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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
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W. A*, in A
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.
Prof. Pierre Blot, the famous culinary
artist, died las-fc week at his residence in Jersey
city.
The cost of the government of New
Fork rity for the year ending August 1 was in
round numbers 150,000,000. The debt in the
same time was considerably increased.
The secretary of the emigration board
of New York estimates ihat for the present
year the emigration will be about. 135,000, so
that the comparison stands as follows: For
1873, 268,818; 1874, 135,000.
The commission of engineers to re
port on the improved plan of outlet at the
mouth of the Mississppi, have left for Europe
and will visit the Po, Danube and Rhine, in
order to personally inspect those rivers, and
obtain such information as may be applicable.
SOUTH.
The Memphis cotton exchange re
ports a depreciation of 34 per cent, in the
cotton crop prospect in this district since the
last report.
The lower river pilots have advanced
wages by action of the Pilots’ Association,
and the rates hereafter will be advanced on
boats less than 600 tons, customhouse meas
urement, to S3OO per trip or month; on boats
over 600 tons to $350 ; and on tow boats S4OO.
It is believed boat owners will agree
to the terms. It is said the pilot* at Cin
cinnati and Louisville have taken, or will take,
the same action.
The Price Current annual cotton
statement contains the following receipts at
New Orleans for the year ending August 31st:
1,224,240 ; gross, 1,350,890; exports to Great
Britain, 633,420; France, 249,980; to other
foreign ports, 263,914. Total to foreign ports,
1,147,314 ; coastwise, 201,079. Receipts at all
United Btates ports, 3,809,839; exports to
Great Briiain, 1,854,847 ; France, 363,690; to
other foreign ports, 610,811. Total exports,
2,829,348.
The Arkansas constitutional conven
tion have completed the exemption article.
Unmarried persons have exempted S2OO worth
of personal property, and heads of families
SSOO worth. Heads of families in the coun
try are allowed 160 acres of land free from
sale <*r execution, provided the same is not
worth over $2,500, or eighty acres without
valuation. In cities homesteads can com
prise a half acre, if not worth over $2,500, or
a quarter of an acre regardless of value.
WEST.
D. J. Richards, who fought a duel
with Dr Gray in St. James parish, La., on the
eighteenth, and who was reported as having
died in just two minutes after being wounded,
still lives and his physician thinks that he
(Richards) will recover.
Lieut. Gen. Sheridan has received an
order notifying parties now reported organiz
ing at various points on the border to visit
Black hills in search of gold, that they w ill not
be permitted to go unless under authority of
the secretary of the interior or of congress.
Some efforts are reported as being made in
Chicago to organize an expedition for the
Black hill country.’
In reply to the request of the gover
nor of Kansas for arms and ammunition to be
used in defending the southern border of the
state against reported threatened invasion
of the Osage Indians, the secretary of war
states, in view of the fact that the state was
furnished in Hay last with 500 carbines and
50,000 rounds of ammunition, on which ac
count the state is still indebted to the federal
government, he'does not feel authorized to
grant the request.
General Cuslar reports to L ; eut. GeD.
Sheridan the ret • m to Fort Lincoln of the
Black hill expedition, and says: Our route
from Bear Butte w T as by way of the Little
Missouri river until the head waters of Heart
river were reached, when we moved almost
due east to this point. We explored and lo
cated that portion of the Little Missouri hith
erto unknown. We have marched about one
thousand miles, and my command, with re
plenished supplies, is in good condition to
take the field to-morrow.
The News’ San Antonio special says
the Kiowas and Comanches attacked General
Davidson at 12 o’clock on the 23d, and en
deavored to obtain possession of the agency
building at the Wichita agency, forty miles
from Fort Sdl. The Indians were defeated
the first day, and renewed the attack on the
following morning, but were again repulsed.
The attacking Indians are those who have
been raiding, and are now trying to return to
the agency. Gen. McKenzie’s expedition left
Fort Concha on the 23d ultimo.
Brigham Young has made answer to
Ann Eliza's application for a divorce. He de
nies that he and Ann Eliza at any time in
termarried, or that she is or ever was his wife.
He says she is the lawful wife of James L.
Dee, to whom she was married in 1863, and
and also that she and he (Brigham) being
members of the church of Latter Day Saints,
believing it rightful for members to enter into
celestial marriages, were so married in 1868;
but that he then informed her that she could
not expect bis society or personal attention as
an ordinary wife. He objects to paying $20,-
000 to her attorney and SI,OOO per month to
her. He says that all his property does not
exceed in value the sum of $600,000, and that
his income does not exceed $6,000 per month ;
and that he lias a large family now consisting
of 63 persons, all of whom are dependent on
him for support.
A Fort Sill dispatch says: Intelli
gence having been received at the post that
Big Red Foot, one of the principal hostile Co
manche chiefs, now absent from the reserva
tion and on the war path, was at W chita
agency, where he has taken refuge with fifty of
his band. General Davidson left here with
four companies ot the tenth cavalry, number
ing about 250 men, to arrest the chief and his
Indians. Big Red Foot and his band were
found at the agency as had been reported, and !
after some parley Gen. Davidson ordered that
they should be deprived of their arms. While
the disarming was going on the Kiowas under
Lone Wolf and Woman's Heart turned on the
troops and fired on them. Immediately upon
the discharge of their guns the Kiowas ran,
the troops pursued and a lively running fight
began between the soldiers and Indians. In the
skirmish three soldiers were shot and many of
the Indians were killed—how many is not
known. During the fight the Comanche
lodges and camp were burned. It also ap
pears that further troubles are expected at the
agency, as more troops have gone forward
from here since the receipt of the news. The
Indians killed four citizens near the agency.
SPAIN.
It is thought that 10,000 men will be
added to the Spanish army by the conscrip
tion.
The Carlids made two determined
assaults on Pancerda, last week, but without
effect. Both attacks were repulsed, and the
besiegers, in their rage, set fire to and de
stroyed houses outside of the walls.
Carlist advices state that two hun
dred Republican volunteers who were march
ing to the relief of Pnigcerda were captured
by tbe Royalists. The perfects of depart
ments in the south of France have received
special instructions for the minister of the
interior to use every effort to prevent the sale
of arms to the Carliats.
T. W. Cardozo, colored, was arrested
in Jackson, Miss., last week, on an affidavit
made by 8. C. Carter, charging Cordoza with
fraudulently issuing jury and witness certifi
cates while circuit clerk of Warren county.
He was taken to Vicksburg, appeared before a
justice of the peace, waived examination, and
1 the required bond of $5,000
wa - -entWjail.
Over two hundred Carlists have been
killed and many wounded in the attack on
Puycerda.. The Republican garrieou have
nineteen barrels of dynamite with which they
will blow up the place if the Carlists succeed
in carrying it. A force of Carlists entered
Calacorra, twenty-four miles south-east of
Lagrono, on tb 25th ultimo, and sacked the
houses, levied a contribution of $1,700 from
the clergy, shot four volunteers, freed the
convicts and burned the railway station.
FOREIGN.
Dockery has been brought from
Pueto Principe to Fort Cabiness, where he
will remain unlil sent to Spain.
The German government has formally
notified the powers that it will not interfere
in the internal affairs of Spain.
Mourt Etna has been in a state of
eruption since August 29th, and streams of
lava are pouring from three craters.
