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anticipation.
.‘lll tako llic orchard patb,”sho Paid,
Speaking lowly, sniilinf? Blowly :
The brook was driod within its bed,
The hot sun flung a flame of red
I ,w in the west as forth she sped.
-ofs the dried brook-course she went,
Singing lowly, smiling slowly:
mhe scarcely saw the sun that spent
It’s fiery force in swift desceut—
.she never mw the wheat was bent.
The raswee parched, the blossoms dried,
Si- ;;-Hg b-'wly. smiling slowly :
|[,. r ~yes amidst the drought espied *
A summer pleasance far and wide,
With roses and sweet violets pied,
n.
D.SAITOINTMKNT.
pui homeward coming all the way,
Sighing lowly, pacing slowly:
She knew the bent wheat withering lay,
She saw the blossoms dry decay,
She niiescd the brooklet’s play.
A breeze had sprung from out the south,
Rut, sighing lowly, pacing slowly,
She only felt the burning drought;
Her eyes were hot, and parched her mouth:
Yet sweet the wind blue from the south !
And when the wind broubt welcome rain,
St ill sighing lowly, pacing slowly,
Siie novor saw the lifting grain,
Rut only—a long orchard lane, 1
Where she had waited all in A'ain !
—Nora Perry.
THE ( RACK IN THE DOOR.
Tho prettiest house, prettiest garden,
the best servants, and the largest bank
uocenut in X. belonged to Mrs. Mehita
ble Armstrong, widow. Some people
also declared that she was the prettiest
woman in X., bat these were not the
other women. They said that she had
red hair, and was too fat, and what the
gentlemen saw to admire in her they
could not guoss, etc, etc.; but, say it
ns 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-heartod woman she was, as merry
as though sho had never known a care.
Not that she had forgotten the love of
hi r youth—the gallant, black-eyed cap
ture, whose ship had gone down in mid
ocean live years before, and whose pic
tured face lay near her heart eight and
day, sleeping and waking ; but she was
.tq.U.ve entirely
good cry,” To forget all sorrow, if she
<'"!ild, and to be as happy as she might,
v.ore 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. Bhe 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
ticular; ’ “if ho saw her home from
eting,” rumor declared that they
jre “ engaged av.d if ho spent an
,/toning with her, they were “to be
married next week.” for certainty ; but
'etty Armstrong was somehow not in
dod in the general rule. She had
ermined to do as she chose. She
at everywhere with oveiy unmarried
utleman of her set. She was friendly
/hen she chose to bo, and flirted when
me liked. After sotting gossip afloat a
h-zon times, she gaiued her point, and
' oplo left her alone. • It was Hetty
. mstrong’s way, and no indication of
T rimonial intentions. For years gen
•i°n haunted her parlors, escorted
hither and thither, sung with her,
ai.eo 1 with her, confided with her, and
her, and village gossip had not
married her, until suddenly a s tran-,
made his debut at X., and set the
gues going beyond even Hetty Arm
ing’s power of silencing.
*1" was tall, lie was handsome, ho was
comparatively young. He had just that
t<>u< 1 exquisite about him which is
no charming when “a man’s a man for
1 {l iat;” faultless in toilet, faultless in
Houmer, education, accomplished alfco
dun-, he openly flung himself at Hetty
Armstrong’s feet and declared himself
‘"dourer. Of course we do not mean
| • that he ruined the knees of his
■' ‘H mss habiliments by going down
,i them, or in any other way oonduefc
‘ l himself asdid the knights of old when
.! U rt smitteD, but, after tho manner of
i< n '.“tcenth century he declared his
intentions quite as openly.
10 Pmi ß to and at the lady. He
Haunted her parlors like a well dressed
?' h '< wrote poetry for the “Lumi
'/’"‘V. adl * reßßed to H. A. and signed
He breathed deep sighs and
Pave soft glanees, and said things that
,' " ,iave double meanings. And
, not fr a w eek or a month, but for
' ar, at the end of which time Hetty
• l " r °ug began to understand that
cPiV;: u<l f peoted by e y er y bod y to ao
, “ ta!U -les Ilokewood when he offered
* heart and hand. Meanwhile,
0 80ffc ejea and sweet voice, the deli
( 0 attentions, and the winning songs
• her admirer were not without their
01 n P oa Hetty Armstrong's heart.
■ ,UI b > be conscious of certain
o ‘ 1 ' and tlnttericgs in his presence.
