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YOL. IY. NO. 11
She Knows.
We flatter ooreelvee?we bearded boys- TV.**
<PA ?n .loon onH Attn WinPfiil
All that we know, and do, and feel?
Our business tor rows and club house joys?
From the innocent creatures who make our
tea,
But believe me, sir, they can see
Bight through and through both you and me !
As if your clove or card&mon seed
Could hide your guilt in wine and weed !
Ah ! foolish mortal, do you suppose
That only to SDiff the ecent of a rose,
And not the odor that's in your clothes,
8he's got that sweet little, pert little nose ?
Your screen is only a pane of glass,
Through which ehe sees that you are?alas!
By no means the lion you think within,
But a long-eared thing in a lion's skin.
LIFE U EARLY CALIFORNIA.
Hew Two Frenchmen Defended Themselves
?The Little Cadet.
We never knew their right names.
They were brothers, and came from Mokelumne
Hill, and the French miners
nickuamed them the Cadet brothers. It
was in '68, and there was as lawless a set
of roughs around Peoria Bar as ever
disgraced a mining camp. Whenever it
was known that a miner had struck it
big, this gang of bullies would drive
him out of his claim, clean up his
sluioes, and take possession of his
ground. It was a notorious fact that a
Frenchman or an Italian was not allowod
to hold a rich claim for miles around
the bar. The roughs ruled the whole
camp.
When the Cadet boys came and began
work on the river just above the bar, it
was rumored around town that there
would be some fun. Irish Jack and
Hooknose Andy boasted one morniug in
the ?x>rner saloon that they were going
to <!huck the Frenchies into the river.
But Jack and Andy were so drunk that
they quarreled aoout who should have
the first lick at the big Frenchman, and
in settling the matter two decanters and
a pewter water pitcher got mixed up
with their heads, and the pitcher was
the only thing that wasn't broke. It was
several days before either Andy or Jack
got out, aud several more before they
made up and resumed their positions as
chief bullies and turned their attention
to tho Frenchmen. The Cadet brothers
were quietly working away at their
claim. They had- put up a little brush
cabin on the hill side, close to their
work, and were buildiDg a dam. They
had been warned of their daDger, but
only laughed and shook their he ids, and
one, the little gray-eyed fellow, said
when the roughs jumped hi3 claim they
might bury him under the tailings.
Whon the job was finally putnp, Andy
spoiled it all by leaving the* bar a little
ahead of the crowd. When lie neared
the claim the biggest Cadet brother was
wheeling dirt ou the dam. A lcng, narrow
plank led from the bank to the dam,
and just as he was about midway ou
this board with his wheelbarrow of dirt,
Andy caught hold of the plank and turned
it over. The wheelbarrow, the dirt,
and the Frenchman were precipitated
into ,the prospect hole^ but somehow
Andv was with them. With a spring
like a panther, the Frenchman had grabbed
the bully, and together they were
writhing, straggling, and lighting like
infuriated demons. Andy had found hi3
match, but, with the cowardly instinct
of the rough, he was not willing to take
even chances, and drew his bowie knife.
Just then the little Cadet appeared in
the cabin door with his rifle. He saw
his brother struggling with the ruffian ;
he saw the knife in the hands of the latter
; and down toward the bar he saw
the roughs coming on a run. Sometimes
Andy was on top, sometimes the Frenchman,
and it was forty yards away. However,
there was not a moment to consider,
and quick as a dash the gray eyes
were sighted along the barrel, and tho
big Cadet was struggling with?a corpse.
' Hooknosed Andy had a bullet in his
brain.
The tvyo brothers took their rifles, and
in five minutes were up in the chapparal
on the mountain. There was too much
consternation among the roughs to admit
of immediate pursuit, but that afternoon
over forty of the dead man's friends
were hunting through the bushes and
along the steep mountain sides, resolved
on veugeauce. That night at midnight
the Cad?t brothers came into Peoria
Bar, and were supplied with an abundance
of tho best ammunition and provisions
by their French friends. For
three days the search was unavailing,
but on the fourth a gang of eight or ten
men discovered the hiding place ot the
* Cadets. That is, they all discovered it
but the head man, who fell dead in his
tracks just as he came in sight of the
jagged cltff where they were concealed.
-' You m*y believe it or not, boys, but
^ every man who lived on the Stanislaus
in those days knows that the Cadets
stayed on the mountains and around toward
Yankee Hill for two or three weeks,
and defied every man that was sent after
them. Bill Carter, the citv marshal of
Columbia, swore he would take them or
die, but somehow Bill never managed to
fiud them. Others did, however. McKiuney,,
as bold a man as ever lived, was
very eager in #the search until a bullet
struck him in the upper part of his
forehead, and glancing upwar * gourged
an ugly hole in his scalp. McKiuney
got weil and is liviug now, but he i^jer
afterward iudulged in the pleasure of
hunting Frenchmen. Only the smaller
one did the shooting. The big brother
always loaded the guns. Their puri
suers often shot at them, and sometimes
surrounded their position so as to compel
them to retreat. The little Cadet
would fire a shot, haud the empty gnu
to his brother, and the latter would load
the musket while retreating up the hill.