H. M. Stanley has set out from Eng
land on his African mission. His body guard
numbered nearly eight hundred men.
Cubans of New York have informa
tion that shortly after the battle of Iquara a
Spanish captain of regulars left the city,
taking with him two companies of volunteers,
mostly natives, and passed over to the Cuban
army. When the Cuban troops were ap
proaching the city the regular Spanish force
was ordered out to oppose their advance. An
ambuscade was laid by the Cubans into which
the whole Spanish column, which is stated to
have numbered two thousand, fell, and were
either cut to pieces or found safety in flight.
The Caban army captured a quantity of arms
in Santo and Piertu, and increased its own
numbers by enlisting five hundred well armed
men.
Additional correspondence between
the British government and its representative
at Madrid concerning the Virginias outrage is
published. Mr. McDonnel, the British charge
d’affairs, writes to Lord Derby, July 9, that the
Spanish government appeals to England to
defer pressing a settlement of her cla’ms on
account of the negotiations pending with the
United States. Spain will be hampered in
dealing with the latter power if the Amerioan
government is able to cite as a precedent the
payment of indemnity to England. Lord
Derby replies, July 17, demanding that a set
tlement be made by a fixed and not too distant
date. Mr. McDonnel telegraphs to I.ord
Derby, August 7, that Senor Ullva, the Span
ish minister of foreign affairs, agrees that
indemnity sha'l be settled immediately under
certain reservations.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. O. H. Kelly, secretary of the
natii .nal grange organization, reports a steady
increase of the membership of the order and
of the number of the lodges. The increase
of the latter for August is about four hun
dred.
The sixty days’ notice of the Freed
men’s savings bank expired last week,but affairs
remain unchanged, and business is stiil sus
pended. The commissioners to wind up its
affairs are bnsily engaged collecting assets
and loans of the bank. They declare that
when twenty per cent, is collected a dividend
shall be paid to the depositors.
BASE BALL IN ENGLAND.
A London Klorninff Post Crtticisas ot
Unr National Hint.
The admirable part of the play had
all through been the fielding. Nothing
hit np in the air escaped. The accu
racy of the catching would have re
joiced the heart of old Clark, and made
many a slow bowler envious of the
pairs of hands. But the accuracy and
skill of the catching was surpassed by
the wonder of precision of throwing.
A moment to lo k, a moment to get the
proper equilibrium, and then the ball is
hurled, “ sharp and low,” quite straight
to the baseman’s hands. No fumbling,
no half-volleys, no wide throws. So
accurate was it that the exclamation of
many a cricketre present was; With such
throwing who would not be a wicket
keeper? The Philadelphians were un
able to make up their lost ground—the
seventh inning of Boston and the ninth
and last were both skunks, but in their
last three hands the Bine Stockings had
only made two, and at the end of the
play they were only seven, whereas their
oonqnerers were thirty-four. Had the
game been nearer it had been better,
but it snfficed to show the nature of the
play and many of the qualifications of a
good player. The lessons which it taught
were, as we suspected, first, the immense
advantagejof cultivating fielding. Could
English cricketers throw and field as
the Americans did we should see much
less of mammoth scores, and matches
would be far more interesting. Secondly,
the advantage of losing no time. If the
outside took the field with half the alac
rity shown by the Americans duriDg
base ball, or when the time came for
them to resume cricket when the base
bell was done, far fewer matches would
be left drawn, and far more men would
be able to play. Lastly, the necessity
of playing for the side. A man’s hits
tell in his favor when the record is kept,
but they help his colleagues as much as
himself. In the fielding, too, he con
stantly keeps in mind the necessity of
enabling others to distinguish them
selves, and he know s that his unaided
efforts are useless unless he is well
backed up. A man, for instance, who
has caught a catch when a player is on
base, hurls the ball at once to the base
man in the hopes of getting two birds,
as it were, with one stone. All the
players play for the side, and not . for
themselves. Individual prowess is
merged in united success, and every
one cares more for his fellow than for
himself. There can be no fear that
cricket will be onsted by base ball. It
has more variety and many more phases.
It is both harder work and greater idle
ness. But many men could find time for
base ball who have no time for cricket,
and in bringing under the notice of Eng
lishmen a game which has so many good
points, and the great advantage of be
ing playable in three hours, they have
conferred on ns a benefit for which our
thanks are due.
Chicory in Ground Coffee.
A preliminary examination of coffee
for admixture is best made by gently
strewing the powder upon the surface
of cold water. The oil contained in
coffee prevents the particles from
being readily wetted by the water,
thus causing them to float. Chicory,
burnt sugar, etc., contain no oil, and
their caramel is very quickly <xtracted
by the water, with production of a
brown color, while the particles them
selves rapidly sink to the bottom of the
water. On stirring the liquid, coffee
becomes tolerably uniformly diffused
without sensibly coloring the water,
while chicory and other sweet roots
quickly give a dark brown turbid in
fusion. Roasted cereals do not give so
distinct a color.
Among the “art notes” of one of our
exchanges the following mention of a
Cincinnati artist is made : “He pos
sesses some merit as an artist, but it is
hard to eay whether it lies in landscape
or marine painting ; you never can tell
his cows from his ships, exoept when
they have their tails exalted, when the
absence of spars betrays their charac
ter. Even then they may be mistaken
for schooners scudding under bare
poles.
Not long since, at the meeting of f a
club in New York, a jelly was exhibit .
on the table, and alongside of it an ol
well-worn leather boot. The spectacle
of the boot was a mystery until it was
explained by one of the members that
from the fellow of the boot the jehy
had been made by some chemical pro
cess. Jelly for the table made out of
old boots !
THK V ISIT.
“The sweetest woman ever fate
Perverse denied s household mate.”—Whittier.
Tig twilight of the day,
And twilight of the yfSr ;
The leaves are turning sear.
The growing gray.
Tt is a little room,
So neatly dressed and still;
Which fostered rose® fill
With subtlest of perfume.)
A zephyr lurking by,
Betrays the curtained bed—
Did ever mortal head
On either pillow lie 1
That pantomimic fire—
Hew clear its cozy glow:
It gestures ever so,
3w-, Behind the woven wire. ’
But hush ! The lady comes.
As softly as the hours ;
’TIs sweeter than her fiow’rs—
The melody she hums.
She deftly locks the blind.
And draws the night-shade low ;
While with her gown of buow
The kitten toys behind.
Her hands are faultless fair,
Her movements all of grace;
And hers a queenly air
For such a lowly place.
She sits and bows her head—
What do the shadows say ?
Her volume of the day
Li es open and unread.
The beauty of her face,
Where lives a dreamy light.
No suffering shall blight,
Nor weary years erase.
She sighs—now lifts above
The worship of a tear:
Aid angels waiting near,
Record a wounded love.
— Scribner’s~
MOULD SHE OR NOT!
BY MARY KYLE DALLAS.
“Again!” said Rose Winner. “Well,
this is what all women must put up
with, I suppose; but I never thought
that I should be neglected.”
She listened.
