The Kershaw gazette. (Camden, Kershaw Co., S.C.) 1873-1887, February 15, 1883, Image 1
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Liftathe world nearer His pleading call I
JOHN JUDSON'S NURSE.
"A dozen tea biscuit, did you say
MntRooneyr?Hl<lth<, baker's wit?,;'
bZl* I'' broml? an<' ? of
' J??t let mo take I
>our basket, ma'am. ?n,l I'll pook .om
In n deal hotter than you could. Yes '
. 'm* ?ylng. there he lies, clean '
body to take care of him but me. And
you may guess ho?v much time I get
maam, what with the ahoj> and theRsix
toi?rBs.featbertop'a ?id mothor
*' But why on earth," said the cus
tomer who had ordered tho tea biscuit
bread and black gingerbread "don't
y<m?nd tho poor
Just what the doctor advised his
ownself," ?aid Mrs. Feathertop. "But
la I the minute you mention the word
nrf?'itw"kta would
Of hifl head, ]>oor soul. -No, no> no .
he says, over and over again, and h'e
holds on to the side of the bedpost un
til one must have a heart of iron to
ry and get him away. And the worst
U,I Jll'r1"* be<m ,"rn*'
Afrl1U?n(Kl ?Ut ?f 1UsPIftC(i?" repeated
:ney' while Miss Price, the
palo little seamstress who ronted tho
top back room of Mrs. Feathertop and
kept herself on infinitesimal morseltfof
2 HnJlmCUt which she picked up
ly knew where, paused to listen
on her way through the shop. "
"Ho was getting good wages in a
v manufacturing jeweler's," said the
bitkoi s wife, evidently enjoying her
?mail, ?**"* "and Mr. Ooldllovo
set store by him, for he'd a way of '
working that he'd learned in foreign !
CS r th0y tel1 mc il'H <luito ? art
set them precious stones in tho gold
"> as they's stay ??n and <***
their colors to good advantage. And
a Particular choice jewd
sent there to bo set as a wedding pres
ent for some young huly-a sapphire
CHHed and It was g'in
int^hischurge. And from that day
h?nllo?r ^ WnPrt<* there
en hearti ?f
Mr oiw ? been any one olse
Mr doldllove would huvo had him ar
wwsLrn thl"John had al
ways borne so good- a character and
was such an out-and-out resnectablft
"an. a, ho hadn't tho hcaTto dot
?M^rged him, of course
jt?. And hero the poor
follow l? out ot place, with no refer
J?* , 1,8 1 know without a
penny in his pocket. And what w?V?
to do I don't know, for its downright
gJJ c,M t "f"" the tlmo to give
hlra hi. drops and look after him as ?
ai Jk man should be looked after "
he frlendS?" M"
no" "aM <??
S" ' , "* " ' "lrHnK<" 'n the
country. And poor folks, mind von.
m?am, don't pick up frl'en,?
there and everywhere like the mil
llonaires we read about."
M!r I>"? mm 'or.
"Pl1"' on
. "f"1 feathertop," ,ald ?|ie, dim
dently, "I em quite alonein the world
n.th no ties to keep me tniay. if yriu'
??m '"^^-^'ngdowu
' , Mr' J ',80n " room and take oare
JmW* " Mr. Feathertop won't
mind the night ? Iiurg^,1' '
4hL,Vm/T'.M.'"" ,'rice' 11 wouM ho .
deed of Ohrto.ian charity," Raid Mr.
Jeittho top
And uK she afterward said to Mm.
ftooney:
"It wasn't as If Miss Price were
you g an ! pretty. Sho's forty, If she's
A day/' said ? he baker's wife. "And
she's had Bmaiipox, as you may seo
for yoursoli, Mrs. Rooney, ma'am; and
h r hatr is red and her eyelashes are
white, and 1 ofton think, ma'am, of
w lat Fe thertop said when first she
engaged our top story bauk; 4P$rgy/
says Feathertop, Bays he, 1 IRje've got
iili3 hum idlest woman ih New York
for our tenant.'
But Mary Price, if sho was neithelr
voung nor beautiful, possessed tho rare
attrlh\it<* of a slek-nnrse? tho soft
a?ip, the quick perception, the noiso
Ii-mh, glding movemont-'-and before
she had been the guard W genius. of
pOOT John Judsott's room for a wcok
the fever turned and he began to grow
better.
'So/' he said, suddenly, one bleak
February afternoon when Mary V ' ice
sat stitching silently by his side, " I
shall get well."
"The doctor says so," silently as
sented Miss Price.
"Why didn't they let me die?"
groaned the poor lapiflary, screwing up
his forehead.
Miss Price looked at him In amaze
ment. ?
