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The Bainbridge Weekly Democrat.
BEN. E. RUSSELL, Editor and Proprietor.
“Here Shall the Press the People’s Rights Maintain, Unawed bv Influence and Unbribed by Gain.”
TERMS: $2.00 Per Annum.
VOLUME 4.
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1875.
NUMBER 47.
timely topics.
Titk mystery of the missing aeronauts
jj solved at last. The body of young
Grim wood, the companion of Prof.
PpnaldsoD, was found last week on the
gjjores of Lake Michigan, rendering it
. a jte certain that both were lost in the
fUrfnl gale which swept over the lake
to the night of their ill-starred as
cension*
Enooand is the first foreign nation to
begin building operations for the Oen-
„3nial exhibition. The English com
missioners have broken gronnd for four
(suldings. The Japanese commissioners
t « making similar preparations, and
stares for Sweden and Morocco will
^sbe commenced. Austria desires a
g/t of 32,090 square feet in the main
filing, and. about 21,000 in the art
(tilery. *
J. D. McVioker, who has been with
|Eiwin Booth since his recint accident
UCosoob, Conn., writes of the invalid :
■ All fear of bad results, we hope, have
Ipuecil, as no dangerous symptoms have
Lpeared. He will need the utmost
Met for some ten days yet, to allow
I lit ribs to knit, then he will be able to
|nlk about with h>s arm in a sling, and
tost trust to to time for perfect oure.
Emile de Girakdin says Bismarck is
Labad fix, and wants another big war,
I to as to divide np and get a big slice
I of Europe. Now he thinks it much bot
her for Franco to join hands with the
1 powerful chancellor, in order to share
I the spoils, than to be ent and eaten by
1 Lie. Ho therefore advises France to
1 rive up nil hope of getting back Alsace
I ml Lorraine, and to become thoroughly
I reconciled with Germany, as Austria
I became with Italy after the latter recap-
|tared Lombardy and Venioe.
CAF.rm, the Vineland editorial celeb-
Iritywith a bullet in his brain, is not
I getting nlong as well as usual. He is
I half blind, and has to be led abont.
j Sanders, who shot Carnth, wants to
|eettle with him, bnt he does not pnt np
’li me ney. Caruth wants not less
|thui §50,000. Banders has separated
i his wife since the shooting affair,
|ud both men by that fatal pistol shot
have been made abont as miserable
Vi mortals can become.
7nr. little mare Lula, that came so
lelose upon Goldsmith Maid’s fastest
Itme at Buffalo, has shown astonishing
Itpced and endurance at the raoes at
[Rochester. She won e free-for-all
Iracc, after a lieroio contest, in very fast
Jtlmc, making three heats in 2:16}, 2:151,
land 2:17, the fastest three’ consecutive
Iheats over trotted. Goldsmith Maid, in
pe first heat of the race, made 2:15},
I'Adcr a strong pull from the distanoe
»le.
Preparations for the issue of silver
coin in placq of fractional currency are
in active progress at the treasury de
partment. Secretary Bristow thinks it
will be neoessary to sell two hundred
and fifty millions of five per cent, bonds
for the purchase of currency, in addition
to one hundred millions already sold.
This will add materially to the interest-
bearing debt, bnt it will give the public
something tangible in the way of money
—something that has not been known
for fifteen years. There is, however,
some doubt as to the authority of Sec
retary Bristow to sell these bonds. H9
claims the right to do so, and is sup
ported by Senator Sherman, bnt there
are other good lawyers who hold that lie
has no power to sell more five per centis
than enough to make np the amount of
the issue prescribed by law—$500,000,-
000. As there areonly $37,000,000 of
the amount issued, there may be some
ronb le over the matter.
The Hermann monument festival
oommenced at Detmoid, Aug. 16, with
the reception of Kaiser Wilhelm, the
Crown Prince of Germany, and Prince
Carl, of Prnssia, who were attended by
a numerous suite. During the day
there also arrived the Duke of Saxe
Meningen, Prince Frederick Fuenther,
of Schwarzburg Budolstadt, representa
tives bearing colors of all the German
states, and many bands of music.
There was a great 'procession all day
long of peasants, ministers and students.
Fifty thousand people were without
beds, and slept as best they oonld. The
streets were beantifnlly draped with
flags and evergreens. The oollosal statue
of Hermann was unveiled before an im
mense conoonrse of people. The Em
peror William and other distinguished
visitors prooeeded at noon to Mount
Grothenburg, where the monument to
Hermann is erected, when the ceremony
of unveiling was performed, in presence
of 15,000 spectators. The Superintend
ent, Gen. Hoppen, delivered a historical
address, and Privy Councillor, Prenss
made the inaugural oration.
