The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, March 21, 1883, Image 1
' ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER1
BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAECH 21, 1883. NO.,40. YOLTOEXXVII^^H
THINGS THAT NEVER DIE.
It never dies?a mother's holy love
Strengthens with every ill that may bei
tide;
i In every phase of life its waters move
I With current strong, and fathomless, and
I wide.
3 From the heart's other flames may rise,
And while they seem as warm, and grand,
and high,
* The incense of one lives to reach the skies?
A mother's tender love can never die.
They never die?the songs of other days,
The unstrung harps all covered o'er with
dust.
Are in some rambling storehouse laid away
With many other wrecks of love and trust,
At eventide, when all nronnd is still.
Each harp throws off tho dust with gentle
sigh,
And voices long sincc hushed our chambers
fill
With songs of other dajs that never die.
It never dies?the memory of a wrong
Done to an innocent and trusting heart:
Though outwardly it seemeth well and
strong,
A pain is there which never can depart;
Time o'er the spot may weave a fair new
skin,
And every trace be hidden from the eye,
j- But all the agony is closed within,
L And wounds thus healed are never known
^ to die.
They never die?the kindly deed and word
Given to the needy without pomp and
| pride;
B Sooner or later they reap their reward
? . Who pass not over to the other side;
A Tirl ornmKcs fKne noef " +V?a eon
viuiuwo uiuo vuot u^/uu me aoa ui iiio
May not return as man is sailing o'er
But when he rests from agony and strife,
He'll find the loaves upon the other shore.
It never dies?the bow of promise set
In every landscape, be it bleak or fair,
There's hope for all upon life's billow yet,
k For Gr>d's own hand had placed the token
there;
Though overwhelming storms of wind and
rain
Chase every sunbeam from the pilgrim's
> sky,
After much peril 'twill gleam forth again,
For rainbows come and ;o but never die.
t
They never die?the moon, and stars, and
sun
Have shone upon the wicked and the just
Since God's most glorious handiwork was
done,
And men arose so mighty from the dust;
For when we close our eyes upon this world,
rTo open them in Heaven by-and-bye,
The same blue banner there will be unfurled,
With sun, and moon, and stars, that never
die.}
?Mrs. K. O. Jewell.
A CLOUDED MIND.
^
Lu stood behind the little counter
I where she passed 50 many hours of her
life, her fingers resti g upon the glass
of the show-case, which she tapped
impatiently, while her eyes roved from
Xed Snyder, behind the opposite
counter, to the door through which
she hoped some customer would enter.
Ned's attention was divided between
leering at Lu with his shocking contortions
of face, and volunteering various
clownish remarks, each of which
elicited from their object only a movement
of impatience, a sharper tapping
* of the glass with her fingers, but no
word of answer. Finally Xed left
his place, sauntered around behind
Lu's counter, and ended the maneuver
l by thrusting his face up before hers.
" un, go away, jn eci, sne exciaimect,
turning from him, "do go now!"
[. " "VVhat'll I go away for?" he demanded,
creeping up again in front of ,
--her face.
" Go. because I aui tired and you !
want to go," this in a tone of marked
impatience, which Ned evidently understood
that it would net do for him
ito disregard. " Go back behind your (
own counter, or stay here and 1*11 go
there. "What do you suppose customers
would think to see you acting in
this way ?"
Xed hustled over to his own side of <
the room before he answered, m a mat- \
ter-of-fact way: ' .
" Suppose they'd think we ought to '
be married!"
il w.,1 ?nii fnnlisli fnllnn, I Wl.w
Iiurtiiiou?juu JLuv/uaii icuvn . IT uj j
- do you keep talking such nonsense?" .
" W'al, now I tell you there is lots \
of folks that talk in that way, whether |
you'd think it or not, and course they're
right about it. Tell you one thing? |
when we be married you don't drive ,
me round this way; just make up your '
mind about that." 1
The last part of Ned's information ,
had been volunteered as the door ]
opened to admit Homer Harkness; and ]
Lu had scowled silence at the wagging ,
tongue in vain. But if that young ,
man who entered had heard anything ,
of what was being said he did not indicate
it by any change of expression. (
He greeted the twain with a friendly .
word to each, and passed through to \
the dining-room. When his footsteps
died away, Lu turned her great brown ,
eyes to Ned, and said, sorrowfully: \
jNeci, wny win you iaiK so, ana oe- .
II fore people most of all? Don't you (
m know that I don't want you to talk
H that way, and you mustn't!"
" Mustn't! Lord, what words you (
B use! But you'll get over it some day
?won't always feel as bashful."
A voice from below called Ned, and
he tumbled from sight, much to Lu's
JB. relief.
Any person seeing Lu Towner, day \
by day, would have understood how ]
cheerless her young life really was. An (
B evil star had seemed to rule at her (
. birth. Iler father, formerly engaged
in a comfortable business, had taken to ]
drink, ruined liis custom, squandered
his little property, and finally died, .
soon after Lu's birth. j
IAAV& iiivvuvi ) iyivi\vu-?viui/tu, ?5ti U^"
gled with adverse fortune for a few I
years, and then she, too, died, leaving '
her little daughter to the care of her
only relative, a married aunt. The aunt
was kind, in so far as her nature knew
the meaning of the word; but she had j
made Mammon her God, and nature
had given her great power for physicid
endurance?two dangerous qualities
for the same person to possess, especially
if that person be a woman.
Lu's uncle was the proprietor of a
bakerj', and in connection was a salesroom
. and a boarding-house. Mr.
Towner superintended the former; his
wife the latter; and so it was that when
Lu had mastered the rudiments of the
common school education, she was
taken in as a sort of general help for
her aunt. It was as though the sunlight
of her dawning life had gone behind
some great cloud. There was so
much that she could do, and she was so
willing to do whatever might be demanded
of her. From peeling potatoes,
chopping hash and washing
dishes, hpr snhprp r>f nipfnlnesQ <rr;uln-1
I ally extended through all the departments
of the boarding-house and salesroom,
till now we find her, at tho age
of twenty, after eight years of incessant
toil, with no prospect of any
change so long as life and health should
remain.
From very early in the morning till
very late at night, through seven long
days in every week, with only an hour
ortwo of respite on Sunday, she was
here, there, wherever her services were
demanded, not conscious that she was
doing more actual physical labor than
L two like her should perform, beside
" shutting out from her young life the
^ joys of companionship, and ignoring
all those social privileges which are so
dear to young life.
Lu was not especially pretty. At
first glance she seemed so?her small,
compact figure, oval features and great
brown eyes, so full of honest truth,
were certainly the elements of beauty
?but her incessant toil had wrought
its liru i upon hands and face, insufficient
sleep, continued care and the absence
of social joy, tinged and shaded
her whole life with a hue of sadness.
Xed Snyder was familiarly known
as "the fool." In some respects the
epithet was quite appropriate, for
while he had sufficient intelligence to
be of much service in the bakery, and
even in the salesroom, lie was yet of
such uneven mental balance as to puzzle
the most acute philosopher as to his
degree of soundness and accounta*
bility. Xed, too, had been adopted by
Mr. Towner, just as he would have
taken a horse for its keeping. It would
bfc handy to have such a boy about the
establishment, there was always something
for him to do, and there were
fragments enough left after the thirty
or forty boarders had finished their
meals to give the poor fool a royal repast.
At first, life had not many pleasures
for Xed, but as his sphere of usefulness
began to develop and he sometimes
talked about "packing up his
duds" and going to sea?for Xed had
a way of talking whatever came into
his mind?he began to receive better
clothes, and occasionally little presents,
and spare half days, till his lot
really in comparison became quite enviable.
