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I have come home. Th" „ce r.:i .....act
flr-wci Iceit ship up m I he . ‘-trail . 1 ,
A If six' soil'-* 1
How sunlight proudly #l»t Htrc.UK across lb '““’V
The of prom S(- »P .on A ,
An-i 'jl c a “Iiii-.V ft crossed
% waters. Ho my Heart
ow FO m i s g’citmiug: light is low
I have cornu home. O'er stormy wave*
Th- I rs-H •! drift Pth into 1> Tl;
r Si-bairn is*. if, I be sa la are rent —
me! my life Is nearly spent,
I Y.r oco hi billows lm l n M sport: lomoiurcraves-'
A,- I Ihotnv Invnl's w
Ah si olas! fh' S 'Mil ait gravest
'I he liilfi church—tin* (fivir o!<1 ap<; 1
TheTyr>1 liilfi;, (In- twilight airy; ir.H*
The mount Hus wrapped m Hhndowet
And ill file ail by Blk'uce kissed —
The s nnc—nil! hs in duys by.
tint (bene I loved they have forgo.;
I .mil them, hut ftr-.i answer not.
The shadows full aeroffis the snow,
Tin tr ashes oi ft iteross my heart,
t have oome home. M-dhPr, on tiiss;
■Of ilher,speak! I'm dreaming: this—
i cannot help tic tears that start; slow
The pray old clouds P” sail tiff
Above these little inminds of snow.
And thou, iny love, toy light Vf nl>v
Then will not smil • to tc* - riy tref
Hand Heath to rue: I, tor.' t.oiild
The place Unit than srt sbroeded
My Ifttte Moasern, art thou Aid'
Must I light on, tv o s on, In life
Without thy aid. in , wile, my wife?
A Silence falls o.i all the air.
Thou silene ' el lirn, toil what is said
ill those whole hopes e.-il nr • r-'/dtnlwU; jy
Who Sleep, yci fin s cep II' r-J111? ul .
What pemre is the
Why osn I not thy shion.o-p share.
When all my heart 1 1 bort.n there?
”1' mu “coming home," 1 thought of lat,
T Is “going home'' • have norm here,
idv homo is yonder, ds finr ot pearl iuv.iv, and
I lev ond those clou gray,
And 'IVrol's hills are not as dear,
i wnicoosidc the lirokeu gate—
iod gr ml I have nol long to wnltl
■ic AWcm UiUimtt. tn U-mton TrunscrUA
/.jrinolie IMsPHses by Milk.
It is well known how the mammalian
offspring, though receiving mother’s no other
nourishment than the milk,
rapidly first increases in after weight birth. during This tho
few months
proves that milk contains all the ele¬
ments of necessary for animal building up the tis¬ it
sues the young (and so
does), and that these must also be pros
ent combinations in proper (and portions they and In suitable be
so are) to
easily 'assimilated by the lender organs.
Milk, (hen, is simply body a solution regards of the the
•foung animal’s as
identity of all their chemical elements,
and also with reference to most of their
chemical compounds. If the foregoing
bo admitted it follows that, jusl as a
child or adult is susceptible to be of poi¬
soned with small-pox, scarlatina, ty
phoid virus, so also, and in it much
higher dogrec, must milk, when exposed
to (La same influence. Because the lir
ing organism lins vital force wherewith
to oppose the attacks of poisonous
germs, and just in proportion to the
great or little amount of that force con¬
tained in tho organism will it be able
entirely U» withstand,or, being infected,
suwessfully to cope with them. and But
milk is dead organic matter, hav¬
ing no vital force must be a much more
favorablo neit for tho nurture of conta
gia than oven a sickly tho organism. peculiar
ifihsl of milk has also prop¬
erty imbibing various effluvia to a
great extent is well known (<> those ac¬
customed to dairy management . There
are many artloToi liable to imparl a
taste and odor to milk; boiled fish is
sure to injure the taste of the cream ami
hasten the decomposition of the milk.
Any moat which is the least bit taiulod
will do the same. Onions, even front
another room, will give their taste lo
tho milk. So, also, will korosene, tur¬
pentine from the paint and varnishes,
the smoke of tobacco, and tho smell of
time front plaster or whitewash* Fiir
thermorc, the additional physical milk greatly prop¬
erty of fluidity fertility posso-sed by zymotic soil,
increases its as a
it is f tmtlitir knowledge that Iho pres¬ fer¬
ence of moisture is a s necessary in
ment liiott and pit!refaction the pres¬
ence of nitrogen. This is well exempli¬
fied iu many processes for tho preserva¬
tion of animal tissues by (he and freezing woll or
aublracllon of their water, it is
-known that water is a favorite dwelling
place of cholera, tints ami be typhoid looked poison.
