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Hope Deferred.
His hand at last! By his own fingeis writ,
I catch my name npon the way-worn sheet;
His hand?oh, reach it to me qnick !?and yet
Scarce can I hold, so fast my poises beat
Oh, feast of soul ! Oh, banquet richly
spread !
Oh, pas?iou-lettered scroll from o'er the
sea !
Like a fresh burst of life to one long dead,
Joy, strength, and bright content eomeb&ck
with thee.
Long prayed and waited for through months
so drear,
Each day methought my wasting heart must
break ;
Why is it that our loved ones grow more
dear,
The more we suffer for their sweetest sake ?
His hand at last !* each simple word aglow
With truthful tenderness and promise sweet
N ow to my daily tasks 111 singing go,
Fe J by the music of this way-wurn sheet
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
Mrs. James Taylor had been crying
for the last half hour, and, like the lady
in the pl*y, seemed determined to "weep
a little loDger." Yee, the very minute
her lord and master, with hat in hand,
had closed the street door, did the tears
begin to fall. Countless, innumerable,
not to be mentioned, were the bright
drops?and nobody knows how long
they would have lasted, had not voices
on the piazza, and a summons at the
bell, dispatched Maggie, the maid, to
the door and Mrs. Taylor's cambric handkerchief
to her eyes. In five minutes
more those eyejwere as clear and bright,
the voice as gay, the laugh as musical,
fta 11 mere were uu sucu iujjj^o an gnei
or care in the world, or, if so, little
merry Mrs. James Taylor cast them to
the winds and defied them.
And what had she, the newly, married
lady, the three mouths' bride, been cryiug
about t Why, really, it was too ri?
diculous to tell; and she had pouted
and Mailed, and smiled and pouted, for
some time before she had actually made
up her mind to weep ; but she had a distressing
suspicion that her husband (he
was a very good husband, there was no
denying that) did not love her.
Now, all the time that she was ingeni'
>usly tormenting herself, racked to the
very soul with distrust and mortifica-'
tion, the object of her misery, James
Taylor, was racing to his office as if he
Lad ou seven leagued boots, wishing the
client away who was to detain him that
evening irom his jewel at home, his precious
little wife. Love her! Why, he
adored her. The very sky and air had
changed siuco this prettiest, dearest,
most bewitching of women had blessed
his home.
Not love her V Why, the very kitten
on the ho:irth know better. What if be
ha l never told her so; it was entirely a
- " piece of supererogation; it would have
been like saying that skies were blue and
flowers Wi?re fair. And yet silly Mrs.
Taylor, for the Lack of something better
to do, had actually persuaded and wept
herself into this idea.
With her visitors her lachrymose mood
vanished, and after their departure she
sat absolutely contriving ways and
means to annoy this good-for-nothing
husband of hers, until he was foroed to
display some kind of emotion?rage, if
he would not love her. Nerved by the
blissfnl thought, she closed doors and
windows, for he would not be home till
past one, and laid her head on her pillow,
with a rich flush on her cheek, and
the brightest of smiles around her lovely
mouth.
Little did Mr. James Taylor think, as
he bestowed a fond, admiring glanoe on
tiie sweet face, what havoc and destruction
the wily la ly had been plotting
agaiust his peace. There is nothing
like a trifle to overturn one's philosophy
?so argued Mrs. Taylor?one can summon
quantities of resolution for great
events, bnt little, every-day annoyances
who can endure with stoicism f She
was determined to change her husband;
perhaps he would absolutely scold her.
What a triumph ! Mr. Taylor, the
evening before, had requested his
precious wife to have breakfast precisely
at seven, for the same business which
took him out then would occupy him
the next morning; he must positively
be at his cfti jo at h df-past seven o'clock.
But Mrs. Taylor gave no directions of
the kind, consequently seven, quarterpast,
half-past had arrived and no sign
or token of the meal. Mr. Taylor did
not pretend to interfere with the servants,
so he went out in the garden in
search of his wife. She was among the
roses, looking as blooming, innocent aud
unconscious as possible.
44 Fanny," said Mr. Taylor, in the
mildest of tones, 44 breakfast is not
ready, and I am in a great hurry to go.
You forgot to speak of it last night,
didn't you?"
44 You cannot certainly expect me to
remember everything, J^mes," returned
his wife, with a most indignantly remonstrating
expression. 441 did not say a
word about it."
Mr. James Taylor did not make the
smallest .-reply to thU amiable remark
from his little bride, but turned aid
went in the house. A full quarter of an
hour elapsed before Mr. Taylor was
summoned to table, and sho loitered ten
minutes longer by way of teasing him
to the utter most, then making her appearanoey
thmking it qnite possible that
she might linu her spouse with a whip
in his hand, or at rli events dispatching
his meai alone.
