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About The Cartersville express. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1875-18?? | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1879)
MWLETUKART, TO ItllK. Sse, lore! tha rosy rsilsosa gHami Athwmtl the rtnaet ky; LUt, lotc sad heir he blid a eweet note) In linked ag Ci.der.a- die. t'inat*. luTthy clinging hand) ’n in.ne, And holding law by me, Inw love’ i wiil bo true, my Java, o in-, rweetheert, to thai bwMlbcut, to the*. Come loro i I wtutiag, pine m l >ng, Ani rr ary, watc.i lor the?; l>wr lore! amidst the darkened night fby Mar-like fece I see. Heart’s lorel h, co.ae thin close to me; I’ll shelter thee from haims, From erary foe or sterrt woe, Clot* clasped wit nib my a ms ; Lia tale from ail alarms, drtetiieart. with me. Hear lore! thy lac b >re ms gleaming, A sunset radisne* girea, Ah, low! thy tone’s afoot cadence dying, hints In my h art and lirea. * li -p-d, lor-', and rta to my heart, thy hlrdiing F.j| ie'h hir wings in p ace— Trusts ! ore! f sling no cold nor shadow, binding at Hat her case, From tear a sale rtb aae, H -art’s lore, with thee ART AND HEART. Every capital is delirious with merri meet, Paris surpassing them ail in reckless reVclry, and the “students’ quarter” of that gay city far beyond other wards in uproarious festivities. Every student has a capital time, and among the thousands of these merry hearted young men who enjoyed the carnival of 1847, no one quaffed more intoxicating draughts of j?y than Elitzir " ie Blivels. Nor was there in the whole “ L tin quarter” a finer fellow or one more generally kuown and loved. He wa tall and well male, with a high fore head, large black eyes, and a gallant bearing, (lifted with a powerful inte lect, his mind embraced poetry, music and painting—magnificent trinity of art —and in each he excelled, devoting himself especially to his easel as a career His parents were Cieole Louisianians, residing on a fine plsn ation, and Eiie zar, well supplied with funds, passed JiL* time at Palis in dreamy ea*e, occupyiijg his thoughts but little with the present, and never thinking of the future. He wrote poetry, composed music, painted landscape And at dance or revel, fore most am mg the gay-heart and throug was d,he Louisianian. All at onoe, however, “a change came j over the spirit ot his dream.” He neg lected his palette ami bis pen—his piano remained mule. A dark shadow ap peared to c’jitd his existence, which had | been dee., as a limpid lake. Eiitzsr wan j aadard melancholy, and his pallid figure j anr.ounced mental rather than physical j offering. “He was in love,” says lair reader. Not at all, my bright eyed friend—he had been in love. He ha 1 loved, with all his heart and with all bis soul, a young girl nsmed Julia. Tnat is a short sentence which contains m.iuy a long story, and all that I will add to it is, that Julia—of a good family, intellectual and beautiful—still loved Eiiezar with all Ter heart and with all her soul. Why had tho affections of the young maan become changed ? Why did tears rest in Julia’s beautiful blue eyes? Why • did,the bond between these two young berrts seem about to break? Alas, it was the usual reasou. Jnlia’s parents wcere not wealthy, and had a large family Elitzar was introduced to a £ rich widow. | From that day he became morose, and j J ulia soon saw that she no longer had ; possession of his heart. What a chaDgel I “ Quantum mutatus ab illo,” said two | of his student friends who were versed in Latin, and as for Julia, she made up her mind that life had no charms for her, and that death would be welcome. One evening Eiiezar (who wasgoing to a massed ball at midnight) called—pro voked a discussion—lost his temper arid pronounced the fatal word of rup ture. “ It is useless,” said Julia; “ you have sought this opportunity for several day? and have had shown me that you love me no longer. You have made me un happy, but mark me—you will be more unhappy yourself.” “ Perhaps,” replied Eiiezar, in a sar castic tone. “ But as 1 wish to get a nap before going to the ball, I will bid you good evening. Adieu.” Julia stood motionless, unable to speak, but when the door closed, it ap peared like the stone of a sepulcher, shut ting out from life all that was near, and dear and worth possessing. * * * * * * Free! Free! And able to profit by ibis libel ty to address a countess, rich, young, and a widow. A countess, who loved him, not because he was rich also, but because he poss ssed talent ! Surely Eiiezar was fortunate, and soon his marriage with the fascinating widow was the theme of Parisian gossip—the very day was set. But, to the astonish ment of all, tiie coun ess did *not marry Eiiezar, and did marry the Marquis de Torry. It created quite a sensation. Poor Eliezir! His star of fortune began to descend the horizm, and then he learned with regret and reproach that Juiia had committed suicide. Only eighteen—so lair, so gifted ; poor girl. While E iezar was suffering under the effect ot this blow, he received the sa<i news that the Mississippi had burst its banks and inundated his father’s planta tion. B..th liis parents had lost their lives, and their property had been swept away. He was an orphan—a beggar. This calamity diverted the thoughts o 1 Elifzar from the marchioness, and set him thinking how he should henceforth live. “Tobe or not to be,” as has been rema ked several thousand times each year since it was penned, and id this case the word “ starved” was added. “No I” replied Klitzar to his own question. “ I will gain money.” This is an easy resobuion, but oue difficult to carry into execution. Eiiezar was young—a poet, a painter and a musician. But the supply of verses is ever above the demand—pictures do uot find sale, unless they are flattered por traits—and there are too many old com possrs whose works can be pilfered, for young ones to have any chance of success. Poor Edezar 1 There he sat, hour after hour, his ht ad resting on his hands, his eyes fixed, and the pallor of melancholy vailing Ids countenance. At last, an idea struck h.m. Why could he not sing in opera? As luck would have it the manager of the Toulouse opera hou -e was thou in Paris, searching lor a tenor singer. Eii- zir was presented to him—sang a few airs—a:-d in an hour’s time signed an engagement which guaranteed him a handsome income. Two days more, and he was at the scene of his anticipated triumph, where he immediately began to study and rehearse. Possessing a fine voice and a good knowledge of music, he ©ade rapid pr< * tea, and was soon an nounced in the j:-pe?a ae & vocal prodigy rvho would the imom Dipr VOL. XX.