The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, February 22, 1882, Image 4
WeaTing the Web,
"This mom I will weave my web," she said,
As she stood by her loom in the roey light,
And her young eyes, hopefully glad anl clear,
Followed afar the swallows flight.
" As soon as the day's first task are done,
While yet I am fresh and strong," said she,
" I will hasten to weave the beautiful web
Whose pattern is known to none but me!
"I will weave it fine, I will weave it fair,
And ah! how the colors will glow!" she said;
" So fadeless and strong will I weave my web
That perhaps it will live after I am dead."
Bnt the morning hours sped on apace,
The air grew sweet with the breath of June;
And young love hid by the waiting loom,
Tangling the threads as he hummed a tune"
Ah! life is so rich and full," she cried,
"And morn is short, though the days are
long!
This noon I will weave my beautifol web
I will weave it carefully, fine and strong."
But the son rode high in the cloudless sky;
The burden and heat of the day she bore,
And hither and thither the came and went,
While the loom stood still as it stood before.
" Ah! life is too busy at noon," she said;
" My web must wait till the eventide,
Till the common work of the day is done,
And my heart grows calm in the silence
wide!"
So, one by one, the hours pass on,
Till the creeping shadows had longer grown,
Till the house was stilL and the breezes slept!
And the singing birds to their nests had
flown.
"And now I will weave my web," she said;
As she turned to her loom ere set of sun,
And laid her hand on the shining threads
To set them in order, one by one.
Bat hand was tired, and heart was weak;
"I am not as strong as I was," sighed she,
" And the pattern is blurred, and the colore
rare _
Are not so bright, or so fair to see!
"I most wait, I think, till another morn;
I must go to my rest with my work undone.
It is growing too dark to weave,"she cried,
As lower and lower sank the soil!
She dropped the shuttle; the loom stood still;
The -weaver slept in the twilight gray;
Dear heart! Will she weave her beautiful wet
In the golden light of a loDger day?
?Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr.
WHAT WAS IT ?
I* 7
I was engaged to Angelina Melville,
and I thought myself the luckiest man
living. Angelina was so handsome that
?no stranerer ever saw her without ex
pressing admiration, and one did not
weary with the face after yea:rs oi
. familiarity with it. She was well-bred,
accomplished and a great heiress. I
had reason to believe she was very fond
of me. No man could be more entirely
content than I was as I leaned back in
the first-class carriage which took me
from Glasgow into the country, to the
Vale of Cruix, where I was to preach a
few Sabbaths.
The pulpit was vacant, and I was
going to try my wings. With my
pecuniary prospects I scarcely thought
I should care to accept a call to the
Yale of Cruix, but I had no objection
to filling its pulpit for a few weeks,
especially as Angelina had gone to the
West coast, and Glasgow was warm and
stuffy and stupid.
Casual remembrance of elegant parsonages
built in Queen Anne's style; of
a study where the footfalls were softened
by Persian rugs, and the doors
draped in portieres of velvet; chairs
and a desk, carved richly as some old
confessional, flitted through my mind.
And I thonght also of a table spread
with silver and rare china, with a lady
at its head who resembled a queen.
And I breathed a luxurious sigh as I
awakeced from my day dream to a
knowledge that the words "Yale of
Cruii" were being shouted on the platform,
and that the train was coming to
a standstill
I seized -ny traveling-bag from the
rack overhead and hurried out of the
carriage. The porters had just pulled
__ four cr five trunks on the platform.
Two old wagons stood in the road, one
driven by an old woman in a sunbonnet,
the other by a red-haired boy
with bare feet; and a queer, knockkneed
horse attached to a queerer old
gig, was standing at a little distance.
A young man in a light summer suit,
and a city family bent on rural Happiness,
were my companions on the platform.
The farmer put his trunk in the first
wagon, kissed the old woman in the sunbonnet,
took the reins and drove away.
He was evidently the son of the family,
come home to spend his vacation. The
rest of the trunks and city family?
mother, father, little boy, nursemaid
and baby?were put in the wagon and
driven by the boy.
When the train moved away I was
left alone on the platform?alone, but
for the station-master, who sat upon a
bench amokin&a clay pipe.
In a moment more the official without
looking at me, made the remark : "Deacon
Stevenson has come for the new
minister. He's over in the hotel and
tttiII Via Ko/?V vn a rmnnfft "
"Thank yon," said I.
The station-master took no notice of
me, but, having climbed upon a stool
and made some changes in a time register
on the wall of the station, locked
the door, put the key in his pocket, and
sauntered away down the railroad.
I took his place upon the bench and
waited. In a few minutea a prim little
old gentleman appeared upon the top
of the hill, carrying in one hand a tin
can, in the other a tin pail, and under
either arm a brown-paper parceL I
knew at a glance that it was Stevenson.
"Are youMr. Mactaggert?" he inquired
rrnldlv. as ha anr,rnarhed_ " I want to
know! I hadn't any expectation of
being kept so long, but, yon see, it
saves the women folks trouble to fetch
things when I drive down. Step in,
won't you? I'll jest hang this can of
' paraffineile on behind. Some dislike
the smell?maybe you do. The sugarloaf,
tea and coffee can go under the
seat as well as not. How's your health,
sir, and Wry-do you like the Yale of
Craix?**
I answered that my health was good
and that I had not, as yet, seen much
of Vale cf Cruix.
"No, you haven't," said the old gentleman.
* "Well, yon'il drive through it
now.** And he shook the reins and the
old horse began to stumble along. And
on we drove past certain rows of brick
houses very much like ea^h other, and
with the same flowers in their front
gardens, until having passed the church,
wo came to one happily set about bv
-i-s ?t < t??. ?-i-? ?
uiu uafc-ureu?, i;e:uic uuo ui nuibu
we drew up.
A girl stocd at the gate? a fair girl in
a blue muslin dress and white spron.
"Take the sugar, Mary, before it gets
u ?set," said the Deacon. "This is Mr.
ulactaggert, that's to preach for us.
Mr. Mactaggert, this is my daughter
Mary."
We bowed, and she vanished with the
parcels.
