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Imwij‘y-w» nore: qrxfggin Gago AT MISSIONARY RIDGE 'An Extract from One_ r Gen- _'_ eral Grant‘s War Papers. Charge of 85m axons on the Confederate Works.. From General Grant's~ paper on \Chattanooga in the Century, we' quote the\ following: \Sheridan and Wood's-divisions had been lying uns. .l ~ dermmssfmm—eafly-mthmrng, . ready to move the Instant'tha: signal.... was given. I directed Thomas to or- der -the charge at once. I watched eagerly to see the effect, and became Mntmhfla; there-was no indication of. any charge being made. The center of the' line which was to make the charge was near where Thomas-and-Lstood-together;- but con: |- cealed from our view. by the inter- ° ° BF SCIENTIFIL “LEAP . [- Professor—Holdewhotalgs-ohstg wgiice 331 As: 'or:love 1“all novels‘snd Fvith mar- of theis: L ick Qbsfivutorv =35311 soon for the object glass of the L1G tele- scope is as big as the wheel of & dray. Regarding 'the' manurial yalie of freshly fallen tree leaves, it has been ascertained through the researches of, Prof. Emmefling, Dr. Loges; and- Herr [EmeIS, that. beech, ork, -and: 'birch-[\ leaves. contain. only 2 to. 2 § per cent. of atllizible matter, plane up to 4, and 't poplar and willow 5 to 5.7 percent. |. Pasteur will soon organize In-Paris an lnstltutloniunmndanlng dogs proof against rabies. His method of inocu- lating human beings against hydro- phobia 4s said to have 'been' recently tried-with—p‘srm'ormcess-omwyonng— boy of nine years, from Alsace, who sl es-iglflxzofihgjmsme—ar rings, The fefvor, the asl) hththe re- : | longs to youtli~ middle age sinks into dull, gray monotony of commonplace habit. In fact, it is the young whose love finds utterance in sighs, in pogms, An at best a- selfish monopoly. of' the \beloved one; It is the middle-aged man and woman-who quietly sacrifice day by day every hope and ambition, every [talent and thsté which gives themt idéntity among ien; who become drudges, who give health, strength, life ftself, drop by drop, for love.-— Pmelphia Press. OCC - Womeits Wilts. * Some women make' wills, says the | New York correspondent of a western journal; some have wills of their own, .+ 75m; was 1 imo <iels Lama momma - nai =- Jerseys are fastened with tify agraffs instead of buttons. ~--'Thibet cloth;-with-boucle borders, * appears among light wools. blue combined with scarlet. (Boots are again fashionably laced at\ theside as well as up‘the instep. ° Felt Tam O'Shanters show folds in the crownslike those of silk velvet. - Ribbons .with velvet and plusii Even: little girl’s dresses are made with plain- skirts bordered, not flounced. _L ' The paler shades of. green are used in small quantities in fine _rofllinery with excellent effect. _ Waterproofs of the new Scotéh 'and - Irish woollens have been put upon the market in every style of the season. ~ Drapéries falling straight down the <2rqwsu-ijnqz bene (fixildremmgreuwenl ofmuafl The, IN THE LAST FORTY YEARS Facts Ab'o‘ut mmmdwro- . gress in thaf Time. . eople\ of the Now World Out- stripping ,Thoss of the- 014 In the fortyqnlns years', reign of »| Quegn~ Victoria wheflgoverpnjent of flagrant» namingf ffb a; Amorb-and- more liferal) th stripes and with fringes. are. “PM“ enjoying 1 very much of what is .\ known : as. Americfin freedom. Never: 'before has an election to the House of Commons been attended, with such in- . terest and #mportance, for the issue relates. to the extension of human. rights, the enlargement of personal Mberty, France has outllved, in form, for A season at- léast; her Napoleonic rule, and settled into a Republic.not ' unlike times thefla‘isnr‘ulnzot‘gm ll! 3 the.owner knows—nQLflLn and subject to fortune ls yet dis by the ordinanco of Go i /. have lift such dn off: spring .. _A good wordis. an easy. .obligationg but pot to speak J11_ requires. onlyontmg silence, which costd us nothing. - The proper way to check slander , i, to attempt to\ overtake and: ' refute it and it will outrun you.: 4114“on a due: fipoct to' mankind». - which should incline éven the . wiswm of men to follow innocent customs Recolléct what disorder hasty Cal ‘ Amperious words. ~fromt parents of teachers 'have: caused in | &: chlld' n* w. Tho silk covering for the Kasha -1000 and that renk by the khedive for | vening forest. Turning to Thomas to inguiro-what caused the delay I was surprised to see General Thomas J. Wood, one of the division commanders who was to make the charge, standing. talking: to him. I spoke to General Wood, asking why he had not charged, as- ordered au hour before. He replied' very promptly that this was the first he had heard of it, but that he had béep ready all day to move at a mo- ment's notice, I told him to make the charge at once. - He was off in a moment; and in An incredibly short time. loud cheering. was heard,-and he- and' Sheridan were driving ths ane- my's advance. before them toward. Missionary Ridge. _ \'The enemy- was strongly intrenched on the crest of the ridge in front of us, and had a second line half-way down, and-another-at-the-base- Our men drove the troops in front of the lower line of rifle-pits so rapidly, und follow- . ed them so closely, that the rebel and Union troops went over the first line of works ~alpost at the same time. Many rebels were captured and sent to the rear under the ffre of their own friends higher up the hill. 