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City) at rwidence Is Treivered 7:W Sis Month nuin 112:00 $hW nUthVe9 Month is ADTASOS jjjjD— Sis Mentha (feM 0350 Month tk ' no COIOKA10 RIVER EXPKDI UBJBCTS AMO DAJT Re- correspondent of the Chicago from Omaha : vublica't writes W PoweU loft Chicago on Major J " iortnwu Iliver City Friday ot the Pacific s mated at the crossing hrom the Green River aiiway over JJre aecompanied by about one dozen desceud- men lie intends boats until lie tje (Jreen river in Tadics its junction with the Colorado to go down the He will then attempt 5 mouth its to exploring the (’dorado riks and the surrounding country oil "exploration of the Colorado is the obiect of the expedition he will Powell is successful one of the greatest accomplished have ever made upon the Ameriexplorations can Continent fm have been made to Many attempts isnoi g! but all have proved wt if'siji explore this river Those who have attemptesuccessful ’pmwwft met rapids and have it ascend to d s to stop From the fact compelled iSlfc hat the course lies fur the most part as much ihrough kanyons sometimes t£ is mile a deep none have attempted to 1AAW t &UI descend it They have been prevented the river along the Irom following reoMrsf canks by the kapyons formed by the urn A!ajf streams flowing into the main river i'pMUsfek ill these things being consider 'd it tin25lj in follows that he who first succeeds ttllij !!' exploring it is worthy of lienor The present company is well providsmd difficulties the meet to danger" Tinssraiti EtftbtgThey have four itlie undertaking which coats though not large are y lEsnsil They were manufvery strongly built )vedHO u! oiWv actured in Chicago and were taken to j Green Iliver by rail thoMed The party in iW are mostly composed of an4i western hunters who have had fiBtrewi in the kind of life necessary to be nnelaf-The party is led by a man indergone who is neither timid nor rash — one who has nerve enough to meet and and sufficient judgdifficulties ome dacageftj ment to restrain him from unnecessary pai risks other £ I'isMs Although there are many and great difficulties to be met in this undertak-u- r vet we think the absolute danger lias been rather overestimated It is by many that when one )rft tgJ ters one of the kanyons of this river t h that lie must be burned down over !! falls among mighty Jxmlders iT jcfjis and agqin seeing the i!w underground nine heavens onlv between two parallel nr - a mile in height tl! completely at ulto die mercy of the current with no po the walls being perability of escaoe pends ul ir and unscalable and the current duMiurou with a force that cannot he of the kanyons Many of (I rein River lane already been explored by and he has found them ‘Injur I’uwcll nut near u difficult as represented lie has found that many rapids which rannnt be ascended can yet be descendIt 'Ntg ed vith safety that though the walls are sometimes perpendicular vet they are not always so hut frequently have sith an inclination that they may bo upended that there are interstices in the rocky trails and that there are conOHS fluent kanyons which afford safe reding places Having received about the same presentation of the kanyons of both these rivers OOffiri and having found that ’hose of Green river were not what they were represented to be it is but nstiual that lie should conclude that the of the Colorado representations ire exaggerated What knowledge he uwiie has of trio river obtained from the Int it dians the Mormon aud others iSwiif him in his belief To sum up all orfef m a lew words the lie considers CEO difficult though not impossible The iliver ’Major Rim skd to Gkt Ills Life Ixsir-A curtain I'utchman owner of a house had effected on insurance in it of (sun although it had been nik for ninth less The house got orned down and the Dutchman then ‘limed the full amount for which it ‘id boon iriMU’eil blit the officers of he uniinny lefiocd to pay more than ' a! ui! v alue —about lliOu Jos in jiowfid '"k his lieli-infcilardingr h miall sU os - im‘(hii(cTeutoiiicoafhs It ' id the rntuarvo! (lie oi'ut "au will budthe yon mu ii ci asd tier tli in li u ej'as le i‘ a imU1 or ePa u ue MM b— on ilv in v llnl than Lino ii iOiijndle lo de diet lie imd r nis called u'on nut tat ul e h wanted him to '' (da ul insiiiiirc mi " on in's wile "If you iiMiie ftii C:'III'I’ tin