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'•THERE WERE SIX ROSES ON A
TREE.”
There were six roses on a tree;
Each rose had its own destiny:
One to tbe Bridal went,
.Another, wet with many a Hear,
Exhaled upon the lifeless bier
Its beauty and its scent.
One went unto the Queen of Song,
One faded in the ball-room's throng,
And one on Beauty’s breast;
The last sweet bud, with holy prayer,
Was laid upon the altar stair —
Oh, Rose so pure, so blest!
Flowers symbol life, os ail things do,
.Some plain, and some of splendid hue,
Home full of virtue sweet,
Some hiding poison in their heart,
Some of a royal life a part,
Some flung upon tbe street.
No chance or change of human fate
But on the sinless roses wait;
And yet, whate’er their lot,
With equal loveliness they spring
Within the garden of a king
Or by a peasant’s cot.
A HUMAN BAROMETER.
\ recent letter from Live Oak, Fla., to
the New York Hun, tells this strange and
interesting days story: died in little
A few ago there a
negro settlement onThebend of tbe river
a black man who bad a somewhat re¬
markable history and who was noted for
a physical peculiarity puzzling to medi¬
cs! and scientific men. The name of this
negro was Zenith Pinkney, but he went
by the cognomen of Uncle Zene, and
was nearly eighty years old. He was of
medium height, very black, with pro¬
nounced African features, and strong
ana hearty even at his advanced age.
Uncle Zone was born a slave about
180(1. lie was the property of Major
Terwilligar, who owned the a (leorgia large plan line. la
lion in Tennessee, near
His master was quite a prominent cili
ten, and had served his country in many
capacities, both civil and military. His
cbildhood up to 1813 was eventful and
monotonous. He was free from care,
happy, ami mirthful. He luxuriated on
the hog and hominy of tho place, and
waxed fat and greasy, his only duty
being to brush the flies off his old “mis
sus" during her aflcrnoon siesta. At
other times, clad in a single garment of
cotton cloth, he kicked up Jus heels in
the dirt, and crawled under the old log
cabin <o escape threatened spankings at
the hands of his irale mammy because of
some freak of mischief.
A cloud lowering his , happy
was over
and peaceful life. Soon down came the
storm and rain. Late in the spring of
1813 tho famous Indian warrior lecura
sol. visited the Southern tribes of in
dines, and, with all his impassioned tdo
quence, urged them to begin a general
warfare against the white*, with whom
they hod been heretofore living in almost
complete pence. In burning words he
appealed to their passions, exposed the
wrongs under wlnon they were supposed
to be suffering, would and pictured ho them glory
and spoil, that accrue to if
they would dig up the hatchet and start
their out .upon the had warpath. been encroached He told them
lands upon
by the palefaces, and that tlm Great
8p.nl was angry with them for so tame
voked ly,animating the aid of the peculiar forms ,Ie !!! of ,
r
religion, and (old them that lW.se
was open to those who took up arms m
defence ol thc.r rights, firs arguments
and xvilv appeals had such an effect that
they quitted their peaceful avocations
and began lo commit many serious dop
red,, ions upon tho surrounding settle
menis jfhe first actual hostilities were
begun by the Creeks and Heniinoles, w ho
li ved within the limits of Honda and
Deoigin A number bus of fug. enforced, .ve negroes
joined them, ami, re bloody warfare they
inaugurated a crucl and
against the whites. In September, 1813,
a parly of Georgia volunteers was at
tacked near the Laokaway tow ns by a :
Urge force of I ml unit, who wrre
pulsed, however, after some most dcs
perutc The lighting. white Bctilera of
were, course,
nm li alarmed bv these savage outbreaks,
and many of them ned to the forts
jnwler safety. Among these was Major
Terwilligar Fort who Miming, placed blunging his family to and the
negroes in
aidol the gamson h.s stout urm uml
deadly r.fio 1 here were about l ; .0 men
in the fort with ft large number of
women, ‘ bib.en and slaves Among the
latter was little Zenith 1 tnknt x. In Au
gust, 18U. the fort was surprised by an
overwhelming force of Indians. 1 lie
u, the flaming build,„gs, others were
k illed outright by the arrow and the tom
ahawk, otlu-ia were ortured o dea lt
w.th every conceivable atrocity. Old
ami young lushed «>>ke the negroes
ahanttg the same fate Of he .100
more jicisona m the fort at the time of
Ihe aurprise ami a took, only seventeen
jr,Si%u u',E’.'s:s
in the most pitiable pliglit. All had lost 1
friends and relatives, ami some of them ■
were badly wounded and crippled for
life. One young negro, with a cunning
not o\|K'ctcd in one of liis age, had ecu
cealed himself in a disused nod broken
down cistern, and was not discovered
until the savage fnry had been fully
glutted. carried His life by was the spared, and victors, he
was awav exultant
Whcn they arrived in triumph at their
village he was turned over to the swarm
ing children little red as their toy amused ami plaything,
These devils themselves
by saturating his mat firing of wool with water
in *i»ots. and then the dry portions
with follieus fat pine splinters. Thh destroyed
the in thc burnt places. No
hair reappeared, and little to irregular his dying day
his head, w ith its tufta of
gtay woo’, resembled a war map more
than anything of else. took
The .''tate Tennessee at once
measures to punish these wretches. Gen.
