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VOL. IY. NO. 2?
The Widow.
Her smiles are temper'd by her sighs,
Her garb scarce veils her glory;
The tender glamour of her eyes
Enshrines her and her story!
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no greennug uu ~
She's all things that bsoome her;
Her life, her beauty, and her heart
Are in their Indian summer!
A MONSTER OF THE DEEP*
The Thine as Seen and Described by a
Missionary?A Sight that Fascinated a
Passenger at Snarlse oa the Sea.
Says a correspondent of the Bombay
Gazette: As a missionary, I have
traveled over a great part of the world,
bat I can safely aver that what I saw on
Saturday, the eighteenth day of March,
was incomparably the most marvelous
phenomenon that has ever met my eyes.
We steamed out of Bombay harbor
on the evening of Monday, the thirteenth
of March, in the steamship Hydaspes.
On Tuesday at twelve we had
made 162 miles, on Wednesday at midday
429, on Thursday 707, ana on Friday
nearly 1,U00, so that on Saturday
morning we were about 1,560 miles from
Bombay. Nothing of remark had, occurred
up to Saturday. The weather
was oool and nearly every one slept below
; only one passenger, a Capt. JLiavidson,
and myself remaining on deck for
the night. I was roused from sleep at
six by the nien washing and scraping
the decks. 1 took my. plate of broken
biscuits to the stern and sat there munching
them and looking at the anu rising.
I was quite alone, Capt. J^avidson still
sleeping in peace on the port side. There
was a thick bank of clouds on the horizon,
and as the sun rose up from the
sea beliiud this dark bank great masses
of rsolnr. red and blue and yellow, lit up
the whole expanse of sky and sea. 1
was looking at a strange ruddy blot of
red on the water right astern, when I
saw apparently near the horizon, but
not in the red blot, a dark moving
shadow. It did not seem to move with
the other shadows on the sea, and this
fixed my attention to it. ?j|oon I saw
that it was steadily approaching the
vessel. I could distinguish no form,
o.aly a dark shadow, but I made out oertainly
that it was advancing towards us
and at a great rate. '
Fifteen minutes must have passed
when I at last became able to distinguish
the form of the advancing object
I cannot accurately describe my feelings
on beho.'ding that hideous eight.
^ At first I turned to call out to bring
? others to look on with me, but, before a
V cry could pass my bps, a second feeling
of selfish pleasure, that I alone saw that
A fearful thiug, seized me, and I turned
S my eyes again to the sea and kept them
p fixed there. Within a hundred feet of
the stern of our vessel, not now approaching
us, but simply following
steadily in our wake, was this hideous
thing.
A great mass of what looked like tangled
seaweed, ou which a futile attempt
at combing had been made, rose out of
the water. This mass must have been
?
i we my or inirij iwt in lougiu anu rou
feet in width, and as it came on it
caused a wide ripple in the water, that
showed there must be a still greater part
below the surface. From the oentei of
this mass, raised just clear above it and
facing the vessel, was a great black
head. The top was quite flat* in shape
not unlike that of a monstrous toad. A
thick fringe of coarse, reddish hair hung
over the mouth, quite concealing it.
But the eyes were the most awful part
of this fearful thing. They were plaoed
far apart, at either extremity of tne flat
head, distant from each other at least
three feet.
I must here state that all the passengers
and all the crew, except the captain
himself, saw the thing afterwarcC but
that there were scarcely two who oould
agiee as to the color and nature of these
eyes. I can only, therefore, write as
they appeared to me. The eyeballs
were enormous; they must have been
four or Ave inches in diameter. They
scintillated constantly. Every one
knows the extraordinary appearance of
a surface covered with small alternate
squares of bright red aud bright blue,
the quivering, uncertain, unflxe I look
such a surface has, the difficulty,
the impossibility experienced by the
looker on-to fix tne color of any particular
square. The eyeballs of this thing
had such a quivering, uncertain look;
but they were not zed, nor blue, nor
red and blue; they ware of ii bright,
burningly bright, copper hue; they
pained our eyes?and in this we were
all agreed?as we looked at them. In
the center of each eyeball, a mere
speck, but visible from its extreme
brightness, was a point of light, of
white light. It was impossible to tell
whether these ooints were, or were not
material points of the eye or merely
caused by reflection, but they were
clearly deflued, and seemed to remain
in the same place. The motion, however,
of tka thing was so steady that
no deduction could fairly be drawn from
their not .changing their position.
I had been so absorbed in the pleasiog
pain of looking at the thing, that I had
quite forgotten the other people on
board, and was first roused by hearing
Capt. Davidson step up on the stern by
me, give one look below at the water,
and then hurriedly go back. In a few
minutes every passenger was crowding
on to the stern, even the ladies appearing
in unfinished costume. Exclamations
of the extremest astonishment
broke from all, and then silence fell, as
the crowd stared at the Hideous creature.
