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W. S, JPImWIKLE & 00., Proprietors, ’
CEDARTOWN, GEORGTAr SAlTTfeBAY, JANUARY 30, 1875.
. .yOLUME I. NUMBER 33.
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
EAST.
Two women who keep a baby-farming
•aUblishnmnt at Itoilisten, MaurtMliUHiittK,
bare beeu arrested on a charge of poiaonlng
flro Infanta within eight week..
The report of tko reservoir oornmis-
aion of Maaaachnm tta ahowa that twonty-
eevou auaafe rorcrroim anil dam»: exist in the
atate, ami that tho loaa hj the breaking away
of theeo almotnrea last year foot* up to
$ 1.250,000 lu Hampehlro County Slid $48,000
in Hannlon. The Boston ami Albany raihoad
loat 8100,000
WEST.
A bill line boon introduced in tho
Ohio liOune of ropreaentativca to pnuiah
vagrant a and common lieggaro.
The governor of Dakota haa an ap
peal to the country for aid to tho graaahoppor
A bill hoa been introduoed in tho
Ohio bouse of reproaentatiros, to regulate
telegraph chargee in that atate.
Tho comptroller of the cnrrency hoa
declared an additional dividend of flfteoti per
cent, to the oroditore of tho Scandinavian
national hank of Chicago, uiakiug forty per
eont. iu all.
Tho flood at Marysville, California,
did an lnum<nae amount of damago, and murh
do.litution and suffering will result. Thero
haa been a heavy Iohh of stock in tho surround-
ing eonntry from tho flood*.
The Illinois farmers' convention, at
Hpringfleld. adopted a reform denouncing
cla.H legiHlation, and renouncing all allegiance
to either of tho existing political parties, and
will no longer act with thorn, and endorsing
tho call for a national oonvontion at Cleveland,
O , March 11, to consider the general intcroGs
of Industry and the formation of a national
party.
SOUTH.
IlanH Margrum and John Clifford, two
burglars who escaped from the Memphis Jail
In tho recent Jail d. livery, have been recap
tured, hnt nothing has been heard of Capt.
White, tho lead.
Tho atonturr city of (^uiucy aunk at
Chatard Thursday night. Hho will probably
bo raised, as tho river is falling rapidly. Hho
ran into a bank with a full lioad of steam, In
a fog. and had a fnll trip, but no freight will
be damaged except in ttie hold.
J. U. Dough, haa filed a potition iu
tho tilth district court of Louisiana, claiming
$100,000 damages from Hhoiidan, Kmory,
DoTrol ri aud H. J. Campbell, who, on tho 4th
of January, ejected him from the honso of
repr
i, who
Tho patrons of husbandry of Lonis-
iaua and HlMlrsfppI have Issued an address to
the order throughout tho Untied Htales, on-
dorsii g tho report of tho sul*-oommiltoe of
oongress. Tho address concludes as follows :
Believe ns, thin report mado by tho gentlemen
of the north, aud intclligout congressmen of
both political parties, tell you tho truth. We
refer it to you, and trust every patron to
lids appeal may come, will giro Itattoi^
tin
ailing.
Gen. M. C. Butler's reaidoncc in
Edgefield comity, Houlh Carolina, was burned
on tho night of tho 18Ui by an incendiary. The
incendiary confessed tho deed and sj|dl.iit
Tennant, a negro militia captain, blrd^Rm to
rot tho house on flro. A warrant was isauod
on Monday for tho arrest of Tonnant €nd
placed in tho hands of a ■•^h^ad-conslal.ln
Tennant rcfuaod to ho arrui^^
the constnble called upoi
posse. Gen Ilutlor aml^ro oth
panted tho constable fb rearch <
and wero flrod into ftem ambush
nd his folio
TTio
fire,
rounding three negroes—two mortally,
int and Ids party fled. Tuesday night
■groan fired at Mr. Merriwethor fifteen
Dr. Mcl.io. who went to altond on tho
wounded negroes, was fired on twleo on
turn, one shot perforating Ids clothing
lolhor wounded his horse. More trouble
rohrnded. The pooplo aro determined
3 arrokt Ten:
oompaueatlon. Tho bill finally proposes to
mako it a misdentoaner punisbablo by impris
onment from threo days to two years for any
person to give or rooeivo any valuable consid
eration to influence tho action of congress,
except as provided in tho bill.
Tho secretary of war has sent to the
houso tlio report of tho l>osrd of engineers,
appointed to prepare plans and estimates for
tho deepening of one or inoro of ttio natural
outlets of tho Mississippi river, and also a
canal from tho river to tho gulf. After a
thorough examination of tho entire eubjoot,
they say : ••Thero is no doubt a designated
point at 8outh Bass would bo best,
it would give an unobstructed wator-
• to commcreo iu place of tho
sent narrow aud obstructed ono. If tho
question of cost and maintenance bo consid
ered, there is for tho 8t. Phillip canal the esti
mated sum of $115,154,200, against $79,421,-
110 for tho Pars." While tho' board aro of
opinion that tho canal can be built at tho oeti-
1 cost, they recommend that tho South
of tho Mississippi he improved by tho
plan which they submit. Thoy furthor recoin
md that if oongress decide to open ouo of tho
<hoh of tho rivor, tho entire sum appropri
ated at onoo, or in somo way l>o made availa
ble. If tho mouth of tko rivor is to ho liu-
irovod by Jetties, tho work, when begun,
ihould bo pushed se rapidly as possible to
its entire completion.
Richard B. Irwiu appeared before tho
ommittee on ways and moans investigating
tho Pacific Mall subsidy business, and told to
tu ho paid money. In regard to tho amounts
aid ho might not ho exactly accurate, but
nearly so. Tho following Is a list: (’has.
rt, $7,000; <). J. Averill. $10,000; J. (1.
•itt, $10,000; K. H. Garrick-iloos not roc-
ollect, but thinks $2,000 or $5,000; Ames B.
in, $fT,000 ; I,. E. Chittenden, $5,000 ; B.
II. Cboovor, $5,000; Hamilton G. Pant, $12,-
$25,000; Bamuol A.
Hatch, about $20,000; H. It. Ingham, $10,0(0;
Moran—don't recollect; Alex. W. Ran
dall, $10,000; John D. Ilice, $2,500; Win. B.
