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BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1880. NO. 36. VOLUME XXV. ,
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Love's Morrow.
[May Aleolt N\.iker died recently in P&ris.]
t.
It was but yesterday
Thftt all was bright and lair;
Came over the sea
So merrily,
News from my darling there?
Now over the sea
Comes hither to me
Knell ol despair?
* No more, no loDgt>r there."
ii.
Ah, gentle May !
Could'st thou not stay ?
Why hurriest thou so swift away ?
No?rot the same?
Nor can it be?
LThat lovely name?
Kven again what once it was to be me;
t. numiot Ik.
That lovely name to me.
hi.
I cannot think her dead,
80 lately, sweetly wed;
She who had tasted bliss,
A mother's virgin kiss,
Rich gifts conferred to bless
With costliest hanpiness.
IV.
Broken the golden band, ?
Severed the silken strand ?
Ye sisters lour!
Still to me two remain
And two have gone hetore.
Our loss her gain* And
fie who gave can all restore,
And yet, Oh why,
My heart doth cry.
Why take her thus away ?
T.
I wake in tears and sorrow,
Wearily I say
" Come, come, fair morrow,
And chase my griol away."
Night-long I say,
" Haste, baste, iair morrow,
I And bear my griei away,"
" All night long,.
My sad, sad song.
TI.
" 9omes not the welcome morrow,"
My boding heart doth say;
Still grief from griet doth borrow,
" My child is lar away."
Still as I pray
The deeper swells my sorrow.
Break, break!?the risen day
Tukes not my griet away.
vii.
Full well I know
Joy's spring is fathomless?
It* fountains overflow
To cheer and bless,
And underneath, our griei
Wells lorth and gives relief,
Transported May!
Thou couldst not stay;
Who gave, took thee away.
tto-ne, child, and whisper peace to me;
Sny, must I wait or come to thee?
I list to hear
Thy message clear.
VIII.
" Cease, cease newgriel to borrow!"
Last night I heard her say;
For sorrow hath no morrow,
' l is lx>rn ol yesterday. ?
Translated thou shalt be,
^ .My cloudless daylight see,
And bathe, as I, in lairest morrows endlessly."
?A. Bronton Allcoll.
Concord, January 4, 188U.
OLD DAN.
Farmer Henderson came in from the
barn one morning with his hands .and
clothes wet and covered with mud, his
fare red and his eyes Hashing.
" Ned!" h'j shouted, as he entered the
kitchen. " Where's Ned?"
" Here I am!" came a cheery voice in
reply; and an instant after a bright,
strong boy ot some sixteen years entered
the old-fashioned country kitchen from
the adjoining woodshed, where he had
been cutting potatoes for the day's planting.
" Do you want anything?"
441 want to tell you this," said Mr.
Henderson, as he washed himself at the
sink, and rubbed his weather-beaten
face with the coarse towel until it was
even moie red than before. 44 Old Dan
must be killed! Just see the state I am
in. and all from that worthless old rascal!
I won't have him about the house
another day. He's good for nothing but
to make trouble, and he must be shot
before night!" added the farmer, wrathfully.
Ned was about to plead for his pet,
wl:en his little sister came into the
room.
44 Why, papa, what is the matter?"
^ she cried, running to him in astonish4
ment. 44Did you fall into the creek?"
441 might as well." he replied, ha^
lnnr-hinc 44 Old Dan butted me into I
thfr watering-trough!"
There w:is a shout of laughter from
both children, in which their mother
joined.
" Well. Jedediab." said Mrs. Henderson.
coming into the kitchen, and still
shaking with mirth, "wln.t could you
have been thinking about to let an old
ram, 'most twenty years old, knock you
into the watering-trough ?"
" But," explained her husband, " he
took me unawares. I had just filled
one pail to carry to the barn, and was
stooping to dip the other, when the old
rascal came at me like the wind, and
knocked me completely into the water!
He scampered, I tell you, before I
, could get out. He knew he had done
mischief. Anyhow, he's got to be
killed to-day, sure. He's only a nuisance,
and I'll shoot him to-night, when
we come back from town, if he's on the
farm!"
Two hours iater Mr. and Mrs. Henderson
(Jjrove away to be absent from
home until night. As they rattled out
of the yard Old Dan suddenly appeared
close to the gate, and, wagging his tail
as if in derision, gave utterance to a
hoarse " Ba-a-a!"
The farmer turned, shook his whip at
the fellow, and cried, " This is your last
dav, my boy, make the most of it!"
Ned and Carrie were the only children.
Leaving Carrie in the house alone, after
they had considered awhile whether
there was any way of averting Old Dan's
sad fate, Ned shouldered his hoe and
marched off to his work, planting potatoes
with Bronson, the hired man, in the
"back lot."
But the little girl of thirteen had no
thought of being afraid. She had the
breakfast dishes to wash, some sweeping
to do. and the dinner to get, all before'twelve
o'clock.
Time fled. The dishes stood in shining
rows upon the pantry shelves, the
broom haa performed its work, and
Carrie was preparing the vegetables to
be boiled, when there came a faint
knock at the door. Supposing it to bp
one of the neizhbors, the little girl did
not rise, but called -
" Come in!"
Tho Ann-r vena alnwlv nnpnorf and n.
man stepped within.
He wore a long black coat, buttoned
to his chin, and very threadbare. His
trousers, too, were black and shiny, and
much too short for him. On one loot
was a boot, while the other was graced
i by a ragged sho-3. He carried a battered
silk hat in his hand. His face was
long and solemn, but quite red, his eyes
bleared, his hands very dirty, and altogether
he was a queer looking visitor.
Is your ma at home, miss?" said he,
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in a balf whine, as he glanced sharply
about the room.
"No, sir," replied Carrie, wondering
why he asked; " she has pone to Underbill.
Did you wish to see her?"
" Oh, no," the man replied. " I only
asked out of politeness, you know,''
and he smiled solemnly at the little
girl, and winked one eye. " No. I came
on business with your pa?particular,
urgent business. S pose lie's round, is
he not?"
"No, sir: he went to town with
mother," said Carrie.
" Now, that's too bad!" exclaimed
the visitor, as he seated himself: "and
I've come so far to see him. But perhaps
your brother or sister would do as
well."
" I haven't any sister," said the little
hostess, laughing, "and my brother's
over in the back lot. He'll be in by-andbye,
though, if he'll do."
" Well, I don't hardly believe he will,
after all," said the man, shaking his
head thoughtfully, "and I can't wait
to-day anyway; I hain't the time. But
I'm terribly hungry. If I could I'd
stay to dinner, miss. However, under
the circumstances, perhaps you had bet- J
ter give me a light lunch before I go; a
{>iece of pie, and a cup of tea, and a
ittle cold meat, or something of that
sort."
"Oh, certainly; only I can't give you
the meat, for we tiaven't it in the
house," said Carrie, rising; " but I will
find something." And she brought
from the pantry a whole apple-pie,
which she placed before him, with a
knife and fork.
" If you will help yourself I'll have
the tea ready in three minutes."
"All right, my dear," said the man,
seizing the knife and drawing the pie
toward him. - " I will act upon your
advice. The last time I took dinner
with General Grant," he continued, as
he cut a great piece and began to eat, he
said to me, 'Governor, governor," said
he, 'never disregard a lady's advice;'
and I have always remembered what he
said," and he chuckled merrily, and
nodded his head at the delicious-looking
pastry before him.
