  m r Press Oensorahip in Russia. (From the London Examiner.) Again tbe Tiflis journal, 06jor, has "come to gritf." For five yuan the editor, Mr. Nicoladze, has waged warfare with the cen- sor, and three parte of that time his journal has been in a suppressed condition. In 1875 Nicoladze, who nad made a mark as con- tributor to the Ooloi, went to TitUs with the express purpose of fighting there the battle of the Russian provincial press. Between the latter and the newspapers of the two cipitals a marked difi'erence exists. Tbe QoUu, Moscow OatelU, and other large news- paders of St. Petersburg, and Moscow, are allowed to publish their news and articles without previously submitting them to. the Censor, while the provincial sheets cannct print advertisements, let alone paragrspiis, without obtaining first the sanction of the local press authorities. By law, the proof of a leading article, after being corrected in red ink by the Censor, has to be submitted again to that functionary tiefore it can be published, and, as Russian Censors are inu. ally as detigient of energy as Government omcials in our own country, an article sent in on Monday and corrected on Wednesday can hardly be issued, if it contains altera- tions, before the following week. If a town has no Censor, thi Polioe-master, or some other official, snpervuea the local press, reading carefully everything, from the puff of somebody's puis to the official announce- ments copied from the Government sazettea. Nicoladze made it his piactioe to poDliahthe shreds of tbe articles expurgated by the Censor, without taking the trouble to fill in tbe gap 'with freeh words. When he had sufficiently stimulated public opinion against tbe Censor, bv this praetioe he opemly dis- credited hun by inaarting the artKlea with the ezpargatiotia, whioh uowed how ridicn- knis the provincial Censors set in erasing words and senteuoes having nothing illegal or obaoxions in them. This led to npeatod inppitHiooi, and at last to a trial, whioh lairtod twoyeatrs, and tesalted is the ShtDTsaas Court at TSBia finding a verdict in Kieel* adee'sfsTow. KneetlMa hakaa^saalMtad a aiaakipal Cowieiltor, aad waa oaa ol the BMatbata who raocnfly iinaracfcad tka Goir- 4kw»«THioa( Mad Elephants. THI HAVOC THB OBKaT BSm CAVSH WHKN US KKBXLS AOAIBST IKKaOMS CAMIVIT*. A writer in the London nitfrapk, who has spent a morning in the " Z.w." moralizes as follows on the character of the elephant "Nor, when we speak loftily of the ele- phant's ' docility,' should we forget that the meastire of this virtue may be ganged by tbe individual's capacities for the reverse. A white moose is the most docile of mammals, but what would it matter if it were not? A pinch of the tail would always suffice to frighten it into abject submission. Bnt when tbe sagacious elephant decides for its- self, ss it often does, that docility is not worth the candle, that occasional turbu- lence, good all-round rebellion, is wholesome for its temper and constitution, who is going to pinch Its tail With one swing of its trunk it lays all its attendants flat, butts its bead through an inconvenient Wajl, and is free They are brave men who capture the wild elephants, but no one, however brave, tries to captare ' a rogue. ' It has to be shot in its tracks|^"dropped standing, for it is then something more than a mere wild animal It has developed into a creature of deliberate will, and having in its own mind weighed the proa and cons, has come to a fixed con- clusion that captivity is a mistake, and pro- ceeds, therefore, on a definite plan of intelli- gent and malignant action. Indeed, among tbe,episodea of Indian rural life there are few more appalling than shch a one of the Mad Elephant of Mundia. It has been for many years a docile inmate of a government stud, but one day made up its mind to be infamous. Wise men have before now told the world that it is well to be drunk once ,a month, and others that we should not al- ways abstain from that which is hurtful so the elephant, determined upon a bout of wrong-doing, had some precedent to excuse him. The elephantine proportions of his misdemeanors, however, made him lapse from docility appalling to mere men and women whose individual wicked acts are naturally on to diminutive scale but, com- paratively speaking, the gisantic mammal was simply on a spree.' Nevertheless, in desolated villages with nearly every horrible circumstance of cruelty lately practised by the Christians of Bulgaria, and laid its plans with such consummate cunning that skilled potioe, well mounted and patrolling the coun- try, were baffled for many days iu their pur- suit ot the midnight terror. It oame and went with extraordinary secrecv and speed from i^oint to point, leaving none aloue up- on tbe highroads to tell the pursuers which way it had gone, and only a smashed vil- lage and tramplel corpses to show where it h^ last appeared. It confused its own tracks by donbJng upon its pursuers and by crossing the spoor of the other elephants that accompanied them. It was not merely wild â€" it was ' mad,' and as cunning and as cruel as a madman. Kut insauity itself is a tribute to the animal's intelligence, for sud- den downright madness presumes strong brain power. Owls never go mad. They may go ' silly,' or they may be born idiots but as Oliver Wendell Holmes says, a weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself." Personating Charley Boss. I.ITTLK MAX .STEINBEKUEK'.S BCONOMV 0»' TRUTH. (From the New York Times.) A neatly-dressed, Haxen-baiied boy, ap- parently about ten years of age, was found strolling down Pavonia-aveoue, lersey City, early yesterday morning. A policeman who stopped hini was unable to obtain satisfac- tory answers to his questions, and he took tbe lad to the station-house. Later in the day he was sent to tbe office of Chief Mur- phy, who questioned him closely. He said his first name was 'barley, but be did not know bis last name. " About six years ago," be said, " I was kidnapped from home. Two men took me a longdistance away and left me with an old woman, whom I knew only as ' granny.' Idoi't know where she lived, but I think it was in Newark. I haven't any idea what street she lived in. I waa always kept in doors. She never let me out." " Was she a married woman?" asked the Chief. " I don't know," replied tho boy. " Some horrible-looking man called to see her some- times. " Up to this time tbe Chief had listened to the boy's narrative with patience. He now assumed to be angry, and peremptorily de- man ed of tbe lad why he bad lied to him so persistently. " I'm not lying," the boy returned earn- estly. " I swear I have told you nothing bnt the tinth." "I know you have not," said the Chief, " and I propose to lock you up till you do." " You can lock me up if yon will, but I have, indeed, told you nothing but tho truth," the lad protested. The Chief sent him to a cell and directel that nothing be given him to eat or drink till he was ready to confess his falsehood. An hour or two later the Chief went tn his cell door. " We have found your father," he said to the boy, " and he will be over here soon to take you home." Tbe lad's face brightened up. " I shall be ever so grateful," he said, "if you can tell me who I am. I have been wondering for six years ho I may be, and haven't been able to find out. And as for ever seeing my father's face again, that I despaired of. Finding that his ruse did not accomplish the desired result, the Chief had another boy put in the cell with him. The new- comer was instructed, in the hope that there might be an interchange of confidences, to pretend that he was a runaway. Still, in answer to his fellow-prisoner's inquiries, the strange boy told the same story. Last even- ing, however he asked to be taken to the Chiet, and when he met him said " I owe yon an apology. I never told so many lies in all my life before as I have told you to day. " Then he confessed that bis name was Max Steinberger. His mother, who is a widow, resides at No. 131 East Fifty-ninth- street, but he has lived for five years with his grandmother, Mrs. Rothschild, and his nncfes, at No. 168 East Sixty-third-street. Information was sent to his relatives, and his uncles soon called for him. They said that the lad, who is untuually bright, is very self-willed, His mother, finding herself un- able to control him, put him with his uncles for correction. Two or three days ago his grandmother wanted to sive him a batn, but he was opposed to it. He told her that some one was at the basement door to see her, and during her absence slipped out of the front door and ran away. He propoted, he told Chief Mnrphy, to go out West, make money, buy a farm, and then take his mother to live with hiro. He had learned tbe little he knew of the Chsrle^ Ross story by reading tbe newspapers before his ancles got down stairs in the mornings. â-  â- â- â-  m MUei To*. Mile. Tua, the young violinist, now so much talked of in Paris, is tbe daughter of a Turin mason who taught himself the violin, his wife the guitar, and put ao instrument into the tiands of his little girl, then 6 years old. When they Bad mastered a few tnnes tbey left Turin and viaited, one after an- other, the winter dtiea of the coast. At Nioe a lady was se struck with the child's talent that she gave the father an introduc- tion to M. Masssrt, professor of the violin at the Conservatrare, and the whole family came to Paris, to Sad a friend in the profes- sor, who, with a few of his aoqoaintaooea, raiaed a fund which enabled them to live while the daughter followed the o lss aes of the Coosenratoire, when she haa now gauMd the highest reward at 13. JLa Aaoioaa imfftmrio baa, it it reported, ofEtred to taka the yonag prodigy to Amieriea, with her pareati, pay all their ezpeBses tor Are years, and nva them 140,000 at tbe end of that time. M. T«a has rafaaed be thinks bia daaf^ter oan do bettor in Kerope. Hor first pta at the Caaasrvatoira giT«s her 1100 and a mporb iaftrfB^^ A 900D wisiaatiiMaKat asay aalf hMd A a f sMt, fa«t tho mmll boy tekoa The Warning of gaim^hav The reoent Afghan oampaign has given fresh significance to Marshal Saxe's pithy definition of the British Army as " lions oommanded by ssses " and fiigland has triumphed, not through her officers, bnt in spite of them. To blunder by rule and pre- cedent, to apply the maxims of the parade ground to the jungle, the desert, or the mountain to treat bloodthirsty and treach- erous savages as civilized trooptf â€" snch is the system which, pursued in defiance of the gravest warnings, has stained the flag of one of the bravest nations in existence with such blots ss Kurd-Kabul, Isandula, and Kbushk- i'Nakud. At time*, indeed, the