MOODY AND BANKEY.
Tin: New York Bulletin Bays : “There
** a good many southern and western
mhsutR iu the markets, and the lead-
tc S «y goods jobbers are busily en-
I'ged in forwarding well assorted stocks
P merchandise to remote sections of
if country. The indications are that
if demand for goods from southern
®! er * Mill be larger than for several
pfvious years, while the outlook in
her respects is favorable to a more
firited general trade daring the in-
*Kirg month.”
The American and Mexican Claims
-mifsion have but twelve oases left
5 dispose of. Over two hundred are,
pfferer, still in the banks of Sir Ed-
tt d Thornton, the umpire. It will re-
I ' re f°me time to complete their ex-
^ostion, as Sir Edward is very thor-
His decisions are respected on
■ tanls as the result of impartial and
^fifn'.ious labor. He has > utterly
P^Sfd to accept any compensation for
r^fivice, although the oongresses of
r *"° countries have made provision
r remuneration.
[*“ E funeral of Hans ChriBtain Ander
•Mas held iu the Fran-Kirche, Copen-
^ ea . on the llth. The king and other
^ hers of the royal family, with the
B!> ters and chief officers of the gov-
assisted. Deputations oame to
M funeral from all parts of the king-
>the cathedral were representa-
f* 8 . °* the publio bodies, state and
p| ei Pal, the diplomatic corps, the
k v and students of the university,
men s societies, members of the
[ \ 1Dc lnding several connected with
■fncan journals, and an immense con-
^^^Eation of citizens, who filled every
1C T the edifice, The day was made
' Cl national mourning throughout
1 ^ EAKrNG of the Duncan & Sherman
^re, the United State Economist
‘° DR dela y rn covering the let-
^ cre <iit8 issued to American trav-
a blow at the finaneial
L °f our banks from which
‘ ^ siow^to reoover. There 1 "
ral conviction that the time has
drived for a departure from t
on this subject. These
• d be covered by ootton end
iatte BamS M ot ^ er kinds of drafts.
is
at
the
i mg.. “ omer Kinds 01 ars
^ca i D0W Btand the Holders 01
iw e Hers of credit are wholly at
< the ° f 'He Hankers. In England
of Enro P e there is
they .f fe ®Hng to American firms
^ir° ionger toii6h “ yof
THE REPUBLIC OF NATURE.
A Land of no Clothes, no Houses, no Tools, no
Religion, and no Marriage•
Seventeen years ago Narcisse Pierre
Pelletier, the son of a shoemaker in a
small town in the department of La
Vendee, went to sea, and after a few
months was wrecked with a large oargo
of Chinese coolies. By miracle and
promptitude he survived the brutality
of hiB own captain, the cannibals who
ate up most of the Chinese, starvation,
and more fatal thirst, to fall into the
hands of a native Australian tribe.
In the settled portions of that conti
nent a native is as great a curiosity as in
this metropolis, bnt the aboriginal
races still have mnoh to themselves the
parts next to the equator. This was
about thirteen degrees south, not far
from Torres Strait, New Guina, and the
Louisiade Archipelago. The _ sayages
were very kind to the poor dying lad,
adopted him into their tribe, found him
a valuable member of society, and were
proud of their possession. He acquired
titles of honor, inscribed upon his skin
and carried in his nose and ears, he
learnt to carve canoes, and obtained an
acknowledged pre-eminence in strength,
skill, and oonnseL
The tribe is a republic in the strictest
sense of the word, acknowledging no su
periority, and fortunately offering small
field for the ambition which leads to
higher political developments. They
have no clothes, except a fringe in the
case of woman; no houses, except um
brellas extemporized out of leaves when
it rains heavily; no _ tools, except bits
of hoop iron found in wrecks; no arts
and sciences; a very small vocabulary,
and an arithmetic stopping short at ten,
and indicated by pointing to various
parts of the body. They have no relig
ion, no history, no sooial institutions,
not even marriage. Regarded from our
point of view, life is there one great
negative, and the only wonder is they
get on as well as they do. The women,
however, go to the wall, as in all savage
life; they are the property of the
stronger, two or three at a time, and
are pnt out of the way as a useless
horse is with us, when no longer useful
or agreeable. This is animal life.
Narcisse Pelletier was quickly ab
sorbed in the new current of his exist
ence. He became a pure and simple
savage, and as much forgot that he had
ever been anything else as if he had lived
in a long dream. He oonld not speak a
word of French ; lost reckoning of days
and years; knew not his own age;
perched on a rail like a bird; had rest
less monkey eyes; clave with strong™*
stinot to his adopted fraternity, and
only remembered his relations as beings
of smother world who must have long
since passed away.
