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nianacles, but unarmed, beside a table spread '

with bread and cheese, 1!. pasty of wild ducks
and two great jugs of ale, looking the picture of
jollit as they roared out a tavern catch at the
to 0 their voices.
hey did not interrupt their occu tion for

the entry of the two friars until the c orus was
through, when each applied himself to his jug
and took a long draught.

Then Little John spoke up, good-naturedly
enough, but still menacingly, saying:

“Friars, we want none of ye. If ye value

whole skins, be off, for we don‘t want to hurt ye, 2

but we do want to be left alone.
we get angry with ye."

“TInha py man.” began the big friar in a
sepulc tone: "art thou not aware that
death—”

He said no more. for Little John flipped a

Begone, ere

iece of bread with such nice aim that it struck ,

is nose, while \Vill Scarlet performed the same
kindly office for his mouth. lnstantl the burly
friar turned scarlet with anger, an
at stride forward. With one buffet he sent
Vill Scarlet flying off his stool into the cell-cor-
ner, and in another moment he had dragged
Little John off his seat and ran him across the
floor. Then, with a sudden heave and trip, he
threw the tall outlaw on top of Will Scarlet,

and threw back his hood, revealin the rubicund I

visage of Friar Tuck as he shou :
“ ow now, ye scuryly knaves, will ye lay
hands on a mimster of oly Church again?“
Little John and Scathelock were used to horse-
play. and took their overthrow in good part,
for they both lay and laughed at the sudden sur-

rise.
p Then Little John pointed to the little monk
and whispered:

“ Who’s yonder, friar!"

Maid Marian’s face made its a pearance in a

moment from under the cowl as s e stepped for- ‘

ward and said in a low tone:

al. i ht the friar."

he quic witted outlaws took the hint, and
scrambled up. after which they began a mock
fight with the friar for the benefit of the jailer
outside. They tore round the room shouting.
smashed tables, jugs. stools and all. on the stone
floor, wrestled at intervals with each other and
Tuck: and during the whole excitement the
friar continued to bellow at the to of his voice
re roofs. exhortations and texts o warning, as
if e were ex tulating with the obstinate pen—
itents. The in soon became deafenin , and it
seemed as if pandemonium had broken oose in-
side the cell. All the while, Maid Marian ke t
crouched close to the door. listening: and s e
could hear voices and hurrying steps outside.
which told her that they were attracting all the
attention they desired. Soon quite a crowd was
collected outside and she beckoned to the
wrestlers to redouble their noise, which they
did.

Friar Tuck caught up the table by the leg,
dishes and all, and shattered it on the stone
floor, at a single blorv, bellowing:

“Aha! Satan, I have thee at last! Get thee
behind me! Repeat for death approaches! I
am brother Hilary who has converted thousands
of murderers. Repent. ye knaves!"

“Never!” shouted Little John, hurling the
fragments of a stone-ware jug at the grated
window of the cell. “No priests! Hurrah for
Robin Hood!"

Then they picked up the table-legs and began
to play quarter-staff therewith, Father Hilary
exhortin to repentance between the strokes,
till the ta le—legs were in splinters and only one
heavy stool remained uninjured in the cell.

Then Marian heard calls outside:

“ Open the cell door: the villains will kill the
brave monk."

Shc gave the signal just as the first rusty
began to creak in its staples and the outlaws
took the hint.

Down they both went on their knees, and
when the door fiew open, there was Father
Hilary, with the three—legged stool elevated,
bellowing:

“ Now, ye knaves. will ye confess or not .’"

And Little John and \Vill Scarlet wagged
their heads and shivered as the shouted:

"Yes! Yes, father! “'e wi l, we will!
crave pardon !"

Then Father Hilary stepped back and waved I

his hand to the jailer am
guards staring in.

“Go away. brethren. The danger is over,"
he said. uietly. “ I have touched the stubborn
hearts oflthese poor sinners at last, and they are
willing to listen to the miiiistrations of our dear
brother Cyril here. Leave us alone."

He 8 kc with such dignity that all retired
abash . and once more the door was closed on
them. Maid Marian listened, till she was satis-
fled. from the retiring steps. that they were out
of earshot; then darted forward to the kneeling
men and said in a low tone:

“ From henceforth you must be converted and
walk to the gallows among the monks. Remem-
ber, help is at hand. Now join me, and sing the
Dies Ira."