rules of sound common sense and clear judgment, followed out by such captains as Clive, Coote, Lake, Wellesley, Napier, and Have- lock, have formed a brilliant, though mo- mentary, exception to this interminable blundering. But, for the most part, Ent(- land's Eastern wan present the lamentable spectacle of a gallant army perpetually thrust into difficulty and danger by tbe incapacity of its leaders, and extricated solely by its own characteristic quality of never knowing when it is beaten. The recent operations around Kandahar may be briefly summarized as follows In the beginning ot Jidy a brigade waa detached from vie garricon to aid a loyal native chief known as tbe Wall, who was then threat- ened by the forces of- Ayoob Khan. Geo. Burrows, who led the detachment, reached tbe town of Girishk, on the Helmund, (100 miles from Kandahar,) upon the lltb, aifd at onoe established himself opposite that place, on the left bank of the river. It then became evident that the Wall's own troops were ready to mutiny, which they did on the 14th. marching off in a body to join Ayoob Khan, who was then barely one " march " distant. In drawing off, the mu- tineers lost 50 men and several guns 'by a brilliant charge of the Euglish cavalry but, despi^ this success, Gen. Burrows thought it advisable, weakened as be was by this wholesale desertion, to fall back upon the town of Khubhk-i Nakud, 31 miles nearer Kandahar. This moment was completed, without molestation, on the I7th, although Ayoob Khan was reported to be at hand with over 4,U00 men. So far, no fault could be found with the English leader's dispositions. He was now occupying a strong position, with his stores, sick, and beasts of burden in the centre. He commanded the junction of several roads, and possessed an abundant supply of every necessary but woixL Several Afghan chiefs of note, capable of being used as hostages in case of need, were in his camp. Could he but have been content to hold bis ground, he might have defied the superior numbers of tbe enemy. Unhappily for himself, he did the very reverse. Wisbiiig, no doubt, tore- deem by some brillisnt exploit an expedition which had certainly been anything but glori- ous, be allowed himself to be misled into the belief that the force in his front was merely a detachment, instead of the whole Afghan Army. On tho mori ing of tbe 27tli he attacked the Afghan cavalry that hovered around him. The latter, feigning a panic â€" a device so backneyel that no experienced officer should have been deceived by it â€" drew the pursuing British into a well-plan ncd ambuscade. Their cavalry and artilKry, decimated by a croshing fire, melt- d away at once but tbe honour of the day was sav- ed by the English infantry, whose resolute stand, with the heavy losse.. sustained by it, dill much to check a pursuit which might otherwise have annihilated the whole brig- ade. As it was, the rout of the British force was complete, and bail the victor pressed forward at onee, he wi uld probably have entered Candahar at the heels of tbe fugitives. His delay, from whatever cause it may have proceeded, saved the city. When he at length appear jd before it, his repeated sssaults were repelled as vigorously as they were made. Meanwhile General Roberts and Gen. Phayre, converging upon the place from oppmite sides, triuinpliantly asserted the superiority of discipline over fanaticism and the latent dispatches an- nounce the relief of the besieged city and the defat of its late assailant. Such a story points its own no ral. Few- errors are more common or more fatal than the |belief that to overrun a country is to conquer it. Napoleon himself fell into it in 1808, and the result of that blunder was the Peninrular war and his own final overthrow. Afghanistan is aa Oriental Spain, and the position of tbe British Commauder-in -Chief at Candahar is precisely that of Joseph .lionaparte at Madrid. The Eoglish grena- dier is, indeed, more than a match, in a pitched field, for the undisciplined Afghan, just as the French grenadier was for che undisciplined Spaniard. But all this does not bring tbe invaders one step nearer to their object. Twenty defeats, each more cmshing tha- any which they have yet sus- tained, would never quell the resistance of the Afghans, nor prevent their rallying again whenever they please. It is this im- palpability, this want of any vital and vul- nerable point, which distinguishes the barbaric warfare of tbe East from thp civil- ized warfare of the West. The organized States of Europe resemble a single and )ial- pable adversary, pervious by shot or steel. The fierce mountain clans of tbe Hindu- Kush are like a swarm of hornets, every- where and yet nowhere, always assailinK, never assailab'e. Moreover, were every foot of Afghanistan conquered to-morrow, its occupation would only cost far more than it is worth, without aiiy counterbalancing ad- vantage whatever. It is full time for Eng- land to recognize the uselessncss as well as costliness of her self imposed task, and to refrain from adding more valuable lives to the thousands already sacrificed in vain. Smuggling by Cabinet Couriers. (From tho Ixindon Televraph.) Cabinet couriers of all European nations enjoy the privilege of exemption, as fsr as their persons and luggage are Ctincerned, from the Customhouse officers' examinations to