"What a lovely little creature!" ssid
I to myself. "Nothing like Angelina,
but so pretty I" And I found myself
thinking of her as I washed my hands
and brushed my hair in the blue-walled
bedroom on the second floor, with white
fringed counterpanes and curtains, and
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on either side of the China vases
of roses.
There -were only four of us at the
table?the Deacon, his wife, a-stout
lady, who never said more than she
could help, and Mary. She had spent
the last winter at Glasgow, and we
talked about all she had seen. She was
self-possessed without being forward,
aDd oh, so pretty I Now, Angelina was j
tplendid and queenly, so this was naild
--? praise that she could not have objected
tc, only I said it very often. I preached
on the next Sunday. It was settled
that I should spend the summer there.
I wrote this to Angelina :
with rr.p it <?ops
fJlUVC J VU
not matter whc-re I am?this stupid
place as well as any other. Address to
the care of Deacon Stevenson. 1 shall
remain with him while I preach here."
It was a pleasant summer, despite the
dullness ol the place. Hew good the
I
quaint old Deacon was whet, one really
fenew him! How motherly was Mrs.
Stevenson! As for Mary, she grew
sweeter every day! I have often wondered
what Angelina wonld have eaia
Ccula she have seen me helping her to
pick blackberries, to ficd the runaway
cow, to carry h^me the milk pail,
driving her over to the country grocery, ;
and returning with a freight of groceries?Angelina,
-jrhn knew nothing
domestic detail, and whose m
grammed and })erfnmed letters T ere
often bronght over from the offic* it.
company with the paraffine can. I wi
my sermons at one end of the ronnd
table, while Marj sat at the other sewing.
Between us was a lamp with a
ereen paper shade. Now and then a
big bug would fly into the window and
go humming about our heads, or a moth
wrmld frv fiint'A i+.tt winoe nvpr thft
chimney, and I would dri7e it out. The
old people would go to bed after awhile,
and then Mary a ad I would find ourselves
hungry, aid she would go into
the kitchen to find "something good."
I always held th 3 light for her. And
when something good waf. found we ate
it in the back j>orch, sitting side by
side on the step like two children.
She was so like a child, that little
Mary, that it seamed no harm to ask
her to kiss me good-night, or to hold
her hand in mine, as it rested on my
arm, in our long walks h?m e from church
on Sunday evenings.
The summer passed; October came.
Angelina returned to the city and wrote
to me. It was while we were eating
peaches and cream in the back-porch
that evening that I said to Mary : "I
will tell you a secret if you will keep
it for a while, Mary."
"Oh, of course I will Mr. Mactaggert."
"I am going to be mairied this au
uuinn, ?xjlo*lj j jk oaiu*
letters you always thought came from
my sister came from the lady who is
to many me. She is very beautiful,
very rich, very ; stylish, bit very kind.
You must come and see U3 Mary, when
we are married. I shall tell Angelina
how good you hive been to me?what a
sweet little Bister I found, out here in
the Yale of Cruix. Why, Mary?"
For, as I spoke, I felt the little hand
I held grow cold and heavy in mine. I
saw her sink backward. The big china
bowl of peaches and cream slipped with
a crash to the ground and shattered to
pieces.
I caught the joor child in my arms.
In a moment sr e came to herself, and
. said she had overtired herself, she
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day, and it was warm. And now she
! bade me goo t night. Bnt I did not
see her next uy, nor the next. She
kept her room, and was not well enough
to bid me good-bye.
Poor little Mary! I felt very miserable.
However, Angelina met me at
Glasgow. She was more beautiful than
ever?more elegant in contrast to my
simple country friend?and very soon I
laughed at myself for the thought that
had been in my heart. Of course I said
I it was the baking that had overcome
Mary?it was not my news. I had only
' been to her as a friend?as a brother. I
had not made love to her ; above all, I
j had not flirted with her. But I thought
. of Mary a great deal, and I missed her
' every hour exactly?oh, yes, exactly?
as I might a sister.
I wrote to Mrs. Stevenson, and her
I answer was very brief.
- "I haven't much time to write," she
said in her postscript. "Mary is sick,
and besides being driven I am anxious."
This letter was in my pocket on that
day when Angelina and I went together
to the bazaar for the benefit cf the
church of St. Matthew.
Af terjwe had roamed about the bazaar
and bought all sorts of knick-knacks, I
escorted Angelina to a seat, and there
sat down to wait while one of the ladies
who, "on this occasion only," were doing
good, hard work, brought us a tray
of refreshments.
As we sat there sipping our coffee two
women sat down at the next table with
their backs to us.
"lam very tired, are you not, Mrs.
Russell ?" Aid the other answered :
"Yes, I am tired. I don't think that
it is worth the while to co me all the way
from Yale of Cruix to Glasgow sight
seeing."
This was the voice of Stevenson's
nearest neighbor, and I liked her and
respected her, yet did not feel quite
how Angelina would like an introduction.
and so refraining from looking
round and making myself known.
"I think we'd better have tea," said
the voice. " It's more refreshing than
coffee. Oh, how is Mary to-day. Think
of my never asking before!"
"Mary is poorly," said Mrs. Kussell.
" Oh, Mrs. Cnllen, what a pity it is that
flirting young minister came down to
Vale of Cruix. I don't know what Mrs.
Stevenson was about to let him do as he
- did. We thought he was courting Mary.
She did, poor child. She just loved him
dearly. And the day before he went
away he told her he was engaged to
some girl in Glasgow. I'm afraid it's
broken her heart. She told me all
about it. * Oh, Aunty Bussell,' she said
41 know I ought to be ashamed, but I
i can't help it He seemed to like me so.
I T -i?n J:. -c
A nope X Hiiaii UitJ U1 LUlO 1CICI, 1U1 iuc
is nothing to me.' Ashamed! "Why,
it's he that flight to be ashamed. Of
all the things, a minister to be a cold,
cruel flirt, and that is what Hugh Mactaggert
is."
I listened, but I could not move or
speak. I felt as though my heart was
also breaking, and ob, the time I suffered
! The women drank their tea and
left, and then Angelina turned to me
with a cold, sarcastic smile.
"I see by your face that the little
story is perfectly true, Mr. Mactaggert,"
she said.
