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Volume 2.
PIDITFOTs
"CAUGHT IN THE WOODS."
PAUL B. HAT Ml IN ALDINK.
"Hrk! the wavelets rippling bjr.
Liquid lapse And murmurous rUe !
Rippling loftly, silverly,
Fast tho maid with droamy eye*,
Muiiing and half-parted lip*—
Where the fairy current slip*.
Glimpsed 'twixt sunlight and eelipae.
"How the tranquil forest broods
O’er ita own deep heart to-day ;
Lo ! the tree* their inmost mVjAde
Whisper to the winds that stray
Lightly ’mid the branches tall j
TStill the wavelets rise and fall.
And a pure peace claspeth all—
" Now the hour to breathe my lore,
This the scene to hear my vows ;
For the the heavens are fair above.
And the glad birds thiong the boughs ;
While, wcrld-banished, softened, she
Here, perchance, may thrill with me
To naturo’s bentdicitt!
"Sweet!” I said, "behold the trees
Yielding to the breere’s kist;
Hearken to the tender breoxe
Yielding back its stolen kiss ;
Nay ! the very wavelets rolled
'Neath the glint of green and gold,
lllend, with murmurs manifold 1
"Adi the summer earth seems ripe
With one thought that subt'y runs
Deep as death, and dear as life.
From the tide’s flash to the suns ;
All below, and all above.
Cloudless heaven, and wooing dove.
Hints of love, love, only love 1”
_ffItt3BS!LILAIfIV.
A MIRACULOUS CURS BY THE POPS.
' The Courier de Bruxelles gives the
following account of a miraculous cure
Effected lately by his Holiness l’ftfc
GX.:
A religieuse of the Order ot The Sa
'cred Hear% the Rev. Mother Julia N—,
'daughter of one of the mftsft distinguish
'ed diplomats of Belgium, lifter a violent
'ueiVous attack, had her right arm so
'completely paralyzed that it had to be
bandaged to boards for a support. Her
linger nails had become black, and the
boues of the fingers and elbow had
become displaced and, as it were, dislo
cated.
In vain had the medical tten pre
scribed change ot air. At Vienna,
'whither she first betook herself, after
ward at Home, where she arrived about
the end of the disease re
sumed even a more aggravated form.
The sufferer, nevertheless, cherished a
eterot ho|>e that she would be cured,
and through hdr being at Home, it she
could but "ade Vhe fldly Father. She
obtained an ahdidfcce on Oct. 19. The
lloly Father, at first surprised at the
“request for cure that had lieeu made
him, and w isiiiug, too, perhaps to try
the luitli of the invalid, said to her:
“Ah daughter, I have not the gift of
•airacles.” But he immediately added,
“But your trust iu God, for nothing is
impossible to bis mercy.”
However as the religious ladies, and
especially the niece of the lloly Father,
besought h:n> that he himself would
deigi- to commend the sick person to
‘God'Jfhd lo bless her, the Hope became
tor an instant recollected in prayer, his
tuuids joined, and his eyes raised to
efeUveu ; then addressing the invalid, lie
said, “My daughter, have faith—that
faith which moves mountains."
He several times repeated the same
words to her, and. having asked her
name be look occasion from it to insist
anew on faith. “St. Julia,” he said,
'‘gave her life for Jesus Christ, ind she
Ipioved by her martyrdom how ardent
was her faith.” Having then taken the
ring of the religious profession which
the invalid wore on her left hand, the
Holy Father blessed it, and made her
place it on the finger of her right hand.
“At that very instant,” the Rev. Mother
Julia asserts, “I felt life return to the
paralyzed part, and the blood resurtied
its circulation throughout the entire
arm.”
The Pope then bade her make the sign
ot the cross; but as instinctively, and
by the force of habit, she was about to
Wke it with the left hand. “No, no,
not like that 1" said the Holy Father :
“the sign of the cross must be matfc
with the right hand, the Catholic feign
'of the cross.” And, in fact, the Rev.
