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HITS OF INFORMATION.
Tons were first paid by vessels poss
*nK the slado on tne river Elbe, 110!).
In England, toll-barn originated in 1207,
a penny being asked for every wagon
tliut passed through a certain manor,
and the first regular toll was collected a
few years later for mending the road in
Loudon, between St. Odes’ and Temple
Bar.
The invention of mnsio is uncertain.
Lucretius ascribes it to the whistling of
the winds in hollow reeds. Frnnekinus
to the various sounds produced by the
hammers of 'l’ubal Cain ; Camelon Pon
tiipie, and others to the singing of
birds. And Zarlino to the sound of wa
ter. It is, however, agreed that music
was first reduced to rules by Jubul, 1800
B. C.
Thk average duration of vitality in
seeds of some of our cultivated plants is
as follows : Artichoke, five years; broad
been, six ; beet root, five; cabbage, five,
carrot, four; cucumber, five ; lettuce,
five ; maize, two; melon, five; onion,
two ; parsnip, two ; peas, four or five ;
radish, fivo; spinach, five ; tomato,- five ;
turnip, fivo: egg plant, seven ; endive,
nine ; parsley, throe ; strawberry, three.
The mark which persons who are un
able to write are compelled to make in
stead of their signatures is constantly
referred to as an instance of the igno
rance of ancient times. It is not, how
ever, invariably, a proof of such igno
rance. Anciently the mark was not con
lined to illiterate persons. Among the
Saxons the mark of the cress was re
quired to be attached to the signatures
of those who could write, and to stand
in the place of the signatures of those
who could not write, as an attestation of
the good faith of the person signing. In
those days if a man could write, or even
road, it was a proof that he was in holy
orders. The ancient use of the cross was
therefore universal, and was the symbol
of an oath, from its sacred associations,
ns well ns the mark generally adopted.
Negro slavery was introduced into the
present territory of the United States
during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, by
merchants of Liverpool, England. On
Jan. 31, 1865, the final vote was taken in
Congress submitting to the States for
their approval and ratification the fol.
lowing amendment to the constitution :
“ Article XIII. Neither slavery nor in
voluntary- servitude, except as a punish
ment for crime, whereof the party shall
have been duly convicted, shall exist
within the United States, or any
6’ace subject to their jurisdiction.” On
ec. 18, 1865, the Secretary of State
issued his proclamation declaring that
this amendment had been approved by
the Legislatures of Illinois, Rhode Isl
and, Michigan, New York, West Vir
ginia, Maine, Kansas, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Missouri,
Nevada, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Vermont, Tennessee, Arkan
sas, Connecticut, New Hampshire, South
Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina, and
Georgia— in all, 27 out of 36 States, and
was consequently adopted.
Growth of British Cities.
The opinion, quite generally enter
tained, that London is one of the few
large British cities which grow rapidly,
is very erroneous as the figures plainly
show. It is nearly eight years since the
last census, and the Registrar General
consequently supplies various estimates,
annually, of the population of the prin
cipal towns, founded on the ratio of in
crease between 1861 and 1871, in order
to form a basis for calculation of yearly
rates. From this it appears that Lon
don now contains 3,620,868, an increase
since 1871 of 366,608; Liverpool, 538,-
338, an increase of 44,933; Manchester,
361,819, an increase of 10,640; Leeds,
311,860, an increase of 52,648; Sheffield,
297,138, an increase of 57,192; Bristol,
209.947, an increase cif 27,395; Bradford,
191,046, an increase of 45,210; Hull, 146,-
347, an increase of 24,455; Salford, 177,-
849, an increase of 53,048; Newcastle,
146.948, an increase of 18,505; Ports
mouth, 131,821, an increase of 18,262;
Leicester, 125,621, an increase of 30,402;
Sunderland, 114,575, an increase of 26,-
333; Oldham, 111,318, an increase of 28,-
689. London is equal to eighteen of tho
largest cities; Liverpool and Glasgow aro
very near one another in population, the
latter having 39,818 more people than
the former. The density of population
varies greatly in the leading towns. For
example, it is 11.4 in Norwich; Newcastle,
27.4; Sunderland, 41.4; London, 48.0;
Manchester, 84.3; and Liverpool, 103.3
per acre. Many of the small uncommer
cial towns of Great Britain are station
ary, others slowly decline.—iV. Y. Times.
Wanted All the Facts Printed.
There was a little shooting scrape at a
little town in the interior of Texas, and
it was not long before a reporter was on
the spot interviewing one of the princi
pals.
“So you are going to write it up,” said
the survivor.
“Yes, I want all the facts.”
“I don’t care a cent what you say
about the shooting, but I have one little
favor to ask.”
The reporter said he would grant it
cheerfully if he could.
“Well,” said the shootist, “I want
you to put down that my grandfather
was one of Lafitte’s pirates, and the
worst cut-throat of the gang. ”
The reporter stared a little, but the
shootist went on to say ;
“Please put in that one of my uncles
was hung by the Vigilance Committeo
in San Francisco, and two more of them
aro making shoes in the Illinois peniten
tiary; that another one of them is prac
ticing law in New York, and my only
sister ran away from home with the
clown of a circus ; that as far as you can
learn there is not a member of the family
that has not done sometliing disgrace
ful.”
