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IlENIHON.
SUNDAY MORNING-.
THE CALIFORNIA CHINEE.
Celebration of tlie CeleHtlal Now Year by
the Hoathoii at Oakland—A Vunday.
School in Full llluHt.
[Ouklaijd ((Jul.) Correspondence Chicago
Ttrnei. I
Tho Chinamen celebrated the advent
of their New Year "allee same as Meli-
can man" his independence, with tom-
toms and crackers at midnight, and to-
day many a fair hand has reluctantly
turned to homely service in the absence
of John, who has gone to celobrate.
Our own Celestial said, "I not go this
time; I spend heapee monoy last year,
I heapee foolee;" but a chum came
along, and he could not resist the pros-
pect of a few days of jollification. The
Chinese Y. M. C. A. kept open house
during tho day, and this evening their
doors' were thronged with Caucasian
visitors. The appearance by gas-light
was very pleasing and especially novel
to a newcomer, fresh for Yankeedom,
In the centre of the room stood a table
laden with Chinese fruits, coufectionery,
and curiosities, intermingled with jon-
quil blossoms whose sweetness filled the
air. The cover was of rich, plushy
scarlet, embroidered with golden drag-
ons and those grotesque forms which
only Chinese ingenuity nad skill can
design and produce. Above the table
revolved a large and brilliantly illumi-
nated air-castle, bearing hundreds of
nodding figures, fantastical in shape
and barbarically gorgeous in color.
At the rear was a sideboard
spread with Chinese comfits and
delicacies, and the dearest little cups
and saucers that gave promise of a de-
liciously fragrant beverage—if so small
a quantity as they held may bo called a
beverage. Two Chinamen received
callers at the door, two others conduct-
ed them to the table of curiosities, ex-
plained all the mysteries, presented
bright red New Year cards, then offered
seats and served refreshments. These
were arranged in good taste, and were
highly palatable, with the exception of
of a certain dried fruit, which was ex-
ecrable. Having taken a portion of
this, knowing that many almond-eyes
were upon me, I was obliged to swal-
low the detested morsel without winc-
ing to the utter disgust of the inner
man. Tho delicate rose-like aroma of
that tiny sip of tea beggars description,
and I refrain from discussing the merits
of that charming decoction. By re-
quest they sang "Precious Jewels.11
All carried the air, keeping excellent
time and harmonizing well, their soft,
liquid English producing a pleasing ef-
fect. Tho attention paid by the Meli-
cans was duly appreciated and good
feeling prevailed. Before leaving, the
callers shook hands with each, wishing
him a happy New Year and all manner
of prosperity. The 1st of February is
not only the Chinaman^ New Year,
but his birthday also; every John
among them reckoning his age from
the beginning of the year.
It was recently my privilege to visit
the Chinese school hold in the parlors
of the First Congregational Church.
Mr. Sanford, Melican superintendent,
called the school to order, and a Meli-
can miss presided at the piano. Chi-
nese hymns printed in muslin were sus-
pended from a frame, and a }'oung Chi-
naman, baton in hand, turned over the
sheets and announced the opening piece.
The piano struck up 44 Shining Shore,11
and the Chinamen joined in singing, the
leader pointing to each word as they
sung. The long meter doxology fol-
lowed, after which the superintendent
announced, "I Need Thee Every
Hour,11 from the English cards. Sev-
eral hymns followed, during the singing
of which I took occasion to study the
dress and general appearance of tho pu-
pils. They wore notably clcan, cheer-
ful and intelligent, very courteous to
teachers and officers. All were young,
scarcely out of their teens, and, with a
single exception, wore queues that reach-
ed nearly to the feet or were wound
around the hoad. The front part of the
head was shaven closely, leaving on the
back a plait of hair from four to eight
inches in diameter. The upper gar-
ment was a shirt-like affair, having a
slit in each side, immense flowing
sleeves, a narrow collar, and closed on
the right side with three gold buttons.