Hhaw. $15,000; Charles 11. Sherrill, $500, John
Scknmackor, $300,000; A. H. Whiting,
0,000. Witness said tho a bo to list com
prised tli0 names of alftho persons employed
King, I
>lhers employed by Shntwell, W
rhom ho pal l $125,000, and Richard
is. who was Hhotwell’s personal at-
Wltnoss paid Parsons $10,000 on
Block null'* account. Ho gave Bchumaokor
$270,000 iu New York and rent $25,000 more
California. Heresy and Boyd, assistant
dootkoepurs of the houso, wero not omployod
1 them wero gratui-
overlooked in h's
. W. Voorhoos and
Boyd Winchester testified that tho reports
connecting their names with tho allogod cor-
ption wero nttorly falso and baseless.
Irwin tontiflod before tlio oommittoo
wbjh and moans that tlio undnrstnnding
tween him and Congressman Hclmmakor
J), lliat tho latter should bo paid $.100,000
upon tho passago of the subsidy bill, in con-
of tho swrvicos to ho rondnrod by
in then recited sundry payments
made by him in addition to thoHo mcntlonod
$16,000 to Jtio, Morris,
of tho Washington Chronicle, $10,000 to $15,-
Morgati for writing lotlors, otc,, $15,-
01-1‘ostinastnr Itaudall for tlio special
purpoeo of buying off tho Waabington agents
o ware fighting tho P*
ilo it was before tho sen;
that no part of tho mnuoy
FROM WASHINGTON.
The President haa aunt to the Senate
the nomination of Thomas Biddle, of Penn
sylvania, to bo minister resident to Ecuador.
Five of tho eleven member* of the
houso committoo on elections are opposed to
tho resolution of tho majority to exclude Mr.
Camion, the delegate from Utah, from Ids
seat on account of polygamy.
The house appropriation committee
have agreed to insert in tho sundry civil ap
propriation bill items of $375,000 for signal
servico weather reports and $25,000 for tho
Improvement of tlio capital grounds. Tlio
estimated expenditures of tho district govern
ment for tho fiscal year ending June 80, 1876,
aro $3,120,800: estimated receipts $1,009,927.
This deficiency will have to be provided for by
congressional appropriation.
The president hoa aent the following
nominations to tho senate : Col. Alexander
K. Bhlraa, assistant commissary general, to bo
brigadior gonerai and commissary ef subsist
ence ; Lieut. Col. M. D. L. Simpson, assistant
commissary gcnoral, to bo colonel aud assistant
oommissary general of subsistence ; Maj. Wm.
II. Burns, commissary of subsisted e, to be
lieutenant colonel and assistant commissary
general of subsistence; Capt. Jno. P. Haw
kins, commissary of subsistence, to be major
an 1 commissary of subsistence.
Mr. Edmnnd*' bill to establish a
court for contented elections, provides for a
court of that namo, to oonaist of tbo chief
Justice and asso >iate Justices of the United
B ates supreme jnrt for the time being, and
to b* convened on the second Wed need ay in
Febmiry, 1877, and overy fourth joar there
after : and also In every Fobtnary subsequent
to any election held to fill a vacancy in tbo
office of either president or vice-president of
the United States. This court Is to hear and
adjudge contest* eonoeraing the results of
s ich election, and report its findings to both
houses of coogrees.
The committe on appropriations havo
votod to inelade the following items iu the
sundry civil appropriation bill: Por refund
ing to tho states their expenses in raising vol
unteers, $297,000, for the construction and
maintenance of military telegraph lines,
especially in Texas, Now Mexico and Arizona,
$55,000; for the publication of the cfileial
records of the war of the rebellion, $50,000,;
for the collection of county prize money and
other claims of colored sMdiers, t<eing the
continuation of the work of the laio freed-
msn'H bureau, $15,000; for tbo freedman'
hospital, $45,000
Mr. Bontwell’s bill to provide for
bar of the two houses of congress proposes
tho appointment, st the commencement of
etch session of ccngress, of s committee, to
consiitof three members of each branch of
congress, who shall have authority to deter
mine what persons may appear as attorneys
before the committee, aud to admit, suspend
or expel members of anch bar to be thus
panized. No person shall be -MtSi to
bar unless he is a member of the bar of
court of final jurisdiction in l he state or territo
ry where he resides, and no other person shall
be permitted to appear bsfore any committee,
except in hi a own behalf or asafriend#Ttbout
by hi!
ml he
1 the
implo;
■it of
iinbinalion of N01
giv.
ild he
with any
ndori
in(lu<
iGo Mail Hiilmitly
o. Witness aworo
aid to any person
iling that it
1 tlio
idod fur electioneering pnrpoHOs. O. A.
II. Whiting was given $5,000 and wasto re
el vn $05,000 if 1 lie hill panned. Ho wnn om-
'loyed on account of hin supposed ability to
givo valuable assistance, being a brollior-ln-
of Honator Colo, of California, who at that
time did not feel friendly to tho company, ho
se ho boliovod they had worked against bin
lection an senator. Mr. Irwin fintlier tes
tified that a stock combination wan formed in
York headed by Daniel Drew, opposed to
ubsidy. Witness informed Htookwell that
^formation was that Drew had sent a ti le-
1 to a senator tr. oomo te New York and
that tho senator said he could control six
“This," witnoss said, “wo called tho
Methodist party." Tlio uamo of tho senator
Hr Harlan. Mr. Itamlall Informed wit-
Uiat Mr. Harlan had received such a dis
patch and had gono to Now York, and was
going to have his six senators vote against tho
II. Homo of tbo nix did, and otbors did not
to against the bill. Mr. Harlan opposod
the bill rigorously, fighting it with the mis-
n«nt« with which ho had boon furnished.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The trustee of Jay Cook A Co.’a en-
tatn has commenced paying a dividend of fivo
int. to tho creditors of that firm.
FOREIGN
Alfonso was officially proclaimed king
of Hpaln on the 22d, by Capt. Goo. Concha.
A large nnmbor of Bisters of Char
ity, expelled from Mexico, have arrived in
Havana, on their way to Franco.
Forty-sevon Oarlist officers have noti
fied the Hpanish consul at Ilayonno that they
ivo given in their adheeion to King Alfonzo.
Tho Montenogran government has
ordered its subjects abroad to return homo.
elro thousand troops havo been ordered to
the frontior.
The London Times announces that
lnsia and Austria hare agrejd to recognize
Alfonzo as king at ones, without waiting for
proclamation by the corten.
The London Globe pays all the pow-
s are striving to inHnro a pacific arrange-
cut of the difficulty between Turkey and
Montenegro.
The department of tho IXautes Pyre-
!Os has a population of nearly a quarter of a
million, and the election of a Bonapartist to
represent it in tho French assembly has just
excited Paris.
There is said to be good anthority for
stating that tho British government has de
manded explanation and apology from Porn
for removing passengers from a British steam-
at Callao.
