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to the ioya of courtship, h. In some countries
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Solution.—This is very simple, and can be solved
by mental procesa. The young man extinguished
the lamp ao that he could have the fun of striking
a match and lighting it again.- OH City Derrick.
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THRILLER lyaES gv RAIL.
“In the. fall of 1849 I commenced run
ning the baggage on the New York and
Erie: Railway.’’ ssucUMr. John Camp.
otreSi #u oWeet tlmWigh ill
the Company’s employ, in conversation
with the writer at the Erie Depot, foot
of Chambers-street, “ and a rough time
we had of it, too. Railroading was at
that time in ite infancy, the steam loco
motive was anew thing, and was every
where regarded as one of the wonders
of invention. Doing away with, as it
did, the old tedious stage lines, and
making the distance in far less time,
with none of the inconveniences of the
early methods of conveyance, it was, of
course, generally attractive.
“ But still, when I look back and com
pare our old cabooses, small wood-burp
mg engines, rickety cars and cheap rails
with these modern coaches and solid
locomotives, comfortable cars, heavy
Stee} rails and reliable air-brakes, I am
as much astonished at the improvements
as people were at the first invention.
You see, we had no reliable arrange
ment in the matter of brakes, and those
terrible old machines used for that pur
pose wj3re simply a chain worked at
each end by a sort of wheel, which,
when turned by strong exertion, pressed
a block of iron made to fit the face of
the wheel tightly against it, similar to
a.like construction on a heavy wagon.
Well, the boys dptested these brakes,
which were a dangerous thing to handle
by an inexperienced man,“with the train
going at full speed. More than one poor
fellow has received his death from the
breaking of the chain while operating
these bungling .machines. In the ab
sence of a name for the brakes of that
day,-the boys used to call them the
. 4 Armstrong Brake,’ which was well ap
• plied, as it required a full amount of
-of muscle and nerve to operate them.
“I began running from New York,
by way of Piermont, before the road
was open to Suftern’s. AVe used to
transfer passengers and baggage up the
Hudson River to Piermontfrom our old
depot, which was located at .the foot of
Duane-street, on two boats owned by the
Company, and from that place west
ward by rail. The completion of the
road down through New Jersey is of
more recent date. After a few months
the road was opened t<> Elmira, and
thence up to Jefferson (now Watkins) at
the foot of Seneca Lake, and our traffic
was transferred from that place by b at
to Geneva and on to Buffalo. The year
after we ran to Hornersville, and about
1851, or thereabouts, we reached Dun
kirk, then the western terminus.
“ I think that the section from Port
Jervis to Deposit was about the worst
and most dangerous of any in the coun
try, being cither cut in the rocky cliffs
embankißg the river, where, in case of a
slight accident, the whole train would
have been hurled down the precipice
fully one hundred feet into the foaming
waters beneath, or laid through low
woodland marshes clear down to the
river’s level. It was in these high cuts
that the danger of rocks on the track
was feared. A slight rain, or the moisten
ing of the ground occasioned by the
frost leaving’it in the spring of the year,
would start a large rock, which would
fall to the track, and, should a train
collide with it in the night, the chances
were in favor of a wholesale slaughter.
From Lackawanna to Hancock we were
pretty near down to thelow-water mark,
and with a slight freshet our track was
subject to being washed out for a long
distance, thus requiring a great deal of
watching and repairs; and in each case
of such a wash-out I have known trains
to he blocked for a day or two. ’Tis not
the most agreeable thi’ngin the world to
he.thus delayed, and not a house within
ten miles of the spot. Perhaps more ac
cidents h'ave occurred on division
than on any other two divisions com
bined, and it is a wonder to me that we
have not all been hurled into eternity.
From Deposit to Susquehanna it is up
and down hill, the grade running for
eight miles on each side of the sum
mit at a slops of sixty feet to the mile.
Along this section was the old Cascade
Bridge, familiar to tourists as the high
est structure of its kind in the State, and
which being washed out was subse
quently filled in with gravel, over a
stone culvert, making a yawing ravine
on either side fully one hundred feet
deep. Along the Susquehanna and
Chemung Valleys the road is good; the
scenery through this section is not sur
passed for picturesqueness throughout
the State, and hundreds of dwellings
and farms dot the hillsides and valley,
with here and there a neat little village.
