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The Endless Procession.
Down the vista of the ages,
Saints and sinners, tools and sages,
Marching onward, slow and solemn,
Go, in never-ending polumn;
Here the honest, here die knave;
With a rhythmic step sublime,
To the grave.
Like the rolling ot a river,
Going on and on lorever, •
Never resting, never staying,
Never for an instant straying,
Peer and peasant, lord and slave,
Equals soon to mix and Tningle
In the grave.
Duty cannot, nor can pleasure,
For a moment break the measure;
They are marching on to doom,
'They are moving to the tomb,
All the coward, all the brave,
Soon to level all distinction
In the grave.
Since the morning oi creation,
Without break or termination,
Ever on the line is moving,
Ail the loved amj all the loving,
All that mothers ever gave—
On to silence and to slumber
In the grave.
Here no bribe the bond can weaken,
Here no substitute is taken;
Each one lor himself- no other,
Son or father; no, nor brother;
Love the purest cannot save;
Each alone the roll must answer
At the grave.
Who commands the dread procession
That shall know no retrogression ?
Who can be the great director ?
Ha' that grim and silent specter,
Him that sin to Satan gave;
Death, the mighty king and terror,
And the grave.
Frank J. Otturson.
How Pottridge Spoilt His Luck.
Mr. Thomas Pottridge, of Small
hornugh, had been renowned in his na
tive town for his constant run of luek,
so that at the age of forty he was reck
oned the “ warmest” man there —an al
derman who had been twice mayor of
his city, a church warden and a very
popular character among the fair sex by
reason of his being a bachelor. One or
two things more only were wanted to
complete his happiness—namely, a good
wife, a nice little estate in the country,
and the honor of knighthood. Mr.
Pottridge wished to become Sir Thomas
Pottridge. Having long cherished this
idea, and resolved, indeed, that he would
not propose for the handed' pretty Miss
Lucy Dolt, the banker’s daughter, until
he could make hern ladyship, Mr. Pott
ridge ended by thinking that he could
best secure his object by causing him
self lo be le-eleeted mayor, and arrang
ing if possible that 11. it. 11. tin* Prince
ol Wales should pay a visit to Small
borough during the term of 11is ollice.
Intent upon this scheme, Mr. Pottridge
came 1151 to town to call upon Lord
llcaconstield. Lord Beavonstield heark
ened kindly to the grocer’s prayer.
.Simillhorough was about to inaugurate
some public baths, the first establish
ment of the kind ever seen in the town,
and nothing could be more suitable than
that the heir to the throne should pre
side over the ceremonial. “Truly.”
said the Premier politely, when he had
heard the alderman speak, “the cleanli
ness of the people must always be a mat
ter ol interesting concern to those who
are brought into relations with them. 1
sha.lt be happy to take her majesty’s
commands on the —ahem! —public spiri
ted proposal which you have laid before
me.”
“If you can manage it, my lord, I
.should he glad if the visit could take
place some time after the 9tli of Novem
ber next, tor I shall be mayor then and
able to se e that the reception given is a
proper one.”
*• Ah, quite so!” answered Lord Bea
consfleld, dropping his eyeglass, for he
had studied Mr. I’ottridge through and
knew the man by heart.
Leaving Whitehall, Mr. Pottridge
sauntered toward Regent street, and as
he walked along life seemed rosy to him
because of Miss l)ott. lie began to stare
into the shop windows, admiring pretty
things which he was tempted to buy for
his love. lie was turning over this
fancy and fumbling wistfully at the
pocket where the check-book lay when
suddenly he beheld through the window
a curious sight. An elegantly dressed lady
wqs seated at the counter examining
pieces of Brussels lace. The shopman
averted his head for an instant and she
deftly whipped up a yard of the costly
texture and transferred it to her pocket.
The shopman spread over the counter a
number of square tint boxes containing
cambric handkerchiefs and once more
turned away. Again the lady’s deft
hand went to work and a couple of
handkerchiefs found their way under
her cloak. “Now that woman must
have capacious pockets- soliloquized
the astonished Mr. Potlrmge. " She's
a cunning thief, anyhow, and I’ll just
step in and warn the linn.”
lb- lushated a moment and whilst he
hovered about the doorway the lady
came out escorted by an obsequious
commissionaire with medals on his
breast. A footman, one of a row bask- j
ing on a bench like oysters, rose and
signaled to the eoaelunan of a hand
somely appointed brougham, who at
once drove forward. Evidently this
lady was not an ordinary thief. She
was a tall, dark person of about thirty,
superbly dressed and very handsome.
Perceiving Mr. Pottridge and seeing his
glance fixed on hern- she waited for her
carriage site eyed him with aristocratic
supercilious!!e-s and thereby settled her
fate, for Sma !borough's alderman, who
could not brook the disdain of a shop
lifter. hurried into the mercer's and ex
plained what had happened, sneaking
in so excited a voice that a number of
customers hoard him.
Great commotion was caused by his
announcement, and the shopman who
had served her was quickly tired by the
idea that he had let himself be outwitted.
Parting out of the shop he accosted the
thief as she was stepping into her car
riage and said: “Will you come back.
.ou please? There is seme mistake.”
“ What mistake 0 " ask. and she, turning
round with a flash in her eyes. But she
grew ashy pale.
• “Come back, please.” repeated the
shopman, a pushing young man, whose
voice broke from emotion.
A small crowd had already collected
ml the lady was obliged to ret nice her
steps; but as she was about to enter
the shop she slipped her hand into her
pocket and let a piece of lace fall on to
the pavement. " No.ma'am, that won't
do.” cried Mr. Pottridge, seizing the
thiet's wrist. "You're going to pre
tend those things fell by accident into
the folds of your dress; we know that
trick.” And officiously acting as
searcher he plunged bis hand into the
pocket despite the lady's struggles and
drew out a second piece of lace, three
cambric handkerchiefs, twopairt of new
glove- me pair ot silk stockings and a
lady's.- k cravat. " Well. I never!" ex
claimed the pushing shopman, and
there was a murmur among the by
standers, including the lady's own foot
man, who looked like a powdered
figure of const ernat n.
“ llow dare you. screamed the lady,
urple with rage ad mortification, as
she glared at Mr. 1 •ttridge; “ I'll prose
cute you for assault. I told the shop
man ' h.-re that 1 meant to buy these
things. Let the bill be sent to my ad
dre-s; I’m Mrs. Pouneeforth-Keane.”
•• I dessay.” resumed the shopman,
“ but I'm going to give you into cus
tody;’' ana running to the door, he
Oglethorpe Echo.
By T. L. GANTT.
[beckoned to a blue-coated member of
; the force.
One of the partners of the firm, a
gray, civil-spoken man, who had been
summoned from his study, now came
I forward; and he was at first disposed
Ito rebuke the haste of his shopman,
: but it was too late. The policeman had
already entered, and all the shopmen
and shop-girls, the customers and the
desultory people crowding around the
door, were instant in chorusing that the
thief should be made an example of.
Mrs. Pounceforth-Keane, seeing plftdic
opinion so dead against her, uttered a
howl, and fell sw'ooning to the floor.
“Never mind that, we’ll soon rouse
her,” said the policeman, facetiously, for
lie did not yet know that lie had to
deal with a lady who kept a brougham.
“The magistrate is sitting now at
Marlborough street; we’ll just go there
at once and have her charged.”
This arrangement was acceded to,
and in a few minutes the lady and the
policeman (who had got abashed by this
time from finding himself seated on the
silk cushions of a carriage) were riding
to the police couit in Mrs. Pouneeforth-
Keane’s own vehicle, while Mr. Pot
tridge, the shopman and the mercer fol
lowed on foot to give evidence.
