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THE SONG OP THE RAIN*
I sing of the rain, the pitiless rain
That pours forever down,
On mountain height, and level plain,
And every dripping town—
The rainbow that for ages shown
Seems vanished from the sky and gone,
While cloud-bursts rise and thunder by
Like drops of some great deluge nigh.
The lightnings flash like arrows shot
Prom the armies overhead,
Like Parthian hosts who flying fought
And conquered as they fled—
On many a field, in many a home,
The swift and deadly bolts have come,
Where youth and strength and beauty lay
So still beneath the lightning’s play.
The swelling streams, like hosts below,
Shout to the hosts on high,
And heedless all of human woe,
They sweep resistless by—
And on the field of battle dread _
The living come to seek their dead,
Where songs and laughter on each shore
Are drowned and hushed forevermore.
And blacker than the blackest storm
Of whirlwind fierce and strong,
The specter, evil-dreadful form
Of falsehood and of wrong—
The sin that stalks through all the world*
With curses deep at heaven hurled,
Its footprints on the ages gone,
Its reign of terror not yet done.
But for the whirlwind and the flame,
The evil dark and dim,
The answer to the patriarch came,
And calmed the storm for him—
And ’mid the thunder and the rain .
The “still small voice” is heard again,-
To calm for us the sea of life,
Or make us still amid the strife.
I hold the thunder in my hand,'
The whirlwind and the rain,
Amid the brooding darkness stand,
The sorrow and the pain—
As brightly as it shone of old
Will shine again the arch of gold,'-
And life’s dark secret stand revealed,
^ome day its pain and sorrow healed.
“My father steers the ship for me,”
The sailor boy once said;
And this the word that calms the sea
For us when sore afraid—
Prom chaos sprung the world at first,
From midnight morning glories burst,
And storm and cloud like birth-pangs come,
The prelude of the heavenly home.
—J- H. Cuthbert, in Mail and Express,
no deceit in Nan. Whatever she did
was so frank that Joel’s reproof was
tempered by a strange feeling which
caused him to forgive the spirit which
prompted Nan’s action—a feeling he
knew not how to analyze.
Once, when she had perpetrated some
especially annoying trick on him, and he
had met her out of school hours on the
way home, her pretty smile and look of
respect had driven every spark of anger
from his heart, and he broke out:
“Oh, Nan! Why will you-
can coM3
me,
MAV
Bang - !
A snow-ball whizzed through the air,
and away over the fence sailed the Pro
fessor’s hat, battered and dishonored.
A ripple of girlish laughter floated up
from some one behind him, and looking
around angrily, the Professor caught a
’“ipse of a pair of dark, roguish eyes
him . out of »pretty hood,
maide>r\ not ilide tbe sau cy face of the
She^&Sr £ ad thrown the ball,
climbed ESSK? * the Professor as he
disfigured yenc . e and regained his
to smooth its battered sides; then 'SEeT
scampered, toward the school-house.
Joel Sherwood had just emerged from
the university at W , with consider
able honor and the degree of good opin
ion most qaen of his age entertain for
themselves. He really was entitled to a
great deal of credit for the courage and
steadfastness of purpose with which he
had toiled to make his way through the
tedious university course. He had done
it alone, and at the same time managed
to help his widowed mother in keepin- -
what had proved to be a very guant and
persistent wolf from the door. But the
world, as is its custom, had been sonny
what slow in recognizing his genius; so
that when the winter term of school at
Weston was offered to him, he was only
too glad to accept it, hoping that mean
time something better would come to
him.
He picked up his hat, with some sense
of disgrace, and strode on to the school-
house.
It was the eventful “first day,” and
it must be confessed that Joel’s heart for
a minute sank very low as he saw the
roguish face disappear through the door
of the building which was to be his castle
for the next few months. He had a dim
fereboding that trouble was in store for
him. But shortly his courage rallied
and with his lips closed a little more
firmly than usual, he stepped to his desk.
Nan, with many a girlish giggle, was
relating her adventure to a circle of ad
mirers.
“The idea of a young fellow like him
bringing a tall hat down here! My
how mad he looked when the thino- went
over the fence! Well, it was “rather
mean, after all; but I’ll never see him
again I don’t know who he is. Some
city chap, I s’pose, down to look at tlrb
natives!”
