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SCIENCE AND THE OTSTEB)
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■HmlT^AnlAetol (fella**.
[VtMl th« PhilMUlphia Record.]
TIm <9#ar has of lata yaaia, froai ita
fraat aeonoiaio Taliw, attraotad the at
tention of eeiontiflo men of alleoantriea,
and eapaoially 4n tbk oonntrj
of the John H
UniTeimitj, made tka fliat aacoBadfcl at
tempt in fha artifloial imprafnatlon of
the egga of the oyeter. A aingla oyeter
laya about two millions of yellow eggs,
which are found in the fills of the pa
rent They soon commence to mows
about by moans of delicate motile fila
ments that almost oorer them, snd then
srohstched snd called fry. They are
now Independent—free swimming crea
tures, hot shortly esase to rove about snd
attach themselves to the bottom, tbs
shell, one-eighth of an inch in diameter,
being easily discernible. At the end of
the first year they reproduce, bat do not
attain their perfect else for three years.
The inonbation of oyster egg* is the
great business of the future, snd in afew
yean, probably, the dealer can go to »
hatchery and order 500,000,000 sprat,
more or leer. The present difficulty ia
notin the fertilisation bat in beeping
the young alive, and to this end experi
ments are being made in various parts of
the world.
Another important question affecting
the flavor and, oonseqneLtly, tbs sale of
the oyster is its food. Every epicure
knows the difference between Blue
Points, Shrewsbury and Virginia oysten,
and the supposition is that their food is
1 he oause of the difference. Professor
T<eidy, President of the Philadelphia
Academy of Science, says that the oye
tor, probably, naturally feeds upon the
zoospores of certain slgw, snob as
those of tbs sea cabbage (tf/va latissi-
i/<a). This, in his opinion, might
give the animal# the green color
that they often possess, particularly in
the soft parts. So many oysters have
been rejected bpr buyers who were afraid
of the green tint that the matted has
been investigated by two French natnrsl-
ists, who .took perfectly white oysters
and fed them upon water containing so
abundance of a green microscopic plant
(Naricula ottrearia), and they assumed
the green, coppery hoe that was sup
posed to be poisonous. Oysters are sup-
irased also to contain the green coloring
matter of plants called ohlorophyl, found
in a number of animals. Tbs most care
ful tests were made chemically with the
spectroscope snd otherwise by various
scientific men, snd in no esse was the
green color traced to metallic matter or
found in any way poisonous.
"Is it true,” asked the skipper’s com
panion, "that star fish roll on oyster
beds?” “I can't swear to it," was the
reply, "bat among istermen it’s s gen
eral belief tliat sea stars get together in
bunches of four or five hundred snd 1st
the sea or ground swell roll ’em up shore
onto the beds, where they break up and
go for the isters. They kill thousands
of boshels of ’em every year. The way
they work is to dose over the shell snd
torn their stomachs inside out and suck
the eritter right in. They’re one of the
worst enemies the isters have. It’s as
tonisUn’,” he continued, "the number
of egge isters lays and how few grows
up. I hoards gentleman say that out of
1,000 isters about 460 lays eggs, and say
each laid 1,000,000, we’d haye forty odd
million young. But he eatd, on an aver
age, only 400 or so of these grew to per
fect sbe, so for every later as is eat over
1,000,000 gik killed.’’ ^ ^
Professor Mobins says the productive
ness ‘of the oyster is 7,000,000
greater than that of man, but its capacity
to mature 679 times less. The European
oyster is far below its A»>*i*b>*»« cousin,
and about England extremely rare. In
1870 a email bed was discovered at the
mouth of the Thames, near WfaitesUble,
about sixty feet long and twenty wide,
and within forty-eight hours seventy-five
vessels were anchored over the spoi
The bed is now defunct. The beds of
Cancels, on the Normandy ooaat, are yet
rich, though the following figures show
the earns destine : in 1849 they yielded
62,000,000; in 1869 the number was only
18,000,000; in 1881, 9,000,000; in 1888,
2,000;000, and in 1886, 1,000,000. A
rage for the artificial culture of oysters
swept over Europe several years ago,
promoted principally by Professor Costs,
of Paris. In the spring of 1868 he dis
tributed in the bay of St. Brieux shells
snd hshvy fagots over s space of 1,000
heotasn (one heetaer equals 21.4fli
sores), and on these spread 8,000,000
mother oysters. In the autumn all the
fagots were, of eourse, covered with
young oysters; for if these oj stale were
ss fruitful as the Helstein oysten there
*ere 182,000 young oysten to every
square mater. The boldest Mp matte us
were exceeded. It waa thought that
beds, sad people already eommenefcd to
oatoolate, according to the price which
oysten bnoght at that tfana, how many
ntilfona of franc* would be yielded by
this harvest of theses. Capitalists went
tato partnership with fisherman and
started srtiflrtsl oyeter beck, but the rich
harvest of marketable oysten failed
everywhere because the iTualai portion
of the young oysten had been destroyed
by qoktaand or clayey deposit, by want
rftoodorbysnaarin,. At present tha
oatowng and raking of young oysten k
only rtnsnrfuQy osrried on in a law
Pken on tha French ooaat whiob are
; on a large
the bay of Areaehou, north of
Among the penengen on tin train
eve# the T^anaing Ned tha other day wm
an old man with a sore eye ends
■gneehy vokaandaattgneeh. The train
had seassaly left tbs capital sHy whan
ha ssaght tha soudnotor’a arm, and
askad if the next station was Livonia,
"Vo, sir; livonia k fifty miles down
the road," waa th* reply.