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One would think that in a case where
the offence was flagrant and the testi
mony so clear the magistrate might
have sentenced the defendant straight off
to six months’ imprisonment, and in
deed, had the thief been a person of the
lower ordeis, it would probably have
been her fate to be convicted summarily.
But it turned out that Pounceforth-
Keane was the real name of U’e elegant
shoplifter, whose husband was a person
moving, as reporters say, “in the best
ranks of society.” Mr. Pounceforth-
Keane was sent for, and arrived breath
less in a hansom from one of the best
clubs in Pall Mall. At the sight ofliim
his wife, who had been locked up for an
hour in a police cell, wept profusely, and
Mr. P. K, was himself much agitated.
He asked for a remand, and tendered
bail, saying he should produce medical
evidence to the effect that his wife had
lately suffered severely in health. The
magistrate, a timid man, who had
!gown-up daughters to marry, and was
terribly afraid of society—stammered out
something like an apology, and readily
acceded to the application for bail. So
very soon Mrs. Pounceforth-Keane tot
tered out of 'court weeping like a victim,
j on her husband’s arm; and Mr. Pottridge
walked away with the shopman and the
civil-spoken mercer. All three were
crestfallen, as if they had committed a
blunder. “This will be a very bad
affair for me,” grumbled the mercer.
“ I would have lost a hundred yards of
. lace sooi.er than appear in court against
a lady like this.”
“ Well, hut she’s a thief,” cried Mr.
Pottridge, rousing himself and speaking
wit Inspirit. “What harm can she or
her friends do you?”
“ Are you quite sure you saw her steal
the things?” asked the mercer, gloomily,
“ Besides, supposing she did put them
in her pocket, she says that she told my
shopman to send her the hill.”
“I’m hanged if she did,” ejaculated
the shopman, indignantly.
“ Silence, sir,”j answered the mercer,
with a stern frown. If this he really a
case of theft you are self-condemned, for
; you ought to have kept your eyes about
| you. For some time pas* I have noticed
that you have been very negligent in
1 business.”
The shopman collapsed; as for Mr.
j Pottridge, lie trudged hack to his hotel,
j feeling half inclined to go and ask Lord
Beaconstield what he ought to do. The
ease had been adjourned for a week, so
! lie traveled back to Smallborougli in the
; evening, and by the time he reached his
native town tie had worried himself up
1 into a state of contempt for the mercer
and tlu* metropolitan stipendiary, who
seemed to draw a distinction between
well-dressed and ill-dressed plunderers,
i Meeting Mr. Bungs, the brewer, near
j the railway station, lie gave him an ac
i count of what had happened, and was
, hearkened to with sympathy until he
I mentioned the name of Pounceforth-
Keane; then Mr. Bungs pursed up liis
! lips. “ Why. bless me, that’s the cousin
I of Lord Keynso’.e, brother-in-law of our
lord lieutenant!”
“What difference does that make?”
stammered Mr. Pottridge, like a man
who feels less sure of his ground.
“Oh, nothing, except that I don't see
why a lady of that sort should commit
robberies,” responded Mr. Bungs.
Further down the street Mr. Pottridge,
who was rubbing liis pat© in rather vio
lent perplexity, encountered Air. Dott,
'the banker, whose daughter Lucy lie
loved. “ Pouncefortli - Keane !” ex
claimed Air. Dott, as soon as he had
heard the grocer’s story. “Why, Lord
Keynsole, his cousin, banks with us.”
“ Well, but come, Dott,” retorted Air.
Pottride, impatiently, “is that a reason
why Mrs. Pouneeforth-Keane shouldn’t
be a dishonest jade?”
“ No. but T think the whole thing im
probable,” answered the banker, “and I
must confess I should be sorry if any
thing unpleasant happened to Lord
Keynsole’s family.”
Air. Pottridge was not in a very good j
humor when he went to bed that night
A magistrate himself, lie knew what
shifts are often made to withdraw well
connected offenders from justice, and so
far as he was concerned he would have
cared but little had an appeal been made
to him, ad miscricordiam , to acknowl
edge that he had, perhaps, been mistaken
in fancying that he saw Airs. P. K.
pocket some lace and handkerchiefs.
But Mr. Pottridge could not bear to be
pooh-pooliod at or threatened with un
pleasant eousequenees if lie did his duty,
lie was an aluerman, a grocer with a
blameless conscience, and he feared no
man. Feeling that his character for ver
acity and common sense was at stake he
resolved to give his evidence against the
wife of Lord Keynsole’s cousin with no
more hesitation than if she were the
commonest jail-bird.
From that date, however, things be
gan to go wrong somehow with Air.
Pottridge. It seemed as though his long
luck had forsaken him. On the morrow
of his adventurein Ixmdon. Air. Chuckle
worth. the pr neipal solicitor _ in the
town, who was Lord Keynsole’s legal
adviser, passed him in the street with
out nodding, and later in the day Airs.
C. sent a stiff note begging that Air. Pot
tridge would send in uis bill, and inti
mating that she would thenceforth pur
chase her groceries at another house.
Now the Chuckleworths had always
been excellent customers of Air. Pot-
tridge.
This was bad enough, but worse was
to follow. Next day some inspectors oj
weights and measures arrived at the
alderman's shop and found a piece of
lard sticking under his scales. They
declared they should make a report of
the fact. Scarcely had they gone, leav
ing the grocer soeeehiess with confusion,
than two well-dressed strangers entered
and bought some tea, brown sugar,
cocoa, pepper and a pot of mustard;
after which they stated that they were
puhlic analysts, who were going to ex
alpine the quality of these goods. They
examined them, in truth, so fast that
two days later Mr. Pottridge received a
summons to answer a charge of putting
lurch twigs in his tea, sand in liis sugar,
turmeric in his mustard, clay in his
cocoa, etc. Mr. Pottridge shrugged his
shoulders at first, taking it for granted
that the charge would be dismissed by
liis brother magistrates, Messrs. Dote
Bungs and company: but before the cats
came on for hearing it fortuitously tran
spired that Mr. Pottridge had been up
to London interviewing Lord Beaeons
rteld for the purposes we know, and this
made the other aldermen furious. Mr.
Bungs, the brewer, was particularly
angry, and declared that Pottridge was
a traitor, insomuch as the poor grocer,
instead of having a friendly bench to
judge him, found a very stern one.
“ I am sorry for you. Mr. Pottridge,"
said Mr. Dott. who sat as chairman.
THE ONLY PAPER IN ONE OP THE LARGEST, MOST INTELLIGENT AND WEALTHIEST COUNTIES IN GEORGIA.
hut men in your position shou Id set an
example. You are fined £2O on each
count, with costs; total, £120.”
111-starred Pottridge! He left the
court politically and socially done for,
for he could no longer hope' to be re
elected mayor nor to marry Miss Dott.
He should have, moreover, to resign his
aldermanship, and his personal charac
ter, as well as that of his tea, sugar and
mustard, was ruined.
So ruined was Mr. Pottridge that
when he went to London to give evi
dence against Mrs. Pounceforth-Keane
the first question asked him by the coun
sel for the defense—a blustering Old
Bailey barrister—was, “ L believe you
have just been convicted of selling
adulterated goods and at false weight?”
“ Let me explain,” stammered poor
Pottridge.
“No explanations, sir. Give me a
plain answer, yes or no!”
“ Yes, then.”
“ Well, then, if you are liable to make
mistakes about your weights, you may.
err in other things.”
“ Perhaps,” replied the grocer, des
perately. “ I may have been mistaken in
thinking this lady was a thief. I have
had enough of bother about the busi
ness.”
