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Early Autumn.
Of seasons this the perfcct type?
The earth, the teeming earth is ripe!
From regal heights of mountain glade
To inmost depth fenny shade,
The pullulating echoes fly
With rapt repeating of this cry,
Yea, ripe, in full f. > ition, stand
The numerous pin* the metdow land;
This, yellow with its latter grain :
That, shadowed by the ru-set train
Of fair Pomann's fragrant role.
If Whose rustling stops full harvests bode.
^kOutlined in blue and palest gold.
^Whe distant hills soft mists unfold:
gentle wind just breaks the grass,
Hi) let its whispers reach a mass
Of anreou.. and purple bloom
Propendent o'er a lowly tomb.
Some few cicada* try to sing
Iheir summer notes; tne cncKets ring
Their tiny cymbals far and wide;
While gaudy moth-flies flaunt in pride,
f Where homely spiders weaving glide,
And field mice covertly abide.
Tho river flows with broader swirls;
A brooklet glints and blithely purls
Amidst its dikes of stones and moss ;
And, here and there, leaves criukled tossForerunners
of the latter fall
Which must proceed gray winter's palL
Yet still the dreary season far
In future lies, and cannot mar
The peaceful scene of hearty life.
Whereof all nature seems so rife.
It leaps, this life, on maiden cheeks,
(Which deeper blush) and its course leaps
Through every muscle of the youth,
Whose ready" hand strips from their booth
The juicy clusters of the gTapo.
Which coiling tendrils closely drape.
It beats, it throbs, ah yes, is told,
In joyous flow, to staid and old,
In measures full, yes, bounteously,
In sooth it seemeth good to be!
If but to feel the wholesome flood
Of quickened thought and freshened blood
"Yhich issues from the brain and heart,
And to each wish would zest impart,
Yielding the soul n cheering faith
That love and joy are not a wraith?
?William Struthers.
Mrs. Whitaker's Deaf Ear.
Mrs. Whitaker was deaf in one ear.
It was her right ear, and it was stone
I deaf.
Mrs. Whitaker had acquired a habit
of sleeping upon her left side, with her
deaf ear up, and this had often been a
source of annoyance to her husband,
who was nervous and irritable, while
she was a woman whose calmness and
serenity of disposition were remarkable.
Sleeping with her deaf ear up Mrs.
"Whitaker at night was rarely disturbed
by noises which robbed her husband of
his rest. The hum of the mosquitos
which maddened h?m was not heard by
her. A passing thunder-storm which
rous&l him in a summer night and sent
him flying about to close the windows
would leave her in perfect unconsciousness
of its exi. t nee. The noises in
the streets and the rattling of the
window-sashes upon windy nights frequently
fdled Mr. Whitaker with vexation
as they deprived him of sleep ;
but his wife slumbered sweetly on and
heard them not. Indeed, it rarely hap
pened that she heard the crying of the
bady until Mr. Whitaker, indignant at
its refusal to go to sleep, would rouse
her by shaking her, and would ask her
to try to soothe the little one.
Mr. "Whitaki-r had often remonstrated
with his wife about this habit
of sleeping with her deaf ear up, and
she had often replied good-humoredly
with a promise to try to remember to
break herself of it, but somehow or
other it continued to cling t> lier.
One night in winter timi- Mr. Whitakersat
up in his library till ablate hour
r reading a book in whirli lie was very
much interested. IIio wife retired
early. Mr. Whitaker finally closed his
book, and after locking the front door
went down in the cellar, in accordance
with his custom, to see if the furnace
fire had been fixed property for
' ; the night. While he was poking it a
gust of wind came through the screen
upon one of the cellar windows and
slammed the door leading into the back
f hallway above, through which he had
* come. For a moment Mr. Whitaker
did not think of the matter particuf
larly, but suddenly he remembered that
he had put a spring lock on the other
side of that door, and the thought
struck him that the catch might posr
sibly be down. lie ascended the stairs
and tried the door. The catch was
^down; and lie had no key. He was
L locked in the cellar, for the key of the
5 out-cellar door he knew was in the
kitchen.
He could hardly think what he had
^better do about the matter, but finally
he concluded to try to make his wife
^. hear him and come to his rescue. He
g seized the long and heavy furnace
?;poker, and inserting the crook of it
above the bell-wire that ran along the
v,'-joist of the collar ceiling he pulled.
The bell jangled loudly, but it was in
the kitchen, and Mrs. Whitaker was in
p* the front room in the second story.
Would she hear it? He pulled the
wire again, twice, then he sat down on
the steps and waited. There was no response.
It then flashed upon the mind
* of the imprisoned man that Mrs. Whit
aker was probably sleeping with the
djaf ear up.
This increased his growing irritation,
and he pulled the bell-wire with the
poker fifteen or twenty times.
"I could hear that a mile from here
if I were deaf as a post!" he exclaimed
as he threw the poker on the floor and
took his seat again, with the bell still
vibrating.
But Mrs. Whitaker did not hear the
noise, for no sound of her coming
reached the ears of her impatient and
indignant husband.
He grew angrier every moment. He
felt a sense of injustice. It seemed unkind,
inhuman for his wife to be sleep.
ing away calmly upstairs, while he was
locked up in the dismal recesses of the
cellar.
"I'll make her hear me or I'll break
something," he exclaimed, seizing the
. poker and hooking it upon the bellwire.
Then ho pulled the wire with
such furious energy that he broke it,
and the jangling of the bell died away
into silence.
"It is little short of scandalous,"
? said Mr. Whitaker, in a rage. "I
have spoken so often to Ellen about
' sleeping with her deaf ear up that it
lnnlra likn mnlifp?dnlibpriitp fipnrlish
malice?when she persists in doing it."
What should he do next? He could
not stay in the cellar all ni^ht and he
did not like to batter down the door
with the poker. A happy thought!
He went to 1 Ik* furnace, and, with the
help of the hatcht t from t:ie kindling
wood pile, he cut the tin Hue which
conveyed the heat up to Mrs. Whit*
aker's room. Certainly he could compel
her to hear him now. lie put his
mouth to the broken Hue and called,
"El-len, El-len-!" Then he stopped
and listened. He thought he could
hear Ellen breathing softly in her
sleep, but he was not certain. He
called again and more loudly, and then
t'.' put his fingers in his mouth and
whistled. "Probably I can wake the
baby anyhow, and the baby will wake
her," he said. But nn response came
own the Hue. The baby seemed to be
?//sleeping with almost supernatural
soundness, and. manifestly, Mrs. Whitaker
had her deaf ear up.
Mr. Whitaker was almost beside
* lumself with rage. "A woman," he
said, "who would treat her husband in
such a manner as this is capable of
anything. Either Ellen will stop sleeping
with her deaf ear up or we will
separate." A third time he applied his
iips to the tin pipe and bawled into it*
until he was hoarse. He thought he
heard his spouse walking across the
floor, but when he c<dled again there
was no response, and he knew that he
was mistaken.
The soul of Mr. "Whitaker was filled
with gloom. In his anger he indulged
in sardonic humor. "I suppose she
rather relishes having me down in the
cellar here all night; it is a good joke!
But let her take care! She may laugh
upon the other side of her mouth before
we are done with this business !"
And he laughed a wild and bitter
laugh.
?- Poor Mrs. Wliitaker, sleeping sweetly
upstairs in perfect unconsciousness,
I would have been deeply pained to learn
." 'how gravely her husband wrongedher.,
Hi must get out of here somehow or
I M Mr> Whitaker, "Tb? win-'
(low is small, but I rail crawl through
it I reckon, if 1 try."
He unhooked the frame containing
the wire screen which protected the
window and pushed it outward. Then
I procuring a wash-tub and climbing
from it to the windijjv-sill lie thrust his
head out and dragged his body through.
When he reached the front pavement
his face was covered with cobwebs
and his clothes with coal dust; but he
exulted in the thought that he was a
free man.
lie took his dead-latch key from his
pocket and was about to try to open
the front door when he remembered
that he had locked the.door and put up
the chain bolt. There was no use
trying to ring the bell. The wire
was broken, and Mrs. Whitaker
wouldn't hear the bell if the wire
hadn't been broken. There was but
one last hope of making her hear, and.
j that was by throwing gravel stones
| against the window. Mr. Whitaker
tried the experiment. The first handful
Jirrulinn Tli<> sll'I'lier ilill
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not hoar it. Neither did she hear the
second handful, nor the third, nor the
tenth, which was dashed against the
glass with such violence that Mr.
