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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1875. J
CIRTRAL HOTEL,
Ml sad 14R Brand It., Cslambm,
Mat. 8. E. Woldridob,
THE LITTLE OSIER* HOVE OF FUR.
This is the season
Children must run.
Papa is reading.
Bays of those boys:
“Pray (lid you t
Riding cn “canola”
Over the floor,
See one's a squirrel
Climbing the door.
There rush the baby
Little he minds it.
Thot
Changed
As Toi
l gnllopcd by.
Order is nowhere,
Fun is the rul«.
Think they are children
Just out of school.
Only one hour
Out of all day,
Give thorn fulLJreodoin,
Joiu in their play.
po not bo (rusty,
Do not forget
Pott like to mnniige—
Sometimes do yet.
Home will bo sweeter
lilt life is douo
If you will give them
Oue hour for fuu.
[Trauslfttod from the French.]
THE DESERT OF ICE ;
AJOURNEYTOTHE NORTH POLE.
THE MARCH TO THE HORTH.
At d»wn the next day Hatteras gave
the eignal fur-departure. The doge were
hitohod to the sled. Well fed, well rest
ed, after a winter passed amid the most
comfortable circumstances, there was no
reuon why they should not perform good
■ervioe daring the summer; hence they
■earned to be anxious to have their trav
eling harness put on them.
These Greenland dogs were good dogs
after all. Their savage nature bad grad
ually ohanged. They had lost their re
semblance to the wolf, and began to look
like Duke, that perfeot model of the ca
nine race. In a word they were becom
ing oivilized.
Duke could claim a share in their ed
ucation. Ue had given them lessons in
good manners, which he himself prac
ticed. As an English dog, very punctil
ious on the question of etiquette, be
wu a long time familiarizing himself
with dogs “that bad not been introduced
to him,” and in the beginning he did not
fraternize with them, but after having
shared in the same dangers, the same
privations, the same fortunes, these ani
mals of a different rsoe gradually grew
more soeial. Duke haviug a good heart
made first advances, and all the four-
footed gentry soon became a band of
brothers.
The Doctor patted the Greenland dogs,
and Duke eaw without jealousy these ca
resses thus given to animals of his own
speoies.
The men were not in a lass excellent
oondition than tho dogs; the lattor were
expeoted to do some good hanling, and
the former promised themselves to do
some good walking.
They started at six o'clock in the
merning, the weather being nil that oonld
be desired.
After having followed the bend of the
bay and passed beyond Capo Washing
ton, Hatteras gave orders that tho direct
route to the north should be observed.
By seven o'clock the travelers lost sight,
in the south, of the light-housa of Fort
Providence.
The journey opened anspioionsly, and
far better than had began that expedition
undertaken a few months before
sesroh of coal. At that time Hatteras
had left behind him on the Forward mu
tiny and despair, without having been
oertain himself of the ood he bad in
view. He had left a crew half dead with
oold, and had started with companions
weakened by the miseries of sn Arctic
winter; he, man of the north, was then
returning to the south!
Now/ on the oontrary, surrounded by
vigorous friends, all in good health, bus.
tained, encouraged, urged on—bo was
walking towards the Pole, the objeet of
his life’s ambition! Nevor before had
man been so near to the acquisition of
this glory, so great for his country and
for himself.
Was he thinking of all these things,
naturally inspired as they were by the
present situation?
The Doctor took pleasure in believing
that he won, and when ho noticed his
bnoyanoy he could not doubt it.
The good Clawbonny rejoioed in what
ever might tend to cause his friend to re-
joioe,and since the reconciliation between
his friends, the two captains, he to whom
these impulsos of hatred and rivalry were
unknown—ho, the best of created beings,
. was now the happiest of men!
What would happen and what would
be the result of the journey on which
they had entered? This the Dootor oonld
not foretell; bnt et ell events it began
anspioionsly, and this was a great deal.
Tho western cosat of New America ex
tended westwardly n e succession of
bays beyond Cape Washington.