Andrew Jaiksou was seat after them
with about 3,000 eager and hardy voluu
tcers, Thcae were all expert woodsmen.
deadly marksmen with tlu-ir old long
rifle*, and delighted lieuc in tire the of errand retribution they
were on. Th ■
firmed in their hearts, ami the memory
of ruthless savage butchery uerved them
on Uki: long aud toilsome march At
the same time Gen. t offee xvas ordered
to the frontier of ibe State with .VJJ
mounted men. Tl*v two forces joined iu
Octob at a on tlj ■ Tcnno<sej
River then know as Ditto's l anding,
After a month of r on-laut fighting, ia
December Jackson caiut-upon the mala
j, c> dr d tire Indians aud a terrific battle
took place. Thc s iv*ge» were com
nleieiv dpfrated and left ai*out 3,H> dead
warriors on thc 1 sit loticld. The invest
m»nt v.as not complete, however, oni. g
to thc misconduct of a subordinate offi
cer, and a large number of the Indians
es'a'ied taking their prisoners with
them
Uncle Zene used to relate with gusto
haw a huge savage who had formed an
a’ acbrreM to him p’acrd him before
him on a horse and galloped off through
the woods. “I tells you, chilen,” he
raid, “I scrooched up ’mity clus ter dat
big Injun, fer de bullets was a flyin’ dat
fas’ dey sounded des like bees a buzzin’."
Old Hickory was not the man to be
satisfied with one'figh' ; so, having been
re-enforced, he followed up the savages
and attacked them in their encampment
on the Tallapoosa river. This place
had been fortified by the Indians with a
great deal of skill. They made a most
desperate resistance, but were finally
forced from their intrenchments into the
brush. A flag of truce was sent to them
but they fired on it, and rejected fashioned all
overtures. Then a regular old
Fourth of July was prepared for them.
The trees and brush in which they were
hidden were set on fire, and not being
inclined to furnish the meat for a barbe¬
cue, they were forced to come out, and
thus became easy victims to the rilieraep.
The work of slaughter continued from
10 a. m., until night, when the few
wretched survivors escaped in the dark
ness. This great victory wound up the
power and glory of the Creeks. Nearly
000 of their warriors were killed, and
over 1100 women and children taken
prisoners. This time luck was with the
negro ljoy',Zonc and he was taken back to
civilization by the victorious soldiers.
His old master being dead, with all h s
family, the young slave became the
property of a nephew of Major Terwil
ini figar, who removed with him to Florida
825 out bis
When the Mexican war broke
master received a commission as captain
in the engineer corps, and left for the
halls of the Montezumas, tnking Zene
with him as body servant, cook, and gen¬
eral factotum. One day while he and
his master were riding out at some dis¬
tance from the American camp, they
were surprised by a party of Mexican
guerrillas. Captain Tcrwilligcr, after a
desperate resistance, was shot from his
horse, and while lying prostrate on the
ground was hacked to death by his mur¬
derous assailant* No harm was offered
( ) u , ne g r0> He was considered a valu
ab j 0 ca .,ture, and in a few days ho was
on >,js wny to tho mines, having been
go j d (0 a wealthy Mexican for a sum sui
to give the entire party of captors
a week's glorious catousah
Uncle Zene remained in Mexico until
when ho managed to escape, and
mac j 8 j,j s way ( 0 au English vessel lying
od tbc C0(lsb jj„ was no w under the
KnRlish fluff, a free man, and as ho was
" ] berth k tho vessel, he
oir ro( a „„ c00 on
concluded to renounce allegiance to Yan
kee ] aIld for a whilo and remain under
t||0 . )ro(ectil „, „.gi s „f the cross of St.
Now comes the strange part of this old
Afril ., in - S history. While the vessel was
p anama hc contracted the tcrriblo
( iiatrios “ fever and for weeks and weeks
wng avin 6 „ itl t i ie strange, weird land of
deU|ium , Again lie was a little boy
tumblin „ t ), e dirt of Tennessee; then
6urrouudcd t,„ fierce, wild faces, shiver
in ® „ in thB horrid din ■•( savage warfare;
(b toiUl ,„ ” iu tl.u heat and gloom of
f - ^ min g eating the bitter bread of
unoe s i n b „ labor. Good nursing and n
nalura ,| ' y stronj . constitution he brought
u ftr und again, and was once
nt hi> past, concocting savory
f the British sailors. About a
week after h is return to duty hc noticed
a gmllU wU it 0 spot ' on the ulnor muscle
f w |eft foro arm . U was about the
. f gn d seemed to move in a
hidden groove. Ho noticed that it
, to a ,| fluctuations of
h WMlher ' an d called the captain’s turned at
, it rl)egg vou have
Ult0 a barometer,’’ said tW worthy, and
b tUe nwWcr no more attention,
On tho vessel wits an. old sailor, very
f d of t8ttoo j n „ and having all Ihe
implements ' with him. Bor
. lhp ' tnill s barometer, he pro
c d J niR kc „ duplicate on Undo
t/ . marking it out in red ink lire
whJ|c s ,] ,, ot nmsqi.Wmg ni9 W()rk as the doiIO mercury in
. , ho ulb was a
, 0 ,| J m#nn01 . U1U ] , ho result showed
h t , ho had indeed become a hu
man barometer, lie foretold storms and
wett jjj or changes with accuracy, tho
8 . )ot moving with as much pre
cl8 - lon vising uml talliug with tho amen
tific marvel that hung in the captain's
" ,’. |ic]o Zcno rtturn ; d t0 this country iu
ami havinu traced up some of his
, vho wore living in this State,
R Uulc 11C arthem, and earned
f f , Hvil .^ghborhood. l v hd.ing ami doing odd
£ . n th() Ho was quite
, p Ilu , m .g r oes, and took
d „ h , ia recounting to them his
b adventures and in exhibiting
l>!:i |,.rf lt |
|,j tattooed arm. Tho negroes were
h(a afm!d ot this, and avoided
duc tn wll;lt and tho doctors d politely by injudl- Cali ah
ho „ ’ „ „„ cauM an
. e „ 0 rt on Uls pavt to drink up all the
, . k in (hy country in the small space
tw ; ntv . four hours. After his death
,ho tattooed ana turned a deep sodden
d (Uo white spot sank m, leav
i d s i on iot o which thc end of a
“»>■* >» I-"”"
An F.agle Attacks a Stag.