The English steamer Mongol, of the
London, Now York and China steamship com
pany, was lost at Nine Pins, twenty miles from
Hong Kong. The captain and wife, first and
fourth officers and second and third engineers
were lost. Fourteen lives were saved.
A report has been received from New
Zealand that the cutter Lapwing was recently
attacked by natives off Rants Crnz and, her isl
crew overpowarod and masnacrod, and the
vessel burned. The savagOH afterwards
attacked the British war ship Handily, hut
wero driven off.
Fears still exist in Vienna that a col
lision between Tnrkey and Montenegro cannot
be averted, and tlionght it necessary that
Austria should increase her foroes on the
frontier. Russia and Austria had both warned
the Ilcspodor of Monetegro that, if he de
clares war, he does so on his own responsi
bility.
King Alfonso issued a proclamation
to day to the inhabitants of tho Basque prov
inces aud Navarre. He says he longs for
peace, but will fight for his rights ; that he is
a Catholic aud will see that fall justice is
again dono tho church. Ho offers full
neety to all who comply with his terms,
proclamation lias also boon ismiod to
army, fr^nt whom tho king dotuands ronowotl
onergy.
Tho Gorman chancellor has submit ted
to 1 ho federal council an ordinanco prohibiting
the importation into Gcnnany of American po
tabu's bh a measure of precaution against tho
spread of tho potato disease. Tho Prussian
authorities havo closed tho Roman Catholic
Seminary at Fulda, expelled tho high priest
from Germany, and sequestrated all tho prop
erty of tho bishop of tlio diocoso. Tho bishop
of Padorbont, will probably bo soul to tlio for
tress of Wcsol.
The London Times editorially says :
“ In tho gloom Hiirromidlng uh ouo thing i«
perceptihlo: All are arming. German
arming on masse. Tho surrounding nat 1
including tlio host part of tho world, ea
do otherwise. Momentary dreams of p
havo lied. Germany recognizes the stern
ossify : What alio won l.y arms, she can
hold by arms, and wlillo tho arms aro in
hands, tho Times confesses, Germany ea
raise a third at my. Her hopes aro in
King Alfonso will assume tho chief
•uiiuand of tho army of tho north. Ho will
probably ho accompanied to hoadqnnrtors by
Gen. Jovolar, minister of war. Tho king line
signed dooroos relative to tho salaries of tho
clorgy, and declared that, whilo giving sup-
and respoot to tlio Catholic clorgy, ho
cs to firmly maintain religious lihoity as
it oxists iu most clvilizod countries. Tho unb
ent ion to tho clergy has been raised from
'1,600,000 to $41,000,000 plsotns. Tho rnor-
liants of Madrid havo presontod a magnificent
rowu to tho king.
Tho Way to Manage Hard Timber.
Borers of different species of insects
o liable to work in hard timber even
after the lumber has been worked up
into parts of toois and implements.
Ox-bows, ax - hand Ion aud pick-handles
made of tho hardest nnd toughest
nnnlity of hickory will often beoomo so
thoroughly "powder-posted” ns to be
unfit for any use orCopt fui 1. Powder-
post is caused by ’numerous minute
borers working iu 1I10 timber. If tim
ber is out down nnd split or sawed out
in I ho lnltor part of summer, ami i*
stuck up so tlint it can season readily,
borers will never enter tlio wood.
But ns trees cannot always bo felled
sawed out at this season of tho
year some moans must ho employed to
destroy tho borers or to provent their
entoring tho sawed or the split, timber.
Tho most convenient nnd effectual way
to prevout injury from borers is to put
tho plank or scantling, soon after the
timber is sawed, into a stream or pond
ator nnd allow tlio pieoea to remain
snaking for n month or six weeks.
Then take thorn from tho wator nnd
stiok them up henenth nil open shed
where tho wind can blow through tho
pile. By this treatment hard and
lough timber will bo rendered iiiBfct-
proof and tho graiu will bo much firmer
aud tougher thnn if tho lumber hnd
boon stuck Up without being soaked iu
tho water.
In somo parts of Now Jersey fanners
tront all their limber iu tlio foregoing
manner. For example : They will dig
m oak or an ash tree for sfoigh-run-
, havo tho butt log sawed into
jilanks, then oxonvatn n pond hole along
a small brook, whoro they do not have
access to a mill-dam, and stick up those
planks in tho water, whoro lhoy aro al
lowed to soak for nearly two months.
Timber for wagon tongues, for harrows,
for thills and for other purposes is
treated in tlio samo manner. All such
timber will wear liko iron and will never
booorao powder-pouted nor injured by
largo borers. When timber is placed
in tho wator overy picoo should bo kept
covered with wator until tho lumber is
removed. If sand and grit accumulate
tho sides lot the surface ho swept
clean before tho lumber is removed
from tho water. Every farmer should
keep a gonerous supply of good timbor
on hand, so that any tool or f irm im
plement may be repaired with tough
timber.—N. Y, Herald,
Asiatic Bnow Plains.
Tho following description of tho
snow plains of Central Asia is tnkon
from "Campaigning on tho Oxiih : ”
" Tbo days pass—some in wild, fierce
storms of snow and sleet, that howl
around us os though all tho demons of
tho steppe wore up in arms, some in
bright sunshine, whoso intolerublo
glaro blinds us and blistorn our faces.
From timo to timo wo drive dawn into
darksome underground holes, hot and
reeking, hover around the steaming
samovar, nonring down oceans of boil
ing tea ; then out on tho silont steppe
again to continno tho weary struggle.
Thero ore nights when wo awaken from
a half-frozen sleep, nnd remember wo
the heart of tho mysterious
gions of Asia, nnd soo nothing but the
wide, snowy steppe, silent and ghostly
in thospoctral moonlight. For miles
and miles there is no human habitation,
hnt tho bnrrow-liko stations somewhere
far ahead, buried under tho snow,
thongh crashed into flatness by tho
grim uniformity abovo. Thero is some
thing strangely oppressive and nwfnl in
tho changeloss monotony of these wide,
snowy plains, level as a floor, where for
days nnd weeks you see nothing but
snow and sky, where yon aro the mov
ing center of a horizon-bounded plain
that seems to move with yon, and bang
upon yon, and weigh you down liko n
monstrous millstone. There is the
breadth and loneliness of the ocean with
out its movement, tho cold and ioy
silence of the arctio regions withont
the glory of tho arctio nights or the
grandonr of tho arotio monntain—tho
silent desolation of an unpeopled world.
Those broad, level, snowy plains, over
which tho iey winds from northern
Siberia oomo rnsbing down in furious
blasts with an uninterrupted sweep of
a thousand miles, and drive the snow
abont in whirlwinds that go scudding
over the plain liko giant spectres; tho
short days of sunshine, when tho glare
on the snow dazzles and burns ; thongh
the long, cold nights passed in a half-
frozen, half-somnolent state, with tired
beast trndging wearily forward ; I
Bhiver low at the bare remembrance of
it all.”
