43,000  jtoiiDcls  Of  Ivory 
Tweed  has  not  arrived  yet. 
Railway  accldets  are  here 
320 
THE  BUBAL  HEW-YOBKEB. 
.  44 
within  him,  so  his  daughter  wrote  while  he  com¬ 
posed. 
PaiMdlse  I.ost  was  published  In  16«7  ;  Paradise 
Regained  and  .Samson  Agonlstes,  a  Tragedy,  three 
yeai-s  <ifterw.ards.  These,  with  L’AUegro,  II  Pen- 
serosa,  hycldas,  Comus,  the  .Sonnets,  ivlih  a  few 
Ju  venllo  poems  in  Latin,  Itall.an  and  Engllah,  com¬ 
pleted  his  poetical  works. 
lie  died  peacefully,  In  1«T4,  at  hla  house  In  Bun- 
hill  Fields ;  and  was  burled  next  to  lUs  father,  In 
the  chancel  of  ."^t.  Giles',  at  Crlpplegate. 
One  moral  which  young  readers  may  draw  for 
f.hcmsolvea  from  .John  .Milton’s  life  is— that  youth 
lathe  time  for  hook-learning  and  Industry';  and 
then  whatever  may  be  the  troubles  or  rev'emes 
of  aft^r-llfeor  old  age,  a  mind  well-stored  in  early 
daysoan  give  consolation  and  cheerful ries.s,  as  the 
poet  found,  even  when  he  was  aged,  poor  and 
blind. 
- ♦♦♦ - 
MISSPENT  EVENINGS. 
PUBLISHEE’S  NOTICES. 
TO  THK  LADY  READERS  OF  THE  RFRAL. 
SPECIAL  OFFER 
I  OF  KAEE  PLANTS  AND  SEEDS 
Having  a  few  choice  plants  now  growing  m 
the  Rueal’s  Expebimentai.  Groo-os,  which 
we  think  would  be  desirable  to  some  of  the  lady 
readers  of  the  Rcrai,  New-Yorker,  we  make 
the  following  olTer : 
Those  who,  in  renewing  their  own  subscrip¬ 
tion,  send  us  an  additional  name  (not  ali  oady  on  I 
our  list)  with  the  sum  of  f.4.00  for  the  two,  inay 
select  any  two  of  the  following-named  plants 
and  a  jiaijor  of  the  sis-d  of  the  Molucca  Balm. 
Those  who  receive  these  premiums  can  divide 
The  boy  who  spends  an  hour  of  each  evening  '  ,  .  '  "  "Aim.  aas  been  voted  to  reduce  the  Treasurer’s  salai 
lounging  Idly  on  the  street  corners,  wastes  In  the  ®  receive  these  premiums  can  divide  25  per  cent,.— to  $l,800  a  year,  without  clerk  hlr 
course  of  a  year  three  hundred  and  slxty-llve  of  them  all,  as  they  may  ^ularles  nre  to  be  simlod  correspondingly, 
precious  hours,  wliicb.  It  .applied  to  study,  would  Agree  among  themselves,  .as  our  object  in  mak-  fanners  of  Wyandotte  Co.,  Kan.,  bavir 
settlement  of  lei.a.  In  a  very  ancient  map  of  this 
locality,  found  in  the  llbrarj’  at  Munich,  Manhat- 
I  ton  Island  la  represented  as  covered  by  .Mohicans, 
but  Hell  Gale  Is  Indicated  In  the  East  Klver. 
The  studies  pre.scrtbcd  by  law  for  the  Illinois 
public  schools  ai  c  ojthographj-,  English  reading, 
,  Writing,  arlthmetli':,  English  grammar,  geography 
I  and  United  .states  history.  A  pupil  refused  to 
.study  bookkeeping  and  tvas  expelled.  The  father 
sued,  recovered  datoages,  and  the  Supreme  Court 
sustains  the  verdict  on  the  ground  that  a  study 
of  tlift  prcsi.Tibed  branches  c.innot  be  enforced. 
Du  .sommerard  denies  tluiT  he  wrote  the  objec¬ 
tionable  letter,  but  It  Is  alleged  by  many  French 
cxhibiiois  at  I'liil-idclpbla  that  he  did,  from  the 
llrst,  all  he  could  lo  break  down  the  Exhibition, 
and  that  be  succeeded  In  dissuading  the  propilct- 
oiN  of  the  td'enzot  foundry,  one  ol  the  largest  In 
(he  ivorld,  from  sejiding  their  superb  products  to 
.M.aclilnery  Hall. 