Recently some visitors to the High
witnessing lands of Scotland sight had the au like opportunity of which of
a was
never recorded. Ill - y bad rested on a
hill to admire a herd of reel deer that
were led by a slag of enormous propor
tions, among thc knolls of a game pre
serve. As the proud “monarch of the
glen” stood on a slight circling elevation iu a the large air
grey eagle was Presently seen it darted almost
above him.
with the rapidity of the lightning affrighted nnd fixed
itself on the back of stag,
It imbedded its talons in the flesh of his
sides, struck fiercely wish its pinions and
reached forward its beak to pluck out
the beautiful eyes of thc oiemal it wat
torturing. The stag, remained apparently motion stupe
tied by i*;:t (right, at lir>t he himself
less, in a moment moved put his head
on the defensive. Hc
vapidly from one side to ihe
other, striking thc eagle with his
branching antlers. Thc savage bird
was knot ki d upon the ground and the
stag, wounded and bleeding, stood ex
ultingly over it. Thc eagle, however,
«as not great’v in jured. It soon rallied
and ro-e high in the sir. When it xvas
almost lost in the distance it was seen to
circle again, and in a moment it darted
on the stag and fixed its talons and beak
in his haunt hes In this position the
frighti ned animal was not able to'trike
it with h s aatlem, although it tried hard
to do so. As a last resort hc passed his
head between his fore legs, threw him
self on ti e ground, and roiled orer with
the intern ton of crushing the bird. The
eagle withdrew h:s talons, and with
1 > 1 ok 1 flowing from its pinions regained
its place in the sky. All th ■ deer in the
h 'rd now raoed the.r herds and as they
saw the eagle again preparing into thicket to po. nce of
oa their leader they ran a
evergreens and eses.wd. The eagle
came near enough to thc ground to make
a clear survey of the field and then dis
appeared.
FOB FEMININE KEADEBS.
Points of Beauty.
An old Spanish writer has fixed the
standard of female beauty by an The enum
eration of thirty good points. essential. Here pos¬
session of these points is
they are: white—the skin, the
Three things
hands, the teeth.
Three black—the eyes, tbe eyebrows,
the eyelashes. the
Three red—the lips, the cheeks,
nails.
Three long—the body, the hair, the
hands.
Three short—the teeth, the cars, the
feet. the
Three broad—the chest, the brow',
space between the eyebrows. mouth, the waist,
Three narrow—the
the instep. the
Three free—the fingers, the hair,
lip.
Au Eccentric tilrl.
The eccentricities of an unnamed
young Indy in New York who made her
debut this winter are causing private a vast
amount of gossip. sitting next At a to recent Mrs. Herman
ball sbe was Danny Fearing
Jones at supper, when
brought that lady an ice. “Oh, I wish
I had an ice,” ejaculated the damsel in
question. “May I not bring you one?”
politely inquired Mr. Fearing. “Oh,
yes; only bring me twice as much as
that. Oh, by the way,” she added,
turning to Mrs. Jones, as the surprised
man went off, "you might as well pre¬
sent that fellow to me; I don’t know
him.” When he returned and the intro¬
duction had taken place, she noticed
that he had a bottle of champagne in his
hand. “Oh, I want some of that!” she
cried. “Let me get you a glass,” said
Fearing, moving away, “Oh, never
mind that, I was brought up on the bot¬
tle," was the reply. “Hold your hat in
front of me,” and seizing the wine bot¬
tle she put it to her lips and drained off
a respectable portion of its contents with
the case and grace of a southsido boat¬
man.— Troy Times.
A Washington Beauty.
A very pretty woman, who has reap
peared in Washington this year, is Mrs.
George Bpencer, wife of the ex-Bcnator
from Alabama. Six years ago society
was excited when the Senator went over
to New York, married Miss Nunez, a
member of a theatre company there and
brought his bride here. She was a Mis
sissippian by birth and related to several
generals of the Confederate and Egyptian beautiful
service, nnd is still a very
woman of the slender Spuuisli type. As
she appeared the other day, making some
afternoon calls upon ladies in the same
hotel whero she is staying, she was tho
striking figuro of tho occasion. She
wore a long black velvet dress, an ini
menro black Rubens lint covered with
black plumes, very long black gloves,
and carried a large fan of black ostrich
feathers, which, in its graceful motions,
seconded the wonderful play of her large
dark eves under the thin arching brows.
She held a whole company of ladies
spellbound and fascinated, and that is
the last and most crucial test of any
pretty woman’s talents. When she sat
down they formed a semicircle before
her, and she carried them with her by
storm. Except for an occasional ques¬
tion they let her have it all her own way,
cinating and she was to as all bright, those sparkling and and fas- be¬
women
witched them as completely with her
smiles and her Mark eyes ami clever talk
ns if they had been so many susceptible
men. Only the entrance but of Mrs. Logan
broke the spell, as they are two
famous friends they simply joined forces
and the charm was doubled.— Globe-Dem¬
ocrat.