MJIk, which may on as a
highly favorable soil for the propaga¬
tion <if o nita-ious germs, may Income
infected with 'zymotic poison, first, by
Impure water; and, sec>ud, by impure
air.
ffit *-me barnt":ird* vou will fin-1 tho
manure heap afi>no tn i and I ho water
pump at the other, a-id placed, not with
regard to tho inclination of tho surface
or the dip of the underlyin'; strata, b it
so at lo be "h.uuly.” Sometimes there
manure heaps arc also compost heaps
into the composition of which enters not
only the excreta of the cattle, but also
all of tlte offal from the house and out¬
buildings. Hero wo have a festering
rasx-i of organic matter, often so placed
th»t the fluid which works through it
will find it* way int > the well, Hem- -
it is easily soon how the water in farm
welli may become seriously contaminat¬
ed with putrid organic matter. This is
drought, more likely to take wells place frequently during a
as Hum t he get
dry, or nearly so, and the the proportion be of
organic matter to water most full;
much higher than when the well i*
excepting, perhaps, at tho beginning of
wet weather, which foil >ws a drought,
when the amount of deoaved matter
washed into the soil is the gr.-a'est. It
is unnecessary to sav more on tht- tuiint,
as all cares, ami they are numerous of
tainted water supply are ttaeeable to
one esuse, namely, call tho inti tration of
organic matter, it li piid manure,
human excreta, or sewage, through
some defect in the drains, or from a
wa“ht of drains, or from the relative >ru
ation of tho polluting and polluted sub¬
stances.
It is thus easy to see how the milk
may become contaminated wi'h ivnh >id
virus. The cows may drink the tain ed
water, which may cause a eond tsm or
unhealthy intentionally milk, or the tainted water
may be added to tho milk
for the purpose of adulteration, But
fronfiwliat is known of zom * in po.sons
a small quantity of such w iter I k in
the vessels after washing in iv b> - i‘Vi
cient to infect the milk .—Georji .4. Stu
art. in A’. }*. JYi>,une.
8kb l*on>, Ctaorgie, saiti a fond
mamma to her little son as they walked
on the beach, “ what a lot of nice little
round stones." he “ Vi's," rolling grumbled
Georgia, as cast a six
unuioil, "and not a blessed thing
threw ’em at."
An Arkansas Hairpin on a Render.
The prisoner in cell No. 1 was malting
a great noise as court opened, and he
was therefore brought out first. He wa¬
ft stout, thick-set man with short hair
and. milk-white eyes, and he believed
himself to is- a 'mountain lion of the
fiercest order, lie came out on the
dance, with a half-concealed war-whoop
in liis teeth.
“Is your name William Hill?’’ softly
inquired the court.
“Old man, you bet.:” was the ready
reply. “Prisoner, this court doesn't bet, and
if it has to inform you six" <d that fact again
it tuny have to add plead days guilty to your
sentence. Do you or not
guilty to dintikentiessV” drunker’n
“Judge, I was a beer bar'l.
I was fighting drunk. I was just in the
condition to chaw up half the po'iee
force of this one-horse four-corn ■'
Judge, h-t me out long enough to :i >j>
my wings and give a crow which can hi
card four miles ugirt a stiff wind!
“William Hill, I think T know what
nils you,” quietly remarked the court,
after looking him over. “You are aching
o fall against some consumptive Petr. it
•r about five feet high who will mash you
flatter than sole-leather. You evidently
think yourself a tarantula, but you an
'milling but a rabbit. Instead of b.-itig
t terror, you are a nuisance, find I shall
send you to the work-house.”
“Judge, I’m from Arkansas, and 1
toll “ikioli! you lam shall dangerous. send for thirty
f you
days, the same us any common drunk¬
ard.”
“Don’t iLLsgrnce me, Judge. Make it
six nwiitb at least. Thiok of {lie utorv
going back to Arkansas flint I was sent
upon a boss-fly sentence.”
But liis Honor was obstinate, and tin
prisoner sat down on a nail-keg in tin
corridor and said lin’d have, to kill oneot
the guards at tlio work-house to restore
his lost prestige.— Det roit Pro Press.
The Beats of (lie Pulse.
By means of a little instrument called
the sphygmogrnph, the pulse-beats may
be accurately and permanently record¬
ed. Ami now Dr. B. W. Richardson,
IiL.1)., F. It. H., of London, by adding
construct* a microphone to vgmoplione, a sphygmograph, by which lias
the pulse-beat a sph heard forty' feet
may be
away. It heard
seems that the sounds cor¬
respond to those of the heart, and are
three in numlier, oue long and two
short, resembling the words “bother it.”
