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MY MIDDLE LIFE,
8»e, do thcso *ilvvr locks belie the Ule 1
I count them ovor now, but put them by;
I guse upon the chock so worn tuid pale,
The faded treasoi—yet I cannot sigh.
For lore has glorified my middle life—
I thought he came for Ifiauice, that for her
Hie eagle eye grow *»ft; and wrote hor Wife
To one most lit to be her worshiper.
tiled;
had enthralled
1 would not credit words so strange, though keen
Ah agony the thrill whh'h sudden proved
That I had given all my soul to him,
In worship wild, unconscious that I loved.
And here I stand, crowned like a royal queen,
My whole life i ichly dowered on either Hide;
Mir youth that loyal to its trust hath been.
My age that through him shall be glorified.
A LEGEND ABOUT LAWYERS.
HOW THEBE GAME TO HE ONE IN HEAVEN.
the ids. of allowing . sheriff to enter
Paradise for a few hours only, in order to
hasten the departure of the lawyer. 'That
would be a bad expedient,' replied be,
'yon do not know lawyers. Oar, would
find means to o*vll upon the legality of
the summon,. He would plunge us into
the troubled waters of the lew, end final
ly he would not leave us. After that I
should find myself with a lawyer and
sheriff on my hand*. The first is bad
enough. And this ii how there earns to be
a lawyer in Paradise.”
[Translated from tho French.]
A jonniwl lately anuoimced that the cor
poration of sheriffs had addressed a pe
tition to the Minister of Justice, request
ing that the office of Justioe of the Peaoe
should hereafter be accessible to rotired
sheriffs, and not pertain exclusively to
lawyers and attorneys who have left the
bar. I was recently talking about this
request with a sheriff.
“Why not 1” said he with heat. “We
are as good as lawyers; perhaps batter.
Of what are they proud ? It is true, they
aay, that the sheriffs have never furnish
ed a Saint for Paradise. I don’t dispute
it. But the lawyers! They have only
furnished one, and evon he entered Heav
en by a trick worthy of trade.”
“Ah!” said I. “Is there a lawyer in
Paradiso? I avow this surprises me. I
believed tho celestial dwelling guarded
against lawyers as firmly as against res
taurant keepers and tailors. Balato to
me the history of this lawyer who has
foroed the celestial guards.”
“ Willing'j». About three centuries ago
a lawyer slipped into heaven under the
name of his cousin, Ab'.ie deOiteanx,who
had juRt died in the suvur of holiness. All
<went well for two days, and no one sus-
ipeoted that there was an intruder in the
•celestial dwelling. Bub at tbo end of two
<days our lawyer was homesick for the
<oourt. He was bored. Ho set out to
anrvey the court of heaven, staring at the
passers-by ns be had formerly done in the
hall of Pas Perdue, iu order to place bis
hand upon a good client.
“A cause! u cause! I must have a
cause!’said he, clinching his fists,
vrant a cause; ought I to plead for noth
ing?’ but all the passers had a joyous air
which hardly denoted the pro-oooupationM
of chicanery. He was dismayed—furious,
All at once he espied a young woman,
clothed in mourning robes, who, with
«yes cast down and melancholy brow,
walked slowly along, leading a child by
the hand.
‘Victory!’ cried our man, making a joy
ons gambol. ‘Bobold tho cause! behold
the widow and tho orphan.’
With a turn of his hand, he adjusted
his band, draped bis robe elegantly and
presented himself to the widow, making
one of his most amiable bows.
‘Madame is a plaintiff,’ said he in a hon
ied tone. ‘Oh, you may have, madams,
All confidence iu my ability. For the rest
J have the oar of the tribunal. Have yon
ithe papers ? As for the j us—
Tho lady raised her eyes and uttered
cry of terror. ‘Mou Dieu!’ said sho, ‘but this
man is Mon. Parlaoreaux. It is a year
since then my child.’ At the cry raised
by the widow a great crowd gathered,
They surrounded her, they questioned
her, they understood the truth. Imme
diately a general clamor resounded under
-.the whole celestial vaults.
*A lawyer! There is a lawyer in Para-
.3Ue! But what is St. Peter thinking
of r St. Peter soon arrived on the spot.
He perceived hia error and commanded
the intruder to leave instantly the dwell
ing that was forbidden him. Mona. Par-
leoreux, intimidated for an instant, very
quickly recovered his assurance. He
mounts a small hill, turns up his sleeves,
coughs, blows his nose, then extending
his hand toward tho auditory, he cries
Quid f Cur? Quarc? Qaomodo t
Quando ?'
‘You tire me,’ bluntly replies the guar
dian of Heaven. “Go hence. I have
.already said it; I repeat it to you.’
“I consent to it, if only the thing is
legal. I demand of the tribunal permis
sion to put one question to it.’
‘Put it, but quickly.’
‘Gentlemen, if there is in the universe
a place whore the law ought to be respect
ed, it seems to me that is here in the
sanotuary of eternal justice. Ah, well,
gentlemen, according to the law a pro-
prietor is not to expel a lodger without
sending a summons to him by a sheriff.
I wait my summons and I make my re
serves.*
8t. Peter was moved by this reasoning.
