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THE BEAUFORT TRIBUNE
AND PORT ROYAL COMMERCIAL.
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VOL. V. NO. 16. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH. 22, 1877. $2,00 per Anim Siii?le Copy 5 Craft.
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Lack and Labor. i 1
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Luck doth wait, standing idly at the gate? j
Wishing, wishing all the day ; , j
And att night, without a fire, without a light
And before an empty tray, t
Doth sadly say : ; l
" To-morrow something may turn up ; L
To-night on wishes I must sup."
Labor goes, plowing deep the fertile rows? ! j
Singing, singing all the day ;
And at night, before the fire, beside the
light, \
And with a well filled tray,
Doth gladly say : ]
"To-morrow I'll turn something up; 1
To-night on wages earned I sup." <
- ?St. Xictwlas. 1
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PAPA'S STRANGE GUEST. j
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It was a warm June evening, and mv (
father and mother and I were seated in ]
our drawing-room, with the long doors t
leading on to the lawn thrown open, to ]
admit the air. I was sitting at n v
bureau, examining some of mv jewelry, <
which I kept there, when the doer j
opened, and M. Menton (a friend of my t
father's staying with us at the time) : j
entered. He was a French Canadian ; | <
rather a fine-looking man, but a man I ! ,
never liked ; there was a look in his
black, beady eyes which, to me, was at <
once repulsive and distrustful. He ' ]
looked curiouslv at me, and approached, i
"Mademoiselle is busy?" he asked. j <
"Yes," I replied, shortly. <
My father and mother had dropped j ]
asleep, so, much to my disgust, M. Men-> 1
ton took up his station on a chair by my <
side. I say disgust, because I loathed j
the man ; his politeness always seemed \
to me unreal. 11
"Mademoiselle has some fine jewels, j
he remarked, presently, taking between i ]
his finger and thumb a handsome broach ! i
of rubie3. j 1
"All of this jewelry is not mine," I ,
answered. " Most of it belongs to my i (
mother." 11
Soon after, tea was annoimced; after ;
which meal M. Menton and my father j
adjourned to the latter's study, to talk 1
on business, and my mother and I re- ^
turned to the drawing-room. 11
I had finished putting away the jewelry
in the bureau, but had not sliut or locked j
it, when I turned to my mother. i
" What is this business that so often i
keeps M. Menton and papa closeted to- ,
gether?" I inquired. <
"Some money matters, my dear," re* 1
turned my mother. ; <
" Is papa in any difficulty !" I inquired, 1
anxiously. j i
" No, * no ; but, between ourselves, j
Louisa, I think Monsieur Menton has : j
some heavy bills due, which I fancy he
can not pay ; but if he expects that your i
father can help him, he is grievously j
mistaken." i
My mother took up a book and com- l
menced to read, whilst I went over to the ;
piano and played. j ]
In about half an hour our visitor and ; ]
my father entered the room, the latter i j
again taking up his station on a chair by j
% my side, as close as he possibly could, j
Song after song he made me sing; and, j
much as I would have liked to, I could ; ]
not, with common civility, refuse. ! ]
It was ten o'clock when I rose from the i j
piano and prepared to retire to mv own 11
room. I shut my bureau and locked it, |
kissed my father and mother, and bade j
Monsieur good night. : j
****** I (
Tf -a-na oVwvnf. V>alf-r?ftst one. when I was i
awakened from a light sleep by hearing a j !
stealthy footstep 111 the corridor outside <
my room. It approached my door; the j1
r person, whoever it might be, walking '
softly and cautiously, as if fearful of 1
disturbing me. Who could it be ? My i
first impulse was to jump out of bed and
see; but I was of a timid nature, anu <
imagined burglars and all sorts of horri- 1
ble things, so I remained still, listening ; 1
with suspended breath. ; f
Presently the handle of my door was <
turned. Oh, heavens! I felt paralyzed, j 1
A man entered my room -with a small i
dark-lantern in his hand, and, after paus- <
ing for a moment, slowly approached the 1 J
bed. I had just sufficient presence of ?
mind to shut my eyes and feign sleep as
he bent over me. I felt that he had 1
turned the light full on my face; his 1
breath fanned my cheek.
My heart beat to suffocation, and I felt
that if the ordeal lasted much longer, I . j
could not control myself, and should
scream or faint. j,
Happily, however, the next moment 1
the light was -withdrawn, and my nocturnal
visitor left the room.
I heard the footsteps pass along the
corridor, and descend the stairs leading
to the drawing-room. Then it flashed
upon me, though I had locked my bureau
containing my jewelry, I had not taken
away the key.
I have remarked that by nature I was
timid; but, at this juncture, I felt as
brave as a lion, *nd, springing from my
bed, threw on my dressing-gown and
went to the head of the stairs.
I paused A dreadful fear came over
me. All was dark, and I heard not a
sound I began to descend.
