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I.
ANTIC lI’ATION.
‘Tit tako the orchard paU>,”*be said.
Shaking lowly, smiling alowly :
The brook wm dried within it* bed,
The hot nun flung a flame of red
bow in the Meet as forth she sjied.
Across the dried brook-course she went,
Sitigin % lowly, smiling slowly :
She scarcely saw the sun that spent
It’s fiery force in swift descent—
She never taw the wheat was bent.
The grasses parched, tho blossoms dried,
Singing lowly, smiling slowly :
Her eyef amidst the drought espied
A summer p!eaauce far and wide,
With roses and sweet violets pied.
ii.
DISAPPOINTMENT.
ISut homeward coming all the way,
Sighing lowly, pacing slowly :
She knew the bent wheat withering lay,
She saw the blossoms dry decay,
She missed the brooklet’s play.
A breeze had sprung from ont the south,
Dut, sighing lowly, pacing slowly,
She ouly felt the burning drought;
Uer eyes were hot, and parched her mouth:
Yet sweet the wind blue from the south !
And when the wind brouht welcome rain,
Still sighing lowly, pacing slowly,
She never saw the lifting grain,
But only—a long orchard lane,
Where she had waited all in Yain !
—Nora Perry.
TilK CRACK IN THE DOOR.
The prettiest house, prettiest garden,
the best servants, and the largest bank
account in X. belonged to Mrs. Mehita
ble Armstrong, widow. Some people
also declared that she was the prettiest
woman in X., but these were not the
otLer women. They 6aid that she had
red hair, and was too fat, and what the
gentlemen saw to admire in her they
could not guess, etc, etc.; but, say it
as often as they might, every man in the
place was Hetty Armstrong’s devoted
servant, friend, and, a dozen of them,
her lovers, also. A bright, dashing,
warm-hearted woman she was, as merry
as though she had never known a care.
Not that she had forgotten the love of
her youth—the gallant, black-eyed cap
tain, whose ship had gone down in mid
ocean five years before, and whose pic
tured face lay near her heart eight and
day, sleeping and waking; but she was
too full of life and hope to live entirely
in the past, and loved neither hours of
melancholy, not what women call “a
good cry.” To forget all sorrow, if she
could, and to be as happy as she might,
were the two grand rules of her life,
and, therefore, people who did not
know Hetty Armstrong thought her
heartless, and made a great mistake.
They called her a flirt, and that was
not true, either. She only flirted with
those who began the game first, and
that a woman had a right to do. At X.,
if a gentleman called twice upon a lady,
his attentions were said to be “very par
ticnlar“if he saw her home from
meeting,” rumor declared that they
were “engaged;” and if he spent an
evening with her, they were “to Be
married next week.” for certainty ; but
Hetty Armstrong was somehow not in
cluded in the general rule. She had
determined to do as she chose. She
went everywhere with eveiv unmarried
gentleman of her set. She was friendly
when she chose to bo, and flirted when
she liked. After setting gossip afloat a
dozen times, she gained her point, and
people left her alone. It was Hetty
Armstrong’s way, and no indication of
matrimonial intentions. For years gen
tlemen haunted her parlors, escorted
her hither and thither, sung with her,
danced with her, confided with her, and
adored her, and village gossip had not
not married her, until suddenly a stran
ger made his debut at X., and set the
tongues goiEg beyond even Hetty Arm
strong’s power of silencing.
He was tall, he was handsome, he was
comparatively young. He had just that
touch of exquisite about him which is
so charming when “ a man’s a man for
a’ thatfaultless in toilet, faultless in
'manner, education, accomplished alto
gether, he openly flung himself at Hetty
Armstrong’s feet and declared himself
her admirer. Of course we do not mean
to sav that he mined the knees of his
faultless habiliments by going down
upon them, or in any other way conduct
ed himself as did the knights of old when
lieart-smitten, but, after the manner of
the nineteenth century he declared his
intentions quite as openly.
He sang to and at the lady. He
haunted her parlors like a well dressed
ghost. He wrote poetry for the “Lnmi
nary,” addressed to H. A. and signed
0. R. Ho breathed deep sighs and
gave soft glances, and said things that
might have double meanings. And
this not for a week or a month, bnt for
a year, at the end of wnich time Hetty
Armstrong began to understand that
she was expected by eyerybody to ac
c°Pt Charles linkewood when he offered
lier his heart and hand. Meanwhile,
the soft eyes and sweet voice, the deli
cate attentions, and the winning songs
ef her admirer were not without their
effect upon Hetty Armstrong’s heart.
It began to be conscious of certain
ire mors and flutterings in his presence.
Her cueeks flushed as they had in girl
hood. Her dreams were not tho sober,
practical dreams which nature at five
and-twenty should alone indulge in ;
and as the days rolled on she felt more
conscious that the “Yes” which was
expected of her would be easily uttered.