“ Why, what do you want all that in
the paper for ?”
“Because I am sick of reading in the
papers that every fellow w-ho has a little
shooting scrape belongs to one of tho
most respectable families in the country.
Just put it down, for once, that one of
the parties to the unfortunate affair be
longs to a highly disreputable family. If
you don’t put it that way you will wish
you had.”
The Chinese ladies wear in their
bosoms little dwarf fir trees, which, by
a carefully-adjusted system of starvation,
have been reduced to the size of button
hole flowers. These remain fresh and
evergreen in their dwarf state for a num
ber of years, just as fir trees in mount
ains are evergreen, and thus are excellent
svmbols of perpetuity of love, to ex
press which they are used by the ladies
of the highest rank in the Celestial em
pire.
Hints.
Discontent is the want of self-reliance.
He who can conceal his joy is greater
than he who can conceal his griefs.
A man’s virtues should be measured,
not by liis occasional exertions, but by
the doings of his ordinary life.
Smoking is to be prohibited among
West Point cadets. Hazing will go on
as nsuaL
maiiLTON Journal.
LAMAR & DENNIS. Publishers.
VOL. VIII—NO. 48.
HOD K\OWS ItKST.
BT EMMA CLABK WIUTHRT.
In many trouble* that perplex.
Ami make uh weary ot this life.
If wo would Hay, “ 1 will not vex
My houl no more with worldly Btrif<\"
Hut, looking upward—“ Clod known beak;**
Unto 111 m oar© leave all the rent
Instead ws strive with hands so fral
To part the clouds upon our way.
Ah! life giveH uh no warrior mail
Invulneraltle to sorrow'* Hway ;
And when its darts pierce through our breast,
Teach uh to feel that God known bent.
When in the throoH of fiercest pain,
And our weak spirit* seek release,
And cry aloud to Him in vain,
To succor or to still In i>caeo,
Though granting not our wild request,
Teach us to feel that God knows bent.
When like a serpent from its lair,
With coils that kill ail they embrace,
Hin springs upon us unaware.
And poisons what was pure and chaste,
Though falling ’neatli temptation's lest,
Tuucli uh to fuel tliut God knows bent.
TIIE ORDEAL OF LOVE.
Adolphe and Celeste were lovers—tlio
course of true love never did run smooth,
and it was interrupted in theirs by cruel
parents, who had different views for their
children. Adolphe, in despair, takes
poison, hut the invention of stomach
pumps prevented his desperate purpose,
and he recovers. Celeste had the poison
in her hand, and was in the act of raising
it to her lips when her mother discovers
her. The story thus proceeds:
Whatever the exaggerations of our
lovers, they loved fervently, disinterest
edly, and with all their hearts. Not one
in ton thousand loves is so Btrong, or
promises to bo so lasting.
Adolphe did not die—antidotes were
given in time—lie recovered. The ill
ness of Celeste was more dangerous.
She suffered, poor child, a delirious
fever, and it was several weeks before
her life and reason were restored.
No parents could stand all this; ordi
nary caprices it is very well to resist, but
when young people take to poison and
delirious fevers— il faut c edcr. Besides,
such events derange one’s comforts. Ono
is always glad to come to terms when
one begins to be annoyed with one’s self.
The old people then made it up, and the
young people married.
As the bridegroom and Colcsto were
convinced that the solo object of lifo was
each other’s company, they hastened at
once to the sweet solitudes of the coun
try. They had a charming villa and
beautiful garden; they were both accom
plished, clever, amiable, young, and in
love. How was it possible they should bo
susceptible to ennuif They could never
bear to loose sight of each other.
“Ah, Adolphe traitor where hast
thou been?”
“Merely shooting in the woods, my
angel.”
“What, and without me? Fie! Promise
tills shall not happen again.”
“Ah, dearest, too gladly I promise.”
Another time:
“What, Celeste! three hours have I
been seeking for you! Where have you
hid yourself ?
“Don’t look so angry, my Adolphe: I
was only directing tho gardener to build
a little arbor for you to read in. I meant
it as a surprise.”
“My own Celeste ! three hours—it is
an eternity without you! Promise not to
leave me again, without telling me whero
to find you.”
“My own dearest Adolphe! how I love
you—may my company be over as dear
to you.”
This mo.lo of life is very charming
with many for a few days. Adolphe and
Celeste loved each other so entirely that
it lasted several months. What at first
was passion had grown habit, and each
blamed the other for want of affection,
if he or she ever indulged in the novelty
of different pursuits.
As they had nothing to do but to look
at those faces they had thought ho hand
some, so it was now and then difficult
not to yawn; and of late there had been
little speeches like tho following:
“Adolphe, my love, you never talk to
me—put down that odious book you aro
always reading.”
“Celeste, my angel, you don’t hear
mo. lam telling you about my travels,
and you gape in my face. ”
“My dear Adolpho, I am so exceed
ingly sleepy.”
One morning, as Adolphe woke and
turned in his bed, liis eyes rested on his
wife, who was still asleep—“ Bless me,”
thought he, “I never saw this before —
let me look again—yes, certainly she has
—a wart on her chin!”