A moment later they all began to sing the fa-
mous medieval hymn. and as they roceeded,
the male voices took up so much of t e melody
that under its cover Marian was enabled to
speak her instructions to each of the outlaws,
holding her mouth close to his ear.

“ Your irons will be put on. as you leave the
prison,” she said, “ but we shall have a key to
unlock them. for we have the right as friars to
take charge of the prisoners till they are turned
over to the hangman. Be ready to run when I
give the Word. That is all you need know till
the time comes. "

After that they continued singing aloud in
the most unwearied manner, with occasional

uses of 10w conversation, which the outsiders
imagined were for confessional purposes, till the
declining sun and the blasts of trumpets in the
streets announced that the crisis was near at
hand.

W'hcn the rattle of armor in the Court-yard
heralded the approach of the guards, and Sheriff
“'nrman made his appearance with the death-
warrant, the two prrsnners looked piously re-
si nod to their fate, while their spiritual
m viscrs were supporting them on either hand,
and all four were singing away lustily.

The sheriff looked snur as he approached
them.

“ Stop that crying of cats," he said, sarcastic-
ally. “ I have something to read to these vil~
lains."

“ Rash and wicked man.“ answered Little
John. with a snuffle, “ we who are going straight
to mansions of bliss need none of thy readings.
Lead us to the scaffold. ll“ long to ascend 011

high.“

, lead on. master sheriff," added “'ill
Scarlet, with a wink to his companion. “ “'e
are wicked wretches. for we have
king‘s dcci' in our time. Oh. what a basting
our masfcr gave thee. only two days agO.
sheriff! Yes. I can afford to die. since I saw
that."

The sheriff looked more sour than ever. as hc
read out the dcnth—warrnnt amid a dccp silonce,
and then said:

" Now, we have lost fiinc cnough.
to tho gallows-tree ut oncc."

'l'hc guards were advancing whcn Friar 'l‘nck
\vnvcd thcln itsidc. and pointed to thc munuclcd
wrists of the prisoners.

the gaping crowd of

Tukc them

“They lu‘c sccurml," he said. boldly. " with
tho chums of lhc church. Popc Clcmcnt grunt-
cd to our foundcr. lhc holy St. lli-rnard. thc

privilcgc that our or‘lcr should always Ich lhc

; heard a great
made one

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slain the ‘

custody of prisoners on their way to the gal-

lows, and we are responsible for their safety. |

Lead on, sir sheriff.”

Warman would willingly have refused the ‘
He knew him- .

concemion, but he dared not.
self. to be intensely unpopular, and as the exe—
cution wasto take lace in the market-square
of Nottingham, he cared greatly a riot among

=the people. He bethought himself that the

common peogle loved the name of the out-
lawed earl an
geareduuduly harsh to men condemned to

eath, it would give a pretext for a riot, which
the monks could easily raise.

Accordingly, he gave a sullen half assent to
the proposition, and led the way to the street,
the doomed men in the center of a hollow

square of guards, but still supported by the ‘

friars.

As they came out into the street, they found ‘
ple, and ‘

it occupied by a great crowd of

1 m fuzz of voices, over which rose the
so emn nes o a penitential psalm s by a
long procession of monks, bearing at rig head
the embroidered banner of Fountain Abbey.

This procession came marching up the streets, '
just as the funeral train imued from the prison :
j gates, and the sheriff bowed low as he recog—
nized the figure of the new Bishop of Hereford, '

riding on a mule. at the head of the procession,
but only dressed in the robes of the Abbot of

own, as did al the monks of the

abbe , who followed him b ' twos, with down—

tecast ends, singing the lugu rious hymn of peni-
nce.

Silently, and as if b mutual consent, the
guards of the sheriff fell ck from the vicinity
of the prisoners, while the monks of Fountain
Abbey closed in round them and continued the

around on all sides and so the closely packed

. i _ , throng moved along to the market- lace, in the
‘ " Get u and keep up your norse till I give the

midst of which stood two tall lowses, the
morning work of Sir Roger “'arman.