The three sounds are caused, the first by
contraction of the ventricle, as it throws
the blood into the aorta, and the other
two by t-lie closing of the valve behind
it and the recoil of the arterial column,
its the contraction (systole) is finished.
It is found that the peculiar sounds of
the heart, alien diseased, and by which
the physician's ear ascertains its condi
lion, have their corresponding sounds at
the pulse. As, for instance, those heard
o,,,.,, i valve that al
h ws tl e M MHl whtel shnuld W threw.,
......
jh.it s p< twin S pills' IS qtueki nwl by In.
i inmost h.'fis'l’i'ke.'m:: uuo an no oi ,r um laiigii. i i
lisps this vshteoi may help to explain i -
a hearty augh to mic t
umpo y-daml mela», holt, u nd . ..
In severe pidpitatum the soiint s i
all lost m a sort ot loud whirr ns from a
tcvoivnig wive, i .
\V hen the pulse-benls are ovm n <• y
a tniiiiilc, there ts, b»ftether will. ■t ie or
dinary scmblmg sounds, n . onlimn m shell '
vilmt ,s heard when a c;
held to tlio ear iMa,sibh causes • »•
fnctioi. ol tiic blood ugainst the walls ol
the artery.
Ft is be thought fit! that the di fis sphygmophone ting , ill,
ma\ tciy us< m l
and obscure pulsations in different parts
of the bod y.- 1 nu t.t s < om)Ht>non.
Panama lints.
Panama hate are principally mnnu- Pan
factured in Veraquus and Western
tuna Not nil however known to com
metiee bv that name are plaited in tho
isthmus bv far a tmuiter nortiou te imt
mulc hi Manta Monte Oluisti and
other parts of Ecuador. The lmte arc
worn in almost the whole American
continent JUKI the West- Indies, r.nd
•: >> -.1
Furone !ild iiot *'th il50) >ir julvent w
ing from *2 to the tarn
portation. Tliev are distingute'red only of
from all others by consisting a
“X rn'l te 1 -ft r !ik l,l
n d put m into * ft the jioeket without u my
In the lauiv Henson th»> an a t , s
blmk, hut by wivshiug tin m "tf. 1
and water, besmearing them will . . .
puce, or any other kind ol a, nl, i J J > ■
posing them to the sun, then wluteuws
ih oiuulv So Iitt.lt* is Known
alamt these l.at.s that it may not be out
of place 1 to give b an account of their
manufacture r>yt Ihe *» “ straw . •* (p, , j»),p ‘y,,,..
Vioiis to Jilniting, has to undergo sexcuil
pnx t s.,c«. ,ie ‘; L ' 1
Is'fore they untold all their _' co , '-m.
veius removed and the rest, wituo it
Uang s>parated from the base ot the
loaves, ’ is reduced to shreds. Alter
, havtug • . ihh'u exposed i to . the siui .... , lor .. n
day, and tits.1 into n knot, the s’raw is
immersed iu boiling water until it be¬
comes white. It is then hung up in n
shady jila<x>, and subsequently bleached
for two or three days. The straw is now
ready for use, ivud in this state is sent
to different places, especially to I’eiu,
where the Indians mauufaetnre from it
those beautiful cigar eases which some¬
times bring as high ns $30 each. The
plaiting of the hats is very trouble¬
some. It commences at the crown and
finishes at the brim. Tho hate are
made on a block, which is placed on the
knees, and required the to be According constantly to
juvssed with breast.
their quality, more or less time is occu¬
pied in the completion—the coarser three
ones may Is* finished in two or
days, while the finest may take as many
months. morning The hours best and times the for plaiting are
the rainy season,
wlieu the air is moist- In the middle
of the day and in dry, clear weather, the
straw is’apt finished, to break, is betrayed and this, by knots, when
the hat is
dimiuishc^ ill© value.— Jour
na{ ,,f llotaus,.
I >. tiie jK*ct delegate to Con
gross f.x>m Wyoming, says that liis
iksui iu the /i’«ro n’has mad, * him the
most popular unvu in tho country.
Teaching the Colt.