In  the  N'ermoiiL  Leglshaturc,  now  in  session.  It 
has  been  voted  to  reduce  the  Treasurer’s  salary 
25  per  cent.— to  $1,800  a  year,  without  clerk  hire. 
familiarize  him  with  the  rudiments  of  almost  any 
of  the  familiar  siMence.s,  If  in  addition  to  w.a st¬ 
ing  an  hour  cadi  evening  he  sjamds  ten  cents  for 
a  cigar,  whli!h  la  usually  the  c.ise,  the  amount 
thus  wonsc  lluin  wasted  would  pay  for  ten  of  the 
leading  periodicals  oi  the  country.  Boys,  think 
of  these  things.  Think  of  how  much  lime  and 
money  .vou  arc  wasting,  and  for  what  7  The  grat¬ 
ification  alTordcd  by  t  he  lounge  on  the  corner  or 
the  cigar  is  not  only  temporary  but  positively 
hurtful.  You  cannot  Indulge  In  them  without 
seriously  injuring  your-selves.  Vou  acquire  idle 
and  wasteful  hahlra,  which  will  cling  to  you  with 
each  aiiuceedlug  year.  You  may  lu  alter  life  shake 
them  off,  but  the  iirobablUtles  are  that  the  habits 
thus  formed  In  early  lire  win  remain  with  you  to 
your  dying  day.  Be  warned,  then,  in  time,  and 
resolve  that  as  the  hour  .spent  in  idleness  Is  gone 
forever,  you  will  Improve  each  passing  one  and 
thereby  fit  yourself  for  U8erulnes.s  and  happiness. 
LETTERS  FROM  BOYS  AND  GIRLS. 
A  Pleasant,  Wee  Visitor. 
Uncle  Trek:— .Vlamma  reads  me  the  letters 
from  j'oung  Cousins  In  your  paper  every  week.  l 
am  a  little  girl  six  years  old ;  have  never  been  to 
school ;  can  read  and  spell  and  write  a  little.  I 
have  no  brother  or  sister,  but  lota  of  pets.  Pour 
rabbits;  a  guinea  pig,  which  1  took  to  the  county 
fair,  and  for  which  1  received  u  first  premium. 
Her  name  Is  Lady,  I  have  a  blue  cat  which  weighs 
eleven  pounds,  a  pet  lamb  and  a  shepherd  dog.  1 
wish  you  could  all  soe  my  pets.  Good-by,— Cora 
E.,  Seiiem  Falls^  At.  r. 
Prom  Lena  Crafte. 
Dear  Cousins  :— l  hope  Uncle  Truk  won’t  scold 
when  he  secs  another  letter  from  me.  1  will  not 
trouble  him  again.  Walter  p.  wanted  to  know 
about  the  leap-year  party,  l  will  try  and  tell 
him.  Of  coui-se,  we  went  after  the  boys,  waited 
on  them,  danced  with  them,  and  took  them  home. 
There  were  llilrlj'-ilve  couples,  and  the  giHxpaM 
the  hilts,  1  should  like  to  correspond  with  Gtpst 
Belle, 
A  Martial  Cousin. 
Mr,  Editor:— We  have  taken  your  paper  In  our 
family  ovei-  since  it  has  been  published,  therefore 
I  think  1  have  a  right  to  be  one  of  the  Cousins, 
and  hope  this  will  nut  be  thrown  Into  the  wa.ste 
basket  I  live  on  a  farm,  but  am  not  much  of  a 
farmer.  I  attend  school.  I  would  like  to  attend 
a  military  school,  at  West  Point  or  some  other 
place.— c.  H.  W.,  Corju,  y.  r. 
iug  the  offer  is  to  induce  old  subpcribera  to 
send  us  new  ones,  thereby  increasing  our  list. 
