Show butow Ut ow Cx CATCHING caring caliNG elsil FISH BY electricity the have succeeded in catching nis fis nish fish h in france by means of an electric electric light the light was produced by a powerful electromagnetic electro magnetic machine constructed by al bazin the well known engineer the experiment was conducted bym bazin on board the And alouse in the presence of 1500 persons the light in a lantern was submerged in the water and the fish came to it in shoals while the fishermen caught them in their nets M bazin is 19 shortly to proceed to bona dona in algeria and establish a coral fishery by the assistance of II 11 his Is I 1 electric light he proposes in the meantime to descend full feet into the sea and explore what he calls the I 1 depths of the ocean with his submarine instruments A MINIATURE STATE the colony of moravian brothers at koenigsfeld near sear hear in the black forest comprises four hundred inhabitants and forms a model state in during the fifty years that it has existed not art one of its members has had any affair with the police or the judicial authorities and not a crime or offense has been committed there has never b been een a trial or sale by order of justice nor are any bears beggars ever to be found at koenigs feld OFFICIAL A C C 0 V U NT S OF TIIE THE CHOLERA the state department has received from the american consuls in in italy and spain off omm lelal official accounts of the progress of the cholera the consul at palermo under hate date of 1 A august u g t speaks of the serious cpr spread e uz ott oft of the he cholera at ancona italy I 1 where some ionic have died and isolated ah tie ire ere d cases 5 bave bare occurred la in other towns of italy france and spain the local authorities have ordered seven days at quarantine from all arrivals from italian french and spanish ports porta including gibraltar the TJ S consul at port poro mahon spain informs the department part ment under date of august 14 of the arrival at that quarantine of a turkish steamer which left alexandria with 1800 pilgrims the steamer he be says comes cornea with 1280 and reports having left on the way twenty deaths occurred from cholera on the p passage the captain at his arr arrival ival at port mahon reported all well but on examination of the steamer dead bodies were found on board in a state of decomposition the captai captains nIg statements are discredited and the nive five hundred not accounted lor lor may have died by the same disease the consul stated that accounts received at that station concur in the opinion that the chole chol erWis raia mak ing its way westward thus far t the I 1 cholera has followed the pilgrims as 1 why who he says are packed like aard sardines zard 1 es 0 on shipboard their religion does not allow them thern when passing to mecca to sleep adeep on a bed to wash or eat an any nv warm arm food food rood they ade are covered with firth filth and vermin and are spreading disease over the Mell uell mediterranean FOSSIL REMAINs FOUND IN VERMONT the tusk of a fossil elephant was found in a muck bed about five feet below the surface on the farm of D S pratt in brattleboro Bratt leboro vt on saturday september 2 by a work workman nitin who was digging mua muck the tusk is forty four inches in length and eighteen inches in circumference at the largest end and eleven inches attile at the smallest it is ina lna fair state of preservation u although some parts of it crumbled after being exposed to the air the brattleboro Bratt leboro record says the workman on discovering it took a piece to mn mrk pratt remarking as he handed it to him that he had bad found a curious piece of wood mr pratt on looking at it discovered its true nature this tusk belonged to a species of elephant ele long since extinct supposed to be the for cor or mammoth moth blumenbach that inhabited the of north america having w the tho siberian siberia n ii plains to the arctic ocean and behring straits and beyond to this country south to about the parallel of forty degrees their bones bonesi show them to have been about twice the weight and one adne third taller than our modern sp species eoles the remains tusks tusk teeth and several bones of one of these elephants were found at afe the summit of the green grean mountains at mount holly in 1848 by workmen engaged in building the railroad from bel bei bellows aws falls to rutland CONTENTED what freyou singing for said I 1 to mary hary maloney oh I 1 dont know maam without it is because me heart feels happy happy are you mary me see yo you dont own a foot of land in the world I 1 foot of land is itt it I 1 she ahe cried with a light laugh lautry oh what a candye han hand dye ye be after a jo joke eke why sure ive lve niver a penny let alone a fu fut gofland to of land fland s your mother is dead god rest her replied mary with a touch of genuine pathos pathom the heavens be her bed to your brother is still a hard ease case I 1 suppose lyo ye lye may well weil well weli say that its nothing but drink drink drink and bate batohie hlis hila wife the poor cray ture 11 you have to pay your sisters boar board boarde dr sure the bit cray and ashes a good lithe little girl Is i hinny willin to td do whatever I 1 axes her I 1 dont grudge the money that goes for that I 1 and you many fashionable dresses either J I 1 faskin Fashin fashionable Fa able abie is it oh I 1 put a bit hit of whalebone in me skirt andee calico gown spreads as big as the cleddies led dies but thin ye say true I 1 but two gowns to my back two shoes to me fut and wan bonnit barrin me hood you any lover oh be off wid catch mary INI maloney aloney wid a lover these days when aheu the hard times is come 11 what on earth have llave you to make mahe you happy A drunken brother a poor and helpless bister sister no mother no father no lover why where do you get all your happiness I 1 the lord be praised miss it 0 v W up in me give me a bit av sun bun n ea clean crean fiure flure plenty of work and a sup at a the right time and im made that makes me latich and sing and thin if troubles come I 1 try to keep my heart up lip sure it would be a sad thing if patrick mcgrue should take it into bid hee head to ax me b but u t the lord will viii willin in id trw try to bear up under it this his last speech upset my gravity the idea of looking upon n a lover aa as an affliction was so d droll roll but she was evidently sincere having the example of her sisters husband and her drunken brother SORGHUM we are happy to say that mr bodre of bloomington ill III formerly editor of the after constant experiments for moro than a year past lias has succeeded in discovering the process which was patented july ath 1865 of granulating the cane juice julee J u I 1 ce 0 or r mol lasses in all cases entirely entire ay iy removing the gum and acid making a sugar as free and dry aa as any in the market samples of which we shall shail have on exhibition this week at the state fair mr moore has made since last december about twelve hundred pounds of sugar from sorghum syrup sent to him in small quantities from different portions of illinois and other states varying in quantity from three to six pounds to the gallon according to the amount of saccharine matter contained in the syrup over and above the cost of making molasses the he expense will be about one per cent per pound aund 1 if made in larar larger quantities si directly from the juice A large steam sugar factory 0 is nearly com eom plated a few miles from bloomington erected at a cost of sufficient in capacity to make several thousand pounds of sugar which will be in full tuil operation in a few weeks Chi chinaga eago eaga republican bengium BELGIUM has been visited by a waterspout of extraordinary violence it occurred in the neighborhood of liege and has spread ruin far and wide the accompanying gale caught people up in the wy air and dashed them to the ground it stopped railway trains and overthrew houses it was attended by thunder and floods of rain altogether it was one of the mool moot disastrous storms alarms that ihal ilas haa ever visited the he country |