'Those that were captured retreated and were pur- sued. The retreating hordes, being between friends and pur- .Buers, made the fre of the enemy high, to avoid killing their own- men; In fact on that occasion the Union soldier nearest the enemy was inthe safest position. Without awaiting further orders or stopping to re-form, on our troops went to the second line of works; over that, and on for the crest, thus effectually carrying out my orders of the 18th for the bat- tle and the 24th for this charge I watched their progreds with intense interest, The fire.along the rebel line was terrific, Cannon and musket balls filled the air; but the damage done was in small proportion to the ammu- nition used. The pursuit continued until the crest was reached, and soon our men were seen climbing over the Confederate barrier at different points in front of both Sheridan's and Wood's divisions. The retreat of the enemy along most of his line was precipitate, and the panic so great that Bragg and his officers lost all control over their men. Many werecaptured and thou- 'sands throw away' their artos in their retreat. ._ \Sheridan pushed forward until he reached the Chickamauga River at a 'point above where the enemy crossed. 'He met some resistance from troops occupying a second hill in the rear of Missfonary Ridge, probably to cover the retreat of the main body, and of the artillery and trains. It was now getting dark, but Sheridan, without halting on that account, pushed his men forward up the second hill slow- Aly, and without attracting the atten- 'tion of the men placed to defend it, while he detached 'to \the right and left to surround the position. The ‘enemy discovered the the movement 'before, these dispositions were com- {pleté,-and beat a hasty retreat, leaving 'artillery, whgon trains, and many Iprisofters in our hands. To Sheridan's iprompt movement the Army of the 'Cumberland and the nation are in- debted for the bulk of the capture of 'prisoners, artillery, and small arms that day. But for his prompt pursuit,. 'o 'much in this way would not haves 'been ' A Costly Covering. which the sent \this - year to Medes, bas been valued at about $77,- the sine purpose at about $58,000. Both are black, host richly embrol- dered in gold, and so large that each ‘nffiem—mfirfiy—the—ML 3M On the first day of the Kantian-Banana festival the new in ithe plazas of the old covers, one of | ~Whatds it?\ ehith tas sent to the sultan and thoi opp you know why your hesd is mammals“. #3 presents from i. Bike Alaska?\ R Fork! wRa® 0 CC $3 défy M the magma—Nan mynmfibmdhmm bad been bitten by a Tabid dog in such a manner that hydrophobia seemed In- evitable. > Experiments have been made at Middlesbrough with liquid fuel for ships. One of the most sucvessful has been with the steamship Emanuel, which was filled with tanks to hold the oil-a waste product from the Middlesbrough chemical works, .The steamer Has returned froma trip to the Mediterranean,. and theengineer, reports most favorable results It is reported from North and Cen- |- tral-Sweden-that-this year- mrigratory- ~birds have left in large numbers at an unusually-early date.- Between Au- gust 16 and 18, thousands of wild fowl were 'seen passing over Stockholm, their progress lasting for several hours at a time. A severe winter is anticl- pated in the north of Europe. 'The autumn bas.been very cold in Nor- way. hk A remnant of 'the great-forests which once covered the south of Swe- den was recently dug out of a bog at Kiuneved, cumsisting of a boat six feet in diameter hollowed out of a log. The tree from which the boat was formed must have been at least 20 feet in cireumference. The wood, which was very hard, had assumed a blue color. The boat was so heavy that two bullocks could not draw it. Migration of Birds. Not long ago large numbers of Brit- ish migratory birds (dead) were found floating in the sea off the Eddystone Lighthouse. It is probable that dur- ing their night journey from the Dev. onshire shores a fog overtook them, and that the bright light proceeding from the lantern of the lightbouse. at- tracted them and so stupefied them that they dashed themselves against the thick glass and were killed in large numbers, The fishermen who trawl for turbot, soleg, skate, etc., on ALL, Varne Ridge Bnnlks bet ween Donn\ and Calias, not unfrequently hear the i sound of flocks of migratory birds fly-| ing