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The Spirit ol 'Truth iu Answer to
Prayer.
From the unseen throne of the Great Unkow-n,
From the soul of all, I came ;
Not with the rock of the earthquake shock,
Nor with the wasting flame;
But silent and deep is my ownward sweep,
Through the depths of the boundless'sky,
1 stand sublime, in the lapse of time,
And where God is, there am I.
In the early years, when the youthful spheres,
From the depths of the ohaosl sprung,
And the heavens grew bright with the new
born light,
And the stars in chorus sung,
To that holy sound through the depths pro
found,
’Mid then’ glittering ranks I trod.
For I am a part of the central heart!
Coequal, and one with God.
The World is my child, though wayward and
wild,
Yet, I know that she loves me still;
She thicks I fled with her holy dead,
Because of her stubborn will,
And she weeps at night, when the Angels light
Their watch-fires in the sky,
Like a maid o’er the grave of her loved and
brave,
But, the Truth can never die.
One by one, like sparks from tha sun,
I have counted the souls that came from the
hand Pivine—
ill, all, are mine. And I call them by my
name.
One by one, like sparks to the sun, I shall see
them all return,
Though tempest teat, yet they are not lost,
And Hot Biie snail eeaie to btirfl;
I only speak to the lowly and meek,
To the simple and chjlflljko ljear.t,
But \ leave the proud to their glittering sliriMd,
And to the tricks -of their cumiing art,
Like a .white-winged dove, froni the land of
lcive,
Through the airy space nntrod,
I come at the cry, which is heard on high,
Hear hie, O Gotf ! my God I
—Miss Lisxie Dblcn.
m
Carried it Too Far.
Mr. Butterwick called iu to see me
the other day and in the bdtillie 6f Ihe
conversation, he said: , ,
“I‘ra going to move. I can't stand
those Thompson's next dbol td me any
longer. They are the awfullest deojlle
to borrow things that I ever saw. Coffee
and sugar, and butter and flour, I don’t
mind so much, although when, a, tubman
borrows high priced siigrif and Java cof
fee and sends bank sand and cliickorv. p
man naturally feels billious and mad.
Hut they've borrowed pretty near every
thing in the houSe. First it's one thing
and then it's another, from t-u
night, right straight along. Now
the poker. A poker's a piece of ma -
‘chincry that you'd think anybody might
go round and buy, or, if they couldn't
afford ihev might use a fence pailing
to shake up the fire. But Mrs; Thomp
son seems to 1 canker after oiir poker.
She borrows it fifteen dr twenty tinfes a
day, and last Sunday she sent for it
thirty four times. She pays a boy two
dollars a week to run over and borrow
that poker ; and she's used it sb muon
that it's all bent up like a cork Screw,
Now, take the. chalts for instance.
She asks up td lend her our chairs three
times a day, at elery meal, and she bor
rows the rocking chair whenever she.
puts the bdi)s td Sleep. A couole of
times 3fee sent o'ver fo' 1 a sofa, and when
the boy come back with it, he said Mrs.
Thompson was mad as thunder, and kept
growling around the house all day be-
cause there were no castors on it.
Last Monday she borrowed' our wash
boiler, and we had to put off our washing
till Tuesday. She did her preserving in
it, and the consequence wits all our
fclothes were lull of preserved peaches;
I've got on an undershirt now that I‘m
{nighty doubtful it ever I'll get it off it
Is stuck to me so tight. Every now and
then she has company.' and then she bor
rows out hifed girl and fill our pa’rlor
furniture' . once, because I would not
cany the fntih'c) o~}er for her, and take
flown the fihandelier, she told our girl
that there were rumors about town that
I was a reformed pirate. ,
“Perfectly sjanda'lous t They th'ink
nothing of /etidfinjf over after a couple
6t bedsteads, of fheentnfy carpet; and
the other day Tho’mocon says to me :
‘Butterwick, do£s youf pjrip’ log pull up
easy?’ and when 1 said I thought maybe
it did, he said: ‘Well, I‘d like to borrow
it for a few day? tin I can get one,‘ ( for
/nine has rotted away.’ The only won
der to me is that ha didn't tty to borrow
the well along with ft; *.
“And then oh Thursday Mrs. Thotnpy
son sent that boy over to know if Mrs.