"?Don't you want to livefc" she said.
" What have I got to livo for?" burst
out John Judson. "I have neither
name nor fame left, and cau't even get
tho chance to earn my own living. !
They believe me to be a thief. As well
die of fovor as die of starvation. "
Miss Price looked gontly at him.
" There is no need of either," said
she. " I have a few dollars In the
savings bank. You are welcome to
them until you can work and earn
something for yourself."
John raised himself on his elbow '
and stared at her.
" Why do you give me your hard
earned savings?" said he, bluntly.
"Because you need them more than
I do," said Miss Price, sowing jfway.
Judson uttered a low, bitter laugh.
" I thought the race of Christians
was extinct," said he ; " but I believe
there are some left."
1 After that ho recovered rapidly.
But on tho day on which he first sat
up there came a thundorlng knock at
the door and in walked old Mr. Goldi
love, plump, clean-shaven and looking
eminently respectable in his fur
trimmed overcoat and new kid gloves.
Judson started.
"Have you come to arrest me, sir?"
said he.
" Not at all, my dear fellow ? not at
all 1" said the old gentleman, briskly.
" Look here !"
And opening his hand he showed
snugly reposing in the palm some
thing small and spnrkling like a drop
of blue dew.
" It's the Mordaunt sapphire 1 " ex
claimed the lapidary, eagerly.
" Exactly J" said Mr. Goldilove; " it's J
the Mordaunt sapphire. And where 1
do you suppose we found it? "
"I am sure, sir, I do not know," an- '
swered Judson, whose fever-bright
eyes were still fixed upon tho glitter
ing blue jewel as if he momentarily
expected to see it melt away.
" Why," chuckled Mr. Goldilove,." I
was tho thief, Judson ! 1 stole it my
self. Ha, ha, lml"
"You. sir?" ejaculated John.
" I sent this coat to the furrier's,''
Baid Mr. Goldilove, " to have the trim
ming repaired where it had ripped
away. And the furrier found the sap
phire lodged neatly in a seam. it
must have clung to the fur some time
when I leaned my elbow carelessly on
tho table- -slipped in at the ripped j
place and tucked itself comfortably
away. And all the time I was scold
ing about you, Judson, and be
lieving you in my heart to bo a thief,
I was carrying about, the missing
jowol myself. Good faith, my dear
fellow! I've thought since if the
Lord judged us jis hardly as we judge
each other our chances in tho other
world would be mighty slim, eh ? But
I'm sorry ? sorry from tho very bottom
of my heart? and 1 beg your pardon,
Judson! And your old place at the
shop 1s waiting for you, with a littlo
rlso in wages, whenever you choose to
oome back. '? '
And cordially wrung the lapi
dary*# hand once moro and hobbled off ;
and it was not until he had gone that,
jfadsoh discovered that ho had loft a
tweflity-dollar bill on the table, folded
in an envelope directed to " John Jud
son."
? When Miss Price came In as usual
on her way home from tho shirt fac
tory where she Worked John Judson
had a Btory to tell her.
" You've kept my hoart up many a
time, Mfss *Prlta\"'sai(i he, " when it
has l>een like. a lump of lead In my
breast, with your tales about the vari
ous little adventures you had had seek
ing for work in all thoso downtown
places, hnd n6w I've got an advonture
to relate to you!"
Miss Price burst. Into tears when she
heard it.
' "Tm bo glad, Mf.- Judsonl" she cried.
"Oh, I am rto glad! But I know all
along that you never took that jowoll"
"tlod .bless you for thnt!" Pa'<l Jud
son, in a low voice.
When Mr*. Feathertop oamo up she
war full of Mr.Gotrtllove's good-nature
? -the pennies ho had given her little
ones, tho praise ho had adjudged to tho
Shining, glass-topped counter* and
piles of wholesome-looking bread.
" And so tho sapphire was found
after all," sajd*Mr?. Feathertop. "Hut,
dear me lhave heard about poor
Miss Price. Did she tell you?"
" No," said Jud6on. " What is It?"
"tho shirt factory has failed," hbIiI
Mrs. Feathertop. " The hands are all
left without work ; and what's worse
their back wages never will l>o paid.
Vtt\ dftadful sorry f??r poor Miss Price.
J It does seem as if Bhe had nothing hut
ill luck in the world. Hut, there ! I've
loft Patty in the store an- 1 sho don't
'know tho pric6 of a thing. I niUBt
hurry hack as fast as over J r an."
Miss Prlco came down in tho hnkery
that evening.
" Mrs. Feathertop." said she, "l ant
going to give up my room."