-NO. 10. | himself. At last the evening came for j his debut The house waa packed from pit to dome, brilliant toilettes gracing the aristocratic boxes; while the stu dents crowded the pit. Many fair hands carried bouquets, and it was evident that the debutant would meet with a flattering reception. Up rose the curtain, and Eliezur ap peared. Loud applause greeted him, and he advanced with easy confidence to the front of the stage; but not a sound escaped his lips. In vain did the leader of the orchestra, with violin bow up raised, wait the first note of his voice, that he might accompany him. Not a sound was heard; and the public, at first curious,soon grew impatient. Hisses, i groans and other signs of dissatisfaction rang through the house; and at last the curtain fell. Managers, actors and ma chinists flocked around the debutant , and demanded the cause cf his extraordinary silence. The audience waa indignant, and among a volley of hoots and cries was heard the question: “Is he dumb?” No! The manager came before the uirtain and announced that he had lost his hearing. Whereupon the public retired, receiving ttieir money at the door. Alas, it was too true. Eiiezar de Blivels waa dear. All his dreams of vocal fame had vanished, and refusing a collection which the actors had made for him, ho net out on foot for the capital, almost hoping that some accident would deprive him of 3i f e. He had but a pit tance left, and his misfortune was a bar rier to all employments. One afternoon, after a lens? walk, he sat down before a village ale house and began to sing. The peasants gathered around him, and some threw coppers into his hat. Elitzar de Bdvels the great artist, who had squan dered so much gold, picked up the cop* pera and pocketed them with thanks. Thus he made his way to Paris, sing ing in the evenings at the little hamlets where he halted, and receiving the piti ful alms which the public pity accords to wandering minstrels. Once within sight of the capital, however, he took courage. Paiis is the city of catastrophes and of good fortunes—of revolutions, happy or unhappy—and it is there that one may he seen rolling along in an elegant car riage, who that evening before had not a whole pair of boots to walk in, or vice versa. On entering the gates of the metropolis, the wandering vocalist took neart, and he hoped he might become a bookkeeper to an apothecary or measurer to a wood merchant. Passing down Odeon square, he saw a large man, dressed in black, who was about to write upon the wall with a morsel of chalk. Watching the un known, he saw him write—and with in creasing astonishment as each successive letter was formed : “ Eiiezar de Blivels is heartless.” Uttering a cry of rage, he rushed for* ward and seized the writer quickly by the snuulders. The unknown turned fiercely around, shook off h s grasp, and retreating to the wail, used bis cane to ward off any further attack. Then, with an air of derision, he pulled out a card, and offered it with his left hand. Eiiezar accepted it, and the unknown vanished The artist, left alone before the in scription, endeavored to efface it, but it vain. The more he rubbed, the more distinct the white letters stood out upon the wall, and soon a crowd collected around him. Some recognized him, and Degan to shout in derisive ton:s: “ Eiie zar de Blivels is heartless.” He was forced at last to desist, and to escape from his tormentors. At sunrise the next day two metf stood face to face, in the wood of Vin cennes, near Paris. Each one was armed with two pistols, and there were no seconds. Vainly had Eli. zar sought to obtain an explanation—the unknown remained as glacial and mute as fatality. Tne duelists placed themselves forty paces apart, and at the word given by Elifzar, they were to turn, advance to ward each other, and fire. One—two— three 1 Eiiezar fired first, but only the percussion cap of his pistol exploded. At the same instant a ball shattered his right arm, and his pistol fell to his feet. Then did the wounded man hear, in tones which echoed through his heart: ’* You have made me unhappy, but mark me—you will be more unhappy yourself.” A second ball pierced E'kzir’s heart. ***** Nine o’clock iu the morn ng struck. The second pistol shot concluded his dream and he sprang to his feet. I will uot attempt to describe the emotions of the young rr.sn as he carried his hand to his heart, and then shook his right arm, to see it he was wounded. But he was unscratched. He had slept all night, and had dreamed. It was morning, and he had awoke young, rich, a happy child, and not deaf or wounded. Then as he recalled his imaginary mis ery, he thought of Julia—he remembered her suicide and hastened to her house. Tne young girl had a violent fever, and had passed a night of intense suffer ing. But the sight of Eiiezar—his re pentant air— and his protestations of re pentance and of affection—soon restored her. The cure was more speedy than could have been effected by all the physicians in Paris. Eiiezar soon married Julia, and re turning to America, they now pass a hapf y existence with their parents, en joying all they desire, and often calling to mind the carnival of 1847. .. If there is any one thing more than another that convinces a man of the progress of education in our common schools, and the sound practical instruc tion communicated to the rising gener* otion, it is to have his daughter bring him a problem something like this : I: 8 oxen consume 12£ times the amount of food required by 1-6 of the square root of 16 sheep, at a cost of 29 78 cents, how many oxen will be required to cou sume the same amount required by J of the cube root of aD equat number of sheep in 42 days’ time at a cost .1 o f that amount; and triumphantly point to the answer at the foot of a whole s', ate ful of figures as being 32,187,369 osea. .. Some malignant slanderer says; ! H Woman needs no eulogist, ‘or the ‘j? &k for hersoil.” DIAMOND-CC J-TING. Briih of Inrtoitr) -torrlra I‘otn Klin* wlih Amilerasn anti London. ■New Fork Krening Post. There are few subjects more dear to the feminine heart than those which relate to the precious stones, and the diamond, above all, has a charm unfailing and al ways new. The gem in its finished state is so perfect that few persons give a thought to the processes by which its beauties have been revealed. A dia mond in the rough resembles nothing so much as a pebble of rock salt. When found it is usually an egg shaped or pear shaped stone, lustreless and white, with no morn pretensions to value in its looks than thousands of the'pebbles scattered along the seashore. The fiie and bril liancy of the gem are developed by the lapidary at great expenditure of time and lafcor. For many years, centuries even, the head quarters of the diamond cutting trade has been in Holland, and it is only within this century that, the workmen of other countries have begun to complete with the patient, skilful and careful Dutchmen. In 1851 the dia mond cutting business in Lopdon was sufficiently advanced to admit of the recuttirig of