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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER. 1 BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WABDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1882. NO. 45. VOLUME XXVI. V ^ In Fnture m ^ . It seems to me the bud of expectat ion Has not yet swollen to the perfect flower That with its wondrons exhalation The world of faith will dower. The lamps we light are but the stars of promise The f&intest reflex of a distant sun That wakes an eager salutation from us 'Till nobler heights are won. The past was but the preface of the story In which the ronlance of our lives is wrought I The deeds that win imperishable glory Live scarcely in our thought. Whate'er we do falls short of our intending; The structure lacks the beaity we design; And tortured angels, to their home ascending, Depart and leave no sign. By all the donbts and tria's that so vex us, [ By all the falls and failures that annoy. By all the strange delusioua lhat perplex us, And yield no fruits of joy. We know that unto mortals is not given The strength of knowledge that is yet in store For us, ere yet we walk the streets of heaven, And dream of heaven no more. The hear of earth lias secrets yet withohlen, That wait the dawning of some future day, When angel hands from sepulchre so golden Shall roll the stone away. Man baa not touched the zenith of creation: The godlike thought that filled Jehovah's mind Has had in Him but feeble revelation, Uncertain, undefined. The days wherein time reaches its fruition, With moments weighted with no vain regret, Those days of which the soul has sweet proTiBion, Draw nigh, bnt are not yet. ?Josephine Pollard. t ? i THE QUAKER ARTIST, j " I tell thee now, Richard, that thee'll j never get a cent of my money if thee keeps on with this devil's work." The speaker was Friend Joseph Harris, and he held at arm's length a small picture in water colors, the features of which were hardly discerniblo in the gloom of the winter morning. Friend Joseph had .been at the barn, as was his j cHstom, to fodder the cattle and feed | the horses before breakfa?t. and had I discovered this humble bit of art in a nook in the granary. He did not have to be told that it was his son Richard's work, whose inclination to such ungodly pursuits bad been the distress of his parents' lives. Fall of suppressed wrath Joseph burst into the kitchen where the family were waiting breakfast, and without preface addressed his son with the threat which he considered the most dreadful he could use?that of disinheritance. It meant something, too, for in spite of his | plain 8urroundinga Joseph Harris owned nearly two hundred aores of land worth easily a hundred ard fifty dollars an acre, and his visits to the county town on the first of April of each year were not to pay interest but to receive it. A tall, straight figure, he was nearing sixty years of age, but as vigorous as a youth, with quick motions and sharp . black eyes, indicating a violent nature chained for life by the strict discipline of the Society of Friends. His son Richard, now turned of twenty-two, was of a different mold, short and stoutly built. His fa.-e at first sight seemed heavy and vacant, but this was in fact the abstraction of the dreamer. His soft brown eyes, and hair clustering in thicK curls over his low but broad forehead, made amends fnr his somewhat commonplace features. The moment bis father entered the bitf?Tipr> Rirlinrr? fplf. th it Viih sp/?rof labor had been discovered, but his anxiety was more for it than for him- , self. He rarely dared face his father's anger, for Joseph Harris, like many of . his sect, made up in severity at home i for the smooth and passionless exterior , he maintained abroad. " Will thee give it to me, father?" said Richard, advancing toward the ; outstretched hand which held _ the^J owner contemplated it with unspeakable disgust. Poor little painting ! It was u fragment of an autumn afternoon, during which Richard had been husking corn in "the hill field" and which had abided in hie memory clothed with the halo of a hundred day-dreams. There was a oorner of a woods, the foliage half green, half shading into tints of brown and red. A rivulet leaving apiece of meadow still gay with autumn flowers and green witn late grass, flowed rippling and sparkling out of the sunlight into the shade of the dying leaves. What courage and hope it must have! Richard followed in thought its waters a3 they flowed on -to Chester creek and then to the stately Delaware river, and far out till they met the mighty ocean which washes the shores of all the world. And as'he mechanically plunged his husking knife into the shucks and turned out tho golden ears one after the other, ho humbly took this lesson to himself, as was his wont, and said: "I, too, must have more courage, firmer hope. Why should not I go forward in my study of art with greater faith ? I mutt, I will." And to fasten the vow be had painted two studies ot this little piece of meadow as a constant reminder, snatching the time on First days and Fifth days, when his father and mother were at meeting, and he and Mose Riddle, the colored man, were left to look after the stcck. One copy he had sent on a venture to a commission house in New York, the other he had hidden in the barn. It had acquired a kind of sanctity to him, and each tree had become a symbol of some rebuff or danger he was fated to encounter in his future life. He had, moreover, described it to Sibbilla Vernon, and had promised this Bole confidante of his aspirations that he would bring it over some time and let her see it. But Sibbilla lived two miles away, and as her parents were also strict members of meeting, who regarded every work of art as profanity, this would have to be managed with due caution. Richard's first impulse, therefore, was to 6ecure the picture. But his father bad a donble cause of displeab-1 nre, and his anger was d(e ). He bad ! Bgreed to Rive Richard a lourth share in the profits of the farm this year, and not oniy was this painting business an ungodly amusement, but also a waste of precious time and a loss of money. It' mnBt be stopped. i'jl put it where it deserves to go, and where thee will follow unless thee turns thy steps from th& world and its j follies. But the firo that thou wilt i meet will be that which is not quenched, j sad where the worm dieth not." With these words, which Friend j Harris ppoke slowly and with that i slight chantiDg intonatipn which char- j acterizes the utterances of the speakers in meeting, the solemnity of which was fuither increased by the use of the formal "thou" instead of the usual 'thee," he stepped to the kitchen fireplace, where a goodly wood fire was burning under the crane, and striking the picture against the corner of th* mantelpiece tore a rugged split through its center and threw the whole into the flames. In a moment it was a shriveled j cinder. There are certain natures whose in-1 hcfent strength can only be developed | by a violent shock. Full of latent power, j their weakness comes from a native J humility. They distrust themselves j through a genuine admiration of others, i Such was Richard Harris. But the1 necessary shock had come. He gazed a ' moment at the cinder, his face crim-1 soned. but the severe discipline of the Society and the family exercised the sway that it usually does even on the very young among Friends. " Father," ho said, in a low and even tone, " I repeat what I have often told thee; I have no light that there is evil in j-ainting; but as thee thinks there is, I shall bid theo and mother farewell to-day, and seek employment elsewhere. I shall not ask theo for any share in thy estate." Taking his hat from the window-sill he passed ont of the kitchen door, leav ing his father speechless with amaze ment at this rebellions utterance, and i his mother?a poor weak woman, conI stantlv in misery between carrying out i the severe rule of her husband whom I she feared, and yielding to her tenderness for her boy whom she loved 1 wiping her tears without; emitting any I sound, either word or sob. As for his I two sisters they sat demure and motion' less through tho ttliolo scene, at heart rather pleased at it, as thev had no sympathy with their brother's taste for forbidden arts, and thought him a queer, wasteful, uncomfortable member of the household. Moreover, though younger than he, they were not too young to see at once the pecuuiary advantage to them of his renunciation of his share of tbe estate. Richard went toward the barn and took a seat in a nook of the corn-fodder ofo/*lr +tiaf. rroo luiilf. olnnnr fhn ci.