THE MONEYLESS MAN.
I« there no place on tlio fneo of tlio earth
ihivrlty dwolletli, whore virtue lias blrlh?
w no re bosom* In klmlncus suit moroy will heave,
Ami tlio ( P*»’r amt tho wretched shall n*k um
bring n kind angel to open I ho door?
Ii I soiroh tho
r tho darkness of night;
hall whoro tho
ot, lu shadowy fold;
Judaea, 'in dark floain! rowu/'
* ‘ * »w wclRhnlh quietly down
weak aud tho hiiiIIc*
d pnnlsho* right while ho Jmdllh
Where Jurors their lips ou the Bible
y\o already
where Mammon Jib* told
11 pllo of the Rllltei
THE REWARD OF KINDNEBS.
Mrs. Gorham put down n loiter she
hnd been readiug, and looking iironml
tho table at her blooming daughters
mill two tall, haudnomo sous, sho said,
iu a dololul tone :
"Your Aunt Babitia is coming to
London, nnd has invited herself here
without ceromony.”
When ?” askod Arabella, with an
intonation of intense disgust.
Mho will reach hero this afternoon.
Wilber, you will havo to moot her.”
Horry, mn, but I havo promised to
drive Miss Caldwell to tho park. Fred
can go.”
" UtuGiinly, I will go,” Fred said grave
ly, though there was a hot flush on liis
forehead. "I am very fond of aunt.”
Nonscnsn 1” said liis mother, " you
have not seen her for fourteen yours. I
ir wont near the detestable old farm
r your father died.”
Nevertheless, I havo a vivid roool-
lootion of Aunt Habina’s kindness when
wo woro thoro.”
" Dear mo, Fred,” drawled Litoilln,
don't bo Honlimontnl, I wish tho old
tiling would stay at. homo. 1 can’t
imnginn what sho is coming hero for I”
".Sho is our father's sislor,” said
Fred, “ and f cannot find anything sur
prising in her looking for a weloomo
amongst her Brother’s children.”
Mrs. Gorham shrugged her shoulders.
Tf sho had spoken her thoughts it
would have boon—'* Fred is so odd.
Just liko liis father.” But sho only
said—"I may depend upon you. then,
ot your aunt, Fred. I will soo
about her room.”
It was a source of great satisfaction
to Mrs. Gorham that her children woro
all liko herself “two Greers, ovory
ono of thorn, oxcopt Fred," sho would
say. congratulating herself that tho
plebeian Gorhum blood JwnH not trans
mitted to her eldor sou, Willior, or any
of threo tho girls.
That Oroor prido meant iulonpo self-
ishness, that Greer beauty was of cold,
hard type, that Greer disposition was
tyrannical and narrow-minded, did not
troublo Mrs, Gorham. That tho soil
who was all Gorham was nrond to tho
coro with tho true prido that knows no
false shame, tlint ho was noble in dispo
sition, handsome in a frank, manly
typo, generous nnd self sacrificing, she
could not npprcciato. His hands and
feet wero not so small as darling Wil
ber's, ho hnd no fashionable affeotious,
and no Grtor look. Bo his mother
thought him rough nnd oonrse, and his
sisters declared that ho hnd no stylo at
all, Butontiido of homo, whoro groat
shows of wealth woro mado by many
private economics, Fred was raoro ap
preciated.
When ho booamo n man and know
that hi* father's estate, though suffi
cient to givo them ovory oomfort, was
not largo enough for tho oxtrnvngance
his mother indulged in, ho fitted him
self for business and took a position hi
a counting-house, thus becoming self-
supporting, though his mother declared
tlint no Greer had over boon in trade.
That tho money she livod on was made
in soap boiling tho fashionable lady
sgnored onlirely. Daring Wilber had
tudied law, but his first oliont had not
yet appeared, and Mrs. Gorham sup
ported him, trusting his fascinations
would touch tbo heart of some
moneyed belle. Miss Caldwell was tho
present hope. BI10 was her own mis
tress, an orphan heiress, and very hand
some. That she was proud and rather
cold in manner was only an additional
charm to Mrs. Gorham, Lnoilln, Ara
bella nnd Oorinno, who woro enthusias
tic in their admiration of Cordelia
Caldwell’s queenly manner.
Nobody suspected that Fred, blunt
—At the Hotel Dieu, Paris, recently,
a young woman, who Became the viotim
of so dangerous an attack of hemor
rhage that her safety was despaired of,
was made the subject of fresh experi
ment in the new branch of medical
science ftrahsfusion of blood.) The
chef dc olinmtc of M. Bohier a young
physician, cheerfully offered himself as
the fountain from which the necessary
life’s fluid was to be drawn for tho ex
periment. The neoessary pump, heated
to the temperatnre of 35 to 40 degrees,
was prepared, one of tho young man’s
veins was opened, and a quantity of re
storative blood was transvasated into
the dying woman. The next day she
coaid eat, and a few days after the
' "t the hospital oared.
and straight-forward Fred, hid
secret in his heart, confessed to no
living*being. And that secret won a
love, pure and true, for Cordelia Cold-
well—a love that would shut itself
closely away from any suspicion of
fortune hunting—that only drooped
and mourned, thinking of tho heiress,
At four o’clook Fred was at tho sta
tion with a carriage waiting for Aunt
Sabina.
What a little, old foshined figure sho
n o«, in hor quaint black silk bonnet and
large figured shawl. But Fred knew
hor kindly old face at a glance, thongh
bo had not seen it ainoe ho was twelve
years of ago.
"You are aunt,” ho said, going
qtrckly to meet her.
Bhe looked at the handsome face, and
caught a quick, gasping breath.
" You must bo ono of John’s boys,”
she said. "How like you are to your
father.”
"Iam Fred,” he answered.
"Dear heart! How you’vo grown I
Is yonr ma here ? ”
" Bhe is waiting for yon at home.
The good old country woman had
never had tho least doubt of a warm
weloomo at her brother’s house, and
Fred certainly oonfirmod her expecta
tions. Ho found the old block leather
trunk, the bag, the band-box, and tho
great bulging cotton umbrella, and nut
them all in tho osrriage without ono
smile of ridicule. He made his aunt go
to a restaurant and refresh herself befro
starting on the long drive home,
listened with reepeotful interest to all
the mishaps of the long jonrney, and
— * ati«
overy mortal stitch T’VO got ou, doar,
iu tho dust and smoko.”