Lu had always been kind to him, out
of the kindness of her heart, and many
a favor she had taken pains to bestow
upon him because she pitied his forlorn
condition. Generally at the table she
would procure for him a nicer piece of
meat or some little delicacy which had
never been intended for him, and this
she delighted to do, even though hesoon
came to look upon such favors jis a
matter of course, and to scold and
growl if they were not bestowed.
Yet, after all, Ned did not mean to
be ungrateful, and as he could think of
no other way of repaying Lu's kindness,
he had grown up into a conviction
that lie must marry her at some
time in the unknown future. Dreadful
:is such a thought must have been
to her, could she have brought herself
for single moment to a realization, and
annoying as was Ned's constant reference
to the purpose of his heart, it
had become his mental food and drink?
the inspiration of his life. No more he
talked of the sea; no more of shouldering
his "Turk." Even his nature
bowed to the sway of love, and in the
presence of Lu only was he happy or
r> r\r\ f a r\ 4" cu 1
tvuvcuuvu*
f Naturally enough the belief soon
gained ground that Ned did not speak
unadvisedly, and that some arrangements
had been made by which Lu was
actually to become his wife. The girl's
uncle and aunt came in for more blame
than they deserved.
"It's just like them," said one
boarder to another, standing at a little
distance and looking upon Lu, busy
behind the counter, while Ned, near
by, was feasting his weird eyes upon
her. "Lu's indispensable to them, and
Ned is a treasure, in his way. Get the
two married, and they are bound to
stay as long as they can render any
service."
" I hope you are wrong," the other
returned, "for I don't like to think
anybody can be that mean. It would
l.? .. .nnnm.
ue a uuv> oiiaiiic tu maiij siilu
a good, faithful, kind-hearted girl as
Lu to that born idiot! I'd kick the
man who'd do such a thing, if there
were no other way to punish him."
It was Homer Ilarkness who said
this and shortly afterward passed
through the salesroom, which was deserted
save by Ned. Mr. Ilarkness j
was a young business man of the city, ;
very comfortably situated in life, and 1
having for several years taken his
meals there, he was on quite friendly 1
terms with the feeble-minded youth.
"Xed," he asked, bending over the
counter, half-confidentially, " you are
going to invite me to the wedding, I
suppose?"
"What?me and Lu?"
"Yes."
"Yes, going to invite all the boarders,"
the fool said in a very businesslike
manner.
" When will it probably take place,
Ned?"
.<-r?i i :c t i r .. ......
lilitllieu 11 JL MlUtV iJU V>\Jli t oay.
Say Lu," the door had opened to ad- ]
mit her at that moment, "when be we 1
^oin'to get married? This gentleman ,
wants to know." j
Lu looked up at Mr. Ilarkness, for ]
it was getting dusk in the salesroom, <
tnd the gas had not been lighted. A j
moment her lip quivered, and then .
:ears sprang to her eyes.
" Go downstairs, Ned," she replied,
turning away. " Mr. Towner wants
fou." 1
" No he don't either. You've got to (
tell me now," and the poor youth <
jprang forward with a sort of frenzy, <
3ut at that moment the sharp tones of ]
lis master sounded his name so em- j
phatically that he at once turned and <
went blundering away down the
stairs. j
Lu was so evidently pained by the (
jccurrence that the young man, self- j
iffiiswL went, near to her and stani- ,
iuered out an apology.
" Indeed, you are not to blame," she ?
said, quickly, smiling through her ,
Lears. 141 am foolish to let this talk ,
mnoyme; but I?I can't help it. I
lon't blame the poor fellow much, but j
[ can't stand it; at least I feel as though (
[ couldn't, though 1 don't know how I j
an help myself." ,
" I will tell you how you can put a j
stop to his nonsense." (
" Will you ? Then tell me." ,
" Marry me!" ,
Lu's lip trembled as she cast a fur- \
tive glance up into the young man's ]
face, and her whole soul thrilled a*she
i-aught the magnetic love-beam of his J
lark eyes.
".What do you mean?" she demanded.
,
? Tnct wlmt. T sav T.n T ndmire
you; love you. 1 have long wanted to
Lell you so, and to ask you this. Surely
you prefer me to Ned. Now what say
you?will you be mine?"
What could she say ? She knew Mr.
Ilarkness too well to suppose for a
moment that he was trifling with her;
but it seemed impossible to realize!
that the man she most revered of all \
in her limited circle of acquaintances i
had really asked her to become his
wife. Why did his request touch so
deed a chord in her soul? "Was it because
it was an answer of an aspiration
she had not dared acknowledge, j
much less to cherish ?, Before she i
coulcl command herself to frame an j
answer a dull foot-fall sounded upon I
the stairs.
" Let me go; uncle is coming." j
And she tried to withdraw her hand. I
"Quick, then ; yes or no?"
" 1 guess so," and with a skip she
bounded into the dining-room to hide
the joy-llush which would mantle her
cheeks with a strange glow.
Homer Harkness did not allow the
matter to rest long in that state. Satisfactory
terms were arranged with the j
uncle and aunt, and it was decided I
that the marriage should take place
in a month.
Early in the evening the ceremony
was very quietly performed, and the
happy husband started with his bride
for a flying visit to the home of his
parents in a neighboring town. Ned j
IishJ hcpn fiven :i holiday for twenty- i
0 -- y v
four hours, which he was passing with
a relative in another portion of the
city ; so that an unusual sense of quiet,
almost amounting to desertion, settled
over the usually bustling establishment
of the Towners.
But at midnight the quiet was
rudely broken and the neighborhood
rang with the sharp cries of " Fire !"
A defective flue in the bakery had
caused the misfortune; the flames
leaped rapidly from room to room of
the old wooden building, so that when
the fire department reached the scene
they found the fire bursting out from
basement to attic.
i J list as the firemen commenced oper
I at ions Xed dashed upon the scene,
i breathless and excited, lie saw the
: dense smoke pouring from the broken
| window of Lu's room and wildly in:
quired for the occupant. But no one
i answered his question, for none understood
his meaning.
Calling her name wildly, he rushed
; up the stairway. "What transpired
! afterward only the eye of the Infinite
i saw. A daring fireman attempted to
, follow him a few moments afterward,
j but the hall at the head of the stairs
was a sea of (lames, through which
none could pass and live.
Hours later, when the fire was extinguished,
from out the ruins was
taken something which, though bear;
ing little resemblance to the human
; form, could still be identified as all that
remained on earth of Xed Snyder.
Lu, recalled from the strange dream
of her new-found happiness, stood beside
the coffined remains and heard the
story of his death. The memory of
the disiurrePiibln riiivs and vparswaKfl.il
! gone now; she remembered only his
many uncouth acts of devotion and the
heroic manner of his death, in a supposed
effort to save her from the
flames.
" Who would have though that he
cared so much for me V" she said.
" Poor fellow! poor fellow!"
"Yes, dear Lu," her husband responded,
"you see that even such as he
may love so that life is disregarded in
trying to render service to the object
of that love. Poor fellow, indeed; but
his death shall noi, be in vain, for I
will learn from his example to devote
my life to you, as long as life shall last,
and it would indeed be to my shame
should my love prove less unselfish
than the love of a fool."
Street Scenes iu Oberammergau.
In the Century, Mrs. Jackson has a
sketch of travel, entitled " The Village
of Oberammergau," where the "Passion
Play " annually attracts thousands of
visitois. Wequotethefollowing picture
of Oberammergau life:
The open square in front of the house
is a perpetual stage of tableaux. The
people come and go, and linger there
around the great water-tanks as at a
sort of Bethesda, sunk to profaner uses
of every-day cleansing. The commonest
labors become picturesque per
formed in open air, with a background
of mountains, by men and women with
bare heads and bare legs and feet.
