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VOL. IV. NO. 19,
Lore at Sea.
W e are in lore's land to-day,
Where shall we go ?
Lore, shall we start or Btay,
Or aeiljor row ?
There's many a wind and way,
And nerer a May but May ;
We are in lore's land to-day,
Where shall we go ?
Oar lead wind is the breath
Of sorrows kissed to death,
And joys that were ;
Our ballast is a rose ;
Oar wsy lies where God knows.
And love knows where.
Oar seamen are fledged loves,
Oar masts are bills of doves,
Oar decks fine gold ;
Our ropes are dead maids' hair,
Oar stores are love shafts fair
And manifold.
Where shall we land yon, sweet ?
On fields of strange men's feet,
Or fields near home ?
Or where the fire-floweis blow,
Or where the flowers of snow,
Or flowers of foam ?
Land me, she says, where love
Shows bat one shaft, one dove,
One heart, one hand,
A shore like that, my dear,
Lies where no man will steer,
No maiden land.
THE BRIDAL EYE.
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i Sforv ?/" the Revolutionary War.
Oae summer night the blase of many
lights streaming from the windows of
an old mansion, perched among the
rocks and woods, flashed far over the
dark wat rs of L ke Cham plain.
In a quiet and comfortable chamber
of that mansion a party of British officers,
sitting around a table spread with
viands, discussed a topic of some interest,
if it was not the most important in
the world, while the tread of the danoers
shook the floor of the adjoining room.
Yes, while all is g&yety and dance and
music in the largest hall of the old mansion,
whose hundred lights glanoed far
over the waters of Champhun?here in
this quiet room, with the cool evening
breeze blowing in their faces through
the opened windows, here this party of
British officers had assembled to discuss
their favorite topic.
That topic was?the comparative
beauty of the women of the world.
44 As for me," said a handsqme young
ensign, 411 will match the voluptuous
forms and dark eyes of Italy against the
beauties of all the world I"
^ 44 And I," said a bronzed old veteran,
who had risen to tho colonelcy by his
long service and hard fighting ; 44 and I
, have a pretly lass of a daughter there in
England, whose bine eyes and flaxen
hair would shame your tragic beauties
of Italy iuto very ugliness."
441 have served in India, as you all
must know," said the major, who sat
next to the veteran, 44 and I never saw
painting or statue, much less living
woman, half so lovely as some of those
Hindoo maidens, bending down with
water lilies in their hands; bending
down by the light of torches, over the
dark waves of the Ganges."
And thns, one after another, ensign,
colonel and major, had given their opinion.
The last was a captain, who wore
a handsome scarlet coat, glittering epaulettes,
laoc ruffles on his bosom and
around his wrists.
44 Come, captain," shouted the ensign;
44 decide this great question! Which
are the most beautiful?the red cheeks
of E iglaud, the dark eyes of Italy, or
the graceful forma of Hindoostan ?"
The captain hesitated for a moment,
and then replied:
44 Mold your three models of beauty
?your English lass, your Italian queen,
your Hindoo nymph?into one, and add
to their charms a thousand grnoee of
color and form and feature, and I would
not aorapare this perfection of loveliness
for a single moment with the wild and
artless beauty of?an American girl.
The laugh of the three officers, for a
moment, drowned the echo of the danoe
in the next room.
41 Compare his American milkmaid
with the woman of Italy 1"
44 Or the lass of Eugland !"
44 Or the graceful Hindoo girl!"
This laughing scorn of the officers
stung the handsome captain to the
quick.
44 Hark ye!" he cried, half rising from
his scat, with a flushed brow, but a deep
and deliberate voioe: 44 To-morrow I
marry a wife ; an American girl! To
night, at midnight, too, that American
?lrl will join the dance in the next room.
on i-liall sec her?you shall judge for
yourselves whether the American woman
is not the most beautiful in the world!"
44 We have heard something of your
marriage, oaptaiu," said the gay ensign,
44 but we did not think it would ooour
so suddenly. Only think of it! Tomn
will Vm flr/inp qpf.t.lA/1 VAf.
diet brought in?sentence parsed?a
married man! But tell me ? How will
your ladylove be brought to this house
to-night ? I thought she resided within
the rebel lines?"
44 She does reside there! But I have
sent a messenger?a friendly Indian
chief, on whom I can place the utmost
dependence?to bring her from her
present home, at dead of night, through
the forest to this mansion. He is to return
by twelve; it is now half-past
eleven J"
44 Friendly Indian !" echoed the veteran
colonel; 44 rather an odd guardian
for a pretty woman !"
44 And you will match this lady against
all the world for beauty?" said the
major.
44 Yes, and if you do not agree with
me, this hundred guineas which I lay
upon the table shall serve our mess for
a month to come. But if you do agree
with me?as without doubt you will?
then you are to replace this gold with a
hundred guineas of your own."