^A r?f the barnyard. Ho did not feel the cold raw air of the early morning. His mind was too fnll of the step ho was about to take and what had led up to it. Now or never he must quit the farm, renounce the teachings of the Society, throw aside the coat with standing collar and the quaint broad-brimmed black hat, give up the plain language, reject the counsels of the venerable facers of meeting who would surely be appointed to visit him, and prove a recreant to the revered precepts of Fox and Barclay. All this was meant by a pursuit of his strong bias for art. Why was he born with it? Whence came it? These questions he had often asked himself. For six generations his ancestors had never touched a brush or palette; not a painting nor a statue nor a musical instrument nor any drama or work of fiction had been allowed in their houses. How had he been created rrrif h u noooinn frtf nr\lnt? onrl fnm TClfVi a love of poesy and music, which neither the dreary farm work nor the colorless life, nor all the frigid, deadening discipline of the Society could quench? Going back to his earliest memory he could recall that when four years old he was left for a few hours at the house of Mike Wallis, an Irish tenant on a neighboring farm, and that Mike's wife had kept him in the utmost bliss by showing him a colored print of the Virgin and the Infant, and telling him the pathetic history as it had pictured itself in her warm Irish heart. But what was the horror of his parehts next day when he toddled into the room when they were at dinner and called : " Mudder, mudder, come see God." Hi3 parents ran to the door to fee what this strange appeal meant, and lo! there, on the floor of the front porch, chalked in rude but faithful outline3, were the Child, with rajs of glory around his head, and the Mother, by his side, holding a cross. He could still recall the scowl that camo over his father's face and his mother's impetuous rush for a bucket of water and scrubbing-brush. Nor had he forgotten the violent shake and immediate spanking ho himself received for his artistic endeavor. His memory leapt till he was a boy of ten, and to his intense delight at o fvo/lo nf o PovlAro bnifa fnr I ? UiUU?J vt u i/uiivn MUAAV ava a box of paints. Many an hour of joy had they given him, hiding himself in the garret of the old house, in the back part of the hay mow neur the dusty gable window, or in a iittle hut he had built in tho woods. But his prying little sister betrayed him one day, and not only was his treasure confiscated but ho himself was tied to the bedpost by his mother and given 6uch a whipping as would have discouraged most youthful artists. Later in life, when he was too old for such vigorous measures, many lectures bad he received on the frivolity of such tastes and the wickedness of ministering to them. These scenes passing through his memory convinced him that it was vain to battle with such inflexible rules, and that to be free ho must leave the farm and all its associations. There was but one which had really held him. This was Sibbilla Vernon. rha~feggbtpr of jfod her. mother even a " public friend," whose ( voice at monthly and quarterly meetings was familiar to all members of the Society, Sibbilla was a not unusual type of the advanced thought of her sect. Calm, self-possessed, clear-headed, she had announced when but fifteen to her family that her own conscience was her guide, and that in all essential matters she should follow it. From childhood she and Richard Harris had delighted to play aud talk together; and though no word of love, no kiss aud no caress had ever passed between them, both their families and themselves considered their union merely a matter of time and money. Nor did this absence of the usual passages of love seem to any one concerned a strange circumstance. They were accustomed to the repression of 4 all outward show of feeling. In neither household had the children ever seen a kiss exchanged among its members, young or old. Though devoid of any passion for art herself, Sibbilla understood and respected the forbidden tastes of her lover. Sho looked upon his peculiar abilities as gifts of God for use in life, and sho quietly but firmly put aside the traditions of her sect, which condemn them indiscriminately. "Wilt thou presume to deny the many testimonies of Friends, both in England and America, against these sinful arts her mother would ask ; being a "public friend" of considerable local fame she never employed the incorrect nominative "thee," even in family life. "Mother," replied the daughter, " fchey spoke for their day. I must act in mine by the light I have, not by theirs." Her mother wisely avoided argument, trusting that the Spirit would enlighten her daughter in time.. Leaving the fodder stack Richard walked across the bare fields toward the plain brick houso which was Sibbill a's home. His mind was made up. He would go to New York and devote himself to the study of art. Ho had saved since his majority about three hundred dollars. Ho had youth, strength, talent, love?was not that j enough V Would Sibbilla approve of i it? Would she mako tho serious sacrifice it involved ? As he approached the house it \yas I * _7_ ?11 I aooui 1U U OlUl'J'., UUU Uil IUCI iiiitico ttci D out at work. He knocked at the front door, instead of the eide door as usual, and Sibbilla herself opened it and gazed at him with considerable surprise in her hazel eyes, qnickly changing to an expression of pleasure, which Richard did not tail to note, and which filled him with both joy and anxiety. " Why, Richard, what brings thee here at this Lour?" was her exclamation. "Sibbilla," he ; :i.\ " I wish to see thee," and stepping in ne closed the door, and they both stood in the wide hall, obscurely iiehted by the transoms at each end. He paused a moment to recover his control, and then spoke in- a low, vibrating tone: "I am going to leave the farm in order to study art. I shall have to give up my membership in the Society, as thee knows. Father says he will leave me nothing if I do, and I know thy mother agrees with him. But I am not afraid. All I ask is that thee approve of my decision and will become my wife as soon as I am able to offer thee a home." At that supreme moment of resolve a'l the strength which for generations had been nurtured by the noble Quaker theories of seK-reliance, all the passion which for generations had been muffled and smothered under the narrow Quaker system of formality and repression, burst forth and were expressed in the face of bibbilla Vernon. She seemed to rise in stature, and looking him full in the eyes, laying one hand on his arm and passing the other round his neck, she said: " Richard, I will come to thee then, or 1 will go with thee now." i The tone was low ana tne woras witnout haste, but he who heard it felt in his inmost sonl that no oath could be stronRer. " Thank God and thee," he uttered, and for the first time in their lives each j felt the magic meaning of a kiss of j love. Seated on tlio wooden ' 'settee," which is the common furniture of the j country hall, he told her his father's I words and action and his own unalterai ble determination to seek his future in , art. It was agreed that they should be married by a magistrate as soon as Richi ard should have an income of seven ; hundred dollars a year. ! Full of quiet joy he went home, an-1 | nounced his intended marriage and iin- | medi'ito departure, packed his trunk, j j and told Mo'e to have the dearborn j ready at fi o'clock in the evening to I take him to the station. After the 5 J o'clock supper the members of the family maintained almost entire silence, ' his mo;her quietly crying, his father : reading the "Book of Discipline," his i favorite literature. The dearborn drove up with Mose, i who had been to tho station with the milk, and stopping at tho country store, which was also the postofiice, had brought a letter for Richard. It was rather unusual for any member of the household to receive a letter, therefore Mose announced it with considerable emphasis, addressing rus master r>y ms first name as is the custom in strict families: "Joseph, by'ur's a letter for Richard. Hiram sez it's a letter from York, and 'pears as if it mont bo on bizness." Joseph took the letter, and resisting a strong inclination to open it passed it to his son. It was from the firm in New York to whom he had sent a copy of his pictnre, and it read: New York, Jannary 18, . Dear Sir: We have the gratification of informing you that the study you sent us on sale has attracted the attention of one