Atokemos tha eld gent asked the
sanaqnestioat jp| received about the
same reply. At WWiametownr he ap
pealed to the pnmangne and refusing
to be convinced he poshed hk head pot
of the wfodow sndlost hkhai. As tha
brskamsn snnooneed Fowlerville tha
old msn suddenly stood op and asked:
"Did I understand yog to aay IA
vooiar • ■? '
"Vo, air; Livfinia k still beyond," wps
He doubted it, and going ont on tipi
platform he got 4 cinder in the well fyo
and wm presently oaable to see at ati.
A kind-hearted mag lent hint a handker
chief; and whenlhe train reached How
ell he waa able tb run down theoondno-
tor and repeat hk former inquiry.
"Vo, air— no, sir I” sharply replied the
official—"Livonia k still further on. Is
your ticket ftw Ltvoniaf -
"No; Fm going beyand.”
"Then what are you ao anxibtu
aboutf”
"Wall, fhs last time I coma through
Livonia there was a~ little red-headed
man behind a pile of staves with s club
in hk hand, and jkt around the earner
of a pile of shingles was a big bald-
headed man with a rook in his fist.
They was daring each other to come out,
but the train hustled along before the
climax come. I was kinder thinking,
you know—that is, I was kinder in hopes
that by the time we got there this morn
ing the little red-head would have g<>l
k dander up'’hulT to ssD in."
"How long ago was this ?"
'"Boutfix weeks.” •
"Ton’d better go off snd soak yom
head I” snapped the official as he walked
ewsy.
"Yes, maybe I had,” sighed the old
man as h* sat down. "I’d do it in a
minit if I knew ’twonld help my eyes
We’re gittin’ cl ns down to Livonia now,
and tb* way my eyes are I couldn’t tell
red-head from bald-head nor make ont
who was on top. I wonder where the
soakin’ place, is on this oar.”—Detroit
Free Prett.
TALES OP A STAGE ROBBER. I ““
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> Marta Valiev—LaacMas Ovar Theaa-
r*v Maklaa -MS a
The popular belief that it
brave man to rob s stags k mdaly dis
pelled by John Ifanhall, a highwayman
nowin jail in Reno, awaiting trial
stopping tha Siam Talley
compelling the paungan to give np
their valnatfea. Harebell k not a
formidsble-losUof ann, but ha has
nsvartheleas a reckless air about him
tbkt makes a man whom ha threatens to
■hoot fed that he k likely to keep hk
wood. Since his arrest, being reason
ably certain that ha will peas the next
ten or twenty yean in some prison,
provided always that hk eerear k not
out short by lynchers, he has devoted
much of bis timiflb reminiscences of
hk adventures on the road. It k sus
pected, now that he k a| bay, tint be
takes some delight in easting ridicule
upon his numeroos victims, but the
opinion also prevails that there k some
ground for it. Every man who has had
experience with stage or train robbers
shows the effects of hk fight for years
afterward.
"Talking abont brave men,” Stage
Robber Marshall said one night in
"the idea that it takes a man of great
nerve and (boring to rob a stage iaagreat
mistake. I can take the softest tender
foot yon ever saw, and after fixing him
np in the right-style ao the people in
the stage will know his profession the
minute they set their eyes on him, I’ll
bat I can scare the life out of the best
concord load you ever see. This notion
that we hurt people or threaten to hnrt
them, and tbit we are rough add all that,
is all nonsense. We iust lav for the
A >**w Wheat Field.
Onr Consul at Buenos Ayres believes
that the Argentine Republic is to be one
of the great grain-producing countries of
the world. He estimates the wheat crop
of this year at 19,500,000 hnshels, more
than half of which will be surplus for
export, snd adds that the surplus corn
will amount to 5,000,000 bushels. The
number of sores devoted to agriculture
has more than doubled in the last six
years, y*t there are less than 2.000,000
acres under cultivation in the fourteen
Provinces, ont of 800,000,000, the great
er part of the remainder being used for
grazing cattle or sheep. The republic
baa a climate tbnt ranges from the sut)-
tropical to that of Northern Canada.