The children, at the first sight,
ran back below sereamiug, and some refused
to come again on deck, though
their nurses and ayahs?desirous ol
looking on themselves?used all possi
ble means to make them. Some, how
ever, returned, curiosity overcoming
fear, but even these looked on in per
petual tremor of terror, and held them
selves ready at the first movement of th<
thing to rush away. I noticed at this
time that the captain was not present,
and turned to an old European sailoi
who stood by me and asked him to gc
and tell him.
VNDA
>.
I" Captain won't oome; no fear of that,
sir," replied the man.
I asked if he was navigating the
ship ?
" No, he was not navigating theship,"
said the sailor, " but he wo old not come
for all that; however, he would go and
tell him."
But though he went, the captain
would not oome.
We all remained absorbed in the
| strange sight till the first breakfast bell
rung, at half past eight, when we had
perforce to hurry away and take our
chanoe of bathing at that late hour. Up
to this time the thing had kept steadily
in our wake, its movement continuing
absolutely smooth and constant, and
the two specks of light in the glaring
eyes never changing a hair's breadth
from their position.
At breakfast I sat one remove from
the captain. We begun, of oourse, talking
of the thing we had seen, but the
captain, for some reason we could not
then understand, seemed to dislike the
subject, and soon we abandoned it, falling
then into absolute silence, for we
could talk of nothing else. When we
went on deck again?we were only a
few minutes at breakfast?we found the
thing still following steadily in our
wake. Th^ children had in great measure
got over their fear, and had made a
long line by joining hands,* and the
whole lot of them would now crouch
down and then suddenly rise up, open
their mouths at the thing, and cry out
at it. No notice apparently being taken
' of this, they grew bolder, and at last
their cries increased till they shrieked
shrill;,.
Suddenly the hideous creature seemed 1
roused by these cries; it raised its head
in the air, uttered a strange bellow, and
came forward at a great pace toward the
ship. None of us could at first move
from fear; the thiug seemed to have
grown in size, its eyeballs were more
burningly bright; the children fell on
the d<*ck crying, and some of the women
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| lain tea. it came swuwy up iu mo amp,
I always uttering the same peculiar cry or
' bellow. Wlieu but a few feet from the
stern, it 3uddenly turned and came up
close on the port side. Here the side
awnings had been put up to keep off the
sun; but three of us rushed up to the
awning and quickly got it down, that
we might the better watch the thing.
For myselt I must say that while doing
this I was still suffering from extreme
fear, but my curiosity was so iutonse,
so irr<*sistible, that I could only act as I
did.
No sooner was the thing level with us
than it raised itself with a sudden movement
out of the water, till its head was
thirty or forty feet above us. It still uttered
the same peculiar cry or bellow.
We stood out on the bulwarks to follow
its movements. It opened a great
mouth, cried more loudly than before,
and made three blows at the mainmast.
The last of these touched it, and caused
the ship to swav violently, so that we
were nearly cast off into the water.
When we again looked for the thing it
was gone. There was no ripple, no disturbance
of any kind to show where it
had been. It was gone absolutely. We
looked constantly for it during the rest
of that day, but not the slightest trace
did we again discover.
I may state that when the thing raised
itself up and struck the mast it was apparent
that the seaweed-like mass was a
long coarse hair, covering a dark, thick
neck. But the thing could rot possibly
have been a serpent; for to raise so pro
digious a length of neck above the surface
a huge body below the surface was
of course required.
A Centennial Safe.
A large iron safe, .known as the " Centennial
safe," is now on exhibition in
Memorial Hall, and is designed to contain
memorial articles. It will be locked
up on the thirty-first of next December,
and not opened for a century. It has
inner docs of plate plass. Portraits of
President Lincoln and Grant are painted
on the outer doors, and a portrait of
Washington, supported by a flag and
the pine tree shilling, forms the central
pictures in the cornice. The safe is to
contain albums of the photographs and
autographs of the leading Centennial
officers, governors of States, and other
prominent men ; autograph books called
the United States Centennial album, a
silver inkstand lined with gold and two
pens used in recording the names in
the books. One of the pens was presented
by Henry W. Longfellow. One
album is larger than the others, and
whoever records his name therein is entitled
to the space below his name, so
that when they are oponed in 1976 the
direct lineal descendant of the signer
can r900rd his name below that of his
ancestor. There is also in the safe an
album to reoeive the autographs of
foreign ministers and visitors, a Presidential
album to contain the photographs
and signatures of all the Presidents
of the United States from 1876 to 1976;
an album to contain the judges of the
supreme court, cabinet officers, president
of the Senate or president pro tern.
and speaker of thp House; also every
twelve years the six oldest senators and
six oldest representatives in service.