Carrie wondered a little at the tablemanners
of the man who had dined with
Grant, but she steeped his tea, flavored
it with rich cream and sugar, and passed
it to him,
" I am not much of a hand for tea,"
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SHiu uie man, as n ? uiauuru im- vup,
"but my doctor says? that I must drink
it for my digestion. Ruined my digestion
while I was in the army, you see;"
and he winked solemv^y. "By the
way," he continued, picking up the silver
teaspoon from his saucer, "have
you any more of these? They are as
neat a pattern as I ever saw, and odd,
too. I should like to see the rest of the
dozen, if you have them.'*
" Mother has only eleven," said Carrie,
in her innocence, "and she is very
proud of them; but I will show them to
you."
Tlien she bi ought the little box with
the precious table-silver ? eleven teaspoons.
four tablespoons and an ancient
cream-jug?all pure silver, and shining
brightly?and placed them before her
inquisitive visitor to admire.
He had finished his " light lunch."
That is, the pie was demolished and the
teapot empty. As the little girl handed
him the treasures he arose, took the
box to the window, examined its contents
with a critical eye for a moment,
and then, as if in joyful surprise,
cried:
"I am right! They are the very
spoons! The very same identical spoons
that my friend lost when he was a boy!
How lucky it is that I have found them
at last!"
With these words, and a very low
bow, the rascal opened the door and
slipped away with the spoons and a
silver cream pitcher down the path toward
the sate.
For an instant Carrie stood motionless;
then, rushing after him, she
shrieked:
"Give me those spoons ! They are
my mother's spoons, and you are tryinsr
to steal them! You are a thief, a thief!
Bring them back! bring them back!"
The man, however, paid no attention
to the child's cries, but ran rapidly
djwnthe path, carrying the box in his
arms; and the spoons and pitcher would
have been lost forever if a new party
Lad not appeared on the scene.
Old Dan was quietly nibbling the
Sass near the gateway. Hearing his
tie mistress' voice, he looked up at
the very instant that the tramp passed.
What he saw about the man that disturbed
him I don't know; but, erecting
his head with a hoarse "Baa-a-a!" he
shot after him like a cannon-ball.
The man turned to receive him and
defend himself, but the ram struck him
fairly in front and knocked him, halfsenseless,
flat on his back, scattering
the silver in all directions
For an instant the fellow remained
sprawling in the dust, then he slowly
arose, limping and groaning, and without
a glance at his enemy, began to
gatherup his stolen spoils.
He had partly completed Ins task
when Old Dan, who all this time had
been watching the proceeding fiom beneath
his shaggy eyebrows, shook his
long beard, and with another tremendous
"Baa-a!" dashed at him again,
and over he went a second time, his
treasures flying from his hands.
And now began a strange battle.
With cries of rage and pain, the man
recovered his feet and turned upon the
ram, kicking and striking at him furiously,
while Dan, accustomed' to such
warfare from years of experience with
the boys of the country-side, easily
eluded him, and in return butted him to
the earth again and again.
The spoons and cream-pitcher were
knocked hither and thither, as the combatants
struggled, the road was trampled
into something like a race-course, the
air was filled with very bad language,
very angry " baas " and a great cloud of
dust.
But after some five minutes, victory
declared itself upon the side of the qundrupe
1; and, bruised and bleeding, with
clothes in rags, minus hat and shoe, the
vanquished ma i suddenly turned away
and ran limping down the road, leaving
his antagonist in full possession of the
field and the stolen silver.
Old Dan remained motionless, gazing
after his enemy until he disappeared
around a distant turn in the road; then,
shaking the dust from his coarse wool,
he gave utterance to a low grumble ot
satisfaction, and, wagging his tail, returned
to his dinner in front of the
house.
Half an hour later, as Carrie washed
the coveted spoons and the "bright little
pitcher and iaid them carefully array
once more, she told her brother the
story, and how the robber was foiled;
and Ned, full of enthusiasm, cried: '
"We will not kill old Dan at all, for
I do not believe that father would shuot
him now tor a hundred dollars!"
And the boy was right. The old ram
won more then he knew when he fought
the tramp and conquered him. He won
his master's regard, and a free, happy
life for the remainder of his days.?F. E.
Hamilton, in Youth's Companion.
There are fifty-five churches in Rich
mond, Va., with 30,000 communicants.
The Baptists have nineteen churches,
with 4,091 white and J2,756 colored
members; the Roman Catholics, three
churches, and 5,161 population; the
Methodists, ten churches, with 2,705
.white and 409 colored members; the
Presbyterians, four churches, with
1.476 members; the Episcopalians, ten
churches, with 2,229 members; theDis
ciples of Christ, /82 members; the
Lutherans, 409 members, and the Hebrews,
235 members. There ha3 been a
loss in the total membership of 431 during
the past year.
White silk muslin is a favorite transparent
fabric to wear over satin, and
'trimmed with the simple Breton laces.
ALMOST A HEATH WOUND.
A Thrilling Incident In the Life of
Alexander II. Stephen*.
Howard Caryll, who lias been giving
sketches o? the lives of prominent
Americans in a New York paper, has an
article on Alexander II. Stephens, the
material for which was gathered from
the lips of the ex-vice-president of the
Confederate States. The following incident
in the career of this well-known
Georgian is graphically told by Mr.
Caryll:
During Mr. Stephens' congressional
service, and pending the campaign of
1848, he returned from Washington to
Georgia. He was fresh from the great
debates on the acquisition of California
and New Mexico as United States Territories,
and for having taken, against
the wishes of a majority of the Southern
members, a most prominent part in
opposition to such acquisition, he was
met with much adverse criticism.
Judge Cone, who was at the time one
of the leading politicians of Georgia,
was parucuiuny scvnc m ma wmiuum
upon Mr. Stephens' action, and was reported
as having publicly denounced
him as a traitor to the South.
Hardly had Mr. Stephens reached
his home when these and similar reports
were conveyed to him. At first
he did notcrcdit them, but as one kind
friend after another informed him that
Cone had called him traitor, and advised
that he owed it to himself to demand
what is called "satisfaction,"the
fires of pugnacity in his nature, which
are always smoldering, biazed up, and
he declared that if Judge Cone would
admit having called him a traitor to
the South he would "slap his face."
Not long alter this he met tie judge at
a numerously attended Whig gathering,
and going up to him quietly, s.tici:
44 Judge Cone, I liuve been told that
you, for reasons of your own, have denounced
nie as a traitor to tl\e South,
and I take this opportunity of asking
if such reports are true."
44 No, sir," was Cone's reply,44 they are
not true."
441 am very glad to heir you say so,"
said Mr. Stephens, cordially, and in the I
same friendly tone continued: 44 Of
course I do not desire to be in any way I
offensive to y?u, Judge Cone, but in
order that we may have no further misunderstanding
through the misrepresentation
of others, I think it right to
tell you that I have said I would slap
your face if you admitted having used
the language attributed to you."
Upon this the judge again disowned
having spoken disrespectiully of Mr.
Stephens, and so for the time the affair
ended. It was the subject of much discussion
all over the State, however, and
the general verdict was that Judge
Cone, a very powerful man, by the way,
had shown the white feather to 44 Little
Aleck Stephens." In such a community
no public man resting under such a
charge could hope either for political
r.A?ulni? *?nen?r?f Potio
pi'tll'l UIClll' Ul ptipuiui ,
of course, knew this, and, very much
heated and annoyed by the comments
which were being made upon. him,
wrote to Mr. Stephens demanding an
immediate and public retraction of his
threat. In reply Mr. Stephens wrote
that the threat of slapping the judge's
face had been made contingent upon the
truth of reports regarding him which he
(Cone) had pronounced to be untrue,
and that such being the ease there could
be no cause for oG'ense or angry feeling
on cither side. Unfortunately this letter
was not received by Judge Cone.