Experiment seems to prove that the
pampas are remarkably fertile under
cultivation and admirably fitted for
cereal crops. Exploration in Patagonia
has revealed rich meadows snd valleys
capable of snstsining millions of tattle
snd sheep. The fertility of these lands
will make them hereafier, in the
Conanra^^w^n ion, the granary and
garden of the republic. Several setthF
meats have recently been made on the
Atlantic coast of the Province, and the
inhabitants are raising wb-*it. We
aometilufee forget that Pstsgoni* lies in
the latitude of the northern half of the
United States, while the climate of the
more important Argentine Provinces is
that of the United States below Mason
snd Dixon’s line. Tbs republic has ouly
2,600,000 inhabitants, and moat of these
are Indolent “and conaervstive. The
number of immigrants increases an
nually, however, jmd the wealth of the
IRthk bay ths young oys-
iM^pndaead by mother oyutoa on nai.
oral bads are ought oo
in
lime. It .may be. therefore, that Consul
Baker is jnstified in making the predic-
t ion that at some time, although not in
the near tatnre, the republic will con
tend with the United States for a divi
sion of the export trade in grain.
ii - —- - -gp- - - - - -
At West Point, once, General Sher
man, accompanied by the Commandant
of Cadets, wss making an inspection
tour of the barracks. He wasn’t look
ing for contraband goods, but while in
one of the rooms he got talking about
his cadet days, snd "When I wss a
cadet,” he said to (he Commandant,
"we hid things in the chimneys during
the summer months. I wonder if the
boys do so still.” (It was then in Jane.)
So saying, he stopped to the fireplace
sod reached np tbe (jbimney. Rattling
down at his toueE catoe a board, fol
lowed by a frying pan, a bottle (empty),
and * suit of citizen’s clothes. The
faces of tbs cadets who occupied the
room was a study. But the General only
laughed, and taming to tbe Command
ant said: "This is sp exceptional case,
Colonel. No need of reporting these
young men.”
A Crrr’s Pnoran.—Scarcely more than
fifty per cent of the population of
Chicago wm born in the United States.
No lass than 94,000 of the present inhab
itants of that city have poured in from
the various States of the German em
pire. Th* Bohemians number 12,000;
the Canadians, 16,000; Danes, 8,100;
French, nearly 2,000; Irish, nearly
.50,000; Hollanders, nearly 8,800; Itoli-
ana^ l,400riforwegiana, 8,700; Swedes,
IfijOOO; Poles, 5,700; and Swiss, 2,000;
with a sprinkling of Ruaaisns, Hnnjpui-
ans, Spaniards, Portuguese, and mu of
almoat every other rasa and nationality
country’s soil and mineral deposits will
e f ,uinl J bo developed in the oonrR at ^ th»t we would hove to kiU
Stage in a lonely place, snd when the
leaders heave in sight we level our guns
and maybefire a ahot or two in the ah
.to maifti the horses jump and rattle the
driver a little. Then when all hand* are
looking out of thefeiodewe, with their
eyes popping out of their sockets, we
yell, ‘Hands up I’ Nine times out of ton
that’s all we*bave to say or do. The
fellers in the coach get ont of their own
accord, snd we jnst stood them up in a
row, and whlle one'bf us holds
the others go through their pockets aAd
take what few little‘keepsakes they hap
pen to have handy.”
"Why, I’ve been in rnore’n a dozen
hold-ups, and in only one case were
there more’n two of ns. When the
things got into the papers, though, it was
alway said there were a dozen fierce’
highwaymen, all armed to the teeth, and
that they shot tbe stage and the pas
sengers’ clothes all fall of holes. Why,
a year ago last winter, my pard and I was
walking along the monutain road, not
thinking of anything in particular, when
along came a couple of tenderfeet in a
carriage. Before we could catch our
breath, one of them threw up both hands,
knocking the other's hat off, and hollered,
‘For God's sake: don't shoot!’
"Well, now, we hadn’t any idea of
shooting at all, and didn't know those
fellers were in those parts; bat when
they sort o’ reminded us of our business
by commencing to unbnckle their watches
and weasels, why, we just took them in
charge, of Course, and told the tenderfeet
never to let us catch them on that road
again for it was onr’n. They thanked
ns so warmly for sparing their lives that
I felt a little nneasy about it.
"I and my pard had robbed the Sierra
valley stage three times now at the same
place. I’ll tell yon how it was done.