‘So be it. Let some one go after the sheriff
to make the summons’ Five or six offi
cers immediately started in quest of the
uheriff. But after a long searoh they
came back without bringing with them
the civil officer. ‘Ah, well, said Peter,
‘whore is tbo sheriff?'
‘Impossible to find one in Paradise.’
‘In fact, although I hare not thought of
it before, there ban never been one ad
mitted hero. What shall we do not to
violate tho law ?* A burst of laughter re
plied to him. It was Mona. Parlecrenx
who nearly swooned with delight on see
ing the embarrassment of the celestial
guardian. ‘I shall await my summons a
time,'Mid he, making a »‘«‘»»‘oua gaa-
«ute. ‘The sheriff who will bring it to
ene is not yet born.’
VfJ Bt. Peter waa taken baek.
U One of the adviMia whlapered to him
I never look at my old atael oompoaiug
rula that I do not bleu myaelf that, whila
my etrengtb last., I .m net at the meroy
of the world. If my pen ia not wanted
oan go baok to the type eaae end be
tare to find work; for I learned the print -
er'a trade thoroughly—newapeper work,
job work, book work and preaa work. I
am glad I hart a good trade. It ia aa a
rook upon whioh the poeeeetor oan atand
firmly. There ia health and rigor for
both body and mind in an honeat trade.
It ia the atrongeat and anraat part of the
self-made men. Go from the academy to
the printing oflloe or the artixan'a benoh,
or, if you pleaae, to the farm—for, to be
anre, true farming ia a trada, and a grand
one at that. Lay thua a aura fonndation,
and after that branch off into whatever
profeaaion yon please.
You have heard, parhaps, of tba clerk
who had faithfully aerved Htephan Girard
from boyhood to manhood. On the
twanty-flrat anniversary of hia birthday,
he went to hia maatar and told him bia
time waa op, and ha cartainly expected
important promotion in tha merohant'a
aervioa. But Stephan Girard eaid to
him;
"Vary wall. Now go and learn n
trade.”
“Whattr.de, ait!”
"Good barrela and butta moat alwaya
ba in demand while yon live. Go and
learn the oooper's trade; end when yon
have made a perfeot barrel, bring it to
me.”
Ths young man wont away and learned
tha trade, and in time brought to hia old
master a splendid barrel of hia own
make.
Girard examined it, and gava tha maker
two thousand dollara for it, and then said
to him :
“Now, air, I want yon in my connting-
room; bnt henceforth yon will not be
dependent upon the whim of Stephen
Girard. Let what will oasis, you hsve a
good trsde always in reserve.”
The young man saw the wisdom, and
understood.
Years ago, when the middle-aged men
of to-day were boys, Horace Greeley
wrote:
“It is a great sonroe of consolation to
us that when the public aball be tired of
ns os an editor, we oan make a satisfac
tory livelihood at oatting type or farming;
so that while oar strength lasts, ten
thousand blookheado, taking offsnes at
some artiole they do not understand,
could not drive us into the poor-house."
And eo may a man become truly inde
pendent.
Philadelphia.
The twelfth city in the world, in num
ber of its inhabitants, and the first in the
number of conveniences whioh it offers
to all classes of people.
It is the largest city in America, having
an urea of 110 aqnare miles, and contain
ing more honsee than any othsr two oities
ou this continent, and, with one excep
tion, more inhabitants than any other.
It hea nearly 1,000 miles of streets and
roads; more then COO miles of which are
paved, and which, at night, are lighted by
10,000 public lamps.
It consumes over IS,000,000,000 U. 8
gallons of water per year; supplied by 600
miles of street service mains, and has
more bath-rooma in proportion to dwell
ings then any other oity iu the world.
It has over 600 miles of gas street
mains, famishing gas to 1,250,000 of
burners.
It has over 250 miles of street passen
ger railways.
It contains over 400 ehorehas, meating-
hooses and synagogues.
It has 400 pnblio schools of all gradea.
It has 8,650 manufacturing establish
ments, having a oepital of $204,340,637 ;
employing 150,000 hands, and turning out
manufactured products to the anaaal
value of $400,000,000.
It has built, equipped, and is sustain
ing, tha only Una of trana-Atlantlu steam
ers sailing under the Amerioan flag.
These vesaale were all built in Philadel
phia, by Philadelphia workmen, out of
Pennsylvania iron, and second to none
that float.
It has tha largest and finest pnblio park
in America, containing 2,091 acres, and
is exceeded by only three public parks iu
Europe.
It has 10 daily papers, 61 weakly pa
pers, 37 monthly magaames published in
the city.
Order ia maintained by a uniformed po-
lioe foroe of over 1,200 men.
It is emphatically a City ot Hornet.—
Chicago Journal of Commerce.
—It ia said that a good baa# ball player
oan make $2,000 e year. And yet there
are hundreda of yonng men in this city
who ere fooling ewsy their time in selling
dry goods, clerking in banks, practicing
law and medioine, and journalism
Loimtillc Courier-Journal.
—The Hartford Timet remarks with an
evident appreciation: “In this world it if
not the most potent foroea whioh are ao-
companied by tha most noise. Some of
the mightiest of Nature's processes are
tha qnietest. Thera ia a silent power
wielded by a dead rat la tba wall, whioh
drives all before it, like an army with
banners. In snob aa invisible presence,
even a newspaper itemiier la so impressed
that ha oan generally oontrive to ‘sense
the precise thing.
