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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S, D. WIKLE & 00., Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1875.
VOLUME II. NUMBER 14.
AN E&R1Y POEM BY KDQAR A POE.
rh* following rer.es tmct l*fnn< pnblUhed,
» of U», shortly after h
Tt-et in my childhood ■
Tin* mywtorjr which bind.
Some Saratoga Vanities.
Now York Herald S«r*t,^» Leller.
In n previous letter I have already
alluded to tho prevalent fondneas for
painting—I mean painting on that nat
ural canvaa of fair, aoft cheeks and rosy
lipa, whioh I think were never intended
to t)« touched with artificial color*.
This habit haa no donbt given riao to n
great industry whioh ia now flourishing
in Saratoga, aud whioh iH by far tho
moat important and oztenaivo I have
yot observed hero. My attention to
this groat Saratoga industry was called
by tho remarkable labela on oortain elo-
gant caaea displayed at tho most hand*
some shops and which nro to this effect
(listen, oh gentle ahenherd longing for
tho Haratogn aliepbtraces I) :
solves in sufficiently gorgeous maguifl
oenoe in tho abort time claiming until
breakfast. Would that I oonld reform
theao indolont young women. How
much linppior and hoalthior they would
bo if they would limit themselvoB to
only two elaborate dressos per day, for
dinner and for supper, and forget thiB
baneful “dress" before broHi’fast.
TUB EXPENDITURE ON DRESS.
How mnoh is there spent on dress iu
a season at Haratoga? It would bo a on-
rions puzzle to solvo. At a rough guess
at least 100,000 peoplo visit this village
every yoar. Two thirds of these are wo.
men, or say, at a round flgurc, 60,000.
The average number of dresset and,
for convenience’s sake, wo'll leavo out
such trifles ns bonnets, gloves, ponoils,
etc , brought by eaoh of these 60,000
fair ones may l»o safely set down at ton,
nnd of theso one-half are cor thinly now.
Two hntulrcd dollars for an average
Saratoga drees in a pretty low computa
tion ; but le£„it pane let us be gener
ous and not swell their husbands’ bills
to more than they already are. That
wonld give nB 810,000 spout by eaoh
fair visitor, nnd, ns a total, tho round
sum of 860,000,000! How many aohools
and hospitals could bo founded with
thin amount ?
Onuses of tho Degeneracy of the
Teeth.
Prof. Chase asserts that fifty years
ago, when he was a boy, tbo profession
of dentistry was unknown iu Amorioa,
nnd there were not more than half a
dozen dentists in tho United States.
Toothache was not common, aud sound
teeth, oven in very aged pooplc, was
tho rule and not the exception. Tho
* reasons for tho change in tho character
I’onolU for tho eyelids! of tho tenth of the present generation
he asserts are to bo fouud in tho nature
of the food wo oat, particularly in tho
bread, whioh popular prejudice demands
should l>o perfectly white, and to soonre
this tho millers aro forced to carefully
holt out tho gluten cells of the wheat,
tho groat mngnziuos of phosphates for
Urn graiu. Tho point is one of snob
importance that wo quote from tho
artiolo as follows :
To supply tbo daily loss of tho limo
salts from an adult body weighing ono
hundred and forty pounds, fifty grains
of tho salte of limo would ho required.
Thia is found in about twenty onnoea
.. | of unbolted wheat flour, or ono hundred
o there any for the j omjCoa G f gnpcrflno flour. From twonty
y.» 1 M to thirty onnoos of unbolted wheat may
bo taken ns a representative of tho value
of tho food whioh is daily eaten by a
healthy perse n of one hundred nnd
forty pounds weight. It is simply ridi
culous to suppose a person of that
weight could eat nnd digest ono hun
dred ounces of flour ! Consequently,
those who do make superfine wheat
portont faotor iu the uutri-
The pencil trade is flourishing ao vig
orously that theso pencil canon, with the
above significant labels, aro displayed
almost everywhere. Wherever yon oast
your oyo you are reminded by thorn of
the deceptive character of mnoh of Sar
atoga’s Iwmuty. Far bo it from mo to
Hay that thero aro no women bore who
doapiso theso repulsivo, these sickoning
devious of morbid vanity. Thero aro
many of these wornou who depend for
thoir roses on unturo nlouo and honltli-
fill activity, and rational modes of life.
I must add, in justice to tho Hnratogi
pencil trade, that thero are no pencili
lor tho nails, nor are “■
ears. This deficiency,
soon to bo supplied’by an enterprising
jK iicil manufacturer.
A CHAPTER ON llAIIt.
Ono of the inoat curious features
about Saratoga beauty iH its wonderful
mutability. You have tho honor of
Miss Kona Snooks’ ScquainUnoo. Very
well. Miss llosa Snooks is in tbo habit
of coming to Saratoga every season.