She tried to be prudent and judge
the man carefully. The result was that
she declared him to be “an angel.” At
last Hetty Armstrong fairly let go of
the rndder of self-will, to which he had
clung so long, and allowed herself to
drift down the tide of circumstances
which were to lead her into the arms of
Charles Rokewood. She felt that life
would be happy with such a bosom to
repose upon, and began to wonder
whether it really was necessary for a
widow to be married in pearl color when
white was so becoming to her complex
ion,
So matters stood when Christmas
drew near, and with it Hetty Arm
strong’s regular Christmas ove party.
All X., or nearly all, would be there;
oven the Rev. Luther Paragon, who
amiably forgot to say that he disap
proved of dancing and charades when
Mrs. Armstrong declared that “she
adored them.” It was always the mer
riest party of the season at X., and
this time Mrs. Armstrong decided that
she would ontdo herself. There was a
dash more of ooquetry in her dress ; a
dash of extravagance in the sapper ; a
glitter of rare China, and a perfume of
rare flowers in the parlors—just as they
say wine warms up the wits and fancy
does love at times. All things would be
brighter, fresher, more sparkling, just
now, thought, or rather vaguely felt,
the woman who had just began to know
her heart, and thought she knew an
other’s.
She stood, in her rich dress of lace
and silk, flowers in her hair and on her
bosom, before her 'guests arrived,
before her grate fire in the parlor,
when someone touched her on the
shoulder, and, turning, she saw Charles
Rokewood.
Her face was a little paler, her eyes
more earnest in their look than usual,
and a sort of happy terror hung upon
her as she guessed why he had come so
early.
“ I knew I should find you also,” he
said, “and I have something to say to
you ; —something ”
There she stopped him. “ Don’t say
it now,” she pleaded. “ I have an
evening before mo which calls for all
mv calmness. If it is anything agi
tating, I—l must ask you to wait.
After these guests of mine are gone—or
to-morrow, I will hear you ; not now.”
Charles Rokewood bowed. “Your
will shall be my law,” he said, and
took her hand and kissed it. She let
him do it, blushing all tho while, not
caring now to look at him.
All the evening, after the other
guests were there, her thoughts wan
dered back to that moment. She know
what she would say, and she could an
swer only in one way—only ono—she
liked him so well.
“ And I have felt so sure I conld
never like any ono again,” thought
Hetty Armstrong. “ There is fate
in it.”
But she danced and sung and talked
as usual, and no ono guessed that
was what she was dreaming— not even
Mr. Rokewood, who, with a cbosen
friend, had slipped away from the par
lors, and was smoking and talking in
the dressing-room. He was a little out
of sorts. Hetty, oonscious of her du
ties as a hostess, insisted on being pub
lic property, and conld not be lured
into a tete-a-tete, and the women who
wore ready to be talked to he did not
care about. Engaged men are gener
ally known by their boorish conduct to
ladies generally. Rokewood, although
not engaged, believed himself far
enough on the road to forget suavity,
and fell back upon cigars and his mas
culine friends whenever his lady-love
could not be whispered to or gazed at.
Consequently damsals who thought
Rokewood charming were wondering
what had become of him, when Biddy,
the waitress, mysteriously beckoned
her mistress into the hall, and, in an
awful whisper, said “ more spoons were
needed for the crame.”
“ Of course there must be,” said Mrs.
Armstrong. “ Where was my poor
head to so forget it ? I’ll get poor
Aunt Martha’s set from my up stairs
china closet. Please wait on the stairs
until I come to you.”
And away ran Mrs. Armstrong to the
second floor, where she plimged into a
long, old-fashioned closet, and brought
forth a legacy of silverware left her by
her maiden aunt. Counting the spoons
over, a murmur of voices from the next
room fell upon her ear. At the same
time she caught the perfume of a cigar.
She knew that Charles Rokewoood had
the richest voice and smoked the best
cigars of any man in his set.
“ You dear old fellow,” she whis
pered to herself, * I have been so cross
to you to-night that some day I’ll be as
kind to you as I can to make np for it.”
Then, with a loving woman’s wish to
sec the dear face that is so dear to her,
she stepped forward and peeped through
a crack in the door of the china closet
opening into the little sewing room,
devoted for this evening to the gentle
men’s toilet. Every word was plainly
audible when her pretty ear approachd
so closely to the crevice, and tho first
word rivited her attention. The men
were talking of matrimony.
“ It’s a deuced boro,” said his friend.
“Yon are tied to a woman’s apron
strings for life. You can’t say yonr
soul is your own. Take my advice and
keep out of it altogether, Charles.”
“Look here, old fellow,” said Charles,
taking his cigar from between his lips,
“ that sort of a thing is all a man’s
fault. Now, when I marry, my first act
will be to prove myself master. As you
begin, so you go on, and, before the
honeymoon is over the woman who takes
my name shall kuow that my word is
law, and that hers must yield to it.”
The spoons in Mrs Armstrong’s hards
tingled together just then, but no on i
heard them. Charles went on :
“My wife, if I have one, shall have
no chance to show her temper. If she
does not like my orders she must ol>ey
without liking. I’ll break her in just as
I would a horse—bring her down at once
to the frame of mind I mean to keep
her in; purposely thwart her for a while;
contradict h9r ; object to style of drees;
make her alter her way of doing her
hair; refuse to dance attendance at
church ; make her send regrets to party
invitations when she wants to accept
them ; show her at once what she may
cxpeet. After a while I mignt yield a
little more; but because, you under
stand—not to please her.”