Pard had a Wihchester and I had a pair
of Oolts in my belt, bnt the job was done
every time with an old powdered ball
pistol that bad no load in it, amTwouldn’t
have gone off if there had been one, for
I didn’t have any caps. Pard would fire
his Winchester as close to the ears of
the horses as he oonld without dropping
them, and I would swing the old blnn
derbuas in the air and boiler. Every
time it happened just the same. The
chaps climbed out, begging that there
should be no bloodshed, and we would say
there wouldn’t be any if the yield was
Bobbed
and passengers give up their arms, their
watch's mid money, and than dance for
me. They thought I had any number
of pards back in the rooks, and they
didn’t dsn say ‘peep.’ Well, of ooorae,
that's the great advantage we have in
our business. W# sear* them to begin
with, and then they aee everything
double. One man is faat m good m fifty
in this lino. "He Amt need to be e
hero, either. He jost wants a little
nerve and an impeifoos sir. If I had
always worked alone Pd have been a
rich man to day, and 1 wonldnt be here
either. I made my grqei mistake when
I oommenoed working in partnership. It
will ruin any msn in my profession. If
I ever get ont of this sarape I'm going
to jump the country. The business
isn’t what it used to be_fMrs ago. It's
too easy. It makes me sick sometimes
when I think of th* tenderfeet I’ve
robbed. I ought to have gone into the
•rain racket long,before this.”
AN
A Chinese Protest.
INDIAN A NT FBuTMT AGAIN BT TBE
ACTION OF MANC*.
An Orange brower. •*
A letter in the Boston Transcript
says : As luok would have it, during
the war the Tankee found hin way to
Florida, saw the possibilities, and after
the war was over returned to Florida
and set himself to work to solve the
problem' of making some money out of
the wild orange groves. Ho out all the
trees in the sour grove* that were not
wanted; and budded the stock with
sweet fruit, which plan proved a suc
cess, fruit appearing in from three to
four yean. He qniokly perceived the
value of this and other fruits which need
tropical snn, and set the boom agoing
that has already attained immense pro
portions and is increasing annually,
The -orange may be called the staple
product of -Florida, so generally is it
cultivated. Almost every enterprising
planter has his grove, which is very
tenderly cared for, as on this he expects
to depend for a good inoome when it
Lovoladt 1$ the ohm of a
town whan two roughs oat Moot-
sia«« to pieces white his wife indekOA
tipod by pleading for Ms Ufa. A
somebody if we-didi^t get enough to pay
for our trouble. Every mother's son of
them would give up things that we’d
never have thought of looking for or de
manding. There was only jnst my pard
and I, bat the passengers would think
they conk) see some of our men behind
every tree, snd we’d holler onoe in a while
some command to the boys in the woods
to be sure snd hit the right ones if they
fired.
» "Oh,Lord!” Marshall said with a pro
digious laugh, " it breaks me np when I
think of one feller who fainted dead sway
once. We’d jnst got them in a row good
when this fellow’s knees commenced to
knock together, and he kept getting out
of line. I finally thought I’d scare him
and the rest of them a little, so I hollered,
pretending to be giving orders'$T the
boys hidden behind rooks and treori *
" ’Boys, boro a hole in this galoot
ih the light overcoat on if he moves
an inch, or any of the rest of them.’
"Just tben a big foliar, the second one
/tom the limber-legged chap, had a chill
like, and his teeth came together with
such a noise that the other feller thought
somebody wm cocking a rifle, rad with a
whoop ha dropped in a dead faint. The
rest of them thought ho had been shot
dead. Thev war* too scared to
that there had para no report of a gun.
Well, we came pretty near overdoing
the thing that time. ThOy all got so
faint and tick that it wm bald work to
find their valuables. It is a groat con
venience to a stage robber to have
th* pasaengen hand their staff right
oat
"Speaking shoot WMpooa, why, I
have robbed stages op ia California and
over in Utah without any weapons at
all Too don’t need any. m bat a
traamthatI era toko asald-fMltiraed
tin and hold up the boat
stage kail the! over tome, over the
moontohm The driver it generally m
bad]* friahtaaad m any of than.
. . -4—
The Chinese government baa ad
dressed a circular letter relative, to An-
nam to all foreign powers. The text of
that document, recently delivered to
Mr. Frelinghnysen, tbe Secretary of
State, by the Minister of China at Wash
ington, is as follows ; *
Annam has been a dependent State
to the Ta Tring dynasty for more than
two hundred years, the ruler of the
former sending tribute to the latter and
receiving from the latter his investiture.
Some twenty years ago, when the north
ern portion of Annam was disturbed by
rebels, tbe Ts Taing dynasty sent troops
across the frontier to quell and disperse
them. This occupied a space of up
ward of ten years and cost the govern
ment many millions of dollars in ord&
to stminonsly protect and defend the
government of Annam. Now France
invades that country without oause, and,
availing herself of the opportunity of
the death of its king, has enforced the
Hue treaty, in which there is a provision
that "China most not interfere with the
government of Annam.” This shows
that France refuses to recognize Annam
as a vassal to China. The foreign
powers from these facts can with equity
distinguish which government is in the
vffong and which is in the right.