44 Agreed! It is a wager !" chorused
the oolonel and the two other officers.
And in that moment?while the doorway
was thronged by fair ladies and gay
officers, attracted from the next room by
the debate?as the oaptain stood, wit!a
LNDA]
ft
ore hand resting upon the little pile of
gold, his ruddy face grew suddenly pale
as a shroud, his blue eyes dilated, until i
they were encircled by a lin6 of white
enamel; he remained standing there, as
if frozen to stone.
"Why, captain, what is the matter?" j
oried the oolonel. starting up in alarm ; t
" do you see a ghost, that you stand t
gazing there at the blank wall ?" <
The other officers also started np in ^
alarm, also asked the cause of this sin- s
galar demeanor, but still, for the spaoe t
of a miDute or more, the captain stood
there, more like a dead man suddenly }
recalled to life than a living being. c
That moment passed, he sat down
with a cold shiver ; made a strong effort t
as if to command his reason; and then ^
gave utterance to a forced laugh. g
" Ha, ha! See how I've frightened a
you!" he said?and then laughed that r
cold, unnatural, hollow laugh again. i
But now he turned from one comrade
to another, uttering some foroed jest, or c
looking towards the doorway, crowded j
by offioers and ladies, he gavlv invited a
them to share in this remarkable argu- c
ment: Which were the most beautiful c
women in the world ? e
A s he spoke, the hour struck. t
Twelve o'clock was there, and with it a
a footstep, and then a bold Indian form c
came urging through the crowd of ladies, t
thronging yonder doorway. 1
Silently, his arms folded on his war t
blanket, a look of calm stoicism on his a
dusky brow, the Indian advanced along f
the room, and stood at the head of the
table. There was no lady with htm J T
"Where is she?"at last gasped the ]
captain. "She has notrefused to oomef t
Tell me?has any accident befallen her c
by the'way? I know the forest is dark, z
and the wild pith most difficult?tell ?
me : where is the lady for whom I sent p
vnn into the rebel lines?" " t
For a moment, as the struige horror q
of that lover's face was before him, the c
Indian was silent Then as his answer a
seemed trembling on his lips, the ladies c
in yonder doorway, the officers from the
ballroom, and the party round the table, ]
formed a gronp around the two central 1
figures?the Indian, standing at the a
head of the table, his arms folded in his h
war blanket?that young offioer, half c
rising from his seat, his hps parted, his t
face ashy, his clenched hands Testing on fe
the dark mahogany of the table.
The Iudian answered by an action, b
then by a word. t
First the action; Slowly drawing his i]
right hand from his war blanket, he o
held it in the light. That right hand n
clutched with blood stained fingers a a
bleeding scalp, and long and glossy locks ii
of beautiful dark hair! *
Then the word: " Young warrior sent c
the red man for the scalp of the pale t
faced squaw 1 Here it is !" n
Yes?the rude savage had mistaken n
his message! Instead of bringing the o
bride to her lover's arms, he had gone t
on his way, determined to bring the c
scalp of the victim to the grasp of her
pale face enemy. .. -e
Not even a groan disturbed the silenoe t:
of that dreadful moment. Look there! h
The lover rises, presses that long hair? ri
so black, so glossy, so beautiful?to his a
heart, and then?as though a huge a
weight, falling on his brain, had crushed A
him, fell with one dead sound on the n
hard floor. d
He lay there?stiff, and pale, and cold V
?his clenched right hand still clutohing I
the bloody scalp, and the long dark hair v
falling in glossy tresses over the door! b
This was his bridal eve ! c
When the bridegroom, flung there on o
the floor, with the bloody scalp and long *
dark tresses in his hands, arose again to
the terrible consciousness of life, these *
wordi trembled trom his lips, in a faint b
and husky whisper: tl
" Do you remember how, half an hour l?
age?I stood there?by the table?silent, b
and pale, and horror-stricken?while a
you all started up rouad me, asking me tl
what horrid sight I saw? Then, oh, tl
then, I beheld the horrid scene?that it
home, yonder by the Hudson river,
mounting to heaven in the smoke and a
flames ! The red forms of Indians going tl
to and fro, amid flame and smoke? o
tomahawk and torch in hand I There, b
Amid dead bodice and smoking embers, ti
I beheld her form?my bride?for whom ?
I had sent the messenger?kneeling, *
pleading for mercy, even as the toma- ti
hawk crashed into her brain !" P
As the horrid picture again came o'er l<
his mind, he sunk senseless again, still n
clutching that terrible memorial?the
bloody scalp and long black hair ! ?
I
Weighing Light. ?