And ho ohattod pleasantly of his
childish rooolleotions of tho tiny houso
nnd wide farm whoro aunt Sabina
lived.
" You see,” sho told him, "I mado
up my mind this yonr, I would oomo to
London onoo boloro I diod. I havo
tried to boforo now, but something or
other has always hindorod. Doar, dear I
You're all grown up, 1 suppose, and
you was but a lot of babies tho last
timo John brought you to soo mo.”
" Oorinue is tho youngest, nnd sho
in oighteou. Wilber ib tho only ono
older thnn I am.”
Yes. I remombor. 'Well dear, I’m
glnd John's wifo brought up such a line
f .mily, I’m only au old maid, but I
do lovo children nnd young folks.”
But a chill fell on tho kindly old
heart when homo was roaoliod at last,
and four fashionably drossod lndioa
aavo her a strictly conrtoous grooting.
But for tho warm olaBp of Fred’s hand
1 think sho would havo retnrnod to tho
ntntiou by tho samo carriage sho onrno
10 wounded aud soro sho felt.
Not ono kiss,” alio thought, "nnd
Fred kissed mo at tlio train, right bo
foro nil the people.”
Fred slipped a silver coin into tho
hands of the sorvnnt girl who whs to
wait 11 poii l"i nuut, promising another
if sho was very attentive, and himself
iBeortf d the old lady to her room. It
vns not often tho young man’s indigna-
tiou found voloo,‘ though it grow hot
tor tho many shams and nots of hard
lfishueHs in the houso of his mother,
but ho Haul some words that called n
blush to tlio olio ole rf of tho worldly
woman.
It was not a very busy season, and
finding that Sabina was likely to lmvo
a sorry timo if left to tlio otitor mom-
of tho family, Frod asked for a
holiday nnd appointed himself tho old
lady’s escort. Ho was too*proud to oar©
for tbo fad; Hint tho quaint littlo
figure 011 his aim attracted many an
amused Rlnnco, but gravely stood by
while a rmv dress for Dolly, tlio dairy-
maid, and a " oity nooktio” for Bob,
tho ploughman, was purchased.
He gave undivided attention to tho
ore important selection of a new black
silk for fuintio, liorsolf; nnd plensnutly
accepted a bluo silk sonrf, with largo
red spots, Hint was presented to him,
appreciating tho lovo that prompted
the gift and mentally resolving to wonr
it when I10 paid a promised visit to tho
farm. Ho drove Aunt Hiibiua to tho
irk. lie took her to bco all tho sights.
Onoo or twice, mooting some of liis
gontlomen friends, thoy had thought
" tho nueor old party is somo rich rela
tion, Gorham is so very attentive,” and
hud dolighted Habina by their deferen
tial attentions,
Onoo—Frod had not counted on that
in a picture gallery, Cordelia Gald-
•11 sauntered iu alone. Hho had hoard
oi Habina through tho disgusted com
ments of Luoilla, end sho lmd no prop
erty but » " miserable farm,” but slio
greeted Fred with n smilo far more cor
dial than she usually gavo hor admirers.
A littlo lump oamo into Fred's throat.
Then ho gravely introduced tho stately
beauty, in her rustling silk, to tho old-
fashioned figure on his arm.
" My aunt, Miss Gorham, Miss Cald
well.”
They admired tho pictures together,
and tlio young lady was cordial anti
chatty.
After they onmo down tho stopB, Miss
CftldwcM said—
"You must lot your aunt drivo an
hour or two with mo, Mr. Gorham. I
goitig to do somo shopping, so I
shall not tux your patieneo by asking
you to joiu us, but I shall bn plonsed if
Miss Gorham will dino with mo, and
you will nail for her this evening,”
Thou sho smiled again, nindo Habina
comfortable in tho carringo nnd drove
off, leaving Frod forty times deeper
l ot Kliymhif
God foi'uivo when tlio fnll* fei
Wo laugh 11
In tlio hands of tho Minnesinger of
Germany, internal rhyming was culti
vated us an art. Mr. Kracger tells uh
that, "tho ability with which tho Min-
nesiugor utilized nil possibilities of
rhymo iB perfectly amazing. Limited
rhymes of oomnlote purity, to such au
extent that iu all of Ycgolweido's pooms,
for instance, only two slight impurities
occur, thoy onHsied tbo vast resources
of tlioir beautiful and flexible languugo
to tho utmost extent. Wo havo Minno-
tiongs wherein every word of evory lino
lovo than evor, os sho intended he should
be.
Ho is n very prinoo of ft man," she
thought, "and I’ll givo him ono day’s
rest. Bless tho denr old soul, sho hus
jufet stioh bluo oyos as my denr grand-
mother.”
Then sho won Hablnn’s confidence,
and found sho was worrying about tho
purchase of oortain household mutters,
that would not go in tho blank leather
trunk, and that sho did not like to worry
Fred about it.
Hho drovo to tho places whoro tho
best goods oould be lmd, keeping guard
over tho slender purse against all im
position, till tho last towel was satisfac
torily chosen and directed. Then she
drovo hor homo, nnd brought her to tho
room whoro " grandmother” was qneon,
knowing the stately old lady would
mako the countrywomuu welcome.
In tho evening that followed, Fred’s
heart was touched nnd warmed, till,
noarooly conscious of his own words, he
told hi* long-cherished secret, and know
that ho had won lovo for lovo.
Aunt Habina stayed two weeks and
then went home, to the immonse relief
of the Gorhams, and oarrying no regret
with the—" Ruination of Sabina’s farm.
of leaving any fmt Frod and Cordelia.
It was not oven suspeoted that Cor
delia spont four weeks in tho hoight of
tho summer season listening to tho
praise of Frod at Babina’s farmhouse,
and oven Frod did not know it until ho
came, too, after sho was gono, and had
his share of tho pleasure of hearing lov
ing commendation of one ho loved.
Ho wore the neoktio, and made him
self so mnoh at homo that Habina wopt
somo of the bitterest tears of her life
when ho left.
To havo you both, and lose you I”
sho sobbed.
"Next timo wo will oomo together,”
Fred whispered, nnd so'oonsolod her.
But alas 1 The next timo Fred oamo
was to superintend tho funeral of tho
gentle old lady, and though Cordelia
came too, his happy wife, thero was no
weloomo in tho palo lips or tho bluo
eyes closed forever.
But tho will the old lady left gave all
her worldly possessions to her 44 dear
nephew, Frederick Gorham,” tho farm
and tho farmhouse.
It was apparently no vory great leg
acy, and Cordelia smiled at many of the
old-fashioned treasure}', ns she touohod
all with the tender reverence death
loaves.
