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" * The Beaufort Republican. : ......... . - . ; AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, OUR MOTTO IS-TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. VOL. III. NO. 21. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1873. ' - ' {15M.VS2: The Brook. < Up in a wild, where few men oome to look, j There lives and sings & little lonely brook ; Liveth and singeth in the dreary vinos, Yet creepeth on to where the daylight shines. ( Puro from their heaven, in mountain chalice j caught; It drinks the rain, as drinks the soul her thought | And down dim hollows where it winds aloug, Pours its life-burdens of uulistened song. I catch the murmur of its undertone, That sighetli ceaselessly, alone! alone ! Aud hear afar the rivers gloriously 1 Shout on their paths toward the shining sea The voiceful rivers, chanting to the sun, I And wearing names of honor, every one : ' Outreaching wide, and Joining hand with hand 1 To pour great gifts along the asking land. 1 Ah! lonely brook! Creep onward through the pines. Press through the gloom to where the daylight ^ shines, ( Sing on among the 'stones, and secretly . Feel how the floods are all akin to thee 1 Drink the sweet rain the gentle heaven sendeth; j Hold thy own path, howeverward it tendeth; ] For somowhere, underneath the eternal sky, Thou, too, shal' und the rivers, by-aud-by! ( f MY WIFE'S >*EW BONNET. "Mrs. Jackspratt," said I, "if you love me, dou't ask me for money. Times are hard?exceedingly hard, Mrs. J., and I have just all I can do to make both ends meet." ' But, my dear "William. I've worn this bounot all Winter," urged my wife, "and it really doesn't look fit to wear again." Nov thero is one peculiarity about my wife, my dear sir, which really amuses me, because I know that it is entirely original with her. Ordinarily she addresses me as Mr. Jackspratt, or W. H. Jackspratt, oryou Jackspratt, but just so sure as she is in want of a new bonnet, or a new dress, or a cloak (i never saw a woman who could go through more bonnets, dresses, cloaks, : boots, eto., in a given time without in-! juring her constitution), just so sure , she begins her petiti n with my dear I William; and she says it in such a way, and with such a smile, that?well, really, I can't resist, you see, I always come down with the stamps. J "I am verv sorrv. mv dear Clara."' said I, "very sorry indeed about that i bonnet. I can't remember the time when I have been 6? cut to the heart as I am now at sight of that bonnet, but I am very much afraid you'll have to wear it to church ouce more, my darling." "And is it for this that I married you, William H. Jackspratt? cried that superbly beautiful woman, as she ceased to smile. "Was it for this I left my happy home, where I was surrounded by every luxury that a kiud uncle could supply ? " " Confound your kind uncle! " said I, for you see I was losiug my temper, although it is generally the last thing I do lose. " Yes, confound your kind uucle! " I repeated, while Mrs. Jackspratt glared at me with all the verocity of a female tiger. "He never did me any good, notwithstanding the fact that I have had him thrown in my face almost every week since we were married. I've heard often enough of your uncle, Tom Blogbtar, and of his rambles among the gold mines of Australia, and the diamond fields of South Africa. I'd like Jo seo some of his gold and diamonds, and I'd like to see him too, Mrs. Jackspratt. I don't want to express a single doubt of your veracity, my dear, but ?but saw my leg off if I don't believe your uncle is a fraud." Mrs. Jackspratt uttered a little scream, and sank into a chair. " lie wouldn't have treated mo so," she murmured, burying her face in her napkin. "No, of course he wouldn,t," said I. " Fortunately I know who you refer to. I've heard since our marriage, of everything that your old lover, Captain Dod wouinu i no, nna now, nisi ior van- " \ cty, I'd like to know what he would do j if he was in my situation ?" "Oh, why did I not marry him ? " in- i quired Mrs. Jaekspratt. ( ' That's just what I'd like to know," said I. . "Oyoub|ute!" , "Go on my love." " Are you going to buy me a bonnet ?" I ( stamping her little foot.* " I'd coin my heart into dollars?" i j " Will you buy mo a bonnet?" "But, my dear, I need every cent of , money I can raise this week in my bus-1 j iness." ] . " W. H. Jaekspratt " (calmly and do- i . terminedly) " I musl have a new bon-1 net this very day." V "I hope you may get it," said I, and : j with that parting shot I took up my hat j and walked out of the house. Now, my dear reader, I wish to inform ^ you that, notwithstanding the concln- ' , sion you have arrived from reading the foregoing conversation, I am really one of the kindest hearted men you ever ( heard of; and furthermore, i have no ' hesitation in saying that in my own opinion, no man ever loved a woman with such intense intensity ns I love Mrs. Jaekspratt, and I would do anything to make her happy ; but when a w?man won't be satisfied with the very nesr n man can uo, wny pne xnusi go un- . satisfied. * * j. That was what I said to myself that morning while making my way to my place of business, little thinking what an amount of agony was in