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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
W.MIKSCHALK,f K,li,or> a,ld Proprietors.
NEWS OF TEE WEEK,
EAST.
Tamihnny Hall Las unanimously
nominated Win H. Wickham for mayor of
New York city.
WEST.
A dspateh from Darlington, I. TANARUS.,
October 15tli, way’s, twenty-four lodges of Kio-
WBs under Bautanta surrendered to Gen.
Neill. Santanta and Big Tree will be held in
close confinement as hostages, until further
orders.
A scouting party from-Fort Louis,
operating on the uoith fork of Smoky Ifiil
river, report discovering, on the 3d hist., the
bodies of three men and a woman, murdered l
by the Indians, The parties'killed were from
Blue Bulge, Georgia. They were emigrants
seeking a location. The woman's skull was
crushed, and all the bodies more or less mu
tilated. Within the last two weeks eleven
persons have been killed by Indians in west
ern and southwestern Kansas, and several
others are missing, supposed to have met the
samefite.
The commissioners appointed to in
vestigate the facts relative to the recent al
leged murder of five Osage Indians by the
Kansas militia have submitted a report to the
commissioner on Indian affairs. They find that
the attack oil these Indians was unprovoked
and utterly unjustifiable, and presume that
when the attention of the authorities of Kan
sas is called to the evidence in the case, they
will not hesitate to direct a return of the
property captured from these friendly Indians,
and it is recommended that in any event the
government of the United States should st e
that the Osages are reimbursed.
Advices to the 2Gth ult. have been
received from Gen. Mills’ Indian expedition.
Heavy rains and a lack of sufficient trans
portation are reported as retarding operations.
Trains are kept constantly going to and from
Fort Dodge, an advance of over 200 miles,
from whence all supplies have to be furnished
by wagon over rough and difficult roads. No
Indians have been encountered since the at
tack of Callahan's train. There are now three
columns within supporting distance of each
other, operating against the Indians. They
are commanded by Gen. Mills, Gen. Davidson
and CoU Brice. Nothing has been heard
from McKenzie, who is advancing from the
south, nor from Buell, who is coming across
from New Mexico.
SOUTH.
Virginia is getting a good number of
substantial immigrants.
A company in Havanuah is engaged in
the manufacture of paper from lice straw.
Eighteen hundred and sixty-three im
migrants arrived at the port of Galveston dur
ing September.
Mr. Clemens, mate of the tow-boat
Equator, fell overboard throe miles below New
Orleans, while the boat was proceeding down
the river, and was drowned. Mr. Morgan, a
custom-house officer, fell ovorboard from the
same boat, ton miles below 1 , and was also
drowned.
While northern woolen-miils are
stopped, those of Georgia are increasing the
number of looms and reaping dividends.
Columbus has 35,000 spindles, 60 woolen and
870 cotton looms, all built in less than seven
years by a city which lost 00,000 hales of cot
ton, worth fifteen million dollars, and millions
of other property.
A dispatch from Fort Worth, Texas,
says Gen. Mackenzie, after repelling two at
tacks by the Indians on the 2Gth and 27th of
September, marched all night of the 27th, and
surprised at sunrise the following morning, a
few camps of Cheyennes and allies situated
in cauyon Sitro lllarce, on Jute river. The
troops destroyed over one hundred lodges,
and their entire outfit, and captured 1,421
lease sand mules, of which 1,048 were at once
killed. The bodies of four Indians were
broght in. Our loss was one soldier slightly
wounded. Gen. Mackenzie is in pursuit with
thirty days’ supplies.
A Brownsville special says the organ
ization of bandits, to invade Texas, has been
partially suspended, on account of high wa
ter on this side, and the almost impassable
condition of the country. Information has
been received from undoubted sources that the
plan of operations is to strike a detachment
of troops stationed to prevent the crossing of
stolen cattle, and then t j murder and rob
generally. Gen. Cortinas heads the move
ment. People on this side are organizing to
defend themselves. The military are in posses
sion of the facte and ate on the alert. Mounted
man are held ready l to move at short notice.
A border war has never been so imminent.
FOREIGN.
A thousand marines will embark for
Cuba from Madrid, November 19.
The Brazilian government has issued
a loau of §25,000,000 in six per cents.
Tire Spanish Republican army has
crossed the Ebro and taken the city of La
guarda.
Monsignor Theodoli, a dignitary of
high rank, connected with the Vatican", has
been captured near Erasingnon by brigands,
who demand the sum off 30,000.
The mi ers of West Riding, York
shire, England, having refused to consent to a
reduction of 20 per cent, in their wages, have
been locked out to the number of 6,000.
Marshal Bazaine has written to a Ro
n>aa journal, II Exereito, declaring that the
moment to speak plainly has not yet arrived,
but he will tell the truth later, although with
reluctance.
Sixteen Roman Catholic priests are
now in confinement at Coblentz, on the Rhine,
for offences against the Prussian ecclesiastical
laws, several of them being under sentence of
ten months’ imprisonment.
The water in the river Nile, at Cairo,
has fallen somewhat. The authorities, how
ever, continue the work of prevention against
overflow. Fully 20.000 people are engaged in
strengthening the embankments.
Spain has sent a note to France
in relation to violations of the frontier by
Carlists, making specific charges extending
over a period of four years. The note also
attention to the good offices of Portugal
an! the anomaly presented by liberal France
identifying herself with absolutism.
Advices from Buenos Ayres state there
is the greatest excitement among all classes in
consequence of the insurrection. Many per
sons are flying the city. Every departing
steamer carries away numerous families. All
the merchants' steamers are escorted to eea
by war ships, as they fear molestation by the
insurgent fleet.
Advices i'rom Buenos Ayres state that
several business firms in that city have sus
pended. and a commercial crisis is imminent.
The Argentine bank has closed its doors. A
body of government troops made an attempt
to capture the British steamship Yerba, but
the captain of the vessel protested, and they
desisted. The vanguard of the lebel force,
nndpr command of Ribas, is at Gales Capitol.
All mail matter passing through Buenos Ayres
post-office is examined.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Twenty months is the period set for
the completion of the Cincinnati and Chatta
nooga railroad.
The 13th infantry has been ordered
to the department of the south. Orders have
been issued to I he different district command
ers to send them by railroad without delay.
The Pacific mail steamship company
has began a suit against Richard B. Irwin,
agent of the company at Washington during
a former administration, to recover .%750.000
wlrcli ho is a legc-d to have appropriated.
Treasurer Spinner decides that Ihe
pressed# of national bank notes forvarded in
good faith for redemption will, if desired, be
credited to the 5 per cent. When calls are
made upou the national banks to reimburse
the treasurer for their notes redeemed, legal
notes or drafts payable in such nctes must be
eent.
Geu. Sheridan was, to-day, notified
by the secretary of war, it he could, to spare
a regiment of infantry from his command.
Applications are constantly reaching the de
partment from Alabama, Tennessee and Lou
isiana for troops. The secretary says : “If I
were required to comply with all the applica
tions received, it would bo necessary to largely
increase the forces of the army.”