' 44 1 supposed so," said Mrs. Teather
top, wrapping up a loaf of Boetor
brown, bread in a paper for a cus
tomer. "Well, Miss Price, I'm sorry,'"
but ? "
" But I didn't tell you all," said Mist
Price. " I ? I'm going to be married
To Mr. JudBon t"
Down rolled the loaf of Boston
brown bread to the floor.
" Eh ?" cried the baker's wife. "It
ain't possible !"
But It was. Plain little Miss Price,
with the white eyelashes, the red hair,
the pock-markod complexion, had won
a husband after all. _
"In my eyes, dearest," John Judson
had said, " yours Is the swoetest face
in the world. It beut over my sick
bed when I should have died, save foi
its help and sympathy; it lighted up
tho dark hours of my weary convales
cence; it shone like a star in my ut
most need. And if you will trust your
self to me, Mary, you shall never, God
helping me, have reason to regret it."
So they were married, much to the
wonder of thvi world in general.
" Well," wild Mrs. Feathertop, " if
Miss Price has got a husband, then no
body need despair."
But Mrs. Peathertop'a vision was
duller than that of John Judson. She
had not seen the glory of Miss Price's
puro soul shining through her plain
face. ? Helen Forrest Urates.
Curiosities oj^ Evidence.
The custom of kresing the thumb
instead of the book was considered by
many an evasion of the moral obliga
tion attached to an oath, while to
others, holding the Testament upside
down was deemed an equally efll
cacious release. These mid other dis
reputable artillces are, however, vyy
little indulged in at the present day.
When the celebrated Sergeant Hill
conducted a defense at the bar of the
house of lords, he propounded a
question to a witness which the coun
sel on the other side objected to.
After much had been said on either
side, the law lords themselves dis
agreed, and the bar and all Btr angers
were ordered to withdraw. After an
absence of two hours they were read
mitted, and the lord chancellor in
formed Mr. ILill that tho house de
cided the question might be put,
" Please you, my lords," said the ser
geant, " it is so long since I asked the
question that I forget what it was,
but with vonr lordships' permission I
will put another !"
A witness was lately called on a
trial at the old Bailey to prove an alibi.
He solemnly swore that the prisoner
on the night and at the hour in ques
tion (11:25 r. M. ) was at home and in
bed at a distant part of the parish.
Nothing could shako his testimony,
for he said he had looked at the clock
just as tho prisoner wont upstairs, and
he had set the clock right with the
church clock himself tho same day,
and it was certainly 11:25 r. m., etc.
"Pray what do you make the time
now ?" blandly asked tho counsel who
crass-examined, pointing to a great
white dial over the dock. No answer
was given. " Don't bo confused ? take
your time. I ask you again ? what is
tho time by that clock now?''
The question was repeated .^^sov
eral timea and the witness was
eventually bound to confess that he
could not toll the time by a clock at
all. Singularly enough the clock in
tho court was standing at 11:25 when
he made this avowal.
We remember a country witness
being called at the assizes to prove
that at a particular hour on a certain
night the moon was shining and at
the full. There happenod to bo no
almanac in eriurt, but tho evideneo
seemed to bo satisfactory, for he had
obtained his information from " a
regular gwnl London stationer's al
manac." The question was asked In
cVoss-examinatlon, "How did you ob
tain this London stationer's almanac?
.Did you buy it?" ;1*:Buy it! No; my
father pasted it behind my kitchen
door nine years ago ? the day I was
jnarrledl" It need hardly tfle said that
information as to the moon's age dur
ing a day in the current year was of
little valuo from an almanac nine years
old. ? Leimire Hour.
Ilow II* HI w thft Bear.
On Tuesday evening last, when Mr.
George Trevors, who had been work
ing in the steamship Cohan, then lying
at Mr. Nergent's mill wharf, Nelson,
was done his day's work, he had occa
sion to go up to the store of Mr. Dan
iel Baldwin to purchase a few articles.
It wai then dark, and when he started
for his home in the Douglasfleld he
took the short cot across the woods.
He had gone about a mile and a half
when he was attaekod by a very large
hear. Being unarmed, and having no
other weapon than a bottle of parartlne
oil, he struck the hear and broke the
lft>ttls of bil over him. The hear then
sprang on him and commenced hug
ging him, when George had the pres
ence of mind to light a match and set
tire to him. In an instant old hruin
was all in a blaze and let go of him,
nnd in lens than five minutes she was
all consumed but the hear! and should
ers. (Jeorgo then commenced to carry
water In hi* hat t A quwnc.h the fire to
save the snout, so as to get the bounty.
?VhaVtam (tf. JU.) Worlrt.
LADIES'. DEPARTMENT* . . 1
The English Wniu*i Skin.
