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 â- â€¢â- ""'â- WSSPPIIFvKS' jis-siiBBPSKS^s^^-*®*' ^^i^mmsisim^iisa^^mici^' v...^^ In Â¥ f â-  I- i AMca*8 CawBp«re» Ehartona is no flxception to the ndn- ons aapect that mailu »ll Aimb tomu vhen MOD from • diaMiiee. It nMds all tha pietnicsqaaiMM uf th» gnoefnl palaaa that HM aboT* itin eveiy direetkni, the white-niled boat* that flu ah»g ita â- hoTM like battetfliaa» the noble awaep ci the B)ae Nile on one ude and the White Kile ou the other, the riek blue akj and dassUnc Bonlight, to eonntetaot thede preeaing effaet or thia maaa of flat-rottfed, whlte-gxay, tomb-like hooMa amid the dim, boondleM emptineta ci the Vernal desert, along the horizon of which qnivera a film of hitenae heat like the rt- ek from a f omaee month. Daring the vet aeaaon the narrow, crookedTnlthj atreeta are mere ponds, breathing atench and fever. Many of the 'hoasea" are drcalar mnd borrow! topped with a pointed thatch of oom stalks, while the high, biank walls encircling the ooontless gardens enhance indescribably the dreary effect. About 108 miles north of Khartoum, and almost midway to Berbw, lies the fortified village of El Metemneh, con- nected with Shendy, on the opposite bank, by a clumsy native ferry-boat, on which an Aiab stands upright with a strip of canvas held outstretched above his head to do duty for mast and sail, two others holding this living mast firm, and a fourth steering. Shendy has never re- covered it des-roction by Mehemet All's son-in-law In 1821, aod the aole token of its former greatness is the huge crumbling fort overlooking the river, the present *town" being a cluster of low hovels two miles diitant, grouped aonnd a wide, bare market-|la2e. In the hollow between the Upper Nile and ita sreat westward bend beyond Abu- Hamed lies the Bayuda Desert, across which the British marched (vhi Abu- Klea) from Eorti, General Wolesley'a present head- quarters. The latter place, overhanging tne Nile from a steep bank shaded by clustering trees, is pleasant enough, despite the perilous shoals around its landing-plsice. The now memorable haltang-place of Jebel-Gakdul lies a little to the north of Abu Elea. But here, as everywhere else in the Soudan, the life-giving stream is power- less to nourish anytbi ig beyond the spot on which it flows. Tbe waters of the Nile itself are frequently sprinkled with the powdery sand of the mighty deserts which have pushed their borders to within lees than a mile of its edge. So^ too, with the oasiis of Gakdul, or of Abu-Elea. Before the refreshing drops have dried upon your beard ynu are once more amid the hot, brassy glare and the dead, crush- ing silence of "the land where all things are forgotten." Waves of burning rock or lifeless sand, wearying your aching eyes with their grim sameness, surge up one beyond another into the dim horizon, while the bleacMog bones of a skeleton start from the drifting sanda at your feet in gloomy warning of what your own fate may soon be. Here it is that the fatal "kamsin," or hot wind of the desert, which the ill fated Britisa troops are now encountering a full week before its wonted time, blows in all its fury. In the old Arabian legends one cften finds a caliplv or pasha im- patiently exclaiming at the clcse of a long-winded story, "By Allah, thy talk- ing is worse than the hot blast of the wilderness " No one can folly appreci- ate tbia rough-hewn sarcasm who has not been in Arabia or the Nile Valley in the earlier weeks of March. Everything looks suddenly dim and blurred, as if seen through a wet pain of glass, and all at once you feel a gust of stiing, prickly heat and a qualm of overwhelming nausea. Your eyes smart and bum, your temple veins throb as if they would burst, your skin seems one vast pincushion filled with red-hot needles, and in another moment you are staggering as if stunned by a heavy blow, and groping blindly for any support that you can find, to- the utter refutation of the polite I'alisn proverb that nothing can face the sirocco except **un porco ed un Inglese" (a hug or an Englishman). Woe to any sick or wounded European who meets its des- troyin? blast in mid-desert I Horses* Hemories. A couple of years ago a gentleman in Providence owned a little gray horse that was used in the family by himself, his wife, and children. It was made quite a pet of. Finding that it could speed quite shurp, ne enterwl it in a number of ooun- tiy races, in the end getting a record of 'Si for it. Then he sold it. Later on, the