But he sat quietly reading the paper,
as if there were no such things as impatient
clients or procrsistinated engagements
in the world. Faney bit her lips
with vexation, and proceeded to pour
out bis colTee. ii he had only been
sulky it wonld have been something
gained, and she tormented him with
questions in hopes of discovering this;
but he answered h<r as pleasantly as
usual, and at length, p* titioning to be
excused, he bid her good morning in
the bland* st of tones.
Mrs. Taylor felt quite hsppy when he
departed, who can rfoubt it 1 She had
been mffkhg herself (xoeedingly disagreeable,
find all to no purpose. 44 Faint
heart never won," thought blie, at
length; 4 * I'll try it again."
44 Fanny, did you send John for a-.y
INDA
ooat yesterday ?'* asked Mr. Taylor, one
Sunday morning.
What ooat?" replied she, by way of
gaining time.
" TV** nom Ario of tVio foiWc Ynn
know I told you "?
"I do wish, James, you would not be
forever telling me," she interrupted,
44 but give your orders yourself ; they
torment me to death."
| 41 Well, it is not a matter of the least
I consequence," replied the patient husband;
44 if you will let me walk to
church with you in this old one, I don't
care."
Mr. Taylor was extravagantly fond of
I plants, and had a magnificent cactus in
full bloom; it was a rare species, and
this was the first flowering. Fanny had
been considering the plan for some time, i
and one day a suitable opportunity presenting
itself when they were on the
piazza together, managed to lose her
footing and fell, turning the vase over
and completely crushing the flowers in
her descent.
44 Victory I" thought she, as she beheld
his difctressed, anxious faoe. But no 1
it was not the cactus, but hi9 good-fornoihing
wife he was tenderly picking up
and feeling so anxious about.
44He certainly must love me a little
after all," thought she; 44 but I don't
know, he is very kind, and would probably
have been just as concerned if the
accident had happened to any one!
else."
44I'll go home," sobbed Mrs. James
Taylor that evening. 44 I'll see how this
horrid man can live without me."
"How long do you intend to remain v
asked her husband, very obolly, when
informed of her determination.
" Oh I six months," she replied. " I
am tired to death of staying here, and it
will be so nice to see William and Frank
and all of them. My cousin Archie is
there, too, and we will have famous
rides and drives."
"I hope you will enjoy yourself," remaaked
her husband, quietly, Fanny j
relinquished her teasing operations grad- |
ually before her departure?restrained j
from overwhelming hira with qnestious
and remarks when he was in a serious
mood, and playing sad when he was inclined
to be merry. She would no longer
throw down his new hat (for which
he had a particular affection) a dozen
tunes a day, and pretend that it was entirely
accidental, and invite disagrceablo
company when he was least in the
mood to bear it. It required all her resolution
to leave her husband; she felt
wretched and unhappy at the very idea,
and would walk around the house think-ing
of his loneliness, and wondering
whether he would" ever feel sad or remember
her abominable behavior when
she had gone.
Her very heart was bnreting the morning
she loit, and it was with the greatest
difficulty t hat she could restrain her
tears. Yet one never would have suspected
it, for sho was gay to an excess.
"I leave you with the comfortable
conviction that you'll not miss me at
all," she said, lightly, as her husband assisted
her into the carriage.
He smiled, said "Good bye," and the
horse started. Mr. James Taylor would
have been flattered if he had known that
Fanny cried all the way Lome, and her
pretty face was so swollen and disfigured
that she did not even see Archie or
half of them till the following morning.
" I'll punish him by not writing,"
thought she; " he never even asked me
if I would!"
* -i- - a ?l # -
auu write sue uiu uui> iur a lui wi^ut,
till at length, growing desperate to hear
from him, she penned an epistle abounding
in questions and directions, orders
and counter-orders, with a fceblo hope
at the end that it might find him
flourishing. He replied immediately by
a very kind letter, not love-like, bnt in
unison with the rest of his conduct,
affectionate, proper and amiable. Fanny
waited a fortnight agaiD, then sent for
him to take her home. And now was
Mr. James Taylor, if he had the least
love for his amiable helpmate, to undergo
a slight purgatory.
She was absent when ho arrived (of
course she intended to be), riding with
her cousiu Arohie, and walked her horse
leisurely up the avenue talking gayly to
her escort till her husbaud reached her
side. Nothing could be more coolly
well bred than their meeting. No rapture
or emotion on either side. She
44 hoped he was well44 had she enjoyed
Lor visit?" 44yos; more than tongue
oould tell."
441 don't believe ho is well," thought
Fanny, as she glanced at him afterward ;
44 how pale and thin he has grown, and
he looks more melancholy than ever. I
wonder what is the matter with him,"
murmured Fanny to herself. It was
surprising how many plans Fanny had
with her cousin during the three days
that her husband remained. She had not
been particularly civil to him before,
for he was an old lover, and she did not
care to be ; but now there really was no
end to the jests and excursions they got
up together ; she gayest of the gay, and
he carrying her wild fancies with all the
zeal in the world.