I A writer in an English fashion paper
is moved to inquire whether the natural
whiteness of the English woman's skin
is a myth, inasmuch as statistics show
j that no less than 7,000 swans' skins are
annually imported into London alone
j for the exclusive manufacture of the
! puffs used for the purpose of laying
? powder on the face. Every swan's skin
; makes ubout sixty puffs, which would
I make an annual consumption of 420,
! 000 puffs. The same statistics say that
tons of rice and wheat powder are con
sumed annually in England. '
American Titled Lndlm. ?
The number of American ladies who
sport titles, is quite large. It is said
the most intimate friend of Queen
1 Victoria for the last thirty years is an
I American lady, Mrs. Van der Weyer;
! Lady Randolph Churchill, Lady Man
deville; Lady Anglesey, Lady Har
court, Lady John Lister Kaye, Lady
Fermor-IIesketh and Lady Colin Camp- 1
bell are all Americans; the Princess de
Lynar of Berlin came from Columbus,
Ohio; the Princess de Noer, a cousin
j of Victoria by marriage, and sister-in
| law of the dowager queen of Den
mark, was a Miss Lee, of New York;
the Duchess Laute Delia Novere was
a Miss Davis; the Princess Louis de
Bourbon, the Duchess de Praslin and
the Roman Princess 'Ccncl, Brancaccic
and Giustiniani are also Americans;
while the crown of Holland, in the
person of the late Prince of Orange
was refused five years ago by an Amer>
can ladv in Paris.
Story of a Mpinet.
The pedigree and vicissitudes of an
antique spinet recently presented to an
Edinburgh bride_ are very interesting.
It is the identical instrument on which
Sir Walter Scott's daughters, Annie
ind Sophie, received their earliest
music lessons, contains only thirty-six
notes, and is probably just si"*b a one
as that on which Princess Charlotte, of
Mecklenberg-Strelitz, was playing when
she attracted the fuvorafcle attention
of George III. It bears the name of
"John and Hugh Watson, Edinburgh,
makers, from London." After being
superseded in the Scott family by a
more modern piano of larger compass,
Sir Walter gave it to a friend who had
little girls, in 1817, and in whose
schoolroom it did good service for
twelve years. The owners did not like
; to part with it, and it accompanied
| them through many changes, serving
for several years as a lobby table, un
dertaking a weary journey in 1854,
and being placed in the corn?r of a
bath-room, whore it remained till 1872,
when another turn of Fortune's wheel
brought it back to Edinburgh. The
new owner, however, could not affojrd
it standing room, and sought to plg.ee
It in the relic-room of the Scott mcjnu
ment, but it was thought too largo for
admission. The legs' were qpnse
I qucntly takon off and suspended from
i the roof of a butler's pantry* while
i tho trunk reposed IgnominlouBly un
i der A bed. Now that the cmze for
everything antique has sot in, the old
piano i8 regarded as a thing of joy and
beauty, and, carefully encased in a coat
of many colors, the groundwork
whereof is a " greenery yallery " sort
of cloth, occupies a place of honor
among the possessions of the third gen
eration, who prize it, not only as n,
relic of tho author of " Waverly " h?ut
as a " quite too intensely precious " or
nament of their drawing-room.
Fnntilon Note*.
Embossed plushes will be in favor.
Hall buttons are no longer fashion
able.
Shades in olives will be particularly
gbod.
Terra cotta in all its shades is the
coming color,
Quantities of ribbons art used in
d reus garniture.
The latest in both large and small
buttons are particularly flat.
Matelasse will be used again the
coming ?ea*on for cloaking*.
Vast- assortments of. fancy feathers
will garnish the hats for fall.
Terriv-cottas are to be produced in
shades bearing closely upon the heli
otrope.
Roman beads have never been more
stylish ; they are shown in all th^new
shades.
The singular combination of palo
bluo and dark green is being selected
by many.
Velvet in dark shades and short
pile plushes will be largely used for
dress purposes. K
I'ale nun's gray is in vogue, b\kt is
becoming to few unless combined with.j
? brighter hue. L . I
Nasturtium* are the lending flowef
to-day, and they are exquisitely brought
forth in velvet.
The oddest ornaments for hatsp are
the tiny tambourine, guitar, violin,
banjo, flute, whip, drum, etc.
The latest notion is wear a small
fanr.y-l>ordcred handkerchief peeping
out of a small pocket on the right or
left hip. > ? li? Vw.'-J
Ornaments- in cut steel, such as
hucklen, large buttons and ffcncy
brooche* Will be used on fall quit* of
light-tinted ladles' cloth.
New Woolens for fall wear have
| V ??'
raised polka dots of silk brocaded all
over their surface, either in the same
shade or in a contrasting color.
