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breaking up, tEe flioTr
on Sunday night; it had snowed all day
on Monday, all Monday night, and now,
after breakfast on Tuesday morning, it
was snowing as hard as ever. “Would
it never cease ?” we asked.
It was but eleven o’clock, and the
train was not due at Thorley till three.
It was calculated that if the road was
passable at all, an hour would surely be
enough for the three miles’ drive. So
‘ fwn o’clock there was no event to
-—-^-tmeTiine save lunch ; at least
there was no event that we knew of.
By-and-by, old Margaret came in and
said there was a poor woman in the kit
chen whom she thought the dog “ Fury ”
had frightened out of her wits, because
she could not speak a word that she
Margaret—could understand. Some
two or three of us went to see our strange
visitor.
We soon found that she was no more
road than we were, only well nigh in
despair, and exhausted. She could not
speak one word of English, and we
found our little stock of French, so ne
glected as it was, very inadequate for
conversing with her in her own tongue.
It was enough for her, however, that at
last she had actually found some one
who had heard of France, and who knew
there was such a language as the
French.
The poor woman’s tale was this. Her
husband was dead. Her two little girls
were just old enough to work at the
straw-plaiting, but not old enough to
walk all day with her in this terrible
weather. Her money had been just
c iough to pay their fare from Birming-
~ i to Dunstable, and she had sent
[ off by rail that morning. At Dun-
they would find a good French-
1 o would take care of them,
she herself had not money enough
o nde, so had set out to walk from Bir-
mington to Dunstable, a distance of
•orae hundred miles, for which walk she
had allowed herself three days. And
now Ihis morning, to begin with, she
found she had got four miles out of her
She could find no one to put her
the. tjow was preventing her from
naif the pace she had hoped
md she could not in any way
* her work at the time she had
*ed to be there. She was a strong,
- .‘-featured woman ; evidently very
and not at all sentimental. But
ilie did not beg, either directly or indi-
ectly. She was evidently careful to
.void it. She warmed herself by the
ire, but when pressed also to sit down
tud eat she said no, with many thanks,
begged us to direct her on her way
as we could which we did.
>eiore she went she took out her little
Jiwom purse and counted her small
d. She asked us what we thought
light be the railway fare from Banbury
' Leighton, and we told her as near as
could guess. Then she shut her purse
shook her head in a way that said
she musL walk it all. Hut being pressed
to take some little help to make up the
tiU'e for this part of the journey, she
took it—not without reluctance. Only
nooe her courage seemed to fail her.
When my sister’s little boy. a rosy little
fellow, eighteen months old, suddenly
began crying to go to her, she took him
into her arms, kissed him, m.di.'-ie i over
him, thinking nodoubt, of her own little
ones and their loneliness at this happy
Christmas time.
CHAPTER If.
r OOR BERTIE.
^f Kittj had not been the very best
little mare that ever drew a wagon be
hind her, she never would have got to
Thorley station It had given up snow
ing and the sun was shining a little. So,
i s wo thought there would be room
enough, coming back, I was tempted to
brave the weather and go down with
Sam to meet the train.
For thirty years there had been no
such snow-storm known in this part of
the country. As we drove along—if I
should not rather call it plowing—the
••om ricks showed like so many tumuli.
Even the highest hedgerows could only
be traced as long, sharp ridges, for the
home frii
over, am
ing rou:
were bus;
wreaths ot
mirrors, an
they bled in doing so. Suddenly
called out to Helen: “ But, annt,
where’s Bertie—I have not seen him ?”
“Oh, he’s asleep,” said Helen;
“you’ll see him and hear him too by-
and-by. ” Then, as if reminded by this,
she left her holly-wreaths and ran up
stairs to see if all the recent noise had
not waked him. In a minute she was
down again, and said : “ He’s not in his
cot; some of them have got him in the
kitchen ; run, Frank, and fetch him.”