441 don't think James looks either
well or happy, Fanny," said her mother
one day.
44Don't you?" returned Fanny, and
8tie felt qnite cnarmea at tne iaea, ana
racing after her husband, who was at
the foot of the garden, she proposed
ber mother's remark without the slightest
circumlocution. He looked for a
moment at her animated face, then replied
gravely that "he was perfectly
weh." Fanny was uncertain again, yet
rather troubled.
" You must go and take a walk with
me, James, down by the river," she
said, "where we used to go before we
were married;" and putting her hand in
his arm she continued, " now you must
go?I have you captive, surrender at
discretion."
Nt ?er had Mrs. James Taylor been
more charming than on this identical
afternoon. She behaved (there is no
denying it) more like a wild bewitching
child than a decorous married lady; but
still she was very sweet. Her husband
yielded himself unhesitatingly to the
magic influence of her smiles.
" Take care! Don't go there, Fanny,"
he * xolaimed, as she stooped over the
bank of the river.
" But I must have them."
She returned, and bending an inch
! further lost her b#*nee and fell in. She
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heard a deep, agonizing groan, had a
aonoA nf snffnration. and lost all con
sciousness. When she revived, she was
on the bank of the river, her husband
bending over her clasping her hands,
j pressing her wildly to his heart, and
with every tender and endearing term
! entreating her to look up and speak to
him again ; but she could not. She felt
deathly faint and relapsed into a sort of
half stupor and heard his agonized cries,
j his vain appeals for help, with naught
but the wind find leaves to hear his wild,
desperate misery, and with that deathly
sickness yet upon her, Fanny had a delicious
sensation at her heart. He loved
her, there was no doubt about it now,
loved her madly, devotedly, and even if
she had died in the cold river, she would
not have exchanged for her life that moment's
bliss.
" But, my dear Fannie, how could
you think I did not love you?"exclaimed
Mr. James Taylor, no longer cold, dull
and silent, but as enthusiastic and candid
as his wife could desire.
" How could I think otherwise ?" replied
Fanny, smiling faintly, for she was
yet very weak. "You never told me
that you did."
"Told you?" exclaimed Mr. Taylor,
and the tone was sufficient. "It shall
entirely bo the burden of my song for
the rest of my life," he continued, "and
you must be content to hear it for your
abominable suspicions."
"I certainly shall be, James Taylor,"
replied his wife.
The Peasants of Herzegovina.
Says a correspondent: As we got
j higher, the number of people coming
i Hnwn thfl mountain increased. The
women were all dressed in the long
white Dalmatian jacket; while the men
wore the round scarlet Montenegrin
-hat, with the initials of the prince, N.
I. (Nicholas L), embroidered in gold on
the crown, and a black silk band round
the edge, put on as mourning for the
occupation of Servia by the Turks.
In their belts gleamed daggers and
silver mounted pistols, while all had on
the " opanche," or sandals made of ox
hide, which we, in our stiff soled civilized
boots, could not help envying
when we saw the ease with which they
enable their wearers to climb. The
agility displayed by them was astonishing.
They quite disdained the winding
path we followed, and went straight
down the side of the mountain, those at
j the summit holding long conversation
with their friends far below. * * *
Gazing at the silver buckles and necklaces
these Herzegovidian women wore,
we wanted to purchase some of them;
but it is curious how loath they are to
part with their fiuery. They will go
about in rags, and yet keep their caps
covered with silver chains and coins.
Our old hostess, seeing I had a fancy
for these gewgaws, beckoned me to fol
low her; and, taking mc up a ladder into
a garret, the dirt and dilapidation of
which it would be hazardous to describe,
she unlocked a wooden box, in which
was stored finery that might have made
a duchess envious. She had one belt,
for which, she said, sho gave $20. It
was of massive silver, with ever so many
chains and ornaments hanging to it
T>nni/ln fViid oKa Viasl at lonQf, fnrtv Dr
1^-OiUU HIIO) DUV UMV* MV w.
fifty shirts, embroidered in colored silks,
for festal days.# I particularly wanted
one of these, and offered her a handsome
price, but she would not sell. " No,"
she said, " I am keeping them all for
my daughter, when she marries," pointing
to the pretty little girl who held a
lamp for us to examine the family splendors;
"and she can read," she added,
" so she ought to make a good match."