“You ought to he ashamed of your
flippant conduct, sir;” cried thecounsel,
harshly, and the wretched grocer hob
hied out of the witness-box feeling very
mean indeed. After this confession of
possible error on the part of the chief
witness the case against Mrs. Pounce
forth-Keane was, of course, dismissed,
and Mr. Pottridge slunk out of court
with a magisterial reprimand ringing in
liis ears. To conclude this little story
one has only to add that when 11. R. H.
the Prince of Wales graciously went to
open the baths at Smallborougli it was
Mr. Bungs who was mayor and eventu
ally got knighted, while Mr. Pottridge
was not even invited to the dinner at the
town hall, whereof he paid his share
like the other rate payers
He is no longer regarded as a lucky
man. —London Truth,
Effect of Altitude in Leadville.
A letter from Leadville, Col., the
great mining town, says: I saw but very
few cases of intoxication in the streets,
though the 300 saloons in th • held
out their best inducements. I was sur
prised at this, as one of ihe notable
effects of the great altitude of the place
(10.300 feet above the level of the sea) is
that all fermented liquors intoxicate
much more quickly than at lower eleva
tions. The boiling point, owing to the
decrease of atmospheric pressure, is
much lower than at Chicago, and the
alcohol is sooner vaporized and taken
into the circulation, producing intoxi
cation much quicker.
The boiling point of water here is
about 190 degrees, instead of 212 degrees,
the effect of which in boiling beans,
eggs, potatoes, etc., is that it requires a
longer time to cook them in an open
vessel, and it is necessary to keep the
pot well covered or the water will va
porize and escape before being raised
to the requisite degree of heat for
thorough cooking. At this elevation
much more air is required to fill and
satisfy the lungs, and hreathing must be
quicker in order to properly oxygenize
the blood. It is said, too, that after one
lias been here for some time the coloring
matter of the blood becomes darker,
being changed from the peroxide to the
sesquioxide of iron. With a person suf
fering under any difficulty or disease of
the heart, the effect of any severe or
long-continued exertion is to cause a
dangerous degree of palpitation, and
even with persons entirely well the
pulse runs extremely high.
There are other and notable facts con
nected with this altitude. There are
very few birds seen here—perhaps for
the reason that flying is difficult in the
light air. The common house fly, the
summer pest of our Eastern housekeep
ers, is unknown here. There are some
of the out-door bluebottle variety, hut
they seem languid and tired. It is said,
i also, that cats cannot live here. This is
probably owing to their delicate organi
-1 zation being unable to resist tlic rigor of
j the night air. So the “ voices of the
I night” are not heard in this locality,
| and bootjacks are reserved for their
natural uses.
Another result ot the lightness of the J
air is that, having so little density, it is j
easily heated by artificial means Our J
I nights are uniformly cold—so cold that i
j it is uncomfortable to sit without a fire;
| but a few pine chips or small sticks will
I warm an apartment very quickly. At j
| the same time the sun’s rays do not seem j
fo'liave the heating power that they do !
jin lower elevations. This seems to con
firm the theory that there is no substan
| rial caloric in the rays of the sun, but j
:hat the heat is the result of chemical j
| action generated by the direct rays with I
| the elements of the atmosphere—the !
: amount and degree of action varying
i with the directness of the rays and the
j density of the atmosphere. While :
j standing high upon these mountains,
| even at a distance from any snow-drifts
; and where the air is still, the summer
. sun has only sufficient power to make
] the air refreshing and pleasant, while
you on the plains arc weltering under
i torrid heat. In the sitade of a rock or
two it is always cool enough.
The effect of the altitude is the same
as that experienced by balloonists, who
in ascending from the surface of the
; earth, even on the hottest day, soon finds
it necessary to don his overcoat and
warmest clothing. In the night here a
good sucply of bcankets is always neces
sary; and nearly every morning heavy
frosts are found, and sometimes thick
scales of ice are formed. The crests of
! some of the mountains and many of the
deep ravines upon their sides are still
full of masses of sn:w so compact that
one can walk over them without sink
ing. A day or two ago, in visiting a
mine close to the summit of Alount
Bross. I was compelled to cross a field of
snow hanging over the edge which must
have been a mile in length and probably
in places twenty-five feet in depth.
An Underground Lake.
The Tlemcen Cmrier (Algeria) de
scribes a wonderful discovery recently
made at the picturesque cascades of that
place. Some miners had blasted an j
enormous rock near the cascades, and
on removal of the debris found it had
covered a large opening into a cave, the
floor of which was covered with water.
Constructing a rude raft, and providing
themselves with candles, the workmen,
sailed along this underground river,
which, at a distance of sixty meters, was
found to merge into a large lake of
limpid water. The roof of the cavern
was very high and covered with stalac
tites. the brilliant colors of which
sparkled under the light of the candles.
Continuing their course, the workmen
had at certain places to navigate their
craft between the stalactites, which,
meeting stalagmites from the bed of the
lake, formed enormous columns, which
looked as if they had been made ex
pressly to sustain the enormous arches.
They thus reached the extremity of the
lake, where they noticed a large channel
extending toward the south, into which
water quietly made its way. This is
supposed to be a large issue which has
baffied explorations hitherto at Sebdon,
and which connects the cascades with
that locality, and thus with the mysteri
ous sources of the Tafna. It is possible
that here they have found an immense
natural basin, supplied by powerful
sources, and sending a part of its waters
toward the lake, while the rest goes to
Stebdon. The workmen estimated the
distance underground traversed bv them
at three kilometers, and the breadth of
the lake at two. The brought out with
them a quantitv of fish, which swarmed
around the raft, and which were found
to be blind.
LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1879.
THE MOORISH ALHAMBRA.
What Dr, Finn tiers Say* in a Spanish Let
ter of tliirt Most Kemarkable Palace.
Tne Alhambra made upon me one
of the profoundest impressions of my
whole life, and I would be glad to repro
duce it while here upon the spot in some
thing like adequate language. But that
I feel sure I cannot do. Even Washing
ton Irving fell short of the reality in his
elaborately drawn picture of the history,
architecture and legends of. I am com
pelled to believe, one of the most re
markable palaces in the world; and yet
he had three years in which to study up
the subject and execute his task, for he
resided that length of time in (lie Allram r
bra. Tire guide to-day points out to
curious visitors the rooms that were oc
cupied' by Washington Irving.
Entering the inelosure through the
great gateway, we are surprised to see
at our right a large, partly-completed
marble structure of elaborate Grecian
architecture, but evidently of compara
tively modern date. This is an abor
tive attempt of Charles V. to eclipse the
Alhambra. It is at once an imperti
nence and failure. Had Charles com
pleted it according to 'the original de
sign, it would have been but a monu
ment of his stupidity and had taste, and
the noble old palace of the Moors would
not have suffered by the comparison
even a temporary eclipse. Except as a
signal example of mad folly, it should be
pulled dowD and removed.
Turning to the right of the palace of
Charles, and making a slight descent, in
a moment more we are in one of the
courts of the Alhambra. We hold our
breath for a moment in rapt amazement
and delight, and then exclaim, beauti
ul! beautiful! Aladdin’s palace in the
Arabian story, is before us in solid
reality. It was impossible to take it all
in at a glance, and so we tarried long in
that outer court, feasting our eyes and
Wgaling our senses until both swam in a
sea of joy.
Away, then, we went, from court to
court, from room to room, in a delirium
of delight. Walls of lace, done in mar
ble, rose around us; ceilings of cedar
wood, inlaid with ivory and tortoise
she.l, and rich vyth blue, vermillion
and gold, looked down upon us; domes,
looking like purest frost work, flecked
with exquisite tints, and dropping with
frosty stalactites, hung around Us; clus
ters of marble pilfars, supporting bal
conies of open tracery-work, also in
marble, surrounded the courts, and look
ed’as if the work of enchantment; rich
mosaics, in many colors, sometimes
made beautiful wainscot, dome and ceil
ing; while the bath still held its crystal
treasure in which the goldfish disported,
challenging the sunbeam with its golden
scales, and the fountain of lions still
played as in the days when Boabdil was
master of the Alhambra.