Adolphe rose anil dressed himself —
Adolphe was grave and meditative. They
met at breakfast —the bride and bride
groom. Celeste was in high spirits;
Adolpho was sombre and dejected.
“Let us ride to-day,” said Celeste.
“My dear, I have a headache.”
“Poor child! well, then let us read the
new poem.”
“My dear, you talk so loud.”
“I!” and Celeste gazing reproachfully
on Adolphe, perceived for the first time
something in his eye that surprised her.
She looked again—“ Good heavens!” she
said to herself, “Adolphe squints!”
It is impossible to say what an effect
this fatal discovery had on Adolphe. He
thought of it incessantly. He had nothing
else to complain of—-but then warts on
the chin are certainly not becoming.
Celeste’s beauty had improved greatly
since her marriage. Everybody else saw
the improvement. Adolphe saw nothing
but the wart upon her chin. Her com
plexion was more brilliant, her form
more perfect, her walk more majestic;
but what is all this, when one has a wart
on the chin? The wart seemed to grow
bigger and bigger every day—to Adolphe s
eve it threatened speedily to absorb the
whole face! Nay, he expected in due
time to see his beautiful Celeste all wart!
He smothered his pain as well as he
could, because he was naturally well
bred and delicate; and no woman likes
to be told of the few little blemishes she
is blind to herself. He smothered his
pain, but he began to think it would be
just as well to have separate rooms.
Meanwhile, strange to say, Adolphe s
squint grew daily more decided and pro
-1 pounced.,, He certainly did not squint
before we were married,” thought Ce
leste; “it is very unpleasant—it makes
one so fidgety to bo stared at by a person
who sees two ways and Adolphe has un
fortunately a hat lit of staring. I think I
might venture to hint, delicately and
kindly, that tlio habit cau't yet be in
curable.”
As wives are always first in the emula
tion of fault-finding, Celeste resolved to
hazard the hint on the first favorable
opi a t unity.
“Well, my Celeste, I have brought
my dog to see you,” said Adolphe, ono
morning.
“He! down, down! Pray turn him
out; see the mark of his paws. I can’t
bear dogs, Adolphe.”
“Poor tiling!” said Adolphe, caressing
liis insulted favorite.
“ Was that to mo, or the dog?” asked
Celeste.
“Oh! to him, to be sure.”
“I beg your pardon, my dear, but I
thought you looked at me. Indeed,
Adolphe, if truth may be said, you have
lately contracted a bad habit—you are
getting quite a east in your eye.”
“Madame!” said Adolphe, prodigiously
offended, and hurrying to the glass.
“Don’t be angry, my love; I would
not have mentioned it if it did not get
worse every day; it is yet time to be
cured, I am sure; just put a wafer on the
top of your nose, and you will soon see
straight."
“A wafer on tlio top of my noso! Much
better put ono at the top of your chin,
Celeste.”
“ My ohin ?” cried Celeste, running in
turn to the glass. “ What do you moan,
sir ?”
“Only that yon have a very largo wart
there, which it would bo more agreeable
to conceal.”
“Sir?”
“ Madame!”
“A wart on my chin, monster !”
“ A cast in my eye, fool 1”
“Yes! How could I ever love a man
who squinted !”
“Or Ia woman with a wart on her
chin 1”
“Sir, I shall not condescend to notice
your insults. No wonder—you cau't
see! I pity your infirmity.”
“ Madam, I despise your insinuations;
but since you deny tlio evidence of youi
own glass, suffer me to send for a physi
cian, and if he can cure your deformity,
so much the better for you. ”
“Yes, send for a physician; he will
say whether you squint or not. Poor
Adolphe! lam not angry; no, I jvity so
melancholy a defect.”
The doctor could not very well see
whether Adolphe squinted, for ho had
his hat over his eyes; besides, ho pru
cntly thought it best to attend to one
(I alady at a time.
“As for the wart, sir,” said he, “it is
not difficult to cure. ”
“ But if my wife don’t confess that she
lias it, slio will never consent to ho cured.
I would not mind if she would but own
to it. Oh, the vanity of women !”
“ It must have been after seme absence
that this little defect was pcrcoivod by
you—”
“After absence—we liavo not boon a
day separated since we married.”
Celeste burst into tears. Adolphe, in
a rage, seized his hat, mounted lus liorso
and went himself to the doctor.
Tlio doctor was a philosopher as well
as a physician. Ho took his pony and
ambled back with Adolphe. On his way
lie extracted from Adolphe his whole his
tory, for men in a passion are easily made
garrulous. “The perfidious women!”
said Adolphe. “Would you believe it?
—we braved everything for each other—
never wero two persons so much in love
—nay, wo attempted suicide rather than
endure a longer separation. 1 renounced
the most brilliant marriage for her sake
—too happy that she was mine without a
dowry—and now she declares I squint.
And, oh, she has such a wart on her
chin !”
“ O-ho,” thought tlio doctor, sinking
into a revery—l have said he was a phil
osopher—but it did not ’require much
philosophy to know that persons who
would have died for each other only a
few months ago wore not alienated only
by a wart or a east in the eye.
