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SEA ISLE CITY. N. J., JULY 27, 1883.

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Brooklyn and New York Lav© bnilt a bridge to - ouaect the twooitiee, costing aaj $15,000,000, aud ooeupyiug 18 yeaiv In ereotion. Now. jost as it is being opened, a little, insignificant railway station i« fouud standing directJ j in the wsj of the bridge entrance, and it would seem as thongh the powers that be are at their wits' end to know how to dispose of the thing. a more ill-Begot-ten structure thsn the elevated railway station that oocnpiee the bridge entrance oould scarcely be found, ana its niter eradication would be a public bene tit. The cost of making it really a public convenience would probably he leea than tearing down the projtctiog end and eceoting a new structure. As the pubiio have to walk a long dis anoe to reach the train, and as the train itself never comes far enough down to interfere with the bridge approach, so far as the pubiie^couc* rut* j, there is no objection l^wy,vdff the station back far enough to give the bridge entrance all the necessary room After all, why has nobody suggested the idea of making a oloae connection between the el evaded railroad and the bridge st grade? If a person crosses from Brooklyn and wishes to take a (rain up town, bo must descend a long flight of stairs, trot around half a desan corners, climb another flight and go through the long and crooked entrance to the Third Avenno road. The answer to the conundrum is that nobody in New York appreciates the value of close oonueotiona. The electricity generated by the machinery in one of the great Harmony Milts at Oohoea, owing to peculiar conditions which arc not perfectly understood, has of late ao charged the atmosphere as to afieot the employee unpleasantly. Various attempts were made without result to remove the nuisance, but at last a network of wire# nn ning through the mill has been successfully employed to oolleot the electricity and •undnct it to the ground. Jf is stated that the distinction of having made the deepest sounding in the Atlantic ever recorded has been sehieved by the Ooest Murrey steamer Blake, wbich recent'y returned, after a two month's survey. The deepest sounding ever before reported was 8,862 fathoms, while the depth reached by the Blake was 4,661 fathoms. The place of sounding was 76 tni'es north or Ban Juan. Porto Kioo, and not far from the paint where the first-mentioned depth was reoorded. Ezpotvre to light and air will destroy ebonite. Strange to say, merchants and others appear to neglect this fact, and no doubt experience considerable loss. Caoutchouc tubing ought, when not lu use. to be kept in a dark place «od .'n water, to which a little ammonia may be *dded if the rubber begins to show any ai^os of cracking. A liking tor one-story factories has been developed among the manufacturers of New England, and they are being built in many oases where the nature of sites permits. They are said to be economical, handy, safe, and free from that vibration which looms impart . to tali structures. JCteotrie Wiret.— It should always be | care* ul'y noruo In mind that in bare , vires, out of dootv, erected for the pur pose of conveying . Icotricity, there is , always more or less danger to person or , pwytrty. J As past winter, si a large number cf private and official soirees, in Pans, the i electric light has bean used from storage batteries in a very simple manner. Tbe oeeumwUtora are carried ia a vehi els which is atetiouad in front of the i house, and electric wires are conducted through the windows. Incandescent lamps are placed io the ordinary ©ends* I lebraa, and the fitting of the most eom Ala* lighting IS an affair of a very few JUuis, Habtakd h compliment* to Yale: "I tS^y^wiUi /polo* .ndM? bul^ hgow OdMSSwt^oiih" *™*° &Y., ra&ibti* ttMk.

TUB SUNKIMK NICY SLA 1'AIUU I S 1KT. U pon the sadness of the sea The sutaaaK brouda regretfully. From the far. lonely space*, alow Withdraws the wistful afterglow. Ho out of life the splcia. j dies; 8o darken all the happy skit*; do gathers twilight, oold aud sUru— But overhead the plaueU bum. And up the eaat another day Hhall chaae the Uitter dark away; What though our eyes with tears Ira wet? The sunrise never failed us yet I The blush of dawn may vet restore Our light, mm! hope, aud joy, ouc* mure. Had soul take ratnfixt, uor iorget That sunrise never failed us yet!