Soon Frank was back again, and back
without the baby. Then the mother
and was already
where she could st
soon gathered from
child was he whom she had fondled |
the morning, and then she forgot
own care and eagerness to pursue
way, and begged to be taken back I
help in the search. So they had broua
her with them, and she was wander
about alone witk a lantern, not conti
till she had looked for herself into "
the places where we had all looked
fore her.
The sad summary of it all was
began to mn about the house searching, i nQ 0 "~ of *1, wUo had been search
and to grow uneasy. One of the maids, | ha<1 gaiueJ the 8lighte8t trftce of
however, had been sent some half-hour i Bertie
ago to a neighbor’s, and was expected 1
back directly. It was presumed, though
no one had seen her take him, that she i narrow escape of hadame guie:
had the baby with her. In a few min
utes she came in—and knew nothing of
baby Bertie.
Baby Bertie was eighteen months old,
and had just discontinued crawling and
taken to walking. His little feet were
for ever pattering from room to room.
His little hands were forever laying hold
of friendly skirts and coat tails. His
little legs were forever carrying him
slowly upstairs and tumbling him down
again with much greater rapidity.
Bertie, in short, had just got to that age
that when in sight he was in everybody’s
way, and when out of sight he was a cause
of constant terror lest he should come to
mischief. It was only when he was
asleep that he was considered safe, and
that his nurse-maid dared to turn her
eyes from him. And uow he had effect
ually given her and all of us the slip.
At first, of course, we all of us, except
Helen, made light of the missing baby,
being sure enough that he would be
found in some ridiculously safe corner.
It is a large house with many a spare
room and closet iu which a child could
hide, and it took us some time to look
through them all. But through them
all we looked not once, nor twice, but
many times, without finding a trace of
him. Then through the barns, the cow
houses, the stables, the very pigsties,
and every out-oflice of the place we went i - -
with lanterns aud candles, seeking ‘ whcn he rai8ed jt for au inBtant 4
Bertie and finding him not, calling Madame was able to scream.
Bertie and getting no answer.
CHAPTER III.
I hope the reader will never make i
to sit in so sad a circle as that whl
gathered about our fire when the seal
was stayed. The big Christmas
stood in its pride, decked with all!
fruit of toys and presents and lovj
inscriptions. Tables groaned under
jolly Christmas cheer that waited for
oven.
You are not to suppose that search i
abandoned. We were sitting only wl
we could decide what to do next,
one of us but felt that it would bo ml
endurable to wander searching, ei
against hope, amongst the snow throt
all the livelong night, than to sit th|
nursing our own sad thoughts.
We might have sat in this way
haps half an hour—all of us togetl
except Davie and Frank, who were nl
out with the French woman—when si
denly we were startled by a loud sere
of fright, repeated two or three tin
and each time checked, as it seemed, |
force, aud accompanied by a shs
savage growl.
Rushiug out to the back door, whe^
: the sound came, we found poor Mada
j Gnillot (for this was her name) on
: back, securely held down by Fury,whl
; Davie and Frank were trying to remo|
without success. Fury’s heavy paw
1 fiuug across her throat, aud it was ofl
When
! did scream, she was at once checked
the downcoming of the heavy pi
Then we set ourselves to search out- accompanied by a terrible growl and
side the gates, holding our lanterns care- at j m onitory shaking of her ample pe
fully to the ground, aud all at once in coats Beyond her fright and
the deep clean snow we saw the piint of . awaking, the good woman was none
little feet amongst larger teet. Away j wor8ej ft nd of these she seemed to tb
down the road we followed them, always
tracing them easily amongst men’s feet
aud horses’ feet for full two hundred
yards away from the house. There we
little, for the instant we had her on
feet, she broke from us and rushed ag
into the very jaws of Fury. The dj
however, was too many for her,
omnal
1877.
$2.00 per Annum, in Advance.
Whatever You Do, Do CheerfuHy-
Whatever you do, do cheerfully,
As if your heart was in it,
’Twill smooth the way to the goal you sees
And give yon strength to win it,
For little of silver or gold yen’ll get,
If you make up your mind to frown or fret
Little of joy for a lonely hour,
If yon never have planted a single flower.