Many of tho boys wore three of those
garments, that next to the body being
white, the second light bluo, and the
outer navy blue. Some were made
of very nice worsted trimmed with silk,
others of coarse cotton. The stockings
were of white cotton and hung about
the ankles in unsightly folds. The foot
was encased in the customary rosetted
black or blue slippper with wooden
soles. Prayer was offered by a teacher
—this service is sometimes performed
in Chinese by a convert—then all pro-
ceeded to their work, some to study
Bible lessons, and more to rend in prim-
ers and books used irrday-schools. Each
teacher had charge of three or four pu-
pils. The first read his lesson and
changed places with tho second, after
him the third. While one road to the
teacher tho others read by themselves
aloud, making, to unsophisticated ears,
an intolerable jargon, which, however,
did not seem to disturb the members in
the least. Nearly an hour was spent in
this manner, after which volunteers
quoted passages of scripture, many of
them rendering in English and translat-1
ing into Chinese. Eighty Chinamen
were in attendance, and 25 white teach-[
ers, both male and fomalo. All tho
evangelical churches carry on Chinese
schools, and with gratifying results.
The sentiment in Oakland is decidedly
in favor of the Chinaman. Ho is the i
favorite house-servant, and his employ-
ers can not commend too strongly his j
tidinesss, celerity and general efliciency.
Numerous
Toombs ns u Soldier.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution says:
In a conversation with General Long-
street concerning tho Confederate Gen-
erals with whom he was associated, he
said: 44 Do you know General Robert
Toombs, of your State,.was one of the
bravest and most dashing soldiers that
I over saw on any field P"
" He was pretty hard to manage, was
he notP11
"Yes, sir; at first. He had literally
no idea of subordination. He was born
to rule, and had been carrying out the
purpose of his birth pretty well up to
the time he entered the army. It was
hard for him to give up bis lordly habits
even then.
"I remember a characteristic instance
in which General Toombs figured. I
sent out his brigade on picket duty once.
Of course, the discretion of placing the
brigades was in the hands of the proper
officers. Toombs had been out that day
dining with a Marylander named Den-
nis, who had been one of his colleagues
during his Congressional career. They
had good old wino for dinner, and
Toombs was riding home feeling like a
lord.
44 Suddenly he ran against his brig-
ade on picket duty. He was very much
angered.
" ' Who put you there?1 he shouted.
44 He was answered that it was the or-
ders from headquarters.
" 4 Well, by , my orders are that
you come back to camp. Pm not go-
ing to have all the picket duty of the
army put on my brigade. Come along!1
44 And sure enough, he led them back
to camp. As soon as I heard of it I, of
course, ordered him under arrest. As
was the custom, he was simply ordered
to ride in the rear of his brigade. I
thought every thing was going off all
right, when suddenly an officer came to
me and told me that we should have a
revolt in the army if I did not interfere.
I asked him what he meant, and he told
me that General Toombs was riding
along in the rear of his brigade and ex-
horting the soldiers against the oppres-
sion that had been practiced toward
them and him. My informant said that
the soldiers were getting very restless.
" I ordered General Toombs back to
Gordonville. I kept him there a day or
two, when, having received a very hand-
some letter from him, 1 ordered him to
the front again. He came as fast as his
horse could carry him. When he reach-
ed us, General Lee and myself were to-
gether consulting about the opening of
a battle, which was just then pending.
A s Generat Toombs rode up and saluted,
I stated that I would take great pleasure
in sending a courier with orders restor-
ing him to his command. He spoke up
rapidly, and said that as a charge was
imminent he would like to head it, and
hoped that he might be tho bearer of
the orders himself.
"I, of course, assented. In a few
moments Toombs^ brigade passed us,
hurrying to tho charge, and Toombs fly-
ing in the front like a comet, leading
them to the assault. He was as dashing
a soldier as ever went on the battle-
field, and a hardy and impetuous
fighter.11
A Ghastly Joke on Water Drink-
ers.