They arrived at Adolphe's villa—they
entered (lie saloon. Celeste no longer
wept; she laid put on liermost becoming
sap, and had the air of an insulted but
uncomplaining wife.
“Confess to the wart, Celesta, and I'll
forgive all,” said Adolphe.
“ Nay, why so obstinate as to the caste
of the eye; I shall not admire you less
(though others may), if you will not lie
so vain as to disown it. ”
“Enough, madam; doctor, regard that
lady, is not the wart monstrous?—can it
he cured?”
“ Nay/’ cried Celeste, sobbing, “look
rather at my poor husband’s squint. His
eyes were so fine before we married.”
The doctor put on his spectacles; he
regarded the first one and then the other.
“ Sir,” said he deliberately, “ this lady
has certainly a pimple on tho left of her
chin considerably smaller than a pin’s
head. And, madam, the pupil of your
husband’s right eye is like that of nine
persons in ten, the hundredth part of an
inch nearer tho nose than the pupil of
the left. This is the case, as it appears
to me, seeing you both for tho first time.
But Ido not wonder that you, sir, think
tho pimple so enormous; andyou, madam,
the eye so distorted, sinco you see each
other every day 1”
The pair were struck by a secret con
viction; when an express arrived breath
less to summon Adolphe to liis father,
who was taken ill. At the end of three
months Adolphe returned. Celeste’s
wart had entirely disappeared, and Ce
leste found her husband’s eye as beauti
fnl as ever.
Taught by experience, they learned
then, that warts rapidly grow on chins,
and squints rapidly settle upon eyes, that
are too const::..;! y seen. And that it is
easy for two persons to die joyfully to
gether when lovers, but prodigiously dif
ficult without economizing the presence,
to live comfortably together when mar
ried.
“ When I goes a-shopping,” said an
old lady, “ I allers asks for what I wants,
and if they have it, and it is suitable,
and I feel inclined to buy it, and it is
cheap, and can’t be got for less, I most
allers take it, without clappering all day
ibout it, as some people do.”
“DUM SPIRO, SPERO.”
HAMILTON, GA., NOVEMBER 25. 1880.
A Mixed Telephone.
The telephone, the wonderful offspring
of Edison’s great mind, is an instrument
which is now looked upon as indispensa
ble to the world’s good, but it, like a
great many other tilings, will sometimes
get out of humor and act in a very crooked
manner.
Mr. Charles Augustus Fitzmnnt is an
enterprising but bashful young cotton
clerk, whose place of business is on Car
oudelot street, and he is most warmly at
tached to a fair maiden who lives in an
uptown residence with a telephone in it.
Oft tlio telephone has been used as a
medium through which lie has breathed
words of heart-pounding love in the ears
of the one he so fondly worshipped, and
never did he know it I<> fail in the per
formance of its duty until yesterday.
When it caused him to moan -yea, to
tremble like an aspen leaf and smite ono
knee against the other.
At the time mentioned Charles had not
seen his affinity for over forty-eight
hours, and ho determined to inform her
of whom lie was fondly dreaming that he
would he up to the house that night mid
sit out on tiie front porch with her and
sigh at the moon. Booking the telephone
while no ono was in the office, he said:
“Put me on with Mr. 11.'s residence.”
“ All right, go ahead."
“Is Miss Minnie at homo ?”
“ Yes.”
“ Tell her to step to the 'phono,
pleaso. ”
“Is that you, Charlie?” inquired a
cooing voice skimming along the wire.
“ Yes, dearest, it’s your own Charles.”
“Oh, Charlie, what made you stay
away so long ? You must oomo up to
night because—”
“ The baby was born an hour ago.”
“ Wli-at baby ?”
“ Your own baby.”
“ My baby !” shrieked the young wo
man; “ why, I’m—l’m surprised that
you—you would say such a thing. I—l
didn’t expect it ”
“ Neither did I; I just heard it a mo
ment ago. ”
“ You don’t beliove this—this fearful
report? Say—say you don’t. You know
I haven’t got a baby. I never did liavo
a baby in my life,” howled tlio young
woman, in a frenzy.
“ Ha ! Ha ! old fellowyon feel so proud
and happy that you liavo to indulge in a
joke, do you. Allow me to congratulate
you. It’s a boy, and weighs twelvo
pounds. Good-by.”
‘ Miss Buntor—l say, Miss Hunter.”
“Oh ! Charlie, what is tlio matter?”
“Matter enough. I want to know tlio
man’s name who told you that scandalous
falsehood. I’ll have liis gore before sun
rise. I’ll follow him over sixteen differ
ent States to kill him. I’ll crush him.
I’ll mutilate him. Tell mo, was it that
squint-eyed Bangs who brought that
hellish lie to your ear* 9 ”
“What Jie, Charlie? What do you
moan ?”
“ I want to know who told you that—
that I had a baby born to mo an hour
ago that weighed twelve pounds. Who
is the villain ?”
A piercing shriek was tlieonlyreply that
came over the wire, and then Charles
realized for the first time that there
was some d"eodful mistake, that the tele
phone had become mixed, and he
fainted. —New Orleans Times.
About Peanuts.