Butterwick wouldn't lend her oUr front
door. She said their'a was away being
painted and she was afraid the baby
would catch cold. When I asked him
'what he supposed we were going €6 do
to keep comfortable without the front
door, he said Mrs. Thompson said aWe
reckoned we might tack up a bed quilt
hr someihing. And when I refused,
boy said Mrs. Thompson told him if I
send oVer the front door to ask
Mrs. Butterwick to lend her a pair of
striped stockings and a horse-hair bustle
and to borrow the coal scuttle till Mon
day. What in the name of Moses she
is going to do with a bustle and a coal-
SouttlO I can't conceive.
“But they're the most extraordinary
people t Last Fourth of July, was it?
#e;?—last fourth of July the boy came
over atPl told vlrs. KutlefWick that Mrs.
Thompson would be much if
she'd lend her the twins for a fev£ min
, utes- Said Mrs! Thompson wanted ’em
to suck off a hOYtr bottle-top, because it
made her baby sidk to taste fresh India
rubber! Cheeky* wasn't it? But that's
her way. She dofl't mind it any more 1
Why I've known her to take off our
Johuny's pants when’he's been playing
over there with the children, and send
Vol. 2.
him home bare-legged to tell his mother
she borrowed ’em tor a pattern. And
on Thonipsorfis birthday she said het
house was so small lor a party that if
wo‘d lend her ours wc.niiglll home in
late in the evening and dance with the
company if we didn't lot on that she
didn't live there! Yes, sir{ I‘m gointa
to move; I'd rather like next dodr td
an Insane Asyluni dtkl hdve the tiianiacs
pouring red Hot shot over the tenoe ev
ery halt hour ot the day; Indeed; I
would.—Max Adder.
Cottori Planting in Checks.
A correspondent ct the Southern Cul
tivator gives the following as his experi
ence on this subject.
I broke up old wortf oiit land, .sandy
loatii at, that, atld lltid the rows off four
feet apart and checked across thirty
inches. In January I haiiled out forty
loads per acre of rich ditch Barifcsl bfiriks
that had been'brown oiit for tlileß oi :
four years, and composed thiity L'usliels
of cotton seed with the forty loads. I
ran the checks off with a seven inch
shovel plow twice in each furrow; feely
deep, and about tlio Ist of April I put a
shovelful of tho compost iu each hill,
and threw two lurroWs with a turn plow,
which formed .*i bed then drilled (with
a drill made at home, out of ii piebe . bt
oak about eighteen inches long, fite
inches wide at the fop, and tapered off
td bne inch at the bottom, with a duck
bill, as I called it, of boulter; running
through the beam in front 6t this wood
forced on at the bottom with i strip of
iron,) and handled this drill as we taojfld
plow and opened the bed across the
check, say about one toot, the sower al
ways noticing the check.
My cotton came up well and grew off
finely; and I never saw cotton do any
better, or as well. It matured to the
top. and I have counted ten bolls on
eight inches of the top, all matured and
open I have the same kind cf. seed
now, and have just picked and packed
from one acre three heavy bags; and
lilts j’O.'ti' has not been very favorable for
cotton in our country. J left two stalks
to each check. This cotton lias not a
Irtltfe stalk and is very prolific. Will
bear crowding, and is much earlier in
maturing. lam an old latillef of nearly
fifty years experience.
Thinniiig t’orii.
iVof. Roberts, ot the Cornell Univer
sity, made some experiments in growing
corn upon the coliege farm last season;
me results ui wmoi, ...„ . *..
planted three plots of three sixteenths of
an acre with corn, and thinned the hills
in one lot tp three stalks, another tcf four
stalks to the hill; the third was not
thinned. The first plot yielded at the
rate of lfid bushels, the second 125 bush
els, and the third iO6 bushels (of ears)
tb’ Hie acre. Mr. Roberts states, as the
result of many experiments prior to
these; at the lowa Agricultural College,
thfit the heaviest crops of corn were
ffiado fey growing three gtalko (o a hill,
and that two stalks to a hill will ptodube
more than five stalks. If every stalk
produces an ear, and corn ie planted
three feet apart each way,,there will be
hefirly 100' bushels of shelled grain per
acre.' To grow maximum crops of corn,
then, it is only necessary ibetaw one
ear upon and Stalk, and the ears of such
size that a hundred of them will make a
bdsh'el bf, grain., lii ylevr of this, it is
sti singe that with so prolific a grain as
corn, a yield of 100 bushels per acre
sf ould be considered as something al
most impossible to be obtained.
