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- y N ^ 1 ? " tp*"-L IT ''" .' . ? . . . i . w, . ! ?>? ?. T... . . , _ HHJM , ituvi"Pn>1 ^ Family Newspaper: For the Promotion of the Political. Social. Affricuitural and Commercial Interests. Terms $1,50 Year. i. ^ ^ . * * . . . __ _ _ . _ Payable in Advance. V.OMJMK xxxy. LANCASTER. 8. 0.. WEDNESDAY MOANING. AUG. 4. 1886. NUMBER U " "'POETRY." th e *v n 1 u. i > * ito nr t i rvT HsfhTT walk. 4>im you ever Hand in the crowded at reet, ,In the glare of the city tump, A ad lint to the trend of the million feet * t In their quaintly .imude.M tramp ? A" the^HurK'ng orowd go l,o and fn> 'Tie a pteaaant Might, / wrc^i, ',i'o mark the figure* that come and go In the ever-changing nct-ne. Here the publican walk* with the ainiter proud, And the prlcat U? ,hl* g\qo_ni3* cowl, And Dive* walk* in the motley crowd NVlth L.azarun. cheek by Jowl ; And the daughter of loll, with her tre-h young heart A* pure n? her RpotlcM fa mo, JLeep* etep with the woman who makcM her mart In the huunte oI utit und *ha;<;e. Jl >w lightly trip* ti\e country iae* In the mldnt of the city's ilIn. As frmhly pure hs the daMed Kr<ui^ That grow* on lier native lull*; And the beggar, too, with his jUuugry eye, And hie lean, wnn face nnu crutch. > Dlvee a bleating t lie mute to the p*f??erby A* he give* hint little o? much. -When time hn? beaten tiue world'* tat- j too. And In du?Uy armour dighl J* treading with eeholoae foothtep* | through j Tito gloom of the*llciit night, |l?i\v many cf thMH ahull be daintily ! fed a nJ shall milk to Hliitubey jtwyet. *vV h I le many will fio to a nipple** bed i And never a crumb to vat! Ah, me ! when tho hour* ?<? joyful i by. How lltUe ntooy to heed pur brother*' and hist.-rx' Ue.?paltIuk cry In their woe mi;J their billyr ne?,4! . i'et nnoh a world na the an^el* nought 1 Thin world nfotira we'd rail, ffthe byvtyefly love that the father i tftdftllt VVft? felt by each for all. Y?t a few ahort yea;a and lhjs motley ' throng Will all liave pitied away. Ami the rich ami the poor 9ml ttye old j and the young Will he umlletiuxyieheil rlay ; A ml lipa that laugh and lip* that mourn Khali i:i aileuee alike he abated, Ami aome will lie in atately atone, Ami Hotne in the |<otler'e Held. /lot the ami will he nliiuing Juxt a* 1 brlulil. nuu mi win IIIC BI1VWT moon. And JiiMt i-uoli ? trow.l will l;u here i.t night. A ml ju.it Much a rro >v<l at noon ; Ai.il men will he wicked en<1 wonu n will fill. An ever since Adam's fall. With the same old world to labor in, And the fume God over all. A . Labor and .Machinery Tlie ineehuuic.il industries of' ihe Doited 8lates are carm-if on I?y Mrxm ml water power, representing in r<?unrj numbers 3,500,OCX) horne-power, ouch horse-po*er equalling the iiiuarular labor of six men ; that j* to say, if iii'-n were employed to furnish the p.wtr to carry oil the industries of thia country it would r- quire 21,000, 000 men, and 21,<)00,000 iqen repre? sent a population, according to the ornaua of 1880, of 100.00Q.Q0Q. Tha industries art now carried on by 400; ? fXK) persons in round numbers, representing a population 20,000.000 only. To do the work, then, accomplish'd hy power machinery in our mechanical industries and npnu our railroads, 1 -1 vrnma rrqntre men representing a population of 272.600.00Q |u ad?litjoo to the present population of ^br country l-f 66,000,000, or a total population, with band processes and with hone* power, of *227,600,000, which population would he ohl'ged to subsist on present means. lu au fuconniuiu view the c at to the country would he enoimoiis. The present coat of operating the railroad* of the country with pteam-power ii in round numbers 4600,000,000 per annum, but to carry on the same amount uf work with men > and horses wo^ld coat the country 911,304,600.1)00. These illustrations,: t course, show tlie extreme strip;* to 1 \*h?ch a count ly Would be brought if it undertook to perform its in (he old way. ^ ?It jou sutler pricking pulne 01, (Moving (tie ayes, or cannot t**ur bright light, and ll ml your night weuk ami falling, you should promptly u*? l>r. f. H. Mi'IiWui'ii Htrangthroln ? l!yc cfalve. "*i i Iw*. ? ?? - . * ? " Ke^iIiilHccuces <rf Metliusolah. j Hill Xyr, Evolve* .S'?