Mother Julia was able to sign herself
with the right hand, although still hesi
tating, and with some difficulty.
At the bidding ot the Hofy Father
fehfe made a second sign of thb bfoss, and
iliis time without the srriallteM hfeftitatibrt
and in a perfect manner. She Was cured.
On her return to the Villa Sante she was
able to write on the sattlfe day a long
letter of thanks to thie Holy Father, and
she wrote it With the Verjr hand (VhibH
shortly before was paralyzed; The edre
is complete. The finger nails hate
recovered their color, and the bonbs and
noils have resumed their original posi
tion;
Tit OF THE COUNTRY.
A census of the hogs in the country on
the first day of tlifc beutennial year has
just been completed: flogs are an im
portant element in otar economy, and
have as good a tight tb be numbered as
they have to be eAtbU. AhyWay they
have been enumerated, Bud we present
the results iu a table: It Will be seeD
that our strictly porcine population has
decreased 1,1/4,900, or About eight per
° nt -i but this loss is set bfl' by an aver
age gaiu in weight The hogs df this
k year weigh 7 jfc per cent. there than tbfe
same number the year beftfie. The crop
i therefore, is about the sailife as that ot
|IS7S, ibe estimates of the Washington
|iepanment ot Agriculture to the contr, -
P uotwithstaridin*.:
DIED OF A BROKEN HEART.
THE THOUBLKB OP A CHURCH ORGANIST
ENDK.T WITH HIS LIFE.
‘•There lies a mail who died of a bro
ken hJitrtb’said the sexton of St. John's
Chapel, in Varick street, yes'onlay
morning, as ha straigtened out the limbs
of Charles Edward Horsley, who for
three years past had been organist of
the church. On Tuesday evening
last week Mr. ITorsley conducted the
performance of “The Patriot Flag,” one
'ct ms own compositions, at the Martha
Washington Reception. The next day
he was taken ill, aud his disease culmi
nated in paralysis of the heart, of which
he.died at 2 o'clock yesterday morning.
Mr. Horsley was one of the most dis
tinguished church musicians in this coun
try. Born in Kensington, London’, in
1825, he was the pupil of Mendelssohn,
Spohr, and Hauptmann, the instructor
of Von Bulow. His father and grand
father had been eminent musical compo
sere, but the youngest of the line exhib
ited the most talent, taking charge of an
organ and choire at the ear.y age of
fourteen, and publishing a successful
oratorio soon afterward. An only sur
viving brother is now it resident ol Lon
don, and’is a distinguished painter and
member of the Royal Academy, having
executed some of the cartoons for the
new building.of the House of Lords.
In September, 1872, Mr. Horsley caine
to this country, and a month afterward
was made organist of St. John’s Chapel,
in Varick street. Unfortunately he
found the position anything but a pleas
ant one. When, some three years ago,
it was determined to procure anew or
gan for St. John’s Chapel, Mr, Horsley
consulted an uptown builder, aud obtain
'ed plans and specciticaiious by which
such an instrument as was required
could be built for $6,000. The vestry
met his opinions weredisregirded. The
matter Was put into the hands of one of
their nlimber, who had an organ ot the
same kind built for $12,000. lletnon
strance was found to be in vain. The
organ was built and the $12,000 paid
by the parish. It created a great deal
of scandal in the church at the time.
It was alleged then, and has been
openly charged since, that there were
Kings in the vestry, and that the man
agement ot tUe property was conducted
in a mariner unworthy of rtffijgious men.
One man, it. is said, had the painting in
charge, aiul expected his 'margin from
those whom he employed, aud the same
thing was alleg'd in connection with
the carpenter work, nnsonary, aud other
repairs. This style of doing business,
it wat alleged, even crept into ne choirs.
The result of these charges was that Mr.