By the time it was loaded the little fellow
would fire again, and then hnrrv up
to his brother aud exchange guns. They
killed two men outright and seriously
wounded three others.
If you have ever been on the Stanislaus,
yon know that the granite cliffs
rise almost perpendicularly upward in
. many places from the river. On one of
H these cliffs tho Frenchmen fonnd it utW
terly impossible to ascend further. Their
B enemies were in hot pursuit, and a
ft change of position became inevitable.
They had to choose between facing
BE their enemies or jumping perpendicular
WD A
ly down the cliff 700 feet into the river.
There seemed to be very little choice in
the matter, for there was a score or more
of armed men below them. As soon,
however, as they turned fiercely and began
to rush down on the crowd, the latter
were so utterly amazed that they
wheeled and ran, and rolled, and tumbled
helter skelter down the mountain.
A bullet from the little Cadet's rifle
nailed one of them, however, a poor old
fellow whose name I forget, as he laj
wounded and forsaken in the path of the
Frenchmen. He was too badly shot tc
move, and when he saw the big Cade!
come xjp and club his musket and raise
it to knock his brains out, he could onlj
shut his eyes and pray that the last
blow might be effeotive. The little
Cadet had lingered behind a moment tc
try and get a shot at the retreating foe,
He arrived where the wounded man laj
just as the butt of the musket, aftei
performing a very swift, but deliberate!
circle round the big Cadet's head, wa;
descending upon the old man's skull,
With a quick bound the little fellov
pushed his big brother aside and warded
off the blow. "Let him alone, he can
not hurt us," he said, and the next mo
ment he was drawing a bead on a deputj
sheriff" far down the mountain, whc
seemed to have forgo ten something ii
he canyon, and was hurrying down tc
get it. Well, after awhile, when no one
dared to hunt them any longer, thej
quietly slipped down to the bay, and the
last I ever heard of them they had
shipped as sailors to Australia.
Somewhere in California the old fellow
who was wounded is living, and he
still entertains a high opinion of the lit*1
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fernal scoundrel. .
An Elephant Fight.
One who has seen an elephant, like
old Hannibal for instance, would naturally
suppose that if the beast was ir
lighting trim he could make the dust flj
in the riDg. The Prince of Wales in
India was treated to an elephant fight,
and here is a description of it, showing
that it was not such a terrible affair after
all:
Now the gateways have been barred
with massive beams. The police peons,
after clearing the arena, are scuttling
swiftly, with many demonstrations ol
terror, into the manholes. The chains
arc loosed from the legs of the twe
" fighting elephants," and these slowlj
advance to meet'each other, goaded bj
mou with javelins, entioed by picadors
daugling red scarfs before each. Some
of the latter appear recklessly bold, and
run, or seem to run, narrow escapes, as
the huge beast, with raised trunk,
oomes charging at them. Now the twe
elephants closely confront each other,
and their tusks clash together with ?
mighty bicker. Their trunks iut-crlace
into a twisted knot, their loins strain as
they push against each other for the
mastery, thv>ir flanks heave, and tht
muscles stand out under the thick hides.
Weight tells at first, and the bigger,
lighter colored brute bears back the less
massive, darker hued elephant; but the
smaller one has greater gameness, and
constantly confronts his weightier antagonist.
The latter ignobly "cuts it,'
and, turning his pachydermatous bad
round, seems in a supine, languid fash
ion to bid hisopponent " take his change
out of that." The combat now degen
eratesintoa farce; the smaller animal
keeps butting fitfully into Ihegreatrumi
of the other, who sluggishly declines the
frav. and sustains phleginatically a good
deal of punchiug against the barricade
and walls from the blunt tusks of the
animal which, for form's sake, must, ]
suppose, be called his antagonist. It l?
obvious that the fight is a sham, and sc
the fuse-bearers advance and flare up,
Tho elephants clearly understand, anci
act with alacrity on this signal that thej
need sham to fight no more. The big
fellow stands fast among the smoke, foi
i he is already at his own end of the
arena; tho smaller chap scuttles off it
! ludicrously clumsy haste to his own cor
ner. Again, however, they are inducer
to renew the semblage of a struggle, anc
there is some aimless butting with fore
heads, clashing of tusks, and intertwin
ing of trunks. But it is so evident thai
the brutes understand each other that,
in the lauguago of the P. R., the fighl
is a "cross," that the farce grows tedi
ous, and is ended by .he attachmenl
1 first of clamps and then of ropes rounc
; the hind legs of the lazy combatants, the
| blazing and smoke of the fuses, and the
final tying up of the unscathed impos
1 tors.