Thr Prjiici-u ot Wales.
A London letter to the Boston Herald
says: 'the Princess of Wales is adored
by the English conservatives and radi
cals alike, and it was a lucky day indeed
for tho heir apparent when iie took the
sweet and high-minded wife. daughtei of the
larity King of is Denmark rivaled only to by that Her of popu¬ Mr.
Gladstone, nnd it is even greater than
liis, for London is hors, heart and soul,
ns well as the provinces. To look at this
pretty and girlish woman no one would
imagine that she was forty years of ago
and the mother of several children, in¬
cluding two great boys, one of whom
has just attained his majority. A1
though II. R. II. holds herself so well
that, when seated in her carriage or in
the box of n theatre she seems a tall
woman, yet, in reality, she is petite,
The princess d resses her hair rather high
and wears high heels. She is always at
tired to perfection, and usually in white
or black in the evening and in very quiet
colors during the day, but her is costume off
nt night, however simple, set by
the most magnificent jewels, so that she
literally “blazes like a jeweled sun.” H.
R. H. is somewhat deaf, although not
seriously so. Tbe present writer has
seen her many times in public, with and has
always been Impressed the grace and
and delicacy of her type of beauty
the unaffected goodness that seems to
surround her like an atmosphere. The
princess is always cheered to the echo
aud fairly mobbed by the enthusiastic
public. I have seen her seated in the
ruyal coach, returning in state from
Buckingham preceded palace to riders, Marlborough diadem
house, by out a
on her fair brow anti gorgeously attired;
again, at a garden party, accompanied
by her little daughters clinging to the
skirts of her gown, as she walked along
between thc ranks of ladies courtesving
aud men with their heads uncovered;
again, driving in Hyde park late in the
afternoon with the little princesses, or
sailing out to the royal yacht anchored
off the Isle fluttering of Wight, in the the ribbons fresh breeze, of her
sailor hat
her dress a simple blue serge, and still,
again, selling roses for charity at ihe
feie held in the Horticultural
figure ... English at., daily life Ihe people
recogn ze m her all those virtues which
her life does so m ch to reveal, and fol¬
low her good putting example faith in in the overlooking future. thc
past and Cer¬
tainly, moreover, there is no reason to
complain of ihe present, There are no
scandals in their beautiful chateau.
rn-hlon >, ln .
Long , corn gloves • are as fashionable , . ,, as
ever I hey are worn with white, black
aud co.ors.
i loth costumes grow in favor aud
lighlcr clothes are on th? counters for
spring wear.
Silver and gilt threads in the braids
worn on cashmere suits make them styl¬
ish aud dressy.
lace dresses, made of piece and border
lace, over silk, are among the prettiest
aud most useful of evening toilets.
Black silk tulle over black China silk
is very pretty for evening wear. xi itU
na e yellow roses at the belt or upon the
bolice.
Eur trimmed dresses are worn, hut
j braid and machine stitching.
It is not unusual to see fur used as a
bonnet trimming. One very pretty cardinal capote
has a high plaited crown of
velvet, while the brim is of beaver fur.
Fancy tea aprons of muslin and lace
and of Turkish towels embroidered in
tinsel and color are affected by fashion¬
able New York hostesses at 5 o’clock teas
or for afternoons at home.
White kids, which have been aban¬
doned of late years, are again enjoyed worn. its
The mousquetaire, too, has
scasou of popularity, and it is to be re¬
placed by the close buttoned glove.
New plaids are as often large as small,
and in fact all checked, barred, plaided graded
and block patern goods come in
sizes from the smallest to combination the largest, of
and in every imaginable
color.
A band of fur forming a fichu around
the neck, and stopping at the point of
the bosom is considered very chic,
worn with cloth suits, when only a
jacket or no wrap is demanded by the
weather.
The holokus or Mother Hubbard slip
is the popular little girl's dress in Europe.
There it takes the name of the sash
dress; but it is is subject to many varia¬
tions in the superimposition of draperies,
plastrons, and sash belts.
“Railroad Dick.”
In one of the large towns on the Penn¬
sylvania railroad there lived, uutil a year
or two ago, an old negro named “ Rail¬
road Dick.”
Dick’s self-appointed task in life was
to “seedc trains in safe.” In front of
the station at this place run eight or ten
tracks, which cross a busy thoroughfare. each
Dick made it his business to meet
incoming train, and run before it to
clear the track of any chance impedi- their
meat. Passengers would hold
breath in terror to see the stooping, and
ragged figure, with white hair flying kind of
arms outstretched, running in a
dog-trot before the engine, in the possi¬
ble danger of being crushed to death.
No remonstrance or reproof could com
pel old Dick to give up his perilous
task. It had not been a useless one.
Twice be had removed obstructions from
j the track which would have wrecked the
trains. Once he had dragged a man
: who had fallen upon the rails, to a place
of safety, and three times be had saved
the lives of children,
“Ole Dick’s got bis woh>r, sail, be
would say, when told of his danger,
It never left the station. The railway
officials made a protege of the old man,
and gave him a comfortable room in
! which to sleep back of the engine house,
' and a standing order for meals at tbe
restaurateur’s. But Dick preferred to
take his bread and bone in his lingers,
to be eaten as hc squatted on tbe floor of
the station.
“Dem paid follalis takes turns, hut
Use always on guard,” he said.