Whenever I loyked out of my windows
I saw a picture worth painting. For
instance, a woman washing her
windows iD the tanks, holding each
window under the running stream,
tipping it and turning it so quickly in
the sunshine that the waters glidingoff
it took millions of prismatic hues, till
she seemed to be scrubbing with rainbows.
Another, with two tubs full
of clothes, which she had brought
there to wash, her petticoat tucked
up to her knees, her arms bare to the
shoulder, a bright red handkerchief
knotted round her head, and her eyes
Hashing as she beat and lifted, wringing
and tossing the clothes, and Hinging
out a sharp or a laughing word to
every passer. Another, coining home
at night with a big bundle of green
grass under one arm, her rake over her
shoulder, a free, open glance, and a
smile and a bow to a gay postilion
watering his horses; another, who had
brought, apparently, her whole stock
of kitchen utensils there to be made
clean?jugs, and crocks, and brass
pans. How they glittered as she
splashed them in and out! She did
not wipe them, only set them down on
the ground to dry, which seemed likely
to leave them but half clean after all.
Then there came a dashing young fellow
from the Tyrol, with three kinds of
feathers in his green hat, short brown
breeches, bare knees, gray yarn stock
ings with a pattern of green wreath
knit in at the top, a happy-go-lucky
look on his face, stooping down to take
!i mouthful of the swift-running water
from the spout, and getting well
splashed by missing aim with his
mouth, to the uproarious delight of two
women just coming in from their haymaking
in the meadows, one of them
balancing a hay rake and pitchfork on
tier shoulder with one hand, and with
the other holding her dark-blue petticoat
carefully gathered up in front,
full of hay; the others drawing behind
lier (not wheeling it) a low, scoopshaped
wheelbarrow full of green
grass and clover?these are a few of
any day's pictures.
The Marriacre of " Freaks."
The marriage of li. K. Moflitt, the
tattooed man, and Miss Leo Ilernanlez,
the bearded woman, led old John
[Jeary, the sword-swallower, who is the
stepfather of the bride, to discourse at
length to a Philadelphia Times reporter
on the marriage of "freaks."
Ihev usually marry opposites, he said.
lie only knew one fat man to marry a
fat woman. Ilannah Battersby weighs
300 pounds, and is gaining constantly
in flesh, but her husband turns the
scale at sixty. They have a mighty
liandsome daughter who isn'# a
14 freak." Fat Lottie Grant is married
to a lean ventriloquist. Colonel
Goshen, the giant, got stuck on little
Daisy Henry, who isn't much higher
than his knee. Fanny Burdette, one
the smallest women in the country,
is the wife of big Bill Bristol, a sideshow
blower. Osmund, the hairy man,
married the "three-handed lady." She
;lied, and he liked the family so well
that he married her mother, who is a
snake charmer. Lurline, the water
jueen, ain't exactly a lreak,
but she's in the business. Her
right na e is Sallie Swift, and she
first came out as a dub-swinger. She
married a nobleman in London, and
lives in b;inff-un stvle. Mr. Geary
said one would l?e astonished to know
how many young women fall in love
with "freaks." The ugly Chinese
dwarf with IJarnum last summer was
on the llirt all the time, and is engaged
to a (ine-looking white woman.
Half a dozen of those (.'ape Town negroes
that were exhibited as Zulus are
married to English women. Jiarnum's
india-rubber man, that guy that can
pull his skin around and let it snap
back like gum, has a wife and eight
children in Germany. Mr. (Jeary
added:
Talking about funny things,
there's that freak, the double-headed
girl?Millie Christine, I mean. "Well,
I'll bet that more than a dozen men
have offered to marry her. I guess
the most of 'em were after her money,
but she knows it and won't take 'em
up. Why, one cranky chap followed
that double-headed girl from Merlin to
St. Petersburg and sent her an offer
of marriage every day. I guess that
fellow dropped about $2,000 traveling
around after that double-headed gal.
Yegetable-Raisini? on a Larga Scale.
The Prairie Farmer gives an account
of the great establishment of
K. J. Lewis, of Chicago, for raising
vegetables in winter. lie first put up
eight glass houses four years ;igo,
making 264 feet in length with twentytwo
feet wide. He has lately added
fourteen more, each about 132 feet
long and mostly about the same width,
lie intends next year to put up eight
more houses. To heat the twenty-two
houses already in operation, in the
winter, from forty-five degrees to
fifty degrees in all weathers, requires
300 tons of Pittsburg nut coal. The
hot water pipes have a total length of
22,000 feet or a little over four miles.
The amount of capital invested in
these houses is $35,000. The land
they cover is worth as much more.
From ten to twelve persons are required
for attendance, including two
men who attend constantly to the
fires.
No person wants straw spelt backward
on the end of his nose.
A REMARKABLE RECOVERY.
HOW A MAN LIVED THE EE YEAHS
WITH A HALF-BROKEN NECfi.
Itfrrivlnir Injuries Which UcmiltiHI In Toftl
I'nriil.vniH?limbic to Move Hand or Foo
?A Chho Which Puzzled the Doctor*.
The Hartford Times gives the details
of the most remarkable recovery
of -Mr. Eddie Crowell, now in his
eighteenth year: In February, 1880,
young Crowell, while practicing on a
trapeze bar in a German gymnasium,
Io.st his hold and went head lirst, with
tremendous l'orce, to the (loor, striking
upon a sawdust stuffed bag. His
youth (he was in his sixteenth year)
probably saved his life. It was found
that the blow had broken the atlas, the
peculiar ringlike bone which articulates
with the occipital bone, and thus
sustains the head, and makes practicable
its free movement. Partially stunned
he arose, with a feeling, as he expressed
it, "as if his head had been
jammed down between his shoulders." ,
He walked home alone, but soon found
himself unable to move his head without
moving his body with it. This .
f /./mh'nnn,! T+ itrna A r,
aiciLt; ui i/iiAiiga v/viiiLI 11 nun* ?ao uicided,
after due consultation with ;
medical authorities, to let the boy finish
his course at the high school, and '
he accordingly rejoined his class and
engaged actively in his studies. His
inability to turn or bow his head con- 1
tinned, and, after awhile, other indica- 1
tions began gradually to point to the 1
advisability of removing him from
school. He was at length kept most i
in the house, though the torchlight '
parades of the presidential election ]
drew him out one evening, eager to <
march with his companions. This did 1
not prove to be well for him; he became
worse, and soon paralysis ensued, s
This speedily became total. He could ]
not move hand or foot. His parents, 1
distressed beyond measure, omitted no 1
possible means of relief. Dr. Jarvis <
and other eminent surgeons were consulted,
but they, after carefully exam- ining
the case^ could not give much, if (
any, hope of the boy's living. Dr. .
Jarvis was convinced, to use his own |
expression, that " the boy's neck was <
broken," meaning, of course, that one ]
of the vertebric had been dislocated. .
The puzzle to the surgeons was, how \
the bov could have lived as long as he
had. They had no hope of his sur- j
viving long. Of course he could not ,
have lived had the spinal cord been 1
actually separated. The fracture was
so great, as it was, as to render the J
fact of continued life remarkable; but j
it is even more remarkable that this
could be, with the "atlas" actually
split or splintered, and a piece of it j
uroKen on. xne paralysis was hi- j
tributed less to the dislocation of
the vertebne we have named (
(with its accompanying bending
of the spinal cord) than to
a new growth of bone to make good
the displacement of the piece that was
broken off. The new growth, it is be- A
lieved, pressed directly upon the now ]
somewhat displaced nervous matter of j
the spinal cord, and the more the bone .
grew the greater the pressure; hence f
the paralysis. The only hope afforded ,
by the doctors was that life might pos- ,
sibly last until the effort of nature to ,
repair the broken bone had ceased, and {
that, if this improbable state of things f
should fortunately occur, the boy, t
being aided by his youth, might then A
possibly survive, and recover partially ^
(or perhaps even wholly) from the j
paralysis. (The piece of bone broken j
off from the atlas is, we think, sup- f
posed to be retained by the ligaments, ^
side by side with the injured vertebne). l
The chances being at least one bun- (
dred to one against any other than a j
speedily fatal result, the surgeons were (
not a little surprised at. the fact that {
the paralyzed boy continued to live; g
and now, after a long period of slowly J
increasing power?first, the ability to ,
move a little linger; later, the power ?
olnvwl 4-a u-ollr on/1 fn rirlo mif TTd ,
tu ^taau, uu vt aizv auu vv/ nuu vnwi xaw j
now goes out daily to walk or ride, and 5
liis complete recovery is confidently ex- ^
pected. !