Ilorseley insisted upon havWvg his choir
paid in his presence and under his su
pervision. This created bad feeling mud
an attempt to drive out the 'choir and
substitute congregational singing. As
a natural result the Organist took it
greatly to heart, Showing that it was
part ot a campaign agains' himself.
These troubles give the key to the sex
ton's exclamation ovei the body of the
dead 'iilan. Petty persecution wore out
'ttfetfte'&t the gentle man of genius.
BLACK JEALOUSY.
Tfie other day, Mr. Anton Adam whs
absorbed at his desk making out the
de&xfi tyiYrtnrt vif those who had not
money enoVigh to pay their county taxes.
So absorbed was Anton, that he did not
observe the presence of a bow-legged
darky as black as our railVoad prospects,
bofring and scraping like mad. At
length the colored VAt'eV leaned over the
railing, and said jSlti&katftiy \ “Captain, is
you de boss oh de grand jury?” and.
then retreated in dismay at bis own reck
lessness. As soon as the official could
recover his presenee of mind, be inquired
what he was wanting ; whereupon- the
colored voter replied, “Ksse if you is, I
want to sue out a writ of £ lurony agin
Jim JVetoster, de sickly, yaller
skunk. ’Fore God, boss, if he was my
kin, I’d ciawl up a hollow tree and die;
I would, —de low-lived, trilling whelp 1”
Says Antous “What did he do?”
“Dat’s whin I say—he airi’t Vi-uff dat
de sun Shines on him, and he’s done got
ligiott, and sings de hymn wus den a
eiw-niill. I wonders de perlice don’t tie
a rock to his neck and : est drap him off’
de mill bridge, de wuffless, trifling pop
injay 1”
“But what did you do ?’ shouted Anton.
“Well, you see, boss, I don’t mind
telling you - , kase ydu is a gent email, you
U. You see, the last bright Sunday I
took a young colored lady fo'r a promen
ade, And I presented her dat evening
wid b gbteten Hecktie, Wid blue tassels
like—’’
“Wfell; suppose yoii did,” remarked
th'e bewildered Anton.
''•Well, boss, ’tore God. I jess meet dat
same no account, pumpkin-faced, knock
need; eggsucking thief, 'fore God, it dere
is bne tugger dat I spises— ’’
“Wfell; Whitt ot it?” inquired Anton,
whii felt lie rip dly losing his n as n
“Well, boss; 1 hope I may diedis min
ute and go to hebbin, if dat wufless
trash ot a nigger didn’t hab dat berry
same cravat Wid de blue tassels on his
neck; ’Fore Gbd he did; and I’se gwine
to hdb de latV tffi hllH: _ I wants to swear
out a felony to make him pfove how he
come by dat necktie—-de wufless, tri
fling,” fete.
Anton made a motidti to gather some
thing tit to throw, wheifeUpott there was
a speedy adjournment;
After Mr. Adain bad resumed his la
bors, the head ot the much i-j tired dar
key was inserted through the dobr; and
lie inquired wbere he could fltid the
discreet Judge, referring possibly to
Judge Noonan; Judge of the distfifet; Si;
when Mat Seen; those bowlegs were ma
ke g fiufe time in pursuit of him.
CONYERS, GEORGIA: THURSDAY. MARCH 9, 1876.
•• SAVED BY SCIENCE.
AN ACCUSER MAN’S INNOCENCE HAPPILY
ANI> CONCLUBIVKLT ESY.UILVsiWd.
After dinner the boarders gathered in
the parlor and told ot their experiences
Magruder, who is by big odds the great
est talker in the house, took about half
an hour to tell the following story :
“jAI the house where I was living last
year m Thirty-ninth street, there was a
boarder who excited great curiosity.
He came from Egypt, and Ms nAiAe was
Wenyxter. Ono morning when we were
standing dn the back porch, lie took a
three-cornered seed from his pocket and
thrust it into a flower-pot on the rail.