children missed it so much that he endeavored to get track of it, and sent to a number of places, but failed to find it. A couple of days ago he was on Waahing- ton street, and his attention was attract- ed by a httle gray pacer that came whirl- ing down. He had never seen his gray pace, but he vas sura this was his old pet, and when opportunity offered he drove alongside and called it by name. The pony knew him at once, and gave nnmistakable evidence of recognition. Another instance showing the memory of the horse is that of the pacer purchas- ed by Mr. Lloyd last year of a Winsted gentleman. A few weeks ago the form- er owner was in town and went up to see Ginger. The horse's present attendance was in the box stall petting him whien his old master stepped in and oJled h^m by name. The horse no sooner heard his voice than he forsook his companion and showed his delight in meeting faia former owner in various ways, among other tricks going into his oat pockets for the delicacies that he used to find there. The gentleman asked him to **roll over" for him, and he went down upon the straw and over in.a moment. Mr. Lloyd'a health prevents Ua showing Ganger much this winter, but it is genwslly conceded that the handsome little horse would make it quite interesting for the best of the trotters.â€" [Hartford CouranU HDIT8 F«B THS U flsmMl dNMM of the soiled end at ell gWM f add boimx to the water IB wkh tbaj an washed. Dia- â- olvea large tablaspoonfid of botaz in a gint o bflSiBg watar, pot aboat a third of iinthefirat eodain whiehthe gannent iato be waahed. ' another third m the next water, and the reat of it fai the rinaing water shake the gaimenta thoioaghly befote hangfaig them up to diy. The onion ia Mid to be a spedfic f or the sting of poiaonoos inseota of all kinda. The application of omnn-jaiee inatantlj allaya the pain oaoaed l^ the stinging of havnetl^ yellow-jacketa, wasps, bees, eta Boogh iron pota look well painted doll red, pale bine, or aage green, with a laige flower â€" such aa a my or a sunflower â€" painted on them. Th^ are a good sice, and will take a large plant well. A new way of decorating the glass lamp shade is to tie a bow cf i*bl)cn ronnd the shade, with a fall of ocffde-oolored laoe from tbe ribbon. Booms get darker and darker, ihe light ia so much shaded. A pretty ooonterpahe for summer can be made of twill calico of a good sub- stance, bordered with furniture lace and covered with detached sprays of embroid- ery, or squares of guipure d'art and linen al ornately, with a guipure edging. The lace and tquarea are now aold dieap. For hospitala either plain white are ns«d, or the text quilts, ^e texta being printed on calico. M. S. T. writes "I have at last got the art of washing dishes down to a fine point, and I send the results of my ex- perience for the benefit of your readers. When I begin to dear the t.^ble, I scrape out the lari^est plates first and set them into a large, deep dishpan, on these I put the am Uler plates, the cups, saucers, knivea, forks, and spoons, butter-dishes, etc and on top of all a bowl or nappy with a cake of soap in it. On this I pour hot water till the dishpan is nearly full, then take out the soap and in the bowl rinse off the glasses and wipe them. Then with a dish-cloth with a handle I wash the dishes as they C'jme, putt log them to drain on an old shirt r*{ one of the boys that is past wear. When the pan is empty of dishes I pat others to soak while I wipe what I have washed, separating them as I wipe, putting plates of a size together, spoons together, krives ditto, and so on, all on a large tray, so with one handling they can be set away into the closet. Proceeding in this way I very soon get through and have no waste movements steal away my time." TlielPampas. The peculiar characteristics of these vast level plains which descend from the Andes to the great river basin in unbrok- en monotony are the absence of rivers or water storage, and the periodical occur- epce of droughts, or **siccos," in the summer montlis. These conditions de- termine tbe singular character both of its flora and fauna. Tne soil is naturally fertile and favorable for the growth of trees, and they grow luxuriantly, wherever they are protected. The Eucalyptus is cover- ing large tracts wherever it is inclosed, and wUlows, poplars, and the fig surround every estancia when fenced in. The open plains are covered with droves of horses and cattle, "and overrun by numberless wild rodents, the original tenants of the Pampas. Daring