which the^eneral travelling public is still subjected at the frontiers of the several European States. Some time ago, however, tbe suspicions of a fn nch douanur at Paxny were aroused by tbe unusual number and di- mensions of certain boxes for which the nsual exemption was claimed by a " courier extra- ordinary " of the Russian Government, pass- ing the Franco-German frontier, on his route from SL Petersburg to Paris. Although the luggage in question was duly provided with the imperial seal, the inspecting official re- membered that, a few days previously, noti- fication of tbe mysterious disappear;.uce of a Russian departmental signet had reached his bureau from the Ministry of Commerce in Paris. He therefore politely declined to |.ass the courier's trunks, and reported the grounds of his refusal to hij superior offioer, who at once took upon him hinself tbe "e- sponsibility of opening and examining the suspected luggage, despite its proprietor's indignant protest. His courage was reward- ed by the discovery of 24,000 cigars, which the pretended Cabinetcourier had intended to smuggle into France. Next day another Russian courier arrived at Pagny, also ac- oompaoied by an inordinate amount of lug- gage under seal, which, upon bong inspect- ed, was found to contain 27,000 cigars. Both smugglers were arrested and oonveyed to Nancy, were they bavc been detained in "preventive seclusion," while the Freooh Police, under the superintendence of Com- missary Clement, specially charged with in- quiry into the case, have pnrsned their in- vestigations, rssnltins in the detection of a widely spread smnm[ling association, with branches established in Psris and several leading Frsnob provinoial towns. To any one aoquainted with the venality, of tbe Rus- sian toninovnik, it is easy to guess how thil associatiaD became possessed of the imperias signet, under cover of whioh they earned on their wholesale frands i^mo tbe revenne of tbe French Republic. A 4-raan-oui Sanday sohool girl did tbe beat iho oonid with a qnastion that was ask- ed of -tbo infant eteaa. Said tbe t sae h o r â€" "'Awiit easMt* pMs, when King Hom- diab bsard it, that bs teat his olotbaa.' ITow, wbnt doaa that Boan, ohildren, ' bo loat bia olotbaa r" Up want a littia band. "Well, if yon kww, toU na," "Fheaa, â- a W" aaid the ekild tiaidly. '«Iip«aehe hired W«i4i- Oennany's Chronic Fean. THX SLAKmnO PLOTS WHICH KKWSPAPKBS ARS ALWATS DISeOVSBlMO. (Berlin DMpatch to tb« London Times.) The Emperor has returned from Isohl. Prince Bismarck has hitherto given 00 sign at Kiasingen, but now that the two Em- perors have withdrawn from the stage it is reasonable to hope that the Chancellor, in accordance with his invariable practice, will soon proceed to entertain the European public with some diverting nUr'aeit, in which surprise, not nomingled, perhaps, with mystery, is likely to be the prevailing element. The journals here would be hearti- Ip grateful to his Highness for the creation of some incident calculated to engross their attention and employ their pens. For it must be sbviout to the most cursory observer that their columns now aropainfully con- tracted, dull and bare. 'They have all squeezed and strained tbe very Isst drop out 01 the Eastern question, hor is there i^y im- mediate prospect of grass for the poor de- plenished beast. A blade of sustaining vegetation in the shape of an atrccity tele- gram from Prisrend, a canard from Athens, er a demtnii from Stamboul is regarded here as a perfect godsend in the way of verdant provender, and the life of the animal does thereby not altogether evaporate, but its productive power has for the time being sadly dwindled, and there is no saying what the graziers may have to do if prospects of pastures new are bot speedUy unfolded to them. Meanwhile, for lack of matter mote attraclive, the newspapers here have eagerly caught at M. Gambetta's Cherbourg speech, and are cudgelling their brains to make out exactly what the ex-Dictator meant. That hir words are capable of two, and even three, interpretations, all seem to be agreed, bnt as to which is the right one there is Uttle consensus of opinion. Suspicion, bow- ever, plainly appears to lurk at the bottom of all their comments, and some of the Liberal journals eveu write as if they were clearly convinced that France is patiently biding her time and slowly but surely ma- turihg her imputeiTpolicy of revenge. Two Liberal papers, in fact, reason as if M. Gam- betta ^ad the other day boldly declared as much, one openly asserting its conviction that the President's speech is an " uncon- cealed defence of the revenge idea which is becoming popular among the French people iu proportion to tbe increasing power they feel of beiug able to realize it.' Tbe semi- official and conservative press, it is true, has not yet indulged in much criticism on the subject, though its silence is no less omi- nous than tbe remarks of tbe Liberal organs are outspoken, but it is very evident to all that the festivities and speechifying which cheered the simple inhabitants of Cherbourg have had a somewhat opposite effect on the susceptible politicians of Berlin. At tbe same time, it mutt be said that od the sub- ject of their international relations with the rest of Europe tbe (iermaus have lately be- gun tn show a tetchiocss and sensitiveness quite unworthy of