“Locked in bis room again,” she
said, “ and after a long day’s absence ;
and 1 am to ‘ go to bed and go to sleep. ’
What a goose I am not to do that con
tentedly, and forget him who can forget
me so easily. How long is it since he
has spent an evening with me ? Two
months at least. Oh !” she clenched
her little hand, “ how little I
thought when I : rranged that stud),
and put the prettiest things in it, and
was so proud of it and so pleased with
it, that he would make it an excuse to
shut me from him. It did not use to
be so. When I was Rose Luttrell, and
he made pa so angry by staying in the
parlor until midnight; when he actu
ally followed me about, and said that
every moment wa3 wasted that was not
passed in my company—ah, well, I was
too romantic. I loved him too much.
I should have remembered what Miss
Landon wrote:
‘ If you would not suffer.
Be the one to give the pain.’
But you see, I thought him so good, so
fond, so constant.” She lsitened again.
“ Mute as a mouse,” she said.
“Studying French, indeed ! as if I did
not know that he was a perfect French
scholar long before I knew him, and
that he never would have held the po
sition he does in that great importing
house if it were not for his French. No ;
he is tired of me, and shuns my so
ciety.”
And Rose dropped her head head up
on her hands and sobbed bitterly. It
was unwise of her, for Lhe sudden move
ment awoke the six-months old baby in
the bassinette at her side, and it began
to wail piteously. It was necessary to
dry her own tears in order to dry his,
and crying is a great luxury to a wo
man before she has spoiled her eyes in
indulging in it. But though she stop
ped weeping, she went on talking in a
low tone, addressing the baby as though
it oould understand her.
“ Blessed little soul,” she said, “we
know what it all means, don’t we? Be
foie you came I was a light-footed girl,
but since then I’ve been very different.
I cannot danoe. I cannot run. I can
not even walk far; perhaps I never
shall. If he had snflered in any way
for my sake, how I should have loved
him for it; but he ceases to love me for
the very reason that should make him
more tender. Oh, why do women ever
marry ? 'Why did I not say no instead
of yes, and then he wouid have loved
me forever.”
She lifted her head and looked into
the glass.
“ I’m not ugly yet, nor old either,”
she said, with a sndden flash of her
black eyes. “Ifhe no longer admires
me, other people may. Wives who
flirt are always more thought of by
their husbands than constant wives are.
I’ll—”
“If you please’m,” said a voice at
the door, “ a gentleman.”
Rose started, and held out her hand
for the card the girl presented.
“Chauncey Waldo,” was written up
on it.
“ You may stay here with baby, Mag
gie,” said she. “I will see Mr. Waldo.
Mr. Winner is engaged.”
She peeped into the glass again, and
settled her crimped hair with her pink
palms. Her dress needed no arranging
—she was always well dressed in the
evening—and chen she went down into
the parlor, where Chauncey Waldo,
who considered himself the most fas
cinating man in the United States, sat
waiting for her.
There was no harm in going down.
It was only right to go ; but Satan,
they say, is always on the lookout for
one’s weak moments; and it seems
likely that lie sent Mr. Waldo in the
nick of time. Rose’s vanity had been
stung, and she was anxious to prove to
herself that she had not lost her power
of fascination. She proved it conclu
sively that evening.
Nothing was said, nothing was done
that Mrs. Grundy could object to; but
there are smiles that make the heart of
a lady-killer flutter, and smiles that put
him at a distance by their very gracious
ness. Formerly Mrs. Winner had given
Mr. Waldo these latter smiles. To
night she gave him the former. So that
he dared to hold her hand a little lon
ger than he had ever done before in
parting, and to say *oftly :
“ May I call again very soon ? I hate
to think of your being lonely.”
For she had told him—yes, she had
indeed—that “ Mr. Winner was forever
shut up in Ms study, and that she fan
cied she should die of ennui some
day.” Which was true enough, but an
unwise statement for a pretty young
wife to make to a Waldo.
Then, flushed, and with a certain
sense of guilt upon her, she glided past
the study door, and was really sound
asleep, when a weary looking man
opened it, and, went, without his slip
pers, up the stairs, and bending over
her, said to himself, “ Little darliDg,
may heaven bless yon,” and would not
kiss her lest he shonld disturb her
slumber.
If he only had kissed her, it would
have been much better, after all. For,
as it was, she said nothing of Waldo’s
call next morning.
Demonstrative people have credit for
all their emotions; undemonstrative
people may feel a3 much, and no r ne
guesses it.
Mr. Winner seldom said much about
his affection for his wife, and now that
he had taken the odd way of shutting
himself up every evening, she doubted
ts existence, and grew cold in her own
manner.
There was never any quarrel. She
never reproached him—pride forbade
that—but there seemed to be froat in
her smile and ice in her words. She
meant that there shonld be. When he
said, so very soon after dinner, “ And
now for my French Rosy,” she' would
say nothing, but, somehow, find an ex
cuse for evading the kiae with whioh at
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1874.
first he always left her. “What are
formal kisses worth,” she said to her
self, “if he dislikes my society?” And
it very soon came to pass that, after
this, she would put roses in her black
hair and in her bosom, and watch, with
flushed cheeks, at the window for Mr.
Waldo’s coming.
She waa not in love with him—she
was in love with her husband ; but her
husband had awakened her jealous
wrath, and this young man tickled her
vanity.
He came to her so often, leaving for
her sake darling girls who courted him.
He made her delicate compliments, he
looked at her so. In a word, he seemed
to be iu love with her, and it was a
trinmph.
Ah, if women quite understood the
vanities of men, and knew also that
when they have succeeded, or think
they have, in touching a wife’s heart,
they feel far more contempt than love
for so weak a creature, who forgets
honor so far that it no longer becomes
dishonorable for them to kiss and tell.
The coldest salutation that honest hns
band ever gave his wife is really worth
more than the finest flattery another
man can whisper to her.
And Winner did not guess at what
was going on. She wanted him to
know, that she might rack his heart
with jealous pangs ; bnt she dared not
let him know.
Maggie, the maid, had quite a myste
rious air now when sh 9 brought Waldo’s
card, and once she had whispered ;
“ But I heard the master stir, ma’am,
as if he was coming down.”
And Rose had flushed and asked her
why she said that, but Maggie made no
answer.
“I haven’t lived with fashionable
ladies so long not to know when a hint
will get me a present,” she said to her
self as her mistress left the room. And
there were thoughts in her heart that
would have ma ie Rose Winner faint
with shame had she guessed them ; tor
all her hope was that her husband
might know others then coveted the
prize he did not value.
Still, night after night, that door was
locked. Still, in the small hours of the
morning, the husband crept to his brief
rest. The days were passed at business,
and though the man strove to be genial
when the pair were together, the woman
refused to meet him half-way. A wo
man who considers herself insulted has
no power over herself. It was not pos
sible to Rose to chat and laugh. She
was too much of a lady to quarrel, she
simply froze.
It was a bright day in spring. The
fruit trees were all blossoming. It was
beautiful out of doors; but in her
suburban home, Rose Winner sat sadly
at the window admiring nothing. Every
now and then vehicles passed down the
road. So many of them holding two
people—man and woman—husband and
wife she made of them. But her hus
band never took her to drive, much as
he knew she loved the exercise, and
greatly as he knew she missed the long
walks her girlhood had rejoiced in.
That she would have forgiven, for car
riage hire is expensive, and they were
not rich ; but to be abandoned as she
had been—it was terrible. And now
she had not even seen him for two days.