Three or four days after it was written,
however, he met Mr. Stephens on the
piazza of a hotel in Atlanta, and, disregarding
that gentleman's friendly greeting,
said in a very offensive tone:
"Mr. Stephens, I demand that you
make an immediate retraction of your
threats regarding me."
Sick and weak though he was, Alexander
H. Stephens could allow no one
to speak to him in the fashion described.
Judge Cone was a very giant in size and
muscular development, yet the frail man
whom he addressed, with aggravating
politeness and without hesitating a moment,
replied: " Pardon me, sir, I have
already written you fully on that subject;
1 must decline to discuss it iurther."
" Am I to take this as your answer?"
Pamo ovni\o(\ 1 v
iVOMU vu?v, v.A?'?vv?*j
" It i6 the only answer I have to give
you," was the calm reply.
"Then I denounce you as a miserable
iittle traitor," cried Cone, mad with
excitement. The last word had hardly
left his lips when a light cane wielded
by the quick hand of the man he had
insulted left its red scar across his
cheek.
Wild with pain and passion, without
uttering a word, he drew a keen-pointed
dlrk-knife and made one furious thrust
at his wea'c little adversary's heart.
Instantly ?.s he did so, however,
Stephens, seizing a stout, umbrella
which he held in his left hand, interposed
it as a defense, and was able for
a moment to hold him at arm's length.
The knife fpll short of its mark. Once
more it was thrust at Stephens, cutting
a deep gash in his arm, but reaching no
vital point; eighteen times it cut deep
into his breast, arms and body, but still
he did not fall. Then he could hold
out no longer. No courage, no spirit,
however firm and unyieldint, could
long withstand such an attack. Cone
was determined to finish his work. He
1? ?11 * ?*ta!ormSnof flto
tlircw JtU Ills ?C1?UU OpuiilJV wiv
umbrella which held him away from
the man he had determined to kill. It
broke; Stephens, half fainting, fell upon
his back. The eiant Cone was at his
throat in a moment; iris head, by a
/trip of iron, was held against the cruel
floor; the keen and bl:>od-dripping
knife was held aloft before him ready
for the last fatal thrust, but still the
poor pale face of the little hero was set
and defiant?his black eyes still Hashed
undauntedly.
"Retract or I'll cut your cursed
throat!" hissed Cone.
"Cut ! I'll never retract!" gasped
the almost lifeless Stephens.
Like a flash the knife came down.
With an almost superhuman effort the
prostrate man caught it in his right
hand! Clean through the muscles, tendons
and bores of the hand it cut. then
stuck fast and readied no vital part.
With desperate strength Cone tried to
wrench it free. With a grasp almost ol
death, the horribly mangled and mutilated
hand still held it fast. In the
struggle Stephens was once more
dragged to his feet; the blojd was rushing
in streams from his many wounds;
his hold upon the knife which sought
his brave heart began to relax; he was
dying. But even when he believed the
next moment would be his last, strong
men came to his relief. The madman
Cone was secured and held fast.
Then quickly the wounds which Mr.
Stephens had received were examined.
It wjis fcftind that one of them had penetrated
to within a sixteenth of an inch
of his heart. An intercostal artery had
been cut. The doctors declared he
would surely die. Happily their pre|
ilictir-ns were not verified. His life was
saved by tlic unronutung care 01 ??uigeon,
his devoted friend, who, as good
fortune would have it, happened to be
in Atlanta at the titre. When he recovered,
with magnanimity of which
few men are capable even of understanding,
he refused to prosecute Cone, and
that person, instead of getting his deserts
in the dark cell of a State prison,
was fined 81,000, and with his "honor
vindicated " was allowed to go free. To
this day Mr. Stephens speaks of him in
terms of consideration and forgiveness.
Not long a<;o, referring to the terrible
struggle I have attempted to describe,
and showing me the great hole in his
mangled hand he said, with a quiet and
far away look in his deep, dark eyes:
"Poor Cone! I'm sure he'd be sorry ii
he knew what trouble I have to write
with these stiff fingers of mine."
What do the wild waves say when
the water-spout??Boston Transcript.
Mr. Dickson's Damp.
We had ft lecture on phrenology in
Musser's hall a few nights ago, from a
traveling professor of that science, and
parts of it were quite entertaining. He
had on the stand several plaster heads
mapped out in town lots, and after lie
haa explained what they meant, he invited
persons in the audience to come
up and let him feel their bumps and explain
their characters. Several times
he hit it pretty accurately, and excited
a considerable amount of applause; but,
after awhile old Dickson stepped up for
an examination. He is an absent-minded
man. and he wears a wig. \V hile dress
Mg nimsen oeiureuuujiii^ wj bUL-icbtuic,
lie had placed his wit; on the bureau and
accidentally tossed his plug of tobacco
into it. When he put the wig on, it
was just like him not to notice the plug,
and so when he mounted the platform
he had a lump just over his bump of
combativeness as big as half a hen's
ecfr. The professor fingered about
awhile over Dickson's head, and then
he said:
" We have here a somewhat remarkable
skull: the perceptive faculties quite
good, ideality large, reverence 60 great
as to be unusual, and benevolence very
prominent. Secretiveness is small, and
the subject/, herefore, is a man of candor
and frankness; he communicates
what he knows freely. < We have also,"
said the professor, still plowing his
hand through Dickson's hair, " acquisitiveness
not large; the subject is not a
erasping, avaricious man, but he gives
liberally, he?he?he?, why, it can't
be! Yes. Why, what in the?! Munificent
Moses! that's the most awful
development of combativeness I ever
heard of. Are you a prize-fighter, sir?"
"Prizefighter!" exclaimed Dickson.
" Why, what do you mean?"
" Never been a soldier, or a pirate, or
anything like that?''
" You certainly must be crazy," said
Dickson.
" Ain't you fond of going into scrimmages
and rows, and plugging people
I r\r\ fViti nnoo?"
"Certainly not."
44 Well, air, then you're untrue to your
nature. The way your head is built,
qualifies you. I should say, in a special
manner as a knocker-down and draggerout.
If you want to fulfill your mission
j you will devote the remainder of your
life to battering up your fellow men and
keeping yourself in one interminable
and eternal muss. You've got the awfulli-st
fighting bump that ever decorated
a human skull. It's phenomenal.
What'll you take for you- head when
you die??Gentleman, this man is liable
at any moment to commence raging
around the community like a wild cat,
banging with a club or anything that
comes handy. It isn't safe for him to be
at large."
Then Dickson put his hand up to feel
the bump and he noticed the tobacco,
lie pulled off his wig, and there was
the plug sticking just behind his left ear,
Then the professor, looking at it a moment
in confusion, said:
"Ladies and gentlemen, we will now
?the lecture is?that is?I have no more
?Boy, turn out those lights!"
Then the audience laughed, and Dickson
put on hi", wig, and the professor
started to catch the last train.
The :-cience ot phrenology is not ns
popular in our town as it was, and Dickson
still remains peaceable.?Max
Adclcr. f
An Elephant as a Deck Hand.