tbe race of calm ahd pene- trating thinkers which they boast themselves to be. They seem to' be incessantly haunt- ed by tbe suspicion of some baneful design against their new and innocent Empire by one or more of their envious and banded neighbors, and tbe picas is hardly ever done denouncing tbe anti-tierman aiias of some of the poweis. Austria, it is true, since last Autumn has enjoyed a chartered immunity from these repmaches, but the other States have bad to suffer severely for it. Now it is France, with a well-delivered side thrust at poor, unoffending Italy again, the terrors of patriotic wrath are let loose on Russia, and the other day the journalists even defi autly shook their indignant lists at the honest and dumbfounded John Bull for having darkly conspired with tbe ambitious Muscovite to thwart and dealr.jy tbe Austro-German' infiuence on the banks of tbe Danube. When Germans, therefore, forget themselves so far as, on evidence of the very flimsiest and second- hand nature to impute treachery to a well- wishing and well tried friend, it can scarce- ly excite surprise thiit tbey sbimid continue to be infected with an unhappy suspicion of a nation which they hold to be their here, ditary foe, that they should examine all its ordinary actions with the painful minuteness of a microscopist, and pervert the words and meaning of its rulers with all the purblind obstinacy of a scholastic dogmatist. » • 4 A Chinese Theatre. WOMAN GOSSIP The Fnahlonable Olrt. The thoroughly fashionable girl looks as if she bad stepped out of a picture painted in the middle 01 last century. She droops her shoulden, represses her bosom, and bumps her back until she is interestingly shaped like a consumptive in the stages next pre- ceding death. Her shoulder blades snow like rudimentary wing* through tbe thin muslin of her white dress, and her hair is ar- ranged with angelic simplicity. Over her shoulders and chest is a bchu like the neck- erchief familiar in the f-taudard portrait of Mirtha Washington. Her skirt is gathered in at the waist, and bangs as straight and plain as an old-fashioned petticoat to within six inches cf tbe ground. The only sugges- tion of modem earthliness is tbe ehmpsc of gay stockings underneath. ___^ -.- 'i* ' .. Thi London people who are not avUietic are having a good deal ot amusement over thoscTthat are: over the rutiled and short coiffures of tbe women, the toosled and long hair of the men, some of whom even wear a fringe over the male attitude against wall or chimn«y-pi»oe over the (â- unale immobil- ity when sitting with head Uirown back and hands thrown forward, throat and arms stretched at fullest length over the yellow- greens and unwholesome reds of their dra- peries over tbe affectatii.iis of their talk, and countless other peculiarities. One of tbe clan, it is said, after rapt contemplation of a hideous little plate, began extemporizing some tuneless music on the piano and on being asked what he was about, replied, "I am^play^g tbe plate." PntOVAL. Tn Daohaaa py- rilE Al'.-ifKIOI.'.S OFENlMi HUME Of TIIK IIUAMA OF A c'ELtSTIAl. IN fOKTI-A.NU. Fashion Notes :-.-...^.-' Hoiis are the coming craze. ' Jet will be worn to excess (hisVviuter. New ostrich feathers are very thick and heavy. Artistic embroideries are being prepared for the coming season. The caleche bonnets of our grandmothers and tbe small capote are tbe new fall styles. ScAKVE.'s and fichus of mauve-coloured Spanish blonde and lace are coming iutb fa- shion. MoMiE cloths of fine, pure Wool, and in stylish colours, arc offered for winter dress- es. They are a yard wide. A STYLISH combination for the fall Will be old gold and prune colour, (ireeii and old gold will vie with it m favour. Vel\-et will Ix- the prevailing material winter dresses, and tbe plain will be of Oohnanfht bar twontioth birthday the gift of a ntpofb bw oolo t froas bar bv^and a rifle lalfada Thi Kins ot Italy m ofhrwl tha oaa a the royal vfllas of Capo di Monta and liaiD* cbetti to Mr. Gladstona if ho WHhas to !•• cnperate in Italy. Thb late Dowi^or Lady Cowpor's fathw was once Lord-LMntanant of Iraland, and she bved long aooogh to aee her i ing the same vice- regal throoa. LoBD ABSiuiuir has prsaeoted the city of Dublin with a park, with avenues, syWan nooks, and lakes, on which he has spent toon than twenty thousand pounds. Trr English ladies in Portugal bavo adopted a lawn tennis costnms with soma Moorish features, consisting of full troassra, laced at the ankle, a sleeveless, bri^t-oolor- ed square bodice and a looae skirt to tho knee. The gold and rilver plate belonging to tbo present Duke of Wellington is worth a mil- lion and a half of dollars. The Shah of Persia remonstrated with the Queen for al- lowing such wealthy and powerful subjeota to live. The Queen of Denmark recently sent bw chamberlain to iffer Mile. Van Zandt, the grandaughter of Signor Blatii, an engage- ment in Copenhagen, and the singer opens Mignon, she singing French, and the reat of tbe company Danish. Cleua Bertina, a young improTisatnoe who two years ago astonislied the Roman world, is about to marry the Marquis de Ba^ villa, a handsome rich young Spaniard. She is about eighteen yeais old, somewhat sad- looking, tall and deUuate,iwith fair face and dark eyes and hair. Mk. Mekeuitii Reau, while in Elilftland recently, dined enJamilU at Osborne ^ith