He had told her that he should stay in
town, and he had. Yes, this was deser
tion indeed, and now she knew all. Her
woman instinct had come to her aid.
He had fallen in love with someone
else. Oh, could she but follow him—
watch him—convict him of this, and
then die !
Just then a gay little turn-out whirled
the road r and stopped at the gate.
Out of it tripped Mr. Waldo. He bow
ed with an air. There were times when
Mr. Waldo, who had been abroad, be
came intensely French. He bad a
lingering idea that the ’ manner suited
the present occasion, and he touohed
the brim of his hat to his breast, and
said :
“ Madame is amusing herself watch
ing the drive. ”
"Madame” shrugged her shoulders.
“ Amusing myself ?” she said. “Oh,
dear, no. Stupefying myself, I think.
Mr. Waldo, if you know any girls who
think of marrying, tell them how dull
married life is, and warn them from it.”
“ Oh, I—l never see any girls now,”
said Mr. Waldo. “Girls are insipid,
don’t you think ? I do, lately, I like
—but no matter what I like. Wouldn’t
yon like a drive to-day ? The good
papa” Mr. Waldo became French
again—“the good papa is immersed in
business, and natuxally madame does
not remain at home always. ”
Rose looked longingly at the pretty
carriage. But this was a step beyond
those that she had taken. Dared she
go?
Yes, she would, and then tell her
husband. She would show him that
she did not mope for him. She would
prove—oh, all sorts of things.
“And papa will probably not be
home until six?” said Mr. Waldo, a
little anxious on this point.
“ Oh, he has been away two nights—
probably he won’t come at all,” she
said, coldly, and went up to put her
bonnet on.
When she returned, Waldo, with
flashed cheeks and dancing eyes, ad
vanced toward her.
“ How well you look,” he said. “It
is too tempting—would you be very
angry, I wonder, if I should steal a
kiss ? ”
Would she have let him done it ?
Would she, if at that moment a step
had not crossed the hall, and a voice—
her hnsband’s —called :
“ Rose, where are you ? ”
Rose Winner never knew, though she
often asked herself.
But the step came, the voice came.
There was the master of the house, and
Mr. Waldo —not Frenoh in his manner
now, very business like and American,
indeed—had said :
“My dear Winner, how are you?
I’ve been keeping Mrs. Winner from
her pleasant walk, I’m afraid ; but my
sister wanted her receipt for canning
fruit, and I called for it. I’m sure
Amelia will be very much obliged, Mrs.
Winner. Thanks ; but I must go now.
The horses, yon know. And I hope
you’ll have a pleasant walk. Good
bye.”
“What a fluttered manner Waldo
has,” said the man of the house, look
ing after him. “Rose, look out of the
window.”
“ At Mr. Waldo ?” asked Rose, ooldly.
“ No,” said her husband. “ Come
here.”
She came. She stood beside him. At
the gate she saw a basket-phaeton and
a pretty pony.
“ Nice, ain’t they ?” said her husband.
“Yes,” she answered, more ooldly
still.
“ Don’t you guess whose they are?”
“No.”
“ Yours.”
He stood back to mark her astonish
ment. Then he drew her down upon
his knee.
“ Even sinoe baby’s coming made you
less strong than you were, I’ve meant
you should have them,” he said ; “ and
so I’ve managed to get them. I’ve been
working four months at the translation
of a scientific work and they are the re
sult. I know I left you alone a great
deal, but I wanted you to be able to
drive out in this sweet spring weather.
Yon can drive, yon know, and these are
very Bafe, and in the evenings we will
go together, eh, wife F”
She was crying on his breast. But
why, he coaid not guess, and asked :
“ Yon are so good,” she said, “ and I
am so bad, I thought you were tired of
me. I was angry.”
Astonished, he looked into her faoe.
“ I can’t see how yon could have got
such a notion,” he aaid, “I’m sure I
was nice to you, wasn’t I ? What on
earth—”
Then the good, stupid fellow kissed
her again.
“It was want of exercise and yon
were not well,” he said. “ You took
foolish notions—women always do.”
“Yes, I know it was foolish now,”
she said, “very foolish.”
But in her heart she made worse ac
cusations against herself than that.
Mr. Waldo called once more after
this, but Mrs. W T inner was so distantly
polite that he called no more. He be
lieved he ha<l made a mistake in asking
her to kiss him—at least she had be
come one of those prndish women who
would not flirt, and he lost interest in
her.
The Bruxswick Onyx Vas; 1 .
A London paper contains a long let
ter on the subject of the Brunswick
onyx vase. From the information con
tained in the letter we make the follow
ing interesting extracts referring to its
later history : “ Like many other fugi
tives of note, the Mantuan onyx re
mained in London till 1814, when it re
tured to Brunswick with the long ex
iled princes of the duchy. For a time
it seemed as if nothing more could now
threaten the peaceful rest of the wan
derer; but in 1830, when the reigning
Duke Charles heard his people clamor
ing for his downfall, and saw his palace
in flames, he bethought him of his
Mantuan treasure before he sought
safety in flight; and having sent a con
fidential friend to remove it from the
dnoal museum, he carried it away with
him. Thenceforth nothing was known
of it. No one ever saw it during the
lifetime of the eooentric Diamond
Duke; and, when the city of Geneva,
in conformity with his testamentary
wishes, claimed as his universal residu
ary legatee all his works of art, a fruit
less search was made for the long
vanished onyx vase. At length, after
oft-repeated examination of the ducal
treasures, it was noticed that a shred of
flannel protruded from the base of a
metallic vase which appeared to be of
very little value. On a closer inspec
tion this vase was found to be sp! it
lengthways, and to be excessively heavy
when compared with another vase of
identical form and external appearance
with which it seemed to form a pair.
On separating the split surfaces the
onyx came to view perfectly intact and
uninjured, and thus the mystery of its
supposed disappearance was at once
explained. Geneva art-lovers were
overjoyed at the discovery, but their
hopes of calling a peerless beauty their
own were shattered by the claim set up
by the reigning Duke of Brunswick for
the Mantuan onyx as an inalienable
heirloom of his family ; and now, after
a second separation of thirty-four years,
the gem is restored to the ducal muse
um of Brunswick. Since its unexpected
resuscitation, various drawings and
photographs have appeared of it in
Germany, and, among these, the best is
a water-color sketoh by Professor A.
Gnauth, which gives a very correct rep
resentation of the figures with which it
is decorated.”
Shall and Will.
Richard Grant White, writing in the
Galaxy, says : “As to shall and will
something may doubtless be done by
study and by taking tuouglit to check
bad habits and correct the result of un
fort anate associations. The mistake
most oommonly made in the use of these
words, and the one therefore most care
fully to be avoided, is the use of will
for shall and of the corresponding would
for should. Shall is much less often
used for will. And yet in the word
shilly shally, which is upon everybody’s
lip, is petrified the rule and the exam
ple in regard to shall and will. Shilly
shally is merely a colloquial corruption
of ‘Shall I? Shall I?’ and thus ex
presses the condition of a man who is
vasoillating between two courses of con
duct. It has been made into a parti
ciple, perhaps even into a verb. A man
who ‘stands shillyshallying about a
woman,’ as the ladies say, is a man
who, as they also sometimes say, doesn’t
know his own mind about her—mental
condition for which the sex has not the
highest respect. Now no one would
say that a man stood asking himself,
* Will I? Will I?’ and yet such is es
sentially the mistake most frequently
made in regard to the use of these
words in conversation. We hear peo
ple say, ‘ What will I do?’ and even
‘ Will I do’ thus or so? the offenders in
these cases being generally of what
some people humorously call the Hiber
nian persuasion—an’ewpression, by the
way, for which there is no ‘ authority ’
of Very respectable standing and an
tiquity. Among people of Anglo-Saxon
race and of average education the mis
take, when made, most commonly takes
the indicative form, thus : ‘ I will go to
bed [elegantly, retire] at ten o’clock to
night,’ ‘We will breakfast at eight
to-morrow ;’ instead of ‘ I shall go to
bed,’ Ac., ‘We shall breakfast,’ Ac.”