Handkerchiefs with very minute
colored borders, and the name em
broidered in a color to match that of
the border, are very popular.
Iloavy corded silk material, and
stuffs in silk and in worsted, iigured
with velvet, are amor_? the coming
novelties in the way of dress goods.
It is proposed that ladies shall ad^pt
the Turkish style of wearing their
veils next winter, that is, over the
mouth, chin and nose instead of the
eyes.
White dresses have occasionally the
entire skirt , covered with narrow ?
flounces of Oriental lace. The basque j
is then trimmed with lace ruffles and
cascades.
Cut steel buckles for dresses and
hats are rich and elaborate, and are
the harbinger of the elegant stocl
trimmings, which will be prominent !
the coming season.
White or black dresses are frequent
ly adorned with: multi-colored ribbons,
hoops and long streamers, or jabots ir.
mixtures of colors ? olive, gray and
pink or pale blue cardinal and terra
cotta, for instance, being con jointed.
Primrose, bronze, brown and crimson
form another fashionable combination,
but. the slightest error in tint destroys
all the good effect. Well blended, this
simple trimming sufficiently brighten?
the sombrest toilet.
CUPPINGS FOR TH E CCRIOI S. |
Cereals were so called from Ceres,
tho fabled goddess of corn and agri. !
culture. She is generally represented ;
as being cro\\^?d with ears of wheat.
The oldest t.vin brothers in the
United States are Barney and John
Kepler, ninety-one years of age. They
livo in the same house in Pluinstead
township, Pa., and are hi excellent i
health. * I
A young lady near Biggs, the Ohieo ?
(Col.) Rem -d says, named Bessie Don- 1
lop, wears her hair over seven feel
long. The hair is blonde, and she is
said to be beautiful, with pink lips and
sparkling blue eyes. She is seventeen
years old, and has admirers in all the
land around.
The banana "tree" is a shrub. But
ofte bunch of fruit is produced on a
stalk, which is usually cut with the
fruit; the latte. is rarely permitted to
ripen. If the stalk is left it dies; but
the root throws up now ones the next
season. The fruit grows in a single I
season from the root.
The word ?? book" is derived from !
the Saxon language. Before the in- i
vention of paper the Saxons used to j
write on blocks of wood. Tho wood |
of tho beech tree, called in the Saxon 1
language bok , being cl03c-grained and I
hard, was mostly used for that purpose, '
and hence the word book.
Black lotter is tho name given to the !
Old English or modern Gothic letter 1
It was introduced into England in the !
fourteenth century, and was the char- \
acter used in manuscript works before 1
the introduction of tho art of printing.
Books printed before the year 1500 are
I generally in this character and are
called black-letter books.
The colebrated rose bush at Hildas
heim, in Hanover, reputed to have been
planted by Charlemagne, and therofore
to be more than a thousand years old,
has borne more blossoms this season
than ever befojpe, and is an object of
much curiosity; The brooches of the
bush extend to about throe feet and
eight inches In height, and three feet
and four Inches In width.
Roasting a Prisoner on a Spit.
Philios Alexih, who died in Lamia
??he other day at the great age of
ninety-four, t had in his youth con
tributod ? but only under compulsion
???to onre of the most terrible deeds
perpetrated by the Turkish forces em- j
ployed to crush the Greek rebellion of j
1821. Me WAS plying his trhde as a :
master carpenter 1n his native town
when Omer Brionis Pasha entered j
Lamia In triumph, aftor his victory
over the Insurgents at Thermopylae !
where ho had taken several insurreo- '
tionary leaders prisoners, among them !
tho celebrated champion of Hellenic |
liberties, Athanasios Diakos. The j
fierce Mosl<?m commander doomed [
that heroic youth to bo spitted on a
wooden stake and rossted alive ; and
j Alexins was -required, y on. pain of
I death, , to Supply the execution A* of
this barbarous sen ten eft with all the
implements needed for Its fulfillment?
that, is to say, ? spit of timber flttfxi at 1
olther end with a handle by which it '
might he made iio revolve, and two '
stout wooden treaties provtde<1 with!
circular grooved wherein both ex t rem- i
eties of the stake might have free p1?y (
during tholuckless patriot's martyrdom. |
Oh the aftth of April, 1821, us soon as j
Alexin Had completed the ta?k imposed
xipon him, the Pasha's inhuman decree
was carried out to the letter. Diakos
displayed unflinching fortitude through
out Ids, horrible torment and his death
scene, to which Alexin was a witnoss,
and wftlth made an impression on the j
laity's mi$a tUftt timet could not efface, i
Iferetained it indeed with undiminished ?
vividness within a few hours of his j
demise.