the long periods of drought which are so great a scourge to the country, these animals are starved by thousands, destroying in their effvirts to live every vestige of vegetation. In one of these siccos, at the time of my visit, no less than 50,000 head of oxen and sheep and horses perished from starva- tion and thirst, after tearing deep out of the soil every trace of vegetation, indud- ing the wiry roots of the Pampas grass. Under such circumstances the existence of an unprotected tree is impossible. The only plants that hold their own, in addi- tion to the indestructible thistles, grasses and dover, are a little herbaceous oxalts. producing viviparous buds of extraordin- ary vitaUty, a few poisonous spedes, such as the hemlock, and a few tough, thorny, dwarf acacias and wiry rushes, which even a starving rat refuses. Al- though the cattle are a modem intro- duction, the numberless indigenous ro dents must always have effectually pre- vented the introduction of any other species of plants, large tracts are still honeycombed by Uie ubiquitous biscscho, a gigantic rabbit, and numerous rodents stQl exist, incluiiing rats and mice. Pam- pas hares, and the great nutria and oar- pincho on the river banks. That the dearth of plants is not due to the nnsuit- ability of the subtropical spedes of the neighboring zones cannot hold good with respect to the fertile valleys of Uie Andes beyond Mendoza, where a magnificent hardy flora is found. Moreover, the ex- tensive introduction of European plants which has taken place throughout the country has added nothing to the botany of the Pampaa beyond a few spedea that are unassailable by cattle, such as are the two spedes of thistle which are Invading large districts In spite of their constant destruction by ^e fires whidi always ac- company the slcoos. A gang of dght*men raided the China houses at Huntingdon, Oregon, the other day, and seoored ab6ut f2,000 from the Inmates, who were forced with haltera around their necks to give up their money. At his own request a Georgia fturmer who died recently waa buried in a plain pine coflin, not even painted, «nd « podcet knife thiit ho had chiiied for twenty years, together with a toothplek and pocket comb, were placed in his pooketi. Aflw eight hndred â-  piDtoetonte over of AfUoaa eoaat line w»«- â€" t^ mriMha, Germany b Dowpoahtngfailaad. Naaily eveiT week briosa aome new devefepmont of her re- oaitabieaetivftyfai Africa. Her latest exnloit haa been to acqniie a laige txe^ ofkniinthehigUnndaaboata hondred Bflaswaatof Zsnribar. A while ago Ur. Petara and Hetr Jolke were sent bf the GermMi Sodety of Col- ooiiation to the monntains of Usagara, whldi oreriook Ae jangle fonping «he onhaelthy maritime regi n of thia part of tbe east eoaat. These nAgea of lofty hills eompiiae ihe piinjipal xegiim where white men eaa live in health and oomfbrt between Zandbar and the big hkfs. The Usagara diatrict ii 85 milea in width, and stretches norUieast and aoathwest about 200 milea Ita avoage altitode b 3,500 feet, and it haa peaks 6,000 feet above the sea. Barton sdd Usagara had a cool and in ita npper regiona a salnbrioas di* mate, a fertile soil, and the best of water. Stanley said that in these upbnda the ** greenest verdare, purest water, health, and abundance of food " were as surred to the white man. Many travel- lers have sounded the praiaeiof Mpwapwa, with ita fine mountain soenery and its abundant and cheap snpplieaof gnhi and v^etablea, poultry and milk. The mis- uonuies who have lived there lor four years say they can raise anything that ia grown in Southern Europe. Thia is the region referred to In the deapatehea just printed announcing that the agents of tne German Ooloniaation Society have acquired 2.600 square miles of territory, and that Dr. Bohlfs, the celebrated African traveller and the new counsul at Zanzibar, has placed it under Gterman protection. It is hot to be supposed that Germany can make Usagara at once available for colonization. No spot in equatorial Africa is likely to become the home of many white settlers if it has to be reached by a weary tramp through pestilential jungles. If a railroad, of which there has been some talk, is built from Zanzi- bar west, bringing Usagara within a few hours of the coast, the Germans may try their colonidng experiment with some prospect of success. They will not have CO wait for a railroad if Stanley's belief proves well founded, that the Wami Btver is navigable for small boats from the ocean to tiie mountains. On the