of our patrons, to whom we have parted with it for S500. Deducting comm., stor'ge, insur'ce, del'y, etc., as per inclosed statement, leaves a net bal. of $372.62, for which lind our c'k herewith. You mention a duplicate of the stndy yet in your possesion. We will take that at the same figure, cash on delivery, and will give you an order for five more studies to be completed within a year. Respectfully, Smiles, Wiles & Co. As he read this letter the check fell from his hand on the table. The Bight of the colored and stamped paper was too much for his father. Glancing at the large amount, as much as he received for the best wheat crop his farm could raiRe, he snatched the letter from his son's hand and eagerly read it. Richard "stood by in silence. " What does he mean by the duplicate study ?" said his father, in an uncertain voice. "He means," said Richard, qnietly " the picturo jou threw in the fire this morning." A new light dawned on his father's mind. So long as his son's taste seemed nothing but a time-and-money-wasting form of idleness it had no redeeming feanres; but 'the incredible fact that there were people willing to pay hundreds of dollars apiece for such vain images now stood right before him. He was too shrewd to misunderstand it and its results. " Richard," ho paid, with a softened voice. "I desire that thee would postpone leaving us for a few days. Thy mother and I will accompany the a to the city, and will be present at the -cermony. I think Sibbilla's parents will also not refuse to attend." As he went out he said to Mose, who was waiting with the dearborn : (< a oltAnl/l olrtrorre Ka clAW 4"/% IUUJ'Oj lute OLIKJ UiU UI TT O KT w> 11* V JT W anger, and avoid the committal of rash actions when out of temper."?Our Continent. Flowers from the Down of Butterflies. Mr. E. Griffith, one of the greatest microscopio fanciers in the United States, who. in addition to being honored by having several societies named for him, is an inventor and collector of microscopic curiosities, was found by a_jSL Lonia< at __ tEe Southern hotH. " Have you anything of interest, Mr. Griffith," inquired tho reporter, " to tell tbe world about the hobby you have been riding so long ?'' " Yes," he answered, as he walked to a table standing in the center of the room, upon which his pet microscope, , a very poweriui instrument, was suuiuing, "X have several tbiags to tell you which are not known outside of the profession I represent. Here is a slip of glass for instance," he continued, as he picked up a narrow glass slide, "which contains the representation of a beautiful bouquet of flowers. The representation, when examined with the naked eye, can scarcely be seen at till. It simply looks like a small spot. This bouquet, when you look at it through the instrument, contains, as you can discover, eighty-two distinct flowers of various shades and colors, and each is as perfect as it would be possible for an artist to represent them on canvaB. The entire bouquet, including all the flowers, leaves, etc., was made from then scale and hair of Bra-, zilian "butterflies. The dust from the wings of the butterflies was picked up and placed in position by Harold Dalton, of London, who is now dead. Dalton, with Che aid of a microscope, picked up one particle of the dast at a time on the end of a hair and adjusted it on the slide in such a manner that when his task was finished the bouquet assumed its present beautiful and pjr feet form." "Dalton mast have been a genius in ? - 1! 1 i. ms lino, was u? uutr "Yes, although ho was dissipated, he excelled most of his imitators in his peculiar lino of art. Among microscopiets his works are prized as lijghly as the works of the great masters in painting are prized by artists who work on canvas. A painter who can paint a complete scene on a surface as small as a sleeve button is considered skillful, yet Dalton used a single hair for a brush and dealt with particles of matter scarcely visible to the naked eje, which ho placed in their respective po sitions with the aid of his microscope wifh such accuracy that he finally produced his representations, which aro so correct in every detail that artists who have examinod them critically have been almost overcome with astonishment. Tbis is what I call ono of the wonderful achievements of the century ?" " How long did it take him to make 'jn I LIU U'J UlJUCb . " He was a fast worker, and by laboring almost constantly be could finish it, I think, in iho course of a week or I ten days." The Way of a Serpent. The movement of a snake in climbing a perpendicular surface, as I have observed it, is a vermicular, undulating motion, not spiral, but straight up the face of tho surface. I have seen a black snako thus glide up a beech tree with the easy, careless graco of movement j which is characteristic of tbat snako when moving over horizontal surfaces. The bark of the beech affords few in- j equalities into which tho ejges of the gastrosleeal bands could be thrust claw-fashion, and I have no doubt Ulat aitnospueriu pressure -o luo force that holds the snake against snch surfaces in climbing, sucker-fashion, as th4 boy l:fts the brick with the piece of wet leather, I once knew | a black snake to ascend a Etucco wall to the second-3tory window, and another I saw go up to the eaves of a carriage-house to the swallows' nest, straight up the up-and-down boards. I have seen them glide from tree to tree and leap down from near the top of large trees, but never saw one descend l/y going down a smoothly perpendicular Burface. I have no doubt of their ability to do so, however. I do not believe that this power is enjoyed by the copperheaded or rattlesnake, or any venomous sort with which I am familiar, they being heavy and sluggish in their movements. I havo seen them go up on leaning trees and crawl into the foliage of bushes, however. About $1,000,000 are spent annually for cut flowers in New York. APACHE MATT, THE SCOUT. A Fninoiia FronilpfMinnn'n Itcnmou for Was inn War Upon the 1 mil mi*. A recent issue of the Denver Tribune says: Matthew Johnson reached this city from Fort Hualapai yesterday, nnd to day will leave for his old horn? in New York State, there to spend his remaining days. Several years ago he was living with his wife and several children near Hualapai. One early morning, while the father was absent al the military post, the band of Majave Indians of which Delshay was chief attacked tho ranch, and tortured the mother and the three children to death. When Johnson returned his cabin was in flames and the blood of his dying family yet warm. Almost crazed, ho went back to tho fort without even waiting to inter the remains of his wife and children and briefly told the awful tragedy. Within fifteen minutes a detachment of K company of the Fifth cavalry were mounted, under the command or Colone} Mason, and on the trail of the copper-skinned devils, Johnson going along. On the morning of the third day the cavalry entered the Black Hills, at the headwaters of the Verdi river, thehome of the wild Apache Mojaves. That evening camp was made near the Verdi and a scouting party farther followed the trail, which appeared to bo only a few hours old. In a small clump of cottonwool and near a marshy portion of the river the smoke of the Indian fires was discovered. It was too late to attack the Indians, as the darkness wjuld afford them an escape. They had apparently located with tho intention of remaining a few days and hunting, so the assault was deferred until the morning, the cavalry coming up, however, and putting out sentinels. On one of the posts Johnson stood keeping vigil through tho night. In the morning the cavdlry swooped down upon them. Surprised in their stronghold, and with their arms scattered A.?wAlAnn1*f Tr?