Just then the door opened and the
Professor walked in. e
It Joel could have seen the glorious
crunson which sweptNan’s face, he might
rieto^Bihl POOr J J prized was * er
victory. But he was busy and had al
most forgotten the episode a moment la-
But she had pulled her hand out of his,
and fled before the words were out of his
mouth.
And Nan—she was the same thought
less girl, as far as Joel could see, as the
weeks sped quickly by and brought them
nearer the end of the term. She led the
boys and girls in every game. She could
outskate them; not a boy dared to
challenge her to a race on the ice for fear
of the defeat he knew would await him.
Her happy laugh rippled everywhere.
Not a boy but would have risked his
life for her. Not a girl but fled to her
in time of trouble, for she was ever to
them a champion equal to every emer
gency. To all slie was simply “Nan”—
kind, loving, mirthful “Nan.”
About the time Joel’s school closed,
the river, which had been frozen all
winter, began to break up, and the ice
gave signs of going out. Here and there
great seams appeared, and a warning
roar sounded through the valley.
Some of the older boys who had ex
plored the stream higher up, very sagely
predicted that there would be trouble
before night; but this brought to Joel’s
mind little fear. He thought the stream
might rise, and cany away the ice, but
that would be all. He knew nothing
about the fearful gorges which sometimes
dammed the river, and flooded the entire
country for miles around.
At noon the report came that a gorge
was forming a short distance above the
school house. There never before had
been such a pile of ice crowded into that
part of the river, and water was be
ginning to flow over the valley. A heavy
rain set it, falling for hours in torrents.
Still Joel had no idea what danger was
impending. This was his first experience
with the river, and when some of his
pupils begged to go home, he thought it
best for them to wait until the storm be
came less terrible or their parents came
for them. This latter thing happened
sooner than he had thought likely, and
some of the sturdy yeomen came for their
| little one quite a while before the usual
time for their dismissal, and gravely ad
vised Joel to close for the day, as they
feared trouble from the gorge up the
river.
At length the young man, impressed
more by the anxious faces of the chil
dren than by any thought of real dan
ger, told them to go, and quietly pro
ceeded to help them get started for
home.
Night was dropping down over the
valley. The storm king was abroad in
all his fury. The night gave promise Vlse *
of being a terrible one.
the chiIc[ren~'go“
to
The
It was brought back again, however
mnr n chanced to glance at Nan. Once
more the flood
, , , of crimson dved her
cheeks, but she buried her face in a book
and waited until it had vanished.
******
That winter Joel Sherwood learned
many valuable lessons. It was a good
school for him. He knew more about
himself when the term was over than fie
ever had before. He put away the silk
hat, and wondered why he ever should
have worn it down 1 to Weston.
By this timh’*hfe 'did not feel himself so
very much superior to the people there
as he had felt. They proved to be kind-
hearted and intelligent, and he liked
them better the more he knew them.
He had found Nan a disturbing ele
ment in his little dominion. Not that
she meant to do anything wron 0 " * but
she had too much mischief in her nature
not to be at the bottom of many a pro
ject which brought the new teacher into
disrepute. She never pretended that she
had no hand in these plots. There was
ting the childreh’ go sooner when he
opened the door and heard the sullen
roar which came from the gorge.
He listened sharply.
Yoifder came a,man on horseback,
riding rapidly.
What was the matter.
The rush of waters smote his ear. The
truth flashed over him.
The ice gorge had given way!
The young man’s face grew pale as he
drew the children back into the house
and shut the door. He could not let
them go now. It was too late.
A few minutes more and a wide cur
rent of water swept around the build
ing, cutting off all hope of escape on
foot. It was now plain that they were
hemmed in.
The horseman waved his hand toward
them, and then wheeled away to seek
other means of reaching the school-
house. It was a trying place for the
j oung teacher, and some courage was re
quired to look calmly into the faces of
the awe-stricken children and trv
quiet them. y
But m, this he had a helper in Nan
gin s face showed nothing of the
enor Joel expected to see in her The
woman seemed to have suddenly come
l pi P „ a , C , e of the ^nicking girl. She was
here there, everywhere, cheering the
younger ones in a most motherly way.
How this crisis had transformed her!
Joel noticed more than ever now what a
strong face she had. He had always
thought her pretty; now a look had come
upon her features which indicated the
spirit which makes women heroic. She
a< ~ ooooine a calm, self-possessed woman.