When I get opposite the door of the j
drawing-room, which was partially
closed, I saw a dim light proceeding
thence. Oh! my agony of fear lest the :
awaoIT AVh/3 Vvofrov mol
KUUIS Bliuiuu lir?a ouu *"v.
On reaching tlie door of the room, I
saw to my delight that the key was in the
lock out?ide. But if I should not be
successful in making this villi an prisoner.
'
I shuddered at the thought. How this ,
man had got into the house I could not
tell. He must be a friend of one of the
servants, I conjectured.
My hand was upom the key of the door,
when the handle, with a sharp click, betrayed
me.
J heard a quick step across the apartment.
A moment decided me.
I must feign somnambulism.
In another instant the door was opened,
and I, with my eyes fixed wide open,
entered the room.
The thief started back with a smothered
exc'amation of surprise.
I dared not look at lim, but walked
straight past him to -the bureau, and
spoke the following words disjointedly :
"I left my key here. Where can it
be?"
The'xnan walked over to the other end
of the room, where an ov*?eea* m
mng 011 the back of a chair, and began 1
o search the pockets. i
I had in that moment time to regard 1
lim.
I could hardly forbear a cry; for, in <
his room, trying to rob my mother and ;
nyself of our jewels, was Monsieur
Menton.
He returned to the bureau (where I
vas still fumbling to find the key), and
breed one into my hand. ' .
I then pretended that I had found i]
jvhat I wanted, and, turning round, left i(
he room. ;'
I have often wondered since then why |!
[ did not raise the house, but, truth to j;
:ell. mv movements on that night were
}uite mechanical; my faculties seemed !
:o have given wav under the unnatural | 1
ension to which tliey had been subjected; !
[ felt in a sort of stupor, and hardly I 1
inew whether I was asleep or awake. I ! 1
returned to my bedroom, and, looking at
:he key as I placed it on my dressingable,
saw that it was that of the front '
loor of our house, which Monsieur 1
Menton must have taken from my father's ;
study after we had all retired for the
light. 1
Then I returned to bed, leaving a thief i
town-stairs ransacking the place. After !
ibout a quarter of an hour I heard a
stealthy step ascend the stairs. I closed
ny eyes, and as I did so my door was <
opened, and again I underwent another <
examination by the light of the lantern.
Presently I heard my persecutor go j
over to the dressing-table. There was :
10 article of jewelry there; so if that was
what he wanted, lie was disappointed. '
3oon he withdrew from my room, and i
iescended the stairs once more:' I heard
aotliing more. I cannot say that I slept,
out the heavy stupor which had been
creeping over me deepened into complete i
insensibility, and I remained in that state
till morning. It was my habit to wake
without being called by the servant, but
it was late when I arose the following
morning, and I was informed by thp
maid that my father and mother were at
breakfast. I could not wait till I was
.lressed to tell my adventure, so I tlirew
on my dressing-gown, and went to the
breakfast-room. I opened the door.
My father's back was turned to me, and
my mother was facing me. She looked
up as I entered the room?looked up, j
res, and, with a terrific scream, rushed j
toward me.
My father evidently thought, as I did, (
Lhat she was deranged, till he looked at !
aie, when he in his turn uttered a cry of j
surprise and horror. My parents both j
Iraggecl me to the chimney-piece, above ;
which there was a looking-glass. It was
then my turn to exclaim. When I took
lown my hair to brush it the night
before, it was black as jet; now it was
streaked with gray.
The work of years had been accomplished
in one terrible night!
An explanation was asked, and an explanation
given; after which my mother
[eft the room, and in a few moments returned,
bringing with her the key of the
bureau.
" You must have been dreaming, my
love," she said; "evidently not a tiling
aas been touched. Our jewelry is as safe
is it was this time yesterday."
" Well, where i6 Monsieur Menton ?" I ,
isked.
"In his room, undoubtedly," answered
ny father. So saying, he went from the
room, but quickly returned with a pale
face, and in his hand a note, hastily i
written in pencil.
"Read it aloud," he said, handing it i
to my mother, who took it, and read as
follows: i
" My very dear friends: <
"I write to say farewell to you. We i
'hall never meet again. When you read
the confession I am about to make, you
trill think yourselves well rid of one who
icce]?ted your hospitality and then turned j
traitor. I
44 Yes, I am a poor, despicable wretch. |
i'ou, my benefactor, remember that last
?vening I asked yo;i to help me^in some ! '
money matters, which you said you could !1
[lot do, and you know I^ad asked you j
several times before, ana fbu" had de- j
.'lined; but yesterday night you said you :
bad given me my tinal answer. I tlien ! 1
Xi'ew desperate (though to your face fair
enough), and determined to steal the
money iro n you, if I could get it in no j
other way. I
44 Earlier in the evening?before our
conversation in your study?you may remember
that your daughter (who, by the
way, never seemed to like or trust me) ;
was seated at her bureau, looking at
Bome jewelry. An idea seized me that if |
I could onlp get possession of these j jewels?for
some of them were very
costly?I could sell them at a price which 1
would not only pay my dents, out woiuu ,
leave me enough besides to enable me I
to get clear out of the country.