In order to avoid this immense bend
the travelers, after having passed the
first ascents of Monnt Bell, directed
their steps to the north by the way of the
highest plateaus.
This was e greet saving of distance,and
it was the purpose of Hatteras, unless
I obstacles! in the shape of e
t er e mountain should intervene, to
, a direct line of 860 miles' from
' Fast Providence to the Pole,
The journey was a pleasant one. The
high plains offered vast white reaches of
snow, on which the sled's runners glided
easily, while the men In their snow-shoes
were enabled to walk rapidly end on a
sure footing.
The thermometer marked 87 degrees.
The weather was variable; sometimes
oletr, sometimes foggy; bnt neither oold
nor storm oonld have brought to e belt
travelers who, like these, were so deter
mined to continue their forward march.
By means of the compass the direction
was indicated eaaily. The neodle exhib
ited more activity as it recoded from the
magnetic pole and no longer hesitated.
It is true that, having passed the magnet
ic point, it tamed book toward it, and
as it were, pointed to the South to the
eye of people walking to the north; but
this inverse tendency caused no embar
rassment in the travelers’ calculations.
Besides this, the Doctor devised a very
simple means of marking the direction
which avoided the necessity of constantly
oonsnlting the comPaBS. In pursuance
of this plan, the position being establish
ed, the travelers, when the weather was
dear, selected some visible object situa
ted exactly to the north of them, and
two or three miles in edvanoe. Then
they walked towards this objeot nntil it
it was reached, and afterward selected
another landmark of a similar kind in the
same direetion; and so they progressed
in their journey. In this manner their
deviation from the proper route was very
slight.
Daring the first two days of ths jour
ney their progress was st the rate of
twenty milos in twelve hoars. The rest
of tlio time was devoted to their meals
and to repose; and while sleeping the
tent sufficed to shelter them from the
oold.
The temperature rose by degrees.
In some places the snow had melted
away entirely, acoording to the configura
tion of the ground, while other localities
retained their .immaonlate whiteness.
Here and there large sheeta of water
were formed—real ponds in appearance
sometimes, which, by an exertion of the
imagination, might have been taken for
lakes.
At times the travelers waded in ths
water up to their knees; bnt they laughed
at these misadventures, and the Dootor
was well pleased with the unexpected
baths.
“And yet,” he pleasantly remarked,
“water has no right to wet ns in this
oountry. This element should appear
here only in e solid or vapory state. As
to the liquid oondition, it is an abuse of
its privileges! Ioe or vapor will do; but
water nevor."
On the march hunting was not omitted,
for by means of the chase was to be pro
cured a supply of fresh food. Altamont
and Bell, without wandering too far away,
followod the hollows along tho line of
maroh in pursuit of game. They killed
ptarmigans, gnillempts (a bird allied to
tho class of divers), goese and a few gray
hares.
The latter were passing gradually from
state of oonfidenoe to one of fear.
They took to flight easily, and were ap-
proaobed only with difficulty. Had it
not been for Dnke the banters often
would have lost their powder in attempt
ing to shoot (hem.
Hatteras advised Altamont and Bell not
to extend their tramp beyond a mile from
the sled, for he had not a day or s night
to lose, and he could rely on not more
than three months of good weather.
In addition to this it was necessary
that every man of the party should be at
his post near the sled when some difficult
looality—e narrow gorge or an inclined
plateau—would have to be passed. In
cases like this they dragged, poshed, or
sustsined the vehicle, as was needed.
More than ones it was feund necessary
to unload it altogether; but this did not
suffice to prevent shocks, end consequent
ly strainings, to the sled, whioh Bell re
paired as well es he oonld.
The third day, Wednesday, Jane 26,
the travelers reaebed a lake of several
acres in extent, end still entirely eovered
with ioe, owing to its being sheltered
from the sun’s rays.