The modus operundi by which the
nuts are separated, cleaned and classed is
somewhat as follows : The third story of
the building contains thousands of bush
els of peas in hags, and there the con
tinual roar of the machinery is deafen
ing. Each machine lias a duty to per
form. First, there is a large cylinder in
which nil the nuts are placed, in order
that the dust and dirt maybe shaken off
thorn. They pass from the cylinder
into the brushes, where every nut. re
ceives fifteen feet of a brushing before
it becomes free. Then they pass through
a sluiceway to the floor below, where
they are dropped on an endless licit,
about two and one-half feet in width,
and dashing along at the rate of
four miles an hour. On each side
of the bolt stand eight colored girls,
and, as the nuts fall from the sluice
on to the belt the girls, with a quick
motion of the hand, pick out all the
poor-looking nuts, and by tlio time the
belt reaches the end two-thirds of the
nuts are picked off, allowing only the
finest to pass the crucible, 'lboso that
do pass drop through another sluice and
empty into bags on tlio floor below.
When the bag is filled it is taken away
by Land, sewed up and branded as
“ cocks,” with the figure of a rooster
prominent on its sides. The peas caught
up by the girls are then thrown to one
side, placed in the bags, and carried into
another room where they are again picked
over, the best singled out, bagged and
branded as “ships.” These are as fine
a nut as the first for eating, lint in shape
and color do not compare with the
“cocks.” Having gone over them twice,
we now come to a third grade, which
are called and branded as “eagles.”
These are picked out of the callings of
tlio “ cocks ” and " ships,” hut now and
then you will find a respectable-looking
nut among them, though the eyes of the
colored damsels are as keen as a hawk,
and a bad nut is rarely allowed to pass
their hands. Tlio cullings that are left
from the “eagles” are bagged, sent
through the elevator to the top story,
and what little meat is in thorn is shaken
out by a patent shelter, which is not on
ly novel, hut as perfect a piers)
of machinery as was ever invented.
These nuts being shelled by this new
process, the meat drops into bags below
free from dust or dirt of any kind, and
are then shipped in 200-pound sacks to
the North, where they are bought up by
the confectioner* for the purpose of mak
ing taffy or peanut candy. It may Ire
here stated that a peculiar kind of oil
is extracted from the meat of the nut,
and in this specialty a large trade is done
among the wholesale druggists. There
is nothing wasted, for even the shells
are made useful. They are packed in
sacks and sold to stable-keepers for
horse-bedding, and a very healthy Ired
they make.
The gross earnings of the Suez ship
canal for the i>reseut year will he 88,-
066,650, while the disbursements, in
cluding 85 per share, have been only
$5,785,605, leaving for distribution
among the shareholders $2,280,085 as
the profit* of the year.
A FIFTY-EUIIIT DAYS’ FAST.
A l-'rcm-li Prisoner Who llcltt l*r.
Tanner The l*h<-niiienn ol Mnrvu
llon.
[From tlio London Standard.]
Ann Moore, the famous fastingwomnn
of Tutlmry, protended to have lived
for eight years entirely without, food.
A watch committee was appointed,
which detected the fraud in a very in
genious manner. The bed and bedding,
with the woman in it, were placed on a
delicate weighing machine, which re
sulted in the inevitable exposure. At
the expiration of the nint h day of this
strict watching, being warned that she
was sinking, she acknowledged her im
posture, and admitted—which is mi im
portant foot that, so long as the watch
upon her was but imperfect, her daugh
ter had contrived, when washing her
face, to food her every morning by using
towels made very wet with gravy, milk,
and other nourishing fluids, mid bad
also when kissing her contrived to con
vey small portions of solid food from
mouth to mouth. Guillaume Granot, a
prisoner at Toulouse, resorted to starva
tion to avoid punishment. For the first
seven days the symptoms were not very
remarkable. After that period lie was
compelled to drink water to relieve liis
raging thirst, and, after lingering on in
terrible agony, lie died in convulsions on
the fifty-eighth dav. The case is re
ported liy Van Swieten. There is no
doubt as to its truth, and it shows that
up to tlio present, at any rate, Dr. Tan
ner has at tlio most only done what
others have done before lrim. Vitorbi,
a Corsican, condemned to death for the
assassination of Frodioni, resolved to
starve himself to death. He died on tlio
twenty-first day. He, too, occasionally
moistened liis mouth with water. The
medical details of his case, which are
very horrible, will bo found iti Paris’
“Medical Jurisprudence.” Of actual
starvation, the most remarkable exam
ple is, perhaps, that reported by Dr.
Bloano, of Ayr. “ A mail, some
65 years of ago, a spare habit of body,
and uncommonly vigorous for his time
of life, was accidentally incarcerated
in a coal mine for twenty-three days,
during the first few of which lie had ac
cess to water strongly impregnated witli
iron. He then became unable to move,
and hud unfortunately fallen some dis
tance from the water. In this instance,
Dr. Bloano thinks that an inquire atmos
phere, by lowering the vital powers,
might tend to slightly prolong life under
circumstances of privation. The un
liappy man died on the third day after
liis removal.” In 1866, Capt. Casey, of
the James Lowdon, passed twenty-eight
days in an open boat without food or
water. He contrived, however, to drink
as much rain as ho could collect, mid
it is possible, of course, that he may
have chewed fragments of his clothes.