/linr?a /Ir\ I i-aicicaoij auuuvj tuu xuuiuun wuau uu nothing better than fly; and fly they did toward the river, the soldiers picking them off one by one in the chase. Delsbay was more canning and selfpossessed than his followers, making np the river through the thick cottonwood. The six Indians were killed before one of them had reaohed the Btream, bnt Delsbay, the seventh, had such a start that the cavaliy almost gave up ' all hope of overtaking him. They spread out, however, and made a skirmish through the cottonwood forest. When they brought up in a little glade up the stream a couple of miles they were astonished to find Johnson leaning over the dead body of the Indian chief, hacking and cutting it with a huge bowie-knife in insane frenzy. The body lay upon the river bank as if it had been pulled out after the infliction of the death wound. The head was nearly severed by a stroke of the knife, and Johnson had scalped it. It was many minutes before his fury had spent it-self, the soldiers never interfering with the horrible satisfaction which the widowed husband and childless father was taking for his wrongs. Finally, when he had grown calm enough to explain, he tcld how he had seen the Indians making up the river, and, resolved that none should escape, he followed as best he might. When he got through the timber he found the trail, and, although it was done with much difficulty, he succeeded in tracing it to the river bank. There it became lost, and knowing that the Indian could not have crossed the stream yithout having been Been on tho opcifln tnliinli mo a on/1 pvono diuvj nuivu nuio v^w?? muv? vtv nuded of trees and underbrush, he concluded that the Indian was secreted in the bank. While walking down the bank a head was protruded from a pool near the shore. It was Delshay taking air. Steadily Johnson approached, and before the Indian could realize that the avenger was nigh ho was grasped by the hair and his throat slit from ear to ear. ^JWhgs ^e/o5t-^ai_Teachfti\ trohnfiOQ requested"^ be employed in the scouting service and he was engaged. He became the bloodiest and most relentless of the border scouts and figured prominently in all the campaigns against the Apaches up to the recent one which General Oarr led, earning the titl9 of "Apache Matt." Perpetual Motion. If the census taker could have known all the perpetual motion inventors when he went his rounds in 1880, the returns would show a list quite formidable in numbers. One of the most persistent of these pursuers of the delusion has recently come to light, and is one Charles Brown, of Corrv, Pennsylvania. He is a German, and first conceived the idea of perpetual motion while working as a machinist in Karlesrabe, Baden, in 18G2. Since that date he has worked at his idea almost constantly, save barely earniDg his bread. He came to this conntry in 1867, and is now working npon a machine which he says will weigh about thirty-five pounds?and is sure, in his judgment, to sucoeed. He has built and abandoned several machines as failures in his labor of twenty years. Thia list construction he expects to complete soon. A history of the more important attempts at finding perpetual motion, written by Henry Dircks, was printed in London, in 1870. It is stated that Wilars de Honecourt, an architect of the fif eenth century, made the first attempt so far as is known to master tho question by a mechanical contrivance. Capara, in 1678, undertook the problem and failed. The Marquis of Wooster made a labored attompt to accomplish the motion, and his machine has considerable historical prominence on account of the rank of the inventor. Probably he exhibited no more skill than hundreds of others of less noio, of whom me puonc Dave never heard. It is a fact, doubtless, that some important inventions huve resulted from the endeavor to solve the problem of perpetual motion. The mechanic who stopped when ho found something practical? and left the impra6tical?the impossible, alone, for h real invention, WA3 wise. The great maiority of workers of tho problem havo. however, followed the one idea, and their machines have died with them. The endless chains, the balls, the pulleys, all fail in producing tho result desired. Tho doctrine of the conservation of forces seems to demonstrate completely tho impossibility of mechanical perpetual motion; but it is likely tho world will hear of the enthusastic: workers at tho problem for a long time to como It is not probable that all the laws of motion will be proved a fallaoy though enthusiasts continuo to discuss tho theme? and mechanics continue to work at the problem.?Rochester Democrat. Creamy Gold. According to the statistics of the Northwestern Dairymen's association there are 12.4.4*2,137 cows in the United States, which yield their owners an annual profit of $35. Strange as it may. seem, says one writer, the poultry intprpfits of the eountrv. and tho noultrv i and dairy, which go together generally, j though separated in this figuring, is greater thsn the beef trade. By reference to the' fignro3 of the New York produce exchange it will be found, and may astonish Eomo, that six thousand barrels of eggs are sold there every week, which, at $12 per barrel, makes a total of 872,000, or for the year in one city, ?3,744,000 paid for eggs alone. Then think of the chickens, the turkeys, tho geese and other fowls sold there, and the eggs and fowl sold in Chicago aDd throughout the country. This, howover, is nothing compared to the dairy interest since tho creamery and co-operative system has been introduced, and which is now in vogue everywhere in Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. A man who "traveled on his shape" insulted a young lady, and her father knocked him down and traveled on his shape, too?walked all over him. f The Tame Alligator. " Ton see that item in one of the papers about taming young alligator?, I reckon," taid the Gravesend man, capturing the city editor by the buttonhole and dr#rring hira into the doorway. ".You know the paper faid it! was a fashionable, thing to do." " I don't ren^mb^r. Perhaps I did. i What of it ?" asked the city editor. " I tried it," said the Gravesend ! man. "A friend of mine brought me one j from New Orleans, and I'm taming that i a'ligator for the children to play with." ' How does the experiment come alonpr," asked the city editor. "I don't know about the experiment; the alligator is thrivin'. Bo was six weeks' old when I got him two months ago, and he is seven years old now. People in our parts say he's all the alligator I'll ever need." " What does he do?" " Well, it's here. When he came he i was a f-portive little oass ana jn6i waubled around friendly. He was chiefly month, and we used to feed him for the fan of seein' him eat. Now we skin around when we see him comin' for the fun of seein' him go hungry.-' "Is he dangerous?" asked the city editor. ' I haven't been close enough to see. He eat up my dog, and when 1 left this mornin' ho was in the sty argnin' t'ie qnestion of pork as a diet with the pig. My wife thinks if the pig has any luck he will find the cow we lost." "Better get rid of him, hadn't you suggested the city editor. 41 T rlrm'f Irnnro " cnirl f.hft GrflVefleild man. "We've stored 60 much away in him now that it seems like givin' np most of onr property, and my eldest girl says she can't hear of havin' her leg go ont among strangers." " Did he bite her leg off?" demanded the horrified city editor. "Saro." responded the Gravesend man. " Took it off short! Then here's the baby. We hate to part with the baby's grave, so we try and keep the alligator along. My wife insists on keepin' him, 'canse she thinks she saw a couple o' peddlers go in one day, packs and all, and she's got an idea the pa3ks may come to the front again if we hold on. Besides, she seen that item abont tame alligators being fash'nable, and she's got a good deal on Btyle." " Bnt do yon call that alligator tame ?" " Cert'nly. He comes right into the | house, same's any of ns, and keeps , himself. He's got that heel," and the I Gravesend man pointed to a mutilated foot. "There's my son's wife, too. i She's part alligator now. He eat her up a week ago and the boy hasn't got over his arm yet. The alligator got the arm, too." "Great scott 1" ejaculated the city ; editor. "Oh, yes, it's lively Jown there. When he puts himself up he's business. He s the lightninest alligator for a tame one yon ever saw. >vnen we j first got him we used him for a tack hammer, drew nails with him; but now he'd the head of the family, except pajin' the rent. When there is any mysterious disappearance around Graveeenc. the coroner comes and views the alligator That ends it. When ! tho baby wa3 snatched they held the inquest in a tree. The jury was all on one limb, and the alligator underneath looking up. Bimeby ihe limb broke, and the jary disappeared in a row, just as they sat. We didn't wait for any verdict. The coroner gave me a permit, and afler tho funeral we shied au empty coflin at the alligator. Then the minister paid dost to dust, and we all dusted. Do you remember whether that item said what a real tame alligator ought to be fed on ?' "Don't recollect seeing it at all. Aren't you afraid he'll eat up some of! your family?" "Think ho'u liable to2' asked the Gravestnd man, with a curious expression of visage. "He might. Suppose he should get your wife V" ' <rAtrf~' s-nTcrlEr-Gr^end man. " He might gel; her, mighten think