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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS- MONDAY. JUNE 23, 1884
DOMESTIC NEWS.
OCCURRENCES THROUGHOUT THE
LAND.
Brhoonrr Fired Cpitn.
rnrLADEi-PHiA, Jnue liS.—Captain Drisko,
of the schooner A. N. Drisko, from Cardenas,
reports his vessel fired upon by a Spanish gun-
boat while entering Cardenas harbor, 'the at-
tack was made on May 31.
The captain says he can not account for the
firing, which was unexpected and entirely un-
warranted. A passenger on the schooner, F.
J. CoHir», w itnessed the alleged outrage. His
affidavit uas been taken. The facts have been
forwarded to Washington by the American
consul at Cardenas.
Banc Hull.
Indianapolis, June 22.—Indianapolis, 7;
Athletics, 1.
Cincinnati, June 22.—Cincinnati, 4; Alle-
gheny, 2.
CoiuMBrB, O., June 22.—Columbus, 8;
Brooklyn 3. m
(St. Lows, June 82.—St. Louis, 12; Wash-
ington, 3.
Louihvillb, June 82.—Louisville, 10; Me-
tropolitan, 2.
The Milt-down Movement.
Titusville, Pa., June 22.— From all parts
of the oil regions repo-ts favorable to the pro-
posed shut-down movements are being re-
ceived, and except with wells alreadv under
way, work is being suspended in Allgheny,
Bradford and Middiefleld, etc. In the latter
district all operators but one have joined the
movement, and so complete is the shut-down
regarded, that some drillers and tool dressers
are preparing to leave the region.
Labor Troubles at Onroda.
East Saginaw, Mich.,;June 22.—Company
C, Michigan state troops, of this city, received
orders this evening to take a special train at 8
o'clock for Oscoda, the scene of the labor dis-
turbance. Reports from Oscoda are to the
effect that all is quiet thore, but trouble is ap-
prehended to-morrow.
Death of a Lawyer.
Chicago, June 28—Thomas Tarvin, of
Cleveland, a well-known lawyer and politician,
died here at the county hospital from the
effects of an accident, by which his leg was
broken, last Wednesday. The remains are in
charge of Hon. John F. Scanton, of this city.
Bishop Slmpaon Memorial Services.
Cincinnati, June 23.—Memorial services In
respect to the life and character of Bishop
Bimpsou;- deceased, were held in St. Paul's
Methodist chuich to-night. All the Metho-
dist churches in the city participated in them.
A BMO&BO IRISHMAN.
The Life and Adventures of a Snake Charmer—
homeihinfc a boat His Occupation.
[From the Philadelphia Bulletin.]
A dark-skinned youth who, to all appear-
ances, was not more than sixteen years old,
sat in the ctflfle of the British consul reoontly
talking busily to the occupants of the room.
He was attired in a very much tattered suit
of clothes, his hair hung in ting-
lets and was almost black, and his
eyes, which were very bright, were
of a hazel color. The boy was Ave years
older than he looked to be, and Captain Ciip-
perton, the consul, introduced him as a
" smoked Irishman," and said he had applied
to him for assistance to enable him to retain
to England, whence he came not long since.
According to his own story his father was an
Irishman and his mother an East Indi i
woman, and this mixture of blood, of which
this youth is a type, produces what has been
styled ''smoked irishmen."
The story of this young man's life is remark-
able in more ways than one, and especially
considering his youth. He has travelled over
almost the whole world, and his experienoe
has been varied, and as a center-piece in one
of those novels so popular with certain classes,
in which boy heroes are made to do the most
wonderful things, a true detailed story of his
wanderings would be more interesting and
wonderful than anything the mind of the most
imaginative writer has ever evolved.
a young snake chahvek.
When he first called on Captain Clippertcm
be said he had worked bis passage on a ship
from Liverpool to Boston. Then he went to
New York, whence he came to this city, and
now he is anxious to return to England. He
speaks the English language very fluently, and
without any noticeable accent. He constructs
his sentences intelligently, and displays an
aptness which is admirable. He says he was
born in Madras, in the East Indies, where he
lived the first few years of nis life.
"When I was five years old," he remarked
to Captain Clipperton, " I was taken to Eng-
land by a missionary. Tbere I was oallad
Thomas Bund. I attended the Earl of Shaftes-
bury's school. Once I left the school, ware I
used to be exhibited as a Hindoo, but I went
back again, but afterward left and joined a
circus as snake charmer."
The very abrupt way and perfect ease with
which he announced his adoption of this
strange means of existenoe naturally created
some surprise, and when questioned he readily
disclosed his reason, and also the valuable in-
foimation about snake-charming. " When I
was real small," he-said, " I didn't know what
a snake was, but I found one in the woods anil
was real kind to it and it curled all around
roe. I took it home and my father knew
what snakes were and did not want
me to keep it, but 1 loved it ever
to much and would not let it go. It was just
as useful around the house as a cat, for it
caught mice, and I took pity on it and kept it.
Then 1 got two more snakes and they would
do anything I wanted thein to do. Anybody
can chat m a snake, if they don't get afraid of
it for a snake is good to any one who is kind
to it. I had to sell my snakes, though at one
time I wouldn't have taken anytbing for the
first snake I caught. When I get soma more
snakes I am going to give exhibitionf. I would
like to get snakes here, for they are cheaper
than in England. You can get a good pair
here for 112."
SPEAKS EIGHT LANGUAGES.
" Don't you snake charmers cut the fang? or
tongue out of the mouth of the snake or chlo
roform them before you exhibit them?" he
was .asked.