• Horrid fMctifteL
The following startling statistics are
copied* from the New York Medical
Journal. Read, pause and think :
For the last ten years the use o’f spir
its has
Ist Imposed upon the nation a difect
expense of six hundred millions.
2d. Has caused an indirect expense of
several hundred milliofis.
3d. Has destroyed three hundred
thousand lives. 1
4th. Has sent one hundred thousand
children to the poor house.
gt.h. Haai committed at leafi’t one hun
dred and fifty thousand people to prisons
and work houses.
6ih. Has detei mined! at least one thou
sand suicided. ,
7th. Has caused the loss by fire or by
violence of at feast ten millions worth of
property. , . , ti
Bth: Hah made two hundred thousand
Widows and one million orphans!
How to Choose a Wife/
That young lady will make you a good
wife who does not aapolbgize when you
find her at Work in,the kitchen but con
tiuues at her task until it is finished!
When you hear a lady say, ‘I shall ah.
t6nd church and wear mV old bonnet find
water proof cloak; for fear we shall have
a rain storm,’ depend upon it she will
make a good wife. . . r
When a daughter remarks, ‘Mother, I
would not hire help, for I can assist you
to do all the work in the klichen,’ set it
down that she will make somebody a
good wife. „,
When you hear a young lady say to
her father, ‘don’t purchase a very expen
sive or showy dress tor me, but what
W PI wear best,’ you may be certain that
she will make a good wife.
An exchange aotfotbiej? the illness of
its editor, and pto'jtfl/ Remarks : All
good paying subscribers ate requested
mention him in their prayeis. Tne oth
ers deed not, as the prayers of the wick
ed availeth nothing.”
CONYERS. OA., MAY 18. 1876.
How Girls Are Made Pretty!
The Hindoo girls are gracefully and
exquisitely formed. From their earliest
childhood they are accustomed to carry
burdens on their heads The water for
family use is always brought by the girld;
iu eartfien jars, carefully poised in this
fViiy This exercise it? Said to strength
rn t h e muscles ot the back, while the
chest is thrown forward. No crooked
backs are seen in Hindoston. Dr. Ilcn
ry.Spry, one ot the company’s medical
officers, says that “this exercise of harry
ing small vessels ot water on the head
might be advantageously introduced into
our boarding schools and private fanii
lies, and that it might entirely supercede
the present machinery ot dumb-bells,
back-boards, skipping ropes, etc. The
ybiing l-idy ought to be taught to carry
the jar, as these Hindoo women do,
without ever touching it with Her hand.’
The same practice ot carrying water
letlas the same results in the
south of SpdiH atia id the south of Italy
as in India. A Neapolitan female peas
ant will early rirt het head a vess;l full
of ti'rttefc to the very Brim, over a rQtigh
load and hot spill and drop,of it} find the
acquisition ot this art or knack gives her
the same erect and elastic gait, and the
same expanded chest and well-formed
back and shoulders.—[Home an< f School.
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Look Out, Toting Man!
wlien it is said of a youth “he
drinks," and it can be proven, what store
wants him lor a clerk ? What church
wants him for a member? Who will
trust him ? What dj ing man will ap
point him as hifi executor? He may
have been forty years in building his
reputation—it goes down! Letters of
recommendation; the backing of busi
netfs firms; a brilllilht ancestry, cannot
save hinn The world shies oft'. Why ?
It is whispered all through the commu
nity “He drinks! He drinks!” That
blasts him. When and yodng man loses
his reptftdtjori fc'l Sobriety; he might as
well be at the bottom of the sea. There
are young men who have their good
name as their only dapltdl. Yddl father
has started you out to city life. He
could only give you an education. He
gave you no means. He started you,
however, under Chtßuan influences.
You have cdrfic to the city. You are
now achieving your own fortune; litidcr
God, your own right arm. Now, look
out, young man; that there is no dtttibr
of your sobriety; Do not ctefite any
suspicions by going in and out of liquor
■ • - -- --- -a.,.- of your
breath, or by any glare of your J
by any unnatural flush of yon’r cheek,
x rin can dot afford to do it, for your good
name is! your only capital, aud when
that is blasied by the reputation of ta
king strong drink, itli'is gone forever.
The Cross.