The Thomas Sherlock and Golden
Crown arrived al the wharf, yesterday
morning, having on board Uncle John
Robinson's circus, which shipped at
New Orleans. Among the circus property
was Robinson's monster elephant,
"Romeo." This animal was a passenger
on the Golden Crown, and he appears
to have enjoyed himself during the
trip in his own way. PilotPurcell yesterday
gave an hwiuircr man the following
details as to "Romeo's" style of
whiling the time away. For the first
day or two of the trip he was kept
chained on the forecastle of the steamer,
where he amused himself in various
ways. He made himself quite fre^ with
the freight that was within his reach,
and tumbled boxes, barrels and bales
around promiscuously. At Vicksburc
the hawser, a heavy cable some three
inches in diameter, was used to tie up
the boat. The observing "Romeo "saw
the de-k hands haul it once or twice,
wlien he seems to have concluded that
no could do it quite as well as the dozen
men. As long thereafter as "Romeo"
was kept on the forecastle he handled
the hawser, so far, at least, as hauling
it was concerned. The deck hands
dragged it out and made it fust, but the
moment it was untied tfte elephant,who
was always on the alert for something
to do, seized it with his trunk and
hauled it aboard. He was able to accomplish
the work in less than half the
time required by the deck hands to do
it. Before tbey were taken beyond his
ieaclj, the animal amused himself by
lifting barrels of molasses with his
trunk and bouncing them up and down
on the deck. In this amusement he
.smashed the chimes of twelve barrels.
When the barrels of molasses were removed
"Romeo" immediately turned
his attention to some cedar logs which
were lyint on the forecastle. These
logs were heavy, requiring several men
to handle them. " Romeo " wrapped his
trunk around the end of one of the logs,
raised it up, and churned it up and
down on the deck, rattling the boat
from stem to stern. He was then removed
to the interior of the boat, where
the ringing of the engine bells soon attracted
his attention. The bell-wires
running from the pilot house to the
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engine-loom piia.iuu uuuu mc kuuiu
tloor directly over his back. He evidently
noticed that when the wires
moved the bell rang. He had not been
long in that position until he began to
ring* the bells himself by jerking the
wires with his trunk. He was out of
.sight of the engineer, and the first time
i.e jerked the bell-wire, which happened
to be the wire to " stop her," the engineer
stopped the boat.
"What's ihe matter?" asked the pilot
through the speaking tube.
"Nothing,1' responded the engineer.
" What (lid you stop her for?"
"I didn't ring."
" Ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling, ling-lingling-jin^,"
clattered the bell as if there
were spirits in it. The engineer rushed
out iust in time to catch "Romeo"
jerking the wire, and the mystery was
explained. There was no way to prevent
the animal from playing with the
wires, and he kept it up night and day
throughout the trip. When the pilot
wished to signal the engineer lie did it
through the speaking tube.?Cincinnati
Enquirer.
In All Wenthers.
. It was once a problem in mechanics
to find a pendulum which should be
equally long in all weathers?which
should make the same number of vibrations
in the summer's heat and in the
winter's cold. They have now found it
out. By a process of compensations
they make the rod lengthen one way as
ronf.li 11 a ih ront.mots the other, so that
the center of motion is always the same;
the pendulum swings the same number
of beats in a day oi January as in a day
of June, and the index travels over the
dial plate with the same uniformity,
whether the heat tries to lengthen or
the cold to shorten the propelling
power. Now. the moving power in
some men's minds is sadly susceptible of
surrounding influences. It is not principle,
but feeling, which forms their
pendulum r ;d, and according as this
very variable material is affected, their
index creeps or gallops, they are swift
or slow in the work given them to do.
But principle is like the compensation
rod, which neither lengthens in the
hoof ohnrfona in flip TlHsjfcpr
lUIi^UIU IICMV UVi tfUV* vvuw ??- ?
cold, but does the same work day by
day, whether the ice winds whistle or I
the simoon glows.
TIMELY TOI'ICS.
Tlie millers are astir in regard to their
proposed international exhibition at
Cincinnati next June. It is hoped that
excursion tiokets will be issued by most
of the oceaa steam lines, at low rates,
for foreign millers to come. Mill products
and machinery will form the bulk
of the show. Congress has passed a law
exempting from duty loreign machinery
brought to the United States for the
exhibition.
There is a point in the geography of
the United States that is not generally
known, and that is Driftwood Point.
Driftwood Point is part of a little piece
of land owned by these United States
that is peculiarly situated. This piece
of land is the only portion of this country
except Alaska that is north of the
forty-ninth parallel. It is impossible to
rcach it by land without going through
British territory. It is part of Pembina
county, Minnesota, and it borders on
the northwest shore of the Lake of the
Tf ?a milPH
y? uuuo. aw (IVV/uv ? ?T vmvj m* w ...... ,
north of the forty-ninth parallel, and is
bv that distance the most northern point
oI the United State's except Alaska.
The expense of atrip around the world
is calculated by the Railway Age, on the
basis of 180 days, as ?849 for first-class
and ?608 for second-class accommodations.
Under the first head are included
these entries: New York to San Francisco,
$129; sleeping-car, ?22; meals on
the road, ?18; San Francisco to Sydney,
?20; expenses in Sydney, $40; Sydney
to Melbourne. ?35; expenses in Melbourne,
?40; Melbourne to Adelaide,
Slf>; expenses in Adelaide, ?40; Adelaide
to London, in sailing shin, ?225;
England to N&w York, ?75. It is admitted,
however, that a little extra
money will not come amiss. No allowance
i's made for expenses in England.
"Cotton seed oil factories are springing
up over the South and are doing a good
business," says the Detroit Free Press.
" Every 450-pound bale of cotton yields
about hall a ton of seed, which is sold
to the factories for about ?8. Every
part of the seed is now utilized, and so
with the late increase in the price of oil
and oil cake, things are looking prosperous
in the South. The seed is lintcd and
hulled first and the lint sold to white
paper manufacturers, and perhaps some
of it appears in the paper upon which
this is printed. The hulls are used for
fuel and fur fertilizing. The oil is
pressed out and the oil cake sold to European
stock raisers. Thus every part of
the cotton seed is utilized."
Mr. Edgar Giikes, one of the constructors
of the Tay bridge, has given
his theory of the cause of the awful disaster.
He holds that " the present evidence
indicates that some other force
than the tempest acting with it destroyed
the girders," and lie believes
that that other force was the momentum
of the train. Mr. Giikes finds that the
force of the wind as actually registered
at Dundee was sufficient to overturn the
train and that the guard rails could nofc
prevent this and further, that if the
upper part of the carriages were thus
brought in contact with the leeward
girders the damage they would cause
would so far destroy the unity of the
fabric that the same wind would cast it
all down together.
Such a severe winter as that under
which the populations of Silesia, East
J TIT ?j. 1* ! . J 4-V. ~
ana west rrusaia, hihi mic xjuvuj ui
Posen have been suffering for more than
a month past has not been experienced
in northeastern Europe since the year
1812. It has come like a doom upon the
poor people after an almost total failure
of the potato crop, upon which the peasantry
of these sterile regions mainly depend
for their winter sustenance. We
read of parents all but naked in wretched
empty rooms, forlorn of tire, the corpses
of their children,victims of typhus, iying
uncovered on the floor, with no means
left to obtain the rudest coffin for the
dead, or the coarsest morsel of food for
the living j and of women, driven to
despair, lying down deliberately in the
snow to die, in order to put an end to
their intolerable misery.
Jeanie is a Scotch lassie who last year
came from Dunbeld to begoverness with
a Pittsburg family whose sick child she
had nursed in Scotland. When they
urged her coining she refused, and after
some persuiision gave as a reason that
she was engaged to be married to young
Stewart, who couldn't come with her
because he had to care for a bedridden
sister. But he urged her to accept the
offer telling her he would join her in
January; so sh# came. When she read
the dispatch of the destruction of the
lay Driugu unci mu r>uiru?u u;un, sue
began sobbing and exclaimed: " It's
Stewart's train and Stewart is drowned."