^ie Freeh Ideas Afrout the (hand .Old ^.fcy:. A .reference to Methuselah at a re- j cent public dinner lias awakened iu ' my mind many recollections and rem . I lniaccnces of this grand old man. We ' firet meet Matl^tselfh fii the capacity , of a aou, At the uge if CO, Enoch! aroso one night and telephoned his I family physician to come over and ' meet Methuselah. Day at last dawned ! on Enoch's happy home and its first ! red ray.B lit up the eti 11 redder surface of the little stranger. For ItQQ years J Knock and Methuncluh jogged alcuijg I together iu tho capacity of father and j sou. Then ?uuoch was suddenly cut down. It whs ut ibis timo that little j Methuselah first realized what it was j to be au orphan. He couUi not at first | realize that his lather was dead, lie J could rot understand why Hunch,with i no inherited disefce, should ho ahuf ' jflod out at the agiv^ht U6;? years. Methuselah now cast about him for i ... ? i some occupation tut. I won lit tnkc up I hiii attention and auma^c hii wild ^tan- i ?i ipate grief nvwr the loss of Iiib father. | Hv wittered i^ito the walka of men and | learned their ways. It was at tliia time that he l.-arned the periiicioua habit of tieing tobacco. We cannot wonder at U when we remember that Jie wi< now fiUherh-ea. lie was at the mercy of the coarse, rou^h world ? ^ oBailily ho learned to une tohacco when ho went away to attend busiiteaa college uftcr the death of bin fulhrf.? it is that aa it may, the noxiicia weed certainly huetenid hip death, for COO yeara alterwun'a wo fiml him u corpae. Death ia ever a surpriae, oven ut the end of u long illmaa and after a ripe ( lit Ago. 'In thuite who are )uiir, it I seems abrupt ; so t.i hit) grandchildren, 801110 of whilst survived h;m, hit) children having died of old age, the death (it Mcth.'.i-'elah came like u thunderbolt from a clear fky. Mrlhujudith succeeded in cording tip mortt of a record, such aa it was, than any other man of whom history informs us. Time, iha tomb Insider and amateur niotver, canto and leaned over the front yard end looked at Methuselah, and ran his thumb over the jigged ; edge of his scythe, and went away j whistling a low refrain. lie kept up refrain business for nearly ten centuries, whjlp Methuselah Continued to stand out amid tlie gen cral wreck of men ao<l nations. Jlven as tin* young, strong irinvvcr going forth with hih mower for to mow pnreth the till! und dignified drab hornet's nest hi <1 pa*?eth by on the j outside, so Time, with im Waterbury hour glu*? and his overworked havknife, over his shoulder, ami hi* long Mormon whisker*. and his high, slick dome of llioi^ght, with his gray lnrris hretjuiu of hair around the h-ise of it, mowed all aroijiid Methuselah and 1 t hen J,4?*?ni (ill. Methuselah decorated the graves of those who perirhed in a dofc-n differ[ ent war?, lie did not enlist himself, for ' over OOQ years of his life he was cii enipt. He would go to the enlisting ! plara and offer his services, and lha of| ticer would tell hitn to go horpp and encoursge his grand children to go.? 1 Then Methuselah would sit around ' josh's front steps, aud smoke and i criticise the conduct of the war, alto ' tho ron^ct of the enemy. It is said of Methuselah that he never was the same man after his sou Lameck died. He war greatly attached to Lameck, and wh?ti he woke up ; one night to find his ami purple in the 1 face with membraneous croup,he could I hardly realize that he might lose him. , The idea of losing a boy that had just rounded the glorious morn ofhia 777th ' birth year, had never occurred to him. , lint death loses a shining mark, and ' hA UtrnilfAll lilll ? I -inmiA !