■•antes.
Socrates was ^attended by a nambar of
lllnatrione pnpila, whom ha instructed by
hia exemplary life and doctrines. Ha
spoke with freedom on every aubjeet, re
ligious aa wall aa civil; and this indepen
dence of apirit, and visible superiority of
mind, created him many anamiaa; hot aa
hia character was irreproachable, tha veiaa
af malevolence was silent. Tat Aristo
phanes undertook, at tha instigation of
lfelitui—a frigid post, destitute of abili
ty, and who would have bean forgotten
long since bnt for hia villainy—to ridicnla
tha vanarebla character of Socrates upon
tha stags; and, whan ones tha way was
open to oslumny and defamation, tha
fickle populace paid no revaranea to tha
philosopher whom they had before re
garded with the most profound respeot.
Uelitue, together with Arritus and Lyeon,
stood forth to criminate him; they routed
up tha publio feeling against him and hia
diaoiplas, and brought tkair falsa chargaa
before the five hundred judges. He waa
aooutad of corrupting tha youth of Ath
ena, of making innovations in the relig
ion of the Gretkt, and of ridiculing the
goda. In hia dsfanoa ha modestly said,
that what little knowledge ha poses lead
waa applied to the sorvioe of the Athen
ians ; it waa hit with to mtke his fallow-
aitia me happy, and it was a duty whioh
ha performed at the apacial oommand of
the gods, “whose authority,” said he, cm-
pkstioilly, to hia judgai, “I regard more
than yonrt.”
Sash language, altered with the firm
ness of iuaooenos end the dignity of vir
tue, end by a man who waa accused of a
eapital crime, astonished and irritated tha
tribuaal. Socrates was eendemaed; and
when he wee condemned, according to the
Athenian laws, to pass aeotenoe on him
self, ha said : “Tor my attempt to teach
the Athenian youth jistioc and modera
tion, and randar tba raat of my country
man more happy, let me be maintained
at the public axpanoa the remaining yearn
of my life in the Frytsnaum: an honor,
O Athenians! whioh I dtserve more than
the viatora of the Olympic game. They
made their ooantryman more happy ia
appearance, but I have made you so in
reality.”
This exasperated tha judges ia tha
highest degrse, and ha was condemned to
driok hemlock. He received the sentenee
with tranquility, for kia whole life had
bsao spent in learning to die. Before ha
left ths tribunal, he recommended to
their ctre hia defenoelees ohildren, and
said that to die was a pleasure, einos he
wm going to hold converse with ths
greatest heroes of antiquity.
Tha (oleum celebration of tha Dalian
festivals pro vented bia execution for thirty
days, during whieh time ba wm confined
to prison and loaded with irons. Ha dis
regarded tha interoasaion of hia friends;
and, whan it waa in hia power, ha refUMd
to asasps from prison. Whan ths boar
to drink tke poison arrived, tha sxaou-
tionar presented him ths sup with taara
a his ayes. Soorstsa raoaivad it with
eompoture, and after making a libation to
tha gads, raised it to bia lips, whila
breathing a prayer—tsars gushed from
every ays, and tha priaou resounded with
lamentations. Ha said: “My friends—I
•ant away tha woman that I might nut
bshold saoh WMknass; rasuma your
eeurage; tha man who rsnuuacM pleas
ure has labored ta adorn hia aonl. Death
•honld ba aooompanisd by good omens.'
So saying, ba drank it with an onaltsrad
oountsnanoa, and soon after expired, in
tha seventieth year of his age.
And so, tha man who had been meat
bravs in battls, and whose courage even
ia tha trying hour of death never forseok
him; who, though poor, received no sala
ry for hia instruotione, and accepted not
tha offers of his diaoiples; who had bean
raised to tba rank of a sanatar, and had
presided in the assemblies of tha people;
who had aaatcksd Aloibitdes from tha
hands of the enemy, and had Mvtd the
lifa of ths youthful Xenophon ; who had
lived a lifa of devotion to his fallow-
man, and htd aaoriflsed all werldly
pleasures for thoir good; this boat at man
and wisMt of philosophers waa now a
saoriflos to a frigid veras-writer, whose
jealousy had baan kindled by tha serpent
whioh dwelt in his own wicked brsatt.
And his good apirit pawed away to tboaa
bright regions where tha aonls of good
man dwell ia rightsonsncM, and wbtrs
those Mpirations which ware thsir daily
fsod ou sarth become living roalitioa and
gloriw unceasing. And if our livM be
goad and true, wa shall hia to that bright
world beyond tha tomb, to talk with Seo-
rates and Luthar, and Copsrnions, and
Gslilao; and all of tba wise and pure
spirits that hava ever been ia tha fiesk.
A Miser-
Ths latest authenticated miser wm a
Now Orleans men. He was to all appear
ances a beggar, and when he fell sick tke
dootor summoned by his neighbors found
him in the depths of squalor and destitu
tion. He repelled the pbysioian because
he Mid he canid not pry for mediosl at
tendance. Tho doolor took his case in
htnd as charity, and prescribed soma
medicine, whioh he went to tbs druggist's
and got himsolf. It was seventy-five
cents, and the old man said he ooald not
afford to pay more than a quarter for such
n little bottle of stuff. He reached down
among tho moss for his wallet, produeed
twenty-five oents, and handed it to the
doctor. When another supply of tbs
same medicine was wnntod, he refnsed to
pny more than Iwenty cents, on tbo
ground that tho old bottle would do and
was worth five cents. The old man was
too stingy to bold on to the little there
was left of life. His last sot wm to re
fuse to bny lemons and sugar, when the
doctor recommended lemonade for drink.