"No, sir," he said, "either one of those
things would make a snake die. The only
thing is to be good to the snake and it won t
hurt you. A snake would crawl all over a
man and if be did not move it would not bite
him. This is the case with a rattlesnake. A
rattlesnake bit me once, but tbat was because
I tread on his rattle." Here he showed a large
scar on his ham!. "I got a man to suck the
poison out, and after a good bit of trouble I
got well. I was bitten on the neck once by a
turtle head snake. They don't kill, but make
nn awful sore place.
" I was sixteen years old when I first joined
the circus, and I went to Germany, then to
Russia, Poland, back to Germany, to England,
to Norway, East India, Russia, Sweden, to
Germany again, then to Spain. I was not
with one circus all the time, but with different
ones. I can speak lots of languages. The
circus did not stay long in one place, but they
made me the interpieter, and that's how I
learned. I can speak English, German,
Russian, Polish, Turkish, Hiudustanee, Afri-
can and low German." The lad is very
bright and if his knowledge of English can be
taken as a guide tliat he must be very quick in
learning languages. He talked German very
fluently to Captain Clipperton, but when the
latter talked Turkish to him ho could not un-
derstand. "Perhaps." said he to the captain,
"you talk Turkish, but do not pronounce it
right." Of course there was a general laugh
at the expense of the British consul, an l he
acknowledged the boy might be right.
He said he came to America to see what it
was like, because he thought it was different
from England.
"Isn't it the same as England?" he was
asked.
BOBBED BY BOWERY BHAJUCS.
"No, because thev have Bowery sharks in
New York. They caught hold of me and took
r.U my money. 1 heard they had circuses aud
' nil that 1 ind of thing at Coney islaud, and I
tnt there to be e.xhibite l as a Hindu. They
^iue all kinds of taffy, and you know the
ill of gum drop* always sticks. I was
the only Bnake-charmer in the
, and when I l »ft there and struck
, snarks got all my money. I
^hod a pock >tful."
je you boen in Philadelphia;
is here?"
ou know, sharks like ' fat'
men—pockets full of money, you know.
There was • Man down town who has a
dime museum nwr Barman's circus, who
wanted me to oouie with him for $1 a waek
and my clothes, and said I ooold keep the
money my pictures sold for, but I am not the
kiud of fish that catches on to that sort of
bait."
" Why didn't you join the circus here 1"
" I tried to join Barnum, but he said he
made all his engagements before the Hummer.
Wlien I went to Forepaugh be said his cages
were all full, unless I wanted to get ia with
the monkeys. He has a woiuan snake-
charmer, liut she is a fraud. She Is not a
Hindu and she wears a wig."
He said he had heard from bis parents some
time ago. Then they lived in Calcutta ot 5
Flagg street. He did not know if they were
living or not, and he shrugged his shoulders
and said: " Well, if they are dead I am sorry,
but of course I couldn't help it."
When he was quite a youth he was blown
from the deok of a fishing-smack and nearly
drowned, and this was the beginning of hia
long list of adventures. No one thinks of
doubting his story, and he will be sent to Eng-
land soon, where he says he can make money
bv exhibiting himself Mid charming snakes in
three theaters in the sane night.
I.KA8ES OP PUBLIC L&NM4.
Total Acre# Leaned by the Mate Lead Beard.
schooi. lands.
CuBNTIEH.
For uti
For ten For six
years, years.
For five
years.
Armstrong
Archer
BaDdera.
Brtoco
Baylor
1«M«D
burden
BUVBH
Coleman
102.(158
Crockett
Cottle.
aa.wo
«i,3ia
87,300
n.sao
Callahan ..
Crosby.
Calhoan.
ltinnnitt
Dcwo-jn.
Dnv,.j
Donley
Kneinal ........
Edwards
El 1'aao
Frio
Fisher.
Floyd
Uarza..
Gray
Gillespie..,
Hall
Howard
Hardeman
Hemphill
Haskell
Hutchison
Jones—
Karnes
Knox............
KefrT.
Kent
Kauffinan
Kimble
King
Kinney
Lamb
Live Oak
Lubbock.
Mason
Motley
Medina.
Menard
Montague
Nolan...
Ochiltree
Palo Pinto
Pecos
Presidio
Runnels
Roberts.
Stonewall. —
Swisher.
Scurry
Tom Green
Throckmorton...
I'valde
Wheeler
W'illbarger
Total.
12,500
11,810
41, WO
8,200
' 6,760
109,760
11,5(0
16 880
a juo
80,958
17.930
2.800
5.130
1,600
9,600
100,640
8,840
8,320
282,760
8,720
815.800
24,486 .
2,9*12
69,120
43,520 .
4.480 .
' 19,200 ;
18,400
640 .
3,840
M0
740 .
6,720
7,680
2,980
18,440 ...
81 ...
#,JW
7,040
420
10,210
3,365
155,887
8,12
1,681
1,280
1,280
1,880
5,760
17.920
1,280
"3,200
8.84p
2,560
128,400
4,640
1;980
480
6;980
775,50'!
2,923
8,960
1,280
(HO
2,860
1
l,280j
1,0831 4,480
rNIVEBSITV LANDS,
Callahan
CroCkett..
Peco«
Bhaekelford.......
1.980
88,409
1,280
~\Yi«o
m
II
Total
AQAVt)
2,730
asylum landh.
&J0
a#
80
Shackelford
Tom Green
"m
........
Total
640
400
. 3*0
TOTAL UUBKli. Acres
School lands , 1,626,863
■University lands 43,010
Asylum lands... v 1,380
Total 1,871,2.16
Average rate Of lease is 7 8-16 cents per acre per
annum, yielding.jn round numbers, $120,000 per
annum, 0/ whien ~
) $3000 goes to tbe university.
The Argentine Republic.
