anaheim-gazette 1882-08-26

ANAHEIM VOL. XII. WEEKLY GAZETTE Established 1870. For Terms, see Fourth Page. Dr. Reginald A. Fergusson Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery of the Queen's University, Ireland; Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal College of Nursees of Edinburgh; Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of London; Late Senior Resident Nurgeon, Resident Physician and Assistant Pathologist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and Lately Resident in the Rokanda Hospital, (for diseases of women only) Dublin. OFFICE AT THE SANITARIUM, LEMON STREET. - - ANAHEIM. Office hours from 7 A.M. to 12 M., and from 5 P.M. to 8 P.M. DR. E. L. COWAN, Dentist, Has opened an office in the upper part of Mrs Metz's building, Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. Having had twenty years experience, he can speak with confidence of his work. His scale of prices is very low. He will be found in his office every day between the hours of DAM and 6 P.M. GEO. B. SHAFFER, NOTARY PUBLIC. Office BANK OF ANAHEIM. IF YOU WANT TO GET RID OF SQUIRRELS AND GOPHERS USE CARBON BI-SULPHIDE Everybody who has used it recommends it as the ONLY SURE EXTERMINATOR Of this vermin. For sale by A. LANGENBERGER, Dealer in Groceries, Hardware, Paints, Oils and Crockery. City Stables, Center Street (Opposite Kroeger’s Block), ANAHEIM. L. F. Lewis, - Proprietor. THESE STABLES ARE THE BEST VENTILATED and most commodious in the town, and special attention will be paid to Boarding and Grooming horses. The charge in all cases will be reasonable. Single and Double Teams Furnished at short notice, and careful drivers, familiar with the country, supplied when required. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. CURIOUS CASES If there should arise so or a dramatist who would tales or h plays noth would be regarded—and sensational inventor of in and coincidences. For be thought absurd to have lain” killed off by letting as John Hart was killing floating dock at the foot East river, or to have a w the garden hanging out to by a horse falling on her house, which was the fate No. 641 Hudson street. J., Jacob Wagner, was falling into the well he the other hand, at Levi a farmer with his team s with cordwood fell over high without himself or sleigh suffering injury. ward Beckman, of Middle a doomed animal. She was drawn out and placed to recover her strength, locomotive set fire to ther her to death. Two men tank in Louisville, whi dropped in a can of turm tom and set the tank on not agree which should exit hole first, and both death. At Reading, went to varnish the inside a lamp in his hand, and blew him out of the m Dentist, Has opened an office in the upper part of Mrs Met's building, Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. Having had twenty years experience, he can speak with confidence of his work. His scale of prices is very low. He will be found in his office every day between the hours of DAM and 8 P.M. GEO. B. SHAFFER, NOTARY PUBLIC. Office: BANK OF ANAHEIM. RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC. Gazettee Office. H. C. KELLOGG, Surveyor and Civil Engineer. PARTIES DESIRING TO CONSULT ME PERSONALLY will find me at the residence of B. F. Kellogg Address, Anaheim P.O. Jly22 THEODORE LYNILL, Attorney-at-Law. ANAHEIM, CAL. Office in Planter's Hotel Publishing MONEY TO LOAN.—Ruling rate 10 per cent. ROBT. W. SCOTT, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Continuation of Descriptions for Arizona Territory Krower's Block, Anaheim, Cal. VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Attorney-at-Law. SANTA ANA, CAL. Office in Dibbles' brick building, nearly opposite the Postoffice. Office hours from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. M. L. WICKS, Attorney-at-Law. Rooms 86 and 87 Temple Block. LOS ANGELES. MONEY TO LOAN. Apply to R.W. SCOTT, Attorney at Law H. J. STEVENSON, Deputy U.S. Land and Mineral Surveyor. Office: Roam No 4, Downey Block. LOS ANGELES, - - CAL. L. GUNTHER, Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker, ANAHEIM. L. F. Lewis. -- Proprietor. THESE STABLES ARE THE BEST VENTILATED and most commodious in the town, and special attention will be paid to Boarding and Grooming horses. The charm in all cases will be reasonable. Single and Double Teams Furnished at short notice, and careful drivers, familiar with the country, supplied when required. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. D. E. MILES, Warehouseman and Commission Merchant. Highest Cash Price Paid for Wheat, Barley, Corn, Rye, Potatoes, And all Country Produce. Cash advances made on all consignments of Grain and Wool. Sacks and Twine At lowest market prices. Office opposite Railroad Depot, Anaheim, Cal. COOPERAGE A LARGE QUANTITY OF BARRELS, HALF BARRELS, 10 Gallon and 5 Gallon Kegs For Sale Cheap. Apply to B. DREYFUS & CO. Anaheim B. DREYFUS, E.L.GOLDSTEIN, Anaheim, San Francisco J.FROWENFIELD, J.J.WEOLIN, New York B. DREYFUS & CO. Growers and Dealers in California Wines and Grape Brandy. 630 to 642 Brannan Street, San Francisco; 45 Broadway, New York A.E.WHITE. E.A.WHITE BLACKSMITHING —AND — Wagonmaking! All Work Warranted. A doomed animal or a doomed animal was drawn out and placed to recover her strength, locomotive set fire to the her to death. Two men tank in Louisville, who dropped in a can of turpentine not agree which should exit hole first, and body death. At Reading, went to varnish the inside a lamp in his hand, and blew him out of the mast not killed. At Erie a Herbe, was similarly blown and terribly injured; while John McCleary well, it made a flow, but of 100 feet and exploded glycerine torpedo without verely. When A.O.'s Mont., fractured a rail city contemporary cable perhaps without a parallel his Mary Hanrehan burst sneezing, and over George S. Payne yawning joint. At Newark, in hot bar from a rolling wheel Michael McEvoy thrust sprang to prevent a being perforated by a chine. At Albany, did not long afterward tering his body while firemen Daniels was draining the engine house in the ropes by which the roof caught him and he was within an inch at Ghent, N.Y., a tree-shaded road was which ran into his thigh had an escape as na Church, of Passaic, wishing telephone wire while a man was sitting to saw off a limb, the limb fell, letting him fall and then closing on him of chopping and prying the trap, and several by the squeezing. A who leaped up to hang caught her ring in the her feet not touching her accident befell a jumped up to light a hooked to the top by son of Winnipeg, got into a slough by able to get out before into the mud, so that sure. A priest of P who had a careless hail in the ink-stand p himself in the palm after eight weeks of oning. Mrs. Mary F was killed in three dainting a pin in the finger. H. J. STEVENSON, Deputy U. S. Land and Mineral Surveyor, Office Room No 4, Downey Block, LOS ANGELES, - CAL. L. GUNTHER, Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adele and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Center Street MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash price. All orders promptly attended to All work guaranteed. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE. Pipes, Barrels and keys on hand at all times. Tanks and Tubs made to order. Honey Barrels for sale cheap. F. & J. BACKS. Importers, Manufacturers and Dealers in Furniture, Bedding, Paper Hangings, Picture Frames, etc, UNDERTAKERS. Agents for the Howe, Eldredge and Victor Sewing Machines. Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. JOHN HANNA, Real Estate Agent. Live Stock Bought and Sold on Commission. ANAHEIM. Maps of Los Angeles County For sale at the Gazette office for 50 cents. Brandy. 630 to 642 Brannan Street, San Francisco; 45 Broadway New York. A. E. WHITE. E. A. WHITE BLACKSMITHING — AND — Wagonmaking! All Work Warranted. Prices as low as the lowest. Center Street, Anaheim. Planters' Hotel, ANAHEIM, CAL. J. E. STACKPOLE, - Manager. THIS POPULAR HOTEL ESTABLISHED IN 1865, has just been thoroughly renovated throughout, and is now in such condition as to secure for guests the Very Best Accommodations. The Tatle will always be supplied with all the Delicacies to be obtained in the Market. An elegant Billiard Hall and Reading Room for amusement of Guests. The Bar supplied with only the best of Wines, Liquors & Cigars. FREE COACH to the House from all trains SIGNORET HOUSE. WELL FURNISHED AND WELL VENTILATED. Rooms to let by the day, week or month in the Signoret House, Cor. of Main and Turner Streets, (Opposite the Fine House) by MRS. WM. R. OLDEN. WEEKLY EIM GAZ ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1882. CURIOUS CASUALTIES. If there should arise some day an author or a dramatist who would present in his tales or plays nothing but facts, he would be regarded—and justly—as a wildly sensational inventor of impossible incidents and coincidences. For instance, it would be thought absurd to have a "heavy villain" killed off by letting a ship fall on him, as John Hart was killed last fall in the