l'ukeep him, t.hmi^^yd the Gravesend miw boned affainsttheS* door and gave himself up w, -^flection. ' "So he might, bo ho might," the [ editor heard him say as he drew away and left him there. " Thut beautiful j young tame alligator may get her yet," and tho gloom of nightfall enveloped j the frame dilating with a new hope.? Brooklyn Eagle. * Recovering from a Broken Neck. About five months ago, says a recent issue of the San Francisco Chronicle, the daily press published a short item regarding a teamster named John Collery, who attem pted to drive his team through a barn door, and in so doing had his head forced down on his breast until his neck was broken. Police Surgeon Stambaugh made an eiamination of the injured man and found that the seventh cervical vertebrco was fractured, and that the spinal cord had been stretched nearly two inches. So serious was the injury that the reporters, after chronicling the incident under the head of fatal accidents, paid no further attention to the matter, ar d failed to inquire after Collerv's condition, considering him dead and buried. A Chronicle reporier was ! therefore exceedingly surprised yester- \ day afternoon to meet the supposed j corpse near the city prison looking re-j raarkably well for a man with a broken i neck. In a conversation which ensned Mr. Collery stated that he was almost as wellas befo:e theacciden', a slight 8tiffues8 in his right side constituting his entire " nnheallhiness." After his removal to his home Collery states ;hat ho was laid Oat on his back with a sort of fence about his neck and head which kept him immovable for over two months. Both the body of tho vertebra) and the arching lamince were discovered to ! be broken, and the operation of joining ! them together without pinching the; spinal cord where it had sagged be-: tween the ragged edge is described as ! one of tho most difficult ever performed. ! For a month the patient lay on j hia back, completely paralyzed in one half of his body and with bnt little I feeling in the other. If he moved in the i slightest degree during the first fortnight he could plainly feel the jigged I edges of tho bone grate together, and for K Anwn hUaumi rtU n r> n + fnm r\ f Un TTrn o rtnn . UVUIO UibCl ouuu au uitciu^u au uaa vwir > tent to lie on bis hard lied without at-! tempting to movo a muscle for fear that j the spinal cord should be crushed and ' his existence ended in a twinkling. The j straightest position attainable was re quired, and to this end Dr. Stambangh I was compelled to refuse him a mattress, j forcing him to lie on a wide plank. ; Collery said that before his eight weeks , of enforced quietness were ended he J thought that Doard was mudo of ada-1 mint, The most dangerous time he I experienced, he says, was one day when i an attendant told him that n j mm whose neck could stand break-1 ing as his had was not born to be | hanged. His desire to laugh was irre- j sistible, and the shaking up his morri-1 ment gave him caused his fastenings to j burst and the fracture came near being ruptured afresh. During the first five i weeks he did not move over a foot from j liiu fifat nAofnrn HPlio nnrnlrniti linn I now almost entirely disappeared, and Dr. Stambaugh yesterday promised him i that he would be able to go to work within sir months. The average fatal- ! ity in cases of clearly defined lracture I of the spine is estimated at 999 in 1,000. | ?? A Catfish in the Parlor. The } Cairo (111.) 'correspondence of: the St. Louis (ilobc-D> mocrnt furnishes ' the following iu tho course of an inter* I view with a merchant of Columbus, J Ky., relative to tire flooding of tho town: " llow high did the water come ?" t " Well, the Belmont hotel was built above high water mark of 1867, the ! highest flood ever known, and tho j water was two feet deep in the houst. I Why, the proprietor actually caught a huge catfish in the 'parlor on the ground floor." An English thief, on a Btolen horse, was caplured. by a policeman on a I bicycle. EARTHQUAKES. Some o> I lie Shock* thnt Have Visited ih?? Wenteru ilemlnvhcre* The laet great earthquake which visited Central America was on March 19, 1873, when San Salvador was utterly destroyed. That part of ihe world is peculiarly exposed to these convulsions, but the disaster of 1873 was not so fatal as that just reported, for, though three successive shocks were felt, the inhabitants, warned by previous noises, were able to find places of safety, and only about 500 perished. Earthquakes have been so frequent in the Central American States that the Indians are accustomed to say that it is "the land that swings like a hammock." The city of Caracas was entirely destroyed in fifty-six seconds on March 26, 1812. Quito, in Ecuador, was almost destroyed on March 22, 1859. In Peru, Caliao was destroyed in 1586, and the accompanying sea wave was ninety feet high. It was again destroyed in 17-4G. An eatthquake which will b3 readily recalled was that o! Angast 13 and 14, 18'jfy in which Arica suffered severely. The tidal wave carried a number of ships inland, among them the United States steamer " Wateree." A United States storeship was also lost by it. In Chili destructive earthquakes have occurred. One in 1822 caused a permanent elevation to an extent of from two to seven feet of fully 100,000 square miles of land lying between the Andes and the coast. February 20, 1835, the city of Ooncepcion was destroyed for the fourth time; there were felt over 300 successive shocks within two weeks. April 2, 1851, a eevere shock was felt at Santiago. In tho United States have been many severe siiocks. The most severe which ever visited the Eastern and Middle QL-a il-.k ?? 1 Q 17KK O IULUO VYttB liiuu ui Xiuvuuiugi uj j.i vv? The shock felt in New England was undoubtedly promulgated from either the same center which emanated the disturbance that had destroyed Lisbon on the first day of the month, when 60,000 persons perished in six minutes, or from a center whose activity had been stimulated by the continual quaking that then prevailed from Iceland to the Mediterranean. The earthquake of the 18th began in Massachusetts with a roaring noise lifce "hat of thunder. After a minute's continuance of this there came a Jirst severe shock with a swell like i;hat of a rolling. eea?a swell do great that men in the open fields iran to seize something by which to hold on lest they should be thrown down. After two or three lesser Bhocks then came the most violent of all, producing a quick horizontal tremor with sudden-jerks and wrenches; this continued two minutes, and after a short revival died away. Numerous other shocks followed in the course of a montb. In Boston many buildings were thrown down and twisted out of uhape. On October 19,1870, occurred the most considerable shock that has been observed in the Middle and Eastern States during the present century. The source of this disturbance has been traced, with some probability, to the volcanic region fifty to 100 miles northeast of Quebec. From this region the shock spread to St. Johns, N. B., and thence was felt westward to Chicago and southward to New xorn. iUU veiuuiljr U1 wo rruro v> fehock was about 14,000 feet per second. The occurrence of the shock felt at Quebec was telegraphed to Montreal by the operators of the Montreal Telegraph company in time to call the attention of those at the latter city to the phenomena, about thirty seconds before the shock reached them. In California the earthquake of 1852 destroyed one of the Southern missions. That of March 26, 1872. was the mo9t severe that has occurred there during many years. Special damage wa3 done in San Francisco by the cracking of the walls of fine public buildings. In Nevada the mining regions suffered in 1871 by the destruction of Lone Pine and other settlements. Where the Boulders Come From. All who have seen the immense haulers called "lost reek" in some sec* [jjps, scattered over the northern part ?