Every farmer should be as wartn an
advocate ami steadfast praclicer of hu¬
manity toward urfinal- as Mr. itargh
could tie sire. Take it, indeed, entirely
on the basis of profit and loss, and gen¬
tleness and thorough k mines, are bet¬
ter than any harshness. 1 he farmer
has so mueh'lo do with animals that pa¬
tience is an indis; cn-it lo virtue, All
animals are easily confused and terri¬
fied bv i Tit ability and ill usage. Colts
are extremely sensitive to any change
iu the feeling of the driver. A nervous
colt will be rendered almost unmanage¬
able by a fretful manner displayed alone, but to it;
and not on that occasion ev¬
ery time the person approaches it. it is
ali nervousness and contusion. A colt
of such a nature never forgets and sel¬
dom forgives. A pet one of mine was
three years in part ally forgiving a three man
who throw her when about
months old. He could not catch her in
the lot, and she would keep as far away
as possible when he fed her. llis en
trance to the stable was a signal for a
half nervous, half spiteful vicious, display but of it
temper. She was not
would have required but little to make
her so. Half the staky, balky, wicked
horses are made so by some mismanage¬
ment of the breaker. Farmers desire,
or should desire, gentle, ladies will tractable be
horse?, such that the not
afraid to drive, or on occasion to catch
and harness.
The colt should be bandied and hal¬
ter-broken in ties soon done as in possible the after
foaling. If is presence
of the mother, a little care should be
taken not to irritate her, or a seat on
the fence may be both convenient and
desirable. It is a general belief that
the colt is sightless uni'll ten flays old;
if so, it does not interfere at all iu
handling or petting it. The best time
to halter-break is at about three weeks
of age. For each breaking has liis to the harness, peculiar
of course oue own
notion, and each way its the own peculiar
advantages. But really saddle proper ami then way
to break is first to the
to the sulky. But when it. seems a lit¬
tle excited and stupid, or as some per¬
sist in declaring, ugly, a little coaxing
ami petting will do more good than any
amount of whipping. is good aid
A measure of oats a very
to voice and caress, to impress upon done
the animal that whatsoever is
well is commendable ami worthy dif¬ of
continuing to do. Nothing incentive, is so under
ficult but that such an
a patient, with gentle the guidance, it
will attempt. When colt is
confused, tried and over-excited,
no amount of impatient reitera¬ make
tion or harsh measures can
it understand any command; but
it will become more and more excited
and less able to do or understand any
•h ,, |I 'o- Lo make the colt step over the
shafts is . an act re jiniing much patience
anil lorbearanee, ami is K e * le * a > * l *
tended by, on the pin t ot the v . v
nervous fear and dread, which and by brings
him on tho opposite sale, pro
on projected calmness ride; when with
and and be might made be
ooaxe ,i into t he shafts soon to
| ^ lllu | w " i||i„gio %p do what was
Aw should be a
on i v U a„ii occasion, and then
• than two strokes,
^ . one or
hir( ,, man shoukl never
be trusted with it. To have the colt do
^ u ^ f ™ desire of commendation ami
^ woJ , a< for ohiUlnM1 . Pet
« „ n d love the colt and Iiave patience with
Hnd wi „ W1WV all cnn , ex .
j, on dud, in a thousand ways. Patience,
shou uibe written
over every barn door in the land.-
^ ^ ^
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The Horse’s Frog.
If we were to go to many a black
.smith and ask ""him if lie did not think
n'lturo had made a mistake in putting
tlu> ehunsv frog into the horse s toot he
"'“mil hardly be ready to say yes, and
very likely would put on a surprised
look, and perhaps explain that in some
‘'“““tries homes did very well without
shoes, and so the irog was left to care
h'i' '-tsell. But while not ready to take
Rrov.dd with «on in any entictsm oohatrue-tod ot the
I olan uiK'H which the foot is
^ ^ 1,1 th "
' ^op where twA '-ntes stand newly
-'be’d ; bit up tneir feet aim observJ f“‘
, ’fil ’fi.H ^rLr'tlK '' frw tem S teu
horses do not stand on the ground, ^ ’ but
l|Mr]y hil , f W1 iuoh higllW| ;l the irolJ
' sh(H> ^ u!ul „i U( .i, takes the
J ^oi^ht 0 f the horse on the outer shell of
tlio'lioof. The practice is as sensible as
q wou pj !h , u mim who had to travel
taking ° the weight on .v than the
lus Ungers am toes rather „
““ It tlu; ed.snnm tho which soft part—tho lies behind rnaia them. rub*
\ ^ y tJ { of allim;Us Uult LlW .
^ ^
| not tiie l heellv, -; Kn>t lmrdpart. is it is uB We rubber know what like,
nu ,. £ ll!int ’same ;
, ^ h y ineivsed in a
° ueem-aev and
steadiness , of movement. Now, this eas- ...
ng protects the frog. It grows slowly,
the frog grows rapidly. The healthy
fisit of the colt shows a center, if not
projecting, at least level with the liue
of the land. He does not take his weight hdrses
wholly on the rim of his feet. Old
would have foot more like them if
blacksmiths would allow they knew a
little loss than nature, and really knew
enough to read her intentions.