East yonr she wan tho rage on nooonnt
of her beautiful gohleu tropseH. Oh,
what a lovoly golden hue I how many
melting glances were cast on thorn—
shall I say, what loving hands smoothed
them tremblingly? lint, whether it
was smoothed or not, tho fact remninn
that tho hair was o! an oxquisito light
blonde, of that line which poets have
immortalized by calling it golden. Such
it was, and it dwells fresh and fragrant
in your memorv. Next season you corno
to Saratoga. Yon seo Miss Huooks, but
you do not recognize her. “ Why,
there's Miss Snooks," n friend saja. i tlioy imrely tantod in their nati
You look at tho young lady who is ,, onnt ' An American dentist who vi
pointed out to yon ; you see a decided ri ..
tion of their bodies, fail in gottiug the
nocessary amount of limo salts. Now,
this is trno of thousands and hundreds
of thousands in tho United States. Tho
teeth of theso fluo-flonr eaters aro de
fective ; thoir ohildrcn inherit thoir de
fective dental organization, nnd so tho
mischiof spreads. Irish girls who come
to this country for service usually lmvo
good teeth, but in two or throe years
their teeth decay surprisingly. This is
easily accounted for, when it is noto
rious that they ont largo quantities of
food made trom snporflno flour,
brunette, and you doolnro, “ Nonsenso l
Miss Snooks’ hair is as light as this la
dy’s is dnrk. It cannot be she 1" But
it is, see ! You liavo forgotten, my
friond, that women In Saratoga aro ns
changeable aa chameleons. To day they
aro fair, to-morrow they nro dark ;• to
day they are blondes, to-morrow they
nro brunettes. I know quite a number
of young belles who were brunettes last
aeason and are blondes this ; and vice
versa. How this marvelous and rapid
transmogrification is accomplished it
wonld be indelicate for mo to any. Next
season they will, probably, return to
their color of two years ago. This
soems very odd ; but, as tho human
heart craves variety, and os 1 think it
rather tiresome for a woman to have tho
snmo color of hair all tho time, it is, no
doubt,w«*ry nine—very !
DIAMONDS ON CHILDREN.
The remembrance of Saratoga bh I
am about to leave it will always bo a
sparkling one. Whenever I think of
thin little village, with its three mon
ster hotels and their thousands of happy
and gay visitois, tho dazzlo and glitter
of a million diamonds will naturally
flash bfforo mv eyes. It was laughable
to think of tho heart-rending cry of
" hard times ’’ in all tho newspapers and
in everybody’s mouth, and to follow tho
hlaziug procession of diamonds down
tho Congress Hall piazza. If they were
pebbles they could scarcely bo more
abundant. Hero is one, yon
■iza of a small window-pano.
ments the ueck of a little school girl of
sixteen. Do you see those little girls of
six and seven frolicking in tho drawing
room, upsetting the chairs and chasing
each other up and down tho ooetly vel
vet carpet? They all wear diamonds.
There aro people hero who say it is bad
taste to spoil tho sweot innocence of
children by such abowy pampering of
vanity; but I suppose they are laughed
at. The very next thing out will no
donbt bo diamond ear rings, riDgs, and
necklaces for newborn pulpy infants.
HARATOOA INDOLENCE.
I have already spoken of the delicious
indolence of this place. Do not too
many carry it too far ? What can there
bo healthier than to take the short
walk to ono of tho numerous springs
in the morning before breakfast *
Baden-Baden the music begins at six,
ttverybodr is at the springs at that
hour, and all tho women walk till eight.
Here the vast majority of the fair sox
oertainly do walk the fifty or a hundred
steps to the Hathorn of Congress
spriDg the Hathorn bears the name of
the proprietor of Congress Hall, who is
also a member of congress from Sara
toga—bat there is actually a small ma
jority of women, particularly young la
dies, who have the spring water aent in
pitchers to their room?. These aro not
invalids, but healthy yonng devotees of
fashion, who simply will not go out so
early in the morning for two potent
reasons. Listen ! The first is that they
*‘do not like to take the trouble” (or,
in other words, are too lazy), and the
seoond, that they cannot dress them-
ited Germany said that ho visited
children's school whoro there were ovor
two hundred pupils, and made un ex
amination of thoir tcotli, and moreover
failed to find oven ono deoayed. Those
children used black bread. The first
settlers of Ohie, Kentucky and Vormout
gave good teeth to tho generation sue
coeding them, because their food oon
listed of meets, vegetables, beans, peas
and maize in largo proportion. Hnpor-
flne flour was a luxury unknown to thorn.
They were glad to get wheat pounded
iu mortars, or coarsely ground between
stones, without bolting. 1 very well
rooolloct that tho people of Vermont,
n thirty years ago. did not average
i barrel of superfino llonr for every
persons. Thus not more than one-
twelfth of thoir food was mado up of
this flour.
How to Make Marriage Beautiful.
In tho first place, lot tho peoplo defer
to tho laws of health, of sanity, heredi
tary soundness ; lot them obey restric
tions, consult wholesome seasons, re
spect the limits sot up by the common
sense of nature. Mutual ignorunco on
theso points is filling marriage with un
necessary evils ; they not only spoil tho
well-being of a family, but spoil its dis
position. Lot the work in every houso
bo reduced, by a reduction of its ambi
tious, till all jits parlors,, all it s tables,
nil the clothes exactly represent tho
current condition of every family ; uot
a brackot nor a ribbon for exogerution,
not (i single room for parade, neither
sewing, washing, eating, scouring, com
pany-giving beyond actual needs, and
all done by the feast elaborate meth
ods. Then, in tho second place, reduce
to tho lowest possible point tbo dis
turbances which arise from ignoranco
and vanity, from artificial training;
you simply liberate marriage for the
more effective discharge of its spiritual
pnrposo. The men and women might
suspect that they are ill-mated till life
itself pronounced the banns. Teach
children that ngarringo only prolongs
their school hours into the future of
sterner discipline and leas perishable
attainments. Warn them against those
affectionate extravagances whioh under
mine respect, against tho physical
rora which to sap the will that it
bumbled and enslaved by annoyance
which health and freshness langh at.