store for me, little dreaming that a few short hours would find me the most miserable mnn in the city. i may as well tell you here, before going further, that i am the senior partner in the firm of Jackspratt k futtle, pork merchants; and 1 don't object to gratifying your curiosity so much as to inform you that the pecuniary affairs of the aforesaid firm were in sue!i a ticklish condition upon this par^^X__ticular morning, that a failure was not only probable, but imminent. Tuttlo met mo at the store door. "Well," said I. " We can get through to-day, but God help ns to-morrow, I've raised every cent I can." We went into the store together, and Iwero soon engaged in our customary; / duties, meeting our customers with < smiling faces, as though we were en- i tirely unconscious of the fact that we j were standing upon the brink of ruin. i I think it was about two o'clock that j j afternoon, that happening to glance , 1 out into the 6treot, I saw my wife pass- , i ing by the door, and, perhaps, you can imogino my surprise upon discovering ! l that she wore a brand new bonnet, one ] of the most gorgeous and expensive 1 kind; and I thought?although it may have been imagination?that a smile of i triumph illuminated her beautiful 1 countenance as she passed the door. ? I had hardly time to recover my sur- ] prise when Captain Dodger passed me as I stood in the door looking after my j wife, and methought that a smile of i triumph illuminated his countenance too Now I am not of a jealous disposition naturally, I believe; though, for that' < matter, Othello declared that he wasn't, notwithstanding the fact that we've all 1 3een him smothering good-looking 1 young women upon the slightest suspicions ; but I don't think that I was c lealous of Captain Dodger at this time ihough it is possible that I wur just a 1 ittle suspicious, you kuow, like Othello, s Here were the facts : Dodger was an t >ld lover of my wife's. Ho was hand- i tome, winning, agreeable and wealthy, n For some unaccountable reason, Miss Blocrstar (that was my wife's maiden ^ lame) had rejected him and accepted t ne. It wasn't unreasonable to suppose J ;hat Bhe had regretted it. Only that I morning she had said, " O, why didn't ' [ marry him !" meaning Dodger, and < low at two o'clock in the afternoon, she < was parading the street in a new and } ;ostly bonnet, with Captain Dodger 1 following close behind her. O, no ! I wasn't jealous ; but I s would have given twenty-five dollars at * ;hat moment to have known who s sought my wife's bonnet, and the more [ thought of it the worse I felt about it, 1 intil at last?although I assure you I was not jealous?I was wrought up to a r pitch of?well, we will say mild lunacy, s ihat rendered me decidedly unfit for susiness, although it was impossible, * n the existing state of afl'airs, for me to 1 eave the store until a very late hour I ;hat evening. ? It was nearly eleven when I started 1 for home. I had taken the horse-cars 1 it first, but they were to kIow for me, or f [ was too nervous to sit still, and so I ( jfot out and walked, or ran nearly all she way home. As I furned the corner I was pleased to see that a light was burning in my c .'hamber. "My darling is waiting for me," I t said, forgetting fer one moment my f suspicions. " But haug it," cried I, as , they oil rushed back upon my mind, ( 14 where did she get that splendid f bonnet ?" i By this time I had reached the house, f Below it was all dark ; they had even 1 turned off the gas in the hall, and no ] light was to be seen save that gleaming i from my chamber window, and, as I i raised my eyes,perhaps youcau imagine 1 what were mv feelings to seethe shadow 1 )f a man distinctly outlined on the 1 uirtaiu ! I was sure it was a man, be- ] ;ause he was taking off his coat. i I yelled, " This is to much ! If Cap- 1 tain Dodger chooses to give my wife a 1 aew bonnet, it " 1 At that moment the shadow took off j liis vest, and I seized my revolver and 1 rushed up the steps of the house, in- < tending to burst in aud shoot the cap- < tain in his tracks. i I am not a very bloodthirsty iudi- 1 ridual, and I don't make a practice of ' murdering every man that happens to * smile sweetly upon Mrs W. li. Jack- 1 ipratt; but tliere is such a thing as go- \ ,ng too far in these things, and this 1 ihadow had certainly got beyond all 1 reasonable limits, considering that my ' wife was a married woman. Don't you ' think so gentle reader ? With my revolver in ono hand and my latch-key in the other, I attempted to open the door, but it was locked. I think I did begin to be a little jealous then, and if my memory serves me, < [ think I made some remarks about the 1 perfidy of woman, and declared my in- I tention of wading in blood up to my < ihoulders. Excited as I was, it was very difficult for mo to make any plans for entering ^ the house without disturbing its in- ' mates. I was in such a terrible rage 1 that it is a wonder to me now that I 5 .lidn't break the door down, and rush 1 in upon the perfidious Mrs. Jackspratt ( ind nor military lover; but by n power- ( tin oriort i restrained myseii, aim creep-1 iug cautiously around t'ie house I liad the good fortune to find a window open in tne basement, through which I crawled into the kitchen ; but as I was not very well acquainted with that ' locality, the moment I stepped away \ from the window I stumbled over a 1 chair, aud my revolver coming in con- j tact with the table, one of its chambers ' was discharged, and the report, of 1 course, woke everybody in the house. 