How Japanese Work,
A correspondent of the Congrcgationalist
relates a curious little incident
which he observed in the Japanese department
of the Main building at the
j Centennial Exhibition, illustrative of
the method in which a Japanese artisan
performs his work:
The arm of the small figure of a knight
on a carved bedstead had been broken
off, and was to be glued on. The glue
| pot was at some distance from the bedi
stead, but was held in a light teakettle
of hot water which might have been easj
ily taken to the sjlbt where the work
i was to be done. But the workman did
not choose this way of doing things. He
; carried the bit of wood to the glue pot,
| sat down on his heels with great delibI
eration, carefully examined the fractured
| surface, then as carefully stirred the
| glue. Then he had some jocose bv-play
! with a fellow workman, and finally be!
gan to apply the glue. Every move!
ment was so slow that I began to won|
der how he was to get the broken surfai
ces together before the glue should be
cold and hard, for he had a long way to
walk through a crowd of people in a
narrow and crooked passage. There
was no need of worrying about it; the
thing was easily done. When all was
ready he took his time about rising from
his seat upon his heels, opened his
mouth wide, thrust the bit of wood held
between thumb and finger deep within
the warm, moist cavern nature had so
- * " V 1_ 5*
kindly provided, and in mis maicroua
attitude, breathing heavily, he threaded
his way slowly through the crowd till he
reached the bed. Theu he hunted
around for a stepladder, took his time
about placing it, examined and wiped
the surface from which the arm was broken,
and as soon as ho couldn't think of
anything else to do, the bit of wood was
withdrawn from down his throat, and
the joining was instantly completed.
Presidents of the United States.
Pr trident. Term of Office
George Washington....Two terms 1789-1797
John Adams One term 1797-1601
Thomas Jefferson Two terms 1601-1809
! James Madison Two terms 1809-1817
James Mot.roe Two terms 1817-1825
John Quincy Adams One term 1825-1829
I Andrew Jackson Two terms 1829-1837
Martin Van Buren One term 1837-1841
William H. Harrison....OnemontJi 1841.
John Tyler Three yrs. 11 mos..l841-1845
James K. Polk One term 1815-1849
Zachary Taylor Four months 1849.
Millard Fillmore Three years 8 mos.l849-18>3
Franklin Pierce One term 1853-1857
James Buchanan One term le57-lS61
Abraham Lincoln One term 1 month. 1861-1866
Andrew Johnson Three yrs. 11 mos.. 1865-1869
Ulysses S. Grant Two terms 1869-1877
A Kentac' r father married the
divorced wife ui his sou. It was a rel?nh*'
to the young man for putting so
i a woman out of tho family.
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C., THURSDAY, A
THE SCEXE OF ST. PAUL'S WRECK.
Tbe Rocky Coast where the Apootle o 1 the
Gentiles was Stranded?Malta as It Is
a n.<> >a ih? Crntta of TrItoks.
Charles Warren Stoddard writes from
Malta to the San Francisco Chronicle as
follows : All day we plowed an ugly
sea, slowly working our way toward
Malta. Sicily lay like a blue cloud in
the horizon when I went on deck in the
early morning, and like a blue oloud it
faded out of the horizon and was seen
no more. I knew that Sicily was but
sixty miles from Malta and took hope,
though St. Paul had a rough time of it
in these waters, and came to shore on
the little island in anything but shipshape.
Toward twilight, before the sun
was fairly down, we were all astir on
board. Some one had kindly raised land
on our larboard bow, and though it was
poor land to look at, and might have
passed for a big turtle asleep cn the
waters, we accepted it and began to congratulate
ourselves that we would ride at
anchor that night and take breakfast
right side up instead of horizontally, as
was the case only a few hours before.
Malta is certainly an unlovely island. It
is quite the fashion to speak lightly of
its soil; there is little of it; and to call
tho water brackish, and to wonder why
there are three little islands in the
group, when one of that sort would be
sufficient to satisfy any reasonable soul.
Tiie Maltese on board are indignant and
point out its celobrated resorts and
speak with enthusiasm of its charming
climate. It lies half way between Italy
aud Africa. It is better than either in
manv respects, they who dwell on this
lonely rook think, which means, in re
ality, that it is neither the one thing nor
the other. As we draw in nearer the
shore a fellow passenger who has made
Malta his home for many years grows
jubilant and seizes me by the arm to tell
me the old story of St. Paul's wreck.
" There is the very spot," says he, "and
many a picnic have I enjoyed in the
nove under the hilL"
Sure enough, theref*was "a certain
creek with a shore," and on the cliff
above the shore a colossal statute of the
saint, just distinguishable in the twilight?a
great white fig are like a ghost,
brooding over the fretful sea. It was
undoubtedly a favorable season for refreshing
one's memory of that notable
shipwreck, and in half an hour no fewer
than five versions of the wreck were
given in as many languages by men who
spoke as if they had been eye-witnesses
of the scene. We recalled how St Paul
was shipped to Italy; how he touched at
Sidon, and how "Julius courteously entreated
Paul, and gave him liberty to go
on with his friends and refresh himself."