west coast the German posses- sions no longer merdy fringe ^tbe sea. Dr. Nachtiml has established a protec- torate over Bethany, a district northeast of Angra Pequena, whose copper mines are said to be well worth developing. Germany has also jast placed under her protection the region between the Bramia and Dnbreoea rivers in the southern p3urt of Senegambia. This' country is very populous, and is favorably situated fur trade with the basin of the Upper Niger. Dr. Passavant, with eighty men, left Cameroons on Jan. 1 to travel through an unknown country about 200 miles west to Lake Liba, to see whether it is worth while to push German enterprises thither. Dr. Blowitz. M. Blowltz gave me a lecture of about an hour's duratian on all manner of poli- tical topics. His intellect, like others of his race, is sharp, and his metiiod of explication ludd enough. I may mention two of M. Blowitz's journalistic feats which stamp him as the correspondent par excellence of his age. At the time of the ever-memoraUe Berlin congress, M. Blowltz applied to the German £uicellor for an early copy of the treaty, which was to be signed on a certain Saturday morning, but, although the request was made through the medium of two ambas- sadors, Bismarck refused to entertain it To the intense surprise of all the otiier correspondents, M Blowitz, in a "hu£^" announcfld hla Intention of leaving Berlin forthwith, and he did so, but with the treaty in his pooketi That predous document never left Herr Blowitz's letter-case until Brussels was reached, and there it was put on the wire and pub- lished by The Tima in a seoond edition on the Saturday, at the very moment that the pienipotentaries in Berlin were signing it! heedless to say that no other paper had it until the following Monday, nor to describe the. wailing and gnashing of teeth in Berlin and Cdogne, and the other great newspaper eenten In Ger- many. The second great feat of M. Blowits was that of interviewing the Saltan I Such a thing had never been crevioudy dreampt of, and, aa Herr Blowitz rightly saya. no one will ever do it again. 1 1^ ths journalist regretfully, f eelmg that I had beian in the company of a giant, compared with whom nous outre* "specials" are for the moat purt dwarfa â€"[London Life. Pointing to a ragged scar on his chsek, a tramp said to a pU "How do yon think it happened?" "Bulldog?" "Nope." "Tomcat?' "Nixey." "What then?" "Idept with my face on the edge ef a poorhonae pillow." A lady whose bang was destroyed by e recent o^oaion of natural ns in Alle- gheny ooonty. Pa., has sued uw company whoM pipes lead to the diaaater, pladng the valae of the hinate ornament at 9100; and the value of a bang ia to be judi- cially determined. La MecKetna ConUnuporafua gives a sketch of the life of Pednl, the great bio- lojpatt who died in Florence in 1883. In his eariy researohss Into the natweotthe blood he disoovaied, with a rnoe mlMoo- soi^M of his own oons^roetlon, what are ago,- whUe ,|a m j i^»tng |m amm, of dudera, he came upen and desenbed the vibrio now known as Kodi's oonuna badllos. Of all the fbroiM of nnturej^eledrioity k to-dar playing themost stiinng and un- poctant part in tlM^ nstoml ndvaBoaasnt oftheraea. In tailing what oleetridty haa done in the past ty yfpis, the taiventor mimm saT»m*M««tartide, "ItbM strsngih. ened the bond of jntenatipanl anuty it basqniokeDedallthe mafehods of trade, and lent tan-fold prceiaion and oetoity to the innumerable energiea by which it ^»-i« naa breathed new vitality into the arte and sdenoea it haa even wanned andetrengthened the social foroea, and haa been such a universal stimalas as eaa- not be credited to any other pnrdy phy- dcal agen7 in the world's history. Edison goes on to show howdeotnoity, mamly in the telegraph and the tdephone has effected these results. The system of td^praphy is a far more perfect and efSdent one to-day than it was even ten yearaago. Now, thanka to Edison's invention of the qnadruplex system, foar messages may be sent similtaneonsly over the same wire and in oppodte direcdona. Telegraphy, moreover, has, within re- cent vears, been extended in its uses many ways, Ihe tdegrafA haa been laid beneath die oeeans, and now endrdes the earth it has beeni utilized for local bud- ness in the dties it has been brought into domestic servioe, so in tbe dties one may at any time summon doctor, market- man, fireman, or polioe. While the telephone is yet in its in- fancy, it has yet already become a first necessity to the people, both for business and