Prof. Crookes, of London, has actually ii
succeeded in weighing the light of a *
candle, although light has hitherto been a
considered imponderable. The princi- f<
pie of his delicate and complicated in- o
strumenft is based on the fact that a fine d
thread of glass, suspended at one end, s:
may be turned round twenty or thirty p
times without breaking, and has a a
tendency to untwist itself. By fastening n
such a thread in a tube, and throwing a 1<
ray of light on the interior, it has been v
found possible, with the aid of other
scientific appliances, to register the revo- d
lutions and tensions caused by the in- c
trodaction of the light of a candle 4nto ti
the tube, the result of whioh is that it 1
weighs" about 0,001728, or nearly two- ta
thousandth part of a grain. Taking this d
as an approximate starting point, we find b
that the light thrown out by the snn on *
the earth is equal to about thirty-two t:
grains per squaro foot, or flftv-f even tons h
to tho square mile, or 3,000,000,000 tons
on the whole earth, a force that, but for f
gravitation, would drive onr planet into n
spaoe. 8
h
Life in Great Cities. n
The relative healthfulness of some of d
the great cities is shown in the following d
table, which exhibits the annual mor- tl
tality for 1,000 inhabitants: tl
Madrid 65 0 2
Vienna 32.7
B9rlin 30.6 e
Rome 29 3 n
New York 27.9 ,
Turin 24 8 1J
Brussels 24.8 U
Paris 23.2 r
London 22.2
Philade'phia 20.3 g
The above estimate for Madrid is from o
a recent compilation given in a journal a
in that city. The capital of Spain
is|thus made to rank as one of the most ii
unhealthy plaoes in the world. *
FOE,'
RD A
BEAUFORT, S.
THE CENTENNIAL.
Cbe Circular Addressed to the British
PMple-soae laierwuig mriacmi new
tlvo to the CenteBBlal.
The following from Colonel Sandford,
lie British commissioner, was written
it the British headquarters, on the #enennial
grounds, for distribution in
jrreat Britain and Ireland. It is a renew
of the situation from a foreign
tandpoint, and will be read with inerest
:
The success ol exhibitions has been
litherto imperiled from two opposing
Buses?unreadiness and over-readiness.
Unreadiness on the part of the exhibiion
authorities, or possibly the railrays,
or probably the exhibitors, or,
Ull more probable, the combination of
ill, resulting in buildings unfinished,
ailways blocked, and exhibits undislatched.
Thanks to the energy of the directorgeneral
of the coming display, Mr. Goslorn,
the buildings in Fairmount park
ire thoroughly ready, and every presaution
has been taken that experience
?ould suggest to insure completeness in
ivery particular for the opening day,
he tenth of the coming May. There is
till remaining the great question of
>ver-readiness, or in other words, the
manimity with which hotel proprietors,
odging house keepers, and cab drivers
mited in an unholv league, and a uninimity
worthy of a better cause, to
leeoe the unhappy visitor.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum, and it
rould be unkind to speak harshly of
.873 and the pleasant Kaiserstadt by
he Wien, but tenth obliges. The first
if May, 1873, saw everything from the
emmel or small roll upwards advanced
Lfty per cent, from the prioes of the
previous day; hotels not ashamed to ask
en gulden for bedchambers au anluieme,
no larger than bathrooms, and
abmen, unable to realize to how large
n extent they mulct the stranger, went
in strike.
We shall now endeavor to show how
>l>il?^o1nVia io fntn MITTT OTlf
. UUOUCl^UiA io vw
ler title of " City of Brotherly Love,"
nd to arrange so that sojourners within
ter walls may not only have, in Amerian
parlance, a good time of it during
heir stay, but also carry away with them
indly memories.
From the first it was seen that all the
lotels in the city, carrying out even to
heir fullest ability for packing, could
a nowise accommodate even one-tenth
f the expected visitors. The Centenial
board of finance, with Mr. Welsh
s president, therefore took the matter
iito consideration, and several schemes
rere proposed to meet the deficit of acommodation;
it was, however, found
hat to be successful the management
inst be responsible and the arrangelents
practicable. To build was out
f the question; what was required was
o utilize the spare accommodation the
itv affords.
Therefore a survey was made by the
ugineering department of the exhibiion,
and it was found that there was a
)bal of 127,000 houses in Philadelphia,
inging from mansions downwards. An
ssociation was therefore formed, to be
ailed " The Centennial Lodging House
gency." The four railway companies
nuning into the city, namely, the Fhilaelphia
and Beading, the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore, the North
Pennsylvania, and tho Pennsylvania,
'ho, next to the promoters of the exhiition,
are most interested in its suces8,
were invited to co-operate; they at
nna sow ttiA no/vuuitv ftnd the scheme
ras set on foot.
Canvassers, well acquainted with every
ard and district, were sent ont, and a
onse to house visitation commenced,
tie result beiug that 15,000 bedchamers,
in private and boarding houses,
ave been secured by contract, and an
rrangement made by the company with
tie proprietor of each house to accept
tie coupon of the company as payment
1 full.