The  ]tlants  and  seeds  offered  are  very  choice,  as 
will  be  seen  in  description  given  below.  The 
plants  will  be  sent  by  mail  free,  and  carefully 
packed  and  forwarded  immediately  on  receipt  of 
subscriptions. 
v%t>iitilon  Itoulc  <le  — The 
best  of  the  AhutUons.  Its  flow'ers  are  large  and 
white.  It  blooms  throughout  Uie  whole  year  and 
therefore  is  alike  desirable  for  the  conservatory 
or  garden.  Its  growth  is  rapid— small  plants 
attaining  the  higlit  of  five  feet  during  the  sum¬ 
mer  months.  In  the  faU  it  may  bo  cut  back  to 
any  desirable  size  and  pottetl  for  the  winter, 
when  it  will  quickly  recover  its  synnnetn,'  and 
resume  its  ever-blooming  habit.  Its  quick  and 
exceeding  popularity  is  a  sufficient  guarantee  of 
its  merits. 
Cljf  lit^ijiti:. 
BIBLICAL  ENIGMA. 
I  am  composed  of  60  letters : 
My  1^1  12,  8,  23,  1G,  2(i,  29  a  king  of  Egypt. 
My  21,  56,  fl,  20,  33  was  a  priest  without  God’s 
order. 
My  1,  n,  27,  55, 34,  37,  40. 4  a  companion  of  Paul. 
My  24,  II,  3,  14,  46,  6,  .5.5  was  pui  lo  death  for 
Christ’s  sake. 
My  58,  8, 10,  94,  2,  50,  in,  35  SL  Paul’s  teacher. 
My  13,  3«,  .HI,  19,  40,  5  a  man  who  was  struck  blind 
_  for  speaking  against  the  gospel. 
My  i,  50, 17,  s,  32  a  woman  tvho  tvas  raised  from 
the  dead. 
My  16.  39,  41,  IS,  4,  50,  S,  24,  28,  22,  5  a  book  Of 
the  Old  Testament. 
My  44,  20.  5.5,  60.  30,  42  a  book  Of  the  Old  Testa-  I 
menc. 
My  14,  .is,  45, 47,  53  a  book  of  tbe  New  Testament. 
My  25,  50.  .57,  2S,  31  a  number.  I 
My  49,  43,  ,53.  26,  60  a  king.  I 
My  52,  50,  24,  48,  50, 14,  51, 15,  4  clilef  ministers.  I 
My  tvholo  Is  a  verse  in  the  Bible. 
5*’“  Answer  lu  two  weeks.  8  c  I 
MISCELLANEOUS  ENIGMA. 
I  AM  composed  of  is  letters: 
My  8,  2, 11, 11,  3.  5  ts  a  wicked  person. 
.My  4.  6, 10, 1, 7  Is  to  produce. 
My  2,  13,  6,  9  Is  a  musical  Instrument. 
My  14, 15, 10,  1 1  Is  money. 
-My  whole  Is  a  range  of  moun talas  In  America. 
PF"  Answer  In  two  weeks.  Virginia. 
PUZZLER  ANSWERS.-Oct.  28. 
Hidden-  Fruit.— 1. Plum;  2, Currant ;  3. Peraluimon. 
l^re^friUt  ^***'*'  6.  watermelon;  9, 
Geographical  ENiGM.i.  — Lyons,  Wajme  County, 
New  York. 
Miscellaneous  Enigma.— William  Shakspoare. 
DouiJi.E  Aorobtio.— Primal*,  Luzon;  hnala,  Sunda. 
71nri«  ■..emolne.— Among  ahundredor 
more  varietieg  of  do’uble-flowered  Pelnrgoniume, 
new  and  old,  this  is  au  yet  unrivaled.  The  indi¬ 
vidual  flower,  of  a  delicate  rose  color,  aa  well  as 
the  truss,  are  the  largest  of  their  class.  It  is 
difficult  to  select  a  more  attractive  plant  than 
Marie  Lemoine  when  freely  blooming.  Everv 
truss  is  in  itself  a  bouquet.  The  leaves  are  large, 
zoneloBs,  vigorous.  The  plant  is  compact  and, 
like  Ahittilcm  Bouh  de  N^eige,  is  invaluable,  either 
for  the  conservatory,  window  or  garden. 
lIydrHii;;:ea  paiiiculala  {Errand- 
iiloi  •a.— 80  much  has  been  said  of  this  new 
Japanese  shrub  during  the  past  year  that  little 
need  be  added  now.  It  has  stood  26^^  bedow  zero 
unharmed.  It  begins  blooming  in  early  August, 
continuing  until  after  hard  frosts.  The  thyrsee 
of  flowers,  first  greenish-white,  then  white,  then 
rose,  often  measure  a  foot  in  length  and  twenty 
inohes  in  cirenmferonoe.  Every  stem  lieing  thus 
terminated,  the  striking  appearance  of  an  en¬ 
tire  plant  may  bo  conceived.  There  can  l>e  no 
doubt  that  this  is  one  of  tho  most  valug,ble  of  all 
perfectly  hardy  shrubs. 