The postmaster-general will shortly
issue orders organizing a special agency
branch of the postal s’rvioe, iimitiug'it gener
ally to the detection of frauds and to the in
struction of postmasters in their duties, and
to secure the prompt transaction of the money
order business. He wi 1, however, detail two
or more special agents to look into the matter
of the local expenses of postoffices through
out the count!y, and ascertain why it is that a
comparison of the cost of running various
large postoffices of free deliver grade shows
that the percentage of expenses to receipts is
as high as sixty per cent., and in some cases as
low as twenty-five per cent. When this iu
vestigadpn is completed, it will bo extended
to all officers appointed by the president, or
all offices in which postmasters receive yearly
a compensation of one thousand dollars and
upwaids. There is to be extensive removals
of postmasters in Texas, but those of Galves
ton and Houston will be requested to resign,
not on account cf anything wrong in connec
tion with their official duties, but on the
ground# implying disreputablo conduct out
side of them and their unpopularity with
citizens. The postmaster-general desires the
appointment of Buch officers as will secure
his and the public confidence for efficiency
and integrity.
The Late Earthquake at Antigua.
Aeorrespendent writing from Antigua,
Guatamala, under date of the Ist, gives
an account cf the earthquake there the
previous evening. On the 3d of Sep
tember, at 8:30 u. M , without previous
warning, a strong earthquake shook the
ground violently in the direction from
west to east. Wave-like undulations
on the surface rose and fell at least a
foot. The first strong shock lasted from
twenty-five to thirty seconds, when the
conten s of a large water-tank in the
court yard of the hotel wore thrown out.
Wild screeches and screams continued
even after the early terror had some
what subsided, and long after there was
the noise of walls falling more or less
distant, mingled with the sound of hun
dreds of voices chanting hymns for mer
cy. Many shocks followed during the
night, every one of which gave rise to
new alarms and new implorations. It
was intensely dark during the continu
ance of the shocks.
An inspection in the morning showed
chat about two dozen inhabited houses
were destroyed, causing a loss of thirty
two lives. The number of houses dam
aged, and which will have to bo taken
down, is considerable. Many of the old
ruins of 1773 have suffered seriously.
During the confusion incident to the
earthquake, several men appeared with
long knives for the purpose of stealing
and mnrde ing, but the political chief
of Antigua soon repressed them. All
the squares arid courts serve as tempo
rary abodes. It will take some time
before the pfople of Antigua recover
serenity of mind enough to go to sleep
iu their totiering houses. At Gnatamala,
the capital, slight shocks were felt.
The Indians say that three villages at
the foot of the volcano Delfuego have
been destroyed.
Sunlight lor the Sick.
Dr. Wm. H. Hammond, in discussing
the sanitary influence of light, observes
that the effects of deficient light upon
the inmates of hospital wards and sick
chambers have frequently come under
his special notice ; that most physicians
know how carefully the attendants upon
the sick endeavor to exclude every ray
of light from the apartment, and even
some members of the profession are sin
gularly assiduous in this respect; but
that the practice, except to some cases
of actual disorder of the brain and oth
er parts of the nervous system, is per
nicious, admits of no question. During
the late civil war Dr. H. visited a camp
and hospital in West Virginia, in conse
quence of information received that the
sickness and mortality there prevailing
were unaccountably great, and he made
a minute examination into all the cir
cumstances connected with the situation
of the camp, the food of the men, etc.
AmoDg other peculiarities, he found the
sick crowded into a small room, from
which the light was excluded by blinds
of india-rubber cloth. The patients
were as effectually bleached as is celery
by the earth being heaped up around
it"; pale, bloodless, ghost like looking
forms, they 6eemed to be searely mortal.
Convalescence was, under such circum
stances, according to Dr. Hammond,
almost impossible, and his belief was
that many of the men had died, who,
had they been subjected to the opera
tion of" the simplest laws of uature,
would have recovered. —A r . Y. Tribune.
Turkey Making an Arsenal of Herself.
People will soon want to know what
Turkey intends to do with so much ex
plosive material, such quantities of j
deadly missiles, such engines of de- j
strustion. But it is not in New York j
alone that the ferocious Mussulman is i
arming himself. The other day the
viceroy of Egypt gave the Turkish sul
tan an iron-clad, and now his majesty’s
mother, the valide sultana, has kindly
told the grand vizier that she will her
self pay the cost of thirty field-pieces,
gun-carriages and all complete, for her
son. This present is in addition to
twenty other pieces of Krnpp artillery, j
which her highness a short time ago
good-naturedly gave for the troops.
The sultan is also treating himself to a
few guns, and the grand vizier has just
signed a contract with the local repre
sentative of the Krupp foundry at Eisen
foi 200 field-pieces for JieTurkxsh army,
the cost of the order to be defrayed out
of the sultan’s own privy purse. The
valide sultana has made it a condition
of her little order that the thirty cannon
shall be delivered within four months’
time at the latest. If the design is to
use this warlike material somebody is
likely to get hurt; if not, the imperial
treasury is burdened to little purpose.
A Paradise for Broken Down Men.
A correspondent of the San Francisco
Chronicle writing, from the Island of
Tahiti, says : If a white men is tirsd of
civilization and wishes to lay off, then
he can come to the South Sea and find
some romantic little nook where under
the bread-fruit trees, and cccoanut
groves and banana-forests, he can 101 l to
his heart’s content. But such a man
must have lost his grip, lost his hopes,
and come to the conclusion that he is a
weak and imbecile creature, unable to
war with the great seething cauldron
called civilization. I find such white
men on the islands of these seas, but
what wrecks they are. Utterly lost,
they lead au aimless life, vegetate rather
than lve. They ire most miserable
specimens of the European race which
have conquered and civilized the earth.
As compared with the natives of the
South Seas they are inferior, mentally,
morally, and physically. When a white
man goes to wreck here, the wreck is so
complete that there is nothing left of it
but a mere shadow.
Some people complain about their
children being non-observing, but we’d
'ihe to see the guild who tvon’fc observe
bow the (emify'piu is cut and. whp gets,
the biggest piece.
DAS VEILCHEN.
reoM aoiiTHE.
Lonely and sweet a violet grew
The meadow 1 weeds among.
One more a rosy shepherd maid,
With careless heart and idle tread,
Came by,
(lame by,
The meadow lands and sung.
“ All!" said the violet, “ would I were
Some stalely garden flower!
Then r might gallic re a be, and pressed
One little hour to her swoet breast;
Ah, me!
Ah, me!
Only one little hour !•’
On came the rosy shepherd lass
With heart that wildly beat.
And crushed the violet in the grass,
ft only said, “ How sweet!
How sweet J” it said with tainting moan,
“If I must die, to die alone
Tor her,
For her—
To die at her dear feet.”
A .MIRACULOUS CURE.
As vre steamed out of sight of the
landing I watched Ralph narrowly
to see if the familiar landmarks un
manned him or brought back the old
irremediable trouble. I was glad to
find that he wore the usual air of cold
ness and reticence that seemed to have
quite taken the place of rhe old reck
lessness and impulse. His eyes were
certain ?y fixed with un usual interest neon
the sloping shores of the peninsula;
and when a liHle fishing boat dropped
her sail in one of the snug little coves
near by, and a boatman stepping out
disclosed the form of a woman and that
of a little child clinging to her gar
ments, Ralph turned away, a frown con
tracted his forehead, and he put his
hand to his head as if to arrest a sharp
remembrance there. But he was him
self again presently, and began to con
trast our glorious harbor with that of
Naples. He was reminded of the amus
ing incident that occurred during our
sojourn there, and as his low, somewhat
musical laugh fell upon the evening
air, I don’t know what force impelled
me to turn my head and look at a wo
man standing at the furthest end of the
deck. She was leaning against one of
the pillars of the boat, {he folds of her
dress blown about it by the sea-wind,
and her long, slender, ungloved fingers
resting caressingly upon the shoulders
of a child by her side.