"Whitaker expected to see it shivered to
fragments.
Mr. "Whitaker was at his wit's end. |
There was a faint light burning in the
room, and as lie looked up at it and
thought of his wife slumbering quietly
on while he was in such great trouble,
his wrath grew so fierce that he felt
capable of doing something really terrible.
But what should he do? The
poor lady was as much beyond his
reach, for the time, as if she had been
in China. lie thought for a moment
of trying to borrow a ladder; but
where could he get a ladder in the
middle of the night? No; as his sense
of personal injury deepened he more
antl more firmly resolved that he would
punish Ellen somehow or other for her
indifference. As he could not obtain
admission to his own house, why should
he not fly ? Why should he not go off
somewhere and give his wife something
to worry over in repayment for
all the wrong she had inflicted upon
him by persisting, against his earnest
and repeated remonstrance, in sleeping
with her deaf ear up.
Mr. "Whitaker turned passionately
away from the |house and walked
rapidly down the street. He had no
particular destination in his mind, but
he hurried along with a vague notion
that he might perhaps go to a hotel
when he felt calmer. In a few momonta
>10 Mmo t.ho r.iilrn:id denot.
not far from his dwelling. It was
brilliantly lighted, and, as he looked at
it, he rememl>ered that a train started
for New York at midnight. lie
walked into the waiting-room. The
minute hand on the huge marble clock
indicated three or four minutes of
twelve. Mr. Whitaker rushed up to
the ticket office and bought a ticket
for New York. Then he hurried into
the car and took a seat. He had upon
his head his velvet smoking-cap, so
that his appearance did not excite remark.
Presently the train started,
and Mr. Whitaker actually felt a kind
of malicious joy as he thought he
would soon be far away from his
wife.
It was a slow train, and he had
plenty of time to think, and as he
thought his passion began to cool, and
the conviction begun to press in upon
him that lie had been behaving very
foolishly. IIow absurd it was to blame
poor Ellen because he had locked himself
in' the cellar! He pictured her
lying by the side of the baby, calm in
the belief that he was still sitting- in
the library. This recalled to las mind
her deaf ear and her fondness for sleeping
with it up. Then he had a revul
sion of feeling and he began to grow
angry again. But this was a mere
flash. Steadily he advanced toward a
more reasonable view of the situation,
and as he did so he concluded that it
would be a great act of folly to go all
the way to New York. He aslcetl the
conductor the name of the next station.
It was Bristol. He made up
his mind to get out there and go home
early in the morning. He really felt
badly to thinly how much alarmed and
distressed his wife would be when she
discovered his absence.
When he stepped from the train at
Bristol rain was falling quite rapidly,
and one feeble light in front of the
station shone through the deep darkness.
Mr. Whitaker inquired of the
man upon the platform the way to a
hotel, and then he started to go to it.
In descending the wet and slippery
steps of the platform he lost liis footing
and fell. He was very much hurt
and found that he could not rise. He
called for help, and when the railroad
man?the only man who was anywhere
about?came to him, he discovered
that further assistance would be
required, for Mr. Whitaker's leg was
broken.
The man soon brought three other
men, and placing the hurt man upon a
board they carried him to the hotel and
sent for a doctor.
If Mr. Whitaker, sitting in the car,
had thought himself a very foolish
man, what did Mr. Whitaker, lying far
away from home in a wretched hotel,
with his leg broken, think of himself V
Mr. Whitaker thought that if there
was a colossal idiot on this earth he
was that personage.
Early in the morning he sent a telegram
to his wife, urging her to come
t.n him at once, and riffht sneedilv came
a reply from her, saying that she would
take the train which ordinarily reached
Bristol at 9 o'clock.
From the windows of his bedroom
in the hotel the invalid could see the
station and the railroad, and as he
watched them, while he longed for the
train to come, he tried to arrange in his
mind, for his wife, an explanation of
his conduct which would present it in
its best possible light.
Senseless anger is one of the tilings
that defies justification, and a man's
very sense that his wife's love makes
her capacity for forgiveness almost illimitable,
only tends to deepen his
shame when he is conscious of having
wronged her.
Mr. Whitaker resolved, after thinking
the matter over, that the best thing
to do would be frankly to confess his
fault and to throw himself upon his
wife's mercy.
He heard the whistle which announced
the approach of the 9
o'clock train. The train came in view
and drew up to the station. Mr. Whit
aker looked eagerly at the persons who
got out of the cars, but Ellen was not
among them. She had not come. He
fell back again upon the bed with a
sigh and began again to grow angry
with her.
But the poor woman was on that
train. Alarmed by the discovery when
she rose in the morning that Mr.
Whitaker was not in the house, her
alarm was increased when she received
the 'telegram sent by him. What
could be the explanation of the mystery
of his disappearance? She was
so agitated that she could hardly prepare
for the journey. But she reached
the depot and got into the car and
began to move toward Bristol. Somewhat
weary from too great nervous excitement,
she placed rcr muff against
the frame of the car window and
rested her head upon it, while her veil
covered her closed eyes. Unhappily
she had arranged herself with her deaf
ear up, and so she did not hear the
conductor when he shouted "Bristoll"
and she was so deeply absorbed in
thinking of Mr. Whitaker that she
did not notice that the train had
stopped.
When he found that his wife had
not come Mr. Whitaker made up his
mind to go home at all hazards. A
steamboat stopped at the wharf at
half-past 9 on its way to the city; and
borne upon a litter he had himself
carried on hoard. In an hour lie was
at the city wharf, whence a wagon
carried him to his house. He was
shocked and [disappointed to ascertain
from the servant that Mrs. "VVhitaker
had gone to see him on the train in
which she said she would go. He could
not comprehend why she had missed
him, and all day long he lay in bed
worrying about her and wondering why
she did not come.
Mrs. Whitaker got back to Bristol
about noon, and ascertained by inquiry*
that her husband had returned, with a
broken leg, to the city. There was no
train that she could take until 4 o'clock,
and the spent th? interval in inquiring
about the accident to Mr. Whitaker and
trying vainly to ascertain the reason of
his extraordinary conduct.
About half-past 5 o'clock ho heard
her voice in the lower entry. He listened
eagerly to her quick footsteps
upon the sti'jrs. Then she Hung the
door open. Mrs. Whitaker did not
speak as she entered the room. She
uttered a little cry. Hew to the bedside
and put her arms about her husband's
neck and kissed him.
Mr. Whitaker felt that if he should
have exact justice dealt to him lie
would lie sent to the scaffold.
When she had nearly smothered him
with kisses she sat down beside him,
and taking hold of his hand said:
"And now, dearest, tell me what
causes all this strange trouble?"
"Why, you know, Ellen," said Mr.
Whitaker, "it was your deaf ear!"
" IIow do you mean r"
" You slept with it up."
And then Mr. Whitaker related the
whole story, and as lie did so his wife
began to cry.
"l am so sorry, sue saiu. i win
promise you never to sleep with my
deaf ear up again; never, never,
never!"
"Ellen," responded Mr. "Whitaker,
"you will do me a favor if you will
always sleep with it up and stulT cotton
in your other ear beside! I have
behaved like a wretch."
Then the doctor, who had been
vainly pulling at the broken bell-wire,
knocked upon the front door and came
in to examine Mr. Whitaker's fractured
le<r.?our Continent.
Garibaldi's Character.
The battle of the Yolturno, the
'(light of the king and the siege of
Capua followed in rapid succession.
During the whole of that stirring time
I was at Naples. I saw the dictator
of the Two Sicilies at the summit of
his power and popularity, and 1 saw
how he used both. It was commonly
said that for a fortnight after he entered
Naples no crimes were committed.
I stayed long enough to see the place
become a sink of iniquity once more.
After the battle of the Yolturno there
was little to do except to get into mischief,
and plenty of mischief there was
?duels, assassinations, gambling and
worse, llut what a spell seemed to fall
upon the city whenever Garibaldi was
in it! The nights were as a rule noisy
and uproarious. One night he sent
out word that he could not sleep, and
you might have heard a pin drop on
the pavement all through that night.