"Angelina,"' I faltered,"I have done
nothing that should give offense to
you."
" Nothing but love another woman,"
she answered. "Love her, and let her
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I see it, meaning to marry me. jl/oh l
| thiDk I'm hurt; indeed, 1 am relieved!
I should have kept my word to yon,
but for this; but not so gladly as I once
should. You are a very good-looking
man, but on the whole you don't suit
| me. I met Mr. S., ?tt Millport, and he
does. Frankly, I have been thinking
what a pity it was that I must decline
his offer. As for this?Mary, is it not I
wouldn't she make a very good minister's
wife ?" j
It came to my mind that she would? j
that she was the only wife for me; that!
I Angelina, splendid as she was, would i
never have made me happy.
Bat I only said: "Miss Melville, if
I yon desire your freedom I have no
i choice."
"I desire it greatly," she answered.
" It is yours," I said, with a bow.
After that I think that we were both
| happier than we had been f or day?, and
shook hands when we parted.
That night I wert up to the Yale of j
Cruix, and told Mary that my marriage I
was broken off, and that she was the j
only woman I had ever loved. She tried ;
j to summon up her pride and refuse me, ,
! bnt failed in the attempt and Jet me i
j take her to my heirt. To day I am i
; pastor of the church at the Vale of j
j Cruix. Mary is my wife ai d we are as j
j plain and quiet a pair as you could i
i fancy. I even help my wife pick cur-v:
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| garden when help was scarce. But 11
| do not envy Mr. S. his wife, nor pine j
for the luxurious possibilities that I j
j lest with Angelina. Mary and my little j
j home content me.
Eut one thing is on my conscience. ;
j I have never been able to ask my;
self the question " Did I flirt with Mary? j
| If not, what was it?"
"
! The standing army of the United '
I States numbers about 20.000 men, rank !
; and file, and costs $30 000,000, or
I $1,500 per man a year, while France '
| maintains an array of 1.500,000 at a
; cost of $100,000,000, or abont $66 per ;
J head.
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The researches of French antiquar- !
ians have brought to light the records j
j of ninety-two processes against animals j
I tried in their courts from 1120 to 1740,
j when the last-, the tm! aad execution
1 of a cowj took phee.
Diffenderfer's Method.
"Archibald, my boy," said old Mr.
Diffenderfer, the rich commission merchant,
the other day, as he called Itis
i son into hifi private office, "my dear
j boy, I have just execnted the deeds by
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leave yon sole active partner in the
wealthiest honse on the coast. Naturally
vou expect me to give you some timely
".nsel for Your future business gui.d9
J."
Teerect!" replied young D., who
a member of the Bohemian Club,
and knew it all.
"You probably suppose that I wish to
enjoin upon you frugality, temperance,
integrity and punctuality as the sure
means of success. Not at all. Those
virtues are all very well for the copy
boot, but the only real requisite to
success in life?especially in this State
?is a really good reciprocating dummy
enemj."
"A what ?' queried the scion of the
house of D., as he put his feet on the
desk and lit another cigarette.
"Why, a first-class, bitter, unrelenting
dummy enemy. Something like
my dear old friend Guffev, for
instance."
"Why, I thought you were down on
that man the worst way ?"
''That's just the point?that's just the I
joke of it," said old D. with a chuckle.
"Fourteen years ago I met Guffey on
the steamer, coming round here from
New York. We had both failed in trade,
I in Boston, he in Philadelphia ; both
of us fairly driven out of business by
the usual slanders, jealousies and underhand
defamation peculiar to?well, to
everywhere."
"Why didn't you go into partnership?"
asked the junior.
'Til tell you. After talking the matter
over, Gaffey and I agreed that the
only way for a man with small capital
to get along was to have some trasted
friend on the outside who would keep
him posted as to the doings of his enemies.
Some one whom they would
talk to, don't you understand ?"
"I catch on," remarked the youth.
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dummy enemy, And from the day that
we stepped off the steamer down at the
wharf, Guffey and I have never spoken
to each other,except on the 1st and 15th
of each month, when T visit him in disguise,
to compare notes."
"Well, by Jove!"
"It's a fact, though. Every time my
enemies?and everybody has them ;
they sorter grow, somehow?put up a
job on me, or lie about me, or try to
injure me in any way, they go to Gufiey
and attempt to rope him into the plot.
He sympathizes with them ; says that
I'm the biggest old wretch unhung,
and then sits down and writes me the
particulars. Good scheme, that, eh ?' J
and the old merchant laughed until he
was black in the face.
"Well, I should smile," grinned the
other.
"Of course I do the same for Guffey.
Why, I can't tell how many thousand j
times I've scowled at him on the street
and remarked to whoever I was walking
with : 'There's the miserable scoundrel,
Guffey. Look at the airs he puts on
because he is rich, I'd like to break
his rascally head with a club."
"Was Guffey rich then ?'
"Why, no; of course not, at first. It
whs a part of our scheme, don't you see,
to brace up each other's credit under
the cover of abase. For instance, I'd
apply for a big discount at some bank,
and tho cashier would slip around to
Guffey for information, knowing he'd
give away all my weak points. Guffey
would scowl and 6ay, 'Well, I suppose
the old villain is solid enough, but
blame a man who'd tnrn his mother-inlaw
out of doors on a cold winter night.
The old beast! I wonder they haven't
tarred and feathered Diffenderfer years
aco. Thev sav his grandmother is
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in the poorhouse. With all his money,
too ; just think!"
"And does that help von ?"
"Why certainly. A bank cashier
doesn't care for grandmothers. What
he is alter is stingy old capitalists and
other Mnldoons. Why, Guffey once
borrowed $50,000 because I privately
told McLane that G. had swindled the
government on a half million contract.
Mac had him np to dinner the very nest
dry. * Think over what I have said, my
dpar boy, and go thon and do likewise."
And promising to look carefully
around np at the club, which was cram
full of dummies of all kinds, young Diffenderfer
dived into his ulster, and
hastened to get up on Kearney street
before the matinees let out.?San Fran
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>'ovel Kernedy for Shipwreck.
Perhaps at no point on the east coast
of Scotland do the waves come rolling
in more fariously in stormy weather
than at Peterhead. Situated as it is on
the most easterly promontory, it is
fully exposed to the German Ocean.