}je United State?, which have little or no reaeiiiVince to any mass of rocks anywhere in the vicinity, and have perhaps asked the quebvion: Where did ' * n I lliev como irom r ai?u mi iicu^o t?i sand, gravel and cobble stones various sizes which form many of o\i ridges, knolls and hills, and which are totally unlike any fixed rock near them. All these phenomena are attributed to a single cause, and that is the great sheet of ice which nature stored up years ago without the necessity of protecting it in an icehouse, According to Agassiz the sheet of ice extended in this country as far south as South Carolina or Alabama, and was thick enough to cover all the mountains of the eastern part of North America with the exception of Mount Washington. This peak projected, a lone sentinel on that vast waste of ice, two or three hun dred feet. In the latitude of Northern Massachusetts he conceives the ice to have been two or three miles thick. The boulders were all torn off by the advancing ice sheet from the projecting rocks over which it moved, and carried or pushed as "bottom drift," scratching and plowing the tur'aco over which they passed and being scratched and polished themselves in return, till they were finally brought to rest by the melting of the ice. They were not carried au far south as the ico sheet extended, seldom beyond the parallel of forty degrees north. The native copper of Lake Superior was drifted four or 3ve hundred miles south, and the pudding stones of fcoxbnry, Mass., were carried as far south as the Island of Penikese.?Scientific American. ?? A IJoy's Heroism. During the recent cross examination of John H. Leeds before a railroad committee in New Haven, the interesting /act was brought to light that Mr. Leeds had a life pass over tho New York and Now Haven road. Riven him for a courageous deed performed thirtythree years ago. On the evening of Jnne 24, 1840, Leeds was watering his father's cattle in a brook near the rail:road. Whib there he heard the pufif of an engine behind the hills, and boyliko sat on the fence to wait for it to go by. Presently ho heard a train coming from the opposite direction. It was a single track road, and he saw at once there would soon be a collision unless prevented. Without an instant's hesitation he bounded on to the track cap in hand, in front of the coming locomotive. He stood his ground till the engine was almost on him, und Le lost part of his jacket in jumping aside. Tlio engineer understood his meaning and stopped the train. The two trains were brought to a halt within about two rods of each other. The company presented Leeds with a handsome silver cup, a life pass and fi comnlimentsirv letter. When young Leeds was ready to leave the farm the directors gladly engaged him, and the simple occurrence of that calm June evening near his country homo has had much to do with.directing the course of one of the most successful men of the State. Every cook who makes tea or coffee in tin pots knows tbat efter a few mouths her results are not tlie same as when the pots are new. If she can afford it, she throws them away and buys new ores. They can bo cleansed in a very siniplo manner, and so last a longer time. .Tut enough water in to nearly fill them, and then drop a few liveccals in the water; gases are absorbed, and the coffee or tea pot is fresh and almost as good as new. A Galveston school-teacher asked a new boy: "If a carpenter want3 to cover a rouf fifteen feet wiiio by twenty broad with shingles fivo feet broad by twelve long, how m&ny shingles will he need ?" Tho boy took up his hat and slid for the door. "Where are you going ?" asked the teacher. "To find a carpenter. Ho ought to know that better than any of we fellers.' Dnnenhower's Life In Yakutsk. Mrs. Danenhower has received a long letter from her son, Lieutenant Dan- , onhower, of the Jeannette explor- 1 ing expedition, dated Yakutsk, \ Siberia, December 30,1881. It contains ' no news which has not been anticipated by telegraphic dispatches, but it gives some interestiqg details with regard to the life of the Jeannette survivors at Yakutsk. In the letter Lieutenant Danenhower says: We are passing the time quietly but impatiently. It is daylight here at about ; 8 a. jr. We get up and have treakfast at a little hotel that is handy. Tne ! forenoon I spend reading a little, writing a little and in attending to any busi- ' ness I may happen to have on hand. 1 About 2 p. m. General TscherniefTs sleigh arrives, and I go to dine with him; 1 generally return about 4pm, and if I i do not have visitors I take a nap and kill time as well as I can until 9 p. M.t when we have supper at the little hotel, and then go to bed. As I have told you before, I have found nice people in every part of the world that I have visited, and this place i9 by no means an exception. Last evening, for instance, we spent very pleasantly at the house of a Mr. Cbrreikoff, an Irkutsk merchant, who entertained us very well. His wife ia a dliorminw lndr. and it was verv pleasant to see the three beautiful children. They have a fine piano, the first one we have seen since leaving San Francisco. Yakutsk is a city of 5,000 inhabitants, The houses are built of wood, and are not painted. The streets are very wide* and each house has a large yard or court. The principal trade is in furs. In Bummer a great deal of fresh meat is sent up the river. Daring nine months of the year snow and ice abound. In the winter the thermometer falls to seventy degrees below zero. Since our arrival it has been sixty eight degrees below, and to-day it only thirty-five degrees, or thereabouts. In the summer the temperature rises as high as ninetyfive degrees Fahrenheit, bnt the nights are cold. There are many horses and cows in this vicinity. The natives, the Yakutzs, eat horse meat, but the Russians eat beef and venison. Potatoes, cabbage and a few other vegetables, a few berries, wheat and rye are grown in this vicinity. There are a few sheep and poultry also. Dr. Kapallo has examined my left eye and he says that a very ordinary operation is required to make it a very efficient eye- What is called an "artificial pupil" will have to be cut in the membrane that now clouds the vision. He advises me to wait until I get home, for after the operation 7. will have to i amain in a dark room for a month or two. My general health is excellent. I am stout and hearty. Of course there is very little Ameri"or rtarra in tViiq far.awav llTlfc T have been able to pick up a few bits of it here and there. * The death of Garfield is a topic often montioned, and from the acconnts here I learn that he was shot by Guiott on the train near Long Branch. A great deal of interest and sympathy is manifested by the Russians. Last evening I saw a Tomsk newspaper, which said that the Alliance had made a cruise in search of the Jeannette, and had reached latitude eighty degrees fifty-five minutes north on the west coast of Spitzbergen. Had our ship held together ten (twoV) years she would probably have drifted out in that vicinity. About 900 miles south of this place there lives an Englishman named Lse, and from him I hope to learn a great deal uf news. Petticoat Lane. A Londoner bought in Petticoat Lane, which is famous for its tags, rags and bob-tails on sale, a coat in exchange for his own, paying in addition several shillings for the bargain. The coat not suiting him, he carried it back and exchanged it on payment of additional shillings, far an apparently smoother and nicer one, which fitted him exactly. On getting home and putting his hand in his pocket, he drew out a pawnbroker's ticket. It was his own, held against his watch. The nice new coat was the old one which he wore there the first time, and which had been cleaned, pressed and sold to him again for about t vice what it was worth. Another of these tricks?which every one except those on whom they are played enjoys so much?was recently played on a German innkeeper by a peddler who sold him an almanac, and then, on his wifo's coming in and her hwband's going out, sold her another copy. -^Vhen the husband discovered it he seiche porter to the railroad station to teiV *he peddler he wanted to see him on buaine5^. " Oh, yes,' said the peddler; " I know, he wants one of n*j almanacs, but I can't miss my train for that. You can give me a quarter and take the almanac to him." The porter paid Vue money and carried a third almanac to the innkeeper. Taking leaf Photographs. A very pretty amusement, especially for those who have just completed the study of botany, is the taking of leaf photographs. One very simple process is this: At any druggist's get an ounce of bichromate of potassium. Pat this into a pint-bottle of water. When the solution becomes saturated?that is, water has dissolved as much as it will ?pour off some of the clear liquid into a shallow disii; cn this 2oat a piece of ordinary writing paper till it 13 thoroughly moistened. Let it become dry in the dark. It should be of a bright yellow. On this put the leaf?under it a piece of black, soft cloth and soveral sheets of newspaper. Put these between two pieces of glass (all the pieces should be of the same size), and with spring clothespins fasten them together. Expose to a bright snn, placing the leaf so that the rays will fall as nearly