floating dock at the foot of Clinton street, East river, or to have a woman who was in the garden hanging out the clothes crushed by a horse falling on her from an adjoining house, which was the fate of Mrs. Spier, of No. 641 Hudson street. At Atlantic, N.J., Jacob Wagner, was crushed by a horse falling into the well he was digging. On the other hand, at Levis, opposite Quebec, a farmer with his team and a sleigh loaded with cordwood fell over a cliff sixty feet high without himself or the animals or the sleigh suffering injury. The cow of Edward Beekman, of Middletown, N.J., was a doomed animal. She had been mired, but was drawn out and placed in a straw heap to recover her strength, and a spark from a locomotive set fire to the straw and burned her to death. Two men were mending a tank in Louisville, when a red hot bolt dropped in a can of turpentine at the bottom and set the tank on fire. They could not agree which should climb through the exit hole first, and both were burned to death. At Reading, Pa., John Goerner went to varnish the inside of a beer vat with a lamp in his hand, and this gas exploding blew him out of the manhole, but he was himself over while playing tenpins and broke his leg. A bee flew into the mouth of Mr. Van Meter, of Oroville, and stung him so that-the throat closed up, and he died instantly. At Marham, in England, an owl whipped three boys who had taken her young, blinding one for life. In one street in London two children were killed by gamecocks within a month. As a Michigan youth was leaded a horse by the halter, the animal leaped suddenly to one side and the jerk broke the boy's neck. In the Liverpool warehouse, Ellen Colman, aged 104, died of swallowing a pinch of snuff. Mrs. Hawes, of Leicester, while coughing swallowed two of her false teeth, and was strangled—a common accident. Thomas Clarke, of Wakefield, England, while attempting to puff a dart aimed with a needle through a tube, sucked it into his windpipe and died. At Westfield, Texas, James Worseworth, caught by a terrible storm in an open field, was pelted to death by hailstones. A Cincinnati clerk, while removing an article from the shop window with a brass rod, touched an electric light wire and was hurled through the plate-glass out upon the sidewalk. Jacob Bohrer, a brewery hand in Morrisania, turned a stream of compressed air into a hogshead of beer and the barrel exploded, killing him. A woman of Wooler, Northumberland, carrying home a fagot by a strap passed round her head, leaned the bundle against a fence to rest herself, when it slipped over and the strap strangled her—a common accident. Julia Joal, of Ennis, Tex., tried to crawl into the locked house through a window, when the sash fell on her neck and she was strangled. Mr. THE FRUIT BUSINESS. Last year the prices of certain kinds of fruit ruled high in this Stata. It was said that in some instances the cannery companies paid more for fruit than they received, especially for apricots and plums. However this might have been, the cannery companies entered into a combination and fixed a tariff of prices which was considerably lower than that paid last year. The crop of plums and apricots has been a very large one—quite as large as the canneries appear to have been able to handle; and in some instances they were quite willing to throw up contracts, but were held closely by the fruit-growers, who find that they have an enormous crop, which must be worked off in a few days. It is quite evident that the cannery business has saved the fruit interest of California. The combination, however, is not acceptable to the fruit-growers who fear that prices will be cut down still further. Some of the larger growers are now talking about erecting their own canneries. One fruit-grower will produce about 600 tons of fruit this year. This, we take it, includes a grape crop. But the two items of plums and apricots did not amount to less than 250 tons. Orchardists who can make this showing claim that it would be far better to erect canneries on their own premises—that the fruit put up at the orchard is better than that sent a long distance, and which by waiting frequently becomes over-ripe and stale. A large item of freight would also be saved. That appears to be the way the fruit-growers are reasoning about the matter at present. With independent canneries on their own premises, the fruit would always be put a doomed animal. She had been mired, but was drawn out and placed in a straw heap to recover her strength, and a spark from a locomotive set