A Philadelphia telegram of tho 24th
ult. says: The water drunk by Phila-
delphians will not be so palatable to
many to-morrow. On Christmas Day
last, Maggie Lutz, 18 years old, left her
parent's house, apparently for a visit to
a neighbor's houso. She was attired in
a new print dress, and her hair was
neatly arranged and clasped by a rib-
bon. At night sho had not returned,
and the alarmed household searched for
her vainly that night and the succeed-
ing days, and her fate, until yesterday,
offered food for.speeulations more or less
ghastly and anxious. About 11 o'clo ck
this morning two young men, taking a
stroll along the walk skirting the
reservoir, saw what they presumed was
a dead animal of some sort floating near
the south face of tho eastern basin. They
informed the Superintendent, whose lit-
tle watch-house surmounts the center of
the wall dividing the east and west
basins. He procured a scoop-net, and
made several lunges at the object, until,
with a more vigorous effort, it sank and
reappeared with a bound, disclosing the
upturned faco of a young girl, whose
form was neatly attired. With assist-
ance the body was taken out, and, all
dripping, removed to tho Twenty-second
District Station-house. Tho many pe-
destrians who, passing by, beheld tho
policeman's burden, soon spread the
tidings like wildfire. Some of Magis-
trate Lutz's relatives visited the station-
tien house, identified tho body as that
of the long-lost wanderer, and it was re-
moved to her former home. Hundreds
of people flocked to the basin yesterday,
and the goneral inquiry was, 44 In which
basin was she foundP1' Many experi-
enced mawkish feelings when they re*
reflected that for two months past they
had been drinking water in which a
drowned girl had been maccrating all
tho while. Numerous inquiries were
made of the Superintendent whether the
water would bo drawn off, to which lie '
replied, " What! run 10,000,000gallons
of water just for one drowned person!
I guess not! Why, you're drinking this
Delaware water all Lthis time, and
that is always flavored with about a doz-
en drowned men.11 In order to accom-
plish suicide, if such' It was, the girl |
must have climbed over the paling fence,
nearly six feet high, surrounding the
basin.
| An Experience With a Mustang.
A recent letter from Victoria, South
Texas, to the St. Louis Qlobe-Democrat,
gives the following amusing experi-
ence:
About the first duty that devolves up-
on the freshly arrived stranger in Texas,
and particularly in south and west Texas,
is the purchase of a horso. Upon arriv-
ing in the old Mexican town of La Bah-
la, on the river San Antonio, opposite
the American village of Goliad, I pro-
ceeded to buy an animal.
Senor Lozano, a wealthy Mexican
horse and cattle owner, a resident some-
times of Tamaulipas, Mexico, was inter-
viewed at his little adobe house on the
outskirts of the village. Senor Lozano
sent one of his cow-boys—booted, spur-
red, and wearing the broad-brimmed
sombrero—to bring out of his herd a
horse that he represented to be a splen-
did animal. It was done. At the very
first glance it was seen that tho horse—
a beautiful gelding, dun, high mettled,
graceful, rolling, fat and sleek—was
wild, and had probably been ridden but
seldom, if ever before.
44 How much do you ask for the ani-
mal?11
"Sixteen dollars in gold,11 answered
Lozano.
" A bargain, Senor."
" Can you ride him?"
"Oh, certainly; never fear about
that."
"Approach him, Senor," said the
Mexican in his own language.
ldid so, but tho mustang—such as
was—reared up on his hind legs, and,
with open mouth and eyes that seemed to
flash lightning, made one spring at his
new master. I dodged and rushed back,
the horso in the mean time running to
the length of the thirty-foot stake-ropo
that held him.
Finally-Lozano and his young men
succeeded in saddling the mustang, the
saddle being fastened by strong girths
under the loins. The bit was especially
adapted to wild horses. Lozano pre-
sented me with a pair of long-shanked
Mexican spurs. They were put on se-
curely and I prepared to mount. For-
tunately tho scene was the edge of a
vast plain that stretches away from the
river San Antonio to the southward.
The cow-boy, or 44 el caballero," as he
might be termed, held the reins and Lo-
zano the left stirrup. The animal stood
perfectly still, as if paralyzed with fear.
My foot touched the stirrup; a second
more and my right leg swung over the
saddle, and I was seated in it. Then,ye
gods! what bucking, pitching, rearing,
pawing and kicking! The first move-
ment of the mustang seemed to be a
kind of horizontal dash or slide, follow-
ed by a full stop. The third movement
was a kicking up in which his heels
seemed at an angle of 45 degrees. Then
he reared and seemed determined to
fall on his back, or rather on his rider.