The list of trainmen's names next day
was published and Stewart's name was
among them. And thus the tragedy on
the waters of the Scotcli Frith brought
agony to a bright and hopeful young
heart 4,000 miles away.
A Panama letter says that under the
contract between De Lesseps and Bonaparte
Wyse, Irom whom De Lesseps took
over his arrangement with the Colombian
government, Lesseps is to have two
years more to organize a company for
constructing the canal of Chagres. The
capital of the company is limited to
$80,000,000. Wyse is to receive S^OO.OOO
on the formation of the company, and
$800,000 more one month after half the
capital is subscribed, and is also to have
$1,000,000 more in stock. In case of
the death cf Lesseps his son is to succeed
to all his rights and privileges. Minister
Dichman, of Colombia, in letters to
the state department relative to the De.
Lesseps project for a canal, discourages
any connection therewith by the United
States, and says. " In all respects, except
the money, it will be a French comEany.
and if completed commerce would
e subject to such laws regulating it as
might bring the United States is conflict
with France."
The Egyptian obelisk soon to be
brought to New York, was taken from
Heliopolis to Alexandria, Egypt, in the
reign of Libelus. The name "Cleopatra's
Needle," by which it has been
known for more than a thousand years,
Wiis given by mistake, :is it dates centuries
bark from Cleopatra, even to the
time of Thothmes III., the greatest of
Egyptian princes of the eighteenth dynasty,
who reigned about fifteen centuries
before Christ. The monolith, therefore,
was standing in the time of Moses,
and was, perhaps, seen by him. The
hieroirlvnhics of the south and east faces
are considerably injured either bv the
action of the sun or by the fine particles
of sana driven against them by the
wind. The western column of hieroglyphics
is remarkably well preserved,
but all are damaged at the bottom by
the piling of stones against the obelisk.
There is also a notch in the southwest
corner that may have been made by a
camion ball, but the column is in much
better condition than the one that stands
on the Thames embankment.
The haphazard of life and death was
illustrated in manv ways by the Tay
bridge calamity. One lady, who traveled
with her maid, had ordered a cab
for the morning train, which readied
its destination in safety, but the cabman
overslept, and they were obliged to take
the next train?the one which was
buried in the quicksands at the bottom
of the river. Another instance of trainmissing
turned out more happily. A
gentleman was determined to go to
Dundee, notwithstanding his wife's en
treaties, and that prudent lady took
pains to have the cabman behind time
so that her husband lost the ill-fated
train. He was angry at the time, but is
reconciled tc the situation now, and en
tertains a favorable opinion of his wife's
weather wisdom. Another man lost liifi
life through the business shrewdness of
the girl to whom lie was engaged. He
was visiting at her house in Edinburg,
and was anxious to remain until Monday.
but she persuaded him to return
rather than incur the displeasure of Iris
employers by breaking faith with them.
A London correspondent of the Philadelphia
Bulletin says: " I wish you could
hear some oi the funny questions that
are often put to me by really intelligent
men and women here about our country.
It is hard to Keep from laughing outright
in their faces when asked: * Is it
possible, outside of the large cities, to
get good shelter at night?' and 'Is there
* - * ? - ? ? 1 j l
not naneer 01 neing iuurueieu uiTiuie
morning by bands of roving Indians and
ruffians?1 'Docs not the country
abound with countless venomous snakes
and reptiles?' and so on. It was only
yesterdny that, in conversation with a
gentleman connected witb one of the
largest railroads here, he remarked: ' I
am told that the United States are about
played out as a nation, and that a place
called Manitoba is likely now to take
their place.' Fortunately I had with me
some of those good maps of our country,
turnished to every one gratis by the
Pennsylvania railroad, and I completely
silenced and astonished him by cramming
two or three of them into his
pocket."
General Avezzpna, who died recently
?n R.->mo of tlio norp nf nitrhf.v-nnn. had a
singularly adventurous career. In 1821
lie was sentenced to death, and hanged
in effigy for taking part in a students'
insurrection in Turin. He fled ?. o Spain,
took part in a revolution, was captured,
and escapcd being shot only by the intervention
of an English consul. Next
he appeared in Mexico, where he fought
the Spaniards and won the rank of general,
and was for a time commander-inchief
of the troops of the republic. Afterward
he went to New York, engaged
in trade and made money. He returned
to Italy as American consul at Genoa.
This post he resigned to take part in the
revolutionary movements in his native
land. For takin? part in the rising
against La Marmora he was again condemned
to death, but escaped in an
English ship. In 1848 he was war minister
of the short-lived republic of
Rome. AVhen the French troops throttled
Italian liberty he fled with Garibaldi
to New York. In 1860 he went
back and joined his old chief in the
campaigns which resulted in freeing
Italy from her petty tyrants. He was
elected many times to the Italian parlia-.
ment, and when he died was chiel of the
' Itaiia Irredenta" society.
Talnmge on Dreams.
During a recent discourse at the
Brooklyn Tabernacle on " Dreams,"
Rev. T. De Witt Talma^t) said: Dreams
show that the soul can exist, independent
of the body. When the physical facuJi
i- 1- - J - l?.i
lies lire nt'numuvu v*itn a uiai
reseiables deuth the soul remains alert.
The man ot eigJity years goes to sleep,
and in dreams is carried back to the
time when lie wasachila on his mother's
knee. In the vision of the night the
mind of man travels over perhaps
thousnnds of miles of space, and goes
into the future as well as the past, liui
you ask me do dreams come from God?
I answer, when we have a vision thai
teaches us something good, it is from
God: hut bad dreams are inspired b}
the devil.
"I have had the nightmare," exclaimed
Dr. Talmage, his face assuming
an expression of terror,' I have known
what it is in my sleep y> fall from tlx
top of a high mountain into a deep
abyss. I have felt my flesh creep with
horror as I went down, down, and
never touched bottom. That terriblr
dream came Irom the devil, and he sent
it to me through the medium of a hearty
dinner oaten just before I went to bed.
I knew a man who dreamed that In
was running after a railroad train that
he could not catch. Run as hard as In
would the train would keep just so far
ahead of him. His legs ached with
weariness, and still he kept up the fruitless
ciiase. Do you know what mnm
man have such an um>len>a;?t
dream? Well, I will tell you. He liaV
spent the day previous in a hard pursuit
alter Dame Fortune. He had been chafing
the golden dollars in Wall street.
I am going to give you a recipe for
pleasant dreams. Eat your Inst meal for
the day at six o'clock in the evening.
Go to bed at ten. Have your windowlowered
two inches at the top. Sleej
upon your side, and not upon your back.
Have a clear conscience in the sight of
your Maker, and, my word for it, you
will not have the nightmare. Poor Job,
the Bible tells us, had wretched dreams;
but he had boils fiom the crown of hi?
head to the soies of his feet. He had
doubtless violated nature's laws or he
would have had no boils, and consequently
no bad dreams."
Dr. Talmage remarked that many o!
his hearers were anxious to kno'.v
whether he believed in dreams. His re
ply was that 44 he did and he didn't."
He would not advise his hearers lo pla< e
too much reliance on the visions of tin
night as guides for their conduct in
waking hours. We do not need any
such guidance when we have the Scrip
tures before us. The preacher decried
<?. * winMt?
llUC UUUlb lUUUJ VB|?VV?.II(1
young persons?have of consulting the
silly dream books that hold such n
prominent place among the cheap literature
of the day. Persons who think
much about dreams are likely to beconxsentimental
and impractical andunfitted
for the ' ealities of life. Waking thoughtare
often echoed in dreams. Richard
III. dreamed that all the demons of
hell were staring at him and tearing him
in pieces. What "was this vision but
the outgrowth of his waking up.