“ Y-e-es,” said his friend, doubtfully;
“ bnt yon can’t think how hard you’ll
find it; and if you stay out late they
make such a row—sit up for you in a
night-cap, and cry when you come in.”
“I’d manage that,” said Rokewood,
“by staying out every night until day
light. The one rule I should put in
practice wonld be—never let the woman
have her own way.”
The spoons tingled a little more, and
Mrs. Armstrong’s face was terribly
flushed, bnt she listened still.”
“ Of course you yield a great deal to
the woman you are in love with,” said
Mr. Rokewood, evidently brushing
the ashes from the cigar; “but
that’s because of the romance and
all that sort of nonsense, which
dies out with the honeymoon. You can
find women enough to write poetry to,
and to talk sentiment with, married or
single. As for your wife, she’s the
woman that keeps house for you, and
the sooner you make her aware of the
fact the better. When I marry, Jones,
my dear follow, it will be with no
idiotic idea of perpetual courtship in
my mind. I’ll begin as I intend to go
on, and be master, depend upon it.”
“But not my master,” whispered
pretty Mrs. Armstrong, “not mine.”
“Mistres3 Armstrong, them spoons,”
whispered Biddy, at the stairs just
then.
Hetty Armstrong gathered up the
spoons which had slipped down into her
lap. She looked at them as she did so.
They were solid and elegant, as was all
her silver. Her eyes glanced about the
room, which wealth and taste had made
the perfection of elegance and comfort.
Her room ! She heard down stairs the
merry chat of her guests, the sonnd of
music and dancing. She remembered
that in the kitchen her servants were
making ready a supper fit for a king.
She tnrnod to the mirror ; a handsome
woman, still young and elegantly
dressed, looked proudly back. An hour
before all this, the woman included,
she would have given to Charles Roke
wood had he been a beggar. Just a
twiuge of pain wont through her heart.
Ono tear stole down her glowing check.
Then she gave a litHe hitter laugh.
“ I alone am queen of me ! ” she
misquoted, and ran out to give the
spoons to Biddy.
“It was hard to find them,” she said,
“ but hero they are at last.”
And she laughed a little louder than
usual, and not quite naturally.
It was the merriest Christmas party
of them all, said every one of her
gnests, and Hetty Armstrong seemed
the merriest there. But no one saw
her when the door was closed upon
them, and she was alone in her cham
ber. No matter how brief a love-dream
has been, tne awaaening is nara, co
ped ally if it is sudden.
Hetty Armstrong refused Charles
Rokewood the next day, and the people
who guessed it blamed her bitterly.
As for Charles himself he was amazed,
and injured, and deeply grieved, for he
never guessed that his lecture on mar
ried life had a second auditor ; nor that
Hetty would have said “Yes” instead
@f “ No,” bnt for that crack in the
Chic a closet.
Statistics of Cigars and Tobacco,
From the advance sheets of the
yearly official report of tho tobacco
trade, the following interesting statis
tics have been gathered. The report is
for the fiscal year ending Jane 80,
1874, and will be completed about
March 1. There was exported from the
United States of native leaf tobacco.
318,097,804 pounds, amounting in value
to $30,399,181. During the same time
here was imported into the United
States, and entered for consumption,
9,213,860 pounds of leaf tobaooo, for
use in manufacture of cigars, and
5,690 pounds of stemmed, or prepared
tobacco, amounting together in value to
$5,323,550.41.
During the same time there was im
ported into the United States and en
tered for consumption, 844,774 pounds of
cigars, or, at an average of eleven pounds
to athousand, 76,880,000 cigars, amount
ing in value to 83,030,628.79. In the
same period there were manufactured
in the United States, of foreign and
domestic tobacco, and tax paid, 1,780,-
061,000 cigars.
Allowing thirty pounds of tobacco
for every 1,000 cigars manufactured,
there was used 53,428,830 pounds of
foreign and domestic leaf tobacco in the
manufacture of cigars in the United
States. The comparison shows there
were twenty-three domestic cigars mad®
in the United States to every one import
ed, and the tax thereon paid, for every ci
gar that was imported and paid duty dur
ing the same time. A close scrutiny re
veals the astounding fact that the average
number of cigars smoked in the United
States during each twenty-four hours is
5,168,000. The following amounts
of duty and taxes on tobacco and cigars
of all kinds were received by the govern
ment for the fiscal year ending as above.
Import, duty of leaf tobacco for cigars,
gold, 83,224,787.82 ; import duty on all
other kinds of tobacco and snuff, gold,
853,181.12; import duty on cigars, ciga
rettes, etc., gold, $2,872,091.47; tax on
cigars, cheroots, etc., currency. $9,333,-
502.24; tax on manufactured tobacco,
currency, $20,900,509.67 ; tax on snuf,
currency, $1,038,445.62; tax received
from all other sources from tobacco,
currency, $1,070,327,79; total amount
of import duties paid in gold, $6,150,-
060.41; total amount of taxes paid in
currency, $33,242,875.62 ; grand total,
$39,202,926.03.