" Your daughter, iu having locked her
bureau, did not take the key, but left it i
in the lock; therefore, eo far the way was i
paved for me.
"I did my best to conquer these!
temptations, but alas! we are but weak
creatures, and I at length succumbed, ard
resolved to turn (oh! my friends, pass
over the word as soon as possible) thief!
So at a quarter-past one this morning I
descended to the drawing-room, opened
the bureau, and was about to take the
jewels, when, hearing the handle of the
door move, I went to see the cause, and
imagine my feelings at seeing your
daughter standing before me. I soon
perceived, however, by the fixed look* in
her eyes that she was asleep. She began
talking disjointedlv of having left the
key in t?e lock of her bureau. I went
to my overcoat, which was in the room,
and got a key?that of the front door?
which I had taken from your study, and
forced it into her hand. She believed
herself to be the possessor of what she
wauted, and, turning round, left the
room.
"For some moments I stood where
she had left me, looking after her, as if I
myself were in a dream. When I had
seen her standing before me, with a face
as pure and innocent as her mind, uncons
-ions of all evil or danger, I seemed to
realize for the first time what a mean and !
guilty wretch I was.
"Contrition seized me; I recoiled with
horror from the thought the ac tion I
had been about to commit, and thanked
Heaven it was not too late to resist the
temptation. After the lapse of a few
moments, I went up to her room to po ?seas
myself of the key I had put into her
hand, which I found on her dressingtable.
I then went back to your study,
put it back in it# place, wrote the present j
;
etter, opened the window and shutters,
md bade farewell to the house where I
iad spent so many happy hours.
" And now that you know what I have j
lone, try and forget my ingratitude if
rou can.
" Ever yours lovingly,
'4 My dear friends, \
" Eugene Menton."
So ended the letter. Poor man ! I
inquired of my father if nothing could be
lone to trace him, and get him to return.
He replied that lie would do what he
;ould. We succeeded in tracing liini to
i i ii x1 _ .1 U.i
.New iotk, ana inere me ciue w<ia msi.
We tried every means which occurred to
us for discovering his whereabouts, and
inserted advertisements in the New York
and the Canadian papers, begging him
to let us know at least that he was alive
and well; but all our endeavors were
rain?we never heard of him again.
We often think of him with pity and
regret, for, whatever were his faults,
there must have been some good in a
man who was capable of feeling such
profound and sincere contrition for a
guilty intention.?Illustrated Weekly.
A Victim to the Opinm Habit.
The following particulars of the suicide
of M. M. Wishard, late superintendent
of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, at
Knightstown, Ind., are gleaned from the
New Orleans Times :
With erect bearing and deliberate
movements, he entered the St. James
Hotel and straightway sought one of the
closets, from which he emerged wounded
to the death. He first cut his throat
with a penknife and then inserting a
pair of scissors into the wound, vainly
attempted to sever the main artery to
better consummate the end, but before he
accomplished his purpose he fell exhausted
to the floor. Here he was found
still breathing. A stretcher was improvised
and the man was borne to the hospital,
but ere many squares had been
traversed he breathed his last. Upon
his person was found the following letter,
written in a bold, firm hand :
My own true name is M. M. Wishard,
late superintendent Orphans' Home,
Knightstown, Ind. I am paying dear
for my sin. Opium is the cause of it
all. Write Dr. Hannaman some one,
please, when I am gone. God only knows
how I have fought this terrible habit,
but whenever it gets hold of the system,
it is too late. I am expecting every moment
to be arrested and taken to jail,
where I shall never come out alive.
God pity the opium eater. Am almost
past going now.
In the inside of the sheet, evidently
written while nerving himself to the desperate
deed, w;is the following :
Oh! that I had been wise in the day
of this visitation. I have a faint hope of
forgiveness. I then began to fight it
with the desperating that almost crazed
me, and when nearly well, would become
discouraged and go back again. My
dear family is my regret. Oh ! that I
had been wise in time. No man ever
had a dearer family than I had. A better
wife and children no man ever saw
How cruel I have been. If through
Jesus' blood. Although I have been a
great sinner, I was so much intoxicated
by opium that I thought I was a Christian,
but alas, alas, when too late, I fear
I find I was not. The opium habit was
contracted more than ten years ago,
though not confirmed until only about
eight years since. I live, of which I
have little hope, I Avould cheerfully
serve them. 1 fear my wile ana attie
ones are dead or insane. God knows I
cannot recall my life.
Rusiness in Ancient Poiupeii.
