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Labor.
Toil swings the ax, and forests bow ;
The seLds break ont in radiant bloom ;
Itich harvests smile behind the plow.
And cities cluster ronnd the loom.
Where towering domes and tapering spires
Adorn the vale and crown the hill,
Stout labor lights his beacon fires.
And plumes with smoke the forge and mill.
^[rtn monarch oak. the woodland s pride,
JVhoso trunk is seemed with lightning scars,
launches on the restless tide,
nd there unrolls the flag of stars ;
e engine with his lungs of flame,
With ribs of brass and joints of steel,
lain t's plastic fingers came,
sobbing valve and whirling wheel
Dor works the inngic press,
[turns the crank in h'vea of toil,
ckons angels down to bless
jstrious hands on sea and soil. '
ID-browned toil with shining spade,
Make to lake wirh silver ties,
1 ick with palaces of trade,
t uples towering to the skies.
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VOL. III. NO. 149.
OLD SERIES. VOL. VII. NO.
AIKEN, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, -1877.
$2.00 per Annum, in Advance.
tlpia^ Pupil and Mamma.
. .. ating the corn and potatoes,
Helping to scatter the seeds,
Feedi" ae hens and the chickens,
Freeing the garden from weeds,
Driving the cows to the pasture,
Feeding the horse in the stall,
We little children are busy,
Sure there is work for us all,
Helpiug papa.
“^reading the hay in the sunshine,
P." ; ng it up when dry,
" " u ar pies and peaches
. .e orchard hard by ;
apes in tho ▼i*»«yard,
g cats in the fall,
- •_ children are busy,
■re is work for us all,
riel ping papa.
.aping and washing the dishes,
bringing the wood from the sbed,
oning, sewing, and knitting,
Peiping to make up the ted,
faking good c.ire of tho baby,
Watching her lest she should fall,
re little children are busy,
Oh, there is w ork for us all,
Ipiug mamma.
makes us cheerful and happy,
. - us both active and strong ;
k— ij»y ail the better
we have labored so long,
'•dly we help our kind parents,
sickly we come to their call :
Children should love to be busy,
There is much work for all,
Helping papa and mamma.
cedar trees before it. “ The Cedars,"
I’ve heal’d tho place called. I’d heard
something about the master of it, but
not much.
Miss Demar was fond of tho beach
while there were few persons upon it,
and would find her way to Red Cliff
quite early in the morning. One morn
ing, as she sat there, she commenced
! singing an old song.
I recqll the old song very well, and
she sang it very low and sweet. But it (
frightened mo half out of my wits to see
that there was a man seated just below j
us on the cliff, and that he turned ami
looked at her. He was a large man,
with a beard half gray, and would have
I saw r her, as he slept, softly stroke his
disfigured cheek.
The physician came, prescribed and
went away. Monsieur Auxerre slept on
undisturbed. Miss Demar sent Varai to
bed, and would have watched alone, but
that I begged to stay with her.
Toward midnight, I laid down on a
couch; I was very sleepy. The clock
struck twelve; I saw Miss Demar kneel
in prayer at the foot of the bed.
Suddenly, there was a stir in the room.
The great dog, who had lain under the
table, came out aud licked his master’s
hand. I saw that Monsieur Auxerre’s
eyes were open.
“ Mogul, old boy, you have not left
CREMATION.
been very handsome, but for a scar from : me,” lie said, quietly.
MISS DEMAR
I am Clotilde, Miss Demar’s maid, if
you please, sir, and I can tell the whole
story.
You see, sir, Miss Demar came here,
to the Surf House, last July. I was out
of a place, having been bred lady’s-maid,
and not being fit for anything else, was
very uneasy, though I was taking care
of the landlady’s children. Mrs. Ray
had said to me:
“ Now, Clotilde, if you will take good
care of the children, till the summer
visitors comedown, I’ll get you a nice
place with some of the ladies.”
I was impatient enough for them to
come, ‘U’d in June they bqgan to arrive.
But it was not until the 1st of July that
Miss Demar eume.
I was peeping through the blinds, as
her carriage came up, and when I saw
her step out, I said to Mrs. Ray :
“ There’s a lady I’d like to se^fe.”
“ It’c Miss Demar,” said she. “ What
menu thai elio’s come without
I was rocking iittle Harry to |‘
that evening, when Mrs. Ray came info J **
the nursery.
“ Clotilde,” said she, “ Miss Demnr’s
Marie was taken ill on the journey, and
she was forced to send her back.* And.
she wants a maid. ”
“ A nd may I apply to her, Mrs. Ray.”
'‘\es. I think you hail better,” she
> •! tliere,
across t'ui hall,
instant; aiTN.
anyway, to
said.
Sol laid the baby in the cradle, and
went up and knocked at Miss Demar's
door. She called “ Come in!” and 1
went in.
There she sat by the window, reading.
“I heard you wished a lady’s-maid,
Miss Demar,” said I, courtesying.
“ Aud you are Clotilde ?”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“ Mrs. Ray has recommended you. I
will engage you at once, if you are
ready. ”
I said that I was, aud then she went
on reading, and I began putting the
dressing-table in order. It was all
strewn uith jewels, and ribbons, and
silver combs, and bracelets of gold lace,
aH ’twere, they were wrought so fine,
like embroidery. And everything about
hej, uinl belonging to her, showed her
the lady that I know her to be the mo
ment I set eyes on her. She read for a
while, aud then she said :
...-“Clotilde, will you take down mv 1
hair? My head aches.”