Bat Narcisse Pelletier has returned to
life. On the eleventh of Aprdinthe
present year the John Bell schooner,
engaged in the beche de mer fishery
anchored at Night Island, a small island
off the northeast coast of Qaeenbmcl.
to which boats were dispatched from
the ship in search of water. The sail
ors sent on this duty encountered m
the bush a party of atongmdblacks,
with whom they found a white nian,
who was like the blacks, perfectly
SkedTand appeared to be completely
identified with them in languageand
habits. The white savage was induoed
to enter one of the ships boats, and
the John Bell brought her prize to Som-
merset, the settlement at Cape York,
where he was clothed and cared for by
the resident magistrate. The dream of
the long night is passed away and
thread of yesterday, and forgets the
gap between. Narcisse is already
reading French novels.
v
—Tennessee has given her
three presidents—Jackson, Polk an
Johnson—and it is queerer still that
they were all born in Carolina,
An Interview with one of the Evangelitte in A no
York.
From the New York World.
In appearance Mr. Sankey scarcely
fills one’s idea of an Evangelist, nor
indeed that of a sweet singer of Israel,
Mr. Sankey’s portion of the great re
vival lying in his silvery throat. Bnt
the throat belongs to a large man—a
man upon whom the good things of
this life seems to set well—apparently
thirty-five years old, with a clear, gray
eye, and wearing dark Burnside whis
kers of rather spares growth. He is
simple in his manner, ready to converse,
bnt with the air of a man who speaks of
that which has no connection with him
self. Concerning their work he said:
“ Of course we had no anticipation of
its magnitude. Our church was burned
in Chicago, and while it was rebuilding
we determined to go abroad, possibly
for four months, in response to an in
vitation of Mr. Pennifather and another
gentleman. We found both dead. We
didn’t want to go abont hunting other
men, so we determined to commence
ourselves, and went first to York, a
little, cold, cathedral town. We didn’t
do mnch at first. People thonght we
were just two Americans hunting a sen
sation. It was not until they finally
began to have frith in us that we began
to succeed; after that it was all easy,
and from the time we went to New
castle our meetings were like a rollin'?
snow-ball, always increasing. Of course
London was the culmination.”
“ What do you think of them your
self, Mr. Sankey?”
“ It is the spirit of the Lord, that is
all I can say. Such things were in times
past,.why not now? People explain
them differently. Some say magnetism,
and some one thing and some another.
The only explanation we can give is
that it comes from the Lord. Men
couldn’t do it. Just let them try it if
they think they could. But with the
Lord it is just the easiest thing.”
“Your labors don’t seem to have
wearied you ?”
“ That’s another evidence. Ouly
look: Both of us in robust health,
constantly speaking and singing, and
not an ailment to hinder ns.”
GREAT religious interest.
“ As for what we’ve done, we know
nothing but that there has been a great
religious interest. Other people try to
sum up the results. We know better
than to do that. We don’t say a soul
has been converted. You may make
professions. How do I know they are
true ? We only know that the interest
increased until the last day, that it per
vaded all classes of people, from the
royal princes to the hod carriers. The
Duchess of Sutherland came almost
every day. We know that excitement
had nothing to do with it. _ Everybody
gave that up in accounting for our
numbers. We do not believe in it. Mr.
Moody always discouraged it. Our
meetings were as quiet as those of any
well ordered church here or there—as
quite as our conversation. No, it was
the Lord working through us as instru
ments, by the foolishness of preaching,
as the Bible says; mind, not foolish
preaching. .
“ The interest was universal. I don t
believe there was a hamlet in England
to which we were not invited. We had
an invitation from Oxford, signed by
three hundred students, but we couldn’t
accept. We went to Eton because we
could get back. And, by the wav, it
was Eton that sought us, not we Eton.
Eton students and the members of Par
liament asked us to go. We went and
had a quiet, impressive meeting, and I
believe did a great deal of good.”
“Bnt what will become of aU your
work now?” ..
“Now, if it is of a man it will die,
but it is left in the hands of the local
committee.”
“ Bnt what evidence did yon have of
its value?” .
“ Nothing, only a great religious in
terest, unaccountable if it is not from
the Lord. We had not mnch inter
course with individuals, although we
received letters from' some and heard
from others, and through the inquiry
meetings.”
“You propose holding meetings
here?"
“ Not until October. Mr. Moody has
gone to his home to rest, and will then
go to Chicago. I start Tuesday for my
home in Pennsylvania. Then I mil
meet Mr. Moody in Chicago. We
haven’t decided yet what we will do.
We want to look abont first. land
already in two years this country is
mnch changed. New York, Chicago,
Brooklyn, Philadelphia, any of these
places may be our starting point.
A Mastodon Fourteen Feet HigH.