These albums will be deposited in a
glass case and opened when necessary.
The safe will also contain ten months'
publication of some leading journal.
When the memorial articles are to be
deposited in the safe President Grant is
expected to place away the large album.
General Hawloy will place away one;
Vice-President Orestes Cleveland, originator
of the Centennial Exhibition, will
deposit one ; Alfred T. Goshorn will
place another; John Sartain, superintendent
of the fine art department, will
i place one, and Vice-President Ferry the
nfhar TTr?n .Tamnn frnnsill will deDOflit
t the silver inkstands. Chief Justice
Waite will be invited to place away one
t of the gold pens and General Cameron
f the other. Mr. Peter Cooper, whose
name is on the safe, and to whose gener
osity they are indebted for it, will then
j close one door and the Hon. W. C. Bry
ant the other, and the lock wHl be
turned by Mr. B. Sherman, of the
> National Exchange Bank of New York.
i When the safe is closed it will be con,
veyed to Washington and placed under
r the rotunda of the capital. The iron
> doors will be left open, so that the Centennial
relies can always be seen.
FOR1:
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BEAUFORT, S.
Treed by a Flood.
The Leavenworth (Kan.) Times has
the following account of a singular and
perilous misadventure: Saturday evening,
about six o'clock, as a gentleman
named Samuel Jacobs, who had been in
the city, was returning on horseback to
his home, about twelve miles west of
here, he attempted to cross Big Stranger
near Mr. Samuel Stewart's residence,
and after riding quite a distance into
the water, which was rising rapidly,
found that he would be obliged to re4??
"" wofoi- ttqcj rrpft.ina deeper as
kUIllj no VJLISJ TTMW& nwv q y A
he advanoed. Endeavoring to turn his
horse aronnd in order to retrace his
steps, he noticed a huge volume of water
rushing right down upon him, and
before he could get out, the seething i
mass struck his horse, and causing it to <
lose its footing, placed the life of its
rider in most imminent peril. <
The force of the stream was so strong <
that the animal could not recover, and i
both horse and rider were swept down <
with the current. While passing a large
tree Mr. Jacobs grasped one of its <
boughs, and succeeded, after much i
effort, in drawing himself up from his I
horse and clear from the raging torrent.
He climbed up into the branches of the :
tree, and was forced to remain there all i
night, in the uncertainty of what his i
fate might be before morning. When i
daylight arrived he discovered that the .
water was still too high for him to escape
from his position. He then en- * 1
deavored to attract tl^e attention of
some chance passer by calling for help,
but his efforts were not successful until )
about twelve o'clock on Sunday, when
he was discovered bv a gentleman named 1
D. H. Young, who happened to be passing
near the scene. Mr. Young gave :
the alarm and suooeeded in procuring a
boat, and with the assistance of some <
other gentlemen rescued the unfortunate
man from his position. His horse was
found at no great distance on the opposite
bank unhurt. Mr. Jacob's eighteen
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walls 41 inches thick, floated by the addition
of an nnarmored bow and stern.
The monitor, or citadel, is twelve feet
h^h, half above and half below the water;
within its walls are the engines, the
boilers, the base of the turrets, the hydraulic
machinery for loading the guns,
and the magazines. Her guns will carry
projectiles weighing 1,650 pounds and
measuring sixteen inches in diameter.
The launch was perfectly successful, and
when the immense vessel took the water
she was not half so bad looking as
she seemed to be on the ways.
Funerals in 1776*
Funerals in 1776, says Edward Abbott,
touched weddings at the point of
feasting, and were often very expensive,
showy, and pompous occasions. In
some parts of the country, especially
among the Dutch of Long Island and
New York, it was the custom for a young
man to lay by his earnings after coming
of age, until a sufficient sum bad accu1
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muiateu W pruviue ivx uim O icojnjvtable
" fufleral when he should come to
die. Often the young burgher would
reserve half of the portion of wine
which he had liberally laid in for his
marriage, to be used at the funeral of
himself or his wife. Special invitations
were sent out for funerals as for parties.
The clergyman, pallbearers and physicians
attending were provided with
scarfs and gloves, and sometimes each
with a mourning ring; while'the feast
which followed the interment at the
Louse of the relatives of the deceased,
elaborate with cold roast meats, wines,
liquors and pipes, was not unfrequently
an occasion of coarse excess, sometimes
descending into hilarious and noisy
demonstrations. A funeral of this description
might cost perhaps a thousand
dollars; whii<* the funeral of the first
wife of Stephen Van Rensselaer is said
to have oost not less than twenty thousand
dollars.
