| Show NEWS ITEMS two boys while going to school iu in the village of arthur C W found a quantity ta of phosphorus porus which they divided and an put into their pockets some borne time afterwards it ignited set fire to their clothes and so severely injured one of the boys that he is not expected to rc recover THE celebrated nichan mechanical ical duck of Vau canson is now on exhibition in paris the bird standing on a sort of box shakes its wings eats eats drinks and imitates nature so accurately that itis not safe to let dogs eyne cime into the same room with it ACCORDING to the latest advises advices ad vices the tius aiana have bave tak tah taken laken on possession of sa s1 1 mareana mar mare cand and one of the principal towns bok hurn hura in and e apitai capital dominions thene there has perhaps nea nes abeen a time when sickness was so universally prevalent in southern illinois as the present billious bil lious ilous remitting intermitting and typhoid fevers with a mail wall malignant nant type ype of ague having raged to an alarming extent for the last six weeks in many cases whole families have been suffering at one time the editor of the benton franklin county standard says that eight members of his bis family have been sick for the lat laut two weeks and no paper was issued fr from bm that office during the time st loub dispatch nova nov noy 4 A of mr E N lord while speaking to her father in the foundry at watertown mass ilass a few days ago had her dress suddenly caught on a shaft then in motion which she had not noticed and which was making one hundred revolutions a minute being thus terribly fastened she must have been instantly killed had not her father courageously risking his hia own life attached himself quickly to the shaft and thus shielded tho the head and body of his child until the machinery could be i stop stopped cd As it is both legs are broken but her er life is preserved an ax illustration of russian rule in poland is shown in a fact just come to light the lunatic asylum at wal wai warsaw a government institution of course has been visited by the police on this occasion some 50 out of the patients were discovered to be political offenders who had fled for refuge to the abode of madness and spent already a couple of years within its terrible walls the physicians have been arrested together with fhe delinquents tile THE springfield mass fass I Rc publican republican says s the season of A abrought drought in now england just ended has been a most remarkable leone leune one and has damaged many manufacturing and agricultural interests to an immense extent tho period properly the tho was eighty one days from july to october no water falling during that time except in the slightest drizzles none at all fell after the of july the whole month mo etli of august brought only one and sixty seven one hundredths inches september 0 only sixty evve one hundredths and the first half of october twenty seven one hun the aggregate amount for the eighty one days was thus only two aud fifty nine one hundredths enche a cure CUBE FOR CORNS conns place the feet for half balfan an hour two or three nights successively ces in a pretty strong solution of common gom mon soda the alkali dissolves the indu rated cuticle and the corns fall out spontaneously leaving C a small cavity which soon fills IN Ix most of the th eFrench french lunatic asylums medical men now make it a point to encourage their patients to give vent to their thoughts either by writing them down on the paper or drawing and painting them on their canvass the results are said lo 10 be most satisfactory PEARS PEAKS have been so abundant in england this year that they have been sold at the rate of ib for kir ad 1 I 1 they have been cheaper than potatoes tim THE following is the total assessed wealth of pennsylvania real and gid personal real ecal personal onal aggregate THE children at work in the sheffield eld eid cutlery factories are very ignorant several lately in answer to questions put stated that they had heard the name of victoria but could not tell what it meant believed she found em in money never heard of adam or christ thought that god made man and man made woman one child aged twelve said that the queens name was the princess alexandria and that a princess was a man another of the same age declared that he did not live in england THE london morning mooning post observes that during the four years the present sultan has been on the throne we have witnessed as great an improvement in the financial and material state of turkey as the disorganization which presented itself on his accession and the internal wars in the montenegro and syria could admit of the revenue revenue has increased from under 1 in n 1861 to near the deficits ts of successive years appear to have been followed by a tangible surplus the figures for 1865 presenting a sum of for receipts ana and the expenditure amount amounting hig big to nominally no doubt the debt of turkey has as in the meantime largely in increased creased creasea but the fact remains that the bulk buik of this is increase has been beep much more moye apparent app than real A i have been discovered near blairsville pennsylvania FRANCE has gained another peaceful industrial victory lately the government of baden invited tenders for forty forte six locomotives the english contractors offered to make them for each those of Carls rhue for fon and a french establishment from the de apartment part ment of the lower rhine of graf fen staden for I 1 THERE were persons weighed on an howes scales at the boston mechanics ies fair the average weight of men was 1411 pounds average we weight ht of women the largest man was ras vas pounds 0 u ads the te largest woman weighed 74 S secretary cre ere ary weighed 1801 pounds LABOR is growing scarce in ireland it is sald said that laborers who used to work for 10 cents a day now get 50 SERIOUS