One of the most interesting discoveries
in recent years at Pompeii was made in
1875, when a wooden chest was brought
to light, containing the business receipts
of one L. Csecilius Jucundus. The chest
crumbled to dust 011 exposure to the air,
but the tablets on which the receipts
were written liave at length proved to be
legible in many instan#es, and the result
of a careful study of these tablets by
Moramsen and others has been io clear
lip several points in what was among the
Romans a matter of great consequence,
viz.: the position of the middleman in
affairs of business. There was not
among the Romans the same extensive
system of shops as with us, supplying
every possible article of necessity or
luxury, and for this reason there arose
innumerable occasions of private persons
desiring to dispose of this or that article,
as for instance, a surplus of agricultural
produce, old carts, plows, or even old
aud invalid slaves, as Cato recommends
the landowner to do. The tablets in
question are dated, according to custom,
by giving the names of the consuls for
the year. The greater part of the dates
fall between A. D. 53-62. A few are as
early as 15 and 27. Since there is no more
recent date than 62, it becomes highly
probable that the tablets of Jucundus
had been overwhelmed in the earlier
eruption of Vesuvius. The majority of
the tablets are triptychs, and are written
partly with letters on wax, spread on the
tablet, and partly in ink on the bare
wood. Among them there is only one
which gives the amount of commission
which lie received, and that proves to be
two per cent., whi h is known from
other sources to have been the general
rate. Usually he merely says "minus
the commission." The person to whom
this expense fell was the buyer.
Evenings at Home.
When the evening lamps arc lighted,
says an exchange, the children now
gather with school books around the
table to con the morrow's lessons. To
many of them the tasks hssigped seem
dreary and hopeless; definitions are
hard to remember ; the geography lesson
is difficult to comprehend and won't
stay fixed in the mind ; history is dull
and dead, arithmetic a hopeless tangle
of figures, and gramma more puzzling
than any possible conundrum. The little
folk need help ; they need cheer and
encouragement, and wfio should be so
ready, so willing, so able to give it as
the parent ? Even if the parent's education
is imperfect, he will bring to the
comprehension of the lesson in hand a
wider range of knowledge and a broader
manner of looking at things than the
child can do, aud thus great!v aid in the
clear comprehension of the Waon to be
-earned,
PROFESSOR BELL'S TELEPHONE.
The Iluninn Voice Carried a Hundred and
Forty MHes.
Professor A. Graham Bell, the inventor
of the telephone, comes from the
staid old city of Salem. About five years
j ago he first began to think about the
1 possibility of the transmission of sound
' by telegraph, and the idea took posses,
sion of him completely. His invention
! had so far taken form eighteen months
age, that with the assistance of a practical
electrician, Mr. Thomas A. Watson,
I be began to experiment, using lor tne
j purpose a wire between Boston and Cam|
bridge, about two miles long.
The first time the practical success of
i the telephone was demonstrated to the
satisfaction of others was on Oct. 9,
1876. The telephone then spoke for
itself, and the conversation of the operator
in Cambridge could be distinctly
heard at the Boston end of the line. An
interesting dialogue took place, the
speakers talking in their ordinary key.
One of the experiments, which occurred
on Jan. 21, was eminently gratifying
in its results. Not only every word
spoken in Boston, but even the tones
and inflexions of the several voices were
accurately transmitted and readily recognized
by those at the Salem end of the
line. Other experiments demonstrated
the fact that a lady in. Maiden could
sing " The Last Bose of Summer," and
every note could be heard in the room at
- ^ i -i - - rrrt j
o Jtxeter place, uoBion. xne souna was
perfectly clear, and had about the same
effect as if the listener were at the rear
of a concert hall, say one hundred feet
away from the singer. Subsequent trials
showed that laughter, applause or instrumental
music could De equally well
transmitted. In the case of the latter,
not only the key could be transmitted
but also the quality of the music. A
violin could be distinguished from a violoncello.
The greatest distance that has been
vanquished by the telephone is 143 miles
?from Boston to North Conway, N. H.
The most recent improvements made on
the instrument do away with batteries
altogether, and premanent magnets
are now employed instead, the electric
wave used in transmitting the sounds
being generated by the voice itself. This
is regarded as a very important step in
advance, as the bother and expense of
keeping batteries in order has been the
great drawback to the employment of
the instrument for private purposes.
The honor of having received the first
newspaper dispatch ever sent by means
of the telephone belongs to the Boston
Globe. A report of a lecture by Prof.
Bell in Salem was transmitted verbally
to it last Monday night. This lecture
was about the telephone, and in the !
course of the evening a series of remark- J
ub'e experiments was made in the presence
of the audience. Bongs and brief
SpWohes were sent fronJ"Bo6ton, and the
applause which greeted their reception
in Salem was distinctly heard in Boston.
Imagine sitting in a hall and hearing a
man, eighteen miles away, sing "Hold
the Fort."
"I haven't the slightest doubt," Mr.
Watson said, "that in a few months
tilings will be so that a man can make a
lecture here in Boston and be heard by
an audience in any part of the country."