Blest they who seek
■While in tlieiryonth
• With spirit meek.
The way of truth.
To them the sacred Scriptures now display
Christ as the only true and living way
Iti" precious blood on cavalry was given
To make them heirs of endless bliss in heaven.
And e’eri on earth the child of God can trace
The glorious blessings of bis Saviour’s grace.
For them he bore
f'.is Father’s frown;
cr them He wore
The thorny crown;
Nailed to the cros,
Endured its _ pain,
That his life’s Joss
Might be their gain.
Then haste to choose
The better part,
Nor e’en dare refuse
The Lord thy hoart,.
Lest ht> declare—•
“ I findw you not,”
And deep despair
Should be your lot. .. . r .1,
Now look to Jesus who on cavalry died.
And trust to Him who there Was crucified.
An exchange aptly hits the nail on
the bead thusly :’ After a man has been
drilled through an appienticeshrp ot
many years to the art of editing a news
paper he feels' that be has mistaken his
calling when some ignorant, cuss who
nevqr patronized a newspaper a dollar’s
worth in his* life, travels through wind
aud weather to point out defects which
he alone could tell the editor how to
remedy. Why he continues tr drudge
a'ong through this Vale of tears, earn
ing at some humble calling a paltry dol
lar k day, when he might be directing
the great minds of the world, is past all
human comprehension.
A doctor on West Adams street saved
a young woman's life two mouths ago.
When he brought round his bill the
grateful father replied: “Take her doc
tor,' ehe is yours, her heart beats oniy for
you. Me and the old weraan will come
and lWe with yeu by and by. The son
of Escvla’piu's said he wasn‘t that sort of
a man { th'fit he could not afford it that
seeing it was him he would take S6O.
Sixty-six debars 1 screamed the pious
father‘why, I could have buried her
for half the money,’—[Chicago Tribune.
A physician boasted at dinner that lie
cured his own hams, when one of his
gVefils remarked s “Doctor, I’d. sooner
be your ham than your patient.”
Sad Death op a Child. — A little
eight year old son-of Mr. Virgil John
son, of Barren county, Kentucky, inet
with a most shocking and appalling
death on Friday last. He was riding a
mule, which became frightened and ran
'aVay,’and the little fe'lowq in falling or
attempting to jhiffp; got his foot entan
gled in a chain which was fastened to
the mule, and was held tight while ibe
mule continued to run. His neck, legs
aud arms were broken, and his body and
head were frightfully mutilated.
Peter’s Call.
Y hat I want to oall your attention to
|is this : That before a imn leaves his
occupation, whatever his ''usincss may
be, to giVe his whole life and service to
Hod, he must be sure bo has got the
call, “Follow thou me!" I think there
are great mistakes being made every
year by men who would make good
tanners, carpenters, and mechanics, per
haps, by those who would make good
business men, giving up their oocupa
• ion and attempting to preach, to work
for God. Now, 1 don’t know how many
men have come to mo during the past
few months and asked my advice about
going into the ministry. I never ad
vised a man in my life to go into the
miivstry. I don’t think I ever shall, for
I think the ministry is too high a call
ing for a man to be influenced to enter
it by anv body. He must get a higher
call than from man. He wants to get. a
call trora abo<e. If God calls him
into bis servixe lo leave all and become
“ fishers ot men,” ho won’t fail. One
reason why so many break down in the
pulpit is becaußo* they run before they
are sent—in fact, before they are called
at all—and the result is so many ta'l
ures. Now let us be sure we have a
call, before we give up our business to
go into the service of the Lord, and one
good way to tell whether you have got
that call is: Has God used you ? . I
think Wesley has a good idea of it
When a man came to him and asked
him it he should enter ministry, he
used to ask him: “ Has God blessed
you? Ilavh there been any souls con
verted under your efforts? How is it
.’hcti you preach ; do people go to sleep
under it ,or wake up? Do some get
mad anil some get He
thought that was a good sign that they
had been called to the ministry,jjfor
that is what the gospel does, lor it wakes
up some and brings them to the feet ot
phrlpt, . It is better if they get mad, for
there is some hope of their getting over
it and becoming Christians ; but it they
go to sleep, they make tip their minds
they are not called.— Moody.
To prevent cabbages and other plants
trom cut woryis,. make a ring, of salt
around each p.’ir’nt about an inch from it.