the famous Koh-i-noor in that city, but even then it was considered necessary to send to Amsterdam for an expert to superintend the work. It was reduced lrom 186 to 106 1-16 carats, in order to give it a shape which would ad equately set off its great beauty. In this country no establishment for cutting diamonds was opened until 1871, when a large company was formed by some Dutch experts in New York and another in Boston. It is a very tedious operation to cut a diamond and polish it. If the stone in the rough is so shaped as to need split ting, the workman decides what part is to be removed and makes a small cleft with another diamond. A diamond edged 100 l is then used as a cleaver, and the fragment is then split ofl. The greatest care is necessary, of course, to determine what will be the direction and extent of the cleavage, and as it cannot be made except with the grain, only a long experienced workman can tel' how to make the cut. The stone now passes to the cutter, who uses two stones at once mutually to cut each other. Each one is secured at the end of a stick in a cement made of rosin aid marble dust. Holding a stick in each hand over a box to catch the diamond dust, the workman steadily rubs one against the other until the attrition wears down one facs of each diamond. As soon as a clear space has been cut through the rough outer coat* ing (“ making a window,” the experts call it), the diamond is carefully exam ined for flaws and its shape determined. If a flaw lies near the outside it can, o* course, be easily cut away in shaping it; but if it is far in the interior the .'tone, if large, must lie cut in two, making two half-sized gems instead of one large one. The shape haviug been decided, the cutter goes on to cut the stone to coree spond in general form to that determined upon. There is little attempt made to cut regular fasces, but the position of the “ collet” and the “ table” is defined. The “ collet” is the small-pointed lower apex of a diamond cut in “ brilliant’’ fashion, and the “ table” is the flat sur face on top. When the diamond is passed over to the polisher it is set in pewter setting held in a kind of socket about an inch iu diameter. This has a copper rod about two inches long and a quarter of an inch in diameter, extending from the back, which is grasped by the jaws of tho rest in which the socket is held wh le the polishing is done. The rest is heavy, so as to press the diamond down upon the polishing disk with sufficient force. The disk is a circular plate made of steel and iron at a velocity of two thousand revolutions a minute. The fgee of the disk is covered with oil containing diamond dust which is re* tained in the pores of the iron and acts as a polishing agent. The diamond is carefully set in the pewter as nearly as possible at the right angle, but if a slight variation either way is needed the cop* per stem which holds the diamond socket can be bent sufficiently to give the exact angle required. Two, or even more diamonds, can be polished at the same time on one disk, and as the process is necessarily very slow, three or rnoiere ts can be watched by cne skilled workman. The “dop” which holds the diamond in the solder resembles a large ’ acot n in shape, the diamond being at the point and the copper wire representing the stem. The most fashionable and elegant shape now cut is the “ brilliant,” which has an upper table, generally octagonal in shape, thirty-two faces to the girdle, or broadest part of the 3tone, and a pyramid below running to an apex called the “collet.” The proper proportion for showing the fuli brilliancy of a stone is one-third above the girdle and two-thirds below. It the upper part is too deep in propor tion to the lower, the stone will lack sparkle at the edges, while if the reverse be the case it will have no brilliancy at the center. The best diamonds for color are the Brazilian aLd Indian; for although many fine stones have been found in the South African fields, the greater number of these latter are of poor color. There are three shades in great demand, the pare white, the steel white and the blue white. The pure white is unquestionably the most beautiful; it is full of sparkle and white light in whatever angle it is viewed, with absolutely no trace of color visible. Such a stone will cost as much as 1300 a curat. The steel-white has no perceptible color but a steely sheen in its sparkle. They look almost like black objects re flecting the light from a highly-polished surface. They are East India stones and are very rare. They also bring “fan cy ” prices. Blue-white stones placed beside an ab solutely pure white, will make the lat ter appear “ofl color,” in compari son. There is just the faintest shade of blue in them, which counteracts any tinge of yellow in the light passing through them. A pair of ear-rings of this quality, weighing together about four carats, found a purchaser recently is &! city fur 12,000, the buyer being " CARTERSYILLE, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1879. dealer, who said that he had a private customer for them at 12,500. “ Off-color” diamonds wiil briDg from SSO to SIOO a carat, but there is little de mand except for a really perfect stone, and the nearer pure white the better. Since the discovery of the South African diamond fields, about twelve years ago, the price of diamonds has fallen about 75 per centum of what it was before. Contrary to general opinion New York is one of the oest diamond markets in the world. Moreover they can be bought here quite as cheaply as in London or Paris. The duty on unset diamonds is only 10 per centum, and on uncut stones there is no duty at all. VESUVIUS. mOTer? nee Hri e<-n the Lava of: be fra ml Krnpilo-: and fhal of is;*. London Academy. I first ascended Vesuvius in January, 1875, at which time the crater was full of sulphurous smoke, ro that it was quite impossible to descend into it. Later in the year hydrochloric acid appeared, which indicate-:, an intensification of the volcanic activity, and on December 18 a deep chasm opened in the floor of the crater, and anew cone was formed above the chasm, from which small quantities of lava issued from time to time. On the night of November 1 1878, the lava was emitted in greater quantity, and it rose to the level of the lowest lip of the crater, and began to flow down the great cone of the mountain in a northwesterly direction. When I ascended Vesuvius on Decem ber 29 last the lava was still very hot, and in some places red hot just beneath the surface. Having reached the sum mit of the cone, by toe usual route, we bore to the west, and walked along th: rim of the great crater until we came to the side toward Monte di Somma, where the crater was broken down by the new lava. We then descended by a very steep path into the bottom of the crater, and immediately saw the