He had some old bottles of olerct on a
shelf above his bank—atid that would do,
drank some of it, and it produced apo
plexy. The dootor found his patient
dead one morning, end taming him over,
fonnd hia wallet. It aoatained $140 in
crisp greenbacks and am all ohangc. In
hia trunk were found $1,200 in currency,
and some gold and various deeds. In
vestigation revealed that the old man was
in reocipt of between $500 and $600 per
month from various sonroes. He had
$9,000 in gold, and $25,000 in notes,
deeds, As., in his hovel. Hia name was
Ambroise Sohoeltar. He was a native of
AImoc, and was about sixty years old.
InquiriM have beau instituted for heirs.
There is a nioe little aum for somebody in
New Orleans if they are not ashamed to
acknowledge the old miaer for a relation.
A Me* Hat Gospeller.
RXV. B. I. IVMOHTHB Louisiana TBOUBLM.
[From the Boston Herald.]
At the regular weekly meeting of the
Methodist preaohers of Boston and vicin
ity, held at Wesleyan Hall Tuesday after
noon, the reoent difficulties in Louisiana
were discussed at considerable length.
Bishop Bowman gava an aeeount of what
ba knew abont the treatment of eolorod
people, in the State of Louisiana,
narrating n number of instanoes
in which they had been shamefnlly abus
ed and deprived of life even. By invita
tion, Bev. B. I. Ives, of New York, ad
dressed the meeting, and hia speech was
of tha most radioal kind. He declared
there ia entirely too mnoh toadyism on
the part of Northern people In their treat
ment of ths South.
He Mid wa are undertaking now to
eoax the devil out of the miserable whelps
down South, when nothing bnt strychnine
aud cannon onght to be need. He rather
agreed with Phil Sheridan's declaration
during the war, “that if he owned hell
and Texas he would lease out Texes and
live in the other piece." Mr. Ives admin
istered a OMtigation to tha Church, de
claring that there is not n paper in the
Methodist Church that dares disenss ths
Civil Bights bill, and Mk that it ho en
forced. He atid he believed the meanest
rascals in the Month are in the Methodist
Church South. Hs declared himself n
Bsdical of the strongest kind, and he
said ho believed ths mors ho bated the
rebels of the 8on!h the more he loved
God.
Ha declared he believed that the spirit
now rampant in tha Booth Ins got to ba
crushed ont by another war, and he long,
edfor the nppearanee of eome oolored
men able to become a leader among bis
people wielding the sword and torch. He
Mid the Bishops onght to eome out pub-
lioly and declare the whole troth about
the treatment of the oolored people in the
South, bnt he didn't believe they would.
If they did, be knew they couldn't return
o the Sontb, for if they did they would
•o hong; bnt he intimated that it wee no
vr«e to hong a Bishop than a ministor,
but he suggested if it woqdone it might
weke up the people quieter than anything
else.
He thought the Bishops were too ten
der-hearted, and they reminded him of
the -nan who wanted to ont off his dog's
tail, lint he wm too tender-hearted to out
it oil' where it ought to be, so he cat it
off en inch nt a time. Tha speeob of Mr.
Ivee wm received with freqnent demon
strations of approval; some of his most
radioal ntterenoee exoiting considerable
applause, mingled with lsugbter.
PBUII8W.
—When cremation is adopted, babies
will naturally deserve the title of small
fry.
—A vmmI hM reosntly been lannohed
to be nailed Brignoli. She must be a
bark of note.
—“The gridiron of death” ia the aedne-
live name of a railroad orouing in Port
land, Me.
—Tha Cincinnati Gazette wants tha
Mayor to ba called the “Universal Prosi
der."
—The Canadian government derives 30
per cent, of He entire revanne from the
liquor trade.
—Many of the handsomest white crepe
ehewls sold ss China crepe ere manufac
tured in Paisley and embroidered in the
vioinity.
—The people of Dublin are considering
the question of plaoing a host of the fa-
mons Irish composer, Belts, in their Na
tional Gallery.
—The Biohmond Knquirer believes
that there should be a grand oenfennial
oelebration, and that Philadelphia ia the
proper place for it.
—Cremationists everywhere think how
noble it will be to heap ooals of fire upon
the hMda of their aeqaaintanees.
—A Wyoming paper delicately an
nounces that its charge for marriage no
tices ia “just what tbs ecstasy of the
bridegroom may prompt.”
—Waobtel'a aon, who has beeu prepar
ing himself to follow his father's foot
steps—even over ths high C, if necessary
—hM abandoned his intention ou aooount
of ill-health.
—A men, who recently died at West
Troy, disposed by will of everything he
poMSMed, even minute ertioles, except e
favorite hone, deolaring that be would
leave one thing for bis heirs to fight
about.