The women brought him their children
to bless, he stroked their heads?
he rebuked their superstition?but he
could never say an unkind word to
them. His care for the wounded w;is
unwearied. lie went daily through
the military hospitals at (,'aserta.
The doctors said his visits did more
for the men than all the physic. They
declared his touch and very look were
full of healing; the dying heads were
lifted to see him pass, and wounded
men leaped from their couches to seize'
his hand.
lie w.us just the same on the battlelield?he
always went over it himself
to lie sure that all the living had been
taken up and all the wounded cared
for. This is how he won the great and
simple love of his soldiers. His own
soul was great and simple.
1 remember his life at Naples?th?
talk of the town. He would live in no
palace?lie would not even be called
your excellency, although supreme
ruler of both Sicilies. He was lodged
up in a little attic at the top of the
Toledo. lie said he liked to be high
up to breathe the air.
At Palermo the costliest wines and
viands were prepared for him ? he
lived on beans, potatoes and the common
wine of the country; lie spent or.
an average eight francs a day, and
never had anything in his pocket; any
one who asked him for money got it.
He had a simple method. He borrowed
of whoever happened to be near him,
and gave it away. The people whom
he borrowed from generally got paid;
but he never spent anything upon, or
asked anything for, himself. One week
he was the irresponsible controller of
millions, and the next weeek liset sail
for Canrera with half a sack of nota
toes?his only wealth !?Rev. R. R
Mauris, in Wood Words.
The Wrong: Verdict.
It Wiis in 1877 that John T. Raymond,
as the immortal Sellers, was
doing the Western country. At
Evansville, Iml., the house was filled,
and the audience, the critics say, was
en rapport with the actors. The play
went along swimmingly until the denoument
was reached. This, it is well
known, occurs in the jury scene which
closes the drama. At every village a
new jury is obtained from the, populace.
Leading persons of the place
are sometimes honored with a position
in the box, and it was so at Evansville.
The collection was one of the finest
ever on the stage?doctors, lawyers and
such like. The foreman was a six-foot
Kentuckian and a judge, too. He had
for years adorned the bench, and was
never known to quail in public. It
U'OJ fr/Lin liic trwuiflt tli:lt. " 11 fit ?Tllilfv "
?? v*"'v ?^
was to lie received, and he had been duly
cautioned as to his lines. As soon as
the verdict is rendered Sellers throws
up his hat, hugs the accused and performs
many wonderful side plays,
after which the curtain descends. At
Evansville Raymond did his prettiest,
gyrating before the judges like a madman
and "fixing the jury" in his inimitable
manner. "When the c;ise had
closed and the jury were expected to
return the cut-and-dried verdict of
"not guilty," the foreman?this sixfoot
Kentuckian and a judge to boot?
was attacked with stage-fright and
startled everybody by shouting:
"Guilty."
"What?" inquired the disconcerted
Sellers.
"Guilty," said the forgetful foreman,
thinking he was doing himself and the
Evansville party proud.
In vain Raymond giggled; the verdict
was plainly "guilty." Therefore
the play couldn't go on as it was laid
down; there was no chance for that
throwing or hugging. The audience
was not slow to catch the mistake, and
a wave of hearty laughter began to
uivix.n nvi'r tin* liiimiiftto. At, liist
Raymond, swing things to he in a desperate
state, began to "fix" tli<^ jury
again, and, buttonholing the l"ig loreman,
whispered the proper verdict in
his ear. Whereupon the big six-footer
mildly stammered out:
" Not guilty."
The hat went up, tl e lucky accused
was congratulated, and the curtain
rung down amid the laughter and applause
of the audience. That bigKcntuckian,
however, was never again
foreman of any of Raymond's juries.?
New IIureu Union.
Tall .Men.
The Xew York doctors having had
the question put to them whether a
j man can add a cubit to his statue,
agree that there are ways bv which
statue can he affected. People who
drink limestone water like the Kentuekians
and Tennesseans, who are
famous for being tall, owe it perhaps
to the fact that they absorb so much
lime which goes to the making of their
bones. So oatmeal builds up the bones
and muscles of the Scotch, and makes
them tall. Dr. Mott said: " l'olks
who feed upon good, healthy and
simple food have the best chance
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H?i" ill nr luu. A (hum oo
seems sometimes to be a family trait,
and runs along through generation
alter generation : but <>n the other
hand, tall children very often grow
from short parents and vice versa.
There doesn't seem to be any positive
rule about it, and I don't know that
there is any mode of determining from
the height of a child at any given age
what it will grow to at maturity."
There is a belief, however well or informed,
that the height of the child at
the age of two years is just half the
height to which it will attain at mail
ritv.
The oldest stove probably in the
United States is the one that warms
the hall of Virginia's capitol in Richmond.
It was made in England and
sent to Richmond in 1770, and warmed
the house of burgesses for sixty years
before it was removed to its present location,
where it has remained for thirty
years,
A Remarkable Freak of Mature.
A remarkable freak of nature arrived
in Cincinnati recently in the way of a
child which has managed to live for
seventeen months without that bony
" dome of thought" which is regarded
as essential to continued existence.
Moreover, the child seems to have had
no need for a brain, if the eyes may be
believed, for, in the absence of a skull,
the head is translucent and almost
transparent, while, by the aid of a lamp
properly held, it may be perceived that
| the brain cavity is filled with a colorless
lluid. Nothing exists in this serum
that can bo perceived. The head is
larger than the body, the increaseof siz^
being almost entirely above the temples,
and measures twenty-seven inches
around. The lower face is perfect, and
the child would be pretty but for the
monstrous development. The rapid
growth oi the tipper head has drawn
the skin until the eyelids will not
close, and the eyebrows are pulled up
an inch at least above the normal position.
"When an Enquirer reporter
visited the child it was asleep, and its
mother would not allow it to be
awakened for experiments. A rather
dim coal-oil lamp was placed behind
the monstrous head, and gleamed
through it as though the skin formed
the only obstacle to the light. The
veins upon the forehead and the locks
of hair upon the back of the head made
the only shadows, as was proved by
moving the lamp. The light behind
the head illumined the whole of the
interior, being as perceptible upon the
sides as the front of the occiput. It
is claimed that when the child is awake
the light of a lamp or sunlight falling
upon the back of the head is even
more plainly seen through the eyeballs
or the nostrils, or through the
ears when placed at one side. This remarkable
head is covered with an
abundant growth of auburn silky hair.
The child has every appearance, except
in the color of the skin, of good
health. It is fully developed, very
plump, and is said to be strong, while
it has a good appetite. In all its habits
it is reerular. and like any other child.
That it should have progressed so far
jus to be weaned, maintaining good
health, and should have reached the
teething period, is one of the wonders
of physiology. Its senses are said to
be perfect and acute, and it possesses
enough of intelligence to smile faintly
when tickled and to recognize food
when it sees it. When the child was
born it was known as "the headless
baby," as it seemed cut off above the
ears on a line sloping toward the nape
of the neck, while a wrinkled skin
covered the top. It suffered
greatly, and its life was preserved with
difficulty. At three or four weeks of
age the skin began to fill out, when the
fluid's sufferings ceased, and it enjoyed
good health. The growth has been
constant since. The child suffers no
pain and only the inconvenience of
being unable to sit up, in consequence
of its deformity. The tension of tire
skin is such that it does not yield as
readily to the touch ?us might be expected
from its appearance, yet the
child does not seem to experience any
trouble from this, and was sleeping as
sweetly ;is anybody's cherub.
This child was born February 20 of
last year, on Beech fork, of Twelven,ilrt
<-'rr>oL- "U'nvnp rnnntv. "West Yir
ginia. It is of the male sex, and is
known as Franky Canadv.
A Type of Indian Territory Indians.