The sheriff had mounted his horse as the pro-
cession left the prison gates, and headed a troop

, of men-at—arms to clear the way. As soon as he

saw that the bishop had come to the execution,

he felt much more secure against rescue, for he i

knew the people would never dare to interfere
with the prisoners, as long as they were under
the power of the church. He gave the signal
himself for his guards to encircle the monks, and
henceforth devoted himself solely to the task of
overawing the outsiders.

When the head of the column reached the
market-place they found it full of people, while
every window was crowded with faces, and
even the roof of the church was covered with
gazers. The sheriff rode into the midst of the
crowd with his horsemen and sternly cleared a

e with leveled lauces, the troo rs shout-
ing and spurring their steeds with al the vigor
of new jacks-in-ofiloe. Indeed, they seemed to
take a pleasure in bullying the people; and
many were the black looks and muttered curses
they encountered as the po ulace sullenly re-
grfgted from the neighbor ood of the scaf—

o .

“ By our Lady, ye need not tram 16 women
and children to death,” cried a s y butcher,
as he caught a child almost from under the
horse-hoofs of the sheriff. “A week agoa sorry
clerk, and now a be gar on horseback.”

Warman beckoned to his men to follow, and
the stout butcher and his friends were driven
back, not without some resistance and a stone
thrown, after which the procession filed into the
open space round the scaffold, and the doomed
men ascended the platform, still in irons.

Sir Roger Warman looked round for the
bishop, and beheld that ecclesiastic on the scaf-
fold itself, beside the hangman, talking to the
prisoners, who seemed to be listening with great
respect to his exhortations. Then the trumpet
sounded a lon blast and a great stillness fell on

the uare. t was ex ted that the culprits
woul make their last dress, and ple craned i
their necks to hear. The she ' walked his

horse round the lines and faced all his guards

outward, to check any forward movement.

leaving the scaffold and vicinity entirely occu‘

pied by the brown robes of the monks, who stood
hin the soldiers.

Amid a dead silence Scathelock advanced to i

the front of the scaffold and spoke aloud:

“Friends all, I have little to say. You see
here two men. condemned to die for shooting
the deer that Norman lords hunt for
Do you call that justice.) I sa that made
the deer for Saxon as well as . orman, and God
save King Richard! If he. were here, this
would not be. "

Having said this, he waved his hand and re- 
from the '

tired while a great oan rose up
populace, and the sheriff’s guards
weapons tighter, as if in ex
mediate rush. As for Sir
called out:

“Let the other man be quick: then do your
duty, hangman,"

Another groan burst from the people, which
was iiistautl hushed as the gigantic form of
little John a vanced to the front of the scaffold.
The tall veoman lifted himself to his full
hight and shouted aloud in his stentorian
tones: .

“What my comrade says I say! God save
King Richar , and were he here, this would not
be. Ho! Roger \Varman, and all you people!
You think you came here to see an execution.
Do you know what you will see in a minute
more! Do you know?“

“No, No!” “that is it?" “Tell us!” bel-
lowed the crowd.

“A RESCUE!!!" thundered the yeoman, sud-

ed their
ctation of an im-
oger Warman, he

denly flinging both of his manacles far into the ‘

crowd, an example instantly imitated bv
Scathelock.

Instantly amagical transformation took place
on and round the scaffold, as the brown robes of
the monks dropped. Out leaped the merr men
of Sherwood, in their forest green, arm
sword and buckler, hitherto hidden beneath
their robes, and commenced a furious attack
An inde-
scribable scene of confusion ensued, amid which
Robin Hood himself threw off the robes of

, Bishop Gilbert, shouting:

“ Robin Hood to the rescue! Down with the
Norman traitors!
Old England!"

[To BE (‘ONTINL'ED—COMMENCED IN No. 21.]

 

“THE weather has undergone a great many
changes—a great many changes," mused Mr.