—Europe produces annually $65,000,-
000 valnsof ribbons, fully one-half of whieh
are made in Franoe—Paris being the chief
market, and St. Etienne, Lyons, and the
Department of the Loire, the great pro.
during eentres. The value of those pro
duced in St. Etienne alone is estimated at
$22,500,000 yearly. There are more than
250 houses engaged in this branch of in.
dustry then, and in the Department of
the Loire, whioh employ 24,000 persons
exolosive of thoss working in the great
machine ribbon weaving establishments.
The industry hM been much extended
of lets yean. It began in Franca at the
Utter and of tha alavanth century in
■aint Obsmood, and extended thence to
Bl. Etienne, Lyon* end the Loire. Eng
land and America do not porofaaeo thoir
ribbons from Parle, but draw them dl
teotly from It BUenne and Lyons.
—The mein feature of a new plan on
trial In the British Navy for raieing sunk
en ships is closing hermetically tha
hatches and all openings in the upper
parte and pumping down air. Tha air
thus introduced risM towards the nnder
side of the deck, and, not being able to
escape, presses the water down and ont
throngh the boles mode in the ship's bot
tom. Ths veMel by this means will be
rondered buoyant and rise to tho snrfaoe.
A Bihedt vob Niubalqia.—A remedy
named "afuapuncture' hoe been intro,
duoed in France for tha treatment of neu
ralgia. It may be described m a force
pomp, whioh oan be carried abont and
plaeed on a table, with a small flexible
tube about two feet long, so oonatrnoted
m to deliver a thread of water from its
extremity with each foroe ss to pierce
leather. In operating on n patient affliot-
«d with neuralgia, the piston is worked a
few times to expel tbe air from the tube;
the point is then held about n half-inob
from the painful spot, the pnmp is work
ed, and the thread of wator plays on the
skin. Presently n white vesicle appears
on the spot where the water etrikes; and
any number of pnnotnres may be made
at the discretion of the operetor, end in
proportion to the extent of the pain. At
first tha akin around tha vesioles becomes
red; bnt after a few hours the vesiolM and
the redneM disappear, leaving only a
small black point, whioh ia the ernat
formed by the drying of n drop of blood
in the pnnotnre. The operation ia de
scribed as painful, bnt tha relief it pro.
daces is so greet that patients alwaya call
for a repetition whenever their neuralgia
psins retnrn.
Ornoaim or Hnaaqia » Insane. — At
tbe last meeting of *h* American Nation
al Academy of ttotanoaa, Professor. A. M.
Mayer exhibited experimental wmtfirine-
tion of the theorem of Fourier m applied
by him in his proportions relating to the
nature of a simple sound, and to tha an
alysis by the ear of a aompoaite aoaad
into ite elementary pendulum vibrations;
and to ehow experiments eluoidating tbe
hypothesis of audition of Helmbolts.
Placing a male musqnito under tbe mi-
oroRcope and sounding various notes of
toiling forks in tbe range of a sound giv
en by a female mu-quito, tbe various
fibres of the autenus of tbe male mos
quito vibrated sympathetically to threo
sounds. Tbe longest fibres vibrated sym
pathetically to tbe grave notes, and tbs
abort fibrea vibrated sympathetically to
tbe higher notes. Tbe foot that the noc
turnal insects have highly organized an
tennas, while the diurual ones have not,
alao tbe fact that tbe anatomy of these
parts of insects show a highly developed
nervous organization, load to the highly
probable inferenee that Professor Mayer
has here given foots which form tbe firet
sure basis of reasoning in reference to
tha nature of tbo auditory apparatns of
insucta.
—At a meeting of the Polytechnia So
ciety of the American Institute held re-
recently at tbe Cooper Union, Mr. James
McCarroli, of th[s oity, read a paper enti
tled “A Brief Glsnae nt the 8uow-plow,
end some of the Effects of Snow npon
the Trade and Traval of this Country.”
Ia ths coarsa of his remarks Mr. MoUar-
roll drew attention to tho defects of tbe
ordinary Suow-plow, and stated that
when tba snow is four or five feet deep
this plow is of little or no value. He ob
served, also, that some twenty millions
dollars were loet annually to the railways
of tbe United 8tstes end those of Cana
da by snow and ics obstructions; and
that during tbe winter of 1872-73, tbo
Grand Trank Uailwsy of tbe neighboring
New Dominiou devoted $200,000 to keep
ing tracks clear of these impediments;
and all for the want of au efficient Snow
plow. As he proceeded u ith his remarks
he averred that thonanuds of miles of
great railway lines were liable to be
enowed ap simultaneously every year, do
ing serious injury to trade and travel,and
that upon proper investigation it woold
be found, that a majority ot our railway
socidents and catastrophes ware traceable
to ths way in which rolling stock was
strained and weakened while etruggling
through heavy snow drifts. At the close
of his lecture Mr. McCarroli was compli
mented by the President of the Society.
—So long ns man remained in the sav
age stats his influence resembled, and iu
some roNpeots fell short of, that of the
terrestrial animals who were his contem
poraries. He felled a treo bora and there,
and when he bad learned the use of grain,
turned moorland into rude fields fur oal-
tnre. But his warfare lay not with
the inanimate surface, bnt mainly with
tho beasts, fowla and fish ou whioh he
chiefly depended for food and clothing.
With the slow development of civilization
his influence as a geological agent has
stMdily increased, until now it most be
ranked in the first olaM of tbe foroes by
which tbe surfooe of tbe land ia modified.