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C., THURSDAY,
Condensed Eggs,
It is astonishing what progress has
been made during the past few years in
the art of preserving aliments generally,
and what a great boon has thereby been
conferred all round we have daily evidence.
The superfluous herds of Australasia
and South America are now
potted, or we should perhaps say,
"tinned," for the English and other
markets, thus affording comparatively
cheap animal food for the less opulent
classes. America sends m in large quantities
the products of her waters, which
but for preservative processes would be
lost to the old world; Switzerland is
fast ruining the milkman's business in
this country; from across the channel
come supplies of vegetables in a form
qualified to journey round the world
without deterioration ; and Denmark
experts her delirious butter in ever-increasing
quantities, well protected from
the effects of keeping and climatic
change.
In fact, preserved provisions now include
a vast variety of substances hailing
from all parts of the world. Although
more the recipients than the
producers of such goods, there are
many articles of the kind which we are
able to send abroad, and the productions
of the Scotoh provision factories
we especially esteemed in oertain parts.
But we have strayed somewhat from our
immediate object, which is to call attention
to condensed egg, a sample tin of
which, prepared in Bavaria, has reached
us. This article is prepared from fresh
raw eggs by a process of desiccation,
which, while effectual in removing all
traces of moisture, leaves the natural
properties of the egg unimpaired. It
is only necessary to add a due proportion
of water to the egg powder to render
it fit for culinary purposes, the active
constituents of one egg being contained
in about a teaspoonful of the
powder. That this is a valuable addition
to th) line of concentrated natural
aliments will be admitted, we think, by
those who, getting tho better of a perhaps
not altogether inexcusable prejudice,
venture on a trial. The contents
of a small sized tin are about equal
to twelve eggs.?Trade Jburnal.
Tartar Tattooing.
A verv singular Dersonacre is now
A Norwich correspondent of the Utica
Observer says: Tne other night your
correspondent was late at church. He
had good cause, for he had been to see
the smallest specimen of humanity that
trods the footslool. His name as he
gave it to us is " Master Franky Flynn."
His age is fouryears and a half. We
went to see him expecting a Tom Thumb
or Commodore Nutt to walk in before
us. Imagine our surprise when his
grandmother brought him in as one
would a good sized cat. He is not so
large as one of Tom Thumb's legs. In
Tom Thumb's carriage he would look as
lonesome as an ordinary man in a circus
band wagon. To sit upon ono of Tom
Thumb's easy chairs would be to him
what it is to the ordinary boy to perch
upon a gatepost when the spring comes.
He is smaller than any one can conceive
who has not actually seen him. He had
on two pairs of stockings, and even then !
the smallest sized baby shoes were too
large for him. His wrist is of the size
of an ordinary man's thumb;, his ankle
but a slight increase. He was dressed
in full suit like a man. He stands
twenty-three inches in his shoes, and
weighs, clothes and all, twelve pounds.
This is the most he ever weighed in his
life. Still he is a lively, sprightly boy,
very active, climbing into chairs and
getting down; walks around with his
hands back of him, " like his grandpa,"
and talks and laughs, and is as cute as
any boy of his years. He is no larger
than he was when one year old.
Canned Goods.
The London Lancet discourses at
some length upon the fashion of the
present day of feeding invalids and
children upon food sold in hermetically
sealed cans, the composition of the
food being unknown. Doubtless these
preparations are often valuable, or at
least harmless; but the Lancet urges
that the public have a right to know
of what I hey are composed, and that a
plain statement of the ingredients should
be placed upon the covers. We think
this same suggestion might be applied
to numerous other articles; for example,
when coffee and chicory are mixed together
for sale, the purchaser would
choose to know the fact; and so in bnndreds
of other cases.
visiting feome, Italy, where he creates a
good deal of excitement in scientific circles.
This is no less than a tattooed
man named George Constantinos, a
Greek by birth, forty-eight years old,
and of massive hurculean frame.
Fourteen years ago he, with two
others, a Spaniard and an American,
were taken prisoners of war in Chinese
lartary, and all three subjected to this
terrible torture, to which the Spaniard
alone succumbed. The description
which this man gives of his sufferings is
almost too horrible for belief, and it is
difficult to find a reason for the selection
of tbis mode of punishment, demanding
such a profusion of skillful
and wearisome labor; but the victim is
of the opinion that the natives, who are
extremely jealous of their independ
ance, wished to have in all who might
escape living witnesses of the danger to
which those exposed themselves who
iared to make war upon them.