»v Hile J oel was thinking of this,
through the dusk came a boat, manned
by two farmers. It slowly pushed its
way through the current, fighting hard
against wind, ice and drifting wood; but
it was not long before the rescuers reached
the imperiled house. Joel could no
longer open the door without letting in a
little ocean. Tiny rivulets were spread
ing over the floor. The only way to get
the children into the boat was through
an open window.
Not more than half the number were
able to get into the boat. The rest must
wait. v
“Hadn’t you better get in now, Mr.
Professor?” asked one of the men when
the boat was ready to push off for the
bank.
“Not as long as there is any one else to
go, Zeb,” was Joel’s firm response, as he
gave the boat a steady shove away from
the house.
A half-hour of suspense passed. Then
the dim outline of the boat appeared
through the gloom again.
“The boat is full enough,” said Joel
as he tucked the last one of the children
securely into the boat. ‘ ‘The load would
be too heavy and trouble might come of
it if I should get in. I hope the worst
is over anyhow. Even if the water rises
two feet more, T can still find a way to
eep out of it until morning, nerhans ”
to felveTou
Get in * ° ne „? f the men > hesitatingly.
Getm, and we’ll get through all right,'I
Ho, ’ was the quick response. “Q 0
ahead. If you
right. If not—:—” t • _ ,
He paused. Somethuig in Nan’s eyes
awoke a tumult in his breast. A strange
light shone in them, and as Joel leane
down from the window toward her, m
answer to a slight movement of her hand,
she whispered:
“Mr. Sherwood, I’m sorry I’ve made
you so much trouble this winter. I
didn’t mean it. Will you forgive me?'
The only reply Joel gave was a warm
pressure of her hand. That was enough.
She understood it. Then the boat
pushed out into the twilight.
But it left behind a very happy young
man, in spite of his desperate position.
After such a confession from Nan, what
could he nob venture? Floods could not
sweep the joy which thrilled hum
But an hour sped by and still Joel
was alone. The water kept rising steadi
ly till it drove him to the top of the
desks. He noticed that the tide was
coming up much faster than at any time
before. There was no longer such a rush
about the house.
Studying the situation for a while,
Joel made up his mind that a gorgemust
have formed somewhere below him, and
the water, no longer able to run out,
was backing up, leaving him in the midst
of a great sea. If this were true the out
look was not at all encouraging.
He peered anxiously out over the
waters for some sign of the returning
boat. Nothing but intense darkness met
his gaze.
Another hour passed. Inch by inch
the river crept up, driving him from place
to place until he was now on the highest
possible point. Now he must quietly
await his fate.
But it was not very heroic to be
drowned like a rat. He must do some
thing to save himself.
At length a star glimmered in the dis
tance. Hope sprang up again. Some
one was kinder to him than he deserved.
How slowly the light came. It was a
hard battle with wind and torrent.
Suddenly the awful rush came again.
Had the gorge below given way? Then
heaven save him!
He felt a shock. The building trem
bled. Something had struck it heavily
and it was being carried down into the
raging flood.
It was time for him to act. To re
main where he was would be death.
He flung up the window and looked
out. One thing he had learned well in
years gone by—to swim. It seemed al
most madness to think of trusting himseli
to such a current, but there was nothing
else to be done.
The light was nearing him more swift
ly now, although it was apparently a long
way off yet. He bravely leaped into the
surging water and struck out for the
shore.
Something - below the surface of the
waves caught him and dragged him
swiftly down the stream. He struggled
with all his might to get away, but in
vain. One of his legs was held as if in a
His head whirled
GATHERING THE SEA MOSS,
AN INDUSTRY FOLLOWED BY MAS
SACHUSETTS FISHERMEN.
Then a flash of light fell upon him. In
up the face of his rescuer.
It was Nan!
Moss That Grows Under ~W ater—How
It is Gathered—Drying and Bleach
ing It for the Market.
“The reefs and scattered ledges that
line the south coast from Minot’s Ledge
to Plymouth Rock, ” says the Boston cor
respondent of the New York Sun, “are
covered with a species of sea weed called
moss. It is not mqgs, and it bears no re
lation to the Iceland moss, so-called. It
grows below low-water mark, and must
be raked into boats. Equipped with his
long-handled rake, the moss slinger
starts out in his dory in quest of the
appetizing sea weed. If he is a careful
man his dory is beached high and dry
above high water mark. That means a
pull of a hundred feet down the beach,
for the work of gathering moss can only
be done at low tide. Along the Massa
chusetts coast it is not necessary to go a
great distance before finding the moss
banks. The ledges are being constantly
scraped, and that necessitates an occa
sional change of territory. But it is sel
dom necessary to go more than a mile
from the beach which is prepared for the
bleaching process.