The ice was strong enough to bear the
weight of the travelers and the sled. It
appeared to date back to a winter long
passed, for, on aceount of its position,
it bad never melted, probably. The lake
was a compact mirror on whioh the Arc-
tie summers had no hold, and what seem
ed to confirm this view was that its sides
were surrounded by a dry snow, of whioh
the under beds certainly belonged to pre
vious years.
From this point the country sloped
visibly. The Doctor therefore oonolnded
that it could not extend far to the north-
ward, and besides it was very evident for
other reasons that New Amerioa was only
an island, and did not stretoh aa far as
the Pole. The surface flattened gradual
ly, and in the west oould barely be seen
a few hills leveled to the surface by the
distance and bathed in a bluish mist.
So far tho journey had been made
without fatigue. The only sufferings ex
perienced by tho travelers was that
caused by the reflection of tho sun's rays
the snow. There was fear that this
intense reflection might have given them
snow-blindness, a disease of the eye-lide
pruduced by the snow.
At any other time they wonid have
traveled by night in order to avoid this
inoonvenience, but on this oocssion thers
was no night.
Fortunately, however, the snow bsd s
toudency to melt, and when it was on the
verge of dissolving it lost much of its
brightness.
On June 28 the thermometer rose to
45 degrees above zero. This tempera-
taro was accompanied with an abundant
rain, whioh the travelers received on
their baoks stoically and even with pli
are.
This rein hastened the snow's decom
position. The travelers found it neces
sary to dispense with their snow-
shoes and to obanga them for the
buok-skin moccasins whioh they usually
wore during thu warm weather. They
also changed the sled's manner of gliding.
The maroh was undoubtedly retarded, but
In the absenoe of serious obstacles they
pressed forward without pause.
Sometimes the Doctor piokadup round
ed or flat stones, similar In appearance
to pebbles worn away by waves, and
then he would begin to think that ha waa
near the Polar basin; bnt still the plain
spread before them, apparently *Umitleaa
end with its confines lost to their view.
The plain presented not a vestige of
habitation—no huts, no cairns, no lodf
meat of Esquimau. It waa evident that
the travelers.were the first to penetrate
this new country. The Greenlanders,
whose tribes haunt the Arotie regions,
never ventured thns far; and yet, In this
oountry, good hnnting might have been
had by these unfortunates, who are al
ways famished for went of food.
Somotimee on the lee of the party were
seen bears, whioh followed the little
troop without indicating any purpose to
attack them, however. In the diatanoe
appeared numerous reindeer and mask
bulls. Gladly would the Doctor have
caught some of the former to (einforoe
the Greenland dogs et the sled; bnt they
took to flight easily, end it wee impossible
to oatch them alive.
On the 29th Bell killed e fox, end Alta-
mont was lnoky enough to bring down e
mask ball of medium size, after having
given his companions e high idee of his
ooolness and skill. He waa indeed an ad
mirable hunter,end the Dootor, who knew
something about hnnting, admired hit
prowess greatly. The bull was cut up
and its meat furnished an abundant sup
ply of fresh food.
These good and sucoulent repasts, al
ways obtained throngh oliance, wars wel
comed. The least gluttonona among
them oould not refrain from oaating looks
of satisfaction on the Blioes of fresh beef.
The Doctor himself oonld not help laugh
ing when he surprised himself gazing in
ecstacy on these delioions steaks.
“Don’t let ns minoe matters,” he onoe
remarked. “To eat is a business of great
importance in Polar expeditions."
“Especially,” said Johnson in reply,
“when its possession depends on a mors
or less skilful shot!”
'You are right, my old Johnson,” an
swered the Dootor; “and one think* leas
of eating when he knows that his dinner
is being regularly prepared for him at the
kitchen fire!"
On the 80th the surfeoe of the ground,
oontrary to previous indications, became
irregular, as if it had bean raised by a vol
canic commotion. Cones end sharp
peaks firaltiplfsd in countless nrflLbers,
some of them reaehiag greet heights.