No wonder, sir. That purple-black
hair came unrolling in my hands, until
it lay in coils on the fl > >r. And it was
lino aud lustrous, and soft as silk.
Nothing false in her make-up, sir, and
I was dumb with surprise.
I was combing her hair, she
me questions about myself, in a
' OM it, kind way—how long I had
IO this country, aud had I any
,i ’•■i I think I should be happy
with her? Oh, in all her ways, she was
a thorough lady, sir !
I didn’t tell you she was handsome,
did I ? Well, I didn’t know it myself,
at first, for she had none of that Hush
and animation that makes you think
women handsome when they are not. I
Rut her face was just like one cut on a
cameo, with all the Hues smooth and I
giaceful. Her skin was dark, but fine
and shining like satin, and her eyes were
steel-blue, steady and bright, with curled
M ick lashes aud white brows.
I remember that she wore black and
while, with piukcoral ornaments, a great
deal, and she was very fond of roses in
her hair.
Sometimes she would seem to think
much more of there things, and then she
would be quite indifferent, nor mind
what I put her in, in the least. Absent
aud sorrowful-like she would be. And
.she would have these spells, often, when
there were gay gentlemen in love with
h-r, as was plain to be seen. How she
managed it, or why it was, I never could
; co, but she never encouraged anv of
them.
She was fond of the place—of tho
beach, and the rocks, and the rea. There
was a place called Rod Cliff, that she
a ; fond of ascending; the water washel
its base, and swept away, so wild aud
free. She used often to take me with
her, to “take care of her,” she said;
for she was apt to grow absent-minded,
in such places, and to come away and
forget a shawl, or book, or glove, and
once she came near being cut off from
the shore by tho tide.
Tho hotel was the only house in sight,
<o*'pt a stone one which stood upon the
■ >cks, a mile up the beach, with three
his temple to his lips. She did not see
! him at all, and I was afraid of telling
i her, for fear of terrifying her too much.
! It was such a lonesome spot, you see.
i But pretty soon he got up, and went
down the cbff, and when he was below,
! she spied him.
“ Clotilde, who is that ?” she said,
wonderiugly.
“I don’t know, Miss Demar, but I
fancy it must be the master of The
I Cedars, there—a lone kind of man, who
lives there with one servant. ”
Her mind seemed to wander, and she
began singing again, and I was very
! glad, for it gave me a disagreeable feel-
' ing to see how he looked at her—not
; fierce, or evil-like, but with his eyes
! dilated, and his lips twitching, so that it
J was quite startling to see him. I dream-
| ed of him that night, and resolved that,
, in the morning, I would beg Miss Demar
! never to go about the beach alone.
The next day was rainy, and she did
I not go out, but sat, all the morning, in
her room, with an old letter in her hand.
The sheet was quite yellow, and there
I was a little picture on ivory iu it, I saw—
for she laid it down at last, aud, wrapping
a shawl about her, went out on the long,
covered porch to walk, as she did, some
times, when a kind of restlessness seemed
to possess her. I peeped—I could not
help it—I was so curious to see the
picture.
I just caught a glimpse of a handsome
man, with blue eyes aud a blonde beard,
and then the words of the letter caught
my eye, for it was written as clear as
print, and one might have read it
running:
“Since my accident, I am horribly
disfigured. I give you up—tie your
blooming life to the sickly wreck of mine,
Elinor, ray beautiful one! Farewell!
God bless aud keep you! Gerard.”
,-Lv ef these words, ,
for Miss I )r it At WfiTr'rrr-- _
and likely to come in anv i
was very wrong **f me, |
be p< • at her secrets, and |
^r!ie so good ne! ^^j^curiosity causes
many a wicked sin, sir.
Having found out so muc,,T broke
away from the temptation, and ran>n v w n
stairs, sorry to know what 1 did, shiV.
I’d no right to it, and yet satisfied iu my
mind why Mr. Alcester got such cool
hows, and why she never would drive
out with Colonel Grafton.
When I went up to dress her for dinner,
I saw that she had been crying, and yet
she danced that evening till twelve
o’clock.
It was less than a week later that there
came a cold, rainy time, and the people
1 uf the Surf House were thrown moi’e to-
; gether, and got more familiar; and Mr.
Alcester and Colonel Grafton both offered
themselves to Miss Demar, aud were re-
! fused.
She was playing upon the piano one
1 evening when the colonel was talking
aud walking with Mr. Ray upon tho
long porch, just outside the windows,
and she saw, as I did, the queer figure
of an old Frenchman, iu a velvet coat,
; come running across the sands, and up
the hotel steps, to speak to Mr. Ray.
Mr. Ray went to meet him.
“ What is it, Varai ?” he said.
Miss Demar started from her seat,
and went to the door.
, “ Some help, monsieur ! Monsieur
Auxerre lies very ill—he has the fever !
I leave him all alone, while I come to
you. Will you bring one doctor to us?
Monsieur Auxerre is near to death
very, very ill.”
The little old Frenchman was the pic
ture of distress. To my surprise, Miss
Demar pushed through the gentlemen,
aud laid her hand upon his arm.
“ Varai, where is your master?”