I hung to the horn of the saddle like a
sailor to the last spar in a cyclone. Then
there was a series of perpendicular
"pitching," or "bucking," as it is
called among Texans, in which the
mustang seemed to jump up four feet
and come down perpendicularly, giv-
ing his rider a most unmerciful jolt.
The " bucking" continued a quarter of
an hour, end then the animal broke in-
to a mad dash. I did nothing but rein
his head in tho direction of the open
plain and let him out. The race against
time occupied a three or four-mile heat,
during which the mustang must have
beaten the Texas race-horses that every
spring-meeting spread themselves over
the State Fair Course at Houston. The
horse stopped, panting and foaming,
and looked up at me in a way that said,
"Igive up."
These mustangs or Spanish horses are
sprung from ancient Andalusian stock,
and were introduced after the coming of
Cortez and the Spanish conquest. In
winter they are covered with long coarse
hair, which aids them in standing tho
severe cold of the northers. The thick
coat is shed in April and May, and the
animal then becomes sleek. The mus-
tangs have two advantages over Ameri-
can horses. They are so hardy that
they can live the year round without a
grain of corn, fodder, hay or oats. All
they want is plenty of prairie grass,
upon which they must, however, be al-
lowed to graze two or three hours a day
in addition to night grazing. Again,
your mustang is acclimated and stands
the climate better than imported stock.
One of the best mustangs can now be
beught on ihe ltiver San Antonio for
$10.
They are wild, but the people of the
Southern prairies are used to them, and
not unfrequently tho girls of south
Texas, bi ave and adventuresome as their
fathers or brothers, mount and ride
theso mustangs with perfect grace and
unconcern. When one of them hap-
pens to pitch with one of these pretty
riders, sho does not faint or scream, but
grasps the reins tighter and applies the
riding-whip until tho animal is forced
into a dash across the prairie.
Beaten at His Own Game.
In the ooune "i a walk dow n I ientral
Avenue with his wife the other day,
Schrobikor said:
" Susan, why in the name of common
sense is it that women can't talk about
any thing else but dress fo one another?
Kvcry blessed daughter of Eve that
we've met yet has had her tongue on a
full gallop, telling what she was going
to get for her new one, and how she was
going to have her old one fixed over,
| and what sort of trimmings Mrs. So-
and-eo had, and what a fright Miss
What-do-you-call-ker was in her hang-
ed-if-I-know, and how charming the
bride looked in some sort of a thingum-
bob that cost four dollars a yard. And
it's always so, everywhere and every
place. Whenever you find women to-
gether you can bet they're talking about
their own and other peopled clothes—
at church, weddings, funerals, lectures,
theaters, on the street, in the sick-room
everywhere. Now, why is itP Ain't
there brains enough in a woman's head
to jabber a little on some other subject
once in awhile P"
"The men are just as bad," said
Mrs. Schrobikor.
" No they ain't, either."
"They are, too."
44 Not a bit of it. Nobody never over-
heard two or three men debating about
having their pantaloons dyed or turned,
or falling into a wrangle about how
many pockets there ought to be in a
vest, or getting at the • outs1 with one
another because they might differ as to
what colored buttons would look best
on blue jeans breeches. When men
talk'they talk sense," said Schrobiker
throwing back his head and rubbing his
chin with aggravating complacency.
" Well, they talk mighty little sense
at homo to their wives, anyhow," re-
turned his companion.
"We have to accommodate ourselves
to the company we're in. But let\s
wait till we get home before we go to
quarreling about this thing. To prove
to you that Pm right, though, we'll
walk slow as we go by those three men
over there, and hear what they are talk-
ing about. They are all intelligent
looking men, you'll notice—a little
above the average—and Pll get up and
build the fire every morning next week,
if we don't hear them discussing the
silver question, the new Pope, capital
and labor, or something of that kind
that takes brains to handle—something
profitable, far above the comprehension
of tho average woman. It's something
deep, you can sec by their earnestness
and gestures."
"All right," said Mrs. S., "we'll
see."