overhead.. The speed at which | birds can go when on their migratory | flight has been s noticed. Qualls are, said to accomplish 150 miles in a night, and undigested African seeds and plants have been found: in the crops of these birds when they reach the French coast. It is said that the migration of birds will foretell severe weather, and it is well known by the bird-catcher that when the larks and otlrer northern birds appear, snow and hard weather | will follow the flight. These warnings ' of migratory birds, though apparently i insignificant, may be of vast political | and even national importance. If the Emperor Napoleon, when on the road to Moscow with his army in 1811, had condescended to observe the flights of storks and cranes passing over his fated battalions, subsequent events in the politics of Europe might have been very different These storks and cranes knew of the coming on of a great and terrible wintery the birds hastened toward the south, Napoleos and his army toward the north.-- Frank Buckland. As He Remembered It. Sam Ward was once seated opposite a well-known Senator at a dinner at Washington. This Senator was very bald, and the light shining on the breadth of scalp attracted Ward's at tention. - \Gan you tell ms,\ he asked-his neighbor, \why the Senator's head is like Alaska.\ \Em sm—Ldan’tm \Because it's a great white bee: placa\ The neighbor was immensely tickled, table: \Say Seffator, Ward's just got of s 'and he haled tha across p . Fremember An old derisive quartrsm bearing on this point: mona c O| -\ dylng; make- theie wills, but wives\ Esenpe i work so sad; Why need they make what, all their lives, 'The precious dames have had ? ¥et some women do make wills, And it may seem surprising that twice as many of their wills are con- tested as the wills of men in propor- tion to the whole number made by each, So L learn on inquiry of the surrogate. 'This can be-accounted for only on the theory that they are or | are supposed to be mere 'easily infu- enced, more emotional and so more liable to be warped from the (lines of justice by persons having selfish de- signs in stcuring an undue share in the disposition of property. [~ New Feminine Style Galt, ~ Have you noticed the latest idea with the ladies?\ said an' observant Smithfield street shoo dealer yester- day. \No. er. . \A new style of walking; don't you see? The real fashionable young lady doesn't dawdle along now as if sho was going to have a tooth pulled. In- stead of that she takes a quick springy galt, not exactly as if she was in \a hurry, but as if she enjoyed walking, and was running over with animal spirits and good bealth. 'That is the Idem they wish to carry out, Every young lady is supposed to have been either in the country or at the sea shore, and come back full of vigor. It isn't the proper thing at all now . for a young lady to be'tired. | She may be 'slightly fatigued,\ but 'bired' is too great an acknowledgment of weakness. I think that the idea is a good one anyway, and the very appearance of good health will bring good health, At least it will bring outdoor exercise, and that is the next thing to it.\- Pittsburg Dispatch. Whatis it?\ asked a report- Crinoline Not to be Mevived. The endeavor, says a London jour- nalist, a little while ago to revive the extravagances of crinoline has proved a failure; and it is not improbable that an attempted return to the excess of \tying back\ would be equally un- successful. As compared with the costume of a century, or fifty years, or even of a generation ago, the dress of women of the present day must be admitted to be good sense and modera- tion itself. Even the crinoline was nothing to the hoop; the bighest' heeled and most ingeniously cramped of modern boots is comfort and se- curity of equilibrium compared with those in which Lady Betty had to un- dergo the graceful penance of a minuet. Feminine headgear, again, may vary within certain limits. ©Chignons\ may possibly be revived; but who expects that we shall ever re- vert to those amazing structures of hair and ribbons, pins and puffs and towering feathers which crowned the | brows of our great grandmothers at Ranelagh ? «Sleeves may expand or contract, walsts may descend or rise, but it is tolerably certain that the arms of our women will never again swell to the dimensions of a good-sized of mutton, nor their girdles clasp t em round the pectoral region in- stead of the waist. In every article of dress the tendency of the female costume is toward the simple, the healthful and the comfortable. so far as these qualities can be combined-| and it has been found by no means difficult to combine the-m with that of eleganbeafi? to the cya . * = o Black has gone out of fashion. Everyimagmnhleshada ofgreen is to be worn. _... \Bacéuse it is a great place . for white bears.