The following statements have been pub-
lished and circulated by order of the Argen-
tine government. They refer chiefly to immi-
gration:
That the climate is as healthy and as favor-
able to vigor and longevity as that of England
or any other country of Europe; tbat the lauds
suitable for cultivation are practically unlimi-
ted and require no outlay for clearing:
that the republic has already, and
particularly at Buenos Ayres a Urge
and prosperous foreign population,
composed of Italians, French, Euglish, North
Americans, Scotch and Irish, German1? and
others; that the government is well estab-
lished and liberal in its views. There are so
many English speakine people in the republic
that a knowledge of the .Spanish language is
not absolutely necessary. An English news-
paper is regularly published at Buenos Ayres,
and- also at t he ci ty and port of Hosarlo. The
utmost freedom of religion is tolerated. The
commercial policy of the '»untry seems to be
in the direction of free trade. The staple pro-
ductions of the country are such as at all times
command tbe markets of the world. The
il exports are tallow, hides and wool.
A trade in preserved meat has been recently
opened. The country is universally cele-
brated for the abundance of its cattle, horses,
sheep, goats, etc. The Buenos Ayres and
Pacific railway, now constructing, will
cross the entire country to Chili, forming
an iron highway between the two-great eeeaus.
Tbe acquisition of lund in the republic is easy.
The Central Argentine Railway company
(from Rosario to Cordoba) has been ceded
1,000,000 acres of land on either side of its
line. Favorable homestead laws are in course
of preparation. The most important land
transaction is that by which ill'. Etohegarag
was granted some 10,400 square miles of land
in the fertile province of Cordoba for a London
company. The greater portion of Argentine
consists of rich alluvial plains, called " pam-
pas." The climate is subject to a great differ-
ence in temperature during winter and sum-
mer, but the changes are gradual and regular.
The winter season is about as cold as Novem-
ber in England, with white frosts and ioe at
sunrise. The climate of the |tampan is healthy
and these lands are not subjept to malaria.
The Fate of a " Kleker."
[Composed by a Crank Coinp.]
There was once a printer who had got into
the habit of growling with his lot in life, so
tbat nothing seemed to please him. He was
so melancholy that a ball table or a " scare''
head would only raise a sickly smirk on his
face, while his feilows who ran into such luck
would snicker so audibly that their suspender
buttons would fly off. He would kick at the
editors if they reconstructed a "pick-
up." He would kick if he had a stick-
ful for a "take," and he would kick
f he had only ball a stick. He would kick at
sunshine, he woald kick at showers, he would
kick at heat, and he was such a crank on
draughts that he used to have his clothes made
without button-holes so that the air could not
reach him. He would kick at the lunch, of
course, and driuk vinegar to keep up the sup-
ply of sourness which used to ooze away from
each of the 000,(XX),000 pores of his skin.
His acquaintances used to say he would
kick after he was dead. Well, one day
ho fell into a trance, and his brother-in-law,
thinking he was dead, boxed him up in a neat
but not gaudy coffin. There was only one
mourner at his funeral, and that was his
tailor, to whom lie owed money. As they
rested the remains on the brink of the grave,
a loud knocking was heard in the coltiu. The
grave diggers looked inquiringly at the
brother in-law, but he said: "Wo ahead—don't
mind—I suppose the old fellow is kicking at
the style of bis shroud. Let 'er go." And
that was tbe last of him.
'Galnal the I4u«t« of HUIne.*ud Lagan.
PFor The Newt,]
l.et all the Hornocraos refrate
From scltali strife, or wish to gala
A higher niche in glory's fane,
But all unite to cleaase the state
On Freedom's skirts, from hands profane.
A'ox populi I be the slogan
'Gainst the hosts of Blaine and Logan. •
Cursed be elect'ral frauds 1 The bane
They helu to freemen's lips to drain,
They can't deny the vile chicane,
Nor false excuses longer feign
To help their fortunes, lest they wane.
Fret men shall rule! be the slogan
'tiatest the hosts of Blaine aud Logan.
Let not ofllcials longer reign,
Hut learn their proper place and plane
As servants paid, with duties plain;
Nor longer stride, as if insane.
O'er people's rights, which they have slain.
Vox Del! odd to the slogan
'Gainst the hosts of Blaine and Logan.
Proclaim the people's wide domain
O'er all tbe land and briny main
Of robbing tarlfTs, they complain,
And monopoly's gilded ohain,
And of corruption's complex train-
Let equal rights I be the slogan
'Gainst the hosts of Blaine and Logan.
Let not a fest'rlng, corrupt blain
On fair Columbia's form remain;
Restore her robust heultli again,
So not a bu rnish or a puin
Can freemen's shouts of joy restrain.
Hail, Columbia! be tbe slogan
'Gainst the hosts of Blaine and Logan.
Let greatest, good each one constrain
To choose wisest, purest chieftain;
Nor thought of ring or clique obtain;
Anri jealous rivalry disdain,
As from scltiib, corrupt fountain.
True meh on guard! be the slogan
'Gainst tbe hosts of Blaine and Logan.
Freemen may wish and hope in vain
Their usurp'd rivets back to distrain,
Ami fullest justice thus attain ,
Against machine legerdemain,
Unless they win, in this campaign.
Union is strength! be the alogau
'Gainst the hosts of lilaine and Lagan.
^ John A. Downsy.
WOMBS GAMBLERS.
Members of the Hair Sex Who Babble In
Speealatlea — An Operator's Opinion of
Them.
[Cleveland Herald.]
" Do women ever speculate!" inquired a re-
porter Of a broker yesterday.
" Oh, yes, there are many women who specu -
late, especially in Chicago and New York."
"To what extent do they operate here'?"
"Well, there is quite a number of ladies
in this city who speculate rather extensively,
but, oi course, they do so very quietly, and it
is not generally known. I know of one lady
in particular, who is as sharp an operator as
you can (tod. She is tho wife of a business
man, and makes a great deal more money
than he does, although he handles a larger
amount of currency every day. I have known
her to make thousands of dollars in a single
deal. She operates in New York mostly, aud
got s there two or three times every year. She
had considerable money when she was mar-
ried, and is worth two or three times as much
uow. She operates entirely independent of
ber husband, and he never touches her money.