The principal stations on this division
are Binghamton, Owego and Elmira. In
those early days Owego was the largest
and most thriving of any, and was con
nected by a horse railroad with Ithaca,
but time’s changes have more favored
Elmira and Binghamton, until in fact
they have far advanced beyond their
sister village. The road was in fair
condition ihc remainder of the way to
Dunkirk
"Our cars were rather poor affairs
to.mpsred with the palace, drawing-room
THl® ELLIJ AY COURIER
t antf h#iwl coaches, but people were just
I-* comfortable then sea ted in n old box
. car with six windows on'a side as in
those on the improved plan. The en
gines were of a smaller pattern than the
heavy coal-burners at present in use,
*tfd though not as strong, were capable
of pulling quite a load. Sometimes, in
case of delay, our wood supply would
run out, and th<m the whole force on the
train was obliged to turn out and cut
enough wood to enable us to make the
Dearest station.’’ *"
“'ll the matter of baggage, where.,
now a spacious new Saratoga or an orna
mented canvased-covered russet is a
necessity, an old painted wooden chest,
with iron handles, was usual, while a
hair-trunk and a. carpet-bag seemed a
luxury. There were no ‘ baggage
smashers ’ then; they came with modern
improvements. Our baggage-cars were
simply ordinary box-cars, painted yel
low, with a door at each ena, and a win
dow and door on the sides; the platforms
fere without railings. But very few
of these cars had even a stoke in them,
and were decidedly uncomfortable, be
ing too hot in summer and very cold in
winter. A ride of thirty or forty miles
in the dead of winter, and not even
time to ruryiuto the coach to get warm!
Isn’t it a cheerful thought? But such
was our business, and such was railroad
ing twenty-five years ago.
“ Speaking of accidents I will give
you an account of a few. Among the
many such familiar to all. pldl railroad
men there was one which most impresses
me, and which happened to the train on
which I was running, at Deposit, in the
winter of 1852,1 think AVe were east
ward bound, and while stopping for
dinner at thU plhce the scene occurred.
I had scarcely seated myself at the table
in the dining-room before there Was
heard a great yelling and s v ; ng
among the crowd on the train and „ e
station. It was useless to ask the cause
of this sudden outburst, as in a heat of
excitement nobody seemed to know any
thing. Upon rushing out I soon dis
covered. a freight train coming at a
■frightful speed down the grade from the
summit, and that she roust run into us.
It was but the work of a moment; she
couldn’t stop; we had no time to eet
out. On she crashed, colliding with
terrible force with the rear of our train,
and making a complete wreck of every
thing. As soon as the passengers be
came aware of the approaching danger
there was a general panic in that train,
each one struggling with the other to
reach the door, and, consequently, the
loss of life was large. A party of Mo
hawk Indians were in the rear car, and,
being ignorant of this sudden outburst,
and unable to understand its
ran hither and thither, some
off. thadoomed car, and others r® u,, |l"g
into the forward cars. Among tflfm
was a young squaw—the brightest-look
ing Indian I ever saw—who ran for the
forward platform of the rear car, which
she succeeded in reaching just as the
train crashed into its rear. So sudden
was the jar that she was thrown upon
the track, directly across the rails, and
her head was severed from her body.
AVe gathered up the remains, placed
them in a box, and gave them in charge
of her friends.
“She was buried in Oswego, where,
through the influence of the late Judge
C. P. Avery, of that place, a large and
elaborate monument of white marble
was erected, with this inscription: ‘Sa
cred to the memory of Sa-sa-na-oft; by
birth a Child of the Forest, by adoption
a Child of God.’ Here her people come
every year and pay respect to the mem
ory of their lamented sister. In a quiet
corner of Evergreen Cemetery, at that
place stands the ‘ Indian Girl’s Monu
ment,’ familiar to every one in the
Susquehanna Valley; its lone and seem
ingly sad seclusion in its shady reserve
upon the mountain overlooking river
and railroad, and the bit of romance
connected with it, making it attractive
to all visitors at Oswego—once the home
of N. P. AVillis, the poet. On the same
train was a little girl between twelve
and fifteen years of age, journeying from
Great Bend to her home in Otisville.
She had been at the Bend to attend the
funeral of her aunt, who was buried on
the preceding day. She, too, was in
the rear car, and in the excitement and
panic was unable to escape. With a
terrible crash the engine of the freight
train forced its way into the rear end
of the car, filling it full of scalding
steam which emanated from the boiler
of the locomotive. AVith the sudden
jar the girl must have been thrown to
the floor, and was there scalded to a
frightful mass, so intense was the heat
of the steam. As soon as possible the
car was forced open and the body of the
poor unfortunate, who was still alive
and suffering beyond description, was
removed to more ’comfortable quarters.
So terrible was the effect of the hot
vapor that in her removal, though every
possible care and attention was given,
the flesh would peel off her body with
the merest touch.
“ In this painful trial she exhibited
the most wonderful patience, and was
conscious of her condition to the end.
After we had got her in a more agree
able position she gave a brief account
of herself, with her name and place of
residence. The fortitude and meekness
she displayed I have never seen equaled.