The Land of Opposites. [
The contrarieties of the Chinese, as
compared with us, have often been
commented on. The Rev. Selah Brown i
writes about them in the Christian i
Advocate. We shake hands as a salu- }
tation; a Chinaman shakes hands with i
himself. He stands at a distance, i
and, clasping botli hands together, he
shakes them up and down at you. We s
uncover the head as a mark of re- s
spect; they keep their heads covered, {
but take off their shoes for politeness, t
We shave the face; they shave the i
head and eyebrows. We cut our finger (
nails; they consider it aristocratic to 1
have nails from three to five inches i
long, which they are obliged to protect t
in silver cases. The Chinaman's waist- 1
coat is outside his coat, and his draw- (
ers outside his trousers. We blacken i
our shoes; lie whitens them. We have i
soup as a first course at dinner, and s
dessert at last; they have dessert at t
first and soup at last. Here people 1
take wines ice cold; the Chinese drink i
theirs scalding hot. We bury in theearth; t
they on its surface. With us black i
clothing is a badge of mourning; with i
them white garments in icate the loss 1
of friends. In that land of opposites i
it is the old men who fly kites, walk
on stilts and play the shuttlecock, and, i
to keep up their odd ways of doing 1
things, they play the latter with their ^
feet instead of their hands. In China 1
women do men's work, and men are 1
the milliners, dressmakers and washer- 1
women. With us the right hand is the <
place of honor; with them it is the 1
left hand. In dating letters we place s
the year last; they write the year first. I
They always speak of the mariner's ]
compass (their own invention) as ]
pointing to the south. We pay our i
physicians when we art; sick; they pay \
wliili*. thifv are well, but as soon as thev ]
get sick tiie pay stops. Ilere men kill i
their enemies; a Chinaman gets re- ]
/enge by killing himself. "We use a <
soft pillow; they a block of wood.
They launch ships sidewise, ring bells
from the outside, and actually turn
their screws in the opposite direction ,
from ours.
A Haiul for a J>ccoration.
A one-armed and aged soldier was
found by the first Napoleon wearing a
faded uniform, with a sword by his
side, and breaking stones in the road.
The emperor stopped his horse and inquired
of the veteran, who had lost his
left arm, why the government neglected
him and allowed him to work on the
road for a living. The soldier refused
io hear a word said against the justice
and liberality of the emperor, and when
\ ae well-pleased Napoleon revealed
himself the man was frantic with delight.
The emperor took from his
breast an order which he wore and fastened
it to the veteran's tattered coat.
a rPl?Io io Cnr* vnnr luct. firm 99 Sm'rl hp*
" when you lose your other hand I will
give you the cross of the Legion of
Honor."
" Is that a promise, my emperor,"
exclaimed the veteran.
" It is," replied Napoleon.
Quick as thought the brave old soldier
drew his sword, and severing the
remaining hand from his arm, at the
wrist, dropped on his knees before the
emperor and claimed the redemption of
his pledge.
[After reading the foregoing "yarn,"
the intelligent reader will be lost in
wonderment how a man with only one
arm could "draw his sword" and sever
"the remaining hand !" Such a feat
would require dexterity of a phenomenal
order. ]
A New York music teacher boasts
that he has taught 1,500 boys to play on
the violin, which goes to prove that
sometimes men can become so depraved
that they will actually boast of and
glory in their crimes.?Sif tings.
FASHION NOTES.
Xew grenadines come in beautiful
Spanish lace designs.
English walking jackets are tailor
made and very plain.
Hammered metal buttons appear
among new dross trimmings.
Trimmings of spring bonnets will
be massed in clusters on the top.
Ottoman silk and satin de Lyon are
combined in new street costumes.
The new foule cloths come in all
shades of new colors for street wear
Ituches and chicorees around the
bottom of the skirt remain in favor.
Amber and tortoise shell pins appear
among new millinery ornaments.
Kobe dresses with embroidered
llowtrs appear among spring importations.
A dinner dress, whether simple and
inexpensive, or expensively costly and
elegant, should never be made in a
style that would render it unsuitable
for a ball toilet.
A long and slender vase of Japanese
.'n 1a..? 4- /"?r*
[JULt/Cijr 111 JU>Y UU11CO l/J. 1/U1U1, n ucu
filled with dry grasses, etc., is pretty
to stand before the hearth on either
side of the brass fender.
Foulard silks for summer dresses
have nautilus shell patterns of white
on dark-red or blue grounds, and also
the Mosaic patterns that cover the
ground with tiny bits of color.
Light tinted crepe de chine draperies
are on dinner dresses of dark velvet.
Copper-red velvets with hip draperies
and plastron of pale shrimp
color, are worn by blondes as well as
brunettes.
Sardine cases, casters, butter-dishes,
salts and peppers are shown in the
popular Irish oak, so highly polished
that it looks like onyx, and are mounted
ivith nickel and china in the most delicate
designs.
A walking dress recently made for
i French countess was of striped limjusine,
the color "burned bread." The
ill-round skirt is bordered with two
lounces, embroidered in dark red
square tabs or turrets. A sfcarf, simiarly
embroidered, encircles the hips ;
radthe blouse bodice is gathered at
;he waist.
Cloth costumes are made with two
jodices, that for the house is a basque
A'ith vest, collar and cuffs trimmed
ivith cord gimp in designs of Gothic
)oints; that for out-door wear is a
ong pelisse with full plaiting at the
jack, trimmed with gimp twice the
vidtli of that of the basque. The skirt
vhich is to be worn with either of these
jodices is plain, in front falling on a
> 1..U1? orwi 1,00 oil ;fU f..n_
JtlJ lUUlldC juaiLllig, UiiU HUO <*aa no
less drawn to the back and mossed in
luadruple box-plaits.
Sun-Spots.
The great atmosphere of the sun,
vhose breath is llame, is yet, says Mr.
.'roctor, so cool compared with his
ntensely glowing surface that it
ibsorbs a large proportion of his light
is well as of his heat. But while the
jeneral absorptive action of the sun is
vonderful, the story is still more
vonderl'id which the spectroscope has
,o tell about the specific absorptive
iffectsdue to'its constitution. "We find
.hat whereas in our air the vapor of
vater is present (to condense into
vater drops and form clouds at certain
evels, and to change to ice crystals and
brm cirrus at high levels), in the sun
he atmosphere is laden with the
rapors of iron, copper, zinc, sodium,
nagnesium and like elements, to form
:louds of metallic drops, great gatherngs
of metallic crystals, while the rains
hat pour down toward the concealed
rue globe of the sun are mighty
ihowers of molten metal. When a hur icane
occurs in the sun, the clouds
vliich form the sun's surface are
iwept along, or whirled around, not at
;he rate at which we measure our
itorms, but with a velocity compared
.vitli which their swiftest motion is at
est. The solar tornadoes rage, not
>ver a few hundred square miles, but
>ver regions as large {is the whole surace
of the earth, over hundreds, even
housands of millions of square miles
ind they travel over these enormous
egions'at a rate not of so many miles,
ier hour or per minute, but of so many
niles, sometimes more than a hundred
niles, in every second of time.