A Lady One Hundred and Three.
Tho Reading (Pa.) Times asserts thai
Mrs. Mary Schnebly, who lives ncai
flagerstown, Md., wasboin on the fif
j teeuth of February, 1772. It says
j Unlike very aged persons, she has nc
; wrinkles in her face or on her hands, noi
has the weight of years caused her form
i to droop, but she stands and sits per
fectly straight, uses none of the commor
artificial aids in walking, moving about
freely and unassisted. She was married
to Col. David Schnebly in 171W, and
j they lived together just fifty years, and
without issue. She was invited by Rev.
I Mrs. McCaulev, of Reading, who is
counecfced with her by marriage, to pay
! her a visit and to remain a day or two tc
I rest herself on her way to the Centennial
, exhibition, which she proposes to attend
1 if her life is spared. To this Mrs.
SchDebly replied that when she made the
I trip she intended going to Philadelphia
! without stopping anywhere.
Such a Gift.
Soeno: a New York street car?two
little girls, with very pretty dresses and
ladylike manners.
Dolly, dear, do you know what I am
! going to give yon for Christmas ?"
" Oh, don't tell mo, let it be a surprise."
i " Oh, I must tell you, so that we can
! arrange it all. You know my mamma
; has a beautiful sealskin sack that papa
gave her last winter. Well, I am going
to get that and take it over to yourhoive
and give it to you. Then you must give
1 it to me, and I'll take it back to
{ mamma's room. Then when those hor!
rid Ritchie girls begin to tell about all
their presents and things, we can say
I that we each got a perfectly lovely sealskin
sack, that cost ever so much. Oh,
won't they be jealous, though!"
FOR'
RD A
BEAUFORT, S. C.,
THE JUNGLE WEDDAS.
1 A Singular Knee of Savages In CeylonIdiotic
Athletes and their Custom*.
At tbe opening meeting of the Antho|
pological Institute of London, an interesting
paper was read by R. F. Hartshorne,
Esq., A. M., on "The Weddas
of Ceylon," perhaps the savages lowest
' in the scale of intelligence in the world.
' Some of these singular people?two
men and three women?were exhibited
! to the Prince of Wales before leaving
[ the island. The remnants of the Weddas
* occupy the eastern portion of tho island,
) and are spread over an area of ninety
' miles by forty in extent.
They are divided into Jungle Weddas
5 and the semi-civilized or Village Wed1
das, and it was to the habits of the for'
mer that the author of the pafer had
[ particularly directed his attention. Thefir
nomadic habits make estimation of their
? numbers mere guess work, but they
' were not supposed to exceed 380 in 1858.
' They have no sort of dwellings, but
I pass their lives roaming about in tho
open air, taking shelter from storms
under rocks or in hollow trees.
Their food consists of honey, lizards,
monkeys, deer and wild boars. Their
arms are the bow and arrow, and thev
are assisted in the chase by dogs, which
are their only domesticated animals.
They drink nothing but water, which,
however, is never used for ablution,
they having an idea that washing would
take away their strength. They chew
the bark of certain trees, but do not use
tobacco in any shape. The tallest Wed
5 das described were about frve feet three
inches, and the shortest four feet one
inch; but Mr. Hartshorne had seen one,
a young male, apparently of eighteen,
who stood five feet four and three-quarter
inches. Notwithstanding their small
size and slight physique, the strength
* which they possess in the arms, and es"
pecially in the left arm, is very remark1
able.
This is due to their constant use of
1 the bow, which is six feet long, and
> pulls from forty-eight to fifty-six
> pounds, with an arrow three feet six
" inches in length. This is pulled to the
head, and they dwell on their aim some^
times for a couple of minutes without
> the slightest tremor of the left arm be[
ing perceptible. On one occasion the
: author saw a Wcdda shoot a dog thirty1
five yards off, the arrow passing through
' nearly the whole length of the animal,
entering the hind quarter and coming
out at the shoulder. Their only other
5 weapon is a small ax.
j Fire is still occasionally produced by
^ the firestick, which is made of the same
5 wood as their arrows, but more fre*
quently by flint aud steel, which they
} obtain in exchange for hides and bees
' wax. Photographs wero exhibited to
1 show their general appearance, and
> these brought out their most striking
5 characteristics, viz., extreme shortness
' of the thumbs and sharply pointed els
bows. Their countenances are abso
lutely devoid of any expression of iutel?
ligence, and their utter neglect of their
' persons gave an air of extreme barbars
ism.
' The women wore necklaces and orna\
ment8 in their ears, for which beads and
empty cartridge-cases are employed.
L Their faces wear an expression of great
" unkappiness, and they never laugh, all
* attempts to induce them to laugh utterly
" failing; indeed, the exhibition of laugh'
ter by auothei person produces umnis'
takablo expressions oU disgust. When
5 asked why they do not laugh, they reply:
I " Why should we? What is there to
- *>4 9'* TKaw v*r\ mnr/la f/\
1UU?U Ul' ! 1UCJ X1UTT' UV I>Vi?o w
' convey the idea of colors or numbers,
^ and they cannot connt on their fingers.