AVithout a murmur, and with a smile
of gentle peace and resignation, calm as
the departing day, she passed away
within an hour after her recovery from
the wreck. I have thought of this sad
sight a thousand times and as often
have I fervently thanked God that as
yet no child of mine had ever met such
a fate. It is sad to witness the decease
of a strong man, dr to assemble at the
death-bed of departing friends; but to
see a young and beautiful maiden, just
verging into a happy womanhood, thus
cut off, is fearful.
“ One night about eleven oclock we
left Port Jervis on time, bound west
ward. It was in the spring of the year,
the weather was bad, rain had been
pouring down incessantly the whole
day long, and I did not like the prospect
ahead. Dark! you couldn’t see your
hand before your lace—ami we were
running along those rocks aud cliffs at
| about thirty miles an hour. To tell the
truth, I was uneasy in mind regarding
the safety of the trip. A horrid, dismal
1 fading, "ffefc as I hav* never ex-
ELLI J AY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1878.
perienced before or since, seemed to
creep over me, notwithstanding my
endeavors to shake it off with the idea
that it was simply nervousness Hur
rying through with my work, and after
a close inspection to see that all was
right within, I lit a cigar, and, repairing
to the smoking-car, seated myself by the
stove. Scarcely five minutes afterward,
and hardly before I had time to direct
my thoughts from the mental gloom
from which I was suffering, there came
a shrill, short whistle, known to the
beys as a signal of followed by
a series of crashes, a terrible jar, and
then a long and awful silence. AVith
the rest I rushed out to see what was
the trouble. There was the engine cut
loose from the train, lying upon its side,
nearly parallel with the track, close up
to the rocks, while my car was precipi
tated over the cliff into the river, about
thirty feet down. It appears that a
large rock had fallen to the track, and
as the front of the locomotive struck it
she glanced to the left, and turned over
on her side, while the baggage-car, fol
lowing next, had glanced in the opposite
direction, broken her coupling and gone
clean down the bank. The fireman was
killed outright, while the engineer was
hurled out of the forward cab-window
to the track, and the boiler of the engine
came down upon him, resting upon his
legs and hips. His name, I think, was
Talloman—a good fellow, too —and there
he lay with about twelve tons of red-hot
iron crushing him to the ground. AVe
hnd no ‘jack-screws’ or derricks to prop
up or raise the engine with, and were
atoms on the rocky cut in the middle of
the night, with nothing on earth to
rescue or relieve the poor fellow with.
His sufferings for the few awful minutes
which preceded his death were fearful
to contemplate. • ‘Oh 1 save me 1’ he
cried, with an expression of painful
horror and desperate agony. ‘ For God’s
sake, if you are men, help me! I don’t
care if 1 lose my legs, only save me
from this terrible death. My wife and
child will starve. Oh, Qod, it’s killing
me!’ And there he moaned away his
life, while, perhaps, his dearer ones at
home were awaiting with eager expect
ancy his welcome return. Powerless as
we were to save, it was a period of horror
for us strong and willirfg men-to witness’
this sight. Not.until morning could
the wreck be removed, and then a large
corps of trackmen and laborers were
obliged to clear the track. Those are
about the worst accidents I have ever
witnessed. I had five dogs with me
when we left the ‘ Port,’ ana upon going
down to the car I found those canines
as healthy hnd frisky as you could wish,
barking lustily as they saw me approach,
and not a hair singed or a scratch upon
them. Funny, wasn’t it? My residence
is in Oswego, and I make the entire trip,
from New York to Buffalo twice a week,
having every other Sunday off in New
York. Our road is now in a condition
second to none in the country —road-
beds t-mooth, rqils solid, and reputation
as a trunk line unexcelled. In the Erie
of to-day tnere remains not a vestige of
the clumsy contrivances which all new
railways then possessed.”
AVords of Wisdom.
[Stillwater Lumberman.]
AVhen men, women and opportunity
meet, the devil sits down, knowing that
the fire will burn withouthelp from him.
It is better to rise from your knees,
and shut your hens out of your neigh
bor’s yard, than to indulge in long
prayers.
The perfectly contented man is also
perfectly useless.
Try to see yourself through the eyes
of those around you.
The ideal saint of the young moralist
is cut from sappy timber.
The Lord can more easily have faith
in the religion that wears an old coat
to church, than the man in the coat
can.-
True prosperity builds up the soul
rather than tne pocketbook.
The vigorous ideal keeps warm though
wrapped in few words.
Faith that asks no questions kills the
soul and stifles the intellect.
Happy is the man who has neighbors
willing to forgive his mistakes.
Appear to be better than you are, and
aim to be what you appear.’
He who thinks poorly of himself can
not win the respect of his fellows.