I trotted ray pony along pretty
briskly, and in a half hour's ride overtook
an Indian riding slowly along on
a mustang. I hailed him. He was a
friendly one. All Indians in the Territory
are friendly. They are warm
friends if you have a bottle of whisky
and a little money, and will never
leave you till the money and whisky
are gone. I found that he was going
to the " Big Spring," as he called it, or
Baxter Springs, in the southeastern
part of Kansas, the end of my journey,
lie said the reason I had seen no one
was I had traveled between two
ranges of settlements all the way
Had I gone ten miles to the north I
would have struck one of then:. But
I was not sorry I had not. My companion
could speak English very
plainly, and was very dirty and lazy.
He was a good type of the inhabitants
of the Territory. He wjis
clad in a gorgeous waistcoat of a Disraeli
pattern, buttoned with brass
army buttons, and had a blanket fastened
at the hips and wrapped around
Her Eyes Unsealed.
Those who have read Wilkie Collins'
" Poor Miss Finch," says the
Rochester (X. Y.) Post, will readily
recall Lucilla's misfortune?blindness
from birth, caused by cataracts. Dr.
Grosse's fallacies regarding the struggles
of sight to assort itself in persons
who have been blind for life, the illusions
of the patient regarding distance,
color, forms, etc., will be remembered.
Lucilla could not, from
restored sight, tell whether an object
held before her was a cube or a globe;
whether a handkerchief was white or
colored. She. had a great horror of
anything dark; that is, when she was
blind. In her imagination Lucilla's
answers to questions were pat to the
theories of " Surgeon Optic Grosse,"
and he was pleased at the result of
his skill. There is in Rochester, at
the city hospital at the present time,
the counterpart of Lucilla in all
the realities, but not in the " surgeon
optic," his fallacies and theories. The
subject is Emma Wat erst raath, twelve
years of age. She w;us born in Loots,
Pomerania, Germany. On the Sth of
April, this year, she came to Itochestei
and resided with her aunt on Hoelzer
street, her father and mother being
dead. Two or three months of this time
she passed in the blind asylum at Batavia,
where she learned to read raised
letters by the touch. Her trouble was
congenital cataract, and from birth she
could only see so as to distinguish between
day and night. When taken to
the city hospital, the eminent oculist
of the institution, after an examination,
said her sight could be restored,
and three weeks ago he operated on
the left eye, producing a " rift in the
cloud" which had shut out
her sight for so many years.
The writer, interested in seeing
her when the first tost was
made, visited the hospital, and when
the bandage was removed by the surgeon
she told him she could see his
fingers. A vase of llowcrs was held
before her, and she said they were flowers
and one of them red. She told what
other objects wore, and their form.
" Dr. Grosse's" confirmed theories,
"Poor Miss Finch's" verification of
the " surgeon optics " fallacies, were
disproved, dispelled bv this practical
illustration, this fact. Emma's sight
continues to improve, as the " rift in
the cloud" widens from absorption.
Xo further operation may be necessary,
and there is no question that in the
good time she may see " :is others see."
The patient sees and learns so gradually,
the same as a child learning to
read, that the mind is educated to
forms and distances easily. Cataract
patients never see instantly after the
operation. ^
The Vibration of Buildings.
Few persons who have not looked
into the matter have any idea of the
trouble which the managers of large
manufacturing establishments often
have in preventing vibration of the
buildings in which their work is carried
on. This is not due to faulty construction;
indeed, vibration is found
usually in mills which are admirably
built." In all cases it is what is tymed
synchronous, that is to say, it is occasioned
and maintained by the vibration
of some other object, which strikes
what may be termed the key or note
of the building. Jnst as the wire of a
piano will respond to a proper vibratory
force, so a bridge or a building
will vibrate when its key-note is
struck with sufficient force by some
other object. If the human ear
had a greater range of power the
sound made by this vibration might
be detected. It is not now heard simply
because it does not come within
the limits of what are to human beings
audible sounds. In a recently
published work on mill construction
by Mr. C. J. H. Woodbury, a number
of interesting instances of this synchronous
vibration are given. At one
of the print works at North Adams,
Mass., a new and unoccupied building
was found to vibrate in consequence of
the pulling of a small steam engine
sixty feet away. At Contredale, K. I.,
it has been necessary to change, the
height of the column "of water flowing
over the dam to prevent the excessive
vibration of the adjacent mill. At
Amesburv, Mass., out of eleven mills
that are near the river two vibrate
when water in certain quantities flows
over the dam, but the tremor can be
wholly stopped by changing the
flow of water. The most frequent
cause of vibration is due to the running
of the machinery, and it has repeatedly
happened that a complete cessation
has been obtained by increasing
or lessening the speed at which the
machinery is run. This is not always
profitable or possible, and the fact that
this vibration results in a loss of
power, variously estimated at lrom
ten to twenty per cent., is a strong
argument in favor of the construction
of one-story mills, which would necessarily
vibrate much less than factories
having a height of six or eight stories.
But it is not alone the loss of power
that has to be considered, for in addition
there is the straining of building
and machinery, and in the manufacture
of textile fabrics this unsteadiness
causes a groat breakage in the
threads and a consequent damage to
the material.
Why Egyptians Lack Patriotism.
During my visit to Eg}']it?some
seven or eight years ago?there was
certainly no national feeling among
the Egyptians. Neither they nor
their ancestors for nearly two thousand
years had known native rulers.
Tlnrinrr 'ill tlip?n lnnrr renturies tllOV
had been the spoil of Koman, Arab,
Turk and Mameluke in turn; from
none, since the Koman time, had they
received protection of life and property
or any national benefits, and it
was impossible that patriotism should
exist among them, for there is no
patriotism save in a country worth
loving. The conduct of the Egyptian
troops in the late Russian war is a
proof of this. The few battalions
L saw in Egypt were linelooking
troops?well armed, instructed
and equipped, with intelligent
faces and excellent physique ; yet they
proved utterly worthless, as it seems to
me, because they were destitute of that
pride which is inspired by patriotism ;
for them their Hag had no meaning,
its honor was no concern of theirs.
Their conduct in Abyssinia and the
Soudan was similar, and no doubt from
the same cause. How can valor and
patriotism be expected from men whose
only knowledge of their government is
that derived from the tax-gatherer, the
bastinado and forced labor? The
achievements of that great soldier,
Ibrahim Pasha, are not in contradic
tion with this conclusion, because lew
of his troops were Fellaheen. Ilis
conquering armies were mainly composed
of Arabs, Syrians, Nubians, Arnauts?
in fact, of lighting men from
all the neighboring parts of the East,
who were reduced to discipline by his
stern will and guided to victory by his
great military genius.?Uemrni Lieoryv
B. MeClcltaji, in the Century.
About Explosives.
Xitro-glycerine looks like oil. Workmen
seeing it leaking from a box or
can have sometimes mistaken it for
sweet-oil, and have tried to nail the box
tighter with a hammer. This causes a
terrific explosion. The way in which
the blasting powders are made is by
taking some such substances as sand
or sawdust and mixing nitro-glycerine
with it. The most common of these
powders is "dynamite;" it looks
much like moist brown sugar. Some
others are called "dualin," "rendroek,"
" mica-powder." The nitro-glvecrine
soaked in the sand or sawdust can lie
carried about without spilling, and can
be more sal'cly handled. In the same j
manner, if nitro-glyccrine should he j
spilled upon wood or cloth and should
soak into the substance, then* might he
an explosion if tlie tiling were afterward
struck or tossed about. ."Whenever
one visits a quarry, or new rail- j
road, or any other place where blast- j
ing is going on, or any factory or establishment
where nitro-glyeerine or
blasting powder might be made or
kept, it is well to be careful about meddling
with any yellowish-looking oil or
any oily-looking powder.?Christian
Union.
Matted jewelry which has only been
considered appropriate for morning, is
now being used with all styles of dress.
SOMMART OF HEWS.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES
A cjbowd of ton thousand persons witnessed
the funeral of "Chip" Smith,
hanged at New Haven, Conn. The funeral
procession was a mile and a half long.
Lemuel W. Litinopton, a colored youth
appointed from Florida as a cadet to the
West Point Military academy, was Sound
deficient on the preliminary examination
and rejected.
Doctobb A. 0. Dickey and J. S. Marshall,
of Lyme, N. H., were both drowned in tha
lake at Post Mill Village, N. H. They were
driving together along the shore in a covored
bnggy with a pair of horses, when the horses
took fright and ran into the wator, overturning
the carriage.