Her face was pale, even paler than of
old. She appeared not see me; her
great luminous eyea seemed conscious
of but the one object; but they fell
upon Ralph with a gaze magnetic
enough to lift him from that camp
stool and draw him to her side.
With an involuntary shudder I shifted
my place to one that made a barrier be
tween them; but the power of her
glance was potent enough to render him
already uneasy. The light gradually
faded from his eyes ; his laughter died
away ; a melancholy settled on his face
like that of the darkness on the reced
ing shores,
“ Come, Ralph,” I said, “ let’s go be
ow a bit, and have a lounge in the cabin;
the evening air is chill.”
“ I believe it must be,” he replied,
“ for I feel a sort of trembling sensation
about me. Pray Heaven it isn’t a chill !
It would bo wonderful—now wouldn’t it,
Harry ?—if, after escaping the plague
in Syria rand the cholera in Russia, I
should fall a victim to an American
specialty, fever and ague.”
“ The best thing in the world for
that,” I said, warily beeping my posi
tion in front of him, “ is a good dose of
brandy and pepper. Let’s go below and
get it.'”
“ I believe you’ve got a touch of it
too,” he said, as we reached the stairs.
“You’ve either turned a palish green
since I last looked at you, or it’s the re
flection of a dismal fancy.”
Once reaching the comfortable region
below the deck, the glowing from the
furnace shedding a sort of heat over
the place, and the warm coloring in the
furniture shutting out the cold light of
the dying day up stairs, the strong dose
of brandy dispelling all fear of miasma,
Ralph and I disposed of ourselves in a
couple of arm chairs in the cabin, and
resolved to remain there for the rest of
the trip. Ho closed his eyes, and I
thought he fell asleep; but, as for me,
I never was more wide awake in my
life.
What wonderful destiny brought that
woman here at this moment ’? Bo many
years had gone by without a word of
communication between them, I began
to hope that the gap never would bo
filled up, in this world at least.
In the other world there might some
thing, perhaps, be done for two strug
gling, helpless souls; but here, hem
med in by circumstances unrelenting
and even blameless, there was not even
room for complaint.
It was not the fault o? Ralph that he
loved her. I don’t believe that he knew
it himself till it was too late.
When lie came down here long ago
for that summer vacation, Heavenknows
the place had charms enough to allure
us. The broad waters of the bay were
filled with game for our piscatorial
fancy; the beautiful grouping of the
clouds, the filtering of sunshine down
throng'n the leaves of woods, then un
touched by the spoiler, the cloudless,
heaven-bright days of a summer on the
wave, were filled with food for onr
yearning lor the beautiful.
If wo had ODly never met Captain
Jack!
Yet Qaptain Jack alone would have
been an unadulterated element of joy.
He was as clever, honest, and genial a
fellow as ever went in pur.-uit of oysters
in these waters or those of Virginia.
His fishing smack might well have been
called a yacht, it was so handsome and
complete. But being the soul of hospi
tality, and generous to a fault, he would
insist upon our sharing his house and
seeing his wife Mary.
“If you call the scow handsome, I
don’t know what you’ll say to her !” he
chuckled, with infinite delight and
pride.
We said nothing. How he got her,
and where, was useless to ask; but had
he plung'd to the nether deep and
fished up a mermaid, the most beautiful
in that wal ery kingdom, had he mounted
in a balloon to the stars and picked her
oil from one of those bits of fire, had
he ransacked the elements themselves
for a prodigy of beauty and grace, he
could not have gone bevond little May.
Jack always called her Mary, but Ralph
said she must be called May, because
she was the embodiment of spring—of
all that was fresh and bright and beau
tiful.
“ I told you so! ” said Captain Jack,
winking and nodding with all his might.
The poor fellow seemed hearidy to
enjoy the homage we paid to his wife
and child—for there was a baby in the
boatman’s home, a yellow-haired, blue
eyed infant, some such a child as would
delight tlii£ eye and heart of a painter.
Ralph, unconsciously enough, fell
into a habit of loangtogaway the b st
part of his time in the house by the
shore. And almost any hour in the day
one might hear his pleasant voice read
ing bits of poetry to May, or oaroling
out snatches of song to the child. After
a time all this changed ; he grew moody
and restless, a shadow fell on the young
woman’s face ; and Captain Jack would
insist upon my going off with him for
hours together—fishing, oystering, up
to the market, anywhere and every
where, so that it was oat in the open
air or on the free glad waters of the
bay.
Heaven knows I tried to stay at home
with them, but Captain Jack would have
me go. I was afraid to openly rebel,
because —well, because I did not care
to breed a devil in that dormant but
powerful brain.
Thus I was tried, rendered helpless
! l y the honesty and confidence of Jack,
i iht um jeeute of May, and the ungov
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1874.
! ernabic passion of Ralph. I became a
victim to all these terrible agencies for
evil, without being able to think of a
plaD for ameliorating them.
Suddenly, and without any previous
warning, the knot in the tangle b, came
imraveled. There was only one way
out cf this whirlpool, and Ralph pro
posed it himself.
He came to me one night, pale as a
spectre, and said, in a hoarse whisper,
that we mast go at daybreak.
“Go?”lsaid. “Go where—to the
city ? ”
‘ ‘ To the city—the devil—the farthest
ends of the earth ! ” lie cried, raising
his hands in a spasm of agony.
I said no more, but packed our port
manteaus and got to bed, while poor
Ralph walked the floor till morning.
With the first beam of the sun came
the cry of the baby in the adjoining room,
and Ralph came over to the bed.
“If it hadn’t been for the child—”
he said, and paused.
“ Well, thank God, thou, for the child,
Ralph," I said. “You’ll say so your
self some day.”
V e were aboard a steamer the next
week, bound for the Spanish Main.
From thence we set sail for Egypt; and
Heaven knows where the restless soul of
my comrade had not drawn me.
At last he came to me himself.
“I’mhomesick, Hal,”he said. “Let’s
get back to America.”
Useless to descant upon my rapture.
I wa3 the most disgusted aud worn out
pilgrim that the world had ever seen.
There were no perils for us by land
or sea till we reached the Kill von Hull.
To get to the dear old mansion where
abode the dearest old Quaker lady that
ever was moved by the spirit to have
such a son as Ralph we had to take the
river boat. Aud now the sun was set
ting over the familiar hills, the waters
of the bay all aglow. I had reazon to
hope that in an hour more we would be
safe.
But just then Ralph started to his
feet. I had hoped he was asleep ; but
there was a slumbering light in his eye
that told of brooding and discontent.
“Come,” he said; “before the light
dies quite away I must have one look
at the shore.”
“ Ralph,” I oried, “ don’t! I ask it
of you!”
But he was half-way up the stairs—
not the stairs he had descended, the
others, the ones that led to May and
the child. It was destiny. They stood
by the pillar in almost the same atti
tude as when I last saw them.
Ralph in mounting the last step tum
bled forward.
“I beg pardon,” he said ; and then
remained, with month agape and staring
eyes, looking at the woman and the
child.
She said not a word. It will be re
membered that she had seen him be
fore.