Many who expect to go to heaven,
will find little comfort there unless
they are able to get up a lively trade in
harps, and gold, and nickel plated crowns.
Neglected Children.
[Rural Sun.]
Many a mother has wept over the sins
of her child, little dreaming that while
she pursued her round of idle pleasures,
that child was taking its first lesson in
sin from the example of a vicious nurse.
The truth is, parents take upon them
selves too many unnecessary burdens,
and consider themselves bound by duty
to perform too many tasks, which are of
much less consequence than the teaching
and training of their children. Tbe
father has his trade or profession, and
his few leisure hours he must spend in
social pleasure. The mother has her
household cares, and the comforts of her
family to study; and besides this there is
much time to he devoted to-fancy work,
viritors, and to amusements of one kind
and another. Her children are mere
secondary considerations, and depend
upon the kindness of hirelings. Their
dresses may be miracles of puffing, ruf
fles and embroidery, but what does that
count when their minds are dwarfed
through neglect? Her house may be the
model of neatness, her bread excel that
j of all her neighbors, her jellies and pre
| serves enough to tempt the most fastid
; ions; but if in all this she has k--pt aloof
! from her child, has chilled his heart
' towards her, what does it count ?
The Countess Marie Bismarck, the
daughter of the Prince, is to be married
sometime in the winter. She is a charm
ing lady, and a great favorite with her
father. Count Rautzan, her betrothed,
is the descendant of an ancient family
in Holstein, is a member ef tbe German
diplomatic corps, and has always heen
much liked by Prince Bismarck, who
appointed him one of the secretaries to
l tne late Congme,
SCIENCE AND ART.
Alfred Stevens, th 4 Belgian artist,
has been appointed to paint the silver
wedding-of King Leopold and his Queen.
A new picture, by Gabriel Max, on
exhibition in Berlin, represents A’enus
and Tannhauser when the latter, sated
with beauty’s charms, is about to set
out on his travels.
The fourth centenary of the birth of
Giorgione, one of the founders of the
A r enetian school of paintiDg, has just
been celebrated at Castelfranco, Italy,
and a statue of him unveiled.
Bicknell, the Malden (Mgss.) artist,
has painted a figure piece, with land -
scape, entitled, “ representing
Tennyson’s heroin* in her sorrowful
journey from the home out of ivhich
she has been driven; It is highly com
mended.
At the Paris Observatory a large hall
is to be fitted up as a picture gallery.
On the walls, together with portraits of
the most eminent astronomers, will he
hung view’s of the moon and the plan
ets, magnified by telescopes of the high
est power.
Edmonia Lewis, the daughter of an
Indian mother and negro father, has
captured the Chicago critics with her
colossal statue of “ Cleopatra Dying.”
This is her second work of note exhib
ited in the United States, her first—
“Hagar”—having been destroyed by
fire.
A traveling fortress, an iron-clad
coach, is now running on the Cheyenne
and Black Hills stage patji. It is made
of thick boiler iron, with four port
holes, is bullet-proof, carries two well
armed guards inside, and runs for the
sole purpose of transporting bullion for
the California quartz mills.
Mrs. AVilson G. Evres, of Newport,
R. 1., has a remarkable portrait of Gen
eral Washington. It was a present from
Martha Washington to Colonal Lear,
Mrs. Eyre’s grandfather. It is Bet in
the form of a locket, about three inches
in length, and in the back there is a
lock of AVashington’s hair. On the
satin lining of the case are these words:
“ Presented to T. Lear by his friend,
Mrs. AVashington, 1801.
The police have discovered at Rome
some valuable paintings and tapestry,
which were concealed in 1878 by the con
gregation of Maria in Valleeelli
before the liquidating junta took posses
sion of the convent. Among the objects
area “ Holy Family,”attributed to An
drea del Sarto; a vase in verd antique,
valued at twenty-five thousand francs,
and a tapestry, said to be worth six
thousand francs.
Miss Harriet Hosmer’s statue, rep
resenting a well-kuor/n Incident isUhe.
destruction of Pompeii—the death of
the Roman sentinel at his post—is to
be completed in marble, in Rome, next
year. It is over eight feet high, and is
said to be finished with the greatest del
icacy. The sentinel stands half leaning
forward on his spear,—the right knee
advanced and slightly bent. He seems
straining every sense to catch, if possible,
the welcome word of command to leave
his post of death. But he remembers
that he is a soldier; that lie has been
posted with orders to leave only when
duly relieved; and, in spite of failing
strength and weakening physique, he
manfully obeys orders.