“Mon Dieu, Mees Elinor!” he
shouted.
“Hush! Where is Monsieur Aux
erre ?”
“ At The Cedars,” he answered, shiv
ering as though he had seen a ghost.
She flew up to her room, I following.
She began hunting for her cloak. I
found it for her ; and then she bade me
take a shawl, and come with her.
It had begun to rain in torrents, bait
away we went across the sands, her
movements like lightning, her cheeks in
a fever. The rain drenched us, the surf
hissed at us, the darkuess closed heavily
around us, but she led the way straight
to the door of The Cedars.
She pushed open tho door. A mons- :
trims houud rose from a mat in tho hall,
aud gave voice.
“Mogul, Mogul,” she said, gently,
aud gave him her hand to smell of. He
licked her fingers, and then led the way
to a closed-inner door. Miss Demar
softly opened it.
The room was a sort of study, full of
books and chemical apparatus ; but there
was a couch in it, and a man lying, with
closed eyes, upon the pillows. Trem
bling very much, Miss Demar knelt down
by him.
“ Gerard !”
Ho only moaned and muttered. I
thought she was as sick as he, but she
got fresh water in a
Miss Demar started up. She came to
tho bedside. She crept close to the
pillow, and laid her cheek close to
Monsietir Auxerre’s, as her arm stole
around his neck.
“Elinor !” ho whispered.
“Darling!” she murmured.
Aud that these two were born to be
one, you never to your dying day would
have doubted, sir, had you seen them
| looking into each other’s eyes.
I never asked any qiiestions. I guessed
j enough, and so can you, sir; but Miss
Demar was quietly married as soon as
Monsieur Auxerre recovered, and a hap
pier, more radiant bride I never saw.
Why, all the flush and sparkle of the
most brilliant woman I ever saw came
into her face when she said those two
little words, “ I will!” the fragrance of
orange flowers about her. Oh, it was
beautiful, believe me!
Facts in Krunril to the I’roarcss .Unite In
the Cnusc of Incineration in Europe and
America.
The cause of cremation is making
some progress both in the old world and
the new. There is a society in London
iu the third year of its existence which
is laboring to establish affiliated associa
tions and collect and publish arguments
and statistics. In Germany, according
to a report issued by this society, the
idea is very popular ; a congress of cre-
mationists was held at Dresden last year,
which was attended by delegates from
England, France, Holland and Switzer
land, and large sums were raised for the
construction at Gotha of a crematorium,
on the Siemens plan, with slight modifi
cations. Switzerland has several socie
ties, that of Zurich with over four hun
dred members. In Holland the central
association has several branches ; several
legacies have placed its funds in a fa
vorable shape, and it publishes a paper
in advocacy of the cause. There are
limiting Down a Murderer.
William Newlund, son of Richard
Newland, an old aud well-known farm
er, of Washington county. Ind., in 1867,
with his young wife and a child less than
a year old, left his home to settle in
Kansas. In company went Charles
Waller and wife and their son, neigh
bors. When they reached Webster
county, Mo., Newland, his wife and
child were murdered under circum
stances that led to the arrest of Charles
Waller and wife, the son having escaped.
Some days after the bloody tragedy the
remains of Newland were found iu the
woods, aud those of his wife were dis
covered in a ravine about six miles be
yond. The remains of the child were
never discovered, but bones wei’e found
which some of the citizens thought
might be those of the child. Charles
Waller was put upon trial for the mur
der and was found guilty, and in 1872
expiated his crime on the gallows. His
wife was also tried for being accessory
to the murder, and was sentenced to
two societies in Austria, where, how- | three years’ imprisonment in the Mis-
Uofliiis to Rent.
The poor people of New York are said
to have an unaccountable mania for
funeral pomps and ceremonies ; conse
quently when a member of a family dies
all available funds are expended in laying
the body in state, and in an impressive
cortege. The matter of carriages is not
vexatious to the purse of the mourners,
as their occupants are expected to con
tribute their quota to the expense of
conveyances, a privilege eagerly em
braced by hundreds who regard a funeral
procession in the light of a gala parade.
Rut the lying in state, to be imposing,
is a costly luxury, particularly with the
impecunious; cousequeutly as a corpse
is au object of curious inspection by ad
miring friends, the beauty of the exhi
bition can be secured at a smaller ex
pense through the hire of a casket than
through its purchase outright. Iu an
undertaker’s window can bo seen a cof-
•n of the most costly fabrication, with a
superabundance of silver ornamentation,
“uCn j1?1r satin, and otherwise
adorned munificently. A , t «._ • of
this $300 casket can be hireu of its ex
hibitor, who supplies an exquisite lining
in accordanco with the rules of the trade,
pink for a brunette, light blue for a
Monde, and so on, aud into the loaned
rect ptacle places the corpse until the
bour of burial arrives, when the inside
frame of the coffin is slipped out and
the deceased transferred to a cheap
stained wood imitation of the costly outer
casket, and “planted” without the im
posture being detected. At present a
handsome external case demands a rental
of five dollars a day, and as the body is
generally “laid out” for three days,
this, with incidentals, constitutes a good
source of revenue.
New York’s Suspended Siir!r.*» Banks.
Eighteen savings banks in New York
have passed into the hands of receivers
since 1871, and the New Y’ork Times has
compiled a history of such settlements
as have been made witn their depositors.