IN ItOilKOWXLD FLl'MAUK. 41 A literary uutn, eh ?" said Octavia Glcnu, 'Author of Stray Leaves' and •Floating Fancies !' Then why in the name of all the muses and graces isn't be about his work?" Little Fernanda drew herself up with some resentment. "He is lutviug his spring vacation," sahl she. "He is resting his over-wear-ied brain a little, before the public shall become clamorous for more writings from his pen." "Ofa!" said Octavia. "Yes." nodded her younger sister. 14 And, oh, Octavia, you can't think how charming he is! I have always sighed to know an author. And he isn't a bit conceited or set up!" "Isn't he?" "Not a particle. He has written his autograph in my album, and given me a copy of 'Filiating Fancies.' And Mazy Martini*/ is quite wild about him. And, Octy— " "Well?" "Please don't say anything about the store," coaxed Fernanda. "I liave given him to underetand that you an* taking a course of lessons in music and thorough bass. It isn't genteel to be a shop-girl, you know, and—" "Iloity toUvl" said Octavia, with n toss of her really handsome head. "This is a pretty state of things, and all about a man who writes books. Isn't it just as genteel for me to sell buttons and cologne and lace barbe* as it is for him to sell lib writings? And haven't I a right to earn my own living in any way that 1 choose? Fernanda. 1 didut think you were such a goose!" "He b very particular about such things," said Fernanda, "lie didn't want an introduction to Melissa Plumb after he heard that she worked in the factory." "More fool he!" said Octavia, crisply. "He b a gentleman, you know," pleaded Fernanda. "Pshaw!" said Octavia. "Octy 'a righu-Octy *s right, my dear, ' ' said old Grandfather Glenn, who had been sitting so drowsily in lib armchair near by that neither of the girls supposed that tlie subject of their #- course was known to him. "A true gentleman ain't afraid of work. A true gentleman honors the woman as earns her own bread Tliere'a a deal of electroplate in tiiis workl, and some of it b laid on so skilful you can't distinguish it from real silver. But the silver's silver for all that, and the other's only humbug!" Having uttterod which oracular sentences. old Mr. Glenn once more retained Into silence. "Grandpa is so queer!" sold Fernanda, with an injured expression of countenance. "But yoO'll promise me, won't you, dear?" But Octavia only laughed, and went out Into the kitchen, to see if the bread was light enough for the oven. Mr. Fits Arragou w as certainly rather handsome. He was dressed very' elegantly, also; he wore what was either a diamond, or a very excellent imitation of one, on bb linger, and hb cravats were simply superb. He looked at Octavia Glenn with soma interest, when they were introduced. "You are fond of music?" he said, in that soft, insinuating way which Fernanda (pund so irresistible, "I don't object to It," aaid Ocuvla, bluntly. "It's a divine gift," said Mr. Fits Arragon, "May! ask if you are taking lessons from Ferranl or Agramoide?" "Neither one of *em," said Octavia. And at tligt juncture, Fernanda hurried the literary man away, to look at a beautiful cluster of trailing aitaitun, which some one had just brought In from the woods. "There's no telling what Octy would blurt out, If you once gave her the chance, " said she. And she did not breathe freely until Octavia had left the old farm-house, and gone hack to her duties in the big fancy store on Twenty-third Street. Octavia herself felt as if some disagreeable pressure waa removed from her existence. She was a frank, noblenatured girl, who was saving up her earnings to pay off the mortgage on old Grandfather Glenn's farm. 8he delighted in wort, not only for its own sake, but for the beneficial results it rou Id produce; and she had sufficient Of courage and self-denial to live plainly until her "Wert was attained. She occupied a tireless hall bed-cooru in a shabby, little, down-town boardinghouse. patronised mostly by the guild of working people, whose only recommendation wet lis scrupulous neatness. Mb© wore cotton gloves, dysd-orsr hereelf Stay, though— we have not toM H all! as.-.c.'sssstai-H