1 O, how the women screamed ! and I 1 could easily distinguish Mrs. Jack- 1 spratt's musical yell above all the rest. ] As for myself, my only fear was that ] Dodger would make his escape in the ;1 confusion, and so I rushed up stairs, j revolver in hand, hoping to intercept ' him in the front hall. The women were still screaming, but: they didn't dare to leave their beds, and 1 above the general clamor I could hear a man's voice commanding them to be 1 quiet, and he would protect them. But Mrs. Jackspratt wouldn't be quiet. She was positively sure that tliey would all be murdered in their b ? A J f V\/mi n /l f A 1 A L/C 149, auu one nao uuuuvt lu mc dv.icouiing; and 0, how she did scream ! I wonder that her cries did not penetrate my heart; but I suppose it was hardened by the thoughts of Dodger and her infidelity. At Inst amid the uproar I distinctly ] heard his footsteps on the stairs, and saw through the gloom his tall form , cautiously descending toward me. " Ha," I muttered, " this is my hour of triumph !" And then raising my re- i volver, I took deliberate aim and tired. " Die, villaiu, die !,' I yelled, springing toward him, and intending to catch the corpse in my arms, and?and I did. Yes, I caught him and he caught me, and not satisfied with that, he began beating me about the head with a heavy ?ane, tlio first blow of which near! dunned me. It was my turn to scream then, for bund that I couldn't do anything else is my antagonist held me so tightly i lis arms that it was utterly impossibl "or me to move. " Mercy, mercy, spare me and 1*1 lever do so auy more. You can tak Mrs. Jackspratt," I c.ied ; "only spar ne." " What's that ?" cried my wife, run liug down the Btairs with a lamp in he land ; for she had recognized my voic it the first yell. " You here, Williar Etenry ?" " Ha ! isn't it a burglar !" asked m; lowerful antagonist, holding his can eady for nnotlier blow. I looked up at him. " Isn't it Dodger, I cried. " Dodger! Why, its Uncle Tom, jus some back from " !' O, what a confounded fool I'v >een." I groaned. "But your nei jonnet ?" " Undo Tom bought it for me, o :onrse," replied my wife. " Aud you put him into your ckam ier to sleep, and it wasn't Dodger' hadow that I saw on the window em ain, after all. O, what a ninny I'v nadc of myself, and?O, how my heai tciies J" " Well," sniil Uncle Tom Blogstai vho was just beginning to understam he case, " Well, Mr. William Henr Tackspratt, although I never had th ileasure of meeting you before, alloi ne to express my opinion that, if yoi lou't know any .better than to be jealou )f such a wife as you've got, I'm glai :our head does ache, and I'm glad tha [ pounded it." " But I'll never be jealous again, laid I. And then I took Mrs. Jack ipratt in my arms and kissed her, am ihe said she would forgive me. " But O, William Henry, you don' mow what a love of a bonnet I've got! " And it has cost me a great den nore than it would if I had bought it, laid I. The next day I remained at home vhilemv wife attended to my wounde< lead, and Uncle Tom, who had com lome from the Diamond Fields with jreat deal more money than he knei vliat to do with, was kind enough t ender the firm of Jackspratt & Tuttl inch pecuniary assistance that the; lidn't have to fail, ufter all. A Vocalist's Misfortnno. Ossian E. Dodge, the vocalist am Secretary ot the Chamber of Gommerc if the city of St. Paul, Minn., lins oh ained a divorce from Mrs. Dodge. Ii t lawsuit about the custody of the cLil Iren lie makes this solemn statemen >'n oath: " Ever since she was marriei she has carried a six-barreled loadei evolvcr in her possession, with whicl die has a great many times threatenoi :o blow my brains out and to shoot me. 3e further deposed that Mrs. Fanji; vas in the habit of beating the son vhose custody she now desires, over th icad "with a bathing-brush 20 inche ong, and so severely as to break th landle of the brush." When this wen ion was not at hand, the affectionat nother used the tongs. Ossian 1m >een the victim of grief before. Whei le first set out as a vocalist he urged 'riend who edited a Boston paper i *ive him a "lift" in the way of notorie ;y. The editor complied with the ro piest by sending a uespntcn over in jouutry in effect that Dodge, often hn\ !ng been tender]}' cared for in the fan: ty* of onr acquaintance, had repaid tli audncss by eloping with the wife c ;hnt acquaintance and after working lie ruin had crnelly deserted her. Tli story was told in terms so pathetic thr t created quite a sensation and gav ;hc vocalist more notoriety than h bargained for. It took him many daj io undo the work of his editorial frien ind caused him to lose his temper moi :han once. Singular lVIHs. A German, troubled how to dispor A his money, bequeathed it to a Jma tvhom he detested, upon the conditio hat he always wore thin, white line rlothes without any underclothing. A Mr. Sargeant, of Leicester, Euj land, sought to improve tlio habits < lis bed-loving nephews by putting tl: following clause in his will: " As m lephews are fond of indulging then selves in bed in the morning, and as wish them to prove to tlio satisfactio if my executors, that they have got oi jf bed in the morning, nnd either en >lnvn<l flipmsolvPK in business or takin zeroise in tlio open nir from five 1 ight o'clock every morning from tl second of April to the tenth of Octob< ?being three hours each day?an irom the tenth of October to the fift if April, beiror two hours every mori ng. " This is to be done for seven year to the satisfaction of my executors, wl: may excuse them in case of illness ; bi tho test must be made up when the ire well, and if they will not do thi they shall not receive any share of ir property." It was very hard on tl poor nephews, but as the amount i stake was quite large they had to do i Atmospheric Influences on Lunac ?A very interesting paper on the m teorological facts of insanity appears i connection with the recent annual r port of the Brighton dipg.) Lunat Asylum. According to this report the] is very nine ainerence iu uc lUDtufcu in patients' fits between the avers? number ef those on which tho moon changes occur; and for tho days con posing the rest of the month, and whi little difference there is is in favor < the days on which no such change o curs. An examination, however, < more than 200 accessions of fits showe that, with five exceptions, they wei preceded or accompanied by consider ble alteration in atmospheric pressui or solar radiation, or both. Tho leg! imate inference, therefore, after all,/.' that it is not the moon which direct] affects the epileptic patients, but tl change of weather; and that it is tl coincidence, which not uufrequwnt! occurs of a change of weather with change of moon, which has led tl popular mind into the notion of tl moon affecting both tho weather ar epileptics. y The Terror of Himgary, j Rosza Sandor, this strange character ' who so long eluded Austrian justice to '' be captured at last, and who, during his " sixty years?he is now au old mau?has e seen more ups and downs in life, and ,, probably committed more terrible i crimes than any other living being, is e the latest descendant of a famous and 0 i wealthy family of Hungarian bandits. ; It is aliorrible fuct that his great-grandfather was broken on the wheel after r his eyes had been destroyed with a red- ' hot iron; that his grandfather was . a 1 " quartered;" that his father was slow- ; .; ly strangled to death?all for the most J ^ ' atrocious crimes committed in their selfe 1 chosen vocati*n as leaders of gangs of j highway robbers. Strange to say, the authorities never confiscated the prop- i . j erty accumulated by the family; and j after the execution of his father, young Rosza Sandor, who was then not yet ? i twenty years old, inherited from him an , v ' estate' large enough to enable him to ., live in luxury and ease. But, whether it was in the blood of | j the family, or pride of his ancestors, i " | whom the opinion of the common peo- 1 3 ' pie had surrounded with a sort of ro" i mantic and almost legendary halo, the | I i youth scorned the idea of leading a life ! ; of luxurious ease, nudlic unhesitatingly ; , j stepped into the shoes of his adventur- i | J ous ancestors. _ I In a year or two after the death of his ? 1 father, Roaza Sandor was already at the ! ^ ! head of a large gang of mounted ban- ! | dits, and his name has become a house- i hold word throughout Central Hungary. I j Murders without number were com- i . mitted, but the authorities at leagth I succeeded in capturing Rosza. The : i, authorities ordered that all the accom- ; plices of Rosza Sandor should be se-1 j verely flogged until they would confess what peasants and denizens ?f towns ^ and cities had helped them in their ?. crimes. In this manuer they obtained j the names of four and five hundred pcr>. sons, who were flogged in turn, when most of them added further names to , the list of the implicated, j Rosza Sandor himself was not at first e flogged, but only threatened with the a lash, in the hope that, being a proud v man, he would rather mako a clean u breast of everything than to submit to i . that indignity. But he stubbornly rey fused to make any confession whatever Finally, however, Count Raday wrested ' a confession from him by means of a | curious ruse. Ho sent for Ro^za SanI dor, and asked him to kneel down. The I | prisoner did so. The next moment five of his principal accomplices were brought in. Upon seeing their former ~ chieftain on his knees, and believing his I courage had forsaken Uira and that no ^ was confessing, they turned npon him I in sc^rn ard called liira n chicken theif I and other vile epithets, which so enraged him that he Irtirled the insults I back upon them, and in rcveDge for >i their treatment of him lie made a full confession, implicating some of tho i most prominent citizens and officials, 'e including jrdges, police and others, all of whom have been put upon their trial with Sandor aud his gang. ' Pork Statistics. s ; A second preliminary report of the n ; pork packing of tho West has been n made. It embraces detailed returns o from ninety-eight packing points, com prising nearly all important packing >- towns in the West and South, much