No Beauties at Saratoga.
Olivia, writing from Saratoga to the
Philadelphia Press, says : “ There are
twenty thousand strangers in Saratoga,
and no handsome women : but it must
not be inferred the writer speaks en
tirely from personal observation. A
beauty is known and talked about here
just the same as the winning horse at
the race. Her antecedents are almost
as oarefully noted, especially the solid
part of her expectations, for here, moie
than elsewhere, wealth makes the man
and want of it the fellow. Sorrowful
but true, we have no more gorgeous,
purple-haired brunettes from the south,
for the element which produced the
rara-avie is extinct. The race of blue
eyed, swan-throated EvangeliDcs of
New England must |have died when
Longfellow finished his immortal book.
The Knickerbockers in the long ago,
stronger and more powerful of mus. les,
are still represented by their descen
dants here; but alas ! alas ! the noble
Roman nose of the ancient dame has
become a beak in her great-great
grandchild, The sharp, keen wind of
New York harbor *has* flattened her
chest, and another frightful law of na
ture has drawn the rounded curves of
perfect womanhood into acute angles.
Ugh ! ngh ! Does all this come to pass
to prove Macaulay’s awful picture true
of the future barbarian fisherman stand
ing in gloomy solitnde on the bank of
the
Germany’s Population.
The recent German census shows that
the non-German inhabitants of the
Empire number 3,640,000, or eight per
oent. They oonsist of 220,000 French
speaking people in Alsace-Lorraine, and
10,000 French and Walloons in the
Rhine provinces, 2,460,000 Poles, 150,-
000 Lithuanians, 150,000 Danes in
North Schleswig, 88,000 Wends in
Brandenbng and Silesia, and 52,000 in
Saxony, 50,000 Moravians and Czechs
in Silesia, and 80,000 foreigners. The
Protestant clergy number 16,000, while
the Roman Catholics have 20,000
priests, 800 monasteries and convents,
twen y bishoprics, five archbishops,
and three vicars apostolic. Of the
wenty-one universities, Berlin heads
he list with 3,573 students, Leipsic
tanding n ext with 2,032, Rostock with
S5, being the smallest.
Juntos Henri Browne calls the dead
“the silent majority.” That is a very
fine thought, and now let Junius stop
parting his name in the middle.
Over #6,000,000 worth of property
kaa been bnried in the American lakes
since the introduction of steam.
ON THE WAY TO ICELAND.
A hat Dr. Hayes Saw In the Shetland
Islands.
Our expedition has so far got on fine
ly. Oar stay at the Shetlands was very
short and afforded very little opportu
nity for observation, yet I found op
portunity to cross over from Ler stick,
the capital, to Scalloway, where stood
the ruins of the castle of that Earl
Patrick Stewart, the legends of whose
cruelty are so common in the Shetlands
and the Orkneys. The little boy who
was my guide about the ruin pointed to
the lofty old wall, which is seven feet
thick, exclaiming, “See there! that’s
the ring the wicked earl hung the Shet
landers til.” And sure enough there
waa the ring, and many a poor creature
was doubtless strung np to it for no
other erime than that of not producing
sufficiently to the revenues of the
crafty Sir Patrick, who could pardon
any other crime rather than that.
The Shetlands interested me very
much. Here we catch the first glitopse
of Norseland, and the islands are teem
ing with Norse traditions. This was
considered the very central point of
operations for many centuries, and even
now the houses are Norse, the people
aro Norse, and the language has a touch
of the Norse which you da not find in
the Orkneys nor in Scotland. In fact,
the people are altogether different from
the Scotch. Th flaxen hair of the
Northmen is everywhere seen, and the
women are more comely than further
south. They have at least not the enor
mous feet and hands of their Scotch
sisters. The islands are without trees,
and although there is a good deal of
land under cultivation the most of it
is a wild waste, on which any one at
will may rear his herds of sheep, and
the shepherd and his sheep and his
dogs were everywhere to be met as we
crossed over to Scalloway. Many of the
flocks of sheep were of immense size,
and every such flock was literally fenced
in by men and dogs, and roamed up
and down among the hills and dells at
will.
There being no trees upon the islands
there is nothing for the people to burn
but turf, of which there seems to be an
inexhaustible supply. The turf beds
are illimitable, not beiDg, as in Ireland,
confined to the low lands, but extend
ing oftentimes to the summit of the hills.
The first turf beds are to be seen about
a mile from Lerwick, and thence on the
way for nearly four miles toward Scal
loway hillside and valley were covered
with great stacks of peat, put up to dry,
while the road was everywhere lined
with women carrying this peat into town.
And this, to me, was a most curious
spectacle. You observe two industries
of the island at once—the women per
forming both, and both at once. The
Shetlands are famous, as everybody
knows, for the fineness of the wool of
the sheep, and Shetland shawls are
known the world over. Here they are
very cheap, and are knit with marvelous
skill. But what struck me most, and
was not without its comical features,
was the sight of caravans of women,
each with a basket of turf holding about
a bushel strapped to her back, trudg
ing along the road into town in her bare
feet, and every one knitting as she went.
Of hundreds that I saw of these turf
carriers there was but a single man,
and he was very old. In all probability
the men were fishing or idling, these
being the principal occupations of the
men of Shetland every-where. I saw
only three turf carts on the whole jour
ney, and were it not for the sturdy
women I do not see how the five thou
sand people of Lerwick would ever
keep themselves warm. A few of the
wealthier classes burn coal, but the
common fuel is turf, and, practically,
all of it is brought into town on the
backs of women. In fact, in these
northern countries, the women do their
full share of out-door work along with
the men, sometimes, but more com
monly, with the boys. In the Orkneys,
where the land is productive, gangs of
them go about from farm to farm and
from field lo field, usually under the
charge of a man, to sow and hoe and
mow, at sixteen pence a day, and al
though I can but think such occupation
most demoralizing, yet the groups of
women, with their variously colored
dresses, make even a potato-patch look
picturesque. What a beautiful exem
plification all this is of the practical
application of women’s rights ! Every
field is open to her here, and while at
home an advocate of woman’s rights
would hardly venture to desire for any
one of the sex the position of a field
hand, here it is not only an unquestioned
right but a duty to dig and carry bur
dens for sixteen pence a day,
I cannot here enter into any history
of the Shetlands further than to observe
that they were probably occupied by
the Piets for several centuries beforo
the Christian era. Ruins of their huts
are still to be seen. The name is a cor
ruption of Hialtiland. Agricola is said
to have discovered the Orkneys, end he,
on the same authority, saw the Shet
lands, and doubtless, the “Thule” of
Tacitus is the Shetlands of the present
day. Its subsequent occupation by Ihe
Northmen was mainly begun in the time
of Harold Haarfager, kmg of Norway,
who, by the tyranny of his rule, drove
so many of his people to seek homes
elsewhere, and the Shetlands became
their principal rendezvous. From he r e
it was they descended to the coasts of
Scotland, England, Ireland and France,
penetratingeven into the Mediterranean,
and, not content with there pillaging
and plundering, they sought in the west
new fields of enterprise. They reached,
finally, the Faroe islands, and then Ice
land, Greenland and America. I am
now upon their track, and in a few days
shall see in Iceland the only spot where
they cultivated the arts of peace, and
where their language for the first time
took form and shape in a literature rich
in the loftiest poetic images and philo
sophical reflections. In passing on my
course I have only stepped, as it were,
from place to place. Of this last stone
on my way I can say but little. It is a
cluster of islands interesting for the
most part only bocause it remains still,
as does Iceland and Greenland, in the
possession of the Northmen.