I tell yOu, she's sharp. But while we are talk-
ing about the matter," continued the broker,
" I must say tbat I don't want to do business
with them. I have often had women come to
me for advice, but I always discourage them
and say that I do not want anything to do
with them."
"Why so; do they squeal louder than men
when they girt left?"
" Well, not that exactly, but they are a
nuisance generally. If a woman has plenty
of money to put up tbe margin on the spot,
I would not care so much, but when they
haven't I don't want to do business with
them. If they were all like the lady 1 told
you about it would be another matter, but
you wont find one like her in erery thousand
or more.
'"I was very much amused the other day,"
continued the man of margins. "A laly
called at my house and spoke about a sab
sCtiption • for a church. She talked on that
subject for a while and finally said that she-
didn't call for that purpose at all, but wanted
me.to make a deal iu oil for her. I told her
that I didn't care about doing so, and she left
looking rat ber disappointed."
"What's the secret of their success!"
'Why, this. If they flee the market
against "them they will drop it quicker than u
flash, while a man will hold on. Then if the
market goes iu their favor, they always oloau
it out before it turns the other way, even If it
hasn't run ut> more than a cent, when a mstu
will hold on,'hoping it will reach 8 or 4 cents,
and often get left by doing so."
"How many women in this city are in the
business?"
"Quite a number. They operate by tele-
hone very generally.1'
"What do they deal in principally?"
" Everything—stocks, grain, provisions and
oil. Asa usual thing, they take small amounts,
but there are a few women who deal heavily.
I inoir two or three who do."
" What kind of women are they?"
" Home of tbe best women in the city. Those
I know live on Euclid avenue and Prospect
street, and, of course, aro members of the very
best society. I think if some women would
open rooms" here in some place near the square
or up that way, they would be largely patrou-
ized if ladies were admitted exclusively."
"Women are the most blankety blank
nuisances in this business that can be
imagined," said another broker, a. hi stood
beside his ticker. " I never had very much to
do wiih them, and 1 never want to. They're
terrible. A woman came in here not long ago
and bought Juno and August wheat. That's
what we call struddling, you know. Well,
the June went up and the August, went dowu.
She said: ' Wby, I take my margins ou June, I
guess.'' Well, how about your August?' said I.
• I'll let. that alone for a while, I guess.' That
is the way they generally are. They are al-
ways ready to take their profits, but they are
never ready to put up for their losses. If they
lose they'll sue you for it sure. Oh no, I don't
want women in my business."
" Are there are any establishments here de-
voted entirely to ladies?"
"JSo, but there are quite a number in New
York anil C hicago. There was one here, but
I believe they ceased operations a day or so
ago. You go around to some of the otliec
brokers and ask them about women specula-
tors, and I've no doubt but you oan pick up
pome interesting points. I haven't hail much
to do in that line myself."
" Women, us a rule, beat men all to pieces as
speculators, "said another , entleman. '' They
make money where men won't. Why, iu
(Jhioago four bucket-shops, to my knowledge,
hav e lit en broken up by them, and thore was
one here that went the same way. They'll
break a bucket-shop every time."
"What has been your experience with
women as operators ?" was of another.
"They are very keen," was tho response,
"but il they loose they will sue a broker every
time. I know quite "a number of ladies who
are doing business in this cicy, and some of
them are making money."
"There was a woman here whose husband
died not long ago," said another gentleman.
"He left her some money aud she put a
sum into my bands to use for hor. She did
not deal very largely, but she came out
ahead. She drew the greater part of the mar-
gins aud lett, tbe principal with rye. She met
with a few losses recently and quit."
While the reporter was circulating anung
the brokeis' offices he met a Euclid avenue
iady, whose name had been mentioned by
one of brokers as making heavy deals.
"Are you writing up the brokers ?' she in-
quired.
' " Not the brokers but lady speculators."
" Well, let me tell you what I think about
it. I11 my opinion it is no worso for women to
speculate than it is for men, and it would not
be considered so if it were only popular ia this
city. In Now York there are several estab-
lishments devoted exolusirely to ladies, and
they are patronized by soaie of the best ladies
in the city. I have a friend there whom I go
t» see occasionally. We have been to the offices
together. It is the general idea, however, that
women must wash or sew for a living: but I
do not think so, when we could make money
by speculating. Why, if I had money to in-
vest I would put it right into Wabash to-day.
1 have I wo lady friends in the city who are
making money right along by operating
through one of the banks, and more woilld do
the same thing if, as I said, it would become
morepopular. I wish some one would open
an office for ladies. It would be well patron-
ized, 1 am sure."
HMWIAUE IN CHINA.
A Chloaman's Comparison 4t tbe VamRy taxtt-
tuHon nrlth Kwropenit Cuatoina.
Colonel Tcheog ki-Tong, military attache to
the Chinese embassy in Paris, is telling tho
western barbarians, in the columns of the Re-
vue ilea Deux Moudes, how very inferior their
civilization is to that of China iu such essou
tial fundamentals as the position of woman
and the sanctity of marriage. Colonol
Teheng ki-Tong sees nothing to admire In
European marriages. Marriages iu well-or-
dered states sboud be arranged by tho pa
rents. They are emphatically altairs of the
family, and should be settled by the heads
of the familes concerned. The idea that
two young people are qualified to de-
cide uix>n their futuro destinies on the
Ftrength of a brief acquaintance formed
iu their green and April days seems to tho
good Oriental unspeakably absurd. They
manage these things tietter in China than in
France. As for England, and long engage-
ments an/1 free opportunities for acquaintance
before marriago, Col. Teheng doos not spaak
of them, but his principles would probably
lead him to condemn them unsparingly. He
has at least one point iu his favor. In China
w here tbe parents choose the bride, everyone
marries; celibacy is regarded as ail anti-social
vice, and old bachelors and old maids are
rare phenomena. All good Chinamen marry
young. Bridegrooms of sixteen marry ladies
two years younger thau themselves, and a
Chinese grandmother at tbe age of thirty is a
more familiar sight than a spinster.