ine | formation having been received by tele - j graph within the past forty-eight hours, t-; These places up to the date of making e i their respective reports hud packed if ; 1,523,354 hogs. The number estimated r 1 yet to be packed ut these points is c | 443,800, making a total of 1,007,154. it; Laot year tlia same places packed c I 1,800,549, showing an increase in the e I aggregate over last year of 160,005, or s j 9} per cent. The places not heard from d 1 packed Inst year 521,083. A corrcsponde I ing increase in these places would 1 make an increase in the whole West, I outside of Cincinnati, Chicago, St. ; Louis, and Louisville, of 205,507. | The report estimates to the 22nd inst. ' the aggregate packing of Cincinnati, : Chicago, St. Louis, and Louisville to be u j 2,310,421 hogs as compared with 2,500,771 for the whole season last year. : The returns in relation to weight are -".--I. r..l1 Tl,. ^ j IlOl ?(l 11(11. 1 IK" Ulllllin nai.11 iviinuvv ( i to weight made on 1,145.000 hogs sliow ; an average increase in weight over last M year of 10 5-100 pounds per head. Of j ; 02 points reporting on weight 43 are I heavier, 14 about the same and 5 are 'j lighter. Six hundred and ninety-two thousand hogs reported as to lard show " an average increase per head from leaf !R and trimmings of 1-15 pounds. Of 50 p places reporting on lard 25 are heavier, ; 19 about the same and 0 lighter. id ji A Magnanimous Action. i- A Spanish gcntleman.having in a duel killed a young Moorish noble of Goans, nda, immediately fled from justice. He io was eagerly pursued, but profiting by a it turn in the road, he jumped, without 'J j being seen, to the rear wall of a garden s, I in which he entered. iy The owner, who was also a Moor, liapic pened to be at that time walking in the it garden, and the Spaniard falling on his t. knees befdre him, related all that had happened, and asked permission to conr. ceal himself. e- The Moor listened with much pity and m generously promised his protection. He B. then concealed him in an arbor, and ho ic left assuring him thpt at the hour of re I midnight he would provide tho means >d for his escape. re Some hours afterward they brought >- lm "MVknr tlin rland lindv-of his son. and b ) V44V ***wv* ?MV" * %?? ? ?' j a-j by the description tliey^&ve of the mnrit j derer, he knew it was no other than the >f Spaniard then concealed in the garden, c- He disguised the horror that he felt, and af retired to his room, where he remained d until midnight. At that hour he prore ! ceedcd secretly to the garden, he opened n- . the door of the arbor, and spoke to the re Spanish gentleman in the following t- terms: i " Christian, the young man you killed |y in a duel was my only son, my only love, ,e my only hope. I should take revenge l0 on thee) but I have solemnly promised |y | my word of honor to save thee." a io " You can't do it, sir! You are a fool, 10 sir!" said Humphrey Davy in 1813, id when a man told him that cities would oon be lighted by gas, j The Chemistry of the Boston Fl?e. w A conflagration so extensive and des- " trnctive as thut which laid waste a considerable portion of the city of Boston jr in November, must be interesting and instructive in its chemical aspects, and ^ we design to briefly direct attention to some of these. The process of com- ^ bustiou, whether it involves immense structures, or whether it is confined to n the narrow limits of a candle orcommon ^ friction match, is strictly a chemical process. The burning of Boston was ^ a chemical experiment on a vast scale, rj and withal so costly that the spectators ^ hardly wish to see it repeated. To burn a substance is simply to change p] its condition ; tho matter involved is not destroyed,but from chemical action ^ it is forced into new relationships, or ^ into new forms of matter. There was nothing whatever actually destroyed by fire in this city on the night of Novem ber 9, but an immense amount of material was changed from a valuable or ? marketable condition into one having ? 110 value. The sugar, coffee, tea and spices of the grocer ; the prints, flan- c nels, laces and silks of the dry goods J,' dealer ; the opium, gums, oils and extracts of the druggist; the salts, acids, ,! alkaloids and reagents of the chemist, , consumed on that night were but common and valueless elements thrown _ into complex combinations by nature or art, so as to meet or supply human wants. In the condition in which the hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, the metals, etc., existed, of which these diversified substances were composed, p they were needful to feed us, keep us ( warm, or relieve us when ill; they . therefore, as related to our wants, had j1 value ; we were willing to exchange ^ gold for them, a metal of such noble ,' characteristics and so sparsely dis- ,, seminated upon our planet that we find it to be a convenient representative of p value. We had toiled for months or years to form these chemical substances j and fabrics, or we have sent our ships j . to every point of the globe to gather them up, and we had stored them safe- * ly, as we supposed, in our warehouses. 