To a novice the moss slinger’s tactics
are very mysterious. There seems to be
no method in what he does. He rows
until he reaches the rock which he has
decided to operate upon. The rock is
seldom within sight, but its peak is so
near the surface that a vessel of any re
spectable tonnage would be wrecked. If
the water is smooth the rock can be seen
to a distance of several feet. Sometimes
it is entirely covered with the moss, and
presents a very attractive appearance with
the different shades of brown and green.
When the sun’s rays illuminate the mass
it looks like a veritable garden spot.
Mossers like to find such a rock as that,
for the work of gathering the moss is
greatly simplified, The steel, rake is
plunged into the water, drawn over the
surface of the rock, and pulled to the
surface with the long teeth filled with
the moss. This is deposited in the boat.
It is clean and all ready to be spread out
for drying. Other rocks, however, are
capped by weed which has no commer
cial value, the Irish moss growing on the
lower portions of the ledge. Here the
moss gatherer has to exercise greater
care. Sometimes he drags up a rakeful
of unmarketable grass, and at other
times the moss is so badly mixed with
the grass that much time is lost in sepa
rating the good from the bad. But it is
a blind struggle for gain. More than
half the time the moss slinger has no
idea what his rake will bring to the sur
face. It is easy raking when the water
is smooth, but when the boat pitches, the
lone wielder of the rake has a tough time
of it. No anchor is lowered, the con
stant shifting of the boat making that
impossible. The moss man has, there
fore, to hold the boat against wind and
wave by main strength exerted at the end
change their color, and they can readily
be separated from the moss. Then the
moss is packed in barrels, and is ready
for shipment. The barrels hold about
120 pounds each, and the mossers find
ready sale for it on the beach at five
cents per pound. Of late years the
market has been glutted, but each
season’s crop is disposed of. If the moss
is kept dry it will retain its nutritious
properties for years, so it is considered
a good investment by the dealers, who
get fancy prices for it in the winter.
There is no regular limit to the season
for gathering the moss. Everything de
pends up the weather and the condition
of the sea. Little can be done after the
middle of September, for the sea begins
to hold its winter’s carnival, and raking
moss is impossible. The water also
grows cold, and even the hardiest moss
slinger shrinks from standing three or
four hours in the icy, water-soaked moss.
It is not until the first of May, as a rule,
that the temperature of the waters be
comes bearable, but men have ventured
out early in April. It is cold work,
though, at that season of the year. Of
course, the early birds capture the tid
bits, and the men who force the season
are rewarded by big hauls of moss, long
and thick. They make money rapidly
in the early days of the season, some of
the men gathering from twelve to fifteen
dollars worth of moss in a day. But that
bonanza soon dwindles away, and the
men are content to earn ordinary wages
after the opening rush.
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SELECT SIFTINGS.
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Schemes
INDUS
Joel awoke the next morningwith a
delicious sense of peace.
There was no pain anywhere. A
woman’s hand was on his forehead He
was in a woman’s room. He lay’ with
his eyes closed, and tried to put things
ogether Then he looked up into the
face of Nan.
T - ‘J 1 ? 0 ?’* s P eak > Han! Let me be still. I tioh.
11 this is a dream I don’t want it to end!” eight
r2 " n l> It,sreaI ’ and 1 a**
God it is! said Nan, reverently.
Joel reached up and drew Nan down
toward him, and their lips met.
“So do I,” was all he said.—E. L
Vincent, m New York Weekly.
from the rock. J
When the mossing is good the men
have no trouble in filling- a boat at each
low tide, and at the beginning of the
season a man can make two trips bv
hustling. The inoss adheres firmly to
the rocks, and a strong pull fails to dis
lodge t le roots. The stems break off and
new s, loots grow rapidly. The moss
sometimes grows to nearly a foot in
length, hut such specimens are an excep-
rhe average length is about six to
inches, and the coral-shaped
!s give it a bushy appearance. In
color it varies from a dark brown to
lighter ! shades of the same color, the
young shoots often appearing of a yellow
ish-green hue.
Needles were first used in 1545.
The first cast iron was made in 1544.
Paper was made by Chinese B. C. 220.
Sixty geographical miles make one de
gree.
Young, the Mormon, died August 7.
1878.