The statue of “ Humboldt,” by Fer
dinand von Muller, lias been cast in
bronze in Munich. It is a gift to the
city of St Louis from Mr. Henry Shaw,
who last year presented it with a Shaks
peare memorial. The statue is seven
feet in height, and represents the sub
ject in his thirtieth year. He leans
against a .palm stump, from which hangs
his mantle. His face expresses deep
thought. In bis right hand he holds a
map. The costume is of some eighty
years ago. The figure will be placed
on a stone pedestal, to be decorated with
three bronze medallions, in relief, de
signed and cast by the same artist. The
one in front shows the features of the
donor of the monument, with an appro
priate inscription. The other two for
the sides represent the giant volcano
Chimborazo and part of the grand for
ests on the hanks of the Orinoco, both
of which Humboldt was the first to ex
plore.
We are accustomed to regard the
great trees of California as the most
gigantic specimens of vegetable growths
known to man, but such is not tne case.
There is a submarine plant growing in
the North Pacific Ocean which, accord
ing to Professor Deinsch, dwarfs all
others in its vast proportions. The
Macrocittis pnjri(era } one of the Melan
otpermw, has been known to grow to
such an extent as.to cover vast areas of
the ocean bed. One specimen, by meas
urement was found to cover three square
miles, and the stem from which the
growth proceeded was eight feet in
diameter. It is almost impossible, to
conceive of such a plant, or how a sys
tem of nourishment can lie maintained
through such extended channels in
the living organism. Nature performs
strange freaks, and certainly none can
be stranger than the fact that of this
gigantic species there are some speci
mens so small as to be microscopic, or
only to he seen by the aid of powerful
objectives.
An Extraordinary Fish.
A most interesting discovery has been
made in the Sea of Tiberias of a fish
which incubates its young in the cavi
ties of the mouth; and, what is the more
remarkable, it is the male which per
forms this part of the family function.
Asf soon as the female has deposited its
eggs in the hollow cf the sand, the male
approaches and draws them into the cav
ities of the mouth by the process of aspi
ration. Here they are distributed be
tween the leaves of the gills; and in the
midst of the respiratory organs the eggs
rapidly develop, distending the mouth
of the male fish in the most extraordi
nary manner. Finally the young fishes
make their appearance, packed in the
gills like so many herrings, all with
iheir heads directed toward the opening.
■ From this place of safety mid retreat
1 they run in and out until they are large
i enough to take care of themselves. It
is said that as many as two hundred
; individuals art soaatimas crowded Into
1 the mouth End gills of the mala flab.
Two San Francisco Women.
San Francisco is a vast gambling hell
at the present time, and the women are,
if possible, worse than the men, in their
greed to obtain money by gambling in
mining stocks. A very sad case, illus
trative of the demoralization which the
craze is developing, is now before the
police court. A young womau of one of
the best known society families, wild to
raise a few hundred dollars with which
to speculate in mining stocks, invented
a bogus charitable society to relieve the
pressing wants of needy and starving
families, whose modesty "would not per
mit them to make a personal apjleal to
the charity of their friends or the public.
She appointed herself treasurer, under a
false name, and sent out a number of
circulars begging for money. One of
these circulars was sent to Mr. Sam. AVil
son, a prominent lawyer, who, suspect
ing a swindle, sent a police officer to fol
low the messenger and investigate. At
the same time he handed the messenger
a small sum of money, which was duly
delivered to the young woman who was
waiting in the street, and who, lining
unable to establish the good faith of the
society for which she pretended to be
acting, was arrested, and charged with
swindling and obtaining money by false
pretenses. Mr. AVilson was sent for, and
found, to his consternation, that the
prisoner was a fashionahle young
woman, a frequent visitor at his own
and others of the best houses in town.
Bail was taken for her appearance flier
true name was withheld from the police
report and newspapers, and strenuous
efforts are being made to avoid a trial
and public exposure. The affair is, how
ever, an open secret, and the girl,
who is only nineteen years of age, is
ruined for life, ,
The Palace Hotel, in San Francisco,
is just now perplexed with an amusing
contest wi(h the wife of an jmuy officer,
who has made her presence very objec
tionable to the inmaterfof that vast es
tablishment by undertaking, on her own
assumption, to manage its social arrange
ments. She has succeeded in making
herself so obnoxibuA to the guests of the
house thatthe managers have requested
her to leave, which sne peremptorily re
fuses to do, and challenges them to put
her out by force.
Her gas and water are cut off, but she
holds the fort and refuses to surrender.
Her appearance in the public rooms oc
casions a general stampede; hut as she
pays her bnls regularly, and has an un
commonly voluble and bitter tongue,
Senator Sharon and his staff’ are in an
awkward dilemma.
History of a Demi Letter.