' One of the most intelligent of the men
> had utterly forgotten tho names of his
lather and mother, who were dead, and
I had great difficulty in recalling the name
r of his wife, whom he had seen only
> throe days before. A Village Wedda,
r confined for the murder ot a person who
5 he thought had bewitched- him, after
1 three months' attendance at school had
" only been able to learn nine letters and
I eighteen numbers. They have no idea
I of the soul or of a future state, and
* though they speak of a superior being,
a man questioned on this point did not
k know whether it was a good or au evil
> being. Ho was not afraid of it, nor did
t he pray to it. When a d( ath occurs the
" body is wrapped in a hide and buried by
t the men, who dig a grave with their
I hatchets and pointed stakes.
5 No women are allowed to be present
5 at the interment. Nothing is put into
* the grave, nor is the spot ever revisited.
An offering of food is made to the dead,
with tho adjuration: 44 Ye dead person,
take ye this food;" but the viands are
t then divided and consumed by those
present. They have no idea of steal
mg, and polygamy and polyandry are
: unknown.
i Though they marry their sisters, they
r never marry the eldest sister, and there
i is no marriage ceremony beyond a pre.
seutation of food to the parents of the
I . J A V* V>A? in lk/\ nAl/tnliAn
I unur, wuu xiua uu tuuiw ui iud ncictuuu
; of her husband, the subjection of women
1 being complete. The eldest male Wed[
da is regarded with patriarchal respect,
1 but all others are equal, caste being unknown.
Very little information isto be
i derived from their language, except that
it seems to be agreed among philologists
j that it is the only savage language which
1! is of unmistakable Aryan origin.
Crooked Whisky.
i j
A Washington letter says that the
' j value of the property seized and libeled
in the several collection districts of the
United States since May 10, 1875, in
consequence of frauds on the rovenue
? imposed on distilled spirits, is $1,252,;
932, and the amount assessed npon the
property and bonds of guilty parties is
j $927,975. This last named amount was
' assessed as follows : Illinois, $427,270,
j Indiana, $84,540 ; Missouri, $284,814 ,
Wisconsin, $176,975. The number of
persons indicted for defrauding the
revenue in the same period is 135, which is
,! classified thus : Distillers, twenty-nine ;
; rectifiers, forty-ouc; government offi\'
cers, fifty ; other persons, fifteen. The
i I seizures made at Chicago are not in?
j eluded in the above statements. These
; last seizures, it is expected, will result
in the confiscation to the government of
' about $500,000 worth of property and
the assessment of an additional $500,000.
About fifteen persons will be implicated.
T RO
lND <
THURSDAY, FEB
A Model Fire Department,
The chief engineer of the Wilmington
fire department came over to our town
the other day, says Max Adeler, upon a
visit to the chief of our department,
whose name is Jacobs; and it struck
robs that it would be a first-rate idea
show the visitor how very efficient
our fire department is. So Jacobs got
an old tar barrel and set it upon the
- ? ? i i t a . i *i /v
root ot nis staoie, ana roucnea it on
with a match. When it began to burn
pretty freely he gave the signal for the
alarm, remarking at the same time to
the Wilmington man:
14 You'll see that fire put ont in about
four seconds by the boys."
They waited four seconds for the boys,
but they didn't come. They waited
fifteen minutes, and still nobody came.
Jacobs was furious, and as the barrel
was burning very near to the roof, he
sent a boy around to the nearest engine
house to ascertain what was the matter.
When the boy came back he said the
Bremen were all out at a picnic excepting
the members of the Washy Hose,
who had gone over to Pancader to fight
a couple of roosters.
By this time the roof of the barn was
on fire, and Jacobs was pretty near
crazy. The visitor wanted to telegraph
over to Wilmington for his department,
but Jacobs alleged that he'd let the
eternal earth burn to charcoal before
he'd consent to such a thing. Then he
sent a man on a fast horse to bring the
boys in from that picnic, and by the
time they reached the engine house the
stable was in ashes, and Peter's stable,
next door, had begun to burn. So when
the engines arrived, Jacobs directed
them to play upon that, and then they
got to work; but after pumping for
awhile without getting any water, Jacobs
was just about losing his senses, when
Mr. McAllister came up and mentioned
that the supervisors had let all the water
out of the reservoir so as to clean it.
Then Jacobs sat down to fan himself,
and to try to decide whether to commit
suicide or to leave the country. And the
Wilmington man went home with the
idea that he hadn't much to learn from
Jacobs about extinguishing fires.
Fashion IVotes.
A new style in trains, called coulisse,
is that in which the train is crossed
horizontally with gatherings at regular
intervals, and the gatherings barred over
with bands of faille. All trains are still
long and narrow, with the skirts more
and more clinging to the figure.