" Do you 'expect that the telephone
will entirely supersede the present system
of telegraphing ?" I asked.
" Yes, we expect it will, eventually. A
company is now forming for the purpose
of manufacturing and introducing the
instrument. In time it can't fail to replace
the old dot and line alphabet system
entirely. We expect, at first, it
will be used mostly on private lines and
for city business. It will probably take
the place Of the present district tele- j
graph companies and the like, as it will j
be especially convenient for that cla38 of |
business."
" Won't the receiving operators have |
to learn shorthand ?"
"Yes, I suppose they will. In our :
experiments we have generally paused j
after saying a sentence, so that the re- j
ceiver had time to write out in long i
hand."
Mr. Watson remarked that the intro- ;
auction of the telephone would probably J
have the effect of increasing the telegraph
business to such an extent that it
would hasten the time when the wires
would have to be laid underground instead
of being strung on poles. Apropos
i : i.".. T :e :t
V mnglii^ uY ncicgiujiii, JL tt.-sa.ru u it i
would uot save a good deal of expense to i
our American opera managers. "An !
| American audience could liear Nilsson,
j Patti, or any European jirima donna, j
| without bringing them across the Atlan- 1
j tic," I suggested. "Just place the re!
ceiving machine in the Boston Music
I Hall, for instance, and let the songstress !
I put her mouth close to the mouthpiece !
in Paris, London, Vienna or St. Petersburg,
and the effect would be the same ,
as if the prima donna herself were present
in the flesh."
"Certainly," said Mr. "Watson, smiling,
"and it would be curious to obseiwe
what effect the presence of the voice and
absence of the person would have on
the critics. Homely singers would probably
advance in public esteem, while
some of the beautiful cantatrices might
j suffer a corresponding set-back when
| their voices were judged on their
merits."
No trial has yet been made, however, !
of the transmission of 'sounds to so great i
a distance as across the Atlantic. Mr.
; Watson said that as far as they had been
! able to ascertain, there seemed to be a
limit to the distance over which the
j sounds could be made to travel; but he
expressed himself as confident that in
due time any given distance could be annihilated
"We have, in fact," he added,
"talked through a wire arranged to
j give an artificial resistance equal to 40,!
000 ohms, which is more resistance than
! the entire length of the Atlantic cable
would offer. But there are other obstacles
to be overcome in order to transmit
' the sound of the voice correctly to such
a distance as that. 1'ror. liell ana I are
i constantly at work here perfecting the
j systen, yon see. When a favorable op!
portnnity offers, we shall try and have a j
| practical test over one of the transatlan- 1
tic cables."
The wonderful little instrument of
whose future value to civilization the in!
ventor is so saDguine, consists of a pow- j
j eriul compound permanent magnet, to
the poles of which are attached ordinary j
: telegraph coils of insulated wire- In
front of the poles, surrounded by these '
coils of wire, is a diaphragm of iron. A
mouthpiece, whose function is to con- j
verge the sound on this diapliragm, sub- j
stantially completes the arrangement. The n
operation of the instrument is thus des- g
cribed by Prof. Bell: The motion of t
steel or iron in front of the poles of the 1 t
magnet creates a current of electricity in
coils surrounding the poles of the mag !
net, and the duration of this current of p
electricity coincides with the duration ot; c
the motion of the steel or iron moved or ; fc.
vibrated in the proximity oi the magnet, j r
When the human voice causes the dia-1 g
phragrn to vibrate, electrical undulations
are induced in the coils around the
magnets precisely similar to the undula- 1
tions of the air produced by the voice. , J;
The coils are connected with the line J
wire, and the undulations induced in them
travel through the wire, und passing ' ^
through the coils of another instrument
of similar construction at the other end jc
of the line are again resolved into air in- f
dulations by the diaphragm of this un- j
strument. The voltaic battery is entirely :
dispensed with. The line wire may be e
of any given length, provided the insu- i t
lation is good. Prof. Bell further says c
that soft tones can be heard across the 1 e
wires even more distinctly than loud ! J
utterances, even a whisper being audible. ?
1 !!
Patti, the Singer. j t
Adelina Patti, who is now creating *
something of a sensation in Europe on 1
account of her separation from her hus- 11
band, the Marquis de Caux,is now thirty- <
six years of age. She was born of Italian (
parents at Madrid in 1843 (according to i t
lier biographer). Her mother, Madame j6
Barili Patti, was the prima donna of the . <
ftmnd nf Madrid, and soon after ' 1
Adelina's birth ehe removed to Milan, i
She had four daughters, Clotilda, Amalia
(Mrs. Strakosch), Carlotta and Adelina.
Strange to say, Midfue Barili Patti i
soon after giving birth to Adelina completely
lost her line voice. Adelina came j
to this country with her parents when j
only a few years old, her father appear- ,
ing in the old Chambers Street Italian
Opera House with the Languirico company.