a ci at in should die you would — mu to your heart hiuiic ielloMs ish all tief's du DuUhman I insure my "If '! mil ny il'c dies and I poos to the ftl c Id git my cjtui)o do J pets all do 'wney ! So not iuitc A'ou will say u mu o nr Ollrt r me ""'oit ui- wills e iiioiHo she She xnsn’t vort C2 00 bout Cl j()i) f yon don t like we i ill give you a bigger and Toledo Daiitj June -- u j l n ROYALTY (jJfcKS tt MONDAY TKSXII— Ul Mtt"lire STOf' It D y ear or two since n sage and ‘y senior strolling over the enm- a classmate suddenly stop- short and looking skyward ex ‘aimed “How the poet must have heavens for sueii sublime with no His - '”0 poetry thancompanion a Quaker vacantly "dirked “Oosh what a big sieve 30 mist have had ” — Gris void OJb OGDEN I IS COG oRCISKlXG MONDAY CITY A MICK" A vei-- amusing anecdote is told of an Irishman w ho happened to be in Paris a short time ago while three crowned heads of Europe were there on a visit to his Imperial Majesty Napoleon An European resident of Macassar gives a vivid description of this scene n Malay: One morning as we were sitting at breakfast Mr Carter servant informThese distinguished persons were the ed us that there was an “Amok’’ in the Emperors of Russia and Austria and village— in other words that a man was One day having “running a muck” Orders were immeKing of Prussia thrown aside ali state ceremonial they diately given to shut and fasten the gate determined but hearing nothing to see the sights of the of the enclosure beautiful city on the Seine for their for tome time we went out and found alarm owing own delegation and for that purpose that there hud been a to a slave having run away declaring they resolved to go incognito so as not that ho would “amok” because his masto be recognized by the people Howshort time ter wanted to sell him ever in their stroll through Paris they before a man had been killed at a gamwent astray and meeting a ing table because having lost half a dollar more thuu lie he was going who possessed be to person happened an Irishman they politely asked him to “amok” Another had killed or if he would kindly direct them to the wounded seventeen people before he could be destroyed In their wars u Palais Itoyal whole regiment of those will “Faith aud that I will my hoys" sometimes agree to “arnok people and then said Pat at the same time taking a rush on with “tich onergetic desperation mental of the “boys” as to bo very formidable to men net o photograph Among the an“This way iuy hearties” and so they sxeitod as themselves cients these would huvo been looked were conducted to the gates of tlie Royupon as heroes or demigods who have al Palace and the Irishman was about sacrificed themselves for their country bidding them farewell when the EmHere it is imply 'aiJ They made an peror of Kuia interested and pleaded “amok” Macassar is the t celebrated as much by the genuine politeness of place Pat (and what son of Erin was ever de- in the Eat for “running u muck” ficient in courtesy and politeness) as by There if said to be one or two a month and live ten or twenty 3ii the average his naivete and witty remarks adeed persons are sometimes killed or woundhim who he was ed at one of them It is tho national “Well” rejoinedthe guide “I did and theiefore the most honorable mode not ask who you were and before I of committing suicide among the native" answer yon perhaps you will tell me of Celebes and is tho fashionable way of A Hoescaping from their difficulties who you may be'’” his sword a Japanese After some further parleying one man failshisupon stomach and an Englishman rips up said “I am Alexander and they call biows his brains out with a pistol The me Czar or Emperor of all the Rus Bugis mode has many advantages tonne A man thinks sia suieidally inclined “Indeed” said Pat with a roguish wronged iu society— he is in debt twinkle in the comer of his eye and but cannot nay — he is taken for a slave away bis wife and child an incredulous nod of the head (as much or has gambled of recoverinto slavery — he sees no astojsay “This body is up to codding ing what lie has lost andwaybecomes desme a bit”) “And might I make so perate lie will not put up with such bold as to ask who you may lie my cruel wrongs but will be revenged on mankind and like a hero he grasps his flower?” out the weapon and “They call me Francis Joseph the stabs a man todraws