A 1 violent wind from the southwest
arose and soon developed into a real hur
ricane. It rushed across the snow-
crowned rockB end among the mountains
of ioe, whioh, though on .land, took the
shapes of hammocks sad ioebergs; their
presence on these plateau remained in
explicable, even to the Dootor, who bad
sn explanation for everything.
Warm and damp weather suoeeeded the
tempeBt, and on every side oonld be hoard
the cracking of ice, mingled with the
mote Bonorons noise of avelsnohes.
The travelers carefully avoided the
■ides of the hills in their naereh, end
even took aero not to speak in too load
e tone, for the sonnd of their voioee
might osase catastrophes by agitating the
air. Often were they witnesses of sad
den and terrible falls of snow, which
they would have had no time to escape,
the fact being that the principal feature
of tho Polar avalanche is a frightful in-
•tantauoousness.
Iu this respect they diffor from those
of Switzerland or of Norway. In these
countries is formed u round masaof snow,
gdudl in quantity at first which, gaining
in size by the snow and the rooks that
are added to it as it rolls, falls with an
increasing rapidity, devastates forests
and overwhelms villages, bnt which still
moves at suoh a rate, before precipita
ting itself from the mountain, that its
progress and the danger arising from it
ean bo appreciated. In the countries
subject to Arotia cold the case is differ
ent; there the displacement of the blook
of ice is sudden, crushing; its fall is co
incident with its departure from Its posi
tion, and whoever might witness its oscil
lotion in its line of projection inevitably
would be crushed by it. A oannon ball
is not swifter or lightning more prompt,
To detach itself, to fall and to crush, is
the work of a second with the avalanche
of the far-northern regions, this too ac
companied with tho formidable sonnd of
rolling thunder and strange reverbera.
tions of echoes more plaintive than
noisy.
Thus, to the eyes of the stupefied spec
tators, it sometimes happened that the
appoarance of the land obanged before
their very eyes with the rapidity of a dis
solving view. The oountry assumed s
new guise;' a mountain was transformed
into a plain undor the sotion of a rapid
thaw. When the rain from the sky fil
tered through tho fissures of large block*
of ice, bccamo solid with the oold of
single night, it shattered every obstaola
by its irresistible expansion—an expan
sion more powerful indeed in becoming
ioe than in becoming steam—and th*
phenomenon would manifest itself with
terrifio instontaneonsness.
Happily no disaster ooourred to threat
en the sled and its oondnotora. Having
taken the necessary preoantions, all dan
ger was avoided easily.
Besides this, the Iraot broken np into
crests, small mountains, ridgas and ioe
bergs, was of no great extent, and oa
July 3, three days after, the travelers
found themselves in plains leas difflenlt to
oross.
But s new phenomenon now surprised
thorn—a phenomenon whioh for a long
timo bad attracted the patient rasestehaa
of the savants of the two worlds; the
Uttla troop were following a chain of kills
fifty feet in height at the meet, which
seemed to extend eeveral miles, and
what was strange was that its eastern
elope was oovered with snow of n deep
led color.
The reader ean imagine the enrprise,
the exelamationa—the first effect of tear,
indeed—of each men of the party as b*
gated on this crimson oovaring.
Th* Dootor hastened, if not to reassure
at least to instruct, hi* companions. U*
knew about this peculiarity of the red
■nows, and also of the ohemioal analysis
of their composition made by Wollaston,
Candolle, and Baner. He then told them
that this sort of enow was met with amid
the Alps in Switzerland, as well as in ths
Arotie regions. DeSenssure, the scien
tist, gathered s large' quantity of it on
the Breven in 1760, and sinoe that period
Captains Boss, Sabine, end other naviga
tors brought back some it with them
from their northern expeditions.