As far back as the days of Earl Marischal
it was found necessary "to build
ane bulwark at the mouth of the haven"
there, and since then many improvements
have been effected with a view to
the safety and convenience of the craft >
which during the fishing season in the
north sail out from the harbors, there I
to reap the harvest of the 6ea. But of
all attempts made in this direction the
latest is in every respect the most extraordinary.
It consists simply of
"throwing oil upon the troubled
waters." The idea is not altogether a
new one. but so far as we are aware it
has never received that attention which
it would seem to deserve, iar. anieias,
a Perth gentleman; Mr. Armit, submarine
and wreck engineer, Broughty
Ferry and Mr. Yeaman, one of the late
members of parliament for Dundee are, j
however, now determined to thoroughly j
test its efficacy. The experiments are
to be carried out at the bar of the north- i
ern harbor of Jfeterhead. Here aI
wooden building has been erected on
the quay wall, in which a tank with the |
oil and a force-pump will be placed.
From this tank the oil will be conveyed
by iron pipes to deep water?a distance
of some two hundred yards?and thence
in a gutta-percha pipe across the harbor
entrance. The piping will be kept j
stationary by hea^y blocks of metal,
and it will be perforated and fitted at
intervals with "roses," to permit of the
oil being properly distributed. From
the pipe the oil will be forced by the ,
?** "-4-Via cnrfo/?fii rtf I
pump, ai-iu. nux nc^ iv uuu v? .
the water, and form a film; and while !
it is not expected that by this means ;
the volume of the waves may be very j
much lessened, it is believed that the
wind will be prevented from breaking
their crests, which it seems is one of
the great dangers to which small craft
are exposed. Should the experiments .
be rendered with any degree of success j
the same thing could be done in a vari- j
ety of circumstances.?Puden. Echo.
Taccinaliou.
The vaccination question seems to
come up every now and then in this
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country as weu as m Hiurope, ana uiB:e
is a growing party which strongly:
opposes the practice. Our friend the
Hon. A. E. Giles, of Hyde Park, sends !
ns a copy of the Xor/olk County j
Ga.ette, containing a letter from, his pen, '
in which he urges the repeal of the compuLory
vaccination law of Massachu- i
setts. This law prohibits the admission :
of any child to the public schools who !
has not been vaccinated. BIr Giles j
quote3 the Eclectic Medical Association .
of Connecticut as having passed a reso- i
lution. in which it declares its conviction j
against the practice of vaccination, and ;
all legislation making it compulsory, j
Darirg the discussion an army surgeon I
related some of his interesting experi-j
ences during the late war. He was em-'
ployed by the government to vaccinate i
the soldiers. They were drawn up in i
line and compelled to bare their arms ;
for him to operate. He said that some ;
of the sores produced were frightf al,and '
some of the arms would swell to inordi- j
nate dimensions, even endangering the !
lives ot many, xei, ne amrms, i\. .sept ;
off no pestilence, and he declares from-J
his own experience and observation that i
vaccination is the veriest humbug imag-!
inable. The one who gave this testi-!
mony was Dr. Pease, of Thomaston.? i
Dr. Footers Monthly.
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A FORTUNE 1>~ CLOCKS.
The Thirty Thousand Dollar*' Worth ol
Clocks Used by a Philadelphia Publisher?Some
Wonderful Timepieces.
A Philadelphia Record reporter has
been paving a visit to the private omce
of George W. Childs, proprietor of the
Public Ledger, and has written an interesting
acconnt of the wonderful
clocks which the room contains. A
glance around the room, says the reporter,
revealed clocks in every placo
where snch heavy articles conld be put.
On Mr. Childs'writing desk were tbreo
odd-looking timepieces. On the top
was a clock made with lapis lazuli case,
one foot high and ten inches broad.
Stone as it is, the clock case is
worth more than its solid weight in
gold, and is the highest priced article
in the room. Immediately below is an
odd-looking ornament consisting of two
uprights supporting what at first glance
Appears to be a ball, but which is a
Japanese clock, the dial completely covering
the front half of the sphere, and
cnrious hands pointing out Japanese
scrawls to denote the hours. The works
inside rock like a cradle. There is a third
clock on Mr. Child's desk, an omamen
tal steeple clock, which is set in a
stand that indicates the day and date
of the month. Over the old-fashioned
fireplace where the grate is suspended
by a heavy iron crane there is a
| basso-relievo wherein a winged Gapid
is depicted bearing an hour glass, to
typify the flight of time, while on the
mantel immediately overhead is a
bronze and marble French clock of
beautiful design and exquisite finish
and of such fine workmanship that it
varies liardly more than a minute in a
year. It has a perpetual calendar attachment,
and cost over ?800. On
either side of the mantel, under the
life-size pictures of Messrs. Childs and
Drexel, are clocks marking two periods
in French history. One has a case of
tortoise shell, inlaid with bronze scroll
work, such as was fashionable in tne
time of Luis XIV.; the other is in tlie
Bocoeo style, which was popular during
the time of Henry IV. The bronze
| case, nearly three feet high, is profuse
| in decoration of a debased style
that succeeded the first revival of
I Italian architecture. Above a huge
ebony cabinet filled with curios of eve::y
variety stands an antique English clock,
; 'frith square ebony case. It is very
j plain and very old, the seconds being'
measured by a verge escapement, which
was* supplanted more than 200 years!
ago" by the pendulm. Another expensive
clock on the walls has a case of
malachite ornamented with bronze.
This is Russian work. The clock stands
on a neat bracket of malachite and
bronze that was made in this country
to Mr. Child's order at i. cost of *$250.
The glance around the room from desk
! and mantel, and bracket and cabinet,
! now strikes three hall clocks, the
dearest treasures of the collector. The
" convent" clock, which came from an
! Austrian cloister, is over 200 years old,
| is roughly made, and is exceedingly
! crude in its mechanism.
General Grant's present, sometimes
known as the Grant clock, and often
named the Klingenburg, clock (after its
maker, John Klingenburg of Amsterdam),
is of great value, .but, precious
as are these two timekeepers, they are
commonplace as compared with the Rittenhouse
clock, which occupies an honored
corner in the magnificent office.