: , 6r _ cUeekß flushed as they had in girl
\ P' r breams were not the sober,
breams which nature at hve
-1(, ~onty should alone indulge in;
ias the days rolled on she felt more
' ions that the “Yes” which was
pec.ed ot her would be easily uttered.
1 !,(j Hied to be prudent and judge
, C ’ Jn f:are billy. The result was that
* declared him to bo “an angel,” At
Two Dollars Per Annum,
volume in.
last Hetty Armstrong fairlv let go of
tho rudder of self-will, to which he had
clung so long, am|^ allowed herself to
drift down the ffpg of circumstances
which were to le4(u her into tho arms of
Charles Rokewood. She felt that life
would be happy with such a bosom to
reposo 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 eve party.
All X., or nearly all, would be there ;
even fhe 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 outdo herself. There was a
dash more of coquetry in her dress ; a
dash of extravagance in the supper ; 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 slje knew an
other’s.
She stood, in her rich dress of laoe
and silk, flowers in her hair and on her
bosom, before her 'guests arrived,
before her grate fire in tho 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 thoir look than usual,
and a sort of happy terror lmng 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 hiru. “ Don’t say
it now,” she pleaded. “I have an
evening before me which calls for all
my calmness. If it is mvthing agi
tating, I—l must ask you to wait.
After these guests of mino are gone—or
will shall be my lawy v Tio
took her hand and kissed it. She lot
him do it, blushing all the w r hile, 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 knew
what sho would say, and she could an
swer only in one way -only one—sho
liked him so well.
“ And I have felt so sure I could
never like any one again,” thought
Hetty Armstrong. “There is fate
in it.”
Rut she danced and sung aud talked
as usual, and no one guessed that
was what she was dreaming— not oven
Mr. Rokewood, who, with a chosen
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, conscious of her du
ties as a hostess, insisted on being pub
lic property, and could not be lured
into a tete-a-tete, and the women who
were 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
culino 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 plunged 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 tho 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 1 can to make up for it.”
Then, with a loving woman’s wish to
see 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 gentlo
men’s toilet,. Every word was plainly
audible when her pretty ear approachd
so closely to the crevice, and lhe first
word rivited her attention. The men
were talking of matrimony.
“ It’s a deuced bore,” said his friend,
“Yon are tied to a woman’s apron
strings for life. You can’t eav your
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
EASTMAN, DODGE CO., GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1575.
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 know that my word is
law, and that hers must yield to it.”
TIH spoons in Mrs Armstrong’s hands
tingled together just then, but no om
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 obey
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 her ; object to style of dress;
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
expect. 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;
“ but you can’t think how hard you’ll
find it; and if yon 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 would be—never let the woman
have her own way. ”
The spoons tingled a little more, and
Mrs. Armstrong’s face was terribly
flushed, but 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 tiie 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, aud
the sooner you make her aware of tho
fact the better. When I marry, Jones,
my dear fellow, 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 npon it.”
“But not my master,” whispered
pretty Mrs. Armstrong, “not mine.”
wUISptUCVA | jj
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
tho perfection of eleganco and comfort.
Her room ! She heard down stairs the
merry chat of her guests, the sound of
music and dancing. She remembered
that in the kitchen her servants were
making ready a supper fit for a king.
She turned 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
twinge of pain went through her heart.
One tear stole down her glowing cheek.
Then she gave a little titter 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 here 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
guests, 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, the awakening is hard, es
pecially 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 ho 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
ef “No,” but for that crack in the
China closet.
The Travels of St. Anthony of Padua.
Curiously enough, the missing frag
ment of Murrillo’s “Appearance ef the
Infant Christ to St. Anthony of Padua”
has turned up in New York. The prin
cipal figure was cut out from the pic
ture, brought to this city and sold for
$250 to a Broadway picture-dealer.
Fortunately tho dealer knew the work
and was able to secure it at once, and
he lias honorably turned it over to
the representative of the Spanish gov
ernment residing in this city. The
original theft was, most likely, commit
ted at Seville by some f the Spanish
banditti aud sent to this country in
charge of comrades. It seems to have
got into the country without detection
by custom officers by being packed in
small compass. In a damaged condi
tion it has at last been rescued, and St.
Anthony of Padua, after more adven
tures than usually fall to the lot of his
associates in the calendar, will find his
way back to the shrine from which he
was torn by sarcrilegious hands.
A good name will wear out; a bad
one may be turned ; a nickname lasts
forever.