What, though the task a hard one bo,
Still with a smile begin it;
And whatever yon do, do cheerfully,
As if your heart was in it
An Enterprising Correspondent.
A writer in the Boston Commercial
Bulletin tells ot an interview held with
Archibald Forbes, the English war cor
respondent, who has added to his al
ready brilhaut reputation by the mag
nificent description which he gave of the
recent battle of Plevna. Mr. Forbes
related some of his exploits in the field
of journalism, and at length was asked
“ And what do you consider your mas
terpiece of generalship ?’
“My last exploit before leaving Eng
land,” he replied. “I went down to
Falmouth to meet the Warrior (ironclad),
having on board the single survivor of
that wrecked vessel, whose crew were
adrift in a boat for eight days, and ate
two of their comrades. Falmouth was
full of correspondents ; so I put up in
a house outside the town, and I engaged
the only steam tug in the place. I waited
three days, and on the night of the
third in walks one of the correspond
ents.
“ ‘ Hello, Forbes,’ says he, in aston
ishment ; ‘ you here ?’
“Ten minutes afterward came word
that the Warrior was sighted. My tug
at once put out, and we lay Quietly in
the harbor, burning no lights. Present
ly a dark mass loomed upon us and
shouts arose.
“‘Forbes! Forbes, I say! Come,
no shamming. We know you are there. ’
“ But I kept quite silent, and remem
bered with no little vexation that a sec
ond tug had arrived in the harbor that
morning. At length the Warrior ap
peared. We steered toward her, and as
we passed I sprang for her chains, and
was dragged in the ship’s wake up to my
waist in water. However I got on deck.
I rau down to the steward and offered
him five pounds to bring my man into
his cabin. He did so, and locked the
door. Then I offered fifty pounds to the
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSE HOLD.
well-
r
|rs
an
poor, lean specimen of a shipwrecked
sailor in exchange for his story. He be
gan it, aud I scribbled away
“Ten minutes later came a
rapping.
“ ‘ Let ns in, Forbes,’ said the
known voice.
‘ ‘ But I only wrote the harder. At
last an officer appeared, and insisted on
my comiug oa deck. There J found tile
czpUiiu in a towering passion.
“ * What the deuce do you mean, sir,
oy boarding my ship likethat ?’ he de
manded.
“ I offered him my credentials and ex
cuses, and finally we were all put
board the tug, including the shipwrecked
mariner.
“ The correspondents at first wanted
to fight me, but I squared up to them
with one arm, still clinging to my prize
with the other. Having landed, I bur
ried him to the station, and there met
i my clerk, wlu^Pkd been sent to reserve
* a railway caniage. He was white with
j rage ami mortification. Unable to speak,
! he led the way to my reserved compart
ment. Outside it was locked at both
doors. Inside it contained four corre
spondents, comfortably ensconsed in the
four corners. They had waited when
the rest went aboard the tug, and hat;
climbed in through the windows !”
“ And that was how the other papers
were able to give the sailor’s yarn next
morning ?” asked I.
“Yes. He told it tons as we rode
from Falmouth to Exeter. There we all
left the train aud telegraphed onr narra
tives to London.”
Hereupon, the distinguished writer
arose and took his leave.
(.'heap Shelter for Poultry.
Some persons are deterred from keep
ing fine poultry by not having suitable
buildings, and there being also a lack of
money these hard times, they feel un
able to erect such buildings as they
fancy are necessary. To such we would
say, begin in a small way. If you
haven’t the funds to build an expen
sive fowi house, make your ingenuity
servo the purpose of capital. Those
who live in country houses may always
find some material at baud to make a
shelter. Nearness t* a sawmill, of
course, will make it easy to procure
cheap lumber or slabs for the erection of
a rough poultry house, rustic in appear
ance, yet affording good protection from
the hot sun, pelting storms and cold
weather. In some localities, straw, salt
marsh hay, or common mar-h hay may
be used as material. We have seen
some strong, healthy men who were
raised in thatched cottages, and have no
doubt but that winning birds may be
reared under a roof of straw.