And teach them simplicity, make vul
gar habits and ambitions appear odious
to thorn, ply their imagination with
austere and noble forms, tempt them to
fall in love first with spiritual boaoty,
whose service makes them free, then
they will be better prepared to discover
that marriage withholds felicity until it
haa been earned.
Stories from the Postoffice. .
The postoffioo department had n case
the other day that is an example of
thousands tliat are continually making
the department trouble. A merchant in
the west demanded a thorough investi
gation and the arrest of certain em
ployee of the postal service, whom ho
claimed had given him good grouuds to
suspect them of tho theft of n letter
ued by him to n bank in tho cant
containing 82,100 in oheeks. Tho case
was given to a special agout to work up,
but the letter containing tbo ebooks
came to light iu tho dead-lotter office
tho othor day, tho aondor who lind mado
so much trouble about it having ueg-
looted to put on a stamp before it was
mailed. Tho onvolopo was directed
properly, but boro no indication what
ever of hnviug over been stamped. Snob
carelessness us this is very oomrnon, and
costs tho government annually a largo
expense. Forty-two blank entries,
without either address or postago, wore
received at tho dead-letter oliloo last
week. Last year 400,000 uiistampcd
letiers were reooivod at tho jHistoffieo
department, and tho most of them re
turned to tlio writers, nn nvorago of
over 12,IKK) a day. TliiB does uot iuoludo
tlioso that wore improperly addressod,
or thoso remaining uncalled for at tho
difleront postoffioes in the oonutry.—
Washington J/ctter.
Scientific Memoranda.
Experiments in Germany ou frozon
potatoes provo that tho freezing in no
wise alters tho ohomicnl composition of
tho tubers. Tho clinngo is simply phy
sical, aud, even if frozon hard, they uro
still fit for distillation, or thoy may be
pressed to got rid of the water and then
ground into a good moal adapted to
foeding cattle.
The sand-blast llmls a new applica
tion iu tho manufacture of silver-iilatod
ware. PortH of tho ware aro iluisliod iu
stippling work—a dulled surface, Homo-
times known as “satin finish." This
work has been dono by rotating iron
wire brushes, but n flue thread of sand,
driven by coniprossod nir, is said to do
tho work much more quickly and effect
ually. Patterns out out of thin shoot
rubber aro used to givo any desired
markings or urnanionutions, amt tho
slightest exposure to tho blafat perforins
tho work instantly.
A new process in the manufacture of
plaster of Paris is announced, that is
said to givo exeoilout oasts, that sot
slowly, and aro of a pure white color,
instead of the usual grayish-wliito.
Tho unburnt gypsum is first immorsod
for fifteen minutes in water containing
ton per oont. of sulphuric acid, aud
then oaloitied.
An apparatus rosombliag tho type
writer in design, rnd intended to bo used
sh a stenographic reporting-maoliino,
has been brought out in Franco. It con
sists of keys uud a lover very much liko
the desk of tho typo-writer, and a long
roll of paper that'automatically unwinds
as tho keys nro touched. Eaoh key
makes dots or dashes, nnd tho lover
spaces off tho words ami lines. The ro-
port, in Morso’s alphabet, is tlniH read
ily written out ns fast oh tho keys can bo
touohod, and may bo copied or sot up
iu type without difficulty. Hix months
pruotieo will enable a good oporator to
follow tho most rapid speaker.
Iu electro-mechanics a now magnet,
aud a method of softeniug iron for mag
nets, are offered. A Blonder copper
pipe, 0.12 of an inoli in diamotor, is
wjund in a spiral round a soft iron cyl
inder. Htonm, nt a pressure of llvo
atmospheres, driven through tho pipe,
causes tho iron cylinder to booomo
strongly magnetized, and this condition
will bo maintained so long as tho stoam
flows through the pipo. To obtain good
soft iron maguotH for oloctro motors, it
is ri'oomraemled lo flic or machine-face
the iron till it is free from scales, atul
then to heat it to an evenly distributed
dull red. ’."hen it is rehoatod to nn
evon, but faint rod, and bnriod in pul
verized limo. When oold it will bo
quite soft, and greatly improved ai
magnet,
A wind turbine lifts boon patented
Denmark. It is said to work in a mnoh
lighter broozo than tho ordinary stylo
of wind-mind, and to bo well suited to
varioty of industrial uses.
Hydraulic machinery is being applied
to the handling and loading of largo
some of tho ships of the Eng
lish navy. Tho gun iu recoiling is partly
upset, nnd lifting ranohinory raises tho
charge to tho gnu and places it in posi
tion, and a hydraulic piston risen from
tho dock and rams it homo.
Tho propellers put into tho new circu
lar ironclads building for tho Russian
navy present some features of intercut*
Thero are six screws in all, nnd tho two
in tho center are mnoh larger than tho
others, and are so plaood ns to sink
deeper in tho water and below the ship’i
bottom. Theso screws have only three
wings, and in shallow water they are
stopped in a position that louvos neither
wing below the bottom. Deep-sunk
screws have been nsod with hiiooobh bo-
fore ; and to enable tlio ships to enter
shallows, the shall is in two parts,
united by a universal joint, no that tho
screw can be raised nnd still kept in
tion. In deop water tho two parts of
tho shaft aro in line and work together.