tho heart lie runs on of Austria” Emperor kris in hand stubbing at ' “Most happy to make your acquaint- with bloody “Amok amok!” one he meets every ance Frank my boy” said the Irishthen sounds through the streets Spears man who thinking he was hoaxed krisses knives and guns are brought out and lu his despairing efforts to get the against him rushes forward madly Ily truth as ho conceived out of any of kills all he can— rnen women and chilnumthem turned to the third one and dren— and dies overwhelmed by battlebers amid all the excitement of a said “Who are you?” i field And vvliat that excitement “They call me Frederick William those who have been in one best know and I am King of Prussia” but all who havo ever gh en way to viohim tlut he lent passion" or even indulged in reminded They exercises may form a ery piomised to tell them who he was and after much hesitation and a mysterious good idea It is a delirious intoxication mitdnessthat absorbs every air of confidence Pat putting his hand a temporary nii'd every A nd cun’ wo thought oneigy to his mouth whispered: wonder at the “1 am the Emperor of China but brooding Malay preferring suchuntaught a death don't toll anybody” — Ej looked upon as alino-- t honorable to tffis if be details of suicide I n k ok JkrikKsox Dams with a wishes to escape from overwhelming li ret history of the Southern Confeder- trouble- - or the merciless clutches of tho bchinds the scenes in liungman and the disgrace of a public acy “gathered A bollard ltiehiimnd execution when ho has taken tho law by Kdward Nainto his own hands and too hastily reauthor of “T'n’Lo-- t In tional Publishing Company Chicago venged himself upon his enemy? he to “amok We have received advanced sheets eilher of the above work The autobiography of Jefferson llaus as thus written by A MohkIj 31 1)— luul just finished Mr Pollard shows the sebolat and the my Kipper and was onjo mg my cigar when I heard a man Then: are power and genius on the deck writer ih in a loud voice to two or claiming ami art and skill and passion in hi throe attentive ILstuiers (but evidently hook beside the mental suhtiltv clear intended for “whoever it might concern” Beinsight and vehement protest and im at the same time) on Eiithoioifu Do beperfectly defined longiusr that shows it ing as it were thus invited I a like the a listener to came something of 3Ir to be the work of a gentleman following It is Pollard’s cultivated abilitie- “There it is now! Well some peowhich ple talk about wiled fevers there ain’t busy with the great problems r A the country cannot escape and which no rich thing as seated lever bite is a seated fever: cure the bite it is resolutely attempting to solve and the fever quits you quick enough Taking it all in all it is an absorbingly Jos’ so with u Idle—tho same thing There ain’t no rich thing I tell ye as a interesting volume We append the following from the seated fever Fact is and yon can’t s rub it out your regular doctor of the “sheets” as it gives according to books now 1 practize a clear concisive idea of the general tom of the whole book: case now There was Dr Kugg of our r the erv Samson of the There lia- been a very superficial and villagoMedica NVa’al be treats fevers to some peoplo a very pleasant way of What's tin lor the downfall of the according to the books accounting I get all the patient-- ! southern Confederacy by simply ascri consequence? bing it to the great superiority of the lie met me one day and says be to me This North in numbi'i- and xeource says he ‘How is it that you git all the mgument liasnml)md a great career iu the fever I told him exactly how it ’ in small publications-annewspapers so” Die vulgar mind is easily imposed wa- and it ts “Well doctor” inteiiujited mie of upon by l ho statistical parallel and tlie as it is the listeners “how d" twi ireat f stnti iiient mehm'd aiitlmietieiil oua-"Well there it - jolt to! to limit its comprehension of great nail problems t" tnei t liiaiei ld iew s melmw! tie it fei Ifjoudhu' no doubt that There of the eiiesii hi when l toe unni n ed iv ul the north in number- till' dd till e ni In' o ill jou ha groil v l"M that it mtlibllted a !y leul vru a i'' treat In d itilme ol the Co'll" Him i! idcomhe hell IIIL'i I) HU" 'ini- - :i im dine a lhlt ll e lie e e p: uil I'lll l ul eiiii'i-e 'uil at loll le L - N lit tli ii il - vim e ineq oilil' "I !t!i" til!ol Ill to he ill 'lilIU o hohi ion lei mg the gieiil o the No !h niie lu jo)' e cot " In’ ’sou il m up in - item lo nor a oni ilie cm um on e ot bin J listen r b" e nil bundled anioit) ortbiee ii null ed In tghtii- - oi ue ui li ' W did'i id two dm in at a' on the a it Ml tot he: ti'intoiv unit vnmptos a do li T a ill' h ii Do cm d a Pirtha the and wo ill toe vo"iritiy bi'toi in e end m nt into ui im wln"u the' j one iu turn soaiell ill) mi ami a of I lot e a con lit "f u h tiit - the Conleilei flock of Felt her the enhim if tbit! by at has been o thoroughly subdilod by Says J —and lie’ll never lorgct any amount of unlitaiy loree vuli'' puh’i it till In r d ing day does tonic ays vir’‘e tO)i'thir ilemundi at tun iiai If war was a contest on an open ‘You ain’t no ntoie got the Ynd jilain w here military forces tight a duel than I’ve got it not a bit’ of course that inferior in numbers mut there ’twas lu two weeks j’ou sei Hut war is an intiicate game go under and there are elements in it far more de- cured her'’ did “Well but Doctor bow Attho becisive than that of numbers yuiunr" her” ginning of the war in America all intelI told jou sec "There it is again1 ligent men in the world and the Southern leaders themselves knew the dispar- aiotoftanzv and a flock of chicken-g- i 1 gin her some ity of population and consequently of owing at the door between the North and military force as did laid egg — not on that account of the tanzy and a fiesb South but they It’s killer ure determine that the defeat of the South brought her right up with me Fact is gentlemen'' as a foregone conclusion and the argument conics with a bad grace from the the doctor “I call myself an to ascribe officer leaders of the (Wtoderwcy is my soldierMy now its failure to what stared them in disease ruy inimy I rush at him of the my the face at the commencement ’ither and be or me has got to conquer! and was then m lightly ami contest — J Draw rcvi-ut JTui'i in” give oven irtfeolertiy dismissed from their Ak’j''MaeJVi dy iuii( tiiy JUNE 28 Esgiskerixo ix America— Railroads YOL 1869 England and and great public works are so nearly finished in England that civil engineering there is no longer a lucrative profession An English commenting paper upon the great number out of employment says “Their future hopes must rest in the drainage of land the storage of water the distribution of the lainfalls and tho application of the science to agriculture” If the field is closed nguinst in engineering England a new aud inexhaustible one is certainly open to them in America Here a continent is to be developed in the march of civilization when e they must act as pioneer As yet A merica is lamentably deficient in this rcpo( t Fame anu fortune have been too often rapidly achieved through discovery aud ingenuity to force upon our engineers) that carefulness of detail and economy of in great cost o essentiil to progress works o welcome the day that is to bring to us the carefully trained English engineers with whom these are always the The ruinprime clement of success ously extravagant rates at which our in urn nee busirailroads steamboats ness and all public works aio conducted must soon prove a material bar to our prosperity and now loudly call for The bar at the mouth of a change the Mississippi upon which so many millions have been ineffectually wasted as long as it exists must be a reproach to tho deficient skill of our engineers a well as to the enterprise of our people —A 0 Timex Vaut op Co oon's — The first fair stile of merchantable cocoons for actual and for quotation of the market value was ifiade lately by 3Iesrs Packard & Goux of Santa The sale was :joO lbs at $1 Barbara A huge lot of refuse cofit) per lb coons (on which the elate premium has been drawn by many nmllierrymen j was given free of charge to the purchaser 3laking allowance for this the sound cocoons may be rated at $1 2o per lb Ordinary cocoons made by worms led on the baby leaves of nursery plants would be worth half of niaker The that quotation to the wore grown by Santa Barbara worms fed on mature leave-- from tree five years old riandimr sixteen feet apart and kept headed down to ix or seven feet above the ground The climate is subject to no damaging that would chill the worm and mar the equal perfection: ot its fibre It is by mu li cocoons only that Cali foinia silk