For ingenuity and accuracy and beauty
of workmanship it is believed to exceed
any clock in America. David Rittenhouse,
a famous Philadelphian, after
whom Rittenhouse square was named,
made the clock in 1767 for Joseph Potts,
who paid $640 to Rittenhouse. This
timepiece was much sought after in the
early days of the republic, 125 guineas
having 'been offered for it by Lord
Howe when he was holding Philadelphia
nnder occupation. Later on
the Spanish minister to the United
States wanted to make a snbtantial
present to his sovereign, and offered
%>ouu ior tnis ciock. it, nowever, ien
into the possession of the Barton family,
who retained it until it "was bought by
Mr. Childs in October, 1879. The intricacy
of its mechanism is wonderful-.
It contains seventy-two wheels, with
5,685 teeth. It; is operated by three
weights, aggregating one hundred
pounds in weight. In addition to the
timepiece it has a musical attachment
and a limited planitarium in miEiature.
On its face are six dials. Tha main
dial in the center has four hands, indicating
seconds, minutes, hours
and daye, the latter being so set
as to run perpetually, with due
provision for leap year and all
the other vagaries of the calendar.
The phases of the moon are also shown.
The second dial accurately represents
the movements of Yenus, Jupiter, Mars,
j Mercury and the earth around the sun,
i each of the planets being represented
j.by a small gold ball that makes its
j orbital revolutions around the central
sun with wonderful precision. Thus far
the gold ball marked Jupiter has made
only nine and & half revolutions since
the clock was made?114 years ago.
The rim of the dial is marked with the
signs of the zodiac, thus showing the
location of each planet.
Eauallv curious is the dial in the
upper left hand corner, which describes
the moon's phases in its course around
the earth. The moon is portrayed by a
ball, half white and half black, which
slowly traverses around another ball
repsesenting the earth, the moon being
made to revolve on a pinion in such
manner as to give the correct view of it
when in its various stages of reflection.
The lower left hand corner dial shows
Saturn slowly crawling along its twenty-nine-year
course around the
sun. Another astronomical feature
of the clock is its sun dial,
which shows sun time, fast or slow, in
comparison with mean meridian time.
The movement neces3arv for this dial
is exceedingly intricate and rare. The
sixth dial reveals a combination of
chimes, which play at every quarter, (
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to oDe of ten numbers, and when the
quarter point is reached a peal ot choral
music is heard, lasting for a minnte.
A gentle pnsh on a little knob on the
difi brings a repetition, and the twenty
tiny bells gush out their sweet, melodies.
It was while the scribe was glancing
at this astronomical wonder that the
State honse bell tolled out its heavy
midday clang, and amost at the 3ame
instant a flood of music deluged Mr.
Childs's office. Each of the eleven
clocks, excepting the antique "English,"
struck the hour?the astronomical
clock in deep, :rich tones; the convent
clock with a high tinkling sound; the
mantel clock with a softness that is
characteristic of French timepieces;
the Louis XIV. clock on a highly toned
bell; the Rococo clock with a healthy,
loud sound, and the lapis lazuli with
a pleasing jingle. Then the chimes
struck up, and for another minute
sweet concord pervaded :he room. The
efl'ecc was thrilling. The products of
two continents were Drongnt inio an
array that picttirea distinct successive
periods in handicraft and scientific attainment.
I u was a blending of time3
and peoples, of history and art.
These clocks in Mr. Child's ofEce
could not be bought for any money.
They cost over $ib,0C0, while $30,000 j
will hardly cover the cost of all his [
clocks, numbering fifty, the others j
being divided amon^ his summer honae ;
at Wooten, his Lon-r Branch residence i
and his mansion at- Twenty-second and
Walnut streets. Every rcom in each of j
these domiciles has its clock, and each j
clock has its peculiar merit. j
Sir John Lubbock maintains in his !
last Linnzean Society paper that bees !
prefer blue flowers to those of any other I
color. Bat the objection may be fairly j
raised, how, if bees have so much to go j
with the origin of flowers, have we so ;
it* bine ones? He met this by sug-1
gesting that all flowers were originally j
green, and then passed through whit? ;
or yellow, and generally rc-d, before be- j
coming blue. He says that an ant ra.iy
live seven or eight years.
Man wants bnt liitto here below, and
he gets it.
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POPULAR isCIEXCii.
i
The light which f alls upon the earth
from the satellites of Mars is about
equivalent to what? a man's hand on
which the sun shone at Washington
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wuuiu XCULCJU tu XXJ^IAJU*
Flourens. the French physiologist,
fixing the complete development of
man at twenty years, teaches that he
shonld live five times as long as it takes
him to become an adult.
It is predicted by M. Duponchel that
the next sun-spot maximum period will
be before 1890. It may, peihaps, occur
in 1888, but. the great probability is
that it will present itself in 1892.
A locomotive provided with an
electric head-light has been placed on
the French Northern railroad. The
electricity is furnished by the application
of the surplus power of the engine.
Sponges obtained from great depths
are often affected by an organism whose
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ceild Uid I11UUII ?uu tauaio vt avi^x.
Their effect is to give a coarse and
worm-eaten appearance to the sponge.
To test the sensitiveness of tendrils
of the coboea scandens a human hair
was placed on an expanded tendril. In
twelve hours the tendril had clasped
itself aronnd the hair and coiled into a
hard knot.
If one ear, the left, for example, be
fatigued by listening to a long, pure
note, and the hearer then try to estimate
the direction of the sound, he
will imagine it to be further to the left
than it is, and vice versa.
Moths having been immersed in
sulphuric ether will recover after the
evaporation of the ether ; beetles will
recover from the effects of chloroform,
and flies after having spent a whole
day in a bottle of wine.
Balloonist have a unique method of
taking "soundings" to learn their distance
from the earth when traveling in
the air at night. A loud shout is given
onil cefATiilfl ota /?nnnfp<1 rmtil the
echo from the ground is heard. .From
the time required for the return of the
sound it is easy to compute the height
of the balloon.
At a meeting of the Academy of
Science, Paris, on December 5, M. Faye
criticised the proposal to establish meteorological
stations in high latitudes.