Dick probably grew stiff and feeble
from old age, and the time came at last
which everybody had looked for. Ho
was caught by the cow-catcher of an
engine, thrown against the rocks, and
carried to his room dying. He lingered
for a few hours. With each roar aud
shriek that announced an incoming
train, he would struggle to rise.
“Do’s lots of chillrun on dem tracks!
I.cmmcgo! Ole Dick's cot his work to
do I”
When told that he must die, he lay
silent fur a long time, and said finally:
“ ’Pars like dc’s nobody to take up jes’
my vvohk. But de Lokd’ll see to it,”
and so, closing his eyes, his work was
over. road
The roughest employees on the
were better men for having known this
poor, unselfish negro, who, simply and
according to his light, faithfully did tho
work which hc thought had beeu
given him to do.— -Youth's Gjmpanion.
The Old Liberty Bell.
The old bell which Philadelphia exposition has has
sent to thc New Orleans
had a noteworthy history, apart from the
one great deed -which gave it world-wide
fame. In 1751, thc Pennsylvania under the as
cmbly (a Quaker convocation, commit¬
rule of thc Penns) authorized a
tee to buy a bell for the State house. In
the letter sent by this committee to Rob¬
ert Charles, of London, ordering thc
bell, are these words:
j ! and “Let examined it bo cast carefully by tho before best it workman is ship
I pod, with the following words, well
shaped in largo letters, around it, ‘By
order of the Assembly of the Province
of Pennsylvania for the State house in
the city of Philadelphia, 1753.’ Aud
undernoath, ‘Proclaim liberty through
all tho land unto all the inhabitants
thereof.’ ”
As Philadelphia and the province literally gov
ertied by Penn was at that time
tho only spot in the world where abso
lute freedom prevailed there was a singu
iar pertinence nuu significance in this
inscription. arrival of the bell it hung,
On the was
and rung to try the sound, but, having
been badly cast, it cracked ou the first
stroke of tho clapper. The themselves, good Qua
kers then resolved to recast it
lvhich they accordingly did in 1753. In
1777 when the British threatened Phila
.
delphia, it was removed to^he little Mo
ravran town of Bethlehem for safety,
Even then, the people who invested were fighting with
so hard for their freedom
kind of sacred ness the bell which had
I rung out to proclaim liberty, not only to
this laud but to all thc nations of the
world who should shelter here. It was
broken several years later, and has since
occupied a place in thc old .State house
; at Philadelphia, next to the room in
which the Declaration was signed that
made us a free people.— Youth's Compan
■ j ion.
A Remarkable Man.
c „ . ,, isisri&ss r ■...... i„
k
- wl ,, fa Pike and their son Warren, f ort ,
two years old, . , who . was born , deaf j and j
, blind. He is of powerful frame, ana
moves with the quu k. g.acefu motions
of a panther. Ihe only food hc over
swallows is m.:k, which he dunks from
ten to fifty tones a day. l e »pnngs out
of a sound sleep in the ri ght and darts |
out of doors Leforo quitting the house j
he never lads to go to ihe window and
tol!C h his longue to a certain Si>ol in a j i
pane, by which means he is able to tcli
what the weather ii During the day he
lies on the floor, always in one place,
which has been worn it. a hollow of the
shape of U:s body. He can tell instantly
whenever his parents quit the house, and
which one Urn. He is also able to tell
exactly when it »noon and sunrise, and
sunset. His only amusement is to walk
to thx> old-fashioned kitchen door and
rattle the thumb piece.
A fact not generally known is that the
legislatures of but seven States hold an¬
nua i sessions—Massachusetts, Connecti¬
cut, Rhode Island, New York. New Jer
sey, South Carolina and Louisiana.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
A French investigator has found that
the sugar-beet gradually loses its sugar
when grown a second year, the quantity
being very small when the seeds are fully
ripened.
All ruminant hoofed beasts have horns
and cloven feet. If the hoofs are even
the horns are even; if odd, as in the
rhinoceros, the horns are odd, that is
single or two placed one behind the
other. Recent creatures with feathers
always have beaks. Pigeons with short
beaks small feet, and those with long
beaks have large feet. The long limbs
of the hound are associated with a long
head.
No two individuals have exactly the
same anatomical structure; and nearly
every one has in him some bony promi
nence, supernumerary muscle, or abnor
mal blood vessel which tells the tale of
his descent. Scarcely one body is per
fectly normal in every part. Some have
as many as thirty or forty variations
in their bones, muscles or arteries. Yaria
tions occur more frequently in negTO and
Indian subjects than in those of Euro
pean descent.
It is said that earthworms two feet in
length have been found in the British
isles, and various species as large or
larger are known to exist in South Amer¬
ica, Western Africa, Australia and New
Zealand. The largest species known,
however, inhabits South Africa. Forty
years ago, a specimen was described
which measured six feet two inches in
length; but it seems to have been nearly
forgotten until the other day, when a
gigantic creature of the same species,
nearly five feet long and half an inch in
diameter, was sent to the London Zoolog¬
ical gardens from Cape Colony.
An English scientist claims to have
proved, by in investigation and health, experi¬ the
ment, that, respect advantages to
electric light possesses over
nil other illuminants now in use—the
latter, with the single exception of elec¬
tricity, having a vitiating effect upon
the atmosphere. The various artificial
lights, according to this authority, dif¬
fer very widely in the important fact
that they are all more or less deficient in
the rays at the violet end of the
-spectrum, commonly called the actinic
rays, and which most probably exercise
a very powerful effect on the system—
even the light of the electric arc, which
is richer in these rays than any other, is
still on the yellow side of sunlight, the
incandescent electric light which being next
best in this respect, after comes
gas and oils. As to gas, it is shown by
these experiments that each gas burner
consumes more oxygen, gives off more
carbonic acid and otherwise unfits more
air for breathing, than does one human
being—this excessive heating and air
vitiation combined being the main cause
of injury to health from prolonged work¬
ing in artificial light.