Such storms are in progress when we
lee the spots upon the snn. Such
itorms tell us of the activity of that
jreat central engine whose throbs are
he life-beats of the solar system. We
neasure the sun's work, perforce, by
nir own forms of work. "We speak of
lis emission of light and heat ;is corresponding
to what would result from
,he burning of eleven thousand milion
of millions of tons of the finest
:oal in every second of time. But
,vhat mind can conceive the real vitalty
of that mighty orb which seems so
iilent and so still in our skies ? The
ihrobbing of the great engine which
ipats out life and light to the whole
'amily of planets can only be seen by
;he mind's eye, and as yet that eye is
10 more capable of seeing the sun's
.vork as it really is than is the
jodily eye of seeing the distant milions
of suns which the great gauging
el escopes of the Ilerschels bring with1
our ken. Nor can the mental ear
jearken to the uproar and tumult
ivith which the work of the great central
engine is accomplished, or imagine
ivhat would be heard if one could visit
;hat spot which looks like a tiny speck
m the sun's surface, and, passing below
;he limit of the solar air so that
sound waves could reach him, could
ind (as assuredly he would if he could
i'x-q af <i rpimipr.it,lirP! which turns the
hardest metal into vapor) all forms of
aoise known to us?the roar of the
typhoon, the crash of thunder, even the
li'ideous groaning of the earth-throe?
surpassed a million-fold by what takes
l>lace within every square mile of that
disturbed region.
Tannin?.
The appended recipe for tanning
skins with the wool or fur on?for use
in sleighs or wagons, as house rugs or
other purposes?is given by City and
Country, and will interest some: If
the hides are not freshly taken oil' soak
them in water with a little salt until
they are soft as when green. Then
scrape the flesh oil' with a fleshing
knife, or with a butcher's knife with a
smooth round edge, and with sheepskins
the wool should be washed clean
with soft soap and water and the suds
be thoroughly rinsed out. For each
skin take four ounces of alum and
one-half ounce of borax. Dissolve
these in one quart of hot water, and
when cool enough to bear the hand stir
in sufficient rye meal to make a thick
paste with half an ounce of Spanish
whiting. This paste is to be thoroughly
spread over every part of the flesh side
of the skin, which should be folded
together lengthwise, wool side out, and
left two weeks in an airy place. Then
remove the paste, wash and dry the
skin; when not quite dry it must he
worked and pulled and scraped with
a knife made for the purpose, shaped
like a chopping knife, or with a piece
of hard wood made with a sharp edge.
The more the skin is worked and
scraped as it dries the more pliable it
will be.
On the Rhine vessels are loaded and
unloaded of grain by sturdy fellows,
naked to the waist, who stand in rows.
A sack is passed such a distance by one
man, who dumps it upon the shoulder
of another, who is in exact position to
receive it, and so on till it reaches its
destination. It takes a dozen men to
take a brick from the sidewalk to the
man who puts it into the wall, at the
back of the building.
To tell the age of a horse never look
the mouth of a jockey,?Picayune.
"
, ,
A STRAN&E MAN'S MISSION."
the life history or "johitoy
AFPLESEED."
A ."Han Who Went About tlie Country l'lnntln?
Apple Suetlx?."Hnkinv n Wildernetn i
JUooiii Like ihc Homo lor Other*' Benefit. (
Jonathan Chapman, better known
as " Johnny Appleseed," was born in
Boston about the year 1775. lie early
drifted to "Western Pennsylvania, (
where in its wild frontier life his ]
mania for planting apple seeds was first (
discovered. Tired of the rapid settle- j
ment of that wilderness, he soon pushed 3
out for the "West. In 1801 he visited .
Ohio with a horse load of apple seeds, j
which he had gathered from the cider |
presses of Western Pennsylvania. He (
planted his seeds on the fertile spots, j
on the banks of the Licking creek. In ^
1806 he was seen by a settler drifting ]
down the Ohio river in two canoes ^
lashed together, and loaded with apple
seeds, destined for the western border
of the white settlement. lie often A
planted as high as a bushel of seed in .
one locality, then inclosed the spot a
with a slight fence or guard of J.
brush, when he would leave the '
place till the trees had in a measure j,
grown. Planting one stock of seeds, j.
he returned to Pennsylvania for an- n
other, which he gathered from the ^
cider presses in different places. lie ?
first carried the seeds in linen bags, j.
but tlie dense underbrush, hostile with ^
tliorns and briars, made leather bags ^
the only safe ones for his purpose. r
Sometimes the bags found transporta- *
tion on the back of an old broken-down
horse, but more often on his own sturdy J
shoulders. He was a man of vigorous
muscle and gre.it endurance, or he ,
could not have stood the long, weary ^
journeys through the lonely and track- "
less wilderness for so many years, ^
journeys in which he was loaded like
a mule ascending the Andes, He al- a
ways planted his seeds in some remote a
picturesque spot, and there let them ?
grow to be claimed by the settlers, 1
whose homes sprang up in the isolated a
clearings. In this way the wilderness s'
was made to blossom like a rose, and 0
the foundation was laid for that im- 11
mense growth of fruit trees whose P
yield to-day forms so important a part ^
of the annual products of Ohio. ?
"When the trees were large enough J;
for sale, Johnny either sold them or
left them to be sold by some settler for e
him. In this business he was as v
methodical a3 a merchant. The really f
poor got trees for nothing, of others
more able lie took old clothing, some
meal or anything he could use, in ex- S
change. Of those able to pny he demanded
money, which he was seldom
without. lie usually took notes payable
at some indefinite period. This ^
done, lie paid no more attention to the ^
matter; quite often it was the last a
time he ever saw the giver of the note. C
His wants were few, and he cared little c
.about money. He used what money a
he got in buying Swedenborgian books, 0
which he gave to the settlers where he v
stayed, and he very often helped poor F
families in need of the necessaries of F
life. t
An old, infirm horse excited his pity. I1
Buying up old broken-down horses and 11
leaving them in charge of some one 11
who was pledged to care for them, was t
another part of this strange man's t
mission. He had at times quite a
drove of aged and maimed horses F
under the care of some humane
farmer. Inllicting pain on a dumb 8
creature was with him an unpardon- s
able sin. This sympathy extended to
the smallest animals, even to insects. 8
He put out the fire in the camp in the ^
4Ur.
WUUU9, UCU1U3C tun niuu uicn mc
mosquitoes into the llanie, saying as lie
quenched the blaze: "God forbid that r
1 should build a fire for my comfort t
which should be the means of destroy- t
ing any of Ilis creatures." He once s
built a fire at the end of a hollow log lj
in which he intended to pass the c
night, but finding a bear and Iter q
cubs occupying it, he removed the t
'fire to the other end and slept i]
in the snow rather than disturb the c
bears. A snake having bit him, a t
friend asked him in regard to it. r
Johnny drew a long sigli and replied; t
" Poor fellow ! he only just touched g
me, when I an imgodly passion put the q
heel of my scythe in him and went h
home." "While at work in the woods g
a hornet got underneath his shirt, and o
although repeatedly stung by the en- t
raged insect, he deliberately took off o
his shirt and liberated the intruder, d
His friend laughed at him and asked 1)
why he did not kill the little imp, to r
which Johnny replied: " It would not d
be right to kill the poor thing, for it ij
did not intend to hurt me." h
He lived the roughest life, camping y
out in tne woous, or, n sieepmg m u c
house, occupying the iloor; his (fress h
was an indescribable medley, composed n
of cast-off clothing he had taken in c
exchange for apple trees. In later ti
years this second-hand raiment he n
thought too luxurious, and wore as a
principal garment an old coffeesack,
in the bottom and sides of ^
which he cut holes to thrust ^
his head and arms through. e
lie thought this a cloak good
enough for any ma* to wear. lie t,
seldom wore shoes except in winter. a
For traveling on rough roads he wore c
a rude pair of sandals. He bought no g
covering l'or his feet, used old cast-off
boots or shoes, generally unmatched ^
and wore them while they would stick n
to his feet. He made his own head- r
gear; for a long time he wore the tl
large tin dipper in which he cooked j,
his mush while traveling. Hut it ,,
failed to shade his face from the sun. e
Hence he made a hat of pasteboard, j,
with an immense peak in front and f
bent down at the sides to protect his v
face from the heat. He led a blame- ?
less and moral life. The physician ^
who was present at his death was v
heard to inquire what was Johnny 0
Appleseetl's religion; lie liacl never
seen a man in so placid a state at the
approach of death, and so ready to
enter upon another life.?Grange Visitor
Paper Domes.