Ten years ago Habina was laid to rest
in her narrow ooffln, ond there is 0 busy,
flourishing town round tho site of the
old farm.
Mr. Frederick Gorham lives there
now, and handles immonse sums of
money, the rents of stately buildings.
"Mado his money, sir, by specula
tions,” you will bo told if yon inquire
as to his source of income ; 44 fortunate
purchase of ground before the town was
thought of.”
But I, who know, tell you that the
only speculation he made was, in tho
kindness of his heart, extending loving
attentions to his father’s sister, and that
mly land he ever owned was Aunt
Thero nro tricks in ovory trndo, nnd
Hint tho fioot business doos not afford
an exooption to this rule, an article in
tlio November Galaxy seems abundantly
to provo. Tho writer doos not holievo,
it appears, that Wft’t. Whitman’s Uiokiug
out of tho traces of rliymo has revolu
tionized pootry, and proooeds on tho
supposition that rhymo is uooossnry to
nil good lyrios. Tom nood (tlio
younger) says that tho essonoo of rliymo
is identity of sound, and that wo 110
more mutch sounds by our eye thnn wo
do colors by our noso, Tho samo au
thority remarks to aspiring rhymesters:
TOTiinn rni> nnvMits.
Edgar Poo doolared that it was n mis
take to suppoBO that rhymo must hooch-
warily bo put on tho onus of linos. On
tho contrary, ho asserted that uuoxpoot-
ednoBS added to tlio force of a rhyme, ns
iu tho third stanza of tho 44 Ravou”:
Ami tlio nilkoii, kivil, uncorinln rtiHlIing of oncli
purplo ourtaln,
TUrtllQd mn—fil’od mo with fantastic terrors
novor foil lioforo.
And also in (ho ninth stanza of 44 For
Auuio":
My tnutnlizIiiR spirit
Thoro blandly repo
ForactUng or novor
Regretting Uh rose
This beautiful offeot, wliioh may bo
oallod internal rhyming, has boon used
by other poota sinoo Poo suggested it.
In Mr. Frederick Lookor’s dainty lyrio,
■' Tlio Sorenndo,” wo find:
AWho lUon, nml lmzy
DiiitniHt from tlio Iling,
For sorrow* that ouzy
To-morrows may bring.
1NTKIINAL 1U1YMINO.
Liko alliteration, liko tho rofrain, in
ternal rhyming, pleasantly ofioctivo
when used in moderation, becomes in
tolerable when oariiod to cxophh. Wit-
incomprehensible stanzas
(which wo refrain from italicizing)
llod by Joaquin Millor
Tlmtcli of palm nml n patch of clovor,
lh.ml h of balm in a tlolcl of bro.vn;
Tlio oIo.'iIh blow \\n ami rim hluln flow over.
Ami I lookedlipwfinl, bntwho hiokod down?
'ho was Irno in tho lent that tried iih ?
Who wan it mocked ? Who now may mourn
ho Iona of a lovo that a orowH denied ii“,
With folded hand* and a hourt forlorn ?
• forgot
rth of a Hinlln, (lie welKl
Whv, who can mnaanre? Tho lutes bond n
rhymes with tho other, while tho lines
again rhymo in tlio usual way among
thomsclves; pooms wherein tho last
word of tho rhymo in rhymod with tho
first of tho next lino; poems wherein
I ho last word of tho stropbo rhymos with
its first, word ; poems built in strophim
of twenty aud moro rhymes,” etc., ad
libitum,
IjEOINR VKItSB,
is but ono form of internal rhyming;
in it a word in tlio middlo of tho lino
rhymes with tho final word. Example :
’1’wan in tho primn of Hiimmar timo.
Tn Mr. C. H. Olftverley’fl "Fly Loavos,"
this form lias boon oxtendeil; a third
rhymo in the next lino is nddod ; wit
ness tho first stauza of 44 Iu tho Glonm-
ir.R”:
Ill tho gloaming to ho roaming, whore tho
orautod wavoa aro foaming,
And Urn nliy mormaidoiiH combing lock* that
r mado tho gliout
endeavor
To diHCovor—hut whatovor woro tho hour it
would ho HWOOt.
Very pconliar is tho theory in nooord-
100 to whiuh woro composed tlio words
outitlcd
I tho wlckot kick it backward with my
TlionOh! HUoli rollor* bowloru always givo to
dor*, bounders, too, rlio and Hlrlko
Aud tlio.
my knoo.
Thou I. 111 anguish, try to forco a smilo.
Whilo laughing oritlc* round mo sauna mo 01
my stylo.
Htriving iu liko mnunor after origi
nality, Hood lias a comic poem called
44 A Nooturnal Sketch,” in wliioh oaoh
lino ends with threo rhyming words:
Evou is como ; and from tlio dark, park, bark
Tho signal of tho Hotting sun—ono ^11
And six is Hounding from tho <
Him
To go and soo tho Drury Lano Dnno slain, oto.
And another, called 44 Tho Donblo
Knock,” in wliioh it is tho first words
1 ot tho last of each lino that rhymes :
Rat-tat It wont, upon tho lion’s chin ;
That hat, I know It," cried tho Joyful girl 5
Hummers it is, I know hitn by his knock;
Comer* liko him nro wuloomo a* tho day, oto.
Hood also perpetrated 44 and inter
mediate link, as it wero, between tho
bland verso and rhymo,” which begins
If I were UHOd to writing vrrses,
And had a muso not so porvorso.
Hut prompt at Fancy's call to spring
Aud onrrol liko a bird in spring.
Or liko a boo iu summor tfrno
That hums about a bed of tbyrno, oto.
STOCK RUVMKS.
Whilo most of tho abovo aro merely
attempts at novelty in tho position of
tho rhyming word, many poots and
essayists have earnestly protested
against tho lack of freshness in tho
rhymes themselves. In tho "Essay
Oritioism ” Popo speaks of poets who
ring round tho name unvariod chimoB,
With sure returns of still recurring rhymes;
Wboro’or you find “tbo ooollng Western
In the next linos it “whispors through tho
In crystal stream* “with plowing murmurs
EONNKTfl IN PLANK,
An essay upon tho subjoat of rhym
ing, howovor Blight, would bo obviouslv
inoomplota without somo roforonoo to
bouts rimes, Tlioir origin is fancifully
trncod book to Dulot, n French poet,
who onoo bewailed the loss of threo
hundrod sonnets, explaining to his
friends, who wondered at his foonndity
in having written so many, (hat thoy
woro blank sonnets ; ho lmd only writ-
ton tho rhymos, loaving tho lines to bo
filled in afterward. Tho idea tioklod
tho fnnoy of his friouds, and tho writing
of louts rimes, noon booamo a recog
nized nmiiRoniGiit of tlio oourt. A most
romnrknblo instnnoo of faoility is given
in Dr. Bombnugh’s 44 Gloaniugs,”
nociART’s FUAT.