Three of the banks failed during the ! may be done aud what may be effected
present year and no dividends have yet \ by limited means, united with benevo-
been declared ; one of the banks was ! leuce of heart and activity of mind.
ever, the subject has not been so favora
bly received as in the neighboring na
tions. But little interest has been ex
cited iu France. In Italy since last
March the cremation of the dead is per
mitted by law, the only preliminary
formality being the obtaining from the
municipal authorities of a permit, which
is given on the recommendation of the
board of health. At the recent medical
convention at Milan the Teiuzzi-Betti
apparatus was to have been tested with
a body from th ■ dissecting school.
The report claims that there are
seven societies in this country, and that
besides Dr. Lemoyne’s furnace at Wash
ington, Pa., there are two crematories
building—one at Brooklyn and one at
Chicago.
The English society, it may be added,
has a full treasury, and one of the me
tropolitan cemeteries has offered it
ground for the erection of a crema
torium, but the idea seems repugnant
to the ecclesiastical authorities. The
following is a complete list of the crema
tions during the past decade that have
been scientifically noted :
1869—At Padua ; woman of thirty ;
weight of corpse, 116 pounds; of ashes,
six pounds.
1869— At Padua; man weighing ninety-
nine pounds ; weight of ashes, four
pounds, one ounce. Also, man of ninety
pounds; weight of ashes, three pounds,
one ounce ; time of process, forty-five
minutes ; cost of firing, sixty cents.
1870— At Milan ; man of seventy-six.
weighing — pounds ; weight of ashes,
six pounds ; time occupied, one hour,
thirty minutes.
i»ii—At ; woman of seventy-
two, weighing seventy pouniTo , Hma oc
cupied, one hour, fifteen minutes ; cost
of process, §1.
1874—At Dresden ; two women of
twenty-three aud twenty-six ; time occu
pied, one hour, fifteen minutes, aud one
hour, eighteen minutes ; weight of ashes,
three pounds, twelve ounces, and four
pounds.
1876—At Milan; man of seventy
three ; time occupied, one hour, thirty
minutes.
1876— At Washington, Pn.; Baron
von Palm ; time occupied, two hours ;
cost of prooons, £7.60.
1877— At Salt Lake City; Dr. Fred
erick Winslow ; weight of corpse, 126
pounds ; of ashes, four pounds, eleven
ounces.
Words of Wisdom.
Usefulness is confined to no station,
and it is astonishing how much good
FEARFUL NIGHT.
Eighteen Hours In n Ninnll Ilont on the Bil
lows of Luke Huron.
It appears from the story of tho sur
vivors of the wreck of the Nettie Weaver
that wheu tl”' storm arose they reefed
all sail and allowed the vessel to drift
with the wind, although under partial
control. Between three and four o’clock,
and whilst about fifty miles from Kin
cardine, the vessel sprang a leak, and as
it was impossible for the crew to work
the pumps, Capt. Reynolds at once saw
that the vessel could not long keep above
water, she being heavily laden and the
water gaining fast. The captain gave
orders that the yawl should be launched,
which was accomplished with some diffi
culty. A passenger named Birch, from
Buffalo, declined to leave the vessel,
saying he was safer on the schooner than
the boat. Emery Robertson, one of the
seaman, who belonged to St. Catharines,
when he heard that the vessel was to be
deserted, went below to get some addi
tional clothing and his valuables. Ere
he had time to return the vessel foun
dered, and both Birch and Robertson
went down with her. The schooner
sank within a couple of minutes after
the crew had left her, but of course it
was impossible to do anything to save
the two unfortunate men. In order to
keep their boat steady, the crew had the
presence of mind to take with them a
small ice-box, which they tied to the
stern of the frail craft, and to this pre
caution, in a great measure, they say
they owe their lives. They were unable
to take any provisions with them, and
were but scantily clad, several of them
not having been able to take their coats.
In this manner, with the water running
sonri penitentiary. Charles Waller was
always reticent about the murder, main-
taming his innocence stoutly up to a
short time before his executiou. Then
he admitted that he had gone out hunt
ing with Newland and shot him in the
woods. Upon his return he told his
son that he had disposed of Newland,
and that they must dispose of the wife
and child to cover up their tracks.
Richard Newland, the father of the
murdered man, determined that the son
of Waller should also be brought to jus
tice. For five years he has been search
ing, through detectives, to discover his
whereabouts. His search was finally
successful, the son being found residing ! mountains high, and
on a farm up in Minnesota. He was nr-!<« thunder guns,” the
rested aud taken to Webster county,
Mo., some time ago, and soon after the
trial took place, and he confessed to
manslaughter,aud was sentenced for for
ty years to the penitentiary. One of the
main facts which led to his conviction
was the identification of a bed-spread
and other articles belonging to the mur
dered family. These articles were iden
tified. by Mr. Newland as the property
of his daughter-in-law. The father of
the murdered man has spent large sums
of money in ferreting out and bringing
to justice the murderers, and has had
the satisfaction of being rewarded for
his labors.
wound up by private agreement, and its
depositors have been paid iu full, and
the receiver of another bank refused to
give any information to the Times’ re-
j porter. The thirteen remaining banks
; owed depositors at the time of their sus-
pension more than eight and a half mil-
I lion dollars, and tho several receivers
have thus far paid the depositors a little
less than four aud a half million dollars.