Some time in 1877 a soldier stationed
with th% cavalry in Texas died very
suddenly, and was buried with military
honors by his comrades, and the spot
carefully marked. On his person was a
discharge, which he had received the
day before for physical disability, and
a letter from his mother in England,
and one evidently from his sweetheart,
hut signed only by her first name. These
were carefully preserved by the lieuten
ant of the company and forwarded, by a
letter of sympathy, to the bereaved
mother in England. In due course of
time the letter was returned to the
United States Dead Letter Office as un
deliverable, the mother not at her
former address. It was then opened,
and, after an examination, returned in
its open condition, with the suggestion
that the contents would enable the En
glish post officials to discover the person
it was intended to reach; but in due
course of time it came hack the second
time as undeliverable.
The letter was then turned over to
one of the lady clerks in the Dead Let
ter Office, who on reading the contents,
with a woman’s instinct, divined that
the “Ollie” spoken of in the letter and
the Miss L—— spoken of in the mother’s
letter was identical. AVhat is techni
cally termed a “ letter of discovery ”
was addressed to the supposititious lady
at ihe address in (Scotland post-marked
on her letter. This letter on reachibg that
office was forwarded to London, whither '
the young lady had gone, and the Dead
Letter Office at AVashington has just re
ceived a reply from her, with thanks
for the diligence displayed in endeavor
ing to secure the delivery of the letter,
stating that it was the first they heard
of the soldier’s death, and giving the
present address of the mother of the sol
dier, to whom the original package has
been forwarded, making its fifth trip
across the Atlantic Ocean.
The famous marble quarriesof Carrara
although they have been worked since
the reign of Augustus, and have fur
nished a steady and enormous supply to
the whole civilized globe, seem to be in
exhaustible. They compose an entire
mountain range, and embrace every
variety and quality of mifrble, from the
coarse, common kind to the statuary mar- !
hie, Monte Crestola and Monte Sagro j
yielding the largest aud finest blocks, i
The blocks are detached, drawn out by
oxen, and rolled down the hill. The
quarries numbersomefivehundred, only
about twenty of them furnishing the mar
ble used by sculptors. Mostof the inhabi
tants of Carrara and the vicinity—some
6,0f;0 workmen in all—are employed in
the labor at forty cents to sixty-two
cents a day. The marble taken out dur
ing the year before last was about 120,000
tons, valued at $2,400,000, of which
40,000 tons went to the United States.
The export of marble to this country
has increased immensely within twelve
to fifteen years, the third largest firm
of marble quarry owners now at Carrara
being American. The American Consul
there is a member of the firm, and his
! Consulate is said to produce a larger in
! come than any other in Italy.
The two rooms occupied by Voltaire
in his chateau at Ferney have been
kept lovingly and reverently as he left
them His sleeping apartment, with its
truckle bed an’d its walls hung round
with portraits—among them Milton and
Newton— is exactly the same as when he
I died there a century asm. Unchinped,
: too, by Cook’s tourist’s knives is still the
i black sarcophagus in which his heart is
1 interned.
Take in your geraniums at night; lay
. away your straw bat* ; take your Ulster*
1 out of the camphor or pawnshop.
A Review of home of the Leading In
ventions of the Past Half Century.
1“ Pro(r**or' Chair" In Christian t’nlon.]
AVhat next? AVhy, steamboats, of
course. AVere you surprised to learn
for what a comparatively few years we
have had railroads? People thought of
applying steam to vessels a long time
before they experimented with locomo
tives, although the first practical results
of the former came fairly within this
century. The idea seems to have been
a long time working itself out, for some
people Bay that the application of steam
to boats was suggested by Roger Bacon,
who lived away back in twelve hundred
and something.
One or two tugboats and working
models of steamboats were made during
the latter part of the last century, but
Robert Fulton, in 1807, sailed up the
Hudson River in the first passenger
steamer making regular trips. This
boat was called the “Clermont,” and
was one hundred and thirty feet long,
eighteen feet beam and seven feet deep,
and had a tonnage of one hundred and
sixty tons. Her speed was about five
miles an hour. In 1814 Fulton built the
United. States steamer “Fulton the
First.” She was the first steam war
vessel ever constructed.
America sent the first steamer across
the Atlantic in 1819. This trip occu
pied twenty-six days. The Professor,
chair and all, can cross now in about ten
days; that is if anyone will pay his—
hut we will not hint. On tne 4th of
July, 1840, tlio “ Britannia” left Liv
erpool for New York. She was the first
steamer of the famous Cunard Line, and
had a subsidy from the English Govern
ment of about $400,000 for carrying the
mails.
But we must hurry on.
Printing presses. AVhile the hand
press, sucTi as Franklin used, was in
vented in 1620, what other event took
plnci in that year? The first successful
power printing press was built lor the
liOndon Time s in 1814, the issue of No
vember 28th having been the first news
paper printed by machinery. The press
gave aoout eleven hundred impressions
per hour. The inventors name was
Konig.