Once seen, and-never to be forgotten.
Hour after hour went by, and still we
were riveted to the charmed spot. But
the sweetest ordors finally overpower
the senses by excess; and so, after a
while, we stole away and ascended the
Vela tower, and looked abroad over
mountain and valley—over avenues ot
elm, groves of orange, olive and fig;
over plains recently rich with harvest,
but now bare and parched; up -to the
i perpetual snows of the Sierra Nevada;
i down dizzy precipices into deep valleys,
cool, shady and fragrant with poplar,
acacias, the cypress and myrtle, the
oleander and rose. “ Beautiful-for situa
tion,” we said of Jerusalem. Transfer
the phrase and, with more justice, let it
he said of Granada. The waters that
make sweet and cool its atmosphere, and
bring to it health, flow into the Darro
and Genii, that embrace in the valley
below; and as I stood upon* the lofty
tower and took in the magnificent pano
rama, from Sierra to Sierra, I exclaim
j with Moore:
j ‘ There is not in the wide world a vallev so
i sweet,
| As that vale in whose bosom the bright
waters meet;
| The last ray ot feeling and life may depart,
1 Kre the bloom ol that valley shall fade from
I my heart.”
New and Unique Invention.
A correspondent writes from Leesburg,
Ohio, to the Cincinnati Eagle : Quite an
excitement exists in our unusually quiet
village at the present time, the cause
being an invention by one of our fellow
1 citizens which seems destined to eclipse
! Edison himself, the famous phonograph
j included. Air. J. T. Guthrie, a citizen
j of this place, has just had patented a
; machine for utilizing the gas from
j bituminous coal that is otherwise lost
i with the smoke through the flues and
| chimneys. The machine is very simple,
and can be attached to a common cook
; ing or heating stove, and the advantages
| claimed for it over all previous patents
I are such as to render it one of the great
est inventions of the age. Any person
I can handle it easily, and the same fuel
| that cooks your breakfast will produce
an abundance of pure gas, sufficient to
j illuminate your house during the night
j without any extra expense whatever,
i Air. Guthrie also claims the right of
attaching it to furnaces, grates and any
] and all places where coal is used for fuel
' and heating purposes. I understand he
j has already proposed to the exposition
commissioners to light the entire ex posi
tion building with as good and pure a
I quality of gas as can be produced in the
; city gas works, and this by using the
same fuel that heats the boilers of their
j power engine, without a cost of one
i cent for the fuel.
Air. Guthrie has his invention in sue
! i-essful operation here in our town, and
I mndreds of people visit him daily to see
j the wondertul machine. All. so far,
j hear testimony to its wonderful merits
j and. general utility. It is certainly the
beginning of anew era, and will, if suc
j cessfully employed, produce a general
: revolution in the whole system of illum
ination bv reason, of its cheapness and
; general adaptability.
The inventor claims that good, pure
gas can be produced by the machine at a
cost not to exceed twenty cents per
! thousand cubic feet, and earnestly in
vites practical men from all parts of the
country to conje, see and examine the
; workings of nis late invention.
A Remarkable Escape*
One day recently, as Frank Carr, of
West Hopkinton, Alass., was engaged
in sawing lumber in his mill at that
place, he had occasion to lift a trap in
t lie floor, just over the flume which the
water flowed into, and through a spout
six feet iong on to an iron wheel, re-,
volving horizontally, and which
furnished power to move the machinery.
The water was alxiut six feet deep in the
flume, and the wheel was encased in a
close, circular wooden box, within
which it revolved with great velocity.
Air. Carr’s attention being called away,
lie neglected to close the trap. His two
little girls, the one six and th.e other
three years old, were playing in another
part of the mill, but soon tripped along
to the near neighborhood of the open
trap, which they did not see, and the
youngest accidentally tell into the flume
and was carried through the spout into
the revolving wheel. At the instant the
little girl disappeared her sister ex
claimed, "Papa, sissy is killed!” Air.
Carr looked and took in the situation at
the first glance. IJe sprang and closed
the gate which shut the upper water
from the flume, then rushed below and,
as soon as he could, removed the cover
ng to the wheel box It took but a few
moments to do that, but in the meantime
the wheel had revolved one or two hun
dred times, and all the water had
passed out of the flume. Strange as it
may seem, he found the missing girl
i closely packed in the wheel box, and
uninjured, without a scratch or bruise.
It could not have been less than ten
minutes that the littie girl was in the
flume, spout and wheel, and her escap<
from death seemed almost miraculous.—
Boston Jcimal.
A Picnic Experience.
“ What the country really wants,”
said Mr. Phipps to me, thoughtfully, as
he Looked his’fingers over liis knee, “ is
a law making it a penitentiary offence
to go to a picnic. What is a picnic?’,
inquired Mr. Phipps, pursuing the sub
ject further. '‘ I will describe it over to
you. In the first place, you want tp
get the thermometer up to 109 in the
shade, and to keep it there steadily,
with not wind enough blowing fo make
a leaf tremble. Then you net in the
cars, and go out to some place a few
miles nearer to the equator than where
you live; and when you alight from the
train you discover that the picnic
ground is right on top of an adjacent
Kill. There is no vehicle within reach,
and so start up the side of the precipice
with a basketful of provisions upon each
arm, and a bottle of mixed pickles in
your coat- tail pocket. There is no shade
upon the precipice, of course, and as
you push upward you become hotter
and hotter, until you feel convinced that
the mercury must have crawled up to at
least 520 degrees; and meanwhile the
bottle of mixed pickles gradually gets
to weighing a ton.
“ But you do reach the top finally, and
as soon as you are in the shade of the
woods you sink down exhausted, and
griip for a drink of water. Somebody
opens your lunch-basket to get a cup,
and then the discovery is made that the
jar of raspberry jam on everything, in
cluding your hairbrush and the clean
shirt collar that you brought along to
wear home in the afternoon.
“ At this moment someone ascertains
that there is no water on the top of the
I hill. The nearest spring is a full half
' mile downward, at the bottom of the
precipice, and the water has to be
brought up in buckets. Lots are drawn
to see whf> slnril go for it, and you are
dne of the victims. When you get your
first two buckets up you are drenched
with perspirati n, and you feel pretty
nearly ready to go into a hospital for re
pairs.
At this critical juncture one of the
young ladies declares that it would be
so nice if there could be a swing, and the
leading-male iiiot of the party produces
a rope from a bundle. You suppose, of
course, that he intends to put it up; but
upon inquiry you are alarmed that
neither he nor any other of the men
knows any tiling about climbing trees.
As you, on the trip pp, have impudently
boasted of your youthful feats in gath
ering chestnuts, there is no escape for
you, and so, taking one end of the rope
in your mouth, you embrace the trunk
of the tree and begin. When you slip
back two or three times the ladies laugh,
and the men who don’t know howto
climb make amusing remarks about the
disordered condition of your clothing.
“Youreach the lower branches. The
men who were totally ignorant of tree
climbing show by the advice they give
you that they know more about fixing
swing-ropes than a man ought to be al
lowed to know in a free country. When
the rope* at last is adjusted, you grasp
it and glide down with such rapidity as
to remove the skin from the palms of
your hands.