If France desires to maintain friendl)
relations with China, why should we not
disouse Ihe matter amicably? If she in
sists upon invading the northern part of
Annum, where onr troops are stationed,
this indicates that ahe ia determined to
break the friendly tie, and onr troops
there cannot remain with folded arms,
but must meet them in the field.
We, therefore, send this communica
tion to nil foreign powers, showing that
in the event of the friendly tie being
broken the canse-of the rapture doe?
not come from China.
BUMHnra TBAlRti BT TBLEtiBAPH.
Ctari** Mtortfe IS**, which wm fins Pst
Isis PnpUcc M Year* A«c-
gels into
owned By
non-residents, merchants,
clerks, and even by mechanics who can
not afford to spend all their time wait
ing on an orange grove. Such persona
hire their work done for a small snm,
especially where they have not enough
money to go and do all they want to dc,
such as biuld a house, ete. The gro>v
is cared •for by some of the resident*.
The orange tree is a very prolific bearer
seldom having an off year. Fifteen
thousand oranges have been picked
from a single tree in one serson. This
is very extra, however. The prosperity
which Florida is enjoying is dne largely
to the pnsh rad enterprise of the
Tankee-. Wo have said enough about
the orange tree for the present We
can tell yon much al*out other trees,
and what they will do in Florida, such
ss tbe peach tree (which ripens its
fruit in early May), also the La Conte
pear, Japanese persimmon, strawberry,
and other trees, grapes, figs. etc., but we
fear we have already trespassed too
much upon vour valuable space, though
vou would be Mtonished if you knew
bow many there are who look easterly
for information on Florida. It has been
onr pleasure to already have posted
many, rad advised many to stay at
at home, their funds being too small.
station a man whom 1 imagined was by
- , , this time a bonanza king, as he went
Magi, grorg—MS. way t »zaikg i>adly, puts out Ms Jong, Westward years rao.
white, bony band to him and whispers
It anuBS stkanoe that an immense
trade should be done in this
country in importing eggs. One
would suppose that t&e domestic farms
of an immense country might produce
enough for the consumption of the
population, whereas tost year no Iom
182,000,000 eggs were imported.
In^MM the number of foreign eggs re
ceived St the Custom House
000,000. tfi the following yrar it had
increased to 140,000,000; tost year 182,-
000,000 represented. the number im
ported, and it is expected that this year’s
importation will reach fha raonaooa
total of 200,000,000. What are oor hens
at home doing? „
It m currently reported that a rich
young lady of Erie, Pa., is going
» marry Hamilton McCormick, of Chi-
oago. We deem it our sokmn duty to
stem the bride that her prtegSMtivo
husband is tfaf ffiveptor of | threshing
"Th* first train of ears that wm ever
ran by telegraph,” said an old rail
road official, to a New Tork Sun re
porter, "waa in 1860, between Turner’s
Station and Fort Jarvis, on tbe Erie
Railway. The road wm then called the
New Tork and Erie. In that year the
road wm opened between Piennont mid
Elmira. It wm only a single track, of
course. Charles Minot wm the general
superintendent A telegraph line had
been put np along tbe line, rad other
reads were nsing tbe telegraph in their
business, but none of tbe managers of
railroads had ventured to utilue it in the
matter of train signals.
"Engineers rad oondnotora. pere
afraid of the telegraph. Trains were
rati entirely by the printed time tables
famished to the engineers rad conduc
tors, on which were indicated the places
where a train going in one direction
must wait for the arrival and passing of
another. No matter how long this wait
happened to be there the engineers
would wait. Under this system passen
gers were frequently detained boors on
sidings and switches. ■
"Whan Baperintohdehi HmbF came
into power he urged the use of the tele
graph in running trains, bnt he could
not induce any engineer to start a train
from a station where the passing place
was marked on the time table before the
other train had passed. They said the
telegraph might err in reporting a train
late, mid that.there was always a chance
that the two might meet on the way.
"One day in 1850 Minot was s passen
ger on a west-botmd train. Upon its
arrival at Tamer’s Station he received s
telegram saying that the east-bonnd
train was six hours behind time. He de
termined to settle at onoe the anestion
of the value of telegraph signals in run
ning railroad trains. He telegraphed to
the agent at Port Jervis that he intended
to ran the west-bound train tb that sta
tion on the time of the overdue train,
and ordered him to let no train leave
Port Jervis until the train from New
Tork arrived there. He requested the
agent to telegraph back to him how he
understood the instructions. The
answer was all right, and the Superin
tendent gave orders to go ahead.