Fashionable Resorts for “ Children.”
To withdraw a child from a city sea
son, and to let her loose in Saratoga for
recuperation and refreshment of body
and soul, is like transplanting flowers
from a'scorching green-house to a sun
burnt desert. These is nothing in Sar
atoga fit for a young spirit to dwell up
on. Ho you yourself recall the man
ners of the young woman that you have
seen there in the walks, and in the gar
dens, the drives, and parlors? Did
they not bear themselves either with
shyness (which was clear assumption)
or an effrontery which chilled you to the
bones ? Did they not stare at you with
upraised chins m a manner shrewdly
patterned upon childhood simplicity
and frankness until you lost year self
possession? Did they not gaze into
your eyes and laugh so immoderately,
and open their mouths so wide, that
you were forced to say “ Hoyden” be
hind your lips? When they succes
sively took your arm and walked away
for the floor, or for an ice after au
hour’s acquaintance, did you not ex
claim to }y ourself in consequence of
their manners, “ Can it be possible that
she thinks me rich ? Does she love
me ?” Did you not mark the anachron
ism of the elaborate coiflure, the queen
like dress, and the downcast lids, so
timid, so reluctant, so apprehensive,
lest a’ gaze should penetrate to the
eyas they hide? Also that that lay
between a Quaker-like modesty of st
and a look so full of worldliness
and calculation, that there recurred to
yon on the instant the wolf in the cloth
ing of the sheep ? And, after having
caught these hints, did you not search
the length and breadth of the town in
the hope that this perve sion of youth
fulness was not a characteristic of the
place—and were yon not overwhelm
ingly disappointed?—Cor. Appleton’s
Journal.
New Apparatus for Steering Balloons.
The London Times says: “ The in
ventor of the balloon steering apparatus
which is awaiting trial by the war de
oartment at Woolwich is Mr. C. A.
Bowdler, whose plan has been under
the consideration of the war office for
two years past. It has been subjected
to some preliminary trials by means of
models on more than one occasion.
These tria’s being made within doors
ami in a still atmosphere, are said to
have demonstrated .ho practicability of
navigating balloons in a still atmos
phere. The object of the forthcoming
experiments is to ascertain whether the
same end can be attained in the open
air under slightly adverse circum
stances, for to sail the balloon in oppo
sition to a strong wind is at present nn
thongtit of. It will be regarded as a
great and important result it the bal
loou can be steered even a single point
from the direction of the wind, thongh
there bo ever so slight a breeze. The
inventor, with Mr. Ooxwell and Mr.
Orton, another well known aeronaut,
who is taking an interest and some part
in the experiments, was again at the
Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, yesterday,
making arrangements for the ascent
with Lieut. Edwards, R. E., who is in
charge of the works department, but
the wind was again unfavorable, blow
ing with considerable velocity and
directly seaward. The steering appa
ratus brought down in a cab, consists of
a screw propeller like that of a ship, of
metal made as light as possible, and is
to be fixed to the car horizontally, and
made to turn at the rate of about four
teen revolutions per second by means of
tome simple machinery worked by a
single hand winch in the car. A simi
lar screw, fixed vertically, and worked
by the same gear, is designed for rais
ing and depressing the balloon without
any expenditure of gas or ballast, and
a disk shaped rudder of canvas to steady
the balloon completes the apparatus.
Mr. Ooxwell much prefers the small
screw propellers, which are but three
feet in diameter, to those proposed by
a French aeronaut, which are to be six
teen feet high, and are therefore re
garded as unmanageable and dangerous
to the balloon, especially in the descent.
The screw will probably be made some
what larger if the trial is in the least
degree successful, but it is considered
preferable to increase their power, if
necessary, but multiplying the speed of
revolution by the use of some other
motive power than manual force, either
electricity or atmospheric pressure or
even the stem engine—an agent wMcha
ha3 hitherto been discarded on account
of its necessary weight and the risk at
tending it. Mr. Ooxwell has recently
instructed two detachments of the Ger
man army in military ballooning, but
steering balloons formed no part of the
drill, the principal purpose of which
was to teach the troops the use of cap
tive balloons for reconnoitering. He
was engaged by the English government
ten years ago for a similar object,
columns of troops being marched ont
in various directions for the purpose of
observation.”
The American Literary Field.
The American correspondent of an
English review recently pointed out,
in a letter treating of literary matters
here, a tendency that it is worth our
while to notice and examine w ith some
care. We are by no means indebted to
this writer for first calling our attention
to a state of affairs that has long been
perfectly obvious to every one who has
studied, however superficially, the con
dition of the American literary field ;
bnt a paragraph of his letter presents
the case with commendable clearness
and truth, and will serve us as a text
better than any longer dissertation.
“American journalism,” he says, ‘ffs the
magnet that attracts all young pens,
and there is hardly a rising man or
woman who does not contribute to the
daily press. Formerly this was not so.
The passing generation of writers had
little sympathy with newspapers. ‘Let
not your life be taken by newspapers,’
was one of Thoreau’s maxims. It is im
possible to think of Emerson or Long
fellow, or Whittier, cr even the versatile
Lowell, dashing off a leader, or writ
ing editorial paragraphs. To day’s bat
tles are fought with newspapers, not
books; and so young writers enlist
where they are sura of seeing most ser
vice. Journalism is becoming a pro
fession, and as, in this country, it prom
ises the finest results iu political and
social influence, the next decade will
see a great change for the better in our
press. In enterprise it to-day leads the
world. In culture and dignity English
journalism can give us lessons.”
That there are strong forces at work,
besides mere inclination, to draw the
beet writers to journalism, is a fact
which donbtless accounts for a consid
erable part of this state of affairs. In
the immediate compensation, and in the
security that attends constant employ
ment and regularity of payment for it,
journalism undoubtedly outbids liter
ary work of the other class. There are
many men who can with perfect justice
argne that they cannot afford to write
even a successful book; II faut vivre,
and they cannot wait for slow returns of
sales and the hard-earned fame that
comes at last.