tan be Jairiy judged arid some means’ should be taken to prevent inferior cocoons made in loss equable climates liom going abroad to condemn our silk fiir year- to come It is proper to state that price was not an asserted object in this purchase and it cannot bo relied on for future sales Tho money if tbu result of subscription by u few corporations aud citizens of San Francisco aided Ilaidit and the greatly by Governor purpose is to make two flags of California product and manufacture one for the Capitol of our Ftate and one for the Capitol at Washington The Neumann Brothers are about putting up their looms in this city at a convenient place for the public to see the practical in California beginning of We are destined to supply a great part of the silk of commerce Wheat and many other products have small and uncertain margins but silk has a very broad aud sure mat gin especially when we convert it into cloth Let no one fail to see this first practical work in for in a few years it will bo inestimable pride to say that we saw tho small beginning of the mighty trade it will have swollen to and the parent of tens of thousands of rich and happy homes that will grow up under its auspive — Alta C'alijoi at it li )stou A deer User is alarmed enegy ami enterprue of Portland says- “Some fina morning before some of our people me awake another continuous line lrom the west ruunim clear of Boston will be landing grain on tho wharv's in Portland to which riiipsof the lirq(“f kind ran come without difficulty" The by the and S"f'liiilcs Wcntwr'li Ihik'q the reed i'l St IVt rsbnrg the age of He er ol tne great cti'e ived y lc I' tlf and eh' its retry in i ceoqiiition of his si ivu ui inu‘ ii ii 1c rt iking lie was I’irliamei t a m "ilt r o the N o'ttig indy can bo too well in- which will Mn rt in any tiling Whatever t)" eom'ort oi a tiunly u in iur society she needs a praoiic’d Liiol"lg of house! hridu She may bu pi ks d m ties wit not Im necesiu mas that it sary tor her to perform mu :h domestic libor but on tins account sh needs no less knowledge than if she were obliged w preside personally md pmtry In over the deed 1 havo often thought that it is most difficult to direct otb irs and rethan do to quires more experience the samo woi it with our own hands 'Mothers are frequently so nice and particular that they do not like to give tip any part of their care to thei: This is a great mistake iu children for they aro often their management burdened with let or and need relief Children should be early taught to useful— to assist make themselves taesr parents in every way in ther power and to consider it a privilege Ito do so I with a Pithon — In a reentitled “The Eastern the writer describes his been presented with a monster having inclosed iu a box IIo takes python it with him on board a French vessel but shortly after having set sail discovers that the box is empty and that the python (a largo serpent foundin tho East Indies) has assumed to itself the freedom of the vessel In describing it the author his efforts to recapture savs: We had four hordes on deck ami tho middle of the boat was filled with bay fiir them and under that it is probable that the reptile had crawled away In tho bottom of the boat art was a deck an I as I ciiudiedupa second time I noticed that the board which formed the apex of the triangle was loose and moved a little to one side Carefully raising this I espied to my horror the python coiled away lieneuth the place being so small that tho loose mu one side of his coils board wore a thin suit a Chinese baju or loose blouse a pair of canvas shoes aud a large sun liat Throwing' off my bat that I might go into the dreadful I liouted out for struggle unimpeded a long kniftL knowing well that what 1 must try to do was to cut him in two and that he would attempt to catch my band in bis jaw and if he would succeed in doing that be would wind himself around me quick as a man could wind the lash of a long whip around a fixed stick and certainly ho was large and strong enough to crash the largest horee The cook handed me a sharp knife more than a foot long and holding the board down with my feet I thrust the blade through the crack and wrenching with all my might tried to break the reptile’s backbone and thus render all that part of tho body behind the tincture helpless Despite my utmost efforts lie pulled