-??* I v ? ?miii ihiti mi'i in v .Nfcthuaelah to ni'>urn and mourn on ; for a coutile of more r*>nturi??? without j binr i M^tnujcUl; fioally (jot bo that lie I couldn't aleep any after 4 o'clock in the morning, ami lie didn't iee how anyone elae could. The older he got, K!id the less valuable hie lime beratne, ! the earlier he wotthj rise, an that he ' Could get an early t'.nrt. A* the tcp* turii-a filed dotyly by, and Methuac'.ali got where ail he had (o do ?ai to (L^ftie into hi* loose fitting clolhef and real his giima on the top of u large slick headed walking cane and mutter up the chimney, and then groan and citric*!*- him? '!f fe int his cl >t\c* ? again and ret>T. Ho rose earlier and ' earlier in the morning, ami muttered : more and more about the .young folks j sleeping awuy the l>crt part of the day ; and he said that he had no doubt but j that sleeping and /snoring until break- j fast time helped to carry off poor Lam. Hut one day old fuiher Time came j along with a new scythe, and ho drew the whetstone across it a few times,and i rolled the sleeves of hia red flannel i undershirt up over his warty eH>?<vns ! uixl Mr. Methuselah parsed on to that undiscovered country with a ripo exs ! perience and a loug, clean record. We can almost fancy how the phynician?, who had disagreed about his ! cuse all the way through, caue and i insisted on a post mortem examination to prove which was right and what i was really the matter with him. We j enn imagine hovv ^people went hy pha- 1 king their heads and regretting that j Methuselah should hp.ve tampered with j tobacco when lie km\v?* uliat it aU'ected j Jii* heart. Hut he in go;ie, he lived to a?e his j own ?wnii?ynry uolcs ri?e, floi rish.ac- ! quire interest, pino awuy at last, ami j jnally outlaw. Ho acquired H iur^e farm in the very heart of the county neat, and refuted to move it or plot if and ofti! it Methuselah's addition. He! came out in the Spring regularly tor , GGO yearn after he got too old to work j out his poll tax on the road, and put ! in hie time telling the rising genera* j lion Low to make a good road. Meantime other old people, who were almost 1 JOG year9 old, moved away and wentj West, where they would attract atten- j Lion hikI command reapect. 1 hero was j actually i>o pleasure in gelling old , tiround where Methuselah was hdvI bo- ; ing ordered about and scolded and kept in the background by him. So when at tart lie died, people ' sighed and said : "Well, it wn< better i for bin) to die before i:e trot childish. ' It was best tliat be should die at a j ti<ix? when be knew it all Wo can't j help thinking what an acquisition Me- : thuselah will be on tl?e evergreen shore , when b,o gets there, with all his ripe ' experience and hi* habit of early riaing." i Ami llif next rimming after the fu* ! nerai of 1>osoli\lifatally <!i* 1 not get nut ot bed t:.itil nearly ' o'clock. JusiU'o Bather than l-ftvr. Ben. I'cr'v Poore snys in the Boston i J 1 Budget that Mr. Webster ti?ed s irr.c- : I lime* to i cud the conclusion of a charge by Judge Dudley, a tinder and a far' tiler, a manuscript r?.py of which lie ! }?H'l for n.any years in his desks. It 1 una a treat to hear him read it it) pure and undefi'ed English, n.< it doubtless cntne front Judge pud'ey'fl iij's. "Von have heard. gentlemen of the jury,what has been said in tlou r?,o I.\> !>.. l-.