There are no marriages for money in China.
Tbe great institution of a dot is unknown.
Marriage for money, exclaims Colonel Teheng,
is the gieatest injury you can inflict upon
women. In a social system based upon the
virtual purchase of a spouse, tbe good China-
man is not surprised that men should fear that
tbe introduction of divorce may prove like the
discharge of artillery at a house of cards. In
China it is otherwise; there, iu addition to the
causes of divorce recognized in Europe, mar-
riage may be dissolved for sterility or for con-
tumelious conduct toward mothers and
fathers in-law. Yet divorce is comparatively
rare. "Everybody whom I have met," says
Colonel Tchener, "and who hasasked mo about
our morals, has add id sed the question to me:
' Do divorces often occur in China?' The first
time I was astonished at this dauiaiul, but ou
reflecting I found out that indeed this is the
only question which is important for them to
know. W hen tor the first time you aro obliged
bj pain to go the dentist, you ask a friend
whether 'It hurts much?'" Tbe factof the
matter is, that divorces are only rare excep-
tions, end tbe strong family ties which are the
outcome of the patriarchial system forbid di-
voroe. " Among aristocrats divorces seldom
occur, from the very fact that they are such;
among tbe working classes, because tbey have
no time for vain ducurgion, and if tbey quar-
rel they do not «nd by being divoroad, but by
beiog reconciled."
Women in China are deeply interested ia
avoiding a divorce, as the divorce loses tbe
honorable position of a wife. Tbe Chinese
lady, not .having the consciousness of person-
ality strongly developed, avoids both scandals
ana Intrigues. The magistrate often composes
quarrels instead of pronouncing a decree of di-
vorce, and the wife has an uufailiug source of
cons, iation in the upbringing of her children.
"She is ever a creature of hope," says the
colonel, "and she endures patiently the inju-
ries inflicted on her by her husband in the
thought ot her children.'1 If her husband sur-
prises his wife flagrante delicto, he may kill
her on the spot; but C«louol Toheng makes fun
of A. Dumas for his assertion that adulteresses
in China are lifted by an elephant and then
thrown down to be crushcd on the stones.
"There are fewer elephants in China than ia
France. There aro hardly two or three at Fe-
lon, which one goes to see out of curiosity,
like animals out of a ineuagerie."
; Colonel Teheng vehemently combats tbe
popular delusion tbat a Chinese woman is a
crippltd, waddling creature, who lives im-
prisoned amid her servants, her husband aud
Lis concubines. As far as the cripoled feet are
concerned, we read: " The Chinese woman
walks as well as you and 1; she runs even with
her small feet;" and 'as to being imprisoned,
'' she goes out, takes walks in her sedan chair,
(ind has not even a veil to protect her from
indiscreet glances. From higher education the
Chinese would gladly save their wives and
daughters; Uiey are not trained in colleges,
foht ie they might acquire the knowledge of
art and science, but family life forms the
world of the Chinese woman. She aspires
iOlely to be learned iu the art of govern-
ng ber family. It is she directs ttie eduoa-
icn of her children. She is content to
ive for the good of ber relations, and
if beaven has granted her a good husband
the certainly is tne must fortuuate of women.
Colonel Teheng has niauy severe things to say
about the position of women in France. In
Cbina the wife's iegul position in disposing of
her goods abd her children, he asserts, is far
more privileged than that of her French sts-
ters. He couciudes his interesting essay by
some remarkable words about canoubiaage.
"In France," says he, "you have mistresses;
in China we have concubines. The former is
a clandestine connection aud the children are
.bastai ds; the latter has a recognized position;
site is tolerated by the wife, and her children
bear no social brand. The Chinese regard
concubinage as a safeguard of the indissolu-
bility of marriage, and, accepting human
nature as it is, tbey prefer to rebognise an ad-
mitted evil, to sacrifice the innooeut offspring
of a guilty passion."
DISAg'i'UK* AT HE A.
Terrible Fate of tbe President—Losses on the
Atlantic In Forty Years.
[London Telegraph.]
Human nature oan be subjected to no more
agonizing suspense than that endured by rela-
tives aud friends who anxiously await the
arrival of an overdue ship on board of which
some one dear to them has taken passage from
a distant port. On the 11th of March, 1811,
the President- one of the finest passenger
steamers of her time—left New York for Liv-
erpool with many passengers on board. Threo
or four days after her departure she eucoua
tered a terrific storm not far to the south of
Cope Kace, und was seen by a French sailing
vtssel to enter a thick cloud or rain-storm,
w hich brooded upon the face of the deep and
obscured the heavily-laboring vessel from
view. In half un hour or so the cloud lifted,
but no President met the auxious eyes of the
gaeers, who, iu the phrase of French mariners,
interrogated the horizon " in search of tho
missing object. There was no possibility of
her having run into au iceberg or come into
collision with another ship; but against her
name in the underwriter's books were in-
scribed those melancholy words which, we are
told, ought never to be employed in connection
with a well-built and well manned craft of
any kind, " foundered at sea." No trace of
her existence was ever found except a few
spars and a part of a boat believed to
have belonged to her, which were washed
ashore after some weeks upon the coast of
North Wales. Among many other passengers
of note whom she carried were included Ty-
rone Power, the well known and universally
popular Irish comedian, und Lord Fitzroy
Cbarlus George Lennox, second son of the Into
and brother of the preseut duke of Richmond.