Tones OF THE DAY.
In tho la^t two years the world has
lost 8,508 vessels, of which 300 were
never seen or hoard of after they
they bailed out of sight from port.
The lives lost number many thou
sands.
The Canadian wheat harvest for
1882 l? a material improvement over
tluit of 1881. The crop of winter
wheat is estimated at 82, 300,000 bush
els and tho spring wheat crop at
9,800,000, or 41,600,000 bushels in the
aggregate.
The great granite monument to the
Ames brothers, builders of tho Pacific
railroad, is nearly completed near Og
den, Utah, at the highest point of the
road. It is a red granite pyramid
Bixty feet square at the base, sixty feet
high and will last as long as granite
will hold together. A medallion bust
of Oakes Ames has been hewn on the
west face and one of Oliver Ames on
the east. The oost is $00,000.
A house was burning at Oshkosh,
Wis., and a woman was left inside.
Her husband cried, " Five thousand
dollars to the man who saves her !"
A fireman dashed in at great personal
risk and brought her out alive.
Although the husband is very wealthy,
he refused to give a dollar of tlie
reward ; but the supreme court de
cides that the offer of $f>,000 waS valid,
and that the money must be paid.
Preparations are active in England
in regard to the great international fish
eries exhibition to bo held in London
in the early part of i883. Arrange
ments have been completed to bold the
exhibition in the gardens of the Koyal
Horticultural society. With the exist
ing buildings and such additional spare
as will he covered the total area pro
vided for will he some 220.300 square
feet. The United States will be exten
sively represented.
Judge Brown, of the supreme court
of Baltimore, has delivered an im
portant opinidn bearing upon the ques
tion of what constitutes legal resi
dence of a government officer, and
where he is entitled to vote. The
judge held that a citizen who takes an
ortlco under the government does not
lose his residence by removing to an
other place while he is employed by
the government, unless he intends to
make such place his permanent resi
dence.
A writer in an English news,
paper thinks that the teeth of
Americans must be getting into a very
disastrous condition when it requires
twelve largo factories, turning out
10,000,000 artificial teeth a year, to sup
ply the annual loss, and $2,500,000
worth of gold to stop up the cavities
that appear in natural teeth. These
figures, says tho Chicago lnter'0<*nn,
do not prove that our teeth aro worso
than they used to bo, but that wo aro
taking better care of thein.
The Prussian government, alarmed
it the continued stato of emigration,
has been seriously considering what
means to adopt for checking the steady
drain upon tho population and re
sources of tho country; and it is now
proposed to take the ground thai, per
sons who intend to emigrate must first
prove that in doing so they will not
violate any contract obligation, public
or private, express or implied, like
thoso that may he construed to exist
toward municipal and village coinr iu
nities, families and employers. Wher
ever it is impossible to infer the exist
ence of such obligations, the official
authorities will doubtless be ingenious
In spelling them out, and measures
will he taken to prevent emigration in
all such eases.
Hands of gypsies wander about in
largo numbers In soma parts of Ger
many, and occasionally, emboldened I
by their numerical strength, and
rendered reckless by their necessities,
they do not hesitate to make serious
inroads upon the farms that they come
across. Lately a band $ounting over
200 encamped near ft small villftgo in
the Hessian territory, and turned
their horses loose to graze at will over
the meadows and farming lands of the
neighborhood. The exasperated farm
ers and peasants thereupon armed
themselves with pitchforks and other
weapons, and attacked the intruders.
A pitched battle followed, and it was
not Without a severe struggle that the
native population remained masters of
the field. The interference of the
government will probably be required
to put an end to the growing evil.
From a lately published work by (Ion
era! Htrolbitsky it Appears - t hat Europe
Is 188/KX) square kilometers, or -about.
15,000 square miles, larger than was
supposed. O rmoral St.relbitsky has j
founded his calculations on the most !
careful measurements, and ascertained
that Europe has a superficies of 10,010,
480 square kilometers, of which 9,340,028
belong to the continent and (KVMftB to
the inlands, a calculation which differs
considerably from those hitherto made.
It General Ktrelhjtsky be correct, the
sIzoofScandlnavh.Francoand Hunger v
has hithorto been undervalued, while
that of Italy, Great Britain, fopaln and
Portugal have- been exaggerated. The
three smallest European States hav<.
the following size: Liechtenstein.
159 ; San Marino, 85, and Andorra, 21
square kilometers, the latter beine.
about one-third as lar^e as the city oi
Berlin, which has a superficies oi
60.6 square kilometers.
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
A mountain sheep weighing tw"
hundred pounds was recently killed in
Arizona.
Itosettu Day, aged 110 years, and >?
native of Virginia, is an inmate of the
Washington almsnou.se.