-* j vers, the rasra's ! l?nt n<>, I will ;ir?t a* buee the.n. It i.) their business to i make a good cause f-r thpif clients; ' tj.ey are paid for it, am} they have i done in this case well enough, hut you j and I, gentlemen, have something e'ee I 1 to consider. They talk of law. Why j \ gentlemen it is cot Ir.w wc, waut, t>ut ' , justice They would govern t;3 by . the common inw of England. Trust ! toe, gont'omen, cormuon tonap u a much safer guard for us; the common | ! senro of Raymond, Epping, Exeter, and the other loan which have sent j I us here to try this case between two of | our neighbor*. A clear head and an i ! horewt h?art arc worth more than all j | the law of $;1 thp lawyers. There j 1 was one good thing raid of tho bar ? Ii was fruui one Shakespeare, an 1!?- | , gli#h player, I bolicvo. >Jo matter, it 1 is good enough almost to be in the Hi b!o. It is thi>?: 'He just, and four not.' j It is our business to do justice between ; the parties, not by apy quirka of the ; law out of Coke or IHackjtone, I b >oks that I Lave never read and , never will, but by common eense and ' J by common honesty, us hot ween man and man. That ia our biiMiiea*, and : ! the curse pf (1*1 ia upon us if we neg I |pct. or evade, or turn aside from it. : And now Mr. SherilF. take out thejuJ ry; and you, Mr Fore ?a, d > not k?-ep its waiting with idle talk, of which there has hecn too much already, a* iidiiI* manors wiucn have nothing to do with the merit* of the cu?e Give ii* an Inmost verdict, of which, ft* pjain common nenso moa, you need uot ho uhanm J." Far better thin Hie harsh treatment of medicine* which horribly gripe the patient find destroy the coating of tlie Htomnch. Dr. J. If. MoI.u?u'k Chill* und Fever Cure, by mild yet cfTeotive action will cure Mold ut 50 cent* a bottle "V I " Itise and -Explain. ' ? J 'icxvi of Governor J. C. Shcppnrd on the Important Issues of (he Day. To (he Editor of (he News and Con* rier:?Your editorial in the News and Courier of July 15, in reference to: "Tha oexiGoverunr?No letups in the Dark," meets with invoruble eonimeut in this community, and like you, we desire the candidates for Governor, cr gentlemen whoso name9 will probably ! be brought beforo the convention for 1 that pooiliou, to ami let i their views he known on the important issues of the day. YoJ well say, and , we agree with yon wtr^ that: "Xhere is no pood reason v.hy the Governor of South Cn.tilimi should he | taken on credit. Tiifre is no pood reuson why it should ho taken for ; granted that a candidtte for a nomine J tion is in ucciird with the people on all i important ejueaiious. There is no ge< ?1 | reanon why the principles and opinions ! of the next Govern .r of South t'u?r j oliua shall l?e hidden, or renittiu uii- ' revealed, until the nomination haa | been made, and, for better or for worse, the candidate of tbc Democracy baa been ciio&en." True, our County Convention has I recommended that our distinguished ' fellow-citizen Qovernoj .J. (.' .Shops | pard, be nominated by the State Convention for Governor fui lire ensuing ' term, but it: doi^g an we were aware | of bis views on many of the most un- ' portent matters before the people. We knew that bp was oppomd b? , ^ - ( 1 any interference with tin' Soutn Car- ! cliiiH University, although In* thinks ! that il would probably be well to have j & reasonable tuition fee f r those able i to pay. 'i hut fie favors keeping up and maintaining the Citadel Academy .a j heretofore. -w* That whilst he ii utterly opposed to "teai ing down" theae two popular in ! amotions of learning, yet be is in full j accord wi'h the "Fanners' movement" 1 in the establishment of an agricultural I or farmer*' college, and j??