2 But the lire came, and in sixteen hours v; the whole was resolved into carbonic , oxide, carbonic acid, water, and a few ft tonH of ash ; products which we can ^ neither eat, wear, nor utilize in auy way to advantage. We do not need the P forms of matter which the fire left for us, but we did need the same elements Cl in the other forms, as we had them be- ? fore the conflagration. ir Combustion is a wonderful process. It may go o* rapidly, as it did in November, and lay waste a city in a single P night, or it may proceed slowly, and r require centuries to effect the. same " changes. Our immense stores 01 iner- | . dhudiw. which wore resolved so rapid- , Iv into visible forms, would have pass- a ed through the same changes (in short, w would have boon burned) if no fire had ? come nigh them. This result would ?1 liavo been inevitable, if we had con- 11 sumed them as food, worn them as r< clothing, or allowed them to waste from ri neglect. The burning would have been a as actual as that of which we wero eye j 5 witnesses. The same amount of heat i * would have been developed, and the re- : sultant products the name. All organ[ ized bodies are constantly undergoing ? I a process of delay, which is slow com- j! lmstion, and although we do not see : the light or feel the heat, it is accom- 11 panied by them. The world of organ- v ized matter is certainly destined to bo " burned, but we prefer the slow form to the rapid, as we have had a notable ex- 1' I ample of the latter which will suffice , F ! for a lifetime. It is quite t>asy to understand that 1 j wood and other organized bodies cuu i11 ' burn ; but the combustion of buildings ! ? I constructed of brick, stone and iron : presents a problem not a little puzzling ! to many. A lire, sweeping through the ? streets of a city, lays low whole blocks J : of buildings, into which nothing com- ,1 ! bustible enters, save the wooden pnrti- j J tions, lloors, and staircases, and these, ; J while burning, afford combustible ma : [ terinl enough to expand and topple over f our thin walls, and render the ruin j, complete. Buildings considered fire- ; ! proof, that is, those constructed without wood, can bo destroyed by fire, if igni- ' tible material is burned with them, j1 The Palace of the Tuilcries and the 1 Hotel de Yille, in Paris, burned by the j ! wretched Commune, were fire-proof ! buildings, and without tlicr aid of our American kerosene oil, or some similar 1 inflammable material, they could not;! have been burned ns they were. It ? Uo?*nlc Irnrnannfl ' ^ requircu ui-unj ow iranwn v.4 Uv?,..vmv - . oil to destroy the Tuileries. The 11 miscreants hoisted a barrel or moro j into each room, and knocking out the j heads, allowed it to flow over the build- ,' iug, and when it was thoroughly satnra- ;! ted they set it on fire. Tho metal and | ! stone used in the structure were rapidly ' expanded by the intense heat, the walls 1 were pushed outward, the roof fell in, J and the destruction was complete. Tho Boston fire has demonstrated the ' influence which extreme heat 1ms upon granite structures. They do not with- jJ stand its influence so well as those j built of brick; and therefore are not as J safe buildings in time of large confla- j grations. Pearl street was lined with ;! granite buildings, and after the fire the 1 work of disintegration was so thorough- 1 ly accomplished that fine grnnite sand j1 covered the pavement several inches |; i deep. Water we recognize as the an- ,' tngonist of tire, and it was most liberally supplied in our great conflagration. 11 It seems a little paradoxical ut first; view, the act of poming an agent on to o flpA with tho dosien of arresting it. i when we remember tLat fluid itself is composed of two elements, one of which i is highly combustible, and the other the grand supporter of combustion. It | has been stated in several journals thnt ' water thrown upon the Arc in the form j of spray was decomposed into its gaseons condition, anil therefore actually fed the flames. Now this is not correct. We doubt if a single one of the , millions of gallons employed was thus ' decomposed. It requires a most intense j heat, equal to a blast furnace, to de-; compose water, and it also must bo accomplished under poauliar condition. Water thrown upon buildings is often ! dissipated in steam by contact with I flame before it reaches the burning | body. Most of that used in this city j was" thus rendered ineffective, as the I buildings were high, and the water as subdivided into mist before reaclilg the point upon which it was direct3. Water quenches fire by physical ( antoct with the burning body, coverig it, and thereby excluding the conict of atmospheric oxygen ; also it istantly reduces the temperature of .Tiited substances by vaporisra. By i le sudden change from a linuid to ipor it robs the substance of the heat i ecessary to keep up combustion, which ; i thus extinguished.. The burning of our warehouses, at le time of the great fire, filled with . lemicnl products, was in one sense an iteresting exliibition. We cannot sav ! tat it was calculated to awaken much 11 ithusiosm so far as we were personally i mcerned, as the spectacle was a little j j >o costly for that. It was paying too igh for the pyrotechuy, no matter how , rnnd the display. The nature of the . ibstances burned was peculiar, afford- ;' ig intense heat and names