The special feature of the new observatory
at Columbia college, Xew '
York, will be a paper dome. "This
will be the fourth paper dome in the
I world," said Professor Pees. " They
I have all been made by a firm manufacturing
paper boats at Troy, X. Y.,
and are all in this country. The first
one made is at the Troy Polytechnic
institute, the second at "West Point,
and the third at Heloit college. While
that at "West Point is the largest, ours
is the best in construction and ar- 2
rangement. The method used in the
manufacture of the paper is kept a f
secret, the makers using a private, pat- ]
ented process. The dome is made in t
sections?semi-lunes, as they are tech- *
nically called. There are twenty-four i
of these sections. They are bent over t
toward the inside at the edges, and j
bolted to ribs of wood. The thickness i
of the shell is only 3-32 of an inch, (
but it is as stiff as sheet-iron. On one \
? - r n 1
Slue 01 Mieuomu IS W1U uuiuiig upniuig I
for the telescope, and this is a shutter 1
(likewise of paper, but stiffened with ;
wood lining) which slides around on ?
the outside of the dome. ;
" The whole dome is so light tliat i
the hand can turn it. The inside di- i
ameter is twenty feet and the height
is eleven feet. The iloor of the observatory
is 100 feet above the ground; ;
we were obliged to build it so high
because of the tall buildings around
it. The building is rapidly approaching
completion, and the dome is already
in place."
His excellency: "You have brothers?"
Captain?" One, your excellency."
His excellency?" It's curious.
I was talking with your sister, and she
said she had two brothers. How is
that 1"*-Fliegendo Blatter
FACTS AND COMMENTS.
Idaho is relatively stronger in Mormonism
than is Utah, there being ten
Mormon representatives in its legislature,
one of whom is a bishop in the
church, and fully one-third of the 65,000
inhabitants are adherents of the
Mormon faith.
The cost of American railroads, according
to the census report, is over
four thousand millions, or an average
of $47,000 a mile. Their gross earnings
in 1880 were $880,450,594, and the
aet $119,344,597, or less than three
percent, on their cost. Their dividends
imounted to a little more than $70,)00,000,
or about two and a half per
;ent. on the capital. The average number
of passengers to a train was fortyive,
and the number of men employed
jy all the railroads in the country was
118,957.
It is estimated that there are 200,000
agabonds and beggars in the German
smpire, including thieves, pickpockets
tnd other swindlers, and the authoriies
estimate the annual loss to honest
leoplc by their operations at the enor
nous sum ox iszo.uuu.uuv. Many or
hese evildoers are brought before the
magistrates from time to time, but
ioth judges and juries are accused of
dministering too mildly even the'mild
aws of Germany against vagabondge.
The evil has become so great that
he government is understood to be
reparing a severe law for bringing
coundrels of the vagabond class to
ustice.
The Chicago Tribune calls attention
d the fact that "wheat belt" of the
forth west is of wonderful extent. It
ites in proof the report of Colonel !
'aylor, United States consul general I
t Winnipeg, who exhibited before the ,
gricultural association of Manitoba !
pecimens of Red Fife wheat sowed
lay 1, and harvested August 20,1882,
t Fort Dunvegan, in latitude fifty- '
even degrees, longitude 118 degrees,
n the banks of 'the Peace river, 1,200 1
liles northwest of Winnipeg. Its 1
roduct was forty bushels to the acre,
ritli a corresponding weight, and Mr.
IcDougal, who had been in charge of
he post since 1877, assured him that ;
here had never been a failure in
quivalent crops of barley, oats and
egetables. This makes the wheat belt :
ome 2,000 miles long from southeast <
o northwest, and the northern por- i
ion of it is settling up very rapidly by J
olonies of well-to-do farmers from
ireat Britain.
John Ilartwell, alias "Anna Ross,
lie seeress of New York," alias "Me- i
hratton, the great seer of England,"
lias the ' Philosophical Astrologer, ;
}rand Master of the Mysteries, Enhanter,
Sorcerer and Dealer in Magic 1
,nd Spells," was arrested again the 1
ther day at Birmingham, charged 1
i'ith defrauding a large number of
lersons by pretending to possess suiernatural
powers. In his defense
he prisoner calmly remarked: "I
lave always noticed that my being
mprisoned lias been attended by great 1
lational disasters, and I am informed 1
hat unless I am discharged" this counry
and its rulers will be ruined, and
hat too forever." But this frightful
icture evidently did not produce the i
esired effect upon the court, for tho 1
eer was forthwith committed to the
essions as an incorrigible rogue, and,
laving been previously convicted on a
imilar charge, he was ordered to be
:ept at hard labor pending his trial.
n l\on01* its
IIIU tiling in yapcx ao puygi
ails. It is claimed they are superior
o steel or iron in almost every point,
he cost per mile one-third that of
teel, and they will last much longer,
ieing almost indestructible, there is no
ontraction from heat or cold, conseuently
no loose or open joints, and
ieing so much lighter than steel or
ron, the rails can be made longer and
onnections perfectly solid, making
he road as smooth as one continuous
ail. The adhesion of the drivers of
he engine to this material will be
;reater than that of steel, conse[uently
the same weight engine will
lave a larger load. There will be a
,reat saving of fuel; the smoothness
if the rail will lessen the wear and
ear of rolling stock, and to say nothing
f the difference in first cost, the reliction
in machinery and repairs will
>e a big item. The rails will neither !
ust nor rot, and there will be no
anger of accidents from broken rails
a frosty weather. Paper car-wheels
ave been in use for many years, and
re have paper houses, paper table- 1
loths and napkins, paper boxes, paper
ats, paper soles to our boots, and paper 1
loney. The inventive genius of the J
ountry seems to be set in the direcion
of making paper fill the greatest ]
umber of uses possible. j
<
The ghastliest example of red-tape I
luis far recorded is reported from the
Russian town of Samara. A local gov- ]
rnment clerk, named Tichenow, after
rinking heavily for some days, ut- '
2rly collapsed one night, and to all
ppearance died. It is not the Russian .
ustom to keep a body- long above
round, and as a burial can't take place
tiring the holidays, the relatives of ;
lie dead man decided to have the fu- j
eral fortwith. When the body arived
at the church the priest noticed '
liat there was moisture on the l'oreead,
and suggested that it might be 1
erspiration; but the relatives quickly
xplained that it was nothing
lore than melted snow which had
;illen there while they were on their
ray to the church. This simple ex- i
ilanation satisfied the priest and the I
iody was buried. A few hours after- ]
rard some men who were digging an- i
Vim. frivivn nnnr lipiiril
rii'S of agony which seemed to pro- ;
eed from the ground. They ran off in
error to the priest, but he said that
lisinterments could be ordered only by
he police. The police in turn delared
that permission must be obained
from a superior functionary,
vho happened not to be within reach.