perpendicular as possible. In a few moments it will begin to turn brown; but it requires from half an honr to several honrs to produce a perfect print. When it has become dark enough take it from the frame and put it in clear water, which must be - 1 _ _ i 'l XT changed every lew minutes uutu me yellow part becomes white. Sometimes the leaf veinings will be quite distinct. By following these directions it is scarcely possible to fail, and a little practice will make perfect. Curious Civilization in Africa. The large island of Now Britain, lying midway between New Ireland and New Guinea,has not hitherto borne any envialle reputation. Tiaders have been afraid to have auy dealings with the natives, who, when tliey had no strangers to molest, were always engaged in tierco inter tribal warfare, apparently merely for the love of lightiug. The Rev. Georgo Brown, a missionary who has recc-ntly returned to Melbourne, reports that matters have much improved during the last few years, the various tribes having been brought into friendly relationship witii each other, and a vigorous trado having sprung up witti tlio outer worm. xno mosi carious fact in connection with the island is that the natives liavo a currency of their own, and their language comprises words signifying lending, borrowing, and paving interest. Tlio "bank rate" of interest is ten por cent., and borrow- j ers aro so scrupulous in the matter of ! meeting their liabilities that they never have to bo asked a sccond time to repay an overdue loan. A Useful Table. In laying off small lots the following measurements will be found to be both accurate and complete: 52^ ft. 8(|. or 2,722'? ei|. It. is 1-1?> of an aero 74-j; ft. si), or 5,415 s'j. tf. is lN'of an acre 101.',: It. fij. or 10,801) kj. ft. is }%' of an acre 120* ? fr. hi(. or 14,52ft wj. f>. is of an aors 147' i ft. Mtj. or 21,780 e<|. ft. is ytof an aero I oiium* o .... r*r* .1*1 "i:,i ft iu ' | ncrp wu't, " cl|* Brown is a kind-hearted man. Every night b6 give3 each cf his children live cents for going to bed early fo as not to disturb him when reading the evening paper. About midnight ho creeps noiselessly np stairs, fakesthe five cents from their pockets, and the next morning gives them a whipping for losing it,?Philadelphia Bulletin. FACTS AMD COMMENTS. Th^e total losses by fire in the United . 3tates last year aggregate $81,280,900, of which the insurance companies paid 544,641,900. The savings banks of the State of New York represent financial resources Df $443,000,000. Tiie savings banks of New England represent as much more. In Jane, 1783, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier sent up the first balloon. To commemorate the centenary of the event, it is proposed that an international exhibition of " ncrial arts ' be held at Paris next year. The "serial arts" are to include every industry, science of art, relating to gas or the atmosphere, which is sapposed to have any connection directly or indireotly with rcronautic experiments. Our Continent quotes frcm Barcn Nordenskjold's scientific reports that the only tong-birJ he found in the extreme north was the snow bunting. Ita merry twitter was often heard near heaps of stones and craggy cliffs, where it builds its nest of Rrass. feathers and down. Delighting in cold and snow, this cheerful songster enlivens the , gloomy shores of northermost Spitzber gen with its lively notes, and defies the rigor cf the Arctic winter. Tlifl RUDerintendent of the New York 1 Central railroad denies that it is eoon- , omy or oldfoginess that prevents the heating of oars by steam. It is imprac- ' ticability. If the steam is not returned ; to the engine?which has not yet been successfully done?the locomotive cannot afford the waste. If it comes from a separate boiler, say in the baggage car, and on account or a broken wheel or other trouble the baggage car has to be cut out, then the heat supply has gone, and any single car which had to be side-tracked or left waiting for ! another train on another road would leave no heat aa eoon as separated from ! the train. Every car mu6t have its own , source of heat. Tests are now going : on for heating the trains by a small boiler under each car, which, i6 case of collision, would tumble off and not set ! the car on fire. The superintendent claims that the road has spent $12,000 in experiments on heating cars, but ' the subject is surrounded with many ( difficulties. The proportions in which foreign countries have contributed to Mormonism are shown in the following figures, which are compiled from the censuses of 1870 and 1880: 1870. 1880. Bom in England 1G,073 19,654 Born in Scotland 2,391 3.201 I Born in Wales 1,783 2,396 Born in Ireland 502 1,321 Born in Denmark 4,057 7,791 Born iu Sweden 1,790 3,750 Born in Norway C13 1,214 Born in Switzerland 509 1,040 | Born in Germany 353 885 | England, it will be seen, makes the i chief contribution to Mo/monism, aad next to Eogland come those Scandina- ! vian countries to whose people the i Anglo-Saxon stock is close akin. The < infrequency of Irish or German Mor- i mnno ia tmrr romo>lrftV>!o and tl)A Tiftt.in races of Europe- never have been hospitable to Mormon missionaries. The number of proselytes made among Americans during the last twenty years is very small. They ara few and far between. The recruiting ground is Great Britain and Scandinavia. Professor Morse in one of his recent lectures before the Lowell Institute, in Boston, exposed some of the tricks of the Japanese in a manner calculated to fill the minds of costhetic people who have been living up to their pottery with sincere grief. From his statement it appears that the Satsuma pottery, to be worthy of which soulful je3thetes intensely strive, is held in no esteem in Japan. There is no such thiDg as ancient Sitsuma pottery, and, more than this, plates with heavy rims, cups with handles and sauceis and pitchers have no existence at all as gennine pottery. Jnst what it is that aesthetes are worshiping Professor Morse told hi3 audience as follows: The large articles sold as on cient Sitsuma are from two to four years old, are principally manufactured in Tokio and are rubbed with charcoal dnst to give them an appearance of age. I have myself stood beside an agent of an American firm which deals in " Satsuma" ware, and heard him give an order for a great quantity of this "ancient " pottery, directing the designs and telliugtho maker to pat on plenty of decorations, no matter what. These large pieces are regarded by the Japanese as abominable paraphrases, and a name is applied, to them w\iich signifies that they are made saleiy to be exported. T.hay are for the moat part not Satsuu.? at all, but Awata, and the decoration is performed by children and cheap work men of all kinds. I know that I am breaking many hearts in this audience and I am sorry for it, bnt I must speak to save other hearts from being broken. WISE WORDS. A lie always marries early, and almost , always has a large family. Money in the pocket of a spendthrift I is like a sword in the hand of a fool. Money and time are the heaviest j burdens of life, and the unhappiest of ' all mortals are those who have more of , either than they know how to use. Don't think there is something radi- ] cally wrong about the world because it l don't run according to your notion. ; There are thousands who think the i same. i In order to have any success in life.or < any worthy success, you must resolve to < carry into your work a ,'nllness of knowledge?not merely a sutdciency but more than a sufficiency. ] Aswimmer becomes strong to stem < the tide only by frequently brpasting ' the big waves. If you practice always i iq shallow water your heart will as- < suredly fail in ihe hour of high : flood. No man ever took hold of a godly life as men take hold of a secular life, 1 and followed it up with such persistence as men employ in a secular life, that ho did not, by augmenting knowledge and progressive steps, rise to the realm of spirituality in religion. "When men in high places stoop to association with vice and crime they cannot expect to remain untainted; often, to save themselves, they seek to fasten their guilt upon the innocent, but deception is a tangled, as well as dangerous, web, and sooner or later its I votaries are caught in their own foul [ meshes. One perfect diamond is more valuable than many defective ones. One truth well fixtd in the mind and comprehended is better than many half understood. A unall opportunity fully realized is better than a great one misimproved. The wealth of affectionato sympathy and aid is better than gold, and