In less than five minutes it had spouted
about six feet high, a stalk like a sun
flower. One of the boarders bung his
fckt on it tor a jest. He turiYed a mo
ment to call attention to the feat, and
when he faced about again the hat was
beyond his reach *, llVe stalk had grown
six feet in as many seconds. It was still
growing when the boarders went dtiArrt
town, aud when they cam's bft'ck t‘6 cSi’n
ner they saw the stalk up above the
house with several twists around the
chimney, and sticking up above it like a
lightning rod with the rash man’s hat
still on the end.”
“Willi oVfe exception," said Mr. Mi
Guilin, looking hard at Magruder. “the
biggest liar I ever knew lived in the
same house with me once in Thirty-eight
street. He came irom Abyssinia, and
his name was Gigyxter. And I may ad I
that, present company always excepted,
he was the longest-winded man I ever
knew. Talk? He Would talk by the
hour and bore the boarders, and After fie
had driven two men crazy the laudlady
secluded him somewhat by making him
take his meals at a separate table ; but
he would keep up his clatter—lighting
on people in the halls and in their rooms,
and wher be had exhausted everybody
he would go to his room and talk to
himself.
“Otic night the boarding-house was
bunted down, Gigyxter lost his life, and
in saving two ladies who lived on the top
floor I got llie scar which you see here.
[McGuHin brushed the hair off his fore
head, revealing a slight scratch.'] Sus
picion fell on a poor servant "who had
been discharged the day before, and he
was lucked up in the l’ombs on circum
stantial evidence that looked dead against
him. But after the inquest, enlightened
by the testimony of those who roomed
next to Gigyxter, that he h and been heard
talking rapidly for an hour before the
fire broke out, the surgeons again exam
ined, the Abyssinian's remains, and
proved beyond a doubt the innocence of
the servant by showing conclusively that
Gigyster’s continuous talking had made
so much friction in his jaws that it set
his head afire, the flames communicated
to the room, the house went down, and
Gigyxter went up, beyond all doubt the
first recorded case of the man who was
talked to death.”
‘‘McGuttin,” said Magruder, soothing
ly laying liis baud on his friend’s head,
“I wouldn’t talk any more just now if I
were you. Your head is quite hot al
ready.”
THE EDUCATION OF TIIE PRESIDENTS.
The Syracuse University Herald lias
made up the following table ot the Pres
idents and their places ot education,
which is of interest:
Washington—Good English educa
tion, but never studied the ancient lan
guages.
Adams—Harvard.
Jefferson—William and Mary.
Madison—Princeton.
Monroe—William and Mary.
Adams, J. Q. —Harvard.
Jackson —Limited education.
Van Buren—Academic education.
Harrison—Hampden Sidney College.
Tyler—William and Mary.
Polk—University of North Carolina.
Taylor—Slightest rudiments.
Fillmore—Not liberally educated.
Pierce— Bowdoin.
Buchanan—Dickinson.
Lincoln—Education very limited.
Johnson—Self-educa! ed.
Grant—West Point
Monroe and Harrison did not gradu
ate. Monroe lett to join the revolution
ary army. Financial reverses deprived
Harrison of a lull course. Po k was the
oldest when graduating, being 23 ; Tyler
the youngest, 17. The majority gradua
ted at 20, this also being thi average
age. Jefferson propably had the most
liberal education and broadest culture,
it is said tbit his range of knowledge
would compare favorably with that ot
burke. The drill at West Point may bo
considered equal to a college course, and
in n any resects superior. In discipline
and mathematical training it is not equal
ed by any American college* Counting
General Grant, two thirds ot our Presi
dents have been college men.
A DIVORCE FORESHADOWED.
[From the New York Evening Mail.]
Mrs. Lockwood the irrepressible wo
man lawyer at Washington, is having a
rough time in the court of claims, where
she has several important cases. The
judge refused to recognize her. Theri
she had a claim assigned to her that Sh’e
might be present in her own name.' , The
court ruled her out because she had riot
stated the fact: then because she had
not stated her precise interest in it, and
finally because she is a femme covert, the
wife of a man who legally owns her, dud
thus destroys her individuality. It uVill,
therefore be necessary tor her to get a
divorce from Dr. Lockwood in ord< r to
maintain her personal rights in the court
of claims. As she does not intend to b’e
beaten, it is said that she intends to ap
ply In rue treatment to the case.