Four hoars every day, for four months,
he was visited by an artist of the country,
who, while the prisoner was firmly
held down ly three men, with a sharp
lancet dipped in India ink, executed all
manner of designs upon his skin. In
this way the whole surface of his body
was covered with hieroglyphics, Barman
characters, figures of men, women,
elephants, monkeys, crocodiles, tigers,
plants, birds, etc.; in fact, a complete
illustration of natural history seems to
be represented on him, and all with a
fineness of execution and profusion of
design bard to imagine. Four years
Bince he managed to escape from his
enemies, and since then has been traveling
in Europe, wherever he goes being
the subject of curions study to medical
men.
The Little Man of Norwich,
hoifre of sleepless experience uu nuiuiug
himself fast in the branches of the tree,
with the din of the raging ton-ent beneath
him, can be better imagined than ;
described.
Wanted to Sell.
It is understood in England that the
real object of Queen Victoria's visit to
Prussia was to sell out the Duke of
Edinburgh's inheritance in Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Bismarck offered about J
85,000,000 for it. The queen wanted <
815,000,000. Probably she may get 1
810,000,000. Bismarck at first proposed 1
85,000,000 cash and an annuity of $300,- i
000 charged upon the revenues of the
duchy, which wo old be about the value <
of the capital sum of the 810,000,000 in j
dispute, supposing it to be invested in
the English three per cents; and Bis- '
mark, seizing the ostensible advantage, '
shrewdly argued in that sense, showing 1
the queen and her son that they would <
not lose any income by accepting the <
proposed arrangement, and that, inas- <
much as the Duke of Edinburgh had J
children, he would feel naturally bound '
to preserve the capital of his fortune in- <
tact for them, because they could not <
absolutely count on being provided for <
out of the publio taxation either of Eng- <
land or Russia. Queen Victoria, how- 1
ever, is said to have inquired "whether <
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the chancellor reaiiy consuut?reu mo
English three per cents a desirable in- 1
vestment, and whether a higher interest 1
conld not be obtained for money with- 1
ont incnrring serious risk." " If it can, 1
madam," the chancellor is said to have ]
replied, "your princely son might be i
satisfied with less capital."
The Largest Ironclad Yet, (
The most powerful ironclad vessel ever
built was launched at Portsmouth, Eng- j
land, the Princess Louise presiding at
the oeremonv. The new vessel, the In- (
flexible, is an immensely strong ship, ,
but the flfty-seven-ton Krupp gun can ,
pierce her through and through at 2,000
yards' distance. When is this thing to
stop ? Even if it should be found possible
to build a ship which would withstand
the heaviest guns?and guns of
100 tons, with nineteen inohes caliber,
are now being made for the Italian
navy?every vessel is still liable to be
sent to the bottom by a wretched little !
torpedo. The Inflexible is 320 feet long
and seventy-five feet wide; she has engines
of immense force; she will have
four guns of eighty-one tons each. She
may be described as a monitor, seventyfive
feet wide and 110 feet long, with
YJLLa
Coma
JUNE 22, 1876.
Politics in New Mexico,
In 1846, when the war growing ont Of
the annexation of Texas was in pro
grees, General Kearney took possession
of Santa Fe, and soon afterward conquered
the whole Territory, which was
formally ceded to the United States in
1848 by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
and reconstructed by the establishment
of the Territorial government
on September 9, 1850. It included at
that time a part of Colorado and of
Arizona, which were successively separated
from it, leaving an area of about
121,201 square miles. Its greatest
breadth is 320 miles, its greatest length
350 miles, and in acquiring it the United
States made citizens of 60,000 impoverished
and ignorant people?60,000 people
alienated, as I have already said, by
language, faith, customs, education,
and, I might add, sympathies, since it
is not denied that in event of another
war with old Mexico, many of them
would be found leaning toward, if not
actually engaged on, the side of their
quondam compatriots.
Though the native American settlers
are insignificant in numbers, they control
the politics and hold nearly all the
important offices among themselves. The
principal executive powers are vested in
a governor and secretary, who are ap
pointed for a term of four years by the
President of the United States. The
other offices of State, inoluding .an auditor,
a treasurer, an adjutant-general,
and also an attorney-general, are
chosen by the Legislature, which
consists of a council of thirteen and a
House of twenty-six representatives,
most of whom can neither read, writo,
nor talk English.
In front of an adobe hovel, near
Tierra Amarilla, we met, says a traveler,
a frowzy looking fellow, whose dress
consisted of a pair of trowsers and a
shirt, and whose natural brown complexion
was darkened by untold depths
of diit. In a brief conversation with
Lieutenant Morrison in Spanish, he informed
us that he was a member of
the Legislature, and was astonished beyond
measure that he was not already
familiar to us by reputation. He
imagined that his fame had been carried
world-wide, and was amusingly sorry for
our ignorance when we assured him that
we had never heard of him before.