About 300 persons who had been on a
Sunday excursion up the Hudson had just
landed at Elizabethport, N. J., when tho barkeepers
on board the boat opened fire upon
the defenseless crowd of men, women and
children with beer glasses and revolvers. One.
man pitting on tho wharf was instantly
killed, another was probably fatally wounded,
and several other persons were injured by
flying missiles. The attack, it is said, was
made by tho barkeepers in retaliation for an
assault committed upon them at a previous
excursion.
Titebe was a falling off in tho vote at the
Vermont State election, tho Republicans
being successful by reduced majorities.
The American Social Science association
has been holding its annual sessions at Saratoga.
Various papers by leading scientists
wcro read.
A riBE at Swampscott, Mass., destroyed
tho Ocean House, a large hotel. Tho guests
all escaped with their effects.
Tiie second annual exhibition fair of tho
New England Manufacturers and Mechanics'
instituto was formally opened at tho Exhibition
building, Boston, in tho presence of a
large audience, embracing Governor Long,
prominent members of- the clergy, State and
city officials, army and navy officers, etc.
A village omnibus at Ilion, N. Y., was
crossing a railroad track when it was struck
by a passing train. Albert P. Redway, a dry
goods merchant, was killed and seven other
persons were injured.
At Newport, R. I., a boy seven years old
died after a brief illness, and three physicians
pronouncod it a case of Asiatic
cholera.
Smallpox made such inroads at Paterson,
N. J., that tho churches, sohools and halls
wero ordered to be closed, the mills refused
admittance to all who were not vaccinated,
and all public gatherings were prohibited.
Bobqlabh blew opeu the safe in James
Callery's tannery at Alleghany, Pa., and
carried off $">0,000 in mining stocks and
other securities.
SOUTH AND WEST.
Neab Paris, Ark., a Swiss named Edward
Schwerzman, in a fit of insanity, took his
children?eighteon months, four and five
years old, respectively?to a well in the yard
and throw them in. The man then leaped in
himself. All four were drowned.
A San Antonio (Teiaa) dispatch says that
about 120 persons were drowned by the
Concho flood, and about 15,000 sheep, cattle
and horses wore lo3t.
The California Republicans have nominated
a full ticket headed by M. M. Estee for
governor.
In an address issued to the "Latter Day
Saints" at Salt Lake City John Taylor and
his associates in tho "First Presidency" of
tho Mormon churcn uoty me r euerai law ior
the suppression of polygamy and declare
their determination to maintain it "while
time exists or eternity endures."
Bob Fobd, the slayer of Jesso Jame3, was
arrested in Chicago charged with disorderly
conduct and carrying concealed weapons.
The Ford boys had been living a fast life in
Chicago for the past two weeks, playing in
cheap theatres.
Neah Newport, Ark., two passenger* trains
camo in collision, owing to the misplacement
of a switch. John Browning, engineer,
of Little Rock, and his fireman wero killed.
At tho preliminary examination of the
Kowaneo bank robbers in that place, J. J,
Pratt, tho assistant cashier, now under arrest,
and E. N. Welch, one of the robbers,
made full confessions. Their story was that
for many montli3 they, in company with Dr.
B. S. Scott, a young dentist, had planned to
rob the bank, and had talked over various
methods by which tho robbery could bo accomplished;
that while Scott was not present
nt the robbery he knew it was to be dono,
and was to receive a part of the proceeds.
The South Carolina Grconbackers nominated
a full State ticket with D. Hendrix
McLane for governor at tho head.
Tuk Hon. George A. Reeves, speaker of
the Texas house of representatives, died at
his home, in Grayson county, from the effects
of a dog's bite. Ho was bitten by a mad
dog several weeks ago. At the time he tried
to apply a plaster to the wound, but it could
not be made to adhere. Ho did not suffer an
actual attack of [hydrophobia until a few
days before his death, when, finding that he
going mad, he instructed his friends to
lash him to his bed to prevent his harming
any of them. His agony, his ravings and
his frothing bccame horrible, nniil at last
death endf d his indescribable Bufferings.
Tiie Nevada Democrats ive nominated
Jewett \V. Adams for governor and Hon.
George W. Cassidy for Congress.
Dukihg a hurricane off the coast of Texas
five vessels went ashore.
Cincinnati's tenth annual industrial exposition
opened with a largo procession and addresses
by Governor Foster and others.
Infobmation from Fort Concho, Texas,
says that the region along the valley of the
Concho river visited by the recent great flood
has been thoroughly searched ovor, and fiftythree
white bodies recovered and recognized,
and that a larger number than that, mostly
Mexican herders whose names are unknown,
wore also recovered. The losses at the towns
of San Angeles, Beneficklin and Conoho foot
up $312,000. The loss of stock and property
in tho surrounding country will aggregate
much more. *
FROM WASHINGTON.
The last debt statement issued shews the
deoreoso of the publio debt during the month
of August to be $10,128,261.24.%
Cash in tho treasury $242,960,518 4G
Gold certificates outstanding. 4,992,940 00
Silver certificates outstanding. 69,44D,21000
Certificates of doposit outstanding
12,000,000 00
Refunding certificates outstanding
442,000 00
Legal tenders outstanding.... 340,681,010 00
Fractional currency outstanding
7,039,066 77
Cusli balance avuilabl? 141,629,211 22
Tun following is a statement of United
States currency outstanding on the 1st:
Old demand dotes $59,595 00
Legal tender notes, #11 issues. 346,081,015 00
One-year notes of 1*03 42,975 06
Two-year notes of 1803 22,000 00
Two-year coupon notes of 1!G3 22,150 00
Compound interest notes 223,500 00
Fractional currency, all issues. 15,408,00510
Total $302,449,301 10
Duui.no August tho United States mint*
coined 420,725 gold pieces worth $9,789,.
972.50, 2,425,000 standard silver dollars and
0,202,000 five and onc-cent pieces, worth
$105,700.
Is (he star route trial, after Attorney-Gen
oral Brewster had closed his argument for
the prosecution, the jury were about to leave
the box when they were stopped by Judg
Wylie, the presiding justice, who stated that
he wished to devote a mo*nent to. a matter
foreign to the trial proper. Judgo Wylie
Fiatcd 'hat he had been informed by several
of the jurymen that they had been
approached improperly, and that,
upon learning that within the last
twenty-four hoars "these wolves have become
liorcor, more determined," ho felt so
much indignation that he was almost ready
o advise the jurymen to shoot tho men on
tho spot. Judgo Wylie used very strong
words of warning. Counsel on both sides
demanded an investigation and one was ordered.
Tho announcement by tho conrt
caused much excitement, and many rumors
resulted from it.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The steamer Lake Nopigon, from LiverI
ool bound to Montreal, ran aground neat
A. klow on the eastern coast of Ireland. The
passengers and crew wero landed in boats
am' the vessel was subsequently hauled ofl
safely.
More than 200 members of the metropolitan
police of Dublin, Ireland, were dismissed
for attending a meeting the night before,
contrary to ordere. At this meeting Captain
Talbot, the superintendent of police, was
denounced. By evening more than GOO m?mbors
of the police force had struck, and the
city was without protection. Great exciiemcnt
prevailed. Troops took possession of
the polico stations and 400 men were sworn
in as special constables. Tho lord mayor
issued a proclamation calling on all citir.eno
to help maintain the peace, but the excit?~
mont increased and at P:50 p; m. riotous
demonstrations occurred. Infantry and carairy
paraded the city the entire night, 01
the entire polico force, numbering 1,175 nun,
<840 members wora dismissed and 620
oliaid furthw duty.
his legs to the knees, while his feet
were covered with moccasins. lie
said we were within two days' travel
of the springs, and that about one
hour before sunset we would strike off
from the trail and seek shelter for the
night among the Indian settlements.
So we traveled along, he being vrey
shy, I hardly knowing how to manage
him, till I thought of the whisky bottle.
I presented it to him. There was
a change sis if by magic. His tongue
was loosened and there was no more
silence. He told me Indian stories and
I w;ls. regaled with Indian folk-lore.