Smiley, as he took his ulster from its book for ‘

the seventh time this season. “You could de-
pend on something settled about this time of
the year when I was a voung man, but since
this new-fangled Probabilities man has taken
charge of the winds and waves everything has
gone topsy—turvy. He sccnis to have wonder-
ful control of the elcmcnts. now I tell Von.
lVliy, the other morning the sun popper up
above the horizon as bright as n pcwtcr pluttel‘.
and [thought I should get sonic pens luntcd
bcfoi‘c noon. ‘But Old Pi'olmbilitics. II {as In—
dicntions. rcnd ‘light rain, possibly snow,’ and
I‘ll bc smiticn if thcre wasn‘t six inchcs of snow
bcforc dinncr was over.
this yczii'. if hc is going to keep thc wcnthcrcon-
trncl." And lhc old gcntlcinun turncd up his

cont-collar and dcjcclcdly strolled down to thc ‘

market to sce what was lcft over from last year
that Would boil up nice and tender for grains.—
.Vr'll‘ IIIII'I'N [fall's/(’1‘,

his followers, and that if he ap— .

ity. The bishop ‘

i tion, of N. A. P. A
_ 1 th lect'o t ' tl l I?”
processmn to the scaffold. The people pressed ; e e 1 us no y ega
; while I won‘t pretend to certify to the legalit
Z of the election of officers, at the same time

leasure. ‘

" ROBIN HOOD TO THE REscrE!!!" ‘

with 1

Fight for King Richard and :

Thcrc‘ll be no pens .

     
  
    
    

    

  
     

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Correspondence, papers, etc.. intended for this
v department should be addressed to Junius W. C.
“'right, 15 West Court street, Memphis, Tenn.

 

    

   

 

 

I Interviews with Prominent Amateurs.

 

WILL L. WRIGHT,

, President Illinois State A. P. A., and Editor
“ Egyptian Star.”

 

friends, and after we were comfortably seated

in his coseyilittle sanctum, we called for an ac— ‘
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. count of s first experience as an amateur.
After a moment’s reflection he commenced:

teur Journalism in the fall of ’75, when a co y
of the Brilliant, of Grand Rapids, Mich., y
chance came into my possession. This was the
first amateur journal had ever seen, and I was

immediately seized with a violent attack of the

: sired to publish a pa r at once, I was not per-

; mitted to do so nu ' the fall of ’77, when the

first number of the Egyptian Star was issued.

‘ This paper has been successfully and regularly
published since that time.“

“ \Vere you present at the Chicago Conven-

., and if so, do you consider

“ Yes. I was present at that Convention, and

m' I

say, that the Convention was roductive of
1 much good. The Constitution a opted was in-
deed an admirable one. Look at the revolution
that has taken place in State Associations: the
? representative organ of the association: the
‘ now-active competition for laureate honors, and
the advancement of more active interest gene-
rally. Look at all this, and then don’t you

tion was a success?”
“ Can you give information regarding the
Illinois State - . P. AJ"
“ The Illinois State A. P. A. was organized on
the 13th day of September. 1876, and was at one
time in a prosperous condition, but it, like all

other associations, was soon allowed to run .

down to a lar 7e extent, and when I accepted the
presidency I ad no idea it was in such a de—
plorable condition.
every energy to bring it up to its original stand-
ard, which result I hope to accomplish by the

summer."

“ VVil on be resent at the “'estem A. P.
A., and 0 you t ' k that meeting will be a
large one?”

- “ Yes.
I A.. and also the National A. P. A. Conventions,

the early

1

thusiastic ones—at any rate they shou d be—es—
pecially the Western, as that association needs a
thorough reorganization."

ateurdom deserving of attention?”
“Well, yes, there are quite a number of
things concerning amateurdom deservin of at-

 

less it be the P. 0. law, which has caused more

’ suspensions than those who have escaped it can

imagine. I think the matter could be set aright
if proper steps were taken; but the Chicago
Conventions were disposed to treat the subject
lightly."

 

Notes.

i OUR report of the National Convention will
I y

be something grand.

THE Lilhopolifan Ncws is quite an interesting

local pa r.

ublished by George P. Kramer, at
Lithopo is.

hio.

son at Worcester, Mass

Extracts from the Youfh’s Register contains
two very ood ones—“The Hap )y Farmer "
i and "The ndians."

lisher, Danville, Illinois.
. Partlo“, of the same place.