herself — that of charity. She luul a class of innocent-faced children iu tlra Miasiou School, of an eveuiug, and she was a diligent worker in the rank* of a quiet benevolent society, which wrought a great deal of good wiUiout any blowing of trumpet*. Aud one day, when the feeble old porter at the store fell ill, and hb place was vacant, Octavia Gleun constituted henralf a committee of oue to inquire into the matter. "Of course you ran do as you like, Miw Glenn," said Mr. Idem, the proprietor of the $tore. "But Feirigan lives in a most dismal neighborhood, and I'm not sure that it b altogether safe for you to venture there after dark." • "After dark b all the time 1 have," said Octavia, brusquely. "And It must be a great deal worse to live there than to go once in awhile. 1 think I'll risk It." So site begged i>enubslon from the board big-hou.*«e keeper to make a little farina jelly overtlie cooking-stove when Uk> heavy blackberry dampings, which were to regale the boarders for desert were taken up, bought a few strawberries and a email slice of sponge-cake, and set forth to visit old Ferrigan, the porter.

It was a dismal neighborhood, indeed, where the poor old tuau lived— a neigh - ; boriiood where piles of ashes in the narI row street made a sort of model of the Rocky Mountain?, on a small scale, and layers of cabbago-Maves and damaged lettuce feste -ed in the gutter; where , rivulets of soap-mul* trickled across the , pavement ; aud there appeared to be more feeble groceries than there were people. The very gaslights sulked behind their cloudy lanterns, and the occasional i*aasers prowled by like homeless cat*. "Number ninety -nine," said Octavia, briskly walking into a thread -and - needle store, where an old woman sat , fast asletp, behind the counter. "Does Mr. Ferrigan board here?" The old woman roused herself and looked about. "Second floor back," said she. and instantly fell asleep again. Octavia smiled. "I can find my way myself, I don't doubt" she thought. Aud she did. Tlie whole house seemed to bo damp. Blotches of blue mould liad broken out here and there ou the ceiling, the walls felt damp and clammy to tlie touch, as if OctaVia had put her baud, by mistake, i»nasnall ;vegetat»le-eceutod whiffs came up, now and then, from the cellar, and the room in which old Ferrigan lay, gaspiug with rheumatic palms, telt more like n dungeon than anything else. No carpet was there, no table, only a shelf, where a dispirited kerosene-lamp had smokfcd its chimney into a black cylinder; no chairs, the window uncurtained t and the shabby bed-spread was tattered and soiled until its pattern was beyond all recognition. Octavia 'a soul recoiled from this impersonation of hopeless poverty. "Can I do anything for you, Mr. Ferrigan?" she asked, after she had tenderly administered tlie farina- jelly, the fruit and the sponge-cake, straightened up the bed-clothes and trimmed the lamp afresh. "It's very good of you, I am sure," said the old man. with the plaintive courtesy of his nation. "And I'll not deny it was* word of comfort and kindness that I was wearying for. But it wont be needful long, I'm hoping. I've sent word to my son- lie's a bookbinder, raias, and doing well at his trade, but it is natural-like, aon't you see ? as he wouldnt like to beaiagged down by such a useless old clog as met" "But he Is your son. Isn't he?" cried Octavia: "and you're his father?'* "Faith, and that's true, miss, dear," said old Ferrigan, with a sigh. "But lie'* a line, ambitious young man — a rale gintleman to look at, and of a Sunday you couldn't toll him from the gentry themselves. An' he may mam a grand lady yet — who knows?— au' he wouldnt like me to be Bpoilin' his chances. So I Just keep dark, Hies Glenn; an' sometimes I think— Lord forgive me!— that I'd be better dead an' out of the way. But I sent word to him, day before yesterday. An' he'll come— i thiuk he'll come!" the old man added, with a scarcely audible tiglL At that moment, a careless step came up the stairs— the door was pushed open, and a tali figure strode in. "Sick again!" said a petulant tone. "It appearx to m©, old gentleman, tliat It's your chief mission in life to make Lrouble for other people. Well, what la Jt now? If its money you want, you may as well understand, first as la*t, that I can't let you have any. You'll have to swallow that absurd prejudice of yours against charitable institutions. He stopped short, impelled by the hurried gesture of the old man's hand. '•Somebody's here?" said he, peering through the semi-dark nees. "Well, whycouldut you say ao? Who is It? The old hag down stairs, or—" "It is I, Mr. Flu Arragon'' raid Octavia, quietly advancing— "Octavia Glenn." "Oh, I beg a thousand pardons!" raid Mr. Ferrigan Fits Arragon, hurriedly assuming his "company" manners. "If 1 could have Imagined tliat such an honor a* this was in store tor "I dont know what you mean by such honor*." atfd Octavia, bluntly. "1 am a working-girl ; you are a bookbinder. We have ncttbei of us any reason to be raharoed of ou%alllng; yet 1 tee no necessity for fine batgiiage and