away the knife and escaped two or three feet forward where there was more room under the deck By this time there was the The captain e greatest confusion believing that discretion is the better part of valor ran below the he was satisfied that 1 had indeed discovered the monster seized a brace of pistols and perching himself upon tlie monkey rail leaned his back against the ntizen rigging and held one in each hand ready to fire hto tho boat at the The sailors all gathslightest alarm ered round the boat and stood perfectly still apparently half stupefied and not knowing whether it would bo site-- t for them to stand still climb up: the or jump overboard The mute armed himself with a revolver and climbed on tlie stern of the boat Indeed evety moment 1 expected to bear a i port auu find shot by some of the luavu ones behind mo The second mate who was the real man among them all seized a large sheath knife and elimbcl into the boat to hoi) me I knew it would not do to strike tho monster with a knife where he had room enough to deicud himself 1 therefore threw it down and seized a short hand: pike of iron wood the only weapon within my reach and told the second mate to raise the deck aud 1 would attempt to finish my antagonist with the club for the thought of escaping while I could and leaving for others to do what belonged to me never enAs the deck rose tered my mind I beheld him coiled up about tu o feet and a half from my riynt foot Suffering the acutoxt agony from tho wound I had him he raised his already given head nigh out of the midst of his huge coil his red jaws wido open and his eyes flashing fire like live coals felt tlie blood chili in my veins for a moment we glanced into each other’s eyes and both instinctively realized that one of us two must die on the spot He daitcd at my foot hoping to fasten his fangs in my canvas shoe but I was too quick for him and gave him such a blow over tho head and neck that lie was glad to cod up again This gave me time to prepare to give him another blow arid t'ims fin about fifteen minutes continued to trike witii nil my might and three in four (inns his jaws came within two oi tin o in lies of my liesrm to led my strength fat hint iu a tlvr ciulj not hld out mom nt iuic'cr yet in that moil' tli ii t in im nt fort mint ly vh" cm pouter Fight cent volume - wit- - airlsnr cently a (oir‘ii'’ il thoueht ifbis raj a and oriiirng it to the rideot tl 'cut laid op tin bundle o that it o'lhl ci while the r pt’rio vu- tunniii!) Mow iilinq up lor ill' lait in i’t"d at me The im gave him a h'vvy ut riant rii't vu inches bihi’iJ la rfvermg tho body incli :ibo on oil an it pt fomplatih the under id nd as lie r riled up tins Iristu’th d h r jiii'l n nao One cut more and a rope "nd in an instant ui""il him theririp’s rail into the a The long tnit of his blood on tlie mo that was indeed rale and driwiiur a long breath of relief thanked (be tliv'vof all cur Lie— ing- S'lnthii i'i r'hm Jon' 2 nt "i The New Orleans i'toynnc relates a member of the Lousiana Legislature who carries a pair ot gigan-tfeet which he swings about as lie walks like a pair of flails recently accosted a member of tne bar with “Mr M y a know me don’t you?” Mi M surprised the drew himself ut full at question length and scanning his interlocutor from bead to foot remarked “Well sir your face is familiar to me but assuredly your feet have outgrown that i B'j riC'ileeticT” & A ia THURSDAY iofxxe Si $’00 Month Xhret) Months Ut ABTASOl:) IviITtD— Six Month Par annum 17:00 Threa Month $3:oO Per ftt y ith First CUe Fsmtly Ppcr erary acUleiuen: ia tire Torntury PUBLISH IV aid ft A ®tlerwb il'ime InraresU ponito ol political rights t rh is !d the fl Sit Jskt UDinita ft W FLEA EXTRRTArVMENT In London a young Envlislmian is conducting an exhibition of a very curious character He is the proprietor of a stud of performing fleas or to use the words of bis own announcements of “trained Apterous insects the only in tho world specimens of thoArticulata ever taught to perform” The London Doily A etc says: “We went to tlm sight fearing that our sense of refinebut found ment would be shocked upon entering tlie room a tastefully and several ladies deeoratodipnrtniont with their children admiring the household foes which n wholesome of duty teaches them generally to crush Mr Kitchingman the exhibitor lias toiled hard and long