Thus, then, so far us ascertained eases
go, lifo has actually, on one occasion,
been sustained for fifty-eight days with
out food, hut not without water.
Referring to tlio cases which occurred
during tlio Irish famine of 1817, Dr.
Donovan says : “ They described the
pain of hunger as at first very acute,
hut said that after twenty-four hours
had passed without food tlio pain sub
sided and was succeeded by a feeling of
weakness and sinking, experienced prin
cipally in the epigastric region, accom
panied with insatiable thirst, a strong
desire for cold water, and a distressing
feeling of coldness over the entire sur
face of the body. In a short time the
face and limbs became horribly ema
ciated. tlio eyes acquired a most pe
culiar stare ; the skin exhaled peculiar
and offensive faster, and was covered
with a brownish, filthy-looking coating,
almost as indelible as varnish. This he
was at first inclined to regard as inerust
eil tilt h, but further experience con vineed
him that it was a secretion poured out
from the exlialuuts on tlm surface of the
body. The sufferer tottered in walking
like a drunken man; his voice became
weak, like that of a person in cholera ;
he whined like a child, and hurst into
tears on the slightest occasion. In re
spect to the mental faculties, their pros
The Modern Young Lady nl Two Peri
od* of ller Life.
Behold her at 11.
Her limbs unfettered by tlio long
skirts of conventionality, she runs, she
romps, she slides on tlio ice-ponds, slio
rolls hoop, she climbs fences, she leaps,
she kieks, she runs race Hand is as fleet
of foot uh the boys. Her appetite is
good, her cheeks rosy, and her move
ment* unconsciously graceful.
Behold her again at 20. No more
does she run or jump or roll hoop, run
races or slide on the ice. It is not
“proper” now nor ladylike, and she
couldn’t if she would, for she is fettered
by long skirts, tight shoos and tighter
stays. Her movement has no longer
tlio freedom and unconscious grace of
childhood, for now when she walks abroad
she walks to be looked at, which now in
her estimation is tho main object of
walking. She is already in delicate
health, and has a doctor who prescribes
expensive advice and prescriptions for
her, and ascribes her complaint to any
thing and everything hut the real cause.
That is simply the fettering of the body
with fashionable clothes. Physically
she is a prisoner. At 11 she was free.
The doctor advises travel, but lie
doesn’t advise her to take off’ anil
keep off her fashionable fetters. She
wouldn’t do so if he did, and
ho wouldn’t advise her if he knew it
would bring relief, for she would no
longer believe in a disitor who would
make her dress like a guy, and being
dressed like a “ guy ” is dressing differ
ent from the style prescribed by a Paris
modiste. Diana never could hunt
in a trailing skirt; narrow, tight, high
heeled gaiters, and a pinched, corseted
waist; but Diana with a belted tunic
and unfettered limbs would be bounced
off Broadway by the nearest policeman.
Dressing for health and freedom of body
and limb is one thing, and dressing for
fashion quite another. A man couldn’t
endure the pinching and incumbrances
peculiar to feminine attire for an hour,
and a pretty spectacle he’d make rush
ing about in such during business hours.
Yet tiie “ weaker sex ” wear double the
incumbrances of the so-called stronger.
To “dress” at all after the style uses
up half a woman’s time and two-thirds
of her strength.— New York Graphic.
J. L. DENNIS, Editor.
SI.OO a Year.
TDK MYSTERY OF FIRES.
(in in It uni ton I In* HilfMnnMt.
Many a hunched fires yearly remain
unexplained, oven after the most pains
taking and exhaustive investigation.
“ Among all the wonderful phenomena
which chemistry presents to us,” writes
Professor Weissman, "there are fow
more remarkable than those of s|mtiui
eous combustion of bodies, animate and
inanimate, which emit, flames, and are
sonietimo entirely consumed by internal
flit'.” Among the substances subject to
spontaneous combustion pulverized char
coal is one of the most remarkable. “ A
load of charcoal was delivered in all out
house of a clergyman in Loipzic, and
Rhowed no signs of faking fire until the
door by accident was left open, when tlio
wind blew sprinklings of snow on tho
charcoal. The rapid absorption of oxygen
from the melting snow caused the char
coal to ignite, and as the day was windy
the whole range of buildings wiih burned to
nslios," In this connection a fruitful and
unsuspected source of fire suggests it
self to those of our American house
keepers who hum wood as fuel and who
store the ashes in lsixes and barrels. The
accidental disturbing of such ashes, even
after years, will cause them to ignite,
provided the air is damp or fuggy. The
phosphuret of potash from decayed wood
renders wood ashes highly inflammable,
mid mysterious cellar tires ill the rural
districts are, no doubt, hi some eases
caused by this extraordinary form of
spontaneous combustion.
Professor Weissman himself had the
unfortunate experience of being burned
out of house and home on a wild winter
night some three years since, and lie has
since diligently collected facts about
spontaneous combustion. It appears
that he hud been having liis house
pointed, and ono night the painters, as
their manner is, left their working pants,
their pots and their brushes on tlio as
phaltum floor of tho collar. They had
previously with a bunch of rags removed
from their hands with spirits of turpen
tino the point with which they were
soiled. The ball of rags took tire, tho
pants and paint pots followed suit, and
the house wiih burned to the ground.