He staggered forward. “May,” he
said—“ why, May !” then put his hand I
to his head in bewilderment. She still
remained speechless ; but her lips trem
bled, her hands left the shoulders of
her child and unconsciously extended
themselves to him.
“Yes. yes,”he cried, “oh, come to
me !” He drew her to his side, devour
ing her with his eyes, while her own
fell—fell, filled with tears, under his
burning gaze.
At that moment there was a cry of
terror, a rush forward—too late. The
child, who had climbed unnoticed upon
the taffrail of the boat, fell overboard
into the darkening water.
May struggled from the arms of
Ralph, and would have thrown herself
after th child, but I caught her and
held her tight, while Ralph plunged
after the boy.
Hundreds of people rushed to see;
the train stopped on the bridge; a sort
of paralysis fell upon all, except one
little fishing boat : that one, impelled
by powerful strokes, went after swim
mer and the child.
Once, when the little head—oh, how
little it looked upon the big surging
wave!—went under, the hands of the
boatman seemed stiff with terror; a
breathless second of despair followed ;
but Ralph was famous at swimming,
and now his soul was in it. On he
went, cheered by he multitude. Now
the little head was seen again, the long
curls of yellow hair drifting upon the
cold green wave. The tide swept the
light weight of the child to the bridge ;
and just as it was sinking again, Ralph
grasped the little waif, and went under
with it himself. Fainting and exhaust
ed, battling, all clothed as he was, with
the choking waves, he gave way at last,
and a huge groan burst from the peo
ple. But the boatman was now close at
hand, and dropping his oars, sprang into
this gulf of blackness that seemed
ready to devour them all.
But I saw the boatman’s face as it
went down, and took heart of grace. I
wasn’t a bit surprised when he came up
with them both, and floated them with
one arm to the boat, while with the
other he cleared the waters that seemed
not to hinder, even to aid, their old
comrade. As the little boat wita its
dripping cargo came straight to our
steamer, some of tho women sobbed and
others laughed with hysteric joy, while
many a strong man could scarcely keep
back the tear . One emotional fellow
near by proposed as a vent to his feel
ings that a purse should be raised for
the boatmaD.
“If it hadn’t been for him the father
and child would both have gone under,”
he said, carrying his hat around.
When they came to me for a contribu
tion I refused. Iu the first place, the
way to my pocket was obstructed by
the fainting form of May, and, besides,
it was ridiculous.
“ You’d better give the money back
again, now that you feel calmer,” I said
to the emotional chap. “It don’t
look well to pay a man for saving his
own child. Besides, he don’t want any
money; he’s rich.”
“But we mean the boatman.”
“So do I.”
“ Who in thunder is the other fellow,
then, that jumped off the boat here?’’
“ A passenger, that’s all. Why, it’s
nothing. You, or I, or any bo y would
have done the same thing if we’d have
thought of it quick enough.”
“ Hum!” was the skeptical remark
of this chap, walking off with a hatful
of money.
Half an hour afterward the little lad
was cuddled close to his mother’s heart;
Ralph was lying back among the cush
ions m the cabin; Captain Jack was elose
at hand, buisting all the bottoms off an
overcoat that the emotional fellow had
insisted his accepting as a mark of his
esteem, and looking at May and the
child with all his honest soul in his eyes.
“ Gracious God !” he said, going over
to Ralph, “suppose you hadn’t been
aboard !”
“And suppose you hadn’t been out
with the boat?” said Ralph.
“Suppose we look above for a solution
to these things ?” I said.
We slept that night in onr old quar
ters at Captain Jack’s house on the
shore. At sunrise the little chap was
at his old trick again, anu cried out
from his sleep in the adjoining room.
Ralph grasped my arm. “Thank God,”
he said—“ thank God for the child !”
“ I told you so three years ago,” I
rejoined.
“ I’m cared now, Hal,” said Ralph,
“ for once and all.”
“ You ought to be, Ralph; it took
a miracle to do it.”
Db. Mary Walker, who parts her
clothes in the middle, is authority for
the statement of John Stuart Mill that
petticoats are but another name for
passivenes3 ; that corsets signify eccr
| QtOD, riitl that the trail is embodied
I thraldom.
THE MOSQUITO.
How (he Diminutive Fiend Live# and
Propagate* His Species.
The name mosquito is indiscriminate
ly applied, in this and some other
countries, to varions species of Culex or
gnat. The term should be restricted to
the Culex mosquito ; but the ordinary
observer will not, of course, pause to
make fine distinctions, and every spe
o.es of gnat, troublesome or otherwise,
that comes under the popular eve, is
carelessly called a mosquito. The fe
male guat or mosquito deposits her
eggs on the surface of stagnant wattr.
We copy a description of this last act
of her life from Wood’s “Insects at
Home
Placing her iront legs on a piece of
floating stick, straw, or anything that
will support her linv weight, she allows
the middte pair of her legs tq rest on
the surface of the water, and crosses the
hind pair so as to 1 10 k like the capital
letter X. She then deposits a rather
long and spindle-shaped egg, and places
it upright, with the base downward in
the angle of the X, Another egg is
quickly placed bv the side of the first,
and followed by others, all of which are
glued together by a cement which is not
affected by water. Guided by the
crossed legs, the eggs are forced into a
boat-lik6 shape, and are then left to
float o the surface of the water.
These little egg boats are qui e plen
tiful in the summer-time, and any num
ber can be taken for the purpose of ex
perimenting. Their shape very much
resembles that of the life-boat now in
use, and, like the life-boat, the egg-boat
cannot be Bunk, and if capsized rights
itself immediately. Even if the con
tents of the vessel be poured from a
height into the pond the little boats
float at once to the surface like so many
corks, and each as it rises assumes its
proper position.
When the larva is ready to leave the
egg it pushes off the low r er end, which
opens like a little round trap-door, and
lets the larva—popularly called “ wrig
gler”—out into the water. This wig
gler is the oddest little fish imaginable.
It has a long body, a large head, and a
forked tail, and jumps and jerks through
the water with a swift ziz-zag motien.
When it needs to breathe, it comes to
tho surface and hangs head downward,
for its respiratory organs termiuate in a
pipe attached to the last segment of the
body, and, thrusting this above the
water, the air is inhaled through it.
Thelarva feeds upon microscopic insects
and particles of vegetation and earthy
matter, and this is of great service in
purifying standing water, which would
otherwise breed malarial diseases. So
the mosquito is not without its use in
the world. Liunteus long ago showed
that if two barrels of stagnant water be
placed side by side, and one be covered
with gauze and the other left exposed,
the second will soon be full of wrigglers
and emit no rmsavory odors, while the
first, secured from the approach of mos
quitoes, will shortly become “ rank and
smell to heaven.”
The wriggler changes its skin three
times in the course of a fortnight or
three weeks. It then enters the pupa
state, and is transformed in both shape
and condition. Its body is shortened,
rounded, and bent nearly double. In
this state it eats nothing, and remains
chiefly in repose. It is able to swim,
however, by alternately bending and
straightening its body. The respiratory
openings of the air-tutes are now in the
thorax ; consequently it rests with tho
head upward at the surface of ihe water.
The skin is, at this stage, so thin that
the varions members of the insect can
be seen through it, as they lie loosely
folded together. When the moment
comes for the perfect imago to emerge,
tho pupa straightens out on the surface
of the water, the case splits along the
back, and the insect swiftly affcl speed
ily draws itself out. It stands for an
instant, on the now empty shell, in order
to shake out its crumpled wings and
allow the veins to fill and swell; then it
mounts aloft, to the shrill tune it al
ways sings in its flight, and is ready to
suck the blood of the first victim it" en
counters.