The language of the courts and
church is Spanish, and in conversation a
patois is used which bears about the
same degree of relationship to the mother
tongue that the dialect of the Canadian
habitant bears to Parisian French.
Detroit Free Pressings.
The New York Sun is writing against
expensive funerals. It somehow never
did look right for a man to spend $2,000
burying the wife who oould never get
anything better than a delaine dress out
of him while living.
Butter is four dollars per pound at
Custer City. Most men deem it a dead
swindle, and are eating axle grease on
their cold biscuit to show butter sellers
that the spirit of '76 is not yet dead.
It appears that many of the New York
lawyers who make a business of securing
divorces could be kicked from that city
to Boston and back before their profession
a! nride would be damaged any.
When a great man can't find anything
else to do he can lay in a stock of foolscap
and write a centennial history of the
United States.
Every newspaper of any standing has
its items for the Centennial about very
old people. It may be mentioned in
this connection that the Siamese twins,
when they died, were the oldest men in
the country?adding 'em up.
The crows out West are eating up the
eggs left in the ground by the grasshop-1
pers, and aged farmers get up early to |
call the homely birds pet names. A
month hence, the crows will be dodging
buckshot.
The Cincinnati Commercial is
authority for the statement that Ole
Bull's wife, who lives in Wisconsin,
left him becatu e of ill treatment.
Dear sir, will you please put your
hand on the man who would like to ran
for Vice-President ? Whore is that man?
Everybody wants to be a "b% rooster "
or nothing.
A child five years old was drawn into
a paper miil at Iowa City, but was
rescued just in time to save him from
appearing before the world as broW
paper.
One way to be happy and to study
angles at the same time is to hold a sunshade
over a pretty girl while she plays
croquet.
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Celebrating the Fourth,
The officers of the Louisiana Associated
Veterans of the Mexican war have
issued an address, calling upon the
whole people of the State to unite in a
celebration of the Centennial in New
Orleans. They say: " It is very important
to impress upon the rising generation,
as well as upon the great number
of our citizens who have, in person or
by immediate ancestry, immigrated to
fhfl TTnifflri States darincr the period of
peace and prosperity, the sacrifices
necessary to secure the form of government
and immense progress thereby accomplished.
A very small portion of
our people can visit the Centennial
celebration at Philadelphia on aocount
of the cost and distance. A State celebration
would, then, unite our whole
people on a practical perception of the
value of our Union, and especially of
the sacrifices necessary to establish and
maintain it. They would be less disposed
to think slightly of the treasure
which they have inherited, and which
they should not waste or barter away.
It would, indeed, be well if the whole
American people could unite at their
homes in a common acknowledgement,
on the same day and hour, of the favor
which God has vouchsafed our conntry,
with a sincere and simultaneous prayer
that he will continue the same protection
for centuries to come, or so long as
the public and private virtues of the
American people deserve it."
A correspondent of the Raleigh News
has seen in the North Carolina asylum
for deaf mutes a daughtA of one of the
Siamese twins. She has lately been
married to a man similarly afflicted, who
is a teacher in the institution.
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THE MUSTANG RACE.
What the iVnitaafi aw?A Record of the
Time Made by Parker la hto Great Raee.
The race against time, which came off
in Fleetwood Park,. New York, waa a
trial of human as well as equine endurance.
The thirty horses deserve less
credit than the one man, Parker, who
undertook what is. even for a Calif or
nian, a severe ride. The wild horse of
the California plains, descended from
the Arabs which Cortes and his successors
brought into Mexico, has retained
many of the features and qualities of
the Arabian horse. It is a small horse
?not a pony, though pony sized; it has
immense enduranoe, is very surefooted,
has good though seldom extraordinary
speed, and can live and prosper on very
rough fare; It is singular that among
the native horses of California, as among
the Arabs of Spain, the tinto, or piebald,
is a favorite color where speed and
bottom both are desired. A well known
.southern Californian onoe rode from
Los Angeles to Santa Barbara and back,
a distance altogether of nearly two hundred
miles, in a day, using but three
horses for the ride, and stopping two
hours in Santa Barbara to transact business.
The road is an extremely rugged
one, and crosses two high mountains,
and the rider was nearly fifty years of
age. This feat shows what such horses
and riders oan do. There is no doubt,
however, that the dry, pure air of California
gives both horse and rider there
an advantage in such violent exercises
which our moister climate does not
offer.