for private purposes. Tbere is now no dty or laree town in the United States without its telephone station. The newest and one of the greatest tri- umphs of deotricity is electric lighting. The are light has come into very familiar use in the illumination of open spaces, streets and large buildings; while the in- candescent light is gradually being adopt- ed for domestic lighting in many parts cf the country. Besides these uses, dectricity has re- cently come to be employed in decto- plating, dectrotyping, in houses for call- bells, protection titom burglars, connect- ing docks, lighting jdts, and many other purposes. But the promise of what electricity is destined to achieve in the future, out- strips even what it has done in the past, in regard to this subtle agency of nature, Edison declares that "we stand to-day only on the threshold of its tremendous probdities." In tele^praphy he believes that a large number of messages will be sent over a wire at the same time and the mes- sages will be so sent, that the handwriting itself of the sender will be transmitted. The telegraph printing machines will be improved to greater rapidly of action, and submarine tdegraphy will be brought to a higher efSidency. The tdephone is also destined to be much more highly developed than ib is to- day. The dlfisalty of telephoning to a great distance remains to be overcome. This arises from "the loss of the current by static induction on the earth and wires in dose proximity." If a sinele wire could be placed so high as to dear all the mountain tops, one could hear a whispeir around the world. But the time is near when the tele- phone will transmit the voice perfectly, clear, for a distance of three himdred miles and by means of repeating sta- tions, messages will be sent by voice to all puts of the country. EJectrict lighting, too, is certain, ac- cording to BcUson, to be brought to a far greater e£Eidency in the near future. Electricity can be used safely and econo- mically in lighting and it cdi, like gas, be measured and sold by means of metres. It can also be used in houses for driving fans, for running sewing machines, for pumping water, for working dumb wait- ers and devators, and for cooling pur- poses. The future of electric power, indeed, is not to be measured in its posdUe vari- eties audi uport^nce. It seems as if the twentieth eenttiry would find it themost potent and univerial physidcd agency in operation- on the earth. â€" [Youth's Com- panion. â-  â- â- â-  â-  â-  The Peabody Fond. The building fund of £600,000 left by Mr. Peabody for the boiefit of the poor of London has nowbeen increased by rents and mterests to £857,320. The whole of this great som of money is in active em- ployment, together with £340,000 which thetmstees havj borrowed. A total of £1,170,787 has been expended daring the time the fund nas been in existence, of which £M,903 waa hdd out during 1884. The reaults of these operations are seen in blocks of artisans' dwellings built on land purshaaed by the trustees and let to workmgmen at rents within their means, containing convenieiiees and comforts not ordinarily attainable by them, thus ful- fiUing the benevolent intentions of Mr. Peabody. Ai the present time 4,551 separate dwdlings have been erected, oontalnhig 10,144 rooma, inhaUted by 18,453 persons. Thirteen new blodcs of boildiius are now in coozse of oonstrac- tion and near completion. Indeed, there is no cessation in the work of fulfilling the intentions oi the noble bequest Dr. J. H. Roberts writes from Liberia to the Borton Ifedieol «nd Swrgiedl Jour- fiol that he is convineed the medloal herbs grown inoertaln cUmatesare espedaOy adapted for tihe oure of itisnsscs idiich picevall in tihein, though they naj be nse- bpH^elseiAere. He finds tihd plants of LADerla much more sneceasful in African fever than the best of drags {oepared in more highly dvllind countries. **U| •f Persia Breakfasr. TIm King of Persia is very csi^ I his health, and his FMnoh phy^r.