A box for transporting eggs is oflerod,
having light iron-wire springs bo-
tween each of tlio trays in which the
eggs aro placed. Tho box cover, when
pat on, oompressos all the springs, of
tho various trays, and holds tho load
firm without injuring the elastic cush
ions on whioh it rests.
Recent experiments with ozone prove
it to have some commercial valno as a
bleaching agent. Applied direotly to
animal or vegetable matter, it is claimed
that it Rots as an oxidizing agent, and
abstracts the hydrogen of the substance,
and thereby causes a loss of color.
Dominica, which was formerly one of
tho chief coffee-producing oonntries,
has Of late years almost entirely oeasod
to grow the plant. Tho capabilities of
tlio island, however, ore apparently so
great, not only for tho cultivation of
coffee, but also for many other food-
products, that the attention of tho
authorities has been directed to th6
matter, and the result is that
Mr Prestoe, of the botanio gardens,
Trinidad, has been commissioned
to examine and report on tho prospects
of the island generally, nnd the best
means of developing its resources. We
anxionsly await tho details of Mr.
Prestoo’s report upon an island so fer
tile and beautiful as Domiuica, but
whioh has, no doubt, through want of
European capital and energy, been
allowed to drift almost into aq unprofit
able waste.
Uorrlblo Scenes Following tho Oon-
tral Ainoricnn Earthquako.
Tho Tradioionista, of Bogota (Cen
tral Amorioa) publishes an aooount of
tho destruction of tho city of Gtionta,
l»y nn earthquake, by an eye-witness,
in whoso unrrativo tho following shook-
’ a iuoidouts are described :
The day after tliia torriblo sceno,
peoplo flookod in on all sides, armed
with implements for digging nnd mules
to oarry the plunder away. Merchants
who attempted to find and recover their
Hafes had to proceed revolver in baud.
The pillage of tho ruins went on for
five days, during whioh timo those
bandits sent away somo fifty mule loads
of goods of tlio nnfortuuntcB that lay
buried under the ruins ol whatlmd been
tbo fine oity of Onouta in the Republic
of Columbia. Tho streets and lanes
among tho rninn were oovorod with all
kinds of goods nnd nierehandiso. In
ouo pi noo boxes of wino had been
opened, the oontenva drunk aud tho
bottlos scattered around; in othor
plnoos, olinndoliers, silks, trimmings,
nnd furniture. In nnothor wore to
ion tins of sardines, salmon, oystors,
etc., all iu confusion, and all more or
loss covered with mud. In tho midst
of nil this there wore somo of tho peo
plo of this unfortunate oity, ovon from
tlio outsot, setting off Chinese eraokers,
drinking wine, surrounded by deed
bodies, aud shouting out, “Now tho
rich nro poor and tlio poor rich.” All
this was accompanied with the clamors
of tho living, tlio groans of tho woundod
and tho cries of tlioso buried alivo, who
begged to bo liolpod out from under tho
ruins of thoir fallen houses. To tho
latter tlioso worso tliau savagoH turnod
a deaf onr nnd would* uot cense thoir
pillngo to save life. Homo pious old
woman would oomo into viow with lior
lap full of Btolen articles, murmuring
“Quo dosgracia tan grando I"—wlint a
torriblo misfortune—nnd thou hasten
homo to count tho bends of her roBary
uud tako an inventory of the valuables
that tho grand “dosgraoia" hud plaood
in her possession. The whole soono
smelt of tho infernal regions and sootnod
a forolasto of tho day of judgment.
And so passod several days; those who
could loft, and those who oonld uot did
tho best tliat was possible under tho
oiroumstanocH. The robbors demanded
to share tho food of any ono who oonld
proauro it, ns well bh the money thoy
oonld save. Tho vory aid sont to tho
unfortunate the robbors managed to
share, and littln of it fell to tho lot of
tho really deserving. In tho midst of
nil this ooufusion, terror, suffering and
despuir, in no way did the authorities
oomo up to tho mark. Tho oliiof of tho
nntioual force stationed . thero aban
doned his post Tho Oolutubfa Guard,
as it was called, mutinied, nud, after
rubbing what it could, dissolved and
dosortod. Evon tho Alcaldo, whoso
mime deserves tho fnrno of Judas, took
to flight and loft tho robbers mnstorn of
tlio lives and goods of thoir unfortuuato
follow oitizous. In fine, says M. do lu
Rosa, Cuonta, is now only a uiuno for
a horrible heap of ruins, with its dond
inhabitants putrefying under them.
Tho OhlnoHO Modlcal System.