“Next, the fattest young lady in the
party, the girl- who turns the scales at
211 pounds, asks if yott will push her in
the swing; hut, of course, you are far
too intelligent for that, so wander off a
piece until you meet another girl who
says you must dance with her, because
they have to have one more gentleman
to make up the set. If you had your
choice between losing a leg by amputa
tion and dfineing a plain cotillion, you
would prefer amputation; hut there is
no help for it, and so join the party.
“At half-past twelve lunch is ready,
and you answer the call with tin* feeling
that it is the only agreeable occurrence
of the day. The cloth has been spread
upon the grass; and you observe that
the ants have gotten into the sugar,
that some energetic spider lias spun a
web from the pickle-bottle to the lemon
ade pitcher, and that a colony of strad
dle bugs is frisking about over the cold
ham. I say nothing about the hop-toad
that lights in among the sandwiches, or
of the bumblebees that haunt the pre
serve jar so that you daren’t put a spoon
within four feet of it. This kind of
thing has to be on a picnic, and we must
submit to it as a matter of duty.
“ After lunch, you think it would bo
nice to go down the hill and take a swim
in tlie creek. You undress, and really
do have a nice bath. Just as you are
about to come out, the fat girl and the
girl who wanted you to dance come
meandering along, end they sit down
within twenty feet of your clothes, with-
I out perceiving them. They have come
fora little chat; and they talk, and talk,
and talk, as if they have made up their
minds to have one final and conclusive
conversation, so as to leave nothing to
be talked about any more forever and
forever. Meanwhile the sun is coloring
you so that you resemble a boiled
lobster, and although you clear your
throat, and splash, in the noisest man
ner possible, they positively refuse to
hear you. At last, however, they get
up to go, just as the picnic party is com
ing down the hill to catch the train.
“ You jump out, and dress in furious
haste, for fear you will he left; and be
fore you can get vour shoes buttoned
you hear the whistle. You run forit,
and get into the car, hot, wet and mis
erable, only to find that your lunch bas
ket has been left on the hill, and that
your share of the expenses is exactly
fifteen dollars.
1 “ Nice picture, isn’t it? Well, that’s
our American picnic! That’s exactly
! the experience I went through last
Thursday week. If I ever do it again,
I want my friends to run me right into
an insane asylum, on the double-quick.”
! —Max Adder.
The Stomach of the Horse.
The horse’s stomach lias a capacity of
ouly about sixteen quarts, while that of
the ox has two hundred and fifty. In
the intestines this proportion is reversed,
the horse having a capacity of one hun
dred and ninety quarts, against one hun
dred of the ox. The ox and most other
animals have a gall-bladder for the re
tention of a part of the bile secreted
during digestion; the horse has none,
and the bile flows directly into the intes
tines as fast as secreted. This construc
tion of the digestive apparatus indicates
that the horse was formed to eat slowly,
and digest continually bulky and innu
tritous food. When fed on hay it passes
very rapidly through the stomach into
the" intestines. The horse can eat but
five pounds of hay in an hour, which is
I charged, during mastication, with four
times its own weight of saliva. Now the
stomach, to digest it well, will contain
I but about ten quarts, and when the ani
mal eats one-third of his daily ration, or
i seven pounds, in one anil one-half hours,
he has swallowed at least two stomachs
lull of hay and saliva, one of these hav
ing passed to the intestines. Observation
has shown that the food is passed to the
■ intestines by the stomach in the order in
which it is received. It we feed a horse
! six quarts of oats it will just fill his
stom: -h. and if. as soon as he finishes
this, we feed him the above ration of
three pounds of hay. he will eat sufficient
• in three-quarters of an hour to have
forced the oats entirely out of his stom
ach into the intestines. As it is the office
of the intestines to digest the nitrogenous
parts of the feed, and as a stomachful of
! oats contains four or five times as much
of these as the same amount of hay, it is
certain that either the stomach must se
crete the gastric juice five times as fast,
which is hardly possib:e, or it must re
tain this food five times as long. By
; feeding oats first, it can only be retained
long enough for the proper digestion of
hay. consequently it seems logical, when
feeding a concentrated fixai like oats,
with a bulky one like hay. to feed the
latter first, giving the grain the whole
time between the repasts to be digested.
: —Coh-in.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Ti lths for l'Hinit-is.
One very "real reason why farmers
become “ stiff anil olil” before their
time is from their lack of bathing and
thorough muscular exercise. The pro
fessional man who is fatigued in body
seeks to restore his wasted energies with
cold water, and the use of dumb bells,
which, no matter what a man’s occupa
tion may be, straighten out the muscles
and bring them all into action as noth
ing else does. Hut the farmer, when lie
is fatigued, what does he do? In nine
cases out of teu he seeks his recupera
tion in activity. He goes to bed with
out a bath, and begins his day’s work
without a bath. Once a week, like Aunt
Cliloe, lie has a “ clearin’ up time,” by
making himself clean.
And what is true of the former, is, in
large part, true of the formerine. To
take a bath requires time and trouble.
So does everything else that is of value.
It should not be taken when one is ex
tremely fatigued at night. Ilut in the
morning, after a night’s rest, what is
more invigorating! Salt should always
be added and with freshly-drawn wate.
one has no need to go to the seaside for
bathing. A sponge or towel bath agrees
with many people much better than the
immersion of the body in a tank-tub.
But what is very satisfactory—especially
after one becomes accustomed to it—is
he hip-bath tub, in which one may sit
anil with a mug or pitcher pour the wa
ter over the shoulders. The largest size
of these tubs should be chosen and the
■"material should be strong and well put
together. Zinc is the best. Those of
tin are not worth buying. A good zipe
tub costs about $6.50, If in daily use
it will need to be taken once a year
probably to the tinsmith to have a
small leakage in the bottom stopped,
unless, indeed, the owner has the happy
faculty of doing his own “tinkering.”
To be able to solder basins and Dots and
pans is an accomplishment well worth
the trouble of boys and girls to acquire,
and the tools necessary for the work are
few and inexpensive. Hair mittens are
excellent for producing a friction on the
skin, after a bath, but the bath towel,
which is of large size, of heavy quality
in cotton, is preferable for every-day
use. It costs from twenty-live to thirty
cents. A pair of hair mittens costs $1.50.
It is a custom in some parts of Ger
many for the head of the household to
pay the family physician a certain sum
per annum to keep his family well. It
is a good plan. The doctor drops in now
and then, asks about the diet and sani
tary habit# of the various members of
the family and so has it in his power to
apply the ounce of prevention. It is
quite true that if people took half the
trouble to keep in health that they take
in order to get well when once ill, there
would be comparatively little disease.
And one of these sanitary “ troubles” is
the daily morning bath, which soon be
comes a luxury. The tinie consumed in
taking it is quickly made up by the
strength and vigor it imparts. And if
one cannot afford the bath tub, use a
large basin that will hold at least six
quarts. But have the tub if you can.
One had better go without a Sunday
suit than a bath tub. Rural Ngw
Yorker.
Cultivating tlie Pear.
A young former informs us that a few
years ago, observing the reports of the
high prolit obtained from pear tree cul
ture, he was induced to set out several
thousand. They have had good culture;
they grow well; but they refuse to bear,
or make him any returns. Some of his
friends at the time regarded this as a
wild speculation, and now annoyingly
remind him of his failure with the hack
neyed “I told you so.” He wishes to
know what he can do to persuade ‘these
trees to bear fruit, and to give him at
least some slight return for his invest
ment. He would be satisfied with but
a small percentage of the returns he ex
pected when the trees were purchased.