From the Dubuque (U.) News.
Prof. Woodman has now in his pos
session and is arranging the bones of a
specimen of the extinct mastodon fam-
ilywhich are worthy of examination by
all'who have any curiosity or interest
in nature’s wonderful productions. We
have all read of the mastodon, and have
fancied him to be a mythical animal,
bnt now an opportunity is presented to
examine bones that mil not only put
to rest any doubts as to the existence of
the giant beast, but will give something
like an idea of what his monstrous size
must have been. The professor has
sixty-eight bones in all, and is making
search for the remaining ones, which
will constitute the whole skeleton. In
purchasing what he now Has, he also
purchased the exclusive nght todigm
the ground for the rest, so that there*
bnt Uttle donbt in a snort tune our en-
£2£“prS»or »H1 ta. *U theW.
nf the largest animal ever found in the
oHSther earth. . About a year
ago a German farmer, living at Welton,
twenty-five miles west of Davenport, on
the Chicago, Rook H«l
railroad, in crossing a small strain, no-
something projecting from the
Kof the stream which excited his
curiosity. He procured a spade and
SSSSed to unearth it, and disoov-
ered^when he had it out,th.titwasa
huge bone of some kmd, but what ]kind
waa beyond his ken. His curiosity was
now fully excited, for he tdt that he
had struck a bonanza of some- kind,
perhaps the graveyard of some pre Ad-
Sc giants. He oonUnued his explora
tions, and within a few feet
he found the first rehc of some departed
mount A3 of animal life, He found a
number of other bones similar in
portions to the first. The discovery
came to the ears of our Woodman, who
is alive to anything that may reveal the
wonders of nature, particularly if it
oomes from onr own state, and he
opened negotiations with_ the old
farmer, whioh resulted in his becoming
the owner of the bones and of the right
to search for more. Among those he
now has are many of the prominent
ones, which will give an idea of the size
of the animal to whioh they belonged.
The shonlderblade, whioh appears as
perfect as if it came from the animal
yesterday, is three, and a half feet long
by three feet wide, and when turned np
presents a surface large enough for an
ordinary-sized family to dine on.
The lower bone of ihe hind leg, join
ing the knee with the foot,'called by
naturalists the tibia, is abent thirty
three inches long, abont thirty-two
inches around its largest end, and is
heavy enough to load an ordinary man.
The parts of the backbone forming the
joints are from ten to twelve inches
■across; and one bone alone, belonging
to the foot, is twenty-eight inches
around. AH the other bones are of like
tremendous proportions. When the
bones forming the pelvis arch are placed
in position they form an opening from
two and one-half to three feet high,
whioh wonld easily admit the passage of
a barrel. The bones are aU in a mag
nificent state of preservation. The
sockets in some of them are large
enough for a wash bowl, and the small
est portion of the collection is sufficient
to convey an idea of the great size of
the animal. It wonld be difficult just
yet to give its exact proportions, but a
comparison with bones found in other
places will enable us to judge. The
shoulder-blade of Dr. Warren’s masto-
non, found near Newburg, N. Y., does
not appear as large as this one which
Prof. Woodman now has; and the
length of Dr. Warren’s animal is ascer
tained to have been thirteen feet. That
wonld make the length of Prof. Wood
son’s fnUy eqnal, and its height would
be abont fourteen feet. Now that will
be considered a pretty fair sized ani
mal, and will rather ecUpse all onr
fancy stock of the present day for size.
But what will be said when it is stated
that this animal, whose skeleton is now
under investigation, was only a calf ?
Yet this is a fact which is established
by the want of perfect ossification in
the joints, and at the end of the scap
ula cr shoulder-blade. There is no
question that it was a very yonnganimal.
What it might be at its maturity we
may guess, but can never know. It was
found abont four feet from the surface,
in what geologists call the drift. From
all appearances the locality was the bed
of a stream, and to the fine sand in
which they were imbedded, no donbt is
attributable the splendid state of pres
ervation in which the bones were
found.
A THRILLING SCENE.
A Father Rescues his Child from the Clutches of
an Alligator.
Handsboro (Mies.) Democrat, July 31.