A strange and curious animal wa<
recently killed by a hunter in the Stat"
of Morclos, Mexico. It was about the
size oi an ordinary donkey, ot a grayish
color, had very thick liair, and its up"
pT lip was some four mHies longer
than the lower one.
The honor of kissing the toe of the
sultan of Turkey is reserved f??r the
vizier, ministers and certain privileged
pashas. This honing1 is performed
j with the utm >st solemnity, and is
I marked by every sign of respect w? rthy
i of so important an occasion.
j The oldest deed in Ann rica is in
, possession of Major I>i rid. ot NVw
! York. It is dat d 1'iJ". ? * i t^i* ? ?**?:? v*ar
1 "
after the discovery hy ('dutubus, and
I conveys l 1 l.n 1. i!i l.,%nj?
Island Sound, from certain Indian
' chiefs, t > .lolm Cabot, whose signature
it hears.
The earlv (ir eks and Persian* used
1 ?
! marine signal ', ma\ing them not bv
(lags but by t ic p ? <it ion of their sails
j and by holding shield-. in various posi
' tions. A code ot Mag signals wa ?
! made in 1-1:1 > bv \'en -tian captain
and the lirst English signal was iutre
i dnced by .1 allies II., Duke of York,
j In the fifteenth and sixteenth cen
' turie.s the counts of Kaerfenburg kepi
I in their castle, a beaker holding tWh
I quarts, and eha'lenged guests to drain
1 it at a draught ; but. since l"?8t> very
1 few have been able to perform tin1
feat, and since IVmsia became a king
j dom it has not been performed at all.
Oswaldus Xorhingerus, who was
famous for his minute contrivances, is
. said to have made 1,000 dishes of
! turned ivory, all perfect and complete
; in every part, yet no small, thin and
I slender that all of them were included
, in a cup tinned out of a peppercorn
of the common size. They were almost
| invisible to the eye.
j Where do the red and speckled ear.,
j of corn conic from when white corn
| alone Ts planted, asks an exchange.
! Why don't we ever find an ear with
! an odd number of rows? You can
I lind a four-leaf clover, but never the
! odd row on an car of corn. They
' always have fourteen, sixteen, twenty
or some other even number. What
objections has nature to odd numbers?
Some months ago a curious freak ol
nature occurred on the farm of Robert
Jackson, about six iniles west of Mill
dleville, Ihirry county, Mirh. In a
corner of one of his fields, where there
had never been any appearance of
water and where the land was high
I and dry, a stream of water about tho
size of a man's body suddenly burst
forth. A large oak tree which stood
in close proximity was prostrated.
The water is lugldy charged with
sulphur.
James Jh-atty, of Huntington,
Long Island, has a well on his
premises that appear!} to be both
a curiosity and a puzzle. The
well is twenty-three feet deep, and it is
said that it is dry every year from
January 1 to the lirst week in March
as regular as the days of the year. It
will be as full the day before It, dries
up as at any time during the year, and
on the following morning not a drop
is to be seen where a depth id' three or
four feet existed before. About. I lie.
first week in March tne well lillu again
in a few moments, and continues so for
the remainder of the year.
Miot 1 1 vo Men In Hve Minute*.
It does not hoc i ii to be generally
known that. Dallas Studenmeyer, I Tni
ted States marshal, who was recently
killed at El I'aso, is the same man who
achieved such notoriety Home t.ionthri
ago Ity killing live men in iw; many min
utes. The circumstances a.s then re
lated are about, /s follows: Ntuden
meyer had heen elected marshal of El
I'jtso, and the day after the result was
declared the ex-marshal and four of his
friends came suddenly upon him while,
lie was silling in ,pont of the
El I'nso hotel, and opened Hrn
with shotguns and six shooters.
Studenmeyer jrmped up, and draw
ng his pistols shot every one of
them squarely through the heart, kill
ing the whole live instantly, except the
ex-marshal, who lived ahout an hour.
Things were made so uncomfortab'y
warm for him that lie had to leave El
I'aso. The .)fa 1 1 gets these facts from
an eye witness. Studenmeyer wan
dered around the country, visiting
Oalveston, llrenbain, Fort Worth, La
redo and other points, and finally went
hack to his death. He was described
as a medium-sized man, very quiet and
not easily aroused, but he was invari
ably on hand when wanted. Ifo was
held in dread by the desperadoes and
his loss is universally regretted by his
fellow officers. ? (Jalwutnn (Text*)
Mail.
Field-Paths.
Paths of the fields,
Ob pleasant paths ! that stray
Through t ho doop wind-trod pastures of thl
spring.