The average depth of Lake Superior is
200 feet.
schemes are being a PTj; ,
mth electricity. S devise d
An ore mine has mot v
Michigan 106 feet deep.^ °P^
A little bird called
catch 1000 flies in an hoj? ^
The .largest swing drawK m
*orld is at New London *
. ™egaUoncon WDtaB ’ 23 ?I
“ * e Standard W* of Ms'jfS
One gafion of pure water?!
Iy«ghtana a halfp° m4a ^
Certain English scientia c „
cussing anew the direction .S'!* 4
They have a “Dron n •
Mgotyonrphp^p^
serious blood
by the mosquito. ybetr ^ ;
.4 S *® el ah’-sliip is talked of n .
be built on the vacuum m-; • b 6 • I
will cost $220,000. P naci ple. ^
The annual production of C W
France is said to have reached T**'
the
value of $300,000,000.
Entomoiogiste have observedth,
of the dragon-fly swallowing? 6 ^
mosquitoes in large nuJberl ^
It has been stated that th«
Brown-Seqnard’s last name is pro
nounced seekar.
A cat that will drink beer is one of
the curiosities of Calamet, Ohio.
Lucknow, India, is the educational
centre for fifty millions of people.
A floating island 300 yards in diametei
has been found in Honey Lake, Idaho.
London is to have a “monkeries,” at
which 1000 monkeys will be on exhibi
tion.
Senators Conkling and Platt, of New
York, resigned on the same dav, May 16,
1881.
A church deacon at Galesburg, Mich.,
claims to have a parrot which will lead a
hymn and prayer-meeting.
A well -in the South, from which a
strong breeze rushed for years, has sud
denly taken to spouting water.
Sir Cornewali Lewis stoutly maintained
that there was no well authenticated in
stance of a human being’s reaching the
age of one hundred years.
A live toad imbedded in a seam of
coal has been found in a North of Eng-
ereafure~appears to be
all mouth and lives on air.
St. Augustine, Fla., claims the artesian
well having the largest flow in the world.
Dr. S. K. Rainey estimates that its ca-
branch
Fortune Telling by the Finger Nails.
Fortune telling by means of the fingei
nails, onychomancy, as it is called, was
not uncommon in ancient times. The
piactice was to rub the nails with oil
and soot or wax, and to hold up the
nails, thus prepared, against the sun, and
upon the transparent horny substance
were supposed, to appear figures or char
acters, which gave the answer required.
In more recent times, people have beer
found predicting by means of the nails
of the hand, and telling the disposition
of persons with certain descriptions oJ
nails. However absurd it may appear,
we shall give examples of this super
stition : A person with broad nails is oi
gentle nature, timid and bashful. Those
whose nails grow into the flesh at the
points or sides are given to luxury. A
white mark on the nail bespeaks of mis
fortune. Persons with very pale nails are
subject to much infirmity of the flesh
and persecution by neighbors and friends’
People with narrow flails are ambitious
and quarrelsome. Lovers of knowledge
and liberal sentiment have round naiS.
Indolent people have generally fleshx
nails Small nails indicate littleness ol
mind, obstinacy and conceit. Melan
choly persons are distinguished by theii
pa2e or lead-colored nails; and choleric
martial men, delighting in war, have red
and spotted nails.—Medical Glassies.
The moss seems to be the breeding
place fqr the cockles and mussels, and
these are preyed upon by the fish. On
clear days the bottom can be seen throuo-li
fe
pacity is 8000 gallons per minute.
Sylvanus Jones, of Richmond, Va..
claims the record of having put the larg
est number of words in short hand on a
postal card. He wrote 36,764 on one.
At the marriage of Miss Elizabeth
Drexel in New York city, the groom
gave her as a wedding present the circlet
that had been the gift of Martin Luther
when he was married to Catharine Von
Bora.
Father Damien attributed feV I
the inoculation of an aW; Pl ^’l
scalp through the agency
The largest engine for driving -
ery in a steel rail mill has justS^
m Newcastle, England; it ? o{ ^
horsepower; the crank shaft ish
one inches in diameter. •
An attempt has recently been
Portland, Oregon, to
what Imnted variety ol native soa-t
m tins country by the hnpcS
several varieties of German birds. *
_ An Austrian botanist, Professor
ritsch, has discovered that double ft
may be artificially produced by ,
and believes that each flower has its
liar mite-parasite which gives rise to
doubling.