Last Saturday, about snndown, four
miles east of this place on Biloxi bay,
occurred a scene calculated to send a
thrill of horror through every human
heart, and to make even the boldest
tremble with fear. Two little girls,
daughters of Mr. Elam R. Blackwell,
living on the Black bay of Biloxi, while
bathing in the bay immediately in front
of his dwelling, were attacked by an
enormous alligator. The eldest, a girl
of abont seven years of age, was hold
ing the youngest, an infant of two
years, in her Jiands, and was quietly
enjoying her bath, when suddenly her
little sister was snatched from her and
borne swiftly from the shore. Terrified
beyond measure, and unable to render
any assistance to her unfortunate sister,
the elder girl uttered a scream, which
was quickly caught by the ear of the
father,who happened, acoidentily, to be
passing within thirty or forty yards of
the spot where his daughters were
bathing. Realizing, instantly from ’.the
tone of the voice, that his children were
in some peril, bnt unable to conjecture
its exact nature Mr. BlackweU, who is
an active and athletic man, rushed
rapidlv to their assistance, and arrived
at the" spot just in time to discover his
little daughter being borne out into
the bay by an alligator. Comprehend
ing the sconce at once, and nerved to
almost superhuman effort _bv the des
perate situation of his child, the ago
nized father leaped madly into the
water in pursuit of the would-be de
stroyer of his daughter, whioh was then
some twenty-five or thirty yards from
shore. The water for a distance of
forty or fifty yards out into the bay
from the point where the children were
bathing, ranges in depth from one and
a half to two feet, and then suddenly
attains a depth of forty or fifty feet,
and both the animal (which by this
tirna had discovered the pursuit) and
the father seemed to realize that the
deep water immediately in front o.
them once reached, pursuit and recov-
ery wonld be alike impossible; both,
therefore, redoubled their efforts, the
one to reach the point, the other to
prevent it In this struggle, although
sinking to his waist in the soft mud at
the bottom at each bound, the father
was sucoessfuL He suooeeded in grasp
ing his child by the arm about ten feet
from deep water. The alligator, which
aU the while held the child’s foot m its
month, perceiving itself overtaken, and
alarmed and confused by the boldness
of the assault, released its hold and
made its way rapidly into the deep
water in front of it. The father, com
pletely exhausted, raised his child out
of the water, and perceiving that it
still lived, by desperate effort suc
ceeded in regaining the shore and de
positing the child safely in the arms of
its mother. The little girl is unhurt
with the exception of acouple of bruises
on its foot, made by the teeth of the
monster.
Fuze.—I hate a fli A fii has got no
manners. He ain’t no gentleman. He
is an introoder; don’t send in no kard,
nor ax an introdnekshnn, nor don’t
kaook at the front door, and never
ttiinT of taking off his hat. Fuat you
kno he is in bed with yon and np your
noee—tho wat they want there is a mis-
17; and he invites hisselfto breakfast
aid sits down in your batter thout
brushing his pants. I hate a fii. Darn a
fli.—Josh Bitting».
GRIMWOOD’S NOTE BOOK.
Grim Jokes in Mid-Air Rescued from the Grave
The iaqueet was held Tuesday after
noon, near Montague, Mich., on the
body of N- S. Grimwood, the reporter
of the Chicago Journal, who ascended
in a balloon with Donaldson, and a ver
dict of accidental drowning rendered.
The identification of the body was per
fect. In Grimwood’s note book was
found written the following, evidently
the introdnetion to his account of the
ascension broken off at the moment the
two occupants of the balloon were over
taken by the calamity which precipi
tated them into the lake. The acoonnt
is headed “ Up in a BaUoon,” and con
tinues:
“From the earliest dawn of child
hood I have always had a presentiment
that at some time, sooner or later, I
was destined to rise. There are some
people who make sport of presenti
ments, but, after sU, presentiments are
a handy thing to have around. Where
wonld I be to-day if I had not had a
presentiment? I have risen, as it were
to a point of order. Like a great many
politicians, I arose by meanB of gas. I
regret the fact that there are only two
of ns. Prof. Donaldson and myself, as I
wonld like to belong
TO THE UPPER TEN.
“ Prof. Donaldson seems to be a very
pleasant gentleman, although a philos
opher and an aeronaut. Although it is
scarcely an hour since I struggled into
eminence, the restraint of my position
is already beginning to be irksome to
me and wear upon my spirits. I cannot
help reflecting that if we fall we
FALLTiikH LUCIFER
ont of the heavens, and that upon onr
arrival upon earth, or rather upon
water—as we are now over the middle
of Lake Michigan—we wonld be liter
ally dead,”
Remarkable Effects of Arctic Cold on
Man*
Lieutenant Payer, the Austrian arctic
explorer, has been laying some of the
results of his explorations before the
geographical society of Vienna. Refer
ring to the influence of extreme cold on
the human organism, he related that on
March 14, 1874, he and his companions
made a sledge journey over the Semi-
klar glacier, in order to make observa
tions of Francis Joseph land. On that
day the cold marked 58 deg. Fah. be
low zero. Notwithstanding this intense
cold, M. Payer and a Tyrolese went ont
before sunrise to make observations and
sketch.