>uM support a liberal appr<'i^rii:<J^^^; that purpose. That he is opposed tn calling a (Constitutional Convention, and is of the !...? ?i.. . ? : - ..r.in..i, r-> 1..1 u'liuniniaeii <i in tlie present ('onstituti >n can Ihe I?etler lie remedied Iv amen linvuts to that instrument. That. lie i? ill favrfr of preserving in trti t tlo* prc?ent h??mestfad law. That he in inditl'ercnt a* to the repeal of the lion law, not ee-ing any particular pood or harm to result therefrom. On these and other issues Govern r Hheppnr I has been outspoken, So you perceive that in recommending him to the* State Convention for Governor we were taking "no leaps in the dark " Hut y??n am right as to ll.o propriety of the Gubernatorial ass pirants promulgating their views on nil important questions before the people, and we second y >ur motion that these worthy gentlemen ho requested to "ri<e and explain." Sumo little* For Women. 1. woman's power In the world is ' measured by her power to plenso. Whatever she may wish to accomplish aIio will best manage it by pleading. A woman'a grand social aim should ho to pIpAce. 1 2. Modesty l? the ground on which all woman's champ* appear to tho greatest advantage In manners, dress con vernal Ion remember always that mixlMty most not bn forgot ton. ft. Ho tho womftU.V aim is to plertso and mo??e*?ty Is the first principal In the art of pleasing. 4. Always dro^s up to yo ir age or a little beyond I'. Let your person l?? the youngest thing about you, not tho oldest. ft Kemetnber that what womon ndnilre in themselves h seldom wlpit men admiro in them. 6. Women's beauties are seldom men's beauties. 7. Oayety tempore I by seriousness is the happiest manner lu society. 8. Always apeak low. U. A t>lain women e??ri nev?r K? pretty.She chii always ho fuscniatips if alio take* paina. 10. Kyery year a woman live* tho mote pains aho should take with her dregs. 11. In all things Iota woman n??k what will please the men of sense before she asks \yiial will please tinmen of fashion. Thousand*q( peop^lqsuffer with back ache, not knowing tli^t in moat cases, it Is a avmntorp of diseased kidneys and liver, which plasters and lotions cannot heal. The hest mid safest remedy is Dr. J H. Mef.e?n's Diver and Kidney ilxlm |l.o> p?r TT 1 I Animals and Music. ? I A saving among the Arabs asserts I tl;at too song of the shepherd fattens j the sheep more than the richest pas*! turn. Tha milkmaids of the Highlands of .3c"t!uud sing to their sulky . cows to restore them to good humor, j The Frenchman encourages his oxen i to exert themselves by singing pleas** ant songs. A camel driver often stimulates his fatigued beasts to step out wiiu riuvYn.il vigor uv piaying on an | iiiftriKneot. Seals ba.v?? been known to follow a boat in which souio on* was playing, and hunter's often tube advantage of the "mini's musical taste. Darwin, generalizing from these and similar facts, says that "the per cejition, if not the enjoy !ncnt of music* cadences and of ry Inn is probably common to all animals." It docs seem that music is the only art which animals, fun's ami idiots arc able to appreciate, and the e?plana t.ion is, probably, that music rests on a puveicai v.*suj comiuou 10 at .iving crea.-ure*. Some animal* show a liking fur eume musical sounds and a diniilce t;> others. .1 lamb in mentioned by Iii'V. .1. (>. Wood which <lt?5i>gl>Le*l in lively tunes, but abhorred tlow compositions. It wnubl show ite pleasure when u polka v.aa played, hut the moment it heard 'God tave the queen,' j it would wd up ? continuous baa-boa,] and silence the inusiciaue by provoking laughter. A Scotch ladv could always put her pet rabbit into such a uag?* by playing the harmonium, that, it would lly at the i.oetinmciit and scratch it lego. If, j however, bhe went to tho piano, und I .... i!.> .i... i?at.i.