\ -Sen Proncisco Chrort | *~ W volumes. e. - Beavermjs are again in vogue for misses. Cisth bosts faced and fored with kl‘Larssg-mwo‘m. - Teckets of Maximum Per- gian Ismb come among other noveltiss to wraps «| hair textile of great beauty and dura~ back are again in favor, particularly the United States -Germany, adhor- ing to har time-honored King, -has to- leased to the people many privileges, thoughts, _ Rough-surfaced wool cloths are in high favor; some of the now styles show curled sslrachan in mohair bor- «ders or stripes. | ° Bead trimmings are in great de- mand this season; there are so many kinds and so many designs it is impos- sible to describe them. . Laces embroidered with lead bands, and bands of cloth embroidbred with gold threads in patterns resembling lace, are new trimming. novelties,» _. Feather-atriped-wollon novelty goods are not© really _strlped-with feathers, but with a silken Cashmere goat's- bility. ~Cashmere-colors- in-beads-aro-a- feature of the new trimmings and are found 'in galloons, passementeries, separate ornaments—frlngss, braids and the like. j All medium shades of dark. and pale: green. are fashionable-reseda, sage, cress, Chartreuse, olive, Russian, or bottle, or invisible green, bronze, | and even pea green. Fancy feathers encrusted with metailfe dust in all colors, and made dressy by bead aigrettes representing gold or silver wheat and cocklerare seen in endless variety. In other than the most expensive dresses there are more trimmings used upon waists than heretofore, some of them having almost the entire fronts covered with cord and braid trim- mings. Braid flounces and fronts ars showp. 'They are made of half-inch wide braids interlaced and showing octagonal meshes. Some of these flounces are made over bright colors and are very showy. The newest stockings have the feet, ankles, and half way the calf in ! solid color, the upper half in a con- trasting- color, - sometimes striped, again barred, and frequently plain, but in color of a sharp contrast to the lower half of the hose. Half long wraps in the form of mantles, doimans, redingotes are sent out by the best manufacturing houses, along with the short jackets and mantels and the very long new markets polonnises, pelisses, ulsters,«gaglans, and Hugnenot cloaks. Small but Important. One of the foremen of the Baldwin locomotive works stopping before' a little exhibit of steel punches at the Novelties Exhibition said:; \Al our great industries, are largely dependent upon smaller industries, that to the causal observer appear of very little im- portance. Here for Instance is a display of punches. They are used simply for punching letters or numbers on the parts of a machine to guide workmen ly essential and it is very important to bave them of good quality, Although quite delicate in line, they must be clearly formed, of good face, hard enough to be used on iron or steel, and yet not so hard as to be brittle. They require a high degrees of skill on the part of the workmen who make them. and yet they appear to the ordinary visifor &s of 'vefy little importante Our locomotives are taken apart and shipped to all quarters of the globe, and ifit were not for the marks upon the parts made by these little pugches it would be an exceedingly difficult fob for even our owh workmen to put them together again. I enjoy anex Bibition this mammal: bdugs fo flight ss fiang of the gilét workers Philadelphia Ledger; Camels In America. . The ma turned loose upon the Vang! {arm-650! 60 32mm 12:2 hthtrs of the Tmfimgfl spore to. chating theis A is a toag 'way sihead of the toned deez driva --San Framcisoe Ez aminer. little of luxury forty years ago. whosa fame is unsung—V and extended her power since the Franco-Russian victories, but America, the sclon of the oldest government, with more Idhd and energy than her. father, has out-grown allexpectatlons. The majority of people, a lifé of suc- cess aqua] to their hopes and inspira- tlons is glory quite sufficiert, yet who had ever predicted that America, the once bleak and despised Republic, should distance all competitors? The day of trouble brought doubt of it; the hour of peril.led_ us to. _question if of trinmph.in libarty,-unity, currency and crgdits made us proud ot—our na- tional influbnce. In New York, Pennsylvania, Vlr- ginia, and New -England there were | in farms and homeS and improvements as long as forty years ago, but the better part came on much later,. Within -the period of> forty- years has been made the greatest gains and the fast- est time ever before recorded in any | country. In the West we knew very t The bulk of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and the States further to- ward sunset; have grown into being and blossomed into gardens within the last third of a century. . The pruned and cultivated farms of we had planned jlssy; but the hours |_ cup with an fclcle spolls tha tea andi chills his own fingers. ** . It is good forus to think no