‘‘The engineer declared that he would
not leave Turner’s until the arrival of
the other train. Minot ordered the in
subordinate engineer to dismount from
bis engine. This order the engineei'
had to obey, snd the Superintendent at
once took charge of the throttle lAmself.
He ran tbe train not only to Pori Jer
vis, but as far west as Narrowburg,
where the train wm compelled to wait
only a few minutes for the passing of tbe
delayed train. This snccemfnl experi
ment waa the death blow to the old sys
tem of railroading. It was followed at
once by the adoption of telegraphic sig
nals on all the railroads of the country,
and advanced railroading at least a
quarter of a century.
"When the late Col. D. C. McCollum
1/eosme General Superintendent of the
Erie, about thirty years ago, Charles
Minot having been promoted to the
Presidency, he originated a system of
rales for the running of trains by tele
graph, which were adopted by nearly all
the roads in the country. The regular
telegraph orders are very simple, and
only through gross carelessness can
they fail to secure complete safety, or to
facilitate train movements.” ^ 3
The Country Doctor.
“Doctor, he’s awake now.”*
The old doctor slowly lifts himself,
nnkinks his stiffened joints, kicks his
legs out to straighten ont his trowsen,
shuts his big bone-handled knife, brushe*
the shavings from his shiny clothes, and
goes to the bedroom. The sick man
slowly turns his head toward the door-
la Incident at flettysfcurfw
"Here’s where I Mina to grief,”
a Twelfth Regiment man, m he stood
upon Seminary Ridge. "How did it
happenF* wm naked. "Well,” aaid he,
"if yon wish Pll toll yotij but I fear I
may be wearisome. I always had the
unenviable reputation of talking too
modi, rad on that 1st day of July, 1868,
my propensity to be too loquacious came
very near ending my career. Ton see
they brought ns np to th* brow of this
hill on the double-quick, snd we found
we had a beautiful chance to gets cross
fire on a brigade of ’Johnnies’ that lay
down therein the open field. We pep
pered them awhile, rad then our boys
began to about ‘Forward!’ rad ‘Charge!’
I don’t think the order came through
the regularly constituted channels. It
wm a sort of spontaneous and voluntary
movement on the part of the men, who
were brim full of fight on this occasion.
Tbe Colonel rad Adjutant Both tried to
find out ‘Who gave the order?’but all
we knew about it was that everybody
in tbe regiment was shouting ‘Forward!’
The advraoe was inevitable, so our offi
cers placed them? elves in our front snd
sway we went like a whirlwind. We
had captured and driven in all but about
-twenty or thirty of the rebs, after jl
■light resistance, rad my propensity to
talk wm so strong upon me that I
couldn’t help telling the ‘Johnnies’ that
were banging behind all about our good
treatment of prisoners, etc., rad thus I
didn’t notice when the regiment went
bock to its old position. When I came
termy sensei I found I was alone. I
concluded I would go back, snd so in
formed them, but they very emphatical
ly ordered me to remain.
"Now, something had to be done, so
I quickly determined to take my chances
of instant death rather than perish by
the slower method of disease and star
vation, and I informed them in not very
elegant terms, modes of expression I do
not now use, that they might go straight
to a very warm country. Then I ran,
and the faster the bullets came the faster
I ran, till after a while a shot from off to
my right came and struck me in the left
groin, and down I went O, yon
needn’t langh ; the ballet struck me in
front, I’m happy to say, and I’ve never
regretted the decision I made in such
hurry,” "What became of you after
ward ?” was asked. "Well, I lay there
unable to move, till nearly dark, and
had a good chance to review the- Com
federate army, as most of it swept over
me. Artillery wheels and horses’ feet
came uncomfortably near, but I escaped
death—providentially, it always seemed
to me. Abont sunset the ‘Johnnies’ osr
ried me back to tbe Pennsylvania Col
lege, bnt it would make too long a story
to tell yon all my experiences there,
will only say that from that point, lying
near an open door, I could aee many of
the movements of the Johnnies, inclnd
ing the formation rad advraoe of Pick
ett’s division, snd could hear the yell of
the rebs as they swept forward, and then
the glad hurrahs of our boys when the
charge was repulsed. There were fif
teen of us wounded men at the College
—the other 700 were Confederates—and
we cheered, too, when onr boys did,
nntil ihe Johnnies threatened to kill us
if we didn’t stop. I shall never forget
the four terrible days I passed there—
days of alternate hope rad fear—nor the
joy I felt on tbit morning when gray
coats went away snd bine costs appeared.
But Fur-getting back into my old
habit of talking too mneh. Please ex
cuse me. I’m apt to forget myself when
thinking of those days.”—Boston
Journal.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
hoarsely:
"Well, doctor?” which is a sick man’s
favorite form of asking how his doctor
thinks he is getting along. The old
doctor raises the bins paper curtain and
slowly draws a chair dose to the bed. ■
"Oh, you’re looking ever so nmoh
bettor to-day. We’ll have you out hoe
ing potatoes in a day or tire.”