stilled lilies. Your poor old father i*| very ill, and seems to he in need of the dminionest neoeraitim of life. Suj>Luse you sell your diamond ring and help him?" That was the end of Mr. Fitz Arraei's pn* tensions. He never came k to tlie country solitude* again, to Fernanda Glenn's bitter disapi>ointurant. But how could he face them all, after it was discovered that hi* "authorship" of "Stray Jraaves" and "Floating Faucis*" was couiiued only to puttiug tlie covers on the sonic, aud that tlie real author wo* a stout, slant, old geutlcmun in spectacles, and tliat even hi* nana* 'was a fabrication of his own in- 1 genious brain? Old Mr. Ferrigan urad. 1'erhaps a* he himself {pid hinted, it was the best and wisest thing that he could do. But Octavia Glenu's kindness and watchful care soothed his last hour*. I and she luul the satisfaction of getting I the price of a decent funeral out of tlra I ambitious son. *'A jay in borrowed plumage!" shel thought. 4 'I never despised any one so I much in my life!" And when Fernanda bewailed her I delusion, old Grandfather Glenn only I smiled, aud said: "Dian't I toll you that he was only I electroplated?"

MM Why Wm >U) ». [ In the show window ot a comet esI tablishiuent ou a South Side avenue, a i Chicago reporter observed a corset in shape ho unlike the conventional comet • as pictures had implanted it in his mind, I that he was impelled to ask the proprietor of the store for wliat female athlete it was Intended. "For no female at all," was tlie reply; '•for a male. It was ordered by a gentleman." "Are then» gentlemen in Chicago who wear comets?" he was asked. ' "Indeed tlrare are. I could point you out a score or nion* on State street I any pleasant afternoon." "Who are the gentlemen that com- 1 IK*e this scon* or more?" "By their drew and deportment, and I Seueral appearance, one would set them I own as members of good society. I They range in aire from twenty-three to sixty, and represent in various degrees the strong passion of mankind to I look well." Why do they wear comet*? Every I Gntleiu&u who does buckle his body I »ide a jmir of stays has his own mc>- 1 live. It is vanity, considerations ofl health, eccentricity, aud so on. Of I those actuated by tlie first mentioned feeling, I might mention a j»ortlv and I elderly gentleman not unknown in the financial world. Time is beginning to handicap him in his race after pleasure. He imagines that his growing adiposity -J is checked and a grace lent to his strong disposition to waddle instead of walk, by cometo. Another is a toll, slender old gentleman very fond of auciety. Uel borrows a youthful elegance f Aim cor- 1 Nets, and gains iu them also a supi»ort I that he needs. Another is a middle- 1 aged gentleman who doesn't need them, but uses stays because he goes in for I odd.ty and individualism. There are a I numlrar of younger gentlemen who I wear comets out of pure vanity. Their I personal attractions are paramount with I them. And it is a fact that a comet I confers peculiar grace to a man as well I as to a woman and is as pleasant to re- 1 mark In one case as in the other. Pus- 1 sibly the iuqiortation of European ideas into even* American metropolis may I account for tlie growing popularity of I corset* among men who live for society I and nothing else. In England and oil the continent thousands of swells wear I them, and to follow European fashion* I is becomutg the proper thing to do in I this country." "Men who wear stays out of pure vanity are more careful to conceal the I fact tlian thong who are actuated in I doing so by considerations of health. This clans is composed of a considerable I and growing number of gentlemen. I Tney are chiefly professional men wlxwe I sedentary occupations weaken and ener- 1 vale. 1 know of several whose backs I are so weak from long stooping over their desks that they could not main tain an erect position without stays. Usually they luive been recommended by their physician* for good effects not I attainable by medicine. Of course it is I repugnant to the manly nature to adopt an article of attire that is feminine. But once this 1* worn off they find oor- 1 sets so supporting and strengthening, so really pleasant to wear, that tlray sometime* do not abandon them after all necessity for their use has disappeared." ^ ^ % 1 i