As they came upon the trio, a tall,
stately gentleman was just remarking—
" I led the king of trumps, Tom play-
ed the queen, Shorty flopped on his
jack, when, confound it all, Doc. slam-
med the ace and scooped us."
And then they all roared long and
loud, and the two listeners punched the
stately man in the ribs, and made grim-
aces, and almost doubled themselves up
with excessive laughter.
" I guess you'll build the fires next
week," said Mrs. S. demurely.
Schrobiker condemned his luck, and
said it couldn't happen that way again
in ten years.—Cincinnati Breakfast Ta-
ble.
Some Chinese Proverbs.
The following is a collection of Chi-
nese proverbs as translated and arrang-
ed by William Scarborough, Wesleyan
missionary at Hankow, China:
The Dutch proverb says of a servant,
puffed up by holding office in a grand
establishment, "When the mouse came
out of the flour-sack it thought it was the
miller," and the Chinese say of a pre-
tentious underling who is greater than
his master, " The nose is bigger than
the face." The necessity of the simple
and poor to the rich and great reminds
us of the Greek, "Gold needs bran,"
i. e., to polish it. " Tho poorer one is,
the more devils one meets." " With
money one may command devils—with-
out it one can not summon a man." A
poor fellow in luck's way is described
as "a ragged sail in a fair wind." The
necessity of capital is enforced: "A
dry finger can not lick up salt." And
the trader whose capital is divided in
various undertakings is comforted:
" Though boiled to ribbons, the meat is
still in the pan." Many of their similes
are very graphic. A stupid man is "a
leather lantern." A man with a mind
full of ill-arranged information is " a
waste-paper basket." "To throw a
sprat to catch a whale," is in China
" To throw a brick to allure a gem."
And wo were amused the other day to
find our " The pot calls the kettle smut-
ty" turn up in the Japanese as "The
sieve said to the needle, you have a hole
in your tail." The Chinese proverb,
like that of all nations, perhaps, except
the Jewish, is severe on womankind:
41 The minds of women are of quicksil-
ver, and their hearts of wax." And
with reference to the small feet of their
females, 44 The tongues of women in-
crease by all that they take from their
feet." The curious woman ,4would like
to turn the rainbow to see what there
was upon the other side." The vulgar
woman is 44 A spider attempting to
spin silk." The cautions woman
"Writes her promises on the slate."
The extravagant woman 44 Burns a wax
candle in looking for a lucifer match."
The happy woman 44 Died in a blind,
i deaf and dumb asylum years ago."
44 The broken furnace may turn out
good tiles," teaches that base paronft
may have good children. 41 Husband
and wife in perfect arfcord are like the
[ music of a harp and lute." "To toady
is to place one's warm cheek alongside
another's cold one." Gratitude is en-
joined in 41 When you drink from the
stream, remember the spring." j
John Chinaman has evidently a good
deal of humor in him, and many of
these sayings are racy: 44 The man who I
holds the ladder at the bottom is fre-
quently of more service that he who is j
standing at the top of it." 44 Better be!
the cat in a philanthropist family, than j
a mutton-pie at a King's banquet." |
44 The top strawberries are the first eat-
en." In a frigid, conservative nation
like the Chinese, his keen sense of the
ridiculous,which comes out strikingly in
these popular maxims, shows their hu-
maneness has not been altogether sti-
fled. 44 There is dew for every blade of
grass;" 44 Repentance is the spring of
virtue;" 44 Imperial Heaven will never
slight mon of sorrow;"44 The ripest fruit
grows on the roughest wall." And the
transiency of human glory and happiness
is expressed 44 The bright moon is not
round for long." 44 Better not be than
to be nothing;" "Man may bend virtue,
but virtue cannot bend to men;" "Great
souls have will—others only feeble
wishes;" 44Kindness is greater than
law;" 44Heaven responds to man as
quickly as shadow to form or echo to
voice." Mr. Scarborough gives us near-
ly 8,000 of these 44 jewels of the multi-
tude."
Our New Minister to Germany.