At the age of nine she appeared
in the provinces when Strakosch made a
concert tour with Ole Bull and other
artists and sang the songs made famous
by Jenny Lind, Sontag, Bosio and others.
It is related that Sontag predicted al- j
ready then that Adelina would become '
the greatest songstress of the age. Her '
first great starring tour, however, w;as
undertaken at the age of fourteen, when f
she went with Strakosch, Gottschalk and
others to the West Indies, and it is men- j
tioned that at that early age already she '
had an offer of marriage at Porto Rico i
from the richest planter of the island.
In 1859, then a girl, "not yet seven- ;
teen," she created a furore in opera in j
^ia country, and then returned to Eu- j
rope where she met with a fervent wel- :
come everywhere. She was a great fav- J
orite of European sovereigns, and sang , ^
before no less than thirty of these, j i
When she married the marquis she was ! (
twenty-five years old,end the bridegroom, I,
who was equerry to Napoleon, was nearly ! ]
seventeen years her senior. The Duke j,
of Manchester and Mr. Costa gave away 1
the bride. Napoleon and the empress !,
used their influence to bring about the !
marriage, and it was through them that ,
it was accomplished. He was of an aristo
cratic family, but poor as poverty itself. ;
Patti was wealthy and ambitious, and (
the new union gave her au undisputed ,
entrance to the magic circle of the j
French court. No happiness could be i
expected to result from such a marriage, j
in which the wife, on the one hand, |
sought a title, and the husband, on the
other, a fortune. She could well afford
to pay 100,000 francs in order to get rid 1
of the marquis. When she married the i J
marquis one-third of her future earnings ! |
was to go to her personally and two-thirds ?
were to go to the joint account of herself |
and the m:;rquis after having paid their <
expenses, the marquis to accompany her
on lu r musical trips.
C >ni?terfeit Coin.
There is a large amount of counterfeit ,
coin in circulation, the New York >Shh \
says, judging from the complaints of j
people engaged in all branches of busi- ; <
ness. The counterfeits are of all denom- ;
inations, beginning with a five-cent j i
nickel and ending with the trade dollar. | j
Only a few of the latter are in general . 1
circulation. Half dollars, however, are j ]
handled by everybody, and upon these j .
the counterfeiters have exerted their j j
highest art. There are at present coun- (
terfeits of four or five different substances '
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which closely resemuie ine genuine an- ;
vcr lialf dollar. The most dangerous of (
these is conceded to be made of glass, ;
silvered over by some process, which
makes the counterfeit similar in appear- <
ance and feeling to the government coin.
Saloon keepers say that it is exceedingly
difficult to detect the fraud, particularly ;
as the ring is perfect. In an uptown '
barroom one was taken from a customer,
and the fact that it was counterfeit point- ;
ed out to him. The barkeeper then gave
him change, saying : " We get these glass
half dollars in every day, and they are
aii nut.. 1 tliof with onr p.iiRtomers we sel
dom say anything, as they pass out with- j
out difficulty." The counterfeit quarters
are exceedingly numerous, and are well
calculated to deceive people who are not
used to handling coin. The stage lines
and the street cars without conductors
suffer considerably from the abundance
of counterfeit coin, as passengers can
slip bad money into the boxes in payment
of fares with'out discovery. The
losses in consequence are so serious that
the advisability of taking out the boxes
and employing conductors is under consideration.
There was great excitement around the
de 1 o? the bears on the first of February
at the .Tardin des Plantes, Paris. A
nurse held a b >y of five on the railing
that he might see the animals, and accidentally
let him drop. The spectators
ali thought that the bears would have
attacked the child, but they refrained.
It was necessary that some one should
descend into the pit to withdraw him,
but only one man volunteered. Ho was
i lowered by a rope under the armpits and
withdrew the boy without molestation,
j His courage was rewarded by profuse
felicitations, but be escaped without giv- :
j ing his name, ' |
'ARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
The Housekeeper.
Waffles.?One quart of milk, one
md a half quarts flour, four eggs, and
alt. Beat milk and eggs together; stir
he flour in until it makes a smooth bater.
Coffee Cake, without Egos.?One
md one-half cupfuls cold coffee, the
amo of sugar, one cupful butter, half a
aipful molasses, a heaping teaspoonful
oda, one cupful each of raisins and curants;
a Little citron and spices to taste;
itir with flour as stiff as fruit cake.
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9iire remedy ior me Dorer is me *uuxe.
He advised cutting out the worm as soon
as it is discovered that the grub is at
work in the wood, and covering the denuded
places with grafting wax. In regard
to preventives, he alluded to the
one sometimes practiced of building littje
fires in the orchard at night during
the early part of the summer, while the
insects are mating. Seeing the light
they fly into the fire and are burned.
Another preventive often employed, of
which the speaker appro veil, is tyiDg a
piece of oilcloth tightly about the trunk
of the tree, drawing down one edge to
the ground and covering it with earth.