The sunrise was magnifiicent; the snn
appeared surrounded, as it does at a
high degree of cold, by small suns, and
its light appeared more dazzling from
the contrast with the extreme cold.
The travelers were obliged to pour
rum down their throats so as not to
touch the edge ef the metal cups, which
would have been as dangerous as if they
had been red hot; bnt the rnm had lost
aU its strength and liquidity, and was
as flat and as thick as oiL
It was impossible to smoke either ci
gars or tobacco in short pipes, for very
soon nothing but a piece of ice remained
in the month.
The metal of the instruments was just
like red hot iron to the tonch, as were
some lockets, which some of the travel
ers, romantically bnt imprudently, con
tinued to wear next tbe skin.
M. Payer says that so great an amount
of cold paralyzes the wiH, and that, un
der its influence, men, from the unstead
iness of their gait, their stammering
talk, and the slowness of their mental
operations, seem as if they were intoxi
cated.
Another effect of cold is a tormenting
thirst, which is due to the evaporation
of the moisture of the body.
It is unwholesome to use snow to
quench the thirst; it brings on inflam
mation of the throat, palate, and tongue.
Besides, enough can never be taken to
quench the thirst, as a temperature of
35} deg. to 58 deg. below zero Fah.
makes it taste like molten metal. Snow
eaters in the north are considered as
feeble and effeminate, in the same way
as is an opium eater in the east.
The group of travelers who traversed
the snow fields were surrounded by
thick vapors formed by the emanations
from their bodies, which became con
densed, notwithstanding the furs in
which the travelers were enveloped.
These vapors fell to the gronnd, with a
slight noise, frozen into the form of
smaU crystals, and rendered the atmos
phere thiok, impenetrable, and dark.
Notwithstanding the humidity of the
air, a disagreeable sensation of dryness
was felt.
Sound diffused itself to a very long dis
tanoe, an ordinary conversation could be
heard*ai a hundred paces off, while the
report of guns from the tops of high
mountains oonld scarcely be heard. M.
Payer explains this phenomenon by the
large quantity of moisture in the erotic
atmosphere.
Meat oonld be chopped, and mercury
used in the shape of balls.
Both smell and taste beoome greatly
enfeebled in these latitudes ; strength
gives way under the paralyzing influ
ence of the cold; the eyes involuntarily
close and beoome frozen.
When locomotion stops, the sole of
the foot beeomes insensible.
It is somewhat curious that the beard
does freeze ; but this is explained from
the air expired, falling, being immedi
ately transformed into snow. The cold
causes dark beards to beoome lighter;
the secretions of the eyes and nose al
ways increases, while the formation of
tiie perspiration altogether ceases.
The only possible protection against
the cold is to be very warmly clothed,
and to endeavor as much as possible to
prevent the condensation of the atmos
phere, while the much vaunted plans of
anointing and blackening the body are
prononnoed to have no real value.
—M. D. Conway tells of a lady in
one of the manufacturing towns of
Great Britain who recently had her at
tention attracted to the window of a
milliner’s shop by a beautiful and very
expensive French bonnet, and she in
quired the prieeu She was told it was
sold. “Oh ! I had no idea of buying
8ueh an expensive bonnet,” said the
lady; upon which the milliner said : “It
is a joint-stock bonnet—that is, it be
longs to three factory girls, who wear
it by turns os Sunday.
Why Language Should he Studied*
The stqdy of philology, or of language
by itself, is undoubtedly of great value;
but it is rather a study for the spec
ialist than for the average student. It
is, certainly, a true science; only, lack
ing precision in its methods, and _ be
ing deficient in practical applicability
to the general affairs of life, it must be
left out of account for the present. In
a general course of study a language
should be taught because of its value in
opening np other departments of knowl
edge. It shonld reveal to ns the
thoughts of other peoples, and enable
ns to avail ourselves of their experience.
For most men these purposes are best
fulfilled by a study of the modern
tongues. Latin and Greek are avail
able no donbt, only they are less indis
pensable than .French and German.
These newer languages are not only of
practical valne, being spoken or written
by millions of onr fellow-beings to-day,
bnt they have also maay direct bear
ings upon all modern life. The sciences
can not be weU studied without them;
they open up the widest fields of recent
thonght; they bring ns into closer har
mony with the spirit of onr own times.
We cm get along better without a
knowledge of antiquity than without a
knowledge of the days in which we
live. The history of the siege of Troy
has less interest for ns than the history
of the great sooial and economic prob
lems which are being worked ont in
such deadly earnest in our own coun
try and in Europe to-day. The ancient
languages have their uses, unquestion
ably ; so also have the Russian and the
Chinese ; bnt are those uses of sufficient
importance to warrant universal study ?