Until recently the newspaper presses
had to bo “fed” by hand, one person
being required at each cylinder. AVm.
A. Bullock, of Philadelphia, in 1861, in
vented a press to which the paper was
fed automatically from a large roll or
web, and now all the well-known news
papers are supplied with presses having
this attachment. In 1869, Mr. AValter,
proprietor of the London Time , brought
out the “AValter” press. The roll of
paper running thi£igh this press is
three miles long. *'ne Hoo Printing
Press of New York will deliver, folded,
from twelve to fifteen thousand copies
of the New York Tribune hourly.
The telegraph. The Professor could
talk all night about the telegraph. In
the first place, did you ever hear of the
semaphore? It was the first telegraph
invented, and was adopted by the French
Government in 1794.- It had nothing to
do with electricity, however. A descrip
tion of it says that “ it consisted of an
upright post supporting a horizontal
bar, which, turning upon a pivot, could
he placed upon various inclinations.
This had two smaller arms pivoted to
its extremities, and capable of being
turned at right angles with them. By
independent movement of the parts the
apparatus was susceptible of ninetv
eight distinct positions, and of exhibit
ing the same number of differentsignals,
which could he made to represent either
letters, numbers, words or sentences.
The semaphores were placed on high
towers five miles apart.”
Nicholas I, of Russia, built a line of
this telegraph which was composed of
two hundred and twenty stations. The
work of erecting the towers, etc., cost
several millions of dollars.
About this time people began to turn
attention to electricity as a means of
conveying sound, and, after partially
successful attempts by others, (Samuel
F. B. Morse invented his system of
dashes. This was in 1835. In 1844 the
first line was built between AVashington
and Baltimore (forty miles), and the
first message sent May 27 of the same
year. The Morse system is generally
used throughout the world.
The first ocean cable was laid in 1858.
It worked for a few weeks and then
stopped.
In J 866 two new lines were in suc
cessful operation.
There are about four hundred thou
sand miles of telegraph line in the
world, representing a million of miles
of wire.
THE MORSE ALPHABET.
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A Romantic Career.
William Buckley, a British soldier,
convicted of receiving stolen property,
or being concerned in an attempt upon
the life of the Duke of Kent, was sen
tenced to transportation in Australia for
life. He escaped, and fell in with
■ a tribe of natives, with whom he resided
| thirty-three years, without meeting a
: white man until he discovered a party
;of tourists, and saved them from a
I treacherous attack by a wandering band
l of native warriors. It is believed that
I he owed his safety to his gigantic size
I and ferocious appearance. A more ro
mantic epxlanation is that, having taken
a spear from the grave of a dead chief,
\ he was supposed by the natives to be
| their leader come to lifein anew body.
Buckley says that these people imagined
i that the world was supported by props,
which were in charge of a man who lived
at the extremity of the earth, and that
, uuless the props’wete renewed from time
to timC, the whole fabric would tumble
to pieces.
Doesn’t it seem like a sarcasm on the
1 complaint of hard times to see the bril
i liant fabrics which are exhibited for
wouieu’s wear this season? There is a
positive gorpeousiiess slsmt some of
1 the importations. Tin- color aud the
■ combinations of color doubtless have a
great deal to do with this, and then the
material* them wive* art rich and heavy.
NUMBER 1.
WORK WRICK IT H RAT.
The world t wide, but IU went b wider.
Mo lent endwrof bU Irnltleee be ;
Though the eer b full of the mom's soft gler J i J
Each smaller eter ablnee from am toam.
The world b wide, ud the work b waiting.
We can only call one day our own I
0, dumber not for the day fa breaking-*
For an hour’a loaa you can nerer atone-
The world b wide, and the rfoMt groweth
Side by dde with the queenly rom;
One filleth the air witbaubUe fragrance.
In silence and shadow the other growa,
Yet who a hall tell what the angels know not—
Which of the two ahall fairer be,
When the flowers are gathered from earthly gar
dens.
To bloom In the light of Eternity.
The world la wide, and the people in It,
Each haa a work to Hod and do;
The sunshine dieth, the dark night flieth,
Haste while the daylight walb on you!
ALL SORTS.
“ What is money?”— Burlington
Hawkeye. Don’t know; ask somebody
who deals in it.
The Vienna theaters issue no checks
to enable parties to go out between the
acts, and so the boys have to carry their
cloves and lemon peel in their vest
pockets.— Breakfast Table.
“ Oh, why should the spirit of mortal
be proud?” is often asked. Well, really,
we don’t know, unless it is because he
can climb a tree and a mule can’t.—
Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald.
The Saratogian tells of a Unitarian
clergyman at the recent conference who
saw the placard, “ Leave your dog out
side,” and tried to purchase a dog in
order to comply with the regulations.