In tho carriage factory of Messrs.
Eaton A Gilbert, Troy, New York, a drop
of linseed oil fell into an open paper of
lampblack, set it on tire and came within
an aeo of burning tho whole groat fac
tory.
In several instances oilcloth in largo
rolls lias taken file in damp, muggy
weather. All instance of this also occurs
in American fire experience. A planter
in Virginia sent hiK servant to Fredericks
burg for a roll of oilcloth. It was a warm
day and the wagon was open. During
tlio journey home it began to rain, and
the roll of oilcloth took fire oil tho road.
Another instance of the kind is supplied
by Philadelphia during the war. An or
der from tho War Department in Wash
ington for knapsacks for a regiment was
filled in the City of Brotherly Love. The
sacks were all finished and collected, and
counted over anil loft in a pile in the
paint shop about toil o’clock on Saturday
night, so as to he sent to Washington by
cars early on Monday morning. On en
tering tho paint shop before daylight on
Monday morning no knapsacks were to
lie found. In their place was nothing
but. a heap of smoldering ashes !
Newly pressed hay frequently ignites,
uh do also oatmeal and oornineal in bar
rels. During tiie famine in Ireland in
18)7-48 a vessel was dispatched from
New York with a cargo of oommeal for
tlio relief of the sufferers, fn discharg
ing the bags from tho vessel tho last
three wore found to lie on lire.
Dig Elniu 111 New England.
11l Deerfield, Mass., the Williams elm
measures in circumference at one fisit
from the ground, 26 feet; at four bait,
1!) feet; at seven feet, 20} foot.
Another elm measures, at tlio same
elevations, 27, 18} and 1!) feet.
Another measures 22}, 15} anil 13}.
This last-named tree him a spread of JIM)
feet. The Williams elm measures ill its
spread at least 150 feet.
At Weathersflehl, Ct., there is an elm
which measures, at three feet and three
inches from the ground, 21 feet 6 inch
es. The girth of this tree where tho
roots enter the ground is 55 feet 6 inch
es. Its main limbs are groat trees in
themselves, TJius. the circumference of
the south branch ih 16 feet 8 inches ; of
the east branch, 11 feet 6 inches ; north
west, 10 feet 3; of the west, 8 feet 7.
From north to south the diameter of the
spread is 150 feet; from east to west,
152 feet, and the circumference of tho
spread is 42!) foot. —liar third Times.
Didn’t See the Number,
Little Allie was a precocious youth,
aged six. Ifo was in liis sister’s room
ono day while she was “fixing” her hair,
and annoyed her by passing his fingers
through tho, long tresses, which he ap
peared to he attentively examining, lie
finally exclaimed, in a disappointed voice,
“Sister Lill, I don’t see the numbers.”
“Why, Allie, what do you mean?”
said the puzzled maiden.
“Didn’t papn read in the bible this
morning that ‘the hairs of the head wore
all numbered?’" said this literal-minded
youth.
The best soil for sweet potatoes is a
sandy loam. If sand largely predomi
nates they will flourish if well manured.
New ground or virgin soil is especially
favorable for this crop. Jt is the com
mon practice to sow buckwheat on new
land for the first crop and then to plant
sweet, potatoes for the second. An
abundant crop is the general result. In
a heavy loam the vines grow luxuriantly,
but the tubers are generally small, rooty
anil of inferior quality. In clayey sod
sweet potatoes will not thrive.
The scales of the red fish, famous in
New Orleans markets, are carefully pre
served and sold at about 88 per bushel,
being in great demand by tho fabricat
ors of ornaments for wreaths and arti
ficial flowers for ladies’ bonnots, and for
various other purposes of tasliionable
use and ornament. From a fish of six
or eight pounds the scales aro as large
as a quarter of a dollar. They are so
hard and flrmlv planted tliut the scaling
process has to be performed with an ax
or hatchet.
The Prince of Wales lias presented
President Grcvy with u gun and four set
ter dogs.
JOTTINGS ANI) CLIPPINGS.
Htuay dogs in Philadelphia are gath
erod in and killed with carltonio oxide.
Mariuaor is often said to lie tho end
of a man’s troubles; yes, but—wliioh
end?
If you have a lot of money and aro
afraid of licing roblied, go and pay your
outlawed debts with it.
The French make cognac for export
from pototoes, and much ran dr. colofftu:
conies from tlio same sourco.
Clam juice, oxtraotad by stowing tho
clams, is nourishing anil acceptable to
weak stomachs and good for sick folk.
An Illinois man found his runaway
wife working, In male attire, in a Peoria
tailor shop, where her sox was unsus
pected.
In the Cornell University library of
forty thousand volumes there is not a
single work of fiction—except tlio his
tories.
A piiyhttoan residing in Yokohama,
Japan, writes that tho Japanese limit
leprosy by avoiding marriage wlioro
there is any trace of the fatal disease.
The duty on pn|>or To pay your sub
scriptions promptly anil under tlio con
sciousness that you get more for tlio
money than can bo had in any other
way.
An oyster ih able to take food within
twenty-four hours of its coming into life.