tbe Queen, tbe Princess of Wales, Pnnceas Beatrice, and the Duke and Ducheos of Con- naught. He is the first Amerioan that has lieen thus kindly and familiarly entreated by British royalty. Peinck Charlbs of Monaca has annulled the civil contract of marriage between hia' son, tbe hereditary Prince Albert, and tbe Princess Marie Victoria, daughtisr of tbe late Duke of Hamilton. The ecclesiastical marriage was declared void by the Pope several months ago. The lady haa sinoe married Count Thassilo Festetios, a young Hungarian.. At the recent French military ceremo'ny at Lojsgobamps, the foreign ambassadors were notified that they must alight at the gate, and walk to the {lavittion, only the Presidents of the Republic, of the Senate and tbe-l'hamber being allowed to drive all tbe way and that furthermore they must lake their places on the left instead of the right of the Presidents, the right being re served for the French Ministers. Prinoe Or- loff meekly obeyed instructions bnt Lord Lyons said, as tbe representative of his bovereien, he was entitled to different treat- ment, and be drove all the way to thepavil- lion, and took bis place on the right side of President Cifevy, and not on tbe left. It has been tl^uught worth' while to cable the description and cost of .Sara Bembardt's new dresses. Some of them are unite fine, as notably that for CamiUe â€" a white satin ball dress, with camellias embroidered on a ground-work entirely of pearls another dress is of nothing but Valenciennes lace and iearls for Fiou-FVm there is an ivory satiu covered with embroidery of mother 01- matcbeil with the figured, the latter used for j^arl for tbe Sphinx, a yellow satin skirt, trimming. with jet-covorel cuirass, and two huge ra- (Friini Die I*urtlanil Orcifuiiian.) Coung Ye Lunt Co.'s new theatre was opened the other day. The performance be- gan at 4 p.m. and lasted till past midnight. At 7 p.m. the tbcatre was crowdeil, five- sixths of tbe audience being Celestials and one-sixth Caucasians. About thirty t'hiaese women occupied seats in the eallery, tet apart for tbe gentler sex. The play pre- sented is entitled "Tbo Treaty Betwem the •Six Asiitic Nations," and is embellished with the incidents connecteil with that treaty. Tbe play embraces' every shade of acting, from light coimdy to heavy tra- gcily. The actors knew their lines and their cues, and they also knew bow to act there were no quarrels between the leading lady and the soubrette, and tbe star and the leading man there were not half a hundred deadheads there were no bouquets bought by members of tbe company and sent to themselves by the usher there were no te- dious waits between the acts, but there were some tedious acts betHeen the waits the 01 chestra consisted of a fiddle, two banjos, a machine that made a noise like two boys with sticks striking a paling fence going at full speed, and three pairs of cymbolsâ€" one pair as large as washtubs. The ensemble playing was a happy medium between the sounds of two pigs under a gate and tbe melody of a boiler Ttctory, with a slight pre- ^onderation of the latter. The most thrUl- ing scene was when ten actors, dressed kind of like a fairy and kind of like an Indian, and kind oF like a turkey gobbler, came out aU'l threatened to wipe tbe ground with their opponents' army. They tackled an old woman, threw her across a block, and sawed away for a minute with wooden swords, after which the woman turned a summersault, and walked off the stage, dead. The herome of the play had her face painted like the sunrise of a six-bit chromo, and four young Romeos, after squandering a week's salary on picnic tickets and boat rides for the idol of their hearts, without saining her affections, threatened to have the life's be-lud of the other three. Taken all in all, the first Chinese performance mtut be recorded as a grand financial and artistic success. m I â€" â- â-  I » A French Heroine- One of tbe celebrities of the Paris markets, says 7%e Pall Mali OautU, is a woman who keeps a vegetable stall, and who wears the red ribbon of the Legion of Honour. This woman, Annette Dreyon by name, was formerly cantinier to the 3rd j«giment â-  f infantry, and the 2nd regiment of ^uavee, which she accompanied through the cam- paigns of Africa and Italy, and during the war with Germany. Of the seven or eieht female members of the L^ion of Honour, she is the only one who received the distinc- tioD for an act of valor upon the field of battle and she was decorated after the battle of Magenta tor rescutnE the regimental colours from Austrian soldiers who had ca^nred them. During the war with Germany she wss with tite 32nd regiment in Metz, and upon the surrender of that fortress she was sent off to Germsny with tbe survivors. Just outside Metz a Bavarian soldier insulted her, and she polled oot her revolver and shot him through the heart. For thif she was con- demned to death, and wonld have been shot bat for the intarreation of Prinoe Frederick Charlea, who hearing a woman was to be axecated, made inqurias into the case, the rsaalt being that Annette Drevoa was set at Hbeity. She lived in grea t poverty for soms time bnt Marshal MscMahon h^ipening to baar about her, gave bar a sum of money â- afinant to «iible bar to sat up the stall at whioh sbe now soUs aamts, tnmipa, and ottwaida to digoatian. Six pooM who bara