Mr. Bogart, of Albany, who diod in
1820, at tho oarly ago of 21, hnd exhib
ited suoh great skill iu impromptu
writing, that tlioir spoutanoonsnoss was
doubted. Ho offorod to submit to any
teat. In tho presence of Olmrlos Fonno
Hoffman, Oof. J. H, Van Hhaiok took
up a copy of Byrnu, and said : " Tho
name of Lyndia Kano” (a hollo of thoso
days) 44 has in it tho snmo nnmbor of
tetters as a stanza of 'Gliildo Harold’
has linen ; writo them down in a column.
Now, I will 041011 tho poom at random,
nnd for tho ends of tuo lines of Miss
Lydia’s norostio shall bo nsod tho words
ending tlioBO of tho voroo on wliioh my
finger may rest.” Tho stanza thus so-
teoted was this
Ami miiHt they fall, tho young, tho proud, (ho
PAOTB AND FANCIES,;
THE BRIDGE.
r i.oNorKM.ow,
1 stood on 44 tho bridge” at midnight,
With footings I can't roreal,
And tho moon roso over the tatfrall,
Behind tbo man at the wheel.
For, approaching ho rapid a climax,
Camo tbo malady of tho h
Far off In the hazy dintauoo
Of that tearful night in Juno,
To swell ono bloated oliioC* Unwholesome
rolgn ?
Tho min nf raplnn ami tho fall of Hpaln ?
Ami doth Ihn power that man adorn* ordain
Tl cir doom, nor hood tho Hiipplinut'* apponl i
I* all (hat doBporato valor not* In vain ?
Ami onuni'rl Hugo, and patriotic zhaI
Tho veteran’* skill, youth
hood’* hoart of stool ?
Within tou minutes tho following
norostio stanza was composed by Mr.
Bogart:
Lovely nnd lovnd, o’er tlio uuoonquorod bravo
Your oli
•ohihUohb, matohlou* girl, tball
Ign!
tbo mollior bold* hor infant
JMf
And Bbould your
Kings would In vain to
And lordly biHliqp* kneed
in, romantic Hpaln!
t tbolr stop* or-
Enduro alust lover'* (timo'* up) untarnished
OAMFlllthl/B 14 LOOUIDTi"
oomposod in this way: Tho
rhymes woro written first nnd the linos
filled afterward, tho poot singing them
to a sort of ondenco, as ho reoited to
his wonderful friend, Loigh nuut says
moro poots work out tlioir pooms on
this theory than would bo willing to
nokuowlougo it. no gives as a spooi-
mon,
Dawn Each
Plain* H polio
Lawn 1 loculi
Hwaln* Yoko
Mo
Hay
Play
Hwoot
Fair
Mlno
Hair Tr
Divlna W<
Flold* Hlindo* Adiou Farowoll
Ho worn Dart* Flocks Cow*
Yhlds Maid* Itonow Dell
Gazo Flmvors Hearts Hock* Dough*
44 noro, without any moro ado, wo
have tho whole history of a oouplo of
Day*
successful rural lovers comparing notes.
They ismto forth in tho morning, fall in
to tho proper plnoo and dialogue, reoord
the charms nnd kindnoss of their ro-
spentivo mistresses, do jtistioo at tho
samo time to tho Holds nnd shado and
oonolndo by tolling tlioir Hooka to wait
us usual, whilo thoy ronow their ad
dresses under yonder boughs. How
easily is all this gathered from tho
rhymos! and how worse than useless
11 Id it bo in two persons who havo
ill interesting avocations, to waste
their precious timo and tho rondor’s in a
heap of prefatory remarks, falsely
called vorseH 1” and Hunt then goes on
to givo a blank prologue, built unon
tho samo model, apnlionblo to any ploy,
44 which, if apokon by a pretty actress,
wjlh a duo sprinkling of nods nnd becks,
and a judicious management of tho
patiHOB, would havo an effect equally
novel and triumphant.”
A Druidical Woddlng.
Tho following description of a mar-
riago in tho Druidical days is given in
Baintino'u 44 Myths of tho Rhino
At a plnoo whoro two roads moot tho
crocking of a whip is hoard; hogs, sheep
and small oxou aro driven aside to make
way for a kind of procession consisting
of grnvo nnd solemn raon and women.
It is a wedding.
Two young poople havo just had tlieii
union blossed by tlio priests undor tho
snored oak. The brido is dressed in
black and wears a wreath of dark loaves
on hor bond. A matron who walks on
hor loft holds boforo her oyes a white
oloth ; it is a shroud, the shroud in
which sho will bo buried one of those
days. On her right a Druid intones a
chant in whioh I10 onumorates in solemn
rhythm all tho troublos and all tho
anxieties whioli await hor in woddod
lifo.
From this day, young wifo, thou alone
wilt havo to boar all tho burden of yonr
united household.
Yon will havo to attend tha baking
oven, to provide fuel and to go in soorou
of food ; you will havo to propare tho
resinous toroh and tho lamp.
You will wash tho linen at the foun
tain, and yon will mako np tho clothing.
You will attend to the oow and even
to tho horse, if yonr husband requires
it,
Always fall of respect, you will wait
on him, standing bohina him at his
mnals.
If ho expresses a wish to tuko you
with him to war, you will aooompany
him to carry his baggage, to keep his
arms in good Condition, nnd to nurse
him if ho should be sick or wounded.
Happiness consists in the fulfillment
of duty. Bo happy, my child.
What is still more strange is that this
dolorous wedding song, bnt slightly al
tered, is still in some parts of Franoe at
this day addressed to brides by local
minstrels.
Tho reader lbroaton’d—not iu vain—with
“HlOftp."
Dr. Holmes says: "One gots tired
to death of tho old, old rhymes. I al
ways feel as if I were a cobbler putting
now top-leathers to an old pair of boot-
soles and bodies when I am fitting son-
tiraents to theso venerable jingles :
youth
rooming
truth
warning
Nine-tenths of tho 4 juvenile poems’
written spring out of the musioul and
suggostive coincidences.” And else
where tho autocrat speaks of beings
who send him some 44 strings of versos,
candidates for tho orthopedic infirmary,
all of them, in whioh I learn for tho
millionth time one of tho following
facts : Eithor that somothing about a
oliirao is sublime, or that somothing
abont timo is sublime, or that some
thing about a obime is concerned with
timo, or that something abont a rhyme
is sublime or concerned with time or
with a ohime.”