THE MARRIAGE OF OREAt MEN.
Byron martfed Miss Millbank to get
money to pay his debts. It turned out
a bad shift.
Robert Burns martied a farm-girl with
whom lio fell irt love while they worked
togetlYeV in a plowed field, He was ir
regular in his habits, and committed the
most serious mistakes in conducting his
domestic affairs.
Milton martied the daughter of a
country squire, and lived with her but a
short time, lie was an austere literary
recluse, while she was a rosy, romping
country lass that could not endure the
restraint imposed upon her, so they sep
arated. Subsequently, however she re
turned, and they lived tolerably happy.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albeit
were cousins, and about the only exam
ple in the long line of English inonarchs
wherein the marital vows were sacredly
observed, and sincere affection existed.
SMkefjpeare lover and wedded a farm
el'% daughter. She was faithful to her
vows, but wo could hardly say the ( srttjie
of the bard himself. Like nioSl 'of uie
great poets, he showed too little dis
crimination in bestowing his affection on
the other sex.
Washington married A woman with
two Children. It is enough to say slie
was worthy of him', and they lived as
married folks should live—in perfect
harmony.
John Adams married the daughter of
a Presbyterian clergymAW. . Her t’AUVef'
objected on account of John being a
lawyer. He had a bad opinion ot the
litorals of the profession.
John Howard the great philanthropist
married his nurse. She was altogether
beneath him in social life and intellectual
capacity, and ItMilles She was titty two
years old, while he was blit
lie would not take “No” lor an. Ah Aver,
and they were married and lived happily
together until she died, which occurred
two years afterward.
Peter the Great of Russia married a
peasant. She made an excellent wife
and sagacious Empress.
llumbolt married a poor girl because
lie loved her. Of course they were
happy.
it is not generally known that Andrew
Jackson married a lady whose husband
was still living. She was an uneducated
but amiable woman and was most de
votedly attached to the old Warrior and
Statesman.
John C. Calhoun married bis cousin,
and their children fortunately were
neither diseased nor idiotic, but they do
not evince the taleui of the great States
Rights advocate.
WELL SAID.
Mr .Moody has humor as well as pathos.
Occasionally he shows up some of the pe
culiar practices of our time with admira
ble skill an I affebllvetiess, as witness the
following which we lake from a recent
sermon m tile Hippodrome :
“Just take your Bibles and look at the
seventh chapter ol Luke. It reads there,
“Now when he ended all his sayings in
the audience of the people, He entered
into Capernaum. And certain Centuri
on’s servant who was dear unto Him was
sick and ready to die. And when he
heard of Jesus, he sent unto Him the
elders ot the Jews, beseeching Him thqt
lie would come and heal ins servant:
And when they came to Jesus they be
sought him instantly”—now, just listen—
“saying that he was worthy for whom
He should do this.” Yes, that was the
Jews’ idea, t)f the reason He should
come; because he was “worthy.” 'A hat
made him worthy ? “For he Iqf'felli our
nation, and he hath builtiisa synagogue.”
lie was not worthy because lie was a
sihrler • oh, no ; not all all. Blit ho was
wdritiy because “he hath built us a syn
agogue.” Ha ! that was the same old
stdfy—the story of the present day.
There is a great deal of that how: Give
that man the most prominent place in
church ; let him have the best pew and
the one furthest up in the church, be
cause he is “worthy.” lie has built the
church perhaps ; or he has endowed a
seminary. No matter where his money
came from. lie may have got it gam
bling in stocks, or doing something else
6 f A like character ; but he has given it
to us. Oh, yes, he is wbflhy: He may
have made his enormous glfifi'S by distill
ing whisky even, t Make room for him.
he has got a gold ring on ; make room
lor her, she has got a good dress on. So
said the Jews: Now, Lord, Hdttie lit
once, for he hath built us a synagogue,’
Oh; lie is worthy ; you must not reluse
or halt; you must corfle at once. That
was the lews' idea, and it is the idea of
the world to-day.”