In God )Ke Trust.
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, the damage
is equal to a tax of 10 per cent, on all
tho farming laud, 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 iu
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 cut at the same time. It is a good
grass to grow with timothy. Sweet
vernal grass ought to be grown in the
meadow to givo 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
the flower-scape opens it makes a valu
able hay, but if left till it ripens its seed
is no better than rye straw.
USES OF SAWDUST.
A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer
writes : About six years ago I bad a
waaneu. uni, MClf tljAv
it, by lettiug 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 ifc was on a good
piece of bottom land that I desired to
plow, I waufced it out of my way. I
tried to burn it, but it would not burn.
I concluded at last to turn ifc to some
good account; so when I put my hogs
up 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 manure,
besides keep ng the hogs clean and dry.
I used the sawdust for bedding tho
horses and cows ; 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 ifc has paid.
If I was to have a mill again I would
make a bargain to have tho sawdust left
on the ground.
GRAFTING WAX.
One pound of rosin, five ounces 95
per ceDfc. alcohol, one ounce beef tal
low, one table spoonful of turpentine.
Melt the rosin over a slow lire, 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 ifc to lump, warm
again until it meltp. Keep in a bottle.
Lay it on in a very thin coat with a
brush. Should it prove thick, thin it
down with alcohol. Ifc is always ready
for use ; it is never affected by heat or
cold, aud heals up wounds hermetically.
LIQUID GRAFTING WAX.
The Horticulturist giyes 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 oommon rosin over a gentle
fire. Add to it one ounce of beef tal
low and stir ifc well. Take it from the
fire, let ifc cool down a little, and then
mix with a tablespoonful of spirits of
turpentine, and after that about seven
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 ntmoet care must be
exercised to prevent tho rdcohol from
getting inflamed. To avoid it, the best
way is to remove the vessel from the
fire when tho lump that may have been
formed commences melting again. This
must be continued till 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, aud becomes as hard as
stone, being impervious to water or air.
Oranges are now raised in such quan
tities, and of such excellent quality,
in the neighborhood of Galveston,
Texas, that the importation of the
fruit, it is thought, will shortly ceas9
at that port.
the farmer fekueth all.
My lord rides through his palace gate.
My lady sweeps along in state;
Tbe 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 tbe goed 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 preaeheth pure the Holy word;
Dame Alice worketh ’broidery well,
Clerk Richard tales of love can tell;
The tap wife sells her foaming beer,
Dan 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 builds his castles fair and high,
Wherever river runneth by ;
Great cities rise in every land.
Great churches shew the builder’s hand;
Great arches, monuments, and towers,
Fair palaces and pleasing bowers;
Groat work is done, be it here or there,
And well man worketh everywhere;
But work or rest, whate’er befall,
The farmer he must feed them all.
The Military Infatuation.
Just now Enrope 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. But
when the inquiry is pressed beyond
these superficial aspects of the 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 surfaoe are that Germany, know
ing that France feels her humiliation
and chafes under it and may some day
endeavor to offset the recollection of
Sedan, has increased her army to a mil
lion and three-quarters of men. All
the reserves of the empire are drawn
upon to the 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
itt Franco is out of the question,
vided she provokes ifc. TroTioie urre
may have with Italy and Spain and
Franco if she attempts to bully the
college 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 Germany 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 such 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 force represented by a
million and tljree-quarters of men in
the most productive period of life to
see what a drain Germany 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 ifc is mat
ter for congratulation that we have no
great army to support and no military
infatuation.
American Girls.
A French 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 tho 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, and air their cariosity in
all tho stores of Broadway. There they
get ail 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-
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fectionery shops and take ice creams at
every opportunity. * * * j n the
evening the same young ladies are eeen
at the theatres and in the fashionable
eating-saloons. If a .great ball is given
anywhere, yon 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 accus"
tomed to our habits would not fancy
such girls for wiveA; and they mpy not
be wrong ; but th J*truth is that these
gay, light-hearted and often dangerous
ly-imprudent girls make, in the end,
excellent wives and mothers.”
Malleable Glass.
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 the 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 copper 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 the glass tem
pered after the new method. The same
weight was dropped, raising success
fully to the height of the ceiling of the
hall, w ithout 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 fall from seventeen feet. It was
then proved that the tempered glass
shorter duration, os the common glass
doe?. 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 t hat of the fall of a sheet of metal.