It is able to reproduce its kind when ono
year old, anil is marketable at the age of
three years.
A Dknvbk man whose horse was stolen
offered the following discriminating re
wards: “ Fifty dollars for the thief, SIOO
for tiie horse and thief, and 8200 for tho
dead body of the thief.”
A noiiTHAiT of Queen Victoria, worked
in silk ujxiii volvot by a young French
woman, Milo. Julie Girami, is on exhibi
tion in Paris, and will be presented to
tiie Queen os a mark of that artist’s
admiration.
Thk. natives of the South Pacific Is
lands are very fond of a small sea-worm
alunit the size of vermicelli, which they
can obtain only at certain seasons. Even
European residents are said to consider
the “pabola” a rare relish.
A (linn at Wellesley College said to n
Harvard graduate whom she was taking
through the building, and who said that
President Eliot of Harvard does not think
much of ladies as professors: “ Well,
President Eliot has got a parcel of old
women as professors and Wellesley ha*
a lot of young women as professors.”
The other day ono hundred and fifty
complaints of nuisances wore filed at the
office of tlio Board of Health. I’eoplo
outside might think Milwaukee was a
particularly unclean place, lmt they
should understand that our people aro
very patieular and get oil their ear alsmt
the’ least thing. Wo presume half tho
complaints wero cuusod by strangers in
the city throwing chews of tobaceo oil tha
sidewalk.— Peck’s Sun.
Two young moil passed before a house.
At the fifth story, at an open window, a
woman with a child in her arms lient
dangerously and recklessly forward to
look at tho gentleman who was calmly
smoking a pipe and leuning from his
window, two stories below. The young
man saw the insanity of the nurse.
“What mail imprudence,” said ono of
them between liis teeth. “Yes," replied
the other, “to run the risk of dropping
lijMin the pavement, and crushing to
atoms, such a lovely pipe as that?”
A rei’OßT from Hungary told of a
criminal hung and subsequently restoroil
to life by the application of uu electro
galvanic current in a special way; death
occurring a second time from congestion
of the brain next morning. A similar
experiment was made upon the Is sly of a
man hung at Bridgeport, Conn. The
respiration was restored hut the heart’s
action could not be. Such experiment*
may yet lead to tlio raising of a legal
question, as to whether a limn hung and
restored to life must be hung again till
dead entire.!//. In that ease the jioor
victim would have the full Hynqiuthy of
the public.
New and Stale Bread.
The nature of the difference between
new and stale bread is far from licing
known. It is only lately that the cele
brated French chemist, Boussingaidt,
instituted an inquiry into it, from which
it results that the difference is not tho
consequence of desiccation, but solely of
the cooling of the bread. If we take
fresh bread into tho cellar or in any
place where it eaunotdry, the inner part
of tho loaf, it is true, is found to be
crumby, but the crust has become soft
and is no longer brittle, [f stale bread
is taken lau-k into the oven again it as
sumes all the qualities of fresh baked
bread, although in the hot oven it must
undoubtedly have lost part of its mois
ture. M. Boussingaidt has made a fresh
loaf of bread the subject of minute in
vestigation, and the results are anything
Irut uninteresting. New bread, in its
smallest parts, is so soft, clammy, flexible
and glutinous, (in consequence of tho
starch during the process of fermenting
and baking being changed into mueiliqjin
oiis dextrine) that by mastication it is
with greater difficulty separated and
reduced to smaller pieces, and in its
smallest parts is less under tho influence
of the saliva and digestive juices. It
consequently forms itself into hard balls
by careless and hasty mastication and
deglutition, becomes coated over by
saliva and slime, and in this state enters
the stomach. Tho gastric juice being
unable to jionetrato such hard masses,
and being scarcely able even to act upon
the surface of them, they frequently re
main in tho stomach unchanged, and,
like foreign lushes, irritate and incom
mode it, indnoing every speoies of suffer
ing—oppression of the stomach, pain in
the chest, disturbed circulation of the
blood, congestions arid pains in the head,
irritation (If the brain, and inflammation,
apopleptio attacks, cramp aud delirium.
The Miller
The Bloom of Age.
A woman never grows old. Years may
pass over her head, but, if lienevolonoo
and virtue dwell in her heart, she is as
cheerful as when the spring of life first
opened to her view. When we look up
on a good woman wo never think of her
age ; she looks as charming as when the
rose of youth first bloomed on her
cheek. That rose has not faded yet; it
will never fade. In her neighborhood
sho is the friend and l>enefactor. Who
does not love and respect the woman
who has passed her days in acts of kind
ness ana mercy—who has been the
friend of man and God—whose whole
life has been a scene of kindness and
love and a devotion to truth ? We re
peat, such a woman cannot grow old.
She will always be fresh and buoyant in
spirits, and active in humble deeds of
mercy nnd benevolence. If the young
ady desires to retain the bloom and
leauty of youth, let her not yield to the
swav of fashion and folly ; let her love
truth and virtue; and to the close of life
she will retain those feelings which now
make life appear a garden of sweets—*
ever fresh and ever new.
JosErH Taylor, the father of Bayard
Taylor, is 85 years old, and resides
Kenneth Square, Pa,