Variegpated  AnipelopNii*  or  Vitis 
heterophylla  variegata.—We  do  not  hesitate  to 
pronounce  this  one  of  the  most  attractive  vines 
in  cultivation.  Tho  leaves  are  dceply-lobed  and 
variegated  with  white  and  green,  much  as  Abw- 
tilon  Thmnsoni  is  vai-iegated  with  green  and  yel¬ 
low.  From  its  racemes  of  flowers  are  formed 
fruit  as  large  as  currants,  each  one  of  which  is  a 
different  color  in  shades  of  claret,  azure-blue  and 
green.  These  berries,  which  are  first  as  soft  as 
a  currant,  become  finally  as  hard  as  bullets. 
The  pretty  stems  are  also  variegated,  green, 
whitish  and  rose.  The  roots  are  perfectly  hardy, 
and  the  vine's  growth  so  rapid  that  it  will  cover 
twenty-five  feet  square  in  a  season.  For  con¬ 
servatory  waUs  or  pillars,  for  trellises  or  rook¬ 
eries,  it  cannot  fail  to  please.  It  has  been 
growing  in  the  Rural  Exteuimental  Grounds 
for  several  years  without  (he  least  protection. 
Moluccella  laevlsi.  —  We  will  send, 
also,  to  ALL  who  ai’e  entitled  to  a  choice  of  any 
two  of  the  above  plants,  a  package  of  the  seeds 
of  the  singular  Shell  Flower,  an  account  of  which 
and  an  engi-aving  were  given  in  the  Rural  of  . 
Aug.  17,  p.  117. 
.  ijH!  lariners  01  Wyandotte  Co.,  Kan.,  having 
^  been  for  several  months  past  annoyed  by  liorse 
thieves,  appotnb-d  an  extennliiatlon  day,  hanged 
two  or  the  culprits,  and  drove  the  rest  out  of  the 
'  region. 
'  Mrs.  Hardy’s  paraffine  mold  trick  ha.s  again 
been  expo3i.id  in  Bestou.  An  Investigator  slyly 
put  coloring  matter  intxjrt  he  paliriil  of  parafHne 
from  which  the  siorlts  were  supposed  .to  make 
the  mold,  yd  the  mold  came  out  as  white  as 
usual. 
It  Is  propo.sed  to  Introduce  round  playing  cards, 
as  being  more  easy  to  maiUpulato  than  the  time- 
honored  square-shaped,  originally  invented  lor 
the  amu.s..mpnt  of  a  sick  French  king.  Instead  of 
having  the  sulta  merely  colored  black  and  red, 
they  arc  to  be  red  hearts,  green  diamonds,  black 
spades,  and  yellow  clubs. 
St.  Louis  has  0  new  .\sylum  tor  the  Deforma¬ 
tion  of  Drunkard.?.  It  is  said  that  The  first  patient 
in  a  similar  ffi.st.muinn  in  Chicago  is  now  a  .su- 
proine  Court  Judge  In  Wisconsin. 
’I’ho  Boston  Journal  says  that  the  Rev.  Doctor 
Slorrs  was  offered  by  a  New  York  millionaire  a 
hand.somc  furnished  residence  asa  glftir  he  would 
become  pastor  of  Uie  Bilck  Church. 
Savannah  physicians  arc  accusing  each  other  of 
unwise- troatmciit  of  patients  during  the  yellow 
fever  epidemic. 
A  special  to  the  Pioneer  Press  says  that  Geu, 
Miles,  commanding  tlie  troops  on  the  Yellowstone, 
after  fighting,  rtefe.atlug  and  pur-sulng  Sitting 
Bull  and  tho  confederated  tribes  under  him, 
OcL  27  accepted  t  he  surrender  of  400  lodges  of  In¬ 
dians  belonging  at  the  Cheyenne  agency.  The 
tribes  ssrrcndered  five  of  their  principal  chiefs  as 
hostages  as  guaranU'e  of  their  faithful  compliance 
with  the  torms  of  the  capitulation.  These  bands 
aro  to  go  at  once  to  the  agency,  wdiere  upon  their 
arrival  they  will  submit  to  the  requirements  of 
the  GovcriiiuuuL.  The  Indiana  held  as  hostages 
left  the  .same  evening  for  8t.  Paul  under  tho 
charge  or  strong  guards. 