The phenomenon, although explained,
was not the less strange. Bed is a color
rarely met with in wide diffusion in na
ture. The refleotion of the son’s rays
on this purple oarpet produced singular
effects. To neighboring objeeta—to
rooks, to men, to animals—waa given a
fiery hue, as if they were lighted np by
an interior brazier; and when this snow
melted, it seemed as though brooklets of
blood were running under the feet of the
travelers.
Whila sailing in tha Forward in Baffin’s
Bay, the previous year, the Doctor had
seen this substance on the Crimson Cliffs
of that sheet of water; bnt he oould not
examine it at that time. Now, however,
he took tome in his hand, inspected it
st his leisure, and gathered enough to fill
several bottles.
This red surfaoe—this “field of blood,”
aa he called it—was passed after three
hours’ maroh, and then the oountiy re-
sumed its usual aapeot.
Altamont questioned tho Doctor on the
nature of this extraordinary substance,
and the lattor informed him that this hue
of the snow proceeded from no other
cause than the presonce in the sdow of
erganio oorpusolos. For a long time the
chemists were doubtful whether these
corpuscles were of an animal or a vege
table nature, but they disoovored finally
that they belonged to the family of mi-
croscopio mushrooms of the kind known
aa “Undo,” and whioh Bauer proposed
to name * 1 Undo Nitnlix."
Then with hia iron-tipped staff the
Doctor scattered the snow and showed to
hia companions that the scarlet bed waa
nine feet in depth, end be set them to
work oaleulating how many thousands of
these mushrooms might be found in ■
■pace of many miles in extent, when the
—A pig is s tree because he roots.
—A menagerie proprietor advertises a
gnu sensation.
—Why is the ann likes good loaf? Be-
oanae it’s light whim it rises.
—“Mottled Continuation” is tho podan-
tio title now bestowed on Spotted Tail.
—“Ho waa a tender parent and nntri-
oions father.” [Sandwich Island obitna-
»J.]
—Ba temeperate in your diet. Our
first parents ato themselves out of house
and home.
—There is a town in Idaho named
Bayne. Of oonrse all the inhabitants are
In Bayne.
—They lately ont a forty-throe year
old oheese in a New York town. It wee
musty from-ege.
—A lady sends ns e poem entitled “I
Cannot Make Him Smile.” SUo onght to
have shown him the poem.
—Black eyea^and deoit are said to go
together in women. But black eyes
hasn’t a monopoly of deceit.
—To get on the wrong took: Start
barefooted on a tonr through a newly
oarpeted bed room iu the dark.
—"Are angels playing croquet, mama,”
asked a little four-year old, the other
evening when she saw the meteors shoot.
—A large number of young men in the
suburbs are going to enjoy life on the
planes whan carpenters’ work gets e little
better,
—A Sootoh looking-glass maker bonds
his advertisements with this quutation
from Borns; “The glftie gie ns, to see
ourseves es i thers see us.
—“Why do yon nse paint?” asked ■
violinist of his daughter. “For the seme
reason that yon use rosin, papa. ” “How
ia that?" “Why, to help me draw my
bean.
—A pious young widow in Milwaukee,
speaking of a handsome fellow who lives
in her neighborhood, says; “I feel set
beck ■ year in my religion every time I
meet him.
—Mrs. Partington emphatically says;
—’front ere cheep down in Dslswsre.
—Zachary Taylor’s tomb Is neglected.
—The polonaise with underskirt still
holds its own.
—Bahama watermelons are piled up ia
the Baltimore market.
—The priests imprisoned in Posen by
the German Government have bean re
leased.
—Durln is the name of tho latest eon.
apirator against Bismarok’s Ilfs, and ht
was arrested st Cracow.
—A fire at Butland, Vt., oa
destroyed R100,000 worth of
property, partly insured.
—“Sohief of BoUoo"
a latter whioh passed
wankoe post-oflloe th*
—The savings bank* of California owt
their depositors 970,000,000 — round
numbers -and have only 98,000,000 flash
on hand with whioh to pay them.
—In a certain Bensselaer county Sun
day-school they offer n ohretne to every
scholar who shell experienoe religion and
join tba ohnroh before August 1.