Lord Fitzioy Lennox was au officer in the
Guards, and was on his way home from Can-
ada in the expectation of passing his tweutv-
firrt birthdaj, on the following 1 Ith of June,
with his attached parents. He was his
mother's favorite sou, aud was name I
after Fitzroy Somerset, subsequently
Lord Kagland, who had been his father's
friend and fellow-soldier on the duke of Wel-
lington's staff during the peniiisular war.
There are many still living—aud among th ?m
none tells the story with more feeling than the
venerable aud much respected earl of Straf-
ford—who will remember the long and pro-
tracted agony of hope aud suspense which the
late ducbets of Richmond was doomed to en-
dure. Some of those, indeed, who knew her
best, and were acquainted with the singular
depth and warmth of her affections, held the
opinion that, to her dying hour, the bereaved
mother refused to give u"l< all hope that she
might once again lie blessed with a sight of
her lost son. That hope was not destined to be
realized, but among the mourners who year
after year awaited that message from the
sea which was never to be received, the late
duchess of Richmond will always occupy a
foremost place.
Steam voyages backward and forward
across the Atlantic have latterly been per-
formed with such marvelous safety, anil in
some cases with such astounding rapidity, that
tho present generation of residents in the old
and now worlds are far lews prepared than
their predecessors for tho loss «f a passenger
steamer at sea. Yet the reoords of that great-
est highway of juirlthno nations, tlie North
Atlantic eoeon, proclaim that during the first
thirty years of steam navigation voyages
were very far indeed from being as safe as is
now the case. Thus we learn from tlie Nautic il
Gaz tte, of New York, that from the begin-
ning of 1841 to the end of 1873 no
fewer than forty-eight Atlantic steamers
perished at. sea, the President being the first
and tbe Ville du Havre the last victim. Dur-
ing these throe- and-thirty years the Cunard
company lost the Africa and the Tripoli, but
in each case without the sacrillue of a life or a
letter; while between 1851 and 1873 the Ionian
line lost six, the most melancholy case bei ig
that of the City of Boston, whose fate is still a
mystery. The Allan line, ngoiu, which com-
menced in 1861), was so unfortunate as to lose
seven vessels before 1874. The Collins line,
built and owned in the United States, ran four
vessels between 1853 and 1857, of which they
lost two. The German companies of Hamliurg
aud Bremen, established in I800, hod lost four
steamers before 1875; tho Natioual line, one ;
the Guion, established in 18tl8,one; tho Anchor,
one; and tbe White Star Hue, established iu
1871, has also lost one, through tho fault of
her captain. Twelve steamers belonging to
smaller companies lu,ve likewiee met their
doom on the boisterous Atlantic; while of tho
French companies, the Jtessageries Muri
times, with sixty steamers, had in 1874
lost fourteen vessels during its first twenty-
one years of existence: and tho Compaguio
Transatlantique lost two, the Darien and tho
Ville du Havre. The Royal Mail, with whioli
the C'ompagnie Transatlantique is in com
petition, lest fifteen ships during its first
thirty two years. " It has been computed,"
adds, however, the Nantical Gazette, of New
York, "tbatupward of 16,(100 voyages were
mndo across the Atlantic between 1840 and
1874 by these steamship lines." Among the
disasteie to which we have referred, none was
more calamitous than these whiob overtook
•the Allan liner, Hungarian, wrecked off the
coast of Nova Scotia m the night of February
lit and B0,* 1880, with more than
300 souls 011 board, aud the White
Star steamer Atlantic, which strnok a rook
off the same iron-bound coast on April 18,
1873. carrying at the time more than a thou-
sand souls, of whom 443, including Captain
Williams, were saved, and 5ti5 were lout.
Many of her hapless human freight who had
climbed into the rigging perished from cold
and suffering, and the captain, upon whom
the obief blame was laid, underwent a sen-
tence of suspension for two years. We have
said enough to show that while steam naviga-
tion was still young the Atlantic was far from
being that easily-crossed " ferry" which
Charles Dickens was invited to consider it
when he made his first trip to the United Stites
in 184L
Dank of England Notes.
[Harper's. |
The album in which specimens of the
various counterfeits discovered are preserved,
also contains some interesting proofs of the
extraordinary durability of tho notes. There
are three for £35, which passed through tho
Chicago fire, and were sent in for redemption
by Mr. R. H. Nottin, paymaster of the
Chicago and Alton railway. Though they
are burned to a crisp black ash, tho paper is
scarcely broken, and the engraving is as clear
as in a new note. There aro also five £5 notes
which went to the bottom of the sea in the un-
fortunate training-ship Eurydice, and were
recovered after six months immersion. They
are not even frayed. The pajter fe
stained a light brown, and that is the
only effect their lung exposure to salt
water has had. We are shown a small
case covered with a magnifying glass a few
charred fragments of paper, for which the
bank paid £1400. They are the remains of ,
several notes destroyed in a fire, and were re-
deemed at their full value, the owners being
able to give their numbers aud dates, and to
satisfy the bank tbat they had actually been
destroyed. There-ie another note in the album
which was in circulation 125 years before it
was returned to the bank for payment. No
note is issued twice. As soon as a note is re-
turned, even though it has been otlt but a few
hours, it is cancelled. Very often a note
issued in the morniug is brought back to the
bank in the afternoon of the same day, but on
the average a £5 not© is out about eighty
days. The notes have many strange adven-
tures. One of a large denomination was found
keeping the wind away in the broken pane of
a cottage window, neither the cottager nor his
wife having any idea of its value. Another,
also for a large sum, the disappearance of
which had led to many wrongful suapioious
and accusations, was discovered, after many
years, inelosed in the wall of the house from
which it had mysteriously disappeared. One
thing, the notes will not endure. They will
hold together at tlie bottom of the sea and
come out of a fui uaee intact, but they will
not outlast the scrubbing, tho bleaching and
the mangling of the laundry. That trial, to
which tbey aro sometimes subjected through
the inadvertence of ladies, who send them to
tbe wash in their dress pockets, usually defaces
them, though even after it their genuineness
is still recognizable.