fire to the straw and burned her to death. Two men were mending a tank in Louisville, when a red hot bolt dropped in a can of turpentine at the bottom and set the tank on fire. They could not agree which should climb through the exit hole first, and both were burned to death. At Reading, Pa., John Goerner went to varnish the inside of a beer vat with a lamp in his hand, and this gas exploding blew him out of the manhole, but he was not killed. At Erie a boilermaker, Joseph Herbe, was similarly blown out of a boiler and terribly injured; while at Bradford, while John McCleary was torpedoing an oil well, it made a flow, hurling him a distance of 100 feet and exploded the 48-pound nitro-glycerine torpedo without injuring him severely. When A. O'Connell, of Helena, Mont., fractured a rib while sneezing, a city contemporary called it "an accident perhaps without a parallel." At Indianapolis Mary Hanrehan burst her eyeball while sneezing, and over in Brooklyn officer George S. Payne yawned his shoulder out of point. At Newark, in August last, a red-hot bar from a rolling mill machine pierced Michael McEvoy through the leg as he sprang to prevent a fellow-workman from being perforated by a bar from another machine. At Albany, Daniel Killeen was killed not long afterwards by a similar bar entering his body while he was sleeping. As firemen Daniels was driving engine 33 out of the engine house in this city one of the ropes by which the harness is suspended from the roof caught him round the neck, and he was within an ace of being hanged. At Ghent, N. Y., a boy driving along a tree-shaded road was caught up by a bough which ran into his thick woolen mueller, and had an escape as narrow. So had Mr. Church, of Passaic, who drove into a hanging telephone wire. At Saginaw, Mich., while a man was sitting in a crotch of a tree to saw off a limb, the crotch split as the limb fell, letting him down into the opening and then closing on him. It took an hour of chopping and prying to get him out of the trap, and several of his ribs were broken by the squeezing. A lady in Philadelphia, who leaped up to hang a dress upon a hook, caught her ring in the hook and hung there, her feet not touching the ground. A similar accident befell a Boston woman, who jumped up to light a hall gas-lamp, and was hooked to the top by her ring. Bob Johnson, of Winnipeg, going home drunk, stepped into a slough by the fence and, was unable to get out before his feet were frozen into the mud, so that he perished of exposure. A priest of Puchkirken, in Styria, who had a careless habit of leaving his pens in the ink-stand point upward, pricked himself in the palm of his hand and died after eight weeks of agony from blood-poisoning. Mrs. Mary Ferguson, of Brooklyn, was killed in three days by a prick from a pin in the finger. A schoolgirl at Franklin. Every six months a notice is circulated in the female penentiaries of France calling upon all women who feel inclined to go out to New Caledonia and be married to make an application to that effect through the Governor. The matrimonial candidates must be young and exempt from physical infirmities. Girls under long sentences readily catch at this method of escaping from prison life. The only moral qualification requisite is to have behaved well at least two years in the penentiary. The selected candidates have to sign engagements promising to marry convicts and to settle in New Caledonia for the remainder of their lives. On these conditions the Government transports them, gives them an outfit, and a ticket of leave when they land at Noumea. Their marriages are arranged for them by the Governor of the colony, who has a selection of well-behaved convicts ready for them to choose from, and each girl may consult her own fancy within certain limits, for the proportion of marriageable men to women is about three to one. It has frequently happened that pretty girls have been wooed by warders, free settlers, or time-expired soldiers and sailors, instead of by convicts. In such cases the Governor can only assent to a marriage on condition that the female convict's free lover shall place himself in the position of a ticket-of-leave man, and undertake never to leave the colony. The married couples get huts and free grants of land, and all they can draw from it by their own labor becomes theirs. During five years they are subjected to the obligation of reporting themselves weekly at the district police office, and they are forbidden to enter public houses, and must not be found out of doors at