He told me that ninp-tenths of the
people were against the opening of the
Territory to settlement, but they did
not feel safe against it on account of
treaties so often broken. He said if it
did happen there was no telling where
it would end, for the people would
surely rise against them, and they
would not rise unarmed or unskilled in
the use of arms. It was now near sunset,
ar.d according to his promise we
branched off toward the settlement.
In tile day's ride there had been a great
change in the country, for it sissumed
features more like those of the State of
Missouri, but the climate was the same.
It was the mixture of plain, woodland
and bluff thrown together in wonderful
confusion. Now and then an Indian
esibin would peer out between the trees,
and often there would be quite a wellkept
farm, but it was Indian farming
sifter sill. At sunset we resiched the
top of ;i bluff overlooking a pretty little
stream that rippled along toward
the south, and, winding down the bluff
into the valley below, we reached the
settlement, where we were, to stop for
the night.?Correspondence of Boston
Advertiser.
The Last of the Tramp Printers.
" Poor old Matehett!" wrote George
C. Harding, a little more than a year
ago. Pour old Matehett again came
into this ofiice the other day on his
regular annual tour. lie was sevend
weeks behind schedule time, and age
has driven the burin deeper into the
lines in his face. There's more curve
in his spine, more stoop in his flhouli
ders. His hands tremble and Ids leps
j are weaker. lie is drawing nearer to
I the close of his pilgrimage, and it
I doesn't matter, perhaps, that he gets
feebler as he nears the last milestone.
The haven of rest is just beyond. " I'm
a sett in' my last paragraph," said the
old man, sadly. " When I was here
1 '' ? " l-" ??iirnnml
i oeiore, ne iiuiuiiiiin, i
! " (.Jeorge Harding said t<? me,' Matchett,
you can't last long,' and hen; I
am; lie went lirst."
(i:*orge Washington Matehett is now
in Iiis seventy-seventh year, a IJalt
iiii"r< an by liirth, the last of the olil
line of typographical tramps, and the
J most picturesque subject in
; trainpdom. "It's my forty!
fourth annual tour," said he, " and I'm
I the last of 'em. Torn Wallace and I
I traveled together for many a year, but
: lie's gone. Years ago I planted a wili
low on liis grave at Hucyrus, Ohio.
; Tom and I worked for Horace (Jreelev
j on the New Yurktr. Why, I worked
in this town on the third number of
| the ?Nentinel. Old Charley Warner
: was the foreman. Dead now. I'm
I the only one of that force?editors,
| compositors, pressmen?left alive. We
j must do all the good we can as we
i journey through life," continual MatchI
ett, in a ruminating tone. " !My rccord's
clean." *
And so we tliink it is, old man. The
only harm you have done has been to j
yourself, with the enemy that annually, j
etc., and why need that be marked !
against you? Fellow-travelers are we
along life's dusty highway, and you the I
older and more travel-worn. Your
hand, old friend; (Jod bless you!?Indianapolis
Revuw.
Creen and cobalt-blue redingotes of
cloth, with velvet collar and cuffs, are
i sent over from Paris to ladies at Newport,
where they are worn over dresses
I of satins muslin or foulard,
mi win wmii
The Cravat,
An English trade journal gives this
account of the early days of the cravat:
In 1636 a foreign regiment arrived
in Paris, in the dress of which
one characteristic was much admired
by the people?a neck-wrapper or
scarf of muslin or silk for the oflicers,
or common stuff for the men, alike
tied in a bow with pendant emls, and .
used by them, it is said, to support an j
nmnlnf wurn oa n nlinrni n r*<i i n cf
Owing to the arrival of the rainy season
all heavy work on the Panama canal has
been stopped.
M. DxoTTiWT) and M. Demassaa, two Paris
editors, fought a duel with swords, in which
the latter was killed.
Tnjs deaths from cholera at Manila, Philip,
pine Islands, number 300 daily. At Iloilo
4,650 persona died from the same disease in a
fortnight.
On the day following their strike the Dublin
policemen returned to duty. About fourteen
persons, who were woundod in street
fights, were in the hospital. Twelve hundred
special constables were sworn in to protect
the city. Many street fights occurred, and
the crowds were frequently charged by the
troops.
Tiie harvest in Franco will be slightly
above the average.
Eionnr persons were wounded and taken
to the hospitals in Dublin during the recent
police riot*.
At tho conclusion of the army maneuvres
at Isliora, Russia, a bridge constructed by
the military across a ravine fell directly after
tho Emperor and Empress had passed over
it. Tho Russian minister of war was slightly
injured.
Neab Hngstetten, Germany, an excursion
train of twenty-four cars ran into a telegraph
polo that had been thrown across the track
by a lightning stroke and was wrecked.
Nineteen coaches were smashed to piecos or
shot down an embankment into a swamp
whero their weight caused thera to sink.
First reports stated that about 100 persons
were killed, many of them being smothered
in the deep mud of the swamp, and I'OO injured.
The London Times the other morning published
an exhaustive summary of M. Eslieno's
annual review of the harvests of the world, issued
at Marseilles. In summarizing the result
the Times says: "Never, during the time
since these reports- were collected, Jias the
harvest in the northern hemisphere been so
good all round. Wo usually had to report a
deficiency either in Europe or America. This
year there is absolutely none. The world has
over an average harvest, and with suoh a harvest
tho year is likely to be one of cheap
abundance."
Fkarful accounts of the ravages of cholera
in Manila continue to bo received. In one
day 253 natives and four foreigners, including
the American consul, died. In eighteen villages
in tho province of Manila there were
36S deaths.
Tire Egyptian army under Arabi Bey is
said to number 93,100 men with 143 guns.
Tire ten persons arrested for complicity in
the murder of the Joyce family, near Cong,
Ireland, recently, have been committed for
trial before n special commission court.
Panama has experienced one of the severest
earthquakes ever known on the isthmus.
Many buildings wore damaged, but no lives
were lost.
Tho Trouble in Egypt.
A wounded Arab officer states that hardly
had the British cavalry swept through the
Arab ranks in the fight at Kassasin recently
when a hordo of Bedouins poured in and
began to strip and rob the dead and wounded
of botti sides, Killing any 01 ine wounaea
who were able to resist.
M. de Lesseps has arrived at Paris. Speaking
to a deputation of friends he said he had
been described as an enemy of England and
n friend of Arabi Pasha, but ho was simply a
friend and defender of a work of civilization.
He said that Arabi Pasha's honorable conduct
in regard to the Suez canal onght to be
acknowledged.
A dispatch from Ismalia states that engineers
have conquered the difficulty of tainted
water by digging holes in the sand by the
side of the canal. The water when filtered
through the sand is fairly clear.
The man-of-war Minotaur shellod tho
enemy's lines between Ramleh and Aboukir.
The shelling was against a force of infantry
and cavalry, which had been drawn out by a
reconnoissance of British mounted infantry.
The sultan of Turkey has issued a proclamation
declaring Arabi Bey a rebel. It declares
Arabi Bey a rebel for disobeying the
orders of the khedive and of Dervisch Pasha,
and thereby provoking the intervention -of
England. It slates that tho decoration conferred
upon Arabi Pasha was bestowed at the
instance of Dervisch Pasha, in consequence
of Arabi Pasha's protestations of fidelity.
In conclusion the proclamation exhorts all
Egyptians to obey the khedive.
Orders have been received at Woolwich to
dispatch 4,000 troops to Egypt. Three thousand
are to go to Alexandria and 1,000 to
Ismailia.
Mahmoud Fehmy has written a report addressed
to the khedive with plans revealing
tho positions and strength of tho enemy.
From internal evidence it is believed that his
Statements are correct. The substance of
I thn information has been telegraphed to
General Wolseley. It is belieycd that thejnfluence
of Mamond Fehmy will be useful in
bringing over the rebels. He denies that he
was captured by the British troops. He pays
he surrendered. He accuses many of those
composing the entourage of the khedive, including
Cherif Pasha, the prime minister, of
having communicated with Arabi Pasha.
The British marines raided all the villages
between Alexandria and Meks and arrested
the people who could give no account of
themselves. Four Bedouins were sentenced
to death for looting and the native who murdered
two Euglisbmen not long ago was
hanged in.tlie native quarter at Alexandria.
A placard in Arabic and English, stating the
cause of the execution, was attached to the
gallows.