,Maj.  Gen.  Gllas  A.  Smith  died  at  Bloominirton 
111.,  Nov.  5. 
Tho  total  number  of  Interments  at  Savannah, 
Ga.,  Nov.  4,  tvas  nine,  of  tvhlcli  sLx  were  from  yel¬ 
low  fever. 
New  York  Cll,y  Is  threatened  with  a  water  fam¬ 
ine, 
Bo.sion  has  a  Coaching  Club,  one  coach  so  far. 
Gov.  Hiirlrunft  ha.s  apoolntod  the  30th  Inst,  as  ! 
Thanksgiving, 
A  delegation  of  too  sioux  Indiana  has  gone  to  ' 
the  Indian  Territory  10  look  for  a  reservation.  I 
The  Ceiitenulal  Judges  liave  decided  to  return  ! 
to  tho  original  system  of  awards. 
Johanna  Tnihlij,  a  colored  woman,  was  sen-  I 
teneedin  tho  Wasidngtoa  Criminal  Court  to  be 
hanged  on  the  29111  of  December  for  murder.  I 
The  numhor  or  postal  cards  Issued  during  the 
month  of  October  w, as  23.n(>,nrifl,  .an  Increase  ol  1 
2,977,51)0,  or  nearly  15  per  cent,  over  the  Issues  of  \ 
October  ol  lust  year.  j 
On  board  the  vessels  of  the  whaling  fleet  recent-  i 
ly  abandoned  lu  the  Arctic  Ocean,  were  12,034  bar-  i 
Ids  of  whale  oil,  199  barrels  of  sperm  oil,  ei.ioo  i 
3  In  Asiatic  Russia,  and  the  line  In  question  win 
-  reach  Pelchauer  by  way  of  Samarcand.  Between 
,  this  latter  point  and  Orembourg  there  are  numer¬ 
ous  large  towns,  notebl.v,  fashkend,  with  a  popn- 
!  latton  of  150,000,  but  between  Hamarcand  and  Pel¬ 
chauer  the  country  is  very  sparsely  settled  until 
IndoukouclL  the  ancient  Indian  Caucasus,  is 
'  reached.  The  work  Is  stupendous,  but  offers’ far 
fewer  engineering  dlfficultlps  than  were  required 
for  cutting  the  Isthmus  of  8uez.  This  work  re¬ 
quired  the  Invention  of  newlnstrumenta, 
A  boa  constrictor,  eight  feet  long,  was  captured 
a  fortnight  .ago  In  tho  hold  of  a  ship  th.ai  arrived 
at  Greenock,  Scotland,  irom  the  West  Indies, 
The  nickel  coins  struck  In  Germany  under  its 
new  Jaw  represent  a  tofal  value  of  between  ten 
and  eleven  million  dollars.  This  Is  the  maximum 
flgiire  allowed,  and  mlnUng  has  been  sitspended. 
There  is  said  to  be  an  old  gentleman  In  England 
who  has  found  the  true  elixir  of  life  to  be  the  food 
of  Infancy.  He  always  has  live  wet  nurses  “on 
tap, "and  grows  “  fat  and  well  liking  ’’  a-s  he  verge.? 
on  centenariantsm. 
The  UiLHslan  Iron-clad  squadron  will  winter  in 
Italian  waters  In  order  to  be  ready  to  proceed  to 
the  KiLsf.  In  case  of  need. 
The  election  of  Deputies  has  taken  place  in 
IlAlj- ;  as  far  .os  heard  from  the  Progressists  car¬ 
ried  141 ;  the  -Moderates,  28. 
The  Hpanlsh  Premier  declares  Spain  will  hold 
Cuba  at  any  cost. 
In  FrAncP,  the  Government  has  compromised 
on  the  Amnesty  bill. 
In  Turkey,  French  and  Italian  commissioners 
are  settling  the  limits  of  the  belligerent  armies. 