Tho modioal treatment of a sick
Chinaman in Chinatown morits tho at
tention of all “ Molicnn" doctors, with
or without a diploma. Ho had recently
recovered from a sovero lovor, and,
whilo hardly convalescent, had gorged
himself liberally with the premature
inolons, nliortivo apples and mildewed
grapes, which aro so plentiful nnd “rea
sonable” in tho Mongolian shops on
Olay stroot. This diet did not aoom to
strengthen him, and in a few days he
was ourlrd up in his bunk with a torri
blo attack of cholera morbus. A great
Celestial physioinu and astrologer wns
called, and tlio usnnl amount of broth
from tho eight rib of a black pig re
quired to bo applied to tho patient’s
about, but, strongo to say, this did not
sooni to ctrnighton him out, ns did not
the customary draught of Honp from
tlio entrnils of a dried serpent With
grout pomp tho second Galen was sum
moned ; but a twig of Acadia, plucked
when tho moon was full, placed ucuontli
the sick man's pillow, failed to revive
him, and both from tho fourth Auger of
the hand of a mftti was decapitated, ap
plied to the solo of his font had no ton-
donoy to ease his bowols. Tho doctors
said that thoir skill was in vain, as a god
wli' ra the man had offended had sent
devils to torraont. Ho, after securing
the customary fees, they retired from
tlio field. Tlio evil spirits must be
driven out, and to this end the pagan
relatives seized ovorv available weapon,
from n tin pan to a blunderbuss. They
raised tho most frnn'io and discordant
cries, ond the most terrible din with
their weapons, thoy boat tlio empty air
in hope of wringing o dovil; nil of
which tho suffering msn muttered
without ofleofc. Tho joss-sticks i
then lighted in all quarters of tho
house, and tho household god offered ft
good square meal. Tlio sick msu did
somo tall chow-cliowing, for his bowels
yet yearned, but his moans grow feebler
and his friends began to caloulato the
weight and compass of bis bonos, when
in camo a German butcher, attracted,
no doubt, by the pow-wow. lie saw tho
situation at a glace, aud scattering the
joss sticks riglit uni loft grabber! tlio
invalid by the collar and poured seven
spoonsful of whisky into his throat,
rubbed him down with u brick, and in
jess than four minutes tho doarl man
arose, cursing vociforously, and was
able to tako up hia bed and walk.—&an
Francisco Bulletin.
Courtship in Greenland;
Thero is something exceedingly mel
ancholy in the accounts which aro given
of tho custom of courtshio in Greenland.
Generally womon enter upon tho blessed
estate with more willingness ond less
solicitude than men. The women of
Greenland nro an exception to this rule.
A Greenlander, having fixed his affec
tions upon some female, acquaints his
parents with the stato of his heart.
They apply to the parents of the girl,
and if tho parents are thus far agreed,
the next proceeding is to appoint two
female negotiators, whose duty it is to
broach tho subject to tho young lady.
This is a matter of groat tnot and do i-
oaoy. Tho Indy ambassadors do not
shook the young lady to whom thoy are
sent by any sudden or abrupt avowal of
the awful subject of their mission. In
stead of doing this, they Uunch out in
praises of tho gentloman who socks her
iinud. They spoak of tlio splendor of
bin houso, Iho sumptuonsnoas of his
furniture, of his courage and skill iu
oatoliing seals, and othor accomplish
ments. Tho lady, pretouding to bo af
fronted, ovon at thoso romoto hints,
turns away, tearing tho rlnglots of her
hair nn sho retires, whilo the ombossn-
dresses, having got tho consont of her
parents, pursno lior, tako lior by foroo
to tlio house of lior destined husband,
and there lonvo her. Compelled to re
main thero, sho sits for days with dis
hevelled hair, silent and dejootel, re
fusing evory kind of sustonanoe, till nt
last, if kind ontronties do uot prevail,
sho is compelled by foroo, and ovon by
blows, to submit to tlio detested union.
In somo oases, Greenland womon faint
at tho proposals of mnrringo, in others
thoy fly to tlio mountains, and only re
turn when compelled to do so by tho
hunger and oold. If ouo outs off lior
hair it is a sign sho is determined to re
sist to tho death, Tho Greenland wifo
is tlio slave of her husband, doomed to
life of toil, drudgery nud privation.
Shakespearian with a Vongonnco.
Mrs. Koinhlo tells the following
Hlinkospearlnn ntorioa : A friond of mine
nt a dinner party boing asked if slio had
seen Mr. Fotohor in “namlot" replied
in tho nogativo, adding that sho did not
think she should rolisli Hhakospoaro de
claimed with a foreign aooont. Tho gon-
Homan who had questioned hor said,
“ Ah, very true inueoil—perhaps not
then, looking attentively at his plate,
from which I suppose ho drow tlio in
spiration of what followed, ho addod.
■' And yot after all, yon know. Hamlet
ns n foreigner.” This viow of tho oaso
had probably not snggostod itself to
John Komblo, nud so ho dissundod
Talma from tho oxporimont. While re
ferring to Mr. Fotolior’s personification
of namlet, nnd the gront simoons whioh
it obtained iu tlio fnshionablo world, I
wish to proservo a oliarniing instance of
univo ignornnoo in a young gunrdnmnn,
soduood by tho enthusiasm of tho gay
society of London into going for once
to noo a play of Hhnkospoaro’n. Aftor
sitting dutifully through somo booiicob
in silonoo ho turned to a follow guards
man, who was painfully looking and
listening by his side, with tho grnvo re
mark, “ I any. Ooorgo, doocod odd play
this ; it’s all full of quotations.” Tlio
young military gentleman had occasion
ally, it scorns, hoard Hhakospoaro
nuotod, nnd romomhorod it. Ho did not
tlio snmo vory nrainble, oxtromoly hand
some, but not very intelligent yonng
horo romombor liis English history, if
ovor ho had henrd that quoted ; fur be
ing honored with n command to attend
a fancy ball at tho palace, ho onnaultod
a cousin of his and friond of mino us to
liis contumo ou tho occasion. “ Go as
tho Blnok Prlnoe, dear Fountain ”
(Fountain wns liis namo—I always
onllod him Pump, for short), said she ;
“yon will look so lovoly in armor.”