The mustang is usually broken at
from three to four years of age, and the
prooess is one which teaches him at
onoe the superior power of man. The
animal, singled out of a herd, is lassoed,
thrown to the ground, blindfolded, and
the saddle put on while he lies prone. A
,nose strap is used instead of a bridle
and bit, and the rider mounts before
taking the blind from the creature's
eyes. Then begins a contest between
man and horse, in which the spur is
freely used, and the object is to force
the horse to go ahead at top speed until
he is exhausted. This treatment, continued
for some weeks, is followed by a
more regular training with the hea-vy
bit need by Californians, and he is
finally taught to obey the slightest impulse
of his rider's leg or finger and
learns to take an intelligent and almost
human delight in the management of
cattle and in all the tricks of the rodeo
or annual cattle marking.
Parker, with thirty mustangs, undertook
to ride 305 miles in* fifteen hours.
At the 226th mile he gave out from exhaustion.
The mustangs were badly
used up, too. The following is a complete
record of the time made:
Total ReUilee
M. 8. H. M. 8. mounts.
10 27 24 27 24 8
20 26 23# 63 47# 7
30 28 25# 1 22 13 9
40 26 89# 1 48 52# 8
50 25 45 2 14 37# % 6
60 26 09# 2 40 47 7
70 26 22# 3 07 09# 6
80 26 07# 3 33 16# 6
90 26 29 3 59 45 7
100 : 26 56# 4 26 41# 7
110 27 07# 4 53 48# 8
120 27 01 5 00 49# . 7
130 27 30# 5 28 20 10
140 29 09# 5 57 29# 10
150 27 53# 6 25 23# 9
160 26 48# 6 52 11# 10
170 28 02# 7 20 14# 10
180 27 05 7 47 19# 9
190 27 14# 8 15 34 9
200 27 27 8 43 01 9
210 27 40# 0 10 41# 8
220 28 26# 9 39 08# 9
226 21 05# 10 00 18# ' 3
? . . AA ?AA y ?A AA ICQ/ 1Q1
Total.... 1U UU w ioyt iui
Parker allowed hitnself ten seconds to
change horses, bnt he really averaged
abont fifteen seconds, whioh wonld make
in 181 relays 45m. 15s. That gives the
following
SUMMARY.
h. m. a
Actual time in saddle 10 00 13%
Time occupied in changes 45 15
Bests and other delays 41 31%
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Actual time 11 27 00
If Parker had been on time he shonld
have completed 226 miles in llh. 6m.
53 l-9s., which therefore made him
20 m. 6 8-9s. behind when he was obliged
to give np.
Paris Exhibition of 1878.
The commitee appointed to consider
the question of the Paris Universal Exhibition
of 1878 has framed its report
The site recommended covers a surface
of 270,000 meters, 10,000 more than was
occupied in 1867, including spaces of
the Champ de Mars and of the Trocadero,
on either side of the Seine; the
building will be of iron, filled in with
brick masonry, and roofed with glass,
and in the interest of economy the form
of construction recommended is such that
the iron material will be saleable at the
close of the exhibition. The central
building, flanked with large gardens, is
to be disposed in the form of what is
known in arithmetical phraseology as a
Table of Pythagoras?each aisle, longitudinally
followed, presenting a series
of similar products, while transversely
each separate nation exhibiting is passed
in review. A rectangular space in the
immediate center will be apportioned to
the fine arts. From the side of the
- ? - *?Y
edifice facing the Seine a gallery will
ran across the river, connecting the
larger portion of the building with the
Trocadero. The gallery is to be a
kilometer and a half in length and about
fifty meters^wide. There will be shops
on either side of it, and it is expected
to present from either end a very effective
coup d'ceil. The Trocadero di-J
vision of the exhibition will be devoted
to agricultural products and engineering
industry, while the higher portion
of the hill will be crowned by a vast hall,
in which the official ceremonies and
gatherings for concerts, etc., incidental
to the occasion will be held. It is probable
that subdivisions of this hall will be
set apart for various purposes, such as
committee, lecture and reception rooms.
So soon as the principal points in the
programme of the committee have been
approved, definiteplansforcaryingthem
out will be invited and decided upon,
the State reserving to itself absolute
freedom of accepting or rejecting
them in accordance with what the
committee may deem most consistent
with the general interests of the exhibition,
AL.
dim, Single Com 5 Cents.
A fioie ior inMKiuif!
Begin low;
Go on slow;
Rise higher,
And take fire;
When moet impressed,
Be self-poeseesed;
At the end wax warm,
And eit down in a storm,
Items of Interist.
A poor prospect for peaches this year.
A dishonest grocer has been lying in.
weight for a customer.
Three new ironclads, ordered by the
Japanese government,, are now being
built in England.
A prominent poulterer in Montreal
was fined $10 reoently for plucking a
fowl while it was still alive.
A Salt Lake City paper asserts that.,
the recent gunpowder explosion caused
one hundred premature births.