Silence is the softest response for all
| the contradictions that arise from im-
! pertinence, vulgarity aud envy.
i There is nothing more awkward than
breaking off au acquaintance, except
i the renewal of one which has been
1 broken off.
Seeking to soothe a ruffian by reason,
is like attempting to bind a buffalo with
A Struggle for a Million.
Several mouths ago Joseph L. Lewis,
an eccentric millionaire of Hoboken,
N. J., died and willed his fortune to tho
United States government, to be used
toward paying the national debt. It was
supposed that Lewis had no relatives,
but two claimants for his money appear
ed, one claiitiiTig Is- i.iu wife and the
other his son. Recently the case ca.ae
up before Master in Chancery C. S.
See, iu Jersey city, the Hon. Robert
Gilchrist appearing for the executors,
and the Hon. C. H. Winfield for the
claimants. Mr. Winfield astonished the
other party by producing a marriage
certificate, and one of the witnesses to it.
Tho certificate, which was iu three
pieces, set forth that Joseph L. Lewis
aud June Hastings were married at the
house of Mr. Lewis, in Hoboken, on
November 18, 1858, by Etheridge Fish,
a justice of the peace, with George
Bowne and George R. Bradford as wit- I
nesses. Bradford testified that he went
with Fish to act as witness to the ;
marriage of the claimant to Mr. Lewis, ;
aud identified his signature. The other I
side will try to prove that Bradford is an
impostor, aud that the certificate is j
either a spurious document, or that all
the parties being dead, it has fallen into
the hands of the assumed Mrs. Lewis,
aud is being used by her to secure the j
money. The case will be a hard fight j
on both sides.
the wind blowing
unfortunate
marim^s were tossed about for eighteen
long in expectation every minute
of being consigned to a watery grave.
Time and again did the surf envelope
the tiny craft, and each time it came
out, righting itself in all sorts of semi
capsized positions, almost as if by a
miracle. When daylight appeared, al
most dead with cold, and as hungry as
men could possibly be, no sight of land
could be seen, aud the crew were inclined
to think that if the weather did not
moderate, it would be impossible for
them to reach shore, and ns there was
but a slim chance of being picked up
there was a tendency to become dis
heartened. Capt. Reynolds, by kind
words of encouragement, nerved his
men to endure the terrible cold and
equally objectionable hunger. Shortly
before noon it was evident that the boat
was fast drifting toward the Canadia
shore. The storm had meanwhile
abated somewhat, although tho lake was
rougher than it had been for many a day
past. Kincardino harbor was reached
*'"•1 n-ofely entered, although with much
difficulty, and the six men, much ex
haufcteJ by their exposure to the ele
ments in their most terrific form, were
takeu care «f by the authorities, and
comfortably fed and clothed. With the
true nature of the tar, the request of
one of the seamen on reaching terra
/irma was : “ Can you loan me a chew
of tobacco?”—Toronto Globe.
About §250,000 will probably be paid in :i ^ arlaU(l of roKeH -
settlement of the affairs of the banks,
leaving a net loss to depositors of nearly
four million dollars. One bank paid
only fifteen cents on the dollar and noth
ing more is expected, but another, which
failed in 1871, paid ninety-five cents on
the dollar, aud the remaining assets are
expected to yield enough to enable the
receiver to pay depositors in full. The
story of these failures is a sad one, how
ever. The thirty-five thousand deposit
ors could evidently ill afford to lose their
small savings, and yet, taking the aver
age, each was obliged to sustain a loss
of over one hundred dollars.
Remarkable Scientific Results.
The Philadelphia Public lit cord says
that Mr. E. A. Outer-bridge, of the
assay department of the mint, has, by
means of a galvanic battery, succeeded
in spreading gold into layers so thin that
it would require 2,798,000 of them to
equal au inch in thickness. The gold
layer can be disengaged from the copper
J plate on which the galvanic current de-
I posits it, by dissolving the copper in a
; weak solution of nitric acid, on which
| the gold leaf remains floating. The
| same series of experiments have shown
that gold can be boiled, and even va
porized, by means of electricity, and
j that when a cylindrical bar of silver is
I coated with gold and drawn into wire,
| one grain of gold can be made to cover
| a length of 7,345.6 feet. The same au-
! thority states that tests of clay from the
The Crusts of Paris.
What becomes of the old moons ?
What becomes of the old crusts of bread
in Paris? asks Figaro, and then tells
their transformations. The boufant/t r
envieux, “Raker of tho Old” freely
translated, utilizes the pieces of dry,
damaged aud abandoned bread. He
gathers the crusts in boarding-houses,
convents and hotels. These morsels,
covered with sand, stained with ink, and
often picked from heaps of refuse, are
sold by servants to the “ Baker of Old,”
who turns them into new preparations.
The merchandize is first carefully di
vided. The fragments which are judged
to be still iu a presentable condition are
dried in an oven aud form (routes an
pot, which are used in soup at low-class
restaurants. Almost nil the
Those beings only are fit for solitude,
who like nobody, are like nobody, and
are liked by nobody.
Conceit is generally proportionate with
high station, and the greatest geniuses
have not been entirely free from it; what
indeed is ambition but an immoderate
love of praise ?
It is difficult to avoid envy without
laying ourselves open to contempt ; for
in being too scrupulous not to trespass
on others, we lay ourselves open to be
trilled with and trampled on.