to bring his exhibition to its present successful condition Like the evei lasting t to hare the fleas have had he hither from caught then Russia Belgium shijiped or o! seal ere nud afiei wards subjected to a training in which severity and tenderness are pretty equally proportioned Without going so tar os tlie exhibitor who believes tho little wretches he protects have intellects and say bo ira seen their brains we must confess our astonishment at tne novel figure they are made to out alt hough iu an age like this one ought not to be timaed at such a trifle ns the spread of education among fleas The insects in Regent street draw carriages uet as tug form lire off a gun to a pei draw n bucket on the out of an imaginary well leap and swing and execute other evolutions upon a white smooth table ‘These however are not tilings done by tho fleas as by other being The voluntary system is quire ignored and the wonder of the exhibition F rather the marvelous delicacy of the machinery than tho geiiius of the per31r formers after Kitchingman ears of patience has perfected a set of jillipuiran articles designed and made his bands of are own that then' by selves of the rarest kind and the visitor will soon perceive that they are made for tho fietes most ingeniously and not the fleas for them Taking tilts raw untutored flea between bis finger and thumb with a touh that few could command the proprietor fasten by a peculiar noose a fine hair round the insect’s trunk leaving the two ends standing an inch or so above the back fooler- iiko a couple of overgrown s These urc fit toned to tho apparatus generally by insertion in the difficult this split of a tiny straw and operation having been done without inthe lornes-ejury to wind or limb captive is attached to tho particular sen iee for which its talents fit ir “The Russian and Belgian fleas are but the English breed favorite pupil after much starving and training Wo obthe toughest and best served one on Saturday however Letand ting in the collar very painfully drawing his ivory car with a hop skip and jump instead of the steady easy trot which the Russian or Belgian affected J’eiinps it was too much to flea to bo docile expect a in the presunder the eireinnstanees ence of ruddy children and blonde ladies One or two of the performer-werinheritors out ns the of a pointed green old age they bad lived nine and were now in the course months of nature nearing the day of their death v'i’liree or four months — nay weeks — however are considered a hard age for a flea to live with touching “Mr Kitchingnian affection allows his fleas to live put ot himself which is nothing but fair seeing that lie liv es out of them Every and attempted day when something done ha earned them a something hi he feeds flock night’s repose upon indihi hand each the back of put and vidual between u blanket layer into a lox where they luiuber secure out of barm’s vay and oiurht to )e able to rio iu the morniuz tovvmds ali manwith tloar The untrained kind reset ve totk (two or three bundled) are kept iu u bottl lull nf flannel vvuu! stoppered The exhibit'd give Iri viitni much information branel upon this of natural lii'tnrv” The Japanese paper it a cotempu-rnHhsumlly coming be right The paper collar lisa now been extended to loia luf more rircorteu: garments of gret strength h u which cn be re vo gi Viih ream- ait lost as n long Tin rav enter ha a a woven tubi ie appluri 4 to tlie producvviii'-ue either tion of petticoat the pi rated in lnnti'icu skirts of tlio d vy or st imped out with open work o! s"eJi i'eati v ami delicacy as i:o mount "f labor with mild imitate scissors and needle The marvel is that the-really beautiful productions can be sold retail at imitation crefifteen tents each tonnes and eliintes l'oi bed fan iture a set costing retail are also made about SI oil The felted material “is so flexible that a curtain may be twisted into a rope and shaken out agaiD showing as little creasing as chintz similarly treated” There are with deivLo table cloths embossed signs of great beauty This felted paper may in the end have a serious influence on ihe production of the woven fabrics it is intended to diskatker impermeaplace Imitation ble to water is likewise mads cf it and produces a cheap and useful covering for furniture and eveu serve® for ihe os r N'1 ’i ei § ii 'ij j (:I’u 'i ri 'i I t: ' £ 1 - |