He does not think that ranch is to be
learned at these places in the cause of
science. It is simply a matter of conjecture
whether the ice of the polar
regions is the regulator of climates of
the temperate zones. Modern science
shows the regulator to be rather in the
vast equatorial zone, whence storms
travel over the two hemispheres. Instead
of organizing a metereological
station at Cape Horn the French gov
ernment would do better to touna one
in the Azores. The Nature attempts to
ridicule M. Faye.
THE HOME DOCTOR.
Br. Footers Health Monthly advises j
people never to lean the back upon i
anything that is cold.
Two good hearty meals in the day are
sufficient for health?one before going
to work, and the other after work is
over; that is, breakfast and supper, or
' what is the .same, late dinner. Some
lunch is needed between these meals, |
but this should be light.
Hot, heavy suppers taken shortly be- j
fore going to bed prevent refreshing j
sleep, and are among the most frequent!
causes of attacks of indigestion, j
At the same time an empty stomach is ;
to be avoided; a few biscuits, or some-:
thing equally light, is all that is re- j
Too much smoking is a harmful
habit, causing nervousness,shaky hands, I
palpitation'of the heart, want of appetite
and sleeplessness; when any of these
occnr, tobacco shonld be left off, or
used very seldom. The practice of
boys learning to smoke can not be too
strongly condemned.
>7hen the joints are stiffened with
rheumatism or a settled cold, the following
applications are said io be
capital, and enable the sufferer to mcve
| with ease: Cut i?to small bits (or grate)
I one ounce of castile soap, and a heapj
ing tablespoonful of cayenne pepper,
j Have these in a small pitcher, and then
i pour on to them half a pint of boiling
hot water. Stir until all is dissolved,
, and add a little cider, brandy or alco!
hol when bottling. An application of
! the above brings the blood in a glow to
; the joints, and on rubbing a little sweet
oil to relax the muscles the patient will
be enabled to walk- with perfect easa.
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Savages on the Trail.
One of the most remarkable features
of uncivilized life is the power savages
show of tracking men and beasts over
immense distances. Many travelers
have spoken of this as something almost
miraculous, yet it is only the result of
careful observation of certain wellknown
signs; and we have here before
us a collection of verv common-sense
hints on the subject. In countries like
ours every trace, footprint or wheeltrack
on roads or paths are soon obliterated
or hopelessly confused; but it
is otherwise in the wilderness, where |
neither raan nor beast can conceal his j
track. In Cafferland, when cattle are
stolen, if their footprints are traced j
into a village, the head man ia responsible
for them, unless he can show the
same track going out. A wagon track
in a new country is practically indelible.
"More especially," say the authors of
! "Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life,"
"is this the case if a fire sweeps over
ihe plain immediately after, or if a
wagon passes during or after a prairie j
fire. We have known a fellow traveler i
recognize in this manner the tracks his
wagon had made seven years before,
the lines of charred stumps crushed
short down remaining to indicate the
passage of the wh els, though all other
impressions had beeD obliterated by
the rank annual growth fully twelve '
feet high. Sometimes the original soil
being disturbed a new vegetation will j
anrinflr Tin dinner t.llA TFflffOTl t?flCk. 8nd I
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thus mark out the road for miles.
Even on hard rock a man's bare foot
will leave the dust caked together1 by
perspiration, so that a practiced eye
will see it; and even if there is no
track, a stone will be disturbed here !
and there, the side of the pebble which
has long lain next to the ground being j
turned np. If it is still damp, the man
or beast that turned it has passed very
recently. If a shower of rain has fallen,
the track will tell whether it was made
before, during or after the shower;
similar indications can be obtained from
the dew ; and other indications of the
time that has elapsed since a man passed j
by is furnished by the state of the j
crushed grass, which will be more or j
less withered as the time is longer or |
shorter. Other indications are drawn ;
from the direction in which the grass .
lies; this tells how the wind was blow-;
ing at the time the grass was crushed;
and by noting previous of the wind, one \
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the track was made.
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lie Sight Hare Been Favored.
The Boston Journal gave way to a
little mild indignation the other day in 1
the following paragraph: "Clara Louise
Kellogg sang about 88,000 worth to the j
inmates of the Nebraska penitentiary
the other day, and asked nothing for it. !
A man who had never stolen anything ;
or made love to another man's horse i
would have to pay two dollars to hear
her. About the only man who gets left I
nowadays, and has to pay a big price j
for all the fun he has, is the honest,
respectable, hard-working citizen." j
There is soma truth in this conclusion,
and though the tone is not quite so
philosophical as people have a right to
expect in a Boston newspaper, it was ;
entirely unnecessary for the Omaha Bee j
' * " "VIT.1 I
to retort asionows: >ve uavc w uuuu> j
that if the editor of the Boston Journal i
had been in Nebraska, he would have j
been placed in a position where he
could have haard Clara for nothing."
The color line has extended into Can
ada. Two citizens of Toronto were re- i
fused admittance to tee skating rink j
hecauee ?f tfcejr color. i
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Burned to Death.
In Panihatti, Bengal, a woman's
clothes ignited as she ^as lighting a
fire. The flames could have been easily
extinguished by persons in an adjoining
room if an alarm had. been given, .cut i
the rales of caste would have been vio-!
lated if the woman's shrieks had reached j
the ears of the adult male members of j
the household, and so the woman sto- j
ically suffered herself to burn to death. ;
The Violin for Girl*.
A correspondent writes to the Queen : j
"I do not know whether it made much i
way in the provinces, of which my ac-!
quaintance and experience are small,
but in and about London, for twenty
miles round, there is hardly a large
family, blessed with an average endowment
of girls, in which one of them is
not learned or destined to learn the
violin. I often attended the practices
or concerts given by many amateur
musical societies in and around London,
and generally find young ladies among
the ranks of violin players. On all
sides there is abundant evidence that
trie movement is general ana strong, i
The violin dealers and masters tell the j
same story, and I cannot donbt that ten j
years hence the violin will be far more i
common in the hands of young ladies !
than ever it was in former days among j
their fathers and uncles."
Uniform Toilets.