Die police finally yielded to popular
lamor, and with many misgivings alowed
the grave to be opened; but by
his time the wretched Tichenow was
ictually dead,body and clothes showing
>lainly the fearful struggle which he
lad vainly made.
Divining Bods.
Itossiter W. Raymond lectured in
sew York city recently on the " l)i'ining
ltoil " lie stated that at diferent
times three theories had been
leld by its adherents with reference
o it; the first being that there was
icine affinity between the branch or
od used and the thing to be discov red;
the second, that emanations
rom the object affected the rod, and
;he thirJ, that the effect was due to
nirrents of electricity. The whole
tenor of the lecturer's remarks was to
jxpose the fraud, or at least self-decepl;?
-c tu ...I.. 1 1 ,1 nf.
Liun, ul tnuae ?uu iiau piuutiucu wits
*rt; but finally he asked the question:
"Is there any truth in it?" This he
answered by denying any eftlcincy in
the use of the rod itself, and he said
that the gift of discovering wells, of
which there was undoubted instances,
was due to a sort of instinct or unconscious
habit?which might be inherited?by
which a man, from certain
signs, such as the kind of plants, the
amount of vapor rising in the morning
or the difference in temperature,1
unconsciously inferred the presence of
water in certain spots, and this state
of mind induced the muscular motions
which made the forked branch dip.
Women were first employed as compositors
in 1491,
liiiMir- f' iiiIm
! SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
In the Elm colliery, Buckley, Wales,
a mineral oil has been discovered
which yields a very bright flame with
very little smoke. As yet it is not
known how valuable it may be commercially.
It is not generally known that the
pearls found in the Gulf of California
are considered as fine as those found in
oriental waters. One measuring an
inch in diameter has just been discovered
there, said to be the largest in the
world.
Dr. Skinner, of the Academy of Nat
ural Science, referring to the circum
stance that butterflies are in the habit
of depositing their eggs on such plants
as afford the proper nourishment to
the larvae, i. e., the plants upon which
the caterpillars of a given species feed,
stated that he had observed the female
of a certain species drop her eggs while
in flight, a singular performance which
the speaker verified through repeated
observation. The eggs thus distributed
from a considerable distance above ,
ground fell upon a mass of grass and
violet leaves. ,
Dr. Franzius finds that the tooth :
most often affected by decay is the 1
third molar, such cases forming one- i
h alf of the total number. The teeth
begin to decay in a certain successive 1
order, the lower third molar being first ]
attacked, then the upper, then the (
lower fourth molar, and so on, the in- i
cisors and the canine teeth of the <
lower jaw being the last reached. The '
upper teeth are more durable than the (
lower in the proportion of three to two. ]
The right teeth show a greater vitality ,
than the left. The durability of teeth }
is less in light persons than in dark, ,
and less in tall than in short persons. }
These results were obtained by an examination
of 650 Russian soldiers, of
whom 258 had unsound teeth.
Two species of india rubber yielding (
trees have recently been discovered in ,
British Guiana of a character which in- )
3ures their future profit to the colony. '
One is known to the aborigines by the
name of Hatie. It is about sixty feet ,
high, with a trunk diameter of twenty ,
inches, and is found on the alluvial J
oft-flooded lands of the creeks and
banks of the lower parts of the rivers,
where in places it is abundant. The
3econd is not scientifically known yet, |
as flowering specimens of it have not 1
been obtained. It is one of the largest 1
trees of a forest flora peculiarly rich in )
large types. The trunk is four or five '
feet in'diameter, and runs up straight J
sixty or seventy feet unbranched, above
which the head extends many feet 5
more. Oa its discovery recently a few 1
branchlets could only be obtained by *
3hooting them off with large shot. The (
bark is thick and wonderfully rich in '
milk of excellent quality, and the 1
elasticity and tenacity of the rubber (
3eem to be unsurpassed. 1
_ __ _ __ ^
MnwInA MAnafnvu
iUflllUV 1UVUOIVVOI
Ships are often imperiled by striking *
water-logged wrecks, and they also :
encounter dangers from floating !
obstacles of an animate nature. In !
regard to the latter, an old sea captain
recently said: ^
Whales and other sea monsters have *
sunk or disabled vessels in a number j
of instances, and captains of steamers ;
have reported losing blades of their i
propellers by coming in contact with ,
them. One of the Havana steamships '
was caught in a school of whales about .
a year ago, when thirty-six hours out !
from Xew York. Several of the plates 1
in her bow were driven in, and in order :
to save the propeller she was forced
to lay to until the school had passed.
There was a time when mariners (
stood in great fear of the cut-throal '
swordfish, which used to go about *
"knifing" inoffensive merchantmen J
without the slightest provocation. But '
the iron ships of the present day are 1
quite secure from such attacks, and 1
the swordfish is forced to realize its !
own littleness and devote itself to the !
destruction of whales.
Other sea monsters have been known
to assault vessels. It is said that devil- 1
fish have seized the cables of small 1
crafts and dragged them out to sex '
Some years ago a vessel bound for (
the East Indies put into St. Helena in 1
distress, and reported having been run t
into by a huge sea monster. After- J
ward, when she was placed in a dry J
dock, an immense horn was found im- !
bedded among her timbers.
There is a peculiar breed of whale ?
which, instead of using its tail as a
weapon of offense or defense, plunges 1
headlong at whatever approaches. It 1
was nrobablv a full-crown specimen of *
this kind that sank the Norwegian
bark Columbia in the fall of 1879.
The bark was somewhere near Ihe
banks of Newfoundland, and was sailing
due west under a full spread of
lanvas. It was a line, bracing morning,
and the whale was getting its
blood in circulation by a little run of a
few hundred miles toward the eastward.
The result was a violent concussion.
The whale's blood dyed the
water a deep red, while a large hole
was knocked in the Columbia's bow
beneath the water-mark.
After the whale had splashed about
for a moment he disappeared, and soon
afterward the crew were obliged to
take to their boats. They had barely
lone this when the bark sank. They
were picked up the same afternoon by '
i liotterdam steamship. i
^______ s
i
Tricking1 Animals. 1
There is hardly any doubt that ani- 1
mals must possess some means of com- *
municating their ideas. Arsenic has (
no perceptible taste or odor, and an 1
ounce of it mixed with a bushel of ^
cornmeal will destroy a cartload of 1
sewer-rats in a single day; but all pro- '
fessional vermin-killers agree tuat sucn
receipts lose their efficacy in a very ]
short time. Somehow or other the sur?
vivors manage to tractthe mischief to
its cause; and old rats have been ob- ;
served in the act of driving their young
from a dish of poisoned hash. When
the British lirst effected a settlement
in Singapore, the traffic in monkeys
soon became a regular branch of industry.
The ubiquitous Chinaman
used to go on trapping expeditions to
the hills at a time of the year when
the mountain macaques were rather
hard up for provisions and could be
baited with " fuddle-cakes"?i. e., ricebread
soaked in a mixture of sugar and
rum. The trapper used to hide behind
a tree and let the monkey assemblage
enjoy his bounty till their antics suggest
a1 that it was time for him to rush
in liL-o f'vrna ?ntr> tlio hnnmiot. Violl nf
***> ' "" *""" v"v
Belshazzar. Experience, however, soon
taught the little mountaineers to change
their tactics. Instead of devouring the
fuddle-cakes on the spot, they learned
to gather them up and defer the feast
till they reached a retreat where they
could hope to be left alone in their
glory. But the trappers, too, have
since changed their plan. They manufacture
a sort of narrow-necked jars,
about the size of sarsaparilla bottles,
and, after filling them with a melange
of syrup anil alcohol, they tie them
firmly to the root of a tree and withdraw
out of sight. The monkeys come
down and sip the nectar, a little at a
time, till many a mickle has muddled
their perceptives to the degree which
the founder of Buddhism would have
called the first stage of Nirvanna?in{difference
to earthly concernments in
general. The trapper then appruai'hes
and collects his guests, whose exalted
feelings often manifest themselves in a
peculiar way. Some receive their captor
with open arms, some hug their
bottles with approbative grunts, while
others lie on the ground, contemplating
the sky in ecstatic silence.?Popular
Hciencv Monthly. '
' WISE WORDS. |H
One true friend adds more to ou^^H
happiness than a thousand enemies tfl I
our unhappiness.