The male gnat, which may be distin
guished by its feathered antennae, is in
offensive. The female alone is armed
with a lancet, and, before she stabs,
sings about our ears until we are fran
tic. Her murderous instrument is com
posed of six fine, sharp bristles, inclosed
in a cylindrical tube, clothed with min
ute feather-like scale , and terminating
in a kind of knob. The sting of her
wound is caused by a poisonous fluid
which is injected through the proboscis.
Gnats multiply with great rapidity, and
several generations are produced in a
single summer. They are attracted by
a light, and yet can buzz and stab with
out any inconvenience in the dark.
The sense of smell is ascribed to them
by the entomologist; but it seems,
from ordinary observation, to be ex
ceedingly blunt. A mosquito will hum,
and hum, and hum around one—well,
for hours, measuring time by the feel
ings—and, either from stupidity or
sheer malignity, light here, and light
the>e, everywhere but on the flesh right
under its nose, and then go probing
about with its spear in a perfectly im
becile way that is, beyond everything
exasperating. No, the insect is a dolt
or a demon, else it would, guided by an
unerring instinct, dart straight to the
right spot and suck it3 fill, and be off
about its business. Would it but do
so, its visit would bo disarmed of its
chief terrors. It is their prolonged
blundering—which may be intentional
aud a piece of pure diabolism—by which
they keep their stinging lance hovering
over us, like the sword of Damocles,
every instant likely to drop and pierce
us, that makes them such odious and
intolerable torments. One can bear the
severest hurt that comes unexpected,
with a certain degree of courage ; but
the long-drawn-out horrors of anticipa
tion unnerve us, until we writhe in
despair. There is scarcely in the range
of human experience a more forcible
illustration of the impotence of man
than that which a single mosquito will
afford him when he lies in alnmber.
The puny insect, that may be crushed
to a shapeless mass with the lightest
touch, whose organs are so minute as to
be mainly invisible, has in its power to
so harass and worry its gigantic enemy, a
whole night through, as to craze him
nearly. What a bitter mockery to call
the son of Adam the lord of creation,
when he can be baffled and beaten in a
contest with a mosquito !
A Modern Pygmalion.
The Paris Droit relates that a man
has just died in the Bicetre asylum
whose lunacy had a very singular origin.
His name was Justin, and he exhibited
wax work figures at Montrouge, his gal
lery consisting of contemporary celebri
ties and great criminals. On a pedestal
in the cen're was the picture of a young
girl remarkable or her graceful figure
and perfect features, her hair falling in
long "curls over Her naked shoulders.
Justin had named her Eliza, and was
so struck with her beauty that he passed
hours in contemplating her. She seem
ed to him to speak, and her blue eyes,
with their long eyelashes, seemed to re
spond to his passion. Under the influ
ence of this illusion he neglected his
business, and for want of a showman to
puff it people no longer visiled the gal
lery. Poverty succeeded circum
stances ; the modern Pygmalion could
not separate himself from Eliza. His
wife was obliged to sleep on a bare mat
tress, aud when she remonstrated he
ill-treated her. Irritated at the unjust
harshness she ote day destroyed the
wex figure. Justin was furious at see
ing tjie mmg a bicow-
stick lie struck liis wife, and would
have killed her had not her cries drawn
the neighbors to her assistance. Justin,
who had lost his reason, had to be se
emed, aud was an inmate of Bicetre for
five years, living up to tbs last under
the oharm of Eliza, whose image seemed
always before him.
Grasshopper Surgery.
Grace Greenwood, in writing from
Colorado, rays it was expected that we
should have a fine exhibition of farm
and garden products, but “ man pro
poses and the grasshopper disposes.”
He has disposed of everything green,
and now, as though acting on the scrip
tural assertion that “all flesh is grass,”
has taken to regaling himself on Lis
brother hopper. It is shocking to dis
cover what remorseless cannibals these
small creatures are. If one becomes
disabled in the slightest degree, liis
friends and relatives rally around him
in his extremity, and generally help
themselves to whatever is eatable. They
generally po first for the brain, as the
morsel, cunningly abstrac'ing it from
its cells ; and yet he somehow lives on
for a time, and hardly seems to miss
that rather important organ. The
younger ones seem tho most voracious
and rnpaoious, but, while they make a
fatal charge, stout, grave-looking elders
will stand about, watching their old
friend’s demise, evidenly speculating
as to how he will “ cut up.” They are
in no Jiaste, but are always in at the
death. The other day I whiled away a
half-hour in one of the summer-houses
near the springs in watching the pro
ceedings of a set of these small ruffians
toward a disabled comrade. -He had
lost a leg—how I need not state.
“Thou canst not say I did it”—though,
if for the sake of scientific investiga
tion I brought myself to perform that
little surgical operation, what harm?
It is surprising to see how easily a
grasshopper’s leg is detached. It seems
alwavs to be a sort of semi-detached
member. The creature don’t seem to
miud the loss much, and will go on eat
ing as though grasshoppers’ legs “grew
on every bush.” This one evidently
did not realize his misfortune till he was
attacked, and found he could neither
walk nor fly. How he was beset, to be
sure ! First, a brisk young fellow, with
the cool, business air of a surgeon, be
gan tapping his rather distended stom
ach ; another probed him about the
joint whence the leg had been removed ;
a third set himself to dissect the ampu
tated limb. One slim starveling began
browsing on the delicate tips of his
long wings; then a big bustling old
wretch stepped forward and interviewed
him, by deliberately boring into his
brain ; next a yellow jacket settled on
him and stung and sucked here and
there, while, to add insult to injury,
two spiteful black ants pierced through
the joints of his cuirass and worked
their way into his vitals. He fought
bi’avely—it was astonishing to see how
pluekily he stood up against his fierce
assailants, like a miniature Moulton.
He kicked furiously with his one sound
hind leg “ against the pricks” of the
wasp. Ho struck out and gesticulated
wildly with his arms or fore-legs—his
mustache or antenn* bristled with de
fiance—but the great congregation of
his foes was too much for him. though
he did not cease to struggle while any
thing remained to struggle with. They
did not leave him till he was reduced
to the mere shell of a grasshopper.
llow to Make a Good Bed.
Perhaps some housekeepers would
like to know how they can make an in
expensive, and at the same time a good
and durable bed, or mattress and
bolster. I have a bed that will (with
good usage) last a lifetime. It is mere
ly a tick, the same as for straw, or
husks, with openings in the upper side
to insert the hand for stirring, and filled
with cut paper. Now, reader, do not
throw aside the paper with disgust, but,
if for nothing but curiosity, finish the
artiole, it will do you no harm ; possibly
you may be induced to make one. The
work of cutting the paper is not such a
long job as yon would think. Take any
kind of clean paper (except straw paper)
and fold it, or roll, so that it can be cut
with one clip of the shears, and then
cut it; you need not be particuar as to
the width, although the narrower it is
cut the better. These clippings are
like little curls or rings of paper, and
lie like feathers, and after using the bed
they will not grow fine and dusty, but
are clean, and can be stirred as light as
when first used. I have heard people
who have slept on them say “ they were
the best beds they ever slept on.” I
prefer them to feathers or common mat
tresses ; hair mattresses are nicer, of
course, but few of us farm rs’ wives can
afford tobny them ; whereas the paper
bed we can have without cost, except
the work, and that the smallest child
you have who can use a pair of shears,
will help yon, aud if not kept busy too
long at a time, will think it but play.