ttartann Hirer IlMrtloM tte l'*nn«ylrm«ta K. H. Commencing Thursday, the 6th Instant, , and continuing on Thursday only until , further noUc*. this most dsUghtfnl of all ths oMMtay excursions will be commenced by the Pennsylvania R. & by rail te Jer•V °Rj. sad thence via the favorite I riwnner, "Richard Htocktcm." to Wast i Point and New burgh. The beauties of the Hudson river have been pronounced by I great travelers aa equal to any In the world, I and by »tne aaid lo exceed the world-fa-mous scenery of the Rhine. Oertainly there Is nothing to compare with It ta point of convenience and cheapness, as the entire A special train to oonatBt with the boat will Isava Brned fttreet Station at T.OO A. I M., oo Thursday only, to slop at Foweltoe ' avenue. Rid re avunna, Genuuaiowi. Junction, Frank ford Junction, Thrreadale, Bristol, and Trenton. Connection will he made i at Trenton by the train which leaves foot , of Market street at EH A M., which train the mUre round trip Is only $B.$0, children < between the agns of tve a*4 twele* half gtiea.

Xswrsld II u aUa« . I Emerald limiting or mliiiug lu North I Carolina may or may not »*? profitable, I but that state undoubtedly yields flue cabinet specimen* of the Iraautiful stone. Tlrare is no reason to question the truth of the rejtort that one weighing nine ounces was plowed up the I other day on a farm »t Greenslmro. But whether ao large a crystal is really I worth the local valuation |>ut u|a>n it— %■') ,UU0 — depend* altogntlrar iq>ou its purity for cutting purposes. >Suiall wnI e raids have Iraen found iu Montana, it I is raid, but North Carolina is the only I jiart of the country where they have I been obtained of large size, and' under I conditions which encourage a search I for them. Tlray are at find fouud by I accident, lying ou or near the surfare of I the ground, like tlra Greensboro speciI men. The presence of uos reasonably I indicates that of other*, aud should I several be discovered iu tlra name vicinity the probability would be strong thaf I tho native rock in which the emerald's I originally occur could be struck by digging. In this way Professor Hidden I and liis friends developed the only emerald inine which thus far has'beeu I opened and systematically worked in I the state. A hint of its existence was I given by tlra discovery of a small eurar-

I aid in tlra loose soil above. Tlra sink. I ing of a shaft or trench down to tlra bed rock was rewarded by the finding . I of mauv emeralds, some of tlram from , I one-half to three-fourths inchts in di1 1 auraler aud three to six inches long. A splendid group of the crystals waa I taken- out of u .single pocket of the partly decomposed rock. They proved I more valuable a* cabinet specimen* I than for use In jewelry . Emeralds of I the largest dimensions found are rarely I transparent throughout. Portions of them are too cloudy to meet tlie requirements of gem*. But this defect I would not materially impair the value I of a live or six ounce stone for a mineralogical cabinet. It command* for that purpose agood price as an extraordinary example of a rare product of nature. I If tlie North Carolina miners succeed I in takiug out emeralds of this magniI tude, the stones will not want for purI cliasexs, although they may be im]*rI feet in ho in*- respect*. And there is reason to hope that emerald* of the finest grade may yet lie discovered in that I southern state. If so an important I additioii would be made to the variou* productive resources of the United Stati«. The emerald is not the onlv I previous mineral found in North Cart>I lina. The H iddenlto— named in honor of its discoverer — resembles the emerald in some particulars, but differs from it in composition, is harder to cut and brighter in ita gleam or flash, I lighter in its shade of green, but ha* I tlra advantage of freedom from cloudiness, and for its special good qualities is as highly prised by jewelers and connoisseur* as t»ie true emeralds. This new and scarce candidate for public ndmiratiou is found iu the neighborhood of tlra emerald and is lira object of enthusiastic and diligent searclu