The Titusville Courier says that the
production of petroleum in western
Pennsylvania during the year 1874
would fiil a canal thirty feet wide at the
top, fifteen feet at the bottom, seven
feet deep and over seventy-five miles
long.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3. 1575.
THK FARMER FEEOKTII ALL.
My lord rides through his palace gate,
My lady sweeps along in state;
The sage thinks long on many a thing,
And the maiden muses on marrying ;
The minstrel harpeth merrily.
The sailor ploughs the foaming sea,
The huntsman kills the good red deer,
And the soldier wars without e’en fear;
But fall to each, whate’er befall,
The farmer he must feed them all.
Smith hammereth cherry red the sword.
Priest preacheth pure the Holy word;
Dame Alice worketh ’broidery well,
Clerk Richard tales of love can tell;
The tap wife sells her foaming beer,
Dau Fisher fisheth in the mere;
And courtiers ruffle, strut, and shine,
While pages bring the gascon wine.
But fall to each, whate’er befall.
The farmer he must feed them all.
Man bnilds his castles fair and high,
Wherever river runneth by ;
Great cities rise in every laud,
Great churches sh'jw the builder’s baud;
Great arches, monuments, and towers,
Fair palaces and pleasing bowers ;
Great work is done, be it here or there,
And well man worketh everywhere;
But work or rest, whate’er befall,
Tho farmer ha must feed them all.
FACTS FROM ALL SOURCES.
THE THISTLE TAX.
The Canada thistle is gradually work
ing its way westward, having now
reached lowa and Kansas. It appeared
in Indiana and Illinois several years ago,
but vigorous efforts were taken on the
part of the states, and the warfare is
constantly kept up. Men are employed
at regular wages to dig and burn the
plants, it being ineffectual to leave
them on the surface of the ground to
dry and die. Wherever the thistle gets
a foothold in a community, tho damage
is equal to a tax of 10 per cent, on all
the farming land, at a fair valuation.
It is agreed that the seed was first in
troduced, in the hay with which fruit
trees are packed. It would be better to
raise one’s own trees, and have inferior
fruit, than to be thus burdened.
Granges, agricultural societies, and
clubs should make it an especial busi
ness to watch the Canada thistle.
THE GRASSES. .
Dr. Bachelder, of central New York,
talks thus of the different grasses with
which he has been experimenting:
Perennial rye grass he considers of no
value for hay or pasture, as it will not
endure the winters; but Italian rye
grass, he says, is hardy anywhere in
New York, and is one of the most valu
able grasses known either to cut for
soiling or for hay. In vigor it is, like
orchard grass, but it is finer in texture,
and is of the “ cut-and-come-again
kind,” often producing two crops in a
season and then a rich aftermath.
Meadow fescue he finds to be one of
the most vigorous grasses, adapted to
either meadow or pasture. It equals
timothy in the amount of hay and can
be out at the same time. It is a good
grass TO grow witu xj.
vernal grass ought to be grown in the
meadow to give fragrance to the other
hay. Cattle devour it with great eager
ness. Orchard grass alone, or with the
medium clover, is valuable, but it ripens
too soon for timothy. If cut just before
tho flower-scape opens it makes a valu
able hay, bnt if left till it ripens its seed
is no better than rye straw.
USES OF SAWDUST.
A correspondent of Farmor
writes : About six years ago I had a
saw-mill set on my farm. At first they
washed the dust, as the sawyers called
it, by letting a stream of water run
under the saw. As the water got low
it would not work; then they had to
wheel it out in a pile, and when they
went away I had a big pile of sawdust
on my hands. As it was on a good
piece of bottom land that I desired to
plow, I wanted it out of my way. I
tried to burn it, but it would not burn.
I concluded at last to turn it to some
good account; so when I put my hogs
np to fatten I hauled a good load every
few days and threw it in the pen.
They mixed it with their manure and
the cobs, and in the spring I had about
twenty loads of the very best manuro,
besides keeping tho hogs clean and dry.
I used the sawdust for bedding the
horses and oows ; i put it around my
grape vines to keep down grass and
weeds and the ground moist. The
vines improved wonderfully. So my
sawdust is used up, and it has paid.
If I was to have a mill again I would
make a bargain to have the sawdust left
on the ground.
GRAFTING WAX.
Ono pound of rosin, five ounces 95
per cent, alcohol, one ounce beef tal
low, one table-spoonful of turpentine.
Melt the rosin over a slow fire, add the
beef tallow, and stir with a perfectly
dry stick or piece of wire. When some
what cooled add the turpentine, and
last the alcohol in small quantities,
stirring the mass constantly. Should
the alcohol cause it to lump, warm
again until it melts. Keep in a bottle.
Lay it on in a very thin coat with a
brush. Should it prove thick, thin it
down with alcohol. It is always ready
for use ; it is never affected by heat or
cold, and heals up wounds hermetically.