Kind-hearted, warm old doctor! Dear
old coward, who never fights disease,
bat surrenders st its first approach, and
labors lovingly to smooth the way to
death ! Blessed old bungler, who gives
no dying man the warning that would
turn his latest hoars to btuinees cares
and save hk heirs a world of worriment
He Had Been "Ont West.”
I had supposed that tbe far West
a new Garden of Eden, rad that Cue had
Bnt if he k
nabob he k traveling incog., rad hk
conversation k not calculated to stimu
late Western exenrsions. # He wore
shabby tdster, long bate rad a pensive,
searching expression of sympathy. He
greeted me as an old acquaintance at
onoe. —i— —-—
Eating. _
Edward Payson Weston, the pedes
trian, k in the habit, by hk own ac
count, of giving wholesome advice to
the British aristocracy abont their diet
He occasionally dines at the tables of
the groat, rad makes comments on the
viands somewhat in thk style:
A young lady who sat next to him,
and to whom he wm a perfect stranger,
expressed s desire for beef well done.
"Excnse me, Mks, bnt you’ll get no
more nourishment ont of that than ont
of chips and shavings.”
Mr. Weston k not without hopes that
he will eventually reform the dinners of
the peerage, and persuade "our old
nobility” that half-cooked meat, and a
walk of 500 miles in 100 days make the
summit of human bliss.
Mens. —The Philadelphia Press says
the theory that the intermarriage of
deri mutes will produce a race of deaf
mutes doesn’t rest on a substantial
They are mutes beosoM they are
deaf. The organs of speech and hear
ing exftt m in other persona. The mute
husband k deaf from on* oaoM; tha
are that the wife k daaf froas an-
(use. Tb* children of sooh a
prir.o^t og to th* ruin of rtverrion and
the tendency of nature to repair wbare
there k the material to work a core, are
likely to hear as wetl x M anybody, rad,
basting, they will not
"Well,” I queried, "how do you like
the West?”
"I like it just well enough,” said he,
"to remain in the East the remainder oi
my days. I tell you, the East k good
enough for ray man who hasn’t a lift
and death dkpute with the law on hand,
In the East a man above the average in
smartness ora get along; but go West
rad you find no drones. Every man
you meet k on the dead ran for wealth
anf^gron must ftey up late, rise up early
rad bolt your meals to keep up with the
stragglers in the prooeMion. There’s
lots of money West, rad big wagM. I
have just oome from Colorado, where I
got |10 a day for driving a mule team.
But-”
. "That k a very good salary for that
kind of labor ?”
"OhI itk, k it? Well, you go out
there rad see. Why, my friend, I have
paid $1.50 for a cup of coffee, 82.75 for
a glass of beer, snd $4 for a horn-handled
jack-knife with one blade. I have been
in the mountains with a party whan a
chew of tobacco wm pot up at a raffle,
at a dollar a chance, and if the winner
of the tobaooo finally got away with it,
he had to dodge the contents of the re
volvers of tbe party apd keep ont of
sight for a week. Talk about th* West
to me I It k a good plaoe to die in; but
to five from this time out
where the sun rises early, and there k
no corner on the luxuries of life I”
Hi who reoeivM a good ,
never forget it; fie who does one should
new rcm»mher it „ , , ... ,
Tkeui h no um for money equal to
that of beneficence; here the enjoyment
{ran. on reflection, rad our money k /
most truly ours when it cosses to be in (
on* possession. . '
Evnur subscriber tor a country paper
bra do much for the paper by becoming
a reporter for it That would greatly ,
help the editor in getting out a readable
•beet. The trouble with the average
subscriber k that be k not content with
being * reporter. He wants to write the
editorials. - . . ,
A mch miser has a niece whom ho
proclaims to be bk unique heiress, bnt
who has never seen any of.Us money.
Your nicoe k twenty years old,” says a
-rietxl, "you ought to do something
oward getting her settled.” "Well,”
plied the mker, niter reflection, "I
” to l*" ill.”
A Meechant, after satisfying himself
that * certain enstomer did not intend
to pay his bill, sent him a receipt for
the foil amount By return mail be re
ceived tbe following note: “Uster have
my doubts about you bein’ a gentleman,
bnt I am satisfied on that pint There
k a great difference in men. One tfyne
I owed a fellow a bill, and after dnnnin’
me nearly to death he sent me a receipt
for half of the amount, rad blamed if be
didn’t finally make. me -pay the other
lialf. But yon have done tbe square
thing by me, an’ I am much obleeged to
you.”