A Ihy- i SUirfMn rUhln|. "The weather's gettln' a-most too hot fur good sturgeon fishin'," explained Captain Ixm Mayhem , of the sloop Fleet wing, as, by a dexterous sweep of the tiller, he put the stern of | his vessel towards Bridgeton. New Jer31 , and set sail for the fishing grounds Bay Side. Barefooted Captain I lam's craft is one of an hundred small soiling vresels tliat form what is known among professional fishermen as the "Sturgeon Fleet." The Fleetwing> captain ha*, however, devoted himself to buying instead of fishing for sturgeon this season. The sturgeon season begius about tlie first of April and ends three months later. The catch of big sturgeon has been unusually large this year and the fishermen are Well satisfled. The captain of the Fleetwing, who has fished for sturgeon every spring for twenty-eight years, is of the opinion that thev are a* plentiful in the ^Delaware as they ever were. "When I was a buy," lie said, "not more than a dozen men made a buainem of fishing for sturgeon between Bay Side and Gloucester and lira catches were not remarkablo. Now two hundred men and boys are engaged in the buaintns on lbs Delaware and 1 reckon the business will get bigger and bigger every season. Some years ago the beet feeding grounds for sturgeon were off Burlington and near Delaware City. Nosr/however. the beet are near Ray Ridge." Captain Iran says be once saw a sturgeon near Burlington that weighed six hundred and fifty pounds, bat other fishermen say the captain's imagination has in tliis instance carried him away. The captain and his son boated a four hundred and fifty pounder off Bridgeton last month. From Bridgeton down the Fleet wina passed score after score of sloops and small boats containing fishermen. The sturgeon are all caught in trala made of from nine to twelve thread twine. The meshes are large enough to let all but hundred-pound fish pass through. Sometimes the nets are allowed to drift, but as a rule they ore staked and I wmlcbed by the fishermen in small beats. When a btir sturgeon strikes a net the large float In the centre of the cork line bobs up and down and fifes notice to the fishermen. When off Mercer's creek, on tub Jersey shore. Captain Iran minted to a bobbtngoork and said: "There's a sturgeon. We'll go about and see hm boot him." The sloop ran within half a dozen yards of the net and the anchor was dropped. Two men In a yawl loosened one end