night. This probationary period being satisfactorily passed, they get their year. This we take it, includes a grape crop. But the two items of plums and apricots did not amount to less than 250 tons. Orchardists who can make this showing claim that it would be far better to erect canneries on their own premises—that the fruit put up at the orchard is better than that sent a long distance, and which by waiting frequently becomes over-ripe and stale. A large item of freight also be saved. That appears to be the way the fruit-growers are reasoning about the matter at present. With independent canneries on their own premises, the fruit would always be put up in the right condition, and that without any drawbacks of shrinkage in weight and petty spoliations during transportation. Of course, only the largest orchardists could afford to erect canneries, a moderate plant costing about $10,000. But a fruit district might own one in common, where no one individual interest was large enough to erect one. It does not appear, however, that the prices paid at the canneries have been unremunerative to the fruit-grower. The large crops have made up, to some extent, for the smaller prices. It is to be noted also that wine-makers fix the price of wine grapes, although the combination has never been so close as that which has been formed by the cannery companies. The viticultural interest has now become so large in this State, and is increasing with such rapidity, that it is almost impossible to make any close combinations. The grape grower, if he is not satisfied with the ruling prices, can convert his grapes into raw wine and hold it for a season, although he may not be able to go beyond this crude process. It does not appear therefore, that either the viticultural or general fruit interests are in danger of being overdone at present. It will probably be found at the end of the season that one of the most prosperous interests in California has been the production of grapes and stone fruits. But this production, with the immense increase of the year, is still in its infancy, and it is certainly a question of some interest as to its condition ten years hence. The business of marketing and preserving the various fruits of California is now employing a very large capital. It is getting beyond any combination other than a temporary one. There is at present no prospect that any important reverses will overtake the fruit growers for many years to come. The dry season brings them no disaster, but rather tends to increase the volume and quality of their several crops. Belshazzar and his Brother Bill. Belshazzar Smith had a very bad and very dangerous habit of walking in his sleep. His family feared that during one of his somnambulistic saunterings he would charge out of the window and kill himself, so they persuaded him to sleep with his little brother William and to tie one end of a rope around his body and the other around little William. The very first night after this arrangement jumped up to light a hall gas-lamp, and was hooked to the top by her ring. Bob Johnson, of Winnipeg, going home drunk, stepped into a slough by the fence and, was unable to get out before his feet were frozen into the mud, so that he perished of exposure. A priest of Puchkirken, in Styria, who had a careless habit of leaving his pens in the ink-stand point upward, pricked himself in the palm of his hand and died after eight weeks of agony from blood-poisoning. Mrs. Mary Ferguson, of Brooklyn, was killed in three days by a prick from a pin in the finger. A schoolgirl at Franklin, Ind., fell and put out her eye with the slate-pencil she was carrying; Mary Rolla, of Lincoln, Ill., fell and drove the stem of the tobacco-pipe she was smoking through her tongue. Both accidents belong to a most numerous and fatal class. A Cincinnati inebriate put his open penknife into his pocket, and, falling, received a fatal wound which he insisted had been given him by an enemy. Mrs. Crowley was caught up in the streets of Paterson by a passing locomotive, and carried thirty miles on the cow-catcher without receiving serious injury, and J. B. Hays, a track-walker on the Geneva, Ithaca and Sayre road, was struck by a train running forty-five miles an hour without being hurt. If Philomena Lang, of Chicago, had not endeavored to pull her dog away from in front of an approaching locomotive she would not have been killed. At Niblo's Garden, Samuel Nixon, one of the soldiers in "Michael Strogoff," was shot twice in the leg, the audience applanding his