new cone on our right, vomiting clouds of smoke and steam, and ejecting red-hot scorise Lo a height of several hundred feet. The most notable feature of the new lava was the quantity o’ red and yellow sublimates of sciquichloride of iron, which appeared in many .clefts and cavities in the Java, from which alto issued hydrochloric acid in abundant, stifling fumes We approached as near as we could to the new cone, nd stood upon a heap of cinders which it had ejected, nearly on a level with its mouth. It is quite small indeed not much larger than a large iron furnace—but its dynamic activity is considerable. Lumps or scorise were continousiy ejected, and sometimes the ground shook under our feet, and loud noises, like the surging of a furious sea, were apparent. Sometimes a more sudden and furious outburst would occur, arid would i cutter the red-hot. fragments all around, A mass weighing four ounces fell within six feet of where I was standing, and. when this was fol lowed by a piece at least seven times as large l beat s. hasty retreat, for a guide had been kilted a fortnight before by an ejected stone falling on his head. The lava of 1878 does not resemble that of 1872 ; it is much more leucitic in character, and possesses a fine black lus ter when cold, The sublimates in its clefts are veiy interesting, both as to form and composition. They consist mostly of sals and chloride of iron, but Palmieri has also detected chloride of am monium, chloride of lithium, and boracic acid, The ne w cone is still in a slightly active condition, and Palmieri antici pates that it will increase. Women Voters in Kansas. iQciian.ipotis Horrid Letter from Balitia. A Hoosier sees in Kansas many new and unfamiliar sights, but none more interesting than that of the ladies voting. They have the privilege of voting in all matters pertaining to schools. As far as my observation goes, the ladies here have minds of their own. They neither vote for the “handsomest man” nor the one their husbands tell them to vote for, unless the candidate is, in their own opinion, the proper one. Their votes can not be bought. They are univer sally oa the side of morality and tem perance ; hence the workers in the tem perance cause are warm advocates of equal suffrage. Election days pass quietly. If there is any drinking or fighting done, it is not at the polls. Everything :a orderly there, notwith standing con rary reports circulated by anti-suffragists in the eastern states. Candidates keep carriages running for the accoramediation of the ladies, but a great many walk up and deposit their vote. As the remit, so far, has been very satisfactory, even to the men (the brutes), it will probably be but a short time until equal suffrage is granted. The gentlemen show their gallantry and taith in the ability of the ladies by ap pointing them to office. The enrolling clerks of the legislature are ladies; also a large portion of the county superin tendents, who, in every instance, dis charge their duties in a manner that givfs universal satisfaction. We have in this city among the ladies a Dhysician. a printer, ard numerous clerk q agents and women car ying on business success fully in various ways. One of them is a barber, who supports herself and chil dren comforiably. Ladies are not so plenty here s.s in Indiana. Perhaps that is the reason they are so well respected and protected. In proof of which we often see advertisements for wives, by some of tho young men who took Greeley's advice some time ago, and now have handsome farms and homes of their own. I noticed in a paper a few days since the offer of a fine horse to the per son who would assist the advertiser in securing a “good, industrious wife.” ..Fat cook (with conscious blushes, to the lady who wants to engage her): “ As te there bein’ no followers allowed, mum, you might reccollect, as you’ve been single yourself; and a girl as is rayther showy in figger can’t well help ’em cornin’ s boot.” .. Black in never usedjCat funerals in Russia, nor worn br mourners. It is only in England and America that peos pie look as horrible as they ctn In order \ to advertise the death of a relative, THE GREAT ICE AGE. Hhi the Krirml.u Have lo ay Abonl Another .!aot .l Period. The scientists announce th t in fifty thousand years hence this earth will encounter another glacial period, vast icebergs will again grind their way across our continent, and play havoc generally. Sir William Herechel thought the great ice age was produced by heat and not by cold. That time was when the sun shone much hotter on the earth than now, and the force of its rays beat ing on the great oceans near the equator vaporized large qualities of water and floated it out into aqueous atmosphere, which was wafted north into a cold cli mate near the pole, where it was con densed by cold into heavy clouds and fell upon the earth in iorm of snow; that such great bodies of snow arid ice fell during the winter that the short summers that followed were insufficient to melt them away, and year after year the mass slowly accumulated at the poles and gradually crept down upon the temperate zones, until the ice cap covered the whole northern portion of our continent and nearly all of Earop * also the southern hemisphere. This theory would seem at first qu te rational, for we know it is a hundred degrees colder at the poles than ia necessary to congeal water; hence, what is wanting to form great fields of ice is not cold, but heat, to vapor z 3 the material at the equator and float it north. The more heat the more vapor, and the more vapor the more ice, for if it were a hun dred degrees warmer at the poles than now it would still be cold enough to form ice. But the testimony of the rocks is in favor of the belief that there has been more than one glacial period, and the above view demands the assumption that the sun was cooler between the ice periods, that it wa3 intermittent in its beat. There aie no known facts to war rant this conclusion. The theory more generally accepted by the scientists of to-day is that the glacial period was produced by the varying eccentricity of the earth in its path around the sun. Prof. Paige, in his recent lecture, thus described this theory : “ The earth travels around the snn once a year, not in a circle, but in an ellipse, 2.000,000 miles longer iha.