Through all tho glory and the blossoming
That summer yields,
Companioned of the golden buttercup
L'p in heaven's far cloud-flocked sapphire
gating? up.
Piercing to heights that seo tho sky lark
siug.
From the w>.rid'>? wear.ncsa, from hope's
decay,
Lend uu\ Oh lend me, ploasaut paths away?
Paths of Iho tk'lda !
Who knows not hours ?
Hours who i hfo longs to cense
I ts cudkv.> (iiKMtioniug of the mystery
Of sorrow ; when the oternal ill wo see
Ml hope o'erjowors?
Oh in such hours of darkness and of fear,
In joy niul quietude alike, bo near :
Ntvu in deep trnmpiiluess and gladnossbel
Through na'ure's placid caitn, tlirough sweet
ro'enso
From doubt, from tenn?, Oh load mo, paths
of poact?
Paths of the fie1 .1 !
? ' mm C. lienned.
P U N (i K NT I? A It AO It A I'll S.
An oM feud: The feeling between
ague and quinine is exceedingly bitter.
In (he cup ot life youth is the sugar,
middle ago the cream and old age the
dregs.
It was Chauecr that appropriately
said, " 'I^ere is nothing new but what
hiis once been old." Chaucer evidently
knew hash when lie saw it.
It was verv rude in the old bachelor
who was told that a certain lady " had
(?no foot in the grave" to ask "if
there wasn't room for ltot.li feet."
A young lady says t hat males are of
no account from the time the ladie.<
stop kissing them as infants till they
, commence kissing them as lovers.
Arabella " Yes. I think this sweet
pug is just perfection. Don't you?"
( ieorife ( with feelingV-" No, not, ex
act ly: but 1 do think he is very near
perfection."
A man sent one dollar in response
to an advertisement which promised,
in a mysterious w ay, to tell "Why I
j became a Mason." lie received as an
answer, '? Because I didn't, want to be
come a carpenter or a shoemaker."
Spinks went home the other night,
afflicted with double vision. He sat for
a time with his sleepy gaze riveted on
Mrs. S., and then complacently re
marked: "Well, 1 declare, 'f you two
gals don't look 'nough like to he twins."
An Iowa City man has 153 hives of
bees, which are arranged around his
hen-house, and when he hears a thief
I fooling around that establishment in
, the i\arkness he just lies still and waits
to hear a hive upset, and then laughs
at the sound of wild yells gradually
dying away in the distance.
Jenkinson is having his for*, night
off. As he was leaving the house the
other morning Mrs. J. presented her
lips for the customary parting kiss;
I but Jenkinson, the brute, turned on
his heel with the remark: "Not this
morning, 'Tilda; I'm on my vacation,
you know." Evidently Jenkinson in
hound to get all the recreation possible
out of his vacation.
| "Why, my dear," said poor little
, Mr. I'cnheekcr, with a ghastly smile,
j " why would the world, without wo
man, be like a blank sheet of paper?"
1 Mrs. 1\, who had just been giving the
j little man "a piece of her inind,"
smiled and " couldn't think." "Why,
j because, don't you see, love," said the
! long-suffering one, " P would't oven
I be ruled."
The clergyman's wife had presented
| him with a sou, and tho happy father,
| as he went his parochial rounds, was
i congratulated by the members of his
j congregation. There was ono old far
mer, however, who received the tidings
j very coldly, but when perceiving the
pastor's disappointment good-natured
ly explained: " I ain't got no spite, it's
| all accordin* to natur', I 'spose; but
when I think of that hoy of your n I
j can't help reek'nin' that In a few years
there'll have to bo a new fen *e put
'round my watermelon patch."
A Pleasant Experiment With Half.
Do y.n want to grow salt, and at. the
sain I. have an interesting, hand
sonu ... nament? The proceeding is a
| novel chemical experiment, that may
be tried by any one. Put In a goblet
one tablespoon fill of sail and one spoon
, lul of bluing. Fill the goblet two
thirds full of water and set It In a
| position where it will have plenty of
warmth and sunlight. fri' a little
while sparkling crystals will commence
forming on the outside of the glass,
and it is both a novel and interesting
sight to watch it gradually growing
day bv day until the outside of the
goblet is entirely covered oVer with
beautiful white crystals. Another
variation of this beaut ilnl experiment,
would be to lake a goblet, with the
base broken off and fasten It, in the
tenter of a thin piece of board, which
may be round, square or oldong
After the crystals have formed on the
glass set it on a tiny wall-bracket and
i place a bright holiday or birthday^-ard
in front of it, ; this will hido the base,
on which no crystals will form. After
this is done till the goblet with flowers
or dried grasses, and you will have a
vase which will cost comparatively
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