PowK.ii ok Pukk Lovb A Very dis
tinguished lawyer of Riclunoffd who has
passed the meridian of. life and has won
f-enown as an orator and a jurist, was
addressing a court rec< ntly; and was in
the midst ot a brilliant argument When
be saw his wife—the idol of h’il
enter the court room. He at once be
came confused and concluded with Some
abruptness. It was the first tirtfe his
wife had heard nim speak. Feafful that
he would not make a decidedly faVorabie
impression upon her, he who had tri
ffraphanbytaced judges, juries, legislative
assemblages, mass meetings, political
conventions and the best of the lUeFdti.
succumbed, and before one who in her
love for him would have seen only the
geihs of his speech, and whose criticism
would have been fullest praise.—Peters
burg ( Va.) Index;
ABOUT WOMEN.
Mary Ilowilt, the veneralde ttnthnresfi,
is living with her family In Rome,
The Queen of Holland is engaged in
writing a book on thu beauties the
south coast ot France.
Miss Fannio Palmer, of San Juan Is
land, was lost on tho Pacific. Her body
has been found. The waves carried it
150 miles and cast it upon (ho beach al
most within sight of her parents’ house.
The (Pomona Journa' gives thirteen
reasons why women should vote. There
is one reason why they should not vote
—they don't want to. In Wyoming it
is difficult to ioduce them to perform any
of the political duties of citizens'.
This leap-year rhyme is in everybody's
mouth in the Western States:
Mother, may I go out to pop ?
Yos, my darling daughter.
If you fail this year you must shut up shop ;
You’ve kept longer than you’d ortor.
Reports ootno front CoUlwater, Mich.,
that a party ot ladies there recently
diessed themselves to represent the main
oliarActers in the Brooklyn Church scan
dal, having previously Dent odt inVit.A
tions lo their friends to call aud soe the
show.
Mr. Pumaß, in advising that a young
girl should be taught the dangers sur
round her, says : “She would know, it
is true, what a young girl ought not to
be told, but, on the other hand, she
would know what a young girl oflglft
botWknoW.”
The other day a Boston belle rushed
excitedly into the house of a friend to
exhibit a $175 silk dress she had pur
chased, and accidentally mentioned just
before her departure that her father had
failed the day previous and shut up his
store.
, Tbe CioHIJAiI plan by whivh the owners
oi property ill which the working classes
reside puts the exiled tons of their rents
in the hands ot ladies who will look af
ter the moral'Add physical improvements
of the tenants, is rapidly spreading to
other English Shies and towns. The
results in London are highly satisfactory
to both landlords and tenants.
A young woman wlio fieemq to be op
posed to, girls being taught to sew,
writ pa as .follows to the Wofoan's Jour
nal “Some time since a gentleman of
Ithaca said, in quite a company, ‘I can
offer a prize for the best shirt made by
the lady student- of the Uni versityi’ ‘lt
you do,’ I rejoined, impulsively, ‘I will
offer nil equal one for llie best chemise
made by a male student. It is .ii poor
rule that won’t work both ways.”
A letter from Paris says tit at A. mag
nificent cameo, supposed uj be the por
trait of Oclav.iiii llie second wife of Marc
Antoiiy and the Sister of Aiigustnsj , htfA
been brought to the notice of the Paris
Academic des Inscriptions. The stone
is ii Sardonyx, with ii tiiilky surface, the
interior being ot a Ibdlfish black, and
the workmanship of tile c:iirieo Is.eiqms
itely delicate! The face is evideiiliy ;j.
portrait, and the head resembles that bt
the Ycnus of Milo!