THE idea of the National A. P. A. publishing
« a directory of the amateurs of the United States
is being received with

i free to all such.

i ONE of the best presidential messages it has

‘ been our pleasure to read was that of Thos. G.
Harrison to the Western A. P. A.

ithoroughly practical and to the point, with

1 none of those senseless and flowery embellish-

‘ merits which the average amateur executive is
apt to indulge in.

I ACCORDING to the announcements made in
I this column some time ago, the Comet has ap-
, ared from Lockport, N Y., with L. S. Lamp—
, ins as editor. It has a neat engraved heading,
; is published weekly, and presents twelve
| columns of interesting reading matter. It has
our best wishes. and may it attain the success it
i deserves.

THE Editor’s Eyc, No. 5, publishes a long ar-
ticle occupyin six colinmis of the paper, which
contains a fu 1 description of amateur journal-

} ism, with a list of papers and the biographies of 1

i a large number of er itors and pnblis ers. The
whole forms a very readable and interesting ar-
ticle, and will no doubt be productive of much
; good to the cause.

\VE notice that many advertisements are now
being published in amateur )apers, having at
the bottom a note saying. “ ditors insert this
and the above and receive—" every thing, from
lllcts. up to a toothpick. We also notice that
several of the bitten oncs are raising the cry of
; “fraud!” Dear friends, all old ams. like our—
selves went through tliut experience years ago,
and it is not at all interesting to us. Insert no
advertisements but those that are paid for in
advance, and you will have no cause to cry
“fraud!”

THE March Aidinc is a most excellent num—
ber, and fully sustains the high literary reputa-
. tion which that paper so justly enjoys. Ye raf‘s
serial, “Irene: or, Caught at Last." runs
smoothly along and increases in interest as it
nears the end. On the editorial staff we find an
addition in the person of Alex. W. llcngwall,
cx-president of the N. A. I’. A., and formerly
publisher of the Anni/cur .‘lspi/‘tlnf. from
whosc fertile imagination we may expect some
excellent prmlnctions. In the "Symposium"
thccditor devotes himsclf to an cxtcnsivc dis-
scijntion on kissing. and from the skillful man-
ncr in which he linndlcs lhcsubjcct wc concludc
fhc wi'itcr spcaks from cxpericncc.

\VE huvc to thank fhc Aldinc for the follow-
ing: “'l‘hc dcpnrtmcnf in THE Ym'xu NEW
YonKER. devotcd to Amatcur Journalism, is
ably conducth and ccrtninly rcflccts credit up—
on Mr. Junius C. Wright, who has it in charge.

’l‘hc department will bc of more real benefit to

MR. IVRIGHT and our interviewer were old I

" I have been an amateur printer for about ,
five years and first became interested in Aina— ‘

amateur journalist’s fever, and although I de— ‘

think I am safe in saying the Chicago Conven- ‘

However, I am exerting ,

next Convention, which will, perhaps, be during ‘

I expect to attend the Western A. P. i
,‘ and I think both meetings will be la e and en— .

“ Do you know of anything pertaining to am- '

tention, but I know of no one in partic ar, un- ‘

. THE Daily News is a small but interesting ‘
‘ amateur journal published by Martel 8: Dickin-

Harvey S. ngan, pub- ,
For sale by Chas. T.

eneral favor, but we ‘
agree with W. A. Morris in saying that if mem- ‘
j bersare taxed for its publication, it should be :

It was i

‘ amateurdom than fifty amateur papers. The
idea of Amateur Journalism will be dissemina— ,
I ted among thousands of American youths who '

3 never dreamed of such a thing, and the result
1 will be an increased number of journals. stron-

, ger and larger associations, and a more friendly 1

' recognition from the profemional press. Mr.

‘ W'right is placed in a position to do incalculable
good for the cause, and if he keeps on as he has
commenced, will accomplish much.”

I THE ll elcome Visitor, in a recent number,
publishes the following interesting review of the

month of February: “Our exchanges received 3

in February contained of poetry, '22 pieces:
' essays, 10; serials, S: sketches, 24: puzzle de-
partments, 5: editorials. 68, of which ‘28 are

; upon topics of general interest. 25 upon amateur f

1 subjects. 10 personal and 5 amateur political;
‘ convention reports, 4: book reviews, 11: com-
munications. 3: biographies. 3: official columns.
3, and clipped artic es 7.
editorials.
A New York boys‘ pa
‘ '24 of 4. 7 of 6. 2 of 12. and 2 of 16.