When they themselves know it not,
men’s hearts will work ; a sense of right ! l ,e d underlying Philadelphia show forty
will sometimes steal upon their sleep,
and an instinct of goodness will gush
forth like silver water from the rook.
Love is but a solitary leaf, but neither
storm nor blight can fade it ; like the j
perfume that a dead flower sends forth,
it is sweet when all the gay sunshine has
departed ; wheu all its bloom is past, it |
has the fragrance of memory ; it is the j
last lingering beam, that glows long
after the sun and star have set—a refuge i
from the tempestuous and bereaving
storms of life.
cents of gold to the ton, and that the
whole bed contains more gold than has
yet been procured from California or
Australia. A specimen of galena from
Bucks county has also yielded gold in
the proportion of ten cents per ton.
The thinnest layers of gold produced
before Mr. Outorbridge’s experiments
are 367,500 to the inch.
The Percheron.
Kate Field writes from France to the
New York Herald about a breed of
horses called by the above name :
“ What has struck mo iu Havre aud its
neighboring horse-raising country is the
great size and endurance of the truck
horse called Percheron—a cross between
the Arabian aud the original Norman
draught horse. The Percheron weighs
from one to three thousand pounds, aud
has the comparative action of the
Arabian thoroughbred with thecompara
tive strength of the elephant. A Pcr-
cheron will haul with ease twenty-five
bales of American cotton, which is equal
to two loads of cotton hauled iu New
York by two horses. In fact, one Per-
cherou is equal to four American truck
horses, and why our farmers do not
wake up to a realizing sense of their de
ficiencies in this respect is not a little
surprising. So far we seem to have had
but two ideas in the matter of horses—
tho production of trotting and of race
horses. Unlike our ordinary custom, we
have thought more of pleasure than of
business. We have bred mongrels
where we have not the turf iu view,
whereas in Europe the classes of horses 1
are kept entirely extinct. In our great
country there is room for all classes,
and common sense demands that we
should have as fine dray horses as trot
ters aud racers. The West is particu
larly iu need of enduring work horses,
ami the farmers who are sufficiently en- !
terprising to import a few Percherons
will thank the Herald for having made '
tin
Egyptian Mummy Pits.
A correspondent in Egypt writes
The mummy pits around the Pyramids
and the site of ancient Thebes have for
some time been spoliated on for old
bones for shipment to England, ti
manure the fields of that country witl
their phosphab^ . aetically, the an
cient EpoujUlW^ire of no use to anybody.
nniL^p^^Yhem selves could not object,
on their own theory, to have their bodies
converted to the benefit of the living.
Millions on millions of the inhabitants
of ancient Egypt are buried in the mum
my pits that line the border of thi
desert from Grand Cairo to the cataract
at Assouan. Iucju^£ visited near
the pyramid which was
part, no doubt, oi the cemetery of Mem
phis, thousandf^^^Ahousauds of mum
the
to an ‘pth. When
dragged out their icked like dry
wood, and thrown up<^ a fire the air
was filled with aromatic perfumes from
the substances in which they were em
balmed. One of the Arabs with us, who
incautiously’ jumped int a the pit, almost
sank out of sight as he crashed through
tho brittle mass of dry bones and
withered skeletons. Every mummy has
a papyrus scroll around his waist de
scriptive of his genealogy and personal
history’—a kind of autobiography iu
brief. Whera many are entombed to
gether it was a receptacle of the com
mon dead. The great, the royal, the
noble and the military caste were placed
in separate tombs, their bodies encased
in a triple series of gauilily-painted
chests covered all over with hieroglyphics
aud emblematic devices, and the face
varnished with gold. A gilded face al
ways indicates a mummy of rank, who
in his day played an important part in
the affairs of his country. The skulls
have not much breadth of front or
height of brow, and they do not denote
a highly intellectual race. Neverthe
less, the old Egyptians did great things
in their day. They invented letters,
they cradled the arts aud sciences, and
they built the most colossal aud impos
ing and enduring monuments of archi
tecture the world has ever seen. The
Copts of modern Egypt are said to be
descended from them, and probably they
are, for they have the same grave, mys
terious, Sphinx-like features the ancient
dwellers of tho country had, as pic
tured on the painted walls of the royal
sepulchres at Thebes aud Deuderah.
Like their ancestors, they do not assimi
late with other races, and keep up their
gofferic characteristics and purity of
blood. The Khedive has tolerated the
commerce of the common run of mum
mies, but he has for several years past
forbidden the export or sale of the aris
tocratic class, whose precious remains
are so elegantly preserved in ornamental
chests of high intrinsic value.
A Tramp’s Terrible Ride.
A tramp who arrived here a few days
ago from the West, says the Cheyenne
(Wy.) Leader, tells a good story about
how he deadheaded over the Union Pa
cific from Cheyenne to Green River 1 <st
year by climbing upon the roof of a
coaeli of the celebrated Jarrett & Palmer
fast train. He says that from here to
Sherman he rather enjoyed the ride, but
that between Sherman and Green. River
his experience was one never to be for
gotten. The rapiil movement of the
train and the rocking of the coach forced
him to wind his arms and legs around a
stovepipe and hang on for dear life.