The last few years have seen in Amer
ica very few great books in any depart
ment of literature, scholarship or Ad
tion. Yet there are men whom we oould
point out—whom people constantly do
point out—at work in the absorbing and
intense labor of the daily press, who
could make no trifling part of the liter
ature of a generation. The press cannot
afford, it would seem, to lose their ser
vice ; but can general literature afford
to lose it, either ?
Is there no way to solve the problem?
Cannot press and literature advance
with equal step ? Or must we give up
the pursuit of one noble end in striving
for the other? The question is worth
the thought of both writers and read
ers.—Appleton’s Journal.
Bad Effects of Forest Clearing.
No country in the world perhaps pre
sents more striking proofs of the evil of
excessive forest-clearing than the kha
nate of Bokhara. Thirty years ago the
khanate was well wooded .nd watered,
and regarded by Central Asians as a sort
of terrestrial paradise. About twenty
five years ago the mania ot forest clear
ing was begun, and continued UDtil the
heavy timber had entirely disappeared.
What the improvidence and ignorance
of the rulers Bpared, was utterly con
sumed by the fury of civil war. Im
mense tracts of laud once well peopled
and cultivated, deprived of fertilizing
moisture, are now barren, treeless
wastes. The water-courses being dried
np, the system of canals, which spread
like a net-work over the khanate, has
been rendered useless. Tbe moving
sands of the desert, no longer restrained
by the forest-barriers, are slowly ad
vancing, filling np canals and dried wa
ter-courses, and will oontinne their
noiseless and ceaseless inva ion until
tbe whole khanate will be converted into
a dreary waste as barren as the wilder
ness separating it frem Khiva. It is im
probable that tbe kban possesses either
the energy or the means necessary for
averting the desolation with his
territories are threatened.
SILK INDUSTRY IN AMERICA.
The Rise and Present Status ot the Stilt
Trade.
The seoond annual report of the silk
association of America give* a vast
amount of statistical and otter infor
mation in regard to this new and rising
industry. In the report of the secre
tary, Mr. Franklin Allen, the gratify
ing faot is noted that when, during the
months following the financial panic,
rnary mills producing other textile fa
brics were either wholly closed or re
duoed to a ruinous running time, the
reduction from the nsnal hoars of labor
in all the silk mills was but twelve per
cent. In no quarter was any general
cessation recorded. The value of the
capital invested in the silk trade at the
close of the year 1873 amounted to $15,-
988,877. The number of hands em
ployed during the year was 10,657, of
whom 7,208 were females. The amount
of wages distributed in the aggregate
was $3,722,988. The value of the pre
duo ts for the same year was $19,894,-
674. of which New Jersey yielded
$5,615,083 worth. Deducting from the
grand total floss silk, fringe silk, train
and organdine as not being articles of
complete manufacture, to the amount
of $4,756,377, leaves a total of $16,-
157,500 of complete American silk man
ntacture. The largest item was ma
chine twist, $5,658,332, ribbons follow
ing with $2,652,011 ; passementarie,
$2,460,500 ; handkerchiefs and neckties,
$1,338,617; broad silks, $1,259,300; pon
gees, sewing silk, trimmings and laoes,
making up the remainder. The only
department from which any specialeom-
Elaint is heard is that of laces, which
as been a story of partial failure. In
speaking of dress goods the rejrort says:
“The close proximity of this market
to China and Japan, the two great silk
prodneing countries of the world, which
the opening of the Pacific railway and
the semi-monthly sailing of the Pacific
Mail Steamship company’s steamers has
rendered available for this industry,
yields an advantage which the Euro
pean manufactures, while they deride
the efforts made here, cannot fail to see.”
In speaking cf adverse tariff legislation
the petition for a reduction of duty in
connection with an exhibition of Amer
ican Brussels, gnidure and Spanish
laces, it says, “ They evidenced a grati
fying improvement in this branch of
industry, which would doubtless be
much enlarged by additional capital
and additional skilled labor, were the
difficulties at least partially removed.”
The report with a detailed re
port of the second annual dinner of the
association on May 13th last.
An Indefatigable Artist.
M. Edmond About gives some curi
ous details respecting Paul Baudry, the
painter of the voussures of the foyer of
the New Grand Opera in Paris. He
says that the artist’s remuneration was
fixed at 140,000 francs; bnt when the
artist learned that there was a talk of
giving the ceilings and the spaces above
the doors to another, he offered to paint
the whole himself without increase of
pay, thus reducing his reward to 280
francs per superficial metre ; the work
occupies 500 metres square. M. About
also states that Baudry, before drawing
his first sketch, made two journeys, one
to London and the other to Rome. At
the Kensington museum he oopied the
seven cartoons of Raphael. At the
Vatican he copied eleven enormous
frescoes of Michael Angelo, all to endue
himself with the spirit of the masters
and to catch for himself le bon pli.
That done, there only remained to
shut himself for eight years in the
damp building of the rising op
era house. There he occupied six
studios—one on the sixth story, auother
on the tenth, and the last quite at the
top, under the cupola, whence neither
cold nor heat could dislodge him.
His whole life was there. He slept
and ate in a logs de danseuse, furnished
with his student’s furniture. He lived
whole months without seeing any other
faces than those of Mb models and the
old house-keeper, and very occasionally
a friend. It is ont of such stuff that
really great painters are made.
Noble Devotion.
“ Pay,” writing from Saratoga to the
Louisville Courier - Jouraal, says :
“ Yonder is a maiden lady whose hair
is almost snow-white. She looks very
gentle, refined, and delicate. A light
shawl covers her shoulders, and even on
this bright morning she has to avoid
the draught. The gentleman, who
seems to regard her with the tec derest
care, moves her chair and otherwise
seems solicitous about her health and
comfort. Some are puazled to under
stand the relationship that exists be
tween the two, for they do not bear the
same name, and, besides, there is a
nameless something wMch tells that he
is neither husband, lover, or brother.
These relations Mrs are common and
easily defined, but in these days of de
generated honor it is rare to find a man
devoting himself to a woman past her
youth, and who is nothing more to Mm
than a friend, but is the sister of the
girl who years ago was to have been his
wife, and would have been but that death
interposed and the bridal robe became her
winding-sheet. No other love has since
entered Ms heart, bnt he preserves his
loyalty to her memory by a bro'hef’B
love and protection to her only sister,
and she, in spite of ill-health, has per
formed her mission in life by support
ing and educating orphan nephews, so
that as she declines in years she has
those about her who think an ‘old
maid’the dearest and best of women.”
Railroad Casualties in July.
The Railroad Gazette states that dur
ing July there was a total of 64 railroad
accident*, whereby 20 persons were
killed and 104 suffered serious injury.
Nine accidents caused the death of one
or more persons, 16 others injury but
not death, and 39 accidents, or 61 per
cent, of the whole number, caused no
serious injury to any person.
For the year ending with July the
record is as follows :
accidents. Killed. Injured.
August . 150 63 155
September 106 20 75
October 88 11
November 76 11 50
December 80 16 43
January 1(W 18 98
February 90 25 49
March 88 13 49
April 59 3 12
May 89 19 51 I
June ... 83 22 65
July 64 20 104
Totals 1081 250 788
The average per day for July is 2 K)6
accidents, 0.65 killed, and 3.35 injured ;
for the year it is 2.96 aooidents, 0.68
killed, and 2.16 injured. While the
daily average of accidents for July is
much below that of the year, the aver
age number killed is nearly the same,
and the average injured is oyer one
half greater.