realistic writhing; at Indianapolis, Albert Mathy selected the moment at which a cannon was discharged in "The World" to peep under the door, receiving the blank cartridge in the face. At Kingston, N. Y., Master Shoot, aged 8, attempted to produce an imitation of "Zazel's" mortar act with a firecracker and a chair, threw himself backward out of a third-story window, and at Harrisburg, Pa., a seven-year-old boy, playing circus, stood on his head until he brought on a fatal attack of brain fever. Mr. Rhea, of Norfolk, Va., fell dead while romping with a large company of children on the sand, and the little ones, thinking the fit a part of the game, enjoyed it greatly. Dr. Ruisill, of Kozmyth, Ga., bowled The difference between washed and unwashed butter is analogous to the difference between clarified and unclarified sugar. The former consists of pure saccharine matter, while the latter, though less sweet, has a flavor in addition to that of pure butter, which many people like when it is new. Washing removes all this foreign matter, and leaves only the taste of the butter pure and simple. Those who prefer the taste of the butter to that of the former ingredients mixed with it like the washed butter best. The flavor of butter consists of fatty matters, which do not combine with water all, and therefore cannot be washed away by it. The effect of washing upon the keeping qualities of butter depends upon the purity of the water used. If the water contains no foreign matter that will affect the butter it keeps the better for having the buttermilk washed out instead of worked out. Evidently the grain of the butter will be more perfectly perserved by careful washing. The grain is such an important factor in the make-up of fine butter that it is necessary we should be very particular not to injure it in any way if we would excel in butter-making. Belshazzar and his Brother Bill. Belshazzar Smith had a very bad and very dangerous habit of walking in his sleep. His family feared that during one of his somnambulistic saunterings he would charge out of the window and kill himself, so they persuaded him to sleep with his little brother William and to tie one end of a rope around his body and the other around little William. The very first night after this arrangement was made Belshazzar dreamed that a burglar was pursuing him with a dagger. So he crept over to William's side of the bed, stepped over William's slumbering form, jumped out on the floor and alld under the bed. He stayed there a while, and then, his nightmare having changed, he emerged upon the other side of the bed and got under the cover in his old place. The rope, it will be observed, was beneath the bed; and it was pulled taut, too. Early in the morning Belshazzar, about half awake, scroughed over against William. To his surprise the movement jerked William clear out of bed. Belshazzar leaped out to ascertain the cause of the phenomenon, and at the same time his brother disappeared under the bed. Belshazzar, hardly awake, was scared, and he dived beneath the bedstead; as he did so he heard William skirmishing across the blankets above his head. Once more he rushed out, just in time to see Williiam glide over the other side. Belshazzar just then became sufficiently conscious to feel the rope pulling on him. He comprehended the situation at once, and disengaged himself. Perhaps little William was not mad. He was in the hospital undergoing repairs for about three weeks, and when he came out he had a strange desire to sleep alone. Belshazzar anchors himself to an anvil now. Of a miserly man, who died of softening of the brain, a local paper says: "His head gave way, but his hand never did." His brain softened, but his heart couldn't—New York Post. GAZETTE. ST 26, 1882. BUSINESS. of certain kinds of Stata. It was said the cannery company and fixed a tariff considerably lower than the crop of plums and large one—quite as appear to have been some instances they grow up contracts, but fruit-growers, who enormous crop, which in a few days. It is cannery business has of California. The is not acceptable to fear that prices will further. Some of the talking about erect cans. One fruit-grower 100 tons of fruit this it, includes a grape tons of plums and apri to less than 250 tons. make this showing be far better to erect premises—that the orchard is better than once, and which by wait over-ripe and stale would also be saved. way the fruit-grow out the matter at present canneries on their it would always be put VILE FRENCH BRANDY. WASHINGTON, August 19.