The worms will not pass over this, and
when the rrtin dissolves it tho savor in
the salt will drive them off.
Another, pour strong tobacce water
around the roots.’
To keep bugs from the vines simply
hollow out the holes for cucumber,
n- <—' - .
put in a pint cr so of hen manure. Cov
er with earth and plant Ihe seed. While
the vines grow luxuriantly it will be too
unpalatable for the bugs.
Another is to sow a few radish seed
with the above mentioned seed. Bugs
are so fond of radish pldnts that they
will eat them in preference to the young
vines, and thus enables them to get
a good stsft’t add out ot danger from' the
insect.
Water Drinking.
Dr, Hall is opposed to the immoder
ate drinking of water. He says i “ The
lduger one puts off drinking in the
morning,' especially in the surrnnei; the
less he will require during the day. If
much is drunk during the forenoon the
thirst often increases and A very unpleas
ant fullness 16 observed,’ ifiaddmon to and
metallic tastfe in the mouth. The a
man drinks 'he better for him, beyond
a mod erate amount. The more water a
man drinks the rfiore strength he has to
expend in getting rid of it, for all the
fluid taker! into the sys 1 em must be car
ried out, and there is but little nourish
ment in water," tea/ coffee,' behr and the
like ; more strength is expended in car
rying them out of tile th’afi .they
impart to it. The fhore a man drinks
the more he perspiies,’ either by lungs
o' through uiis skin ; the more he per
spires the more carbon is taken from the
system ; but this carbon is necessary for
nutrition, hence the less a man is nour
ished the less strength be has. Drink
ing water 1; igely diminished tb£.Strength
in two ways,’ and yet many are under
the impression that the more water
swallowed the more thoroughly is the
system ‘ washed out.’ Thus the less we
drink at meals the better for us. If the
amount were limited to a’ singly cup of
hot tea or hot milk and waier each meal,
an immeasurable good wpuld. result to
all. Many persons have fallen into the
practice of drinking several glasses ot
cold water or several cups of hot tea or
coffee at meals,’out of mere habit. All
such will be greatly beuefitted by break
ing tup at once. It may be very well
to drink a little at each" meal, andf per
haps it will ue found that in all cases it
is much beiler to take a single cup ot
hot Lea i.’t each meal than a glass ot cold
water, however pure.
A' Beautiful T i io uG l it. — God knows
what keys in the human soul to touch in
order to draw out its sweetest and, most
pei feet harmonies. They may be thfi
minor strains' of sadness and sorrow ;
they may be the loftier notes ot joy and
gladness. G-od knows where the melo
dies of our nature are, and what dis
cipline will bring forth. Some with
plaintive tongue must • walk in lowly
vales of weary way; others in loftier
hymns sing of nothing but joy; but
they all finite without discord or jar, as
ttie ascending anthem of lofting aud
believing hearts finds its way into the
chorus ot the redeemed to heaven.
A man be said to have been
drinking like afish when he finds tnat
ho has taken enough to make his head
swim.
The Eud of the World*
A meeting of Second Adventistn was
held recently at Cooper Union, New
York, to discuss the prophecy /©f the
coming of Christ in 1876. Mr. Verrie,
who had written oil a blackboard romo
figures to show that the end of the
world, or “ the time of the end” will
come this year, spoke of the fulfillment
ot the prophecy in the twelfth chaptor
of Daniel. 1-Ie illustrated his inlerpro
tation of the prophecy of historical
references. He next told that the proph
ecies toretold the end 1,335 years from a
given time when,,the daily sacrifices
shall be taken a tarty ( and the abomina
tion that miiketh be set up. This ahem
ination he said, Was the Church ot
Rome, and its setting up occurred in
541, when the emperor Justinian placed
it on the pinicle ot its power, and in
order lo do so overthrow the Goths.
Then followed the period of 1,290 years
of iu the propheoy, bringing tlie time up
to 1,832, when the alied powers of Eu
rope, to prevent a continual war, took
away just as much power as Justinian
had given him. To this 1,590 years the
prophecy added a month and a half
meaning forty five years, thus fixing the
time ot the end in 1876. Iu this view,
Mr. Jerrie said science and relaxation
agreed. He did not attempt to fix the
day or tho month ot the eud, which is
to come “ like a thief in the night.”