The boiling points of potassium J
sodium have been satisfactorily defel
mined by an English physicist by plJ
ing the metals in a hollow ironb’ij
rounded with a screen of fire clayajl
heated with a blow-pipe. ' ^
A process has been invented by mg I
of which photographs can be printed J
most as fast as a newspaper, and withcil
dependence on sun or light. They jl
said to be of the first quality. That I
course, would make photographs mi
cheaper.
Professor Babbage, of calculating®!
chine fame, also invented for his a*. |
ment a “miracle machine,” to
that, given a certain number of revrff I
tions, “coincidences” occur at resrisl
intervals with an infallibility that’ll
prives ‘ ‘chance” of much of the me;
usually attached to the word.
An immense glass hubble or
which has been exhibited at the
Exposition is over five
with a capaoifcy-pf
and weighs forty-eight and a Mr |
It is as pure as crystal and without i
blemish, and is a work of French gte
blowers said to have never been eqnald I
A Bit of Advice.
Here is an excellent bit of advice from
the Presidents of the United States ;
George W A shington.
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fifteen feet of water, and a student of
natural history could profitably spend a
whole summer around this and neio-h-
boring ledges. The moss slinger cares
nothing! for that, however. His iron
rake plunges to the bottom, sends the
fish in all directions, tears the moss from
the rocky bed, scoops up a handful of
shells and star-fish at the same time, and
bears the whole to the surface. Some
times a luckless crab or lobster is cap
tured by the iron jaws. If so, he never
returns £o his quiet home in that ledge
He is damped into the moss heap to keep
L 0 S! lth T tlle shrimps and cockles
ind staifish. In spite of the mixture of
? ^getable life, the moss is
sweet s ud clean, and is in no wav ef-
A, the P resence of the live bodies
Alter the moss is spread nature pre
pares it for the market. It is allowed to
dry anc then it is subjected to a bath of
? Th3tiS thefirst gein
alls h P TS S * If a 8 ‘° 0d shower
hn!er m mUC \ the easier % the moss
umger, otherwise he would be
to dip tl emoss in fresh water.
Near the flag tower of the Queen’s
Castle at Osborne, there is a large vine
of myrele jTown from a sprig taken out
of the wedding bouquet of the Princess
Royal of England, and the mother of the
Emperor of Germany.
. Pe ^ v P e °pJ e know the enormous num
ber of passengers carried by the elevators
of large buildings. For instance the
iron e ] evators of tlie Hew York Produce Ex
change carry an average of 24,000 a dav
or nearly S, 000,000 a year. ^
A woman at Carbon Hill, Ala., wanted
to hang herself, but had no rope. She
went into the woods, peeled the bark
from a hickory tree, tied one end of the
oark around a limb and the other around
hei neck, and succeeded in her purpose. '
Though the proverb “Speech
A Century and a Half of life.
_ For several years there has been domi
ciled at the Monterey County Hospitali
California, an Indian known by thenaa
of “Old Gabriel.” As to the exact day.
month or year of his birth, proof is wait
ing; but of the fact that he has passed
the wonderful age of 150 years therein
quantity of evidence. He was bom ii
Tulare County, but during childhood re
moved to the town of Monterey. Fatia
daid P ero Serra arrived in Monterey ii
1/70, and it is well authenticated that si
that time Gabriel was a grandfather. Tif
youngest age at which an Indian mania!
was fifteen years. If Gabriel Mowed
the custom and married at that age. h
would necessarily have been at least thirty-
two or thirty-three years old to have tea
a grandfather at the time of Father Juri
pero’s landing there. Father Junipao
taught Gabriel the ai’t of cutting and by-
ing stone, and at the time of building tie
first chapel, in the years 1771 and 1773,
Gabriel assisted in the construction of the
walls. He became so expert at his trade
that he managed the construction of tk
San Antonio Mission in 1781. He then
married his second wife. Father Sorren-
tini, the priest, and Bishop Amat reached
vear l$k-
that Old Gabriel was
^mubs in iresn water i „ -r, —" son or
lyall th< beaches fresh water* is s ?ft ~ t Euro P + e , ai1 general, whose name is well
ind the mossers are content to await thp ^eughout the continent, and
rainfall. After the moss is once driedfi Zari? ^ J to .f. ome of the most aristo-
makes lfttl e difference W —^ I Cratlc OI tlle families of Paris.
obliged
iUUU t,“ pioverp“bpeech was given 1 \t \
to man in order to conceal his thoughts” - S° n * erey sonje time 111 tbe •
is erroneously credited to Prince TalW I P® former sa J s tha * Old Gabnel was
rand when the Prince was but four rears • hvhlg with Ms sixth wife ’
age, Goldsmith, in 1755 w r ntp , by many years the senior of all the
‘The true use of speech is not cn a * d ^habitants. He was then knownby
to express our wants as to conceal them ” ^ Same name > and wassaid to be att!ut
Among the modern “Mysteries of I am .“ OT ? r U0 ^ °f age.