This coupon will entitle the holder to
bedroom, an American breakfast (even
tie very [details of this have been settled),
onsisting of fruits, meats, and vegeables,
including the favorite dish of poitoes
fried in milk, stewed tomatoes,
tc., supper and attendance, it being
risely determined that the dinner quesion
was a nuisance to sightseers, oomelling
them either to return home from
ing distances, or to pay twice for the
lost unnecessary meal.
T-.? fully understand the bedroom ao
ommodation, it must be said that in
Philadelphia every house has its guest
hamber, invariably one of the best
ituated and most handsomely furnished
a the house; there is always a bathroom i
rith a supply of hot and cold water,
nd the free use of the drawing-room;
ar all this the uniform price of the
oupon will be $2 to $2.50 per day, the
ollar to be taken at three shillings and
ixpenoe. Tho large chambers, if a
ressurejshould'occur.will accommodate, (
nd in fact are intended for, couples,
larried, or two friends) giving a total
xlging by this company to 30,000 :
isitors.
The old hotels in Philadelphia, by aditions
and other contrivances, have inreused
their capacity fifty per cent., so, i
iking their previous limit of guests at ,
0,000, this would allow for 15,000, and ,
iking the three new hotels, two immeiafolv
fa/vine the entranoe to the exlii- i
itinn grounds, recently built, at 5,000,
rould make a total hotel accommodaio.
of 20,000; one of these, the Globe, 1
aving no less than 1,000 bedrooms.
The hotel pi ices at present range
rom $4.50 at the well-known and ad- i
lirably managed Continental, through
3.50 at the Collonade, the handsomest
otel in the city, down to $2; but at a i
leeting of the hotel proprietors is was
etermined to make an uniform increase
uring exhibition time of $1.50, making <
be expense at the Centennial, taking i
he currency at 3*. 6d., something like
Is. a day, and so in proportion. I
The question of furnished houses for |
xhibitors and others, who may wish to
lake a long stay and yet not be separated
rom their families, has also been taken
p by the company; all this, it must be 1
emembered, under the auspices of the 1
oard of finance, and prices range from '
2,000 to $5,000 for the period of seven <
r eight months, according to position, '
ccommodation and appointments.
Arrangements nave also been entered '
nto at boarding and private houses by 1
rhi< b thosa who desire to make a long !
T RO
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C., THURSDAY, J
stay can be excellently lodged and well
fed at low rates; a man and his wife for
$25 weekly, including a large front room
on the second story, and finally, accommodation
has been found for workmen
at $6 per week.
To understand the railway accommodation
it must be stated that the peninsula
on which the city stands is intersected
longitudinally by Broad street,
some fourteen and one-half miles long,
and transversely by Washington avenue,
and the two railways running to the exhibition
grounds have stations in Broad
street, in the very heart of the city,
Broad street and Callowhill, Ninth
street and the Green, from both of
which trains will run to and from Fairmount
park at intervals of a few minutes
as with our metropolitan and district
railways.
The tramways or street cars, as they
are termed, are an institution, the stations
are central, and the lines to the
exhibition five. It is proposed to run
one car per minute, making 800 per
hour, and holding, seated, 6,500,
crowded 12,000, and paoked 18,000. All
this is very satisfactory but as some
people object to the packing process, a
company has been organized called
" rrn? riAmnnnw "
" IOO lilQlDmuu xinuoici wiuj^Mujy
which will ran a series of wagonettes
between the city and the exhibition, at
the uniform tariff of fifty cents, each
vehicle to hold ten. They will also be
in waiting at the various stations for incoming
trains, and will oo-operate with
the " Centennial Lodging House Agency."
It may be here stated that the
agents of the latter will also meet the
steamers.
By the joint co-operation, therefore,
of the " Centennial Lodging House
Agency" and the "Transfer Company,"
the traveler is saved all trouble, the
coupon supplies a home, a carriage
awaits him, and his baggage taken care
of, a combination that seems almost Utopian
to an old traveler.
Thus the questions of lodging, boarding,
and transit are disposed of, and as
it may be thought by many that it will
be impossible to carry out the arrangement
of the agency, should things reach
a famine rate, it may be stated that an
eminent batcher, that is, one who kills
on the colossal scale known in Chicago,
Cincinnati, or the Saladas of Buenos
Ayres, has offered to supply 100,000
pounds of beef, 100,000 pounds of mutton,
and 100,000 pounds of pork, fresh
or cured, daily, and that his offer has
been accepted. The only artiole which
is expected to be " bulled " is butter, I
which in ordinary summers may be had |
at seven and one-half pence per pound,
and is expected to rule at 3s. at least.
From all this it will be seen that, providing
one can spare the time, what with
the low rates given bv the American and
other lines, and with living averaging
?3 per week, it will not require the
purse of a millionaire to take part in the
great exhibition of 1876.