Tlic Wild Wclsll Coast.
Nearly three-fourths of the entire cir
cuit of Wales is seacoast. A great part
of this coast is rugged and dangerous,
but there are frequently easily recurring bar
bors of refuge forbidding and safely entered.
Steep and cliffs, with fronts
of iron, black, jagged frowning, receive
the Atlantic's rudest buffetings grimly,
The southern shore of Wales, from a
point just below Cardiff to the extreme
Westernmost reach of land at St. David’s
Ilead, is washed by an ocean whose free
sweep is unbroken straight across to the
coast of Newfoundland. At various
points the cruel cliffs a.e made still more
cruel by huge rocks scattered about at a
distance from the mainland, as if the
shore were showing its teeth in frowning warning
to the mariner. Where this
front is broken occur bights and reaches bays of of
exquisite beauty, with long
tawny sand, which the waves lap lazily
of a summer afternoon, or across which
wild waves howl in the storm. It is a
striking line *•—•- of coast, full of fascination
>• “•*'! - >"* **•"•**.
stands a castle olden, looking®seaward, battlcraented
with its hoary facades and
towers—perhaps crumbling still slowly
awav, as it has been crumbling for cen
turies. At every lovely harbor is an
Old-World village, or a great town with
clanking hammers, the one rich, and the
other poor, but both dowered with those
aspects of antiquity which are so dear to
the eyes of the cultured American.
There are villages along the wild
Welsh coast of an ancientness to be
equalled hardly anywhere else iu Britain
—villages which in some cases have
undergone little change of aspect dm
ing the past five hundred years. Remote
from railroads, primitive in ail their
ways, they are of the Old World-olden.
Time has hardly disturbed them since
the caves and chasms hewed in the cliffs
by the long rollers of the Atlantic thun
dering in a thousand storms, have been
found traces of primeval man-his bones,
bis implements, the bones of the beasts
he ate-in great abundance. The very
laud is older than the land .of the Eng
lish, Scotch and Irish. Ages before the
solid parts of earth on which the rest of
Britain was built had risen above the
wide waste of waters covering the world,
this land, now called Wales, stood alone
in its glory, an island bv itself, where
strange monsters dwelt, wandering, and misshappen left the
birds and reptiles,
tracks of their feet, which are found to
dav in the solid rock where they were
».*. „ s «, .go.
A Great Edifice.
The new cathedral of Moscow cost
more than • i #10,000,000. a AAA Ann . It , has , been . , hall ,,
a century in constructing, but the won
der is not that the time is so long, hut
that it lias beeu so short. The great ca
thedral of St. Saviour’s is erected as a
memorial of the deliverance of Russia
from Napoleon Bonaparte in 1813. Les?
thau three months after the retreat ol
the French the Emperor Alexander 1. is
sued a decree that the church should he
built, and a few years later the founda
tiocs were laid. It took twenty years to
erect the building and cover it in, and
, he scaffolding was taken down in 1858
The scaffolding alone cost £->0,000.
has fivc t gisded CO pper central cupolas, sur
mounted by crosses, the one of
„ hich stands 340 feet from the ground.
The whok , building is faced with mar
b , c and thc interior is pronounced Eu- the
most exquisite in its decorations in
' There are magnificent candelabra, paintings, and
,, mt windows, costlv
-hsTfloor and walls are inlaid with many
varic ues of marble.
There is nothing in the world to equal
the gorgeous splendor of the altar aud
its accompaniments, and the cathedral
covers qa.OOd square feet, and wrd ac
conim odate comfortably m its central
an , a _ {or ,t i. rn the form of a Greek
C ross-l0,005 worshipers. The bfi,s
for tbls church cost £ 15,000. The
largest weighs twenty-six tons, and the
smallest only thirty pounds .—Galignants
Messenger.
The rich are able, but not libera’;
the poor are generous, but lack ability,
PERILS OP PRECIOUS STONES.
Some Elaborately Planned Bobber*
ie« from Jeweler**
A New York Herald reporter has been
having a talk with the head salesman of
a prominent jewelry firm. Said the
salesman: robberies
“Most elaborately planned experience. You
i are very familiar to our
must know that sometimes we are re¬
quested to send an assortment of jewelry
to the private residences of persons who
wish to buy, but who are for some rea
son prevented from coming in person to
the store. Recently it has become a
rule never to let one man go alone with
such an assortment. The salesman now
a-days is accompanied by a sturdy por
tnr, and both of them have instructions
under no circumstances to let the jewels
P ass f° r one instant from their sight,
Before these wise precautions were adopt
ed a number of salesmen calling with
assortments were the victims of robbery,
There was Ringsley, for instance, who
loft us only a few months ago to take
charge of a large establishment m Rhila
delphia. He was sent to show some aia
mnnds to a sedate looking matron and
her invalid husband. They lived in a
i Bmall house in a swell street up town.