The object in shoeing the animal, aside
from"tiie occasional one of changing its
gr.it, is simply the to prevent the wear and
shattering of outer shell, and to en¬
able it to take a firmer hold of the ground,
escaping the slipping incident of the unshod horn.
It is an unfortunate of our sys¬
tem of shoeing that the horse is raised
from tiie ground as a 1 k»v is when he
mounts stilts .—Farm aiui Fireside.
A Panm-ry man tells a good story of
his aunt, who is a model housekeeper
and a scrupulous clergyman stickler called for a good the
table. The near
dinner hour, and was pressed to stay to
the meal. At the table there was a good
supply of well-prepared make food, but apolo¬ the
gies lady for felt imaginary compelled to d< ficieneiee. many In the
grace the clergyman asked our Heavenly
Father to "bless the frugal meal.” This
made the lady very mask
The First Oil Well.
A story is published in a Ciimb-rland
Yiilley newspaper to the eff. --t that oil
was found in large quantities m-ar Burks
ville, Kentucky, us early as 1828. Un¬
fortunately all the witnesses arc fiend.
If is claimed, however, that some of the
oil is still retained in bottles, but we will
have to insist that this testimony is not
competent. The article appeared in the
Cumberland Coio-iY/-, and is as follows:
S' me time since we read an article in a
N> rtliim journal making the statement
that Colonel Drake, who put down the
first oil well in Pennsylvania, discovery had made been
pensioned for the great
by him. Th ■ fact is indisputabi swell that.
Colonel Drake did first sink for
oil in Pennsylvania, yet, many Cumber¬ years
previous to that a company of
land County gentlemen, who are long
since deceased, formed a copartnership
for the purpose of boring for salt water,
and in pursuance thereof they sunk a
well near the town of Burksville, Ken¬
tucky, about two and a half miles from
this place, on the Columbia Road.
When they had reached the depth of
eighty feet they struck petroleum in
groat quantities. It flowed for two
weeks, filling Ranox Creek bridge deep,
and running off into the < ‘nmbcrland
River, covering the river for twenty
miles, when some mischievi us chap set
fire to it, in consequence of which naviga¬
tion was impossible for days. It is
estimated that thousands of barrels
escaped from this well at that timu and
thousands since. This was in 1828.
Some of our oldest citizens remember
this, and will verify our statement. well iu It
was the first and is the oldest oil
riie v.v)’H ,'V this time the company,
knowing nothing of its value, its use
and qualities, abandoned the work. In
the course of time, however, some enter¬
prising quack doctor, strolling through
the county, discovered that it had great
medicinal qualities us a liniment.
He therefore engaged with the bottles, owners
of the well to deliver to him, in
great quantities, to be shipped medical North,
where he prepared and sold it for
ailments of all sorts, shipping to Europe,
as well, where it soon became very
jropular, and called and known there as
the “American Oil,” from which circum¬
stances the well was called, and is now
known here as the “Old American Oil
Well.” There is now a large number of
bottles filled and corked, ready for ship¬
ment, as per contract made with the
owners, still in possession of Mr. Ed.
Baker, sou of one of the company, which
was never, for some reason, delivered.
We have seen the oil, and can certify to
its superior quality. Since this time
(18(F)), when to strike oil was a fortune,
many wells have been sunk in the county
with like success; in fact, the' county is
full of oil, and the wells sunk too numer¬
ous to mention. It is only a question of
time as to its development .—Petroleum
World.
Origin of tile Horseshoe Superstition.
In the the verv very early early times times, savs says a a writer writer
m Baldwins Monthly ,among the Celtic
tion ” against ill-fortune. figures-which The “glory”
above the head of these
later was often rudely carved in
wood and painted—was piece of polished represented metal, by
a circular to
convoy the frequently'seen effect of the shining in illustration* halo or
nimbus anil
of the Virgin other scripture sub
jeets. Often this metal nimbus was of
somi-circulnr form ; and, after the of figure
itoel f had di.sapjiearcd, by reason de
cay, tho nimbus remained and was sus
pended iu some prominent other point place command at tin
entrance dixir or
ing view. uneommingly The effigies in the question side wow the
not seen of by of
doorway. In course time the nim
bus was much used as a substitute for
the latter, and was sold in shops for this
purpose. The tradition of good luck,
ns em
b-nUcd in the horseshoe theory, may
thusMie easily traced, since it became a
common occurrence, m the duo courso
of time, for the faithful adherent iu the
l^liof in charms and symbols to adopt
t l» horseshoe W0£i'. to brightness, in the
absence of any other, which he nailed
0V «t 1»S cottage-door. Hence a piece
) T> { me tal of this shape became associated
in the common miml with supernatural
presence U and care, in keeping with the
e f attaching to the original figure of
the patron s- t
Why He Warned to t’iose His Store on
Sunday.