-i it is wide, and the eccentricity of this ellipse is not always the same ; that is to say, we are now, in the northern hemisphere, in the winter season, 2,000.000 miles nearer the sun than in the summer. About 300,000 years (and some put it as high as 1,000,000 years) ago, the earth’s path commenced elongating, so that it went out 14,000 000 miles further from the sun than ite nearest pr iximity, and by the precession of the equinox (which I have now no time to explain), cnce in 10,500 years our winter seasons in the northern hemisphere occur when we aie farthest from the sun, and the same of the southern hemisphere. This, it wiil be seen, would give us hot sum mers and long, cold winters, and the phenomenon would repeat itself and produce succeeding ibe ages, which seems in accordance with the facts. “ And to this wonderful provision of nature our mother earth is indebted for the conditions that make her the abode ol life. The earth’s crust was one rock— hard, unyielding rock, and there was no soil to nourish vegetation. The soil upon its bosom now is all ground rock. The task of grinding, crushing such an immense quautitv of rock would have occupied the simple wash of waters and force of winds and the action of carbonic acid gas more ages than the wildest geologist has ever ascribed to our globe. “ Fragments of great ice-fieids (ice bergs larger than a township, lager than a county, possibly, and a half mile in thickness, with vast sections of the earth’s crust of rock frozen beneath them) then floating out, and, resting upon rocks again, they rocked and rolled and swayed and ground, rock upon rock, for thou sands (f years, impelled by the waves and winds. It has been thought by many, and perhaps most, scientific men, that during these periods there was a subsidence of the continents covered by the ice-fields that caused their submer gence. I nave thought that a subsidence was not necessary, that the melting of the vast ice-caps during the hot summers would send a flood of water down over the land of sufficient depth to float the largest icebergs. What a strange scene to contemplate, our grand prairies cov ered by an immense ocean (possibly of ire-h water), floating great schools ot icebergs in wild, desolate confudon—the roar of the ocean, the awful crushing and grinding ot ice and rock, pierced only by the scream of the sea bird, who, with God alone, beheld the vast waste.” And all this desolation, they tell us, is to come upon our beautiful earth again. In fifty thousand years will com mence a recurrence of the great glacial epoch. The prophecy is an interesting one, and is well worth examination ; but with the assurance that there is to be no change of climate on the earth until that lime, we present mortals can close the book upon the important intelli gence and conclude not to worry. A Little Ghost Story. Mrs. G , with her two little girls, of the respective ages of eight and nine years, had been staying in the country oa a visit to her sister in-law; but hav ing taken a hou-“e near London, she sent the two children with their nurse off by an early train, following herself by one a few hours later. Toward the evening of the same day, one of the little girls walked into a room of the house which they bad quitted in the morning, where a cousin, to whom she was much at tached, was sitting at his studies, and said to him : “ I have come to say good by, Walter; I shall never a> e you again.’ Then kissing him she vanished from the room. The young man was greatly startled and astonished, as he had him self seen both the little girls and their nurse off by the morning train. At this very time of the evening both tha chil dren in England were taken suddenly ill, while playing in their new home, a few hours after they had arrived. The doctor called in pronounced their com plaint to be small-pox of the meet malig nant kind. They both died within the week, but the youngest died first. The day after she waa buried, the poor bereaved mother was anxiously waiting the last hours of the one still left, for whom she well knew ne chance of life remained. Suddenly the sick child woke from a kind of stupor and exclaimed, “ O, look mamma ! look, at the beautiful angels!” pointing to the top of the bed. Mrs. G- saw nothing, hut heard soft, sweet music, which seemed to float in the air. Again the child exclaimed, “O dear, mamma, there is Minnie!” She smiled and appeared greatly pleased. At this moment Mrs G—- distinctly heard a voice say: “ Come, dear Id ;I am waiting for you ! ” The sick child smiled once again, and died without a struggle. Long did the poor mother remember overhearing a childish conversation be tween the two little ones, in which the youngest said to the other that she felt sure she should die first, and would be certain to come and fetch her. Recent Postoffice Ruling’s. Western Postal Review. Pocket knives are uumaiiable. It is the duty of a mail carrier to re ceive mail matter properly prepaid and inclosed iu United States stamped en velopes, when one mile or more from a postoffice. A paper printed in one county and published in another can not be sent to subscribers residing in both counties. A mark calling attention to some par ticular paragraph in a newspaper does not subject it to any additional postage. Crayon drawings are subject to letter rates of postage, the same as any other matter p oduced by pen or pencil. The postal laws prohibit the exchange of postage stamps of one denomination for those of other denominations. Some part of a publication must be printed in the county wherein the claimed office of publication is located, tc enable the same to be sent free to subscribers residing iu said county. (See ruling No. 3.) There is no law excluding postal cards from the mails because of notices of in debtedness being printed or written thereon, but no indecent language, terms or epithets will be allowed in such notices. Ali letters having one full-rate pre paid must be forwaided. Second and third clais matter must be fully prepaid. When a newspaper has been refused by the party addressed it is simply the duty of the postmaster to notify the publisher that such is the case, after which, if the paper continues to arrive in the mails, he should place it with other waste paper, to be sold at tho end of the quarter. The postal law forbids the renting of boxes iu postoffioes to two families or firms. A printed business card may be mailed at third-class rates, provided it has no writing upon it other than the address. Regular newspapers cannot be admit ted to the mails at ponnd rates when a handbill or circular is inclosed. A publication not entitled to be sent in the mails at pound rates cannot be sent as an “ exchange ” at the pound rates. Postmasters at other than letter-car rier offices are obliged to distribute loca (county) newspapers, intended for regu lar subscribers, from the boxes or gen eral delivery of their offices free of charge; provided the same are properly dried, folded and addressed A postmaster cannot use the post office boxes as a medium to advertise his business without fully prepaying all postage, the same as any one else would be required to do. The postoffice department rules that no posti ffice shall be kept in a bar room or a room directly connected there with, nor must any mail be opened or de livered in any such room. Letters passing through the