Mr. Bayard Taylor, the well known
author and traveler, has been nominated
by the President as Minister to Ger-
many, and will doubtless be confirmed
by the Senate. The Philadelphia Tele-
graph, in a complimentary notice of
Mr. Taylor, says he was born in Chester
County, Pa., in 1825, and when a lad
was apprenticed to the printing busi-
ness. He traveled in Europe, mostly on
foot, in 1844-40, and on his return pub-
lished an account of his travels. He
then became editor of a paper at Phos-
nixville for one year, and afterward a
contributor to the Literary World and
the New York Tribune, subsequently be-
coming a member of the editorial staff
of the latter, and also a stockholder in
the association. On the breaking out
of the gold fever he visited California,
returning in 1850 by way of Mexico;
and a year later left the United States
on a third tour, from which he returned
in 1853, having traveled over 50,000
miles in Asia, Africa and Europe. In j
July, 185G, he set out upon a fourth tour
through northern and eastern Europe, I
returning in 1858. In 1862 he became I
Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburg, j
and 1803 Charge d'Affairs there. He
had previously married a daughter of
Professor Hansen, the distinguished
German astronomer. Upon his return
from Russia, in 1864, Mr. Taylor devoted
himself to writing and lecturing. He
revisited California, and made a some-
what protracted stay in Colorado and
the region once known as the Great
American Desert, in 1806-67. In 1871,
with a party of friends, he traversed the
route of the Northern Pacific Railway,
making an excursion into Manitoba.
He had occasionally mingled volumes
of poetry among his descriptive works,
but until 1863 had never attempted any j
thing in the way of fiction, in which
year his first volume appeared, and has
been succeeded by others, all of which
have been favorably received. His
principal works of travel have been j
translated into several languages, and'
have been widely read. Mr. Taylor has j
given particular attention to German
literature, for which class of studies he
had a natural bias. He will be at home
in Germany, and no American who
could be named would be more heartily
welcomed at Berlin. It may be said,
moreover, that while this will be called
a Pennsylvania appointment, and while
Mr. Taylor claims his home to be in
Chester County, he is practically a New j
Yorker, though ho may occasionally.)
vote in that State. The appointment is;
one which does credit to the Adminis-
tration, and is in the line of genuinely
honest government.
The Clock in Trinity's Tower.
The clock in Trinity Church tower is
tho heaviest in America. It might seem
that in its construction an effort had
been made to ascertain how much metal
could possibly be planted in a clock.
The frame stands nine feet long, five
feet high, and three feet wide. The
main wheels are 30 inches in diameter.
There are three wheels in the time traiu,
and three each in the strike and the
chime. The winding wheels are formed
of solid casting, 30 inches in diameter,
and two inches thick, and are driven by
a 44 pinion and arbor." On this arbor
is placed a jack, or another wheel, pin-
ion and crank, and it takes 850 turns of
this crank to wind each weight up. It
requires 700 feet of three-inch rope for
the three cords, and over an hour for
two men to wind the clock. Tho pen-
dulum is 18 feet long, and osoillates 25
times per minute. The dials are eight
feet in diameter, although they look lit-
tle more than half that size from Broad-
way. The three weights are about 800,
1,200 and 1,500 pounds respectively. A
large box is placed at the bottom of the
well that holds about a bale of eotton
waste, so that if a cord should broak, tho
cotton would check the concussion.—
New York Sunday Mercury.
I BO**, lebruary 10. At j ./dock
yesterday afternoon the corpse of the
late Pontilf was removed from the iron
bedstead on which he died, vested in
full pontificals, and placed upon a bier.
A golden miter was upon the head, the
hands were crossed, and a crucifix was
to be seen upon the breast. The fea-
tures were calm, the lips closed, and
upon the face appeared that smile which
in life gave so singular a charm to the
conversation of Pius IX. At half-past
five the body was ready for transport.
The ante-chambers were crowded with
Princes, gentlemen of rank, noble
guards, and privy chamberlains, the
entrance being rigidly restricted to
those personages holding position in the
Papal court. A few Cardinals came to
see the corpse and knelt in prayer.
Bishop Clifford was amongst the visit-
ors, and Cardinal Bartolini, after kiss-
ing the forehead of the deceased Pope,
sobbed aloud.