Arftbi Pasha's cavalry advanced near Kassasin
lock and exchanged fire with the British.
The enemy, who showed increasing boldness,
were driven back.
An English train of nearly 300 mules was
attacked near Ramses by Bedouins. The escort
of the train repulsed the Bedouins.
Arabs have thrown carcasses of horses and
other foul matter into the Ismailia canal, and
it is feared tho water will become unfit for
drinking.
It is thought that tho Egyptian ministry
will try to settle the claims for damages
growing out of incendiarism and pillage in
Alexandria by a commission appointed by
the powers.
The proclamation of the sultan of Turkey
against Arabi Pasha declares tuiu tne maintenance
of the authority and prestige of the
khedive is indispensably necessary, and that
the designs of Arabi Pasha justify his being
described as a rebel.
Gathering Human Hair in France.
About the month of May the gatherers
of the lower order of trades, peddlers,
etc., commence harvesting; they
come to the villages at regular intervals.
The largest cut is made in Auvernia
department ("Western France)
during the annual fair, about St.
John's day, when the gatherer, with
his wares and shining coin, most successfully
tempts the unsophisticated
country girls, and becomes owner of
tliQ choicest of their hair at the lowest
possible price. The provincial girl, as
she is called, will make her choice
of merchandise or give orders for
something else. The scissors may
at once come into use, and accounts
settled, or she may take advance payments
for her silken coils, to be cut at
some future time, the hair to grow until
a time stipulated. Advances may
be made on the next four or live years'
crops; the executioner with his scissors
will rather be later than too soon
to uncoil his fair debtor, for such debts
are always honored. These gatherings
(one of the curiosities of Parisian industry)
last from spring to fall, when
the gatherers make their last delivery
of hair, balance merchandise or contracts
taken, square their own accounts,'
and return to their various trades, by
which they strive to accumulate small
sums of money or merchandise to as
sist them in their luring trailie next
spring. Such as are not so fortunate
arc iissisted with the required money
and merchandise bv the factor (devourto
r), which is the useful.andtosonie the
indispensable, banker and middlemen
between them and the large buyer,
merchant and preparer. A factor will
equip several hundred men, and ap- j
point tin- day and the village where he |
will meet them, about once a month, !
to make settlements. There they will
be relieved of their stock of hair and
their pack and purse be replenished for
further decoy and chasing. The
peasant girls and women ;ire not the
only ones who furnish the contingent
to the world's demand of this luxury.
Large quantities of beautiful hair,
soft, clean and delightfully perfumed,
come into the market. One can almost
imagine that he can yet see the
hand of the virgin's lover on its
waving brilliancy, or it may be an act
of devotion of Venus, a last resource
to her Alphon.sc out of funds. Again
I tlicy may be tin* spoils o1 I
j holiness, virgins offering their bodies to
I Christ anil church despoiled of the
charmii>g tresses hy the creaking
shears of the godly servants, who at a
clear profit for hard cash return them
to that world where they had been so
much admired. A considerable
titv of hair is derived fr<?m chapels or
| shrines in Hrittanv, where, a;-? -rding
to an old custom, a givai numb r of
devotees make offerings of their hair |
to Mother Virgin Mary, and as tlcse ;
donations accumidate thev arc scat- j
tcred among all nations, creeds, virtues
or otherwise?such is heavenly accommodation.
In Venetia, Lombard;* and
Piedmont 2,000 gatherers are employed,
who send their cuttings to the
French market. ? Anuricun JhilrDnsser.
Recreation is only valuable as it un- j
ends us j the idle know nothing of it, |
sword cuts. Parisians speedily adopted
the novelty, styling them lirst Croats,
from the nationality of the regiment,
and afterward cravats. The
rich then used embroidered and
richly-laced cravats, such ?is we find
shortly after used by Charles II., who is
charged ?20 12s. in the last year of his
ri'ign for " a new cravat to be worn on
the birthday of his dear brother."
James II. paid ?36 10s. for a cravat of
Venice lace to wear on the day of his
coronation. Toward tho end of the
last century the cravat was revived,
and worn of such extravagant size
that whole pieces were sometimes
used, and even shoulder cushions, over
which folds of stuff were draped so
that it was as impossible for a man to
turn his head without wheeling bodily
round as for an early coach to turn
within its own length.
A Half Dollar Trial.
Mr. Ernest King, editor of the Fall River
(Mass.)Sun, thus discourses upon the merits
of St. Jacob's Oil: "Suffering with rheumatic
pains I was Didymuaas to remedies I read
ofSt.JacobsOii and said here goes for a half
dollar trial I bought a bottle and before it
was half used thc?crew-wn;nch pains had
gone and troubled me no longer.'*
An attempt is to be made to run lor?r*
rnflior
M/Iliwu,v,7, KIUIU (, & Ci 11 UlUHI^Il
the St. Gotliard tunnel by means of
electricity. At present the products
of combustion left in the tunnel make
travel very uncomfortable.
Col. C. W. Herbert, of the Forest Park
Restaurant, St. Louis, Mo , was entirely
cured of rheumatism by St. Jacobs Oil,
says the St. Louis PostOUispatch.
A single weed allowed to go to seed
may become five hundred the next
year and ten thousand the year after.
A Total Ectijme
of nil other medicines by Dr. H. V. Pierce 8
"Golden Medical Discovery" is approaching.
Unrivaled in bilious disorders, impure blood
and consumption, which is scrofulous disease
of the lungs.
It is estimated that GOO,000 acres of United
States soil are given up to tobacco, and that
the crop will reach $40,000,000 or $50,000,000.
Get the Original.. .
Dr. Pierce's "Pellets ?the original Tjittle
Liver Pills" (sugar-coated)?euro sick and
Dilious headache, sour stomach and bilious
Utacks. By druggists.
Neah Houma, La., lives a thirteen-year-old
girl who has growing on her face a lightbrown
beard about two inches long.
Young men or middle-aged ones, suffering
from nervous debility or kindred weaknesses,
should send three stamps for Part VII. of
World's Dispensary Dime Series of books.
Address World's Dispkusaby Medical Association,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Five thousand miles of new railway have
oeen completed in the United States since
the 1st of last January.
What a Learned Doctor 3ay?.
uob. bboadway and jtbatt otkektm, i
Baltimoeh, Md., Aug. 5,1581. f
H. H. Wauner & Co.: Sirs?A publication
appeared in the Baltimore papers some
months ago, purporting among other things
to set forth the particulars of my cure from
Bright'ri disease by the use of your Safe Kidnoy
and Liver euro. That card represented
only an outline of the facts in the cafe.
F. A. MoMantjs, M. D.
The French scheme for making an artificial
sea in the interior of Africa lias been
abandoned.
Mensman's Peptonized deef tonic, the only
preparation of beef containing its entire nutritions
properties. It contains blood-making,
I force-generating and life-sustaining properties;
in valuable forindigestion,dyspepsia,nor*
! vons prostration, and all forms of general debility
;also,in all enfeebled conditions,whether
the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration,
overwork or acute disease, particularly if rer.ulting
from pulmonary complaints. Caswell,
Hazard & Co.,prop'rs.,N. Y. Sold by druggisis
Out* Will Bny
a Treatise upon the Horse and his Diseases.
Book of 100 pages. Valuable to every owner
of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent
nostnaid bv New York Newspaper Uuioo, 150
Worth Street, New York,
Doi.'t Die in the Home.
"Rough on Rats." Clears out rats, mice,
roaches, bedbugs, flies, ants, moles, chipmonks,
gophers. 15c.
Murder will out, so will the fact that Carboline,
a deodorized extract of petroleum, the
natural hair renewer and restorer, is the best
preparation and excells all other hair dressings
as thousands of genuine certificates prove.
The Science of Life, or Self-Preservation, a
medical work for every man?young, middleaged
or old 125 invaluable prescriptions.
ALLEN'S im.\IN FOOD!-Mo?t reliable tonio
for the ilruln anil (Jciirratlvc <>r*iun. It
positively cure* Norvous Debility nod restores lost
virile powers. Sold by druffgiitM. Si; <1 for S.>.
tree by mail on rcceipt of price. .1(11 IN 11.