The only advice we can offer under
existing circumstances is to keep the
trees in a moderately growing, healthy
condition by a proper degree of cultiva
tion, and not despair of some day gath
ering an abundant reward. Extraordin
aries excepted, he would doubtless thus
provide for himself a handsome and val
uable piece of property in the future. If
the trees are too thrifty, they will be
more apt to be injured during winter
and blighted in summer; not attain good
size nor bear any fruit. In order to
graduate properly the degree of culture
which they should receive, the length of
the annual shoots should be observed,
and if it is much less than one foot in
crease the cultivation by mellowing the
surface and manuring, if needed. If
much more than a foot in length, neglect
cultivation or even allow the ground
to be covered with grass If a young
orchard can thus be kept in a healthy
state, there is no doubt but that it will
bear abundant and profitable crops in
time.
Again, there may be certain unfavora
ble conditions of soil which good man
agement cannot obviate. A quicksand
subsoil we have found bad for a pear or
chard. A good strong clay well-drained
subsoil is the best.
We would advise these who contem
plate cultivating this fruit to examine
these particulars upon engaging in it,
especially- to the extent of anything like
heavy expenditure for the purpose oi
trees and planting. If an orchard qi
some years standing is found now to oc
cupy a soil not properly drained, no time
should be lost in placing tile at a depth
of two and three-fourths to three feet
and midway between the rows, unless
they are quite near together, sis with the
dwarf varieties, in which case alternati
sps.ee may receive the drain.
Do not give up the pear trees. “ I toll
you so” will apply with equal pert!
nancy to the “other view ’ in a few
years.— Buffalo Express.
Cure for (japes iu Chickens.
A correspondent of the London Agri
cultural Gazette, as an experiment, tried
sulphur and salt, namely, two parts of
sulphur and one part of salt mixed with
water to the consistency of thick cream
(it is best to use the finger in mixing, as
sulphur will not readily mix with
water). He then applied it with a
feather from a fowl’s wing, dipping it in
the mixture and putting it down the
chicken’s throat about three inches,
worked the feat!ler up and down a few
times, then applied some more in the
same way again. He soon found they
were much better, and repeated the
operation tljree or four times, leaving
two or three days between efch applica
tion. They are now all cured and doing
well.
Covered With Fish Scales.
A man named John Armor, about
forty years of age, applied to I>r. J. 11.
Scarf, at the middle station, in Balti
more, for a permit to be sent to Bay
view. The doctor, upon examining
Armor, found him to be suffering from
a very' remarkable and rare disease,
known as psoriasis or fish scale disease.
The case is fully developed, and is an
exceedingly interesting one to medical
men. The skin of the arms is especially
well marked, and presents the appear
ance of white leprosy.
Armor said he had been afflicted with
the disease for several months, and it
j had become so annoying that he could
I not work. He had been employed along
j shore and on the water about the har
j bor. When a-kea if he suffered much
I from the malady. Armor said: “It
j itches terribly, and I cannot rest on ae
; count of it.” His torehead is breaking
| out with the disease, and there are indi
j cations of its spreading to other parts of
i the body Theaffectea partsar?covered
! with white scales, resembling the scales
j of small fishes; the flesh under the scales
j is red, and very much infiamed.
| This is said to bo the best defined case
I ever seen. At the Bellevue Hospital,
| New York, there was a case which was
j considered remarkably developed, but
j not near so much so as this one of Armor.
Suggestions for the Sick-Room.
The following useful suggestions are
fiom an article m Scribner , written by a
trained nurse: In prepai ing a meal for
any one whose appetite is delicate, it
should be made to- look as tempting as
possible. The tray should be covered
with the whitest napkin, and the silver,
glass and china should shine with clean
liness. There should not by to great a
variety of viands, and but a very small
portion of each one. Nothing more quick
ly disgusts a feeble appetite than a quan
tity of food presented at one time.
The patient never should be consulted
beforehand as to what he will eat or what
he will drink. If he asks for anything,
give it to him, with the doctor’s permis
sion ; otherwise prepare something he is
known to like and offer it without pre
vious comment. One of the chief olhees
of a good nurse is to think for her pa
tient/ His slightest want should be an
ticipated and gratified before he lias time
to express it. Quick observation will
enable her to detect the first symptom of
worry or excitement and to remove the
cause. An invalid never should be teased ;
with the exertion of making a decision.
Whether the room is too hot or too cold;
whether chicken broth, beef tea, or gruel
is the best for his luncheon, and all simi
lar matters, are questions which should
be decided without appealing to him.
Household troubles should be kept as
for as possible from the sick-rooms
Squabbles of children or servants never
slmuld find an echo there.
In the event of some.calamity occur
ring, of which it is absolutely necessary
the sufferer should be informed, the ill 1
news should be broken as gently as pos
sible. and every soothing device employ
ed to help him bear the shock.
Above Jill, an invalid, or even a person
apparently convalescent, should be saved
from his friends. One garrulous aequivint
ance admitted for half an hour will undo
the good done by a week of tender nurs
ing. Whoever is the responsible person
in chiirge should know how much her
patient can bear, she should keep a care
ful watch on visitors of whose discretion
she is not certain, and the moment she
perceives it to be necessary, politely but
firmly dismiss them.
She must carry outimplicitly the doc
tor’s directions, particularly those re
garding medicine and diet. Strict obedi
ence to his orders, a faithful, diligent,
painstaking following of his instructions
will insure to the sufferer the best re
sults from his skill, and bring order,
method and regularity into domestic
nursing.
—.
A Runaway Girl’s Life of Misery.
The Sisters of the House of Mercy in
Second avenue were awakened one sum
mer night about two years ago by a
timid ring at the door bell. They found
it girl who asked shelter for the night;
and as she was neatly dressed and re
spectable looking, they readily admitted
her. She gave the name of Lizzie Rush,
and her age as seventeen years,but would
say no more. She was pretty, and her
bands showed that she was unused to
work. Site desired to be received its an
inmate of the institution, but the sisters
could not comply with her request, and
consequently she was taken to the York
ville police court. Justice Wandell.
conjecturing that the girl was a runaway,
took her aside and questioned her, and
at length drew out the confession that -
she had run away from home, that her
father was a well-to-do farmer near
Stamford, Conn., that she had read a
great deal of life in the great city of New
York, that-she had come to see lor her
self, that her money was all expended in
paying her fare, and that she went hun
gry the first day. until directed by a po
'iceman to the House of Mercy. Justice
Wandell detained her until he could
communicate with her parents, and they
received her gladly.
A ragged and emaciated woman, still
young, though aged by misery, entered
the Yorkville police court yesterday.
Justice Wandell was on the bench. The
young-old woman said that she had no
home and no mon°y, and expected soon
to be a jnother. Justice Wandell looked
at her sharply, and then inquired:
“ Are you Lizzie Rush?"’
“Yes, I was Lizzie Rush,”
The young-old woman told thejustice
that she lived with her parents for a
yeag, and that then the desire for city
life overcame Iter; that an old man per
suaded her to run away.with him to the
city, and that after a few months of dis
sipation he deserted her. She had suf
fered much, and she now turned to even
Blackwell’s island for refuge. She was
handed over to the commissioners of
charities and correction. —New York Sun.
Mother and Son.
When the case of Weldon against
Weldon was called in the Essex Market
court, a pleasant-faced woman about
forty years old stepped to the witness
stand and a young man of about twenty
one was placed at the prisemer’s bar.
“ Remove your veil,” said the justice,
and the woman did so, showing black
and blue marks, disfiguring her counte
nance. “That is your son?” said the
magistrate.
“ Yes, sir,” site answered, tears gath
ering in her dark blue eyes.
“ And he has beaten you?”
“Yes, but pardon him. You can do
so when I have already forgiven him.
He is not a bad boy when he is sober.
He drinks a little and forgets himself.”