—The July number of the Consular Reports contains a report by Consul George J. Giford of La Rochelle on the falsification of the brandy exported from La Rochelle, France, to the United States. The production of genuine brandy from white wines in France, Giford thinks, has substantially ceased, on account of the failure of the vine, and the greater part of the brandy now sold is prepared from alcohol obtained from grain, potatoes and beets. Coincident with the failure of white wine was the appearance of large quantities of alcohol in parts of France adjacent to the white wine producing section of the country. Most of it is coming from Germany. This importation of alcohol, he says, increases from year to year, and is now 46 per cent greater than in 1880. Gifford closes his report as follows: All French brandy might properly, and perhaps ought to be, excluded from the United States on sanitary grounds. There is a strong presumption against the purity of a large part of it, and it is, unfortunately, almost impossible to detect fraud by chemical analysis, especially where various mixtures now employed are piped through the still. The reputation of a few great houses that now place on the market only what they draw from their own stocks accumulated before 1879, might be a sufficient guaranty of the purity of their merchandise, but even with respect to them it may be said that they dose their brandies with caramels and other substances, in order to adapt them to the tastes of their English and American customers. They would never venture to send to the United States a DESCRIPTION OF THE SUEZ CANAL. The length of the canal is not quite 100 miles. It has a uniform depth of 26 feet, and the width of its bottom is uniformly 72 feet; but while the width of the water at the surface, in the greater part of its course, is 327 feet, there are some parts, where the canal had to be cut through high ground, in which the upper width is reduced to 190 feet, so that no vessels can turn round. There are no locks on the canal, but at the stations, which are five or six miles apart, there are wider basins in which vessels can pass one another. Immediately after entering Port Said, which is an opening in a mere strip of sand that divides Lake Mensalh from the Mediterranean, the Canal traverses the bed of that shallow lake for nearly 29 miles, having the plain of Pelusium to the left hand eastward. When the lake is swollen by the yearly inundation of the Nile the low and flat shores, with the Pelusian plain, are covered. It thence reaches the mainland, which is there quite flat and level, passes on by Kantara, crosses Lake Ballah, eight miles wide, and goes on to the smaller Lake Tinsah, through El Guisr, or "the Causeway," a hilly ground produced in remote ages by the sand of the two seas once meeting in a strait between Africa and Asia. Ismalia, on the Fresh Water Canal close to Lake Tinsah, is like a little French colonial town. The Canal further passes through the difficult cuttings of Toussoum and the Scrapeum, about six miles long, and across the adjacent land, to the Great Bitter Lake, formerly a dried-up salt marsh, and the neighboring Little Bitter Lake both of which But a fruit district common, where no one in large enough to erect ear, however, that theeries have been unreliant-grower. The large number some extent, for the purpose of wine-makers fixes, although the companion so close as that by the cannery commercial interest has now State, and is increase, that it is almost immily close combinations. 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If he am black, go outer yer way to shun him. If he am white, lock yer doahs an' load yer shotguns.” The old man paused here to look into his desk for a piece of slippery-elm, and Waydown Bebee took advantage of the opportunity to rise and inquire: “Does the chair refer to a white man named Seeker Jackson?” “Yes, de chara refers to dat werry puce,” replied the President. “Fur de las fo' weeks he has bin de plague of my life. I understan'd dat he kalkerlates to run fur state senator nex' fall, and he am now tryin' to make hisself solid wid de cull'd element; an' I further understan'd dat he has petishuned dis club fur membership, an' dat he am buyin' rattle boxes, tin whistles an mouth-organs furr cull'd babies in order to gain de esteem of dier parients. Gemilen I desiah—” At that moment sounds of a wrangle were heard in the anti-room, a struggle took place, and the voice of Seeker Jackson was heard crying out: “Let go of my hair