The latest polonaise buttons under the
arms with large buttons made of gold
and steel threads. These same buttons
also ornament the sleeves from tho elbows
to the wrists.
For small evening and dinner parties
and operas Paris fashions recommend
cream colored bareges trimmed with ecru
worsted lace and cream colored ribbons.
White Indian cashmeres are also suggested
for the same occasions.
Dresses of soft brocades have trains
of faille.
New robes de chambre, while still cut
in one piece and buttoned straight down
in front, as of old, show a novelty in the
arrangement of the trimming, which
simulates at tho back a short easaque.
The trimmings are also comparatively
new, being the ecru worsted lace, which
is embroidered with wool either the same
color of the dress or one that harmonizes
with it.
Neck chains, with pendants attached,
remain fashionable. Bracelets are not
as fashionable as formerly. Hair jewelry
is out of style, and iu its place stones
indicating tke several months, as garnet
for January, topaz for November, turquoise
for December, diamond for April,
emerald for May, etc., are exchanged in
articles for presents among frionds, the
stone chosen being, of course, the one
that suggests the month desired to be
remembered.
Among favorite rings for ladies ate
opals and solitaire diamonds set in black
onyx, and amethysts set with small bril- j
Hants.
Silver and pearl ornaments in new designs
are in great demand.
A Woman Asking to be Hanged.
A writ of habeas corpus was granted
by Judge Bingham of the common pleas
court at Columbus, Ohio, commanding
that the body of Sarah M. Victor, an
iDmate of the penitentiary, be produced
before the court. It was returnable at
once.
There are some curions facts connected
with the case. Over seven years ago
Sarah M. Victor was convicted at Cleveland
of murder in the first degree and
sentenced to bo hanged. Before the
day of execution arrived, however, the i
prisoner became insane, and upon being
satisfied of this fact the governor ordered
her sentence commuted to solitary j
confinement for life in the penitentiary. :
A simple certificate was therefore made
out from the court in whicli she was ;
tried consigning her to imprisonment for
life.
Now, after this long lapse of time, j
comes a petition claiming that the '
warden of the penitentiary has not the
proper papers or authority upon which ;
to hold this prisoner. It is claimed tin t
in commuting this sentence to imprison- j
ment for life, the governor should have
prepared, under his hand and the seal
of the State, papers to that effect, and
Kofnr? hAinor parried into execution the i
same should have been submitted to the i
prisoner to allow her to accept imprison- 1
ment for life in preference to hanging.
She now desires to be hanged, and
hence these proceedings have been in- j
stituted to declare null and void the
certificate under which she was entered
at the penitentiary. The condemned
woman is afflicted with paralysis, and j
had to be carried from the penitentiary
to the court room.
He Knew All About It.
" I suppose there are plenty of saw- J
mills in your State," said a man to a
party from Michigan.
" Well, I should say there was," re- j
plied the Michigander. "Why, sir,
Michigan is gettin' so full of sawmills
that you can hardly meet a man over
there with more than two fingers on a |
hand."
And sticking up a paw on which dwelt
a lone digit as proof of his assertion, he j
quietly continued: ,,
"I've shook hands with 'em myself." |
ITj&JLi
OOMfl
RUARY 17, 1876.
A Checkered Life.
Percy Boyd, aged forty-seven, described
as a gentleman of position connected
with aristocratic families, bul
who had for some time past adopted the
alias of John Brown, died two weeksagc
in a common lodging house in St. Giles,
London. At the coroner's inquest ii
was shown that he was the son of a clergyman
in Ireland. He married a ladj
who was a co-heiress and they were in
the habit of mixing with the aristocracy.
His literary tastes and acquirement*
were of a high order, and he was in the
habit of contributing to periodicals, hif
connection with Belgravia as a contributor
extending up to a very recent
period. He was intimate with Dickens,
Thackeray and other persons of distinction
in t e literary world, and was a
prominent member of the Garrick club.
When his wife died the property in her
right passed to her sister and the principal
source of his income was thus swept
away. In 1870 he went on the continent,
and during the Franco-German
war he was seized by the Prussians and
thrust for one night into a French
prison, where he contracted a disease ot
the skin which subsequently shut him
out from society. For some years he
had subsisted upon the bounty of hie
friends, who were many, and what he
earned by contributing to Miss Brad'don'c
magazine. In the pocket of the
dead man the police found a letter dated
December 14, 1875, fr m the Hon.
Henry George H. Roper Curzon, sending
the sum of two guineas, which he
allowed the deceased monthly. It wa*
stated that although Boyd was onlj
forty-seven years of age, by reason ol
trouble he appeared to be at least seventy
year 8 old.
Kills His P.aymate.