LIQUID GRAFTING WAX.
The Horticulturist gives the follow
ing formula for making Lefort’s graft
ing wax, which is said to have been
highly recommended in France and
until lately kept secret: Melt one
pound of common rosin over a gentle
fire. Add to it one ounce of beef tal
low and stir it well. Take it from the
fire, let it cool down a little, and then
mix with a tablespoonful of spirits of
turpentine, and after that about seveu
ounces of very strong alcohol, (sixty
five per cent.,) to be had at any drug
gist’s store. The alcohol cools it down
so rapidly that it will be necessary to
put it again on the fire stirring it con
stantly. Still the utmost care must be
exercised to prevent the , alcohol from
getting inflamed. To avoid it, the best
way is to remove the vessel from the
fire when the lump that may have been
i formed commences melting again, This
must be continued 1 ill the whole is a
homogeneous mass similar to honey.
After a few days’ exposure to the
atmosphere in a thin coat, it assumes a
whitish color, and becomes as hard as
stone, being impervious to water or air.
The Military Infatuation.
Just now Europe is suffering from
one of her periodical military infatua
tions. Everybody predicts war. All
the cabinets prognosticate hostilities.
Business is depressed and stocks de
cline, and an indefinable feeling of in
security and dread fills the air. Bat
when the inquiry is pressed beyond
these superficial aspects of tho situa
tion it is hard to discover any tangible
and satisfactory reasons for the forebod
ing. The ghost in a single closet does
not account for the universal scare.
The only facts that as yet have come
to the surface are that Germany, know
ing that France feels her humiliation
and ckafes under it and may some day
endeavor to offset the recollection of
Sedan, increased her army to a mil
lion and three-quarters of men. All
the reserves of the empire are drawn
upon to tho utmost to put the available
military forces into training for a possi
ble contingency. The experience of the
late struggle as to the value of particu
lar arms and methods of operation is
being utilized, and the nation has been
increased and made more efficient. But
Germany has no foreign foe, and no
quarrel on hand. Any immediate war
with France is ont of the question.
Trouble with Russia she may have pro
vided she provokes it. Trouble she
may have with Italy and Spain and
France if she attempts to bully the
oollege of Cardinals into electing a Ger
man Pope. And she may have trouble
with England and Russia if she insists
on absorbing Denmark. But there is
no legitimate occasion 'for war and no
reason for this enormous increase of her
army. The other’ nations have natu
rally enough taken alarm, and begun to
increase their armies and navies too.
simply because Ger many has increased
hers, and to-day Europe has larger
military establishments than ever be
fore in a time of peace. The posses
sion of the instrument is a temptation
to use it, and snch splendidly equipped
and thoroughly drilled armies are a
constant provocation. Considering the
poverty of Europe, the oppressiveness
of taxes, the degradation and suffering
of the lower classes in every nation,
these enormous military establishments
are terrible perversions of power and
property. It is only necessary to think
of the industrial foroo reamwenteil hv a
million and three-quarters of men in
the most productive period of life to
see wuaii a Jxun Gormany is making
on the resource of the nation. And yet
every soldier has to be supported by
the productive energies of the young
and old, the lame and the infirm, the
women and the children ! We have a
great deal to complain of, but it is mat
ter for congratulation that we have no
great army to support and no military
infatuation.
American Girls.
A Freneh traveler, who has recently
passed some months on this side of the
Atlantic, furnishes the Revue des Deux
Mondes quite a lengthy sketch of life
and manners in America. Without com
ment we give that portion of his sketch
in which reference is made to the man
ners and customs of the average Ameri
can girl. We imagine, however, that
the picture drawn will be readily recog
nized. Tne writer says : “ The young
American girls only live to have the
best possible time. They are as free as
can be. Fortunately, their exaggerated
love of pleasure is checked by a calcu
lating temperament, which saves them
from many a fall. Then, the laws of
the country protect them more efficient
ly than ours would against the enter
prise of the male intriguer. They do
not, however, prevent many abuses, and
fast young ladies are by no means a
rarity in the city of New York. During
the day they go with some friends, or
with the escort of him who has the
privilege to flirt with them, to the Cen
tral Park. In winter they'go sleighing
and skating, aud air their curiosity in
all the stores of Broadway. There they
get all sorts of goods spread out before
them; they ask the price of each, and
buy none. The impassive salesman
dots not show the least sign of discon
tent. There is a peculiar word for that
singular custom. It is * shopping. ’
Another custom which is largely prac
ticed by American ladies is to enter con
fectionery shops aud take ice creams at
every opportunity. * * * In the
evening the same young ladies are teen
at the theatres and in the fashionable
eating-saloons. If a groat ball y s given
anywhere, you may be sure to meet
them there. In summer they flock to
watering-places, such as Saratoga, Long
Branch and Newport, where several
times a day they make a display of
dresses which might ruin a score of hus
bands ; or they cross the ocean, and
astonish European folks by their merry
freaks. * * * Many people aeons"
tomed to our habits would not fancy
such girls for wives; and they may not
be wrong ; but the truth is that these
gay, light-hearted and often dangerous
ly-imprndent girls make, in the end,
excellent wives aDd mothers.”