The same material makes nice pillows
for lounges, chair cushions, cradle ticks,
etc. I have a box to keep waste paper
in, which is out of the way, and at tbe
same time handier than the rag-bag ;
and when it is full, I cut them up into
another box and put them into the tick,
f use the same ticks that I have used
for straw ; wash them and sew up the
openings, so they are just large enough
for the hand to pass through readily ;
three openings are sufficient.— Cor. Cin
cinnati Times.
Recollections of a Dentist's !hop.
Mark Twain, in his new book about
Ei gland, tells how he had the tgpthacbe
one night in London, and gives some
pleasing recollections of the dentist’s
shop which he was wont to patronize
when he lived in Elmira. He says:
“ One night that tooth did jump, and
every time it jumped it raised my head
off the pillow. How I did lie awake and
think about that dentist’s shop in Elmi
ra, where I had been under torture so
many times of those pretty dental in
struments, so polished and so cold !
How I did long to lay my cheek against
one—one of those short, thick, heavy,
twisted chaps, with the bow-legged,
fluted, and curved handles and short
hawkt bill jaws ! How I revelled in de
light at the thought of having such a
thing clutch my ref>actory tooth, and
‘ yank it!’ With what pleasurable emo
tions came crowding into my mind the
recollections of that dentist and his
room and its fixtures—his big easy
chair, with the pretty, white-curtained
window before it, and the nice, b?g, red
glass spittoon to the left, with the hole
in the bottom, and the bits of wet cot
ton and the bright pieces of gold and
streams of blood-stained saliva on the
sides. And then the pretty little
bureau with the bottles on the top, and
the little yellow drawers which no jerks
out so gently when seeking for some
new and more dedicate instrument of
torture. And then the beautiful little
round, velvet-covered stand on the gas
fixture, covered with the nice drills and
pretty files, and the lovely little crow
bars with the stained ivory handles, and
the long steel crochet needle with which
he hunts for new cavities, and the little
round pasteboard box full of gold
‘ plugs,’ and the dirty little napkin and
t lie rubber ball syringe, and the singu
lar smell of his thumb, and all that!
Oh, how nice!”
They have found in Holcomb valley,
California, a mineralogical marvel, a
mountain of gold bearing quartz. It is
twelve miles from Bear lake, above
which it rises 300 feet. The crown of
the mountain is said to be a mass of
I gold-bearing rock, 85 feet high, 100
| feet wide and about two miles in length.
Ifce assays JjaTfc yielded S4O a ton. .
WRITING GOOD ENGLISH.
I Branch \ot Thoroughly Taught In the
Schools.
If we were to assert that net one col
lego student in four could write half a
dozen pages of his own composition in
such a manner that any well known print
ing establishment would be willing to
publish them without alteration, it
would doubtless seem to many persons
like a very strange statement. We do
not make this assertion. Perhaps it
would not be true. But if it were made
by any one else, we should by no means
feel sure enough ot its incorrectness to
contradiot it. It is certain that a very
large part of our educated youth
of both sexes are unable to put their
thoughts on paper without numerous
inaccuracies.
Perhaps the most frequent errors of
educated people to writing are those
connected with punctuation. Ti at
many mistakes of this kind are made is
not at all wouderful. There is a good
deal of difference of opinion as to what
constitutes correctness in this respect.
But tho circumstance that it is not al
ways easy to determine what point
should be used in a particular place is
no reason for writing as if punctuation
had never bei-n invented. If a man is
in doubt whether to wear a light coat or
a heavy one on a September day, it does
not necessarily follow that he should go
in his shirt-sleeves. The diversity of
theories in regard to punctuation does
not render, for instance, a letter on Sr.v
eral independent snbjeets without a
single full stop, except tho one at the
end, creditable either to the education
of the individual who writes it, or to
the institution at which he or she has
been taught.
Another class of errors which must be
mentioned is that of mistakes in gram
mar. These, it is true, are much less
frequent among young people of educa
tion than deficiencies in respect to
punctuation. Yet there are thousands
of such persons, who wonld be highly
in’ignant at the charge of writing un
grammatical English, to whom a gentle
hint that, for instance, the objective
case of the pronoun “who” always
ends with an m, or a little instruction
in regard to the proper use of the aux
iliaries “ shall aud “ will," might be of
material service.
If the more advanced students in
some of onr colleges or female semina
ries were each to be required to write,
without assistance, a letter or a compo
sition of any kind, and if then what
had been written should be printed
without alteration, and distributed
among the parents and friends of the
authors, it would constitute a species of
examination of which, we venture to
say, few institutions would be prond.
We by no means recommend sucb a test.
On the contrary, we should denounce |
an attempt of tbe kind as utterly heart- :
less and cruel. No instructor could tor j
a moment be justified in thus exposing
to ridicule his students. But it would
be, in some respects, an excellent crite
rion if professors and teachers in our
higher educational institutions, on pe
rusing the compositions toubmited to
their inspection, were to ask themselves
how these productions wonld look to
prtot. And here we would make a sug
gestion which may be valuable to some
of onr college students who aro indulg
ing hopes of distinguishing themselves ;
in literature. It is often the case that
if these young men were to submit
their experiments in writing to the ex
amination of some good compositor in
a printing office, he would be able to ’
give them valuable instruction which
their professor of English literature;
would not, and perhaps could not, .im
part. At all events, if instruction of
this kind is furnished by the professors j
in onr colleges, many of the students
appear to profit remarkably little by it.
— N. Y. Times.
Spurgeon on Smoking.
Sir. Spurgeon has addressed a letter
to the papers on account of it having
been stated that on a recent Sunday
evening, when a minister in his chapel
had condemned smoking, he rose after
the sermon, and expressed his dissent
from the preacher, aiding that it was
possible to “ smoke to the glory of God,”
and that he hoped to enjoy a cigar that
evening before he went to bed. Mr.
Spurgeon says : “I demur altogether,
and most positively, to the statement
that to smoke tobacco is in itself a rid.
It may become so, as any other indiffer
ent action may, but as an action it is no
sin. Together with hundreds and thou
sands of my fellow-christians, I have
smoked, and with them I am under the
condemnation of living in habitual sin,
if certain accusers are to be believed.
As I wonld not knowingly live even in
the smallest violation of the law of God,
and sin in the transgression of the law,
I will not own to sin when I am not
conscious of it. There is growing up
in society a pharisaic system which adds
to the commands of God the precepts
of men ; to that system I will not yield
for an hour. The preeervat on of my
liberty may bring upon me the up
braidings of many of the good and the
sneers of the self-righteous ; but I shall
endure both with sincerity so long as I
feel clear iu my conscience before God.
The expression ‘ smoking to the glory
of God’ standing alone ha* an ill sounc,
and Ido not justify it; but in the sense
in which I employed it I will stand to
it. No Christian should do anytbiog in
which he cannot glorify God—and this
may bo done, according to scripture, to
eating and drinking and the common
actions of life. When I have found in
tense pain relieved, a weary biain
soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep ob
tained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to
God and have blessed his name ; this is
what I meant, and by no means did I
use sacred words trifiingly. If through
smoking I had lost an hour of my time
—if I had stinted my gifts to the poor
—if I had rendered my mind lets vig
orous—l trust I should seo my fault
aud turn from it ; bat. he who charges
mo with these things shall have uo an
swer but my forgiveness. I am told
that my open avowal will lessen my in
fluence, and my reply is that if I have
gained any influence through being
thought different from what I am, I
have no wish to retain it. I will do
nothing uton the sly, and nothing
about which I have a doubt.”