258 pages, and 600 columns of reading matter,

matter. "

 

 

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:j‘m  “Emeraicm

THE office of the Cabinet Council has been removed
from 17 Bond St. As each officer has his particular
duty to attend to. all correspondence should be ad
dressed to its proper department, with stamp for
reply. Communications and uestions relating to
the Order to G. H. Beuermann. cretary of State: in
re ard to military. Thos. B. Usher. Instructor-Gene-
ra : in reference to the “Grand Celebration," and
the entertainments. Edward F. Millard, Vice-Presi-
dent. all at 1.040 Third Ave. the new Headquarters
of the L. S. of A.

 

Special Inducements.

IT being the earnest desire of the Loyal Sons
to make their membership number 25,000 b
1 June lst, ‘79, the Cabinet Council has unani-
1 mously resolved to assist those forming wig-
} warns in such a manner that any body of ten
young men, of required age and necessary quali-
l fications. can form at once.

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are between sixteen and twenty-six vears,
whose characters are free from stain, am who
believe in a Supreme Being and are willing to

romote the good of our country, may join our

0 3’ Republic by making an application in the
£0 wing form:

 

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i To (he Cubinef ('ouncil,
I LovAL Soss or AMERICA:
1 The undersigned being desirous of forming a \Vig-
warn of the above-named Order and of perpetuating
l its patriotic principles, hereby certify that they are
' eac of them of American birth: that none of them
-. is less than sixteen nor more than twenty-five years
of age. That for this purpose they have named
—— to be the First Chief, -—————-
to be the First Vice-Chief, —-——— to be th
1 First Chancellor. and — to be the First
Vice-Chancellor of a Wigwam to be called ———~
‘ W'i warn, No. —, to be located at
County 0 —— and State of — .
Should this a )plication be ranted, the promise
a faithful comp iance with the aws of the rder and
the edicts of the Cabinet Council.
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Upon receipt of the above application with
the word “ s cial " written at the top of the
sheet, articu ars of the arrangements will be
made nown. AddreSs the envelope to Head-
?arters Loyal Sons of America, 1,040 Third

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Notes.

R. H. C.—-You are mistaken. Have written.

ALEx H. KERR, Phila., Pa.—\Vaiting. Once
more.

J. A.
decision.

R. LA\VYER, Allegheny City—\Vaiting to
hear from you.

Hl’GH H. SHERWOOD, Phila. Pa.——Should like
to hear from you.

FRED. C. \VAGNER. Houston, Texas—Have
i done as requested.

S.—Have written. Please give your

rangements in this column.

GEO. \V. PAYNE, Baltimore, Md—W'ill send
books again. Have written.

ALL communications must be addressed to
' 1,040 3d ave. to insure a reply.

JOHN M. HAZARD, Bangor, Me.—Come and
see us. “'ill do as you request.

HARRY C. VANSANT, Baltimore, Md.—Do not
remember Mr. Payne‘s address. Have writ-
ten.

HENRY MILLER, Lansing, Mich. —It was
a mistake. The age is between 16 and 26
years.

J. RANDOLPH TUCKER. Washington, D. C.—

Have sent charter, etc. Right welcome in our
midst.
I GEO. F. CARTER, New Haven, (It—Book of
i the Constitution and By-laws sent upon applica-
’, tation.
1

I badges? Hope a favorable response to plans
submitted.

T. E. HOWLAND, “'or-cester. Mass—The ar-
rangements for the celebration of July 4th. are
being fast completed.

JOHN BRAZON, Providence. R. I.—The election 3
: thus: "He looked full, somewhat stout, round-
,shouldered, and he walked with a stick. as
1 though the gout were hanging about his legs or
. . _ ‘ . _ 3 feet.
“ rue to M1" Ha) “ard m re . his face,and wore a pair of large. round. Chinese-

of Officers of the Cabinct Council takes place in
New York. June 1st. By proxy.