The fowls may be kept in one of these
homely structures till money enough is
made from them to erect a substantial
building for their accommodation. If
one is in earnest there is a way. We
will suppose you have plenty of straw;
the style of architecture is primitive,
very similar to that of the Indian. A
side-hill location is good. In such case
only one roof is necessary. But if the
ground is level only poles and straw ai'e
needed. Let the ends of the poles rest
on the ground, being inclined at an
angle suitable to the shed rain when the
root is finished. The poles should be
of equal length, made to serve as rafters.
The upper ends of each pair should be
securely fastcued; the lower ends should
be eqnai-distant from side to side at the
base of the structure. Smaller poles
may be fastened on these rafters at rigid
angles and the whole covered several !
inchefrw c, t-n two feet with straw. This
violent I -cyTe of building may be continued in-
dength, and divided into
peas to accommodate diffefenT
items ol interest.
Monkeys are used for food in Japan.
An article you can always borrow- -
Trouble.
The average cost of building rail-
I roads in the United States is $45 t 250pei
j mile.
The richest man in the House of Rep
resentatives is said to be Abram S.
Hewitt.
The Charlotte (N. C.) Observer steps
up with a sow ten years old that has
raised 140 pigs—22,350 pounds of pork
—32,235.
“ Will you open the services ?” asked
the deacon of an oysterman, who was
dozing near the altar. “No,” said he,
* I have no knife. ”
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children in New York in one
week recently brought about the removal
of several child acrobats from the stage.
School savings banks, first introduced
by Prof. Laurent in 1866, have proved
very successful in France. At Bordeaux,
in a year and a half, the savings of 4,521
children reached $10,000.
The Shah of Persia has reduced the
taxes of his subjects by one-half for the
next fourteen years, because of the large
amount of gold taken from the recently-
diseovered mines of Ahmedabad, near
Tahidj, and of the prospect of further
large receipts.
An Indian’s suicide is unusual, but a
brave recently took his own life at Eu
reka, Nevada. He was disconsolate over
the death of his squaw, and being almost
helpless with rheumatism, he opened a
vein in his arm and bled to death before
he was discovered.
The funny man of the Detroit Free
Press has taken to writing financial ar
ticles. “ Suppose that silver is at par
with gold,” he says, “ what has that to
do with the currant worm ?” This is a
conundrum on a current theme that will
puzzle the best of them.
Cause and effect: A sixteen-year-old
girl out on Columbia street lias a button-
string four yards long, containing 1,973
buttons. And that girl’s ather fastena
Ms suapenders on his trousers with a
shawl-pin, a piece of twine, and a sharp
stick.—Burlington Hawkeye.
It is computed that the grain used for
or different selections from the same
breed. Poultry may be profitable
even in such a wigwam .is this, and the
proprietor of such a structure may raise
some speHmcijs fco sell at a high price to
stock some modem fowl house erected
by the man who has more money to
spend in the gratification of his fancy.
—Poultry World.
Winter Care of l.ivr Stork.
A writer in the Went England Farmer,
in a seasonable article, thus gives his
method of taking care of cattle in the
winter :
Cleau the mangers and feed with hay
at 5:30 in the morning ; then milk, feed
meal and roots ; then another foddering
of hay, water aud clean stable at 7:30 ;
then feed poorer hay or straw, of which
they will eat what they want, and then
lie down and chew the cud and be quiet
till four in the afternoon, when they
re watereu, mongern »rul stables cleaned
hen feed with hay ; then nrilkeTT arH
fed again with hay or straw. I find
they are more quiet and do better than
when fed the same amount at intervals
during the day. They will all drink
heartily as soon as it is light in the
I liqubrsTirir year- m
reaches 70,000.000 bushels, whir
mak# #1,050,000,000 four pound loaves
of bread. Great Britain uses 80,000,000
bushels of grain yearly for the same pur
pose, and annually imports food to the
value of nearly $400,000,000.