The observations as to its resistance
to heat have caused another series of
experiments to bo mado. 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 *gain 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, givon by the
local journals, that the inventor pat
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 substance, previously heated
to various degrees, in proportion to the
nature and quality of the glass on which
they operate.
Changing the Eirrh’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. The proposed
Maryland and Delaware ship canal, to
connect the waters of the Chesapeake
and Delaware bays, by the Sassafras
river, will convert the largo 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 Accomac,
Virginia, and nearly all that portion of
Maryland on the eastern shore—an area
of little less 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 come from them are most manifest.
The Titusville Courier says that the
production of petroleum in western
Pennsylvania during the year 1874
would fill a canal thirty feet wide at the
top, fifteen feet at the bottom, seven
feet deep and over seventy-five miles
long.
EASTMAN TIMES.
RATES OF ADTMTIIIM :
■tack. 1 ni, Im. 1 Ira. HX
Onepquar* %400| 7 OO 110 W 9!• 09
Two square* ft 25 12 00 18 00 2* 00
Four pquarea 76 1 00| 28 01* 98
One-fourth ooL 11 60 22 60l >34 00 4# 08
One-lmlf col 20 00 82 501 63 00
One column ,| 56 00 60 00' _BO OOi 190 W
AdralttaarornU inserted at the rate of 91-80 per
square for the Hi at insertion, end 76 oenta for aieh
aubeequhot ono. Ten Hue* or Uaa constitute a
aqnare.
Professional carda, 915.00 ppr annum; for *j
months, 910.00, in advene*.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
There will be two eclipses of the snn
this year, one on April C, not visible in
the United States, and another on Sep
tember 29, visible east of the Missis
sippi.
There is nothing half so sad in life
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.
.“ A clergyman ” suggests ocean im
mersion as preferable to cremation, H
says : “ Funeral steamers might be
provided, which, proceeding to a dis
tance from land, could deposit the re
mains beyond the reach of desecration,
and whence injury could not result to
the living.”
The St. Lawrence county (N, Y.)
dairymen have been discussing the
length of time a dairy cow should go
dry. After two hours’ debate a vote
was taken, which resulted in a six
weeks’ vacation for each dairy cow,
beginning with the first of January of
each year.
This is the way one choir sings the
first verse of Jerusalem, my happy
home : ”
Yisß-lu-sah-leng, Yinr'e-lu-eah-leng,
Di-ming jik-cza>e pan-pe;
Ling-cong z-’eo kyi-z we tao,
Teh ngo ziu gyi on-we ?
The choir to which we now refer is
composed of Chinamen ; but there are
plenty of American ohoirs that can sing
it just as badly.
Charles W. Plummer, a Newark,
N. J., society-duck, had to pay Miss
Grace E. Plummer, a belle of the same
city, for “hugging her on the parlor
sofa, kissing her every time they met,
and going to sleep on her shoulder,”
the net sum of $5,000; but, as th is sort
of thing went on for sixteen months,
the bill was not excessive. Nico girl,
Miss Plummer.
The queen of England’s daughters
are examples to the rest of the fashion
able world in industry and taste. At
the royal Swiss 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 a meal prepared by one or
the other. Louise, wifo of the marquis
of Lome, is a clever artist.
Wia ’ w !* n ®
since, made loud and repeated calls for
buttered toast. After disposing of a
liberal quantity of that nourishing arti
cle, she was told that too much 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
aunnzzer piece and send for the doctor.”
An observing Frenchman thus writes
of what he saw in this country: “ In
winter eveniDgs, when there comes up
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, as if by miracle, the by
standers behold in the midst of the
heavecs, 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 passSh on the 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 was a walking advertisement,
and he wore shoes with nailed letters on
their soles.”
Will Whisky Freeze?
It was lately stated as an example of
intense cold that in Montana, on the
night of the 13th instant, the mercury
in the thermometers all froze small
quantities of mercuiy in vials became
congealed, and proof whisky placed out
of doors froze solid in half an hour.
This last 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. Farradav 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 placed at 50
per cent, alcohol, and as the Newark
(N. J.) Advertiser remarks, tho aloohol
this Montana whisky contained would
have separated from the water in the
progress of freezing like the “core” in
a frozen barrel of cider. If it actually
froze solid it was a harmless variety of
whisky. In the severest cold of the
Arotio explorations proof spirit 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 the Montana phenomenon is that the
spirits were set asido in an open vessel,
when the whisky evaporated rapidly
and left the component water frozen,