of divers |, orgeous colors. Numerous packages t [ the salts of strontium, calcium, mag- j1 esiura, potassium, copper, barium, j to., were consumed, which produced a i ] iriety of brilliant illuminations, and :1 lese, with alcoholic preparations, | lrbolic acid, nitrate of ammonia, and ' undreds of other highly combustible i odies, gave to the flames a fierceness ad coloring not observable elsewhere, j -Botfon Journal of Chemistry. Tlie Vienna Exposition. The great feature in the building rected at Vienna for the grand Worlds' xposition, writes a correspondent, is le Central Industry Palace, with its nmenss rotunda, which lias been slowr growing up under our eyes. The instruction of this, as of all works, has een a topic of supreme interest to all ieunese and casual visitors during le whole of the last year, and tho ommissioners have turned that rmpathy to good account by admitting I le public to the ground at a charge of 1 venty-flvo kreutzers on week days and I m on Sundays, whereby it has realized a appreciable amount, since on line j undays as many as twelve and flfteeu lousand visitors paid entrance fee. ccess will, however, be prohibited for i le last month before the opening, he Palace of Industry, as nearly as ; ossible, from north-west to south-east, as a total length of 3,000 feet. Its antre line is occupied by a nave taking p the full length, and running 82 feet j l breadth. The original plan devised t as to have all the articles exhibited in I lo galleries, with the light falling\ pon them horizontally,not perpendicnirly. This iH a novel plan of lighting j lvented by Herr Hasenaner, which is ! rpeoted to answer verv mnrb better I inn tho old system of lighting from | boyo. Only a building of all galleries ould be dull and monotonous. In rdcr to avoid this evil effect the centre. pace of tho palnce has been converted 1 lto r. colossal rotunda, tho largest >ofed building in existence or on scord, measuring 320 feet in diameter, ! nd nearly 800 feet in height. The 34 feet diameter is one unbroken span, j 'lie span nearest approaching it is tho lidland Railway station's at London, 1 nt that only meausures 240 feet. The iirwounting dome rests on an immense ron ring, held together by iron girders, 1 lie whole iron-work of the roof weighng 40,000 tons. The designer's ingenuity J r'as put to a severe test as to tho manner f raising this monstrous load to nearly | 00 fpet in height. The original propet was to build up the thirty two | illars first, and then,-bit by bit, to j lace upon them the girders, woigling eighteen tons each. A different node of procedure was, however, I ventnally adopted, and has been satisnctorily carried out. Tho result is a : riumph of engineering. It took, how- j iver, 240 men for nearly three months o do this work. The central structure s all iron ; but, to make safety doubly ! to, an outer coating of masonry has icen superadded, and connected with . lie exterior by girders. Of the dimen ions of the fabric you will have an idea vlien told that a regiment of infantry lumbering 1,400 men could convenienty be paraded on the architectural oraice which runs round the inside i vhere the roof joins the columns. The oof is conical in shape, and ia surnounted in its centre by a double luu;ern, tho brow of which is 100 feet in liameter, anil *u loei lnneigiu, u.munng once more into a second conical roof, from which springs up a smaller antern, hearing on its piunacle the Imperial Crown of Austria. The roof is from Uie outside, architecturally, the principal embellishment of the structure. The rotunda contains galleries ill round intended for exhibits. It is mrrounded by a quadrangular block of buildings, bisected by the nave, which n its south-east and north-west cxten?ion is intersected by fourteen transepts opening ont both ways, each section 247 feet long and 50 feet broad. These transepts contian, next to the rotunda, the principal exhibition-room. They have all of them separate entrances from the-gardens, and are allotted each to a particular country, the name of which is inscribed in large letters both du the inside and the outside so as to be visible from afar. The arrangement has been ingeniously made so as to appoint the easternmost gallery to Japan and the western to the United States, the intermediate countries ranging between, according to their geographical position. The Local Paper.?The local newspaper is taken bv the best people in every locality. R is the only adverti6ino medium that is bought and paid for by the persons whose attention the advertiser is desirous of attracting. The attention of the subscribers to a regular newspaper is invited to an announcement in it without any officious solicitation. almost without his knowing it. Every man is conscious that he thinks much more of the paper for which he pays than of any occasional copy of a gratuitous sheet or circular, which is thrust in at the door. A plot had been discovered to assassinate President Par do, of Peru, by blowing up the railway train on the Chorrillos line as it waa entering Lima, by means of a torpedo, which was prepared with electrio wire connecting therewith. Items or Interest. In New York stoeks are dull and lower. New York city imported ?5,000,000 worth of dry goods. Three