A little boy eight years of age, son oJ
Major James Brady, of Harrisburg, Pa.,
was shot and fatally wounded in Lancas
ter by a little playmate and friend, onl)
six years of age, whom he was visiting,
and who is a son of Mr. James Stewart,
of Lancaster. The Examiner thus de
tails the circumstances: Mr. Stewart
has a little boy, Joseph by name, who it
but six years of age. Between him and
Master Brady a warm attachment exist
ed, and in response to an invitation, the
Brady boy came from Harrisburg, ii
company with a sister, to enjoy a briel
visit in Lancaster, stopping at the house
of Mr. Stewart. A few days ago Charlee
Stewart, an elder son, brought home
from his office a large revolver, and he
placed it, still loaded, in a drawer nndei
some linen. By some means Mastei
Josie ascertained the whereabouts of the
weapon, and he managed to get it in hif
possession. He then ran up stairs tc
call his little companion down to breakfast.
As he entered Master Brady'f
room he began to snap the revolver ir
childish glee, and in another moment c
loud report rang through the house and
a bullet was sent into Brady's brain,
Ho fell forward on the floor, and wher
the members of the family, who were al
breakfast, ran up stairs, they found the
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companion. Tlio injured lad was c
bright, intelligent and interesting little
fellow.
Good Advice.
Encourage your county newspapers.
Assist by kind words, prompt settlement
of bills and encouragement to enterprise
the editors of all the papers which an
helping to herald improvements, great
or small. There never was a newspaper
says an exchange, no matter how smal
or what its price, that was not worth
more thau the price asked for it. Af
light is to time, to growth and riponinj
of fruit, so is the press to thought anc
to progress. Some men are too poo]
to take a paper. No man is rich enongl
to do without one, and more if he cai
obtain them. Food for the stomach
food for the brain, are alike necessary
to perfect growth. The editor who ii
encouraged will bo a better editor nexl
year thau this, unless he be a snarling
selfish, growling, miserly, egotistical oil
bundle of cross-grained antagonisms,
begotten in spite and at natural enmitj
with all the honest world. But such ab
normal monstrosities are few. Tho or
dinary editor is a man of brain, thought
power, intelligence. A student of life
A thinker. A sympathizer with his fel
low men if they will permit him to grov
to them.
Inequality of Sentences.
The governor of Ohio, in bis mes
sage to the Legislature, speaks as fol
lows concerning the want of eqnality ii
tho punishment of offenders : My im
mediate predecessor called the attentioi
of the General Assembly to the matte:
of inequality in sentences to the peni
tentiary. I fully indorse his views 01
that subject, and invite you to conside:
the great injustice frequently done t<
men and women who are more unfortu
nato than criminal, by the nnequa
sentences pronounced by the courts
The peculiar temperament or conditio!
of the judge, or the attendant influence!
in a community, as frequently mold tin
character of the sentence as the circum
stances of the case. Men aro serving
under sentence of thirty years for pre
cisely the same crimes for which othei
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There should be some mode of amend
ing the errors of courts in this matter
Of course, the pardoning power car
rectify the irregularity; but it would b<
letter to remove, as far as possible, tin
necessity of the interposition of execu
tive clemency. It is a matter worthy o:
of your earnest consideration. .
A Thrifty Young Man.
The Poultney (Vt.) Journal says: A
few days since we found a good econo
mist in the person of a young mechanic
He lives in a house of his own, for whict
he owes a few hundred dollars. Hif
earnings last year were $550; from thai
sum he paid $20, interest on indebted
ness; $100 of the principal, expended
$55 in repairs, and supported a family oi
four persons. He is every day at his
work, has no fears of what Mrs. Grundj
may say, but snpports his family com
fortably and welL Here is an example
worthy of consideration by other younf
men. * It is a good example for all, anc
all young or old would do well to pat
tern from it.
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FOOLING WITH DYNAMITE.
Pounding It with an Ax and Making a Bonfire
of It.
' Thirty thousand pounds of dynamite
1 are stored in Lowell, a suburb of St.
' Louis. The magazine is a small, de[
tached, windowless house; and since
' the Bremerhaven disaster, a St. Louis
I correspondent of the Sun writes,
this structure has been regarded with
1 apprehension by the residents of the
neighborhood. Mr. Julian, the agent
1 in charge, made public tests of the ex1
plosive intended to allay the excitement.
1 Dynamite or giant po *der is finely
; powdered silex, or infusorial earth,
' saturated in three times its weight of
1 nitro-glycerine. It was discovered
three years ago by Alfred Nobel, a
' Swede, and, as generally made, resembles
damp Graham fiour. It explodes with a
force seven and ohe-half times greater
| than the strongest blasting powder, and
' in effectiveness is often quite equal to
nitro-glycerine itself. The generally
f accepted idea of the peril of handling it,
so Mr. Julian says, is greatly exagger;
a ted. Ho claims that neither light nor
1 electricity, nor ordinary shoe's can pos1
sibly explode it. In all the speculations
: concerning the Bremerhaven disaster,
1 and the statement that clockwork struck
! the thirty-pound blow, none seem to
have doubted that such blow was suffi|
oient to have caused the explosion. Mr.