—Lohse has investigated what would
bo tho effect and appearance of a spher
ical gaseous mass, os seen by au ob
server passing over the solar disk, and
has sought to apply his results to the
possible effect of the atmosphere of
Venus on tho phenomena of the Venus
transit. In conclusion, ho states, with
roforonoo to the so oalled black-drop
phenomenon, that if the atmosphere of
Venus has a density so great that it
unites tho solar rays in one point lying
botween Venus ana the earth, it must
then have the samo effeot as an obaqbe
body; that is to say, the solar limb will
by this atmosphere be broken or in
dented before the body of Venus itself
touches it; and, conversely, the solar
limb will not regain its integrity at tha
close of the inner oontact until the at
mospheric layer is entirely within the
solar disk. It is possible that at the
inner contaot tho olTeot of the atmos
phere of Venus contributed considera
bly to the appearanoe of the so-called
back drop,
And down in tho doop blaok shadow*
The hungorlng AhIioh played,
And soomed to bo ntaintlvoly Booking
Their supper bo long dolayod.
And (ho waters round mo rushing
Horvod but to lncroaso my pain,
And a horrible qualm oamo o'or me
As of somothing—I couldn't contain.
How often, oh, how often,
In the day that had gono by,
Had that tearful, abominal fooling
UjiHot me-I wondor why.
How often, oh, liow often,
I ntahod that tho streaming tide
Would ooa*o it* rOHtlosH motion
And givo oomfort to my lnuido.
much im’rcasod by tho ougiuai
With tlioir horrlblo odor of lie.
(Interval of two minute*.)
Ilut now it ha* fallen from me,
It is hnrind in tho bos ;
fcnd as for tho siokuoaa of other*—
What tho deuoo d*o* it rnatler to m
Yot whonovor J go by steamer,
If oulv for a penny rldo,
And I think how many thousand*
Of wrotohod billon* tnou,
On croHHing tho English channel,
Have fed the fluhrs sinoo then.
I soo tho long procosBlon
Htroam on In a gha*tly lino—
Each bearing the fatal basin
A* an outward visiblo sign.
And forovor and forever,
Ah long as that Htoamor goon,
As long a* a man ha* “innards,".
With suoh agonizing throes,|
Tho “bridge" of tho Dover packet
Rliall frequently appear
A* tlio Hoa sick mortal's haven
Whon ho fool* moBt awfully qnoer.
—E R. Marsh, San Frnnoisco, has
rooontly invested 627,000 in ^ngora
goats.
—Tho Mexioan oongress has ofiored a
reward of 620,000 to the first mins
whioli shall have producol COO flasks of
quicksilver.
—Think of that ? Whon you take a
;irl to spoil ing-school in Nevada you
invo to rido twonty-four miles, and you
lmvo to keep your arm around her all
tho timol
—It is reported that the Mexioan
government is garrisoning small towns
ou the Rio Graude, for the purpose of
assisting the authorities on this side in
breaking up oattle stealing.
The total mites of railroad open in
tho Uuitod States January 1, 1875, was
70,200, of whioh IContuoky had 1,519
mites, valued at 802,728,511. The in
vestment in theRo works is at an average
ooit of 820,000 per mite.
—An old baohelor says : 44 Whon I
remember oil the girls I’ve met together.
romoniuur tm mu gmn a vu mov wgomDi,
I fool like a rooster in the fall exposed
to ovory woather 1 I feel liko one who
treads alone somo barn-yard all desert
ed, whose oats aro fod, whose lions aro
doad, or all to market started.”
—Throe Ohioago girls aro about open
ing a barber's shop in that oity. Ono
is to do the lathering, another the shav
ing, while a third, a boautiful blonde,
is to sit on a sort of a throne, and play
on a harp and sing. The outfit of this
out shit Mhment, it is said, will cost
812,000.
•In regard to a portion of "tho
groat West,” it is a private opinion ex
tensively hold that a country whioh ie
eaten oat by grasshoppers in the sum
mor, where tho whisky freezes solid in
the wintor, may bo advantageously left
for tho exclusive occupation of tho
noble red man and the prairie dog.
—Ono of the oldest sensations is said
to bo that of being lowered fifteen
hnndred foet into a mine. Th i great
length of eable allows a spring of a foot
or moro upon tko slightest movement
in tho ba*Ket, and W. J. Florence, tho
aotor, who has just had tho experience
in Nevada, says it feels like being a ball
at tho ond of a rubber string.
—Aooording to tho Amerioan Manu
facturer the six largest ateamships in
the world are the Great Eastern, owned
by the international telegraph construc
tion and maintenance company, 674
feet long, 77 feet broad; the City of
Peking, some months ago launohed on
the Delaware river for the Paoiflo mail
steamship company, 6,000 tons, 428 feet
long, 48 feet b.oaa; the Liguria, 4,820
tons, 460 feet long, 45 feet broad ; the
Brittanio, ot tho white star line 4,700
tons, 455 feet long, 45 feet broad; the
Oity of Richmond, of the Inman line,
5,000 tons, 458J feet long, 43 foet broad;
and the Bothnia, of the Ounard line,
4,500 tons, 425 feet long, 42} feet broad.
Books and Dogs as Propagators of
Disease.
Among tho many agents for thqftppread
of infeoiions diseases are, it seems,
44 our domostio pets.” For the propaga
tion of fever a dog is sometimes as bad,
or worse, than a drain, and a oase is re
ferred to in the Sanitary Reoord in
whioh scarlet fever was qkrried from
AH* aLIIJ Am mmaIUaa Um mt I.wamI. mn
oneohild to another by si favorite re
triever. The dog had been, reared in a
house where scarlatina prevailed, and
was snbseqnently given to a friend of
the family. Shortly after one of the
children in the dog’s new home was
attacked with malignant scarlatina and
died. Disinfectants were nsed plenti
fully, and every preoaution taken to
prevent a recurrence of tho malady,
but iu two months, timo a second child
took the samo disease, in its worst form,
and died. As tho dog had been the
constant companion and playfellow of
thoso children, its woolly ooat, it is
alleged, booamo so oharged with oonta-
gious matter as to render it a source of
disease and death. Although it is only
fair to the dog to admit that the ohildren
may have caught the fever from other
sources than nia woolly ooat, yet there
is reason to fear that both dogs and
cats, especially the latter, do occasion
ally assist In the oironlation of infec
tious illnesses, and where fever prevails
the sooner thoy are' lodged ont. of tho
house tho bettor. They are, however,
probably not more dangerous in lhis
respeot than books. No one who takes ,
up a book from the library ever trouble*
himself or heraetf as to the anteoedenta jj
of the volume; it may have joat left#
the hands of the fever patient. f