grace - or blessing is truly\ ours till we' are aware that God has blessed gomg one else with it through us. 1 Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, an in- ferlor acceptable; it levels distinction, «sweetens conversation, and © makso- everyone in the company pleased; with himself, he has to bestow, whether it be. of time, intelligence or power; but each one is responsible for what he does possess, and must. decide for himself in what way to employ it. Peppercorn ~Rontal-- - In medieval times foudal lords often found it necessary or expedient to part with portions of:their estates so fdr as all receipt of rent 'was concerned, but other advantages pertaining to the vassalage of the people living upon them. The simplest way of accom- plishing this was to grant a perpetual lease of the land' at a mere nominal rent. Sometimes the nominal rent would itself be of a kind likely to im- Bae pleasant ; and kind Atothose mmwmwm, Hee \to reserve to themselves the many- - \% arose hols \No one is responsible for more thar ~~ A England have been trained and tended for many centuries, while the folds and prairies of Indiana and Dakota were homes pf red men and free lands of hunters. The limit of English land and the ex- tent of our own is the chief cause of oné's finer cultivation and the other’s rugged developments. But the people in the New World are even ahead of their improvements. Inventors by the thousands, machine- ry by the mile length, mining and - stock raising, grain and ~wood com- merce, trade and speculation, out- | grows the mother countries by degrees beyond counting, and America, once so poor and dependent that she invited France to join her in a struggle for independence, may now claim more loerty, more progress, and more inde- pendence than even England. In land, exclusive of India and Can- ada, what country camcompare with America? In machinery, implements, wood, iron, coal, gold, silver, salt and minerals, timber lamber, railway and cattle ranges, where is her equal? In growth of men and development of letters-counting of cotirse, the meagre beginning-what- a wonderfol and marvelous advancement,. It is not fhe climate, nor the water.nor Ab@ lo- cation, nor the soil, nor the advanta- ges,'but- the men-that have made it ! Itis not the land of a strest, 'but the men on it that improve it. Itis not earned that made the nation rich. It is the grand co-partnershin of the peo- in setting it up, but they are absolute j plefwhmsoQQDOW fd Feel an interest in its progress, that has made Ameri- Lea. so thrifty,.so progessive, and prosperous for the forty years gone by, and will' thakd her such a monument of nstJonal greatness in the coming century.-J W. Donovan, in Chicago Current, =- ‘7'—‘———_T‘7— {fl 1, , The Hench' re tassa’ifltbasssm. who has made himself famotis by fnoculat- ing\ men and Msmth—fiixausgerms burown mnnfiy,msal§ns§fnnpaper. In- 3868, when the: Siberian plague *was killing the catHe in this-place, Father Andiiw Ionkl‘mxfisky of the He gotaome Ema from a dying cow, saw threads flux that blond, and the money we had, but the money wa f press itself upon the attention of all parties concerned-as, for instance, in the case of the now familiar papper-' corn rental When that was first adopted peppercorns were curiosities. not easily procurable. 'There used to be, and for ought we know to the contrary there is now, in Yorkshire & ' farm held so long as the tenant can or; will present to the lord of the manor a snowball at midsummer and a rose at Christmas. _ Neither rose nor snow= tall would be a matter of much difi- culty nowadays, but centuries back there would be times when roses at Christmas were mighty few and far between, and when the supply of a snowball at midsummer would de- pend very much on the temperatura and other high langs in the north of. England or in Scotland. The idea of\ such a rént would be very much the: same afin the case of the peppercorns: -n demand fdr something remarkable, something out of the common way, and the payment of which would be likely to be remembered, a matter of no small importance in illiterate) times, when perhaps nelther party to a contract could either read or write Pal Mall Gazette, { Quear Mistakes of Bridegrooms, Most people the moment they enter a parsonage to get married become 80 i embarrassed they aro hardly conscious | of what they are doing. One fellow L heard of was dreadfally afflicted im ~ this way, and without realizing his act pulled a cigar from his pocket and €wirted It around in his hands. - Whent that portion of the cerémuny was man join hands he: happened -to bave the cigar to- bis right hand. ' What'to ~ do with the cigar He mqmuy‘vaiam on the top of Cross Fell, Mickle Fel,«~. In lady and genus: *~ ~- pmwmnppmmmo! the size of plyron eggs: In a stoff ; mm'mdiamm the cows alive sa healthy, : though the rest of the cattle of that | ria'es (Mes se