“ Oh hang it, Polly,thougu; I shouldn't
liko to blnok my fuoc,” was tho ingo-
nions reply,
A Cure for Bunstroko and Apoplexy.
A Now York physioinu writos : “ I
boliovo sunstroke and apoploxy can lio
cured almost surely if tukon in uny
kind of timo. First, rub powerfully
on tho back nnd nook, making horizon
tal and downward movements. Thia
drawn tho blood away from tbo front
brain nml vitalizes tlio Involuntary
uorvos. Beoond, whilo rubbing, call
for oold water immediately, whioh ap
ply to tho fnoo and hair on tlio top nud
aide of tlio head. Third, oall for a
bucket of water ns hot ah enn bo borne,
and pour it by dippurfuls on tho back
of tho bond and nook for several min
utes. Tho effect will bo wonderful for
vitalizing tho moduli'* oblongata; it
vitalizes tho whole body, aud tho pa-
tiont will generally start into full oon-
scions lifo in a very short timo. Per
sons of largo nctivo brains and weak
bodies will no more liable to sunstroko
or apoploxy, and should wear light-
oolorod oool hats in summor, wot tho
hair occasionally, and if they fool a
bruin pressure coming on, should rut)
briskly on tlio back of thu nook, nud
put oold water on the front and top of
the head. Those remarks, if hooded,
will prevent groat Miifforing. I have
novor kuown this method to fail,”
A Brave Step-Mother.—Ah a class,
stop mothers have tho reputation of not
oaring greatly for tho unfortunato
children whom thoy are expeotod to
lovo “for their father's sako.” Tho
following incident, related of tho wifo
of tho French ambassador nt Constan
tinople, M. do Voguo, will servo to die
Bipate nemo of tho misapprehensions
surrounding stop-mothers:
Mmu, do Voguo is the stop mother
of two young girls. On a bountiful
dav under ouo of those eastern skiou
which soom liko tlio gates of Paradise,
tho stop mother and tho two girls wont
to batho In tho Bloch hob, near tlio
rocks on tho Asiatic side. Tho son was
calm, scarcoly wrinklod by the breeze.
Bat suddenly ono of tho young swim
mers was seized byadnngorons ourrent;
she struggled and grow faint. A ory of
anguish was heard ; sho was about to
sink. But tho step- mother saw tho
danger, and although she was a hun
dred yards away, and sho saw that tho
attempt would put hor lifo in danger,
she rushed to tho snot, plunged in uftor
tho young girl, who had disappeared
from sight. Bho seized her under tbo
wavos, enmoup with her, but nas again
drawn down by tho ourrent. It was a
fearful but admirable night. Ovor and
over’, thoy went down and reappeared,
always in each other’s arms. The
other young girl wishing also to
flee herself was within ono stop of tho
current. At tho last moment a boat
arrived. Tho Countess do Voguo had
not only saved tho first young girl, but
the second also, for she seized her and
dragged her from tho ourrent toward
the boat. It was heroic, but tho good
stop mother thought it tho simplest
thing in the woild.
—“Window gardens” aro what tho
poetical people oall tho rows of flower
pots that tho poor girl keeps in tho
window of her hall room ; but the per
son who has no pootioal fancies ou the
H ubjeet is the man who had his skull
cracked the other day when one of the
heaviest df these pots came down,
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.
Artificial grnpos are blown from
molted roain, nud afterward dusted
with a oolorod powder.
A Match Unuru the Microscope.—
A correspondent of the Hoiotitiflo Amer
ican writes ns follows : “ Thoso who are
fond of investigations with tho micro-
soope will find a beautiful objoot in the
bond of a parlor mntoli. Htriko tho
mntoli and blow it out ns soou as the
bond hnB fused sufficiently to cause
protnboranoes to form on it. On tho
pnrt of tlio bond whioh took first will
lio found a white, spongy formation,
whioh, timlor tho mioroRoopc, ami with
a bright light upon it, has tlio upponr
unco of diamonds, Crystals, snow, froHt
ioo, silver, nnd jot, no two matches
giving tho samo combination or nrraugo-
mout,”
And now tlio tlioory is startod that
tho nnuHual disturbances of tlio nt-
mosplioro this sonson nro duo to tho iu
ilaonoo of tho plnnot Jupiter. Tho ns-
tronomors say that Jupiter now pro
sonts a straugo npponrnnco in the
heavens, and it is supposed that tho
big plauot iB passing through the snmo
stupendous changes whioh our own
earth saw before man appeared on it;
nud it is oortain/ that its raovomonts
may and do considerably affect onr own.
ThiH has certainly boon a notable yoar
iu tho way of floods, onrtliquakos and
hurricnnoH, whatever tho cause. But
tho rainbow still apponrs in tlio sky
after each storm, ns tlio sign of assur
ance that tho course of the sonaons and
of tho plnnots, is to go on, iih usnnl,
despite those temporary disfurbnuoos
of tho elomonts.