mails can uot lawfully be opened by any officers of the law for the purpose of detecting criminals. It is no part of a postmaster’s busi ness to inquire of a person receiving newspapers, prepaid at pound rates, whether they are subscribers or not, nor 13 there any restriction in the number a person may receive, except in the case of tree country newspapers. Tame Birds. A correspondent of Land and Water gives these interesting instances of the tameness of birds: I had a jackdaw that used to follow the carriage for miles when we drove in hue if we went to the town, about a mile and a half distant, Jack wouli remain on the walls of the old castle, outside the town, until we returned, and then fly round and round the pony’s bead, finally alighting on the splash-board. If we met any other conveyance, he always fl ;w off into the hedge. I likewise had a little b ue tit, who used to settle on the tall trees near the house, and co.xe down when called, alighting otten 'on my head or shoulders. A lady, an ac quaintance of mine, had, she says, a canary so tame that it used to pull her hair out of her curls t line its nest with. This very severe winter has tamed the wild birds in this neighborhood. My window is constantly besieged by them ; robins, finches, sparrows and blackbirds, come flying up directly it is opened, for I am in the habit of feeding them during frosty weather. One, a redbreast, is the master. He is such a greedy little fel low ; he eats his fill and then sits on the plate, keeping all the other birds at bay, and uttering such shrill shrieks, I am otten obliged to go and drive him off so that they may come and pick a few crumbs up. A young friend ef mine put a whole leaf out, a hah-quarter cut in two, and it was so amu-ing to see Bobby, after the birds had picked out the crumb?, ensconce himself in the shell, and scream out defiance to all his com panions. _______ ..When a Hartford 'woman patted her friend’s seven-year-old youngster on the head and said, “I should like to have such a little boy as you are,” he looked uo into her face and replied : “ Well, I guess you can. I don’t believe God’s lost the pattern of me.” . .The Piutes believe that a physician ought to be killed $ a Boon its five ol hie patiests have died. DROWNING NOT DEATH. A Sear Th(rj* ihr Satjeet tbat Merits Attention. The New York Post has an article from Dr. T. S. Lambert upon drowning, which merits attention. He understands drowning not to be death, but suspended animation. It may and does become death, but only after a certain time. When a persons drowns, water does not go into and fill the lungs, a? is commonly supposed. The same acti nof the orgsns that prevents water getting into the “ wrong throat,” prevents it when we drown. The breathing is stopped ; this stops the action of the heart, and the blood pres es on the brain, and uncon sciousness ensues. The animal heat passes away, the fatty parts of the body become hard, and the whole organization rigid. In this condition the lungs have lost their power to expaud, the heart cannot beat, the veins cannot convey the blood. Up to the time the changes occur that annihilate life, Dr. Lambert” considers recovery from drowning or other forms of suffocation possible. Va rious facts led him to this conclusion. Drowned flies, put in the sun, recover and fly away. A hen, partly frozen ar.d wholly drowned, recovered on being put by a stove. Other hens were drowned to test this fact, and rec >vered by being made warm. A cat drowned, then left in the sun, recovered. A dog was in tentionally drowned three different times, cnce twenty minutes under the water; each time he recovered on being laid in the hot sun. Dr. Lambert has brought to life eight persons, who had been drowned, using only heat as the means ot recovery. The doctor gives six rules for the recovery of drowned persons: 1. A recently drowned person is not dead ; knowing that, be hopeful, be cool, and be prompt 2. When the drowned person is taken out of the water, turn his face down, for a moment only, to allow any water m the nose or throat to run cut. There is no water in the lungs, consequently no rolling on a barrel, to get out what is not in, is required ; what has been swallowed into the stomach wiil do no harm. Lay the patient out of currents of air, upon the back, the head slightly raised. 3. If he has to be removed to where heat can be applied, keep the head and body in the above position during the removal. 4 If there must be delay before heat can be reached, take off the wet clothes and wrap around the patient dry articles from the bystanders’ apparel; several thickness aie best. 5. As soon as heat is at hand, apply it as ingenuity and circumstances suggest to be most likely to quickly and thorouhly warm the body. When that is accom plished, theory and fact agree in assur ing us that, it life yet persists, the heart will begin to beat; happily soon followed by breathing, both feebly and un’re quently at first, but more strongly and faster until they become natural, when consciousness will return. If the heart gives one b;at, or the lungs one gasp, no more need be done; keep the person warm and he wiil soon be “ all right.” 6 Suffocation in any other manner should be treated in the same way, ex- ! cept that in choking and in strangling the substances causing these conditions should be first removed ; and in case of breathing poisonous gas or smoke, arti ficial respiration should first be tried until the gas or smoke has been changed for good air in the lungs. Heat may be used by soaking blankets or other articles in hot water and applying them ; put ting bottles of hot water to the feet; hot dry blankets, and even lying in a hot sun or before a fire with heat ap plied to the extremities, may be resorted to. The thing is to apply heat to the whole .surface of the body as soon as pos- B jble—taking the tea or coffee from the pot on the table as it is handiest—and to do it by the means most readily rc3es sible as circumstances will allow and the judgment directs. The means here directed are simple, and the reader who retains a recollection ot them may some day ba the instru ment of saving a life. The Goelet Millions. Peter Goelot, bachelor and million aire, owns more real estate than any other man in New York, the present head of the Astor family excepted. His brother, Robert, married and pretty well supplied with heirs, is also a real estate millionaire and worth very nearly as much money as Peter. The two broth ers inherited their property and have taken excellent care of it. They own many houses on Broadway and acres of land in various other parts of the city, but principally up town. It has been their custom ail along to lease their land rather than build on it. They charge a rent of 5 per ceiit on the value, and they sometimes adva.ee money to the lessee to build, taking