Rather Talkative,
He was coming in to Yicksbnrg on the
morning train from Jackson, the Herald
says, and seeing a vacant seat in the
coach he oocnpied it withont reference
to the handsome little woman who sat
just in front.
41 Beg pardon, ma'am," he said, insinuatingly,
"may I offer yon the morning
Herald to peruse f"
She had glanced at him slyly over her
left shonlder, and taken his measure before
he sat down. She knew the shade
of his h&ir and the depth of his eyes to
a nicety before she had even seemed to
look at him.
" The scenery is not very attractive,"
continued the passenger, "and the papaper
is not very interesting, but one is
certainlj^ relief to the other."
She had pr- tended not to hear him at
first, bnt as he finished the last sentence
she looked up modestly, but archly, and
said:
"Thank you."
He handed her the paper with an insinuating
smile and received a smile in
return.
"It's a weary ride from Jackson to
Vicksburg ; there's so little to be seen,"
he ventured, after some hesitation.
" Quite," she answered.
"Are you fond of newspaper literature?"
"Very."
There wgs a slight pause, when the
passenger resumed : "A little paragraph
in the Herald reminds me that this is
leap year. Do you think the ladies will
take advantage of it?"
" Possibly."
There was another pause. The monosyllabic
passenger had not raised her
veil nor lifted tier eyes sinoe she took
the paper.
"May I ask, ma'am, if you approve
the supposed custom of leap year ?"
"Certainly."
"I mean to asfc, would you care to
see oar social system revolutionized, as
it were, even temporarily, so that the
young of both sexes should assume un-.
usual, not to say unnatural, relative
positions?the one usurping the acknowleged
province and prerogative of
the other, and the year 1876 being the
social antipodes of the preceding and
succeeding years. If we would preserve
our time-honored institutions and
begirt society with an inexpugnable
safeguard "?
"May I trouble you for a glass of
water?" she asked, interrupting him in
the midst of a sentence.
He said " With pleasure/'as gracefully
as he could under the circumstances,
and started for the water cooler.
As he resumed his seat, after returning
the glass, she turned herself around
so as to face him and observed :
"Now go on with your purty talk,
for I 'spose I've got to hear it out,
whether I want to or not, and I reckon
the sooner it's done the better."
Ho heard somebody calling him just
then, and he went suddenly into the
smoking car, to return no more.
Princely Farming.?A farm owned
by David Jacks, of Monterey, Cal., containing
10,000 acres, was planted in
wheat last year, and the yield was fifteen
centals per acre, and, at 81 per oental, it
would give a crop worth $150,000, of
which one-fourth, or $37,500, is net to
the planter. A few years ago this entire
tract could have been purchased for
810,000.
ITJiLZj
Coma
LPRIL 13. 1876.
Customs iu Alaska.
The Indians, in Alaska believe in evil
spirits who live in the water, and send
sickness and disease among the people
?a belief to Which the occasional disasters
caused by mussel or fish poisoning
have doubtless given rise. They hold
communication with these spirits
through their sorcerers, but do not worship
them in any way, or try to propitiate
them with offerings. When a Kolosh
dies his body is burned, and a rude
monument pi aoed where the ashes are
buried. They believe that the spirit
lives forever, but have no idea of any
reward for virtue or punishment for
vice. Aooording to their belief strict
distinction of rank is preserved in the
other world, all the chiefs being in one
place, the common people in another,
and the slaves in a corner by themselves.
Only when slaves are killed at
the funeral of their chief their souls remain
in eternal attendance on their master.
This cruel custom was said to be
abolished under the Russian rule, but it
always has existed and is kept up to the
present day, though the ceremonies are
performed out of reach of the authorities.
Several cases of the kind have occurred
sinoe the transfer of the territory
in suite of the vigilance of the authori
ties, and no wonder, as the United
States government has done nothing to
suppress slavery where it exists right
under the very eyes of military rale.
When a child is born it is carried and
mined by the mother until it is able to
crawl and munch away on dried salmon;
then the scanty clothing of for with
which it was covered at first is removed,
and to strengthen its constitution the
child is immersed in the river or sea
every morning; but as their own parents
wonld be likely to yield to the piteous
cries of the little martyrs to discipline,
this dnty is generally intrusted to an
nncle or some other relative who stops
all weeping and screaming with a liberal
application of switch. The children implicitly
obey their parents at all ages,
and great care is bestowed upon the old
and disabled. Orphans are always provided
for by the community, and fare
as well as any of the other children.
When a young man wishes to marry he
first asks the consent of his parents, and
when that is obtained he goes to the village
where his intended lives, and sends
a proposal through some friend, and if
the answer is favorable he repairs to the
house at onoe with some presents for
the parents and relatives of the girl, and
then takes immediate possession- of his
new chattel without any further ceremonies.