more Communists have been shot on the plain of tiatory. The deer taken in New Hampshire ore all affected with the epizootic. Cnpt. Hall's skeleton has been sent from the Arctic regions to England. Business is almost suspended in Salt Lake on account of the epizootic. Monogram window curtains are the freshest pustule of New York society. Oscar II., the new king of Sweedon, is to be crowned on the 10th of May. An eagle was shot in Iowa recently while endeavoring to carry off an eightypound porker. There is a law in Rhode Island by which any man may be fined $5 for calling another a liar. The new census of France shows the population to be 36,102,921, a decrease of 366,935 since 1865. The ex-Empress Eugenie has decided to leave Chiselhnrst, to reside in some other part of England. The Congregationalists of New York State have 229 ministers, 261 ohurches and. 27,137 commumcuuto. A North Carolina wood-cutter, wearied of life, so felled a tree that it fell upon him and crushed him to death. There is nothing formidable about death but the consequences of it, and these we ourselves can regulate and , control. An Iowa man bought a chair at a dollar store the other day, and before night he fell through the same and broke a couple of his ribs. A husband in North Carolina can strike his wife " three licks with a switch"?that is what the Judge calls it ?aud escape punishment. Northampton boasts of a young lady who has framed and raised a barn. We know a maid who raised a whole house, and all because she could not find her back hair. A writer in a long ago copy of the Brooklyn Monthly says: " The judicious mixture of printer's ink with the arterial system tends to longevity and content.' A noyelty for.early spring costumes is foulard laine, aud all-wool fabric, fine and closely wovqp, as soft and flexible as cashmere, yet of as little weight as foulard. By saturating your coal pile with tar water, you will triple its heating power. Thi* jh oiio of themnnifold devices practised by the English poor in the present scarcity of coal. The King of the Saudwich Islands, just dead was a great borrower, a great beggar, and was always in debt. During his last days he would eat nothing but shark-meat soup. Dreadful it is to note from such statistics that in the year 1870 nearly 3,000 .'lUmjjmnfn children were born in New York city, of whom 90 per cent, died eft neglect, opium and disease! Emigration from England to Br&zrl HPems to bo growing in extent, although the reports received from European farmers and mechanics already on the ground are very conflicting. It is gently Jiinted that if young ladies would use a little more discretion in the application of the powder puff, society men would not find it necessary to have two dress coats in one season. The bill for the creation of commissioners of commerce and for giving bounties to American shipbuilders was virtually killed in the U, S. House by being laid on the table by a vote of 121 yens to 63 nays. The benefit of advertising was recently illustrated in Boston, where a merchant advertised for " a boy wanted" in a morning paper, and on going home in the evening he was presented with two babes of male persuasion. At the Morgue in Paris there is nl! ways a detective in plain clothes, whose business it is to observe the impression which tlio' sight of the bodies makes j upon the spectators. Many murderers have thus Been discoveredA Gentleman at Lancaster, Pa., has a horse that takes his children to school in the morning, returning home driverless, and at night returns for them in the samo way, rubbing his nose against the window-pane to indicate his presi enee. If fish did not devour each other and men did not devour the victors, there is no telling what would become of tho ocean. Two herrings in threo years would produced 154,000,000, and in twenty years would fill the ocean so that they would have no room to move about iu. There are thousands of gallons of ' inflammable oil, stored iu old wooden buildings in New Yoik, that are almost as easy of ignition as is a handful of tow. Some of these days a Lowel paper says, a fire will break out. and the Fire Department will find itself entirely unable to cope with it. A little romance about Ben. Wade's daughter and her "tall young carpenter,' will have to be given up. Ben. says that to begin with he made no objection to their marriage, in the second place that his daughter never was engaged to the carpenter in question, and thirdly that he never had a daughter. i The Amherst Student tells of an instance of maidenly plnck, m a young lady whose-escort. a youth of collegiate fame, returned to her after being absent ' 'a moment,'' which was really two hours, in a really exalted condition. The lady was equal to the emergency, and taking ! a firm hold of the boozy student, quietly laid him in the sleigh, took the reins j and carried him to his mother. , The essentials of n good lightning rod ore a sufficient diameter, a good point kept bright, perfect joints, a termination in the ground at such depth as will insure the permanent and continued contact of the rod with moist earth. These, provided and maintained, will yield in security a full return for the outlay involved in putting up the rod and taking care of it.