Charles Thorpe, better knowu as
“Champagne Charley,” is dead. His
father left him $50,000, and he chose
champagne as a steady drink. Hence, a
few years ago, after his exploits had
been told so often as make him com
paratively well known about London,
some one embalmed him in verse, and
“ Champagne Charley ” was long a fa
vorite song in the music halls.
Interesting Facts.
Pistols in use, 1544.
Muskets in use, 1370.
found the mark of where our little mnu i n8 tantly had her on her back as bef<
s
d
luscious grapes are as common as bar
berries in a New England pasture. The
business part of Sau Francisco is level—
wholly made, the circumference being
filled up or leveled. Strange enough,
Chinatown—that foul blot—is iu the
very heart of the business city. A block
from the great thorough fare of trade, aud
the'promenade of fashion and elegance,
brings ne into the very centre of the
Mongolian settlements. Imagine 60,000
Chinese in possession of Boston, from
State street to Essex, and from Wash
ington street to Fort Hill ; or in New
York, from the Astor House to Canal
street, ou the west side. The houses
occupied by the Chinese are the cheap
wooden dwellings built iu California’s
early days. When a Chinaman comes
into a block everybody moves out.
Filling one block, he moves on to the
next. He steadily invests his portion of
the city and moves on to the works of
the natives, according to his necessity.
He is tucked iu and shelved everywhere.
He will make two stories out of one, and
sleep comfortably iu quarters that would
make a dog howl. For these miserable
lodgings Johnny Chinaman pays
higher rent in proportion than any
resident of the city.
A Geographical Mania.
The geographical mania which is now
the rage in France, reminds one of the
mania for spelling bees which existed
not long since in this country. New
geographical societies or associations
are springing up everywhere. They
have got it into their heads over there
that one of the causes of their reverses
during the war with Germany was the
superior knowledge of the German gen
erals and officers in geography and topog
raphy, in which particular, it is alleged,
their own officers are woefully deficient.
An amusing story is told which rather
confirms the idea. A Pussian officer was
taken prisoner by the French. His cap-
tors wished to bring him to the nearest
town, but on coming to a spot where
the road branched off iu two directions,
they no longer knew which to take.
Their prisoner, who was desirous of a
rest, upon seeing their perplexity, con
sulted his map, told them which way to
take, and how many miles they had yet
to travel. So, in case of war another
time, Frenchmen have resolved that
superior topographical knowledge shall
be of no avail to their adversaries, and
hence their mania for maps and charts
of every description.
morning, and the cows usually drink at
night. The water is warm, supplying
five different, apartments without freez
ing over in the coldest weather in win
ter. The stables are also very warm
the teams that labor on the farm are fed
regularly three times a day, the sheep
twice a day, but are fed both times at
daylight. Cattle and sheep like a vari
ety of food, and sometimes eat very poor
fodder for a change, but should never
be starved to make them eat it, as they
will not thrive under such treatment,
and their keeping will be a dead loss.
Meal and roots fed to cattle will give
them a good appetite for coarse fodder,
and if fed together will be beneficial,
but I think every intelligent and observ
ing farmer will say that turnips are of
little or no value when few with straw
alone, but are of great value when fed
with meal, shorts, bran or hay. Good
early cut hay or dried grass make good
food for all kinds of stock, and is the
most profitable crop for the farmer to
raise, but we must have a variety.
had set himself down to rest, and there,
alas ! we found one of his little boots,
with a sock in it, and from that point
forward could trace the little footprints
still, the mark of the boot and the mark
of the wee naked toes now side by side.
Some fifty yards or s«», however, from
where v found the boot there were
signs of hi" having wandered from the
road into the deep snow ; there were
signs of trampling there by other feet,
aud there all trace was lost. Not another
footmark could we find beyond this point,
nor any footmark that indicated that he
had turned to go home again. It was
clear that our little man had first wan
dered outside the gate, had been at once
confused by the snow, aud lost his way;
hail waudered on and ou, further away
from home (we fancied how the poor
little thing cried, heartbroken), and had
at last lain down overcome with cold,
and—slept.