“ Say, old woman,” said the prisoner,
savagely, “ dry up, will you? Your tears
ain’t goin’ to convict me. A nice hypo
crite you arc to make a charge against
me and then try to ”
“Don’t listen to him, your honor. He
doesn’t mean what he says,” says the
mother.
“Young man,” said the court, “you
have not been content with beating your
mother, but you must jibe at her un
feigned love for you. You are sent to
the island for four months in default of
S4OO bail to keep the peace.”
“My boy! my poor I>oy!” said the
mother, crying bitterly, as she left the
court room.
“ her!” was the son’s comment;
“a pity I didn’t break her head while I
was about it!”— New York Herald.
Flavoring the Meats of Animals.
M. Monclar, a noted agriculturist in
France, has suggested a singular pLn
for varying the flavor of meat. He
imagines that by feeding cattle, sheep,
pigs and poultry in a particular way, or
rather by flavoring their food in various
ways, their flesh may be rendered much
more agreeable to the palate than it
often is.
M. Monclar instances cases in which
bares killed in a wormwood field, larks
shot in a cabbage field and eggs laid by
j hens which had eaten diseased silk
] worms had such a nauseous taste that no
i one could touch them ; while, upon the
other hand, some ducks and field fares
which had been fed upon sprigs of juni
per liad a delicious flavor. He lias
made several experiments—among oth
j ers three upon tame rabbits, which lie
I fed with the waste of anise-seed, with
j barley and bran containing a slight
1 flavoring of juniper, and with barley
and bran containing a little essence of
; thyme. In each case he found tiiat the
j flesh of these animals was far better eat
ing than that of rabbits fattened in the
! ordinary wa7, and yet there was no
1 trace of anise seed or juniper in the
| taste. His conclusion is that cattle,
sheep and pigs might be led in Hie same
; w ay, and that by varying the flavoring
i matter the beef, mutton and pork might
i be made to have several different tastes.
Alexis St. Martin, theremarkable sub
i ject whose stomach was laid open by a
wound fifty-seven years ago, and on
whom so many observations of the pro
j cess of gastric digestion have been made,
; is stiii living at St. Thomas, Canada,
' hale and hearty, at the age of eighty
peven. ,
A printer’s standing is established by
| cis setting. -Yonker**dftiexmnn.
YOL.Y. NO. 50.
TIMELY TOPICS.
A special number of the Congressional
Record, lately issued, shows that the es
timated value of the mackerel taken in
American waters during a period of five
years, beginning July 1.1873. and ending
June 30; 1678, was $10,560,790. The
total value of the marine fisheries of
Canada for the year 1876 is estimated to
be $11,093,650. The estimated value of
the marine fisheries of the United States
in the same year was $70,278,839.
The Argentine Republic seems des
tined to become a formidable competitor
with the United States in the grain
markets of the world. The exports of
wheat from that country for the present
year will foot up 6,000,000 bushels. This
amount is expected to be doubled next
year and quintupled the year after.
These predictions are based on the pres
ent heavy emigration into the republic
from Germany, France, Spain and Italy,
particularly from the last named coun
try-
An event, perhaps without parallel in
the history of medical science in Eng
land, has occurred in London, the “ blue
riband ” of the profession having#>een
carried off by a Japanese student. At
the distribution of prizes at St. Thomas’
Hospital, the gold medal—an honor
coveted and striven for by every student
who hopes to occupy a wormy position
among medical men—was awarded to
Konchiro T:ikaki, of Japan. Not satis
fied with this honor, the young for
eigner also carried off the Chiselden
medal for surgery and anatomy.
In the neighborhood of Houdan,
France —the home cf this popular French
breed of hens, which has never obtained
great fovor in this country, however—
immense establishments are in operation
fop supplying eggs and poultry to the
Pans markets. The main object in
breeding is to keep an early-maturing
breed, so that chicks are saleable at
three months old. Hatchingand rearing
are carried on artificially, and the work
so for proves that chicks thus hatched
are found to be more lively and stronger
than those from eggs incubated by hens,
and also to grow and fatten quicker.
For young chicks the food consists of
milk, buttermilk, barley, or oatmeal
and rice.
One of the most important features in
recent studies of the soil, especially by
abroad, relates to its
physical characteristics; and the fact is
being more generally recognized that
the influence of the soil upon the life and
growth of the plant is determined quite
as much, possibly more, by its physical
; qualities—its relations to water and
heat—which have hitherto been almost
wholly overlooked, as by its chemical
; character, which has been given the
more attention. The investigations so
far made indicate a most interesting
field for inquiry, and the result s that are
to come from this new phase of agricul
tural study must be both novel and val
uable.
A curious plant has been discovered
i in Wisconsin which produces a kind of
I cotton and flax from the same’ stalk. It
I has already been woven into fabric, and,
■as any article that will make as good
! doth as can be made from this plant
i will make good paper, it has been called
' the paper plant. It can be planted in the
; spring and cut in the fall and winter. It
; bleaches itself white as it stands, and
j will yield at least three or four tons to
the acre. From a single root that was
| transplanted at Appleton last spring
; grew twenty large stalks, with 350 pods
(containing the cotton), with at least
I sixty seeds in each. From this root
! were obtained seven ounces of pure cot
ton and over half a pound of flax. It is
! a very heavy plant, and grows from six
I to seven feet high.
In a Water Spout.
The Denver (Col.) Tribune has this '
account of a terrific storm and water
spout that occurred in that region "re
cently :
In conversation with a gentlemen who
was stopping for a few davs at the board- j
ing-liouse, near the sawmill at Thonip
son’s, the . informant said: We had a
terrible hail storm shortly after 3 o’clock,
and stones as big as hen’s eggs fell thick
and fast. While we were standing at a j
safe distance from the windows, for :
nearly every pane of glass w r as broken,
we saw a most remarkable phenomenon,
accompanied by a dull, heavy, roaring
sound like distant thunder. A large
volume of wliat we aftei ward found to
be water was seen at the top of the
mountain, coming closer and closer like 1
an immense funnel. As it approached
the noise became almost deafening, and
one old gentleman who was standing in
the door, for we had all assembled in
and around the doorway, exclaimed,
“It’s a water spout!” Out of the house
and up the opposite hill we ran as fast as
possible to almost the summit. One of
the parties, who was furthest down, in
terror turned around and beheld the
water rushing and tearing down the op
posite side, carrying witli it huge bould
ers, uprooted trees and all sorts of debris.
It struck the house and the sawmill
simultaneously, and carried them away
like straws, not a vestige of either re
maining. We stood there in terror for
a long time, hardly daring to speak a
word, but finally, becoming more used
to the scene, we began to look around us
and take in the situation. When the
height of the excitement had abated
some little, an anxious mother missed
her infant child, and instant search was
made for the lost little one. After an
hour was spent in the water and mud,
one of the gentlemen discovered the
child in a pool of water, and the stream
still coming down the mountain side,
lying close up by a rock which also sup
ported a large bureau, under which the
little one sat in the apartment intended
for a lower drawer. The child was not
a hit frightened, but seemed to be rather
pleased witli its situation, and, strange
enough, had hardly a scratcli upon it.
The joy of the distressed parent can
easily be conceived when the wet young
ster was placed safe and sound in her
arms. The water continued to rush
down the gulch for several hours, and
we had to prepare places to sleep on the
side of the mountain. Early the next
morning I joined a number of men who
desired to reach Denver as soon as possi
ble, and started to walk to the train,
about seven miles distant. When we
reached there we found it was a wreck
ing train witli a coach attached, and
after being delayed several hours for the
wreckers to prepare the track, we started
on our way home.
The Origin of “ Dixie.”