paaaed thrao-ooora and* tanil^^aUow, TsMyean. Hngo, Whittior, Gkee.n is a colour that will be brought in- to prominence this tall. It will be used in combination with the new copper colours, with which it contrasts well. Buttd.ns in the form of large hooks and eyes in glittering steel are used for dresses or are worn singly for fastening tbe collir at the throat, the cull's at the wrists. -« The long polonaise, which will lc rctain- ed the coming bcasoii, is longer than ever, and is perhaps liaiidsi.mer than bereloforu bcciiuso of the attention paid to its fit. â- rill-: new ribbons are as variegated in col- our and aH striking in design as the new dress fabrics. ' Many of them have tigufes in exact patteru of the bright cashmere bro- cades. Sii.ME of the ne'a- basques are'cutlong and fijuare in front, wfth a pocket put on ea'jh tide of this square front the backs of such batques arc short, and cut to fonu two points. ,. Some capes for wearing overdresses are made entirely of coloured hackle feathers. They are finished iff With a coloured cord and tassels in front. In red i^d pale blue they are most fashionable. The newest long silk mittens have beatis worked on them. Tbey are to be had in white, with white or silver or" gold beads in black, with black beads and in old gold and many tbcr colours. Keii tints are in much favour 8(^1. Ruby, arnet, and copiiei vens upholding tbe skirt It is no wonder that tbe mademoiselle declares heraelf in- capable of living oh less than twenty thou- sand dollars a year, and the American public may as well understand what it is that is expected of them. Ja\ Gill' ui has no eyebrows, and a cor- res]Mmdeiit of the St. Ixiuis Republiean pro- feFses to tell why. He had bis all staked on the I'lion Pacific, and the stock haa been worked up from !• to 6ti. The lower court li^d deciiled in his fa\^iur in a vital lawsuit, and it waa with feverifh anxiety that the re- sult of the apiieal wa8pwaiteL The rumour gilt about iu Wall stretthat the decisien of the court above would lijp adverse to Ciould, and, in spite of the private; assurancea that it would be against the (lovemmsnt, the ad- verse rumours so unstrung tiould that it waa bard for him tr keep on his feet. A private teb-grajib wire was hired, with one terminus in Mr. (iould's ofiice, and the other in the room ailjoining tbe Supreme Court chamber in Washington. The oiicrators sent all the decisions as they w^cre read. Great nervous- ness was caused by the long, tcilious opinions telegraphed in which Gould had no interest. This w ke|it up for hours. (lould waa al- most jtrated. At length the operator auuouuued that the reading of the opinion in the I'liion I'autlic llaikway case had leen commenced. The tirst o: the opinion began to come aver the wire, and it was a mere history of the case. "IJi, shut him off," cried .Mr. tiould, " and ask him whether the are much seen iii i;ood 1 decision of the lower court is affirmed." The ' ' ' answer was awaitid with breathless anxiety, (iould sank in his chair, as {lale as a dead man, and those alwut him were much con- cerned for fear that if tbe decision was ad- vene be would lie killed by it. Tbe o|iera- tor at length ^ave tbe news that tbe dcci- tiitiii of the lower couit had been affirmed. Mr. iould wasprostratcil, though the deci- xion gave him millions. lie was carried to bis home in Fifth avenue, and a long sick- ne..-s foll,9^'eil. All bis hair came out, in- cluding his eyebrows, and those nature never restOreiL dresses the mixture of blue and- garnet is at present very fabioual'le green aud gre uat, plum and gold, are also great favi.ur- ites. Pi.Aiiis, wliicli ire introdgccd the early part of each wi.iter season,, are already in the market. Tbey an- not, however, tartans of .Scotch clans, but are fanciful plaids which show French taste in their Cuinbiuatiop of colours. Ai.L the re :ent dresses, of w'h,itevcr mate- rial, are m.idc with (birred backs, short ap- ron fronts, and alt-round lindices. The skirt hangs straight at the Iwck, and the shirring consists of Irom live to seven rows below tbe line of the belt. l'ui.o.\,\isi-.s alii'ii.-it invariably fasten down tliebaik, andaic the 1 ost stylish way of making up light stuff.-.. uch as bunting, nuni«' cloth, sateens, and even ivory serge and cashmere. They are often accoDijianied by a hood to match the c latumc The basque and lower skirt o( the dress of last season arc retainc.l, the former beiug made long or short, according to the use for which they arc designed. Some liasijues have long collarettes, ending in shirred points, which pais under the belt. The fashion ot wearing a silk lower skirt with Houncea and a woolen over-^lresa has been abandoned by French dressmakers, and a wo(.llen suit, in order to be stylish, must have only woolen, seen on the outside, silk lieing releg.ited to linings. Wreaths of flowers arc worn round the throat, aud also edging square-cut dresser. Those round tbe neck, which are made full like a ruche, are used in the daytime for dressy occasions. 