Remembering the aims of education,
we must also remember that every stu
dent has bnt a limited number of yeare
to spend at college. In those few years
he mnst require that learning whioh
will best fit him to go forth and grapple
with active duties. If he has both the
taste and the leisure, then he can learn
the dead languages after graduation.
It is nothing to urge that Latin and
Greek facilitate the acquisition of
French and German, since the latter
can be studied directly as the former.
Few people can afford the time to Btudy
four languages in order to nse but two.
—Popular Science Monthly.
An Affecting Case.
The many freaks of physical infirmity
shows nothing stranger than instanta
neous blindness or deafness, or their
immediate core. But oases of the kind
are well authenticated. The following
is told in a Nashville paper : We re
cently heard a remarkable and tonohing
story of a little boy, the son of a gentle
man in an adjoining county. His age
is twelve or thirteen. He is an inter
esting and promising lad. One day
daring the past winter he failed to rise
in the morning as early as nsnal. At
length his fatiier went into the room
where he lay, and asked him why he
did not get up. He said it seemed
dark yet, and he was waiting for day
light. His father retired, but the boy
not making his appearance for some
time, he returned, and said a second
time—
“ My son, why don’t yon get up ?”
“ Father, is it daylight ?” he asked.
“ Yes, long ago.”
« Then, father,” the little feUow said,
“I am blind.”
And so it was. His sight was gone.
In a short time his father took him to
Nashville, to get the benefit of the med
ical profession there, but none of the
physicians could do anything for him,
and happily made no experiment on his
eyes. Some ladies in a family of his
father’s acquaintance sought to cheer
him in his affliction, and one night pro
posed to tike him to the opera, that he
might hear the music and singing. He
went and was delightad.
In the course of the performance, all
at once he leaped np, threw his arms
around his father’s neck, and screamed
with ecstaoy:
“O father! I can see!”
His sight 'had instantly returned.
And since then he has retained it in full
vigor, except that under excitement
there is sometimes a dimness of vision.
The case is one of a* remarkable and
singular character.
Boiling Lake in Dominica.
The announcement of the discovery
of a boiling lake in the island of Do
minica, or Dominique, was made in
these oolnmns a few weeks ago. Since
then the Trinidad Chronicle has pub
lished an account of a visit to the spring
by Mr. H. Presto, superintendent of
the Trinidad Botanic Gardens. The
lake lies in the mountains behind the
village of Roseau, and in a village
abounding in solfataras. It is said to
be two mfles in circumference, and on
its north and south shores is inclosed
with precipitous banks some sixty feet
in height. The temperature of the lake
ranges from 180 deg. to 190 deg. Fabr.
The point of ebnUition varies somewhat,
bnt oonsists of a cone of water rising
from two to four feet above too general
surface, and sometimes divides into three
smaller ocnes. No detonations occur,
but during the ebullition the whole sur
face of the lake is violently agitated.
The water is colored a deep, dull gray,
and is highly charged with sulphur and
decomposed rock. A sulphurous vapor
rises with eqnal density over the en'ire
lake, there being no sudden ejection of
gas at the point of ebnUition. The oat-
let of the lake is constantly deepening
»niJ lowering the level of the water,
hence Mr. Presto conjectures that the
lake will ultimately be changed into a
geyser. The banks of the lake are also
constantly crumbling, and their fall
wfll in time fill np the basin of the gey
ser and resolve it into innumerable^ sol
fataras. No bottom was found with a
plummet line of 195 feet dropped down
ten feet from the shore of the lake.—
Chicago Iribune.
A Detroit boy was sent for a doctor,
his mother being very ill, when, look
ing down the street, he saw a great
crowd. Then came a straggle between
duty and curiosity, but he finally
started for the crowd, saying: “The
old lady’s pretty badly off, but I know
she wouldn’t want me to miss that
fight.”
A Colorado woman lyate the bass
dram for a brass band.
AFTEK A WHILE-
BY MABT Itacum BUTUEB.
After • while is a beantifol day—
The itonn will be ended and brighter the ann
The wearineee over, the taek will be done,
Some eweet thing it coming to every one,
After a wbiie.
After a while it a proeperova day;
Then we shall have aU the wisdom we need;
Onr earnest endeavors shall always succeed,
Till every ideal expands to a deed,
After a while.
After a while la an affluent day.
When onr fugitive treasure shall bo all secure,
And we shall forget that we ever were poor.
When patienoe shall blossom and friendship on-
dtue,
After a while.
After a while i* a halcyon day,
When i he love we have lAviehed our boeoms shut
bless;
Then shall be true every hand that we press.
The hearts we confide in, the lips we caress,
After a while.
After a while, tie a merciful day.
Filled with all comfort and free from aU fear.