A Vkiiy Delicate Barometer.—An
iugonioiiH dovioo has boon oonstruotod
by Momlolof, whioh shows tho slightest
variations of pressure by monns of n
small U-slinpou tube containing notro-
lonm oil. Ono ond of this tune is
closed, nml oontnins n cortain volume
of dry nir mnjutninod nt a constant
toraporaturo, while tlio othor oml is
open to tho nir. Tho instrument boing
aouratoly adjusted by means of a mer
curial plunger oon noo tod with tho bot
tom of tlio U-shaped tubo, so that tho
potroloum Is oxnotly on n lovol in tho
branches of tho tubo, it is found to
bo so oxtromoly sensitive that tho
slightest variation of atmosphorio
pressure is shown by tho alteration of
tho lovol, nnd tho amount of this alter
ation can bo measured with tho greatest
precision.
Tins CoKHTiuJcrrioN of Winding Htaiii-
(’Asks.—In Major Elliott’s report on
Europoau lighthouses, ho notes tlmt iu
auvornl oases tho stairs aro circular,
ppuroutly self-supporting, one
ly being built iu wall, aa in
tlio treasury nt Wailiingt n. This
molhod of stair-building ir, ho ob-
serves, universal in Europe, both in pri
vate and public buildings. Tho most
reoont lighthouso towers of tho Amori-
cun system nro oonstriiotod with oonionl
walls and iron staircases winding around
tho interior of tho oono. European
towers aro generally oonstruotod with an
exterior oonionl, nml an interior oyliu-
drionl wall, loaving nn uuneoesarily
largo unnsod space botwoon tho two.
Tho amount of masonry in tho Aniori-
systom is tho same ns iu tlio European,
nml ia hotter calculated to resist tho
overturning effoot of tho sovorost gales,
Deposition of Fink Sediments.
—Dr. T. Hcoiry Hunt states, in reference
to tho question of fine mud iu tho
Miasisaipjii, that tho deposited matter
requires from ten to fourteen daya to
stibHido: but that if sea-water or Halt or
sulphuric acid bo added to tho turbid
water it becomes clear in from twolvo
to eighteen hours. Thus is explained
tho rapid precipitation that occurs when
tho river water mixes with tho salt
waters of the Gulf of Moxioo. The
cohesion of water diminishes when it
holds saline matter In solution, as was
said by Guthrie and was verified by Dr.
Hunt. Ho found that tho addition of
eight parts of chloride of calcium to
1,000 parts of water reduces tho sizo of
drops to ouo-ninth, and tho proolpita-
tion of suspended clay ia mado vory
rapid when a strong solution of salt is
employed.
Mesmerizing a Cook—An oxporimont
which it may amuse tho boys to repent
has been described by sevoral corre
spondents of a popular soionco journal.
Place tlio cock upon n table or board,
and, holding liis wings oloso down to
liis Hides, lot a seoond person hold
down his head until his beak touches
tho board ou whioh ho lies, nnd draw a
line with white olmlk straight out from
tho point of his beak. This done, tho
tho bird may bo released from all re
straint, aud ho will not stir ho much ns
a foathor. “ Nay, further,” wrltoaouo,
“you may clap your hands or shout
oloso to him, without raising him from
lethargy, from whioh, howovor, ho will
ultimately rooovor.” Another oxpori-
moutor writes : “I liavo seen a row of
fowls rendered quite senseless by draw
ing a chalk lino (beginning at tho top
of tho bo&k) slowly aoross a table, and
I have myself successfully performed
tho oxporimont. Tho birds aro simply
mesmerized.”
How the Sun Moved a Bridge.
During the recent building of a bridge
in Holland, one of the traversers, 460
feet long, was mispluoed on thosuports.
It wsh an inoli out of tho line, and the
problem was how to roplaco it. Exper
iments proved that the iron work ex
panded a small fraction of an inch to
every dogreo of heat received. It wo#
noticed that tho night and day tom-
poraturo differed by abont twonty-fivo
degrei s, and it was thought this might
bo made to move the bridgo. In the
morning one of the pieces was bolted
down securely nnd tho othor end left
free. In tho heat of the sun tho iron
expanded, and toward night the free
end was loosened. Tho contraction
then dragged the whole moss tho other
way. For two days this experiment
was repeated, ond tho dosirod place
renobc-d. The contraction nnd expan
sion of iron bars by fire boat bus fre
quently beon used to move heavy
woights over short distances. Broken
walls nnd strained roofs and arobon
have beon brought into dIuco by simplv
heatiDg iron roda until they expand,
then taking tho slack by sorews and
nuts and allowing contraction by oold
to pull the wall or roof into place.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
—A oooklo -flail may as soon crowd
tho ocean into its narrow shell, nR a vain
man ovor understand tho decroos of
God.— Bishop Beveridge.
I declare ! ” said a man down nt
Shoals, Indiana, aftor standing on n
oonl for two or throe minutes ; “ I do-
olnro I if I don't smell woolen burning
somewhere,”
—Bnrnum lias just paid twonty thou
sand dollars for a baby hippotamus,
while there nro millions of hontliens iu
Africa who haven’t a testament or a
clinngo of shirts.
—Tho man who blushes when a lady
noqunintnuoo soon him ooming out of n
saloon, is not entirely lost—ho mny bo
found most any timo afterwards going
into tho back door.