The time is yet too short daring whioh
aacurate registers have been kept to ad
mit of any very preciss determination of
tbe amount, sometimes evon of the na
ture, of the changes oft'.,cud by human
action. But enough has buen recorded
to justify the attempt to indicate ai least
tbs general tendsney of man's operations,
while at tbe same lime tolerably definite
information exists regarding tho results of
some of his interforenoes with tbe ordi
nary eeonomy of nature. Iu some re-
•pests man's influence is antagonistic to
nature's usual modes of work; but of
cottas, viewed broadly, it cannot do more
than alter tbe balance of forces, giving
to soma a greater mod to otLvra » taas
aUara of work than in a natural atata
would ba aooompliahad bjr tham.
l'u Tauraora.—It haa long bean
known that solid oylinders of iron elon
gate on being magnetised. Prof. Meyer,
of Hoboken, hM reeently shown that
they oentraot in diameter to a oorrqppond-
ing degree, so that thsir volumi remains
constant. Hollow iron oylinders, on the
ths other hand, are slightly increased in
interior passages when magnetised. This
elongation of iron by magnetisation has
received a onrions application in tha in
vention oslled a Telephone, exhibited
some years ago in this oity, by means of
whioh tones oan be transmitted aver tha
telegraph wire and reprodnoed, in pttoh
at least, through a receiving instrument.
A telephone Bending-instrument consists
of an open fnnnel in whioh ths tone ie
sounded, and a diaphragm of thin robber
or other enitable elastic membrane, which
is Mt In vibration by tha tone, and which
by ita vibrations continually makes and
breaks tha eleotrio oirenit. Tha number
of breaks in a second corresponds exact
ly with the number of vibrations belong
ing to tha tone sonndad; and ainoe the
ourrent paseee at ths other end ot line
around a soft iron bar, constituting the
well-known helix, this bar is magnetised
and de-magnetiaad, alternately, m many
times in a seoond ss there are vibrations
in tha tone sounded at ths sanding instru
ment. Bnt eaeh magnetisation, whan tha
oirouit is broken, oauses a longitudinal
shrinkags of tba bar. Hence it ia only
neoeasary to place ths bar on a delicate
sounding bosid, whieh reorivea and reu.
dare audible ita vibrations; and by thkv
inganions device the sounding board is
made to vibrate with the exaot rate of tbe
original tone, and thus tha note sounding
at one end of a telegraphic lino may be
inatantaneonaly reprodnoed at tha other,
A3IW1M TO COMUPOXDEBTI.
Spitfire wrilM no a most complimentary
letter, and begs ns to “renew our An
swers to Correspondents." Our friend
baa no doubt overlooked the faet thst we
reopened the department with tbe new
year.
John.—There la some difference in the
mythology ot the Greeks and Homans,
though tbs latter borrowed all their ideas
on the subject from the former. Tbe
Zeue ot the Greeks was the same as the
Jupiter ot the Boinana. That yon may
ass all the Greek philosophers did not
andorae ths belief in myths, we publish
to-day an artiola on Socrates.
IV. T. —Becky Sharp is one of the
prominent characters in Vanity Fair, the
best of Thsakerey's novels, if It be not
the very beat that wm ever written. She
wh a cold-blooded, brilliant, dMigning
woman—an ndventnreos by profession and
hMrtlsss by nature.
T.—“A frustum " is the lower section
of a cone or pyramid biseoted parallel to
the base. “A falorum" is the prop by
whioh a lever is supported between the
power and tha weight, exeept in the csss
of power applied in the direction of mo
tion, when the weight is between the
fulernm and power.
H. IT.—The word “Bible" is not He
brew, bnt comes from ths Greek biblos,
a book, and this is derived from byblos,
the papyrus orinner bark, on whioh writing
wm mode before tbe invention of paper.
Tha ta biblia—tbe Bible—wm firet ap.
plied to tbe scored writings by St. Chrys
ostom in the fifth century. Tbo books of
the New Testament were not oolleotod iu
their present form till the middle of the
third century. A bibliomaniac ia one not
neceassrily pions, ns yon suppose, bnt
who has a rage for trading and collaoting
books.
Vet.—The first reliable evidenoe we
have of the nse of artillery is reoorded by
Conde, who says the Moore used it in the
attack on Sarsgoasa in 1118. Stones
were the first projectiles need in artillery,
iron balls not coming into nse till 1440,
when they were need in the wars of
Charles tbe Seventh of Franoe. Defonoe
has ever kept psoe with projectiles.
Spades on land and iron-elads at sea pre
sent equivalent opposition to all improve
meats in artillery.
Theatre.—There are decided moral
grounds for tha belief that Elizabeth,
Queen of England, wm illegitimate. She
wm tbe daughter of Anne Boleyn, whom
Henry the Eighth married months before
his divoroe from Catherine of Aragon.
Fifteen months after the birth of Elisa
beth, Anne Boleyn wm beheaded in order
to make way for another victim of the
bestial king's psMion. Mary Stnsrt,
Queen of Soots, was the daughter of
Jamas tba Fifth of Scotland, her mother
being Qusen gary of Lorraine. Henry
the Eighth attempted to Moore her as
wife for bia son, Edward tha Sixth, bnt
tha Catholic influence prevented it. She
•nbMqnently married the dauphin son of
Hanry tbe Seoond of Franoe. Mary was
a prisoner in England for thirteen years
bsforejber axeantion. Jtmss the Firat of
England was her son.