a mortgage as security. The lesiee has to pay all taxes and other expenses, so the 6 per cent is a clear in come. Since the hard times began the Goelets have become the owners of many of the houses erected on their land. Most of these houses were built in flush times by speculators, with borrowed money, some of which was advanced by the Goelets .When the mortgage intere't became due and the speculators could not pay, having been unable to either sell the houses or rent them, the mort gjges were foreclosed, and in most case the houses were bought by the owners oi the land. It was a perfectly legitimate proceeding, of course, but it meant ruin to hundreds and profit to only one or two —ons Goelet, or possibly both. The wealth of the family has been greatly increased in this way, and there are many broken-down builders and speculators in New York who curse the day they had anything to do with a Goelet les.se. The largest building erected on Goelet land is the Windsor Hotel, which was sold under foreclosure a few weeks ago. The Goelets had mortgages on it amounting to about SIBO,OOO, for money advanced to build it. John T. Daly, who bor rowed the money, became insane ant! hanged himself in a shanty across the East river. His heirs held the property, but it finally became too heavy for them Mortgage interest fell due; they could not pay, and a foreclosure was ordered. A represeamiTS of ttie Soelcti ittoßcied S. A. CUNNINGHAM. I the sale and bid ap until the price went above the mortgages. He then with drew ahd other parties continued the bidding until $351,000 was reached, and the property was knocked down to an agent of the Daly heirs. At the time ol Mr. Daly’s death the val ue of the prop erty was estimated at $750 000. Eccentricities of the Sword-Fish. Hartford Courant. Visitors at New London, Block Island or other of our fishing ports have no doubt noticed that at the end of tl e bowsprit of the larger sized fishing boats there is often an iron cage or frame, so made as to be safe for a man to stand in it. This is the place from which the fisherman throws the harpoon to capture the sword-fish, and the sword-fish is just now the subject of considerable discus sion. Its ways have at least as much mystery as the shad, salmon, herring or any other unaccountablas that we have. Professor G. R. Gooie is studying up the matter, preparatory to a report to the government. Some of the interest ing features of the fish are these: It is found here and there from spring to fall in the ocean on our coast, lying “asleep,” the sailors call it, on the ver/ surface of the water. Nobody on the American coast, as far as reported, ever saw a little sword fish. The smallest recorded by a correspondent of the Forest and Stream weighed forty-six pounds. They run up to 600 pounds. Their only known breed ing ground is in the Mediterranean. There the same fish are found weighing half a pound ; from that they go up*to very heavy measurement. It is nat urally inferred from this that all our sword fish are Mediterranean products. What mysterious ocean current guides them over here? Or is it an instinct that teaches them that here they will find the mackerel and menhaden that they 'eed ou ? One can almost imagine that the game flight and pursuit kept up by these two species starts at Gibraltar, and is run to Block Island every day. The sword-fish darts upon a school of ptey, and by skillful use of its swoTd wounds that it afterward captures and eats. Until this season nobody ever thought of catching it except by har poons. This year, however, it has taken the habits of the trawls—bottom lines— of the Cape Ann codfishermen, and many sword fish have been caught in this novel way. What they come up and sleep for is one of the puzzles of their natures. They come and go as the mackerel and menhaden, and from that it is naturally concluded that they spend t,Seir time chasing these small fish. V/iiat with sharks, sword-fish, porpoises, biuefish, sea-gulls, eagles and seines, and S 1 the rest a-ter them, the fish of the herring tribes have led such lives of flight and terror that it is no longer a wonder that the movements of any school of them seem always guided by au inherent idiocy. It is less strange of them that they are all the while victims than that, being caught by millions yearly, they should steadily increase. There were never more menhaden on our coast than this year. A Bravo but Fruitless Effort The recent inundation in Hungary, though on a large scale, bears a close resemblance to the terrible calamity that devastated the Swiss valley of Martigny half a century ago, which is still re membered as one of the most formidable floods ever witnessed in that part o’ Europe. In the spring of 1818, the D.anee, which flows through the vallev, It 8 ened by degrees till its channel was left perfectly dry. A party sent to rcconaoiter found the river completely blocked by the falling of a huge mass of ice, behind which the rising waters were, drowning the upland villages one by tne, while the lower ground was left waterUss and parching. It was instantly resolved to avert the threatened outburst by cutting a tunnel through the i?e, and running the water off by degrees. The execution of this arduous task was one of the most heroic exploits on record. For five whole weeks the indomitable men, wi'fc death staring them in the ‘ace, toiled night and day in alternate gangs, the water rising aromd them from below, the half-melted ice thunder ing down upon them frem above, and the danger of a sudden overflow increas ing with every hour. By some miscal culation, the two sections of the tunnel, commenced from opposite sides, had a twenty-foot difference of levee which cost several days additional labor to rectify. At length the water began to fljw, and all danger seemed over, when suddenly the base of the iee-barrier, already weakened by the growing heat of summer, gave way with a terrific crash, and the whole body of water burst forth at once, sweeping down the valley with the speed of an express traiD. Its force and volume may be estimated by the fact that a solid bridge, ninety feet above the ordinary lev* 1 of the river, was torn away like & thread. Of the whole town of Martigny, nothing escaped but the ruined castle on its highest ridge, the destruction of life and property being so great that ;or the time being the beautiful valley was turned into an absolute desert. The Oldest Mau in tli* World. The oldest man in the world is claimed to be one Miguel Soiis, living at Bogota, in the republic of San Salvador. Dr. Hernandez writes to the New Pesther Journal the following particulars : His name figures in the list of subscribers to the Franciscan convent of San Sebastian in 1712. He can still work ; his skin is like parchment, his hair plentiful, but snow-white, and rolled about his head in turban