<? i I I r--j / H"1" ! vent to ]*is delight by rulining rugiui ' jtii.I round the music i*t<><>1. S.'ii.e dogs howl a!! the tit;ir? a hand- j organ id played, ami many men would, j if they weie a* free to express them- t selves um u dug in. A dog is mentioned which hud nicli an nut ipliatliv to vio- j j 1 i 11 music thut lie. would yell dismally the moment a hand was laid on the I how. Mr. Isarwin tells in his "Deecent of , Man," ol a luilllinrli which had been ! taught to pipe a ( ierman waltz. Vt*lien . the bird was introduced into the room where other lords were Lept, nod he began to pifle, all tlio iinucta ntxi eanaiies ringed tl.etr.sn!ves on the near t'.'l tide of their cn^es, it ml listened jwiil? thepreHle.it tun-rest to the por1'. riuc r. Common l.irors. i Nine newspaper* out of fn, and ninetv and nine person* out of ft linn* 1 dred, when they speak of "Congress" I m-*nti tin* lower house ftlnr*, ami oh'.J j it? lie present a' ivc a "(\utjjreft?mwi."? | | The Senate ami the House taken t>?% : gi titer coi;s<ti?itle the Congress, and n Senator is us much a Congressman as ' it Heprescntative is. A like confusion ' of term* exists regarding the words; I "niinmtpr'1 R'ifi "kntlt^iN?i^.?r " C\,%m i representatives at Foreign Court* are ! ; not in any Feme Sin.ha*<,adnra. They i tire merely minister* resident. Only i Jm six countries in th*? worln ? '.lie five ) great European powers and Turkey? j ' Bend or receive ambassadors. ! The difference between an art and a ! i law is a!s.? very great, but the conUm| pnrary press generally speak of thcrn j i as identical. An act may lie passed . j by h>th house* of ('ingress, receive! | the President'* signature, and go on the statute hooka, but until the courts havo pttSiied upon it, it is not a law.? Many acta are unconstitutional : other* are inoperative ; others ngain conflict with established lawn. An act doe* :jr.t become a law until it has ! proven it* rsisop d'efe. Another un? A r. K1.....I . .? ............. uitiimn nmcil II COIlsmnilV made, in speaking of a private soldier i as a common soldi* r. This may do in ' European countries, where class distinctions arc ri^iijly oh,served in civil as well as military life, hut it wont do at all in this frpe and glorious republic where, as the evangelist savs there is nothing common or unclean. These are errors picked up st random?hut one starting out to flod them in hooks, newspaper* and magazines of the best class could light upon two or th'-ee billions of. them a year.?. AVie Yvrk Mail and F.spre**. In advance of the sickly eeason render 'yourat-lf impregnable; a malarial atmosphere or au?hlen change of temperature is fraught with danger; use I)r. J. H. MoLeiiu'a strengthening irhil ail It i i I T* i *i t\ ?.*. $1.01 pej bottle. Earliest Methods of Measnring Time. Tiieatcry la that King Alfred had no better way to tell the time ttiau by bumin;; twelve candles, oich of which lasted two hours; and when all the twelve were gone, another day had passed. Kong before the time of Christ, the shadow of the auu told the hour of the day, by meai)3 of a sundial. The old Chaldeans so placed a hollow hemisphere, with a head in the center, that the shadow ot the bead on the inner surface told the hour of the day.. Other kinds of dials were afterward made with a tablet of wood or straight piece of metal. On the tablets were marked the different hours. \Vlieu the shadow came, to the mark IX . it was nine o' clock in the morning. The dial was sometimes placed near the ground, or in towers or buildings. You see. in the picture, two nun dials that are in the Gray and Black Nuinnry in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. The old clock on the eastern end of Fanmil Ha!! in B >a ton was formerly a dial i f this kind; and on some of '.he old church-towers io Ktig'nnd you may see them to-day. Aside, from the kinds mentioned, the dials now in existence are intended more for ornament than lor use. In the days when dials were insc-d, each one contained a motto of some kind, like these: "Time Hies like the shadow," or," I tell no hours but those that ace happy." But the diul could be u?e 1 only in the daytime; and, even then, it was worthless when the sun was covered with clouds. In order to measure the lmors of the night as well us the hours of the day, the