Do not feel proud at having supB^J
ported your misfortune. How couU^^H
you not have supported it?
Both erudition and agricultureough^^H
to be encouraged by government; Wi^^H
and manufactures will come of theuifl^H
selves.
No man can possibly improve in any^^H
company for which he has not respect
enough to be under some degree of restraint.
^^9
A plain narrative of any remarkable
fact, emphatically related, has a more
striking effect without the author's
comment. HH
The best government - is not that
which renders the individual happiest, ^H|
but that which renders the greatest Hh
number happy. Hfl
The talent of success is not^g^jH
more than doing what you^^H^H^H
well, and doing whatever you
out a thought of fame.
Have the courage to show
spect for honesty in whatevei^^^^^HH
appears, and your contempt
honesty and duplicity, by whojnsft^^^^H
exhibited.
The young, obscure years ought
be incessantly employed in gaining
knowledge of things worth knowing;- ]BB
especially of heroic human souls
worth knowing; and the obscurer such
Shears are, it is apt to be the better.
Though psychologists make no mention
of the fact, yet it has been undeaiably
proved, from past history, as
well as from present experience, that
nen are as fully skves to certain^^H
whims and fancies as the weakest wo- ;HH
nan ever born.
An Indian Winter (jarne. ^8
The boys of the United States and.
Janada are indebted to the Indians tor
\ numV-r of their most interesting HE
sports. But while many of their . BBS
games are well known, the Indiana SB
ir.ve others peculiar to themselves, and
p ith which even their near neighbors, flm
?,re but slightly acquainted. Throw- ' ?
ng the snow-snake is one of the
latter. gsm
The "snow-snake," or "ka-whant," HB
is it is called in tlie Onondaga dialect, MS
is made on the principle of the sleighrunner,
and consists of a long hickory jh?|
pole or stick, with a slight upward Mnl
iurve and point at one end, while the MBaS!
Dther is provided with a small notch. IjBgB
rhe under side is made flat and- BaBI
smooth, so as to slip easily over the HB|
mow or ice, upon which, when skillfully
thrown, it will slide for a long Eraj
listance. To make it glide still more rasj
easily, the under surface is waxed
ind rubbed with a piece of 11m
;loth until beautifully smooth and Bh
polished. The pointed end is fur- KfjS
lished with a tip of lead or solder,
sometimes of a very fancy design. Hn
The length and weight of the snow- V||
snake varies in proportion to the B||
aronrrth nf tho norann fnr U'hfiSA llSft * Hk9
t i3 intended. Those made for young l||i
joys are not more than four or five
:eet long, while for larger boys and Jig
rou ng men they range from six to )??
jight feet in length. They are made IffijS
lomewhat tapering, being largest near
;he curved end, where they are usually Kl
ibout an inch or an inch and a quarter m&s
n width; while they diminish gradu- risS
dly until, at the notched end, the /Bpa
>vidth is not more than five-eighths or ,H|i
;hree-quarters of an inch. In throwng,
theka-whant is held at the smaller flrci
md by the thumb and first and second B|g
iDgere.
At the Indian reservation in Onon- |H[
laga county, New York, where the
winters are long and usually severe,
;he snow-snake is a great favorite, and SI
i continuous source of amusement...As
soon as the jingle of the bells is heard K?
ilong the frozen highway, and the runtiers
of the heavy "bobs" and woodWeighs
have furrowed the roads with -Wsj
ieep, polished grooms, the Indian
boys are out, following the sleigh- H||
tracks in small parties, throwing the
ka-whant in the deep ruts, which
AifnwtT AIIOTPA cVmninrr
LUUUWS Uliuu^a cygij vuitc, on.i^|yiu^ _?
>ver the lumps of ice and other In- Hj|
qualities, more like a living ere n fen
hanaplain hickory stick, and sug- S|
jesting at once the very appropriate
lame of the "sQow-snake." Although , ,s|
h? beaten roadway is usjftlly pre.'erred,
the snow-snake may be thrown
n almost any situation where the
mow is firm.
The game, as generally played, is 1^
nerely a trial of skill between the ' 1:^
jlayers. A line being drawn to mark 8B
he starting-point, the players step 9|
>ack a few paces. Each grasps his ,J|I
mow-snake, runs forward in his turn
o the mark, and, with a vigorous |9
weep of his arm, sends it sliding and
lancing over the snow with the swiftless
of an arrow. Each snow-snake
>ears its owner's mark (an arrow,
ross, or star), so that he readily rec- EBj
>gnizes it, and he whose missile is
arthest in advance is declared the
vinner. In this way a regular cham- ^
lion is chosen. The distance that U-|!
h ps? contrivances are thrown is almost K]
ncredible, skillful players sometimes flh
naking casts ot nearly a quarter of a H
nile.--S?. Nicholas. ;'j|
Lies of Different Kinds.
" A well-matched pair," said Doctor
Talmage, of Brooklyn, one Sunday
noming, when he had finished the j?a||
itory of Ananias and Sapphira. "There wj&i
s no such thing as a white lie. All jjgjB
ies are as black as perdition. At 9M
-lines the air of our cities is filled with dSBj
falsehoods, lies of all classes, from that Kga
)f the mechanic's hammer to the lyraS
merchant's yardsticks, and sometimes
lies sit in the doors cf churches. The
woods are always honest. The rye ^ H
Joes not move out over flight. Corn
sheaves never make false weight. The |aH
mountain brook is always current. ?H|
The golden wheat is no counterfeit. '|rV
" A ladv said the other day: 'I have
told my last fashionable lie.' There
had been a knock at her door during jgg|
the day, and she sent word, 'Xot at
home.' That night she learned that a j&tt
dear friend on the point of death had
sent for her, a friend with whom she 3^8
had an agreement to be at her dying
bedside to receive a secret which" she
was to disclose.
"Social life is full of lying apologies.
People apologize that the furnace
is out of order, when they have not JKag
had a fire in it all winter. They apolo- "fig
gize for the fare at their tables, when fryj
you know they never live any better. ,?
They deprecate their most luxurious
entertainments so as to extort compli- IB
ments from you. They tell you that ^H|
ihe pictures on their walls are the ujffl
work of great masters, heirlooms in
the family, presenieu uy uuivca
grandfathers. People who will lie ?g3
about nothing else will lie about pictares.
Society is crowded with shams, ^jij
cheats and counterfeits. You must
not laugh outright; you must smile. JHj
You must not dash quickly across
room, because it is vulgar. Society is
full of grimaces and ahs an;l simpering
nainby-pambvism. The tortured
guest retires from a banquet and says
he lias enjoyed himself. The mountain -fa
cabin, with its good cheer and freedom,
has more enjoyment in it than
the frescoed ice-houses and refrigerators
of the metropolis.
"It is lying to deprecate the value of
what you are buying. '/Phe Bible alludes
to this class when'-.it says, 'It is
naught; it is naught sarth the buyer*
and when he hath gone his way he
boasteth.'" 'xgr'
: Ar
after-dfnner speaker who was
call?d upon after many of the coro