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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! (
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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.