A few days ago a young man in busi
ness was greeted by one of the clergy in
tlms city, and was congratulated on lus
new venture in business. In the course
of the conversation the clerical brother
expressed his opinion as not in favor of
the young man keeping open on Sunday.
“ No,” said the young man, “ I don't
want t«i keep have open on work Sunday, hard but all will the
probably would to. like I
week, aiul to shut up on Sun¬
day, las -huso it’s the only day in the
week hunting that and I fishing.” can have to myself to gc
The clergyman moved on.— I’c.chc&tcr
Post.
The “ Department ” Clerk.
The worst-abused man in Washington
is the department clerk. He earns from
$1,800 down to $700 j>er year. It is
safe to say that all get us much as they
are worth. Half of them who owe tevard
bills and sport so much style around
Washington could not make enough m
competition with the world to wear two
suite a year. The clerk is a polite pau
jier. He thinks that for some reason or
other this country owes him a living.
He goes to work at 9 o'clock, and is
found, all slickly brushed and gloved,
issuing from the front steps of his great
asylum just before 3 o'clock.— Washing¬
ton letter. _
— The Rev. W. C. Dabney, a colored
divine of Caldwell County, Ga., has
patented a dinner pail lor which he is
said to have been offered $19,000. The
Atlanta Constitution, with that strict
regard for the exact sciences for which
it is ever distingui-hed, explains that for
the $10,000 is for the patent—not
the pail.
_
—A paper at Augusta. Me , claims
that a young mail in that city who had
been married a week, forgot all aboil!
it, and went to h s old boarding-house
for supper. Maine has a few great
minds yet left on hand. — D:t. Free Pr.ss.
just Like Her Dream.
Last evening about seven o' clock.
while Mrs. Henry H. Healy was return¬
ing home from a ride, she drote
through Adelaide avenue into Melros
street She was alone in a box buggy, the
and just after site had turned into
latter highway a man sprang into riie
street, grasped the reins, and stopped tlm
the horse. He then jumped lady into
vehicle anil struck the a severe
blow'in the face, causing her nose to
bleed quite freely. It so happened that
Mrs. Healy had been at Attleboro dur¬
ing the day, ami while there had pur¬
chased a knife for use in connection
with household duties. I his she had
forgotten to leave at home, anil on dis
coverin°- it in her pocket while driving
had laid it on the seat cushion by her
side. On receiving the blow from the
ruffian the thought of the knife flashed
across her mind, and at once such grasping force
it she struck at him with as
she was able to command. He imme¬
diately let go his hold upon the car¬
riage, and fell back with the ex lama
lion: “My God, I am cut:” The lady
drove on, and after passing some dis¬
tance from the point where she had
been assailed, pulled in the horse and
looked about for some one to assist her,
but, nobody happening to be on the
street at that time, continued on her
way home. She did not see her assail¬
ant after she struck at him, and all that
she can remember he concerning large his ap¬
pearance is that was a man
with a full beard, and she thinks lie
wore a cap. The blow which he gave
her did not cause any serious injury,
but the shock to her nervous system
was very apparent for some hours after¬
ward. The object of the vfflafn in
thus assaulting her is entirely a matter
Oi ponje ture. She happened to have
in a psTir of diamond ear-rings, anti it is
not unreasonable to suppose that the
possession of then! plight have been
his object. Mrs. Ilealy’s her husband drives,
usually accompanies her on
but yesterday he happened to be away
from home.
A singular coincidence is related in
connection with the assault, and that is
that Mrs. Healy Tuesday night dreamed
that she was being beard, pounded such by a her largo
man with a full as as¬
sailant appeared to be. This dream she
related at the breakfast yesterday table yesterday
morning. Moreover, appears
to have been a singularly eventful day
for the lady, her experiences reminding
one forcibly of the old saw that “mis¬
fortunes never come singly.” of In lady the
morning, with a company
friends, she took the 10:50 Boston train,
the party being bound for the Attle¬
boro Fair, but when the train had
reached the Corliss works the locomo¬
tive became in some way disabled,
causing considerable delay. The con¬
sequence was that the train failed to
connect with the train at the junction,
and Mrs. Healy and her friends had to
take a moving wagon for the fair¬
grounds. Then occurred another ac¬
cident.