or I'll call the police! My platform is: 'Three dollars a barrel for flour, six hoops on a barrel, and a horse and carriage to take the laboring man to his daily toils.'” At a signal from Brother Gardner, Samuel Shin and Giveadam Jones passed out, and in two or three seconds after there were sounds of breaking glass, a bump, bump, on the stairs, and then a voice was heard floating At that moment the sounds of a wrangle were heard in the anti-room, a struggle took place, and the voice of Seeker Jackson was heard crying out: "Let go of my hair or I'll call the police! My platform is: 'Three dollars a barrel for flour, six hoops on a barrel, and a horse and carriage to take the laboring man to his daily toils.'" At a signal from Brother Gardner, Samuel Shin and Giveadam Jones passed out, and in two or three seconds after there were sounds of breaking glass, a bump, bump, on the stairs, and then a voice was heard floating up from the dark alley, saying: "You can throw me down stairs every night in the week if you want to! All I ask is that you vote solid for Seeker Jackson on election day." "Pollytics," softly observed the President, "means lyin', stealin', cheatin', swindlin'. It means degradashun. It means loss of self-respect. It means whisky, drunkenness, fightin', stabbin', and rollin' in de mud. Keep out of pollytishuns. If dis Seeker Jackson attempts to enter de sacred portals of dis hall agin, de keeper of de pass word am heah-by authorized to pulverize him an' sell de pulverizashun to de rag-man at two cents a pound."—Brother Gardner to the Detroit Limekiln Club. A tramp with some combs for sale was slinking up to the side door of a house, but the dog came round the corner and seized hold of the tail of his coat. The man was skulking out, when the owner of the house, a German, came and asked, "Did dose dog bide you?" "He didn't bite me, but he tore my coat," was the reply. "My goot friend, excuse dose dog if he didn't bide you. He is a young dog now, but by and by he shall take hold of some tramps and eat deir bones right out of dem. He bides a coat now, but he shall soon do petter." Speaking of a leading editorial upon "The Mule," in a St. Louis paper, the Kansas City Times says: "It reads like an autobiography. Personal and descriptive journalism is very popular in St. Louis." Among Roman Catholics, in the Eastern Church, among the Presbyterians of Scotland, or the English Dissenters—I know not any body of Christians where salutary discipline is dead except in the Church of England. I believe, as firmly as anyone in this church, it would be a perfectly intolerable evil for a parish priest, at his own discretion, to call before him in the church any notorious offender for public rebuke; but it becomes very different when acting with the consent of the church wardens, congregation, and parishioners. The offender will soon come into the church to ask forgiveness of his fellow men, the one has wronged, and Almighty God." The church wardens then brought the man into the church. On reaching the chance steps the vicar motioned the man to kneel. This he did, and the senior church wardens then handed the vicar a paper, when he sailed to the man. "Do you acknowledge this to be your handwriting?" He, in a low voice, said "Yes." The declaration was then read as follows: "I Llewellyn Hartre, do acknowledge to be guilty of a most grievous sin, for which I do hereby ask the forgiveness of my fellow men, and of the woman I have wronged, and of Almighty God. In proof of my repentance, I promise to carry out the penance laid upon me in the presence of this congregation." The vicar then said: "The penance laid upon you is that you go to the Assize Court at Wells, when it shall next be held, and take your place where I shall seat you, by the prisoner at the bar. Will you accept that penance?" The man answered, "Yes." Turning to the congregation, the vicar said: "I am going to ask you all a question. Seeing that this man has humbled himself in the house of God, and provided he carries out his promise, will you forgive him? If so, answer 'I will.'" The congregation replied, "I will." The vicar continued: "One thing more. Will you all, so far as opportunity may permit, so help this man toward living a better life and shield him from reprench in this matter? If so answer 'I will.'" The congregation replied, "I will." The vicar then turned to the young man, pronounced these words: "God be with them, my soul and give them the peace of true repentance to live a better life from this time henceforth."