losses are farmers in the tho neighborhood of exmouth elmouth Ex mouth england in consequence of the prevalence of a fatal disease among the swine tim TUB managers of or the NL kw york central have made an arenge arrangement by which there will soon be a narrow gauge from new hew york to st louis so that freight can be sent through without transfer in about one half the time it now takes A LETTER recently from columbia chicot county arkansas mentions the fact of a gent lemans riding fifty miles through the adjoining section of louisiana and not scein seeing a house standing nor being able to get et corn to feed his horse with A DISCOVERY of what is called antediluvian sculpture has been made in fran france cea a lamina lamin a of fossil ivory 1 or having I 1 been found in an erous crous v bed e d near ux with the ther figure of a mammoth rudely engraved upon it A SLIGHT shock of an earthquake was felt at kendall E england recently importance OF A BUSINESS EDUCATION cn in the edu education cadon eadon I 1 of the young man great care should be taken that his health be not impaired and the mind lose its spring csome and elasticity ander alcad of cumbersome and unpractical learning it has been said that at least one fourth of the tile students of our literary colle colleges es leave them with j impaired health full fuli one half are too sensitive to bear the rude jost lings of the world it itis is wonderful how many parents spend money which they can ill spare to unfit their sons for future usefulness A collegiate education cannot be recommended for the majority and if attainable is abt desirable george S hillard has drawn a picture intended as a source of consolation to those who are deploring their fate that they cannot obtain a collegiate education two youths for instance of the same age leave home homb at the same time and one enters college and the other goes into a or business school and let us suppose them equally conscientious and equally disposed to make the best of their opportunities the collegian works hard and learns much and in time ac acquires i r es distinction but from the recluse atif rif life ilfe e he has led he is likely to have bave awkward manners and an unprepossessing address and perhaps has impaired health F from erom roin not having been trained to self control he is perhaps impatient of contradictions M ana and needlessly sensitive he is probably conceited possibly pedantic and pretty sure to want the sixth sense which is called tact he knows much of books but little of men or life and from mere confusion of mind incurs the reproach of weakness of character on the other hand the youth who entered upon a business life finds whatever of conceit lie may have brought from the village academy is soon rubbed out of him he is obliged to keep his wits wite about him to decide quickly to have accurate eyes and truthful ears to learn that there are just sixty minutes in an hour and just one hundred cents in a dollar the hours of his day come freighted with lessons af self selo reliance and self command and the grain of his character will grow firm under the discipline of lite life A business education will be of advantage to eve every ry man v whatever his future occupation oce may be to farmers it will deac teach matlon mation business habits and attention to accounts which will give them increased interest and success ss in their business to the mechanic it will teach order system management the practical value of bookkeeping and remedy many of their deficiencies to the professional fess ional man it will afford a clear insight into the practical operations of a J in C a affairs aad and give facilities in obtaining practice I 1 I 1 Freed freidles Fre edles lems leys treatise tise on Busin business ess A remarkable TREE the moni heur in giving an account of the emperors recent visit to the jardin dabell mation at algiers stated that he was much struck with the rapid growth of the Resin Besin ifera or australian tree which has attained a hight of thirty feet and a diameter of six inches in two years this remarkable tree in its native soil australia sometimes reaches the hight of beet feet and has been found more than nineteen feet in diameter at about a yard from the tha ground round it often yields planks feet long iong without a single defect the wood withstand not its rapid growth is very lard hard hard and heavy it also aiso presents beautiful colors and is consequently well adapted for cabinet work an au astringent gum known in commerce as hinous kino is obtained by making incisions incision s into its bark the is an evergreen its leaves have nearly the same shape as the laurel the development of its lateral branches are no less wonderful ta than an its stems they are small until the trunk attains the hight of about feet when they shoot out almost horizontally sometimes to the length of ninety feet giving the tree the appearance afan of an enormous umbrella the seed strange to say is very small and not unlike that of the tobacco plant the flowers are white of a most agreeable smell and much liked by bees which extract from them a most delicious honey it is also remarked in australia that the ague is almost unknown in districts where re this tree is abundant A GREAT ENGLISH RAILWAY notwithstanding the limited territory of england it has some large railway companies the london and southwestern railroad with its branches is now five hundred and seventy two miles long and cost nearly in gold the receipts from passengers and freight the past year were more than and during the past three years the stockholders have received an annual dividend of six sis per cent the government duty amounted to trains were run miles and tickets we were resold sold not countin counting those to season ticket holders the number of live stock transported during the the yea ryas tho the company is rapidly increasing its connections and its business |