A London paper says : A new fashion,
of which many leaders of society speak
ts likely to prevail, is the so-called j
uniform toilet for ladies. Already the j
idea has been '-aired" at several great |
entertainments, and it i3 said that the ;
queen of Italy is responsible for the :
change. When the queen was at Vienna
a special ball was given in her honor,
at which all the Viennese ladies appeared
in white, emulating the hue of
the daisy, or marguerite, after which
the qneen is named. Qaeen Marguerite
herself was in white satin trimmed with
' ?j t? a
suver gauze uuu ucuuwcibu ytj.uu. exquisite
gardenias, the effect of the whole
being enhanced by the splendor of her
pearl necklace, King Humbert's latest
gift. When the queen returned to Italy
and gave a bail she let the invited
ladies know that they were expected to
appear in white. The Roman ladies
were not backward, of course, and appeared
in gorgeous white costumes, in
most cases enlivened with stars or
daisies in diamonds. Since then, at
severr.l receptions held in Paris, notifications
have been given out with the
invitations that ladies were to appear in
certain shades of color. The fashion,
of course, affords play to the wildest
extravagances, each woman being anxious
to make an effect in the startling
combinations and contrasts of materials,
but to the ordinary observer it is by no
j means attractive, and uniformity becomes
monotony.
Fashion Notes.
Flower fans are the latest novelty.
Tulle is the material for ball dresses.
Plush plisses are worn by little girls.
Flame-red birds appear on gray felt
hats.
Sealskin buttons are used on cloth
dresses.
English silk umbrellas havo colored
linings.
Chamberry gauz9 has gone out of
fashion.
Little children wear knitted wool
petticoats. .
Two kind3 of roses are used in dress
g?rniiure.
i New velvet neklaces are studded
wifa pearls.
Diamond stars that quiver are worn
in the hair.
Black is considered in the best taste
for mantles.
Directoire greatcoats with capes complete
cloth costumes.
Turkish colors and designs are brocaded
in gentlemen's cravats.
?X UOU J?JJLlJtv# IV vw MX Vtvvvk t?MVM
j used is prepared for curling feathers.
Lace, if black, is considered suitable
i for second mourning on the other side
j of the water.
"Large collars frequently have a white
i cravat bow of lawn or mull, edged with
! laoe, tied in front.
Afternoon private theatricals are very
fashionable in London and in country
houses in England.
Valenciennes, real or imifcatioD, remains
the popular lace for fine chemises
and other fine underwear.
Collars for morning wear are straight
bands of linen fastened in front with a
small gold button or stud.
A great deal of spangled and tinselj
striped gauze is used in the composition
I of French ball dresses this year.
Camel's hair cloth, serges and a new
i light cloth called Ehadames, are the
! leadinc woolen dress goods of the
I ?
; season.
In breakfast cap3 of lace and muslin
J the variety in shape is indefinite, but
I Fancl on and the Normandy have the
I preference.
Silver gauze, dotted with silver beads,
makes a lovely evening dress for a lady
no longer young, but who lias preserved
her complexion.
Many of the large collars are of white
cream or pale tinted satin Surah,
shim d up around the neck and edged
with a wide ruffle of lace.
A new dress material just brought
out by the French is a woolen stuff
with a plain ground, on which heads of
animals are embroidered or printed.
All trains, no matter how rich and
heaw. are lined with white crinoline
muslin, and protected and adorned with
a balayeuse of lace and muslin or lace
alone.
Silk handkerchiefs, in erery combination
of color and shade, are used in
various ways as jabots, sailor colors,
breakfast caps, and gypsy and Creole
kerchie/s.
Moorish headdresses in loosely folded
turban shapes, adorned with red or
imitation jewel ornaments and made of
materials to suit those of the dress, are
worn with elegant evening toilets.
A Rosy >'ose.
Every person has noticed the
drunkard's rosy nose. It is not simply
red; the skin is rough and thickened,
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plea?ant, and sometimes a laughable,
impression. Bnt this affection (acna
rosacea) is not confined to the inebriate,
nor is it owing directly to alcohol; bnt
to some derangement of the digestive ;
functions induced by the person's J
hab:ts. The capillary veins of the face j
are in peculiar sympathy with other j
organs, and through the action of the !
latter, often become permanently con- !
gested.
A congested liver may be due to high i
living as well as to hard drinking, and !
whichever the cause, may equally result !
in this congestion of the nose. In |
women it results, in full half the cases, j
from some derangement of their j
peculiar organization. Jb'nrtiier, a rea
nose may be caused by occupations?
as that of the cook, for instance?which j
keep up a constant state of congestion j
in the tace.
The disease first shows itself in little |
rounded spots on the summit and sides I
of the nose. These come and go at j
intervals, gradually increasing int
number and continuing longer. The j
veins enlarge; the ekin becomes thicker i
than in its normal condition, and in the I
worst casea, there are elevated point-, |
some red and solid and some yellowish ;
and filled with pus.
To effect a care ihe main thiDg is to I
remove the cause. Let your physician j
tell you what that is. The local con-!
gestion may, in many cases, be relieved !
by bathing the part for some time every !
dav, with water as hot as can be borne. I
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l'ne object is to simulate me circuia- i
tion.?Youth's C'.mpan ion.
After all the arguments about cheapness and j
quality it appears that Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup I
is the best remedy for the cure of Coughs and i
Colds ever offered to the public. The price is I
only 25 ccnts a bottle and every druggist is tha i
land sells ftad recommends it i
i. Nocturnal Ramble and what Came of It.
Some genius?we suspect him to belong to '
the jovial order of humanity?has said: i
" The day to drone and dream, the night to J
learn and ramble.1' We do not propose to '
dispute this worthy's view of the matter, but j
present herewith the experience of a Philadelphia
journalist, Mr. William H Cun- j
ninirtnn 1719 Xnrth Twentieth street, one
of whose nocturnal rambles he thus refers to, .
beginning his narration rather peculiarly,
however: " I am not a rheumatic, and have
been troubled very little with bodily pains.