Princess Alice as a Philanthropist.
I London Truth.]
The first time I heard of the Princess Alice
in tbe character in which she unconsciously
paints herself in her letters was in au unex-
pected and curious way. It was at Louis
Blanc's, in tbe rue di Rivoli. Hepworth Dixon
had just come from Spain, aud was a visitor
there. He and some other persons were sitting
round the dming room fire to hear Louis
Blanc read an article ho had writton for the
Rar pel. Tho German maid-ef all-work,
who was at once companion and ser-
vant to Mine. Louis Blanc, and was in tlr.i
habit of free speech, came in to lay the table
for dinner. There was a passage in the article
against German feudalism in general and the
Princes of Mecklenburg und Flesse*Darmstadt
in particular, who had carried the voracious
double headed eagle into Arijou and Touraiue.
Lisbeth, the maid, cried out: "That's all non-
sense what you read, so far as my prince is
concerned. He is a kind man, and did no
barm that he could avoid. His wife is always
doing good to tbe poor, and she is just as quiet
and unpretending as if she woro no-
body. If you were to seo the dif-
ference in that way between her a til
the ladies of English families who oo.ns
for cheapness and education for their childreu
to Darmstadt! I know somrthing of them
both." Hepworth Dixon picked up his ears
and questioned Lisbeth, who was from Darm-
stadt, had been long a nursery maid in an
English household there, and was the daughter
of a mason omployed at the residence. She
had much to say about the kindness of the
princess. H. R. II., we were told, in order to
give money, which she cDuld ill spare, to the
aunt of Lisbeth, wlien her husband was ill of
typhus fever, went for a long time in coobled
boots and shoes. She used to go to an insti-
tute she patronized for training servants and
instruct them herself in kitchen, laundry, and
other work, without fuss or flurry. She was
w orn to a shadow by the anxieties the war cost
her, and was blamed for feeling too kindly to-
ward the French. Testimony given from such
an humble sourca as Lisbeth, given in Louis
Blanc's dining-room, and under the cross-
examination of Hepworth Dixon, is more val-
uable than if it emanated from a courtier.
Guateinclu Hiilns.
On all sides of us I suw long, low mounds,
which, upon further examination, proved to
be .remains of vast temples and grand palaces,
but as only a comparatively small space of
ground was cleared our researches were groatly
circumscribed. As I rode around I often came
upon large engraved rocks, which bod evident-
ly formed portions of templed buildings, but
tie turtle, tbe frog and the round engraved
stone were most probably idols. Beside tho
first crumbled wall I noticed a small calendar
stone, whose central circular figure was sur-
rounded with signs and hieroglyphical marks,
while close to it lay a huge sculptured rock
t hat very much resembled an alligator's bead
—indeed, the Indians call it La Cabeza del
Cayman, the head of the alligator.
If the Indians of tho neighborhood know of
the existence of more ruiu3 they religiously
withhold all information concerning them. I
have no doubt, however, that were the odja-
cent forests cnrefully examined, numerous
other antiquities would reward the zeal of the
explorer. The ruins already discovered give
promise of a richer harvest, and I firmly be-
lieve that the locality now is nothing more
than the suburb of a great ancient metropolis,
that must, in its epoch of glory and prosperity,
have rivaled Babylon and Nineveh, tho queen
cities of the East, in size and populousness, in
wealth and splendor.
AN OCTiMOON'8 U ITOHKRV.
Captivating a Voiiag Man by Her Charms ant
Marrying Ills Father.
[Petroleum V. Naahy in Toledo Blade.]
.An old citizen ctf New Orleans, who had been
very 1 ich before the war in lands and negroes,
but «ho was stripped completely by tha occu-
pation of his plantation by federal troops, tol l
a story of nil octoroon girl since tho war. Tho
girl was one of the most beautiful of her raoe,
and of course had been trained by her mother
to bo as wise as a serpent, if not as harmless
as a dove. She know just how beautiful she
was, and precisely what that beauty was
worth. She was, it is presumed, of a very
warm and impulsive nature, but she had her
impulses terribly well under control.
A young man, a very rich youug man, that
is a young man with a very rioh father, saw
ber and fell iu lovo with hor. A great many
young men had done the same thing, but sho
put a very high price upon herself. A house
furnished never so well was all very well for
common girls, but she held herself far above
that sort of thing. She was perfectly willing
that the young man should have her, but mar-
riage was her price, nothin, less. Wheu he
told her how much he loved her, sho assured
him that love was not worth a whit to a wo-
man unless it was legalized, and that if he
loved her as he suid he did, he ought to bo
willing to make the sacrifice she required that
be might possess her. He begged, stormed,
swore, entreated, wept, wailed and howled,
but to no avail. Sho was cool as a cucumber.
Sho loved him and he loved her—why nob
marry?
The young man represented to her that his
father was a widower, that he was an only
son, and that he labored under the disadvan-
tage of not having a dollar, except as his father
chose to give It him; that the old gentleman
had the regulation prejudice against marrying
octoroons, and would, should no do It, cut him
off without a dollar. He would be perfectly
willing to Bee ber his mistress, but his wife,
never. This is New Orleans morality.
But the girl remained firm, and would hear
of nothing less than actual marriage, and tho
young man was so infatuated with her tbat he
mustered up courage and went to his father.