A  pamphlet  on  “  Bulgarian  Horrors,  the  Ques¬ 
tion  Ol  the  We-st,"  dedicated  to  the  Right  Hon.  W. 
E.  Gladstone,  .M.  p.,  &c.,  has  Just  been  Issued  in 
London. 
The  .Mincing  Lane  tnarkets  have  been  only 
HllglUly  affected  by  Eastern  affairs. 
The  Consular  tlommlaMon  at  Mostar  has  been 
dissolved. 
The  Turks  are  charged  with  burning  the  liouse 
Of  the  Aitstrlan  C'on-sul  at  serajevo,  Bosnia. 
Gen.  Martinez  Campos  has  arrived  In  Cuba. 
Turkey  has  agreed  to  an  armistice  for  two 
montlts  from  the  first  Inst.;  the  Servian  and 
Turkish  armies  are  to  retain  the  positions  they 
now  hold. 
of  t|f 
HOME  NEWS  PARAGRAPHS, 
The  Baptists  of  Michigan  have  added  2,500  to 
their  number  this  year. 
A  Washington  girl,  BsteUa  Hutton,  carried  ar¬ 
senic  In  her  pocket  for  a  month,  with  tho  avowed 
Intention  of  swallowing  it  when  she  got  ready. 
Afewdaj’s  ago  she  put  her  determination  Into 
effect,  and  the  dose  quickly  killed  her. 
The  Sioux  practice  a  mode  or  healing  which  is 
almost  similar  to  the  Turkish  bath.  .\8  early  as 
1680  Father  Hennepin  was  cured  of  a  fever  by  tbe 
Minnesota  Indlajis  by  sweating  In  an  an  alr-tlgbt 
earth-oven,  covered  with  buffalo  skins  and  heated 
with  red-hot  stones. 
The  name  Hell  Gate  is  older  than  the  Dutch 
collision  occurred  on  the  Louisville,  Lexington  and 
Cincinnati  Short.  Line  Railroad,  near  Peewee  Val¬ 
ley.  between  a  wild  engine  and  an  express  train 
bound  south,  killing  tbe  engineer  of  the  wild  en¬ 
gine  and  his  fireman.  James  Loman,  express 
messenger,  suffered  a  fracture  of  the  left  leg.  A 
passenger  train  going  west  on  the  Ohio  and  Mis¬ 
sissippi  Railroad  collided  ivlth  a  freight  train  near 
Shoals,  ind.,  killing  the  engineer  and  fireman. 
Some  of  the  passengers  sustained  slight  injuries, 
but  none  were  seriously  hurt.  Nine  cars  and  a 
locomotive  w'ere  precipitated  through  a  bridge  a 
distance  of  thirty  feet  on  iho  Baltimore  and  Ohio 
Railroad  two  miles  east  of  Moundsvllle.  The 
engineer  was  killed,  and  an  unknown  man  on  the 
engine  was  seriously  Injured. 
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FOREIGN  NOTES. 
AT  the  recent  convention  of  the  Oriental  Con¬ 
gress  at  Marseilles,  Mona.  De  Lessepa,  alluding  to 
tliesubmartuo  tunnel  between  France  and  Eng¬ 
land,  and  the  creation  of  a  sea  in  the  deaeiT  of 
Sahara  by  an  Influx  of  Mediterranean  waters, 
spoke  of  the  projected  grand  Central  Asia  line  of 
I  all  Way  to  uni  Euiope  and  Asia,  by  running  to 
Peichauer  in  Anglo-Indla.  He  said  that  the 
scheme  had  received  the  approval  ol  the  Russian 
Emperor,  and  that  the  preparatory  surveys  would 
soon  be  completed.  The  railway  outpost  from 
Europe  Is  now  Orembourg,  upon  the  river  Oural, 
Great  rlamago  has  been  done  by  Inundations  In 
Cuba. 
The  King  or  .•^lam  recently  opened  a  new  mint 
at  Bangkok  wUh  a  singular  ceremony.  .4t  s  r.  m. 
he  repaired  to  the  upper  Jtail  and  lighted  sacred' 
Lapera  and  then  the  priests  worshiped  for  two 
hours.  The  m  xt  morning  he  relighted  the  tapers 
and  a  high  priest  reclfod  the  five  commands. 