—The muskets furnished to tha Indians
in trade by tha Hudson Bay Company an
of the old flint rook pattern, the bai
being so thin that the ownon an often
soen straightening them aeroa t
knees.
The oonnaotlea of tho B*V. Ja
Beecher, the youngest brother of'ths
Bov. Henry Ward Beeoher, with thf Con
gregational Churoh of Poughkoopsio, ia
dissolved. He.preeohed hie farewell i
men two or threo weeks ago, and Is
ing te live on a farm.
I want none of yonr revised ststntes.
: lumber counted to th« eaveulqjp a spat* LGive me th* ojd Grecian.and Boman an-
! ess than a square inch was 86,000. tiquaries, life-like and human—a orudo
. This coloration, judging by the arrange
meat of the slope, must have gone back
to ■ very distant epoob, for these mush
rooms are decomposed neither by the
evaporation nor ths fusion of ths snows,
■nd their oolor never ohsngea.
[to bk continued. ]
Tho Dead lea.
Mr. Kingsbury writes as follows of a
bath in the Dead Ses: “Beaching at
length the most remarkable of all the
and lakes on our globe, wo prepared
to taka a bath—and each a bath I oan
hardly expect ever to take again. I had
previously bathed in numerous seas,
lakes and rivers; but never did I enjoy
suoh a bath a* this. The specific gravity
of tha water is snob, from its holding in
solution so large a proportion of salts
(twenty-six and a half per cent.) that one
floats upon its surface like s eork. At
the time there was only a gentle ripple
npon tha sea, and being a good swimmer
I at once struck out into deep water,
soon found that I oonld not only swim
and Host with wonderfni ease, bnt that I
oonld aotualiy walk in the water, sinking
only to tha arm jito. Discovering this
foot, I mad* for the shore, and taking
Dr. Blank, one of our party, who could
not swim, by the hand, led him into the
sea where the water was many fathoms
deep. At first he was quite reluolant to
follow me, but be soon gainod confidence
on finding there was no danger of sink
ing, and he enjoyed the novel bath as
much as if he had been au expert swim
mer. Should the bather allow the water
to get into his ayes or month he would
sudor considerable abatement to his en
joyment, on aoconnt of its extremely
salt, biltor and irritating natnre. No fish
can live in this ssa; but varions kinds of
dneks abound here at oertain seasons of
ths year. The water was os deer as or
dinary ssa water, its tomparalnre was
agreeable, and it had an oily feeling, and
altogether its sotion on the snrfsoe of the
body was such ss to develope those pleas
urable sensations pertaining to the sense
of toneh, accompanied by the most de
lightful exhilaration. Of all ths baths in
ths world, give me a bath in the Dead
—The severs oold of tho peat winter
has increased the mortality in all regions.
Paris reports ■ higher death rats than *1
any time sines tbs siege, and that
ont any epidemie.
—Ths new post office building in Chi
sago has been bo badly constructed that
it will have to be taken down and rebuilt
from the foundations. Bad cement and
rotten stone have caused tbs troublo,
which is being officially investigated by
experts. Incidentally some queer tricks
have bean exposed.
—It is now in oontemplstion to estab
lish s railway aoross the Simpion on tho
rsek-snd-wbsel system (Biggenbaob’s)
now in operation for tho ascent of tho
Bighi. With ordinary engines, the gra
dient cannot exeeed eight per oent.; be
yond that limit, the locomotive oould
barely work itself up alone.
—The see serpent has turned up again
—end again off Portland; and the in-
stsnocs (ohiefly in this centary) in which
these marine monsters have been soen st
class quarters, in various parts of tha
world, have bean so numerons and so
well sathsntioatsd that it sotnsllynow
requires mors oredality to disbelieve
thsn to believe in ths reality of these
creatures.
—Tho Car lists have suspended their
at teak on Gustaria, and ar* preparing to
atieok Bsutarla.