ALLEN. Chemist, 31j Firat Avenne. New York,
2o Onto will liny ii Trratise upon the
Horse anil his Diseases. Bix>k of 100 pages. Valuablo
loevory owner of hordes. Post igo stamps taken. Sent
postpaid by NEW YORK NEWSPAPER UNION,
1 i'iO Worth street, Key York.
RHEUMATISM,
Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago,
backache, Soreness of ihe Chest,
Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swellings
and Sprains, Burns and
Scalds, General Bodily
Pains,
Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted
[HASBEE^ROVED |
1 Tho SUREST CURl for [
1 vinMev nifieieeo ft
I MMUCil Wiq&MO KOI ;
I Boca a lame bock or a disordered urine lsdL' I
cato that you arc a victim? THEN SO NOT
HESITATE; use KIDNEY-WOET at onoe, .
I (drugglsti recommend it) and It will speedily I
overcome the disease and restore healthy action. '
M It Is a SURECURKfor all
,' DISEASES of the LIVER. ;
: It has gpoclflo action on thla most Important
organ, enabling It to throw off torpidity and In- ,
I action, stimulating tho healthy secretion of the
' Bile, and by keeping the bowels infreeoondi.
I , Hon, effecting its regular discharge. I
MoIqvIq If yon are an Beringtnm
| ' IVI Clld lids TnalaHft |
5 aro billons, dyspeptic, or constipated. Kidney i
Wort will surely rilieve and qulokly cure. ,
6 In the Spring, to cleanse the System, every '
3 ono should take a thorough course of it * ? 1
1 I Sirli^C Por complaints peculiarto
KlUICoa youracx. such as pain and
I | weaknesses, KIDNEY -WOHT ij tmsurp?ad, |
aa it will act promptly and safely.
i Either Sex. Incontinence, rftention of urine,
I brick Uust or ropy deposits, and dull dragging 1
. pains, all speedily yield to its curative power. ;
I nnt Acts at the game time on the KUXNEgB, |
L1TEE AIvD BOWELS.^J For Constipation,
files, or Hhcumatlsm it is a permanent euro.
SOLD BY DRU00I8T8. Price $l? (M) 1
Mern^ant;? nm
ilfesusieoa
Liniment 1 '
rjj for human, fowl and animal fleih, *U
jJSty first prepared and introduced by Irr.
lj Geo. \V. Merchant, In Loclcport, N. Y.,
/Si U. S. A., 1833, iincc which tim? it bu
I 1^5 steadily grown in public favor, and la
fJVi now acknowledged ana admitted by th?
y jfi trade to be the standard liniment of the
\ w country. When we make this announcefew
mcnt vvc do so without-fear of contra7/jtt
diction, notwithstanding we are aware
y jf\ h-"re are many who are more or lest
/ iJOj prejudiced against proprietary remedies
i >3 iv# a/tPAnnf nf th? mniiT hnm
/ / U'"ig.i ?n the market; however, we are
pleased to state that such prejudice does
not exist ncralnst GAHGLING OIL. We ao not
claim wonder* or miracles for oar liniment, bat we
do claim it is without An equal. It Is put dp in bottlea
of three sizes, and all we
is that yon give It a fair
IJtrial, remembering that Ihe OU
.y n pat ap with white' wrapper
(email) is for human and fowl
au<* that w'111 y?llotr
wrapper (three sizes) for animal
llesh. Try a bottle.
As these cuts indicate, the Oil Is used successfully
for all diseases of the human, foul and animal
Huh. Shake well before using.
Cannot be Disputed.
gk One of the principal reasons of
/, - the wonderful success of Merchant's
Garbling Oil Is that It la
J yjmanufactured strictly on honor.
Its proprietors do not, as la the
case w't'1 tco niany, after maid ng
for their medicine a name, diminish
its curative properties by using Inferior compounds,
bnt use tne very best goods to be bought la
Mthe market, regardlessof cost. For
half a century Merchant's Gulling
Oil has been a synonym for
i honesty, and will continue to be
/so, long as time endures. For
' sale by all respectable dealers
throughout the United States and other countries.
a Our testimonials date from 183S
to tho present Try Merchant'!
Gargling Oil .Liniment for Internal
and external use, and tell your
neighbor what good it haa done.
Don't fall to follow directions. Keep the bottto
well corked.
PIIRFQ Burns and Spratnf and"Brnlscp,
OUnCd scalds, Strinjrhalt, WiadsjaEa,
Chilblains, Frost Bites, Foot Hot In Sheep,
Scratches or Grease, Foundered Feet,
Chapped Hands, Roup In Poultry,
External Poisons, Sore Nipples. Cnrli,
Sand Cracks, Poll Evil, Cracked Heels, Old Sorts,
Galls of all kinds. Epizootic, Lame Back,
Swellinjai, Tnmors, Hemoorhoidn or Pilea.
Flech Wounds, Sitfast, Toothache, P.licumavism,
Ringbone, Foul Ulcers, Spavins, Sweeney,
Garcet in Cows, Farcy, Corns, whitlows,
Cracked Teata, Weakness of the Joints,
Callous, Lameness, Contraction of MuscIcs,
Horn Distemper, Cramps, 8weUed Legs,
Crownscab, Quittor, Fistula, Ifiripr, Thrush,
Abscess of ihe Udder, Caked Broosts. Boils, tie.
! $1,000 REWA n D for proof of the exiatk
Ml ence of a bettei liniment than
"Merchant's Garbling Oil," or a
xSas^y better worm medicine than
y-Tj, "Merchant's Worm Tableta." Man.
u fa c tared by M. G. O. Ox, Lockport,
N. Y., 0.8. A.
JOHN HODGE, Sec'y.
N Y N U?30 _
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fl A'1 a6m.Jar *.?85 Million pounds
n PL II V Imported lait y tar.?Price* lower
1 8" U .1 than ever?Agents wanted.?Doat
B Enisw waste time.?Send for circular.
10 lbs? Good Black or nixed, for fl.
10 lbs* Pine Black or Iftlxcd, for $2.
10 lbg.Cfcoico Black or Klxed, for $3.
Send for round wmpl-, 17 eta. extra for pottage.
Tlicn Kct up n cluK choicest Tea in tlie world.?
Latest variety.?PJeaaca cverybodv.-OUeat Tea
f-oiute !n Auicrlca,?No ehrotno.?No lluuibug.?
ffr.i'jht bu?iiio*H.?Value for uiouey.
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Pnrson*' Purgntiv* PUIa make New Wen
Blood, and will completely chanc* the blood in the en.
tire systom in throe months. Any p?r?on who will take
one pill each ni^ht from 1 to 12 weeks may be restored
to sound health if sach a thin* be poeaihle. Sold everywhere
or sent by mail for eight letter stamps.
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ZiADIES 1
Fja 5si up Clubs for oar cr.LX?
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Pl?c*s,l cor ?w? ImpiirUUoa. Oat
kjdCaL^HHitTtfW 9t ti.e?? beautiful Tta Seta ttvto away
to tea |uity ?ru unit aCUbforlMOO. Itw.r, of tU ?o-ca]l?4
" CHKAP 1 JiAS" that art btlagadvartlaaj?tb?y art danftrous
ia(l r1?triment?I ta hratth?slow putiAn. D? I oaiy with rtltabls
aad with Arm If poiiiblr. No humbij.
The Great American Tea Co., Importer*.
f-o. Moxltj. <1 MU vxur ?T., K?w Tort.
CIV wnrwaste Nosrr: Tw?<m?a?c?. ?
wl A If mu want a Lasu/iiat wotwucbo.
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V I O b?vl.. or M THICKCN, srRKMiTIIKX i?d JL 0H
INTIGO&ATK Uio HAIR aoywoere 4oo'l bo hambofxeJ.
Try tbo riU Spon ah <J.?oo*?r* whtcli Uaj NEVER T?T ^CMHK - a
7AIUD. PfiuToJILY 81X C?M* to Dr. J. <JUNZA? dgBMff
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Feet and Ears, and all other
Pains and Aches.
no Preparation on earth equali St. Jacobs Oil
M a safe, sure, simple anil cheap External
Kemody A trial entail* but the comparatively
tril'.inp outlay of 50 Cent*, and erery one ?uffcrin(;
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