How afterward they sailed under
Cyprus and over the sea of Cilicia and
Pamphylia, and came to Lysia. How
they cruised by Cnidus and Crete, and
the Fair Havens, and then the prophetic
lips foretold the danger that lay in
store. But the old salts of those days
had as little confidence in landsmen as
in this, and " when the south wind blew
softly" they loosened sail and bore
down under the shores of Crete. It was
a ba 1 move, for Euroclydon, a tempestuous
wind, caught them, and they
could not bear up against it, so " we let
tier drive," saith the Scriptnres. For
many days neither sun nor stars appeared,
and the ship was driven up and
down in the raging sea. They lightened
that storm bound bark, they undergirded
her, they " strake sail;" with their
own hands they threw out the tackling
of the ship and then yielded to their
fate. Again the saint was moved to
prophecy, and had them this time.
"You should have staid at Crete," said
he; "yet fear not, for no man among
you shall be lost, but only the ship."
They came to a land which they know
not, after fourteen days of unutterable
misory. It was midnight and very cold.
They sounded and found that it was
twenty fathoms; again they sounded and
found it was fifteen fathoms, and then
they threw four anchors out of the stern,
"and wished for day." The saint was,
after all, the best seaman of the lot, for
without him that company could not
have got safely to shore. In the morning
they took up their anchors, made
sail, and drove their bow right into the
sandy beach, and the ship went to
pieces, and every one of the two hundred
three score and sixteen souls set
foot on Malta without stopping to consider
the beauty or the barrenness of the
island at the moment.
My Maltese friend assures me that
the snakes in Malta, and there are
plenty of them, are all perfectly harmless,
and that this has been the case
ever sinoe St. Paul shook the viper from
his hand into the fire, on the bank yonder,
the morning after the wreck: When
1 had come to the end of my sojourn in
Malta, and was thinking of the chief
point of interest on the sixty monotonous
miles of coast, my eye chanced to
fall upon this paragraph in a small
history of the island that lay open before
me:
" St. Paul's bay is now a watering
place, where many of the inhabitants
" -IL. ,?
pass me summer uiuutua.
Half an hour's ride from St. Paul's
watering place is the grotto of Calypso.
Could Homer have ever seen it, or was
he born blind that he sung of the spot
in a strain that ought to increase immigration
to Malta ? It is now celebrated
for the enormous quantities of sandwiches
and soda-water consumed on the
premises, and there is not a line of Homer
discernible as far as the eye can
reach. It was after sunset when we
steamed into the harbor of Yallett and
let go our anchor. Half an hour before
we had been rolling up under the low
cliffs of the island, finding it difficult to
focus any given object; but now we lay
as still as a picture in the deep, quiet
waters, only a stone's throw from shore.
All above us towered the hills that are
literally clothed with fortifications.
The city stands on end, with one house
beginning where another leaves off, so
that you can see nothing but windows
and roofs stretching from the water's
edge to the very sky. There are hanging
gardens, tier upon tier, that carefully
hide all traces of verdure, and you don't
know they are green and lovely gardens
until you wander about the town, climbing
hither and thither, and suddenly find
yourself in one of them. The house
windows are mostly pushed out over the
narrow streets, like small balconies inclosed
in glass, and dark blinds give
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them a tropical appearance that reminds
us that we are not far from the African
coast.
Sagacity of Circus Elephants.
A correspondent of the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat., describing the exDeri
ence of a menagerie after the late storm
in Iowa, speaks as follows of the sagacity
of the trained elephants :
Assistant Superintendent Royce sent
a large force to repair damages and relieve
the circus train, and the task was
great?every bridge gone and miles of
track under water aud washed out.
The road was put in temporary repair,
and the train started in three sections.
When about ten miles out a trestle
sunk, and five cars of the third section
capsized in the soft mud. The first
car contained horsee, the second an
elk and camel, the other three the five
performing elephants. ^The roofs were
cut away and the first *two cars easily
emptied, but the elephants were all in
a heap and giving emphatic expression
of their discomfiture. To get them out
was not so easy, yet with the intelligence
and sagacity which characterizes
the semi-human brute it was accomplished
and they received not a scratch.
They obeyed every instruction, kneeling
down, putting out- one leg, then
another, turning and twisting with all
the intelligence of a child, eclipsing in
inarvelousness anything performed in
the ring. When relieved from their
perilous situations they gave expressions
of joy which were emphatic and unmistakable.
They fairly laughed all over,
a The rema nder of the trip was made
overland, and this the animals enjoyed
hugely, as the night was cool and the
moon bright. The missing bridges on
the route gave the elephants repeated
opportunity for indulging in sport.
They arrived here before the train; cars
had to be provided lor them, but ordinary
cdfrs were too low. Finally two
wore found which were about an inch
higher than the largest elephant's
back. "Jack," the largest,' was called
first to mount the platform. He noticed
the strange cir, and gave a careful
scrutiny, seized the doorpost with his
trunk and gave the car a powerful
shake, mounted the platform and cautiously
walked in, headed to the front,
rooked the car sideways, and then
humped his back. His back struck the
roof limbs, when he crouched and
marched out of the car in a jiffy. The
keeper remarked : "He won't go back
there again." It was decided to remove
the roof limbs, which was done, the five
elephants closely watching the operation.