And all this while the poor mother
was with us. But now at last by main
force she had to be taken home, and I
with her, while the search was continued
without us.
At every neighboring house our peo-
But Helen hail seen something m
There it was indeed, the “ little shoe **—
the second red shoe, companM-i M^the
one found in the iane. It was lying just
outside Fury’s ^cnnel, and the light fell
full upon it from the lantern. In an in
stant Helen hail it in her hand, and
found that not only was it the missing
shoe but that one of the missing feet was
inside it—nay, that one of the missing
legs was attached to the foot, and the
whole of the rest of the missing body
attached to the leg ! By the leg, in fact
the missing Bertie was dragged out,
covered with straw, busily rubbing his
eyes with his little fists, and just waking
up from a very souud sleep in which he
had been indulging in Fury’s apartment,
Fury, seeing that he hail lost his ward,
at once liberated Madam Guillot of his
own accord, and (pushing his big nose
in amongst us, began to assist Bertie to
wake, by vigorously licking his face, till
Helen snatching him up, rushed with
him into the house.
We, looking into the kennel, saw
where he had made his little nest. It
was in the comer, completely out of
sight, and sheltered from the wind. He
without a better reason.. When he found
that all his efforts had failed, he left the
Huron iu the manner stated, with the
intention not to return. For this he was
placed under arrest aud tried by court
martial at Washington navy yard, in
August last. In defence he made a |
statement, in substance as above, aud
called Commodore Glitz, Commander
George P. Ryan, of the Huron, and
other officers to prove that, before leav
ing the ship, he told them of the dread
—in fact, horror—he had of finishing
the cruise in the vessel. This is a mat
ter of record, on file in the navy depart
ment, and, though such a line of defense
was laughed at when tuade, the fate of
the Huron will cause many superstitious
people to think that Mr. Fletcher’s pre
monition was fully proven to be a true
one by the wreck off Kitty Hawk, N. C.
— Springfield Bepublican.
There is often much more plesaure in
gh ing a thing to another than in receiv
ing it. Any one whe^ doubts t]
should try^thc expo^. ^ Vvith a dos* '
of medicine.
Hiased by Wolves.
McIntyre, r* Jasper Township,
jViv
says the Corning (Towai <-V < ‘ J ~, left
home ou foot to meet his son, who was j Pressley, sheriff’
on his way from Lenox with a team wtri ■ Ind., sold the
wagon loaded with lumber, and when
about three miles from home, while
crossing a piece of breaking, was met by
a large gray wolf that exhibited signs of
familiarity, and Mr. Me. began to pelt
him with turf. Mr. Wolf became en
raged, and boldly attacked him, and it
was with the greatest difficulty that he
was enabled to keep the enraged animal
at bay ; aud had he not luckily come
upon a stake that had been used by the
breakers as a guide, he might have re
ceived serious injury. By dint of walk
ing backward and a free use of his blud
geon, he was enabled, with safety, to
reach a dwelling about a mile distant,
and none too soon, as the sequel proved,
for he was not there long before a pack
of a half a dozen or more hungry wolves
surrounded tie house, keeping a short
distance^ ’©from, however, and set rv
bringini: to the mirfl/i.
A Fortune in the Rag Bag.
Two or three months ago John T.
of Marion county,
office furniture and fix-
liM
tm«s, including a fire-proof safe, belong
ing to Dr. James H. Fuller, to satisfy au
execution. The things were taken dur
ing the doctor’s abseuce Ccnm Indianap
olis, the sheriff breaking into tile office
to get the goeds. The safe was pur
chased by a second-dealer, who opened
it and sold the papers to a rag man.
Now, ou the doctor’s return, suit is
brought, the complainant setting forth
that among the papers was sold a bundle
of notes and mortgages to the value of
$10,000, and tax certificates worth $2,
000 more. Meanwhile, the rag man dis
poses of the papers, and they forever
disappear from sight. The records iu
the auditor’s office show Dr. Fuller to
have been a large purchaser of tax cer
tificates, and there is money now in the
county treasury which he cannot n<wi
avail himself of because he cannot vj-o-
ace/the certificate. The doctor.<te 8
sheriff and others who helped
Growth of the Telegraph Business.