A writer to the Baltimore Gazette in
quires about the origin of the word
“ Dixie,” and tile editor replies as fol
lows :
Some years ago, long before t lie war,
a very musical family by the name of
Dixie lived in Worcester, Mass. One !
of the brothers, Walston Dixie, we be
lieve, decided to apply his talents in
the negro minstrelsy fine and soon the ;
famous Dixie Minstrels were known ■
, from om- end of the country to the
| other. Tiiis same founder of the troupe
j wrote the celebrated song “ Dixie’s ■
' Land,” which attained such popularity, j
j It was verily the land for him, as he i
j found in the Southern States the germs
;of ttie quaint negro songs which he
j bushed up and placed in his pro
| gramme. The South adopted the song
l and hence allowed this gifted minstrel
of Massaclmsettsto give that section of
the country anew name, which will
alwavs stick. Many songs were
adopted and seetionaiized in tills way.
Our own "Yankee Doodle” was
written by an Englishman as a satire, I
blit our ancestors picked H right up and I
i eal e i 4 a iioir.e. .
THE OGLETHORPE ECHO.
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“ To-Morrow.” ' .
Oh, time of promise fair.
That never lives!
Day set in golden air.
Hedged round with visions rare- -
What rest it gives *
To souls weighed down by care.
Oh, day oi high desire,
That never dies!
Touch ot Prometheus fire,
Lilting hope’s slow flame highei
Toward native skies.
Mending lite’s broken lyre. -
Oh, day ol recompense
To true essay!
Give laith in place oi sense;
Be our strength in defence
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Living in vein -The blood.
Curs to mankind—Tfie dog-days.
The weather in England lias been go
ing very much against the grain.
Toledo, Ohio, estimates its receipts of
wheat this season at 25.000,000 bushels.
Cleanliness is the foe that slays yellow
jack, cholera and all other allies of the
grave.
“ Business carried on without pub
licity” must be tlis motto of the man
ttiat doesn’t advertise.
' Sleepy Tom, who made at Chicago the
fastest pacing time on record*—one mile
in 2.121—is an Ohio horse.
A little girl in New York caused the
arrest of a female thief, who lia*tv*r*lcn
a ring from the little one anti Was mak
ing off with it.
The net earnings of the of
flic United States for 1878 were sl7-1,5,5,-
177, a gain of $17,000,000 over She net
earnings for 1877. • ,
Mr. Loo of flic Chinese legation at
Washington flourishes a fan un<Mi which
is some poetry supposed to li.iXjc been
written 5,000 years ago. \ \j
The swindler who “buys” farms
lives sumptuously while lie is wjaitir
for the mail to bring the cash top
drafts is loose in southern Michigan
A recAitly published return sb "
that the estimated popuhwion of ■
and is 25,165,336, tl#at of Ncbth. | ,
267,453, and that of Ireland 5,663,324.
Archeries in England- have for eon
! tunes been supplied with bows of Eng
i lish make. Two years ago the manu
! facture was begun in this country, arid
! American bows are now largely exported
to England.
! Three rival lovers of Miss Hudson, at
i Lakey Bend, 111., formed a combination
against a fourth and more favored suitor.
They seized him as he was going to call
on her, threw him into a pond, and let
him drown.
There is a man in Paris who makes a
living by attending funerals for tlie sake
of the black crape and gloves distributed
\on such occasions. The sale of these
| brings him in five fiancs daily, and for a
dollar a day a. man may live comfortivbly
in Paris.
“Johnny,” said a fond mother to her
boy, “ which would you rather do, speak
: French or Spanish?” “ 1 would rather,”
said Johnny, rubbing his waist-band and
looking impressively at the' table, “ I
would rather talk Turkey.” —lowa Stale
Register.
Moldincss is occasioned by the growth
of minute vegetation. Ink, paste, leather
l and seeds most frequently suffer from and
by it. A clove will preserve ink; any es*
sential oil answers the same purposed
| Alum and rosin are used to prevent hook
| binders’ paste from molding.
These European monarchs are great
ladies’ men. Emperor William’s fre
quent visits to Ems are a matter of
notoriety, and now we read that
Alexander of Bavaria arrived at So pi fin.,
and was received witli great enthusiasm
I It’s ridiculous.— Somerville Journal.
A New Haven firm recently shipped
\ an elegant coupe to San Francisco, in
-1 closed in a canvas covering, and some
| impecunious chap made it furnish Him
a free ride to the Pacific by getting into,
'• it at New Haven and taking along a good
' supply of food for His ten days’ journey.
The whole illation of the thirteen
colonies' in l?(K)p| Y<-l imated at 1.700,000,
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania being
I the most populous. To-day we estimate
j tile population of the United States at
45.000,000. There were at the time re
ferred to 15,000 slaves in the New Eng
land States.
The Imperial museum at Vienna lias
j lately become possessed of some of The
instruments used by Australian savages
to induce their gods to give them rain.
These are small lancet-shaped pil'd* of
j wood smeared with red ocher and rudely
• engraved. They arc used in mysterious
! ceremonies attended with incantations.
j The painter Z has a comical little
servant. The other day Madame Z
i scolded her for being away all day.
i“Madame docs not know,” replied the
ingenuous soubrette. “ that Monsieur or
dered me to go to the salon and remain
all day?” “What for?” “To be a
crowd in front of his picture!”
on, why ?
; “Oh, youth, with smooth, sand-papered pale,
The night is dark, the hour is late,
Why do you linger on my gate?” . i
“ I stay to help yonr daughter hold
This gateui>on its hinges old:
(io in, old man, you’re catching cold!”
The old man sought his little bed
And on it laid his patient head;
i “ I think my gate is safe, ’ he said.
—Cincinnati Star.
Mr. Millais, the eminent English
artist, litis introduced portraits of his
own children into several of his pictures.
Recently on a Sunday his youngest ap
peared before him in anew and pictur
esque bonnet. “ Going to church, my
dear?” asked the father “Yes, papa,"
answered the child, with a pouting lip,
“Don’t you want to?” “No, papa.
“Very well, come and sit for me, and
I’ll paint you in that pretlv bonnet.’
“No, thank you. papa: I think I’d
rather go to chuerh.” Millais’ models
have to sit very still.
The Finest Diamonds in the World.
Western sovereigns are not the poss-'j
sors of the finest diamonds in the world,
for the Rajahs of Matan, Borneo, and the
Shah of Persia have the largest hitherto
known. The one belonging to tin Lm
peror of the Moguls weighed 297 carats
(about four erains each), and was valued
at $2,400,000. The famous Orloff, tin
property of the Russian crown, is one of
the most remarkable diamonds, on ac
count of the well-known circumstances
under which it was brought to Europe.
The large stone belonging Lm
i peror of Brazil, which weighs 1,730 carats,
would he worth many millions were not
its brilliancy diminished by certain de
fects. The Sultan of Nizam’s diamond
weighs 400 carats; that oft lie Lin peror
I of Austria twenty-nine grains; and that
. of the King of Portugal, twenty-live and
; a half grains. The famous Koli-i-Noor,
or Mountain of Light, is the property of
the Queen of England. _ The one winch
j adorned the tiara of Pins IX., and was
I bequeathed by him to his successor, l>‘o
i XIII., is one of the finest stones known.
It came from the treasury of the Dukeef
Burgun’d. at Granson. It was
. sold after the ha.— Jew at Berne
for thr*c crowns, then successively for
5,000 and 6.000 dueiits, and afterward
purchased for 14.000 ducats by Ijiigi
Storza, from whom it passed into the
1 lands of Pope Julius 11. for 20,000
1 ducats. Every one knows that the
I ** Regent,” of the weight of 136 carats, is
I the diamond h-longing to the French re-
I galia. t ‘Hinoisseui s consider it to he
| worth •MM* 000 Parti fiaiigman