1 Julian's theory is that there was a fulminate
cap ready for explosion, and that a
jar of the clockwork caused a premature
' blow.
5 In conducting the experiments Mr.
r .Tnlian entered the storehouse with a
f lighted cigar in his month. The dynamite
was piled in fifty pound bcxes, each
containing one hundred cylindrical rolls
of dynamite, every roll being about
eight inches long," and varying from
three-quarters to an inch and one-half in
diameter. These rows, called cartridges,
were incased in heavy paper saturated
with linseed oil to preserve the oontents
from moisture. The agent scared the
spectators by throwing one of the boxes
out of the door. It struck forcibly on
the frozen ground. Thence it was taken
to the edge of a cliff and dropped twenty
feet on a rock. The box was shattered,
and the cartridges flew around harmlessly.
The dynamite was then gathered in
a heap, and pounded by heavy blows
with an ax. Next it was set on fire.
The flame caught, slowly at first, rapidly
afterwards, now on a little projection,
then on a round surface, until the whole
pile was burning with a fierce pink
flame and intense brilliancy, and such
great heat that no one could stand within
a dozen feet of it. For several minutes
it hissed and glowed, and then subsided,
leaving a rock-like residue, which speedily
hardened to the similitude of white
quartz. Though the hissing was tremendous,
and the light and heat overpowering,
there was not the faintest
explosion. Frozen dynamite was subjected
to the same tests. Next an attempt
was made to fire a stick of frozen
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, aud fulminating cap. The cap exploded,
p but the dynamite was only burst asunder
| and was found a couple of feet away in
; an unchanged condition. Three ounces,
unfrozen, were then exploded in the
open air with a fuse and fulminating
cap. The concussion was very heavy.
The points claimed as demonstrated were
these: That dynamite, as ordinarily
t manufactured and sold in this country
3 and Europe, cannot be exploded by a
3 blow or shock; that when frozen it cant
not be exploded at all; that when burned
> in the open air it is las harmless as a tal1
low dip; and that it is the safest of all
1 the explodents.
? Mr. Julian says that there are only
f two factories in the United States where
1 dynamite is made, and the largest is in
r Drakeville, N. J., where more than
1 three hundred tons a year are prepared.
1 The silurious earth used is brought
? from Germany, and it will absorb and ref
tain only about three times its own
3 weight of nitro-glycerine. When more
k than this percentage is used it is apt to
leak out of the packages, and, collecting
1 in drops, beconfles a 6onrce of great
t danger. For this reason great care is
r used not to exceed the limit of seventy
five per cent. Mr. Julian also said that
- two thousand pounds of dynamite were
? burned in a warehouse n Jersey City a
short time ago. There was no explosion,
- although the fact of the storage of the
v stuff in a crowded city was doubtless
unknown to the authoiities.
Desperate Women.
Jennie Collins, in the Boston Tran
script, tells the following story of tbe
3 working girls of that city: On a Saturday
night, not long ago, three girls
3 came homo with their week's pay, and,
r as the first one said, "Mother, hold your
"I apron," all threw their money into it.
1 I congratulated the mother, because they
r were so good. She answered: "I wish
5 they were bad, then it would not break
j my heart to see them deny themselves
every pleasure and work like slaves." * *
' | One girl, who was out of work and in
1 j debt last spring, could not bear the cross
? j looks when she went to the table, so she
21 in her despair wandered into a street
" j car house, sleeping under a car three
* j nights and sitting in an office in the day"
| time. Tliis exposure to the cutting cold
r i winds nearly cost her her life. When
. she found something to do she dropped
" j on her knees and began to pray.
1: Well Mannered.
3 I
> j Japanese women are charming in
- manner, and would be in appearance,
f were it not for their ungainly forms,
which are ruined by a clumsy mode of
dress, and, ammg the poorer classes,
the practice of carrying burdens upon
the back. When a Japanese girl reaches
l the age of sixteen without having under
gone either of the processes of deformity
. she is a wonder to the eye, and remains
i so until twenty-five, or possibly a little
i later. Then she ceases to charm for a
t certain^eriod, in any way excepting in
- her manner, and that is generally preI
served to the last. But as she grows
f old she has a chance of becoming quite
i delightful again. There is nothing nicer
r than a dignified and white haired old
- Japanese lady. She is always happy,
j for she is always much respected and
r cherished by her youngere, and at a cer1
tain age the natural high breeding of
- the race appears in her to attain its
crystalization.
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Items of Interest.
There is a grandmother in Oregon
who is only thirty-two years old.
In a neighboring printing office is
tacked up the following notice: " Loud
laughter is in the mouth of fools! Loud
talking or whittling in this office is
strictly prohibited."