fashion. His eyes are full of fire. He answered every question in the clearest manner, and accounted for his astonishing longevity in these words: “ 1 have never to my .recollection eaten more than once a day. The first and fifteenth of each month l fast rigorously from all food, but drink a great quantity of water. I always eat my food cold. I have never committed the least excess in drinking.” .. A temperance law has been so rigid ly enforced in the vicinity of Toronto, that the tavern keepers of Newm&rket have closed their bouses and agreed not (o reopen ttem till the m is repealed. WAIFS AND WHIMS. THE SO AD T > 81.0 MBEB-LAN. W hit to ths roi-t to Slum lr-Uml-f *nd <*<>•■ the biby go t She road ll<* air*i<ht through mo.har arms whan th • sun Us tinting low- He gots by th diowty ‘ land ol nod” to the land of- lullabr,” Who:, all wee lambtarotafe In tboLfd, undo the opening ky. A toft llttlo ni htgown clean and while a face wash 'd tweet and fair; A mother brushing the tangle* out of the allten golden hair; Two lit'le tir>d satiny feet, from th > shoe and the stocking free, Two little points together clasped, at the mother’s patient knee; Some baby word' that are drowsily lltped to tl • tender Shepherd's ear; And a ki-s taat only the mot..er ean piaeo on the brow of her baby dear; A little roued held which nestles at last oloee to the mother’s breast, And then tha lulUby, soft and low, singing the sang of rest; And closerand closer the b’ua-vslned U-is are hit ing the baby's eyes, As over the roid to Alumoar-land the dear little traveler hlee. For this is the w>y, throujh mother’s Mips, all little babies go, To the beautiful City of Slumber-land, when the sun is sinking low. ..When Paul Boynton gets down among the alligators there will be more interest in his voyage than at present. .. As an eminent medical authority has asserted that kissing and hugging are dangerous 1o health, a cynical Boston paper reccommends marriage as a sure preventive, ..One reason why the south is not a favorite roaming ground for tramps, is because it is the best section of country in earth for dogs with eighteen teeth in the front row. ..Did you ever see two tuen, when they stop on the street to talk, cross over and back at every aentence ? And yet they do this on the stage in order to appear “ naturH*’ ..Love may be blind, but we have yet to see a young man who prefers the gas turned on full head to a chat in the moonlight. It may be economy and it may not—probably not. .There are too many women in the woild; sixty thousand more women than men in Massachusetts,” growled the husband. “ That is the ‘ survival of the fittest,’ my dear,” replied the wife. On the boulevard : You look sad?” “ Have you not heard?” “ No.” “My wife has been taken away.” “ Mine al so, a month ago.” “It was cold in the chest.” “in the case of my wife it was the coachman.” .. A little girl was asked by her moth er, on her return home from church, how she liked the preacher. “ Didn’t like him at all,” was the reply. “Why?” asked the mother. “’Cause he preached till he made me sleepy, and then hollered so loud he wouldn't let m go to sleep.” Don’t Be Too Fresh. Certain bores, who think it an evi dence of being a good fellow to call gen tlemen, with whom they have only a slight acquaintance, by their first names, may be edified upon reading that a deci sion ou politeness was recently given by the supreme court at Boston. A hotel clerk sued his employers, who had discharged him before his time was up, they alleging that he had injured their business by being too familiar with guests in addressing them by their Christian names or surnames only. The allegation was admitted and the court said : “ To address a person by his Christian name, unless the parties have been inti mately connected, socially and otherwise, is uncalled for familiarity, and, therefore, insulting to the party so addressed. To address a party by his surname only, shows a want of respect, and would imply that the party so addressed was beneath the party addressing; therefore, it is discourteous, and would be consid ered insulting. To speak of employers by their surname only, shows a great want of respect on the part of the employee toward the employer. While it may be customary for a person to address his junior clerks or under ser. vanfs by their Christian or surnames, to address others so shows a want of respect, and the party so addressed would natur ally evade contact in the future with anyone who had previously so addressed him.” Politeness, added the court, costs nothing ; but the want of it had cost the plaintiff the loss of his situation. The complaint was dismi-sed with costs. Some Beaeousfieltl Epigrams. Lord Beacensfield said fo a member of the Manchester chamber of commerce, who came to tell him that the chamber intended to vote resolutions condemna tory of the ministerial policy on the eastern question: “ I have heard a great deal about Manchester ‘clayed cotton,’ which is disgracing the English name in China. Please tell the chamber that if they attend to my business I will try and attend to theirs.” Equally smart was a stricture of his upon Birmingham, pronounced in the hearing of thß heir of the throne, whom it tickled : “ A curious city, Birming ham ; its prosperity is founded on the manufacture of instruments ol war and sham jewelry; yet it has the disinter* estedness to elect three members (Bright, Dixon and Muntz) whodon’tknow a gun barrel from a pea-shooter, and who never had a watch chain between thnn” Of Mr. Carlyle he said : “He had his reasons for writing civilly of Crom well _ Cromwell would have hanged him.” Of Mr. Browning : “ I like Mr. Brown ing’s versts, and wish somebody would translate them into English.” A lady was telling the premier that she had been to Mr. Spurgeon’s taber nacle and had heard him preach a scath ing political sermon in which he (Lord B ) was much abused. “I wish I had been there,” was the dry rejoinder. “ I have heard he can be very amusing.” Strange Coincidence. Avery extraordinary act is just now the talk of one of our West End hotelß, iftrites a London correspondent. A lady who has lately arrived from Australia had a dream about six weeks ago that her half-sister who is still in the colo nies, had been accidentally killed. The dieam impressed itself upon her so strongly that she made a note of it in her diary, telling her husband about it at the time. A day or two since she received the sad intelligence that the lady in question had leen accidentally killed by being thrown from a carriage, and on consulting her diary found that, allowing for the difference of time be tween London and the colony, her sister had been killed about the time of the dream. The story is not a ficti n; I have ascertained the facts and can vouch for its truth. It reveals a very stranj CQiocideacfi. tf sotfaiog more,