Two or three other peisons spoke, and
the old man criticised the churches tor
not preaching the coming Christ.
ei?tlc
In giving medicines or prescriptions
tor others the following table will he
found useful in the absence of a giuciu.
ated glass vessels:
A tumbler contains 10 ounces.
.A teacup '• 6 “
A wineglass “ 2 “
A tablespoon “ 5 drachms.
A desert spoon contains 3 drachms.
A teaspoon coutains I drachm.
Men we Don’t Want to Meet.
The man who grunts andjgasps as he
gobbles up the soup, and at" every other
mouthful sebrts’i threatened taiib ji ehok
-1 mg fit. . - *,
'The mau who, having by accident
been once thrown into your company,
makes bold to bawl your name out, and
shake your hand profusely when you pass
him in the street.
The man who artfully provokes you to
Llhy a game nf bUliards with, him, and
ces his own chalk.
The rnan who can’t sit at yonr table
on any occasion without getting on his
legs to propose some stupid toast.
The mangp'ho, thinking you are mu
sical, bores you with his notions on the
music of the future, of which you know
as little as the music of the spheres.' ( ,
'1 he man who wears a white, hat in
winter; and smokes a pipe when walk
ing, and accosts you as ‘old fellow,* just
as you are hoping to make a., good, im
pression On some well Pressed lady
friend.
The man who, knowing that your
doctor faces him at the table, turns the
talk so as to set him talking ‘doctor
shop.’
The man who with a look of urgent
business, when you are in a big hurry,
lakes’ you 1 by {he button hole to tell you
a bad joke.
The man who, sitting just behind you
at the opera, destroys half your enjoy
ment by humming the air.
The rrfan who makes a remark on your
you personal adornment, asks you wb’ej;e
buy.your waistcoats, and what you pay
for your dress boots. ,
The man who lards his talk with little
scraps of Fiench and German after his
return from a centennial tour.
An Awful Little Girl.
There was once an awful little girl,
who had an awful way of saying “awful”
to everything. She lived in an awful
hpUSe; in an awful street, in an awful
vfllage, which was an awful distance
from every other awful place. She went
to a school, where she fiad an awful
teacher, who gave her awful lessons, out
of awful books. Every day she was so
awful hungry that she ate an awful
amount ol tood, so that she looked aw
ful healthy. Her hat was awful small,'
and her feet were awful large.' ( She
went to an' awful church,’ and her minis
ter was an awfal preacher. H When she
took an awful walk, she climbed awful
hills,' and when she got awful tired, she
sat down .under an awlul tree to rest
herself, In summer she found the
i weather awful hot, and in winter awful
cold. When it didn’t rain there was an
awful drought,’ and when an awlul
drought was over there Was an awlul
raid. Bo that this awful girl was all the
time in an awful state, and if she does
not get over aying “awful” about every
thing,’she will, by and-by, comes to an
awful end. And this awlul little girl
lives in this awful city.—[Cincinnati
Times.
Norwich Bulletin: It is often’ said
that a womau has got ucftalent for busi
ness, but when' a' man goes home and
finds that his wife has swapped off his
Sunday pantaloons for a | atent taek
bainmer and a china ornament for the
mantle-piece, he is compelled to wonder
at the genius thtt succeeded in getting
the tack-hammer thrown in.
When do two *1 and two make more
than four ? When they make 22.
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Somnambulist.
a UITI.E - ini’s WTHAonpiXAul keaT
WIIII.K ASLEEP.
, Jennie Lawson is a member ot the
lebonil class in thy Eighteenth street fe
gflj? grammar fffihooT. Friday last a
pupber pf arithmetical .examples wore
given pbt for solution, but three of them J
111 piTCciUage, requiring long processes'
of division, all Jennie s efforts
to secure tlj.o: W'ect nnswef._ The cir
cumstance,seemed to distils !,lie child;
and af-er working through them again
mid again without success,' elm- went
home determined by persistent effort to
find out where her error was, and she
continued to strive uutil long alter the
rest of tlie family had retired. Towards
midnight her mother, who slept in aii
adfoinThfr room; called to her daughter
that, she lia f better gp to bed, lest° she
should be late ij|. rising thk riext day.