Moses L. Swiit, of Beno, Nevada, has
been granted a divorce from his wife
on account of her "mental cruelty."
The supreme oourt at Massachusetts
has decided in a test case that the ten
hour law of that State is constitutional.
A young Philadelphian, threatened
with a breach of promise suit, says:
" Sue away. Contracts made On Sunday
ain't legal."
Prussia has 6,300,000 acres of forest
and woodland; France, 2,700,000: Austi-ia
2.800.000: Bavaria. 8,249,000, and
England, 112,376.
The take of bnflalo robes in Montana
the present season is the heaviest for
several years. Some of the dealers will
ship from 8,000 to 10,000.
A city ordinance in San Francisco for-"
bids sleeping in a room containing less*
than 600 cubic feet of air to each occn- ,
pant Twelve Chinamen were arrested
somo time ago for violating it; "
Artificial clouds of smoke are often
used in France and Germany as a protection
against frost. One plan, which
has been very successful, consists in
carefully mixing gas tar with sawdust
and old straw and piling this mixture in
large heaps in the vineyards. When required
for use, smaller heaps are distributed
about the vineyard, and these
will burn freely in a few hours, and produce
a very dense smoke, which decreases
the radiation and prevents frost
Careful Mother and Model Boy.
The two didn't belong to each other;
and this very good boy may have been
a little too smart and sancy.
Little Mary was prettily dressed, and
standing in front of the house waiting
for her mother to go oat to ride. A n
tidy boy, dressed in coarse clothes, was'
passing, when the little girl said: "Come
here, boy, and s'ake hands wi' me. I
dot a boy dus' like yon named Joey."
The boy laughed, shook hands with her,
and said : "I've got a little girl jnstlike
yon, only she hasn't any little cloak with
pussy fur on it!"
Here a lady came oat of the door, and
said : " Mary, yoa mast not talk with
bad boys on the street. I hop# yoa
haven't taken anything from her. % Go
right along, and never stop here again,
boy!"
That evening the lady was called
down to speak with a boy in the hall.
He was very neatly dressed, and stood '
with his cap in his hand. It was the
enemy of the morning. "I came to
tell yoa that I am not a bad boy." he
said. " I go to Sunday-school, and help
my jnother all I can. I never tell liee,
nor quarrel, nor say bad words; and I .
don't like a lady to call me names, and .
ask me if I've stolen her little girl's
clothfis off her!"
" I'm very glad you're so good," said
the lady, laughing at the boy's earnestness.
"Here's a quarter of a dollar for
von," "I don't want that," said Ben,
holding his head ap very high. "My
father works in a foundry, and has lots
of money. You got a boy bigger than
I, haven t you ?" " Yes, why ?" " Does
he know the commandments?" " I'm
afraid not very welL " " Can he say the
sermon on the mount, and the twentythird
psalm, and the golden role?"
"I'm very much afraid he cannot," said
the lady, laughing at the boy's bravery.
" Doesn't he ride on his pony on Sunday,
inetead of going to church ?" " I'm
afraid he does, bat he ought not," said
the lady, blushing a little.
"Mother don't know I came here,"
said the little rogue, but I thought I
would just come round and see what
kind of folks you were, and?and?I
guess mother would rather your boy
wouldn't come round our doors, because
don't like Susan to talk to bad boys
in the street. Good! evening." And the '
boy was gone.
How to Go to Church Properly.
A match has been broken off in Chicago
between the male and female scions
of two promising families, who, it had
been thought, would have made an excellent
marriage, since she was voung
and handsome, and he was old and rich.
It appears, however, that they had an irI
reconcilable quarrel on a very vital subI
ject. He was a very wise man, who used
I to say that time was money, and uni
nnnr?trialifv was the thief of time, and
I so on, and, when they were discussing
their married life, she said: "Next
Easter, you'll give me the loveliest hat
and dressin Chicago,won't yon, pretty f"
He said he would. "And," she continued,
"vou'll take a pew in the very
front of the most fashionable church ?"
"I will," he said. "And," she said,
"we'll always go to church nice and
lite, won't we ? " Nice and early, my
love," he said, correcting her. " No, I
mean nice and late, of course," she answered.
1' But, my dear," he remonstrated,
" time ip- money, as Solomon
say. If seen going to church
late pe9p#w6|j$A think I was slothful in
business serving the hank. Why do you
wish to cultivate th? unlovely habit of
unpunctuality ?" "Ob, because," she
replied, when you go to church late
every one turns round to look at you
and see what you have on. Do you
think I'm a heathen, and don't want to
go-to church properly?" Alas! to be
wroth with one we love doth work like
madness in the brain, aod the match is
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