This prevents the "nsect from reaching
the bark, and as soon as the season for j
depositing eggs is over it can be re- I
moved.
A Cure For Hob Cholera.
According to the experience of Mr.
Wiley Davis, of Illinois, a large cattle
grower, fresh meat is a preventive of
cholera. He says his hogs were about to
take the hog cholera when the cars killed !
two steers, and his hogs gorged them- j
selves, and have been healthy ever since, j
He thinks that forcing hogs afflicted with :
the symptoms of cholera to move about!
is one of the best tilings for them, next '
to feeding flesh and providing them a !
mixture of ashes, salt aud lime. John ;
Allen, of Urbftna, in leply to a question I
us to the cholera, said he had arrested it j
among his swine by feeding meat; and
when asked what sort of meat was best
for that purpose, said that " cracklings
are the best if you can get them, but re- ;
fuse meat from the smoke house, surplus
fat or lean, shanks, rinds, etc. ?any kind
of meat will answer the purpose." Mr.
Allen added, so far as his experience
went, there was no other remedy worth
anything. Let those, then, who have
hogs suffering with cholera, or the symptoms
thereof, feed fresh meat of almost
any kind, and see if it proves effective. '
Cultivation of tlie quince.
"Will you be kind enough to give me
some general information in regard to
growing and attending quince trees ?"
Reply.?If it is desired to grow
quinces, the trees should be procured
from a nurseryman and planted out now I
or else early in the spring. The ground
in which the young trees are planted
should be deeply dug ov$r and manured j
with rotten stable manure. For fruit,
the orange quince Is preferred. If it is
desired to propagate the young plants, i
this may be done by procuring cuttings
consisting of strong shoots taken off
from near the old wood and at least six
inches long. These are put oat early in
the winter, or at the present time, in
trendies two feet deep and secured from
frost by covering with dry soil. They
are planted out in the spring in rows
eighteen inches apart in the row and
kept free from weeds. The proper afterculture
is to train the young trees to
stout stems two to four feet high and to
form a well balanced head. The variety
mentioned is very hardy and productive
of fine flavored and popular market
fruit. >_
A bill was introduced in the Nevada
Legislature by a Chinaman. It was a
wash bill against one of the members,
and lobbied through by its author.
t
Potato Puff.?Any left over mushed j
>otatoes may be made into an excellent !
lisli for next day's dinner. Maslied po- ,
ato, two cnpfiils; melted butter, two j
ablespooufuls, work well together and
idd milk, one cupful, and two well
)eaten eggs. If the potato was not suffi:iently
seasoned for the table salt will be ,
equired. Bake in a quick oven until i
he top is a light brown.
Cream Cake.?Cake?One cupful ofmgar,
one and a half cupfuls flour,
hree eggs, one-half teaspoonful soda, !
me teaspoonful cream tartar, a little
lalt; bake on round tins and split with
i sharp knife. Cream?One cupful sujar,
one-half cupful flour, three eggs;
)eat together, and stir into it pne pint of
wiling milk; stand or the range a minlte,
stirring all the while; flavor to
aste. .
Plum Pudding. ? One pound of
jread, or six large crackers pounded, one
piart of milk, one large spoonful flour,
me teacupful sugar, one nutmeg, one
easpoonftil cinnamon, one-half teaipoonful
ground cloves, butter the size
r" pr egg same quantity of suet, chopjed.
one pound raisins, stoned. Boil
he milk and mix all the ingredients together.
These puddings are served
vitli p. rich sauce and eaten warm, but
ire excellent cut up cold like cake.,
rhey will keen several weeks, and when
hey are to be used, pass a knife around I
he pudding, pour >a a little hot water, j
;over close and put iu the oven half an j
lour before serving. Bake id deep i
farther dish.
How to Prevent Borern in Apple Trees.
G. C. Reese desired to know of the
'armers' club if tar will prevent borers
n apple trees, and will the tar injure the I
;rees.
A member replied that wrapping trees
ivith tarred paper from eighteen inches
x> two feet high, letting the paper fit
die ground snugly, and make a little
noimd up to the paper, will furnish both
i tree borer proof and a rabbit proof. In
ais opinion, half of the young orchard
:rees are injured, if not killed, by these
two pests. Care should be taken that
the borers already in a tree are destroyed
before the tarred paper is applied. This
may be done by enlarging the opening
af the hole and forcing the shoot of an
apple after tlism and crusliing them; a
wire may be used for tkjjj purpose, but
the member preferred the apple shoot as
being elastic. This insect deposits its
eggs often on the body of a tree when
the bark has beeu injured. Washing the
body with strong soapsuds was advised
as excellent.
Another member thought the only
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Items of Interest. \
We are told of grass in Colorado that
is so short you must lather it before you
can mow.
Fifty Illinois cities have increased one
hundred and twenty per cent in valuation
in ten years.
Mrs. Partington says that Ike has
bought a horse so spirituous that he always
goes off in a decanter.