An Aide-de-Scamp.
An amusing aaecdote is told of a well
known French general, who played a
conspicuous part in a cavalry charge.
This gallant warrior had been severely
wounded an his head and a bullet in his
thigh. Such an allowance might have
satisfied a man of qniet tastes, but was
far from sufficient for the fire-eating
general. In relating the charge, which
lie did at every dinner party, he was in
the habit of throwing in half a dozen
bayonet thrusts and a couple of stray
splinters from a shell, and he invariably
appealed for corroboration of his narra
tive to an aid-de-camp who had ridden
by his side. On one occasion, having
imbibed more than his usnal allowance
of ’47 Chateau Yquem, he drew a more
than usually startling picture of hie
riddled and perforated condition. A
cannon ball had killed his horse, a dozen
sabres had descended at once on his
head, a couple of lances had passed
through each of his arms, and all the
bullets and bayonets of Germany
seemed to have given each other a ren
dezvous in his body ! “You remember
it well, don’t you?” he added, turning
to hiß aide de-camp. The well-trained
subaltern had suffered long in silence.
The bayonets, bullets, laLces, etc., he
had got used to by long practice, bat
the cannon bail was the last straw that
broke tlie camel’s back. “ No, general,
I don’t remember it. How could yon
expect me to ? You know an well as I
do that the very cannon ball that killed
your horse strnok ihe breas plate of a
cnirassier behind us, and then bounded
back and took my heal off!”
Size of the Whale.
The sperm whale attains a very great
size. The measure of a whale in whal
ing parlance is indicated by he number
of barrels of oil it will make. Ask any
old whaling captain of forty years’ ex
perienoe how long is the longest sperm
whale and he will strive to answer the
question by estimating the known pro
portions of his ship. “ Let me see.
From just forraid of the main swifter,
well, say forty-five feet, and you have
his eye; allow one -third for the head
and yon have seventy-two. Well, now,
seventv-two feet is a long wtale ; but I
never measured one.” The largest
whale we took made 107 barrels. Its
length was seventy-nine feet; from the
uese to the buncii of the neck, twenty
six feet; thence to the hump, twenty
nino feet; from hump to tail, seventeen
feet; length of tail, sixteen feet six
inches ; height at forehead, eleven f* et;
width, nine feet six inches ; at junction
of tail, seven feet nine inches; lower
jaw, sixteen feet long and forty-one
inches in circumference at t hick part.
It had fifty-one teeth, the heaviest
weighing twenty-five ounces Blubber
on back, eighteen inches; on side,
t welve to fifteen inches, and belly, nine ,
to ten inches. The hnmp wan two feet
above tho level. The case made nine
teen barrels ; body, seventy end a half
barrels ; junk, fourteen and t half bar- I
rel3. Capt. Sullivan, of the James Ar
nold, of New Bedford, off New Zea
land took in one voyage eight whales
that made over 100 barrels each, the
largest yielding 137 barrels. The head
of this made fifty-three barrel 3, and the
case baled twenty-seven ba rels. It
was ninety feet long ; the fli kes eigh
teen feet, jaw eighteen feet, ease twenty
two feet, and forehead thirteen and a
half feet high. During the same season
and on the same ground, Capt. Vincent, j
ship Oneida, of New Bedford, took ten
sperm whales, which stowed 1,140 bar
rels. Capt. Norton, ship Monk a, of
New Bedford, took on the off shore
ground a sperm whale that stowed 145
barrels; the dimensions of this mon
ster were not taken. The proportions
of whales vary much with tho sex and
age. The young bulls and the cows are
sltnder; the cows are about one-third
the size of the bull, when measured by
the oil they yield. — Cor. N. Y. Ob
server.
Venetian Laces.
A writer in the Cincinnati Gazette
says: “ The history of some of the
Venetian laces is curious. Clement
VII. gave his neice, Catherine de Medi
cis, laces in relief of enormous value,
which afterwards became the property
of Marv Stuart. During the reign of
Louis XIV. the laces necessary for a
gentleman’s costume cost $13,000. The
pontifical dress worn by Pope Innocent
XI. is now exhibited at the exposition
at Milan, and also tbe magnificent laces
of the Princess Margaret, presented to
her on her marriage by the ladios of
Venice. The collections of antiquaries
give the clearest idea which we can
have of the variety aud peculiarities of
these laces. It is interesting to see the
admiration which these person* feel for
their treasures ; they touch them with
respect, and show I hem to an inexpert
with ecstacy. There is the point
d’Espagne, so named because the pattern
came from Spain ; point d’ivoire, imita
ted from the designs of ivory cuttings ;
point de rose, rose pattern ; but all these
are made in Venice. Their texture is
marvelous, for all these stitches, so fine
that they are scarcely visible to the eye,
where made by tbe needle in a womau’s
fingers. Happily, we may for these
things use the past tense, for the fabri
cation of a piece would olten occupy
years, and sometimes a lifetime. Their
price is as extraordinary as their work
manship. You may have for SB,OOO a
piece of lace four inches wide and long
enough to trim an overskirt, and an
other piece ftr the bertha, which, al
though not the same pattern, will yet
agree with it. For SIOO you can have
an ugly, large collar of point de rose,
which "no modern lady would ca-e about
wearing.”
A Disastrous Blander.
The Memphis cotton exchange, from
numerous reports on the cotton crop in
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and
Arkansas, estimates that in these states,
from the blighting effects of tho recent
severe drouth, the aggregate yield will
be about forty-five per cent, has than
that of last year. This will be a severe
loss to the states directly concerned ;
but there are still more discouraging
facts in this Memphis report, viz.: Hav
ing realized advances to the extent of
their interests, laborers have abandoned
the picking of the cotton in many in
stances, and as, in addition to prices of
cotton being very low, very little grain
or meat has been raised, there is much
foreboding as to the future. This de
votion of their lands and their capital
exclusively to the cultivation of cotton
has for many years proved a disastrous
blunder to our southern p’anter?. They
have depended upon their cotton to sup
ply them, not only with all their house
hold and fanning utensils and imple
ments, their clothing, furniture, etc.,
but to supply them with provisions, to
a great extent, from the northwest,
when, for manufactures of all descrip
tions and for all the articles of subsis
tence of the temperate zone, our cotton
states offer facilities and advantages
which exist nowhere else in the world.
To these important matters of southern
reconstruction the attention of southern
planters cannot be too earnestly direct
ed.— N. Y. Herald.
The Strength of Metal>.
The experiments of scientists have
demonstrated the following ficts re
specting the strength of certain mate
rials r Gold may be hammered so that
it is only one three-hundred-ai d-sixty
thousandth of an inch thick. An iron
bar would support its own weight if
stretched out to a length of 3 miles.
A bar of steel was once made which
would support its own weight if exten
ded to a length of 18| miles. Banker
Hill monument might be built more
than a mile in height withont ( rushing
the stone at its base. When bars of
iron are stretched until they break,
those which are the strongest increase
in length less than the weaker c nos. A
piece of wood having the breadth and
thickness of three inches, end the
length of four feet, if snpporte i at its
ends, would be bent one millionth of an
inch by a a weight of three pounds
placed to the center, and a weight of
one-tenth of an ounce would bend it
one-seven-millionth of an inch.