A short time after this the
new Benedick pays a visit to his wife's
relations in company with her, and if
she has nothing to complain of then,
presents must be made to him and his
bride, exceeding in valne those he made
at first. The Koloski only regard relationship
on the mother's side, and the
succession and inheritance are confined
to the female line. Polygamy is the general
custom, and exists even among the
Christian Kenaitze, where it is tolerated
by the native and half-breed priests in
the families of ohiefs. Tho wives often
quarrel, and stabs with knives and daggers
are not of very rare occurrence.
What Russia is Doing.
A narrow strip of only two hundred
and twenty-five miles divides Russian
and English territory in Central Asia.
Steadily and constantly has Russia
worked down from the north, nntil almost
all of Central Asia not actually
covered by the flag of England has
been absorbed by her authorities. And
while thus operating in Asia the czar is
also taking care of his interests in
southern Europe. Naturally fearful of
the growing power of Germany, under
the lead of such a man as Bismarck, he
is attempting to draw a cordon around
Constantinople by obtaining power in
Servia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Herzegovina.
Bismarck has not failed to apprehend
this strategic feature of the
case, and has placed Austria in the projected
path of the czar, and is ready to |
i ack Francis Joseph when the proper
moment cornea for positive action. The
German foothold in this section of Europe
is in the Danubian provinces, while
Austria dominates in Dalmatia, on the
Adriatic sea. A Hohenzollern prince
rules in Roumania, and a Hapsborg acts
from Vienna, through Dalmatia. These
| men act as sentinels of Germany in this
case, and it will be difficult for the czar
to sink any mine that they will not discover
and countermine. The wheel of
circumstances brings about strange
events in the history of nations as well
as men, and the real check upon Russia
may come in Europe from Germany,
and not in Asia from England. The
czar has two powers watching him with
sleepless vigilance, and it will require
all his power and cunning to escape being
wounded by either one or the other
horn of the warlike or diplomatic dilemma.
Calling a Thief a Thief.
All daily Daners in Pittsburgh,
says an exchange, having recently been
sued for libel in the sum of $10,000
each, and pnt nnder heavy bonds for
trial, for inadvertently calling a man a
thief when it was proven that he had
stolen a large lot of jewelry, the newspaper
managers have resolved that on
the first day of April they will discharge
all their editors and reporters and begin
the publication of the Bible as a news
matter for their readers. Such stories
as that abont Mrs. Potiphar, Solomon
and Uriah and the like will be toned
down as mnch as possible, and the word
"alleged" interpolated, so that no direct
charge will be made. When the
Bible is exhausted they will pnblish the
Koran and the Book of Mormon, and,
finally, fall back on the works of Confucius
and the Chinese Eucyclopdeia.
Hereafter, no positive opinious or personal
reference less than 5,000 years old
is to appear in a Pittsburgh newspaper.
Life insurance 0 gents will be able to do
a land office business among their subscribers.
A genius to fortune and to fame unknown,
and covering himself under the
mysterious address of " Box 51, Scottsville,
Ya.," offers in the advertising columns
of the Scottsville Courier to send
first-class editorials on all general topics
to any part of the United States for $8
per column. ,
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poisoned' stockings.
A IDltrtllBi C?e?8?rl??i SIckneM o! a
PO?NTMI4)M Bfy.
A Utica Observer reporter was informed
that the four-vear-old boy of a
widow lady living in the city was
serionsly ill, and that the cause of the
little fellow's sickness was thought to be
his poisoned stockings. It was ascertained
that the case was in charge of Dr.
Charles B. Tefft, and to him the reporter
applied for information. He was
told that the cause of the boy's sickness
probably lay in the fact that his stockings
were dyed brown by the use of J
picric acid, but that experiments to be
made in the evening would determine
that point. The case was this :
On Sunday the little fellow put on a
pair of brown woolen stockings. Four
days aft9r he was taken very ilL He i
commenced retching and vomiting, and
a yellowish hue commenced spreading
all over his body. When Dr. Tofft was
called the little fellow was suffering
great pain. Dr. Tefft confesses that
after an examination he was unable to see
why the boy should be sick until his eye
fell on the boy's brown stockings, when
the thought flashed over him that the
newspapers were probably right, and (
that there was poison in them. He had
them removed at once, and found that
the boy's legs were fairly yellow. He
then had the mother taste the stockings,
and she declared that they were very
bitter. The mystery of the poor little
fellow's illness wis explained,
Dr. TeffL on reading up on the sub- !
ject of picric acid, found that it would J
Droduee the ?me symptoms as those j
exhibited by the boy." Next morning 1
the stockings were subjected to * thorough
test. A piece was eat from one of !
them and plaoed in hot water for a moment
Then placing it between the
teeth a very bitter taste was perceptible, i
so bitter that it irritated the mid of the i
tongue. The pair o1 stockings were I
then placed in the water. On wringing ]
them (he water immediately became die- 1
colored, assuming a yellowish tinge
which oould not be mistaken. There is ]
no donbt that the picrio add in the matter
used to color tne stockings produced
the boy's sickness. At one time the little
fellow was very near death, but he is
now reoorering. , His rcoent attack
was his first serious illness, but it j
is noted that during the time he has
worn the stockings be has been afflicted j
with diarrhea, headache and stomach- ache.
