Show wt the ascent of the highest point of land on the north amei AmeT american amerlean ican continent contine hit fit has recently been made by two americans one a call fernian forn ianthe lanthe the other from Cuni berland co pennsylvania pennsy I 1 vania vanla the total length of 01 the atlantic cable made up to close of work on fri d daylight april 28 was 1993 nautical i miles and of this quantity 1400 have been shipped on board the amethyst and iris for being shipped on board the great eastern at sheerness he erness great relief in diphtheria dip theria is said sala to be i found by placing cayenne pepper popper in the sharpest vinegar and dropping in live coals and inhaling the steam from a teapot tea pot it gives the strength to throw up the detached membrane besides affording great relief in breathing the richmond whig milo says the confederate archi archives 1 ves 1 papers documents and other writings appertaining C to the late confederate government overn ment have been packed and sent t to 0 washington they filled ninety one boxes and were addressed to the assistant secretary of war dana an irish peasant being asked wh why y he permitted his pig to take ta ke k e up his quarters with his flain family ily liy made an answer abounding with satirical nal bal nete vete why not the place afford every coave convenience blence that a pig can require there are houses in london I 1 england which if all set in a row would reach across france and over the pyrenees Pyre nees land is in demand and has been sold at it the high c rate of a million dollars an acre alexander dumas has worked ten teil hours a day during twenty years he has whitted volumes of novels and 35 plays his works have sold for foi more than placing photographs of dece deceased ased asea individuals in their coffins is now a custom on the continent the likenesses are warranted to last for centuries one of the most remarkable examples of munificence in modern times is that of benjamin lee guinness a brewer of dublin who has just restored the episcopal cathedral of st patrick in that city at the enormous expense of all defrayed from his own private purse four years ago he volunteered vo ipri itri un to pay whatever was necessary to restore the dilapidated structure to its original state and took sole charge of the restoration himself he has just given it back to the dean and chapter with all its internal and external appointments point ments complete the legislature of pennsylvania has established the following as the legal holidays any day recommended by the governor or by the president of the united State states sas as a day of fasting or thanksgiving the ath of jul jui july y the of december the iston january and the 22 ad of february I 1 show may easily be purchased but happiness is always ahome allame made aade article A massachusetts judge has decided that a husband may open a cifes letters on the ground grodna so often and so tersely stated by mr parsons stirs ons of cambridge that the husband and a nd wife are one and the husband I 1 is that one i the mont aront cenis tunnel will be completed sooner than w was i as expected the workmen having come upon softer rock than that which they e y have hay c hitherto met tho year 1868 is named as the time of opening for traffic the elephant llan ilan anibal who recently died in this country where lie he had been on exhibition for the past SO years weighed the enormous amount of pound bounds sand and iuds was 5 inches high i the paris correspondent of the lon 1 don morning star states that while going through a lunatic asylum at charenton clarenton Ch arenton the other day ho saw tw of the jhb most learned professors of france fauce deprived of their reasoning faculties b by y having studied venans lipe life of jesus ima ma ive struck an oil spring 1 exclaimed d a young hopeful the oth other day als is he run A a slice of bread into the gravy bowl before company queen emma sailed from honolulu hono lulu luiu for england on the british man of war clio on the ath of may before leaving 2 the crew with some of their officers marched to the american consulate C ons S singing n ging the bonny blue flag I 1 y and and u using z inz ing the 1 1 e most obscene and insulting langu language ag e toward the consul alid and americans generally the war department has received the butt of a tree some two feet through from in front of one of our earthworks earthworms earth works on the old battlefield battle field of Spott sylvania from which the tree top had been literally shot off with bullets twenty eight pounds of leaden balls have been picked out and yet hundreds remain imbedded bedded im in the splintered wood it attracts general attention I 1 so successfully does doe s the money order office work that it is to be greatly enlarged one hundred and thirty nine offices ont oft ices lees were established on the first of november last on the first of june SO more will be established the amount of money orders issued last quarter was 24 on which government received about 5 there are about constantly lying in the hands of postmasters subject to call the russian government has ordered the forest to be cut down which extends the whole length of the frontier from Po langen to Tau roggen in order to destroy the retreat of amu smugglers lers who seek refuge in the woods ehg when en pursued by the frontier guard the trade in timber with prussia is in consequence most active the cheapness of the article 11 having attracted a large narge number of d dealers quite recently the remains of a man who had been burled buried in the grounds of tha th asbur Asbury y 2 methodist church philadelphia were taken taleen up for removal to the mount moriah cemetery upon being taken up the body was found to be pet ret petrified rifled and with the exception of the eyes was in a perfect state I 1 papa observed a young urchin of tender t e nd C r years to his fond parent does the lord know everything ry yes my son replied the hopeful sire but why do you ask that question because our preacher when lie he prays is so long iong telling him everything I 1 thong thought t he posted the parent reflected ed the emperor of france has issued two proclamations to the people of algeria the one to the european settlers and the other to tp the arabs to the former he be says that they must be the masters toasters because they tiley are the more civilized and to the latter that arabs cannot resist frenchmen and that the koran horan teaches to obey those to whom god has given power the emperor has visited visite ilven given the principal localities in the plain of sa sahei el everywhere meeting with an enthusiastic reception A GREAT NATURAL CURIOSITY A gentleman who has just arrived from the new now truckee DI district tells telis of a very avery singular mountain situated about ten miles south of pyramid lake on the east cast side of the truckee th the e whole mountain Is made up of stones scooped out in the form of caldrons caldroni cal drons all filled with fine sand some of these are nearly fifty feet in circumference the shell being about six inches in ali thickness ck these shells which are shaped like the half of an orange are 0 of f all sizes being from three inches in ciles elles in diameter to near twenty feet the shells are all formed of the same material mat erial ezial a sort of porous limestone and all are filled with sand the whole mountain seems to be made up of these singular stones surrounding the mountain are hills of nine fine sand owing to the drifting of the fine sand of which these hills are composed they are constantly changing their shape altogether this truckee region Is one ono well worthy of the att attention entla of curiosity hunters besides the famous hot 8 springs brings and the natural punch bowls we nave have mentioned there is a mountain abounding in petrified pe trifle d eggs of all sorts and sizes it w was as lie lle here re too that the remains of the celebrated fossil elephant w were ere found E territorial entell enterprise nise rise |