Greeks and Romans u?cd the clepsydra, which means: ? "The water steals away." A large jar was filled with water, end a hole was made in the bottom through which the Water could run. The glass, in those days, waa not transparent. No one could see from the outside how much water had cacapcJ. So there was made, on the inside,cutain marks that told the !;our; us the water ran out; or else a stick with notches in the edge was dipped into the water, and the depth of what was left showed the hour. Sometimes thu water dropped into another jar in which ft hlock ol wood was floating, the block rising as the hours went on. (Jnce in a while some very rich man hr.d a e'ep-ydr: that sounded a musical note atev<n hour.? Popular &'ience Monthly. Removing a, Man's Rib. There is a man at the Ivy Stree Hospital, Atlanta, who has twelve riht on the right side and eleven on left flu. twelfth rib was cut from his righ s.ida lliis week. The man who has tliui hoc >n.o a little one-.-ided, is namct Carmnck, and lie is from A'aba ma Mr. t'nrmuck is a young man, np pnretitly strong and healthy, but ii reality (piite weak an 1 ill For month he had It 'en suffering from cippyemu l?r? ??;?!*t < n by a severe c?tltl. At lir> he paiJ no attention t?? the trouble, hu as ii be^an t > prow be s >ug'.:t the hoi physicians: in the Fcilitr in which h resided, but could obtain 1:0 relief. H then began trying every patent me 1 ieine that ho e >ubl iiear of, hut agai obtained 110 relief. A f?*w months up be was advised to come to Atlanta am have an operation performed. II reached the city Sunday &nd place* himself under Dr. Nicholson's cure The doctor s ?on discovered that th | only chance f>r the man's relief *va in removing a rib and inserting a tuh through the orifice made. His putieti was advised as to the dangerous opera ti'uj, but agreed 11 its being performed Yesterday morning1 Dr. Nicholson aided by other physicians at the ho pital, undertook the operation. Th patient was placed under the influcnc of chloroform, and for two hours th physicians worked over him hcf.ir completing the task. When the opera tion whs finished, however, and th man had recovered from the effect ( the chloroform, ha appeared to h much hetter. His case is deeply it interesting to all the physicians wh have he (mi made acquainted with i The operation is a difficult one an is rarely resorted to.? C'orrtitutior ?r_ t ?. i i - ?i i ? nf iinvrii t 1 iwsni n rrixi gnofi no sine* I've hern c*ing to Sunda School V said 1 it lie Jnhniiio. "Yes.my lamh," answered hisroothe fondly. | "And you trust me dow, don't yot m? ?" "Yes darling," she replied. "Then/* spoke up the little innocent "what makes yrni keep the preserve looked np in the pnnfrv the same a Y*r v Facts for tlic Curious. By a Japanese process sea wood is made in'o paper bo transparent thai it may be substituted for window glass. ! The pa'tn-lenf fans of commerce are largely Imported from the K urt Indies, and also from Panama, and other State* of Central ?>r S ?uth America. It is believed that the fiist circular Haw ever used in this country was put into operation in Worcester about the i year ls20. It was brought from Engj Land by tha Messrs. Sutton, wheelj Wrights and wagon-makers. The Maluva tree of <'cutral India , bears flowers which are now being J exported to Europe for their sugar, of ' which they contain more than half i their weight. The tree resembles the ! oak, and a single specimen sometimes ' bears a ton of ft >wers. J T\ * - * ... | ury pans 01 u plant take up water i with groat force. I n 18S2 a steamship j with n purliul cargo of peas went I ashore and sprung r. leak. By I tl.e swelling of the peas the deck* i wore thrown u part. The name extra j ordinary force has been exhibited frequently by cargoes of corn or wheat. An Italian professor wishing to 11 nd out whether the miasm of