A wee-bit girl in Cusco, Wis., while
at the breakfast table, a few mornings
sine®, made loud and repeated calls for
buttered toast. After disposing of a
liberal quantity of that nourishing arti
cle, she was told that too muoh toast
would make her sick. Looking wist
fully at the dish for a moment, she
thought she saw a way out of her diffi- -
culty, and exclaimed : “ Well, give me
annuzzer piece and send for the doctor.”
Malleable Blass.
The French journals contain an oc
count of experiments made with anew
kind of glass so perfectly annealed as
to have lost all brittleness, wherefore
the inventor calls it, justly or unjustly,
malleable glass. His name is De la
Bartre, and ihe experiments were made
at the workshop of the railroad com
pany of Pont d’Ain, said company wish
ing to ascertain the value of an inven
tion which at the present day is exciting
a great deal of interest, especially in
such pursuits where glass is exposed to
a great deal of strain and danger.
A pane of common glass a quarter of
an inch thick, of which the borders were
supported by a wooden frame, was laid
on the ground. A oopper weight of
four ounces was droppep on its surface,
elevating gradually the height of its
fall. The glass broke at the shock
caused by two and a half feet of fall.
In place of that pane another, half as
thick, was substituted, of one-eighth of
an inch in thickness, of tho glass tem
pered after the new method. The same
weight was dropped, raising success
fully to the height of the ceiling of the
hall, without causing any damage to the
glass.
The experiments were continued out
side the building, and the experimenter
climbed on a ladder leaning against a
wall, to let the weight fall. It broke
at a fait from seventeen feet. It was
then proved that the tempered glass
does not break by shocks of loßger or
shorter duration, as the common glass
does. It is broke in a great number of
very small crystals, resulting from its
new molecular disposition. When
thrown on the ground the tempered
glass rebounds, giving a special sound
like that of the fall of a sheet of metal.
The observations as to its resistance
to heat have caused another series of
experiments to bo made. A strip of
common glass was laid flat over the
flame of a lamp. At the end of twenty
four seconds a sudden noise told that
the glass was split. A glass annealed
according to the new method subjected
to the same conditions resisted indefi
nitely. It was taken and plunged in a
pail of water, put again all wet above
the flame. It was in no way broken by
the fire.
Patents have been taken in France
and in other countries. A society was
formed at Bourg by the aid of some
friends, who have offered their testimo
nials to the inventor. The buildings
for manufacturing this kind of glass are
in course of erection.
We add to these details, given by the
lUCK.I juuruaiD, x .
ented his process in France.
The claim of his invention is : As
soon as the malleability begins the glass
is thrown at once in a greasy, resinous
or other r.ubstance, previously heated
to various degrees, in proportion to the
nature and quality of the glass on which
they operate.
Changing the Earth’s Geography.
Several projects which are likely to
change the features of geography to
some extent have been furnished the
American geographical society and are
worthy of notice. The Suez canal—
already successfully carried out—has
separated entirely the continents of Asia
and Africa. The Isthmus canal, be
tween the Pacific ocean and the Ca
ribbean sea, will, in like manner, when
completed, divide the North and South
American] continents. Tho proposed
Maryland and Delaware ship canal, to
connect the waters of tho Chesapeake
and Delaware bays, by the Sassafras
river, will convert.the large peninsula,
150 miles long from north to south,
and over 65 miles wide at the widest
part, comprising more than three
fourths of the state of Delaware, the
counties of Northampton and Accomao,
Virginia, and nearly all that portion of
Maryland on the eastern shore—an area
of little loss than 5,000 square miles —
into an island. Another ship canal is
to cut off the peninsula of Barnstable
from the main land of Massach. Both
of the two latter enterprises, it is
thought, will soon be accomplished, as
the benefits to American commerce that
will oome from them are most manifest.
Will Whisky Freeze?
It was lately stated as an example of
intense Gold that in Montana, on the
night of the 13th instant, the mercury
in the thermometers all froze small
quantities of mercmy in vials became
congealed, and proof whisky placed out
of doors froze solid in half an hour.
This la f item is the only one which
has elicited an expression of incred
ulity. The proof whisky that froze
in half an hour is regarded by a con
temporary as beyond belief. The freez
ing of the mercury happens at thirty or
forty degrees below zero, but absolute
alcohol, it is declared, has never been
frozen, though Prof. Farraday found it
looked a little turbid when subjected to
a temperature (artificial) of 166 degrees
below zero. High wines contain 75
per cent of alcohol. Proof spirits of
government standard are plaoed at 50
per cent, alcohol, and as the Newark
(N. J.) Advertiser remarks, the alcohol
this Montana whisky contained would
have separated from the water in the
progress of freezing like tho “core” in
a frozen barrel of oider. If it actually
froze solid it was a harmless variety of
whisky. In the severest cold of the
Arctic explorations proof Bpirit never
froze, though there was a burlesque
about the men in Parry’s expeditions
chopping the brandy out of the cask
with an ax. The probable explanation
of tho Montana phenomenon is that tho
ppiritfi were sat.aside in an open vessel,
when the whisky evaporated rapidly
and loft the component water frozen.