These  are;— Do  not  kllL  do  not  steal,  do  not  nom- 
mlt  atimtery,  do  not  speak  falsehood,  do  not 
drink  strong  drink.  The  King  sprinkled  with 
sacred  water  the  new  mint  machinery,  and  with 
his  linger  rubbed  flour  from  a  consecrated  cake  on 
parts  of  the  machinery. 
Cadet  Phlllppot,  of  the  French  military  school 
of  Saint  Cyr,  has  been  condemned  to  two  yesirs’ 
Imprisonment  for  stealing  money  and  other  valu¬ 
ables  from  hts  fellow  cadets.  He  Is  a  natural  .son, 
and  hla  half  brother,  legit, lm.itely  born,  and  at  the 
same  Distliutlon,  was  abundantly  supplied  with 
pocket  money  by  his  father,  while  he  received 
nothing.  He  bore  tho  neglect  and  the  prIvaHon 
for  a  year,  and  then  became  desperate. 
The  novel  which  George  Sand  wrote  some  years 
ago  will  probably  be  published  In  a  short  time. 
The  work  Is  said  to  turn  on  the  life  and  adventures 
of  the  student  .Staaps,  who  attempted  to  assassi¬ 
nate  Napoleon  alter  the  battle  of  Essllng,  and  who 
belonged  to  the  Tugend-Bmvl,  or  As-soelatlon  of 
virtue.  That  It  should  have  been  Impossible  to 
publish  a  book  on  such  a  subject  under  the  Second 
Empire  is  easily  conceived,  nor  would  It  have  been 
popular,  except  among  the  Radicals,  directly 
after  the  late  war. 
The  celebrated  old  Parts  prison  of  St.  Pelagie 
Is  ta  be  demolished.  It  was  built  in  1635  as  a  con¬ 
vent  for  penitent  women  and  turned  Into  a  prison 
in  1790.  Madame  Beauharnals,  afterward  the  Em¬ 
press  Josephine,  and  .Madame  Roland,  were  both 
incarcerated  there  during  the  reign  of  terror.  The 
latter  wrote  her  Memoirs  there  before  going  to 
execution.  Under  the  restoration,  the  poet  Ber- 
rengei'  w  jis  one  of  its  inmates,  on  account  or  his 
audacious  attacks  on  monarchy.  Under  tbe  gov¬ 
ernment  of  Louts  Philippe,  Barbes  was  a  prisoner 
there,  and,  during  the  Commune,  Chandey,  who 
tell  by  the  bullets  of  the  Federalists,  crying. 
*•  v'lve  la  RepubilqueJ” 
The  Pall  Mall  Gazette,  In  comparing  the  most 
formidable  of  the  Russian  ironclads,  the  Peter  the 
Great,  with  the  British  Dreadnauglit,  say?  that  If 
the  former  can  average  twelve  knots,  her  design¬ 
ers  may  think  themselves  lucky.  Tho  Devasta¬ 
tion  steamed  from  Malta  to  Smyrna  la  48  hours, 
at  the  rate  of  14 knots  an  hour ;  In  point  of  arm¬ 
ament  and  tOilckness  of  armor  plate,  the  vessels 
are  nearly  alike,  each  carrying  four  .H5-tUR  guns. 
The  Thunderer  Is  more  powerfully  armed  with 
two  38  and  two  as-ton  guns,  and  would  be  still 
more  formidable.  The  Dreadnaught  Is  larger  than 
tbe  Peter  the  Great,  carries  four  ss-tou  guns,  Is 
faster  than  either  of  the  others,  and  probably  tho 
most  dangerous  Ironclad  afloat  at  the  present 
time. 
Gen.  Michael  Grlgorlevltch  Tchernayeff  Com¬ 
mander-In-Chief  of  the  Servian  forces,  Is  a  thor¬ 
ough  Panslavtst,  an  able  author,  and  experienced 
soldier.  He  was  born  la  1828,  and  graduated 
from  the  Military  Academy  of  St.  Nicholas  in 
1851,  aud  was  identified  with  all  the  Important 
movements  of  the  Russian  army  on  the  Danube 
during  the  Turkish  complications  that  broke  out 
In  183‘2.  In  1862  be  was  appointed  chief  of  staff  of 
the  army  <:d>craUng  against  the  Circassians;  In 
1864  became  Major-General,  and  In  the  following 