In that case the invalid husband suddenly
developed prodigious muscular strength
and overpowered the salesman, while the
sedate looking matron added the rob¬
bery of Ilingsley’s senses to that of his
diamonds through the agency of a hand¬
kerchief saturated with chloroform. In¬
vestigation showed that the house had
been hired by the month and that only
the hall and two rooms on the ground speak,
floor had been furnished. So to
only the accessories necessary to the
scene of the robbery had been put in.
“Then, again, there was Dumwight,
who was found on the floor of a suite of
apartments in a fashionable hotel, with
his cases rifled and his skull fractured.
Some of the clerks insinuate that poor
Dumwight has never entirely recovered
from his cracked skull, but, however
this may be, certain it is that Messrs.
Sparkie, Flash & Co. have never recov¬
ered the pearls and rubies, valued at
$3,000, with which Mr. Dumwight was
intrusted on that particular occasion.
“But one of the most cunning carried rob¬
beries that I can recall was out
as follows: One fine morning a lady of
charming manners and address called
upon a physician who had a high repu¬
tation for skill in the treatment of men¬
tal disorders, and who took under his
personal care a few patients whose the
friends could afford to pay well for
attention. The lady, with many sighs,
poured her tale in the sympathetic who, pro¬
fessional ear. She had a brother
poor fellow, was slightly deranged. natural He all
was apparently perfectly entertained on
ordinary delusions topics, but extraor¬ with
dinary in connection
precious stones. His mania seemed to
consist in the belief that he owned a
quantity of jewelry and that he had dis
posed of it at a high figure. He was in
tbe of clamoring for payment and
' vben «“■ waswould bewal1 that
he had been robbed, Terms, she iuti
niated, would be no.object,
“ he hate n ed P^trently A
numb ? r f deb “ of . tbls f character, he
1
experience. crccious stones were iavor
Ue subjects of hallucination H.s closest
attention should be given to the case.
“It was arranged that, to avoid excit
>, . D g tbe P atlen t a sua P’ clon ' he should be
footed tbe - do f, tor to call \residence, . next day for and h.s that sister she at
‘hen take occasion to bring him
"‘ to contact with the doctor. The lady
then sorrowfully withdrew
“The heaviest purchaser at the diamond
counter that afternoon was a lady whose
“ ers "f “■“*«* b ? a fascinating
blending of dignity and grace. She
footed a diamond parure o exceptional
be ? ut y « d hl f $«*«• ,! a 7?* g m “ d ?
lhlfl purchase, she d reeled that it h De sent
punctua iartrsjs.'srj.nsa ly at 11 o clock next morning to
"V™ theory. This request was per
a f< \ lady ct 'y «S to carry lilar ' a 14 check " 0U J d book b< t umlsual or so large for
a sum w ' tb ,? r - I lan k 3
j name was rn the medical, city and elite ,
\ directories. ny acceacct to. The lady s request was read
I re9cnt ' At f tbe d . himself a PP°> at the Dtad house . the sa He .l esman
P « - was
shown to the parlor, where he found the
fair , . purchaser . of , the ., day , before , * awaiting ...
j bl ®‘ ‘Were the stones there just as she
bad se,e f, tC(1 thc “? Wtd1 ' wou > d
the gentleman step into , her husband , s
study and obtain the amount of h.sac
c ount? Before he went away, however,
she , would like to see him again with re¬
S ard to aom « rables as ° wblch 6 hc
! . r bke to havc the bcnefit °f . . his
wou a
°;p **-.">»* ‘H°w >»* xvas he feel
Had he slept well lately? Mas h.s
1 ton § ue coated and 1 " s rcst disturbed by
unpleasant nocturnal visions?’ .
1 “ »e was puzzled by the doctor’s
questions, was be? Mind unable to
: thc f tb questions
S' as P meanl “S ° f e
He was not f a patient. Of course not 1
oh! he had c “ e ‘°, colle ct a bll L for
I some jewelry? . Oh just f so. I hey
w0ldd attend ta thaUittle matter pres
j fntly-pres-ently. how was the appetite? In the meantime,
The salesman grew impatient. Ah! ,
I ““'J ., ^sdy excited; temperament
abnormally irritable! The usual symp
tems-the usual symptoms 1 He had a
of the oid adage SSS&jUS that there is often
out
method in mad—well, well; this bill
should be attended to—all in go.>d time
_ a „ in d time p -The doctor seemed
° misunderstanding!’
be u der KOme
, Not at a | U The the doctor understood
tbe cage thoroughly—'verv thoroughly,
^ nd n how a bout the diet? Were
tfce mea!g taken legu i ar i v ? Yeiv im
^jth rtant matter this taking the 'meals
i regularity 1 ’
- The salesman became angry. The
j qoetor fixed upon him a magnetic eye
and more professionally suave and
soo thing than ever. The more the pay
me nt of the bill was pressed for the mere
the doct0 r begged that thc patient would
cot excite himself, and assured him that
everTthing 4 would be done to make him
comforta and hapw in fcis new home,
; .. The desman agitated & and alarmed,
d for the door quest of the ladv
^ and jewe!rv . The doctor was at the doo'r
h ;i stm fi siBg him with the
magnetic irlance and more suave
..|„ ral n
to effect an exit bv force The
doctor touched an electric knob beside
the door t ln au ; n3tant two =la p
war , attendants ma le their appearance,
and tw0 minutes later the salesman was
j ravin f „ awaY doctor tikr ma d in a straight-jacket.
- he stepped into the parlor
x with ,he sister of this unfortu
j ^'thTdTamo^ n s>e luna'ic She STffi had disamreared hZ So
found ”
English towns of less than 10,000 in
habitant* have scarcely grown at aH in
the last decade.