Last week a woman in of a
man who had njmsed the.Cpnbdonee of
her sister, arrived iH Galveston, Tex.,
and in telling her story to a reporter
there, said : “I have followed him to
San Francisco, to Soillli America, and
from there to New Orleans. I once
caught a glimpse of him there, but lie
eluded ine. He wont to Galveston, and
I followed on the next boat. I heard he
was here, and onne to find him, but he
has left ; but I will find him. The world
is not large enough for him to elude me,
ami the best day’s work I will ever do
will be the day on which I can tairiy face
him. That, moment will be his last in
this world:”. . „ .
The Cincinnati limes records an inci
dent in the history of one Bridget Mahon
of that city, who is a very devout Cath
olic, and keeps her Friday fast with much
scroupulousness. She has a failing for
sucking raw eggs, however, which no
amount of discipline can overcome. Re
cently, as the family were gathered about
the tea table, a terrific scream was heard
to issue from the domestic quarters,’ and
the mistress rushed in. “Goodness gra
cious, Bridget!, ♦hat is the matter with
ybu 1" “'Job; holy muriher, thin,’ 1 jist
btoked an egg quite by accident, mum,
and s\yallo\ved it in a hurry, mum, for
fear av its bein’ lost. An’ it had a chick
en in it, mum. An’ td-day’s Friday,
mum. Och, arrone!”
FAITH IN THE FAMILY.
One of the most intelligent women I
ffata evei knovLij the Christian mother
of a large family of children, used to say
thtft the eclifcation cf children was emi
nently a work of faith. She never
heard toe tramping ot her boys’ fefet
in the hriiise, or listened to their noisy
shotting in their play,’ or watched their
dneoneijus slumbers, without an inward,
earnest prayer to Gon fm wisdom to train
them,’ami for the Highest to guide them.
She mingled prayer with counsel and re
straint, and the counsel was the wiser,
and the restraint was the stronger, for
this alliance ot the hutifnif ffna divine
elements in her instriffctiori and disci
pline. And, at length,’ when her chi’,
droii had b-conic men and women, ac
customed to the bard strife of the world,
her name was the dearest one they
could speak f and sh'e who “had fed
their own' bodies from' her own spirit's
life,” vrho had taught their feet to walk;
I heir tongues to speak and pray, and
illuminated thefr consciences wiifi the
lights ot fighteousness and duty, held
reverence and love,’ ifl’crea-ed a thousand
told by the fe rtf emb ranee ot an early ed
ncation that had its inspiration in' faith
0 Goo.
Number. 3&.
• PRINTERS MISTAKES.
■ due of the worst typographical blun
ders I ever bav? noticed was perpetrated
in the columt)* gf a New England new
paper not lytig oince. In the course of
an item descriptive of the death of an
esteemed lady, mention wns made of .the
fact that a short timo before she expired
she sang the hymn commencing, “Near
er my God to Thkk.” The compositor
substituted a “b" for the “in” in the
word “my,” thus changing a song qf
praise info a profane expression, apd tip
blunder actually eluded the Argus eyo
ot the proof-reader, aud appeared in the
regular issue.
Another instance of a ludiorous nature,
which,opine dtp my knowledge, can hard
ly bo classed under tne head of blunders,
ns it wns intentionally made. The facts
were as follows: Two young apprenti
ces in a newspaper office substituted one
letter for another in the heading of a
sheet issue from the office in which they
worked or we-e supposed to work.
The paper was called, let us say, the
“ Weakly /Star," nnd by the abstraction
cf one ot the “e’s” aud the substitution
,ot an “a” the heading was made to read
“The WeAkly SlAk” T]jo. enterprising
youngsters were summarily discharged,
but the patrons of'tho paper seemed lo
agree with them in tho estimate of the
strength of the paper, and it soon col
lapsed.