SHELBY R. KENDALL, New Orleans—Did you
receive books!
gard to badges. They are :30 cents each.

R. E. R., Portland, Me.—In regard to the en
tertainment. further particulars will be made
known, soon. Yes, he is a member. In 1871.

H. B. KERR. Marion,
“ YOUNG NEW YORKER.“

Lo. 08 “'illiani St, N.

B. F. MOORE. Albany. N. Y.-If the badges 3

were otherwise than represented we should
have nothing to do with the parties who make
them. They are perfectly reliable.

C. F. GRIBBEN. Chelsea, Mass—You cannot
join until you are 10. Have scnt book of Con—
stitutions. Cannot say how beneficial it would
be to organize wingim for thc Loyal Daugh—
tcrs.

ELMER llxxson. New York—Thc (‘olumbiun
\l'igwnm. corncr Sccond nvcnuc and First St...
mccts Tuesday cycning. May 6th. (‘all at
thc wigwmn at 7:30 1’. .‘l.. and scc Mr. Bcucn
munn. He will give you all nm-cssnry infoi'-
inntion.

BROOKLYN. —Affci‘ May lst, Scnwnnhakn
“'igwnm No.1, L. S. of A.. will mcct cvcry 33d
and 4th Monday in each month. at their new
and handsome rooms. corncr Of Court and
Schcrmcrhorn streets: entrance. 4»! Schcrmcr-
horn strcct. Those wishing to join. address G.
H. Bcucrmmm. 72-! Pinc sfrcct. Ncw York.

Six journals were all ,
Three published editorials upon the "
pers. Ten were of 5 pages, ;
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EDWARD LEE Prospect, Ct.—See special ar- 3 , _
$| tity of flour to a hydrauhc pressure of 300 tons,
' which reduced it to a fourth of its original bulk,

 

:and gaitei‘s. several undercoats

Ohio—Read No. 23 ,‘
If you cannot get it ,
at the newsdealer's, send for a copy to Adams 8.: ‘

Y. . clean white shirt front. was a pair of large old-

 

MORE frogs’ legs are now eaten in America
than France.

THE new Post-office in Antwerp is furnished

: with American lock-boxes.

ICE _is now manufactured in Tennessee and
Georgia at one cent per pound.

THE military chest ca tured at Isandula (Zu-
luland) contained $100, ' in gold.

THE erec ion of the New South Wales Ex-
poslflsion Will be carried on at night by electric
ig .

As weapons. of assassination revolvers are
iI‘atplidly replacmg the time-honored stiletto in
t y.

THE London police have received orders to
arrest any person seen dropping orange-peel

' _ , in the street.
1 of which 203 columns consnsted of editorial ?

THE manufacture of beet sugar is to be tried
in earnest at Northampton, Mass. A factory is
to be built, and 400 acres of beets planted this

' season.

THE Royal Geographical Society of Great
Britain is taking steps for organizing a uniform
system of spelling for the names of places
t roughout t eworld.

AT the evening celebration of the 1,800th an-
niversary of the destruction of Pompeii a bottle
of wine taken from the ruins, where it had lain
since A. D. ‘70, is to be opened.

THE Carnbrid e (Md) News says that the

arrows do not estroy the peach-buds, but that
t ey do destroy the larvae of insects that would,
if left alone, greatly damage the trees on ma-
turing into grubs.

AT the postal-card factory, Holyoke, Mass,
designs are being made for a new two—cent inter-
national cai‘d, and a double sized two-cent card
for domestic use. The former will be issued
about July lst, and the latternext fall.

SIXTY-ONE (graduates of Yale, thirty-five of
Princeton, an thirty of Dartmouth hold clerk-
ships and other positions in the departments at
lVashington, and there is a ood representation
of other colleges. Nearly al are dependent up-
on their salaries.

IT ap ars froma report of the Russian Army
Medica Department t at of the 1,400,000 boys
registered as having been born in 1&55, there
were living in ISM-that is, at the age of
21—only 610,000, or 43 1-2 r cent. In other
words, out of seven boys rn scarcely more
than three lived to be of age.