Some people are rude enough to say
to an editor whose writings is not very
plain: " Always telegraph; never
write ; we like your telegraph hand so
much better than your writing hand."
Milford, N. H., talks [of contributing
Jimmy Blanchard to the Centennial, to
be exhibited with a picture * the
young George Washington, as specimens
of two kinds of little beys raised.
in this country.
" I'd rather have my tooth pulled
than sit for my picture," said the fair
Arabella, as she resignedly took her
seat. "Very well, miss," said the
artist, producing a pair of dangerous
looking pliers, " as you prefer."
The San Francisco Bulletin says:
" Seals aie as intelligent as dogs, and
may be made to perform as many
tricks." But no man will try to keep a
pet seal around the house until he nas
first bought his wife a sealskin cloak.
" What do you mean, you little rascal
?" exclaimed an individual to an impudent
youth that had seised him by
the nose upon the street. " Oh, noth
ing, only t am going oat to seek my
fortune, and father told me to neiie hold
of the first thing that * turned up.'"
A resident of a Pennsylvania town was
much troabled with rats, and hiving
been informed that guinea pigs would
destroy them, he bought several and
placed them where the rodents were
thickest The next morning he foond
the cellar strewn with dead?guinea
pigs.
The Patrons of Husbandry in Ohio
are using the power whioh they possess
by reason of numerical strength in controlling
elections of officers of agricultural
societies, with the intention of
putting a stop to horse racing at fairs.
They have triumphed thus far, and it'
is said that they are to make the same
effort in every county where they are
strong.
For a straightforward plea to the
question of "Guilty, or hot guilty?"
commend us to that Missouri chap, on
trial for murder; "If your honor
please, I am guilty. I killed the man
because he took my gal from me. She
was about the only thing I had an' I
didn't want to live after she went, an' I
didn't want him to live neither. An' I
should be much obliged to your honor
if you would hang me as soon as possible."
Some years ago a man by the name of
Sellers, in Ohio county, Vs., had his
brain penetrated several inches at the
back cf his head by the tooth of a
thrashing machine, carrying the bone
from the skull incision to the bottom of
the wonnd. The patient lay in a oomatose
condition until the bone was removed,
when consciousness was humeri
inf .a 1.7 roaf/rro/l ?nrl with nroDer care
vote of the district authorizing tne purchase
of the land and the building of
the house was illegal, and the courts
; have so decided the matter. So the
gentleman who previously owned the lot
: comes forward and claims the land, toi
getlier with the schoolhouse that bus
; l>een erected thereon ! We understand
j that the district will apply to the legisi
lature for authority to hold the schoolj
house under the Betterment act.
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the patient recovered without serious
damage.
A hot quarrel between Landers and
Smith in a ranche in Pine Nut valley,
Nevada, apparently subsided into good
will, and they went to bed in bunks one
over the other. In the night Landers,
who was on the lower shelf, awoke to
find Smith's face and a pistol hanging
down in sight from the upper shelf.
"I've made up my mind tbut I want to
kill you," said Smith; and then he fired,
leaving Landers barely time before
death to give this account of the murder.
A Dangerous Plaything.
A correspondent writing from Chicago
tells us about the dangerous practice of
gambling indulged in there. He says:
There are two or three recent prac- .
tices, however, which will scarcely receive
such general approval. The fascinating
and delusive game of poker has
taken a strong hold upon society people
here, and the ladies seem to be even
more devoted to it than the men. Card
parties now mean poker parties, and the
checks are promptly brought out at an
evening call. Whist and euchre are
now fc.K) slow to satisfy anybody, and no
well regulated house is now without a
set of white and red poker chips.
Young and pretty Miss Twolips utters
the slang of the game with the ease and
freedom of a turfite, and that whioh was
formerly abandoned to the back room of
saloons, and was sufficient excuse for a
police raid, now finds recognition in the
parlor. I can trace this new mania no
further back than Mr. Schenck's
pamphlet on the game of poker, printed
for private circulation at the lequest of 1
some English ladies and gentlemen who
preferred it to whist at sixpence a corner.
The publicity which this circumstance
afterward obtained all over this
country advertised two things to Ameri;
can society?first, that it was the custom
of English society for ladies and gentle
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men to play cards lor smaii sumra, uuu
next that after learning poker they preferred
it to the games they had been accustomed
to playing. Wbat was allowable
and even fashionable in England received
quick indorsement here, the
{ quicker and readier perhaps because the
game is so fascinating. But the result
is that the playing of cards for money
has got a start in American social circles,
where it was formerly tabooed, and
there is danger that there will not be
the same coo.' and phlegmatic oontrol of
it as in English social circles.
Want the Land*
A curious case has occurred in the
town of Oxford, Me. In carrying out
I the vote of that district, the town authorities
purchased a lot of land and
erected thereon a schoolhouse, at an expense
of some seven thouaind dollars.
Afterward ii was ascertained that the