When this was done, "Jack" was
again invited to take a ride. He promptly
assented, entered the car, rocked it
and swayed it and then humped his
back. Finding it all righ+, he trumpeted
his assent, marched around it a few
times, and went to eating hay. Each
elephant tested the car himself.
A Useful Invention,
Mr. Woillez, who last year gave the
French Academy of Sciences a description
of the spiroscope, an instrument
for the auscultation of the lungs, has
now communicated to the same learned
v a r?ar>pr nn another aDnaratus which
UUUJ - f"t fir
ho calls a spirophore, and which, in his
opinion, will render great services in cases
of asphyxia by drowning. It consists
of a cylinder of sheet iron closed
at one end and open at the other. It is
large enongh to receive the whole body
of the patient, which is bronght in np
to the neck, the head remaining ontsid*
exposed to the air; a diaphragm closes
the opening round the neck. A powerful
pair of bellows, sitnated ontside the
cylinder, commnnicates with it by a
tube, and is set in motion by a lever,
the lowering of which causes the aspiration,
by the bellows, of the air that is
confined round the body. A translucid
glass plate fixed in front of the cylinder
enables the practitioner to see the patient's
breast and abdomen, while a vertical
rod, sliding up and down in a tube,
and resting on the sternum, reveals the
motions of the latter. The apparatus is
worked as follows: When a human body
has been introduced into it and secured
as described, the operator briskly pulls
the lever downward ; the air inside the
cylinder rushes into the bellows, producing
a vacuum round the body. The
consequence is a simultaneous tendency
of the breast to heave and of the outer
air to penetrate into the lungs through
the nostrils and mouth. The sternum is
thus seen to rise, as in the action of
breathing, to the amount of a oentimeter
and more, which is shown by the rod.
Moreover, the epigastrium and even the
abdomen move upward, proving that the
capacity of the breast increases, not only
by the upheaval of the ribs and sternum,
but also by the depression of the diaphragm.
These respiratory motions may
be repeated from fifteen to eighteen
times per minute, and the air thus admitted
each time measures a liter (nearly
two pints), whereas the physiological
average is onty half that amount. This
apparatus may therefore be useful, not
only in cases of drowning, but also in
asphyxia of infants, in that caused by
chloroform, etc.
A Child's Adventure.
" At- -L u ?i a a
nix mourns agu u vu m ui ?. *j.
Prouty, of Topeka, Kan., aged two and
a half years, swallowed a metal top of
a small mncilage bottle. The child was
immediately examined by a physician,
and after a thorongh inspection the doctor
gave it as his opinion that the metal
had gone into the child's stomach, and
that it wonld eventually be dissolved by
the gastric juice and pass off. On the
same day the child gave symptoms of
catarrhal affection, and the physician
prescribed for it a treatment for catarrh,
which has been administered
| constantly ever since, but without apj
parent benefit. Mucus of an offensive
odor ran from the nose, and the breath
was intolerable. In other respects the
child seemed to be well. It was seized
with a vomiting spell lately, and during
the retching the top dropped out, as
sound as it was the day it was swallowed.
The doctor in now of the opinion
that the metal obtained a lodgment behind
the palate, where it remained nntil
vomited up. It was filled with and enveloped
by the [same offensive mucus
matter, when found, as had been discharged
from the nose. The catarrhal
symptoms are now rapidly disappearling.
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INDIAN MASSACRES.
The 3luiarre at Fart Phil TKearney Tea
Yean Asa.
Old Port Phil Kearney, in the Platte
valley, is invested with atragio interest
that overshadowed everything of late
years but Custer's death in tne West.
It is but ten years since the massacre
near this old fort occurred, wherein between
eighty and ninety persons, among
whom were the gallant Fetterman and
Brown and Lieut. Grummond, fell fighting
the Sioux. Old Fort Kearney was
established a year before the massacre
by Col. H. B. Oarrington, then in command
of one of the old infantry regiments
before the army reduction. He
started from Leavenworth, and Beno
and Kearney were built as defenders of
the old Boseman trail. Kearney was
located about sixty miles beyond Beno
and about ninety miles to the south and
east of old Fort C. F. Smith. The Indians
that year?1866?were very troublesome.
The Sioux, then under the
leadership of Bed Cloud, who has since
become and remained friendly, bad repeatedly
menaced the post With al>
their wiles and strategy the Indians had
that season been unable to induce
Colonel Carrington to hazard a general
engagement Numerous skirmishes had
taken place, the Sioux never appearing
in any great numbers. On the day of
the massacre they had attacked the
wood train. The assailing force was not
apparently larger than thirty or forty
warriors. These were driven off by the
troops, and Captain Fetterman, after
routing them, followed the fleeing Sioux
over the bluffs and out of sight of the
post. This was what the Indians expected
and desired. They seemed to
retreat before Fetterman, and that officer,
suspecting nothing of the trap that
had been set for him and his troops,
pressed them to a point where the savages
could hold him.