tills the soul with most perfect peace. Faithfulness lays up treasures in the heavens which nothing can injure and no one remove. Tlie Laplander's Friend. The Laplander's sledge has no run-1 ners, but like himself it is covered witn | reindeer skin, and is in shap-j something like a canoe. Harnessed to this sledge tho reindeer starts off with almost the j rapidity of the steam engine, going fif- 1 teen or twenty miles an hour. The reiu- j deer is not only tho Laplander's horse ; but his cow, and during the time that it gives milk he is freezing large quinti- ' tics of it to be .used when no more is j obtained. Then he breaks off a piece, | warms it, and has again a good article , of milk The deer is also his food, large I herds of them being kept in some parts i uf the country. From its skin the Laplander makes ihe roof of his house, his bed, his shoes and stockings, his1 clothes, and cords and strings for his j bow. Without this animal tho Lap-1 1 nder would bo in a deplorable con- j dition. i r Grant'as a Lover. Hearing that there was a lady living n this city who had once been courted jy General U. S. Grant, and who had refused her hand in early womanhood ;o this noted American civil and miliary character, a Constitution report et jought an interview with the lady, \rith rery satisfactory results. The newspaper representative found the early iweetheart of Grant's to be a lady considerably advanced in years, yet etill arge, active and buoyant, and not learly so reticent as the general. She had not seen General Grant since ;he '50s, she said, and then his father iarried on a tannery in Portsmouth, O. 3he once had occasion to retide for a ;ime in the family of a farmer whose 'arm joined that of Grant's father?only li 1 1 l._i A a I JiLiu Ul icuuu uukwcuu?tuiu iu nao luring her stay at this farmhouse that ?he was courted by General Grant. It nust have been in the spring-time, for ihe says she and Grant would meet at ;he division fence, on each side of which were beautiful flowers. "Ulick," said she, "would faylo me "Let's gather flowers and see who will have the most binds when we get, ihrough.'" "You mean Grant when you say 'Ulick interrupted tho reporter; "his name is Ulysses." " Yes," she replied, " we always called him ' Ulick.' and while he was 30urting me and wanted to marry me my father used to laugh at him and plague me, saying: 'He is the greenestlooking boy I ever saw,' " and chuck ling to herself she added: "and he was a green-looking fellow. I remember the last time I saw < Ulick.' We had been buggy 'riding. We had alighted from the.buggy and he stood leaning with one arm on the wheel of the vehicle and looking iuto my face ho laid, \ lTTT-11 fail / TD Ii. wwt31l, HlHtJi-l [ LUJ UULllU iD Uicauuii UUb they called me Ellen), if I ever find anybody that I love well enongh to marry and urn so foitanate as to have a daughter, you know what that danghter'a name will bo." The daughter's Dame is Nellie, a pretty contraction of Eleanor. " We shall not publish your name," aaid the representative, " since you have been so kind aud courteous to us, without permission. Can we use your name?1' Finally she remarked: "I am not ashamed of my father's name; it was Charles Brandon, and my maiden name was Eleanor Brandon. My first husband's name was John Spaulding. ? Farther than this I will not go."? Ktokuk (Iowa) Constitution. mmmm Wonders of the Brain. Dr. H. W. Mitchell, of New York, iu a lecture on the "Brain and Its Wonders," said that the cerebellum of the brain presided over the organ of motion, and that it could bo removed from animals without taking away their intelligence. The effect, however, would be that they could not move. The same symptoms, he said, could be observed in man under the influence of alcohol. If the latter takes too much of the Btimulant his cerebellum and tho little cells of which it is composed refuse to do their work and the man staggers. He claimed that a person learning to play on the piano and a lady threading a needle were regulated by their cerebellum, and witbootits assistance could do neither. He said that the medulla oblongata was the most vital part of the whole system, and if run through with a knife life would be destroyed in an instant. Advantage has been taken of this in the process of hanging people, and the carrote had been introduced on the same principal. He claimed that the brain conld not get along without nerves and that it had twelve pairs of them. The first three nerves were of . . special sense?olfactory, optic and an* ditory. The olfactory nerve was not very well defined in man, as it was got necessary, bnt it reached its highest development in dogs, cats and rats. It was more perceptible in the rat than in any other animal, and the bloodhound came next in order. After describing the optic nerve the lecturer said that the sense of hearing was less developed in man than in the animal. He contended that if either of the three nervea mentioned were cat thcro would be no sense of pain and that the only result would be tho destruction of the sense of smell, sight or hearing The fifth nerve, he* said, confers sensibility onthe face, and when irritated gives rise to intense pain. He insisted that the pneumo-gastrio nerve was the Rreat vital nerve of the whole body, and said tfi&t II II Wtr8 uiviueu uur ruejiiiabiuu would cease at once. He then explained the workings of tho spinal cord and its connection with the brain, and concluded by reciting the effects of alcohoJ, chloroform, opium and strychnine on that organ of the body. Hair Tiuni*?? White in a Single Xight. About fifteen years ago a young man named Henry Richard*, wlio lived at _ Terre Haute, Ind., was going ii^e ono eveving about dark from a visit to & fiiend, and was walking along the railroad track. Some little distance from town was a very high trestlework ov6r a creek, there being no planks placed across for walking, so that people had to go over on the ties. Richards was walking along at a lively rate, and whtn he arrived at the bridge he did not stop to think that a train coming in was ttoen due, but, being in a hurry to get home, he started to walk across on the crosstie?. He bad gotten nearly half way across the * bridge wheL the train came slipping iround a curve at a lively rate. He saw the train at once and started to run, but saw that it was useless as it would certainly overtake him before he could get Dff the bridge. He was now in a terrible plight. To jump off was certain death, and if he remained on the track the train would jrush him to pieces. There was no woodwork beneath tho bridge for him a 7. !?. to hang on to, so ne saw mat ma umj chance was to swing on to a tmall iron rod that passed under the crossties. No time was to be lost, as the train wa3 nearly on the end of the bridge. So ho swung himself ander the ties, and in a few moments was banging on for dear life. The engineer had seen him just before he swung under the bridge, and tried to stop tbo train, but did more harm than good, as he only succeeded in checking the speed of tho train and made it a longer time iu passing over tho form of Rickards. As the engine ? passed over the coals of fire from the ashpan dropped on his hands, burning tho flesh to the bone, as he could not shake them off, and to let go would have been ceitain death. The trial was at length over, and, nearly dead from fright and exhaustion, with his hands burned in a terrible manner, Richards swung himself upon the bridge again and ran hone. When he reached there his hair had not turned, but in a short time afterward it began to got gray, and by morning it was almost perfectly white.?Louisville Courier-Journal. Effector Heat on the Nerves. Dr. William A. Hammond, the dis tinguisneci nomologist, iu ?u Our Continent with the taking title, " How to Escape Nervousness," warns against overheated apartments. He says: An overheated apartment always enervates its occupants. It is no uncommon thing to find rioias heated n winter by an underground furnace up to ninety degrees. Fiehts and murders are more numerous in hot than in cold weather, and the artificially heated air that rushes iato our rooms, deprived as it is of its natural moisturo by the baking it has undergone, is even more productive of vicious passior>8. It is no surprising circumstance, i^erefore, to find the woman who awolters all day ir. such a temperature, and adds to it as night by superfluous bedclothing, cross and disagreeable from little everr-day troubles that would scarcely rulll-3 hex temper if f-he kept her room at sixtydegrees and opened the windows every now and then. * * - ; j