His hat flew off early in the ordeal, and
aft r the train left Laramie he was dis
covered by the engineer, who began
throwing a heavy shower of cinders, but
so rapid was the movement of the train
that the heaviest ones merely cut
through his clothes like bullets, while
the lighter ones passed above him. His
coat tails flapped so hard that he realized
that he must part with them, but ho
dared not loosen a hand to tuck them
under him, and they were soon torn oft
to blow away. Although he managed to
keep his face behind the pipe nearly all
the time he was frequently struck iu the
face by flying cinders, so that when he
reached Green River his neck and face
were badly cut and scratched. So great
was the poor tramp’s fear of being killed
that this, added to the terrible strain of
hanging to the pipe by main strength
for so long a distance and the intense |
suffering from the wounds inflicted by
the cinders, caused hi.s hair to turn gray, '
and when he climbed down at Green |
River he looked like a man who had seen !
fifty summers instead of twenty-two sum- 1
mers.
skirts
Fashion 'N^es.
’X.itin ami —in" nbi
ished off wi
facings.”
Side forms at the ba
still run to the shouldej
is much liked.
“ Drug ” braid, used to pr
bottom of the skirt, is^ewed on
are fla-
,4 |Wired
alonaise
ipde
Tiot
bound as formerly.
The “Czarina” is a fashionabla
blouse waist, or rather polonaise. Thd
design is becoming to slender figures.
A widow’s veil should be three yards
df a vard in depth,
are worn.
long, and h< hem
Short mourniiig vc:!- are
There ai u< arbitrary i
to the modes of bridal
satin, Indian ensbmere,
lace with tulh an worn.
Tiie “ Anneri ” Itasque is very dis
tingue. The iasmon ol the neck is a fa
Pompadour. The sleeves come to the
elbow; tho bodice shape is of the
cuirass.
Silver filigree necklaces are pretty
ornaments for full-dress wear.
The “ Davenport ” style of dress ia
very handsome, and is quito a favorite
model with society ladies. This mode
is very like the Princesse when first in
troduced.
All fine shades of hair come much
higher than the ordinary colors, such as
black and very dark brown. Blonde,
ash tinted, red hair, flaxen hued, silver
gray, aud genuine curly hair, all bring
high prices. Refined yak is used in
making up switches of gray hair.
The “ Elfride ” polonaise is an en
tirely new model ; every detail presents
graceful curves aud artistic effects. Ths
back design is a combination of lovely
effects, and yet there is no appearance
of intricacy in the character of the pat*
tern. The lower portion of the front
breadth is draped.
Peter Cooper.
The venerable Peter Cooper paid a
visit to Trenton, N. J., recently, and waa
received by Hon. Charles Hewitt, who
conducted him through the extensive
works of the Trenton Iron Co , and the
New Jersey Steel aud Iron Co. Mr.
Cooper is the founder of these establish
ments. Mr. Hewitt, in his address of
welcome, said that the workingmen dis
liked demagogues, because they had a
million of words for them while Mr.
Cooper had given them millions of dol
lars. On being introduced to the work-
ingmoifc Mr. Cooper made a brief
specel*, during which he said that he
was always a workingman in every sense
of tho word, particularly irr his early
years. He is now devoting all the pow
ers of his intellect to the interests of the
workingmen of the country. He hoped
to see the time changed, when people
would not try to get the most they could
out of the workingmen and give the least
for it. He hoped to see them well paid
for their labor. The remedy for their
wrongs did not lie iu revolution, but by
casting their votes for the wisest aud
best men. He hoped they would always
prosper, never fear to do right, and
always avoid doing wrong. He said
that during the Lst year there had been
609.000 readers in tho Cooper Union
and 3,000 pupils. He shook each man
by the hand warmly, after which three
rousing cheers were given for him. He
was highly pleased with the cordiality
shown him aud tho men were delighted
with his visit.
A Remarkable Memory.
One of the most extraordinary casea
of reading and memory, that we ever
hoard of, says tho Albany (N. Y.)
Press, was developed iu court last week.
A witness who was on tho stand gave
his evidence upon tho question involved
in an important case, from memory,
although the affair occurred many years
previous. Tho counsel on tho other
side questioned tl.o accuracy of his
statement, because ho had no notes or
memoranda from which to refresh his
memory upon vital points. When the
wife of this witness was called to testify,
she made some remarkable statements
relative to her husband’s memory. She
stated for the past ten years it had been
his custom to ari e at two o'clock each
morning, aud read until three o’clock,
wheu he would again retire. Through
tins practice he had mastered and com
mitted to memory most of Shakespeare’s
works, all of Byron’s poems, the consti
tutions of the State and United States,
the declaration of in lepeudeuee, Wash
ington’s and Jackson’s farewell ad
dresses, and President Lincoln’s emanci
pation proclamation, There was no
ouger doubt upon the question of hie
ability to remember names or events,
and it was taken for granted that his
evidence was about correct. If it wasn’t
it certainly should be.
suggestion.”
shaped crusts served in dishes of vegeta
bles have this origin. The crumbs aud
defective crusts are pounded in a mortar
until they become a white paste, which
butchers use to adorn cutlets. All the
Important Life Insurance Decision.