Bans is a shop devoted to the sale of
tea. At the retail counter a real live
Prince may be seen any day weighing up
packets of the leaf which cheers but does
not inebriate. This Prince is the son of
Peculiar Names for Railroad Cars.
Zachar
James K. P
James B
WilliamH. Ha R
X
Millar
, Fr
Abraham L
Grover C
U1
Andre
R. B. H
Benjami
, Ches
Jame
Taylor. ,
lk.
chanon.
rison.
Fillmore,
nklin Pierce.'
ncoln.
eveland.
sses S. Grant.
Johnson.
yes.
Harrison.
e f A. Arthur.
A. Garfield.
rhe Se so| ef0re - the *8
The sooner it is done, of course the
qU The e a ^ i' eady for st °mge. I ?° rt Jer ^ investigator has learned
? plication of fresh water makes a ff* Er l e men have a nomenclature for all
!Lc 0 1 “ * he appearance of the of cai- s and engines, and that these
he heat of the e„ n r-.^; 1- . I names extend over the entire road and
branches. “Black Marias” are Pennsyl
vania coal cars, which are painted a iet
black. The Wotten engines with the
double cabs are called “Camel Backs or
Hog Scalders.” The various classes of
coal cars are named as follows;
ie heat of the sun brings about
Pink. The moss is a4in
dried ar d ^ then subjected to another
o Much turns it to a very delicate
pink. Another
brings put a dirty white
washin
shade
Rochester Post-Express.
A widely known old lady by the name
of Castro, who died five years ago at the
age of ninety-five, in testifying to Oil
Gabriel’s age, said that when a child she
saw him and that time he had children
several years older than she was.
Gabriel remained at Old Capitol until
a few years ago, when he removed to
Salinas Valley, where he has lived ever
since. Up to within two or three years,
he was a familiar figure on the streets oi
Salinas City, but now he is rarely seen,
is his trips from the hospital to the town
are becoming less frequent. He has al
ways been fond of striking colors, and
for years wore a coat made of cloth rep*
representing all the colors of the rain*
bow.—New York Tribune.
washing
color, and a
lea '' esit a purTwhit? if I d ° h ? s ’ Exclusives, Sta^dmd? Black
it has been properly dried after everv I Manas and Jimmies. The “Long Johns”
rchedi^^
reacnecl fe moss is ready for the market
and m«s t be housed as soon as it is dried
for another wetting would reduce it to a
gelatmoUs m oss . This would ruin it for
that *<=
“Rl.^ 6 g J 1 ' 1 ° I ‘!; Sbape ' 1 ears wit/sidra,
Biack ^Manas” are mentioned above
xcl usive ’ are the twenty-ton cars and
are ime d exclusively for the Delaware and
Hudson coal, “Standards” are twenty-
five ton cars and are the present Erie
__ l j Prepares it for the table, and I ff m “ ard coal cars, and “Jimmies”'are
every wqfe aQ wou id properly insist upon tiie four-wheeled dumps, of which there
S™*? that part of the cooktag 8re . but *>* “ ^-~Towan<l a (iS
When tieujogg is thoroughly bleached
any foreign bodies can easily be detected I t i i t. —
“ the If® W** do not l<^Bomtof ^JZZT areSiatbe
A Marvel of Modern Engineerings
W. K. Beard, Master Carpenter of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, performed his
third great bridge-moving feat on a re
cent morning, moving the iron bridg 0
over Mill Creek near Lancaster, Penn., h*
twelve minutes. In fifty-eight minutes
from the beginning of the work a freight
train and two engines passed over the
bridge which is two hundred and fifty*
eight feet long and weighs twenty-five
hundred tons. It was moved forty-five
feet by one hundred men and seventy-
eight trestles and rollers, jacks and cranes.
Beard moved the iron bridge over the
Conestoga, near Lancaster, August 7,
1877, in fifteen minutes.—New York
World,