And thrilled with aU love. Ah! If only ’twas clear
What the day of the month and the month of tho
y< * r ’ After a while.
After a while. Tie a far-away time;
For now, wh'le impatiently counting, I see
Tis not in tbe calender open to me,
So it mnst be iu God’s, In the life toatti to be,
After a while.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
—A defective memory overlooks a
multitude of sins.
—Mosquitoes mnst be happy, for they
always sing when at work.
—When a man tells the naked truth
he must give the bare faots.
- It is a wise provision of nature that
men without brains never feel the need
of them.
—Dan Rice says he can fail in business
every four weeks for a year more and
still be happy.
—Say what yon will against narrow
skirts, it is easier for a lady and gentle
man to walk under one umbrella than it
need to be.
—Never waste a fly in huckleberry
season. One fly in a plate. of huckle
berries contains more nutriment than
three berries.
—Anna Dickinson says “ that nothing
is so possible as impossibilities.” We
knew that oatmeal and fish wonld aot on
her in that way.
—Come, come! this servant girl heir
ess business is getting tiresome. The
last case is in Philadelphia, Amount,
" 10,000. Stop it.
—“Six feet in his stockings!” ex
claimed Mrs. Partington. “ Why, Ike
only has two in his, and I can never
keep ’em darned at that?”
— New potatoes are selling at 40 cents
a bushel at various points in Pennsyl
vania. The supply of potatoes and corn
never was so good as now.
—The man who took along his over
coat as he journeyed to Saratoga is a
happy man. Streaks of cold call for
woolen clothes every day or two.
r To-day you will please understand
that on the outside of the Blaok Hills
is hung a placard similar to the one that
adorns a well-regulated billiard saloon.
“ No minors allowed in here.
—The following toast was given at
a Concord cattle show in 1846: Old
Bachelors. Like sour cider, they grow
more crabbed the longer they arc kept;
and when they see a little mother, they
turn to vinegar at cnoe.”
A Scotch granite monument at Cam
bridge City, Ind., was recently struck
by lightning, the carrent foUowing the
shaftTto the Kmestone base, taking ont
every particle of red color, and leaving
a white zig-zag strip abont an inch in
width. The monument was not injured.
The Famjly of Donaldson the Aero
naut.
The children of Donaldson, the aero
naut, are said to be in very destitute
circumstances in Rochester, New York.
A proposition for a collection for their
benefit has not met with sneoess, and
they are being supported by a few be
nevolent and charitably inclined indi
viduals of that city. Donaldson was a
widower, and engaged to be married at
an early date to Miss Taylor, an eques
trian of Barnnm’s Hippodrome, who
won professional renown in ‘*tbe ladies^
flat race,” the “Congress of Nations
in the “Saltan’s Harem,” and the
“ hurdle races.” Miss Taylor stated to
a reporter of the St. Louis prow that
before his last ascension, Mr. Donald
son was ti mi an ally depressed in spirits,
and gave into her charge aU his porta
ble effects, without telling her what
disposition to make of them in <»se he
was lost. She was undecided what to do
with them, but, as his children are a
charge upon benevolent people of
Rochester, her duty is certainly plain
enough, since they shonld be appropri
ated for their nse. _ ,
Miss Taylor was injured by a fall
from a horse in St. Louis, and when
able to travel she went to Peoria, Illi
nois, where she is at present, the guest
of a sister. When interviewed a few
davs since, she stated to a reporter that
she had not yet given up aU hope of
Donaldson’s safety, although it was
daily growing more faint. Should he
return, she said, their marriage will
speedily take place.—Toledo Blade.
If her name wasn’t Angelica, it ought
to have been. She was as sweet as
they make ’em, and she seemed about
ready to floxt away in the blue cloud of
her own flounoes. She swept up to the
glove eonnter, behind whioh smirked
that highly perfumed ornament, Au
gustus Prig, Esq., who keeps a book to
chronicle his lady conquests. He smi ed
and bowed till his coat-tail stock out
like a finger-post; then he ran his
fingers through his curled looks to
show his seal ring and display the
whiteness of his hands. PrigVi hand is
soft, though mot as muchly so as his
bead. She prattled sweetly:
“My number is six, but my hand
will bear ‘squeezing.’” .
“Aw! tt will? Give it to me a
minute, miss, and let me see how much,
so I can get an exact fit,” saffl Augus
tus with his blandest smile, whioh be
thought perfectly killing, and a sly
wink at the gent over the other side.
Her ruby lips parted once more and
tiie ranrie that issued from them was to
the foUowing time:
“ Oh, no, sir; I will not put you to
so much trouble. My husband mil be
here directly, and he’ll shew you-
Prig suddenly remembmwd that it
was his dinner hoar.