BouciOACiiT says American theatres
are infinitely superior to those of Lon
don or Paris. They are better con
structed, better ventilated, and much
more cheerful in their inner surround
ings. “Besides,” he said to a New
York reporter, “your audiences seem
to treat actors better than ours. You
are quick toessa good point, either in
the acting or in the play, and von are
generous enough to reward the man
who has pleased you with enthusiastic
applause. There is no donbt about it,
the American theaters are the finest in
the world. As for your soenery, I ne
ver saw a play pnt on the stage in Eng
land is so magnificent a manner as I
have seen it in_New York.”
VOL. 15—NO. 37.
SAYINGS A ’ ’I DOINGS.
The saddest of music is called by
Gottschalk bis “ Last Smile,” and by
Wagner his “ Lone Grin.”
Thu manner in w hich manv French
households are organized is *aid to be—
flrahjhe furniture ; second, the dress of
tb<ywife and daughter, and then the
necessaries of life.
Why should a man pay a thousand
dollars for a ticket to go round the
world when bv just standing still the
globe itself will take him the same dis
tance for nothing ?
There is a female student at Woos
ter, Ohio, who can jump over a broom
handle held five feet from the ground,
and the faculty warrant equal educa
tional progress to all new-comers.
They that deny a God destrov a man’s
nobility, for certainly man is of kin to
the beasts bv his body; and, if he is
not kin to God by his spirit, he is a
base and ignoble creature.— Baron.
The little mind that loves itself will
write and think with the vulgar; but
the great mind will be bravely eccen
tric, and scorn the beaten road, from
universal benevolence.— Goldsmith.
“ There will be no newspaper in
heaven,” said a Brooklyn clergyman,
exultingly. “ Then you can’t give me
the first proof of it.” retorted a man in
the congregation. He was an editor.
S peakin' a of eng&g ments, there is a
lovely little blonde, aged ten. at Sara
toga,* who wears a diamond solitaire on
her engagement finger, and is actually
betrothed to a young man of nineteen.
* Have yon got a little Indian there ?”
said the engineer, 8s we passed a young
sqnaw with a papoose, standing at a
depot on the Pacific railroad. “ No,”
said she ; " half Injnn, half Injureer !”
There is one recent decision of tha
treasury department in which a thank
ful public, or the adult portion of it at
least, will readily acquiesce. It is that
children’s whistles, tin horns, etc., are
“ not musical instruments.”
A First Impression.—
I recollect nurse called A’m,
Who carried me about the grass.
And one fine dav a fine youne man
Came up and kissed the prp'tr lass.
She did not make the least objection!
Thinks I “Ah !
When I can talk I’ll tell momma,”—
And that’s mv earliest recollection.
When they told an Indiana woman
that her husband had been sliced np
bv a reaper, she impatiently replied :
“ Well, take the pieces to the barn ;
I con’t leave the gooseberry sanoe just
now.”
The expression of a nervous woman’s
face, upon getting into a dentist’s chair,
is something that no man can imitate
until he gets b letter from his mother
in-law, sharply inquiring if that spare
room is readv.
Here is a recipe for getting np a
fashionable summer bonnet: L p t the
ladv run her head into a sheaf of oats,
and afterward stick in a few field-flow
ers here and there to light np her coif
fure, and the thing is done.
An Irishman fonnd a government
blanket, and rolling if np put it under
his arm and walked off. saying : “ Yis,
that’s moine. U for Patrick, and S for
McCarty ; be me sowl, but this learnin’
is a foine thing, as me farther would
say: for if I hadn’t au edication I
wouldn’t have been aftber findin’ me
blanket.”
There is a time in the going to sleep
of weary men when a noise, continued
for fifteen minutes, deprives fhe would
be sleeper of an entire night’s rest.
With a sagacity which is of the devil
himself, the dog in the next yard hits
upon that particular time to do its
barking, and only its thick-headed
owner can rest.
There is still trouble as to the sort
of statue that shall be placed on the
Yendonce column in Paris. Borne want
the Imperial Napoleon, others prefer
the'Little Corporal, others would like
the Goddess of Liberty. One of the pi
quant. suggestions is that a magnificent
political weathercock would be both
ornamental and nsefnl.
The Titusville Herald wants to know:
“Is there anything in the world more
trying to the soul of a roan tliau to find
that his quarterly gas bill exceeds the
highest figures his prolific imagination
had whispered ? ” Yes, there is. It is
to have your wife come home from the
country and find th t bill, and sniff out
a remark to the effect that “ yon s *id
that you went to bed early while she
was away.”
There is such a thing as having too
many children if your memory is poor.
The other night fipriggins counted his
brood, but could only make np fourteen.
“ How is this ?” he asked his wife, “ I
thought there were fifteen of them at
the last census!” “So there were.”
she answered, “ bnt one of them died
since that,” “ Indeed !” said Sprig
gins. meditatively, “ why, it seems to
me I heard of that at the time.”
Tire following testimonv to the virtue
of a patent manure wm received by its
owner: “ Dear Sir—The land compos
ing my farm has hitherto been so poor
that a Scotsman could not get a living
off it, and so stony that we had to slice
our potatoes and plant them edgeways ;
but nearing of your manure, T put some
on a ten-acre field surrounded by a rail
fence, and in the morning I found that
the rock had entirely disappeared, a
neat stone wall had encircled the field,
and the rails were split into fire-wood
and piled up systematically in my back
yard."
Coosia’h comet has scarcely disap
peared before another erratic oelestial
visitor downs upon the world. M. Bo
relli, at Marseilles, has discovered anew
comet. Its position is reported in right
ascension, 15h 25m, and its polar dis
tance SO deg. It cm be seen in our
latitude, and it is described as “moder
ately bright,” and having a movement
toward the northwest. Borelli is a very
industrious astronomer, and, like his
oolleague, Coggia, has made, hereto
fore, some important astronomical dis
coveries. Whether his present comet
will rival Coggia’s is yet to be demon
strated.
A wickto fellow couldn’t or wouldn’t
pay his bill at one of the summer resort
hotels in Pennsylvania, whereupon the
caravansary proprietor sent him from
offloe to lawn—a distance of thirty feet
—with u rapidity suggestive only of an
air-gun. And what does the impecuni
ous youth do in the revenge line but
tell the nurses there were two casesof
whooping-cough in the house ! The
nurses told the mistresses, the mis
tresses tolled the bell (to send for their
bills), and in ten hours only fifty out of
one hundred and fifty people remained.
A ohromo is now offered for that young
man.
The Beal Rich Maui
Many a man is rich without money.
Thousands of men with nothing in
their pockets are rich. A men born
with a good sound constitution, a good
stomach, a good heart, good limbs, and
a pretty good head-piece, is rich. Good
bones are better than gold ; tough mus
cles better than silver ; and nerves that
flash fire and carry energy to every
function are better than houses or land.
Tt is better than a landed estate to have
the right kind of father or mother.
Good breeds and bad breeds exist among
men a* really as among herds and
horses. Education may do much to
check bad tendencies or to develop good
ones; it is a greater thiDg to inherit the
right proportion of faculties to start
with. The man is rich who has a good
disposition—who is natmally kind, pa
tient, cheerful, and hopeful.