In another instance a rural editor, in
describing tho merits hnd,l*e tff ail egg
which had been presented to him by an
appreciative subscriber, was mado to
say that it was 710 lbs. in weight
Doutitless lie intended to say 7-10 of a
pound, but, by the omission of a hyphen,
was made to appear in tho role of Mun
chausen.
“By the transposition of a “space" the
compiler of the labor statistics ot acer.
tain Stale was made to describe the con
dition of “them asses of the people.”
when he meant “the masses of the peo
ple.”
Almost ( many ludicrous mistakes
occur l’fl ’tlie '‘miking up,” as it is tech
nically called, of a paper As in its com
position. Thus I lmve seen political
(mucuses placed under the head ot
“Crimes," marriages under the head ot
“Deaths," and vice versa ; sporting
iten s uuder the head “Religious Intel
ligence,” book notices in the telegraphic
columns, sectldris dt an nrticle mispla
ced, or wrong side up, piiliy jokes, shock
ing accident and facts and figures" sand
wiched in the midst of a perfect -Etna
of a love story.
Errors, of course, are unavoidable in
newspapers, but ijy the exercise of caie
ayd scrutiny they may be to a certain
extent prevented from beoorning numer
ous or ridiculous, and this care and scru
tiny should be exercised by the editor)
ijild by no ono else, in iny opinion,
l’lie most watchful proof-header cannot
always follow the meaning of the writer,
on account of the rapidity with whiclf
he is obliged to read, and should not
he answerable for all errors which ap
peifi- in the public prints. And, likewise,
tlic,b6ihjidsitor should not be supposed
to do more than to put into type the
words of the writer as they ap
pear to him at a casual glance.
Ills WIFE'S SKELETON FALLS INTO HIS
ARMS.
In a populous city ot Northern Italy
tlie wife of a distinguished jurist was
seized with epileptic spasms, which to
all appearance ended in death, The
physicians recognized all the evidences
f dissolution. Her features were dis
torted, cheeks nnd eyes sunken, the lips
blue and bloodless, skin cold and flabby
—a phenomenon which from hour to
hour became more p’fonounced. Finally,
even the spots th-ft .usually precede de
bompbsilion observed, and as the
wrathbr was very writ til, it was thought
advisable not to delity the burial. Tho
woman was laid in a wooden coffin and
deposited in the family vault. Those
who are acquainted with the arrange
ment of the Italiau ceremonies know
that the individual coffins are placed in
inches, one above another, somewhat as
the folios arb arranged on the shelves of
it librtiry. Tile niches are lined with
marble slabs,’ but left Ciitirely open. The
vault itself, on the contrary, is securely
closed by heavy wooden doors. In such
a niche the coffin in question was placed.
A year later, another member of the ju-
I'isis family died. The following day ho
went himself to tho cemetery to seo
which niche the new coffin should bo
placed iu. When he opened tho doors,
the skeleton ot his wife, enveloped iu
what remained of her shroud, fell into
his arms. A careful examination reveal
ed the following facts: The woman had
burst off the coffiu-lid, and then gone to
life (I6or ft’lid made an effort to force it
open also, hilt iu vain. The double door
would, of course, tend to deaden her
cries, mid then tho guardian ot the cem
etery lived ou the opposilo siiie of tho
inolosu’e. She must have lost ooriscious
m si during her efforts to force the doors,
for she had fallen "gainst them, and her
h&'biliineuts had o.iiigh't on one ot their
| iron fastenings, and in tldrf position she
I had finally died. There Vrifs; however,
abundant evideififfe everywhere in the
vault ot her h'dvfn'g been conscious for a
considerable length of time.
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There i Sd Bible in Philadelphia, aud
you edit buy it fdr $3,000. The price
set upWif this book may seem a trifle
high, but it must bo taken into consider
ation that it was once the property of
Oto. Washington. It is a tine copy of
ffi ishb'p VVilfon’s edition (1785), in three
volumes, with the autograph of Wash
ington on flffe first page of the first foL
Me.