The old man was very stern with him. Hie
son marry en octoroon 1 Neverl
"Doit, sir," said he, in the regular irate
father style, " and you will never look me in
the face again."
In vain the young man appealed. In vain
ho remarked to the old gentleman that he had
been young once, antl ought to know how it
was himself. Tbe old man did not see it ia
that light. It is Drue that old men who have
gone through everything, who have run np
and down the whole gamut of folly, will not
permit their sons to do it. There is something
s ngular in this. Man is very egotistic. Tho
father will shudder at. the thought of bis son's
doing a tithe of what he did himself, never
thinking that what he did himself and carao
through safely, his son may do with equal
safety.
BHt he would have none of it. He had no
earthly objection to his son's living with tho
girl illegitimately, but to marry her, neverl
But father," pleaded the young man, " she
is no common woman."
" I don't suppose she is. Were she you
would not so rave over her."
" All I ask is that you go to see Marie. Gh>
and see her, and I know yoti wiil welcome her
as a daughter. Go and see her."
The young nian was confident that the
charms that had enslaved him would capture
his father.
" I will go and see her," said the father, " to
please you, but it will not alter my decision.
But I will go and see her."
The old gentleman did go and see her, and
he found that his son had not exaggerated her
qualities. She was exceedingly beautiful, ex-
ceedingly bright, exceedingly accomplished,
and as keen as a razor. She was tbe wisest
young octoroon there was in New Orleans,
and she took good care to put her best foot
forward. She talked the old gentleman out of
his prejudices^ she made him interested in her,
and when he left her presence he wont out in
a sort of a dazed way.
He did not leturn to his son at all, but
avoided him. 'Ihe young lady said to h<>r
mother, after the old gentleman had got>f.
"1 don't think, mamma, I shall marry up-
ward. I don't like him as much as I thought
I did, and marriage without absolute lovo
would be, to a sensitive nature like minj, a
bell upon earth."
" Don't talk rubbish to me," remorked tha
mother. "You won't throw over so excellent
a young man with such brilliant prospests,
will you?"
"A bird in the band is worth two in tho
l.usb. My sbrinl ing soul is frightened at tho
thought of trusting my future with a young
and changeable 111-n. I require love. I re-
quire tbe entire devotion of a heart as simple
and true as my own. And besides, ma.tpraa,
suppose the cruel father should disinherit tho
sonl That would be terrible. I think my
duty to myself and to you requires me to
shake the voung man. But I shall do nothing
hastily. I slum consult my heart."
The next day the old gentleman called
again and enjoyed an hour or two of the de-
ligbtfnl girl's society, aud when Edward came
again he was not permitted to sae her.
" She loves you," said the mother, who did
see him, " with a love furious in its intensity,
but she will tever be the means of making you
unliappy. When your respected father gives
liis consent anil is willing to receive her as
a daughter, she will rush gladly to your arms,
but not till then. Marie is full of passion,
but duty keeps it in check. Her very lovo
for you prevents her from making you miser-
able."
"But I must see her."
"Impossible!" was the heartless reply, and
the door was slammed in his face.
It w as impossible that he should see Marie,
for a very good reason, viz. • his father was
with her trying to persuade her to accept his
jrotection, which tho astute young woman re-
jected, as she had a similai offer from his son.
The young Edward found hilnself in a very
singular position. He could not see his love
without the consent of his father, and he could
not see his fat her at all to get his consent. He
could make nothing at all of it.
About a week thereafter the mystery was
cleared up. He received the following from
his father, dated New York:
My Dear Son: All you said to me of Marie
is true. She is indeed everything that is love-
ly in person and mind. She is at once the
most beautiful and the wisest of hor sex. I
should be perfectly willing for you to marry
htr but for one trifling fact. I have founcPit
essential to my happiuess that I should marry
her myself, which 1 have done. I have pro-
vided for you amply, and shall probably naver
see you again. My wife aud I propose to live
hereafter in Paris." I hope to hoar from you
occasionally. Papa.
Canala.
The Imperial canal, of Cbina, is over 1000
miles long. In the y ear 1081 was completed
the greate; t undertaking of the kind on the
continent, the canal of Languedoo, or tho
Canal du Midi, to connect the Atlantic with
tho Mediterranean; its length is 14b miles, it
has more than 100 locks, and about 50 aque-
ducts; and in its highest part it is no less than
BOO feet above the sea; it is navigable for ves-
sels of upward of 100 tons. The largest ship
caual in Europe is tho great Nort'i Holland
canal, completed in 1825. It is 131 feet wide
ot the water surface, 31 feet wide at the bot-
tom, and has a depth of 30 feet; it extends
from Amsterdam to tho Helder, 51 miles.
The Caledonian canal, in Scotland, has a total
length of (Kl miles, including three lakes. The
Suez canal is 80 miles- loug, of which fi(i miles
are actual canal. The Erie canal is 3501^
miles long; tho Ohio canal, Cleveland to
Portsmouth, 333; the Miami and Erie, Cincin-
nati to Toledo, 291; the Wabash and Erie,
Evansville to the Ohio line, 374.
Sunday Pn«ttme«.
"I am glad to see," says London Truth,
" tbat Lord Bramwell holds such extremely
sensible views upon the observance of Sunday.
At the meeting of the Sunday society last
week, be remarked that the result of his many
years experience as a judge was that Sabbath-
breaking was the beginning of all crimes, ' be-
cause it was the .most easy, most natural arnl_
most rational of all things that a man, womaa"
or child could do. A child who was told thatj
it was as wicked to break the Sabbath as toT
lie or steal naturally got a very confused noJ
tion of morality.' Lord Bramwell conoludecf
by expressing a' hope that ' before loug inuo-'
cent amusement on Sunday, such as cricket
and law n-tenniSj would be sanctioned by pub-
lic opinion iu this country.'"
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