THE BIVOUAC of th* stars.
Oft when I gaze upon that field sublime,
Which starry night unrolls:
Then seam its high lights, unsubdued by
time,
The tent-lights of great souls,
That always with base things uusatisfiAl,
Unmoved by doubt or fear,
tn splendid toil throughout those spaces wide
Climb upward year by year.
A countless throng that fills the heavens with
fire,
And glorifies the night,
Ascending paths that, winding ever higher,
End by the throne Alp-white.
The great, the noble of the earth are there,
From the heroic past,
The loyal-souled, the upright and the fair,
In that procession vast.
And every morn, from spirits sight with
drawn,
Come watchwords to that host,
Echoed from star to star, as guns at dawn
Along a guarded coast.
And hymns are sung, like pseans loud and
clear •
Before triumphal cars,
Half heard within the world’s thick atmos¬
phere,
The awful hymns of stars.
Oh, higher, higher up heaven’s wondrous
, arch
Each eve these bands I trace,
While in the shining ranks that lower march
New climbers take their place.
Full many a height there is to climb, I know
In life that hath no end,
But I look up where night’s bright beacons
glow,
And deathless souls ascend.
And heart and mind with newer strength are
fed,
Until I feel again
That from those altitudes.the noble dead
Still guard the lives of men.
—O. P. Foster, in Youth's Companion.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Running expenses—Children.
A club house—The police station.
A conscienticus milkman never wears
pumps. wedding
An important suit—A man’s
garments. the
A boil in the pot is worth two on
neck. — Siftings.
When the contractor is fat the mechan¬
ic’s lien .—Brooklyn Times.
“ Sure to make his mark”—The man
who can’t write.— Brooklyn Times.
The married woman's sphere—A ball
of darning cotton .—New York Journal,
g eau —“ Why do you prefer a wood
fire?” Belle—“’Cause it pops!”— Judge.
Some men will never learn anything.
A tramp tried to rob an editor the other
day.
An exchange asks; “Is drowning an
easy death?” We don’t know. Never
been drowned.— Graphic.
Cranberries are good for dyspepsia, taken
providing too much turkey is not
with them .—Chicago Herald.
“An Ohio girl eloped with a China¬
man oid enough to be her father.” The
rage for “old china” doesn't seem to
abate .—Norristown Herald.
The jront gate now is lonesome,
No more it bends beneath
The weight of young Augustus, enwreath.
Whose arms Georgy Ann
— St. Paul Herald.
It is said that a violin played among danc¬
a flock of geese will start them to
ing. Everyone who has attended a
da*nce is aware of this fact .—Netoman In¬
dependent. about
“There are good and bad points judi¬
this coffee,” said the boarder, in a
cial tone. “The good is that there is no
chickory in it; the bad, that there is no
coffee in it!”
The inventor of the hand organ died
one hundred and eight years ago. Mark
Antony was right when lie declared
that “the evil men do lives after them.”
—Lowell Citizen. ,
In Canada—“Well, wife, I suppose wo
ou Sjj ht to call on the Mandelbaums, hadn’t
we? “Yes, dear, I suppose so, but they
are horribly common people; just think,
they only stole $30,000.
It is noticeable that when persons
make their first attempt at skating in the
rink, they express satisfaction with the
skates furnished, but soon get “down
■ m the floor.— Morristown-Herald.
“Well, John, how is business with
you?” “Bad, very bad.” “Y’ou haven’t
been able to make anything, then?”
“Oh, yes, I have." “ What?” “An as
signment.” “Oh '."—-Boston Post.
We are ia danger of having too much
culture iu this country. An sesthetic
buff-colored pug recently went mad in
Boston because his mistress dressed him
in a light green blanket.— Graphic .
“Do they ever bark?” asked old Mrs.
Simpkins, gazing at a pair of stuffed sea
dogs in the museum. “No, mum,” said
Einathan; “leastwise not now, mum;
their bark is on the sea, you know.”
THE THERMOMETER'S ANNOUNCEMENTS*
In sympathy with the business small,
And with the season’s marked rigors, for all,
llv weather I have
Down to the lowest Courier-Journal. figures.
—
A Western man recently died while
playing the fife, As no bullet hole was
found in the window, it is supjiosed that
the assassin crawled up the furnace flue
and hit him with a club .—Burlington
Free Press.
A Chicago man who called upon a mu¬
sical friend the other evening at supper
time was warmly welcomed, as they had
a party, and they were just going to have
a sonata. He said he thought he smelled
it as he came over.
“ Curious how long the old man lasts 1”
says somebody, reflectively; “especially
when you consider that for the last ten
years he has had one foot in the grave.” and
“ Yes; but then, you see, every now
then he changes the foot 1”
An Australian naturalist is reported to
have discovered that sponges are en¬
dowed with a nervous system. All the
“sponges” known to us socially certain¬
ly display a great deal of “nerve” in
their own peculiar way .—Lowell Citizen.
A Legless Farmer,
Kemper county, Mississippi, "has a citi¬
zen who was born without legs, but who
makes a modest living by tilling the soil.
His name is James Lang, and this year
hc raised a bale of cotton and sufficient
corn for his needs, doing all the work
himself, except the plowing. He moves
about his farm with ease in a common
splint bottom chair. By a slight side sway¬
ing of his body from side to be
makes his chair move along as one moves
a pair of dividers. Mr. Lang keeps out
of debt, and purchases enough supplies
after harvest to iast him until he gathers
the next crop.— A etc Orleans Times-Dem
ocrat.