" The captain of a vessel at sea
dreamed that on a certain island a shipwrecked
crew were starving to death.
He steered to fhe island, and found that
his dream was a reality. A party in
Colorado were lost in the mountains.
An old hunter in a dream saw the party
at a certain place in the wilderness. He
went to the place and found the lost
ones. I cannot explain these dreams;
but I can say that they had very praiseworthy
and practical results. On the
subject of dreams we must use our besr
judgment, and take them for just what
they are worth?nothing less and nothing
more."
To Siberia.
M. Aurelien Scholl is responsible for
the Accuracy of the following amusing
nnopHnto oKr\iif tho lofn Pmnn??Ai? Vmlrn.
las of Russia. The czar, he tolls the
trusting render, was one day holding a
grand review in honor of a lady remarkable
for her great personal charms.
Just as the cavalry were defilling past
he suddenly ordered them to proceed
"at the gallop.'1 The colonel of the
hist reiriment did not hear the command,
and consequently did not change the
pace of his troopers. Enraged at this
seeming disobedience to his imperial
behest the master of many legions advanced
and cried, _ " At the gallop, to
Siberia!" This time the command
reached the colonel's ears, the men
spurred their horses and started off into
exile. Soon afterward the czar related
what had happened to his fair companion,
who, touched with pity at the fate
of these victims of despotic will
asked for their pardon, eventually with
success. The emperor relented and
sent a sauadron to brin>r hack' the culprits.
Sow comes the touching part of
this veracious tale. A pattern of discipline
and obedience, the offending regiment
had never drawn bridle, but, maintained
its headlong speed. Equally
faithful to orders, the regiment sent in
pursuit strained every nerve to overtake
it, but without avail. The regiment
kept galloping ahead, its pursuers
continued in its wake, and from that
day to this nothing has ever been heard
of either!"
FABM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Liqoiu Auimre.
The subject of tlje value of liquid ma*
nure in its application to crops, in field,
garden and lawn, is again freely discussed.
Meciii, the London alderman,
was among the first to apply it to field
crop3, and for this purpose prepared a
great deal of expensive machinery and
employed a great many men to do the
work. His crops bore testimony to its
great fertilizing qualities, and these returns
Mr. Mechi was not slow in laying
before the British public. His statistics
were liberally quoted in this country,
and he has a great many disciples?on
paper?as those who adopted his method
of applying manure soon abandoned it
on account of ite expensiveness. These
disciples failed to see that in all Mr.
Mechi's statements he made no comparison
as to the relative expense of the two
modes of application and the relative
products. This was carefully omitted,
and if we are correctly informed?and it
looks as if the information is correct, as
we have seen no recent statements from
that quarter?the practice has been
abandoned by the introducer, and il
must have been from the fact that tht
old mode of applying manure to land
was the quickest and most profitable.
For small lawn and gard/ns?where
the expense is a matter of no consequence
?there is no mode of enrichment so certain
and effective aa liquid manure, for
in these cases it can be applied with
watering-pots commonly used by gardeners.
For this purpose a basin should
be dug. from ten to tweive feet in diameter
and three feet deep, which should
be filled with stable manure, and eithei
a conductor from a roof turned upon it
-rain-water being the beat?or supplied
from hydrant or pump, the water being
added gradually, so as to admit of the
daily turning over of the mass. In a
few days or a week it will be fit to use
.ind can be applied as the necessity may
occur. In this limited way liquid manure
can be used with great effect; bul
upon the farm it would take a mint ol
money to dispose of it, whatever th(
beneficial results may be upon the crop.
?Germanloum Telegraph.
Keclpc*.
Custard Pies Without Milk.?Beat
together five eggs, five tablespoonfuls ol
sugar and a little salt; pour into this
one pint of boiling water: stirring
briskly while adding the water; flavoi
with spices according to taste, and complete
the pie the same as other custards.
This quantity is sufficient for two pies.
Try it. They are nice and better for
persons troubled with weak stomachs
than the common custard pies.
Bean Soup Without Meat.?Use
j about a pint of the smaller beans; lentils
will do quite as well. Boil the beans
until nnitn fpnHpr in t.wn find a half
pints ofwater; when cooked there will
be about two pints of water. Mash
the beans thoroughly when taken out
of the water and pass them through a
sieve. Take an onion and brown it in
a casserole in a tablcspoonful of butter.
In this casserole place the beans with
the water they have been cooked in; add
a little salt and pepper.
Corn Stakch Cake.?Four eggs,
whites only; one cup of powdered sugar,
one-half cup of butter, two-thirds cup
of com starch, one-half cup sweet milk,
one cup flour, two teaspoonfuls baking
powder, lercon or rose water flavoring.
Cream the butter and sugar thoroughly
either wiih the hand or a silver spoon;
mix the corn starch with the milk and
add. Then add the eggs, beaten still,
next the sifted flour, into which the
baking powcfer has been stirred
When 8ow? Farrow.
Every farmer should know the exact
time when his sows are to iarrow. She
will not vary two days from sixteen
even weeks, or 112 days. She should
be confined in her room at least one
week before her time is to expire, so
that she may be_reconciled to her quarters.
Care should be taken to have the
sf.rn.w for hfir heddinir soft and fine. ShG
should have been so often washed and
curried when a pig that she may be
readily approached, and be so gentle
that if any of her pigs stray away, and
are liable to become chilled, they can
be gently placed to the teat without disturbing
her. When she needs food or
drink she will call for it. Feed very
lightly for several days. The two or
three lirst days fjive only a little slightly
warmed slop. Then steadily increase
to full feed, giving all she will eat. As
soon as possible urge the pigs to get
into the trough.to learn to eat. This
they will do when liiteen to twenty
days old. Push them by feeding all
they want up to nine or ten months
old They then furnish the best and
sweetest pork.
llroom-Corn Seed,
An exchange states that the seed oi
broom-corn, which has hitherto been
considered useless except for planting,
and an inferior article of food for cattle,
lias been discovered to be valuable as a
breadstuff. It was tir.it used as a substitute
for wheat in 1870 and 1871, but,
like many other good things, w: s lost
sight of, and its manufacture was never
carried to success, and never became
even particularly known until about
three years ago. The yield of flour is
about one-half in place of two-thirds
from wheat. The bran is also as valuable
as wheat bran as a food for animals.
The Hour cannot be told from wheat
flnnr ;lhH the bread, cake. etc.. is deli
cate, inviting and delicious, and easily
digested. The yield of broom-corn seed
is also enormous, a single spear often
producing a nint of seea, and the yield
has readied five hundred bushels to the
acre, while it is safe to estimate the
average at one hundred bushels.
Wheat tor Chickens.
Every farmer has noticed that about
the time of wheat harvest, if the fowls
are allowed the run of the fields and
barnyards, there is a materal increase in
the egg supply. I think the second fact
is the natural result of the first. I have
fed corn, oats, barley, buckwheat, flax
and sunflower seeds, and have found
nothing equal to whole wheat as fcod
for fowls. For young chicks it seems
especially adapted. After two or three
days of feeding on soft food the young
ohickens will pick up the whole wheat
quite greedily," and will thrive on it as
on nothing else. Growing chickens have
a large demand for lime, and especially
bone material, and this is more nearly
supplied in whole wheat than in any
other grain. If wheat were two dollars
per bushel it would still be the cheapest
food for young chicks. Farmers can,
however, economize by feeding wheat
screenings and damaged wheat, which,
though unsalable is nearly as good for
chicken feed.?Country Qentlanan.