malaria existed in tho dew mid soil, experimented on himself by having Infusions of dew and soil collected from unheulthful places Injected under his skin. He experienced no evil results. He and Ids friends made l\fty-two similar experiments without harm. in Italy a living scorpion is dropped into nwiu* glass bottle which contains h few drops of olive oil of the flneots quality. More oil is poured on instantlv unill tho bottle is filled and the scorpion dead. In its struggles to fto* itself it ejects all its poison into the oil, and 'his poisoned oil forms a kov1 eloign remedy for tho stjng of u , scorpion. i in? ordinary cmors or mourning garments are black uml white. Am i* the European custom, black prevailed among the ancient Egyptian. He i brews, Greeks and Romans, and tho native races of this continent. White is the color among the inhabitants of China, Japan, Oceuniea. ami large portions <.f Asia. 80 also in parts of Greece, and anciently in Germany. blue is tho color in Arabia, and I I among the Turks and Egyptian; and M in Catholic Upper Germany it is pre, scribed by the church. Yellow was ! used by the ancient Celts, nn?; lusome ' 1 of the kingdoms of Asia. I In Ciiina eorpulcnco is con.sid-<rt* 1 r ; to be one of the most important ?juat ideations for the lioliling of any puiib {office. It is regarded as a physical* 1 viruie which imparls dignity tc ti.o I ftpj.oara.nco, weight to tho Judgment, and Molldity to tho mind. In China t the thin man is always moody and i disappointed; ho sees himHelf ensllv outstripped In the race of lifo by bin t stouter contemporaries, and, enraged at tho unjust distribution of nature's giftH, he retires usually into obscurity and shuns tho gazo of hij ft llow citizens. Tlje most popular gods in tho Chinese Pantheon arcs those remarui utile for thuir obesity. Galley Slav us l t A galley r.iave is ft person condemnt ed f?r a crime t> work at an oar on t board of a galley; a low flat-built ves Rel with one deck and navigated with, siils ami oars. Among the eurl; e ( Greeks and Il->ranr.a then) slaves wer I* prisoners of war. The Car thgeinisn i) manned their galleys with captive. Q Maiiritaniants. The singlo doubtfa , i passage in Valerius Maxiums has leac I 10 iiid euppoBJtton tent criminal.' e weres >metimos condemned by Homai.r d ! to the gal'cy.*; hut it is probable the i. 1 they wf*re tirst i:a?<1 for that purpo?>? ! under the Byzantine Empiro. In tin middle aces tho galley rowers were con 3 viols nnd infidel prisoners, who were c chained to the benches on which the# t rat. The Turks nnd Barbary corsairi . 1 retaliated, and captured Christian* were put to tho snruo labor. In the rixteentb and seventeenth centuries, ' France, Spain and Italinn repqblicu s used the galleys as places of puuiah c mcnt for condemed crimina's, who c were oaiicd i?v the French G&leribiat. and hv the English galley nlavos. I'hiladctykia Call. i- Why tho Irish Like Greet*. i I The early Colts worshipped the ' Dawn and tho sunrise. It Is more e than protiable that tho Irish preference '* ! of tho color preon, for their flag and o their suchea, arosa from a mistaVf t among those who had lost a thnroug Know ledge of the old Irish language The Sim, in Irish, is called bv a woi I " i pronounced like our word "Rrwi, 1 nnd it is likely that the Irish fondues* y for that color arose from tlio word's exact likencMH in aouiul to tl;elr wort: for the son. In the *nin ? Witv, when we talk about greenhouse, we think r they are called ao because the pbtntt aro keep green ill them during winter i, Vet it Ih far more proi>al?le that" green'' here, in the Irish word meaning not the color, but ti^e sun; becauao greenbonne are built as to catch the nun'* ' ! ray a and alore.thaiu up while it la h|i|1 , den by cloud*, as hn.pent more tha?\ > | half the time In ahowery I retail I fe*? fur If. I J i