1
The stockings were not a oheap pair. '
There were as nioely made and of as nioe :
a shade as any. Bnt their effects were 1
dangerous. This picrio acid is not used :
alone for purely brown stockings. It 1
is also used to dye striped hose in which '
that color appears. Bnt all brown stock-. '
ing8 are not poisoned. Some of them J
are manufactured by honest dealers who ?
disdain to make use of picric add on ao- 1
count of its cheapness, because they
know its deadly effects. There iff one <
sure test to apply to detect its preeenoe. i
Stockings dyed with it, placed between '
the teeth and against the tongue, impart
a bitter taste, which cannot be mistaken.
Ladies or others about to purchase 1
brown stockings would do well to apply 1
this test before buying. i
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The Wreck of a Stern Endearor. ,
Two old prospectom?Chloride Joe
and Bedrock Bill?cabin together in the
northern pait of this city, says the Vic*
ginia (Nev.) Chronicle. They have no 1
woman about their establishment They 1
do their own .cooking, washing and 1
mending. They spend most of their J
time in the moon tains, looking for veins '
of silver and gold. When the weather 1
is good they are off among the hills. In 1
bad weather they remain indoors and J
attend to household affairs. J
Chloride tells how old Bedrock play- *
ed quite an amusing joke on himself f
the other day. He had two pairs of pan- <
taloons made of the same material. Both ^
were a good deal dilapidated, bnt Bed- *
rock, after viewing the situation, '
thought that ont of the two he might *
make one pair of tolerably serviceable *
pantaloons. His plan was to cut the 1
legs off one pair for ase in patching the 1
seat of the other. c
He sat down flat upon the floor with 1
old pantaloons, scissors, needles, thread 1
and beeswax all lving about where he *
could pat his hands upon them without
| moving. 1
Old Chloride was writing a letter to
the folks at home " back yand6r in
Pike," so nothing was said for over an
hour.
At last Bedrock cried out: " There, .
by the holy poker! there is as neat a job
as could have been made by any woman .
on the Corns tock range !"
"Got'em mended!" asked Chloride,
looking up from his literary labors.
" At last, thank Heaven ! and a bullv
good job I've made of it, too. Look >
here!" and Bedroc t held up to view the J
repaired breeches in order that his part- ;
ner might see them.
"Ha! ha! ha!" laughed old Chlo- ;
ride. k
"What's cut yon loose ?" asked Bed-1
rock. :
' * Look for* yourself," said Chloride.
Bedrock turned the newly mended
pantaloons this war and that to see what
was wrong, and finally let his eye fall
down along the legs. He turned red (
and then pale, for a single glanoe show- i
ed that he had made a terrible blunder, f
He had done a good job in repairing the j
seat of the pantaloons, but to his oonfu- a
sion he -found that he had cut the legs
off the same pair and used them for e
patches. 4
How he Felt. a
This is the feeling that, according to t
the Glasgow (Ky.) Times, overcomes a i
country editor on the receipt of a cash a
subscription: Our friend Charley r
Wheeler moved in on us last week and
left a new subscriber's name, accompanied
with the sine qua non. Imme- s
diately the proprietor's chair began to a
tilt backwards, his faoe to take on an *
ecstatic glow, and his polar diameter to <3
lengthen. Dovetailing his fingers over s
his corpulency he closed his eyes meditatively,
and his lips moved in silent invocation,
and with the determined air c
of a fellow who didn't oare a cuss, he *
palled out a jean purse and crammed I
the dollar in it regardless of th? foelings tl
of bystandars.
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About tlwf Fashions."
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Coat shaped sleeves with deepjjanntlet
cuffs, or with several overlapping
ruffles, falling toward the wrist, are
adopted for all wash goods "suits of the
coming season. .*
Stylish street dresses * will^be'yaade
ill to oompoate ooetumee 01 cream coi'>r
and brown, cream and plum, cream and
bine, and cream and a variety of ^bode
and wood tints.
Chemises, drawers, camisoles and
night robes of fine percale are ornamented
witfe fine tncksj defeats bonnets
and vines of embroidery, ,wiaa_ strong
quality of Valenciennes Uce .
Among the various names jgiven to
the cream coloredlaoeflafS ' LomeIII.,''
"the Princess," " Archangel," "Cashmere
" and "old Brussels.*' The'laat is
a decided misnomer, but the lace connoisseurs
will correct it til after'a'while.