—Tlje Wisconsin man who had to
pay twonty dollars to provo liis right to
fourteon of his own oluokeiis desires tho
address of tho person who says this is
tho host Govornrasift tho world ovor
saw)
—Victor Hugo says that “man was
tho conundrnm of tho oiglitoon oontnry;
women ta tho oonundrum of the nine
teenth oontnry.” Wo oan’t gnoss her,
but wo'll nover givo her up—no novor.
—Would yon think that Gideon Wol-
Ioh, when you stand and look nt him,
over ourriod oamly mot toes iu his pookot
or ever sat on tho stile with his girl nt
twilight and ohowotl gum ?
—Offonbaoh (bought so muob of his
daughter that ho wonld not allow her
to witness a porformauoo of any of his
operas. Isu’t it a pity lio had not tho
same kind of regard for tho rest of hu
manity ?
—An American harvester won tho
prize at tho recent oontost in Gormany,
and there isn’t a reaping machine m
tho United States but what elnims tho
prize, or had tho modal to show for it a
iltii
ago.
-A little girl up in Gnllion, O., lias
dovolopod parts ns a dentist. Bho tiod
a string to hor little brother’s tooth,
tied tlio othor end of tho string to tho
stovo-log, and thon touched a red-hot
coal to tho little victim's noso. Tho
tooth came out.
—Mount Holyoke Hominary has sup
plied ono hundred and fifteen wivos for
foreign missionaries, the last two grad
uating olasRos furnishing oighteen.
Thoy usually go abroad first as toaoh-
ors, nnd nro speedily mairied by tho
missionaries,
—Novor bo oast down by trifles. If a
spider breaks liis wob twonty times,
twenty times will bo mend it again.
Mako up your minds to do a thing and
you will do it. Fear not, if trouble
conies upon you ; kenp up your spirits,
though tho day bo a dark ono.
—A Cincinnati rovilor of Louisvillo
says: “Lonisvillo oar drivors are an
omnointod sot, from oxocasive blas
phemy. It is raroly that n Louisville
girl drops hor foot on tho tail-board of
a bobtail oar without lifting tho front
whools off tho track ; and this wonrs ou
tho driver!”
—It haa beon ascertained that the
groat decrease in oodfishory on onr
Eastern oonst is duo to the obstructions
placed In our streams aud rlvors, snob
as mill-dams, pollution of water, oto..
thus preventing ascent of alowives ana
other small fish to spawn, tboBo small
fish being tho natural food for tho ood.
—When somo adventurous marinors
wore cruising about in tho Caribboau
sea and discovered a uow poninsnla,
they undertook to hold a conversation
with tho natives, but tbo nativos only
yelled book at them, “ Yucatan ?
Yucatan?” (“Wlint do yon say?”)
Aud that peninsula has ever sinoo been
known as Yucatan.
—The New England factory peoplo
have an interesting timo of it. Borne of
them got five dollars a wook for work
ing fifteen hours a day, and whon tho
eleotioil comos thoy have to vote with
thoir employers or lose thoir plaoes.
If thoy tako a nowspaper they must
take ono whioh is in harmony with tho
views of tho mon thoy work for; but
fortunately many of them oan’t road.
—Bbo’d boon so potulout anil cross
for sovoral days that he flually thought
of a devioe to soothe her, nnd acoord-
remnrkod, in • soft, velvety
“My lovo, don’t yon think
you’d liko to go down to tho seaside
nnd tako tho fresh air ?” “ Don’t bo n
fool,” was tbo sharp reply, “the air at
tho sanside isn’t fresh ; it’s salt." —
rooklyn Argus.
—In London birds are tho fashion
for deooration, both for table center
piece and for tlio wall among pioturos.
Staffed birds, and monkeys, are being
used as stems for lamps, a boar oven
serving as n dum-waiter, perched on
his hind logs; and now nnd thon a
swan, its wings sot and its gracoful
neck curved naturally, will form tho
exterior of a drawing-room seat, a sat
in-covored stool being introduced be-
tweqn tho wings and behind the neck.
—The people at Cope May have timo
to spend iu childish amusements. At
tho residence of a reverend doctor
there, tho other day, a Jnpaneso ten
sot was spread upon the floor, and the
guests, attired in Japanese costume,
squatted on tho floor and took tea oh
thoy supposed the Japanese take it.
This idiotio performance is called, by a
Washington paper, “a very novel en
tertainment.”
—A citizen of Brattleboro, Vt, de
posited with tho oashior of the national
punk of that oity somo two thousand
four hundred dollars in flvo twenties.
These were stolon from tho bank, anil
suit was brought to recover. The lower
oourt decided for tho plaintiff, bnt tho
Hupromo Court of tho State has re
versed tlio decision upon the gronnd
that the cashier had no power to bind
tho bank, except as lo regular deposits
whioh entered into the ourrent aooount
of tbo depositor.
—Many peoplo will bo grieved to
loam that tuo montol oondition of Mrs.
Lincoln has not really improved, not
withstanding the representations re
cently made by Mrs. Myra Brad well
and her husband. The story of con
spiracy aud outrago has oertainly been
exploded, nnd it appears that the ex
citement occasioned by the agitation of
tlio subject has had an injurious effect
upon the unfortunate lady, as her mind
is more perturbed than when the phy
sician in oharge of the Bellevue Asylum
made the hopeful statement whioh was
so widely oirculated.by the press.