Texas Cattle Disease.
This malady has appeared in tiie west,
and is exciting mnch dread among
farmers. John Wentworth, it large
breeder of short horns, near Chicago,
writes to the Prairie Farmer : “ Farm
ers want no such cattle brought into
their neighborhood when there is no
frost. I suffered much from tne disease
in 1868. and I could not arrest its rav
ages until a heavy frost came, and such
is the experience of others. The trade
in such cattle is very lucrative and is
monopolized by a very few men, besides
the owners of stock yards and ra llroads,
affording great temptation to violate the
law during the term covered by he pro
hibition. i
VOL. 15-NO. 43.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
They Lave discovered a substitute
, for butter in Missouri. It is to put
| molasses ou the table-clotb.
The New York Pie-Baking company’s
1 factory, the krgest establishment of
I the kind in the world, has an invested
capital of §150,000. Have a piece ?
i According to Miss Lillie Edgerton,
1 the chief end of man is “to serve God,
keep out of the penitentiary, make good
investments, and have a nne obituary.’
Brigham: Young’s physician feels of
the old man’s pulse, tells him to run
out his tongue and then shakes his
head and remarks : “I dunno—l dun
no.”
Kate Field says she is conscious that
“the man doesn't live who can boast
that he has held her hand more than
two or three seconds at a time.” No
one to love.
Sorrowing widow, go to Portugal.
It is allowable there to marry after
seven weeks of mourning, and we know
of nothing more soothing to the lace
rated heart than to—than to go to Por
tugal.
That was a beautiful thought of the
poet that “ woman clings to a man like
the ivy.” But is it always true ? How
many baldheaded men can testify that
no woman ever olnng to them like the
ivy but what she let go like a grappling
iron.
Every fashionable women in Paris
hangs to her belt an alms bag, a fan, a
card-case, a pocket-book, an umbrella, a
turnip- watch, a pin-cnshion, some ivory
tablets and a little mirror. And the
sons of women like these are expected
to knock the noneen-e out of Germany
some day.
Three Highlanders sat by their toddy
on a rainy day, and as an Englishman
was present they indulged themselves
in the idioms of his country. One said,
j “ This is the best whisky I never tasted
• any more.” The second said, “So did
I neither.” The third ooncluded,
“ Neither did I too.”
Three Beasons.
“A cup for hope!” she said.
In spring-time, ere the bloom wal I;
The crimson wine was poor and cold
By her mouth'* richer red.
“ A cup for love!” how low.
How soft the word*; and all the white
Her blush was rippling with a smile,
Like summer after enow.
*• A cup for memory!”
Cold cup that, one must drain alone :
While autumn winds are up and moan
Across the barren sea.
Hope, memory, love,
Hope for fair morn, and love for day,
And memory for the evening gray
And solitary dove.
Jerome Bonaparte, the second son
of the deceased nephew of the great
Napoleon, has been recently admitted
to the bar at Baltimore, and his first
plea was pronounced an admirable ef
fort, full of promise of future distico
, tion. He is described as a fine looking
I young man of grave aspect, with an ad
; mirably formed head, and a face fall of
intellectual expression.
L Eternity is a solemn word and a sol
emn world. The si ul of man shrinks
back with dismay and dread from enter
ing that mysterious abode of spirits.
1 And yet all are on their way to eternity,
and mnst soon enter it, and enter it
alone. But bow little think the gay and
! pleasure loving, who tread so near its
dark shores, how soon they mnst launch
away on that untried ocean.
A Kansas lady, writing of a grasshop
per visitation in Marshall connty, savs :
“ Next day the cornfields looked like
plantations of bayonets. They ate the
tops of vegetables, then the roots, leav
ing a hole in the ground, In the ab
sence of other fruit, we have been
counting greatly on the peaches ; the
trees are stripped, only the stones left
hanging on by the stems.”
An American millionaire has given
an order to Dresden for a dinner ser
vice. It consists of eleven hundred
pieces, into which fifty different shades
and colors are introduced. The plates
and dishes for each course are of differ
ent pattern, and in the centre of each
plate is an enameled landscape, and on
each dish a oopy of some celebrated
piece of statuary. The cost is §5,000
gold.
Bunyan, the anther of “ Pilgrim’s
Progress,” on being cast into prison,
made a flute of one of the rails ot the
stool belonging to his cell. The keeper
often heard sweet music, but oould not
trace it, as Banyan on his approach al
ways replaced the rail in the stool. The
officers searched in vain for the myste
rious sounds, but Banyan kept his se
cret, and the baffled men were forced to
believe them supernatural.
There is a large establishment at
Kehl, opposite Strasburg, ou the Rhine,
where artificial wine is made into which
a grape never enters. In the valley of
the Rhine and the Palatinate there are
hundreds of similar manufactories
where this imitation wine is made.
The Rhenish and Alsatian wine-growers
intend to urge the German R- ichstag
to pass a stringent law against the
adulteration and falsification of wines.
Reports from seventeen cotton facto
ries near Angusta have been received,
which show that the whol • consumption
of the seventeen mills during the past
year to Aug. 31, was 19,381 bales of
cotton. Daring the last quarter of the
year they consumed 5,325 bales. Six of
these mills ran to their fnll capacity,
and eleven did not. Had all ran to
their fnll capacity, they would have
consumed 3,053 bales more than the
above total indicates.
Thought engenders thought. Place
one idea upon paper—another will fol
low it, and still another, until you have
written a page. You cannot fathom
your mind. There is a well of though
there which has no bottom. The more
you draw from it, the more clear and
fruitful will it be. If you neglect to
think for yourself and use other people’s
thoughts—giving them utterance only—
you will never know what you are capa
ble of. At first your ideas may come
oat in lumps, homely and shapeless;
but no matter, time and perseverance
will arrange an polish them. Learn to
think, and you will learn to write. The
more you think, the better yon will ex
press your ideas.
It is a curious fact that Paris, with
all its love of music and amusements,
and its crowds of foreigners, can not
support an opera—at least the state is
always called npon to furnish subsidies
in aid of the Laban and French operas,
the Opera Comiqne, and the Lyrique,
when it plays. But even with subsi
dies, which have been cut down since
! the fall of the empire the business is not
always a paying one. Thus, in 1860 he
receipts of the Italiens reached 1,200,-
i 000 francs, but the expenditure exeeed
led them by over £17,000. The singers
cost 700,000 francs, the dancers 337 000
francs, the orchestra 137 000 francs,
and the other persons employed in the
honse 168,000 francs.
The way to get credit is to be punc
tual ; the way to preserve it is net to
use it much. Settle often; have short
accounts. Trust no man’s appearance ;
appearances are deceitful, perhaps as
sumed for the purpose of obtaining
credit. Beware of gaudy exteriors;
rogues usually dress well. The rich are
plain ; trust him, if aDy one, who car
ries but little on his back. Never trust
him who flies into a passion on being
dunned, but make him pay quickly if
there be any virtue in the law. When
ever you meet a man who is ford of
argument, yon will meet one profoundly
[ ignorant of the operations cf the human
I heart. Mind yonr own affairs. Let all
| the errors yon see in others’ mauage
j meat suggest correctness in your ovu.