The first spring wraps art 'dolmans of
black flidlienne in shapes^ similar to
those now worn, with elbow sleeves and
long znantQla fronts. The trimmings
are wide galloons and rich fringes.
Wraps for evening wear are in dolman
fronts.
The most fashionable imported spring
soils are made of ?eam colored JJoaabmere
combined with Xeukrd auk of
Havana brown, oliv^ wood, drab and
reseda green shades. The basques and
tanks of cashmere art^trlmkned with
oream ooloredtee.
Both polonaises end overskirts'are
seen among the importations Of ftfik and
light wool sails lor firing - wear. The
polonaises are with prinoeesrt^ fronts,
buttoning from throat to bottom, and #
with Marguerite or cuirass backs falling
over bouffant draperies and looped sash
bows. u -.J?
A new pattern for.draweeghaa the leg
sloped in at the knee by an outside seam,
sua broadened upward and downward
therefrom. A slit* to left in the seam
from the knee down, and this is, with
the bottom, gin ?sent ml ^with embroidery,
and someHmqi trimmed with
i ?m
Laoe or raiunsk
Life In Paris. "
.
A diner-out says ihai.one evening he
went to dine with some new acquaintances.
It was his first invitation to their
boas*. He entered the mansion-just as
klie neighboring clock was striking the
boor appointed for dinner time. , As he
pat his foot on the first step of"the stairease
he heard lond words; scresftns, tarn
nit, and before he ooold prick up his
ears down came a tureen of soup, rolling.
tumbling, bounding, breaking, rattling,
clattering, distributing haef tea,
cabbages, carrots, parsnips, ship, rags
of. meat, and fragments of porcelain
right and left, front and bade. The
oulinaty cyclone past, he, finding himself
even unstained, kept on up stairs.
Dinner was announced soon after he
bad sainted his hosts. They took seats
it the table. The servant brought on
* turbot. The husband said to his wife:
" My angel, toll our friend tbe bill of
fare!" She?hat too* wreathed in
. <? v?
(manning bjhuou?*uonwcu. nu,
darling; that doty is the boat's." Ho
therefore easily said: "Well, 1 most
give yon morning that we have adopted
the English custom. -. We. never hare
imZ gfl uh
' YThj he Remained, a Bachelor.
In an elegant mansion neir the Arlington
Honse in this city, my a Wasbiog- *
ton correspondent* ffeaido two-, ladies of
the olden aristocracy-?Mrs, Freeman
ind her rirteT^CoEo.' ^bont
the litter lady a Httle rd&anoe clings
irhloh makes her Interesting. She
ras the second and the aAanoed bride
if the late President Buchanan, his first
ove having died in lier vonth, ahd nn;il
he met Bliss Coleman he warf almost
i recluse from ladies' society. He was
engaged to her when sent abroad as
American minister to the. court of St,
Tames in London. At that time Mia
Uoleman resided in New York. He*re;urned
to this country on a visit, and on
he evening he arrived Mia Coleman
ras giving a grand entertainment. He
vaa fatigued, and instead of dressing
ind paving bis respects to tier imnediatelv,
retired to his room, mid early
lext morning celled to-so* her. She
tad taken offense at hia not calling the
>veiling before, and refused to see him,
md they never met again. i k
The Harriage Ceremony,
In an English bigamy case, where it
ras proved that the first marriage bad
>een solemnised in a private ball where
livino service had beeil held because
he church was out oC repair, it was
leld that the marriage was valid. The
ourtsaid: 44 The fact of the marriage
ervioe having been performed a peron
acting in a public capacity isprima,
acie evidence as to the person s legal
apacity to perform the service. So the
act of its having been performed in a
dace by a person acting in such capa
ity is also prima facie evidence mat
he place was probably licensed for mariages.
The presumption covers both
he person and the place."
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Credit and Cash.
A grocer in the town of Santa Clara,
JaL, has adopted an original method of
lusine s. Each oide of the store is
Itted up forbosineason its own account,
n the general arrangement each side is
> duplicate of the other, the difference
eing that one side is cash and the other
redit. When a customer oomee- in, the
Lrst question asked aa: "Do yon wish
a buy for cash or on aooouut ?", If it is
oash customer the goods and prices on
he cash side are shown, bnt if it is one
rho wants credit, he is shewn the other
ide, and made to realise the value of
eadymoney. * , Jy'
* rto^l I
In the time of Charles IL tobacco was
apposed to be an antidote to the plague;
nd Heme says, when at' Eton, the
rorst flogging the students ever revived
was because they, refused to
m0ke" ;.r-.rf,
In the old record book of a Gonnectiut
church, dated 1702, is this item :
'For making a noise in church, Ann
k>lton, spinster, is tojjrit three days in
be poor pew, or pay a fine of five shiltogi.;*
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