When still at a considerable distance
from the track the axle-tree of the wag¬
on broke and the party again was left
on the road. Another team their picked
them up, and, somewhat to aston¬
ishment, perhaps, they all, including
Mrs Healy, at last reached their destina¬
tion in safety.— Providence (It- L)
Journal.
Heroism of Lighthouse Keepers.
It was a grand and heroic conception
to build a lighthouse on the Eddystone,
but what shall be said of the men who
first of all tried the experiment of dwell¬
ing in the horrible isolation of that
storm-beaten edifice, cut off i'rom the
rest of the world, uncertain whether the
building would stand the test of the
storm, deafened by tlx: roar of the
waters which sometimes would shoot
right over the lantern, or dash headlong
against the lighthouse with fearful vio¬
lence, causing every part to vibrate as
though the whole fabric were instan¬
corded taneously going to pieces attended V It is the re¬
lighthouse that only two Rudyard, men and that
built by
one of them was seized with sudden ill¬
ness and died. It was in the roughest
time of year, and although the survivor
hoisted a signal of distress, no boat
could reach the rook. What to do with
the dead body he did not know. At first
he thought he would throw it into the
sea, but ho was hindered by the fear lest
th.t frieails tf lire tie .-cased might charge
him with the crime of Tnvxler, J’?: e
whole month the weather con tin :..' A
boisterous, and for that whole month
the solitary survivor kept the light, all
night now that his comrade could no
longer share the duty, watch by watch,
with him, and for that- whole month In
kept the laxly of the dead man, although
it had falleu into horrible corruption.
Can any more terrible strait be concern d
than t!iat in which the brave fellow was
placed ? Yet we do not even know lus
name. All we know is that in almost
every great work of public utility in¬
volving hazardous lalior, if one or two
men have come to the front and left
their names for the admiration of jk.-s
terity, there have always been a iiumiro..
obscure heroes who have lived and died
and left no sign, bnfc without whost
strong nerves und great hearts thost
works would never have been accom¬
plished.
French Palaces.
The “ Direction des Batiments Civilf
et des Palaix Nationaux ” has lately hoc
the chief palaces and chateaux formerly
occupied by the crown valued, and the
estimate has been made public. The
Palais de Versailles, with its park and
dependencies, comes first, being vain -d
at 112,000,000 francs. The Luxem
bourg, with its immensely valuable art
collections, is set down at 60,000,001
francs. The beautiful Chateau of Fon
tainbleau is valued at 30,000,000 francs.
The Palate de Trianon, tiie special favor¬
ite of Queen Marie Antoinette, is placed
at 13,500,000 francs, and the Chateau ot
Compiegue at 13,000,000 francs. Tin
Palate Royal and the Eiysee are eacl Tli
estimated at 10,000,000 francs.
Palais de St. Cloud, even in its present
defaced condition, is valued at 4,750,001
francs, and the Chateau of Rnmlxwiidet
at 3,045.000 francs .—Sir Us Times.
“ How far is it to Cinb creek ?'
asked a traveler of a Dutch woman
“Only shoost a leetle vays.” “L» i
four, ’six, eight, or ten miles?” imp;,
tieutlv asked the stranger. “Yas, I
dink it is,” serenely replied the unmov...
gatekeeper.
RELIGIOUS AXU EDUCATIONAL.
The Baptist churches in Sweden
report 20,000 members.
■ -For evangelizing 800,000,000 heath¬
en. the American churches give about
*3,000,000 a year.— Detroit Post.
—Five hundred conversions arc an¬
nounced at Oswego, N. Y., as the result
of the evangelistic labors there of Mrs.
Maggie Van Cott.
At the recent meeting of the Mary¬
land Teachers’ Association the abo'ition
of corporal punishment in schools was
go n e rai ly ad vocat c< 1.
__Over eight hundred millions of the
inhabitants of the globe and arc idolatry.— still under
the shadow of paganism
Han Francisco Chronicle.
—The Hudson River Baptist Associ¬
ation has withdrawn fellowship from the
Greenbush Church, because the latter
refused to remove a married pastor who
h:id written love letters to ayoung lady.
— Troy (.V. F.) lime?.
—Airs. Elizabeth Methodist Wright, a member
of the Frostlmrg Church,
Maryland, died recently in her ninety
third year. She was seventy-four years
a Methodist, and had contributed some
$14,000 to that church.
—Kentucky lias twenty universities
and colleges."seven theological schools s bools and of medicine, agri¬
six one
cultural and one mechanical college,
wit!; several hundred grammar schools,
academies and colleges.