1'be lace stai.ds up round the throat above the collarette of fl)wcrs. liiE new styles in carpets, like those in dress goods, are richer in colouring this sea- son, and the majority of tapestry goods are worked in floial styles. In Brussels, small figures arc in demand, and, like tapes- tries, very few designs arc made on. black ground. I Ian DK ERL'iiiEF dresses are now reprwluced in woolen material, the stuff being printed in squares in such mixtures as violet and black, old gold and green, red and black, red and blue. 1'liey are made up in the same way as tbe cotton handkerchief d Thomas Yoino of Perkipsville, Ind., ooked into the month of a cannon to see if it was loaded, while somebody touched it off. His head was blown away. Tub widow of the Jewish Cologne banker. Baron Abrs.ham von Oppenheim, who, iu 1870, gave the munificent sum of ::150,000 for a hospital for poor children of all confes- sions, in memory of her late hiuband. Marwood, the Eoglish hsngman, has retired. He has train^'up an assistant in the way he' should hang. Marwood has realized a fair competency, and his pupil pays about the price of a snug beneficenor the privilege of stepping into the shoes of his master. Tits first Pan-Prebyterian Connoil ap- point d Dr. Beadle Cliaii man of the Com- mitte oT Arrangements forthe coming coun- cil. r. Beadle died and Dr. Henry A. Boardman was appointed in his place. Re- cently Dr. Boaniman also died, and now Dr. W. P. Breed ia to perform the duties of the position. Dr. William Adams, who was to preach the opening sermon, having passed away, the service will be disohargod by Dr. William M. Paxton, Moderator of tbe last General Assembly. '"C*" A Brotherly ExPRKiisioNiVClergvmen, like other mortals, occasionally find that they have chosen unaccommodating help- mates. One of thesenadies made a rather awkward miatake. Her husband having brought a brother cleygyman home to dine with him, went into another apartment to speak to his qMoae about tbe repast, when she attacked bia and abnaad bun for bring- ing a parcel of idle follows to eat np their income. The husband, provoked at her be- bavioar, said in a pretty load tone " If it ware not for tbe stranger, 1 wonld nve you aawddmbbiog" "Ob," oriad thoviaitor, who orerhaard tho nmiA, "1 bag yo« will of Ma." Not Regarded with Favour. IIIK NKW l.MKIl.VAIIoNAl, 1 OLE OK .SlUNAl* ' Kol; I'llKva.NTI.NOl'OLLISIOUS AT .SEA. it'ntni tile 'cw Y.tfk Sun.) The ii^w international code fur preventing collisions at sea went into use recently. The remark that has lieen made regarding the uew rules l^y the meinliers of the Order in Council atHhe Isle of Wight, that they "contain lio radical changes from the old rules," is apparent in every line, and is con- sidered a bail omen. .Seamen and intelligent [lersons who arc aecustomcd to travel by water have generally acknowledged that the old code W..8 efficient in clear weather. It IS only in. foggy Or thick weather that it has been proved useless and there was a hope that in the new cuile provision would be made by w hich a master of a ship wonld be able to ascertain' in ailvance, by a simple system of signalling, tbe course that an ap- proaching ship was making, so as to intelli- gently prepare to avoid a meeting. Instead of any such provision, article 1 9 says, when two ships are about to meet, "One short blast means, ' I am directing my course to starboard.' Two short blasts mean, ' I am directing my course to port. Three short blasts, "i am going full speed astem.' " Seamen say that in thick weather, when, owing to a quartering win7l,'it'fslrapeasible to detect by sound whence a ship is ap- proaching, if the lookout heard the stair- b^ard course whistle ho would be uaable to tell whether tbe approaching ship was cross- ing his bows or running clear. What is wauted, they say, is a system by whioh the ooursc of a vessel may .be made known. Then, if it be a sailing ship, arrangoments may easily be made not to crowd an ap- proaching vessel too close to the wind, or, if she have the wind with her, to make hor observe the rule of the road at sea and star- board her helm. So little interest is taken iu the new mlea tha^ no copy was to be seen among the pilots in the pilot office, and a United Statej super- visor of vessels in (be Post Office acknow- ledged that be had no copy of the coda. The English Gentleman. Heaven forbid that I should speak in dis. praise of that unique and most Eoglisb class which Mr. Charles Sumner extols-^the large class of gentlemen, not of the landed class or of nobility, but cultivated and re- fined. They are a seemly product of the energy and of the power to nse in our race. Without, in genera), ranks and splendoor and wealth and luxury to polish theea, tbey bavc made their own the nigh standard of life and manners of an aristocratic and re- fined classi Not having all the diasipationa of this claaa, they are much more serionaly alive to the power of intellect and know- ledge, to the power of beauty. Tha aanaa of conduct, too, meets with fewer triids in this class. To some extent, however, thoir oontiguousness to the aristooratio olaas has now the effect of materialiang tba«, aa it doea the olaas of newly-eanohad paopla. The most palpable action is on the yoaag among them, aud on their atuadaid of Ma and enjoyment. But in gsnsral, for thia whole class, establlabod faota. tha ism, which they see rennwi^ block their mental horiaon aad poasibilities of thingi to thMa. 'irThsy aii defioiaDt in opeoneas and tt " '*~ in fraa ptay of idMa, is tvth CiviliBsd thsyara, hot they ar» not i a oivilinng foroa thsgr are aaaaho* ad and inisffectod.â€" J Bwrf "Mpi^ -.-?^ 'â- ' '"^•Aji^. ^ii^.'l^/- Stm:: ♦^-