Life insurance companies have now
the authority of the supreme court of
the United States for their claim that
tho suicide of the insured vitiates the
lozenge- policy on his life, whether he is or is not
insane at the time of tho commission of
the deed, provided, of course, the phrase
“sane or insane ” follows the the suicide
proviso. The decision is unmistakable :
“ If tho assured be conscious of the
his hot forehead and parched lips. At
length he drew a long sigh, turned on
| hi* f>ide, and went to sleep.
And then, to my astonishment, I rec
ognized the man on the cliff, with the
scar on his face.
ewer, and bathed i material that appears absolutely incapa- physical nature of the act he is commit-
blo of further service is roasted, re
duced to charcoal, ground into powder,
and by the addition of a few drops of
essence of mint is converted into tooth
paste. Such is one of the metamorphoses
of Parisian industry.
i ting, aud intended by it to cause
death, the policy is voided, althqj]
the time ho was incapable of jud£
tween right and wrong,
understand the moral cone
what he was doing. ”
A Chinese Giant.
Yoon Shan, a Chinese giant, of eight
' feet, three inches in height, and still
! growing, is now on his way to England,
where he intends to exhibit himself.
He tells a strange st >ry about his mar
velous growth. When eighteen years
of age he was no taller than his com
panions of that ago. One day, however,
he caught a strange-looking, smooth
skin fish, cooked it and it. Soon af
ter this feast he beejon. - ry sick, and
wheu’after several we e. > ifraement to
his bed, he left it, he •ii >v< rid that he
had grown during the sickni SM. and has
ever since gone on growing H's head!
is very small iu compa' -on with his :
fght. This he says, was < aintedby lus
:h<
Brutal Alfred Stone
Alfred Stone, of Poplar, England, has
surpassed many rivals in brutality. Re
turning to his home from work recently
upon a Saturday evening, in a bad tem
per, he opened the door of a parrot’s
cage and attempted to take the bird out.
The bird resisting, he pulled it violently
out of the cage, put the poor creature
beneath one of his feet and said to his
wife: “Jane, I’ll kill it; it is the last
thing you have got belonging to your
father.” He then took the bird from the
floor and twisted its neck, but failing to
kill it threw it struggling into the fire.
He then left tho house, but returned
about one o’clock Sunday morning and
struck his wife. She ran from the
house pursued by the brute, who after
a short chase caught iq with d
knocked her down. lie then tn. >
lift her above hi« head but faded i
dropping he’- Idenly she received a
severe m t 1 . oack of the head.
The police tin roapon arrested Stone
and nr hr - ^ u eo been sentenced to six
montL 1 -rd labor in prison for the ns-
upon his wife, and two months’ ad-
ial hard labor for the cruelty to the
The Shah's Destructive Present.
The Shah of Persia one day expressed
a longing for a Krupp cannon in
presence of tho Russian [minister, who j
at once informed the czar of the shah’s!
desire The czar, who was anxious to
gratify the shah, by return mail, as it
were, sent one of tho monster cannon—a ;
300 pounder—to his ally. The present !
was landed at Enzili, on the Caspian sea, •
but it took a month’s labor by a regi- j
ment of the Persian army to get the can- i
non to Teheran. Arrived there a day !
was appointed to fire it. Tho court aud |
almost the entire population of the city j
assembled. Rang ! went the cannon, j
away scampered half the multitude, and j
down tumbled the minaret off me of the j
city gates, near which the gun had been !
placed. But there was another disaster. !
In an hour’s time a messenger arrived J
from a village five miles away, and re- !
ported that its inhabitants ivere bewail- |
ing the loss of their mosque. The can- |
non-hall from the cannon had struck the I
building aud ruined it. The shah was !
so dismayed by the effect that he never !
permitted the cannon to be fired again. !
A Boyish lliishaml’s Earnings.
The divorce suit of Shiuberg against
Shiuberg, in which the wife is plaintiff,
was before Judge Robinson recently, in
the special term of the court of com
mon pleas. New York city, on a motion
by the plaintiff for alimony and counsel
fee. J. P. Solomon, who appeared for
tho defendant, caused considerable mer
riment by producing his client in court.
The client is a very small-sized boy of
eighteen, who has apparently been only
a short time in this country and knows
hardly anything of the language. He is
j a native of Russia, and says he was en
trapped into an alleged marriage with
the plaintiff, who “ looks big enough to
eat him,” as the saying is. The defend
ant says he believed what is now claimed
to have been a marriage was merely an
engagement or betrothal whereby he
agreed to marry the girl after twelve
months, her parents in the meanwhile
giving him board and eh‘thing gratui
tously. Ho also made affi lavit that he
is only earning four dollars per week,
and that he is under medical treatment
nearly all the time. On this state of
facts Judge R dunsm denied the motion
for alimony and o ninst-l fees.
riar.d
The Turks on top of the Balkans at
Shipka Pass are willing to live nine days
on a handful of dates, but when it comes
to one meal a day on snowballs they feel
a little anxious about next year’s cam
paign.
Telegraphy in Switzcr'am].
Telegraphing is cheaper in i- wit
than in any other country. B- iug a
part of the postal system, the telegraph
is as common as the post-office. There
is not a village, however small, or
wherever situated, even in the highest
regions of the Alps, that has not a tele
graph working night and day. The
charge for a message to any part of
Switzerland is only ten cents. The
double postal cards is also another great
| advantage. This enables you to send
a business order, etc., on one part, and
! on the other your own address, so in-
during an immediate answer without
expense or trouble to the receiver.
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