Mary.—Certainly. Study short hand,
and if necessary, do not be aabamed to
uaa it M a means to make a living. We
believe in woman’s rights, eo far as to
throw open every calling where she eon
win, and there ia no reason why she can
not in all.
—A woman living in tbe eanton of Zo
rich, Switzerland, reoantly retorted to t
onrions mode of revenge. Her oat, of
whioh ohe wm exceedingly fond, had for
some reason or other been killed by an
offioial. Shs aooordiogly procured several
mouse-traps and asaght some fifty mice,
whieh ahe immediately enclosed in a box
and sent to the offending person. He,
snspecting nothing, opened the package,
and wm horrified to see a awarm of mice
epring ont of the box and run all over tbe
place. At ths bottom of tbe box he
fonnd a note containing the following
words: “Yon have killed my eat; I have
therefore the honor to send yon my
mice.”
—An ill-bred sot—Cheating ths bsker.
—Two youngsters were trudging home
from market; one hod n basket on hia
nrm with meat in it. He said, “My ma’s
got a fldgelator what’ll keep everything
oold aa loe to put it in. Yonr mamma
got one!” “No, she ain't,” answered
Bob, “but she's got a steel egg-beater!"
'Hoi a lag-beater!”shouted the smaller
boy, turning square round to look at the
other; “what's that for f” “Why, to best
eggs with, yon gooaey!" “Ho!" Rcreech
cd the little ohsp, in grant soon, ' 'she’d
better look ont 1 If she goes to bMtin’
eggs she’ll break in. Eggs ia brittler than
anything. Gqsm you most don't koow
what you're talkin' nbont 1"
—A gentleman mw bia little daughter
dipping her doll's dreaa into a tin enp,
and inquired, “What era yon doing, my
daughter ?" “ I'm eoloring my dull’s
dreMted." “With what!" “With beer."
Wbat pat that foolish notion into your
head, ohild 7 You can't color red with
beer." “Yea I can, pa, because ms said
It was beer that made your nose so red."
That man bad businara that required him
down town immediately.
—On week days yon boy yonr mooio by
tha sheet. On Sundays yon oan havs it
by the choir.
—The question of the hour—What's
the time !
—Whet is that whioh inoreMes the
more yon take from it! Why a hole, of
course.
—Tha great differaooe between Byton
and Barns ia early youth wm :h«i the
one wm a Harrow boy and the other a
plow-bny.
—A heavy Fifth avenue swell was heard
strugling with the following tbe olher
day: “The Engliah—ah—have shown in
—ah—Ireland and—ah—Afriea that they
—ah—know how to demolish—ah—shan
ties I”
—A tall fellow persisted In standing
daring the performance at a London
theatre, mnoh to the annoyance of tbe
audience, and wm repeatedly called npon
to sit down, bnt would not. “Let him
alone,” raid Hood, who wm in tha pit;
“ he's a tailor, and reeling himeeff/" He
immediately alack dawn.
—A horrible eannibal adrertiaes for
“a girl to cook."
—This epitaph is insoribed on the
grave of a smuggler aoroM tba Atlantic
Ocean. He wm shot by the axoiaeman:
“ Hera I lies,
Killed by the XIV'
—A blaokamith is always striking for
wages.
—A Wisconsin dairyman oaks for in
formation abont the “cremation” busi
ness.
—Beware of enntraotiog friendship
with surgeons. When yon most require
their services they will probably cat yon.
—Dr. nil), su Edinburgh professor of
the ImI coutary, met, in the suburbs of
the oity, a man who wm generally regard
ed M an imbeeiia. Somewhat irritated by
the intrusion on tba privaoy of his walk,
Dr. Hill Mid to him, “How long, Tom,
oan one live without brains!" —I dinna
ken,” answered Tom; “how long baa ye
lived yereel?”
—A learned yonng lady the other day
Mtoniahed tbe oompany by asking for the
loan of a diminutive argonteona truncated
none, eonvex on its summit, and rami,
perforated with lymmetrical indentations.
She wanted a thimble.
—It wm an expraaoive remark of a
practical man regarding ths woman of ths
period, “She don't know enough to bile
hot water.”
—An obituary notioe in a Connecticut
paper concludes with the annannoement
that “the deeeased leaves two infant
daughters, both girls."
—A New York auctioneer announces
that ho hM eo lunch business he hss re
csntly worn ont two hammers, and is now
on the second end of the third.
—General Washington's family Bible
is advertised for sale. It is in three large
quarto volumes, and the pnblio are grave -
ly informed that it was presented to Gen.
Wrahington by the author.
—The Bar. Mr. G , a clergyman of
a neighboring town, being reoeotly ab
sent from home on business, bis little
son, a lad of four yean, calmly folded his
hands and asked the blessing ss usually
pronounced by bis fsther at tbeir morn
ing meal. At noon, being asked to pro.
nounce tbo blessing, he replied, with a
grave face, “No, I don't liko tbe looks of
them tutors. ”
WM. SNOW, JA, A 00*,
Hone* and Blgw Minton.
