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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.