Caroline Lambert, of Omaha, lived to
be a hundred years old, and was then
burned to death in a kerosene accident.
Blue glass windows are recommended
to cure all kinds of panes, and the lights
are said to be particularly fine for the !
livers.
The State tax in Maine is only a third
of a cent on a dollar of assessed valuation,
or about a sixth of one per cent on
real vaiue.
A domestic scene?" I haven't another
word to say, wife; I never dispute with
fools." "No, husband; you are very
sure to agree with them."
Two young women cowhided a man in
the street in Lexington, Ind., and he,
lapsing from politeness, nearly killed one
of his assailants with a club.
An Aurora man sent his boy down town
with a pair of boots, giving him instructions
to have them half-soled. Shortly
the boy returned with the one boot and
a dime. The pair of boots were half
sold. ..
A Baltimore inventor is ruined. He
invented a kind of air cushion for
women's bustles, put all his money into
their manufacture, and now a chaBge in
fashion has left the stock valueless on
his hands.
Another warning?A Cincinnati man
recently received from a plumber
an exorbitant bill of $800. He
sued the plumber and recovered $2,000
on account of the bad way in which the
work was done.
A young man in Ansonia who mistook
a bottle of varnish for hair oil, concluded
that dancing was a frivolous entertainment,
and keep away from a masquerade
ball. But when inquisitive friends asked
why he stayed away, he told an unvar
Dished tale.
When a man without cash or credit attempts
to leave a hotel, and lowers hie
valise out of a back window by means of.
a rope, it makes charity seem cold to
hear the voice of the landlord below,
yelling up: "All right I've got the
valise; let go the rope.
In Worcester, England, a farm laborer
was fined $12 and costs by a petty sessions
court for having refused to obey
the lawful commands of his employer.
He had been working fourteen hours,
and the "lawful request" was that he
should continue and load three wagons
more.
A country editor received the following:
" Dear Sir: I have looked carefully
and patiently over your paper for
months for the death of some individual
I was acquainted with, but as yet not a
single soul I care any thing about has
dropped off; you will please to have my
name erased."
had been in the habit of making
ve^r frequent calls on a very agreeable
lady of his acquaintance, and, on entering
her parlor one evening he said :
" Well, Miss Sims, here I am again, you
see, as regular as the fever and. auge."
" ^ ?">" co?l nhp v#?rv dcmnrelv.
Vyil, uvr, ? , . ?w . ,
" that comes only every other day."
A gentleman in San Francisco, whose
Chinese cook left him, was unable to retain
any of the numerous "Johns " for
over a day, until he induced one of them
to explain that some apparently meaningless
strips of red paper on the kitchen
wall contained the Chinese inscription:
" Boss woman long time tongue. Muchee
jaw, jaw."
Geo. Pleasonton's blue glass theory is
assailed by the Scientific American.
His idea that electricity is generated by
the passage of b'ght through the glass is
declared to be absurd. Nor have colored
rays any beneficial effect on life, the reverse
rather being the truth, as a pure,
white light is best The only good that
can possibly come of blue glass is in its
use as a shade for decreasing the intensity
of solar light.
Spitz Yenom.
Two cases of hydrophobia are reported
from Staten Island, and in both the
victims were bitten by Spitz dogs. In
one case it is reported* that the dog was
not rabid, and he appears to have been
only irritable in the other. Before the
great increase now noted in the frequency
of these accidents it was thought
that society paid sufficiently for the advantage
it derived from dogs by the
deaths they caused in communicating
rabies; yet that was when there were no
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(logs aDOllt duj Uie um ttU/llUKU^U
breeds, that did not go mad often, and bo
far as close observation could discover
did not cause hydrophobia save when
| they had it themselves. It was bad
J enough that way, and certainly it is inj
finitely worse to have in all our streets
j and in many houses an animal which
j seems to possess a virus capable of
! causing hydrophobia while the animal
! himself is to all appearance in a normal
I condition. Persons who care for the
j lives of their little children should take
: notice that the number of cases reported
j is now large in whieh this dog, while
i himself apparently jttt mad, has caused
| hydrophobia by his bite. They have
not, therefore, in regard to this species,
even that slight assurance of safety
which, inxegard to other dogs, is derived
I from the warning of evident sicaness m
the animal himself.?New York Herald.
A Short Memory.
Some people have very short memories.
An individual recently called at a prominent
jeweler's in ?<?ton, says the Bulletin,
and had on expensive bronze sent
home and charged. The proprietor
afterward ascertaining that his customer
was a bankrupt, sent him a polite note to
call, and when he did so, questioned the
propriety of the purchase under the circumstances.
Whereupon the insolvent
scratched his head reflectively for a
moment, and then remarked :
"Now I think of it, I am in bankruptcy,
but it happened last December,
and it's so long ago that it must have
I escaped my memory, when I made a
j purwaee here the ether day."