—A noted Roman Catholic in Rome
has become a Protestant. This time it
is Signor Ca alano, Professorof physical
sewn c in the University at Rome. He
has connected himself with the Free
Itfd'fUi ‘Jilttrch —j [he [»'‘rior. ’t
— A letter to the Boston lie raid de¬
scribes the female students at Cornell
as strong in. health and quick declares and ac
curate in study. The writer
that between tiic young men and maidens
in the college there arc few friendships
formed which result in marriage; and
adds: “ It is said that the young men
find the ladies of the town more inter¬
esting than the quiet, studious college
girls. The daily intercourse between
the men and women students is so com¬
monplace, the occupations that call
them together are so high and so en¬
grossing, that no t'mo nor inclination
seems left f»i sentimental daw dling.”
Newspaper Writers.
The complaint has gone forth that
the every-day voting men of the press,
and some of the old ones are “color
blind." They miss in their nightly toil
that subtle l’avor, that graphic quality, 1
that aroma of description, which is best 1
labeled “color." I
While the justice of this complaint is
freely admitted by the editorial profes
sion,"they possibly estimate claim that the difficulties outsiders cannot which
lie in the way descriptive of securing excellence. news writing The
of unUorm
man who can write correctly, concisely, multi- ft/
rapidly and graphically, does not
ply himself to any great extent. The B
first then of these qualities are indis- K
pensable in daily, and, indeed, periodi- M ■
cal work; the latter is certainly very If
desirable. But when one has to keep
time with his pen to the modulations H H
of the press in the basement, while it
runs oil the first half of the paper, he
does not pause very often or long in the
hope of drawing bottom “the aroma of inkstand, descrip¬
tion” from the of his
as it were. There are many men.
who, while they even do excellent work
if left to their own time and way, j
notably fail when they attempt to !
provide nights music for in a the press week. that runs The
seven U W
best newspaper style is not formed in a J
fresh day or from year. college, Supposing joins a young the “press man, ■
gang” of a first-class office. The. word? %
of his commencement stage oration are M
still ringing in his ears and they repre- m
sent his highest produce ideals them of in style, editorial; lie is 0 I
eager to an
for he looks down on mere news-gather- H
ing as beneath' the high estate of one so II
learned as himself, and does no' always I!
remember that there is no present va- Wl
cancy in the chair o the managing edi- M
tor. ’ He. woul 1 not be human if he I
failed to work considerable “high- fl '■
felutin” into the items which he writes,
The this inexorable out, and the Hue youth j encil cuts settles all of jM H
soon II
down to ha d facts and the business of
his own department, coining in time to II
have a horror o florid “newspaper En- V
gl'ih-” Thyn comes the danger hat he I
Will go to the other extreme and his R ■
work become devoid of all color, on 1 he
same principle that the traditional H
Y- nkee, once noted for asking questions ffl
while closely abroad, sealed now that travels the with natives his iiave lips IJ
so am
hard work ;o find out what he is like. Iff
But if the beginner has anyth’ngin himlU
he will gradually learn h'.s forte and mm
come to weave into his work a color of IK
his own that is all the more acceptable
for The its o iginal who ty. thing well JR ra
man sees a can
usually describe it well. Habits of close 13
observation and a well-trained memory J J
make up the foundations of success journalist®
all brain-workers- And the
who can store up any bit of color heR I
may chance upon, for instant use when* I
it is most needed, is fortunate, indeed. Ml
He is like the lawyer who, when l;9ll
was congratulated on the exceeding ap-Rl u^K I
propriateness of a story he had told
jury, waiting replied: fifteen “Oh, for well, chance I have to been^fcl tellRl
And years doubly a isH
that story.” fortunate
the news chronicler who, seeing and*
remembering events well, also senses R§
their correct relations to each other. RB
That the tone of our periodical news- KB
writing is improving no one will deny. Sf
The quality of the men who devote wt
themselves to it is constantly rising, Ml
both as regards character and cdvca-RI
tion. The reporter is a growing power.Rl parfP
and he will yet come to stand on a : |
with the best of editors. Indeed hell I
should be able to plav the editor at any*
moment, and not only be allowed but®
expected to makeedito ial comments onfl
the events which are occurring in hisH
own field. — Paper 1 Cor'd .
__
—A colored woman at Providence, R.B
I., lyouisa Freeman, was bound over onR
who a charge is four of whipping old, her with adopted iron bor,g
years an um
Drella rib, forcing him to drink filthy
water from a bucket again and again,
and burning his tongue with a red-hoi
poker. __
The man who was hemmed in by uH t
crowd has been doubled with a stitch
his side ever since, ■