Kalllug Fat Cattle.
There are many things about the fat
stock show lately closed which the
farmer and stockman will find it profitable
to heed. The most prominent point
brought out seems to be that atter a
pertain ace, say two years in cattle,
there is no longer profit in keeping the
stock. It does not give an adequate return
for the food invested. With the
art of breeding where it is, the year-old
steer may easily be made to weigh 1.000
pounds and the two-year old 1,400 to
1,500, while the four year-old will
scarcely weigh more than 1,700 to 1,800,
and the flesh is far inferior in price and
quality to that of the younger animal.
Why should one feed two years more
han is needed P?The American Stockman.
Railing CablMHfSt
The failure in gardens so irequently to
raise cabbage, is owing probably to two
or three things, all of which could be
overcome. It is want of deep culture
and very heavy manuring* in the autumn.
Commence early in the spring
to tret the ground in thorough condition,
manuring again after setting out the
Slants and covering at the first hoeing,
e particular that the plants are all
right?that they are short and stocky
and have not been allowed to grow too
fast or too much in the cold frame under
cover. We fancy, however, that the
ground has a ereat deal to do with the
crops.?Oermanioivn Telegraph.
How the Earth Will lerlsn.
In one of his lectures, Prof. Proctor. The i
the astronomer, says: The planet Venu# Sol
has an atmosphere, and it is said to be
at tae very least as dense as that of our . .
earth. Then we learn also that oceans
are on her surface, because it has been To
shown by the spectrum. It appears Q .
also that it closely resembles our earth
in condition, and that it is the oqe w
planet fit to be the abode of living crea- ' And
tures like those which exist on the Twic
earth. In Mars we begin to recognize xh
the effects of planetary old age. These
1 greenish patches we must regard as How
seas, and we find that they are much Li)
smaller in comparison to the rest oi h?i
the area than in our earth. On our own w
planet 72.00 is covered with water, and
on this only about 50.00. The older N<
planet has the smaller water surface, yeti
and the idea is suggested that in old
1 age of a planet the waters gradually
diminish in extent. Grof
? We pass to i he moon to answer that With
> question, and here we certainly find no &
' traces of water. Also, we trace no ati
mosphere of appreciable density, and And
everything tends to show that she had* >
i water on liter surface, but that it has sMa
i disappeared. Does this seemingly cold - A lit
i ana aeaa wonu appear to nuvu pusttvu .
through the same stages as our own AI
' earth P I think we cannot doubt this
when we look at her volcanic craters.
I think, too, there must hare been there
' such life as exists on our own planet.
There were oceans on her surface, whicr
formerly occupiedthese spots, which, tb<
1 waters being withdrawn, present thi Six
finely granulated appearance-from itj? mortj
1 action. This seems to be a natural ex- Mrs
planation. As the planet becomes old Ky., c
; the oceans become soaked into the vjr
> planet's interior, the crust of the aur- ? ]? y
; lace as the planet cools being formed
: into large cavities such as exist in pori
ous substances, and into these the water
is withdrawn. Dr. Franklin, of En?
land, has shown that four times as much 10 ?n
water as now finds place on the earth's For
surface could be found room for in Salve
the interior of the earth, when the pro- Fla.. a
cese of cooling has gone sufficiently far. xhe
Then, in regard to the atmosphere, crcaae
there Is certainly no trace on the moon, hundr
but we have a picture here allowing
that the volcanic action of. the moon
t was at one time no less than in out
; own earth. The moon probably repre- *
; sents the future of our own earth at a The
distance of time of twenty five million ?uowi
of years. When the old age of the year o
earth will come it will cease as the Wh<
, abode of life. only p
Let us pause to consider some of the view c
1 stars in this regard. Many of them are
too old and many too young to sqatain Weddi
' life on their surfaces, but mat they were iyeg t
formed for some purpose beyond that of ?
; being useful to this particular planet J'ie
there is no doubt. A study of the Viotoi
heavens seems to tell us that all life bersol
should occupy all space and all time, In I
and not be crowded into one portion of crater
. time or one portion of space. So I joints
think we may look at the heavfeift with walk,
the thousands of stais to be,?e?a with
the naked eye, and hold this thought, toiletb
Tiiere you have 6,000 suns, <acb a t,ut tj,
brother of our own sun, though many onjy>
belong to higher orders, and w^may be- ''
lieve they have thousands of orbs cir- f".ei
cling round them which are the abodes Missi#
of life. And if each one has but a single ?f the
world in its system as the abode of life, bridge
we have then thousand* of inhabited A Vf
worlds similar, per japs, to our own. turn a
In the one single rolar map -here great n
shown there are 3*24,000 stars, all to be a ftmii
seen with a small telescope, and by one win
of Herschel's telescopes 20,000,000 stars f<ry " lc
would have been brought into view in far he
the same section of the firmament. But (jomtlil
after all there still remains the thought r
that each planet is tending toward ,{"?'
death, and though the periods of time
are so vast that they seem like eternity.
the dying out of the larger of these suns IT
appear to us like the death of the uni The
verse itseli. But take such an orb as dnugh
Sirius, which is a thousand times larger be co
. - -- J a? Li- j ? .L .luu.
man me sun, una aiis:r uib u?iu *u tuc
smaller orbs will have died; but. can we Two
escape the thought tbat there will still profess
remain others to take their places? It worth
seems to me we cannot, if we remem- crites 1
ber how thoroughly we have been deceived
in'the past. We thought the train t
earth the center of the universe; then eoes ui
tiie solar system was everything; then under]
that system became but one in a galaxy ^ it ol
stars, and in turn the galaxy of stars .
is lost in the infinitude of stars. . e
receivf
as gres
The Innocent Old Man. If we
The other day the police at the Union
depot noticed a feeble-looking old man
wandering in anil out to kill time until A mi
his train should depart, and as he sev- cause I
eral times displayed quite a roll of bills write i
he was cautioned to look out for pick- by a a
pockets and confidence men. trade,
" Wouldn't anybody rob an old man drawn
like me, would theyP" he innocently <li:iry.
asked. The
The warning was repeated, but he tratod
jogged around as before, and after a ers \
time was seen in consultation with two bcr of
strangers, who had walked him around Corife<3
to the wharf An officer i?ot him away ?n<ian
from them and angrily said: Minnei
" Didn't I warn you against ??r i
strangers? Those fellows are after '
your money!" ????
" But how can they git it when I have
it in my pocket and my hand on it all (.ontjnl
the time?" tion of
" Well, vou look out."
' Yes, I'll look out; but I don't want
to be uncivil. When anybody talks to A 151
me I like to talk back-'' # ? rj
The strangers soon had him on the E',,"5'
string again, and in about a quarter ol P^reE
an hour the;' left him in a hurried man- |f\n' .
ner, and he sauntered into the depot .
with his wallet in his hand.