About 6 :S0 the procession began to
move. Between files of Swiss Guards
marched the pala/renieri in red liveries,
with clergy bearing torches. Then came
mace-bearers and a detachment of Swiss
Guards preceding the bier, which was
surrounded by Noble Guards and Peni-
tentiaries with torches. Monsignor
Ricci (majordomo) followed, and then
came Monsignor Macchi (maestro di
camera), Monsignor Sanmimatelli (al-
moner), Monsignori Negrotto, Casali,
Di Bosogno and Delia Volpe (privy
champerlain), Bishop Marinelli (sacris-
tan), Monsignori Vanuentelli and Sac-
chetti (foriere), and Serlupi (master of
the horse), Duke Cattelvecchi, Prince
Altieri, and other officers of the Noblo
Guards; Cardinals, two and two, with
torches, reciting psalms; Prince Orsini
(prince assistant at the Jthrone), Prince
Chigi (marechal of the Conclave, in a
black robe), Prince lluspoli (master of
the sacred hospice), and Signor Caval-
letti (Senator of Rome). After these
walked Princes, Nobles and Camerieri
Segretti, wearing their collars and
orders, a detachment of Palatine Guards
terminating the procession.
The sad cortege passed through the
ample halls and corridors of the Vati-
can, the Sala Ducale and the Sala Re-
gia, some ladies and gentlemen, by
special favor, being permitted to stand
in the passages to view the proceedings.
The Basilica had been closed at 5
o1clock, and at 7 the body was brought
into the Chapel of the Sacrament by
private access, being received by the
Chapter of St. Peter1s. The corpse was
placed on a platform erected in front of
the altar, with the feet toward the gates.
Prayers were sung by the choir of the
Cappella Guila, and Canon Folicaldi
performed the absolution. Cardinals
and all now withdrew, leaving the re-
mains of the Pope in the custody of the
Noble Guard.
St. Peter's was reopened at 6:30 to-
day, and immense crowds thronged in
to look up the body, which will remain
for three days in the Chapel of the Sac-
rament.
The embalming began at 8 o'clock on
Friday evening, and was finished at
4:30 yesterday morning. Dr. Cecca-
relli and eight assistant medical men
performed the operation. All the bodi-
ly organs were found to 1i a perfectly
sound except the hearf ^ portion of
which showed some alight signs of thick-
ening of the walls, tending to cause
an impediment to the circulation. The
flesh of the body had no appearance of
emaciation, and the skin was white and
healthy. The legs bore marks of the
wounds whence the humors had free ex-
it to the last. The viscera was careful-
ly removed and deposited in a jar, which
was closed up by the Polish Penitentiary
with a seal supplied by the majordomo.
The operation was conducted in the
presence of the Noble Guards and the
Penitentiaries, the corpse lying on the
iron bedstead alluded to above. The
process of injection was employed, and
was attended with perfect success, the
windows of the room being opened to
purify the atmosphere loaded with the
odors of the powerful aromatics made
use of. Photographs were taken of tho
corpse before the embalming took place,
and a portrait sketch was made of it by
Petacci.
A Perilous Bide.
On Wednesday night Mr. McCune, a
runner for a Pittsburg shoe house,
while driving through Clarion County,
mistook his route, and drove into the
Emlenton, Shippensville & Clarion
Railroad Bridge, supposing it to be the
wagon road. The trestle bridge is six-
ty feet above the ground, about 300 feet
long. The ties are seven feet long,
making a track of that width. The
horses made the crossing, feeling their
way in the darkness, step by step,
every foot striking a tie securely, until
the distance was traversed and they
stood in safety on the other side; and
just in the nick of time, too, as the
night express came thundering by in
five minutes after the drummer and his
two-horse team had left the track.
James Thompson, who lives near the
bridge, afterwards took a light and ex-
amined the marks that the buggy had
made, and to his astonishment he dis-
covered that at several plaoes the
wheels of the buggy were within half
an inch of being off the trestle. Ono of
the horses got his foot fast botween the
ties and pulled off a shoe, leaving ths
shoe sticking there.—Pittsburg Pont.
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