THE Paris Gazette dcs Femmes gives a list of
French women who have obtained the academic
degrees. There are five doctors of medicine
three licentiates of science, two bachelors of
science and letters, six bachelors of science, and
twenty bachelors of letters. These degrees have
all been conferred since 1866.

SOUTH Carolina strawberry growers are in a
ferment over the fact of two Charleston firms
having a monopoly of the steamer refrigerators,
and refusing to allOw an shipments in them,
but oflering to buy the rries at about four
cents per quart, when the selling price in this
city is from thirty to fifty cents per quart.

THE longest subterranean construction in the
world is in the mines of Freyburg, in Saxon .
A series of galleries, which were begun in t e
twelfth century, reached in 1835 a length of 123
miles, and had yielded an immense quantity of
silver. In 1833 a new gallery was commenced,

. which was finished a year ago, and is eight miles

long.

THE Cremation Society of En land, a joint
stock affair, has received a chec . Secretary
Cross, of the Home Office, recently announced
in the House of Commons that he will not sanc-
tion the pi'oceedin ys of the com an until they
are approved by ai'liament. ng ish medical
and legal circles object to cremation because it
destroys evidence of the cause of death.

STOUT calico is made waterproof by the
Chinese with a preparation which proves effi—
cient in anv climate, and is so posed to be com-
posed of the following ingredients: Boiled oil,
one quart: soft soap, one ounce, and beeswax.
one ounce, the whole to be boiled until reduced
to three-quarters of its quantitv when mixed.
The calico treated with this mixture answers
well for life-saving apparatus.

A FRENCH chemist last year exposed a quan-

without impairing the quality. He packed a
portion of it in tin boxes and sealed them up,
doing the same with un remed flour. When
opened in three months, the former was in bet—
ter preservation than the latter. When baked
into bread, the pressed article was decidedly
superior. After the lapse of a year other cans
were opened, and the impressed flour had be-
come spoiled, While the pressed remained sweet,
and was excellent when baked.

A DRESS woven from the webs of the large spi—
ders cOmmou in South America has been re-
sented to Queen Victoria by the Empress of ra—
zil. It exceeds in fineness any manufactured
silk known, and is very handsome. Spaniards,

I nearly two hundred years ago, endeavored to

make loves. stockings, and other articles of

, spiders webs, but they yielded so little profit,
‘ and necessitated so much trouble. that the man-

B. C. E., Palmyra. Mo.—Did you receive.
' ' 1 tion was made that the webs of 700,000 s iders

ufacture was abandoned. In 1710 the calcula-

would be required for about 40 yards 0 silk.
Such dresses are occasionally seen in South

1 America.

MR. TENstON. walking in a London park the
other day. met a writer who describes the poet

He had a long board which almost buried

looking spectacles. He had on a very broad-
brimmed. weather-worn felt hat. dark trowsers
or jackets,
covered all over by a thin, shabby-looking red
tweed dust coat. buttoned very tightly. as
though it were much too small for him. Dang-
ling outside. fi‘om what should have been a

rimmed nose spectacles. Hc was one o the
oddest-looking creatures I have ever seen out of
a Mormon mectmg.‘

AMONH the Chinese inediczimcnts exhibited at
the late Paris Exposition were the inside of a
stag‘s horn as a remedy for bronchitis and rheu-
matism: dricd fowls' gizznrds for indigestion:
the dried and roasted lui'vac of grasshoppcrs for
hcndnclic. and u glutinous dccoction of donkey‘s
shin, which is considch iuf'nlliblc for-consump—
tion. Another rcnicdy for rhciiinntism was a
powder prcpnrcd from clcphnnl's skin. A stimu—
lnnf shown wus- n tincturc of scorpions. and a
Kl'lntinous dccoction of tigcr's boncs was pre-
scntcd as n costly but ellicncions tonic. There
was a bcar‘s gull :ilso. us :1 gcncrnl antidotc. and a
jar hulf—fillcd with flour, in which wcre a number
of livc fonds. \thnthc flour liccunicwcll soaked
with the saliva. etc.. of the fonds. it. was with-
drawn. di'icd, and pounded into :1 powder. Its
nsc is as n snuff to produce sneezing. with the
view of rcstoring [H‘l'snlls in convulsions. hyster-
ics, or fainting-fits.

 

 

 

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