^ Thokzfth, is ever within oail, sotW anfortnnate doctor is as great » ^^ ashis assstwr. HiaMajes^enjo|af« health, a difht paralysis having u been hia oidjr aflment. His habiu^ are simple, hia diet plain roasts am) t ed. The King isan early riser, 4 A. M. being hm n^nal time m tug "niis gives him a long dsj, bat he k it by a desta. It ia the royd haUt tixedtobeahampooedby hu attendi and it is thought no indignity for t offidal to be told to assist in the kg ing process. Shampooing is a real 1 and is earried out to sdentific perfeeu fa^someof hisMajvty's more con^ tial servants. The diief barber is a high In olBse. At 12 o'doek the royd breakfa served. It is a solitary med. ia squatting on tbe ground some dishes are set before him. His Mai'tH,! selects the simplest, and qaeoches^j thirst with buttermilk or ic«d shetwl which are served in delicious profQaioQuI magnificent china bowh. Dead sileDeetl observed by the few favored epartiera tIuI stand around the wdls of theapartmentil The royal bntlers silently hand Uie yA rious dishes. As the King eats heidj dresses those whomhe may deignto kootl with his notice, and these fortunate onsj bow low, and answer in humble affinai,! tives, "May I be your sacrifice, ABylmf of the Universe. So it is." *^t happen.^ ed exactly as your Majesty ordained," and so on. The same kind of langoage n I used by the royd princes in addreujoij their father, and they would not prerai^ to attempt to sit in the royd presenct' but as in Persia no son would sit in hill father's presence unless ordered to do ic this is more due to filial respect than the I awe of majesty. The King rinses his mouth and inpei| his hands over a golden bowl, and t he rises and the media served to princes. On leaving them it goes to tlu courtiers, and laatly the royd farrstha pick the bones and literdly lick the pht- 1 ters clean. The royal dinner, served ' about 9 p. M., is a repetition of the break- fast generally it is enlivened by the playing of the brass bands or by the music of the native musicians attached to j the court. The ]f omads of the Sondan. The Bedoains, or nomads, of the Soa- dan are not a very numerous race. Thej are altogether outnumbered by the people of the towns and villages, vho, Mossulmans though they are, are unwat- like, and, like all agricultural and com' mercid people, will quietly submit to th governing powers if fairly well treated. The people against whom the English are now fighting, the soldiers of the redoubt- able Mahdi, are these same Badooins, and their revolt, though connected with the spread of Islam, and fannao by the flames of fanaticism, is also a revolt against the dominance of the settled peoples of the coimtry over the nomsdi. These wanderers of the Nuluan desert and Kordofan pDSsibly number some half million,°and claim to be of Arab descent A ptwe Arab, like a pure Turk, is hard to find, and these desert tribes have not escaped great admixture. The principal tribes between the Nile and the Red Sea are the A.babdehs, Bishaneens and Hs- dendawaa, while west of the Nile dwelt the Hasdaneeyehs, the E[abaheeBh and the Beggaraa. Their sole wedth con sists in flocks and camels. In times of peace they are carriers, guides, and camd-drivers, but no amount of money can induce them te till the ground, and they look with eontempt upon the heat- ble, patient fellaheen of the villages and npon the "dwellers among bricks." They are fine-looking, of m^um height, well formed, with smdl hands and feet, arched inatepa, aquiline noses, thin lips, splendid teeth, and long and frissled hair. Their weapons are lon^, it.-aig'it and broad double-edged sword bhtdes, of Spanish or German make, to which they manufacture handles to salt thenudvei. A few have flint- lock muskets, and donble-barrd Runs. All carry lances made in the country, with horrible barbed heads. To these are now added the arms taken fro j the defeated Egyptias snny. Oi the mettle of the men, the British, who with great difficulty with- stood them at Tamadand Abu-Elea, are the best judges. Lotteries in France. _The French are fond of lotteries. When the city of Paris issues a loan there is a lottery attached, by which the purchaser of a bond of 1,000 francs may ^w 100,000 francs. The lottery prin- ciple is to be ingrafteduponthe approach- fag salon of 1885. There are to be 150,- 000 tickets sold at 1 franc each. Of thia amount 135,000 are to be distributed in deven lots of different sums. The pos- sesor of a priae can then pnrchase of the artist any painting In the exhibition vdn- ed at the amount which his ticket repre- sents. An Inherited Infliction. If any one does not believe that pui- mng is inherited, let them read this Old man Collarbutton took his little boy, who has just acquired the art of tauhig, to the drous last summer, and when th« performance was about half over the boy says "Papa, let's do heme." u^why. Fiankle, this is the best pai* °^uS, „°^- ^^' yon aatiafied " "Bs," said PranWe, "Iso satisfied. I'se* saw dost 'ennfEl" Fnnkie has since had an attack of braia fever. im