Onoe in the neighborhood of Indian
hill they rushed in between him and the
fort. He saw the plan for the first time.
| His men, who numbered nearly ninety
then, haviDg been re-enforoed by Lieutenant
Grummond with twenty-eight
cavalrymen, found their chanoes of es^"
cape few. Fetterman tried to force a
passage through the Indians, who numbered
abont 3,000, back over the bluffs
and to the post, bat foand it impossible.
The doomed men found their ammunition
giving out. All hope was gone.
They gathered around their commander
and fought to kill, not to survive.
The Indians waited until every ounce
of lead and powder was expended* Seeing
their white foe virtually disarmed,
they rushed in and butohered the brave
fellows who remained. From the posi
tion occupied by the bodies of Fetterman
and Brown it was concluded that,
seeing hope die and a horrible death by
torture awaiting them should they be
taken alive, they reserved one bullet
each, audliad shot one another the mo
x. xi- - a:
nittUli mtJ D1UIU WDIO wuywni wwng
themselves on their capture. The
bodies were fonnd next day by a strong
, detachment sent oat to reconnoiter, for
each was the effect of the slaughter on
the garrison that none dared to ventore
to the f*eld and learn the fate of the gallant
Fetterman and his brave band. The
Sioux had left the remains on the field
after dennding them of their clothing
and scalping and mutilating their remains.
The dead were oonveyed to the
fort and buried with military honors in
sight of the stockade.
The Wear and COit of Bank Notes.
DuriDg the period of two years and
ten days, from June 20, 1874, to July 1,
1876, the comptroller of the currency
of the United States reoeived from the
engravers new bank notes to the amount
of $272,376,512; and he issued for replacement
of notes redeemed and the
supply of new banks, or banks increasing
tbeir circulation, to the amount of
$218,050,874. Daring tfie twelve months
ending June 30th he received $112,232,625,
and issued $90,720,565. The total
amount of mutilated currency reoeived
by the comptroller and destroyed as unfit
for circulation was $238,398,022 during
the two years and ten days, and
$106,473,190 during the last twelve
months. These figures indicate that in
order to keep the bank note circulation
in good condition it is necessary to re
new them once in about three years and
three months. The whole expense of
paper, printing, redemption, reissues,
and probably engraving the entire issne
of some $331,000,000, or about 44,000,000
of separate notes, has to be incurred
regularly about onoe in three and onefourth
years. The greenbacks have tj
be renewed oftener, because the proportion
of small notes to the whole issue is
greater, and the small notes wear out
faster. The ones and twos constitute
about two and one-half per cent, of the
amount of bank issues, while they constitute
more than fourteen and one-half
1 per cent, of the amount of greenbacks.
Tbe difference will be more clearly seen
?1 ZL - ? miti maruiM tn tho
WUtJU It IB OUtllCU, niliu ico^vvn <r^ WV
number of notes, that forty-two greenbacks
oat of every sixty-five are ones
and twos, while only twenty-two out of
every eighty bank notes are ones and
twos; or, approximately, sixty-four
greenbacks and only twenty-seven bank
' notes in every one hundred are ones and
i twos. It is fair to assume, therefore,
that the greenbacks and bank notes
taken together have to be renewed as
often as once in three years. Coin money
will last from seven to ten times as long,
and then it can be renewed at a com,
paratively trifling C06t, and the loss by
1 wear during the whole life of the coin
will seldom exceed one per cent.
A Horse Race Decision.
i Judge Wilkes, of Toronto, has rendered
a decision of interest to turfmen, at
i least in tne Dominion. Proceedings
had been instituted against the managers
of the race meeting at Oeliawa for rei
covery of a purse claimed to have been
won in the two-mile dash by Passion.
The horses were started by flags, but
the judge iung the bell for a recall.
The rider of Passion, knowing it to have
been the case, went over the course and
i claimed the money, maintaining that the
starters having dropped the flags the
i judges had no right to iutufere. Judge
Wilkes gave his decision in favor of
Passion.
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mill. Single Copj 5 Cents.
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Items of Interest.
Woman's grief is like a summer storm,
short as it is violent
A turkey, dropped from a balloon at a
height of threo miles, alighted in New
ueaiora unnnri.
A Methodist journal says that there
are 4,173,047 members of the Methodist
church'in the world.
The Norwich Bulletin has at last found
a way to keep cool. It proposes to buy
a suit of perforated buckskin and then
cut,the buckskin out
Colorado produoes" .$15,000 in silver
every twenty-four hours, $10,000 in gold,
and 81,000 in other minerals; or $26,000
daily, equal to 89,490, GOOjy early.