Ovcr-Exerdse.
Gymnastic training has received a
temporary back-set by the death of
young Cashing from injuries sustained
in the gymnasium connected with the
Boston Institute of Technology. Of
course, his case was somewhat exception
al, and abuse furnishes no argument
against use. But it seems to be a law
of human development to push a par
ticular tendency to an extreme, regard
less of consequences, and then to push
the opposite tendency to a similar ex
treme. A few years ago the Graham
fever swept over the oountry, and
hundreds of people dropped the eating
of flesh as poisonous, and starved them
selves on hard bread and cold water
with a raw turnip now and then by way
of variety, the good in the Graham
system was turned into evil by abuse.
Hydropathy was an invaluable discov
ery in itself, but no sooner was it found
that a class of peculiar cases might be
benefited by a treatment of cold water
than the extremists set about soaking
and bathing ’and showering and pack
ing and douching everybody for all real
and possible maladies, and doubtless
hundreds of people had their vitality
quenched and washed into their graves
by the unreasoning application of a
method which is admirably suited to
particular eases and constitutions.
Half a century ago systematic physi
cal exercise was hardly thought of, and
students, olerks, and people of seden
tary habits and quiet pursuits suffered
for want of muscnlar development and
aotivity. Physicians and health re
formers preached exercise to people
who could not afford horseback riding,
and had not time to walk enough to get
tho exercise they required. The gym
nasium grew out of a necessity. Bnt
like other needful and useful things it
has been carried to an extreeme, in many
cases, which has proved injurious, if
not fatal. The notion has gained cur
rency that exercise is a good thing in
and of itself, and when a person has
exhausted hiß vital forces by brain work
it is only necessary to exercise his
muscles in a vigorous way to regain his
equlibrium. Expenditure of nerve
power must be balanced by an equal
expenditure in muscular activity, and if
the time is shortened the action must
be correspondingly increased in vio
lence. The folly of this notion is ap
parent when it is remembered that the
system is a unit, and the vital force ex
pended in one way cannot be recovered
by another expenditure in a different
way, any more than a man regains
the money he expends out of one
- a “° nnt
that recuperation requires rest as well
as exercise, and that every tension of
the will should be followed by a pas
sive condition. Modern life is an ag
gregation of activities. Everybody is
on the jump. The faculties are strained
to their utmost tension. Study, and
business, and pleasure are done on the
high-pressure principle, and the same
intensity of movement is carried over
into recreation and appears in violent
exercises in climbing, rowing, ball-play
ing, and the performances of gymna
sium. It should be borne in mind that
the antithesis of action is not action in
another way, but qniet and passive re
pose. The vegetative processes must
be respected, and the jaded faculties
must be given time for recuperation.
Tho thing wanted is not a crusade on
calisthenics and the gymnasinm, bnt a
wise discretion in their use. We have
learned how to make a perfect horse
and ox and hound; we have not yet
learned how to make a perfect man or
woman. In this respect the wise old
Greeks wore far ahead of any modern
people, and it would be well for our
teachers to borrow a hint from their
methods and experience.
The Piano or the Future.
Anew thing in music! It has re
cently been ascertained that by the ap
plication of electric communication any
number of pianos can be performed
upon simultaneously by the person who
touches the keys of the central one. It
is proposed by this means to till every
nook and corner of the centennial expo
sition buildings with melodies. In fact
the discovery or invention, whichever it
is, was arrived at by some genius who
was delving abont for something with
which to create a centennial sensation.
The idea is, of course, a novel one,
brims over with cugpontivonoco.
Let there be a mammoth instrument
located in a city upon the same princi
ple as our gas tanks and reservoirs.
The community might tax itself for the
purpose, and issue municipal music
bonds. Then let there be a musician
engaged both day and night to manipu
late the keys. By a system of tele
graphic connection every parlor that
could boast of a piano would echo the
refrain. The flow of melody would, o
course, be subject to some sort of valve,
and could be turned off or on at pleas
ure, just as we do our gas and water
A meter might be so constructed as to
indicate the number of feet of music
furnished at a given time. Truly, an
era in piano-playing is drawing upon
us. When the thing is all perfected, r;
will no longer matter whether or
not we have musioal sons anti
daughters at home in order that wo
may have music at home. Serenading
will be discounted entirely. When
bed-time comes, a full head of Straus,
or Vedi, or Donizetti, or Offenbach, or
Will S. Hays, might be turned on, and
as the sweet sounds filled the house
from garret to cellar the whole family
might be wafted serenely into dream
land. Eat if . about midnight the cor
poration musiciars should take a no'ioa
to try a little Warner, whatahowl vroul i
startle the dosing moon !
VOL. 16—NO. 6.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
A DOCTOR’S STORY.
Mrs. Rogers lay in ber l>ed.
Bandaged and blistered from foot to head.