Last Tuesday morning I experienced a very
annoying stiffness of the neck, which grew i
worse as the day wore on. Toward evening
it became very severe, and I could scarcely
turn my head in any direction. Arriving
home at tea time It was with difficulty that 1
I could eat my meal. My wife wanted to
rub my neck with St. Jacobs Oil, but I refused,
saying I thought the affliction would
soon pass away. Tea over, against the
remonstrances of my family, I leit home to
ramble toward the new Chestnut Street
Opera House, about two and a half miles
from my residence. I started in the midst
of a heavy snow storm, and remained at the
theater until the close of the performance,
although I could feel my neck getting worse
and becoming very painful. Leaving the
play the trouble came to reach home. The
storm continued; the car in which I was
became blocked in nearly every square, a
cold current of air swept through the car,
and I did not reach my home until toward
2 a. m., by which time my neck had become
absolutely rigid. Then I consented to the
use of Su Jacobs Oil, which my wife ap.
plied two or three times before 1 arose. I
continued its use that day and by evening
I was free from pain, and the next morning
I amused myself by twisting my neck in any
direction that suited me, and not a vestige
of stiffness remained."?Boston Herald.
The census returns just given in
Bombay are quite interesting. Asked
to state their profession or calling, the
simple Hindoos have filled up the paper
with an accuracy that might in vain be
sought for' in any other country. In
Bombay there are, upon their own contflfiftinn.
frwpmtv-RiT cam biers and swind
lers, one dog prisoner, sixteen wizards,
and 698 tattooers.
In a Cincinnati daily we notice that Mr
Tim Gleeson, ex member of the Council
from the Fourth Ward of that city, says he
suffered terribly from rheumatism all last
winter and spring. He tried all kinds of
liniments and medicines without any bene
fit until he used St. Jacobs Oil, the first ap?
plication of which insured a full night's repose,
and its subsequent use entirely cured
him. It is a great remedy.?Akron (Ohio)
Beacon.
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" Yes," said Daisy, " I think Jack is
in love with me. He hasn't told me so,
but when Harry Birch escorted me
home from the par'y last night, Jack
looked ugly, and to-day he took an opportunity
to throw an awful hard snowball
at Harry's dog."
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RESCUED FROM DEATH.
j William J. Coughlin, of SomerviHe. Mass , says In the
fall of 1S761 was taken with bleeding ot the ixngs followed
by a severe cough. I lost my appetite and flesh,
and was confined to my bed. In 18771 was admitted to
the hospital. The doctors said I had a hole In my lung aa
t>i? as a half-dollar. At one time a report went around
that I was dead. I gave up hope, but a friend told me of
DR. WILLIAM HALL'S BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS.
i t ? ** ? *a mhv mvnrica t m foal
I 1(5"K? "Vine ?UCii IV iu?. .. vv?^v ~
I better, and to-day I feel better than for three years past
I I write this hoping every one afflicted with Diseased
I Longs will take DR. WILLIAM IIALL'S BALSAM, and
I be convinced that COXSl'MPTIOX CAN* BE CUBED. I
I can positively say it has done more good than all the
j other medicines I have taken since my sickness.
ALLEN'S Brain Food-cures Nervous Debility &
Weakness of Generative Organs, SI?all druggists,
j Send for Circular. Allen'sPliarmacy,313Firstay.,N.Y.
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THE MARKETS.
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NEW YOKE.
j Beef Cattle?Med. Nat livewt. 9%@ 10
I Calves?Poor to Prime Yeals... 9%
i Sheep 5%
; Lambs 7j^@ 7%
i Hogs?Live 7 @ 7
Dressed, city 8%@ 8%
Flour?Ex. State, good to fancy 5 60 @ 8 00
Western, good to choice 5 90 @ 8 75
Wheat?No. 2 Bed, new 1 45 @145%
No. 1 White, new..... 1 41 @ 141
Bye?State 95 @ 95
Barley?Two-rowed State 90 @ 91
Corn?ITngradedWesternMixed 67%@ 70%
Southern Yellow 71)^@ 71#
Oats?White State 48 @ 50
Mixed Western 46 @ 49
Hay?Prime Timothy " 8*5 @ 90
Straw?No. 3, Bve 80 @ 85
Hops?State, 1881 26 @ 23
Pork?Mess, new, for export...1? 25 @13 25
Lard?Citv Steam . 1112lAGbll12V.
Befined 1140 @1140
Petroleum?Crude 6%@ 7%
BeSned 8%@ 8%
Batter?State Creamery 30 @ 36
Dairy 20 @ 25
Western Im. Creamery 27 @ 38
Factory 13 @ 30
I Cheese?State Factory 9 @ 13%
; Skims 3 @ 9
Western 9 @ 13
! Eg;State and Penn 26 @ 27
I Pot.. ''3?Early Rose, State, bbl 3 25 @3 50
BUFFALO.
Steers?Extra 6 25 @ 6 75
Lambs?Western 4 75 @ 6 00
Sheep?Western 415 @ 5 10
Hogs, Good to Choice Yorkers.. 6 95 @ i 10
Floor?C'y Ground, No. 1 Spring 6 75 @7 25
Wheat?No. 1. Hard Dulutli.... 1 57 @ 1 57
Corn?No. 2 Mixed 68%@ 69
Oats?No. 2 Mix. West 48 @ 50
Barley?Two-rowed State 90 @ 90
BOSTON.
Beef?Extra plate and family.. 14 00 @15 00
Hogs?Live 6%@ 7
Hogs?City Dressed S^@ 8%
I Pork?Extra Prime per bbl 15 00 @15 50
Flour?Spring Wheat Patents.. 7 50 @8 75
Corn Mixed and Yellow 7375
Oats?Extra White 55%@ 57%
Bye?State 1 00 @ 1 00
Wool?Washed Comb & Delaine 44%@ 46
Unwashed " " 50 @ 31
WATEBTOWJT (MASS.) CATTLE MABKET.
Beef?Extra quality 6 75 @ 7 25
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witnessed the "poetry of motion,"
jBt /?tas shown in danciug. but had
never heard of decorative art
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wJfPQgrM- train until this time. People
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lng through the country,
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1 j 35 "St. Jacobs Oil!" It looked
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It's hard luck stranger, but I guess it's ail right."
?Galveston (Tex.) Daily Journal.
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