whose struggle* kept tlra rocks under water nearly all lira time. Tlra fisher>i nrau aal down in lira yawl and asked , Captain Iran "what kind of a time" he e had in Philadelphia on tlra Fourth of ! July. >• "Why don't tlray take in the stur- - geoo?" inquired tlra reporter, aatoot* rslrad at tlra coolnmn of tlu- fishermen. The captain smiled aud said. '"Causa f if they did, tlra dum iblt'd flop out of the boat like a* not an* get away, ho - they just leave it tin- itself out in the - net:" Alter Captain Iran and tlra 1 fishermen had chattod fire or ten minf utos, Ura latter began liaulins in the ? uel. Tlra sturgeon was completely exr haustod aud came up like a log. When i within a few feet of the surface one of ; the men caught up a Iraavy gaff, with a ' handle Ihrtra feet loo?. In a trice Ura • hook was fastened under Ura sturgeon's j jaw and he wa* pulled into Ura boat L without making much resistance. He r" was aboul eight fed long and would weigh, ao Captain Iran said, "» couple 1 of hundred pounds." This is Ura average *ize of Ura beat 1 Delaware sturgeon, but many are caught that weigh S'tO pound* and are 1 twelve feet long. Sturgeon leo» six feet long are rarely caught. The 1 fish are of such uniform size tliat Ura fishermen are paid a fixed price for tii em whether six or fifteen feet long. ' A male sturgeon is worth W and a female $4. The female* are smaller than the males, but are more valuable on account of the roe. The fi*lienueti sell their catch ou the ftshiug ground to men like Captain Lou. who take Uw fish to market. The captain of the Fleetwing counted out three silver dollar* and gave them to the captors of the sturgeon, which was hauled ou board the sl*>p and lowered lute a {tool of water iu the hold. The mainsail was shaken out and Ura sloop went lacking across Uie river to a point where a man and a boy were own boating :t sturgeon. On the trip over Captain Iran closed his left eye in a significant manner and in a tone of confidence said to Uie reporter: "I was afraid you might say some thin' to tliem fellers about trade dollars not train' worth a d — but you didn't. Mebbe you didn't see me poo* out them trade* and inetdra v.»u think I'm goii^in' em down here. If so, why you kin jist walk forrid an' take a look at the jib when 1 buy *turgeons after this, liecauae I got stuck on tliirtveight of them d trade dollars In Caiudeu an' every blessed one of 'emk got to be got in ou Jersevmeu, or I'm stuck." The listener uubliishingiy confessed that a* Ira was also in an humble wav a victim of the trade dollar he approved of the captain's methods. The second sturgeon taught was a female about seven feet long, and two others of the same sire were taught half a mile further down the river. The sloop stopped seven times in Uw next two miles and at each stop from one to three sturgeons were added to those already on board. Some of the fishermen complained that the fish were few and far between, but still Captain Lou succeeded iu purchasing twenty -three. Although tlie cargo wa* not large, the captain had worked off hi* trade dollars ami he was a very liappv man when in the afternoon he iwilcd for this city. Philadelphia1* principal sturgeon market is at Dock street wharf, where any morning a dozen colored men, naked to their waists, may be seen butchering the monster fish. When tlie heavy akin is taken off the flesh is yellow and ridilooking. A sturgeon that weighs one hundred pound* in its coat of mail will weigh but seventy .five i»ounds when dressed. The dm**yl fish sell at fawn five to seven cents tier pound, and much of the flesh goce to Trenton, where it is canned and sold for salmon. So ura idea of Ura magnitude of the trade may be hod from Uie fact that one firm on Delaware avenue handle fire ton* of dressed sturgeon meat every day of the season. The eggs, packed in hermetically sealed five-gallon cans, are shipped to Germany, France, Denmark and other ttiropsan countr**, where they are made into caviare. The offal of the sturgeon is sent to Fire Mile Point, where, after the oil is extracted, the dregs are pressed into cakre and sold for fertilizing purposre. Tons of sturgeon flesh i* shipped from Philadelphia to New York. ' It is aMo boxed at Delaware City, IVunsville, Psnnsgrore and other places cm ths Delaware and shipped to the Trenton conning factory or New York.

trartiai L«cX. About six miles from Bourbon vtll«, Kj., near the London roadside, in ths wood* on tbe lands of Jw.T. Toggle, wore found recently noo* pieess of •Uvsr and silver earns and two pieess of gold, all of foreign coinage, mostly Spanish, The two coins of gold wees under very old doles, the smaller pises dated 1744, and weigbad $13 grains troy. It is supposed to be worth $17 $0. Ths larger dated 1761, has no been weighed. Tbe six silver coins were of vanoos dales, though noma later than 278*. apoi. wtush were examined and foood tojra^thoor^ot ^humar. No dtli^act TWlr posted hi* land ami gsre wrtlieL Serais 00 EThrnA 2? ^ Amnding riroamstanols it is »wl»evS, bsyood a doubt, last this moosy be kmgsd to some man who died there when this county had lilils or no txhsbftanta, and Ura m< tray has Uin thsrs few wsarty a century in on excellent state