They let an Evansville (Ind.) doctor
alone as loDg as he confined himself to
the human race; but he went to killing
chickens, and they arrested him.
A student who failed.toJpess in Greek
history examination, repudiated with
scorn the insinuation that he was not
prepared. He had crammed himself, he
said, so tight that he could not get it
out again.
Little Alice was crying bitterly, and,
on being questioned, confeesed to having
received a slap from one of her playfellows.
" You should have returned it,"
unwisely said the questioner. " Oh, I
returned it before," said the little girt
The Utica Herald says that a party of
hunters threw away a bad potato in their
camp in the North woods. The potato
sprouted in a day or two, and within a
few hours a potato bug was seen on the
sprout. This was miles from any potato
patch.
Aooording to a Cologne newspaper,
there is in that city a do 3th in which is
exhibited a "bearded lady." At the entrance
is stationed a girl to take money.
Recently a visitor, having feasted his
eyes on the strange phenomenon, thinking
on his departure to have a joke with
4* - ,,aal - ? ? aat/) a kn*
me uiue moiiej ioa.cu, omu ?v ?wu
ling her under the chin the > while :
" Well, little one, I suppose thcrtfearded
woman is your mamma, eh?" ".No,
six," replied the child," she is my papa."
" How Niagara Almost Ban Dry.
On March 29, 1848, a remarkable
phenomenon occurred. The preceding
winter had been in tersely cold, and the
ice formed on Lake Erie was unusually
thick. In the warm days of early spring
this mass of ioe was loosened around the
shores of the lake, and detached from
them. During the forenoon of the day
named, a stiff easterly wind moved it up
the lake. A little before sunset, the
wind chopped suddenly round and blew
a gale from the west. This brought the
vast field of ioe back again with such
tremendous foroe that it filled in the neck
of the lake and its outlet so as to form a
very effective dam, that caused a remarkable
diminution in the outflow of the
water. Of course it needed but little
time for the falls to drain off the water
below this dam. The oonsequdnce was
that on the morning of the following
day the river was nearly half gone. The
American channel had dwindled to a
deep and narrow creek. The British
channel seemed to have been smitten
with a quick consumption, and to be fast
passing away. Far up from the head of
Goat island and out into the Canadian ?
rapids, and from the foot of Goat island
out bevond the old tower to the deep
channel of the Horseshoe fall, the water
was gone. The rooks were bare, black
and forbidding. The roar of Niagara
had subsided to a moan. This extraor11?
?laafA/1 all
dinary syncope 01 me murto iw^u
the day, and night closed over the
strange scene. Bat daring the night the
dam gave way, and the next morning the
river was restored in all its strength,
beauty and majesty.
The Chinese Coolies.
The first trading in Chinese coolies,
on any extended scale, was between
China and Cuba, and China and the
Chincha islands. From the ontset, and
op to the present day, a Chinaman,
either in Cuba or in Pern, is in all os- *
sential matters a slave. In Caba his
condition is really worse than that of
the African slave, because by law the
Chinaman can never mannmit himself.
Once landed, he is a slave for life.
Some twelve months ago the Chinese
government, after liaving received reports
of the manner in whioh its subjects
were treated in Caba, sent a oom1
mission of investigation to that island,
j The Spanish government tried its utmost
to hoodwink the commissioners,
bat in vain. The scandalous treatment
of their ooontiymeu in Caba was too
patent, and on the return of the commissioners
to China their report led the
Imperial government to pnt a*stop to
the farther immigration of its subjects
to any Spanish colony. The justice of
this determination is best proved by^the
I rejection by Spain of a proposition
made by the Chin??e authorities that
Chinese consuls should be permitted to
reside in Caba, to whom Chinamen
might present claims of redress for
wrongs. A dispatch from San Francisco
announces the arrival in China of a
Spanish ambassador ^lio declares that
his government is determined that the
i trade of coolies, which the Chinese gov.....
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eminent has promoicea soiui wuuuuc.
Dying by Thousand*.
In referring to the fact of the terrible
fatality among the children in New Tork
city, the Herald cays: Rings control
the city. To please one ring rapid
transit is postponed; to please another
soap factories are permitted to pollute
the atmosphere; to please a third the
Harlem flats and other nuisances are al- ,
lowed to generate malaria; to please a
fourth we give up one of our downtown
parks to a railway and propose to throw
in the Battery; to please others we allow
our streets to be pared with wood and
tar, which rot slowly away. We have
sowers which generate diphtheria; we
have sidewalks burdened with death.
There is cot one of the gentle, suffer
ing, innocent souls of the two thousana
children who have died withir a month
from the want of fresh air who is not a
martyr to the system which *ways this
city. If ever there was a time when tLo
people of New York should look to tlieir
lives and homes, tho lives and happiness
of their children, it is cow, when
the children of the poor are dying by
thousands.
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