Vsnns and Cupid and sicb.”
—A little Troy girl, hearing her school
teacher spoken of as a painstaking woman
remarked that the scholars were the
“painstskingist,” for they were general
ly whipped ell round every day.
—Mr. Greeley did not invent the
phraae “Go West,” as is generally sup
posed. The original of the remark was
when Buth mid (many years B. C.);
“Where thon gowest I will go.”
—There are times when all of a wo.
man’s self-possession and dignity are re
quired. That is when she shows her first
baby, a heir lipped one, to an old beau
whom she had jilted for the sake of her
preaent husband.
—Mrs. Sweetly—“Bnt why ere yon
making so many dolls’ pantaloons, my
dear Mrs. Jinxliy—“These are not dolls
clothes my dear; they are for Iho poor
frogs who go exposed in the water ell
winter in our pond.”
—“Yes, sir," yelled e preacher in a
Dakota ohnroh one morning, “thero’i
more lying and swearing and stealing
and general deviltry to the square inch
in this here town than in all tho rest of
tha Ametioan oountry-,” and thon the
congregation got np and dninpod tho
preaoher oat of the window.
—In an English Sunday-school the
vicar’s daughter, who was very proud of
her Bible elsas, inquired of one of the
pupils in a smock frock how Queen She
ba eamo to Solomon? lie replied; “By
railway, miss.” On asking for sn ex
planation,she received answer; “Bocauuo,
miss, the Bible says she came to Jerusa
lem with e very heavy train.”
—“That oarpet," ssid e dealer to an
old farmer the other day, “that carpet ia
one dollar and thiity-fivo par yard; but
seeing it’s you, you can have it for one
dollar twenty.” While he was cutting it
off, the farmer proudly said to bis wife:
“I never met him before, but you see ho
takes me for some big men. Now, then,
Msrisr, see whet it is to have e husband
who looks smartish.”
—“Ish dere some ladder here for me?"
inquired a German at the general delive
ry window of the post-office yesterday,
says the Detroit Free Preu. “No, none
hare,” was tho reply. “Vhell, dot ish
queer,” he continued, getting bis head
into th* window; “my neighbor gets
sometimes dree letters in one day, und I
gat none. I pays more taxes as he doos
nnd I htf never got one ledder yet. How
oomss dose dings?”
—Ones when the anxious pastor’s soul,
was oast in oaves abysmal, bis faith re
turned and made him whole—tbo work
of kisses paroxysmal; bnt O, the parox
ysmal kiss, although the cream of oscula
tion, lifts not the son! from gnat's abyss
es dees the kiss of inspiration. But bet
ter fur than all things else within the
limits of tho rational—what most the soul
in gladness melts; is osculation inspira
tions).
—Mr. A. W. Mltohell, a merchant of
St. Louis, recently made his debut as a
lecturer, in that eity, prefacing his effort
with the remark that the place had long
needed a lootnrer of its own, and ss one
of its noblest eitissns he roshed into the
vacuum. “I have had the doors firmly
■soured," be added, “and not one of yon
can aaoapa nntil I have got through.
Beecher, Googh, and those fellows ere
very good, but whet the publio wants is
something fieeh end green, ud here it
to.”
Hithe
to be
mid.
—The British authorities new propose
to investigate the osnsl popnle'ion of
their conntry. On tho 2,000 miles of
English canals then lives a floating pop
ulation whose numbers are unknown and
not even conjeoturable, bnt it to oertain
its oondition is deplorable. It to now in
tended to bring thorn undtr soma kind of
sanitary supervision.