014 Oflrthorpv wnn, (Jtol Midi *> |
Ooluisbas, Ovorsta.
Will contract for ueess Mil etgs t-slatlsg si
rewoMblv price*, sad yaarant** mitofaeliun.
WZLU * IJVKTU,
No. 1* Brood st., Sign at Ik* Big Boat,
Boots end Shoes, Leather and Findings.
Gin prompt and oarami attrattan to ardais
kVtoaHl Vat tbo big Mat mmsst paws ata
Crooora.
DAN'A A BUB*
Dealer In Family Urocerice, on Mryaa su$$l |
Iwmu Oglethorpe 4 Anekton afreet#.
No chergo for drsyege. 4$$f
J. M. HAMILTON,
Dentists.
W. F. TittJf HR,
Opposite I trapper'# tmilalng, Kaaflelpfc
Hpeciel attention given to tbe iaeertiea ef Arti
ficial Teeth, ae well aa to Operative DeatlMry.
COLUMN DENTAL BMU,
W. T. PO..L, Prop’r,
Oeorga Home Bulluiag, Oolombag
c- \
Builders and Architects.
J. 4). CMAAMBBB,
Jobbtaa doM ot ikon ooUoo.
Wm* Md apMteaatloa* taraUkto lor all MtIm
of baildisgs
Broad etraat, salt to 8. W. Brows'a,
Oatanhw. Oa.
Doctors.
OB. j. a. ubhumabt,
OBm rsmovad^to^th. state afE. O.
MTHUtot M termer rrilttori, on
Jtandulph and MlababMtm,
opposite tut rMldoaos of jar. Wa. Nsaah.
top*
DB.I.ALAW.
OBm donor Brood Md tteodolph Mrs Mo, loom*
Tin and Coppersmiths.
wm. res.
Worker loTIo, bhoot lews, Upytt,
Ordoro from abroad promptly olloadod to.
bo. 17*. Itrood i
BOSABT TM4MMNMMU
At very. Bale osd FudSnaw BMbloa
uauiawro, boors or bsbmms Ha.
oouo Colombo*, mo.
A. WAMMBL,
Alvory sod Mole Btohtoe,
Osuraoara Or, Uilluooo, wa.
Particular att.ouon flvas to bOMtiOd aa* ■
Oi Bit h.
dor*** Md Mato* board** la Mabto* By
Tobacco, Clears, Ac.
■AIBB BOBM.
If you wool to ootof o seat MMko, rat
Hgar Manufactory,
ttotwMD u*oryl* Bow* sad 11*1*00** Beam.
JtL
Fresh Meats.
4. W. PATBI4W*
■tolls Me. IS end IB, Market Bwwsn.
frooh tiaai* ot ararj bias u* bool usably,
loll qlwoyoto Onto.
J. T. «CBB*
Fresh Moats of AU fflaC,
I moil* Boo. to and l».
Piano Tuning, Ac.
B. W. BAA 17*
Jtepairer and Toner of Plaaoee, Orgaae aad
Aooordeone. Sign Painting also deaew
Orders may be be left at J. wTPeaee A Muimaa'i
Honk Htorw. atcA
SEES
Confectioners.
B
i. a. btbdppbm,
Onady MannlkaSMaar
An Milt OI
All kladi of Oamfsetl emery ma Yemifie,
(kndj i| ||^|g
jeM w#l,ht t"*”* 1 *" 1 la *** bee. t
WatchmakcrsT
C. kCHONBCM.
Watchmaker mi
Snooeeeor to L. Oetowsky.
10ft Broad street.
o. m. liqvii,
Wien—■—
r end warranted.
Tailors.
mUm
—The expense of publishing a daily
paper is scsroaly guessed by outsiders.
Tbe entire cost of the New York Herald,
tor example, is Mid to average $2,500
daily, or $912,500 a year. The ooet of
publishing tbe Tribune iu $1,500; of the
Timet, $1,200; and ot tbe World, $700
to $800 daily.
—If there it ever a period in a bey's
life whan he witbM he wm completely
bald-headed, it is when he ie waiting far
hii heir to dry after taking a surreptitious
bath in tha early spring, and seas his ma
ternal parent approaching, with anger in —Brooklyn Argue: “Baton e Nevada
her eye and a rod in her hand.—Nerrie- witoeso goes an the aland he nnbuoklM
town Herald. / and removes two revolvers and a bowls.
—Tbey oeJl it a cess ot “grave sue-1 knife, and tbe lawyer oalls him Hr. So*
pinion'- when they find a man in a Vir-1 end -eo, and is vary oorafnl not to refer to
ginlan oraek, bead split open, and ths J anything unpleasant whioh has ever
body weighed down with aonkA I pawed in
Merchant Tailor nnd Onteer.
▲ fall fftock of French end Jfinglisli
HENRY BELLMAN.
Gutt&mg» Clemmlai Md Dfilrlt
Done in tbe beet etyie.'
eprtfil
HIM M. A. HOLUV6IWBBTE,
Dreen*Making, Cat ting and « ntiog. dj
Residence endsboy la r —”
MVll
iNPISrtAKT FRINir
—A petrified negro wm lately found in
a garret over a law office. It was sup.
posed that ha undertook the study of the
law and became absorbed in Blaokatooe.