The gill iit pticj retired; and in,,jt few
minutes was fast, asleep., an hour
afterwards Mrs Law sob yps again awak
ened by a sudden noise fc dto'ghter’/
bed chamber Which was then fn entire
darkness, biiepalled, but receiving no
answer, arose to see what was the mat-'
ler. Jennie waS,silking at her desk, and
had apparently just some work'
011 her slate, the noisy beep made
by the falling ol a ruler front,.,(he,,table
to the floor, I’he girl was fivft asleep.
Mrs. Laws 11 did no; wake per at the
time, and on the following day it wast
afternoon before the gil l could be roused
from the deep sleep iu which she seemed
lo be. Upon awakening Jenriie spoke'
of the problems, and expressed her in
tention ol making a further trial at their,
soluuou. Upon getting the slate she
found them completely solved in
hand, each line neatly ruled aud figunpfff
without the slightest error. At ihip spe
was greatly surprised. Her last know* •
edge of the puzzling examples was of
leaving them unsolved on the night,
before. Ot lief pefformances in her
sleep she fiijefv tanfiii awake absolutely
nothing, and her tnotlier not having
mentioned the incident, jeft her the more
bewildered. Yesterday the girl brought
tho work to school and related the inci
dent attending it to her teacher The
r-j'-ni was dark, and the girl soundly
asleep during the Working of the test
examples. Bhe had never bofore shown
any symptoms ot sleep-working, nor
have any of her relatives been so affect
ed.—[New York World.
A Dangerous Practice,*
Frequent complaints are made by rati-,
00 and off cars Willie m ‘mom/fi wmwigd
the city. In this respect boys who
merely jump on lor a ride cause the
greatest affpoyarice," although often pas
sengers risk life and limb by an impru
dent leap. Accidents to passengers;
however, iarely occur. They are much
more frequent in the case of boys, and
it is of this class we desire to speak.
Narrow escapes are almost of daily oc
currence on Washingiori street,’ despite
the tig|lafji’e of the officials.’ It is not a
single jump on unit again after
a reasonable ride, if there is such'
thing as leason in that kind ot ride
catching, that is the most dangerous. It
is a series of • ‘offs’ and l ons that the
boys Indulge in just to show bow easily,
and gracelully it can be done, and how
near ‘kingdoiq come’ can be wantonly
approached, at the risk ot an arm or a
leg,’ or eveti a life. As warm weather
approaches again {lm nuisance is becom*
ing intolerable. Occasionally a lad is
arrested,’ reprirfiauded, fined jirsd some
times imprisoned, but such instances
have been few, and have not clone. any
good. Mild measures have been tried
and have failed. Sterner oueri must now
be resorted to,’ and the police should ar
rest every boy caught jumping on a train
in moLion. *
How a Horse Captured a Wolf.
A singular story of a horse is told by
the Gazette ot Barrie, Canada, to the
following effect: Mr John Davis, of
Sullivan township, has a horse, which
having a bad habit tff getting out of its
pasture,’ he feiter’Ad one uight recently
by fastening the fore feet together..
During the night a pack ol wolves were
heard in the vicinity, And the next day
Mr. Davis visited his horse with some
anxiety as to his condition. Away off
in the field the animal was seen standing
in a very singular position. A great,
wolf was under his fore feet held to the
earth bv the ohaiu fetters, and so secure-
ly imprisoned that escape was impossible..
The horse had a lew scratches upou his
neck. He had evidently Keen attacked
by the wolves, had worsted them, capt*.
uring one, holding his captive a prisoner
of war for tour or five hours.
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E’en Such is Man!
Like a damask rose you see, • ~
Or like the blossoms on the treo.’
Or like the dainty flower in May,
Or like the morning of the day,
Or like the-sun or like the shade*
Or like the gourd that Jonas had, . (
E’en such is man : —whose thread is spun.
Drawn out, and out, and so is done;
The rose withers, the blossom blasteth,
THe flower fades, the morning hasteth,
The sun sets, the shadow flies,
Too gourd consumds, and man he ’us 1
•
fake’ to the grass that’s newly sprung.
Or like a tale that’s new begun.
Or like the pil’d that's here to-day,'
Or like the pearled dew of May,’
Or like an h<Ar, or like a span,
Or like the singing of a swan— *t>,
E'en such is man : —wlio lives by breath,
Is here, now there, in life-and death,
The grass withers, the tale is ended,
The bird is fio\j;n, the dews ascended,'
TUe hour is short, the span,is >, ;
The swan’s near death, man’s life is dono!