"There! You've let 'era beat you!" urxtaV
exclaimed the officer. " How much did Somi
you lend tnemr
"Well, they wanted $20," he slowly They 1
replied. ougjt,
" And you handed it over, of course?" long si
" I give 'em a $50 bill and got $30 ian go^
back.,F give U
"Well, you'll never see the bill period
again." . Sign
"I kinder hope not," he chuckled, as the da
he drew down his eye. " It was a tho res
counterfeit which my son found in of iron
Troy, and being aa I am very old and propos
innocent, and not up to the tricks of the discov
wicked world, I guess I'll get into the and gli
cars before somebody robs me of my valuab
boots I If any one should come around terialt
looking for me, please say I'm not at * t i
home."? Detroit Free Press. caught
is put
Facts About Gold. and th
In a recent lecture on gold Professor ^'iere
Egleston, of the school of mines of Co- 5
lumbia college, remarked'that it was ? ?
formerly supposed that gold was to be
found onJy in or on the ozoic and naleozoic
formations. When, in California,
Wnitney discovered it inthejurassic.it ta,,.se 11
was a revelation. It is now found in mJ1 ov
the deposits of all ajees. The rock in
which it lies is generally metamorphic, t
and therefore it is the surroundings that T
indicate the period. By gold we mean
a yellow substance, which contains a au'Pjc1
nnnntitv nf nnvp ffnld. mixed with other *
substances,'of which silver is almost attena
always one. It is common to consider day, ei
the quantity of gold in the world to be c?urcr
larsre. But there is only seven thousand nat , a
millions worth, whicn is about half reason
pure gold and half silver. Tlip annual Mondi
production is about one hundred mil- aro ca*
.ions worth, and the production has de? fUQ V
creased forty-four per cent, during the intervi
tu? ?dent:
past unriy yema. jlhc piuuuuwuu v* ~ n\r
silver, however, has increased one hun- .
dred per c<nt., and now equals that of ohurcti
gold. One-third of the gold goes to
wear and tear, one-third goes into circu- .
lation, anl one-third into the arta and Tne
manufactures. All the gold in the world
would make a pile only twenty-five feet lJ|at ^
wide, forty-five feet Jong and twentyfive
feet high. by The
Boston Post thinks that King I came
Alfonso possesses a charmed life. He A ge
I hH? het?n married twice, shot at twice, how it
I and yet he lives. aarpa
HWMBnBBR
naomvtsioD.
iparrow aits tad sings, and eiags;
ttly tk^ioaMt'i lingering light
rosy oyer rock and toil,
redden* where the reekle? not
mm on high it* pfaDBM of white.
ly and olear the farrow sings,
lul? twilight steal* acroes the M,
still and bright the evening star
iklee aboT? the golden bar
at in the Wert lie* quietly.
it it that the bird* can sine?
le is ao foil oi bitter pais;
Is are so wrong with hopeless grfe<|
is so long and Joy so brief;
>r shall the lost return again.
till the spairow site and sings,
11 longing, mourning, sorrowing tart,
ling to find what hope may be
tin death's awinl mystery, . .
aches its empty iru abota
listening, while the sparrow sings,
id son Uie rrentsg stiadowi ail,
, throogk th? crowding lean that JWina
tie light, and sMtsa to Had >
id cl&ip God's hand, who wrought it all
?CtHtTkuxttr,
I
mis OF IHT1SS8T* ,
ty-five railroads irere sold under
fage foreclosures in 1879.
. Ann Colons, of Boyd county,
laims to be 116 years of age.
Ramsey, ttje secretary of wafr, is
id very heary, and has a voioe ? ?
i hia figure. v
i Tay bridge was regarded a* the
?t engineering feat ere* attempted
?t Britain. <
driving purposes the fteach at t
ston, Texas, and at Fe man (Una
ire unsurpassed.
farmers of the United States in*
d their business ia 1879 over four
cd million dollars.
en a cat gives an entertainment lie
top of a wall, it istt't the cat
: ? i>i. ?!.. w.n1
JCWb M/f IHV bll? f??HM
cotton crop of the United*. St*tea >; ,
an increase orer the prt ceding
f nearly 300,900 bales.
en sun spots appear,44 old sol *>is
utting on his tptct to get a better if
this earth.?Toronto Grip.
$60,000 fathered at the golden
ng of the Emperor WlflUiW he
;o the (amine stricken Silrsians.
King of Siam has made Queer
ia and the Prince of Wales mem
the order ot the White EUsphant
:de, Pa., a spring of clear, fresh t.
h*i worked its way throogli the .
in the paying stones in a sideV"
"^v., * <
aps the most favorite visiting
it of the winter are still block,
ey are no longer of one frbrie
e are ten trass bridges across tlie
sippi above Su Louis, and seven
m hare jpans as long as the fay
iscons in man has taught a cai to
, somersault. This will proven *
advantage to the nation in case of
ae.
n " the glorious bird of our coun>ses
his health he loses his rights,
is then an ill-e;igle bird.?Keolcuk
ution.
mnia is getting to be a prevalent
f. An English naturalist advises
i of raw onions as the surest and
eroedy. # '
old man witli nine marriageablf
ters would trade off one or two (f
uld jret a son-is Jaw to boot.?
nati Star.
aty men who believe what they
and live ai they believe, art
more than five hundred hypoo
Any good cause.
lonso's wife has a drey with a
;hirtv feet long, and wh?ni she
3 stain Alph. dare not follow her
balf an hour, for fear of ftepping
Waterloo Observer.
xchange says that Queen Victoria
is $5,000 a daj. She's got nearly
it a sinecure a? a paragrapher.
are ever induced to change our
ss we'll be a queen, .certain.?
? Statesman.
in wlio quit keeping a diary belie
never could and anything to
in it. was the next day run over
irt. beaten out of 93 on a, doc
blackguarded by a fishwife'ana
on a jury. He will resume his
mutations of fortune are illu*
at Lcadville. Amongst-the wait'
the hotels there are an ex*meni*
the New Jersey legislature, anexlerate
general, a doctor, a lawyer,
ex-judge from Free burn county,
iota.
William A. Hammond, late sar>
'neral of the United States army,
lat men do not die from unrwJove.
"I am free to sav;*' he
ued in liis lecture, " that the eraoanxicty
kills more people than
ng else.
in whose lace showed the effect*
zht he had with his wife, exf
to the police jud*e that, his dislent
was caused bv the rise in
"How so?" asked the judge.
iow," said the prisoner. " it wu
to the advance in iiilf.'1?SatNighl.
i of the .English slave-holder* ik
find themselves in a bad lix.
bave been holding slaves who
according to law, U> have been
- . i J it., n^.n
nee m&numuiea, uu me diuii*
rernment decrees that they m'st
> each man wages for the whole
of such detention.
or Parnetti baa been analyzing
bris and dost of the streets, with
ult of finding a large per centage
and glue contained therein. He
?s making practical use of this
ery by establishing blast furnaoes
ae works in London to secdre the
tie products from the waste majf
metropolitan streets.
dount Desert, He., sea-guila are
, alive in an unique way. A stick
through the tail of a small fish,
en it is left upon the seashore
it *?an be seen by the birds. TheV
eizc and attempt to swallow ft
rst, and succeed remarkably well
hey come to the stick, when a
made. They cannot swallow it
r, and it is equally impossible to
and so they choke, strangle and
er, when they sre captured.
A College TTag.
certain college under Presbyterian
e? not a hunai ed miles from New
it is a rule that the students shall
church jit leaat once ci*ch Sunther
In the college chapel or some
t in town which they shall designd
for non-attrndance satisfactory
b must be g*yen. Of courie on
ly mornings, when these rwaonp
led for, much ingenuity andsomo
e brought out. In one ol theio
iews Professor L asked a stu\
C?, where did you attend
i yesterday P"
D replied: ' The First church,
r.
professor, looking a little sursaid:
"Are you aware. Mr. C ,
lere was no service at the First
i yosterday?"
was a poser, but was coolly met
I mean, profensor, the first church
to."
neral laugh followed, and soraeie
young gentleman got rescued.?
'4 "Driver."