Mr. W. J. Johnston, speaking of the
early days of the electric telegraph in a
work ou telegraphic matters, called
“ Lightning Flashes,” says : The first
public telegraph line in this country was
erected in 1844, and ran from Baltimore
to Washington. In the followingyear—
thirty-two years ago—a single wire was
erected to an abscure office beneath the
Express office at 16 Wall street, New
York, and two wires from Washington
terminated in a small room over the
ferry house in Jersey City, where three
operators easily, and not very continu
ously, performed the whole telegraphic
system of the city of New York. The
eutire telegraphic system of the United
Kingdom consisted at the same time of
a single line to Nine Elms, and a small
office at 334 Strand, London.
Things have changed very materially
since then. One company alone in this
country now ^operates about 250,000
iLfioa of wire, nearly 8,000 offices, and
handles >bout 25,000,000 messages a
year. The Western Union main office
in New York has iXW employees, includ
ing 125 ladies. In the central office in
London, ns many as 1,500 persons, in
cluding 350 ladies, find employment.
The lumber of words which pass
throigh this one office alone in a week,
is emivalent to several hundred thou-
san< messages. These immense estab-
lishnents are but the growth of a little
<ver a quarter of a century.
Spectacles invented, 1280.
Paper made from linen, 1300.
notes invented, 1380.
Linen n^t ' - »»» 'K’ngland, 1235.
Clocks first made in Englanu'iiWW*
Pens first made of quills, A.. D., 635.
Printing first introduced into Eng
land, 1471.
Paper was invented in China, 170
years B. C. .
Saddles came into use in the fourth
century.
Plays were first acted at Rome, 23
years B. C.
Horse shoes of iron were first made
A. D. 43.
Stirrups were not made until a cen
tury later.
Printing invented at Metz by Gutteu-
berg, 1450.
Potatoes were first introduced into
Ireland, in 1586.
Tobacco first introduced into France
by Nicot, 1450.
Cannons first used at the siege of
Alzegiras, 1342.
The art of weaving was introduced
into Euglaud, 1330.
Astronomy aud geometry brought into
England, 1230.
The calendar was reformed by Julius
Ctesar in the year 45 B. C.
The first public library was founded
at Athens, 526 years B. C.
The first public library in Rome was
founded in the year 167 B. C.
Paper of cotton rags invented towards
the close of the tenth century.
Comedy and tragedy were first ex
hibited at Athens 257 years B. C.
Turkeys and chocolate introduced
into England from America, 1526.
The figures of arithmetic brought into
Europe by Saracens A. D. 991.
, Post-office established in France, 1464 ;
! in Euglaud, 1581 ; in Germany, 1641.
Insurance on ships and merchandise
was first made in 43 A. D.
The first public library was founded
at Alexandria, Egypt, 84 A. D.
The first regular bank was established
in Venice in the year 1157.
Stone buildings and glass were first
introduced in England in 674 A. D.
Pleadings in courts of judicature were
first introduced in the year 778 A. D.
Manufacture of silk brought from
India into Europe in the year 551 A. D.
. of the property.
One Thomas cat, if he tends to busi
ness right sharp, can destroy eighty
dollars’ worth of gold fish in one night,
and wake up twept^-fivo households as
he goes home af daybreak.
A Dock Battle.
A gentleman from Packwaukee relates
the particulars of a novel sight he was
witness to the other day on Buffalo lake.
[ His attention was attracted toward the
lake by a
proach of a hurricane, and there he dis
covered myriads of ducks engaged in
mortal combat. He watched them for a
while, and discovered that the battle
was between the mallards and the
canvas-backs, who were evidently striv
ing for the supremacy on the celery
fields. The lake was fairly strewn Sv* ’
feathers, as if all the ducks in the liuttu'
had been picked for the eocasion.—
Wisconsin State Register.
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