A Minneapoi.ir cat has achieved a
kitten with five heads, and we cat.
imagine how sweet it will be when that
cat attains its majority, to have it Sit
on the back fence and. commune with
itself.— Breakfatt Table.
The Turners Falls Reporter says:
“It is human to doubt. Display a sign
with the incription ‘ Beware of Paint,’
and nine out of ten will draw their fore
fingers across the newly painted surface
to see if the sign is not merely ‘ an in
vention of the enemy.’ ”
The forest leaves are turning, and the
chestnut worms are squirming, as the
peanut man stands churning them upon
a fiery bed; and books will soon be
laden, by every city maiden, with leaves
which nature made on purpose to be
red.— Wheeling Sunday leader.
In the sweet, balmy, delicious happi
ness of love’s first-young dream, a youth
will not only insist on cracking walnftts
for his girl, but in picking out the
goodies as well. Two years after mar
riage he wjll not even let her have the
nut-cracker until he is through. Girls,
get married.— Breakfast Table.
A Georgia farmer bought a grand
piano for his daughter. His house is
small, aud, to economise room the lower
part of the partition between the kitchen
and jlarlor was cut out, and the long
end of the piano stuck through. Pris
cilla now sits at the key-board, singing
“ Who will care for mother now?" and
the mother rolls out doughnuts on the
other end of the piano in the kitchen.
SLEEP.
When to soft sleep we (ire oureelres swsy,
And in a dream, Min* fairy bark,
Drift on and on through the enchanted dark
To purple daybreak—little thought we nay
To that aweet bitter world we know by day.
We are clean quit of it, as ia a lark
So high in heaven no human eye can mark
The swift pinion cleaving through the gray.
Till we aßkelll fate can do no ill,
The resting heart nbali not take up again
The heavy 16ad that yet may tnakrit bleed :
For this brief apace the loud world’s voice ia still,
No faintest e ho of it brings us pain,
iiow will it be when we shall slero indeed?
- Aldrich.
“ Try not to pass, the old man aaid;
so the urchin made it “ next” instead.
—New Haven Register. And the old
man chuckled and nudged his pard, for
he held both bowers ana the joker card.
—Bridgeport Standard. And the fourth
man muttered, ‘‘We can’t afford to have
so much talking across the board.”—
New York Graphic. Then a smile o’er
the urchin’s face did steal, as he threw
down six cards and* exclaimed, “Mis
deal 1” (But what does it all mean, any
how ?) — Norristown Herald.
Florence, the actor, of “ Hon. Bard
well Slote ” renown, was presidentof the
i'ury which sampled the wines al the
’aris Exposition, and he informed a
New York reporter that he would' not
undertake the task again for all the
vintage of France. The jury fasted
each day for a week from eight a. m. to
three p. m., passing judgment upon
one thousand six hundred bottles. The
Turkish representative on the jury was
not satisfied with tasting his glass, but
emptied it every time until he was snor
ing under the table.
Scarcely had the Raccoon of Swat
been laid among his fathers before the
Ameer of Afghanistan appears to test
the Atlantic cable with his ill-timed per
formances: and this, too, while General
Phillipovich is bombardingthe Bosnians
at Senkovics, and Janovich is whooping
them up at Kiobuk. Some ideas of the
terrors of a British shindy on the Pun
jaub border may be gathered from the
fact that such names’ as Barrookullen,
Ghuznee, Kounegoorum, Mootakhala
and Muzulfarabad are likelv to be act
ively involved day after day.nßalti
more Ocaette.
Mr. Deßarth is a very modest young
man, who never drinks. He has but one
bad habit, and that is tobacco chewing.
The other day he rode in a Fifth-avenue
car, and he had a quid of tobacco as big
as a loaf of bread in his mouth. Ar Four
teenth-street a young lady Entered the
car. Great Heavens! It was ,his girl!
What should he do? She took a seat
beside him, and chatted a Way right
merrily. The conversation had not pro
gressed very far when Deßarth’g face
began to turn red. He felt for his
handkerchief, but he had none. Then
his face turned purple. In two minutes
more his cheek began to swell. Wbat
could he do? If his girl caught him
chewing tobacco, that would settle it.
The passengers all noticed that Mr. De-
Barth was dying, but none of them
moved to assist him. The crisis had
come, and in a fit of desperation D. B.
pointed to the front of the car. All
hands, including his girl, looked in that
direction. While they were doing so he
spit down his sleeve. Then he took the
quid from his mouth and, without look
ing in that direction, threw it out of
i the window—or attempted to do so. It
I went up against the pane with a squash.
: and flattened out until the car became
1 darkened. Xe cards.—X- Y. D^pateK