How moOh on the money recovered
by injured persons from railroad com
panies and other corporations by suit st
law k held by the plaintiffs for their own
benefit f Not a large part, if the pay
ments made to lawyers are generally as
great as the sum demoded by counsel _
employed in tbe Harrold case. Major
Harrold recovered $30,000 from a New
York elevated railroad company, snd hk
counsel, Mr. Chsunoey Shaffer, refuses
.to take a fee of $10,000 and $5,000 for
expenses, assorting that $25,030 would
!! hardly compensate him. ” The money
rcoovered- k held by a trust company, •
and, as the question abont Mr. Shaffer’s
fee has been taken into the oonrts, it is
difficult to see now wherein Major Har.
rol' 1 k an* better off than be was before ’
it SEE HAS NEVER BEEN supposed tO
have any intimate connection with lum
ber, but the Northwestern Lumberman
asserts that a great deal of the l>eer
which k sold k "doctored'’ with hem
lock bark. Immense quantities oi hem
lock bark are sold to brewers, who use
it to give poor beer the appearance and
taste of good beer. It is regarded as a
great discovery because it can be made
to take thcTplaoe to a certain extent of
both malt rad hope. It is not poison
ous, but on the other hand it contains
nothing that ministers to nourishment.
It adds the pungent, bitter taste, and
gives the dark, reddish color to the
liquid. It would seem as though the
unfortunate beer-drinker were beset
with dangers on all sides, wbich he
conld avoid only by sinking hk thirst
with water.
• - — _ ■ —
The Seventh Regiment of New York
formed for tbe Evacuation Day parade
in closer column of companies on Fifty-
first street, right resting on Fifth avenne.
Thk brought the right companies along
side of William H. Vanderbilt’s boose.
The absence of any flag or decoration on
the house was oonspicnons. A hurried
whisper ran through the ranks as Mr.
Vanderbilt made hk appearance at the
window. Then nearly 300 men of tbe
third, second snd seventh companies
broke ont in a stentorian sing-song tone
which oonld be heard two or three blocks
away: "One, two, three. Vanderbilt—
where—k—yonr—flag?” Mr. Vander
bilt’s. face expressed considerable aston
ishment and he left the window ab-
raptiy,
When Senator Beck visited his ola
but to venture there to gain the wealth ^ Scotland in 1875, while strolling :
of a Monte Cristo. i I met at the Union through the fields be met an ok! school.
"Ton don’t rememl>er me,
he said to him. "No,” said
Seal—The large advance in the price
of sealskins lately reported from tha
London marfcat wm explained by th*
aoBoanoamant that tha oatoh of soak
tbk year had bora very small. The Bra
Frandaoo Chronicle desks ’that thk k
th* fact, rad asMrts that the, Alaska
(kmpray, which k permitted radar ita
Imm from the (OMxnmsnt to hill 100,-
000 soak annually, hM killed more than
90,000 thk yaar.
through
mate.
Donald?
Donald, " I don’t know your face. But
I caught a six-pound salmon to-day in
the frith, rad whenever I have done that
before, something has happened. I
don’t |pow yon by sight, bnt you're
either John McPherson, who left ns
thirty years agon*, or yon’re Jim Beck.
Now, which k it?” "Sure enough,’
cried the Senator, "it's Jim Beck.’
"Weel, Jimmie, they tell me that the
Americans are going to elevate yon to
the Hcmse of Peers. Is it so? Come
along home then and we'll x est the fish.
An American lord to'good enough
Scotch salmon.”
for a
Harried la Earope.
After Fisk wss killed rad Stokes was
sent to prison Josie Mansfield went to
Europe.' There she attracted the atten
tion of a rick lace maker, who married
her. A couple of years ago, says a news
paper correspondent, I wm over in
France, and one day while walking
through the gardens of St. Cloud who
should I encounter but Josie, leaning on
Che arm of her husband. He was a
stout, portly mu, much the build of
Fisk, sod looked to me like a Russian
rather than a Frenchman. Josie was
elegantly snd most richly dressed, but
in plain Mack rad Isoes. She had grown
thinner, had lost the flesh that for a while
made her lode gross and sensual, and
wm radiantly beautiful Her husband
k enormously wealthy, I am told, rad k
demoted to her.
"* Tee Hasty.
Ym, some people are too hasty. Now
* wealthy Chicago family charge! a ser
vant girl with stealing a diamond pin a
yasr or two ago rad the Court sentenced
the culprit to three yean in the Peniten
tiary. But recently, in moving a large
pkto-glass mirror, that diamond pin was
found By a workman and handed to the
mtetieM of the home, who rat down
and wrung her hands and cried, and
aakad: "Vbat fort* I done T
Steps ar* bring taken to release the
prisoner, bow that sorrow hu put ita
Nate on bar |ra* and bittorneM hulan-
tarad har soul Tea, indeed, son* pe*
pi* are too haaty,