—In tha report 1 of tbo Department of
the Interior of the oanton of Geneva by
the oommiBBion appointed to inquire in
to the best means of stopping tho ravage*
of Phylloxera, it is stated that th* inaaot
was most probably introduced from Eng
land in some vines whieb were taken to
Geneva to otrtain graperies of Baron
Bothsebild in 1869. ,
—Tha deepest (sounding aside in ths
Paoifio by Osptsin Belknap of tha United
States steamship Tnsoerore wee off Point
Komntoin Japan. The sounding lino
ran ont 4,655 fathoms (27,980 fast) with
bnt slight ourrent, th* tonoh of tha load
on the bottom being plainly fait. In a
previous sounding 4,648 fathoms of
sounding wire wars run out, bnt in n
strong onrrent whioh inarped tba win.
—The mastodon fonnd in tho Ruts Fa
marls tarns ont to bs distiost from tho if.
ChajnnanU of tho East, and if. Rhumar-
dii of California, and is roportsd by Pro
fessor Cope to bo allied to M. hngiroetrie
of Earopo. The pnlsrontologiat of Now
Zoaland Uescribas remains of numerons
extinct reptiles which present various
points of resemblance to those obtained
by Dr. Hayden's exploring parties.
— Salamnndrell* Petrolei is tho some
what ingenious name given by M. Gan-
dry to a speoies of little batraehlans, of
which be fonnd seven individuals on on*
slab of shale from Hiltory, Franc*. Tba
name refers to their afllnitlee to tho Sal
amanders, and to tha faot that thalr re
mains aro fonnd in oil-yloiding shales.
They sro not quite an ineh end a half
long, have four toss on both fore ud
hind limbs, and show no traces of scalts.
—The result- of some reoent experi
ments on tha fnnotion of tba moulds
ranks them with the higher fungi. Boms
of them contain marmlt* ud others tre
halose, or a glneose of a speoies yet un
determined. PeneUUum glaueiim, culti
vated on a eolation of tartar!o' sold, con
tained marinite, ud aa th* moleanls of
this body is more oemplex ud contains
more oarbon than that of tartario add, tha
mould exerted a true synthetic sotion,
although its principal funotion is eombns-
tion, the reverse of synthatio action.
—To prevent the numerous aeeidsnt*
to which railroad trains arc liable from
oue ear jumping the track, it is proposed
to nprly to cats a kind of shoe, consist
ing of a clamp-like arrangsmut which to
affixed between the wheels of snob truok.
This runs about two inches above the rail,
and if anything happens to throw tho
wheels from the track, ths elarnp at one*
grasps tha rails, holds tha oar on th*
traok, and brings th* train to n speedy
halt. Buoh a shoe will, it to olaimsd,
prove a great saving of railroad roiling
stock, and will sdd ons-third to th*
strength of the track, it being oonstraot-
ed of iron, ud weighing about five hun
dred pounds. It to fonnd, by axpsrimsuls
made with ears providod with this davics,
that tha arrangemant insura* part act aa-
enrity against the olass of scold an t* it to
dssigned to mart; ud it to also estimated
ICO
that, on sooount of th* additional strength
whioh suoh u attachment must nscssss-
rily supply, ■ car must last twto* as long,
on u average, with as without it.
Dress-Making.
Hill H. A. HOLUNGIWORTH,
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BasMsaas aadshop Id Brownsville.
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Plano Tuning, Do.
B. W. BLAU,
Repairer aad Tuner of Plaaoea, Organ* and
Aaoordaoas. Blga Palutlug also done.
Older* air ba ba left at J. W. Pease A Norman's
Book More. nnpft
Cun and Locksmiths.
PHILIP EIFLEE,
Odd aad Lookewlth, Crawford street, next to
Johasoa’a corner, Ooluatbaa, Ua. JaO
WILLIAM BOEOllEBp
Gaa and Locksmith and dealer in Gunning Ms*
tarlala. Baal of Strapper’* Con fact binary
Fresh Meats.
J, W. PATRICK,
Malls Mo. 1G aad 18, Market Uoaaa.
Fresh Masts or bvm.v kind and boat quality,
Jail aiwHVH on baud.
J. To COOK,
Frank Maata af All KflBda,
•aft Stalls No*. 15 and 17.
Barber Shops.
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