Bandaged and blistered from bead to toe,
Mrs. Rogers was very low.
Bottlo and sancer, spoon and enp,
On the table stood bravely np ;
Physic of highr and low degree ;
Calomel, catnip, boneeet tea;
Everything a body could bear,
Excepting light, and water, and air.
I opened the blinds; the day was bright,
And God gave Mrs. Rogers some light.
I opened the window; the day was fair,
And God gave Mrs. Rogers some air.
Bottles and blisters, powders and pills,
Ca‘ nip, boneset, syrup and squills;
Drugs and medicines, high and lew,
I threw them as far as I could throw.
“ What arc you doing ?” my patient cried,
“ Frightening death.” I coolly replied.
“ Yon are crazy ?” a visitor said;
1 lluug a bottle at ber head.
Deacon Rogers he came to me;
“ Wife is a cornin’ around, ’ said he,
“ I really think she will worry through;
She scolds me just as she used to do.
All the people have pointed and slurred
All the neighbors have had their word;
’Twas better to perish, some of ’em say.
Than to be cured in such an irregular way.”
“ Your wife,” eaid I, “had God’s good care,
And his remedies--Ught, and water, and air.
All the doctors, beyond a doubt.
Couldn’t have cured Mrs. Rogers without.”
Tho deacon smiled and bowed his head;
“ Then yonr bill is nothing,” he said.
“ God’s be the glory, as you say;
God bless you doctor; good day—good day.”
If ever I doctor that woman again,
I’ll give ber medicines made by men.
A Georgia farmer guards his smoke
honse with a circle of sixteen bear traps.
It is better to bo alone in this world
than to bring up a boy to play on the
accordeon.
A book has been published called
“ Half Hours with Insects.” The au
thor was not a regular boarder— N. Y.
Mail.
A man may be properly said to have
been drinkiDg like a fish when he finds
that he has taken enough to make his
head swim.
TnERE will be two eclipses of the son
this year, one on April 6, not visible in
the United States, and another on Sep
tember 29, visible east of the Missis
sippi.
“ Thar’ lays a man who’d give his
last chaw of terbacker to a starvin’
stranger, and then pay him for spit
ting,” was the eulogy pronounced on
William Hart, of Tennessee.
It looks a little strange to the Mis
souri traveler who knocks at a door to
have the man open it, push a shot-gun
ont and inquire what’s wanted, bnt the
owner of the shot-gun knows his busi-
There is nothing half so saa in me
as the spectacle of an auctioneer at
tempting to sell $15,000 worth of goods
to an audience whose aggregate and
tangible assets foot up thirty cents.
Some physiogomists say that the back
of a man, his head, etc., show his real
self more truly than his face, with its
trained and oonscious expression, in
which he seeks to reveal or hide snch
parts of his nature as he sees fit.
A baby boy in Nevada has no hair,
and the doctors say he never will have
any. Perhaps the Almighty has
changed the style of getting up the
masculine human in view of the well
known modern propensity of wemen to
yank something.
Oranges are now raised in snch quan
tities, and of such excellent quality,
in the neighborhood of GalvestoD,
Texas, that the importation of the
fruit, it is thought, will shortly ceas9
at that port.
The St. Lawrence county (N, Y.)
dairymen have been discussing the
length of time a dairy oow should go
dry. After two hours’ debate a vote
was taken, which rosulted in a six
weeks’ vacation for each dairy cow,
beginning with the first of January of
each year.
This is tho way one choir sings the
first verso of Jerusalem, my happy
home: ”
Yifi- lu sali-leng, Yisee-! u-sah-len g,
Di ming jih-eziee pan-pe;
Ling-coug z-’eo kyi-z we tao,
Teh ngo zin gyi eu-we ?
The choir to which we now refer is
composed of Chinamen ; but there are
plenty of American choirs that can sing
it just as badly.
TnE queen of England’s daughters
are examples to the rest of the fashion
able world in industry and taste. At
the 1-oynl Sarins cottage each of the
princesses has a garden which she cul
tivates with her own hands. They have
learned to cook, and they frequently
sit down to u meal prepared by one or
the other. Louise, wife of the marquis
of Lome, is a clever artist.
An observing Frenchman thus writes
of what he saw in this oonntry: “ In
winter evenings, when there comes np
one of those dense fogs which are so
common over in America, it is no un
usual thing to meet in the streets a man
carrying a lantern, which resembles
one of our magic lanterns. He selects
a frequented spot, and when the crowd
becomes dense around him he turns his
lantern towards the lowering clouds.
At that instant, a3 if by miracle, the by
standers behold in the midst of the
heavous, which do duty for a curtain, a
gigantic advertisement recommending
some dry goods establishment or cloth
ing store. The second example is more
simple, but not less ingenious. One
often pauses on tho street a citizen
walking rapidly, and treading with all
his weight on the sidewalk. You draw
near, and on the asphalt, in the trace
left by the footprints of the personage
in question, you read an advertisement,
printed in clear and elegant characters.
The man ’m -walking advertisement,
and he were shoos with nailed lettetpon
their soles,”